Chapter 446: Memories of the Stomach
Lu Zhongyong kept looking at his watch, with a serious expression on his face.
After an hour's delay, the plane finally landed safely. Lu Zhongyong was the first to receive a call from his son, and his serious expression finally disappeared, revealing a slight smile. He said to his wife beside him, and then quickly walked to Wang Qiao, who was going back and forth, and said, "I've landed, I'll come out immediately." ”
Wang Qiao said: "Landed? ”
Lu Zhongyong said affirmatively: "It's landed!" ”
Wang Qiao glanced at the display screen, and sure enough, the flight had already arrived. Thinking that he was about to meet Lu Qi, who he hadn't seen for many years, he was both excited and apprehensive in his heart.
Before coming to the airport, Wang Qiao originally wanted to take a bunch of flowers, but he hesitated at the flower shop, but still didn't buy the bunch of flowers. During this period of working at the grassroots level, he became very pragmatic, and he was not very interested in such petty bourgeois things as flowers, especially in the case of Lu Qi's amnesia, sending flowers had no effect at all. Therefore, what he carried with him were all the letters that Lu Qi had written to himself.
Someone kept pushing the luggage and walked out, and for ten minutes, the Lu brothers and sisters still didn't come out. Zhao Yi couldn't hold his breath at first and called his son. After making the call, she hurriedly said to Lu Zhongyong and Wang Qiao: "They have picked up their luggage and are going to come out soon." ”
After waiting for another three minutes, Wang Qiao finally saw Lu Qi, whom he hadn't seen for ten years.
In order to adapt to the long-distance flight, Lu Qi wore a simple and light shirt, blue T-shirt, thin jeans and sneakers. Due to a head injury, she had short hair. There is a slight difference in the length of the left and right hair, with one side of the hair being smart and stylish, and the other side being slightly curly, which is clean and neat, revealing a sense of agility.
Lu Jin pointed to the three people in front of him and introduced: "That's Dad, Mom, that's Wang Qiao." ”
Lu Qi looks at the photos of her father and mother on the computer every day, and she remembers that she is very familiar with it, and she can easily recognize it without introduction. Her eyes stayed on Wang Qiao, looking intently, comparing with the person she imagined.
When communicating with Wang Qiao and chatting with QQ, she has been reluctant to see Wang Qiao's photos. Her idea is that after meeting a real person, if the other party has shortcomings in one aspect, she can make up for it by the other side, for example, if she looks average, she can make up for it with conversation and knowledge; If you talk averagely, you can make up for it with your appearance. If you are rustic, you can also make up for it with kindness.
In short, when you meet, you judge a person from a comprehensive aspect.
Just looking at the photos is easy to generalize, which is not conducive to future development.
At this time, she finally met her ex-boyfriend Wang Qiao in the 'legend', but she didn't expect that the ex-boyfriend in front of her was tall and straight, and he was a handsome guy with a very generous bearing.
Lu Qi asked, "Brother, have you seen him before?" ”
Lu Jin shook his head and said, "It's also the first time I've met. Your vision is good, Wang Qiao is handsome and chic, no wonder you haven't forgotten him. ”
Lu Qi said with some distress: "Have you ever thought about him?" I can't remember at all. He's a stranger now, and I don't know what to do with it if he's too enthusiastic about me. ”
Lu Jin said: "Don't worry, he is the leader of more than 100,000 people, he must have a sense of proportion, and he will not embarrass you." ”
While talking, the two dragged their luggage and walked out.
Zhao Yi felt sad when he saw his daughter who had escaped death, walked a few steps quickly, hugged his daughter, buried her on her shoulder, and cried. Lu Zhongyong patted his wife's shoulder and comforted: "Don't cry, Xiaoqi has come back, why are you crying?" When he said this, he himself was quite sad. It's just that many years of experience in the police have allowed him to control his feelings very well.
At the time of pick-up at the airport, Wang Qiao and Lu Zhongyong unified their thoughts, the whole reception process should be smiling, optimistic, and positive, try not to be sad and sad, and use this way to make Lu Qi, who has lost her memory, feel at home. But when Lu Qi appeared, Zhao Yi forgot all about the agreement, hugged her daughter and cried violently.
The airport itself is a place where separation and aggregation often occur, and it is normal for people to hug and cry. Everyone walked past the mother and daughter, and no one paid too much attention to what was happening here.
Wang Qiao stood aside and looked at Lu Qi, looked at it very carefully, and did not speak.
Lu Zhongyong looked at his daughter and said, "Xiaoqi, do you really not remember your father?" Lu Qi held her mother with one hand, touched her head with the other, and said, "I'm sorry, Dad, I can't remember." But, I know you're my dad. She stretched out her hand and shook Lu Zhongyong's hand.
Lu Zhongyong held his daughter's hand and said, "It's good to come back, let's remember slowly, and we can always find a way to get back your memory." ”
Lu Qi said: "Dad, I can't remember anything at first. Later, my brother came over with legal documents and photos, and I found out who I was. My history is not lost, I am not a rootless person, I just can't remember. It has to be remembered, you tell me slowly, and I will create a memory in my mind again. ”
Lu Zhongyong nodded with satisfaction: "If you think so, I'm relieved." ”
Lu Jin walked to Wang Qiao's side, took the initiative to shake hands, and said, "I'm Lu Jin, I've been chatting for so long, and we finally met." He said solemnly, "Thank you." ”
Wang Qiao said calmly: "Don't say thank you, this is also my wish." ”
A few minutes later, under the persuasion of Lu Zhongyong, Zhao Yi let go of his daughter. Her tears wet a large part of the shoulders of the blue T-shirt, which was very conspicuous.
Lu Zhongyong took his daughter in front of Wang Qiao and said, "Xiaoqi, this is Wang Qiao." You've been in a relationship before. ”
Lu Qi stood in front of Wang Qiao generously, looked at her ex-boyfriend with curiosity, and said, "You are Wang Qiao who wrote to me." ”
Lu Qi's eyes are still as bright as autumn water, and they have not been stained with dust because of the years. Wang Qiao looked at these familiar eyes, his heart was very excited, but he was very calm, and said: "It's the letter I wrote, I'm Wang Qiao." ”
Lu Qi compared the size of Wang Qiao with his hand and said, "How tall are you?" ”
Wang Qiao said: "I just turned eighteen years old when I met you, and I was one meter eighty-one. It's a pity that I haven't grown taller for ten years, and it's still one meter eighty-one. ”
Lu Qi said: "You said in the letter that we broke up in 94, which means that we have been broken up for ten years. Ten years after a breakup, you're still not married? ”
Wang Qiao said: "I'm the same as you, not married. ”
Lu Qi stroked the injured part of his head and said, "I checked the relevant legal documents, and I am indeed not married." Now the point is that I can't remember you at all, and it's not fair to me and to you. ”
Wang Qiao smiled and said: "Today, you are welcome home, everyone is happy together, don't think about other things." ”
Lu Qi said: "I thought you would bring flowers." ”
Wang Qiao said: "I thought about it, but I didn't bring it." I brought the original copy of the letter you wrote. He took out a blank piece of paper and a pen and said, "Do you know how to write Chinese, and if you can write, write the two characters Wang Qiao on this blank paper." ”
Lu Qi took the pen and wrote the words "Wang Qiao". At the end of the word "bridge", Lu Qi habitually stretched it very long, and there was a slight turn.
Wang Qiao is too familiar with Lu Qi's handwriting, and sometimes when he closes his eyes, Lu Qi's letters will appear in his mind, and the handwriting inside will become vivid.
At this time, the word 'Wang Qiao' she wrote on the spot was almost the same as 'Wang Qiao' many years ago.
Wang Qiao took out one of the letters in his bag, compared the 'Wang Qiao' on the envelope with the newly written "Wang Qiao", and said: "Ten years later, your calligraphy level is still like this, and there is no progress. There is another way to identify who you are, which is handwriting. If you look at the last stroke of the bridge, it's exactly the same. ”
Lu Qi compared the two "Wang Qiao" suspiciously, without professional instruments, from his own naked eyes, he could draw a conclusion written by one person. She opened the letter she had written, read a few sentences, and the thoughts of an infatuated woman for her lover jumped on the page. She didn't finish reading it, and looked up and said, "You've been keeping my letters?" ”
Wang Qiao said: "At that time, we were working in the old township school, the conditions were very poor, I didn't have a photo with you, these letters are the best souvenirs." ”
Lu Qi said: "Thank you for keeping my letter." I've been thinking about you so hard, but unfortunately I can't catch that vague shadow, I hope you can understand. ”
Wang Qiao smiled and said, "You are very frank, I like it." ”
Lu Zhongyong pretended to be excited next to him and said loudly: "There are a lot of delicious foods prepared at home today, which you can't usually eat in the United States." Wang Qiao also specially bought a sharp-headed fish, and wanted to make your favorite pickled pickled fish for you personally. ”
Lu Qi didn't know what the sauerkraut pointed fish was, and when he saw that his father was happy, he agreed: "Okay, I'll taste the taste of the sauerkraut sharp fish." What kind of fish is the sharphead? ”
Wang Qiao explained solemnly: "The sharphead fish is a wild fish, and it cannot be raised in captivity yet. This fish likes cold water, the largest is only two or three catties, and the meat is very delicious. When we used to be in the old village, we ate a lot of sharphead fish. There used to be a dark hole in the sheep's back stone, and there were too many pointed fish in it to count. ”
Lu Qi was at a loss when he heard this.
Five people sat in a seven-seater business car in the airport parking lot. Wang Qiao drove, and several other people chatted in the car.
Zhao Yi said: "Your sister-in-law and niece wanted to take the piano passing exam in the afternoon, so they didn't come to pick you up." Later, they will go straight home. Xiaoqi, do you remember where you are at home? ”
Lu Qi shook his head and said, "Mom, I really don't have any memory at all. I will think about it slowly, but it is possible that I will not be able to recall it at all, and the doctor said that there was an injury to the memory of the head tube, and after the examination, no obvious trauma was found, so they were puzzled. ”
Lu Jin said: "I've been thinking about this for a while. Since there is no visible trauma, this means that it is possible to recover memories suddenly. I discussed this matter with Wang Qiao, and he agreed with me, so starting today, we will take you to a place that you once knew and meet your old friends. ”
Lu Qi said: "Is it useful?" I feel like my head is being formatted. ”
Wang Qiao interjected: "It's man-made. Even if we can't recover our memories, we can reconstruct them. The society that people know is actually constructed by objective reality and subjective consciousness, and now the objective reality exists, and what is lost is subjective consciousness, and we can patiently reconstruct the past. As long as everyone believes in your past, your past exists. ”
"That's a bit of a mystery." When Lu Qi spoke, his eyes kept looking out the window, and outside the window was a strange city, and he had no impression of living here at all.
Since getting off the plane, Lu Qi has been very calm, even a little cold. But his heart is very frightened, this is the fear of being abandoned by the world, and this fear is especially strong before his brother arrives in the United States.
After returning to China, she met her 'unknown' parents and ex-boyfriend, and was cared for like a moon by the stars, which effectively reduced her sense of panic. There are pros and cons to everything, but the feeling of not knowing your relatives at all is equally uncomfortable, like a mist that makes Lu Qi feel another kind of pain, which she can't throw away or shake off.
Lu Qi buried all the pain in his heart, and commented with a smile: "Now the country is developing rapidly, compared to the scenery over there." ”
Lu Jin immediately corrected: "If you want to remove the word us from 'the scenery over there', it is the scenery over there." ”
Lu Zhongyong said: "You are a member of our family, and this is your home, this must be remembered." ”
Lu Qi said: "I'm sorry, after I woke up, all the reconstructed memories were over there." ”
Back home, Lu Qi walked into his room and saw the photos on the table at a glance, and there were two thick photo albums on the table. Zhao Yi said: "Xiaoqi, these are all photos of you from childhood to adulthood, we have rearranged them and arranged them in chronological order, you can look at them slowly." ”
Lu Qi yawned and said, "Mom, I want to take a shower first, and then go to bed, but I have jet lag." ”
Zhao Yi said: "We will have dinner at seven o'clock in the evening, and I will wake you up at that time, and you can sleep for three hours, is it enough?" ”
"It should be enough." Lu Qi dragged the box over and was about to take the underwear, Zhao Yi said: "Don't take it, I have a new one for you, underwear and pajamas." ”
Wang Qiao longed to talk to Lu Qi for a while. Now that Lu Qi is in this state, he can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, so he can only sit in the living room and stare at Lu Zhongyong.
After Lu Qi came out of the bath, she put on a pajamas with a puppy pattern prepared by her mother, greeted Lu Zhongyong and Wang Qiao in the living room, and went into the house to sleep with jet lag.
When Lu Qi was at the airport, her dress was more rice-style, and her temperament changed a lot from when she was in her hometown. At this time, wearing puppy pattern pajamas appeared in front of him, as fresh as a hibiscus out of the water, and immediately pulled Wang Qiao back to the period of the old hometown sheep's back.
The happy scene of the two of them taking a shower in front of a homemade shower is clearly abnormal in their minds:
The fire in the stove hole was blazing, and the water in the iron pot soon bubbled. After the water was completely boiled, Wang Qiao first filled the boiling water bottle, then scooped the boiling water into the bucket, quickly lifted it to the second floor, and poured it into the vat. Lu Qi stretched out his hand to measure the temperature of the water and said, "Barbarian, add some hot water." ”
Wang Qiao poured all the remaining water in the pot into the vat, and the water temperature was slightly hot. Lu Qi was a little embarrassed and said, "A little more cold water, just a little." After the water temperature was adjusted, Lu Qi's face showed a little flush, and said, "I'm going to wash it for a while, and you can help add more water later." She went into the bathroom with a towel and soap.
Wang Qiao stood at the door of the kitchen, looking at the water vapor coming out of the top of the wooden door, feeling a little strange in his heart, a beautiful woman in the shower, if there is no illusion, he is not a normal man with a good body. When the water in the iron pot bubbled, he scooped the hot water into a small bucket, adjusted the water temperature, brought it to the second floor, and added it to the large bucket. Every time the bucket ran out of water, he was able to replenish it in time.
When she came out of the shower, Lu Qi's hair was shawl, and her complexion was as ruddy as fat. Under the reflection of beautiful women, the woods outside the small fence of Yangbei Village have become green and pleasant, and they are no longer eerie.
It's a pity that this originally belonged to the common memory of the two, and now Wang Qiao can only recall it alone. Thinking of this, Wang Qiao's mouth was a little bitter.
Lu Qi naturally didn't know what Wang Qiao was thinking. She went into the bedroom, sat on the edge of the bed, and slowly picked up the photo album.
The album contains photos of infancy, early childhood, teenage years, and adulthood, and they are lined up in chronological order. There is a photo album with more than a dozen photos that are very special, all of them are photos of Lu Zhongyong and Lu Qi, which are listed separately. The first photo is Lu Zhongyong holding the little Lu Qi, the second is Lu Zhongyong holding Lu Qi, Lu Qi only reaches his father's knees, and the third photo shows Lu Qi is up to his waist...... In the last photo, Lu Zhongyong's temples are frost white, and Lu Qi is wearing high heels, almost as tall as his father.
After watching this set of photos, Lu Qi lay on the bed and let the tears flow silently.
Her mind went blank and she didn't want to move, so she lay on the bed.
I don't know how long it took, but a red sunset appeared in the sky outside the window. Zhao Yi knocked on the door and said, "It's seven o'clock, Xiaoqi gets up to eat." ”
Lu Qi walked to the door energetically and said exaggeratedly: "It's so fragrant, what kind of fragrance is this." ”
Wang Qiao walked into the dining room from the kitchen with a fragrant basin and said: "This is the sauerkraut pointed fish, I am the guest Chef Wang, Chef Wang has good skills in making fish, the taste is quite domineering, never bragging, don't believe it to give it a try." ”
Lu Qi happily picked up the chopsticks from the dining table, picked a piece of fish, tried to eat it, only to feel an extremely fragrant taste explode in the mouth, she didn't speak, directly clamped the second chopsticks, and then ate three chopsticks, she excitedly shouted: "Wow, Chef Wang's craftsmanship is awesome, I have never eaten such a great fish over there." ”
When Lu Qi met her parents and ex-boyfriend, many of her expressions were fake, and this time the praise was sincere.
People's memories will disappear for some reason, but people's appetites are cultivated from a young age and are difficult to change. Sometimes I think that my appetite has changed, and when I encounter hometown dishes or my mother's dishes, my appetite will inevitably be revealed.
Lu Qi's mind forgot Wang Qiao, but her stomach did not forget the deliciousness of sauerkraut and pointed fish.
(Chapter 446) (To be continued.) )