Chapter 21: Motherhood
We haven't seen each other for 3 years, no matter whether there are times and times between us, things and people, but at the moment our mood must be ups and downs, because of what the ups and downs, I can't say.
The rain was still falling, and it was as if we had been standing in the rain for a long time.
"Zhang Yixi......." Zuo Lan's voice trembled a little, and the rain dripped down her hair and fell on her shoulders.
"I didn't expect us to meet in such a way." I said and wiped the rain from my face, I wanted to see her clearly.
"I didn't think about it either."
After a few words, we fell into an endless silence, and we all seemed to have lost the ability to communicate after the sudden meeting.
"Why are you rowing my car?" Zuo Lan's tone was a little aggrieved.
"Your car splashed me all over the mud." I answered.
"So we met too." Zuo Lan said with a helpless smile.
.......
There was a small drink shop opposite the school, and because it was raining, there were no customers inside, so Zuo Lan and I sat in it to catch up with friends who had been reunited for a long time.
We each asked for a cup of hot milk tea, and while we drank it, we thought in silence about what to say to each other.
"Long time no see." It was I who broke the silence, and I felt that if there was really one party between us, it must be that she owed me, and it was her departure that gave me full grief, and I could face her calmly.
"It's been three years." Zuo Lan took a sip of milk tea before responding, this action was more like her apology to cover up.
"Are you doing?"
"Well, that's good....... How did you get here? ”
"It's hard to put into words."
Zuo Lan didn't ask, and took another sip of milk tea, but this made it even more obvious that we were too mechanical at the moment, even two strangers shouldn't be like this.
.......
"I came to the school to talk about our company's counterpart recruitment, because the teacher in charge was in a hurry to go on a business trip, so I opened so fast to match her time....... Excuse me! After a moment of silence, Zuo Lan said to me.
"Does PrettyGirl need to say sorry to Superboy? I paddled your car too, and I'm not sorry! "I tried to make the atmosphere a little more relaxed between us, so I said.
Zuo Lan looked up at me, pursed her lips, and the incomparably kind dimples appeared on her face again.
"You still haven't changed!" Zuo Lan said to me in a very complicated tone.
"Maybe, otherwise I wouldn't have rowed your car, you know I'm the most disgusted with that kind of behavior." I said with a little helplessness.
Zuo Lan nodded, and took another sip of milk tea, a cup of milk tea had already been half drunk by her.
"You've changed." I said.
Zuo Lan raised her head and looked at me again, and asked with a smile: "Where has it changed, has it looked?" ”
I looked at Zuo Lan and said jokingly: "Yes, it's very professional, quite mature!" ”
Zuo Lan also looked at me: "Actually, you have also changed, but you haven't changed on the surface." ”
"There's always going to change." I said and took a sip of milk tea, but there was a bitterness in my heart, how could I not have changed, my life was messy after experiencing ups and downs, but I was still used to facing life with a cynical mentality.
.......
The rain was still ticking outside the window, and there were already many students waiting for the bus at the bus stop opposite, most of whom lived in the city and could go home on weekends.
"You're supposed to get married, right?" I asked Zuo Lan.
Zuo Lan nodded, and a very complicated smile appeared on his face: "My son is three years old!" ”
I smiled with Zuo Lan, who should have gotten married after we separated, otherwise she wouldn't have given birth to a 3-year-old son.
"What about you, are you married?" Zuo Lan also asked me.
Zuo Lan's question was a sting to me, and I shook my head and said, "If there were, I wouldn't be here." After saying that, he squeezed out some smiles to make himself look less embarrassed.
"Haven't you been looking for a girlfriend all these years?" Zuo Lan asked me with a little sympathy, combined with the situation she sees me now, I am quite miserable!
"I've talked about a few, and they've all been divided." I said lightly.
"You're too picky!" Zuo Lan sighed.
"How can I pick? I don't dare to pick this condition. I said.
Zuo Lan sighed softly, as if she was more sympathetic to my experience, no wonder she, in the past 3 years of separation, we have no contact at all, and my miserable image when we were separated has been fixed in her heart, indeed, if you don't count the time of separation in the middle, I look more miserable now than when I was separated.
"What about Sister Shen Man, she should be married too, right?" Zuo Lan began to care about his former friends.
I was stunned for a moment, didn't know how to answer, and said for a while: "I went abroad, and I haven't gotten married yet." ”
Zuo Lan was a little surprised: "I thought she would choose between you and the prince." ”
This is a very bold sigh, and now Zuo Lan has indeed stayed out of the matter, so she can sigh like this, if she didn't before.
I didn't tell Zuo Lan: Shen Man and the prince almost got married, because in the current view, there is no meaning, and it is almost a little worse after all.
"Where's Lin Xi?" Zuo Lan asked again, she seemed to be very interested in the recent situation of her former friends, but if she was interested, why didn't she give us any news in the past 3 years? I don't know why.
"She? We were together, but broke up, then she got married, then divorced, and now she has a boyfriend. "I tried to describe Lin Xi's three years in the simplest language.
Zuo Lan was embarrassed, she shook her head and sighed: "It turns out that so many things can really happen in three years!" ”
.......
Zuo Lan didn't continue to ask, as if no matter who she asked about the situation in the past three years, she would ask a story that was not very good, so when she realized this, she simply chose to be silent again.
Naturally, I didn't want to talk about things marked by the passage of time, so I simply chose to be silent.
After a moment of silence, Zuo Lan looked at his watch and said to me: "Zhang Yixi, I have to go, I will go to the kindergarten to pick up Pippi later." ”
"Well, take me to say hello to the little one."
"Yes."
"Your car, I'm sorry."
Zuo Lan smiled and said, "Didn't you say that superboy doesn't need to say sorry to prettygirl?" ”
.......
Zuo Lan had already left, but the rain outside the window was still messy, and I asked for another cup of hot milk tea.
The happiness of others will just bring out their loneliness and despair, I feel that my life was shaken by the appearance of Zuo Lan, I didn't expect that she was a mother and had a son named Pippi.
And me? I don't even have a girlfriend, how have I been living these years?
.......
Lighting a cigarette, I looked out the window at the rain in a daze, a lonely man, because he was touched by his first girlfriend, began to make some assumptions again.
Suppose, after Lin Xi's divorce, I accept her, and we are now running "Seaview Coffee" together, enjoying love and struggling for a career......
Suppose, firmly resist the pressure from Wang Mengmeng's family and be with her, even if you suffer setbacks in Buick, you still choose to stay in Buick, waiting for the opportunity to take the position, or accept Mr. Gao's invitation to take up a position and keep a good job, maybe Wang Mengmeng and I are married.......
Suppose that we choose to go to Japan with Shen Man, we support each other and break out of the world in a foreign country, it seems that it is not difficult, and we may get married when we return to China after a while.......
No matter how I choose, it seems to look good, at least much better than now, but I always feel that Zhang Yixi is not Zhang Yixi!
Extinguished the cigarette butt in his hand, looked at the rain outside, and silently shouted in his heart: "Come on, loneliness!" Come on, misery! I, Zhang Yixi, am not afraid of you!! ”
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