Chapter 40: The Painful Choice
When Zhongshan returned to Jiangcheng in the middle of the night, he was tired and full of vicissitudes on his face.
When he came to Room 405 of the Five Houses the next morning, Zhong Shan in Fang Jing's eyes had lost a lot of weight, his hair was messy, his face was gray, and his eye sockets had collapsed, thinking that he was tired of taking care of his sick mother who had been sleeping for days, so he said understandingly: "Zhong Shan, you have a good rest, and I will come to you again tomorrow." ”
Zhong Shan said, "Tonight, I'll wait for you downstairs at half past six tonight." ”
Fang Jing said: "That's it, see you downstairs in Nanfangyuan at half past six, I invite you to eat xiaolongbao to make up for your body." ”
Zhong Shan did not respond, which could be regarded as acquiescing to Fang Jing's proposal.
At half past six o'clock, when Zhong Shan came downstairs in Nanfangyuan, Fang Jing was already waiting there, wearing a bean-green silk dress, a white sleeveless one-collar silk shirt, black lace-up cloth shoes, and a long hair simply tied up with a ponytail, the whole image looked like a hibiscus out of the water. On the face, it seems that he has also put on light makeup, his facial features are clearer, and he looks more radiant than usual.
The two sat down in the small partition on the second floor, still two steamed buns and a bowl of tomato and egg soup. The steamed buns that had just come out of the cage tasted hot, Zhong Shan seemed to be in a hurry, and he only cared about eating, and the two buns were already sweating profusely. Fang Jing took a tissue to wipe Zhong Shan's sweat, and then carefully sandwiched the two buns on the plate in front of him, took a small bite on the dough, sucked the soup, and wanted to pick the stuffing of the buns to Zhong Shan, Zhong Shan hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop it, and said, "You eat, I'm not very hungry." ”
During the mealtime, the two were almost speechless. Fang Jing saw that Zhong Shan was preoccupied, thinking that his mother was seriously ill and had just undergone major surgery, and she was tired and worried, so it was inconvenient to bother too much, and only glanced at her lover from time to time with a pair of talking eyes.
After the meal, Fang Jing opened her wallet and wanted to pay for it, but Zhong Shan stretched out his hand to stop it, shouted "waiter", took out a 10 yuan ticket from the pocket of his shorts and handed it to the waiter.
When I left Nanfangyuan, it was already dark, and the blue night gave people a dreamlike sense of unreality. In early summer, Jiangcheng is intoxicatingly warm, and the skin exposed to the air is very comfortable. On campus, the girls have already changed into skirts of different colors and styles, flying everywhere like flowers and butterflies.
Zhong Shan said: "Let's go to the big playground and take a walk!" ”
Fang Jing nodded silently and followed.
Tonight, the sky is a little thin and cloudy, and the moon is hazy, surrounded by a shallow moon halo. Sometimes, the moon simply burrows behind the clouds, and for half a day, it reveals half of its indistinct face. Fang Jing put her arm around Zhong Shan's arm, just like the two of them had gone out for a walk together on many nights in the past.
The two of them just walked forward slowly, round and round, still not talking, as if they had suddenly found no common ground tonight. After walking for a long time, Zhong Shan suddenly stopped, looked down at the dark gray playground track in the moonlight, and whispered, "Let's break up!" ”
This small voice sounded in Fang Jing's ears like a thunderbolt, she let go of Zhong Shan's arm, and stared at Zhong Shan's angular and hazy face with wide eyes: "Why?" Is it because your mother doesn't want you to stay in Jiangcheng? I can also go back to Qingshan with you. ”
"It's not just about my mother, I already have a girlfriend, I told you about it at the beginning."
"But we've been together for so long, and you've never mentioned her, I thought you were already broken."
Zhong Shan was silent.
"How can you be so irresponsible, stepping on two boats, why did you choose her in the end, it was me who hurt." Fang Jing was already confused at this time, and recalled the scene afterwards, she didn't know why she would ignore his indiscriminate feelings and care more about his final choice, she was already incoherent, and shook Zhong Shan's left arm fiercely with her two arms as she spoke, and there was already a cry in her tone.
"She's pregnant."
"You bastard!"
Fang Jing put down Zhong Shan's arm, took a step back, and let out a hysterical roar. Zhong Shan had never seen her so angry, and he was stunned and at a loss. Fang Jing suddenly burst into tears, crying and running, her skirt dancing chaotically in the breeze, like the struggle of her friends when they flew butterfly kites out of control and the kites landed on the ground when they were children.
Zhong Shan wanted to chase after him, but his legs seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and his heart was as uncomfortable as a knife. Seeing that Fang Jing had completely disappeared from front of him, he walked back to room 405 with heavy steps, threw himself on the bed, hid in the mosquito net and cried silently.