CHAPTER XIII 1
We promised each other at the beginning, but we didn't stick to it until we died
1
Song Li found out for the first time that he would even think of Chen Xi by accident.
After going to work on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, Song Li entered the company building full of vitality, not surprisingly, Jiang Yao was already in the office one after another calling to greet him, Song Li's natal year finally passed, and before going out in the morning, his mother told him that everything would be fine.
Originally, there was nothing to do during the lunch break, Song Li was lying on the table and was bored making a refractive phone, thinking that no one would answer it as before, but this time, after the phone rang twice, Song Li heard Quran's voice.
After getting off work, he took a taxi to a coffee shop near Qu Ran's house, Song Li stood across the road and looked at Qu Ran in the glass window wearing a ginger woolen coat and standing at the service desk to order, for a moment, Song Li thought that nothing had happened.
"You're fat." Song Li untied his scarf, held the steaming coffee in both hands and smiled.
"I originally wanted to see you beautifully, but when I went out, I found that I didn't even wear makeup." Qu Ran smiled as well.
Song Li paused for three seconds, this woman regarded makeup as more important than eating, but when she heard that she was going to meet her, she would forget to put on makeup.
"So are you ready to cry in front of me today?"
"I won't cry for a long time......" Qu Ran pretended to look at Song Li relaxed when he said this, but he smiled and smiled, but he didn't even notice that he began to cry.
"Okay, I'm not a tragedy, you cry when you see me, what do you let others think of me." Song Li lowered his head and smiled helplessly, leaned over, and wiped his tears with his hand.
"Song Li, is Han Xiaomo okay?" After a while, Qu Ran opened his mouth with this sentence.
In less than two hours, Qu Ran intermittently talked about everything he had experienced from the accident to the present, Song Li couldn't speak, what he could do in the middle was to keep handing tissues to this woman, and then the tissues ran out, but Qu Ran was still crying. In Qu Ran's words, Song Li was the only one she faced but dared to cry.
When I got to the bus, it was already dark, Song Li swiped the card to get on the bus, walked to the last row and found a seat by the window to sit down, closed his eyes, and was full of refraction.
Qu Ran and Han Xiaomo's difficulties are unimaginable to Song Li, and these pressures are not comments from the outside world, nor the strange eyes of relatives and friends around them, but their mutual suspicion of each other, as well as the deepest infirmity in their hearts.
The day after the accident in the bar, that is, Qu Ran was picked up by his mother in the morning, after Han Xiaomo, Song Li and all the people involved went home, the "631" Christmas Eve incident was on the headlines of Chang'an Entertainment on Christmas Day, and the faces of the main parties were marked with a mosaic, but entertainment venues such as bars were mixed, and soon, the identities of Qu Ran and the rich second generation in the comments below the news were wiped out, and the identity of Qu Ran's talent singer was quickly remembered again. In the spirit of entertaining the public, she originally just wanted to pick up the hard years after the talent show singers, but she didn't expect that her affair with Han Xiaomo would steal all the limelight. Same-sex is a sensitive topic, the talent singer was exposed to the closet, and it blew up in the streets and alleys of Chang'an, and among the tens of thousands of comments, it may be rare to see one or two sentences similar to "true love", but it was soon overwhelmed by the malicious comments that continued to refresh. Han Xiaomo's cousin took the latest flight back to Chang'an, Qu Ran was grounded by his parents, and the two combined all possible forces to calm all the โกโก within a week by taking the opportunity of a male and female star being exposed.
Qu Ran locked himself in his room, and his mobile phone was confiscated by his parents, without any harm from vicious comments, and also blocked the consolation of his relatives and friends.
Han Xiaomo was slapped by her father, and her head hit the sofa leg the moment she fell, and after half a minute of continuous blindfolding, when Han Xiaomo saw the nosebleed dripping on her father's new carpet, she knew that Han Xiaomo's love and refractive dreams had been shattered by reality.
A month later, Qu Ran's mother introduced Qu Ran to a boyfriend with a near-perfect family background through Chen Hao, and Qu Ran sat opposite them, wanting to cry, but not daring to cry.
Han Xiaomo's father waited until the situation in Chang'an stabilized, and asked Han Xiaomo's cousin to enroll Han Xiaomo in Shanghai for a postgraduate examination class, and a TOEFL class, whether he went abroad or continued to stay in China, in short, life left Han Xiaomo no longer only boring blanks.
The radio on the bus called the distracted Song Li back again, got off the bus, and waited for the last bus behind him to disappear In the middle of the night in Chang'an, Song Li knew that the world would not change; And no matter how stubborn we are, we will finally change one day.
And the words that Han Xiaomo asked Song Li to bring to Qu Ran, Song Li finally failed to tell her.
At the beginning of March, when looking at the balance displayed on the mobile banking, Song Li wondered why the whole world was changing, but the salary could remain the same.
However, at the beginning of the new year, Xiao Pei was also brought to greater changes.
Song Li followed Jiang Yao to Global to attend a meeting, the whole process was an hour and a half, Song Li sat in the corner and bowed his head to make meeting minutes, and followed Jiang Yao to wait for the elevator when the meeting ended, Song Li saw Xiao Pei, Xiao Pei, who would still tilt his head despite the difficulty, lowered his shoulders and walked weakly in front of the glass door.
When the elevator door closed, Jiang Yao blinked and said, "Global's personnel transfer this year, Xiao Pei went to the following real estate company to be the general manager. โ
Song Li's eyelids lifted, pursed his lips, and asked in a low voice, "Is this good, or is it ...... Not good? โ
As soon as Jiang Yao spoke, the elevator reached the tenth floor and opened the door, and a few people in suits and leather shoes came in, Song Li retreated, Jiang Yao lowered his head and stopped talking.
The strange atmosphere lasted to the first floor, watching the people in front of him get out of the elevator, Jiang Yao suddenly lowered his head and whispered to Song Li behind him, "What do you say?!" In this way, Xiao Pei should be regarded as being hollowed out. โ
A few days after that, Song Li received a call from Xiao Pei to help him take it for a few days, and he said, the only person he can trust in Chang'an is you. Then, Xiao Pei bought a plane ticket to the United States and returned to Chang'an a week later.
It was raining in Chang'an that day, the road was very muddy, Song Li was standing at the door of the house wearing a heavy down jacket, one foot on the steps and holding a tissue to wipe the mud on the boots he just bought for the New Year, Xiao Pei shouted Song Li's name behind his back, Song Li got up blankly and looked back, and then smiled slightly, "Mr. Xiao, you are back." โ
Xiao Pei took off his tweed coat, took off his scarf, sat on the sofa and hugged it tightly, it took a long time to let go, Song Li's mother saw that Xiao Pei had something to say, so she took the child to the supermarket at the door to buy snacks, Song Li handed Xiao Pei a cup of hot water, and then sat opposite him with a smile.
"Excuse me, Song Li, thank you." Xiao Pei said politely.
"It's okay, it's okay," Song Li was a little embarrassed, "By the way, Mr. Xiao, have you finished your business?" โ
Xiao Pei lowered his head, smiled weakly, raised his head and looked at Song Li for a long time and said, "Song Li, I don't seem to be able to hold on." โ
Song Li was stunned, his lips opened slightly, but he never asked anything.
"I thought I was ridiculous, I used to tell you how to cheer up, but now I can't even convince myself of those words."
"People are like this, some things can convince others, but it is often difficult to convince themselves." Song Li echoed with a faint smile.
"Maybe I'm too confident, a lot of things, I think that as long as I work hard, even if it's not satisfactory, at least it will be unsatisfactory."
Song Li lowered his head, not quite understanding what Xiao Pei wanted to say.
"I quit my aunt at home." Xiao Pei suddenly smiled.
"Why? What if you don't? Song Li asked.
"If I tell you that I can't afford to raise you, will you believe me?"
Song Li blinked his eyes after hearing this, and was speechless in disbelief.
"It's a joke," Xiao Pei smiled awkwardly, and then said, "It's just that now I suddenly have a lot more time, and I think I may be able to make up for all the things I owed to my children before." โ
"Oh." Song Li nodded slowly.
"By the way," Xiao Pei heard the sound of the door opening, and then said, "Song Li, do you want to buy a house?" I can give you a discount. โ
Song Li thought he had heard it wrong, but Xiao Pei did say this to himself before leaving, and he came back with Song Li's mother, Xiao Pei put on a coat, tied a scarf around Bu Bu's neck, took Bu Bu's luggage, hurriedly stuffed a thousand yuan for Song Li's mother, and then left.
Song Li didn't know what Xiao Pei had experienced, but without Xiao Pei from Global, Song Li never went in again.