Chapter 53: Someone Else's Story
Han Rui turned off the roaming of his mobile phone and finished reading Cheng Chuxia's diary, the gloom lingered in the corner of his eyes.
Xiao Qing went back to China two days ago to attend a good friend's wedding banquet, and when she came back from today's plane, as soon as she got home, she saw Han Rui's unhappy expression, looked at the mobile phone on the side, and suddenly understood it again.
In fact, she was quite touched, and at the wedding banquet, she heard another regretful story.
"Xiao Rui, are you thinking about her again?"
"Hmm."
Faintly, it was already Han Rui's best reaction.
"I went back to see her this time, but she didn't know that I went back, she was doing well, but she wasn't happy......"
Unhappy......
The three words made Han Rui feel ashamed, because he gave her this unhappiness.
"If you can't help it, why don't you go back? There are already too many regrets, do you want to let yourself regret it? ”
Han Rui didn't respond, and Xiao Qing told the story she heard at the wedding......
This year, it is rare to look forward to winter, global warming, causing the winter in the south to be several months late, those unstoppable heat as if it was still yesterday, this year, the winter in the south is not too cold.
"Mu Mu, get up and go to work." Familiar voices lingered in my ears, I lifted the quilt, got up, brushed my teeth and washed my face. After eating breakfast, I looked at the clock and went out to work.
As soon as he sat down, he saw Cici standing in front of him.
"What's wrong?" Cici placed an envelope on her desk, "This is the wrong one to me." She took it and opened it.
The red corner peeked out of the envelope, well, another red **. She was in no mood to open it at all, folded the envelope again, put it in a drawer, and continued to work.
At night, there is a blur outside the window, and the incandescent light looks a little bleak in the darkness at the moment.
"Mom, I'm back." When I got home tired, I collapsed on the sofa without changing my shoes. "Hurry up and change your shoes, take a shower, and there's sugar water in the kitchen. How are you today? "Mom's nagging.
I don't know when it became something to show off, she lay down, closed her eyes, and grumbled as a matter of course, "Don't mention it, I received another red ** today, and this month's bonus has been wasted again." ”
"Is it a classmate again? Who's married? ”
"I didn't look at it. Whoa, give. ”
Mu Mu's mother took it, "Gu Mingjing? This wedding, the ticket is available, this red ** can't be pushed off if you want to......" The words behind me were scattered and I didn't hear a few words. But what she heard clearly was that Gu Mingjing was married.
Gu Mingjing is married.
Walking in the airport with his suitcase, full of English-speaking foreigners, she suddenly remembered the night when he first videotaped with her after leaving, he said: "Mu Mu, Seattle is really a beautiful place, our wedding is set here, do you say okay?" ”
put on light makeup, put on the usual simple skirt, stood in front of the mirror and looked at it again and again, and finally shook his head and changed into the valuable purple dress, which looked down-and-out and generous.
Too obsessed with the phantom in that mirror, in the blur, time seems to be torn apart for a long time......
Several times the cold air went south, freezing a few French plane trees in the school to the point that there was not a single leaf left, and all around were bare and lifeless, making people feel desolate. But no one paid any attention to this, except for the dean of students, who would only shout on the radio every day about which class had not cleaned up the fallen leaves in the cleaning area. At that time, some voices were always talking about "If the floor is cleaned, does the dean of education have a bonus?" "Nonsense, of course there is!".
From the aunt who sells breakfast in the early morning pushing the steamy snack cart on the street, to staying up late at night to write homework until her eyes are red and can't help but roll to sleep, this day is over. In the third year of high school, it seems that only the isolated life of the school dormitory every day can keep up with the pace of this society. It's like slaying an unforgettable scar on the book of your fate, and this feeling is like being forced to self-harm, and you have to laugh and say I'm happy to ......
After surviving a physics class like a bombardment of knowledge, after a brief cleanup, Mu Mu went to Vice ve
sa。
Seeing the familiar figure at the door, Mu Mu frowned slightly.
"Mu Mu is here, Ming Jing and others are coming, let's sit down first."
"Well, thanks, you're busy first." Mu Mu smiled faintly.
"Coming, I'm sorry, I'm late." Fifteen minutes later, Gu Mingjing hurriedly walked in.
"Classmate Gu, you're fifteen minutes late." Mu Mu gently stirred the half-cold coffee, put down a piece of sugar, and handed it to him. He took it and drank it down. "Excuse me, how much longer?"
"Five minutes, I'm going back."
Gu Mingjing touched her head lovingly, "I should have come back before the coffee cooled." ”
Mu Mu smiled, "Okay, I don't blame you, but I'm really leaving." ”
"I'll pick you up after self-study." His face was full of reluctance and pampering.
"Hmm."
If you can be careful, Mu Mu may be able to find that Gu Mingjing felt a slight pain when she said that.
The time for the high school entrance examination is getting closer and closer, and the timer card for the countdown of 100 days is hung on the blackboard, and before I know it, it has reached thirty. There is still a month to go. In the final stage, the teacher didn't show up for a long time, and as soon as the class bell rang, everyone would study on their own without notice from the class representative, and it was rare to be quiet. Even the noisiest group of people is quiet, which is really unaccustomed.
It was already close to evening when I repaired the next night, and the cold wind was blowing coldly, and it seemed that every gust of wind blowing through it was like slapping myself countless times. Mu Mu wrapped his coat tightly and walked towards the door. Gu Mingjing was already waiting at the door early.
"It's here, why is it so late." After speaking, he handed her the coffee in his hand, and Mu Mu reached out to take it.
"I accidentally fell asleep while revising." Gu Mingjing secretly scolded, "Stupid." He smiled beautifully.
"Let's get in the car first." Mu Mu sat in the back seat.
"Isn't the coffee shop busy today? How can you have time to pick me up? ”
"I miss you." Gu Mingjing turned his head to her and smiled evilly, Mu Mu smiled, and did not speak again.
Gu Mingjing's riding speed was not fast, but Mu Mu in the back was still so cold that he couldn't shiver, and he took a deep breath. Gu Mingjing naturally felt it, "If you feel cold, hug me tight." Mu Mu was powerless to refute, and obediently hugged him. It doesn't seem to be that cold anymore.
After taking a sip of coffee, his face wrinkled like a bitter gourd all of a sudden, "Gu Mingjing, you have such a strong taste, you don't put sugar in coffee!" ”
"It's enough to put one, what are you doing with so much sugar, and, Xia Mumu, in order to prevent you from being so fat that you crush my car, so, you hurry up and lose weight."
"Gu Mingjing! You...... Okay, I think I'm fat, then you let me get out of the car, and I'll go back by myself. Mu Mu poked him hard in the back.
"There are so many cars on the big night, you are too unsafe as a girl, no. What do I do if you have anything. ”
"It's your business, I'm not your person or anything, it's good to be killed, it's a hundred." Mu Mu smiled, in fact, she was also afraid that Gu Mingjing would leave her.
"Xia Mumu, the most important person to me, you are one of them."
The wind at night was cool and biting, but it seemed that the street lamps had become very solid again.
The road home was very flat, and the shadows of the two people in a car under the sallow light were gradually lengthened, shortened, and lengthened......
at the wedding.
The bride bowed her head shyly, deeply powerless in the face of everyone's coaxing, but the laughter was in her eyes. "Kiss one." "Kiss one." "Kiss one." …… The cries came and went, so warm, so many blessings. Gu Mingjing lowered her head and kissed the bride's lips like flames. Memories are always played inadvertently to the next frame.
Self-study classes. Mu Mu turned his pen from time to time while writing the test papers, and he didn't know when he learned the bad habits from Gu Mingjing.
"Hey, Xia Mumu!" The originally quiet classroom was broken by this call, and everyone looked at Mu Mu in unison, she pretended to be calm and looked out of the window, just in time to meet Gu Mingjing's gaze, got up, and went out.
"What the hell are you going to do? What about self-study, so many people are watching. Gu Mingjing took her hand, "Let's go, I'll take you to a better place, pack up, and bring your schoolbag." Although she didn't know why, she still walked with him, and skipped a lesson openly, perhaps because she always found an inexplicable sense of security in this person.
Gu Mingjing took her to a coffee shop not far from the school, Mu Mu handed him the coffee he had just bought, Gu Mingjing changed the two of them, "What's wrong, I'm afraid I'll be poisoned." Gu Mingjing smiled, "If I am poisoned by you, I am willing." Girls shouldn't drink anything too sweet, you should drink mine. Mu Mu took it and took a sip, although the taste was bitter, it seemed that she had slowly gotten used to it.
"Hmm......" The sudden kiss made Mu Mu only have time to utter an incomplete syllable.
"Don't move." Gu Mingjing gently let go of her and kissed her again, Mu Mu closed her eyes, and those astringent tastes became sweet.
At the end of the kiss, Mu Mu's face was red to his neck, of course, Gu Mingjing was no better.
"Is that why you tricked me out?" Mu Mu was ashamed and angry. Gu Mingjing looked like he was cheap and behaved, "Because you always believe in me unconditionally." Otherwise, how can I fool you? ”
Mu Mu was really angry and funny, and lowered her head with a red face.
Later, I remembered that a kiss did not mean anything, did not brand the other person with his own mark, and was worthless except for nostalgia, because the same kiss he could give to others as well.
When Mu Mu and Gu Mingjing stepped into the door of the same school again, it was already close to autumn.
In the evening, I hurriedly ate dinner and was about to go to the evening repair, but I met Gu Mingjing at the door of the dining hall.
"Have you eaten?"
"I just finished eating, and I'm ready to go to the evening repair. Where have you been today? ”
"It's nothing, go get a visa and get ready to go abroad."
"Tourist?"
"No, it's immigrants. My parents' lawsuit was over, and the court awarded me to my mother. ”
He raised his head slightly to reveal his good-looking side face, and the night light shining on the outline of his face was gilded with a layer of golden light, so charming and deadly.
He smiled suddenly, as if to say, 'It's a nice day.'"
"How... So suddenly. Mu Mu's voice trembled uncontrollably.
He suddenly stepped forward and hugged her hard, "Xia Mumu, will you leave me?" Mu Mu held his hand that was holding her tightly, "Mingjing, I'm ......"
"I know you can't accept a long-distance relationship, but Mu Mu, no matter where I am or what country I am in, my heart is yours." Mu Mu turned around and looked at his firm eyes, the dark brown pupils were not obvious in the twilight, but her shadow was reflected in this sworn eyes, and at this moment she finally couldn't help but cry.
Yes, just this simple sentence is enough to break all the rules, what else is there to refute? From the beginning of loving each other, it is destined to be impossible to win.
Later, Gu Mingjing only vaguely remembered that Mu Mu missed the evening cultivation for the first time that night, and hugged him and cried for a long time.
Mu Mu's life trajectory seems to overlap with Gu Mingjing, repeating his habits, life, and hobbies.
I like to put on headphones and lie on the grass, or drink those bitter "Chinese medicines" in the coffee shop, and watch him work hard, and sit all afternoon.
Shu Hua has always been cold to Mu Mu recently, Mu Mu looked at her complaining eyes, and suddenly laughed, "Still laughing, the guy who is heavy on color and light on friends." ”
Mu Mu took her hand apologetically, "Come on, come on, I'll see if I've frozen it into ice." ”
Shu Hua smiled, and the two were as close as before.
The golden hue of the fallen leaves on the school rustled in every footprint that stepped on it.
A strand of long hair curled up by the breeze fluttered in the wind, such a Xia Mumu is really beautiful.
"Mu Mu, let's go, it's too late."
"Okay, let's go." The girl looked back at the rusty gate, as if she saw youth and madness that could no longer be seen.
Gu Mingjing, it's been two years, and it seems that everything has changed. "Let's go, Vice ve, two minutes away
It's time for the SA to close, let's take a few steps. Gu Mingjing turned around and took the girl's hand, and the long hair that had just calmed down fluttered in the wind again.
Gu Mingjing left.
didn't say goodbye, just left, leaving her helpless and helpless. But she would still look at the empty table in front of her every day for a while, as if the next second, he would appear, and then say to her, "Xia Mumu, you keep staring at me, can I think you like me?" "It's like, he's never left.
As one of the most popular movies recently said, "Time eventually makes people numb and sober, or, pretend to forget." In an extreme mood, all the storylines that I have been exposed to seem to coincide with my current self, and every love word will be a tear.
Slowly, that hot summer is gone, and the sweaty college entrance examination is over.
Mu Mu started a period of campus life again, her grades were surprisingly good, she was admitted to a good university, and Shu Hua was sent to study abroad.
Under this seventeen-year-old sky, this group of people is shining brightly.
Mu Mu always has a place in his heart, and he still feels a faint pain when he thinks about it.
They say that at a certain time, people will see themselves in parallel time and space. I must love you very much.
……
The memories were interrupted in Shu Hua's greetings, and all kinds of memories shocked her and made her almost cry in front of her newlywed husband.
"Shu Hua, Ming Jing, long time no see" Mu Mu said.
Seeing that Gu Mingjing was motionless, Shu Hua took the initiative to take over the topic: "Poor greeting, forgive me, forgive me, we will get together in a few days, who is this?" Shu Hua and Gu Mingjing looked at the man beside Mu Mu in unison, Gu Mingjing smiled awkwardly, after a few years, his smile has become a little more mature, and he is less youthful than before.
The man took the initiative to reach out and hold Gu Mingjing's hand, "My wife and I congratulate you, happy newlywed!" Mu Mu clearly saw the smile on Gu Mingjing's face and paused unnaturally, but he skillfully covered it up.
"Mu Mu is married, it's really good, please take a seat, it's not good." That awkward smile brought back more memories for her.
……
In the evening, there was a noise that was out of place in the alley, as if there was some happy event, Mu Mu lowered his head, and when he was still struggling with why he couldn't see Gu Mingjing, a sentence full of jealousy broke into his ears, "Gu Mingjing's child is really good, he went to study abroad at a young age, how good, the whole family immigrated in a hurry a few days ago, no, it's the plane ...... this morning...... At that moment, the brain suddenly buzzed as if it had been bombed.
Leave? She deliberately avoided Gu Mingjing for a few days, what happened? By the way, Gu Mingjing called her in the self-study class yesterday, but she ignored it, and then what did he say? Oh yes, he said, "Mu Mu... I'm leaving."
At the time, I just thought he was angry...... The rain outside the window crawled all over the transparent glass like ants little by little, and on such a rainy day, the sound of the rain was so quiet, there was no loud noise and noise, but just like that, the ground was also wet.
I was depressed for a long time, I didn't wash my face with tears, I didn't get drunk, and I didn't feel depressed.
Since then, everyone has never heard Mu Mu mention the name Gu Mingjing, but only Shu Hua knows, the calmer she looks, the more she understands the deepest pain in her heart, yes, it's been eight years, just like the most colorful part of her life suddenly disappeared like this, leaving only a large blank space, she shouldn't torture herself like this.
She repeated Gu Mingjing's life, and every time Shu Hua saw her sitting on the lawn, she felt deeply sorry for her.
"Mu Mu, cry out. You still have me, don't torture yourself like this. Shu Hua hugged her from behind, and she leaned on Shu Hua's arms, "I'm fine, I just want to be quiet." ”
……
"When you grow old, you will never be married." Just met the newcomer to toast, the old classmates present sent congratulations, a table of people you and I have a glass, a bottle of red wine quickly bottomed out.
Do you hate Gu Mingjing? Frankly, she hated it, but what right did she have to hate him.
Closing the diary, the depression of the past few days had almost made her forget everything before.
In the morning, holding the steaming buns and warming his hands quickly, Mu Mu walked briskly towards the school gate.
"Mu Mu!" Turning around, Gu Mingjing was walking briskly towards her. "Morning, why is it so late today? It's almost late. ”
"I've got something for you" "What?"
"Look!" Mu Mu took it, and when he looked closely, it was a crystal-shaped trophy.
"National Photo Contest!" The words on it made Mu Mu startled. Maybe only she can understand how important photography is to Gu Mingjing, Gu Mingjing compared it to her when she was a child, photography is something more important than life in his life.
Gu Mingjing smiled, revealing a natural expression.
That night, Gu Mingjing heard a noisy sound from Mu Mu's house in a trance.
In fact, the controversy of the Xia family swept away the originally quiet small house like a whirlpool.
Mu Mu shrank in the corner in fear, she had never seen her father get so angry, but the reason was Gu Mingjing.
Because several times they walked side by side and happened to be met by Mu Mu's father, and then she was greeted by her father who strongly objected, even if she hysterically explained that she was just an ordinary friend with him, she only got a loud slap from Mu Mu's father and a cold sentence "You must keep your distance from him, it's best not to contact." ”
Mu Mu has had a kind of awe for her father since she was a child, for her father, she has never had the right to obey and never say no, and this time is the same.
That night, Mu Mu didn't close his eyes all night, and Gu Mingjing was the same, the difference was that the latter was just because of simple insomnia.
Helplessness and loneliness pressed down like a huge cloud, breathless, heartbeat slowly, suffocating, dead clenched to the throat.
At this time, the memories of the bits and pieces are always gathered at one point, and the fragments of the past sadness are replayed and repeated over and over again in the mind, which is like a real executioner, cutting off everyone's last glimmer of hope and voice. Who is right and who is wrong?
After a few days, it was not difficult for Gu Mingjing to find that Mu Mu was avoiding him, just hiding, not to mention escaping, sometimes there were still a few words of greeting occasionally.
"Mu Mu, why are you avoiding me!" Finally, this question still waited until the day when it was to be exposed, and when she heard the sentence that Gu Mingjing finally asked, Mu Mu felt suddenly relieved,
"I'm tired of it, I'm impatient, I'm fed up and I'm throwing it aside, what's the reason." Mu Mu didn't dare to look directly into his eyes at this moment, and she even wanted to completely deny that the person who spoke just now was her.
"What? Xia Mumu, you dare to look at me and say it again to me! Mu Mu raised his head and met his gaze, "I just hate you, I'm fed up with you, you always think you're amazing, you think you can be proud if you win the award, why are you!" ”
Gu Mingjing indifferently took out the trophy from his schoolbag, "If you are really angry about this, then you can destroy it." ”
"Do you think I don't dare?" Of course she didn't dare, she knew that this was what Gu Mingjing cherished the most.
But the atmosphere at the moment is like a tight thread, whoever lets go will fall short, and when the quarrel is inseparable, in the end it is still complaining and overwhelming the last trace of reason.
"Bang-" The trophy shattered, as his heart was torn apart by her smash.
He endured it, his eyes were so red that he was about to drip blood, "Xia Mumu, I once said that the most important thing for me in this life is my mother and you." Now I realize that I am wrong, it is other than you. ”
Oh, except for you......
Time will not dilute all feelings, but it will change something unconsciously, just like the cup of coffee with only one sugar, I feel that I didn't find it so bitter before.
Holding coffee and looking down from the windowsill, my father put his arms around another woman's shoulders ambiguously, it was Gu Mingjing's mother.
It seems that all this is clear. didn't wait for me to come to my senses, and all the news that I had gone away with my father and Gu Mingjing's family fell into darkness again, which is so much like the end of the story, and like a tight dividing line.
……
At the end of the wedding, the newlyweds came to the stage to give a speech, Gu Mingjing took the microphone in the host's hand, and the warm voice was as gentle as water, "In everyone's life, there will always be a lot of people, relatives and friends, noble teachers, but what I believe is that everyone, through your life, will teach you more or less what to understand, so I also believe that all the people I meet are destined to meet, and those who leave are destined to leave, just like that girl, who stayed in my youth for a while, she gave me the beauty, But it is stored in memories for a lifetime.
Now that I have the woman I should protect, we have more time and create more beauty. Wife, I love you! ”
The scene resounded with thunderous applause, moving, blessings, and congratulations......