Chapter 156: The Struggle
By the time I walked out of the hotel gate, it was already getting a little dark.
The events of this day made me feel like I was in a mess, and the trajectory of my life became a mess in the course of a day.
My phone rang several times, it was a call from Anna Song, and there were very angry voice text messages.
However, I was not mentally prepared and did not know what kind of mentality to meet her.
I walked aimlessly on the road not far from the hotel, and the light of the street lamp stretched my shadow, like a ghost who had lost my soul.
Then there was a beep, and a car stopped next to me, and after the horn sounded, Ji Yining's face was revealed.
"Do you want me to give you a ride? To walk back to Donghua Market from here, you may need to walk for two days and one night. โ
I looked at her, then at the road ahead, and finally decided to ignore her for now.
Seeing that I didn't pay attention to her, Ji Yining raised her eyebrows, stopped the car on the side of the road, got out of the car and chased after her, and asked, "What's wrong with you?" โ
"If you really want to know, you should ask your cousin." I said in a low and distant tone, I really couldn't squeeze out any good mood to deal with her now, and I wished I could be alone for a while.
Even though I did this, it only made the two voices constantly arguing in my head, which only made me more irritable.
"Well, it doesn't have anything to do with me anyway." Ji Yining said indifferently, then dragged me to the bench on the side of the road, and said, "You sit down for a while." โ
"What for?" I didn't know where I was going, but she dragged me and sat down.
Ji Yining didn't speak to me, turned around and went to a roadside ice cream shop not far away to buy two ice creams and came back.
"Here, eating something sweet when you're angry can make you feel better." Ji Yining said.
I laughed a little, such words came out of the mouth of a person like Ji Yining, who played with guns, it really made me laugh a little.
"Who said that?" I asked as I took the ice cream, the snowball on it was vanilla-flavored, and it melted into a faint sweetness when I put it in my mouth.
Ji Yining ate her share in two bites, and then said, "My cousin said that I loved to make trouble when I was a child. Sometimes I would smash my grandfather's antiques, and the old man would scold me, and I would get angry, and my cousin would buy me a school cake. โ
"Ji Hao, that fox would still do such a thing?" I pursed my lips, then opened my mouth, and almost blurted out, "Miss Ji, you don't have any enemies you hate?" โ
"Enemies?" Ji Yining sat down in a position far away from me, and then held her chin in her hand and said, "That's quite a lot, you can count seventeen or eighteen by counting." โ
"Uh... So much? I was stunned.
Ji Yining said as a matter of course: "It's nothing, and those people probably want to cut off my head and put it on display at home." โ
ยทยทยท Is this what a girl would say?
I couldn't help but shake my head and chuckle and said, "Then we might as well make an analogy, if there is such an enemy that you hate deeply. Now, what if there was a chance for you to get revenge on that enemy? โ
"Then I probably won't hesitate." Ji Yining said without hesitation, and directly took out a gun from the waist of her long skirt that she didn't know where to hide before, "There is revenge, there is revenge." โ
I whispered, "Well, I'm not surprised." โ
Ji Yining glanced at me, and suddenly changed her words and said, "However, sometimes, it depends on whether it's worth it." โ
"Worth it?" I looked at her.
Ji Yining said: "Revenge is to let yourself breathe, but if the consequences are unbearable, I think most people will also think about whether to do that." โ
ยทยทยท Is it worth it? If I go and get revenge on him.
For a while, Anna Song's face, as well as the faces of my mother and grandmother, flashed in front of my eyes.
With a click, the snowball on the top of the ice cream fell to the ground, splashing scattered snow white on the pitch black ground.
At this time, Ji Yining stood up and said, "It's so late, I still have to catch a plane, it seems that I don't have time to send you back." โ
"It's okay, I can call a taxi." I came back to my senses and hurriedly said, "Thank you for being willing to talk to me for a while." โ
Ji Yining left, and in the night, I thought about it for a while, and ate it into my stomach before the ice cream completely melted.
Indeed, as she said, eating something sweet can make you feel better.
I walked back and saw Ji Hao sitting in the car from a distance in the parking lot of the hotel. I just pulled the car door open and sat in, and said, "I'll go tomorrow." โ
"Is it to save people? Or revenge. Ji Hao was not surprised that I would come back at all, he flicked off the cigarette on his finger and started the car.
I couldn't help but glare at him, I was really upset by his expression as if he had seen everything.
"Why should I tell you?"
"It's your own business to say it or not, but of course it's your business to do it." Ji Hao said, "I'll take you with me." โ
โยทยทยท Well. I hummed softly and turned my head to look out the window, the view that quickly flashed at me from the window cluttered my thoughts.
I didn't go back to Anna Song's house, but went back to live in my own home in Hulukou. Since I entrusted a piece of paper at No. 101 Ximen Street to Lilac and Shan Yufei, I haven't been there for several days.
I didn't sleep much that night, and the next morning, I almost opened my eyes and saw Ji Hao's phone number lit up on my phone.
"Hello?"
"Let's go downstairs."
Taking a deep breath, I hung up the phone and walked out the door, just in time to see my mom walking up with a few laundry pieces.
When I saw my mother, there was a phrase that swirled around my throat a few times, and finally I couldn't help but cry: "Mom." โ
"Huh? What's wrong? Mom turned around and gave me a strange look, "Little Monkey, I've stayed up late playing with my phone again!" โ
"Mom, that... I want to ask something. I didn't let the conversation turn to me, I thought about it for a while, and then hesitantly asked the question, "My dad..."
I imagined the various reactions my mother would have when I asked this question. But when I mentioned the word 'my dad', the shock and uneasiness that flashed in her eyes were faintly greater than sadness.
"Why did you mention him all of a sudden?"
My mom has a small movement, maybe she doesn't notice it herself, that is, when she feels nervous, her right hand gently rubs the little thumb joint of her left hand.
This little action may not be known to her.
I felt a little strange that I had expected her to be angry and sad, but I had not anticipated this nervous reaction beforehand.
"No, I just remembered it all of a sudden." There's no way I'm going to tell her that I've seen him and that my dad has a new family of his own, "Isn't the little guy of the Lu family only four months old?" I saw that his father let him ride around the neck every day and walk around the mouth of the gourd. โ
"You said the second child of the Lu family? That little monkey is more than three years older than you, and in the blink of an eye, the baby is there. When my mother heard that I mentioned this because of the second child of the Lu family, she suddenly relaxed a little and said with a smile, "Just yesterday, his son still urinated on his neck, and his entire back was wet." โ
I tried to think about the image, and I couldn't help but laugh. But the atmosphere finally eased up, and I quickly continued to ask the topic I cared about: "Yes, Mom, after so many years, I don't particularly care about the reason why Dad left." It's just that the little monkey of the Lu family has seen in the past few days, which reminds me a little bit of the past. โ
"Well, no wonder." Mom nodded, took my hand and patted the back of my hand, then looked up at me again, and said a little distractedly: "That person, in general, is a very good person." If you can really see him in the future, don't blame him. โ
"Why?" Mom's words made my heart hurt, and my subconscious tone became a little intense, "Obviously he abandoned us, why can't I blame him?" โ
"Shao Shao, just listen to your mother." Mom didn't come to me with the same scolding as she used to, her palm gently brushed my face, and then said softly.
That tone, almost pleading.
My heart had to soften, what else could I say in front of someone who raised me alone?
"yes, I see." I collected my thoughts for a moment, and then a smile appeared, "Mom, my friend is waiting for me down there, I'm going out." โ
"Well, okay, school is going to start, don't go wild." With a smile on her face, my mother patted me on the shoulder, and said with a little emotion, "My son has also grown up, Shao Shao, the girl you brought home last time, bring her to your grandmother when you have time." โ
Hearing her mention Song Anna, I felt a pain in my heart again, but I barely kept the smile on my face and nodded, "Okay, I know." โ
Hurriedly ran downstairs, and outside the door, a car was already waiting there.
As soon as I got in the car, Ji Hao glanced at me and said, "Didn't sleep all night?" โ
"Weird?" I glared at him a little angrily, and then took the time to send a message back to Anna Song, promising her that she would go home today, "I warn you in advance, I'm not in a good mood today, you'd better not mess with me!" โ
"Don't worry." Ji Hao said indifferently and started the car, "Do you want to have some breakfast?" โ
"Tonkatsu?"
"It's not good to eat your own kind."
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I reacted for a while before I realized that I had been scolded, and looked at Ji Hao with an inexplicable look and asked, "Are you sick?" Looking for scolding early in the morning? โ
"I remember, it seems like someone said it yesterday." Ji Hao picked the corners of his mouth and glanced at me, "If you take my car again, he will be a pig." โ
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I took a deep breath and couldn't help but reflect on myself what kind of sin I had done in my previous life to meet such a nemesis in this life!
"Straight to the point." Maybe it was because he saw that I had a tendency to use the knife, Ji Hao restrained the smile on his lips, and his expression became a little serious: "Have you thought about it?" โ
I knew what he was asking, so I put down my phone, put my chin in my hand and asked, "What the hell is going on with you?" โ
Ji Hao: ???
As I thought, Ji Hao's face suddenly became exciting. I lifted the corners of my lower lip triumphantly, turned my head to look out the window, and sighed slightly.