Lin Dexun did not break his promise, and in the second year of Hua Nianping's teaching at the university, he accepted his application and accepted Hua Nianping as an in-service graduate student of Beijing University as an instructor.

The teacher and student tacitly never mentioned Lin Si'er.

Lin Dexun saw that Hua Nianping was silent, and he often looked sad, and he didn't know when he started to learn to smoke, and he was very addicted to smoking.

Seeing that he only devoted all his mind to academic research and papers, and rarely communicated with women, he felt a little guilty, so he gave him additional course guidance and training.

Hua Nianping really lived up to Professor Lin's expectations, and within a few years after graduating from graduate school, he quickly became an up-and-coming young economist in China, was exceptionally promoted to the youngest associate professor of Beijing University, and was appointed as the deputy dean of the School of Economics, but he was still alone.

One night in the summer after Hua Nianping became the deputy dean of the School of Economics, Hua Nianping went to the teachers' cafeteria after class to eat, and suddenly saw Vice President Lin Dexon and his wife, Lin Si'er, Lu Zhichao and his party walking in from the door of the cafeteria.

Lin Si'er was still holding a young girl in her hands. They were walking towards a round table in the dining room, and Hua Nianping couldn't dodge it, just in front of them, only a few steps away.

Lin Si'er didn't expect to see Hua Nianping here, her face immediately turned pale, and the two looked at each other in a daze for a while, silent.

Seeing Lu Zhichao staring at the two of them with a pair of vigilant eyes, Mrs. Lin hurriedly stepped forward to pull Lin Si'er away.

Hua Nianping cooked well and walked past the Lin family wordlessly.

When he returned to the dormitory, he lay down on the bed when he had no appetite to eat, and he didn't get up to turn on the lights until it was dark in the room, but just smoked vigorously.

Late at night, Hua Nianping heard a knock on the door.

He knew who it was, so he sat up suddenly and just wanted to open the door, when Lu Zhichao's vigilant eyes suddenly appeared in his mind, and he immediately shrank on the bed and did not move.

Lin Si'er continued to knock on the door for a while, and when she saw that there was no movement in the house, she said, "Nianping, I know you are in the house, please open the door, let's talk!" ”

There was silence inside and outside the house.

After a while, Lin Si'er turned to the window.

She said: "I know, Nianping, you don't want to see me again, I'm standing here at the window now, and you will definitely hear clearly." I'm here to tell you that I'm going back to the United States with him tomorrow. Since I saw you at night, I can't stay in the capital for a minute. I didn't dare to return to China over the years, let alone see you, God tortured me, but let us meet today. ”

Hua Nianping slowly moved to the window, and from the dim light reflected outside, he vaguely saw Lin Si'er's thin figure.

Two lines of tears ran down his cheeks.

Lin Si'er continued:

"You must hate me for betraying you, but Nianping, do you believe it, I was kidnapped by my mother and uncle and taken to the airport. My aunt in the United States was afraid that I would fly back to the capital, so she was very strict, and only gave me pocket money in the past few years, and I couldn't scrape together enough money to buy a ticket back to China. I wanted to contact you, but I didn't know where you were, and I didn't know from my dad that you were retained to teach and had been a graduate student for dad until I talked after dinner tonight. ”

It was because of him that Lin Si'er was forced to go to the United States, and Hua Nianping actually knew it many years ago.

Lin Si'er explained: "For Lu Zhichao, I resisted him for several years at first, until she resigned from her consulate job in order to chase me and did something in Sanliang. ”

Hua Nianping bit his lip tightly, and thought hatefully: "No matter what, you still gave up on me because of submission!" “

Lin Si'er said again: "Do you know, Nianping, I have never forgotten you over the years, I often think of you, and when I miss you, sometimes I suddenly wake up in the middle of the night." Now he and I have a child, but my father said that you are still alone, and I am very sad to hear it. Promise me, Nianping, find a woman to live with you. Otherwise, I will always feel sorry for you, I will be sad! ”

Hua Nianping heard Lin Si'er's sobs.

After a while, Lin Si'er was heard saying goodbye to him in despair and desolation.

She said: "Okay, Nianping, I'm leaving, you must be good, good!" ”

It took a long time for Lin Si'er's figure to move away from the window.

Hua Nianping wiped away his tears and stared at the window, as if Lin Si'er's shadow continued to be embedded there, pouring words over and over again into his heart.

Not long after Lin Si'er returned to the United States, Lin Dexun suddenly called Hua Nianping to the office one day and said that he would invite him to his home for dinner.

The reason is that Mrs. Lin has a daughter among her relatives, who is the same age as Hua Nianping, who works as a nurse in Tiantan Hospital, not only looks good, but also has a separate house, and her newlywed husband was killed in a car accident last year, and Mrs. Lin intends to match the two of them.

Hua Nianping pondered, this must be Lin Si'er begging his parents to complete the marriage for him, and immediately refused to Principal Lin.

He didn't dislike that the other party was a widowed woman, because there were many people who had made up objects for him before, and most of the introducers first considered that Hua Nianping had physical defects, so the woman selected either had no occupation or had a short marriage history.

Hua Nianping just thought that he and Lin Si'er would not be married to each other, but would become relatives, and his heart was inevitably a little sad.

……

Hua Nianping likes to eat potstickers and dumplings.

One day, he found a stall with "dumplings, wontons, pot stickers, and stir-fried vegetables" in the teacher's cafeteria as usual, and found that in addition to the boss surnamed Wu and his wife, there was also an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl.

The girl was tall, with a delicate face, slightly dark skin, and deep-set eyes that made her look like a mixed race of European gypsy women.

Hua Nianping later learned that this girl's name is Wu Ningfang, the eldest daughter of the boss surnamed Wu, who went to the coast to work without graduating from middle school, and recently quit her job to help her parents' business in the capital.

Wu Ningfang knew that Hua Nianping was the leader of the School of Economics, and when she saw Hua Nianping coming to buy food, she always called him affectionately, "Dean Hua!" And serve him a few more potstickers.

Mr. Chen, an accounting teacher in the college who was close to Hua Nianping, noticed that Hua Nianping had often patronized the stall intentionally or unintentionally since Wu Ningfang came.

Once at dinner, he and Hua Nianping said half-seriously and half-jokingly: "Nianping, that girl is interested in you, let me tell you about it." ”

Hua Nianping blushed and argued: "Don't be foolish, no, no!" There is a lot of age difference, a lot! ”

Teacher Chen seemed to see through Hua Nianping's thoughts, and really proposed to the boss and his wife surnamed Wu to be a matchmaker for Wu Ningfang and Hua Nianping. The boss surnamed Wu and his wife asked for their daughter's opinion, and Wu Ningfang promised: It is all up to the parents.

The boss surnamed Wu and his wife have heard that Hua Nianping is a fellow villager. Since Hua Nianping is the leader of the college and a well-known professor, if this family business is successful, he will have a place to settle in the capital in the future, and he will naturally take care of the stall business of the teachers' restaurant of Beijing University.