Chapter Seventy-Five: Half a Mile

I have the impression that the spring of 2002 started in May, lukewarm, lacking the freshness and vigor of previous years, the reason why I feel this way is because before May, I was busy dealing with Lin Jing's wave after wave of marriage hints, this hint is the same as spring, warm and gentle, making people feel depressed, but not attacking.

For example, she began to ask me to accompany her to attend the weddings of all kinds of girlfriends who came out of nowhere, to participate in various fashion wedding dress launches, and sometimes to go to the jewelry custom center to try on various styles of bracelets, necklaces, and of course rings. Then intentionally or unintentionally, I saw that she was doing a honeymoon strategy.

It's not that I don't want to marry her, but I'm not ready to get married so early, in addition to the initial idea of starting a business first and then starting a family, after a year of getting along, I suddenly found that Lin Jing didn't really think what I thought, she sometimes, there is always a little bit that makes me feel uncomfortable, just like a hint of marriage, she never says anything directly, but it makes me feel that she wants to do this, this feeling, I can't help but think of a very mean word--- good at calculation.

In order to avoid her fancy forced marriage, since May, I have found various reasons to avoid her, and most of the time I am busy with work. On the one hand, because the two projects have entered the construction stage of the main structure, various bidding, material selection, and investment promotion work are full of schedules, and on the other hand, I personally participated in the audition of the contestants from several cooperative universities.

It was at that time that I first saw Ru Cana's name. It was also after I saw Ru Jing's name that I immediately remembered the police officer who was related to Lin Jing more than a year ago, and remembered that those criss-crossing and complicated cases once forced the Dinghong Group to the line of life and death. What's even more coincidental is that when I think of the past, the Lin Group began to have all kinds of bad deeds of violating laws and regulations, and was frequently inspected by the police, the tax bureau, and the Securities Regulatory Commission.

For a while, Lin Jing and Lin Fuchun started all kinds of public relations and firefighting work again, so naturally they didn't have the energy to entangle me anymore. I happily take a look at the spring and clean it for a few more days.

I don't know if it's because of the name or because of the work, Ru Jing is a person who makes me look forward to it, and I have made excuses to meet the contestants several times, but I haven't been able to meet the real person. The school said that she was originally a fashion design major, and in the second semester of her sophomore year, because of some changes in her family, she herself suffered a mental blow, and after taking a leave of absence, she insisted on changing departments when she came back, because of her special situation, the school approved her request in order to avoid extra attention, and agreed that she transferred to architectural design, but fortunately, it was basically a cultural class before her sophomore year, and she only started professional classes in her junior year. And she has art skills, and she works very hard, after changing departments, her grades have climbed all the way, and finally she was among the best in her senior year.

In this design competition, many students were guided by teachers, and only she completed the works completely independently, but she could not find the slightest flaw. Therefore, the head of the department sometimes laments that he has picked up a design genius for nothing, and is secretly glad that he accepted her to change the department back then.

After listening to the school's introduction, I became even more interested in Ru Jing herself. After inquiring deeply, I couldn't help but jump on myself. It turned out that Ru Ling was really Ru Ling's sister, so the thing that suffered a serious mental blow was Ru Ling's death. And the suspension of school, as if I heard Lin Jing say it, is because of a serious mental disorder. That's probably why her designs are unique.

Later, Ru Jing's work lived up to expectations and went all the way to the finals. I asked the school again to gradually Ru Can, but the reply from the school was that Ru Jing herself did not have such a will, and she said that she wanted to get a fair and refreshing result with her own strength. I don't want to contact any company before the finals are completed, so that the outside world thinks that she has such a ranking by relying on the dark box operation of a certain consortium.

I was deeply ashamed to hear her say this, although I didn't think about anything, but I still thought that I could complete the contract with her before the final, so that I could use the group's resources to help her do some necessary publicity.

The first time I met Ru Jing was the day before the finals. Since the finals were held in Shanghai, the school's leading teacher arrived at the hotel with the two seeded finalists on the evening of the night, and I personally invited the three of us to have dinner together. This time, Ru Jing finally appeared.

She walked in from outside the door, with a bright smile on her face, her long hair supplanted behind her, and her eyes were as calm and clear as a lake. A pair of jeans, a T-shirt, simple and pure. Just by looking at that, I knew that this was the image of my ideal lover.

After Ru Jing sat down with the teacher, she greeted me politely, but I nervously forgot to introduce myself, and just handed over my business card in a rigid manner. She took the business card and put it on the table without even looking at it, and it felt like saying that it didn't matter who I was, and she didn't care.

At the end of the meal, the teacher kept analyzing the entries from other universities, introducing the team of judges for this competition, and commenting on the works of Ru Jing and another student.

Ru Jing smiled the whole time without saying a word, and from time to time she would get up to fill tea for her teacher, and then help me add a little by the way. I absentmindedly finished dinner, and proposed to go to the hotel café to sit, Ru Jing did not wait for the teacher to answer, so she took the initiative to refuse, saying that the journey was a little hard, and I wanted to go back to the room to rest and prepare for tomorrow's plan to be announced.

Since the competition was conducted in the form of live broadcast, each contestant needed to fully express his design plan and design concept to the judges within 15 minutes. This link not only tests the designer's ability to express, but also once again tests the basis of their design.

In this case, I had no reason to stay, so I had to reluctantly send the three of them back to the hotel. Then I couldn't help but let the hotel send more fruit and almost to each room.

When I returned to my room, Lin Jing's phone called, and I suddenly realized that I still had a fiancée who was engaged. I can't help but feel a little guilty and regretful. Hesitantly picking up the phone, Lin Jing looked very busy over there.

"Is it going well on your side?" Lin Jing asked simply, this kind of thing is actually very versatile, I think she probably doesn't care what I'm doing or how I'm doing, this is what I vaguely feel very comfortable in the past year.

"All the best, tomorrow's final." My simple answer is also a universal reply.

"Something is wrong with my side, and I don't have time to watch the live broadcast tomorrow."

"It's okay, it doesn't matter much, you're busy with yourself, do you need my help?"

"Not yet."

"Then you take care of your own rest."

"Okay, so are you. I've got a little bit of work to take care of. ”

"Okay, good night, I miss you."

"Ann!"

Hang up the phone, the guilt in my heart disappeared, and I even felt that maybe there was no feeling of love between me and Lin Jing, and in a year, we seemed to be going farther and farther away, maybe Lin Jing herself also realized this, so she wanted to hold a wedding as soon as possible, is she also worried, we slowly forgot the initial heartbeat, and were eager to give this relationship a good and formal ending.

Thinking like this, I unconsciously thought of Ru Jing again, I thought, I really know what I feel like today, so what about Lin Jing? Break up? Isn't it too rash, for a girl who has only met once.

I can't do this, if others are okay, it's Ru Jing, it's Ru Ling's sister, even if it is a breakup, Lin Jing can't accept me to pursue a girl with this status. It's such a strange fate.

I tossed and turned all night for the restlessness in my heart, and when I saw Ru Jing again in the morning, I wanted to avoid it. Ru Jing is a polite girl, and when she saw me in the restaurant, she took the initiative to come and greet me. Because I was alone, I had to sit across from her.

Her teacher and another classmate hadn't even gone downstairs for breakfast, so breakfast became an awkward ordeal for me. Ru Jing was still as quiet as last night, smiling and eating her breakfast. But I didn't have much of a mind on my plate, and I couldn't help but glance at it, and I kept warning myself to refrain from it.

After eating breakfast, Ru Jing said goodbye happily and went back to her room to change her clothes and prepare to go. I finished my breakfast calmly, and at the same time noticed that there seemed to be many more pairs of eyes in the dining room. I had a sense of foreboding, but I didn't know what was wrong.

The final is really exciting, although I am a practitioner in the construction industry, but I have not seriously experienced the charm and concept of the building itself, when the designer expresses it in his own way and language, people suddenly feel that every corner, every arc, every hollow has its own language, has the story it wants to tell.

The moment Ru Jing took the stage, her thin figure made me feel a burning feeling, that brilliant but dazzling, warm but not soft, quiet but not rigid, passionate but not pressing, so that I could hardly hear what she said. I only remember that the applause was thunderous, and all the judges directly stood up to give her the highest affirmation.

After Ru Jing finished speaking, the scene began to tacit that she would win today's championship, and sure enough, Ru Jing topped the list with an absolute high score. Finally, he lifted the trophy in a fierce applause. In the final speech, Ru Jing stood on the podium and was silent for a few seconds, and after those few seconds of silence, the audience gradually quieted down, waiting for her to speak.

"Thank you to my parents, to my teachers and my alma mater, to all my friends who supported me and helped me. Special thanks to my brother. His name is Ru Ling! I hope that it is not myself who will be remembered today, but the name Ru Ling, because it was he who gave me warmth and sent me half a mile of flowers. From today onwards, those silent and silent past events will once again become vivid, and I will raise the sand for half a mile to pay tribute to his missed years! ”

After saying this, the audience fell silent for 3 seconds, and the judges in the audience looked at each other questioningly, obviously not understanding what it meant. And I suddenly felt a chill down my spine, what the hell was she trying to do?