Chapter Twenty-Three: Let the Past Remain in the Past
When Ning Xiaoxiao and Tao Qing left, it was the evening rush hour after work, looking at the endless flow of cars opposite the hospital, Ning Xiaoxiao suddenly had a feeling of going through vicissitudes.
She'd never felt that before.
She looked up at the stars obscured by the clouds, the moon faded by the city lights.
The air in the hospital always smells of disinfectant water, and I feel uncomfortable when I smell too much.
Tao Qing took off the coat hanging from her elbow and covered Ning Xiaoxiao's body. Although winter is almost over, there is still mist at night.
The taxi they were waiting for finally arrived.
Tao Qing took Ning Xiaoxiao to her rented apartment.
After settling Ning Xiaoxiao, she went to Ning Xiaoxiao's rented house alone.
Ning Xiaoxiao's rental area is not large, but the color is very warm. Tao Qing took out two large suitcases from her bedroom, picked and picked some of the clothes in the closet, and put them in the suitcase.
Then Tao Qing came to Ning Xiaoxiao's dressing table, put the skin care and makeup she had put outside into a makeup bag in a drawer, and then stuffed it neatly into a suitcase.
Tao Qing packed up her things quickly, and she finished cleaning up in a blink of an eye.
She took Ning Xiaoxiao's mobile phone and called the landlord, and the landlord downstairs came up in a while.
Tao Qing handed over the room card to the landlord, and the landlord said that he would not return the deposit for early withdrawal.
Tao Qing nodded.
The landlord went in and took a look around and found that the small furniture that Ning Xiaoxiao bought was still there.
"Don't bring any of these things?" The landlord said smoking a cigarette.
"Well, I'll leave that to you."
The landlord helped Tao Qing take out two large suitcases and put them at the door. Then he put the retrieved key card into a small thick mezzanine.
"There's nothing to say, I wish you all the best in your work." The landlord dragged his slippers into the elevator, leaving behind the smell of his smoke.
Tao Qing smiled and pressed the downward button.
Tao Qing dragged her suitcase to the door of her rented house, and Ning Xiaoxiao opened the door one step earlier.
"Are you done?" Ning Xiaoxiao asked.
"I took out everything I thought was important, and left the rest there." Tao Qing replied.
"Good. Actually, there is nothing important anymore. Ning Xiaoxiao said with a smile.
"Alright, let's go inside." Tao Qing pushed Ning Xiaoxiao, who was leaning against the door.
"Have you done a job handover?" Ning Xiaoxiao asked Tao Qing.
"Alright. You know, I don't have any stable jobs either. What about you, have you dealt with it? ”
"I'm done too. By the way, when are we leaving? ”
"Tomorrow."
"Okay."
With the sound of trunk wheels sliding on the floor, the kitchen also resounded with the sound of tinkling cooking.
Tao Qing looked at Ning Xiaoxiao, who had suddenly changed the trajectory of her life, and thought to herself, "As long as you feel happy, I will accompany you." ”
Jian Chengyun called Ning Xiaoxiao after getting off work and found that the phone did not work.
He felt that Xu is Ning Xiaoxiao had fallen asleep, so he drove directly to the hospital.
When he walked into the ward, he found that Ning Xiaoxiao was no longer in the room.
He hurriedly grabbed a little nurse and asked, and the little nurse said that they had been discharged from the hospital last night.
Jian Chengyun suddenly remembered the look that Ning Xiaoxiao immediately showed when he and Ning Xiaoxiao said that they would marry her.
Jian Chengyun hurriedly rushed to Ning Xiaoxiao's house.
He had never felt that Ning Xiaoxiao's home was so far and the road was so long.
He finally arrived at Ning Xiaoxiao's community, and the doorman waved at him.
Jian Chengyun ran to the elevator like a fly, but the elevator door did not open for a long time. He ran up the stairs and found that the staircase was still the same. With his big slippers, Ning Xiaoxiao's slippers are also well placed.
He knocked on the door for a long time, and did not wait for anyone to open it.
In the end, the landlord came up to meet him, and the landlord said that the little girl who rented this household had quit the rent.
The landlord didn't care about Jian Chengyun's stunned expression, turned around and went downstairs.
Jian Chengyun took out his mobile phone and dialed over and over again, but all he waited for was a prompt to turn off the phone.
opened the WeChat chat page, and the last sentence was Ning Xiaoxiao's "I'll wait for you." ”
It's as if everything is stuck in place, but it's like an invisible line that separates the past and the present.
When Jian Chengyun returned to his house, Jane's mother was watching TV on the sofa, and Jane's father was rarely sitting on the side drinking tea.
They looked at Jian Chengyun's dejected appearance, glanced at each other, and Jian's mother opened her mouth.
"What's wrong?"
"Mom, I won't marry Ning Xiaoxiao anymore." Jian Chengyun dropped a sentence and went upstairs.
Leaving Jane's mother and Jane's father looking at each other.
"I don't know what he's doing again." Jane's mother said.
"It's okay, it's good that the young man wants to open it."
"Shall I ask what's going on, he's weird to me." Mother Jane glanced back at the stairs.
"If you don't want to talk, don't ask." Father Jane said. "I'll be upset if I know more." Father Jian added.
"Hmm."
Jian Seung-yun locked herself in her room.
All he could hear was the ticking of the clock.
The blackout curtains worked so well that when the lights were turned off, there was only endless black in the room.
Jian Chengyun couldn't understand why Ning Xiaoxiao would leave him.
Everything was quiet at home, and Jane's father and Jane's mother did not disturb him very tacitly.
He felt that the time spent alone alone was too long, and it was dark before he closed his eyes and went to bed, and it was still dark when he woke up.
I don't know how long it took, but he heard several beeps from his phone. He could tell that it was a reminder that there was a new email in the mailbox.
Jian Chengyun really didn't want to move, but he still picked up his phone.
The long pitch darkness made his eyes unable to adjust to the light on the screen, and the darkest brightness also stabbed his eyes.
This is an email written to him by Ning Xiaoxiao, although the email address says "tao".
The full text only has five words: "Thank you, promise".
None of the other.
Jian Chengyun looked at it several times until the phone screen hit his face.
He simply covered himself under the quilt again.
He felt as if he had never known Ning Xiaoxiao, from the time she walked into his life to the time she left. From the beginning to the end, I never took the initiative.
He remembered the first day he met Ning Xiaoxiao.
The store where he went to get the suit was deep in the old street, if it wasn't for Father Jian asking him to help him take out the clothes, he probably wouldn't have met Ning Xiaoxiao.
The store is not large, and the design is Japanese.
Jian Chengyun hurriedly left after getting the clothes.
Coincidentally, it happened to be raining.
Coincidentally, it just happened to bump into Ning Xiaoxiao.
Ning Xiaoxiao was also carrying the clothes of the same family, and the clothes were stained with mud on the path.
Jian Chengyun walked to the exit, and Ning Xiaoxiao walked to the store.
Jian Chengyun knew the pricing of this kind of customized clothing, and looked at Ning Xiaoxiao who was looking at the clothes in a daze. He picked her up and followed her back into the clothing store.
Ning Xiaoxiao handed the dirty clothes to the boss, and the boss said that he needed to add an additional fee.
Ning Xiaoxiao didn't say much, and directly scanned Alipay.
Jian Chengyun saw the few Yue Bao pages she had left, and she didn't say anything.
After Ning Xiaoxiao finished the formalities for returning clothes, Jian Chengyun stepped forward to apologize to Ning Xiaoxiao. And show her that you can pay for it.
Ning Xiaoxiao smiled at him and said that it didn't matter, at Jian Chengyun's insistence, they added WeChat.
The next meeting was at the bar.
Ning Xiaoxiao's internal party in the company, Jian Chengyun and his alumni party.
Because both sides had a good time, they simply played together that night.
Jian Chengyun remembered that he added a lot of WeChat that night, which caused everyone to be surprised when they saw the number of contacts.
That was the second time they had met.
When they met for the third time, he and Ning Xiaoxiao already chatted occasionally. But at that time, Ning Xiaoxiao's colleagues chased Jian Chengyun very fiercely, and there were too many rotten peach blossoms around Jian Chengyun, so the communication between them was limited to saying good morning.
Later, Ning Xiaoxiao's colleague left, and the rotten peach blossoms slowly disappeared, and they began to make occasional appointments for dinner.
Jian Chengyun remembered that once Ning Xiaoxiao was drunk, and he followed him to Ning Xiaoxiao's house.
Ning Xiaoxiao's lips are red and her teeth are white, and she looks extremely good in the blurred light. This is the first time Jian Chengyun has been tempted.
That night, he wanted to be Ning Xiaoxiao's man.
The atmosphere was just right, but Ning Xiaoxiao hugged him and cried.
She said she liked him, but she wasn't ready.
Seeing that she was crying with pear blossoms and rain, Jian Chengyun endured it, and he took several cold showers.
After coaxing Ning Xiaoxiao, he went home overnight.
After a few weeks they were together, but their interaction was extremely restrained, like a platonic spiritual love.
Later, there began to be intimate small movements between them.
Then the screen jumped to Sheng Baili, the fiancée, and Ning Xiaoxiao began to become anxious.
Immediately afterwards, Ning Xiaoxiao began to cry, the joy of her pregnancy, and the despair after the child fell through.
The last scene was Ning Xiaoxiao's promise to marry him.
This is how Jian Chengyun's first love ended.
Unclearly, in the midst of all sorts of unanswered questions, it's over.