Chapter 58: Promise
Just as Gong Bing was standing on the side of the road and thinking to himself, a pickup truck stopped in front of him.
"Gabriel, why are you alone on the side of the road?" After the window was lowered, Koller appeared in front of Gong Bing.
Because Gong Bing stared at the personal panel suspended in front of him, in the eyes of others who couldn't see the panel, Gong Bing did look like a dull look, no wonder Kohler asked like this.
"It's okay, just hang out." Gong Bing shook his head, he looked at Koerle and looked sideways at his pickup truck, and asked casually, "Where's your good car?" How did you change the car? ”
Kohler smiled, opened the car door and jumped out, he was wearing a beige polo shirt on his upper body and an ordinary pair of jeans on his lower body, he couldn't tell that he was a rich boy from a big family at all, but like a big brother next door, his smile was warm and sunny, it seemed that in his previous life, he did not bring too many dark and negative influences, and there was only light in his life.
"It's a van rented by the university community, and I'm about to deliver some groceries to downtown with the money I raised." Kohler patted the carriage and said.
When his family is wealthy and does not have too much pressure in life, the warm-hearted Kohler always loves to help others, not directly with money, but participates in various community public welfare activities, sometimes as a volunteer in the hospital, sometimes as a storytelling assistant in the primary school or kindergarten, and sometimes visits the elderly living alone in the town.
Even if Gong Bing is picky, he has to think that Koerle is a rare good guy, although in Gong Bing's eyes, these things will only be done by pure kindness, but it does not prevent him from appreciating and admiring this person.
Kohler is not only good-hearted, but also very good in both academics and sports, and he is also good-looking from a good family, which is simply a combination of unique conditions, in Gong Bing's eyes, he is like a shiny male protagonist template, the kind of Korean drama.
Gong Bing just nodded at Kohler's gossip, because of the relationship between Rita, the two had met a few times during the period, and they were not strangers, but they were not familiar, so after casually greeting him, he planned to say goodbye and leave.
"Are you interested in antiques?" Seeing the shop behind Gong Bing, Koller asked.
"Uh...... It's a little bit. Gong Bing glanced at him, temporarily remembering who the other party was, and maybe the other party could help him.
"In the city of Lington in the next province, I know that there are several century-old shops that specialize in selling and buying this ancient thing, which is much stronger than here in Green Town, maybe Gong Bing will be interested in checking it out." Gong Bing hadn't proposed it himself, and Koller had already spoken his mind first.
"Gong Bing, do you know about Rita's recent conflict with her father?" Kohler changed the subject.
Gong Bing nodded, of course he knew, it was only a few days ago.
"Oh, you're the classmate you said you were going with as a group?"
"Yes and no, and two of Rita's friends, four people in all." "You know we're all medical students, and we just happened to have an internationally renowned MD going to the university next door for a few days to give a lecture, so we didn't want to miss it," Kohler admits. ”
"Let me guess, that university is in Linton, right?" Already understanding what the other party meant, Gong Bing said with a smile, and changed a cigarette for himself by the way.
Koller looked at the other party's smiling face, somewhat embarrassed.
"That's right, I'm not afraid of Gabriel's jokes, I hope you can help persuade your father in this matter, of course, whether it succeeds or not, I will also tell my brother about your old shops." After opening things up, Koller wasn't so embarrassed.
Since there is nothing else to gain in the green town, it is not a bad opportunity to go to the next province, and the idea of applying to the school for self-study at home is really not in vain, otherwise I will have to find a reason to ask for leave.
He didn't mind giving these two guys a hand in love, and he didn't care why they wanted to go to Lington despite Sean's opposition.
So I agreed.
Koller was delighted.
Watching Kohler leave in a pickup truck, Gong Bing recalled the other party's last words.
"Gabriel, Rita has not been in a good mood lately, except for the quarrel with her father, she may have other worries, but no matter how I ask, she is silent, can you trouble Gabriel you to ask your sister for me?"
Is there anything else going on with Rita? Recalling the past few days, because every day in addition to practicing is to check everywhere in the green town, so I really didn't pay much attention to her, since Koller asked so, let's find a suitable opportunity to care.
As night fell, at the dinner table, Rita finally sat back in her place and had dinner with her family, because there was no habit of eating while watching TV or listening to music at home, so the silence at the table at the moment made the atmosphere of the restaurant a little dull.
Bringing a piece of steak to his mouth, Gong Bing looked up at the others.
Remembering Koller's words during the day, he sighed in his heart, and then opened his voice and said the reason he had prepared.
It probably means that he doesn't have to go to school at the moment, and he wants to go out for a walk when he has free time, so that he can follow Rita and watch her for his father.
Rita's dark brown ponytail hung down in the back of her head, and she kept her head down and didn't say a word, but she made the knives, forks and dishes in her hands rattle, showing that she was not at peace.
After Gong Bing finished speaking, he did his best, and the rest was decided by his father Sean.
Sean just silently raised his glass and took a sip of the low-alcohol wine.
Glancing at Rita, who was about to put her face on the plate.
"My dear ......," the mother also saw Rita's appearance at the moment, turned her head and said softly to Sean.
"Ress, it's not like you don't know......" Sean also looked at his mother Ress complainingly.
Mother just shook her head.
"Okay." Sean sighed and said in a helpless tone, "However, you can't go to a dangerous place by yourself, I will explain to Gabriel and let him watch you." ”
Compared with the many worries and restrictions on Rita, Sean is much more relieved about his son, according to the attitude he has always had, it is more like free-range, whether it was introverted and silent in the past, or when he was cheerful and independent now, Sean did not interfere much in his son's life, let alone communicate.
This is fortunate for Gong Bing, allowing him to think less about how to deal with his relationship with Sean, but in Rita's view, it is completely different, and Rita feels that her father's old-fashioned approach imprisons her freedom.
Hearing her father's words at this time, Rita, who was originally silent, got up from her seat happily, threw herself on Sean's body, and kissed him on the face.
"Thank you, father." Rita said with a smile on her face.
"You're already a big girl, don't be like a little girl anymore." Sean's always serious and rigid face also showed a helpless but happy look.
"Then father, you should give me more trust."
"You have to understand that it's just that your father is nervous about you." Mother looked at the two of them and said with a smile.
"Of course I know, of course I do." Rita smiled, different from her previous awkward appearance, but now she seemed empathetic: "But now that I'm grown up and can take care of myself." ”
The silence and embarrassment that had permeated the room were swept away, as if a warm breath poured in from everywhere.
After all, they are going to live together, Gong Bing is also slowly adapting, slowly treating them as his own family, and enjoying this feeling of home at the moment, closing his eyes, the snow-white ceiling, the yellowed sheets, the smell of disinfectant water, the door that no one knocked on and the suffocating air, the picture of the previous life seems to have become blurred.
"Besides your father, you should thank your brother well." Looking at the elated Rita, her mother reminded her.
Rita and Gong Bing looked at each other, looked at each other and smiled, all without saying a word.