Chapter 66: If Life Is Only as First Seen
The chance encounter with Lan Gu in the clubhouse made me full of anticipation for all kinds of accidents that life brings.
I don't know what Lan Gu has experienced in the past ten years, but her current situation makes me believe that a woman's strength, shrewdness, and nostalgia for the past have been well reflected in her alone.
I don't have the right to make any comments on her, but her parting affectionate confession is also hinting that if I am willing to go back and renew my relationship with her, I should still have a chance to win her heart again, but the key question is, after the blow of Lin Xueer's incident, do I still have the courage to pursue her?
Obviously, Dazhi enjoyed very good service in the clubhouse, and was full of praise for the club's facilities and coach's service along the way.
Even discussed with me, if possible, we should also study the similar business operation model of the club, and open a high-level service place with this kind of membership, which can not only improve our quality of life, but also open the door to customers, meet more high-end people, and broaden business horizons.
His chatter and praise made me admire Lan Gu's management level, and I didn't mention the past of the owner of the club with Dazhi, just as I never mentioned my emotional entanglement with Ah Hong back then.
I knew in my heart that my encounter with Lan Gu was purely an accidental coincidence.
For a period of time after that, Dazhi and I became guests of honor at the Langu Club.
Dazhi fell in love with the fitness program in the comfortable environment of the clubhouse, and I ran to have tea and chat with Lan Gu when I was fine.
In the clubhouse, I quietly chatted with Langu over tea, which made my emotions feel a rare calm in recent times.
I sat down with her and talked about the current situation of my hometown, my vision for the future, and the various issues of our current business.
It's like going back to my college days, and I talk with Da Gang on the campus of the engineering university every weekend, and every time I finish chatting, I let go of some tangled things in my heart, my eyes are more open, and my whole person can get a kind of spiritual release.
Just as we were young more than ten years ago, on the banks of the dry water river in our hometown melon field, we unreservedly confessed our hearts to each other, and Lan Gu gradually became my ideological and ideological inseparable spiritual companion.
Dazhi and Lan Hong'er held a grand wedding in Beijing at the end of the year as agreed, and invited me and Lan Gu to be witnesses. I am not good at words, and I did a mess of the hosting work, but fortunately, Lan Gu was able to speak well, helped me save the scene, and ensured the final effect of the ceremony.
It is strange that for such a grand wedding, Dazhi's cousin did not appear at the scene.
Later, I asked Dazhi in private, and he quietly told me that he and his cousin had basically been in contact for half a year and had stopped contacting.
Dazhi and Lan Honger's married life looks harmonious and beautiful, which can be seen from his work status at work.
He became optimistic and positive, and things were arranged in an orderly manner every day, and he couldn't find a trace immediately after work, and when he asked, he went home to accompany his wife, and became a model for the man who took care of the family.
Life goes on like this, and I still have a full schedule every day to make my life very fulfilling.
A few more months passed, and spring came.
Beijing's air quality has been terrible in recent years, and the frequent smog days during the heating season have made everyone's winter very depressed.
As soon as spring comes, the spring breeze blows, the hazy weather is less, and everyone's mood is gradually clearer.
One day, I was sorting through documents in my office when I received a strange phone call.
The phone shows that the address of the incoming call is on the other side of the world where Lin Xue'er is located.
When I connected, a familiar voice rang in my ears.
"Great country, have you been busy lately? How are you doing? On the other end of the phone, Lin Xue'er's voice was slightly tired.
I held the phone in my hand and was silent for a few moments.
To be honest, it's been nearly a year since we separated, how are you doing? I have also asked myself this question, but it can only be bad or bad, just make do with it.
Seeing that I didn't respond, there was a soft sobbing sound on the other end of the phone.
"Big country, I'm sorry for you, I really just want to be independent... Self-reliance. Thinking that I might be sad to receive her call, Lin Xueer was a little emotional, not knowing how much her ideals had been realized in a foreign country.
"I didn't want to call you again, but I made an agreement with you, so I'll be sure to contact you one last time." She held back her crying, although her voice was still choked, but her words were very clear.
"I know what you mean." I was calm and knew what she was going to say.
"Forget about that agreement, as long as you are doing well outside." , I added.
"I'm fine at home, what about you? How are you doing? ”
Speaking from the heart, when I think of Lin Xue'er alone and struggling to live abroad without food and clothing, my heart will be like a pinprick, I still like to love my own sister, I have always been worried about her, and I have never stopped thinking about her.
"I'm fine, I'm really good, don't worry." , Lin Xue'er should slowly recover from her excitement.
"I called to tell you two things." She paused, as if thinking about how to say what she wanted to say more tactfully.
"Say it." I had a hunch in my heart that what she was going to say was nothing more than what she had been doing all along.
"First thing, I remitted 300,000 cash to your card the day before yesterday, which can be regarded as a return to your help to me in the past few years." Her words made me feel that we were being sadly distanced from each other by money, and this psychological barrier was even more distant than the distance between the eastern hemisphere and the western hemisphere of our current real space.
I was silent, and an inexplicable wave of anger rose in my heart.
"Pay me back 300,000 in cash? What is this? Are you going to draw a line with me? ”
The silence seemed to make Lin Xue'er feel my displeasure.
"I know it's nothing to you, but for me it's a matter of principle of life." , she continued.
"If you were told in advance, you might not accept it, so I'll transfer it to you first."
Her words made me feel sad.
It seems that she really has stiff wings, and she no longer needs my care at all.
For a while, my mind kept coming up with bits and pieces of my acquaintance with Lin Xue'er, causing today's ending, am I not loving her enough? Or did she never love me in the first place?
After sadness, he is confused, it seems that he is really not ordinary confused about the relationship between men and women, and he thinks that the so-called love has not escaped such a tragic ending in the end.
In the process of interacting with Lin Xueer, I think I have poured all my enthusiasm into it, and in the past period of time, I have also seen the emotional feedback that I deserve, why did it become like this inexplicably in the end?
"Do you still love me?" After thinking about it, I couldn't hold back for a moment, blurted out, and asked a stupid question.
"I...", Lin Xue'er stopped talking.
"If you still love me, I don't need money, you know for yourself, this money is nothing to me, and it's not easy for you over there, even if I buy you a gift in the end." , the excuse I proposed is also low enough, but in the current situation, it seems that no better expression has been found.
I am still very concerned about her, and after a year of healing, I am also psychologically relieved, fully respect her choice, and I do not expect her to change her mind, return to China, go back to Beijing to live with me, or even marry me.
I know in my heart that we are now completely two worlds.
The only hope is that she is well.
Money doesn't mean anything to me, it means a lot to her, a girl who has just graduated.
"Great country, in fact, I have one more thing to say to you." , Lin Xueer seemed to have made a lot of determination to say this.
"The question you just asked me, do I love you or not, this answer will be buried in my heart forever."
"What I'm going to say to you right now is...", she still didn't have the courage to say it all at once.
"Say it." , I was ready for all the blows.
"It's just... I'm getting married next week. She seemed to hesitate for a long time, but still said it to me herself.
"This may be the last time I'll call you."
There was a hint of sadness in her tone.
That's probably the last thing I want to hear in my life.
Tears filled my eyes.
I was so tired that I collapsed in my seat, feeling like my body had been wiped clean all at once, and I was fluttering and had nowhere to focus.
"Congratulations and I wish you happiness." I tried my best to restrain my emotions and make my voice sound normal, but unfortunately I still couldn't show a lot of emotion, and the sad emotion of losing my soul in my tone was transmitted to the other side of the ocean through the radio waves without any reservations.
"Thank you for your blessings, Mark and I are living well together now." , Lin Xue'er replied lightly, and added with a little hesitation:
"Pay back your money, part of it was also given to me by Mark, he, like me, thinks that the money that should be repaid must be returned to you in time."
"He said he was grateful to you for helping me finish my studies."
"Good, good." I was speechless for a moment, and the phone in my hand was so heavy that I couldn't breathe, and hanging up it seemed to exhaust the last bit of strength.
"But when you see the new person laughing, you don't hear the old person crying."
With Mark, how old is a big country?
After four or five years of getting along day and night, I am not as considerate as a foreigner who has known each other for less than a year, and I am indeed a failure.
The idea of 300,000 repayment contains the common identity of two people with exactly the same values, and the cold number obliterates the last trace of warmth for a poor abandoned person like me.
The beeping sound of hanging up the phone, on an otherwise quiet spring day in Beijing, was so deafening that I sat still and was depressed.