Chapter Twenty-Three: The Lonely City

I slept until noon and was woken up by my mother's phone, and I heard my mother's monstrous anger in my sleep: "You say, do you want to be angry with me and your father?" ”

"Mom, you don't care about this."

My mother suddenly lost her temper and said angrily to me from a distance of thousands of miles: "Get back to Suzhou immediately, otherwise your company won't want to open." ”

After breaking up with Li Ranran, "The Dream of Water Dyeing" is my only remaining beautiful ideal for the future, in my mother's opinion, it is just a company, for me it is all I have, and it is also my "life", I forced down the anger in my heart, and said coldly: "Lin Shuyi, don't go too far." ”

My mother was silent for a while, and said with mixed emotions: "Shui Han, is it okay to be realistic?" ”

With that, I hung up the phone, and I was still lying in bed thinking about my mother's last words.

I thought about it for a long time, but I didn't figure it out, and I didn't think about it again.

And tomorrow is Saturday, it is also Li Ranran's wedding, I can't go empty-handed, so I went to a jewelry store, I know she may not recycle, but I must give this gift, this is to let her know that I have completely let go, but also for the rest of my life, I no longer have any contact with her.

I looked at it for an afternoon, and I didn't find a suitable one for her, it's not suitable to send a necklace, send a ring? How can it be......

In the end, I still picked a hairpin that is not expensive and wrapped it in a box, which looks quite beautiful.

It was getting dark, and the cold of the night heralded the arrival of the night, so I bought a bottle of beer and a little bread, and sat in the square and watched a group of children playing.

"Be careful!" Suddenly, someone shouted behind me.

I turned my head and saw a ball flying towards me, and in a second it would make intimate contact with my face, and I subconsciously shrank my head to dodge, but it was too late, and it collided with my forehead.

"Bang!"

Fortunately, the strength was not heavy, he touched his forehead and didn't pick up the bag, holding the ball in his hand, he looked around angrily to see which wild boy kicked it.

I saw a little white-haired girl walking up to me and said timidly, "I'm sorry, I kicked the ball just now, uncle is fine." ”

I wondered if a little girl about seven or eight years old had dyed her hair white, so I pretended to be angry and said, "What about your parents, I'm going to reason with them." ”

"I ...... I don't have mom and dad anymore. The little white-haired girl cried in a low voice.

I was stunned, couldn't help but sympathize with her plight, rubbed her head, and said softly, "I'm sorry, uncle doesn't know." ”

The white-haired little girl looked at me and blinked, and said childishly, "Is there anything wrong with that uncle, can you return the ball to me?" ”

"Uncle is fine, take the ball and don't kick it anymore." I handed her the ball and asked, "What's your name and who are you coming out with?" ”

"My name is Su Ke, and I came out with my sister." Sue lovingly stroked the ball in her hand.

I was just about to talk about your sister when I heard a familiar voice in the distance: "Coco." ”

"Sister." Su Ke saw the person behind her running towards her and gave her a hug.

Only then did I stand up and see the woman in the light, dressed in white, with a shawl and a hint of worry in her clear eyes.

"Su Li." I was surprised that this woman would be standing here.

"Mr. Han?" Su Li also looked at me unexpectedly, with Su Ke in his arms.

I pointed at Su Ke and asked, "She's your sister?" ”

Su Li nodded, and I said in a questioning tone: "I can't even look at my own sister well, if I kick someone else, I don't think it's strange that your sister won't be stripped of her skin." ”

"My sister was just busy and didn't ...... There's no time to ......," Su Ke in Su Li's arms said weakly.

I looked at Su Li in amazement, she still had the company's information in her hand, I couldn't help but feel sympathy for this pair of hard-working sisters, and why Su Li bit the equity in her hand before, for her last dignity.

I also probably know why Li Ranran sold the equity in her hand to the woman in front of her, sympathy, help, or pity, with her character, she may give it to her directly, but Su Li's stubbornness may not take over, but buy it at the lowest price.

Su Li hugged Su Ke tightly and apologized to me: "I'm sorry for you for my sister." ”

"Forgiven."

Just as I was about to leave, Su Li looked at the wine bottle on the ground and a piece of unfinished bread, and said, "I'll invite you to dinner." ”

I looked at her in surprise, but I still refused, pointed to the milk tea shop next to me and said, "Forget about eating, invite me to have a cup of milk tea." ”

Su Li nodded, and instructed Su Ke not to run around and wait for her to come back, Su Ke nodded obediently, and I stayed in the square and watched Su Ke play football alone, a little sad for her, so I went down to play with her.

After kicking with her for a while, I saw Su Li walking towards us with two cups of milk tea in his hand, handing me one glass, but not Su Ke, I wondered, "Why don't you buy one for your sister?" ”

"She can't drink it."

I nodded, it is better for children to drink less milk tea, I sat with Su Li not far away and looked at Su Ke, and I found that her eyes had been staring at Su Ke.

Although he had the answer in his heart, he still asked, "Why is your sister's hair white?" ”

Su Li's eyes were red, a little distressed, and he said in a haggard tone: "Albinism." ”

I comforted, "It's okay, it's just that you can't see the light, and even if you can't dance with the light, then follow the night." ”

"So you're going to take her out at night?"

Su Li nodded, "But I rarely go out, and Coco doesn't have many friends, so I can say no, they all laugh at her white hair and regard her as an alien ......."

I felt some sympathy, but I didn't know how to speak.

Su Li didn't want to talk about Su Ke's illness, so he looked me up and down and asked curiously, "Didn't you go back to Suzhou?" Why are you still here? He still looks down. ”

I looked down at myself, and I wasn't so embarrassed, but with the picture of drinking and nibbling on bread before, it was indeed a little downcast.

I smiled wryly and said, "I've been abandoned." ”

"Is it Li Ranran?" Su Li immediately said.

"Yes, it's the woman who sold your shares, how do you know her?"

"The first time I didn't agree when I wanted to buy her shares, and the second time she took the initiative to find me." Su Li replied.

I asked curiously, "How could you want an equity stake in Mizuye's Dream, it's not a company with great prospects." ”

Su Li agreed with my evaluation of "Water-dyed Dream", but still didn't tell me why I wanted to buy shares.

Then I chatted with her boredly, but she reverted to her usual indifference.

Finally, Su Li lost his patience and said to me: "You continue to stay here and blow the cold wind, let's go." ”

Then he got up and called Su Ke, got in the car and left the square together.

Looking at the shadow of her departing car, my heart was lonely again, at the moment I was a little lonely, smoking alone in the square, as the night got deeper and deeper, the sky became colder and colder, and the people in the square gradually left.

Extinguishing the last cigarette, he turned to leave the square, and walked to the Shouxin River with a melancholy and lost mood.

I found a clean place to sit down, the hairpin box has been put in the car by me, the surroundings are very quiet, only a few couples who come from the heart of the river hug each other to leave a lingering affection, but no one deliberately pays attention to the river in front of me, just because of its name, I don't know its meaning.

The surrounding street lamps are crumbling, only a few pairs can still shine a little light, fighting against the darkness of the night, walking side by side with it, there is the bright moon in the sky, and it will not be pitied by the small street lamps high above.

But its great love illuminates countless people who are confused about the way home......

Under the street lamp, a shadow is getting longer and longer, and it is getting closer and closer, and the footsteps are getting louder and louder, and the sound evokes my memory, the ancient town in my memory, pure and beautiful.

"Meng Yao." I called out my heart's name, and the shadow behind me stopped, standing still.

"Cold."

I trembled and turned my head little by little, and under the light, her posture and her bewitching red color rendered the whole sky.

I asked, "When did you come?" ”

Meng Yao replied, "Three hours ago. ”

"Looked for me for three hours?" I know Meng Yao, she will definitely come to me when she comes to Weihai.

"Cold, let's go home." Meng Yao said with sadness, as if there was endless suffering.

Her face was haggard, her eyes were red, she had cried, and she was still wearing the same one that came out last night.

I nodded and left the Shouxin River with her, she seemed a little tired and stiff when she left, I pulled her into my car, returned to the house, and said to her, "Go to bed early, you are tired too." ”

Meng Yao nodded and went back to her room.

I lay on the bed tossing and turning, looking at the alarm clock at eleven o'clock, a little upset, the experience before the sleepiness hits is difficult, and the tonight to meet tomorrow is the hardest.

I couldn't sleep until 1 a.m. and was woken up by the ringing of the bell at 9 a.m.

After washing up for a long time, I saw Meng Yao standing behind me, wearing the same clothes from last night, and asked me, "Han, I'll wait for you to come back." ”

I looked at the infatuated woman in front of me, nodded, and said, "Yes." ”

According to the position given to me by Li Ranran, I drove to my destination, and on the way I kept thinking about her confession, and tears couldn't stop falling.

I smoked a cigarette in my tears, holding the steering wheel in one hand and smoking a cigarette in the other, the hand holding the cigarette kept shaking, and after a while I stopped on the side of the road and cried with a low head.

Smoke after smoke filled the car, so I kept coughing and crying, and I couldn't see the illusion and reality clearly, and I couldn't see through my future.

Someone was banging outside the window, and I got out of the window to see the traffic police say to me, "Sir, you can't park here." ”

I didn't speak, he saw the tears on my face and the smoke from the whole car seemed to read something, and after explaining again, I drove away, and he didn't deduct points for me.