Chapter 15: The Temple Fair of the Red Mansion (3)
"Speaking of the matter of the three of them," Liang Jing walked up to Chen Ying, stared into her eyes and asked, "I heard that you met Nick in Model United Nations?" β
"Yes." Chen Ying admitted.
"What's going on?" Liang Jing continued to ask, a pair of big eyes without blinking.
"Nothing." Chen Ying then asked, "What did you hear?" β
"George said - Nick has been talking about you a lot since the event was over, and asking about your boyfriend."
"Jack?"
"Yes."
"Why is he asking this?" Chen Ying was a little puzzled.
"What do you say?"
"I feel the need to explain." Chen Ying took Liang Jing's arm and walked towards Qiu Shuangzhai, "On the afternoon after the event, I went out to dinner with him - there were at least fifteen classmates with him - during the meal, we casually chatted about his previous travel, and after the meal, he sent me back to the girls' dormitory. And then - there is no then. β
"That's all?" Liang Jing asked.
"That's all." Chen Ying said with certainty.
"How could that be ......" Liang Jing looked at her suspiciously.
"He said he had a girlfriend." Chen Ying continued.
Liang Jing burst out laughing, and the half sugar gourd in his hand almost fell to the ground. This time it was Chen Ying's turn to be strange.
"How can he have a girlfriend? He spends his days either programming or playing games online with George. Liang Jing said while eating the sugar gourd, "You fell for him, right?" β
Chen Ying did not speak. She watched the couples around her pass by holding hands, and she was a little speechless for some reason.
"Jack hasn't contacted you lately?" Liang Jing asked casually.
"No, contact every day." Chen Ying hung her head and said. She took her phone out of her pocket and checked the information.
"What's wrong?"
"Not really, I just wish he could be by my side all the time." She saw Liang Jing's worried expression and immediately said, "But he will be back soon, and he sent me the ticket information for the return trip yesterday." β
"Chen Ying, do you love him?" Liang Jing asked suddenly. Chen Ying was stunned.
Is this a difficult question to answer? Or is itβ" Liang Jing finished eating the last hawthorn and casually threw the bamboo stick into the passing trash can, "You don't want to tell me?" β
"I'm a little reluctant to admit it, but I think so." Chen Ying said.
"Now even I'm a little jealous of Jack." Liang Jing said and took Chen Ying's hand and walked into Qiushuangzhai together. They looked around, and except for a few vases, the rest of the solid wood furniture lattices were full of ancient books. A wax figure resembling Tanchun is sitting upright at the desk holding a brush to make annotations, and the personal maid next to her is studying ink for her.
"I think so." Liang Jing went on to say that at this time, they had already left Qiushuangzhai and walked towards Daoxiang Village. Probably to cater to the theme of the park, there are still a few cabbage seedlings left in the dozens of square meters of loess in this village, adding a bit of new green to the originally monotonous scenery of the beginning of spring. Liang Jing looked back and forth around Daoxiang Village, and was full of praise for the circle of bamboo fences surrounding the courtyard.
"If I can have such a small courtyard, I will have no regrets in this life!" She exclaimed.
"You want to be disarmed and return to the field - how did you do your psychology experiments here?" Chen Ying asked.
"Just kidding. I just felt it. As a red fan, I have watched the original book so many times, and now I am here to watch it from the real scene, how can I not be happy? Say a few words once in a while, and you shouldn't take it too seriously. Liang Jing said and walked to the straw-covered firewood door at the entrance of the courtyard, leaned on the doorrail and handed the mobile phone to Chen Ying, "Take advantage of the lack of people, take a picture of me." β
Chen Ying pressed the photo button.
When they came to Baochai's residence, both of them were a little tired. They sat in the corridor as soon as they entered the courtyard, gulping down the hot water brought by Chen Ying.
"It's wise to bring a thermos mug." Liang Jing looked at the ice cracks on the flower windows in the courtyard, and the withered vines left on the one-person-high mountain rocks in front of him and said, "It's worthy of the Wuyuan, it's really cold." Chen Ying, do you know the meaning of 'θ θθ'? β
"Take its homonym - 'hate no fate'." Chen Ying said.
"Hmm." Liang Jing responded, and continued, "At the beginning, I also liked Daiyu like most readers, hated Baochai, hated her hypocrisy, her so-called 'understanding of the general situation and taking into account the overall situation', and her philosophy of doing things that was not about herself, and finally she broke up Bao Dai and her two for her own interests. After reading the last forty chapters of Gao E's continuation, Baochai married Baoyu and completed the marriage of Jinyu, it may be that the sequel arranged Baoyu according to the judgment of the twelve hairpins that Baoyu could not forget his feelings after marriage, and Baochai could only raise his son alone like Li Kun, and he was lonely all his life. β
"The ending of a novel can indeed be determined by the subjective will of the author." Chen Ying agreed.
"However, in real life, I don't believe that all people who break up with others end up having a bad life, and all men will remember the old love and the prodigal son will turn back. The red thread that we were born with on our fingers has gone through the ups and downs of the world, and by the time we look for it, it has long been blurred. What is the right fate and true love, who can see through it? In the end, many of them are just a pretext to say it to relieve their psychological pressure. Liang Jing said seriously.
"How do you think you should test a relationship? Life-and-death? Chen Ying asked.
"People are creatures that adapt to their environment, and people's hearts will change with the circumstances they experience, and only time is the standard for measuring feelings. There is an old saying: people are old and good, and wine is the fragrance of aging. Those who accompany you through the wind and rain and never abandon them are truly worth cherishing. Liang Jing said.
"I'm willing to take every relationship seriously. I really hope that the effort is not in vain, even if there is no ending, at least there will be no regrets. Chen Ying replied.