3. Recognition

When they met in the restaurant, Liangzi couldn't help but feel a little nervous, afraid that Huo Heng would not behave well and not be recognized by the little sisters, and that everyone would see his age at a glance and guess all her secrets.

There are many, many things that I am afraid of, and they are piled up.

I chose a Northeast restaurant in advance, and I have come here with my friends before, and I feel that the taste and environment are good.

I booked a small box, and the menu was passed around for everyone to take turns ordering, and they were not too embarrassed to order.

"Is sweet and sour tenderloin okay?"

"Yes, you can."

"Would you like to have a stewed prawn?"

"Okay."

"Liangzi, don't forget your favorite, plum cabbage button meat!"

"You still know my ......"

"How about a sweet and sour fish?"

"Listen to you."

"Hmm......"

I took the menu and ordered a table full of dishes according to everyone's preferences. They were all girls, and they were not too embarrassed to let everyone drink, so they symbolically ordered two bottles of Qingdao and a bottle of fruit oranges.

Huo Heng is old, and he is not flustered at all in the face of this group of little girls, but takes good care of everyone. After a round of toast introductions, the dishes were served one after another.

"The amount of food cooked here is still your local style, such a big plate, so many dishes."

Huo Heng made an exaggerated movement and made a big circle in front of him, meaning a plate bigger than his head.

"After all, we're here at a Northeast restaurant."

"Oh yes, they probably don't know, you're a Southerner." While speaking, Liangzi quietly took a shrimp and put it on Huo Heng's plate.

Liang Shan has always been very enthusiastic, and immediately took over the conversation, "I can't see it, Mr. Huo, you are actually a southerner, I heard that you southerners eat children, is it true?" ”

Huo Heng was happy when he heard it, and there was a slightly restrained laughter in the hearty room.

"What is Mr. Huo, call me Brother Heng. My hometown is not very far from the south, and it is not very far from you. And we don't just eat children, but also good-looking adults will consider trying that! ”

When he said this, the whole room laughed, and Li Yunyun answered, "Brother Heng, you southern women are gentle and soft, how can you come to our north to find a man?" ”

Huo Heng turned his head and looked at Liangzi who was chewing plum vegetables and button meat with a smile on his face, "Hey, I just like this kind of real man who loves meat, and he eats just by looking at it." ”

Liangzi swallowed slowly, "What's the matter, did you come together to make fun of me before this meal was finished?" ”

Huo Heng smiled and said nothing, took out a tissue to wipe the vegetable juice from the corner of her mouth.

"Don't think that I will forgive you if you show affection in front of everyone, and we will settle the account when we go back." Liangzi pretended to look like a yaksha and glanced at Huo Heng. At this glance, in everyone's eyes, it is flirting and scolding, and it is sweet and rippling.

"It's a fun row in your dormitory, the eldest, the second, the fifth, and the sixth. No third and fourth? ”

"There are four people in our dormitory, Yunyun has the most stable temperament and is the head of the dormitory, so he is the boss; Wang Xiao was born in May, so he is a little five; Xiaoliu, tsk tsk, obviously the eldest but shamelessly has to be the smallest, saying that it will feel that youth is still there, so that everyone has the illusion of age and strength to spoil her. ”

"What about you?"

Liangzi was just about to answer, but the words were snatched away by Liang Shan, "Your family is more second-to-second, let's start from birth, born on February 22, the second oldest in the family, the college entrance examination score is 522, the second to the dormitory, and the second to the dormitory in each exam!" ”

"Who's the penultimate one?"

Liang Shan scratched his head embarrassedly, "Who else can it be, I ...... it"

A room full of people burst into laughter.

"Brother Heng, I heard Liangzi say that you are a doctor?"

"That's right."

"Then do you think there is any way, that is, the kind of way to lose weight without eating without exercising?"

"Yes."

The private room suddenly became very quiet, and four pairs of eyes stared at Huo Heng in unison, waiting for his next step.

Huo Heng slowly picked up a section of dried fried beans and put it in his mouth to chew.

"What kind of method, you should hurry up!"

Wang Xiao couldn't wait and broke the silence.

I saw Huo Heng pick up a tissue and wipe his mouth before saying, "What's the hurry, when it's dark and the light is pulled, you will dream!" ”

When the four girls heard the answer, they sent sharp eye knives together, Wang Xiao put down the chopsticks in his hand and said, "I'm going to throw the plate, Liangzi, can you stop me?" ”

Liangzi waved his hand, "You pick it, I will pay for the broken plate." ”

"You little girls, don't always think about losing weight, toss your body and break it, and you cry when you cry. I want to do more exercise and eat well, I also want to ask you to help me supervise our family Liangzi, she doesn't eat well all day, and she has to worry about urging her to eat at the meal point when she is so adult. I can hand over our good son to you for the time being, and if you are fat next time, I will greet you with wine and meat; If you lose weight, I can only ask the three of you! ”

"Okay, okay, now we can be relied on, if Liangzi doesn't go to eat in the future, we'll let you clean her up!"

"You three dogs can't tell the difference between east and west, north and south when you hear good wine and meat, who is the family with you......"

Liang Shan picked up a chopstick, and the white and tender fish meat dipped it in the rich soup at the bottom of the plate, "How many of us were in the past, but what will we do in the future...... God knows whose family you are, you say yes, right? ”

After being full of wine and food, Huo Heng went downstairs to settle the bill, and the four little girls sat together and chattered.

Wang Xiao drank all the juice in the cup and said, "Brother Heng is really good, polite to others, and humorous and funny." ”

"You can just praise him, when we came over, he kept asking me if he was dressed appropriately, how to please you, and I was afraid that you would think he was too old to communicate."

"No, no, Brother Heng behaved so well, don't dislike my family's naivety and poor care when I come to invite you to dinner in two days." Yunyun picked up a tissue and wiped her mouth.

I have always been worried that everyone doesn't like Huo Heng, but now I am a little relieved when I hear everyone's evaluation, but Liang Shan on the side does not speak, and Liangzi always feels heavy, "After all, people are different, besides, you have been talking to your family for three years, we all know how he is, so you don't need to give us a few more vaccinations." ”

Liangzi turned his head to look at Liang Shan, who had not spoken since Huo Heng left, Liang Shan happened to raise his head, and the two looked at each other, "He is good to you, you can be happy." Isn't it? ”

I didn't expect Liang Shan to say this, and Ryoko's smile immediately froze on her face.

Isn't Liang Shan seeing something?

"Brother Heng's big smart eyes and your Qingtan-like eyes are really a perfect match, if you give birth to a child in the future, I will go, those eyes must not make people jealous to the point of madness, come on, order a baby, I want your daughter!"

Liangzi suddenly wanted to cry, and Liang Shan's next words finally made the rock hanging in her heart fall to the ground.

"Why are you laughing so happily?"

Huo Heng walked in with a smile on his face, still holding a large cut watermelon in his hand.

"Did you go for so long just to buy watermelons?"

"It doesn't seem that your restaurant here has desserts and fruits or anything, so I went to a small supermarket nearby and bought one back."

"Look at you sweating hot."

Huo Heng whispered in Liangzi's ear, and the warm breath hit his neck, causing a slight tremble, "As long as you and your little sister take care of it, everything else is secondary." ”

4. Yoshiko's lonely time

Walking around the campus at night holding hands, every time she walked under a street lamp, Liangzi would always deliberately slow down her pace, and look at the shadow that was slowly stretched long and shortened, this process would remind her of the lives of two people, if so, the shadows of the two people have gone through a total of twenty-three lives.

Huo Heng always talked about the last time she came and went in a hurry, and he didn't have time to take a closer look at the place where she had lived for four years and make up for those missing times. So this time, Ryoko dragged him all the way around, walking through the grove where the couple was dating, the playground where she ran at night, the library where she could stay all day, the teaching building where classes were often held, and the favorite little corner when she was alone.

"I just took you to the place I frequented most last summer."

"Is that the corridor on the top floor of the school building? It was very hot and bad, and the walls were peeling. ”

"Hmm. It's pretty broken, so not many people go. ”

"Is there any particular reason?"

"You know, last year was probably around this time when my dad got sick."

"Well, you must have been very bitter at the time."

Huo Heng stopped, let go of the hand holding Liangzi, and gently hugged the person in front of him who was starting to become depressed into his arms, but the person in his arms smiled hard, and comforted him in turn: "It's all over." ”

"I remember that after I returned to school from the hospital, I was worried about my father's illness and had to prepare for the bar exam, but I couldn't review, I was particularly desperate, and I sent a circle of friends to the effect that I was really tired of living and turned off my mobile phone to go to evening self-study, but my mother thought I couldn't open it after seeing it, and I saw more than a dozen missed calls on my phone after class. When I went back, my mother was crying on the other end of the phone, and she said to me, 'You two are the spiritual pillars for me and your dad to live, don't think nonsense, mom can't live without you.' At that time, my tears fell, and I hung up the phone in a hurry and cried alone in the dark corridor, crying fiercely when I felt like I couldn't get angry, that was something I didn't dare to hear in my life, especially from my parents' mouths, really, you don't know how moved I was at that time. I finally stopped crying, but I started crying again when I thought of my mother's words, and I cried intermittently for more than an hour, and I didn't go to the second evening self-study. Now that I think about it, I was really fragile at that time, and I didn't have to deal with it at all. ”

"You were only nineteen years old at the time, and you only hated that I wasn't by your side at the time."

"No, you're there."

"Huh?"

"I live by looking at your WeChat avatar every day."

"Really?"

"You see that you don't believe me when I tell you the truth."

"I believe everything you say."

"Hey, I don't believe your nonsense. But your WeChat avatar is really ugly! ”

"How is it possible, is it okay for me to take a picture of the scenery of Mount Tai with my own hands?!"

"Then your photography skills are really hard to describe......"

"Then can you find me an avatar?"

"Okay, what style do you like?"

"What you like is what I like."

"Then it's decided, take what I give you as the standard, and don't cheat."

"A beautiful gentleman is a man of his word."

"Hey, please remove the word 'beauty', thank you for your cooperation......"

Unconsciously walked to the No. 3 canteen, Liangzi pulled Huo Heng in, and counted with him one by one which soybean milk tasted more mellow, which beef noodles were the strongest, which window's food was more suitable for her taste, and which one's food was not affordable enough, and finally they came to a closed window to stand still, looking at the empty windowsill, she was a little distracted.

"What's the reverie?"

"There used to be an aunt who sold egg cakes for breakfast, and I somehow became acquainted, and when I came to buy cakes, she always chatted with me enthusiastically and gave me an extra dollar of cakes. When I saw her, I felt inexplicably comfortable, and there was always a hearty smile on her round face, maybe it was like someone, I can't say it, but in short, I was very close. Sometimes when I go home for a few days, she doesn't see me, and when she sees me again, she always asks me a few words with concern, which makes me feel warm every time. ”

"It's a great fate to meet such a person in life."

"But when she left, I couldn't say goodbye to her."

"Fate comes and goes, don't force it."

"I know that's the case, but it's always inevitable to be lost for a while. That aunt was so nice to me...... The road of life is always met, always parting, but some people don't even give a chance to wave goodbye. We will inevitably do the same in the future. ”

"You're always thinking and talking nonsense!"

"I'm just telling the truth, and I'm making you so unhappy."

"But I want to accompany your heart is true, I used to be insecure when I wasn't by your side, but now that I'm really standing in front of you, don't you think it's enough?"

"Oh, look at you, how could I say that."

"Forget it, I don't care about you, good son, I'm thirsty. Is it okay to accompany me to buy milk tea, okay? ”

"Again, why does a big man love to drink milk tea so much......"

"I don't care, I'm going to drink milk tea, and I want to put a lot of pearls, can you buy it with me......"

"Good good ......"

When they returned to the hotel, their legs were about to break, Huo Heng went in to take a bath, and Liangzi lay motionless on the bed and watched TV.

It is a cartoon about the origin of the "New Year", it may be specially made for children, the character design is relatively simple, and the plot is also popular, when Huo Heng came out of the bathroom, Liangzi was watching it with relish, the story was told to the year, and there was a lot of destruction, and the little girl led by thought of a way to throw artillery to drive away the New Year. Before she finished watching it, she was dragged up from the bed by Huo Heng and pushed into the bathroom to take a bath, she was a little reluctant, guessing the plot of the cartoon while taking a bath, and the ending was nothing more than "Nian" being driven away by firecrackers and the like.

Although the result is known, I still want to see it, just like knowing that there is no future with Huo Heng, and the relationship between them is destined to end without a problem, but I still want to experience it, maybe I won't be afraid of losing it.

When he came out of the shower, he found that Huo Heng was talking on the phone, not intentionally eavesdropping, but judging from his deliberately lowered voice and the language he spoke, it should be his precious son on the other end of the phone.

Forcing herself not to listen to Huo Heng's speech, her eyes stared at the flashing TV screen tightly, she should have cut the stage when she went to take a shower, and now a variety show is being played, several stars laughed heartily in the show, she sat cross-legged on the edge of the bed, and then curled the corners of her mouth.

The tightness in his chest is not that he cares about his son, but that he hates himself, and at this time it is even worse, rising to self-loathing.

I have seen photos of his son, all of them are in Huo Heng's WeChat circle of friends, although they are all backs, even the mobile phone screensaver that I accidentally saw.

Liangzi never took the initiative to look at Huo Heng's mobile phone, nor did he open his mouth to ask.

Huo Heng loves his son very much, and he is always doting when he mentions it occasionally. Imagine that they didn't meet Huo Heng's family before they met, and they were happy for him.

Of course, Liangzi sometimes feels sad, why can't the person who accompanies him to old age be himself, after thinking about it carefully or giving up, in fact, she can't guarantee that she can only love him for the rest of her life, maybe in a year or two, she will think that he is old and disgusted with him and leave him, maybe she is the one who is unkind and unrighteous and red apricot out of the wall.

In fact, Ryoko knows very well that he can't promise her any future, there is no future between the two of them, they both understand that there will be a time node after all, and when the node arrives, they will break up.

What's even more ridiculous is that Ryoko knows better that she can't give him a result, her family, friends categorically can't accept such a man, and even she herself can't accept a husband who was snatched from others. It seems hypocritical to say this, obviously she has become a junior, a destroyer of his family, and she still talks about her husband who can't stand being robbed, but that's the case, she really doesn't want anything, she doesn't want his money, she doesn't want him to buy expensive gifts for herself, she doesn't want him to divorce and be with her, so what is the plan? This question has been pondered countless times.

Sometimes I think about it repeatedly, why the fate of the two is so tightly entangled, at the beginning she just admired him from afar, and never thought that she could get close. For the three-year-old child he had never met, she felt even more guilty, and had no intention of destroying or separating. Even, Ryoko felt that he didn't even have the qualifications to mention his son.

But in fact, after all, she committed such sins that even she could not forgive, hated herself, and could not die well.

Curse yourself again and again in your heart, Ryoko, you won't end well.

I love him more and more, but the idea of leaving him suddenly came to my head, if Huo Heng knew his thoughts, would he consider killing her?