CHAPTER XLIV
Zhang Mingkai never imagined that he could hear Shu Ning's voice here, he originally heard someone shouting the name "Ji Shuning", he thought it was a duplicate name or his own auditory hallucination, when her cold voice sounded, he suddenly turned around to look, he didn't want to be really her.
Before the brain could react, the body did not hesitate to walk towards her, and the words were not spoken naturally.
"Who are you? We don't have to worry about us. Wei Tao was annoyed, thinking that he was a nosy person who appeared out of nowhere.
"You guys?" Zhang Mingkai looked at Shu Ning suspiciously, and couldn't help but wonder what their relationship was?
Hearing this, Shu Ning glanced at Wei Tao coldly, and said expressionlessly, "I'm not familiar with you. ”
"Ji Shuning, we are also classmates." Wei Tao's face was a little unbearable, but it was more injured, he looked at Shu Ning fixedly, and asked her, "Do you have to say this?" ”
"It's just an ordinary classmate." Shu Ning really didn't understand, why did this person keep pestering her, wasn't her attitude obvious enough?
"Ordinary classmates......" Wei Tao smiled bitterly, "Then you should remember what I confessed to you at school five years ago." ”
Shu Ning nodded, so what? He confessed, did she have to accept it?
A glimmer of hope flashed in Wei Tao's eyes, "At that time, you went abroad before I waited for your answer, and now my heart is still the same as five years ago, can you give me a chance?" ”
"Can't!" Shuning refused neatly, "Moreover, you have caused me trouble. ”
Being watched by so many pairs of eyes makes a person feel uncomfortable, not to mention that she is already in a bad mood today, and the words she says are more rushed than usual.
Wei Tao had a hurt look in his eyes, although he knew that she would refuse, but he didn't want her to refuse so ruthlessly.
Sure enough, she was still the same as five years ago, cold and unapproachable.
Zhang Mingkai can be regarded as understanding what is going on, she is really so easy to attract.
And he didn't even dare to talk to her at the beginning.
Therefore, this man is still brave, at least he admires him, maybe more envy, the courage he has is something he does not have.
A waiter next to him walked by with a wine, Zhang Mingkai took it and handed it to Wei Tao, and said, "Since you are a classmate of Shuning, I invite you with this wine." ”
"No, you don't." Wei Tao refused simply, he didn't look at Zhang Mingkai, his eyes were still on Shu Ning.
"You're going to need it." Putting the wine on Wei Tao's nearest table, Zhang Mingkai pulled Shu Ning and left.
In the end, looking at the backs of the two leaving, Wei Tao unwillingly picked up the wine and drank it all.
"Why haven't you contacted me all these years?" Bringing Shu Ning to his office, Zhang Mingkai said very familiarly, "Okay, I was the one who sent you on the plane." ”
Shu Ning was silent, she hadn't contacted him for five years, and now she couldn't say that she came to him for help this time.
"Why, I haven't seen you for five years, and I've been so unfamiliar." He handed her a glass of lemonade and continued, "I thought we were still friends. ”
"Thank you!" Shuning took the water, took a sip, and was still silent, thinking about how to speak.
"You've changed." Zhang Mingkai said suddenly.
Shuning looked up at him and met his gaze, "You've changed too." ”
"What happened to me?"
"The feeling has changed, you're not as ...... as you used to be It's heavy. Shuning said: "Now you are much more cheerful. ”
"Haha......" Zhang Mingkai laughed loudly, "You can see it clearly." Indeed, his friends around him said that his personality has changed a lot in recent years.
Shu Ning shook his head, "It's not that you can see it clearly, it's too obvious." ”
She thought that it should be five years ago that they joined forces to send Wang Wei and Memorial to prison, and after overturning the kidnapping case of that year, he unloaded the "burden" and had no regrets, so he was relaxed.
Naturally, the temperament of the whole person has changed.
She suddenly regretted that she shouldn't have come to him again.
Thinking of this, she stood up and was about to leave.
Zhang Mingkai hurriedly stopped her, "What, I'm going to leave just now." ”
"I'm just ......," Shuning didn't know how to explain, "just come in and have a look." She felt that the more she talked, the more chaotic she became, but it gave people the feeling of wanting to say and refusing.
Simply, Zhang Mingkai still understood her temperament, pressed her on the sofa and sat down, he said thoughtfully: "If you don't look for me this time, I will look for you too." ”
Shu Ning asked stunnedly, "You...... Got it? ”
Zhang Mingkai nodded, sat down on the sofa on the other side, and said meaningfully: "You forget, the warden of that prison is my former colleague. Therefore, if Wang Wei and discipline have any news, he can know it as soon as possible.
"Is there anything you can do about it?" Shuning looked at him, and hope rose in his eyes.
Zhang Mingkai told her bluntly, "This time, there is no way." "They can't stop it.
Hope was disappointed, the brilliance in Shu Ning's eyes disappeared in an instant, she lowered her head silently, and her thick eyelashes could be seen from Zhang Mingkai's angle, trembling with loss, blocking all the emotions in her eyes.
He knew she must be uncomfortable now.
Zhang Mingkai suddenly twitched, and felt a little sullen pain.
"It's okay." Shu Ning raised her head, her eyes could no longer see the emotion, she said lightly: "Eight years and five years are actually not much different, and he will still be released from prison in the end." ”
"Shu Ning......" Zhang Mingkai looked at Shu Ning worriedly, wanting to say something to comfort her, but he couldn't find the right language, he also understood this feeling.
A few days ago, when he learned that Discipline could be released from prison, he was also very helpless and thought of many methods, but to no avail.
Discipline was still a minor when he planned the kidnapping case, and it was a case in the past, it was not easy for them to overturn the case five years ago, and then he kidnapped Shuning and Memorial again, but after all, they did not suffer any actual harm, so eight years was the biggest punishment that could be sentenced at the beginning.
Then, he behaved well in prison, so naturally his sentence could be commuted, not to mention that the Ji family has a big business, and it is not easy for their family to bail out a person.
"Thank you!" Shuning said.
"Thank me for what?" Zhang Mingkai smiled bitterly and leaned on the sofa weakly, "I can't help you with anything." ”
"Nope! You helped me a lot, and the events of the year could not be changed by one person, but then you helped me turn the case over and wash away the stigma on my father. Anyway, she is still grateful to Zhang Mingkai.
"Don't talk about that." Zhang Mingkai asked the secretary to bring in a dessert, and said to Shu Ning: "Eat something sweet, maybe you can feel better." ”
The topic between them seems to have always been these, too heavy, and it is really not interesting to recall.
"Thank you!" Shuning glanced at the tiramisu in front of him and said lightly, "I don't eat sweet." ”
These things are memorial likes, she suddenly thought.
Today, it seems to be a little cruel to him, and she is angry with him.
Zhang Mingkai took the tiramisu casually, put it in front of him, and asked her: "Then what do you like to eat, I will let people prepare." ”
Shu Ning shook her head, how could she have the heart to eat now, "Do you know whether he asked for bail and released from prison this time on bail or ...... The people outside want to keep him out? She hesitated a little because she wasn't sure.
"Actually, it's strange this time, discipline didn't take the initiative to ask for bail out of prison, it was the old man of the Ji family who wanted to bail him out of prison, didn't he ignore discipline back then? He was not even allowed to hire a lawyer to ......" Zhang Mingkai was also very puzzled, he dug a spoonful of cake and put it in his mouth, and found that it was not sweet at all.
Shu Ning nodded thoughtfully, as if suddenly everything was clear.
As she herself said just now, what does it make if it is five years or eight years, it is just three years, and what Discipline really wants to do, it will not be too late for three years.
And three years later, Grandpa Ji will be gone, and when the time comes, to commemorate the lonely family, even if he is as upright as Uncle Ji, he will not necessarily stand by his side, after all, discipline is his son.
But if Grandpa Ji bails him out now, he can send him away, and he can even make an agreement with Uncle Ji, and the beneficiary of the agreement must be a memorial.
So, that's why he had to break the contract.
If he told her the truth, would she be able to accept it?
Zhang Mingkai looked at Shu Ning and fell into deep thought, he knew that her mind was all on that matter, although she didn't care about what she said, she couldn't let go of it in her heart at all.
"Thank you!" Shuning stood up, "It's time for me to go back." Thinking about it, her emotions don't seem to be so depressed, and when nothing can be changed, she learned that if it was for commemoration, maybe she could accept it a little better.
"Let's talk about it again, after all, we haven't seen each other for so long." Zhang Mingkai was a little reluctant, and finally saw her, but he was about to leave after a while.
Shuning said, "No, I should go back." Otherwise, Liang Xiu will call her again.
Although she lives in Liang Xiu's house these days, she spends most of her time in the hospital, sometimes she stays in the hospital even at night, and even receives a commemorative call to rush to the hospital in the middle of the night, so Liang Xiu is not at ease, she always calls her, and calls every night to ask if she can go back.
"Then I'll send you."
Zhang Mingkai got up and went to the desk to get the car keys, and Shu Ning's eyes followed his hand and saw something on the table.
Is that...... Her piggy bank.
The pink pig, who was smashed by her at the beginning, used the money to buy a ticket to send a commemorative home.
At this time, it was sitting on Zhang Mingkai's desk intact, but there were a few cracks on the surface, which looked obviously repaired.
But how could it be here?
Zhang Mingkai also saw it, and after taking the car keys, his hand was stunned, and he even took the piggy bank and handed it to Shu Ning.
"How are you here?" Shu Ning took it, looked at it carefully, and determined that it was the piggy bank she had when she was a child, and it was heavy inside, about the same weight as before she broke it.
"Remember, your father was ...... Fall. Zhang Mingkai looked at Shu Ning's face and slowly explained to her: "You must go down to find him, at that time I was holding you, you struggled so badly, the coins in your pocket fell to the ground, and then I picked them all up, this piggy bank was found by me on the ground of your house, and you were taken away by the Ji family at that time, so I repaired the jar and put all the coins in it, thinking that I could return it to you one day." "Going around and around, their topics seem to only revolve around these.
Heavy and sad.