Chapter 34 Chapter 33 Cinderella

Luo Zhi's feelings towards the wedding have always been complicated. She has participated in many weddings, and she has also witnessed many couples repeatedly having conflicts when discussing the details of the wedding, and even arguing so much that the wedding was stranded. After so many years of evolution, the wedding has lost the solemn sense of ceremony at the beginning. Two people who have already received their marriage certificates have to stand in front of the master of ceremonies and say "I do" in a decent way. Unbelievable. Will you really be moved by the three words "I do" that are more than half a year late than the little red book of the marriage certificate?

Even her own brother and sister-in-law, who she is happy with, are still full of resistance to the wedding. I don't know if it's because the first wedding I attended in my life ended in sadness.Although young, but the memory is still fresh. When Luo Yang called to tell her the date of the wedding, Luo Zhi still bluntly expressed her confusion.She had always thought that they would wait until Chen Jing graduated with a master's degree before getting a marriage certificate, but she didn't expect that everything after the proposal would be overwhelming. "Anyway, it doesn't make any difference if you procrastinate. If you get married, you can feel at ease."

So she didn't continue to ask. Luo Yang seemed to be stretching on the other side of the phone, yawning and said: "Fortunately, we are doing it at home, neither in Beijing nor in the university. At most, after the wedding, please invite my colleagues and our university classmates Just have a meal separately. With your uncle, aunt, and Chen Jing's parents tossing around at home, we both have a lot of peace of mind. But the old man's eyes are really sad, and the invitations they picked all look very festive It's also very ugly, fortunately, Chen Jing doesn't care about these things, since we two have become the hands-off shopkeeper, we don't gossip about these small things."

Luo Zhi laughed: "That's good, peace of mind is the best. I know many people are haggard and thin after a wedding, and their husbands and wives turn against each other. It's not as good as you. Anyway, I'm very happy that you got married, congratulations!" Luo Yang changed the subject: "I heard from your mother that you have a boyfriend, why don't you show it to her? It's okay if you don't show it to her. I have to see how sacred it is, right?" Luo Zhi heard the secret gurgling up from the bottom of her heart again. Since she was flying home for the wedding on Friday afternoon, Tiffany and Jake's class was scheduled for Wednesday night.

She stood at the east gate and hailed a taxi. When the driver heard the name of the villa area she was going to, he even looked at Luo Zhi with some doubts, and then figured out how to get there. Zhu Yan quit her two Filipino maids, and there are part-time workers who come to the house every day at noon and evening to clean and cook for the two.Later in March, she also fired the driver, so Luo Zhi always traveled by taxi. "That's the only way, I'll reimburse you." Zhu Yan said apologetically on the phone at the time, "I seldom stay in Beijing for the past six months, and it's useless to keep the driver, but I have to let you go a few more times a week. Let's see if they got into trouble."

Even so, Luo Zhi still hasn't seen any of Zhu Yan's friends or relatives appear in the villa to help her take care of the child's daily life.The pride of being a single woman often falls flat on such practical and simple matters. Since the Spring Festival, Luo Zhi has only seen Zhu Yan twice. Tiffany said that her mother has been flying between Hong Kong and Singapore, and even she and Jake rarely see her. "Mom said we might have to move on again." Move on, leave. She can only go to see these two children more frequently and take care of them like a half mother.Sometimes Luo Zhi would sigh with emotion about the unreasonable mutual trust between her and Zhu Yan, thinking of the fate in it, she couldn't help but sigh.

Luo Zhi was taking off her shoes in the hallway, when she suddenly heard a long-lost "You are here", she looked up in surprise, and saw the young child's mother leaning on the stairs and smiling at her. Zhu Yan seemed to have lost weight again, but because of the very neat short haircut, her slender neck and straight collarbone were exposed.So it looks more spiritual.She was wearing an apron, holding a pile of old English newspapers in her hands, and she was a little disheartened. "It's been a long time since I cleaned the room by myself, and it's still messy after doing it all afternoon." She laughed at herself, showing a strange smile as she spoke.

"I'm not here to help you with work." Luo Zhi quickly jumped up and declared. At the end of April, when the spring was just right, Luo Zhi once brought Tiffany and Jake out to see the cherry blossoms in Yuyuantan, and also called Sheng Huainan.The two children finally saw him again after half a year, so they were naturally very happy. "You were also in Beijing at the time," Luo Zhi sat in the living room and helped her pack various CDs and books into cardboard boxes after teaching the child, "It's a pity you couldn't come because you had something to do. You came out to see him. He also said that the weather will be hotter next month, so he will take the two of them to Happy Valley again, do you want to go together? "

"I'm not going," Zhu Yan smiled, not noticing Luo Zhi's somewhat lost and complicated expression, "I like you so much, what if I see that the boy you've praised so much is not as good as I imagined, there will be an indirect Damage your image in my heart." Luo Zhi lowered her head and smiled, and her thoughts slowly returned to Yuyuantan Park where the spring breeze was warm. In fact, there is nothing to see. The cherry blossom forest is too scattered to form a continuous tree that covers the sky and the sun. If we want to talk about surprises, it is the blooming magnolias on the dry branches.

When he and his two children were having fun, Luo Zhi did not forget to ask Sheng Huainan for an explanation. "When I asked you if you wanted to come to teach the two children, your text messages really pissed me off." "Which text message?" He was busy taking pictures of Jake, and asked doubtfully while pressing the shutter, so innocent that Luo Zhi almost thought he remembered the wrong person. Luo Zhi gritted her teeth and flipped through the text messages in the phone, but there were so many text messages with him that she couldn't bear to delete them, and after flipping through them, she was submerged in the sweet and warm ocean of the past.

"Forget it," she locked the screen, "I can't find it. Anyway, it's a satire that I coaxed the child to ask for money." "impossible." "real!" Sheng Huainan was silent for a while, and then slowly said: "That's because I'm too naive. Sometimes I do say some self-righteous words, use my living area to frame others, and hurt others without knowing it." Such a serious apology made Luo Zhi feel a little uncomfortable. "Forget it, I just suddenly remembered it." "No," Sheng Huainan looked at her seriously, "I've been wanting to tell you for the past six months, I see you working hard and becoming self-reliant, and I feel more and more ashamed of myself." He turned his head to look at the two children who were standing on tiptoe to sniff the magnolia trees in full bloom: "I'm serious. I think this way more and more recently. In contrast, I'm the one who doesn't know anything. " "What are you thinking about in a daze?" Luo Zhi came back to her senses: "Ah? No, I just remembered that I went to Yuyuantan that day, and the two children were very happy." "Is it your boyfriend who was in Yuyuantan that day?" your boyfriend.After Luo Zhi and Sheng Huainan got together again, she seldom mentioned him in front of Zhu Yan, and now she felt a little shy when she heard this sentence. "Actually," she said with some hesitation, "I think it feels a bit fake to have a dream come true. Everything is perfect, but it seems that something is missing. I also feel that I have changed a lot and started to rely on others. , I used to be used to doing things alone, but now I feel lonely. Without him, my heart is empty. Is this good or not? I used to laugh at those couples, but now I understand that standing on the periphery and judging independently, It's the easiest thing." Luo Zhi did not see the teasing of "girl in love, wake up" on Zhu Yan's face. "I also think this is perfectly normal." Zhu Yan was really at a loss when she was arranging things. As she spoke, she stuffed a large plastic box with CDs in her hand into a box with a "crash" as if angry. Inside, sealed it tightly with tape, then sat down on the cardboard box and looked up at Luo Zhi.The orange wall lamp above her head illuminated her face brightly. She straightened her legs and dangled her feet like a girl. like a girl. For a woman in her thirties, there is no artificiality or awkwardness in doing such movements.Luo Zhi suddenly understood the charm of Zhu Yan, just like the photo of her with a strange man, you couldn't see her age, her past, or her future from her eyes. It seems that there will always be an innocence that has nothing to do with simplicity. Although it only looks. Luo Zhi lowered her eyes, "What did you say is normal?" "Normal means that the story of the call is over and life begins." Zhu Yan smiled, stood up and walked over, bent down to pinch her face. "Would you like a can of this?" Zhu Yan walked towards the kitchen while talking, carefully bypassing the messy boxes and sundries that hadn't been put away in time, and threw something over before reaching the table. Zhi Zhi hurriedly caught it. A can of cold beer. "No more tea?" "Drinking tea is not as good as drinking alcohol, and it must be beer. All red wine and foreign wine are dead!" Zhu Yan seemed to have been tortured by packing and went crazy, and her speech and actions were not the same as usual. Luo Zhi suddenly felt a lot of joy in her heart. They "snap" and "snap" two times to open the pull ring. Luo Zhi heard the sound of Tiffany running around upstairs, and put her index finger on her lips: "Don't let the children see us like this." Zhu Yan shrugged, and stretched out her hand to signal Luo Zhi to clink her glass. "There was a time, when they were very young, I took two children alone to make a living. Sometimes they cried and cried, and I even brought them the urge to jump off a building and die together. It has been more than ten years in such a flash .” Zhu Yan shook the beer can in her hand, her eyes were bright. "What did you just say, the call is over?" Luo Zhi quickly changed the subject. "That's right," Zhu Yan raised her head and took a big gulp, shaking her head from the ice, and she was able to speak after a while, "Cinderella married the prince, and her life has begun. Fairy tales are usually only told in the first half, because children like to read them, and they can't speak. Only grown-ups have to face the rest of the story." The consistent and spotless sacred love that I looked up to when I was young is nothing more than a thought that starts and ends, just like other things, nothing special. Adults themselves are such complicated animals, with a dark heart, a bonded relationship, and a disguised self-esteem, how can it be possible to brew a relationship without impurities? She patted the back of Luo Zhi's hand: "Welcome to be an adult." "By the way, your mother knows..." "have no idea." After a moment of silence, they clinked glasses again. "You really don't listen to your mother." Zhu Yan giggled. "I didn't know that I was such an evasive person before, and it's not my habit to take a step and look at a step." Luo Zhi fumbled for the beer can that had been dripping with cold sweat, and a puff of breath rushed up from her stomach, all the way to her nose, She actually started to cry. "Why are you crying?" "I will miss you." Luo Zhi wiped her eyes and kicked the cardboard box in the corner: "I will definitely miss you very much." On Friday, Sheng Huainan sent her to the plane, smiled and kissed her on the forehead at the security check and said, "Come back early, be careful on the road." She nodded, looking at Sheng Huainan's familiar face, suddenly felt a deep sense of reluctance. Just go back for two days.She didn't know what was going on with this menacing emotion, as if parting from life and death.She lowered her head to cover her eyes, and gently pinched the back of his hand: "Let's go."