Chapter 7 7. Afternoon tea for lovers

When I landed again, I was reborn. I am no longer myself, I am the other half of Yizhong.It's like, Yizhong is also the other half of me. They still went ashore at the bridgehead, and then they each found their partners and went home separately. Except for the river water and the lotus lanterns, no one knows what stories happened during the time they were separated.Zizhen and I got separated, Yizhong and Xiao Lizi got separated, but we found each other. Perhaps, we should be the ones who are really lost and recovered.We are the ones who have waited for thousands of years and finally meet again and get reunion.

Peach blossoms, apricot blossoms, and plum blossoms bloom one after another, and willow buds sprout on the side of the road. Little by little, they are connected into lines, and one after another into pieces. They are crystal clear and green, and they flow down when the wind blows, disturbing people's hearts. . I think the spring is hidden, but in fact, passers-by know it all. But what does it matter? The sky is sometimes cloudy and sometimes sunny, the moon is sometimes full and sometimes waning, I finally got Yizhong's heart.So what is the so-called bitter lovesickness, sadness and troubles in the past?Ye Zizhen has an affair, and the affair has a child, so what does it matter?

I finally got Yizhong's heart. Waited for a few lifetimes. Dreaming at night, I will never search so hard again.I have already found him, Wushan Yun, Cang Haishui, all my wishes have come true.Waiting is also sweet, because there is hope, no matter how boring waiting is, it becomes as interesting as a game.When I was doing the beauty treatment, I thought about whether he would come today, and I would laugh unconsciously.Flowers, mornings, rains and evenings have been endowed with new meanings, and the sound of human voices is like fairy music to the ears.When I had nothing to do, I went to the door of the store for a walk, looked through the autumn water, and thought in my heart that I might see him passing by the door sometime.

The clinic in Yizhong has been reopened, its scale is several times larger, and it has been moved to a better road in the downtown area.Fortunately, this is the case, otherwise we would meet so frequently, sooner or later we would be bumped into by Xiao Lizi. I resumed the habit of cooking porridge. It is always in the afternoon, sometimes cloudy and sometimes sunny, but as long as he arrives as scheduled, even rain, snow, wind and sand are like sunshine in my eyes.The original rattan coffee table is covered with hand-embroidered tea towels, exquisite dishes, and delicate silver spoons; on the crystal plates are steamed sweet-scented osmanthus dumplings and magnolia buns, and in jade porcelain vases is rice porridge with peach blossoms and lotus leaves.Desserts include banana rose pie, fried pineapple with milk.Then there are drinks, mostly seasonal freshly squeezed juices.The last is the tea that needs to be tasted carefully. Yizhong likes light. Although I can't learn from Miaoyu to collect the snow on the plum blossoms and offer it to him, I have my own way: I blend the petals with the tea leaves in advance and store them in the cellar. A layer of petals and a layer of tea leaves allow the tea to absorb the fragrance of the petals, and then boil it with mineral water, the fragrance will overflow far away, and you will get drunk before drinking.

When I sit face to face with him, smell the fragrance and drink the tea, there will be a heartfelt joy in my heart, like a spring breeze, the whole person will be warm and lazy, and I will feel the peace and tranquility of life that I have never had before. Sometimes we can sit silently facing each other for an entire afternoon without saying a word, but in our hearts, it is clear that we have already spoken a thousand words. The girls in the store were a little curious at first, and every time they saw Yizhong coming, they giggled and teased coquettishly, and later saw that we both behaved dignifiedly, and there was no flirting. Then they also gradually restrained themselves, and got used to Yizhong's arrival, turning a blind eye.Some regular customers of the beauty parlor are also used to having such a strange visitor in my shop every afternoon, and the more generous ladies will take the initiative to chat with him and participate in our afternoon tea.

Yizhong had many girlfriends before, and he was good at talking, and liked to tell jokes. As long as he wanted to, he would always have a way to make every woman he met at any time smile.But now he has become silent, extraordinarily stable and dignified, and always responds to others without being humble or overbearing, and enough is enough.But on the other hand, he did it very ostentatiously. He visited all the flower shops on the north and south streets of Wenyi Road, ordered the most beautiful flowers in their shops, and asked the staff to deliver them to my shop one by one according to the schedule. "Flower Love" is not missed.

Those days were the happiest time in my life. Every day I waited and every meeting had an extraordinary meaning to me.Regardless of waiting and meeting, I will feel satisfied, because I know that waiting will have results. This is my ideal life, waiting for him, looking forward to him, getting together with him, loving each other until the end of my life.Although he is a married man and I am a married woman, we do not completely belong to each other, but as long as my heart is locked with his heart, I feel that I have the fullness of life. He said: "I only know now that true love is happiness with a trace of sadness. The previous drama, now it seems that it is just superficial, this time, it is the heart and lungs."

This is the most beautiful declaration of love I have ever heard. Because of his love, my ordinary life has been sublimated, and love is no longer a process, but a state. However, we all know that this kind of love is like the ice sculptures in the Crystal Palace, which cannot withstand a warm wind and are always facing melting. It is this kind of boundless threat that makes us cherish every day and every moment we spend together.If one day the ice sculptures are destined to melt and we have to part, I already have so many beautiful memories.They are enough to accompany me for the rest of my life.

On a peaceful evening, with crimson clouds floating in the sky and the sun slowly setting, I picked up the Panlong Zisha teapot to refill a cup of tea for Zizhen, and said softly, "Zizhen, let's get a divorce." Zizhen was shocked. Before he could speak, I forced him to go a step further: "On the day of the third day of junior high school, I accompanied my mother to a hotel for a banquet. It was the Red Mansion Hotel. I was there and saw you..." Zizhen's face turned blue and white, white and blue again, after a while, he finally said: "Si Rong gave birth to the child, it's a son."

One sentence is worth a thousand words. She gave birth to a son for him, the blood relationship is greater than the sky, so what reason does he have to reject her from the door?A mere half a million yuan, so much love, but is it connected by blood? I forgive him, very willingly, very reluctantly. Or rather, forgive myself. From now on, I can love Yizhong without any hesitation, and I don't have to feel guilty or ashamed, and dodge and escape. "Every man has the desire to be an emperor, but I have no intention of being one of your three palaces and six courtyards." I stared at him and calmly proposed, "Zizhen, let's get a divorce. I don't want anything, and I will come back tomorrow." Go to my mother's house."

"No, don't go, I'll go." Zizhen said decisively, "Baishu, I'm the one who's sorry for you, even if you want to share half of my wealth, it's justified. I have nothing else to give you, but this house , and everything in this house, you have to accept it no matter what. This is our past, and now it belongs only to you." "I have the rhyme of flowers, life will not be a problem. The rhyme of flowers is your investment, and I have already got a lot." "But I'm supposed to take care of you for the rest of my life. Now I'm not doing well..." "No, it's because I'm not good enough to care about you enough to let others take advantage of me..." You push me, like the story of the gentleman country, how humble and loving it looks.But that's not the case inside. When my mother and sister heard about it, they were very sad. "Does it have to be resolved through divorce?" My sister persuaded, "I can't keep his people, and I can't keep his heart, but at least, I can keep the title of Mrs. Ye Zizhen." "This title is not my ideal." I looked at my mother and sister, "He has another family and a child. What is the use of my title? For that family of three, I only It's a third party." "Xiaoye is so over the top!" Mom got angry.a child.This reason is more powerful than anything else, so powerful that even my mother and sister feel that divorce is a last resort. "If you leave, just leave. He has a child outside, and that will be a lifetime thing. Even if you don't leave, his heart will not be with you. If there is no child, at least there will be a prodigal son who will return At that time, the child was born, and he can't be allowed to shrink back, so it's better to fulfill them." It's so great and embarrassing. However, the truth is not like this.At least not quite. The reason why I want to leave Ye Zizhen is to go to Aiyizhong more completely and freely.If this continues, one day Zizhen will find out about my relationship with Yizhong. At that time, he may not be as magnanimous as me, and he may say some ugly words to humiliate my love with Yizhong.I don't want to see that day, I don't want Yizhong to suffer ambiguous accusations, I'd rather take precautions before they happen. It is human nature to find a more noble and beautiful reason to cover up one's sincerity. From now on, I can go to Yizhong wholeheartedly and without any scruples. When you love someone too much, you can forget the whole world.In my world, there is only Yizhong, who is the core of the universe. The spring tea was just harvested. I asked the owner of the tea shop I knew acquaintance to order half a catty of Mingqian Longjing tea. I went to pick it up in the afternoon and bought another half catty of lotus seeds on the way. Before the Ming Dynasty, Longjing tea was green in color and shaped like a lotus heart, so it was also called "Lianxin tea". I soaked the lotus seeds in warm water, peeled off the green lotus seed cores, dried them, and brewed them with tea.Its taste is slightly bitter, but refreshing and eyesight, and the aftertaste is more sweet. I named it "Heart to Heart".I believe Yizhong will like it. Imagining the scene of tasting the same "heart-to-heart tea" with Yizhong later, the labor of peeling lotus seeds becomes sweet and poetic. When the wind chimes jingled, it was not Yizhong who came, but an unexpected guest.She is tall, plump and well-proportioned, wearing a rabbit gray tight-fitting cashmere sweater, a cashmere skirt of the same color, and a cashmere shawl embroidered with red gold needles. The beautiful girl is none other than Hu Sirong. I went up to meet him: "I haven't seen you for a year, you look much better." "Thank you for your prescription." She sat down, took a lotus seed naturally, and peeled it off for me. I declined: "Tea is easy to stain, you have cosmetics on your hands, and the peeled lotus seeds are probably not suitable for tea." She was a little embarrassed, neither was she stretching out her hands, nor was she retracting them. The lady in the store played by ear, and hurriedly handed over two tissues, and greeted by the way: "Miss Hu, what would you like to drink?" After a year, they still firmly remember that she is Miss Hu.So everyone knew who she was and the role she played in my failed marriage. "You are very particular about tea, you almost demand perfection." She wiped her hands, regained her composure, and smiled faintly, "People like this usually have a cleanliness habit, right? They would rather be broken jade than complete, isn't it just used to describe you?" This kind of person?" I couldn't help but sarcastically: "How is that possible? In this world, who can ask for complete things? Fight hard, and all you get are leftovers." "It's good to get a little more." Hu Sirong was very generous, the kind of generosity and magnanimity unique to winners. "You also know that Ye Zizhen once gave me 500,000 yuan and wanted to break up with me. I thought, if he can give his mistress 500,000 yuan, he can give his own flesh and blood 1 million yuan. That's why I insisted on giving birth to the child , I just want to ask for more, even if it’s leftovers, leftover shark’s fins are better than surplus fishbone. Anyway, I didn’t expect to get a whole fish. In the end, I didn’t expect you to give up the whole plate of fish come out." "You mean, you didn't expect someone to be as stupid as me and give up everything?" "There's no winning or losing?" Hu Sirong smiled indifferently, "It's not something glorious to be abandoned by others. Besides, Ye Zizhen has not completely forgotten you, and he still cares about you quite a lot. I’ve had it, I’ve got it, and it’s all worth it. I’ve got to come and say thank you.” I suddenly felt discouraged, playing the same role, but they have the ability to turn the B role into the A role, and the supporting role into the protagonist.But I still stayed where I was, giving up the throne of actress for nothing, and ran to a small role in a long-form TV series. How much I hope that there will be a day when I can achieve a positive result. I wanted to say a few words in return, but a florist just happened to send flowers. The big white roses, lined with Phoenix grass, are whiter whiter and greener greener, with a note sandwiched: "Remember the green skirt, pity everywhere. Herbs." I couldn't help taking it with a smile on my face, and the lady called me to fetch the long-necked crystal bottle and insert it myself. My home is a flower shop, and I am also in the petal beauty business, but when someone sends flowers, I am still as excited as any girl in the world. Yizhong came later and smiled knowingly when he saw the bouquet of flowers in the crystal vase. I introduced him and Hu Sirong: "Mr. Song, Miss Hu." No identity, no history. Yizhong leaned forward towards Hu Sirong, sat down, and took the Poria Cake from the table to eat. I said, "Just wait for the tea." Yizhong said: "Biluochun was pretty good last time, why did it change again?" "This is the top Mingqian Longjing that just arrived today. The tea shop only bought two catties in total, so I ordered half a catty first." Yizhong smiled slightly and stopped talking. I glanced at him: "I know what you're going to say—playing with things and losing your mind, you will only worry about these food and drink things, right?" "Who said it? I didn't say it." Yizhong just denied it, "Food is the most important thing for the people. Who dares to say that eating and drinking is not a big problem?" "You didn't say it? You smiled maliciously, but you said it in your heart." Hu Sirong stood up to say goodbye, I sent her out, and she had already walked out the door, she suddenly turned her head and smiled, and said, "Now I understand." I watched her gray dress and red scarf swaying through the city, drifting away until she completely disappeared among the street crowd. now I understand.She said now she understands. I don't know what she understood. I am immersed in the love and joy of Yizhong, regardless of the cold or heat. The thicker the happiness, the deeper the bitterness.Unknown love stories often have enthusiasm and madness that ordinary people can't imagine.Like maple leaves in autumn, because they know they won't grow long, they fight hard and become so red. Ye Zizhen soon found out about Yizhong, he asked me to meet at the coffee shop, and said very tactfully, "You have to be careful." "What are you careful about? Natural disasters or man-made disasters?" I smiled faintly, "How is Miss Hu?" "She... misses you so much." Zizhen smiled heartily, "Si Rong said, if you weren't you and she wasn't her, you would definitely be good friends." "We are the same people." "Even the vision of choosing a husband is the same, that's why they followed me one after another." He laughed even more. I suddenly felt impatient.Many women will show off how many courtiers they have had to prove their charm. Although it is shallow, it can be forgiven because the women's world is relatively small; but men, their sky is so high, they also want women It's disgusting to display around like a corsage. But it was my own fault to choose Ye Zizhen as my husband. Now that this mistake is so clearly presented in front of me, it is useless not to admit it. I decided to keep silent. Ye Zizhen suddenly repented: "Bai Zhu, it's my fault for not taking good care of you. I always felt that I was sorry for you and broke your heart. Otherwise, you wouldn't be like this..." I am surprised.He even wishful thinking that my fall is because of him.I've known Zizhen's conceit for a long time, but it still shocks me to be so narcissistic.I can only continue to be silent.Perhaps, he will feel that I was moved by him, and I feel sorry for losing him? In the end, Zizhen sighed: "You said that every man has the desire to be an emperor, but you don't want to be one of my three palaces and six courtyards. But now, you want to be Song Yizhong's Xigong empress?" I laughed.This is the crux of the problem, right?Even though he has failed me, he still doesn't want me to betray him. Zizhen stared blankly at my smile for a moment, then said stupidly: "Baishu, I don't understand you. We have known each other for so many years, but I still don't understand you." He didn't understand me, but Hu Sirong made it clear. I laughed again. When the lotus bloomed, Yizhong went to the Beijing headquarters to hold a report meeting for half a month. I just feel that the days are like years, and the dream of searching in strange streets every night has started again, and I can't bear it for a day. I called the Beijing headquarters to find him, and the operator said he was on another call and asked me to wait.I waited with the microphone in hand, and heard his voice coming from the other end, talking with the manufacturer about the clinical effect of a certain new drug. I heard his voice, calm and stable, and when a man is working, he has extraordinary charm. Suddenly, I felt my whole mind lighten up, and I flew leisurely along the phone line.I am still in Xi'an, but my soul has already flown to Beijing. The next day, I handed over the business of the store to my assistant, flew to Beijing alone, and found the hotel where Yizhong was staying. Yizhong is not here.He knew that a phone call would make him appear, but because he was too sure, he didn't want to disturb him, so he sat in front of the hotel and waited. I don't know how long it took, but when I looked up suddenly, he had already appeared in front of me. That kind of feeling, as if meeting each other in a lifetime, both of them were speechless for a while, and they didn't even know how to take a step closer, they just stared blankly at each other and giggled. "Bai Shu, you are so stupid, so stupid." Yizhong later made fun of me like this again and again. I hugged him, wrapped his arms around his neck, and hung on him coquettishly: "Yizhong, let's elope, okay? Let's go to Yunnan, Dali, Xishuangbanna, Butterfly Valley to see a hundred flowers blooming, and thousands of pairs of Liang Zhus dancing." Let's dance together, okay? Okay?" "Let's elope." This became the most common line of dialogue between me and him during that week in Beijing.Because I know it's impossible, I like to repeat it thousands of times. I really want to stay in Beijing like this, and never go back to Xi'an, or go to any city, even deep in the mountains and old forests, as long as we are together, we don't have to be apart. "Yizhong, let's not be separated again, never again!" I said repeatedly as if I swore an oath.Rumors can become truth if they are repeated thousands of times, maybe dreams can come true if repeated too many times, who knows? Sitting in the park under the sun, lotus leaves and lotus flowers are reflected on his big sunglasses, like an ink painting. Look into his eyes through the sunglasses without blinking. "What are you thinking?" I replied: "How to make a plate of lotus salad." he laughed. I looked at him, and I loved looking at him so much, so greedily. "Yizhong Yizhong, I have been waiting for you for ten years, don't waste any more time, from now on, I will never leave you again. I came all the way to find you, don't avoid me again." "No, never again." He promised me, "I will pay you back for many decades and all your love. Bai Shu, I will ask for a divorce." "Divorce?" I was stunned, "Will Xiao Li agree?" "I can only let her down." Yizhong sighed, "Bai Zhu, let us be a couple of sinners. I can't let you down any more, I can only let her down." "But I don't care if you are married or not. I just want to be with you, regardless of status." Instead, I was confused and asked him: "Don't do it, don't mention divorce, I'm a little scared..." "What are you afraid of?" "I'm afraid that if you ask for too much, you will lose what you have in front of you." I was confused and upset, "Anyway, I can be with you now, and I am very satisfied. You are looking for a girlfriend, and I am also looking for a boyfriend. If you get married, I will marry, we will not suffer, and you don't owe me anything..." "I owe you a single-mindedness." Yizhong interrupted me, "For so many years, I have never known what is the specificity of feelings. But now, I want to love someone exclusively. Not only can I not let you down, but also I can't live up to my own heart. In my heart, there is only you." An overwhelming sense of happiness overwhelmed me and suffocated me.So happy, too happy to be real.I hugged Yizhong tightly, tightly, and no longer knew other languages, I could only repeat two words eagerly and eagerly: "Yizhong, Yizhong, Yizhong, Yizhong... " This year, I was 23 years old and Yizhong was 35 years old. It was the first time for us to truly fall in love.