Chapter 18 Chapter Eighteen

Wu Gang walked towards Lou Hong. Lou Hong politely wanted to stand up, but Wu Gang waved his hand to stop her.He sat across from her, and it was impossible to tell from his face whether he was proud of Lou Hong's special etiquette to him, Lou Hong almost stood up to greet any man approaching. "Why are you alone today?" Wu Gang spoke first, when the waiter had brought Wu Gang his green drink. "Don't you accept single female guests here?" Lou Hong kept looking at Wu Gang's drink. "We love having ladies." "What's the name of this thing you're drinking?" Lou Hong asked with interest, "Why haven't I seen it before?"

"It's not on the wine list." Wu Gang added. "What is it?" "Celery juice to treat high blood pressure." Wu Gang said, "It can also be called celery juice in a more fashionable way." "Do you have high blood pressure?" Lou Hong asked in surprise. "Prevention." When Wu Gang said that, Lou Hong believed that Wu Gang really had high blood pressure.She always judges a person by her intuition.She once said to many people that a woman should trust her intuition, everything else can deceive a woman, but intuition cannot. "Why didn't Geng Lin come?" Wu Gang didn't like Lou Hong's gaze, so he raised the topic.

"He has something to do." Lou Hong replied absent-mindedly, but what she was thinking about had nothing to do with Geng Lin. "I guess you must have been divorced." "Didn't you ask me for something?" Wu Gang didn't want others to talk about him. "I just want to chat with you, am I right?" "No." Wu Gang could only answer truthfully. "Then you must understand the mentality of a divorced man." "More or less." "Will they love with all their heart and soul again?" "I know very little about this." Wu Gang thought to himself, if he talks like this for another five sentences, he will find a reason to leave.

"His wife went to work to make trouble for us." Lou Hong, as expected of a smart woman, changed the subject in time, "But, I don't care about that. All I care about is Geng Lin's attitude." "What's his attitude?" Wu Gang immediately connected this matter with Liu Yun's recent strange changes. "He has no attitude." Lou Hong lowered his head and fiddled with the glass, "He said he would divorce me." "Isn't this just an attitude! He wants to make it up to you, because his wife went to work to make trouble." Wu Gang decided to chat with Lou Hong a little more, of course for Liu Yun.

"He has said this before, and it's not the first time I've heard it. I feel empty in my heart, as if there are many blank places that no one can approach." "Why did you tell me about this?" Wu Gang was a little cautious towards Lou Hong. "I have long discovered that you and Geng Lin are not of the same type." "so what?" "Yes, so what." Lou Hong sadly repeated Geng Lin's words, and Wu Gang's heart softened a bit with his pitiful appearance. "Don't you like Geng Lin very much?" "I don't think I just like him, I love him." Lou Hong said with a smile.

"Then there's no problem." "Who said that?" Lou Hong suddenly said seriously to Wu Gang, "Sometimes, the person you love the most can't understand you at all, and doesn't know what you want. But a visitor who has nothing to do with you knows everything." Wu Gang smiled after listening to Lou Hong's words, and felt that her heart was gently stroked by her hand, which was very comfortable.When the feeling had passed, he asked: "what do you want?" "I can't tell." Lou Hong laughed to herself after speaking, and Wu Gang also laughed, with a hint of sarcasm in his smile.To him, Lou Hong has now become a woman moaning without illness. "Sometimes I want him to protect me." Lou Hong continued seriously, "Don't let anyone hurt me."

"Did he not protect you?" "He didn't protect me." Lou Hong said, "but he also protected his wife." "Do you want him to hurt his wife?" Wu Gang tried his best to express himself calmly. "I don't mean that, but at least he can get a divorce sooner, and be more decisive." Lou Hong's words aroused a little resentment in Wu Gang's heart. He thought that today's young people speak directly and almost cruelly, but they are confident and confident, thinking that they are at least telling the truth.Wu Gang thought that he lost the ability to judge for a while, what is normal.And normal is near-human to him.

"You never seem to think about his wife, do you?" Wu Gang continued without waiting for Lou Hong to answer, "Last time you told me a few things about you and Geng Lin, but you didn't mention his wife." "I don't need to think about her. She has nothing to do with me. I'm neither her friend nor her parent." Lou Hong looked at Wu Gang's calm face, wondering what he was thinking. "However, I still thought about her. I think, for her, short-term pain is worse than long-term pain." "Bullshit." Wu Gang cursed in his heart, "This girl is really hard-hearted." He thought to himself.

"Geng Lin moved out of the house and let his wife know that he has another woman. This is already an injury that a woman cannot bear." Wu Gang seemed to be talking to himself. "But no woman can guarantee that her husband will not cheat." "But it happened a little too late for his wife." "What does age mean?" Lou Hong asked rhetorically. "If you were forty years old now, I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to talk like that." Wu Gang said this, but what he wanted to say in his heart was, "It's fucking crazy to rely on youth." But for some reason, he couldn't When speaking harshly to Lou Hong, there is always something in Lou Hong that he can't bear to hurt.

"You don't seem to like me?" "You're pulling away." "Are you married again?" Wu Gang shook his head. "If you take me out now, I won't refuse." Lou Hong said suddenly. "You are so cute." Wu Gang's size was not disturbed, as if he often encountered such wonderful possibilities, and also as if he was born with the ability to resist temptation. "So confident. Men from all over the world come to you when you wave your hand. Is that what you think in your heart?" Wu Gang jokingly said. "So what?" Lou Hong's tone was a bit coquettish.

"Cute." Wu Gang smiled, "But I can't make it through, you are an exception today." "You are so stupid, why should you be that exception, and don't want you to be responsible." "I mostly want to take responsibility for myself." "If I don't let you..." "How's your talk going?" Before Lou Hong could finish what he had said, Chen Daming approached, and he complained, "I'm tired of waiting for you." When he spoke, his tongue was already a little loose. "What are we waiting for?" Lou Hong asked unhappily. "I want to talk to Wu Gang about me--" Chen Daming said here, Wu Gang dragged him to a chair and sat down. "We have something to discuss." Wu Gang explained to Lou Hong. "Yes, we have something to talk about." Chen Daming said half awake and half confused. "Then I'm so sorry to bother you." "What are you bothering me?" Chen Daming said first, "It's not a difficult matter, it's a trivial matter. I..." Before Chen Daming finished speaking, Wu Gang pushed him hard, "Stop talking nonsense, women don't want to listen to you." Wu Gang said. "Angkor, you are wrong. My lovely wife listens to me. She listens like a fool when I speak." "Your wife is an exception." Wu Gang said impatiently, wanting to end the situation and leave early, but afraid of leaving the half-drunk Chen Daming behind.For some reason, he didn't want Lou Hong or even Geng Lin to know that he was an insider. "It's true," Chen Daming said, "She likes to listen but I don't like to talk." Lou Hong laughed.Her laugh was contagious, rolling like a stone on glass. "Hey, why are you laughing like that?" Chen Daming also noticed her laughter. "You are so stupid, everyone laughs like that." Lou Hong joked. "I'm not stupid. I've never seen anyone who smiles like you in my life." Chen Daming suddenly became clever. "You want to say that I'm not human?" Lou Hong was anxious like a child.Wu Gang couldn't help laughing when he saw this. "Sister, how dare I, if you are not human, then I am neither." "Don't call me sister." Lou Hong said. "I shouldn't call you sister. Besides, I also have sisters, so I don't need to go around to recognize sisters. But if I call you little sister, I'm afraid you will think too much, as if I want to take advantage of you. In fact, I am now I just want to find a word to express my respect for you. You say what is appropriate to call you, so I will." "It's Miss Lou." Lou Hong said. "Yes, Miss Lou." Chen Daming said and glanced at Wu Gang, "My Angkor must call you that. He is smarter than me at all times, but I have a better heart than him." "Don't fart." Wu Gang said, "Go home quickly." "As for Sister Liu, we still--" "I'll see you tomorrow." Wu Gang interrupted Chen Daming again. "My sister Liu is really a good person, but it's a pity that I have a bad life." "You know your sister everywhere." Lou Hong didn't think much about it, letting Wu Gang breathe a sigh of relief. "Actually, I think you have the same kind of heart as mine. You are nice and soft. I have to tell you about my sister Liu. Maybe you have worse tricks than me." Ridiculously pensive. "He drank too much, and he would never stop talking." Wu Gang said to Lou Hong while Chen Daming was in deep thought, "I'll take you out." Hearing what Wu Gang said, Lou Hong immediately stood up, nine out of ten she misunderstood Wu Gang.She opened the bag to get the money, but was stopped by Wu Gang: "Forget it, I invited you today." Lou Hong was not polite, and patted Chen Daming on the shoulder: "Goodbye." After saying that, he walked straight to the door. "Hey, don't go." Chen Daming woke up like a dream, and he didn't understand why Lou Hong left suddenly. It was almost midnight when Lou Hong and Wu Gang came to the street.Apart from them, there were no other pedestrians on the street, and the street lamps cast a faint light in the distance, making the dense woods on this side of the park even darker.They entered the park through a gap in the park wall.The street lamps in the park were all extinguished, only the dim moonlight illuminated their way.This familiar and unfamiliar scene made Lou Hong's heart surge: she unconsciously remembered the beginning of being here with Geng Lin, but the difference was that the moonlight was brighter that night.She didn't know if it was fate that made her and another man fall into the woods of this park.And the moonlight tonight seems to be weak, but it adds a bit of despair to Lou Hong, as if they are the last people, and the world no longer exists.They no longer need to pay attention to any moral concepts prevailing in this world, and everything can follow the call of instinct.This emotion overwhelmed her love for Geng Lin. Wu Gang walked faster, occasionally slowing down to remind Lou Hong to pay attention to his feet.Lou Hong trotted a few steps to catch up with him. "Why are you walking so fast, are you scared?" she asked. "Maybe." Wu Gang said with a smile, thinking about how to get out from the south and how to get a taxi. "What are you afraid of? I have you. I can protect you." Lou Hong said innocently. Wu Gang looked at Lou Hong and smiled from the bottom of his heart.At this moment, he even understood Geng Lin and was willing to pay such a high price for this girl.Instead, he thought about his feelings for Liu Yun again, and his heart sank involuntarily.This feeling has been buried for too long and too deep, so that it has lost any warm and vivid colors, only the affectionate thoughts are left. "Wait a minute." Lou Hong pulled Wu Gang back, "You haven't told me where you are going yet." "I think you know where you are going." Only then did Wu Gang realize that Lou Hong had misunderstood. "Where do you live? With your parents, or with Geng Lin?" "My parents are out of the country, so it's up to me where I stay tonight." "No matter what, let's take a taxi first." After Wu Gang finished speaking, he wanted to go forward again, regretting that he led Lou Hong to take this shortcut. "Don't you want to kiss me now?" Lou Hong asked with a firm expression, as if Wu Gang led her to elope at this time, and she would follow. Wu Gang smiled softly in his heart, what he felt when he looked at Lou Hong's excited face under the moonlight was not that he couldn't contain his passion.Since the establishment of the bar, he had more often encountered bold young girls who made love to him, and some of them didn't even say anything, and directly stuck into his arms in the corridor.Now facing Lou Hong, he has the habitual gentle attitude again, not only to comfort her from being hurt, but also to let her understand that not every man likes young women like Geng Lin, although most men do . "Don't be like this," Wu Gang held Lou Hong's shoulders, and shook them trustingly like an elder to a younger generation. "Otherwise, if you come to the bar in the future, you will be embarrassed to see me." "I won't." Lou Hong said decisively, and shook off Wu Gang's hands. "But I will." Wu Gang said clearly. Lou Hong stared fiercely at Wu Gang, who was still smiling.Lou Hong left with a wave of her hand, and she started running within a few steps.Wu Gang looked at the surrounding environment and had no choice but to follow. Lou Hong ran to the street, just when a taxi passed by, Lou Hong jumped into the car, and the car drove away.Wu Gang also wanted to take a taxi to follow, but there was no other vacant taxi coming.Wu Gang was immediately annoyed, and found that the mobile phone was in the bar, so he calmed down.He walked slowly towards the bar along the same road. On the way, he thought of the scene just now, and sighed for not being as excited as he should. He felt that he was old, so old that he saw himself with such a young girl more than once. There is a generation gap between them, even though he is not older than Geng Lin.It should be said that men in their forties are still in their prime, but Wu Gang prefers to classify himself into another category of men who are already old when they are twenty.He can understand why Geng Lin likes young girls, and he himself thinks young girls are very cute.But the waywardness and childish self-righteousness hidden behind their cuteness is not to his appetite.After experiencing Lou Hong today, he knew better what kind of man he was.He likes a calm, ongoing relationship that deepens over time, not diminishes.He always thinks of Liu Yun at such moments, maybe at this moment he understands the reason why he likes Liu Yun, because she is also a rational person. Back at the bar, he called Liu Yun and asked for Geng Lin's cell phone number.Liu Yun didn't answer him right away, but kept asking him about his motives.Wu Gang had no choice but to say that Lou Hong came to the bar alone and drank a lot, fearing that she might make a mistake on the way home alone.Liu Yun told Wu Gang Geng Lin's mobile phone number, and then hung up the phone without saying goodbye or exchanging pleasantries. Wu Gang was depressed for a long time, Liu Yun's attitude made him feel strange.He thought of Lou Hong saying that Liu Yun went to their unit, and he felt very confused. He didn't want Liu Yun to become another woman in his heart.During the years of working with her, he has followed Liu Yun from a distance, and Liu Yun has not had any major changes, including her style of dressing.She is always generous, kind, peaceful, and serene.In this regard, Wu Gang has developed a mentality of dependence. He does not want Liu Yun to undergo the same changes as other women—from a cute girl to a mother-in-law. But Wu Gang did not expect that women's rationality is like duckweed without foundation. If they love, then their rationality will be 100% dependent on the outside world.Women who are in love can never maintain true rationality. The outside world is their love, lover, or marriage. Once this condition changes, their rationality will be wiped out immediately, no matter how clear they are about the facts and the truth in their hearts, to no avail.A woman's reason, so to speak, is a layer of calm oil floating on the water of love.But the relationship between oil and water can only be like this: neither tolerate nor help each other.