Chapter 40 Chapter Forty

Before the operation in Luoyang, Peng Li got married. When Liu Yun received the official notice, she suggested that Peng Li and the others meet in advance and she would not go to the wedding.Peng Li didn't understand, and thought it was because of Wang Shu, so Liu Yun had no choice but to confess that although he hadn't gone through the final procedures, he was still considered a divorced person, and he was afraid it would be unlucky.Peng Li laughed at Liu Yun and asked her to participate no matter what.Liu Yun agreed, but she couldn't understand Peng Li.She thinks that Peng Li is a very worldly person, but sometimes she doesn't care about the worldly norms.She set her wedding to be held in the afternoon, and explained to Liu Yun that it was supposed to be in the evening, but considering the light of the photo, she decided to hold it in the afternoon. This kind of wedding is very suitable for her love, because it is a love at dusk!

The venue for the wedding was a floating restaurant in Labor Park at two o'clock in the afternoon.When Liu Yun arrived on time, Peng Li and the groom stood at the door to welcome the guests. Peng Li immediately warmly introduced Liu Yun to the groom.Immediately after another guest came, Liu Yun gave Peng Li a red envelope containing 500 yuan, and went in first.She stood at the door and looked around. Most of the visitors were friends of the groom. Liu Yun hardly knew anyone, so she simply chose a corner to watch. Liu Yun has never been to this restaurant. It is built on a water pavilion on the lake, not far from the shore, and there is a stone bridge passing through it.The restaurant is circular and has windows on all sides. The weather is fine today, and the restaurant is very bright.There are many calligraphy banners hanging on the walls of the restaurant. Liu Yun leaned close to one to see the signature, and immediately felt ashamed that he couldn't recognize it.She looked at the other ones, and from the roughly consistent style, she judged that it was written by a person, and she thought this person should be the groom.

Around the wall, there are rectangular dining tables covered with white tablecloths. On each table is an imported large transparent glass vase, and each vase contains a bouquet of plump red roses.Corresponding to the rose vase is a white teapot, and between the teapot and the vase are filled with exquisite pastries and cigarettes, and beside the table are a row of tea bowls with saucers.In front of the table are chairs next to each other. Some of the guests who have arrived are standing in the middle of the floor chatting, some are sitting on the chairs chatting with the people around them, and some are looking around like Liu Yun.Almost everyone is drinking tea.Liu Yun couldn't help but marvel at Peng Li's planning and artistic arrangements. Everything looked elegant, simple but not shabby.Because no food or drink is provided, everyone behaves more appropriately and spends more energy on chatting, and the atmosphere is still lively.

The wedding officially started half an hour late, and a man in his fifties wearing glasses made the opening remarks first.He adjusted the microphone first, then looked at the bride and groom standing next to him, Peng Li nodded to him, and he began to speak. "Ladies and gentlemen, the wedding of Ms. Peng Li and Mr. Zhou Shaochong begins now." There were sporadic applause, and many people were busy putting back the teacups in their hands.After about a few seconds, warm and sustained applause rang out.Liu Yun looked at Peng Li who was standing next to the groom. She was wearing a Chinese-style dark purple high-necked cheongsam with a not-so-high bun. She not only looked like a noble lady, but also looked older. .Liu Yun thought, Peng Li was worthy of being an actress in the past, she could always dress herself up as she wanted.Liu Yun not only understands Peng Li's hard work in dressing up today, but also wants to tell Peng Li that she has achieved the desired effect: anyone can regard her as a woman in her fifties who is well maintained Well, the skin and figure are younger, but the temperament and demeanor are old-fashioned.Standing with her groom, Peng Li is a well-matched couple whose age difference no one would think of.

"Let me tell you about the general procedure of the wedding." The person who presided over the wedding continued, "First, the bride and groom will briefly introduce the love process. By the way, this item was added after everyone's strong request. Honestly, I hope to take the initiative to confess." Everyone laughed. "Then it's the ball, and then it's free activities." After the host finished speaking, he looked at everyone, and everyone realized that he had finished speaking. Although they thought the procedure was a bit simple, they still applauded enthusiastically again.

At this time, the groom walked to the microphone, and everyone fell silent again. "Before I explain, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to everyone for coming on behalf of my wife Peng Li." Another applause. Liu Yun was standing not too far from the door, and she accidentally found a woman in her fifties walking in quietly while the groom was speaking.She didn't go inside, but stood by the door, the people in front blocked her view.Liu Yun nodded and smiled at her, and she nodded to Liu Yun, but did not smile.She wore a bun that was almost the same as Peng Li's, and she looked younger than her actual age without any smile on her face.Liu Yun continued to watch the groom's speech. She felt that the woman who just came in was cold and refused everything.

"What I need to explain is that there are no drinks and meals prepared today. Our considerations are as follows. One is that the food here tastes average, but we want this place to be clean; the other is that there are more older friends who come here. , Wine is not a very suitable program. So, we arranged it like this, and prepared a special gift for each guest. Speaking of special, it is a gift that we choose according to each person's characteristics. My wife Peng Li and I It took a lot of time to do this, and I hope our efforts were not in vain and everyone enjoyed their gifts."

There was a burst of cheers from the crowd, and many people stretched their heads to look at the gifts stacked behind Peng Li and Zhou Shaochong, each gift was wrapped.In such an atmosphere, Liu Yun forgot her own situation for a moment, and was infected by Peng Li's happiness. She understood why Peng Li was so decisive in her choice.Such a unique wedding and such a considerate husband should be the dream of all middle-aged women, right? !Liu Yun's thoughts became erratic, she even thought about the future life of Peng Li and her husband, it should be a prolonged golden old age, right? !

The woman standing by the door just now passed Liu Yun and walked to the front. Before Liu Yun could react, she had already spoken loudly: "Zhou Shaochong, I think you must have missed a gift." The woman stood opposite the bride and groom, Liu Yun noticed that the groom's face turned pale, Peng Li was shocked and at a loss.Several people in the crowd tried to approach the woman, but she stopped them with a wave of her hand: "Don't stop me, or I don't know what I'm going to do." "Lao Li, be sensible, don't be like this." An older man in the crowd whispered.

Liu Yun immediately reacted, she quietly squeezed to Peng Li's side, took her arm into her arms, and whispered to Peng Li to be quiet, don't worry. "I'm sane, or I wouldn't be here today. I won't keep you long, but I'll finish what I have to say, especially for this woman to understand what the day awaits her. " She said and pointed to Peng Li.Peng Li turned to look at Zhou Shaochong, his face was pale, as if he had been frozen, and he didn't respond at all. "Didn't you say that your ex-wife died?" Peng Li gritted her teeth and asked in a low voice, her hatred seemed to be aimed at both the groom and the woman in front of her.

"Yes, for me she has been dead for many years," said the groom loudly. The woman was stimulated and shouted loudly: "That's right, I have been dead for many years, and you will be the next one." She pointed at Peng Li angrily, and Liu Yun could feel Peng Li trembling with anger.Liu Yun tried his best to calm Peng Li. "That's how the groom standing before you treats his ex-wife like a dead person," the woman went on.With amazing control, she said dignifiedly but clearly, "None of you would think that I am a lewd woman, but, for eight years, my husband slept in his bedroom, needless to say, You can also understand what it means. If you listen to him, he will say that we have a problem as a couple. Maybe we really have a problem, although I don't understand what is wrong with us. I raised our children, I do I do the laundry, do all the housework, and work eight hours like him. I've never had an affair with any other man, but my husband tells people that there's something wrong with our marriage. That's ok Well, let's talk about the problem, but this person," the woman said here, pointing to her ex-husband angrily again, "is this person, when I go to him again and again to talk to him, What he said was, what to talk about, what is there to talk about, if you can talk about it, it will be fine." The woman stopped here like an experienced orator, as if she knew the effect of the pause .Sure enough, no one tried to stop her again, and everyone was quiet for a while. Liu Yun forgot to take care of Peng Li, even though she was still holding Peng Li's arm.Peng Li was also speechless like a fool.Liu Yun stared at the woman standing in the middle of the ground, his heart pounding.Liu Yun felt that she was standing in front of a mirror, but what she saw in the mirror was the woman in front of her.Her face suddenly became hot, as if she had just been beaten or humiliated.Liu Yun was as shocked by the woman in front of him as the bride and groom. She was not recalling what she had done, but seeing it with her own eyes. "Li Yaru, I really want to kill you." The groom gritted his teeth. "You have finished killing me, now you should kill the newcomers around you." "I tell you, I never hated anyone, but today I tell you, I hate you, Li Yaru, as long as I live, I will hate you every day, curse you to die early." The groom could no longer control himself, Peng Li fell into Liu Yun's arms and began to cry. "Zhou Shaochong, you don't need to show your teeth and claws. Two years ago, I vowed to do what I do today. Now that I do it, this is God's retribution for you. As for whether you die one day sooner or later, I have already decided." It doesn't matter. You can kill me now." The woman said and walked towards the groom.Without even thinking about it, Liu Yun rushed to the woman with an instinctive force.She hugged the woman and said earnestly: "Please be sensible and come with me, even if I beg you, I have something to tell you." The woman looked at Liu Yun, maybe a certain expression on Liu Yun's face moved her, maybe she had had enough trouble, anyway, she left the restaurant under Liu Yun's embrace. "It took a lot of effort to get her to quiet down and follow me. We found a bench in the park and she sat there with no expression on her face and asked who I was. I told her I was a friend of the bride, She was still sitting like that, and she didn't show any more disgust because of what I said." Liu Yun said here, looking at Luoyang opposite, "Do you want to continue listening?" Luo Yang nodded. They sat in Liu Yun's office, and Liu Yun was still immersed in the "afterglow" of Peng Li's wedding.After leaving, she didn't want to go home alone with such memories. She felt that she couldn't deal with such a thing alone. The fear of new insomnia made her go back to the hospital, called Luoyang to her office, and talked to him. up.On the one hand, she despises her cowardice, on the other hand, she is afraid. "I asked her why she did this, and she didn't answer me. She didn't say a word, she just looked ahead. I told her later that I had done similar things, and now I regret it. When everything is over In the future, I think people should still forgive." "She said it was just how I felt. She said once you've been hurt that deeply, you can't forgive, you can never forgive." "I said, then you can't live in hatred. She said, why not?! She said that in the past two years, she lived by hatred. She said that because she hated that man, she lived well. She has the strength to continue to live, and to live vigorously." "I said, but hate can't bring you happiness, not even peace. She said that when she loved this man, he didn't give her happiness. I said, this can't last long, one day, you will be at peace Come down and face what you've done and you'll be ashamed of yourself, no matter how much someone hurt you, you'll regret it. That's what happened to me myself." "She said, your experience is yours, I am older than you, and I don't want to live too long, and there is no need to think so much. I do everything by feeling, I hate him now, why should I force myself to forgive him, I have too many reasons to hate him, you know? I lived with him for so many years, he gave me nothing, but I gave him everything, is that fair? Why should I forgive him?! " "I couldn't convince him no matter what. Finally, I asked her why she agreed to the divorce. She burst into tears. She said, I can't stand it. He mentioned hundreds of divorces to me. She said, if she doesn't divorce again , would drive you crazy." "Why didn't you say a word?" Liu Yun asked Luoyang. "I really want to hear you finish." Luo Yang said. "I'm done. I sent her home. She's a teacher, and by definition a literate woman. I thought on the way back. This woman might go to her grave with hatred, and God has a plan for a different woman took a different path." "It's the same for men." Luo Yang said. "Please forgive me, I have been so wordy." Liu Yun suddenly said embarrassedly. "Doctor Liu, don't say that, I'm glad to hear you say this. To be honest, I was also quite shocked. She is so old, and she can still do such things. This power is also quite scary." Luo Yang said. "On the way back, I thought, how different you are, even though you are both teachers." Liu Yun said. Luo Yang smiled. "Don't laugh, I really admire your choice. You have another attitude towards life. I don't think it's good now, but I think it's better than my attitude towards life, than that of the woman at the wedding today. much more responsible." "Doctor Liu, don't say that, I just don't want to take the medicine. And after taking that medicine, my complexion is always dusty. I might like to have a better complexion when I'm alive, but I don't want to have the complexion of a dead person when I'm alive. " "You are amazing, don't look at you younger than us." "Where, everyone has their own way of life, maybe it's God's will." After finishing speaking, Luo Yang smiled sincerely at Liu Yun. "Tomorrow, it's my turn." "You helped me a lot." Liu Yun was comforted by Luoyang's smile, and was also moved by his serenity before the operation. "Go back and sleep well, see you tomorrow." "See you tomorrow, Dr. Liu." Liu Yun returned home feeling better, but still unable to fall asleep. "For tomorrow's operation, I have to sleep." Liu Yun thought of this, and found out the sleeping pills.