Chapter 34 Thirty-four

Zhou Mi put on his half-new black and white floral scarf, then put on the cashmere black overcoat, put on leather gloves, turned off the light, locked the door, and walked slowly towards the elevator entrance, about 10 minutes away from him. There are still about 40 minutes left for Jie to meet. The drive there would only take about 30 minutes at most—taking into account the time it might take to get stuck in rush hour traffic—and he could have walked a little later.But he doesn't.He likes to be on time, he likes to be calm, and he likes to see others rushing to see him in a hurry, but he himself is ready for everything and he waits there calmly and freely.Besides, he doesn't like to drive fast. , he also needs to give himself a few more minutes to use on the road.He likes to let the car go through "various spaces" at a smooth and uniform speed, and the high-end stereo equipment in the car plays Grieg's very famous "Piano Concerto in A Minor" (like those similar to him. Like a generation, there will always be a large or small space in his many cultural customs and hobbies that cannot be regarded as very broad, which is painted with Russian sentiment and Russian color).With the ups and downs of the music, he also likes to take a little detour, walk some roads that he doesn't usually go to, look at the cityscape over there, and pay attention to the newly appeared stainless steel urban sculptures and the newly completed art museum. Large posters posted in front of the door, the towering China World Tower in the night sky, the dazzling large-screen display on the wall of the stock exchange, and the flowing youthful figures of boys and girls on the ice rink...

When the car stopped in front of a newly opened western restaurant, the dark green Opel driven by Ding Jie also drove over lightly.Zhou Mi who got out of the car hurriedly stepped forward to open the door for her.It wasn't the first time the two of them had met here, and certainly not many times.Not the second time, but the third time.No more, no less.The decoration of the whole restaurant is very European style.On the walls are some imitations of ornaments in ancient European castles in the 16th and 17th centuries, such as cast iron wall lamps, wood panel paintings, metal helmets, rusty epees with copper wrist guards, spurs and so on.They found a very quiet seat behind a huge barrel-planted rubber tree and sat down.When Ding Jie sat down, Zhou Mi deliberately moved the chair according to the habit of foreign gentlemen.

Ding Jie blushed slightly and said, "Thank you." Zhou Mi smiled and hung up the coat for Ding Jie and himself, then went back to the table and sat down, looked at the recipes on the bronzing cover, and asked in a low voice Said: "What to eat?" Ding Jie just smiled and said nothing. Zhou Mi made her laugh a bit embarrassed, and looked herself up and down, but she didn't find anything too ridiculous, so she asked, "What are you laughing at?" Ding Jie said, "Why don't you take off the scarf? Is the scarf rented or borrowed?" Zhou Mi looked down, and as expected, he was still wearing the black and white scarf, so he laughed too, hurriedly took it off, and explained: "I'm used to it... completely I'm used to it..." Ding Jie reached out to hang up the scarf for him.

Zhou Mi smiled and said: "No need, just put it on the back of this chair." But Ding Jie still helped him send the scarf to the coat storage and hang it together with the coat.After returning to her seat, Ding Jie smiled and said, "I've seen you surround it like this on many occasions. Is it intentional or unintentional?" Zhou Mi smiled and shook his head: "It's completely unintentional, subconscious. I'm going to Before elementary school, our family was very difficult. I’m sorry, you won’t be offended if you talk about a poor family, right? At that time, my brother and I only had a decent cotton-padded jacket.

After breakfast, the padded jacket was his, because he would wear it to school.I just wore an old sweater my aunt gave me, and a very worn scarf from my dad all day long, and I was barefoot.The same goes for snow days.The scarf became the most important thing in my childhood. Whoever touches my scarf, I can fight him desperately.The same is true after school. I used to beat my classmate who was much older than me because of this torn scarf, and my nose bleed..." Ding Jie listened very carefully, and when she heard this, she sighed softly: "It's unimaginable that you Temperamental people fought with others when they were young! "

Zhou Mi said: "But how do you know what kind of temperament I was when I was a child? The children of the poor have long been the head of the family. This is absolutely true. Afterwards, such a habit has been formed, from winter to spring, and even as soon as I entered the house. In autumn, I took it out of the wooden box and surrounded it. I even developed such a problem unintentionally. As long as there is nothing around my neck, I feel uncomfortable all day long, and I always feel that something is missing. You might even catch a cold and get sick..." Ding Jie laughed: "Really?" She really couldn't understand that a person would "rely on" a scarf that was so inconspicuous.This kind of scarf can be said to be worthless.

"During school, you didn't realize that I had this strange problem?" Zhou Mi asked.Ding Jie laughed and said, "I woke up early. We girls all think you are weird, why can't you do without this scarf? We even discussed that one day, we will go and steal your scarf." "Zhou Mi said: "My wife always laughs at me, saying that I have more affection for the scarf than for her. This black and white flower scarf was bought for me before she went to Shenzhen. She said let's keep it as a souvenir..." Ding Jie asked: "What does she mean by that?" Zhou Mi sighed softly: "Maybe... At that time, she had already made up her mind that she was not going to come back to me..." "Even when you were After the deputy mayor?" Ding Jie asked again. "Probably." A faint shadow flitted across Zhou Mi's face. "She has always had such a theory. She said that she left me not because of status and wealth, but because she felt that we were not compatible. She said that I was too introverted, and she couldn't stand being introverted. So, even But now that my status and wealth have changed, she doesn't think we should get back together."

Ding Jie sighed: "A very intelligent and independent woman. Amazing..." Zhou Mi was silent for a while, then suddenly said: "On this point, the two of you can be said to be very, very similar." Ding Jie's face immediately turned slightly red, and said, "Really?" Zhou Mi sighed with a faint smile: "Just kidding, one of the scariest things in this world may be that women have wisdom..." Although Zhou Mi had already stated that he was joking, Ding Jie was still stunned when she heard this, and said immediately "Teacher Zhou, this doesn't sound like what you said." Zhou Mi hurriedly said with a smile: "Just kidding, it's just a joke." But Ding Jie's mentality and the atmosphere of the conversation seemed to be affected. For a few minutes, she Just sat with his head bowed and stopped talking.

Zhou Mi asked with concern: "Why are you silent? Ding Jie was a little embarrassed: "Didn't I listen to you?" Zhou Mi pondered for a while, and said, "From now on, don't talk to me anymore, okay?" Ding Jie hurriedly said, "How can that be? You are a teacher..." Zhou Mi shook his head slowly, and said, "I just don't want you to call me a teacher." Ding Jie smiled and said, "Then what do I call you..." Zhou Mi hurriedly said: "Zhou Mi, or, just called Lao Zhou." Ding Jie shook her head like a rattle, and said again and again: "No, no, no, wouldn't there be a thunderbolt?"

Zhou Mi scolded very seriously: "You're talking nonsense again, aren't you?" Ding Jie immediately put away the smile on her face, and said seriously: "No, the teacher is the teacher, Lao Zhou is Lao Zhou, and Deputy Mayor Zhou is Deputy Mayor Zhou. This can't be confused." "Can you just treat me as Lao Zhou, Zhou Mi, and a man who can tell you what's on your mind in such a specific period of time? Is that okay?" Zhou Mi suddenly seemed a little agitated, and leaned her entire upper body towards Ding Jie, her eyes shone with a light she had never seen before. This light contained not only eagerness and sincerity, but also a kind of she was completely Something that couldn't be explained, (not burning, but something... something that she couldn't even explain).It was fleeting like lightning, but it made her shiver.She had to ask for it. Just when she wanted to grasp the feeling of that moment, carefully recall the thing that made her very strange and palpitating, and give it an accurate positioning, Zhou Mi had already taken the initiative to start from the "request" just now. "Ri retreated.He may have realized that he was out of proportion, so he hurriedly said: "Everything is up to you, it's up to you. Treat me as Lao Zhou, Zhou Mi, Zhou's deputy mayor, or Zhou teacher, it's up to you, it's up to you. up to you……"