Chapter 9 Chapter Seven Dinner

Li Momei and Cheng Ji's hospital engaged in academic exchanges, and some doctors were sent to a small hospital in Qingdao to practice medicine for only a few days.Although Yu Ying was not happy why Li Momei and Cheng Ji had to go, there was nothing she could do about it, it was normal for Cheng Ji to travel on business. But Yu Ying never expected that this business trip, Li Momei would bring her so much news, it was almost a shock to her. At that time, when Li Momei called Yu Ying, she felt very happy in her heart. She thought how sad Yu Ying would be if she told this news to Yu Ying! So, when Yu Ying picked up the phone, she heard Li Momei's heartbroken voice.She seemed to be particularly uncomfortable on the phone and said, "Well, Yu Ying, guess who I met in Qingdao?"

"Who?" Yu Ying thought for a while, she knew that Li Momei belonged to the kind of person who would never make a phone call if nothing happened, and there must be no good thing to call.And I really don't know what friends there are in Qingdao, most of her classmates work in the south. "Jiang Lan, that's Jiang Lan who slept with us in the dormitory back then!" Yu Ying immediately thought of that short, white and thin girl.The relationship between Jiang Lan and herself is very good in school, and she can be regarded as a best friend for several years in college.Later, after graduating, I didn't know what to do. I only heard that Jiang Lan got married, so I never had any contact with the outside world.The good sister who was a classmate for four years cut off the news, and Ren Yuying tried to find a way to find her, but she still couldn't find her.

Yu Ying was very angry at one point, thinking how could Jiang Lan be willing to abandon everyone?Later, I slowly got married and started a business by myself, and the love of classmates was deeply buried in the depths of my memory. At this moment, Li Momei turned it out again, Yu Ying could only hear her heart beating, she was very excited. "Well, you don't know. I saw her like that. She was miserable, selling cosmetics on the street. It's autumn in Qingdao now, and the weather is cold. She was shivering in a single dress. It took me a long time to dare How did you get to this point?" Li Momei began to tell her coincidence.

In fact, it was not a coincidence. Someone in the hospital where she came to Qingdao to study knew Jiang Lan, and Jiang Lan's ex-husband was a small official here.Naturally, some people will ask: "Where did you graduate?" When Li Momei mentioned the graduate school, they would say: "Jiang Lan is also from there." Li Momei said enthusiastically: "She! Do you know her? She is in my dormitory. Wow, I haven't seen her for many years. Well, is she in Qingdao?" People who come here just falter and say nothing.Li Momei's mouth is very good at coaxing people, she will make them very happy after a while, and she can say everything with one mouth.

It turned out that Jiang Lan stayed at home as a rich wife after marriage and gave birth to a son.However, I didn't know how to do it half a year ago, so I divorced my ex-husband. Although everyone said that they didn't know how to do it, they all knew that Jiang Lan was divorced because there were people outside, and the child was with her father. She was almost kicked out, penniless, and now she is selling on the street Cosmetics live.At a certain intersection, Li Momei met by chance. Li Momei knows the relationship between Yu Ying and Jiang Lan best.When she was a sophomore, Yu Ying had a high fever and suddenly fell ill in the middle of the night. Jiang Lan carried her to the infirmary alone.The doctor in the infirmary said it was all right and asked to take some medicine.Yu Ying was so feverish that she didn't know what was going on, Jiang Lan insisted on quitting and insisted on stopping the car to go to a big hospital outside.

It was winter at that time, it was dark and cold outside, and Li Momei woke up from the torment and followed a dormitory person.The one who helped Yu Ying to stop the taxi was Jiang Lan. When Jiang Lan stopped the taxi and ran back, her feet were frozen and she bumped into Yu Ying's hospital bed with bruises on her calf.Long after Yu Ying's fever subsided, Jiang Lan's legs were still not healed. Li Momei remembered that when she returned to the dormitory on a date, she saw Yu Ying holding Jiang Lan's leg in her arms and rubbing it with safflower oil in her hand. The two of them talked and laughed while rubbing.At that time, Li Momei also felt that this pair of friends were as good as gays.

Later, Jiang Lan lost news of her marriage after graduation.In the beginning, Yu Ying was the one who searched for the most fiercely. Later, seeing that Jiang Lan was hiding on purpose, she never looked again.If she didn't look for it and let others tell her, at the class reunion, Yu Ying would be anxious with anyone who mentioned Jiang Lan. She really turned her face, so that no one dared to mention Jiang Lan in front of her. Everyone thought Yu Ying was unfeeling, only Li Momei knew that Yu Ying cared too much, and would care about it if she was worried about her. Yu Ying heard Li Momei talk about Jiang Lan's current situation in detail, and how miserable Jiang Lan was after the divorce.Li Momei's original intention was to make Yu Ying feel uncomfortable after hearing this, not only uncomfortable, but also very uncomfortable.

Yu Ying got Jiang Lan's mobile phone number, hung up the phone, and called Jiang Lan.The phone rang twice, and someone connected, and then a familiar voice said, "Hi, I'm Jiang Lan, who are you?" As soon as Yu Ying heard this voice, she couldn't bear it anymore.The current situation of Jiang Lan that Li Momei described on the phone was not very intuitive. Only this sentence that a salesman should say when answering the phone made Yu Ying feel uncomfortable. She is really uncomfortable. That stubborn girl Jiang Lan who never bows her head to beg for help will not say "Hello, who is there" when answering the phone, but say "Hello" professionally and enthusiastically. How bad is she now? easy?Yu Ying understood that Li Momei was not exaggerating.

Yu Ying sniffed and said, "Jiang Lan." The person on the other side of the phone stopped for a moment, as if he was walking on the street and suddenly stopped, the noisy crowd passed by, and the sound came from the speaker of some store: "I'm waiting for a minute, maybe the next minute." Yu Ying held back her tears and said, "Jiang Lan, come to my place!" The sound of sobbing came from the mobile phone, and someone suppressed the sound of crying and sniffling.Yu Ying burst into tears on the phone side, the two friends, their hearts are transparent at this moment.How much blame, how much concern, how much grievance, how much parting, but at this time, those things don't matter.There are some feelings that can cross the long river of time. Whenever you show them, they are always so kind, and there will be no separation at all.

No matter how hard people are, if there is such a friendship that is still supporting, it is a hypocrisy to pretend. "it is good!" Jiang Lan didn't say much and hung up the phone.Yu Ying wiped her eyes, looked at the curious eyes of the baby looking over, and said with a smile, "Baby, you will also have very good friends in the future, good friends like me and Aunt Jiang." Yu Ying called Jiang Lan to come and did not say hello to Li Momei.When Li Momei returned to City X, she almost exploded with anger. Jiang Lan went to City X one step ahead of her.When Yu Ying invited Li Momei to dinner, Jiang Lan was already sitting by the side, she didn't appear to be shivering in the cold street wind at all, but was as handsome as when she was in college.Although she is a little thinner and doesn't wear makeup, she still has a different style.

When Li Momei was in Qingdao, she tried her best to get close to Cheng Ji, but Cheng Ji was really too busy. He cherished this opportunity to study with a famous doctor so much that he spent almost every minute in the hospital, even raising his eyes to look at Li Momei. nothing.Li Momei put in so much effort to be sent to Qingdao to study. She didn't really want to study, but just wanted to find an opportunity to rekindle her old relationship with Cheng Ji, but she didn't expect that old relationship to be like wet wood, pouring water Gasoline is inflammable, so there is no possibility of re-ignition. Fortunately, a few days passed quickly. When she came back, she happened to meet an elegant man on the plane. The two chatted speculatively, exchanged mobile phone numbers, and made an appointment for dinner. After eating once, this elegant man seemed to have the intention to continue. Seeing Yu Ying inviting her to dinner, Li Momei immediately pulled the man along.That man is tall and handsome, and looks like a lot of gold, so he should show it to Yu Ying, if she still needs to go on an eight-minute blind date.As long as she, Li Momei, is willing to make a move, any kind of man can be easily captured. Therefore, Li Momei brought along the rich man who was completely reduced to a show-off prop, even his name could be omitted.However, Li Momei never thought that Jiang Lan would be there, and she felt that Yu Ying had slapped her hard. At that time, she "coincidentally met" Jiang Lan on the street, and took Jiang Lan to a western restaurant and treated her to a meal. Jiang Lan had an unnatural expression on her face, and she was always polite when talking to her.But Yu Ying called Jiang Lan from Qingdao to City X just because she gave her a mobile phone number, and Yu Ying really took care of Jiang Lan. Isn't that clearly not giving yourself face, and directly saying that you don't value friendship? Li Momei was angry and said to Duo Jinnan: "Wang Hao, these are my good friends Yu Ying and Jiang Lan. Jiang Lan just came from Qingdao, and everything here is not very used." The rich man Wang Hao naturally nodded in greeting.However, Li Momei's next words began to be unreliable. "Jiang Lan, I didn't expect you to come to X City. Well, yes, no matter what, no matter what we lose, love, family, relatives, as long as we have friends, we women will feel very happy." The corner of Jiang Lan's mouth was smiling, faintly, as if she didn't listen to those sarcasm.On the contrary, Yu Ying felt angry when she saw Li Momei talking nonsense regardless of the occasion.She didn't talk back, but just said to Jiang Lan: "You! Look, this big girl has the same temper as she did back then, and she has never changed. I told her a long time ago that if she doesn't change, she will marry sooner or later. If you don't go out, you have to pay yourself, but she still doesn't listen." Wang Hao watched these three women play with great interest.When he first arrived in X City, he ran into Li Momei on the plane. He only felt that knowing one more woman in a foreign land would make him more charming. Based on Wang Hao's experience, he could understand the tortuous stories of these women after only listening to a few sentences.Of course, he also understood that Li Momei used himself as a prop, but he did not refuse. Some women asked him to be a prop, which proved that he was still attractive.For women, he has always had his own grasp. His attention fell on the woman in the light blue cotton dress in the corner.If she still wears this kind of clothes at her age, she would feel a little pretentious, because the material and temperament of the clothes are not suitable for middle-aged women, but she wears them very well, as if the clothes should be worn by She dresses like this, which shows the connotation it should have. Although Li Momei pressed her every step of the way, the woman didn't move at all. She was very calm, but this kind of calm was not suppressed, but a feeling of being completely out of the way. After watching it for a while, Wang Hao realized that this woman's eyes were completely wandering, and her mind was not on the quarrel. To put it bluntly, this woman's soul was not here at all.The two women next to her were arguing fiercely, but she had nothing to do with it. Wang Hao leaned over and said to Jiang Lan, "Hello! Are you a little hungry? Do you want to order something?" Li Momei and Yu Ying stopped arguing, and Yu Ying desperately held the cup with both hands, almost couldn't help laughing.Li Momei was really embarrassing this time, the man she brought obviously had a crush on Jiang Lan, and even drove her away. Li Momei acted as if nothing happened, chatting and laughing happily and started ordering food.Everyone seemed to be happy with that meal, and Li Momei acted like a qualified hostess. From the perspective of others, the scene was really a long-lost classmate reunion, who would have expected the hidden secrets between the intertwined wine glasses. Yu Ying and Li Momei bid farewell warmly at the entrance of the hotel, and made an appointment to meet again next time.Wang Hao sends Li Momei off, and Yu Ying carries Jiang Lan. This farce is over. Yu Ying laughed so hard in the car that she was about to burst into tears, so Jiang Lan could only remind her from the sidelines: "Be careful when driving, don't make trouble, you are so grown up, you are still like a child. You and her love to argue at school. , the two of them will never end once they quarrel, why don't they change it now!" "Change? How? Why doesn't she change? She thought she was possessed by Princess and the Pea, and put on airs of Princess and Princess everywhere! If she continues to put it on, only the role of the old witch is suitable for her." Yu Ying pouted. Jiang Lan smiled slightly, pointed at her and said: "Your mouth! I don't know what it is made of, and every sentence that comes out is like a knife." When Jiang Lan came, Yu Ying had already arranged for her.The house was Yu Ying's old single room before she got married. It was not big, with one bedroom and one living room.After Yu Ying got married, she and Cheng Ji bought a duplex in a high-end residential area in the city, but the old house before marriage was not willing to sell or rent, and occasionally she went back to clean the house. This is the nest of her soul.Sometimes I feel that the big duplex house is too cold and there is no human touch. When I stay in my own den for an afternoon, making tea and drinking, I feel that even the furniture is thoughtful.It's small, but it's full of warm flavors. Even Wu Borong had never been to that place.She couldn't drag Wu Borong into her own life anymore, it was already deep enough and complicated.Jiang Lanlai is the most suitable place for such a small place. The two of them didn't hold their heads and cried when they met. It was as if they had been in school all the time, and they had returned to school after a summer vacation to meet again.Although he was happy, he didn't pretend at all, and naturally wiped away the lost eight or nine years. Jiang Lan didn't say thank you either. It was really hard to say thank you to such a friend, and that thank you was too unfamiliar.After she was settled down, Yu Ying began to work actively, trying to help her arrange to do something in the hospital of traditional Chinese medicine and find a stable and leisurely job.It's all about relationships. Yu Ying and Cheng Ji's accumulated contacts can be used at this time.Wu Borong also knew about Jiang Lan, and hinted that he could help if necessary, but Yu Ying didn't want to go to Wu Borong again for this matter, so she took it by herself. Originally, I asked Li Momei to have dinner to find out if their hospital was recruiting, but I didn't expect that Li Momei would start to lose her temper as soon as she arrived, and she didn't know what medicine she had taken. When Yu Ying was busy with Jiang Lan's affairs, Jiang Lan was not idle.After all, she hadn't worked for a long time after marriage, and wanted to get started as soon as possible, so she spent time in the clinic helping Yu Ying with what she could.The two of them were busy almost from morning to night, and there was no chance to catch their breath. At this moment, they are stealing a little leisure while sitting in the car.Yu Ying rolled down the car window to get some air, looked up inadvertently, and immediately said to Jiang Lan, "Look, today is the first quarter moon." She suddenly became interested, and turned her head to ask Jiang Lan, "Are you tired?" Jiang Lan shook her head. "Okay, let's drive to a good place now, I know that the stars are very beautiful there." Yu Ying's car turned around and picked a nearby road to drive up.She knew too well which corner of the city was the most romantic. After a while, they arrived at a mountaintop hotel. Yu Ying parked the car and led Jiang Lan to the terrace bar on the third floor, where she ordered two cocktails.Sitting on the wooden chair on the terrace, looking at the sky, I feel that the starry sky is bright and refreshing. Jiang Lan also felt that this place was good, took a sip of wine and said, "It's such a beautiful place, it's hard for you to find it so hard." Yu Ying didn't want to hide it from her, so she replied, "Bo Rong and I came here." Jiang Lan also vaguely heard the news of a lover from Yu Ying before, but she didn't get it so far.This is the first time Yu Ying talked about Wu Borong with Jiang Lan. Hearing this, Jiang Lan, who had been lonely for many days, seemed to suddenly regain her senses.She glanced at Yu Ying, then stretched out her hand, held her hand and said softly: "We were in school at the time, and you liked watching the stars on the playground the most. When the weather is like this, I can't help it." Pulled out by you." "Yes! At that time, I could still recognize many constellations, but now I can't. I haven't recognized them for a long time, and I can't recognize them all." "Is there anything you don't recognize? Come on, look, the Big Dipper is the best to recognize, and the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are also easy to recognize." The two looked at the stars for a while as if they were back in college, and then Yu Ying heard Jiang Lan gently Asked: "Yu Ying, are you happy?" Yu Ying raised her head to look at the stars, and suddenly felt that the stars suddenly became bigger, brighter, and blurred.She lowered her head, and tears began to drip down. Yu Ying shook her head and said, "No, Jiang Lan, I'm not happy." Jiang Lan smiled: "Then make yourself happier and don't think about anything." That night, Yu Ying and Jiang Lan talked a lot, and they didn't know if it was because of the starlight, or the low-key cocktail was really good. Yu Ying remembers Jiang Lan saying: "I'm going to get married as soon as I graduate. I don't know what's going on. I just know that everyone says that person is good, and I follow suit. Let's get married!" He said, don't do anything. Well, stay at home and take care of the children. Later, a son was born, and everyone likes it. He also has a little money, and everything goes well." Jiang Lan's eyes brightened: "I don't know when, he has a lover. In fact, I was the last one to know about it. Everyone knew about it and kept it from me. Later I found out, and I made a fight with him. He said, you make trouble What, eat mine and live in mine, if you make trouble again I will drive you out." Jiang Lan supported her head with her hands: "I'm not afraid that he will drive me out, I'm afraid that I won't have a child. The child is very attached to me, and I can't bear to bear the child. I didn't expect this kind of soft-heartedness, and it won't end later." Jiang Lan spun the wine glass: "I met that man... You know, I never fell in love before I went to college, and I went to school honestly and didn't dare to be distracted. I always think that my family is poor, and it's not easy to go to school." , I am also introverted, everyone talks about it, and I have never been in love. After getting married, I don’t know what love is. That man is the first man I fell in love with. Although they are all married and have children, he is still my My first love. Well, first love is wonderful, but mine came too late, at the wrong time. " Jiang Lan fell into Yu Ying's arms. She drank a few glasses of wine, but she couldn't handle it.Yu Ying didn't dare to drink too much when she wanted to drive, she half hugged Jiang Lan, and heard Jiang Lan continue to say: "How can I hide it? I won't hide it, and my husband will find out soon, and I can't stay at home." , I had to get a divorce. I had nothing left, and it was even harder to find a job. He was a bit powerful, and I couldn't find a job in the hospital. I didn't want to be too far away from my children, and I had to look at them every week, so I had to sell cosmetics. "Stand on the street and laugh at everyone. The man saw it from a distance and didn't dare to come over. He just stood across the street and looked at me. I knew he was sad. If I wanted to stay in Qingdao, I would use a knife The same thing stabbed him in the chest. He was really sad, he wanted to leave, but I wouldn't let him leave. My own house is broken, and my son has no mother. Can I let his child also have no father? I can't do it. I said , If you want to leave, I'll just die. He also loves his daughter, and his daughter is only six years old, and that's when her father loves her the most. He didn't leave, but he lost his job. " Yu Ying asked, "Is that person a doctor?" "Well, I work in Liu Changwei's hospital. I sometimes go to Changwei, but I can't find him, and I meet him. Alas, it's all fate. Now he doesn't know what's going on. I don't dare to inquire about it. I don’t know if he has left Qingdao. But he will be fine, he is very good at medicine, even if he runs a small clinic like you, he will survive.” Liu Changwei is Jiang Lan's ex-husband.Yu Ying stroked Jiang Lan's soft long hair, she was already in this state, and she was still worried about whether her lover could get along with her. Yu Ying dragged Jiang Lan into the car, Jiang Lan was almost drunk, and she was still whispering: "Yu Ying, I regret it, I regret it, I shouldn't have hurt people... I hurt my child, I hurt him , I really regret it... I have no bad intentions, but I can't control myself, I can't control..." Jiang Lan shook her head again and said, "I don't regret it, I really don't regret it, if I had loved so much Once, I lived a life in vain as a woman... In this life, no one has really loved me, why am I living? Why can't I live for myself for a while?" Then Jiang Lan lay in the back seat and began to cry.She was weak even when she cried, and said to Yu Ying: "Yu Ying, I miss my child, I miss my child, I miss my child every night, and I hear him calling my mother in my dreams... I don't know if my son misses it." I don't know if I will kiss me in the future..." Yu Ying gritted her teeth while driving and said nothing.She felt like she was dragging a heavy burden to move forward, and that burden was not Jiang Lan, but the life that Jiang Lan's arrival gave her. Do I want to live like Jiang Lan?How to choose is a very complicated path. Jiang Lan clings to a marriage where she doesn't love each other, and guards her children, but her husband's heart is not with her at all. Is her life a happiness?Falling in love with the person you really love, but causing yourself and your lover to be displaced, and causing the child to lose his mother, is it worth the effort? Jiang Lan's helplessness is exactly Yu Ying's helplessness, but Jiang Lan has already made a choice, although the choice is helpless and passive, she is just bearing the result.But Yu Ying's choice has just begun, and the road is stretching under her feet.