Chapter 14 Chapter Fourteen

I ran to Ye Meigui's side, and she glared at me. "Sorry, I" "Stop talking. Get in the car." "What should I say later? What should I say? What should I not say? And" "Don't worry. I don't care if my dad likes you or not, so talk what you want. If you can make him angry, maybe I'll be grateful to you. " "Yeah." It dawned on me, "I'm just pretending to be your boyfriend." "It's not a matter of pretending or not." "Ok?" "If you are really my boyfriend, I only care if I like you or not, why should I care if others like you too

Woolen cloth? " She took out a piece of tissue from her purse: "You're sweating all over, wipe it off first." I took the tissue and wiped my face. "Get in the car, idiot." She smiled. Hearing Ye Meigui say that, I felt much more relaxed. All that was left was curiosity about her father. When I was imagining what her father looked like, Ye Meigui stopped the car, turned her head and told me, "Here we are." "So fast?" "If it's too quick, I can drive you around the neighborhood again." "Oh." I hurried out of the car.

I glanced at the gate of the restaurant. The facade of the restaurant looked resplendent and dazzling, as if it was reserved for rich people. A restaurant where people come to splurge. "Who is treating me today?" I asked Ye Meigui. "My dad." "It's okay." I patted my chest. "Go in. He's already inside." "Ok." "Don't worry, just be yourself. It's a free meal," she said with a smile. The waiter led us to turn left and right, pass a rockery and a small garden, and finally came to a restaurant by the window

table. Ye Meigui's father was sitting by the window, and when he saw us, he smiled as a greeting. She also took the window seat, facing her father, and I sat on her left. He should look younger than his actual age, he should be in his 50s, but he looks 40 Get ahead. He was wearing a dark gray shirt and a pair of silver-rimmed glasses. He had a thin face and figure. The eyes are bright, but the smile is very gentle. "My boyfriend." Before she sat down, she glanced at him and pointed to me with her left hand, her voice was flat. "Hello." Her father stood up and held out his right hand.

"Hello, Uncle." I hastily extended my right hand and shook hands with him. "Please sit down, you're welcome." After shaking hands, he said. "Thank you." I waited for him to sit down, and then I sat down. "What's your name?" He looked at Ye Meigui and asked.But Ye Meigui didn't answer. When I was wondering why she didn't answer, she turned to look at me and said, "Hey, people asked you how call. " "People are asking you, what are you doing?" Before I finished speaking, she gave me a hard look. I suddenly realized, and hurriedly stood up: "Hello, Uncle, my name is Ke."

He smiled slightly: "Mr. Ke, don't be restrained, please sit down." "Don't dare. Uncle, you can just call me Xiao Ke." "Okay, Xiao Ke. Please sit down." I sat down slowly, and Ye Meigui leaned close to my ear and whispered, "Don't use you, just use you." "Oh." I nodded. The waiter handed over menus, one for each of the three of us. "Rose." His voice was gentle: "Order whatever you like." "Hmm." She simply responded. "You don't need to save money for your boyfriend. Dad treats you today." He said with a smile.

"I know." Ye Meigui's voice was still flat. I once said that Ye Meigui's voice is expressive. I can see her emotions in her voice. mpanel(1); If the appearance of the voice can really convey emotions, then their father and daughter are masters. Ye Meigui's father showed his warmth unabashedly, but she obviously didn't appreciate it very much. "Xiao Ke, try your best, you're welcome." He turned his head to me, smiling. "Okay. Thanks." I nodded. Ye Meigui handed me the menu and said, "Please order for me." "If you want to eat flies, catch them yourself." I handed her the menu again.

"What do you mean?" She didn't take the menu. "This is Taiwanese. It means you have to order whatever you want to eat." "boring." "Don't disappoint your father's kindness, it's not good." I leaned closer to her ear and whispered. She gave me another look, but finally took the menu. After ordering, he smiled and asked me in a gentle tone, "Where are you going?" "I work in an engineering consulting company as an assistant engineer." "Oh." He paused, and then asked, "What kind of project is it?"

"Water conservancy project." "Hmm, not bad. Are you busy with work?" "It's fine. Not too busy." "Yeah. Rose won't give you trouble, will she?" "No. She always takes care of me. I should be the one who caused her trouble." "Really?" He looked at Ye Meigui tenderly, "Rose is such a good girl." "Yes." I smiled. The waiter served the dishes and helped us separate the two chopsticks one by one before handing them to us. Ye Meigui's father waited for the waiter to leave and said, "Come, let's eat together."

Ye Meigui wanted to stretch out her chopsticks, but I quickly grabbed her left arm, and she turned to stare at me: "What are you doing?" "Uncle has to pick up the food first, so we can use the chopsticks." "Xiao Ke doesn't have to be so polite, just do whatever you want." He still smiled. "This is the basic courtesy of being a junior. Uncle, please get some food first." He smiled, stretched out his chopsticks to pick up some vegetables into the bowl, and then I let go of Ye Meigui's hand. "You're so into the show, idiot," she whispered in my ear again.

"Rose. Dad is going back to Canada at noon the day after tomorrow." "Oh." Ye Meigui responded. "If possible, can you go to the airport?" "I have to go to work, I'm not free." Before he finished speaking, she answered. "The day after tomorrow is Saturday, so I don't have to go to work." I said. "I have to work overtime, can't I?" She turned her head and stared at me. "I've never seen you work overtime on a Saturday." "I'm going to work overtime this Saturday." "What a coincidence." "It just happens to be such a coincidence." "You don't have to work overtime. My uncle is leaving, so why do you have to work overtime?" "You" Ye Meigui seemed very angry. "It's okay." He smiled, "Going to work is more important." Even though he said that, there was still a trace of regret and loss in his eyes. "Xiao Ke, how did you meet Rose?" He obviously wanted to change the subject. "This" I think it would be inappropriate to say that they lived together, so I had to say, "It was introduced by a friend." "That's right. Which friend?" "It's Rose's friend, Rose calls him Xiaopi." After she finished listening, she couldn't help turning her head to look at me with an angry and funny expression on her face. "Oh." He nodded and said with a smile, "the rose must have given you some pain, right?" "Not some, but many." He laughed, the first time I've heard him smile brighter. "It's really hard for you." He stopped laughing and smiled slightly. "No. The head can be broken, the blood can flow, and the rose must be pursued." I said. He laughed again, and Ye Meigui glared at me. "Then you must really like roses?" he asked again. I froze for a moment, then glanced at Ye Meigui, wanting to ask her for help. She turned her face away, as if she wanted me to face the problem myself. "I like Night Rose very much." As soon as the words were uttered, I realized that something was wrong, so I quickly changed my words: "I mean, I like roses very much." "Yeah." He nodded. Ye Meigui turned her head to look at me again, her eyes were similar to those of senior sisters. I remember telling my senior sister in the square that I like Ye Meimei very much, the senior sister's eyes are so charming. "Xiao Ke, what's your favorite thing about roses?" Just as I fell into the memory vortex of the square again, he asked again. I quickly came back to my senses and said, "It's too difficult to choose." Then I would tell you my answer when Ye Meigui asked me where her sexiest place was: "It's like the sky There are hundreds of stars shining at the same time, can you see which one is the brightest at a glance? " "Well, that's a good point. I also think that Rose has many advantages. She has been like this since she was a child." Ye Meigui's body vibrated for a moment, her mouth opened slightly as if she wanted to speak, but then she regained her composure. I got up and went to the bathroom, trying to get the father and daughter to talk alone. I stayed a little longer on purpose, and walked out of the bathroom when I felt that the time was almost up. But the restaurant is so big that I got lost. Fortunately, a waiter came to help me, and I was back at the table. "Why did you go so long?" Ye Meigui complained. "This restaurant is so beautiful, I'm looking at the scenery." "Boring," she said. "I'm sorry," I said. She picked up her purse, stood up and said to her father, "We still have something to do, so let's go first." "Stop sitting a little longer?" He seemed disappointed. "No." She gestured for me to pick up the briefcase with her eyes, "Let's talk about it next time." "Next time?" he murmured. The three of us walked out of the restaurant, and Ye Meigui's father told me: "Xiao Ke, if you are free, bring roses to Canada to play. " "Oh, good." "Please take good care of Rose." "this is necessary." "The happiness of the rose is in your hands." "Uncle, don't worry. I will do my best to make the rose charming forever." "Well, that's good." He turned his head and told Ye Meigui: "Gao Mei, Dad is leaving." "Yeah. Bye-Bye." She said simply, and waved. He nodded to me again, and before turning to leave, he took another careful look at Ye Meigui. Then the figure gradually disappeared in the dark night street. "Is my performance okay?" I asked Ye Meigui. "You're too nervous." "Of course I'm nervous. I thought your dad was going to write me a check." "write a check?" "Well, that's how movies are played. The heroine falls in love with a poor boy, and the heroine's father opens a 10 A check of ten thousand dollars is given to the actor, hoping that he will leave the heroine. " "Oh. What would you do if my dad actually wrote a check?" "I must have slapped the table and stood up, pointed at him and said loudly: Uncle! You underestimate me!" "real?" "Of course it's true. Just want to send me away for 100,000 dollars? At least 200,000." "Hey!" "I'm just kidding." I quickly smiled. Back at Seven C, around 10:30 p.m. As soon as Ye Meigui came back, she slumped on the sofa, closed her eyes, and looked very tired. "are you tired?" "Well. I don't like eating with my dad, I feel tired." "Your dad is nice. He looks like" "Don't mention him again, can you?" She opened her eyes suddenly. "I don't need to mention him, but you must go to the airport to see him off the day after tomorrow." "I told you, I'm going to work overtime." "You don't have to work overtime at all." "Okay, even if I don't have to work overtime. You should also know that I get up late on holidays." "Stop making excuses, you're going to the airport the day after tomorrow." "I don't want to go, okay?" "No!" I stood up and said loudly. Ye Meigui seemed to be taken aback for a moment, and after a while, she said, "Why are you so fierce?" "Look at the clock on the wall." "What?" She glanced at the clock on the wall. "It's not even 11 o'clock." "I know. Then?" "You want me to be your boyfriend for a day, so until 12 o'clock, I will still be your boyfriend." She glanced at me and said lightly, "So what if you are my boyfriend? You still have no right to force me." "But I have the responsibility to pull you out of the vortex of loneliness." "What nonsense are you talking about?" "I'm not talking nonsense." "I prefer not to." "Ye Meigui!" I was a little angry and couldn't help raising my voice. "Ke Zhihong!" She seemed to be angry too, and stood up suddenly. We were facing each other in the living room. "Listen to my advice, go see your father off." After a while, I slowed down. "Did you talk to my dad after he ate his meal?" "You underestimate me, I'm not that kind of person." "You are, you are. You are mean." "Okay." My anger came up again: "How much is this meal? I'll bring it to you right away!" Immediately after I finished speaking, I took out my wallet from the back pocket of my trousers. "Five thousand one hundred and forty-eight dollars." "More than five or five thousand?" I opened my mouth wide. "Well. Give it to me." She held out her right hand. "Okay." I put the wallet back in my pocket. "Stop talking about money, that's not the point. We're talking about your dad." "Didn't you say you want to give me the money?" Her right hand was still outstretched. "Don't change the subject." "You are the one who changed the subject. Give me the money!" Ye Meigui took two steps closer to me, her outstretched right hand approached my chest. "Well, judging from your palmistry, you are not a greedy person." I looked down at her outstretched right palm. "Stop talking nonsense." "Rose, you are so beautiful." "It's no use flattering." "Xiaopi." I called out to Xiaopi who might be hiding under the sofa because of fright, "come out and persuade me Advise your sister. " "You are less boring." "Okay, I was too impulsive just now, don't mind me." "Humph." She finally put down her right hand and sat back on the sofa. "He's your dad after all." I sat down too. "He didn't want me first." "yes?" "When I was a freshman in high school, he divorced my mom and married another woman." "What he cut off was the relationship between husband and wife with your mother, but he didn't cut off the bond between father and daughter with you." "I don't care, anyway, I just think he doesn't want me." "Rose." I called her, and she looked up at me. "You should know that your father never stopped caring about you. Didn't you?" Ye Meigui glanced at me, then bit her lower lip, and stopped moving. I saw her back twitch slightly. I stood up, sat on the sofa to her left, patted her left shoulder, and whispered, "It's not yet 12 o'clock. You can treat me as your boyfriend and speak your mind. " "There's nothing to say. Besides, it's none of your business." She didn't turn around. "How can it be irrelevant? Have you forgotten? I promised your father." "What did you promise?" "I said, I will do everything I can to keep the roses charming forever." "That's you acting." "No. I'm serious." She finally turned to look at me, and I saw her red eyes too. "You liar," she said after a while. "I swear." "Stop coming, I don't believe in oaths." "really? Why?" "If you take the word "swear" apart and look at it, isn't it a discount? How can you believe the discount?" "Then how can you trust me?" "I want to ask you a question." "Are you going to ask that question about whether you're pretty or sexual?" "Not this time." "Oh. You can ask." "Did I be fierce just now?" "yes." "Then I look fierce, isn't it ugly?" "No. It's still pretty." "why?" "Of course roses have thorns, but the thorns of roses do not affect the beauty of roses." "You can't lie." "I didn't lie to you." "Okay, I believe you." She pointed her finger, "Please sit back on your sofa." "No problem." I stood up and went back to my couch. Ye Meigui called Xiaopi, let Xiaopi lie on her lap, she patted his body, and said: "My dad and When my mother divorced, he didn't ask me to stay with him. " "So you followed your mother?" "Hmm. I thought my mom would be lonely by herself, so I stayed with mom." "Oh." "When I was about to go to college, my mother decided to remarry, too." "Huh?" I was surprised. "You don't have to be surprised." Ye Meigui looked at me, and then said, "My mother gave birth to me when she was about 20 years old. When she remarried, she was less than 40 years old. " "That" "I don't want to be my mother's oil bottle, so I have lived alone since I was 18 years old." She exhaled a long breath and said, "It's been 10 years now." "Ok." "Can I blame my parents for the 10 years of loneliness?" "Of course." I nodded. Ye Meigui was a little surprised when I said that, and stopped patting Xiaopi. "Of course you can think that your parents are selfish, or that your parents owe you." I paused, looked at her and said, "But, because your parents brought you into this world, no matter what Whether the world is beautiful or not, whether you like it or not, you owe them your life after all. " I stood up and took a step closer to her: "Think about it from another angle, although you no longer have a pair of parents who love each other. mother, but you can still have a father who loves you and a mother who cares about you.isn't it? " Ye Meigui looked up at me and said, "How do you know they care about me and love me?" "You are so cute, it's hard not to love you." "You lied again." "I didn't lie to you." After she glanced at me, she lowered her head again. "Rose, put it down." "Let go of what?" "Let go of this resentment, it will only make you lonelier." "I don't want to let go." She turned her head away, her back to me. "Rose." I sighed. "Let me comfort you, okay?" I finally approached the sofa to her left, sat down, and patted her on the shoulder. Ye Meigui slowly turned her head back to me. After a while, the tears swirling in the eye sockets slid down to the cheeks one by one. I have seen roses that are irrigated by a sprinkler system. When the water falls on the roses, the water drops will follow Rose petals, dripping. "You are like a swordsman in the dark, because you can't see, you have to blindly wave your sword to protect your body, so as not to be hurt harm.However, this will also cut off the hand that wants to pull you out of the darkness. " "I didn't cut anyone." "You hacked your dad tonight. Didn't you?" "I" "You don't care about your dad like you said. Otherwise you wouldn't ask me to pretend to be your boyfriend, isn't it?In your heart, you still hope that your father will not worry about you. " I smiled and said, "Your father is right, Rose is such a good girl." Ye Meigui didn't speak, and after the last drop of water dripped from the petals, she said: "Then why are they all Don't want me? " "They didn't give up on you, you gave up on yourself." "I don't." "The first day I saw you, I thought" "You must think I'm the kind of vicious girl." "No. I think you are so young, you look like a beautiful college student." "nonsense." "How can you grow old with the eyes you had when you were 18?" "I" "Rose." I patted her again: "Put it down." Ye Meigui became quiet, and stopped all small movements, as if she was caught in the vortex of memories. I also followed quietly, not wanting to disturb her. "Sometimes I think about it, I'd rather be an orphan." After a long time, she said lightly. "Not every orphan will have the same eyes as yours." "Really?" She looked up and looked at me. "Like a senior" Speaking of senior sister, I immediately felt that my throat seemed to be choked by a force, and I couldn't continue. Then I also quickly fell into the vortex of square memories. "What's wrong?" She looked at me who hadn't answered for a long time, and asked in a low voice. "It's okay." I closed my mouth and said something. "Don't keep talking in half, you just talked about senior sister, who is that?" "That's" I tried my best to leave the seniors in the square and return to Ye Meigui in the living room. "Ke Zhihong." She gave me a gentle look: "If you don't want to say it, just jump over, it's okay." "Oh." Because of Ye Meigui's charming eyes, I finally returned to the living room. "She was my senior from the university club. She was an orphan. But she was very bright." "You mean I'm dark?" "No." I shook my hand: "Your eyes are like a deep well, you are used to throwing a lot of things into it, because you don't I want others to see it, but those things still exist. " "yes?" "Yeah. But if you take off your guard, your eyes are very charming." I glanced at her: "Just like you are now." "Nonsense again." She seemed embarrassed and whispered. "You are a charming night rose. You are not arrogant, but you don't like others to approach you." I smiled: "Look, you don't even let me approach the sofa on your left." She glared at me: "Aren't you just sitting on the sofa to my left now?" "Oh." I moved a few centimeters away from her, and said, "Rose, you have kept yourself lonely for ten years, It's been long enough.So, let it go. " "Okay, I can let it go. But there is one thing I must remember." "What's up?" "You owe me five thousand one hundred and forty-eight yuan." "Well" I looked up at the clock on the wall: "It's already past 12 o'clock, my task has been successfully completed, it's time to sleep sleepy. " "Hey! Don't be foolish again." "I won't, I" I suddenly put my ear close to Xiaopi's mouth lying on her lap: "Oh, yes. Um It makes sense for you to say that, but I would be embarrassed.What? It doesn't matter?You insist on doing this?Oh, all right then. " "What are you doing?" Her hand patted my head from above. "Oh. Xiaopi just told me that it will help me pay back the money. You can ask it for it. Good night." "Hey!" I waved to her and wanted to walk back to the room. "there's one more thing." "Ok?" "You also told my father that you like roses very much. That's what you said." "It doesn't matter if it's past 12 o'clock," I interrupted her, "this sentence is not a dialogue in a play." Ye Meigui didn't speak, but she looked even more charming after being sprinkled with water for a while. "Will you come with me on Saturday?" she asked after a while. "Yeah." I nodded and entered the room.