Chapter 13 Chapter Eleven

Fang Mingxi was sitting in Starbucks, sipping a cup of caffelatte, playing with a string of simple silver bracelets on her left wrist.Three years later, when she left Hong Kong, there was no such coffee shop in Hong Kong.At this moment, the light of reunion lit in her heart, and her face was a little hot.She looked at the scenery outside the street, imagining what it would be like to see the person she met later. She raised her head suddenly, and Guan Zhengzhi was already walking towards her. She waved her left hand enthusiastically to greet him, and the metallic clang was the sound of reunion.

"Have you been here long?" he asked. "No, you have something to drink, you go buy it first." She said. "Okay." He nodded shyly, then turned and walked towards the counter. She stared at the long-lost figure.She has always liked to look at men's backs and their posture when they couldn't see her. That was the most real moment for them. Guan Zhengzhi's back was a little tense, his shoulders on both sides moved closer to his neck.After being away for many years, he hasn't changed much. A small lock of hair on his feet is curled up forever, like a pigtail.

Guan Zhengzhi bought a glass of expresso and sat down in front of her. "How are you?" Fang Mingxi smiled at him. He smiled and asked, "When did you come back?" "I've been back for a few days. I'm afraid I can't find you. Fortunately, your phone number hasn't been changed." "Are you back for vacation? Or something?" Fang Mingxi supported her head with her hands, smiled and said: "I just want to leave Paris for a while." "Your bracelet is very beautiful." Guan Zhengzhi said. "Oh, it's from an African bracelet, all of which are engraved with the appearance of African women, stupid and cute. Don't you think it's noisy?"

Guan Zhengzhi shook his head. "You used to say that I was noisy. I like to wear everything on my body, earrings, bracelets, rings!" "This is your characteristic. Every time you hear the bang bang bang bang bang, you know it's you." "I only wear bracelets now, and I don't wear anything else. It's too cumbersome. How have you been these few years?" "But don't lose it. What about you?" "I've always been doing nothing." Fang Mingxi grinned. "What are you doing in France?" "I studied fashion design, but I haven't graduated yet."

"You've always had a talent for this." "No. There are many masters in school, and I am very ordinary." "Do you like life in Paris?" Fang Mingxi nodded: "I'm used to it. The pace of Paris is slower than that of Hong Kong, and even the time seems to pass slower, so I have a lot of free time to think about it." "Are you used to eating French food?" Fang Mingxi smiled and said, "Actually, I often go to eat Vietnamese food. France has the best Vietnamese food in the world. Have you ever been to France?" Guan Zhengzhi shook his head.

"You should check it out." Then, she said, "In Paris, I have a part-time job." "What part-time job?" "You must have guessed it. I am so cowardly that I work part-time at a taxidermy shop called Deyrolle, in the Saint-Germain district, which has been collecting and manufacturing taxidermy since 1831. There are zebras, lions in the shop and wild leopard specimens, as well as elk and pheasants, as well as insects, many, many! They are all things that can no longer run or fly. At first I thought it was scary, especially looking at the head of that elk deer all day long, but now I'm used to it. Fortunately, people don't make specimens after they die."

"Some people will. After death, great men will be made into specimens for people to admire." "Fortunately, I will never become a great man." Fang Mingxi lowered her head and smiled. "Your coffee is finished, I'll buy you a cup." Guan Zhengzhi stood up and said. "okay, thank you." "Still want the same?" he asked. She nodded. Guan Zhengzhi turned around and walked to the counter.Fang Mingxi looked at his back in a daze.The reunion is a kind of recovery of time, and Su Er let her go through the gap of time and return to the sad past.

That year, she had to deal with Guan Zhengzhi and Du Yiwei.She met Du Yiwei first, and that triangle relationship has been entangled for almost a year.She couldn't choose between the two, she really loved both.One day, after she finished crying, she suddenly thought of a solution, which was to leave. At the airport, she called Guan Zhengzhi, but he didn't know that she was already carrying her luggage and was about to leave without saying goodbye. "Promise me that you will live a good life," she said. "What happened?" he asked anxiously on the other end of the phone.

"You promise me to swallow first." She reminded. "Ok." "If you don't see me one day, will you miss me?" "Ok." "What if I never come back?" "I will wait for you." "You're always going to fall in love with someone else," she said. "I will wait for you forever." He said affectionately. She sighed softly.The hand holding the microphone hangs down, then lifts up again, the silver bracelet on the wrist clatters, it is the sound of parting. She goes to Paris in order to escape, but ends up falling madly in love with a man there.During the six months of living together, she and that man quarreled almost every day.Later, he left, and she stayed to study French and fell in love with other men.

"Your coffee." Guan Zhengzhi put a cup of Caffelatte in front of her. "Thank you." "Where do you live?" he asked. "I'm staying at a friend's house. Can you lend me your phone? I'll see if she's home. I forgot to bring the key when I came out." She made a call with Guan Zhengzhi's mobile phone, and then said: "My friend is at home, and I have to go back. It's not very good to ask him to wait for the door." "I see you off." "Ok." "Are you still single?" she asked on the way back.

"Oh, yes," he said. When we broke up, he said shyly, "I'll find you again." She nodded with a smile. "Are you back? Where have you been?" Wang Liangyi said while opening the door. "I'm looking for an old friend." "I thought you were at home and had plum cake, are you interested?" "Okay!" She asked as she ate, "What kind of cake is this? It's sweet and sour. It's delicious." "It's a German cake. A colleague went to interview the cake shop today and brought back one. There was half of it left. It was delicious. I brought it back for dinner." "I just went to see my ex-boyfriend. Actually, I don't know if it's a boyfriend, because when I was with him, I had a boyfriend." "How is he now?" "I guess he already has a girlfriend, and he speaks very cryptically. Maybe he's afraid that I'll be unhappy." "What era is it now? There are so many people around you, and you can fall in love with one very quickly." Fang Mingxi glanced at her and said, "What about you?" "How can it be so fast? I just kicked him out. If you come back earlier, there will be no place for you to live in." "You didn't tell me why you threw him out?" Wang Liangyi shrugged: "I just started to despise him!" "Are all women like this? At first I loved a man very much, and thought he was good at everything, but then I hated him." "Are you?" "I usually run away before I hate them. I like to have a good memory." "Sometimes, this kind of thinking is very wishful thinking. When you want to break up with someone, how can that memory be good for him?" "We didn't officially break up, I left without saying goodbye." "Are you coming back to find him?" Fang Mingxi smiled: "I am indeed looking for something, something that still exists." The next day, she received a call from Guan Zhengzhi. "When you used my phone the other day, you left your friend's house number, so I'll try. Do you have time for a meal?" Guan Zhengzhi brought Fang Mingxi to a Vietnamese restaurant on Hollywood Road in Central District.This restaurant is opened by foreigners, and the interior layout is very Western-style, not like a place to eat Vietnamese food at all. "You said you like Vietnamese food, so I'll take you to try it. But the Vietnamese food here is a bit westernized. It shouldn't be as good as what you eat in France." "I just need a bowl of carpaccio to tell the difference." Fang Mingxi ordered a bowl of raw beef powder. "How does it taste?" Guan Zhengzhi asked. "The taste is very good, but it is better made in France. If you are on vacation, you must come to play, and I will take you to eat." He said embarrassingly: "Since you went to France, I dare not go to France." "At that time, I really had no better way. People were trapped in a complicated relationship, and they always thought it was the end of the world. After pulling away, I realized that the world is very vast." Then, she said: "There is a rose shop on the left bank of Paris, called aunomdelarose, which I like very much. When I have money, I will buy flowers. The shop only sells roses of the seventeenth century variety, and the color is so beautiful that there is nothing to say. In On the small counter at the cashier, there is always a collection of Browning's poems, and it always stays on the same page, the title is - You'll love me yet, you will always love me someday." "A flower shop in France is more romantic than other places." "A boy said this to me before. I don't know if he said it himself or read it in Browning's poetry collection." "Did you fall in love with him afterwards?" Fang Mingxi smiled and shook her head: "Maybe that day hasn't come yet." After a long pause, she asked: "What about you? Do you have a girlfriend?" "Well, she's in college." "Isn't that younger than me? What a happy man. You can find a younger girlfriend at any time." Guan Zhengzhi looked embarrassed. "How did you find out that I went to France?" "You sent me a postcard." Fang Mingxi suddenly realized: "Really? I forgot." "What do I write on the postcard?" "You wrote in French." Fang Mingxi couldn't help laughing: "Why can I write French? You don't know French at all." "So I asked around and finally found a classmate of a friend's sister who could speak French." "What did I write?" "I forgot, maybe it's because I don't speak my mother tongue." Guan Zhengzhi stroked the curly hair on the back of his head in embarrassment. What he didn't say was: the girl who translated for him was Lai Yongmei, who later became his girlfriend.And he did forget what was written on the postcard, he just remembered being sad.When she is around, the jewelry on her body always clangs.After she left, his world also became silent. "What about you? Do you have a boyfriend?" he asked. "Don't worry. I won't be liked by anyone." She held her head and said. "When are you going back to France?" "have not decided yet." When he took her home, she said: "I'm going to do some shopping. I've been staying at Wang Liangyi's house for the past few days, and I always have to help them replenish food." "I go with you." In the supermarket, she bought bread, fruit and wine. "Have you seen Bingdou in tomato sauce? I suddenly want to eat it," she said. "Do you like food too?" He asked in surprise. "What's the matter? Do you know anyone who likes eating beans in tomato sauce?" Guan Zhengzhi shook his head, bent down, and looked for bingdou in tomato sauce for her on the shelf. Looking at his back, she was suddenly moved. He found it, stood up and asked her, "Is it this kind?" She nodded with a smile. Guan Zhengzhi paid for her and helped her carry her things home. When saying goodbye, she enthusiastically waved her left hand, and the silver bracelet on her wrist clanked in the silent night. He turned around and smiled brightly. She and Guan Zhengzhi used to have a good time, and he was always by her side talking about loving her.That day, he said on the other end of the phone that he would wait for her forever, and she was so moved that she almost wanted to stay.But, what he said, he had forgotten. When you can't be together, the man said that he will wait for you forever, maybe it's just a kind of demeanor and politeness, or an expectation.She came back when she was frustrated, not wanting to get back to him, but just wondering if a promise like this was still there.She didn't know how Du Yiwei was doing now.Du Yiwei never said to wait for her.Perhaps, he already has another woman. Even if love does not change, the situation will always change. People always have a day when they don't love another person. On this day, Wang Liangyi received a call from Guan Zhengzhi at home. "Fang Mingxi is gone, she has some things for you, can you come and get them?" Wang Liangyi said. "Where did she go?" he asked when he arrived. "She went to Tibet with her friends." After a long silence, he asked, "How did you meet her?" "She helped our magazine write some things about Paris, haven't you read it?" "I didn't know she was writing in Hong Kong." "I'll give you one to take back and read." Wang Liangyi gave him a magazine. "Thank you." "I don't think she's coming back." "Oh." He was a little disappointed. In the subway car, he turned the page, Fang Mingxi wrote about the rose shop on the left bank of Paris - you will love me someday. There was not a day when he didn't love her, and he also said that he would wait for her forever.That night, the sound of the string of silver bracelets echoed in his heart again.This parting voice may never be heard again. He opened what she left him, a box of butterfly specimens.In the exquisite wooden box, there are sixteen specimens of sapphire star nymphs lined up. Sitting on the plane to Lhasa, Fang Mingxi thought that Guan Zhengzhi might have received her gift.The deep and intense blue color of the sixteen sapphire nymphs arranged from small to large is caused by the sunlight hitting the scales on their wings.Specimens will never fade, electricity will not fade with age. The old love has become a specimen, lifeless, and can no longer fly.Only one good encounter remains. She waved her left hand and asked the stewardess for a glass of mineral water. Guan Zhengzhi put the specimen on his lap, when he suddenly heard a bang bang bang bang bang, he raised his head suddenly, and a girl sat down beside him, with a box of cakes on her lap, and a string of glitter on her left wrist. silver bracelet.