Chapter 10 chapter Ten

Once at the bar, Zhou Jingan got drunk, holding a glass of translucent JACK DANIELS and lamented to Jiaqi: "At that time, I was young and had nothing, but I had courage." Every time she thinks about the distant past, Jiaqi always feels that Zhou Jingan's words are both sad and strong. It hasn't been many years, but there are many things that seem to be from the previous life. Even Jiaqi himself feels that such persistence and persistence seem to be the things of the previous life.Ruan Zhengdong once said: "Sometimes you really have a kind of lonely courage." It's better to say that she is stupid.

Since that embarrassing morning, the two of them haven't seen each other for a long time, and it's not uncommon for Ruan Zhengdong to never see the end.Jiaqi called him at twelve o'clock in the noon. He obviously hadn't woken up yet, his voice was full of sleepiness, and he seemed a little surprised when he heard it was her voice: "It's you?" Jiaqi said: "Actually, it's nothing, I just want to thank you—thank you for helping me find the key, and even asking someone to deliver it." Did you find the keys in your car?" He didn't answer, just smiled: "Then how are you going to thank me?"

Jiaqi felt a headache and was ripped off by him again. Ruan Zhengdong came to pick her up at night, because it was the weekend and he got off work early, Jiaqi smiled and opened the car door and asked him, "Where are you going?" Ruan Zhengdong glanced at her: "You are in high spirits, are you in love?" "Where is it?" Jiaqi said with a smile, "I finally won a big client I was following. The boss was happy, and the bonus for this quarter was very happy." Ruan Zhengdong disagreed: "You just love money." Jiaqi "cut" and said, "I want to be as rich as you, and I don't love money anymore, I'll love someone instead."

Ruan Zhengdong smiled slightly: "When you are like me, I'm afraid you won't even be able to love people." Jiaqi snorted and looked at him: "What's wrong with you, what hit you? Who else can hit you?" Ruan Zhengdong ignored her. On the evening of the weekend, the traffic was in a mess, and they were caught in the rolling traffic, so they moved every step of the way.Jiaqi felt strange: "Where are we going?" "supermarket." She was even more strange: "Why do you go to the supermarket?" He replied: "Go to buy vegetables, and when you get home, you cook and I eat."

She glared at him: "Why?" He announced slowly: "Today is my birthday." Jiaqi didn't believe it, he freed up one hand, took out the ID card and held it between two fingers, she took it and looked, it turned out to be this day.Jiaqi was angry: "Your kitchen is as spotless as the showrooms in decoration magazines, where can you cook?" "If you don't have anything, just buy it back." It really sounded like a rich young master. As a result, they bought a whole set of Solingen kitchen knives, a series of pots and pans, different plates and bowls, as well as large and small chopping boards and different kinds of special dishcloths in the supermarket. Husband and wife, right, we are doing an event, buying kitchen supplies for more than 2,000 yuan at a time, and giving away a pair of kissing pillows."

Jiaqi felt extravagant, because the knives alone cost more than 2,000 yuan, not to mention there were so many fine porcelain bone dishes, all of which were so exquisite that people couldn't put it down.Ruan Zhengdong also asked the shopping guide lady solemnly: "Then what do you get for more than 4,000?" The shopping guide was taken aback for a moment, and then said, "Two pairs of kissing pillows." Jiaqi only found out how picky eaters Ruan Zhengdong was when he was shopping for groceries. He didn’t eat this one, and he didn’t like that one. He leaned on the shopping station in front of a long row of refrigerators. .Jiaqi ignored him: "Anyway, it's just the two of us, just stir-fry two side dishes. Do you want beef? Is Hangjiao beef tenderloin good?"

Before he could answer, she bent down to pick out the beef. There was a loose strand of hair on the side of her ear that slid down. From the side view, her eyelashes were long and curved like a small fan. From the beginning, with a focused and serious expression, he really looked like a young housewife who came to buy vegetables after get off work. Ruan Zhengdong held the push handle of the shopping cart and lost his mind for a while. "What else do you want to eat?" She turned to ask him after she had chosen the beef. He didn't speak, he dragged her hand with one hand, pushed the shopping cart with the other, and left in a hurry, Jiaqi was puzzled: "Hey, what are you doing?"

"Buy vegetables." In fact, the vegetable shelves in supermarkets are always good looking. The vegetables and leaves are green and neat, and the melons and fruits are colorfully arranged. There are dozens of orange lights on the top of the shelves, and the colors are gorgeous like advertising albums. He picked the fattest and largest jadeite bouquet from Caixin and put them on the car, and Jiaqi took them back one by one: "These are too old." He taught him very conscientiously, "Choose the tender ones and pinch them with your nails." If you touch the vegetable stem, if you can’t pinch it, it’s old.”

In fact, he might not have the opportunity or interest to buy vegetables again in this life. She bent down and put two bundles of choy sum into the shopping cart. The veggie leaves had just been sprayed with water, and a few drops fell on the back of his hand, which was cool. of.Cuishengsheng's cabbage hearts are tied with red plastic rings, the red and green complement each other, very beautiful, not as good as real. Jiaqi insisted on buying cakes. The bakery in the supermarket baked them fresh, and there were many people queuing up there. The unique burnt-sweet aroma of cakes and bread wafted in the air. She turned her head and smiled at him: "Add cream?"

Her smile is very warm, like the sweet aroma of cake in the air. She turned around and asked him, "The fruit on the top is a little more mango, or dragon fruit?" He didn't answer, she reached out and waved her hand in front of his eyes mischievously: "Young Master, I'm back, I want to eat more mangoes, okay?" He used a smile to cover up his emotions just now, and said, "Then why not go buy mangoes." "It's not interesting to eat it alone." Jiaqi looked back at the creamy fresh fruit cake that was being formed behind the large glass, salivating, "I just like to eat the little bit of mango on top of the cake."

So childish, he couldn't help smiling again. Putting the big and small bags into the trunk, Ruan Zhengdong said: "I never thought that a kitchen would use so many things." Jiaqi sighed in another way: "I didn't expect it to be so expensive." They bought more than 8,000 yuan of kitchen supplies, and ended up giving four pairs of kissing pillows, and Jiaqi hugged one of them: "Well, it's so soft." "Take it back if you like it," he said, "It's useless if I ask for it anyway." "Then I'll take two pairs and leave the other two pairs to you." He likes this way of distribution, one and half with her. The car drove very slowly, passing through the night in the early winter, the two sides of the long street were brilliant lights, like two strings of pearls, winding and stretching into the distance.The night was as gentle as water, and the heating in the car was too strong. Jiaqi blushed and told him, "I had nothing to do when I was in college. At dusk, I went to take the 300 road around the city alone. I didn't think about anything while sitting in the car." , just stare blankly, watching the sky get dark little by little." He said: "Hypocritical." She thought for a while, nodded and admitted: "I'm quite hypocritical sometimes." He was silent, because in fact, there was still half a word left, she was always cute and hypocritical. She was also very cute when she was cooking, she acted like a commander, commanding him to take things and wash the vegetables, he stood at the door of the kitchen and refused to go in, protesting: "Gentlemen stay away from the kitchen." She was cutting her head down. Tomato, without even raising his head: "Then you won't eat it later." He couldn't bear to eat, so he had to obey his orders. When the final dish was about to be put into the pot, I realized that there was something very important that I hadn’t bought—an apron. Jiaqi yelled, "Come with the oil pan, my clothes are finished." He said, "You wait." He turned and went into the bedroom, found out a half-new T-shirt of his own, and said, "Tie this on." When she saw the brand of the clothes, she gasped, "Corruption!" She was holding the plate in one hand, and chopsticks in the other hand, and was mixing beef tenderloin. He tied it up for her without thinking, and tied a knot behind her waist with the long sleeves of the T-shirt. Her waist was very thin and soft. Ruan Zhengdong thought of a word and shook it with his slender waist. He restrained himself so much that he didn't reach out to shake it. There was white steam coming out of the rice cooker, and the beef tenderloin with peppercorns was ready. She picked up a chopstick to taste it, but he protested: "Don't steal it!" The ones are delicious, fragrant, tender, and the beef tenderloin is smooth.He has never eaten such smooth beef tenderloin, he just thinks it is delicious. I made two dishes and one soup, Hang pepper beef tenderloin, stir-fried choy sum, and tomato and egg soup. He warmed Shaoxing wine and said it was a gift from a friend.Jiaqi knows the goods by smelling them with his nose. He let out a sigh and said, "Your wine is really thirty years old. Your friend is really not simple. There is no such wine at the state banquet, because the quantity is small, and it is only for a few. Chief." He was very surprised: "How do you know?" "My family is in Dongpu, Shaoxing, and my father worked in the winery at that time." She took a deep breath and sighed, "It smells so good." The two drank half of the pot, Ruan Zhengdong didn't expect Jiaqi to drink so well, he was almost no match.In the end, he ate a lot of dishes, and even Jiaqi ate two bowls of rice. He was too full. Jiaqi leaned back in his chair and sighed: "I bought a lot of things and only made these few dishes. It's really extravagant." He also felt extravagant, the time at this moment was really extravagant.In the thin booze, what a luxury. Lighting candles to make a wish, Jiaqi turned off all the lights, only the candles flickered on the cake in the room, her smile was as sweet as an advertisement: "Make a wish." He felt a little overwhelmed, the 30-year-old Shaoxing wine was gradually gaining stamina, and he blew out the candles on the cake with a snort in a slight dizziness. Suddenly it was dark. His eyes gradually adapted to the darkness, and he could gradually distinguish her outline. It was at the other end of the sofa, and there was a cold night outside the floor-to-ceiling windows. Maybe it was moonlight, or maybe it wasn't. The light gray cast in made it so hazy that people could see her shadow .Eyebrows and eyes are not distinct, but it is her, obviously it is her. Jiaqi turned her face and smiled at him: "What wish did you make?" But immediately said, "Don't say it, it won't work if you say it." He didn't make a sound, she was a little nervous for some reason, and said, "I'm going to turn on the light." As she passed by him, there was a faint fragrance, not knowing what kind of perfume it was, but he couldn't tell the difference.I just took a deep breath and felt an inexplicable sadness. The light was already on, and she said, "Happy Birthday!" She took out a small box, maybe it was bought in the supermarket just now, when he was waiting in line at the cashier counter of the supermarket, she walked away for a while, he always thought she was At that time, I went to the bathroom. It turned out that I was shopping for gifts. "What is it?" She smiled mischievously: "Take it apart and have a look." It was a pair of platinum cufflinks, very simple in style, and she was extremely distressed: "It cost me more than two thousand, so don't feel bad about it." He tried it on for her and praised her: "You have really good eyesight." She told him honestly: "I went straight to the counter on the seventh floor and told them that I wanted the most expensive one, and they gave this to me." Ruan Zhengdong looked like he couldn't laugh or cry, she said: "Hey, there is still half a pot of wine, such a good wine, don't waste it." She went to fry a plate of peanuts, and put a little salt flower, which turned out to be surprisingly crispy and delicious.She didn't use chopsticks, Ruan Zhengdong also ate peanuts with his hands, the two of them laughed, thinking that this was like a real alcoholic.With the help of peanuts, I drank two more glasses of wine without knowing it, and I was a little drunk, completely relaxed.Jiaqi simply sat on the floor beside the coffee table, flipping through his DVDs: "Hey, these movies are good, let me have a look." Ruan Zhengdong said, "Okay." Suddenly he suggested, "Let's punch." Jiaqi smiled and said, "Okay, tell jokes if you win, and drink if you lose." Ruan Zhengdong quit: "It's no fun to tell jokes. You have to tell a real story, your own real story, and the loser will make the question." In the end, she won the first round. Ruan Zhengdong drank a glass of wine and asked her a question: "Tell me about the thing you are most happy about." Jiaqi thought for a while and said, "I'm the happiest. I was the happiest when I went rafting once. I also drank a lot of wine, but it was all beer. The weather was so hot that people almost peeled off their skins. The chicken wings that day were very good. Eat..." She leaned her head on the sofa, and there was a pile of pillows thrown on the sofa. The pillows were fluffy and soft, and it was really relaxing to lean on. He asked, "What happened next?" "It was gone later." He smiled: "You don't count, you don't look happy when you talk about it, it doesn't count." She said: "At that time, I thought it was the happiest thing." It seems to be a bit sad, but in fact it has passed, and I always thought that the time is so beautiful and good, and it will always stay in the memory. The second time she won again, he gave her a question: "Tell me about your favorite person." She glared at him, and he laughed loudly: "Don't look at me like that, who told you to win." She told him about her father. When she was very young, she was locked up at home alone. When her father went to work, she knocked over the water bottle and half of her body was burned. She became dumb from crying, but Granny Chen next door heard her, so she called someone to open the window and open the door, and took her to the hospital. Later, in the hospital, she saw her father's tears for the first time. Such a big man, tears falling down, only called her baby name to coax her: "Ninny, don't cry, niece." In fact, he cried harder than her. When the doctor prescribed the medicine, he cried like a child who did something wrong, so guilty, so sad, so helpless. "Dad is only me, so I try my best to make myself happy and live a good life, because then he will be happy. But until the end... I still can't do it..." She lowered her head, holding the A Yue porcelain wine cup, but the simple cup has the most beautiful glaze color. Two pieces of dried spiced spices, but there were few snacks at that time, and she could eat one piece of dried spices for most of the day, and the more she chewed, the more delicious it became.The children in the yard are very envious of her, because her father loves her very much, and will spend half a month's salary to go to Hangzhou to buy her the most beautiful new dress, and will ask colleagues to buy chocolate candies from Shanghai for her to eat.She used to be the proudest little princess, even without a mother, her father gave her the most complete love.She used to be his father's greatest pride. Anyone who mentioned her in the neighbors would praise her: "Master You's daughter, she is obedient and obedient, and has good grades." When she was admitted to that university, the whole alley was a sensation, and even people across the river knew that Master You's daughter had been admitted to the best university.The labor union of the winery also specially rewarded her with five hundred yuan. Although the money was not much, my father was very happy because of her excellence. But all this, all this hard work, was actually useless. He was silent for a moment before asking, "Where is your father now?" "It's gone." Such a painful fact, after so many years, I can finally say it without hindrance, understating it, as if I finally recognized the fact: "It was a cerebral hemorrhage, two strokes, it went quickly, nothing happened pain." Her eyes were finally clouded with mist, and she put two peanuts into her mouth, crispy and crispy, as if she didn't care: "Come again." This time it was finally Ruan Zhengdong who won. She drank a glass of wine slowly, under the light, her eyes were as bright as sparks flowing: "You have to tell about the person you love the most, and you are not allowed to lie." He said, "No." She quit: "Cheat people, why not? It's written in novels that playboys always have a secret favorite in their hearts, that's why they become playboys. It's almost August 18, so I'll just listen, Heard it and I promise to forget it immediately." He smiled: "No really." He looked a little dazed, chewed the peanuts, and drank the glass of wine in front of him, which he shouldn't drink, because he won by punching.Jiaqi felt that he was a little drunk, so he just laughed, and he just laughed too: "If I made up a story to lie to you, you wouldn't know it, would you?" She made a big concession: "It's okay to talk about the people you liked." He raised his head and thought for a long time before saying: "When I was young, I was actually not young anymore. I was fifteen or sixteen years old. I liked someone. It was a girl in the same class." She clapped her hands: "That's good, the love of youth, the love at that time is the real love, the purest." "But at that time, I was very proud. I never told her about it. I just paid attention to her from a distance, and I was afraid of being discovered by her." Jiaqi chuckled: "I really can't think of it, a person like you would have a crush on others." He also laughed: "It's a bit silly. Later, I had a small drink with my best friend, and both of us got drunk. When it came to this matter, even he was very surprised, because he didn't even know that I I liked that girl." She thought it was funny: "Why didn't you tell her then?" He smiled slightly, lowered his head and turned the porcelain cup, looking at the amber wine juice in the cup, which was as thick as honey and fragrant.Thirty years, such a long time, it has produced such a mellow aroma. If those accumulated thoughts are fermented, it will slowly brew this kind of astringent and spicy taste. , From the throat to the stomach, it is both sad and pleasant, the burning sensation slowly seeps away, and there will be a slight dizziness, maybe it is destiny. "She doesn't love me," he heard his own voice say, "so I'll never let her know."