Secret Love · Orange Raw Huainan

Chapter 88 Cinderella

Luo Zhi's feelings towards the wedding have always been complicated.

She has participated in many weddings, and she has also seen many couples have frequent conflicts when discussing the details of the wedding, and even quarreled so that the wedding was stranded.The two families are so idle for the sake of face, they can't get along with each other, and they are exhausted physically and mentally.

After so many years of evolution, the wedding has lost the solemn sense of ceremony at the beginning. Two people who have already received their marriage certificates have to stand in front of the master of ceremonies and say "I do" in a decent way. Unbelievable.

Will you really be moved by the three words "I do" that are more than half a year late than the little red book of the marriage certificate?
Even her own brother and sister-in-law, who she is happy with, are still full of resistance to the wedding.

I don't know if it's because the first wedding I attended in my life ended in sadness.Although young, but the memory is still fresh.

When Luo Yang called to tell her the date of the wedding, Luo Zhi still bluntly expressed her confusion.She had always thought that they would wait until Chen Jing graduated with a master's degree before getting a marriage certificate, but she didn't expect that everything after the proposal would be overwhelming.

"Anyway, it doesn't make any difference if you procrastinate. If you get married, you can feel at ease."

Are you at ease?She thought of Ding Shuijing, so she didn't continue to ask.

Luo Yang seemed to be stretched on the other side of the phone, yawning and said, "Fortunately, it's done at home. There are your uncle, aunt, and Chen Jing's parents at home, so we can save a lot of worry. But Well, the eyes of the old people are really worrying. The invitations they picked were all looking very festive and ugly. Fortunately, Chen Jing didn't care about these things. Since we have become shopkeepers, we don't treat these little ones Things are going awry."

Luo Zhi laughed: "That's good, it's best to save worry. I know that many people are haggard and thin after a wedding, and their husbands and wives turn against each other. It's not as good as you. Anyway, I'm very happy that you got married, congratulations!"

Luo Yang changed the subject: "I heard from your mother that you have a boyfriend, so why don't you show it to her? It's okay if you don't show it to her. I have to see who it is, right?"

Luo Zhi heard the secret gurgling up from the bottom of her heart again.

Since she was flying back home to attend the wedding on Friday afternoon, Tiffany and Jake's class was scheduled for Wednesday night.

She stood at the east gate and hailed a taxi. When the driver heard the name of the villa area she was going to, he looked at her through the rearview mirror with some doubts, and thought for a while before deciding how to get there.

After the New Year, Zhu Yan quit her two Filipino maids and started hiring part-time workers to clean the house at noon and evening and cook for her two children.Later in March, she also fired the driver, so Luo Zhi always traveled by taxi.

"That's the only way, I'll reimburse you," Zhu Yan said apologetically on the phone at the time, "I seldom stay in Beijing for the past six months, and it's useless to keep the driver. But it's hard work for you. Go there a few times to see if the two of them have gotten into trouble. It’s okay to move here on weekends.”

She would rather ask Luo Zhi.Luo Zhi has never seen any of Zhu Yan's friends or relatives appear in the villa to help her take care of the child's daily life.Single women who migrate around always have such helplessness.

Since the Spring Festival, Luo Zhi has only seen Zhu Yan twice. Tiffany said that her mother has been flying back and forth between the United States and Singapore, and even she and Jake are rarely seen.

"Mom said, we might have to move on again." Tiffany sat on the sofa dangling her legs. At such a young age, she didn't feel sad or worried when she said this sentence, as if she had been used to it for a long time.

Move on, to a new place, to a new life.

She can only go to see these two children more frequently and take care of them like a half mother.Sometimes Luo Zhi would sigh with emotion that there was such an unreasonable mutual trust between her and Zhu Yan, and when she thought about the reason for this, she couldn't help but sigh.

Luo Zhi was taking off her shoes in the hallway, when she suddenly heard a long-lost "You are here", she looked up in surprise, and saw the young child's mother leaning on the stairs and smiling at her.

Zhu Yan seemed to have lost weight again, but because she had cut her short hair very neatly, revealing her slender neck and straight collarbone, she looked more energetic.She was wearing an apron, holding a stack of old English newspapers in her hands, and she was a little ashamed.

"It's been a long time since I cleaned the room by myself, and it's still messy after doing it all afternoon." She laughed at herself, showing a strange smile as she spoke.

"I'm not here to help you with work." Luo Zhi quickly jumped up and declared.

After Luo Zhi finished teaching the two children, she came down from the stairs and saw that Zhu Yan was still fighting with the sundries in the living room, she couldn't help laughing.

"It's been a long time since I saw you, I had a chance to hang out with you last time." Luo Zhi complained.

At the end of April, when the spring was just right, Luo Zhi once brought Tiffany and Jake out to see the cherry blossoms in Yuyuantan, and also called Sheng Huainan.The two children finally saw him again after half a year, so they were naturally very happy.

"You were obviously also in Beijing at the time." Luo Zhi walked over to sit with her on the floor of the living room, helping to pack various CDs and books into cardboard boxes, "It's a pity that you couldn't come because you had something to do. I still want to call you out Look at him."

Luo Zhi deliberately spoke lightly, but on the other hand, she nervously watched Zhu Yan's reaction when she heard Sheng Huainan.

Zhu Yan looked as usual, and went about her work without raising her head.

"What do I see him for?" She shrugged, "If I saw him and found it unpleasant, you would be in a dilemma. One side is friendship, oh oh, and the other side is love." After talking about it, Luo Zhi was sung directly. Laughed angrily.

"If you don't like it, you don't like it. I think you will like him. How good I am."

"Oh." Zhu Yan sneered.

"He also said that the weather will be hotter next month, so he will take the two of them to Happy Valley to play again. Do you want to go together?"

"I'm not going." Zhu Yan shook her head, not noticing Luo Zhi's complicated expression.

Luo Zhi didn't persuade her any more, she lowered her head and swiftly packed and sealed the box, her thoughts slowly returned to Yuyuantan Park where the spring breeze was warm.

In fact, there is nothing to see. The cherry blossom forest is too scattered to form an endless beauty that covers the sky and the sun.If you want to talk about surprises, it is the blooming magnolias on the dry branches.

When he and his two children were having fun, Luo Zhi did not forget to ask Sheng Huainan for an explanation.

"When I asked you if you would come to teach the two children, your text messages really pissed me off."

"Which text message?" He was busy taking pictures of Jake, and said doubtfully while pressing the shutter, so innocent that Luo Zhi almost thought he remembered the wrong person.

Luo Zhi gritted her teeth and flipped through the text messages on the phone, but there were so many text messages with him that she couldn't bear to delete them, and after flipping through them, she was submerged in the sweet and warm ocean of the past.

"Forget it," she locked the screen, "I can't find it. Anyway, it's a satire that I coaxed the child to ask for money."

"impossible."

"real!"

Sheng Huainan was silent for a while, and then slowly said: "That's because I'm too naive. Sometimes I do say some self-righteous words, use my life to frame others, and hurt others without knowing it."

Such a serious apology made Luo Zhi feel a little uncomfortable.

"Forget it, I just suddenly remembered it."

"No," Sheng Huainan looked at her seriously, "I've been wanting to tell you for the past six months, I see you working, earning money, working hard to be self-reliant, and feeling more and more ashamed."

He turned his head to look at the two children who were standing on tiptoe to sniff the magnolia trees in full bloom: "What I said is true. I think this way more and more recently. In comparison, I don't understand anything that."

Luo Zhi stared at Sheng Huainan like this, and didn't know what to say for a long time, her flustered heartbeat seemed to be beating, and it had weakened a while ago, but now it slowly increased the volume.

"What are you thinking about in a daze?"

Luo Zhi came back to her senses: "Huh? No, I just remembered that they went to Yuyuantan that day, and they were very happy."

"Is it your boyfriend who was in Yuyuantan that day?"

your boyfriend.Having been together for almost half a year, Luo Zhi is still shy when she hears this name.

"Actually," she said with some hesitation, "I think it feels a little fake to have a dream come true. Everything is perfect, but there seems to be something missing. I also feel that I have changed a lot and started to rely on others. , I used to be used to doing things alone, but now I feel lonely. When he is not around, my heart is empty. Is this good or not? I used to laugh at those couples, but now I understand that standing on the periphery and judging independently , is the simplest thing."

Luo Zhi didn't see the teasing of "girl in love, wake up" on Zhu Yan's face.

"I think this is nothing more than normal." Zhu Yan was really at a loss for organizing things. While speaking, she stuffed a large stack of plastic boxes containing CDs into a box with a "crash" as if angry. , sealed it tightly with tape, then sat down on the cardboard box and looked up at Luo Zhi.The orange wall lamp above her head illuminated her face brightly. She straightened her legs and dangled her feet like a girl.

like a girl.

For a woman in her 30s, there is no artificiality or awkwardness in doing such movements.Luo Zhi suddenly understood Zhu Yan's charm, just like that photo of her with a strange man, you couldn't see her age, her past, or her future from her eyes.

It seems that there will always be an innocence that has nothing to do with simplicity.

Although it only looks.

Luo Zhi lowered her eyes: "What did you say is normal?"

"Normal means that the fairy tale is over and life begins." Zhu Yan smiled, stood up and walked over, bent down to pinch her face.

"Would you like a can of this?" Zhu Yan said as she carefully walked around a mess of boxes and sundries that hadn't been put away in time, turned into the kitchen, and reappeared a few seconds later, before reaching the table. An object was thrown over, and Luo Zhi hurriedly caught it.

A can of cold beer.

"No more tea?"

"Drinking tea is not as good as drinking alcohol, and it must be beer. All red wine and foreign wine are dead!" Zhu Yan seemed to have been tortured by packing and went crazy, and her speech and actions were not the same as usual.

Luo Zhi suddenly felt a lot of joy in her heart.

They "snap" and "snap" two times to open the pull ring. Luo Zhi heard the sound of Tiffany running around upstairs, and put her index finger on her lips: "Don't let the children see us like this."

Zhu Yan shrugged, and stretched out her hand to signal Luo Zhi to clink her glass.

"There was a time, when they were very young, I took two children alone to make a living. Sometimes they cried, and I even had the urge to take them to jump off a building and die together. After such a flash, it has been more than ten years gone."

Zhu Yan shook the beer can in her hand, her eyes were bright.

"What did you just say, the fairy tale is over?" Luo Zhi quickly changed the subject.

"That's right," Zhu Yan raised her head and took a big gulp, shaking her head from the ice, and she was able to speak after a while, "Cinderella married the prince, and her life has begun. Fairy tales are usually only told in the first half, because children like to read them, Only grown-ups have to face the rest of the story."

The consistent and spotless sacred love that I looked up to when I was young is nothing more than a thought that starts and ends, just like other things, nothing special.

Adults themselves are such complicated animals, with a dark heart, a bonded relationship, and a disguised self-esteem, how can it be possible to brew a relationship without impurities?

She patted the back of Luo Zhi's hand: "Welcome to be an adult."

After drinking one can, Zhu Yan was still not satisfied, so she ran to get two more cans and handed them to Luo Zhi.

"By the way, your mother knows..."

"I don't know." Luo Zhi replied immediately.

After a moment of silence, they clinked glasses again.

"You really don't listen to your mother." Zhu Yan giggled.

"I didn't know that I was this kind of person who loves to escape. It's not my habit to take a step and watch the next step." Luo Zhi sighed.

"The boat will be straight when it reaches the bridge. There will always be a way, as long as you persist."

Luo Zhi raised her head abruptly, and looked at her with bright eyes: "Then your persistence has paid off now?"

Zhu Yan burst out laughing: "What am I insisting on?" After a pause, she still nodded: "I'm going to the United States to marry She Wen."

Luo Zhi fumbled for the beer can that had been dripping with "cold sweat", a gust of breath rushed up from her stomach and rushed all the way to her nasal cavity, and she actually started to cry.

"Why are you crying?" Zhu Yan was surprised, "You don't want to congratulate me?"

"I will miss you."

Luo Zhi wiped her eyes and kicked the cardboard box in the corner: "I will definitely miss you very much."

On Friday, Sheng Huainan sent her to the plane, smiled and kissed her forehead at the security check, and said, "Come back early, be careful on the road."

She nodded, looking at Sheng Huainan's familiar face, suddenly felt a deep sense of reluctance.

Just go back for two days.She didn't know what was going on with this menacing emotion, it seemed like parting from life to death.She lowered her head to cover her hot eyes, and gently pinched the back of his hand: "Let's go."

(End of this chapter)