I loved you so deeply

Chapter 26 New Year (2)
With the jubilant Spring Festival Gala on TV, the whole family finally had some New Year's atmosphere.

Mrs. Pang filled the dumplings, and Gu Jin rolled the dumplings for her. The two chatted from time to time.

"Jin Jin, is your mother gone?"

"Gone, left the day before yesterday, and sent me a message yesterday."

"Oh——" Mrs. Pang breathed a sigh of relief, and said with emotion, "Your mother has lived a hard life, and it's good to go out to relax. Don't stop you juniors. The living environment abroad is completely different from ours here. , maybe going out this trip can change your mood and make you younger."

There are three types of dumpling fillings, and because the political side is tricky, he specially prepared one that he likes to eat.Mrs. Pang was complaining to Gu Jin when someone knocked on the glass with her finger outside.

A few people stood outside the window, pointing to a table where people were playing mahjong and dancing.

"Hey, aren't those the two sons of the old Zhao family? And your little grandson from Uncle Shen's family." Mrs. Pang put down the dumplings in her hand and went to open the window.

They are all neighbors who live in the same yard, and they are considered close. The boys and Mrs. Pang had a grand New Year greeting, and enthusiastically encouraged Pang Zheng to go out.

"Big side! There are several boxes of firecrackers and fireworks next door, and they are said to be shipped from Hunan. Rare things, let's go! Let's go out and join in the fun!"

Pang Zheng was shuffling the cards with a cigarette in his mouth. Hearing this, his interest was aroused, and he hurriedly threw away the mahjong in his hand: "Okay! Wait for me, come out right away."

No matter how mature a man is, he has a childish nature. When he was a child, he lived in the No. [-] courtyard. When he was a child, he climbed the wall to watch the guards use gunpowder to make simple firecrackers. It was a deep-rooted incident in Pangzheng’s childhood. memory.

He got up to go out, Gu Jin stood by the dining table subconsciously looked up at him, and he just happened to look in her direction too, the two of them looked at each other, as if they had a tacit understanding.

The mother next to her saw Gu Jin's thoughts, smiled, and let her go: "Take Jin Jin and go out to play together. Be careful, don't let her get too close when lighting the fire."

"Got it."

Gu Jin put down the dumplings and put on his coat with a smile.

Her coat was fluffy, and Pang Zheng didn't let her wear it: "If it catches fire later, there will be sparks everywhere, and if they don't all fall on you, I'll give you some."

Taro stood at the door, raised his head and grabbed Pang Zheng with his small hands: "Uncle, can I go together?"

"Don't mess around with me, my uncle can't even take care of your little aunt." Pang Zheng picked up the heavy down jacket that he had left at home and put it on Gu Jin. He was very experienced, "Wearing this, it's not so So particular, yet warm.”

Gu Jin made him wrap up like a bear. He took his wife by the hand, lowered his head and patted Little Taro's head: "Stand on the window sill and look at Uncle, and Uncle will perform magic tricks for you later."

I don't know whose son loves to play so much. When I go out, all kinds of firecrackers are spread on the ground of the yard, on the steps of the flower beds, and on the roof.

On the soil slope to the east of the yard, there is a row of high or low walls, which were originally used to prevent theft when there was no wire grid installed.

Because of the special location of the wall and its high height, someone put up several meters long sculptural fireworks. As long as the fire is lit, not only the residents in the yard can see it, but also people outside the yard, at least dozens of miles away.

The two sons of the Zhao family, as well as the neighbor next door, each held a lighter in their hands, and when they saw Pang Zheng coming, they also threw one to him.

"Let's order three each, and the comparison is the speed. They must be uniform, and I have to show my father the formation that he saw in the past!"

"Stop moaning, hurry up."

You have to show your attitude when setting off fireworks. There are a group of people on the ladder at the top of the wall, and there are still a group of people under the wall. After setting the watch, the countdown begins.

Several men held the fire and lit the fuses neatly, one at a time, without hesitation, calmly and skillfully.

The fuze burned quickly and shortened, and Pang Zheng started to run a little farther away.

three.

two.

One.

Very loud, bang.

The usually quiet and serious compound seemed to explode suddenly, the flames on the wall shot up into the sky, and hundreds of fireworks shot up into the sky at the same time, red, blue, and purple, vying to be the first, deafening, one after another.

Flowers of various colors and shapes bloomed on the head, and there were crackling and lively firecrackers under the feet. Almost everyone in the yard came out to watch the excitement, and there were excited whistles from time to time to add to the fun.

Pang Zheng covered Gu Jin's ears, smiling so much that he could even see the lines in the corners of his eyes.

He is really very happy.

He bent down, let Gu Jin ride on his neck, raised her high, and shouted at her: "Can you see it?"

Gu Jin was so shocked that her ears rang: "What did you say?"

Pang Zheng didn't ask any more questions, and simply held her up and ran.Gu Jin hugged his head in fright and screamed.He struggled up the dirt slope, stood on the ladder, and asked her again: "Can you see it?"

This review Jin saw.

Not only are the fireworks all over the sky, but also the lights in the world outside the courtyard, and the traffic is surging.

On this once-a-year night, he used this unique way to say Happy New Year to her.

It took more than half an hour for the fireworks to burn, and the choking white smoke rose from the ashes in the yard. Everyone was still immersed in the high emotions just now, and a group of people walked home together in twos and twos.Pang Zheng led Gu Jin by the hand, and before he took two steps, he heard two short and loud horns not far away.

A brightly colored orange sports car was parked a few meters outside the gate of the next house. The doors were wide open on both sides, showing an aggressive momentum.

Tan Yu was leaning against the front of the car wearing a black overcoat. The night was getting dark, and his expression could not be seen clearly. His figure was stretched slender under the street lamps. On this cold winter night, he gave people a sense of loneliness and gloom for no reason.

Obviously, he came to find Pang Zheng.

Gu Jin subconsciously clenched Pang Zheng's hand and looked at him uneasily.

The scene of the couple returning home together was really dazzling, Tan Yu smiled and strode up to them.Because of the cold, big balls of white air were blowing from his mouth.

"Hey, this big night is really romantic." He pointedly shifted his eyes to the hands they held, and then slowly fell on Pang Zheng's face, "New Year's Eve, are you free?"

Pang Zheng typed back the words in two or three times, and said lightly, "What do you think, I'm free for the New Year's Eve."

Tan Yu laughed at himself: "That's right, you're the one who drags the family, isn't your old man still waiting for you to go back to enjoy the family happiness? The whole family is talking and laughing, tsk tsk, just think about it."

Both of them have a strange ambiguity in their words. Ever since Gu Jin met Tan Yu in the clubhouse last time, especially after hearing some old stories about him from Pang Zheng, he has always had a bad impression of this man. , so there was a little more unfamiliarity and hostility in his eyes.

Pang Zheng was unmoved by his mocking words: "Speak up if you have something to say."

"It's nothing." Tan Yu grinned, raised his hand behind him, and pointed to his car, "I'm alone at home. I heard that Nanshan has opened a new winding road. Let's go cut it. A lottery?"

Pang Zheng was silent for a few seconds: "Okay."

Gu Jin instantly turned to look at him.

Pang Zheng turned around and tightened the collar of Gu Jin's down jacket, comforting her: "You go home first, just say that I'm going out for a while, and I will definitely be back before twelve o'clock in the evening."

In the dead of night, cutting the ribbon on a winding mountain road, no matter how stupid Gu Jin was, she could not hear Tan Yu's real intentions. She grabbed Pang Zheng worriedly: "No, don't go."

"obedient."

"Then I'll follow you."

Tan Yu stood in front of the two as if watching the show, with mocking eyes.

"Hiss—" Pang Zheng became unhappy, and reprimanded Gu Jin with a straight face, "I didn't realize you were so clingy before. Be obedient and go back quickly."

"Don't worry, sister-in-law." Tan Yu said lazily, looking at Gu Jin's white and tense face with great interest, as if he was scrutinizing him seriously, "Why did this person leave with me, and how can I return him."

"In case something happens—" He intentionally lengthened the last few words, and approached Gu Jin warmly, "I will definitely be responsible for the rest of your life."

Gu Jin snorted quickly and hurt his self-esteem, with a bad expression: "Wait for you to take care of me? If something happens to him, you can just get in with him for the rest of your life, and I will never let you go."

She glared at Pang Zheng angrily, and finally went home cruelly.

After walking a few steps, she turned back worryingly.

Pang Zheng also turned his head, waved at her, and signaled her to come in quickly.

It wasn't until he saw Gu Jin enter the gate of Pang's house with his own eyes that Pang Zheng finally became serious, stood silently, and confronted Tan Yu.

At such a late hour, he came here single-handedly, apparently prepared to catch him by surprise.

"Tell me, how do you play?"

"Old rules."

"Okay, win or lose?"

"If you win, I will return you the capital and interest that I owed you back then. If you lose..." Tan Yu lowered his eyes and thought for a while, "You have lost to me so many times, Not too bad this time."

Pang Zheng took out the car keys and walked into the car: "At the exit of Nanshan Highway, I'm only waiting for you for a minute."

Tan Yu got into his sports car and viciously shook Pang Zheng with the headlights: "It's not certain who will wait."

Before the words were finished, there was only a series of harsh friction sounds between the wheels and the snow, and Pang Zheng's car jumped out almost angrily.

When Gu Jin returned home, Pang's mother asked her strangely: "Where's Pang Zheng? Haven't you had enough fun so late?"

"A friend asked him to go out with him and said he would come back later."

The mother next to him was chattering: "I'm going to eat dumplings as soon as I see it. Whose child is so blind! That boy from the Chen family is not here during the Chinese New Year, so those are the only people who get along with him, who are they?"

Gu Jin took off her coat, not knowing how to answer, she dawdled towards her mother-in-law, and specially picked a time when no one was paying attention, and said to her, "It's Tan Yu."

The mother next to me stopped rolling the dumpling wrappers, and she was also a little surprised. Obviously, she knew what happened between the two of them back then: "Why did the kid come back? When?"

"It's been a while. I saw him once on Pang Zheng's birthday last time." Gu Jin scratched his head, a little uneasy, "Mom, he...Pang Zheng will be fine, right?"

The mother next to me thought for a while, then picked up the rolling pin and rolled the skin skillfully: "Hey, who can explain clearly what happened between those young men of theirs. Jinjin, look at you, it was Ah Zheng who told you pass?"

"Know a little, not much."

Mrs. Pang sighed: "Actually, it was the Tan family who did something wrong back then. No matter what Tan Yu said, he shouldn't have taken people and money away. No matter what his reasons are, he owed Ah Zheng first. Yes. You don’t know, Pang Zheng’s life during that time... As a mother, I feel uncomfortable when I think about it now. He stands up for everything by himself, never tells his family, and never opens his mouth to his father for help. , the object that has been recruited for several years will be yellow if it is yellow, what do you think is going on!"

As she spoke, Mrs. Pang's eyes turned red, and she wiped it with her hands secretly: "Look at me, why did I mention this to you? Don't talk, don't talk, the old man is here today, don't let him worry about it. Tell him that the children of Pang Zheng and Song Fanghuai have gone out, let's eat without waiting for him."

Gu Jin agreed, but hesitated for a long time: "Mom, Pang Zheng and his ex-girlfriend have a good relationship, don't they?"

Gu Jin recalled the night he quarreled with him before, when he answered an inexplicable phone call and left her alone to go away, and then he asked with a cold face, "Who told you these things?"

And these things are precisely what people around him hide from her. Gu Jin can only slowly understand this from the few words that Pang Zheng is willing to tell her, and realize the impact of these things on him and the future of the two people's lives. Influence.

This feeling was very bad and made Gu Jin very depressed.

Mrs. Pang realized that she had mentioned someone who shouldn't be mentioned in front of Gu Jin, so she quickly comforted her: "It's nothing bad. Ah Zheng must have faded away after so many years. The girl's surname is Bai, and he studied abroad." I met when I was a dancer, and I was very career-minded, and your father and I didn't like it. If we say that this marriage is destined, the two of you are not suitable, and it will be a matter of time before we separate."

After talking about it, Mrs. Pang was afraid that Gu Jin would have a problem, so she shook her hand specially: "Jin Jin, mom can tell that Pang Zheng is very interested in you now, besides, our Pang family only recognizes you." Daughter-in-law, don't think so much, let's not mention it when it's all over, the most important thing is to live with peace of mind, what do you think?"

The whole family outside the kitchen was beaming, Gu Jin didn't want to let the old man down, she cursed herself for being narrow-minded, and gave her mother a reassuring smile.

It's all over after all.Now, is the most important thing.

Because Pang Zheng couldn't come back to eat New Year's dumplings with his grandfather, Gu Jin was afraid that the old man would be unhappy, so he specially surrounded him to make him happy, and told several popular jokes in one breath before the old man happily went upstairs to sleep.

After twelve o'clock in the evening, all the people who came to visit said goodbye and went home, and several relatives staying in the next house also went to the guest room.Gu Jin helped tidy up in the kitchen, and went into Pang Zheng's bedroom alone to wait for him to go home.

Everything was silent, she lay on the bed, but became more and more worried.

At the same time, on the Nanshan Highway, more than ten kilometers away from the urban area, two cars were racing at extreme speed.

Obviously the orange sports car running ahead had the upper hand, and the black off-road jeep was dropped several hundred meters away. There were two rows of lanes, and the two cars were tightly biting each other, and no one would let the other go.

This was originally an unfair competition. Tan Yu deliberately drove a racing car with top-grade performance and speed, obviously provocative in it.

Although there is a gap in hardware, Pang Zheng is still confident.

He pursed his lips, controlled the steering wheel with one hand, and his eyes were as dark as water, calm and calm.

Accompanied by the biting cold wind at night and the roaring sound of motors in his ears, he gradually remembered some of the previous years at an increasing speed.

What years?
Young and frivolous, happy times.

At that time, I was still in my early twenties, and because of the environment in which I grew up, I inevitably got some bad habits from my son. At that time, Pang Zheng hadn't experienced setbacks and failures, and he was far less restrained and mature than he is now.

Relying on the fact that the old man next to him has no time to take care of him, except for messing around with Song Fanghuai and the others every day, he just takes advantage of the traffic jam at night to show off.

He was smoking expensive cigarettes, wearing the most extravagant clothes and shoes nowadays, and they drove through the streets arrogantly and triumphantly, with no one in their eyes or hearts.

In that small circle, they only have themselves, and there is only a silent contest in which no one submits to the other.

At that time, a group of young men in their twenties were in full bloom, and their chests were full of passion and arrogance.

The former self and Tan Yu were the most inseparable opponents.

He grew up with him, and he was also an old friend who could no longer use a pot of spirits for many years.

The Nanshan Highway is a full [-] kilometers long, and the speed displays on the dashboards of the two of them are above [-] kilometers per hour. Pang Zhengneng, who overtook several times on the way, clearly felt that the car was out of control and deviated from the direction, and almost collided with Tan Yu's car. superior.

Passing by him, Tan Yu arrogantly honked his horn to protest him, as if mocking him.

Pang Zheng clenched the steering wheel tightly, stepped on the accelerator harder and harder, and forgot more and more things.

He forgot that he still had his parents, he forgot that he still had a wife, and he forgot the countless responsibilities on his shoulders. On the contrary, what became more and more clear in his mind was that he had been abandoned, betrayed, and concealed.

At 46 minutes and [-] seconds, the black off-road quickly braked on the white line with the sound of violent friction between the wheels and the asphalt road.

At 47 minutes and [-] seconds, the orange sports car followed closely behind, almost reaching the end of the sign at the same time.

It was only a second away, but it was more useless than ever.Tan Yu held the steering wheel tightly, breathing up and down, and suddenly raised his hand and punched him hard.

Pang Zheng sat in the car, looking straight ahead.After waiting for a few seconds, the two opened the door and got out of the car at the same time.

"Just one second."

Pang Zheng smiled: "One second is also a loss."

Tan Yu cursed and leaned on the hood of the car decadently: "As for it, in order to win me, you don't even want your life?"

He frowned puzzledly, his rebellious appearance was very similar to his younger brother who had been following behind him and questioning him back then.

A car with a speed of no more than [-] miles per hour in the urban area every day, just soared to the speed of a professional racing car.The center of gravity was lost several times due to stalling, and once the car overturned, it would be beyond redemption.

(End of this chapter)