I loved you so deeply

Chapter 8 First Acquaintance (3)
"Pang Zheng, you are older than Gu Jin, right?"

"Yes, I'm 29 years old, and I'm going to be thirty."

"Where do you work now? Are you also in City B?"

"I work for myself, and sometimes I can stay anywhere when I get busy. Now that my parents are old, they will stay here for a long time."

Gu's mother nodded: "It looks like a filial son at first glance, that's great. Your mother always told me when I was on the island, saying that it would be nice if the naughty boy at home grew up, but it turned out to be a flash of time, isn't it just growing up? Yet."

"Hey, you're praising me, my mother is still saying that I don't worry about it." Pang Zheng glanced at the back through the rearview mirror, and Gu Jin was sitting in the back, slightly lost in thought.

He turned the car along the old streets of Nancheng, and asked, seemingly unintentionally, "What is Miss Gu doing now? Are you working too?"

Gu's mother took the words: "Isn't this a while ago and I have been busy looking for it, I just went to work these two days."

"Where?"

Gu Jin came back to her senses: "In Maobai, a creative public relations company."

"Very powerful." Pang Zheng tapped his fingers on the steering wheel, "It has always had an advantage among the 4A companies in the same industry."

Gu Jin was pleasantly surprised: "Are you also doing this?"

"No." He briefly denied, "Maopai made an advertising proposal for me before, but it was a pity that it was not approved."

Pang Zheng parked the car outside the gate of the family area, got out of the car and opened the door for Mama Gu.He might be really uncomfortable, his face was a little pale in the night wind.

Gu's mother patted his arm, with the distress of the elders: "Good boy, it's hard to make trouble for you in the middle of the night when you live at home, go back quickly, I feel a little cold when I hear you talking, don't be blown by the wind so much. "

"It should." Pang Zheng pushed open the old iron gate of the community and let the mother and daughter in.

Gu's mother left first, and Gu Jin stayed behind, thanking him a little cautiously: "I really trouble you today."

This is the second time this evening I have had the opportunity to look at each other like this face to face.Not short, with fair skin and clean skin, this was Gu Jin's first impression of Pang Zheng.

Pang Zheng smiled and tried to call her name: "Gu..."

"Gu Jin."

"Which jin? The 'jin' of 'today' or the 'jin' of 'gold'?" he asked her.

"The 'jin' of 'Qingqingzijin'."

Pang Zheng stopped asking, but took out a card from his trouser pocket.The card was black, with words stamped in platinum on it, which was what secretary Qi Lin had been forcing him to carry with him, just in case he needed it.

"This is my phone number, call me if you need any help in the future."

Gu Jin took it, with only his name neatly printed on it, without any details about his identity.Above his name, a vigorous and powerful prefix is ​​printed.

"Shengheng Group." Gu Jin said silently.

When they met for the first time, he cleverly left room for each other. He neither asked for her number directly, nor tried to persuade her to keep it with too much enthusiasm. Appropriate way to end the meeting, without revealing anything.

Gu Jin thanked him and turned to leave.After walking two steps, she turned around again. Pang Zheng put one hand in his trouser pocket and was leaning on the car to watch her.

"Orange peel and ginger."

Pang Zheng didn't hear clearly, and narrowed his eyes slightly: "What?"

"Soak orange peel and ginger in water and drink it, and the cold will be cured soon." Gu Jin said it again briskly, and waved to him with a smile, "Goodbye."

In the evening wind in June, Gu Jin's figure gradually disappeared in the old buildings.

After Pang Zheng sent the Gu family's mother and daughter back, he didn't continue to drive overnight with those cronies, but went home honestly.As soon as he entered the house, as expected, his parents were sitting on the sofa in the living room waiting.

Seeing him coming back, Mrs. Pang hurriedly went up to greet him: "As soon as you walked in today, I heard that you had a cold. Have you been drinking outside for the past few days? You don't feel good about yourself when you go back at night. Drink some hot water." , I will find medicine for you."

Pang Zheng threw away the car keys and sat down on the sofa carelessly.There was a fruit plate on the coffee table, and it happened to be a few peaches and oranges. It was not the time to eat oranges this season, so the pictures looked good, so he picked one up and peeled it.

"Send it back?" Pang Lei pushed the reading glasses and asked.

"I'm back."

"Where do they live now?"

"On the other side of Old Sifang Street, the family building of the Third Machinery Factory."

Pang Lei sighed: "That end is an old house, at least it has been 20 years. It is estimated that the couple spent all their savings to buy a house here..."

Holding the medicine, Mrs. Pang also sighed with emotion: "Isn't it? I haven't seen you in these years. Ruoping has changed a lot. I think back in the island, she took the children to sketch, and she walked in front, wearing a skirt, and the cubs followed me It's making noise and shouting behind, but it's the most beautiful scene on our island."

Pang Zheng listened indifferently, and threw the peeled orange peel into the cup with a snap, watching with interest the green peel rising and falling in the cup.

"Hey—you child!" Mrs. Pang was dissatisfied, "If you don't take the medicine, it's a strange trick you learned from somewhere."

"Sister-in-law Zhang, cut two pieces of ginger for me." Pang Zheng ignored Mrs. Pang's words, and turned to talk to the housekeeper who was busy in the kitchen.

"He doesn't like to take medicine, so it's good to drink some ginger water to get rid of the cold." Pang Lei waved his hand to signal his wife to calm down. He didn't like boys being so spoiled, so he just took medicine if he had a headache, "I ask you, What's your impression of Gu Jin?"

Pang Zheng was playing with his mobile phone with his head down, lazily lying on the sofa: "Huh? How about something?"

"I'm asking you, how do you feel about this girl? If it's okay, I can see this girl anywhere, and you can try with her?"

"Anywhere is fine?" Pang Zheng repeated his words, and after a while he raised his head from the phone, and said slowly, "You are Yang Bailao, you want to use me as Xi'er to repay the debt."

Pang Lei was poked into his heart, and his face was full of regret: "You are talking nonsense! Then I will give you a good girl, with a clean net worth, and your mother and I know everything about it, and you can still be wronged!"

Pang Zheng is a rebellious boy, a typical type of pissing off his father and not paying for his life: "I don't want to wrong me, but I'm afraid that I'll wrong an innocent girl, how dirty I am."

Pang Lei got angry, and put on a posture of "I don't talk about it today, I understand that we will not give up": "Don't do this with me! Don't you kid think that I don't know what you are thinking! Let me ask you , you are not too young anymore, and you can still guard that Bai Ziqing for the rest of your life? Your mother and I didn't like that girl at the beginning, but we respected you and didn't stop you when you said you wanted to get married. What happened? Just left without saying hello? What's the matter now, oh, you're going to have a hard time because of such a person? Single for the rest of your life?"

When Pang Zheng heard the name "Bai Ziqing", his face changed immediately: "You are so nice, why did you mention her. Dad, we both agreed at the beginning, I will not cause trouble for you outside and do business properly, you Don't worry about my business, how long has it been since you regretted it?"

Mrs. Pang was afraid that the father and son would fight because of this matter, so she quickly mediated: "Isn't your father also thinking about you, thinking that he would give it a try now that he had such an opportunity, besides, that girl Gu Jin is really good, I've had a hard time with her mother these years, and I didn't tell you to marry her right away, let's talk about it as a friend first, whether it's suitable or not, we'll talk about it later."

When Pang Lei heard what his wife said, his expression softened a lot, and he seemed to agree very much.

Pang Zheng picked up the glass of water soaked in orange peels and ginger slices on the table and drank it in one gulp, and agreed very simply: "Okay."

Pang Lei and his wife looked happy, not without surprise: "Really?"

"Your elders have continued to convince me that I can't let you down, but if you want to use me to settle the little guilt you feel about the Gu family—" Pang Zheng stood up and stretched his waist. Picking up the mobile phone and walking upstairs, "I advise you to give up this idea, don't turn around and let your son ruin the other's daughter if you haven't paid off the debt with your comrades in arms. The debt will be even greater."

Pang Lei and his wife intend to make Pang Zheng and Gu Jin a couple. Of course, a large part of the reason is to repay Gu Jin's father for saving Pang Lei's life. In addition, Pang Lei, the father, has selfish intentions.

The boy Pang Zheng hadn't stayed by his side for a few years since he was born in the mother's womb, and he had developed a bad habit of being a son of a son in those years when he was raised by his grandfather.In recent years, his business outside has been flourishing, but his personal life, although not chaotic, is indeed a headache for Pang Lei and his wife.

Most of the friends around Pang Zheng are also the second-generation ancestors of the family. Every day, they know how to spend time and drink, and few people start a family.In the past two years, many people have been thinking about the son of the Pang family. Even the political commissar who is working with Pang Lei wants to marry his daughter in, but Pang Zheng doesn't care about it at all, so it's useless.

Now I have such an opportunity. Although the Gu family is not a wealthy family, fortunately they are innocent. Pang Lei is an upright person. He does not ask for marriage, marriage and influence, but for a sensible and kind person who can let him be by Pang Zheng's side. Take it easy.

First, if Gu Jin can really marry in, their next family can take care of her instead of Gu Yongming, and make up for the guilt of the past.Second, Pang Lei sees that these two children seem to be really destined. Pang Zheng is usually a jerk and thinks about his previous relationship. To Gu Jin, he taboos the relationship between the two families, so he can somewhat restrain himself.

When Pang Lei shared his thoughts with his wife, the two coincided with each other, so they quickly made arrangements in private.

The first is to create opportunities for the two to meet.

Mrs. Pang called Gu Jin every now and then to invite her to dinner at home. At first Gu Jin thought it was inappropriate to decline a few times, but it would be impolite to refuse after too many times. She would occasionally bring a gift to Look at Mrs. Pang.

Every time I go there, it happens to be when the minister is at home.After dinner, Mrs. Pang would ask him to take her home.

After a few times, Gu Jin felt that this coincidence was almost embarrassing.

This night, Pang's mother intentionally kept Gu Jin a little late, and she asked Pang Zheng to take her back when the last bus or subway had left.There were very few cars on the road, and Gu Jin was a master who would never take the initiative to talk to her when she had nothing to say. The atmosphere in the car was very quiet, a strange quietness.

After contacting Pang Zheng several times, Gu Jin found that he is a person of great taste, or in other words, a person who pays great attention to the quality of life.

For example, in the few times that Gu Jin and him met, Pang Zheng's clothes were never sloppy or repetitive, and every time they were neatly dressed, even the most casual casual clothes at home.

For example, most of the CDs in his car are old songs, including classic soundtracks of Hollywood movies in the [-]th century, and performances by German classical orchestras.Once a song that Gu Jin was very familiar with was played in the car, and she almost blurted out: "Yesterday Once More (Yesterday Once More)?"

Pang Zheng smiled: "There are not many people who like old songs now, it's rare."

"You like this too?" Gu Jin asked him.

"No way." He sighed, "I'm getting old."

Pang Zheng's eyes fell on the display screen of the CD in the car, and he didn't know whether he was speaking to Gu Jin or talking to himself: "A friend left it here, but I kept forgetting to take it away."

Later, when Gu Jin talked about these details with Yin Bailu as a topic between girlfriends, Yin Bailu reminded her as someone who had experienced it: "It is impossible for this kind of man to have no relationship experience before, especially if he has a family like Pang Zheng. Those who still have money, maybe, there are still some 'white moonlight' and the like outside now. Gu Jin, don't be fooled by this appearance full of copper smell."

Gu Jin knew that Yin Bailu was right.She couldn't just be seduced by Pang Zheng like this.

This time when we arrived downstairs at Gu Jin's house, Gu Jin unexpectedly didn't get out of the car.

Pang Zheng also sat in his seat and didn't move. The two of them confronted each other as if they had made an agreement, and neither of them spoke first.It was midsummer, and the air conditioner was turned on in the car, so Gu Jin felt a little cold for no reason.

"The side government."

He looked at her sideways, as if waiting for her next words.

Gu Jin pursed her lips, thinking about what to say next: "I know what my mother means. So, so you don't have to do this."

Having said all the hardest things to say, Gu Jin suddenly became enlightened.She also turned her head to look at Pang Zheng, and looked at him, her eyes were very frank: "It's awkward now, every time I go to your house, I am also very nervous when I see you, I don't know what to do so that I won't let Mama Pang disappointment."

She gritted her teeth and said abruptly, "Actually, the two of us... are not suitable."

How does Gu Jin not know Pang Zheng's thoughts? Every time it seems that he has not rejected Pang's mother's request to let him take her home, but she also understands that it is at most a gentleman's behavior from a man to a woman. Due to the request of an elder, he has no idea about himself.

Pang Zheng seems to be polite and enthusiastic, and will not let you stand in the cold, but what is hidden under his appearance is that he is not suitable for approaching, it is his indifference, and it is the fact that no one can see his true emotions in his heart .That being the case, wouldn't it be better to speak up directly.

"Do you have a boyfriend?" Sensing that Gu Jin was getting cold, Pang Zheng turned off the air conditioner, lowered the window in the car, and didn't seem to pay much attention to what she just said.

Gu Jin didn't expect him to ask such a question, and was momentarily stunned.After a pause, she asked him back, "Then do you have a girlfriend?"

Pang Zheng smiled softly, and did not answer her words, the atmosphere in the car seemed to become much more relaxed.

"I don't really like to base my relationship on a relationship of last resort."

"Me too." Gu Jin nodded, and unconsciously held the hand on his knee, "Then I'm leaving?"

Pang Zheng got out of the car and opened the door for her: "Okay, pay attention to safety."

The two of them seem to have reached a tacit agreement on this matter, and the relationship seems to have suddenly become calm from a certain embarrassment.

The two reached an agreement, and when Mrs. Pang called again, in order not to disappoint the elders, Gu Jin would usually bite the bullet and deal with it.Occasionally, the family forces Pang Zheng and Gu Jin to go out for a date or something, and the two of them tacitly agree, but they have never met in private, and even if they have contacted once or twice, it is always a lie .

When the two met again, it was already from midsummer to midwinter.

It was Maobai's annual company annual meeting. In order to welcome Gu Jin and the group of new employees, the dinner was specially chosen in a restaurant with a good reputation. The banquet hall can accommodate hundreds of people regardless of departmental functions. , everyone sits freely.In order to liven up the atmosphere, boxes and boxes of wine are stacked as high as a wall.

Gu Jin is a newcomer, and was bullied by his colleagues in the customer department to drink several glasses of wine in a row. If Fu Anchang didn't stop him, he would probably have stopped eating.She took advantage of the chaos and went to the bathroom to avoid everyone's enthusiasm, thinking about going back later to try her luck and win a prize, when she was distracted, she bumped into someone with a bang.

Originally, the man walked over without taking it seriously, but he stopped after taking two steps.

When Pang Zheng turned his head, Gu Jin also turned his head.

She drank wine, her cheeks were flushed, she was wearing a small black dress, and her hair was tied up loosely, almost making Pang Zheng unrecognizable.He seemed to have just come back from the outside, his body was still air-conditioned, and his originally tense expression eased up after seeing Gu Jin.

Gu Jin greeted him generously: "Long time no see."

He also nodded: "Come to eat?"

"Company Annual Meeting."

He seemed to want to say something more, when a man's head suddenly poked out from the box opposite, and shouted towards this direction: "Pang Zheng! What are you doing? I'm waiting for you, so what are you talking about?"

Chen Zhanbei came out curiously to have a look, and muttered in his mouth, "Hey! You are so popular, how can you meet girls everywhere!"

The person behind him still wanted to come out to see who Pang Zheng was talking to, Gu Jin felt uncomfortable, and hurriedly said goodbye to him: "You are busy, I am leaving."

Before Pang Zheng could keep her, Gu Jin had already left.

(End of this chapter)