What do you want in life

Chapter 79
Either way, finding a job is cause for celebration.So, on weekends, Xiaoying went to the supermarket to buy vegetables after work, and tonight she insisted on asking Guo Jia to give up the kitchen to herself.

While picking tomatoes, a familiar voice sounded from the opposite side, "This potato has sprouted, so I can't eat it."

Xiaoying raised her face in astonishment, and met Li Zhen who also raised her head inadvertently. There was a pretty girl with a ponytail standing beside him. Xiaoying recognized her as Zhou Ting.

"But I just like potatoes! Look, none of them grow long..." Zhou Ting's coquettish words stopped abruptly when she witnessed the awkward confrontation between Li Zhen and Xiaoying.

"...Hi!" Xiaoying first greeted them with a smile.

Li Zhen looked uncomfortable and nodded stiffly at her. Instead, Zhou Ting, who was standing beside him, smiled generously at Xiaoying, "Hello."

Both sides stood there dryly, not knowing what to say, but they seemed to have to find something to say to dilute the embarrassing atmosphere.

Li Zhen cleared his throat and asked Xiaoying, "Are you... Xiaozhi okay?"

Xiaoying nodded, "Very good, thank you! I just found a job... as an accountant."

Li Zhen's gaze has been swaying around Xiaoying, but he dare not look at her, but when he heard her last words, he finally landed on her face. For a while, many past fragments flooded the two of them at the same time. There are thousands of feelings in my heart, but I can't talk about it.

Zhou Ting raised the bag of potatoes in her hand, as if speaking to Li Zhen and Xiaoying, "I'll go and weigh it."

Xiaoying came back to her senses, and hurriedly said: "Oh, I should go too, I have to go back to cook." She didn't know why she was so eager to get rid of the truth. Be humane and don't rush towards the cashier.

Until she walked out of the supermarket and stood in the afterglow of the golden sunset, Xiaoying didn't figure out what kind of mood she was in, was it lost, sad, happy, or melancholy?
However, amidst so many innumerable emotions, she finally felt a palpable sense of relief, as if a burden had been lifted from her shoulders for a long time.

Xiaoying cooked some special dishes, and the whole family was very satisfied. She and Guo Jiaxiaoyu also drank some red wine. Xiaozhi was inexplicably happy with the adults. Seeing them drinking, he wanted to drink too. Xiaoying didn't agree. Xiaozhi pouted dissatisfiedly, "Father would let me drink it, but it's a pity he's not here now."

The light that was so easily ignited in Xiaoying's eyes suddenly dimmed.

At night, after Xiaozhi fell asleep, Guo Jia sneaked over to chat with Xiaoying again. Xiaoying couldn't help it, so she told Guo Jia about meeting Li Zhen and his new girlfriend in the supermarket during the day.

Guo Jia stared at her and asked, "What do you think? Do you feel very angry?"

Xiaoying laughed, "How could it be. We are both divorced, so it is naturally best for him to start over."

"Usually, an ex-wife who can say such generous words can only prove one thing—she doesn't love her ex-husband deeply enough."

Xiaoying could only smile wryly.

Guo Jia patted her hand, "Look, even Li Zhen has abandoned the past and single-mindedly pursued practical happiness, why don't you have any ideas at all?"

"I..." Xiaoying lowered her head, "Maybe it's because I've been afraid of tossing around all these years, and now I just want to live a peaceful life for two days."

Guo Jia was silent for a moment, then asked again: "Can you guarantee that you will not regret it in the future?"

Xiaoying stared at her blankly, of course she couldn't guarantee it.

"God knows what you're waiting for?" Guo Jia sighed, "If I were you, I would have flown over to him and made it clear to him!"

"But……"

"Where are there so many 'buts'!" Guo Jia interrupted her, "If there were so many 'buts', Xiaoyu and I would not be able to get together today! Xiaoying, don't always think a lot, but never Do it. I'll just ask you a question, do you still love him?"

Xiaoying didn't dare to meet her eyes.

"If it's 'no', just pretend I didn't say anything. If it's 'yes'... you should know what to do."

Amid Guo Jia's gradually rising voice, Xiaoying gradually realized that her withdrawal had reached the point where both humans and gods were indignant.

Yeah, it's just to meet him, what can she get?What will she lose?If she really didn't care as much as she said, what would she have to be afraid of?
"Okay, I..." Xiaoying opened her mouth, and under Guo Jia's angry eyes, her voice was inaudible, "You let me think about it."

After entering the station, Xiaoyu passed the luggage bag in his hand to Xiaoying, and looked at her face again and again, "Do you really need me to go there with you?"

Xiaoying smiled and understood his worries, "Don't worry, I won't run away."

He nodded to Guo Jia again, "Today, on Tuesday, the kindergarten will leave school a quarter of an hour earlier, so remember not to be late."

"Put it on me!" Guo Jia smiled and winked at her.

The train came into the station from a distance, bringing a strong wind, and the crowd became commotion.

Xiaoying turned her head and told the two who still refused to leave, "Hurry up and go back."

"We'll leave after you get on the train." Xiaoyu couldn't doubt it.

Xiaoying shook her head helplessly.

After getting on the bus, she sat on the seat and saw her younger brother and Guo Jia still stranded on the platform through the car window, her eyes were worriedly searching for herself in the crowd, her eyes were moist for some reason.

In her fate, there are still many bright spots that moved her warmly, such as the two solid backing in front of her. Without them, she doesn't know if she can survive the most difficult times.

It was them who encouraged her again and again, letting her regain the courage to face the past. In order to allow her to go to J City without any worries, Xiaoyu rejected a promotional event that was very important to him and helped her raise her children at home. Zhi, and Guo Jia, asked for leave today to send her to the train.

She understood what they were worried about.

"Don't worry, I won't, I really won't." She sniffled and said to them silently through the glass. After the bitterness passed, something in her heart suddenly became clear, as if the sun had come in, warm, Very soft and very warm.

When the train started slowly, Guo Jia saw Xiaoying who was waving to them frequently from the window. She looked a little excited, which made Guo Jia even more nervous.

"Xiaoyu, are you really going to tell her?"

Xiaoyu held her shoulders tightly, "She has been passive for so many years, and it's time for her to take the initiative. And this matter has to be resolved by themselves."

"What if she doesn't go?"

Xiaoyu smiled and said: "Probably not, she is not so cowardly. These two have been around for more than ten years since they were teenagers. Fate..."

He looked up at the dazzling sunshine, "...they should be together, they will be together." He smiled brightly like the sun, "Just like you and me."

Guo Jia shrugged, and after a while, couldn't help but muttered to himself again, "But, I'm really afraid that she won't go."

More than three hours later, Xiaoying set foot on the soil of J City, which she had not seen for a long time.Sitting in a taxi on the way to the suburbs, scenes of familiar scenes staggered into Xiaoying's eyes. Everything here is not much different from four years ago. The past and the present overlap. There are too many memories to be released here The moment broke out of the cocoon.

The distance to the destination was getting closer and closer, and Xiaoying's heart was beating more and more irregularly. The calmness and quietness that she had armed before departure seemed to be useless at this moment.

"Is it a left turn ahead?" The driver suddenly asked her.

"Ah, yes!" Xiaoying was taken aback, and quickly pointed out, "Go straight along that road to the end, then turn right, and you will arrive at the second traffic light."

She finished speaking as if reciting, counting the time, at most seven or eight minutes before she could see Shen Juncheng.But what should be the first sentence after seeing him, she hasn't decided yet.

The phone rang again untimely, disrupting her mind again, she picked it up, it was Xiaoyu.

"Sister, where have you been?"

Xiaoying was angry and funny at once, "We'll be at Nanxiang's gate soon." I've never seen anything like this before, and I didn't know how many times she questioned her along the way, as if she was afraid that she would slip away.

"Ah? Haven't gone in yet!" Xiaoyu muttered, "The train isn't late, is it?"

"I was stuck in a traffic jam on Jiefang East Road just now." Xiaoying explained, but couldn't help but said, "Can you stop calling me? If you call again, I really won't go!"

"Don't, don't! Don't!" Xiaoyu was taken aback, "I'm going to hang up now, hang up!"

After being interrupted by him, Xiaoying's nervousness was relieved a lot. When she raised her head again, she found that Nan Xiang was already very close.

She turned off the phone conveniently, for the next time, she needed to be quiet.

The Nanxiang in front of me is not the same as it was three years ago. The main administrative building has been refurbished, and the ancillary building behind it has been demolished. Haunted in the afterglow of the setting sun.

Xiaoying was not surprised by what she saw before she came here because she had already learned from Xia Bin that Shen's headquarters in the urban area needed to be relocated due to government relocation. He bought a piece of vacant land behind Nanxiang, and plans to build a new factory within two years, which will be twice the size of the original factory.

There were two new faces in the security room. After hearing Xiaoying's self-introduction and request for someone to find someone, they dialed her intercom in doubt, while the other one was looking at the parking lot far away from the door, "Mr. Let's go out...Old Zheng's car...It's been almost half an hour since we left..."

The inside line was called to Shen Juncheng's secretary, and the security guard verified his companion's guess with a few words, "He has indeed gone out." He looked Xiaoying up and down, "Since you are his friend, why don't you just call his cell phone?"

While interrogating, the phone on the table rang, and the security guard hurriedly picked it up to answer it, and handed the receiver to Xiaoying after a few words.

"Excuse me, are you Miss Han?" A pleasant strange female voice came from the receiver, looking a little anxious.

"I am." Xiaoying felt that her breath was lifted.

"Ah, that's great!" the girl whispered in relief, "Then I'll ask the security to bring you in."

"Excuse me, is he there?" Xiaoying asked in time.

"Mr. Shen is not here." The girl regretted, "He just left the company an hour ago, and he is going to go to City A, and he will be back in about three days. But I suddenly remembered that he once told me before that if someone The lady surnamed Han is looking for him, she must be kept, and then notify him as soon as possible."

Suddenly, Xiaoying couldn't control her tears, and tears flowed down her face, which stunned the two security guards around her.

"Come up first, I'll call him right away!"

Xiaoying wiped her face carelessly with her hands, "Can you tell me what time does he take the flight to City A?"

"It takes off at [-]:[-] p.m. It should still be on the way, Miss Han, come up first, we..."

"No need." Xiaoying forced another smile through the tears, and shocked the two security guards again, "I'll go to the airport to find him myself!"

The airport is in a neighboring city, and it takes about an hour to drive there. In addition, it takes about an hour to wait for the plane to go through the security check. Xiaoying knows Shen Juncheng, and he likes to be early in everything.In this way, as long as she can arrive at the airport before 05:30, she can meet him!

Although the time was short, Xiaoying decided to take the risk, and suddenly she couldn't wait to see him, let alone three days.

After leaving the security room, she randomly picked a taxi parked across the road and jumped into it. After negotiating the price, the car drove towards the high speed like lightning.

In the wind-like speed, Xiaoying suddenly felt a sense of joy, it seemed that this was the first time she was so unrestrained and followed her dream without any worries...

The car got off the highway smoothly. Looking at the street signs, it was already on the border of the neighboring city. The road to the airport was flat and spacious. The sky was getting dark, and the neon lights on both sides of the road lit up one by one. She got in and stroked Xiaoying's hair. The slightly itchy feeling reached the bottom of her heart, and she couldn't help but want to smile at Huo Shu Hong Hua.

The driver must have come to the airport here many times. In order to catch up with Xiaoying, he specially took a small road to avoid the hard work of going around.Unexpectedly, halfway through the drive, the road was blocked because of a car accident.

There was a long queue of cars in front, and there were still cars coming up from behind. Xiaoying and the others were in a dilemma, and had no choice but to wait.

Time passed by like this bit by bit, gradually becoming compact from the original abundance, and after a while, Xiaoying finally realized that if she waited like this, tonight would definitely be a waste of time!
"Master, how long is it from here to the airport?" She stretched her neck and asked the driver anxiously.

"It will take about ten minutes to drive there." The driver thumped the steering wheel angrily, "But it's hard to say with such a traffic jam. If I had known earlier, I would not have taken this road. I would rather go around it a few times!"

The driver got out of the car several times and went to the front to inquire, each time becoming more and more frustrated. The accident seemed to be serious, and it was difficult to unblock it without being stuck in traffic for an hour.

Xiaoying glanced out the window again, except for the chaotic car accident scene in front of her and the two rows of tight traffic queues, there were hardly any pedestrians.

She gritted her teeth, took out a few hundred-yuan bills from her wallet, and handed them to the driver, "This is the fare, so keep it. I'll walk the rest of the way by myself!"

The driver was stunned for a moment, and took it in time, "Let's go? It's okay, but this way..."

"Are you following this path to the end?" Xiaoying interrupted before finishing speaking.

"Oh, yes! You can see the airport at the end of the walk." Seeing that she was determined to go, the driver changed his words and instructed, "Be careful on the road, there are too many cars!"

Xiaoying had already pushed the door and went down, "Thank you!" In an instant, her figure disappeared from the driver's sight.

Since she said goodbye to her school days, Xiaoying hadn't run so happily. When she rushed into the terminal hall sweating slightly, she was told that the check-in process for the flight to City A had already started.

She eagerly searched for Shen Juncheng's shadow in several lines at the security checkpoint, but there was none, nowhere!
Maybe he's already in!Xiaoying thought desperately that he was punctual in everything he did.

In desperation, she ran over to discuss with the security inspectors whether she could be let in to find someone, but the other party stared at her strangely, and rejected her request beyond doubt.

Xiaoying wandered around the hall for a few times, then stomped her feet suddenly, and ran back to the information desk downstairs.

"Miss, I want to ask, is there any spare tickets for XX flight?" She didn't care to wipe the sweat from her forehead, she had never been so crazy in her life.

"I'm sorry, flight XX is about to take off, we can't check you in for you." The young tall girl replied with a sweet voice.

"Then, is there still a flight to City A today?" Xiaoying still didn't give up, "I have something urgent to rush to City A! It's urgent!"

"I'll check it for you, please wait a moment." After a while, the girl raised her head and reported, "Tomorrow at eight o'clock in the morning. If you need to order a ticket, you can go to the ticket counter over there—" She pointed to Xiaoying across the way .

Deep disappointment enveloped Xiaoying's whole body, and she had to wait a whole night.

But she soon cheered up, if there is no other choice, then so be it, perhaps, this is fate, Shen Juncheng has chased her for so long, now it's time for her to chase him back.

She quickly smiled and said to the girl, "Thank you!"

When she was walking towards the ticket counter, she finally remembered that she should say hello to Xiaoyu.

Also, since city A is so big, it seems like she should first ask Shen Juncheng's secretary for his whereabouts, but she doesn't have his secretary's number, so she has to find Xia Bin...

She took out her mobile phone and was thinking wildly in her mind. However, when she raised her face again and looked forward, all her thoughts were frozen and could no longer function—at a time not far from her. At the entrance of the waiting hall, Shen Juncheng was stopping and looking at her, his gaze not turning away for a moment.

All the hustle and bustle around him seemed to be evacuated, and the world suddenly became quiet.

Xiaoying didn't know how they got together. When she realized this, they were already standing face to face in a corner of the hall.

"I, I'm going to buy a plane ticket." Xiaoying explained indiscriminately. She stuffed the manuscript that had been typed into some corner of her mind, and she couldn't find it no matter how hard she searched.

"Where do you want to go?" Shen Juncheng put his hands in his trouser pockets, with a relaxed expression, only the familiar smile Xiaoying revealed in his shining eyes.

"Go...to City A..." Xiaoying's voice became lower and lower.

Shen Juncheng's eyes suddenly deepened a lot, and the smile inside was replaced by the gentleness that had been hidden for a long time. He looked into the distance, "I heard that you asked Xia Bin about me?"

Xiaoying's face turned red all of a sudden, "I just..."

Shen Juncheng looked down at her, interrupted her, and replied directly: "I'm not married."

Every word he spoke was so clear that Xiaoying couldn't look him in the eyes.

"me……"

Shen Juncheng took a deep breath, and finally decided not to appreciate her embarrassment, even though her shy face still made his heart flutter.

"Xiaoyu called me, and I... know all about it."

Xiaoying's heart was pounding, and it seemed as if a strong air current was pressing down on her tongue, preventing her from uttering a single word, she gasped for a few short breaths, and said, "He said he wouldn't tell you. "

"He was afraid that you would run away, so he asked me to stop you."

When the secretary called and told him that a lady surnamed Han had come to his door, he couldn't believe his ears. He tried to call her, but her mobile phone was turned off. He was so anxious at the airport that he didn't know what to do. Several people finally contacted Guo Jia, and then found Xiaoyu.

"You...didn't board the plane?" She stared at him stupidly and asked, joy spreading infinitely in her chest.

"I've been waiting for you...forever." He fixed his eyes on her with clear eyes, as if he could look into the bottom of her heart.

Xiaoying still felt that her eyes were covered by the mist of disappointment, but she understood that it was no longer because of grievance or sorrow, but because of joy and sweetness.

Shen Juncheng slowly stretched out his hand, and gently hugged Xiaoying, who had moist eyes, into his arms. He hugged her for a long time without saying a word.

There is no need for any words between them, what they need is this kind of companionship without distance.

If we can cling to each other like this every day in the future, this life is enough.

(End of this chapter)