Marriage Crisis: Lonely Apricot Blossom

Chapter 3 The Inescapable Memories (1)
Fang Zhenqian got off the plane, turned on the phone as usual, and came in five or six text messages, as well as messages from the secretary's desk, all of which belonged to Yan Jia. He thought something had happened and was about to dial back when the phone rang again, and it was still Yan Jia .

"Honey, you're finally off the ground!" Yan Jia's cheerful voice came from the receiver, and Fang Zhenqian's tired face showed a flying expression.

"Why is it so urgent? Little Jiajia." Every time he was in a good mood, he called her that.

"Well, that's it. I have a favor to ask for your help." Yan Jia's tone was a bit twitchy, after all, her husband just got off the plane.

"Let's talk." Fang Zhenqian dragged the suitcase and listened as he walked.

"Xiao Yan's sister came back from Australia today, and she is at the same airport as you, so we would like you to pick her up by the way. She may arrive in half an hour. Can you, husband?" Yan Jia said softly , This is her usual trick when begging Fang Zhenqian to do things.

"Can I say no? My wife?" Fang Zhenqian asked half-jokingly.

Yan Jia explained again, until Fang Zhenqian surrendered and agreed, Yan Jia quickly reported sister Xiao Yan's flight, arrival time and mobile phone number.

"You have to tell me her name, little confused." Fang Zhenqian interrupted her with a smile.

"Oh, yes, wait a minute," Yan Jia hurriedly turned her head to ask Xiao Yan, and then shouted into the phone, "Her sister's name is Huamei, Hua of Zhonghua, plum of Meihua."

Fang Zhenqian held the phone, his expression obviously stiff.

Yan Jia over there was still chattering, "We also told her your mobile phone number, and she will contact you when she gets off the plane. Hey, husband, are you listening?"

Fang Zhenqian came back to his senses, hurriedly agreed, and hung up the phone.

This name caused ripples in his heart, but he didn't believe it was such a coincidence, after all, there were so many people with the same name and surname, no matter what, he couldn't leave here immediately.

Fang Zhen made a detour to the small restaurant in the airport, and chose a seat by the window to sit down. The window is the only way for all people leaving the airport.He asked for a bowl of noodles and picked and ate them slowly.

When the announcement of the flight he was waiting for was announced on the radio, he had finished eating and smoking.He quietly watched the movement outside the window.

What a long wait.

People began to come out one after another.

Finally, he saw the familiar figure.

Huamei was wearing a black coat, dragging two heavy suitcases, and a huge mountaineering bag on her shoulders. She walked forward step by step. Every two steps, she had to take a whole bunch of luggage that was stumbling around. When she lowered her head, it slipped from her shoulders, covering the front, she shook her hair helplessly, and then walked forward, her white and thin face and her black body made her look so alone in the crowd.

I haven't seen her for eight years. She looks mature and has more charm. However, once she moves, she still gives people a feeling of being careless.

Fang Zhenqian watched her silently from the window, letting the smoke rise up, forming a thin barrier between her and himself.

Hua Mei stood still, took out her mobile phone, dialed back and forth a few times, and then put it to her ear to listen.

Fang Zhenqian's cell phone sang melodiously, but he didn't answer it, still staring at Hua Mei in the distance, until she frowned and hung up the phone, then he slowly got up.

Hua Mei was packing again. She was embarrassed by her huge luggage along the way. Originally, Xiao Yan had promised to find someone to pick her up, but the driver couldn't be contacted. It seemed that she had to wait in line. I took a taxi.

"Let me come." A strange yet familiar voice sounded in her ears, and at the same time, with a light touch on her shoulder, the mountaineering bag had already changed hands.

Fang Zhenqian took over her luggage as if nothing had happened, and handed her his small light suitcase, "You drag this."

He spoke as if they hadn't been separated for eight years, as if they had dinner together last week, as if they were familiar.

Hua Mei looked at him in a daze, her heart fluttering.After a while, he came back to his senses, and followed with the tow box.Soon walk side by side with him.

Fang Zhenqian glanced back at her, "Are you hungry?"

"No." Short answer.

They walked all the way to the parking lot, neither of them said anything more, there were too many words, and they didn't know where to start.

After placing the luggage, the two got into the car.

Fang Zhenqian's cell phone rang again, and he picked it up, of course it was Yan Jia.

"Did anyone receive it?" Yan Jia's voice was concerned.

"Well, I got it."

"Well, you can send her to the place that Xiao Yan rented. We are cooking a big meal, and we will wait for you to come and eat together." Yan Jia chattered, looking very busy.Fang Zhenqian couldn't imagine what kind of feast a person who can even cut vegetables can cook.

"Be careful not to cut your own hands." His voice subconsciously softened, Hua Mei noticed.

After hanging up the phone, Fang Zhenqian started the car, climbed up the driveway, and got into the overflowing traffic.

"You, are you married?" Hua Mei finally spoke. She never thought that Xiao Yan's colleague's husband would be him.

"Well, it's been four years." Fang Zhengan's voice was flat and straightforward.

However, Hua Mei's heart felt a twinge of pain, so to speak, he had forgotten himself a long time ago.

The decisive expression and cold voice when she left back then appeared in front of the two of them at the same time.

"Since this is the case, from now on, we will each go our own way, and there is no need to have any entanglements."

"...Okay." That was his answer after a long silence.

He did.

And she returned to the starting point after eight years. In the world of emotions, after all, women are too stupid.

"How are you and Feng Hao? Are you married?" Fang Zhenqian asked naturally.

"We... broke up a long time ago." Hua Mei said softly, she really wanted to tell him that they hadn't even started.

"then you……"

Hua Mei quickly interrupted him, "I'm still alone." She was a little surprised that her voice was almost resentful.

long silence.

"What are your plans for the future?" Fang Zhenqian asked, suppressing the turmoil in his heart.

Huamei raised her eyebrows, and answered calmly, "I signed a contract with a magazine. Let's do it first, let's take a step at a time."

She said the name of that magazine, which is a well-known professional magazine, and has business dealings with Fang Zhenqian's company, and 80.00% of their advertisements are published in this magazine.

After all, after working hard for so many years, Hua Mei quickly calmed down and started to talk about the recent situation of some people she knew, those hard-working people who are far away in foreign lands.

The slag rises, and how many past events are brought back at once.

Fang Zhenqian's father was once the deputy director of the Public Security Bureau in a wealthy city in the east. He was very serious and rigid, and he had high hopes for his two sons.If there is no accident, Fang Zhenqian will inherit his father's career and apply for the police academy, which is also his father's long-cherished wish.

Unfortunately, when Fang Zhenqian was in his freshman year of high school, his father died in a plane crash while on a business trip, and his family situation plummeted accordingly.

Because of this blow, the mother's health went from bad to worse, but for the sake of her two sons, she still struggled to support her two sons. She used her pension to open a small store and managed it with difficulty.

He did not report to the police school as his father wished, but applied for his favorite computer major, and was admitted to the School of Information Technology of J University with an excellent score of the city's top science student.

After entering university, Fang Zhenqian studied hard while looking for opportunities to work and study. He worked as a tutor twice at the same time, and got some odd programming jobs from the teacher.

When he was a junior, most of the classmates around him had girlfriends, but Fang Zhenqian had no time and no thoughts. He always felt very weird when he looked at those classmates who followed girls’ buttocks all day long. ?

Feng Hao, his upper berth, worries about how to please his girlfriend all day long. He is chasing Hua Mei, a student from the Department of Foreign Languages, who is also his fellow countryman.

Fang Zhenqian had seen Huamei before, with long hair, pointed face, fair complexion, and she loved to bounce around when she walked, and at a glance, she knew that she was the kind of delicate girl who didn't know what to worry about.Of course, people are also very enthusiastic, because every time I meet her, whether in the dormitory or on the road, she will always yell, "Fang Zhenqian!"

Fang Zhenqian nodded to her politely, and then hurried away, not without doubts in his heart, does she treat everyone like this?Sometimes he would pay attention to it, and found that it was not, she just called him one, so why?He wondered, maybe he was relatively earthy and introverted, which aroused her curiosity.Fang Zhenqian couldn't figure it out, and he didn't want to understand it. He had too many things to do.

On Saturday evening, Fang Zhenqian finished tutoring two junior high school children and returned to the dormitory exhausted. He found that the dormitory was extremely lively. Willing to waste time in the dormitory.

Then he saw Hua Mei sitting among a group of boys talking loudly.Seeing him come back, Hua Mei stood up, as before, and called out cheerfully, "Fang Zhenqian."

Fang Zhenqian nodded to her as if to respond, took the rice bowl from the shelf and prepared to go out, and thought about where he could hide after eating.

"I came here specifically to find you today." Hua Mei looked at him with a smile.

Fang Zhenqian stopped at the door in astonishment, "Looking for me? What's the matter?"

Feng Hao rushed over and pushed him to the side of the bed to sit down, "Of course it's a good thing!"

Hua Mei followed, took a seat on the stool next to him, and said, "Our school wants to put together a stage play "Romeo and Juliet". It will be in English. I will play Juliet, and I would like to invite you to play Romeo."

Fang Zhenqian's English is well-known, and his spoken English is especially good. This is all due to a tutor hired by his father, who is also his father's comrade-in-arms. It is said that he worked as a personal interpreter for a high-ranking official when he was young.

With a good teacher and a strict father, Fang Zhenqian read English original books extensively in junior high school.

When he was a sophomore, under the recommendation of the teacher in the department, he also took over some oral translation and translation work in the English department. For him, this was just a means of earning a living, but he did not expect that it would also win him an honor in the School of Foreign Languages. Not a small reputation, what he translated was even shown by a certain professor of the college as a model.

Feng Hao also echoed vigorously, "Yes! At least give our college some face! Get angry with those guys from the foreign language department." As far as he knew, there were not a few boys from the foreign language department who chased after Huamei.

Fang Zhenqian showed embarrassment, "But, I, I don't know how to act!" He knew that once he got involved, he would have to spend a lot of time, and he never liked to show his face.

"It's okay, you can't, I'll teach you!" Hua Mei was confident.

But no matter what they tried to persuade, Fang Zhenqian just shook his head. It's not that the School of Foreign Languages ​​is deserted, so why pull him!
Feng Hao was in a hurry, if Fang Zhen didn't go, it meant that Hua Mei would have to flirt with his love rival on stage.He pushed Fang Zhengan hard, "Brother, what did you do, don't be a coward at a critical moment."

Fang Zhenqian knew what he was thinking, he smiled and said, "I'm sorry, I really don't have time."

Hua Mei's brows were frowned, she pouted and said, "Forget it, just pretend I didn't say it, Feng Hao, go out for a walk with me."

The roommates dispersed one after another.

Fang Zhenqian picked up the rice bowl again, thinking about the scene just now, he was really inexplicable, shook his head, and went to eat, he was already very hungry.

One afternoon a month later, Fang Zhenqian came out of the library, and heard another voice behind him, "Fang Zhenqian!"

He turned around, and it was indeed Hua Mei.His eyes quickly shot to both sides, but he didn't see Feng Hao.

"What's the matter?" Remembering the last time he rejected her invitation, he unconsciously put on a polite smile.

Huamei's face was clear, and she walked up to him, holding up the ticket in her hand, "Here, here you are! On Thursday afternoon, there will be a performance in the auditorium, "Romeo and Juliet", I will perform."

Fang Zhengan smiled slightly, "Have you found your Romeo?" As soon as the words came out, he felt a little frivolous.

Hua Mei stared at him with scorching eyes, "This is just acting. But... I will find it one day."

It was the first time Fang Zhenqian noticed that her eyes were so clear, and her heartbeat became inexplicably disordered.

"You must go." Hua Mei repeatedly asked, and then bounced away.

Holding the ticket, Fang Zhenqian was a little at a loss, can he go?Does he want to go?
For that performance, Fang Zhenqian hesitated again and again, but went anyway. He sat in the corner of the auditorium, silently watching the passionate performance on the stage.

Of course he saw Hua Mei and heard her fluent and beautiful English. Although the performance was a little green, but because he put his heart and soul into it, it actually touched Fang Zhenqian's heart.

From time to time, thunderous applause and cheers broke out from the audience, which also made Fang Zhenqian feel unprecedentedly shaken.

In an instant, he suddenly discovered that the world can be so wonderful, but he has kept himself closed for various reasons.

During the part of Romeo and Juliet showing partiality, there are girls in the audience crying.Fang Zhenqian's heart also passed through waves of electricity, what a wonderful feeling, he could hear his own strong heartbeat in a noisy environment, inexplicably excited, that was something he had never experienced before, or maybe it was something he had always been neglected since?

He seemed to feel that it was his Juliet expressing something to him.

When the curtain fell and the audience dispersed, Fang Zhenqian was still sitting in his seat, his mood not calming down for a long time.

After a long time, he walked out of the auditorium slowly.

The moonlight was bright, and it was not too late at this time, and people walked by in twos and threes on the boulevard from time to time.

"Fang Zhenqian."

Hearing this familiar voice, Fang Zhenqian's heart skipped a beat. He stood still, and when he turned around suddenly, Hua Mei was already standing prettyly behind him.

She changed back to her usual clothes, but the powder on her face has not faded, like a porcelain-faced doll just out of the oven.

She approached him with joy in her eyes, "You're still here after all."

Fang Zhenqian's heart beat wildly again, he suddenly understood what he had been thinking for a long time, the feeling that he had ignored, or suppressed but had always existed, was suddenly provoked at the moment he saw Hua Mei's performance. When he got up, it was clearly laid out in front of him, so that he had nowhere to escape.

"Congratulations, the performance was a success." Fang Zhenqian tried to make his voice sound calm.

Hua Mei raised her face and stared at him boldly, "That's not what I want to hear."

Fang Zhenqian squeezed the sweat in his palms, he quietly hid his hands in his trouser pockets, and smiled at her awkwardly, "What do you want to hear?"

A trace of disappointment flashed across Hua Mei's eyes, "You are such a fool!"

Just turning around to leave, a strong hand quickly grabbed her and pulled her into a hot embrace.

"Ah—" she cried out in surprise, but her mouth was blocked by a touch of hotness, she wrapped her arms around him happily, and hugged his neck tightly...

Let all responsibilities, defenses, and dignity be rolled aside. At this moment, Fang Zhenqian just wants to embrace the truth he feels.

(End of this chapter)