long-term marriage

Chapter 1

On Saturday afternoon, the sunshine in the late winter and early spring happened to shine on my body, dispelling some of the silence.

Qiao Zhi pushed open the door of the coffee shop, and a burst of strong coffee aroma rushed to her face. The special bell on the door rang a few times, and the waiter bowed softly, "Welcome!"

"Qiao Zhi..." A girl with long hair and big eyes waved to her in the booth in the corner, "Here, here..."

Qiao Zhi nodded slightly, walked over, walked closer, paused, a little stunned, "Your friend?" She didn't expect that there would be other people.

"It's my brother, Liang Yu. I met him once at the company's annual meeting, don't you remember?" Liang Qi stood up and introduced.

The man in the suit and leather shoes hurriedly stood up and stretched out his hand a little awkwardly, "Ms. Qiao, hello!"

Looking at it this way, Qiao Zhi had a slight impression that at the company's annual meeting last year, Liang Qi asked her brother to accompany her. She remembered saying hello, but she only remembered that Liang Qi had an older brother, but she didn't. Remember what that person looked like.

Qiao Zhi reached out and shook her hand symbolically, "Mr. Liang, hello!"

After the two sat down, Qiao Zhi took out the document from her bag and handed it to Liang Qi, "See if this is the information you want?" Liang Qi and Qiao Zhi were in the same department before, although the two were not very close , but still talkable, years later, Liang Qi quit, and the two only contacted occasionally. Last night, Liang Qi called her and said that she wanted to borrow some materials from her, and the two made an appointment here Meet.

Liang Qi flipped through it casually, then put it down, and happily took Qiao Zhi's arm, "Qiao Zhi, we haven't seen each other for a long time, let's have a good chat today, what do you want to drink, eat, whatever you want , my brother please."

Liang Yu nodded hurriedly, beckoned to call the waiter, and then looked at Qiao Zhi, "Miss Qiao, what would you like to drink, how about cappuccino?"

Qiao Zhi smiled politely, "Don't bother me, I have something else to do, so I'm leaving."

"Why did you leave so quickly? No, you have to stay with me for a while..." Liang Qi was unwilling, and turned to the waiter, "Just have a cappuccino."

Qiao Zhi hurriedly waved her hands, "No, just boil water, I can't sleep at night after drinking coffee."

"Then why don't you order some more desserts? Miss Qiao, let's see what you want to eat?" Liang Yu handed over the dessert list.

Liang Yu's hospitality made Qiao Zhi frowned slightly, and she didn't reach out to take it, "It's no trouble, the materials have also been delivered, I'd better go first." After speaking, Qiao Zhi was about to get up.

Liang Qi hurriedly stood up and held her back, and said to the waiter, "No more, no more, just have a glass of boiled water." She was afraid that Qiao Zhi would really leave.

Liang Yu also got up, flustered, "Miss Qiao..."

Liang Qi shook her head secretly at him, then turned to Qiao Zhi, and said angrily, "What are you doing, just leave as soon as you come, sit down first."

Qiao Zhi actually didn't like dealing with strangers very much, but because of Liang Qi's face, she endured it and sat down.

There was silence for a while, the waiter brought a glass of warm water, Qiao Zhi picked it up and took a sip, Liang Qi saw that the atmosphere was a bit awkward, coughed lightly, "Qiao Zhi, is the company busy now? After I leave, will everyone All the work falls on you?"

"Fortunately..." Qiao Zhi forced a smile.

"My brother's company also makes online games. If you have any questions in the future, you can ask my brother. My brother is a genius in this field."

Liang Yu hurriedly waved his hands, his face slightly sunburned, "Miss Qiao, don't listen to my sister's nonsense, she is exaggerating, I just understand a little bit, but I can't be called a genius."

Qiao Zhi smiled, but didn't strike up a conversation. Seeing Qiao Zhi's lack of interest, Liang Yu exchanged a glance with Liang Qi, and took a sip of coffee in embarrassment.

Qiao Zhi took out her mobile phone to check the time, stood up, and planned to leave.

"Xiaozhi?" A slightly surprised voice filled with joy.

Qiao Zhi followed the voice and looked over, and an elegantly dressed middle-aged beautiful woman came over.

"Mom..." Qiao Zhi was also very happy to see Gu's mother, "Why are you here?"

Gu's mother came over and raised the big and small bags in her hand, "Isn't this buying some clothes for your father..." Seeing the Liang brothers and sisters standing up, "Are you here to meet friends? I didn't bother you, did I?" Mother Gu looked at the Liang brothers and sisters, apologetic.

"No, no, we're just chatting," Liang Yu waved his hand and made room for a seat, "Auntie, let's sit together."

Qiao Zhi introduced to Gu's mother, "Mom, this is my colleague Liang Qi and her brother."

He said to Liang Qi again, "This is my mother-in-law."

Mother-in-law?The Liang brothers and sisters were stunned for a moment, Liang Qi's eyes widened, "Qiao Zhi, are you married?"

Qiao Zhi nodded, "Yes, I have been married for four years."

Liang Qi sneered in astonishment, a little unacceptable, married for four years, didn't they already married when they were in college?

Gu's mother looked at Qiao Zhi, and then at Liang Yu, who was stunned aside, she understood a little bit, before when Qiao Zhi introduced her outside, she would say 'this is my mother'.

"Liang Qi, I'm going home with my mother-in-law first, please sit down for a while, we'll talk another day." Qiao Zhi said goodbye with a smile, then took the things in Gu's mother's hand and walked out.

Liang Yu and Liang Qi looked at each other, Liang Qi bit her lip, "Brother, I really didn't know that Qiao Zhi was married. I have been working with her for almost three years, and I never knew she was married."

Liang Yu fell in love with Qiao Zhi at first sight at her company's annual meeting, so she wanted to match them up, but on weekdays, people in the company often introduced Qiao Zhi to boyfriends, and Qiao Zhi refused, so she thought about getting her The reason of the information deceived her out, maybe the two of them will fall in love with each other, who knows, she is actually married?

Liang Yu looked at the slim back outside the glass, and smiled bitterly, "Forget it, we can only say that we are not destined."

"Oh, by the way, I bought you two dresses, and I was thinking of sending them to you later, so I just ran into you here." On the way to the parking lot, Mother Gu suddenly remembered, pointing The two white shopping bags in Qiao Zhi's hand said.

"You don't have to buy it for me, I have a lot of clothes."

Gu's mother pretended to be displeased, "You don't dress up now when you are young, and you plan to dress up when you are about my age, but it will be too late."

Qiao Zhi smiled, "It's not too late at all, mom is very beautiful now, even if she doesn't dress up."

Mother Gu nodded her nose happily, "You are the only one who can talk."

When they arrived at the parking lot, Mother Gu opened the car door, Qiao Zhi put the clothes in, and stood beside the car, waiting for Mother Gu to back up.

"Come on, mom will take you home." Mother Gu rolled down the window.

"No, Mom, I have to go back to the company. The company is nearby, and I can walk there in a few steps. You don't have to see me off. I'll go back to see you and Dad some other day." Actually, she didn't want to go back to the company, but I didn't want Gu's mother to be troublesome, so I told a harmless little lie.

Mother Gu nodded and asked, "Be careful yourself, don't ignore your body just for work, do you hear me?"

Qiao Zhi nodded obediently, "Understood, Mom."

Seeing Gu's mother's car go far away, Qiao Zhi slowly walked out of the parking lot to the bus stop sign. At four o'clock in the afternoon, there were not many people waiting for the bus. After a while, a No. 62 bus came, Qiao Zhi He got on the bus, swiped his card and sat down in the last window seat.

The cars, pedestrians, shop windows, and trees outside the car window receded slowly. The afterglow of the setting sun hit her body, and Qiao Zhi's eyes were a little distracted.

What did you look like seven years ago?She almost couldn't remember clearly. She didn't know whether she forgot on purpose or she didn't want to remember. Those past days seemed to be mottled and old photos, sealed in the years of dust.

When she was lying on the hospital bed filled with the smell of disinfectant because of stomach bleeding, she closed her eyes at that moment, and she died like this, and she was relieved when she died.

I will never be hungry again, I will never be beaten black and blue, and I will never be locked in a small dark room. All these will disappear with death, and those pains will no longer exist day and night. tortured her

That year, Qiao Zhi was 19 years old and had just graduated from high school. When she opened her eyes, she saw the amiable father and mother in front of her. It is said that he is a life-and-death comrade-in-arms in the special forces. I don't know what the mission is. Qiao's father took his own life to save Gu's father.

When Gu's father heard the news and came to look for her, his uncle had already moved with her. After 14 years, they finally found her.

It was the first time someone held her in his arms after her parents left. It was so warm and kind that she seemed to have found a safe haven.

Gu's father and Gu's mother took her away, let her go to college, study design, and took care of her like their own daughter. Her life finally had a color beyond the haze.

The marriage with Gu Yechen, according to Gu's father, was a pre-determined child-in-law. When Qiao Zhi was 22 years old, she was still in college, so she registered her marriage with Gu Yechen. The meeting with Gu Yechen was just a glimpse of the marriage in the Civil Affairs Bureau. At the registration office, she sat down, he got up, and then turned around and left without hesitation. She silently wrote her name on the paper he had signed, and even the wedding photo on the marriage certificate was Gu's father. It was synthesized by someone.

For Gu Yechen, the slightest impression left is that straight military uniform, his cold side face has long been blurred, and only the dazzling green is left.

To her, it doesn't matter whether she gets married or not, as long as the only one she cares about, her father and mother, is happy. They are the only support she has to survive in this world.

(End of this chapter)