When will the fog clear

Chapter 5
Mother Lin didn't believe it, so she put her foot on her lap, rubbed her for a while, and sighed: "You are always like this, how can I feel relieved when you are alone outside? Why don't you come home?"

"Mom, I'm fine." Lin Miao held his mother's hand, "Don't worry about me."

"What's the good of staying in that place? It's hurting you... If I knew I would have sent you to study in Beijing, I blamed me..." Mother Lin shed tears as she spoke.If she hadn't been reluctant to let her daughter be too far away from her and refused to let her apply for schools in other places, she wouldn't be in this situation now.

"Mom!" Lin Miao didn't let her mother go on talking, and hugged her tightly, "Stop talking, it's all over."

Mother Lin touched her daughter's head and choked her throat: "If you don't come back, I planned to call you. I met an aunt two days ago and she asked about you."

Lin Miao sat up straight, looked at her mother and said, "What do you want to say?"

"There is a boy in her unit who is said to be in excellent condition. His hometown is in the Northeast. Now he wants to find a local girl to start a family and settle down..."

"Mom, I don't want to think about this kind of thing now." Lin Miao narrowed her eyes. Her mother thought she was a foreigner, so it's okay if she didn't know her condition?

"It's just a meeting, to get to know more friends... Well, forget it if you don't want to, go to bed early." Mother Lin patted her hand, knowing that her daughter had a stubborn temper, and it was useless to force her, so she could only let out a long sigh.

Lin Miao felt uncomfortable hearing this, and suffered from insomnia on the first night home.Going out to drink water in the middle of the night, she found a shadow on the dark balcony—it was her father.

Papa Lin extinguished his cigarette when he heard the sound, and looked back at her: "Why aren't you asleep?" His voice was a little hoarse.

"dad……"

"Don't think too much when you come back, you are always at home, you know?"

Lin Miao kept nodding.

In the cold dark night, the father and daughter were separated by a small living room, so they couldn't see each other's expressions clearly, but there was warmth in their hearts.

The next morning, Lin Miao started to help the family clean up before the Spring Festival. Her movements were also very quick, without any of the coquettishness of her daughter's family.

In fact, Lin Miao's grandmother has always wanted a son and grandson. When Lin's father was young, he also had patriarchal thoughts, so he got Lin Miao as his daughter. Although he loved her very much, he always treated her as a son to educate her. Lin Miao was indomitable and stubborn. Temper also stems from this.

Father Lin watched his daughter climb up and down to sweep the house and wipe the glass through the window sill, with an incomprehensible expression.Huiji will be hurt, he is useless as a father.

There is a mahogany cabinet in the living room, which was built by Lin Miao's parents when they got married, and they brought it with them when they moved. Its large size is a bit out of place in this small house, but no one is willing to throw it away.

Lin Miao dusted the cabinet inside and out with a feather duster, and found a flat rectangular cardboard box on the top floor, which was old and worn and covered with dust. She picked it up curiously and looked at it, and immediately froze. , murmured: "Is this still there?"

It was an old-fashioned electronic organ, and it was also the enlightenment of Lin Miao's music.

After hearing this, Mother Lin came out of the kitchen and became nervous when she saw the electronic organ: "Oh, your father said it wasn't broken, so he kept it."

In fact, I was reluctant to throw it away, but the piano I bought later was not kept, and there is no place to put it here... It's a pity.

Lin Miao couldn't help stretching out her fingers and pressing the keys, but there was no sound, and then she smiled. Of course, there would be no sound without electricity.

She rewrapped it again without saying a word, and then said softly: "You can keep it."

Lin's mother felt that her daughter's calm appearance should be put down, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and went back to the kitchen to pick vegetables.She didn't know that Lin Miao had found an iron box in the corner of the bottom drawer.

In the box were all the certificates she got when she was studying. There was a thick stack of them. Lin Miao read them one by one as if nostalgic. It's changing until it's young... It's just that I didn't expect to have a student ID card from my university days.

She clearly remembered that she threw it away.

This surprise made her forget to breathe, and the fingertips holding the book turned pale.

Lin Miao put all the other things in order as if nothing had happened, and then returned to her room. She slid on the ground with her back against the door, and slowly spread her hands, as if the small book had been pinched. The wrinkled student ID card, the paper on which her photo was pasted was yellowed and had some ugly stains.

It bears witness to a past she doesn't want to look back on.

It's like a master.

No matter how hard she tried, those spots couldn't disappear, they followed like a shadow.

Whether it is fate or evil, it all starts with this student ID card.

The summer in the junior year was extremely hot, Lin Miao was a person who could bear it, but he was also upset by the heat, and had no inspiration for the creative works in the final assessment.I happened to know that there was a very romantic bookstore nearby. Lin Miao and her classmates went there once and fell in love with it. It was much better than staying in a stuffy dormitory.So Lin Miao also became a frequent visitor to the book bar, and even the girl at the counter gradually became acquainted with her. Every time I went, I ordered sweet milk tea, and sometimes I sat there for an entire afternoon.

One weekend, she went to a scenic spot with her friends. When she came back, she passed by the book bar and went in to rest for a while. She didn't expect to find that her student ID card was gone when she returned to the dormitory. She thought it was there, but after asking around, no one saw it.Lin Miao was worried that she would have to find time to make up for it, but someone contacted her the next day, saying that she had found her student ID card. She was dubious and cautiously made an appointment at the gate of the school reception room.

From a distance, Lin Miao saw a tall and handsome boy standing under the awning. The sunlight was too glaring, and she couldn't see his face clearly.But he came up against the sun, with a bright smile, shaking the things in his hands, and said cheerfully, "Hi! Are you Lin Miao?"

"Did you pick up my student ID card? Please send it to me, thank you." Lin Miao reached out to get it back.

The other party shrank his hand, and then said: "Hey, you haven't heard my self-introduction yet. My name is Gu Huai, Gu from Gucheng, and Huai from Huaihe River. Let's put it this way...we are quite destined. Miao has three waters, Huaihe There is also three water, right?"

The devil is right with you!Net bullshit!Lin Miao muttered in her heart, so she had to look at him.

This person who called himself Gu Huai had a pair of very bright eyes, and even his brows and eyes were warm when he smiled, as dazzling as this midsummer.Although in the past few years, she still remembers, but she can only remember, not miss.

On New Year's Eve, Lin Miao received a large box of New Year's gifts, including supplements, fruits, and clothes. Only a "Su" was signed on the card.

Lin Miao was taken aback, and was about to call Susan to ask questions, when she called with a heartbeat.

"Miaomiao, did you receive the things?" Susan's voice was softer than ever.

Lin Miao thought about how long she had just finished the operation, and said with concern, "Sister Su, why did you send me something back? How is your body?"

"Me? It's so good that I can go up the mountain to fight tigers!" Susan looked indifferent, "It's New Year's time to have fun, and your work has a little bit of a clue."

"what?"

"Didn't I say it? I'll find you a good job. You wait for my good news. Well, the doctor is here for rounds. I won't tell you, goodbye!" Susan's voice was like the wind , Come and go without a trace.

Lin Miao was lost in thought while holding her mobile phone, and then smiled, saying that it was not wrong to be unlucky, at least she was lucky to meet Susan, she thought as she looked at the big box of gifts.

When the New Year's bell rang, Lin Miao pressed the send button to send the message of blessing, and immediately received a reply from Jiaqi—Miaomiao, Happy Chinese New Year!

Then Brother Shan and Susan also replied to her, as well as a few old colleagues.As for other popular social networks, Lin Miao hadn't used them for a long time. She touched the screen of her phone, hesitated, and finally gave up.

The fireworks are as bright as summer flowers, blooming in the sky.

Gu Huai was in the duty room of the hospital, sitting on his side, and he could see the magnificent scenery on the other side of the sky when he looked up.

The screen on the table was on, and the opened page was the campus network platform that was commonly used in the student days.He set it to be invisible to one person, but that person no longer uses it.As if he knew this was the case, so he unscrupulously wrote private messages on her page, but most of the time, he just stared at the avatar that hadn't changed.

She said, you said don't meet me again, I promise you, you have to promise me, don't ask me if I'm good or not, you and I... that's the only way.

But he still couldn't help it, and typed a sentence in the dialog box—Miaomiao, happy new year, how are you doing?
He sincerely wished her well even though he was no longer there.

As for himself, from now on...so be it.

As soon as the Chinese New Year was over, Susan began to accept announcements and appeared in front of the major media, but Lin Miao always felt that she was too hardworking and could not persuade her.

Susan's official assistant, officially returned in March.

In early March, Susan went to France to attend the Paris Autumn/Winter Fashion Week and asked Lin Miao to accompany her. This may be the last time she will accompany Susan as an assistant.But it's only been a few months, Susan's temper is not good, but Lin Miao actually has a feeling of reluctance.It may be that she has been alone for too long, too long.

VIP lounge.

It was still quite cold in early spring. Lin Miao was wrapped in a knee-length black down jacket and carried a small bag. Her face was flushed from the cold. Meng San went to help them check their luggage and explain things to others.

Susan recalled that Lin Miao's passport was handled by Monsanto, and that it was her first trip abroad, so she couldn't help telling her: "This flight will take a long time, you may not be used to it, try to sleep as soon as you get on the plane, Otherwise, when we get there, we will be busy again without rest." She is used to it.

Lin Miao nodded and smiled gratefully: "I know."

Watching the planes rising and falling outside the glass window, and the sound of flight announcements in her ears, she was not nervous at all. Instead, she had a feeling that she could leave here for a few days, and only she knew it.At this time, Meng Shan, who had helped them check in their luggage, came over and pulled Susan to the side with a mysterious expression to whisper. Lin Miao retreated a few steps knowingly, ordered a cup of hot drink and held it in his palm.

It didn't take long to hear Susan's slightly higher voice exclaiming: "What you said is true?" Soon Meng San pulled his clothes, and the voice disappeared.

It's just that the two couldn't hide their smiles, as if something good was about to happen.

Then they no longer shy away from chatting in front of Lin Miao. She didn't know the cause and effect, and heard Meng San's key sentence in the middle: "I saw the paparazzi in the lobby and thought they were chasing you, but I didn't think it was the one who followed you secretly." ..."

Lin Miao asked curiously, "Who are you talking about 'that'?"

Meng San only gave a thumbs up, with a mysterious expression: "Big man, if we are lucky, we can meet this time, we will keep it secret for now."

So Lin Miao didn't ask any more questions.

Meng San and Susan were flying in first class, while Lin Miao was flying in business class with several other staff members. She thought she would be a little uncomfortable with long-distance flying, but at such a flying altitude, she quickly fell asleep.

For some reason, I dreamed of those days when she was applying for college, checking the weather, customs, and flights excitedly. She was also worried that she would not be used to taking long-distance international flights, but her heart was always sweet, full of expectations for the future.

So what is she looking forward to now?

Lin Miao woke up feeling lost and confused, and found that everyone had started to eat the plane meal, but she lost her appetite when facing the plate.He casually picked up a magazine in front of the seat and flipped through it. Unexpectedly, it was Chen Jizhen on the cover, and Lin Miao quickly put it back like a hot potato.The name reminded her of the "advice" he gave her on that cold rainy day.

She doesn't want to have any more interaction with such a person.

(End of this chapter)