Waiting for a long time, Captain

Chapter 9 Trust Him and Love Him
Woke up early the next morning, probably subconsciously remembering that there were activities today, and she didn't sleep well all night.Spread your hands and look at it in front of your eyes, looking straight ahead, looking backwards, nothing special, but you looked at it for a long time, and then couldn't help yourself from giggling.

She went to the desk calendar hanging by the door and circled the day "Friday" with a pen.Then he went to the kitchen to make breakfast, and waited for Xu Shen to pick her up, but he didn't see anyone at the appointed time.Xu Shen is very punctual. When she is studying, she is never late for the class she wants to attend.

Gu Zeng felt strange, took the key and went downstairs to wait for her.I saw her car parked there from a distance, and when I got closer, I found her sitting on the back seat smoking a cigarette.Called last night as if nothing happened.

She knocked on the car window, Xu Shen immediately stubbed out his cigarette and sat in the driver's seat.Laughing, she dug out breakfast from her bag, and said contentedly, "Xiaobai, you are a good wife and mother, you will be lucky to be the captain in the future."

Gu Zeng ignored her gag, and asked worriedly: "What's wrong with you? Are you in a bad mood?"

"Well, no passion." She smiled, and the salad dressing stuck to her fingers, and she simply licked it. "You also know that it was introduced by my family. When you reach your age, you should get married. What is there to get along with?"

"Then why don't you break up?"

"Not everyone has your heart, and can still love someone seriously."

It was already ten o'clock in the morning when we arrived at Chang'an Avenue.

Xu Shen answered the phone and took her to the innermost room.When I went in, I heard the sound of playing ball, mixed with a few laughter, and heard Xu Shen say that they had already started.

Gu Zeng walked behind and first saw Lu Zhao, which seemed to be a doctor's professional habit. Every time he saw him, he was dressed in white clothes, even sportswear.The rest of them couldn't be distinguished clearly, Xu Shen had met them a long time ago, and introduced them to her one by one.

She couldn't help joking: "You really belong to the Appearance Association."

Xu Shen smiled noncommittally: "I didn't decide this. Lu Zhao and Cute are good friends from the beginning. After going back and forth, they got to know each other's friends well. That's why there are a few people behind."

"Then who did you meet first?"

Xu Shen raised his eyebrows: "Gu Xiaobai, you've turned bad."

After the game was over, several people came over.

The first person to greet her was a man in fluorescent yellow clothes, not very tall, but very cute, with deep dimples on his face, and a warm and lovable smile, it was Cute.He first greeted Gu Zeng with his hand: "It's better to be famous than to meet him. It seems that he has been bullied by Xu Shen for a long time."

"I think so too." Lu Zhao followed up and glanced at her slowly, with unbreakable friendliness.

Gu Zeng breathed a sigh of relief, while Xu Shen glared at Lu Zhao, and the two of them seemed about to fight again. Cute on the side called Huanxi's friends, and let them get together.Fortunately, everyone knew each other before, and the atmosphere soon became lively.After a while, someone opened the door and walked in and handed them water.

Xu Shen pulled her sleeve and whispered, "This is Mu Ran, isn't he handsome?"

Mu Ran wears a pair of thin-rimmed glasses. She is very clean and refined, with three-dimensional features, a bit like a European.

"Imagine it, it's similar to the hero in Prison Break. Let me tell you, if there is no Captain Cen, I am going to introduce Mu Ran to you. See if you like it? There is still time to change it."

He said it in a low voice, but it was clear that several people around him heard it, as did the person involved.She's really going to burrow.

Cute yelled: "Xu Shen, can you speak more quietly? Will you be dumb when you bully Mu Ran?"

"Since when have I been so dumb?" Mu Ran sat down next to her, exchanged eyes, and slightly pursed his lips, "I just don't like communicating with people with low IQs."

Pfft... Everyone laughed, and Cute almost jumped over to hit someone.

"Okay, don't make trouble. It's a good thing that A Cen won't come today, otherwise he will sit here and see who of you dare to bully Gu Zeng." Lu Zhao answered the phone and looked at her helplessly, "Suddenly in the morning I was called by the company, so I probably won’t come.”

"Ah? It's so miserable! I haven't seen the male pig's feet in the scandal!" Cute wanted to cry without tears, and stared at her desperately, "Gu Zeng, when will you introduce me?"

Embarrassedly avoiding Cute's malicious smile, she asked hesitantly, "Is he busy recently?" It seemed that she hadn't rested for a long time, and when she saw him last night, she already felt that he was very tired.

Lu Zhao replied: "I heard that he has been adjusting the route, and he may not fly international flights in the future. Or, he will not fly to Atlanta." He must have said that on purpose.

She almost choked on the water, desperately looking away.

Lu Zhao grinned twice, turned around and started pinching with Xu Shen again, and quickly chatted about other things, Mu Ran suddenly said: "Recently, the trend of super overseas stocks is not very good, if you buy it, let it go as soon as possible." When he said this, he kept looking at Xu Shen.

The few people who were chatting happily saw that something was wrong and turned to Xu Shen one after another.

"What's wrong?" Gu Zeng came to his senses and grabbed Xu Shen's hand, "Are you short of money?"

Xu Shen's family background is very good. She is very famous in the fashion industry. She is invited to every fashion show in Europe. The money she earns can't be spent in a few lifetimes. How could she suddenly invest?

"The last time you were at my house, it seemed that you asked Mu Ran to liquidate your assets. What happened?"

Xu Shen's face was not very good-looking, and he didn't know how to speak for a while.Suddenly answered a phone call, before he had time to explain, he turned around and ran out, leaving a few people looking at each other in blank dismay.After a while, Lu Zhao put down the water in his hand and chased it out.Gu Zeng followed subconsciously, but was stopped by Mu Ran.

"Let Lu Zhao go, there should be no problem, don't chase after him, Xu Shen will definitely drive away."

"How could this be?"

Mu Ran explained: "This is Xu Shen's private matter, she has to say it herself, it's not convenient for me to speak up. But judging from the current situation, I can only say that it is not very good."

Gu Zeng held his face, almost crying, "She came to pick me up in the morning, sitting in the car smoking a cigarette, I asked her if she was okay, and she joked with me."

She and Xu Shen shared bunk beds when they were in college. From alcoholism to grief, Xu Shen was with her for a long time.Xu Shen has a very strong personality, no matter what happens, he looks calm and composed.

One winter, it was very cold at night, and the windows creaked due to the north wind. The few of them huddled under the quilt and were reluctant to go out, but it was very late and they hadn't eaten yet, and their stomachs were growling with hunger.Xu Shen called and ordered takeaway, and it was almost early morning when it was delivered downstairs, and the housekeepers had access control, let alone outsiders.Xu Shen climbed up the window by himself, slid down the water pipe from the second floor, picked up his things and slowly climbed up again, but his hands were too slippery and he fell down.She and Qingya waited for a long time before Xu Shen brought the things up, and she was relieved to see that she was well, who knew that in the middle of the night, she started crying and crying, and was sent to the hospital where the doctor said her calf was broken.She was really very tolerant, she even lifted the food up for her and Qingya to eat when her leg fell, without saying a word.After that incident, she began to feel that her life was terrible, not even half as strong as Xu Shen.

I couldn't help but my eyes were red.She really felt that she was so cowardly, why her personality was so soft, if she could forcefully ask her in the car, maybe she could be comforted.

It's all if, and it's all useless... She held her head, buried her face in her palms, and heard Mu Ran and Cute talking on the side, saying that Xu Shen's personal assets had been emptied.How is this possible?How could this be?
Suddenly someone sat down beside her and handed her a tissue.

"I know something about Xu Shen." His appearance always just rightly made her feel soft and sad. "Lu Zhao mentioned it to me before, and I have a general understanding. It should not be serious."

She raised her head in embarrassment, wiped her eyes with a tissue, and said in a low voice: "She will be fine, will she?"

"Yeah." Cen patted her shoulder today, "Look at me."

Gu Zeng looked up at him slowly.

"Don't worry." The bottle cap was unscrewed, and he handed her the water, "Drink some, to calm down, I just talked with Lu Zhao on the phone, and we will have lunch together, and he will bring Xu Shen over."

"Okay." She really believed in him, and believed that he would give her hope and warmth every time they met.

It was already twelve noon when they came out of the guild hall, and they went directly to the agreed hotel.

The door is introduced by the waiter, with brown carved screens on both sides and landscape paintings on the walls. The whole decoration style is elegant and quiet.There were a lot of people in the restaurant at this time, but they had reserved a private room earlier, and they walked directly into the backyard.

Inside the open door is a pond built inside, with gurgling water, Cute kept saying with emotion, as if he had broken into an ancient mansion.

"You said that with Lu Zhao's temperament, it's not easy to set up a restaurant with such an elegant atmosphere, hehe." While jokingly speaking, he also envied Lu Zhao's family's great business and no worries about food and drink.

Mu Ran ignored him, Gu Zeng didn't know what to say, but Cen today said with a light smile: "This is his mother's design."

"oh oh."

Before finishing a few words, they arrived at the door of the box, where Lu Zhao and Xu Shen had already finished ordering.Knowing that he was wrong, Xu Shen surrendered early and explained the matter to her from beginning to end.

It turned out that her father failed to invest and lost a lot of money. As usual, the political review agency took him back to inquire about the project status, but he didn't come back for several days.Xu Shen knew that something big had happened, but he never asked about engineering matters. He couldn't figure it out, like a headless fly bumping around. It was useless to spend a lot of money to clear up the relationship. He went to venture capital when his brain got hot , I thought it would be a long-term tug-of-war, but I didn't expect to lose a lot after a few days, so I had no choice but to find Mu Ran to do the actuarial calculation of assets.It's been half a month since the incident came out, and she's been acting like a normal person, fighting with her, bickering with Qingya...

"I still have some savings there, I'll give it to you when I go back at night."

Xu Shen burst into laughter, and patted her hand: "Just use your money as a dowry. The captain is here, and you still hug me? It's not good to neglect the beauty."

"I'm not serious, I'm still in the mood to joke around now." She glanced at the person next to her, who was also having a serious conversation with Lu Zhao, then turned her head slowly, and continued talking to Xu Shen.

"Let me tell you, this matter is difficult to deal with, and Lu Zhao can't do anything about it, but Cen has done his best today." Xu Shen pressed her ear.It was the first she had heard about his family.

"Cen is from a military family today, and his family is very serious and low-key. He has been in the army for so many years but rarely goes home, and his relationship with his parents is very weak. But if you want to use your relationship with my father, you have to entrust him to lobby , find out the situation."

He has received a military education since he was a child, and he has been influenced by the older generation. He is somewhat rigorous in his bones, and he will never intervene in illegal matters.Therefore, if Xu Shen's father really committed a crime, he would not come forward.As long as there is no violation of the law and the routine investigation is still in progress, the results will be forthcoming.

"You know, I can invite Lu Zhao, but he must still look at your face."

Cen was sitting by the window today, the bamboo curtain was drawn to half height, and the sunlight that penetrated just shone on his entire face.From her point of view, the edges and corners of his outline are hazy, which makes him appear more gentle.

He noticed her gaze, stopped talking with Lu Zhao, and turned to look at him.With a single glance, everything becomes clear.

We've only met each other not long ago, but it seems like we've known each other for a long time.

She remembered that she and Lu Niannian went to international negotiations before, and before that he lost his temper.She was so angry that she asked whether he would be beaten by his competitors at the negotiating table with his temper.He squinted his eyes and smiled, saying that you can't look at a person's appearance. Even if he smashed pots and jars every day, he was unambiguous for a moment when it came to the critical moment, and he couldn't lose a penny of the money he should get.He also talked about business with her very seriously, saying that there are two things in a man's life that he cannot borrow, one is money, and the other is his wife.

A businessman like him is really dumbfounding, the difference between the outside and the inside is too big.

Looking at Cen today, I have a very direct feeling. The appearance is gentle and elegant, but in fact, there is an indescribable stubbornness and a touch of alienation in his bones, but he is really kind and gentle. From the inside to the outside, there is a gentle kindness soft.When he wholeheartedly wants to be good to a person, that person cannot escape.

Just like now, he took a chopstick of fish and put it in her bowl, and his silent eyes met her, dark and quiet: "This tastes good, eat more." Then, how could she escape.

The place to eat was not far from the airport, and he said he was going to pick up the car, so no one wanted to see her off.Gu Zeng is a little embarrassing, can everyone be less obvious?The key is that he also acquiesced.It is the default, and it is very eccentric.

There is a lot of passenger flow at the airport at this time, and it is not impossible to meet acquaintances.Asu approached and still winked at her, encouraging her to fight hard.Recently, this word was frequently uttered by her friends, and she could no longer think.Is it her way of expressing that she really misses that?

sky……

"What are you thinking about?"

"Ok?"

"I heard that the airport is recruiting ground staff. Are you busy recently?"

"How would you know?"

Changhong has been expanding in the past few years, and there are more and more routes. It has been really busy recently.And because the end of the year is approaching, the routes increase frequently, and at the busiest time, I wish that one person can be used as two people.In a meeting a few days ago, the director proposed that new employees must be recruited, which almost moved Asu to tears.The notice was issued soon. She has been busy recruiting for the past few days, and she also worked overtime for two consecutive days. It's just that she didn't expect that he would know all these details so clearly?
"I mentioned it during the meeting this morning." He smiled, fumbled in his pocket and took out the car keys.

This time I finally saw his car clearly, ASTONMARTIN Aston Martin, a world-class luxury car.She couldn't help but swallowed, and got into the car in a daze.On the one hand, he was still responding to what he said just now: "Well, maybe because of this, some arrangements of the Ministry of Aviation have to be adjusted."

He turned on the air conditioner, leaned over to fasten her seat belt, waited until the car drove out smoothly, and then explained: "Last month's passenger flow statistics have exceeded the summer tourist season, and you may still be busy for a while. "

She groaned, thinking of something, hesitated, "Have you been adjusting the course recently?"

He turned his head to look at her, at a very close distance, like this every time, with very little white and deep eyelids, and when he looked in, he couldn't come out, "It's like adjusting the jet lag."

"Ah."

"After working for a while, Xu Shen's matter should be settled."

Are you comforting her?The car window was rolled down slightly, and snowflakes flew into the car. She thought for a while and whispered, "Thank you, a lot, a lot."

"It's snowing heavily." He closed the car window again, and held her hand naturally, "When I was in Atlanta, I rescued a little girl. Every Sunday, I would eat with her and buy something for her. Say thank you to me every time, just like you are now."

"I……"

"Don't talk about it in the future." He smiled, slowly clenched his hand, and never let go.

This winter seems to have been snowing all the time, making the journey time both long and short.She held the car door with one hand and talked to him with her chin resting on the car window, wondering if she wanted to sit up for a while.Her mouth twitched, and she blushed for some reason. She quickly said: "Goodbye." Then she ran upstairs.I saw his car parked there at the window, and he hadn't left yet, his silhouette was vaguely reflected behind the window.So good, so handsome.

After a while, the car left slowly, and the continuous white snow covered the rear of the car, and her heart followed the white snow, and walked away in a daze.

In the evening when Qingya came to dinner, Gu Zeng mentioned Xu Shen's matter by the way, but Qingya didn't say a word, then called Xu Shen, scolded her, she listened, and finally relieved her anger.

After hanging up the phone, Qingya's face was still calm, "Xu Shen, this little girl, is her heart made of iron? One day she can't live anymore, she must calmly ask us to see her for the last time, and it's a farewell." ’” She took a sip of coffee and said, “You are good-faced, but also stubborn, and you support yourself in everything, and you will suffer sooner or later.”

Gu Zeng was below, picked up a noodle with chopsticks and tasted it: "Aren't you worried?"

"Who is worried about her?" She opened her wallet and counted the debts on the card, "If you have to fly at night, I won't accompany you. Ah yes..." She pulled out a few cards and threw them on the table rudely. Said, "I've been abroad for the past few days, you give it to her for me, you know the password, it's considered that I invested in her first." Still stubborn.

After filling out the noodles, Gu Zeng untied his apron and walked into the room, just in time to hear the phone ring.Seeing the caller ID, I feel inexplicably happy.

"Are the flowers all right?"

"Well, it's pretty good." She glanced at Cattelan on the window sill, bright and colorful, never falling behind.

"Have you caught a cold hearing your voice?"

"A little bit." When she went to pick up Qingya, she was in a hurry, she wore few clothes, and when she came back, her voice was dry and hoarse, which was not very comfortable.

Cen was sitting in the study today, wearing glasses with thin golden frames, recalling the conversation with Lu Zhao just now, and told her: "Xu Shen's father should be fine, it's because the policies are tightened downwards, and it will take some time to follow the procedures. But nothing will happen if you don’t do it.”

"Really?" She turned happily and jumped on the bed.

Cen heard a loud ringing on the phone today, and couldn't help laughing: "Yeah." He opened the cabinet door, opened the medicine box and began to look for medicine. He carefully looked at the production date on the box, "You need to take medicine if you catch a cold. Morning shift tomorrow?"

"what?"

"I'll pick you up tomorrow."

"Okay." She hugged her knees and put her face on them, feeling very happy.After hanging up the phone for a long time, I still feel very happy.

"Gu Xiaobai, do you need me to show you the mirror?" When she turned her head, she saw Qingya leaning against the door with a bowl in her hand. She didn't know when she stood here and how much she had heard.She threw away the phone guiltily, and asked in a low voice, "Why?"

"Take a picture of your nympho face."

"I……"

"Being so affectionate in front of a broken-hearted person, Gu Xiaobai, do you have a conscience?"

She walked quickly to the kitchen, Qingya chased after her and sighed, almost embarrassing her.She swears, her face is really going to burn.

Qingya suddenly put the bowl on the table, ran over and gave her a big hug, "After seeing your state a few years ago, Xu Shen and I were more worried about doing it again than you. I wanted to give you a blind date, but I never really forced you, I was always afraid that you would still remember him."

Gu Zeng lowered her head, at this moment she didn't think of Lu Zhongnian, what she thought of was Cen's face today, with clear eyebrows and quiet eyes.

Qingya's voice was smooth: "It's fine now, I can feel it."

She reached out and hugged her back, her nose was sore: "Qingya, I feel good too, this time it's true." She has always been cautious about him, afraid of warmth, but she couldn't resist, and couldn't help but want to get closer .I wonder if the person who said "the more you can't extricate yourself, the more you can be sober and indifferent" was as persistent as her in the past, loving someone who doesn't like herself?

Cen today, the word Cen takes the homonym of "Zeng", both the past and today are an indispensable part of his life.All she could imagine was that he must have spent the past ten years of loneliness and waiting in Atlanta with all his heart.But now that he came back, he completely left the past.He is so good, such a good person, how grateful she is, there is no other opportunity, but at this moment, he can appear in this city, meet her, hold her hand, and tell her not to be afraid, he Be able to empathize.

Really, she believed it...

(End of this chapter)