When He Smiles

In the night, I can't see the way forward.

Downstairs in the Internet cafe, the boy promised that she would arrive at school tomorrow. Then he was about to leave when he turned back, and was called by Meng Shengnan to ask about his home. The boy scratched his hair embarrassedly and said the distance of five minutes. Until he was far away, Meng Shengnan couldn't help but bend the corner of his mouth and murmur softly: "I'm pretty good at finding a place."

"Your student?"

Chi Zheng walked behind her and lifted his chin following her gaze.

She was stiff again.

"Yeah." Then he turned around and smiled.

Chi Zheng glanced at her.

"You didn't study journalism?"

"It's changed later." She said concisely.

"What are you nervous about?"

She raised her eyebrows and let out a light ‘ah’.

Chi Zheng smiled.

"It's nothing."

Meng Shengnan paused and asked, "By the way, you are here—"

"Repair the computer," he said.

"Oh."

The distance between the two was a little close, so close that she could smell the strong smell of smoke from him. Meng Shengnan was a little cautious for a while, and slowly took a small step back silently. Chi Zheng lowered his eyes and scanned the feet of his eyes, then faintly raised his head to look at her.

"Thank you for the cellphone matter." Meng Shengnan remembered.

He smiled slightly.

She was just saying that she was going to leave, when she heard him ask: "Which school?"

"Huakou." You stunned for a second.

He looked at her: "Let's go, I'll see you off."

"what?"

Chi Zheng tilted his head slightly toward the direction of the motorcycle.

"Don't dislike it."

Before she answered, he had already walked over to the parking side. Meng Shengnan looked at his back and slowly followed. At night, the wind blew the broken hair in my ears, almost blurring my vision. As she approached, Chi Zheng had already stepped onto the motorcycle.

He threw her helmet, and Meng Shengnan hugged it in his arms.

Her feet seemed to be filled with lead, and she lingered. Looking up at him again, the man didn't have any expression, so he stared at the front, looking seriously as if he was waiting for her to get in the car. Meng Shengnan raised her eyebrows, and just about to speak, the phone rang.

She glanced at him, and he looked over.

"Phone." He Nunu chin.

Meng Shengnan nodded slightly, then walked aside to pick it up, it was Qi Qiao.

"Have you found it?"

"Ok."

"Where is it now?"

"Going back to school."

"It's so late, you hurry up." Qi Qiao worried.

Sorry to let him wait, she hung up after a few simple words. When he looked up again, Chi Zheng leaned on the motorcycle and lowered his head to smoke a cigarette. He smoked a little carelessly, noticed her gaze, and looked up.

"Let's go." He threw the cigarette on the ground and stepped on it.

She walked over, "Don't you wear it?"

"No need to."

When the car moved, so did the wind. Meng Shengnan sat behind him, not knowing where to put his hands, gently tugging at the body. He didn't drive slowly on the road not far or near. Along the way, neither of them made a sound. When he got to the school gate, his car hadn't stopped. Perhaps because of inertia, her body suddenly leaped on his back uncontrollably.

At the moment of touching, she was shocked.

The two hands had just grabbed his gray short sleeves just now, and the man seemed to be unresponsive. She retracted her hand in a jealous manner, and quickly got out of the car. Chi Zheng put out the fire and followed him down. For a while, Meng Shengnan dared not raise his eyes to look at him, and his eyes fell in his ears.

"Thank you."

He said, "You're welcome."

"Then you will be careful on the way, I-go in first."

She turned around to leave after she said it.

"Meng Shengnan."

He suddenly called her name in a low voice. At that time, she hadn't moved away, and she was completely stunned on the spot. Facing him sideways, at a loss as to what to do.

He slowly approached.

The sound of breathing and the smell of smoke approached, and she slowly raised her eyes and ran into his dark eyes.

"I said."

He tilted his head slightly, and his voice fell to her ears. He opened the zipper of the bag and stuffed some money in.

Meng Shengnan dared not move.

He stood up again and finished the last half of the sentence.

"Give money to earn points."

His tone is neither tepid nor salty nor mild. Then, turned around and rode away in less than a minute. The rumbling of the motorcycle started to linger in her ears after a long distance. Meng Shengnan stood there for a long time, and then slowly raised his foot and walked back with the faint light from the side of the road.

In recent days, the school has been busy.

In the office, the teachers in each class were chatting freely while preparing lessons. (8) The class took an English test last night, and Meng Shengnan was reviewing the test paper.

"Little Meng."

Teacher Wu, who is in her 30s, smiled and looked at her: "Do you have any class in the afternoon?"

Meng Shengnan looked up from the test paper.

"No."

"Let's hang out together."

"I'll go too." Teacher Xiao Lin, who was playing on the phone, also spoke.

Meng Shengnan smiled, and Teacher Wu looked at Xiaolin.

"Don't you have a boyfriend?"

Xiao Lin sighed, "He is so busy that he doesn't even have time to call me every day, just like nothing."

"Isn't it?" Teacher Wu was surprised.

"Why not?" Xiaolin smiled and shook his head. "Do you know what colleagues in their research institute call him?"

Meng Shengnan asked: "What?"

"Old Master."

Those two: "..."

"How old is he?" Teacher Wu asked.

"Like me, 25." Xiaolin looked at Meng Shengnan, and said again, "By the way, he graduated from your ninth middle school."

"Really." Meng Shengnan said.

Teacher Wu interrupted: "Then what do you like him?"

Speaking of this, Xiao Lin's cheeks are flushed.

"He treats me very well, and he is real."

After listening, Meng Shengnan glanced at his mobile phone subconsciously, and his thoughts were a little confused. After that, it was eleven or twelve o'clock shortly afterwards. The sun is normal, and the air conditioners in the clothing store are not enough to dissipate heat.

Women go shopping together. Generally speaking, the process is crazier and the results are more tragic.

In the afternoon, except for Meng Shengnan who bought a brown dress, the two of them were completely naked from head to toe. She paid the fare for the trip back home, it was nothing short of it. The taxi was driving back, and Xiaolin and Teacher Wu in the back seat said it was hot, and Meng Shengnan turned his head and looked at the row upon row outside the window.

A blink of an eye.

I saw the billboard protruding from the door of the shop that flashed by on that street corner.

The car passed quickly, leaving no aftertaste. When I was approaching school, the rain started to fall, and it seemed like I could not finish saving for a long time. The three of them didn't bring umbrellas, and when they returned to the apartment downstairs with their clothes, they were all drenched.

Xiao Lin said with a bitter face, "I should really call and shout at him to bring an umbrella."

Meng Shengnan brushed the wet hair on his forehead and smiled.

Back at the apartment, she quickly took a hot bath and changed her clothes, exactly at six o'clock. I made a simple meal by myself, and coded words while drinking the porridge. The rows of Song Ti No. 4 in the computer can no longer be familiar, she is writing a story.

The Penguin in the lower right corner of the computer was flashing.

Roommate Li Tao came over with a pained expression: I have to stay up late to run the news at night.

Meng Shengnan: Hard work.

Li Tao immediately replied: How are you, substitute teacher?

Meng Shengnan: It is a great honor to nurture the next generation of the motherland.

Li Tao:...

A story was written intermittently, and she chatted with Li Tao for a while. Later, when it was over, Li Tao asked her if she would come back to do news.

Meng Shengnan said, look again.

I followed my predecessors as an intern and witnessed the behind-the-scenes activities of a Beijing-Shanghai-Guangzhou chain network technology company. She said she wanted to report, but the senior stopped her. At that time, what ability and background did she have as a small intern? Seniors said that after a long time in this industry, they would get used to it. She didn't believe it, Senior sighed and said that he didn't want your life to go.

She didn't listen and didn't walk out of the newspaper's door.

The message from the predecessors is here: My child, think more about your family.

After a moment of quiet thought, Meng Shengnan closed the computer. The rain was crackling outside the window, it was big and big. She fell asleep slowly with the sound of the rain on her pillow, and was awakened in sweat by the nightmare most of the night. When I woke up early the next morning, my nose was very uncomfortable.

After a rain, the weather turned cooler.

In the office, a box of toilet paper was almost used by her.

"Have a cold?" Xiao Lin asked.

She coughed a few more times and made a muffled ‘um’.

"Have you taken medicine?"

She rubbed her nose, "Well, it won't work for two days."

"Let's go to the hospital for a look."

She thought about it, dizzy and painful and could not sleep well these past two days. So that afternoon, I took the bus and went to the nearest No. 1 Hospital. The doctor was an old man, and told her pulse that she had a fever and stomach problems. Then, as it is now. She was sitting on a bench outside the corridor with a bottle.

It took three days.

Meng Shengnan was really boring alone, and wanted to call Qi Qiao over, but no one answered the phone.

"Sheng Nan?"

A woman's voice suddenly spread to the side of her ears, and she looked up.

"Ms. Chen?" Meng Shengnan was surprised.

Chen Si smiled and sat beside her.

"We haven't seen each other for a long time."

Meng Shengnan nodded, "Yeah."

She couldn't tell that it was because of Chi Zheng that she stopped going.

"what happened?"

"It doesn't matter if you have a cold." Meng Shengnan asked, "Are you also seeing a doctor?"

Chen Si said: "The doctor asked me to stay for a few more days and was discharged today."

"Are you alone?"

"And Ah Zheng."

Meng Shengnan dared not deny it. When Chen Si said the name, she really trembled.

Chen Sidao: "He went to get medicine."

It was the same scene again, maybe she saw him behind her as soon as she turned her head. However, in the next second, she heard Chen Si calling his name. Meng Shengnan looked up quickly, and the man was dressed in black and walked over with the medicine.

Chi Zheng was stunned and looked at her left hand.

"I got sick?"

"Yeah." She was startled.

He glanced at the tip of her red nose.

"cold?"

Meng Shengnan nodded.

Chen Si on the side narrowed his eyebrows and kept calm.

"What bottle?" he asked.

Meng Shengnan said: "The second bottle."

"How many bottles in total?"

"Two bottles."

Chen Si looked at them as they asked and answered, and suddenly smiled, "Then this is the last bottle. I haven't seen it for such a long time. Let's talk more about the conversation and let this kid send you back."

"No." She blurted out.

Chi Zheng glanced at her.

Meng Shengnan: "I mean, don't bother--"

"No trouble." He cut her off.

She stopped speaking, and Chen Si took her hand and asked what she said. Chi Zheng stood aside and leaned against the wall, lowering his head slightly.

"Always alone?" Chen Si asked.

She smiled embarrassedly and nodded.

"That's good." Chen Si murmured.

Meng Shengnan didn't hear it clearly, and said ‘Ah’.

Chen Si laughed, pointed at Chi Zheng, and whispered to her, "Have you seen him like that?"

Meng Shengnan didn't understand what it meant.

Chen Si said: "There is no way to stand."

She glanced over, and the man looked sideways.

"How did you say it before." Chen Si smiled, "The second-rate guy is playing drums, and he's foolish."

Meng Shengnan couldn't help laughing.

Chen Si asked her about some recent work and life issues, and occasionally joked about Chi Zheng. Suddenly the time to make a bottle go by quickly passed. Talking with Chen Si too intently, when she looked up again, the man was not there. She glanced at the end of the corridor again, and he was leaning against the side door, smoking a cigarette with his head down.

She was about to withdraw her gaze when he looked over.