Chapter 181: Encountering a Teacher by Coincidence
When the first snow of early winter fell, Gu Mengmeng resumed work.
She reported to the company a week in advance. She did not drive on the first day of work. She got up early in the morning to wash up and buy soy milk and fried dough sticks. After wolfing down the food, she put on a light and warm navy blue down jacket and ran out of the house.
The injury on her hand has fully recovered. Professor Qi is right at all. Because of her delay and negligence, there are still deep and shallow scars on the back of her hand. The professor said, don’t be too sad, it will take care of itself as time goes by.
It's faded. If it's really ugly, just have cosmetic surgery, which only costs tens of thousands of dollars.
She smiled and said no. The scar was not on her face, so who was still staring at her hands?
Putting on thick warm gloves and inserting them into the pocket of her down jacket, facing the cold air with flying snowflakes, she said to herself in her heart: "Gu Mengmeng, come on!"
She had not taken a bus for a long time and squeezed onto the 320 bus. The buses in Beijing were as crowded as ever. In addition to the snowy weather, it was even more overcrowded and tightly packed. After just one stop, a student got off the bus and let her go.
A few people gave the seat to Gu Mengmeng, a soldier.
"Thank you! I'm sorry to ask you to stand." Her face was still a little hot. As a member of the People's Liberation Army, she didn't know how to give up her seat to ordinary people. She felt it was inappropriate.
"It's okay. Who told you to be the only woman in this film?" A tall man said everything for the people next to him.
Gu Mengmeng thanked her again before sitting down quietly, leaning against the window and looking towards the foggy Beijing city.
The early winter in old Beijing in my memory is a kind of simple blue-gray. The sky in the courtyard at that time was gentle. Under the light sky, the alleys in the old city reflected the calm gray-brown color. The cement pavement in the courtyard
It is always whiter than the blue-gray pavement in the alley next door, but the smoke of fireworks in the world can never match the white smoke curling up from the chimney when cooking in the alley. When she was a child, she would move a high stool and stand on the roof of the second floor of the small house.
Looking through the barbed wire fence at the leaves on the treetops in the alley. They all fell in the wind, leaving dry branches empty and stretching toward the sky, just like her, thinking about spring.
At that time, there were not as many tall buildings as there are now. The sky was always blue with floating clouds, or just like today, the darkness was scattered with patches of pure white that cleansed the world. She once led Xiao Xi to sneak into the alley next door to play.
, there are their common friends, a sincere, enthusiastic, and hospitable thin girl and her fat brother. They run wildly in the yard, hide and seek, play marbles, throw bread, and pull the wheel... until it gets cold.
After that, they watched the adults wrap up the public water faucet in the yard with straw ropes and move back the delicate flowers and plants in the yard. Long and short chimneys stretched out from the windows of each house.
They all helped each other buy black briquettes and Chinese cabbage for the winter just like they were celebrating the New Year.
At that time, she and Xiaoxi would be particularly nostalgic for the alley. They were particularly greedy for the chowder that the brothers and sisters had been stewing for a long time at home.
The chowder is a dish eaten by poor people. The main raw materials are Chinese cabbage, roasted tofu and radish. The broth saved every time when cooking meat is simmered slowly over low heat, and three or four red sweet potatoes are placed in the stove.
When the chowder was about to come out of the pot, the sweet and fragrant sweetness of the sweet potatoes began to spread, making a group of children greedy.
The bus arrived at another stop, very close to the Ganjiakou Building Station where the newspaper is located. Two old men in thick down jackets got on the bus. They were wearing masks and were tremblingly being helped by kind-hearted passengers to find vacated seats.
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Gu Mengmeng stood up quickly and called them over with a slightly louder voice.
"Uncle, this way!"
The old man seemed to be startled. He looked at Gu Mengmeng and then rubbed his eyes. He bumped into his wife beside him and asked in surprise: "Honey, look at that, is it cute?"
Gu Mengmeng also heard the sound, and couldn't help but feel excited. She stood up and walked a few steps towards the old man, and called out with a trembling voice: "Teacher Si! Mrs. Si!"
Those two people were Gu Mengmeng and Cen Kaixun’s mentors, consultants of the China Photographers Association, and Si Biguang, the most senior photographers in China.
Gu Mengmeng was so surprised that after placing her teacher and his wife down, they held hands tightly and looked at each other. Looking at the new white hair in the teacher's and his wife's hair, she couldn't help but blush.
"Teacher, when did you come back from Australia, you didn't even inform me!"
The teacher's wife smiled and took her into her arms. Regardless of the bumps of the vehicle, she held her favorite Gu Mengmeng tightly in her arms and said, "I just came back. Your teacher said that there will be a photography exhibition from abroad in the exhibition hall today.
He was going to be a guest, so we set off early."
Gu Mengmeng nestled in the familiar and warm arms of her mistress, and couldn't help but start acting coquettishly.
"I don't care. You are just planning to leave me. You just left without leaving any thoughts for me. Now you are back and you don't even say a word to me."
Professor Si Biguang laughed heartily. He reached out and patted Gu Mengmeng's ponytail, and said apologetically: "I originally planned to buy groceries with your wife after the exhibition and call you home for dinner. I didn't expect that.
The little Mengmeng that your master misses so much is waiting for us in the car. It seems that we are still destined!"
The teacher's wife also explained: "I had no choice but to go to Australia. Qi Kai's wife had a difficult childbirth, so your teacher and I left overnight. I didn't expect that once we left, we wouldn't be able to come back."
Gu Mengmeng blinked and asked, "I heard from Qi Kai that she is a lovely princess baby. Am I going to be your aunt?"
The teacher's wife smiled and said yes, the child's name is Si Ruoxi, and she is a beautiful little princess who was born in the morning.
Gu Mengmeng also smiled. She was actually very close to Professor Si's family. Her mentor and teacher-mother loved her just like her parents. Qi Kai was also a good brother. Unfortunately, she later settled in Australia due to the development of domestic companies.
I wanted to say something more, but the bus was already dutifully announcing the stop: Ganjiakou Building has arrived. Passengers getting off the bus, please prepare in advance.
Gu Mengmeng reluctantly moved to the door and waved goodbye to the teacher and his family.
"Teacher, Master. I'm going to work."
"My wife and I will wait for you at home tonight and prepare delicious food for you!" Professor Si looked at his beloved disciple with a smile and extended an invitation.
"Hey...I'll be there on time! Just wait and see..." As soon as she finished speaking, the car door opened, and she took a big step out of the car lightly, then jumped up in a flash.
Go down. Just as Mrs. Si was about to tell her to pay attention to safety, she was already standing firmly in the snow, smiling and waving her arms to the two people in the car who were closest to her in memory.
"This girl! She still hasn't changed at all." Professor Si couldn't help but sigh.
Mrs. Si also had the same feeling. "Qi Kai said she was married, but I refused to believe it. I will interrogate her carefully tonight!"