Gu Mengmeng stopped her with just one sentence: "You can't be so selfish." Gu Mengmeng said: "My mind has been made, you don't need to persuade me anymore."
The two of them later looked at each other in silence, and sat there holding drinks for a long time before leaving.
Gu Mengmeng did not leave home like last time. She moved into the study room and went home late every day after eating and shopping. After returning home, she refused to talk to him more and protested in a silent way.
His "uncooperation".
Conway was uncharacteristically uncharacteristic.
He didn't force her to change her mind, but he insisted on getting up early every morning to make breakfast and take her to the station. Gu Mengmeng hardened her heart and refused to let herself pay attention to his rapidly thinning face, nor to look at the fullness in his eyes.
of pain and helplessness.
This kind of day passed for about half a month.
Finally, on a windy morning, she was taken to the bus stop by him. Standing in the waiting crowd, she looked ahead and said, "Let's finish the formalities."
At that time, a cold wind happened to blow by, lifting the broken hair on his forehead. His eyes were as deep as the surging waves, staring at her figure, and he was speechless for a while.
The bus had already pulled into the stop. For the first time, she did not give up her seat to the people behind her. She stepped out in one stride, but when she got on the bus, she glanced back at him.
"I'm free today..." she said.
The car door creaked shut.
He rumbled away with a full load of passengers and his hopes...
He frowned in pain, looked up at the powerless morning sun, and felt an unprecedented sense of frustration filling his heart.
As she expected.
For most of the day, he didn't even have a phone call, let alone someone coming in person.
Watching the clock hand moving towards the off-duty time, she suddenly exhaled for some reason. She felt very conflicted, wanting to leave him, but she was extremely afraid that he would actually come to keep her promise.
She.
It seems that in the silent battle that drags on longer and longer, it gradually loses the strength to hold on.
Seeing Su Changqing driving to pick her up in person and waiting outside the door of the newspaper office for an hour, this situation somewhat surprised her. Thinking of her father, whom she had not seen for a long time, her heart suddenly panicked.
"Uncle Su, what's the matter? My dad..."
Su Changqing gestured for her to get in the car and talk. His license plate was too eye-catching. All the people coming and going were colleagues from the newspaper office, and some people were already paying attention to them.
I hurriedly got in the car and drove away from the newspaper office. The car turned along the main road and onto the path to my parents' house in the compound.
Su Changqing asked her: "Both the chief and I know about you and Conway. The chief wants to see you, so he specially took time tonight to have a good talk with you."
Gu Mengmeng was speechless.
She originally wanted to hide it from her father. She wanted to wait until the matter was resolved before explaining the situation to him. She didn't expect that he would find out so quickly.
She smiled miserably and asked Su Changqing: "Did Kangwei ask dad to persuade me?" Could it be that he had no choice but to inform Comrade Gu Quntang today after he gave the ultimatum?
Su Changqing said: "It's not Kangwei, don't misunderstand him. The person who told the chief the whole story was Mrs. Kang. She was very anxious when she saw that you had not reconciled for so long, so she contacted me in a hurry."
Gu Mengmeng suddenly realized and said nothing. She stopped talking and leaned her head on the edge of the car window, looking at the scenery outside the car window passing by with sad eyes.
Su Changqing's eyes flashed with worry. He patted the sensible girl he had watched since childhood, feeling indescribably sad.
Arrived at home.
She took out her key and opened the door, but to her surprise, the door opened by herself from the inside.
Comrade Gu Quntang's smiling face poked out from the door, looked at her without any surprise, and said cheerfully: "Come in quickly, dad made your favorite sweet and sour pork ribs and fish today. Come in quickly,
Help dad serve the food!"
She stared blankly at her father, at his mother's favorite plaid apron, at his busy figure turning around and running into the kitchen, and at the tangy aroma of food in her nose...
She stared blankly for a long time, her eyes slowly turning red.
I thought that when I walked in, I would be greeted by a storm, but I didn’t expect that it would be a reunion dinner that I had been looking forward to for many years.
The grievances I have endured for so long seem to have found an outlet at this moment.
She sniffed, put down her bag, took the dish from her father's hand, and put it on the table. She went in to serve the rice, and Gu Quntang wanted to come in to help, but she blocked the door of the kitchen.
She lowered her head and said with a choked voice that was almost broken: "Dad... I'll come... I'll be fine..."
Gu Qun Tang's expression froze, so he had to follow her instructions, take off his apron and hand it to her, saying as calmly as possible: "Hurry up then, dad has been busy for so long and is starving."
She nodded heavily and quickly turned back to serve the rice.
Gu Quntang sat down at the dining table and waited for a while before seeing Gu Mengmeng come out holding two bowls.
She kept her head down.
Don't talk, just focus on eating.
Gu Quntang asked her for a piece, so she ate it and refused to take the initiative to eat at all.
Finally, he sighed softly and put down the bowl and chopsticks. He looked at his beloved daughter who had endured the ordeal with extremely distressed eyes and said: "Mengmeng, if you don't want to eat it, don't eat it... Dad knows that you feel uncomfortable...
If you want to cry, cry it out..."
She stopped moving first and held the small porcelain bowl motionless.
Later, after a while, she suddenly put down her bowls and chopsticks, raised her tear-stained face, and threw herself into the arms of her father, who was waiting for her to express her grievances and sorrows.
"Dad!...Dad! My heart hurts so much...Dad, I don't want to leave him...I don't want to!"
Gu Quntang's eyes also filled with glistening tears.
He patted the sobbing daughter and said pitifully: "Dad knows it, dad knows it...my daughter! She is really good..."
"Dad...How can I make my heart not hurt so much? I can't hold on to your cuteness...Dad..."
He hugged his daughter tightly, looked at her with deep eyes and said, "Why don't you choose to be with him?"