Chapter Twenty(1/3)
I didn't expect that Zhuang Qing would be as stubborn as usual and have to do such an extraneous thing at this time. (.om pure text) What makes me even more embarrassed is that she doesn't listen to anyone's advice at all. Her stubbornness
Completely in sharp contrast to Xiao Zhong's gentleness.
Zhuang Qing was looking at us, and after a moment she actually laughed, "Okay, can I not tell you anything else? Since Song Mei told a story just now, let me tell you one too."
We didn't speak, but she ignored our attitude and started talking to herself——
On this day, two guests came to Baiyun Restaurant, a man and a woman, about forty years old, well-dressed, the man was carrying a travel bag, it seemed that they were a traveling couple. The waiter brought the menu with a smile
The man took the menu and handed it to the woman directly, saying: You can order it, whatever you want to eat. The woman didn’t even look at it, she raised her head and said to the waiter: Just give us a bowl of wontons.[
The waiter was startled. How could anyone eat wontons at Baiyun Restaurant? Besides, there were no wontons for sale in the restaurant. She thought she had not heard clearly and looked at the female customer uneasily. The woman repeated her words again, and the man next to her
At this time, she spoke: What kind of wontons can I eat? It’s not like I have no money. The woman shook her head and said: I just want to eat wontons! The man was stunned, and seeing the surprised look in the waiter’s eyes, he said embarrassedly: Okay. Please give us two.
A bowl of wontons. No! The woman quickly added, just one bowl! The man was startled again, how can he eat a bowl? The woman saw the man frowning and said: Didn't you promise to listen to me all the way?
The man fell silent and leaned on the chair with his hands folded. The waiter next to him showed a contemptuous smile and thought to himself: This woman is so stingy. Not only did they go to the restaurant to eat wontons, the two of them only wanted one bowl. She
He curled his lips at the woman: Sorry, we don't sell wontons here. If you want to eat, you should go to the food stalls outside!
When the woman heard this, she was very surprised. She thought for a while and then said: How come there are no wontons for sale? You think the business is small and you don’t want to do it. At this time, the restaurant owner happened to pass by. When he heard the woman’s words, he waved to the waiter, and the waiter left.
She went over and complained: Boss, look at these two people, they just ordered wontons. Aren’t they trying to cause trouble? The shop owner smiled slightly and waved his hand at her. He also felt very strange: looking at the way this couple was dressed, they shouldn’t be eating.
People who can't afford to eat probably have other ideas. In any case, business comes to your door and there is no reason to go out. He whispered to the waiter: Go out and buy a bowl of wontons and come back.
Twice the money! After saying that, he pulled up a chair and sat down, and began to observe this strange couple.
After a while, the waiter brought back a bowl of steaming wontons, put it in front of the woman, and said, "Please use it slowly." When she saw the wontons, the woman's eyes lit up, and she put her face to the surface of the bowl.
He took a deep breath, then gently stirred the wontons in the bowl with a spoon, as if he couldn't bear to eat them, and they didn't come to his mouth for a long time.
The man looked at the woman with wide eyes, then turned around and looked around. He felt that everyone was staring at them with strange eyes. He suddenly felt ashamed and said bitterly: I really don’t understand what you are doing. You have come all the way here.
, just to eat this bowl of wontons, the woman raised her head and said: I like it!
The man picked up the menu on the table and said, "You can eat what you like. I've been hungry all day and I need to make up for it." He waved the waiter over and ordered seven or eight expensive dishes at once.
The woman took her time and waited for the man to finish his order. Then she said calmly to the waiter: You'd better ask him if he has money first, and be careful of him eating the King's meal.
Before the waiter could react, the man blushed angrily: Fart! Will I eat the King's meal? Will I have no money? As he spoke, he reached into his arms and suddenly said "Where's my wallet?" He simply stood up.
, patted and pinched her body, and then she discovered that her mobile phone was missing. The man stood stunned for a long time, and finally turned his eyes to the woman opposite.
The woman said calmly: Stop working around. I threw my wallet and mobile phone into the river last night. When the man heard this, he got angry: You are crazy! The woman seemed not to hear and continued to stir the bowl slowly.
There were wontons in the bag. The man suddenly remembered something, opened his travel bag, reached into it and dug it out. The woman said coldly: Stop looking for your watch and my ring. Let’s bring them all out this time.
I threw all the valuable things into the river. I still had five yuan with me, which was just enough to buy this bowl of wontons!
The man's face turned pale. He sat down and glared at the woman angrily: You are really crazy, you are really crazy! We have no money, how can we go back such a long way?
But the woman looked calm and said calmly: Why are you in a hurry? No matter what, we still have two legs, and we will get home as soon as we walk.
The man snorted dullly. The woman continued: Twenty years ago, we didn’t have a penny on our bodies, so why didn’t we still go home? The weather at that time was even colder than now!
After hearing this, the man couldn't help but stare: "Tell me, what did you say?" The woman asked: "You really don't remember." The man shook his head blankly.
The woman sighed: It seems that after having a little money in these years, she has really forgotten everything. Twenty years ago, we went on a business trip for the first time. Unexpectedly, we were cheated out of everything.
The fare for the trip home is gone. When you passed by here, you asked for a bowl of wontons for me to eat. I know that you only had 50 cents left on you at that time...
When the man heard this, he trembled and looked around. Here... the woman said: This is it. I will never forget it. At that time, it was still a small and shabby wonton shop.
The man lowered his head silently, and the woman turned to the waiter who was in a daze and said: Girl, please bring me another empty bowl.
The waiter quickly brought an empty bowl. The woman picked up the wontons in front of her, put more than half of them into the empty bowl, and gently walked to the man: "Eat, let's walk home together after eating!"
The man stared at the half bowl of wontons in front of him for a long time before saying: I'm not hungry. The woman's eyes flashed with tears and she murmured to herself: Twenty years ago, you said the same thing! After saying that, she stared at
The bowl didn't move the spoon, it just sat quietly.
The man said: Why don't you eat? The woman choked again: Twenty years ago, you asked me the same thing. I remember my answer to you at that time. If you want to eat, eat it together, or if you don't want to eat, eat it at all. Now, it's still like this.
Words![
The man muttered silently and reached out to pick up the spoon. For some unknown reason, the hand holding the spoon shook violently. After scooping it up several times, the wontons fell off. Finally, he finally put a wonton into his mouth and swallowed it whole.
He swallowed them all. When he scooped up the second wonton, tears suddenly fell down.
When the woman saw him eating, a smile appeared on her face, and she also picked up the spoon and started eating. As soon as the wontons entered her mouth, tears fell into the bowl. The couple finished the bowl of wontons with tears.
Putting down the spoon, the man raised his head and asked the woman softly: Are you full?
The woman shook her head. The man was very anxious. Suddenly he seemed to remember something. He bent down and took off one of his leather shoes, pulled out the insole, and touched inside. Unexpectedly, he found five dollars. He was startled.
Staring at the money in his hand in disbelief.
The woman smiled and said: Twenty years ago, you lied to me and said you only had 50 cents to buy a bowl of wontons. In fact, you still had 50 cents, which was hidden in the sole of your shoe. I know you wanted to hide it.
Fifty cents, I'll take it out when I'm hungry. Later, you were forced to eat half of the wontons. Knowing that I must not be full, you took out the money and bought another bowl! After a pause, she said, Fortunately, you
Remember what I did, I didn’t hide these five dollars in vain!
The man handed the money to the waiter: Give us another bowl of wontons. The waiter didn't take the money and ran away quickly. After a while, he came back with a big bowl full of wontons.
The man poured more than half of the woman's bowl: Eat it while it's hot!
The woman didn't move and said: After eating, we have to walk home. Don't blame me. I just want to be hungry and miserable with you before we break up!
The man said nothing, lowered his head and swallowed in large gulps, including the soup and water. He put down the bowl and urged the woman: "Eat quickly, let's walk home after eating!"
The woman said: Don't worry, I will keep my word. I will sign it when I get back. I won't take any money. Which woman do you want to marry? If you marry ten or eight, I won't care about you...
The man suddenly shouted loudly: I will burn the divorce agreement when I get back. Isn’t it okay? After saying that, he actually burst into tears. I was wrong. I’m not okay. My head is cramped. Isn’t it okay?
With a smile on her face, the woman calmly finished half a bowl of wontons, and then said to the waiter: Girl, please pay the bill.[`Novel`]
The boss Zhang Xianfeng, who had been watching from the sidelines, suddenly woke up, walked over quickly, blocked the woman's hand, took out two hundred-dollar bills from his body and handed it over: Since you burned the divorce agreement when you came back, why did you still keep it?
I have to walk home
The man and woman looked at the shop owner hesitantly, and the shop owner smiled and said: We are all old acquaintances. I sold the wontons you ate twenty years ago, and my wife made those wontons! After that, he
He forced the money into the man's hands and left without looking back...
The store owner returned to the office, took out the divorce agreement that had been drawn up from the drawer, looked at it blankly for a long time, and murmured to himself: It seems that my head is also cramped...
Zhuang Qing stopped talking here, and there was silence on the table. I suddenly felt sore and uncomfortable in my throat.
At this time, I heard Zhuang Qing continue to say, in a soft voice, "This is the story of my parents. I didn't think it was anything when my father told it to me before, but today I discovered that their story is really true."
It's very touching. Who said it's hard to take it back? It's just that some people don't want to take it back. Okay, I'm full. Feng Xiao, let's go."
After she finished speaking, she stood up.
"You guys go first, Xiao Zhong and I will sit here for a while." Song Mei smiled at us, and I found his smile was ugly.
Zhuang Qing took my arm as soon as we left the restaurant. I felt very uncomfortable. Judging from her behavior tonight, I clearly felt that she still had Song Mei in her heart. But why did she continue to be with her?
Will I get better? Is it still because of that project?
Sometimes people are like this. They clearly know that the other person is interacting with you for a certain purpose, but they always hope that the other person is doing it out of the same true feelings as themselves. This kind of self-deception will always appear naturally and always.
It leaves people with a lingering pain.
"Is the story you told true?" I found a topic. To be honest, I doubted the authenticity of the story she just told, because the regret she told about the restaurant owner at the end made me feel false -
—How did her father know about that process?[
"Feng Xiao, do you think I can just make up a story like that?" She asked me back.
I think so, "Zhuang Qing, are your parents okay?"
"Hmm." She said, "Feng Xiao, do you know what I'm most afraid of right now?"
I was startled, thinking that her thinking was particularly free today, "Zhuang Qing, what's wrong with you today? Why can't I understand what you are going to say?"
"I'm most afraid that my parents will know about my divorce. They have experienced something like that, and although everything has changed because of that bowl of wontons, I can still feel the rift between them. Now, I'm divorced,
I really can't face them, because in their eyes, my life is happy. I feel that I am really unfilial now, because my marriage finally disappointed them. At the beginning, my father was firmly opposed to my relationship with Song.
Song Mei was married to Song Mei. My father told me that Song Mei was the kind of person who was too smart and realistic. He also said that he was not a man that ordinary women could keep. Of course I understood what my father meant. He meant that I simply
I don’t have the ability to control Song Mei. Of course I wouldn’t believe it, so I stubbornly married him. Who knew it would be like this in the end, my father really predicted it.” She said, her voice
Very miserable.
"Zhuang Qing, your father was also doing it for your own good. He is a man, so he can see other men clearly. However, he is your father after all, and the best people in the world for you are actually your parents.
No one will treat you better than them. So, even if they know your current situation, they will not blame you. I believe that they will love you and care about you more. Do you think so?" I said, in my heart
Suddenly I thought of my parents. Why weren't they like this? It's a pity that although I was aware of this, I couldn't understand them. In my heart, that strong sense of rebellion still existed.
"I don't blame him." She said suddenly, "Today I realized that if something is not yours, it will never be yours. Even if you use extraordinary means to get it, it will only be a short-term possession. That little clock, she seems to be better than me.
It needs to be better."
I can understand her current mood, and I can also know very clearly that she is still in a bad mood. Although she said it so easily, she must have been particularly uncomfortable in her heart when she saw a woman who was better than herself fall in love with.
What would it be like to have a man you once liked?
"Zhuang Qing, whether a woman is excellent or not cannot be distinguished simply by a long time. Every man has different evaluation standards for women, and their concept of excellence or not is completely different in their eyes. For example, I think you
To be continued...