This time, Ruan Bai slept until about 7 o'clock in the morning.
The early morning in the town is no different than that in City A. The streets and houses in the town are only a few meters apart, and the noise and sounds can be heard.
The sound of people selling breakfast on the street naturally filled the ears of the sleeping Ruan Bai.
After waking up leisurely, Ruan Bai took a clear-headed look at the small hotel room. It was empty. She was the only one lying on the narrow bed, with the window open and the air conditioner turned off.
Although she was feeling uncomfortable due to her period, last night was the most peaceful sleep she had in recent days.
Ruan Bai got up, took the mobile phone next to the pillow and looked at the time. It was already past 7 o'clock.
Where did Mu Shaoling go?
When he left the room and went to the bathroom to change sanitary napkins, the hotel proprietress passed by and said to Ruan Bai, "You woke up so early. Your husband is smoking outside."
Ruan Bai nodded blankly.
This "husband" refers to Mu Shaoling.
After going to the bathroom and washing up, Ruan Bai planned to have breakfast with him before returning to City A.
Grandpa is not in the town and will not come to the town.
After yesterday's most helpless and panic period, now thinking rationally, Ruan Bai feels that grandpa did not run away from home.
If grandpa ran away from home, the purpose of running away from home was to reduce the burden on his granddaughter.
But why should a grandfather reduce the burden on his granddaughter? It must be because he feels sorry for the hardships in his granddaughter's life. However, such a grandfather who loves his granddaughter will not leave without saying goodbye. He will know his granddaughter's worries and panic.
Ruan Bai was sure that his grandfather had not run away from home.
Lost, can't find home, or something else...
She didn't dare to continue imagining...
But as Mu Shaoling said last night, no news may be the best news.
Mu Shaoling finished smoking and walked in from outside.
Ruan Bai checked out with him and went to a nearby breakfast stall.
After she sat down, he ordered soy milk and fried dough sticks and told the stall owner: "One portion of soy milk without sugar, the other with two spoons."
"Okay!" the stall owner responded happily as he was busy.
Mu Shaoling sat down opposite Ruan Bai.
At the breakfast stall, there were adults who had gotten up early in the morning and had nothing to do, as well as middle-aged and elderly people. Most of them were students studying in nearby elementary schools, junior high schools and high schools.
Mu Shaoling's car and the man himself attracted a lot of attention.
The small town is poor, and they only see tough and handsome men in suits and ties occasionally in newspapers, and in gossip magazines bought from the city, which often publish some well-dressed and good-looking Hong Kong people.
The male movie star looks very masculine in every gesture.
A mature man sat down at Leng Buding's breakfast stall. Everyone couldn't help but be curious about his identity and what he was doing in the small town.
No matter how others looked at him, Ruan Bai lowered his head and bit the straw, silently drinking the soy milk.
Ever since she was a child, she and her grandfather have often come here to eat soy milk and fried dough sticks, but the couple who sold them at the breakfast stall back then are the parents of the current breakfast stall owner.
There is no difference in taste.
From that time on, she had the habit of drinking soy milk with two spoons of sugar in a bowl of soy milk.
Mu Shaoling opened her mouth and said that she put two spoons of sugar in the bowl of soy milk without asking her. Ruan Bai was curious, was this a coincidence?
"Have you finished eating?" Mu Shaoling asked about the fried dough sticks in front of her.
Ruan Bai looked up at him and shook his head.
Mu Shaoling picked up the fried dough sticks in front of her and helped her eat it.
While Ruan Bai drank soy milk, he thought silently, if he had lived with Mu Shaoling under the same roof since he was a child, whether it was a poor Ruan family, a wealthy Mu family, or an orphanage, what would be the fate of himself and his brother?
, what will it be like?
My brother is so handsome, he must be surrounded by many women who want to be his sister-in-law.
As for her, if there was a suitor around her, would a brother like Mu Shaoling help her strictly check and choose the best boyfriend for her?
"What are you thinking about?" Mu Shaoling was eating breakfast, but his eyes were always on her.
"I was thinking, if you were my brother..." Ruan Bai raised her head, her expression serious, even full of longing and imagination for the setting in her mind, she looked at him.
But before she finished speaking, he was interrupted by him frowning: "You want to force me to have incest?"
"..."
Ruan Bai did not dare to speak anymore.
Mu Shaoling's eyebrows were filled with melancholy. He didn't know why she always wanted to recognize him as her brother. Is this a strange idea, or did she have some unknown special hobby...
At this time, a couple came to the next table, holding a baby in their arms that could not walk yet.
The woman sat down and the man went to get the tofu puffs and fried dough sticks.
"Hurry up, I can't hold the baby anymore." The woman held the lively baby in her arms as tightly as she could.
The man went over and took a plate. While picking up the fried dough sticks, his eyes looked towards Mu Shaoling and Ruan Bai from time to time. As he looked at them, he attracted his wife's attention.
The wife thought her husband was looking at the beautiful woman, so she couldn't help but look at her, but like her husband, her eyes became straight.
The child in her arms almost jumped out like a loach, and then the wife came back to her senses and said with a sigh: "Boy, please be honest, you are a fish, you are so good at running away!"
The husband came back and sat down. After sitting down, he looked at the next table.
He looked familiar, but he didn't dare to recognize him.
Until an aunt came over. The last time Ruan Bai came to pick up his grandfather, he had met this neighbor aunt.
"Isn't this Xiaobai from the Ruan family? Why is he back again?" asked the aunt.
The couple at the next table looked at each other. At first, the man suspected that the person sitting at the next table was his old classmate Mu Shaoling. However, over the years, his appearance has changed. His height and aura are both impressive. Who dares to go up and recognize him directly?
classmate?
If the woman's name is Ruan Bai, then the person sitting opposite is Mu Shaoling, which should be correct...
"Do you still remember me? When I was in high school, you gave me a basketball." The father took the child, leaned over and greeted Mu Shaoling.
Mu Shaoling and Ruan Bai looked over at the same time.
…
Twenty minutes later.
On the playground of the high school in the town, Ruan Bai stood in the courtyard of the high school, looking at the wall that separated the middle school from the high school, and recalled many things. She had been on the other side of the wall and peeked at this side of the wall.
She still remembers every jump and dunk Mu Shaoling made on the basketball court.
"At first I didn't dare to recognize him, because I thought he looked familiar. Then I heard my aunt call her Ruan's Xiaobai, and I concluded that you are my high school classmate. Are you married?" The father holding the child laughed.
With his simplicity, he was both excited and embarrassed to reminisce with such a rich old classmate.
"Yes, are you married?" the child's mother also asked, obviously knowing the story of Mu Shaoling falling in love with a girl from junior high school and then disappearing while waiting for her parents to grow up.
Mu Shaoling nodded: "I'm married, and Ruan Bai gave me two children."
