The meal lasted for about an hour, and I tried my best not to let any silence occur between us, because I knew that silence would result in mutual embarrassment, and after the embarrassment, she would most likely be dissatisfied with me.
After finishing a bottle of red wine, she said to me: "Shall we drink some more?"
I shook my head, "Let's all take a rest early. Actually, we're quite tired from this trip. Let's drink after we get back."
She looked at me and said, "You mean we can drink after we get to Guangzhou?"
I shook my head and said, "Let's talk about it after we return to Jiangnan. Drinking too much is not good for those who are out in public. I am not used to drinking too much during business trips."
She looked at me in surprise, "Why?"
I answered her: "Think about it, if you get drunk outside and something happens, wouldn't it be bad? But it's different in Jiangnan. If something happens, you can immediately ask an acquaintance for help."
She sighed and said, "You are too cautious. Living like this will be very tiring."
I said: "Life is full of risks everywhere. We have to be careful. Of course, you are a doctor, and I used to be the same. This kind of profession is very simple. You only need to take good care of your patients. But now I am different.
Politics is a very complicated thing, and sometimes it can even be cruel, so I have to be careful. Doctor, I hope you can understand."
She smiled and said: "Listening to what you said, I really understand you."
I raised my wine glass, which still contained the last bit of wine left in it, "Thank you for your understanding."
On the way back to the hotel, she asked me: "Mayor Feng, are you still going out to play tomorrow morning?"
I shook my head, "I want to read some materials in the hotel tomorrow morning, and I'll have to get busy when I get back. I'm the mayor, and there are so many things waiting for me to deal with in the city. After this trip abroad, I don't know how many things have been dealt with.
It’s pressed there.”
She immediately laughed and said, "Actually, you are quite tired, so tired that you have lost the interest in life. After all this has happened, why don't you relax?"
I smiled and said: "I don't agree with your statement. This time when we came out, I already had a general understanding of the country's situation, and I also saw the main attractions here and felt the most beautiful scenery here. This is
That's enough. We are going back tomorrow and have to take such a long flight, so I think rest is the most important thing. If you go out to play again tomorrow, you will be kidnapped by this trip."
She asked me in surprise: "Kidnapping? Why do you say that?"
I smiled and said: "For example, I didn't want to go out to play tomorrow, but I felt that it was very difficult for me to go out this time. It seemed that it would be very uneconomical if I didn't go out to play again. What do you mean if I wasn't kidnapped?
This is just like those who buy tourist real estate in a scenic area. They buy a house in a certain scenic area, renovate it and go there for vacation every year.
Maybe it felt fresh at the beginning, but after a few years, it didn’t feel like much fun anymore. But in my heart, I always thought that I bought a house there and spent a lot of money on decoration. If I never go there again,
It’s not cost-effective to live there. So even if I don’t want to go there, I still go there every year. This is also a kind of kidnapping.”
She immediately laughed and said, "What you said seems to make sense."
I smiled and said, "It's not that it seems to make sense, it's that it makes sense in the first place.
In fact, many of us are often kidnapped like this and unable to extricate ourselves. For example, if you pursue freedom, you may be kidnapped by so-called freedom and unable to extricate yourself. Human life is actually very simple and short. As a human being
, we should follow the inherent ways of human society to live our lives and improve our lives. We should get married and have children. This is a normal and complete life. Haha!
Doctor Guan, I have no intention of interfering in your personal life, nor am I preaching to you. I am thinking that since we are friends, I should also give you some suggestions that I think are correct.
But this is just advice that I think is correct, and you don’t have to adopt it. Because I always believe that each of us should have his own choice in life, and no matter how a person chooses, there is no right or wrong. In fact, this
It is also one of the meanings of freedom.”
She said to me softly: "Mayor Feng, you spoke so well."
I laughed and said, "It's not that I speak well, it's because what I speak is the same."
But she suddenly laughed, "Mayor Feng, you are really immodest. I mean, I think you are right. That's because you respect everyone's unique way of life. Now like you
There are really not many leaders. I am used to being free and don’t like to be bound by anything.”
I couldn't help but smile bitterly in my heart: Yes, I told her so much, but it had no effect at all. But think about it, a person's thoughts cannot be formed in a short time, so it is not that easy to change her thoughts.
one thing.
Of course, I didn't want to spend so much time changing her, because I didn't have such a responsibility. Just now, I was just doing it by the way.
Since such an incident didn't have any effect, I had no choice but to retreat and not say anything more to her.
Soon we arrived at the hotel. The floor I lived on was higher than hers. When we were in the elevator, she asked me, "Would you like to sit in my room?"
She had a charming smile on her face. We had drank some red wine just now, and her fair face had a hint of blush. She looked bright and charming at this time. However, at this time, I was only wary. I shook my head.
He said: "I'm not going. You should go to bed early. I'm very tired. I wish you a good dream."
There was a kind of disappointment in her eyes. I could see it clearly. She got off the elevator and I continued to go up. At this time, I suddenly thought of the taxi driver's words again.
Just now, I clearly felt the expectation she conveyed to me. As for me, this incident made me even more cautious. One thing is very clear in my heart: I must never have any relationship with her.
, otherwise, many things will be very difficult to deal with in the future.
She is my collaborator and has a direct interest relationship, so I must keep a certain distance from her. What's more, I have already experienced so many things, and I should not make mistakes in such things anymore.
error.
I have learned a profound lesson from Ruan Zhenzhen’s incident: A woman will never have a relationship with a man casually unless there is true love. But this is absolutely impossible. Such things as true love do not matter to me.
In other words, it is still a kind of luxury for others, and luxury is extremely rare.
After returning to the room, I quickly took a shower, then lay on the bed and started calling Hong Ya, "Hong Ya, I will go back tomorrow. If you are free, please come back often."
She said with a faint voice, "I thought you wouldn't call me."
I hurriedly said: "How could it be? In fact, I have been thinking about you. I went to do some business today. I found an excuse for this trip, which was to visit the medical school of the University of Sydney. If I didn't go there, I wouldn't be able to do business back home.
"
She said softly: "I know. Feng Xiao, what should I do if I want to see you now?"
I was stunned for a moment, "We are more than 900 kilometers apart, and there should be no flights now, right?"
She said softly to me: "How do you know we must be so far apart?"
I was suddenly surprised, "You came to Sydney? When did you come?"
She said: "I will arrive in the afternoon. I have been hesitating whether I should call you."
I suddenly felt ecstatic, "Then where are you now?"
She answered me softly: "The beach..."
I said to her immediately without thinking: "I'll be right away."
After she told me the exact location, I rushed out of the room.
When I arrived at the beach, in the darkness, I saw vaguely what seemed to be a palm tree in front of me. Palm trees are the most common in this city. The tough palm trees were like a figure with open arms swaying gently in the wind. I looked towards
This shadow slowly approached. There was indeed a palm tree in front of me. Just when I saw its branches and leaves swaying gently, I saw a person leaning on the straight trunk. A woman with long hair and wearing a windbreaker.
She should be Hong Ya, but I didn't call her name immediately.
I slowly approached her. She didn't notice me. She was leaning under the palm tree, facing the sea. Her long shawl hair and windbreaker were blown away by the sea breeze, making her body show signs of wanting to fly.
The light from the lighthouse in the distance shone faintly on her face, and I saw clearly that she was Hong Ya.
She still didn't see me until I walked to her side, and I coughed lightly. I don't know why I made a sound at this time. Maybe it was to remind her of my existence, maybe because in this dark night, in
She and I were the only ones on the beach, being brushed by the wings of the sea breeze. Anyway, my voice startled her, and she turned her head and looked at me with a smile on her face.
As the night fell, the sea breeze let out a low roar, like a string of lamenting notes splashing on the sea surface, rolling up her silence and leaning towards the beach beneath her feet.
I was also smiling at her. Her eyes fluttered on me with the sea breeze, making me feel wet and in a daze.
I asked her: "Why did you come here?"
She answered me softly: "I like to watch the sea alone. It feels good to blow the wind on the beach." She raised her head slightly and took a deep breath towards the sea. Her slightly closed eyes were immersed in the sea breeze, as if she had forgotten
I watched her intoxication, the intoxication brought by the sea breeze, fluttering on her raised hair and windbreaker. They were like piano keys, inspiring a person to touch, gaze, understand, and be moved.
I also raised my head. At this moment, I tried to see countless stars flashing in the sky the moment I raised my head. Stars in the night will always give us enlightenment and direction of thinking in the dense cloud pattern of time and space.
When I was very young, I liked to raise my head and look at the dense stars in the sky. They twinkle and make secret sounds, luring one's eyes and soul into a simple world like fairy tales. In that world, we always hope to borrow
My snow-white imagination groped for the sapphire-blue stone of destiny.
But at this moment, when I raised my head, I saw a meteor falling rapidly from the sky in the distance, like a broken string, dropping a note like a water drop on the edge of the coastline. This
At that moment, I heard her sigh in silence, and then she turned her head and asked me: Have you seen the shooting stars? I nodded and looked at her eyes with moist eyes. Silence was in the air again
We dispersed, and neither she nor I spoke anymore. The sea breeze carried the increasingly dark night, huddled her figure in the black of the windbreaker.
I watched her thin shoulders tremble slightly in the wind, and the invisible and visible weakness began to turn from her feet.
I went to hug her into my arms and said, "Let's go back to my room."
She said softly: "Yeah."
Our long shadow is like a gull landing on the beach, leaving its scattered feathers piece by piece to time and the constantly rotating sea breeze.
Inside the room, warm light shone on the white sheets. At this moment, our longing finally turned into happy and excited tears. We were speechless, just staring affectionately and for a long time. Silence was better than sound at this time.
I gently lifted her chin, and she slowly closed her eyes, her long eyelashes trembling slightly. She looked so cute and thought-provoking. I couldn't bear it anymore, turned my head and kissed her.
On her soft and small red lips.
Immediately, her slender body trembled, and then she threw herself softly into my arms. She responded passively but eagerly to my passionate kiss. With a squeak, my tongue entered her mouth.
, wantonly tasting the ecstasy taste of her small and fragrant tongue. Smelling the indescribable aroma of her body, my heart beat passionately, and the consciousness in my mind gradually turned blank.
The fire of love was burning fiercely, and in the middle of the fire was the intimate figure of me and her entangled together. All the unnecessary bonds had been lifted, and every part of my body was filled with the attractive aura of the other person. The lights went out.
, leaving only the silhouettes of men and women sleeping in each other's arms...
When I woke up early the next morning, I found that she was no longer around me in the entire room. I hurriedly called her, but found that her cell phone was turned off.
Only then did I notice that she left a text message on my phone: I'm going back to Melbourne, with an early morning flight. I don't want to see you off because I'm afraid I'll cry.
When I looked at the text she left on my phone, I suddenly felt the urge to cry... (To be continued)