Duanmo never expected that that woman would appear at the graduation ceremony.
After taking the class group photo, Su Jinxuan saw that she was not in a high mood and touched her shoulder: "Hey, what's wrong with you?"
"It's okay, I'm just a little tired." Duanmo gave a random reason.
"I just looked at your captain. Is he here to attend the graduation ceremony?"
On the day when the results of the thesis defense were announced, Su Jinxuan had asked this question, but was pushed away by Duan Mo. When she saw Lu Wuchuan today, she felt that the relationship between the two was unusual.
"Well, his friend was very curious about our school's graduation ceremony. It happened that the team was not busy recently, so he came over."
Duan Mo really didn't make this up himself. Yesterday Lu Wuchuan said that Yan Linfei pestered him to see what the graduation ceremony of the Public Security University was like.
Su Jinxuan wanted to ask again, but a classmate asked them to go over and take a photo, so she had to give up.
When the photos were finally taken, before Duan Mo could figure out what to do next, Xu Huaizheng and Chen Shujin came over, followed not far behind by Lu Wuchuan and Yan Linfei.
She didn't want people to watch the fun, so she took them to the woods behind the teaching building.
Duanmo stopped at the edge of the forest, looked away, did not look at the two people in front of him, and did not speak.
Chen Shujin took a step forward: "Xiao Mo, I...just want to see you."
Duanmo turned sideways and distanced himself: "Now that you've finished reading, you can go."
"Xiao Mo, don't talk to Aunt Jin like that." Xu Huaizheng advised softly.
"Then what do you want me to say?" Although this place is remote, people would occasionally pass by. Duanmo tried to speak in a low voice, but it was not difficult to hear the oppression in it.
"Xiao Mo, don't blame your brother Huai Zheng, I asked him to bring me here." The corners of Chen Shujin's eyes turned red, "Over the years, I have been...missing you. I know you are still angry with me, but...
Today is your graduation day, and mom doesn’t want to be absent.”
A trace of sarcasm appeared on Duanmo's lips: "Then thank you, Ms. Chen."
The woman who left her family behind and left without hesitation said she didn't want to miss her graduation ceremony, which would only make her feel ridiculous.
The words "Ms. Chen" exploded in Chen Shujin's ears, causing her to stumble. Fortunately, Xu Huaizheng helped her in time.
Yan Linfei, who was some distance away, bumped into Lu Wuchuan with his arm: "Hey! I remembered!"
"You are so frightened and so excited, you are sick!" Lu Wuchuan kept looking at the three people by the woods. They were a bit far away and couldn't hear what they were saying, but judging from the look on the little girl's face, she was in a very emotional state.
No, it was a coldness and indifference that I had never seen before, and there seemed to be a hint of forbearance.
Yan Linfei leaned forward slightly and lowered his voice: "Yin family, do you know?"
"Pingcheng Yin family?"
Pingcheng - the hometown of Lu Wuchuan and Yan Linfei, thousands of miles away from Liancheng, is where they were born and raised.
"The third youngest of the Yin family, I met him at an auction early last year...and his wife. Well, that's the one. I thought she looked familiar just now, and it took me a long time to remember. She is a painter, and her works
It’s not much, but it’s quite popular. At that auction, there was one of her paintings, and it sold for this amount.”
Yan Linfei pinched three fingers together and made a sign of the number seven, but you could tell from his tone that there must be several zeros following.
He ran away from home last summer and came to Liancheng. Before that, he had been forced to work in his family's company. Compared with Lu Wuchuan, who had been away from home for many years and could not live back for more than a few days a year, he had no contact with Pingcheng's upper social circles.
More.
"Didn't you say that he is not in good health and has been abroad?" After all, he is from a wealthy family in Pingcheng, and Lu Wuchuan knows a little bit about it.
"I guess it's because the old man of the Yin family is getting older. He has come back often in the past two years and occasionally appears in public. I didn't expect that Xiao Mo has such a background, which is interesting." Yan Linfei said with an expression on his face.
With a hint of amusement, "Huh? Wuchuan, it's been so long, when are you going to make it clear?"
The hand holding the small box tightened in the pocket of his trousers, then loosened suddenly. Lu Wuchuan sighed inaudibly: "Wait a moment."
I said it once before, but the little girl didn't understand. She originally planned to wait until the day of her graduation to formally confess her love, but who would have thought... Well, they say plans don't change quickly, so we should look for another suitable opportunity.
"Still waiting?" Yan Linfei was puzzled.
Lu Wuchuan seemed to be saying to himself: "She is still young, so she is not in a hurry."
"I'm still young, Brother Chuan, but you're going to be a three-year-old boy soon!" Yan Linfei felt like he was an old father, and his heart was broken.
After finishing speaking, Duan Mo came over and said, "Do you want to stroll around again, or do you want to go back now?"
With Lu Wuchuan's look, Yan Linfei immediately understood: "It's a rare occasion, so I have to take some photos. You two just have a look around and we'll call you later!"
After saying that, he didn’t even wait for the two of them to reply, and just walked away holding the camera.
"Are you tired? Find a place to sit down?" Lu Wuchuan looked at the two people who were still standing not far away and nodded lightly.
Xu Huaizheng also nodded slightly, and Chen Shujin waved his hand to his face a few times, then covered his mouth.
Duan Mo never looked back, nor did he notice their interaction. He said in a relaxed tone: "There is a cafe in the library. There shouldn't be many people at this time."
After walking around the teaching building, most of the students who had taken photos had dispersed, and only a few students and their parents were still taking photos in front of the building.
To get to the library from here, you have to walk through the main building complex of the school. Duan Mo gave a brief introduction to each building.
It was class time and there were almost no customers in the cafe. They found a seat by the window and ordered coffee, milk tea and snacks.
After the refreshments were served, Lu Wuchuan picked up the coffee cup and raised it: "Congratulations!"
Duan Mo didn't know why: "What's there to congratulate?"
Lu Wuchuan's hand holding the cup did not move, and the corners of his lips curled up slightly: "You have graduated, and you have entered society. You are now an adult. Isn't it worthy of congratulations?"
Duan Mo clinked glasses with him with a smile on his face: "Thank you. But, what do you think, the Army has always treated me as a child before?"
"Yes and no."
"What's the meaning?"
Lu Wuchuan didn't answer. He put down the cup and took out a small box: "Here, graduation gift."
Take it over and open it, revealing a pair of small and exquisite earrings. In the three-quarter circle, there is a small elk.
"Lu Qiang, it's still early for Christmas." She closed the box and pushed it back. It wasn't that she thought the gift was out of season, but she just felt that things like earrings seemed a bit...ambiguous.
Lu Wuchuan pushed the box back: "It means a safe journey, you know, our profession... So, we don't ask for a bright future, we just want a safe life." The other meaning is not suitable for the time being, so I won't talk about it for now.