Long Time Loved Friend - Chapter 22

As soon as Yunzhi clicked on the information to check, Nan Qiao’s call appeared on the screen. As soon as the call was connected, the other party came to question: “Didn’t you say you will come right away? I have been waiting for you for an hour and a half.”

There is also some grievance indistinctly.

Yun Zhi glanced at the time, it was really an hour and a half to be unbiased, she rubbed between her brows, and said, “I’m sorry, Qiao Qiao, I’ve been delayed due to something, are you still in the restaurant?”

“What’s the matter?” Nan Qiao asked.

Yun Zhi had no choice but to tell the story: “My friend suddenly had a stomachache, so I took care of her.”

“Who?” Nan Qiao was still asking.

Just as Yun Zhi was about to say his name, he suddenly felt that it was unnecessary.

She remembered what Nan Qiao said a long time ago. At that time, she had a big heart. Although she was rejected, there was no one else around Nan Qiao, and she didn’t care about it.

Until later, Nan Qiao stopped telling her everything, and people he knew no longer shared with her. One day, he even told her directly that even friends should have their own private space.

At that time, she wanted to refute her with Zhu Qingmeng and Jiang Yuan’an, but suddenly remembered that the two were no longer friends.

That was the first time that Yun Zhi clearly realized that Nan Qiao was seriously putting her rights within the scope of friends.

In fact, they have always been unequal.

“Are you still in the restaurant?” Yun Zhi chose not to answer, packed his handbag, and left the office.

“Ok.”

“I’ll be right away…” Before Yun Zhi finished speaking, his footsteps stopped.

A busy tone comes from the handset—

“Beep beep—”

Nan Qiao hung up the phone.

The descending elevator passed the thirteenth floor, but did not stop because of Yun Zhi’s daze.

Until Yunzhi came back to his senses, the elevator had reached the tenth floor.

It was already ten minutes later when Yunzhi arrived at the restaurant.

The table on No. 10 was covered with cold food. The plate in front of Nan Qiao was clean, and she didn’t touch the food on the table.

Nan Qiao looked at her but said nothing, as if she was still angry.

Yun Zhi thought about it for a while and it was indeed her fault, so she apologized again: “Sorry for being late.”

Nan Qiao pursed her lips, with a complex look on her face, more obviously angry. There was no answer to her words.

Yun Zhi glanced at her, and then sat down opposite her.

In the past, she often traveled around to take pictures, and sometimes she stayed for several months. When she came back, Nan Qiao would be so angry, and she would coax her.

“Don’t be angry, it’s really not intentional.”

When she didn’t hear the answer, Yun Zhi called the waiter again to ask her to change the dishes.

“A few days ago, Zhu Qingmeng said that she saw you with a very beautiful woman, talking and laughing, is it your new friend?”

After the waiter left, Nan Qiao suddenly made a sound.

Did Zhu Qingmeng tell her? She didn’t seem to have been alone with Zhu Qingmeng during this time.

Did An An say it? It doesn’t seem right, since An An said to keep it secret, she will definitely not tell others.

Unable to think of the reason, Yun Zhi stopped thinking about it.

But since Nan Qiao has spoken, he should not be angry now.

“Well, what’s the matter?”

“Don’t you know how to flirt with someone who likes you?” Nan Qiao stared at her, clenched her fingers under the table, so hard that her nails were about to dig into her palm.

Yun Zhi was stunned, not understanding what she was talking about, and casually said: “She doesn’t like me, she has someone she likes.”

Before the dishes were served again, the glass on the table was full of orange juice, and Yun Zhi bit the straw and took a sip.

“Really?” Nan Qiao didn’t believe it, she didn’t think Zhu Qingmeng would lie to her for no reason.

Yun Zhi lowered his eyes and did not answer her words.

There is a faint irritability in my heart.

This is not the first time something like this has happened.

Since college, Nan Qiao will remind her who likes her, Yun Zhi has always disliked flirting with others, and often cuts off when she senses the other’s affection.

Before, she was retaliated and spread rumors because of this kind of thing.

But thinking about it, it’s not a rumor.

Isn’t she just in love.

“What kind of identity are you questioning me, Nan Qiao?” Yun Zhi smiled, “Friend? Girlfriend?”

Nan Qiao was blocked by her question and couldn’t speak.

But she knew that Yunzhi could say the words “girlfriend” to her, which meant that he still liked her now.

Nan Qiao breathed a sigh of relief unconsciously.

Yun Zhi, who was a bit hungry at first, no longer wants to eat. Sometimes she hates her sensitivity and her understanding of Nan Qiao.

With every expression and every movement, she could guess Nan Qiao’s mood.

“I waited for you for an hour and a half, and I called you many times, but you didn’t answer or reply to my messages. Are you treating me like this now?”

As always, Nan Qiao changed the subject.

But Yun Zhi knew that even if he didn’t diverge, Nan Qiao would still answer the word “friend”.

Maybe because he got the answer he wanted, Nan Qiao returned to his previous appearance, with a coquettish tone, and it was no longer the question just now.

But Yun Zhi was not satisfied, and even became more irritable.

“Is 104 minutes long?” Yun Zhi looked at his watch before entering the restaurant, and it happened to be 104 minutes late.

She really didn’t expect Nan Qiao to wait for her for so long today, and usually leave at most ten minutes after sending messages with her.

I didn’t even expect to call her so many times one after another.

“Soon?”

“Then have you counted how long I waited for you before?”

As soon as Yun Zhi’s voice fell, Nan Qiao froze.

All these years, Yunzhi has never turned over the old score, and now she clearly feels that Yunzhi has changed.

Nan Qiao recovered and whispered, “Sorry.”

Yun Zhi didn’t want to hear her apology, even she herself didn’t know what happened today, her mood fluctuated so much.

Maybe it started from the moment Nan Qiao said that Yu Mingxia liked her.

Why did you say such things to her?

It was just to confirm whether he still liked her or not.

Yun Zhi didn’t understand what she was thinking, and he didn’t bother to guess, and he didn’t want to think too badly of Nan Qiao. After knowing each other for thirteen years, she hoped that Nan Qiao in front of her would still be the little girl who would approach her with candy to tell her not to cry.

I also hope that she is the sunshine girl who handed her a camera when she wanted to give up because of being denied and hit, and asked her to start again.

She didn’t want to speculate on Nan Qiao with malice.

The two fell silent. The waiter brought the heated dish back to the table.

“Let’s eat.”

This time it was Yunzhi who changed the subject.

Nan Qiao opened his lips, but he didn’t speak for a while. I had no choice but to answer and then used clean chopsticks to pick up a piece of meat for her.

“I haven’t seen you for a week. Are you too busy at work? You’ve lost a lot of weight.”

“It’s not too busy. I measured my weight yesterday, and I didn’t gain any flesh.”

…

When leaving the restaurant, Yun Zhi politely declined Nan Qiao’s request to go home on the same trip, and took a taxi by himself on the pretext that he had to go back to the company.

There are more and more conflicts between her and Nan Qiao, which makes her at a loss.

She will indulge and tolerate Nan Qiao, but she also has her own temper and principles.

She likes Nan Qiao but doesn’t think about pestering her all the time. It is her consistent principle that whoever makes a conflict seek peace.

So sometimes it is normal for her and Nan Qiao not to contact each other alone for several months.

It’s not that she didn’t want to like others in the past. But she has a lot of things she loves, her life is not only about love, sometimes being rejected will be short-lived and sad, but that is only for a short time.

In fact, she should have given up when Nan Qiao first fell in love two years ago.

It’s not that she hasn’t practiced it before, but at that time Nan Qiao was injured suddenly, and she returned to the country with a soft heart, and saw her fragility during the time when she was recovering with Nan Qiao, at that time she thought, then let’s like it first.

It is tiring to like someone, and it may be even more tiring to like someone else again.

Another two years in the blink of an eye.

In the past two years, Nan Qiao has not been in love again, but there has been no development between them.

In the taxi, Yun Zhi looked out of the window, looking at the scenery and vehicles that were constantly retreating, his thoughts drifted away.

Suddenly, she remembered what Nan Qiao said just now. After hesitating for a few seconds, she found Zhu Qingmeng’s name in the contact list and dialed a number.

The phone was connected soon.

“What’s wrong?”

Yun Zhi was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that every time she called Zhu Qingmeng, she was looking for something, so it was right to ask what was wrong as soon as the call was connected.

“I have something to ask you, is it convenient?”

Zhu Qingmeng: “You say.”

“When did you see me with a beautiful woman?”

Yun Zhi didn’t directly ask Zhu Qingmeng why she said Yu Mingxia liked her, but asked her this question first.

Emotionally, maybe she should trust Nan Qiao, but intellectually, she hesitated. She didn’t think Zhu Qingmeng would talk nonsense.

Zhu Qingmeng was offering hot porridge for Jiang at the nurse’s station in the hospital.

When the time came, the microwave dinged.

Zhu Qingmeng had a guess, she took the porridge out with her lowered eyes, and answered her: “When did I see you with a beautiful woman?”

“Ok?”

“I’m answering your question.”

Yun Zhi frowned, could it be that Nan Qiao was lying to her?

Zhu Qingmeng: “Who told you what?”

Yun Zhi: “Ah no.”

Since she denied it, Yun Zhi didn’t continue talking. Zhu Qingmeng is not a liar.

“Oh,” Zhu Qingmeng said again, “I have time to visit An An, she misses you and is afraid of disturbing you, so she asks you not to come.”

Yun Zhi: “Okay, I’ll go there tomorrow after get off work, I still have something to do today.”

“Did you see Nan Qiao? I haven’t seen her for almost half a month.” Zhu Qingmeng asked again.

“Ah? You haven’t seen each other for almost half a month?” After all, the last time they met was at her house?

“Ok.”

Yun Zhi thought about it in his heart, since the two haven’t seen each other for half a month. It is impossible for Zhu Qingmeng to have said those words to Nan Qiao.

There is no need for Zhu Qingmeng to lie.

Maybe she shouldn’t have made this call. She was questioning Nan Qiao and Zhu Qingmeng.

“Sorry to bother you.” Yun Zhi apologized to Zhu Qingmeng.

“It’s okay, remember to bring some snacks for her when I visit An’an tomorrow.” Zhu Qingmeng explained.

“it is good.”

Yun Zhi hung up the phone, feeling that something was wrong, but couldn’t figure out what it was.

Just at this time, the driver pulled over and stopped the car, and said, “We’re here at Wenle Community.”

interrupted her thoughts.

Jiang Yuan’an found that Zhu Qingmeng seemed to be worried after returning from the nurse’s station, and silently fed her porridge after mouthful.

In the past two days, there was little water in the soup, and she often felt that there was no hope in life.

“Mengmeng, I want to eat meat and spicy food.”

Jiang Yuan’an complained, but didn’t hear an answer. She called out again: “Mengmeng?”

Zhu Qingmeng regained consciousness, looked at Jiang Yuanan, and then put down the porridge bowl that was almost drunk.

“An’an.” Zhu Qingmeng sighed, looking in a bad mood.

“Why, have you gone to the nurse’s station and you’re not here anymore?” Jiang Yuanan grumbled and complained.

“Don’t talk nonsense,” Zhu Qingmeng rubbed her head and whispered, “I just lied.”

“Ah?” It’s no wonder that he has been silent since he came back. Jiang Yuan’an thought about it and comforted him, “I believe you must have a reason for lying, don’t blame yourself.”

Although Jiang Yuan’an has a temper, he has always been sober in major matters. Of course, Zhu Qingmeng’s bad mood because of others is also a big deal for her.

“But you didn’t lie to me, did you?” Jiang Yuanan realized later.

“No, don’t think about it.” Zhu Qingmeng said.

“An’an.” Zhu Qingmeng seemed to have made up her mind, and she looked serious when she called her.

“Ok?”

“Do me a favor.”

Nine p.m.

Yun Zhi just finished washing and sat on the sofa, ready to rest after watching TV.

She just put the remote control on the coffee table when the mobile phone vibrated.

It was Jiang Yuan’an’s news.

[Didi An’an asked to call Zhizhi. 】

This was a secret signal between them, Yun Zhi smiled lightly, and replied: [Didi Didi Zhizhi received it, please tell An An. 】

【What happened last time? Have you apologized to Yu Mingxia yet? Did she accept it? 】

Yun Zhi: 【Well, she said it’s over. 】

Jiang Yuan’an: [Wow, it seems that Yu Mingxia is really kind-hearted! 】

Yunzhi: [? 】

Jiang Yuan’an: [Oh, I just want to gossip with you, I’m too free. 】

[By the way, didn’t you like to take pictures of girls in school when you were in high school? Since Yu Mingxia is in the same school as us, and she is so good-looking, maybe you have photographed her. 】

Yun Zhi was drinking water when he saw this sentence and stopped.

Seems to make sense.

She was very curious about what Yu Mingxia was like in high school.

Yunzhi: [I’ll look for it. 】

After replying to the message, Yun Zhi got up and went back to the study, took two photo albums from the bookshelf, and rummaged through them.

When she was in high school, she liked to take pictures, especially girls, so she often asked people in the school to make appointments.

After taking the picture, she will communicate with the other party and keep a copy as a treasure, so the two thick photo albums in front of her are her three-year high school grades.

Although she rarely looked back at the things at that time, she always kept them. She has traveled to many places and taken many photos, but her favorites are those taken in high school.

In her eyes, all girls are good-looking.

Ten minutes later, she had flipped through both albums.

There was no sign of Yu Mingxia.

She has the habit of recording her name after taking pictures. Yu Mingxia’s name did not appear on it.

Not to mention Yu Mingxia, not even Yu Chuxue.

Yun Zhi: [I haven’t photographed her. 】

Jiang Yuan’an: [Wow, she might look better in high school than she does now, why didn’t you take pictures of her! 】

Yunzhi: […]

Yun Zhi: [Aren’t you responsible for this kind of thing? 】

In high school, it would not be an exaggeration to say that Nan Qiao and Jiang Yuan’an were members of her studio.

She likes to take pictures, so the two of them helped her make appointments and had a clear division of labor.

Jiang Yuan’an: [What! The classmates at the same level are all in charge of Nan Qiao, you should ask her. 】

Seeing this sentence, Yun Zhi was stunned for a few seconds.

She remembered that it was indeed Nan Qiao who was helping her to date a classmate in the same grade.

Except for the busiest year of high school, when Yunzhi stopped taking pictures and devoted herself to studying, in the first and second grades of high school, people took pictures almost every few days, and it was Nan Qiao and Jiang Yuan’an who helped her make appointments, and she was only responsible for Just shoot.

Jiang Yuan’an: [I also want to ask, why didn’t Nan Qiao ask Yu Mingxia out? Yu Mingxia must have been very beautiful back then. Why? ? ? 】

Yun Zhi was silent, and when she saw her again, she said: [Did Nan Qiao have a grudge against Yu Mingxia, deliberately preventing you from photographing her or talking to her! 】

Yun Zhi, who was still in deep thought, laughed when he saw this, because his brain was too big.

Nan Qiao has any reason to do this.

[Then why don’t you think that maybe Ming Xia didn’t want to be photographed at that time? 】

After all, of course there are many people who reject them, some are shy and some simply don’t want to be photographed.

And Yu Mingxia in high school should be shy.

Jiang Yuan’an: [Wow, you are too serious! Hum】

【Anyway, Nan Qiao must have done it on purpose. If you asked me to date a classmate of the same level, I would have sent Yu Mingxia to you long ago. Maybe Yu Mingxia is the one you like now. 】

Yunzhi: […]

[To reiterate, Yu Mingxia and I are friends. 】

Jiang Yuan’an: [Wait, you will fall in love with her sooner or later! 】

[Since we will meet sooner or later, I advise you to get well as soon as possible! 】

Yunzhi: […]

Seeing her talking more and more biased, Yun Zhi sighed helplessly, only the ellipsis can express her mood.

I don’t understand why Jiang Yuan’an is here, she makes friends like a reserve soldier in love.

But just like what I said to Yu Mingxia before, as long as they don’t misunderstand each other, it will be fine.

Jiang Yuan’an’s news is still increasing on the page.

Yunzhi closed the photo album and planned to put it back on the bookshelf.

Maybe the photo album was too old, and some photos fell out of it and fluttered to the ground.

Yun Zhi put down the album again, knelt down and picked up the photos.

The photo shows a girl in school uniform with her back to the camera, sitting quietly under a cherry blossom tree, holding a drawing board and drawing. When the cherry blossoms fall, cherry blossom petals fall on the girl’s shoulders and hair tips.

The picture was so peaceful and beautiful that she took it casually.

At that time, she was just in her first year of high school. The girl was in a hurry to leave, and she didn’t have time to approach her to talk to her. Later, she found someone to apologize and asked for a photo.

Counting it, this is the first girl she has photographed since entering high school.

It was also this beat that made her slightly moved, confirming her orientation.

“Pei Wenna.” Yun Zhi read the name on it silently, and put the photo back on the first page of the album.

It’s just a pity, maybe it was the atmosphere at the time.

When she saw Pei Wenna, she wasn’t as moved as she was at the time, and after Pei Wenna transferred to another school, she gradually forgot about it.

Yun Zhi put the photo album back on the shelf and left the study.