When He Smiles - Chapter 25

It was a sleepless night.

Early on Saturday morning, Meng Hang ran to her room and pulled her out of bed. The little boy looked a little bit big, but his strength was not small. She half opened her eyes to see that he was dressed neatly like a little prince. The little boy climbed onto the bed, pulled her quilt, and called, “Sister.”

Meng Shengnan was depressed: “What time is it?”

“It’s half past seven.” He especially emphasized the accent of ‘a’.

“It’s still early, you let me sleep again.”

Meng Shengnan rolled over his quilt and closed his eyes, making Meng Hang anxious. He climbed out of bed and ran to the other side to call her. Meng Shengnan didn’t sleep well last night and really didn’t want to get up. The little boy pulled the quilt a few times and couldn’t move, and was angry.

“sister!”

“Yeah.” She responded lazily.

“You said last night, you want to buy me something delicious.”

Meng Shengnan said ‘um’, and was silent again. Then there was no movement around for a long time, Meng Shengnan felt a little strange and opened one eye. Meng Hang folded his arms and looked at her seriously.

“Meng Shengnan?” Yo, they all called her name.

She waited for him to speak.

“If you can’t afford it, I’ll call sister Jojo.”

Meng Shengnan opened another eye.

“Let you go on a blind date.”

Meng Shengnan: “…”

So she got up. Before leaving, she said hello to the ceremony. She took the spare PHS at home and went out, and then the two of them half-turned to the Dicos near their home. It was eight o’clock at that time, it was time for breakfast. Xiao Menghang nibbled Zhengxiang from the burger, Meng Shengnan smiled. The ceremony usually didn’t take him to eat these things, this little guy had a good idea.

The sun has come out and the air is fresh.

She just lowered her head and took a French fries and fed it into her mouth. Suddenly there was a violent woman in her eyes. She was taken aback for a moment, watching Qi Qiao walk over in hot shorts and high heels with her head raised and her chest high, smiling very dynamic, and she kissed the little boy as soon as she sat down.

“Why are you—” She was surprised.

Qi Qiao shook her long hair: “I have a secret messenger.” Then he blinked at Meng Hang.

Meng Shengnan coughed and looked at Meng Hang, “Did you?”

The little boy was biting a chicken leg and glanced at her calmly, “You know what’s wrong, right?”

Meng Shengnan: “…”

Qi Qiao smiled and patted her hand, “Okay, you are not allowed to bully our Xiaohang.”

“Yes.” Little Menghang ate happily and didn’t forget to speak up.

“cut.”

Meng Shengnan gave them a white look and asked Qi Qiao: “Why did you come here idle today? Aren’t you busy during this time?”

“I miss you so much.”

“Is it possible?”

Qi Qiao couldn’t help but smile, and said solemnly: “He went to Shanghai last night, and it may take a few days to come back. It seems that a brokerage company wants to sign their band. I don’t know the specifics.”

“This is a good thing.”

After Meng Shengnan finished speaking, he smiled: “If you think so, do you have to make an appointment to see you in the future, Mrs. Song?”

Qi Qiao glanced at her proudly, “Look at my mood.”

“roll.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Meng Hang raised her head with a very dissatisfied expression.

“Sister, you are swearing.”

Meng Shengnan: “…”

Qi Qiao smiled, and frowned when he thought of something: “By the way, why are you shutting down when I call you these past two days?”

Mentioning this again, she pursed her lips.

“The phone is broken. I sent it to be repaired.” She took out the PHS from her pocket and shook it. “Call this number these two days.”

“Come on.”

Qi Qiao didn’t ask any more, at most he just glared at her. After eating breakfast for more than half an hour, the three of them discussed where to go. Qi Qiao is crazy, so she has to take Meng Hang to the amusement park. She had no choice but to follow.

It was hot at the time, and she was too lazy to play, so she stood outside and watched.

There are a lot of people around, maybe because of the weekend. Inside, Qi Qiao and Meng Hang were sitting in a bumper car and crashing into the crowd. Meng Shengnan lowered his head and flipped through the toilet paper in his bag, and suddenly a pink balloon floated under his feet. She bent down and was about to pick it up, and a little girl ran over here.

Meng Shengnan picked it up and handed it to her.

“Thank you auntie.”

She smiled, and a woman’s voice came in her ear. Meng Shengnan looked up and saw that the woman was plump, with slightly fat cheeks. The moment the two looked at each other, the woman was also taken aback. Then slowly picked up the little girl, and then looked at her again.

“You—your daughter?” she asked.

“Yeah.” The woman nodded, “Nod, call Auntie.”

The little girl’s voice is sweet and soft.

Meng Shengnan couldn’t find a suitable greeting for a while, and said: “I heard they said that you got married very early. How have you been in the past few years?”

The woman nodded lightly: “It’s okay.”

“That’s good.”

“What about you, remember that you reported the Zhongnan news, how is it now?” the woman asked.

“At the time I wanted to run as a reporter, but my parents were getting older and wanted to come back.”

“Very good, the journalist business is also very dangerous.”

Meng Shengnan smiled.

“Then what are you doing now?”

“I have a minor in English education in the university, so I got a teacher’s certificate when I was jokes.” Meng Shengnan said, “I didn’t expect to use it, so I am now a teacher.”

The woman asked: “Which school?”

“Huakou.”

The woman smiled slightly, and changed the position to hold the little girl, “It’s good.”

Meng Shengnan licked her dry lips: “Where are you, full-time mother?”

“Ok.”

The little girl moved in the woman’s arms and wanted to go to the other side to play. The two didn’t have a common language to talk, and they simply said goodbye, and didn’t even mention each other’s contact information. She stood there, looking at the slightly bloated woman in front of her, and couldn’t help sighing.

Qi Qiao brought Meng Hang over and swept her gaze.

“What are you looking at?”

Meng Shengnan sighed: “I used to be at the same table, do you remember that girl?”

“In the second year of high school?”

“Nie Jing.”

Qi Qiao said ‘Ah’, “I have an impression, why, did I run into it?”

“Yes.” Meng Shengnan nodded, “Her child looks four years old.”

“You mean–” Qi Qiao was startled.

Meng Shengnan nodded.

“No, then she gave birth to a baby in her junior year?”

“should be.”

Then, the two sighed at the same time. The sun was shining fiercely on the ground, and the two big ones led a small walk to the commercial street opposite the playground. Qi Qiao sighed that she hadn’t slowed down all the way, “Then she is really good, she can only drop out of school in that situation?”

Meng Shengnan said that he didn’t know.

“Hey, her youth is really over.”

Meng Shengnan: “Aren’t you, married woman?”

“Can it be the same.” Qi Qiao gave her a white look, then lowered his head to ask Meng Hang: “Is your sister annoying?”

Meng Hang was licking the sugar candied haws he had just kissed Qiaomai and made a statement obediently.

“It’s always annoying.”

Meng Shengnan: “…”

Qi Qiao couldn’t stop laughing, Meng Shengnan was speechless. The three of them wandered outside for a while and had lunch. It was impossible for Meng Hang to find a weekend to play. It was impossible to go back early. At that time, there were new cartoons in the cinema. Whatever Meng Hang said, Qi Qiao should respond, and Meng Shengnan could only follow along obediently.

The air-conditioning in the theater is quite sufficient, but she still feels a little hot.

Qi Qiao sat next to her and leaned in quietly: “Look in front of you.”

She raised her eyes to see a young couple.

“I guess that girl likes to watch it, and the boy came with her.”

Meng Shengnan: “Do you know all this?”

“Envy it.”

Meng Shengnan was too lazy to reply: “What do you want to say?”

“It’s really exciting to not wake you up.” Qi Qiao helplessly, “Last time I introduced you that soldier, the conditions were so good, you didn’t even look down on it. He also dragged Xiao Hang to show me a single mother. Do you know Meng Shengnan?”

“…” Is it appropriate to repeat the old thing?

She couldn’t bear the woman’s verbosity, and bent over and got up out of the theater. The theater is on the fourth floor with bright lights. She sat on the sofa in the hall breathing heavily and looked up at the big screen on the wall. One after another movie trailers, men and women walked by laughing.

There was a girl’s cell phone ringing, and the ringtone was inexplicably familiar.

‘I want to get you drunk with a glass of Latte so that you can love me more. You don’t know how it feels to have a crush…’

She went to university in 2006, and Li Shengjie sang absolutely infatuated. Her singles cycled for a month, and now it sounds like a reminiscence of the past. Meng Shengnan twitched the corner of her mouth with emotion and raised her wrist to check the time. It was too early, so she went to the clothing store on the third floor alone. The corridors were filled with fashionable women in fashionable dresses. Meng Shengnan stood in front of the glass windows of a shop and glanced at himself in short-sleeved cropped trousers.

There was a voice coming from the store.

“You help me clean up everything that I don’t use frequently on my computer.”

Is a woman.

He said again: “By the way, there is also that software to download for me.”

Meng Shengnan shrugged his shoulders to leave, and heard the woman talking again.

“My computer has been running very slowly, what’s the matter?”

She has taken a step, someone answered.

“Your computer configuration is poor, and the hard drive time is too long.”

Meng Shengnan stopped, and instantly looked back at the location of the monotonous sound source. Looking through the rows of clothes racks, there was a man. He has a wide back, and his fingers press the keyboard quickly. She forgot to leave and just stood there.

The woman asked: “Would you like to drink saliva?”

“No.” The man’s voice was very weak.

Meng Shengnan couldn’t tell the feeling, and it was a little messy. Just like when she met him by accident yesterday afternoon, she couldn’t calm down as soon as possible and even got a little nervous. She liked it so much in high school, but after so long, she now dare not even think about it.

She took a deep breath, turned and walked away.

In the shop behind, the man repaired the computer and walked out of it. He went directly to the bathroom on the third floor, where he finished smoking a cigarette. As soon as he came out, Shi Jin’s call came. He put one hand on the railing on the third floor, and the other hand picked up the phone and put it to his ear.

“Are you not in the store?”

The man watched the people coming and going downstairs and said ‘um’.

“Take a job.”

Shi Jin asked: “When will you be back?”

“Twenty minutes.” The man glanced at his watch, “Something?”

“I know someone who makes software, and they want to talk to you.”

At that time, Meng Shengnan turned to the second floor. But she didn’t turn around, it was like walking along a four-sided promenade. The whole person looked quiet, but his mind was chaotic. The man stared at him, his eyes narrowed slightly.

“You know I won’t do that now.” He said to Shi Jin, his voice restrained.

Shi Jin couldn’t help it, “It’s been a few years, Chi Zheng, you–“

“Bye.”

He slid the phone back into his pocket neatly, but didn’t rush to leave. His eyes followed the woman on the second floor, her eyes calm. At the few gatherings that were rare a few years ago, every time Lu Sibei brought her, the girls hardly spoke a word and were extremely shy.

The woman stopped suddenly and answered the phone.

Chi Zheng laughed at himself inexplicably and turned and strode downstairs. At that time, the animation film on the third floor had just ended, and Qi Qiao and Meng Hang were looking for her. Meng Shengnan hung up the phone, turned and walked in the same direction, and went up to the third floor. The escalators staggered and she saw him.

The man carried a **** bag on one shoulder, with his hands in his pockets and his head down.

Meng Shengnan stood on the escalator and looked back subconsciously. The man didn’t wait to get down the escalator to the end, he already lifted his foot and quickly stepped down several stairs. Then he was quickly drowned in the crowd, unable to see clearly. Two people above her head called her.

“Meng Shengnan——”

She looked up at the fourth floor, and there was a figure in the crowd looking back once.