When He Smiles - Chapter 26

After breaking up with Qi Qiao, it was almost seven o’clock when he returned home.

Shengdian and Meng Jin watched TV in the living room, but they didn’t even look back. The siblings looked at each other with guilty conscience, and the little boy stuck out his tongue. The two were also sitting on the sofa obediently. At that time, the far-away home of the central seven sets was on the air, and Meng Jin watched it seriously.

After a while, the ceremony began.

“It’s pretty fun, isn’t it?” The woman’s eyes were still watching the TV, and the tone of her tone was constant, without ups and downs.

Meng Hang’s mouth tightened.

Without hearing the answer, the ceremony slowly turned around and stared at the TV. The siblings pretended not to see them and kept staring at the TV. Meng Jin lowered his voice, smiled and shook his head, to defend them. It took a long time for the ceremony to calm down, and then glanced at them for their reluctance to act like nothing, helpless and funny.

Meng Shengnan watched TV with him for a while, then went back to the room after washing.

It seemed that she couldn’t lift it up for a while, and after wandering around for a day with a sore back and back, she lay in a daze in bed. Staring at the broken glass lamp above his head, his head was blank. Just thinking about getting up, the ceremony knocked on the door and came in.

“mom.”

The woman closed the door and sat on the edge of the bed.

Meng Shengnan sat up: “What’s the matter?”

“I should ask you this.”

She rolled her eyes, “What?”

“I can’t tell if there is something in your heart.” The ceremony sighed, “Emotional.”

Meng Shengnan could not say clearly.

“I told you that I didn’t see the target, you tell me the truth.” The ceremony paused and asked: “Is there someone you like?”

“No.” She reacted slowly and shook her head.

Festival question: “Really?”

She whispered a little ‘um’.

“You don’t still have a crush on that boy in high school, do you?”

Meng Shengnan thought about it seriously, and it has been more than two years since he broke up with Lu Sibei. She has been alone all the time, and her life is very peaceful. But it’s really strange to say that when she sees that person again, she still seems to be nervous and slow to speak.

She moved her heart and smiled, “Mom, where did you want to go.”

“Don’t blame me for thinking too much. Mom is afraid that you will get stuck in your mind and won’t be able to get out.”

Meng Shengnan fixed his eyes on the bed sheet.

“But what does that boy do now?”

“Who?”

“Only you have a crush on that.”

“——How long has it been, I don’t know.”

After speaking awkwardly, she moved her gaze to somewhere outside the window, and took a breath without a trace. The ceremony didn’t ask any more, shook her hand and patted it, “Okay, go to bed early.”

“Ok.”

The door was closed and Meng Shengnan lay back under the quilt. The night was very deep, and the white moonlight came in. She stared outside, vaguely with the free silence of the night. I didn’t know when I fell asleep, and nothing appeared in my dream.

Wake up the next day is the weekend.

Remembering the appointment with him this afternoon, Meng Shengnan left after eating at home for noon long. Little Menghang couldn’t bear to leave her, and insisted on holding her to stay. The two were playing puzzles in the yard that summer, and it was almost time for her to go.

“Why go so early today?” Meng Jin asked.

“Take the phone.”

Birds are chirping in the treetops and flowers are blooming in the streets. It was four or five o’clock when she took the bus to the city, and the sun was slanting. Afterglow, Pudu the earth, red glow evening bell. There were no people at that intersection, quiet and desolate. Meng Shengnan walked to the traffic light and became nervous inexplicably.

She leaned across the bag and walked in the white canvas.

The street seems to be getting longer, or she is walking slowly. At a glance, the billboard at the entrance of the shop still stood there. She approached, and the door was open. There was a man sitting at the table inside, leaning back in his chair, playing on the computer.

She entered the shop.

“What’s the matter?” Shi Jin turned his head to look at her when he heard the movement.

not him.

“…”

Meng Shengnan couldn’t tell why she was a little lost at that moment, she just couldn’t even speak. This person is familiar, she met in high school. At this moment, he was also examining, Meng Shengnan took a deep breath, settled, and walked a few steps to the glass cabinet.

Then she raised her eyes slightly and said, “Hello, I’m here to get the phone.”

“Ah -” Shi Jin stood up: “You wait a minute.”

Meng Shengnan looked at him looking for it.

Shi Jin held a box and handed it to her: “Do you see if there is yours here?”

She saw the white Nokia at a glance, and Shi Jin helped her take it out.

“This one?”

She nodded and took it over to check.

“Absolute quality.”

Meng Shengnan smiled and turned on the phone.

“Well, isn’t he here?” she asked slowly.

Shi Jin said: “He went out for a run, don’t worry, you can bring it again if you have any problems.”

Meng Shengnan bent his lips and took money from the bag to the man.

“Thank you, please help me with this.”

Shi Jin raised his eyebrows, “No problem.”

Outside the shop, the sun was slowly setting. When Meng Shengnan came out, every step seemed difficult. She always couldn’t tell that feeling, and the bus at the intersection stopped on the side of the street. She turned her head again, glanced at the place, and then turned into the car.

As soon as the car left, a man turned into the street on a motorcycle.

When a shop door stopped, he entered the house. He threw the **** bag directly on the ground, raked his hair, tilted his head and nodded a cigarette and started smoking. Shi Jin, who was just sitting in the chair, turned his head to look over, stretched his waist and smiled, “I said you are a heavy addiction to cigarettes.”

Chi Zheng raised his eyes and snorted in his nose.

“That’s right,” Shi Jin said, remembering what happened just now, “a woman just came over to get a mobile phone.”

Chi Zheng’s smoking action paused.

“This is money for payment.”

After Shi Jin finished speaking, he threw the five hundred yuan in his pocket on the table.

“What?” Chi Zheng glanced.

“That woman gave it.”

Chi Zheng bit the cigarette and licked his front teeth.

“How is she?”

Shi Jin smiled unkindly: “It’s a pretty girl with sweeping hair. She looks like that kind of gentle and virtuous-“

Chi Zheng was silent for a while.

“I said, when did you take the initiative to ask a woman?” Shi Jin’s voice changed.

He took the cigarette off and held it between his fingers. The figure flashed past his head, then flicked the soot, and leaned his back against the glass cabinet. Shi Jin got up, got up from his chair, half-lied on the cabinet in front of him, and looked at Chi Zheng, “Why, it’s interesting to others?”

Chi Zheng glanced at him.

“I am interested in you.”

Shi Jin said ‘rely’.

Chi Zheng smiled, the phone rang in his pocket. He glanced at the call and quickly answered it.

“mom.”

Chen Si chuckled lightly on the other end, “Just ask if you will come back tonight, and I will ask Madam Yang to save food for you.

Chi Zheng’s eyes were gentle, “Back.”

“Okay, pay attention to safety when cycling.”

“Ok.”

Hanging up, Chi Zheng finished the remaining cigarettes. He usually goes back for two or three nights a week, and has been busy picking up a few of them these days. Counting the days, Chen Si should go to the hospital for a re-examination on the first of next month. He lowered his head and clicked on another one.

Shi Jin asked, “How is Auntie’s health recently?”

“Very good,” he said.

Shi Jin considered it and asked him.

“I said, did you really stop thinking about that thing yesterday?”

Chi Zheng’s face turned cold.

“Even if you don’t think about it for yourself, you have to think about auntie.” Shi Jin frowned, “How much money can you have on hand for medical treatment. It has been so long back then, why the **** can’t you let it go?”

Chi Zheng bit his roots and said ‘fuck’.

That would be so mixed up, Shi Jin whispered secretly, and fell silent for a while. Chi Zheng stared at the ground, pointed his mouth at the smoke and took a hard sip. When he remembered the torture that Lu Huai’s eyes were red at that time, his head hurts terribly.

“Don’t mention this later,” he said coldly.

Outside the shop, the sun is setting.

When Meng Shengnan returned to the dormitory, it was still light, and she washed some clothes to dry on the balcony. Then lay on the bed alone, picking up the phone and looking through it boredly. The window gradually became dark, and the position of the seventh floor just hit the tip of the poplar tree.

In the small room, warm yellow lights spread all over the room.

In the next few days, her side calmed down again. It seems that nothing has happened, only when I see the phone, I think of that person by accident. Just stay in the office every day to review homework, get out of class and end. During that time, she was not very busy either. Just in time for the class teacher of class (8) to take a pregnant leave, the school asked her to be a substitute teacher temporarily.

It was okay at the beginning, but then it was a little overwhelming.

On the day the flag was raised at the end of July, the school’s Disciplinary Committee checked the whole year. There is a boy in their class who is always absent from school and can’t come to school. Parents can’t control him, so he will find someone from the school when he comes. What the Board of Education can say, just ask the teacher in charge.

Meng Shengnan couldn’t help but ran around.

I ran for several hours that day without a sip of water. It was almost dark when Qi Qiao called, and she just walked to the door of an Internet cafe. People walked too tired, so they stopped to rest.

“Why are you panting like this?”

She pursed her dry lips, “Find a student.”

“You look for?”

“Ok.”

Qi Qiao frowned, “Where are the parents?”

“The parents are so good now. If something happens, they will ask the school for someone, and the school will ask us for someone.”

Meng Shengnan laughed mockingly, Qi Qiao scolded an swear word.

“Okay, let’s talk later.”

After she finished talking, she hung up and glanced at the location of the internet cafe on the fourth floor. I found it all the way from school, and now it’s ten miles away. Meng Shengnan frowned and climbed upstairs in a hurry. The Internet cafes are a little dark, and the smell is also great.

At first glance, the interface is all games.

She walked in the middle aisle, with no hope at all. As soon as I was about to turn around, I saw the student in the corner with his head down and playing intently. Meng Shengnan finally breathed a sigh of relief, and slowly lifted his foot and walked over.

The boy noticed the figure above his head and raised his head subconsciously.

“Ms. Meng——”

She said ‘um’, “What are you playing?”

The boy stood up cautiously.

Meng Shengnan glanced, then set his gaze on him again, “dota?”

“Teacher, you know?” The boy was stunned.

Meng Shengnan smiled, “Well, how about making a bet?”

“Wh-what bet?”

“A game is determined to win or lose. If I win, you follow me back. If you lose, it’s up to you.”

Suddenly a few students next to him felt fresh, and they came over to applaud, and the atmosphere rose for a while. Two people, one person, one machine, playing meepo. This is more difficult to play in Dota. Hand speed requirements are high. If you die, it will be all OUT. The boys are eager to try when they encounter provocations. Soon, more and more people gathered behind him.

The game also slowly progressed to a climax.

Meng Shengnan quickly tapped the keyboard to move, and everything in front of her seemed to make her hallucinate. As if back to the summer of 2004, she watched the energetic young man quietly across many people. With a flick of your finger, a dream. For so many nights, she guarded the days of loneliness and hard training as if it happened yesterday.

——

‘Gameover’

Standard Mandarin came out from the computer, and the boy was immediately discouraged. The people around him were also stunned. They didn’t expect that the boy whom everyone was optimistic about was defeated by a woman. No one in the surroundings reacted for a while, quietly.

“It’s not bad to play.”

An abruptly familiar male voice raised low, and Meng Shengnan’s back stiffened.