When He Smiles - Chapter 29

The voice was lazy and careless. She tensed inwardly and raised her eyes to look over. The man put his hands in his pockets, wearing a gray shirt and black pants. His gaze swept over, his eyes were dark, and the corners of his mouth smiled playfully.

“That—” She laughed dryly, “It’s a coincidence.”

The man has approached, leaning against the wall leisurely, looking at her in his spare time.

“How many days will it take?”

Meng Shengnan moved his eyes to one side.

“It should be fine to fight for another day today.”

“Is it?”

His voice was faint, and she nodded. As he was talking, a doctor came out of the consulting room. That was the old doctor who treated her, Meng Shengnan smiled and said hello. The doctor nodded and walked over. After not taking a few steps, he stepped back and said: “Remember to come here early tomorrow.” After that, he left.

Meng Shengnan: “…”

Chi Zheng licked his back alveolar and laughed low.

“Those who don’t know thought you were here for a walk.”

Meng Shengnan lowered his head uncomfortably, his cheeks flushed.

Chi Zheng was struggling, “Do you feel something is missing on your body?”

She blushed.

“What, what?”

“Think again.” He curled his lips.

Meng Shengnan slowly raised his eyes to look at him and shook his head.

Chi Zheng laughed, took out the phone from his trouser pocket and shook it, “What about this?”

She was taken aback.

“Why are you there?”

Chi Zheng handed it to her, “What do you think?”

She smiled wryly.

“Get out of the car.” Chi Zheng said, “Take it away later.”

“Thank you.” Meng Shengnan nodded obediently.

He glanced at her.

“By the way, I forgot to be in the store when I left last night. There were more than a dozen of them missed. Please come back.”

When she opened it, it was all Qi Qiao.

“It’s okay.” She smiled.

Chi Zheng glanced at the medicine on her head, “Is this the last bottle?”

“Ok.”

Meng Shengnan remembered something and asked, “Aren’t you busy in the shop?”

Chi Zheng said, “Busy.”

She’ah? “I said, “Is that teacher Chen uncomfortable?”

“No.”

She relaxed, “Then you come to the hospital—”

Chi Zheng looked at her and lifted his chin lightly.

“Return your phone.”

Meng Shengnan: “…”

“So it wasn’t a coincidence just now.” He finished with a smile.

“But, how do you know I’m in the hospital?”

“Guess it.”

Meng Shengnan: “…”

Chi Zheng looked at her funny, and didn’t tease her anymore. Look up at the medicine bottle, drip to the end. He straightened up and called the nurse, leaving Meng Shengnan alone in a daze. With the needle removed, the two of them walked out. Not far away, he saw his motorcycle parked in front of the hospital.

She was thinking about something, Chi Zheng had already reached out and stopped a taxi.

“You don’t want to ride a motorcycle with me, do you?”

She opened her mouth slightly and he laughed.

Chi Zheng has opened the car door, “Your cold is still not well, next time.”

Meng Shengnan pursed his lips to look at him, not knowing what to say, then turned and sat on it. He stepped away and she saw his back in the front-view mirror. Without knowing what thoughts suddenly appeared, she opened the window and poked her head out, calling his name.

“Chi Zheng.”

The man’s figure was visibly stiff, and he still had time to look back.

“You are careful on the way.”

After she finished speaking, she quickly retracted her head and talked to the driver’s uncle about driving. As the car walked away, Chi Zheng slowly turned around and looked over. He tightened his lips and looked at the direction of the car disappearing, took a cigarette from his pocket and bit it in his mouth, but never lit it. Meng Shengnan in the car slowly calmed down the mood just now. After so many years, even the courage used to call out his name was not known.

“Your boyfriend?” The uncle driver asked with a smile.

Meng Shengnan was startled, “High school classmate.”

When she arrived at school, she went straight back to the teaching building. At that time the class bell just rang in the afternoon, and she was idle. At three or four o’clock, the Board of Education notified each class teacher to discuss the general review at the end of the semester. After the meeting, she returned to class one (8) and transferred, emphasizing a few words and went downstairs.

Xiao Lin just came out of class (9), and the two went back to the office together.

“How does the head teacher feel?”

She said, “It’s okay.”

The school spirit at the beginning of Huakou is relatively free, which is rare. Xiaolin chatted with her a few more words, and suddenly said, “By the way, a man is looking for you this morning.”

Meng Shengnan was startled.

“Just gave you that man last time.”

Meng Shengnan asked: “What did he say?”

Xiaolin laughed, “He found the English office and asked where you were. I said you went to the hospital and you have to go to the sling for three days. And, I said you are pitiful—”

Meng Shengnan: “…”

She suddenly felt more embarrassed.

That day the white clouds rolled and the sun was blazing. You look up, the endless sky is blue. On the boulevard of the school, the women are pretty. On the streets of Jiangcheng in midsummer, men are tall and tall. It’s when you are busy, doing your own thing. Next to Ma Luyazi, Chi Zheng had just picked up one to live, leaning on the motorcycle and smoking a cigarette.

After smoking, he should go.

At the newsstand behind him, two girls bought a magazine, passed by him, and talked as they walked.

“Do you see where did her post go?”

A girl turned to one of the pages, pointed to the text above and said.

“I bought it yesterday, and I like her deep sea boy best.”

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Chi Zheng was already on the bike, he was about to step on the engine. The two girls chatted in excitement, dancing and dancing, as if they could not finish talking.

“A story is a story and it looks good.”

“Hey.” A girl sighed, “I know her name is Shu Yuan, and I don’t know what she is.”

Chi Zheng stopped the stepping motion and froze for a moment. He glanced at the magazine in the girl’s hand, got off the motorcycle and went to the newsstand to buy the same one. Then he turned to where to go and glanced roughly. I didn’t look carefully either, just a pause when I saw the author’s name.

The phone in my pocket is ringing, it’s Shi Jin’s phone.

He responded briefly, clipped the magazine to the back seat and drove back to the shop. Shi Jin was lying halfway on the chair and saw him come back and get up. Chi Zheng shook his sweaty short sleeves and threw the magazine on the glass cabinet. The man also entered the partition inside, pulled the corners of the shirt with both hands and pulled his head upwards, took off his short sleeves and threw them aside. He walked to the sink naked to wash and wiped his face indiscriminately, then found a black short sleeve and put it on.

“I said why do you like this woman’s stuff?”

Shi Jin shook the magazine in his hand and smirked. He walked over and fetched the book with no words.

“Go busy with you.”

Shi Jin stretched, “Master is not busy.”

Chi Zheng laughed and hummed.

“Missing women?” Shi Jin asked.

Chi Zheng didn’t lift his eyelids, so he lit a cigarette and smoked.

Shi Jin smiled, “Looking at you like this, I guess it’s 70% to 80%.”

Chi Zheng didn’t talk to each other, smoking a cigarette.

“Really, that woman?”

Chi Zheng glanced at Shi Jin lazily.

“Why do you talk so much nonsense today.”

Shi Jin raised his eyebrows, “Yeah, dare you not admit it?”

Chi Zheng’s eyes were idle.

“I think back then, how far away you could smell the smell of women, buddies can be jealous.”

Chi Zheng licked his front teeth, “Fuck.”

Shi Jin smiled cheaply.

The two chatted wildly for a while, and Shi Jin went to solicit goods. Chi Zheng was sitting in the shop alone, while he was idle. He suddenly changed his mind and quickly opened the search engine to enter the name. Except for the article and pen name, there is no information, exactly the same as the results of his search back then. Chi Zheng rubbed his chin, once.

He turned the mouse and looked around. Sitting in a chair like that, he smoked four or five cigarettes in a row. In the smoke, he frowned and touched the phone. I dialed Jiang Jin, and it showed that he was not in the service area.

He raked his hair and threw the phone away.

In my impression, it was in mid-May of the year of graduation. Lu Sibei returned to China and came to Jiangcheng to see Chen Si. At that time, the software development project between him and Lu Huai was in a difficult period. Had it not been for Chen Si’s sudden illness, he would still be busy in Beijing. In his room that day, Lu Sibei accidentally chatted with him about Meng Shengnan.

“She doesn’t know you are coming back?” he asked.

Lu Sibei said ‘um’, “I haven’t said yet.”

“Is it awkward?” Chi Zheng is neither salty nor light.

Lu Sibei chuckled lightly, “I can’t talk about it.”

At that time, Chi Zheng leaned against the wall and looked out the window. After a while, Lu Sibei spoke suddenly.

“The meditation book you bought?”

Hearing this, Chi Zheng shrugged.

“I don’t know who sent it.”

“Isn’t there a signature on it?”

Chi Zheng: “I don’t know.”

After a while, Lu Sibei said, “I talked to her for so long, and only a few days after I exchanged abroad did I know that she was an author of manuscripts.”

Chi Zheng raised his eyes and said nothing for a while.

“Azheng, she has someone she likes.”

Lu Sibei smiled lightly, “It’s not me.”

That was the last conversation between Lu Sibei and him before leaving. Later, Chen Si became seriously ill, and something went wrong with his project with Lu Huai, and he had no intention of caring about other things. When it calmed down, many things couldn’t go back, and Lu Sibei also lost contact.

He is busy with his life and doesn’t have so much idle time to think about other things.

Later, I mentioned it with Shi Jin.

The guy said: “Brothers turn against each other, most of them are done by women.”

He gave it a kick directly.

It seemed that until I met her again, so many accidents. When Lu Sibei said love at first sight, he sneered. Thinking of this, Chi Zheng lit a cigarette. He always has an instinct and can’t explain it clearly. It was getting late outside, and he picked up his cigarette and got busy again.

At night, sleep directly in the store.

He woke up early the next morning and couldn’t leave the shop. As soon as he sat in the chair, it was noon. When he waited to check the time, it was already 12:30 noon. At that time, Meng Shengnan had just got out of the hospital and was already in the bus. She couldn’t fall asleep even thinking about it last night, but now the car was swaying lightly, but she was sleepy.

I received a landline call from home when I arrived at school.

“sister.”

Meng Shengnan rubbed his eyes, “Xiao Hang.”

“When will you come back?”

She smiled, “The evening is here.”

Hanging up, she went back to the first (8) class, and exercised her right to act as the head teacher. Suddenly I remembered that when I was in high school, Mr. Shi was standing at the back door and peering in, aiming to catch those troublemakers. As the old saying goes, don’t play hard, don’t play lazy, and don’t have eyesight.

She left school at 6:50, and it was half past seven when she arrived home.

There was no one in the alley, so she walked along the path. Perhaps the ears were too sensitive, and I could vaguely hear a little movement from the house next to his right hand. The teasing and laughter of the boys and girls should be because the adults are not at home and boldly explore each other.

Between sparkling flints.

She thought of the ruffian in the classroom (4) that year, he.

The author has something to say: I browsed the full text last night and found a flaw. It was originally written in July, but then I thought it was wrong. It would be early for summer vacation. So it was changed to May and June, and then the class was changed to the first grade (8) because the third grade was a graduating class, not the level of leisure like Meng Shengnan. You are all busy watching the opponent’s play, haven’t you noticed it? (Laughing and crying) After finishing writing, it will be even more, people can’t help themselves in the arena.