When He Smiles - Chapter 49

The ancient rhyme still exists in the box, and the rose is prosperous.

Two men stood in front of the window, one in suit and leather shoes, one in gray shirt and black trousers. The light shone on his back, one upright and straight, with deep brows and thin lips. One of them pulled the dirty canvas with his back against the wall and lowered his head to light a cigarette.

“How is your project progressing?”

Chi Zheng took a mouthful of cigarettes between his fingers, and replied casually: “That’s it.”

“A Zheng—”

“When did you come back?” Chi Zheng interrupted.

Lu Sibei: “It’s been two months.”

Chi Zheng was smoking a cigarette with no expression.

The man’s eyes fell on Chi Zheng.

“You have changed a lot in the past two years.”

Chi Zheng snorted without saying a word. Both were silent for a while, Chi Zheng lowered his head slightly, and took another puff with his mouth on the cigarette before asking, “It’s not you who contacted Shi Jin?”

“No.”

Chi Zheng lowered his eyes and snorted in his throat.

“Back then, I left without saying goodbye and didn’t know that things would turn out to be that way. I only knew about it half a year ago.” Lu Sibei sighed.

Chi Zheng pursed his lips and said nothing.

Lu Sibei: “You shouldn’t be so depraved in the past two years, if -“

Chi Zheng twitched the corners of his mouth lightly.

“what if?”

After Lu Sibei had a meal, he was speechless.

“There is no if in this world.” Chi Zheng’s voice was calm, “The path I chose by myself deserves this suffering.”

Lu Sibei’s gaze fell out of the window again and closed his eyes.

“I couldn’t help at that time, and I hope you don’t refuse this time.”

Chi Zheng did not respond.

“Presume it is for Aunt Chen.” Lu Sibei paused and said: “And Sheng Nan.”

The evening breeze came in from outside the window. This was the first time Chi Zheng looked up at Lu Sibei seriously at night.

The man smiled and looked outside.

“If I had known that the person in her heart was you, the outcome might be different.”

Chi Zheng: “Really.”

“At that time, we were so little, we all took a lot of detours.”

One walked away in a foreign land, and one wandered in a small town.

Lu Sibei: “Now that I see you regroup, I can feel better too.”

Chi Zheng ran out of cigarettes.

Lu Si asked on the north side, “I will go back to Shanghai in a few days. Can I see Aunt Chen before I leave?”

“up to you.”

After Chi Zheng left and walked towards the door, Lu Sibei watched the figure slowly disappear. The man’s eyes were calm, his whole body slowly relaxed. But after two years, they have all changed.

The wind poured into the neck.

Chi Zheng collected the collar and drove back to Jinding. Lu Huai and Shi Jin didn’t ask much when they saw that his expression was bad. After washing his face, Chi Zheng sat in front of the computer and started to work. He didn’t spend the whole night until dawn, and went back to the house to sleep after ten o’clock.

At that time, Meng Shengnan was watching TV with the ceremony.

While watching the ceremony, I asked, “When did the London Olympics come?”

“28.”

“That’s a few days away.”

“I listen to your Aunt Kang–“

Meng Shengnan was thinking wildly, and patted her at the ceremony.

“While talking, what do you think?”

Meng Shengnan: “Nothing.”

The ceremony glanced at her, “Your lover?”

Meng Shengnan: “…”

“Don’t hide it, what does that man do?”

Meng Shengnan thought for a moment, “He does IT.”

“This line is very popular, but it’s more laborious.” After the ceremony, he said: “Which company is he, his parents are in the family, what kind of car is he—”

Meng Shengnan: “…”

“When will you show me the house?”

Meng Shengnan: “First, don’t worry.”

“Why don’t you be in a hurry?” Halfway through the ceremony, he frustrated and snorted, “Your grandmother told me not to rush you. Come on, you can take care of it.”

Meng Shengnan smiled, “Thank you.”

After she finished speaking, she got up and went to the hallway to get her bag, and the ceremony asked, “Why are you going?”

Meng Shengnan turned his head: “Dating.”

“Do you come back to eat at noon?”

“No.”

With that said, Meng Shengnan had already left the house. She breathed a sigh of relief when she walked outside, why didn’t she realize that the ceremony had changed like this now. When she was calm, she couldn’t think of where she was going for a while, so she took out her mobile phone to call Chi Zheng.

The bell rang for a long time before connecting.

“Xiao Meng?” It was Lu Huai.

Meng Shengnan was taken aback.

Lu Huai said, “He has been busy all night, and he is getting up to sleep.”

“So busy.”

Lu Huai: “I don’t know what happened last night. There was something wrong when I came back. Would you like to come and have a look?”

So Meng Shengnan took a taxi to Jinding.

Lu Huai pointed to the bedroom, “I’m asleep inside.” After finishing speaking, he took Shi Jin out.

Meng Shengnan put the bag on the table and walked in gently.

Chi Zheng slept drowsy with his head covered, and Meng Shengnan wanted to open the quilt to let him breathe. As a result, he was tossed back before he even raised a corner. Meng Shengnan was afraid of waking him up and did not move. She sat on the edge of the bed, and the sun fell in.

He was wrapped in a quilt and the sheets were ruffled and messed up.

Meng Shengnan set the mute and used his mobile phone to play games. When it was about to reach a critical juncture, I suddenly heard the man lying beside him talking.

“When did you come?”

She shook her hand and died.

Chi Zheng wiped his hair, got up and leaned against the bedside to look over, laughed, “Can’t this win?”

Meng Shengnan was annoyed, and he didn’t speak his brain.

“I’m not you.”

Chi Zheng raised his eyebrows and laughed. He nodded his chin to the game, “I’ll see if I play a few more levels.” Then he took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth.

Meng Shengnan threw the phone on the bed.

“give up.”

Chi Zheng scratched his forehead with the cigarette.

“Did you eat at noon?”

She shook her head and asked, “What do you want to eat?”

Chi Zheng: “I can do it.”

Meng Shengnan thought for a while and said, “Is there any vegetables here? Eggs are fine too.”

Chi Zheng’s smiling shoulders trembled.

“What are you laughing at?”

Chi Zheng: “There are three big men in the house, what do you think?”

Meng Shengnan stood up, “Then I will go out and buy.”

Chi Zheng stretched out his hand and pulled her to sit on the bed.

“They both went out? Give you a call and bring you some lunch. I will have some instant noodles.”

Meng Shengnan: “Then I also eat instant noodles.”

Chi Zheng raised his eyes: “No.”

“why?”

“Don’t you know that you have a bad stomach?”

Meng Shengnan said in a negotiating tone, “Then I will eat a little bit of the head office, anyway, I don’t want to eat box lunch, and I don’t want to eat anything else.”

Chi Zheng looked at her for a while, then lowered his head and smiled.

“Sit down, I’ll go bubble.” He said and got up.

Meng Shengnan went to look for chopsticks and went to the kitchen to take a look, “You are too poor and white.”

Chi Zheng took two pairs of disposable chopsticks from the table and put the soaked instant noodles on the table for her.

“You eat this, no pepper.”

Meng Shengnan sat in a chair and leaned forward to look. Turning his head to look at Chi Zheng again, he was already eating his own box.

Chi Zheng took a few bites and noticed her gaze and raised his eyes.

“Why don’t you eat it?”

Meng Shengnan smiled, “When I was in college, I ran the Spring Festival News with my seniors and squeezed the train for two days. All I ate was instant noodles.”

Chi Zheng: “No wonder the stomach has become like this.”

Meng Shengnan: “But that feels very good.”

“Then why did you stop doing news after graduation?”

Meng Shengnan was quiet and asked, “Chi Zheng, do you believe that people are actually very fragile?”

“What about you, believe it?”

Meng Shengnan shook his head, “I don’t know, sometimes I believe.”

Chi Zheng put down the box and looked at her.

“Believe it or not, that’s the case, and it’s not a bad thing to be fragile occasionally.”

Meng Shengnan smiled and nodded slowly.

“Didn’t your grandma say–” He continued, “When people come to the world and have a dream, they will say whatever they want.”

Meng Shengnan tilted his head: “My grandmother also said something.”

“what?”

“Take the brightest and most spacious road.” Meng Shengnan patted his chest twice.

Chi Zheng’s eyes were quiet.

“I remembered.”

Meng Shengnan smiled and turned to drink soup. The soup was a bit hot, and Chi Zheng handed her water. Meng Shengnan’s face flushed with choking after a few sips, Chi Zheng frowned while patting her back.

“Why do you choke on drinking water?”

She turned her head to comfort him, “It’s okay, I’ve been like this since I was a kid.”

Chi Zheng: “…”

The two of them finished their meal and cleaned up, and it was almost half past twelve. Meng Shengnan was curiously lying in front of his computer, pointing to the code above and asking him: “Are you doing this every day?”

“Ok.”

Chi Zheng leaned against the table, bowed his head and asked, “Can you understand?”

Meng Shengnan shook his head, “I don’t understand.”

Chi Zheng smiled, Meng Shengnan raised his head and frowned.

“Are you mocking?”

“Huh, you can hear it all?”

Meng Shengnan rolled him a glance and then looked back at the computer, Chi Zheng couldn’t help but smile again. The sun shone through the floor-to-ceiling windows, her face was white and flawless. Chi Zheng slowly lowered his head and approached, the door was suddenly pushed open. Chi Zheng started with a ‘tsk’, and Lu Huai and Shi Jin were stunned at the same place.

The two goods laughed instantly.

Meng Shengnan stood up to leave, Chi Zheng looked at the two goods coldly, and sent Meng Shengnan downstairs. When cars go on and off on the highway, time is fleeting. In those days, the time that Chi Zheng was busy compiling web pages was squeezed out through gritted teeth.

In the early days of entrepreneurship, it was very difficult to get started.

The three of them stayed up from morning to night, often working overtime. It’s rare to go to bed at twelve o’clock. If you are tired, you will just lie on the floor for one night. Meng Shengnan came to visit him leisurely, and he was still the same. Staring at the computer without turning around, his subordinates knocked ping-pong-pong.

Occasionally stealing free time, take her out to have a casual meal.

The sun was good that day, and the ceremony and Meng Jin were watching the Olympics in the living room. Aunt Kang next door also came to see and chat together. Meng Shengnan was writing a manuscript in the room, and Chen Si’s phone number suddenly came over. She went out with her bag, and Aunt Kang behind her heard the movement at the door and asked about the ceremony.

“Nan Nan went out?”

The grand ceremony smiled meaningfully, “Talk about the object.”

Since Chi Zheng got busy, there is very little time to go home. He took her back a few days ago. For the first time as a girlfriend, Meng Shengnan was more nervous than before. Chen Si took her to say this and said that, and made a large table of dishes, and had already taken her as a daughter-in-law in advance. But women are always idle at home, and Meng Shengnan often goes to accompany them.

After a long time, he is more cordial than Chi Zheng.

When she arrived, Chen Si was busy again in the kitchen. The woman looked at it with a book, her eyes narrowed into a line under the reading glasses.

Meng Shengnan smiled and walked over.

“What are you doing?”

Chen Si pointed to a place, “What do you mean by this sentence?”

So the two women studied the recipe for nearly two hours. When the finished product was out of the pot, Chen Si stared at the plate for a long time and asked her.

“Is this mandarin duck dish?”

Meng Shengnan was about to speak when someone knocked on the door. She ran away wearing her apron, and the sunlight came in through the crack in the door. She looked up, and the man’s gaze flew over.

Then, they were all stunned.