Chapter 16 Treat the Guzheng to Dinner

"What a coincidence." Guzheng smiled.

"Yeah." I smiled. I thought it was just a small talk before I left.

"What are you doing?" Guzheng asked me.

"It's okay. I was just about to go home after a stroll."

"Oh, have you eaten yet?"

"Not yet."

"Well, neither do I. Let's have dinner together." Guzheng said.

I subconsciously wanted to refuse, but I suddenly remembered that Guzheng was kind enough to take me home from my last blind date. I haven't thanked her properly. I don't like to owe people favors. I can treat them to dinner this time, so I said, "Okay, I'll treat you."

"You said that." Guzheng smiled.

"What do you want to eat?" I asked her.

"Well, I feel like eating hotpot, how about it?" Guzheng asked me.

"Sure, no problem." Although I am not a gentleman, I still have some manners. Since the lady said that she wanted to eat hotpot, we should eat hotpot.

This time, Guzheng didn't drive. We both took a taxi to a popular hotpot restaurant.

However, when Guzheng and I got off the car from the hotpot restaurant at the big destination, I actually saw an acquaintance through the window in the hotpot restaurant. I didn't expect to run into two acquaintances today, and the acquaintances in the hotpot restaurant were not others, but Ding Ge.

She was still wearing the clothes I bought for her in Green city!

Pucheng said it was not big, said it was not small. When you want to avoid one person, perhaps the two of you will never meet again in Pucheng, and when you stroll around the busy streets of Pucheng, you may inadvertently meet someone you know.

This was our first encounter in Pucheng since we broke up with Ding Ge. Coincidentally, I was with Guzheng.

I stood outside the door. Ding Ge probably didn't see me. I saw her with a few girls. She should be her colleague. I wonder how she would feel when she saw me eating with Guzheng.

I don't know why, although I broke up with Ding Ge and Guzheng isn't my girlfriend, but when I was with Guzheng and was bumped into by Ding Ge, a sense of guilt rose in my heart.

I didn't want Ding Ge to see me and Guzheng, although it would make her more certain of the possibility that I was with Guzheng, and I knew that if she saw it, she would misunderstand.

My heart could not help but thump. Guzheng noticed my abnormality and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." I don't know how to explain it to Guzheng.

But obviously Guzheng wouldn't believe me. She smiled at me kindly and asked, "Is something wrong?"

Although it was only a short contact with Guzheng, I thought she was a good girl and she knew how to think about other people's feelings.

I knew that if I told Guzheng not to eat hotpot, he would be very uncomfortable and appear impolite, but in the end, I had to say, "Guzheng, can we not eat hotpot today?"

"Sure." Guzheng didn't ask me why, which made me very grateful to her.

"What did you say to eat?" Guzheng didn't sound like he was asking, but he sounded like you were the one making the decision.

"Let's go eat lobster." I didn't think too much. I just thought of one. Now I just want to get out of here as soon as possible. I'm afraid Ding Ge will see me.

"Sure." Guzheng smiled and said, "But next time, you have to eat hotpot."

"Okay." I didn't expect Guzheng to agree so easily, but I did.

Then Guzheng and I left again. In the dark, I could only hope that Ding Ge didn't see us.

In the lobster shop, Guzheng ate with relish, but I was a little distracted.

I know. It's all because I just saw what Ding Ge did. Otherwise, I wouldn't be so disappointed. The lobster in my mouth didn't seem to have any flavor at all. In fact, this shop had been here with dinger before. I found that Pucheng was really small, and it seemed to be full of memories of me and Ding Ge everywhere.

I have the urge to escape from Pucheng and escape from Ding Ge's world!

"Meng Xingyun, why are you in a daze?" Guzheng gently tapped the plate with his chopsticks to remind me.

"Ah, nothing." I returned to my senses and smiled.

"Why don't you eat? How much did you eat?" Guzheng said with a smile, "You asked me to eat lobster. Why didn't you eat it again? You're making me embarrassed."

I curled my lips and said, "What's so embarrassing about that?"

"How much have I eaten?" Guzheng pointed to the shrimp head in front of him and smiled shyly. "I eat more than a man like you. People don't talk about me."

I said nonchalantly, "What's the matter? You can eat whatever you want."

"You eat too. I ate it all by myself now."

"Well, eat. Let's eat together."

I picked up a shrimp and ate it.

"By the way, how did you get to this age to experience your first blind date?" Guzheng asked me.

I paused for a moment, and Ding Ge's figure flashed through my mind again. However, I didn't want to say this to Guzheng, so I covered it up and said, "I didn't want to look at you before. I was forced by my family. I had no choice but to look at you."

"Is it really just because of this?" Guzheng continued to ask, as if he didn't believe me.

"Ah." I bit the lobster and nodded.

"Then what happened just now? Can you tell me?" Guzheng only asked this question at this time.

It had to be said that Guzheng was really a smart girl. At this time, there was no need for me to hide her. She had already given in to me, so I smiled bitterly and said, "I met someone I knew, and I didn't want to meet them."

Actually, I just didn't dare.

"Ex-girlfriend?" Guzheng guessed as she looked at me with a playful expression.

I smiled faintly and did not deny it. There was nothing embarrassing about it. It was twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old. Who didn't have a predecessor? Otherwise, it would be too pure!

Guzheng's eyes sparkled with intelligence. She looked at me with a smile and asked, "What's going on? Can you tell me?"

"There's nothing to say." I don't want to share this lost relationship with anyone else. I don't need comfort or guidance. I just want to bury this relationship in the sand and disappear under the erosion of time.

Guzheng didn't force me to say it. I admire her for that!

Then Guzheng said, "The first blind date, so you must love your ex very much, or have been hurt deeply?"

Guzheng tilted his head to look at me, but this conversation made me instinctively contradict, so I asked impolitely, "Isn't this your first time?"

"Yeah, yeah." Guzheng, on the other hand, didn't care about my emotions, "But our reasons are different. I didn't do it because of my ex. I just didn't meet the right one."

"But there's always a reason for that. Your family would never let you go on a blind date when you were in love." I was just casually chatting with Guzheng.

Guzheng suddenly blushed and said, "I haven't been in love yet."

"Ah?" I looked at Guzheng in surprise and asked, "Not even your first love?"

Guzheng nodded.

I couldn't help but sigh, "Then you have too high an eye. You've been single until now."

"Is it high? I don't think so." Guzheng said disapprovingly.

I shook my head and said, "It must be high. You must have a lot of suitors since you were so old, right?"

Guzheng nodded again.

"There are so many people chasing you, and it's time for you to meet a few good ones. You haven't taken a fancy to any of them. Don't you have a good eye?"

"It's really high!" Guzheng smiled helplessly. "There are a lot of people who have chased me, but they are really ordinary. Some of them are even annoying!"

I obviously disagreed with Guzheng's point of view and said, "You just think that people are ordinary. You haven't had any contact with them, and you don't even give them a chance. How can you understand their excellence? Guzheng blinked innocently and said mischievously," anyway, none of them are suitable for me."

My heart said that this girl must have a high opinion. At this time, Guzheng did not want to talk about her anymore, so he returned to me and asked, "Do you still like your ex?"

I was a little convinced. This Guzheng girl really knows how to talk. She's not annoying, but she has the upper hand. I smiled bitterly and said, "Can we not talk about her?"

"Sure." Guzheng looked at me and said, "But when I get the chance, I want to hear your story?"

I smiled. What's so nice about that? It was just a past. Seeing that I didn't speak, Guzheng smiled happily and said, "If you don't say anything, you'll take it as acquiescence."

I didn't really care. Guzheng and I were destined not to have much contact in the future. She probably wouldn't hear this story.

Life is like this, most of the time is very dull and boring, unlike the ups and downs of life in the novel.

Indeed, in reality, we will also encounter some setbacks and hardships, but it is far less deliberate and dramatic than the arrangement in the novel.

In the novel, hundreds of thousands of words may be able to describe a person's life from birth to death, thousands of words may make the timeline transition to ten years later, those novels of cultivation may be able to go through thousands of years of closed-door cultivation in a chapter, a word a day will pass, but life is not like this, we have to live minute by minute.

Sometimes it feels like time flies, sometimes it feels so hard, but we can't change it. We can only spend time washing our faces, brushing our teeth, eating and sleeping.

My circle of friends was not wide, and I was also considered the kind of relatively homely, life was naturally particularly dull, like an old house, no one would pay attention to whether it was winter wind and summer rain, it was like a straight line, without the twists and turns of a wave line.

I am the most ordinary person in the world, maybe like you, maybe like him?

In short, no matter how ordinary life is, it is still moving forward, even if my heart has already walked on a desperate path!