CH 18

Phoenix man (4)

The man who was greeted by Wang Cheng stopped to look back at him, and replied a little uncertainly: “Wang Cheng?”

A smile appeared on Wang Cheng’s face: “It’s me. Is it convenient for you? It’s been a long time since I saw you. Let’s find a place to sit?”

The young man nodded. Ten minutes later, the two of them sat by the window of a milk tea shop, with a cup of coffee in front of Wang Cheng, and a cup of lemon juice for the youth called Yu Zhao.

Wang Cheng looked at the young man in front of him and sighed: “We haven’t seen each other for six or seven years. You still look the same as before, you haven’t changed at all.”

Seeing Yu Zhao, he seemed to see his own past, those memorable green years. That period of youth had ups and downs, but now he remembered only those very beautiful things.

Wang Cheng then asked the other party: “You studied at Qingyu University before, why didn’t you work in Qingyu City and instead came to this second-tier provincial capital?

Yu Zhao’s voice was a little low: “I dropped out of school a few years ago.”

Wang Cheng showed a surprised expression: “How come?”

Yu Zhao could be said to be the person with the best grades in their class. In a small place like theirs, parents were unwilling to let their children play with poor students. He was the second child in the class because Yu Zhao had always occupied the first place.

But he was not jealous of Yu Zhao at all, because he had a special affection for the other party in his heart. Of course, this was also because the difference between the first and second places were very big, he could only look up, he couldn’t get jealous.

It’s just that he was not allowed to fall in love during his adolescence, and the other party was a good student. He had never been able to say it. Later, the other party performed supernormally in the college entrance examination and was admitted to Qingyu University, which everyone aspires to go. However, he could only go to the second-tier provincial capital to be relatively famous. Not a big deal.

Yu Zhao looked at the lemon slices floating in the glass, his bright smile was bitter: “Something happened at home, so I quit school.”

In fact, it was because his father had an accident when he was going to the mine. When his mother heard the news, she stumbled and fell from a high place. His father died and his mother was disabled. There were still sick elderly people in the family who he needed to take care of. He was also not the only child, there was a kid in the family. His ten-year-old sister.

His sister was only eight years old when the accident happened. She had enjoyed the love of her parents for so many years. It was really difficult for him to just care about himself. He applied for a leave of absence, and then he went through the problem of asking for compensation from the boss of the unscrupulous coal mine.

Until now, he had delayed his studies.

After listening to Yu Zhao’s words, Wang Cheng sighed: “The world is unpredictable, but if you are so capable, everything will be better.”

Yu Zhao laughed, his smile lightened a lot this time: “Yes, my mother is recovering, and my younger sister is also growing up sensible. I recently saved a lot of money and plan to open a small shop of my own. “

For most people, studying well at university was to be able to find a better job. He was not too young now, so he naturally hoped to have a more stable and upward life.

Putting his finger on the edge of the coffee cup, Wang Cheng asked unintentionally, “Well, if you drop out, does your boyfriend or girlfriend in college have no opinion on you?”

Yu Zhao was very frank: “I didn’t talk about love in college. I didn’t want to talk about it in my freshman year, but I dropped out of school in my sophomore year. Even if it stabilized in the past six months, I didn’t think about it so much.”

He smiled a little embarrassedly: “I’m not afraid of your jokes when I say it. I have a pie stall next to the university town, unlike the one you sit in the office.”

His dream was to have his own coffee shop, but now he was more pragmatic and wanted to open a small shop selling snacks first.

He replied to his old friend: “What about you, you seem to be very good? The new car seems to cost one million, right.”

Boys seem to have a natural preference for cars. When they were in high school, they were able to draw a series of luxury cars in their notebooks, and they were sensitive to the performance and price of various models.

Judging from Wang Cheng’s clothes and car, the opponent’s prospects were obviously much better than his own. It was just that he hadn’t been back to his hometown in the past few years, and he didn’t know what Wang Cheng was like now.

The face of Qiao Yi came to Wang Cheng’s mind: “I’m just like that, with an annual salary of 50k, the car was bought with a loan, and the house was burdened with a lot of debt.”

Yu Zhao didn’t know whether Wang Cheng was self-effacing or what. He didn’t continue this topic, but glanced at the ring in Wang Cheng’s hand: “You are married, when did you get married? Why didn’t you invite me? I’m sure I wiould fill you up with a big red envelope.1“

Wang Cheng followed his gaze and glanced at his hand, and then took off the ring from his index finger, “Oh, you said this, I wore it casually in order for others to misunderstand.”

“In order to make people misunderstand, what do you mean?” It was the first time that Yu Zhao heard such a statement, and it felt strange.

Wang Cheng said lightly: “It’s just that I have someone in my heart. I heard people say that wearing a ring in this position means to have a master. I wear it, and I can lose a lot of mad bees and butterflies.”

Yu Zhao replied casually: “That sister-in-law is really blessed.”

Wang Cheng’s throat moved. After the first lie was uttered, the rest of the words seemed to be completely out of control. He continued to jump out one sentence after another: “Actually, there is no such sister-in-law. I have been waiting for someone.”

Yu Zhao opened his eyes wide: “?”

Wang Cheng stared at Yu Zhao’s young and handsome face, feeling the blood pouring in his mind from all over his body. He heard himself asking: “Do you want to know who this person is? In fact, he is…”

The sentiment in the eyes of the former high school classmate was ready to come out. Yu Zhao felt a little embarrassed. It felt like there was an extra needle under his butt, but the other party didn’t say it, so he couldn´t refuse it outright. Directly saying he did not have that feeling, it seemed very self-centered.

He waited for Wang Cheng to finish speaking, but when Wang Cheng said the second half of the sentence, he seemed to get stuck suddenly. He changed his mind and asked: “I want to know; did you have a good impression of me back then?”

Yu Zhao said: “When I was in high school, I thought about studying, not so much.”

Wang Cheng looked relieved, and then finished the sentence: “In fact, when I was in high school, I always liked you very much. I wanted to confess after the college entrance examination, but your family moved, and then I haven’t been able to contact you. Now I finally told the story and feel more comfortable, now I have no regrets.”

Seeing his magnanimous appearance, although Yu Zhao was a little embarrassed, he didn’t say anything else: “Then let’s end here today, I have to pick up my sister. Next time let’s have a chance to talk? Next time I´ll invite you to eat the hand cake I made.”

“Wait a minute, let’s exchange contact information first.” Wang Cheng said again.

They were adults, not like when they were studying, non-black or white, who wanted to do things to the end, sometimes, more friends, more ways out.

Yu Zhao reported his mobile phone number, and the two of them saved contact information with each other and went their separate ways.

Before Yu Zhao left, Wang Cheng sat in the same position for a while, and then followed him up. He got into the car, and then stuffed the removed wedding ring under the cushion in the back seat of the car. After doing this, he patted his face and changed the nickname of Qiao Yi on the phone.

He looked through his Moments album. Fortunately, he was not one who posted Moments. It took about ten minutes to erase all the pictures related to Qiao Yi and the marriage to himself, as well as Qiao Yi’s parents. He took a long breath and passed Yu Zhao’s friend application.

After doing this, he drove home. When he got home, the room was dark.

Originally, in their new house, Qiao Yi and Wang father lived with him these three days. Wang father was absent, and the light was dimmed, indicating that Qiao Yi was also not there.

He glanced at the time, it was time for dinner, he frowned, and called Qiao Yi: “Qiao Yi, where are you now?”

“I´m out.”

“What do you want to eat? I will cook dinner for you” In fact, it was him who took the initiative to chase Qiao Yi. Qiao’s family was good, his appearance was good, and there were many suitors. One of the reasons for choosing him was because he was a good cook.

But when he was studying in the country side, he seldom went to the kitchen. This cooking skill was completely trained by Qiao Yi, but these days, when Wang father was there, he would not be able to go into the kitchen. Now he wanted to come, he could use delicious food to save Qiao Yi’s heart.

After all, in his memory, every time Qiao Yi watched him cook, and then brought out a large table of good dishes, he lost his breath as he ate.

Qiao Yi’s voice came through the phone: “I’m in the snack street on the university side. There´s a lot of food, so I don’t have to bother you. You can eat alone.”

After saying this, Qiao Yi hung up the phone. He had just consulted a lawyer. If the other party disagrees, he usually could only wait for the court to decide, but he had to live apart for more than half a year, which was very troublesome.

Maybe he still had to find a way to convince Wang Cheng, or he might find another problem with the other party. But Wang Cheng hadn’t derailed yet, and he couldn´t put the future as evidence.

Hey, for the first time Qiao Yi was so entangled in doing things. After talking with the lawyer, his stomach groaned. It happened that the law firm was near a university, and the stalls at night were all set up. After walking around, he found an owner of a food stall that seemed to be clean.

He glanced at the little brother who was wearing a mask and showing a pair of beautiful eyes, he hesitated, and said: “Bring me a hand cake, an egg, no green onions and coriander.”

TN: This dude just really disgusts me

Notes:

1 Is a monetary gift given during holidays or for special occasions such as a wedding, graduation or the birth of a baby.