Chapter 17: Meeting After Three Years
Actually, I didn't sleep much this night. Ask yourself, I want to go back to the past and go back to those days when she still loved me, and then we held hands and rejoiced in silence.
But I finally live in the present, in the back of her turning around and leaving, and then I think of her fiercely and laugh at her for being ruthless!
The night turned into early morning, and the sunlight shone into my room through the gaps in the curtains. Finally, it stopped on the glass bottle with flowers, creating a colorful aperture, which seemed to indicate that it was another great morning.
Yes, even if there is no sunshine, it is a great morning. Because there is a couple who will tie the knot today, I should not use anxiety to pollute this morning and their wedding. I told myself that I must have a sunny posture.
I found the most handsome suit from the closet, shaved my beard, and found a hairdryer to blow my haircut. I smiled at the mirror and confirmed that I was very sunny. Then I was about to leave the room and send my wedding blessings to Fang Yuan and Yan Yan.
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At almost noon, I and a group of guests were waiting outside the hotel for the wedding convoy, and also waiting for Jian Wei who accompanied Yan Yan as a bridesmaid.
The bride-welcoming convoy has not arrived for a long time. I heard that there was a traffic jam on the road, which is simply torture for me. At this time, I would rather see Jian Wei earlier. The hard thing is the anxiety waiting before the meeting. Anyway, I can't avoid meeting. It's better to be happy. Perhaps after the meeting, we just tacitly treat each other as strangers. This is the best!
I squeezed out of the crowd and sat on the stone bench opposite the hotel, and felt even more anxious. This anxiety was hard to describe in words. I always felt that Yan Yan and Fang Yuan’s wedding, which symbolized a perfection, was a harsh question for me.
This kind of questioning is not only emotional but also material. Why did Fang Yuan and I graduated from the same school and started at the same starting point? Now he has achieved some success in his career and has achieved success with his beloved, but I am so down and out, living a life of no place to live and borrowing money everywhere.
During my self-examination, my heart was filled with loneliness and loss that I could not breathe. At this moment, I really hope that there would be a woman by my side to help me hide these loneliness and loss, and let me bring a smile that looked at least happy to bless Fang Yuan and Yan Yan.
I smoked a cigarette, finally took out my cell phone from my pocket, and then called my female tenant Mi Cai.
After waiting for a while, Mi Cai answered the phone and I hurriedly asked, "Have you got up?"
"What are you doing?" Mi Cai's tone was a little alert.
I smiled and tried to let her relax her vigilance first, then said, "Actually I want to treat you to a meal..."
"There is no need for this, we are not too familiar with each other." Mi Cai refused without even thinking about it.
"It's necessary. Think about it. You lend me money and take me in. It's a recreational grace for me. If I don't invite you to have a meal, I'll really become a scumbag in your mouth!"
Mi Cai was silent for a moment, and I struck while the iron was hot and said, "Come on, I have chosen all my places. I sincerely hope you will give me a chance to completely get rid of the low-level title of scum."
After Mi Cai was silent again, she said to me: "Where is the place to eat?"
“Yaming Hotel.”
"Yaming Hotel? Did I hear it wrong?" Mi Cai asked in confusion in his words.
"Of course I heard it right. Only a five-star hotel can show my sincerity in treating you to a meal, so... you must come. This meal is worth my week's salary!" I said with sincerity in my tone, and with the "suffering pain" that I pretended.
"I know, wait for me for 20 minutes." Shut down and added: "Don't be so extravagant in the future. It's the same wherever you treat me to dinner sincerely."
I didn't expect Mi Cai to take into account my financial difficulties, so I was stunned and replied, "I understand, I'll wait for you outside the hotel." After that, Mi Cai and I hung up the phone, and I finally breathed a sigh of relief. I thought: I'll cheat Mi Cai over and accompany me, and I won't look so lonely and downcast later!
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A quarter of an hour passed, and the bride-welcoming convoy had not arrived yet. It seemed that they had an unprecedented traffic jam. At this time, I was no longer as anxious as I had just now. This made me feel that calling Mi Cai was a very wise decision.
After another 5 minutes, I saw the red Audi q7. Mi Cai really followed the agreement and arrived. She parked the car in the open-air parking lot and I immediately met it.
The two of them stood next to the fountain in the hotel square, and I said first: "I'm a little worried that you won't come. I didn't expect you to be on time, just 20 minutes."
"I'm not like some people regard unbearing promises as commonplace." Mi Cai took the opportunity to hurt me.
I smiled indifferently and said, "I'm just me, you can make it clear that I won't be angry with you."
"You are not angry because you are thick-skinned!" Mi Cai choked me again.
I smiled again, but didn't say anything again.
Mi Cai looked at the hotel opposite and asked me: "Can you go for a meal?"
"Of course, but you have to wait a while, and you have to wait for a few more people."
"Is there anyone else?"
As soon as Mi Cai finished speaking, the crowd that had been waiting began to make a noise. Then eight cars with the words "Happy" and ribbons were placed on them in a row and drove into the hotel courtyard. They finally arrived!
I didn't bother to talk to Mi Cai beside me, and my eyes were uncontrollably staring at the wedding car carrying the bride. I knew that Jian Wei was also sitting in the wedding car, and her breathing became disordered in an instant.
Fang Yuan, dressed in groom's outfit, first walked out of the wedding car, then went to the other side of the car to help Yan Yan open the car door, and hugged her out of the car with a princess hug. This hug made a burst of applause and cheers sound from the crowd, and the happiness filled me instantly drowned me.
As the crowd was undulating, I finally saw Jian Wei getting out of the car. She was holding a bouquet of flowers in her hand and wearing a sapphire blue dress. The noon sunlight was scattered on her arm, and it was crystal clear. Her face was still so beautiful. Under her thin willow eyebrows, her eyes were like water waves. Among all the women I knew, her eyes were the most beautiful.
Jian Wei handed the flower in her hand to Yan Yan, who was held in Fang Yuan's arms, and then applauded and cheered with the crowd, but she didn't look at me from beginning to end. Maybe she didn't care at all that I was at the scene at this moment.
I was silent for a long time, took a deep breath, and said to Mi Cai, who was a little confused about the situation around me, "My friends are here... Let's go in and have a meal."
Mi Cai's face was cold: "You are here to attend a friend's wedding, and you didn't sincerely invite me to dinner, right?"
"I'm very sincere, but there are a little more people."
"Scum!" Mi Cai scolded me and took out the car keys from her handbag, turned around and walked towards the car parked not far away.
I couldn't let Mi Cai leave, yes! I fooled her, but such fooling her was not harmful to her. At least she could have a wedding banquet. Since she had arrived, it would make no sense to leave again.
I raised my hand and grabbed Mi Cai, and my tone became heavier without being controlled: "Why do you like being serious so much? What's wrong with me treating you to a friend's wedding banquet? Just eat and drink enough, but you won't lose your flesh!"
Mi Cai slapped me with a bag and said as she walked, "I would like to emphasize again, I don't like others to deceive me... From now on, I don't want to have anything to do with you, a liar, a scumbag anymore. Please move out of my house immediately after you go back."
Although I didn't expect Mi Cai's reaction to be so violent, I still raised my hand and pulled her to prevent her from leaving. As the two of them pulled, a figure stood opposite us.
My hand was holding Mi Cai's arm tightly, and at the same time, I looked up at the person coming opposite me, and my heart trembled violently... Jian Wei was standing opposite Mi Cai!
At this moment three years later, we finally stood face to face.
Chapter completed!