The next day, Lu Zhinian accompanied Jiang Suichu for a follow-up consultation.
The follow-up consultation lasted nearly two hours, and Lu Zhinian waited at the door of the consulting room without leaving. He had not been with her during her most serious year. But occasionally I would hear from Shu Yuan and Pei Shuo that she was having a hard time.
Today he was sitting on the hospital bench, leaning back on the chair, staring silently at the closed door of the consulting room, still feeling a bit of pain in his heart.
The physical pain can still be expressed, but the mental and psychological pain cannot be expressed in words.
This is the most tortured thing.
The door opened and his eyelashes trembled slightly.
He immediately stood up and walked over carrying her bag: "How is it?"
Jiang Suichu held a stack of inspection reports in her hand, and she saw the fleeting worry and heaviness in Lu Zhinian's eyes just now.
She raised her head and smiled at him: "It's okay. The doctor said I'm recovering well and I'm almost healed."
She told him in a light tone.
Lu Zhinian smiled and took the inspection report in her hand. He wasn't completely relieved until he saw that the test result column actually said the result was good.
He put the report sheets into his bag and held her hand: "Let's go to eat."
Jiang Suchu smiled and held his hand back: "Yes."
The two held hands and walked out. Lu Zhinian looked sideways at her: "What do you want to eat?"
Jiang Suchu thought for a moment and said, "It seems to be quite close to the university town. Let's go find Lele for dinner."
Lu Zhinian nodded: "Okay."
The two drove to the university town, and Pei Shuo was already waiting for them in a hot pot restaurant. After parking the car, the two held hands and walked to the hot pot restaurant Pei Shuo mentioned.
Maybe it’s because most of the students are on vacation at the end of the semester, so the flow of people near the university town is much less. The two of them quickly found the hot pot restaurant that Pei Shuo mentioned. Pei Shuo was sitting on his seat playing with his mobile phone. When he saw the two of them standing up, he waved: "You two came very quickly."
Lu Zhinian asked Jiang Suchu to sit inside, while he sat next to her. He put down the bag in his hand and looked at Pei Shuo: "Have you finished the exam?"
"The exam is over, the last subject of the morning." Pei Shuo put away the phone and took the kettle to pour water for the two of them.
He first poured a cup and put it in front of Jiang Suichu, and asked her, "Suisui, how are your test results?"
Jiang Suichu held the cup in his hands to warm it and said with a smile, "It's pretty good. The doctor said there's no big problem."
Pei Shuo nodded and poured another glass for Lu Zhinian: "That's good."
Lu Zhinian: "Have you ordered?"
"No, I just ordered the pot dishes but not the dishes." Pei Shuo pointed to the QR code on the corner of the table and said, "Scan where to order."
"Yeah." Lu Zhinian took out his phone and scanned the QR code, then handed the phone to Jiang Suichu, "You order first."
Jiang Suichu took the phone, ordered a few things he wanted to eat, and then returned the phone to him: "I just ordered a few things, you can order the rest."
Lu Zhinian handed the phone directly to Pei Shuo, "Please take some."
Every time we go out to eat, he orders the food.
Pei Shuo was not polite. He took the phone and chatted with them while ordering food. "When will Brother Hao arrive?"
Jiang Suichu flicked his cell phone and said, "Hmm~ I think we'll arrive at the East Station at 3:30 in the afternoon."
Pei Shuo looked at the time on his phone and said, "Then we can go directly to the high-speed rail station to pick him up after dinner. The time is almost perfect."
Lu Zhinian picked up the cup and took a sip of water, then nodded and said, "Yes. You can drive by yourself later or you can ride with us."
Pei Shuo glanced at him: "I must be in the same car as you. Do you think my car is for drinking water?"
His car was originally a heavy-duty off-road vehicle that consumed a lot of fuel.
Save if you can.
Lu Zhinian smiled and said, "Uncle Pei won't give you gas money?"
After ordering the food, Pei Shuo returned the phone to him and said with a curl of his lips: "I don't know how he became the director of such a stingy person. There must be a lot of people under him scolding him for being stingy."
Jiang Suchu was amused by Pei Shuo's words. She smiled and defended Pei Tian: "I think Uncle Pei is quite generous."
Every time I visit her, I buy her a lot of food and give her red envelopes from time to time. During holidays and birthdays, let alone birthdays, red envelopes can be transferred in thousands or thousands of dollars.
Pei Shuo unpacked the tableware and snorted coldly, looking at her: "Princess, that's what he did to you. Ask A-Nian what the biggest red envelope my dad has ever given him on his birthday over the years."
Jiang Suchu turned to look at Lu Zhinian.
Lu Zhinian was ironing the tableware for her. He seemed to think about it seriously and said, "The biggest one was probably on my eighteenth birthday. WeChat sent me 1,000 yuan. Before, it was always 188."
Pei Shuo paused as he opened the tableware and his eyes widened in disbelief: "How much!? How much did you say!? 1,000 yuan!?"
Lu Zhinian put the tableware in front of Jiang Suichu: "Hmm, 1,000. Not you?"
The birthday red envelopes Pei Tian gave them both were always the same.
Pei Shuo pulled the corner of his mouth and laughed coldly, "Haha~ I only have 500."
Fortunately, he was happy for a long time, feeling that his stingy father was finally generous for once.
Jiang Suchu looked at Pei Shuo with an angry expression and tried to purse her lips to prevent herself from smiling too obviously. She didn't dare to say that Uncle Pei always gave her 1,000 yuan for her birthday. On her eighteenth birthday, He even sent her a red envelope of 5,000 yuan.
The pot and vegetables were served, and as soon as the three of them started eating, news came in through WeChat.
Jiang Suichu happened to be looking at his mobile phone, and it was Tang Mi who initiated the video call in the group. She clicked to answer and then put the phone on the side, so that she could roughly see the three people.
She answered the call, but Lu Zhinian and Pei Shuo didn't join in. They were all together anyway.
As soon as the video was connected, Tang Mi saw the bottom of the red and white pot boiling. Her eyes suddenly lit up and she moved closer to the screen.
Tang Mi: "Suisui, are you eating hot pot?"
Tang Zi was beside her and came over after hearing the words, "Let me see, which hot pot restaurant?"
"Yeah." Jiang Suichu picked up his phone and took pictures on the table, "We ate here at Lele School, and it tasted pretty good."
After taking the photo, she put the phone back.
Tang Mi: "Oh my god, I really want to eat it too."
"Tang Zi, look at the color, look at the little dipping sauce I prepared." Pei Shuo took a piece of fat beef covered in sauce and brought it close to the screen, showing it off.
Then he stuffed it into his mouth and said with an intoxicated expression, "Hmm~ It's so delicious~"
Tang Zi squeezed in front of Tang Mi's cell phone and said with a look of disgust: "Pei Shuo, can you pay attention to your image? It's disgusting to look at him with his mouth full of oil."
Pei Shuo: "I think you just can't eat the grapes and say the grapes are sour. Your mouth smells so bad after eating stinky cheese every day in Great Britain."
Tang Zi was depressed and rolled his eyes: "I'm too lazy to talk to you, you're waiting for me to go back."
Pei Shuo took a few meatballs out of the pot and shook his head: "It's like I'm afraid of you. Come back quickly, no one will give me any training until I come back."
When they were bickering, no one else could get a word in.
Jiang Suchu was laughing and eating, and almost choked several times.
Lu Zhinian handed her a glass of warm water and patted her back to calm her down: "Slow down."
Jiang Suichu took the water glass and smiled and leaned close to his ear, "Why do I feel that Tang Zi and Lele are talking more and more alike, it's so funny."
Lu Zhinian nodded: "Perhaps this means that when you are close to vermillion, you are red, and when you are close to ink, you are black."
Jiang Suchu took a sip of water and looked at him: "Aren't you playing with them too?"
Lu Zhinian hooked up his lower lip, raised his eyebrows and said with an arrogant expression, "I'm calling you mud but not stained."
Jiang Suichu: "…………."
As soon as he finished speaking, a cold snort came from the other side.
Pei Shuo looked at him faintly and said Yin Yang, "If you speak softer, maybe we won't be able to hear you."
He deliberately emphasized the syllables of the word 'du' and emphasized the general meaning.
Tang Zi also snorted coldly in the video, "That's right, I heard it even on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean."
Lu Zhinian fished out a piece of Lipu taro from the pot for Jiang Suichu, looked at the screen and said without changing his expression: "That's good, I did it on purpose."
"You two are lucky to have a friend like me who dares to tell the truth."
Pei Shuo smirked at Tang Zi on the screen, "Do you want this blessing?"
Tang Zi chuckled and shook his head: "I'm not happy to accept it."
Tang Mi smiled and pushed Tang Zi away: "Get out of the way, Suisui and I didn't even have to talk a few words before we just listened to you talking here."
"Sui Sui, are you going to pick up Jiang Minghao soon?" Tang Mi was sitting on the sofa holding her cell phone.
Jiang Suchu chatted with her while eating: "Well, we will go to the station after eating."
Tang Mi smiled and said, "Then you must take photos and videos for me. He hasn't sent me a message on his cell phone these days. I have to catch a flight later, so I don't have time to take videos."
Jiang Suichu smiled and promised her: "Okay. I will definitely make you look handsome."
Tang Mi: "He is already handsome, there is no need to look for an angle."
"Vomit~" Pei Shuo pretended to vomit, "Tang Xiaomi, you are so disgusting."
Tang Mi snorted, "That's right. You're just jealous that Jiang Minghao is more handsome than you."
"Am I jealous?" Pei Shuo stared and pointed at himself with chopsticks: "Please come back and find out who the president of the Yun City Police Academy is."
Tang Mi: "Is it grass from dogtail grass?"
Pei Shuo: "…………."
Seeing that the two people were about to quarrel again, Jiang Suchu quickly changed the topic.
"Tangtang, how long will you stay back in China?"
Tang Mi: "It's almost the same as you. Tang Zi and I will return to the UK around the 10th of the first lunar month."
Pei Shuo interjected: "We start school on the 14th of the first lunar month. Do you think this school can't let us celebrate the Lantern Festival at home? The time card is so good."
Jiang Suichu: "Oh. Then our school should stay open longer. It seems that school doesn't start until the eighteenth day of the first lunar month."
"Really?" She was a little unsure and looked at Lu Zhinian.
Lu Zhinian nodded: "Yes, the eighteenth day of the first lunar month."
Northern schools have a longer winter vacation and start later than southern schools.
Pei Shuo stuffed a ball into his mouth and asked, "How are you going to spend the winter vacation?"
Unlike high school, college has homework, and it seems quite boring to stay at home every day.
Tang Mi rolled her eyes and suggested, "Let's... why not go on a trip."
Jiang Suchu was stunned for a moment: "Travel?"
Tang Mi: "That's right. We had agreed before that we could all go on a graduation trip together, but it just so happened that Jiang Minghao came back this time. Let's go out and play together."
Jiang Suichu pursed her lower lip. It was always a regret in her heart that she did not go to Tibet with everyone for a graduation trip.
Lu Zhinian noticed her emotion and turned his head to look at her: "Want to go out to play?"
Jiang Suchu looked at him and nodded: "I want to be with everyone."
Lu Zhinian smiled and asked her, "Is there any place you particularly want to go?"
It is obviously impossible to go to Tibet. Jiang Minghao has just returned from Tibet.
Jiang Suichu has never traveled and doesn't know where to go. She looked at her phone and asked Tang Mi, "Tangtang, where do you want to go?"
Tang Mi thought for a moment and said, "How about we go to Haicheng? It's close to the sea and it's very warm. We've been there in the summer."
The words about spending summer suddenly hit Jiang Suichu's heart.
She has always been a person who likes warmer places. Although it is cold outside in Beicheng, luckily there is heating indoors. But Yun City is different. Yun City is a southern city, and winters are particularly wet and cold.
It had only been two days since she came back, and she was already missing the heating in Beicheng.
Pei Shuo, who was opposite, saw the longing in Jiang Suichu's eyes and asked her with a smile: "Suisui, do you want to go to Haicheng?"
Lu Zhinian also looked at her.
She smiled and nodded: "I want to go. I haven't seen the sea yet."
Hearing Jiang Suichu say he wanted to go, Tang Mi knew that Lu Zhinian and Pei Shuo would definitely not say anything. So he happily made the decision: "Then it's settled, when we come back we will go to Haicheng to play together."
Pei Shuo teased her: "You didn't even ask Brother Hao if he wanted to go, so you decided like that?"
Tang Mi raised her chin and said arrogantly: "If I go, he will definitely go. He will listen to me."
Pei Shuo said, "Are you so sure that Brother Hao will listen to you?"
Tang Mi: "When..."
Before Tang Mi finished speaking, a voice suddenly interrupted.
"Well, I listen to her."
Jiang Suchu was stunned for a moment. He looked at his phone and realized that Jiang Minghao had also joined the video call at some point, but he didn't turn on the camera.
Tang Mi had obviously just discovered Jiang Minghao's presence. There was joy in her voice, "Jiang Minghao, when did you come in?"
"Just now." Jiang Minghao's voice was a little noisy. He must have been on the train.
Jiang Suchu: "Jiang Minghao, are you on the train?"
Tang Mi pouted and said, "Why don't you turn on the camera?"
Jiang Minghao: "There are many tunnels and the signal is not good."
Tang Mi: "Oh, okay then."
Pei Shuo: "Brother Hao, just now Tang Xiaomi and Suisui said they wanted to visit Haicheng. Do you have time?"
Jiang Minghao: "I have 15 days of leave. It depends on when you go."
Pei Shuo: "We will discuss it in detail after Tang Zi and the others come back."
Jiang Minghao: "Well——"
Suddenly there was a lag, and Jiang Minghao directly exited the group chat.
Tang Mi: "Ah? Why is he offline?"
Jiang Suchu: "We must have entered a tunnel, and the signal is not good."
Tang Mi snorted and said, "Then I'll pack my things first. I have to catch a flight in the evening."
Jiang Suchu: "Yeah, bye Tangtang."
Tang Mi waved to her: "Bye."
After hanging up the phone, Pei Shuo touched his round belly and asked him, "Have you eaten? We can almost go to the station."
Jiang Suichu put down his chopsticks and said, "It's ready."
When Lu Zhinian saw that she had finished eating, he took out his mobile phone and paid for the meal.
Then he picked up her bag and stood up: "Let's go."
After a hot pot meal, he was sweating all over his body. When he walked out of the hot pot restaurant, Pei Shuo glanced at the milk tea shop next to him and said, "Let's buy a drink."
Lu Zhinian glanced at the milk tea shop and asked Jiang Suchu, "Would you like to drink it?"
Jiang Suichu licked his lips. After eating the hot pot, he really needed something to drink to clear his mouth.
She nodded, and the three of them went to the milk tea shop nearby to buy something to drink.
"Hello, if you need anything..." the milk tea shop clerk's voice suddenly paused.
Jiang Suchu only felt that the voice was somewhat familiar. When he raised his eyes, he saw a face he had not seen for a long time.
Jiang Mingzhu didn't expect to meet Jiang Suchu and Lu Zhinian here, so she averted her eyes with some embarrassment.
Jiang Suchu was also stunned.
Jiang Mingzhu is only less than half a year younger than her, and should also be a freshman this year. She had been talking to her uncle on the phone before, and she seemed to have heard her uncle accidentally mention that Jiang Mingzhu failed the college entrance examination and went to a college in Yun City.
I think she works part-time here.
She quickly put away her emotions and ordered with a smile like an ordinary customer: "Hello, I want a glass of grapefruit, room temperature."
Then she looked back at Lu Zhinian and Pei Shuo, "What do you want to drink?"
Lu Zhinian took a step forward, stood behind her, and gently put his arm around her waist, "I'll just drink from you."
Jiang Suichu nodded. She knew that Lu Zhinian didn't like to drink these.
Pei Shuo was stunned for a moment when he saw Jiang Mingzhu, but when he saw Jiang Suichu's lack of reaction, he put aside his instinctive dislike of her.
He walked to the ordering machine, looked at the menu and said: "Yangzhi Manna, medium cup with ice."
"Okay, a total of 36 yuan." Jiang Mingzhu lowered her head to operate the single-click machine, and then she pointed to the scanning code place on the side, "Scan the code here to pay."
Before Jiang Suchu took out her phone, Pei Shuo paid the bill before her.
After the payment was made, the receipt came out of the machine.
Jiang Mingzhu tore up the receipt and handed it to him, "Please take your receipt."
Pei Shuo took the ticket and walked to a seat not far away with Jiang Suchu and Lu Zhinian to sit and wait for milk tea.
Pei Shuo whispered: "Sui Sui, is that Jiang Mingzhu?"
Jiang Suichu glanced at the back of the person making milk tea at the bar, then looked away, "Yeah."
Pei Shuo: "I didn't expect that she would actually work part-time here. I feel that she is a little different from before."
Although he had not met Jiang Mingzhu a few times, he could see her arrogance and hypocrisy at a glance. Moreover, his eyes are higher than his head, and he looks down on others.
But the Jiang Mingzhu he saw just now seemed less arrogant and not as arrogant as before.
Jiang Suchu twitched the corners of his lips: "I guess... he has grown up."
Her first reaction when she saw Jiang Mingzhu just now was similar to that of Pei Shuo. She had indeed changed a lot. But why this change happened, she didn't care.
Except for the uncle, the good or bad of anyone else in that family has nothing to do with her.
"Customer No. 06, please come to the bar to pick up your meal."
A few minutes later, the order number rang in the store. Pei Shuo looked at the receipt and said, "It's ours."
The three of them got up and went to the bar.
This time it wasn't Jiang Mingzhu, it was another guy, "Hello, do you want to take it away or drink here?"
Jiang Suichu took a look, but didn't see Jiang Mingzhu.
"Drink it directly, no need to pack it." Lu Zhinian took Jiang Suichu's cup, put a straw in it and handed it to her.
Pei Shuo also took his own glass, and the three of them walked to the car parked on the street while talking and laughing.
After the three of them left the milk tea shop, Jiang Mingzhu came out from behind. She looked at the backs of the three of them. Jiang Suchu was walking in the middle, and Lu Zhinian and Pei Shuo were walking beside her.
Lu Zhinian held her hand, and Pei Shuo also placed his hand behind her to protect her, watching the passing vehicles. Then the three of them crossed the street laughing and got into a luxury car together.
When the car disappeared on the opposite street, she slowly lowered her eyes.
When she saw Jiang Suichu just now, her first reaction was thinking that Jiang Suichu would definitely use this to ridicule and embarrass her. She was prepared to be embarrassed in public, but she didn't want Jiang Suchu to say or do anything.
She ordered politely like an ordinary customer coming to the store, without even looking at her during the whole process.
She couldn't help but think that a long time ago, Zhang Yaqi knew that she and Jiang Suchu were Tang sisters, so he asked her to be a lobbyist to win her over.
At that time, Jiang Suchu was unwilling and laughed at her for pretending to be aloof.
But she said: "Jiang Mingzhu, I advise you not to play with them."
"If you stay in the mud for too long, one day you will rot in the mud too."
She twitched her lips slightly as she thought of this.
Yes, mud rots people's hearts.
At that time, Zhang Yaqi's bullying incident was investigated, and her father was arrested because of it. The members of their small group became scorned by everyone in the school and town.
Because of the impact of this incident, her studies plummeted. I could have taken the second degree, but I failed in the college entrance examination and was admitted to a local college in Yun City.
She originally thought that things would be fine when she went to college and was in a new environment where no one knew about those things, but many classmates in the school had also seen the reports from that year on the Internet. Although they didn't bully her, no one in the school wanted to be her friend. Even in the same dormitory, other people would not call her when they went out to eat.
It was precisely because of this that she fully understood Jiang Suchu's pain when they were bullied by them together with the whole school.
in the car.
Pei Shuo sat in the back, leaned forward on the back of her chair and asked Jiang Suichu: "Suisui, are you still very Jiang Mingzhu and Jiang Mingjie?"
Jiang Suchu bit the straw, remained silent for a few seconds, and shook his head: "I don't hate it."
Lu Zhinian drove the car and glanced at her.
She looked forward and continued: "I don't hate them, but I won't forgive them either."
Lu Zhinian curled his lower lip and reached out to rub her head: "Well done."
Jiang Suchu looked at him and smiled lightly.
Pei Shuo scratched his head, confused: "Don't you mean you still hate if you don't forgive?"
Jiang Suchu smiled and did not explain.
Hate is an obsession.
In the end, only yourself is hurt.
She doesn't hate them, but she won't forgive them.
It's because she just wants to let herself go and doesn't want to become a prisoner of the past.
There is nothing we can do about the past, so it is better to deal with it indifferently.
