Time passed little by little, and after finishing the meal, Cao Aiqing stood up to see off Guo's mother. During this period, she accidentally glanced out of the corner of her eye and spotted Wang Zhaodi and the others, and her expression instantly showed surprise.
Fortunately, the other party and his party didn't seem to see him.
This situation made the girl inexplicably feel nervous due to luck.
She didn't know why this happened.
After sending Guo Huai and her son to the entrance of the cafeteria, Guo's mother wanted to go for a walk in the lead washing pool. Although Cao Aiqing wanted to say goodbye, she wanted to go back to the School of Architecture. This section happened to be on her way, so she thought it was a beginning and an end to the Guo family's mother and son. Finish this last paragraph.
But when she saw Wang Ma just now, she was hesitant to go back and say hello, and just when she was struggling, Guo Huai's voice came to her ears.
"Ai Qing, if you have classes in the afternoon, go over there first. We are on different roads, so there is no need to see her off. I can just walk alone with my mother."
Cao Aiqing was stunned for a moment, and then understood the other party's intention.
Mother Guo looked at Guo Huai with confusion and complaint on her face, obviously wanting to chat with the girl for a while.
But at this moment, no matter how much she winked at Guo Huai, this usually obedient and filial son remained so indifferent.
"Then...Okay, Auntie, please walk slowly. I still have classes, so I won't see you off. Goodbye!"
Cao Aiqing raised his hand and waved gently in front of his chest. Guo Huai took his mother, nodded, turned around, and drifted away.
"Oh... we can actually walk together..."
"Mom, let's go. It's not enough for me to accompany you. Don't delay other people's classes."
"You kid, why are you always so confused..."
"Yes, yes, I will take you to our student union office in the afternoon and let you see how I usually work, okay?"
"I'm not familiar with your school, so you can make arrangements."
"Hahaha, okay!"
During the conversation between Guo's mother complaining and Guo Huai's promise, the two people's backs completely disappeared from Cao Aiqing's field of vision. The girl's mood was ups and downs, including relief and relief. It was incredible that the two people left like this.
But actually, after thinking about it, this is the most natural thing to do.
It's the first time you meet someone, and most likely the last time you meet them. There is no such thing as who gives someone the last paragraph.
"Little Ai Qing."
Behind him, Wang Zhaodi's soft call came. Cao Aiqing's shoulders shook slightly and he turned his head.
"Wang...Mother Wang...what a coincidence. Why did you come to HKU?"
Wang Ma smiled slightly and comforted: "Don't be nervous. I came to the University of Hong Kong to see Tianran. At the same time, I also want to say thank you. He just explained to me what happened to Tianran. Thank you for your kindness. Ah, you coaxed me to recover from my illness so quickly. At the hospital, the doctors said that when I was in a good mood, I would become more relaxed and gain weight, and I have gained two pounds recently."
"Is that so? It's great that you're fine..."
As if he had done something bad when he was a child and was caught by his parents, Cao Aiqing clasped his hands tightly and lowered his head, not knowing how to answer this sentence.
Seeing this, Wang Ma took her catkins and said warmly:
"Little Aiqing, don't be nervous. I saw what you just did. You did the right thing. There is no need to lower your head.
Our generation sometimes has some stubborn old habits. We always feel that we can talk about anything and communicate with each other. We don’t want to talk too hard, but we also want others to hold us accountable. He said that everything must be negotiated. At worst, it is actually shameless...
There is no way, we are not like you young people, who have the capital to do anything. Although some of the words of that sister just made you young people disgusted, it was normal in the countryside before us. Look, our faces are all wrinkled. , If you don’t have thick skin, you won’t be able to live..."
Cao Aiqing couldn't help but laugh at the last sentence.
"Smiled? Just smile. I'm leaving. I know that staying here will give you pressure and discomfort. As for you, how did you deal with Tianran before? Let's deal with it now. I won't let you give it away. , Xiao Tianran still has a lot of things at home waiting for me to go back."
"Ah? Mother Wang, are you leaving so soon?"
Wang Ma came and went so casually, which made Cao Aiqing somewhat uncomfortable after experiencing Guo Mother's entanglement.
"The older generation doesn't live up to expectations, so they can only blame the younger generation for not making progress. But if the older generation lives up to expectations, they won't be so frightened and impatient to see anything. Little Aiqing, you don't have to send her off, just stay. ."
Wang Zhaodi pinched the girl's delicate cheek gently, and then walked away. The driver Lao Hu who followed behind her looked at Cao Aiqing as he passed by, nodded, smiled, and left.
He Tianran crossed his arms and stepped forward.
Cao Aiqing looked at the two people's backs and asked doubtfully: "Aren't you going to see them off?"
The man shrugged: "My mother Wang specially left space for us to chat. I was going to send it off, but she turned around and scolded me back."
"...You...were you always around just now?"
"Well, that's about it. By the way, don't believe what Madam Wang just said if the older generation were more upbeat and wouldn't be so impatient."
Cao Aiqing turned his head: "Why?"
"hey-hey……"
He Tianran laughed helplessly before saying:
"I was afraid that you thought she wanted to force you to be with me, so I said that on purpose.
You don’t know that after you rejected Guo Huai’s mother just now, my mother, Wang, has been talking about how young people are thin-skinned and polite to their elders, so it’s hard to fall out, but as long as you make things more difficult, she will go into battle herself. Let me help you break up. After all, they are all people who have quarreled in ten miles and eight towns. Who is afraid of whom? Even her son, who is the oldest, dares to sell like this. It is really stuffing green onions in his nostrils and pretending to be garlic...
Well, I have no objection to Guo Huai. I'm just repeating what he said. "
Cao Aiqing smiled and said, "Then why didn't you come over just now?"
He Tianran turned his head and looked at her, "I know you like to look decent, but if it ends up in such a chaotic situation, you will definitely feel bad."
Hearing this, Cao Aiqing did not dare to look at him, but whispered:
"I thought... Guo Huai's mother and Wang Ma appeared at the same time this time... it was arranged by you again."
"Clam?"
"Don't you always like to plan these things behind your back..."
The girl murmured, what she said was reasonable and well-founded, and He Tianran could only smile bitterly.
"This is a real coincidence... I didn't know that Guo Huai would meet you, and I didn't know that you would come to this cafeteria. Besides, I only received the news this morning that Wang Ma was discharged from the hospital and wanted to see me. There was not enough time for me to Arranged.”
Cao Aiqing knew that she had overthought and misunderstood He Tianran, but she did not apologize, just took a deep breath.
"Let's go for a walk."
"Um."
The two left the cafeteria and did not take the main road. Instead, they walked slowly along a campus path that was not too secluded, stepping on the grass.
At first, the two of them didn't speak. They just walked slowly for five or six minutes. Then these two words popped out of Cao Aiqing's mouth:
"……Thanks."
He Tianran joked: "Thank you for what? Thank me for helping you control the situation and allowing you to escape a social death comparable to that of Shura Field?"
Cao Aiqing's newly calm mind was aroused by this, and he immediately retorted:
"The misunderstanding on Mother Wang's end was caused by you in the first place, right?"
"If you don't cooperate, I can't even slap you~"
"you……!"
"Okay, okay, I know it's my fault, and I admit it, so it's only natural that I help you control the situation. This is considered even, no need to say thank you."
He Tianran was the first to surrender. In this matter, Cao Aiqing really didn't need to say thank you.
Unexpectedly, Cao Aiqing shook his head.
"It's not just because of this."
"Is there anything else you can say thank you for?"
Cao Aiqing said in a deep voice:
"And...Guo Huai. I think if you hadn't punched him and kicked him, he would not be like this today."
He Tianran suddenly understood, and then nodded in agreement.
"Yes, Comrade Lao Guo's performance this time is indeed worthy of high marks. Tsk tsk tsk. You have to thank me from such a tricky angle. Well... there's nothing wrong with that."
The girl gave him a strange look.
"Since when did you start to be so open-minded?"
"Start from the moment you pull me out of the black and white world. Don't you like my living dead style? Now I am a pure fun person. As long as I dare to show off, then I will be there all day long." You can all laugh."
Cao Aiqing rolled his eyes.
The joke ended here. When it came to the black and white world, He Tianran suddenly remembered something and asked:
"After this time, Guo Huai and his mother should have some color in your eyes, right?"
"Um?"
"As you said, people and things in your future are all black and white. I think Guo Huai and his mother will only be darker in your eyes than Senior Shen."
The girl sighed: "Guo Huai already had color the day he was in the restaurant. As for his mother... To be honest, I didn't pay attention to it, and I don't care about it."
"Hey~"
He Tianran was speechless for a moment. Fortunately, the two of them were sitting at the same table eating and chatting just now. All I can say is that Cao Aiqing wanted to stay away from this woman from the bottom of his heart.
"By the way, what Queen Mother said to me...did you teach her, or did you guide her to say that?"
"I'm not qualified to teach her, why do you ask?"
"Because I always feel that people who have been there will say these things. After all, ordinary elders are separated from us by generations, and it is difficult to think from another perspective. It is probably not such a comfort method... it is too... appropriate. "
"So, Mother Wang is here."
"Ah?" Cao Aiqing opened her eyes wide: "You mean... Wang Ma also experienced this when she was young?"
Seeing the girl's incredible and cute look, He Tianran laughed heartily.
"Hahahaha, what are you thinking? It's not that exaggerated."
Cao Aiqing's face turned cold for a moment. He waited until He Tianran had laughed enough before listening to his suggestion:
"Haha, actually I don't know much about Mother Wang's story, but since your imagination can be so open, I can tell you a few pieces of information, and you can speculate on it. When you are finished, you can do it yourself Just define whether Wang Ma is someone who has been here before."
"what's the message?"
He Tianran raised a finger:
"The first piece of information is that Wang Ma's full name is Wang Zhaodi."
"Zhao Di?" Cao Aiqing frowned and thought: "It means that after giving birth to a girl, you want a boy, right? It's really a very contemporary name... I can imagine that Mrs. Wang should be Born into a family that favors sons over daughters.”
He Tianran nodded.
"Yes, that's right. The second piece of information is that Wang Ma is the third eldest child in the family and the youngest."
Cao Aiqing thought quickly and said:
"Then since her name is Zhaodi, she naturally hopes to have a boy because she has no eldest son in the family, but she is also the youngest, so the two above her are sisters. Are they three sisters in the family?"
"right."
Although He Tianran only used two sentences, it was enough for Cao Aiqing to complete Wang Ma's background.
Thinking about a child named Zhaodi, who was born in a feudal family that favored sons over daughters, and as the eldest child of the family, Cao Aiqing did not want to have a rigid to compassionate emotion about some of the experiences she would encounter. Go ahead and deduce blindly.
"What else?" the girl asked proactively.
"She came to Hong Kong City alone when she was seventeen years old. Since she only had a junior high school diploma, her first job when she entered the city was to wash dishes, and her second job was to come to my house as a domestic helper. And then... she has been working there until now. ."
He Tianran took away most of Wang Ma's life in one sentence, and Cao Aiqing couldn't help but sigh.
Sometimes people are very complicated, so complicated that even a million-word book might not be explained thoroughly enough; but sometimes people are very simple, so simple that a few sentences can summarize most of their lives.
"Wang Ma seems to be older than your father?"
"Well, when she came to my house, my dad had not even graduated from elementary school."
"But, the fact that she can be your housekeeper means that Mother Wang is... really powerful..."
Cao Aiqing has a clear understanding of He Panshan's status in the port city and the luxury of Nanshan. If he wants to run such a large family, in addition to some housekeeping experience accumulated over many years, he will also need some other things. domain expertise.
But thinking about it, Cao Aiqing was still happy.
Because that seventeen-year-old country girl named "Zhao Di" really changed her destiny.
After all, in terms of the most obvious and intuitive level of economic income, Wang Ma’s financial accumulation as a housekeeper in the He family for so many years was enough for her to achieve a class leap and get rid of some of the limitations of the era. and environmental oppression.
"Looking at you, it seems that you can outline a clear image of Wang Ma in your mind? But I actually have one last piece of information that I haven't finished yet. After I finish speaking, your impression of Wang Ma will be more complete and three-dimensional. of."
He Tianran's face was a little depressed.
Cao Aiqing has been attracted by his narration skills in constructing character images, and couldn't help but ask:
"what else?"
The man hesitated for a few seconds before slowly adding the last point:
"Wang Ma... has never been married."
"..."
He Tianran walked forward on his own, and it was not until he walked three or four meters that he realized that there was no one around him. He turned around and saw that Cao Aiqing was already standing there and stopped.
So, he turned around and walked back to her.
Just listen to the girl asking lonely:
"Because...what? Is it because of the environment in which she grew up, or...Mother Wang didn't meet the right person?"
"...I don't know. Maybe it's all factors, but I think it doesn't mean anything, because even if she has no descendants, I will always regard her as an extremely important relative."
After hearing this, Cao Aiqing looked at He Tianran and his mood improved.
"Then you have to be filial to her in the future. You educate Guo Huai so much, but you can't be...short of him in this regard."
"I am very sure of that."
After saying that, the two set off again.
On the winter campus, dry maple leaves curled up on the branches and shivered. Even the lawn under their feet was wilted by the cool breeze. The withered yellow and brown and green were mixed together, like a worn carpet.
The two people without destination just stepped on this carpet, digesting the food in their stomachs and their complicated thoughts. A gust of cold wind blew by. Cao Aiqing shrank his head and asked curiously:
"You were watching from the side just now. Did Queen Mother say anything to me?"
He Tianran raised his hands, rubbed them, and blew out a breath of hot air.
"Said you look like your sister Bai. My dad also said this when we went to Nanshan Jiadi, so I also answered her, you are you, you are not like anyone else."
"Then what do you think is different between me and Sister Bai?"
"...My mother and my father had a few words of quarrel with each other. We are incompatible with each other. We would not have been in the same situation. We are not as happy now. This is definitely not the case!"
Cao Aiqing was stunned for a moment, then reacted and said angrily:
"He Tianran, if you don't know how to speak, just shut up!"
"Hahahaha, just kidding, don't be angry, but think about it, does it make sense?"
"What's the point? My attitude towards you is too kind, right?"
The girl was threatening with a cold face, as if she was on the verge of breaking out, but He Tianran nodded surprisingly, and then shook his head.
He said calmly:
"You are not too kind to me, but you are too kind to everyone who has hurt you..."
Cao Aiqing responded tit for tat:
"Then is it possible that you think of me too kindly?"
He Tianran smiled peacefully and said slowly:
"I also hope that you, Ai Qing, can be so fake and kind, but the reality is that you always choose to use the greatest empathy and compassion to forgive all the grudges in the past. You are like this to me and Wen Liang, and you are like this to Guo Huai That's right, you are still like this when it comes to his mother today...
In fact, I really hope that when Guo Huai's mother is pestering you in every possible way today, you stand up and slap her face twice, and then yell angrily, how can your son, a coward like you, be worthy of me, Cao Aiqing? Don't get involved again!
In other words, if you find it troublesome and are too lazy to do it yourself, then I can also ask Ma Wang to help you tear Guo Huai's mother to pieces. Just kidding, I, the Crown Prince of Hong Kong City, have to lick you, and he, Guo Huai, is just a student union Commander, you borrowed the car from me, and you, an old woman, are just sitting here bragging!
You see, although all of this sounds very silly, it seems that only in this way can people feel happy, feel comfortable and retaliate with thunder..."
Having said this, He Tianran stopped for a moment, restrained his increasingly excited emotions, and continued:
"While you were chatting, Wang Ma and I were listening. If you were a little wronged, I think we would both stand up for you, but Ai Qing, you didn't. You just used the most restrained way to end this matter decisively. Everything and then..."
He Tianran breathed out a breath.
"Then...it was over.
I can predict this because I am also the beneficiary of your kindness, so I respect the way you handle it.
But what I didn't expect was that you actually thanked me just now, saying that Guo Huai had indeed changed and grown because of my relationship...
Oh, I was thinking, how soft-hearted you are to be able to say such a thing.
This unique trait is something that only you have among all the people I have seen, so I say Ai Qing, you are different from anyone else.
Ai Qing, I really don’t care at all whether you are the Ai Qing of the future or the Ai Qing of the past. If you want me to treat you separately, then I will treat you separately. Whatever point of view you want to insist on, I can follow you, because as long as you The kindness and kindness in your heart will not change, so even if you look cold on the outside, you will still be you..."
On the withered yellow lawn, a man and a woman stood face to face. After the man finished speaking, there was no sound. The girl did not respond. They just looked at each other for a few seconds and then silently looked away.
Due to the cold, thin white air spewed out from their mouths and noses when they breathed. The girl's nose was slightly red from the cold, and the man's lips were astringent, dry and peeling.
From the looks of it, the two of them are not so in love, a match made in heaven.
But if you look at it from a distance, the position where they stand seems to add a touch of freshness to the bleak winter.
The girl put her hands in her pockets and sniffed.
The man chuckled twice, and the two of them started walking around in unison again.
"Do you feel that I understand you very well?"
"I don't think so. I just think you've been pretending to be weird... Are you over your cold? You speak with such a strong nasal voice."
"Then there is nothing we can do about it. I think it will be cured after a day or two."
"If I keep walking, I feel like I'm going to catch a cold too."
"Then do you need me to buy you something hot to drink?"
"It's a beautiful thought."
"I'm treating you, why do I still think so beautifully? What you said really confused me."
"Speak less, you have a hoarse voice."
"Why don't you have something to drink to moisten your skin?"
"...Are you able to answer any questions?"
"Hahaha... It depends on the situation, whoever scores the score."
The man and woman walked and talked, gradually moving away.
