Unrequited Love

"Sister Nianci!"

When Luoyang heard Luo Zhi's address to Chen Jing, his head was in a cold sweat, and Chen Jing had already greeted her happily from his seat. After the three people sat down, the waiter handed Luo Zhi a copy of the menu. She lowered her head and studied in silence for a long time, feeling that her head was big, so she simply put it down, and said to Chen Jing: "Sister-in-law, I am just like you."

Chen Jing also put down the menu, blinked at Luo Zhi, then turned to look at Luoyang and said, "I'm just like you."

Luoyang sighed: "You guys force me. Okay, I want a set meal."

"What, there is no creamy soup in the set meal!" Chen Jing heard the words and held down Luoyang's menu.

"No, no."

"No, you order again. I don't like this."

"Then what do you want?"

Chen Jing looked down at the menu for a while, raised her head, and continued to smile softly: "Whatever, it's the same as you anyway."

Luo Zhi couldn't hold back his voice, and raised his eyes to see that the waiter beside him also curled his mouth.

Sure enough, eating can make people feel better. The fresh food warmed the stomach, and the heart next to it was also stained with warmth. Luo Zhi's steak was fully cooked, with clear lines, a thick chunk with bones in the middle, and it was very difficult to cut. The sound of the knife and fork colliding on the dinner plate made her a little embarrassed. She had to put down the knife and fork and took a sip of soup, but Chen Jing made a very metallic noise on the other side.

"It won't work, it won't work, what kind of shit." Chen Jing even complained in a soft voice.

"Brother, you are so skilled."

Luo Zhi clearly saw the changes in Luoyang. No longer the big boys who gathered a bunch of buddies to go straight to the barbecue restaurant in college, Luoyang now wears a light gray shirt and brings Chen Jing’s steak in front of him, easily cuts it into small pieces, and smoothly removes the bones. One side, then put it back in front of her, and picked up the plate of Luo Zhi again.

"No, I'll do it myself."

"Come on, stop making noise."

"It's only half a year, you have changed so much."

"Isn't it that cutting steak is easier than you? Don't tell me, you think I'm among the elite."

"Sister-in-law, don't you think? I'm not talking about steak cutting, but temperament, more mature. You used to be more stable than other boys, but at best it is a natural character. Now it's different, anyway. Becoming attractive."

"Well, yes, I should have a sense of crisis." Chen Jing smiled and connected.

"Moreover, I think my brother's temperament has become a little melancholy, as if he has something on his mind. He used to be silly and silly, but now he looks a bit like a man. Is it because of the relationship between starting work? Men are all this long Is it the big one?"

Luo Zhi has been using nagging methods to avoid recalling the scene on the street just now, while lowering his head to eat, and at the same time preface and no words, did not see his unintentional words make Chen Jing's eyes slightly As soon as he lifted it, his eyes drooped again for a moment. The fork in Luoyang's left hand accidentally touched the water glass and made a "pang" sound.

The scene calmed down for a while, and Luo Zhi took two bites and felt something was wrong: Luoyang stared at the fork, while the juice cup held by Chen Jing stopped at his mouth.

"what happened?"

Luo Zhi regretted it a little, and she was too relaxed in front of her relatives. She didn't know what she had said, let alone whether she had violated their taboo.

"Men didn't grow up like this." Luoyang said seriously, blinking at Luo Zhi and laughing. Luo Zhi looked at him dumbly. When did Luoyang learn this kind of smile? This smile is clearly a sign of Gobi and that President Gu.

"Are you stupid? What do I ask you to bring?"

Luo Zhi reacted for two seconds before stammering a little: "Now...now?"

Chen Jing looked over confusedly, Luo Zhi immediately leaned over and took out a paper bag from the schoolbag at his feet and handed it to Luoyang. Luoyang lowered his head and took out a box from the paper bag, but instead of bringing it up, he opened it himself, fiddled with it under the table for a while, and then suddenly put it on the table.

A pottery little girl, wearing a sky blue turtleneck sweater and white knee-length skirt, with faint eyebrows and silver-framed glasses on her nose, smiles warmly.

Chen Jing's pottery figurines. When Luo Zhi saw Chen Jing smiling like a white camellia, he couldn't help being happy for Luoyang from the bottom of his heart. Everyone I knew around, including herself, always tossed the day, but the elder brother and sister-in-law in front of me, holding hands in the most tense senior year of high school, calmly held hands and admitted to the same university, beside the West Lake. Working together for four years to see through the scenery, I can still see it in the long flowing water because of a little pottery girl holding hands and looking at it, so sweet that time has stopped.

When Luo Zhi came out of Houhai, he received a call from Luoyang. He gave her an address, saying that he was too busy, and he happened to meet today to ask her to pick up a finished handicraft. It was Chen Jing's birthday three days later. He wanted to create a surprise-Luo Zhi didn't expect that Luoyang couldn't wait, so he took it out so soon.

Do you want to be a witness? She thought about it and smiled heartily.

"Birthday present?" Chen Jing smiled, looking at Luoyang and Luo Zhi. However, Luoyang lowered his head and pointed to the handbag hanging on the doll's left arm. That little handbag is brown, not pottery, but woolen. Chen Jing stretched out her hand to touch it, squeezed her thumb and index finger lightly, felt the shape of the object in the bag, her eyes widened instantly, and she looked at Luoyang, who was smiling inexplicably, with an incredible expression.

Luo Zhi frowned suspiciously, watching Chen Jing carefully pinch a shiny ring out of the wool handbag.

The two women screamed together, ignoring the glances of many customers in the restaurant.

"I said, men don't grow up like this. If a man grows up, he must have nothing to do to put a burden on himself. It is called learning to take responsibility. Now, my wife, would you like to be my burden?"

Chen Jing pursed her lips and smiled, tears in her eyes. Luo Zhi put his cheeks in his hands and smiled happily, watching him carefully put a ring on her, and the warm-toned wall lamp of the restaurant plated the two people on the opposite side with warm colors.

The first marriage proposal she experienced in her life.

In any case, I will still witness the love of others that makes my heart warm.

"Sister Nianci, just agreed?"

Chen Jing glanced at Luoyang and sighed deliberately with a grimace: "Oh, what can I do, I'll just make do with it in this life!"

Coming out of the restaurant, Luo Zhi looked back again at the small orange sign, which was shining on this particularly deserted long street. In fairy tales, the protagonist escapes from the claws of the witch in the Black Forest and runs all the way, always seeing such a warm lamp at the end of the road.

Luo Zhi was still thinking about it, Luoyang suddenly patted her on the head: "What are you in a daze? Let's go, and I will send you back to school."

"Didn't you say that my colleague had an appointment to go to the bar at ten o'clock? I'll send Luo Zhi back. It just so happened that the two of us stopped by for a chat. You are busy with you. I came over these two days and delayed you a lot of parties. Absent. I will go back to the hotel tonight, and I will look for you after the meeting tomorrow."

Chen Jing slung Luo Zhi's arm and made a "please avoid" movement towards Luoyang. Luoyang frowned and said, "Hey, you won't speak ill of me behind your back?"

"We all marry chickens and dogs, why bother." Luo Zhi said with a smile, Chen Jing stretched out her hand to twist her face, and she hurriedly avoided.

"All right, you guys be careful."

Luoyang's back made Luo Zhi stunned for a few seconds. Her brother seemed to be a little different, but she couldn't tell where it was--maybe it was the little melancholy in the smile?

Turning her face to the side, she unexpectedly saw Chen Jing also looking confused.

Along the way, they talked about various gossips in the Girls' Rights Association from the final exam. In the subway car, the lamp shed pale light, illuminating Luo Zhi's exhaustion with nowhere to hide.

"Did you sleep well?"

Luo Zhi yawned, "I'm a little tired these days."

"Your brother is always working overtime these days. Last night he stewed some fish head soup with ginseng slices and goji berries in the apartment he rented. It is very useful for people who often stay up late. Recently you are about to have your final exam. Right? It’s easy to get hungry when you stay up late, but don’t eat too much meat and fire, the more greasy the more bad for your health, drink more yogurt, eat more fruits and vegetables, it’s good for your eyes. I knew it, today I put the soup Just bring you a little in the thermos..."

Perhaps realizing her own insult, Chen Jing stopped and smiled a little embarrassedly.

Luo Zhi always felt that Chen Jing's smile was the best interpretation of the four words "good wife and loving mother", and he felt at ease looking at it. Chen Jing wears the "clear water noodles" that has not changed for many years, and she wears elegant and decent attire. She always has a warm smile on her face. It seems that even if she doesn’t communicate deeply, she herself does not have too twists and turns. thought. And no matter what you say to her, no matter how twisted or bizarre, she will understand and will give you a smile that will make you no longer alone.

Chen Jing is a treasure. Luo Zhi was very proud that his brother was a man of vision.

"Sister Nianci, my brother is really blessed. He had a good taste in the first place to catch you."

Chen Jing was stunned for a moment: "No, don't you know? It was your brother that I chased after."

"what?"

"When I was in the third year of high school, I had been helping him supplement Chinese, and he helped me with physics, don't you know?"

"I know, but..."

Chen Jing smiled with a neat row of teeth: "Has he never told you? At the end of the next semester sports meeting of high school, the two of us went home together. I confessed to him."

"The first time I saw you was when he brought you to the library before the college entrance examination. I always thought that my brother was chasing you. How could it...but it doesn't matter." Luo Zhi smiled, both Two people who are about to get married, who cares which one pursues first. It's just that Chen Jing's quiet character, imagine that she takes the initiative to chase back, really shocked Luo Zhi a bit.

"Your brother was actually very thoughtful. The friends around him thought he was chasing me. He has never mentioned to others how we are together, but in the eyes of others, it is not strange that we are together. , Anyway, we always review together before, and someone has passed on our gossip. But I didn’t expect him to even tell you."

Luo Zhi shrugged: "If I marry you, my brother will make a lot of money."

"Where is there," Chen Jing smiled, "At that time, there were many girls chasing your brother, but no one chased me. The same goes for college."

From the appearance point of view, Chen Jing is indeed not outstanding. Although it is not ugly, she still has the feeling of "not a good match" standing next to the handsome and tall Luoyang. However, Chen Jing is always calm and majestic. Seeing her smile softly behind Luoyang, others will always feel that there is an indescribable harmony between the two.

"So of course you have to act first," Chen Jing continued, "Fortunately, it succeeded."

She blinked at Luo Zhi, rarely showing a playful triumphant expression.

"It seems that everyone really doesn't know." Chen Jing leaned on the glass door and muttered to herself, thoughtfully.

"No, someone knows." Chen Jing suddenly retorted herself slowly.

"Huh? Who knows?"

Chen Jing did not speak, her eyes drifted out of the dark window, and after a while she looked at the electronic display on the door: "It's almost time to stand."

"Yes." Luo Zhi looked at her quietly.

The subway stopped slowly, and Chen Jing returned to normal, lovingly slung Luo Zhi's arm, and stepped onto the platform.

Chen Jing and her classmates who came to Beijing for a meeting lived in a school-run hotel near P University. After getting off the subway, the two of them walked towards the school together. Chen Jing obviously talked a lot less, and talked reluctantly one after another, and finally reached the school gate, she wanted to turn right, and Luo Zhi wanted to enter.

"Take a rest early, you see how pale your face is." Chen Jing pinched Luo Zhi's face, and when he put his hand down, Luo Zhi just noticed the simple and generous ring.

"I just forgot to ask you, are you happy when you receive a ring for a lifetime?"

Chen Jing smiled sweetly first, then gradually reduced her smile. After hesitating for a long time, she asked softly: "Luo Zhi, in fact, he didn't intend to give this gift to me today, right?"

Luo Zhi looked up at her, feeling a little strange. Women's instincts are really scary.

"Actually... I also find it a bit strange. My brother called and said that it will be your birthday three days later. This is a gift. I just let me take it out and take it to him when we meet today. I guess he thinks the atmosphere is too good tonight. I suddenly changed my mind and wanted me to be there to witness it to prevent you from repenting, hehe."

Luo Zhi laughed twice, and Chen Jing's mouth twitched upwards.

"After your old brother took the gift out of the bag, although he tried to hide and tinker under the table for a long time, I still saw him take out the ring from his bag and stuff it into the doll's shoulder bag—— Silly girl, do you think Luoyang will do things in such a rush? Actually, in front of me, sneaking up the ring on the spot? Obviously it was a temporary decision. He is more and more adaptable, ha ha.

Luo Zhi lowered his head and said nothing. She remembered the skillful expression of her brother blinking and smiling when she asked her to take out the present, and she had to admit that all of this was really weird.

But she still smiled and comforted Chen Jing: "But--but, you think, if it was a temporary intention, how could he carry the ring with him so coincidentally, right?"

Chen Jing reached out and patted Luo Zhi’s stocking cap, and said, “Silly girl, your brother went to swipe his card. When you went to the bathroom, I looked through his bag and saw the ring’s invoice and the pick-up order. He really is. Happened to pick up the ring today."

Chen Jing's voice was still soft, and when she spoke out such an investigation, it seemed as if they were talking about the temperature during Beijing's New Year's Day.

"Sister-in-law," Luo Zhi was a little flustered, and no longer called her "Sister Nianci", "What's wrong with you...

Chen Jing didn't know how many times it was the first time she reached out and squeezed her face: "We're nothing wrong, silly girl."

A hint of coolness overflowed from the bottom of Luo Zhi's heart.

"Since you are suspicious, why do you pretend not to know what is in the handbag, pretending to be happy when pinched to the shape of the ring, why... promise my brother?" She looked confused, the only perfect pair in her world, unexpectedly Under the warm orange light, a disturbing undercurrent lurked.

Chen Jing laughed softly as if she had heard some childish jokes.

"Why not? He is willing to marry me, I am willing to marry him, why not agree?"

Yes, why be hypocritical because of these details? But if you really don't care, why would you state that little bit of doubt to yourself in the cold wind? Luo Zhi felt that he couldn't understand everyone around him more and more, and he couldn't understand love more and more.

Maybe she never understood. Everything before her was transparent, but she was self-righteous.

"Silly girl, you're an adult too. It's rare to be confused."

Chen Jing's back figure slowly disappeared at the end of the small street. Luo Zhi always knew that Chen Jing's gentleness was not without sharpness, and she had never ignored her cleverness in hiding needles in her cotton. However, this seemed to be the first time she saw Chen Jingrou smiling softly, and said to herself softly and skillfully: "I turned your brother's bag and saw the pick-up order."

Someone once said with a smile that Chen Jing and Luoyang were model couples, never quarreling or awkward. Chen Jing laughed and said that because the two of them were very plain, they had no edges and corners, and they were easy to talk.

Luo Zhi only learned today that they are not without edges and corners, but those edges and corners are wrapped in mud.