Unrequited Love

Luo Zhi couldn't connect to Sheng Huainan's cell phone. Those who called Zhang Mingrui also turned off.

With three minutes left before the exam began, Luo Zhi finally moved with difficulty and walked towards the exam room.

What I played back over and over again in my mind was the back of Sheng Huainan just now, just as calm and high as he was in high school, and he walked over calmly under his bright red name on the big screen.

The bell rings at the end of the exam. Luo Zhi walked out of the examination room in a chaotic manner by the crowd. He immediately woke up, took out his cell phone, thought about it, and dialed Zhang Mingrui's number.

After a few months, he heard Luo Zhi's hoarse voice again, and Zhang Mingrui's attitude remained as usual. At her shock, he was only puzzled but calmly said: "I thought you knew it. Didn't he tell you?"

Luo Zhi asked anxiously: "What happened to him?"

"Luo Zhi, don't worry first," Zhang Mingrui said softly, "Sheng Huainan is just unlucky, he... is actually to help others."

"What do you mean?"

"We took the English test in the same examination room, yesterday morning. There is an obvious transcendence vocabulary in the composition of the Intensive Reading 3 exam. Many people don't know it, but you can't write an essay without knowing this keyword. A brother who we often played together also took this English test. I knew beforehand that he must cover him with Sheng Huainan. So when he encountered this matter, Sheng Huainan sent him a note, and he was rejected by the old lady of the school's academic affairs. I caught it. Originally the note was searched out from the brother, but I don’t know what happened. It was him who suffered in the end..."

Every sentence of Zhang Mingrui poked into her head. She tried her best to control her emotions and asked softly, "Sheng Huainan wouldn't do such a stupid thing. Will he cheat for others before taking exams?"

"Impossible, he will never take a risk in this kind of thing, so we all think he was incredible yesterday. But now there is nothing wrong, and the punishment came very fast. It turned out that it was already... it was announced yesterday. "

Luo Zhi trembled: "I saw him sitting in the elevator today and went directly to your faculty office."

"Maybe," Zhang Mingrui sighed, "I saw him yesterday. He seems to be calm and doesn't speak much. We don't know how to persuade him. I thought you... Well, if you belong to the same department. For the exam, our educational administration has caught a few warnings, but the school's educational administration is not the same. By the way, you have also seen that group of teachers at the level of teachers and nurses. , So many years of catching cheating has caught the addiction..."

"Zhang Mingrui!"

"what?"

"If you see Sheng Huainan, can you tell him that I am waiting for his call?"

Zhang Mingrui was silent for a long time, seeming to want to ask what happened between them, and finally said: "Okay, I will tell him."

"And..." Luo Zhi didn't eat breakfast either. She was so excited that she was dizzy at the moment. She slowly sat on the steps with the handrail of the stairs, her eyes shining like a snowflake screen on a TV.

"Also, can you tell me the phone number of that brother?"

Luo Zhi rushed all the way to the east gate and waited for twenty minutes under the scorching sun before he got a taxi. The car was speeding on the Fourth Ring Road, and the tall buildings on both sides were all thrown behind him and woven into a blurred net. There seemed to be a train that brought the wind of hunting and roared past her mind.

There is no one in the villa, and the door is locked.

The wall of rose flowers behind has been messed up like withered vines because it was unattended. The sky darkened little by little, and soon it was a thick gray-blue color, which evoked the most solemn emotions in people's hearts for no reason.

When Zhu Yan walked along the flower path, what she saw was Luo Zhi who was sitting on the steps in front of her house under the sky, looking tired but worried.

It seems that the figure is exceptionally small.

"I couldn't get through when I called you. I thought you had already gone to Singapore, but I still didn't give up. I wanted to come and try it. I kept telling myself to wait ten minutes and leave. The result is that I have waited till now." She cheered up. Said to Zhu Yan with a smile.

"My phone broke when I was arguing with the real estate agency this morning. If it hadn't been for the sudden thought that something had fallen here, I might not have come here today... Fortunately, I came here," Zhu Yan was a little embarrassed. , "Your lips are dry, haven't you eaten or drink for a day? What's the matter?"

Luo Zhi was still sitting on the steps, looking up at her, and tearing down.

"You help him, OK?"

"Who?"

"Will you help him? I know this is very selfish, and I also know that you actually don't want to contact him and your former family, and you don't want to get involved in the past, so I have never asked you in my heart. I think I should respect You. But please forgive me this time, I know you are his aunt, can you help him?"

As soon as Ye Zhanyan Fu told her the story of his father escaping his schizophrenic mother and cheating on the female students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, Luo Zhi connected it with the past that Zhu Yan had told herself.

She guessed that Zhu Yan knew who Sheng Huainan was for a long time, but she never asked to see each other. She was definitely not interested in mentioning old things again, and didn't want to get involved with her family. She has also mentioned it several times, whether it is Yuyuantan or Happy Valley, Zhu Yan's refusal has already expressed her attitude, and she knows it well.

But now, she has no other way.

"There was an accident in his family, and now I have encountered this kind of thing again. It is not that I pity him, but he is indeed too young, no matter how good he is, it is difficult to carry it. I don't want to let him know, I can only run over and tell you secretly Zhu Yan, don't be angry with me, can you tell me what should I do?"

She cried with a hoarse voice, and her voice trembled uncontrollably. She tried hard to say everything calmly, but she couldn't hide her thick nasal sound and weak crying cavity anyway.

After getting the phone number of that senior, she immediately called her, said all the good things, and repeatedly promised not to cause trouble. Only the senior who insisted on asking Sheng Huainan to cheat for him reluctantly ignored her.

When the other party told her her family background, Luo Zhi understood why it was cheating as well, but this person was not punished. Similarly, Sheng Huainan's reason for helping him is so obvious.

"My dad might be able to help if he wants to. At least, Sheng Huainan is safe for his mother and there is no need to go in."

The brother said vaguely, slightly apologetic in his tone.

"I didn't expect such an accident, I blamed me for being careless..."

Zhu Yan listened to Luo Zhi quietly and patted her on the back, like coaxing a six-year-old child. Luo Zhi cried so much that there was no image, and finally calmed down a little bit, and suddenly felt his throat sore that he couldn't speak.

"What a fool."

"No, Zhu Yan, you know," Luo Zhi shook his head, "Most of our generation hasn't walked any other way. The growth path is cautious and dare not make a difference. Reading to get a degree is almost a main road. All other branches—good jobs, higher degrees, stable lives, social status, sense of accomplishment, and even marriage—are separated from this main road. It means the opportunity to choose the path of life. But now, He still has the ability, but he doesn't have the opportunity to choose. He has so many things on his back, but I don't have the ability to help him. What's more, you know, in fact, we should be enemies."

"fool."

"Zhu Yan, I'm not asking you to clarify the relationship and get him back his degree certificate. I know that this is very unlikely, but can you help him get through this level? Maybe you have more convenient conditions, you can get him Take it abroad for development. For example, how about re-applying to a school? Go straight to the United States for undergraduate studies. Anyway, he will always go out...or...I don't know." Luo Zhi shook his head in pain.

She was very insulting and incoherent from the beginning, and she didn't know what she was talking about.

"Although I don't understand all your later experiences, I know it must not be easy. You have encountered very painful setbacks, and you have come to today step by step. I think your existence will definitely make him understand, not just in reality. In the middle of the world, I have overcome this difficulty psychologically. This is the most important reason why I came to you."

Luo Zhi tried to contain his tears, wiped his face, and continued in a deep voice.

"Because, I always believe him, he is Sheng Huainan, his future will not die here. Definitely not."

Zhu Yan sat side by side with her on the steps under the wall of flowers, gently clinging to her shoulders, listening to her incoherently speaking about the importance of the degree certificate, while emphasizing that Sheng Huainan's excellence would never be shackled by this piece of paper Live; on the one hand, I am really worried about how hard it is to be ruined for many years of hard reading, and how difficult it will be in the future.

Zhu Yan just said "a fool" for a while, coaxing her to calm down.

"Actually, I expected you to guess it someday. It's really fate. The two girlfriends he made are actually related to me," Zhu Yan said and laughed, "I remember it for a long time. My sister-in-law used to talk coldly, saying that I was disturbed by myself, and the enemy I caused almost got entangled with my promising little nephew.

"I've been thinking, if you talk about relatives in his family, why would you come around to the topic of aunt, then how would you face me? But I am willing to make friends with you because I trust you. "

Luo Zhi didn't know this. Zhu Yan still treats her frankly and does not evade, she naturally cherishes her. If it weren't for Sheng Huainan's experience at this moment, she would probably bury this connection in her heart forever.

"Actually, I have no feelings for this nephew of mine," Zhu Yan continued lightly. "When he was young, he lived in the city with my brother and his sister-in-law and his grandfather's family. My father and I still Lives in the country. However, he and my dad are very close."

Luo Zhi said with a dumb voice: "When your father was critically ill, he told me that his grandfather is a very interesting old man. I hoped I could see him too."

Zhu Yan nodded: "Yes, my dad is an old naughty boy. I bury my head in the high school in the town, and basically rarely play with children. He was only four or five years old when I left home to go to college. It’s a pity that I don’t even remember what he looked like when he was a kid. He’s a good boy, very cute."

Zhu Yan paused, then turned around and smiled to see Luo Zhi: "By the way, you know what he looked like when he was five or six years old. You have also fought with him."

Luo Zhi burst into laughter.

As for my brother's sister-in-law, not to mention. My dad used to be a scholar and had a bad composition. He didn't catch up with the good times in his life. When he is old, he can stay in the country and enjoy himself, but my brother is not a peaceful person.

"The two of us are too much different in age, and our relationship is not deep. My sister-in-law has a very background at home. He also relies on this relationship and his own drilling camp, step by step to today. After I broke off the relationship with them, heh, my You probably know the matter, but I really don’t care about the future development of the couple, and I don’t know how they got to this point. Anyway, both of them are cruel and greedy people. It’s not surprising to do this. ."

"Then your father..."

"How do you say that sentence? The ten fingers are not the same length. My father is still more worried about my brother. After leaving school, with the help of Shouwen, I started to make a living, and when my financial conditions were better, I often Send money to my dad. My dad said to let me go home, but my brother called me according to the phone number I left with my dad, telling me to be a man of shame."

Luo Zhi was stunned, and squeezed Zhu Yan's hand with some anxiety.

"It's really a little girl," she pinched Luo Zhi's ear in turn, "I'm old for so many years, and things have faded back then. Just talk about it, and I don't feel uncomfortable.

"I will still send money to my old father as usual, as a child, but unfortunately, I did not attend his funeral. Listening to what you say now, I probably know it. It's also anxious, for my brother's business. My brother will have today, probably because the old man is dying and can't count on it anymore."

Zhu Yan sighed and asked her suddenly: "Sorry, can I smoke a cigarette?"

Luo Zhi opened his mouth in surprise: "Why do you all smoke? I only recently discovered that so many people who I thought do not smoke..."

"Relieve Qian's sorrow, you also try?"

Zhu Yan carried a kind of amorous feelings that Luo Zhi thought she would never have in this life. She lowered her head freely and lit her cigarette. When the wind was holding the fire with her hands, the warm orange fire light illuminates her face, and a strand of hair hangs down, shaking with the breeze.

"However," she exhaled slowly, "I'm sorry to hear you say this, at most I am for Sheng Huainan. I'm not a grudge, but it's no different from hearing the news broadcast. I guess you haven't heard of it. The shock when his house fell. What saddened me the most was not the liar and scumbag, nor the cold world, but finally realized that the kinship of flesh and blood, to put it bluntly, is the same."

Zhu Yan pondered for a while and smiled: "Actually, thinking about it now, the relationship between my brother and sister-in-law is so tense, the front and the kind, can smash the house in secret, how did this kid grow up?"

Luo Zhi sniffed: "Didn't you feel emotional before, saying that he finally grew up safely. I didn't know what you meant by then."

"You haven't told your mother yet that your boyfriend is Sheng Huainan?"

"I'm afraid she will collapse." Luo Zhi smiled bitterly.

"But you still like him."

"Yes. You are also that person's sister, and I also like you very much. I don't know if others will think that I am rebellious and unwilling, but I am like this. I don't care about blood relationship. You are yourself, and Sheng Huainan is also himself. It was not you who did the evil back then, and the people who did the evil were also punished. Although it was a little late, it was better than not."

Luo Zhi stood up, smiled at Zhu Yan, and the girl who had just collapsed and cried were already different from each other, and said firmly: "I have always thought very clearly, you are right. I have made me a long time ago. s Choice."

"Okay, let's not talk about Chen Guzi's rotten sesame seeds. What's the point of saying this," Zhu Yan blinked, "Let's go, take you to eat, you're starving to death."

"that……"

"I promise you," Zhu Yan said solemnly, "I will do my best to help him."

Luo Zhi smiled happily, but the tears were air-dried on his face just now, and he couldn't smile at all.

"But Luo Zhi," Zhu Yan added, "you know, life is much more complicated than in school. Things you can think clearly, I'm not sure Sheng Huainan is the same as you think. If he is muddled, maybe even Blame your mother for writing the report, and for her father’s imprisonment."

Luo Zhi bowed his head and thought for a while, "No. Based on my understanding of Sheng Huainan, he wouldn't think that way."

"So sure?"

"Correct."

Luo Zhi turned his back to the direction of the wind, and his long hair seemed to be carried by the evening wind all the way to the long past.

Zhu Yan's expression was a little moved.

"Then what if he doesn't blame you, but because of guilt, shame, or other reasons, he doesn't want to see you again?"

Luo Zhi was still stunned, Zhu Yan continued: "Even if these two assumptions are not true, if I really help him go overseas to study again, you have to know that time, circumstances, and all other uncontrollable factors will let him You will never have a chance to be together. You young people have faith because you don't know how terrible it is outside and how small you are. I helped him, and you might really be over."

"It's okay." Luo Zhi answered bluntly.

"I came to you not to be with him. I was just for him."

This answer was already written when they were like glue. Luo Zhi also answered Sheng Huainan simply.

Compared to your rebellious relatives and my life, I hope you are blessed with everything you need, loved by the whole world, even if you forget each other.