Chapter 14 Chapter 14 What happened later, I feel a mess...

What happened later, I feel a mess, like a very smooth story, suddenly changed its direction illogically.

Qiao Yihua and Zhou Yun got engaged on March 9th. The engagement did not require a grand ceremony. They invited their parents, relatives and friends to discuss the wedding arrangements, rules, gifts, conditions and the woman's requirements.

Qiao Yihua booked a five-star hotel in the suburbs for the day. Those

who were far from the city could stay and rest at night.

Zhou Yun was a person who was willing to share and discuss everything with Qiao Yihua. They looked at and chose wedding dresses and engagement dresses together.

He was too busy and rarely went home on weekends.

Xiaozhen no longer went back on weekends.

In fact, they could all feel the distance between them. This feeling was even worse than that of siblings, when the brother got married and had children and became a stranger to the sister.

Brothers and sisters can quarrel and complain to their parents. They are equals. They are not tied together by blood, but by the emotions of mutual needs.

Sometimes when Wu Ma asked Xiaozhen to deliver food, she would usually ask the security insider Ren Qiu to come downstairs and bring it up.

Later, they wanted to choose a wedding dress, and they insisted on choosing Friday after school to call her and take her there to choose.

Although Xiaozhen was sitting in the front seat, Qiao Yihua and Zhou Yun did not have any intimate actions in the back seat of the car. They kept talking about what type of dress they wanted and what kind of fireworks they wanted.

In Xiaozhen's eyes, Zhou Yun was a very standard urban woman, well-dressed, soft-spoken, able to speak English, and not in a hurry to do anything.

But she was too enthusiastic, and no one had ever been so enthusiastic towards Xiaozhen.

She would take her arm and say, don't let men know women's little secrets. Recommend what lipstick color, concealer, low-lift, eyebrow pencil, and what underwear best sets off women.

Xiaozhen didn't want to hear this, and she never liked shopping with others.

Zhou Yun was a delicate girl, and her enthusiasm for Xiaozhen was completely for Qiao Yihua's sake.

She had not seen both siblings at the same time very often, but he had never mentioned that there was such a sister in the family, and the word "sister" was used by Qiao Yihua's friends, and he always only mentioned her by name.

This boring selection of clothes and boring changing of dozens of clothes for hours, asking Xiaozhen which one looked good, she really didn't know which one looked good, and she felt uncomfortable staying here.

So she walked out with the clothes and leaned against the wall to empty her mind.

Qiao Yihua walked over and looked at her deeply.

Xiaozhen handed him the clothes, "Brother, my legs hurt, and I'm so hungry, I want to leave first."

Qiao Yihua nodded, "Don't you like this?"

"You know I don't like shopping, and this is a matter between you two, I feel like a third person who is unnecessary."

Qiao Yihua whispered, "Then take a taxi back."

"Okay." Xiaozhen nodded and left.

Just across the street, she ran into Zhou Yun, "You and my brother can take your time to look, I'm leaving first."

She nodded very intelligently.

Until Qiao Yihua formally asked his assistant to come to the school to tell Xiaozhen to treat her to dinner, he was late for two hours, from eight to ten o'clock.

When Xiaozhen saw him coming, she was not angry.

She just pouted.

Qiao Yihua was a little embarrassed and said with a smile: "I'll make it up next time. I really forgot."

She sat in the car and looked out the window, saying lightly, "No, you are so busy, don't eat out, and I don't like to go to places like this."

This kind of luxury hotel is really pretending to be very tired. I don't know what he was thinking of asking her to come here to discuss things.

After the car arrived at the community, Xiaozhen got off the car and walked very fast and in front.

The two of them rarely walked one after the other. Xiaozhen's thoughts drifted to all corners of the world and had long forgotten Qiao Yihua behind her.

After walking a long way, she looked back and saw Qiao Yihua stopped the fitness equipment and sat down to smoke on the phone.

His tone was very gentle, probably talking to his wife.

Xiaozhen didn't wait for him and continued to walk forward.

The building was only a dozen years old, and the house was built in the 1980s. Now it looks different from the most market-oriented communities outside, and it looks a bit old.

However, there are many houses in Shanghai that are hundreds of years old, so this place looks very new. The location is close to the center and it is very convenient to go anywhere.

Looking at the trees and flowers downstairs, she had wanted to ask what they were called and why they could bloom in winter for a long time.

Qiao Yihua hung up the phone and shouted from behind, "Xiaozhen!"

Then she waved her hand to let her come back.

Xiaozhen turned her head, ran over, and sat down panting.

"You don't know how hungry I am."

Qiao Yihua was very direct, "Don't you like Zhou Yun?"

"Ah?" Xiaozhen quickly denied, "Don't wrongly accuse me, how could that be? You are so annoying."

The things between them were unclear from beginning to end, and the implication was that she felt that Xiaozhen was "nosy", "mandatory", and "bad at people".

Of course, these were her derived imaginations.

After saying that, she got up and left, and Qiao Yihua followed her, "So you don't like me getting married?"

Xiaozhen laughed in anger, and I'm afraid she couldn't explain it even if she had a mouth full of words.

She just stared and sulked without saying anything. She was explaining whether she was happy or unhappy, liked or disliked, hated or not, but this kind of emotion was not it.

Xiaozhen said, "Do I have to like what you like? Do you have to like what I like?"

The two walked in the night, the lights were dim. He asked her out for dinner so formally, and he always talked about these things. If she was cold and unenthusiastic every day, who would be happy ?

Xiaozhen saw that he was very serious, and smiled and said, "Then can I smile and show my big white teeth when I see her in the future?"

Qiao Yihua: "Just give me a good face."

Xiaozhen really felt that she was wronged. The tone was as if the world revolved around her and she was a young lady.

Since he came back last year, he was obviously neither cold nor warm. Most of the time he accompanied his girlfriend, took a long phone call at night, and the time they talked together did not exceed an hour. He

was busy with work, and sometimes he met friends for dinner together. It was not that she didn't want to go. Once, the two of them sat together and held hands. Even if they were not siblings, she was not suitable to follow the couple in the dormitory.

Every time she didn't want to go, it was because Qiao Yihua would have a cold face. When eating, she sat in an unfamiliar place. Because she was accompanied by her girlfriend, she couldn't say a word. She was so embarrassed that she didn't know what to do.

Later, I stayed at school and went to the library on weekends. Sometimes I slept at school.

It’s hard to describe how I felt. Emotions can be classified into many categories. Why do we have to distinguish between happiness and unhappiness?

When Qiao Yihua went upstairs, no one followed her.

Anyway, you have to go in front and I have to go behind.

They got engaged on a Monday. Qiao Yihua asked her for a day off that day. She went there early and said she would help blow up balloons and arrange flowers.

This is the first time I have seen such a scene in my life. It is not a wedding, but all roses, as if all the roses in Shanghai were moved here. The fountain in front of the engagement hotel is surrounded by roses. The colors are so bright and dazzling, even on a cloudy day, it is still beautiful.

The whole process was covered with red carpets. When I walked into the hotel, a wall of roses had the names of the two people written on it.

The ground was full of balloons, and the table was lined with chocolates, candies, cakes, and red wine.

She is so old-fashioned, thinking that she has seen the most expensive and luxurious things in the world.

For so many years, there has always been an invisible gap between them. Sometimes this gap is hidden and can't be seen, and sometimes it is like an abyss. For

so many days, she tossed and turned every night and complained about herself. The sadness collapsed in an instant at this moment.

People will care about trivial things, such as whether you greeted me today and looked at me with concern. If this gap is so big that you can't catch up in your life, you can let go of everything.

In fact, there is no need to work at all. After entering college, everyone in the class, every family background, and every hobby are not comparable to her.

The hidden sensitivity and inferiority in college life these years is entirely because of Qiao Yihua's generosity and the brother-sister relationship with her. It took money to change the hardships and extremely sensitive personality of the youth. It is also a favor that is difficult to repay in this life.

Although it is not a formal marriage, there are many people. Qiao Yihua's mother showed up. Xiaozhen saw her once, that is, on the day of Qiao Qingguan's funeral. She did not divorce and showed up as she should. She shed a few tears and returned to Beijing at night after the funeral.

During the Spring Festival, Qiao Yihua brought a scarf to Xiaozhen when he came back from Beijing. Although the scarf is old, the quality is good. It is still very comfortable to wear after several years.

The mother is very elegant, but a little old, not like the ladies in the city who are in their 50s or 60s.

Xiaozhen and he are real siblings. They didn't get close to each other as if they were daughters. They just nodded.

The whole day was very lively. How lively was it?

Until now, they have been so noisy. Xiaozhen recalled on the streets of Shanghai that this was the most lively, prosperous and prosperous thing in her life.

The fireworks that night lasted for more than an hour, and the people around were watching outside.

Xiaozhen had never seen such gorgeous fireworks before. Everyone was amazed and screaming, taking pictures with their cameras.

Xiaochun came over in a suit and drinking red wine and said, your brother really has no place to spend money, no, this is your sister-in-law's attention, women nowadays really don't know how to make money.

After saying "hush", "Don't pass it to your sister-in-law."

Xiaozhen was clapping and dancing at first, the dazzling sight was too much to take in.

Later, turning her head, Qiao Yihua and Zhou Yun hugged each other and looked at the fireworks, thinking of someone.

When she was a sophomore, there was a man who had been pursuing her and would appear at any time. Xiaozhen was so proud that she didn't even look at him, but when he sat next to her and spoke with a northeastern accent, she couldn't help but be physiologically funny, and then pretended not to see it.

The source of this pride is that everyone knows that she has a brother who picks her up and takes her home on weekends and sends her to school on Mondays. They share the same surname and are really like a family.

She would look down on many boys. The slight sense of superiority came from her last name, the respect and care of Qiao Yihua's friends, the good living environment, and the promise of never parting.

Xiaozhen lowered her head slightly, and a little sadness suddenly welled up in her heart. It was a very distant sound, the sound of a train, the noise. She fell heavily from the train and still has scars on her back. She struggled to climb out from under the train, crossed the track and ran to another freight car. How much strength did she use to climb up and leave this place. She

had long forgotten what she was thinking about on the train for those three days. She only remembered that every person who got on was terrified of being caught and taken back.

A very warm breath blew on her face, and she woke up instantly.