It was a summer afternoon, but the sky suddenly darkened. One car after another drove out of the hospital gate. The taxi driver crossed his hands and rested his head behind his head. He lazily glanced at the meter and then at the woman in the passenger seat.
She wore sunglasses and a hat, and a sun-proof jacket. Her face was covered tightly.
The hospital's night shift was until twelve o'clock the next day. But Chi Wei usually left the hospital a little later. Qu Fanyi found a taxi, holding the full notebook in her arms, and waited at the door of the hospital since eleven o'clock. Sure enough, more than an hour later, Chi Wei's car slowly drove out. Qu Fanyi aimed at the passenger seat with her sharp eyes. The next second, her heart was chilled -
Sure enough.
There was a woman sitting there.
Qu Fanyi collapsed.
The driver next to her glanced at her, with a look of understanding on his face, turned the key, started the car, and chased after Chi Wei's car.
"...?" Qu Fanyi looked at the driver in surprise: "What are you doing?"
"Didn't you wait here for half an hour? Now that you've waited for him, you should chase him immediately?" His tone was nonchalant.
Qu Fanyi's eyes widened: "How do you know I was waiting for him?!"
"Isn't it hard to judge? You were completely depressed when you saw that car. You like that guy, right? I saw a pretty girl sitting in his passenger seat."
Qu Fanyi stopped talking, her voice was muffled, "Drive carefully."
The driver hummed. At this moment, the car was driving on the viaduct. The clouds were very low. Chi Wei's car was ten meters away, separated by two cars, stuck on the same road. The sky was getting darker. With a thunder, the clouds in front broke open, and big raindrops hit the car windows.
"Tsk. It's raining, and it's probably more congested." The driver glanced at Qu Fanyi. Seeing that she was still unhappy, holding the notebook tightly in her hand, he asked, "What are you holding?"
Qu Fanyi said nothing and did not move. The driver became impatient and pointed to the work card on the driver's seat: "Hey, I'm not a bad person. Look, the driver's name is on it. How can a taxi driver be a bad person? Under the feet of the emperor, we have all been authenticated by real name."
Qu Fanyi really raised her eyes to look at the name card under the meter, and then looked at the man driving. After seeing this, she became alert, "Your name is He Le? The person in the photo doesn't look like you?!"
"I am much better looking than him, right? Hehe." The man smiled, "That's my buddy."
Qu Fanyi jumped, "You still say you are not a bad person?"
Only Seeing the man sneer, he raised his hand and took out a book from the driver's drawer and threw it on Qu Fanyi's lap with the ID card in his pocket: "Driver's license, Zeng Yuqiu. I lost a bet with him yesterday, so I helped him drive for half a day. What a coincidence, I met you? Oh, you have a big order, he will be very happy later." Qu Fanyi shrank to the side, opened the driver's book and ID card and compared them carefully. The man in the photo was thin, with long hair and a long neck. He showed a prominent Adam's apple to the camera. Even in the ID photo, he showed a carefree smile, with curved eyebrows and a casually raised mouth. Qu Fanyi took another look at the man driving the car. He had wheat-colored skin, dark short-sleeved shirt, hair tied casually behind his head, and a headband on his forehead. To put it nicely, he looked Japanese, but to put it bluntly, he was poor. The man's wrists were on the steering wheel. He seemed to feel Qu Fanyi's gaze. He took off his sunglasses, turned his head and smiled at her: "I'm not a bad person, am I?"
The corners of his mouth were raised like two small brackets, his eyebrows were curved, and his heroic spirit was kind. Qu Fanyi was stunned for a moment, then turned her face calmly and looked out the window.
"Is it raining?"
Huang Nana, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was a little nervous. She glanced at Chi Wei from time to time. Soon, raindrops fell, and the world outside the glass was foggy.
Chi Wei was just concentrating on driving. His expression was like when he was in surgery, his lips were tightly pursed, and his eyes were focused on the front. Huang Nana's eyes fell on his fingers and wrists. His fair skin, neatly trimmed nails, and thin wrists made her want to protect him for some reason. Her heart and breathing softened a little bit.
Chi Wei turned on the wipers, turned his head to look at her, and asked her, "Do you have an umbrella?"
Huang Nana shook her head, "Where's Dr. Chi?"
Chi Wei thought for a while, "That restaurant doesn't seem to have an underground garage. It might get wet in the rain later."
Huang Nana smiled, "Am I still afraid of getting wet in the rain?"
In the underground garage a moment ago, facing Chi Wei's question, Huang Nana was stunned. After a while, the girl took a deep breath, nodded, and looked at him frankly: "Well, I have liked you since our first meal. Chi Wei, I got to know you first."
Chi Wei looked away, nodded, and said in a very light tone, "Okay, then this meal is not in vain."
"Well?"
Chi Wei took out the key and opened the car door. Before getting in the car, he couldn't help but say, "Huang Nana, you are really brave."
The rain was getting heavier and heavier. Fortunately, the car in front of him finally moved. The road that had been stagnant started moving frame by frame, and the distance between cars was lengthened and then flowed.
Zeng Yuqiu exclaimed, stepped on the accelerator, and sighed: "Finally it's moving." After waiting with her for a whole morning, the number on the meter has soared to more than 200. Fortunately, this girl is not short of money. As soon as the congestion is cleared, she immediately stretched her neck to look forward.
Like a rabbit. He laughed in his heart.
The Mercedes-Benz SUV with the tail number 858 was not driving fast, and Zeng Yuqiu's driving path was also wild. After getting off the elevated road, he followed another small road and slowed down. As the surrounding scenery became more and more familiar, Qu Fanyi's heart fell a little bit. In the end, Chi Wei's car stopped at the door of a restaurant.
She had been to this restaurant before - it was the place where they had eaten together for the first time.
Zeng Yuqiu found a side parking spot and glanced at her, only to see that the woman had no intention of getting off.
After a while, the door of the Mercedes-Benz opened. The man got out first, and then the woman opened the door of the passenger seat. Neither of them seemed to have an umbrella. Fortunately, the rain was lighter at this time. The man walked in front, and the woman followed him in small steps. Suddenly, she stretched out her arm, took off her messenger bag, and blocked the man's head. The man was obviously startled, and hurriedly took the messenger bag, blocked the two people's heads with one hand, and pushed the woman's shoulder with the other hand, and ran to the restaurant door in a few steps.
"End the trip." When the man and woman disappeared from the sight, the woman next to her finally spoke. Her voice was weak and very soft. She took out her mobile phone and said, "I'll scan you."
Qu Fanyi moved very slowly, and her heart began to ache and was slightly numb. The car followed here, and the truth was revealed. Qu Fanyi felt that he was too much, and the reason for being too much, the first thing she thought of was - you shouldn't ruin my favorite restaurant.
The feeling of weakness spread to her limbs, her eyes went dark, her irritability and anxiety accumulated, the rain soaked her, she got out of the car, step by step, found a place to shelter from the rain and stood against the wall.
She frowned. She found that the theory and practice of dealing with the third party are always two different things. From the day before yesterday to yesterday and today, she had no mood to eat, let alone sleep. She had never felt that time was so long, every minute and every second was like a slow torture.
The topic of "beating the mistress" had been imagined in her mind a hundred times. Since she set up the goal of "wife" in her heart, beating the mistress has become a necessary skill. She did research and took notes for this. Whenever her past self thought of this scene, her heart was a little ignited, as if she was facing not a crisis but an exciting challenge. She seemed to be about to unfold an epic picture of a heroine defending her family or kicking an adulterer. However, at this moment, when the facts were in front of her, she only felt pain and helplessness——
It turned out that her husband's cheating was not a question, but a knife with sawtooth stabbing into her heart.
Most of her body was soaked by the rain, and the wind blew over, making her feel a little cool. She hugged her arms and squatted in the corner.
The raindrops were blown sideways by the wind, hitting her head in a scattered manner. After a while, a pair of footsteps came, and a pair of men's shoes stopped in front of her. Qu Fanyi was stunned, looked up and saw the person coming, and subconsciously took a half step back: "What are you doing here?"
"Notebook, yours, I left it behind." Zeng Yuqiu's tone was lazy, and he squatted down with her and handed the notebook to Qu Fanyi. "I passed two traffic lights before I saw this thing, so I had to turn back. I guessed you didn't go far, and when I looked, hey, you are crying here."
Qu Fanyi also found that this man had a reckless temperament and was ruthless when he spoke. She didn't say a word, took the notebook from his hand, and pulled it, but it didn't move. Qu Fanyi raised her eyes and glanced at him.
"How to deal with a third party--" Zeng Yuqiu stared at the mark on the notebook, "You came here today to catch an adulterer."
"Thank you." Qu Fanyi tugged at the notebook, "You can leave now."
But the notebook remained motionless.
"I also flipped through it..." Zeng Yuqiu said casually, "It's really strange that you even made a whole book of records and summaries. You really put in a lot of effort."
Qu Fanyi frowned, "What do you care about?!"
"I care?" Zeng Yuqiu laughed out loud, "I don't care. I just look at you like an idiot, you know? It's rare to see a girl as stupid as you these days! Are you living in the Qing Dynasty? Your husband cheated on you, can't you just leave him? Met a scumbag, went to the Civil Affairs Bureau, divorced, ok? There's only one man like this in the world? Still studying a big notebook like a treasure, and finally crying in this corner? Have some backbone, okay?"
He spoke with the unique poverty of Beijingers, like a string of firecrackers, smashing down, hard and fast, banging into Qu Fanyi's forehead. His chest felt stuffy, a fishy smell surged into his throat, and he felt ashamed and angry for a while. The tears that had stopped gathered in her eyes.
Qu Fanyi didn't want to deal with this man anymore. She pulled the notebook hard and stood up: "What do you care! You..."
But she didn't expect that her eyes went dark. She shook her mind and finally fainted.
Glasses were placed on the coarse linen pure gray tablecloth, and the dark brown wooden floor was set against the foggy woods and lawn outside the window. The restaurant was playing slow blues.
The two sat down at the seats. Compared with Huang Nana's nervousness, Chi Wei was much more relaxed. He pulled off the napkin and covered his legs. He looked at the girl opposite for a while and suddenly said: "This restaurant is Xiaoyi's favorite."
Huang Nana was stunned and didn't react to who Xiaoyi was.
Chi Wei picked up the menu: "Look, what do you want to order? Girls should like salads? Avocado shrimp salad is good. Xiaoyi orders it every time she comes."
When she heard it for the second time, Huang Nana said "Ah?" Chi Wei seemed unaware and continued to look at the menu: "By the way, sea bass is also good, and there is also eel. Do you want dessert? Xiaoyi's favorite is their dessert, which looks like a little rabbit." Chi Wei even gestured with his hands.
"Doctor Chi..." Huang Nana couldn't stand it anymore, "I don't eat with you to listen to what your wife likes. I'm not interested in her."
"Really?" Chi Wei raised his eyebrows, closed the menu, and sincerely raised his doubts: "Then why are you interested in her husband?"
Consciousness woke up little by little.
An old song came into her ears, an ethereal female voice. Qu Fanyi, who closed her eyes, felt a little familiar, but couldn't tell where she had heard it. She tilted her head, frowned and opened her eyes, only to find that she was back in the taxi.
The air-conditioning blew, like a cold hand gently caressing her face.
Qu Fanyi shrank suddenly and looked at the man beside her warily: "What do you want to do?!"
"Awake." Zeng Yuqiu still spoke casually, while steering, he took the time to glance at her: "I was planning to find a hospital for you. Now it's just right, I'm almost at your home, I'll just send you back."
"How do you know where my home is?!" She became even more nervous.
"Are you stupid? I picked you up downstairs of your community today." Zeng Yuqiu laughed, his mouth curled up like a sharp hook.
Qu Fanyi looked away, thinking of what he said before, and continued to shrink into the corner, "Why do you care about me. Don't you think I'm stupid?"
"Yes, stupid. But pretty cute." Zeng Yuqiu raised his chin: "You have hypoglycemia, right? I bought you hot chocolate. Take it yourself."
The car was very stable, Qu Fanyi held the hot chocolate, the temperature passed from the palm of her hand to her chest, but her heart was cold. The two stopped talking. Raindrops hit the car window. Zeng Yuqiu hummed along with the melody. Qu Fanyi recognized him: "You actually like Faye Wong?"
The melody stopped. Zeng Yuqiu smiled, "I also like Dou Wei and Dou Jingtong. I like their whole family."
"What do you do?"
"I drive."
"Didn't you say you were helping a friend?"
"Then guess what I look like?"
"I don't look like a serious person." Qu Fanyi pointed vaguely at the tattoo on his wrist. "You can't pass the civil service exam if you have this." . "
Zeng Yuqiu burst out laughing, "I'm a serious person, but my work is not serious. Now that you mention it, the people I deal with are indeed some..." He turned his head to look at Qu Fanyi, his eyes were obscure, "married women."
Qu Fanyi straightened her back instantly: "I'm different from them."
Zeng Yuqiu laughed and turned the steering wheel, "You are indeed unique, born to be a good wife. Your husband has cheated on you, and you are still busy taking notes. To be honest, don't you have the word divorce in your mind?"
Qu Fanyi didn't answer.
There were red lights all the way from north to south, and with heavy rain, the mobile phone hanging next to the driver's seat popped up a voice navigation from time to time. Qu Fanyi noticed that the destination was indeed her home. The taxi drove slowly, and she found that he didn't use the meter - he still had a conscience.
Zeng Yuqiu saw that she ignored him, so he simply turned up the volume of the speakers. At this moment, Faye Wong's "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" was playing, but his voice was an octave lower, accompanying the original singer, like a harmony. Light and gentle.
Qu Fanyi was stunned. She had never heard a man sing Faye Wong's songs 20 years ago. The last time she heard them was when she was a student. She admitted that his voice was excellent, indifferent and clean.
She was a person who had very little need for emotions, because she preferred indifference to everything.
The rain was getting lighter, Zeng Yuqiu lowered the windows on both sides, and the damp wind in the summer afternoon kissed from his eyebrows to the ends of her hair.
"I need marriage." After a while, Qu Fanyi said softly: "I am the kind of woman who needs to absorb nutrients from marriage to survive."
"..."
Huang Nana didn't understand what Chi Wei meant for a moment. She opened her mouth and called out in disbelief: "Chi, doctor?"
"I won't beat around the bush--" Chi Wei clasped his hands on the table with a serious expression, "I invited you to dinner today because I want to talk to you about the fact that you like me." Seeing Huang Nana's eyes widened, Chi Wei looked at her directly: "Don't you think this behavior is special and irrational?"
"I..."
"After all, I just got married not long ago. I took the time to check last night. The highest rate of cheating is 1-3 years after marriage, as high as 25.5%. Xiaoyi and I have only been married for 3 months, and the cheating rate at this time is only 12.5%. So, from the probability
In theory, if you like me again after a year, the probability of success will be higher. "
Huang Nana stayed where she was, her mind exploded, she was embarrassed and annoyed, not knowing what he was up to, and after a while she squeezed out: "This, that's because Chi Wei is charming. I have liked you for a long time."
Chi Wei nodded, indicating that he understood, "tell me clearly what you think? I'm married, you like me, you have expressed it, now I understand your intentions, but I don't understand the purpose yet, do you want to be with me simply without a name, or do you want to get married? Be Mrs. Chi."
His posture seemed to be interviewing a newcomer, and he even rubbed his hands.
"Ah?" Huang Nana was stunned, she didn't expect him to be so straightforward.
"Let me divorce? It's unlikely now. I'm already married for the second time, and it's not appropriate to get married for the third time quickly. Or do you want to be without a name? Just let me take advantage of you? "
Huang Nana froze in place: "I..."
The pain in her heart spread to the corners of her eyes and turned into two bags of hot tears. She couldn't help but look at the door of the restaurant. She wanted to leave. The development of things was not at all what she imagined.
Chi Wei looked at her seriously, "Nana, don't continue to do this kind of thing in the hospital. If something goes wrong, I can get away with it, but you will lose your job and be scolded by everyone. There are many good men, don't worry about those who are already married. If I make any promises to you today - what do you think you have snatched from Qu Fanyi? "
Huang Nana was stunned, opened her mouth, and didn't say anything.
Chi Wei continued, "It's a scumbag. "
"So, Dr. Chi, are you concerned about me?" Huang Nana didn't understand what Chi Wei was up to for a while.
"I'm weighing the pros and cons for you. This is a favor from working together. "
"What if you didn't get married? I mean, if there was no Qu Fanyi. How does Dr. Chi see me? "
"Truth?" Chi Wei leaned back on the chair, and made an embarrassed expression. After a while, he answered honestly: "I didn't like it." The girl's face froze there, looking at Chi Wei, and after a while, she squeezed out a sentence: "Doctor Chi, you are so confident." "My thoughts are not important, right? I am looking for a suitable wife, smart, virtuous, dignified, sympathetic, considerate, and wholehearted. Qu Fanyi perfectly meets my requirements, and fortunately, I also meet her requirements. Love each other, build a family, and spend the rest of our lives together, this is our story." .
"...Is that so?" Zeng Yuqiu scratched his chin, "This is the first time I have heard of this theory. Before this, I thought love was the most important thing in a person's life." Qu Fanyi smiled, "Romanticism." Looking at him: "I can't, I am a romantic insulator." "Oh, then have you ever felt happy? "He smiled. It was the first time he heard a girl say this about him. He looked at her and said, "A well-behaved girl. You must have been a good student when you were in school, right?"
"Of course I have experienced this. Setting goals and completing them, getting a sense of accomplishment, arranging the flowers and bookcases at home, making everything orderly... These things make me happy."
"No, no, no, obeying the rules is just superficial happiness." After the traffic jam, after another traffic light, the next intersection is Qu Fanyi's community. Zeng Yuqiu held the steering wheel with one hand and looked at her seriously: "Do you know what deeper happiness is?"
"Yes? "
With a steady brake, the taxi stopped at the gate of the community. Through the window glass, you can vaguely see two towering Roman statues in the community. The European-style iron gate is open. The green belts on both sides of the road are densely trimmed. Looking inside, there is a fountain, and the water curtain blocks the view like a screen.
He turned his head and stared at her, and his tone seemed to be tempting: "It is to break the order."
Qu Fanyi looked back at Zeng Yuqiu, and saw the sun shining after the rain falling on the corners of his eyes. Her throat was dry, and she opened her mouth and made a dry sound, "For example?"
"For example, the world is always fair. When a woman's husband cheats, it means that she is also given a new right. "Zeng Yuqiu leaned over, closed the distance between the two, and whispered in her ear:
"A, legal, reasonable, right to cheat. "
In the restaurant, the people at the next table noticed that their atmosphere was not normal.
The young woman seemed a little excited, and her voice became more and more shrill.
"Really? Are you in love? I don't think you like her much, do you? You don't like me, so do you like her?" Huang Nana stood up suddenly, even forgetting to control the volume of her voice, "Then why did you lean on my shoulder to wipe your sweat? Then why did you schedule yourself a full week of night shifts after knowing that I was on night shifts?"
The people at the two adjacent tables looked at him in surprise.
Chi Wei was quite unbelievable after hearing this, and he didn't know whether to laugh or cry:
"... Stop thinking about it and go to the operating room more often. As for why I am on night shifts, it has nothing to do with you."
After saying this, he stood up, "I have ordered the dishes, and I will treat you. In addition, I don't like others to speculate about my wife. As for what kind of person she is - I can tell you one thing, she will never do the things you wanted to do before. "
After saying this, Chi Wei turned around and left the restaurant without looking at Huang Nana again.
The sound of rain was loud, hitting the window glass and gathering into streams.
In the taxi, Zeng Yuqiu's face was too close, so close that her breathing was suffocated. The faint smell of tobacco on his body invaded with the breath of male hormones, strange and charming, making her forget to hide for a moment.
The next second, his hand lifted Qu Fanyi's chin, his fingertips were hot, and her heart trembled in vain.
Every heartbeat hit her chest heavily, Zeng Yuqiu's face kept getting bigger, and Qu Fanyi was stunned in place, forgetting to let herself hide.
So, all the sounds in her ears disappeared, and his breath was like The waves came with the cool breeze of summer mint. For a moment, all the blood rushed to the heart, the mind, and her lips.
The touch of lips was like a sweet spring, hot, wet, and gentle licking of her lips. The rumbling heartbeat was like a summer thunder.
The pupils were dilated, and there were only his eyelashes and blurred trembling black butterflies in front of her. His palm gently supported the back of her head, resisting her slight escape.
As if weightless,
As if drowning,
The drowsy summer, the clear sky, the pried open lips, the loss of mind, the dizzy head - the story about romance and the seeds of roses, at that moment, began to take root and sprout from the wheat field in the heart.