A familiar yet strange voice came into her ears through the sound of rain, and there was a feeling of unreality, as if she were in another world.
Gu Yaozhi's mind went blank for a moment, and when she realized that he was talking to her, she shook her head: "No, my friend will be here soon..."
Before she finished speaking, the man raised his arm and threw the umbrella towards her, landing squarely in her arms.
The action was fast and arrogant.
Gu Yaozhi subconsciously reached out to catch it.
When she raised her eyes again, the man had already retracted his gaze, turned around and entered under the umbrella, without giving her any more glances, and raised his feet towards the parking lot.
The man next to him, perhaps thinking that Pei Chi's behavior was not very polite, nodded to her apologetically before leaving.
When the tall figure got into a black car and disappeared in the rain, the wet and cool wind blew across her cheeks, and her mind became clearer.
She pondered what had just happened in her mind.
So, did he recognize her?
Gu Yaozhi lowered her head and looked at the neatly folded black umbrella in her hand.
She couldn't tell it for a moment.
There was a sound of stepping on water approaching not far away, and her wandering mind was pulled back. Tang Nan came up to her and saw what she was holding. She was surprised and said, "Hey, don't you have an umbrella?"
Gu Yaozhi put the umbrella in her coat pocket, took Tang Nan's transparent umbrella, opened it, and picked up the suitcase with her left hand.
When the words came to her lips, she swallowed the word Pei Chi and changed her words: "A kind person gave it to me."
...
After the two got in the car, the car drove out of the airport. The rain was reduced, but the road conditions were still bad.
Outside, the horns were noisy, but in the closed and quiet space of the car, the two girls hadn't seen each other for a long time, and it seemed that they had endless things to talk about.
"Gu Gu, are you leaving again after you come back this time?"
Gu Yaozhi: "Yeah, I guess."
"That's right, your mother is still abroad, and you can't stay here forever." Tang Nan sighed softly, and then asked: "By the way, how is Auntie's condition recently?"
Gu Yaozhi's eyebrows relaxed: "It's stable, no big problem."
"Ah, that's good," Tang Nan smiled and said: "In this case, you should stay a few more days after you come back this time, and it would be best if you can wait until I get married and be my bridesmaid."
Gu Yaozhi looked at her, " From what you said, there will be good news soon? "
The car in front moved slowly, and Tang Nan also drove forward a little, "Well... at least a year later, my boyfriend just got promoted, and he's been too busy with work recently."
When it came to this, Tang Nan glanced at the woman next to him who was dressed simply but still radiant, and the black men's umbrella in her hand, and said with a smile: "Gu Gu, my boyfriend's company has several high-quality single men, you haven't had a boyfriend for these years, why don't you come back to find one this time?"
"Hey, don't refuse yet," Tang Nan said before she could speak, "Let me introduce you first!"
Gu Yaozhi smiled and said leisurely, "Then tell me."
Hearing her say so, Tang Nan cleared his throat, "One of them is the manager of their research department. He is from a scholarly family. Both his parents are university professors. He is also a top student. He has a good appearance and is a gentleman."
Gu Yaozhi raised her long eyelashes. The taillights of the car in front of her reflected several colorful light strips through the rain. She blinked, "It sounds like It's good."
Tang Nan hummed, "I've met her a few times. She's gentle and kind, and knows how to take care of people."
Gu Yaozhi responded in a gentle voice: "Really?"
Seeing that she didn't seem to be resistant, Tang Nan continued: "There's another one who works in my boyfriend's department. He's two years younger than you, motivated, sunny and handsome. How cool is it to have a beautiful sister-brother relationship these days!"
Gu Yaozhi smiled faintly: "It's cool."
Hearing this absent-minded and even a little perfunctory tone, Tang Nan knew that she was not interested at all.
Seeing that the people around him were silent, Gu Yaozhi turned his head, with a pair of clear and innocent eyes, and asked insincerely: "Anything else?"
"..."
Tang Nan knew that he couldn't beat her, so he tactfully didn't continue the topic. But he couldn't help but think of the previous hot search, and a figure appeared in his mind, and he sighed secretly.
First love is too amazing, it really misleads people.
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It was still a long way to go to school, and I didn't know how long the traffic would last in such bad weather.
The two decided to go to the Sichuan restaurant next time and had dinner at a porridge shop nearby. When they came out of the restaurant, Tang Nan received a call from the editorial office, saying that there was a manuscript that needed urgent use, so he had to go back to work overtime.
Back in the car, Tang Nan complained: "I'm so busy that I don't even have a day off. I finally took a day off, but I was called back to work overtime. Besides, you just got off the plane, and I wanted to take you home so you can rest early."
Gu Yaozhi fastened his seat belt, "I'm not tired, I slept on the plane, you should do your thing first."
Tang Nan started the car and suddenly remembered something, "By the way, my editorial office is not far from your teacher's studio. It would be boring for you to go back to the office with me. Do you want to visit your teacher on the way?"
The teacher Tang Nan mentioned was Gu Yaozhi's art mentor, Zhong Huaili, a well-known impressionist painter in Lingcheng. She originally wanted to rest for two days before visiting her teacher. She really missed him after not seeing him for many years. Gu Yaozhi thought about it and said, "Okay."
When they arrived at the place, the heavy rain finally stopped.
Zhong Huaili's studio is located in an old city in the city center. The old-style two-story building among the high-rise buildings has a unique quiet and elegant charm.
In the evening, the sky was dim, and the warm yellow street lights on the roadside added a bit of warmth to the coming night.
After getting off the car, Gu Yaozhi went to the trunk to get the gift she brought for the teacher. Before leaving, Tang Nan rolled down the window: "The temperature is low at night. I will send you a WeChat message when I arrive. You can come out again. It is easy to catch a cold in this weather."
"Why are you taking care of your partner?" Gu Yaozhi joked.
Tang Nan glanced at her: "What can I do? Who told you not to have a partner?"
"Thank you for your concern." Gu Yaozhi smiled and bent down to wave at her, "Be careful on the road."
Tang Nan pouted and sneered, closed the window and drove away.
It was really cold outside, and there was a breath in her breath. Gu Yaozhi closed the collar of her coat, raised her foot and walked behind her. She accidentally caught a glimpse of a high-end private car parked on the roadside not far away. She felt familiar for some reason, but she didn't think about it carefully.
When she entered the studio, she realized why she felt familiar.
After not coming back for a few years, the original painting teaching room on the first floor of the studio was connected to the front desk and expanded into a small exhibition hall. At this moment, the man who had just met more than an hour ago was in the exhibition hall, and a young girl was explaining the paintings on the wall to him.
Gu Yaozhi was in a state of mixed emotions, and couldn't tell whether this fate was good or bad.
She regained her consciousness, moved her eyes away from the back, and went to the front desk: "Hello, is Mr. Zhong Huaili here?"
The staff at the front desk was friendly: "Do you have an appointment?"
Gu Yaozhi: "No."
"Mr. Zhong will see a visitor later. If you don't have an appointment, you may have to wait."
A few years ago, Zhong Huaili was the only oriental artist among the winners of the highly prestigious international art awards. Since then, his reputation in the domestic painting world has also soared. Before she came, she guessed that the teacher might be busy.
Gu Yaozhi: "It's okay, I'll wait."
She went to a lounge chair on the side and sat down, looking around the exhibition hall casually. After looking around, my eyes unconsciously fell on the other side of the exhibition hall.
Unlike at the airport, the man's suit was meticulously dressed, his shirt collar was buttoned to the top, the lines of his jaw angle were particularly clear, and his straight posture was more neat and orderly, but his hands in his pockets still revealed the unruly nature engraved in his bones.
In the sight, when the young tour guide talked about a place, he seemed to be unable to help but glance at the man's face, and then his eyes were almost fixed, and he forgot to continue for a while.
The man's eyes stayed on the painting.
After a moment, he noticed something strange beside him and lowered his eyes to look.
The moment they looked at each other, the girl was almost visibly nervous, and the white skin on her cheeks turned red all the way to her ears.
Maybe it was because she had just returned to China and saw an old friend again.
Memories also poured into her mind bit by bit, and the scene in front of her inexplicably reminded her of an afternoon in her first year of high school.
It was midsummer, the sun was blazing, and the hot air was filled with the smell of dried flowers and plants.
The class had just finished cleaning, and Gu Yaozhi and his classmates went to the washbasin in the school square to wash the rags. Passing by the basketball court, several boys leaned against the fence to drink water, one of whom was Pei Chi.
It looked like he had just played a game.
His forehead was wet, and he wore a white headband. He looked very clean even when he was sweating. The sleeves of his school uniform were pulled to his shoulders because he felt hot. The dazzling sunlight fell on his side face, and his outstanding facial features were stained with a faint halo.
Since the first day of school, the name Pei Chi has been often discussed by the girls in the class. She didn't pay much attention to it before, and this was the first time she looked at this person carefully.
Even though Gu Yaozhi didn't care much about appearance, she felt that this person was really good-looking.
It's just that his eyebrows are cold, and his dark eyes are naturally alienated, which makes him look difficult to approach, but it doesn't seem to prevent him from being very popular. There are always many boys around him.
As she approached, a male classmate noticed this and nudged other boys with his arm, "Hey, Gu Yaozhi from the next class."
Gu Yaozhi was pretty and very popular among the boys. Seeing several eyes looking at her, she retracted her eyes and walked past them quietly.
In the constant whispering behind her, only one boy focused on something different, and said lazily, "Which class are you playing against next time?"
When she arrived at the wash basin, the female classmate with her had a little heatstroke due to the hot weather. Gu Yaozhi wanted to buy water, but found that her meal card was missing.
She went along the way she came and passed the basketball court. Pei Chi was the only one left of the group of boys by the fence. The boy was standing on a basketball and playing with a mineral water bottle leisurely.
This road can be seen to the end at a glance, and there is nothing on the ground.
The meal card is very light, and she is not sure whether it will be blown to a corner by the wind. Only Pei Chi's piece is invisible.
She moved closer and looked around him.
Then she raised her eyes and wanted to ask him if he saw it, but the boy suddenly looked at her sideways, raised his eyebrows slightly, and said arrogantly: "Peeking at me."
Gu Yaozhi: "?"
Before she could explain, she heard him speak again, with a tone that asked for a beating: "Classmate, next time you peek, learn to be more restrained. It's hard for your unscrupulous views not to be discovered."
Gu Yaozhi wanted to say, is unscrupulous still called peeking?
She guessed that Pei Chi was too popular and was tired of being looked at by others on weekdays. She didn't care too much and just said calmly: "Classmate, you misunderstood, I was looking for my meal card."
"Maybe it fell here, I'm in a hurry to use it, did you see it?"
After the voice fell, there was no embarrassment on the boy's face, and then he pulled the corner of his mouth lightly: "Nothing fell here."
Gu Yaozhi heard the hidden meaning of his words.
It's not that he didn't see it, but that it didn't fall at all, and he was sure that she was peeking.
"..."
The classmate was still waiting for her, and Gu Yaozhi had no time to explain. She said thank you and walked past him.
Not far away, footsteps followed behind her, "Hey, peeping."
Gu Yaozhi turned around and saw Pei Chi holding a basketball in his hand, and raised his chin slightly, "Stretch out your hand."
She didn't know the boy's intention, but stretched out her hand as he said.
When passing by her, a white meal card fell into her palm, and the boy's deep voice came from above his head.
The tone was lazy: "Remember to return it."
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A piece of memory killing~