My Dear Classmate Chapter 5: Relationship at the same table [5]
Gu Zhiran looked at Qiao Zhishen in astonishment, his deep eyes attracted her like magic.
At this moment, Gu Zhiran wanted to say, I don't want to go back to England, I don't like the weather in London, I don't like western food, I don't like the English language around me, I want to stay in China, in this native city A, in the Be with grandma, parents and relatives, stay by...your side...
It's just that the deep memory in her mind rushed to her face, and her head became sober in an instant. She almost forgot...
Gu Zhiran turned his head away from him and forced himself to calm down. She looked straight ahead and said slowly, "I'm used to the life there, and I will probably always be there."
There was silence in the carriage, Gu Zhiran didn't dare to look at Qiao Zhishen, she felt that she couldn't bear any possible expression on his face.
She hurriedly opened the seat belt, said thank you as she opened the door, and then walked to the trunk of the car without looking back, but at the moment she closed the door, she seemed to hear Qiao Zhishen's helpless sigh.
Qiao Zhishen also got out of the car and walked to the trunk of the car in two or three steps. Without waiting for Gu Zhiran, he took out the suitcase for her. While handing it to her, he took out his mobile phone and handed it to her. In front of him: "Enter your mobile phone number..." After a pause, he said, "Don't let me find you again!"
Gu Zhiran quickly took the phone over, bowed his head and started typing in his phone number to hide his flushed face and pounding heartbeat.
After inputting, I pressed the dial button, and at the same time took out my mobile phone, calmed down a little, raised my head and said to Qiao Zhishen: "Look, I also have your number, keep in touch."
Qiao Zhishen smiled lightly and said, "Little heartless, my cell phone number has never changed, but you didn't remember it."
Gu Zhiran gave a dry laugh: "I'm going back first, you drive carefully." Then he waved to Qiao Zhishen, pulled up his suitcase, and walked home without looking back.
The moment she turned around, she couldn't hold it back any longer, tears streaming down her cheeks, she didn't dare to raise her hands to wipe them, so she could only straighten her back and walk forward.
He said: "My cell phone number has not changed, it's just that you didn't remember it."
But you have known that I was in a foreign country, how many lonely nights, I held the mobile phone in my hand, pressed your mobile phone number, entered it over and over again, deleted it over and over again, and never had the courage to dial it out . I don't know what I should tell you after dialing, long time no see? Or a simple hi? Still ask, do you still remember who I am? Do you know who I am?
I'm even more afraid of Lin Tianlan's voice coming from your side after dialing...
When Gu Zhiran returned home, luckily her family members had gone out, otherwise her appearance would have frightened them. She returned to the bedroom, took a brief shower, and fell asleep.
This time, she didn't sleep soundly, and dreamed hazily. She dreamed that she was back in high school again, and the picture was full of Qiao Zhishen's appearance, quiet, silent, angry, Smiling...
"Of course, but, wake up..."
Gu Zhiran slowly opened her eyes, forgetting where she was for a moment, until she saw Zhang Siqing clearly in front of her, and then she remembered that she had returned to city a.
"Did you have a nightmare? You cried..." Zhang Siqing asked eagerly.
Gu Zhiran only touched his cheek now, only to find that it was wet.
"Well... I dreamed that a monster was chasing me..." Gu Zhiran remembered crying when he dreamed of being chased by a monster when he was a child.
"Stupid child...it was your parents who were sorry for you when you were young..." Zhang Siqing looked at her with guilt.
"Mom, that's all in the past, I was not young at that time, I was so timid." Gu Zhiran comforted.
Zhang Siqing sighed softly, held Gu Zhiran's hand, and patted it gently: "It's all because my parents didn't think carefully at the time... If it was..."
"Mom, don't mention the past, aren't we living well now?" Gu Zhiran interrupted Zhang Siqing.
"Okay, okay... It's fine for Mom not to mention it, as long as you are doing well now." Zhang Siqing said quickly, "Of course, Mom has something to tell you."
"What's the matter?" Zhang Siqing suddenly became a little serious, and Gu Zhiran felt that it was not a good thing.
"Just your grandma, she's getting older, and her body functions have been deteriorating faster in the past few years, and she's not as good as before." Zhang Siqing said with a look of melancholy.
"How could this be? I called my grandma every week, and she said she was in good health, and I didn't hear anything bad from you." Gu Zhiran asked anxiously.
"Grandma knows that you are busy and hard at studying in the UK, and she is afraid that you will always come back to see her, and you will be tired from running around, so you won't let us tell you anything. .” Zhang Siqing was also full of helplessness.
"It was my own negligence. Sometimes something was wrong when I heard her talk. I just believed what my grandma said about the bad signal. Why was I so careless!" Gu Zhiran blamed herself.
"It's not your fault. Grandma is almost ninety years old, and there is nothing I can do about her physical decline." Zhang Siqing is the youngest in the family, and there are several older brothers and older sisters. "It's just that, of course, Mom has a suggestion. Listen to it first, and accept it if you think it's feasible. If you have other ideas, you can ignore Mom's opinion."
"Mom, you said..." Gu Zhiran looked puzzled.
"You have also graduated now. Back then, your parents were reluctant to send you to study abroad. You also know that when you were a child... oh, I didn't mention it just now. Anyway, I listened to your thoughts before and wanted to stay in the UK. , but Mom and Dad still hope that you will return to China. Our family is not particularly wealthy, but it is also a family in City A. You are a girl, and we don't want you to work too hard. After you come back, no matter what you do , both parents support you. Of course, this is only one aspect, on the other hand, I want you to stay in City A to spend more time with your grandma, among so many grandchildren, she loves you the most." Zhang Siqing said earnestly.
"Mom, then I'll come back!" Whether it's hard work or not is not the most important thing, the important thing is that she has to accompany grandma, thinking of this, she feels that she is particularly unfilial.
"Okay, okay..." Zhang Siqing said happily, "Then when will you go back to England this time, mom will go there with you, and help you pack your luggage when the time comes."
"I'll go back after Bei Yi's wedding is over. I'll just go back by myself. I'll say goodbye to my classmates and friends. I might be busy. Mom, don't follow me there, lest you get bored." Gu Zhiran said.
"Okay, then I'll ask your brother's secretary to book a plane ticket for you." Zhang Siqing took out her cell phone and called her son.
"Mom, don't worry, I'll just send my brother a WeChat message later, let's go see grandma now, shall we?" Gu Zhiran misses grandma very much right now.
"But mom will go to a dinner with your dad later, how about two days?" Zhang Siqing was a little embarrassed.
"Then I'll go by myself later, and now I'm going, so I can have dinner with grandma." Gu Zhiran hurriedly got up and changed his clothes.
"Then I'll ask the driver to take you there." Zhang Siqing said.
"No need, I'll just take a taxi." Gu Zhiran pushed Zhang Siqing away as he said, "Mom, I want to change."
"Mom gave birth to you and raised you so much, so I still don't let mom take a look." Zhang Siqing cast a probing look on Gu Zhiran's chest while speaking.
"Mom, you are disrespectful, you really can't watch too many soap operas." Gu Zhiran became furious, and pushed Zhang Siqing out of the door, shutting out Zhang Siqing's laughter.
The place where Mrs. Zhang lives has not changed, it is still in the old urban area. Gu Zhiran got off the taxi when he arrived nearby, because the car couldn't get in.
The evening sun slanted on the mottled path, and Gu Zhiran suddenly felt that he had returned to his childhood. Every day after school, his grandmother would hold her hand and slowly walk home. Grandma loved her very much, and made snacks every day to take her to school to pick her up after school, and she went home while eating snacks.
Turning a few turns, the grandma's house is finally in front of my eyes. It is still an old two-story building with various plants planted in the old small garden. Grandma likes to arrange these flowers and plants very much. The fresh plants add a lot of color to this small garden, and even on this old street, it is also a beautiful scenery.
"Know it?"
Gu Zhiran turned around, and saw Jian Weijin standing in front of him with a calm expression, but did not conceal surprise.
"Ah... such a coincidence..." Gu Zhiran was also surprised to meet him here.
"You live here?" Jian Weijin pointed to the house in front of her.
"No, my grandmother lives here. What about you?" Gu Zhiran felt that Jian Weijin probably wouldn't live in this old community.
"My grandma lives near here." Jian Weijin pointed to the front.
"Oh...then hurry up! I'll go in first." Gu Zhiran waved his hand.
"Okay, I'll go first!" Jian Weijin lifted her foot and walked forward, but her mood when she came back to see her grandma today changed from a little depressed to a cheerful one.
Gu Zhiran knocked on the door, and after a while, a middle-aged woman in her forties or fifties came out to answer the door.
"Girl, who are you looking for?" the woman asked.
"Is that Aunt Qiong? I am Ranran." Gu Zhiran reckoned that this woman whom he had never met before was Aunt Qiong, the nanny who took care of grandma, because she answered every time she called grandma.
"Of course, come here... Come in quickly!" Aunt Qiong immediately opened the door and welcomed Gu Zhiran in, "I didn't hear the old lady say you were coming back. If she knew, she would be so happy."
"I just want to surprise grandma!" Gu Zhiran laughed. After finishing speaking, he walked in on his own, shouting as he walked: "Grandma, I'm home!" Just like before.
Madam Zhang wondered if she was hallucinating, how could she hear Gu Zhiran's voice? Turning around, I saw the long-lost man outside the door.
"Of course, is it really you?" The old lady stood up with difficulty and staggered towards the door.
When Gu Zhiran saw the old but still kind grandmother, tears fell down in a flash!
"Grandma, it's me, but I'm back!" Gu Zhiran opened his hands and hugged the old man in front of him tightly.