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The wedding venue was not chosen in a church, but a lakeside hotel.The hotel is located in Florida, in the southeastern United States, and it is still green in early spring.At about four o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was hot, and the silver-blue lake reflected the low rolling hills.Except for the lake water, the eyes are full of solid green, the nearby green is fluffy, it is the trimmed lawn under the feet, the distant green is like melted oily green paint, under the smear of the sun, it flows from the retina to the tranquility of the people. bottom of my heart.

The milky-white building complex on the grass by the lake is the hotel where the wedding is held. At the moment, the guests are all sitting on white chairs outside.The slim satin wedding dress made the bride look like a priestess walking out of the temple of Athens. Her hair was pulled up high, revealing her slender neck, and two white calla lilies were pinned to her bun, symbolizing happiness, purity and fidelity. .Put your hands together and hold a waterfall-shaped bouquet in front of your belly. The main flower is orange crab claw dahlias, with light yellow perfume roses and white round gardenias. The hanging waterfall is decorated with African jasmine.

When choosing the bridal bouquet, Deng Luoyi prefers blue, which looks pure and calm. Sherley didn't like it, she wanted gorgeous bright warm colors, not like she was trading a somber deal.

At the end of the red carpet, the groom stood in front of the pastor, his waxed black hair reflected lightly.He wore a cashmere suit of an elegant lavender ash, an indigo shirt, a reddish-brown spotted bow tie, and a square scarf of the same color folded at two points and tucked into the breast pocket.The band at the corner of the lawn began to play "Wedding March", and everyone turned their heads in unison. The groom turned around and watched the bride walking slowly holding her father's arm.

The father handed over the daughter's hand to her future husband, and the rest of the journey had to be done by the two of them alone.The groom took the bride's hand, and the two approached the pastor and stood side by side in the established position.

The pastor said to all the guests: "Ladies and gentlemen, today we gathered together to witness the union of Roy Deng and Sherley Clinton."

After finishing speaking, his eyes fell on the groom, "Please repeat with me. I, Roy Deng."

The groom faced the bride, "I, Roy Deng."

"I will be with you, Sherley Clinton, forever."

——"I will be with you..."

The focus of the guests' attention was on Deng Luoyi, with expressions of joy, relief, or solemnity, and Jiang Mingyun was among them.He sat in the middle of the third row on the left side of the red carpet, buried in the crowd, but very conspicuous, different from everyone else.

"From now on, whether poor or rich, healthy or sick, successful or unsuccessful. I will always be loyal to you, support you, love you, share joys and sorrows with you, until death do us part."

——“From now on, it will be poor or rich, healthy or sick, success or failure.”

When the oath came to a critical point, Deng Luoyi suddenly stopped speaking, and his eyes narrowed to his feet.He seemed to be hesitant, because he lowered his head slightly, others could not see his expression clearly.Everyone present looked at him blankly, and the bride squeezed his fingers secretly.

"I will always be loyal to you, support you, love you, and share with you through thick and thin, until death do us part."

"Would you like to marry her?" asked the pastor.

Deng Luoyi moved the corner of his mouth and said with a smile: "Yes, I am willing."

When the bride said her "I do" commitment, they exchanged rings and began kissing, the audience burst into applause like a wave.As the couple walked through the red carpet, relatives and friends on both sides of the red carpet sprinkled pink and white rose petals into the air, and the petals fluttered down from the sky, representing their blessings for the future.

Deng Luoyi's lawyer brought the marriage certificate to the pastor. After the pastor filled in the names of the witnesses, the certificate would be sent to the state government for stamping.

Between the ceremony and the dinner, there will be a cocktail party, which will provide the guests with pre-dinner food and drinks in preparation for the following dinner.

The newlyweds and their relatives and friends were busy taking pictures, and bursts of cheerful laughter came from the crowded place.Meng Zhenni was lucky enough to get the bouquet thrown by the bride. She laughed so hard that she lost her strength, and carried the bouquet to the long table covered with a silver-patterned tablecloth on a white background, and took a plate of dessert.

She passed a row of round tables by the lake, and naturally found Jiang Mingyun among the crowd.There was an old man sitting across from him. The two of them were talking about something. Judging from Jiang Mingyun's expression, it shouldn't be an easy topic.

Meng Zhenni once again recalled the scene she accidentally encountered that night. It is estimated that few people know this secret. Moreover, after the wedding, the secret may be buried in the cemetery forever with the passage of time.

The wine glass was raised again, the warm lights in the banquet hall flowed among the silverware, wine glasses and roses, and the tulle at night blindfolded the eyes, and what I saw was hazy and warm beauty.

Diana always likes to be the first person, and the number "two" probably doesn't exist in her dictionary.She walked to the empty area in front of the banquet hall amidst the attention of everyone, looked around the audience, and said slowly, leaning into the microphone, "First of all, thank you all for coming to my son's wedding."

"Early on, I was thinking, what should I say at Roy's wedding. When Ann and I took him to our friends' weddings, when their parents were on stage and speaking, I was thinking , at Roy's wedding, what should I say."

"Almost everyone who sees Roy and me can guess that Roy is not my child. I mean, he is not a child born from my body."

"Everyone said 'Oh! He's so cute! Look at his eyes, look at his nose...' Yes," Diana shrugged her shoulders, with a carefree expression on her face. Come out, this child is much more beautiful than me."

Everyone was amused by Diana, and Sherley leaned close to Deng Luoyi's ear and teased softly: "A beautiful boy."

"Roy is my child." Diana's tone became more serious. "He is my only dear son. I was not sure about marrying Ann. He told me that he also has a son who lives with him, who is less than two years old. .”

"It's perfect! There's nothing more perfect than this! It's like buying one and getting one free when I'm going shopping. I have my husband and I have my son."

As she talked, she shed tears. At first, there was only one drop. She tried her best to hide it, but the harder she tried, the more she couldn't control it.Her voice trembled even when she spoke, she covered her nose with a square scarf, and the wrinkles on her face showed her old age, "Sorry, I think too much about Roy's childhood... He worked hard since he was a child, and I respect him The requirements are too strict, he has always been able to satisfy me, sorry..." Diana was silent for a moment, then continued, "I love you very much, my son, and Ann loves you very much. Today is an extremely important day in your life. Days, you join hands with your life partner to start a new stage of life, you will have your own children, and then you will understand how much we love you."

Deng Luoyi applauded along with the others, but he couldn't feel Diana's abundant emotion, he was like a broken machine. When Diana walked past him, he realized that she was only a head taller than the sitting person, but in his memory, she was obviously so tall and unattainable.

She stood in front of him like a wall, her gaze fell from a height.

"Don't call me mom! You are not my son! Can you understand me?!"

she says.

"Mom, don't cry." Deng Luoyi took out his pocket square and handed it to her.

Diana wiped her tears and waved her hands, "Sorry, you don't have to worry about me."

Friends scrambled to reveal the embarrassing things about the groom and the bride's growth process. When the group finished what they wanted to say, Deng Luoyi slowly came to the microphone with a red wine glass in his hand.

While Deng Luoyi was walking forward, Jiang Mingyun got up and left the banquet hall alone.

The night in the subtropical region is inevitably colder than the day, Jiang Mingyun walked across the lawn, the petals of blessings were still lying on the ground.He stopped by the lake, and the breeze swept from the land to the water. He took out his lighter and lit a cigarette. The smoke drifted towards the calm lake and disappeared.

"...to a certain extent, I agree with Alainde Botton's words, 'Maybe we really don't exist until someone sees us in the world; maybe we can't express ourselves in words until someone can understand our language...only We are truly alive when we are loved'."

Deng Luoyi behaved gentlemanly and elegantly. He raised his wine glass and said affectionately: "To my beautiful wife."

Sherley covered her mouth with both hands, her eyes were full of surprise and emotion.Deng Luoyi walked towards her, the two hugged and kissed, the surrounding applause was thunderous, cheers came and went.

Some relationships cannot be blessed.

The assistant whispered in Deng Luoyi's ear, and Deng Luoyi frowned imperceptibly.He begged forgiveness from the people at the table, that he needed to leave for a while.

"I won't see you alone, we're done." Deng Luoyi paced back and forth on the path beside the bushes.

The voice on the other end of the phone was slightly low, "Roy, you should know how many ways I can force you to see me."

Deng Luoyi gritted his teeth angrily, and threw the phone out viciously.He was about to return to the banquet hall, but then stopped, and reluctantly went to the hotel's open-air parking lot.

There were only guests who came to the wedding in the hotel, which was much cooler than before.Deng Luoyi couldn't find Jiang Mingyun, so he hated himself for throwing away his phone.

"Jiang Mingyun, Jiang."

Someone strangled his neck behind him, self-defense moves were flying in his mind, and the blood all over his body rushed to the top of his head angrily.The man covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and he fought desperately, his limbs gradually lost strength, his head tilted, and he passed out.

The author says:

★U.S. marriage certificate, which is not stamped by the state government and has no legal effect

★The wedding vows are borrowed from Internet materials, and the author is unknown

★The words of Deng Luoyi in this chapter are quoted from Alan de Botton's "Love Notes"