This time she confesses

will not.

Probably because of these short two words as a guarantee, after the whole meal, Tao Shumin had a smile on her face, and when they parted, she also kindly told Ke Qingyun: "Drive slowly on the road."

"Okay, Auntie."

Ke Qingyun nodded with a smile, and gave Jing Huan a look before leaving, "I'm leaving."

It is rare for Tao Shumin to come here, she misses her very much, and she wants to stay with Jing Huan in the hotel to talk to her at night, Jing Huan can't refuse, standing by the roadside, watching the car gradually go away, disappearing from sight, before she can take it back look.

"go in."

Tao Shumin took Jing Huan's arm, walked into the hotel, and babbled: "It's already this time, I don't know if your dad has come back from outside, it's still cold at night, so you need to wear extra clothes when you go out."

"Well, yes." Jing Huan listened a little absent-mindedly, and answered perfunctorily.

As a mother, how could she not see it? Tao Shumin sighed softly, helplessly: "Huanhuan, Mom knows what you're thinking."

Jing Huan pursed her lips and remained silent.

"You are grown up now, you have your own ideas, who you like, who you want to date, even if mom objects, you can't tie you to me like you did when you were a child, but you have to listen to mom about going back to Wuhan. That's the biggest concession we can make."

Jing Huan heard the meaning behind the words, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and he raised his head and asked, "Mom, what do you mean, if I go back to Wuhan, you and Dad won't stop me from being with Ke Qingyun?"

Tao Shumin responded for a long time, which made Jing Huan's heart go cold: "I knew it."

Jing Zhengrong didn't come at night because he was angry, and Tao Shumin's willingness to come didn't mean he just accepted the matter, but with a purpose. She wanted to remind Ke Qingyun not to prevent Jing Huan from returning to Wuhan after graduation.

Married and divorced, the matter between her and Ke Qingyun, in the eyes of her parents, was nothing more than a whim and a whim. When the two separated, one was in Shanghai and the other was in Wuhan. If the enthusiasm is gone, they will naturally separate.

Then they too underestimated their feelings for Ke Qingyun.

Tao Shumin put her arms around Jing Huan's shoulders, and said earnestly, "How can two girls live together in this society now? Even though the husband and wife would quarrel with each other because of trivial matters in life, they couldn't make it through, got divorced, and divided property. But that is protected by law, and you and her have no name or distinction. To put it bluntly, if she gets sick and undergoes surgery in the future, she will not even have the qualifications to sign. There is no guarantee for feelings that are not recognized by society. She is the only one who is overwhelmed by subjective consciousness now, but after waiting for a long time, one year, two years...ten years, are you sure you can spend your whole life with a girl?"

"I've lived for so long, and I've never heard of such absurd things. Why do I like girls? It's just a whim in my head, but it doesn't matter. When people make detours, let's just correct it. , you relied too much on Teacher Ke back then, so you thought it was liking, and when you return to Wuhan and spend more time with the opposite sex, this wrong emotional dependence will gradually be corrected."

Not admitting it, not understanding it, or being self-deceiving, this is all expected, Jing Huan didn't force Jing Zhengrong and Tao Shumin to accept it right away, it just gave me a headache.

"Mom, I see."

Tao Shumin beamed with joy, and praised: "Mom knows you are sensible. When your dad told me, he looked like the sky was falling. He insisted on coming to Shanghai in person. I think he is just looking for trouble. "

It would be great if it could be understood so easily.

Jing Huan smiled wryly and stopped talking.

Back in the room, Jing Zhengrong was already back, leaning back on the sofa watching TV, with his arms crossed in front of his chest, with a gloomy face, as if no one should approach him, Jing Huan wanted to talk to him, but Tao Shumin grabbed her arm and waved her hand to signal that she should ignore him.

The mother and daughter returned to the bedroom, and after washing, they lay on the bed and talked for a while. Tao Shumin was running around all day, and sleepiness soon hit her. After saying good night, she rolled over and fell asleep. meaning.

The sound of the TV outside was deliberately turned down, but I could still hear it, but when I really pricked up my ears to listen carefully, I couldn't make out what the protagonist was saying, so Jing Huan gently turned over and looked out the window , His eyes gradually melted into the night, hesitating for a moment, he still lifted the quilt, got up and went out.

The headlights in the outer room were turned off, and the flickering light on the TV screen and the sparks from the cigarette butts were particularly conspicuous. The air was filled with smoke. With a burning cigarette in his hand, Jing Zhengrong threw it into the ashtray on the coffee table in front of him. Full of cigarette butts, one, two, three... countless.

Jing Huan lifted the hand fan to get rid of the smell of smoke in his nose, and walked towards the sofa, "...Dad."

Jing Zhengrong frowned, looked up, his eyes stayed on Jing Huan's face for a while, then slowly lowered his head, reached out and pressed the cigarette between his fingers into the ashtray. It sounded hoarse: "Is your mother asleep?"

"Ah."

Jing Huan sat down beside Jing Zhengrong, stared at the cigarette butts in the ashtray, and said with a dry voice, "Dad, stop smoking."

Jing Zhengrong nodded, raised his finger to the window: "Go and open the window."

"it is good."

It was already late at night, and the prime-time variety show was being rebroadcasted on TV. Jing Huan glanced at it and found that the flying guest of this episode was a popular girl group at the moment. Voice: "Why aren't you asleep?"

Jing Huan looked away and looked at his fingers: "I can't sleep."

"Why haven't you slept yet?"

Jing Zhengrong sighed: "You are like this, how can I sleep."

What I heard the most today was the sound of sighs, and Jing Huan was inexplicably conflicted: "Dad, how...how did you know?"

Jing Zhengrong looked at Jing Huan and asked, "Do you still remember that one day you were sent home by an aunt?"

Aunt?

Jing Huan paused, remembering that day when she came back from Ke Qingyun School, she was crying out of breath while sitting in the bus, and an aunt next to her kept comforting her, and even handed her a tissue to wipe her tears, probably because she was worried. In the end, it seemed that she was sent home.

At that time, she was completely immersed in the sadness of Ke Qingyun's love, and Jing Huan couldn't remember what happened afterwards.

"Auntie sent you back, saying that the little girl was broken in love and cried all the way, let us as parents comfort you, don't let the child cry badly, it's not worthwhile, your mother and I thought you were a puppy lover at school. On the day you graduated, I cleaned up the old books in the house for you, sold scraps, and saw several cards in an English dictionary, all of which were related to Ke Qingyun."

It turned out to be the case.

Jing Huan lowered her head, "My mother also knows?"

"Your mother didn't know at the time, I only told her a few days ago." Jing Zhengrong glanced at the bedroom, and said: "Your mother looks like a bluff, but she is actually the most careful and overthinking, and your The results of the college entrance examination in [-] were a mess. I was afraid that she would worry about it after knowing it, so I didn’t tell her. Fortunately, you got good grades after repeating your studies, and later you were admitted to graduate school. , I never thought that you still miss her even now."

Jing Huan's throat tightened, "Dad, my mother also thinks that my feelings for Ke Qingyun are caused by psychology, but you know it's not, no, I like her, it's not that I'm dependent on her, and it's not that I can't tell the difference between love and friendship. I like her and I want to be with her forever."

"Okay! You don't feel ashamed to say this." Jing Zhengrong interrupted her.

Jing Huan wanted to say, "It's not ashamed to like someone."

Jing Zhengrong frowned, and glanced at Jing Huan: "So, that boyfriend you talked about in your senior year also lied to me and your mother?"

If you don't mention it, Jing Huan will almost forget that she once lied about her fictional boyfriend in order to conceal her sexual orientation, "...um."

Jing Zhengrong sighed and didn't know what to say. He had always been afraid that Jing Huan liked Ke Qingyun, so he paid close attention to his daughter's relationship status. After learning that Jing Huan had a boyfriend, he finally let it go. In his heart, he felt that the relationship in high school was just a child's ignorance, and he would naturally forget it after a long time. That's why he dared to let Jing Huan work with Ke Qingyun.

If he really knew that the two still had feelings for each other, Jing Zhengrong would never have agreed to Ke Qingyun going to his house during the Chinese New Year, let alone persuade Jing Huan and Ke Qingyun to ask for a favor and talk about losing his job.

"Dad, I will not separate from Ke Qingyun."

Jing Zhengrong pursed his lips, took a sip of the cold water on the coffee table, and waited for his throat to moisten a little, before saying, "I've talked with your mother for the past few days. If you don't want to keep a girl, you really have to talk to me." We really can't stop her from falling in love, we can't break your legs, lock you in the house and prevent you from going out, but there is one thing, you must listen to us, return to Wuhan after graduation."

It's this again, Jing Huan turned away, "I know what you and my mother think, you just want to separate me from Ke Qingyun, so that we can't see each other every day, our relationship will fade, and then we will break up."

"That's right, you are not in a good relationship, you must have each other, then try, if you can't even pass this test, let alone ten years, 20 years, 30 years in the future, it's not like one day, two days , It’s as simple as one month.”

Jing Huan disagreed with Jing Zhengrong's approach: "Testing feelings is not like this, it's meaningless at all."

"Then what you say makes sense!"

After Jing Zhengrong scolded, he stared at Jing Huan closely: "I will tell you directly today, even if Ke Qingyun is a man, I have to think about your relationship again. You are a girl who is so far away from home, and you are usually a little No matter how fast I come with your mother, it will take half a day to arrive, not to mention that she is still a girl, and she can't even give you the most basic home. Let others slaughter you, you think our hearts as parents are all made of iron, we only want to tear you apart, but we don't know how to love our daughter."

"So going back to Wuhan is the best choice. If she wants to see you, she will come, and if she doesn't want to, she will get her. It means that she doesn't like you very much. If it ends, it will end. There is nothing worth nostalgic and pity about this relationship."

Now is not the time to refute, although there are thousands of dissatisfaction and disapproval in his heart, Jing Huan bit his lower lip lightly, and the pain made his mind clearer at this moment: "I'm going back to Wuhan."

"But you have to promise me that you won't stop me from falling in love with her in the future."

Jing Zhengrong was slightly taken aback, turned his face away, and said reluctantly, "I won't stop you."

"But it's just not stopping."

Jing Huan understood what he said, and he didn't stop it, but he didn't accept it either.