A Certain Someone

Jiang Ou did not expect to meet Du Cheng in this hospital.

She told Sheng Mingyang that this was her old high school classmate, but actually she had a better relationship with her classmates - Du Cheng was one of her best friends in high school.

She is the class monitor and Du Cheng is the deputy class. She sits at the table behind her and often complains, "Let me do all the work. You have the biggest title. Where can I find such a good buddy?" She helps.She was often upset, so she would bring some homemade snacks to share with the two boys at the back table.At that time, her mother was a teacher, she didn't have the geriatric diseases later on, she was clear-headed and gentle, and her skills were particularly good.Du Cheng often said that his tablemate could get so much delicious food without doing anything, and it was all thanks to him.

The name of his deskmate is Ji Huanyu, who was Jiang Ou's later boyfriend, husband, and ex-husband.

Du Cheng knew that Jiang Ou liked Ji Huanyu.Teenagers can't hide their thoughts, they always need a friend who can talk to her, and Du Cheng is the friend who can talk to her, and he even helped her to insinuate Ji Huanyu's thoughts.But Du Cheng was not optimistic about them, he said that Ji Huanyu was too thoughtful and not suitable for her.

So when Jiang Ou and Ji Huanyu were really together, their small group of three at the front and back tables broke up.Ji Huanyu and Du Cheng had a good relationship at first, but after that, there were often small conflicts and quarrels.

Jiang Ou was very puzzled for a while, how could the two of them collapse at the same time.It was only later that I found out that Ji Huanyu thought Du Cheng also liked her, and regarded him as a potential love rival, which made Jiang Ou dumbfounded and didn't know how to explain.

When she was young, she believed that conflicts are only temporary, and feelings are long-lasting. Friends cannot be separated, and lovers cannot be separated.Only later did I realize that time is rolling, everyone is running forward, and everything is subject to change.

Du Cheng went to the north after graduation and never contacted her again.He has good grades and strong popularity, and it is said that he is doing well.On the contrary, it was Jiang Ou and Ji Huanyu who had been entangled for more than ten years, and the last thing was bleak.

Jiang Ou didn't have much contact with his former classmates. In the early years, it was because everyone was busy, but later he avoided it deliberately.After the divorce, she was in a semi-closed state for a long time, maintaining a positive attitude in front of her son, and actually blocked everything related to Ji Huanyu.

Later, she learned indirectly from her circle of friends that Ji Huanyu became acquainted with her high school friends again, built up their connections, and went abroad to develop.

Since then, except for the regular fulfillment of the support obligations, she has no new news from the other party.

Until this year, the news was still seen indirectly through the circle of friends - the friend who went abroad with Ji Huanyu was sick, which was very troublesome, and I don't know how much time is left.

That friend is Du Cheng.

Du Cheng on the hospital bed was completely different from the 18-year-old him. If he hadn't met a visiting classmate in the corridor, Jiang Ou wouldn't have dared to recognize him.

At the beginning, the teacher made a joke, and the scene where the front and back tables were full of laughter was like yesterday. When they turned their heads, they were already middle-aged.

Du Cheng was surprised to see her, and sat up from the hospital bed but didn't speak.It was Jiang Ou who spoke first, and she asked him why he returned home suddenly.He pointed to his head and said, "Something grows, it spreads and there is no cure, and every day it becomes less and less. There are only so many things abroad, and it's not interesting to look at them for a long time, so I want to come back."

He was silent for a long time, then smiled and said, "I don't want to die outside."

Because of this sentence, Jiang Ou couldn't stay in that ward.After a few casual chats, she hurried downstairs. In the past few years, she was emotionally sensitive and easy to cry, so she couldn't see it.Secondly, she was also afraid of running into Ji Huanyu if she stayed for a long time.

Du Cheng has returned to China, and Ji Huanyu must be there.

When Jiang Ou came back downstairs, Sheng Mingyang was discharging Old Man Ding from the hospital. Sheng Wang was carrying the old man's jingling canvas bag and told him jokes, making the other party lean back and forth.Her precious son was standing next to him with the old man's coat hanging on his elbows, "This joke is really boring" was written all over his face, but he couldn't help but bend the corners of his mouth a few times.

This scene made her feel a little relieved.

Just as she was about to walk over, her phone vibrated suddenly, and she received a message from Du Cheng.Wechat was added just now, and the content of the message is only a short sentence: Thank you for visiting me.

Jiang Ou stopped and replied: It should be, we have been friends for many years, you should take a good rest and don't think too much.

After that, the other party never responded.

This time of year is the busiest time for Sheng Mingyang.Every aspect of capital accounts and customer exchanges is prone to problems, but there are so many entertainments, clearing this and managing that.

Ever since old man Ding settled down, he hasn't put down his phone, and the phone messages are one after another.Even when he entered the old courtyard outside Wutong, he kept one eye on his feet and the other on the screen.

Sheng Wang originally planned to find a suitable opportunity to mention something to his father, saying that the schoolwork will become more and more heavy in the future, and the lights in the dormitory will be turned off too early, so he and his brother rented a house in front of the school.

In fact, the contract has not been signed yet, but judging from his many years of experience, the only way to deal with Sheng Mingyang is to kill first and play later.

As a result, the other party really didn't have time to chat, so Sheng Wang had to postpone the topic.

Jiang Tian noticed Jiang Ou's depression in the hospital, and finally asked, "What's wrong with you?"

"Huh?" Jiang Ou was absent-minded and almost tripped over the threshold of the kitchen.She held the door in embarrassment, and explained: "It's okay, but there is a problem with the return of funds recently, and I haven't been able to get a permit, so I'm a little tired. I saw another former classmate in the hospital just now, and it was quite uncomfortable to see."

"Which classmate?" Jiang Tian asked.

"I said you don't know each other." Jiang Ou laughed, and said: "Someday I will find out the previous graduation photos for you to identify. I may not recognize them all myself. I haven't contacted for a long time."

Just as Jiang Tian nodded, thinking that there was still Ji Huanyu in the graduation photo, he immediately lowered his face and said, "Let's talk about it."

Jiang Ou saw his expression of having eaten sour food, hesitated to speak, and finally patted him helplessly and said, "Play with Xiaowang for a while, and I'll go to the kitchen to get you something to eat."

"Don't be too busy, let's order takeaway." Sheng Wang poked his head in from outside the kitchen.

"You don't believe my skills?" Jiang Ou put on his apron with a smile.

In the end, her skills were not brought to fruition in the end, Sheng Mingyang answered the phone and hurriedly called her out, and the two of them had to go to the city's industrial park.

The kitchen stalls were all set up, but suddenly there was no cooker, Sheng Wang and Jiang Tian looked at each other in blank dismay.Old man Ding rolled up his sleeves and prepared to go to bed by himself, but was pushed back to the bed by two big boys.

"The doctor said, your blood pressure is high, you are prone to bleeding, and you are prone to thrombosis." Jiang Tian was not tactful at all. He turned on the TV and wrapped him in a blanket and said, "Stay here."

Sheng Wang tugged at him: "Speak up, don't be frightened back to the hospital by the old man."

Jiang Tian pointed to the old man and said, "Do you think he is someone who will be scared?"

Old man Ding struggled to lift the blanket: "When I was a soldier, I was not afraid of bullets flying against my scalp, but I was afraid of this little problem."

Sheng Wang: "..."

He thought for a while, pulled the blanket out of the old man's hand, and tucked it tightly: "Grandpa, there is an old lady next door to my house who has high blood pressure. Just sitting up from the bed and shaking, she disappeared."

Old Man Ding: "..."

"This problem can't be tired, let alone anxious. I also talked to a nurse sister today. She said that there was an old man with Alzheimer's disease in the next ward who had a blood clot. One day, he became confused because of something. ——" Sheng Wang said, "Grandpa, you see that you were a little anxious just now."

Old Man Ding: "..."

The old man has tough bones, he is more afraid of becoming stupid than of death, he curses a brat, but his body is still calm.

Sheng Wang wanted to speak again, but Jiang Tian covered his mouth and dragged the frightening bear back to the kitchen.

"If you talk nonsense again, you will really have to go back to the hospital." Jiang Tian said.

"Hmmmm." The young master was still covered by him, unable to speak humanly, so he just pouted and kissed his palm.

"..."

Jiang Tian was itchy by him, so he quickly withdrew his hand, and Sheng Wang supported the table with a smirk.

"I'm not talking nonsense, the nurse did tell me that, the exact words." Sheng Wangtiao sat on the table, looked at the dishes washed in the kitchen and said, "What should we do with this big mess? How about the two of us? Have something to eat?"

Jiang Tian looked at him suspiciously: "Can you cook?"

Sheng Wang said reservedly: "A little bit."

The young master is a man of action, and he does what he says.He jumped off the table, washed his hands and said, "You heat up the pot, I'll cut up the half-cooked cabbage. How is Aunt Jiang going to fry it?"

"Sweet and sour." Jiang Tian said.

"Okay, wait." Sheng Wang stood by the chopping board, holding down the stacked cabbage with one hand, and picked up the knife with the other.

Given that someone had a murder weapon in his hand, Jiang Tian didn't dare to take his eyes off him, and stared at him from the table.He watched Shengwang make two cuts in a high-altitude tightrope state, not to mention the different widths, and when the third cut was aligned, it directly hit his finger.

I really believed in your evil.

Jiang Tian said heartily.

He lifted someone away, drew the knife and said, "The door is there, go out."

Sheng Wang poked his head behind his back: "Hey, I'm just not familiar with it, so let me try a few more times."

"I don't want to eat fried fingers with cabbage." Jiang Tian said blankly, "Stay here."

"Then will you?" Sheng Wang asked.

Of course Jiang Tian will do it. After all, he is used to being independent. Unlike Shengwang, who has Aunt Sun who takes care of food and drink, he always comes by himself when he is alone, but he doesn't have the patience to study this, so his skills are not very good. Only to the point of "eatable".

Feeding himself was fine, feeding a picky eater was a problem.

After Jiang Tian finished cutting the vegetables, he was about to bite the bullet with a sullen face, when the yard door creaked suddenly, and the dumb uncle rescued him with two bags of things.

Dumb just came back from Mr. Xile Zhao. He bought dumpling wrappers, ground meat, green onion and ginger along the way. He was going to make some dumplings and freeze them when he was hungry.

Without further ado, Jiang Tian chopped up the chopped cabbage, asked Uncle Dumb to mix it into the meat, adjusted the stuffing, and the three of them went into the kitchen to make dumplings.

The eldest young master was still not good at it, he just watched Jiang Tian's movements imitating his bag, and sometimes stopped the other party's fingers to forcibly pause.

It's either stuffed too much or stuffed too little, or a piece is missing, or a piece is flat, and it can't even stand up.But I still want to make excuses: "This leather is too hard and not sticky. Aunt Sun rolls the leather by herself, and that is very easy to wrap."

Jiang Tian didn't cooperate at all, saying, "We can all stick together."

"You are disobedient, always moving around."

"I'm very obedient."

"..."

While trying to make trouble for his brother, Sheng Wang worked hard to improve his skills. After making a bunch of ugly things, he finally looked like some dumplings.Holding the finished product in his palm, he said to Jiang Tian, ​​"Help me take a photo with my son."

Jiang Tian: "..."

There were few dumpling wrappers left, and the mute just washed his hands to boil water aside, and no one noticed them.Jiang Tian took out a tissue to wipe his hands, took out his phone and pointed it at Sheng Wang, and when he pressed the camera button, he whispered, "I don't recognize this kind of son."

When the mute boiled the water and came back, he found that Shengwang was not poor all of a sudden. He honestly made the last dumpling, as if he was making a handicraft carefully, but his neck was a little red.

Sheng Mingyang and Jiang Ou came back in a hurry. They planned to continue finishing the stall left in the kitchen while it was just dark, but they didn't expect to smell the aroma of vinegar and dumplings as soon as they entered the door.

Old man Ding came out of the bedroom with his coat on, and greeted them into the hall: "Just in time, the two children made dumplings with the mute."

"Two children?" Sheng Mingyang couldn't believe it, "Are you sure you have both?"

"Okay, Xiaowang has been studying for a long time." Old man Ding said.

Shengwang's children and grandchildren showed their original shape when they put them in the pot, many of them were broken, and the dumpling soup was almost like cabbage soup, but the mute still happily fished them up, filled several large plates and brought them to the table.

It is rare for the small courtyard to be so lively, and it is the first time for three generations to sit together and eat a fireworks meal. For a moment, it feels warm.

The old man dug out the wine that had been hidden for a long time from under the bed, poured three glasses, and drank lightly with Sheng Mingyang and the mute.When he was drunk, the old man couldn't help but tease: "Xiao Wang, you need to practice your craft, otherwise you won't be able to cheat your wife in the future."

Sheng Mingyang almost choked on the wine, laughing beside him uncontrollably.

Sheng Wang opened his mouth to say something, but in the end he let out a "huh" and took a bite of the dumpling sullenly.He actually wanted to say, "Then I won't marry," but Jiang Tian touched his shoe lightly, and he returned to his rationale in an instant, and swallowed the words again.

In fact, he wasn't really cowardly, if it was just about him alone, then there was nothing to be afraid of, he would dare to come out in front of Sheng Mingyang, at worst, he would be killed.

But there is Jiang Tian.

As long as Jiang Tian was involved, he suddenly became timid.

Shengwang put his legs against Jiang Tian under the table, ate a few mouthfuls, and played with his phone for a while, seemingly indifferently.He didn't raise his head until the elder's jokes were over, only to find that Jiang Tian picked and ate all the broken dumplings made by his poor craftsmanship.

He blinked lightly, then hurriedly lowered his head again, feeling sore in his heart.

The meal was not rich, but they ate for a long time.Sheng Mingyang's drinking capacity was as deep as the sea, but he was a little tipsy in the end.He poured the last bit of wine in the bottle, raised his glass to touch old man Ding and the mute, and suddenly he said, "Jiang Ou and I plan to find a time before the year and invite some family members and friends to dinner." They are all old and young people, so it's a bit exaggerated to make a fuss, we discussed it, and we think it's better to be simple. We must come when the time comes."

Sheng Wang was full and was in a daze after the meal, when he first heard this, he almost didn't understand the meaning.It took him several seconds to realize that Sheng Mingyang meant that he and Jiang Ou were going to settle down.

Invite friends and family to a meal, get the certificate, and they are legally a family.

Sheng Wang's face was so pale that no blood could be seen under the light, he pursed his lips and remained silent for a long time, then raised his eyes to meet Jiang Tian's.