Chapter 41 Don’t Remember
Hao Ren really liked eating rice dumplings, she didn’t know, but he was being kind, and she appreciated it. Yet, those ash-stained dumplings were inedible, so she picked out the clean ones, and the particularly dirty ones she threw into the trash can.
That noon, her and Hao Ren’s lunch was sitting on the flower bed outside the newspaper office building, eating until full with a bag of rice dumplings.
She treated Hao Ren to rice dumplings, and Hao Ren treated her to tea. The street trees along this road were Chinese scholar trees, in their lushest season, dense and verdant, completely blocking out the sunlight, leaving only the bright colors and cool air for the flower bed.
Su Ronggui and Su Rongxing came out from the newspaper office building while Hao Ren was raising his tea for a toast with Tu Hengsha, which Tu found a bit silly, laughingly refusing, her laughter resonating beautifully in the flower-scented noon air.
Su Ronggui glanced slightly sideways; the summer flowers in the flower bed were as fiery as ever, blooming brightly. But it was just a glance, his gaze remained calm and steady.
"I want to eat roast goose." Su Rongxing looked at the flowers and the people, especially the person beside her, finding the same indifference in his eyes, felt quite pleased.
"Okay." He then led her to a Cantonese restaurant not far away, as if he had never seen the people on the flower bed.
Tu Hengsha watched the two figures walking side by side, slowing her tea drinking, biting the straw, her gaze dim.
She was not resigned.
In the end, she sought an opportunity to block Su Ronggui, while he was alone.
Standing before him, she felt a sourness in her heart, all the words she had prepared inexplicably vanished, leaving her just lowering her head, staring at his shoes, his dark pants, and the familiar green grass scent on him subtly invading her nostrils.