25 hour

"What did you just talk about?"

After finally escaping from the encirclement of the ladies, Qin Zheng unnaturally scratched his (mentally messy) hair, lowered his eyes and asked the guy who had just returned.

Just now, Shen Yuru came over and "borrowed" Shen Teng, but the two didn't chat for too long, Qin Zheng only remembered that after a few glances, there was only Miss Shen sitting on the stairs smiling and waving to him.

But Shen Teng clearly walked towards him, but stopped outside the crowd, looked at Qin Zheng's overwhelmed appearance, and didn't save him, just leaned against the table with a half-smile until the second young master squinted. With warning eyes, the man slowly approached again, politely and pompously said good afternoon to all the "ladies", and took away the long-besieged His Majesty whom he vowed to "serve to the end" in a few words.

"It's not a big deal." Shen Teng perfunctory him.

Qin Zheng glanced at him: "Life is full of big events."

Shen Tomato raised his eyebrows: "Because we live in life?"

Qin Zheng nodded.

Shen Teng smiled.

"We just talked about... my mother." He confessed selectively.

Shen Teng took out the old pocket watch that Shen Yuru gave him just now from his pocket, and when he opened it, there were two small headshots put together in it - Shen Jiaying when he was a child, and Shen Ning when he was a child.

A psychological phenomenon: When people laugh together, you will always look at the person you like the most for the first time.Correspondingly, in a group photo, you will always subconsciously let your eyes follow the person you care more about.

It wasn't until Shen Teng's fingertips landed on the strange little girl's face that Qin Zheng moved his gaze away from the face of the little boy who grinned brightly with his white teeth, and turned to look at the girl with the same face. His mother, who is about his age, is pictured in this photo.

Shen Ning is very good-looking, which is not surprising. Compared with the face, Shen Ning's eyes account for a large proportion, which is more eye-catching than ordinary children. Compared with her grown-up portrait of a girl, When she was a child, Miss Shen looked a little more innocent, like a little angel.

But still don't like to laugh.

"Grandma found out that my wallet was missing, and she seemed to know that there was always a photo of Shen Ning in my wallet, so she gave this to me. This watch was given to her by Edwin before, and it still goes well now. allow."

The token entrusted to the people Shen Yuru loves the most in this life is now delivered to Shen Teng's hands. good.

"My grandmother told me before that the order of people close to me in this life is probably listed as: myself, partner, children, parents. I don't know if she has changed now, but the overall should be It's still the same."

A person comes alone in this life, and ends up alone in the end - based on this premise, Shen Yuru always has a very clear view of those people's ethics, and even in the eyes of some people, she is probably a little indifferent.

But Shen Teng knew that she was not like this.

——Do you have someone you don’t want to leave, Jiaying?

Shen Yuru asked him just now.

Faced with such a problem, Shen Teng, who has always had a clear mind, raised his head after silence, and when he looked at her in embarrassment, there was some real confusion in his eyes.

--I have no idea.Grandma, I don't know.

Shen Yuru smiled lightly, and touched his cheek.

——To say you are an idiot is really an idiot.

——It’s nothing, Jiaying, freedom is mostly lonely.The human brain is closed from birth, which means that everyone's life is an independent journey of the universe.

——People who really love you will respect the sailing direction you choose.

Even if you are going to become a star, I will always be ready on the earth, waiting for the rest of my life, when you briefly reach the sky above my head for ten minutes, I will raise my head and communicate with you.

After waking up from the memory, Shen Teng smiled slightly at the end of his eyes, and changed the subject calmly: "I just found out that Miss Shen actually asked me a question many years ago, and I was still interested in it." topic of."

"what?"

"She asked Shen Ning what kind of person my father was, and the answer she got was similar to what I thought."

Shen Ning was smoking by the window at that time. When she saw Shen Yuru's figure, she subconsciously stretched out the cigarette butt on the window sill, but when she found that her mother did not come over with her child in her arms, she indifferently put out the cigarette butt that she hadn't had time to extinguish. The cigarette was pushed back to his lips.

Shen Yuru asked her what kind of person Jiaying was born with.

After asking, grandma then asked again: Is it okay to call him "Jiaying"?It means "good scene".

Shen Ning replied: whatever.

After a pause, she, who had just become a mother, answered the first question that she had deliberately skipped just now: bad person.

And after answering, Shen Ning finally remembered a question that she had almost completely forgotten before.

The daughter held the body of the cigarette between her slender fingers, and looked up lazily at her mother leaning on the stairs: Who did you give birth to me with?

Shen Yuru smiled and told her: Stranger.

There are complex, ambiguous, and obscure life fragments hidden under the two simple answers. It is hard for you to imagine how profoundly this vague memory has or will have a profound impact on the lives of these two women, and if this If they didn't ask each other that afternoon, then these two secrets may never be known to anyone, and they will be annihilated in time as the second of the facts of the universe.

And after such a confession, the mother and daughter, who had always lacked communication, looked into each other's eyes and smiled at each other for the first time in many years.

Many years later, Shen Yuru asked this question again to the son of Shen Ning and the bad guy: What kind of person is that person you can't let go of completely?

This is really a test of the vocabulary and inductive ability of the questionee, but Shen Teng thought about it for a while, and finally answered with a sigh: annoying.

Ten years ago, Shen Yuru sat on the stone steps in front of her house, waiting for Shen Jiaying after school, and chatted with him about death and love.

More than ten years later, Shen Teng and Shen Yuru sat on the stairs of the coffee shop and had another conversation. If you want to sum up the content, it can be summed up in four words: the word love is annoying.

Not only is it annoying, it's simply frustrating.

"Sometimes, when I go to the museum, I occasionally feel a sense of detachment." Shen Teng said suddenly.

"It can be seen." Qin Zheng replied.

The last time they went to New York, the hotel they booked was near the Metropolitan Museum. After lunch/before sex, the two of them rarely raised interest at the same time, so they decided to do some more ordinary things together—— For example, go to a museum together.

It was also at that time that Qin Zheng realized that he didn't know Shen Teng very well.Just like he originally thought that this person would be more likely to stand in front of the opal crystal necklace or Renoir's paintings, but he didn't expect that Shen Teng would choose to stop in front of a group of Indian tribal cultural relics from Alaska that lack tourist attraction.

Especially when he saw those totem wooden pillars preserved with special technology, Shen Teng was unusually quiet.

At that time, Qin Zheng didn't ask Shen Teng what he was looking at or thinking about, but now, Shen Teng squinted his eyes and thought about it for a while, but he couldn't remember it.

"Maybe it's confusion," he said, "I met a very traditional Indian before. He was indifferent to the foreign colonists' violent destruction of their history and language, but he told me that he didn't understand. Why would those people move the spiritual things their ancestors left in the jungle into a large freezer that has nothing to do with it, surrounded by artificial lights. It makes no sense, you know."

The ancestors set up perishable spiritual things in the land, just to let them decay naturally and return to the jungle, making that place an eternal holy place.But this group of new guys seems to have completely different values ​​​​for this. The two sides cannot understand each other and have never tried to understand each other. Violence, conflicts and wars arise from this.

"People are always using what they think is powerful to do some superfluous things that are self-indulgent."

Shen Teng's tone was light, as if pointing something, and it seemed that he was just making a casual evaluation.

"I agree." But Qin Zheng, who has a lot of power, did not express any rebuttal to him this time.

Shen Teng tilted his head and looked at the second young master who expressed his attitude calmly for a while, lowered his eyelids, and smiled.

By the way, do you still remember that Shen Teng just discovered a rule of Qin Zheng's use 10 minutes ago-ask him, His Majesty will never say "no" to him.

So Shen Teng made another request to His Majesty: "Let's go, sneak away."

Before it was time to say goodbye, he didn't want to say "goodbye" and "see you again" to Shen Yuru right now.

"Okay." Qin Zheng promised him.

"Where are you going next?" Shen Ting asked.

"Listen to you."

"Then let's go to the center of the city," Shen Teng blinked slyly, "at least the city center in my heart."