14 years time difference

Lu Family's KTV opened in a low-key way, and the door was quiet. In fact, the business of the entire Jinqiao Street was not as good as before.Lin Zhique took the narrow elevator up to the second floor, took a deep breath as the elevator went up.

She didn't intend to come.

More than half an hour ago, Dusi people called her.

"You can't not come, it's all agreed."

Du Siren pretended to lose his temper on the other end of the phone.

"How can I say hello to you?"

"It's what you said, two people go shopping, eat and watch a movie is not a celebration, but a large group of people should be together to celebrate."

Dusi people successfully passed the audition, entered the top [-] in the region, and celebrated at night at KTV.With her smokey voice, Lu Shan also passed the audition, but she refused to join in the fun.

"I didn't say that this large group of people includes me."

"You are fooling."

Lin Zhique was blunt and strong: "Well, what's the matter?"

"You are a puppy!"

"I'm a mad dog, the kind that kills people."

The man from Dusi said desperately at the other end: "Then you call twice for me to hear."

Lin Zhique smiled and said, "I'm dead."

"Ehhh!"

Another voice came from the other end of the phone: "Siren, who are you calling and haven't come in for so long? Why don't you come and entertain your friends?"

Lin Zhique's loose posture of leaning on the counter tensed unconsciously.

Dusi was answering the voice: "Sister-in-law, you go in first, I will come right away."

Lin Zhique stood up straight.

"Who are you... talking to?"

Du Siren answered her: "My sister-in-law. My sister-in-law is going back to East China tomorrow. I invite her to play with me."

"...Oh. What's your box number?"

It was not even midnight, and the scene in the box was almost out of control.

Lu Xiaohua ordered a big red banner somewhere, hung it high on the wall above the screen, and wrote: "Congratulations to Ms. Du Siren for being selected as one of the top 250 singers in the country."

An hour ago, Xu Wenjing arrived late with her blind date, and introduced, "This is my boyfriend, Wan Cong."

Zhao Qian stood up and shook hands with Wan Cong, saying hello, I am Zhao Qian, Wen Jing and I grew up together.

At this moment, they are sitting at the two ends of the glass coffee table, surrounded by dozens of boys and girls from the acting department, the drinking game is getting more and more fierce, and the atmosphere is dangerous, Dusi people have no doubt that they will jump up and strangle them to death soon the other party.

Chen Yiran was sitting at the other end of the box, singing "Fairy Tale", while singing, his eyes were wandering, floating towards her.

Lu Xiaohua drank too much, sprinkled peanuts on the ground in front of her, raised her arms and shouted: "Please walk on the Avenue of Stars that belongs to you!" Ni Xiang didn't give in, and began to sway beside her and sing: "Flowers once Tell me how you walked, the earth knows in your heart..."

Xu Wenjing sat beside her, held her hand, and said, you have worked hard.

She looked at Zhao Qian and Wan Cong, and answered her, you too.

The bright red banner caught her eyes at this moment, only the words "Ms. Du Siren was selected into the National Two Hundred and Five" remained.

It's all Lin Zhique's fault.

She looked eagerly at the box door.

The elevator door opened with a ding, and Lin Zhique exhaled the deep breath he had just taken.Her fingers curled up and rubbed her palms.

She wanted to see Tang Li, the same Tang Li from back then.

She followed the number of boxes given by Du Si, and counted one by one. She stopped in the middle of the long corridor.

Tang Li was standing at the door of the bathroom, leaning against the wall, with her head slightly raised, her eyes filled with the overly bright lights in the corridor, as if filled with the boundless past of a middle-aged person.

It has been more than ten years since she last saw such a young Tang Li.

She took a step forward, trying not to rush and walk over slowly, her brain was still buffering, and the words were already on her lips: "...Miss Tang."

Tang Li looked at her suspiciously, and there was a second of disbelief in her eyes.

"...Hi, are you Miss Tang from Du Siren's family? I am... her friend."

Tang Li smiled dignifiedly, "Hi, I'm Siren's sister-in-law. Are you a classmate?"

Lin Zhique made up his mind, "I'm their class instructor."

Tang Li said politely: "Teacher, hello! I said you don't look like a student. Go in and sit. I'll go in with you."

Lin Zhique smiled, "I can't hang out with these young people. Ms. Tang, how about we go out for a drink together. There is a bar nearby that is relatively clean."

Tang Li hesitated at first, "Aren't you going in to say hello?" Her eyes lingered on Lin Zhique's face, sizing up and down, and then said cautiously: "You...don't sound like a local, Are you from East China?"

Lin Zhique guessed what Tang Li was thinking, she looked like her mother Lin Lan.

"Yes, my hometown is there." She mentioned the county town of her mother's hometown.

"What's your name?"

"My surname is Lin."

Zhao Qian was the first to raise his cup.

"Come on, we wish Du Siren——"

Lu Xiaohua bent her body and hit him, "Bah, bah, I'll congratulate, I'll congratulate!"

Zhao Qian smiled, "You come to wish, you come to wish."

Lu Xiaohua raised her glass: "I wish us Dusi people, uh, uh," she drank too much, her tongue was tied up, and she choked up suddenly, "Du Siren, you will become a big star in the future, won't you Won't answer my call?"

She wrinkled her face and cried until she could only hear the sound of wah-wah, without a single tear. "

A boy burst into laughter, "Chen Yiran, why do you keep peeking at Dusi people? Do you like Dusi people?"

Ni Xiang screamed: "Really! I saw it too! Chen Yiran, are you singing a love song to us Siren?"

Du Siren had a smile on his face, holding a wine glass in his hand, wishing he could take off on the same spot as the Goddess of Mercy holding a willow branch.

Chen Yiran's face was flushed, one hand went up and down in the pockets of his trousers, the pocket of his jacket, and the back of his head, with nowhere to put it, and he was too embarrassed to say a word.

The crowd in a circle began to boo: "Confession! Confession! Confession!..."

The business in Qingba is becoming more and more deserted, which suits Lin Zhique's wishes.

Tang Li drank half a glass of ice wine, put down her somewhat reserved scrutiny posture, and said to Lin Zhique with a smile: "Mr. Lin, I think you look very much like someone I know."

"Really? What a coincidence. Is it your friend?"

Tang Li laughed exaggeratedly, "Of course not! One... just someone I know." She looked at the bar in the distance, "You don't know that person too, do you? That person's name is Lin Lan, who happens to have the same surname as you , she is also from your county. Teacher Lin, do you know her?"

Lin Zhique smiled and shook his head, "I don't know each other. There are many people with the surname Lin in our county. Maybe they are some distant relatives of mine."

"Oh..." Tang Li nodded with a smile, "I knew it, it wouldn't be such a coincidence."

Lin Zhique slowly turned the wine glass that was almost empty.

"Miss Tang, why don't you see your lover? Are you coming to Jincheng alone?"

Tang Li waved her hand.

"He's busy."

"Doing business in a big city should be very hard."

"Yeah, sometimes, I want to tell him not to work so hard, just close the company and spend more time with my daughter at home."

Tang Li beckoned to the waiter and asked him to refill their drinks.

"Then you came back this time to visit relatives? To see the old man?"

Lin Zhique guessed that Tang Li came back to complain to Du's parents about Du Shen's cheating.

"No, there are some things in my husband's family. He... a relative of him has passed away. I'll take care of him."

Lin Zhique looked down at the ice cubes in the glass, and she had already finished the wine before the ice cubes melted.A relative in the Du family died recently, and Du Siren never mentioned it. What Tang Li said, I don't know if it is true or prevarication.

"You and your husband must have a good relationship."

Tang Li's smile cracked an embarrassing gap.

"Yes, I have been married for more than ten years. He has always been kind to me. He also cares about the education of the children. He has also donated a lot of money to the children's schools."

When she said this, she was very unsteady, her eyes dodged into the wine glass, and she kept drinking with her eyes down. After a while, the second glass of wine also bottomed out.

Lin Zhique noticed that Tang Li was wearing a diamond ring.In the drawer of Du Shen's room, she also saw an identical diamond ring.

She really praised: "Your ring is so beautiful. Is it from your husband?"

Tang Li also looked down at the ring.

"When we got married, we were given gold rings, gold jewelry, and emeralds and agates. These diamonds are forever, and they were only hyped up by diamond dealers in the past few years. He also bought them. Are you laughing at me?" "

The wine was refilled.Tang Li raised her finger, her eyes blurred as she looked at the ring.

She said softly, "Actually, he didn't buy it for me at all."

Xu Wenjing saw the embarrassment under the smile on Du Siren's face, and yelled crisply: "Confession, what a confession! Can female stars fall in love when their careers are rising? Stop messing around, okay?"

Lu Xiaohua got drunk, and reflexively began to argue with Xu Wenjing: "Xu Wenjing! Don't pretend to be a monster here! You, you are so good at playing with your friends, don't you see that we think people have suitors? Come! Chen Yiran! Sister Hua decides for you! What do you want to say? Say it loudly!"

Chen Yiran took a few steps back in a panic, picked up the microphone that was thrown on the sofa, and said in a low voice: "Then me, then me, let me sing a song..."

This was said in a low voice, few of the drunks heard it, Xu Wenjing's boyfriend Wan Cong suddenly interrupted and shouted: "You don't say it, do you? If you don't say it, I will say it!"

He walked over, took the microphone from Chen Yiran's hand, and said to Xu Wenjing, "Wen Jing!" His voice was so loud that the microphone made a harsh noise, "I wanted to talk to you about a romantic occasion, but since today All my good friends are here, so I—”

Du Siren heard Zhao Qian who was standing next to her say in disgust, "Who is your good friend."

Wan Cong took out a small black square box from his coat pocket, and suddenly knelt down on one knee, the box opened, and it was a small diamond ring.