Chapter 56. Don’t tell the secret to Hai
When we took off from Beijing near noon, the weather was still gray and covered with thick smog. The nearly four-hour flight was like gradually emerging from the heavy fog into the light.
The light outside the plane window began to become dazzlingly bright, and the clouds below looked like a sea with rolling waves. After flying over the sea, the large clouds became three-dimensional and of various shapes, surrounded by misty clouds, looking like a white stone forest.
"It feels like I'm in another world," Ruan Tang was reluctant to even put on her sunglasses. She held Feng Xue's hand beside her and muttered. She seemed to have never seen such a beautiful scenery above the clouds before.
Feng Xue also shook her hand back, her eyes clearly filled with tenderness, but she still deliberately laughed softly and said: Why do you look like a child riding a plane for the first time?
Ruan Tang tilted her head and thought about it. It might be because she had always pulled the sunshade tightly when getting on the plane in the past to protect herself from the sun, and put on an eye mask, a mask, and sunglasses, thinking only of the destination. But this time, she inexplicably had the leisure to experience the process.
"Yes, thanks to you I have the honor of being on this plane." As the plane flew over that mysterious white country, the boundary between the sea and the clouds suddenly appeared, "I can see the sea!"
Ruan Tang excitedly moved closer to look at the sea framed by the small window. Although Feng Xue complained that she was as excited as a child, he couldn't help but smile like an old father and asked if he wanted to take a picture for her.
When they got off the plane and walked out of the airport, Feng Xue and Jia Yingjun were walking in front and chatting about something, while Ruan Tang was walking behind them with her arm around Xu Wei.
In the past, she often saw short videos about best friends having double dates, and she thought she would never be destined to be with them in this life. After all, she and Xu Wei had always looked down on each other's previous men, and now it happened inadvertently.
Xu Wei noticed that her mouth was almost stretched to her ears, and couldn't help laughing. She asked: Are you so happy before the holiday even starts?
"You don't understand. What matters is not the destination or the content of the vacation, but the atmosphere during the process and who you are with."
Xu Wei sighed and said: I never thought that one day I would hear such words from your mouth.
Ruan Tang was too lazy to refute, and just immersed herself in the present moment where everything was just perfect, until...
The company specially arranged a business car for Jia Yingjun and his group to go to the hotel. As soon as Ruan Tang walked out of the airport gate, she saw Zhang Haoyu and Jiang Li standing in front of the business car and waving at them.
Jia Yingjun took off his sunglasses and took another closer look. Confirming that the person not far away was undoubtedly his niece, he walked up quickly and asked: Why are you here?
Unexpectedly, Jiang Li didn't even look at him. She stretched her neck to look at the group of people behind him and asked: Isn't Brother Jiahao here?
Jia Yingjun sneered: "You are so capable that you can find out our schedule, how come you don't know Jiahao is going to stay at the company? Also, the generations are messed up, you have to call him uncle, do you understand?"
"Ah?!" Jiang Li's little face, which had turned slightly red due to the weather, instantly fell.
Ruan Tang looked at Zhang Haoyu who was very enthusiastically handing her ice water and cooling patches, and asked: Why are you two here?
Zhang Haoyu smiled like an actor in a Pepsi commercial, revealing a cheerful and refreshing smile, and said: Graduation trip, I heard from Jiang Li that you guys are coming too, she said it would be more lively together, so she suggested that I take a ride in your car and go with you.
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Jiang Li striding towards the airport entrance.
"Hey!" Zhang Haoyu stuffed the remaining cooling patches into Feng Xue's hand and ran to grab Jiang Li.
Who proposed to take a ride together? The answer seems obvious.
On the way to the hotel, the atmosphere in the car was eerily quiet. Jiang Li sat between Ruan Tang and Xu Wei in the last row, emitting a steady stream of cold air, which made the already air-conditioned car even worse.
Zhang Haoyu, who was sitting in the passenger seat, turned his head, passed Feng Xue, and looked at Ruan Tang. He said, "Sister Tang, why are you having so many dark circles under your eyes lately? Are you unhappy with your life?"
Ruan Tang smiled, as if to say "Just shut up," and asked, "Can you see my dark circles from such a distance?"
"There's been too much going on in the store lately, so this trip out is a good opportunity for you to relax." Feng Xue pretended not to hear their conversation, turned her head to look at Ruan Tang and started a new topic.
Ruan Tang smiled and nodded, saying yes. She couldn't help but wonder in her heart why Zhang Haoyu, who used to use Jiang Li's mobile phone to send birthday wishes, suddenly became so targeted. She didn't know what was going on. But after all, he helped her find Sun Yihan. If he let the cat out of the bag in excitement, she wouldn't be able to explain to Feng Xue.
Thinking of this, she simply leaned back on the car seat, closed her eyes and began to pretend to sleep.
The company-organized beach BBQ was at 9:30 p.m., and I felt tired thinking that if I went, I might have to deal with Zhang Haoyu and Feng Xue again, so I suggested ordering food to eat in the hotel room. Anyway, the balcony of the room faced the sea, so it didn't miss the beautiful view.
There is a built-in oversized viewing bathtub next to the balcony, which looks like it can accommodate two adults. It turns out that the hotel really understands the hearts of vacationers.
Feng Xue looked at the bathtub, swallowed his saliva, and said hesitantly: Do you want to...
"Then let's take a bath together. When the food is served later, we can eat while bathing. It should be very comfortable." Ruan Tang suggested generously and went straight to turn on the faucet of the bathtub, so that he didn't notice Feng Xue whose ears were slightly red.
Under the evaporation of water vapor, the body lines of the two became a little blurry. Feng Xue turned her head to look at Ruan Tang who was half lying in the bathtub. It seemed like a distant mountain wrapped in layers of clouds and mist.
Her hair was tied loosely behind her head, and her cheeks and neck were slightly flushed. She seemed to be melting in the spring water. He felt inexplicably frightened, as if he was worried that she would suddenly disappear. He moved his body with difficulty in the water, moved closer to her and hugged her.
"It's so hot." Ruan Tang lazily leaned her head on his shoulder and took a long breath. The air passed over the skin on his chest. He suddenly felt a little hungry, and then he thought to himself, food and sex are part of human nature. It turns out that people's sensory desires are really connected in some cases.
The instinctive urge in his body made him take one more step forward and was about to grab her and eat her to his heart's content, but at this moment there was a knock on the door.
"It should be the delivery man." Ruan Tang gently nudged him, motioning him to open the door. Feng Xue had no choice but to stand up, grab his bathrobe, and go out.
When he went to open the door, a WeChat message suddenly popped up on the phone placed next to the bathtub. Ruan Tang was so distracted by the bath that she unlocked the phone and opened the dialog box.
The next second, he was instantly awakened.
Zhang Haoyu created a group for her and Feng Xue and sent a photo to the group. It was a photo of Sun Yihan leading the child out of the hospital. The distance was probably not far, and the two faces, one big and one small, were clearly visible.
Feng Xue's footsteps were getting closer and closer, and Ruan Tang subconsciously clicked to delete the message and exit.
"Who is it?" Feng Xue came back and asked while washing his hands in front of the sink.
"Oh, that... I heard it wrong. It was a WeChat message from my phone." She blurted out, focusing all her attention on making an excuse. However, her hand shook and the phone slid along the edge of the bathtub into the water.
Feng Xue was stunned and asked: Was that my cell phone that just fell in?
While retrieving her phone, Ruan Tang kept having the question "What on earth does he want to do" lingering in her mind. Before she had even taken a few bites of the dinner delivered by room service, she saw Zhang Haoyu sending her a private message saying: I'm sorry, I wanted to forward this to you two individually, but I mistakenly created a group message. I wanted to withdraw it, but my hand shook and I clicked delete.
Ruan Tang took a deep breath and told herself to stay calm and smile, and replied: He didn't see it.
After thinking for a while, he asked again: Where are you now?
She hurriedly ate a few more bites, put on her clothes, and made an excuse that she was going to Xu Wei's room to chat with her, then went straight to the hotel's beach.
The beach at night was much quieter than during the day. Only the people from Jia Yingjun's company were still barbecuing, chatting and playing games. Ruan Tang saw Zhang Haoyu lying on the lounge chair at a glance.
She walked over and pulled him up from the chair, asking the question that had been bothering her.
Zhang Haoyu scratched his head and said: Both of you asked me to find this person, I can't favor one over the other. Creating the group was really an operational mistake.
Ruan Tang couldn't help but hold his forehead and asked: Is this the purpose of your visit?
"I guess so," Zhang Haoyu nodded and said earnestly: I was willing not to disturb you before because you had the possibility of being together, but now it's different. His ex-wife gave birth to his child, and the child is in that condition. How come you plan to contribute more love by being a stepmother?
Ruan Tang sneered: You mistook me for your future stepmother from the very beginning, which means I have the temperament of a stepmother, doesn't it?
"Ah, this," Zhang Haoyu couldn't help laughing, "Now is not the time to bring up the past."
"You don't need to worry about anything now. I'm telling you, the investigation into Sun Yihuan is over. Just pretend you know nothing. Do you understand?" Ruan Tang threw down these words and turned to leave. The sand on the beach was wet at night, and she walked very slowly, taking one deep step and one shallow step.
Zhang Haoyu paused, and said firmly to her back in a voice neither loud nor soft: He won’t choose you!
Ruan Tang indeed stopped and turned around.
He chased after her, looked into her eyes, and said slowly: It’s still not too late for you to stop the loss now.
"I said that day would never come."
"Carrying on the family line is an instinct etched into a man's genes. If a man could only choose one thing to care about in this world, it would have to be his blood relatives."
Ruan Tang said disdainfully: You talk as if you have it.
Zhang Haoyu licked his lips and seemed to choose his words seriously before he started to speak: At the beginning, my father was going to marry a woman, and my grandmother used some tricks to make him think that the woman was going to find someone to kidnap me. Later, my father sent the woman directly to Singapore, and I never heard of her whereabouts again.
"I won't do anything bad to his child." The smile on Ruan Tang's face became a little more hesitant.
He shook his head and said, "What I mean is, if he finds out about this child someday, it won't be a matter between you two anymore. Your life will always have his ex-wife and that child. If, and I mean if, you have to make a choice, who do you think he'll choose? Ruan Tang, I don't want you to be the one left behind."
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