Chapter 9
There were already five old classmates sitting in the private room. Li Qingyao had met some of them once or twice in the past few years, and some of them he hadn't seen for seven years. Everyone was already mature enough to start chatting with each other quickly.
Some people were shocked to hear that Li Qingyao is now a criminal policeman. Because everyone knows that she was admitted to the Department of Mathematics at Hunan University. Later, something happened at home and she had to repeat the year, but she and her family did not tell anyone else. However, Li Qingyao smiled and brushed it off calmly, and made two harmless jokes. Everyone felt that Li Qingyao had changed a lot and was no longer as arrogant as he was in middle school.
When Luo Huaizheng walked in, everyone at the table fell silent at the same time. Ma Junhong followed behind Luo Huaizheng. He was always good at creating atmosphere. He hooked Luo Huaizheng's shoulder and said, "Why, squad leader came in and you didn't recognize him?"
Everyone laughed and asked how that could be possible. Someone also recalled that Luo Huaizheng was the most handsome boy in the school back then, and now he is more mature and handsome. The atmosphere suddenly became lively.
High school is often the most unforgettable experience in a person's academic career. We were too young in junior high school, but in college we have already stepped one foot into society. Only high school is just right, the world view is initially formed, but it is not affected by any social atmosphere. Everyone is innocent and everyone is independent. Many people make their best friends in life in high school. However, those were also the most difficult three years of our lives. They were gone in the blink of an eye and can never be recovered.
Therefore, there is always a lot of emotion when high school classmates get together. Everyone called out old nicknames, asked about recent situations, and everyone's eyes were filled with tenderness as soft as water. When asked about Luo Huaizheng, he smiled and said, "I took a computer diploma in prison. After I was released, the warden helped me and introduced me to a few jobs. Now I have opened a small company to make a living."
After everyone fell silent, someone sincerely praised the squad leader for being the squad leader, always striving for self-improvement and he would not be worse than anyone else in the future. Some people also remembered the crimes he had been charged with, and disdain flashed across their eyes. After all, the phoenix that was once the most brilliant in the school had fallen into the dirty quagmire and was no longer something that everyone needed to look up to. Even anyone can pass by and step on it and curse at it.
Li Qingyao was a bystander, and he took in Luo Huaizheng's calmness and humility, as well as the various expressions of the crowd. She just picked up the tea and drank it slowly. She thought she would be angry and painful today, and would shake Luo Huaizheng's shoulders and ask him why he was found guilty.
But it turns out that today, all that is no longer important to her.
She even lost her mind and thought of Chen Pu. He said something to her when he left, but she was not concentrating at the time and could not remember it. She abandoned the housekeeper and came to the class reunion today, and he still obediently delivered the food to her. She wondered if he would give her the cold shoulder tomorrow because he was treated coldly? It doesn't matter if he's dumped. Anyway, she can just coax him a few words and he'll be fine.
The dishes were all served, and Ma Junhong raised his glass: "Come, let's toast to my brother Zheng and welcome the squad leader back."
At this time, someone knocked on the door of the box, pushed it open and walked in, with a voice as melodious as a yellow warbler: "Am I late? Ma Junhong, please give me a seat."
She wore a dark purple tight-fitting long skirt decorated with sequins and a white gauze outer layer. Her perfect, full and graceful body curves caught everyone's attention without any concealment. The exposed arms and calves were as white as glowing snow. She has long, soft wavy hair, revealing a smooth, full forehead. She no longer has thick bangs and wears glasses like she did in middle school. The face is delicate and elegant, and the whole person is naturally beautiful. One look at it and your heart will beat fast.
She had changed so much since high school, but her facial features hadn't changed. Someone exclaimed, "Xiang Siling!"
Some people had heard about the inside story of that year, and their expressions changed. Their eyes turned back and forth between Luo Huaizheng, Li Qingyao and Xiang Siling, and they muttered, "Why is she here?"
Luo Huaizheng never looked back at Si Ling from beginning to end, his eyes fixed on the cup in front of him. Li Qingyao looked at her coldly. Ma Junhong's face had already darkened, and he said, "Xiang Siling, what are you doing here?"
Xiang Siling walked over gracefully, as if she didn't notice the different expressions of the people at the table. She smiled and said, "You posted a high school reunion in the group, so why can't I come? Am I not a high school classmate?" She held the back of Ma Junhong's chair with one hand and spoke in a low voice. No one heard what she said, but Ma Junhong bit his lip and said, "Okay, you sit down. Waiter, add another chair." He turned around and said something to Luo Huaizheng, but Luo Huaizheng didn't respond.
Xiang Siling sat down between two classmates. When she looked up, she met Li Qingyao's eyes. Li Qingyao still had that cold expression on his face, without a smile at all. Xiang Siling smiled at her sweetly, as if she had no grudges at all.
However, there were several classmates at this table who didn't know what happened back then, because the case was not open to investigation and trial at the time; there were also classmates who were bent on smoothing things over. After all, it was all in the past, and everyone would be in Xiangcheng in the future, and it was hard to say who could help whom and who could ask for help from whom. As a result, the atmosphere at the table gradually heated up.
Xiang Siling was actually an old hand in the social scene. With just a few words, he made everyone laugh and talkative. She is completely different from the silent and wooden beauty in high school. With her presence, the atmosphere at the table became more and more lively. Even Ma Junhong was amused by her several times.
Only Luo Huaizheng and Li Qingyao did not laugh the entire time, nor did they respond to Xiang Siling's words.
Later we talked about the topic of love. Some people got married young, some were in passionate love, and some were single. When asked about Luo Huaizheng, he smiled humbly and gently and said, "I'm single." He didn't say much. He spent five years in prison and had only been out for two years, so it was not convenient for everyone to talk to him about this topic, so they just skipped it.
When she got to Li Qingyao, she wanted to tell the truth that she was single, but somehow she suddenly thought about it and said with a smile, "I have a boyfriend."
Ma Junhong immediately stared at her. Luo Huaizheng beside him lowered his head to eat, seemingly unaware. Xiang Siling held the wine glass and looked at Li Qingyao with a smile on his face.
"Where did this handsome guy come from who could have deceived Ren Woxing?" someone asked.
Li Qingyao said shyly, "He's my colleague. He just sent me here."
Luo Huaizheng paused while picking up food with his chopsticks. Li Qingyao noticed it, but his expression remained unchanged.
Naturally, the others gave a bunch of polite flattery, saying things like "detectives and police teamed up", "two heroes of the highest rank", "Ren Woxing meeting Linghu Chong" and so on.
Li Qingyao pretended to be happy and accepted everything.
Finally they went to ask another person if he was single.
Li Qingyao suppressed his smile, lowered his head and picked up a piece of bitter gourd fried with peppers with chopsticks. His mouth was slightly bitter, and a faint sense of self-mockery and indifference welled up in his heart. She seldom did such childish things, which were obviously meaningless, but at that moment, she wanted to make those people feel, to make Luo Huaizheng, Xiang Siling and Ma Junhong feel, that she was living a good and happy life now and had a new and excellent boyfriend. She had already gone a long way forward.
"So..." a classmate concluded, "Now it's just Zhang Ming and the class monitor, the two of them are single?"
Xiang Siling raised her fair and slender hand: "And me."
"I remember you got married right after graduating from college?"
Xiang Siling smiled and said, "I got divorced a year ago and I'm single now."
"Oh..." Someone was drunk and pointed at people, but skipped the ugly Zhang Ming. "That's the beautiful Xiang, and the handsome class monitor. They are both single. The handsome man and the beautiful woman are not as good as you two. Hahaha..."
Some people laughed awkwardly, some tried to smooth things over by talking about other things, and some just smiled foolishly. Ma Junhong's face changed when he heard this. He was about to speak out to stop him, but he heard a "bang".
Li Qingyao slammed the white wine glass onto the table. At the beginning, everyone persuaded her to drink, but she said that even though she was on vacation, she didn't want to drink liquor. But at this moment, the liquor glass in front of her was empty without her knowing.
Li Qingyao only stared at the man who had just said the drunken words: "If you don't know how to speak, then don't speak. What are you talking about?"
Everyone at the table fell silent in shock, and the man who was being scolded was also stunned.
Li Qingyao was quite arrogant when he was in high school. He always did what he wanted. When the hooligans in the class got angry, everyone was just generally afraid. If Li Qingyao gets angry, no one dares to speak. It's because she's so cool that you can't help but be in awe of her.
At this moment, everyone seemed to be dreaming back to high school. Before they could react, Li Qingyao had pushed away the chair and said calmly, "I'm going to the bathroom, you guys continue eating." Then he walked out.
Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. The man who was scolded also reacted at this time. He was embarrassed and said, "Damn it, what does she mean? What does it have to do with her if I'm just joking?" The people around him hurried to smooth things over. Xiang Siling still had that look on his face as if he was about to laugh. He just picked up the wine cup, poured himself another glass, and drank it all in one gulp.
Ma Junhong smiled at this moment, poked Luo Huaizheng with his arm, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "See, he's angry, he must be jealous! Why don't you go after him?"
Luo Huaizheng seemed not to hear anything. He stood still like a statue with his eyes downcast. Only under the table, where no one else could see, his hands, placed on his thighs, were clenched into fists.
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