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She wiped her eyes, and although she was obviously very touched, she said, "You can't catch up with me."
Han Zhou smiled and said, "Not only will I catch up with you, I will also surpass you. Just don't cry when the time comes."
"I won't cry."
"is it?"
Han Zhou looked away and did not point out the fact that the girl was crying.
Guzheng is indeed his sun.
Maybe this guy has already forgotten that one day when he felt too tired and was about to give up using the status bar to prolong his life, it was this guy who enlightened him with a clumsy method.
They are actually quite hypocritical.
A car slowly approached in the rain. It was indeed the taxi that Guzheng had called on her mobile phone not long ago.
"The car is coming. Be careful on the road. I have to leave too."
Han Zhou withdrew his thoughts. Seeing that Gu Zheng's mood had improved, he felt relieved and planned to leave.
"Han Zhou!"
Guzheng suddenly called him.
"what happened?"
"Well, it's raining so hard, it might last a long time, it seems too late for you to go home now."
Guzheng lowered her head, looking shy, her eyes somewhat evasive, and her voice very low.
"Or...you can stay at my house tonight."
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 83 You Let Han Zhou Answer the Phone
"Go to your home?"
Han Zhou didn't expect Gu Zheng to make such a suggestion, and not just talk about it. She didn't even give him a chance to hesitate. Without saying a word, she dragged him to the back seat of the car and slammed the door shut.
The driver was a middle-aged man. He thought it was a couple who had just had a fight and made up. He saw the two of them pulling each other. After confirming the passenger information was correct, he turned the steering wheel and drove the car towards Huadu Community.
Being dragged into the car, it was too late for Han Zhou to leave. He said helplessly, "It's not like I can't go back, why should I go to your house?"
Gu Zheng actually just didn't want to part with Han Zhou so soon, and was a little worried that he would get caught in the rain on the way back, so she suggested that he stay at her house on impulse. Now thinking about it, she feels that she was a bit impulsive. After all, it is quite embarrassing for a single man and a single woman to be in the same room.
She was feeling a little embarrassed at first, but she immediately became unhappy when she heard this: "My parents aren't coming back tonight, I'm not afraid, so what are you afraid of?"
Han Zhou laughed dryly: "I'm afraid only if your parents don't come back..."
"Coward, I won't eat you."
Gu Zheng curled her lips and made up an excuse for herself, "I just got hungry suddenly, and I want you to make me a midnight snack later. Your cooking is pretty delicious."
At this point, Han Zhou knew that he couldn't leave, and there was no need to go home, so he said helplessly: "Okay."
The driver had been eavesdropping in the front, and when he heard this, he smiled and asked, "Young man, are you two a couple?"
"No." Han Zhou and Gu Zheng said in unison.
They are about to sleep in the same room, but they still say they are not a couple. Are you kidding me?
The driver didn't believe it at all. He was worried about the boredom of driving on a rainy day. When he saw two young passengers, he started to find topics to talk about.
"What's so hard about admitting it? My wife and I were friends when we were as young as you. We were only about 18 or 19 years old. Are you still in school now?"
"Yes, I'm in college." Han Zhou replied.
"very nice."
The driver said with a smile, "It's good to go to college. You should cherish your life in school. When we were your age, we were no longer studying. We started working to earn money. We said we were dating, but we only saw each other a few times a year. Cell phones were rare at that time, so we could only call each other occasionally. When we finally met, we always quarreled. Now when I think about it, I don't have any good memories."
"I often hear some college students and teachers say that it would be a shame if you don't have a romantic relationship in college, because otherwise it will be difficult to have a good relationship when you enter society."
The driver was very talkative and couldn't stop talking once he started.
Gu Zheng asked curiously: "Uncle, can I ask how old you are now?"
"Young lady, you can't ask a woman's age casually. The same is true for men, but I can make an exception and tell you." The driver joked, "I'm over 50 today, and my two children are older than you and are already working."
Gu Zheng calculated and said with a look of longing, "Then you and Auntie have been together for more than 30 years, right? You have been together from youth to old age, from school uniforms to wedding dresses, and have lived together till old age. This is a very beautiful thing in itself. How can you say that you don't have good memories?"
The driver smiled and shook his head: "Little girl, you don't understand. It's not as good as you imagine. We quarrel every other day, and we've been together and broken up countless times. We just make do with it."
Gu Zheng disagreed: "It's good enough that they can be together. My parents also quarrel, but they have always been very loving."
Han Zhou complained in his heart, of course, your parents' quarrels always ended with your dad getting beaten and admitting his fault, how could they not be in love?
But he also felt it was rare, and said: "It is indeed not easy to have come this far, this kind of relationship is enviable."
The driver smiled and said nothing.
Gu Zheng thought for a moment and then asked, "Uncle, excuse me, is Auntie your first love?"
"Yes, we are each other's first love and got married very early."
The driver smiled and answered directly.
"Wow, this is so beautiful."
Gu Zheng exclaimed in amazement. She felt very envious that she could walk through life hand in hand with the person she fell in love with at first sight. It was simple and pure. This was exactly the kind of love that only existed in books.
"Is it beautiful? Not really."
Unexpectedly, the driver showed a look of regret on his face, and continued, "I actually dated a few other women in the past, and it was not until recently that I was completely together with my current wife."
With another woman?
Gu Zheng was shocked and blurted out, "Aren't you a scumbag? And didn't you get married a long time ago? Why did you get together so recently?"
"Don't talk nonsense, I'm not a scumbag."
The driver smiled and explained, "Didn't I just say that my wife and I have been together and separated many times? We divorced not long after we got married, and then we both started new relationships and remarried and divorced several times. Who would have thought that we would get together again not long ago by chance? I can only say that we are destined to be together."
Gu Zheng was dumbfounded. How could this be different from what she thought? She said dully, "Is this what you mean by breaking up and getting back together?"
Did I understand it wrongly? Does breaking up and getting back together mean that a couple gets married and divorced several times?
"What else?" The driver was puzzled.
Guzheng suddenly stopped believing in love.
Until the moment she got off the car, she still looked distraught, obviously deeply shocked by the story just now. Han Zhou couldn't help but said helplessly: "Why do you look like you have lost your soul? The driver just lied to you."
"Why?" Gu Zheng finally came back to her senses.
"Didn't you notice?" Han Zhou smiled, "His tone was very gentle when he mentioned his wife."
Sure enough, the driver suddenly rolled down the window and said with a smile: "This young man is right, I was just joking, sorry little girl."
He handed out a folding umbrella from the car window and said, "It's probably still a long way to get into the community. How can you go through such heavy rain without an umbrella? I'll give you this umbrella as an apology for the joke just now."
"How can this be done..."
"It's okay, take it. I don't need an umbrella when I'm driving. My wife stuffed it into the car when we went out today."
Han Zhou didn't expect that the uncle would still feed them some dog food at this time. He took the umbrella with a smile and said, "Thank you, uncle."
"This umbrella is a little small, you'll just have to squeeze in."
The driver smiled and waved, then closed the window and drove away.
Han Zhou watched the car go away, then opened his umbrella and pushed Gu Zheng's arm: "What are you still standing there for? Let's go."
"Oh." Guzheng walked under the umbrella, and the two of them walked very close to each other into the rain.
"Did you gain weight by eating too much? Don't squeeze me, my shoulders are all wet."
"You are the fat one! How did I squeeze you? It's obviously you who squeezed me!"
"The umbrella is so small, why are you standing so far away? Come closer, closer."
"Men and women are not allowed to kiss each other!"
"That's not what you said when you asked me to carry you and run today... No, why did you hit me?"
"..."
The rain was so heavy today that the umbrella given by the driver could not protect two people at all. Han Zhou and Gu Zheng were almost stuck together. When they returned to the room, they were still very wet. They were soaked all over and even their shoes were soaked.
Gu Zheng took out a towel from the bathroom and wiped her hair. She also threw one to Han Zhou. Then she looked at the other person and laughed out loud, mocking him, "You look like a drowned chicken."
Han Zhou said unhappily, "Look in the mirror and see how good you can be."
Guzheng curled her lips. She was indeed in a very embarrassed state now.
After taking off the dolphin pendant and drying it, she frowned and said, "No, you'll catch a cold. You need to take a hot bath and change your clothes. You go wash first. I'll find my dad's clothes for you to change, and then tidy up the guest room and call my mom."
She can decide on her own whether to let Han Zhou stay overnight, but she still needs to report this matter to her parents.
Han Zhou had no objection, but just asked: "Why, don't you want to have a midnight snack?"
"You don't want to eat anymore, you just want to eat!" Gu Zheng glared at him and added, "Now is not the time to eat. Go take a shower quickly. Turn to the right for hot water. I'll find some clothes for you."
She went to the closet in her parents' room to find her father's shirt and at the same time called Miao Yaner.
When Miao Yan'er heard that Han Zhou was going to stay at home for one night, she was a little surprised at first, but then she smiled and said, "Okay, it's really inconvenient to go back in such heavy rain, so you can clean up the guest room for him to stay in."
She was still very confident in Han Zhou and was not worried about what might happen. Even if this boy was really bold and daring, he would not succeed with Gu Zheng's fist.
Miao Yan'er was learning about today's situation on the phone. Gu Zheng did not hang up. While talking, she found some clean clothes and threw them to Han Zhou who was waiting in the living room, then ran to tidy up the guest room.
Seeing her wet all over but still busy, Han Zhou couldn't help but smile and suddenly said, "By the way, Guzheng, I actually have half a sentence left to say today."
"What?"
Guzheng was a little puzzled and stopped in front of the guest room door to look at him.
"As for the part about me saying I don't need your protection, I said that my magical power has reached perfection and I don't need your protection anymore. But there was actually another part of the sentence that I didn't say, which was that it would be my turn to protect you from now on."
Han Zhou felt a little ashamed to say this, so he didn't say it before. He shook his fist like the guzheng, "That's probably what I meant."
Gu Zheng was stunned for a moment, then she smiled with her eyes curved: "With your sickly appearance, you can't even beat me, and you still want to protect me?"
"We need to look at things around us from a developmental perspective. I am now a completely different person than I was before."