Chapter 34 Ruan Ruan, Only Your Youth is Immortal

  At night, Lin Jing touched Zheng Wei and found a bruise on her leg. She asked repeatedly how she was so careless, and Zheng Wei said that she had accidentally bumped into something while cleaning up in the office during the day. Upon hearing this, Lin Jing felt heartbroken, applied medicine for her, and told her not to move around and sleep carefully.

  Before falling asleep, Zheng Wei hugged Lin Jing from behind as she leaned against the headboard reading a newspaper.

  "What's wrong?" Lin Jing smiled and shifted her attention from the newspaper to her. Zheng Wei said, "Nothing, just want to give you a hug."

  Lin Jing wrapped her arm around her neck and leaned against her chest, quietly listening to each other's heartbeat. Zheng Wei buried his head in her arms and said: "Lin Jing, I want to go to Yuanyang."

  He was somewhat surprised, "Wuyuan? But I'm busy lately, let's go together after we get registered and take the opportunity to go back home?"

  She shook her head, "You mind your own business, I want to go alone, it's a wish before getting married."

  Lin Jing's hand tightened slightly, but in the end she nodded.

  The second time she went to Wuyuan alone, Zheng Wei was already familiar with the road. When the village entrance came into view, she said in her heart: Old locust tree, long time no see.

  Zheng Wei first went to Xiang Yuan's home, five years had passed and she still remembered the interesting girl who had accompanied her in tears. Unfortunately, the earthen house of Xiang Yuan's family was empty, and the neighbors all said that after Xiang Yuan's father died unexpectedly a few years ago, the two sisters had gone to the city and never came back.

  Zheng Wei returned alone to the old tree, where five years ago she had buried her fairy tale book and small wooden dragon. Now she suddenly missed them and wondered if they were still quietly lying under the tree.

  The old locust tree is still exactly the same as before. Five years are just a blink of an eye for it, but the people under the tree have changed again and again.

  Zheng Wei saw Chen Xiao Zheng from a distance, his back to her as he stood under the tree. She didn't know what was on his mind. Zheng Wei stopped in her tracks and looked at his back, feeling more strongly than before that he was lonely. She hadn't expected him to appear here too. It turned out that the ancient locust tree in Yuanyang wasn't just a dream of hers alone.

  At this moment, Zheng Wei suddenly felt relieved. She thoroughly forgave the man who had wronged her and also forgave herself for loving blindly in her youth. She had poured all her best years into this man, exhausting her smiles and tears to make love sprout. Although it ultimately didn't bloom into a flower, what did that matter? Even without Chen Xiao Zheng, Zheng Wei's youth wouldn't be eternal. Just like one's hometown is for reminiscing, youth is for recollecting; when you hold onto it, it's worthless, only after exhausting it and looking back does everything gain meaning - the people who loved us and those who hurt us are all part of the significance of our youthful existence.

  Zheng Wei thought, after all, she was happier than Ah Zheng. Whether in the past or now. Because when she loved, she didn't hold back, and when she cried, she did so thoroughly. In this relationship, she had no regrets, her love was complete. It was because Chen Xiao Zheng had given Yu Mian Xiao Fei Long a tumultuous love that later allowed Zheng Wei to learn how to savor the ordinary happiness.

  Goodbye, Ah Zheng.

  Zheng Wei left with a smile. She had always dreamed of coming to see the old locust tree with the one she loved, whether it was Lin Jing or Chen Xiao Zheng, they had both been absent under the tree before, but that didn't matter, this was her own locust tree, and she made an appointment with her youth.

  As she ended her trip to Wuyuan and returned to the airport in G City, Zheng Wei saw Lin Jing at the arrival gate without any surprise. She smiled and threw herself into Lin Jing's arms, drawing warmth from his embrace. "Lin Jing, I'm back," she said.

  Two months later, the case of Er Fen was settled. Feng Desheng was sentenced to imprisonment for one year, while Zhou Qu was only punished internally by China Construction Bank for dereliction of duty and neglect of supervision, and naturally could no longer hold public office.

  Zhou Qu decided to immigrate to Canada with his wife, and on the day of their departure, Zheng Wei came to the airport to see them off. Before meeting Zhou Qu, Zheng Wei had always been a bit hesitant, having already become Lin Jing's wife. However, when they faced each other, Zhou Qu gave her a smile without any awkwardness. Regardless of whether Zhou Qu had taken advantage of Zheng Wei or whether Zheng Wei had failed to live up to Zhou Qu's expectations, Zheng Wei was grateful for meeting Zhou Qu at the beginning of her career.

  After the plane took off, Zheng Wei didn't go home. She suddenly missed Ruan Ruan and took a car to the cemetery alone. Along the quiet path, she walked up to where Ruan Ruan rested, just as Old Zhang was coming down from the mountain.

  After leaving the second division, Zheng Wei joined an architectural company founded by Old Zhang and several friends under his persuasion, responsible for internal work. One of the shareholders also included the design institute "Yuan Cao" that had once moved Wei Shaoyi's heart. After close contact, Zheng Wei found that he was also a interesting person. Struggling in a new company is much more tiring than in a state-owned enterprise, but seeing the company growing day by day, just like watching one's own child grow up, the joy is unspeakable. Lin Jing pitied her hard work, but also encouraged her to have her own career and world, and Zheng Wei, who was full of fighting spirit again in life, was the most vivid.

  Zheng Wei and Old Zhang didn't have the mood to chat in this place, so they exchanged a few pleasantries before bidding each other farewell. Zheng Wei sat in front of Ruan Ruan's tombstone, arranging the flowers that previous visitors had left behind. She now knew the flower language of Man Tian Xing - "Willingly playing the supporting role of love".

  Zheng Wei just wanted to sit quietly with Ruan Ruan for a while, but the phone ringtone wouldn't let her go. First, Lin Jing asked her where she was going to eat dinner tonight, then He Yi called to ask if she knew where Wei Shao had gone.

  What happened to He Yi was not hidden from Shao Yi, a woman's sixth sense is always sharp. Shao Yi had a clean and delicate emotional experience, but she slapped He Yi twice and didn't divorce him in the end. Perhaps love is rigid, but marriage is flexible, we all have to learn to compromise, even if it's someone as strong-willed as Wei Shao Yi.

  Zheng Wei hung up the phone and started telling Ruan Ruan jokes about a few young girls in the company. Twenty-year-old girls always can't understand why women over thirty are still alive, they say that if one day wrinkles appear on their face, they would rather die.

  Zheng Wei smiled at Ruan Ruan, do you still remember? In the past, weren't we just like them too? Actually, people who are alive will all grow old one day, Ruan Ruan, only you, only your youth is forever uncorrupted.