Thank you for not marrying back then, and I wish you good luck in the future.

Text/Liu Xiaoliu

While running these days, I have been listening to "The Story of Zhang Youyi" in Himalaya, and I have listened to two-thirds of it. Originally, after listening to Zhang Youyi I plan to listen to "Lu Xiaoman" instead. Now, I have changed my mind, let's listen to "Zhang Ailing". Maybe you will find me baffled. Apart from the fact that they both have the same surname of Zhang and are 20 years apart in age, they have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

I used to have the same idea as you, but when I heard the anchor stating in a pitiful tone that Zhang Youyi was so angry that she was trembling in anger at Xu Zhimo's indifference, I thought of Zhang Ailing. The story of Zhang Ailing and Hu Lancheng is familiar to almost everyone. Zhang Ailing's "because she understands, she is compassionate" did not completely change Hu Lancheng's wanderings, and her phrase "I hope the years will be peaceful and the world will be stable" eventually became a joke.

If in modern times, every woman would rather strive for self-improvement, whether it is Zhang Youyi, Zhang Ailing, or even Zhu An, I am afraid they would rather stay single until they grow old. After they pass away, their epitaphs should be engraved with the words "xx, thank you." Let’s warn future generations about the grace of not marrying back then. However, after all, the distant story has been covered with dust, and there are historical factors interfering with it. After all, it cannot be used as a permanent mirror to look at. We still need to wander more, look at the people around us, and understand the things around us, and we can always gain a little or two. inspiration and care.

In the early hours of last night, my friend Lizi suddenly posted a message on WeChat Moments. There was no picture, just a simple sentence, "CP, thank you for not marrying back then, and I wish you a smooth journey in the future." This is completely inconsistent with her behavior of always posting selfies with her posts. Everyone smells the smell of sadness, so naturally they bombard her and refuse to stop.

Lizi is a girl with a big heart, and she doesn’t seem to be too sad. She created a group chat in minutes and invited a group of us to join the group. After joining the group, her friends changed their minds and held their breath, waiting for her to announce her "bedtime story".

"Cheng Peng's father was shuanggui today, and Cheng Peng was also taken away." As soon as these words came out, the group exploded. Some people laughed and made voice calls, claiming that they had expected it. Some people wondered and asked how things turned out like this. And more people lined up to speak, "Congratulations, congratulations." Yes, congratulations are due. Although we are too cold-blooded for Cheng Peng, as friends of Lizi and having witnessed the relationship between them, we all feel that Lizi should celebrate hard.

Not long after entering the freshman year, Li Zi was chased by Cheng Peng. At that time, no one knew that Cheng Peng came from a family of high-ranking officials. They only knew that he was very arrogant and spoke in a loud tone. Li Zi is beautiful and has a cheerful personality, but she was fed some ecstasy drug and has a deep love for Cheng Peng. Friends saw that Cheng Peng's eyes were too high, and felt that he was not a good match. They tried to persuade Lizi to leave early, but Lizi didn't listen to a word.

Less than half a year after the two got together, Cheng Peng was caught and raped in bed by Li Zi. Faced with Cheng Peng's crying and swearing, the silly girl wavered and did not firmly break up. Later, not long after, the two of them once again became inseparable. However, "men cheat, either 0 times or 100 times." The good times didn't last long, and Li Zi was told by a friend that she saw Cheng Peng hugging another girl and going to the hotel in front of the school.

As a young person who has just been freed from various constraints, everyone is a frequent visitor to the hotel at the school gate. Lizi and Cheng Peng also have a long private room there, but she really can't bear it. The "love nest" is occupied again and again. Occupied by other women. Although Li Zi is soft-hearted, she has a very high character and will not forgive Cheng Peng no matter what she says this time. We also unanimously supported Lizi and helped her disrupt Cheng Peng's pursuit and interception N times. However, Cheng Peng's father, the principal of our school, suddenly appeared and broke the deadlock. At that time, we finally knew where Cheng Peng's arrogant self-confidence came from.

Principal Cheng was polite and did not ask about their relationship at all, nor did he mention his son's faults. He only asked about Lizi's study status, and treated Lizi to a high-end private kitchen. After dinner, Principal Cheng gave Lizi a bracelet, saying that it was given to Lizi by Cheng's mother, and that he hoped that Lizi would become the daughter-in-law of the Cheng family in the future. Being treated so favorably by her future father-in-law, due to Lizi's kindness, the matter was revealed and never mentioned again. Fortunately, Cheng Peng was also smart, and in the next three years, he never embarrassed Li Zi in person again.

After graduating from her senior year, Lizi kept shouting that she might be the first to get married among our group. Her bright smile was filled with the worry of attracting hatred, which attracted a lot of criticism from her friends.

One year, two years, three years later, even Xiaosi, who disliked contact with others the most in the dormitory and once thought that she might be alone for the rest of her life, got married, but Lizi was still alone.

It turns out that Li Zi is also a second-generation rich man + a second-generation official. His father is a bank president, and his mother is also a prominent figure in the Education Bureau. Cheng Peng knew Li Zi's identity, so he was naturally attentive to her. Cheng Peng's approach was inspired by Cheng's father and Cheng's mother. The old couple were thoughtful and naturally willing to help their son wipe his butt. Only Lizi thought that no one knew about her family situation, and that the true love she met was not because of her "identity", but because of her as a person. Women, when you fall in love, you are so naive.

It was originally agreed that they would get married after graduation, but unexpectedly another Gaozhi appeared in time, and the woman was inexplicably pregnant with Cheng Peng's child. Li Zi's marriage fell through, and Cheng Peng avoided seeing her. Cheng's father and Cheng's mother just pretended that they had never known Li Zi, and Li Zi became a scourge of the Cheng family. Lizi's parents were arrogant and did not allow their daughter to be so disrespectful. They tried hard to persuade her all night long, and they did not hesitate to reveal the secrets spread among colleagues, fearing that their daughter would not be able to think about it and would have to put out the fire.

Sure enough, not long after, I heard that Father Cheng had been suspended from work. Because of the tenderness she felt back then, Lizi refused to resent her too deeply and asked her father to inquire about it, only to find out that there was no way to save her. I also tried to secretly send a message to Cheng Peng to persuade him not to get involved too much, but I didn't know that Cheng Peng had been called to talk to him many times by then. After that, the message can no longer be sent. It wasn't until her cousin who worked in the government sent Lizi a video of Cheng's father's interrogation that Lizi, like a dying person grabbing the lily grass on the shore, struggled to survive and finally struggled ashore.

It is said that the main reason was Cheng Peng's greedy mother, but more than a dozen people, including Cheng Peng's pregnant wife and her family, were all imprisoned. Later, some people were released one after another, including Cheng Peng and his wife. As for their future, no one paid attention to it anymore, and Lizi's parents naturally refused to reveal anything to Lizi. Fortunately, Lizi finally gave up and didn't want to worry too much.

At the end of the chat, Lizi said "thank you" and then exited the group chat. Sensitive people have started a discussion in the group again, analyzing whether Lizi's "thank you" is a thank you to a friend who stayed with her late at night, a thank you to Cheng Peng, or a thank you for the passing of this relationship.

I texted "?" and asked Lizi if she was okay. She replied with two words: "It's okay." It was already very late at night, and my eyelids were so sleepy that I was about to close WeChat and go to sleep, when I saw that Lizi was "typing". After waiting for a while, I saw her and said, "Xiu, for so many years, it seems like I have been waiting for an ending. Now that the story has ended, I can finally be free. But why do I still feel a little uncomfortable in my heart? Dad said they deserved it, you guys He also said he deserved it, but I don’t think so. In any case, it was my love, and they were the people I loved. I don’t want them to end up like this.”

After typing a long paragraph and deleting it bit by bit, I only returned her a few hugs and then turned off my phone. No matter how much you know, you can't avoid the heartache you deserve. This is the price of youth. However, the story always comes to an end, and the turbulent emotions finally subside. Only then can we truly put aside our obsessions and gain the courage and motivation to live on. That kind of life may not be the best days in life.

Seeing my husband next to me sleeping so soundly on his stomach, with saliva dripping onto the pillow towel, for the first time I wiped off his saliva with my hands without feeling dirty, covered him tightly with the quilt, and stayed there all night No dreams.