Chapter 28 A-1

At around ten o'clock in the morning, Sang Li sat in "You and Me", wearing headphones, watching Hayao Miyazaki's cartoons on his laptop.She didn't watch this kind of stuff before—she didn't have to watch it when she was a child; she didn't bother to watch it when she grew up.Now I started to watch it, maybe because of boredom, maybe because of reluctance, maybe because of unwillingness. What is boring is time, what is reluctant is memory, and what is not reconciled is the youth who can no longer start again. Gu Xiaoying's phone call came at this time, Sang Li looked at the clock to make sure that Gu Xiaoying had no class today, and then he could almost confirm that this woman stayed at home and read romance novels again.

Sure enough, when she picked up the phone, Gu Xiaoying wailed: "Sang Li, why are there so many good men in the novel? Pity me, I'm only 28 years old, but I can't meet any of them." Sang Li almost choked and coughed: "Teacher Gu, forgive me for my ignorance, how old is twenty-eight years?" "Twenty-eight," Gu Xiaoying didn't feel ashamed at all: "Twenty-eight years old, twenty-eight years old." Sang Li sighed: "I feel really sorry for your students, what kind of teachers are these?" Gu Xiaoying slapped the computer keyboard while laughing, and Sang Li asked, "What are you doing?"

"Just now I was reading a novel that touched me very much. After reading it, you should leave a message. I am a conscientious reader and never read Bawangwen." Gu Xiaoying answered it as a matter of course. Sang Li has long been used to Gu Xiaoying's reminiscences, and doesn't care about her inattentiveness, but suddenly remembered that she should be condemned: "I haven't talked about you yet, Gu Xiaoying, what are you writing so desperately?" ?!" Sang Li gritted her teeth, Gu Xiaoying let out an "ah" and laughed loudly: "Did you really read it? How about it, isn't it very poetic and picturesque? I have done a considerable degree of artistic processing for you, let me tell you, now this book sells It was very good...”

"Five to five points," Sang Li said calmly, "I will give you half of your royalties. Anyway, I have provided you with rich creative materials." "Ouch, sister, you're so ruthless," Gu Xiaoying wailed, "You don't even know that I'm about to lose my job now. Let me tell you, my monthly basic salary is only 1,300 yuan, and I pay class fees every six months. Calculated at 15 yuan per class, I can only get 10,000 yuan in class fees every six months. Plus what kind of Teacher’s Day subsidy, year-end bonus, heating fee... you can add everything you can think of, I am a miserable person The annual salary of university teachers is only a little over 40,000 yuan! Huh, huh..."

Gu Xiaoying pretended to be crying, and Sang Li smiled: "Be content, don't you still have an ATM? I take care of the elder brother and don't spend much money himself, but you use the secondary card of other people's credit cards to swipe like hell. Please be a little humane." Well, he is a civil servant, don't force him to commit crimes." "He doesn't spend money," Gu Xiaoying snorted, "He should have time to spend money!" "A business trip again?" "It doesn't matter if you're on a business trip or not. You can't see him anyway. If I want to see him now, I might as well just watch the provincial news at 6:30 p.m. If I'm lucky, I can see half of his body from behind a bunch of governors and secretaries," Gu said. Xiaoying emphasized emphatically: "It's half, I haven't seen the complete him on TV so far."

"He's so busy!" Sang Li exclaimed. "Hehe," Gu Xiaoying smiled helplessly: "I haven't seen him for a long time. He often works overtime, with a group of colleagues, and rests in the lounge when he is tired. I went there once, and when I opened the door, the smoke It's lingering, you have to disperse the smoke to see people. Occasionally he comes home, but when he comes home, I'm already asleep, and when I wake up, he's gone. Sang Li, I don't know, marriage turns out to be Such a lonely thing." "Really?" Sang Li seemed to be listening to heaven, "Didn't it mean that civil servants work from nine to five, and their salaries keep going up?"

"Three-five-eight-one? No way," Gu Xiaoying pinched her fingers and calculated, "It's counted as a deputy, and here we are three-five-seven-nine. Guan Tong is the deputy department, and his working years are not long enough, so it's less than five thousand. Their director It’s the deputy hall, so it’s only seven thousand.” "Then you have the nerve to spend money like water," Sang Li advised her, "You must save some money to have a baby, right?" Speaking of this, Gu Xiaoying turned into a resentful woman again: "Li, I can't do things like having a baby by myself."

It went back again... Sang Li wanted to bite off his tongue in distress. Also suddenly remembered, Sang Li murmured to Gu Xiaoying, "Nan Yang came here last week." "What?" Gu Xiaoying's voice raised suddenly: "Nan Yang?!" The voice was urgent: "My handsome brother Nanyang... why did he go to you? Resurrection of old love? Reminiscing about the past?" Sang Li was helpless: "You are all married, can you be more reserved?" I only heard Gu Xiaoying's smile over there: "Okay, let's be serious, let's stop making trouble. Why is he looking for you? Don't tell me it's just to catch up on the old days."

"He wanted to persuade me to go back. He said that I am self-enclosed now. He seems to be doing well. Of course, I knew he was a promising kid since I was a child." Sang Li smiled: "It's me, the more I live, the less promising I am. " Gu Xiaoying didn't smile, and after a few seconds Sang Li heard her sigh: "Li, Nan Yang is actually right." The two were silent together, and only the sound of each other's breathing could be heard from the microphone. After a while, Gu Xiaoying pretended to be relaxed and said: "Recently, I read novels on the Internet, and the concept of 'home girl' is very popular on the Internet, so I thought, you and I should be standard home girls. Compared with It seems that I am better, I have to go to class two days a week, how about you, Sang Li, do you really squat in the 'you and me coffee' every day to bask in the sun and prevent insects?"

Sang Li smiled softly: "It seems that you and Nan Yang are still like a family, and he also asked me if I squatted in the store every day to bask in the sun to prevent insects from growing." "We are all cultural people," Gu Xiaoying smiled smugly, and asked again: "What happened later? We just went back after the lobbying failed?" "Yes," Sang Li said in a flat tone, "I understand one thing now, don't leave any hope if you can't afford it." Gu Xiaoying was choked and didn't know what to say for a while. After a while, Sang Li still hesitated to speak: "There is also..."

"what?" "Do you know 'Li Garden'?" Sang Li hesitated for a while before asking. "I know Lingering Garden," Gu Xiaoying's voice is full of happiness of remembrance: "I went to Suzhou in 2004 and sat in Lingering Garden for a day. At that time, everyone else went to Humble Administrator's Garden and Lion Grove, and I was the only one in Lingering Garden. Sitting in the sun and listening to the old men and women singing, the time was so beautiful." "It's not a garden, it's a hotel." "Hotel?" Gu Xiaoying thought hard: "The name is quite strange." "Garden style hotel..." Before I finished speaking, I heard a scream: "Ah, I remembered!" "Ah?" Sang Li was surprised, did she really know? "I know, I know, garden-style hotel chains are outrageously expensive," Gu Xiaoying spoke very quickly: "We opened one here a year ago, and we invited some leaders to dinner when we opened. Our family, Guan Tong, is the leader The little follower is also honored to be present..." "Chain?" Sang Li was taken aback. "Yes, there are several big cities. I heard from Guan Tong that the inside is very exquisite, which can be called 'moving to change scenery, harmony between man and nature'... Well, isn't it sour? Please forgive him, he is a student Aesthetics." Gu Xiaoying chuckled, as if she was happy to have the opportunity to dismantle her husband again. After dismantling, he added: "Oh, yes, I heard that there is also a scene like the 'Qushui Liushang Pavilion'! You said that the cost is so high, no wonder there are few rooms and high room rates. We were surprised at that time, you It’s okay to say that people in big cities pursue elegance and like to live in hotels like literati’s gardens. Do we have this level of consumption here? Although it is considered a provincial capital city, it’s still too far behind, right? What’s the matter, you also open family?" "Do you know where you invested?" Sang Li asked. "I don't know..." Gu Xiaoying complained, "It's so expensive, I don't have a chance to go." Sang Li was silent. Based on this alone, of course it cannot be confirmed that it is the hotel invested by Shen Jie.But, if it's really you, Shen Jie, what do you mean?don't you remember meIs it necessary?When we were together at the beginning, we were willing to fight and suffer, but we broke up later. Isn't it also a matter of your love and my willingness, getting together and parting?Of course I'm not so narcissistic that I think you're building a "Li Garden" for me. In the end, businessmen value profit more than parting, don't they... Can't think about it anymore! Sang Li took a long breath and forced himself to change the subject: "Is there any news about Mu Xin and Cai Xiang recently?" "Mu Xin? No. You said that she only studied design, so why did she want to take the civil servant exam? Just take the exam, and she will go to the backcountry for training. Now she's fine, completely isolated from the world," Gu Xiaoying sighed: "However, I can often meet Cai Xiang on MSN, and her signature changes every day, so it can be seen that she is very busy, because as of yesterday her signature has officially changed to "Working overtime and the small universe is completely shut down." Thinking about Cai Xiang's round face, Sang Li couldn't help laughing: "The media is really hard to do. I recently met a friend who also complained that the price of making a living by creativity is that 'hair falls out early and life dies early. to reimburse'." "Friend?" Gu Xiaoying was surprised: "My dear, it seems that you haven't met new friends for a long time, right?" "It's a coincidence, this person has a very cute daughter who likes the HELLO KITTY in my store," Sang Liyun said calmly: "I'm considering whether to give this cat to her." "There is still a daughter," Gu Xiaoying exclaimed, "You want to be a third party?" "How could it be?" Sang Li laughed dumbly: "You can only fall down once in the same place, okay?" Gu Xiaoying was silent when she heard this, but Sang Li continued to introduce indifferently: "It's my neighbor, divorced, and lives with a four- or five-year-old daughter. I also met his ex-wife. On the day we broke up, I chose In my store, the ones that are easy to get together and loose, can be seen to be highly educated people." "It sounds like a good match," Gu Xiaoying smiled, "I mean him and you. What's his name?" "Ma Yu, Yu of Huo Hitachi." "Oh, it's a nice name." Gu Xiaoying paused for a moment, "But my dear, the fate between people is very wonderful. If we have the chance to meet each other, we must cherish it." "It's like you and Guan Tong. People searched for him thousands of times. Who would have thought that you would treat your benefactor as a thief?" Sang Li teased Gu Xiaoying. Gu Xiaoying also smiled: "Don't go so far, it's not about you. I know there are some things I shouldn't say, but Sang Li is almost thirty years old, and the ancients said 'thirty is the foundation', for a woman Even if you don't want to start a career, you still want to start a family? Xiang Ning won't come back, even if Shen Jie comes back, you may not want him, only Nan Yang is still waiting for you, if you have the heart, you can consider him." "Furthermore," she paused, "don't blame me for being unreasonable. I still have to say, go home and have a look if you have time. After all, we are a family. How can we really not see each other for a lifetime?" She was so earnest, and also rare and solemn: "Sang Li, apart from the person you just mentioned, and your group of waiters who can only treat you as their boss, in a city so big and so far away, you don't know who you are." lonely?" It was as if something, like a ray of light, pierced through the thick mist in the depths of the soul in an instant: those loneliness, those desolation, those loneliness that bit her life like a little beast with fangs, in this sunny afternoon, because of Gu Xiaoying's Words flooded in. Sang Li leaned weakly on the sofa, unconsciously holding a small coffee spoon in his hand, and Gu Xiaoying's exhortation came from the phone: "So, Li, find a man to marry. Find a part-time job, the money is more and the money is less." It doesn't matter, as long as you can go out and see the outside world. Drink less coffee, drink more honey water, healthy and beautiful..." After so many years, Gu Xiaoying is still nagging.But Sang Li's heart is so warm - in this world, besides Nan Yang, there is only one Gu Xiaoying who insists on nagging her for ten years, right?