Chapter 10 Section ten

When Duan Fei called Xu Xin, Xu Xin had just paid the deposit for the house in the "noble residential area" he wanted, and was shopping with Gu Xiaoying. Under the banner of "prenatal and postnatal care", Gu Xiaoying did not hesitate to buy the most expensive radiation protection suit in the mall - 1,300 yuan, but it was only a thin piece, which looked like a suspenders. While Gu Xiaoying was going to check out at the counter, Xu Xin pulled this expensive "sling top" and looked at it under the lights of the shopping mall. His cautious gaze didn't look like he was looking at the clothes, but rather like checking money.

Then the phone rang.Seeing that it was her cousin's cell phone number, Xu Xin complained before Duan Fei could speak: "Sister, let me tell you, the little fly is so extravagant, she wants 1,300 for a radiation protection suit! You don't think it's clothes Ah, this is all about sticking thirteen red notes on your body..." Duan Fei was planning to vent his grief like Mrs. Xianglin's, but was interrupted by her sister in an instant. After a pause, he said dumbfoundedly: "Are you two shopping?" "Yeah, her husband won't come back this week, and I don't have to work overtime. Two lonely women... depend on each other." Xu Xin shook his head and saw Gu Xiaoying walking back after paying the money.

Gu Xiaoying also saw Xu Xin on the phone from a distance, and stared at her curiously.Xu Xin made a mouth shape of "my sister", Gu Xiaoying saw it, and her eyes dimmed suddenly - that kind of obvious little emotion made it easy to guess that she must not have a good association. "I took Guoguo to Xinhua Bookstore just now, and I met Meng Xu." Duan Fei cut directly to the topic. "Meng Xu?" Xu Xin was taken aback.Hearing these words, Gu Xiaoying who had just walked over was also stunned. "Yes, Meng Xu," Duan Fei smiled bitterly, "it hasn't changed much, it's still the same. I thought I didn't care, but when I saw him, I still had an inexplicable feeling. It's hard to describe, but it's definitely not nostalgia anyway. It's not nostalgia, but it just has a very strange taste..."

"Well then, I think you don't waste the phone bill, just leave Guoguo to your parents, you immediately take a taxi to Gu Xiaoying's house, we will have dinner at her house in the evening and cook hot pot," Xu Xin looked at Gu Xiaoying, Seeing her nodding desperately, "There are many people and it's still lively, come and tell us about your affair." "An encounter?" Duan Fei smiled, "Is it the annoying 'hate'?" Xu Xin was amused, and answered in a wrong voice: "We bought chicken balls, beef balls, and fish balls. Welcome to taste."

At night, Gu Xiaoying's home is brightly lit. All the lights that can be turned on must have been turned on, which made the room that had been quite unpopular for a long time look very lively.Gu Xiaoying, Xu Xin, Duan Fei, and Jiang Yueyang gathered around the dining table to cook hot pot, and in the midst of the steaming heat, they could only hear the extremely noisy—— "Don't touch my flesh!" "That's still my tofu." "What's wrong with eating your tofu?" "Gu Xiaoying, you are shameless!" "Who wants face if there is something to eat?"

"Sister, she snatched my tofu!" "Don't quarrel, let's see how many oysters Mr. Jiang ate? This is called 'the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman wins'. You two are fools!" "Ah! Oysters, leave me some, just a few valuable things!" "I didn't eat much...I said, Gu Xiaoying, can you be generous? Why do you prepare so many vegetables and tofu when you invite someone to eat hot pot? Look, soft tofu, fresh tofu, tofu puff, soybean oil skin, frozen tofu... ...Does your family have rabbits?" "Do rabbits eat tofu..." "Rabbits don't eat tofu. Rabbits eat you—eat your head full of grass! Tch, you're a college teacher, you're misleading your son!"

"I tell you Xu Xin, you can insult me, but you can't insult my profession! Being a teacher has been my dream since kindergarten—hey, I'm burnt to death!" "You deserve it! You've been punished by God for saying the wrong thing?" ... Jiang Yueyang and Duan Fei looked at each other - during the whole process, they each said a word, but why, the dinner table was so noisy, as if there were two hundred ducks arguing? It wasn't until everyone was finally half full that the atmosphere of the conversation gradually changed from a duck quarrel to a normal one.

First, Xu Xin drank half a bottle of beer, and then used the wine to boldly ask Jiang Yueyang, who used to be her counselor: "Mr. Jiang, why are you still not married?" Jiang Yueyang gave Xu Xin a blank look: "What? You want to marry?" Xu Xin is very frank, and doesn't care about the face of his former teacher at all: "If I want to marry, I will marry early, and I can wait until today? Everyone knows that I have never been able to hide dry food in the doghouse." Gu Xiaoying stuffed a mouthful of spinach leaves, and added inarticulately: "It's still a kennel placed in a noble residential area."

"Even if it's a kennel, is there any handsome dry food like me?" Jiang Yueyang was very dissatisfied, and complained while dipping in the seasoning, "I'm about to be forced to death by my dad, he said that if I can't bring back a daughter-in-law again, You must sever the father-son relationship with me." "But don't say it, Mr. Jiang, don't think I'm a philistine. In fact, men are not as reliable as dry food in many cases." Xu Xin sighed, "You said that dry food can also be used to satisfy hunger and save a life at a critical moment. Can a man do it?" ? In times of crisis, I don’t know where I went.”

"Why are you so desperate for life at such a young age?" Jiang Yueyang turned his head to look at Xu Xin, but just in time to see Duan Fei lowered his head and worked hard to pick up a quail egg that was undulating in the hot pot.He seemed to vaguely understand something, and stopped talking. Gu Xiaoying suddenly remembered the phone call from Duan Fei in the afternoon, wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask, so she secretly poked Xu Xin.Xu Xin looked back at Gu Xiaoying, and immediately understood what she meant, and after thinking about it, she asked Duan Fei: "Sister, did you go to the bookstore this afternoon?"

Duan Fei looked up at the three people staring at him, and smiled calmly: "Yes, I also met Meng Xu." Jiang Yueyang took a piece of food with his chopsticks, and forgot to put it in his mouth in a daze. Gu Xiaoying and Xu Xin looked at each other, and then looked at Duan Fei together with a sad expression. It was Duan Fei who first broke the weird air in front of him, and said with a smile: "What kind of expressions are you guys making?" Seeing that the few people in front of him were silent, Duan Fei smiled: "Don't worry, I'm not as fragile as you think. At the beginning, I chose the wrong person, went the wrong way, and lived the wrong life, but to paraphrase a sentence in a magazine, 'Wrong It's you, it's him, it's not love itself'. Although it's a bit hypocritical, it's the truth." The three people in front of them froze for a moment, and began to nod one after another.Duan Fei smiled, turned to Xu Xin and asked, "Is the house settled?" "It's settled. I went to pay the deposit today," Xu Xin clenched his fists. "After a few days, I will use the bonus that was just issued to pay the down payment. I will officially become a house slave, and a new life will begin!" Jiang Yueyang was rather proud: "The students I bring out are promising." Then he got his wish and got two sanitary balls thrown by Xu Xin. "Very good! Those who have children have children, those who are looking for a partner, those who pay off the mortgage, there are still so many goals in life that have not been fulfilled, and life is really moving forward!" Gu Xiaoying turned a blind eye to the eyes of the two people in front of him. The cup filled with orange juice was full of pride, "Cheers to the new life!" "Cheers!" It was rare that everyone had the same topic and responded one after another. In other words, the conversations of this group of people are not many times with such a main theme, and it is worthy of being recorded in the annals of history. After the meal, Gu Xiaoying told Xu Xin jokes about Guan Tong while washing the dishes in the kitchen. Xu Xin laughed while wiping the bowl, and almost dropped the bowl.Duan Fei wanted to help, but the two of them drove him out of the narrow kitchen to rest, so he just stood on the balcony with a glass of water and watched the traffic on the road outside.Jiang Yueyang saw it, hesitated in the living room, pushed the door open and walked to the balcony. Duan Fei turned around and saw that it was Jiang Yueyang, and smiled: "Mr. Jiang, do you also like to watch fun?" "You were in my junior year when I became a counselor after my undergraduate degree, and you never taught your class. Isn't it more normal for you to call me by my name?" Jiang Yueyang turned around to listen to the laughter that was comparable to two hundred ducks. , "Actually, if I like excitement, I should stay in the house. I have never seen any place that is more lively than the environment where the two of them are." "It's less likely to suffer from depression when you're with them," Duan Fei drank his saliva and smiled. "Without them, I'm afraid I wouldn't have recovered so quickly. At that time, it's hard for them to listen to a complaint without complaint." Complaining to a woman who complains, but also telling jokes to a complaining woman—probably more tiring than talking to Mrs. Xianglin." "No, no matter how much you babble, there are no two of them who can talk about it, especially Gu Xiaoying. When I first met her, I didn't have such a deep feeling. It was only when we got to know her well when she was in graduate school that I realized why this child is so noisy. She is full of creativity," Jiang Yueyang sighed, "her existence directly caused me to doubt for a long time whether it was a wrong choice for me, as a graduate of the Chinese Department of a comprehensive university, to do student work at the Art Academy." Duan Fei smiled: "Isn't it true that the two of them are living a happy life? For a person who cares about his boredom, finding such a daughter-in-law makes his life full of colors, which can be regarded as complementary." "My senior brother has a rather strange aesthetic." Jiang Yueyang also smiled. "Our family Xinxin is also a very optimistic person." Duan Fei really lived up to Gu Xiaoying's high expectations, and remembered to promote her own girls wherever he went. "Actually, it will be happier to live with someone with such a personality." Jiang Yueyang is a bit transparent, and he is blunt: "Duan Fei, don't you think what your sister said is very correct? Since everyone is a person who can't hide dry food in a kennel, it's a long time before you want to marry. It's done, why wait until today?" "Huh?" Duan Fei turned his head to look at Jiang Yueyang - the street lamps and moonlight were very bright, shining on his face, his brows were clear and his expression was sincere. "We are not people all the way," Jiang Yueyang smiled, "I appreciate everyone's kindness." "But it's time for you to find a girlfriend and start dating." Duan Fei was clearly two years younger than Jiang Yueyang, but at that moment, he looked more and more like a serious-minded elder sister. Jiang Yueyang felt that the momentum was not good, so he quickly explained: "How do you know I won't talk about it? I have been on blind dates no less than sixty or seventy times since I graduated, and I will talk with someone who is pleasing to the eye for several months. But falling in love is a It’s one thing, it’s another thing to get married and live a life, you always meet some people who are not suitable for life, what can you do?” "Actually, it's not that the other party is not suitable for living with him. In the final analysis, you don't want to live with him," Duan Fei hit the nail on the head, "If you don't believe me, just look back at the girls who have been on blind dates with you. Are many of them married and having children now? Are you quite satisfied with your little days?" "Then I always want to find someone who can live with me," Jiang Yueyang sighed, "it's with me, not with others." "That's true," Duan Fei nodded. "In fact, so many people are in the circle of singles because they want to find someone who can spend their whole life with themselves, not with others. Life is too long. Find the right person and live a life that suits you.” "Then what about you, how did you plan?" Jiang Yueyang looked at Duan Fei and asked after a pause. "Let's go, if you meet the right one, just gamble again," Duan Fei looked into the distance and sighed, "I saw a post on the Internet a few days ago, and someone said it was very sad, saying that it was a woman who was divorced. My child, if it’s better for a girl, the stepfather can still get some dowry in the future. If it’s a boy, it’s more frightening, and you’ll feel that at least one more house is the burden. According to this theory, I have to thank you Our Guoguo is a girl." Her words were really too sad, Jiang Yueyang suddenly didn't know what to say. The quarrel between Gu Xiaoying and Xu Xin could be faintly heard in the living room behind him. Jiang Yueyang turned his head and saw the two of them sharing a jar of hand cream while arguing with each other.Duan Fei also turned around, just in time to see Gu Xiaoying's heartbroken expression teaching Xu Xin: "Feeling? Big sister... we are not little girls anymore, who cares about feelings? You can't be realistic, first see if this person is suitable for you. Is it suitable for living? Let me tell you, don’t be so picky. When you finally find a consensual man, you will be in your thirties. Once you get married, you have to have children. You don’t even enjoy the world of two Well, are you at a loss?" Xu Xin insisted: "No, I have the final say! I won't have children, what can you do to me? Let me tell you, Gu Xiaoying, don't talk to me like my parents. I don't understand Well, why are you all unwilling to make do with it yourself, and want me to make do with it? Aren’t I just a little older than when you got married? At best, it’s a backlog of goods, and the expiration date hasn’t passed yet!” Unexpectedly, Gu Xiaoying sighed suddenly: "Oh, forget it, what are you doing? I myself was pushed to the ground by two parents every day... I haven't passed the expiration date yet, what are they worried about?" Through a screen door, Duan Fei also sighed. Jiang Yueyang still didn't know what to say, so he still sighed.