Chapter 11 Section Eleven

In fact, Xu Xin also knew that she couldn't choose any more, but she couldn't be careless at all! Standing in front of the thirty-one-year-old assistant researcher in broad daylight and bright sky, Xu Xin saw that the other party was wearing a bulging black down jacket, paired with a pair of slightly pleated trousers, and spoke with a local accent characteristic of an underdeveloped area in the province. In Mandarin, he asked in a good-tempered manner, "Let's go?" Xu Xin raised his head and looked around at the huge central square in the winter, bleak and cold, and then looked down at his three-quarter-heeled high-heeled shoes, not-so-thick skirt and thin woolen coat, and he was fighting fiercely in his heart. A moment: One voice said, let’s take him to a coffee shop and talk about it, there’s no need to wrong yourself for an old man who doesn’t understand his style; another voice said, people have proposed to take a walk in the square, who will pay for the coffee shop?Even if I am willing to pay, what will people think...

After fighting for half a minute, Xu Xin nodded in resignation: "Okay, let's go around." At the end of the year, the little north wind was blowing, Xu Xin shrugged her shoulders, and looked around sadly, there were pedestrians in a hurry everywhere.All over the square, only the musical fountain was still singing and gushing songs. Xu Xin listened carefully, and found that the background music was actually, and felt extremely sad... While mourning, the assistant researcher kindly asked Xu Xin: "Are you cold?" Out of politeness, Xu Xin, who had suffered from the shortcoming of "saving face" more than once, quickly mobilized the frozen facial muscles, and replied with a smile: "It's okay."

"That's good," the assistant researcher also smiled. When he smiled, Xu Xin noticed that he had two small buck teeth. "Girls now look so weak. I don't know if it's an aesthetic trend. I I dare not agree. You are different from them, generous and honest." Intellectuals spoke so highly of Xu Xin that Xu, who was in the cold wind, had to mobilize his muscles and smile again. "I heard that you are the editor of the Children's Publishing House?" The assistant researcher is obviously very satisfied with this job. "We are considered colleagues. When we produced the blue book of the cultural industry in this province last year, I published this chapter."

"Ah... is that so..." Xu Xin felt that it was necessary to express his basic enthusiasm, so as to divert his attention and forget the cold, "I have only read the development reports of China's cultural industry in the past few years." "The publishing industry in our province is very sluggish," the assistant researcher sighed, and said rather disappointedly, "Compared with private capital, the disadvantage of state-owned capital is too obvious. There is a bottleneck in the mechanism, and it is too difficult to gain market share." I really don’t know how this turnover can be regarded as a key case on CCTV’s "News Network"..."

"It's not impossible, is it?" Xu Xin was very dissatisfied with this statement, "Our agency made 260 million yuan last year, which is not bad." "Children's books?" The assistant researcher shook his head, "How many of the most popular series are our provinces? Besides, how big is the market for a children's book? In the end, it is still unattractive and lacks real bestsellers!" Xu Xin couldn't help but coughed, rolled her eyes, and thought, Big Brother, you're not so ignorant... Don't you know how profitable a good children's book series is now...

"But it's okay," the assistant researcher looked at Xu Xin and smiled, "Girls don't need to earn much money, I still insist on having a man support the family. Women's salaries are too much, which is a great threat to family stability." Xu Xin was dumbfounded, the words she wanted to say twirled around on the tip of her tongue, but she swallowed them back.In fact, she really wanted to ask: If I said that I bought myself a house based on the children's book series that you don't like, do you think that I am not only a threat, but also a terrifying factor for family stability and unity? ?

"There is a seller of hot soy milk in front." The assistant researcher suddenly said such a sentence, which made Xu Xin look up gratefully as if hearing the sound of heaven, and asked, "Where is it?" "Front," the assistant researcher pointed to not far away, and smiled, "I'll treat you to soy milk!" "Okay!" Xu Xin nodded happily, and almost rushed all the way to the soy milk stand.It was freezing cold, and I didn't care about my image, so I grabbed a cup of hot soy milk and put in a straw.At this time, the assistant researcher also came over, picked up a cup of soy milk and asked, "How much?"

The stall owner was a simple middle-aged man, and while helping Xu Xin take the lunch paper, he answered, "Five yuan." "So expensive?" The assistant researcher widened his eyes and turned to look at Xu Xin. Seeing that she had already started drinking soy milk, he had no choice but to take out five yuan from his wallet and hand it to the stall owner, saying, "Take advantage of the fire! A cup of soy milk costs so much." expensive!" "Hey, how can you say that?" The stall owner was reluctant, "My soy milk is not the thin one outside, look how thick it is, right, girl?"

"Yeah, yes!" Xu Xin bit her straw and nodded, but she didn't see the assistant researcher frowning. It wasn't until the two of them were a few meters away from the soy milk stand that the assistant researcher regretfully looked at the soy milk in Xu Xin's hand and said, "It's a pity that you have already inserted the straw..." "Ah?" Xu Xin blinked in confusion. "If you don't have a straw inserted, we won't buy it and return it! I know that one stop away, there is a store that only costs two yuan for hot soybean milk, and it's delicious." The assistant researcher said regretfully.

"Ahem..." Xu Xin choked. In winter, it gets dark quickly, and it gets dark before five o'clock.Xu Xin began to fight fiercely in his heart: he won't invite himself to dinner, will he?Should I agree or not?If you don't agree, it's obviously impolite; but if you agree, she really dare not have any confidence in the other party's taste... Unexpectedly, the assistant researcher never gave her a chance to contradict.Before Xu Xin finished fighting, the assistant researcher said, "That's all for today. I promised my mother that I would go back to eat, so I have to go."

Xu Xin was dumbfounded. Seeing Xu Xin's dumbfounded expression, the assistant researcher smiled kindly: "It's really a pleasure chatting with you. It's been a long time since I visited the central square carefully. The last time I visited was in 1999. This When the square was just built." Xu Xin almost gritted his teeth, and tried to smile and said: "Yeah, I haven't visited this square so carefully for a long time..." "Then let's see you next time!" The assistant researcher looked at Xu Xin happily, as if satisfied that the conversation between the two had reached the same level, "I'll call you another day." "Okay." Xu Xin continued to grit his teeth and smirk, then watched the back of the assistant researcher disappear into the howling wind.It was also a coincidence that as soon as his back disappeared, Duan Fei called. Xu Xin picked up the phone, and before Duan Fei could speak, he gritted his teeth and said: "Sister, you can eat something quickly if you want to eat something! Just entrust it to me! I will never let you have the luck to see the sun tomorrow morning again!" From the other side of the phone, Gu Xiaoying gloated and asked, "It's me, at your sister's house, who came here on behalf of the whole family to ask you how the blind date went?" "You—go—die!" Xu Xin hung up the phone viciously, just as a gust of cold wind blew, Xu Xin shivered briskly, and then went straight to his second-hand Alto with a murderous look, the target: Duan Fei Home! Walking on the road and blowing the hot air from the air conditioner, after half of her anger subsided, Xu Xin sighed while driving—you said, why did she meet such a top-notch man? During the last blind date, I met a master of chemistry who was so ugly that she cried ghosts and gods. In fact, she is not a person who judges people by their appearance, but there is a bottom line for aesthetics. She doesn't want to have nightmares in front of such a face every night. Besides, it’s just ugly, and her temperament is still wretched. How can she take her out to attend friends’ parties in the future? The last time she went on a blind date, she met a bank employee with a handsome appearance and a wealthy family. He graduated from a financial school technical secondary school. The question is "Which is better between a graduate student and a Ph. I often eat with him, the director of a certain department is his good brother, the director of a certain department is a classmate of his party school, a certain leader has a certain anecdote about a certain anecdote, what is the future prospect of a certain industry... Xu Xin now feels that even if it is The heartless Meng Xu deserved to be favored by Duan Fei back then; and the "dumb" brother Guan that Gu Xiaoying said was simply a model of contemporary civil servants. She recalled the words that Gu Xiaoying told Qian Wan Wan before: The external image can be changed, the taste of life can be cultivated, give the other party more opportunities, meet more to understand deeply, be tolerant, don't be picky, be objective, Don't be extreme... It's strange, why do all the enthusiastic people who introduce people to others say this kind of thing? In fact, deep down in his heart, Xu Xin feels that this is a kind of pity that people show for older unmarried young women. It seems that there is a subtext behind these lines, which is "Don't be too harsh, girl, you can't afford it"... But, If you don't pick and choose, you will be able to do it. Are you worthy of yourself? Before that, Xu Xin admitted that she matured later than good women like Duan Fei and realists like Gu Xiaoying—when they were watching Qiong Yao and Xi Juan, she was busy reading Japanese manga; , adhering to her mother's admonition of "no early love", she is keen to participate in various student associations that seem to be easy to develop love, but in fact they have been developed into "brothers everywhere" by her; when they got married, she began to have a relationship. Coping with blind dates, but obviously their attitude is not correct, and their aesthetics are not serious. They just immerse themselves in the state of "one person is full and the whole family is not hungry"; now one of them is divorced, One was about to have a baby, and she finally desperately wanted to find a man to marry, but God, she hadn't been in love yet! The worst thing is that she was rejected for a blind date because of this reason, the reason is that the other party does not intend to be a free training school for people who have never been in love! God!What a dripping blood!What kind of miserable life is this? ! Grieving and indignant all the way, Xu Xin drove his second-hand red Alto to the downstairs of Duan Fei's house.When Gu Xiaoying saw Xu Xin getting off the car, she lay on the balcony of Duan Fei's house and grinned badly, "Xu Xin, you are going to live in a high-end residential area, why do you still drive an Audi?" Xu Xin glanced at the balcony on the second floor angrily, only to hear Duan Fei hugging Guoguo and yelling at Gu Xiaoying: "Don't say such ambiguous sentences, he has a heart as simple as a tractor." Xu Xin was so angry that his seven orifices smoked. All the way angrily rushing up to the second floor, Xu Xin saw Duan Fei and Gu Xiaoying standing at the door of the house, laughing and gossiping one by one, and rushed to ask: "What's the matter? Is this okay?" "Didn't I just drive a second-hand Alto that looks like a tractor? Why did I offend you? You have to give me a tractor driver?" Xu Xin glared at the two people in front of him and rushed into the house to keep warm. "Tractor driver?" Gu Xiaoying was surprised, and asked while closing the door, "Aren't you an assistant researcher?" "He's not as generous as a tractor," Xu Xin threw off his high heels first, and then gulped down the hot Guozhen on the table who didn't know who drank half of it, and then gasped for breath and went through the afternoon joke from beginning to end After talking about it, he concluded, "The tractor driver may be simple, but he is an iron rooster and Grandet!" The two people in front of them laughed so hard that tears came out. Gu Xiaoying said out of breath while looking for a facial tissue: "You have to thank them, you haven't visited the central square so carefully in many years, right? It seems that you did the same last time." In 1999, we went together." "I've done my own crimes, I can't live," Xu Xin sighed while rubbing his feet while sitting on the sofa, "I will always wear casual shoes on blind dates from now on!" "Don't just deny him like that. If there is a chance, if he still asks you out, I'd better meet you." Duan Fei smiled and comforted the girl, "Maybe he is good except for being a little frugal." "Forget it, it's just that the consumption concept of the two of us is not the same at all!" Xu Xin said with a sad face, "Why am I so miserable! Why can you meet love at first sight when you go on a blind date, sister, and the little fly wears pajamas and goes to the restaurant to buy food I can also meet role models of civil servants... only me, my life is full of the best!" "But I'm divorced." Duan Fei looked calm. "A model civil servant is not the same as a model husband," Gu Xiaoying spread her hands, "I still want to ask why I can't have a strong sperm in my life!" "Then it's not your husband's fault, is it you who is abnormal?" Xu Xin squinted at Gu Xiaoying. "Fart!" The female bandit was furious, and threw a pillow on Xu Xin's face, "Who told him to go home once a month? Tell you, if I can have a strong sperm that lasts for 96 hours, I will definitely be able to." Pregnant!" "96 hours..." Duan Fei swallowed and wiped his cold sweat, "That's not sperm, it's paramecium..." "Hahaha," Xu Xin laughed loudly, "It's red nematodes, the kind you feed fish..." Pfft—another pillow was born out of nowhere, coming through the thorns and thorns. Under the hug pillow, Xu Xin thought depressingly: why every married person clings to the standard of "fellow traveler" before marriage, but when it is their turn to introduce someone to others, they forget this important standard In the back of your head, start lobbying for an awkward combination of a completely mismatched man and woman? What kind of world is this...