Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Legacy Love-1

every day I have to spend a lot of time to calculate How long can we love At least you still want to laugh at me it's a joy to behold (1) My name is Chen Duo.Ear Dongchen, the flower of the flower. In the summer of 2004, after graduating from university, I fell into the torrent of unemployment and was honored to be a member of the "Zijia". For God's sake, I really didn't mean to.In my junior year, fourth year, and two years, I took the TOEFL first, then the GRE, and decided to take the postgraduate entrance examination if I failed to go abroad. If I failed the postgraduate entrance examination, I decided to study hard for the civil service exam... All in all, when I learned from this series of failures, I decided to change my mind and find a good job. At this time, the recruitment season is over, all the good positions have already been filled, and the rest are tasteless clerks, secretaries, and even Watson's clerks - will I waste my youth on these meaningless jobs ?of course not!

Because, after all, I'm pretty good.A talented girl in the Chinese Department, the propaganda minister of the school's student union, these titles can give a girl who has not entered the society the greatest vanity. Moreover, TOEFL, GRE, my grades are not bad. I even applied for a full scholarship to an American Pheasant University in an unrealistically remote location on the US-Mexico border.It even miraculously set up an "East Asian Research Institute", which seems to be specially prepared for nympho like me who studies Chinese and dreams of going abroad. The day I got the invitation letter, Song Tianming was so happy that he went crazy, hugged me on the street and refused to let go.

"Xiaoduo!" He almost burst into tears, "We finally don't need to be separated, finally." Song Tianming majored in basic physics. He had already received a full scholarship from a medium-sized university in the United States, and his visa had already been approved.If there was anything that made him hesitate before going abroad, it was me.only me. We are very, very much in love.Song Tianming loves Chen Duo, and Chen Duo also loves Song Tianming.This point, the people of Yinghua East Street can testify for us.The street in midsummer was noisy with people, and Song Tianming kissed me deeply in the middle of the road. Time stood still, and even the cars drove around us. At that moment, we were so young and beautiful, and it was the most unscrupulous time in our lives.

It's just that we got carried away too early. The visa officer was a young woman with a thick layer of powder on her face. She turned over my materials and studied for a long time, with a suspicious look on her face. Finally she asked, "Motive?" I replied: "My boyfriend is going there, I want to be with him." She gave me a blank look.refusal. After I walked out of the gate of the consulate, I started to say nothing. Song Tianming walked two streets with me, and I didn’t allow him to hold my hand. dare not come out. When we passed about the fifth KFC, he asked me cautiously, "Go in and have something to eat?"

I don't want to.He sighed, went in for a long time, and took out a family bucket. When the chicken wings were handed to my mouth, my tears fell down. Song Jiaming looked at me and sighed: "Actually, it's fine if you don't go out. Your school is so far away, and the conditions are definitely not good. I don't want you to suffer." I don't answer. He added: "It's fine if you stay in the country, and you can be a white-collar worker no matter what, why go out and serve others as a second-class citizen?" twenty one I still cry. He bit the bullet and continued: "Actually, in fact, China is also very powerful..."

I finally couldn't hold back my laughter, and while laughing, I hit Song Tianming with my greasy hand, and the two hugged each other crying and laughing.A small setback is not enough to make us depressed for too long. Isn’t it only two years to go out to study? Then, he left. I stay here, facing a boring autumn. In fact, being bored is my favorite kind of life.The autumn sky is as blue as washed, and the weather is neither cold nor hot. I can walk aimlessly on the streets of this city all afternoon, chirping on the leaves of the sycamore trees that have fallen early.When I was tired, I found a cheap coffee shop and ordered a cup of black tea to sit there until dark, and then walked home slowly alone.

In Song Tianming's words, I am hopelessly free and unrepentant.But he just fell in love with my freedom and slack at the beginning. When he was chasing me, he wrote me a letter every day, and said in the letter that I was an "unruly wind".He said that we must buy a quiet house in the future, open the gate and you will see an endless tree-lined road. He hopes to hold my hand and keep walking until we are too old to walk anymore. When young people talk about love, they are always so self-righteous and supercilious. But the love words from that year are still in my ears, but the person who spoke has already gone to the other end of the world.Thinking of it this way, my heart is not sour.

And the days of freedom and slack can't go on forever.The most practical problem is that after such a period of no production, I have no money. If I have no money, I call Ye Xiaoye. She is rich and knows all rich people, so she can often find ways for me to make money. No one answered. She came back to me half an hour later. "I was at the bar just now, it was too noisy, so I didn't hear it." Her loud voice was as usual, and I hurriedly lowered the volume of my phone. It was in the middle of the night, for fear that the neighbor would sue me for disturbing the people. Before I could speak, she scolded me all over my face.

"Chen Aduo, you really forget your friends. How long have you not contacted me? If you have the money to make international long-distance calls, you don't have the money to make local calls. Besides, don't we still have a family number?" "Didn't you contact me, pig!" I cursed back. "I'm too busy, so I forget about it when I'm playing." Ye Xiaoye has such a brazen and unreasonable habit of disturbing three points. But she is really capable, and after two days, she contacted me with a job as a tutor for a little girl who just entered the third grade of junior high school. She is the daughter of a business partner of her father, and her family is very rich, but Ye Xiaoye said: "Chen A Duo, don't blame me for not reminding you, this Zhou Ningzi is a real troubled girl. How about someone giving you such a high price? One hundred yuan an hour, what do you think you teach? Alchemy?"

I asked her what the specific problem with Zhou Ningzi was, but she spread her arms and said she didn't know, but that's what everyone said anyway, so it's always right to be careful. Problem girl? I thought about it and took the post bravely. I thought back when I was a girl with problems (wahaha, was it in a dream?), this little girl should still be crazy with a pacifier in her mouth, who is afraid of others. My first tutoring without a parent present. Ye Xiaoye told me that the girl's father is the boss of a real estate company, and he is famously busy. Originally, it was agreed that the mother would accompany the child to meet the teacher, but the mother who is a high-level executive in a foreign company was called away by the boss temporarily, so the empty big I was the only one in the house, meeting this legendary troubled girl alone.

That day I took a bus almost across the city before arriving at Zhou Ningzi's house.It was a separate villa, and it took a long way to get there after getting off the bus. There were tall plane trees planted beside the road, which looked very quiet in the dim light of dusk, and there were faint whispers when the wind blew. This is the boulevard in front of the house that Song Tianming and I dreamed of, even more beautiful than we imagined.It seems that money can really buy everything, and I feel both envious and sad. twenty two Zhou Ningzi sat in the study and waited for my arrival.She has beautiful features, and the T-shirt and jeans she wears are obviously expensive brands. Her hair is cut short, and she looks like all other third-year children. I held out my hand to her: "My surname is Chen." She touched my fingertips indifferently, without much expression on her face.I became nervous and took a deep breath: "Mathematics today. Here are ten questions, ranging from easy to difficult. You can do as much as you can. After you finish, we can see where your math needs to be tutored, okay? it is good?" She nods. I breathe a sigh of relief. "Let's begin then." She asked me, "I do it myself?" I nod. "Then what did my parents pay you to do?" I calmly said: "Teach you. But I have to see your level first and then decide whether you are worthy of my teaching." "Pull it down." She put her legs on the table, took out a pack of women's cigarettes from the drawer, and asked me provocatively, "One?" "I don't smoke this," I said, "I only smoke Double Happiness." She stared at me and asked nonchalantly, "Have you ever gone to a bar? Do you like going to 1912?" I said: "If you do a good job on the topic, I can consider chatting with you, otherwise I won't talk about it." She snorted, spread the exercise book on the table, and turned to me: "Can you go out? I don't like people around when I do the exercises." "Okay," I said, "how long do you need it?" She looked at the title: "You can come in again in half an hour." I think this habit is understandable, so I patrolled for fifteen seconds symbolically, and then flashed away. Anyway, there was no one else in the room, so I turned around in boredom, taking a breath while turning-this house is so fucking big!Not only is it big, but it is also tastefully decorated and luxuriously hidden. There is a large leather sofa in the center of the living room. I sank myself into it and was in a daze for half an hour. In half an hour, at least six questions can be completed. I thought to myself, so this kid has a good foundation. I didn't think so when I got back to my study. No one, no one in the study! The exercises I left were spread out on the table as they were. The difference is that a big fork was drawn on it with a black signature pen, and it was scrawled: Goodbye! The window is open.This goddamn den is on the first floor!I want to cry but have no tears. When Ning Zi's mother rushed back, I was still yelling at Ye Xiaoye. "What kind of job are you looking for me? How can I be responsible if the child is lost?" Ye Xiaoye was also a little anxious, hesitating over there, but he couldn't pay for it, and hated me to death. Ning Zi's mother was very calm.She asked about the situation in a few sentences, comforted me, and started calling. "Hello Zhou Guoan?" I heard her ask politely. "Ningzi ran away from home. Do you know her new mobile phone number?" After hanging up the phone, she saw that I was at a loss, and explained kindly: "I called Ningzi's father. He has a way with Ningzi." My eyes widened. she laughed. "It seems that Ms. Chen still doesn't understand the situation very well. Her father and I separated at the beginning of last year." She was talking about such an unpleasant thing, but her smile was very charming. I am more embarrassed. "I am very sorry……" twenty-three "Where is it?" She skillfully took out the cigarette case, and the lighter dinged.It's rare to see someone smoke so elegantly, I can't help but look straight. After smoking a cigarette, she sighed deeply. "Miss Chen, you know, you are the ninth tutor I hired for Ning Zi, and the eighth one ended up being beaten out of the house by her with a clothes-drying pole." "Hehe." I didn't know whether to cry or laugh.Perhaps it should be said that I am honored that I have not been beaten yet? "Miss Chen, I'm telling you this because I hope you can treat Ning Zi with the utmost patience. Changing tutors is not good for her studies. And..." she said as if she had made up her mind, " Me and her dad are fighting for custody of her. But I've been really busy lately." When she said this, she squinted her eyes and leaned back on the sofa.I suddenly remembered that the Persian cat of Ye Xiaoye's family also had such a lazy look, buried sleepily in the sofa all day long, but every time it appeared on the stage, it still fascinated a lot of people.Ye Xiaoye said that when a woman reaches the level of a Persian cat, she basically doesn't need to coquettishly flirtatiously anymore. Every gesture, gesture, and picking flowers and leaves can hurt others. Ning Zi's mother is a Persian cat. For such a woman, her husband wants to separate from her. I really don't know what happened to the men in the world? "You go back first." She said, "There will be no shuttle bus here when it's late." But I still decided to wait for Ning Zi to come back. She was lost from me. Ning Zi's mother didn't chase me away anymore. We sat on the sofa and waited. The hourly worker cooked the meal. She invited me to eat together.We chatted at the dinner table, and her loneliness was obvious. It was already midnight when Ningzi was sent back that day.It was her father who sent Ningzi back, but I didn't see the man with great powers, because he didn't enter the house at all.His car drove into the yard, and Ning Zi's mother came out to greet him. The two of them didn't know what to say. Ning Zi came into the room alone, her white T-shirt was a little wrinkled, she was sitting on the sofa, she was a little surprised when she saw me: "You haven't left yet?" I asked her, "Did you have fun?" She suddenly cooed and laughed: "I had a fight with my dad." I just found out she was drinking. I didn't know what to say for a moment, she laughed again: "My parents quarrel in the yard, they always do this, thinking that I can't hear unless they are arguing in front of me, but I know everything." I muttered angrily, this child is really heartless, they are arguing, isn't it because of who didn't educate you well? Ning Zi, however, seemed to see through my mind, laughed again, and said after laughing, "Don't be naive! They're not arguing about me. It's about money." Oh my god.What a crazy family. "Let's go." She said, "If you want to earn my family's money, you have to shed a layer of skin. You are young, what can you do wrong?" "Ningzi!" Her mother had already entered the door, and when she heard what she said, she yelled at her, "How did you talk to the teacher?" Ning Zi was not angry, but said lazily, "Then mother, teach me how to say it." I grabbed my bag: "I will come over at the same time tomorrow, you, go to bed after finishing the math problems!" Ning Zi stared at me with wide eyes. I have turned around and left. Ning Zi's mother chased me out and insisted on driving me home. twenty four "Miss Chen, you are the best tutor I have found for Ning Zi." She said. "Why?" I was surprised.I haven't taught it yet. "Gut feeling," she said, "I want you to stick to it. Okay?" "I'll do my best," I said. "Thank you." Ning Zi's mother turned on the stereo in the car, and the mandolin played a lingering piece of "Green Sleeves".She caressed the back of her neck sleepily, a simple movement surpassed countless in the world, I suddenly had a strong feeling that a woman can only be considered a master when she has reached this point, and the youthful nonsense of me and Xiao Ye can't be counted. Song Tianming called me that night. Two days ago, he finally found a cheap apartment outside the campus. He shared with an international student from Hong Kong. It was much cheaper than living in a school apartment. "International students in Hong Kong—male and female?" I asked sensitively. "You said you..." He hesitated over there, and I knew it must be a woman, a woman is a woman, and she can't even lie, poor Song Tianming. I briefly talked to him about today's events, and then said: "Is there something wrong with me, the more I challenge, the more I want to do it." He was anxious: "Don't be wronged!" "Just accept it," I deliberately annoyed him, "Anyway, I have no one to cover me now." Song Tianming thought for a while: "Don't do it if you don't like it, but..." Then the phone disconnected. I know what he is.Song Tianming went to the U.S. for two months, and we only used the phone to surf the Internet, but after Song Tianming said it for ten minutes, I would grin my teeth in pain and force him to hang up the phone before calling him.The cheapest IP card is 4 yuan a minute to make international calls. How can you afford it if you don’t work? I put down the phone, feeling empty.Of course, I can't not do this job.One hundred yuan an hour for tutoring, two hundred yuan an hour for long-distance calls, love is so expensive, perhaps, this is the truth of life. (2) My friend Ye Xiaoye is a rich person, but she is very serious against being a rich person. In her freshman year, she dragged a dilapidated suitcase into the dormitory by herself, so that we all thought she was an orphan.Once I went to the cafeteria with her, she pitifully bought a scrambled egg card and ran out of money, I was heartbroken, turned around and bought a steak and threw it into her bowl. She picked up the steak and began to bite, I had to remind her: "Hey, save it, the money for half an hour of tutoring!" She laughed and we became friends. It wasn't until the sophomore year that the girls in the dormitory had a preliminary brand awareness, and suddenly a shocking discovery broke out: the broken suitcase that Ye Xiaoye left on the luggage rack was actually LV! In other words, Ye Xiaoye is a 100% fake and hidden rich girl! This fact nearly made her best friend pass out. Ye Xiaoye didn't care. "Our family is rich, not me!" She swore to me, "Chen A Duo, my only dream in this life is to wander around the world with my luggage like Sanmao. I can’t survive and call you, you must send me beef jerky by air!” This is my friend Ye Xiaoye, who has no concept of money, and his mind is always full of unrealistic fantasies.I never said thank you to her, but I appreciate her.In my junior year, my summer job was not going well, and I couldn’t earn enough tuition fees for myself. I was so proud that I didn’t want to tell anyone. It was Ye Xiaoye who stole my tuition card and deposited 6,000 yuan in it, and died afterwards. deny. "It's a problem with the school's computer billing system, so what's wrong with me?" She still insists on it until now, and she won't change her words. twenty five Ye Xiaoye still supported me to go to Ning Zi's house, she said: "Cooperating with rich people has more opportunities, A Duo, you are not talented, you need some luck." What are you talking about, people have to bow their heads under the word "money". The second time I went to Ning Zi's house was earlier than I expected because of a call from Ning Zi's mother. "Miss Chen," she seemed to be begging me, "can you come over this afternoon, I'm going to Shanghai on a business trip and I'm in a hurry. I'm worried about my child being alone at home." "No problem." I readily agreed. I'm soft on taking people's money, one hundred yuan an hour, of course I have to do my duty.I went to catch the bus before noon, but the annoyance was that the bus was so empty, and there was a guy who kept leaning on me, I couldn't help but asked him loudly: "Are you weak, you can't even stand Waddled?" The person next to him secretly laughed, his face was swollen like a pig's liver, and he got off the car as if he was running away at the second stop. If Song Tianming was here, this guy would probably be beaten until he couldn't stand up.Song Tianming is usually very gentle and honest, but when he encounters things about me, he is very impulsive. I knew this when I was a sophomore in college. At that time, a boy from a foreign department wrote me a love letter. The radio station ordered songs for me, and Song Tianming finally took the opportunity to beat up that guy outside the cafeteria, almost sending him to the hospital. Later I asked him, "Why are you beating someone?" "He keeps staring at you." Song Tianming gasped. "Did you hit anyone who stared at me?" "No, I hit the boy who stared at you." Song Tianming's impulsiveness was not fruitless. Originally, there were not many boys staring at me in our school, and there were even fewer boys after that.Who would lose their minds and have trouble with a 1.85 meter northeast man? Ye Xiaoye commented: "Song Tianming is so wise and foolish, so insidious and cunning!" But the funniest thing is the boy from the foreign department. I always remember that he walked up to me on the day of graduation. I always thought he had some affectionate parting words to express. The words were: "You have to be careful, men in the north want to beat their wives!" Seeing him dragging his luggage away, I kept laughing until I couldn’t straighten my waist. Xiao Ye came over curiously and asked me what are you laughing at? Said: "Do you think Song Tianming will hit me in the future?" Xiaoye thought for a while, and said seriously: "I guess he wouldn't dare." "why?" "It's just that poor boy who doesn't understand anything except physics, he can get such a good girl like you, it's fine if he doesn't burn incense and pray to Buddha, and he dares to move a finger of you?" Yes, in the love between Song Tianming and me, everyone thinks that I am the one who has the upper hand. But now, all of this is empty talk, Song Tianming is not here, he is thousands of miles away.Walking on the boulevard in front of Ning Zi's villa, I suddenly felt lonely like never before. When I arrived at Ning Zi's house, her mother had already prepared everything for her, and it was time to open the way. Ningzi's mother told me that Ningzi's father would come to pick her up later, and after picking her up, I would be fine. See, a rich man is a rich man. Looking at the situation, we need two tutors, one for the father and one for the mother. Ning Zi's mother was quickly picked up by the assistant, leaving Ning Zi and me behind.She didn't do any of yesterday's questions. I taught her patiently, but it was obvious that she wasn't listening at all. "What are you thinking?" I asked her. Ning Zi looked at me and said word by word, "I don't want to go to my father's house. How about I go to your house." Twenty-six "Why?" I asked. "My mother entrusted me to you, and you will be responsible for me." She sat down, crossed her legs, and saw me with a provocative look on her face. "If you give me reasons that will convince me, I will agree." She bowed her head in silence for a few seconds, then raised her head: "My dad has a new girlfriend." "how do you know?" "He has always had it, otherwise why did they get divorced?" I'm dizzy.Do kids nowadays speak so directly? She asked me persistently: "Do you think this reason is sufficient?" I bite the bullet. "enough." "Then can I not go to my father's house?" "Can." "Then let's go out now, either to play or to your house." "No." I said. "You have to finish your homework first, this is a must." Ning Zi snorted and walked into the bedroom without saying a word.This time I didn't dare to be negligent, so I followed in.She turned to me and asked, "What are you doing with me?" "Nonsense," I said. "You can go." She started to chase people away. "Are you hungry?" I answered irrelevantly. "The part-time workers will not come today, what do you want to eat?" She froze. "There's a takeout phone on the table in the dining room." "Takeaway is not good." I said, "If you don't object, I'll make you a meal." Before she had time to object, I entered the kitchen and searched the refrigerator for a long time, only to find a spare rib, a small pumpkin, a few potatoes, and a few cabbages, which were probably left over from part-time work. It doesn't bother me. I have loved cooking since I was a child. My school organized national food festivals in my third and fourth grades. Under the name of the Minister of Publicity, I got close to the master chefs and learned a lot of cooking skills. In addition, I worked hard and innovated, and the dishes I cooked Every time Song Tianming ate with gusto, he wished he could swallow his tongue. Ning Zi's reaction was the same today.Although there were only two simple dishes and one soup on the table, she ate to her heart's content. Although she still maintained her guard against me on the surface, I knew that she was no longer hostile to me. It was hostility for no reason.I could see that Ningzi was nervous about the adult world, and she was hostile to me, but put me in the same camp as her parents.But there is no past between us, and there is no harm. Gradually, she will trust me, because she is just a child. Ning Zi turned around after eating and was about to go back to her room, so I called her to stop. "What's the matter?" She asked, her tone softened significantly. I brought out a small steamed pumpkin from the kitchen. The pumpkin was cut in half, the edge was carved into the shape of a flower, and a small candle was burning in the middle. Ning Zi stared at Pumpkin in a daze. She didn't speak, and I was always worried, wondering if this move would backfire. Twenty-seven Finally she whispered, "Today I am fifteen." I guessed right.These two busy adults, they are in their own world, business, business trip, work, new love, they enjoy their wonderful, but they don't notice how lonely their daughter is. I asked her, "What's your dad's phone number?" She glanced at me and gave me her phone number.I called Ning Zi's phone, and there was a deep male voice: "What's the matter?" "Mr. Zhou?" I said, "Today is Ningzi's fifteenth birthday. When will you pick her up?" He hesitated for a moment: "Who are you?" "I'm Ningzi's new tutor." "I have something to do tonight, you ask her to wait for me at home!" After speaking, the phone hung up. I looked back at Ning Zi, she must have known the ending long ago, turned her head to look out of the window, not at me. Suddenly, I felt unspeakably sad.So he dragged her along and said, "Go, my sister will celebrate your birthday!" "Really?" She looked at me with wide eyes. "Really!" I patted her, "Go, put on your most beautiful clothes." "Oh yes!" Ning Zi jumped up, ran into her room, and came out soon after. She was wearing a green dress, which looked very gorgeous. "I bought it myself." She turned around in front of me, "How about it, does it look good?" I smiled: "It looks good, but it's not suitable for you." This child, no one taught her aesthetics. She pouted: "Then what should I wear?" I went to her closet and found KITTY cat's pink T-shirt and white skirt for her.She put it on obediently, with young eyebrows and slender legs, she is really an invincible beautiful girl. That night I took her to Ye Xiaoye's residence.Xiaoye bought the cake and waited for us. Ning Zi naturally got to know him well, and soon hooked up with Xiaoye, treating everyone as his own. At around eleven o'clock at night, I took a taxi to send Ning Zi home. She smiled and hugged me at the door of the house, and suddenly a stern voice came from behind: "Where did you take her?" It's Ning Zi's father.He is waiting at the door! "The teacher took me out to play." Ning Zi said. "Play?" In the dark, I saw the stinky face of an old man: "Did you pay you to take her out to play?" I don't know how to respond.Ning Zi was already angry: "It's none of Teacher Chen's business, I asked her to take me out!" "Shut up!" Ning Zi's father said, "I'll settle your debt with you later!" have to.A little stinky money is great, one hundred yuan for an hour is not so popular! I turn around and leave. When I got back to my residence, I called Song Tianming, but he cut me off and didn't come back until half an hour later. "What's the matter, Xiaoduo, I'm in the laboratory." His voice was scratchy, and I suddenly lost the mood to cry.But he was unwilling to say anything, so he held back two words for a long time: "Break up!" Song Tianming begged for mercy: "Xiaoduo, don't make trouble. The three of us are fighting for a teaching assistant. I'm very tired. I'm going back to the lab now, okay?" I don't say anything. He said again: "Xiaoduo, I must become a teaching assistant, so that I can afford to fly back to see you during the holidays. Be good, huh?" He hung up the phone. I waited for a long time holding the phone blankly, but he didn't call again. In fact, I know that I am making trouble for no reason. Twenty-eight I had a lot of dreams that night, and the dreams were so crowded that I couldn't tell whether they were real or not.I dreamed that I was sent to a strange place as a tutor, and I was told that I was teaching a little girl, but for some reason, she suddenly turned into a middle-aged man, and he asked me fiercely: "What do you do? Are you here to steal my money?" I said I quit, but he still kept chasing me, I called Song Tianming while running, but when I called, the tone was always busy, busy. I woke up crying. All kinds of strength during the day seem to be taken for granted.But at night, I don’t know myself, I will be so fragile at night, I hugged my pillow and started to cry, I don’t know where I got so sad, no money, no job, and an intangible love, Boyfriend who never got through to the phone... I cried until the early hours of the morning before falling asleep. (3) I made up my mind the next day and decided to start from scratch. I made three resumes for different job applications, and applied for the positions of editor, secretary, and clerk respectively, and distributed them widely on major job search websites. After sending out my resume, I went back to sleep.I was so tired from crying last night, it hurt my god. Zhou Guoan's call came at this time. "Ms. Chen, hello, I'm Zhou Guoan. Ning Zi's father." He spoke very politely. "Oh." I said. "I'll hang up if it's okay. I'm busy." His next sentence almost scared me to the ground. "Okay, hang up. But please open the door for me, I'll be outside." Think with your toes that I know who betrayed me.Ye Xiaoye!You wait for me to peel off your skin! I opened the door, and there was a middle-aged man standing outside the door. I didn't see his face clearly last night, but today I found out that he is almost as tall as Song Tianming. He wears a CAPTAINO gray shirt and has a rather noble temperament, but I It's just that he's not pleasing to the eye. He's pretty straightforward. "Miss Chen, I apologize to you for what happened yesterday." He paused and added, "Thank you, you took good care of Ning Zi yesterday." "Yesterday was her birthday." I said angrily. "I know." Zhou Guoan said, "But I don't think a child's birthday should be too grand. I have already prepared a gift for her, and that's fine." "Oh, I would like to ask you how Mr. Zhou gave her the gift? Express delivery?" Anyway, I have decided not to eat this meal, so I simply let out a bad breath. "I'm sorry." He didn't accept my move, and there was a trace of fatigue in his voice, "If I said something wrong, I'm very sorry. If you're not happy, you can scold me back." "Go away, or I'll call the police." I threatened him. He ignored it. "Please come back with me," he begged. "Ningzi must ask you to go back." What?I turned to look at him.This noble man looked helpless. "Ningzi refuses to go to school or eat, she said, unless you are willing to go back." "This is a threat from a child, you don't have to take it seriously." He sighed. "But parents are afraid of threats from their children." This word beat me.I can only follow Zhou Guoan to his house.Although his residence is considered high-end, it is still far inferior to Ning Zi's mother's villa. After separation, he knows how to give up a good house to his wife. Such a man, I thought, is not too bad. In fact, I believe that even if I don't go back, nothing will really happen to Ning Zi.I've never seen a child's grief last long, their world is always full of new things, and yesterday can be forgotten in a blink of an eye. But Ningzi moved me.I only got along with her twice, once she ran away, and once I quit.It's just the two brief encounters that allowed her to do this for me, which made me believe that Ningzi is a kind child. Twenty-nine As soon as I got in front of Ning Zi, she threw herself into my arms and choked up. "Ms. Chen," she said while crying, "I can't let you leave me." She finally let go of her defenses and relied on me like a wounded little animal. I couldn't help but get red eyes. "Okay Ningzi, I have persuaded Teacher Chen to come back, can you go to school now?" Zhou Guoan walked over at some point.Ning Zi glanced at him, and took the schoolbag obediently. Send Ning Zi away, and I will also say goodbye.Zhou Guoan said, "Miss Chen, I'll drive you off." "No need." I said. "There is a direct bus from here to my residence, which is very convenient." "Well," he said, "I must say thank you." "Take good care of Ningzi." I said, "I'm just a tutor, not a full-time guardian. I came here for Ningzi's sake." He asked, "Then are you interested in full guardianship?" What?I stare. He smiled resolutely: "That's right, according to the agreement, Ning Zi will live with me for the next three months. But I'm very busy..." "so?" "So, I ask you to help me stay with Ningzi all day. In fact, it's not all day. She usually goes to school. You just need to come over after her school. If you want, I'll ask someone to arrange a room for you." To do or not to do?I was still thinking, he interrupted me: "Pay you double salary." Well, there is no need to think about it now. "You should find someone else, Mr. Zhou," I said, "I can't afford such a high salary." On the bus going back, I hated to think, fuck, is it amazing to be rich?There are always things in this world that money can't buy! The bus was overcrowded and stumbled.I tried my best to hold on to the handrail, telling myself not to fall, let alone regret it. Fortunately, the resumes I sent out received responses quickly, and there were quite a few of them. I dressed neatly to apply, and by the time I arrived at the third company, I was already sweating, my skirt was wrinkled, and my lipstick had long since faded.This company is not big, but it has rented a few office buildings in a very nice building, and the office conditions should be good.What they needed was a secretary. I was greeted by a fat man and a short woman who asked me a lot of inexplicable questions. I searched through eight generations of my ancestors, and finally asked me if I was in a relationship and what I thought about premarital sex. I endured it for a long time, and finally couldn't bear it anymore and said: "Can you ask some less mentally retarded questions?" The short woman understood first, and said sharply, "Say it again." So I said it again. The fat man also understood, he jumped up and said, "You can go." "Let's go." I was so angry that I ran for the door, got off the elevator and rushed forward sullenly, and bumped into a person. I took a closer look and found that it was none other than Ning Zi's father. "I met you again." He smiled lightly, as if he had forgotten that there was any unhappiness between us. "So what?" I was getting angry, "Give me triple salary today?" "I'm sorry," he said, "I'm sometimes direct." "It's not a direct question at all. Farewell!" thirty But he stopped me with gestures, pointed to the coffee shop downstairs and said, "How about this, I invite you to drink coffee to express my apology, I wonder if you would like to show me your face?" "Your family owns this store?" "No," he said. "That will cost money," I said. "It's okay," he said. "You can't be so stingy if you are so rich. Why don't you buy a car for me and I might consider forgiving you." He laughed, and seemed to be in a much more cheerful mood than the previous few days, so he ignored my nonsense sarcasm. "What kind of dessert do you like?" he asked. But I was in a bad mood, couldn't eat anything, and just stared out the window blankly.The most people in this city are people. I stared blankly at every strange face, as if I was in a desert.我忽然强烈地想念宋天明，我想他在异国他乡，面对的是一张张更加冷漠的脸孔，我忽然心疼他的孤独，心好像被高压水泵抽空，疼得无法呼吸。 我呆滞的表情大概让周国安误会。“陈小姐，你不会是一个记仇的人？”他说，“我昨天的话确实是无心。” “周先生你多虑了。”我醒过神，冷冷地说，“就算记仇也得改天，我今天吃你的喝你的哪敢放肆？！” 我幼稚的不礼貌逗得他微笑，笑完后他认真地说：“不吃不喝也没关系，不过我会再给你个机会消除你对我的成见，不知你可否愿意？” “嗯？”我扬眉。 他说：“我公关部正在招人，你愿意来试试吗？” 这回轮到我哈哈大笑：“周先生您的爱心真是泛滥得让人有点吃不消。” “我是认真的。”他说：“这楼是我公司投资的，大部份用来出租，我公司在最高二层。” “我不喜欢开玩笑，我的经历你一无所知。” “那不重要，我有慧眼就行。”他又习惯地微笑起来：“如果我是你，我会试试。”话说完，名片已经递了过来。 “我不会去的。”我说。 “不急，你可以考虑三天。”等我接下名片，他朝我礼貌地点点头，然后，离去。 原来他是环亚集团总裁。 啧啧啧，大名鼎鼎的环亚。房地产，娱乐，餐饮……无一不涉足。 这个世界上有很多的奇遇，不过我并不认为它会发生在我和这个姓周的商人之间。 白白折腾了一天的我只好去跟小烨诉苦，她正在家里做面膜，把自己弄得跟女鬼一模一样。我趴在她家的沙发上跟他说起周国安，小烨尖叫：“陈阿朵你真的要转运了，这个周国安比我爹还有钱呐！” “得。”我把周国安的名片放在桌上转啊转，“谁知道他安的是什么心，更何况我根本就没有答应他。” 小烨把名片一抢说，“你不去我去，反正我一直失业中。” “行。”我大方地说。 小烨笑笑，把名片往我包里一塞说：“说着玩的啦，我只对流浪感兴趣。晚上有空么？” "what?" “我带你去新世界酒吧玩，他们每月都举办一次RAYTY，还有抽奖。” 晚上我和小烨一起去酒吧，我们穿得花枝招展，故意画了很浓的妆。聚会很大，差不多来了二百号人。因为要抽奖，小烨给我们两个签了到，就拉着我花蝴蝶一样的左右穿梭。有个大胖子笑呵呵地朝我伸出手说：“小烨，这是你朋友？” “是啊，她叫陈朵。” “啊，原来是朵姑娘，久仰久仰。” 为了表示礼貌，我只好伸出了我的手，谁知道他竟死命地握住我，三分钟也没肯放开。 “很疼呃。”我皱着眉说。 “不疼怕你记不住哦。” thirty-one 我不明白一个大男人说话干吗要在最后拖个“哦”字，更何况是那样一个胖得要命的男人，于是我讥笑着问他：“你这么胖，都吃些啥了？” “吃你行么？”趁小烨走开，他低下声来，诡秘地和我打情骂俏。 “怕你消化不了。”我说。 “试试哦？”他又“哦”起来了，真是恶心加无耻。 我把端在手里的那块小蛋糕扣到他头上，然后哈哈大笑若无其事地走开。走了不远回头望，他正在一个瘦子的帮助下气急败坏地清理他的头发。 我差点儿没爽得背过气去。 就在这时我看到了他，一个陌生的年轻男人，他也正在看我，嘴角浮起一丝意味深长的微笑。 我调皮地朝他挤挤眼。 他朝我举举手中的酒杯，并不过来搭话。 小烨八婆兮兮地附在我耳边说：“看到没？是不是挺有感觉？” “神经。”我说。 “你懂什么？这帅哥我都看中半个月了，就是这间酒吧的老板，不然我天天来这里玩，我有病哦！” “我看你是真有病。”我拼命捅小烨，“这种花花公子一看就有恋母情结的。” “别胡说！”小烨抽我，“你去问问他喜不喜欢我？” “去！要问自己去问！” “陈阿朵，算我求你行不行？” 小烨以前我们学校的校花，她很酷的，从不和任何一个男孩子走得近，换句话来说，就是从不让男生有希望却又从不让人家绝望，因为这个，我们宿舍总是有吃不完的土特产，都是那些男生从老家吭哧吭哧地背来孝敬她老人家的。有时候还有男生背着吉它到楼下来唱歌给她听，她把窗户一开大喊一声：“有没有搞错哦，那么走调！” 然后再蹲下来和我们一起哈哈大笑。 很少有男人让她这么紧张过，看来，她对这个Ben是真的有点意思。 “大家注意，抽奖活动就要开始！三个幸运奖，我们将请Ben先生来抽，奖品是小灵通各一部！” “哦哦哦。”台下有人得寸进尺地嘘起来，“怎么不是诺基亚手机！！” 大家一阵乱笑中那人手指在键盘上敲了一下，大屏幕闪了两闪，首先出来的竟是我的名字：87号，陈朵。 我朝大家飞吻一个，随即轻快地跳到了台上。主持人是个年轻的小伙子，他尖声地不知疲倦地叫嚣着：“这位小姐真是好运，说说你的感想！” 我恶作剧：“太开心太开心了，谢谢我的唱片公司，谢谢我的制作人，谢谢所有支持我的歌迷，谢谢CCTV、MTV颁给我这个奖项……” 底下已经是笑得不成样子。小烨笑得最夸张，差一点倒到旁边那个男人的身上。 我给她一个飞吻，她回应我。两个无业女游民，花痴得有些不像话。 我忽然想什么，于是又抢过话筒来说：“对啦对啦，我还有个问题要替美丽的小烨问一下，那就是Ben先生你喜不喜欢小烨？” 下面一阵狂嘘，小烨尖叫着跳上台来把我给拖了下去，嘴里喊着死阿朵你找死呀看我不好好收拾你。 那个叫Ben的，笑得好尴尬。 我刚被小烨从台上揪下来就被死胖子拦住：“嘿，小姐你挺泼辣的啊，还这么好运。商量一下，替我把头洗了，我就不跟你计较喽。” “用香槟洗好不好？”我笑笑地看着他。 Thirty-two 他把双手举到胸前，往前一推说：“行行行，我认输，不打不相识，做个朋友怎么样？” “好呵好呵。”我不想太过引人注目，只好委曲求全哼哼哈哈。声称要去洗手间才算脱身。小烨跟着我追出来，跳着脚喊：“死小朵死小朵你今天是不是吃错药了。” “嘘！”我朝她竖起一根手指说：“是你自己让我问的么。” “行啊你！”小烨把我一抱，兴奋地说，“够朋友，呆会儿去看他的反应，呼呼呼！” “嫁入豪门会很惨的！”我打击她。 “半斤对八两。”小烨扬起眉毛，“再说了，谁说要嫁，玩玩嘛。” “小心玩出火来。” “顺其自然喽。”小烨说，“我爹昨天打电话说再不找工作就只能养我一年，一年之内我得赶快找张饭票。” 我跟小烨再进去，抽奖已经结束，台上的乐队正在唱陈奕迅的《阿怪》： 我们叫他阿怪 他说的最多的是拜拜 钱赚了就离开 直到不能够生活他才回來 他常說日子过得太快 还沒攀过烏拉山脈 他有他未來我们学不來 ... “这歌我最喜欢！”小烨站在我身边，脚打着拍子，跟着台上的人卖力地唱着：“我们叫他阿怪他说的最多的是拜拜……” 我却看到那个叫Ben的，没跟任何人说拜拜，已经从后面悄悄地离开了。 (4) 第二天我一直睡到11点，到底年纪大了，再也经不起疯玩，我用了四十分钟把自己从床上拽起来，决定继续上网找工作。 我一到网上就发现宋天明已经挂在上面，QQ头像改成愤怒状。 看见我上去他就张牙舞爪地扑上来：“陈小朵你你你昨晚上哪了？” “和……小烨……去了酒吧。”我坦白。 他作伤心欲绝状。“你知不知道昨天是什么日子？” “什么日子？” 他忽然矜持起来，死也不肯说。直到我耐心用完警告他不说就走人，他才扭扭捏捏：“是我们……第一次kiss啊。” 说完他打过来一个亲吻的图标。 “小烨，我很想你。” 简单的一句话，居然让我红了眼眶。 记忆回到我们在大学里的日子，在师大的那棵香樟树下，我和他的初吻。宋天明个子很高，我只能到他的胸前，所以要很辛苦的惦起脚尖。那时是夏天吧，天上有很多很多的星星，我回到宿舍的时候已经熄了灯，然后我爬到小烨的床上，在她耳边轻声对她说：“我被宋天明算计了。” Thirty-three “你完了。”小烨说，“这就等于把自己贱卖了。” 小烨一直认为我可以找到更好的男朋友，更好的标准其实也说不上来究竟是什么。但小烨骨子里确实比我骄傲，而且，如果是她想得到的，她说什么也要得到。 比如Ben. 前天她对我说，Ben开了一家新酒吧，她去应聘大堂经理，以她的美貌加学历肯定没问题，我问她，万一被录用了月薪多少，她说：“试用期800.” 我还没晕倒的时候她又说：“钱算什么，陈阿朵，你真的好俗哦！而我呢，我这辈子最大的梦想就是和自己爱的人一起浪迹天涯，现在真爱的人终于出现了，我的梦想已经迈出了第一步！” “你当Ben是白痴？”我说。“放着大好的生意不做陪你做梦？” 小烨振振有词万分臭屁地回答我说：“当男人爱上一个女人的时候，就等于是一个白痴。”然后她豪情万丈地一拍我肩膀，“陈阿朵，等我凯旋。” 叶小烨果然凯旋，顺利地当上了Ben新酒吧的大堂经理。 我摸去看她，下了公车按她给我的那个地址一路找过去，Ben的新酒吧在一个很安静的街区，有一个很特别的名字，叫“旧”。 我走进去的时候，疑是自己跌入了时光遂道。吧台，酒桌，椅子，窗帘，无一处不充溢着浓浓的复古味道。虽说我们上次去的“新世界”也是他开的，两者却是全然不同的风格。看来这个叫Ben的，还真是有两下子呢。 下午时分酒吧里的人不多，很安静，我在吧台前高高的椅子上坐下，问正在调酒的服务生：“你们经理呢？” “哪个经理？”他问我。 “最漂亮那个。” “是叶经理吧。”服务生说，“她在后面，一会儿就来。” 有小姐过来问我喝什么，反正是小烨买单，我想也不想地说：“XO.” 坐了一会儿，旁边忽然有人搭话说：“我看这里你最漂亮。” 我掉头看，是个三十岁左右的男子，长得尖嘴但不猴腮，难看得简直要交税，于是厌恶地往边上挪了一个位置。 谁知道他竟跟着我挪过来：“小姐我们有缘，我今天请你，你吃什么喝什么都算到我帐上，好不？” 他话说完，小姐刚好把XO替我端来，我接过来，顺势往前面的烟灰缸里一倒，然后对小姐说：“麻烦记到这位先生帐上。再麻烦给我请你们叶经理快点出来！” “呵呵，没关系，倒吧。”那家伙好像有些喝多了，说话舌头开始打结，“你倒多少我都请得起。” 我只好离开吧台，坐到窗边的位子上去。 好在他没有跟过来。 没过一会儿有人放到我桌上一杯透明的柠檬水，上面飘了一片薄薄的黄色柠檬。一个声音拿腔拿调地对我说：“小店刚刚开张，小本经营，还望海涵。” 我抬眼一看，是小烨。穿一件相当别致的旗袍，把整个身材衬托得凹凸有致，一张清致的面孔笑眯眯地对着我，美得我倒吸一口凉气。 “天。”我说，“你门口应该立个牌子。内有天仙，凡夫俗子不得入内。” “服了你这张嘴。”小烨朝我挤挤眼，“这里不方便，到我经理室去！” Thirty-four 我跟她进入她那储藏室般大小的所谓经理室，她把我往那张转椅上一按，人在我面前得意地转个圈说：“怎么样？一切尽在我掌握之中！” “他来这里？”我问她。 “当然，这里是新店，他一周起码来四次！”小烨在我面前竖起四根手指头，然后说：“他已经四次夸我能干，呵呵呵。” “等他四次上你床你再得意也不迟！” “哎呀陈朵你真是狗嘴里吐不出象牙来！”小烨啐我。 我无可奈何地说：“看来你是铁定了心要拿你青春赌明天喽。” “我好喜欢他的眼睛。”小烨花痴地趴到我耳边说，“他一看我，我就整个晕了。” “哪里那么严重。”我笑。 “看我身上！”小烨又在我面前一转说，“在苏州定做的，只此一件！” “他送的？” “工作服么。”小烨红着脸说。 真是乱了套了。 就在这时有人敲门，进来的是一个服务小姐，对小烨说：“叶经理，外面有人闹事。” “哦？”小烨说，“什么事？” “他说在我们这里丢了钱包。” “有这事儿？”小烨娇眉一蹙出去了，我也跟着去看热闹。闹事的正是刚才想请我喝酒那个，嘴里正在不停地骂骂咧咧。小烨走上前问道：“先生您钱包丢了？” “废，废话，当然是丢了，就在这里丢的，你们……你们快替我找回来！”那人真是喝多了，话都开始说不清。 小烨比我想像中有耐心多了，问他说：“您一个人来喝酒的吗？有没有忘在什么地方，您再好好想想，刚才都和什么人接触过？” “有！”他手指往小烨身后一指，直直地指到我身上说：“从我进来，我就只跟这个小姐说过话，也只有她坐在我身边过！” “喂！你是大脑有问题吧。”平白无故被无赖冤枉，我火冒三丈高，小烨赶紧示意我莫吱声，转声又好言对那人说：“先生您一定弄错了，她是我朋友。” “你……你朋友就保证没事吗，我不管，先搜她身。” what! 要不是小烨拉着我，我上前就要给他一巴掌，这种人，不打怎么行。 “要搜她身！”他还在翻着白眼不知死活地叫喊。 小烨当然知道我的脾气，连忙低声对我说：“这人不讲理，乖，你先到我办公室去，这事我来处理。” 我没打到他，哪里甘心走。正和小烨牵扯着的时候有人走了过来：“唐总，东西丢了好好找，别这么冲动。” 竟然又是周国安！ 这个世界是哪天变小的？ 那个姓唐的家伙一见周国安气焰立马就下去了不少，搓着双手说：“周，周总，你怎么也在这里？” 周国安淡淡地说，“这姑娘是我朋友，你别冤枉她。好好找找，就这么大块地方，丢不掉的。” 正说着，有服务生举着他的钱包跑了过来，原来他把它放到了洗手间的台子上，不仅是钱包，还有他的手机。 那家伙闹事不成，立马焉了。 我恨恨地对小烨说：“要不是你的场子，我今天就砸了这里。” 三十五 “那是那是。”小烨安抚我坐下，叫小姐给我倒杯冰水。 身后周国安正在跟小烨说：“他喝多了，让保安给他叫部车送他回家，车费和他这里消费的费用我来替他付。” 那人终于被架走了。 “谢谢周总。”小烨说。又碰碰我说：“小朵，来我替你介绍一下，这是环亚集团的周总经理，出了名的义气。” “我知道。”我转头说：“也是出了名的有钱和出了名的忙。” “哦。”小烨一拍脑门说，“瞧我，忘了你们本来认识。” “她对我有成见。”周国安笑着说，“不好意思，我那边还有客人，恕不奉陪了，改天再聊？” 我对着他的背影做个大大的鬼脸。 周国安一走小烨就把我拉到办公室里一顿好骂：“你怎么不去他公司，又怎么对人家这样子啊，真是不可理喻。” “不可理喻的是你。来这种鬼地方上班！” “这里真挺好的啊，可以说是全市最有品味的酒吧了，像周国安这样的人也常来就能说明这个道理。” 哼哼，小烨也就这点见识了，周国安算什么。 又有人敲门，这回进来的是Ben，这家伙是挺帅的，难怪小烨会为他失魂落魄。冲我们笑笑后他问道：“听说刚才出点事儿？” “小事，摆平了。”小烨得意洋洋地说。 “你们聊，我还有事要走先。”识时务者为俊杰，我赶紧溜吧，不然回头准会被小烨掐死。 小烨对Ben说：“记得么，这是我朋友小朵。” “我记得。”Ben说：“上次中奖那个么。” “不会是因为我拿了你的小灵通吧，如此耿耿于怀。”我说，“赶明儿还你！” “哪里。怎么会！”Ben笑。 “小朵喜欢瞎说的。”小烨说，“你别理她。” “有时也说说真的，比如上次在台上问你的那个问题，你要记得回答小烨哦。”我飞速地说完，然后赶紧拉开门走掉了。 出了门，已经是黄昏了。我把手搭在眼睛前往公车站走去，有辆车缓缓地跟过来，在我身边按了好几下喇叭。