Chapter 9 "Rumours" 3 (1)

The model is another important man in Wu Fei's life, no less important than her first love Yang Xiaoning and Mo Xilun who is about to change from "husband" to "ex-husband". I met the model seven years ago, when Wu Fei just graduated from university. Wu Fei's major in college is English, which basically means that she has no major.But this non-professional major is the easiest to make people who read it have a strange sense of self-superiority, so it is easy to have high-mindedness and low-handedness.Therefore, Wu Fei continued to excel for half a year after graduation, and at the same time was doing nothing for half a year.After seeing all kinds of cold faces, she finally realized that the employment situation is not as optimistic as she once thought.After that, due to the pressure I put on myself, I went to a foreign-related housing agency to work as a salesman.

A few weeks before going to work, she mainly helped old salesmen. Wu Fei watched it coldly for a while, and felt that there was no special technical content, so she applied to the leader and said that she already had the ability to handle independently.Of course the leader didn't want to raise idlers for nothing, so he agreed to let her try.The first time she picked up were two Taiwanese guests who wanted to rent a foreign-related apartment. This is the most common type of business. The company sorted out the information on hand, picked out the listings that met the requirements of the two Taiwanese customers, contacted the owners, and asked Wu Fei to take them to see.The two Taiwanese looked very strange. The man was not tall, slightly dark, and very thin. Although it was only early autumn, the young man's attire seemed to have the strength to turn himself into a rice dumpling.He kept a cold face and said nothing from the beginning to the end. The top third of his narrow face was covered by a wool cap, and the middle third was hidden behind a pair of oversized sunglasses, revealing a straight and beautiful nose. Wu Fei's favorite "apple chin" grows under the uneven lips that have been pursed all the time.There was a Taiwanese woman next to him, she couldn't see any relationship with him, she was both a master and a servant, she seemed to be able to express her opinion on his behalf at any time, but at the same time she couldn't help but keep watching her words, as if she was trying to understand the man The eyes behind the sunglasses.

These two are very picky, and after looking around, they are not satisfied.Everywhere a Taiwanese woman goes, there will be a lot of criticism, and the beginning of the criticism must be: "If this is in Taiwan, it will not be so stupid, it must be *%*·￥..." She usually curls her lips while talking , his eyeballs just kept flying up and down, not sure if he was talking to himself or scolding Wu Fei. At the fifth place, when the woman said "If this is in our Taiwan..." for the twenty-first time that day, Wu Fei suddenly interrupted her and said, "Don't rent it, okay?"

Her voice was not very loud at the time, and her attitude was not very bad. It was a "statement" at best.Even so, these words still stunned the two Taiwanese. Wu Fei looked at them and continued to state: "Otherwise, you can find another agency company. If you don't know each other, I can recommend it." She finished speaking and left, leaving the two of them behind. Frustrated by her unfavorable start at work, Wu Fei immediately resigned.Seeing that Wu Fei had lost a customer, the client not only self-reflected without humility, but also avoided the problem by resigning, believing that she had no future in training, so he did not show any signs of retention.Real estate leasing agencies were in the ascendant at the time, and they were not afraid of losing one and a half people with personality and inexperience like Wu Fei.

Wu Fei woke up the next day and had to stay in a daze at home. Her mother was picking vegetables in the kitchen while urging her to go to work and not be late.Wu Fei's parents divorced in the early years, and a younger brother went to school in Singapore, leaving her and her mother alone.Mother Wu is a cautious person, and she doesn't have high expectations for Wu Fei. Since she was a child, the only education she has given her is not to make mistakes in everything, and it doesn't matter whether she has grades or not. Wu Fei was dawdling in the room, secretly thinking about how to tell a lie to her mother and not talk about losing her job.Suddenly the pager rang, and Wu Fei ran out to answer the phone. It was the client who called her. The client said that the Taiwanese young man who visited the house yesterday called and asked for Wu Fei by name. He heard that she would not do it. It was even more important to find her, and he even left his phone number for the client to forward to Wu Fei.

The owner ordered Wu Fei to call the Taiwanese immediately. He believed that the young man must continue to rent an apartment after looking for Wu Fei, so he repeatedly asked that no matter what the man asked, he had to report to the company immediately.The client's tone was firm and unquestionable, as if giving Wu Fei a chance to reform, and Wu Fei was obliged to repay her kindness. Wu Fei memorized the phone number, went home and continued to lie down wondering, unable to figure out what the Taiwanese was up to.I fell asleep again and returned to the cage, and I didn't analyze what the other party was capable of in the dream.When she woke up, she thought again, what the hell, he was free anyway, so she called the young man from Taiwan.

Two hours later, Wu Fei and the Taiwanese met in the coffee shop of Jingguang Hotel. This time the Taiwanese woman didn't follow, the young man looked more relaxed, and even pursed his lips into an indistinguishable smile, but he was still wearing sunglasses. "I'm sorry to cause you to lose your job." The young man from Taiwan spoke first, lowering his head and stirring the coffee in his hand, not looking at Wu Fei. "It's nothing, I don't want to do it myself." Wu Fei didn't expect that he would apologize, so she told the truth without waking up, and answered with straight brows.

"Then, can I continue to ask you to show me the house?" the Taiwanese young man asked. For some reason, his face hidden behind the sunglasses turned a little red. The way a man lowered his eyebrows in front of Wu Fei made Wu Fei think of Yang Xiaoning again unexpectedly.In her impression, when Yang Xiaoning first met her, she often blushed like this in front of her.To be more precise, Yang Xiaoning was the only man in Wu Fei's more than 20 years of life before meeting this Taiwanese young man who would give her such a "low-browed-looking" expression.At that moment, this strange association suddenly touched an unknown soft spot in her.

"Okay." She promised, "However, could that girl not come together last time?" "Why?" the Taiwanese man looked up at Wu Fei with a smile and asked with great interest. "No reason, um..." Wu Fei tilted her head and thought for a while, then said with a smile, "When I see a female client, I get really upset! Hehe" "Hehe, that's it, then, deal!" The young man stretched out his hand with a smile. When he smiled, he showed his white and neat front teeth. "Hey, that woman is your girlfriend?" Wu Fei asked while shaking the man's hand.

"Ah?" The young man probably didn't expect Wu Fei to ask such a question. He was caught off guard and was stunned for a while before quickly answering, "Oh, no, no, she, she's just my manager." "What does the 'broker' do?" Wu Fei asked again. This was probably another question that the Taiwanese man hadn't thought of. He said "ah" again, and then said with a blushing smile, "The manager...is that...the one who will help you make a bad face at any time!" "No wonder!" Wu Fei rolled her eyelids, and then took a sip of the iced tea on the table.

"What?" the young man asked. "It's okay!" Wu Fei laughed while holding the cup. The man couldn't figure out why Wu Fei was laughing, so he laughed too.The two of them seemed to laugh easily for a while, neither of them could tell why they were laughing. After laughing, the two chatted about other things.When he was about to say goodbye, the Taiwanese young man suddenly took off his sunglasses, looked at Wu Fei with foggy eyes, raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked coyly, "Don't you know me?" Wu Fei shook her head, while quickly sketching scenes like "long-lost relatives" in her mind. "Then, don't you watch TV?" The young man asked again, his voice suddenly became thinner as if he had been pinched. "Look." Wu Fei said briefly, the expression on her face continued to be strange. "Then you, have you never seen me?" Unwilling, the young Taiwanese man leaned forward, squeezed his throat and asked in an almost inaudible voice. Drumming. Wu Fei shook her head again, and then asked back: "You insisted on asking me out, but you just wanted to ask me this, right?" The Taiwanese young man sat back, shook his head with a smile, took a sip of his coffee and said, "No, I just think you're quite interesting, do all Beijing girls talk like you?" "What about me?" Wu Fei asked. "I can't tell, it's that kind..." The Taiwanese man couldn't find a suitable adjective after thinking for a long time, so he blushed again. "Chong? (four tones)" Wu Fei helped him think of a suitable word. "What is 'Chong'?" The Taiwanese young man asked seriously. Seeing his serious face, Wu Fei suddenly felt strangely ridiculous, so she suppressed a smile and explained softly: "'Chong' means 'reckless'." "No, it's okay." He also smiled and put his sunglasses back on. No matter what impression the young man had of Wu Fei, but for the next month or so, he still asked her to accompany him to look around the house. Wu Fei didn't complain, but when he asked about the commission, Wu Fei said He hurriedly emphasized that it must be counted in the original company. "Won't you have a loss in this way?" he asked. "Hey, I promised you!" Wu Fei replied seriously. As expected, the Taiwanese man kept his promise and did not let his agent go with him, so Wu Fei was obliged to become the one who helped him put on a bad face during the renting process. "I found that you are really talented!" The man praised Wu Fei after seeing two places. Wu Fei, like most people in the 1970s, grew up with "whip" from childhood, so she couldn't stand praise.As soon as he was praised, he immediately became crazy, the more he fought, the more courageous he was, and he mastered all the essentials of choosing a good apartment in the shortest time. Later, he behaved more picky than the man's agent—except he didn't say "in our Taipei..." Although there were not many options for renting foreign-related apartments in Beijing at that time, the leasing process was still protracted.Finally one day, both of them were finally exhausted, and casually said to the last set they watched, "That's it." At this time, Wu Fei and this Taiwanese young man were already very familiar. This is an unusual experience for Wu Fei. This Taiwanese young man is a professional entertainer. He is also the one who has the most hobbies among the people Wu Fei has known in his life. No matter what he says, he seems to know everything, no matter what he does. a little. The point is not his career but his personality.In their relationship, he will take care of Wu Fei's opinions in every detail. Before Wu Fei met him, she never thought that a man could be so meticulous and particular. For Wu Fei, this Taiwanese youth is like a southern fruit like mango, which has incredible qualities and a strange intimacy. These various characteristics of this person are brought together, and if measured by vulgar standards, it can be called "Shuangxin of virtue and art"-although many artists don't understand what is called "shuangxin of virtue and art"-so After that, Wu Fei kept calling him "model". While looking for a house, Wu Fei also did her best as a landlord, and took the model to walk around when she had nothing to do. From Hepingmen to Panjiayuan, everything that Wu Fei knew about the property that could be turned over in Beijing was turned over as much as possible. After the search of the city was finished, Wu Fei took another example to appreciate the scenery of the suburbs of Beijing. Fortunately, at that time, the suburbs of Beijing still retained some natural scenery worth admiring. The model also knows how to be grateful, and is very supportive everywhere he goes. "'Huairou', 'Miyun'...these names are so beautiful and poetic! There must be some great legend or love story for such a place name!" Fan Fan praised, not pretending: "It's not like us There, what 'Jiufen' and 'Kelong' sound so distasteful!" Wu Fei was surprised by Fanfan's reaction, so she felt a little more friendly towards him. There was a private reason she never mentioned to Paragon.Wu Fei was born in the suburbs of Beijing, where she grew up through high school.Regarding this background, she always had some inexplicable complicated emotions.When she was in college, Wu Fei felt that she was always trapped between the "outsider" and the real "Beijinger", and her life was very "ambiguous", which made her unhappy.Fortunately, after her parents divorced, in order to get rid of that painful memory, her mother, with the help of relatives, finally brought her children to live on the edge of the second ring road in Beijing city, proudly, and became a real Beijinger.Of course, Wu Fei tried her best to stay after graduation. Since then, she has tried to forget that the suburbs are her real hometown with a feeling of abandonment. It wasn't until Fan Fan's interpretation of the place names in the suburbs that Wu Fei gained a new understanding of the environment she was so familiar with and tired of from such an unfamiliar perspective.For the first time in her life, she began to feel that she, too, could be proud of the place where she was born and raised, which she silently regarded as a gift from the exemplary. After browsing all the places he could go, Fanfan decided that Donghuamen in the center of the city was his favorite place.He was fascinated by the atmosphere of the area to the point of admiration.Sometimes just walking around there, even if it's just eating at Donghuamen Night Market, the model will sigh and admire. "It's Qi Qi." He said seriously to Wu Fei, holding a bunch of candied haws in his hand. They were strolling around the city wall at that time, and candied haws was the model's favorite. Before meeting Fan Fan, Wu Fei was surrounded by people who were stingy with compliments. Everyone used to be reserved and stick to the rules. They would rather hide nice words, as if they were worried that praising others would hurt their own muscles. The model is different. As long as it is something he likes, he will praise it unabashedly.Wu Fei often thought later that maybe this was the reason why she liked hanging out with him at first.He made her feel the power of praise for the first time, he gave her the opportunity to be proud of her life again, and he made her feel for the first time that she was doing something meaningful, and it wasn't just that she helped him find For the first time in her life, she was respected and wanted like a master-for anyone, it means a lot to feel needed. Before Fanfan was about to leave Beijing that time, Wu Fei forcibly pinned him to a shaving booth in Donghuamen and asked a kind Beijing old man to cut his hair.During the entire editing process, it was hard to see whether the model was struggling or enjoying. In short, "Ouch, Yo Ho" uttered various yells, and his performance was extremely exaggerated. Taiwan is very popular, which is why he was initially curious about Wu Fei: Wu Fei is the first young girl he has dealt with since he came to the mainland, and also the first young woman of the right age who has been indifferent to him in recent years, which made him feel very novel and challenge. "From the very beginning, you didn't think of who I was, and you always treated me fiercely. From your eyes, I saw that I was me. It was quite real. To me, this feeling was a bit magical. But , I found out later that you are actually kind to me!" Fan Fan said to Wu Fei. Wu Fei tilted her head and thought for a while, but she couldn't think of any other reason for Fanfan.At that time, Wu Fei couldn't understand why she couldn't recognize him, but he was more willing to get close to her. Wu Fei didn't have much experience in dealing with artists or celebrities, so she didn't have any other skills, so she just let her temper, and never really regarded the role model as a "so and so".From Wu Fei's point of view, anyway, good or bad, it's all about reciprocating, and she thinks it's fair.Therefore, when she fully felt the warmth brought to her by the model, she was very attentive to him.Their "warmth" and "intention" also have a certain basis for communication, because they talked a lot at the beginning of the relationship, talking in various ways and content, and the talk was full of flowers. "I've never talked so much to anyone in my life—except memorizing lines," Fan Fan said. Wu Fei also found it very strange that this person who had no similar background to her could give her an unexpected touch.She likes the expression of his frowning listening to her, and she likes when she finishes every sentence, the model nods earnestly and says "Understood." "Understanding" is a very important thing for Wu Fei. In this world, besides Yang Xiaoning, she doesn't know who else can give her a real understanding.Of course, Wu Fei didn't know much about the speaking habits of Taiwanese at the time. She didn't know that "understanding" for Taiwanese and "oh" for Beijingers actually meant the same thing, and it was not as grand as Wu Fei thought. But that doesn't matter. If misunderstanding can make the result sincere, misunderstanding itself becomes another kind of sincerity. Later, when the conversation was silted up, the two of them had something else to do. Fan Fan often asked Wu Fei to listen to him sing. "Please! If someone else wants to hear me sing, they don't even know how much they would have to pay! I don't even know how to sing!" Fan Fan pleaded jokingly. "Then can I pay you to stop singing?" Wu Fei also refused jokingly. "I'm singing, really, is it that bad?" Fan Fan asked seriously with a smile on his face. "Really, a little bit, poor." Wu Fei answered earnestly, looking into his eyes, seeing that he was a little frustrated, and added, "But it doesn't matter, someone who sings worse than you is not trying to make a record!" "Oh, that's it." Model integrity "Sometimes I think I'm so cheap!" "How?" Wu Fei asked. "No one, especially a woman, would say anything bad about me. From my mother, elementary school teacher, to all the fans now, I have never met half a woman who expressed indifference to me for half a second. , it’s just you, you’re such a weirdo! Before I met you, it was hard for me to imagine that a woman would criticize me—but the worst thing is, this is exactly what attracts me to you, I’m so cheap!” Shaking his head and laughing while holding half a piece of baked sweet potato. "You're the weird one. No one I know, male or female, ever said I'm cheap!" Wu Fei laughed as she held up the other half of a sweet potato. No matter how you say it, anyway, after that, gradually, no matter where Fan Fan is, he will listen to Wu Fei's opinions on his works from time to time, from dramas to records, hosting... all kinds of works.For Wu Fei, those are new things that she has never heard of, so she has no secular criteria for judging, she can only choose to be honest, praise or criticize models, and there is always a unique relationship between them. , To a certain extent, I can't hide it, so I don't bother to hide it. Although this relationship is close, but with its independent and close tacit understanding, it seems to be always trapped in a certain aura or barrier, so that there is no gender difference and corresponding troubles here.After getting acquainted with the model, Wu Fei suddenly discovered that there is indeed a strange relationship between men and women that may have nothing to do with love, but it cannot simply be called "friendship". Looking back many years later, Wu Fei suddenly realized that she should be grateful for the appearance of the model. It was the short and not deep relationship between him and her that temporarily dragged her out of the nightmare left by Yang Xiaoning.Although it was only "temporarily", it was enough for her to re-examine her life and herself.A woman's heart is never exhausted, and she always needs a goal for her to consume, and she is always "concerned" about someone. Such a vulgar event is nothing more than another verification that the suspension or termination of an old relationship is always due to the intervention of another new relationship-sometimes it may not be love. When Fanfan was away, he entrusted Wu Fei to take care of the house he rented.Although the apartment has passed Wu Fei and Fan's pickiness, it still has various problems.Because Wu Fei thought that she was entrusted by others, she suddenly felt that she was so important, and she maintained a strange enthusiasm in her mind. She always did her part in every big and small matter, and kept her "Qiu Ju" energy, and she would never get an "explanation". Don't give up.After going back and forth, this critical attitude attracted the attention of others, and she was picked up by the agency company of the real estate project. "There are very few mainlanders who take things as seriously as you do, especially girls your age." Mo Xilun, the boss of that company—who later became another important man in Wu Fei's life People—this is the evaluation of Wu Fei. Wu Fei is not particularly proud of such praise, she has no judgment on her own personality traits, and Wu Fei often hears the so-called "seriousness" that Mo Xilun said from other relatives and friends, but they use another The word, called "axis".Wu Fei doesn't care much about these two generalizations, no matter "serious" or "shaft", as long as the accident can be transformed into productivity, it is worth laughing. Wu Fei gladly accepted the new job offer, which means that she will have financial autonomy again for a long time to come, and at the same time, she will not have to listen to her mother sigh at home.