Chapter 27 "Rumours" twenty-one

Wu Fei and Lao Mo never had any mutual friends during their relationship. At first, it was because the relationship between the two was not clear, and they seemed to be wary of everyone. Of course, people around them couldn't afford to be friends with the two of them. Wu Fei often took it as a pity before. In her longing for marriage and love, having the love of each other's family and friends is an important part of the beautiful relationship between two people.Since Wu Fei didn't have much family happiness in her own family, she had high hopes for the family happiness of her future husband's family since she was a child.Unexpectedly, I later married Lao Mo, who could not give her any family happiness. Therefore, the expectation of "friends" naturally became extremely important.

When Wu Fei thought that their marriage could finally be revealed to the world after undergoing an international "public display", she couldn't wait to take Lao Mo to meet her friends and try the rich married life she thought. Mo Xilun has no special need for "friends". Like many middle-aged businessmen with the same background, in his eyes, "there are only permanent interests, but no permanent friends."The meaning of friends, in addition to business partners, at most there are poker friends or golf friends.Therefore, I don't have any enthusiasm for whether to accept Wu Fei's friends from the bottom of my heart.

Wu Fei was immersed in the excitement of being a new wife, and didn't pay attention to Lao Mo's inactivity. On a certain weekend, she excitedly asked a few of her acquaintances to have dinner with Lao Mo. Among Wu Feiyue's acquaintances, apart from a few colleagues from the new company, there is also her classmate Chen Lanlan. Wu Fei herself didn't know why she specially invited Chen Lanlan to see Lao Mo. In her heart, she had a vague thought that she hoped that Chen Lanlan could see her "happiness". It seemed that Wu Fei needed to prove to herself that she She didn't "ruin herself" as Chen Lanlan worried about.What's more, there is no need to "warm up" when old classmates meet. What Wu Fei needs most at that moment is not only encouragement, but also everyone's sincere acceptance of her and Lao Mo.

However, things did not go according to Wu Fei's ideal. Just halfway through the meal, everyone was discussing the topic of bidding for the Olympic Games. Someone enthusiastically suggested that it is better to listen to Lao Mo's opinion. He was eating food, and suddenly he muttered in English without beginning or end: "Its non of my business. Im not Chinese, im European!" Everyone immediately quieted down, and Lao Mo was strangely complacent. He raised his head and laughed dryly, then glanced around again, and criticized in Chinese: "It's strange, you Chinese like talking about politics so much!"

When Wu Fei heard this, her scalp went numb and her face turned green for a while. She didn't know how to break the deadlock, so she had to call the waiter loudly to add more food.After holding the menu and calming down for a few minutes, they added a bird's nest to everyone in a big way, trying to use this expensive dessert to heal the hole in their hearts blasted by Lao Mo. Chen Lanlan couldn't bear to see it, and followed Gu's enthusiasm, telling jokes and showing everyone's palm reading, all kinds of meat and vegetables, and finally messed up a meal.However, even so, Wu Fei still unfortunately found that Lao Mo behaved very badly during the whole banquet: he always seemed to be provocative when he talked, he sneered when he ate vegetables, sucked while drinking soup, and finally picked his teeth. Sometimes he sucks his gums hard, and even when he doesn't say, eat, drink or suck, his breathing is muddier than normal, like a patient with severe sinusitis.Wu Fei felt ashamed and embarrassed. She didn't understand why she had never discovered that Mo Xilun was actually such a rough man who lacked basic education before. He was completely different from the one she expected to respect and rely on.

After that dinner, Wu Fei sent Chen Lanlan home with an excuse, and sent Lao Mo away first. On the way, while Wu Fei was driving, Chen Lanlan watched from the sidelines, and first exaggerated Mo Xilun's many advantages to Wu Fei comfortingly. As she was speaking, Wu Fei interrupted her, looked straight ahead with a smile and said, "You don't even believe what you said." Seeing that she didn't answer, Wu Fei said again: "Lanlan, I thought about what you said later, yes, I am no longer the little girl who slept on your upper bunk back then, I am almost thirty years old, and I should know What exactly do I want. Lao Mo, no matter how good or bad he is, today... I have chosen him to be my husband, and I can only marry a chicken. Don't worry, I... I am fine. "

Chen Lanlan remained silent, and after a while, she said, "Actually, the only thing I'm worried about is that, you see, your husband, basically, he, he doesn't want to be Chinese at all, which means that he really doesn't want to be Chinese at all. The Chinese nation rejects you, so how can you expect him to really respect or love you after a long time?" Wu Fei listened cautiously, Chen Lanlan's words touched her very much, she never thought that she and Lao Mo, this simple marriage from underground to aboveground, would be loved by Chen Lanlan and the nation again They were linked together with hatred, Wu Fei was in awe of this statement, and never said a word all the way.

Since then, Wu Fei has never tried to bring Lao Mo to meet any of her friends. Chen Lanlan's words reminded her that she had to face a truth: she and Lao Mo had a chaotic relationship that was riddled with holes. They went out to sea, but because of the background difference that they neither love nor disdain each other, it is impossible for them to have mutual friends. It was such a marriage without mutual friends, the two held their noses together for a while.Later, Mo Xilun's business was not going well, and his temper became more and more bad-tempered. He was often on the verge of losing control, and complained about the government at every turn, and the more he said it, the worse it sounded.

Once, Wu Fei was promoted in the company and asked Lao Mo to have dinner. Wu Fei also specially set the place at a Korean restaurant in Liangma.That restaurant is one of Mo Xilun's favorites. Wu Fei doesn't like it herself. The reason why she doesn't like it is that she has been wondering why Lao Mo can see a smell of spicy cabbage and garlic from his skin after eating Korean food. It's a mix of smells that can linger in their bathroom for three days. Wu Fei thought about her momentary elation and Lao Mo's short-term disappointment this day, and decided to let go of her personal hatred and flatter her.That day when Lao Mo was driving, the Third Ring Road was still blocked like a parking lot, and he didn't make an exception just because an ordinary couple wanted to hold a celebration ceremony.

The two of them were stuck in a traffic jam from China World Trade Center to Jingguang for nearly half an hour. When they passed the Jingguang Bridge, they found out that it was because two cars collided with each other. This is a common occurrence in Beijing where novices gather. Lao Mo's anger was blocked, and he had been cursing along the way, and when he saw this scene, he couldn't help but start complaining again, criticizing Beijing's municipal management for nothing. Those criticisms were all sentences that Wu Fei was already familiar with. Wu Fei endured it for more than 20 minutes and saw that Lao Mo had no intention of withdrawing troops, so she interrupted and asked Lao Mo with a forced face and a smile, saying that you know that I am promoted this time. How much did you add?Old Mo was ignorant, and he was on fire again, so he replied without thinking, "How much can you add?! The little money you add a year is not enough to cover my monthly expenses. What's there to say!"

Wu Fei was choked back by these words, so she didn't say anything else.Lao Mo didn't care, and returned to the old theme to continue criticizing, and the words starting with "F" in the critical sentences became more and more frequent.When he scolded all the way to the Liangma parking lot, Wu Fei finally couldn't take it anymore, turned her head and cursed back: "Since you hate Beijing so much, why don't you fucking get out! No one begged you to stay here!" After speaking, she slammed the car door go out. Lao Mo was stunned, and he didn't chase Wu Fei. The two of them wandered aimlessly on the streets of Beijing in late autumn each night.They are all thinking about the same question, which is also a question that has lasted for thousands of years: the meaning of life and the truth of love. It seemed that at that moment, people all over the world could not understand, what is the purpose of human life?And, besides making love, why do men and women insist on being together? Years afterward, they were still thinking, is there anything more depressing in the world than having an affair and turning into a married couple? The answer is still: no. At night, when Wu Fei came home, Lao Mo was cooking instant noodles. Seeing her come in, he asked, "Do you want to eat?" Wu Fei didn't answer the call, changed her shoes, shut herself in the bathroom, and dawdled in it for a full forty minutes. When she came out, she found Mo Xilun leaning against the door in her pajamas, with a different expression. Smiling and said to Wu Fei: "My lady, let's rest earlier." Wu Fei walked around him with her head down and went to the living room, half lying on the sofa watching TV, but she was not really watching, just kept changing channels aimlessly with the remote control, and the voices in the TV were full of incoherent words. the whole room. Old Mo stood awkwardly behind the sofa, and tentatively asked Wu Fei, "What program do you want to watch, do you want me to watch it with you?" Wu Fei didn't answer, and waited for dozens of channels to browse around twice, and found that Lao Mo was still where she was, without raising her head, she said to Lao Mo: "No, you go to sleep first, I'm not sleepy." Lao Mo stood still for a while, then heaved a long sigh, and went back to the bedroom resentfully. In the next few days, both of them showed unprecedented politeness on the surface, raising their eyebrows as if nothing had happened.At night, Wu Fei used excuses to sort out the materials, and it was always time for Lao Mo to snore before sneaking into bed. The cold war continued. A few days later, Wu Fei's boss at Wu Fei's company invited her to go to a nightclub with a colleague from the United States. Wu Fei thought that she could finally show off her English. When Lao Mo arrived home, he found Wu Fei lying in the bathtub shaving his armpit hair, and the door was not closed. He thought it was a symbol of reconciliation, and he was overjoyed. On the side of the bathroom door, they frequently praised Wu Fei's figure. Because Wu Fei's work went well and her mood improved, she acted like she didn't forget the past. At the beginning, the two were still chatting, and while chatting, Lao Mo felt a little ready to move.He went to the edge of the bathtub and squatted down, put one hand into the water and stroked Wu Fei's body. Wu Fei followed the movement of his hand while continuing to chat with him. The basic respect between husband and wife, like an occasional orgasm, women are like this, their indirectness sometimes appears as a subtle cover-up, and sometimes it appears as an exaggeration.So Lao Mo misunderstood Wu Fei's kindness, stretched out his face to suck Wu Fei's neck, and at the same time admired how smooth her skin was like silk in the water, and began to take off his clothes. Wu Fei didn't like it, so she stopped humming immediately, and while pushing Lao Mo hard, she hurried out of the water covered in foam.Lao Mo was not willing to let go of his excitement, and he just kept grabbing Wu Fei's naked body with both hands. As a result, Wu Fei slipped and fell to the bathroom floor in order to dodge. It was inevitable that another family war would follow. Fortunately, Wu Fei didn't fall seriously, so after arguing with Lao Mo, she still insisted on making herself look good and went to the nightclub with strangers. Lao Mo tried to court for sex, and quarreled again. The grievances accumulated over the past few days turned into anger.Wu Fei didn't come back from the carnival until midnight. Seeing Lao Mo's curled up figure in the dark, she felt a little strange pity. She put the previous battles behind her and wanted to take the initiative to show her favor, so she climbed into bed in the dark, separated by the quilt Hugging Lao Mo and making a fuss. Mo Xilun wasn't asleep at all, but he was bored and didn't respond positively to Wu Fei's overtures.Wu Fei had no choice but to tell her husband her experience in the nightclub as if nothing had happened, exaggerating both the good and the bad, trying to cover up the unhappiness just now. Lao Mo was silent at first, and after listening for a while, he interrupted Wu Fei in a cold and muffled voice, "Okay, okay, you go change your clothes? It smells like smoke!" "Okay!" Wu Fei was not discouraged, didn't care about Lao Mo's indifference, and continued to respond cheerfully, raising her hand to sniff her armpit, and then accosted, "Did you know, my husband, Americans are shaved Armpit hair, but Europeans don’t seem to shave.” Mo Xilun rolled the quilt for himself, turned over, and said with disdain without opening his eyes: "You are from the countryside of Beijing, how many Europeans and Americans can you know?! Hmph." Wu Fei was standing up to change the laundry, when she heard Mo Xilun's words, all the energy she had pretended just now was gone, she stood there and looked coldly at his curled up figure, without replying. Mo Xilun probably also felt that what he said just now was a little inappropriate. Although he was relieved after holding his breath all night because he had finally ridiculed his wife, he was still a little frustrated, so when he heard that Wu Fei was silent , just looked at her with his head tilted.Seeing her figure standing in the dark, Lao Mo tried his best to change into a softer tone and said, "Okay, okay, change clothes soon and go to sleep." Wu Fei continued to stay there in the cold, in the room with no lights on. Although neither of them could see each other's eyes, they could feel each other's imposing manner, so they still insisted on staring at each other coldly for a few minutes in the dark.Then Wu Fei went out, closed the bedroom door, went to the kitchen and poured herself a glass of water, walked back to the living room, lay on the sofa, dug out the cigarettes she had just bought in the nightclub from her bag, took out one, lit it, and deeply He took a deep breath, and was helplessly stunned for a while. It was Wu Fei's first smoking after they got married. Mo Xilun didn't smoke, so she couldn't smell Wu Fei's second-hand smoke. This was one of the details they talked about before they got married. When in love, any contradictory habits may be covered up by emotions, but when it comes to marriage, someone always has to compromise, or, two people feel that they are compromising but the other party does not know how to appreciate it, but the grievance is always There is no substitute for love. Mo Xilun waited in the room for a long time, but didn't hear anything, so he pulled his shoes out to see what happened. "Why are you smoking again!" Mo Xilun frowned and asked, his tone was very impatient, which was slightly different from his actual mood. Originally, he just wanted to ask Wu Fei to go back to the room. "Don't worry about it!" Wu Fei raised her voice even more impatiently, without turning her head. Mo Xilun froze for a while, watching Wu Fei continue to hold her cigarette, he couldn't think of any more powerful words, so he had to go back to bed - like all ordinary couples, this is just a lot of people There is nothing special about the nights that everyone will experience when they lie down in their clothes.