Chapter 17 Text 16

About the third day after we met in the gym, Ma Wen received a call from Li Qin. Since Ma Wen didn't save Li Qin's number at the time, he didn't recognize that it was Li Qin at all, and asked professionally: "Hi , who are you?" Li Qin just chuckled and said, "You didn't save my number?" Ma Wen was a little impatient and said, "I'm sorry, I lost my mobile phone, and I don't have anyone's number for the new card." "I'm Li Qin." When Ma Wen heard this, he quickly became enthusiastic: "Oh, Li Qin, what do you need from me?"

Li Qin said that the window screens needed to be changed at home, and asked Ma Wen if he could come over and help.Marvin immediately agreed.Li Qin hung up the phone, feeling hopeful in his heart.It is true to change screens, but it is also asking for directions.In fact, after being divorced for so many years, Li Qin would be lying if she said that she never thought about finding another man.She still thought about it, but what's the use of thinking about it?Li Qin is different from Yang Xin. Yang Xin has a job anyway, and he can still get in touch with Li Yi. Who can Li Qin know as a housewife?She has also heard of this net and that net, but when she thinks of going to the Internet to find men, her self-esteem can't bear it.As for Ma Wen, when Li Yi led her to her house, she didn't feel anything, she was just an ordinary person.But when she met in the fitness center that day, through the large French windows, she watched Marvin compete with a sunny boy in push-ups, and her heart suddenly moved.

The phone call between Li Qin and Ma Wen was on Wednesday, and the appointment was on Saturday morning.On Friday night, Li Qin suddenly felt that he should confirm with Ma Wen.As a result, when I called Ma Wen's cell phone, the line was always busy.Li Qin directly called Ma Wen's house.Ma Wen's landline is in Yang Xin's house, and when Yang Xin answered the phone, she recognized Li Qin as soon as she heard it, and quickly said to Li Qin, "Ma Wen is here, I'll ask Li Yi to call him." Yang Xin didn't want to avoid suspicion, but he didn't want to leave Li Yi with something to say.Now that Sun Rong has something to look for Li Yi, Li Yi has done it very much, don't turn around and take it for granted, then she will have no way to live.

Ma Wen was lying on the bed in his hut, and Song Ming had been calling his cell phone for at least two hours, but the cell phone was hot, and Song Ming was still talking about it.In fact, after all, it was just the messy affair between him and Lin Hui.Li Yi knocked on the door and shouted: "Ma Wen, call, I'm looking for you." Ma Wen was surprised, he didn't know why his phone number came to Li Yi's room, he hurriedly said to Song Ming: "I have something to do, I will call you later." He hung up. The phone sat quietly on the bedside table, the receiver was set aside, just like a woman posing on the bed and waiting for a man to talk.Ma Wen rushed in and couldn't wait to answer the phone: "Hi, I'm Ma Wen... Ah, remember, no problem, no problem. When will the workers arrive? Okay. I'll try to arrive at nine." The other party hung up, Li Qin's style in this way.She can't accept that she is too aggressive.If she initiates the call, she must hang up first.It's like immature men and women falling in love. When there is a conflict, the face-saving party will often break up first. "I want to break up" is more important to them than anything else, even more important than their being together.

Ma Wen put the phone down, turned around, and found that Yang Xin and Li Yi were all paying attention to him.Marvin smiled, turned his gaze away, and left.When Ma Wen walked to the door, Yang Xin couldn't help saying: "It's good enough for a good shot." Ma Wen stopped, looked back one by one, smiled bluntly, and replied: "It can't be said, at most it's just a plan." After finishing speaking, he found that Li Yi was looking at him seriously, he grinned happily, left, and locked the door. bring.The remaining two people in the room stared at each other, speechless.From Li Yi's expression, Yang Xin felt that maybe because of what he said to Ma Wen just now, "It's enough for the backswing", he felt uncomfortable again.

night.Both husband and wife were a little insomnia, tossing and turning each other, turning face to face.Li Yi felt awkward and wanted to avoid it, but just as he was about to turn it over again, Yang Xin held him down.Yang Xin asked: "What's the matter with you? Can't sleep?" Li Yi replied: "You can't sleep either." Yang Xin sat up and said to Li Yi, "I'm just curious." Li Yi turned over and lay on his back: "Are you a curious person?!" "What do you mean by that?" Li Yi said slowly: "If I and Sun Rong are like you and Ma Wen, you will definitely not be happy."

"I'm not as narrow-minded as you. What's up with you and Sun Rong'ai, really, I don't care." "Come on, we're alright..." Yang Xin was upset: "Then what happened to us?" Li Yi was silent, Yang Xin refused to let go, and pushed Li Yi: "Tell me, tell me clearly, what happened to me?" Li Yi had a resolute face and was full of righteousness. He was beaten to death without saying a word.Yang Xin is now a battle-tested woman. In the past, she was most afraid of men on the bed. Now, she has thick skin. Who should we serve her own man?It was too late to say it, and then it was too fast, let go of his figure, and so on, Li Yi was still there at first, but he couldn't hold back Yang Xin's indomitable softness beats the strong. "Husband and wife don't have overnight hatred", the love scene is like a battlefield, and the flames of war are raging and filled with smoke.

Yang Xin lay on Li Yi's body: "Do you love me?" Li Yi looked up to the sky and sighed, "Don't keep using this trick against me..." Yang Xin said: "Then I use this trick to deal with others, are you happy?" Li Yi knew that Yang Xin was trying to curry favor with him, and couldn't bear to embarrass her too much, so he turned over and held her down, saying, "Try it!" As soon as Ma Wen arrived at Li Qin's house, he found that Li Qin's house was completely different this time from last time.New curtains, double, hand-embroidered sheer peach tulle with beaded sequins, lined with a whole dark rose shade.And the Persian rug in front of the coffee table, it should be newly bought, right?Gorgeous and exotic.With the marble floor, one is soft and one is hard, one is deep and the other is shallow, which complement each other seamlessly.Marvin even felt that something should happen to such a curtain, such a carpet, such a marble floor.

There are flowers everywhere.On the coffee table, on the window sill, on the half table in the corridor, on the corner cabinet in the corner... Li Qin's newly curly hair, light lip gloss, and a vague fragrance on her body. Li Qin refilled Ma Wen's tea, but Ma Wen's tea was full, Li Qin said, "Is the tea cold? Get a new cup." Marvin: "It's okay, I like to drink it cold." After hearing this, Li Qin was not polite and sat still.She wore a green bracelet on her wrist.Marvin suddenly had the urge to touch the bracelet. Li Qin asked Ma Wen: "Do you like listening to music?"

Marvin: "It's okay." Li Qin went to the front of the CD rack, turned the other side and said, "What do you like to listen to?" Marvin: "Whatever. Just find one you like." Li Qin picked one.Marvin kind of likes this feeling, tea, music, a beautiful hostess, a beautiful house... He adjusted his expression and posture subconsciously, trying to be in tune with all these... The workers who installed the screens didn't come until noon.Throughout the morning, it was just Li Qin and Ma Wen.I don't know why, although this time there was a chat with each other, and each other was reserved, and no one wanted to take the first step and both of them were ready to go downhill, but the atmosphere was better than last time. much better.The last time it was a dry sitting, although this time it was also a dry sitting, but they were all tentatively groping forward.This feeling is more tiring than the previous blind dates that Marvin has experienced, but it is obviously more interesting.Those blind dates are straight to the point and straightforward. Within five minutes, the height, age, weight, income, economic conditions, house, and car are all figured out clearly, and the rest is "where to go".But it is different from Li Qin now, it is faintly visible, just like the gauze on her window.

Li Qin asked, "Have you gone to the gym recently?" Marvin said, "Ah, no. That's the only time I went. I don't like exercising. One of my buddies dragged me in." Li Qin stayed for a while, unable to find a topic, and paused for a while. Li Qin smiled, glanced at Ma Wen while smiling, and asked Ma Wen, "Are you usually so talkative?" Marvin said, "Ah, I don't like talking." Li Qin smiled again and said, "Then Li Yi really wronged you." "What did he say about me?" "Guess what he said about you?" "It's definitely not a good word." "The heart of a villain. He said that it would be great if he could speak like you!" Marvin couldn't come up for a while, but fortunately the doorbell rang at this time, and Marvin jumped up and said, "They are here." After speaking, he felt that he seemed to be acting too much, and he was a little embarrassed.Li Qin took Ma Wen's reaction into consideration, she just looked at Ma Wen with her eyes, the meaning in her eyes was: "Are you so looking forward to them coming?" Li Qin hurriedly opened the door, and the workers came in... After the screens were replaced, Li Qin settled the settlement with them, a total of 3,580. Ma Wen blurted out from the side: "It's so expensive!" The worker who collected the money did not show any weakness: "Is this still expensive? This is a promotional price, and it would cost more than 5,000 if there is no discount!" While giving the money, Li Qin said, "It's too expensive. But it won't work if you don't change it. I don't know how the mosquitoes are so bad now. They can penetrate every hole. The old-fashioned screens can't deal with it, and they all get in through the gaps on the side." After hearing this, Marvin couldn't help but laugh.Li Qin looked serious and asked, "What are you laughing at? It's true." Ma Wen said: "Mosquitoes that are too honest must have suffered enough from being honest. That's why they have to learn to be a little bit worse and penetrate into every corner. If they are all honest mosquitoes, wouldn't the mosquitoes be like pandas and need protection?" Li Qin also laughed.After laughing, the two cleaned up the mess together, swept the floor, cleaned the window sill, and said to Li Qin while messing with Li Qin: "You have worked hard today, please have a light meal." Ma Wenyan was insincerely polite: "No, no, no." Li Qin said: "Don't be polite to me, and I won't be polite to you either. I will let you deal with it here at noon, and I have to treat you to a good meal at night." Marvin said, "It's really not polite." Li Qin asked: "Are you busy tonight?" Ma Wen hesitated for a moment, and said, "It's okay. I mean, I didn't help much, and I asked you to treat..." Li Qin breathed a sigh of relief when Ma Wen said that he was fine, and said, "It's not a treat, it's just near our home, it's a home-cooked restaurant, and it's not delicacies from mountains and seas, and the price is not expensive..." Hearing what Li Qin said, Ma Wen couldn't help laughing. Li Qin asked, "What are you laughing at?" Ma Wen said: "It's nothing." After finishing speaking, he found that Li Qin was a little serious, and was afraid that Li Qin might misunderstand, so he explained: "I have been on blind dates for the past few months. It's like fighting a war. On the battlefield, sometimes there are several stalls a day, and you have to march in a hurry. The battlefield is all kinds of "home-cooked food". No matter what the result of the battle is, I will pay the bill. Sometimes I think, it seems that if this man sees a woman, he can only invite She eats, whether there is a show or not, it seems that if she doesn't eat such a meal, she has nothing else to do." Li Qin pursed her lips and laughed: "Perhaps in the eyes of you men, inviting a woman to dinner is to save face." Marvin immediately defended: "No, no, that's not what I meant." Li Qin: "It doesn't matter if you mean it that way, I'm treating you today." Marvin said nervously, "How can it be done? I'll please." Li Qin smiled sweetly and said, "I'm going to change clothes, you wait for me, let's go there now." The two of them seem to have gotten closer during their work, and their conversations are also casual, not as stiff as they were at the beginning.Ma Wen lamented that labor not only played an important role in the process of evolution from ape to man, but also played an important role in the process of the relationship between men and women. Li Qin put on a low-cut, tight-fitting dress that she took out in the morning but was embarrassed to wear, and then put on makeup in front of the mirror, and adjusted her hair a little.Then I changed to a pair of high heels. Ma Wen was looking for CDs on the CD rack in the living room, when he heard Li Qin call him "Let's go", Ma Wen raised his eyes and was stunned.After a change of clothes, Li Qin really felt a little amazing. The "home cooking" mentioned by Li Qin and Ma Wen's "home cooking" are not the same concept.Ma Wen's "home-cooked dishes" are the dishes that ordinary people often eat at home, while Li Qin's "home-cooked dishes" are the dishes that officials and eunuchs often eat.Therefore, Li Qin's "home cooking" restaurant actually has cold sea cucumbers, Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, and swallow abalone fins. Li Qin ordered a table of dishes and spent a lot of money.Ma Wen was hungry, and these "home-cooked dishes" were really not what Ma Wen could eat "home-cooked", so he buried himself in eating hard.While eating, Ma Wen suddenly noticed that Li Qin was observing his eating, and quickly restrained himself. Li Qin was considerate and said, "It's a good thing that a man can eat." Ma Wen's mouth was full of sea cucumbers, and he couldn't speak, so he could only hum and nod. Li Qin went on to say: "I don't like the men who eat a little bit of everything, and they don't eat this one and don't touch that one." Marvin nodded, swallowed the sea cucumber in his mouth, and said, "I don't have that problem. I can eat anything." The atmosphere became more and more pleasant.Ma Wen asked Li Qin, "Why didn't you eat anything?" There was a pun in Li Qin's words: "Do you still pay attention to whether I eat or not?" Ma Wen and Li Qin's meal lasted from "after the appointment at dusk" to "when no one whispered in the middle of the night".Maybe the waiter was embarrassed to send them away, seeing how devoted they were, so they turned off the lights one by one, and finally turned off only one light hanging on their table.Ma Wen looked up and saw that the surroundings were dark, like Liaozhai. The restaurant was bustling with people just now, but in the blink of an eye, he and Li Qin were the only ones left! Ma Wen called for the bill, and Li Qin asked the waiter to bring the bill directly to him. Marvin blushed and said to the waiter, "Give me, give me." Li Qin: "You really want to invite me, next time! Let's find a good restaurant and let you invite me today. It's too cheap for you." Ma Wen said nonchalantly: "I can't compare with you. We are poor people, and we can't afford high-end ones. To tell you the truth, I haven't even entered a place that is slightly decorated to pretend to be a grandson." Li Qin giggled and said, "Okay, since you're telling the truth, I'll invite you next time. Please go to a high-end one." Ma Wen said: "Then I have to miss you. Food and sex are sex. The ancients said that there are two pleasures in life. One food and one sex. I am single, and sex is empty, and only food is left. It is best that you invite me every day. " Li Qin said: "Then I have to open a restaurant. Let me tell you, many people have given me such advice, saying that opening a restaurant will definitely make money." Marvin said: "Don't listen to them. It's not the same thing to open a restaurant by yourself and eat in someone else's restaurant." Li Qin said, "What's the difference?" Marvin said: "It's the same as sleeping at home and sleeping in a hotel, for the same reason. Even if the bed at home is the same as the hotel, it's different." Li Qin said: "Are all of you men like this? When a woman is not married, it's one thing; when she gets married and becomes a wife, it's another thing." There was an element of flirting in the eyes of the two of them.The meal was clearly enjoyed. Under the moonlight.outside the restaurant.Gather and disperse. Ma Wen said to Li Qin: "I'm so sorry, I asked you to treat me." Li Qin smiled: "It's just a meal, it's not worth mentioning." Li Qin said it very playfully, especially the four words "not worth mentioning", which is a bit literal.Made Marvin laugh. Li Qin asked: "Are I talking so funny?" Marvin said, "Maybe it's been a long time since I've met someone who can say 'not worth mentioning'?" Li Qin laughed again, she hadn't laughed for a long, long time.She looked at Ma Wen, and she wanted to keep Ma Wen in her heart, but after all, she couldn't say that, and Ma Wen wouldn't come. Li Qin stood for a while, but couldn't find any suitable words. I had no choice but to thank Ma Wen again.Li Qin said: "Then thank you for today, I have been busy for a long time." Marvin: "What kind of busy work is this? It's easy to do." After a pause, Marvin said, "It's not worth mentioning." Both of them laughed at the same time. Yang Xin came out of the shower and asked Li Yi to dry his hair. Li Yi said to himself while blowing her hair, "What time is it? Ma Wen is still at my sister's house, right?" "Can't you just call and ask?" "I called, but no one answered at home." "Your sister doesn't have a cell phone?" "The phone is off." "Really? Wouldn't it be rain after a long drought? Your sister is fierce enough." Li Yi didn't have the heart to tease Yang Xin, and said, "What are you talking about? My sister is not that kind of person." Yang Xin said, "Did I tell you what kind of person your sister is?" Li Yi covered it up for Li Qin: "My sister just asked Ma Wen to help change the window screen." "Why doesn't she look for you?" "Look for me, I have to ask you for leave, and she has to look at your face." "Don't talk nonsense, am I so narrow-minded?" Li Yi coaxed Yang Xin: "No, no. It's my sister who is narrow-minded and supercilious. She doesn't want to make other people's husbands, so as not to be a wife. My husband, I'm not willing to let him do physical work!" Yang Xin pushed Li Yi and said, "I hate you." After a while, he said to Li Yi, "Do you really think that your elder sister's asking Ma Wen to change the window screens is as simple as finding a labor force?" Although Li Yi knew in his heart that it was not that simple, but he wanted to protect his sister's dignity, so he deliberately said, "Then what else do you think?" Yang Xin said, "This is called throwing stones and asking for directions!" Li Yi suddenly realized, and said: "Oh, when I told you, why did you come to me every day for one thing or another. It turned out that you were throwing stones to ask for directions." "Fuck you, who threw stones at you for directions?" "That's right, you didn't throw stones, it was me, I crossed the river by feeling the stones, right?" Yang Xin ignored Li Yi's teasing: "You are sick, you said you introduced your sister to Ma Wen, they just met now, you are so sleepless at night, I don't know what you think. " "I've got to have a-talk-talk with Marvin!" "What are you talking about? What is there to talk about? Does he listen to you?!" "Whether he listens or not, Li Qin is my sister. If he dares to play tricks on my sister, I can't spare him!" Yang Xin disagreed.Li Yiruo said blankly: "I'll tell you Yang Xin, I've been giving in to him! Don't think I'm easy to provoke if you don't have the same knowledge as him. If you really do it, he's not like me!" Yang Xin provocatively: "Why do you keep letting him go?" Li Yi couldn't say it anymore, he was too embarrassed to say it.Obviously Yang Xin knew what Li Yi was going to say, so she continued to provoke her, saying, "I'm just bothering you to say this. What can you do to him? He didn't give me me, so why do you want to please him? Let him go? As if we owe him so much!" "Did I say that?" "Do you need to say it?" Li Yi fell silent.Yang Xin won a big victory.But she was not happy about Li Yi being so silent and silent. She found fault, kicked Li Yi, and said, "Hey, what are you thinking?" Li Yi was perfunctory: "I didn't think about anything. I have a job to hand in tomorrow, and I haven't finished it yet. I have to go early in the morning." Yang Xin leaned on Li Yi and said with great interest, "Do you have to hand in a job tomorrow?" There was a different kind of charm in his eyes. Li Yi was not interested, he pushed Yang Xin away and said, "I have to call my sister again..." Yang Xin was not happy: "Are you gossiping or not? Let me ask you, what did you say on the phone? You said, sister, how is the Ma Wen I introduced to you? Is the screen window in Xin'an good? You have installed it?" How long? What are you doing next time? Is Marvin staying with you today?" Li Yi was not in the mood to tease Yang Xin, and sighed, "I regret it now." "What do you regret?" "I can see that Marvin is not a fuel-efficient lamp." "Your sister saves fuel?" "Why do you keep choking on me? If you keep choking like this, I can't kill you!" Yang Xin "giggled" Lang laughed and said, "You kill me!" Marvin walked through the door humming a song.That is, as soon as he got home, Li Qin's text message chased him in. Li Qin text message: "Thank you for helping others. Please tell me when you get home." After thinking about it, Ma Wen replied to Li Qin's text message. "Thank you for the meal. I have arrived home safely." Li Qin was soaking in the bathtub, this was one of the few times she visited the big bathtub in her house.After Li Qin received this text message from Ma Wen, she didn't know how to reply without losing her reserve and tantalizing her appetite.Li Qin wrote several drafts.The first draft "You're welcome" was deleted, it was too general; the second draft "No thanks" was deleted, it was too mediocre; the third draft "I will invite you next time..." was deleted again, it was too cheap!In short, every time I wrote it, I deleted it by myself, and finally wrote only two words: "Good night." Li Qin thought it was better to use these two words. Ma Wen quickly replied: "Good night." When Li Yi heard Ma Wen came back, he got up and was about to get out of bed.Yang Xin desperately stopped Li Yi: "Don't talk to him... You don't know him. The more you get on the pole, the more he messes with you. This matter has to be left alone until he wants to talk to you. You give him another step." Li Yi looked at Yang Xin with a strange look, and Yang Xin immediately realized that Li Yi was feeling uncomfortable again.Character is destiny, although Yang Xin also knows that for men, the most effective things are "bone-melting palm", "star-absorbing magic" and "humming the Lord", but there is an inborn "loving" and "unstingy" in her personality. , So when you are in a hurry, you simply say whatever you want. "Well, I don't care, you can tell him what you like, anyway, if you tell him: My sister is not easy, you can do anything to me, Li Yi, but not to my sister! He I promise I can push you up." After Yang Xin finished speaking, she stepped down and flattened herself on the bed. Li Yi said, "You really know Ma Wen quite well!" Yang Xin said: "Yes, we are the kind of couple who came together because of misunderstanding and separated because of understanding." After hearing this, Li Yi was filled with displeasure.Yang Xin turned her back, and the two slept with their backs facing each other. Li Yi lay down for a while, feeling awkward, he turned around and pulled Yang Xin's shoulder: "Oh, you can help me pay the phone bill tomorrow." Yang Xin held his nerve: "It doesn't matter." "Don't be angry, can I beg you?" Yang Xin pursed her lips in joy, and said, "That's about the same." He said with his palms up. Li Yi didn't understand what it meant, Yang Xin said, "No money for phone calls?" "What about the money I gave you two days ago?" "It's over." Li Yi sat up all of a sudden: "How did you spend it?" Yang Xin also sat up all of a sudden, and said to Li Yi: "If you do this, don't give me money in the future. Are you annoying? I have to reimburse you." "That's not what it means, but I have to know, how come the money is spent?" "Li Yi, we will each spend our own way in the future. I originally said that we will each spend our own way." Li Yi was a little embarrassed. Yang Xin said: "From now on, you will give me 1,000 yuan a month as your rent here. When we eat together, you buy vegetables for a day and I buy vegetables for a day. If I cook, you wash the dishes; if you cook, I'll just do the dishes..." Li Yi: "Then shall we still be called husband and wife?" "My husband and wife will settle accounts clearly." After Yang Xin finished speaking, she turned on the light and fell asleep. Li Yi said, "You turn your back on what you say." Yang Xin ignored Li Yi, Li Yi reached out to touch Yang Xin, but was knocked off by Yang Xin, Li Yi was bored, and lay down... Feeling unhappy.Yang Xin waited for Li Yi to coax him again. After waiting for a long time, seeing that Li Yi didn't move, he turned around and said to Li Yi, "Are you angry?" Li Yi said angrily, "Go to sleep. You still have to go to work tomorrow." Yang Xin was unwilling to sleep like this, she pushed Li Yi, Li Yi became a little impatient: "What are you doing?!" Yang Xin got bored and lay down.In the dark, lost disappointment failed. outside the door.The sound of Marvin walking in the living room could be faintly heard. bathroom.Marvin was happily showering.His dirty clothes were casually thrown in the living room... Yang Xin was beside Li Yi, listening to the happy movements made by Ma Wen, feeling a little sad... She turned over and put the quilt over her head.Li Yi had already fallen asleep, and was upset when Yang Xin turned over and woke him up.He rolled over and wrapped his part of the quilt tightly.The two slept with their backs to each other.Nothing to say all night.