CHAPTER XLII

At the age of 25, I had a hard time.

This hard work happens to be the luck and misfortune of my relationship with Mo Jia.

I remember that year, in order to follow her boyfriend at the time, Mosquito insisted on quitting her current job, and after accompanying her family to celebrate the Lantern Festival, she carried a heavy salute and stepped on the Nankai train to Shenzhen with a heart full of excitement. Seven months later, without saying anything, she left Shenzhen and went to Beijing alone. In the first half month of Beijing, she went from place to place to live three times, moved for the fourth time, and moved into a co-ed house, three men and two women, but only met Gege.

At the end of March, the dampness and coldness in the air made people want to wrap themselves in a quilt and go out every day, and Kidney Bean finally made up her mind in this cold and damp spring - to go south to join her aunt. Before parting, Kidney Bean insisted that she was not looking for a career, but just wanted to feel what it means to face the sea and the spring flowers bloomed, and she was as uncute as she spoke, and Garfield and I grumbled and sent her to the gate.

In the blink of an eye, when the osmanthus flowers are fragrant in August, the annual college entrance examination battle is completely over, and I am in the discussion of the neighbors and the cheers of the streets and alleys, savoring the taste of a few joys and a few sorrows. Garfield hides in the shade of the evening trees, her green-skinned watermelon is nibbled listlessly, and the last batch of college offers comes down with a reply to her first failed teacher's preparation exam. Three days later, she was lying in the teacher's dormitory at a private school in Huizhou and sent me a message: I will be back next year.

The ancients sang in the summer and autumn wind: The moon is cloudy and sunny, and people have joys and sorrows. I'm like a doll that has been left behind, looking at the sky in a step-by-step conformism and can't let go.

Nanako is getting more energetic day by day, not only because I didn't leave my hometown like the three of them, but also because I work in the center of the east of the city. That's why, when I tentatively proposed to go outside on that late autumn evening, Nanako was furious.

I lay on the big bed of 809 and rolled over heavily.

I didn't expect that after ten years, I would still remember again why I quarreled with Nanako.

Ye Limin is right, people's memories really don't die, what is not remembered, but is precipitated in the deepest part of your mind by the years. As long as you hit hard enough, no matter how deep the sea is, it can stir up a ripple, and no matter how precipitated the years are, it can still be remembered.

I looked sideways at the alarm clock on the bedside table, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon, and I wondered if Jiang Beisheng had already delivered my salute.

I exhaled, sat up from bed with a thud, and called the front desk. This kind of phone call will go unanswered, if people are unlucky, let alone cats and dogs, even a telephone can bully you enough.

I put down the phone, got up and got out of bed, and saw a depressed woman with wrinkles crawling on her clothes through the full-length mirror embedded in the wall.

This woman, not against her will, has an appearance that does not match her actual age, perhaps due to her thin figure, and her preference for loose and plain dress, or maybe because she has a vigorous face without makeup, or else, it is her long black and fluffy hair that keeps her away from the crisis and embarrassment of middle-aged hair loss. No matter which factor ferments in the eyes of others, this woman cannot be regarded as a very popular woman.

I looked at the woman intently, remembering that when I left the café, Mo Jia suddenly changed his mind and refused to let me attend the wedding banquet in the evening, but stayed in this hotel for five days according to his request. In five days, I had to do five things with him.

Have a steak at a Western restaurant where you can light candles, go to the cinema to watch a romantic love movie, sit in front of a tent and count the stars at midnight, ride a bicycle around the vicinity of Peking University, and visit the amusement park for a day.

These five things, looking horizontally and vertically, are all things that couples with well-developed relationships will do together, what does Mo Jia want to express? Want to fall in love with me? Uh, no, according to our current situation, it would be more accurate to say that it is an exciting extramarital relationship.

It seems that his determination to ruin my marriage is stronger than I thought.

If that's his true intention, if he can really leave mosquitoes behind, I don't mind disgusting myself and accompanying him to these five scenes.

When the elevator door opened, I suddenly felt a headache when I was no longer entangled, should I be so unlucky?

"I'll go to the restaurant and see what the evening is going to do, uh, what about you?"

Ye Bei wore a modified ankle-length cheongsam, the color was vulgar red, but she was very well dressed, with long seaweed-like hair and a headband studded with broken diamonds, no earrings, and the makeup on her face was repainted, not as strong as at noon, but unusually suitable.

Except for a sparkling diamond ring, she had no extra ornaments on her hands, no bag, only a white retro trench coat in the crook of her arm. Combined with the light white stiletto heels on her feet, I have to say, she is very good at dressing herself.

I slowly withdrew my gaze and smiled faintly, "Didn't Mo Jia tell you? I can't attend your wedding banquet at night." ”

She was slightly stunned, the sorrow in her eyebrows and eyes was fleeting, and when she looked at it again, she could already see a little proud.

Could it be that this is the legendary complementarity of personalities?

The scheming man ended up marrying a simple and superficial woman.

"Of course he mentioned it to me, which is a pity. ”

The corners of my mouth twitched: Since it is a pity, eldest sister, can you not say it in such a pleasant and bright tone?

Saving some brains for yourself is the only way to save face for yourself.

I decided to change the subject.

"How long have you known Mo Jia?"

Ye Bei's face was stunned, and she immediately became alert: "I have known my family Lao Mo for a long time. At the beginning, he took the initiative to chase me, I think he is a little old, and I didn't agree to ...... at first."

I realized right away that I had asked a stupid question.

Fortunately, the elevator door opened with a dingdong at this time, and I waved at her embarrassedly, almost using the words "deserted and fleeing" to describe my urgency to leave at that time.

There is no more than one trick for men to pursue women: when they don't have money, they can only spend time chasing them, and when they have money, they can spend more time chasing them.

It doesn't matter if Ye Bei understands this truth or not, the important thing is that she chose a rich one. This proves once again that she is not stupid but is superficial. Whether you believe it or not, a woman who is not stupid and superficial is often easier to marry herself off than a woman who is smart and has connotation.

I sometimes wonder if it's the woman or the man who is at fault for this situation?

(To be continued)