The next day, during the day, I was working from home, and Jiang Xi was writing the manuscript.

When it was almost noon, I suddenly received a call from my classmate Zhao Mingfei.

"Hey, Jiangdong, are you at home? My lover and I happened to be passing by your house, and we want to go to your house to sit, chat, and have a meal together at noon, do you think it's convenient?"

I hesitated for a moment, because I remembered that day they bullied Chen Tingxia together as a husband and wife, although I didn't like Chen Tingxia either, but their behavior still disgusted me.

In the interval between my hesitation, Zhao Mingfei said again, "Jiangdong, on the day of the class reunion, you have a bad impression of our husband and wife, I want to meet you today, and I just want to explain that incident to you." ”

When he said this, it would be a little too obvious for me to refuse.

So I said, "No, I'll ask my wife if she has time!"

Zhao Mingfei said, "Okay, good, my wife wants to talk to your wife, my wife heard that your wife is writing, writer, I especially admire your wife, if you can, please give a face, give a chance, I must meet you!"

When he said the rest of the story, I had already turned on the speakerphone, and brought it to Jiang Xi, even if Jiang Xi didn't listen to it all, he guessed what it meant.

"Oh, okay, I'll ask my wife!"

After saying this, I hung up the phone and looked at Jiang Xi, "See? Zhao Mingfei and his wife want to eat together, I personally don't like them very much, if you don't want to meet, I'll say you don't have time recently." ”

Jiang Xi said, "He has put his position so low, if we don't see it, it may not be good to spread it, and if you come to my house, you won't have a meal?

Since Jiang Xi agreed, then I don't care, let alone my classmates, if they behave too coldly, as if I am coaxing and unkind.

"Okay, then you clean up, change your clothes, and I'll call him back!"

"Good!"

Jiang Xi was changing clothes in the bedroom, and I went to the living room to call Zhao Mingfei back.

"Mingfei, how about we make an appointment with the northeast wind near Dahua? My wife is from the Northeast, and if the food in other places is too spicy, she can't get used to it. ”

"Oh......" Zhao Mingfei hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay!

I said this deliberately, on the one hand, Jiang Xi likes to eat Northeast food, can't eat spicy, I don't want her to be reluctant to accompany the guests, and she has to accommodate others to eat, that day at the class reunion, I saw Zhao Mingfei and her lover have been picking spicy food.

On the other hand, Jiang Xi and I don't really like Zhao Mingfei and her lover, so I think we should behave selfishly, so that they think we are not good, and we will have less contact in the future.

After Jiang Xi changed his clothes and combed his hair, we left the house.

When we arrived, the couple had already arrived first, and what I didn't expect was that her wife Wang Meili had already ordered the dishes first.

"I invited you to dinner with Mingfei today, because I didn't want to waste time, so I made my own decision to order first, it's all Northeast cuisine, I don't think you mind, you should like to eat, right?"

Wang Meili said to Jiang Xi with a smile.

Jiang Xi smiled and said, "Yes, I can eat anything." ”

Wang Meili was immediately very happy, "That's really good, when I look at you husband and wife, you are the kind of people who are very easy to get along with, and Chen Tingxia is really different." ”

Jiang Xi smiled and sat in his chair silently.

The waiter began to serve the food, and I looked, good guy, it is all spicy dishes, only a cold cucumber and fried peanuts are not spicy, forget it, just eat a meal, don't care.

"Your name is Jiang Xi, right? My name is Wang Meili. Wang Meili introduced herself enthusiastically.

Stretching out her hand not to hit the smiling person, Wang Meili greeted her with a smile, and Jiang Xi also smiled, "Yes, my name is Jiang Xi, I know your name, I heard it on the day of the class reunion." ”

"Oh, don't mention that day, it's really embarrassing, it's that Chen Tingxia who made me angry, I will lose control, you husband and wife don't know, that Chen Tingxia, since her husband died, she has been abducted everywhere, I was deceived by her into two thousand yuan, and then I embarked on the road of selling health care products, as a result, I have been doing it for a few months, and I haven't even earned two thousand yuan, by the way, Jiang Xi, do you eat health care products?"

Jiang Xi said, "We don't eat health products in our family!"

Wang Meili immediately said, "Oh, then you must not have eaten, people live to eat whole grains, how can there be no illness, eat this health care product, before you get sick, you can prevent it, so let's do it, I have a bottle of vitamins, I will give it to your whole family to eat for a week, and after a week, if you feel good, buy it from me." ”

As she spoke, she took out a bottle of multivitamin tablets from her backpack and handed it to Jiang Xi.

I saw that the package said: Giveaway, 40 capsules.

Jiang Xi shook his head with a smile and said, "You really don't have to be polite, our family doesn't eat this kind of thing." ”

Wang Meili was very persistent, grabbed the bag Jiang Xi was carrying, and stuffed the multivitamin tablets into her bag.

As soon as Jiang Xi took it out and wanted to give it back to her, Wang Meili held Jiang Xi's hand down, "Alas, why are you like this? If you do this again, then I think you are not easy to get along with, we have been old classmates for many years, I sold this, what's wrong with giving you a bottle to eat? If you refuse to be ruthless, it will make me think, what's the matter, you guys from Beijing look down on us outsiders living in Nanjing?"

She said this, you really can't refuse!

I saw Jiang Xi take a deep breath, probably adjusting his emotions and breathing, and then said with a smile, "Okay, I'll take it, thank you for your kindness!"

Wang Meili smiled immediately, "What's polite, if you think it's good to eat and plan to buy it, you must buy it from me, don't buy it from Chen Tingxia!"

"Hehe!" Jiang Xi smiled stiffly.

I answered, "Our family has never eaten this kind of thing, I guess we can't get used to it!"

As a result, Wang Meili hugged Jiang Xi's arm very affectionately, and then pretended to look at me, half-truth, half-jokingly said, "What we sisters say, don't intervene as a big man, health care products, we women have the most right to speak, what do you men know, you just talk about your IT topic." ”

"Yes, yes, let's talk about ours!" this is what Zhao Mingfei said, and then he pulled me to talk about the IT industry.

"Jiangdong, I'm curious, how did you leave Beijing and come to Nanjing? Beijing is a place that many people yearn for, you have taken root there, why do you come to Nanjing so easily, Nanjing's big companies are far worse than Beijing's, Nanjing's prices are not lower than Beijing's, and housing prices are catching up, but wages are much less than Beijing's. ”

I smiled and said, "My lover and I don't have a Beijing hukou, so it will be more troublesome for our children to take the entrance examination in the future." ”

He was stunned, "Didn't you say that you can get a Beijing hukou by relying on points? You have been there for so many years, and you still can't get a hukou?"

I said, "There are a lot of people in line, and there are also many people who have higher scores than us, and when we get in line, we don't know it's going to be the Year of the Monkey, so we won't wait." ”

Zhao Mingfei blinked his eyes and said, "Oh, that's it, my lover and I originally wanted to go to Beijing, on the one hand, there are many opportunities in Beijing's IT industry, on the other hand, I heard that no xx health care products are doing very well in Beijing, and the business is very hot, so my lover wants to go to Beijing to break through." ”

At this time, I heard Wang Meili say to Jiang Xi with a look of adoration, "I heard that you wrote it, and you have published a book, oops, I really envy you, you must have made a lot of money, right?"

Jiang Xi smiled and said, "This is a misunderstanding, people who write books may not always make money, I am the one who is purely a hobby but can't make money." ”

"Oh, you must be too modest, how can you say that you are also a writer, how can you be better than me, a health care product seller? In fact, when I was in college, I also liked it, and I tried to write, but the writing was so bad that I couldn't even sign the contract, mainly because I didn't know anyone before, and I will know Jiang Xi you later, it's really good, if I write, can you help me take a look? I heard that those famous online writers can earn tens of thousands of dollars a month. ”

Jiang Xi said, "Writing is really very hard, I have been persisting for ten years, and I haven't made any money until now, if you have other ways to make money, I don't recommend that you embark on this road of writing at this age, if you are a simple hobby, it doesn't matter if you write for fun, if you want to make money by writing, or even make a lot of money, it is really very hard, and it is very likely that like me, it is useless to stay up for more than ten years." ”

"Oh Jiang Xi, I don't think you're real, I don't believe you and Ben if you say these things," Wang Meimei's voice was pretentious, "You can't make money for more than ten years, can you still persist like this? What's more, you have published several books, publishing is money, and there will be as much as you want, so how much money do you make from publishing, do you dare to tell me?"

Wang Meimei's owl-like eyes looked at Jiang Xi with a dripping look.

Jiang Xi still smiled, then sighed and said, "Ahem! The money is really too little, it's too embarrassing not to talk about it, if you don't believe it, forget it, I can't help it".

"Then if I write it out, will you help me read it?" Wang Meili immediately followed.

Jiang Xi said, "You can see it, but I'm a straight person, in case I say something you don't like to hear, you can't be unhappy, a reader used to let me read the text, I showed her very seriously, after saying the real advice, she was hit hard, couldn't stand it, and turned her face with me, in that case, it's not interesting, don't you say?"

Wang Meili immediately said, "Of course, I won't be like that, I am grateful if someone helps me see it, besides, after all, I have also been in the online literature circle before, and I am not so bad at writing." ”

I was chatting with Zhao Mingfei over there, and I could hear the words of the two women in my ears, and I thought to myself, didn't Jiang Xi say that he would no longer read the text to others? And this Wang Meili is not like a person who can't turn his face!

At this time, Zhao Mingfei asked me again, "Jiangdong, what do you think about the fact that you said that we want to go to Beijing? Can you give us some advice?"

I said, "If you prepare for the worst, you can go, but it's more troublesome for your child to go to college." ”

"What are the housing prices in Beijing now? We are going to sell our house for 60 square meters, and we don't know if we can buy a 40-square-meter house in a place that is still suitable in Beijing?" he looked at me and asked.

"Where Beijing is okay, the unit price is about 40,000 or 50,000 yuan, and the good place is more than 100,000 yuan. ”

I thought in my heart that I could buy a toilet for 600,000 yuan, but I didn't say it so bluntly, lest he think too much and think that I looked down on him.

"What? It's really fake? It's incredible, isn't it? Hundreds of thousands of square meters? Then if our house is sold, we can buy six square meters?" This somewhat exaggerated voice was made by Wang Meili.

She then looked at Zhao Mingfei, "Let's forget it, don't dream about Beijing, let's mix in Nanjing, at least I won't starve to death, if I really can't do it, I can still write with Jiang Xi, if I can publish two books, then I will also have a chance to make a lot of money, right, Jiang Xi?"

"Hehe!" Jiang Xi laughed faintly a few times and didn't say anything.

I, "......" didn't know what to say.

The atmosphere was a little awkward.

Zhao Mingfei asked me about Beijing.

"Where did your family live when they were in Beijing?"

"Live at Deshengmen!" I replied subconsciously.

"Oops!" Wang Meili suddenly let out an exclamation, "That's within the Third Ring Road, I've been studying the housing prices there recently, and I was thinking if I could live there to facilitate work, but when I looked at it, it was about 100,000 square meters, it was too scary, do you have a house there?"

Wang Meili almost showed her starry eyes, with a look of expectation, as if if we said that there was a house there, and that house had something to do with her.

I didn't know how to answer, Jiang Xi spoke first, "We used to have a small house there ......."

"Oh, no matter how small the unit price is, it's more than 100,000 square meters, and 6 square meters can buy 60 square meters of my house, oops, you are all rich!"

The expression on her face suddenly became very tangled, and I couldn't tell if she was envious or bitter, as if there was a jealous heart hidden under the mask of envy, perhaps more appropriately.

I don't know how to answer this, if I tell the truth and say that our house hasn't been sold yet, I don't know if her mentality will collapse, so I don't say anything, this kind of thing is better to leave to Jiang Xi to deal with.

I was expecting Zhao Mingfei to stop her wife, but he also looked at me Jiang Xi with a complicated face, as if the couple wanted to know how much our family's property was.

Jiang Xi took a sip of tea, took a bite of cold cucumber and said, "Our house has been sold." ”

"How much did it cost?" Wang Meili immediately said, "I'm really curious"!

Jiang Xi blinked his eyes and said, "It was sold relatively early, it was sold two or three years ago, and it didn't sell much, just enough for us to buy a house in Nanjing." ”

"What?" Wang Meili couldn't help laughing, and then laughed "Hahahaha!" "I said, it's really fake, such a good opportunity to make a fortune, you actually missed it? What a pity! Oh, you said this person, the fortune is really different, I have a cousin in my family, a few years ago in Changping, Beijing, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a house, and now it has risen by several million, you said that your house in the third ring road, you didn't make any money, it's really unlucky!"

I listened to her say "unlucky", but the smile on her face was much more comfortable than just now, not as complicated and tangled as just now, and it seemed that she was in a better mood now.

Jiang Xi and I glanced at each other, but neither said anything more.

Wang Meili seemed to see that something was wrong with the atmosphere, and immediately changed the topic, "But you don't have any money, you must be much better than Chen Tingxia, do you know? Chen Tingxia is the only daughter in the family, and after her husband died, her father, mother-in-law, father-in-law, and mother-in-law all passed away for different reasons......."

Jiang Xi listened to Wang Meimei's words silently and did not say a word.

I have mixed feelings and I don't know what to say.

The more Wang Meili spoke, the louder her voice became, as if she was a little excited, "I doubt that this Chen Tingxia is a broom star and killed the whole family, when her husband was alive before, she made a lot of money, and she showed off the famous bags she carried in front of us every day. Famous cosmetics, dress herself up like a rich lady all day long, as soon as her husband died, her family's money was used to compensate for other people's medical expenses, his husband was fully responsible for the car accident, she was suddenly down, she didn't say anything, she did everything, she kept licking the dog Zhu Wensen, I guess she must want to be with Zhu Wensen in her heart, even if Zhu Wensen can't marry her, she can be a lover for Zhu Wensen, but when I think about it, Zhu Wensen will definitely not want her, what is the value of Zhu Wensen, how young, Beautiful women go one after another, and it is estimated that she will not have her share in washing her feet, Chen Tingxia, this woman, is wishful thinking, but God is also fair, a woman like her deserves to live that kind of poor life. ”

Probably because Wang Meili said that she was tired, she picked up a glass of water and drank it, and seeing that Jiang Xi and I didn't talk, she finally stopped talking about it.

And I, after listening to this translation, actually feel quite deeply, although I don't like Chen Tingxia's character, but she is my classmate after all, when she was young, even if there was no love, classmates have had good memories for many years.

I still remember that I used to forget to bring some stationery, sometimes I would borrow it from her, she always smiled and lent it to me, at that time I felt that she was also very beautiful, we studied information and communication, there were three girls in the class, and Chen Tingxia was the most beautiful and clean among the three girls, so there were many boys chasing her.

I once thought about chasing her, but because I was so inferior, I didn't dare to open my mouth after all, I didn't expect her to have a crush on me, but because of reality, she finally gave up on me.

I am sometimes very grateful for everything life has made me experience, thanks to those who have given up on me, I have the opportunity to finally walk with Jiang Xi, and I am also grateful to those who have dissed me, without them, I would not have become more motivated, and I want to make myself better.

Facts have proved that I still changed some things, when I was admitted to graduate school, I gained some envious eyes, I think it was precisely because I had an excellent side that I had the opportunity to be held by Jiang Xi tightly and not let go, until now, our days are happy, Happy, no longer as before, no one is afraid that I will borrow money from him and thus alienate me, I have now gained the approval of my family and relatives and friends, and between my words and deeds, those adults and peers all show a trace of envy for my life.

I'm very satisfied with my life!

Later, the couple asked us about Beijing, and we answered them one after another, and we were not interested in their topic at all, and I only sighed in my heart.

When I was a child, I often heard the older generation say that some people spend their lives hating people for being rich and laughing at people for being poor.

I deeply realized in Wang Meili and Zhao Mingfei that although Zhao Mingfei didn't say much, he didn't stop her lover from saying it, and listened to it with the same relish, I can conclude that the two of them are not a family and do not enter the door.

After staying up until about two o'clock in the afternoon, Jiang Xi looked at his phone and said, "I have to go back to catch up with the manuscript quickly, otherwise I won't be able to update it at night, and I won't be able to earn a full attendance award of 600 yuan." ”

I guess Jiang Xi was afraid that Wang Meili would ask how much the full attendance award was, so she could simply answer and say the answer directly, saving a chat session.

When Jiang Xi spoke, he had already stood up and was about to leave, so I naturally cooperated with him to get up.

"Oh, I haven't eaten much food on this table, why don't you pack it up and take it back?" Wang Meili said with a smile.

Jiang Xi also smiled and said, "Since it's your treat, we won't take it, besides, our family can't eat spicy food!"

Jiang Xi also made it clear, but Wang Meili was still pretending to be stupid, "Oh, I don't know you don't like spicy food, our family is not spicy or happy, non-spicy dishes have no taste at all, I really can't eat it, next time, next time, please eat non-spicy food!"

Jiang Xi smiled and said, "You're really welcome." ”

I think Jiang Xi's normal words would have said, "Next time we will invite you", but she probably left half a sentence on her lips, and it seemed that she didn't want to eat together anymore.

"Waiter packs!"

We saw Wang Meili pack up all the dishes on the rest of the table, and said with a smile, "Then I won't be polite to you, you are all rich people, how can you pack for dinner, it is only poor people like us who pack it for dinner." ”

Jiang Xi and I didn't say a word in the end, and we didn't even want to give the smile on our faces, and we were really a little tired in the face of such a person! She was a person who was hypocritical and inferior.

Finally got home, I said to Jiang Xi, "That Wang Meili may really look for you, if you don't like to help her see it, don't help her see it, so as not to be annoyed, don't estimate the relationship between classmates, Zhao Mingfei is a person, I don't want to have anything to do with him." ”

Jiang Xi said, "Okay, you don't have to worry, I know it in my heart." ”

In the afternoon, I continued to work, Jiang Xi wrote her manuscript, and when I went to pick up Jiang things and came back from school, there was a Jiang Xi's express package, I was busy, so I didn't check what it was, I just told her and threw her at the door.

At night, we washed up and went to bed, and at twelve o'clock in the morning, when the young man upstairs got off work, the sound of "kicking and tapping" slippers began to be heard again.

I saw Jiang Xi get up, and I quickly followed her to get up.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

She said, "I'll go upstairs and talk about it!"

"I'll go with you!"

"No, I'll be back in a minute, you can sleep!" she said.

I said, "No, I'm not worried about you alone in the middle of the night." ”

She smiled, "Bear Sai!

"Of course!" At this time, who doesn't say "Of course" Who is a stupid husband, what a good opportunity to make his wife happy!

I saw her walk to the door, pick up the package, unwrap it, and go upstairs with a bag, and I followed.

She said, "Don't show up with me, lest he think we're going to find fault, just wait for me at the corner of the next staircase, don't worry, it'll be fine." ”

I said, "Okay!"

She went up on her own, and I hid around the corner of the stairs to watch her.

She began to knock lightly on the door a few times, but no one came to open it, so she knocked a few more times, "Hello! I'm a downstairs neighbor, can you please open the door?"

I heard the sound of walking inside, and the door opened! A shirtless young man in big pants had just finished taking a shower.

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