One day in late July, there was a café near Dongdan in the capital.

The café in 1984 was still a relatively trendy place, even if it was a local Hujiang brand, it still gave people a high-end fashion feeling.

"I'm sorry, you're a very good and motivated person, but we don't have the same philosophy. ”

Ye Su bit his lip slightly and said apologetically.

The young man on the opposite side is just over 25 years old, three or four years older than Ye Kun, but he is definitely a young talent in this era. When he heard this, his self-esteem was a little overwhelmed.

However, people also have status, and it is not good to be angry with girls directly, so they use very uplifting and politically correct words to find a way back: "I think you have gone to the United States for a few years and forgotten your roots, worshipping foreign flattery! Is it true that even the moon is a foreign round." In this case, the Tao is not the same. ”

Ye Su gritted his teeth and wanted to refute, but in the end he held back.

With the eloquence she has cultivated over the years in the relevant diplomatic departments, if she really wants to refute, she can definitely say that the other party is not complete. She thought to herself that except for one of the people she met in her life, she had never been afraid of anyone who she had debated or talked about.

But he is the one who refuses, and he always has to let others spill his anger, so as not to leave a bad influence between the two families.

Let's take the big picture into account.

After the man on the other side left, within two minutes, a middle-aged couple walked in lightly.

"What's the matter with Ye Zi! This is the third one, if you are so picky, your reputation for blind dates among the disciples of these big courtyards in the capital will stink!" A middle-aged woman was the first to cry out, she was Ye Kun's mother, and the specific surname was inconvenient to disclose.

Ye's father also persuaded: "Ye Zi didn't say you, although Xiao Li is not as good as you now, his father is also a minister, and he is a minister in his 50s - his stamina will be much stronger than ours in the future."

This is only the second generation of his family, and we are already the third generation. What kind of great character do you think you Lao Tzu is? I'm just at the same level as you now, and I'm the head of the art troupe of the military region!"

With the advancement of some integration and dismantling of the army in 84, there was no longer a cultural troupe in the units at the army and division levels. There are only seven major regions and other provinces and regions where there are art troupes. (In the future, it will be further streamlined, and even the provinces and regions will not retain the group)

Therefore, at that time, the level of the art troupe was a total of four levels: the regiment commander was a cadre of the regular army; the regiment of the military and armed forces was a cadre of the deputy army or a regular division; the regiment of the seven regions was at the level of a full division or deputy division; and the regiment of the provinces and regions was at the regimental level.

So Father Ye said that he is only at the same level as his daughter now, and that is the truth.

Ye Kun couldn't climb so fast by relying on Zuyin alone. On the other hand, the reason why she has a happy life is that she caught up with the resumption of the first college entrance examination, her own grades were competitive and went to the Foreign Affairs University, and some awesome classmates have been cooperating with her to create opportunities to make meritorious contributions. These three elements comprehensively helped her open, and organically combined with her own door and exposure, so that she was now like this.

However, as the first generation of old people in her family withered, this advantage was exhausted in the future. In the future, she can only climb slowly at the same speed as other students of the 77th Foreign Affairs Academy.

Facing the persecution of his parents, Ye Kun couldn't help but feel a pain in his brain, and pinched his two fingers and rubbed them.

Her horizons have been broadened and her vision has been high, and she can't be blamed for this, right?

She has been in the United States for nearly three years, from the third secretary to the second secretary to the first secretary, and she has seen how many young and promising women in the workplace and politics in the United States, and she has never seen people who are forced to go on a blind date at the age of 22, even if they are 25 years old, they are not in a hurry.

This kind of thinking in China is really too feudal.

She couldn't help but resist a little angrily: "Dad, Mom, people who don't have the same temper and knowledge and values, you have to force it, it's me who suffers, I just came back, I don't adapt to the country, I don't understand the situation in the country, what's there to force me? Can't you let me slowly get used to the habits for a year and a half, and slowly find out what the current boys in China are like?"

Her mother couldn't help but teach: "You child, you have been too right-minded since you were a child, you usually have to take your time, and we will let you do it, but your grandfather is now lying in the hospital with advanced liver cancer, in case it will be within a year and a half...... Then you won't have to delay for a year and a half, but you will have to add another two years, and you will be three years later! By then you will be 25!"

Ye Kun: "What's wrong with 25? American girls don't talk about marriage at 25 anymore! I want to realize my personal value! Besides, my grandfather is lying on the hospital bed, I'm worried about his condition, can't I be in a bad mood, I just want to wait two years for my filial piety!"

Her mother was stunned: "Why do you want to come back like this? It is better to continue working in the US Embassy, maybe you have become a commercial counselor for the past three years, and it is better than coming back to the Americas Division as a director." ”

Ye Kun fought back strongly: "Isn't it listening to you when I come back, and I want to be filial! If I don't come back, how do I know what the current domestic boys think and what they know." I don't have to worry about my future, I'm not an official fan! I just want to make a contribution!"

When it comes to this, her parents basically can't hold her down.

Ye Kun has already put forward the big truth that "returning to China is to fulfill filial piety", and the reason why "I can't look down on it is because I am worried about the illness of my elders and I am not in the mood", but her parents continue to talk about it, but it is not theirs.

"I raised a daughter who was mixed with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and she was sharp-toothed and righteous, how could she manage it in the future. The husband and wife lamented in their hearts and could only herd the sheep.

"Then listen to what you mean, and you don't need to arrange the rest for you?" his mother reluctantly followed after the last confirmation.

"No need. ”

"Then let's go back to Jinling!"

"If grandpa is not in a good condition, call me at any time, and I will ask for leave to visit the doctor. Ye Kun finally softened in conscience.

The grievances in her parents' hearts dissipated somewhat.

……

The blind date that ended with her not looking down on each other for three consecutive games made Ye Kun a little physically and mentally exhausted.

She numbly returned to the ministry for two days before she waited for a piece of news that was quite uplifting for her, but she was in a complicated mood:

Gu Biao, who had been in the Special Administrative Region, finally returned to the capital, and asked her to get together with a group of people tomorrow, and thanked her for her consistent help when she was in the United States.

A colleague at the same level in the ministry is at least 35 years old, which is more than ten years older than Ye Kun, and it is really uncomfortable to have no common language.

When I was in the United States, because the embassy was so big, all the people I faced were foreigners, so the Chinese people were more grouped inside. The colleagues who usually communicate with each other often have a big difference in level, and everyone ignores the level.

After returning to the capital, there were so many people in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and when they held meetings every day, except for those who conveyed their spirit to their subordinates, the other meetings were all black and pressed a row of directors, and there was no one of their peers, which simply made Ye Su depressed.

However, the reason why Gu Biao's invitation made her feel complicated was because she learned from Gu Biao's notice that the reason why the other party was able to get out of the SAR and return to Beijing was because he had successfully gone to the sea.

Ye Kun had long thought that there would be this day, but he didn't expect it to come so quickly.

After all, they are people in two worlds.

Don't think about it so much.

The day of making an appointment with Gu Biao for a party is coming soon.

Ye Su packed up and dressed up very elegantly, stepped on those small bags from the Hermes Kelly series, changed into a polka-dot short dress with only a few centimeters of symbolic sleeves, and went to the Gu Biao Mansion next door to Yuyuantan and Diaoyutai for a party.

Her sleeves are almost semicircular, covering only her shoulders and armpits, and her arms are 80% exposed. The skirt underneath barely reaches the knees. After all, it is very hot in the capital in late July.

With the passage of time in the past few months, Gu Biao's courtyard house in the south of the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, and even the garden next door, have finally been completely repaired.

Ye Kun can also be regarded as the first wave of guests received by Gu Biao.

As for how to solve the traffic on the road, Ye Kun is the official car that the ministry gave her, a Toyota Crown - if this configuration was put aside a year ago, it would be a bit overmatched, at that time, the division level and even part of the "deputy director of the department" were still driving the second generation of the AvtoVAZ or the latest improved version of the Hujiang brand, how can the Toyota Crown also be matched in the main hall.

However, in the year of 84, the number of imported cars in China suddenly increased inexplicably, and it is estimated that there were tens of thousands more unplanned, which was not so valuable. The treatment of the deputy hall has also popularized the Toyota Crown, or other imported cars at the same price.

Ye Kun drove from Dongdan Road to Yuyuantan, first walked around the park and slowly walked around twice, confirming that a place was indeed the same as the "Gu Mansion" described by Gu Ao, and then turned into a brake and stopped steadily in the garage on the side of the gate.

Gu Biao is very low-key, but he will not hang a plaque with the words "Gu Mansion" on the main entrance of the top of the palace like "Prince Gong's Mansion". Ye Kun has been in the United States for nearly three years, and he has not returned to the capital, and it is normal for him to come here for the first time.

She has a strong face and will never ask for directions, lest irrelevant people know that she came to visit.

Although passers-by didn't know her at all, they didn't care what kind of friendship she had with Gu Biao.

However, as soon as she stopped with the brakes, she felt a sense of surprise, joy and crisis.

She saw that next to her parking space, there was also a Toyota Crown, which was exactly the same model.

What's even worse is that Ye Kun knows the license plate of this Toyota Crown.

That's Mina's car.

"Why did Mina return to China? Isn't she in Iraq? It turns out that Gu Biao didn't invite me today, it's the class reunion of our circle...... Phew, it can't be considered a class reunion, because Xiao Sui will definitely come. Fudan scum also deserves to participate in our alumni reunion? We are from the Foreign Affairs University!"

Ye Kun's heart fluctuated slightly, locked the car, and walked into the door.

The bodyguard at the door looked at her temperament and demeanor, mainly the limited edition Monaco royal family special bag she carried, of course, he didn't ask her identity, and just put it in. The bodyguard also knew that the owner was having a quasi-class reunion today.

"Sister Ye, you're here, I haven't seen you for three years, I miss me. ”

Ye Kun had just walked into the Hanging Flower Gate when she was swept by a light wind, and a girl who was slimmer and thinner than her circled her, making Ye Kun slightly dazzled.

But she didn't have to look to know that it was Mina.

"Mina, why did you return to China? Last time, I said that you were in Iraq, and you were promoted from first secretary to commercial counselor. ”