Chapter 19: The Gathering (Part II) [2-in-1 Chapter]
It has been seven or eight years since graduating from junior high school, and when they were in junior high school, Zhuang Rui and Liu Chuan's behavior was quite maverick, what fun would be popular among students, it must be these two boys who drove the whole class or even the whole grade to play, but Zhuang Rui's academic performance was very good, and Liu Chuan has been a negative teaching material in the mouths of teachers and parents for three years in junior high school.
At that time, the students were still relatively pure in their thinking, and there was not so much utilitarianism in their interactions with each other, unlike today's schools, where class cadres were selected from primary school, they had to compare them first to see whose parents were rich and had high status, and the trend of comparison between students was quite serious.
Compared with the intense high school life, junior high school still left a lot of good memories for Zhuang Rui and Liu Chuan, Zhuang Rui graduated from high school and studied in Shanghai University, and his former junior high school classmates almost had no contact.
Lei Lei was transferred to Hong Kong in the third year of junior high school, everyone knows that in the early 90s, Hong Kong people almost can't speak Mandarin, many Hong Kong people even struggle to listen to Mandarin, and mainlanders go to Hong Kong, if they can't speak the vernacular (that is, Cantonese), it must be difficult to move an inch, when Lei Lei first arrived in Hong Kong, due to the language barrier in school, and no friends, naturally I miss life in Pengcheng very much, and when I heard Liu Chuan say it, I was immediately moved.
"Stream...... Uh, Dachuan,", Zhuang Rui is used to calling Liu Chuan's nickname, and it is really a little difficult to change.
"The classmates in the junior high school meeting, except for a few who were in the same school with us in high school later, basically didn't have any contact with each other, how to gather people to gather, you kid has a way?" Zhuang Rui has a little doubt, many classmates have not seen each other for seven or eight years, I'm afraid they won't be able to recognize each other when they meet.
"Isn't this nonsense, brother, I'm the head snake, we got together once three years ago, I have their contact information, by the way, last time you couldn't come back in Zhonghai, didn't I call to tell you. ”
Liu Chuan is not talking big, after he was not admitted to college in high school, he began to mix in the society, out of the school gate into the society, pay attention to a social relationship and connections, Liu Chuan's pet shop has only been open for a few years, and he has earned a lot of money in Pengcheng, which is also inseparable from his righteousness and love to make friends, Pengcheng is so big, and those classmates who used to study in junior high school are basically in the same district, and they have come and gone and got in touch.
There are good and unsatisfactory classmates, and they can occasionally help each other a little, so Liu Chuan organized a party a few years ago, and when it comes to life and interpersonal relationships, Zhuang Rui is really much worse than Liu Chuan.
As soon as Liu Chuan said this, Zhuang Rui remembered that there was really such a thing a few years ago, but he would study in Zhonghai at that time, and he was more nervous about studying, and he didn't pay much attention to the reunion of junior high school classmates, so he had forgotten it for a long time.
"Dachuan, the day after tomorrow will be Chinese New Year's Eve, I'm afraid it's too late to get together before tomorrow......."
During the New Year, from the first day of the Lunar New Year to the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, I have to go to the homes of relatives and friends to pay New Year's greetings, if I arrange a party after the New Year, it will be at least after the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, but after I spend the New Year in Pengcheng, I have to go to several other cities with Qin Xuanbing to inspect the market, and it is estimated that I will not be able to catch up with this party, so Lei Lei has a regretful expression on her face.
Liu Chuan's eyes rolled, this is an opportunity to show his ability, secretly calculated in his heart, the day after tomorrow Chinese New Year's Eve, if the party before tomorrow can only be arranged tomorrow, there are 38 students in the same class in junior high school, and there are more than a dozen who go to school in other places, but most of them have returned to work after graduation, and those who stayed in other places to work should also be in Pengcheng for the New Year now, and there are about seventeen or eighteen people who have not broken contact with themselves, let them contact a few more, it is estimated that more than twenty people can come, the key is whether these people have time tomorrow。
"You don't have to worry about it, I'll arrange it, let's meet at noon tomorrow. Liu Chuan thought about it for a while, and his psychological feeling was almost the same, so he spoke.
Liu Chuan has not been in vain over the years, he is very organized, first called the hotel to book a few tables, and then turned up the address book that I don't know where I found it, and began to make a call, less than half an hour, but found a dozen people, five male classmates and seven female classmates, after reporting the name of the hotel, the phone promised to arrive on time tomorrow, and a few people can help contact other classmates, so that once counted, there are already seventeen or eighteen people, and there are a few people who do not have a phone at home, Liu Chuan is ready to wait for a while to drive to inform one by one。
"Liu Chuan, I didn't expect you to be very popular, and you have been in contact with female classmates for so many years. As soon as Liu Chuan put down the phone, Lei Lei asked with a smile, which immediately made Liu Chuan regret it a lot, why did he call his female classmates, let those buddies notify him, and it would be over.
"What's that...... It's all children, I've been drinking a few people's full moon wine, let's go, Lei Lei, Miss Qin, I'll send you home first, and I'll go and inform people one by one. Liu Chuan hurriedly diverted the topic and said righteously.
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"Lei Lei, there are a lot of people chasing you in Hong Kong, I've never seen you date anyone, it turns out that there is a childhood sweetheart boyfriend hidden at home, although Liu Chuan is very good, he is not particularly good, why do you really fall in love with him?"
Lying on the big bed in Lei Lei's room, Qin Xuanbing's previous coldness was swept away, and she said a little narrowly, she was really a little puzzled in her heart, it is said that with the power of Lei Lei's grandfather's family and her own conditions, she should be able to find a more suitable boyfriend.
"Do you know what I looked like when I first went to Hong Kong?" Lei Lei was playing with the computer at the bedside, and when she heard this, she turned her head and looked at Qin Xuanbing and asked.
"Hehe, at that time, you were wearing thick glasses and dressed very old-fashioned, and many people in the class called you mainland girl, right......."
When Lei Lei first arrived in Hong Kong, she was inserted into Qin Xuanbing's class, Lei Lei couldn't even understand Cantonese at that time, and the people in the class couldn't understand Lei Lei's Mandarin, if Qin Xuanbing hadn't followed her grandfather since she was a child and could listen to Mandarin, they wouldn't have become very good friends.
"Yes, I was like that when I didn't come to Hong Kong, everyone in the class would call me Four-Eyed Sister, Liu Chuan would be very arrogant in the class, many people were afraid of him, but he never bullied others, once beat up a classmate who called me Four-Eyed, and since then, no one has called me Four-Eyed Sister......."
Lei Lei recalled that it could be seen that that incident would have a great impact on her in the future, and perhaps Liu Chuan's image would be imprinted in Lei Lei's mind at that time.
"I'm not going to let Liu Chuan raise me, by the way, it's Xuanxuan, are you going to let Wang Da Shao raise you, or dedicate yourself to Huo Da Shao? If they knew that you came to the mainland, they would definitely chase after you. Lei Lei's words suddenly made Qin Xuanbing angry, and the two of them quarreled on the bed.
Waiting until the two of them were tired and panting, Lei Lei was worried that she would go to the party by herself tomorrow, and Qin Xuanbing would be bored at home, so she asked: "Xuanxuan, go to the class reunion with me tomorrow, by the way, Zhuang Rui is very good, you can also charge an extra minister in the mainland......
"I'm going to kill you, it's so ugly, don't go, I'm not interested in that man, I'm obsessed with people when I look at people, by the way, Lei Lei, have you found it, that Zhuang Rui's mother is so temperamental, she doesn't look like she was born in this kind of small family." ”
Qin Xuanbing's words made Lei Lei a little strange, the kind of elegant demeanor that Zhuang's mother showed at the dining table today would never have been able to do it if it wasn't for a long time under the influence of a good environment, so that those of them who usually pay attention to etiquette felt a little surprised, and in front of Zhuang's mother, they even had a feeling of facing the elders of the family.
Lei Lei didn't say anything more, maybe Zhuang's mother is a person with a story, but Zhuang Rui was obviously not born in a wealthy family, with Qin Xuanbing's family background, he and Qin Xuanbing are obviously people in two worlds, and they will never intersect together, so they have no intention of matching the two again.
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At less than 11 o'clock at noon the next day, Zhuang Rui was pulled by Liu Chuan to the hotel where the party was, according to Liu Chuan's words, he was also one of the conveners, so he naturally wanted to come over to help, and after throwing Zhuang Rui to the hotel, Liu Chuan went to pick up Lei Lei.
When Liu Chuan came back, only Lei Lei got out of the car, which made Zhuang Rui happy and a little disappointed, although he didn't want to have an ice cube around him in this cold winter wax moon, but if he was far away from her, he could appreciate it from afar, as the saying goes, beautiful and delicious.
After a while, the classmates who participated in the party came one after another, and when the banquet opened at 12 o'clock, there were 31 people, except for a few students who are not in Pengcheng now, basically the classmates in Pengcheng have arrived, Zhuang Rui and Lei Lei's appearance naturally surprised everyone, and also made the two people who have not been in their hometown for a long time feel a strong friendship with their old classmates.
The meal was very lively, in the middle, Zhuang Rui and Liu Chuan became the objects of condemnation from their classmates, the most memorable thing for everyone is that these two boys defrauded everyone of their money when they were just in the first year of junior high school, and the two of them sang white face and red face, which would defraud a lot of pocket money from everyone.
At that time, many families already had TVs, and those who did not have TVs at home often went to other people's homes to watch, because a large number of Hong Kong TV dramas entered the mainland, and also produced the earliest batch of star chasers, it seems to be Zhuang Rui's idea, these two boys took out all the New Year's money they saved for the New Year, and went to the Pengcheng Small Commodity Wholesale Market to buy a batch of stickers, which are printed with stars on them, and can be pasted on the books of small color pictures.
Wholesale a whole page with dozens of celebrity stickers on it is very cheap, that is, about 2 yuan, the two cut the whole page of stickers, divided into a single in the class and shouted, each according to the popularity of the star and the size of the picture sold to 2 cents or 5 cents, and no money to exchange food stamps can also be, you know, in that era of planned economy, food stamps can almost be used as money, because the transaction method is flexible and changeable, so the two stickers are very popular.
The stickers were sold out in a few days, not only their class, but the entire grade was spreading their stickers, and there were a few second-class dealers who should be the youngest among the students in the country.
This discovery made the two of them very happy, you know, that will usually carry a few dollars in the pocket is a huge amount of money, usually when the school organizes outings, parents just give a piece of five cents, just a few days of hard work to earn more than 300 yuan, suddenly let the two of them increase their confidence, but when they were ready to continue to buy goods to chase after the victory, they were discovered by the teacher, well, it should be said that it was discovered by Liu Chuan and his mother, and the result was naturally the two buttocks flowering, and the executor was Liu Chuan and his father.
The process of being found was also very accidental, because a classmate in another class bought a two-yuan sticker, due to insufficient funds, it was on credit, and he said that he would give the money the next day, but he didn't give it, and then Liu Chuan came forward to deter it, so that the two didn't expect that a few days later, the classmate's parents found the school teacher, and they happened to be looking for Liu Chuan's mother, although the purpose was to repay the money, but it also exposed the behavior of the two.
Liu Chuan's father's good beating made Zhuang Rui honestly admitted to the university, but Liu Chuan still returned to the wave of reform and opening up a few years later.
Lei Lei naturally became the focus of the party, the yellow-haired little girl who wore thick glasses back then, from the beautiful girl in front of everyone now, but she couldn't find the shadow of the year at all, that fashionable and unassuming dress, just the right amount of light makeup, so that the female classmates surrounded one after another, chatting non-stop, and some male classmates who were not yet married were even more eyes away from Lei Lei's left and right, and Liu Chuan was jealous when he saw it.
Of course, the men are heroes with wine, the friendship they made in junior high school, everyone cherishes it very much, the cup comes and goes, and the atmosphere on the wine table will be lively after a while, Zhuang Rui and Liu Chuan's alcohol is about the same, it is poured out of the liquor of Liu Chuan's father from the thief, and now the injury on Zhuang Rui's head is almost better, naturally the cup is dry, and from time to time he also talks about some ugly things about the classmates here, which attracts bursts of laughter.
After eating a meal for more than two hours, the checkout was naturally a large amount of money Liu Chuan, Liu Chuan originally planned to invite everyone to karaoke, but it was close to the New Year, and each family had some things, and the party ended in laughter and memories, and the classmates also left contact information for each other.
After returning home, seeing his mother busy in the kitchen and a little lonely, and thinking of the warm scene at the party just now, Zhuang Rui suddenly felt that his choice to stay in Zhonghai to work was wrong.
"Xiao Rui, come and help my mother oil the scorched leaves. His mother's voice came from the kitchen, interrupting Zhuang Rui's thoughts.
ps:I saw a book review and some people said,Class reunion is pretending to be b stepping on people.,Not necessarily.,At least I think it's a classmate in junior high school.,The relationship is still very pure.,Stepping on people looks cool.,But a touch of classmate friendship,It can also make everyone have a lot of good memories.,As for selling stickers,,It's true.,The fourth grade of primary school outside the staff did it.,The result is to be invited to parents.,The consequence is to be beaten.,It's funny to think about it now.,Well,This chapter is out of the ball code.,From four o'clock in the night to the present.,Go to sleep.,Brothers, it's more topped.,Someone squeezed down from the classified click list.,Friends who didn't collect it clicked on the collection.,I think it's okay to write. , just give me some comfort for rewarding flowers and recommending something