Chapter 16: Marriage is like a siege
A good cup of coffee can always make people obsessed with it for a long time, and it will leave a taste on the lips and teeth after tasting it.
People walk into cafes for different reasons: to catch up on work, to go on a date with a lover, to chat with friends.
Walking into the No. 33 coffee bar, the proprietress greeted me with a smile. "Quietly, bring a friend! A cappuccilo, what is this lady going to do?"
"Americano, no sugar and no milk, thank you!"
The aroma of coffee swirled in the air, and Tang Wanwan and I found a quiet corner.
"Do you come often? β
"Well, I often come with customers, and the two bosses will remember me in three days. The proprietress is not only beautiful and kind-hearted, but also has a particularly high emotional intelligence. The guests she received, the second time she came back, she could always call other people's names, and even remembered their tastes clearly. Do you think that if you have met someone once, the second time they see you, they will be able to call out your name, and they will know that you add sugar and no milk, is it very heartwarming and has a feeling of being respected! Therefore, the opening of more than a dozen large and small coffee shops on this road is not as good as this business. β
Tang Wan smiled gracefully, "Among the 10 women, 9 have a literary dream of opening a flower shop or cafΓ©. It doesn't need to be too big, just have style. I also want to stop in a city and open a cafΓ© like this, not to make money, just to pass the time. It would be even more perfect if you could meet three or five confidants. β
The proprietress personally served the coffee, full of affinity between a smile and a smile, which made people feel inexplicably relaxed here.
"Wanwan, aren't you bitter for Americano?"
"Bitter? I used to drink coffee because I liked its bitterness, but now I drink coffee but I feel that it is not bitter enough, and life is much more bitter than this coffee. For example, love, just like adding sugar to coffee, adds less than almost all the bitterness of coffee, and if you add more, it will not reflect the taste of coffee. Hehe, why am I talking to you about this!"
Tang Wanwan smiled slightly at the corner of her mouth, and her tone was very different from the previous one in front of the little milk dog, as if she had changed into a different person, it was hard to imagine that the goddess would also appreciate the ups and downs of our Putuo public. With a house, a car, and a face, shouldn't you be spoiled by everyone and only know how to spend a good moon?
"Wanwan, how have you been doing all these years? How long have you known the little milk dog? Don't you want to start a family? Women are older, and giving birth to children is a ghost's door, don't you see those older female celebrities giving birth to a child as if they want half a life! You must not be an elderly mother!"
"Got it! Why are you like the seven aunts and eight mothers-in-law in my hometown, and you can't wait to bury me in the grave of marriage. The most beautiful part of love is brought about by hormones. Hormones are in charge of 'love', the occurrence of love gives birth to 'love', after getting married, I don't see my head all day long, where do the hormones come from, I think I'm very good now, I don't need to be bound by a certificate, I only talk about love and don't talk about marriage, how comfortable!"
Tang Wanwan's fair face, her eyes drooping slightly under the thick eyelashes, her lips opened lightly, she took a sip of coffee, raised her eyes, and a shiny green silk was scattered on her shoulders, she had more of the beauty of a mature woman than seven years ago.
"Jingjing, do you remember Wang Kai? Leaving him, I never met a man who really loved me, they all treated me as a plaything, hehe, of course, I also received payment, after all, I also paid for manual labor, didn't I? When I was in my twenties, I thought money was a good thing, and it was better to spend a lot of money than to ask for warmth. But as I get older, I am more and more eager for emotions other than the desire for money, and I need someone to sincerely shush myself and ask for warmth, am I quite conflicted?"
"It's like this when you're old, it's normal!" Tang Wanwan glanced at me coquettishly, and I continued, "After Wang Kai was dumped by you, the whole person fell, I heard that I played a lot of school girls, it was simply revenge on women, and I was willing to degenerate, I heard that later I made the belly of the school sister, and the family made trouble at school, and the school actually persuaded them to marry their sons, have you heard?"
"These don't matter, Jingjing, didn't you notice that Gu Qi looked a bit like Wang Kai back then? Especially the eyes, sometimes he stared at me and smiled, and my whole person was in a trance. No wonder some people say that handsome guys all look a little similar, such as double eyelids, a curled nose, and moderately thin lips, which does make sense. β
The milky white coffee cup touched my lips, but I was stunned by Tang Wanwan's words for a few seconds, "Wanwan, you are unfair to the little milk dog like this, of course, if you just play, it is another matter." β
"Playing? How is it possible? I just think he looks a little like Wang Kai, quietly, you are too sensitive. β
A woman's intuition is terrifying, women understand women better, Tang Wanwan's eyes can't deceive me, since she doesn't want to admit it, why should I expose people's scars again, Xiao Xiao took a sip of coffee, and I changed the topic.
"Little milk dog, oh, no, how did you and Gu Qi meet?"
"It's a long story, we've been dating for more than half a year, he used to be a programmer in a technology company in Shenzhen, at the launch of a game APP, we met at the wine table, the man is unmarried and the woman is unmarried, and a few friends match, we began to date. At that time, I happened to fall out of love, and a wealthy businessman who had been with me for two years said that he would go back to divorce her wife and marry me, but he disappeared from me. Her wife even went to my nail salon and smashed it. I was with Gu Qi in order to heal my wounds. Unexpectedly, he and I were very compatible, young and energetic, not at all like the legendary programmer ape, with high emotional intelligence, and thoughtful, even my aunt remembered it clearly, and would always make me all kinds of nourishing soup in those days. A hundred times stronger than those middle-aged greasy old men, and they respect me very much in that regard, and never force me to do things I don't want to. β
Tang Wanwan smiled evilly, and I understood in an instant.
Seeing that I understood in a second, Tang Wanwan smiled intriguingly, "You are also an old driver now, you were pure when you were in college." Now it seems that the grapes are purple and the fungus is black. β
"Why don't you say that you can suck soil when you sit on the ground?" I was disgusted.
"A woman is 30 like a wolf, 40 like a tiger, and 50 can sit on the ground and suck soil. You're a she-wolf for the time being, and it's too early to absorb dirt!"
When I went to Pheasant University, the girls asked the boys to borrow CDs and ask for seeds, Sora Aoi, Kyoko Aizome, Nana Natsume, Ayaka Tomoda, and Manami Suzuki...... , girls watch no less than boys. To an incomparable extent, the pollution index of girls is higher than that of boys, and the pollution index of some female writers who write novels is simply ruined.
A notebook was placed on the table of the dormitory, and several girls hurriedly closed the curtains, locked the dormitory door, and checked it again and again. The whole bedroom was silent, poking their heads out of the bed one by one, holding their breath and concentrating, their eyes like torches, and their faces were red and their necks were thick.
"I also like this action, it's super feeling. β
"Did you say that this man took medicine, so violent!"
"Mom, it's disgusting, I never give my boyfriend a mouth ....."
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I was still a daisy, my face was burning like a fireball, and the bedroom was dimly lit, hiding my shame. Otherwise, they would have noticed that my little face was as red as a ripe persimmon, and I swallowed my saliva secretly, for fear that when they heard the sound of "cooing", their hearts inexplicably increased with shame, and the fawn was desperately bumping.
"What do you want, so distracted?" Tang Wanwan dangled from side to side in front of me with a coffee spoon.
"Thinking of our 415 dormitory watching movies collectively, you forgot all about the past, that was my enlightenment. It seems that you asked the boy in the class to borrow that resource, right? Yes, it is you, the initiator of the scourge of me, an innocent girl!"
Seeing my pretentious and angry face, Tang Wanwan was funny and angry. "Hey, wronged, if you want to add to the crime, there is no excuse. You are Sun Wukong beating Zhu Bajie - a rake upside down! I'm so good at mud and make a good stoveβββ good intentions can't be rewarded!"
"Okay, okay, I was wrong, the goddess begs forgiveness, you are the Bao Gong of Kaifeng Mansion - iron-faced and selfless, purely for the benefit of roommates. Let's change the subject!"
Talking and laughing, the beautiful and kind-hearted proprietress came over with a fruit platter and smiled, "Two beauties, come, I invite this fruit platter, you can talk slowly." With that, the proprietress went on to greet the other guests.
"Tut-tut, she really knows how to do business, so that the guests owe her affection, this woman is not simple, she has the means. β
"Wanwan, this is called etiquette, many people are not strange, and they are kind and wealthy. Learn a little. β
"I've got enough money in my coffers for a lifetime! I'm 25 years old and has three villas. Tang Wanwan looked arrogant, and deliberately rolled her eyes at me disdainfully, I looked so angry and funny, I was old, and I ate a stranger's vinegar, and I was a woman.
"Okay, good, we Wanwan is a goddess with white skin and beautiful appearance, long legs, and only money left for the poor, abbreviation, Bai Fumei!"
"Of course, okay, don't always talk about me, let's talk about you too! Look at your absent-minded and preoccupied look, is something wrong? Could it be that there is a situation outside Lao Chen? Let me tell you, when an elderly person falls in love, it is like an old house on fire, which is incorrigible. You have to watch closely, university professor, many young students are worried about such an uncle, these days, older women like small milk dogs, and younger ones like uncles like your husband. Don't be dug into the corner, and serve his family!"
The man at the next table was smoking, which is a change to the fact that in a human rights country like the United States, I can sue him for letting others smoke secondhand smoke in public places. I don't know if it's the long-suppressed emotions in my heart that need to be complained about urgently, or the thick smell of smoke sours my eyes, and my eyes are slightly moist.
"Does my husband have a junior, a fourth, or a fifth, I haven't found out for the time being, this woman still has to open one eye and close one eye, and she must know how to be 'rare and confused'!"