Chapter 1: Back to Shenzhen
It's a flashy era, where everyone is in a hurry, running for work and life;
This is a dissolute city, wandering everywhere ambiguous, but love can't find a base;
This is also the best era, as long as you work hard, you can create the life of your dreams.
Back to Shenzhen again, from the moment he got off the plane and got into a taxi, the high-rise buildings on both sides of the highway made Lin Kaiwen feel that Shenzhen had changed a lot, the subway had already led to the outside of the gate, and he didn't have to wait in line to check the ID card to pass the Meilin Pass, there were a lot more buildings, and the Diwang Building was still towering in the clouds. The café is still full of aroma.
James was waiting at the bar where he left two years ago, and he brought a few little girls, and Kevin Lin leaned over and whispered:
"James, when did you become so unrestrained? Aren't you afraid that your sister-in-law will castrate you?"
"Wronged, these people are your sister-in-law and their company, I just met, your sister-in-law went to the bathroom. ”
After everyone stared at Kevin Lin's embarrassed expression for three seconds, the sister-in-law appeared.
"Kevin, you're finally back!Welcome!" said my sister-in-law who came up to me and gave me a small hug.
Kevin Lin was a little unaccustomed to it, and said: "It turns out that now the handshake has been changed to a hug, it seems that Shenzhen is on par with Paris?"
As soon as he sat down, James urged his sister-in-law to introduce several beauties to Kevin Lin, Xiaowen, Shu Jing, and Shirlier, all of whom were beauties.
Lin Kaiwen quipped: "No wonder I haven't had an affair in Yiwu in the past two years, it turns out that the beauty came to Shenzhen." After that, everyone began to order drinks, and James was still the same James, and went down with a bottle of grunt, while his sister-in-law pinched his slightly fat arm vigorously beside him. And Lin Kaiwen, who was still two years ago, was not good at drinking, so he could only drink, and his face turned red when he drank, making him look like a girl, so he had to get off the bar and invite a few beauties to dance on the dance floor.
I have to say that Lin Kaiwen, who has not been on the dance floor of the bar for a long time, is getting worse and worse in his dancing skills, and he even feels awkward when he twists it, alas, it seems that the bar is not where he comes, and he used to come often just to sit at the bar and drink quietly, admiring the enthusiastic and unrestrained beauties on the dance floor.
Back at the bar again, James asked Kevin Lin, "Are you not leaving when you come back this time?" Kevin Lin's hesitation as usual was seen through again.
"Kevin, come back, I see that you are not happy to stay over there, it is not like that, now the company has changed half the sky, if you don't return to the Royal Forester, I'm afraid you will die on the beach by then!"
In fact, James's words are not unreasonable, he has been staying in the headquarters for the past two years, and he knows the situation here best, and Kevin Lin also occasionally learned about some personnel changes in the company from him, but he never seems to have the determination to come back. Because every time I come back, although I will still be nostalgic, but there will always be a period of nostalgia, but involuntarily begin to yearn for the comfort and comfort of Yiwu again, it seems that Lin Kaiwen has been accustomed to that kind of busy and dull work and life, Shenzhen, just a place for him to occasionally feel the passion of staying, but it seems that it is difficult to become the city he wants to stay in all the time. Under James's repeated questioning, Kevin Lin had to use a lot of work there as an excuse that he couldn't let go now.
"Come on, Kevin, I don't know you yet? you still can't let go of Sakura, right?" Hearing the name Sakurako, Kevin Lin was shocked again in his heart, and hurriedly covered it up: "How is it possible? I haven't thought about it for a long time." ”
"Pretend, you pretend? I see that you are about to eat the filter when you smoke, and you don't know whether you are alive or dead. Kevin, you can't do this, it's time to let go, everyone is already --- knot" "What? What's wrong with Sakura?" Kevin Lin began to ask: "Tell me, what's wrong with her? Is there someone?"
James wanted to talk, but he still recruited under Kevin Lin's hard questioning: "Okay, it doesn't hurt to tell you, she's about to get married, and I had a meal with the two of them." The man is the assistant sales manager of the former Wick company, but he is now about to become a sales manager. I only found out about it when I did a business with him. You don't need to hide it in front of me, who are we with whom?"
Kevin Lin smiled bitterly and drank the beer down, drinking it too quickly and choking. Looking at him with an embarrassed face, James couldn't help but smile and said:
"Look, I poked you into a scar, right? Alas, you, everything is good, it's just too bold, just a woman, as for you who have been in love for so many years, have you never forgotten?"
As she was talking, my sister-in-law came up, and as soon as she heard what James said, she grabbed James' ear and asked, "Dead old Zhan, what did you say? It's just a woman? Who am you? Are you going to kick me someday?"
James hurriedly slapped his sister-in-law's hand: "I didn't say you, I was talking about Sakura, Kevin still ---- to her, alas, infatuation seeds!"
"Oh, I see, Kevin, you're really in love!"
"Sister-in-law, don't make fun of me, it's not what your husband said at all, we're talking about who is the most beautiful among these girls in your company, so that you can be a matchmaker for me." Hehe---" As soon as the words fell, Lin Kaiwen felt that he had just dug a pit for himself, and sure enough, his sister-in-law immediately agreed and said:
"Okay, just wait for your words, who do you fancie, and we will officially hand her over to you when we go to have supper." ”
Kevin Lin had no choice but to get off the donkey and say, "Okay! If I can, I'll apply to come back and garrison." Hey, by the way, I haven't asked you how you two got together, sister-in-law, tell me, James's words always add to the fire. Before they could ask about their feelings for Sakurako, they hurriedly changed the subject.
"That's, he must have told you that I was going to pester him at the time, right?" After taking a sip of beer, the sister-in-law continued: "Actually, the two of us didn't deliberately want to stay together, let it be, after I broke up with Wan Haifeng, I once talked about business with their company, I was drunk that night, and he sent me home." ”
"Wow? aren't you drunk?" I smirked at James, who picked up the beer bottle and was about to smash it at me.
He took care of me that night, and when I woke up in the morning, I found that breakfast was already on the table, and the others were gone. I was a little moved at that moment, and then I found that his suit was thrown under my sofa, probably because I vomited. I had to wash him and send him over, and then our two companies had a friendship together, and we chatted a few times, and then ----"
After speaking, my sister-in-law lit a cigarette and continued: "Actually, we didn't know how to be together at that time, but at that time I felt that he was a very careful man. ”
"Hehe---- James must have taken a fancy to you, so he deliberately left the suit there. ”
"you, I was going to wake her up for breakfast that morning, but the company's phone urged me to go back, and I forgot about it in a hurry. ”
"Really?" Kevin Lin asked, "Believe it or not, anyway, now that we're together, what's the matter, you still want to intervene?" James hugged his sister-in-law and kissed him on the forehead.
"you, how dare I! you have to destroy my body when you turn around. Looking at James and his sister-in-law's loving appearance, Kevin Lin was happy for them from the bottom of his heart.
"It's good to know, let's go, let's go have some supper! ”
James, whose real name is Zhan Yiwen, is a colleague and friend of Kevin Lin's company, because he likes NBA star James, he took James as his English name, and his sister-in-law's real name is Lu Meiling, because the bosses of their two companies are good friends, so they often pull the employees on both sides together for activities, and the two of them met like this, and then slowly walked together.
At a restaurant near the east gate, everyone had something to eat and then dispersed. Before leaving, my sister-in-law handed Shu Jing to me and said:
"Handsome guy, Shu Jing will be handed over to you, treat others well. As he spoke, he pushed a girl over, Lin Kaiwen was a little caught off guard, and asked with a smile: "Ah? No, what do you mean?" Such a bold and explicit matchmaker made Lin Kaiwen really panic.
"Hey---- Kevin, I see that you are in a hurry, her house is close to the hotel where you live, and you just happened to call together, and besides, isn't it also the duty of a gentleman like you to let you send my little sister down?"
"Hehe--- so that's the case! Okay, don't worry, I'll definitely send her to the place safely, and then walked to the side of the road and stopped a taxi, the two sat in the car, Lin Kaiwen was really a little unaccustomed, maybe it was the alcohol, Lin Kaiwen turned his head and looked at the girl in front of him, a very delicate face with long black hair, and the side face covered by scattered hair, so that Lin Kaiwen found that she and Sakura were a little similar, at this moment, he thought of Sakura again, remembered that he was about to get married, and felt a little heartache.
In the car, Kevin Lin didn't know what to talk to her, he was embarrassed for a while, but Shu Jing spoke first, he introduced some things about their company to Kevin Lin, saying that his sister-in-law took good care of them, and also said that after listening to his sister-in-law and James, he felt that Kevin Lin was a very dedicated person, and he admired me. was saying that Kevin Lin had arrived at the hotel, and he wanted to say goodbye to her, but who thought that she would also get off the bus.
"Don't you live in the neighborhood in front of you?
"Hehe--- I don't want to go back yet, the girl I share definitely brought her boyfriend back, I'll wait for them to rest before going back. You, is there any place where I can stay for another hour?" Kevin Lin thought for a while and said:
"Well, there really is a place, go to the bar downstairs of my hotel and drink some hangover drinks!" In the hotel lobby, Lin Kaiwen gave Shu Jing some fruit vinegar to understand the wine, and Shu Jing began to tell her story again.
It turns out that don't look at her young age, but she is the pillar of the family, she is the second in the family, her parents are farmers in the countryside, her sister has long been married to a Sichuan boy, and her sister and younger brother are still studying, after she graduated from junior college, her sister and brother's tuition fees were on her. And with her current salary, excluding her family's expenses and her own expenses, she is basically a moonlight clan. Fortunately, the company has a sister-in-law to help take care of it, and the business gradually improves every month.
Listening to her story, Kevin Lin was deeply touched, because his background was the same as her, he came from the countryside, and he had no less hardships when he was studying, and he came out to work with twists and turns. As for the relationship, after separating from Sakurako two years ago, it was difficult to find a long-term and stable relationship, and the occasional spark of passion was always extinguished at the most brilliant time, so that later he turned himself into a workaholic, an otaku, in fact, he was a leftover man in the end.
"Brother Lin, can I call you that?" Shu Jing's salutation made Kevin Lin frown a little, but he still agreed out of politeness.
"Of course, in fact, you can call me Kevin like them, everyone is born in the 80s!"
"Oh, okay! I want to ask you a question, do you really still think about Sakurako-san now, even if she is about to get married?"
"Well---- how do you say this? It's said that I deliberately miss it, but occasionally, especially when I go back to Shenzhen, I occasionally pass by the places we have walked, and there will still be a little. ”
"So, you haven't found a girlfriend yet?" Shu Jing seemed to be about to break the casserole and ask to the end.
"No, I didn't find a girlfriend because I didn't find the right one, and I'm sure once I have a new relationship, I won't think about the past. Maybe the wine hasn't woken up yet, and Kevin Lin's repeated cover-up has become some kind of hint.
He scolded himself from the bottom of his heart: "Kevin Lin, Kevin Lin, don't get into trouble anymore." ”
"Oh, I see, you men are like this! When you have a new person, you will forget the old person, and only laugh with the new person, and not hear the old person cry. Shu Jing's words were full of disappointment and a hint of sadness. Kevin Lin seemed to be aware of it, she should have been hurt before, and was about to ask, but after thinking about it, forget it, don't stir up other people's sadness. But just as Kevin Lin swallowed the words back into his stomach, Shu Jing took the initiative to tell him about her sadness a year ago.
Alas, in this dissolute city, ambiguity is everywhere, but true feelings are nowhere to be tolerated.