Chapter 53: The Thief
Xu Lan's shrill laughter pierced her eardrums, whipping her last bit of pity for her. She didn't expect Xu Lan to leave such a trick for her, she really couldn't even think of breaking her head.
"Xu Lan! You did all this, what do you want to do?" She didn't want to talk nonsense with her anymore, but in the position of an ordinary person, she still couldn't help but ask, "Are you really empty? It's up to you to even find a job for me?"
Xu Lan on the other end seemed to be dismissive of her questioning.
"No, promise. You're wrong. Of course, it's not up to me to find a job. I'm just asking you to taste the taste of an empty bamboo basket. After she finished speaking, she no longer gave Xu Yu a chance to say a word, and hung up the phone arrogantly, as if in revenge for Xu Xu for refusing to answer her call just now.
What a childish thing! Promise leaned helplessly on the hot telephone pole and stared at the phone number of this pampered woman for a long time. She really wanted to greet Xu Lan's eighteenth generation ancestor. But she can't, because Xu Lan's ancestors are also hers. She scolded her ancestors, she heard it for the first time since she was a child.
Since you won't let me have a good time, I naturally don't want you to have a good time!
She flipped through her phone's address book and dialed a phone number she hadn't been in touch for a long time. Unconsciously, she stared at the number tightly, and some complicated emotions were churning.
"Doodle-toot-"
The call was answered shortly thereafter.
"Hey—" was Father Xu's familiar and unfamiliar voice.
I promised that I hadn't heard my father's whispers for a long time. At this time, she turned out to be calling him for her self-righteous sister.
"Dad—" she choked up. Then she informed Xu's father of Xu Lan's crazy revenge, and she waited for her father's attitude, full of hope for Xu's father's voice to comfort her.
But he didn't say anything. And she didn't wait for him to say.
"Promise—what kind of character your sister has, you don't don't understand! Your sister doesn't want you to do the hard work, so why don't you understand?"
Xu Promise listened to Xu's father's voice defending Xu Lan with a pale face. The corners of her mouth curled slightly. It turned out that everyone had abandoned her, and she was still stupidly thinking that she could still get the right to maintain fairness. It turned out that it was all wishful thinking on her part...... She understands now!
Without saying a word, she turned off the phone. There was no longer any foolish hope for that so-called home.
After hanging up Xu's father's phone, Xu Promise quietly watched the endless traffic, and the bright life could no longer attract her. Her back was stretched long in the sunlight and eventually disappeared around a bend.
As she walked down a dark, damp alley, a phone call came in.
Today is really a lively day.
Confused, she pulled her slightly quivering phone out of her pocket. Holding it to the level angle in front of her eyes, she could clearly see the caller's phone number. At this time, she was in the shadows, and her vision became clearer. She tilted her head slightly, looking playfully at the comer.
After a few seconds of pause, she resolutely declined the call. She has now officially broken up with Ye Wen, and Ye Wen and her sister are walking together, and she is very suspicious now.
She continued to walk down the alley, her slender jade fingers touching the potholed stone wall, the cold touch reaching her brain through her nerves. She couldn't help but shudder. Before she could take a few steps, the phone rang again. The promise didn't look at it, and hung it up.
The sun doesn't shine in the alley, and it looks a little cold. But it was a shortcut, she had to cross the alley to the next intersection to get a taxi. Just as she tried to walk on the curb, another call came in. She is not careful, and her center of gravity is unstable. Promise waved her outstretched arms, trying to keep her balance. But he still didn't have time to react, so he stumbled and almost fell to the ground.
She slowly straightened up on the flat ground, cursed in her mouth, and angrily pulled her phone out of her pocket, what the hell is going on today?
The phone shook violently on her phone, as if afraid of her anger. The caller ID is still Ye Wen. Xu Yu narrowed his eyes slightly, nodded inconsiderately, and a sneer curled up at the corner of his mouth. Then hung up the phone mercilessly. Continue to concentrate on walking home.
Because of a few incoming calls, she walked through the alley on and off. Finally got to the intersection she was going to. Promised that in order to hide from the sun, she hid under the shade of a tree. The sunlight falling from the gaps in the leaves sprinkled on her face, and the whole person looked extremely energetic. If you ignore the melancholy in the depths of her eyes.
Just as she put her hand in her pocket, she noticed another phone call. She took the phone out of her pocket. When she saw the comer, she spoke indignantly.
"Okay, you Ye Wen, are you eating so empty?" she scolded to herself, "First Xu Lan and then you Ye Wen, are they all so thick-skinned?"
No, she couldn't stand Ye Wen's harassing phone calls anymore, and with the disgust in her heart, she answered the calls he called again and again.
Ye Wen, who hadn't seen each other for a long time, had a voice coming from the other end of the phone, and Xu Yu frowned in disgust.
"No need to be polite. She said succinctly, "If you have something, say it, if it's okay, get out-"
In an instant, when she said the word "roll", she was in a particularly comfortable mood, this word seemed to have some kind of magic, especially applicable to Ye Wen, a man. Xu Promise secretly felt that in this world, people who were more suitable for this word than Ye Wen were afraid that they would not be able to find it.
And Ye Wen on the other side of the phone obviously didn't know what Xu Lan had done just now, so he just thought that Xu Yu was disgusted by what he had done before.
Although he promised to hang up three phone calls, his tone on the phone did not bear any traces of anger because of this, but instead appeared very flattering.
"Hey—promise. It's me-" Speaking of this, he swallowed his saliva unconsciously, as if he was gathering momentum, "I-Ye Wen-"
Hearing this, Xu Promise rolled his eyes unconsciously, and gave Ye Wen a big cross in his heart. Isn't it him? It's not him, can she still hang up on him?
"Yes. She didn't want to talk to him too much.
At this time, all the attention of the promise was on the bus that stopped at the red light at the intersection ahead. She quickly rummaged through her bag and found a few coins. At this time, she pinched the coin in her palm with confidence, and even didn't pay attention to what Ye Wen said on the phone just now.
"Hey, hey, promise, are you listening?" Ye Wen shouted anxiously on the phone, as if he had just managed to overcome himself before he said something unspeakable, but there was no movement on the other side of the promise.
The other end waited intently for the promise of the bus before being called back to his senses by Ye Wen's shout.
"Nope. She answered his questions honestly, as if she were answering a teacher's questions in class.
Xu Yu naturally didn't care very much, but Ye Wen on the side almost blew up his lungs. He used to promise that everything he would ask for, but now he ended up in the cold. With such a big difference, how could he Ye Wen endure it?
It's just that he has something to ask her for now, so he is embarrassed to pull down his face.
He has been playing too much recently, taking all his savings to gamble, and as a result, he has lost his personal wealth.
Gambling is like taking drugs, once you get it, it's hard to quit again. As a result, he is now so poor that he can't even afford to eat. At such a time, the school sent a notice asking for the payment of tuition.
He was desperate, but he didn't dare to tell the grumpy Xu Lan, so he had to bite the bullet and ask for a promise.
He licked his dry lips and spoke again with some trepidation.
"Xu ...... Promised...... "He doesn't even blink an eye when he spends money on weekdays, but now he feels his face is hot," I think...... I'll borrow money from you......"
Xu Xu, who was already sitting on the bus at this time, raised her eyebrows in surprise, she looked out the window and asked with interest.
"Ye Wen, what's the matter, the money was spent so quickly, what did you do to use up all the money......
As soon as these words came out, Ye Wen's face on the other end of the phone turned red and blue. He had never been so humiliated, and he didn't have a dirty word in his words, but he was sarcastically sprayed by her.
He clutched his phone tightly and wanted to drop it on the ground, but he was stingy with his money.
The bus started, but Ye Wen on the other end of the phone didn't make any movement, promising not to be in a hurry, he begged in a low voice first, and he had to give him a little time to get used to it.
"I ...... Gambling has lost all your money...... Now let alone paying tuition, I can't even afford to eat......" Sure enough, after a while, Ye Wen obediently told all the truth, revealing all the embarrassment he was trying to hide in front of the promise.
Xu Xu sneered and said nothing.
"Promise...... Please...... Now it's up to you to help me...... I really can't help it......" Ye Wen muttered in a low voice, his tone was very eager, but he couldn't hear any sincerity, "Can you lend me a sum of money first?"
"Ye Wen. You know better than me whether you came to borrow money from me or ask me to take money......" Xu Yu didn't give him any face, and hit the nail on the head, "It's just that you found the wrong person, the Xu family is richer and more capable than me, you should go and ask your good girlfriend-"
Ye Wen, who was listening to the sarcasm in the promise's words on the other end of the phone, couldn't help but reddened his eyes, he never thought that the current promise would become so exquisite. He knew the hard temper of the man who promised him, and now he couldn't cheat money from her. He didn't say a word and hung up the phone in embarrassment.
On the other hand, Xu Xu saw that the phone screen returned to the main interface, and leaned her hand holding the phone against the window lattice, her side face gently pressed against the window, and quietly lowered her eyelids. The rich eyelashes cast a small shadow on her face, and her expression was as calm as the surface of a lake.
She is indeed disgusted and angry with Ye Wen's rash visit now. But after the matter was rejected by her, she felt that she had let go of that pale and weak relationship, and she didn't care much in her heart. After the shattered relationship was swept away, this feeling made her feel very relaxed.
Unconsciously, she stretched a big lazy waist on the bus back.
A bus stopped for a moment under a stop sign, and its exhaust gurgled out of the exhaust pipe. A few seconds later, the bus revved its big, round tires and drove forward in a clumsy way.
At this time, there was one more promise on the stop sign. There was still a short way home, and she had to walk.
She reached out of her pocket, and lowered her head to see what time it was, but accidentally exposed the back of her white neck.
"It's not too early...... she muttered softly, and took a step, crossing one intersection after another. Walking alone on the sidewalk. Finally, he flashed into a trail.
After walking a few dozen steps, he saw his hut from a distance. When she stood in front of the door excitedly, she saw An Ran tending to a small flower growing tenaciously in the open space in front of the door.
"Hey! I'm back—" Promise stepped forward happily, his eyes shining with the joy of seeing his friend again. It was almost evening, and the sun was not as fierce as it was at noon, and it shone softly on her face, creating a hazy beauty.
And An Ran, who was squatting on the side, heard the call of her old friend, and quickly turned around, and was greeted by the familiar smiling face of the promise, she stood up at once, walked a few steps quickly, and hugged the promise of the wind and dust.
"Promise, how's it going? How about it? Have you found a job?" An Ran was quiet like a little white rabbit in front of outsiders, and like a restless bird in front of acquaintances, chirping, "Our promise is so good! You must have found the job you want! Congratulations, congratulations——"
Xu Yue saw An Ran's happy eyes, and he couldn't bear to tell her the result of today's fiasco in Xu Lan's hands. She didn't want to tell her what Xu Lan had done, so she had to bury this family scandal in the bottom of her heart. She bit her lower lip and gave a shimmer of embarrassment.
An Ran saw that the promise was about to speak and stopped, and let go of the hand that was tightly surrounding the promise neck, as if he realized something. She scratched her head in embarrassment, then tilted her head sideways, and hurriedly pushed Promise into the hut and beckoned her to drink.
"I'm tired from a long day's work—" She pressed Promise firmly to her chair, and neatly poured a glass of water at the right temperature from the kettle into the glass, and slowly handed it to Promise.
She watched the thirsty Promise pour a whole glass of water into her stomach before she spoke, trying to comfort the frustrated Promise.
"Those people didn't take a fancy to you, they thought they were blind!" An Ran sat down on the other side of the small table indignantly, unconditionally defending his friend.
Xu Promise looked at An Ran's indignant appearance, and his heart was warm. But when she remembered Xu Lan's despicable methods, she extinguished the smile that had momentum. Replaced with a snarky face.
"Isn't it—they're all blind—" She walked down the steps of An Ran, satirizing a group of so-called petty supervisors who forgot their interests and had a little power.
Suddenly the topic ended, and there was a silence in the cabin, and the atmosphere suddenly became inexplicably awkward. Promise lay on the small table decadently, fed up with the day's wasted work.
An Ran on the side saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart. She suddenly patted her head, as if remembering something, and spoke excitedly towards the promise.
"Promise! I just found a bar and sit there, I think it's pretty good, would you like to try your hand at being a waiter?"
The promise on the side raised his eyelids and closed them again. She didn't show much interest. That Xu Lan's hand was stretched out, and it was estimated that the ordinary bar owner had already been informed, who would dare to ask her?
And An Ran, who was sitting at the end of the small table, looked at her listless appearance, and had a sense of disappointment that hatred of iron could not be made of steel. She reached out and nudged the promise, trying to cheer her up.
"Hey—promise—talk to you—why don't you keep quiet—you—"
After hesitating for a while, he was forced to reluctantly refuse An Ran's kindness, turned his head, and continued to close his eyes and recuperate.
But An Ran misunderstood what she meant, thinking that the words bar reminded Xu Promise of Sister Meng. She didn't force her anymore, but unwillingly pushed the promise that collapsed on the table like a piece of pork. She took a step back and tactfully persuaded to promise.
"Oh, I don't have to go there to work! I'm just going to try it - I don't want you to lose a piece of meat!"
The promise that was violently shaken by Enron raised his head helplessly, and was met by Enron's expectant eyes. She sighed.
"Okay. Just go check it out—"
……
Soon, night fell. When it was time for An Ran to go to work, he dressed up beautifully, and went out with a reluctant promise. She looked up at the bright starry sky, and there was no trace of emotion in her numbness.
This time, Xu promised not to take the bus again, but chose a taxi with a more personal sense of space. The driver glanced in the rearview mirror from time to time, and frequently glanced sideways at these two beauties with very different styles. One is pure and lovely, the other is hot and seductive. The driver's master sitting in the cab is a feast for the eyes tonight.
Without further ado, the taxi arrived at its destination in no time.
As soon as An Ran, who was dressed in beautiful clothes, appeared, he quickly attracted the attention of many people. She looked back and smiled softly at the promise, revealing infinite femininity. A slight smile is very captivating.
Promise winked mischievously at her. As she walked into the bar.
When I was outside the door for a long time, I found that the decoration of this bar was unique. Unlike other bars, Kill Matt's style is a bargain. The décor of this bar is very pleasant, or when you first see it, you don't think it's a bar at all, but more like a high-end western restaurant or something.
Xu Nuo probe followed An Ran through one door after another, and suddenly there was a boy singing. The closer you go, the clearer you hear. Inside, under the dim lighting, the original high-end decoration instantly takes on some exaggerated feeling, so that people will not be mistaken for a real high-end restaurant, but in a bar.
When they got closer, Xu Promise was immediately attracted by the boy who sang solo on the stage, and she didn't even hear An Ran tell her to go to work.
The boy was holding a classical guitar, and his long, not indelicate fingers were plucking the strings, making one eye-brow after another melody. The different tones of voice and the vibration of different strengths and weaknesses completely captured the promised eardrums. She couldn't help but squeeze forward, eager to catch a glimpse of her handsome face.
However, when she saw his face clearly, she was even more surprised. With a gloomy look, a solitary temperament, and a deep and beautiful singing voice, he is like a prince who has been lost by the king. She looked at him infatuatedly, intoxicated by his singing. Shaking with his rhythm, he even turned his eyes red by the story he sang, and finally moved to tears.
It's a ballad full of love, and the lyrics that might have seemed superficial and monotonous are played and sung by this boy, as if there really is such a thing. He incorporated all his emotions into the melody, affectionately and forcefully endured sadness, which seemed to have a very story-like appearance, so it was easy to infect the audience.
Xu promised that she couldn't help but fantasize about the unknown experience behind this singer, after all, a singer who can sing such a feeling must have a rich life experience.
At the end of the song, the man thanked gracefully, promising that he had no time to wipe away his tears, and couldn't help but applaud fiercely, and refused to stop until his palms were red.
The surrounding audience couldn't help but heckle and shouted for the man to sing again. In particular, she also wanted to shout out her thoughts as much as possible with the crowd. But when she saw the singer's slightly tired face, she just opened her mouth and didn't make a sound.
And after the excitement, the promise slowly put his hand back in his pocket. Looking at the empty singing platform with unfinished eyes, her pockets were also empty, and her heart was empty.
She suddenly felt down in her pocket, and found that her purse was missing! She looked back a few times and saw several malevolent men staring straight at her. That weird look made her scalp tingle.
She suddenly remembered that just when she was listening to the man on the stage singing, several people bumped into her, and she staggered to the side, unhappy, but was soon attracted by the man's singing voice on the stage. So at that time, she didn't care too much about the details. Now that her wallet is gone, it must have something to do with those ill-intentioned men!
She stared at them hatefully, her eyes cold, and she seemed to be full of disdain for men like them who took advantage of the chaos to fall into the well. There are all kinds of fish and dragons in this bar, and she was negligent!
The men seemed to notice the promising gaze, and were stunned for a moment, and then smiled ruffianly. He took a few steps back, and this appearance was obviously about to escape! Xu Promise gritted his teeth and cursed a few words.
"Damn!" she clutched her sleeves tightly, she had just come to the bar and had come across something like this, I don't know if it was her luck or her bad luck.
She could see clearly that it was two men with snakes tattooed.
"The villain who steals chickens and dogs!" she couldn't help but scold, trembling all over, as if she was angry.