Part II, Chapter 11



The city is so big, every day when he is submerged in the sea of people, he feels small and no one knows him, but the world is so small, no matter where he is in the city, he can always hear all kinds of news about that woman. She resigned from a company with a stable job, she found a precarious but well-paid job, she met someone with a promising career, she got married, she went to a friend's party, she she, there seemed to be no corner of the world where she didn't exist. Lin Shengjie slammed the accelerator, the van seemed to ride the wind and waves, and the sharp side of the boat cut through the waves to open up a way for himself.

Zhu Xiaolan hurriedly fastened her seat belt, her hands firmly grasping the edge of the seat. Lin Shengjie looked angry, she was afraid to get along with angry and sad people, she didn't know what words to use to break this embarrassment and quietness. She listened to the wind outside the window, and only felt that something fermented in the air in the small cab was drifting with the wind, and the whole street and the street lamps on the side of the street were awkward.

Lin Shengjie's car turned into a small alley and stopped suddenly outside Zhu Xiaolan's community.

Zhu Xiaolan loosened her seat belt, but fortunately nothing happened. Zhou Yu has been saying that for the safety of his own life, he must not argue with the man who is driving about right and wrong, as long as the man has the steering wheel in his hand, then he must obey unconditionally, and the steering wheel determines the lives of many people.

Lin Shengjie looked at Zhu Xiaolan's undisguised slackness, and said, "Xiaolan, are you going up?" Zhu Xiaolan nodded and was about to open the door, and said, "You are driving around today, you must be tired, go back and rest early!"

"What's the good thing about going back? I'm not alone?" Lin Shengjie took out a cigarette to light it, but the lighter never lit. Lin Shengjie frowned and looked at the cigarette, and simply threw it out of the window, Zhu Xiaolan opened her mouth and wanted to say that the cleaners are also very hard. But seeing his serious and distressed look, he said, "You...... Don't have any friends?"

Lin Shengjie took out another cigarette. This time, the lighter was lit very happily, he lit a cigarette, and said, "Yes, but my friends are busy talking about business, playing cards and drinking tea, and I don't have time to listen to my mother-in-law." Xiaolan, do you think this woman is raising fish when she is looking for her husband?"

"What kind of fish do you raise?" Zhu Xiaolan looked at Lin Shengjie strangely.

Lin Shengjie pinched a cigarette in his left hand and put it on the window, flicking the cigarette ash with his little thumb from time to time, "En...... , Choosing a man is like choosing a goldfish stall on the ground goldfish, this is not bad or that is good, just move home to raise, not far away, not close, and finally decide which one is the best and then throw away the others!"

Zhu Xiaolan was harsh when she heard this. For a short time, I didn't feel that there was anything wrong.

Lin Shengjie leaned his head on the seat, "Isn't this the least investment and the greatest benefit?"

Zhu Xiaolan felt a little taste. His face turned red and said, "Do you think this is doing business? Where does the investment income come from?" After speaking, he stared at Lin Shengjie with bright eyes. In his heart, he was quickly thinking about whether there was something he had not done well during this time that made Lin Shengjie have such a ridiculous idea. This is nothing more than an insult to her personality.

Lin Shengjie raised his eyebrows, and his eyes showed a disapproving light. "Isn't it all like this? For the relationship with men, if you don't take the initiative and don't refuse, you don't show that everyone is a good friend, eating, drinking, all men are good friends? ://.”

Zhu Xiaolan's eyebrows were upside down, the fire on her face burned straight to her neck and chest, and then the fire in her chest rushed to her head again, and suddenly burned her usual stability to ashes, she shouted: "Are you talking about me? I didn't measure you, you are not in the scope of my measurement at all." You're a disgusting man, obviously we've only met many times because of work, if I had known that I was on a blind date with you, I would never go. After speaking, she was about to open the door and get out of the car, and sure enough, she thought of people too well, thinking that Lin Shengjie taught her some interpersonal skills to be a good person, and this person's thinking was still so unacceptable.

"But no, if it's a pure working relationship, according to your character, you don't need to invite me to dinner and talk to me in your heart, you don't admit it in your heart, but you still see me as a potential development object, don't you think it's despicable? While denying me in your heart, you still look like you are friends with me!" Lin Shengjie said mercilessly.

Zhu Xiaolan turned her head suddenly, "Aren't ordinary friends like this?"

"Yes, it's a friend! Under the pretext of a friend, doesn't love and marriage start with a friend?"

The fire in Zhu Xiaolan's head became more and more intense, and Lin Shengjie poured a few pots of hot oil on the fire, and the beeping flames rushed her blood up, and the whole thing seemed to be bursting with green smoke.

"Lin Shengjie, you are such a bastard! Then you are not the same despicable, you obviously don't look down on me and still approach me under the banner of a friend, you are also raising fish. You're also raising fish!" Repeating the words of fish farming, Zhu Xiaolan didn't know how to scold, her lips trembled with excitement, and her hands trembled, she was afraid that she couldn't help but use her nails, so she had to clench her hands.

Lin Shengjie looked at her face as if it had been burned, his nostrils were slightly open, and he couldn't find a place to vent his anger because of excitement and short words, so he had to breathe hard. It's uncomfortable, it's so uncomfortable! It's not even a tenth of his pain!

Zhu Xiaolan only felt that the anger in her heart was rushing left and right, but she couldn't find an outlet to vent, and she seemed to have a lot to say, but her head was blank. She shook and pulled the car door, "Lin Shengjie, I'm not a fish, I'm not your fish! You're not a fish! You're not!"

The corners of Lin Shengjie's mouth were crooked, and he felt that Zhu Xiaolan's words were extremely naïve, so he leaned over and said, "You can do these two sentences? You are already so old and still a child!"

Zhu Xiaolan's lips trembled, her thin lip flap was bitten by her teeth, her eyes were red, and she looked at Lin Shengjie with hatred. Why is this always the case? She never takes the initiative to provoke anyone, never does anything that makes people angry, she just wants to stay alone in her corner and live a quiet life, but why has she reached this point and there are still people who come to provoke her when she has nothing to do? She is very aggrieved, and she has no place to vent her grievances. Little by little, it accumulates in the deepest part of the heart. She suddenly raised her head and said hatefully: "I didn't provoke you, why did you come to provoke me? Look at me as a bully?" Zhu Xiaolan grabbed her bag and smashed it on Lin Shengjie, she couldn't control her hands. She had fantasized many times when she was wronged. As long as there is something in her hand, even if it is a pen, as long as she throws it out and throws it on the person who makes her wronged.

Lin Shengjie hurriedly threw away the half-lit cigarette and blocked the bag with his hand. The bits and pieces of stainless steel fasteners on the outside of the bag hit the face with pain. He grabbed Zhu Xiaolan's hand hard, Zhu Xiaolan struggled a few times, couldn't break away, and her eyes were crimson. She blinked hard, trying to take back the water that was pouring out of her eyes.

Lin Shengjie froze Zhu Xiaolan and saw that two soybean-sized droplets of water first hung on her eyelashes, and then they were sucked back hard, and then flowed out again in a moment and had a tendency to increase, and finally the eyelashes finally couldn't bear the weight of the droplets and bent them. Droplets of water fell down the curved arc and landed on his hand. Lin Shengjie suddenly wanted to laugh, what was wrong with him. Looking for an ignorant little girl to be angry?

Zhu Xiaolan looked at Lin Shengjie and didn't smile, and there was a kind of weakness and grievance when her fist hit the cotton. Every time. I care a lot. Is it so strange that what you value is so strange in the eyes of others?

"You let go of me!" Zhu Xiaolan choked up, and felt that the words she spit out were soft and weak. Say loudly: "Let go of me!"

"Okay, don't get excited!" Lin Shengjie made sure that Zhu Xiaolan was quiet and let go of his hand.

Zhu Xiaolan vigorously pushed open the door of the van and said angrily: "Lin Shengjie, you are a villain, a villain! You are a fish, you deserve to be a fish for the rest of your life!" After speaking, she ran away quickly, and she never said anything to this person outside of work.

She had shame in addition to anger, and after the first reaction of anger, she subconsciously reflected on herself. Is she really like the woman Lin Shengjie said? On the one hand, she feels that this person is not suitable for her, but she never explicitly refuses, giving people hope and disappointment? Could it be that she has unconsciously done something uncomfortable? Zhu Xiaolan recalled the dinner she met Sister Liu for the first time, and she did not immediately refute what Cheng Lin said about her boyfriend and girlfriend. Does not refute it mean acquiescence, but if he acquiesced, he did not express his stance to Lin Shengjie, and he did not express his position, but he still connected in such an unclear way. Thinking of this, Zhu Xiaolan was panicked, she ran into the stairwell, her hands were propped up on the wall, her head hung down, did she really do something wrong?

She couldn't stand still, ran upstairs and opened the door, Zhou Yu hadn't gone home yet. She dropped her bag on the couch and slipped into her room to drop herself on the bed, hugging the soft quilt hard. Mom, I've done something wrong again, Mom, I'm really useless! She buried her head in the quilt, wishing that she would turn back time, she would let Cheng Lin not have a chance to say that.

She is greedy, she lacks the role of a father in her life, and in every unfamiliar environment, she always looks for a mature man as a psychological support. I didn't find it in the university, Zhou Yu replaced it, I didn't find it in the design institute, and the director replaced it; she was happy to know Lin Shengjie in the year she just got out of school, and finally had the opportunity to contact adult men, but this only man disappointed her; the director introduced Lin Shengjie to her again, and she was still happy in her heart.

Yes, she admits her snickering.

She selfishly knew that Lin Shengjie was not the kind of person she liked, but she couldn't help but get closer, and she wanted to be a little closer.

As soon as the previous anger dissipated, more remorse and shame filled her heart, and she didn't know if she still had the courage to look directly into Lin Shengjie's angry and mocking eyes.

Lin Shengjie looked at Zhu Xiaolan's figure running away, and took out another cigarette and lit it.

This stupid woman is so poor even with swearing.

He watched as the lights on a certain floor came on in the dark, keeping them on. The thousands of lights around here are not as cute as that.

He was angry, he hated the idea of a woman's utilitarianism, and he even hated seeing a woman act intimately with a man in a relationship with an ordinary friend. In his consciousness, there are no pure friends between men and women. Those who claim to be friends of the opposite sex, or women have a bit of a strange complex for men, or men have strange thoughts about women or have the idea of taking advantage of nothing. These men and women conceal their thoughts with the word "friend", and decorate shadows that they know they can't be exposed with such a glossy coat.

He took a few hard puffs and tossed the cigarette butt.

Yes, Xiaomei used to be such a woman.

The little sister is charming and polite, and she has many, many friends. Friend. Friends who eat, drink, play, and work. Every man she knew was her friend. When he first started with her, he felt how lucky he was to have such a big-bellied girlfriend. This girlfriend is so good, except for the occasional surprise and small gifts, occasionally a little willful, occasionally disappearing to make him anxious, but then she will obediently appear in front of him and obediently admit her mistakes. What's wrong with her, she's just a lovely little woman.

Yes, little women.

He said that the life he wanted was for men to make money and women to take care of the family, and Xiaomei also smiled and said yes, her ideal is to wait for a man to love at home. He was ecstatic when he heard that and finally found it.

So he gave her all the rights, and she could do whatever he had, the bank cards, the keys to the house, the location of the furniture, the taste of the food, all the things he felt would make her feel at ease as a little woman, but of course only so that the little woman would not run away.

"Big brother, why are you so good?" the little sister once asked innocently.

"Haha, I'll let you intern now, and it'll be easy to get married and officially take up the post!" Lin Shengjie replied while rushing the drawings, this is his true thoughts. He had to earn enough money as soon as possible for this goal, but the money was always not enough to spend, and he always didn't understand how the little sister spent the money, and of course the little sister herself didn't know. At the end of each month, when the account is reconciled, the little sister cries sadly and pitifully, and he himself is powerless. It turned out that housekeeping was also a difficult thing, which he deeply felt in his little sister.

He ignored his friends around Xiaomei, and when he found out, Xiaomei only blinked and said, "Big brother, we are also friends!"

Friends, these two words, are the closest distance, but also the farthest distance. I'm your friend when I want to be one step closer to you, and we're just friends when I want to leave you.

Lin Shengjie looked at the window and slowly started the van, only Zhu Xiaolan was a fool, the same fool as he used to be.

That's a lot of chapters, isn't it?