Chapter 273: The Man in Pennsylvania
Zhu Beini sat in a comfortable circle chair at Starbucks, hunched over her knees and whispered on the phone.
I heard Chen Xiaoxi say, "People who easily say their love are easy to forget." I'm an honest person", she was already smiling from ear to ear on the other end of the line.
The day of the move was the second day of the opening of Chen Xiaoxi's new company, and at the same time, it was also a rainy Saturday.
Chen Xiaoxi went to Zhu Beini's community to pick up. He carried a bag and a large sorting box. Zhu Beini dragged a medium-sized suitcase. Zhu Beini reluctantly pulled out a hand to play an umbrella, wanting to cover Chen Xiaoxi with half of the rain, Chen Xiaoxi said to Zhu Beini that the rain was not heavy, he had a hat, and Zhu Beini **** was good.
Chen Xiaoxi had to walk to the bus stop 30 meters ahead, but the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and Zhu Beini's umbrella was blown to the side by the wind. In the swaying rain, Zhu Beini developed an emotion, feeling that the move was too tiring, 30 meters was too far. Zhu Beini called Chen Xiaoxi and said that she wanted to take a taxi. Chen Xiaoxi looked back at Zhu Beini, didn't say anything, and walked back.
Because of the rain, it was difficult for the car to reach. Chen Xiaoxi put the sorting box and suitcase a little higher, turned around and went to another road at the intersection, and finally attracted a taxi. The driver opened the trunk of the car, and Chen Xiaoxi ran back and forth to put the luggage into the trunk. Put the duffel bag on his back seat, and pushed it in casually, pushing it in to give Zhu Beini a full position. I sat in the co-pilot seat.
Sitting in a taxi, the glass was spilled by the rain. Zhu Beini looked at the blurred cars and people outside the window, and felt a little relieved. Chen Xiaoxi did not speak again after telling the driver the address.
After getting out of the car, Chen Xiaoxi unexpectedly spoke: "If I earn as much salary as you, I won't take a taxi." ”
Zhu Beini was very grateful for his help, but she suddenly heard him say this, and she couldn't react.
"You don't know what a taxi fare of 28 yuan is for you, and what is the concept of you for a fixed salary...... You are a person, if you don't use vanity to describe you, you just have no concept of money. Chen Xiaoxi saw Zhu Beini looking at him stupidly, and thought he was begging for an explanation.
Zhu Beini tried to adjust her breathing as much as possible. Tears have begun to roll around.
Chen Xiaoxi asked: "Did I say something wrong? ”
Zhu Beni's eyes widened, trying not to let the tears fall: "I have nothing to argue with. It's a grievance. Why can't I take a taxi when I'm carrying heavy things on a rainy day? I spend my own money, why are you dissatisfied?"
Chen Xiaoxi, who has always been calm, frowned at the moment: "You can figure it out, I was moving the heavy things when I moved." If you move on a rainy day, you can take a taxi. But I still think that earning a salary like yours and living in such a city is not qualified to say that you can take a taxi.
You can fight because I will give you a living guarantee, it does not mean that you can live at will with your salary. I'm not expressing dissatisfaction, I just want you to be aware of what your salary can do for you.
Even if it's not raining, even if you don't have luggage, if you don't want to crowd the bus or catch the subway, you want to take a taxi, you can, but you need to know that you don't have the ability. ”
Zhu Beini was indisputable, but somehow, tears fell uncontrollably.
She remembered that Midoriko Kobayashi had talked about the love she wanted - I told you I wanted to eat strawberry cake, so you left everything and ran to buy it for me. Then he gasped and came back to me and said, "Ahlu, look, strawberry cake!" and put it in front of me. But I'd say, "Huh, I don't want to eat it now!" and throw the cake out the window...... I want you to say, "Got it, Green, I know." I should have known you wouldn't want to eat strawberry cake, I'm so stupid as a donkey and don't use my brains. I'm sorry, I'll buy you something else. What do you like? Chocolate puffs or cheesecake?"
Uh, forget the last half of the ellipses.
But at least the first half of the ellipsis should be done, and she will be truly tolerant of her waywardness!
Zhu Beini, who has the same love outlook as Midoriko Kobayashi, looked at Chen Xiaoxi in the drizzle with tears in her eyes, guessing how likely she was to change him.
Seeing Zhu Beini, whose expression was becoming more and more sad and angry, Chen Xiaoxi was once again confused.
What went wrong?
I can't figure it out, and I don't want to think about it anymore.
Chen Xiaoxi smiled bitterly and sighed, pulled Zhu Beini opposite, and began to change the topic.
"Did I tell you about my first visit to the United States?"
Zhu Beini was deeply involved in the play, and when she heard Chen Xiaoxi ask out of thin air, she couldn't help but be curious...... But obviously he was angry...... Forget it, let's listen to the play.
"Nope. Zhu Beni replied, and then Baba waited.
"I took all my family's savings, three thousand two hundred and eighty-two dollars, and prepared to go to the airport. As soon as I left the house, a postman came to deliver it, and it happened to be sent to me by my American school. When I opened it, it turned out that the time of the admission letter given to me last time was written incorrectly, not August, but the start of school in September. ”
"And then do you go or don't go?" asked Jubene.
Sure enough, a story can easily attract her, and the smile on the corner of Chen Xiaoxi's mouth deepened a little.
"There is no money left at home for me to be willful. Ready to fly. The tickets are all bought and the planes are ready to take off. I can only bite the bullet and go forward. I made phone calls for more than an hour at the public telephone office at the domestic airport, non-stop dialing all the American calls in my phone book. Some of those calls were distant relatives of my mother, some were relatives of relatives, some were relatives of neighbors, and some were colleagues of colleagues, in short, I didn't know them, and I didn't see them. What makes me sad is that I can't get through on the phone. Others are elated with full scholarships to study abroad. Our family, at the airport, was very sad. That fear of the unknown is really impressive. ”
"Do you dare to get on the plane?" asked Zhu Beini nervously.
"Up. Even if I don't know the place well, even if I go to New York in the middle of the night, I go to it. Luckily, I was able to get through to a person before I got on the plane. It's the younger brother of my brother's boss. I got my phone number the day before I left the house. I was so lucky, the man didn't shirk it, he really drove a long way in the middle of the night to pick me up.
He's a Chinese, in Chinatown, his home is very small, and he doesn't have a family to sleep on the floor without me on weekdays, so he doesn't need to say anything, I know I can't stay at his house.
I only slept on the kitchen floor of his house for one night, and the next day I went to New Jersey to see a relative of my mom. I still couldn't get through the phone before I went, but I had the address. Luckily, there was a lady sitting next to me, who had traveled to China, and she was close to the place she was going to be close to me, and she helped me buy a ticket. ”
"And then?"