002: Cold smoke
Qu Shutao is an out-and-out rich second generation, his family runs real estate, he seems to have been born with a golden spoon since he was a child, and he has a sister named Qu Shulei, who is two years younger than himself.
Four years ago, Shu Tao went to Paris to study fashion design, and in the blink of an eye, four years later, four cold and summer changes, he played on the intranet of the school when he was very bored, and met some students from various universities, Wang Xu is one of them.
The two are considered to have ended up in online dating, and when they first met, they chatted inextricably, and then cooled down the initial confusion due to distance, and now they only occasionally greet and ask a warm ordinary friend.
A week after returning to China, Qu Shutao thought that there were few young people around Shanghai, and the guys who grew up with him had been sent by their parents to study across the ocean, and he should also find some friends, so he contacted Wang Xu.
Just yesterday, Wang Xu had time to ask her for a meal, and by the way, he introduced his girlfriend Ling Shutao to know.
In fact, Shu Tao was really bored and panicked before contacting Wang Xu, but Wang Xu went online to bring his girlfriend out to demonstrate to Shu Tao.
After all, to tell the truth, the two of them are not familiar with each other! It's just that Wang Xu is more or less handsome and pleasant, but in Shutao's heart, he can't be regarded as any kind of friendship, just a handsome doll that can get along well and show off among the Lan sisters.
Even if they meet and hug for the first few times, reluctantly hold hands and say goodbye, and practice flamboyant emotion, they are just flowing between unfamiliar people, and there may be a moment when they think that this person is a lifelong confidant, and to some extent he can satisfy his little vanity.
That's why they try to show their familiarity and even understand each other, partly to make a show, and partly to tentatively check whether the other party also accepts what they think they know.
But Shutao's heart is sober, compared to the people whose real souls have penetrated each other, it is the same as for himself.
On the one hand, there is love and compassion caused by nature, and on the other hand, there is also the tiredness and disregard that are clear to the heart all year round!
This is just like his own perception of his own shadow, he never deliberately looks at him because the light is stretched and shortened, but he will never be discarded because of this kind of carelessness!
Yes, sometimes the fate of two people is like any force on earth, or even stronger than any force.
Not deliberately, not self-righteous, but unconsciously infiltrating and mixing with each other's emotions, is familiar.
Now, Shu Tao has not met this person, I don't know when he will be on the other side of the world, and he will come without any warning, just because life starts because of you!
Shutao no longer wanted to ask him what his intention was to bring his girlfriend out to meet another woman!
Maybe it's to break off the relationship with her, or maybe it's to prove that you're happy.
Generally people who are not born with a sense of superiority will prove their possession to those whom they will never be able to match.
Shu Tao has never inquired or asked about Wang Xu's family, and from a few conversations, Wang Xu will inevitably know that Shu Tao has an extraordinary background.
Four years of study and residence in foreign countries, the photos posted on the Internet are either Dior restaurants or Michelin three-star French food, traveling to European countries, clothes and handbags are like cow hair, and the playmates around him, regardless of men and women, are also oily and noodles eat and wear different from ordinary people.
Perhaps, just as Shu Tao later speculated, Wang Xu wanted to prove himself in front of her: don't bend your waist for five buckets of rice, and don't waste your anger because of your red face!
That's why he used this trick, wanting to put Shu Tao's face and self-esteem into the underworld, and raise the "decency" that he deliberately usurped.
Yesterday, they made an appointment to meet near Lujiazui.
The driver of Shu Tao's house drove her to the meeting place and was called away.
It's not that Shu Tao doesn't know how to drive, but when he just finished learning to drive, he went abroad to study, and he never touched the steering wheel when he was in Paris.
Sometimes a few boy friends buy a new sports car, and they just dare to sit in the driver's seat and pose for a few photos to post on social networks, and never race at night.
After a while, a Lexus four-seater two-door stopped in front of her, Wang Xu poked his head out to say hello, called his girlfriend to get out of the car, and let Shutao climb into the back seat.
Occasionally glimpsed his girlfriend's appearance from the rearview mirror, more or less slender than Shu Tao, such a figure, it is indeed what Shu Tao wants to have, after all, with clothes or something, it has to look more fashionable.
It's a pity that the clothes are too plain, and the bag in my hand is just a basic LV Speedy, which is not outstanding.
In the car, Wang Xu's eyes occasionally caught up with Shutao from the rearview mirror, and asked, "Miss Qu, what do you want to eat?" ”
Shutao thought to himself, if I want to say it, I'm afraid it won't be convenient for you to invite. After thinking for a while, Shutao said, "Ask your girlfriend, after all, she is the protagonist today." ”
"I'll follow you..."The girl in front of me, who seemed to be two or three years younger than Shu Tao, spoke, and her voice was crisp and murmuring, not as big as Shu Tao's speech.
In contrast, she is more like a rich girl, and Shutao is just a street wanderer who knows everything!
"Then I'll make up my mind! Go eat hot pot!" Wang Xu said.
Chafing dish?!
Three people eat hot pot, what is the reason! Hot pot is not good if there are more people, and besides, the recent book peach weight loss, high salt and high oil things are not touchable.
Shu Tao was not good at refusing, so he agreed to this proposal that he had no appetite at all.
At the dinner table, after a few rounds of wine and chat, Shu Tao looked at the two people sitting opposite and asked, "How long have you been together?"
Wang Xu rushed to speak: "It's been almost a year, she is still in school, Shanghai Jiaotong University." ”
"A Fudan University, a Jiaotong University, talented and beautiful, congratulations. Shutao picked up the wine glass to show his blessing.
"Whatever you have, we are not as good as you, born well, we were sent to study abroad without the college entrance examination, and we can speak a mouthful of French that we can't understand at all, come, toast you." ”
Wang Xu motioned to his girlfriend to raise a glass, and it could be seen that the girl sitting opposite was well-behaved, sensible and likable to men, like a well-behaved lamb.
Shu Tao is not so obedient and easy to tame. As Zhou Guoping said, human nature is not an animal that you can domesticate forever, and once domesticated, it will be insane.
Today, we are the sad result of 4,000 years of human efforts to break with the primitive nature and try to completely tame it.
Maybe it's because Shutao doesn't want to be the other side of such sadness that he has been single until now!
Even the idea that she once fantasized about being able to have a love affair with the man opposite her ended up in vain because the other party was silent and ambiguous!
On the contrary, because of this pride, it will kill the heart of the person who slams the door, so that he is afraid to try to love her easily.
It was as if I had inadvertently told the other person at some point that there was a guillotine outside the door of my heart, ready to cut off the heads that tried to poke in and look around.
Wang Xu seems to have something on his body that makes Shu Tao happy, he is handsome and angular, the bridge of his nose is erect, and his eyes are burning, as if he has a glimpse of Wu Yanzu from a certain side.
He has a thick arm, a large men's watch on his left wrist is attached to it unhurriedly, his right hand is wrapped around a few circles like Buddhist beads, and there are long fluff on his arms that can be groped out by light.
He is an out-and-out native of Shanghai, and he has an indescribable arrogance.
He is three years older than Shu Tao, Shu Tao only graduated this year and returned to China, but he has been working for three years and is a career man in the shopping mall.
Shu Tao felt that there was no common language to talk about at the moment, so he pulled up the old thing: "Are you still selling medical equipment?"
"Still selling! I bought a 70-square-meter house this year, and I took out a loan to buy the car you just sat in. Wang Xu said while eating meat.
"Yes, you know, it's not easy to buy a suite ......in Shanghai now," Shu Tao said.
"Then where are you now?" For them, it is very curious where a rich girl like Shu Tao is looking for a job.
Shutao thought for a while and said, "I work in my father's friend's company, engaged in real estate, and the sales department! ”
Wang Xu smiled: "Yes, graduated from a foreign design university, no matter how you should create your own brand! ”
Shu Tao Yinghe: "It's just to accumulate some social contacts and work experience, and I never wanted to take root in this industry." ”
In fact, it is inconvenient for Shutao to tell them that this real estate company is his own family business. Anyway, being idle is idle, and I haven't had a clue about work just after graduation, so I'm naturally playing chaotically in my own company.
If 1510 tells the truth to others, he will not be ridiculed as the second ancestor who stretches out his hand to eat and open his mouth.
In the face of these people who graduated from famous universities in China and then came out to work, Shutao really did not have the confidence to compare with them.
Her girlfriend began to intervene in the topic: "Who is Sister Qu?"
"Don't call me sister, although I have graduated from college, but I am not a few years old from you, just call me Shutao. ”
Shutao is particularly concerned about the age disparity, although she is only 22 years old, sometimes she begins to care about the growth of age, and naturally does not like to be called sister, "My ancestral home is Zhejiang, and my parents have come to Shanghai to work and earn a living since I was a child, so what about you? ”
"I'm from Changsha, Hunan Province, and I was admitted to Shanghai for university. ”
No wonder the skin is so delicate and delicate, it turned out to be a Hunan girl.
Shu Tao glanced at Wang Xu opposite, and suddenly felt a sour feeling in his heart, this man still can't get rid of the deception of his good skin.
What money, career, status, for casually falling in love, regardless of the age of marriage, of course, it is easy to sleep.
Even if Shu Tao and Wang Xu get along, it will inevitably be just a dream of Nan Ke, and Wang Xu's attraction to Shu Tao is just that good skin.
It is true that working men seem to have some indescribable attraction for young girls who have just entered society.
What kind of life is this man going through in this big Shanghai? What kind of people do he befriend, and how do he arrange his own nest? These are all things that young girls like Shu Tao or Wang Xu's girlfriend like to speculate.
"Then how did you meet? I heard Ah Xu say before, you have known each other for almost two or three years. The woman muttered.
"We... It's a netizen", Shu Tao gave Wang Xu a look and continued, "Hey, you really picked up a big treasure, such a young talent actually fell into your hands, it seems that it is easy for a young and ignorant girl to win a man's heart, right? ”
Wang Xu was a little uncomfortable when he heard this, so he forced a smile and said: "Aren't we just following the door, right, a young lady like you, a poor young scholar in Shanghai would not dare to provoke!"
There is probably a circle of rich children following you, people like me can't compare to them, how can I find a treasure!"
"Hey, like you, if you have a small career, as long as you don't want to be rich and expensive, you can also pick a few girls you like, just your impeccable handsomeness, how can you still grovel to the rich girl to seek her position, and having a little companion to accompany you is better than accompanying those hypocritical women around me every day to make them happy. ”
Although Shu Tao's words rolled out, he didn't mean to be seriously hurt at all, but after chatting a few times, he did see a little fire, and Wang Xu felt more and more that the woman he knew before was not a good person.
Almost chatting about eating and drinking, an hour passed, at this time Wang Xu's phone rang, and after a few responses, he hung up the phone and said: "Old Tang, they made an appointment to go to KTV, why don't we drink in the second half!"
"Then let's go together, there are a lot of boys there, and I always have a girl with me. Wang Xu's girlfriend said.
"It's all boys?" Shu Tao dried the last wine, "I'll also go see if there is a right eye, pick one to go home!"
Hearing Shu Tao's perverse words, Wang Xu's face seemed to be bad. But he also said with a smile at the heart of this rich second generation: "I'm afraid you can't look down on these poor children around me, but they can also be regarded as small bosses who can support themselves in Shanghai, if there is a suitable one, you can inevitably talk about it, after all, before you talk about marriage, you still have to fight for the right to enjoy love." ”
"Connoisseur, you," Shutao got up and picked up the bag, "Then I'll treat you today!"
Wang Xu immediately got up and said, "I invite me to please, and I should give you the wind and dust." ”
"It's been two months since I've been back, and I'm still receiving some wind. Shutao smiled.
"Then even if I see you late, I won't pay for it. Wang Xu said and walked towards the cashier bar.
His girlfriend followed behind, looking at the backs of the two of them, Shu Tao did feel sad.
Even if he is wearing a brand-name skirt, he is not necessarily better than the girl in front of him.
Even though he is proud and lonely, he seems to feel unbearable.
This is women, longing for love, and it is a bad habit that they can't get rid of.
But putting down your pride and getting love feels like begging, getting things that shouldn't belong to you, and being given away may not necessarily be proud.
Sitting in the car, Shu Tao was silent, only occasionally avoiding the intimate contact between the two in front of him, turning to the side of the car window, thinking, and exhaling a puff of cold smoke.
Her enthusiasm for the new world, new things, and new feelings is being cooled by a puff of poisonous smoke emitted from the city, solidifying into a drop of water on the car window, which is wiped dry by time and ignorance.