Chapter 2: Love and Bread
Looking at the sweet girl in the photo, although Li Zhiyang has let go of this relationship, he is still inevitably sad. After all, Ma Ting was his first woman, she was the one who changed him from a boy to a man, and it was she who left the first deep scratch in her life.
Ma Ting is a girl from Jiangcheng, beautiful and scheming. She likes to watch Hong Kong TVB's Hong Kong dramas very much, likes the lifestyle of the performances there, and likes the life attitude of those petty bourgeois men and women in the TV series, especially the bullshit gentlemanly demeanor of men to women. So in reality, she often teaches Li Zhiyang to have some gentlemanly demeanor to women, and often likes to drag Li Zhiyang to eat Western food, drink coffee and watch movies, like to create a romantic atmosphere and the like, in short, this girl is very bourgeoisie, and it can be said that it is hypocritical to be excessive. Li Zhiyang hated these vain sets, but in order to pursue Ma Ting, he still desperately catered to Ma Ting's requirements when he was at school. In fact, he is very unimpressed with her theory, he thinks that the poison of TVB in this girl is too deep, and those Hong Kong-style lifestyles and men's attitudes towards women only exist in TV. But at that time, she was really good to Li Zhiyang, and Li Zhiyang still liked her very much.
In fact, in his previous life, he also had a premonition about the crisis of this relationship at this time. The two graduated from school in July 05 and came to the capital to take root and live. Li Zhiyang signed directly at the job fair after graduation and now works for this foreign company, while Ma Ting did not find her current job in Beijing until September last year. Ma Ting's salary of more than 2,000 when she first joined the company has risen to more than 5,000 now, and her salary has risen like a rocket, plus various bonuses and benefits, she has more than doubled her earnings than Li Zhiyang.
Recently, she has brought back some brand-name clothing and cosmetics from time to time, and she has traveled frequently for business trips, and sometimes she comes back late at night with the smell of alcohol. How could Li Zhiyang not know about these changes, she had an extra Cartier diamond ring on her hand, a Swarovski crystal necklace around her neck, a Lancôme perfume sprayed on her body, and a Gucci suit she was wearing, how could these changes hide from his eyes. These expensive ornaments and clothes are not something he can afford, any one is enough for him to earn a year without eating or drinking. And she has often not returned home at night recently, how can Li Zhiyang not be suspicious, he actually knew for a long time that a vice president of their company was enthusiastically pursuing her. She didn't come back this weekend, and he was already feeling bad at the time.
But then he was like an ostrich with his head buried in the sand, he didn't believe that she would abandon the love they had been running together for four years, he firmly believed in the vows they made when they were together. But the dream was shattered in the face of reality, and love is no match for bread after all. Ma Ting finally left him, threw herself into the arms of the vice president, and became the second wife of others, while he moved out of here in despair. moved to live in a rented house near Huilongguan, and also left the current company, completely cutting off contact with her. Later, he heard some news about her from other classmates in Beijing, and she got rid of it when she got tired of it, and she also got a lot, a house, a car and a lot of savings, but she was not happy. She also wanted to ask some news about him from other classmates, but at his insistence, those classmates did not leak his news to her.
The rain outside is getting heavier and heavier, but it won't be long before it stops at about one o'clock. Four years ago, Ma Ting would make one last call to him, asking if he was not at home, and after he got to work, she would return home in the afternoon to move her belongings, and leave him a breakup letter.
Looking at the time on the mobile phone moving towards 13 o'clock little by little, the rainy night outside is getting smaller and smaller, and Li Zhiyang is getting more and more dazed, after all, four years of relationship.
Li Zhiyang took out a pack of Honghe from his pants pocket, he smoked this cigarette for three years when he went to college, and he could only smoke this with his economic conditions. But later, under Ma Ting's coercion, he quit, but recently the relationship was not going well, he picked it up again, and always smoked a few when Ma Ting didn't go home at night, but it was not much fun.
He lit one, and the image of himself in the mirror, shrouded in smoke, began to blur. The distraught Li Zhiyang turned on the TV, and a certain station on the TV was playing Jacky Cheung's concert. "Buzz, buzz, buzz. "The Nokia 3310 began to vibrate on the top of the dresser, and it was time to come. Li Zhiyang turned the TV on mute.
"Hey. Li Zhiyang picked up the phone and didn't speak, his voice was much more indifferent.
"Hey. There was a call to say hello, but there was a silence.
"What's the matter?" Li Zhiyang's voice kept being cold.
"Where's going to work?" Ma Ting's voice returned to normal.
"Well, is there something wrong?" Li Zhiyang had already made a decision in his heart.
"Oh! nothing, just ask. ”
"Is there something you should tell me?"
This time he decided not to run away anymore, and there was a long silence on the other side of the phone, and Ma Ting finally began to speak for a long time.
"I think there's something wrong between us, I've been annoyed lately, so I want to move out for a while and think about some problems on my own, let's be apart for a while, okay?" Ma Ting's voice began to tremble a little, but then became more and more determined.
What's wrong with TMD, it's not that I don't have the money for you to enjoy, calm down, think about it, you're not going to go to your lover. Why are you so tactful when you want to break up? Why do you want to be so tactful? If you don't know, you still think I'm doing something to you? As soon as Li Zhiyang thought of this, his heart couldn't help but be on fire, and he no longer wanted to talk nonsense with this hypocritical woman.
"Yes, come over and move your things in the afternoon, and leave the keys. I almost couldn't help but taunt her, but when I thought about it, there was no need to waste words with her, and after just a few cruel words, Li Zhiyang felt relieved.
There was silence on the other side of the phone, obviously Ma Ting didn't expect Li Zhiyang to say so much. There was no sound on the other side of the phone, Li Zhiyang was a little annoyed here, why do you still want Lao Tzu to comfort you a few words, as if you are still a victim? At this time, you still want Lao Tzu to carry forward your demeanor? Hurry up and get out of the way for me, but thinking of the sweetness when the two of them were together, and thinking of Ma Ting's kindness to him, Li Zhiyang still softened.
"Well, don't say more, thank you for being with me for the past few years. I won't say anything about the blessings, that seems too fake, let's get together and disperse, you go and collect everything in the afternoon, don't leave it behind. If you have any difficulties in the future, feel free to find me. We... So be it. ”
Li Zhiyang's voice was still a little trembling when he said the word 'we', and at this time there was already a sobbing sound on the other side of the phone, and Li Zhiyang quickly hung up the phone after speaking. But he found that at some point, tears had already hung on his face, and this time he was completely released. Feeling uncomfortable, he canceled the mute of the TV, and the singer was singing with an intoxicated face on the TV.
"She is heartbroken when I sing, she is intoxicated when I sing, and a letter from three years of relationship will be withdrawn... ”