Chapter 42: The Cruelty of Reality

At this time, I didn't want to mention the purpose of this trip to Ling Xi again, I always felt that it was a very embarrassing and disruptive thing for her, and it was better to give her a relaxed and free environment.

I changed my tone and said, "Okay then! You are busy accompanying your seniors to see the elegant exhibits in the museum! I'll find someone else to eat, but I have to state it, this is your own departure, but don't sue me and say I won't let you go. ”

Ling Xi looked at Liu Kai hesitantly, and then took the meal coupon in my hand and looked at it.

I felt a burst of ecstasy in my heart, and secretly admired my mother's clever trick, because Ling Xi is an out-and-out foodie, and it is really a good plan to attack the city and abuse the land with food.

But everything was just my fantasy, and after a moment of hesitation, Ling Xi handed me the meal ticket again.

I was speechless for a while, and said for a while: "Xixi, are you determined not to go?" Do you really want to go to the exhibition with your little white-faced senior? ”

I guess I was in a hurry to go to the museum with my seniors, Ling Xi showed me a lot of patience that is rarely seen in my usual days, nodded seriously but didn't speak again, but I just thought this was the best irony for me.

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Seeing the two of them walk away again as they did just now, talking and laughing, I didn't even have an excuse to stay. I see, I'm past the expiration date. I don't think I'm as good as an unpopular product, and the unpopular product at least has a chance to be on the shelves, and I'm off the shelves before it is on the shelves.

I was so discouraged that I couldn't walk, and I sat on the chair opposite the library that I had walked with Ling Xi, thinking that Ling Xi was lying on my lap and playing with my mobile phone in the past, and my legs were numb and I was reluctant to let her get up.

The most childish game we have ever played is counting the glass on the window of the library, I said that it is impossible to count them all, so many windows will be counted in the blink of an eye, but Ling Xi did not think so, after counting the number of horizontal rows, and then counting the number of vertical rows, the two multiplied to get the result.

It's only now that I feel that she prefers the realism of logical thinking to the ideal world of my sensory thinking. This may be the gap between our professions and personalities that can never be crossed, and I don't know if this is the reason for the seemingly absurd but destined situation we have today.

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Took out two meal coupons in my pocket, I have to use them today, two thousand yuan a meal is really not an ordinary luxury, I want to give these two consumption coupons to my parents, but if my mother knows about this tonight, it is estimated that I will die, or forget it.

Thinking about the bastard words I said last time, I felt a pang of guilt, perhaps, it was I who rejected the nursery rhyme's idea of having a friend in this city, because she once told me that there is no real friend at the moment!

I took out my phone and called Tong Yao, I don't know if she is still sulking now, I hesitated for a while and pressed the dial button.

The phone was quickly connected, and the nursery rhyme yawned but did not speak, apparently just waking up.

"Hey! Did you wake up? Didn't I say I would invite you to dinner last time, but I didn't invite you, how about inviting you tonight, don't you have a face? ”

"What a coincidence that you called, I just woke up, my phone just turned on, and I have to go to work tonight!"

"It won't affect your work."

"I said last time, the food on the roadside outside is not clean, if you want to invite me, you will be exempt, I will cook by myself even if it is unpalatable."

"If you don't go to the roadside to eat this time, how about I invite you to Jinghu?"

The nursery rhyme almost didn't think about it, and immediately refused: "I said that you are a loser, you still don't believe it, you plan to gnaw at the old again, don't you, I won't go!" ”

"The meal coupon was bought by my mother, it has been bought, it was not originally prepared for you, that person has something to do temporarily and can't go, so I came to you, you don't have to be narcissistic or have a psychological burden, if you don't come, this coupon of a thousand yuan will be wasted with it, I will do whatever you want!" I threw away gentlemanly etiquette again and returned to rudely threatening nursery rhymes.

"Really? Already booked? It won't be like last time, right? ”

"This time it's true!"

"It's a pity that it's a waste, I'll get up and go right away, you come there early and wait for me, I have to go to work tonight!"

On the phone, I could feel the nursery rhyme jumping out of bed.

"Then you clean up! One hour is enough, you have to hurry, don't wait until you delay work and rely on me. I reminded.

The nursery rhyme instructed: "By the way, then don't eat anymore, you will eat hard when you are hungry." ”

"You're really going to get by!"

The nursery rhyme seemed to be satisfied with a "hmm" and hung up the phone.

When the consumption voucher was gone, I snuffed out the cigarette butt I had just lit, forgot about the unpleasantness for a while, walked out of the campus and stopped the car, and went straight to the Jinghu Western Restaurant.

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It was the first time I had come to such an upscale place, and to be honest, I was still a little nervous, so I found the reserved spot on the order and sat down. In order to hide my nervousness, I picked up the menu at random and flipped through it, the menu with various beautiful patterns in soft sheepskin, it was the first time I saw it in such luxury, but as soon as I picked it up, I began to regret it, except for the pictures and Arabic numerals, it was all English, my level of the fourth level was really difficult to control this monster, if Ling Xi could definitely understand it, when I went to school, I relied on her English.

Just as I casually looked at the picture on the recipe, a blonde waitress walked up to me with a big smile.

After smiling and nodding at each other, they spoke English to me for a long time, and I didn't understand a word. No, it seems to have understood a small sentence, and it turns out that it is more difficult than the listening test.

With a dead expression, I smiled at the girl and shook my head.

"Hello sir, according to your seat number, and show the consumption voucher, your meal coupon this time is a package that we have matched, so you don't need to order again, if you need anything, please wave directly, can we prepare a meal for you now?"

I looked at the meal voucher on the table, nodded with a calm atmosphere and said, "I understand what you mean, you can prepare!" My friend was about an hour away. ”

The foreign girl waiter smiled at me, shook the two big white dough and left, I breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that Chinese is so good, seeing that Chinese do not speak Chinese, what to drag!

I wasn't sure if the nursery rhyme was on the road now, so I sent her the table location and table number so that she wouldn't be blinded.

Everything is ready, just wait for the nursery rhyme to arrive! I don't want to owe her a promise, at least if I can afford it.

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Boredom, looking at the band on the sunken table in the center of the hall, playing Richard Clayderman's "To Alice", I was a little intoxicated by such music and environment, for me who was born to study design, I pay a lot of attention to the cultural atmosphere of design.

Seeing the sky-blue ceiling reflected by the reflective materials on the place, I finally knew why this western restaurant was called the strange name of Jinghu.

Focusing on cultural atmosphere is an essential design principle, and what I came here tonight was not just a meal, but some deeper design thinking......

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Time flickered by, and the sky gradually darkened. The sunset pulled the last glimmer of light, and finally the lights came on.

My position leaned against the curved glass window, watching the cars stop at the gate of Jinghu Lake, people who come here to eat generally drive private cars, and I have not touched the car for two years after getting my driver's license, this gap is indeed a bit big.

But I can still sit here tonight, and although I rely on my parents today, I want to rely on myself tomorrow.

Just when I was holding my breath and secretly inspiring in my heart, the reality made me open my mouth, once again reflecting its unique cruelty.

Ling Xi was wearing my favorite yellow dress, holding a handbag, and with a confident smile, she staggered to find a seat.

In normal times, I just see her wearing this dress and say that it is not an exaggeration, but today...... I grinned hard but couldn't laugh.

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