Chapter 34: An Unexpected Blind Date
Zhao Xiaocui, who was still asleep early in the morning on Sunday, was woken up by a phone call, she opened her eyes in a trance, rolled over and fell asleep again, but the phone kept ringing, she had to turn back and grope with her hand to grab the phone and get to the squinted "aunt" in front of her, "Oh, what, aunt's phone, so early." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info" Zhao Xiaocui picked up the phone weakly and asked, "Hey, aunt, what's the matter?" ”
"Yo, what time is it, why are you still sleeping?"
"I slept late yesterday."
"That's not too early, get up quickly, get up and do me a favor."
"What's the busy?"
"Your cousin wants a strong hairspray imported, Xi'an doesn't seem to find it, you help Beijing to see, if you have it, buy it, two days later, a friend of mine went to Beijing on a business trip, I asked him to contact you, you let him bring it back."
"Oh, aunt, this thing can be bought online."
"You girl, there are so many fakes on the Internet now, you hurry up, today or when you're not busy, help see and buy it, and I asked a friend to bring you something delicious." Obedient... Ahh
"Yes, auntie, I'll go and see if I have time, when will your friend arrive?"
"It should be Wednesday, go back to Xi'an on Friday, I will call him before he leaves, the other party's surname is Pan, and it's good to be a male baby."
"Okay, I know, but I can't help it if I can't buy it before."
"I don't blame you if I can't buy it, just try my best to find it."
"Okay, then you should send me the name and picture."
"Well, okay, no problem, don't worry. That's it, you hurry up and sleep again, I'll hang up first. After speaking, before Zhao Xiaocui said goodbye, she only heard a "beep" sound on the other end of the phone.
Zhao Xiaocui was also completely sober, and it was only 8:20 when she looked at her watch. "It's not even nine o'clock!" She buried her head in the quilt in frustration, and she couldn't hold it anymore and had to get up, only then she felt pain all over her body, and both legs were almost the same as if they were not her own.
After looking for two days in a row, I also asked some friends, and finally found the hairspray that her aunt said, which is a rare brand imported from Germany, and a small can of hairspray costs more than 300 yuan for 75ML. Zhao Xiaocui took this thing and said, "Oh, it's so expensive, how precious is my cousin's head, using such an expensive thing." She took it home, found some foam and a box, packed it up, and put it on the table, waiting for the person who took it to take it back.
When it was almost 4 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, Zhao Xiaocui received a strange phone call: "Hey, hello." ”
"Hey, hello, is it Zhao Xiaocui?"
"Yes, it's me, who are you?"
"Hello, I am the person arranged by your aunt to go to your place for hairspray, my name is Pan Xiaotan."
"Oh, my aunt told me, how are we going to meet?"
"Did you bring anything? If you don't bring it, let's meet tomorrow. ”
"Okay, I didn't bring it anyway, then I'll see you tomorrow, you can choose the time and place, by the way, are you familiar with Beijing?"
"It's familiar, I've been here many times."
"Okay, then I'll hear from you tomorrow, 88"
“88”
The next day, Thursday, before getting off work, Zhao Xiaocui received a text message with the address sent by Pan Xiaoqin, and she looked at it, "Oh, it's not too far from the company, and I chose a coffee shop." Zhao Xiaocui went to that place after work, because it was not too far, she saw the store sign after walking for about 15 minutes, walked in and probably glanced at the corner by the window, there was a person of her age who was waving at her, she nodded and walked towards him without hurry. Hello, I'm Pan Xiaotan. "Hello, I'm Zhao Xiaocui."
"Sit down, what do you think you're going to drink?" Saying that, handing her the order list on the table, Zhao Xiaocui looked around and said, "Let's have a mango juice." "Okay, I'll buy it for you." After saying that, Pan got up and walked towards the front desk, Zhao Xiaocui felt weird, obviously she gave something like a blind date, she wanted to give him something after drinking for a while, so she had to go back quickly.
Pan returned to his seat and said to Zhao Xiaocui: "Your aunt always mentions you, saying that you are a very good girl and mix well in Beijing." ”
"Hey, this is a typical Wang Po selling melons and boasting, I'm just a small character, I can eat with a job."
"Then you are too modest, listen to your aunt say what you say about the market and what do you do?"
"Well, I'm in foreign cooperation, what about you?" Out of politeness, Zhao Xiaocui asked the other party.
"Oh, I'm a university teacher, and now I'm teaching at Shaanxi Normal University."
"Pretty good job."
"It's okay, it's okay, it's not easy for us to do this job, we have to teach and make achievements, and we have to make achievements in academics to go up, otherwise it will be difficult."
"Well, it's not easy to do anything now." Zhao Xiaocui took a sip of mango juice as she spoke, and went down to half a cup at once.
"Yes, it's even more difficult for you to work hard as a girl. Haven't thought about going back to Xi'an? ”
"Ahh I haven't thought about it yet. ”
"Actually, we are very good in Xi'an, and now there are many opportunities, you can be in your hometown, your family and friends are around to take care of you, it's too hard to be alone outside."
"Well, what you said makes sense, but after all, you are young, you have to venture out when you are young, how can you understand the world if you don't break through, right?"
"The world can be understood through travel, and people like me who often come to Beijing for business trips don't know where to go, and there are many places to go, so why let yourself be burdened by this. Besides......" Zhao Xiaocui really didn't want to hear it, so she sucked the mango juice violently, and a prickly sound also interrupted the other party's words, "I'm sorry," she said quickly.
"It's nothing, you've finished drinking, it's not too early, let's have a meal together, do you have anything you want to eat?"
"Don't say goodbye, I have to work when I go home."
"It won't take too long to eat for a while, I know that there is a Shaanxi restaurant not too far from here, you must have not eaten your hometown for a long time, let's go together."
As soon as she heard that it was hometown rice, Zhao Xiaocui was moved, "Okay, let's go." The two of them left the coffee shop one after the other, took a taxi and drove towards the restaurant Pan said. How do you know this piece very well. ”
"Didn't I tell you, I've been to Beijing many times, and I studied at Beijing Normal University for a while, and I've eaten all the Shaanxi restaurants in the Fourth Ring Road, so I know everything."
"Oh, that's amazing!"
When I arrived at the restaurant, I saw that Pan was very familiar with the road and ordered it, probably because he was too familiar, he didn't let Zhao Xiaocui look at the menu and asked her directly, "Mutton steamed bun or sour noodle soup, which one do you think you eat?" These two of his family are quite good, and the meat sandwich bun is also good. ”
"Then I want sour noodle soup, not meat buns."
"Okay" Pan beckoned the guy to come over and said in authentic Xi'an dialect: "A bowl of sour noodle soup, a bowl of mutton steamed buns, a meat sandwich bun and a portion of rice skin, give us a hurry." ”
Zhao Xiaocui looked at the familiar local accent, as if she had returned to Xi'an, and she couldn't help laughing. Pan saw her smile and continued to speak in Xi'an dialect: "What's the matter, Meidi is very good." Zhao Xiaocui smiled and nodded. As soon as the rice was served, Zhao Xiaocui was still carefully stirring the noodles in the bowl, smelling the smell of soup, Pan was already snoring, and began to lie on the edge of the bowl to eat, the posture was the same as not eating hometown rice for a long time, seeing that he was eating so fragrant, Zhao Xiaocui also felt hungry, picked up a wisp of noodles and sent it to his mouth. After the meal, Pan suggested going to drink some more, and Zhao Xiaocui said, "No, it's too late, I have to hurry back." Pan saw that he couldn't help it, so he said, "Okay, then I'll send you." ”
"No, it's close to the subway station, I'll walk over there myself."
"No, it's not safe for you to be a girl doll in the middle of the night, I'll take a taxi to send you back, anyway, I don't have anything to do tomorrow, I'll go back to Xi'an in the afternoon."
"That's... All right. Zhao Xiaocui didn't want to excuse herself and agreed, she didn't gamble at all at night, and it took about half an hour to get to the community where Zhao Xiaocui lived, Pan poked his head out and looked at it and said: "This community looks okay outside, can you go in by yourself?" Zhao Xiaocui couldn't help but smile when she heard this, and said, "No problem." After saying that, she handed the things to Pan and told him to give them to her aunt, and then thanked him and walked home. As soon as she entered the house to change her clothes, she heard a text message, and she saw that it was from Pan: "I saved your mobile phone number, and I am free to contact." Zhao Xiaocui glanced at it and walked to the bathroom to wash up without replying, and when she came out again, she found that there were three missed calls on her phone, all of which belonged to her aunt, she picked up the phone and called back: "Hey, aunt, I didn't hear it in the shower just now." ”
"Well, how did you meet and talk to that little Pan?" When my aunt suddenly asked, Zhao Xiaocui was a little surprised and said, "What can you do, don't you just give him something, and then have a meal together." ”
"Oh, what do you think of other people?"
"What's the matter, that's it."
"People think you're good, you want to see everywhere, what do you mean?"
"What...?" Hearing her aunt's words, Zhao Xiaocui was taken aback, "I haven't thought about this yet, and how can I give such a hairspray," Zhao Xiaocui said this, and suddenly realized that this might be arranged, she continued to ask, "Is this arranged by you?" ”
"Hahaha, I'll understand this way, my stupid niece, let me tell you that Xiao Pan is a good person, with good working conditions and good character, anyway, you have to come back after a few years in Beijing, and you still have to think about the major events of your life in advance."
Zhao Xiaocui was suddenly a little angry, but she tried her best to restrain herself: "Auntie, I haven't thought about this at all now, don't worry about me yet, I will tell you if necessary." ”
"You baby, you are very strong, how good is Xiaopan, where can you find it in the future if you don't catch it now." Zhao Xiaocui listened to her aunt say that she didn't say a word, and the other end of the phone also paused and continued: "Anyway, you can do your business, and your mother asked me to help Zhang Luo when you find a partner, if you don't want to find it, just tell your mother." After speaking, she hung up the phone directly, Zhao Xiaocui was also holding back the fire, she picked up the phone and called her cousin: "Hey, sister, my mother is angry, saying that you don't know what to do, you just don't care about it, I'll go back and persuade her." Zhao Xiaocui heard her cousin's voice, her mood eased a lot, and she said, "Your hairstrip is back, don't bother me if it's okay in the future." ”
"I bought it myself a long time ago, this is my mother's excuse to play, what can I do, but thank you for your hairspray."
"Get out of ......" After speaking, Zhao Xiaocui hung up the phone, and tears suddenly burst out of her eyes and blurred her eyes.