Chapter 8: The First Date

If it were Hong Xiaoyu, then she would only feel that the thing "Wu Ge" was very elegant just by listening to the name; But she knows more, for example, Wu Ge is mostly elegant obscene lyrics and beautiful songs, and boudoir secret poems. Therefore, although it is not much different from the time when the Book of Poetry appeared, it ...... In short, in the textbooks of the school days, it will never appear. She coughed lightly and changed the subject: "Wouldn't the experiments you usually do be very hard?" "It's okay," he said, "it mainly depends on the direction of the study, and I have very few girls here." "Why?" "It's hard."

If you ask deeply, it will be a conversation between a layman and an insider, and she is very knowledgeable and does not continue to ask; By the time it was time for the actual supper, the two of them didn't have much to say to each other, but they didn't seem awkward about each other. Eat silently, sleep silently. This is a habit she has had since she was a child, and it sounds very educated, but in the eyes of many relatives in the family, it is very weird. For example, during the New Year's holidays, adults always used to arrange teenage children to eat at a small round table. Then, put down the dishes and chopsticks and sit in the same place, sit quietly, and wait until everyone has finished eating before leaving the table.

At first, she was praised for being sensible, but gradually, she became a "weirdo" in the mouth of her cousins, and she was also evaluated as a very arrogant little girl in private. At that time, she didn't know how to be sophisticated. Later, when I grew up, I always had to adapt to this society, such as in the school cafeteria, I always had to chat with other girls while eating, and after work, I had to occasionally have dinner during socializing, and I also had to chat with others.

After so many years, it's the first time I've met someone who has the same habits as me. And the happiest thing is that this person is Wang Chennan, this person who is destined for himself. During the whole meal, he just used the wooden chopsticks in the pastry box to clip a piece of drunken crab paste to her, and then changed back to his own chopsticks to continue eating, Shi Yi smiled at him, and suddenly felt that such a picture was very familiar, and many memories had long been scattered, but his every move made her feel familiar. At some point in the past, somewhere, there must have been such a picture.

After Wang Chennan sent her to the residential area, he did not let the driver drive in, but got out of the car and sent her downstairs on foot, saying: "In the past three months, I will go back and forth between Zhenjiang and Suzhou." "Zhenjiang?" "Yes, Zhenjiang, is it strange?" "No, my father's ancestral home is Zhenjiang," she smiled, "although I don't go back much, but when I hear the name of this place, I still feel kind." He laughed, "It's a coincidence." "Yes, what a coincidence," she asked, after thinking about it, still curiously, "are you still not used to using your personal phone?" "I'm not used to it," he smiled, "but the number on your phone can be found at any time." She nodded. Then, both of them were quiet again.

The security guard on night duty sat in the lobby, he knew such a big beauty as Shi Yi, but it was the first time he saw her with a man, and he couldn't help but look here curiously with his eyes from time to time. "I'm leaving?" In the end, it was Shi Yi who spoke first. "Okay, goodbye." However, when she turned around and looked for the access card from her bag, the door had already opened with a bang, and she was stunned when she heard the voice of the security guard coming out of the glass door, beckoning her to enter the door. Shi Yi suddenly turned his head again, looked at him, and said again, "I'm leaving." She could even imagine how reluctant her expression was. Wang Chennan smiled slightly: "Goodbye." ”

She saved the mobile phone number, but she never looked for him, because she thought that she should still be afraid of the "fiancée" she heard by chance, and in more than 20 years of life, from a child to an ordinary woman, she has at least learned to recognize the reality, and her wish is only to be able to see him again; She thought to herself that even this one-in-a-billion probability wish had been fulfilled by her, and any extravagance was delusional.

Not long after that night, it was the Qingming Festival, because when the grandfather died last year, the leaves had to return to the roots, so they had to go back to Zhenjiang for burial, so this year's Qingming Festival, naturally they had to go back to sweep the tomb. About five o'clock in the morning, my father drove the car, took my mother to pick her up, Shi Yi sat sleepily in the back of the car, leaning on her mother's arms, waking up from time to night, it was almost three hours, still stuck on the highway, sleeping from dark to sunny, after waking up, she was always chatting with her parents, probably afraid that the two people in the back row would fall asleep, as the driver's father would be sleepy, what danger. Of course, since graduating from college, the content of the conversation has been marriage.

"Have you had any boyfriends lately?" "No," Shi Yi was still leaning on his mother's arms, and muttered coincidentally, "No, no, no", "Can't meet someone you like?" She was silent. Her mother noticed something strange about her: "Encountered? ”

"Well," she smiled, "but he's probably getting married, right?" The mother frowned slightly: "Did you encounter it at work?" The father also looked at the mother and daughter from the rearview mirror; Only then did Shi Yi realize that what he just said was too much like an ordinary family drama, in which a beautiful woman intervened in the story of other people's love, and shook her head busily: "I just met one person, I have some good feelings, and the rest is nothing." Both parents breathed a sigh of relief.

She tilted her head on the car window, listening to her mother continue to sigh, giving birth to a too beautiful daughter is also very draining, since Shi Yi was in junior high school, her mother began to worry about the undesirable teenagers in the society harassing her, after school and school, she had to pick up and drop off in person to rest assured, fortunately, Shi Yi seemed to have no other hobbies except for reading and guzheng, so the mother only needed to guard against foreign thieves, and did not need to care about whether her daughter would run away with a bad boy or learn badly. "Sometimes, your mother is also very conflicted," my father added with a smile, "I am worried that you are too high-minded to marry, and I am worried that you will be deceived by some rich and powerful people to do bad things because you are too beautiful." Shi Yi pursed his lips and smiled: "No, I don't like money." "People who have seen the cycle of life and death will not be captured by these things at all, otherwise that trip to the Hades Palace will be in vain.

When the car arrived at the toll booth, they finally saw the source of the traffic jam. There are three exits from the toll booth, all of which are isolated, one of which is vacant, and the two lanes outside are constantly in and out of various cars. "Privilege car?" Mother asked father. "Probably not," my father suddenly remembered what my little uncle said: "I remember, Shi Yi's little uncle said that some wealthy businessmen have been coming in and out of Zhenjiang these days, as if they are doing some investment projects." The mother was even more strange: "Zhenjiang, what big investment projects can be made?" "It's not about investing in Zhenjiang, it's just that the meeting place is here," my father explained simply, "The cost of Chinese workers is currently the lowest in the world, and many multinational companies are building factories in China and then selling overseas, so the most developed manufacturing industry in the Yangtze River Delta is the industry." Shi Yi laughed and added: "This is the allusion of madeinchina." "That's pretty much it," my father is a university teacher, so he will naturally be more concerned about these things, and it is the first thing to say, "However, in recent years, the wages of workers here have risen sharply, and many enterprises have begun to withdraw from Southeast Asia, so many small enterprises have closed down one after another, and it is estimated that in another five years, there will be a subversive earthquake in the manufacturing industry, a large number of workers will lose their jobs, factories will close, and the delta will shake, which will inevitably affect the national economy." "Okay, okay," the mother listened with a little headache, "so what does this have to do with the traffic jam?" "That's why some people invite wealthy businessmen to talk about investment," my father explained with a smile, "This is the charm of economics, if you predict a disaster in a few years, you have to think of a way to save it before it happens." "Very visionary." It is appropriate to evaluate the times. "It is necessary not only to have vision, but also to have strength, so that we can attract more investment." My father made up his mind. Shi Yi sighed: "You must also have a conscience to save the national economy." "Yes, conscience."

The conversation between father and daughter made the mother laugh completely, and while they were talking, several black sedans came from a distance, not at a fast speed, not at all like the speed of driving on the highway, but there were still cars politely avoided, and several cars, through the only vacant exit, passed by. The license plate flashed by, Shi Yi didn't see it too clearly, but he vaguely felt that it was very much like Wang Chennan's car. Talking all the way, they finally rubbed out of the high speed. When I arrived at the cemetery, it was already past nine o'clock, and it took four hours to drive for more than two hours. The tomb was not visited for a long time, but my parents came this time to get together with my father's uncle. Among these elders, the little uncle has the most well-to-do family and has a few manufacturing factories, so he naturally takes on the task of entertaining relatives and friends.

Many elders were chatting in the living room, and when they were bored, they walked into their cousin's room. The little girl was still in high school, and it was the time to study diligently, so Shi Yi was very happy to see her, grabbed her, and asked her to help her read the essay topic. Shi Yi swept his eyes, it was related to Qingming, and it was really appropriate. She thought for a moment, made an outline for her cousin, and when she put down her pen, she saw a few invitations in the corner of her desk. It's the event that my father talked about, a very gorgeous list, most of them are multinational companies, and there are even many companies that have nothing to do with manufacturing. Shi Yi usually doesn't pay much attention to these, but the watermark of the invitation attracted her, and the woodcut watermark was colored. Specially made for invitation-engraved prints, hand-printed; However, the one in Shi Yi's hand is just an ordinary printed version, not the original, at least not the invitation card handed to those financial predators in person, but just a copy of the peripheral invitation, but what attracts her the most is the "king" written in a small seal on the watermark; It's the king, not the king. But why did you think of him? What Shi Yi thought of was Wang Chennan in the middle of the night, low-key and different.

"Cousin, mobile phone," the little girl buried her head in the question, and did not raise her head, "Your mobile phone rings." She came back to her senses, picked it up and looked at it, and her heart fluttered a little. My cousin was there, she was embarrassed to clear her throat and answered the phone directly; "Miss Shi, hello." It was the driver's voice last time, "Hello. She seemed to be used to this way, and Wang Chennan quickly took the phone: "Sorry, I still don't know how to use my mobile phone to make calls." She snorted, "It's okay. "In Zhenjiang?" "How did you know I was here shortly after arriving?" He smiled: "You just passed the high-speed toll booth, I knew it, but I couldn't spare time to say a few words to you." ”