Chapter Eighty-Eight: Openness
"I'm presumptuous to ask, if you don't want to say it, forget it, just don't blame me for being troublesome." Zhang Yuan looked at her embarrassed and a little embarrassed.
Ji Qingling was silent for a few seconds, and said with a wry smile, "It's not that I don't want to say it, but I don't know where to start." â
Since Li Dahai knows Fu Zijun and Zhang Yuan knows Li Dahai again, there is nothing wrong with her life experience.
"If you hadn't mentioned it today, I'm afraid I wouldn't have known that the love in my bones was inferiority, I just didn't like to stay in crowded places, and I felt very uncomfortable with those who were much better than me." She looked at Zhang Yuan with complicated eyes, in the past she only regarded her as a friend who exercised together, but now that she knew that she was so good, her attitude became restrained.
"My family used to be very poor, my biological mother died early, and then my father had money and married my stepmother, I don't have much say in the family, not to mention any tea ceremony and incense, it's good to be able to mix food and clothing, after graduation, I feel that I can't compare to others, I will only die studying, and now although I am in graduate school, my foundation is too poor to keep up with the progress of my mentor. Oh, by the way, I was a big fat guy before, so I always felt like a failure in life. When she talked about these things, she made an understatement on her face, but the painful imprint of these past on her will always be in her heart.
Although she always told her that she had to start over in life, the shadows of the past were not dissipated, and those unpleasant experiences always came to her mind when she was inadvertent, and she lived a restrained life.
"If you call it a failure like this, then I won't be able to live," Li Dahai's grinning appearance and the appearance of the worldly master when he burned incense just now are like two people, "My brother is the same as your husband, he is a first-class strongman workaholic, and our family has produced such a scum as me, idle all day long, this is the real thing that is not as good as others, but I am not inferior, although my work is not as good as others, but they are not as good as me when I eat, drink and have fun." People can't just look at their own shortcomings and the strengths of others, there are no perfect people in the world, and there are no good-for-nothing people. â
Ji Qingling smiled, she and Li Dahai were always stress-free when they were together, not only because of his humor, but also because of his optimism.
"What Li Dahai said makes sense, I can't even get into such a good school as A University, and I'm a cooking idiot, I feel inferior compared to you," Zhang Yuan spread his hands, "People don't always compare with others, they have stronger places than you, and they must also be weaker than you, as long as you live comfortably, worthy of the world and worthy of yourself, then it is enough!" â
There was a warm current in Ji Qingling's heart, she had suffered from everyone's eyes in her previous life, that kind of inferiority complex was deep-rooted, she had many sincere friends like them in this life, she believed that those gloom would all disappear one day.
"I opened this Yunxiangtang, you can come to play in the future, my study is upstairs, I usually write there if I have nothing to do, call me when you come." The three of them chatted for an afternoon, and Zhang Yuan was still a little unsatisfied, "Next time I'll let people clean up the kitchen, let's just drink tea and chat in the afternoon, and we will cook and drink in the evening, how about it?" â
"Great idea!" Li Dahai was the first to applaud, "But it's better to choose a day than to hit the day, how about today?" â
"Today?" Ji Qingling was a little embarrassed, "It's not early today, where can I buy good ingredients?" â
"Last time, they were very enthusiastic and would give me food." Li Dahai has always been obsessed with the enthusiasm of those stall owners.
Zhang Yuan was curious, and when she heard Ji Qingling explain the original story, she couldn't stop laughing, "This kind of thing can only be done by this living treasure, but don't worry about playing, as Qingling's French teacher, have you done your duty, don't come to cheat and cheat." â
"Zhang, I'm very sad when you say that." Li Dahai said seriously, "I was still teaching Ji French just now, am I the liar you said you said?" â
"You're very dutiful, but would it be useful to teach me some French that has nothing to do with my professional skills? I'm hoping to be able to read French literature after this summer. Ji Qingling said depressedly, she felt very guilty when she thought of this, although she didn't patronize and play during this time, she didn't have much time to study, she was stunned when she thought of Wang Ling's stern expression, Shen Fuyan's serious words were still echoing in her ears, and she didn't know what face she would look like to see the two after the summer vacation.
"Edutainment, let's eat in Yunxiangtang tonight, Ji, if you open the ingredients, Zhang will definitely have a way to get it." Li Dahai actually made the decision for the two of them.
Zhang Yuan laughed, "Qingling, do you have something to do tonight?" â
"It's fine, but is it too late to go grocery shopping now?" Fu Zijun has been on a business trip these days, and she is a complete idler.
"You don't have to worry about this, if it's convenient for you today, then I'll be the guest and fulfill Li Dahai once, how about it?"
"Zhang, you are really cunning, obviously you want to eat, how can you say that it is to fulfill me?" Li Dahai shouted.
Now that the decision was made, Li Dahai and Zhang Yuan began to order dishes unceremoniously, Ji Qingling prescribed the ingredients according to the dishes they ordered, and Zhang Yuan ordered people to do the rest.
"Hey, there's a guqin here, I haven't seen it before. Let's also learn the guqin, how about it? Li Dahai was idle, drank tea for a while, and ran out when he heard the voice, "Little girl, you play the guqin well, how long have you been learning?" â
The little girl who looked no more than twelve or thirteen years old raised her head and looked at him indifferently, snorted arrogantly, and even ignored it and turned her head to leave.
"Don't flirt with people, she's my niece, and she came to City A to play during the summer vacation." Zhang Yuan smiled, grabbed the little girl's shoulders, whispered a few words in her ear, and the little girl went upstairs.
"She touched the piano when she was three years old, and it's been ten years now." There was pride in Zhang Yuan's eyes.
"Then you must have passed the tenth grade." Ji Qingling said enviously that she is a layman who doesn't know any musical instruments, and the otherworldly things of the guqin only exist in zĂ i novels and TV series.
"Exams? The little girl never takes the exam, but she is a famous teacher, and she is also a little famous, and there will be a guqin collection here in a few days, if you want to be interested, come and listen to it. Zhang Yuan invited with a smile.
"If you are interested, you can send me the time and place, and I will definitely bring Qingling over." Li Dahai hurriedly agreed.
"You can really call the shots for me." Ji Qingling was dumbfounded.
"You, you just don't live a chic enough, what's the point of reading a book at home alone, people just need multiple activities to better integrate into this society, you look at you, an authentic A city person, is not as communicative as me." Li Dahai couldn't stop shaking his head, Ji Qingling has a trait, inferiority, vicissitudes, melancholy, open-mindedness, all kinds of contradictory colors are intertwined, plus a little bit of mystery, which makes her want to understand her, this trait is probably not even aware of herself.
Li Dahai is a curious person, Ji Qingling's special attraction is very attractive to him, this attraction has nothing to do with the love between men and women, but simply wants to understand her, the more he understands her, the more he feels that she is special.
If she is a house girl who likes to stay at home, although she often stays at home, she is very yearning for the beauty of the outside world, but when she goes out, she always looks forward and backward, he simply pulls her out all day long, and she is much more cheerful after a few days, otherwise she will not say anything about today's self-analysis of inferiority, so the fate between people is really wonderful.
The dishes ordered by Li Dahai and Zhang Yuan were all ordinary home-cooked dishes, and when they got the ingredients, it was very simple, Ji Qingling cooked a table of delicacies with color and aroma, not only Li Dahai and Zhang Yuan were full of praise, but even the cold guqin girl just now was also devouring it happily.
"Qingling, you are really capable, this girl never refuses to eat well, my sister will not know how happy she will be if she looks like this today." Zhang Yuan said with a smile, "In the future, if you are free, you can come to us often......"
"Come here often to cook for you, right?" Li Dahai did not hesitate to debunk her enthusiasm.
"Of course, friends, shouldn't we help each other?"
"It's right, it's a gesture." Ji Qingling especially likes to get along with them, and she can't ask for Zhang Yuan's invitation.
Ji Qingling is in a good mood during this time, and often getting together with friends makes her more open-minded, different from the feeling of cherishing life after being reborn before, now she is more "playful", but her heart is calmer, whether it is cooking, exercising or reading, her mentality is more and more peaceful, and there is some Zen dust in her gestures, which even Fu Zijun feels.
"Recently, you still follow Li Dahai around all day long?"
"Yes, he is really a Chinese expert, I am ashamed of this, there is a guqin collection the night after tomorrow, I am going to listen to it, are you interested?" As soon as she talked about Li Dahai, her eyebrows fluttered, which made Fu Zijun very unhappy.
"I'm going on a business trip the day after tomorrow." He said slowly, hoping that she would notice his affection for this.
"Okay, then I'll go alone." She ate happily and happily, without the slightest reluctance from his business trip.
Fu Zijun's heart was even happier, and now she didn't care about him at all.
"When did you become interested in the guqin?"
"I don't have any interest, I'm just a layman, I happened to be invited by a friend, so I went to listen to it, I don't understand that kind of spring and white snow." R1152