Chapter 2: Blind Date
Less than five minutes after stepping into the house, Chen Chen turned around and came out. barely had time to change clothes, and I had to go to the blind date scene. In fact, her parents didn't care much about whether she was single or not, but her relatives looked anxious, and her parents always said that they couldn't refute the face of their relatives, so Chen Chen would always take a look. As long as the other party has a gentle attitude, it basically ends up politely every time.
made an appointment at the café on the second floor of the bookstore, and when Chen Chen arrived, the other party had not yet come. A man in the corner was sitting facing the wall reading a book, and Chen Chen walked up to him and sat down with his back to him.
Just as she was swiping her phone boringly, a boy rang at the table, "You're already here?" ”
"Well, hello, I'm Chen Chen." She put down her phone, stood up and gestured, but didn't reach out her hand. The man with his back to her seemed to move.
"What do you do? Can you feed yourself? After sitting down, the uncomfortable boy said directly.
The boy didn't seem to understand that this was a personal question, and he got straight to the point, directly making Chen Chen feel like pork with a clear price on the board, and he was now asking himself whether it was tenderloin or pork belly. Chen Chen didn't like this feeling of being selected, and replied coldly: "I lost my job for a year, and I am an unknown third-rate writer, barely making ends meet." ”
"You're in Xiamen City now, when are you going to go home?"
"I haven't thought about it."
"The matchmaker said you're 26? A woman is over 26, but she is an older leftover woman, and in a few years, you won't be able to have children. ”
"Well, you're right. And then what? She replied lightly, not too excited.
"I don't have any requirements, let's understand, get married as soon as possible, you just give me a son, if the first child is a daughter, you can stay, and then only leave a son."
"I'm infertile." Chen Chen fiddled with the buttons of his shirt.
'Ahem! The man behind him coughed, and Chen Chen suddenly felt that the voice was very familiar
"The matchmaker didn't say you had a physical problem!"
"The matchmaker didn't say you had something wrong with your brain." Her voice was still cold, and it still didn't seem to fluctuate.
"Sister, you talk like this, it's really unpleasant, you're not too young, there are leftover women in the marriage market, you're not a man, no one wants you after you're thirty."
"You're not yet thirty, you're still a man, and I haven't seen anyone ask for you." She took a sip of her coffee and said nothing.
"How can a girl like you get married! How can any man want you! ”
"It's almost the same as a man like you, I advise you to open up, you are not a good breed, I think genetically modified corn is worth breeding the next generation than you."
The boy slapped the table, "If the matchmaker had said that you were like this, I wouldn't have seen you!" He stood up to leave.
Seeing that he was leaving, Chen Chen greeted him loudly, "Waiter, I am not with this gentleman, I will not settle the bill for him." The boy stared at Chen Chen angrily, viciously taking out the money, Chen Chen looked at him lightly, and did not react much.
The waiter who came over was a little cramped, took the blue ten yuan in his hand, and whispered, "Sir, it's not enough." ”
"I just drank a glass of juice, ten dollars is not enough!" The boy was completely enraged.
"Sir, freshly squeezed juice, 32 pieces." The waiter stared at him with a shudder.
"You're a tot!" The boy frantically pointed at Chen Chen and the shop, signaling that they were in a group.
"I'm a to, and you drank that juice, but I didn't touch it." Chen Chen stared at him and smiled, unable to hide the mockery in his eyes. The boy took out two more pieces of ten from his pocket and left them on the table: "There are no two pieces left!" Find whomever you like! With that, he walked out angrily.
In such an unpleasant blind date scene, the man behind him did not restrain himself and laughed. Hearing the laughter, she remembered who the voice was. She didn't react, stirred the coffee with a small spoon, and took another sip.
"Mind if I sit?" The man closed the book, smiled in the corner of his eyes, and politely stood in front of her and asked.
"Handsome guy Zhang Zhe, it's you." She immediately laughed and leaned lazily back onto the couch. The man was the one who ate other people's bread on the plane. The difference is that he was serious on the plane, which made Chen Chen a little nervous, but now he was smiling.
"Well, what a coincidence. I didn't expect to meet you here again. Zhang Zhe put down the book and sat down across from her.
She took out the money from her pocket and handed it to the waiter: "Coffee money, and those two, don't look for them." Just embarrassed. The waiter took the money and walked back to the bar.
"My name is Chen Chen, and I didn't introduce myself on the plane. You're really handsome. Chen Chen turned to look at Zhang Zhe, leaned forward slightly, and praised again, she crossed her legs diagonally, wearing a pair of nude high heels on her feet, pure white suit pants, and a black shirt with an open neckline, revealing the white underneath it; The trouser line on the pants is sharp and straight, and she seems to like masculine decorative embellishments, such as arrow-shaped eyebrows, but they are not inconsistent, and they look lazy and casual.
"Was this a blind date just now?" Zhang Zhe was still smiling and asked curiously.
"Well, blind date, he graduated from a heavy capital, and now he is in a state-owned enterprise, and it is said that the monthly salary is more than 8,000, not counting the year-end bonus." Chen Chen took the cup and introduced it to Zhang Zhe.
"Sounds good, you're not going to think about it?"
"Not considered. I choose a man for one requirement, good-looking. She smiled inadvertently and pointed at Zhang Zhe, with a hint of flirtation in her expression.
"It is reasonable, and the goal is clear." Zhang Zhe didn't express his disgust, took a sip of coffee, and unconsciously smiled again.
His smile was much worse than the cold-faced appearance on a plane; When you have a straight face, you look serious and not easy to get along with, and when you smile, you look much gentle.
"Are you here on a business trip?" So coincidentally met here, she asked curiously.
"Well, here for a business trip. Come out and take a walk. I didn't expect to meet you. Thinking of what she had just said sarcastically about the boy, Zhang Zhe couldn't help but laugh again. Looking at her current performance, Zhang Zhe can't recall the ignorance she looked like when she stammered.
Chen Chen felt a little bored, Zhang Zhe's face was very good-looking and handsome, but there was nothing he wanted to talk about for the time being. After waking up in the morning, she felt a little tired and wanted to go back to sleep, she drank all her coffee and made a farewell ceremony, "If you don't mind, I'll go first." ”
She stood up, smiled and waved her hand, and walked out without waiting for Zhang Zhe to respond.
She looks lazy and doesn't seem to like things like greetings. The high heels are steady, and the swaggering appearance is like a queen pointing the country. Zhang Zhe stared at her back until she disappeared.
"Pay the bill."
Zhang Zhe put his hand in his pocket and pulled out his wallet
"Sir, your money has just been paid by Miss Chen." The waiter whispered.
"Miss Chen? When? Zhang Zhe was confused.
"The girl who sat across from you just now, Miss Chen, when she gave me the money, she glanced at you, I thought I paid together...", the waiter realized that he seemed to have made a mistake, and replied cautiously for fear of reproach.
"Does she always come?"
"I used to come here often, but in the last two years, I only come here when I go home on vacation."
"Okay, thank you"
Is this a girl who invited herself to coffee? Zhang Zhe suddenly laughed again, walked downstairs with the book and prepared to stuff it back into its place, turning around aimlessly. When passing by the glass door downstairs, Zhang Zhe noticed that he was still smiling, and he seemed to be laughing too much today, so he put away his smiling face and coughed, and re-established his face.
He took out his phone and looked at it, remembering that he didn't leave her phone number, and instantly regretted it.
It was already late for Chen Chen to pack up her things when she got home, she lay on the bed and opened her kindle, the unfamiliar e-bookshelf made her stunned, the model seemed to be different from her own, and after a while, she suddenly remembered what happened on the plane, it seems that this is Zhang Zhe's, and she accidentally took it wrong when she came back. She flipped through the slip of paper in her pocket and added his contact information.
"Handsome guy, the kindle in my bag is not mine, do you also have a kindle? We got it wrong, right? “
Soon there was a reply, as if he had been waiting: "It seems that it is, I just saw that the bag is not mine." “
Chen Chen then asked: "Are you still like this? Can you change it back tomorrow? ”
It didn't recover quickly, and Chen Chen patiently pinched his phone and waited.
"I have something to do tomorrow, will you still go? If we go back, let's go back to Xiamen to change, okay? ”
Chen Chen still wanted to get it back as soon as possible, but it seemed that the other party said that he was busy, so it didn't matter if he waited, she replied, "It's okay, then you can be busy first." , and then opened Zhang Zhe's kindle, and the first book on the bookshelf was recently read, which turned out to be "Human Disqualification", which Chen Chen sometimes ridiculed as the pinnacle of 'mourning culture'. Chen Chen likes this book very much, but he rarely takes the initiative to read it, it is too depressing. Now that it was delivered to her eyes, she couldn't help but click on it.
Zhang Zhe on the other side had already opened Chen Chen's kindle and began to read her recent reading of "A Man Named Ou Wei Decided to Die", at the end of the reading, the black shadow marked that she had made notes, Zhang Zhe thought to himself in his heart, kindle typing is the most laborious thing, how patient it is to make direct annotations in it.
Just as he was thinking, his hand was already ahead of his thoughts, and he clicked on the note.
"Blame the old man's life. I'm Ove, waiting for Sawyer. ”
The notes for some reason made Zhang Zhe a little foggy, and in the spirit of modesty and studious spirit of asking if he didn't understand, Zhang Zhe took out his mobile phone and sent him a message
"Why do you think Sawyer likes Ove?" Zhang Zhe didn't have a head or a tail, and directly began to ask.
"I didn't think about it, I thought about it and then I answered it."
Originally, she was just curious and asked casually, but she didn't expect her to be so serious and still need to think about it, Zhang Zhe held the mobile phone and laughed: "Then what do you think Soya means to Ou Wei?" ”
"Ove is a Saab, Sawa is the driver." Chen Chen slowly typed this sentence on the screen.
"Why? Isn't Ove's setting supposed to be a sane person? ”
In the war with the white shirts, it is likely that he wants to stop, or he wants to find a reason to persevere, but whether he gives up or insists, Ove can't find a suitable reason to do it, so he can only maintain the status quo in the continuous struggle. And Sawyer helped Ove choose. Rational people don't need others to make choices. ”
Zhang Zhe read Chen Chen's words repeatedly and leaned back on the sofa. After thinking about it for a while, I wanted to ask about the notes, but in this way, I exposed myself peeking at other people's notes, although it was allowed to use her kindle, isn't this not good, hesitated, Zhang Zhe decided to ask in a different way, "Do you like Sawyer?" ”
"Well, yearn for Sawyer."
"You like... Zhang Zhe hesitated for a moment and did not type the second half of the sentence.
"No, I feel more like Ove, stubborn, so much so that I haven't considered the gender of my lover, and I'm happy together, just like it."
"What is your view of mate selection?" Zhang Zhe asked recklessly.
"Mine? Even if he doesn't chase me, I'll still fall in love with him. Zhang Zhe's question was a bit abrupt, Chen Chen didn't want to answer, but thinking of Zhang Zhe's face, she still decided to be patient.
This world is so friendly to good-looking people.