1. First encounter
In March, on a warm afternoon, Su Ran was dressed in professional clothes, her hair was tied in a ponytail, and her brain was exposed. Walking with her head held high, holding a stack of insurance company questionnaires in her arms, the high heels on the floor made a rhythmic sound, and the high heels on her feet made her feet ache. She has big eyes, decent makeup, an angular face, and a kind of capable and bold female man between her eyebrows. She was 23 years old, dropped out of high school before finishing high school, worked as a cashier, receptionist. I worked as a waiter at McDonald's, and now this job is my ninth job, my parents are ordinary workers, and there is no other way to do this unsteadfastness than sigh at Su Ran. Su Ran wants to prove himself this time, and he must persevere. Her family of three lived in a house of less than 60 square meters in her father's factory, and she rented a dilapidated one-bedroom apartment for fear of her parents' nagging. Stayed next to the train station which was cheap as it was old and noisy.
She walked to the park with a stack of questionnaires, the peach blossoms in the garden, the spring breeze was very warm, the people in the park took a leisurely walk, the children frolicked and played, she walked to the strange men and women, smiled and said: "Sir, beauty, I am the financial specialist of Shanda Insurance Company, our company does a questionnaire, you only need to fill out a form, and a small gift will be given to you." The man wanted to avoid him, so she stood in front of them and said, "There's no other meaning, there's no sales, just help me fill out a form, okay?" The girlfriend next to him pouted and said, "After that, I kept calling, and I was annoyed to death", Su Ran looked at the man for help, and the man finally said: "Forget it, fill it in, it's okay." Su Ran smiled happily, and did not let go of the enthusiasm of sweeping the building, and some people refused very simply. Most of them cooperated in filling out the form. Su Ran dragged her sore legs and wanted to find a bench to rest, she walked to the innermost part of the park, and when she looked up, she found a girl in front of her holding a thick book, looking down, the breeze fluttering her long hair, she raised her head slightly and stroked her hair, single eyelids, the skin is very fair, the plain face is facing the sky without applying fat powder, the eyes are quiet and clear, and every movement and stillness are very freehand paintings. After many years, Su Ran would recall this scene, and she never met a girl like her who did not eat fireworks in the world. She walked over gently, smiled and said, "Hello, my name is Su Ran, I am the financial manager of Shanda Insurance Company, please cooperate with me to fill out a questionnaire." She looked up at her, took the pen, lowered her head and filled it in one by one, and then looked up and whispered: "My name is Shao Yajun, I learned mental arithmetic, I am now teaching children to do mental arithmetic in the Cultural Palace, I have just been here for a month." Su Ran asked, "Whose book are you reading, and how old are you?" She said: "At the age of nineteen, I read Zhang Ailing's Love in a Fallen City, and I liked her words, delicate, sensitive, and transparent." She smiled. Su Ran said: "I also like Zhang Ailing's writing. Su Ran sat beside her in this warm afternoon, and actually chatted about Zhang Ailing's works all afternoon, and also talked about "Jane Eyre" and Tolstoy's "Anna. Karenina. Su Ran also recommended a copy of Bi Shumin's "Female Psychologist" to her. They had a great time seeing each other that day.
Su Ran sorted out the phone number of the questionnaire. Her job is to hold a morning meeting in the company at half past eight in the morning, listen to various reports from leaders, share her experience on stage with good performance, and encourage her, sing, and guide. After all kinds of calls, invite customers to attend meetings held by the company in the hotel. After the meeting, she called one by one, some hung up as soon as she hit it, some hung up after saying a few words, and some had a good personality and listened patiently, and there were very few who could really be invited by the phone.
Su Ran didn't have anything to do in the afternoon, so she rode her little Mulan to the Cultural Palace, Shao Yajun was very happy to see her, the children were taken away by their parents one after another, she took Su Ran to the dormitory, and the room was not well organized. There were also two female teachers, both of whom were not very old, and the following said hello. There are all kinds of stickers in the classrooms, and there are five or six desks in one classroom. Shao Yajun said: My salary here is less than 1,000 a month, but I like my job, and I am very happy with children every day. Su Ran handed her the book: "The 'female psychologist' I got for you, you can take a look at it when you are free, you can text or call me when you are bored, I am generally fine in the afternoon." Shao Yajun nodded with a smile.
At first, Su Ran would introduce to Shao Yajun how many benefits insurance has, but after a long time, he found that this girl was quiet and peaceful, and although her income was not high, she loved her work and was very kind. Shao Yajun sometimes says: "I also think it's good, but I earn too little to afford it." In the days that followed, Su Ran never mentioned insurance, after getting off work and sweeping the building, after a strange visit, Xiao Mulan stopped at Shao Yajun's door, and after Shao Yajun got out of class, she smiled and said, "Go, go to me, let's cook something and eat." Shao Yajun got into the car and hugged her from behind. They returned to Su Ran's residence and bought a chicken rack, because there was no money at that time, and the chicken rack was cheap, and then they bought all kinds of side dishes and base ingredients. The two of them were eating happily and chatting all over the world. After eating, Su Ran likes to sketch, copy, and buy all kinds of pictures of ancient ladies, which are painted vividly, Shao Yajun reads quietly next to him, and sometimes chats about an innocuous sentence, and the two look at each other and smile. When she was sleepy, Su Ran handed her one of her pajamas, and after the two of them finished washing, they lay on the same bed and chatted for a while, and went to sleep separately.
After Su Ran had a morning meeting in the company, she made an appointment with a customer to the 'leisure station', where you can drink tea, coffee, and you can also order food, the environment is quite good, when she didn't know Shao Yajun before, she had nothing to do to buy a hot drink and could spend most of the day here. Look at the book, read the newspaper. The appointment of the customer arrived, the owner of a stationery store. It was also a customer she was looking for unfamiliarly, the man was twenty-seven or eighteen years old, small, long and polite, he saw that Su Ran was a little restrained, sitting opposite Su Ran, Su Ran was still a signature professional attire, a short-sleeved women's suit, and a knee-length skirt underneath, which set off a good temperament. The hair was meticulously tied tightly in a ponytail. She gushed about the benefits of this participating insurance, how much income you can get after paying for 20 years, and so on.... His name is Li Nan, a very introverted man, he had a girlfriend in college, and then he has been single after he was separated, and the assignment of work after graduation is not very good, after two years of work, he rented a store in the market and opened a stationery store. He had bought an insurance, but he couldn't stand Su Ran's soft grinding and hard bubbles, and promised her to buy another one. With a smile, she pushed the plan in front of him and said, "Mr. Li, look at these terms, there are all kinds of guarantees, if there is no problem, sign and write the phone." After everything was ready, Li Nan chuckled and said, "Just call me Li Nan, don't be so polite, what you want to eat, I'll invite you." Su Ran smiled heartily: "This time I please, so believe that I am insured here, thank you very much, if you have anything to know in the future, please call at any time." She stretched out her right hand to him and shook his hand, thanking him for his trust.
When Su Ran left from the 'leisure station', he packed a black pepper steak for Shao Yajun and brought a milk tea, which Li Nan secretly bought in advance. Su Ran was very happy to make an order, bought a carton of milk and some fruits to send to his parents, and then rode Xiao Mulan to Shao Yajun's Cultural Palace, where there are various training classrooms in the Cultural Palace, teaching erhu, guitar, painting, dancing, everything. When she arrived, Shao Yajun was sitting on the steps of the door waiting for her, and she saw the two women next to her arguing from a distance. And Shao Yajun was not affected at all, looking down at the book in his arms, thinking from time to time, sometimes frowning, sometimes smiling happily. Su Ran walked up to her and sat down: "Yajun, you are really good, I have watched those two women quarrel for a long time, you just don't move at all, you are not afraid of people fighting and spraying you with blood, and you smiled heartily after speaking", Shao Yajun couldn't help but sneer: "Am I not waiting for you to read a book at the same time, as the saying goes, don't look at indecent things, it's good not to read bad things." Su Ran handed her the steak and milk tea and said, "You go to the house to eat, it tastes good, I'll see a quarrel for a while, I got an order today, there is a harvest, happy." Shao Yajun was also happy for her and took her hand: "Great, I'm really happy for you." Su Ran listened to the content of the quarrel between the two women, one is the current wife of the guitar teacher, and the other is the man's ex-wife, the current said: "You are all divorced, and you still contact all day long, send those ambiguous text messages, are you a little ashamed, you are still here to find him if you have nothing to do", the ex said: "What's the matter if you're divorced, you can't be friends after you're divorced, what's wrong with meeting together." The current robbed Bai Dao: "If you can get a divorce, it means that you don't love you, why are you still in a hurry to find him", the ex said: "We have been together for seven years, we are still college classmates, I don't want him, how long have you been, a year, he said, as long as I agree, he will divorce at any time," the current face flushed and said to the husband upstairs: "Liu Ke, you come out for me, did you say this"? The people upstairs never came out. Fortunately, the students of the Cultural Palace were all gone, and no one was watching. Su Ran happily admired the farce, thinking about Zhang Ailing's red rose and white rose's words: marrying a red rose, over time, the red one changed to a smear of mosquito blood on the wall, and the white one was still "the bright moonlight in front of the bed", and after marrying a white rose, the white one was a grain of rice sticky on the clothes, but the red one was a cinnabar mole on the heart. Su Ran thought to himself that he couldn't fight, he couldn't quarrel and couldn't come up with a reason, he was crooked, the so-called people who could do it didn't move, and he thought that women were really hard. Maybe the women who quarreled were all intellectuals, and they didn't make a move, and they all left when they were tired of arguing. After Shao Yajun finished eating, Su Ran launched Xiao Mulan, and Shao Yajun sat down and hugged her waist and returned to Su Ran's residence. Shao Yajun would go to live with Su Ran every once in a while.
The days passed, from spring to winter, Su Ran's performance was also good, two or three orders a month, Li Nan always called her to ask her to dinner, Su Ran wanted to take other people's hands short and eat other people's soft mouths. Nine times out of ten, she didn't refuse, Li Nan said that she would introduce customers to her. She went to the appointment, this time she didn't wear professional clothes, a down jacket on the top, jeans on the bottom, and her hair was still tightly tied behind her head. The two met and greeted, and Li Nan said: "Look at why you are a girl who works so hard, riding a motorcycle around in winter, and her face is red from the cold." Su Ran swallowed the fish in his mouth and said with a grin: "I don't fight for anything, I have to pay rent every month." After saying that, he lowered his head and began to eat. Li Nan looked at her and organized the language for a long time, and said solemnly: "You see we have known each other for more than half a year, I think you are very good, we have two houses at home, the car is not too good, and the wholesale stationery income in the store is also good. After listening to this, she was stunned for a few seconds. She thought to herself, the conditions are good, but this person is not the type she likes, she wears high heels and is taller than him, she is more manly than him, can she still have a good meal, she looked at the dishes on the table, calculated the price in her heart, and thought, it's quite expensive. She looked at his expectant face and said, "I don't want to get married yet, I plan to get married at the age of thirty, work hard, I don't have any merits, you have to find a gentle one." Right, and today I invite you, thank you for introducing me to clients. Li Nan's face was depressed, and he whispered: "No, how can you let the girl invite."
It's really cold, run a day back to get cold, go to Mobai in the afternoon to a seafood shop, the boss is about fifty years old, people are very kind, Su Ran every time he goes doesn't talk much about insurance, he will send a book he bought on the bookshelf, sometimes the company's wall calendar, will be sent over. Later, the boss said directly: "If you introduce me one day, I'll buy a copy, I'm busy today, take time." Su Ran was waiting for this sentence. Happily riding back to her residence, she felt that it was so cold, and the broken house did not even have an air conditioner, so she filled the hot water bag with boiling water, thinking that it would be better to buy a second-hand air conditioner. After a high temperature and fever, and she lay down without eating, Shao Yajun called her, and she said that she had a fever. Shao Yajun said on the other end of the phone: "You wait, I'll come over immediately." After a while, Shao Yajun wore a thick cotton coat and carried a chicken rack in his hand, as well as pumpkin, vermicelli, lotus root, cabbage and so on. Also bought medicine. Boil another pot of boiling water, poured the hands of the two cups back and forth, and handed the medicine and water to Su Ran when he felt that it was not hot, and Su Ran drank it in one gulp. Shao Yajun dried two more cups of hot water, and said while serving them: "Fever is dehydration, take medicine and drink a few glasses of white water quickly." Su Ran obediently finished drinking. Shao Yajun began to work in the kitchen, and said to the bedroom: "It's cold, let's eat hot pot, warm and warm," after taking the medicine and sweating, Su Ran got a lot better, and the two sat around the small square table in the small guest set and began to eat, the room was full of aroma, Shao Yajun's face looked particularly beautiful and quiet behind the heat in the house. At this moment, Su Ran really felt that the years were quiet.