Chapter 51: Almost cheating
Qi Min took the subway to the meeting place, which was at a barbecue restaurant, which did seem informal, which somewhat alleviated her social phobia in formal occasions.
However, Qi Min arrived a little late, and when she pushed open the door of the private room, she found that everyone else had basically arrived. She and almost half of them had never seen each other since graduation, and she couldn't help but be a little surprised to see her again.
I have the impression that they are all very active and "cool" guys in their grades, and even have ear piercing and tattoos in high school. However, it seems that many people are much older than she remembers. Also, the girls and boys who used to dress up handsomely are now almost thirty. Qi Min then remembered that she seemed to have just graduated less than a year ago, and some of her high school classmates had been experiencing social trials since they graduated from their bachelor's degree six or seven years ago - it was really a slow pace of studying for a doctorate.
Qi Min's classmates were easy to recognize when they saw her, although her hairstyle was different from that of high school, but this dress was obviously Qi Min's style when she was in high school.
But whether it is Qi Min in high school or Qi Min now, he is usually not the focus of the crowd. Qi Min sat down in the farthest seat, listening to these unfamiliar classmates talk about their recent situation while eating silently.
Many of her high school classmates still got ahead, and of course, maybe they didn't come to the class reunion because they were too bad. Qi Min doesn't know whether she is good or bad as a PI of a Chinese technical university, but it is certain that the income of being a laboratory PI is definitely not enough for the current first echelon of her high school classmates.
Since ancient times, those who have been engaged in natural science research have either had money in their families or have been funded by others. In short, this is a costly job, and there are very few people who make a fortune from this work.
The high school classmates who hadn't seen each other for a long time finished eating barbecue and went to sing karaoke again. For Qi Min, this kind of activity is equivalent to eating fruit on the side, although several classmates who were still a little familiar with her before came to ask her to go up and sing when she ate fruit, but Qi Min was still unmoved.
No, Qi Min was sitting on the sofa eating the cantaloupe in the fruit bowl, and Wu Ling, who had just finished singing, sat next to her, and asked while pouring beer: "Hey, Qi Min, why don't you go up and sing?" β
"I'll forget it...... My songs are more off-the-beaten. Qi Min pushed.
"Now it's all networked, and you can find everything you want." Wu Ling smiled and patted the back of her hand, as if encouraging a child, "encouraged", "Go ahead, it's okay, it's all singing and playing." β
Don't look at Qi Min as a GEEK in high school, she can still see what some people have in mind. Wu Ling was a classmate in junior high school with her, but she always tried her best to squeeze her. Although Qi Min didn't know why, he still deliberately avoided her.
And now Wu Ling obviously wants Qi Min to make a fool of herself - a GEEK like her who doesn't sing K very much, most of the songs won't be good.
No matter how Qi Min sings, she just made up her mind not to go up, so she said: "I have a cold, my voice is uncomfortable and I can't sing, just listen here." He coughed twice afterward.
It's true that she hasn't recovered from a cold, which isn't a lie.
This answer didn't satisfy Wu Ling, what else did she have to say, and suddenly Du Yalin came over and called her: "Wu Ling, Jiang Wanghuai seems to have something to do with you." β
When she was in high school, Wu Ling had been with Du Yalin, and it is said that she seemed to have a crush on Jiang Wanghuai at that time. But to be honest, Qi Min didn't know Jiang Wanghuai very well, and he didn't know much about this gossip. Just hearing Jiang Wanghuai's name, Wu Ling gave up the fun of finding Qi Min again, and went to find her former male god.
Du Yalin sat next to Qi Min and picked up the cup that Wu Ling poured beer from just now: "Whew...... I'm dying of thirst. Is this your cup, lend me a drink? β
"It's Wu Ling's." Qi Min replied.
"Oh, no wonder." Du Yalin took a napkin from the coffee table and wiped it on the rim of the cup, "The lipstick is all on the cup." β
Qi Min glanced at the traces of lipstick wiped off the napkin, which was a very girly pink. Wu Ling's overall dress today is girly pink, but to be honest, her appearance is still much inferior to that of Du Yalin and Zhang Songxue, and she is not young because of her dark complexion. Her color scheme is like a twenty-eight-year-old girl forcibly wearing eighteen-year-old clothes, which is inevitably a bit undignified.
But it's not a formal occasion, people just want to. Qi Min retracted his gaze and continued to eat the cantaloupe in the fruit bowl.
"Don't eat it, you're running out of the fruit bowl." Du Yalin teased her beside her.
Qi Min swallowed this mouthful of cantaloupe, and then put down the fork: "Oh, yes." I'm just idle. β
"Why are you still the same as before? Alas. Du Yalin looked at her and showed an ambiguous smile.
"It's still a little different." Qi Min also smiled in order to avoid embarrassment, "I never came to karaoke before. β
"You didn't sing it now." Du Yalin said with a smile, took two empty paper cups, poured two glasses of beer, and handed one to Qi Min.
Qi Min took the beer and just took a small sip. She belongs to the genotype that can't drink alcohol, and she has never forced herself to drink for health reasons.
"Don't you drink? Oh, yes, it's a teacher. Du Yalin also straightened up, as if she naturally leaned over, and put her hand on her shoulder from the back.
It's a bit embarrassing. Qi Min hid a few centimeters to the left slightly, but it was not easy to avoid it directly, so he just asked, "What's wrong, did you drink too much?" β
"No, haven't you drunk it yet?" Du Yalin suddenly put her face in front of hers, as if she was looking at Qi Min's glasses, "You glasses...... It seems to be the one from high school. After so many years, it hasn't broken yet. β
Maybe it's perfume, maybe it's clothes, maybe it's just the smell of shampooβin short, there's a faint scent of roses mixed with fruit. And so close, looking at her face is still exquisite, the long, curly eyelashes seem to be real, and the lipstick on her lips is also very eye-catching.
Qi Min is Yan Kong, and I'm afraid many people know that she is Yan Kong. Du Yalin is indeed good-looking, and she looks much better now than before after she has dressed up. But Qi Min really thinks she really can't cheat here - it's too inexplicable, right?!
"Arlinn, you've had too much to drink." Qi Min turned sideways and gently broke away from her arm, then moved half a position to the left, "Why don't I get you some Coke?" β
"You're such a strange person." Du Yalin leaned back on the sofa, looked at her with a smile on her face and said, "Are you still thinking about Songxue?" β
Qi Min doesn't understand this logic a little, does she look so much like a pure LES? "No, Song Song has long been with the Great Leap - what does this have to do with me?"
"If it's okay, then I'll come to you, isn't that good?" Du Yalin took a sip of the beer in the cup, and everyone was immersed in the joy of singing K, and no one paid attention to the sofa. "Or do you think I'm worse than Zhang Songxue?"
Qi Min felt embarrassed as long as he thought of Du Yalin and Zhang Songxue. It's not that she dislikes Du Yalin too much - Du Yalin is indeed good-looking - but she thinks that she and her Ji You are not the same kind of person at all.
"I'm really not interested." Qi Min said helplessly, "And...... You're not single now, are you? β
Hearing her point this out, Du Yalin's expression immediately fell. She put the cup back on the coffee table, pruned "hypocrisy" and got up to leave.
Qi Min just felt even more inexplicable, but he still took another piece of cantaloupe from the fruit bowl and ate it.