Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Emaciated Chen Zhiyuan
Time goes on, life goes on.
But Chen Zhiyuan's appearance of standing at the door of Zhu Rui's unit with a cup of coffee made Zhu Rui in a trance, as if time was going back.
He even whistled at her.
In the biting cold wind, Chen Zhiyuan only wore a thin coat, and the whole person was two sizes. He re-cut his hair, and the thick scarf set off his head and face, full of foreign style.
However, in just a few months, Chen Zhiyuan's state seems to have returned to ten years ago, all thanks to his successful weight loss. Shake off the bloated him, the line of his jaw is much more obvious, and his beard is cleanly shaved. He just stood like that, and what was once a young boy became a mature uncle of a yuppie.
Zhu Rui was a little surprised, walked straight over, and asked, "Can't you be on the phone if you have something?" Why are you coming here to me? β
The first thing she thought of was whether there was something wrong at home again - during this time, Chen's father and Chen's mother bought milk and fruits every once in a while and sent them to the house for the child. They were afraid of confronting Tao Chunhua, so they left their things and left. But Tao Chunhua had long been bored, pointing to the snacks piled up at home, warning Zhu Rui that he would explode at any time.
"Is there something going on at home?" Zhu Rui looked a little nervous, and stepped up his pace to walk to the parking lot. But at this time, she noticed that Chen Zhiyuan was dragging a suitcase in his hand, and Zhu Rui couldn't help but slow down and stare at him with some doubts.
Chen Zhiyuan cleared his throat and said, "I didn't buy a ticket, so I took your car back home." β
Zhu Rui stopped, and she replied, "Is there something wrong with you?" You don't buy a direct car, run to Nanjing to transit. β
"Don't be so angry, I'm not reluctant to buy another car, I don't have any acquaintances in Nanjing, so I can only look for you." Chen Zhiyuan took the initiative to raise his foot, pointed to the direction of the parking lot, and after confirming that it was correct, he dragged his luggage while dragging his luggage: "It's going to be New Year's Eve soon, if you don't take me home and let me be out, you're not embarrassed." β
"Hey, what's so embarrassing about me?!" Zhu Rui pointed at Chen Zhiyuan angrily and said, "Don't mess up the mess in front of me, I've already made it clear to you, Chen Zhiyuan." β
"Oh, you're really enough of that," Chen Zhiyuan deliberately pretended to be casual, and said slowly: "Everyone is a colleague, so be polite." β
"Who is a colleague with you......" Between the words, Zhu Rui had already walked to the side of the car, she raised her head suddenly, looked at Chen Zhiyuan solemnly, and said, "What do you mean?" β
Chen Zhiyuan squeezed out a wicked smile that did not match his age, stretched out his big hand with leather gloves, and said, "Report after the holiday!" Even though you are not in the same department, please take care of it. β
Zhu Rui ignored his outstretched hand, and the pestle froze in place.
"Don't be stunned, eldest sister, it's cold!" Chen Zhiyuan finally began to show his original form, as long as he was graceful, he shivered in the wind.
Zhu Rui opened the car door and sat in the driver's seat speechlessly.
Chen Zhiyuan hurriedly got into the co-pilot.
"You don't want the box?" Zhu Rui looked at the rearview mirror on the right expressionlessly, and Chen Zhiyuan's box was gorgeously abandoned outside.
Chen Zhiyuan rubbed his face with his hands, turned his head to stare at Zhu Rui, and said, "We're good, you won't let you slip away when I get out of the car?!" β
Zhu Rui didn't bother to take care of him, but instead pressed the switch and woke up their car.
"...... you talk back"
"Are you naΓ―ve? If you don't want the box, I'll leave! β
Hearing Zhu Rui's words, Chen Zhiyuan opened the car door, not only opened the car door, but also opened almost all the car doors. The cold wind whizzed in, and he held the box, threw it into the back seat, and quickly jumped back into the passenger seat.
"You put it in the trunk! The box is dirty or not, just throw it in my back seat! Zhu Rui shouted.
"It's not dirty, it's not dirty, drive fast." Chen Zhiyuan was so happy that he looked like a child, and he urged Zhu Rui to set off quickly.
They will travel all the way at high speed, and it will take one and a half hours to arrive at Zhu Rui's house in the downtown area of City A. This time is not too long, and they can't carry it head-on with the young people who drift north.
A half-hour commute time is more than twice the difference in salary. Even though there is some exhaustion, there are always people who are willing to endure for the sake of such multiples.
Zhu Rui's car drove very well, with both male and female responsiveness. The starting brake is cushioned, so it is uncomfortable for passengers who will not be disturbed. The highway is easy to drive, the uniform speed and the warm air in the car are so comfortable that Chen Zhiyuan is about to fall asleep.
"Hey!" Zhu Rui woke up his heavy eyelids and said, "You will take a taxi back to the north of the city by yourself in a while." I don't have time to drop you off. β
Chen Zhiyuan moved his body and said, "No, I'll go up to see the child." β
Zhu Rui frowned, tilted her head and glanced at him, she always felt that this Chen Zhiyuan was full of bad water, both his state and his demeanor were obviously different from the past.
"Drive well, don't look at the rearview mirror without skimming such a big angle, it's dangerous." Chen Zhiyuan looked ahead with a serious face, and spoke casually with the joy of life in the Northeast.
"What are you doing in Nanjing?!"
"Make money."
"I asked you why you had to come to Nanjing?"
Chen Zhiyuan blinked, although he and Zhu Rui had not looked at each other, they seemed to be able to make up for each other's current appearance.
In Chen Zhiyuan's heart, Zhu Rui's calm expression must have scratched his liver and scratched his heart, extremely unhappy. And he himself was about to laugh.
He sighed deliberately and said, "Hey, big country, it's my own choice where I go." Where do you want to go now? At the end, he added a half-truth, saying: "If I don't go back to Nanjing, where will I go, back to City A?" Can I afford 7,000 yuan in child support? I want to be closer to my son and daughter, isn't that right? β
Chen Zhiyuan made up for this sentence, which won Zhu Rui's approval, and to some extent, it also weakened her vigilance. She stopped talking, what else? Zhu Rui actually has some complexity in her heart, but she is a forward-looking person, and she would rather throw this complexity to be dissolved by time than indulge in it
Seeing that she was speechless, Chen Zhiyuan turned the topic upside down, and he suddenly said: "I have found a new life now, leaving your spiritual oppression, you see how comfortable I live and how self-disciplined, I find that I really love life!" β
Zhu Rui's qi flew out of his nostrils, gave him a blank look, and didn't answer.
The sneering Chen Zhiyuan had no choice but to add to himself: "How much do you guess how much weight I have lost?" β
Zhu Rui still didn't say anything.
Chen Zhiyuan, who was not praised by the audience as he wished, added boringly and indifferently: "Three months, fifty catties!" β
Zhu Rui parked the car steadily in the garage, turned off the engine, turned his head to meet his expectant eyes, and said:
"Don't worry, in less than half a year, they will come back, and they can give you an extra ten catties."