Chapter 8 It's Time to Heat Up
More than half a month later, the injury on Zhan Yu's face was almost healed, and he went through the discharge procedures. Rigor invited him to "a cafΓ©" and had a serious long talk. Zhan Yu cried bitterly in front of him, and vowed to change his mind and study hard, find a serious job, and never return to Bar Street.
Rigor twisted his eyebrows and looked at Zhan Yu, he really didn't understand where a man got so many tears. But seeing him crying sadly, he was really soft-hearted. I had to light a cigarette and wait patiently, and when he had cried enough, he wiped the tears on his face with a tissue, and then sighed and said, "Anyway, it's going to be summer vacation, or you can come to work with me, and it will save your sister from worrying." β
After placing Zhan Yu, you can be rigorous and make time to find Ji Xiaoou. Parking the car at the door of "Like a Year of Water", he sent a text message to Ji Xiaoou. But Ji Xiaoou was giving a facial massage to a customer, and he waited for 40 minutes before he walked out of the store. As soon as she got in the car, she asked, "Rigorous, what are you doing?" β
"What? How did you remember to ask this question? β
"Zhan Yu told me, you asked him to work in your store, he said that it was a very special place for local tyrants, local tyrants are unheard of, and local tyrants are blinding, so I have to ask, was the treasure that Wei Xiao hid back then, was it dug up by you?"
Rigorous smiled: "You are exalting me too much." As I said, I am a farmer entrepreneur who only knows how to sell chickens, ducks, shrimps and crabs. He took out a golden card from his wallet and handed it to Ji Xiaoou, "Put it away." When you have time, go and see for yourself to see if it is a real tyrant. β
Ji Xiaoou took the card, it was a metal business card, with a pale golden luster, with simple patterns rolling around, and there was still a name in the middle, plus a mobile phone number. She felt the texture of the business card and asked incredulously, "No...... It can't be real gold, right? β
"How is that possible? Who makes business cards out of real gold? Rigorous smiled at her, "18K." β
Ji Xiaoou snorted, pushed the car door and jumped out: "Tu Baozi!" Are you afraid that others will not know that you have money? You can just get a set of golden jade clothes and put them on your body. In the future, tell people that I know you! β
The day falls on Saturday, and it's time for the weekly beauty salon of the "Year of the Water". Ji Xiaoou's beauty salon lasted for more than four months and already had a regular audience. The guest she invited that day was her mother, Zhao Yamin, who took the pulse of customers on the spot as a senior Chinese medicine doctor, so as to tailor a set of meridian beauty treatments that are only suitable for each person.
Of course, the price of this set of treatments is expensive, and the whole set costs tens of thousands, but there are many customers who are willing to pay on the spot. Because Zhao Yamin was born in a family of traditional Chinese medicine and has practiced medicine for many years, her level is still sufficient, she described the internal problems of the customer's body as the first and foremost, and Ji Xiaoou cooperated seamlessly on the side, so that the customer was convinced of the effect of meridian care, and was sure that through a few months of conditioning of the body and face, she would be able to communicate both inside and outside, and completely bid farewell to melasma, acne and wrinkles on the face.
On this side, the business of the "like a flowing year" is booming, but on the other side, the business of the "Xuefu" beauty shop is becoming bleak day by day, and it has obviously reached the point where it is unsustainable, and the sign of "store sublease" is hung at the door.
Ji Xiaoou was only thinking about how to take down the house of the hardware store next door to expand the area of the store, and he didn't notice that strange people often appeared in front of his store, let alone the approaching danger.
The crisis came one day in an unexpected way.
At three o'clock in the afternoon in mid-August, the air on the road was hot and dry, shaking with a layer of white gas like fog but not fog, and the asphalt road was so hot that it seemed to melt. There are very few pedestrians on the road, and there are rarely no customers in the store. After lunch, the store manager Xiaoyun went out with a few bags of garbage, and just pushed open the door, he suddenly screamed, threw down the bag and ran back, shouting as he ran: "The underworld is coming!" Come on! β
Ji Xiaoou was led to the door by this terrible cry, and saw a group of people swarming towards the "Year of Water" from across the road, with a fierce momentum. The leader is a shirtless bald man, with a green dragon with teeth and claws, holding two snow-bright watermelon knives in his hands, followed by all bald heads, holding iron pipes of different lengths in his hands, hitting the ground with iron pipes as he walks, and the sound of clanging makes people's hearts tremble.
Ji Xiaoou's face suddenly turned pale, and after a moment of panic, he immediately understood what was about to happen. She quickly dragged the sofa against the door of the store, and at the same time called out to several beauticians: "Get out of the back door and call the police immediately!" β
Where have the little girls seen this kind of scene, they were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and they ran out without hearing what Ji Xiaoou was saying.
Ji Xiaoou had just kicked the iron box under the cabinet to collect the money, and the gang on the other side had already arrived. The glass of the door made a crisp sound, all shattered, the sofa was knocked aside, and seven or eight men with big shoulders and round waists rushed into the door of the store, raised the iron pipe and smashed it indiscriminately.
Although those people smashed things, no one paid attention to Ji Xiaoou, she could have retreated calmly, but seeing the almost crazy destruction, years of hard work were in vain, her heart was almost dripping blood, without thinking about grabbing the lamp stand of a laser beauty lamp, turning the heavier base upside down to lift it above her head, blocking the product display case in a one-man posture, and shouting: "What are you doing?" β
The man with the watermelon knife pointed at her with a large blade: "Look at you as a woman and don't touch you, get out!" β
Ji Xiaoou sneered: "If you have the courage, greet me!" β
The man rudely shoved her aside: "Get out of the way!" Sensei fucking toast without eating and eating penalty wine! With a knife, all kinds of glass bottles on the display shelves fell to the ground, and Ji Xiaoou got close, splashing a glass ballast on his face.
Ji Xiaoou, who was completely enraged, picked up the lampstand without hesitation and smashed it on the man's shoulder with all his milking strength.
The man was smashed defenselessly, lost his balance under his feet, and sat on the ground with a stumble, pressed the broken glass in his palm, and immediately saw blood. He was furious, jumped up and slashed at Ji Xiaoou with a knife.
Ji Xiaoou hit it successfully, immediately threw down the lampstand, relied on the familiar environment, strode over the obstacles on the floor, rushed into the north room behind the sliding door, and hit the hidden lock with a "bang".
Almost at the same time, the watermelon knife slashed at the door, cutting into the wood and embedded deep into the door panel.
Ji Xiaoou tried her best to calm down, wanting to open the back window to call for help, but she used too much force, her legs trembled at this moment, and she couldn't walk a step against the wall, and she could only hear the sound of the iron pipe slamming on the door panel, so shocked that she couldn't help but raise her hands to cover her ears, as if she couldn't hear this harsh sound, and the danger outside the door was completely non-existent.
I don't know how long it took, the noise of the iron pipe gradually weakened in my ears and disappeared, and then a familiar voice knocked on the door and shouted: "Sister Xiaoou, are you okay?" The police are coming, come out. β
It was the voice of the store manager Xiaoyun.
Ji Xiaoou let go of his hands, but found that his two hands were full of blood at some point. Looking at her body again, her off-white shirt was also covered with blood, and her body suddenly softened in half, and she almost sat on the ground.
The people outside couldn't hear her for a long time, and they didn't know what was going on inside, so they were obviously anxious and began to bang on the door. Ji Xiaoou barely adjusted his breathing, moved over and opened the door.
Xiaoyun stood outside the door, and when she saw her appearance, her mouth was deflated, and she suddenly started crying, crying and shouting: "Boss, I didn't mean to run first, I was frightened......"
Ji Xiaoou said "it's broken", I don't know what the injury has become, maybe he will be disfigured from now on. She frustrated herself and walked to the half-remaining mirror in the doorway to take a look, the blood was half-congealed, flowing down from her hairline, probably scratched by the splashing broken glass. Although the image of the bloody mask is very terrifying, it seems that the wound is not large, and there is no risk of breaking, which brings a heart hanging in the air back to the ground.
The store was in a mess and miserable, everything that could be smashed was smashed, and even the light box signboard at the entrance of the store was poked a few holes.
Three policemen stood in the ruins in the middle of the store, and one of them came over and asked Ji Xiaoou, "Are you the person in charge?" β
Ji Xiaoou nodded.
Another policeman said, "I remember coming here in May and being splashed with red paint, right?" β
Ji Xiaoou nodded again.
The first policeman asked, "Do you know all the people who smashed the store today?" β
He raised his chin towards the door, and Ji Xiaoou saw a subway pipe thrown at the door, but he couldn't see anyone.
She shook her head, "I've never seen them before. β
The policeman said, "Go to the police station and make a record." He glanced at Ji Xiaoou, who was covered in blood, and changed his words, "You can go to the hospital first, and then come to the office when you're done." β
Ji Xiaoou went to the hospital to treat the wound and rushed back to the police station to make a record. The person who asked Ji Xiaoou was a middle-aged policeman in his forties, with a face full of impatience during the burnout period, and his tone was quite unkind. When he repeatedly asked Ji Xiaoou if he knew those people, Ji Xiaoou, who had always been calm, suddenly burst into tears and couldn't hold back his tears.
When everything was over, the fear came up, and the transcript that the police had helped her that day ended here, and she couldn't ask a word again. Ji Xiaoou kept crying, and the police were heartbroken by her crying, so they had to drive her back to the store.
The shop was dark, the girls were gone, the roller shutter door was not drawn, and a chain lock hung from the doorβthe glass of the shop door was shattered, and only a frame remained, and the lock hung there abruptly, and looked even more miserable.
Ji Xiaoou fumbled with the switch and turned on the top light. In the afternoon catastrophe, the lampshade was also broken, and the bright light poured down uncoveredly, and she saw her right hand covered by the switch, the skin on the back of the hand was white and blue, the cyan veins were delicate one by one, the nails were bald, and the knuckles were slightly thick - Ji Xiaoou's hands were not like this before, her fingertips were slender and her nails were crystal pink, which was the mark left on her by several years of beautician life. When she first opened the store, there were only two people in the store, Ji Xiaoou and Xiaoyun, she had to do everything herself, sitting on the beauty stool for ten hours a day, her fingers seemed to have never dried, her skin was soaked white and wrinkled, her fingertips were corroded by countless cosmetic additives, she had contact dermatitis, she molted layer by layer, itched to the heart, but she couldn't apply medicine, and when she closed the store every day, her arms were so sore that she couldn't lift it, and she had to sit and rest for a long time before she had the strength to pull down the roller shutter door and go home.
Ji Xiaoou lowered his eyes and didn't want to look at it anymore, turned off the light, and sat alone in the darkness of a room. A car drove by outside the door, near, and far away, and the light of the headlights filtered through the remains of the gate, temporarily leaving a grid of white squares on the walls, flashing over the ruins of glass that had once been warm and fragrant with nephrite. She remembered a lot of things. Remembering that in this house, Grandma's kindness had added a lot of comfort to her lonely childhood, and remembering that Grandma had told her before she died: "Xiaoou, remember, don't despair easily at any time, the Lord tells us to rejoice in hope and endure in tribulation." β
Another car passed, and in the light of a grid, the shadow of the acacia tree on the side of the road was shaken against the wall. But this time, the white squares seemed to be permanently stationed on the wall, with a blinding brightness, and never moved for half a minute.
Ji Xiaoou, who was in a semi-sleepwalking state, was so shocked that his body bounced and immediately sat up straight. Someone actually came into the store through the door frame, stepped on the crunching glass ballast, and approached her step by step.
Fear widened her eyes, but she couldn't see anything by the glare of the headlights.
The man walked up to her, squatted down, and carefully touched her face with his fingers: "Ji Xiaoou." β
Hearing this voice, Ji Xiaoou felt that his heart suddenly lightened, as if he had lost weight: "Rigorous? Then he covered his eyes with his hand, "I'm about to turn off the headlights, why are you turning on such a big light?" β
Rigor didn't obey, but broke her hand and carefully examined her face with the light behind her. Ji Xiaoou was embarrassed, pushed him away and stood up, hiding his upper body in the dark. She knew how bad she was at the moment: a piece of hair at the hairline was shaved off for stitches, covered with white gauze, and the rest of the hair was tied up in a bunch with a hair ring. The dried blood on the shirt had turned rust-colored, and the black over-the-knee pleated skirt had been scratched at some point, and the torn wound was hanging in a conspicuous place, and the whole person looked like a refugee who had just escaped from a war movie.
Xu saw clearly that although Ji Xiaoou's appearance was embarrassed, her face was safe and sound, and she stood up rigorously, and took out a cigarette and lit it with great peace of mind, "What are you doing?" Redecorating? Can't you make such a big battle? β
was so angry that Ji Xiaoou didn't know how to reply: "You decorate!" Is your home renovated like this? β
nodded rigorously, and there was relief in his voice, and he was particularly kind at this moment: "It's good to be able to scold people, at least it proves that you're okay." Xiaoyun said that you went to the police station and won't come back, but I know that you stupid and bold will come back to take a look. β
Ji Xiaoou was not angry: "When did you hook up with our Xiaoyun?" β
Rigor said: "The last time the gate was splashed with paint, I told Xiaoyun that you are very thin-skinned and don't like to trouble people. If there is anything in the store in the future, call my mobile phone directly, and I will be on call. The little girl was quite obedient and told me in the afternoon. β
Ji Xiaoou was taken aback: "Then you have been waiting here?" β
"Yes, my car was parked on the side of the road, watching the police take you back, but you went in without squinting. I was still here just now, why are you poking here alone? Aren't you afraid that those people will kill them back? β
Ji Xiaoou was not convinced: "Isn't there a policeman?" β
Rigorous approached, his head almost touched Ji Xiaoou's forehead, and looked at her very exaggeratedly: "You haven't been hit in the head, have you?" β
Ji Xiaoou turned his head to avoid his breath mixed with the smell of tobacco, and at the same time vigorously pulled his face away, "I hate it, don't come to this set!" β
"Really, isn't it stupid? How many police forces can a police station have? Every year's big and important cases are not enough for them to be busy, how can you put this little on the agenda? Do you still want the police station to send two bodyguards to protect you? Look at your beauty! This little wound on your head is not even a minor injury. β
Ji Xiaoou was silent, looking quite depressed, because he was telling the truth rigorously. Isn't that the end of the afternoon? According to Xiaoyun, after calling the police, it took another five minutes for a phone call to confirm the address and the actual police. By the time the police car arrived, it had already been 20 minutes after the report had been reported, and everything that could be smashed in the store had already been smashed, and the gang threw down the iron pipe and ran away.
"I've heard you've got into fights? When you encounter that kind of thing, why don't you run quickly, you are a daughter fighting with a master, and you don't lack a heart and eyes? β
"You're missing an eye!" Ji Xiaoou became angry: "They smashed it, the decoration of the store and the new space capsule, I am equal to working for nothing for two years!" β
"How much money can I make in two years? Is your life worth that much money? β
"Come on, pretending to be a big-tailed wolf, do you old man know what folk suffering is?"
Ji Xiaoou was too lazy to say more to him, he felt dizzy and weak when he stood up for a while, and he just wanted to find a place to lie down quickly, and it was okay to lie down if he had no place to lie down.
Rigor here has found the light switch, and under the light, he only feels that Ji Xiaoou's face is very ugly, he put away his hippie smile, and asked seriously: "Shall I send you home?" β
Ji Xiaoou immediately shook his head: "Don't, don't!" I don't want my family to know about the trouble outside, my mother wants to see me like this, she has to instigate me for half a year, and I won't want to open this store again. β
"What then? Why don't we eat first, you haven't eaten, have you? β
"Eat, eat, you just think about eating!" Ji Xiaoou was annoyed and tugged at the shirt on his body, "Where can I go if I'm like this?" Please find a place to help me buy clothes first. β
Strict as in accordance with the holy order, he immediately took her hand: "Hurry up, you can't sleep in this garbage heap tonight, right?" β
This time, Ji Xiaoou did not break free, but obediently let him tow him and sat in the passenger seat. After tossing all afternoon, her nerves were highly excited, and she didn't eat dinner, she was really tired at this time, her scalp was like a cowhide being dried, and the tighter and tighter she kneaded, so that the wound on her forehead began to ache and beat, as if there was a small heart hidden underneath. She closed her eyes tiredly, and tiredness immediately overwhelmed her like a tide.
Rigor wanted to remind her to wear a seat belt, but when she saw her pale face and frowning, she couldn't bear to make a sound, turned around and silently fastened her seat belt. Seeing that a few locks of her hair were stuck to her face with sweat, his right hand moved up and down several times in the air, and the battle between heaven and man in his heart was fierce, and he struggled several times, and finally landed on her sideburns, straightened her hair, and stroked his face by the way.
Ji Xiaoou's eyelids moved, and he wanted to protest but found that he didn't even have the strength to lift his eyelids, so he had to go with him.
Fortunately, the rigorous rubbing of oil was not too much, and after taking advantage of it, he withdrew his hand and honestly put it on the steering wheel.
"Where are we going?" He asked Ji Xiaoou.
Ji Xiaoou let out a vague "um", and there was no follow-up, as if he was asleep.
Rigor took matters into his own hands and drove the car in the direction of Dawang Road. When it comes to shopping in Beijing, I don't know much about it. He buys his own clothes and only keeps an eye on two or three menswear brands, which are convenient, and the slightly larger shopping malls have counters. As for women's clothing, because several ex-girlfriends love Shin Kong Place, he is also most familiar with this place. When he arrived at the place, the car drove into the underground parking lot, parked the car, and heard Ji Xiaoou's breathing evenly, and he had no intention of waking up. Rigor didn't want to wake her up. The underground garage was quite cool, he turned off the air conditioner in the car, opened the roof skylight, and checked whether the door was locked again before leaving, and then left the sleeping Ji Xiaoou and went upstairs alone.
Rigor didn't know anything about women's clothing brands, but remembered that his former model girlfriend loved to buy a "Y" brand here, and it looked good when he wore it, so he went straight to this counter.
Shopping guides generally have the ability to never forget, see rigorous, come up and call "Mr. Yan" sweetly, I heard that it is to buy clothes for his girlfriend, the attitude is more and more diligent, and I recommend a few models between the words and colors, and I think it is good.
The shopping guide asked, "Is it okay if your girlfriend doesn't try it herself?" β
Rigorous sighed and said: "The natural clothes rack, do you still need to try?" Let me tell you, there are only two types of girls in this world, one is those who look good in everything, and the other is those who can't buy suitable clothes when they are old. β
"Yes, yes, you're right." The shopping guide couldn't help but smile and asked, "Is Sanwei still 88, 63, and 89?" β
She's talking about rigorous ex-girlfriend data. Rigorous quickly corrected: "No, no, this one is 174 tall and has a waist circumference of about 66." β
The height of 174 is the result of his many visual inspections of Ji Xiaoou. And the waist circumference of 66 cm came from the hug he and Ji Xiaoou received in exchange for a slap in the second meeting.
The shopping guide half-opened his mouth, said "oh" a few times, looked like he suddenly realized, and then went to get him clothes with a smile on his face. In the end, he chose a peacock blue shirt with a small pointed collar and sleeves that were the most popular three-quarter bat sleeves for women's clothing of the year, and the entire shoulders were connected by transparent tulle of the same color. The pants are recommended by the shopping guide, a pair of soft black wide-leg pants.
He answered a phone call while he was paying. The call was made by Xu Zhiqun, saying that several ruffians who smashed Ji Xiaoou's beauty shop in the afternoon had been found, and when the police station completed the procedure, Ji Xiaoou could be asked to identify people.
Rigor said: "Hey, hey, you people's police also have times when they solve cases quickly?" It's not that you have a problem with your ability, but because you have a problem with your attitude. β
Xu Zhiqun laughed dryly: "Don't be cheap and behave, now I owe a favor to the bureau, and I have to pay it back sooner or later." Tell your little lover that you will be so desperate in the future, and if you are mixed on the street, you must always leave a way for people to live. β
"Yes, yes, yes." Rigorously replied, "I must tell her that you have to be forgiving and forgiving." β
hung up the phone, and slowly carried the shopping bag back to the underground garage. Unexpectedly, Ji Xiaoou had already woken up, and was approaching the dashboard to look for the central control switch everywhere, trying to break through the car, and there was a security guard standing next to him, smirking like looking at a diorama.
Leaning on the car window and laughing at her: "The key is in my hand, it's not so easy for you to escape from prison." β
Ji Xiaoou raised his face, his head was full of sweat, and he glared at him angrily: "Open the door quickly, I want to go to the bathroom." β
Rigor laughed, then took out the key and opened the door. Ji Xiaoou got out of the car and ran towards the mall almost at a speed of 100 meters.
When she came back from the bathroom, her face was full of unhappiness: "Look at the way those people look at me, isn't my sister just dressed a little sloppily today?" Only respect Luo shirts and not people, vulgar! β
looked her up and down rigorously, and didn't dare to laugh if she wanted to laugh. Ji Xiaoou's current image is more than a little sloppy? The toilet cleaner didn't take her as a garbage picker, and it was polite to blast her out.
He presented the shopping bag as if offering a treasure: "You hurry up and find a place to change your clothes." β
Ji Xiaoou caught a glimpse of the "YSL" logo on the paper bag, and cried out repeatedly: "My mother, did you actually buy this brand and make me bankrupt?" β
"I will not let you pay for you."
"Then I don't dare to ask for it. Where in the world is there a free lunch? Nothing to do, either a traitor or a thief, in the future I will repay, maybe more expensive than this suit. β
This change is not pleasant: "Do you have anything else in your heart besides money?" Why is everything so awkward to you? I give the girl I like something, am I still waiting to earn it back from you? Are you vulgar or not? β
Ji Xiaoou was opening the soft paper packaging in the paper bag, a woman's love for Chinese clothes may be born from her bones, her attention immediately shifted to the clothes, but her mouth did not suffer: "People like you, it's hard to say." β
Seeing the style of the shirt clearly, she gasped: "Rigorous, this is your taste?" β
"Ah, what's wrong?"
"Thetete is vulgar!"
"No matter how vulgar it is, it's better than the clothes you usually wear, and you dress like a virgin every day, do you think it's interesting?"
"What did you say?" Ji Xiaoou raised his eyes, and the fierce light in his eyes didn't look like he was pretending, "What you just said is rigorous, I didn't hear it clearly." β
Rigorously sensitive to the fact that today is not the day to joke. Ji Xiaoou had already recovered from the shock of the afternoon, thinking of the loss in the store, he was about to find a place to release his anger, no matter who hit her target at this time, what was waiting for him behind him would be the fury of thunder.
He quickly shifted her attention: "Are you hungry?" Let's find a place to eat, shall we? β
Ji Xiaoou was really fooled and withdrew his vicious gaze, but his tone was still vicious: "Don't eat!" β
"Don't, isn't it just that the store was smashed? What a big deal! My shop was also smashed, and I didn't eat and sleep as well. β
"Do you think everyone is as heartless as you?" Ji Xiaoou opened the black trousers as he spoke, and immediately sighed, "Yo, these pants surprise me so much, I thought that according to your taste, you should buy a small pair of hot pants." β
Rigor said: "I know that your two legs are good-looking, you can show me alone from now on, and you can't let other men take advantage of this in vain." β
Ji Xiaoou's whole face wrinkled into a bun: "Rigorous, do you want to be shameless?" β
"You can't have a face, you can't skip the meal, let's eat first? Sensei shook his head, even if it was for me, could it be done? I'm already dizzy from hunger. After eating, I'll take your breath out for you. β
Ji Xiaoou didn't say anything, so she thought she was acquiescing, and began to bang the throttle and prepare to go. Suddenly heard Ji Xiaoou snort: "You are angry for me? Sensei blows! Do you know who did it? Can you find those people? β
Rigor glanced back at her: "If it wasn't for the wife of your first love to knock on the door, then it would be a possibility, think about whose business you are blocking?" The beauty shop on the other side of the street, right? Can't find a melon along this vine? β
"Yo ......" Ji Xiaoou was in awe, "You are really clear in your heart!" β
"That's it! What kind of person am I, sister, you have been messing with my brother for a few years, and you have learned. β
Since the accident in the afternoon, Ji Xiaoou laughed for the first time: "Look at this person, you are really panting when you say that you are fat." β
Strict face is quite unbearable: "I said, you are polite to me, can we be harmonious?" β
"Done! Of course! But you have to promise me one thing. β
"What's the matter?"
"Don't play hooligan with me in the future. It doesn't matter to me whether you like men or women, but don't always pretend to like me, okay? β
"What do you mean by pretending? I really like you! β
Ji Xiaoou wailed: "What do you like about me? Say it, I'll change it! Can't I change it? β
Rigorously and triumphantly laughed: "It's late!" It's really late! β
He drove the car out of the underground parking lot, and had no idea where to go next, so he asked Ji Xiaoou: "Where to eat, have you thought about it?" Otherwise, I'll decide. β
Ji Xiaoou didn't answer him, put his forehead against the car window, sighed faintly, his eyes began to redden, and he reached the tip of his nose: "Why am I so unpopular?" In such a big deal, no one can discuss it. β
Yan Yan slapped his chest with one free hand: "Isn't there me?" β
"You?" Ji Xiaoou pouted, "What can you help me?" All you think about is eating! Speaking of this, her voice suddenly choked, and her eyes instantly filled with tears, "What did I do wrong?" That's how they treat me? β
Speaking of which, Ji Xiaoou really doesn't have many opportunities to show weakness in front of others. When I was a child, my parents were not around and there was no place to be coquettish, and then my parents returned to Beijing but they were busy with work and couldn't take care of the housekeeper, she hung the house key around her neck every day, and she did laundry and cooking when she came home from school, and even the gas tank at home was responsible for finding someone to change, as for what water pipe burst, the light bulb was suffocated, not to mention the small things such as the light bulb, she has been the image of the family since she was a child, so she will not be coquettish, and she is not good at showing weakness.
Rigor immediately panicked, he was afraid of seeing the woman cry. As soon as he saw Ji Xiaoou's tears, he felt his heart crackle and shatter into several pieces. After being stunned for a long time, he said: "Don't cry, don't cry, let others see it, and think I'm doing something to you!" Aren't you just about to expand the faΓ§ade and redecorate? It also costs money to demolish the original decoration, so you should hire someone to demolish the decoration, can't you? Seeing that Ji Xiaoou didn't have any special reaction, he stretched out his arm and put his arm around Ji Xiaoou's shoulder, wanting to hug the person into his arms. The first time he didn't move, and the second time he succeeded, Ji Xiaoou leaned on him softly, tilting his head and leaning on his shoulder.
The muscles on Yan Yan's shoulders immediately stiffened, and he didn't dare to move while holding the shelf, for fear that Ji Xiaoou would not be very comfortable.
Ji Xiaoou leaned on his shoulder and cried for a long time, still crying silently, only strings of tears crackled and fell, and each teardrop seemed to hit the tip of Rigorous's heart, making him tremble as if he was electrified.
She was almost crying, and she wiped her tears with her fingers: "Okay, okay, it's almost over, let's lose the battle, don't let the people who smashed your store see the jokes." β
If the last sentence had a miraculous effect, Ji Xiaoou immediately held back his tears, sobbed for a moment and came back to his senses, pushed away and sat up straight like an electric shock. I found a tissue from my bag, pulled off the mirror above my head, carefully wiped the tears on my face in front of the mirror, cleaned my nose, and then muttered: "I'm hungry, I want to eat, I want to find a place to take a shower and change clothes, I don't want to see people in this embarrassment, and I don't want to go home to see my parents, for fear of frightening them." β
This is a bit too high, and after thinking about it rigorously, he hesitated to make a suggestion that sounded ill-intentioned: "Otherwise, go to my place, we can order a few dishes from outside." If you want, you can also spend the night there, the bed will be given to you, I will sleep on the sofa, and then go home when you are emotionally stable. β
Ji Xiaoou paused for a few seconds, and then asked, "You live alone?" β
"Yes."
"Will someone rush in and smack me in the mouth and scold me as a vixen?"
"Hehe, I promise not." Rigor began to brag, "The girls I fancy are very sensible, not so petty." β
"I know," Ji Xiaoou said coldly, "In your eyes, to swallow your anger is to be sensible!" β
"In your eyes, I'm not doing anything right." Rigorously pretended to be aggrieved, "I said Ji Xiaoou, did you lack love when you were a child?" Why else is it so psychologically gloomy? β
", you only have five elements and lack love!"
Rigorous and not humble: "My biggest problem is not a lack of love, but being handsome." If people are too handsome, there are a lot of troubles, and the women who chase me can circle around the two, but I just let you squeeze right here, what kind of spirit is this? This is a fearless spirit of self-sacrifice, just to save a girl like you who was lacking calcium when she was a child and grew up lacking love......"
Ji Xiaoou snorted: "It's shameless! I've never seen anyone more shameless than you since I've grown up. After I got to know you, I realized that shamelessness can also look so three-dimensional and three-dimensional! β
It has never been Ji Xiaoou's opponent to be strict in fighting, because he will feel sorry for Ji Xiaoou, afraid that she will be thin-skinned and can't stand it, but Ji Xiaoou has no scruples about hurting him, so the two of them have decided to win or lose before they make a move. He sighed: "Sister sharp, it's so sharp!" But it's just for me. With such a sharp mouth, why are you afraid that your mother is afraid like a mouse seeing a cat? β
Ji Xiaoou immediately stopped talking, and it seemed that he wanted to say something, but he couldn't say anything. As he spoke, the car had turned onto the westbound road. She knocked on the car window to change the subject: "This is going to your house?" β
"Yes, if you change your mind, say it quickly, I never force others, especially women."
Ji Xiaoou muttered: "Pretending to be real." β
"It's true."
"Go, I've never seen anything more fake than you."
The strict residence is different from ordinary people, and when you look at it from the door, all the furniture looks like it is one size bigger. In the living room of more than 60 square meters, there is only a huge gray velvet sofa on the black and white floor tiles, and a super-large LCD TV is hung on the opposite wall, and there is not even a TV cabinet. Ji Xiaoou had the illusion of walking into a miniature opera house.
The only furnishings that do not match the style of the living room are a stained glass screen at the entrance, painting the story of the birth of Christ in the Bible, the texture is crystal clear, Ji Xiaoou's eyes can't help but linger for a moment, thinking of his beauty shop, if such a screen can be placed at the door, it can immediately add a lot of color. She couldn't help but ask, "This screen is expensive, isn't it?" β
Rigor said casually while closing the door: "A friend sent it, saying that it is not in line with feng shui for me to enter the door and see the hall here, so I put it there to cover it." Do you like it? Take it if you like it. β
"Just ask, who likes to take your things?"
Rigorous changed his shoes, threw the car keys into a blue and white porcelain plate on the entrance cabinet, and was about to sit on the sofa to relieve the sore spine, when he suddenly found that there was something more in the corner. He blinked, then looked intently, yes, not him, three Louis Vuitton suitcases of different sizes were neatly laid out there. He stood up and rushed into the bedroom, and at that moment he completely understood what it meant to "become a prophecy" and what it meant to "go up the mountain for a long time and eventually meet a tiger".
The bedroom is lit up, the TV is on, and someone is sitting cross-legged on his big bed, holding a cigarette in one hand and a wine glass in the other, wearing his striped pajamas, watching TV while sipping wine, looking as if he is sitting at the head of his own bed.
Rigor could barely believe his eyes: "How did you get in?" β
The man smiled at him, a young and pretty girl, "You forgot, you gave me the key." β
Rigor suddenly took a wrong half breath, but quickly adjusted: "I gave you a good one, but there is a period of time, right?" Do you know that it is outdated? β
"Yanzi, are you so stingy?" The girl jumped out of bed, with a small mouth, like fried green beans in an iron pot, and there was no room for him to interject. "You told me, you'll wait for me to come back. Now that I'm back, aren't you happy? I thought about it for a long time, I think I still love you, I believe you love me very much, I just looked back and forth in your house, and no other women have come since I left, at least not cohabiting, right? Then we still have a foundation for starting over. In fact, even if you have other women, I think it's understandable, men, physiological needs, I understand, as long as you change your ways in the future, I won't delve into it. She spoke very deeply, and it could be seen that her attitude was quite serious, and she really showed her full mind and unreservedly.
The girl's name is Shen Kaiyan, and she is a strict ex-girlfriend, a new fashion model, very young, more than ten years younger than him. In all fairness, Rigor still likes her, even if she has a bad habit of smoking and drinking, she can tolerate it. There is only one thing, rigor is unbearable. He has never been able to understand what is the direct relationship between the career development of models and eating and drinking? And most of them are middle-aged men with fat brains. Rigor can't stand it, even if she looks like a fairy daughter, he has to endure the pain of love.
It's been almost half a year since the breakup, and she suddenly reappeared without warning, not only with back pain, but also with a pain in her head.
Facing her expectant gaze, Rigor had to be ruthless and tell the truth: "You don't dig deeper, but I have to remember, Shen Kaiyan, what about the big director who told you to promise to let you play the female number one?" I'm still waiting to see the day when you will become more popular than the 'Double Ice Four Dan'. Don't let people lose both people and money, only to remember me again, right? β
"Yanzi, don't be so fierce to me." Shen Kaiyan pursed his lips, and there were big tears streaming down his cheeks, "I figured it out, as long as you treat me well, it doesn't matter if people all over the world treat me badly, I ......"
Her voice suddenly stopped, and she looked behind her, her lips opened and closed a few times, but she didn't make a sound.
As soon as he turned around, he saw Ji Xiaoou leaning against the bedroom door with his arms crossed, looking at the two of them thoughtfully. She was still wearing the blood-drenched clothes, no wonder Shen Kaiyan was shocked and speechless.
Although Ji Xiaoou looked embarrassed, he didn't mean to be ashamed of himself. Seeing Rigor Panicked's expression, she smiled without warning, and the smile was cold behind Rigor Rigor Smile, "You have guests here, so I won't bother." Then she smiled at Shen Kaiyan again, and Shen Kaiyan changed color slightly, "The night is still long, the two of you are chatting slowly, you are in a hurry." β
Yan hurriedly passed: "Ji Xiaoou, you wait for a while, I'll explain to you later, you...... You...... You wait for me to finish this one. β
Ji Xiaoou taunted him as he walked towards the gate: "Broken mirror reunion, isn't that what happened?" Everyone tacitly knows, what is there to explain? β
Rigor caught up with him, looking anxious: "I said can you shake your cleverness anytime and anywhere?" Give me a chance to explain, okay? You sit, you sit, I let her go, okay? β
Before the words fell, Shen Kaiyan in the bedroom cried out: "Rigorous, you don't talk much, are you still a gentleman?" β
Hearing the cry, the rigorous footsteps hesitated. To say that the only nemesis in this life is the tears of women, and when a woman cries, he softens his heart. Shen Kaiyan used to be such a beautiful and proud girl, and she must have encountered some difficulties that she couldn't get over, so she would come back to him. Although he didn't have the slightest intention of continuing the front edge, he would never be able to do such a thing as sweeping the floor.
Taking advantage of his hesitation, Ji Xiaoou had already opened the door and walked out, pressing the downward button of the elevator. Rigorous "snorted" and chased after him again: "Ji Xiaoou, you stop me!" β
Ji Xiaoou entered the elevator and pressed "1" involuntarily. Rigorous stretched out his foot to block the elevator: "You come down, let's make it clear that you will go again." He was so anxious that beads of sweat broke out on his forehead.
Seeing his anxious white face, Ji Xiaoou laughed instead: "Rigorous, did you get the wrong object?" Shouldn't you be the one in your house who should explain? β
"I have nothing to do with her now!"
"I have nothing to do with you now."
Ji Xiaoou pushed Rigor out hard, the elevator door closed, and when the elevator went down, she could still hear Rigor Voice coming down from above: "If you are jealous, don't look for this kind of aged dry vinegar to eat......"
Ji Xiaoou shouted at it: "Who the is jealous of you?" Don't feel too good about yourself! β
Walking out of the apartment door, she was furious, inexplicably angry. The strict Land Rover stopped next to the sidewalk in the community, and when she passed by, she deliberately raised her leg and kicked it hard. It happened that a black "Infiniti" happened to pass by, and the driver deliberately slowed down and looked at her several times, but she didn't pay attention.
She walked out of the gate of the community, stopped a taxi, and the moment she opened the door in the driver's surprised gaze, she remembered the vicious kick just now, and her heart couldn't help but pounce. Then I remembered my performance tonight, and suddenly I felt a feeling of blushing and heartbeat. The moment she saw Shen Kaiyan, she seemed to have been slapped on the head, dizzy and lost her middle level, and behaved like a jealous girlfriend in love.
Ji Xiaoou covered her face* and said, she seemed to be really jealous, for a guy whose sexual orientation is still unknown and the peach blossoms are constant, this thing is a bit too crazy!
Ji Xiaoou returned home, pushed open the door and a pair of sword-like eyes shot straight over, there was no way to avoid it, she looked at her mother for three seconds: "Mom......"
Zhao Yamin stared at the gauze on her head, her eyes were like torches: "How did you get it?" Got into a conflict with a customer? β
Ji Xiaoou reluctantly raised the corner of his mouth: "How could it be?" I accidentally bumped into the corner of the cabinet. Mom, I'm tired all day today, I don't want to talk, so I went to sleep first. β
She walked around the dining table and was about to enter her room, but was stopped by Zhao Yamin: "Ji Xiaoou, you stop for me!" β
The voice was so loud that Ji Zhaolin was startled, he poked his head out of the study, and was also startled when he saw Ji Xiaoou's appearance: "Yo, Xiaoou, what's the matter?" β
Ji Xiaoou was still stiff-mouthed: "The corner of the cabinet hit." β
"Nonsense! How did the skirt get torn? Also the cabinet hit? Zhao Yamin obviously didn't believe it, but the ghost believed it, "I just said, your store will have something happen sooner or later, and all the cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods will lead to the store, and there is no serious person." β
Ji Xiaoou stood under the bright fluorescent lamp, being watched by his parents' two pairs of concerned eyes, and he was almost out of sight in ragged clothes, and suddenly sadness came from it, and he cried "wow", crying and shouting: "My store was smashed, and it was all smashed, do you know?" You don't know how hard it is for me to be outside, but you know that it's disgusting to me every day. Would you be glad if I had someone hacked to death today? Why didn't you throw me in the toilet and flush me down the drain in the first place? β
Seeing her crying, Zhao Yamin was originally very distressed, but when she heard the last two sentences, she was angry enough, and said to her wife: "Listen to it, is this what people say?" If she doesn't get angry with me, she won't be reconciled! β
Ji Zhaolin hurriedly pushed her into the bedroom: "You rest for a while, I'll come, I'll come." β
When the father and daughter of the Ji family face each other, they can still communicate normally calmly. Listening to Ji Xiaoou sobbing and choking on the incident, Ji Zhaolin didn't say much, and only said to Ji Xiaoou: "Things are already like this, let's admit that we are unlucky." If you don't want to open a store, you can change your major and take a graduate exam, and if you still want to open a store, your parents don't have enough money to add it to you. But Xiaoou, your temper has to change, it's not as good as at home outside, take a step back and open the sky, and you have to leave some way back for yourself when you do things. β
Ji Xiaoou was not convinced: "I did it above board, it is normal business competition, what's wrong?" Why are they smashing my store? If the police don't care about me, I'll go to court, and I can't let them smash it for nothing. You are always like this, no matter what happened to me outside since I was a child, there was no comfort at all when I came home, and I was only asked to examine myself first. β
Ji Zhaolin had no choice but to touch her hair: "Let's sleep first, and we'll talk about it later." β
At night, Ji Xiaoou slept very unsteadily. There was a wound on her head, so she could only lie flat in a sleeping position, and as soon as she closed her eyes, she saw a snowy watermelon knife cut down on her head, and it was easy to feel a little sleepy, but from time to time she was pulled out of sleep by the sharp pain in the scalp. It wasn't until the second half of the night that I was finally confused, and I was awakened by a thumping vibration.
Ji Xiaoou opened his eyes in a cold sweat, reluctantly switched from a sleeping state to a half-asleep state, and after looking for the sound source for a long time, he found that it was the mobile phone set to vibrate on the bedside table. She touched it and put it in her ear, and said "hey" vaguely.
A voice with a hard tongue came from his ear: "You...... You...... Still angry? β
Ji Xiaoou woke up suddenly, held up the phone in front of his eyes and looked at it, the screen was the name of Rigorous, and the time at the top was 02:32. She immediately remembered the scene when she appeared in front of his ex-girlfriend in rags, and couldn't help but be angry: "Are you sick? Do you know what time it is? Angry? What am I angry about? What does all that you have to do with me? β
Rigor is obviously drunk, with a big tongue, and he can't speak well: "Ji ...... Season...... Ji Xiaoou, I'm ...... I'll ...... you I'll tell you......"
Because he was disturbed by his sleep, Ji Xiaoou was so angry that he used the words quite politely: "You drank too much and asked me to sober up, right?" Do you know that I hate men the most about going crazy with alcohol? Do you know that I hate being harassed while sleeping? I'm telling you, you're about to take all the things I hate the most. I hate you know don't know? β
Rigor didn't speak for a long time before he said: "Ji Xiaoou, I've been chasing you for so long, it's just a stone...... It's time to heat up, so you don't feel anything? Through the phone, the rigorous voice was sometimes clear and sometimes vague, as if it carried a little bit of bitterness.
Ji Xiaoou's body seemed to have a weak string buzzing somewhere, she was stunned for a moment, and suddenly became irritable again: "I won't reply to such a nonsense question at two o'clock in the middle of the night, you wash and sleep, I'll turn off the phone." β
She pressed the hang-up button, turned off the phone, buried her head in her knees, sat in an extremely uncomfortable position for a long time, suddenly sighed heavily, fell straight on the bed, and pulled the towel to cover her head and face.
Because of the temporary closure of the "Year of Flowing Water", Ji Xiaoou has no place to go, and it is rare to be idle. The next day, she slept with her head covered until 10 a.m., had lunch, and then lay back on the bed and continued to squint until a phone call woke her up.
The phone call came from the police station, saying that there was progress in the case and asking her to come to the police station as soon as possible.
Ji Xiaoou jumped out of bed and washed his face and combed his hair, found a silk scarf as a hairband to tie on the top of his head, covering the gauze at the wound, and then took a taxi to rush over. Waiting for the driver to find money to make a ticket, she noticed a black Audi parked at the door of the police station, because there was no license plate, Ji Xiaoou subconsciously took a few more looks. The front and rear windows of the Audi were covered with sunshade film, and nothing could be seen inside.
When she pushed the car door and got out of the car, the back door of the Audi also opened, and a chubby man in his thirties walked towards her.
"Are you Ji Xiaoou?" The man asked.
He wore a pinstriped square-neck T-shirt worn by men most frequently in the system, and his face, eyes, nose and mouth all seemed to be drawn from a compass, like Da Fu holding a carp in a New Year's painting. β
The man smiled: "I'm a strict buddy, I've been waiting for you here for a long time." β
Ji Xiaoou said "oh", this person's voice is so special, clear and pleasant, full of magnetism, just like Zhang Hongmin in "News Network". She laughed: "I know, you are 'New Light World'." β