Chapter 41: First Encounter (2)
Chen Ran
Guo Kai got married, most of the things in the company fell on me, and the construction of the new plant was nearing completion, and I had to run the industrial park to preside over related matters at the end of three days.
Xiaojuan's plane arrived in C City at 5 o'clock today, I was going to pick her up, but I had no choice but to accept the new plant in the industrial park, thinking that the administrative department was responsible for picking up and dropping off guests, and I would arrange it properly, so I didn't care, and I didn't go home until dinner.
It was eight o'clock in the evening when I got home, and when I saw the suitcase placed at the door, I knew that Xiaojuan had arrived. I was about to ask her if she had had dinner, but I heard the sound of water in the bathroom, I shouted twice, and she replied, "Chen Ran, I'm taking a bath." If you still have any leftovers in the kitchen, you can just warm it up. I've eaten it. β
I promised to go into the kitchen, and when I saw half a plate of scrambled eggs with tomatoes on the table and some rice in the pot, I simply poured a piece and made a plate of egg fried rice to deal with. At this time, Xiaojuan had already walked out, her wet hair was sticking to the white nightgown, and she was dripping with water drop by drop, so I picked up the towel on the sofa and helped her wipe it.
"Yo, did our Mr. Chen do something wrong today?" Xiaojuan glanced at me, "You have such a good attitude, and you took the initiative to help me wipe my hair, I have never seen you be so careful with me"
The hand that wiped her hair stopped, and I looked at her and said, "Yes, you have to say that you have some bad motive for doing it," and threw the towel to her, "Wipe it yourself, I'm eating"
Hearing what I said, Xiaojuan smiled softly, took the towel, and sat down opposite me, "Just kidding, a big man is still so stingy" Nunu mouthed, "I haven't asked why you didn't come to pick me up, and I didn't get home so late, I originally wanted you to take me to the restaurant, but as a result, I didn't say anything about eating alone, and I didn't even get a meat star" said that he glanced at me with hatred, and his face was full of unwillingness.
"Hey, didn't I tell you, I've been crazy all this time" I swallowed a mouthful of food, "Guo Kai, this kid is the most married, and he goes to accompany her little friend all day long, and he can't see a single figure, I have to do everything, am I easy?" Suddenly remembering something, I asked, "Didn't the company arrange dinner for the guests?" What's the matter, I didn't notify you to go? β
"The little girl told me that I didn't want to go" Xiaojuan wrapped her wet hair tightly with a towel, "Dinner is arranged in the hotel, and I didn't live there, and it was more than six o'clock when I got home, so I was too lazy to go"
"Little girl? Who" I frowned, a vague premonition in my heart.
Xiaojuan glanced at me and said casually, "Li Yue'er, didn't you see it in County D last time?" You said it was a coincidence that she came to pick me up today."
My heart sank, why did the administration department arrange Yue'er to be responsible for the pick-up and drop-off? During this time, I often went outside, and I spent very little time in the company, and the administration department was responsible for the logistics of Guo Kai's wedding preparations, which was reassuring, and I didn't ask too much. It's just that this Wang Hao, obviously promised to let Yue'er be mainly responsible for the writing work last time, why did Yue'er go outside again when he turned around? Especially picking up and dropping off guests, it is a tiring errand, and it is thankless if I am not careful, not to mention that with Yue'er's position in my heart, I really don't want her to have anything to do with Xiaojuan. Although Yue'er never mentioned a word in front of me about the last air ticket, she didn't necessarily mind it at all based on her reaction afterwards. And today she actually picked up Xiaojuan, what would she think, whether she would face embarrassment and discomfort, after all, my relationship with her brother and sister everyone tacitly understood that Xiaojuan would not know, even if this trip was not sad and uncomfortable, at least it would not be a happy thing, but she did not say a word from beginning to end. If Xiaojuan hadn't talked about it, I wouldn't have realized it. Thinking of this, I couldn't bear it in my heart, but because Xiaojuan was inconvenient to ask more questions in front of me, I only answered vaguely and stopped talking.
Xiao Juan's voice didn't stop, "Hey, Chen Ran, what do you think of Li Yue'er?" β
My hand holding the chopsticks couldn't help but stop, and I looked up at her in confusion, "What's how?" Why is this question so strange to you, and how can it be answered? β
"What's weird, didn't you say that she performed very well in the company before, I think that although she doesn't talk much on the surface, she is not simple in her heart, pretending to have a belly!" Xiaojuan got up and sat on the sofa in the living room, "Come pick me up today, she also prepared food." I said it was time for dinner, and I was worried that I was hungry or something. You know that I have always hated those who have nothing to do, isn't there a saying, nothing to be courteous, either a traitor or a thief, I always feel that she is trying to please me, and annoys her for no reason" Xiaojuan pursed her lips, as if she was very impatient.
My hand froze, frowned, and said: "You women are really strange, people didn't offend you, and they were kind to eat and drink well, and they actually recruited you to provoke you, and now this good person is really difficult to be."
"Hmph, Chen Ran, I didn't wronged her for no reason" Xiao Juan took a cushion and leaned behind her, lazily flattening her body, "You know what? Some time ago, I went to Lingshui Temple with a friend, and I met a strange old man at the gate of the temple, and I was asked to tell my fortune, you know I didn't believe in this, I don't know what happened that day, the ghost made the god send, I was actually moved by him, and I really listened to him say a few words."
"You are still a national cadre, and you believe in the nonsense of fortune telling." I scoffed, "Don't you know that there are more liars at the gate of the temple, beware of being deceived and counting money for others!" β
"Hey, I'm not done yet, why did you knock over a boatload of people with one shot! Parochial! Xiaojuan sat up suddenly, glanced at me and said, "Someone charged me ninety yuan, if he is really a slander, can ninety yuan let me get out?" I'm playing mahjong and I'm not counting that! β
I disagreed: "It doesn't matter if he's ninety or ninety, I don't believe it anyway!" It's not boring enough to do it! β
"Chen Ran, what are you doing after you ate gunpowder today, deliberately choking me, right?" Xiaojuan seemed a little annoyed, and ripped off the towel wrapped around her head, "Can I talk to you in the future?" I've come all the way here, and I'm here to listen to you? β
Seeing that she was anxious, I also realized that my attitude was indeed a little impatient, so I stood up and walked over to her and sat down, "Okay, okay, okay, why are you in a hurry again, it's me who is not good, it's me who is not good, I apologize, okay?" Come, come, come and listen, what did the old man say? β
Xiaojuan turned around hatefully, still wanting to have a seizure, but finally dissipated her anger under the comfort of my kind words. Only then did Masashi say, "Do you know what that old man told me? He said that I will commit a villain this year, beware of a third party interfering in the marriage, and told me to jail you! Hmph" looked at me with a smile after speaking.
I couldn't help but be stunned, Xiaojuan's words hit my heart like a wake-up call, making me a little flustered. I leaned back, closed my eyes and pretended to be calm, "This old man, what nonsense, I'm afraid the world won't be chaotic," turned to look at her, and said tentatively, "Could it be that you still believe it?" β
Xiao Juan stared at my eyes without saying a word, as if she wanted to see through all the ups and downs under my eyelids, and smiled slightly for a long time, "I didn't believe it at first, but you don't know, that old man said it so bluntly that I couldn't make up my mind." Her tone slowed down with an unpredictable meaning, and I suddenly opened my eyes and looked at her, "What do you mean by that?" If you have something to say, don't learn from the fortune-telling god to make a fool of yourself. β
Xiaojuan crossed her legs on the sofa and approached me, "He said that you are destined to commit peach blossoms this year, and this peach blossom seems to have a deep relationship with you, as if it was entangled in your previous life, saying that the peach blossom is by your side, eighty percent of them are known at work, numerology seems to be not very old, single, and the most important thing, the old man said, that peach blossom and you are the same phase!" In other words, this year is also her natal year! Xiaojuan turned to me, "You know that all fortune tellers love to be big and turn them into big things, and they can only excuse themselves by listening to people in the clouds, but when I heard him say it in such detail, I was not afraid of slapping my face, so I couldn't help but feel it." β
"You know, you're thousands of miles away from me now, and I haven't been by your side for a year and a half, and I'm really not at ease with you" Xiao Juan glanced at me meaningfully, "So, I just listened to him nag a few more words." Later, he gave me three peach blossom chops, oh, that's it," Xiao Juan took the bag and opened it, handed me something that looked like a brown wooden sign, and continued, "Say one to hang on your bedside, and the other one, if you meet a woman who meets the characteristics he said, try to give them one, so that you can effectively remove those rotten peach blossoms." After Xiaojuan finished speaking, she smiled, as if everything was under control, full of fighting spirit and belief in victory.
I took the peach blossom chop, only to see the brown wooden card in the center of the eye-catching carved Tai Chi gossip pattern, around a circle of hollow tangled branches of peach blossoms, around a sword-like pattern looming, tied to a small gourd, look at it can not see anything else, but there are doubts in the bottom of the heart gradually accumulated. I frowned and stared at the wooden sign in her hand, "What a weird-looking thing, so mysterious, I see, he probably sells this worthless wooden sign in a different way, you see, three, one thirty, exactly ninety" I lit the wooden card in her hand, and suddenly stopped, "Why are there only two, and there is one?" β
Xiao Juan looked at me and smiled weirdly, with a look of ambition on her face, "Hehe, you didn't expect it, Chen Ran, I really found someone who matched what the old man said, and gave this peach blossom away."
The ominous premonition in my heart invaded quickly and violently, and the hand holding the wooden card gradually clenched hard, and I asked quietly in Xiaojuan's smug expression, "Who?" β
Xiaojuan was still immersed in her own mental wandering, and blurted out, "That's that Li Yue'er!" Hmph, no wonder I feel uncomfortable when I see her. After a few inquiries, she actually matched what the old man said word for word, do you know Chen Ran, she is 24 years old this year, and she is also a horse, just like you; She's not in a relationship yet, she's single, and she's in the administration department, isn't that if she's by your side? Hmph, remember the last time we went to County D? I realized at that time that she didn't look at you right, and eighty percent of them had already started to beat you up at that time. Tsk, young girls nowadays, do everything for money, you are single, and you are the boss of the company, and your wife is not around, you are not a big fat piece for them, you can figure out how to get it all day......"
"Enough!" Xiao Juanwu was so self-absorbed that I stood up with a snort and interrupted her, so loud that I was startled. "How can you do that?! What did Xiao Li do wrong?! It's ridiculous that you curse people like this because of a few words of nonsense from that stinky old man who jumped out of nowhere! Ridiculous! I actually pointed at Xiaojuan and said the last few words.
As if she didn't expect me to react so much, Xiao Juan looked at me in a daze, as if staring at a monster she didn't know, her face gradually froze with a layer of frost, and said coldly, "Chen Ran, we have been married for almost ten years, and it is the first time you have lost such a temper with me." β
The anger in her chest did not go out, but it was even more fueled by her cold words, "We have been married for almost ten years, and now I think you are becoming more and more naΓ―ve and ridiculous!" The words in his mouth fell like a jade plate, and broken beads erupted, "How long have you been in contact with Ren Xiao Li?" Do you know her? Do you know what kind of person she is? With just a few words of fortune-telling, you sentenced people to death? It's not enough to sentence the death penalty, but also to insult others with such a degraded thing? Oh, how did you get this thing into people's hands? Xiao Li, she still accepts? Eighty percent of them made up some nice lies to make people believe it, right? Didn't you say she was shrewd and cunning? I think you're better than she is! If she really had as much scheming as you said, would she be so easily deceived by you? You are still complacent here, Yao Xiaojuan, we have been married for so many years, how can you become like this now?! My chest heaved with fear, and even though I had said so many words in one breath, I felt indignant.
"Chen Ran! Did you say enough?! Xiaojuan threw the bag away, stood up with a bang, and looked at me with her eyes, "Yes, I don't know her, I don't know what kind of person she is, but Chen Ran, let me tell you, I'm a woman!" I trust my instincts! Besides, do you know her well? Why do you know her so well?! Isn't the administration department under your control? She's just an ordinary employee, why do you just defend her like that?! It's the first time you've been so angry with me, it's because of just one employee?! Chen Ran, I'm not afraid to tell you now, I was still suspicious of the fortune teller, and the brand given to Li Yue'er was just a boat pushing down the river, it was not a big deal, and I didn't think so that a brand could change the luck, but now looking at your reaction, I have never seen you so abnormal, but it made me really believe in the fortune teller! Xiaojuan's eyes widened angrily, and she said in a throat, "Say!" Do you really have something with that Li Yue'er?! β
"It's nonsense! I have no reason to spew blood! I trembled with anger, "You yourself are suspicious and look at everyone like a thief all day long, why don't you reflect on yourself?!" I've always been so impulsive when I talk and do things, I made my parents angry like that during the New Year, and now I'm tormenting me again, for so many years, everyone around you will revolve around you, what are you not satisfied with?! What the hell do you want?! β
Xiao Juan's face turned red, and she looked at me in disbelief, "Okay, okay, Chen Ran, you can be regarded as saying it today, look at what you have been holding back all these years!" Her teeth rattled with excitement, "Okay, okay, I'm a shrew, right?!" You came to me blindly, and now you regret it?! I'm telling you, it's too late to regret it! I'm not going to let you get your way. I'll show you what a vixen is like! I, I'm ......" Xiaojuan threw the peach blossom chop in her hand at me, smashed straight into my body, and fell to the ground, making a hoarse muffled sound. She turned left and right, looking for something else to vent her anger, and suddenly saw the dishes and chopsticks on the table where I was eating, as if she was enchanted and lifted to the ground and fell to the ground, the sound of the dishes breaking was extremely harsh in the silent night, so that we were all stunned, and looked at each other's faces distorted by anger, Xiaojuan couldn't help it anymore, wow and cried, turned around and slammed the door into the bedroom.
The room returned to peace, and I sat down in a gloomy manner, looking at the mess all over the house, and the broken porcelain pieces splashed large and small wounded flowers, and spread them all over the ground, revealing a lonely atmosphere; Those two thin peach blossom chops were lying lifeless in a pile of snow white, looking very eye-catching, and my heart was irritable, I raised my foot and kicked them away, what a bullshit peach blossom chop! It's the culprit at all!
Sighing heavily, I collapsed on the couch and closed my eyes, physically and mentally exhausted.