Chapter 8 The Pursuit of Love Begins
After another dozen hours of jolting, I was already tired and kept kowtowing, and I felt like my head was about to fall off. By the time I got to the neighborhood where I lived, I was in a state of dissociation. He opened the car door and got out of the car to pick up his bag.
Seeing that Zhang Teng didn't get out of the car, I opened my eyes anxiously and asked him listlessly, "Why don't you get out of the car?" ”
"This car is rented, I'll pay it back."
"Oh." I was groggy and walked upstairs without asking.
"Xiao Lu." Zhang Teng called out to me.
"Huh?" I looked back with great reluctance.
"I'll go home tonight, and I'll go back to Jiangcheng tomorrow, you go back and have a good rest."
Great, I can finally move back to the master bedroom.
"Good! Bye. "I just want to get home and get back to bed until tomorrow morning.
After entering the master bedroom, I hurriedly drew the curtains to create a better sleeping atmosphere. When I went to the window, I saw the red Wrangler still parked downstairs. Zhang Teng saw me appear in front of the window, honked the horn and left.
I was suddenly sleepy. Look at the back of the red Wrangler leaving. I think Zhang Teng has changed, he has become different. It's not strange or familiar, it seems that he has something more on him, but he doesn't know what is more.
"Lu Xiaolu, what do you want?" I rubbed my hair, I felt that I was really crazy, Zhang Teng is Zhang Teng, how can he change, no matter how he changes, he will also be the domineering president who bullied me since I was a child!
Since I was not sleepy, I went to the living room and poured a glass of water to drink. I found a very unfamiliar box on the coffee table. I opened the box and found two little girl wood carvings inside. One is fourteen or fifteen years old, wearing round glasses and ugly braces, short messy hair, a look of teeth and claws, you can see that it was me when I was young, and the other is a girl with long hair standing in the wind, her hair is blown by the wind, she is wearing a beautiful dress, I think this girl should be me now. The two wooden statues are made by the same person, and the carved texture is not very fine, but the expressions and movements are very expressive. I think this master of carving must be very attentive.
There is a small note at the bottom of the box. It reads: Hello, newcomer to the workplace. Late gifts. Zhang Teng.
I deliberately placed the two small wooden carvings on the most conspicuous bookshelf, and did not stand upright in front of them. Then he bowed deeply, "Thank you, Domineering President!" ”
After going to work on Monday, I was told that Sister Cao's son was sick and Sister Cao asked for leave to take care of her, so I naturally took over the job in her hands temporarily. I was so busy all morning that I didn't even go to the toilet. In the afternoon, I went to the bank to deliver tax refund-related things. Glancing at the No. 8 window, Shaoyang is resting today. Hurried upstairs, and hurried down after the handover. Just as I was about to go to the door, Shen Qi grabbed me.
"What's going on? You don't say hello when you see me? ”
"Sister, I'm going to faint today!"
"How's your trip to the prairie? Is it fun? ”
"It's okay! I'll tell you when I go back, I'm going to go first, I'm going to die. ”
For the next few days, when I woke up in the morning, I thought I was going to war. A bunch of numbers and a bunch of tables put me on a high level of nerve. Often when I get off work at night, Shaoyang's car is gone, and I can only drive home by myself.
It's already the end of October when it's really not so busy. Autumn in Tingnan is particularly beautiful, and the leaves on the ginkgo trees on both sides of the road are yellowing. The autumn wind hit a slight chill, I wrapped my windbreaker tightly and walked out of the door of the unit, the autumn sunset stretched my shadow thin and long. Just as he was about to go to the parking lot, he habitually looked across the road, Shao Yang had just gotten off work, he was standing in the sunset, wearing an off-white sweater, the collar of the red checkered shirt was exposed, and under the loose jeans was a pair of casual sneakers. He is still like the boy I saw when I was young, like the senior who the heroine in those youth movies has a crush on.
"Xiao Lu." I heard Shen Qi calling me. Look at her, she's waving hard at me. She was talking with her mouth open, gesturing in her ear with her phone, and across the street, I couldn't hear her clearly.
The mobile phone rang, and when I saw that it was Shen Qi, I instantly understood what she meant.
"Xiao Lu, Shaoyang, let's go to dinner, let's go together! I'm in for a treat. ”
Shen Qi has already arranged many meetings between me and Shao Yang, intentionally or unintentionally, and I am really embarrassed to shirk it again. Besides, I developed Shen Qi into my best friend at the beginning, which was originally a great love-chasing plan!
Say chase love, chase it!
"Good!"
I drove my second-hand Bora behind the Malibu in Shaoyang. After the last crash, I haven't seen Shao Yang, and my promise to invite him to dinner has not yet been realized. The main thing is that I don't have his phone, and I don't dare to ask him in person in their line, this time I have dinner with him, and I feel an inexplicable nervousness in my heart.
This, will it be the legendary blind date!
"From tomorrow onwards, Shen Qi, you have to take good care of us!" After Shao Yang finished saying this, I felt a little inexplicable. Let Shen Qi take care of "us"? Is this "we" me and Shaoyang?
Could it be that Shao Yang already knew that Shen Qi was going to arrange a blind date for the two of us today?
I felt like my heart was "popping" for a moment, and then it stopped beating for a moment. My face started to burn with a fever. How embarrassing Shao Yang is to say this!
"Yes! Congratulations to my wife. I'm going to have to shoot my wife in the future! ”
Yes? Ascension!
It turned out that Shen Qi invited her to dinner today to celebrate her promotion, not to arrange a blind date for me and Shaoyang!
Shen Qi giggled, and I lowered my head and took a sip of ice water.
"Xiao Lu, are you hot? Why is your face so red? Shen Qi asked.
"Huh? I...... I'm fine! Have you been promoted? Congratulations! ”
"I saw that you have been busy for the past two days, so I didn't tell you. I'll be the counter manager from tomorrow, and Shao Yang and Zhipeng are both members of my team, how about it? Isn't it majestic! ”
"That's good! Congratulations! I'm going to eat more today. "I let myself pretend to be calm, although Shao Yang sat opposite me, I really couldn't calm down!
"Shaoyang, I mentioned Xiao Lu to you, you two are from the same school, remember?" Shen Qi successfully turned the topic to me.
"Well, we met a few times when I was in college."
When I was in college, he didn't even mention that I hit his car that day.
Shen Qi snickered, and then gave Zhipeng a look. I don't understand it, but I always feel like it's not a good thing.
Zhipeng seemed to understand Shen Qi's meaning, "Xiao Lu, my buddy is our line, how many innocent girls, aunts, aunts, grandmothers, all come to him to do business, so his business volume is quite a lot, and he earns more than us." Of course, this doesn't matter, the important thing is that Shao Yang is reliable, has a good character, and is a rare good man who can't be found in a light tower. ”
I lowered my head and didn't dare to look at Shao Yang, but I could still feel Shao Yang's gaze pecking at me. It's like the day of the freshman party, and the spotlight hits me.
"Shaoyang, you have also seen our Xiaolu, with a good image, good temperament, gentle and lovely, beautiful and generous."
"Shen Qi, what did you say?"
Hearing this, I don't know where to run with the courage and determination to chase love just now. I can't wait to find a hole to get in and then I won't come out. This meeting is so embarrassing!
"Ahh What did I say wrong? If I'm wrong, you'll assume you didn't say anything, right? ”
Zhipeng was a woman singing with her husband, nodding again and again.
Shen Qi continued: "You are university alumni, so you might as well ...... Let's swap mobile numbers, right? ”
Saying that, Shen Qi snatched my mobile phone, took his mobile phone from Shao Yang's hand, handed Shao Yang's mobile phone to me, and put my mobile phone in Shao Yang's hand.
I felt awkward, as if all the eyes of everyone in the restaurant were on the two of us. Did I plan the wrong way in the first place? Is it good to be introduced by a friend to two people who already knew each other on a blind date, and then come together to fall in love? What are the odds?
I kept scolding myself in my heart: Lu Xiaolu, you are too cowardly, isn't it enough that you have been cowardly for so many years?
I was about to enter my mobile phone number, but Shao Yang's mobile phone in my hand suddenly called. When I saw it, the number displayed was actually my own.
I looked up at Shaoyang.
"Okay, I've called myself on your phone, so we'll have each other's numbers!"
Saying that, Shao Yang handed me the phone, I took the phone, but I didn't think to return his phone to him. Unexpectedly, Zhipeng found out, snatched Shao Yang's mobile phone, and jokingly said to me: "I am so reluctant to return it to Shao Yang!" ”
Two big Chinese characters were written on my face in an instant: embarrassing!
Although I had already said that I would eat more, that meal was the most difficult meal of my life. There was a chill on my back, and my heart was beating wildly, but it didn't calm down from beginning to end. It was as if thousands of pairs of eyes had been staring at me, disgraced to the dead.