October 24th

I washed up and came out of the bathroom in the morning, and Zhang Hengli said that a person named Grace called you, saying that she was going to the airport now, and asked if you could rush over and see you again.

When I got to the airport, I quickly found them. She is probably the only one holding a potted plant in her hand at the airport.

I ran towards them, and the girl next to Zhong Pei turned her head, and I almost stopped in surprise.

It's high-run. Neither she nor Zhong Pei expected my appearance, and it is estimated that our expressions were the same—surprised!

She was much more mature, with pink lips, long tattooed eyebrows, and a gold bracelet hanging from her slender arms. I suddenly remembered the embarrassment of her falling into the lake, and I almost laughed. She broke up with Zhang Hengli, and I thought we wouldn't see each other again.

Grace pulled me aside, her face blushing and her eyes full of grief. She said: "I know that so many green plants and green clothes last night were arranged by you, my dad is very touched and has signed a contract, are you happy?" ”

"That's a good thing." I say.

"A good thing? You guess I don't care about his business? You guess I don't care if he makes money or not? I told him half a year in advance that I was coming back, and asked him to spend three days with me, but he took me to Changsha to talk about business. ”

She held the mimosa high, at the same level as my eyes, and said, "You gave me a potted plant and let me see the green landscape, the green of yesterday's meal, just to make money with me, right?" ”

Isn't it? First of all, I don't think that those clothes and greenery are the key factors for the success of the contract, Zhong Pei's products and services must meet her father's requirements, and at least not worse than the competition, and other factors are at most icing on the cake. How could a businessman with so many years of experience be fooled by such a small trick.

Then, I want to borrow money, and there is a difference between borrowing money and making money, right?

If you make money and do not get paid accordingly, you have the right to question. Borrowing money is inferior, no matter how high the posture is on the surface, the heart is inferior.

Zhong Pei is not Zhang Hengli, I can't borrow money to be arrogant. He's not Zhang Yi either, I can't cheat the money and feel at ease.

Even if he is Zhang Hengli or Zhang Yi of Yi Xun.

It's still not mine.

Borrowing money from him, even if it is for ease of continuation, requires putting down your self-esteem. Self-esteem is in front of my father, my mother, Yi Xu, and Zhang Yi and Zhang Hengli, which is something that cannot be touched, seen, and does not need to appear.

In front of everyone else, it is difficult to let go of your self-esteem.

So it's a difficult thing for me to borrow money.

So I'm going to use some means to make things easier.

For example, give Zhong Pei a little advice when talking about business.

I was still thinking about it, and Grace stretched the mimosa closer to me, and the thin stems of the mimosa shook up and down in the air as if nodding. Suddenly, as soon as she raised her hand, the mimosa was thrown into the trash can not far from us, and a piercing laugh came out of her throat, and she continued, "I didn't really want to see you that much, but I really wanted to ask you face to face, you were in it for the money, right?" ”

Yes, from her standpoint, there is no difference between the two.

"Yes." I say.

The question is much easier than "is it just using her to make money". I'm just for money, I need money, I need to borrow money from Zhong Pei to save my Yi Xu. I just don't live like a normal person now, I'm just a mud bodhisattva who stretches out his hand, and I want money to live or die, money is too important! But Zhong Pei sent me away for two hundred yuan.

She sneered: "Youstoleagooseandgavethegibletsinalms! sofuckingdisgusting！ (It's fucking disgusting that you steal the goose and give it back to the offal as a show of mercy!) ）

Her father was saying goodbye to Zhong Pei and Gao Run, and he was talking to them in a very loud voice, as if he was swearing to the entire airport: "Oh, I may not be able to come to the wedding, I'm really busy, but the ceremony must arrive!" ”

Grace spoke to me viciously, but her eyes were fixed on them, like they were about to burst into flames.

"I hate you, I hate the world, I hate you who are filthy in this world! You wish me happiness? There is no one worthy of my love in this world, who the am I going to be happy with? ”

She returned to the group. Then everyone greeted each other, said goodbye, shook hands and waved.

Grace didn't look at anyone again. I didn't want to explain to her that it was a fact that I needed money. I don't think it's worth it, I've become so disgusted, and I only got two hundred dollars. No, if you do the math, I took a taxi, bought mimosas, bought her coffee and snacks, and it was already more than two hundred, and I not only didn't make money, but I also lost! If it's all for Zhong Pei's business, shouldn't he reimburse me?

Yesterday she asked me if I have ever seen someone worse than her, of course I have seen it, the former Zhang Yi, the current Yi Xu, who is not worse than her? Did her parents die like Zhang Yi? Did she lose her freedom like Yi Xu?

I finally heard her speak a word of English to me, and she said I fuckingdisgusting. I also hope that I won't be so disgusting, why don't I want to be a girl who drinks coffee and goes shopping, doesn't value money and doesn't eat fireworks in the world, but the person I love is suffering from the loss of his mother and the possibility of losing his life.

Gao Run suddenly exclaimed exaggeratedly at this time, and took my hand: "Are you back?" When? ”

"You and Zhong Pei?" My emotions also came back a little: "You two? ”

"That's right!" She replied quite naturally.

"You dumped Zhang Hengli and was with Zhong Pei?" I asked.

Zhong Pei showed a hint of embarrassment on his face. "Don't say that." He said.

Gao Yun is much thicker than him, and she is still the girl with a sharp tongue, she said: "I can only say that God let me meet a more suitable person, or you let me know a more suitable person." Didn't you introduce me to his company? ”

"When did you two get together?

"It's been a year and three months." Gao Yun happily hugged Zhong Pei's arm, "He proposed on our anniversary." ”

"More than a month ago, Zhang Hengli said that you broke up for more than seven months, so you dumped him nine months ago, but the two of you have been together for a year and three months? Zhang Hengli said that you kicked him for someone else, it turned out to be true! ”

She said undeniably: "Emotional matters are something that outsiders can't judge, you can't focus on numbers!" ”

Where should that be? Put your heavy false eyelashes on? Or put it on your chest with a small pillow? Remembering that she gave this girl so much money, she was angry.

She saw my displeasure: "You're quite angry!" Why don't I get back together with Zhang Hengli now? She said. provoked Zhong Pei's eyes, and she trembled with joy.

"No, you don't! It's good now, it's good! I stared at Zhong Pei, "Boss Zhong, I found out that Grace has some other situations yesterday, can you talk about them alone?" ”

Zhong Pei was not stupid, and asked Gao Run to pick up the car first. Gao Run told me to have dinner later, but I had to agree, so I left greasy and crookedly.

"I won't borrow money from you this time, can you give me back the extra money I gave you? Gao Yun has become your girlfriend, I have no reason to be responsible for her salary! I said.

His face was gloomy, and his complexion seemed to darken immediately: "I don't know about this!" ”

"What don't you know? I'll send you money with bank records! ”

"I didn't know that Gao Yun was my girlfriend, so you won't pay your salary, you didn't say it!"

"When I asked you to hire her, I said that it was my good friend's girlfriend, and you have already snatched love, and it is righteous enough for me not to let you pay disability pay, why should I pay your girlfriend?"

"I thought you had a good relationship with her, you gave it to her, how do I know it's for my friend's girlfriend, who will believe it?"

"If you think that my relationship with Gao Yun is like that, why didn't you tell me that you were together until now, why didn't Yi Xu know?"

"You told me not to let Yi Xu know about arranging work for Gao Run, I didn't tell Yi Xu about being with Gao Yun in order not to let you go, how hard did I try, and now you bite me in turn?"

"Then why didn't you tell Gao Run that I was back?"

"It's too busy!" He looked embarrassed, frowned, and said, "You can also see that I am greeting big customers, so I can't take it lightly!" ”

"Too busy not to tell your fiancée that there is a woman in the world who is so good to her? No, this is unreasonable, how can such a happy thing not be shared, so Gao Yun must know, I asked her if she was touched by me! ”

I made a gesture to call Gao Run. He snatched my phone and yelled, "Isn't the money already given to you?" What more do you want? How long are you going to meddle in Gao Run's life? ”

"When? How did you pay it back? Which account? "His words hit me hard, and I was counting on me to get some money if I was shameless!

"Zhang Hengli didn't tell you? I bought him a game account and gave you the money in a different way! ”

"How did Zhang Hengli know about this? What does he know? He knows everything? I asked in a panic.

"He doesn't know anything! He said in our game group that he wanted to sell his account for 30,000 yuan, and was ridiculed by the group. I had the heart to ask him what was going on, and he said you were short of money. Knowing that you are here to save the family, of course I am willing to help! The 30,000 yuan was returned to you in his name, what account can be sold for so much money, you won't be naïve enough to believe it, it's funny! ”

I remembered that Zhang Hengli said to me that day: "You don't know, it could have been sold for 35,000, but the result was ...... During the conversation, the other party turned around to get a piece of paper to write the purchase agreement, I thought he was leaving, and when I was nervous, I shouted a 30,000 deal! ”

The stump in the middle of him almost said "Zhong Pei". I imagined Zhang Hengli being ridiculed by his peers in the game group, and he was distressed to sell the game account that had accompanied him for six years. In those six years, he walked and ate with his mobile phone, and when he asked him, he shouted about equipment. When he told me he had money to lend me, I thought it would be easy for him to find a buyer, I didn't think he would be laughed at by those people. I was bent on saving Yi Xu, and I didn't think about whether I also cut Zhang Hengli's flesh.

Zhong Pei answered the phone, and I also turned my back to call Zhang Yi: "Zhang Hengli sold his game account in order to help me raise money." He did such a good thing, I'm afraid you don't know. And I know about Zhong Pei and Gao Run, this is a happy thing worth setting off firecrackers, you tell him that he deserves a better girl, that girl will respect feelings, will be single-minded, and will be worthy of his love. ”

"Hung up."

I know that Zhang Yi will convey the words, but she will not hold him. Hugging is too numb for her, and she's shy and empty-hearted. I didn't expect her to hug, I just wanted to tell her that Zhang Hengli did a fantastic thing and deserved to be hugged.

"Zhong Pei, I still need to borrow money from you." I said, "I hope you don't mind my rudeness and coercion." ”

"I don't mind, I just probably won't be able to help you. In fact, the salary was given voluntarily by you at the beginning, and I never forced you, did I? ”

I think he might be angry.

"Yes, I'm being unreasonable." I said: "I'm too anxious, Yi Xu hasn't come out yet, I still have follow-up legal fees to pay, those tens of thousands of dollars are really a mountain for me, I'm almost out of breath." I became very sensitive, I got angry easily, and when I got angry, I became unreasonable, and it was my fault that I misunderstood you. ”

"Running out of 30,000 pieces? You don't have any money? ”

"Cremating the mother used some money. Now I basically don't have any money in hand. ”

"I really can't come up with the money." He said: "You know, my company consumes a lot of money, just like this customer came over and spent me 30,000 yuan in two days. ”

Yesterday he gave Grace a card to let her buy clothes and swipe his card, and let her buy whatever she wanted, but Grace didn't ask for it. I want to fight for it again.

"I don't borrow too much, a few thousand yuan and ten thousand yuan will do. I write an IOU, which is also calculated as interest, no matter whether it is easy to renew it or not, I promise to repay you within half a year. ”

I try to make him feel respected, that my attitude is sincere. He should be angry with me when he refused, I shouldn't have forced him to pay back the money, and threatened him with Gao Run.

"There is nothing that can be done." He spread his hands and said: "Let's put it this way, I'm actually a negative equity, you don't know my situation, it's much worse than you, oh it's really, it's hard for us to start a business, it's not as difficult as you big turtles, you have to sit in the office and get a salary, we have to consider the cost, we have to consider the profit, we have to consider the employees, and the customers, and countless interpersonal relationships, just the surface scenery, in fact, the bitter water has nowhere to vomit!" ”

He shook his head when he spoke, his tone was exaggerated, and the spitting stars flew out, his face was very oily, and his flesh was a little red, as if he was drunk. I can't believe that this is still the "white clothes" of the year, or the alumni who gathered a lot of classmates to pretend to be easy to tease me, or the girlfriend who died and was disheartened, and Yi continued to draw pictures for him every day, read poems to him, puzzles for him, and organize football matches for him again and again.

His phone rang, he shook his phone, and said, "Gao Yun can't wait, he has to go." ”

"Zhong Pei!" I called out anxiously. The voice is a bit loud, which makes others look sideways.

He felt embarrassed and said angrily, "Can you be quieter?" I told you, Zhang Hengli also knows, Yi Xu has had at least five girlfriends, you have no status with him, don't stick a hot face to a cold ass, it won't be good. Yi Xu really deserves to be saved, he has his girlfriend, his classmates and friends, even if they are colleagues, in the end, it will not be your turn, you are also highly educated, don't you understand self-esteem? ”

I don't want to expose his lies, I can't tell him that Zhang Hengli has confessed to me, I don't dare to hurt his face. Just follow his words and ask, "Is self-esteem more important than saving a life?" ”

"Then it depends on whether this life can be saved. I just said a bunch of things you didn't understand or what? If you can save it, someone has already saved it before you, it's not your turn, you have contacted a lot of people, those old classmates of his, who told you that they want to contribute money and efforts to help you? "I did get in touch, and the old classmates were just as cold as their old colleagues.

"Do you think you are the only one in the world who has affection and righteousness? No, it's just you who can't come to your senses! He didn't fall into the river now, he stumbled and killed someone! ”

"How can you say that, the court hasn't decided yet."

In an aggressive tone, he said, "Do you need a court sentence?" Didn't he judge first? "It seems that I don't accept these two rhetorical questions of his, and I am the stupidest person in the world.

He opened his eyes wide, frowned deeply, and said, "I, we're friends, aren't we?" So I say it again, and for the last time, I hope you can come to your senses, and Yi continues so many friends, if he was innocent, he would have been found out a long time ago. I don't lend you money, it's for your good! ”

"We are friends. Easy to continue, but your 'real' friend. I don't need you to be good for me, are you good for easy to continue? ”

"I'll see him off when he's gone." As he spoke, he turned around, and immediately turned again, and his eyes were like the sea, like a gray, polluted sea, and I couldn't see through it not because it was deep, but because there was something I didn't know about.

"I didn't want to say it," he said, "but I couldn't help it!" Hey, let me ask you, don't Germans take a shower or change their clothes? I've seen you a few times you've worn this dress a few times, and now it's autumn! Can't you wear a jacket with a pair of pants? Do you smell it now? I don't even dare approach you! …… It's not like that, you must have sprayed perfume, don't foreigners use perfume to cover the smell of foxes? Hey, you're bankrupt, aren't you? …… But the problem is, you've been doing things for me these days, and I don't care about meeting in private, so the boss and his daughter think you're my employee, what do you make them think? What kind of dilapidation does this company have to become, what wages and benefits do you give to employees, and you can't afford to buy clothes? People want faces, trees and bark, can you not make yourself so shabby? ”

I watched him leave, and my heart turned to ashes. How much can two years make a person? Zhong Pei's back is no longer what it was at the beginning, Yi Xu's old classmates and colleagues have chosen reality and indifference like Zhong Pei, and I have become the only person in the world who is willing to fight for him with hope and warmth.

The phone rang suddenly, it was an unfamiliar number.

"Ye Xijia, it's me, Gao Run!" The scream over there shouted, "Why didn't you come along, didn't you say you would eat together?" ”

"I'm in a bit of a hurry, next time!"

"What a disappointment! You'll have to hire me next time! ”

"Okay!"

"I'm afraid you'll lie to me, don't you forget, think about how good we used to be, or next time we call everyone, let's get together with the original five of us!"

Gao Run didn't know that Yi Xu was locked up. Zhong Pei seems to be hiding everything from his wife-to-be.

"Good. It mainly depends on the time of easy continuation, and when easy renewal has time, I will call you as soon as possible, let's get together! ”

"That's it! Must get together! ”

When I walked to the door of the community, I suddenly heard Zhang Hengli calling me from behind, and they came back from a walk.

"Do you know how many times I called you?" Zhang Hengli reproached me.

"Ahh

"When people live in the world, they are not only responsible for themselves, but also responsible for others and society, do you know? How many old people and children have you bumped into along the way? ”

"Not really!"

"Look at your cheekiness, you don't admit that you have done bad things!" Zhang Yi pointed at me and said.

"Keep sober, walk well, at least the old and the child can't collide, respect the old and love the young, respect the old and love the young, there is no such basic morality, are you still embarrassed to be a man?"

Since they knew that Yi Xu had an accident, they had seen me several times when I was in a state of disgrace and hit someone on the road. But how can I admit it?

I yelled, "Don't you know what respecting the old and loving the young is, okay?" It doesn't matter who I'm messing with in Germany! ”

They know who I'm talking about – my landlord Funny.

Funny is an old lady, and according to our Chinese tradition, I have to call her grandma. But if I dared to call her that, I would have been chopped up by her two years ago! The premise of respecting the elder is that she first thinks she is old, but who dares to reveal a little such information in front of her?

Funny's clothes are either comic book heroes or young men. There is a social worker in the community who plays Santa Claus all the year round at Christmas, who has just graduated from college and dressed as Santa Claus to surprise her with a big gift, but she blasts her away with a mop, saying that old men are not allowed to knock on her door.

I accompanied her to church, and there was only one vacant seat on the bus, and I kindly let her sit on it, and she hit her head in front of a carload of people.

She was always jealous of the various barbecue parties held at Mr. Wang's house, and every time she sneered through the bushes. One weekend, I moved out the barbecue grill in the pantry and we both had a barbecue party. I didn't expect the stove to be so old, the sparks flew straight outside, and my shirt was burned. ”Ohmygod，Iamonfire！” I screamed as I turned off the fire. When Funny heard this, he went into the house and made a pair of synthetic pants into a jacket sleeve, then lit it on the stove, and said "Iamonfire, Iamthegirlonfire!" ”。 I was so frightened that I picked up the hose to water the garden and put out the fire for her, and she thought I had extinguished her light and didn't speak to me for three days.

Others can't respect her for being old, and she is even more disrespectful for the old.

She asked me, "Ilikegold, canyoumakegoldforme?" (I like gold, can you get me some gold?) I said I didn't have the money to buy it, and I didn't know where to dig for gold, so she said, "MarrytoanIndia!" (Marry an Indian!) ）

She asked me, "whatifItellyouhowtomakeadimond?" (How about I tell you how to get diamonds?) I said you're not going to marry a Indian again, are you? She said, "No, marrytoanold! (Marry an old fellow!) ）

We once went to a restaurant to eat, and a group of young people chattered and harassed other customers, and the waiter reminded us twice to no avail. She turned up her phone to maximum volume, played heavy metal rock, and after attracting the attention of others, she twisted her ass, and raised her middle finger to scare the four or five high school students into scare.

She sat down with a heavy "um", and I asked with concern if she was tired, and she said no, she said it was "soundofcelebration, justlikewhatImadeattheendofsex." (The sound of celebration, that's the sound I make after sex.) ）

In Funny's world, you should never respect her as old, and don't expect her to love her young.

The neighbor Mr. Wang's family is very good to her, often sends her food, goes out to buy big on the weekend, and always does not forget to buy something for her, of course, when giving it to her, you can't say "because you are an old man", but say: "Because you are so beautiful!" ”。

But what did Funny do to them? Once, when they killed termites, they entrusted their two-year-old grandson to me to take care of them for three hours. I took him to play in the back garden. Funny went downstairs after a nap and saw the little guy crawling on the grass and yelled at me, "ItoldyouIhatedfourleggedbeaststhemost!" (I told you I hate four-legged reptiles the most!) )。

Ever since the boy had crawled on all fours in her meadow, she had no good opinion of him:

Seeing him playing with stones, he said, "Hewillbestonedoneday." (He was a drunkard later).

When she sees him playing with a cat, she will say, "Oh, whataPussy." (It's a sissy!) )。

In fact, that child is really cute, seeing everyone is like seeing a lover in his previous life, laughing out of a river of water, drooling more than drinking. Mr. Wang and Funny are neighbors, they respect the elderly, but she doesn't love the young.

So, as a person who has lived under the same roof with her for two years, it is not surprising that her ears and eyes have been affected a little, right?

They also criticized me later:

"Unrepentant!"

"It's changed, it's changed, and when people become bad, they can't go back!"

"Shall we hand out leaflets to keep the gray-haired old man and the innocent and cute children away from this face?"

"Great idea!"

……

Suddenly, I was stopped by Director Qi of the property: "Xiao Ye, are there two guests in your house?" He asked me.

"Yes. Something to do with them? ”

"Are they permanent residents? Rented a room in your house? ”

"No, just this month! What's wrong? ”

"That's the case, many parents complained to the property, the two guests of your family, more than 20 years old, every night to the community children's playground with the child to grab the seesaw and swing, grab it for an hour or two, it's too unusual! Tell your two guests about the bad influence between neighbors! ”

I turned around and wanted to glare at them, but behind the wall, Zhang Hengli showed a corner of his clothes.

"I can't say it!" I said helplessly, "Their psychological age is four years old, you can talk to those children who are over five years old in the community, let those kind children who are five or six years old be considerate and considerate, they are two stupid and not easy to communicate!" ”

My mom had just stepped out of the elevator when my mom's phone came. As soon as I got in with her, I got straight to the point.

"When are you going to get married?"

"Shouldn't you ask when you have a boyfriend first?" I asked suspiciously, staring at Zhang Yi at the same time, she wouldn't mention Yi Xu to them, right?

Zhang Yi shook his head in understanding. Also, how could she possibly contact my parents.

"It's the same question! If you have a boyfriend, you're going to get married at the same time! "My mom said that I guess she was bored walking by the beach and decided to make a phone call to torture me. The coastline of Thailand is so long, it's quite boring to walk around.

"You're in a hurry, aren't you? Besides, aren't you traveling? Can't fill your heart with the scenery? Still calling international calls to force marriage? ”

"Hold on!"

"Good!"