Chapter 8: Luck and Chance

Wen Shuqin walked over and put the slippers at the feet of the two of them.

Li Zhao came out of the inner room, holding a lit cigarette in his hand, the ash fell everywhere, and muttered: "What shoes to change, you have a lot to do." "Li Zhao and Wen Shuqin are not good at housework, the home is small, stuffed with a mess of old furniture, old household appliances, and a lot of books for the two, clothes, shoes and socks, newspapers and magazines, small bits and pieces, only to make the house messy, plus Beijing is very dusty, and the dust on the useless plastic bags of the old newspapers at home is like long hair, so Li Zhao thinks that entering the door to change shoes is simply a superfluous move.

Wen Shuqin gave her husband a big roll of the eyes: "How many times have I told you, dust the ashes in the ashtray, who is so empty to clean up behind your buttocks." "Although Wen Shuqin is not very good at tidying up, but women, always have high requirements for cleanliness, Li Zhao has many friends, many fellow villagers, many people looking for him to do things, and both of them have many relatives at home, either your nephew comes to Beijing to work, or my cousin comes to Beijing to do business, the river is endless, Wen Shuqin sees that the house is so dirty and messy, and I feel very ashamed.

Shao Chengzhi hurriedly changed his shoes: "Well, indoor smoking is really bad. Li Zhao, if you want to smoke, let's go outside. ”

Li Zhao was not angry: "Why are you more stinky than my wife." He stretched out his hand and threw the cigarette into the ashtray on the dining table.

Shao Chengzhi saw that the cigarette butt was still burning, so he poured a glass of water on the table on top of the cigarette butt.

Li Zhao beckoned Shao Chengzhi into the big bedroom, and the two men sat on the sofa and chatted while watching TV.

Wen Shuqin was originally preparing for class in the small bedroom, so she helped Wang Xia organize Shao Chengzhi's large and small paper bags, and then took out a plastic bag of grapes from the refrigerator, flushed it under the kitchen faucet, and put the plastic bags on the coffee table for the two men.

It was already past 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and the two women discussed it and began to work on dinner. Li Zhao's niece wanted to help her, Wen Shuqin knew that Wang Xia had something to say to her, so she sent her niece to a small room to play a video game under the pretext that the kitchen was small.

Because she knew that Shao Chengzhi and Wang Xia would come for dinner, Wen Shuqin specially bought fruits, vegetables, eggs, pork ribs, and a crucian carp in the morning. Wen Shuqin began to wash the vegetables, and Wang Xia gave her a hand. While the two were busy working, Wang Xia told Wen Shuqin about accompanying Shao Chengzhi to buy clothes today, but she didn't mention meeting classmates or anything - you can't say that you are chasing after the wind and eating dry vinegar, besides, although everyone agrees that Shao Chengzhi will be her future husband eight or nine times out of ten, until now, even a boyfriend is not so upsetting.

Wen Shuqin whispered to Wang Xia: "Shao Chengzhi, the immigration bureau asked him to make up the materials last week, and the things to be made up are very simple, he got them in two nights, and they have been sent back to the lawyer." Shao Chengzhi told Li Zhao that this shows that the immigration bureau is already handling his case, and the materials asked him to make up are so simple, it seems that it will definitely pass. He himself estimated that according to the speed at which the immigration bureau would process the supplementary documents, it would be approved within three or four months. ”

Wang Xia muttered in a low voice: "What does this have to do with me, he is still asking people to introduce people everywhere." Wang Xia's heart was full of anxiety about gains and losses.

Shao Chengzhi hasn't been on a blind date for the past two months, and what he said himself, he can't meet the right one at all, it's a waste of time. Wen Shuqin hurriedly said: "What a man thinks in his heart, he may not say it in his mouth, but when the time comes, he will naturally do it." Li Zhao is not like this, and we have never been in love seriously. I just asked him to help me find a job, and as a result, he arranged my hukou work, and as soon as I arrived in Beijing, we got married."

Wang Xia was speechless, and she was depressed again: Why am I so unlucky today, there is that Ling Ran who is a shower first, it's okay, you Wen Shuqin also came to show my life

Li Zhao, in this small group of fellow villagers, is the leading figure.

Li Zhao, who was admitted to the Foreign Affairs University of Peking University with the sixth place in the provincial liberal arts college entrance examination (Shao Chengzhi took the third place in the province's science examination, and the two were the top students in the liberal arts and science of the county's college entrance examination that year), which was a sensation in the county. After entering Peking University, Li Zhao, although he was born in the countryside, has no background and no money, he is a man of the year in the university, not only handsome and dignified, but also has a wide range of contacts and can speak well. Li Zhao entered the student union as soon as he entered Peking University, and was the main force of the college students' debate competition every year, went to radio and television, and was directly assigned to work in the city government after graduating with a master's degree, and entered the city government office as a secretary at the age of 28, and is 30 this year, and is already a deputy department-level cadre.

In addition to the ambition of the youth, Li Zhao is also very far-sighted; in the past few years in Beijing, Li Zhao has deliberately found out all the highly educated fellow villagers from famous schools in the same county and established a small community with close ties; among these people, there are doctors who graduated from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, lawyers who graduated from the China University of Political Science and Law, young officers who graduated from the National Defense University, and also include her Wang Xia, and female doctors who graduated from the School of Economics and Management of the National People's Congress

But what about Wen Shuqin, Wang Xia really didn't understand why Li Zhao's wife would pick this Wen Shuqin. Li Zhao is tall and handsome, Yu Xuanang, an absolute handsome guy, Wen Shuqin is thin and small, with yellow and black skin, and plain facial features, saying that she looks like a monkey, that is an exaggeration, saying that she is not obvious in beauty, that is definitely praising her: Li Zhao, a top student of Peking University, 30 years old, secretary of the municipal government, deputy director-level civil servant, the upward channel has been completely opened, and the bright future is under control, Wen Shuqin, a doctoral student who graduated from a second-rate university in the province, is a professional unpopular, if it is not Li Zhao, how can he be assigned to teach in a third-rate university in Beijing, don't think about it。

If Wen Shuqin's father is the secretary of the county party committee (Li Zhao's ex-girlfriend), then there is still such a saying, fart, Wen Shuqin's parents are also farmers, and there are five or six brothers and sisters in the family. I really don't know what Li Zhao likes about Wen Shuqin, is it because the two are high school classmates, Wen Shuqin is close to the water and the building is the first to get the moon? But the two have never been in love like a decent person, it seems that Li Zhao is so easy to point: Hey, just her. Wen Shuqin married a promising husband so inexplicably.

Wang Xia thinks about that frustration, if Li Zhao wants to find a fellow female doctor, can't he find a famous school in Beijing to graduate, don't you need him to help solve the hukou work? For example, she Wang Xia, which point is not better than this Wen Shuqin, and her bare skin is three points whiter than Wen Shuqin

But then again, Li Zhao is really interesting, as soon as Shao Chengzhi came back from the United States, Li Zhao was busy helping her matchmaking, and his attitude was very resolute to make things happen, Wen Shuqin was also very cooperative, and invited Shao Chengzhi to come to the house for dinner every once in a while, giving them two opportunities.

Shao Chengzhi's personality is very different from Li Zhao, taciturn, gentle and low-key, but Wang Xia found that Shao Chengzhi is mature and stable in speaking and doing things, has unique opinions, and is reliable. Shao Chengzhi has been abroad for many years, and his life is a little different from his friends in China, calm and distant, he likes to keep his distance from people, and he is somewhat out of this small group, but the strange thing is that everyone respects him very much, and he is willing to go to him for any tricky things. In contrast, Li Zhao's style of patting his chest and agreeing to talk about it no matter whether he can do it or not, seems exaggerated In short, Shao Chengzhi has only been back to China for half a year, and he is not very close to others, so he is already an important figure in a small group.

And putting all this aside, Li Zhao's annual salary is only how much, don't look at any civil servant, deputy director level, you have 70,000 yuan a year, and Shao Chengzhi, an annual salary of 100,000 US dollars, not to mention the US green card beckoning. Shao Chengzhi was sent back to the Beijing branch by the US headquarters, three years is just three years, follow him, sooner or later go back to the United States to live in a big house (single-family house) with a lawn, Wang Xia can't help but be grateful: the fellow is so powerful, the time and place are favorable, if I don't grasp the opportunity, then I am the black eagle on the tree, and I can't even hold the fat to my mouth.

Thinking of the fat in her mouth, Wang Xia suddenly remembered Ling Ran, remembered Shao Chengzhi and Ling Ran, you and me, I have only known each other for a few minutes, and I almost talked about underwear. Wang Xia couldn't help but be ruthless: Grandma's Shao Chengzhi, you can't let this fox spirit go.

Wang Xia and Wen Shuqin whispered in the kitchen while washing vegetables and peeling onions. Li Zhao complained about his wife in the bedroom: "The son of her second brother's leader is studying in Beijing, a private university, and he said that he will graduate next year, and he wants me to find a way to let him stay in Beijing." I said to help introduce a job, yes, Beijing hukou, impossible. Her brother said that he would fly over with his leader the day after tomorrow, and I said what are you flying here for, what I can do, if you don't come, I will do it for you, and if I can't do it, why do you fly over? Her brother said that he would send me two cigarettes, but it was a problem, and he specially flew over to give me two cigarettes, and I was short of cigarettes to smoke. I said to him: Don't come, I'm fucking quit."

Shao Chengzhi smiled, knowing that Li Zhao didn't look down on him: "Didn't her second brother do it in the tax bureau, he led, it is estimated that he is the director or deputy director, and he can't help it." ”

"Then I have a way? Who is he and I, the director of the Beijing Municipal Personnel Bureau can't do this. Li Zhao grumbled.

"Deal with it, let her brother be on a good errand" Shao Chengzhi threw a grape in his mouth, because there was no plate on the coffee table with the peel, so he simply chewed it with the belt seeds.

Suddenly, the mobile phone rang, Shao Chengzhi glanced at it, it was the director of the department of the other company on one of his projects, why, there was something wrong with the project?

Shao Chengzhi hurriedly clicked on it, oh, it turned out that it was not about the project, but Shao Chengzhi asked him to introduce the object before the eleventh holiday.

The director of the network management center wants to introduce his sister-in-law.

The girl is 22 years old, has just graduated from a bachelor's degree and works in a bank. My father is a construction contractor, with two daughters and no sons. The director particularly emphasized: "My wife's sister is more than ten years younger than my wife, and my parents-in-law especially dote on this little daughter, and my wife stands aside in front of her sister." Let her drive the family car first, and the duplex school district house in Haidian is her dowry. ”

Shao Chengzhi Khan: We haven't met yet, so I'll first draw your wife's and sister's dowry.

Shao Chengzhi was embarrassed: "Well, I'm 30 this year, it seems like that, the age gap is a bit big." ”

The director was anxious: "My sister-in-law is very beautiful and looks like a fairy, I will send the photo over immediately." ”

The director sent more than a dozen photos in one go, the photos were probably taken when she was a student, and the girl in the photo had clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, more tender than the rape flowers in spring, and a sunny smile on her face. Li Zhao frowned.

The director asked: The girl is free tomorrow, do you want to meet her?

If you resign, you will offend people, Shao Chengzhi nodded: "Okay, then tomorrow at noon, I have a party in the evening." ”

"Where are you going to see me?" or I'll arrange a location?" the superintendent hurriedly struck while the iron was hot.

Shao Chengzhi suddenly had a spark in his brain: "Well, there is a coffee shop in Wangjing CapitaMall (which one?there is more than one coffee shop), how about meeting there at eleven o'clock at noon? Drink coffee and have lunch." ”

Shao Chengzhi closed his mobile phone, and his mind went blank - I went to Beijing to go on a blind date?