Ling Ran led Shao Chengzhi to the underground parking lot. Shao Chengzhi was a little baffled, because Ling Ran was still hitching a ride with Qi Junyi yesterday. As a result, Ling Ran took him to a brand-new Mercedes-Benz C200 and took out the keys from his bag: "Are you driving? I came back with an international driver's license from Triplea." But all these years I lived in a rented house in Manhattan, rarely drove, and my driving skills were not good. Now when I go to Beijing, every time I am worried that I can drive out and not be able to drive home. ”

Shao Chengzhi smiled and took the key: "When you return to China, your parents bought a new car for you? Mercedes-Benz, it's really magnanimous." ”

"What's so arrogant, it's only 300,000. Ling Ran got into the car from the other side and sat in the passenger seat: "This car is only more than 30,000 in the United States, which is equivalent to a notebook for you." As soon as you arrive in China, you will need 300,000, isn't this a beheading? I said that I would rather have a Japanese brand SUV, which is not much more practical than this four-door car, and the money is tens of thousands of yuan less. My mother disagreed, saying that I was going to be the department director and couldn't disgrace my uncle. I said, then you buy me a BMW X5. My mother was reluctant again, and actually told me that girls driving BMW SUVs put a lot of pressure on men and would not be able to find a marriage. I said: That's not right, I can't bear this pressure on a man, I don't look down on it at all. But to put it mildly, my mom bought me this one anyway. Forgive her, she is the deputy director of the Industrial Bureau, and she also served as a county magistrate in a suburban county in the past, and she has seen too many township entrepreneurs in her life. Habits determine aesthetics. ”

Shao Chengzhi smiled and drove the car all the way to Zhongguancun, a 4-star hotel next to his company.

The two went up to the 4th floor, and Shao Chengzhi took Ling Ran to a Western-style restaurant on the side and paid for two tickets.

As soon as Ling Ran returned to China, she couldn't help converting the RMB into a beautiful knife, and when she saw 498, she couldn't help but whistle: "You often gather like this? ”

Shao Chengzhi couldn't help but laugh: "Yes, a group of bachelors, what else can they do after work? Especially on weekends and holidays, it's either dinner or clubbing." When I first returned to China, I was also surprised, it is not strange to eat 70 US dollars for a meal, but who in the United States is willing to spend so much every once in a while. However, as soon as the Chinese students returned to China, they suddenly turned over, and those who wore T-shirts and slippers to work in the United States now wore brand-name suits and shiny leather shoes; in the United States, they were eager to break a dollar in half and play golf in China; and those who were not patronized by girls in the United States were overwhelmed by the need to return to China."

Ling Ran smiled: "You're talking about yourself." ”

The two walked inside, and Ling Ran stretched out his hand and inserted his arm into Shao Chengzhi's arm. Shao Chengzhi's heart jumped suddenly, his face was slightly red, and his heart was warm - he didn't dare to do this action himself.

There were a total of more than a dozen colleagues at this party, two of them were blonde and blue-eyed, one Japanese and one Korean, and the others were all Chinese students.

Shao Chengzhi introduced to everyone in English: This is Miss Ling Ran, my girlfriend, she is an MBA from Columbia University, working in an investment bank at Merrill Lynch, and she just returned to China two days ago to work in a private company, the director of the securities department, to help them go public.

As for being the director because my uncle is the CEO, I won't mention it.

Ling Ran thought to herself: What are you excited about, when I am an MD (R, an investment bank director, equivalent to a president-level decision-maker in an ordinary company), I am a little assistant.

Ling Ran didn't know that this group of IT people were all thinking about how to go through a few years of training, jump out and start their own company, and they all thought that they could become big as soon as they opened the company, and they could go public to make money as soon as they became bigger, so when they heard about the investment bank, they were like flies seeing carrion, and they immediately circled around Ling Ran.

Shao Chengzhi introduced his colleagues to Ling Ran one by one: 16-year-old early genius who was admitted to Tsinghua University, winner of the German Humboldt Scholarship, and Ling Ran, who won the Olympic International Gold Medal, couldn't help but secretly inhale cold air in his stomach.

After Shao Chengzhi finished his introduction, he took Ling Ran to get food. Ling Ran sandwiched steak, grilled fish, lettuce and fruit, and Shao Chengzhi sandwiched dumplings and cold noodles.

Shao Chengzhi sandwiched a few more prawns to Ling Ran. Ling Ran objected: "This is grass shrimp, it's not delicious." ”

"Oh, I don't know if it's not delicious. Shao Chengzhi hurriedly put the shrimp on his plate.

Ling Ran couldn't help it: "Hey, you 498 just eat this kind of thing, you still think this hotel is not profitable enough." ”

Shao Chengzhi smiled: "Then you can help me eat enough." "I sandwiched a creamy grilled scallop to Ling Ran.

Ling Ran whispered, "It seems that more than half of your colleagues are from two schools." ”

Shao Chengzhi nodded: "Yes, the geographical location problem." When I first came to headquarters, I was asked, 'Are you a Stanford graduate?' and I said, 'No.' Then he asked, 'Did you graduate from Berkeley?' and I said, 'No,' and the man was strange: "Then which school did you graduate from, and most of the people here graduated from these two schools." I said, 'I am H graduated'. (Shao Chengzhi's company is headquartered in Silicon Valley, so most of his colleagues graduated from Stanford and Berkeley.) Caltech is in Los Angeles, and it is rare for graduates to choose to become university professors, and it is rare to work in Silicon Valley companies. ）

Ling Ran smiled "poof": "Dese." ”

"Hey, is there anything I answered wrong?" Shao Chengzhi was aggrieved.

"That's right, that's right. Ling Ran nodded and smiled. Ling Ran now knows Shao Chengzhi better, it should be said that Shao Chengzhi's personality is very realistic, his style is very down-to-earth, and his actions are very pragmatic, but Ling Ran found that Shao Chengzhi was vain, even more vain than Ye Ling, in fact, Ye Ling is not vain, that kid is hypocritical, and that kid is practical. Shao Chengzhi is the real love vanity from the bones, but Ling Ran feels that Shao Chengzhi's vanity is a bit simple and cute, this is the weakness of human nature that makes this rational and blunt man shallow and approachable, like a person.

Ling Ran glanced back at the table and whispered, "These colleagues of yours are all single." ”

"Whoever is married and fools around with us. ”

"Then, can you introduce one to Li Yuxin. ”

"Yes, like your girlfriends, if they see it, their eyes should be green. Shao Chengzhi said, but hesitated again in a blink of an eye, "However, you have to remind Li Yuxin in advance - after they return to China, there are really too many girls to choose from, so they are not in a hurry to get married." At least they won't be in a hurry to get married at the age of 35, well, let's relax to 40 years old, and the few people in the insurance point company who just got married this year are all 39-41 years old. ”

"Then how can it be done, do you want to ask Li Yuxin to find an uncle. ”

Ling Ran was depressed: Why didn't girls worry about marrying in my mother's era? Why in our era, men with some conditions don't want to marry? Is it time for women all over the world to unite and boycott premarital sex? Let the men choose by themselves, marry or suffocate to death, the problem is, so you have to ban prostitution, ban one-night stands, prohibit married women from cheating, prohibit unmarried girls from cheating and stealing, anyway, it is not very reliable to promote marriage rate by abstinence, but since men can get sexual satisfaction casually, why do they need to get married

The two returned with plates, and the colleagues had adjusted their seats so that the two of them faced each other and sat in the middle of the long table. Shao Chengzhi has always been quiet in social situations, so he doesn't like to push around, since his colleagues have arranged it like this, he just sits down.

After the two sat down, their colleagues began to pour Shao Chengzhi wine on the one hand, and at the same time desperately offered their hospitality to Ling Ran, especially the two old beauties. The conversation on the table is completely in English, Ling Ran has been in high school since she was a child, and she has passed the TOEFL test in her third year of high school, and her vocabulary is not necessarily greater than these IT, but the oral pronunciation she has practiced since she was a child is unbeatable.

Shao Chengzhi looked at Ling Ran holding a knife and fork in his hand, smiling, and fluently responding to various topics of his colleagues with standard American pronunciation, with a calm demeanor and noble temperament, his eyes sparkled like jewels in the light, while several male colleagues were entangled: "Miss Ling, do you have a sister? Do you have a cousin? Do you have any neighbors?"

Shao Chengzhi's colleagues were a little sour: As far as Shao Chengzhi is concerned, in the United States, girls like Ling Ran are only willing to associate with devils, how can they take a look at him, why was he caught and pinched as soon as he returned to China, why don't you come and fish me first.

Several colleagues leaned into Shao Chengzhi's ear and whispered: Which bar is on it, say it quickly.

Shao Chengzhi glared: "Nonsense." This is my girlfriend and we're getting married. ”

My colleague was stunned: Didn't you say that she had just returned to China? Why, you hooked up early? You kid, you can find such a girlfriend, what does she like about you?

Shao Chengzhi's heart was suddenly full of pride: this is the girl of my dreams, this is the girl I have pursued all my life, I have struggled from the countryside to Beijing, from China to the United States, and from the United States back to China, all of which are in order to meet her at the most suitable time and place, and to stand beside her without inferiority when I meet her. Today, I finally did it.

It didn't take long for everyone to eat at the buffet, and these people from foreign companies were actually not very good at drinking, and the rest of the time was sitting and chatting, and at nine o'clock, everyone got up together and said goodbye to each other.

Shao Chengzhi drank alcohol, so Ling Ran drove. Ling Ran's driving skills are fine, but she is a little afraid of the road conditions in Beijing, so she starts the car and asks, "Shall I send you home?"

This bit of wine is nothing to Shao Chengzhi, but after drinking too much beer, his stomach is a little swollen and he feels uncomfortable, so he nodded: "Okay." Shao Chengzhi's place of residence was also not far from the company, and Ling Ran drove the car into the paving road.

Ling Ran wondered while driving: "It's still so early, you guys are gone, don't you go to karaoke, then how do you pass the time and go home to watch TV?"

Shao Chengzhi was silent for a few seconds: "I dispersed so early because I wanted to go clubbing in Sanlitun." After all, it is Chinese, and it is embarrassing to go together, so everyone disperses and goes their own way. ”

Ling Ran suddenly realized, it turned out that she was looking for a one-night stand, and couldn't help but smile: "Then you won't go from now on?"

"I never go. After I dispersed, I usually went back to the company to work overtime. Shao Chengzhi was a little displeased, he didn't answer immediately just now, he was afraid that Ling Ran would think so, and Ling Ran really thought so.

In fact, Ling Ran is not surprised by the clubbing of single men of this age, and it is not regarded as a moral flaw. Everyone is an adult, and physiological problems always need to be solved, if you are not willing to get into a bunch of obligations (talking about marriage) in order to solve physical problems, then there are only two ways, prostitution-prostitution or appointment-cannon, Ye Ling is both, depending on his schedule. If a man has a little time, and at the same time is confident and attractive, going to a bar to find a one-night stand is of course the most economical and relatively decent option.

Ling Ran felt in her heart that a man like Shao Chengzhi's colleagues, whether they were prostitutes, prostitutes or clubbing, was very moral, at least much more moral than an ignorant girl who slept in vain under the guise of falling in love. Among Chinese men, the kind is the mainstream, that is, the 200 yuan prostitution in Tu Province.

Ling Ran thought desperately: It's over, after Ye Ling's training, my standards for men are really getting lower and lower.

But Shao Chengzhi said that he never went, Ling Ran was slightly surprised, and at the same time didn't believe it: "You never go? You haven't been to Sanlitun once, right? ”

Shao Chengzhi was a little angry, and he drank wine: "Why should I go, is it good for men to have chastity, if a woman is willing to let me go to me, I have to do it, why? What about the appearance, how is the figure, how is the temperament, how is the charm, how is the performance in bed, otherwise, why." ”

Ling Ran was stunned, how about this man letting you eat for nothing, how about being salty and light, the green onion and ginger are not enough: "Then what do you want?"

Ling Ran knew the answer as soon as she asked, and the two of them said in unison, "Ozawa Maria is like that." ”

Ling Ran couldn't help but turn her head slightly and gave Shao Chengzhi a big roll of his eyes: "If you want to be beautiful, you don't look in the mirror, why is Maria Ozawa looking for you like this, are you a handsome guy? Are you a macho man? Are you very talented? ”

Shao Chengzhi laughed: "I'm not good at it, but can't I be demanding? I can't bear to let others pick me, don't I have the freedom to refuse? Why should I let people get on it if they want, even if it's free, it has to be more tempting than my defensive line, I have to enjoy something." ”

"So, is it still that you, a big man, are being taken advantage of by women?" Ling Ran laughed.

"No, I didn't mean that, even if I took advantage?" Shao Chengzhi hurriedly waved his hand, "I really don't want to take advantage of this." The more I think about it, the more I feel that I am not worth it. ”