Chapter Twenty-Three: The Bus Adventure
On the afternoon of the second day after Ma Yuannan's business trip, He Bi's wife Jiang Qiao called Tao Xianglan and asked her to go to the teahouse to sit and tell her something.
Tao Xianglan is Ma Yuannan's fiancée, and they met in Shenzhen. The experience of their acquaintance can be compared to a movie in Hong Kong that was very early on, called "Bus Adventure and Good Relationship"
Tao Xianglan was not admitted to university, but studied in a vocational school in her hometown, majoring in marketing. After graduating, she came to Shenzhen to work for a biotechnology company in Huaqiangbei.
Every morning, she took the 212 bus from Gangxia to work, and took six stops to Huaqiangbei. Every day after work, she took six more stops back to the rented house in the gangxia. Day after day, cycle after cycle, life is ordinary and monotonous. She didn't have a boyfriend at the time, and she longed for love one day.
After a while, she made an unexpected discovery.
There is a young man like her, who also takes No. 212 from Gangxia to Huaqiangbei every day, and they wait for the bus for basically the same time every day, and they can always meet together. She began to notice the young man.
Every day, when the 212 bus arrives, the young man will deliberately follow her and let her get on the bus first. If there are not many passengers on the bus, the two of them will find a place to sit or stand, and if there are too many people, they will sometimes be crowded together, and occasionally the eyes of the two people will collide, and they will smile at each other, but neither of them will speak. She thought, this kind of thing should be a man's initiative, she must be reserved, but why can't he talk to her?
After a long time, a habit was slowly formed, if the young man did not show up at work one day, Tao Xianglan would wonder if he had overslept, whether he was sick, whether he had moved away, whether he was on a business trip, and there were countless in his heart. It wasn't until he reappeared the next morning that Tao Xianglan's mood calmed down.
If the relationship between the two of them had continued like this, the two would not have met. However, life is not static, and life can often change unexpectedly.
One day, the 212 bus came late, and there were more and more people waiting for the bus. When the bus entered the station, everyone swarmed up. The young man reflexively followed behind her, blocking the crowd behind her.
Tao Xianglan was grateful, but she was embarrassed to speak first. When the bus reached the sixth stop, Tao Xianglan was about to get off, and the young man habitually followed her off.
After getting out of the car, Tao Xianglan was stunned, and the young man was also stunned, it turned out that this was not Huaqiangbei, but Bagualing. Tao Xianglan looked back at the bus that had just left, and saw that the bus was marked with No. 221, not No. 212, and it turned out that they were on the wrong bus.
When the two looked at each other again, they couldn't help but laugh.
Tao Xianglan said: "I'm sorry, I read the wrong license plate. She inadvertently revealed that she had known that the young man was squeezing the bus with her every day.
The young man said, "I didn't pay attention either." Then he asked her, "Where do you work?"
"In SEG Science Park. ”
"I'm in the Science Park, too!
Tao Xianglan looked at her watch and was worried that she would be late, so she had to agree.
While waiting for the taxi, the two of them chatted, and they found out after chatting. It turns out that they are still fellow countrymen. He is from Dancheng, and she is from Langzhou.
Tao Xianglan was very happy to meet the young man, he was Ma Yuannan.
Sitting in the taxi, they continued to talk. He finally took the initiative and asked her how long she had been in Shenzhen? Tao Xianglan said that it had been less than two years. He said he had been here for more than a year. Asked her again if she was alone in Shenzhen or if her whole family was in Shenzhen? Tao Xianglan said that she was alone. He said he was also a man. What kind of work do you do? What do you think of Shenzhen, where is there good food and fun......
Later, they became acquainted.
Later, they fell in love with each other, the kind of love that they met together with the fallen people of the world.
It didn't take long for them to move in together. Just cohabitation, not married. They didn't get a marriage license and didn't dare to have children.
According to Ma Yuannan's idea, he is unwilling to get married in a rented house, and in another two or three years, when they have saved enough down payment to buy a house, it will not be too late to get married.
Tao Xianglan is five years younger than Ma Yuannan, she wants to wait two years, just wait two or three years, anyway, he has promised to marry her, she is willing to wait.
Unexpectedly, three years later, just as they were about to prepare for their marriage, the situation changed again.
One day when he returned to the dormitory after work, Ma Yuannan had a worried expression on his face and rarely spoke. While eating, Tao Xianglan couldn't help but ask:
"What's wrong with you? Lost your wallet, got fired?"
"Why do you think I'm so unlucky? Am I that miserable?"
"The look on your face doesn't look like a good thing!"
"I don't know if it's a good thing, but it's too big a matter and I'm still thinking about it. ”
"Tell me about it, and I'll think about it." ”
Ma Yuannan then told her about it. It turned out that Ma Yuannan had a high school classmate who opened a company in Dancheng and did a lot of business. Two days ago, his classmates called him and said that their company had a big project recently, and he was too busy, so he invited Ma Yuannan to go back to help, and gave him the position of deputy general manager of the company, and his salary was higher than now, as well as a car and a house.
Ma Yuannan analyzed that from the perspective of his career, going back to Dancheng will definitely be better than the prospects of the current company. What he was worried about was that if he did not cooperate well with his classmates, there would be no way out for Shenzhen, so what should he do then? To go back or not to go back? He asked Tao Xianglan.