Chapter 20: Jealousy
He Xiao had been standing not far away and looking at Ji Siming for a while, she walked out of the main hall with two plates, and soon saw Ji Siming standing by the guardrail in front of her, she walked towards him quickly, and just as she was about to ask him to take the plate, Ji Siming had already walked towards Tong En.
He Xiao stood in place and didn't move, following Ji Siming's gaze to the left, next to a bush of lush pothos at the end of the guardrail, there was a young woman in a black evening dress, because it was just a back, He Xiao couldn't see the woman's face, but only from the demeanor of the back and snow-white skin, He Xiao intuitively concluded that this was a beautiful woman.
She watched Ji Siming walk over, watched the woman look back at him, Ji Siming stood between her and the woman, just blocking the woman's face, their gaze was very ambiguous, and it was maintained for a while, He Xiao's heart seemed to be suddenly overgrown with weeds, messy, and prickly.
Since being with Ji Siming, she has never been jealous of any woman. Ji Siming looks like a playboy on the surface, and it is common for him to act on the spot, but he has never had an ambiguous act with other women in front of He Xiao, and he has never really been moved by other women.
It was just one of many women he knew, and they weren't that good. He Xiao said to herself in her heart that she wanted to walk over, but her arms were a little sore because she was holding the plate, but her feet seemed to be glued to the floor and she couldn't lift them.
She stood straight in place, staring at the two people in front of her without blinking, completely unaware that her current behavior was a little out of control.
She saw Ji Siming walk across from the woman and sit down, and saw him smiling at her. She clearly saw Ji Siming's eyes looking at the other side, there was something in his eyes that He Xiao couldn't say for a while, something that she felt unfamiliar with, she had never seen this kind of thing in Ji Siming's eyes when he looked at her. When Ji Siming looked at her, his eyes were always pleasant, appreciative, and even greedy, full of naked desire. But in his eyes now, He Xiao clearly saw tolerance, pity, and even warmth. A sour, astringent, numb, spicy, bitter and salty liquid flowed into her heart, and instantly flowed all over her body along the veins, and she was burned by the flames of jealousy, and walked towards the two people in front of her.
A woman, once lit by the flame of jealousy, turns herself into a stupid devil.
She walked up to the two people who were laughing happily, and said in a warm and sweet voice: "Siming, I've been looking for you for a long time, why don't you tell me when you find a place?" ”
Ji Siming raised his head when he heard the voice, saw He Xiao, got up with a smile and took the plate in her hand.
Tong En looked back and saw He Xiao, and then stood up and looked at her with a smile.
Ji Siming smiled and said to Tong En: "You don't need me to introduce you, right?" ”
Tong En also smiled, nodded at He Xiao and said, "Hello! ”
He Xiao nodded with a smile, turned around and grabbed Ji Siming's arm, and said softly, "What?" Don't give me an introduction? ”
"Oh, I almost forgot, you don't know her yet."
Ji Siming patted his head and said, "Come on, let me introduce you, Miss Tong, Mr. Thornton's assistant, I didn't tell you, but I am her defeat." He Xiao, a young and promising female painter in this city, is a new star in the painting world. ”
He Xiao looked at Tong En with some surprise, and the jealousy in her heart became even more overflowing, and she said suddenly: "You are the assistant to the president they just mentioned, I thought you were a shrewd foreign man?" I didn't expect to be Chinese, or a beautiful lady, no wonder Siming praised you so much. It's amazing that Miss Tong can work in an American company. ”
Tong En also looked at He Xiao with some surprise, looking at her from a distance just now, although the outfit was trendy and exaggerated, the whole person looked natural and coordinated, and her temperament was generous. But now He Xiao, who is standing in front of her, is like two people in her impression, not only arrogant and unreasonable, but also pretentious, it seems that people are really unseemly.
She smiled faintly and said disapprovingly: "Miss He's serious, I'm just an ordinary Chinese student, and it's very common to work in a foreign company, so I don't deserve Miss He's praise." ”
Ji Siming also looked at He Xiao a little strangely, he had never seen He Xiao so scathing, and he didn't reflect it for a while, and the atmosphere suddenly seemed a little abnormal.
"Yo, it turned out to be Mr. Ji, I thought this feng shui treasure was occupied by others."
Xu Hui's arrival relieved the originally somewhat embarrassing scene. Ji Siming looked at her happily as if he had seen a relative, reached out diligently to take the clear plate in her hand, and said jokingly: "I knew that Secretary Xu had such a powerful vision, so I would have called you in advance to reserve a seat." ”
Xu Hui smiled proudly and said, "Do you regret it?" It's a pity that there is no regret medicine sold in this world, General Manager Ji has always taken precautions, why did the boat capsize in the small river ditch? ”
Ji Siming laughed, and Tong En was also amused by Xu Hui's clever reaction, and the atmosphere suddenly became relaxed.
Ji Siming smiled and put the plate in his hand on the table, but the table was already very small, and there were already two plates from Tong En and Xu Hui, plus the two that He Xiao brought just now, he couldn't put this in his hand anyway.
Xu Hui didn't want others to disturb them enjoying the food, but when she saw this scene, she shrugged her shoulders secretly and said: "Mr. Ji, I'm really sorry, it's not that we don't sincerely keep you, it's just that the place is too small to let you go, the big manager, or you deign to move to the VIP room, where you should stay." ”
Ji Siming smiled and pointed at Xu Hui with his finger, he could see the ghost eyes of this little girl at a glance, in fact, he had no intention of staying here anymore, he didn't want to have the unpleasant scene just now. Just as he was about to open his mouth to speak, He Xiao suddenly interjected next to him: "I think it's better here, the air is good, and it's quiet, Siming, let's just sit here, I still want to have a good chat with Miss Tong." ”
Ji Siming's heart tightened, his brows furrowed suddenly, but he quickly opened, and while exchanging the plate in his hand with the plate He Xiao brought, he said with a smile: "Didn't you hear that Miss Xu Hui had already issued an eviction order?" It's really too small here, and there's no place to sit, so the two of us have to stay here, and the four of us can only sit on top of each other. ”
He Xiao reached out and took the plate from Ji Siming's hand, poured the food inside into another plate, stacked the two plates one by one, put them on the table, and smiled: "Isn't this enough." ”
Then he stretched out his hand to the waiter on the side, "Bring two chairs." ”
The waiter quickly brought two chairs, helped move the small square table out, set the chairs up, stretched out his hand and said, "Please." ”
He Xiao gently sat down on a chair, looked at the three people who were still standing, and smiled slightly: "Won't you sit down?" ”
The three of them looked at each other, as if they hadn't reacted yet.
Tong En took the lead in sitting on another chair, looked at everyone and said, "It's good." ”
Ji Siming was also happy, sat down next to He Xiao with a big sting, picked up the roast goose on the plate and stuffed it into his mouth.
Xu Hui muttered in her heart and sat down, "A princess is a princess, and it doesn't matter if people welcome it or not, it's really capricious." ”
He Xiao didn't want to eat anything at all, she faced Tong En with a smile and asked affectionately, "Miss Tong, when did you go to the United States?" ”
Tong En didn't eat anything more, holding a drink in his hand and drinking it slowly. Hearing He Xiao ask her, she replied, "I went to the United States five years ago. ”
He Xiao asked again: "Yo, didn't you go as soon as you graduated from high school?" Why don't you go as soon as you graduate from high school? Nowadays, there are many families who send their children before graduating from high school. ”
Tong En smiled and did not answer.
He Xiao said to himself: "Your parents are really willing, it is so expensive to study in the United States, many of our classmates went to Australia or New Zealand to study because they couldn't get into college, and they couldn't get into any famous universities anyway, just to get a diploma, it's the same everywhere." ”
Tong En smiled again.
Ji Siming gulped the food on the plate, swallowing it with some difficulty, feeling as if these things were not cooked today.
Xu Hui didn't pay much attention to He Xiao's words at first, and felt that something was wrong when she listened. She looked at Ji Siming, who was concentrating on dealing with the contents of the plate, without even raising her head. Xu Hui is a little reluctant, isn't this a clear position?
"Then you classmates are not worth it, you can't get into college in China, and it's not even more muddy to go abroad, now there are more turtles, just take a foreign diploma, and you still don't have a good job when you come back." Tong Enke is different, Tong En's attendance is a first-class university in the United States, and our president is an alumnus, and he is the same tutor, and several American companies are rushing to ask for it before he graduates, and there is no comparison with those who go out to mix diplomas. ”
Xu Hui finished speaking in one breath, and then she felt relieved.
Tong En looked at her with a smile and expressed his gratitude.
The expression on He Xiao's face was a little stiff, she smiled and said: "I said, Miss Tong is excellent, we can't compare with those of us in China, my parents asked me to study in France, I didn't go, I think our Chinese culture is deeper and more infectious." Miss Tong, how much tuition do you have to send you a year when you study abroad? The cost of living is not low, right? Your family must be in good condition, and you don't need to serve dishes or anything. ”
Tong En looked up at her and said: "Our family's conditions are not good, I can't afford to let me study abroad, I took the full scholarship by myself, and my living expenses are all earned by myself. Half of the Chinese students studying in the U.S. are on their own like me, not only Chinese students, but also American students, many of whom earn their own money to pay for their tuition. ”
After speaking, Tong En smiled at the other three people and said, "I'm sorry, you eat slowly, I'll go to the bathroom." He stood up and walked towards the corridor next to him.
Xu Hui lowered her head and chewed on her favorite roast duck, and she couldn't eat anything for a long time. simply stood up and smiled at Ji Siming and said, "Eat slowly, and I'll go to the bathroom too." He turned his head and ran after Tong En.
Ji Siming put down the fork in his hand, tilted his head and poured all the drinks into his mouth, looked at the crowd under the guardrail, and said nothing.
He Xiao stared at him straightly, and it took a long time to turn his gaze to the air outside the guardrail, tears kept rolling in his eyes, and he refused to fall even if he died. She felt so stupid today, really like a fool, she had never felt so sorry for herself as she did now.