Chapter 5: A Chance Encounter with His Bride
People, especially young people, will inevitably breed some obscenity in the process of falling in love, Chen Xiang also imagined some beautiful feelings far beyond the situation at the time when he fell in love at school, and once wrote a small poem that did not match the situation at the time:
You can't believe it, love has adventures.
Not sooner or later, at that time, in that space, they met there.
It's just that some people take it as a flash, and some people develop it into a story with their hearts.
Chen Xiang never dreamed that many years later, when he was hurt by love and worried about his livelihood, the artistic conception described in this little poem really happened to him!
Chen Xiang found a new job, now his work unit is Hongguo Cabinet Factory, the same as the nature of the unit he worked before, this Hongguo Cabinet Factory is also a private boss opened, belongs to a private enterprise, however, the scale of this Hongguo Cabinet Factory is much larger than the place where he worked before, one or two hundred thousand square meters of space, two-thirds of the place is office space: five large offices, two production workshops, a sample room, warehouses and waste pools and other internal layout are clearly planned. There is a huge production base and a large artificial river, and rows of persimmon trees are planted around the river. It was supposed to be a farm or farm.
Chen Xiang applied for the project manager. In fact, what he usually does is to measure or track the progress of the project on the entire construction site at the customer's home. These jobs were still quite stressful for Chen Xiang at that time. This is mainly because he is not very proficient in CAD drawings and production processes.
However, in order to get this job, Chen Xiang deliberately exaggerated the time he had worked on his resume when he applied for the job. The work is "coaxed", but secretly, he has to pay twelve points of hard work to make others, especially his boss, not realize that he is actually a "novice" in the industry.
After less than two months of work, the company had a holiday for the New Year, and after Chen Xiang went home, he had medium and long hair and a new outfit, and the people in the village thought that he was doing well in Beijing. Somehow, Chen Xiang doesn't like to stay at home, just after the sixth day of junior high school, he returned to Beijing, and after another two months, Chen Xiang's business ability has been strong, and the list he handles is basically no problem, but he is not skilled enough in producing renderings. The company handed over more and more orders to Chen Xiang, and Chen Xiang gradually experienced a sense of accomplishment from his work.
In April, Beijing is warm and warm, and in the evening, the sun is still hot, which makes people feel very comfortable. On this day, Chen Xiang went home from work, and it was the rush hour after work, when the Beijing subway was not yet accessible in all directions, and office workers were more crowded with buses. The people on the bus were squeezed together, but the driver and conductor insisted on opening the door at every stop.
Chen Xiang was squeezed not far from the door, just enough to hold on to the handrail by the door, and when the car arrived at a new station, the conductor shouted loudly: "Open the door, let it all in, don't squeeze the door." A few people got out of the car, Chen Xianggang felt a little more relaxed, and more people were pushed into the car by the crowd.
Chen Xiang, like all the passengers who were being pushed, moved his body and wrestled his arms out, trying to find a slightly more comfortable position in the crowded field. Suddenly, a weak female voice poured into his ears, "Can this car get to Liuli Bridge?" Following the voice, he saw a girl in a dark blue professional uniform asking the conductor, she looked like she was going to get on the bus, and she was not sure if the car could take her to her destination, her expression was a little hesitant. The crowd squeezed past her, and she became more anxious and asked again, she needed to make a decision of "to get on or not to get on the bus" as soon as possible from the conductor's answer.
Xu was because there were many people, and the conductor didn't hear the girl's consultation while selling tickets and maintaining order, so the girl asked again, "Can this car go to Liuli Bridge?"
Chen Xiang shouted at the girl: "You can get there, come up." I'm also under the Liuli Bridge, just follow me then. The girl glanced gratefully at Chen Xiang, who was standing not far from the front door of the car. Because of Chen Xiang's affirmative reply, the girl was relieved to get into the car, there were too many people, and she could only stand next to the door.
After a while, when the car arrived at Liuliqiao Station, Chen Xiang squeezed to the door of the car and said to the girl, "It's here, let's get down." The girl nodded, said "um" softly, and followed Chen Xiang out of the car. I don't know which tendon moved, Chen Xiang was suddenly a little worried that the girl didn't know the way, afraid that she would get lost, so he opened his mouth and asked, "What car do you want to turn around?"
The girl said, "I'm going to transfer 302 to Cui Village." Chen Xiang was about to turn to 302, and he said to the girl without thinking: "Wait for you to get on the bus with me, I will also transfer to the 302 bus, you follow me." Chen Xiang himself didn't feel that his tone was not a question of discussion, but a declarative sentence of 'it was so decided'.
The girl said "um" in response, her expression full of gratitude. Chen Xiang paid close attention to this, although this girl was wearing a professional outfit, her expression still showed a childishness that was not familiar with the world, her facial features were upright, and there was an indescribable affinity on her slightly round face, which made people want to get closer unexpectedly. "She should have just joined the work for a short time", Chen Xiang thought so, and suddenly wanted to say something to her, but he didn't know how to talk to her for a while, and then looked at the girl who had already turned her face away, staring at the speeding buses in the distance.
After waiting for a long time, 302 didn't come. At this time, a small bus came, the kind with a starting price of two yuan. The conductor of a small public is more enthusiastic and "dedicated" than the conductor of a one-yuan bus. Seeing that the bus hadn't stopped, the female conductor pushed the door open and shouted at the passengers who were anxious for the bus: "Get on the bus, get on the bus, get on the bus at the ** station, get on the bus and go."
"To Cui Village?" The girl asked.
"Here, let's get in the car." The conductor shouted again: "Let's go to Cui Village, hey - don't wait, just get on the bus and go!" ”
The conductor's greeting seemed to make the girl make up her mind, only to see the girl turn her head and ask Chen Xiang, "Are you leaving?" ”
In fact, Chen Xiang often changes trains here, he knows that this small public can go to Cui Village, but he has always waited for a one-yuan bus, he is reluctant to take a two-yuan small public, he calculated, the one yuan saved is enough for him to buy two steamed buns and a bag of mustard.
Chen Xiang has been hungry, not only when he was young, but also when he grew up. So he thought that he couldn't afford to spend more money because of strangers, even if it was just one yuan. I only heard Chen Xiang say calmly: "I'll wait a little longer, you can go up first." ”
It seems that the girl asked Chen Xiang if he wanted to get in the car, and it was just out of politeness. As soon as Chen Xiang's voice fell, the girl couldn't wait to say, "Then I'll go first." As he spoke, he raised his feet and got into the small public, and at the moment when the car door was about to close, Chen Xiang also got into the car. Chen Xiang didn't know why he got into the car, as if at that moment his brain suddenly issued a "get in the car" command to his legs, and his legs involuntarily got into the car, this was the first time he was willing to spend an extra yuan to take the car.
Except for the empty seat behind the girl, the other seats were already full. The girl sat in the third row by the window, and at the moment when she walked to the empty position, Chen Xiang noticed that the girl was looking out the window, and there was a slight smile on her face, of course the smile was not for him, and the girl did not see him get into the car. The smile was more like a sweet smile that spontaneously came from being immersed in the recollection of some beautiful event.
He was puzzled: "What is there that can make her smile so naturally and so comfortably?" Why is it that your life is just worried about three meals a day? ”
I don't know what specific psychology it is, after Chen Xiang sat down, he quickly took out a small note from his bag and wrote down his name "Chen Xiang" and his mobile phone number "131********". After writing, Chen Xiang handed the note to the girl from behind. He only had one stop to get there, and in fact, it was more convenient to stand at the door of the car if it was only one stop away, and he didn't have to go to the back and squeeze into the seat.
The girl was stunned, looked back at Chen Xiang, smiled, and accepted the note.
Chen Xiang got out of the car with a subtle and indescribable feeling. He didn't know that because of this small note, he didn't have to spend another money to marry this girl back to him. Who knows? A small note will change the direction of his life's journey.
When he was about to arrive at the dormitory, Chen Xiang randomly found a stall outside to eat something to fill his stomach, and then returned to the small dormitory where he and his classmates and a few other boys from Beipiao were huddled together. When he was lying in bed at night, he put his phone next to his pillow and waited for the girl to call him, but when night fell, the phone did not ring. Chen Xiang couldn't help but mention it to his two classmates. "I met a girl on the bus today who didn't know the way," he said. I left him my phone, why didn't she call me. ”
His classmates Liang Gang and Feng Xiaojun didn't seem interested in his "affair", perhaps because he said it too plainly, or maybe, in their opinion, it would not be a story in itself. They didn't pick up his topic, and just continued to gossip about the topics they were concerned about. Feng Xiaojun said: "Our boss can earn 2,000 yuan for a set of cabinets, and I want to open a cabinet factory." “
Liang Gang said: "Yes, it is really profitable to open a cabinet factory now." “
Feng Xiaojun said a little excitedly: "Why don't the three of us pool some money and open it together, rent a small venue, and buy some old equipment."
"Okay." Liang Gang responded.
Chen Xiang felt that it was really unrealistic to let him take money to participate in the opening of the factory now, but he felt that if he could open a small cabinet factory with Feng Xiaojun and them, maybe he could really make money. He also looked forward to it and said, "If the three of us open a small cabinet factory, we should be able to make money." I measured the cabinet today, and I ordered more than 20,000 yuan, and the plate was only more than 6,000 yuan. ”
"yes, I didn't expect the cabinet to be so profitable now." Feng Xiaojun's face was full of excitement, "When we find a suitable venue, we must do it ourselves, and we will definitely make money." ”
In this way, the three shy young men in their pockets started their dream of starting a business and making a fortune.
After chatting for a while, Feng Xiaojun and Liang Gang slept separately, Chen Xiang picked up his mobile phone and looked at it, it was already ten o'clock, he was still thinking about why the girl didn't call him, and he couldn't tell why he was so eager for the girl to call him, maybe he was faintly worried that she didn't know the way and went the wrong way. Maybe it's because of her smile, Chen Xiang really can't explain his behavior.
In fact, whether people are lost or not, it has nothing to do with him, it doesn't even matter if they meet in Pingshui, but they just met by chance on the bus. But inexplicably, Chen Xiang was a little worried, perhaps because he wrote a note to others, but he didn't receive a call from anyone to ask him for directions. If the girl had called him, he might not have thought about it.
In the next two or three days, Chen Xiang still inexplicably thought that maybe the girl would call him, but a week passed, two weeks passed, and nothing happened. Chen Xiang gradually forgot about this matter. Fate is so magical, when Chen Xiang was about to forget the girl in the dark blue professional uniform, the girl dialed his mobile phone number.
On this day, Chen Xiang's unit was holding a celebration, the comrades were singing and entertaining themselves in the clean conference room, they were all a group of young people, having a good time, Chen Xiang's mobile phone in his jacket pocket suddenly rang, somehow, Chen Xiang's heart couldn't help jumping, he quickly took out his mobile phone and saw that it was a strange call.
Chen Xiang answered the phone, and it was a woman on the other end of the phone. Chen Xiang suddenly became nervous, although more than a month had passed, he could still hear the voice of the girl, the voice of the girl who had been thinking about him for a long time.
But Chen Xiang is worthy of Chen Xiang, who has been in love and suffered losses, I saw him suppress the excitement in his heart, deliberately pretended to be calm, and asked in a calm, curious and polite voice, "May I ask who you are?" ”
"I'm the last time I took the bus, and you gave me the note. I haven't called you all the time, but today I saw that note and gave you a call, thank you. A very smooth voice came from the other end of the phone.
Chen Xiang calmed down his excitement, walked to a quiet corner and said, "You're welcome, where do you work?" ”
The girl said, "I don't go to work, I haven't graduated yet." ”
Chen Xiang wondered: I saw her wearing professional clothes that day, why was she still a student? But when she said she was a student, he seemed more interested. I couldn't help but ask, "What school are you in?" ”
"Beijing ** University." The girl's voice on the phone was still very calm, vaguely calm and incommensurate with her identity.
"Where are you from?" Chen Xiang asked with interest.
The girl said, "Jiangsu." “
When Chen Xiang heard "Jiangsu", he couldn't help but get excited, "Really? My hometown is also from Jiangsu. We are fellows. When you have time, you come to me, and I invite you to dinner. Chen Xiang's enthusiasm was a bit beyond his own imagination, but at the moment, he didn't have the heart to analyze his behavior, he just wanted to establish contact with this girl.
The girl said in a slightly happy voice, "Well, you can cook?" ”
Chen Xiang said, "Yes." I live in the White Pot Kiln. Do you have a phone? Leave me your number. In order to be able to use his off-duty time to study CAD in the unit, he said goodbye to the two classmates who took him in and rented it alone to a local farmer's house in Baipenyao.
The girl said, "I don't have a mobile phone, you write down my pager number: 876240" Chen Xiang happily found a pen and paper, quickly wrote down the girl's pager number and verified it again, and after confirming that it was correct, he asked the girl's name again, and the girl told him that her name was Wang Yan.
"Chen Xiang, what are you doing, who are you calling in the corner, come and sing!" A young woman who looked slightly older than Chen Xiang shouted.
"Yes, are you secretly calling your girlfriend and talking about love, I'm afraid we'll listen to it, hurry up!" A short-looking fat male man shouted.
"Come, come----" Chen Xiang responded as he wrote down the girl's name and said to the girl, "Comrade called me."
"What are you doing?" The girl asked curiously.
"Today, the company is holding an event, and everyone is singing." Chen Xiang said, put the note into the pocket of his close-fitting jacket, as if he was afraid of losing it, reached in again, touched it, made sure that the note was in the pocket, and then said to the girl: "I'll go first, or they will shout again, call me next time."
"Okay." The girl said yes, and the two said goodbye to each other and hung up the phone.
The next day, Chen Xiang sent a pager to Wang Yan. The pager needs to be manually turned, and he didn't say that he missed someone, nor did he say that he would let someone call back. He only let the pager convey one sentence, "Life is a long river, and we have to go from one end to the other." The years are long, and we have to taste them slowly. These words were come up by himself, and he didn't think about whether Wang Yan would feel inexplicable when he heard it, he just wanted to tell her these words. Just like when he involuntarily muttered in front of Liang Gang and Feng Xiaojun, "Why didn't that girl call my phone", he just wanted to find someone to talk to about what was stuffing in his heart.
Wang Yan is the only "strange" acquaintance Chen Xiang knows in Beijing, who does not have any threat and does not know his details. He felt that it was safe to say these words to Wang Yan, but he couldn't tell why, it was just a sensitivity unique to men. Intuition told him that Wang Yan was a safe opposite sex who could understand his heart. He didn't think about what people would think when they received his pager message, so he let his temperament do it arbitrarily.
In the following days, Chen Xiang insisted on calling Wang Yan once or twice a day, and the content was also edited by himself. He didn't receive any response because Wang Yan was using a pager without a reply function.
Chen Xiang didn't know that his behavior, the words he said, had slowly fallen into Wang Yan's heart like a seed, and attracted some of her attention.
Maybe from the moment Chen Xiang involuntarily followed Wang Yan into the car and inexplicably left a note for Wang Yan, the god of love had already married her to him! Whether she wanted it or not, she was destined to be his bride - it seemed that it had been arranged in the dark, not sooner or later, that he had caught her there, destined to play out with him a love story that was twisted and thrilling like a drama.