Chu Li saw that after all the artemisia grass in front of the door was cut, it grew out in the new year, was cut again, and then grew taller, it was just a small tuft before, but now it has become a grass curtain that can block the sun and the wind. The battery plant has been fully completed, and this small piece of land is not needed for the time being. Mr. Yu has remained in Dongguan since then, and he is the director of the facilities department of the battery factory. Based on the background of past cooperation, Panshi has given full play to the advantages of being close to the water, including a large number of production line fixture orders. Li Wansheng's scale is even more than in the past, he has opened up the upstream and downstream, many suppliers of TMK, and he can do customer orders, and he is in the limelight for a while. Chu Li has also broadened his contacts, markets, and raw material suppliers through him, and business trips have become the norm.

More than a year after He Tiantian returned to China, he made an appointment to meet Chu Li, who had come to Shanghai on a business trip.

Two months ago, at her uncle's child's full moon banquet, she actually bumped into Lu Chengwu, who was downstairs attending a friend's wedding banquet. She saw that his still fair skin, full of black hair, and promoted figure were still the same Lu Chengwu as before, but when he turned around and met her eyes, she saw that his sophisticated and cloudy eyes were full of strangeness, ruthlessness, and indifference. - He doesn't know himself anymore. I don't know if he has read countless people, He Tiantian has been lost in the crowd in his life, or she has been reborn and reborn. She deliberately shuttled through the crowd of strangers' banquets downstairs, the bride and groom naturally didn't know each other, and Lu Chengwu sat at the table of "colleagues", surrounded by several chubby, balding men, all three of whom were playing with their mobile phones with their heads down. She took a wine glass from a half-empty table, poured half a glass of red wine herself, and walked towards Lu Chengwu.

"Hello!" He Tiantian was wearing a camel-colored coat, her hair was pulled into a round bun, she brushed Dior's eyeshadow and highlights today, and slightly smeared her blush, she never wore false eyelashes and contact lenses like today's young girls, but even so, she still looked forward to it and looked beautiful.

"Hello." Lu Chengwu raised his head and looked at He Tiantian blankly, holding his mobile phone horizontally in his hand. After about half a minute, there was a glow in the eyes, and the out-of-focus pupils were refocused. "Are you...... He Tiantian? ”

"I thought you didn't recognize it."

"Long time no see. You...... How are you? ”

"I'm not bad. Are you attending a colleague's banquet? ”

"Yes, it's not a good idea. It's all the rage now. Are you a New Year's friend? ”

"No, my uncle is upstairs at the banquet. I just saw you at the top of the stairs and wanted to come in and say hello. ”

"Oh, I don't even recognize you. You've changed a lot, it's like a facelift. ”

"Facelift? You're exaggerating, but you're not changing. ”

After a casual greeting, the atmosphere began to be awkward. He Tiantian put down the wine glass with a smile and said to Lu Chengwu: "When I was in France, I saw Chen Jing's sister. “

Lu Chengwu's face immediately darkened.

"Alas, Chen Jing is such a good girl, it's a pity." He Tiantian shook his head, "But her sister is doing well, and that Chu Li, do you know her?" “

"Acquaintance."

"He's the factory director now, can you get in touch?"

"Not much contact."

"He set up his own factory, which seems to be quite large. He's coming to Shanghai next month, do you want to get together? How many years? It feels like a long time. “

"You're still in touch with him?"

"Well, Chen Jing's case, he has found out in Shanghai. My uncle and I helped him, and later I heard that the case had been solved. Alas, it's a pity for Chen Jing. “

”……“

"I don't think it's convenient to disturb, hey, Chu Li is coming to Shanghai, do you want to come along?"

"Me? I don't know him very well, and besides, I'm quite busy. He raised his hand, looked at the phone he was holding horizontally, and held it upside down.

"Okay, then—we'll see you later." He Tiantian stretched out his hand, Lu Chengwu hesitated, shook it gently, and immediately let go.

My uncle's child was like a tiger, with big hands and feet, and joints like lotus roots. The new aunt looks much more pleasing to the eye than the previous one, she is a northerner, and she looks generous and bold. After He Tiantian returned to China, he refused his uncle's recommendation and found a job in Pudong. Mother always helps herself arrange blind dates, and she goes when she is free and pushes when she is not free. His mother was always nagging endlessly, but fortunately, his father was on his side, tolerant and understanding of her, and secretly supported her. He Tiantian seems to have exhausted the impulse to fall in love, after returning from France, she has no desires, no clubbing, no parties, and writes articles when she is empty. She no longer admires herself in the mirror, nor does she feel sorry for herself as she gets older. She enjoys the "idyllic" life in the reinforced concrete forest of the magic capital.

At this moment, she was sitting in that café in Xujiahui, waiting for someone. As the time drew closer, nervous, anticipating, escaping, resisting, longing, she suddenly messed up, but it felt good.

She secretly lowered her head, recalling the first time she saw him, he stood next to Chen Si, watching the farce between herself, Lu Chengwu, and Chen Jing. I was like a fool at that time, jealous of an unworthy person. Later, when he rescued himself from that terrible house, it felt even stranger. That time I was embarrassed and threw myself home, how could I be like that in front of him? Fortunately, when he went to Shanghai, he was also embarrassed, and he was seen by himself. Is it a round? Thinking back to Chu Li lying naked in front of her, his heart would beat wildly. At that time, it was as if I saw a man naked for the first time, so nervous that I couldn't breathe, in fact, when I saw a man's body for the first time, I was not nervous at all, but the other party was extremely flustered.

I have never seen such a toned and well-proportioned male body. His muscles were tight, well-proportioned, and bronzed. The Adam's apple is large and as angular as his face. The trapezius muscles are as pronounced as Westerners, the pectoral muscles are flat and thick, and the muscles in the arms are as strong as the abdominal muscles without exaggeration, but the lines are clear. He frowned and fell asleep under the anesthetic, with a nasty smile that looked like mockery all over his face. She stared at his pants, hesitating. The nurse urged outside the curtain, biting her lip and stretching out her sweaty hand. His belt is perforated and easy to unfasten. She remembered that Lu Chengwu liked to use the kind of belt with a row of teeth on the back, and there was a rattling sound every time she tied it. And this kind of porous is obviously more coarse and sexy. The gray underwear inside was exposed, her hands were shaking, and her face was hot. After removing his trousers, I saw his long, thin legs and very thick thigh muscles. Unlike his fair, soft and round thighs, his thighs are undulating, and you can see the bulging blood vessels under the skin. The calves are slender and hairy. She glanced at the tense body under the boxer shorts out of the corner of her eye, and her heart suddenly pounded, and she scolded herself, pretending to be innocent.

Only then did she go to her waist and pull off her shorts, and in her veins, she only saw a blooming black chrysanthemum, and her amazing size made her even more flustered. The strangest thing is that when she helped him put on his shirt, she put her hand under his body, and felt a rough skin on his back, which felt like scales, she looked down and saw a long scar on her left shoulder blade, she touched it with her hand again, touched it, only felt that her throat was hoarse, her chest, and the blood in her head was rampant. It wasn't until she was dressed tightly that her breathing calmed down, so she lifted the curtain and walked out pretending to be calm.

She began to be angry about why she got into this matter! He came here to check for no reason, and he was not a policeman. She put her clothes in a bag and didn't know where to go for a moment. Send it home, in case my mother asks, explain it yourself to explain how irritable it is. She thought about it, it would be better to go to the nearby laundry and dry clean. After looking around, I finally found a dry cleaner, and the owner said that underwear is not washed, and jackets and pants are OK. He Tiantian asked the boss for some laundry detergent, washed his T-shirt and underwear by hand in the laundry, and then borrowed a hair dryer to dry the wet clothes. She went to a snack bar not far away and ordered her favorite wontons, and after eating, she helped Chu Li bring one. When he walked back to the hospital, Chu Li had already been pushed for surgery. She put the wonton at the head of the bed and sat there for a while, her mind full of cranky thoughts. What if this kid dies here? Did you inform his family yourself? Will he become a vegetative person? So who will the law let him support for the rest of his life? I He Tiantian takes care of him so much, he won't fall in love with me with his own affection, right? No way...... Mr. Fang Yuan is going to die of sadness. Two hours later, the nurse pushed him back with some breathing apparatus on his face and a drip. The nurse looked at the ravioli she had placed on the table and said he couldn't eat it now. He Tiantian looked at his calm face, the mocking smile disappeared, he became serious and calm, and felt strange again, as if it was an illusion that he had undressed him just now. She walked out of the hospital and didn't go back to the hospital until the cold air outside blew her cold and shivering. When it was almost dark, she felt very hungry, and after eating the cold wontons, she took the subway home. Mom and Dad didn't know anything, and when my uncle called, she ran into her room and closed the door to answer it, and the two of them knew each other as if they were complicit.

Thinking of the past, He Tiantian raised his head with a smile and saw Chu Li standing in front of him, followed by a foreigner.

"Hello Ciao." The foreigner looks thin and shrewd and capable, and when he hears the accent, he is Italian. "Leave me alone, let's talk." The foreigner went to order coffee with his head and tail wagging and went to the second floor to see the scenery very familiarly.

"Why did you bring a foreigner with you?" He Tiantian was suddenly a little disappointed, as if the intimacy he had been vaguely expecting had been disrupted by a damn foreigner, although this foreigner seemed to be very friendly.

"Let's participate in the exhibition together, purchase some accessories, and learn by the way." Chu Li wore a dark gray scarf, a brown cashmere coat, a pair of beige khaki pants underneath, black leather shoes were shiny, and his hair regained its crisp and neat appearance that had been extremely short for many years. The whole person looked energetic, a hundred times stronger than the haggard appearance three years ago.

"You look good, you're in good spirits."

Chu Li smiled a little shyly but sincerely. "A man depends on his clothes."

He Tiantian still likes his simple T-shirt, sweatshirt, and jeans, perhaps this "finely decorated" appearance suddenly increases the distance and strangeness. She seemed to have forgotten that the two hadn't seen each other in three years.

Chu Li contacted him on QQ half a month ago, saying that he wanted to come to Shanghai and asked if he could meet him. Although He Tiantian didn't know why he wanted to see him, he immediately began to look forward to and longing in his heart. At this time, it was already winter in Shanghai, she looked at the steaming factories outside the office, the busy vehicles on the elevated highway, some birds flying up and down on the Huangpu River in the distance, the tops of many high-rise buildings towering into the clouds, pedestrians covering their heads with their hands, avoiding the cold rain, and exhaling hot water vapor in their mouths, but their hearts were warm.

"Yes, you're welcome. I haven't seen you for a long time, I miss it so much! I'll take care of the wind and dust for you. Looking at the text sent in the past, I suddenly regretted it and couldn't retract it. Being so active seems to have stabbed his pride. While anxiously looking at the phone screen, waiting for a second more will lose more of his pride.

"I'll be there on the twenty-third. If it's convenient, let's have a meal together. ”

"Okay! What do you like to eat? I'll prepare! As soon as she typed these words, she deleted "What do you like to eat?" I'll prepare! Looking at the two words, I felt a little too cold, and when I hesitated, I saw Chu Li send a "? ”

What stinky fart, amazing? Can't you think about it? He Tiantian thought in his heart, but his mouth was crooked and he smiled.

"Okay! You're in for a treat, I'll arrange it, right? This time it looks better, she suddenly spit on herself for being so calculating, she has always called herself an "atypical" Shanghai beauty, straight to the point, and simply neat professional women in the new era.

"Let's meet at Starbucks first, I know that store."

What? So stingy, just invite me to a coffee? He Tiantian cursed him again in his heart. "No problem, I'll wait for you." Oops, why did you send such an ambiguous I waited for you, and now this finger doesn't obey the call. For the next two weeks, He Tiantian spent a lot of money shopping for clothes, as if he would never be able to find a satisfactory dress, and went to several shopping malls and spent thousands of dollars. In the end, I bought a few pieces of clothes at a Japanese cheap clothes supermarket. A simple hairy beige trench coat, a black wool tube skirt, accompanied by thick leggings, and black leather shoes, looks a little like Rika Akana in "Tokyo Love Story" that her mother loved to watch when she was a child.

"Wait a minute, I'll tell Wen Qinzuo and tell him to go back to the hotel first." Chu Li just sat down and stood up. At this time, the black-haired foreigner was walking downstairs, and He Tiantian heard Chu Li explain the hotel address, room number, etc. to him in extremely fluent English.

"Enjoy your date, Chu Li." The foreigner said with a smile, said hello to He Tiantian, and left happily.

"This friend of yours is Italian?"

"How do you know?"

"I can hear it, Ciao, Margarita, lolita......" He Tiantian exaggeratedly learned the Italian pronunciation.

"Yes, yes, that's it." Chu Li was also amused by her funny accent.

"Where is Italy?"

"Naples."

"Naples?"

"What's wrong?"

"Oh, no...... It's nothing. He Tiantian suddenly remembered Chen Si, but she didn't know why, and she didn't want to mention her now.

"Drink something?" He Tiantian changed the subject.

"American."

"To you!" Chu Li raised his glass dignifiedly.

"What for?"

"You saved me that time."

"It's a little thing, just happening."

"You bought the ticket for me."

"Are you going to pay me back?"

"It should."

"A calculating man." He Tiantian said with a smile, "I asked the nurse to give me the money for the doctor's treatment, and this time she specially came to give me the money for the air ticket." ”

"To be stingy is to get by."

"I don't think you're the kind of person who can get by. But if you spend Christmas with me, I'll be happier. He Tiantian said this with a red face, his eyes glowing and he looked directly at Chu Li.

Chu Li thought about it and didn't speak.

"Oh, just kidding. Look at you like that. He Tiantian laughed and said, the tide of anticipation in his heart faded in an instant.

"Twenty-three today, twenty-four tomorrow. I'll be with you on Christmas Eve. ”

"Fool, do you think I let you stay with me for twenty-five the day after tomorrow? A sucker! Twenty-four, of course! Thirteen o'clock Bala! He Tiantian regained the lost ground, and his eyes were filled with tears.

He Tiantian asked Chu Li to tell her about the current situation in Dongguan, in fact, she just wanted to know his current situation, and she still hated Dongguan as much as before. She hated the broken concrete pavement, the bumpy roads between towns, the smell of sweat on the buses, the factories here and there, and the rows of stalls that smelled of rags, she hated that there was no real police on the street, but only the auxiliary police of the Joint Defense Force, who looked like they didn't care about anything, she hated that everyone wore the same clothes, jerk pants T-shirts, or overalls, and she hated the rough and heavy food, The unrefined appearance looks cheap and dirty, she hates all young faces, any factory can find out a natural beauty like Chen Jing and easily compares her to the dust, she hates everyone's desperate struggle, you are a working boy also has big dreams, and even many people can achieve it, she even hates Chu Li's current identity, where is it as easy to approach as being poor and white? But she really felt that she liked the man in front of her.

"Why don't you come and see for yourself?" Chu Li was still not used to the bitter taste of coffee, and without taking a sip, he put on an expression of eating Chinese medicine. "Are you still scared? Haha, is there a PTSD? “

He Tiantian ignored his sarcasm, "I'll come and see." “

"It's just a small workshop, everyone is busy, there are machines and equipment everywhere, and there are workers. Nothing special. “

"What are your plans for tomorrow night?"

"Please eat. If you look at your face. “

"Then I'll have to call my boyfriend."

"No problem, you decide where you want."

"But you don't want to shout that stupid."

"What's the point?"

"The Italian."

"Okay." Chu Li readily agreed, but it stabbed He Tiantian's heart a little.

It turns out that he doesn't care if I have a boyfriend at all, just just repays me a favor? He Tiantian thought dejectedly. My mind was spinning about where to finish eating. "You go to the Bund on Nanjing Road alone, cross the road at the Peace Hotel, and wait for me by the river. Tomorrow night at six o'clock. “

"Okay." Chu Li finished drinking the coffee in the cup, and showed the expression of drinking Chinese medicine again.