Autumn, weekend.
The afternoon in Fountain Square is very lively.
On a rare day off, everyone is happy to go out for a stroll.
At this time, the sun is just right, and many pedestrians choose to take a walk in the square to blow the air. Parents who take their children out to play and couples on a date will pass by or stop at this square just adjacent to the bustling commercial street.
Ingenious hawkers sell toys here, or circle a venue to rent roller skates for people to play with. From time to time, children drag balloons and laugh and run past, and their short legs are so fast that their parents can't catch up.
Next to the relatively quiet big fountain, Lin Lan was there. At this time, he was half-squatting and feeding the ham sausage in his hand to the stray cat he just saw.
She wore a low ponytail, and an off-white windbreaker made her look very quiet. At this time, she was watching the kitten chewing food with a smile on her face, tearing the intestines in her hands even more from time to time. Feed some in the past.
"Lan Lan!"
It didn't take long for a young man to trot towards her waving his hand from the side of the street, with a little panic in his steps.
Lin Lan didn't get up immediately when she heard the familiar call, but continued to feed the cat slowly, tearing up the last chicken nugget in her hand and throwing it to the kitten, and then she slowly wiped it with a wet towel. Grabbing the oil stains on his fingertips, he slowly got up and turned to look at the young man who had walked over, with a smile on his face.
"Okay, Shao Xiuye, take the initiative to invite me over, but let me stand here stupidly waiting for you for more than an hour." She raised her eyebrows and raised her voice, "You're very good."
"No, no, no, no!" The young man named Shao Xiuye shook his head hurriedly, very eager to survive, "There was a little delay when we set off, there is an urgent matter at the company and let me go back, and then I will deal with it. I'll hurry over when I'm done! I sent you a text message before to report, don't you know who I am, Lan Lan, I've never been late when I'm with you!"
Lin Lan didn't speak anymore, she just looked up and down her boyfriend who had not officially met for a while. Shao Xiuye has a handsome face that could be called last week, with sharp facial features and a well-proportioned and tall body. When he took the initiative to pursue her two years ago, Lin Lan was also envied by many women.
Half a year ago, due to job transfer, he moved out of the city where the two worked and lived together, and went to work in the city where the company headquarters is located. The two had to separate, and now they have been in a long-distance relationship for half a year.
At this time, the man in front of him was wearing a well-made suit, his leather shoes were polished, and his hair was groomed in a disrespectful manner, but Lin Lan's impression was a little rusty.
"This, this is what I wore at work." Seeing her eyes constantly wandering, Shao Xiuye quickly said, "Before the company suddenly had an urgent matter to deal with, I couldn't help Lanlan, I didn't mean to dress like this with you. meet."
"Why are you panicking?" Lin Lan's lips twitched, "I was just about to say that you dress very handsomely at work. There must be a lot of girls who like it, right?"
Shao Xiuye smiled awkwardly: "Lanlan, what are you talking about." As if to change the subject urgently, he stepped forward and took Lin Lan's hand before walking forward, "Let's go, you've been waiting for so long, and your stomach is also full. Are you hungry? I'll take you to the old place to eat."
Both of them are working class, even if they are dating, they can't afford to go to any high-end restaurant. The old place Shao Xiuye mentioned is just a well-run cheap hot pot restaurant, and the per capita consumption does not exceed 90 yuan.
In the past, Lin Lan could always go there with a satisfied look on her face, and Le Dian Dian would follow him if he held him like this, but now, Shao Xiu Ye was thrown away by her as soon as she grabbed it.
"Shao Xiuye, you told me in a text message last month that you were promoted and raised your salary. We rarely meet once, and every time I come to you on my own initiative, you plan to invite me to eat this all the time? "
As soon as he heard the tone of his girlfriend's words, he knew that her anger had not subsided, and the man awkwardly retracted his grasping hand: "Lanlan, you are right, you shouldn't go there. Then, let me treat you to western food!"
The two walked across the square, went to the pedestrian street inside, and sat down in a western restaurant that had never dared to go in when they passed by, only to look outside. ask.
"We..." Before Shao Xiuye finished speaking, Lin Lan took the menu he had just received from the waiter.
"I want this, this, this... and this." The woman's white fingers flicked through the expensive steak, caviar, and bisque desserts on the menu, and added a four-figure bottle at the end. Red wine, watching the well-trained clerk complete the shorthand of the order, and returned the menu with a smile, "That's all for now, sorry for your troubles."
Shao Xiuye, who was sitting across from him, saw that his girlfriend had lost thousands of dollars in this order, and his face was pale for a while, and he subconsciously opened his mouth and saw his girlfriend's half-smiling eyes: "What? This is distressing? You didn't care about your salary when you secretly bought a pair of AJ for 8,000 yuan behind my back."
"That's...!" The man just wanted to refute, but was instantly stuck, and quickly lowered his head to admit, "Lan Lan, I was wrong. I didn't discuss this with you, it's my fault."
"It seems that you still remember that we agreed to save money to get married and buy a house together." The waiter had already walked away with the menu winkingly, but Lin Lan didn't let him go, "I thought you moved because of the move. After moving to a new city, the environment has changed and even the heart has become wild."
The man on the opposite side stopped talking, perhaps because of his own fault, or because of his aggressive girlfriend, the romantic and elegant couple's meal became silent, and even the violin music in the restaurant did not relieve the atmosphere.
The dishes were served quickly, and the waiters swiftly brought the exquisite dishes to the table in order, and then uncorked the bottle of four-digit red wine into the goblets of the couple.
The transparent glass stained with wine red also reflected the pair of men and women at the table, one bowed his head silently, the other held a knife and fork and ate heartlessly.
Shao Xiuye looked at Lin Lan who was elegantly cutting steak and eating very elegantly. His brows wrinkled unconsciously. In his impression, he lived in a cheap rental house and was used to food stalls. , The most free means of transportation is a small electric donkey that he bought from the second-hand market before, and his girlfriend, who was smiling happily in the back, now looks very familiar with high-end western food, which also makes him feel unfamiliar.
Looking at his girlfriend's youthful face, a guess that made him burst into anger suddenly came to mind.
"What are you thinking?" The other party suddenly looked up at him, but unknowingly she had run out of food, "It's rare to eat a big meal but you're absent-minded, is there something you want to tell me?"
In a word, Shao Xiuye calmed down again. Originally, he still felt guilty and guilty, but the sudden thought made him suddenly forget it.
"It's nothing." He looked at his girlfriend opposite, "actually, I just wanted to ask you if there was anything you were not used to during the six months that I wasn't by your side. To be honest, when I came to this new place, I was really everywhere. I've run into a wall, and I've been in a hurry in order to stand firm. It seems that even you have been left out a lot without realizing it. Lan Lan, I'm really sorry."
Listening to the other party's apology, the corners of Lin Lan's mouth twitched up strangely: "Don't say that, Ye, you will be busy when you go to a new place, and it's normal to have no time to contact me. How can I blame you for that? You don't have to say sorry to me. Besides, I have nothing unaccustomed to leaving you."
Shao Xiuye's sense of guilt that had arisen again was dispelled by Lin Lan's heartless last sentence. The other party didn't stop there, but picked up the napkin and wiped his mouth casually.
"What? Suddenly complaining to me about this, do you want to break up with me?"
His girlfriend had a playful tone, but suddenly hit Shao Xiuye's innermost plan.
"...Yes, a long-distance relationship is too hard." He dropped his knife and fork, took a deep breath, and looked up at his opposite girlfriend as if determined, "Lanlan, let's... break up."
As soon as the last three words came out, Lin Lan was wiping her mouth with a square towel.
Seeing this, Shao Xiuye felt a sudden shock, and quickly continued to explain: "I know this decision will hurt you a lot, but I'm sorry, Lan Lan, I really don't have the confidence to maintain this relationship..."
"Then break up."
The calm and firm response interrupted the belly draft that Shao Xiuye had been preparing for a long time. He stared blankly at the opposite, his girlfriend was throwing the napkin back on the table.
"It just so happens that I also feel that there is no need to continue this kind of long-distance relationship like a reverse post. Every time to accommodate you, I, a girl, take the initiative to come to you by train. You never said that you would come to me in turn. Shao Xiu Ye, why are you so embarrassed?"
There is no disbelief, no crying and entanglement, and no hysteria. The woman's performance is very calm, so calm that she can turn around and criticize the other party's various faults.
This embarrassed the man who should have been relieved to break up smoothly, but in addition to the embarrassment, he was a little angry.
Thinking of how women are used to high-end Western food, the thought that he had only guessed before made him more and more certain under the anger at this time.
Just as he was about to ask, the woman who had become an ex-girlfriend glanced at him casually, and pointedly pointed at the high-end suit on him: "By the way, I wanted to ask before, your suit seems to be custom-made by yourself. The price is not cheap, your company is so good to every employee in it?"
Her tone was gentle, but it seemed like a basin of cold water had quenched Shao Xiuye's anger.
Shao Xiuye didn't dare to make trouble again, or even dared to say any more off-topic, and turned his head slightly embarrassed and embarrassed: "Since you're full, let's go."
Lin Lan nodded noncommittally, got up and left the seat, both of them seemed to want to maintain their final dignity, and even when the man was checking out, the woman was still waiting, as if the treacherous breakup at the dining table didn't exist.
But it is destined to be just an illusion.
Leaving the restaurant and walking outside again, Shao Xiuye's face completely sank.
"Lin Lan." He stopped his ex-girlfriend who was about to leave. Although he was dressed in cheap clothes, he couldn't hide his beautiful features. When he looked back, he still couldn't hold back his slim appearance, "We have been apart for half a year. , did you find other people behind my back... "
Before he could finish speaking, two car horns honked suddenly behind him, and a fiery red Bentley slowly stopped in front of the two of them.
The flamboyant and flamboyant sports car, just like its owner, is beautiful, eye-catching and majestic.
"Shao Xiuye!" Bai Fumei, who stepped down from the driver's seat, walked over with her chin raised, and the arrogance that anyone could see through the high-heeled shoes stepped out, "I said why you were always absent-minded in the company before and made excuses. Running out, it turns out to be for this woman!"
The man's expression changed when he saw her: "Miss Jiang, why are you here?"
"The car you used in the company came for a date, how could I not know?" The wealthy daughter called Miss Jiang gave him a cold snort and then ignored him, then glanced at Lin Lan with a more critical look, at first unhappy Sweeping her face, she pursed her lips and smiled after seeing the other party's cheap clothes, "This is what you were looking for before? The shabby look really suits you, why, are you still reluctant?"
In the face of the domineering daughter of a rich family who crushed her rival with contempt, Lin Lan did not get angry, and even looked at her ex-boyfriend calmly: "Your new love? It seems that the time to hook up behind my back is quite early. Rich Very good."
In a word, cracks appeared on the arrogant face on the opposite side, turning into anger.
A Bentley luxury car, two beauties and a handsome guy, were talking about such an exciting conversation on the street where people came and went, and unknowingly attracted many passers-by to stop and watch.
Shao Xiuye, who was surrounded by so many eyes, felt that his whole body was being roasted on the fire. He took a step forward and tried to coax Miss Jiang: "I have broken up with her, so let's go back now."
His plea was directly pushed aside by Miss Jiang without looking back, the rich girl raised her long eyebrows sharply, and smiled even more wildly at Lin Lan with a frosty face: "Yes, rich That's good. I know you, and I also heard that you and Aye planned to save a dollar before they separated, and planned to buy a house in Modu to get married? It's very hard, right? I just don't know how to save money Now I don't know if I have enough for one-tenth of the down payment? But I don't have this trouble anymore. My family has several properties there. If you talk about it, you can give A Ye a set, which can save him half his life. "
"Ms. Jiang said yes." Faced with such blatant ridicule, Lin Lan did not change her face, "In order to save half a lifetime of struggle, it is not surprising that he turned to you. Dislike of the poor and love of the rich has existed since ancient times, and climbing Gaozhi is not only for women. Come and do it, now that men and women are equal, it is normal for him to do so. So I don't blame him, he will leave it to you to take care of him in the future."
This remark caused some onlookers to laugh directly. It turns out that equality between men and women and human nature can still be used in this way. But to Shao Xiuye, this scene was completely tantamount to humiliation.
"Enough!" He stared at Lin Lan and couldn't bear it anymore, and pointed at her, "What right do you have to say about me! Yes, I'm sorry for you! But aren't you the same! During the six months we were in different places, you dared to say you Didn't you betray me?"
In the restaurant before, she had no stage fright at all, and she was more proficient than him when eating high-end Western food, which meant that she didn't need to say anything!
There was more discussion at the scene, and the melons seemed to be getting bigger and bigger, and many people were reluctant to leave.
In the face of Shao Xiuye's counter accusation, Lin Lan just smiled slightly and drove gently: "It's not early, I should leave, my car is coming to pick me up."
car
Everyone was taken aback by her words. At this moment, they heard two more whistles on the street. Everyone subconsciously followed the sound and saw a Rolls-Royce Phantom slowly stopping behind the Bentley.
The large body is graceful and elegant, the silver-gray paint surface shines brightly, and the iconic little golden man on the front of the car stands above the double R LOGO with a luxurious atmosphere, abruptly comparing the flamboyant Bentley in front of it to a little girl.
After the vehicle stopped, a middle-aged driver in a decent suit came out and opened the rear seat door.
A handsome man with blond hair and blue eyes and golden glasses got out of the car. He was wearing a black suit and carrying a briefcase, like an overseas elite who only appeared on TV. He walked slowly towards this side with long legs, causing confusion. The few passers-by secretly exclaimed.
At this time, the overseas elite stopped in front of Lin Lan and saluted her respectfully: "Miss, I'll take you back to China."