"Ning Ning." Colleague Xiao Zhang said to Ning Ning mysteriously, "Are you short of money?"
It's a semi-open secret that Ningning's family is poor. While washing the dishes, she admitted frankly, "I'm always short of money."
Xiao Zhang looked around and continued to say to Ning Ning mysteriously, "I have a chance to make a lot of money here."
Ningning: "Are you breaking the law?"
Xiao Zhang: "Of course not breaking the law."
"If you don't break the law, how can you be like an underground party, you have to say it directly." Ning Ning said.
"That's it..." The words seemed a little hard to say, and Xiao Zhang hesitated for a moment before telling her, "There is a big boss who was urged to marry by his family, and he would not want to get married for a while, so he wanted to hire a girl to pretend to be his girlfriend temporarily... "
Yo, isn't this renting a girlfriend home for Chinese New Year? I didn't expect such a thing to happen now, it's quite trendy.
"This opportunity to make a lot of money seems to have nothing to do with me?" Ning Ning thought about it and said, "He can't bring two girlfriends home for the New Year."
"He doesn't necessarily choose me, what if he chooses you?" Xiao Zhang pulled her and said coquettishly, "Anyway, no matter who is selected in the end, he has to invite another to dinner."
Ningning: "No need to eat, just give me the money for the meal."
Xiao Zhang: "...Oh."
After get off work, the two came to an office building together.
This big boss made finding a girlfriend like recruiting, and he even had to close the door for an interview. After Xiao Zhang entered, Ning Ning sat on the stool at the door and waited quietly. She always felt that something was a little strange, but what was strange in particular, but Can't say it again.
Footsteps sounded from far to near, and a man came over and sat beside her.
"Have I seen you somewhere?" Pei Xuan looked at her with a smile.
Ning Ning glanced at him and lowered her head again.
"I remember, we met at the hospital." Pei Xuan suddenly said, "Is your mother okay?"
Ning Ning shook his head gently.
"Someone in my family is also sick." Pei Xuan sighed, feeling empathy, "After a car accident, at a young age, he became a vegetable, how about you?"
"... My mother is the same." Ning Ning replied in a low voice, "I was crushed on the head by the fallen cabinet and became a vegetable."
"It takes a lot of money to treat this disease." Pei Xuan glanced at her hand, "What do you do?"
"... I work in a restaurant." Ning Ning curled her fingers. The weather was getting colder and more dishes were being washed. Her hands were cracked and frostbite appeared.
"You look very young, you're only in high school, right?" Pei Xuan said pitifully, "It's not easy to come out to work at this age. Don't you have reliable relatives and friends at home?"
"...No." Ning Ning answered very cautiously, although Pei Xuan seemed to be gossiping with her, but he was actually using her words.
Every action and every word of this person has a purpose. She doesn't believe that he will waste time on passers-by. what happened? Why did he find her
At this moment, the door on the opposite side opened, and Xiao Zhang walked out with a happy face, ran over and grabbed Ning Ning's hand: "Go, I'll treat you to dinner."
"Did you pass the interview?" Ningning looked up and asked.
"Yeah." A man's voice came from behind Xiao Zhang, "Don't be busy with dinner, go to the opposite bank with me to withdraw money, and I'll give you a deposit first."
Ning Ning's eyes moved to the other's face.
It was a big flat head with swollen muscles, a gold necklace on his neck, and a gold watch on his wrist, looking like a nouveau riche.
Ning Ning's eyelids jumped, she had seen this person.
Earlier in the hospital, when the elevator door opened, several men were standing behind the empty wheelchair, one of them was Pei Xuan, and the other was him.
The flat-headed man led a few people to the opposite bank, and gave Xiao Zhang two hundred and eighty-eight yuan at once. While Xiao Zhang was happily counting the money, Pei Xuan suddenly came to Ning Ning's ear and said: " shall I hire you?"
"Well?" Ning Ning looked back at him.
"I also need someone." Pei Xuan lowered his eyes and smiled at her, "Help me play a role."
"... Girlfriend?" Ning Ning asked, but she had already searched her stomach to find more than a dozen reasons to reject him. joke! This kind of person doesn't need a girlfriend at all, all he wants is the bait for catching tickets!
To Ningning's surprise, he shook his head and said, "No."
"What is it?" Ning Ning asked.
Pei Xuan opened his mouth to speak, but Xiao Zhang ran back from the opposite side and shouted excitedly, "Ning Ning, I got the money! Walk around, I'll treat you to a good meal!"
Ning Ning was pulled out by Xiao Zhang and kept turning back on the way. She thought Pei Xuan would catch up, but he didn't. He smiled without saying a word and stood there until Ning Ning and Xiao Zhang disappeared at the door, and the flat-headed man walked up to him. Beside him, he asked suspiciously, "Why don't you just ask her for money? Why do you want to ask her colleague?"
"A person who is not as good as you in every way, because of one thing suddenly made a fortune, what do you think?" Pei Xuan replied with a smile, "Will he feel unbalanced?"
A few days later, the news of Xiao Zhang's windfall spread in the restaurant.
It wasn't what Ningning said, it was Xiao Zhang who couldn't help showing off.
After all, not many people are willing to walk in brocade clothes at night, and Xiao Zhang is a man without a city, and she said to almost everyone: "I thought how difficult it was, it turned out to be accompanied by the big boss to his mother's seat for two hours, only two hours. Oh, he gave me 800 yuan, and his mother gave me a bracelet, don't you think it's beautiful? I wanted to return it, but the big boss waved his hand and said that he didn't need to pay it back..."
"The big boss is really blind." Someone envied and said to Ning Ning in private, "I heard that you went with her that day. Why didn't the big boss like you, you are much prettier than her."
"Maybe the big boss likes her." Ning Ning replied with a smile.
"Is that so? She's rustic, and she's still babbling, like a village girl. The big boss is like this?" The fat cook in front of her looked around for a while, and suddenly lowered her voice and said to Ning Ning, "Look at it. How about me? Twenty years ago, I was also the village flower of our village. Can you introduce me to the big boss? He can like Xiao Zhang, and maybe he can like me too."
Wealth and silk are heartwarming. The most important thing is that wealth and silk are easy to come by. It seems that you only need to spend a little time and energy to get huge rewards. Therefore, in addition to the fat cook, there are also several female colleagues who came over to talk to Ning. Ning either made it explicit or implied, or asked her to introduce it directly, so that they could have a relationship with the big boss.
In the final analysis, it's just an unbalanced mind.
Ning Ning saw this, and then had a little doubt: "Is this... deliberately played for me?"
If she is really a fungus, dropped out of high school, has no experience, was held in the hands of the school boys a month ago, and washed the dishes in a restaurant a month later and her hands cracked, maybe she will be taken by the people around her. Xiao Zhang was envious, jealous, and unbalanced in his heart.
Then, maybe you have to go back and try to find the other party.
But the other party was Pei Xuan.
So Ning Ning just wanted to play stupid.
But the world doesn't give her a chance to play stupid.
The next day was Friday. She went to the school to hold a parent-teacher meeting. After the parent-teacher meeting was over, she was left alone by the head teacher to talk.
"What?" Ning Ning said, "Papaya hasn't come to school recently? He... He goes out every morning at six o'clock."
"But he didn't come to school." The head teacher said worriedly, "Has he made any social friends recently? You have to watch it, don't let him go astray, this kid's grades are so good, if he keeps If you go down, you can go to Tsinghua University.”
"... I will tell him." Ning Ning said solemnly.
What followed was a tense family negotiation.
"Speak!" Ning Ning angrily blocked the door, not letting the papaya outside come in, "Where have you been recently?"
It was pitch black outside the door, it was already eight o'clock, little fat man... Oh, I can't call him little fat man now. I don't know when Papaya, who was already a fat person, stood at the door, pushed Ning Ning aside, and walked in. He opened the door, sat in front of the dining table lined with newspapers, picked up the bowl of rice that Ning Ning had not finished eating, and began to smash it.
"Say it!" Ning Ning strode back.
Papaya ignored her and cooked rice with her back to her.
"...Are you going out to find a job without telling me?" Ningning frowned.
Papaya continued to cook rice.
"Who asked you to go out to work?" Ningning's voice became higher, "What kind of work?"
With a snap, Papaya suddenly clasped the tableware and chopsticks on the newspaper, turned her head and shouted at her, "You said that someone must give up his dream, why can't that person be me?"
Full of anger, because his words suddenly vanished, Ning Ning stared at him blankly.
He opened the schoolbag beside him, took out a bottle of hand cream and stuffed it to her, looked down at the frostbite on the back of her hand, and said in a sullen voice, "How can an actress's hand look like this, you take good care of it."
After he finished speaking, he turned around and continued to cook the rice. After he finished cooking, he quickly went to the kitchen to wash the dishes, then washed his face and feet in a hurry, climbed into the bed and said, "I'm going to bed first, and I have to go out to work tomorrow... I , I'll make a lot of money and never let your hands crack from the cold again."
He seemed really tired, and after laying down, he snored soon after.
Ning Ning held the hand cream in her hand, stood beside the bed, and stared at him for a long time.
The next afternoon, the restaurant where Ning Ning worked.
Ning Ning entered the box with a plate of squirrel fish, and just after putting the plate on the table, she heard a familiar voice ringing in her ear.
"Miss Mu, we meet again."
Ning Ning turned her head, looked at Pei Xuan's smiling face, and asked knowingly, "What's the matter?"
"About my last proposal." Pei Xuan looked at her, "How are you thinking?"
Ning Ning looked at him and said coldly, "How much is the salary?"
"...Sit down." In the box where he was alone, Pei Xuan got up with a smile, opened a chair for her, and said politely like a gentleman, "This table is for you, we are finished. Say it again."
After dinner, the driver drove the two of them to a small villa.
Looking at the villa in front of him, Ning Ning felt a shadow in his heart. He seemed to like the design of a small western-style villa with a red roof and white walls. His previous marriage room with Yan Qing also looked like this. What about inside? Will it be filled with a certain woman's picture frame again? Is there another cat's eye hidden behind the photo frame
If it wasn't for the fact that before coming here, I had already explained to my boss and my colleagues where I was going, and asked a few people who had good friendships. If I didn't go home the next day, I would have them call the police. Ning Ning didn't dare to talk to Pei alone. Xuan went.
The door opened, and a maid greeted them.
The interior design is very similar to that of Yanqing's villa before, but fortunately, this time the wall is not full of photo frames.
Pei Xuan asked the maid to take Ning Ning to change into a set of clothes, a white shirt, a bright red skirt, her hair tied behind her head, and a red bow tied on top of her head. It was simple and elegant, and it made her change from a village flower to a rich woman. The lady of the rich family.
After she sat down on the sofa, Pei Xuan handed over a contract from the opposite side: "Look at this."
Ning Ning took it and saw that it was a formal actor contract. The working hours were from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm. As Pei Xuan had promised before, the salary was very good, twenty times that of her current job.
However, there are also many constraints.
"Once I accept this job, I can't quit midway?" Ning Ning looked at Pei Xuan, "Can't let others know what I'm doing?"
"Of course." Pei Xuan smiled, "Your colleague is a big mouth, I'm not sure if you are. And I don't want to make a private matter known to everyone like my friend."
Ning Ning snorted and continued to look down at the contract.
"I have to follow your arrangement and accept your training until you are completely satisfied." Ningning glanced at him, "What if you are not satisfied in the end?"
"Look at the one below." Pei Xuan said with a smile, "If I am not satisfied, I will dismiss you, but I will pay you the salary for this period of time. I will give you the amount of money for how many days you stay. "
Ning Ning looked down, and there really was this one below.
Because she suspected that there was fraud in the contract, she took it seriously and read the contract several times, but Pei Xuan didn't seem to set a trap in this contract. Ning Ning didn't know whether she should be happy or depressed, because there were Two possibilities: First, he hasn't started to set traps. Second, he had set it but she couldn't see it.
"How's it going?" Pei Xuan asked, "Any doubts?"
"...The last question." Ningning looked at him, "What role do I want to play? It's not mentioned in the contract."
"Don't worry." Pei Xuan leaned his back on the sofa, pinned a cigar between his fingers, and said leisurely, "I used to have a very good actress, but an accident happened in the middle and I asked you to be a substitute. , but even as a substitute, I am very demanding... Oh, you changed your hand cream? It's a good brand."
Ning Ning's fingers on her knees curled up.
On the back of her hand was a hand cream, a rose-scented one, imported from abroad.
This kind of hand cream is very expensive. Papaya is not something a child can afford. What kind of job would suddenly find him? What job would make him so much money at once? Who turned the people around her into bait and lured her into the bait
The doorbell rang suddenly.
"Oh, someone is here." Pei Xuan turned his face sideways, then turned to Ning Ning and smiled, "From now on, you have to play a good role - the mistress."
After speaking, he put down the cigar, got up and walked behind Ning Ning, respectfully like a housekeeper.
The door opened, and the maid came over with a man in a school uniform—he had no other clothes to wear, because the other clothes were all gone in the fire. Although it looks a little fat, but it is not so obvious, with outstanding facial features, and a three-dimensional sense. It can be called a beautiful boy, and he is a tough handsome boy. His temperament is very strange, and he has innocent impulses that belong to young people. , and has a heavy sense of responsibility belonging to adults.
He walked all the way, his eyes were looking everywhere, young people are always like this, full of curiosity about new things and new places, but when he saw Ning Ning, he was stunned, and his eyes only looked at her.
"…Sister?" he shouted.
Ning Ning looked at him.
Papaya, you really are here.