Among them, Chen Chen and I have the best relationship, so I also know what happened between her and Li Rui. Li Rui's family situation is not very good. He himself has been selling men's clothing in Dongcheng underground shopping mall for several years without making much money. Chen Chen is very beautiful, and his family conditions are also very good, so the family hopes that Chen Chen can find a rich man, but Chen Chen just chooses Li Rui, who has no house or car. Therefore, the two of them had been dating openly and secretly for several years, but the family still didn't let go. To put it bluntly, they were short of money.
When Pan Siyu was not as good as Chen Chen except for his height, he found Chang Hong, an official in his family. Chang Hong himself was not very good, but he always showed a sense of arrogance and disdain in his words. Occasionally, a certain sentence would hit Chen Chen and Li Rui.
Chang Hong was complimenting me, but he stepped on Li Rui's painful foot. I was most afraid of such embarrassment, so I quickly said something casually and changed the subject.
Old friends don't see each other a few times throughout the year, but we still have a lot of fun after meeting.
Halfway through, Chang Hong asked me: "Zijin, when you come back this time, do you plan to go back to Night City again?"
I replied truthfully: "I won't go back. I will go to Winter City to find a job after the New Year."
Chang Hong said: "Then do you plan to find a partner now? I have a few good buddies. All of them are officials. They have good conditions and have bought houses in Winter City. Do you want to find a chance to meet them?"
I smiled lightly and replied: "Are you guys going to meet me together?"
Pan Siyu added from the side: "Compare whose house is bigger, whose house is bigger."
Whenever the house was mentioned, I was always worried about Li Rui and Chen Chen's reaction, so I didn't dare to answer the question openly, so I could only reply with a smile: "I don't want to fall in love yet, keep it for me when I want to." ”
Chang Hong said: "Based on your conditions, it must be a house within 1 ring, and it must be more than 100 square meters, otherwise I can't introduce it to you."
Pan Siyu said: "Da Jinzi used to have an annual salary of several million, can one hundred square meters be enough? At least it must be a small duplex with two hundred square meters."
I took the opportunity to pick up the wine glass on the table and drink to relieve the embarrassment.
Not long after, Li Rui stood up from the sofa and said he was going to the bathroom.
Chen Chen is a very good-tempered person. He always smiles and says nothing. I have to let Pan Siyu tell Chang Hong, but I feel sorry for Chen Chen.
Li Runzhu is the one with relatively high emotional intelligence among us. She can understand things that I can understand, so she doesn't interrupt herself and doesn't let Tian Haosong talk more.
In the past, when we all played together, we would always talk and laugh. Although it is the same now, it is inevitable that there is a slight layer of concern and estrangement in our hearts.
After I got home, I told my mother, and my mother said that this is because our economic status has widened, so even if we are friends, we will compare ourselves with each other.
I can't argue with that.
This year, the Chinese New Year is celebrated in early February, and many companies and units will have holidays by the end of January at the latest. I stayed at home for more than twenty days. One morning when I was sleeping in a daze, I received a phone call.
I didn't look at who it was, and I said "hi" after the call was connected.
Pan Siyu's voice came from the phone, but he deliberately lowered his voice and said to me: "Hey, hey, Da Jinzi, guess who I saw on the street."
I closed my eyes and hummed back: "I don't know."
"I saw Chen Wenhang"
I lost all sleep in an instant, and after two seconds, I slowly opened my eyes.
When Pan Siyu saw that I didn't say anything, she continued: "My mother and I went out to buy New Year's goods, and we happened to see Chen Wenhang and his parents buying firecrackers on the street."
After a long time, when I heard Chen Wenhang's name again, I was no longer furious. I just said calmly: "It's not surprising to see him. He has to come back to celebrate the New Year."
Pan Siyu said: "Maybe he doesn't know about your resignation?"
I said, "I don't know if he knows."
Pan Siyu added: "Thinking about the breakup between you two, I'm still angry now. Who the hell is he? He has the nerve to cheat on you."
I later told Pan Siyu and the others about Chen Wenhang's cheating, but I still didn't say that the person Chen Wenhang cheated on was Zhang Xinwei. Otherwise, if everyone came out of the same high school, and Liangcheng is so small, it would be hard to beat a dog’s head.
Being woken up by Pan Siyu, I didn't want to go back to sleep, so I simply made an appointment to hang out together in the afternoon.
When we met in the afternoon, there were only a few of us women, and none of the men came. They all happened to be busy. Chen Chen, Pan Siyu and Li Runzhu and I found a hot drink shop and sat down, drinking and chatting.
There was a sound of pushing the door midway, and a group of people, men and women, about seven or eight, came in from outside the store.
I didn't take a closer look until someone on the other side shouted: "Hey, Zijin"
I looked up, and sure enough I saw someone I knew among the group of people. We are in the same high school, but in different classes.
It was even better to take a closer look, and there was Zhang Xinwei among the crowd.
Zhang Xinwei and I rarely bumped into each other in Night City. Unexpectedly, we did run into each other when we returned to Liangcheng.
Liangcheng is so small that almost everyone knows each other, so the two groups came together to say hello. Chen Chen and others who didn't know the truth even said enthusiastically to Zhang Xinwei: "Why don't you come out to play together when you come back?"
Zhang Xinwei smiled lightly and replied: "I just came back yesterday."
Pan Siyu asked: "Why is your company so busy and it's the end of the year and you still don't have a holiday?"
Zhang Xinwei smiled and replied: "No, I went to Binhai with my boss. We had a holiday a week ago."
Li Runzhu said: "You didn't tell us to contact us when you came back. Even Da Jinzi doesn't know what you are doing. You are really mysterious."
When Zhang Xinwei heard this, she couldn't help but look at me, and then asked me with a smile: "When did you come back?"
I met her gaze, and for some reason, I always felt that she was asking questions knowingly.
I don’t know if she is still working in the hotel under Luo Company. If she is, she will definitely know some of my scandals in the company.
After a pause for two seconds, I raised the corners of my lips and replied with a slight smile: "Not long."
Zhang Xinwei suddenly said: "I heard that you resigned."
Everyone behind me knew it, but the people behind Zhang Xinwei seemed to have heard about it for the first time. They stared at me one by one and asked: "You have a salary of hundreds of thousands a month, how can you just give up your job?"
"That's right, let alone hundreds of thousands a month, just give me these in three to five years."
I don't know where they heard about it. It seems that everyone who knows me knows how much I make every month.
I was unhappy that Zhang Xinwei was deliberately embarrassing me, so I smiled and replied, "If you don't want to do it, just do it."
Zhang Xinwei added: "Yes, it's such a huge pressure. If it were me, I wouldn't be able to stand it."
If I wasn't sure before that she was deliberately provocative, from this sentence on, I was sure.
I stared into Zhang Xinwei's eyes and saw the added insult to injury in her smile, and a fire suddenly rose in my heart.
In front of everyone, I asked out loud: "I came back during the Chinese New Year without my boyfriend."
Zhang Xinwei didn't change her expression and quickly replied: "No, he is in Binhai and has a job. I came back by myself."
Pan Siyu immediately asked gossiping: "When did you have a boyfriend?"
Zhang Xinwei smiled lightly and replied: "It's been a while, don't you know?"
Pan Siyu said: "I don't know, Da Jinzi didn't tell us, and you don't take the initiative to contact us."
Zhang Xinwei has a boyfriend, but that man is not Chen Wenhang.
To be honest, I was a little surprised.
After the two groups stood and talked for a while, Zhang Xinwei took the initiative and said: "Let's go upstairs first. Let's make an appointment another day."
As she said that, she followed a group of people and walked upstairs. After her figure had completely disappeared, a few of us were left sitting together.
Li Runzhu said to me with sharp eyes: "Zijin, are you and Zhang Xinwei not on good terms?"
In the past, Zhang Xinwei and I were the strongest, and we looked like conjoined twins wherever we went. Now it has been almost a month since I came back to Liangcheng, and I have never played with Zhang Xinwei, and Zhang Xinwei didn't look for me when she came back. A discerning person can actually easily see the clues.
I didn't hide anything, I just replied calmly: "We won't play together after graduation."
This sentence was like a huge boulder suddenly dropped on a calm lake. It made several people ask me what happened. I had to say: "It's nothing, it's just that we don't work together, and we gradually become estranged."
Regardless of whether they believe it or not, I have no other explanation.
I thought this matter would just go away, but what I didn't expect was that a few days later, Chen Chen suddenly called me. I was preparing to have dinner at my grandma's house, and Chen Chen asked, "Is there anyone around here?" As soon as I heard her deliberately lowering her cautious voice, I immediately got up and entered a bedroom, and then said, "What happened?"
Chen Chen did not answer but asked: "Zijin, why did you resign?"
There was a sudden thump in my heart. It felt like the moment when I was exposed as a child when I did something wrong and lied. I was so nervous.
I didn't answer and asked again: "What's wrong?"
Chen Chen said: "I was online just now, and someone sent me a post, which directly mentioned you by name and said that you were the lover of the big boss in Night City. Everyone in the company knew about it, and you were fired from the company later, so you came back. "
There was a buzzing sound, and I stood there, as if even the sight in front of me was black.
After a brief pause, I immediately frowned and asked: "Who gave you this post?"
Chen Chen was also very anxious. She said: "It's a post from our high school. When I clicked on it, the number of views and retweets was thousands. There were also many comments below saying that they knew you. Zijin, what's going on? Son, what should I do now?”
I am really confused and can only use four words to describe my current state: overwhelmed.
I was holding my cell phone and couldn't say even a single word. My first reaction was to turn on my computer and read the post, but I was afraid that my family would see it.
Just as I was thinking about it, the door behind me was suddenly pushed open. I turned around like I was startled and saw my mother standing at the door.
There was no light on in the bedroom, and I was standing by the bed alone holding my cell phone. It looked really weird.
My mother was stunned for a moment, and then said: "It's time to eat, come out quickly."
After saying that, before going out, she turned on the light for me.