The rich aroma of meat wafts in the air, mixed with the spicy aroma of cooked chili peppers. There was a table between me and Luo Xiangdong, and the hot pot in the middle of the table was filled with steam. I was in a trance for a moment, and I couldn't see clearly the expression on Luo Xiangdong's face.
After a pause of maybe five seconds, I said aloud: "What do you mean, as long as we don't go to bed, we can't get married?"
Luo Xiangdong replied calmly: "To choose a fruit now, you have to taste it before buying it, let alone a big event like getting married. To put it mildly, I haven't tried it before marriage. Who knows if there will be any problems after getting married? ”
I immediately became angry and replied with a glare: "What's the difference between saying that and using strong words? This is just a high-sounding excuse for you men's dirty thoughts!"
Luo Xiangdong said: "Why is this an excuse? Let me tell you the truth. No man is willing to have a platonic relationship with a woman, unless... he is abnormal."
After a pause, he said again: "Actually, you women are quite hypocritical sometimes. Don't say that you didn't think about that when you were in love. How can you treat the uncooked rice with cooked rice?" The fault is all put on us men. It’s not like you don’t enjoy it. To a certain extent, we have done more, so no one feels sorry for us.”
Look at the aggrieved look on his face. If you just look at the expression and don't listen to the content, I will be overflowing with sympathy. But at this moment, I just want to throw hotpot soup in his face.
Of course, the person sitting opposite me was Luo Xiangdong, so I only dared to think about it.
But I couldn't swallow this breath in vain, so I counterattacked: "Okay, I won't discuss with you who contributes how much, I will just ask you, if it is you who chooses the marriage partner, is it your choice? Important conditions?”
When Luo Xiangdong saw me launching the first round of attack, he paused for a moment, and then replied without changing his expression: "No."
I followed closely and continued to ask: "When you say no, do you mean it is not an important condition, or do you not care at all?"
Luo Xiangdong looked back at me intently. He did not fall into the trap I set, but said soberly: "There must be a bottom line if you don't care at all. When I say I don't care, I don't regard whether she is a virgin or not as whether she can get married." It is a necessary condition, but this does not mean that she has been with many people, but I still don’t care, this is completely different. ”
I saw that he had seen through the trap in the first round and immediately launched the second round of attack. I said, "Then what is the bottom line that you can bear? Has she been with one person, two people, or three people?"
Luo Xiangdong finally frowned slightly at what I said, and he asked aloud: "Can't I, Luo Xiangdong, find a woman?"
When I saw him showing his defensive gap, I immediately focused on his weak areas and asked repeatedly: "But according to what you said before, it is obvious that you can try love before marriage. Or do you have an obvious 'patriarchal' mentality in your heart?" Men can do it, but women can’t?”
Having said that, before Luo Xiangdong could answer, I made a descriptive summary: "To put it bluntly, it's not that we women are duplicitous, but that you men love you too much. Women are clean and self-sufficient, but you say this is pedantic and conservative, so it's not okay; those who are passionate and unrestrained , you don’t refuse anyone who comes, but after trying it, you still say no. If you say you want to marry someone who is pure, isn’t this a slap in your face? No matter how you say it, you are right. You are really in this world. The best liar in the world and the ability to justify it!”
I said everything I didn't say to Chen Wenhang to Luo Xiangdong, and I said it without emotion.
After finishing speaking, Luo Xiangdong did not respond immediately. Apart from the slight sound of the spicy soup in the hot pot being simmered on the table, there were only faint whispers from other guests at the tables around him.
I had some regrets, mixed with a little fear. I shouldn't have said such things to Luo Xiangdong impulsively. I was afraid that he would be angry, so I looked at the expression on his face without any trace, but there was no joy or anger on his face.
After the table was quiet for a moment, I picked up the bottle and poured the remaining beer into a glass.
I raised my glass and said to Luo Xiangdong, "I'm sorry, Mr. Luo, what I said just now was a bit unpleasant, but it's not to you. Don't take it to your heart. This glass of wine is my apology to you."
After that, I raised my hand and drank a glass of beer in one gulp.
I drank this glass of wine too quickly and was nervous, so I choked a little after finishing it. I coughed several times and my eyes were red.
While I was wiping my mouth with a tissue, Luo Xiangdong, who was sitting opposite me, finally spoke. He replied in a lukewarm voice: "You're right, men do love to lie and are fickle. Don't say you don't Understand our hearts, sometimes even we don’t understand ourselves.”
I was a little surprised that Luo Xiangdong would respond to my previous aggressiveness.
Looking up at him, I suddenly felt a little emotional, so I whispered: "Is there really no man in this world who is not fickle?"
Luo Xiangdong put his right wrist on the edge of the table, stroking the wine glass in front of him with his fingers. After hearing this, he replied loudly: "If a man is not bad, women will not love him. Bad men are always the most fickle men."
Without thinking about it, I quickly replied: "But I have always only liked good men. It doesn't need to be handsome or rich, as long as he is devoted to me."
After finishing speaking, I suddenly thought of the conversation we had when I first met Luo Xiangdong.
I said, "I didn't ask him to be good-looking, or how much money he had. I didn't even ask him to be nice to me. I just asked him not to cheat on me and not make me sick!"
Luo Xiangdong's answer at that time was: "A man is not good-looking, has no money, and treats you badly. Are you crazy enough to choose him?"
Thinking of the scene at that time, I was afraid that Luo Xiangdong would choke me like this again, so I quickly added: "You don't need to be handsome but not ugly. You don't have much money, but at least you have to work hard. I just want to express In a kind of mood, my requirements are really not high, I just hope that he will treat me wholeheartedly, and that’s enough.”
Luo Xiangdong looked at me and said: "You don't have to be so pessimistic. In fact, I said that men are fickle, but that's not absolute. There are scumbags and idiots. Don't you have the kind of people around you who are single-minded in pursuing someone for several years? man?"
When Luo Xiangdong asked me this question, I couldn't help but calm down and think about it. Not long after, Kuang Yiyang's face appeared in my mind.
When Kuang Yiyang was a freshman, he started chasing me. Now that I have graduated, his feelings for me have always remained the same. I don't know if this can be considered wholehearted.
Seeing my silence, Luo Xiangdong asked aloud: "Who are you thinking of?"
I blinked my eyelashes lightly, because I was a little drunk, so my reaction was slow. After a few seconds, I whispered back: "But if you like someone wholeheartedly, that person may not like him."
When Luo Xiangdong heard this, he said sarcastically: "To put it bluntly, everyone is cheap."
I admit, I'm a bitch.
Kuang Yiyang liked me wholeheartedly, but I was obsessed with the pain of being cheated on by Chen Wenhang and couldn't extricate myself.
I picked up the wine bottle at hand and was about to pour the wine, but found that the bottle was empty.
Luo Xiangdong across from me handed me a newly opened bottle of beer. After I took it, I simply blew on the mouth of the bottle.
Of course, I couldn't drink the whole bottle in one go. I was just angry, angry at myself. I was worthless, incompetent, and incapable of being cruel. I deserved to be bullied.
With my chin raised, I drank while looking at the chandelier above my head. The warm yellow light made my vision blurry. At a certain moment, I drank to the extreme and couldn't help but put down the bottle. My head felt heavy, so I stretched out my hand to support it.
Luo Xiangdong on the opposite side said: "I'm inviting you to dinner. Don't just drink, but also eat something."
After drinking too much, my dizziness doubled. I could hear Luo Xiangdong's voice, but I couldn't react in time.
Luo Xiangdong used serving chopsticks to pick up the cooked meat and balls for me, and placed them on the plate in front of me.
I hold my forehead with my left hand and pick up the chopsticks with my right hand. When eating, I even know how to dip the food in.
Luo Xiangdong said: "The two of us talked a lot tonight. If you really believe me, I will give you a trick to make sure you forget that scumbag."
Hearing this, I held half of the fish balls in my mouth. I raised my head and asked vaguely: "What's the trick?"
Luo Xiangdong said: "The best way to forget a relationship is to start the next relationship. It's not like there is no one chasing you around. Just the one I saw last time, your junior, I think he is quite good. He looks good. He's so handsome, you might as well stay with him."
I thought what Luo Xiangdong could do for me, I quickly shook my head, frowned slightly, and replied aloud: "He can't do it."
Luo Xiangdong glanced up at me and said, "Why can't he?"
"My junior fellow student is so nice, I regard him as my younger brother."
Luo Xiangdong said: "Don't you just want to find someone good to you? I think he treats you well. You said it yourself. He has been chasing you for several years. This is quite single-minded."
I said, "It's just because he treats me well that I can't be with him in such a daze. It's not fair to him to date him just to forget about that scumbag Chen Wenhang."
After a pause, I added, "This isn't love either."
I always thought that after being hurt by Chen Wenhang in this way, I was afraid that I would no longer love or even believe in love. But it is undeniable that deep down in my heart, I still believe in love, and I will not be so impulsive as to start a new relationship in order to heal my wounds. This would not only be sorry for that person, but also sorry for what I have always insisted on.
Perhaps because of drinking, I could chat with Luo Xiangdong casually, and I could also tell him what was on my mind without any defense.
I remember that before we ended this topic, the last words Luo Xiangdong said was: "Liang Zijin, I have to remind you that sometimes people really shouldn't be too stubborn. It's better to find someone who likes you than to find someone who likes you." People who like it are very happy.”
More than one person has said this to me.
I slowly raised the corners of my lips, revealing a helpless and self-deprecating smile, and said, "Maybe I will always be stubborn to the end..."