Small Times 3.0 Golden Age

Chapter 10 CHAPTER 09
Gu Li is much better than me.

This is obviously a no-brainer.She's richer than me, she's thinner than me, she's prettier than me, she's smarter than me, she's fiercer than me, she's braver than me.There is no end to this kind of sentence for a while.

But I also have something better than her.For example, I am more emotional than her, I have longer hair (but shorter knowledge) than her, and I have a more complete family than her.I might have thought that she was too short-tempered before, and short-temperedness was like a fire that could not be wrapped in paper, so I would think that I was more calm than her.

But obviously, I was wrong.

After she knew that Chongguang was not dead, and that it was Lu Shao who was alive and kicking right now, she lived quietly for more than a week.She looked at me with eyes as clear as water, like a pool of clear springs as deep as the ankles, in which a few small fish swim back and forth, clearly visible.But who knows, she hid a sperm whale inside.

However, after I heard her say the word "Chongguang", I blurted out without a second's pause: "How do you know?"

As soon as I finished speaking, Tang Wanru sighed: "Oh, you are stupid!" Obviously, it was too late for her to stop me.

Gu Li raised her funny little face hiding under the safety helmet, her eyebrows were furrowed into a Nike look, and she pointed at Tang Wanru: "So, you already know."

Tang Wanru didn't speak anymore.

Gu Li turned his head gently to Wei Hai again, Wei Hai's expression was not surprised, only embarrassment; no shock, only panic.So——"It seems that even Wei Hai knows about it?"

In the silence of the room, Gu Li gently took off her sunglasses.Her eyes glanced at the faces of several of us in turn, and she rubbed her hands in plastic gloves gently, just like she did when she smeared her hands with thick hand cream every night before going to bed.

I think she is about to start dismembering the body.

But I guessed wrong again.

I found that my understanding of Gu Li over the past ten years has become more and more inaccurate recently.I used to be able to roughly guess her next move, but in the past six months, I have repeatedly failed.

She didn't turn out her fangs and snarl at us, or pick up a white knife and gracefully dismember us.She didn't even mention it at all.Do you think this is bearable?What kind of route is this?

But from the perspective of simply moving, Tang Wanru was right to invite Gu Li.She wasn't fighting alone, she brought a cleaning team.When the professionally trained team appeared in Tang Wanru's small old apartment, I really felt like I was watching the Flying Tigers with laser weapons and nano-protection standard equipment performing a "take the granny and the children to cross the road" " task.You can't use a ox knife to kill a chicken. Gu Li didn't bring a ox knife, she brought the Yitian Sword Dragon Slaying Knife - so Tang Wanru, or Tang Wanru's apartment, was that unlucky chicken.

Therefore, when this well-trained professional team with uniform white uniforms and masks and glasses was activated, the few people in front of us were laid off.Our remaining task is to drink tea leisurely with Gu Li in the sofa area that has just been cleaned up.Of course, this tea was not poured out of Tang Wanru's cupboard anymore. After Gu Li made a pot of Tang Wanru's tea before, she only took a sip, "At least I tried my best." The steaming pot of tea was poured into the sink.Later, she suggested: "Let them clean up, how about we go to the courtyard of Puli Hotel for afternoon tea? Let me tell you, there are wild birds in that courtyard, and the birds are huge , I once thought their family raised chickens in the yard.”—Of course, this proposal was ruthlessly rejected by us.Tang Wanru said: "Everyone is gone, what about these people stealing things?"

Gu Li spread out her plastic gloves, shrugged her shoulders and said, "Do you think these people are vegetarians? Their income is much higher than yours. There is no use for them to steal back these things in your house, they can only donate them." To charity. I don't think they are charitable people based on their fee scale. The bill they billed me was simply uncharitable."

Tang Wanru fell silent.But she still retains the last dignity, and she refuses to go out for tea.

So Gu Li took the next best thing, and took out the tea leaves in a matte Japanese lacquer box from her "suitcase". Tea leaves come out, and since she's wearing a sanitizing gown and glove mask (and that funny hard hat), she looks like a forensic doctor doing an autopsy: "Then drink mine."

I drank the pot of tea she re-brewed with mixed feelings.This is the first time Gu Li and I have been together for such a long time.Although the scene in front of us is the most familiar and intimate habitual scene: a group of people gather together and listen to Gu Li's vitriolic jokes in life.

If it had been before, I would have been reclining on the sofa, leaning on my boyfriend, or Nan Xiang, laughing all over, and at the same time not forgetting to drink the extravagant drink provided by Gu Li.I will feel that the years are like a scene and the world is stable. I will feel that Gu Li is like a Valkyrie on the battlefield. We soldiers only need to follow her, hold plastic knives and pretend to wave and shout for her, and she will be able to Invincible, always triumphant.We live under her protection, like hibernating squirrels in a hot tree hole, the wind and snow are close to us, but the cold is far away.

But now, that feeling is gone.

I looked at Gu Li and thought she was very strange.

I watched her look around and listen to all directions, and watched her pick up a small Hermès silk scarf and wave it around, like a traffic policeman or a pirate directing the voyage.I couldn't feel happy when I listened to the "monster of mixed jokes and poisonous tongues" that spewed out of her mouth like steel balls.

I don't feel like I'm safe anymore.

I thought I was still lying in the tree hole, but the forest outside was starting to burn.

"That flower pot is already so dirty, so I don't want it. If I read correctly just now, is there an earthworm in it?"

——Miss Gu, this is a bowl.

"Don't put Jieeryin on the sink, what does it look like! This kind of thing should of course be put in the refrigerator!"

——Miss Gu, this is mouthwash.

"What do you think this is? Towel quilt? Don't be ridiculous, this is obviously a carpet. Come, help me spread it on the aisle."

——Miss Gu, but there is a label on the back of this one, with the words "towel quilt" written on it.

"Why is there a dishwasher next to the bed in the bedroom? Even if the owner is used to eating supper in bed, it doesn't mean she can accept washing dishes on the bed! Come on, listen to me, put to the bathroom."

——Miss Gu, this is not a dishwasher, this is an air humidifier.

"Air humidifier? What is an air humidifier? There is no such thing in the world. Don't just give things names for granted. Who do you think you are, Edison? Let me tell you, the air conditioners in the world are all automatic. With humidification function."

……

So, for the rest of us, there are only two things left to do: one, sit on the sofa and drink tea; two, drink tea while watching Gu Li perform stand-up comedy.

The speed-trained Flying Tigers were flying around the small apartment, and in less than an hour, the home looked interesting.

After another hour, everything was packed, and only the last large cardboard box was left, but the faces of the Flying Tigers were obviously a little hesitant, because there were six large characters written on it: "The best time ".

The Flying Tigers didn't dare to move, because they had already been surprised by several boxes such as "Jingjing Years", "A River of Sadness", "These are all my love for you", "Female Flower".

"Just put it there. I can pack this box myself." Tang Wanru said to these people wearing disinfection coats.

Those professional cleaning team left after a while.The room suddenly became empty, and I felt that the whole space became larger, and even the temperature dropped along with it.I pulled a blanket over the back of the sofa and wrapped it around me.Chong Guang looked at me, walked towards me calmly, gently put his arm on my shoulder, and then pulled me towards his strong chest.

"Tell me, what's in this box?" Gu Li asked Tang Wanru while taking off his gloves and hard hat, "Is it a corpse or drugs?" She was still wearing the disinfectant coat, but because she just took it off Hat, disheveled hair, pale face, looks like a pregnant woman about to give birth.

"Drugs? Do you think I'm Nan Xiang?" Tang Wanru said carelessly. She said it in a relaxed and natural way, and didn't care, but everyone else in the room felt terrified.

"Oh yes, why isn't Nanxiang here? Are you working overtime again?" Gu Li raised his chin at me when he remembered.

"It should be." My scalp tightened for a while, I looked at Wei Hai's expression, he was silent on purpose, it seemed that he didn't intend to tell Gu Li.Since the parties involved are unwilling to mention it, I have no position to announce it to the world, so, "You know, the assistant who just joined "ME" is no different from the female textile worker in Dongguan."

Gu Li nodded, it seemed that she didn't want to pursue it further.She's clearly obsessed with that box of "The Best Times Ever."She tilted her chin, her eyes gleamed with a mouse spirit: "Tang Wanru, I remember a line in the movie that said, 'You know you're going to have sex, but you don't know when it's going to be. This is the most beautiful thing. Time', tell me, what is in this box? If it is related to your first night, don't open it for us to see, otherwise I will directly hand it over to the police station as evidence in court."

Tang Wanru winked at Gu Li, and said in Su Daji's vixen tone, "There's you inside~"

Gu Li silently squeezed closer to me, and pulled half of the blanket over his body.She silently shut up.

Tang Wanru's gaze shifted to my face: "Lin Xiao, there is also you inside~"

I clearly felt Sogo trembling in his arm holding me.

——I didn't expect that the box didn't become a pile of atoms that smashed all of our minds to pieces. On the contrary, it became the catalyst for the reconciliation between Gu Li and me—to talk about reconciliation, in fact, we didn't turn against each other. Meet each other.It should be said that it became the catalyst for me and Gu Li to become close again.Later, after a long, long time, even to the end of the story of our group of people, every time I recall that afternoon, when Tang Wanru opened the box, I always feel that I can smell a smell, something that seems to have The smell of life.It's not strong, it's thin, it's pitifully fragile.It is like a species that cannot adapt to the harsh environment, with frightened and flustered eyes, resentment and embarrassment, tenaciously surviving in this world.

It is ours, the past.

It awakened all the trust and liking, dependence and indulgence for Gu Li in my body. Memories conquered me, and the past gripped me tightly.Since then, I have never doubted or hated Gu Li again.However, I never thought that there would be such a day, when the whole world turned their backs to Gu Li indifferently, the only person left by her side was me.

There are many, many pasts in the box.

Inside the box are our photos, our graffiti, our classmate records, the decorations that were placed in our dormitory, our student ID card, our cafeteria card, our teaching materials and textbooks, and the blankets we used for yoga.

There are also pajamas we bought together in the box.It was in January 2007, when MUJI first entered Shanghai, the style was released. Now it looks very old and rustic, but if you can wear MUJI back then, it is like those who drink instant coffee and are obsessed with Baby Annie and always want to go to Lijiang for a one-night stand. The ultimate dream of literary youth.Like a nouveau riche, Gu Li threw a handful of cash and bought a set for each of us. She broke the hearts of all the literary youths with her naked face.

There was also a piece of plaster removed from Nan Xiang's arm in the box.When the university just started, Nan Xiang hadn't bought a bicycle yet, so I always drove her to class.In the spring of that year, fluffy catkins were blowing all over the campus. My eyes were severely allergic to this furry wind and wept continuously. So one morning when I didn’t wake up, I let go of my hands in a daze and rubbed my eyes. , So Nanxiang and I led the car and fell off the three-meter-high green belt. Nanxiang's left hand was broken on the spot, but I just scratched the skin.She stayed in the hospital for a month, and when she was discharged from the hospital, Gu Li quietly settled all the medical bills.

The four pure white cups we made together in college are also in it. When the four of us went to Zhouzhuang for fun, we bought them in a vulgar souvenir shop full of tourists.At that time, we felt that besides going to school, being able to drag Gu Li out of the inner ring was something worthy of being recorded in the annals of history, so we thought about how we should leave something to commemorate.So we made these four cups: as long as hot water is added to the cups, our photos will emerge from the walls of the cups.The photos were taken on site with Gu Li's mobile phone and imported into the owner's computer.Back then, only Gu Li used a smartphone, but now, we all use Apple.

Inside the box is the "Roommate Guidelines Memorandum" drafted by Gu Li, which has 11 pages in total, 7 major items and 119 minor items.From "It is strictly forbidden to bring the same sex back to the dormitory overnight, and the opposite sex must declare in advance and wait for approval", to "When a consensus cannot be reached on a certain proposal, the opinion of the majority shall prevail. One side's opinion prevails."On the last page of the memo, there are the bloody handprints of the three of us, Nanxiang and Tang Wanru. It looks like a deed of prostitution, but Gu Li smartly affixed a private seal.

There are many, many photos.

My 16th birthday photo, in front of the double cake, I look like a starving refugee from Ethiopia, I don’t look like I’m about to blow out the candles, I look like a village woman who fasted for three days.Gu Li was by my side, with a contented and proud expression on her face: because she bought the cake for me.This is the biggest and most expensive cake I have ever seen in my 16 years of life.For many years before my birthday, I just passed it by eating a bowl of longevity noodles at home.

There is a photo of me going to Gu Li's house to spend the night when Jian Xi and I had a big quarrel for the first time and were about to break up.I was in her silk pajamas, wrapped in her quilt.My eyes were red like soaked peaches.I remember that Gu Li said to me lightly at that time: "So what? Are you going to kill him? It's up to you." After she finished speaking, she took out the camera from the cabinet, held it in front of us, and took a picture of this Take a photo, "Lin Xiao, take a photo to commemorate your first stay at my house." At that time, both of us had small breasts, and we could only see small lotus tips under our silk pajamas.My face was pressed against hers, I looked so ugly and she looked so beautiful.

There are also photos of our first day of registration at the university. The two of us sat in Gu Li’s private car and got off at the gate of the university. I was carrying two large bags, a heavy suitcase and a mountaineering bag. Carrying a CHANEL 2.55 and wearing sunglasses, Gu Li took a group photo at the school gate.After taking a group photo, she directed two servants who got off from a car behind to carry her four RIMOWA aluminum alloy boxes into the dormitory.Then, she stretched out her hand and picked up a cloth bag for me.

There is also a photo I took with my mobile phone, which Tang Wanru actually developed.In the photo, Nan Xiang and Gu Li are sitting together, but they turned their heads away from each other, obviously angry.In the photo, Nan Xiang is tearful, like a tulip wet by rain, while Gu Li has a bruise at the corner of her mouth, but her eyes are still cold, and her face is always like frost on the moon and snow on the mountain.They just had a fight with Xi Cheng, and what happened in simple terms is that Xi Cheng slapped Nan Xiang, Gu Li couldn't understand it, so he poured Coke on Xi Cheng, Nan Xiang felt sorry for Xi Cheng, and stopped him, but While Gu Li and Nan Xiang were arguing, Xi Cheng pulled Gu Li's hair and slapped her across the face.Next, without any hesitation, Nan Xiang grabbed a beer bottle beside him and threw it on Xi Cheng's head: "Fuck you, you think Gu Li is me, you can hit him if you want!"

There is another photo of me and Gu Li, both of us wearing black dresses, with a white camellia pinned to her ear.The background is endless green hills and white tombstones.That was a photo of us together when her father was buried.

There is also a picture of Nan Xiang and Gu Li working together to press Tang Wanru on the sofa and beat her.I was the one who took the photo, and I recorded this wonderful moment beside me.That day, Nan Xiang bought a late-night snack at the back door of the school after his self-study next night, but on the way back, at the corner, he met an exhibitionist riding a bicycle.He is amazingly talented, possesses unique skills, and rides by with one hand with a lewd smile on his face-of course, the other hand is busy picking things up.Nan Xiang returned to the dormitory in a state of shock, nestled on the sofa, I helped her get a blanket, Gu Li poured her a cup of hot water, and comforted her: "You should think this way, dialectically, this matter actually proves that Your strong female hormonal attraction, otherwise, why didn't he go to the aunt from Shaanxi who sells Mala Tang?" At this time, Tang Wanru floated over thoughtfully, and took out a strip from his arms. Object: "Come on, Nan Xiang, eat a banana to calm your shock." After Nan Xiang screamed, he and Gu Li rushed towards her and started beating her.

The last photo was huge, framed in a brown oak frame.In the photo, the four of us are wearing academic uniforms and academic caps, standing on the nationally famous huge steps in front of the school library in the bright summer sun—when "Gossip Girl" became popular all over the country, countless Female high school students and female college students all swarmed to imitate Blair sitting on the stairs drinking yogurt, we all just smiled, because we have been sitting on this huge steps since we entered the university, chatting, dazed, reading, and reading. Men, but what we drink is not yogurt, we drink soy milk.In the photo, Tang Wanru smiled as usual with wrinkles all over her face, her nostrils upturned, and she could suffocate if it rained.The pair of dark blue sneakers I bought as a gift to her have been washed into maroon by her, and they are now showing from under the bachelor's robe; Slim grip, her smile is still full of rich beauty, her hair, eyebrows, eyelashes, pupils all seem to be hazy with the blurred ink painting, completely black, black and moving.And I look a little goofy, with bangs blown in the wind and my hat looking precariously on top of my head, with a beaded Starbucks Frappuccino in my hand.As for Gu Li, her expression is always impatient, her lips are slightly raised, and there is a mixture of arrogance and glamorous intimacy, and there are a few cold stars in her eyes, as if she just Was called out of the refrigerator.Under the photo, Tang Wanru wrote a line:

——Shakespeare said: "Time will pierce the beauty and delicacy of youth, and will carve parallel lines on the forehead of beauty; it will devour rare treasures and natural beauty. Nothing can escape its sweeping scythe." I think he said so True, but there is one thing that cannot be harvested by its scythe, and that is our friendship.Ten years later, we will be able to take exactly the same photo.I have no doubts.

I admit, I was pulled into a sea of ​​sourness by these photos, by these old things, by these old times sealed in amber.I was floating on my back in the white salty water, and I felt like there was a huge pool of tears lying beneath me.

We didn't speak to each other, just slowly stroking the pictures, old things one by one.From time to time, someone will join in and tell some stories that suddenly come to mind, funny, sad, embarrassing, and happy.

All the frozen time melted into water again, as if when spring came, the ice and snow on the top of the mountain, which had been lonely for a whole winter, finally showed a soft smile. They turned into silky satin, washed down the valley, and touched the texture of the forest inch by inch .My resentment towards Gu Li was completely washed away in these melting waters of time.There are only some faint melancholy left, which come from my thinking about myself: what happened to us these days after graduation.

By the time the box of "The Best Times" was packed, it was already dark.

Gu Li took off the disinfection coat, revealing the camel fine cashmere dress on her body. I remembered that this is the latest Valentino autumn and winter sample. It was borrowed by "ME" to take a photo. I signed the receipt confirmation form before .Sure enough, she wore the booty on her body in a grandiose manner.She took off her gloves and hard hat, and waved her hand smartly: "Let's go, I'll treat everyone to dinner, to celebrate Tang Wanru's successful move, and to celebrate our best time. Tang Wanru, what do you want to eat?"

As soon as I heard Gu Li say this, I panicked.

You know, the few of us used to go out to eat together, and it was usually Gu Li who made the choice. She is a well-deserved alpha dog in our group, followed by Nanxiang, who is our second leader.Only a few times Tang Wanru made a decision that made us want to stuff ourselves back into our mother's womb and be born again.

For example, on Halloween last year, Tang Wanru insisted on taking us to a restaurant that was foreign, fashionable, delicious and cost-effective.In the end, she took us to a fried restaurant on the road outside the back door of her community.The shop was so small that there could only be two tables. We and our boyfriends filled up the shop as soon as we entered. The walls were covered with advertising posters of Bird and Gionee mobile phones, tape recorders. Murong Xiaoxiao's crazy and hysterical singing of "It was you who wanted to separate at the beginning, so separate" came from inside the TV. Hunan Satellite TV was playing on the TV, plus Gu Li, Gu Yuan, Neil, Lan Jue, etc. who had just arrived Wearing black, white and gray high-end ready-to-wear, people seem to have just stepped off the catwalk in Milan. Really, the whole scene looks like a sci-fi masterpiece.And I said that the store is small, really not an exaggeration.When I sat down, I found that the cooker’s huge boiler was almost against my back. Every time he threw the dishes from the pot, I felt dense oil spots flying over my back, several times I even think I smell my own burning hair.After he finished frying the vegetables, he turned around without moving, and poured the vegetables in the pot into the plates on our table.I still can't forget this sci-fi masterpiece for a long time. For the next week, Gong Ming would cover his nose with his hand when he was ten meters away from me. Reds of time.Only Kitty has a conscience, she said: "Although I don't like the smell of your perfume, but... I appreciate your boldness!"

When I wanted to stop it, it was too late.

"Let me choose? God, I'm flattered. You know, I used to eat and drink with you, and I had no right to speak. I didn't expect that as soon as I moved, I turned over and became the master. It seems that women still have to be independent. Only by doing this can you gain respect!" Tang Wanru was about to continue to play, but was interrupted by Gu Li: "Ruru, you used to just follow us to eat and drink, as for your 'Lasa', I'm sorry we didn't participate. And ask you What you want to eat doesn't mean you turn over and become the owner. You know, I often ask the Bengal parrot on my balcony what he wants to eat, but after it squeaks for a while, I often still feel it for decades. It’s like throwing an American ginseng to it every day.”

Tang Wanru immediately sank down. She sat down, tilted her head and thought for a while, and said, "Either eat near home, be more approachable, chicken stew, or Xiao Yang Sheng fried?"

"You came up with these two proposals after thinking for a long time?" Gu Li's eyes almost rolled into the front lobe of his brain, "Did you know that after eating these two things, you can smell them for a week? You learned from others When walking behind, if he didn't look back, he would definitely think that there was a food delivery man coming from behind with a hot pot. You have to know, the old lady is wearing... Valentino!" She paused obviously, I know her, it wasn't "Valentino" she was trying to say, it was "swag".

"Gu Li, don't be picky, just think like this, if a steel knife is resting on your neck at this moment, and you have two options to choose from, would you choose chicken pot or Xiao Yang's fried?"

"Is there an option of 'Let's do it, hack me to death'?" Gu Li regarded death as home with a loyal face.

"Okay, ok, Ruru, stop making trouble, and choose a reliable place." I was afraid of killing people, so I stopped, "You have to take out Gu Li's thigh that you used to hug Gu Li's thigh desperately in school to let you go." The way she took you to the expensive personal buffet breakfast provided by the school cafeteria, when you were dragged across half of the playground on your knees, wasn’t it just to kill Gu Li, why is it now? Take out you You have the courage to say anything, as long as it’s not the mayor’s kitchen, Gu Li should be able to help you. Gu Li hasn’t invited us to a big meal for a long time, you should seize this opportunity.”

"That's true!" Tang Wanru suddenly came to his senses, "Since this is the case, we have to think long-term. Lin Xiao, if you have any thoughts, you might as well speak up."

"I'm disgusted." I said it bluntly.

Sogo smiled softly beside me, I turned my head, his lips are so sexy.

"I heard that there is a British restaurant opened on the Bund. Their biggest selling point is that all the waiters are hanging on steel wires and flying above your head to serve food, just like Spiderman, whoosh, a plate of steak fell from the sky, Swipe, a bottle of champagne was born out of nowhere, I have seen the videos posted by netizens on Weibo, don’t mention how emotional it is! It’s a pity that they don’t hire waitresses, otherwise I must apply for the job. Think about it, every day I look like Zhou Zhiruo Flying around in the same way, how energetic, rely on me, with my beauty and flexibility... I can catch the whole scene!!" Tang Wanru waved his hand!
"It's in my mouth." Gu Li said lightly after taking a sip of tea.

"Moreover, this is not the most important point. The biggest selling point is that these handsome blond guys all wear traditional kilts. Men wear skirts. You have seen Neil wear them when he was a child. Have you seen it before? Should we miss this kind of wonder in the world?"

"Honey, how should I put it... If you get a little closer to our fashion circle, you should understand, how to put it... Throughout the ages, overseas and domestic, from Mark Jacobs to Li Dongtian, from Shenyang to Cai Kangyong, wearing There are a lot of men in skirts." Gu Li put down his teacup, picked up a silk scarf and wiped his mouth, and said worriedly, "And, Ruru, you know that if Scottish skirts are worn according to the traditional method, there will be Can't wear underwear."

"So? What do you want to say?" Tang Wanru slumped on a chair and said, "This kind of scene should be attended!"

Gu Li nodded, looking very calm: "Good-looking is good-looking, the scene of a group of handsome blond men wearing no underwear under their skirts really sounds very attractive, but my dear, how should I put it, are you sure you want them to be naked Ass flying off your plate?"

Sogo and Wei Hai beside me vomited twice at the same time.

In the following ten minutes, Tang Wanru and Gu Li continued to have a heated exchange.Judging from their conversations, the two of them actually tuned to the same number.They communicated with each other very smoothly, and the spectators next to us couldn't get in their mouths at all.For example, when Tang Wanru said, "The water spinach in that family uses a special sauce, which feels like it is cooked with southern milk", Gu Li answered, "Male milk? This is quite rare, how expensive is it?" ?”

In the continuous and unimaginable dialogue, Sogo couldn't stand it anymore.I could see that his eyes could hardly be opened, and his hair was on top of his head like a pile of grass blown by the wind. It was obvious that his scalp was tight.He stood up, made a gesture of shutting up to Gu Li and Tang Wanru at the same time (I said "handsome" in my heart at the time), and then said: "Come with me, I will take you to a restaurant."

I didn't expect Sogo to take us to Sinan Mansion.

I know this place, but I've never been there.It's not that I can't find it, I can find it, and I can even recite its address clearly.Because in the latest Gong Ming’s favorites that Kitty sorted out for me last month, there are several restaurants in the hotel group of Sinan Mansion.I also looked up all the information about the Sinan mansion on the Internet and in magazines, in case Gong Ming suddenly asked.

The car drove into the shadow of a thick sycamore tree.The autumn wind blows in the evening, and golden leaves fly by the car window, looking like an old movie.

Sitting next to me, Gu Li said to Chong Guang who was driving in front, "I just invited you to dinner, I didn't say I wanted bloodletting."

"Don't worry, if it's too expensive, I'll give it to my brother for reimbursement." Chong Guang smiled, "It's not like you haven't done this before."

"That's true." Gu Li nodded, thinking it made sense.

"When did this neighborhood become like this? I remember it used to be a bunch of dilapidated houses." Tang Wanru was lying on the car window, the wind blowing her shofar braids, she opened her mouth excitedly, her happy expression looked like Like a dachshund brought out by its owner.

"In the past ten years, here have been construction sites surrounded by a circle of green scaffolding. Ten years ago, they were a bunch of crowded residential areas like a typical Shanghai 72 tenants, with the highest number of people living in each building. There are seventeen households. Can you imagine? This kind of density can only be challenged by bees or ants.” I remembered the information I checked on the Internet before.

"Seventeen households live in a villa? Then you can smell the bad breath of the neighbors when you turn your head. Besides, there is no way to hang the bras after washing? How many people will see your cups?" Tang Wanru leaned half of her body out of the car window, looking like she was about to commit suicide.

I didn't continue chatting with Tang Wanru, and I couldn't help turning my head to look at the brightly lit villas outside the car window.Ten years ago, the government announced the re-planning and renovation of this place, and time passed, when the mysterious green scaffolding was dismantled, a top-level hotel group was born.Numerous landscape lights on the ground outline the outline of the building hidden in the shade of countless huge trees.From restaurants called Aux Jardins Massenet (French for "garden") to galleries selling astronomically priced contemporary art, from luxury boutiques to top-of-the-line apartments, it's all here.It even did not hesitate to rotate the entire building of a three-story villa 90 degrees and rearrange it just for the sake of the landscape, as if God was playing with a building block.The Sinan Mansion mysteriously rose up overnight in Shanghai. It has a low-key and introverted old appearance, and it turns time into a crowned royal robe. The high-profile five-star hotel instantly set off the nursing home built by the Shaanxi coal boss in his backyard.In the concession area of ​​the city center, such a group of villas feels like a pile of diamond yards, but covered with a gray cloth.It feels like a naked cry to you: "I'm expensive, but no one knows. So come on."

In ten years, a ruin can be turned into an official residence.

I couldn't help but think of what Tang Wanru wrote under our graduation photo, what will we look like ten years from now?We seem to be surrounded by scaffolding in a green safety net. When the big hands of time tear off our packages, what kind of world will we see?
A ruin can be turned into a mansion, and vice versa.

There were not many people in the restaurant.When I opened the menu, I knew how vicious prices they used to isolate 99.9% of consumers in Shanghai.In the dim light, I saw an exquisite and embossed familiar figure wrapped in a little black dress.

I never thought that I would meet Nan Xiang here.

What surprised me even more was the people who came with Nanxiang.

He was wearing a western cashmere parka jacket, and the dark gray silhouette seemed to absorb the surrounding light into his body.His face was pale, like snow under the eaves.His voice was low and slow, and the volume was very low, which made people want to get close to him and listen to him.He bowed his head and talked in Nan Xiang's ear, pointing something on the elephant gray leather notebook in front of him with his slender fingers from time to time, Nan Xiang's expression looked professional and charming.She was wearing a black matte satin dress that could not be seen from the brand, but it felt very high-end. Her shoulders were smudged amazingly sexy under the soft light, and her collarbone recesses could hold the eyes of all men , her bust line, her legs, her full lips like petals.The gazes of several foreign men around her, like the hands of a drowning man, have been clung to her back tightly.The way she looked at him contained ripples similar to a lake under the moonlight.

He is Gong Ming.

Gong Ming took off his coat and handed it to Nan Xiang, who turned around and handed it to the waiter for storage.When she turned around, Gong Ming was already beside her, quietly pulling the chair away for her.This is the habit of their family, and Sogo will do the same.No matter the other party is their elders or their subordinates, as long as they are women dining at the same table, they will definitely pull out the chairs for each other. Sit down again.If they are in the same car, they will definitely open the door for them.To them, these seemingly meaningless rigid etiquettes are like the badges on the chests of knights and the scars on the backs of warriors. They are a kind of supreme honor.

Nan Xiang carefully closed her legs, then gently sat down on the chair in front of Gong Ming, she opened the napkin, put it on her lap, and raised her head.

At this time, she saw us sitting opposite.

We mean: I, Tang Wanru, and Gu Li.

She didn't see Wei Hai.

I repeatedly brainwashed myself, she did not see Wei Hai.Otherwise, she wouldn't be so calm.She can't be so calm.She shouldn't be so calm.There was a claw in my heart that started to scratch me with tiny nails.

After Nan Xiang saw us, she nodded gracefully. Under the candlelight, her face exuded a round and elegant light like pearls in a shell.

Then, she turned her head slightly and didn't look at us again.

(End of this chapter)