Chapter 16 The ugly son-in-law meets his parents(1/2)
Along the way, I chatted with Master Hu. He was concerned about my last girlfriend's affairs, and I asked him some random things. The two of us chatted all the way, and soon we arrived at the bamboo forest.
After I got off the car, I called Lin Xiaojuan and told her that I had arrived and that we would have dinner with her when she got off work at noon. She said there was no need to wait and she would come down now.
After a while, Lin Xiaojuan appeared at the entrance of the building. In fact, there is a reception area in the lobby on the first floor of their office building. There are sofas and coffee tables for reception and rest. But every time I come, I like to see the long wooden strips outside the building.
I sat on the stool and waited, because sitting on the soft sofa in the hall always felt like this would make people lazy. I was heavily in debt and couldn't rest assuredly that I could rest freely during the day when I could create wealth.
I stood up and walked up to her and asked her, "Are you hungry? Why don't you go eat now?"
Lin Xiaojuan said: "I'm not very hungry. It's only half past eleven. How about you come with me for a walk."
The two of us walked slowly along the street holding hands. Occasionally, some of the people passing by would look at us a few more times.
Shenzhen is an international metropolis. There are many handsome guys and beauties. Lin Xiaojuan is from the cloud, but I am not. In terms of appearance, although the two of us are not that different, the gap is still very big. Those people may look down on us.
Juan, wow, this girl is pretty, maybe she is looking at me, wow, Beauty and the Beast.
While walking, I asked her about her resignation. She roughly explained the process again, which was similar to what she had said on the phone before. Director Lin later went to see Vice President Cheng. Although Vice President Cheng was not Director Lin’s direct boss, he was in charge of many aspects of the company.
affairs, and I don’t know where she learned that Lin Xiaojuan’s application for transfer was because of Director Lin’s confession. It is said that because of this, the two people had a quarrel in the office.
I asked: "What about the result? Has your transfer been approved?"
Lin Xiaojuan said: "A few minutes before you called me, Vice President Cheng's assistant told me that the company would consider reassigning me to a new position. The specific position would be decided in the next two days. I was thinking, what should I do if the position is not suitable?
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I said: "If the position is not suitable, don't give up this job. If you don't work for a few months, I can still support you, brother. My uncle and aunt will come in two days, and you can just spend time with them."
Lin Xiaojuan said: "Before I graduated, I felt that the sea was wide for fish to leap, and the sky was high for birds to fly. My salary was relatively high among our generation, but I still didn't have the courage to resign casually. The society is really different from what we imagined.
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I said, "Didn't I tell you that I will support you, so don't be afraid."
Lin Xiaojuan: "You can support me for a lifetime. Now you are under so much pressure. Why are you looking at me like this? Do you think you dislike me?"
I said: "How could it be? God gave you to me, but I don't even have the ability to take good care of you. But when something like this happens, you don't take care of it. It's because I don't have the ability."
Lin Xiaojuan: "You can't always think like this. It's just that you are under greater pressure. The two of us are just more sensible than our peers. Your phone is ringing..."
I took out my cell phone from my briefcase and Teacher Yuan called me.
"Hello, Teacher Yuan."
"Teacher Gou, your classmate is here, I gave him the phone number - Brother Dog, my bitch brother, I came to your company, and this big brother gave me the money."
I said: "Yeah."
Zheng Jian on the other side of the phone said again: "I'm sorry, big brother, I can lend you your cell phone to chat a little more."
Teacher Yuan said: "It's okay, you can fight until communism is realized."
Zheng Jian thanked me there and told me that he planned to have lunch with me, but I ran away.
I said: "I can't treat you to dinner if I have something to do at noon. In fact, I should ask you to give me a bank card number and go to the bank to transfer it to you."
Zheng Jian: "Return the card number, it's a crappy card. My wallet was also stolen yesterday, and my ID card and bank cards were all in it. However, before I came to your place just now, I called the company and the company called the police. The police came.
They found my wallet in a corner of the corridor, and the police said that my ID card and bank cards were all there, but the money was stolen.”
I hurriedly said: "That's okay. I'll throw away some money to eliminate the disaster. At least I don't have to apply for the ID card and card again."
Zheng Jian: "Don't mention it. I'm too embarrassed to tell the company that the money was stolen. It's because I don't have any money in my wallet. I would have been in the air force a long time ago."
I said, "I really want to laugh, but I have the qualities to hold it back. Okay, as soon as the two of us started talking, it was like the Yellow River bursting its banks. I have something to do here, so I won't tell you anymore."
Then Zheng Jian said okay, we'll talk later, and hung up the phone.
Lin Xiaojuan asked me what was going on. I told her the process and told her about borrowing money. She said, since you have the idea of marrying me, you must tell me in advance if you lend money to others in the future.
, you still owe hundreds of thousands yourself.
I said, the hole is huge, and these three thousand yuan will not play a decisive role.
Lin Xiaojuan said, I know you are loyal, but your classmate is not practical. I am afraid that he will not be able to pay you back if he borrows the money, which will put you under great pressure.
I said, if it really doesn't work, just skip one class. I have to help. Are you hungry?
Lin Xiaojuan, you're not hungry, why don't you walk with me again, I like to walk on the road.
I said, I don’t like to pave the road because the road is not clean enough. I would like to pave other clean roads.
Lin Xiaojuan asked, what else?
I said, for example, sheets.
Lin Xiaojuan thought, press the sheets, you can't be skinny for a while, right?
I said, I can't keep up with you for a while, let's go. I asked you twice if you were hungry. You had breakfast, but I didn't have breakfast this morning.
Lin Xiaojuan quickly said, "I forgot, let's go have dinner."
Then we walked a little further, further away from the bamboo forest, and found a restaurant with pork, a Cantonese specialty snack.
Lin Xiaojuan said the meat is so fat and I am afraid of getting fat.
I said, never tried it? This is a Cantonese snack recommended by several colleagues in our company. You can’t find it in ordinary places. Try it. It doesn’t look good, but it really tastes good.
After lunch, we walked on the road outside for a while. The weather in Shenzhen was not particularly cool near the Mid-Autumn Festival, but Xiaojuan was worried that she would gain weight, so she forced me to walk for a while. When I reached her company, I was already already there.
She was tired and there was still a while before going to work, so I asked her if she wanted to go back to the company and take a nap.
She couldn't say anything, so the two of us found a bench next to the street and sat down.
Considering that the Mid-Autumn Festival was just four days away, Lin Xiaojuan lied and said that the matter of me living in the dormitory had to be settled before Father Lin and Mother Lin came, so I shouted in the university class group to see if we could facilitate the first gathering in the past few days.
Let's see if anyone can lend me some land to sleep on for a few nights.
They responded to messages much faster at noon. Except for one male classmate in Shenzhen who did not reply, everyone else responded.
However, the responses were basically the same. It was recommended to hold the first gathering of Shenzhen classmates during the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday.
Wan Fei said that they are classmates when they study, and they are family when they go out into society. It is perfect to gather in a foreign country during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
It's very provocative.
I asked again if anyone lived near Baishizhou, so I could stay there for a few days.
Everyone said that we had already told the group where we would live, but no one lives there.
Mo Lanlan said that her cousin lived in Dachong, not far away, but her cousin lived in a single room, and asked which of you two wanted to stay for a few days.
I'll discuss with Lin Xiaojuan, how many days can you stay with cousin Mo Lanlan?
Lin Xiaojuan said that she had told her parents before that I lived alone, and she was talking about Baishizhou.
I said, then think about what to do, the time is coming, you go to work first.
Lin Xiaojuan said yes, then thought about it again and asked me, what are you busy with this afternoon?
I said, I thought your work was going to be very troublesome. I asked for leave this afternoon. Now I see that at least there is no big problem. How about you go to work first and I can go back to work.
Lin Xiaojuan thought for a while and said, anyway, my parents come to Shenzhen to stay, and they need to stay in Shenzhen for at least three to five days. The accommodation fee is one or two hundred per day, which is a lot of money. Otherwise, I will ask for leave in the afternoon and we will go to Baishi.
We can rent a single room in Zhouzhou. This way we can save some money and we don’t have to borrow from others. When we rented a house last time, I looked at the red sheets posted and some of them said that they could be rented for a short period of time.
I said, that's okay.
Lin Xiaojuan picked up the phone and was about to ask for leave, but she didn't know who to apply for. She smiled awkwardly at me. Now I don't even know who to call to ask for leave.
I said, before the position is transferred, you should call Director Lin.
Lin Xiaojuan said, is this good?
I said, Silly sister, luckily you are stupid. If you were smarter, you wouldn't fall in love with me. It doesn't matter, just fight me.
So I encouraged my girlfriend to call her boss, my potential romantic threat, to ask for leave.
The two of us returned to Baishizhou, took my mother with us, and spent a whole afternoon shopping. We found a one-bedroom apartment that could be rented on a monthly basis. Although it was not big, it had a bed in the bedroom and a sofa bed in the living room, which met the requirements.
The monthly rent is 850 yuan, and it's about a five-minute walk from our previous apartment.
Then the three of them spent some time tidying up the decorations, and after finishing their work, they asked my mother to go back to the rented house to make dinner.
After my mother went out, I joked with Lin Xiaojuan that because you lied to your parents, you will be punished by living here alone for a month.
Lin Xiaojuan said, lying is not just for you. I have never lied in my whole life.
I said, well, the most important thing in life is to speak with a conscience. You have lied more than once.
Lin Xiaojuan said, where is it?
I said, when I was in college, you often told me that I was handsome. I think you are a habitual criminal in lying. In order to punish you, I must take away your first kiss in this space.
Lin Xiaojuan scolded me, you are being naughty again.
Time passed very quickly, and on the next day, Lin Xiaojuan's company transferred her to another newly established women's clothing sub-brand marketing department to be responsible for marketing and promotion matters.
The turmoil caused by Director Lin's confession ended with Lin Xiaojuan's transfer. It is said that Director Lin was very embarrassed about his face, but he didn't bother Lin Xiaojuan again for several days, so it was over for the time being.
Three days later, on September 17, 2005, the fourteenth day of the eighth lunar month, Lin’s father and Lin’s mother took a flight from Qingdao Liuting International Airport to Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport. I had never flown before, so Lin Xiaojuan took me to pick me up.
On the way, he told me various things about the airport like a popular science education.
To be continued...