“The Great Thief: Escape from Shanghai”

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After lingering all morning, I left Su Jin’s house.

The sun was shining outside and pedestrians were still in a hurry.

“Remember me, yo.” “Yes.” “Sure?” “Definitely!” “Always?” “Forever!” “Will you come back to see me?” , “…”.

With Sujin’s infatuated gaze, I set out on the road to escape again.

I called my wife from a public phone booth, and as soon as she heard my voice, she started to cry: “Where are you? What’s going on? I’m scared. Mom and Dad are…”

I a burst of heartache, because of me, the whole family in fear: “You do not cry, nothing serious, I lent a sum of money to a friend, the money has not come back, when the money back I will be fine.”

Things were certainly not that simple, but my wife believed my explanation.

Pacify his wife, I called my brother again, told him to find x x as soon as possible to get the money together, everything is arranged, I know that it is time to go to Shanghai as planned.

The big hideout is in the city, the small hideout is in the wild. From the moment I started to think of escaping, I chose Shanghai as my final hiding place. When I finally walked out of the gate of the new passenger station after traveling through several cities, I silently said in my heart: “Shanghai, I’m back.” Although I never thought I was in such a way back to this familiar but strange city.

It is strange, after graduating from college and joining the work, running around the country, just a Beijing went to two, thirty trips, but there is no opportunity to go back to Shanghai, can only watch it on TV in the fast-changing rapid development. Standing in the square of the new passenger station, looking at the surrounding completely unfamiliar buildings, I was at a loss.

Bought a map, and a few newspapers on their own never look at the advertisement page flipped and flipped, selected the Xujiahui neighborhood of a housing agency, a little inquiry, only to know that Shanghai has become a city of land, high rent is really out of my imagination, weighing the pocket of the yuan, I was disappointed out of the agency.

“Young man, young man!” Looking back, a pair of hale and hearty old couple is waving to me, the old man is tall and big not like a southerner, the old lady is short and small, between the eyebrows can vaguely see that year should be a handsome character.

“Gramps, was that a call for me?”

“Are you going to rent a house?”

I smiled bitterly: “Yes, but Shanghai’s houses are too expensive, I can’t afford to rent them.” I said honestly.

The old man looked me up and down for a while, his eyes burning, quite a bit of majesty: “Tell me about your situation.”

I told the old man the story of the character I played, Wang Huan: “┅Just like that, I came to Shanghai, and I thought I should find my place in this city!”

The old man was silent for a moment, and after saying to the old lady, “We won’t go in,” he said to me, “Young man, come with me.”

Vaguely feeling like a pie in the sky, I followed the old man closely.

Sitting in the Toyota Camry driven by the old man, the old lady told me the original story. The old man is really a northerner, the old revolutionaries who joined the army before the liberation, and stayed in Shanghai after going down to Jiangnan with the army, and then settled down in Shanghai. The two daughters went to the United States in the early eighties, and now can not be called multimillionaires is at least a few million dollars. The daughter urged the old couple to go to the United States for a reunion a long time ago, but the old couple has always felt that the domestic friends are not willing to leave. With the increasing age, confidants have been ancient, there are no relatives in the country, they moved to the United States for a family reunion, the idea of grandchildren. According to the idea of the old lady would like to end up in the United States, the domestic things are dealt with, but the old man refused to agree, must stay in the country a root, the old lady wringing, said that to find a person to look after the family, but looking for a number of, the old man did not fancy, until today met me.

The car drove into a quiet courtyard, the yard sign reads “Nanjing Military Region No. x Dry Retreat”, covered in the tall sycamore and ginkgo trees are seven or eight old red buildings, the age of the building should be similar to the age of the tree. In the yard only sporadically see a few old people leisurely sunbathing, and outside the bustling world compared to here seems to be a paradise.

After going up to the third floor with the old man, the old lady said to me mysteriously, “Do you know why our old man is looking for you?”

I soon knew the answer, the living room wall hangs a black and white wedding photo, in which the two young people wearing military uniforms, face overflowing with happiness and joy. The boy’s eyebrows were clear, and his appearance was actually seven to eight percent similar to mine.

The old man saw my silly look brightly laughed: “Your last name is Wang, my last name is also Wang, said our masters are a family, safe no one suspected.”

Everything was OK, the old couple seemed to like me, left me the house and car to look after, and refused to charge me rent, just told me to take care of his flowers and plants and two tanks of tropical fish.

Two days later, I sent the old couple on a plane to the United States, respectively, we are a little reluctant to part, the old lady secretly told me, the old man wanted a son, but unfortunately only two daughters, daughters have several granddaughters, the old man did not say, the heart has been quite regrettable. When the old lady spoke, quite some expectation of looking at me, I understand the understanding called “grandfather”, the old man was satisfied with the boarding of the plane.

The day after I sent the old man away, I went to the nearby police station to apply for a temporary residence permit with anxiety. The policewoman was chatting with someone else, probably because of the certificate with the seal of the dry rest home, she only let me make a copy of my ID card, but did not look at the original, for my Photoshopped photo also just said, “not like it,” and then let it go, ten minutes later, I can already legally live in Shanghai under the name of Wang Huan. Ten minutes later, I could legally live in Shanghai under the name of Wang Huan.

In this way, I settled down in Shanghai smoothly, as smoothly as a dream, and as I lay on the wide mahogany bed, I suddenly felt that good luck seemed to have been with me ever since I began my flight.

But the job search but let me all over the wall, I do not dare to find a job in the original industry and my professional field of study in college, using Wang Huan’s name to do is a third-rate university of fake college diploma, no industry experience, and is not a Shanghai people, most of the time I did not even get on the base of the third strike out of the game.

Walking forlornly down Middle Huaihai Road, a few teenage girls in front of me chirped about something.

“You passed?”

“Uncle Araya said not much.”

“G quite good, small Fenyi in the international Guido do more than a year, but a month but one thousand four hundred dollars, a box base salary on more than two thousand!”

My heart moved, G and the international noble are not far from the hotel on Huaihai Road, and I have always been more attentive to the hotel because of my work, the original unit of what large-scale activities are also I went to negotiate with the hotel, and now the role of the interchangeable is also not unavoidable, right.

Checked the Jiefang Daily a few days ago, and sure enough, I found an advertisement for a job at the G Hotel.

Compared with the wide hotel garden and the grand and luxurious lobby bar, the staff working area of G Hotel is very crowded, and there are always 40 to 50 people in and out of the Human Resources Department, although they stand in two rows in a very orderly manner, but they have already crowded the corridor to the brim. These people were either handsome men or beautiful women, and their eyes showed a strange mixture of condescension and hostility.

I looked around at the end of the line as the number of people at the front of the line dwindled, more people walking past me hanging their heads and fewer strutting their stuff, only to never see anyone increase behind me.

Finally it was my turn, “I’m sorry, our recruitment is over.” A bright girl in professional women’s clothing said to me with a professional smile while packing her things.

What’s going on? I quickly took out the newspaper: “But the recruitment doesn’t end until tomorrow?”

“We want it to be those who care about our hotel who get our positions.” The girl tactfully implied that I was late.

When I saw the materials on the table were stamped with “Passed Preliminary Exam”, I realized that today was already a retest.

“But I just saw the advertisement yesterday,” for the sake of this job, I had to plead lowly with this girl who was several years younger than me, “Miss, please do me a favor, for the sake of our possibly becoming colleagues, please take a look at my profile!”

The girl “puffed” a smile, after all, well-dressed I look tall and quiet, quite easy on the eyes. I’m tall, I’m tall. Every time I go to the south, I have the illusion that I’ve grown a few centimeters taller.

“Assistant Qin, you see…” the girl turned around and asked, and it was only then that I realized that behind the girl stood a buxom woman who looked like she should be in her thirties plus or minus five years old, with eyebrows like spring mountains and eyes like autumn water, a typical Jiangnan beauty, and although she was also wearing a professional outfit, the clothes were very well cut, so they couldn’t hide the slim figure’s Elegant curves.

I didn’t expect her gaze under her delicate face to be so sharp, as if it pierced into my lungs at once, I seemed to have been looked through by her, and I already admired myself for being able to keep the smile on my face.

She took my resume, only briefly flipped through it, and coldly told me, “I’m sorry, you don’t meet our criteria.”

“Why?” Even though I knew my resume didn’t carry much weight, I wasn’t willing to be dismissed so easily.

“You’re just a junior college student.”

“But your ads don’t say college graduates can’t?”

“You’re not from Shanghai.”

“The ad didn’t say it had to be local!”

“You have no hotel experience.”

“I admit, but I’ve worked as an insurance broker and dealt with clients, so it’s not like I’m not in the same line of work!” A good friend of mine works as an insurance broker at Pingbao Life, and I’ve helped him design a software used to combine insurance programs, so I’m really not a stranger to this line of work.

“Even if it is, but the business department needs strong foreign language skills, you are studying English, right?” She looked at my profile: “You don’t have a sixth grade or corresponding certificate.”

“I don’t have a sixth grade certificate, I don’t even have a fourth grade. But that doesn’t mean I’m not good at foreign languages, how about my level, have you ever taken the test?!” I gradually got angry, and my voice got louder: “Look at your advertisement,” I beached the newspaper on the table: “Business Department, 22-28 years old, I’m 25, no problem, right?

Male or female, college degree or above, I have no problem, right? Strong dedication, can adapt to overtime requirements, OK, I think I have no problem; fluent in English or Japanese, you can test me ah! I don’t understand, where do I not meet your conditions?”

I’m afraid no job applicant has ever been as aggressive as me, and both Qin and the girl had looks of surprise on their faces.

“Whats wrong, Miss Qin?” probably because my voice was getting higher and higher, a short middle-aged woman came out from the inner room of the office and asked Qin with a displeased face after taking a look at me. Without waiting for Qin to speak, I picked up the newspaper and repeated what I had just said in fluent English. The woman was obviously satisfied with my English and turned her head to ask Qin, “Is Director Okawa of the Business Department fully recruited?” Qin shook his head, “Then call Director Okawa to come here for a while, you together to assess it.” The woman walked away in a dignified manner.

A strange look drifted across Qin’s eyes as he agreed.

The director of the business department Oikawa is a forty-something years old Japanese, his English is like the old Shanghai’s foreign Pintin English, crappy, asked a few questions to see me a mouthful of pure American, then the assessment of the heavy responsibility to the Qin.

Chin’s English was extremely fluent, clearly better than mine, and I was instantly disabused of any sense of contempt I might have felt for the xxx hotel because of Oikawa, and there was no chance of using my Japanese, which was even more fluent than English.

I think Oikawa had decided in his heart to keep me around when he saw that I could keep up with Chin’s talking speed. So when the girl told me waiting outside the door that I had been accepted, I felt a surge of joy in my heart but was not surprised.

“Thank you, we really become coworkers.” I said happily to the girl: “Miss, can you tell me your name? After work I can thank you.” I asked sincerely.

“Cai Ying, everyone in the hotel calls me Daisy,” the girl’s sweet smile was just like her name.

On the third day, the hotel began to train our group of new employees, and the one responsible for training us was Assistant Qin Shuangcheng of the Human Resources Department who had flatly rejected me that day.

A few days down, originally unfamiliar group of young people began to familiarize themselves with each other, I also learned that this business recruitment of four people in the Department of the only one is a college students and outsiders, but also only one of me does not have a certificate of sixth grade English. Knowing this, I feel a little sorry for Qin, and would like to find an opportunity to say sorry to her, but on the contrary, she saw me a look of refusal, a few times I want to open the mouth did not open, I feel guilty heart also faded.

Took the time to buy a local cell phone number and a few pieces of winter clothes; thought struggle a bit, and signed up for a driving crash course, no driver’s license, that Toyota Camry is a pile of scrap metal. The good thing is that I have received formal driving training in my hometown, missing a few lessons is not likely to be a problem.

A week of intense and rigorous hotel training was finally completed, with several more eliminated in between, including a young girl recruited by the business department.

Director Okawa personally introduced the three newcomers in the business department to everyone. Most of the colleagues in the business department are young people of my age, and all of them are full of vigor and spirit. I entered the store at the same time Li Xiaoxiao and He Ying have been in this business for many years, Oikawa assured that they let them go alone. After arranging Li Xiaoxiao and He Ying, Da Chuan called over a pretty girl about the same age as me: “Susanna, Paul is with you.”

The girl let out a cheer: “Good hey!” Cause next to a few colleagues immediately laughed, the girl glared: “What laugh, the turn should be my turn.” Pretending to say thank you to Da Chuan, and then reached out to me and said: “Ye Ling, you can also call me Susanna, nice to meet you.”

The harmonious atmosphere ejaculated me, I held Ye Ling’s hand: “Wang Huan, I’ll have to ask for more guidance from you in the future.”

Ye Ling is a senior marketing executive, is the hotel’s old man, looks about the same age as me, in fact, three years older than me, I later learned that she is my alma mater eight department of graduate students, counting or my schoolmate. After joining the industry first to do the medical device industry customers, and later expanded to the pharmaceutical industry, because of outstanding ability, when the original responsible for the Pudong foreign business Guo Hongwei left the hotel, Da Chuan and this piece to her. The two burdens pressed her a bit breathless, like a star looking forward to the arrival of the assistant.

“College?” Ye Ling looked bitter: “Can you use a computer?”

Ask a computer graduate students will not computer, might as well ask me if I will eat and sleep it, I heart a burst of laughter, but violently remembered my current identity, the expression on the face could not help but change over a: “okay, but depends on and who than.” I deliberately left the ambush, compared to those masters of masters of masters of masters to, I can only say okay.

I also knew that Ye Ling was afraid that she would understand the meaning of this sentence from the other side, and sure enough, she threw over a few pages of drafts: “This is the flow of the meeting for the xxx company, give me the English printout in 2 hours.”

I logged on to the hotel’s network, first check the original document, then I found that Ye Ling is a very careful girl, the document according to different content was placed in a different directory, so I easily found a similar meeting process, take it over to repair and change, less than 40 minutes, I put the printout on Ye Ling’s desk.

Ye Ling looked at me in confusion, and suddenly said to a girl, “Mary, did you do it for me?”

Mary is a clerk in the business department, she looked puzzled: “What kind of stuff? I don’t know!”

I was busy explaining : “Leader, I changed it on the meeting process you gave YY company, of course it’s faster, it has nothing to do with Marry.”

Ye Ling let out an “Oh”: “You are quite smart.” While looking at the process, she casually asked: “Do you understand Shanghainese?”

“I can’t read if I can’t understand!” I covered it up.

Ye Ling looked for a while, did not find any mistakes, satisfied nodded: “OK, according to this address to send to the × × company can be.” She casually handed over a business card: “I’ll make a call to the people of the xxx company and tell them to contact you, this Case will be handed over to you.” Then she called the housekeeping department, the front office department, the catering department and the fleet, saying that there was a newcomer who was doing the conference case for the xxx company, and asked them to take care of her.

I gratefully said: “Thank you, Sister Spirit.” Ye Ling looked relaxed and happy: “You do it well, so I can be lazy.” Surfaced on the face is very ambiguous smile.

After doing a Case myself, I realized how hard it was. Meeting the plane, arranging food and lodging, deciding on the menu for the banquet, checking the equipment in the meeting room, what time to eat, what time to have the meeting, what time to go to bed… I seemed to have become an all-around babysitter. I was already feeling burnt out, but Yeling said that I was coping well, and that the meeting with xxx company would not be over for another four days, so she dumped another company meeting on me.

“Lots of meetings at the end of the year.” Yelin explained.

After a whole week of work, the two meetings in my hands finally came to a successful end. The reason why there are no mistakes, I think it is mainly because these two companies are the hotel’s old customers, with each other more tacit understanding of the sake of it.

In the middle of this I called my wife and brother a few times, I left my brother a QQ number that I never used before I fled the country, and my brother used this number to contact me, telling me at what time to call and where to call. My brother told me that my friend had already found someone to start applying pressure, the Public Security Bureau just went to my unit to take away some information, but did not bother the family. My wife also told me that my daughter was fine and just wanted her father. I listened to the heart of all flavors, if not in a public phone booth, I know I can not control my tears.

Both Oikawa and Yeling seemed satisfied with my performance as a newcomer. Ye Ling also began to gradually transfer the business of the foreign company in Pudong to me.

Payday came, and although the 21 x x dollars on my paycheck wasn’t nearly as much as it had been when I was back home, I always felt a lot more solid in my heart; after all, I had found a seemingly safe haven on the road to escape.

The expression of relief on my face was so obvious that Cai Ying, who was handing out the paychecks, couldn’t help but laugh: “That’s too much, haven’t made any money!”

“I’ve earned it, but not this much.” I said in a serious voice.

Yang Lu next to Cai Ying showed a disdainful expression, as if to say: “This is still a lot?” Cai Ying also said: “You just came to Shanghai, you don’t understand the situation, living in Shanghai is very expensive.”

I certainly know that money seems to be the only measure of success in this materialistic city.

“Anyway, I’m alone, earn more and spend more, earn less and spend less.” In the bottom of my heart, there is another wave of worry, I was the backbone of the family, less me, my wife and daughter I am afraid to live a very bitter, it seems that I have to find a second job.

Perhaps it was my inadvertent disclosure of a trace of sadness leaked Cai Ying and Yang Lu, the two coincidentally consoled me: “Those who are contented are always happy!” Yang Lu also told me that Da Chuan came over two days ago to thank the HR department for recruiting such a good employee for him.

A warm feeling flowed through my heart, remembering that it was time to fulfill the promise I made during the job search, so I said, “Daisy, if you have time after class, how about having dinner together? I have to thank you.”

Yang Lu “eek” a sound, surprised to look at Cai Ying, half joking, half curious to ask: “Daisy, you quite fast action ah, honestly what is the matter with the body?”

Choy Ying’s face turned scarlet: “I don’t know, but on the day of the re-test, I came to the Gerry Room without the re-test notice…” She explained the events of that day to Yang Lu, and as she did so, she glared at me hard.

I realized that my words had caused Yang Lu to misunderstand, so I had to pretend that I didn’t understand what they were saying: “Please, ladies! Can you please speak Mandarin? If you don’t speak English, at least I can understand, but now I don’t even know if I’ve sold you out.”

The two of them let out a laugh, and I said to Yang Lu, “It’s better to meet by chance, Julia, let’s go together if there’s nothing else.”

Yang Lu just said “I don’t want to be a light bulb”, then under the threat of Cai Ying’s pink fist, she obediently agreed.

Two girls set the Sea Star Western Restaurant is not far from the hotel on Huaihai Road, off the shift sneaking around without ten minutes to, just change the hotel uniforms Cai Ying and Yang Lu radiant, all the way to many pedestrians’ eyes.

“Next time we come out together can not make up, or a veil or something, I can not stand the eyes of those people, as if and I have a father’s murder, wife, as if hate.” I gently shook the knife and fork in my hand: “If the gaze is a knife, I’m afraid that my body has already had a few more holes!”

“Why don’t you just wear your armor to work from now on.” Both girls laughed happily, after all, the beautiful swan needed praise from others too, and the person who praised her was still far from being as high as a toad.

The spaghetti that Cai Ying and Yang Lu asked for was quickly prepared, so I had to watch them eat it first.

Looking around, in addition to seven or eight foreigners, are a pair of couples, like the three of us really counted on a rather strange combination.

It was already getting dark, and the flickering candlelight reflecting the smiling faces of the couple was so sweet.

It’s been a while since I’ve eaten out with my wife. Ever since she had her daughter, the center of gravity of Wife’s life has changed. My thoughts flew to my hometown thousands of miles away.

“What’s on your mind? It’ll get cold if you don’t eat.” At some point, the barbecue set I had asked for was already in front of me.

“Didn’t think anything of it.” I wielded my knife and fork naturally, slicing the roast skillfully off the bone.

Cai Ying and Yang Lu looked at me confused, Yang Lu said: “In the afternoon when I said to eat western food here, Daisy was still a little hesitant, afraid that you’re not used to it, but now it seems that you are more familiar with it than we are, and if I hadn’t read your resume, I would have thought that you came back from abroad.”

Western food is familiar with the training in Singapore, because I am the only Chinese in the classmates, the foreign arrangements are all Western food, half a month down, make up the knife and fork to natural proficiency. Hearing Yang Lu said so, I know that inadvertently revealed the horse feet, cursing their own carelessness, but the cozy atmosphere here is really easy to let people lose guard.

“I said two big ladies,  Yang at least is a big city ah, with Benshan big brother said Tieling that big city is not the same, there are a few western food is also quite authentic.”

“It is not to say  that there is no western food in Yang, just that you used to do is an insurance broker, I do a few insurance friends like to go to McDonald’s, two cups of Coke can sit for an afternoon, people more security, but also not afraid of others misunderstanding. I’ve never heard of them talking about insurance to the point where they have to eat western food, how much money can a single make?” Cai Ying thoughtful, said very reasonable, Yang Lu in the side of a strong nod.

“Besides, if you like the insurance business, I’m afraid that if you come to Shanghai, you’ll go to work as an insurance broker,” here she pursed her lips and smiled: “Then you don’t have to take the exam.”

Cai Ying is a considerate girl, in her heart she must have thought that I had failed in the insurance business, so she didn’t want to do it again, and on her lips she simply used like it or not to gently bring it over, I couldn’t help but see a trace of gratitude in my eyes. Cai Ying seems to see it, her face reddened for no reason, lowered her head and rolled up a few macaroni with her fork and slowly sucked it.

I do not want to make their hearts suspicious, then explained: “One of my customers is a Western restaurant owner, one after another into a friend, to go to his place more often, see also see will, have not eaten pork has not seen a pig run?”

Yang Lu chewed something in her mouth and said vaguely, “That’s true!”

“Have you always been in the hotel business?” I change the subject.

“Yeah, we’ve been doing it at G as soon as we graduated, and we’ve been doing it for over two years now.” There was actually some loss in Yang Lu’s words.

Although to the hotel time is not long, I also know that the human resources department of the ladies of the work of stability, and no business indicators of the pressure, the hand also has a certain right, the other departments of the staff are privately very envious of them, why is not satisfied? Is not there any little-known inside?

“What’s wrong with the Ministry of Manpower? Why do I get the impression that you guys aren’t very happy.” I asked with concern.

Cai Ying’s eyes flashed a trace of appreciation, Yang Lu also laughed and said: “You’re the one who knows the meaning of the song, our director is going back to China, it seems to be transferred from the headquarters of a named Kobayashi Yosuke to take over her position. Although our director is strict and arrogant, she is very protective of us and no one can bully us. That Yosuke Kobayashi…”

She hesitated for a moment before she continued, “From what our director said, he’s especially bad, likes to bully girls the most, and told us to be extra careful.” Said said, face showed a faint sadness.

Cai Ying bit her lip: “It’s better to do the right thing yourself! In fact, those Japanese people are the same, Ishida and Fujisawa see other departments of the girl looks pretty is not the same move! Speaking of which, it’s only that Oikawa in your department who is still like a human being.”

Ishida and Fujisawa are the vice president and the director of food and beverage, and I’ve heard that they are both very horny, and I’ve heard from well-informed sources that a “1,000-player” competition between the two is going on in full swing.

“That’s right,” said Yang Lu, “Let’s just take one step at a time, and try to find another hotel.” As she was talking, her eyes suddenly lit up: “Hey, it’s your boss! Wow, that boy is so handsome!”

I couldn’t help but laugh, “Hey, save face, will you? There’s another man here!” Looking back, it was indeed Ye Ling, next to a tall and handsome young man, the two holding hands, seemingly intimate.

“Chen Feng!” The boy’s face was familiar, and I instantly recognized the star of my alma mater’s volleyball team.

He and Ye Ling is a class, in my sophomore year into the varsity team, we have done a year of teammates. Chen Feng was not only a good ballplayer and handsome, but he also excelled in his studies, and was the number one girl killer in our school. In his unexpected admission to the same city northwest corner of the F University of journalism department of graduate school, we have never seen each other again.

This was the first time I ran into a friend who knew me well after my escape, my heart couldn’t help but beat violently, I wanted to stand up but suddenly realized that my legs were weak, my body slumped and I almost fell out.

It was hard to stand still, but Ye Ling and Chen Feng had already come into view.

Ye Ling gave me a confused look and introduced Chen Feng to us: “This is my boyfriend Chen Feng.” Then she introduced Cai Ying and Yang Lu, and finally smiled and said to Chen Feng: “Yi is the Paul that Allah told you about, Wang Huan.”

I settled down and held out my hand: “Brother Feng, I’m Sister Spirit’s assistant, just call me Huan.”

Chen Feng held my hand, carefully sized me up, and laughed, “You’re really like one of my senior brothers, with a head like, and a speaking voice like, I almost recognized the wrong person.”

Ye Ling asked curiously, “Really, who does he look like?”

“You don’t know, is a young master of the third department, two years lower than us, now I don’t know how to do it?” The words are quite emotional.

A pang went through me.

Ye Ling said “Oh” and asked me with a smile, “How did you get together?”

Not waiting for me to speak, Yang Lu on the gibberish about the recruitment of the matter once again, Ye Ling may be imagining the way I stood stupidly behind the team, “giggle” laughed, while laughing at the same time pulling Cai Ying’s hand and said: “a compartment Ara to thank you, I do not come, Ara to tired to kill him. “

Seeing that we had almost finished eating, Ye Ling said that she would not join us at the table. Seeing Ye Ling leaving, Yang Lu said enviously: “No wonder so many people are pursuing Sister Ling but she is not moved, so it is like this! You don’t know, last year, living on the seventh floor of the Maeda every day to send flowers to the spirit sister, a send for half a year, in my place, ah, long surrendered.”

Cai Ying teased: “This little nymph of yours is in love again.” Then invited Yang Lu’s a burst of beatings.

After chatting about various things, I saw that it was already more than 7 o’clock, then said it was too late to send them home. Yang Lu said home in the subway station on the side, do not need me to send, but Cai Ying home from the station has a distance, but also through a small alley, let me send her back.

Cai Ying hesitated and asked me where I lived, and I said I was at my relative’s house near the Hengshan movie theater. She said coincidentally, she also lives near there. I said then don’t discuss it, I’ll give you a ride.

Called the waiter, I was about to pay the bill, two girls immediately pressed my hand with the wallet, Cai Ying laughed: “You may not know our rules, we always AA.”

I pulled my hand out: “My Missy, AA might as well start next time.” After half a day of arguing, I insisted on paying the bill.

Send Yang Lu away, Cai Ying and I got on the westbound subway. Shanghai’s nightlife is indeed much more lively than back home, although the time is a little late, but the subway train is still very crowded, I forcefully support the rings, Cai Ying protection in front of the chest.

Cai Ying’s hand has no place to go to put, but gently tugging on the windbreaker I just bought. Silence for a while, she said: “Since you came to Shanghai, you have to adapt to Shanghai, Shanghai has its own rules.”

Of course I knew what she was referring to, but I said, “I’m getting used to it now, I’ve never squeezed into a car like this before.”

She glanced at me, dissatisfied, said: “What ah! I am saying you do not spend money, Shanghai things are expensive, you spend like this, I’m afraid that in less than ten days and a half months will have to drink the northwest wind, do you still want to let me come out with you ah!” Words just finished, I feel that there is a language problem, face suddenly became red, eyes wandering around, do not know where to fall good.

I had the intention to free her from her shyness, so I laughed and said, “Next time you treat me, or else I’ll eat at the staff restaurant every day.”

Cai Ying was also happy: “Who invited you? You’re too good to be true!”

Cai Ying’s home is actually not too far from the subway station, but after a small alley I do not know why there is no street light, it seems secluded and dark, a girl walking on her own does need some courage.

“Last year there was a robbery here, my neighbor’s a little girl was stabbed a dozen times, in the hospital for a long time.” When it comes to this incident, Cai Ying still have palpitations: “Usually, if it’s too late, I call my father to come out to pick me up.”

“Then remember to give me a call if you’re leaving late in the future, and I’ll give you a ride if the time is right.”

I casually remarked that the business department often worked overtime and that getting off work late was commonplace.

Cai Ying looked at me but didn’t say anything. Not long after, her house arrived as well, and Cai Ying waved her hand with me, said thank you, and turned into the stairway.

Strangely enough, the next morning at the subway station, I spotted Cai Ying in the crowd at a glance, she spotted me, and the two of them naturally went to work together to go to the hotel.

As soon as I arrived at the class, Ye Ling came to tease me, saying that I had a pretty good eye and moved fast. I explained with an innocent face, and another ambiguous smile appeared on Ye Ling’s face.

Because I was busy with a conference program, I missed our departmental dinner time and by the time I went to the staff cafeteria it was full of unfamiliar faces from second-tier departments.

“Paul, come over and sit down.” Looking back, Yang Lu was waving at me, and Cai Ying next to me nodded her head to signal me to come over.

“Why are you so late?” I said the reason.

“By the way, Paul, how are you going to spend tomorrow night?” Yang Lu asked me with a crooked head.

Tomorrow is December 24th, the last Christmas Eve of the twentieth century has been speculated by the media to be hot and spicy, for the hotel that has to create a festival even if there is no festival, naturally, it can’t be spared. From Christmas Eve to New Year’s week, the hotel’s programs continue, what “Millennium Christmas Eve”, “Millennium Christmas Couple’s Night”, “Millennium Carnival Night” one after another. Although Sun Jia, who was in charge of the banquet, was responsible for the preparation of these programs, Oikawa had instructed the other teams to cooperate fully in the past few days.

“I’ll just have to watch from the sidelines as our God enjoys Christmas dinner.” I didn’t have the heart to say.

“So pathetic.” Yang Lu laughed.

“Where are you?”

“Don’t mention it, the original and a few classmates agreed to go to the Golden Age together, but these two days all called to say really called the boyfriend pestered no way, can’t come, and we didn’t decide where to go again.” Yang Lu’s face was troubled.

“What about your boyfriends?” As soon as the words left my mouth, I regretted them a little.

As expected, both girls’ expressions became unnatural, and the atmosphere became awkward. Until the meal was over, the three didn’t say another word.

Banquet group of colleagues is really quite capable, Christmas Eve program is organized exceptionally wonderful, so that the end of the time delayed again and again, and later Ye Ling anxious like ants on the hot pot, a moment to look at the table once, muttering, but also from time to time to make a phone call, I think it is afraid of Chen Feng waiting for the anxious, and then look around a few colleagues are not much better than Ye Ling.

The party was finally over, and when I sent the guests back to the ministry, I realized that my colleagues had already left. I was packing up my things and getting ready to go home when the phone on my desk rang.

Looking at the watch it was almost ten o’clock, thinking who could it be at this late hour? Picking up the phone, a loud music came from the microphone.

“Paul, is that you?” The voice was inaudible, as if it was Janelle.

“I am, Julia?” It was really Janelle on the other side, “Where are you guys, what’s all the noise?”

I asked.

Yang Lu said that she was in the Golden Age, and said that no one answered her phone several times, “Daisy is here too, so come over quickly.” She hung up the phone without asking me if I agreed.

I laughed bitterly, these little girls all look like they’re eating you up.

Walking into the Golden Age, it was packed with people, flying lights and deafening music indicating that it was a night of revelry.

I managed to find them both at a table by the window, and my eyes couldn’t help but light up.

It should be because the temperature was too high, the two of them had their trench coats and suit tops resting on the backs of the chairs. Cai Ying’s upper body was a close-fitting, half-sleeved light-colored cashmere sweater, with her wonderful curves visible; Yang Lu was dressed the same way, except that the protrusion in front of her chest was abnormally plump.

Seeing me squeezing over, Yang Lu smiled and said to a strange boy next to Cai Ying, “Well, Yi’s boyfriend is here, thanks Nong.” The boy smiled at me and left politely.

Cai Ying embarrassed to hit Yang Lu a pink fist, said: “Say what mold say, dog mouth spit out ivory.”

Yang Lu looked aggrieved: “It’s not me…” In the middle of her sentence, she saw Cai Ying’s eyes glaring at her, so she tried to make a fuss: “I’m afraid of you. I’m going to dance. Paul, take care of Daisy.” With that, she melted into the swaying crowd. The crowd.

“Really can’t do anything about her.” Cai Ying shook his head hopelessly, wiped the sweat from his head, and asked, “Why did the event end so late?”

I said the blame is only on Sun Jia and their program arrangements are too good, Cai Ying said that the old can not contact me, almost left, but then thought it is better to wait and see, so did not go.

Cai Ying said very naturally, in the changing light of her face is a quiet smile, in a moment I seem to hear nothing, as if this is no longer a noisy ballroom, but a silent wilderness.

Shaking my head, the music resumed ringing in my ears, only for my throat to suddenly become unusually parched, and I grabbed a bottle of Corona and downed it in one swig.

Cai Ying was startled and asked, “Is it alright? Drinking so hard.” Concern was overflowing.

“It’s fine, just a little thirsty.” It had been a long time since I’d had a drink like that, and for a moment my stomach was kinda flipping.

At that moment, the music became soft and sad, and an old song came out of the speakers: “Last ChristmasI gave you my heart…” Listening to this, Choe Ying’s expression darkened, and she turned the cup in her hand around and around, suddenly saying, “I My boyfriend is abroad.”

I let out an “oh”, no wonder she and Yang Lu looked strange when I asked them about their boyfriends last time.

“I and he are on the outside of the university, he graduated and went to the United States, has been two years.” Said, eyes flashed a trace of ridicule: “I am now whether or not his girlfriend, I am not clear.”

Although I know that love can not withstand the test of time and space, my multiple students have already proved this law several times, but I still comforted her: “you two are classmates, like-minded, do not think things complicated.”

“Just because we were classmates, I know him too well…” halfway through her sentence, Yang Lu came bouncing back, and when she saw that both Cai Ying and I were looking full of heaviness, the luscious girl instantly understood why.

“Daisy, don’t think about that brat Su Kai, let’s go dancing.Paul, you watch the clothes.” Pulling up Cai Ying towards the dance floor.

Watching the two of them quickly surrounded by boys, I suddenly remembered the Christmas Eve last year, in the Kyushu Hotel’s back porch, my wife ate a peaceful meal on the one hand, and on the other hand, full of happiness, told me that I would be satisfied to be able to live with me peacefully for the rest of my life.

Yes, when I understood the weight of the word “peace” it was already too late, for the sake of my friends never say two words I heart welled up a trace of remorse.

Then I seemed to get drunk, and when I woke up, there were two smiling faces like flowers in front of me.

I had a splitting headache, closed my eyes to feel more comfortable, I do not know what time it is, so I asked: “What time is it? Time to go back, right?”

The two of them laughed cheekily, and heard Yang Lu say: “You ah, so drunk that you don’t know anything! It’s time to get up, or you’ll be late for work.”

Get up? I sat up with a loud bang, my body was still covered with the quilt, and looked around, the familiar layout of the room allowed me to immediately recognize that this should be a hotel room, the single bed next to the night bed seems to have been unrecognized; and then look at myself, the suit and sweater have already been removed.

In a panic, I shrank into the quilt: “Hey, you guys aren’t… molesting me, are you?” Before I knew it, I was already being punched in the face with numerous pink fists: “You’re a fool!” Although the tone of voice was fierce, you could tell that there wasn’t much anger in it.

“We were afraid you wouldn’t be able to wear your suit to work if you slept in it wrinkled, so we had to take it off for you.” Cai Ying explained.

Embarrassed, I secretly sighed: “I’m sorry, I’m in a bad mood and I’m drunk.”

There was no movement outside the quilt for a long time before I heard Yang Lu faintly say, “We’ll go out and wait for you.”

“No, it’s not like I haven’t seen it before.” I made up my mind and stood up with a lift of the blanket. In the sound of both of them laughing and cursing “scoundrel” and “idiot”, I calmly finished washing up.

Walking on the way to work, I realized what happened yesterday. They found me drunk, but also dragged me, had to run to the side of a hotel room, begged the hotel security to assist me back to the hotel, this morning for fear that I slept over the material, and then ran together to call me.

I was touched in my heart and said sincerely, “Thank you.”

“Thanks for what? We’re all friends!” Yang Lu said offhandedly.

I stopped in my tracks: “Friends?” I was running away, I was lonely, and I needed a friend!

Cai Ying and Yang Lu looked at me standing down, a serious look should have never seen, Cai Ying did not know what happened, carefully asked: “Paul, what’s wrong?”

I held out my hand: “I want to be your friend.”

“Hooray!” Yang Lu let out a cheer and took my hand; Cai Ying hesitated for a moment and put her hand on it as well.

（２）

The following week was busy and tiring, and before we knew it, the new year was upon us.

I’ve got my driver’s license, and I’ve got an odd job at an insurance company doing life insurance. Life insurance companies on the mainland are like a big pyramid scheme these days, and my director is my handler.

“As long as you can pull the policy, I’ll take care of the rest.” The director patted me on the shoulder and swore, but his eyes showed a glint as if I were a policy.

I quite understand the suffering of these directors, the company’s monthly assessment of their performance, but also to maintain the number of people in the downline, the slightest negligence will be from the director down to the salesman, the brutal competition early they become ruthless, I am not a month or two without the performance of the director do not even have to think about it will kick me out of a foot.

So, after work and on Saturdays and Sundays, I started my subway journey with my laptop, from Jinjiang Paradise to Xinke Station, and then back to Jinjiang Paradise from Xinke Station, a single ticket back and forth solved the problem, while I sat on the subway train with my computer and showed those commuters the insurance and financial plan I designed.

Perhaps it is because we all hold both love and hate for insurance, or we are a little tired of those who come to the door to do the insurance of acquaintances, for strangers instead of a tolerant attitude towards me, coupled with my demonstration of the illustrations, and according to everyone’s requirements on the spot to make a program, so there is seldom a cold scene.

One by one, the faces became familiar, and soon I made my first policy, an old man for his grandson, “I’ve been watching you for five or six days, lad.” I’ve been watching you for five or six days, lad.” The old man said as he signed.

The amount of this policy is enough to make me from trainee to official, the director did not expect me to have a performance so quickly, naturally full of joy, I was not stingy with praise at the same time did not forget to praise myself: “I have the knowledge of the people ah!”

One day, I was on the subway to give a middle-aged woman to explain the new several types of insurance, the phone rang, and answered it was Cai Ying: “Paul, where are you?” Maybe I heard the sound of the station announcement, and then asked: “Are you on the subway? Which stop are you at?”

I answered and looked back at the sign: “It’s New Longhua, where are you?”

Cai Ying asked strangely, “It’s so late, what are you doing in New Longhua?” I said I was fine, so she said she would wait for me at the Hengshan station if she was really fine.

After apologizing to the people watching my demonstration next to me, I got on the train that was turning back. When I arrived at the Hengshan station, Cai Ying was already waiting there.

Cai Ying appeared to be in a very low mood, her originally free gaze became wandering, and her hair, which had always been neatly combed, seemed to be in a bit of disarray.

“Daisy, what happened?”

Cai Ying obviously heard the nervousness in my words and had a comforting expression on her face, but she didn’t answer my question and just said, “Let’s go.” I was full of suspicion and she walked out of the station. When we passed Gordon’s Restaurant, she suddenly stopped and said, “I’m hungry.”

Finding a secluded corner to sit down, Cai Ying ordered a lot of snacks. I intended to let her relax a bit, so I laughed and said: “Cai Ying, are you a starving ghost? Eating so much! Aren’t you afraid that you’ll eat me out of house and home?”

Cai Ying’s reply made me stare, “I haven’t eaten yet.” It was almost nine o’clock, usually if she worked late, she would be having dinner at the hotel, “What exactly happened today?” I asked with a straight face.

Cai Ying asked me, “Paul, do you have a case these days? I can’t see you all the time.”

“Huh? Didn’t we just meet this morning? We work together these days!”

Choy Ying’s face turned red all of a sudden and she stumbled over her words: “No, no, I… I… I mean I couldn’t find you after work… after work.”

Cai Ying’s shy appearance immediately struck me, a wisp of tenderness rose in the bottom of my heart, “Cai seems to be quite dependent on me”, this thought spun around in my head a few times.

Not wanting to embarrass Cai Ying, I told her about the odd job at the insurance company.

She realized, “No wonder I couldn’t find you.” She also asked if she could handle two jobs and said she couldn’t afford to break her body just to make money.

I saw that the conversation had gone too far, so I pulled a face, “Daisy, don’t talk about it, what happened today?”

Choy Ying’s newly brightened up expression was dimmed again: “You know, Kobayashi…”

I instantly remembered what Cai Ying and Yang Lu said last time at the Sea Star, and my heart skipped a beat: “Is that Yosuke Kobayashi? What did this asshole do?!” I asked through gritted teeth.

Perhaps my voice was a bit too loud, causing everyone around me to turn their heads to look at me; Cai Ying also looked at me with surprise and joy in her eyes, and only after a long time did she say timidly, “Paul, your eyes are so scary, but I… I…” She stopped in mid-sentence, and with a bow of her head, she went on to say, “It’s nothing, but he’s been going too far lately”. “He’s fine, he’s just getting more and more out of line lately. Tonight, when he was working late, he said he had a headache and asked me to massage his head, so he tried to make a move, but I pushed him back. But if he keeps bothering me like this, I won’t be able to take it anymore!” Saying that, tears were contained in the circles of the eyes.

Once I heard that nothing had happened to Cai Ying, my mood lightened up, and with a twist of my brain, I came up with an idea and asked Cai Ying, “Daisy, do you really want to get rid of Xiao Lin?”

Cai Ying gave me an angry look: “Am I that kind of girl?”

“No? Okay, Daisy, I’ll take care of Kobayashi then!”

As soon as I got off work the next day, I packed my things and prepared to leave. Ye Ling might be used to me working overtime at night, and just wanted to give me the information of a Case, but I opened my mouth first: “Sister Ling, I have some personal matters today, I’ll do the Case tomorrow morning!”

I left the business department in Ye Ling’s puzzled gaze, and when I went to the human resources department, I bumped into Yang Lu, so I asked her where Cai Ying was, and she told me that Cai Ying was working overtime to make a training program.

“What’s to stop you from working late?” I asked with a smile.

“You’re hurting Daisy! Aren’t you afraid I’ll be jealous?” Yang Lu joked, then explained: “I don’t know Japanese, Kobayashi said he didn’t need me.”

Pushing open the door of the manpower department, he saw a medium-sized fat man standing next to Cai Ying’s chair, one hand on Cai Ying’s shoulder, the other hand pointing at the screen, his head very close to Cai Ying, talking about something.

Hearing the commotion, the two turned their heads together. Cai Ying saw that it was me, and a reassuring smile appeared on his face; the man was less than forty years old, and looked a little like Niu Qun, with his hair combed without a trace of disarray, and his clothes very well dressed, and his face wore the haughty demeanor that Japanese people often have in China.

He took one look at me, knew I was an ordinary clerk from the color of my tie, wrenched his face and asked sternly in English, “Which department are you from? Why don’t you knock?”

I have contacted a lot of Japanese people in the original unit, I knew that these foreign devils are the most bullying, so I used fluent Japanese to reply: “I’m sorry, Director Kobayashi, I’m Wang Huan from the business department, I’m here to look for my girlfriend, I thought that Director Kobayashi was off duty, so I didn’t knock on the door. By the way, I heard that Mr. Kobayashi didn’t have a headache yesterday, you should rest more, why don’t I give you a massage? My strength is much greater than Daisy’s.” Speaking, a murderous aura suddenly appeared in his eyes.

Kobayashi really froze, and quickly removed his hand on Cai Ying’s shoulder, squeezing some smiles out of his face, and said sardonically, “It’s fine, it’s fine, I’m already better, and I should thank Daisy.”

When Cai Ying heard my words, her eyes buckled and her face flashed with a hint of shyness before filling with joy.

I walked over and picked up the dozen documents on Cai Ying’s desk and took a cursory look at them, they were all Japanese training outlines, and looking at the Chinese and English on Cai Ying’s computer screen, I roughly guessed what Kobayashi had given Cai Ying to work on.

“Is it translating these Japanese training syllabi into Chinese and English? Superintendent Kobayashi. You won’t object if I translate it for my girlfriend, will you?”

In the end, being a thief, Kobayashi nodded resentfully and left with a fling of the door.

Seeing that there was no one else in the room, Cai Ying blushed and gave me a blank look, ranting, “Hate it, who’s your girlfriend now!”

I didn’t want to lead Cai Ying and I into a complicated male-female relationship, so I smiled and said, “You’re a woman, right?” Cai Ying nodded, “You’re my friend, right?” Cai Ying nodded again, “Then it’s over!”

A hint of disappointment flashed in Cai Ying’s eyes, and I thought that maybe my answer wasn’t what she wanted.

“Well, I don’t think Kobayashi is going to pester you anymore, so let’s just get our work done!”

Cai Ying suddenly remembered something and glared at me, “You’re quite good at lying to people, your Japanese is so good, why don’t you write it clearly in your resume?”

I looked innocent: “Lying? It’s not that serious! I just thought that there are many European and American companies in Shanghai, and English is the most important thing, who knew that G is managed by a little Japanese!”

Although Cai Ying’s Japanese is not as good as mine, her English is much better than mine; I am quick-witted and Cai Ying is understanding, so the two of them worked surprisingly well together, and the translation was printed out very soon.

“The two of them are quite compatible!” This thought passed through my mind, and I couldn’t help but glance at Cai Ying, bumping into Cai Ying’s contemplative gaze, which revealed a meaning that seemed to be the same as what I had in mind.

When I was ready to leave the hotel, I ran into Li Xiaoxiao in the staff corridor, who had entered the business department with me. Seeing Cai Ying and I walking together, she first froze, and then looking at Cai Ying’s not-so-natural expression, she gave me a meaningful smile.

After exchanging greetings, Cai Ying saw Li Xiaoxiao walking away and complained, “It’s all your fault! Looking at Li Xiaoxiao, he must have thought that we… we…” Halfway through her sentence, she was too embarrassed to continue, and after holding her tongue, her eyes reddened and she blurted out, “You bullied me!” Then, ignoring me, he quickly walked towards the door.

My heart fluttered as if clutched by a hand. Choe Ying’s intentions were obvious, but I had a wife and daughters who looked up to me as their only source of support! And… Sujin, what’s wrong with me? I wasn’t like this before Has the pressure of being on the run really changed me so much? Which one of me is the real me? For a while I was confused myself.

Seeing Cai Ying walking farther and farther away, knowing that I don’t want to lose this friend, I busily chased after her. Along the way Cai Ying also ignored me, until I sent her to the door of the house, and did not say a word to me.

In the evening and his wife about the QQ contact, I ran to an Internet cafe next to the J University.

“You got the card, right?” I used a fake ID to get a one-card pass from China Merchants Bank, and after depositing the three thousand dollars I earned from insurance, I sent it to a good friend of my wife’s so that she could transfer it to her.

“Well, don’t wear yourself out, Timothy and I have enough to spend, and Mom and Dad can help a little.”

I know the situation at home very well, and I know that my wife is afraid of me worrying about comforting me, and my heart aches: “I miss you.”

“I miss you too, every day.” My wife replied quickly, “When will this be over? I miss you so much, I can’t do anything without you. Why don’t you come back? At least I can see you.”

As far as I could remember, my wife had never made such an outspoken statement before. I felt guilty, my wife was so dependent on me, and I…

“Don’t worry, it’ll be over, I’ve sent my brother to xxxxxxx, the money lent to him is for a big shot in the city, he’ll put a lid on it.”

“So how much longer?” I seem to see my wife ask with a disgruntled pout.

“I’m afraid it’s going to be a while.” Whether it’s six months or a year, I can’t tell myself.

“You’re not allowed to get good with another woman while you’re out there for so long!!!”

My wife typed a lot of exclamation points, and I replied, “Yes, my wife!” On the other hand, I thought to myself that my wife had never worried that I would fall in love with another woman before, is it true that a woman’s intuition is so accurate?

The next day at work, Cai Ying has been waiting at the subway entrance. The wind in the morning is very strong, and catch the cold current, Cai Ying two skeleton shoulders protected in front of the chest, one side of the hand heated one side of the look around, a head of hair flying in the wind.

I rushed forward and pulled her into the station, complaining, “It’s so cold, do you want to freeze to death?”

Cai Ying’s face was completely devoid of yesterday’s sullenness, and she smiled as she ranted, “Then you didn’t come earlier? Caused me to wait here.”

I don’t know what she’s up to, but her cheerful, bright smile is something I like to see.

She didn’t mention yesterday’s incident, and as usual, the two walked into the hotel together.

After the morning meeting, Li Xiaoxiao unsurprisingly came to me, handsome face full of envy, a string of praise words from his mouth in a staccato flow out: “Boss ~ ~ ~ my admiration for you is like a torrent, the river, the river, the water, unceasingly; and there is like the yellow river, the river, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the floods, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the. Your old man quickly teach me, how can I win the heart of a beautiful woman?” Speaking that pious look and Master Star really have some resemblance.

And I entered the hotel at the same time Li Xiaoxiao and He Ying, seniority in the industry are deeper than me, but not as old as me. Li Xiaoxiao is a love of making friends, love to joke about the boy, from the day of training from the mouth of a “boss” called me, of course, there is no respect. So when Ye Ling heard him speak so sincerely today, she couldn’t help but ask strangely: “Martin, what’s wrong?”

“Spirit sister, you do not know, the boss is so drag ah, I believe a hand picking, G five flowers inside the most solid Rose picked to the hand compartment.” Li Xiaoxiao said in half Mandarin and half Shanghainese.

“What five flowers?” Ye Ling frowned.

Although I also heard for the first time “G five flowers”, but once I think about it, I understand what it means, see Li Xiaoxiao called Ye Ling asked coyly unable to speak, I guess Ye Ling is also afraid of the five flowers.

A good half a day Li Xiaoxiao only said: “There is no mold, just that I saw Daisy and the boss together yesterday, Daisy’s kind of expression I really have never seen before.”

I froze, this kid is really observant, Cai Ying’s expression yesterday was indeed different from usual, and it was only from this that I saw through her mind.

Ye Ling was also stunned, waved Li Xiaoxiao away, looked at me, and said meaningfully, “Paul, a woman’s youth is very short.”

My heart trembled, staring at Ye Ling, trying to see something in her eyes. Ye Ling laughed and slapped over a few pages of paper: “You can think about it after you finish your business!”

I looked at the program on the one hand, on the other hand, listening to Ye Ling said: “S company’s meeting has been in the J hotel, but the last time J appeared serious mistakes to make S is very dissatisfied, so this time S and I company cooperation in the financial industry symposium would like to find another hotel to do. I contacted them, I wanted to E-mail the program, but I don’t know what S thought, had to be a hard copy.” Ye Ling looked at the table: “We have an appointment to send it over before 11:00 a.m., you go for me, go early, don’t miss the appointment.”

I responded. For me to learn computer science, S company and I company are familiar with the big companies, S portal products in the database products in a unique, and I is the industry’s titan. Look at the address of the S company, is one stop away from us H Square, then smiled: “Sister Ling, you can rest assured, I just run also run to.”

Really a word into a sign, 10:30 in a cab, ten minutes actually only less than a hundred meters, look out, in front of a look at the head of the car line, know that encountered a serious racing, had to get out of the taxi began to run wildly.

Running up to realize that this stop is quite long, to the H Square when it is already 11 o’clock, I rushed to the elevator in front of me, but I heard the security guard behind me shouting: “I’m sorry, sir! Plaza power outage, the elevator stopped running, please take the stairs!”

“Shit!” I cursed under my breath, thankful that S Corp was on the 14th floor and not the 40th.

With a crisp “please come in”, I pushed open the door of the marketing department of the S Corporation, and there was only a twenty-four or twenty-five year old pretty girl in the room looking at me coldly.

“I’m from Hotel G…” The girl cut me off in mid-sentence: “You’re late!”

My heart sank, missing appointments is the number one killer of negotiations, so I quickly apologized, “I’m sorry, it’s my fault, I should have taken all the circumstances into account, and I wouldn’t have been late if I had left ten minutes earlier.”

A mischievous smile suddenly appeared on the girl’s face: “You are late, but everyone is late, and you are still the first salesman to deliver the proposal.”

I was in a relaxed mood, the huge contrast between the two faces of the girl made me laugh and cry, handing over my business card: “Wang Huan, G Hotel Business Department, you can call me Paul.”

The girl is called Lu Ya, is the assistant of the marketing department, she carefully looked at the program, asked some details of the problem, with the experience gained in these days and familiar with the IT industry, I cope with freely; and Ye Ling finalized the discount, only ten minutes, Lu Ya will close the program, face showed a satisfied look.

“You go back first, I want to take another look at the other hotel programs.” It seemed that Lu Ya was also a veteran in the field.

It was already past twelve when I returned to the hotel, and there were only a few people left in the staff cafeteria. I saw Cai Ying and Yang Lu at once. Sitting down next to Cai Ying, Yang Lu looked at me with a smile and said, “Paul, I heard you have a girlfriend?”

Before the words left my mouth, I felt that something seemed to pass by my leg, and then Yang Lu frowned and let out an “ah-oh”.

I said leisurely, “Yes, it’s you guys!”

Cai Ying knew that I was playing yesterday’s trick again, looking at Yang Lu’s puzzled look, “Puff” a laugh: “Don’t pay attention to him, he just knows how to take advantage of his mouth.”

My heart aches, Cai Ying, I am not this kind of villain, I don’t want to hurt you, because I am afraid that I don’t have the means to give you what you want.

Yang Lu shook her hand, “I really don’t understand you guys. Forget it, Paul, Daisy and I were going to go to Brain Exchange to buy computers after work, since you’re such a good talker, let’s go together and help me get a better price! Besides, you can’t bear to let Daisy be the porter, can you?” She had a bad smile on her face.

“I’m convincedyou!” I’m really convinced that she’s so justified in grasping the bad.

At around 2:00 pm, I suddenly received a call from Lu Ya, saying that she had already arrived at the hotel lobby and wanted to look at the conference room and restaurant.

I was so happy in my heart that I hurriedly told Ye Ling, and the two of them hurriedly rushed to the front desk.

“This is my boss Ye Ling, and this is Lu Ya, the assistant in the marketing department of S Corporation.” I introduced them to each other for the two of them.

Lu Ya smiled and said to Ye Ling, “I’m just coming to take a look at the venue, I’ll be fine with Mr. Wang accompanying me, so I won’t take up Miss Ye’s time.”

Ye Ling is also very resourceful, whispered to me that she went to say hello to a few places of business, all the spending signed in her name, and Lu Ya said excuse me and left.

“Your boss is beautiful!” Lu Ya praised from the bottom of her heart.

“So are you!” It’s true, G’s clients are powerful companies, and most of them, whether they are secretaries in charge of accommodation or marketing staff in charge of meetings, are both young and beautiful, which often gives me the illusion that I’ve fallen into the Grand View Garden, and that there are beautiful women everywhere I look.

When I discussed the proposal with LU Ya in the morning, I had already realized that she was a meticulous girl. Walking around, I could appreciate her competence even more. Walking around, I could appreciate her competence even more. The route was exactly the way a conference guest would walk, step by step, the location of the power supply in the meeting room, the model of the projector, the drinks in the guest room’s water bar, the Internet access, the services on the business floor, the equipment in the business center, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc. Two hours.

“There shouldn’t be any problem.” Sitting at the lobby bar, Lu Ya sipped her coffee, the aroma of the Cappuccino and the melodious sound of the flute brought a hint of coziness to her face.

“I know we don’t have an advantage in terms of price, but the superior environment and location as well as our professional services will make every penny you spend pay off.” I estimated that I should be ninety percent sure that I would be able to take this case, but I didn’t forget to firm up Lu Ya’s resolve.

“The service is really professional, even your running posture is quite professional.” Lu Ya smiled happily.

“You saw it?” I realized why I was late, Lua still gave me a chance.

Twenty minutes later, we signed the contract, Lu Ya held my hand and said, “Paul, I only have one request, you must follow this case from beginning to end.”

“Yes!” Back to the ministry, I excitedly high-fived Yeling, after all, this is the first case I negotiated independently; Yeling was also happy for me, and immediately ran to Oikawa to praise me. Dachuan then called me to go, praised me a few words, and then told me that S company is very important, but I company is more important, I in Shanghai every year there are about six to seven thousand guest room days of business, all in the H hotel, G has done a lot of assignments, but has not been fruitful, this is a rare opportunity to make sure that the I company in the mind to leave a good impression.

“Go for it!” Oikawa encouraged me.

“Don’t worry!” I said with confidence, also knowing that it was time to badger the I’s and S’s.

After work, I went with Cai Ying and Yang Lu to the Brainstorming Center in Xujiahui, and as soon as I entered the Brainstorming Center, I immediately felt like a fish out of water.

Hearing Yang Lu’s goal, I frowned: “Julia, this Black Diamond costs more than 18,000 dollars, for the same price, you can match a Dream Machine.”

Cai Ying laughed: “Don’t save money for her, plus this time, I’ve accompanied her to buy computers three times!”

I didn’t expect Yang Lu’s family to be so well off, I usually didn’t pay attention to it, but only then did I realize that she was covered in name brands.

“You can’t spend money like that! Where are your two computers?” I want to see if the old accessories will work.

“One went to my brother, and the one I’m using now tried to give it to Daisy, but she wouldn’t have it.”

I remembered Cai Ying and I said that Yang Lu was an only daughter, and I couldn’t help but have a confused expression on my face. Cai Ying looked out and laughed: “What her brother, it’s my brother.”

“It’s my brother too!” Yang Lu argued.

I roughly estimated, and said to Yang Lu: “Julia, if you trust me, I’ll set up a machine for you, guaranteed to be to your liking, and easy to upgrade in the future.”

Yang Lu said, “I can’t trust you?”

The three of them found a company with a large storefront, and I reported the configuration to the salesman. The young man heard a flash of light, thought he had come to the head of the fat sheep. However, a few rounds down, only to realize that the opponent is actually an expert in this line, the threshold than he is still fine, immediately changed the attitude, honestly tell me the bottom price.

“We’re out of stock on the 19″ Sony right now, what do you think about switching to Viewsonic? They have a sale going on right now, a free camera with the 19″.” The young man looked at me cautiously.

I answered “yes”, and then I suddenly remembered that if I set up a webcam, I would be able to see my wife and daughter on the Internet.

When Yang Lu paid the money, I asked the young man how much the camera, he gave me a price, Yang Lu heard it said: “that together!” I laughed: “Julia, a meal you can not escape it, but the camera or I pay it!”

To Yang Lu’s home, I realized that her family is richer than I imagined, just K garden of this set of houses without three, four million I’m afraid I can not get down, home furnishings opulent, is the most elegant one I’ve ever seen.

From Yang Lu’s house out, Cai Ying told me, Yang Lu’s father is the first batch of stockholders in Shanghai, vision is particularly accurate, a few years of hard work made a few million. After that, he invested in a piece of land in Hainan, and sold it in the hottest time in Hainan, which seems to have made 30-40 million dollars. Listen to Yang Lu said that now, in addition to her mother’s operation of a florist, her father stopped all the investment, their own to do stock commentaries by the radio, and Yang Lu neither like to operate nor in the stock market, they ran to G to work.

“That girl is quite interesting.” I laughed.

“You don’t know her, we were classmates in junior high school, friends for more than ten years, and I know that there are definitely no more than five boys who have been to her house, in fact, she’s quite good to you.”

I can’t help but hear a sour taste in it anyhow, and a small smile escapes the corners of my mouth.

Cai Ying gave me a blank look, probably because she was afraid of getting darker and darker, so she changed the topic: “Paul, your English and Japanese are quite good, and you also know how to use the computer, so it’s easy to find a high-paying position in Shanghai, and you get too little in G.”

“But I have friends like you at G. My boss and coworkers treat me well. The money is a little less, but I’m happy doing it.” I was speaking from the heart and my tone was naturally very sincere.

“Yes?” Cai Ying’s eyes rippled as she slowly leaned into me with the crowded flow of people.

When they got out of the car, both of them looked unnatural, and it was rare for anyone to say anything along the way.

Back to the place where I live, installed the camera on the laptop, and wife again contact time is still a few days, but I can not wait to try. I thought that my god-grandfather to the United States has been more than a month, and did not contact him, busy rummage out the phone number left by his old man when he left, dialed the past, thinking that the United States of America’s IT is developed, perhaps there will be a camera at home.

“Its Julia Su speaking,” was a girl’s brittle voice. “I’m looking for Mr. Wang Haibo.” The opposite party shouted in raw Chinese: “Grandpa, your phone.” After a while, came the old man’s majestic voice: “I’m Mr. Wang Haibo, may I ask who is it?”

I said: “It’s me, Godfather.” The voice on the other side was excited: “You brat, why did you just think to call! I called several times but no one answered, where have you been?” In the middle of it, he said to someone else: “It’s my god-grandson.” In the words of some smug flavor.

I asked if there was a camera in the house, and Grandpa Godfrey said he couldn’t understand, so I said, “Then let Julia listen!”

The girl asked, “Are you my godbrother?” I said, “Yes! God-sister, is there a camera at home?”

The girl said yes. Both were understanding and soon the two computers were connected.

A girl of eighteen or nineteen was looking at me curiously on the screen, looking quite a bit like me.

“It’s really similar!” As the girl was being surprised, another head squeezed into the screen, also a girl of similar age, her pretty eyes looked at me for a while and then turned around and shouted, “Grandpa, do you have an illegitimate child?”

I couldn’t help but marvel at how different the American way of thinking really is, and across the street, Grandpa Gan also let out a furious shout: “What nonsense!” Then his old man’s head appeared on the screen.

“You don’t say, things are just advanced nowadays.” The old man was lamenting and asked me how I was doing. I also told him about the work while holding the machine in all directions, especially the two tanks of tropical fish that the old master cared about I showed him carefully. “Very good, very good!” The old master was very satisfied.

I also asked him to live in the United States are not accustomed to, the old man sighed and said: “The United States is really good, what are convenient, people are also polite, I said how to like to run here, this can be understood. But I’m not used to eating Western food, but I also have a way,” then the old man’s face showed a mischievous smile, whispered: “I’ll eat Chinese food. Chinese food here is very expensive, but my daughter has money.” His look is a testament to the fact that, in some ways, 70 and 7 are exactly the same.

Calling over a rather rich middle-aged woman, she said, “Xiu Lian, don’t Julia and Cindy want to go to China for Chinese New Year? I think I’ll let this god-grandson of mine accompany them! This way I am also relieved.” And said to me: “This is your great aunt.”

I called out, “Great Aunt.” The woman looks like an old lady more, looks very kind, but eyes from time to time out of the shrewd gaze. She smiled and said: “Wang, although I don’t know you, but I believe in my father’s vision. Julia and Cindy have been saying that they want to go to China, but we are very busy with our business and don’t have the time, so this time I’ll trouble you.” And I want the phone and E-mail, and whispered: “Some things dad think simple, your situation dad said in detail, like Julia their food, clothing, housing and transportation is a large sum of money, you are afraid that you can not afford it, the specific details of my contact with you again!

I immediately developed a good feeling for this great aunt, so I sincerely said in English: “Thank you, great aunt.

I really can’t afford to entertain two sisters right now, but next time I would like my great aunt to give me a chance to host.”

She smiled in relief: “Looks like dad’s vision is still as poisonous as ever! Good, I promise you.”

Five days later, S and I’s seminar started in G. During this time, I had a bad time catching up on the technical information of the two companies. When their technicians were setting up the display platform, I really learned a lot, and my bottom line was naturally much stronger. General Manager Takeda also attached great importance to this meeting, and sent out a special circular requesting all departments to work together to ensure that the battle would be won. With the cooperation of many factors, the meeting went exceptionally well.

The third day of the meeting is the Lunar New Year, Shanghai customers want to go home early for the holidays, foreign customers also want to stay a little more time to shop, at the unanimous request of everyone, the host compressed the content of the meeting, and the afternoon demonstration mentioned at noon. To one o’clock in the afternoon, the host to see the scene can not raise any questions, we are hungry and waiting for lunch, they declared the end of the seminar.

After dinner at 2:30, Lu Ya is going to take out-of-town clients to walk around Shanghai, before getting into the car, she shook my hand and said, “Thank you!”

I laughed and said, “I should say that.” She said, “You don’t know, the meeting is scheduled in G, there are a lot of people in the company talking about it.” She was under a lot of pressure, “But I’m glad that G has made me look good.” She was quite emotional.

Yes, if there is a conflict of interest between coworkers, it is inevitable to fight. Thinking of this, I realized that the S and I technicians are gone, then casually asked, Lu Ya said: “Boss see everyone in the past two days is quite tired, but also the weekend, but also the New Year, put everyone.”

“Your boss is quite sympathetic to his men!”

“Each person’s life is different! I still have to accompany them to go shopping.” Lua laughed, and reminded me that they were coming over to move the equipment at nine o’clock tomorrow morning, so that I could arrange for good people to wait there.

Back to the conference room looked around, did not find the customer left something, was about to leave, the door was pushed, came in two men and a woman, three people see the conference room is empty, are stunned, the left of the middle-aged man asked: “Afternoon is not a demonstration?”

I look at the faces of the three people are very strange, not to participate in the meeting, but the two middle-aged men are quite powerful, they do not dare to neglect, busy for my customers to explain: “Originally there was a demonstration, but participants want to stay a little more time to visit the city of Shanghai, so the demonstration will be advanced to noon. I don’t know which bank you two are leaders of? If you need to see the demonstration, I’ll contact the people from S and I right now and ask them to come back immediately.”

“No need,” the one in the center with eyes glanced at the name tag on my chest and asked, “Are you an employee of G?”

I said yes, I was in charge of the seminar. The man said “Oh” and asked about the seminar.

I just wanted to introduce the situation to him, but listen to the “bang” sound, the door was heavily pushed open, and came in three people, in front of a more than forty years of age, short fat strange man, well-dressed, hands and feet are also quite imposing, just full of alcohol; followed by two people have also seen, is the A city × × Bank of the Technical Department to participate in the seminar of the two directors, they saw the situation in the conference room also stared. They were also stunned when they saw the situation in the conference room.

The short, fat man saw me at a glance and shouted at me, “Where’s the performance, the demonstration?”

I excused myself from the three men who had come in earlier, and busied myself by running to the short, fat man and explaining.

“I’ll be damned!” The short and fat man’s face was disdainful: “Your company has always been brain-dead, look at other people’s O company, I haven’t even arrived in Shanghai yet and they’ve already arranged the banquet. But you guys, the demo will be early, not even greetings!” He seemed to recognize me as an employee of Company S. The two people behind me recognized me as someone from the hotel and were busy telling the short, fat man.

This is not expected by me and S company, my back suddenly anxious sweat. Recalling the situation of A city and xxx bank, I was ruthless, came to the short fat man’s ear, whispered: “President, O company’s meal is not so delicious, if you choose the wrong product, like this opportunity to eat, I’m afraid there will not be more.”

It’s at least a vice president in charge of technology to have two division chiefs behind his ass.

“What did you say?!” The short, fat man’s gaze was unusually Knightly.

“If I remember correctly, City A was formed after the merger of the original Region B, Region C, and County D. That means your bank was formed by the merger of Bank xxx’s Branch B, Branch C, and Sub-Branch D. As far as I know, B, C, and Sub-Branch D use different computer systems, and this time, your bank is trying to integrate these systems. I wonder if I’m right?”

“So what if it is?” The short, fat man’s tone eased a bit.

“If database products S and O alone are indistinguishable, then for a portal product like yours that needs to be a unified portal, S’s Portal is the best.”

“Company S is your client, I can understand speaking for your client, but don’t talk big!” The short, fat man said nonchalantly.

“Here’s a demo, you’ll see if I’m wrong or not. You wait a moment, I’ll contact the technicians of S Company for you.” Saying that, I took out my phone to try to contact S Company.

“I don’t have time to wait for them!” The hanyou waved his hand and tried to walk out.

I was in a hurry, and the words that rushed out of my mouth startled myself, “Then let me give you a demonstration.”

“You do demos?” The short, fat man froze and stopped in his tracks.

“Yeah, I’ll give you a demo. Of course, it’s thanks to Portal’s exceptional usability and maneuverability.” I thought to myself, “There’s no one from the hotel here anyway, so let me show you what I can do!

I demonstrated and explained, at first I was a little nervous, but then the more I spoke, the more fluent I became. The short fat man sat next to me and listened carefully; the three people who came in earlier also gathered around and listened to my explanation with interest.

I bite demonstrated several common databases, including DB2, Oracle, Informix, Ms Sql heterogeneous concurrency processing, short fat man from time to time with questions. Don’t look at him rude and arrogant, can ask questions all in the key, obviously he is an expert in this area, the good thing is that the problem is not beyond my ability, I answered one by one.

After demonstrating Portal, the short, fat man closed his eyes for a moment and asked, “How does Portal support synchronized data replication?”

I used 5 machines together on one side to do a synchronized replication of the data and explained to him some of the unique techniques Portal uses.

“But I have 83 branch offices.”

“No problem, Portal has no connection limitations, but it requires system software and hardware support. i’s machines have always had the best reputation in the banking industry, and their performance is definitely up to your requirements, and its Unix platform handles concurrent transactions much better than NT. Can you give me some time? I’ll write a batch simulation to show you.”

The man was quite quick to agree this time, I spent ten minutes to finish writing, while running while saying: “Although there is a gap with the real situation, but it can illustrate some problems.”

The hanyou watched carefully, and while the number of transactions increased rapidly, the performance curve declined slowly.

“The computer in my branch office needs to be connected remotely to the mainframe, is there a problem?” The short, fat man threw out another query.

I heart a bitter smile, this short winter melon on the technology is really fine. Tell him to wait a while, I brought my laptop from the Ministry, check the host, fortunately, has installed the remote access service process. In my laptop installed the client process, and configured a lot of parameters, finally dial-up and host connected up.

“Good!” The short, fat man revealed a satisfied smile, and the drunkenness on his face disappeared a lot: “Are you from the hotel’s computer department?”

“No,” I handed over my business card: “Wang Huan from the business department, please teach me more.”

“Oh?” The man looked surprised: “I’ve never seen a salesman as technically savvy as you!”

I also laughed: “I’ve never seen such a technical know-how as you, Mr. Governor!”

My compliments made him happy: “You’re quite a smart young man. I’ll tell you what, you help me and S company contact, I want to talk to them.”

My heart a burst of relief, more than an hour of demonstration finally some results. Busy to Lu Ya made a phone call to explain the situation, and let colleagues to help find a vacant small conference room so that they can meet, and that Han explained that there are still next to the guests need me to receive, then let colleagues to take them to another conference room.

Before leaving, the short, fat man handed me a business card and said, “If you leave G, remember to come and find me.”

After arranging those three people, I turned to the three people who came in first and said apologetically, “I’m really sorry to have slowed down a few leaders. Do you want to see the demo again, or do you need to contact the people from S or I company?”

The secretary-like woman was just about to say something, but the middle-aged man with glasses raised his hand to stop her, exchanged a look with another man, and said, “Your demonstration is already very detailed, so we don’t need to see it again. Give us your business card and we’ll contact you again if anything happens.”

After sending the three people away, I didn’t dare to leave the conference room again, and after waiting for more than two hours, no one came to see the presentation. Looking at the watch it was already almost seven o’clock, I knew that this case could finally be over, and I couldn’t help but lean back and let out a long breath.

The mood of a relaxed, suddenly feel hungry chest to back, and then remembered that he has two meals did not eat. Back to the Ministry, rummage through the cupboard to find two packets of instant noodles, just soaked on, heard the knock on the door, open the door to see, pretty standing outside the door is actually Cai Ying!

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“Daisy? You’re not going home so late? It’s the New Year!” I asked in surprise, feeling vaguely uneasy in my heart.

The light in the hallway wasn’t too bright, but I could still clearly see a blush flash across Cai Ying’s face.

“I came from home.”

Choe Ying’s voice was very soft and gentle, but every word was like a hammer hitting my heart so hard that for a moment I was at a loss for words: “Oh? Yes… that’s right! Then… come on in.”

Cai Ying can see my embarrassment, pursed lips a music, they went to the house, and then I realized that she was followed by an eighteen, nineteen year old teenager, is not tall, the body is also very thin, but the person looks very pretty, looks and Cai Ying is very similar to the hand carrying a black plastic bag, bulging I don’t know what is loaded.

I immediately guessed the identity of the teenager, Cai Ying often mentioned her brother, that is the pride of their family, last year with the city’s top ten scores into the third department of the J University, counting properly is my little brother.

“It’s Caiji, isn’t it, I’ve heard your sister praising you for a long time.” I soothed myself and smiled at the teenager who had been staring at me as soon as I entered the room.

“Huan, just call me Xiao Zhi.” The teenager was a little embarrassed.

I frowned lightly, Brother Huan, I don’t know if Cai Zhi himself wanted to be called that, or if Cai Ying taught him.

“Haven’t eaten yet?” Cai Ying smelled the flavor of instant noodles: “That’s just right, today the family packs dumplings, I brought some for you, so don’t eat instant noodles.” Saying this, he cleared a place on the table, and took out a thermos box from the plastic bag Cai Zhi was carrying and opened it on the table, a steaming aroma coming out of his nose.

“Eat it while it’s hot, it won’t taste good if it gets cold.”

Cai Ying had kept her back to me through these actions, and hadn’t turned around while speaking. I stood silently watching her, her movements were slightly unnatural, and a hint of shyness could be faintly heard in her flat voice.

Shanghai people on the lunar New Year look very light, most people do not make dumplings, look at Cai Ying’s appearance, I have guessed that this must be her specially for me to do, heart a burst of moving at the same time, the uneasiness is also expanding sharply.

Years of habit so that my first reaction is to reject this intention of Cai Ying, words to the mouth suddenly remembered that Cai Zhi is still next to me, how do not want to let Cai Ying in front of his brother lost face, so picked up the chopsticks clamped a dumpling into the mouth, chewed a few chews, praised: “Daisy, I did not see out, your handiwork is really good!”

Said the man, and ate a few more in a row.

To be honest, the flavor of the dumplings was mediocre at best, and I even suspected that this was the first time Cai Ying had ever wrapped something like this that northerners were better at. But the love inside made me feel that it was even more flavorful and delicious than the ones from Shanshui House back home.

“Really? I was afraid of doing it wrong!” Cai Ying’s face bloomed into a flower.

“My sister has spent a lot of effort!” Cai Zhi a mouth uncovered the sister’s old bottom, see Cai Ying huffing and puffing glaring at him, busy good behavior to me said: “Huan brother, I’ll go back first, my classmates are waiting for me to surf the Internet!” Said, a smoke ran away.

Seeing that Cai Zhi was gone out of sight, I brought the door with me.

The hotel’s air conditioning was given sufficiently, and the room was unusually warm. Cai Ying seemed to be feeling too hot and was taking off her lattice tweed coat.

“Daisy~” Cai Ying heard me call out to her and turned around, the light-colored, half-sleeved cashmere sweater she wore on Christmas Eve wrapped in perfect curves caught my eye, causing my breath to catch.

Although every day to work and work together with Cai Ying, but I only the second time to see her wear tight clothes look, changed out of that professional clothes, Cai Ying’s body is actually such a delicate.

“Haven’t seen it ah?” Cai Ying’s face was filled with scarlet.

I was sure of myself and said, “Choy Ying…” When Choy Ying saw my face, she looked at me blankly, “Paul, what’s wrong?”

“I know you’ve been good to me, and I really appreciate it, but…” I thought it would be better to nip this hazy relationship with Cai Ying in the bud, even though we’d both be heartbroken; but just as I got halfway through the sentence, my heart sank unexpectedly, and I couldn’t go on, and with my head averted, the tears streamed out in an indomitable manner.

Choy Ying was confused at first, but it took her a bag of cigarettes to understand what I was saying. Her face lost all other expressions, and all that remained was a kind of inexplicable fear, as if something was frightening her. She looked like a frightened deer, and her voice was shaking terribly, “Paul, what… what… did… you… say…? Don’t scare… don’t scare… me…”

Seeing Choy Ying’s look, I felt bitter in my heart and almost gave up my original idea, but thinking of my wife and daughter, as well as Sujin, I ruthlessly said: “Daisy, I’m sorry, I’m really sorry! I… I already… have… a girlfriend.”

Choe Ying’s face was suddenly covered with disillusionment and despair, like a daisy blown to pieces in the cold wind, isolated and helpless. Only after a long time did she manage to squeeze out a smile that was both resigned and bitter: “What I feared most… has happened.” She looked up at me with tears in her eyes, as if asking me, “If that’s the case, why are you still being so nice to me?!”

Cai Ying sad eyes, let my mind immediately returned to ten years ago, that cold afternoon, I also look at the girl in such despair, the girl’s answer let me fall into hell: “because you are his friend.” Such a simple sentence, let me live in low self-esteem for nearly two years, until my wife rescued me from the abyss of feelings and betrayal.

“Daisy, I’m not… actually, I… I quite… like you.” I didn’t want to hurt Choy Ying too deeply, so I blurted out the confusion in my mind. I loved my wife, and I often missed Sujin, and Choy Ying’s gentleness and sweetness made me fall in love with her… could a man really like several women?

Cai Ying obviously did not hear the bitterness and helplessness in my words, she was like a prisoner who had been sentenced to death, only to realize that it was actually a reprieve when she had no more thoughts, and nothing else mattered for the result of “life”, so her face immediately recovered its anger, “Really? Do you really like me?” She raised her tearful eyes and asked me carefully.

Looking at Cai Ying’s face full of hope, a warm current flowed through my whole body, such a girl for you to rejoice for you to worry, what else do you want! I know I can’t say the words of refusal a second time.

“Really.” I sighed in my mind and let it all go.

Like sunlight caressing the earth, Cai Ying’s face instantly revealed a bright smile, and in that instant I had a dizzying feeling. Before that feeling could subside, she had already indulged her body into her arms.

“Paul, Huan, I knew that you… are fond of me.” Choy Ying’s head leaned against my chin, rejoicing. Her skeletal shoulders passed under my shoulders and wrapped around my back, as if she was afraid I would leave, and hugged me hard.

Let go of the mood of my senses have become unusually sharp, Cai Ying obviously just washed hair is still a light shampoo scent, white neck and ears exudes a white pine and red orange fragrance mixed with the elegant perfume flavor, this is called “Green Poison” of the perfume I was so familiar with, because my wife has a bottle, I sent her, every time she had fun she always forget to rub a little. She always forgets to rub on a little when she is having a good time. Thinking of these, Cai Ying tightly pressed on my chest and abdomen between the pair of solid bulge changes, even through thick clothes, I seem to know as well, more than a month of abstinence from life so that I can not help but have a reaction.

Cai Ying’s body obviously shrunk back a bit and then immediately close up, the belly pushed so hard that my penis has a painful feeling. She gently trembled, exuding a strange heat, and her delicate voice seemed to come from the distant sky: “Hold me.”

In fact, there was no need for her to say anything, one of my hands had already wrapped around Cai Ying’s waist. The other gently lifted her face and tenderly kissed her on the forehead. As soon as her warm, wet lips touched her blazing skin, she immediately let out a cloying snort and tilted her head back as her lips found their target.

Cai Ying sucked my lips hard, and her wet, slippery, slender tongue, with a wisp of minty scent, wrapped around my tongue, which was not as skillful as my wife’s, but not as raw as Su Jin’s either. While the two tongues were obliviously exploring each other, my hand reached in from under her cashmere sweater. Cai Ying’s body involuntarily avoided a bit, “hmm”, bit my tongue.

Leaving her lips, I pressed against her face and whispered softly in her ear, “I want to see.”

Choe Ying’s face immediately became hot, glared at me, pressed me into a chair, ran to the wall and turned off all the lights in the room, then sat on my lap, hugged my head, and softly said, “I’ll show you… everything… I’ll show you…”

Lift up Cai Ying’s sweater and underwear, undo the clasp of the solid-colored bra and push it upward, breaking free from the constraints of the peaks proudly stood out in front of my eyes. Although the house is dark, but the bright moonlight and the fluorescent light of the street lamp shines in, still can see this tantalizing scene clearly.

Cai Ying’s body should be snow white, see my hand is playing with a group of bump, even in the moonlight, the color of the skin on the hand is obviously deeper than the skin next to it; Cai Ying’s body is delicate, in my wife’s body to experience the definition of tenderness I can naturally appreciate that she is not inferior to the wife’s that detailed and tender; Cai Ying’s body is youthful, perfect breasts slightly upturned, gravity seems to have lost its effect on her body, flat belly without a trace of fat; Cai Ying’s body is also amorous, I only rubbed a few times, the tip of her breasts demonstrated like an erection; I only rubbed a few times, she had a demonstration of the tip of her breasts like an erection. She seems to have lost its effect on her body, flat belly without a trace of flab; Cai Ying’s body is also amorous, I only rubbed a few times, the tip of her breasts will be demonstrative like an erection, swollen like a grain of grapes.

“Smells good!” I kissed her breasts and casually asked, “Did you take a bath at home?”

“Hate it~~” Cai Ying’s words were filled with shame as she was seen through.

So that’s how it was, I understood Cai Ying’s mind, and with a surge of excitement in my heart, I reached into her skirt, picked apart the leather straps of her pantyhose and panties, and gently covered her private parts.

With a jolt, Cai Ying gave a cry and pressed my head hard against her chest with both hands.

It had been muddy there for a long time, and the slightest movement of my fingers sent a warm, thick liquid running down my fingers and into the palm of my hand, the petals of the flower opening desperately as if to please this visitor.

“Don’t…” Choy Ying gasped, but her body made the opposite movement, moving up and down in small increments, and my finger entered a warm, moist secret hole without resistance.

Cai Ying trembled spasmodically, as if she couldn’t stand the stimulation, she raised her body violently, only to hear a “boing” sound, my finger slipped out of her private part.

“You… you’re so bad~~” Before I could say anything else, there was another whimper, and it was me who slid her pantyhose down a little.

The first time I saw her was when she was in the hospital, and she was in the hospital with her husband. Cai Ying has been legs soft, greasy in my arms at my mercy, I was stripping her pantyhose, she was obedient to cooperate with me, until I began to unbuckle his belt, she suddenly came to her senses, gently pressed my hand, in my ear whispered: “I’ll do it.”

Cai Ying quietly knelt in front of me, her face in the moonlight as devout as a holy maiden. Tenderly removing all my pants, she pressed her face against my erect dick. In that split second I was in a daze, instinctively I picked her up and sat back on the chair, lifting and lowering her body, my dick penetrated her honey pot accurately, “mmm~~” both of us exhaled at the same time.

Although Cai Ying there has been soaked, can be much tighter than I imagined, little brother thorns and thorns at the same time actually have the feeling of pain, my excitement in the sound can not help but some of the bitter taste: Cai Ying is full of long drought in the rain of relief.

Remembering something Choy Ying had said, I held her waist and pushed hard a few times, teasingly saying, “Choy Ying, didn’t you say that… I only know how to… take advantage of you… with my mouth? Then I will take advantage of your… little… mouth…”

“Jim… right…” Cai Ying was so hot that she lifted up one breast and stuffed it into my mouth, “You can have this too… it’s all yours…” she panted and squealed.

I wrapped my tongue around her nipple and sucked on it, and she let out a soft “ah” as her back straightened and her honey pot squirmed in waves.

The tingle ran through my body and I knew I was coming. I know I’m going to come soon. It’s hard for me to control myself when there’s a long time between sexes. I held onto Cai Ying’s waist, and with her moans deliberately lowered, I began to sprint.

Maybe it was because Cai Ying had been confined even longer than me, just when I was about to reach the peak, she suddenly let out a scream, her legs clamped down hard on me, and her person leaned back violently, the secret hole wrapped around my dick began to contract violently, and I even felt a stream of love liquid jetting onto my dick.

My head went blank, and the bullets I had stored up for a long time fired out violently, hitting Cai Ying’s vitals in waves. Cai Ying trembled even more, then paralyzed in my arms.

Or Cai Ying’s a shiver woke me still in the aftermath of the orgasm, see her body seeped out tiny beads of sweat, although the house is very warm, but after all, it is winter, and hastily pulled over the chair next to the coat draped over her body.

Choe Ying carefully cleaned both of their lower bodies, then quietly lay down in my arms, fiddled with my buttons with one hand, and only after a long time did she say in a low voice, “Today is the… dangerous period.”

I don’t know why, but I don’t have a trace of worry and fear in my heart, caressing her hair, calmly said: “Don’t worry, everything has me.”

Cai Ying’s hand stopped for a moment and asked quietly, “What about her?”

I didn’t say anything and turned my head to look out the window. The deep night sky outside was filled with stars, twinkling like the bright eyes of my wife.

It was almost ten o’clock when I sneaked out and sent Cai Ying home. At the stairway of her house, Cai Ying hugged me and refused to let go until the cab driver honked the horn four or five times, then she quickly kissed me and whispered “I’ll wait for you at Hengshan Station tomorrow morning”, and turned around and disappeared into the dark hallway.

Tossing and turning for a long time at night before falling asleep, this sleep seems to do a lot of dreaming, the scene of the characters in the dream seems to be within reach, but when Li Xiaoxiao woke me up, how can I not remember the content of the dream.

“What time is it?” I asked, rubbing my glazed eyes.

“It’s almost eight o’clock, big lazy ass!” But the girl’s voice, turned my head to see, is with me into the store He Ying. I walked towards the restroom and asked, “Denise, why are you here? Isn’t Martin’s shift today?”

Li Xiaoxiao and He Ying’s faces were a little red, I understood at once, and smoothly pulled Li Xiaoxiao into the restroom, while brushing his teeth and asked him vaguely: “Martin, our party policy is to be lenient in confessing and strict in resisting, so you honestly explain, when did you talk about it?”

Li Xiaoxiao laughed dryly and came to my ear to say something, but then the phone rang in the house, and He Ying’s voice came over: “Daisy?… Ah… Paul is brushing his teeth. What? Oh, I’ve come to the private room, Si. I’ll call you…” Then she shouted, “Paul, Daisy’s on the phone!”

I rushed to rinse my mouth, but I already received a punch on my shoulder from Li Xiaoxiao: “Boss, you’d better be honest!”

When I picked up the phone and said, “This is Paul,” Choy Ying’s voice was a little nervous, “Joy, I didn’t realize it was Denise…”

“It’s okay,” I reassured her, listening to the heavy nasal tone in her voice, I couldn’t help but ask with concern: “Daisy, are you not feeling well?”

“Well, I had a bit of fever in the morning, and my body doesn’t have any strength at all,” she said, her voice suddenly becoming low, “I blame you~~” she snapped.

I seem to be able to see Cai Ying’s shy appearance, my heart was hot and then a burst of heartache, busy asked her to take medicine, she said she ate, cold medicine and anti-inflammatory medicine have eaten; and also said that I can not wait for me at Hengshan station, “I would have liked to accompany you on the subway to sell insurance na.” She laughed softly.

My body was suddenly warm, and the sunlight outside the window seemed much brighter. Not caring that Li Xiaoxiao and He Ying were staring at me from the side, I told Cai Ying that she must stay at home and rest well, and that she was not allowed to go anywhere.

Hurriedly and Li Xiaoxiao confided in a few words of the hotel yesterday, I went straight to Parkson and went to Parkson also waited a few minutes before it opened its doors, bought a pile of nutrients, went straight to the Cai Ying home.

Knocked on the door and waited for three minutes before the door opened with a squeak and half a body peeked out from inside: “What are you looking for?”

This is an old building, public corridors on both sides are residents, the corridor can not see a ray of sunlight, a few hallway lights dim, only play a role in the instructions. The face of the person poking out of the door or rely on the light leaking out of the house to see clearly, I could not help but be surprised.

The man was in his fifties, and the left side of his face was covered with mottled and interlaced scars, a few of which were even outwardly raised and obviously very ugly. Just as I froze, the man saw that I didn’t answer and tried to close the door.

I hurriedly reached out and stopped it: “May I ask if this is Cai Ying’s house?”

The man heard, pushed the glasses up and down a good look at me, and asked: “You are small Wang wow?” Seems to remember something, and asked me again in Mandarin, see me nod, open the door completely, said: “Then come in.”

It should be that those dumplings yesterday leaked all of Cai Ying’s mind to her family, so much so that I’ve become so famous in her family, I said in my heart.

“You’re Uncle Cai, aren’t you?” The man gave a “hmm” and casually threw over a pair of slippers; I handed him what was in my hand: “I heard that Cai Ying is sick, so I’ve come to see her.” He took it and called out to the inner room: “Ah Ying, Little Wang is here!” As he spoke, he walked toward the house.

He walked with a limp, his feet made a “kicking” sound, and I realized that his left calf was a prosthesis. My eyes turned to the side, a woman in her forties sitting in a wheelchair looking at me. As soon as I looked at the woman’s appearance, I knew that she must be Cai Ying’s mother, her thin and small body seemed to be submerged in the wheelchair, and her two trouser hips were empty, so there was obviously nothing left inside.

Cai Ying seldom mention her family, mention when also are talking about her brother Cai Zhi, I never thought her parents are disabled. Look at the home layout although clean and tidy, but the furniture are very old and simple, obviously living quite hard, and I’m afraid that the burden of raising a family of eight, nine fell on the eldest daughter Cai Ying.

I felt pity in my heart: “Cai Ying, it’s not easy for her!”

“Huan, why are you here? Why don’t you tell me!” Cai Ying’s voice came from the inner room, and although there was some rancor in her voice, it was more of a surprise.

Cai Ying’s parents smiled at me, obviously understanding their daughter’s mind, and the one who was the mother even waved her hand with me and whispered, “Hurry up and go inside.”

The door curtain was picked, and what broke into my eyes was another wheelchair, but the wheelchair was sitting on a twenty year old girl, who was extremely similar to Cai Ying, only her skin was even whiter, almost sickly white. She smiled sweetly at me and called out “Brother Huan”, then shook the wheelchair and ran to the outhouse.

The inner room was very small, a bunk bed and a dresser, which were common in school dormitories, took up almost the entire space. Cai Ying is sitting on the body of the down jacket, legs of the quilt only half built, revealing the white pajama pants decorated with small orchids; a head of green silk scattered over the shoulders, with a lazy handsome face, really sick add Yan, a different kind of beauty. I see her seem to get out of bed, busy press her back into the nest, complained: “sick themselves do not pay attention, and then flash how to do!”

Probably due to the fever, Cai Ying’s face was flushed. Hear me say so, her eyes abruptly bright, pull my hand into the quilt on the chest, whispered: “I’m afraid you stand talking tired.” I said not tired, asked her is not catching a cold, she glared at me: “still say it, not all because you caused ah.” Speaking, winks like silk.

My heart surged with a sense of accomplishment, my hand from Cai Ying pajamas buttons between reach in, inside the slippery skin is really some hot people. I asked her where the thermometer was, and she said she had measured it in the morning, and it was 37 degrees and a half. I said I didn’t see it doesn’t count, so she obediently put the thermometer in her armpit.

Measured a good look, actually is a high fever of 39 degrees, Cai Ying also some panic: “so high ah, I still have a school winter vacation internship tomorrow to contact it!”

Seeing the situation at Cai Ying’s house, I finally understood why she took this job so seriously. “First get well first, really can’t, tomorrow’s matter let Yang Lu help you contact it!” I settled her heart, then said, “Xiao Ying, I’ll take you to the hospital!”

In the past two days, the weather has been so cold that a long line of people danced outside the hospital’s emergency room, so we had to sit on a bench outside and wait slowly. Cai Ying hugged my skeleton and leaned against me, talking to me about what happened at home.

It was more than ten years ago, Cai Ying’s parents took his little sister to the hospital to see a doctor, on the road, a big truck suddenly lost control of the bike lane, Cai Ying’s father rode a bicycle was crushed under the wheels of the three people, although they saved their lives, but all left with lifelong disabilities.

Perhaps because it happened so long ago, Cai Ying looked very calm as she recalled her memories, and it was only when she mentioned her father that her expression changed: “My father was a watch repairer, and he was very skillful with his hands, and my mother and my little sister’s wheelchairs were all made by my father himself. Before I started working, my father was the sole breadwinner, and when I was a sophomore in college, my father’s factory closed down, and his eyesight had already started to fail…”

Cai Ying was speaking fervently when my phone rang, and when I answered it, a cheerful voice came from inside: “Is it Paul? I’m Lu Ya.”

When Cai Ying heard the girl’s voice, she pouted and pinched me on the shoulder. I put my arm around Cai Ying’s waist and brought her into my arms, signaling her to keep quiet, and then rushed to the phone and said, “It’s me, Lu Ya.” Look at the phone number is her company’s phone, asked: “so desperate ah, Sunday still in the company overtime?”

“It’s all your fault,” she said, but there was no hint of dissatisfaction in Lu Ya’s voice.

“Hmm?”

“I’m kidding you, A city The bank’s project is basically finalized, several of us work overtime to do the program for him, to say but also thank you.” Lu Ya said sincerely.

I returned a polite remark, and Lu Ya asked again: “Where are you now? Do you have time for lunch? I want to invite you to dinner.”

Knowing that the bank’s bank president, Mr. Shih, had spoken well of me in front of the head of S Corporation, and that Lu Ya had been favored, I laughed and said, “It’s more like… I’ll treat you…” Just as I was in the middle of my sentence, I felt Cai Ying in my arms wriggle a few times, and laughed in my heart, as a girl’s tastes really don’t ask for a reason! “… But I can’t today, my girlfriend has a fever and I’m at the hospital with her!” I continued, thinking that it was time to call Banker Shek back.

“Really?” Lu Ya sounded more or less disappointed: “Well then, I’ll contact you some other time. Give my regards to your girlfriend and wish her a speedy recovery.”

“Who is your girlfriend!” Cai Ying complained with her mouth, but her face was full of joy.

“Huh, aren’t you?” I pretended to be surprised. Cai Ying seemed to be unable to let go of the girlfriend in my hometown, and snapped, “Who knows how many girlfriends you have?”

Her words immediately reminded me of my wife and Su Jin, my mood sank, and my face became a bit gloomy. Cai Ying knew that she had said the wrong thing and changed the topic, “Lu Ya? Is that Lu Ya from S Company?”

“How do you know about her?” I asked curiously.

“Haven’t you been doing S Corp Cases with her for the past few days?”

It dawned on me that Cai Ying kept an eye on me, so she knew about Lu Ya. She cares so much about my every move, obviously is deeply rooted in love. I was touched in my heart and hugged her hard, saying against her ear, “Little Shadow, I’m really afraid that I’ll be in debt to you.”

“Then don’t leave me.” Cai Ying murmured, her body leaning hard against me.

The doctor was an old man. There was no inflammation in the tests, just a bad cold. The old lady wrote a medical history and a prescription, and at the same time nagged, “First, give a fever-reducing injection… Young man, I don’t mean to be mean, but how can a girl be expected to do all the hard work in the house? Why do you need a man like you? Take this medicine after meals, three times a day.” He also brought over a card: “I’m giving your beloved three days’ sick leave, so she can rest at home.”

I nodded my head uncontrollably, while Cai Ying was secretly happy at the side. Out of the emergency room, I laughed bitterly: “Xiao Ying, she is not your grandmother, right, why so toward you!” And then came to her ear and laughed: “In fact, I’m the one who does the hard work!” Cai Ying face a red, vigorously take the skeleton elbow pushed me a bit, angry: “hate it, such words also say.”

While they were talking and laughing, I heard a man shouting, “Yes, please, make way, make way…” Along with the shout, several doctors and nurses jogged past me pushing a stretcher cart, followed by seven or eight well-dressed men and women, all with heavy faces.

When a woman wearing sunglasses in the middle of them quickly and I staggered past, my heart suddenly welled up in the bottom of a both vague, but also clear shadow of a young girl, “so like ah!” My mind just moved, my footsteps slowed down, after a dozen or so steps, I just couldn’t help but look back, those people had already disappeared at the end of the corridor.

“What’s wrong?”

“It’s fine.” I think I’m seeing things. It must have been nine years since she and I had contacted each other, and what remained in my mind was still the silhouette of her teenage years, and nine years later, she should be an adult in appearance.

It was then that I suddenly realized that even after all these years, I still couldn’t get her out of my mind, even though I thought I had completely forgotten the story of what happened with her.

After the injection, tossed back to Cai Ying’s home is noon. Cai Ying’s father has made lunch, had to keep me for dinner, Cai Ying is also a face of pleading, I had to respond.

Cai father is a typical Shanghai man, dexterous, usually a few dishes after he fiddled with will become colorful and fragrant, I learned in my wife’s pregnancy that a few hands compared to the far worse. I eat and praise, Cai Ying did not have an appetite, only ate a few mouthfuls and then let go of chopsticks, see me eat happy she is also full of joy, whispered to me: “You like to eat, I will give you to do.”

After dinner, Cai Ying lying on the bed a strong spirit to talk to me, but refused to sleep. I read her mind is not willing to let me leave, I also a little uneasy about her illness, so I laughed and said: “Well, small shadow, I will not go is, there is any work at home I’ll help you to do it, you must sleep now.”

Cai Ying’s face showed a reassuring expression, hesitated for a moment, and told me that some clothes had to be washed, after all, the body is weak in the disease, and there is still paracetamol in the medication she ate, and she quickly fell asleep.

The bathroom held the family’s clothes, some of which the mother and daughter wore close to each other, so it was no wonder Cai Ying was a little embarrassed.

I am washing, Cai father came in: “not that small shadow is my daughter I praise her, she is really a good child, it is we delayed her.” Cai’s father lit a cigarette and took a drag on it, half-pitying, half-helplessly saying: “This child is too concerned about her family. She used to have a boyfriend named Su Kai, who went abroad. Several times she asked Xiaoying to go abroad, but Xiaoying just didn’t go, so people understood. In fact, Su Kai is quite nice, but he’s too smart…”

Cai’s father was half-speaking, but I heard him clearly. Probably many people would be like Su Kai, either choosing to run away and create a home of their own with Cai Ying in a distant country, or choosing to end it because such a burden isn’t something that every man can pick up. Cai’s father naturally wants the person his daughter likes to be a real man, but am I? I was confused for a moment in my heart.

Cai Ying woke up with a start, her fever had subsided, her spirits were much better, and she said she was hungry. I saw that she recovered better than expected, so I want to leave. Cai Ying reluctantly pulling my hand do not want me to go, I kissed her on the face, smiled and said: “Good girl, obedient, I’m here instead of you rest bad. Besides, the ancient people have said, two love if it is a long time, and not in the morning and evening. The days are still long!”

Cai Ying’s eyes lit up: “Ah Huan, remember what you said today!” As she spoke, her eyes were full of prayers.

Back to the dry rest center, I put the Toyota Camry drive out. Since I took the license, I just drove a few laps in the dry rest center compound to try the performance of the car, but never on the road, Shanghai’s road conditions are far more complex than home, and my technology is not very good, the heart inevitably have a sense of fear, if not too expensive Shanghai taxi, I’m afraid that I still do not have the courage to drive this car.

Along the Hengshan Road to the north into the middle of Huaihai Road, all the way to the road conditions, although complex, but we are driving more civilized, pedestrians are quite abide by the traffic rules, I will gradually have confidence, the car is also more and more skilled, after all, the base is still there. Only Huaihai Road is full of no-left signs, I circled around several times before I found the ideal route. I pinched the watch, and take the subway about the same time, just Cai Ying will not have to be cold wind blowing.

The next morning, I called Cai Ying to ask her how she was getting better, she said she was much better, she didn’t have a fever last night or this morning, and knowing that I was going to let her rest, she begged, “Ah Huan, please, let me go to work!”

I said: “Well then, wait for me, I’ll go pick you up.” She was immediately happy: “I knew you were good to me.”

The car drove down to Cai Ying’s house and I called for her to come down. Seeing me leaning on the car door and waving at her, she froze. “Don’t freeze! What if you freeze!” I greeted her and got into the assistant’s seat, then started the car.

Cai Ying didn’t say anything for half a day, but she kept staring at me as I drove, watching me skillfully weave in and out of traffic with a confused look on her face, as if she couldn’t figure out what was happening in front of her.

“Huan, where did you get the car?” Cai Ying finally couldn’t help but ask.

“My god-grandfather’s,” knowing that Cai Ying also want to ask, then continued: “He is a retired old cadres, two daughters are in the United States, the old man and the old lady went to the United States and his daughter’s family reunion went to the United States, left the car for me to give him to watch.”

Hearing the word “America”, Cai Ying’s expression darkened and she asked quietly, “What about you? Are you also going to America?”

I knew that she remembered Su Kai’s never-return, and I wanted to comfort her, so I said: “God-grandfather is God-grandfather, and I am me! He went to America to reunite with his daughter, but who will I reunite with in America? I can’t be reunited with Su Kai!”

Cai Ying “puffed” and laughed, and snapped, “You’re bullying me! Don’t mention him again!”

He let Cai Ying out of the car at the east entrance of the hotel, and instructed her again to work at a leisurely pace, then parked the car in a nearby parking lot.

After the morning meeting, my god-grandfather’s eldest daughter Wang Xiulian’s phone arrived, she said Julia and Cindy want to spend New Year’s Eve in China, ready to Lunar New Year’s Eve, that is, the day after tomorrow in Beijing, and asked me if I could get out of vacation. I asked for the holiday duty roster, coincidentally, until the ninth day of the first nine are not my shift, then to Ye Ling to ask for two days off before the festival, Ye Ling and Dachuan said, may be my recent performance to let Dachuan quite satisfied, he quickly agreed, I and the great aunt to finalize the specific days and flights, she also told me that I have already deposited money on my credit card: “Paul, I’ll leave Julia and the sisters to you. Julia and the sisters to you, you must take good care of them.”

When it was time for lunch, I purposely went half an hour late, and when Cai Ying saw me, she was busy greeting me over. Although her face was pale, she looked quite energized, but it was Yang Lu next to her who looked listless.

I first asked Cai Ying how she was feeling in the morning, and Cai Ying said that she was fine, and that she had gotten in touch with the internship at the tourism middle school, and that she would be relaxed in the afternoon. I urged her not to forget to take her medication, and then turned to Yang Lu and asked her, “Julia, what’s wrong with you? You have something on your mind, tell me and see if your friends can help you.”

“Yeah? How come I didn’t see it?” Cai Ying asked in surprise, taking a closer look at Yang Lu, with a frown, she said, “It’s not quite like usual, Julia, is something wrong?”

Cai Ying had just regained the nourishment of love, a heart is afraid to be all on me, the reaction to the surrounding affairs seems to be very slow, even the good friend’s change did not see; on the contrary, it is because of my escape, when I maintain the vigilance of the outside world, but saw it.

Yang Lu punched Cai Ying and laughed: “Damn Daisy, you are now in the room before you realize that ah, not as good as Paul na, Allah know, your mind is all in the room!”

I suddenly realized, I heard Cai Ying said Yang Lu and her ex-boyfriend Li Zhiyang thing, Li is also Yang Lu’s classmates, did not get to know the bottom of her details on the launch of a passionate pursuit, and so on the good in the arms only to find that he chased into the hands of a golden girl, he did not know where to learn from the crooked reasoning, said that we have to break into a career, and Yang Lu equal to come to marry her, they went to the United States with Su Kai, and he met another girl after that! He went to the United States with Su Kai, after which he met another girl, and Yang Lu chased her to the United States but failed to salvage the relationship. It turns out that he and Cai Ying are in the same boat, and at this time, seeing that her heart has returned, he can’t help but feel lonely.

Cai Ying, however, immediately blushed and said, “What did you say?” She also wanted to play dumb.

“I ran into Chi yesterday, and he could have told me all about it.”

Cai Ying knew that she couldn’t hide it, so she whispered with Yang Lu, and the two girls looked at me from time to time while talking, Cai Ying’s gaze was of course full of love, while Yang Lu’s gaze was quite a bit meaningful.

After work to send Cai Ying home, accompanied her to talk for a while, remembered that today is the time to contact his wife, so he hurriedly excused himself to the Internet cafe.

I told my wife about going to Beijing, and she immediately sent me a line of information: “I’ll go shopping too!”

My wife is a teacher, she wanted to come to Shanghai to see me during the winter vacation, but I discouraged her for the sake of safety; as soon as she heard that I was going to Beijing, she immediately moved to meet me in Beijing.

“Beijing should be safe.” I also moved in my heart, the thoughts of my wife then spread uncontrollably in my mind, after careful calculation, I have a belly.

“You fly to Beijing on the second day of the month, the fourth day of the month to go back, live in the place of my arrangements; we have an extra month’s salary for New Year’s Eve, I’ve already existed on the card, use this money to buy a plane ticket.” I think this will not attract the attention of the public security, the New Year, they should also go home to reunite it!

Wife see me agree, flew to pass two words: “wait for you!” Words followed by a long string of hearts, bright red color is so eye-catching.

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When and Cai Ying said about going to Beijing, she was full of loss, “thought I could spend the New Year with you.” She was quite frustrated. She was quite frustrated, turned her head and pestered me to ask if it was okay to go to Beijing with me, I said: “You’re not well yet, it’s not advisable to travel far away, besides, the family needs someone to take care of them.” Cai Ying think about it, and no longer mention the matter of going to Beijing, just snuggled tightly in my arms, whispered: “You come back earlier, I’m waiting for you to celebrate the New Year.”

The plane to Beijing is 8:30 in the morning, said the ticket came quite difficult to get, pre-holiday flights trip full, I’ve done a good job of driving to Beijing, until the last minute, Ye Ling just don’t know where to get a ticket.

Airports are overcrowded, either with their families to go out to travel, or a large bag of small rolls of luggage to return home, such as me, empty-handed is rare.

After passing through the security check, I was walking forward when I heard someone shouting my name: “Wang Huan-!” The voice sounded unusually excited.

I turned my head in surprise to see that, a few people away, a saucy girl pushing a mountain of luggage carts was waving her hand at me one by one.

“Lu Ya?” I hurriedly squeezed past, seeing so much luggage, I asked in surprise: “What are you doing?”

“Don’t ask that first, where are you flying?” Lu Ya asked me rather expectantly while wiping the tiny beads of sweat on both sides of her nose.

I said to go to Beijing, she immediately let out a cheer, her face looked relieved: “Too good! We’re going the same way. Don’t you have any luggage? Great, really good luck.” Said the back of a large travel bag handed to me, organized a messy hair, and then smilingly said: “strange, every time I see you, there are good things waiting for me.”

I am appreciating her unintentionally revealed charm, listening to her so, the heart has another feeling, secretly thinking: “Every time I see you, I can be half dead tired.” Asked her: “You move ah?”

“No, my brother’s getting married in the New Year and this is something for him.”

I said: “Your brother can really catch up with the time, the New Year’s wedding, and then what is not in Beijing, have to buy in Shanghai.” Lu Ya gave me a glance, said: “You do not know, in fact, my brother ‘eleven’ when the wedding has been done, this time is back home and then make up for it.”

It turns out that Lu Ya’s hometown in the countryside in Miyun, now grandparents still live there, just her brother so a grandson, the old man had to do a wedding in the countryside, and her brother married in Beijing when she happened to train abroad did not catch up with this time on the one hand just to make up for the regrets on the other hand there are always some apologies, so buy a whole lot of things to do as a congratulatory gift.

“My brother is the best to me.” Lu Ya spoke with a gentle face, I’m used to seeing her shrewd and capable appearance, at this time, I was a little confused.

“Thinking about what?” Lua could tell I’d gone off on a tangent.

“It’s nothing…” I replied, “Just look at this pile of luggage, I can see that you’re good to your brother too.”

In her heart, she thought of something else: “Lu Ya, if I bring two people to your brother’s wedding, I wonder if it’s convenient?” Julia and Cindy should be interested in traditional Chinese weddings!

“Do you have time?” Lua was a little puzzled.

I then told her the purpose of going to Beijing, she was again a cheer: “Yes, I was worried that my friends go too few face which, this can solve the problem!” And “hehehe” laughed twice: “or two American friends it!”

I am still a little anxious when checking in, in fact, the staff’s attention is not on me at all, but looked at Lu Ya’s luggage straight frowned, her luggage is really much, the two people share the weight, check-in or pay more than a hundred dollars.

On the airplane, Lu Ya changed her seat to the one next to mine. While sipping the delivered drink, she asked me: “Paul, is your girlfriend’s illness well?”

I said, “It’s nothing, just a bad cold.” She said, seemingly carelessly, “Your girlfriend is Cai Ying from the HR department, right?”

I froze, the relationship between me and Cai Ying has not yet been publicized, only Yang Lu in the hotel knows the real situation, then there are a few colleagues in the business department who are guessing, Lu Ya, an outsider, how does she know?

“Maybe it’s my intuition…” Lu Ya could see my confusion, but as she spoke she turned her head to the side of the string window, the sunlight was unusually bright high up in the sky, and it shone on her hair with a kind of transparency.

It is also a kind of intuition let me hear her words have a hint of faint blues emotion, not waiting for me to recall, Lu Ya’s face has been replaced with the usual cheerful expression, turned his head and smiled and said: “In fact, I’ve seen her two times, she got off work to the venue to look for you, coincidentally, you’re not even in, I said there’s something I’ll convey it, or let you return the call, she said no, and don’t tell you that she’s come to look for you. I saw her look when she talked about you is not natural, so I asked Lucy, Lucy told me her name is Cai Ying. However, Lucy didn’t say she was your girlfriend!” Said, she took the skeleton shoulder touched me a bit, laughed: “It is only in the past two days clear, right?”

“Lua, I think you should become a detective instead.” I laughed, agreeing with what she said.

Lu Ya muttered a sentence, I did not hear clearly, so I asked her what she said, but she changed the topic: “G conditions how? Is the salary high?”

I said two thousand dollars a month, Lu Ya was stunned: “So little? No way!” Looks like she really quite surprised, “Paul, our company after the New Year will recruit, you come over, more I dare not say, but the salary than you now double I think absolutely no problem.” Lu Ya eagerly looked at me.

I heart a bitter smile, how does she know my difficulties, but on the mouth said: “I am a newcomer, the salary is so low. In fact, G’s treatment is quite good, there are many opportunities.” This is true. This is the truth, Cai Ying is only a C-level supervisor, the salary is twice as high as mine, my boss Ye Ling is an A-level supervisor, the salary is a top me three.

Lu Ya see my attitude is resolute, then the topic has led away. She is running the market, domestic and foreign places to go a lot of places, and also wide knowledge; I was in the original unit is also the motherland’s great mountains and rivers all over the place, she said that the A city of B restaurant is quite characteristic, I said that next to a C restaurant is more unusual, she said: “Yes, yes, yes, I have eaten there, sitting on the second floor by the window of the table it. ” Then she started to argue about which dish was better, and so on and so forth. And so on and so forth. And so on and so forth. And so on and so forth.

Lu Ya’s brother and sister-in-law were waiting at the airport, both of them are a scholarly look, standing together quite a couple. When they saw so much luggage, they were surprised. Her brother asked her what is so many things, Lu Ya said it is a congratulatory gift, her brother said: “do not have to buy me so many things ah!” Lu Ya but ran to her sister-in-law in front of pulling her hand to her brother said: “you think beautiful, these are for my sister-in-law to buy.” She coaxed her sister-in-law into a happy face.

I thought to myself: this Lu Ya seems to have no heart, but really knows the ways of the world. Anyway, I did my best, so let’s do it to the end and send the Buddha to the west! So I helped Lu Ya to take the things to her brother’s new house in Shangdi. Lu Ya’s parents have been waiting in the new residence, looking at the tired and panting me, and then look at the side of the two hands empty, smiling like flowers and I talk to my daughter, there is some confusion between me and Lu Ya’s relationship; her brother and sister-in-law I’m afraid that the same idea, Lu mother is a kind of mother-in-law to look at son-in-law’s eyes looking at me, see me all over the body is not comfortable, only Lu Ya a person seems to be oblivious to it.

Looked at the sweaty me, Lu Ya’s sister-in-law called her aside, muttered something, Lu Ya’s face a little red, ran to the bathroom to take a towel to me, softly said: “take a break!” I said: “No, still have to pick up na.” Lu mom also said: “eat lunch before you go!” I also politely declined.

After asking Lu Ya for the address and phone number of her old home in Miyun, I took my leave amidst her exhortations.

Going to the P Hotel near Wangfujing, I found Ye Ling’s friend Sun Hong, the assistant marketing director, she gave me the keys to the two rooms that she had prepared earlier and laughed: “Susanna even called in the morning and told me to make sure to give you the best room rate. You are quite happy to have such a boss.”

I went straight to the room and looked around, it was much the same as G. Maybe all five-star hotels have this kind of layout! I went around to the restaurants to see if there were any event announcements during the holiday season, and sure enough, I found a billboard inviting guests to make dumplings together on New Year’s Eve in the Yuexiu Hall.

After looking around, I went to the front desk and prepared to book a room for my wife. After checking the computer, the lady at the front desk asked me respectfully, “You are from the hotel, aren’t you? Mr. Sun, the assistant, has already given me special instructions. You see this room and you a floor, the room price and you previously opened the same, okay?”

Of course, I felt a surge of joy in my heart.

In order to prevent the Public Security Bureau from checking my wife’s place of residence in Beijing, I booked a room in my wife’s name at a guest house from the second to the fourth of the month, and paid the deposit as well. After finishing these things, it was already more than three o’clock in the afternoon, I knew that it was time to go to the airport to pick up the plane.

The Air China flight from San Francisco arrived at almost 7:00 p.m., and I stood at the departure gate with the P Hotel’s airport representative, Chen, holding up a sign with the names of Julia and Cindy. This proved to be unnecessary, as Julia and Cindy stood out like a flame in the bustling crowd; and, perhaps by some kind of telepathic communication, they spotted me just as quickly, waving their hands excitedly at me.

“You’re our big brother?” The two girls looked at me with curiosity.

Xiao Chen was not aware of the relationship between us and laughed: “Can that be wrong? Look how much you guys look alike!”

I looked at the two sisters who looked quite similar to me, and a sense of closeness rose in my heart, as if they were really my sisters.

Since I had met them online, I could easily tell the older sister from the younger one. Although my sister Julia is only eight days older than my sister Cindy, she looks a lot more mature and taller. Most of the two features of the face like my god-grandfather, but the two pairs of eyes are flashing with the unique aura of Jiangnan women, which should be the old lady’s genetic factors play a role, but the exotic dress more or less let a person feel disharmony.

At night in Beijing, the city is covered in a festive atmosphere with lights and colorful decorations, Julia and her friends have never seen such a scene before, and they are lying on the window of the car, looking at it with their eyes and mouths chirping and talking.

To the hotel just put the luggage, the sisters can not wait for me to take them to dinner. After a nice meal at Jialing House, Julia commented, “I now know that all Chinese restaurants in the United States are cheating.”

Sisters of the jet lag has not been reversed, late at night, two eyes are still thieving bright without a trace of sleep, pestering me to take them to go shopping night scene. I had to put the face of a wrench, put on the posture of the brother: “No, today we must reverse the jet lag, tomorrow’s New Year’s Eve is the main event!” Said the sisters dragged back to the room.

Returning to his room just after taking a shower, the phone rang, and Cindy’s voice came from inside: “Big brother, come over and talk with us, my sister and I can’t sleep.” Cindy’s voice line is very special, half-baked Chinese out of her mouth, there is a kind of strange temptation.

I came to the sisters’ room fully dressed, the scene inside is incomparable, the sisters have just finished showering, wearing a bathrobe lying comfortably on the bed, which should only be wearing a three-pointed, lapel cover can’t hide the spring light, plump and youthful carcasses so that I can’t help but breathe a little faster.

Both sisters laughed in unison when they saw me in that outfit and Julia laughed, “Big brother, you’re such a precise man.”

“It’s not that I’m old-fashioned, this is China. Besides, a brother can’t go into his sister’s room in his boxers!” Looking at Julia’s chest, there was a not-so-obvious junction of color blocks, and I knew it was the result of sunbathing.

I asked the sannyasin room to send up two masseuses, and in a short while two women of twenty-seven or eight years of age came up and saw the room.

I said: “My two sisters just flew back from abroad, quite tired, for them to press a good.”

Sisters lying on the bed while chatting with me while enjoying the bursts of comfort coming from the body, the two massage therapist’s technique is quite skillful, not too long, the sisters’ reaction will begin to slow down, talking is also on the top of the sentence without the bottom of the sentence, and after a while, finally fell asleep.

Covered them up, I signed the masseuse’s tip, one of them called Li Li also quite enviously said: “Your sister is really happy ah!”

The next morning, Julia and Cindy want to go to visit Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City, I said wait, then dragged them to the beauty room, told the beautician to make them re-dressed, Julia asked me why, I said: “You have to follow the customs.” The beautician understood and restored their red hair to its original color, and removed many bits and pieces of decoration, and two hours later I was standing in front of two lovely Chinese girls.

As soon as they entered the Forbidden City, the sisters began to marvel. Those very rich Chinese traditional colors of the buildings, courtyards, antiques let them linger, leaving the Forbidden City is already sunset. Standing under the wall of the Forbidden City, the afterglow of the setting sun shone on the two sisters, wearing red hiking clothes, the two seemed to melt into the ancient vermilion palace wall behind them.

“You see is how harmonious it is now.” I lamented, and the sisters realized what I was trying to get them to change.

Thinking of Lu Ya’s brother’s wedding the next day, I asked, “Do you guys want to see a Chinese wedding?”

“Yeah!”

“Is it the sedan chair and red headscarf kind?”

I laughed bitterly, it seems that the foreign propaganda about China is really misguided, “Riding in a sedan chair? It’s not that exaggerated. But since it’s in the countryside, I guess it’s quite traditional.”

Sisters said they want to see, I said: “Well, let’s go buy a gift, to participate in the wedding can not be empty-handed.” So started shopping again, in a handicraft store spent more than a thousand dollars to buy a set of silver tableware ready to give Lu Ya’s brother, the sisters also held a bunch of such as embroidery, pottery handicrafts back to the hotel.

In the evening, a circle of noodle cases was set up in Yuexiu Hall, and more than a hundred guests followed the master to learn how to make dumplings, making a lot of noise, Julia and Cindy were both smart girls, and they learnt how to make noodles, wake up the noodles, mix the filling, and make dumplings, and finally put the dumplings into the pot, and Julia mumbled the instructions of the master, “Stuff the dumplings with the filling, and boil the skin”. Julia mumbled the “stuffing, boiling the skin” recipe taught by the master, while Cindy called for God’s support, and finally the task was accomplished.

“Wow! Yummy, so yummy!” Cindy boasted to herself as she shushed and ate the steaming hot freshly baked dumplings, her innocent and mischievous look causing good-natured laughter from everyone around her.

“Brother, you said three things for New Year’s Eve, the dumplings have been eaten, isn’t it time to watch the Chinese New Year Gala below?” Cindy asked me. I nodded my head, I don’t know when the two sisters switched from “big brother” to the more affectionate “brother”.

The three of us went back to the room, I ordered quite a few Cantonese snacks for the restaurant to deliver to the room, and the three of us ate and watched, it was very cozy.

By ten o’clock in the evening, I said I had to pay New Year’s greetings to my coworkers and returned to my room. First to Yang Lu, Ye Ling, Li Xiaoxiao this class of hotel friends and colleagues to pay tribute to the New Year, and in some customers paging and cell phone left a message. Wanted to call my parents and wife, but some hesitation, weighed the pros and cons, thought that after all, it is not a pay phone, then held back, the phone to Cai Ying home.

“I guessed it was you.” Cai Ying’s voice was tired: “I missed you.”

The sound of other people talking and the music of the party program can still be heard on the phone, Cai Ying is so carefree and straight to her chest, it seems that her family has accepted me. At the same time, my heart was hot, and my shoulders seemed to have been pressed with a thousand pounds of weight.

I shook my shoulders as if to shake something off and asked her, “Are you feeling better?” When I left, Cai Ying’s illness still had a tail.

“Not yet… I’ll wait until you’re back!” Seeing that Choy Ying was playing coy, I deliberately said, “It’s not ready yet. You’re so weak, I don’t dare to…”

“Hate it ~ ~” Cai Ying ranted, and heard what sounded like the sound of a table and chairs moving, and then the sound of a door closing, and then the noisy sound on the phone suddenly became much smaller, leaving only Cai Ying’s delicate whisper: “You ah, just want to do bad things.”

I said “you do not want to ah”, but the heart was violently tight, this kind of dialogue has often appeared between my wife and I, no wonder it is so familiar, thinking of my wife, my interest immediately fell. Not waiting for Cai Ying to speak, I took the excuse that Julia and the girls called me, said I have to hang up the phone.

“Okay then, Huan… come back early, I really miss you.” Cai Ying’s voice was filled with tenderness.

Near midnight, the sound of firecrackers outside gradually sounded. The sisters couldn’t sit still and ran downstairs, clutching the firecracker salute they had bought in the afternoon. The parking lot was already full of people, everyone was waiting for the clock to strike midnight.

As soon as it reaches zero o’clock, firecrackers go off at once, and deafening sounds resound all over the city. Under the flashing of the ceremonial flowers and firecrackers, people with joyful smiles, and people they know and don’t know exchanged blessings.

“Happy New Year!” “Happy New Year!”

“Congratulations!” “Fortune, Fortune, Fortune!”

Julia suddenly hugged me and kissed me, smilingly saying, “Brother, good New Year!” Cindy is also not willing to show weakness, also vigorously kissed me. I quickly begged off, saying: “You’d better call home and greet your mom, dad, grandparents!”

Just after connecting to the American side, Cindy snatched the phone over, gabbled and talked, and then called Julia over a moment later. The sound of firecrackers is too loud to hear what they are saying.

When I saw a public phone booth across the parking lot, I was so moved that I quickly walked over to it, as if I had seen the Goddess of Mercy who saves people from suffering.

I called my parents’ house first, and my father answered the phone, and when he heard my voice, he whimpered a little: “How are you, Dong? Your mom and I have been thinking about you. Your mom has been waiting all day for you to call…”

My heart was sore, tears flowed out: Mom waited all day, Dad, you are not! I remembered that in previous years, you had already gone to bed at this time.

“I’m okay.” I tried to calm myself, I’d already put my second oldest in fear, I couldn’t have them worrying about whether or not my life out there on the run was hard.

The phone side changed to mom, she cried and asked this and that, I tried to comfort her. When I got off the line, I dialed my wife’s cell phone again, and before I could say anything, her voice came on the line: “Dong, what took you so long to call? I’ve missed you so much that I wish today was the second day of the lunar calendar…”

“Me too…” The intensity of my wife’s feelings melted inside me, and wave after wave seemed to fill my heart, and in an instant a wave of guilt arose in my heart, as my wife had taken me as her only source of support, and I had betrayed her! A strong sense of remorse filled my mind: I can not apologize to my wife again!

To stabilize the waves of the heart, I told my wife, I have booked a room in the P, room number 1, the key has been left at the front desk, let her use the name “Li Tong” to go to the front desk to get the key.

Li Tong is actually Cindy’s Chinese name. The lady at the front desk asked me who was coming to get the keys that day, and I didn’t want my wife to leave any traces in P, so I blurted out Cindy’s name.

I was talking about lovey-dovey lovey-dovey when Julia and Cindy came running over and I was busy hanging up the phone.

“Brother, are you crying?” Cindy saw the tear tracks around my eyes.

“Call the firecracker.” I said, Julia handed me the phone, “Grandpa wants to see you.”

After paying his respects to his god-grandfather, the old man smiled and asked, “Xiao Huan, Xiao Shan and Xiao Tong are very annoying, aren’t they? I really want to see how you deal with these two brats.” And the old man in the online meeting more often, each other seems to be getting closer and closer.

“Nope! They’re well behaved.”

“Oh, you’ve changed your mind? When they were at home, I was tortured to death!” Although the words, but the tone is permeated with doting. She also asked me if the program of the Spring Festival Gala was good, saying that she didn’t feel anything when she was at home, but when she was abroad and couldn’t see the Gala, she really felt that there was something missing. I said I would find the tapes of the party as soon as possible and ask Julia to bring them back.

“Well, Grandpa, we’re going shopping with my brother!” Julia said as she grabbed the phone. After shopping on Wangfujing Street until almost 3:00 in the second half of the night before returning to the hotel, they woke up the next day at 3:00 in the morning.

Hurriedly ate breakfast, chartered a hotel cab to Miyun. Driver Zhang looked at the address and laughed: “Shicheng Township? Why, to the Black Dragon Lake ah? I have pulled so many customers, you are the first to see the waterfall on the first day of the New Year.” I had to explain a lot before he understood.

On the Jingmi Road, the roadside scenery began to become desolate. The speeding car is like a machine that can rewind time, the more we go, the older the scenery is, Julia and Cindy both sighed: “The difference between inside and outside the city is too big!”

When we arrived at Shicheng Township, we asked several people before we found the village, probably because it was close to the scenic area, the village looked quite affluent, and many people had built two-story houses. When I asked a random villager, the woman laughed and said, “The old Lu family who is having a wedding today? It’s just around the corner, my husband went there too!”

To the corner of the street, we heard the sound of suona, a group of children in a courtyard door running out and running in the playful. As the car drove past, the children gathered around, looking around and touching each other in a very naughty way. I saw a pair of big characters posted on the center of the gate, and there was a couplet next to it: “Auspicious day and time to pass on auspicious words, the new man and the new year to tie the knot”, and I knew that we had arrived at the head of the place, so I smiled to Julia’s sisters and said: “We have arrived.”

Carrying the congratulatory gifts for the newlyweds and the nutrients bought for the elderly, they entered the courtyard. The courtyard was full of tables, all kinds of more than twenty tables, each table was crowded with people. In the center of the courtyard, a short platform was temporarily set up, and five or six heavily made-up men were playing suona on it, which drew bursts of applause from time to time.

At a glance, I saw Lu Ya who was greeting the guests in the courtyard, she was wearing a beige tweed top and a dark blue woolen long skirt, like a crane, unusually eye-catching. She also immediately saw us and immediately ran over, drawing quite a few people to cast their eyes on us.

The weather in Beijing in the first month of the year was crunchy and cold, Lu Ya’s face was frozen red, and even her smile was a little stiff.

“Great, you guys are finally here.” He took Julia and Cindy’s hands affectionately and said to me with a smile, “This is your sister, isn’t it? They look so much alike.” And asked Julia if they were tired on the road?

I introduced myself to each other, and said to the two sisters, “You can call her Sister Lu.” Cindy whispered in my ear: “Brother, should I call her sister-in-law?” I glared at her vigorously, she spat out her tongue and obediently closed her mouth.

Julia looked around and asked strangely, “Sister Lu, where are the bride and groom?”

Lu Ya laughed: “It’s really better to come early than coincidentally, my brother, they are preparing to worship na!” Said, led us to the main house.

The house was decorated with joyful atmosphere. North wall in the center of the eight immortal table for a Buddha, smoke, table on both sides were sitting Lu Ya’s grandparents and mother and father, and a group of should be Lu Ya’s uncles and grandfathers sitting under the hand, the corner of the wall stood a person is video. Lu Ya’s brother and sister-in-law wearing Chinese cotton jacket kneeling in front of the elders, a village cadre-like middle-aged man stood in the side yelling: “two worship high hall —“

Julia and Cindy’s eyes widened at once, and Lua’s brother and sister-in-law had already begun to worship before Cindy remembered her digital video camera and busily held it up.

Looking at Lu Ya’s brother and sister-in-law respectfully worshiping the elders, I suddenly remembered the simple wedding with my wife, then remembered my wife, then Su Jin, Cai Ying, my chest couldn’t help but feel depressed for a while. While trying to keep a smile on my face, Lu Ya poked me and whispered, “Paul, you and your sister watch here, I’ll go out to greet the guests.”

Lu Ya’s voice vaguely hid a wave of annoyance, I instantly understood her mood, watching her loving brother turn into another woman’s husband, the heart is always a little lost.

I also wanted to go out for some fresh air, so I said, “Let me help you. At least I’m an employee of a five-star hotel, greeting guests is my strong point.” After instructing Julia and Cindy to keep an honest eye on things and not to talk, I went to the compound with Lu Ya.

Lu Ya laughed as she walked away, “Why did I forget about this, I should have asked you to be the master of ceremonies.”

I said, “Give me a break, Chinese marriage customs are much more elaborate than people of our generation can understand.”

Lu Ya said, “That too.” On the one hand, I greeted the townspeople. Because it was cold, most of the dishes served were big pots of stews, chicken stew, duck stew, elbow stew, and white meat stew with pickled vegetables and blood sausage, all in one pot, surrounded by a big hot pot in the center, appearing to be steaming hot. I carried a bottle of Peking wine that Lu Ya handed me, adding some to this and pouring some to that.

“Erma, when… when… will we drink… your wedding wine?” A man in his thirties asked in a drunken stupor, and the people next to him followed suit.

“Fourth Brother, when Little Tiger goes to college, her aunt should get married.” Lu Ya quadrupled his words, but subconsciously glanced at me.

As soon as the man started talking, I knew that I would be the target of this fire. Sure enough, the man said, “You’re lying… to your fourth brother, aren’t you? You’re… you’re not in a hurry, you’re… not… in a hurry!” Then he turned to me and said, “Sister… Brother-in-law, am I… right?” Someone else chimed in, “Yes, the sister-in-law is here.”

Lu Ya’s face has been frozen like a red apple, this time is more some purple, embarrassed to look at me, turn around face with a huff, just want to speak, but was I stopped. I smiled at the man said: “Fourth brother, this matter has to be her own say, if she said no, when she got married, fourth brother, you punish her more a cup of wine is.”

Fourth Brother nodded: “It’s better for sister… brother-in-law to say… what he said… is… sensible. Er… Ya’s eyes… eyesight… is really… really good!”

Turned around twice, there are three or four sets of people asking the same question, Lu Ya really can not stand, and I said: “Let’s go into the house.”

Returning to the main room, the ceremony had already ended, and the eldest relatives were sitting around the two big tables that had only been set up, and Lu Ya’s brother and sister-in-law were saluting tea one by one.

Julia and Cindy were standing beside Lu Ya’s grandfather in front of a post with the words “Heaven, Earth, King, Parent and Teacher” written on it, and the old man was scratching away, saying: “… The word “King” does not open its mouth, which means the word “King” must be completely closed; the word “Parent” does not close its eyes, which means the word “Parent” must not cover the upper part of the word “Eye”. The word ‘Kung’ means that the character ‘Kung’ must be completely closed, leaving no gaps; and the character ‘Kung’ means ‘Kung’, which is the traditional form of the character ‘Kung’, with the character ‘See’ on the right side of the character not closing the last horizontal line of the character ‘Eyes’ on the top; There is no other meaning for ‘teacher’, which is also a traditional Chinese character, and it should be written with one less apostrophe. This ‘Heaven, Earth, Monarch, Parent and Teacher’ is one of the five major ethics of the Chinese people, so we must not be ignorant of it!”

Julia sisters seem to understand nodded their heads, Lu Ya cover mouth whispered laughing to me said: “Grandpa yesterday educated me a bit, this day again looking for someone to educate.”

My heart moved and I asked Lu Ya: “Did your grandfather write this post?” The old man heard and looked back at us. The old man’s gaze was deep and open, like a tolerance of the world, but also like an insight into the mysteries of the universe, I could not help but tremble.

It was the first time I met Lua’s grandfather, and the last, and it was in the warm May of that spring, when his great-grandson croaked into the world, that he suddenly left.

And this time he was still a hale and hearty wise old man. Because we were friends from afar, I sat next to the old man.

“┅The sky is flat and the earth is wide, and a man stands in the middle of it. But as big as the heavens and the earth are, they are not as big as the human heart; and as big as the human heart is, in the end it is nothing more than a pile of yellow earth.”

This reasoning is very shallow, I naturally understand, looking at the old man’s appearance seems to be should have the following.

“The so-called ‘morning fungus do not know the obscure and shuo, short-lived cicada do not know the spring and fall’, life is only a hundred years, like my old man today eighty six, is also considered a high life expectancy, looking back, life ah like a white horse through the flicker, what is there?”

Words from the mouth of the old man full of life experience, but it is so shocking, I seem to realize what. Julia next to me was confused and asked: “Brother, that ‘Zhaojun’ something something, what does it mean?”

I explained: “This is a line from Zhuang Zi’s “Journey to the Promenade”, the morning fungus is a kind of fungus, it is born in the morning and dies in the evening, so it doesn’t know the length of a day; Platypleura is the cicada, that is, the cicada, it is born in the spring and dies in the fall, so it doesn’t know how long a year really is. Grandpa Lu used it as a metaphor for the fact that life is too short to experience many things. Grandpa Lu, am I right?”

The old man nodded approvingly and said, “Yes, but there are some things you will never be able to experience, like life and death, which you have no way of experiencing; and there are also…” The old man paused for a moment, as if hesitating to say anything, but finally went on, “There are some things you dare not experience… There are some things that you don’t dare to realize, such as, ‘Saints have no names’, but in fact, we are all burdened by our names!”

Lu Ya seemed to find this topic a bit depressing, and rushed to her grandfather and pouted: “Grandpa, you can stop talking about your life theory. Besides, my brother is getting married, what’s the point of talking about life and death, how unlucky! Right, Grandma?”

The old man laughed: “Okay, okay, don’t tell me, don’t tell me. Young man, try this white meat with blood sausage. The pig was killed yesterday and fed with grain, unlike those in the city. And try this… This is a home-made sauce, which fewer and fewer people know how to make these days…”

Julia’s sisters have never eaten such a big pot of food in a farmhouse, so they are very happy. I saw that it was getting late, so I got up to say goodbye. Lu Ya’s mom said: “Lu Ya, don’t you want to go back to the city? And Wang with the small Wang go.” Lu Ya is a little hesitant, I said: “Anyway, by the way, let’s go together!”

Sitting in the car, Lu Ya talked about her grandfather, I realized that Lu’s old man when he was young was a famous talent in the township, twenty just out of his early years to set up a library to teach, after the liberation of the private teacher for a period of time, to the time of the Cultural Revolution is also out of the business.

“I heard my father say, grandfather above is several generations of single. Originally, people in the countryside said that my grandfather should go to the capital to make a breakthrough, maybe he could make a world of difference, but it just happened to be the Lugouqiao Incident, my great-grandfather said that it was not safe to go out in the chaos of the war, and refused to allow my grandfather to go, so my grandfather also stayed in the village.”

I was struck with a wave of emotion as the old man’s words flowed through me again.

Postscript.

After the posting of “Shanghai” 3, many concerned about my netizens to write, pointed out that the problems of 3: character image is not full, female characters have the tendency to be the same, the depiction of erotic scenes is relatively weak, I also feel the same way.

3 rushed to catch up with the draft, want to H want to rush, mastery of the text is far from enough (I am writing process, to be honest, I wrote this article is very tired), look back, I am not satisfied with myself. In fact, in my conception, Cai Ying is a very important role, did not tell me to write well is entirely my own ability to problem, but hopefully I can in future chapters to enrich the image of this character.

As for the weaker portrayal of erotic scenes, I think the fact that I don’t have a lot of experience to draw on is a big part of the reason. It’s not as easy to write without a life to build on.

When I was conceptualizing this article, at first I only considered it as ordinary erotic literature and didn’t think much of it. But as I wrote it, some vague ideas gradually formed, and as someone said, sometimes the author is actually controlled by the characters he or she writes about. In hindsight, it was probably intended to explore the following two points.

1-What is the relationship between love, marriage and sex? Is love static? What does love look like when it is out of tune? What happens when there is a third person or even a fourth person in the middle of a marriage? I remember there is a line “Nothing can last forever” in Gun & Rose’s “Nov. Rain”, this line has a deep impact on me, I have always believed that nothing can last forever, but the relationship is not as simple as 1+1=2 or 1-1=0, life is also not as simple as 1+1=2 or 1-1=0. ＝But relationships are not as simple as 1 + 1 = 2 or 1 – 1 = 0. Life cannot be expressed in terms of If…then…else, there are many times when compromises are needed, and these compromises may be able to keep things like marriage and sex going forever; 2 – Eating sex is also a form of sexuality, but most of the people (including myself) have suppressed their sexuality with their reasoning, but under special circumstances, will the suppressed part of a person’s heart explode? How should it break out?

Will new ideas be added later? I don’t know, even if the ending is what I envisioned in the first place, I don’t know, I’ll let Wang Huan decide everything!

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Dalian, April 22, 2001

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The next day, I took Julia and Cindy to the Baiyunguan Temple Fair outside Xibianmen. Sisters riding donkeys, touching stone monkeys, playing money eyes, play a lot of fun, but my mind flew to my wife. Wife’s flight is 2:00 p.m., just after noon, I began to wait for my wife’s phone call, time is like a slow-motion movie, one minute and one second is so hard to get through. In the end, even Julia could see that I was fidgeting and asked me with concern: “Brother, what’s wrong with you? Are you sick?”

I have a bright idea, and I said: “No big deal, Julia, I’m a little weak, just before I came to Beijing cold.” Look at the Baiyun Guan in the sea of people, and said: “Here more and more people, I’m afraid to stay only to see people crowded. Why don’t we go back to Tianqiao to listen to the opera? Combine work and rest, save some strength for the Great Wall tomorrow.”

It seems that the sisters are very considerate of me, and obediently and I went back to the Tianqiao L Tea Garden, L Tea Garden is the capital’s famous tea house, inside the Peking Opera, Peking Rhythm Drums, acrobatics are the capital’s famous, there are often famous actors and actresses and ticket holders to come over to make a cameo appearance. The earliest lead me here is my original unit chief Gu, he is a super Peking Opera fan, where he met a quite famous female ticket friends Mei, the two look good eye, one after another Mei will become his mistress, and then every time he came to Beijing, the industry spare time is almost entirely dedicated to this place. Because of his business trips are almost always accompanied by me, this teahouse has become familiar.

Don’t look at the New Year, L Tea Garden is still full of people. On the second floor, I had to share a table with someone before I finally found a seat.

On the stage was the famous Cheng School play “Fa Men Temple” in a “pick up jade bracelet”, Sun Yujiao just appeared, is reading the four lines of the final poem: “Tears wet shirt sleeves, new sorrows plus the old sorrows, the plum period has been over, see the face of the people with a shy.” As I sipped the fine Anhua pine needles, I responded to the sisters’ questions. In fact, I originally do not know anything about the Beijing Opera, just come more often, more or less know a five, six, seven, the sisters’ questions a moment is not difficult to defeat me.

“… Listen to her recitation, the words are very clear, and the twists and turns are rhythmic and staccato, which is characteristic of the Cheng School.” I took advantage of Sun Yujiao’s performance of feeding the chickens to teach Julia what little I knew about Peking opera: “The founding master of the Cheng School, Mr. Cheng Changgeng, was a member of the Hui class, which means Anhui province, and not only did he know Hui and Han opera, but also kunqu. It’s okay if you don’t know it, but just remember that kunqu is a popular opera in the south of the Yangtze River, and that the pronunciation of kunqu is characterized by the clarity of its words, which is why the Cheng School’s style of singing is characterized by a high degree of intonation and elasticity.”

Sun Yujiao started counting chickens on stage, I watched for a while and said to the sisters: “This actress playing Sun Yujiao is not quite on point, look, the direction of her finger pointing to count chickens, is it pointing to the front of the stage? She’s not counting the audience in! I’ve seen Guo Wei of the Beijing Peking Opera Troupe perform this play here, and he counted the chickens in a circle on the stage, pointing his fingers in the direction of the stage, so that you could see them clearly, which was very comfortable…”

As I was talking, I suddenly remembered a girl from the Chinese Opera whom I had met here, Mei’s niece, and whom I had first met when she was also performing in a play called “The Jade Bracelet”… Although she was not as good as Kwok Wai, she had played the 16 or 17 year old Sun Yuk Jiao with a delicate touch… “Brother, is there any other way to recite that Nim Bai? ” Julia asked.

“Yeah, each of the major genres has its own way of pronouncing words. Just like in the United States, country music and jazz have different ways of pronouncing words.” I picked up my own cup of tea: “Look, we’re drinking Anhua Pine Needle, and the one next to you…” I craned my neck to have a look: “…that’s Duyun Mao Jian, they’re both green teas, but they have different flavors!”

This is not how much I know about tea, L Tea Garden sells a lot of types of tea, I’m afraid there are hundreds of counting, but the real good tea is only a dozen or so, and I happen to have drunk. My original unit efficiency is particularly good, but because it is a state-owned enterprise, Gu Gu dares not blatantly to their pockets, but spend money to really call the word “luxury”, to L Tea Garden are naturally good tea served.

“Really? Is there so much to drinking tea?” The play “Pick Up the Jade Bracelet” has fewer songs and more movements, coupled with the actors’ lack of skill, the play is a little wilted, Julia watched with a little lack of interest, so she pondered over the tea in front of her.

“Of course!” I sighed in my heart, these two sisters are really the “banana” generation, compared to the ignorance of tea, Coca-Cola is their favorite!

I called the guys to make another pot of “White Hair Silver Needle” for Julia and Cindy. The hot boiling water rushed into the crystal clear glass teapot, the tea buds tumbled and undulated in the water, and a light aroma of tea drifted out.

Cindy then wanted to pour out the tea soup, I hit her little hand: “Silly girl, don’t be in a hurry, you can’t drink it yet.”

“A person who knows the tea ceremony, this gentleman is ah!” A soft voice said, the words in a proper Beijing dialect, only the sentences were inverted, and the connection between each word was so raw that one could tell it wasn’t the country’s people.

When I looked up, my eyes lit up, the person who spoke was a soft oriental woman in her early thirties, it was none other than our tablemate, she had been watching the play with her back to us, and at some point she turned around. The woman’s appearance instantly reminded me of that retired Japanese superstar Yamaguchi, with a smile as innocent as Yamaguchi’s was looking at me.

“I don’t dare to talk about the tea ceremony, I just know a little bit of general knowledge about drinking tea.” Probably because I have dealt with Japan too many times, I intuitively feel that the woman in front of me should be a Japanese, and for the Japanese women who almost take the tea ceremony as a compulsory course in life, I would not dare to show off my little half-toned tea tasting skills.

“Is that so?” A disappointed expression passed through the woman’s eyes : “The beginning of the tea ceremony, does no one know the reason for drinking tea?”

This woman’s words sound awkward, but I still understand what she means, a tea ceremony is quite a study of the person, would like to tea ceremony of the hometown of learning to observe a bit, but found that there is no one here knows the tea ceremony, naturally disappointment has been extreme.

A feeling of being belittled all of a sudden filled my heart, although the woman looks beautiful, elegant temperament, did not stop me from being humiliated. Turned his head and looked around, trying to find the usual in the garden to see those tea masters, or for our great country to regain some face, but the New Year’s Day, these people do not know where to go, the garden are some like Julia sisters general tourists, to talk about understanding of tea, in addition to the owner of the garden fellows I’m afraid it is me.

“What is the point of choosing and drinking tea?” I suddenly threw out the question, my head trying to remember the only words my Japanese friends’ wives had ever mentioned about the tea ceremony.

“Peace, honor, clarity, and silence.” The woman quickly returned.

I sighed in my heart for a while, no wonder the little Japan is so good, borrowing from other people’s kung fu the whole world first, these four words really out of the tea taster’s state of mind.

“Wabi-sabi.” I remembered the word the wives said most often.

“Wabi? What does that mean?” Cindy asked with a puzzled look on her face.

“This is a Japanese word for a quiet, leisurely beauty.Cindy, imagine inviting three or five confidants to go to the countryside by the river, drinking fragrant tea made from spring water while talking about the wind and the moon, asking no questions about the world, unattached and uninhibited, what a written and tranquil life this is.”

I said, I am a little longing for the things I did not care about before, at the moment of embarking on the road to escape, as if suddenly become precious, now I am how much I want to live a leisurely and peaceful life with my wife and daughter ah!

“That’s ‘wabi-sabi’.” I summarized.

Julia and Cindy were still puzzled, but a hint of surprise passed through the woman’s eyes and she laughed: “Tea ceremony, sir still understands ah!”

“I don’t understand.” I said smoothly.

Silver Needle White Hair” after a period of brewing, the tea buds stand up, up and down interlaced, like stalactites, very beautiful. I see the tea soup has yellowed, know can drink, first to Julia and Cindy poured a cup, and poured a cup for the woman, said: “I only know that this tea has not been rubbed, so it is necessary to soak longer. In fact, the first time I drank ‘Silver Needle White Hair’ also like Cindy, tea did not soak well I drank, light with a little bitterness, and now think of it is quite nostalgic for that kind of flavor.”

“The sencha method,” the woman nodded: “In Japan, many families use this method.”

“Maybe, I’m not quite sure. In fact, whether I know the tea ceremony or not does not prevent me from drinking tea, whether the tea is roasted into ‘silver needle white hair’ or crushed into tea powder, it is still a leaf of the tea tree. The tea ceremony, to put it bluntly, is to drink tea into drinking mood. The truth from the heart, you know, no need to point decoction sipping tea you are also free; do not know, even if again ‘wu wu’ you are not blessed to enjoy.”

The woman elegantly picked up the teacup, turned it around twice and sniffed the tea. At this time, Sun Yujiao on the stage sang the four lines of the “Southern Clapper”: “Sitting alone by the door of her chamber, she sighed at the thin fate of the redheads with many worries and anxieties! Outside the door, the daughter embroiders and looks at the beautiful scenery and warm sunshine.”

I have a feeling, said: “like the stage sings, worry also, worry also, alone in the cabinet, sighing red face thin life, meet the sweetheart will be warm and windy and a good scenery, after all, it is the mood in the blame. ‘Three drinks and you’ll be on your way, so don’t be so hard on yourself to break your worries.’ Let’s drink tea!”

“Go eat tea!” A look of understanding passed through the woman’s eyes, “The tea ceremony is a practice, and a practice requires wisdom, so sir is a man of wisdom.” She muttered in Japanese in a small voice.

Sure enough, it was a Japanese. “You’re Japanese?”

“Naoko Nanaki, please take care.” . The woman bowed her head and curtsied.

I also told her my name. Probably because her comment praising me made me less in a lifting mood, I seriously asked her for advice on the tea ceremony.

Perhaps it is because the relationship between China and Japan is too deep, or because I really have the wisdom, I quickly understood what Naoko said about the spirit of the tea ceremony: “Ms. Nanmu, with all due respect, as far as the tea ceremony itself is concerned, China now has to call Japan ‘master’. However, just as there is more to it than poetry, if you want to go further in the tea ceremony, it is necessary to look beyond the tea ceremony, so Jiangnan, with its apricot blossoms, smoke and rain, and the sound of bells ringing in the middle of the night, is the best place for you to travel to.”

“Yes!” Naoko’s face showed a look of longing: “It’s a pity that I won’t have time this time.”

“I want to go too yay.” Julia was also looking forward to it.

“I know, don’t you have spring break in May? If I can come back, I’ll take you there, May is the most beautiful time in Jiangnan.”

Have been chatting until almost four o’clock, Naoko said that someone is waiting for her in the hotel, then got up to say goodbye; Julia sisters also feel that the program is almost seen, we went out of the door of the L Tea Garden together. Outside only to find that outside has flown snowflakes, snow, the ground has been covered with a thick layer, look around the building is already silver, but it is the L Tea Garden in front of the big red lanterns through the festive.

My wife hasn’t called yet, “Will the airport be closed because of the snow, or will the planes not be able to land?” I couldn’t help but worry.

“What a big snow!” Julia and Cindy made a scene where you hit me with a snowball and I stuffed you with a neckful of cold snow, and before long, the two of them threw their snowballs at me together with quite a bit of understanding.

I was dodging left and right when the phone in my pocket suddenly rang, I quickly stood still, and when I took out the phone I had already received two blows on my body.

“Huan, it’s me.” Looking at the phone number, I already knew that it wasn’t my waiting wife on the other side of the phone, but Cai Ying.

“What are you doing, why are you breathing straight?” She laughed softly, but a hint of doubt lurked in her words.

“I’m having a snowball fight with my sister!”

“It’s snowing in Beijing? Is it big?” Can hear Cai Ying excitement in some regret, Shanghai is a very difficult to see the snow place, is there, but also to the ground that is melted.

“Pretty big.”

“I wish I was in Beijing. It’s all your fault~~” Cai Ying half-truthfully snapped.

“It’s not like we don’t have a chance anymore.”

“Then will you take me to Beijing next New Year?” Cai Ying’s voice was somewhat pampered.

“Yes!” Just as the words left my mouth, I froze myself. Just the night before, I had secretly sworn that I couldn’t do anything to apologize to my wife anymore, but as soon as I heard Cai Ying’s voice, how could I have forgotten my oath? In the past, I was the best at rejecting girls, but now my heart seems to be soft and easily touched, could it really be that my frightened heart needs to be soothed on the way to escape? A cold wind swept by, I shivered, a trace of fear in my heart, if this goes on, God knows what will happen!

“Really? Remember what you said!” Choy Ying was clearly delighted: “Huan, I just want to hear your voice…”

Listening to Cai Ying’s murmur that was close to a whisper, my mind was at a loss.

Back to the hotel, just entered the lobby, the elevator door a familiar figure into my eyes, I was shocked, my wife has actually arrived at the hotel! My heart like a drum, do not care in the hotel lobby to maintain a gentleman’s demeanor, almost wildly ran to the front of the elevator, rushed to the elevator door closed before the hand out, the door spring touched my hand for a moment, then bounced to both sides, the elevator is only wife a person, is raising her head to look at me.

Just as my wife got a good look at the visitor, I saw the richest expression I had ever seen in my life. Wife first ecstasy, eyes shot out of the flame of love is enough to burn the air between us; then the corners of the mouth slightly tugged, a few points of aggrieved in the face of the emergence of the spread, that look is like outside the bullied daughter in general, my heart suddenly sour, tears almost out of the sockets.

My wife seemed to see the change in my eyes, a flash of concern in her eyes, gently shook her head, her eyes flickered, a puzzled expression appeared on her face, and I knew that it must be Julia’s sisters who had arrived.

“Brother, you run so fast to do what?” Julia panting leaned on me and asked, turned his eyes to see his wife, as if he understood something, whispered: “So brother also like beautiful women ah!”

I had an embarrassed smile on my face, and my wife’s unsteady eyes were mixed with a bit of surprise. Although I had mentioned to her that Julia’s sisters and I looked quite similar, my wife still couldn’t help but be a bit surprised when she saw the real thing.

“You siblings have such a great bond!” My wife said suddenly, with two parts fire and one part hanging out in her tone, and I knew I’d have to put some effort into explaining myself later.

“Of course!” Cindy also leaned over, and seeing that the elevator light was only on the 1Xth floor, she asked, “Does your sister live on the 1Xth floor too? What a coincidence, so do we.” Perhaps because she saw that she was carrying a suitcase, she asked, “Are you alone? Are you traveling?”

With my wife’s affirmative answer, the 1X floor arrived, and I gave my wife a wink and told Julia’s sisters to take a break, and I’d take them to dinner at six o’clock. I went back to my room and turned the shower head on as if I was taking a shower, then went out of the room, saw that the corridor was empty, and quickly came to my wife’s door and knocked gently a few times.

The cat’s eye on the door went black, and then the door to the room was pulled open, and I dashed into the room as a hot body with a familiar scent flung itself into my arms and wrapped itself tightly around me, one soft lip pressed against mine in a desperate sucking motion.

In this blink of an eye I seem to have returned to seven or eight years ago. At that time I was still studying in Shanghai University, every summer and winter vacations when I go home, my wife will pick me up at the pier, will also be as if there is no other person to jump into my arms, half a year of longing for each other into a deep kiss.

“Missed you.” I murmured as I slurped on Wife’s earlobe. Wife’s coat had probably come off when she entered the room, and out of habit I slipped my hand under her sweater and tugged at the underwear to try and pull it up.

My wife suddenly broke away from my embrace and sat back on the edge of the bed to turn her face away.

I looked at the pouting wife, know that she is still angry for the scene in the elevator just now, busy step forward to put her in her arms, laughed: “small fool, such dry vinegar you also eat ah! American girls and you are not unaware.”

Wife struggled twice did not break free, then ambushed in front of my chest, whispered: “Who let you brother and sister called so affectionate!”

“I treat them like my own sisters. Look how much they look like me.” I first cleared my relationship with Julia’s sisters, it doesn’t matter if they are siblings: “You’re different, you’re my wife.”

My wife giggled and said, “You’re so mean!” Then she said, “I just don’t like the way they get tired of you… the way they get tired of you.”

I know what my wife wants to say, but her conservative family background and good education prevents her from saying the word “slut.”

Word.

“You also treat them as a sister,” I laughed: “Besides, you can be tired ah!” Said, hand from the wife’s sweater neckline into, a grip on the wife’s breasts. Through the underwear and bra, the slippery seems to still reach my fingertips, my wife and I panted at the same time.

“Take a shower with me.” I begged.

“Uh-huh.” Wife’s voice is as thin as a mosquito, but let was trying to divert the line of sight I got an unexpected surprise. I live with my father-in-law and mother-in-law, usually there is no opportunity to wash the mandarin ducks bath with his wife, and today it was a coincidence that I could fulfill my wish.

With a gentle tug, my wife’s sweater flew to the side; with a few fiddles of my fingers, the long tartan skirt fell silently onto the carpet. Removing the black cashmere pantyhose, I couldn’t help but stare, wrapped around my wife’s most secret place was not the white cotton panties I was familiar with, but a pink one with a lace edge.

“Huh?”

“No looking~~,” Wife’s small hand covered her vitals, and she snapped shyly.

“Let me see…” I parted my wife’s hands and put my head in.

The scene in front of me really out of my expectation, wife is a traditional Chinese woman, from the age of 15 and she began to dating, to the age of 22 years old and married and even later gave birth to a daughter, the memory of her seems to be only white and pink underwear of two kinds, are specially in line with the big brother Benshan said, “We can not let other people see the things” of the kind of style. And wife on the style of this panties is I have never seen, silk fabrics, workmanship is very detailed, only cover half of the abdomen in front of a piece of stabbed with a strange pattern, luxuriant grass from the hollow part of the light black color, weaving into a butterfly wings want to fly, and those patterns into the butterfly’s beautiful decorations; a thin band deftly on both sides of the waist to tie a live knot, so that the outfit, let the plain elegant and dignified wife suddenly become bewitching.

“It’s beautiful!” I praised from the bottom of my heart. My wife’s skin was already white and tender, and with the pink lace it was actually unusually alluring. “When did you buy it?”

“The day before yesterday.” The shy voice held the joy of being appreciated by a lover.

A wave of heat welled up in my heart; this must have been specially bought by my wife for this party. “Wife bought it when it should be with what kind of courage?” Thoughts flashed, look at the middle of the panties much darker color, lightly twisted, wet sticky sticky, know that she has been moved, heart a swing, crotch of the penis can not help but jump a few times. Pivot the panties to the side a little, then revealed the mouth of the mouth that drooled.

“Hmmm~~” Wife seemed not quite used to it, and subconsciously merged her legs. I gently blocked it with my elbow, and she understood what I meant, and her legs stopped for a few seconds, then slowly parted to the sides, and her breathing suddenly got a little heavier.

Wife that open and close the mouth like the morning buds of the first bloom of the rose, dewdrops to the pink petals point drain crystal clear. My heart violently rose a desire, straight kissed the past.

With my wife’s shriek was the shock that filled my heart. This is the first intimate contact between my lips and my wife’s petals, not that I didn’t have the chance before, it’s just that it seems like some thoughts are stopping me and my wife. When the slippery petals in my mouth extremely swollen, when the warm love liquid in my mouth quickly flow, my mind flashed a trace of remorse, such a delicious I have wasted years!

My wife could no longer speak, and the sitting position was maintained for only a few seconds before she crumpled. I caught her white-knuckled legs and pushed them toward her chest, giving my head more room to move.

The temperature in the room seems to rise suddenly, my wife’s thighs are seeping out tiny beads of sweat, put her thighs on my hands there is a kind of slippery feeling; the air in the two heavy gasping sound becomes very obscene, so that the flame of desire in my heart more and more intense, I tried to open my mouth to wife’s petals all inclusive between the lips, dexterity of the tongue in the petals and stamens wantonly rolled back and forth.

My wife’s body began to twist gently, her thighs somehow wrapped around my back, pulling her hips against my face, half of which was already wet, and from time to time a few drops of love juice ran down my chin and onto the bed.

Just as I was about to run out of breath, my wife suddenly let out a strange moan, a deliberately muffled sound that was so familiar to me that I immediately realized that she was having an orgasm. This thought made my dick more and more alive, and I freed one hand to unbuckle my belt and remove my pants.

Wife did not like ordinary general with the throbbing paralyzed on the bed, private parts are still chasing my lips. When I raised my body, she also let out a disgruntled pout, just that the sound of “hmmm ~ ~ ~” aftermath has not disappeared in the air, a satisfied to the tips of the hair of the “Oh ~ ~ ~” again to my ears.

I exhaled heavily, perhaps because of the reason of two months respectively, wife there although already wet a mess, but still exceptionally compact, “good tight yo ~ ~” I experience a side of my dick there came from the gust of the, one side of the teasing said.

Wife’s white face is full of shyness is gyroscopic red, head on one side, closed eyes dare not look at me, but open and close the nose, tightly biting lips, dead write the sheets of the delicate hands and keep wriggling warm wet flesh walls but a confession to me that her heart’s desire.

I stroked a shallow scar on my wife’s belly – that is the birth of a daughter left by Caesarean section traces, for some reason, it has become a sexy belt of my wife, the action and accelerated a few points, flooded with love juice in the penis driven by the sound of “puh puh”.

Not long after, my wife began to tremble again, I just feel wrapped around the tender flesh of the penis a spasmodic twitch, as if there is something sprayed on the tip of the penis, a jolt of excitement, fingertips and toes swiftly numb, vaguely remembered that these days should be the wife’s safe period, the mind is relaxed, knowing that can not keep the Yangguan, it is hard to a top, a stream of rolling hot penis has been spewed out, violently struck in the depths of the wife’s honey pot.

I was contentedly lying on my wife’s body, the feeling of floating on a cloud just now made me lose my concentration for a moment, and when I came back to my senses, I realized that a string of teardrops fell from the corner of my wife’s eyes.

“Don’t be afraid,” I lovingly brushed away the tears from my wife’s face, guessing that she was worried about our future, so I comforted her, “Bai’er, things will work out, everything will turn out fine.”

Wife did not speak, just silent sobbing. After a while, she suddenly opened her eyes and looked straight at me, with tears in her eyes there is so much disillusionment and despair.

“You have another woman!”

My wife’s words hit me like a thunderbolt, and a chill ran through my body, did she know all that? How did she know? If she knew, would she leave me? Several thoughts flashed through my mind like a light, and a wave of fear gripped my heart.

“What nonsense!” I retorted subconsciously.

“Before, you weren’t like this…”

I instantly understand exactly what place to reveal the cracks, plain as long as the wife and a long time apart, the first time I will certainly not be able to control themselves, always in the second shot to be able to reach the peak with his wife. Today’s performance is really some eye-catching, wife naturally want to suspect. Figured out the problem, I heart suddenly a loose.

“I blame you for that!” I laughed.

“Blame me?” There was more than a little doubt in his wife’s eyes.

“Who made you have to come to Beijing, causing me to dream about that with you all the time two days ago, offering all the good stuff to the God of Zhou.”

“Which one?”

A reasonable explanation, I made a must-have, my wife was instantly relieved, an embarrassed smile on her face, her face rubbing against my chest, as if to express her apologies to me.

“That’s it!” I moved my dick, which remained inside my wife, and after the period of inappropriateness, it was stretching its loins again.

“Please, husband, will you take a shower first~~” panted his wife softly.

I also wanted to savor my wife, all stinky and sweaty and out of place. “Spare me.” Withdrawing my dick, there was a soft “boing” and a stream of white liquid flowed out in a smooth stream, coating my wife’s petals as if they had been dipped, even her panties were wet.

My wife, probably afraid that it would spill onto the bed, hastily covered her lower body with her hands. I laughed and helped her with the panties she was still wearing, and she squirmed, “I was going to wear them for you, but you’re in a hurry…”

I helped my wife out of her sweater and rubbed her slippery bump a few times along the way saying, “Wait for the night.”

“Uh-huh.” Wife responded, but immediately shook her head again: “Oops! No, all dirty.” I said that tomorrow, my wife nodded shyly.

Carrying his wife to the bathroom: “White, you seem light?” Wife wrapped her arms around my neck and whispered: “I miss you!” I glanced at her as freshly peeled chicken head as white and firm breasts, teasing: “No wonder I think your grandmother is bigger, is not thinking of me to think of here?” The words just fell, a pain in the neck, “to beat ah!” Wife angrily.

Five-star hotel room luxury is mostly reflected in the bathroom, my wife has never stayed in a hotel like P, looking at the wide three-head Jacuzzi, joyfully asked me: “can lie in it? Is it clean?”

“Of course it’s fine. Other hotels sanitize every day, like in G, and use ultraviolet light! I’m afraid it’s the same here.”

I dispel my wife’s misgivings, but the heart welled up a sour, my wife in the girls is a first-class excellent, should enjoy a first-class life, just because married to me, not only did not live a good life, but also for me to be afraid of. Thinking of these, look at his wife’s eyes more and more soft.

Wife’s attention was obviously attracted by the bathtub in front of her, go in to lie down, I said first rinse it, adjusted the water temperature, pulled his wife to the jets in front of her, slightly scalding water spilled down from her head.

“Oooh Wow~~,” Wife whimpered in comfort.

To be honest, his wife is a rare beauty, the face was born good, the body is excellent. Wife is very tall, even in the north is also considered high, the body is extremely well-proportioned, skin as delicate as water tofu general, I have laughed that wife is to explain the “abundance if there is a surplus, soft as no bone” the best model. As pregnant with her daughter when the wife’s age is small, so the post-partum recovery is very good, just that the breast has become more plump and soft, but still, as in the past, upright.

My original unit of girls on the more, to the Shanghai is a foot into a beautiful women like clouds of professional circles, know so many girls, as if only Su Jin can be compared to wife.

Picking up the shower fluid and rubbing it into his wife’s body, she was a little ticklish and giggled softly as she dodged it.

“Don’t move.” I wrapped my arms around her and poured the sticky bath solution onto her back, gently smoothing it out, and my wife crouched meekly in my arms like a kitten being pampered by her master.

“By the way Bai’er, why don’t you give me a call first when you arrive in Beijing?” Thinking about what it’s like to wait bitterly for a call, I couldn’t help but slap her ass hard.

“Well,” my wife grunted to show her dissatisfaction, “I was in a hurry! There are so many people at the airport, there is a long line next to every public phone. I do not dare to use the cell phone, afraid that you are waiting for the urgent, directly rushed to the hotel, want to think of the hotel and then call you.”

“Is the road good?”

“I don’t know, just thinking about the last two days.” Wife murmured.

Listening to my wife’s softly speaking, my heart is hot. From the beginning of the relationship with me, I have always been the most important person in my wife’s heart, perhaps only my daughter can shake my position in her heart.

“So what do you want to do for the next two days?” I asked as I poured some more bath soap on her ass.

“You first…”

“┅・・ Well, tomorrow, let’s climb the Great Wall with Julia and the others, and the day after that, let’s go to the Summer Palace with them.” I deliberately teased her.

“Are you mad at me?” Wife pouted: “Then where do I go?”

“You get naked and lie under the covers and wait for me to come back!” I said, getting a little wistful myself, and my dick stretched a little when my belly got hot.

“You’re bad~~” Wife’s body seems to be hot as well, and the pair of breasts squeezed on my chest seems to be getting bigger as well, as she slightly sidesteps her body.

Her back had been almost wiped, I turned her body around, my hand went around her chest, and held that pair of firm bumps. Looking down from her shoulders, those two red cherries had turned into purple grapes, and I wondered if my wife’s body had never awakened from the aftermath of her orgasm.

“I don’t want to,” I laughed, rubbing my wife’s breasts, “it’s a beautiful job, a lot of people would like to ask for it, but not yet able to.”

“How dare you!” My wife grabbed me backward and grabbed me by the balls: “Tell me, who are you hitting on?”

My fingers clamped a grape twisted, laughed: “Who do you think it is?” Wife’s body suddenly soft, turned around and embraced me, “I’m not okay ~ ~” wife pouted.

She looked like she was at the mercy of the king to make me horny, looking at her covered in bath bubbles, extremely unfavorable to the action of my mouth and tongue, so I yanked over the nozzle, first rinsed her neck and shoulders, and then aimed the nozzle at her peppery breasts.

The water flowed very fast, hitting my wife’s breasts, and water droplets shot out in all directions. Under the passionate soothing of the water, my wife’s tender breasts became more and more erect, two purple grapes gently trembling, as if calling for my caress. I used my fingers to press the areola, so that the nipple is more prominent, and adjusted the nozzle, so that the water flow all focused on the nipple jet, asked: “comfortable?”

“Well ~ ~” wife eyes slightly closed, issued a moving delicate, but did not answer my question. I mischievously pinched the purple grapes, said: “Quickly say, comfortable or not?”

Wife lightly grunted, gave me a glance, angry: “hate it, not comfortable!” I know that she is not what she said, have the heart to tease her: “then how comfortable?”

“You…” my wife just said one word, but when she saw the evil smile on my face, she immediately stopped talking, gave me a couple of hard punches, and then turned around, giving me her rounded backside: “I won’t tell you!”

I couldn’t help but feel the excitement in my heart as I threw the nozzle away, pulled my wife’s body back, and lowered my head to take in a grape. Before I wrapped my tongue around it, I said vaguely, “I know… without saying anything…”

With a soft yelp, my wife’s body slumped into my arms, causing me to sit down on the bathtub, where she lay across my lap and hugged my head hard.

(to be continued)