The night on the Bund is no different from that four years ago. The Oriental Pearl in the night is still charming, and the buildings on the other side are still golden under the embellishment of lights, like a pile of glowing gold.
How beautiful! Just like four years ago, Xue Yating couldn't find a second word to describe the present scene. I can't blame her. I have been a farmer for generations, and she has only studied for a few years. But she doesn't want to live like her parents. Don't you always say "live a wonderful life" on TV? When she came to Shanghai, she just wanted to live a luxurious life.
"Dong Mei, look at the boat coming."
"Yating, Yating ..." Xue Yating really wanted to pry open Hui Liang's head and carve her name in.
"Oh, I'm not used to it." Hui Liang complained coldly again, "I really don't want to talk about you. A Shanghainese with a different name? "
Xue Yating gave her a look and turned her head to the dark Huangpu River. A colorful ferry slowly passed by, and the wind blew, and the noise of the ship could be heard.
Let's go by boat together, Dong … Ah …
"Tell you I'm not going, you go." Xue Yating said grumpily.
"Leave her alone and let's go." Hui Liang rolled up sharpwiner's arm and walked to the ferry. At the moment when their figures disappeared in front of them, Xue Yating suddenly felt angry, but soon calmed down. Shallow, she won't spend money on these useless places. Save it for another month, and her Chanel lipstick will be available. This is the real thing.
For her, the greatest satisfaction is to see more and more bottles and cans in her humble little cosmetic box. She denied her vanity. No girl likes cosmetics and bags, especially some beautiful girls.
How many people can just eat, drink and be merry like Hui Liang? In order to satisfy her stomach, she even found a chef, a chef! In the eyes of chef Liu, she looks unremarkable and tasteless like a breathtaking Yang Guifei, which attracted him to watch her eat a table of food. Next to them, she is an unnecessary person.
Obviously, I am a gentle and graceful lady with bright eyes and white teeth, gorgeous as flowers and jade. Why can't I meet a good gentleman who is partial to her?
"Xue Dongmei, there are fingerprints on the glass window. Wipe them clean quickly. "
"Xue Dongmei, the clothes are so messy, why don't you tidy them up?"
"Xue Dongmei, your sales performance has declined recently, and you need a long snack."
The store manager crackled and Xue Dongmei could hear someone sneering. She really wants to pry open the manager's head and carve the word "Xue Yating".
When I first came to Qingshui yamen, it was not hot in summer and not frozen in winter. I wanted to meet rich people. The brand belongs to the middle and high grade, and many good-looking and noble-born guests will know it at a glance. Every time such a guest appears, the little girls in the shop flock. He is very polite to everyone and people are willing to obey him. A turned smile before leaving the store made everyone think that he liked her.
After countless big dreams, Xue Yating realized her shallowness. Give some sunshine, and it will be brilliant. You think you are a sunflower. She is as beautiful as flowers and pure as jade, and my fair lady, but she is just a waiter, humble and insignificant in front of rich people. If she can also exude the noble temperament of those people, maybe she will attract them.
Xue Yating regards Zhao Jie as his role model. She is well dressed, well matched and elegant. The bun is rolled up high and the neck is raised high, just like a noble swan. She also opened her eyes.
? "Look at my shoes, 2000 yuan, bought by Galeries Lafayette in Paris." "The real Hermes, out of print, guess how much it is worth?" "Birthday husband gave me earrings, good-looking? Diamonds. " Zhao Jie's face was full of pride amid the screaming of the girls in the shop. She lifted the coffee cup with her orchid fingers.
"Oh, this what ah. I spent so much money in your store that I used this coffee to fool me. " "Zhao Jie, you smiled. Xiaohong went to the cafe next door and asked for a cup of freshly ground coffee. " The manager's flattering manner is really ugly.
"Next time. Help me wrap these clothes. " Zhao Jie put down his coffee cup, put on a circle of lipstick with his fingers cocked, twisted his waist and stood up from the soft collapse. Xue Yating quickly put on a mink coat and exclaimed, "This mink is really slippery."
"One hundred thousand dollars." Zhao Jie's face showed an expression of physical and mental satisfaction.
Every time Xue Yating picked up an object with a cocked orchid finger, Huiliang looked contemptuous. "I'm obsessed with you, singing opera and pointing fingers." Do you think it's weird? It's called femininity. Isn't it said that some people and women's most elegant places are their hands and necks? You must work hard in this respect. Xue Yating reviewed Zhao Jie's posture again and again in her mind, stood up, and walked up with her feet in a space where only one person could pass.
? "Xue Yating? There is a courier. Come down and get it. "
They have long given up the idea of persuading the courier brother to deliver it to the door. Last time, a "kind-hearted" courier couldn't stand Hui Liang's pleading and sugar-coated shells. He turned upstairs for more than 20 minutes before finding the door. Since then, no courier brother dares to enter this border.
Xue Yating carefully walked down the stairs in the attic, holding the handrail in his hand, limped through the gas stove and the sewage bucket to find the stairs, then moved down the steep steps sideways, crossed several alleys and saw the little brother with an anxious face.
Climbing up this crumbling building again, Xue Yating broke out in a sweat. Although the wind is blowing, it makes the wooden windows crackle.
"Can such clothes be eaten as food?" Hui Liang glanced at it and said dismissively.
Xue Yating pretended not to hear, and couldn't wait to open the parcel and take out a Chanel imitation coat. It doesn't look as delicate as the one Zhao Jie is wearing, but it's not bad.
"Tell you the truth. Erzhu will bring a colleague to dinner tomorrow night, especially for you. You must go. " Hui Liang chewed potato chips, and potato chip residues were scattered on the sheets.
Xue Yating turned his head and pointed to the clothes with broken corners in the mirror.
"Two pillars treat." Hui Liang added.
"Very good." Xue Yating promised. She doesn't like those greasy cupboards, but she won't refuse free food.
Xue Yating dressed herself up. Every time I want to go out, what Ms. Chanel said will appear in my mind in a conditioned way. You never know when you will meet the only thrill, so you must dress up before you go out.
The steaming hot pot and spicy soup made Xue Yating, who wanted to indulge, eat uninteresting. She doesn't want to have an appetite and turn herself into a clown. Every few minutes, she goes to the bathroom to make up her makeup. After a meal, she didn't even remember the man's face, so I guess he did.
"You don't daydream all day, rich people will like you as a working girl. Liu Qingyou is a good worker, a down-to-earth person and lives at home. Isn't it just to live safely? How have you become so vain now? " Hui Liang complained, panting and opened the express parcel. Every time she takes out clothes and cosmetics, she always takes out snacks.
"What did you say when we first came here four years ago? Don't you want to marry a rich man like me? Now this society is like this. With money, you can live a good life. Are we going to live away from this rotten house all our lives? " Xue Yating stamped her feet and felt the whole building shaking.
"But I think it is also very happy to find someone who loves you." Hui Liang's expression softened, and she was charming in the light.
"Stop. Stop sprinkling dog food in front of me. Leave the love words about your two pillars to you when you are alone. "
Every time I see Liu Qingyu pampering Hui Liang; Watching him wander around the kitchen in an apron to satisfy Hui Liang's stomach; Seeing that his first bite was about to give Hui Liang, Xue Yating was inexplicably pantothenic. This silent show of love is too cruel for single dog.
Liu Qing is not a chef with a big face and a thick neck, but she is thin, white and shy. Although you can know his occupation from him dozens of miles away, every time you date Hui Liang, he always keeps himself clean and tidy.
"You haven't met someone you like in these years, or someone you like?"
These words Xue Yating won't tell Hui Liang. She is like a megaphone, a little thing can spread far and far. Of course I like her, but none of them are her favorite. Suppose brother Zhang has a big face and a thick neck, and a gold chain with thick fingers hangs around his neck in five winters and six summers. Every time I come, I make the little girl in the shop giggle. It happened that Xue Yating was far away.
What does Zhang Ge do? Nobody knows. Every time I come, I just sweep the goods. Of course, there are not many clothes that fit his figure. Xue Yating even wondered if she deliberately came to the store to tease the little girl.
Her estrangement caught Zhang Ge's attention and asked her for her phone number, saying that it would be convenient for her to tell him about the new model in the future. Xue Yating's heart is like a mirror, but she can't refuse such bureaucratic reasons. After that, I can figure it out with my toes. Zhang Ge frequently made excuses to ask her out, but Xue Yating really couldn't find a reason and went to the appointment.
Brother Zhang is a frank person. Straight from the point, he likes her. If he is kind to him, he will ask his boss to give her all the fruits of his clothes purchase (he really knows her job). Xue Yating knows that only by using the reason that her boyfriend is getting married soon can it be stopped.
When I went to the store again, Zhang Ge still laughed and amused the little girl in the store, but Ali kept shaking his head with him. Ellie's performance this month is the highest, mostly due to the contribution of Zhang Ge and his friends.
"What are you looking for? I'm going home for the New Year this year, and your mother will definitely nag you again. " Hui Liang's mouth is full of food.
Since she went home for the Spring Festival three years ago, Xue Yating began to find various excuses not to go back. On the one hand, the round-trip fare and gifts for her family will cost her several months' savings, which is enough for her to buy an A version of Chanel bag. Distressed. Secondly, the first sentence when relatives from all walks of life meet is, have you found a boyfriend? The villagers at home, classmates and friends of her age are all holding hands in their arms. Heart tired.
This year, her mother told her that she must come back. Her brother got married in other places and seldom went home.
"Don't worry about me, have you and your two pillars solved the problem? It has been so many years. "
"He said that Nian would take me to see his parents. I think we should wait until the second year. " Hui Liang said thoughtfully.
"Not bad. Finally, I want to accomplish a major event in my life. "
"Who is not a lifetime?"
"Oh, no, you told me some time ago that you are happy with the person you love. What's the matter, the feelings are weak? Liu Qingyou is 100% sincere to you. Don't be dissatisfied. "
"Here you are. Do you want it? " Xue Yating knew that she was joking.
"I really robbed you."
"Don't grab it, take it." Say that finish, Hui Liang turned and gave Xue Yating a cold back. Without rhyme or reason.
two
Zhao Jie happily tried on the clothes. The phone rang before the excitement passed.
"Juaner, what are your plans?" She said, "well, I'm going to the beauty salon later." Let's meet at the teahouse at three o'clock. "
"Sister, I am very busy." Sometimes Xue Yating really wants to see how she flatters. She should not be much better than the manager. People living in this world always lose something for something.
"In order to kill time. You gave me these ... "The phone rang again.
"Where are you now!" Zhao Jie walked to the fitting room in the corner while talking on the phone. Xue followed her unconsciously, sorting out a pile of clothes she threw over there, such as the scene of a car accident.
"I don't believe ... that shameless ... fucking Liu Dazhuang ..."
Xue Yating felt wrong and turned to leave. I don't know how long it took, but it was quiet there, as quiet as after a storm. After a while, Zhao Jie came out, and her makeup seemed to have been repainted.
"Zhao Jie, these clothes ..." Xue Yating asked weakly.
Zhao Jie walked up to her, without looking at her, and directly picked up the handmade coffee specially prepared for her on the table. She spit it out with a wow, "what a strange smell, are you kidding! I spent enough money in your store to buy this store, so just fool me! Now everyone dares to bully me, isn't it? . "
Xue Yating can't remember how the manager calmed Zhao Jie, who was crying and making trouble. Every time she recalls it, it's like there are 300 bees in her head, which is so noisy.
I haven't seen Sister Zhao for a long time. I heard from one of her sisters that her husband was cheating on her and wanted to divorce her and marry a third one.
During that time, Xue Yating was always upset for no reason, not for work, not for menstruation, or for no reason. Liu Qingyu is cooking for Hui Liang again. In the kitchen, pots and pans are ringing, and the fragrance permeates the small room. Xue Yating calmed down.
"Hui Liang is lucky to find someone who can cook." Xue Yating leaned against the door and watched Liu Qingyou turn back and forth in the cramped kitchen (he didn't want anyone to get involved in cooking). A warm current rises from Xue Yating's heart.
"Last time I introduced you, I could cook, and you didn't like it." Liu Qingyu looked back at Xue Yating. "What do you want?"
"You are like this." Xue Yating was startled when the word popped out of her mind. Nonsense, he is not her type at all!
Hui Liang and Lu Qing snuggle together like no one's watching, and you feed each other bite by bite. Xue Yating remembered her parents who lived alone. No matter who is sick, the other party will take care of each other in every possible way. Life, perhaps only so dull, is true.
"Guess who I met today?"
? "I met my primary school classmate Tian."? Before Xue Yating could guess, Hui Liang couldn't wait to say it.
"Is that the most annoying thing in our class?" The teacher said he was noisier than a monkey, and his classmates gave him this nickname.
"Well, that's him."
"You can still recognize it after so many years."
"He recognized me." Hui Liang seems very excited. "I was sorting, and he recognized me."
It is also a good eye! Hui Liang was not so fat when she was a child, but she was also beautiful.
"Do you recognize him?"
"Recognize the mole on his nose." Hui Liang quack smiled like a duck, "short and fat, only boil or the boil. Ha ha ... "
"You really hurt people."
"He didn't graduate from junior high school and went to Shanxi to mine with his uncle. Later, the boss saw that he was honest and capable, so he was put in charge. Later, the boss started a lot of business and asked him to do this mine. I have money now. His car is like a tank, with heated seats and heated seats. " Hui Liang bared his teeth again.
"Look at what excites you, as if this mine and car belong to your family."
"Next time he comes to see me, let's get together."
"I'm not interested."
Xue Yating looked at Liu Qingyu. He listened quietly, silently to Hui Liang clip vegetables, look at Hui Liang's eyes is still the same.
Hui Liang, who always slept till dawn, tossed and turned in bed that night. Xue Yating, who had already slept very lightly, couldn't sleep either. In a daze, she remembered the mottled wooden board with "primary school" written in black, the scattered children in the class learning to sing the national anthem word by word, and the field that followed her and behind her every day after school. She doesn't understand why Hui Liang disappears every time she and he separate at that fork in the road.
Xue Yating and Hui Liang went home together for the New Year, and only Xue Yating came back. Hui Liang said that she would have a good rest. Anyway, the job of hotel waiter is easy to find.
When they first came to Shanghai, Hui Liang worked as a hotel waiter for a high salary. But this job is overtime and tiring. The more holidays, the busier I am, and I am as tired as a dog every day. It's not that she doesn't have much money, but she doesn't have so many guests to serve, and she gets a day's salary every day.
Xue Yating never felt that her work was a simple repetition. Although she says the same thing every day, she can face different guests. Among these people, there will be her the only thrill.
"Welcome". Xue Yating, who packed her clothes, subconsciously turned to the door and smiled. In order to have a charming smile, she practices in front of the mirror every morning until her muscles are stiff. The hard work was not in vain. Even the manager said that her smile was the most natural and friendly.
It's brother Zhu. It's a bit unfair to call him brother. It is more appropriate to call him uncle, but he doesn't like being called that. Cece and Xiaohong came around to take him to the new area, but his eyes drifted over. Xue Yating responded with a smile.
I don't know if men chasing women are all routines. When Xue Yating had to follow him to a western restaurant with elegant decoration and flowing classical music, the little old man who looked like a 60-year-old man was thin and shriveled, with tiny sweat on his bald head, and kept pushing the glasses frame on his nose.
Zhu Ge lost his wife a few years ago, and he needs someone to live in his heart more than the emptiness of living alone in a villa.
"I can see at a glance that you are different from them." Zhu pushed the glasses frame on the bridge of his nose.
Xue Yating looked at Zhu calmly, revealing her professional and charming smile. He was encouraged. "I will never mistreat you. You said I've been busy all my life. What's the use of making so much money? I didn't enjoy it when I should, but now I'm old. I know you don't value these things, but I can give you the best and let you live a decent life. This is what every girl dreams of. "
Lao Zhu honestly confessed that he had a short marriage after his wife died. The girl stayed with him for his money and used the money he gave her to raise a pretty boy. When she divorced, she wanted to compete with him for property, and he kicked her out.
"I can see at a glance that you are different from them." Lao Zhu said confidently, "Let's sign a prenuptial agreement. All my money is yours as long as you can accompany me to the end of my life. "
Sometimes when I think of Zhu, Xue Yating still has some regrets. Doesn't she just want to marry a rich man? The point is to have money, whether the person is a pig or a dog. But she always felt something was missing. What is missing, she can't say.
It's almost May Day and Hui Liang hasn't come back yet. After making a few phone calls, she always said she was in no hurry. She is not in a hurry, she is in a hurry! As the rent is due, she has to pay her share.
"Hello. Xue Yating, are you free tonight? I ... I want to talk to you. "
Hui Liang hasn't come back for so long. Liu Qingyu must be very worried.
"This is the sun coming out in the west. Please invite me to the western restaurant. What can I do for you? "
Liu Qingyou's face was clouded and embarrassed.
"What's the matter?"
"Hui Hui, she, Hui Hui ..." Liu Qingyu stammered tears.
"What's the matter? Tell me. "
"Hui Hui, she's getting married." As he spoke, tears followed.
"get married? Good thing. When did you do it? Why don't you listen to her? You can really keep a secret. You should surprise me ... "Liu Qingyu sobbed.
This is not a surprise, it is a shock.
"How is that possible? In such a short time, how could she ... "
"She said that she was her primary school classmate and had chased her before."
Tian! Xue Yating stayed in her mind, and the mystery of Hu's mysterious disappearance one day was solved at once. He followed Hui Liang.
At the food stall, Lu Qingyou drank too much, such as mud.
three
"You are not enough friends, Hui Liang. Don't tell me such a big thing. "
"Didn't I tell you now?"
"You are too cruel, the somebody else liu ..."
"If it were you, what would you choose? Stop it, who doesn't want to be rich. "
Hui Liang's honeymoon trip, Shanghai is a stop, she certainly won't miss this shopping paradise. Tian was released in advance and the two met on the Bund. A flowered skirt covered Hui Liang's bloated body, making her look like a bunch of walking flowers.
"This is a big brand, called P ... I forgot to call it, thousands of pieces." Xue Yating remembered Zhao Jie.
She looked at these thousands of clothes, just like the goods that Hui Liang had found in the booth.
"Look at this, I bought it in Thailand, this one in the United States, this one ..." Hui Liang and Xue Yating showed what they were wearing around their necks and hands.
? "You are holding an exhibition. Can't keep a low profile. " Liang said.
"I also want to keep a low profile, and my strength is not allowed." Hui Liang imitates.
"You are malicious. Congratulations on your successful promotion to the ranks of local tyrants. "
"To you. This is for you. " Hui Liang stuffed a beautifully wrapped box into Chanel's paper bag.
"I dare not ask for such an expensive gift."
"You dreamed of chanel no.5, which I bought in Paris." Xue Yating casually took it and didn't rush to open the gift.
"Look at your elegance. I feel shabby around you. " Xue Yating is dressed in a white T-shirt, shorts and tennis shoes, as simple as a lily.
"Where's your outfit? What about Gucci, Chanel and Fendi? Didn't your Chanel mother tell you to dress up all the time, because I don't know where you will meet the only thrill? "
Xue Yating smiled angrily and pretended to hit her.
"Seriously, did your rich husband catch it? Do you need my family to introduce you to a few a day? "
"Forget it, let's go shopping." Xue Yating rolled up Hui Liang's thick arm, and the sweat under his arm had already soaked thousands of clothes.
Once, it was also in this season and this night, and it was also her and her. Now, things have changed.
With a long sound, the ferry on the Huangpu River came slowly. The lights cut through the night sky, and the wind came, mixed with the noise of the ship.
"At that time, you were so worried about money that you didn't go by boat with us." Liang said to him, "Look at you, you change your frugal money into lipstick and bags. I didn't understand it then. Now I find that buying at buy buy can really bring pleasure. "
Xue Yating smiled and made no answer.
"However, I feel very satisfied only at the moment of purchase. You don't know, my family has a special room to put my things, and half of them are unopened. "
"rich."
"There are many things to buy, and sometimes I feel empty."
"It won't be empty to have a big fat boy." Xue Yating said with a smile.
? "Aunt, buy a wreath." Xue Yating paid the flower girl, put a wreath on her and Hui Liang's head, and smiled happily.
"When Liu Qingyu bought these for me before, you always laughed at me for being naive. Now you like these gadgets. " The air suddenly became quiet.
"Liu ...
"Hui Hui, Hui Hui." The shouts interrupted Hui Liang, and the "flowers" in the distance quickly moved in their direction. Xue Yating saw the mole.
"Xue Dongmei! Still so beautiful. " Tian's head was full of sweat, and he stuffed the ice cream cone in his hand into the hands of the two.
"Your wife dares to say such a thing in front of you." Xue Yating joked.
"Of course, my wife is the most beautiful." Tian looked silly, and Liang and saw his one eye.
"It's getting late. I have to go. There will be no buses in the future. "
"Don't worry, Dong Mei, I have something to tell you. Not afraid of being late, I will take a taxi to send you. " Liang Huiyang begged.
In the car, Xue Yating seems to be able to hear the sound of criticizing Tian. "Who told you to come back so soon ... Dong Mei and I ..."
Xue Yating smiled and shook her head, suddenly remembering one thing, she took out her mobile phone. At that time, Hui Liang got the message. "I forgot to tell you just now, I will get married next month, and I have my hometown in sharpwiner. Do you have time to attend? "
Only at this time can the traffic after a crowded day be quiet. Only then will noise and glitz return to their true colors. At present, the crumbling building is getting closer and closer, and the happiness in Xue Yating's heart overflows. She saw two pillars standing beside the construction site, anxiously watching the direction of the car.
"My baby. What's the matter with you? You were fine just now ... "Somewhere on the Bund, a fat woman in a flowered skirt sat on the ground and burst into tears, while a man in a flowered skirt and dough was at a loss. Is ice cream uncomfortable? No, it must be the bag she looked at today. He wants to buy it, but she doesn't want it. Now she wants it again? No, he doesn't like French food tonight, so he knows there is no spicy food in that big plate. No ..... number. ......
The woman's heartbreaking cry dissipated in a pile of golden buildings and in the cold and dark Huangpu River with the wind. Only the neon of the Oriental Pearl still shines, as if to say that everything is fine.