By chance
Chen Jin went to deliver a cake to the next door and happened to see his aunt and uncle talking in front of the courtyard gate. It seemed that they were not having a very pleasant conversation. When they saw Chen Jin coming, they said something to her and then they went home.
Chen Jin was a little bit surprised by the relief. He thought that they would make some noise before the party ended, but he didn't expect that they would just go back like that.
Inside the room, everyone obviously knew that my aunt and uncle had left early, but the excitement did not diminish. Chen Jin didn't mention them and continued to eat cake and barbecue with everyone.
She took out the snacks that she had placed in various places in the house. This time, the elders went to the small living room upstairs, and the first floor and the backyard were all filled with brothers and sisters of her generation.
Seeing Chen Ting was worried while having a barbecue, Chen Jin looked at her curiously. Liu Chengzhi next to her was coaxing her. The two were fine when they went to visit the campus of Nanjing University in the afternoon. Why are they quarreling now? It's really terrible.
However, no one was interested in asking them what happened. So as to avoid making things difficult for yourself.
During this time, Dean Xi, Professor Song, and Shen Baichuan were all chatting in the backyard of Professor Song's house. Dean Xi seemed to be telling Shen Baichuan about some of the latest computer news in China that his students brought to him today.
As they were talking, President Xi occasionally chatted with them across the fence. In the end, both sides were able to start chatting, and President Xi unceremoniously asked for a few skewers.
Professor Song said he was not fit to eat so much, and Dean Xi said, "It's all given to me, it would be a waste if I don't eat it."
Chen Jin suspected that President Xi deliberately took people out to the backyard to chat so that they could have some barbecue on the way.
But President Xi's daily image is too pedantic, so Chen Jin is not so sure about this guess.
We ate until a little after nine o'clock and couldn't go back any later. So everyone cleaned up a little and the house was cleaned up quickly. The uneaten food had to be packed up and taken away, and the garbage had to be taken to the trash can near the community gate and thrown away.
They checked one by one to see if the things they brought were packed, and then went out one after another.
Chen Jin followed them to the parking lot and greeted everyone one by one. After watching them get in their cars and leave, he turned around and walked quickly back home.
She then realized that the street lights in the community seemed to have been replaced and were much brighter than last year. The street lights stretched her shadow very long, and the moon was very round tonight.
There was a faint smell of barbecue in the room, as well as a hint of sweetness from the cake. The room returned to the way it was at the beginning of this morning, except for the sofa. Junjun arranged those little dolls from small to large and sat them in a row on the sofa, like a group of friends, big and small, waiting for her to come back.
After the bustle died down, the small western-style building returned to its usual emptiness, but she did not feel lonely at all. The very short day filled her heart again. She took off her shoes, put on her slippers at home, and went upstairs while humming "Unforgettable Tonight, Unforgettable Tonight..."
Before going to bed at night, I would take a look at the group photo on the bedside table, lie down in a "big" shape with satisfaction, and slowly fall asleep with a smile on my face.
The next morning, I woke up and stood in the cloakroom, wondering what to wear. In order to take photos with my good friend, I finally changed into a sportswear.
The climate in Rong City is terrible. Even in November it is still cool in the mornings and evenings, but it is still hot outside in the daytime.
He drove out and got off in front of the newly opened breakfast shop on Wutong Road, so he met Shen Baichuan who was having breakfast in the shop. Shen Baichuan, who had just finished his morning run, was eating a bun and drinking soy milk in a roadside shop outside the school. If it was a year ago, she would never have thought that Shen Baichuan would have such a side.
"Good morning." Shen Baichuan recommended this shop's taro buns to her, saying that the taro filling here tastes somewhat similar to a taro-filled pastry from Laoyoufu.
“Then I’ll try it too.” Chen Jin ordered a portion of what he ate, and sat opposite him, taking a bite of bun and a sip of soy milk. The taste was indeed similar, with just the right sweetness, and the soy milk had a mellow and sweet taste. I found another delicious restaurant, it’s really good.
Chen Jin just buried his head in eating and drinking, and finished his breakfast in ten minutes. He ordered another breakfast with satisfaction, waved goodbye to Shen Baichuan, and drove away.
Arriving outside the gate of the Armed Police General Hospital, Chen Jin slowly parked the car not far from the gate under the watchful eyes of the guards, and then called Ling Yun's home.
"Okay, wait for me for five minutes. I'm leaving now." Ling Yun just hung up the phone and shouted towards the backyard, "Comrade Ling Zhenghe, I'm going out to meet a friend."
Ling Zhenghe, who was called, walked in with a serious face, "How can you be so disrespectful to your father?" Then he asked, "What friend? Male or female? Why don't you bring someone home to visit?"
"I mentioned it, Chen Jin. What's there to sit at home for? Are you here to listen to Political Commissar Ling's ideological class? I won't talk to you anymore. I'm going out."
"Hey, Wei Zhenhua also said he wanted to talk to you..."
Ling Yun waved his hand and walked out without looking back, "Why would he come to me if he doesn't want to attract investment? I don't have the money to invest in him. I won't say anymore. Chen Jin will wait for a long time."
Ling Zhenghe sighed, looked at the door for a while, then turned back to the backyard to help Zhang Qiongying cut the branches, and said, "She's going to look for her friend Chen Jin again."
Zhang Qiongying smiled gently, "It's rare that she has a female friend. If she hadn't told me that she had a little sister, I wouldn't know if I raised a girl or a son."
I came back from vacation yesterday, still wearing my military uniform. Coincidentally, there were a few military wives who had just moved into the compound and came to visit my house. When they saw Ling Yun, they praised him, "Your son is so handsome."
After studying abroad for a few years, I became more and more like a tomboy. What a pity! It would be great if her brother was as popular with girls as her.
"Sons and daughters are the same, and there is no difference between them and brother and sister." Ling Zhenghe said, "If anyone comes to you to introduce a date again, just kick them out. What kind of people are they? They want to marry my Ling Yun and want her to retire from the army. I think these people have forgotten their history of being beaten after a few days of good life. Even if they are given face, they still look down on soldiers..."
Zhang Qiongying glanced at him and said slowly: "You can talk to your old comrades about these things and let them take care of their own families. Okay, don't bother me here. I have to go back to the unit for a meeting later. You can eat by yourself. And Ling Yun said he would stay at a friend's house tonight..."
"Why do we have to live in a friend's house?" Ling Zhenghe thought for a moment and said, "Forget it, let her live there if she wants."
Ling Yun just came out of the house, and before she had walked a short distance, she was stopped by Wei Zhenhua, who said he wanted to go out for dinner with her, along with a few friends from the compound.
These people were people she had grown up with, but they had no chance to get together after going to college. She could only stay for three days on this leave, so she didn't expect to get together with her friends in the compound. Everyone else has a job, so we can only get together on weekends, and it's a bit difficult at other times.
Seeing Ling Yun's hesitation, Wei Zhenhua asked, "If you don't want to have dinner with us, who are you going to have dinner with? Who can have a deeper relationship than ours of more than 20 years?"
"What kind of life-and-death friendship is worth abandoning the brothers in our compound? Why don't you call your friends to eat with us?"
Ling Yun refused, "Let's do it another day. We can talk about it next time when we have a chance. I have already made an appointment with her. Don't waste my time. I said I'll be out in five minutes."
Wei Zhenhua didn't stop him, but he had to follow him out to see who Ling Yun's friend was. When he saw the familiar white Santana, Wei Zhenhua raised his eyebrows. Isn't this the friend who sent Ling Yun back last time?
"Ling Yun, would you like to introduce yourself?" Wei Zhenhua followed and greeted Chen Jin in a very familiar manner, "Hello."
Ling Yun was helpless. This person saw that Chen Jin drove a nice car and misunderstood that Chen Jin was a rich second-generation from a wealthy family. He probably wanted to find out if there was any opportunity to attract investment. She didn't know whether she should praise him for working so hard.
Chen Jin opened the car door and got out, nodded to Wei Zhenhua, then looked at Ling Yun: Who is this person?
"My friend from the same compound, Wei Zhenhua, now works at the Merchants Group." Ling Yun added, "Chen Jin, a high school friend of mine, now works as a counselor at Nanjing University. No one in his family runs a business."
I specifically mentioned the last sentence, anyone should be able to understand what it means, right?
"It's okay, just think of it as making friends." Wei Zhenhua smiled at Chen Jin, "So should I follow Ling Yun and call you Chen Jin? Or should I call you Teacher Chen?"
"Just call him by his name." Chen Jin felt that Ling Yun's friend was like a smiling fox. He looked smiling in a friendly manner, but he always seemed very shrewd. Think about it again, for those in the China Merchants Group who are capable of attracting investment, how could it be easy? That makes sense.
"Then, shall we set off now?" Chen Jin asked Ling Yun.
Wei Zhenhua also looked at Ling Yun and winked at her frantically: What's going on? Are we still brothers? Won't you take me with you?
Ling Yun's head hurt, but he still refused sternly: "Chen Jin and I have an appointment. She is going to get her hair permed and have a beauty treatment. Why are you, a grown man, following her?"
Perm your hair? !
cosmetic? !
Wei Zhenhua looked Ling Yun up and down in shock, "Your company doesn't allow people to perm their hair, right? Besides, you don't need to get a beauty treatment."
"Are you deaf? I'm talking about Chen Jin going, I'll accompany her!" Ling Yun waved his hand impatiently, "Next time, I'll treat you guys to dinner alone when I come back from vacation."
"When is the next time? How about tonight? How about Juchun Garden? We've been talking about it for a few years, but you've been absent every year. In the future, when brothers see you outside, you won't be able to call out your name." Wei Zhenhua had a good idea, "Why don't you go out with your friends during the day and have dinner with us at night? Yongzi and the others specially cleared their time today to come out..."
"You guys are going to Juchun Garden?" Ling Yun looked at Chen Jin, "You've booked Juchun Garden too?"
This is just a coincidence.
Chen Jin nodded.
"Okay, you can eat at both places tonight. Or you can just ask your friends to come over. Your friends are everyone's friends. More friends means more options. How do you think?"
"Are you going?" Ling Yun deliberately explained, "They grew up in the compound, so they speak a little roughly, but they are nice people. I can introduce you to some of them."
Ling Yun leaned closer and whispered in a tone that only the two of them could hear: "I have a playmate who is now a mainstay in the military art troupe. I didn't tell you about it, did I? She is recognized as the most beautiful woman in our compound. Go and see her? It will help you improve your vision in finding men in the future."
She didn't even want to talk about how Chen Jin found his partner before. In her opinion, Li Xingyi was not even worthy of Chen Jin.
Chen Jin breathed more lightly, avoiding Wei Zhenhua's inquiring eyes, touched his nose, and said, "You are going to have dinner with your friends again. I can't finish the food at the whole table by myself. It's such a waste. How about I shamelessly eat for free?"
Ling Yun looked at her knowingly, and she said that the title of "the most beautiful woman in the compound" alone was enough to make Chen Jin curious. If Chen Jin knew about this and didn't go to meet her, he would probably think about it before going to bed tonight.
After discussing with Chen Jin, Ling Yun said to Wei Zhenhua: "Then let's meet at Juchun Garden at six o'clock in the evening. Xie Ning should be at home too, so ask him to go with us."
"Xie Ning... I'll try my best." Wei Zhenhua gave her a meaningful look and said, "You should also stop bullying him. Every time you come back, you drive him crazy."
"When will he not go crazy? It has nothing to do with me." Ling Yun waved his hand, "Chen Jin, let's go."
Wei Zhenhua watched them drive away, shook his head and sighed.
"You have a good relationship with the people in your compound, right?"
"Growing up together and getting beaten up together, the relationship should be better. We have less contact after graduating from high school because we all take different paths." Ling Yun stopped and said, "This breakfast you brought tastes good. I think you bought it near your home."
"Yes, the neighbor next door recommended it. You can go there again tomorrow morning."
"The neighbor next door, the one who brought you a cake last time?"
"Yes, that's the neighbor you met before."
"Miss Xie is prettier than your neighbor."
Chen Jin joked: "Don't lie to me, when I go there later, I will see something different..."
"No, it won't happen. Miss Xie is well-known in our compound." Ling Yun said, "She just has a bad temper and gets angry easily. Now that she's grown up, I don't feel comfortable beating her up, or else it would be embarrassing for a grown man like her."
Chen Jin sighed, "I used to see you follow the rules in school. Well, it seems you can be quite capable."
So it makes sense that some people can still remain friends after losing contact for four years and then meet again. Who wasn’t quite active when they were young?
"There's nothing I can do. If I make a scene in the compound, I'll get scolded at most. But if I make a scene in school and my parents are called to school, I'll get beaten when I get home." Ling Yun gestured, "My dad used a stick as big as this one. My brother and I got beaten a lot."
In order to see who was the most trouble-making in the past, Chen Jindu revealed all the embarrassing things he had done in Qiaoxi Village, which made Ling Yun sigh in amazement, "You are still so cruel, but our compound doesn't have the conditions, otherwise it would not be that no one would do it."
When she was young, each family in the compound had its own bathroom, and there could be no pigpen in the compound.
She said that Chen Jin is not an ordinary person.
Ling Yun was brought by Chen Jin. He watched her perm her hair while he sat beside her and chatted with her. They talked about everything except their respective work. Some things about Ling Yun's work cannot be told to others, so he simply doesn't say anything. Chen Jin felt that he was most impressed by the bad things about his students, and speaking them out would just make himself feel bad again, so he didn't want to say anything.
At noon, Chen Jin went to a delicious restaurant that he had discovered before. It was also on Zhongshan Road. Walking along the way, Chen Jin could count all the delicious restaurants in Dongcheng District on one hand.
Ling Yun sighed: "I seem to be a fake Rong City person."
Chen Jin said: "I often have this thought. I really didn't realize there are so many fun and delicious places in Rong City before."
In the afternoon, Ling Yun followed Chen Jin to experience a beauty treatment. He found it quite amazing and wanted to talk to Chen Jin. However, when he turned around, Chen Jin was already lying down and asleep. During this time, waiters came in and out to help with massage and applying this and that, but Chen Jin was sleeping like a pig.
On the way to Juchun Garden, "You can really sleep a lot. You only sleep for two and a half hours during a three-hour beauty treatment..." Ling Yun said and couldn't help touching her face. It might be a psychological effect, she actually felt that her skin had improved a lot.
I have to say, it is still very interesting to experience it with Chen Jin. It is much more fresh than chatting with those guys in the compound again.
Chen Jin also found it interesting. When Ling Yun called her on Friday to make an appointment with her, the two of them thought for a long time but still couldn't figure out where to go. Go to the forest park? Chen Jin doesn't want to go. Ling Yun thought for a long time but couldn't think of a place. Oh, that’s not right, she thought of the No. 3 Middle School in the city.
In the end, it was Chen Jin who made the decision and asked her if she wanted to experience her "daily life as a little rich woman".
It’s a pity that she can’t experience Ling Yun’s “Ling Yun daily life”.
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