While eating, Chen Xu said, "She's on a business trip, and now I'm the only one left."

"Speaking of which, I really envy you. Your girlfriend is so beautiful and treats you so well." Liu Xiaoshang was obviously impressed by Yang Jinxia. "It would be great if the guy in my family could be half as good as her."

Chen Xu looked at him, "Why, do you regret it?"

Liu Xiaoshang said with emotion, "Not really. How should I put it? Before marriage, there were worries about not getting married, and after marriage, there were worries about getting married."

Chen Xu nodded and said, "That's true."

"Let's not eat here, let's go for a drink together." Liu Xiaoshang suggested as he rarely met an old classmate.

Chen Xu joked, "You're going back drunk, aren't you afraid of being scolded by your wife?"

"It's okay." Liu Xiaoshang waved his hand and said, "At most I'll scold you."

Chen Xu couldn't help laughing out loud.

The two left the fast food restaurant. Liu Xiaoshang's company was nearby and he was familiar with the area, so he took Chen Xu to a hot pot restaurant on this street.

The hot pot restaurant was also very busy, with only one table left.

"Come, have a drink."

After they ordered their dishes, a few small plates of peanuts and pickled radish were served, followed by beer. Liu Xiaoshang poured a glass for each of them, raised his glass, and said.

Chen Xu picked up the beer, clinked it with his, and drank it all in one gulp.

After Liu Xiaoshang finished drinking, he refilled their cups, picked up a fried peanut with chopsticks, and said while chewing, "If I have to say what I regret, I do have one thing. It's that I got married too early. It would have been better to postpone it for two years."

They are the same age, and this year they are 27. They will be 28 soon, and in two years they will be 30.

"Thirty is not too late for us men, but women can't wait. Your wife can be one year younger than you," said Chen Xu.

"Yes, she kept urging me to get married, and my parents also put pressure on me. I couldn't handle it." Liu Xiaoshang sighed, "As someone who has been through this, I have to give you a piece of advice. Being married is really different from not being married."

"Before we got married, even though we lived together, he still spent my money. My income was pretty good, and I had bought a house and a car, so the pressure wasn't that great."

"But once I got married, the feeling was completely different. I suddenly felt a lot of pressure. Especially when I thought about having children in the future, I didn't dare to spend money recklessly."

"In the past, when I went out to eat, I would never go to such fast food restaurants. Now, who dares to eat in a restaurant? My wife is the same. She used to buy cosmetics worth thousands of dollars without blinking an eye, but since we got married, she has never bought any more and she no longer asks to travel."

"My income is not low, and I don't have to pay a mortgage, so why do I end up like this?"

"Just be content." Chen Xu said, "I dare say that your situation is better than 90% of people."

Liu Xiaoshang came from a well-off family. After he graduated from university, his parents gave him a house. This alone made him much better than most of his peers. He was also capable and well connected, so he joined a large company right after graduation and earned a good salary. He also had a beautiful girlfriend, so in the eyes of his classmates, he was a complete winner in life.

At this time, the waiter started serving the dishes.

Liu Xiaoshang picked up the wine glass, took another sip, and said, "I can only say that everyone has their own worries. It's either for money, family, or work."

"If I were to say, it would be you. Looking at your outfit, I know that your business is very successful. And you have a beautiful and gentle girlfriend. I envy you so much."

Liu Xiaoshang often deals with people, so he can naturally see that what Chen Xu is wearing, although it doesn't look conspicuous, is all high-end brand names, and the whole thing will not cost less than 100,000 yuan.

Next to them, the waiter filled the table with vegetables and meat, and the soup base soon began to bubble up with white smoke.

Chen Xu put some lettuce, spinach and Chinese cabbage into the pot, looked at the rising white smoke and said, "Indeed, now I have a career, I have love, my parents are healthy, and the relationships among my family members are harmonious. From any angle, my life can be considered complete."

Liu Xiaoshang stared at him and said, "You are here to provoke me on purpose, right?"

Chen Xu smiled, used a small mesh spoon to press the vegetables into the soup, and put a few beef balls in. He said, "Because of this, I feel like I don't have any goals in life. At most, I can focus more on my work and benefit mankind."

"But I am a layman, and this goal is too noble to motivate me much."

Liu Xiaoshang was a little speechless. "You just need a beating from society. When I just graduated, I had a similar mentality to you. My parents helped me buy a house and a car, and I had a good job and a beautiful girlfriend. I felt like there was nothing to pursue in life. However, when my life reached a new stage, new troubles arose."

As Chen Xu listened to him, he put tofu, fried bean curd sticks, and potato chips into the pot, smiled, and didn't respond. Now, there was probably no one in this world who could make him suffer the beating of society.

Of course, there is no need to say such things.

At this time, two more girls came into the store. When they heard the waiter say there were no seats left, they looked a little disappointed, but did not want to turn around and leave. They looked around the store to see if there was anyone who was about to finish their meal.

Suddenly, the shorter girl's eyes lit up, she pulled her companion's sleeve and said excitedly, "Look, look, who is that?"

The other girl looked in the direction she pointed and said in surprise, "It's him? What a coincidence."

"Let's go over there." The girl turned around and said to the waiter, "That table is my friends."

The two girls walked behind the man, patted him, and shouted excitedly, "Chen Xu."

Chen Xu felt it before their hands came down, and when he turned around, he was stunned, "Why are you guys here?"

"I really want to ask you, why are you here? Tell me, did you follow us all the way back? Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence?" said the shorter girl with a smile.

Chen Xu didn't expect to run into them again, and was very happy, "You guys followed me, right? It was obviously me who got here first."

These two girls were the two female college students he met in Beijing, Shasha and Xiaoyin. As for their full names, he really didn't know them.

(End of this chapter)