Chapter 135 What Love Rival?
Tang Xueli came in from the back door. She and Song Yanran were standing in the last row and talking.
The crowd gathered below the stage looked towards them with friendly curiosity on their faces.
"Lao Yan, you are really good. You brought two girls here at once." Lu Xiaoping joked, "Which one do you like?"
"Keep your mouth shut and don't talk nonsense." Yan Jingshu reminded him, "You have to respect new friends. That's what you said before."
"I know, I know." Lu Xiaoping made a zipper gesture on his mouth.
He and Yan Jingshu joined the newspaper at the same time, and it is often easier for people from the same period to establish friendships.
Putting this reason aside, the two men do have similar temperaments and personalities, so they are good brothers who trust each other.
"Xiao Tang, come here!" Lu Xiaoping waved to the back, "Song Yanran, you two stop chatting secretly in the back, come over here and play together."
Song Yanran arrived early and had already greeted everyone. She only chatted with everyone for a dozen minutes, but she seemed more like an old member of the club than the two college students who came two or three months ago.
"Coming, coming." Song Yanran took Tang Xueli's hand and walked towards the stage.
Yan Jingshu quickly stepped forward to greet her, looked at Tang Xueli and asked, "How did you get here?"
Tang Xueli said: "Walk."
In addition to morning jogging, she prefers brisk walking whenever she has the chance.
Brisk walking is a great aerobic exercise.
It only took Tang Xueli 20 minutes to walk from the design institute's staff building to the Cultural Palace. For her, it was not a far distance.
"Sister Tang, I've wanted to meet you for a long time. Nice to meet you." Lu Xiaoping extended his hand towards Tang Xueli.
Tang Xueli paused, then gently shook his hand, "Hello."
"Don't call me sister casually." Yan Jingshu gave Lu Xiaoping a dissatisfied look.
Lu Xiaoping said: "She is younger than me, so what's wrong with calling her sister? Doesn't it make me seem more intimate?"
"Not friendly, and seems greasy." Yan Jingshu pushed Lu Xiaoping aside, "Go open the wine, don't show off here."
Lu Xiaoping did that on purpose; he just wanted to give Yan Jingshu a chance to perform.
At the same time, also try to find out what this brother thinks.
It’s obvious which of the two girls I brought here is a friend and which is the sweetheart!
He laughed and walked aside to open the wine.
Tang Xueli looked over at the table and saw various kinds of wine.
"You guys are still drinking?"
"It's a party, you can eat and drink as you like, and you can bring whatever you like." Yan Jingshu explained: "It's not a formal club, we just get together to chat and have some fun."
"Won't someone get drunk and act crazy?"
If that was the case, Tang Xueli didn't plan to stay any longer.
"Normally not, everyone knows their limits." Yan Jingshu said, "Xiao Fei's family makes sorghum wine, and he always brings two bottles over."
He pointed to a man with middle-parted hair and bottle-bottom glasses and said, "That's him, our bard."
Song Yanran explained enthusiastically, "His name is You Xiaofei. You means game, Xiao means spring dawn, and Fei means flying. You is a very good poet. He has published several poetry collections. He had already drunk two liang of wine before I came. I could smell the alcohol when I talked to him."
Tang Xueli: "..."
Yan Jingshu glanced at Tang Xueli's face and immediately said, "The poet is very introverted. He doesn't dare to talk without drinking a few sips. He usually drinks that little. He stopped drinking after the event started."
"You can drink if you want. I'm not the dean of teaching or the disciplinary committee member." Tang Xueli said with a smile, "Why are you so nervous?"
At this time, a young man who was about the same height as Yan Jingshu came over, put his arm around Yan Jingshu's shoulders, and said in an exceptionally pleasant voice: "Yes, reporter Yan, why are you so nervous today?"
Yan Jingshu pushed the young man aside, looking helpless, "Old Yang, introduce yourself!"
"Don't yell like that, it's so unpleasant!" The young man nodded slightly at Tang Xueli, "My name is Qin Yang, Qin as in celery, Yang as in ocean, and I'm a painter."
"He's a great painter!" Song Yanran took out a piece of draft paper from her trouser pocket and unfolded it for Tang Xueli to see. "Old Yang just casually drew a portrait for me in just a few seconds. Do you think it looks like me?"
Tang Xueli lowered her eyes and took a look. The painting was truly lifelike. The lovely smiling eyes, the curved corners of the mouth, all of Song Yanran's main facial features were captured.
She nodded and said, "Very much, Qin is a great painter."
Qin Yang sighed softly, "Song Yanran, did you just call me Old Sheep again?"
"Oh." Song Yanran laughed, "I'm used to calling you Old Sheep. It's so easy to say."
We've only known each other for a few minutes, and I'm already used to it.
"It was classmate Tang who gave me face and called me Painter Qin." Qin Yang asked the two new girls, "Do you like drinking red wine?"
Song Yanran said: "I haven't drunk it."
Tang Xueli shook her head: "I don't like it."
"..." Qin Yang touched his nose awkwardly, then smiled and said, "I brought some red wine, you can taste it later."
Song Yanran looked eager to try, "Okay."
Tang Xueli didn't bother to give him face and replied, "Thank you."
At this time, President Lu and Lu Bingbing walked in.
Tang Xueli was slightly stunned and looked at Yan Jingshu in confusion.
Yan Jingshu's face was also full of surprise, and he explained to Tang Xueli in a low voice: "This is the first time for them to come here, and I didn't know they would come."
After Lu Xiaoping finished pouring the wine, he immediately ran back and tugged at Yan Jingshu's shirt. "Brother, I'm sorry. I ran into the president when I was smoking on the rooftop yesterday. He asked me when the club would have a party, and I told him. He asked me if I was going recently, and I said you hadn't been there for a long time, but you would come today... I thought he was just asking casually."
Yan Jingshu: “…”
I feel like things are getting a little complicated.
Didn’t President Lu give up on bringing him and Lu Bingbing together?
Tang Xueli quickly returned to normal and even waved to Lu Bingbing.
Lu Bingbing walked straight over and said, "Xue Li, I came here because I knew you would come."
Tang Xueli had a kind smile on her face, "Do you have anything to ask me?"
"Nothing serious." Lu Bingbing casually threw her shoulder bag on the table next to her. "My dad always asked me to come here to cultivate my sentiments, but I didn't think it was interesting, so I never came. There are a bunch of narcissistic ghosts and pretentious men here. What good things can they say? Today you are here, so I can come and sit with you if I can have a companion, so that I can give my dad an explanation."
Song Yanran looked at Lu Bingbing curiously, and Tang Xueli introduced them to each other.
Lu Xiaoping pulled Yan Jingshu over and asked in a low voice, "What's going on? Does Sister Tang know the eldest lady?"
Yan Jingshu said: "They have met once."
Lu Xiaoping clicked his tongue twice, "Shouldn't love rivals be on edge when they meet? Why are they acting like soulmates who have just met in a foreign land?"
"Don't be a reporter anymore, be a screenwriter instead." Yan Jingshu said, "You've been a reporter for nothing for all these years? Don't you know how to seek truth from facts?"
What love rival?
Lu Bingbing has a boyfriend, and Tang Xueli doesn't have any interest in him.
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