Chapter 19. Little Sister Literature and Qixi Festival
You're using me as a backup? Listen to me and thank you.
It was 8:30 in the morning when Ruan Tang woke up again.
The night before, in the second half, everyone started toasting each other crazily to the dance music. There are no borders in front of music, and no enemies or friends in front of alcohol.
In Ruan Tang's hazy memory, Lin Shen seemed to be holding a red wine bottle, hugging Jia Yingjun's neck and saying "I wish you a happy marriage." As for who exactly this "you" was referring to...
Thinking about it carefully, the next memory fragment jumped to herself hanging on Zhang Haoyu's neck and entering her home.
Ruan Tang exclaimed and sat up.
However, she did not suddenly lift the quilt to check her body like in the 8 o'clock TV dramas, because the moment she woke up, she felt a dull pain in her breasts caused by the misplaced bra.
She took the mirror on the bedside and checked herself, then breathed a sigh of relief.
Although she completely forgot to change her clothes, she relied on her woman's instinct to remove her makeup, protect her skin, and even put on two eye masks. She couldn't help but praise herself in her heart.
Ruan Tang pinched the dried eye mask with two fingers and threw it into the trash can beside her. Suddenly, there was a vibration somewhere on the bed.
She flipped through her layers of clothes, lifted the quilt and took out her cell phone. The call was disconnected at that moment. It was Feng Xue calling.
"Why is it him?" Ruan Tang called back in confusion and asked: Is there something wrong?
Feng Xue nodded and said: Come to the store, someone is looking for you.
But Ruan Tang’s focus was: Why did you go to the store so early?
Feng Xue replied calmly: Feed the pigs.
Ruan Tang was inexplicably touched by the cuteness and laughed hoarsely twice. When she heard that the other party didn't say anything, she said tactfully and seriously: I'll be right there.
When she arrived, Feng Xue was sitting at the door reading a book. A young woman was sitting in the middle of the store. She looked very young, with a full face that didn't look very technological. She had big red lips, and was wearing a Dior little black dress and a silver Princess Diana bag. She looked like she was going to cut the ribbon.
Ruan Tang looked at Feng Xue questioningly, but Feng Xue just shook his head at her.
She thought, could it be Wang Hao's wife, her shareholder? After all, she was heard to be in her early forties.
Ruan Tang took a deep breath, walked over and asked with a smile: Miss, are you looking for me?
The other person raised his eyes, curled his lips and asked: Are you Ruan Tang?
Ruan Tang really wanted to ask her which guideline for upper-class people said that one must glance at people out of the corner of the eye, but she still replied in a friendly manner: It's me, who are you?
The woman ignored her, stood up, walked to her display cabinet, raised her chin and looked at her: How long have you been dating Zhang Haoyu?
Ruan Tang suddenly remembered the 25-year-old aunt that Zhang Haoyu mentioned, who kept many pets in the cloakroom and looked like a lonely lady.
"You're the girl he mentioned, the kindhearted one who loves animals, right?" Ruan Tang followed. "But we're not dating, and I have no plans to date him."
The woman rolled her eyes at her ostentatiously, took out her cell phone from her bag, made a call, and said: Come in.
Not long after, a middle-aged man walked in. He was not very tall and was wearing Uniqlo clothes. His abdomen seemed to have gained a little weight. It seemed that his face was well maintained.
The man seemed slightly surprised when he saw Ruan Tang. Xiaogu caught this slight expression on his face and began to look a little proud.
"What do you want to do?" the man asked with a frown.
Ruan Tang was completely bewildered. She wanted to ask, "What on earth are you trying to do?" The alcohol from the previous night still seemed to be taking its toll on her. As soon as she started thinking, she felt as if a construction crew was drilling a well on her temples.
She lowered her head and pressed hard between her eyebrows, but her aunt thought this action was a sign of guilt.
The aunt pulled out the chair next to her and sat down as if she was organizing a three-court trial, sneering: This woman says one thing in public and another behind the scenes, but she is not picky about things. She took advantage of you going abroad to hook up with Xiaoyu.
This sentence contained too much information. Ruan Tang had no time to analyze it and subconsciously raised her voice to deny it: I already said I’m not dating him!
Seeing that she was anxious, the smile on her aunt's face became even more proud. She took out her cell phone, swiped a few times, and threw the phone on the table in front of her: How could there be such photos if we were not dating?
Ruan Tang rushed over in two steps and picked up the phone. The background of the photo was her room. In the photo, she was lying on the bed with her legs spread out. The person next to her only showed half of his face. Ruan Tang recognized it as Zhang Haoyu at a glance by the eye.
The man also came forward, glanced down at the photo, frowned, and seemed to not know where to start.
Seeing Ruan Tang's face suddenly become sour, Feng Xue stepped forward to mediate: "I can testify that they are indeed not dating. Is there any misunderstanding between them..."
The younger sister-in-law suddenly became excited, stood up and walked to the display cabinet, pointed at the Hermès on the top shelf, and asked: Would you accept such an expensive gift if you were not dating?
Ruan Tang found it funny. It seemed that what she said had come true. The parents had indeed come. However, this aunt did not seem like a parent. She looked more like the original wife who was desperate and wanted to beat the mistress. Some time ago, the stepmother literature was popular on the Internet. She didn't expect that the aunt literature could be so exciting. She could provide material for Xu Wei later.
She said coldly: He forced it on me. Now that you are here, you can take it back.
"Take it back?" The young aunt stood on tiptoe and stretched out her hands to grab the tableware on the top shelf. She was not tall enough, and she could only barely reach the edge of the box with her arms stretched out. She exerted force, and the display cabinet shook a few times. The boxes fell down, and the plates and cups fell to the ground, and Ruan Tang's favorite bags also fell down.
Feng Xue was quick-witted and quick-handed. He stepped forward and pulled Ruan Tang, who was standing not far from the display cabinet, to protect her.
The little girl screamed and took a few steps back, the sound was sharper than the sound of breaking porcelain.
Ruan Tang felt all the blood rushing to her chest, and a hint of blood rose in her throat. Her legs went limp, and her shoulder fell into Feng Xue's chest. She clutched his arm tightly, looked up at him, and shouted, "Call the police! Call the police now!"
She was probably too excited, her nails seemed to dig into Feng Xue's skin, leaving deep and shallow red marks, but he just whispered to comfort her: Okay, don't get excited, it's okay.
The man walked over and pulled the girl over, saying: "What are you doing? Even if you are not satisfied with Xiaoyu's relationship, you can talk to him nicely!"
"Xiao Yu is in love?" The aunt sneered, "Brother, are you still going to protect this woman and marry her? You said she was pregnant with your child, but she took advantage of you being abroad to hook up with a little boy, your son! Do you think you are Li Shimin?"
Ruan Tang seemed to be crazy and wanted to rush towards her and tear off her noble skin so that she could be consistent inside and out, but Feng Xue held her wrist tightly, patted her back gently with his other hand, and whispered: Calm down first, do you know this man?
Ruan Tang thought about it carefully, looked at him and said firmly: I don’t know him.
As she spoke, she raised her foot and kicked a porcelain piece in front of her towards her aunt: "I'm pregnant with you, you big-headed ghost! I don't even know who he is! And I just got my period yesterday, do you want me to take out the tampon and show it to you?"
The man shook off his sister-in-law's hand, looking embarrassed and abashed. He glanced at Ruan Tang and said, "Oh! You... made a mistake!"
When the aunt saw his expression, her previous momentum weakened a lot. She frowned and looked at Ruan Tang, then looked at the man and asked tentatively: Are you mistaken?
Ruan Tang took a few deep breaths and patted the back of Feng Xue's hand. Seeing that she had calmed down, Feng Xue let her go.
She picked up her cell phone and found Zhang Haoyu's number. After the call was connected, before the other party could speak, she roared: Get here!
The man pulled out a chair and sat down. He pinched his eyebrows and said: I have never let you see her because I was afraid that something like this would happen.
As he spoke, he turned to look at Ruan Tang and apologized: I'm sorry, Miss Ruan, it was their mistake that caused this misunderstanding. I was very interested in you at the time, so I kept your information, but I didn't expect them to think it was you.
Ruan Tang was puzzled: My information?
The man nodded: Have you forgotten the blind date on the cruise ship?
"You are... one of them?" Ruan Tang couldn't help but take a breath, suddenly remembering the magical scene that was called a blind date but was actually a concubine selection, and only virgins were required.
The man stood up and walked to her, stretched out his hand and smiled: My name is Zhang Wei. I didn’t expect to meet in this way. They are both immature and are quite resistant to my remarriage. Please forgive me, Miss Ruan.
Ruan Tang looked down at his big hand and suddenly felt sick. She remembered a piece of information that her aunt had mentioned just now. It had only been a few months and the girl he chose was already pregnant, and he had kept her information.
She raised the corners of her mouth and smiled sweetly, her tone soft and delicate: "Mr. Zhang's family must have an heir to the throne, right? I dare not shake such a golden hand."
Zhang Wei withdrew his hand awkwardly, chuckled twice and said, "You should have called that little bastard just now, right? Okay, when he comes, let him and my sister apologize to you together."
Ruan Tang sat down aside, crossed her legs and looked at the mess on the floor, and said: Of course I have to apologize. These things were really forced on me by your son. The invoice is still there. No matter if it was a setup or he was sincere, since he gave it to me, it is mine, right?
Zhang Wei knew that he was not in the right, so he glanced at his aunt, smiled and nodded: Of course, of course.
"If it breaks, you'll have to compensate me, right?"
"I'll ask my secretary to send you another set."
"And these bags of mine. For a small family like us, we buy a few bags and usually use them as gifts. Now you can see several scratches on them."
"What needs to be repaired will be repaired, and what needs to be compensated will be compensated. Miss Ruan, please talk to my secretary."
As they were talking, Zhang Haoyu came. He pushed the door open and saw the situation in the store. His expression darkened and he looked at his aunt and asked in a low voice: Didn’t I tell you to wait a moment?
The younger sister-in-law grumbled unconvincedly: I’m afraid that you will be soft-hearted and the baby will be born if you wait any longer.
Zhang Haoyu walked up to Ruan Tang, looked at her with his eyes down, and said sorry. He looked like a big dog drenched in the rain, which made people feel sorry for him.
Ruan Tang looked up at him, then laughed in anger and asked, "Yale School of Drama Acting Department? The acting is good, but the script is terrible."
"Actually, I already suspected we were mistaken. I wanted to stop my aunt! I didn't expect her to secretly link my cloud storage account and see the photos."
Ruan Tang looked up at him. He was standing against the light, and the morning sun shone in, casting a golden outline on his young figure.
Not long ago, she had secretly felt inferior in her heart. The appearance of this young man was like fate mocking her. Such a beautiful person seemed to contrast with her own unbearableness.
But now she suddenly felt relieved. It turned out that almost everyone in this society was the same. When their desires expanded, dark corners would appear in their hearts. This was also true for rich people and the seemingly simple and sunny rich second generation.
Ruan Tang looked into Zhang Haoyu's eyes and said softly: Thank you.
Before the three of them left, Zhang Wei handed her a business card and said: This is my secretary's business card.
Ruan Tang took it and saw the title was Tracy, the chairman's secretary. There was a handwritten number on the back, which should be his personal phone number.
Feng Xue made a cup of honey water for Ruan Tang to sober up, and then helped her clean up the mess. He asked: What should we do with this pile of porcelain fragments?
Ruan Tang thought for a moment and said, "Stay here, you go and do your work first, I'll try to stick it on, maybe it can be used as a decoration."
There were few customers in the store all day. Ruan Tang sat in the corner of the store and used 502 to repair the broken plates, just like gluing her shattered dignity piece by piece.
She suddenly remembered that when she first came to Beijing, she worked as a nurse in a private hospital. At that time, there was a middle-aged man in the VIP ward who had been hospitalized for a few days due to acute gastroenteritis. He looked very elegant and spoke very refinedly. After a few visits, Ruan Tang fell in love with him. On the day he was discharged from the hospital, he gave her a bouquet of flowers and a diamond necklace, which was considered to be a formal confirmation of their relationship.
Later, Ruan Tang found the ring in his pocket, and he confessed that he was not happy with his current wife and was ready to divorce her to marry her. But a few days later, the man's wife came to the hospital to make a scene.
It's a very clichéd plot, but the difference is that at that time Ruan Tang thought she had really hit the jackpot, so she brought her mother from her hometown to meet her future son-in-law.
When the woman came to make trouble, Ruan Tang's mother happened to come to the hospital to bring her food.
Ruan Tang will never forget how her mother humbled herself, apologized, and bowed for her. Of course, she will also not forget the slap her mother slapped her in the face when she turned around.
In fact, to some extent, they are very similar as mother and daughter, and both deeply hate people like mistresses.
So Ruan Tang felt that the slap her mother gave her was full of resentment, not only from her mother's perspective, but also from her original wife's.
At that moment, the mother and daughter seemed to be one, but in Ruan Tang's heart, she was pushed to the opposite side of her mother.
Thinking of this, she took several deep breaths, but still couldn't let out the breath in her chest.
In the evening, Feng Xue had not returned yet, so Ruan Tang closed the shop and left.
She walked on the street and saw men and women holding flowers every ten or so steps. When she passed a flower shop and saw the sign above it, she remembered that today was Chinese Valentine's Day.
No wonder there were no girls in the store today who came to order a cup of coffee and chat for an afternoon. Girls who have such leisure time are usually very busy on days like this.
She was once one of them.
Ruan Tang suddenly felt a sense of crisis. She opened her WeChat list and flipped through it, her eyes falling on Brother Xiong's new avatar.
It looks like it's a new car.
Ruan Tang opened the chat room with him, thought for a moment, and sent a message: "Hello? What are you doing today? Can I come to your house to pet your cat? Hahaha."
After a few minutes, the other party replied: Hahaha, I am honored to be remembered by a beautiful girl on Valentine's Day.
Ruan Tang read the implication: Using me as a backup? Listen to me say thank you.
She replied: Wow, today is Chinese Valentine's Day, I completely forgot about it. I just happened to pass by the place where we drank together last time and suddenly remembered it.
Brother Xiong sent me a video in which a cat was lazily lying on a leather sofa, wagging its tail.
He then sent another voice message: "I'm on a business trip in Xitang, so I can only show you a video first. By the way, if you have time, could you please come to my house to help me clean up the cat's poop and feed it?"
This statement added fuel to the fire. Ruan Tang replied, "Oh, sorry. Feng Xue just asked me to go back to the shop to help out. Why don't you ask someone else? Remember to come back for coffee." Then she simply turned off her phone and slowly walked towards home.
After she got home, she found that she had forgotten her keys in the store, so she sent a message to Coco asking her where she was. She said she had a date tonight and would not be back. She asked what was wrong. Ruan Tang immediately understood the situation, said it was okay and did not bother her anymore.
The night breeze in late summer was a little chilly, so Ruan Tang simply canceled the online taxi queue that was dozens of people in line, and scanned a shared bicycle to ride to the tavern.
When she arrived, Feng Xue just came out of the store and seemed to be about to close the store.
Ruan Tang was a little out of breath while riding her bike. The sweat on her face mixed with the oil from her nostrils reflected the dim lights on the roadside.
"Closing so early?"
Feng Xue shook her head helplessly: There has only been one table of guests from 6:30 until now, maybe they all went out on dates today.
Ruan Tang felt a little embarrassed for some reason. She waved her hand and said: I forgot to bring my key. You go first and I will lock the door.
After she finished speaking, she walked in and saw Feng Xue still standing at the door, a little confused: Is there anything else?
Feng Xue asked: Are you okay?
Ruan Tang joked: I ate a lot of Lychee Plums, oh, what could happen.
Feng Xue pointed to the refrigerator and asked, "I see there's still a lot of food. If we don't eat it now, it'll go bad. Have you had dinner yet? How about eating together?"
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