To my dear Mr. Meng

"Are you talking about friends?"

A gust of dry cold wind suddenly penetrated into the eyes, almost forcing tears.I turned my head away and rubbed my eyelids: "No." The warm liquid melted on my fingers, I put down my hands, and met my mother's eyes, I subconsciously added, "How is that possible?"

She looked ahead, it was foggy today, and the people tens of meters away were like water-grey ghosts.I smiled, but felt that the laughter was too abrupt, so I stopped it immediately: "Why do you ask that?"

"I see you have nails on your buttocks, you can't sit still, you run out every day. Who do you go out with?"

"Didn't I tell you, Meng Qiansheng, Guan Ting, Xu Miao and several other high school classmates on several occasions."

"You and Guan Ting really haven't talked about friends?"

This time I couldn't help laughing: "How is it possible!"

"Didn't her father's business go bankrupt, and you still play with her?"

"Mom, what are you talking about? What does it have to do with her father that I play well with Guan Ting?"

"That's not what you mean. It's okay for you to play with her, but listen to me, you must never lend her money. Do you hear me?"

"What money can I give her? I don't even know how many cards my dad has."

"Look at you, I'll just say a few words to you, and I'll make a face again. I don't know who inherited your temper. Like Lin Daiyu, your mind is smaller than the tip of a needle!"

I kept my mouth shut.

The water vapor in the fog is so heavy that it can almost feel grainy, like countless pieces of mercury rolling back and forth in the air, which is really annoying.

My uncle's son's wedding was held at the Wanhua Hotel.Wanhua Hotel is an established four-star hotel. It can be seen that my uncle, who has always lived frugally, has lost all his money.As usual, all kinds of famous-brand cars were parked at the entrance of the hotel, without any decorations. I was just wondering, and in the next second, I caught a glimpse of several Santanas with flower ribbons parked near the corner.There is a sign at the entrance of the hotel, which reads "Mr. Li Yanghui and Ms. Sun Ai are newlyweds, please go to the lobby on the third floor".

After a while, the aunts and uncles arrived, and then the guests came one after another. The uncle, aunt and the two in-laws were very busy.My mom stood at the door saying hello, trying her best to look like I was getting married.All the wedding candies on the plate were put into small red bags, and I stood by the reception desk covered with a dark red velvet tablecloth, tidily stacking the pile of small paper bags with Double Happiness printed on them. next to the cigarettes.

"Why are you bored here, go greet your guests with your mother."

Fourth Aunt walked over, her slender eyebrows raised high.When she smiles, only one corner of her mouth is always raised, as if she is mocking others at any time, although this is not her original intention.I called out to Fourth Aunt, but still didn't move, and said, "I don't even know each other, so I can't greet you."

"The more you study, the more bored you are, and you can't deal with people anymore. Be careful to become a nerd! If you don't study a little now, you will graduate and come out to the society. What will you do?" Fourth Aunt pouted, "Congratulations to your brother? Go quickly."

"Fourth aunt."

The cousin led the bride over and greeted beamingly.The fourth aunt smiled so much that the corners of her mouth were raised, she said she was so handsome, the bride was very beautiful today, she was called away by her aunt before she had time to say more.I called my cousin, and the bride stared at me curiously. The cousin introduced, "This is my second aunt's son, my cousin He Yujun." I called "Sister-in-law", and the bride smiled roundly. The two eyes on the forehead are bent into two lines, saying hello again and again.

The two went outside to pick up the guests arm in arm, and I heard her ask, "Why is your fourth aunt after the second aunt? Shouldn't it be the third aunt?"

The cousin said: "There used to be a third uncle under the second aunt, who was flooded by the river when he was a child."

The bride said: "You have so many relatives."

My cousin said: "There are so many people, it's noisy."

Very boring.

People who didn't know each other at the banquet sat stiffly. It wasn't until the banquet started that the atmosphere in the hall warmed up.I was sitting at the table peeling melon seeds. As soon as my cousin Sun Yuan’s parents were seated, my uncles and aunts stood up to congratulate and toast, and I followed suit with a glass of wine.

This meal took an extraordinarily long time, and after three rounds of drinking and five flavors of food, the family's affairs were discussed thoroughly.The newcomer came back after toasting, and added two seats to our table, and everyone congratulated again.Sun Yuan's father was an elementary school teacher, and he said to his uncle, "You have such a large family, it's so lively! My family never imagined that such a large family would sit together."

The uncle smiled and waved his hands: "It's useless! The children are grown up, so it's rare to come back."

Her father saw me: "Hey, this is—"

My mother said with a smile: "My son, he is silent."

I smiled: "Hello, Uncle Sun."

Uncle Sun asked: "Study or go to school now?"

The uncle said with a red face: "He is promising, he is a graduate student!"

"Oh, graduate student, good, good!" Uncle Sun clinked another glass with his uncle, "It's your turn next time."

My mother snatched: "It's still early, I don't know when I will go."

"You see your son is good-looking and has a high diploma. You should choose slowly in school, right?"

"It's true, you thought you were picking cabbage in the vegetable market?" Sun Yuan's mother gave him a white look with a smile, and there was a burst of beaming laughter on the table.

Taking advantage of the gap in the middle, I wrote a text message.

"Did your parents tell you about talking about friends?"

Before there was a question mark, there was another toast on the table, and I put down the glass after drinking politely. I felt bad, so I cleared this line and retyped it: "Have you ever thought about why the family said about us—"

delete.

"After you think about it, we-"

delete.

"My mother asked me—"

delete.

"Don't play with your phone all the time, what are you talking about?" My mother gave me a glare and reprimanded me in a low voice, "I don't understand any rules."

I hastily typed the last two words and hit send.

"Weddings are boring. What are you doing?"

A fluffy pillow was thrown over my head.

"What are you dazed about?"

I hugged the pillow in my arms and came back to my senses: "Huh? Oh, no."

"Nothing?" Mr. Meng laughed, "Are you going to meet the tutor tomorrow or go to dinner with me?"

Only then did I wake up completely, and I looked down at my phone, which showed an unread text message from Qu Nan.

"Will you come with me?"

"I'll go to find my mentor with Qu Nan tomorrow, so I won't have dinner with you."

This answer seemed a little unexpected to Mr. Meng. He glanced at the mobile phone I was holding in my hand, "Have you agreed?"

"Yeah. I'll go with her. My manuscript is still early, but I can ask Boss Cha to look it over." I fell back and lay on the bed with half of my T-shirt turned up, and the cool breeze from the fan blows from time to time , blowing chills on the stomach.

Mr. Meng moved from the chair to the edge of the bed and sat down. He put one hand on my belly and stroked it back and forth, and then patted it lightly like a watermelon: "Did Qu Nan call you?"

I snorted with the pillow under my arm.

"She really likes being with you, and she always calls you when she is busy with her graduation thesis."

"I introduced her to that part-time job last year. She is in a hurry to use up the money, so this is a timely help, isn't it?"

"I'm not talking about this. She did help you a lot when you were in the first year of graduate school, and the relationship was normal, but she is graduating soon, and you will be in the third year of graduate school next semester. She doesn't communicate with your tutor much. If you are happy, let the tutor send you a good job, and I will look for you every two days."

I paused the Snakes scurrying around on the screen, squinted at him, and joked, "I found out that you are becoming more and more realistic? You guys are too good at studying economics and management, so you can't come to me if I have no use value." gone?"

Mr. Meng flipped the hem of my T-shirt back to cover my stomach, and then lay down on the bed: "You can stab someone. Let me just say something."

I turned over and lay on the bed: "Can I still like her? I don't care about you."

"When did I say you liked her? I think she seems to be interested in you."

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"You worked part-time overtime on Qixi Festival, did she come to bring you meals?"

My heart skipped a beat, and my voice floated: "How do you know?"

Mr. Meng had the expected expression on his face: "I ran into it."

I remembered that he came to pick me up that day, and suddenly realized: "You came so early? Didn't you say you were still on the way?"

"That's all I said, so you don't get flustered." Mr. Meng leaned closer and looked me straight in the eyes, "She really likes you?"

Although I didn't do anything wrong, I was still seen guilty, and turned my head into the pillow: "I rejected her."

"Did she tell you clearly? When did it happen?"

"...On the day of Qixi Festival."

"Then why did you say I was lying?"

Mr. Meng put his hand on the back of my head. I turned my back and couldn't see his face. I always felt that he was going to strangle me in the next second.

"I'm afraid you'll ask me for details."

"why?"

"It was so embarrassing that day." I was bored in the pillow, "... She cried as she spoke, making me look like a big villain. I didn't agree, and I didn't agree. Originally, Qu Nan Although she has a good personality, but you have seen her before, she is different from Guan Ting's."

"How can the two of them compare?" Mr. Meng twirled my hair with his hand, "Guan Ting is so bold and bold, and he can tell at a glance that his family is either rich or powerful; Qu Nan is different, from a small family in a small place. Girl, it's easy to decide. If you are the tutor, do you want to take a student like Guan Ting or her?"

"Then I'll definitely choose her, she's so good. Guan Ting might find faults and make troubles." I smiled, "But she's too obedient, boss Zha says what she says. It's not nice to say it, and I'm a bit resigned.”

"Family reasons. Didn't you say that her family's conditions are not good, and she has a younger brother?"

"Well. She didn't say it, but listening to her talk about her family, her parents may be a bit patriarchal, I think. How can there be a daughter who is admitted to a good university as a graduate student, and her parents don't want her to study?" I Turning back and facing Mr. Meng, "Sometimes I really don't know how to deal with her. She has helped me a lot by submitting articles and publishing articles. I don't want to owe her. I try to help back, but some of them I really... ..."

"I told you earlier that the friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, but you didn't listen." Mr. Meng smiled, "Don't blame me for making sarcastic remarks about you. Everyone has flaws. You can only deal with them if you can bear them. If you can't bear them, it's better to keep your distance. She went to This time I asked you to help find a part-time job, did you find it for her?"

"Not yet. It's because she's absent from work every three days or so. I introduced her, and it's hard for Sister Wang to say anything about her. Now I feel that Sister Wang doesn't mean anything to me. I really don't know." She took a few jobs."

"Although this opportunity is not very good, it is always an opportunity. You should distance yourself from her."

I nodded my head in confusion for a while, turned over and pressed on him, stretched out my hand and pinched his face: "Meng Qiansheng, why do you think you are so smart?"

Mr. Meng lay flat and rubbed my thigh for a moment: "Get up. You are very heavy."

"Nonsense. I'm three catties lighter than you."

Mr. Meng's phone vibrated, and he held it up to his eyes: "Guan Ting and her boyfriend are coming tomorrow."

I immediately went up to look at it and said in surprise, "Guan Ting is here?"

"She came over to do something and said that we would have dinner together tomorrow and meet her boyfriend by the way."

I laughed out loud: "Just her boyfriend who handed out flyers?"

Mr. Meng couldn't help laughing: "Didn't Guan Ting say that, it's a business need." Then he said, "Aren't you going to see your mentor tomorrow?"

"I won't go, anyway, I was accompanying Qu Nan. I'll revise the manuscript again, so as not to be punished by the boss again."

I touched the mobile phone and sent a text message to Qu Nan, saying that I couldn't go with her because of something, please forgive me.

After a while, Qu Nan replied: "Why didn't you go after you agreed? Can't you come with me tomorrow?"

I was suddenly bored.

Mr. Meng still hugged me, lying on the bed and flipping through text messages: "Have you agreed? Guan Ting asked what he wanted to eat. Her boyfriend doesn't eat spicy food."

"I'm sorry, Senior Sister, I really can't go, next time."

I threw away my phone and rubbed Mr. Meng's face once, "Why don't you eat roast duck, the one Wei Qiao mentioned last time."

Mr. Meng held my head down, bit the tip of my ear lightly, and replied to Guan Ting.I had no choice but to press against his neck and said: "A few years ago, if you told me that Guan Ting had such a boyfriend, I wouldn't believe it if he was killed."

With a smile in his throat, Mr. Meng replied after a long time: "Everyone is subject to change."

My cell phone lay alone at the foot of the bed, dead silent.

The author says:

The latter paragraph is a year later. Before that, I just entered the first year of research, and here is the second and third year of research.

According to the chronology, there would have been current events such as the return of Hong Kong and Macau, SARS, and the Wenchuan earthquake, but because there were no important events that promoted the plot at these time points in the setting, they were directly pulled out.