Chapter 124 Friends are just friends
"A message from Likang Asia Pacific President: Likang, born out of love." The person browsing the China region webpage was interrupted by a knock on the door.
The slender blond male secretary's voice was delicate, like a swirling feather. "The international express you mailed was signed for a long time ago."
"When will my mother allow me to go back home for the New Year..." The old-sex woman who spoke raised her head from the computer, with a sharp oriental face. She muttered:
"Teacher Cui would never use something of unknown origin."
"Go back? You mean... the Spring Festival of Flower Country. Now is the critical moment for Li Kang to expand in Flower Country. If you go back at this time..."
“It is precisely because we want to develop the Asia-Pacific region that I have to go for field research.”
"I can't dissuade you, and the chairman has no intention of dissuading you. If you want to go, of course you can go." The blonde secretary said seriously, imitating a tone that did not belong to her:
"My dear daughter, mom will never stop you from doing anything, so it's up to you next."
……
Qin Sheng returned to the Flower Country in a mess, wearing outdated clothes and carrying the brand-name bag that Cui Jing bought for him, and landed at the airport.
Holding a rare paper ticket.
So embarrassing.
It was the cheapest multinational airline, and a tall person like her was stuck in it, dying over and over again. She could only force herself to sleep, with her baseball cap covering her eyes, and her pigtails disheveled and rough.
It’s so embarrassing, so embarrassing.
"Mom is too cruel."
She was retaliated against by her mother with double the blow.
The last time Qin Sheng went to the Flower Country, he stayed there for seven years. The funds provided by the family were abundant, like a homeless sparrow with a well-stocked granary. He was originally going to be raised outside...
But she went back.
She took the family's medicine and went back to take on the responsibility. The family's control over her was so strict that the Qin family withdrew her funds to avoid repeating the same mistakes. Everything on her that came from her mother's original funds was stripped away, including her cell phone, computer, etc. Strictly speaking, she belonged to her mother.
It really pissed off my mom.
Now this mixed-style clothes is also borrowed from someone, so I’ll go to Teacher Cui quickly.
Qin Sheng walked out of the plane exit.
A medium-length glossy black down jacket, dark red fashion wool trousers that were a little too short in the legs, carrot-colored long johns tucked into eggplant purple socks, and dirty sneakers on his feet.
The handsome face under the hat was out of tune with his outfit. When the wind blew, the unruly hair that escaped from the braids covered his face, like a neurotic patient leaping out of a mental asylum.
Bringing soul pollution to passers-by.
Qin Sheng himself breathed a sigh of relief.
She didn't feel good about working, she was used to freedom, but now she had to be restricted by various tasks, responsibilities and regulations. However, in order to truly become a person who can stand on her own feet, she knew that she had to accept this tight schedule, although she was a little resistant in her heart, but this was the only way to grow.
So when she returns to China now, she feels as excited as if she is returning home for the New Year and her imprisoned soul is being released.
Qin Sheng hesitated and analyzed her outfit. If she was going to look for Teacher Cui in such a mess, she should at least not wear something so disgusting. She had some way to make money.
But the most urgent thing is to borrow money from someone to buy some normal clothes.
She was prepared. The other party was a college student who paid for each other's money, tens of thousands of dollars, so without thinking, Qin Sheng found a phone booth, looked at the note, put in a coin and called the person. The other party was very surprised. When she explained her purpose:
"Thirty thousand, of course! Uh."
The voice on the other end suddenly paused stiffly, "But I need to check my savings. I don't seem to have that much money."
"It's okay, I..."
"I need to discuss this with my husband." The other party tried to make amends, "Qin Sheng, I don't want to lend it to you. This is not an excuse. It's just that it's the Chinese New Year recently, and the two families are very complicated in terms of socializing. So I need to discuss this with my husband. Wait for me for a moment."
Tan Sheng suddenly felt a little uncomfortable: "No need, I."
"Wait!" The phone was taken away, and when the voice came back, Qin Sheng felt that her tone had changed. It became cautious and awkward:
"My husband and I have discussed it and we're going to lend you 10,000 yuan. It doesn't matter when you pay it back. Just...just consider it as my support for you."
The implication is that you don’t have to pay it back if you encounter difficulties, but this is all I have to give.
"I just don't have any money recently." Qin Sheng rubbed his neck and explained, and asked patiently:
"Isn't that an excuse?"
"No, um, how could that be? I...my husband..." The other end was very surprised, "I'm sorry, after getting married, I have to consider both families, there are a lot of things to consider. I'm preparing for pregnancy recently, and my husband's mother was hospitalized before the New Year, so we are a little short of money recently...I'm sorry."
"Why are you apologizing to me?" Qin Sheng smiled with a look of indifference in his eyes. He took out a cigarette from his penniless pocket and bit it.
No lighter.
I seem to be in a bad mood again.
Qin Sheng smiled and said politely, "I am borrowing money from you."
"So you are in Kyoto now? Let's make an appointment some other time when we have time." The other party made the invitation.
"Then there's time."
Qin Sheng didn't say the time.
The other party did not mention the time.
After hanging up the phone, she was once again caught in the tug-of-war between ideals and reality.
"It's okay..." She let out a breath.
Marriage is the reorganization of two families and the redistribution of money and interests.
And friends... friends are something that is separate from the outside world. Unless there is a "Best Friends Law" to distribute money, obligations and rights, and make a hundred laws.
She didn't delete any of her friend's contact information, she just gave up on her.
Sad?
No.
Friends say she is heartless.
What they said was true.
She was harsh on everyone and would simply abandon partners who did not suit her. Cui Jing was a little reluctant to let go, after all, she was her first good friend in the Flower Country. They had known each other for seven years.
fortunately.
Qin Sheng felt somewhat fortunate that he had taken the initiative to look for her at the party that day.
She went to a second-hand shop and sold the bag Cui Jing gave her. She got some money and put it to good use. She bought a mobile phone at the airport and used her ID card information to get an old SIM card number.
A few minutes later, the domestic bank card received a transfer message from a friend.
She borrowed a light from a beautiful woman passing by, bit the cigarette, transferred the money back intact, and hailed a taxi.
"I'd better go to Teacher Cui. She won't blame me for selling her bag. The child is really poor."
Qin Sheng received a call on her phone. When she saw the last digit of the number, she remembered that it was a persistent junior schoolmate. Qin Sheng didn't want to answer the call, but the Blue App received continuous transfers from the junior schoolmate, so she called.
Qin Sheng listened for a while. After she rejected her schoolmate's request to contact her, the other party made a second choice:
"Can't we even be friends?"
It's the same old stuff again.
"friend?"
"I never fantasize about having sex or kissing with my friends. I have no sexual interest in women, especially my friends. Isn't that straightforward enough?" After her mood fluctuated, her tone was unusually vulgar:
"I don't need friends who can be fucked by me."
"Don't call me again."
Tan Sheng hung up the phone: "Friends are friends. They can't be anything but friends."
She sent a message to Cui Jing:
“I’m back for the New Year!”
The taxi drove out of the airport in the suburbs and into the city with a strong New Year atmosphere. The gate of Xingfu Community was decorated with lights and lanterns hung by the property management were also red during the day. Qin Sheng felt more and more comfortable, and with excitement, Wang Xiaoming told her the password. When she entered the door, she was a little surprised to see that the entrance was covered with a layer of dust.
Cui Jing said she was going out for a trip, but she hasn’t come back yet?
There was no sofa in the living room, and there were traces of things being moved out on the floor. The cat beds were tilted all over the place. Qin Sheng straightened the cat beds, sat on the coffee table, and relaxedly opened the chat window with Cui Jing.
She called Cui Jing:
"Hey--"