A foreign city, dear you

"Peng Peng, what are you still dawdling about? Xiaoyu has already spoken. Come, have a drink to strengthen your courage." Cao Xueqian clinked glasses with Peng again and continued to encourage.

Peng Peng's face began to turn red, and he drank the wine in one gulp. The wine made him brave, and he spoke boldly: "Just say it!"

Haha, there is a romantic story to listen to.

So, everyone calmed down and listened with interest to Peng Peng telling his love story with Xiaoyu:

"The day I came to Lijin Company to report, I ate at Fuji Restaurant. The cashier that day was Xiaoyu. I fell in love with her the first time I saw her.

“When I checked out, many of the money I took were crumpled cash notes, which was embarrassing.

I handed her the money, but I didn't dare to look at her, for fear that she would laugh at me.

"But she didn't laugh at me, she smiled gently at me, and I felt so warm in my heart."

Peng Peng said, looking at Xiaoyu, full of tenderness, and then continued his story: "The next day, when I had a dinner with Brother Cao and the others, it was an AA system at that time, and each person had to pay twenty yuan.

"But I don't have one, I only have one hundred yuan.

"I could have gone to the cashier to find the hundred-dollar bill, but I knew that Xiaoyu was the cashier that day, and my bill was not only very old, it was even torn, with the middle stuck with tape.

"For this reason, I am embarrassed to go to Xiaoyu for money again, for fear of making her laugh and dislike her. Alas, it is all caused by that ridiculous self-esteem."

"Oh, that's it!" Cao Xueqian suddenly realized, interrupted Peng Peng, and shouted: "You kid! You have so many tricks."

"I'm sorry for embarrassing you that day." Peng Peng apologized.

"You just apologize to me and that's it? And Cheng Yufei, it was Cheng Yufei who went to Xiaoyu to exchange the change that day." Cao Xueqian didn't want to let Peng Peng go easily.

"I also say sorry to Manager Cheng." Peng Peng was also happy and raised his glass to Cheng Yufei.

Cheng Yufei smiled and quickly said it was okay, there was no need to apologize.

"Xiaoyu, do you remember a hundred-yuan bill with transparent glue stuck in the middle?" Cao Xueqian asked.

Xiaoyu shook her head and said she didn't remember.

"Don't remember? If Peng Peng came to exchange change with you that day, you would definitely remember it." Cao Xueqian joked.

"Hey, what do you mean?" Someone complained: "Gong Cao, are you saying that the manager is not as handsome as Peng Peng? Isn't he not as charming as Peng Peng?"

"Ah? I'm dizzy. It's a little messy." Cao Xueqian looked like he was in trouble and frowned: "What did I say just now? Let me sort it out again."

Everyone burst into laughter and said, "Stop stroking and let Peng Peng continue telling the story."

Cao Xueqian smiled and quickly handed over his hand: "Okay, Peng Peng, you continue. What next?"

*

Xiaoyu handed the tea cup to Peng Peng. Peng Peng took two sips and then continued:

"Later, before I received my first month's salary, I rarely went to Fuji Restaurant to eat. I only often went there for a walk to see if Xiaoyu was there, and then went to eat somewhere else.

"There are no people I like in other places. It doesn't matter if I eat expensive or cheap, or if the money is zero or whole, new or old, I'm not familiar with them anyway.

"Later, I received my first month's salary, and I began to have money in my pocket, and I began to feel confident. As long as Xiaoyu was the cashier, I would go to Fuji Restaurant to eat every day.

"As we went back and forth, Xiaoyu and I became familiar with each other. Later I learned that Xiaoyu and I were fellow villagers, so we felt even closer and our relationship got closer.

"After a period of observation, I found that Xiaoyu also had a crush on me, so I mustered up the courage to pursue her. So, then..."

"So what?" someone asked impatiently.

"So, she is by my side today." Peng Peng smiled proudly.

"Haha!" Everyone burst out laughing.

Xiaoyu's face turned redder. She definitely didn't expect that she would be the center of the conversation tonight.

"You should be punished with a glass of wine for cheating!" Cao Xueqian filled Peng Peng's glass without further explanation.

……

*

Everyone was eating, drinking, talking, and laughing, unaware that it was already late.

Many of the guests in the hall outside have left, leaving quite a few empty tables.

Because they were all far away and had to go to work the next day, everyone dispersed and went home.

Cao Xueqian and Ye Lian sent the guests outside the hotel one by one and watched them leave.

Ye Lian wanted to stay with Ye Wei for one night, but Ye Wei said she might as well go back to the factory because she was afraid she wouldn't be able to get up early for work the next day.

Ye Lian watched Ye Wei get on the bus and told her to be careful on the road.

Seeing that her sister was worried, Ye Wei comforted her and said that she would take the bus all the way to the gate of her factory and that nothing would happen to her.

*

After the guests left, Ye Lian and Cao Xueqian returned to the hotel to check out, then returned to the private room to selectively pack a few items of food, and then left the Maojiagou Hotel and walked home.

The night sky is bright and the streets are quiet. Lanshan has fallen asleep.

Cao Xueqian held Lan Shan, and Ye Lian carried the packed snack box, and the two of them walked forward.

"Are the people in your company so interesting?" Ye Lian asked Cao Xueqian with a smile.

Although for Ye Lian, except for Cheng Yufei and Xiao Maobing, she basically didn't know anyone else from Lijin Company who came today, and certainly didn't know Xiaoyu, but she also listened to the interesting things at the wine table today with great interest.

"It's not bad, the relationship between colleagues is pretty good." Cao Xueqian said.

"That Peng Peng, did he really quarrel with you over twenty yuan?"

"It's not really a quarrel. I just felt that he was very unreasonable at that time. I felt that he was as difficult to get along with as a stubborn cow."

"Is it easier to get along with you now?"

"Peng Peng is very kind to me now and treats me like a big brother. The [-] yuan difference between us buying a house last time was lent to me by him and another colleague."

"Oh, really? Actually, he looks a bit like you."

"How does it look like?"

"You just have a fragile and easily hurt heart from the beginning."

"Oh? Do I have one?"

"do not you remember?"

"I don't remember, when?"