Embroidered Pillows and Paper Tigers

The day before Jelly Bean's wedding.

Li Shi'an got off the plane and received a call from Tang Doudou, saying to give him a surprise.

Within 2 minutes of hanging up the phone, a fair-skinned, beautiful, long-legged beauty came across the road at twelve o'clock. The two thin white legs exposed in the miniskirt made people dizzy.

Presumably, Tang Doudou himself fell from the sky because of the surprise and "shock", but Li Shi'an really didn't notice the "joy", and froze in place biting a cigarette that he didn't have time to light.

Glancing at the gloomy sky, Li Shi'an dragged his half-paralyzed voice and said to the beautiful woman who had already walked up to him, "Didn't the groom-to-be slam his head on the bed when he came to pick me up dressed like this?"

With that, he tightened his gray woolen overcoat, grinning, his glasses curved.

Tang Doudou, who had just trot across the road, was hit by the oncoming smile. Li Shi'an's smile was as refreshing as the sea water exposed to the sun. He was like this when he was young, but now he is a young man, that feeling is still the same. did not disappear.

However, she raised her leg and kicked: "My old lady married herself out with great difficulty. If you curse him like this, will you be my bridegroom when he dies?"

Li Shi'an suffered this kick, cleared his throat and said, "You, a bride, come to pick me up in person, I'm afraid it will affect the harmony between your husband and wife."

"You seem to care about our husband and wife and our disharmony?" Tang Doudou pretended to be aggressive.

Li Shi'an smiled, then pushed the thin metal-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose.

Talking about her husband and wife and disharmony with her former favorite, even Tang Damei felt that it was inappropriate no matter how bold and unrestrained she was, she pretended to be helpless against Li Shi'an and said: "My father treats you as a son. What's wrong with my sister coming to pick you up? Let's go."

After speaking, he stretched out his hand to pull Li Shi'an's suitcase, but Li Shi'an pulled the suitcase back to let Tang Doudou empty it out, and then opened his long arms in a gentlemanly manner, signaling Tang Doudou to cross the road together.

Walking across the road to the car that was as ostentatious as Tang Doudou himself, Li Shi'an put the suitcase in the trunk and said, "I'm staying in a hotel."

How could Tang Doudou let Li Shi'an live in a hotel, and hurriedly said: "There is a place for you to live in. My dad gave me a big flat. It has been renovated for more than half a year and I haven't lived in it. I am not willing to arrange other relatives to go there. , reserved exclusively for you."

Li Shi'an bit his cigarette and smiled heartlessly: "No, I don't want to experience the feeling of waking up from a two hundred square meter bed in the morning, accept the bed."

"Fart, don't you recognize hotel beds?"

"The shabby hotel I opened is also a hotel, with similar configurations. It's very kind to let me live outside."

Tang Doudou refused to let go: "My dad also said that he just wanted to see you today."

Li Shi'an closed the trunk, and leisurely refused: "It's not his son-in-law, why are you seeing me?"

Tang Doudou likes Li Shi'an. This is something that many classmates and friends who attended the wedding the day after tomorrow know, including Tang Rong.

Li Shi'an didn't know the groom, but he felt that the feeling of "the whole world knows that your wife likes this man, but you don't" must be uncomfortable. He put himself in an awkward position, but the father and daughter of the Tang family People are kind to him, and he has to come to Tang Doudou's wedding, so he can only avoid embarrassment as much as possible, and it is natural to avoid such things as living in someone else's new home.

"You are a wolf-hearted person," Tang Doudou complained, but she understood why Li Shi'an refused, so she quickly compromised, "Okay, the hotel is the hotel, then go to the hotel where I have a party tomorrow night?"

Nowadays, when young people get married, it is popular to hold a pre-wedding party. All pig friends and dog friends who hang out in private are called, regardless of whether they are married or not, they can go crazy for one night. When the host tried hard to create an atmosphere that catalyzed the crying with sincerity, he was still thinking about whether the person who poured himself alcohol so hard last night had no more love for him.

This kind of emotion is similar to the complex emotion of no hesitation and nostalgia once one enters Buddhism, which is as deep as the sea.

However, Li Shi'an is an old man who has been independent for many years and has never heard of this custom. He got into the back seat of the car and asked, "What party?"

If the two hadn't been classmates for many years, Tang Doudou would have thought that Li Shi'an was from outer space, and while wearing his seat belt, he would have turned around and glared at him, saying, "Single party."

The old man expressed that he couldn't bear it, and flatly refused: "What a mess, I won't go." He stuffed the cigarette into the suit pocket inside the coat, then took out his mobile phone and searched for a hotel that looked better, and sent the location to Tangdou Bean, "Go to this."

Tang Doudou started the car and said, "This hotel is in the north of the city. Tomorrow night's bachelor party is scheduled for the south of the city."

"I won't go." Li Shi'an once again ruthlessly refused.

Tang Doudou naturally refused to give up: "A lot of students are here, why don't you go?"

Li Shi'an slumped on the back seat and raised his phone at Tang Doudou and said, "Let's go, just go here. If it wasn't for your wedding, I wouldn't come here. I have never been in touch with my classmates. I really miss it." All of mine have come to the Lake District to see me, and those who are not very familiar can just meet and say hello at the wedding the day after tomorrow, and they will disappear tomorrow."

Li Shi'an's leisurely life in the Lake District is almost unrequited in the eyes of Tang Doudou. Which young man in his twenties lives like a retired old man?

But this is the man she fell in love with at first sight, so love at first sight really depends on face, otherwise how can she explain that she fell in love with a man like Li Shi'an?

Sighing silently, Tang Doudou started to follow the navigation to drive to the hotel that Li Shi'an had chosen.The car drove all the way, and the night scene reflected on the window slowly receded.

Tang Doudou started another topic: "Hey, Zhu He arrived today, and the classmates who arrived in the class seemed to be that he was not married, and he was called. In order to divert the target, he turned around and asked me about your recent situation. Alas, how have you been lately?" how is everything?"

Li Shi'an knew that Zhu He's questions were all pretexts, that Tang Doudou wanted to ask himself these questions, so he didn't care and said, "Recent situation, what's my current situation? If relatives and friends in Luoyang ask each other, just say that I'm not married yet."

Tang Doudou looked at him from the rearview mirror while driving: "Why, it's been half a year, and you haven't moved yet. Is there any beautiful woman who travels alone to touch your heartstrings?"

Li Shi'an casually picked up the magazine on the back of the chair, flipped through it, and stuffed it back casually, saying without hesitation: "No."

Tang Doudou suddenly became angry for some reason: "Hey, Li Shi'an opened a broken hotel and went to and from all kinds of people. You should have seen all kinds of people. You can't find someone you like here. You have to find someone in your life." Celestial, right?"

Everyone says that once an unmarried person gets married, it is a revolutionary rebellion, because those who were married to your brothers the day before will immediately stand on the opposite side of the unmarried organization, and brutally urge unmarried young people to marry .

Li Shi'an didn't expect that there would be a day in his life when he would be urged to marry by Tang Doudou. When his comrade-in-arms became an enemy accidentally, he quickly flattered him: "I let a beauty like you go alive, can anything else catch my eye?" ?”

Once a woman is praised by the person she likes, it is easy to lose her way. Tang Doudou immediately turned back and said proudly: "That is." Then he asked with concern, "You just got off the plane, haven't you eaten yet?"

Li Shi'an could imagine that after this conversation, Tang Doudou might take him to some luxurious place for consumption, and let him experience the decadent life of the bourgeoisie, so he only lazily replied three words: " Airplane meal."

Tang Doudou frowned and replied, "You can eat that kind of thing."

Li Shi'an wiped his face with his hands indiscriminately, and leaned his head on the car window with his hands, looking at the night scene outside the window that was hazy due to the smog, and decided to chat to death: "You think everyone is like you, Miss Tang. ah."

Sure enough, Tang Doudou didn't answer the conversation for a while.

The back seat of the luxury car is quite spacious, the leather seats and the nice fragrance smell so comfortable that people just want to sleep, Li Shian closed his eyes naturally, Tang Doudou glanced at him from the rearview mirror, and did not answer the question just now. talk.

The hotel arrived soon. After registration, Tang Doudou insisted on sending Li Shi'an to the door of the guest room. Li Shi'an walked in front. When entering the door, he pushed the luggage in first, then turned around and held the doorknob, blocking Tang Doudou from the door.

Li Shi'an didn't mean to let her in, not because he doubted what Tang Doudou could do to him, but because he was afraid that the lonely man and widow would not be able to explain clearly, after all, the other party was about to get married.

But Tang Doudou refused to leave, and stood outside the door talking to him: "Let me ask you, what will you give me when I get married?"

Li Shi'an scratched his head and said a little embarrassedly: "Participant money."

Tang Doudou rolled her eyes, obviously disliked Li Shi'an's insincerity.

"Otherwise, do you still want a one-night stand before marriage?" Li Shi'an suddenly opened the door solemnly, as if to let Tang Doudou in.

Tang Doudou saw through the thin lens that those beautiful eyes were full of teasing, but they were clear and clean, without the slightest hint of intimacy. She didn't go in, but leaned against the door frame and followed Li Shi'an's nonsense: "Then I really want to What do you want?"

"It's a good idea." Li Shi'an turned around and put the suitcase on the table in the room, turned his head and said to Tang Doudou who was still standing at the door, "Just kidding, I brought a gift."

He opened the suitcase, took out a roll, and solemnly handed it to Tang Doudou.

Tang Doudou took it and said it was a gift, but he refused to tie it on a black roll and a red ribbon symbolizing a gift. The style was very "Li Shi'an".

"That painting?" Tang Doudou's eyes widened, and he opened the scroll to confirm.

Li Shi'an nodded, the air conditioner in the hotel was fully turned on, at the moment Tang Doudou opened the roll, he took off his coat and threw it on the bed, skillfully took out the unlit cigarette in the car from his suit pocket and lit it , but his eyes never left the painting in Tang Doudou's hands from the beginning to the end.

The painting is opened, the dark blue night, the plain white snow, and the people dancing on tiptoes under the dim street lights.

"You...why are you willing?" Tang Doudou looked at the painting, feeling slightly uneasy.

"Stop it," said Li Shi'an as if he couldn't take another look at the painting, and if he took another look, he would regret it and don't want to give it away.He bit the cigarette into his mouth, squinted his eyes and reached out to roll up the painting and said, "Haven't you wanted it for a long time? Get a better picture frame for it."

Tang Doudou's eyes widened a little bit, thinking of a possibility: "Li Shi'an, are you terminally ill?"

She stood there at a loss, but when she looked up, she saw the four words "Get out of here" written on Li Shi'an's face.She was afraid that something was wrong with Li Shi'an, but before she could ask Li Shi'an again, she pushed her out, the door slammed shut, and ended the conversation simply and rudely.

Look at this temperament, it should not be terminally ill, if not terminally ill, that's fine.

Tang Doudou patted the door outside and said, "Hey, come early tomorrow night, anyway, you're fine if you're idle in the hotel, I'll send you the location later."