Chapter 01(1/2)
At 5 pm, all the written tests were over, and Zhan Xizhe was wrapped in a crowd and left the examination room.
She had no hope for this national exam, and she felt that there was no chance after the exam. Her only worry was that she had to accept her mother's endless nagging.
Chi Guilan dreamed that her daughter could take the civil service exam and went ashore. She thought that girls should have a stable and decent job at home. She would be more respectful when she said it, and it would be more conducive to finding a high-quality partner. Even if she couldn't even figure out what unit or position it was that was the one that was the one that was the good news.
"As long as you are a civil servant, it's good!" Chi Guilan always said that.
There were many people and cars at the entrance of the examination room. Zhan Xi planned to take the subway home. When he was standing at the intersection waiting for the green light, a slightly hesitant voice sounded in his ear: "Zhan... Xi?"
Zhan Xi turned around and saw a chubby young man with a girl next to him. The two of them were holding hands, obviously they were lovers.
"Zhanxi? It's really you?" The man seemed very surprised, "I'm Huang Wei, don't you remember me anymore? We two high school classmates."
"Ah..." Zhan Xi opened her mouth slightly. To be honest, she really doesn't remember it. The three years of high school were not happy. Not to mention male classmates, she didn't even have good female classmates. After graduation, she had no contact with the people in the class.
"I haven't seen you for many years! You are still the same. I just looked at you from a distance and thought it was you. Alas, this is my girlfriend." Huang Wei pointed to the girl beside him, looking happy.
Zhan Xi nodded and greeted each other: "Hello."
Huang Wei was very familiar with it, and then took out his business card from his pocket and handed it to Zhan Xi, "I am working in a car dealer now and selling cars. If you need it, you can find me."
Zhan Xi took the business card, and the green light was on at this time. The three of them crossed the road with the crowd. Huang Wei asked: "Did you take the exam today too?"
"Yes." Zhan Xi smiled, "I'm just here to join in the fun."
Huang Wei said: "I'm about the same, try my luck. By the way, why didn't you come to the class reunion last year? Many classmates are very concerned about you." He explained to his girlfriend, "Zhanxi was the beauty of our class back then! I wonder how many male classmates liked her."
"I happened to have something to do that day." Zhan Xi was so embarrassed that she was going to take the exam that day. It was cold. She was wearing a huge down jacket and had no makeup on her. It was too embarrassing to be introduced by an unfamiliar old classmate.
Huang Wei's girlfriend looked at her curiously and asked Huang Wei: "Are you one of them?"
"Ah hahahaha... Look at what you said." Huang Wei said haha. Zhan Xi didn't want to chat anymore. He looked back at the subway station and told a small lie: "I have to leave, I'll have a meal with someone tonight."
"Boyfriend?" Huang Wei laughed loudly, "Come on, add WeChat, and hold a class reunion next time, you must come!"
Zhan Xi could not resist and could only add WeChat to him. Huang Wei didn't say anything more and left hand in hand with his girlfriend. Zhan Xi also walked towards the subway station. After walking more than ten meters, he turned around in a strange way and found that Huang Wei was saying something to his girlfriend. The girl also happened to look back at her.
The eyes met, both of them were stunned, and then turned around and pretended that nothing had happened.
Zhan Xi knew what Huang Wei would say to his girlfriend.
While walking, she set her Moments to "the other party is invisible", thinking that in a few days, she will be able to delete Huang Wei without realizing it. Such an encounter is meaningless to her.
It was the end of November, and Qiantang had just begun to winter. In the evening, the temperature dropped significantly compared to the daytime. Zhan Xi accelerated his pace and wanted to enter the warm subway station as soon as possible.
Her birthday was also November, and she just celebrated her 23rd birthday not long ago.
November 11th is particularly easy to remember, and everyone celebrates together, whether it is Singles' Day or online shopping carnival.
But Zhanxi does not like the number "11".
When she was in high school, the boys gave her a nickname called ElevenGirl.
eleven equals 11, 11 equals 56, 56 homophonic boring.
ElevenGirl means - a boring girl.
Huang Wei was right. Zhan Xi is indeed pretty, with a small face and big eyes, fair and beautiful figure, but she has not become a heartthrob. As long as the boys have a little more contact with her, they will find that she is actually a very dull and boring person.
Zhanxi has no special skills, no literature, art, or sports. She has no hobbies, no character, and is easy-going and introverted, and only knows how to read all day long.
But she still often receives love letters and is confessed to her. For this matter, Chi Guilan rushed to the school several times to complain to the head teacher, lifting the colorful letter papers found from Zhan Xi's schoolbag, and clamoring to settle the score with the other party's parents.
This reaction is exaggerated in high school, and Zhan Xi was uncomfortable in class. Everyone knows that she has a very weird mother.
Zhanxi got off the escalator and entered the subway station. Because the exam had just ended, there were a lot of pedestrians coming and going in the passage.
She walked in a hurry and kept passing by. Suddenly, there was a commotion ahead. Two subway station security personnel ran towards her, wearing uniforms and waving batons, and shouting:
"That person! He is wearing black clothes! Stop!"
"I'm asking you! Stop! Did you hear it!"
Zhan Xi reacted the same as the people around him. He quickly approached the side to make a way out. Looking back, the crowd was stunned. There was only a tall man in black clothes walking very quickly.
No one has seen such a scene before, and someone asked, "What are you doing? Catching a thief?"
Some people also said: "I don't know, that person might be a wanted criminal, and he would not stop."
"Go away quickly, it's so scary."
While speaking, the security officer rushed behind the man and grabbed his arm.
Zhan Xi was not a person with strong curiosity. When she saw that the person had already caught him, she turned around and continued to walk quickly into the station.
On the other side, the security officer held the man's arm tightly and looked at him nervously.
The man was wearing a black dress, with a down jacket and hood on his head, the brim was pulled very low, and he was wearing a black mask, holding his hands in his pocket, and after leaving the station, he lowered his head and walked with his meteors down.
He was suspicious and the security personnel wanted him to check his ID card, but they called him several times and ignored him, which made them feel alarmed.
The moment he grabbed him, the man seemed to be startled. He had turned around and his eyes exposed on the mask were full of doubts and surprise.
The two security guards asked him one after another:
"I'm calling you! Why didn't you agree? Why did you run?"
"Show your ID card."
"What's your name? Where's the person? What did you come to Qiantang for?"
There were also passers-by who were not afraid of troubles, and when the man stretched out his hand from his pocket, the two security personnel became even more nervous, but he just took out a wallet and took out his ID card and handed it over.
When the security officer checked his ID card, the man pulled down his hood and took off his mask. The security officer realized that he was actually a young and handsome guy with fluffy black hair, white skin, straight nose, gentle and clear eyes, and no aggressiveness at all.
The two security personnel breathed a sigh of relief, and one of them asked in confusion: "Why didn't you agree just now?"
The young man stared at his lips, then pointed at his ears and shook his hand. The security officer understood the simple action.
No wonder, it turns out to be a deaf person.
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The temperature in the subway car was very high, and so many people were crowded together. Zhan Xi, who was wearing thick down jackets, felt sweaty on his back.
After arriving at the station, she squeezed out of the carriage and breathed a sigh of relief.
After leaving the station and getting on the ground, the northwest wind whistled on her face again, making her body tremble.
I don’t know if I would catch a cold, Zhan Xi put on a scarf and looked at the bright light when he entered the station and now it was completely dark. He shrank his neck and walked home.
When he got home, Qin Fei was still cooking. Zhan Jie was lying on the sofa and playing with his cell phone. His six and a half-year-old nephew Zhan Kaiwei was working in the children's room.
Zhan Xi shouted when she changed her shoes: "I'm back!"
What she responded was the sound of oil bursting caused by the cooking ingredients being put into the oil pan in the kitchen.
Zhanxi took a bag of strawberries into the kitchen and said to Qin Fei: "Sister-in-law, I bought some strawberries."
Qin Fei was stir-frying in the pot with a spatula, and she didn't have time to look at her. She smacked the table on her chin: "Put it."
Zhan Xi returned to the living room, Zhan Jie took a break from her busy schedule and asked her: "How was the exam?"
"There's no chance." Zhan Xi sat down beside him and asked, "Are you not working overtime today?"
Zhan Jie focused on playing the game: "I happened to finish a job yesterday, so I took a day off today."
Zhan Jie is Zhan Xi's biological brother, eleven years older than her. It is normal to work overtime. He can count both hands when he goes home for dinner in a month.
After Zhanxi graduated from university, Zhan Jie didn't care whether she wanted her to live in his house or not. Chi Guilan and his wife naturally agreed with each other, thinking that it was natural for their brother to love their sister, and no one asked Qin Fei for her opinion at all.
The phone rang, it was Chi Guilan's phone call. Zhan Xi was frightened and answered it in a depressing way: "Hey, mom."
"Huanhuan, have you finished the exam?" Chi Guilan asked, "Are you doing well in the exam?"
Zhan Xi told the truth: "Not good, there is no hope."
Chi Guilan was silent for a moment, and her voice immediately became louder: "Are you reviewing normally? People say that the hope of just graduated students is the greatest! Let you sign up for a class and not do not! You are just not concerned about it!"
Qin Fei brought the dishes to the dining table in the living room and took a look at the sofa.
Zhan Xi whispered: "Mom, I don't want to take the civil service exam."
"What stupid things are you saying? What can you do if you don't take the civil service exam?" Chi Guilan looked disappointed, "You, you don't have any sense of crisis! Forget it, civil servants will come again next year. If there will be a civil service exam, you can try it too."
Zhan Xi was very upset and said perfunctorily: "Let's talk about it, if it's okay, I'll die."
"What's okay? I'm impatient before I even said it?" Chi Guilan asked again, "What are your sister-in-law doing?"
"Cooking, it's almost done." Zhan Xi lowered his voice and looked quietly in the kitchen. Zhan Jie's attention was all on his phone, and he didn't care what his mother and younger sister were talking about.
"What are you eating today? Last time I came home, I saw that you had lost weight, and your chin was so sharp that you could pick snails. Your sister-in-law kept calling for weight loss and eating vegetarian food. She didn't think that Weiwei was still healthy. Ajie worked hard to work. Now there is one more you, so how can you not eat meat!"
Chi Guilan's voice was really loud. Zhan Xi was afraid that Qin Fei would hear it, so she stood up and walked to the study: "Mom, you're a little bit soft, sister-in-law cooks very well, and they all have a lot of meat."
When he entered the room, Qin Fei happened to bring out the last bowl of soup and met Zhan Xi. Qin Fei said, "I'll wash my hands and have dinner."
Zhan Xi pointed at her cell phone: "Mom's phone number will be fine in a while."
"I'm going to have a meal and I can't call you at night." Qin Fei looked at Zhan Xi entering the house and brought her to the door, and added, "I'll hide and call when making a phone call, who should I guard against?"
Zhan Jie walked over from the sofa and said after hearing this: "My mother hasn't seen Huanhuan for a long time, so it's normal for a while to chat."
Qin Fei was not angry: "Isn't it just that I want to ask if I have abused her baby daughter?"
To be continued...