Chapter 19 The Gathering (Part 2) [Chapter Two in One]
It has been seven or eight years since they graduated from junior high school. When they were in junior high school, Zhuang Rui and Liu Chuan acted a bit uniquely. What would be popular among the students? It must be these two boys who lead the whole class or even the whole grade.
To put it bluntly, it's just that Zhuang Rui's academic performance is very good, while Liu Chuan has been a negative teaching material in the eyes of teachers and parents for three years in junior high school.
At that time, students' thoughts were relatively pure, and their interactions with each other were not so utilitarian. Unlike schools today, when selecting class cadres from elementary school, you must first compare them to see whose parents have wealth and status.
High, the tendency of comparison among students is quite serious.
Compared with the intense high school life, junior high school still left many good memories for Zhuang Rui and Liu Chuan. After Zhuang Rui graduated from high school, he went to university in Shanghai and had almost no contact with his former junior high school classmates.
After hearing Liu Chuan's suggestion, I also wanted to meet my former classmates.
Lei Lei transferred to Hong Kong in the third grade of junior high school. As we all know, in the early 1990s, Hong Kong people could hardly speak Mandarin. Many Hong Kong people had difficulty even listening to Mandarin. And when mainlanders go to Hong Kong, if they can’t speak Mandarin,
Speaking vernacular (that is, Cantonese) is definitely difficult. When Lei Lei first arrived in Hong Kong, she had no friends in school due to the language barrier. Naturally, she missed her life in Pengcheng very much. When she heard Liu Chuan say this, she also felt
My heart immediately became excited.
"Liu...uh, Dachuan," Zhuang Rui got used to calling Liu Chuan his nickname, and it was really hard to change it.
"Except for a few of my classmates from junior high school who were in the same school as us in high school, we basically have no contact with the rest. How can we convene people for a gathering? Do you have any ideas?" Zhuang Rui was a little confused. Many classmates were confused.
I haven't seen him for seven or eight years. I'm afraid I won't recognize him when we meet him.
"Isn't this nonsense? Brother, I am a local snake. We got together three years ago. I have their contact information here. By the way, you couldn't come back from Zhonghai. Didn't I call you to tell you?
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Liu Chuan is not lying. After he failed to enter college in high school, he began to hang out in the society. After entering the society after leaving the school gate, social relations and connections were all about. Liu Chuan's pet shop has only been open for a few years.
He made a lot of money, which is not a small amount for Pengcheng. This is inseparable from his loyalty and love to make friends. Pengcheng is so big, and his classmates who were in junior high school are basically in the same district.
We got in touch again after going back and forth.
Some of the classmates are doing well, and some are not. Sometimes they can help each other a little bit, so Liu Chuan organized a party a few years ago. In terms of life and interpersonal relationships, Zhuang Rui is really worse than Liu Chuan.
A lot.
When Liu Chuan said this, Zhuang Rui remembered that there really was such an incident a few years ago, but he was studying in Zhonghai at that time and was quite nervous about studying. He didn't pay much attention to the gathering of junior high school classmates, so he had long forgotten it in his mind.
It's over.
"Dachuan, the day after tomorrow is the New Year's Eve, I'm afraid it's too late to have a party before the year...".
During the Chinese New Year, from the first day to the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, you have to go to the homes of relatives and friends to pay New Year greetings. If you arrange a party after the New Year, it will not be until after the fifth day of the Lunar New Year at least. But after celebrating the New Year in Pengcheng, you have to go to Pengcheng to celebrate the New Year.
Qin Xuanbing went to several other cities to inspect the markets, so she probably wouldn't be able to catch up with this gathering, so Lei Lei had a look of regret on her face.
Liu Chuan rolled his eyes. This was an opportunity to show off his abilities. He thought about it in his mind. It was New Year's Eve the day after tomorrow. If the New Year's Eve party could only be arranged tomorrow, there were 38 classmates in the junior high school who went to school out of town.
There are more than a dozen, but most of them have returned to work after graduation. Those who stayed to work in other places are probably celebrating the New Year in Pengcheng. There are about 17 or 18 people with whom I have never lost contact. I asked them to contact a few more, and I guess
More than twenty people can come. The key lies in whether these people have time tomorrow.
"You don't have to worry about it. I'll make the arrangements. Let's have a party at noon tomorrow." Liu Chuan thought about it and felt about the same psychologically, so he said.
It's not like Liu Chuan has been messing around all these years. He does things in a very orderly manner. He first called the hotel to book a few tables, then flipped through the address book he found on his body and started making phone calls.
Within half an hour, I found about ten people, five male classmates and seven female classmates. After giving the name of the hotel, they all promised to arrive on time tomorrow on the phone. A few people could help contact other classmates, so
After counting, there were already seventeen or eight people, and there were still a few people who didn't have phones at home. Liu Chuan was going to drive there and notify them one by one.
"Liu Chuan, I didn't expect that you are very popular. You have been in contact with your female classmates for so many years." As soon as Liu Chuan put down the phone, Lei Lei asked with a smile. Liu Chuan immediately regretted why he called his female classmates.
Ah, why don't we just let those buddies inform us?
"Then...it's all children. I've already gone to drink a few people's full-moon wine. Let's go, Lei Lei, Miss Qin, I'll take you home first, and I'll notify people one by one." Liu Chuan
He quickly changed the topic and spoke righteously.
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"Lei Lei, there must be a lot of people chasing you in Hong Kong. I have never seen you date anyone. It turns out that there is a childhood sweetheart boyfriend hidden in the family. Although Liu Chuan is quite good, he is not particularly outstanding. You
Why do you really fall in love with him?"
Lying on the big bed in Leilei's room, Qin Xuanbing's previous aloofness was gone, and she said a little narrowly. She was really confused. Ordinarily, with the power of Leilei's grandfather's family and her own conditions, she should be able to do it.
Find a more suitable boyfriend.
"Do you know what I looked like when I first went to Hong Kong?" Lei Lei was playing on the computer on the bedside. Hearing this, she turned her head and looked at Qin Xuanbing and asked.
"Haha, at that time you wore thick glasses and dressed very old-fashioned. Many people in the class called you mainland girl, right...".
When Lei Lei first arrived in Hong Kong, she was inserted into Qin Xuanbing's class. At that time, Lei Lei couldn't even understand Cantonese, and people in the class couldn't understand Lei Lei's Mandarin. If Qin Xuanbing hadn't followed her grandfather since she was a child,
If they can't speak Mandarin, they won't be very good friends.
"Yes, I was like that before I came to Hong Kong. People in the class would call me Four-Eyed Girl. Liu Chuan would be very bold in the class. Many people were afraid of him, but he never would.
I bullied others, and once I beat up a classmate who called me four-eyed girl. From then on, no one called me four-eyed girl anymore..."
Lei Lei recalled and said that she could see that that incident had a great impact on her future. Maybe the image of Liu Chuan was imprinted on Lei Lei's mind at that time.
"I'm not going to let Liu Chuan raise me. By the way, Xuanxuan, are you going to let Young Master Wang raise me, or are you going to devote yourself to Young Master Huo? If they know that you have come to the mainland, they will definitely come after you.
"Lei Lei's words immediately made Qin Xuanbing furious, and the two started fighting on the bed.
When both of them were panting from exhaustion, they stopped. Lei Lei was worried that if she went to a party tomorrow, Qin Xuanbing would be bored at home, so she asked: "Xuanxuan, come with me to attend the class reunion tomorrow. By the way, Zhuang
Rui is very good, you can also recruit another subordinate in the mainland..."
"I'm going to kill you, what you said is so unpleasant, don't go, I have no interest in that man. I always look at people with lust. By the way, Lei Lei, have you noticed that Zhuang Rui's mother is so sexy?"
With her temperament, she doesn't seem to come from such a small family."
Qin Xuanbing's words made Leilei a little strange. The elegant behavior that Zhuang's mother showed at the dinner table today would never have been possible if she had not been under the influence of a good environment for a long time.
People who attach great importance to etiquette felt a little surprised. In front of Zhuang's mother, they even felt like they were facing family elders.
Lei Lei didn't say anything more. Maybe Zhuang's mother was a person with stories, but Zhuang Rui was obviously not born into a rich family. With Qin Xuanbing's family background, he and Qin Xuanbing were obviously in two worlds, and they would never be the same.
They may be intertwined, so there is no intention to bring the two of them together again.
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Before 11 o'clock at noon the next day, Zhuang Rui was dragged to the hotel where the party was held by Liu Chuan. According to Liu Chuan, he was also one of the conveners, so he naturally came to help. After throwing Zhuang Rui into the hotel, Liu Chuan
Chuan went to pick up Leilei.
When Liu Chuan came back, only Lei Lei got out of the car. This made Zhuang Rui happy but also a little disappointed. Although he didn't want to have an ice cube next to him in this cold winter, if he was so far away from her
If you stay away, you can admire it from a distance. As the saying goes, it is beautiful and delicious.
Not long after, the classmates attending the party arrived one after another. When the party started at 12 o'clock, 31 people came. Except for a few classmates who are not in Pengcheng now, basically all the classmates in Pengcheng were here. Zhuang Rui and Lei
Lei's appearance naturally surprised everyone, and also made the two of them feel a strong friendship with their old classmates after not being in their hometown for a long time.
The meal was very lively, during which Zhuang Rui and Liu Chuan became the targets of denunciation by the classmates. The most memorable thing is that these two boys defrauded everyone of their money when they were in the first grade of junior high school.
If you play bad guy and the other is a good guy, you will get a lot of pocket money from everyone.
At that time, many families already had TV sets, and those who did not have TVs at home often went to other people's homes to watch them. As a large number of Hong Kong TV dramas entered the mainland, the first batch of star-chasers appeared, and it seemed that they were produced by Zhuang Rui.
Idea, these two boys took out all the money they had saved during the New Year and went to Pengcheng Small Commodity Wholesale Market to buy a batch of stickers, which are small colorful pictures with stars printed on them that can be pasted on books.
It was very cheap to wholesale a whole page with stickers of dozens of celebrities, which cost about 2 yuan. The two of them cut the whole page of stickers into leaflets and started shouting in the class. Each one was based on the popularity of the star.
Depending on the size of the picture, it can be sold for 20 cents or 50 cents, and if you don’t have money, you can exchange it with food stamps. You know, in the era of planned economy, food stamps can almost be used as money. Due to the way of transaction,
They are flexible and changeable, so their stickers are very popular.
The stickers were sold out in a few days. Not only their class, but the entire grade were spreading their stickers like crazy, and there were a few second-rate dealers who were probably the youngest among the students in the country. After they were sold out, Zhuang Rui and Liu were counted.
Kawadu was shocked. After spending more than 20 yuan, he actually earned more than 300 yuan, which was much higher than their parents' salary at that time.
This discovery made the two of them extremely happy. You know, a few dollars in your pocket at that time was considered a huge sum of money. When the school organized outings, their parents only gave them 50 cents. It was only a few days ago.
They made more than 300 yuan in total, which immediately boosted their confidence. But just when they were about to continue purchasing goods to pursue the victory, they were discovered by the teacher. Well, it should be said that it was discovered by Liu Chuan's mother. Naturally, the result was that the two
When people's buttocks blossom, the person who executes it is Liu Chuan's father.
The discovery process was also accidental. It was because a classmate from another class bought a sticker worth two yuan. Due to lack of funds, it was paid on credit. He promised to pay the money the next day, but he didn't. Then Liu Chuan came forward.
After a moment of deterrence, what the two of them didn't expect was that a few days later, the classmate's parents found the school teacher, who happened to be Liu Chuan's mother. Although the purpose was to pay back the money, they also let the two
behavior was exposed.
A good beating from Liu Chuan's father allowed Zhuang Rui to go to college honestly. However, Liu Chuan still returned to the wave of reform and opening up a few years later. To this day, Liu Chuan still complains when the old man is in a good mood.
He killed his business talent back then.
Lei Lei naturally became the focus of the party. The yellow-haired little girl who wore thick spectacles in the past can no longer be found in the beautiful girl in front of everyone now. She was dressed in a fashionable and unassuming dress.
, the right light makeup caused the female classmates to gather around her and chatter non-stop. Some male classmates who were not yet married kept their eyes on Lei Lei, making Liu Chuan jealous.
Of course, men talk about heroes over wine. Everyone cherishes the friendship they made in junior high school. After a few drinks, the atmosphere on the wine table became lively. Zhuang Rui and Liu Chuan drank about the same amount, so
But thanks to the liquor poured by the thief Liu Chuan's father, the injury on Zhuang Rui's head is almost healed now. Naturally, he drank until the wine was dry. From time to time, he would tell some scandals about the classmates present, which attracted bursts of laughter.
The meal lasted for more than two hours, and the person who paid the bill was naturally the rich man Liu Chuan. Originally, Liu Chuan had planned to invite everyone to karaoke, but as the Chinese New Year was approaching, every family had something to do, so the party was filled with laughter and memories.
When it was over, the classmates also left contact information with each other.
After returning home, he saw his mother busy and lonely in the kitchen. Thinking of the lively scene at the party just now, Zhuang Rui suddenly felt that he had made the wrong choice to stay and work in China Shipping. For a moment, he was thoughtful, and his eyes
The presence of spiritual energy seems to be able to change something.
"Xiao Rui, come help mom oil the Jiao Zizi." His mother's voice came from the kitchen, interrupting Zhuang Rui's thoughts.
PS: I read a review of the book and someone said that class reunions are just for pretending to step on people, but that’s not necessarily true. At least I feel that the relationship between classmates in junior high school is still very pure. It seems cool to step on people, but the slight friendship between classmates is also
It can make everyone have a lot of good memories. As for selling stickers, it is true. I did it in the fourth grade of Yuanwai Elementary School. As a result, I was invited by my parents and the result was a beating. It’s quite funny now that I think about it. Well, this chapter
It came out after reading the ball code. I have been writing it since four o'clock in the night until now. I went to bed. Brothers, please give it a thumbs up. It was pushed down from the category click list. Friends who haven't collected it clicked to save it. I thought it was written.
If it's still okay, just give me some flower recommendations or something to comfort me.
