Chapter 3: Trivial Matters

After the dinner, I drove Su Rou home. In those days, drunk driving was not strictly regulated. Su Rou sat next to me, leisurely crossing his legs and chewing on a toothpick, and said to me, “An Yu’s situation is quite serious. Are you sure you can handle it?”

“It’s hard to judge the situation now. We’ll have to wait and see,” I said, frowning slightly.

The place where An Yu had an accident was the office building where his company was located. An Yu had always rented office space before, but after he became rich, he simply bought an office building, which was also a kind of disguised investment. However, he never expected that the new office building would be plagued with strange things, so that no employees dared to work overtime.

This office building still cost An Yu a lot of money, and now that the news has spread, it can’t be sold, and the other floors can’t be rented out. It has become a heart disease for An Yu, and he doesn’t know if it’s because of this office building that his company’s business is also not going well. He feels that his business is about to fail because of this office building.

So, as soon as he saw me, he cried out for help. His marriage had failed, he had no children, and his relatives all looked to his money. Apart from his parents, his business was the only psychological support for An Yu, and if it disappeared, he said he wouldn’t be able to survive.

But he was speaking in general terms, because he himself was afraid to stay in that office building for long, so he hadn’t encountered anything, and he was just hearing things, and everything was wrong. I couldn’t judge the situation at the time.

In addition, if there is nothing wrong with the office building, and it is his fate, then there is nothing I can do.

Seeing that I was not sure what the situation was, Su Rou spat out the toothpick and said to me, “Sanwa, I know Lao’an. If this matter is not resolved, half of his money will be lost in this office building, and his company’s business is not going well. He really could go and commit suicide.”

“If it’s his fate to have ups and downs, I won’t interfere. But I’ll try my best! Anyway, I’ll also persuade him that suicide is not a good idea, and it’s a very heavy sin.” I said as I drove.

“Fuck, no way? You can’t even decide your own fate, and suicide is a heavy sin?” Su Rou said in a loud voice.

“Life, old age, sickness, and death. These are the four stages of life that the heavens test people. Everyone must experience and face them. Those who are blessed may be able to avoid sickness, but such people are rare. Seeking death is not being able to face the stage of life, and it is also a way of not being able to face the stage of death, because you have not experienced the natural process of death. This is against the will of heaven. Do you think it is a heavy sin?” I explained to Su Rou that people who commit suicide easily often need a lot of spiritual power to be saved, otherwise they will really be burdened with sins.

Su Rou sighed and said, “That’s enough. Let’s not talk about him anymore. Let’s go to my house. Chun Yan just found out that we had been drinking and made a pot of congee, saying that you should come too.”

“I’m not going.” When I said this, Su Rou’s house had already arrived. I put on the brakes and stopped the car on the side of the road before saying, “Wait a minute, I’m going to pick up Ru Yue. Her plane arrives here tonight.”

Su Rou took a cigarette out of my pocket and lit it, then looked at me with some concern and said, “Did Qin Huai come with her this time?”

I lit a cigarette and leaned back in my seat. “No, this time it’s just Ru Yue. She came here to talk about a project, and I’m just picking her up.”

“Hey, Sanwa, don’t you know what Ruoyue is thinking? Qinhuai is also… When are the three of you going to get married and start a family? Ruoyue keeps saying she’ll never marry, and she’s busy with her career. Any fool knows that she’s thinking about you, and Qinhuai keeps changing girlfriends, saying he’s enjoying life, but who doesn’t know that his heart is with Ruoyue? Is this something you want to be entangled with for the rest of your life?” Su Rou said angrily.

In fact, he was worried about us.

I spat out a puff of smoke and was silent for a long time. In fact, this is something I have always been reluctant to think about. After a long time, I said, “Let it be.”

“Follow the flow? What about you and Ruoxue? Are you going to go on like this? You said you would see Ruoxue once a year, but which winter did you not go to the Miao village in Yueyan for a month? And Ruoxue would occasionally come here to find you! Don’t you think it’s strange? Apart from the physical relationship, you are a couple who are together more often than apart, but you insist on holding on. This is really something that a mortal like me cannot understand.” Su Rou scolded, paused, and then, as if he wasn’t satisfied, spat and said, “Why don’t you just get married? Go get married abroad, and then you’ll be a couple abroad, but in China, the law may not recognize it, and it’s not against the rules. Otherwise, you’ll just be waiting for Ru Xue to stop being a witch, and then what?”

I frowned slightly and then scolded him with a smile: “Get out of your physical relationship. That’s it. Follow your destiny. Isn’t that how my master and Ling Qing’s grandmother spent their whole lives?”

“You really have guts, you’re really something! You’re really not giving your parents a thought.” Su Rou threw away the cigarette butt and gave me a thumbs up.

I was too lazy to say anything else, so I pushed the door on the side of the car that was facing Su Rou directly from the driver’s seat and said to Su Rou, “Get out of the car. The reproduction of the world’s population is not my responsibility alone. The worst that can happen is that you give birth to one more child to make up for my shortcomings.”

“Go ask your parents if they’re willing,” Su Rou said, chewing on a piece of gum.

“Nothing can be accomplished without the will of the people. From the time I was a child, when I was born with a birthmark, it was already destined that some things would not be possible if my parents did not want it. I have seen a lot in my life, and this is a piece of life that is more than ordinary people, so it is normal to lose some.” I said lightly.

Su Rou pointed at me and then shook his head helplessly, saying, “Later, bring Ru Yue to our home and tell her not to stay in a hotel. I’ll ask Chun Yan to prepare some food, and don’t say no.”

I nodded, then Su Rou sighed and got out of the car.

I closed the car door, couldn’t help but frown, and stared blankly for a while. Outside the car window, there were thousands of lights. Behind these lights, there must be a lot of warmth, but unfortunately, they belong to others, and have nothing to do with me.

If you want to, can you? Master, I am willing to spend my whole life looking for you, but can I? This is life. If you want to do something, you will often regret it, but even if you regret it, you still want to do it. You can’t help but want to do it.

“Damn it.” I suddenly cursed, then rolled down the window and started the car.

This time the plane was not late. I leaned against the pillar, holding a cup of tea, and saw Ruoyue’s flustered figure from afar.

This girl is now a successful businesswoman. I don’t really understand her business, but it has something to do with flowers and plants, and it’s going well. She said she was making money for her village.

Very tacitly, when I saw Ru Yue, this girl also saw it, and she was very excited to rush over to me with her suitcase.

The first thing she said to me was not nice.

“You said you were holding a paper cup of coffee and leaning against a pillar, and you could say you were pretending to be deep and pretentious. How can you be holding a stainless steel teacup and leaning here like an old man?”

I touched my face and said to Ruyue, “Old man? Do I need to dress up? I am already one.”

Ruyue rolled her eyes and then held out her hand in front of me.

I didn’t understand and said in surprise, “What?”

“Rabbit brain, hmm, how do you say it in Sichuanese? It’s a specialty of the area where the airport is located. You didn’t even prepare it for me. You’re so heartless,” said Ru Yue, dissatisfied.

I sighed in silence and said, “If you don’t have it, what are you going to do? Are you going to put a curse on me again?”

“I don’t care. Do you think the ingredients for the jinx are so easy to get? It’s a waste to use it on you.” Ru Yue said to me disdainfully. I put Ru Yue’s luggage in the car.

On the car, Ru Yue said to me, “Sanwa, are you free tomorrow? Accompany me to choose two clothes.”

I hate shopping, but I have a good excuse. I said, “I can’t tomorrow. I have a list to do tomorrow.”

“What kind of list? Is it interesting? Can I take a look?” Ru Yue suddenly said to me.

I was very calm and replied directly to Yueyue, “No.”