Chapter 0019 Gathering (II)

Junior high school graduation so far has been seven, eight years, in junior high school, Zhuang Rui and Liu Chuan acted quite a bit of maverick, that will be popular among the students what fun, surely these two boys drive the whole class or even the whole class to play up, only Zhuang Rui’s academic performance is very good, and Liu Chuan in junior high school in three years has always been a teacher and parents in the mouth of the antithetical material.

At that time, the students, the idea is still relatively pure, mutual interaction is not so much utilitarian, unlike nowadays schools, from elementary school to choose class cadres, we have to compare and contrast, to see who has a big family governor rich and high status, the wind of comparison between the students is quite serious.

Compared to the intense learning of high school life, junior high school or to Zhuang Rui and Liu Chuan left a lot of good memories, Zhuang Rui graduated from high school after the university in Shanghai, and the former junior high school classmates almost no contact, at this time to hear Liu Chuan’s proposal, the heart also wants to meet the classmates of the year.

Lei Lei is junior transferred to Hong Kong, we all know that in the early 1990s, Hong Kong people almost do not speak Mandarin, many Hong Kong people even listen to Mandarin is very difficult, and the mainland people go to Hong Kong, if you do not know how to speak vernacular (that is, Cantonese), it is certainly difficult to move, Lei Lei just arrived in Hong Kong, due to language barriers in the school, there are no friends, and naturally, is immensely nostalgic for life in Pengcheng! , at this moment, when she heard Liu Chuan say it, she was also immediately moved.

“Stream …… uh, Da Chuan.” Zhuang Rui shouted Liu Chuan’s nickname habit, but also really a little difficult to change over.

“Junior high school that will be classmates, in addition to a few later high school and we are in a school, the other basically do not come and go ah! How to gather people to party ah! You kid have a way?” Zhuang Rui a little doubt, many classmates have not seen seven or eight years, I’m afraid that when they meet, they do not recognize it!

“Isn’t this nonsense? Brother I am a snake, three years ago we have gathered once, their contact information I have, right, last time you can not come back in Zhonghai, I did not call to tell you?”

Liu Chuan is not talking big talk, he did not get into college after high school, began to mix in society, out of the school door into society, is a social relationship and connections, Liu Chuan’s pet store opened only a few years, earned a sum of money in the city of Pengcheng is not a small amount of money, this is also and his righteousness, love to make friends is inseparable from the city of Pengcheng, so big, and those who read the junior high school classmates are also basically in a The district, one after another and contacted.

Classmates have a good mix, there are not as good, usually can occasionally help each other a little help, so Liu Chuan organized a party a few years ago, to say on the world and interpersonal relationships, Zhuang Rui than Liu Chuan is really a lot worse.

Liu Chuan said, Zhuang Rui remembered, a few years ago there is really such a thing, but he will be studying in Zhonghai, learning is more intense, and did not pay more attention to junior high school classmates party, has long been forgotten in the back of the mind.

“Da Chuan, the day after tomorrow is the New Year’s Eve, I’m afraid it’s too late for a party before that!”

New Year’s Eve from the first day of the year to the first five, have to go to relatives and friends home to pay respect to the New Year, if arranged in the New Year’s Eve party, then at least to the first five years later, but after their own New Year’s Eve in Pangcheng, but also to go to a few other cities to investigate the market with Qin Xuanbing, it is estimated that it will not be able to catch up with this party, so Lei Lei face with a bit of regret expression.

Liu Chuan eyes turned, this is an opportunity to show their ability, secretly in the heart of the calculation, the day after New Year’s Eve, if the year before the party can only be arranged for tomorrow, junior high school classmates have 38 people, to go to school in foreign countries have a dozen, but after graduation most of them are back to work, stay in the field of work, now should also be in Pengcheng New Year, and they have not been disconnected from the contact of the roughly seventeen or eighteen people, let them contact a few more. I’ve been in contact with about 17 or 18 people, so I’ll let them contact a few more, so I guess I can come to more than 20 people! The key lies in whether these people have time tomorrow.

“You guys don’t have to worry about it, I’ll make the arrangements! Let’s party at noon tomorrow.” Liu Chuan did some calculations, mentally felt almost the same, so he opened his mouth and said.

Liu Chuan these years is not for nothing, do things very organized, the first call to the hotel booked a few tables, and then turn up do not know where to touch out of the body address book, began to call, not to half an hour, but to find ten people, five male and seven female students, reported the name of the hotel, the phone promised to be on time tomorrow, there are a few people can also help to contact other students, this counted down to the hotel’s name, the phone is promised tomorrow, there are a few people can also help contact other students. Students, so that count down, there have been seventeen or eighteen people, there are still a few home without a phone, Liu Chuan is ready to wait a moment to drive to notify one by one.

“Liu Chuan, I did not expect that you are very good, so many years and female classmates have contact.” Liu Chuan just put down the phone, Lei Lei smiled and asked, immediately let Liu Chuan greatly regret, why give female classmates call ah! Let those buddies to notify not finished.

“That what …… is the child’s mother, I have gone to drink a few people’s full moon wine, go! Lei Lei, Miss Qin, first send you home, I go one by one and then go to notify people.” Liu Chuan hastily digressed and said righteously.

“Lei Lei, there are quite a few people chasing you in Hong Kong, right? I’ve never seen you dating anyone, so it turns out that there’s a childhood friend’s boyfriend hidden at home! Liu Chuan people although is quite good, can also not particularly good, how you really look at him ah?”

Lying on the big bed in Lei Lei’s room, Qin Xuan Bing’s previous coldness was swept away, and said with some urgency, in her heart, she was really a bit puzzled, according to Lei Lei’s grandfather’s family’s power and her own conditions, she should be able to find a more suitable boyfriend.

“Do you know what I looked like when I first went to Hong Kong?” Lei Lei was playing with the computer at the head of the bed, and at those words, she turned her head and looked at Qin Xuan Bing and asked.

“Hehe, at that time, you were wearing a thick eyeglass lens and dressed very old-fashioned, so many people in the class called you a mainland girl, right!”

Lei Lei just arrived in Hong Kong, is inserted into Qin Xuan Bing where the class, at that time Lei Lei even do not understand Cantonese, and the class can not understand Lei Lei’s Mandarin, if not Qin Xuan Bing from childhood to follow the grandfather, will listen to speak Mandarin, they would not have become very good friends.

“Yeah! When I didn’t come to Hong Kong, I was also like that, everyone in the class called me Four Eyes Sister, Liu Chuan was quite cross in the class, many people were afraid of him, but he never bullied others, once he beat up one of the classmates who shouted at me Four Eyes, and since then, no one has ever shouted at me Four Eyes Sister again.”

Lei Lei said reminiscently, she could tell that that incident had a great impact on her later, perhaps Liu Chuan’s image was imprinted in Lei Lei’s mind at that meeting.

“It’s not like I’m going to let Liu Chuan raise me, right, but it’s you, Xuan Xuan, are you going to let Mr. Wang raise you, or are you going to offer yourself to Mr. Huo? If they know that you’ve come to the mainland, they’ll definitely come after you as well.” Lei Lei’s words immediately infuriated Qin Xuan Bing, and the two of them fought on the bed.

Only when both of them were tired and panting did they stop, Lei Lei was worried that if she went to the party tomorrow, Qin Xuan Bing would be bored at home, so she asked, “Xuan Xuan, go to the class reunion with me tomorrow! By the way, Zhuang Rui is very good, you can also take in one more skirt in the mainland!”

“Dying you, talking so hard, don’t go, I’m not interested in that man, looking at people with colorful eyes, right, Lei Lei, did you find out, that Zhuang Rui’s mother is so temperament ah! She doesn’t look like she’s from a small family!”

Qin Xuan Bing’s words made Lei Lei also a little strange, the kind of elegant demeanor that Zhuang mother showed at the dinner table today, if it was not under a good environment for a long period of time, it was absolutely not possible to do it, so that those of them who usually pay close attention to etiquette felt a little bit surprised, and in front of Zhuang mother, they even had a kind of feeling of facing the elders of the family.

Lei Lei did not say anything more, perhaps Zhuang mother is a person with a story, but Zhuang Rui obviously was not born in what big rich family, to Qin Xuan Bing’s family background, he and Qin Xuan Bing is obviously in two worlds of people, can never be intersected together, so there is no longer want to set up the meaning of the two.

The next day at noon less than 11 o’clock, Zhuang Rui was pulled by Liu Chuan to the party hotel, according to Liu Chuan words, he is also one of the conveners, naturally, to come over to help, the Zhuang Rui thrown to the hotel, Liu Chuan went to pick up Lei Lei.

When Liu Chuan came back, the car down only Lei Lei alone, which makes Zhuang Rui happy and with a little loss, although he did not want to have an ice cube around him in the winter months, but if she is far away from the distance, you can appreciate it from afar, as the saying goes, the show can be eaten!

Not much time, to participate in the party of classmates arrived one after another, until 12 o’clock when the table, actually came to 31 people, excluding a few now are not in Pangcheng classmates, basically in Pangcheng classmates have arrived, Zhuang Rui and Lei Lei’s appearance, naturally, let everyone surprise a number of people, but also a long time away from their hometowns, two people feel the strong friendship of the old schoolmates.

A meal is very lively, in the middle of this, Zhuang Rui and Liu Chuan became the object of the students denounce, the most memorable is that the two boys just on the first year when they cheated everyone money, two people a singing white face and a singing red face, that will be cheated from the hands of the group to a lot of pocket money.

At that time, many families already have a television set, and no television at home often go to other people’s homes to see, due to a large number of Hong Kong’s television dramas into the mainland, but also produced the earliest batch of stargazers, as if Zhuang Rui out of the idea, the two boys put their own New Year’s Eve savings of the New Year’s Eve money are out, ran to Pengcheng Commodity Wholesale Market to go into the batch of stickers, that is, above the printed stars, can be glued to books, colorful small picture pieces. The small colorful pictures that can be stuck on books.

Wholesale a full-page above dozens of stars on the stickers is very cheap, that is, about two dollars, the two cut the whole version of the stickers, divided into sheets in the class shouted up, each according to the degree of popularity of the stars and the size of the film sold to the 20 cents or 50 cents, and no money to take the food stamps can be changed, we must know that in that era of the planned economy, food stamps can be used almost as money, due to the flexibility of trading methods, so the two Because of the flexibility of the trading method, so the duo’s stickers were a big hit.

A few days down the stickers were sold out, not just their class, the whole grade are crazy about their stickers, and there are a few should be the youngest in the country’s students in the two traffickers, after the sale of a statistic, the results let Zhuang Rui and Liu Chuan are surprised, only spent more than twenty dollars of the capital, but actually earned more than three hundred, more than the salary of their parents at that time are a lot higher.

This discovery makes two people are overjoyed ah! To know, that would usually pocket a few dollars are considered a huge amount of money, usually organized by the school field trips, the parents are just to give a piece of fifty cents, which is only a few days of work to earn more than three hundred, suddenly let the two confidence, but in the preparation to continue to enter the goods to catch up with the victory, but was found by the teacher, well, it should be said to be Liu Chuan’s mother found the results of the two people naturally ass blossom, the executor is Liu Chuan his dad.

Was found in the process is also very fortuitous, because a classmate in another class bought two dollars of stickers, due to lack of funds, is on credit, said the next day to give money, but did not give, and then Liu Chuan stepped in and deterred, so that the two did not expect, after a few days, the parents of that classmate to find the school teacher, it happens to look for the same Liu Chuan’s mother, although the purpose is to return the money, but it also makes two people’s behavior exposed.

A good beating from Liu Chuan’s father made Zhuang Rui honestly go to college, but Liu Chuan still returned to the wave of reform and opening up a few years later, and to this day Liu Chuan still complains about the old man when he is in a good mood, complaining that he stifled his own business talent back then!

Lei Lei naturally also became the focus of the party, when wearing thick lenses of glasses yellow hair little girl, from the crowd in front of this pretty girl, but not to find the shadow of the year, that a fashionable and not ostentatious dress, just the right amount of light make-up, so that female students have surrounded the up, chattering and chatting, and some are not married to the male students is not away from the eyes of Lei Lei around, look at Liu Chuan jealousy! The first time I saw this was when I was a student at the University of California.

Men are of course to wine heroes, junior high school friendships, we all cherish, cups to go, not a moment of the atmosphere on the table was lively, Zhuang Rui and Liu Chuan’s alcohol is almost the same, that is from a young age by Liu Chuan’s dad’s white wine poured out, and now Zhuang Rui’s head injuries are also almost the same, naturally, cups of wine dry, and from time to time also talk about some of the classmates in the year of the scandal, attracted bursts of laughter.

A meal ate more than two hours, the bill is naturally big money Liu Chuan, originally Liu Chuan also intends to invite everyone to go to the karaoke, just close to the New Year, more or less every family also have some things, the party in the laughter and memories of the end of the classmates have left each other’s contact information.

After returning home, seeing his mother’s busy and somewhat lonely figure in the kitchen, and then thinking of the warm scene at the party just now, Zhuang Rui suddenly felt that his choice to stay and work in Zhonghai was wrong, and for a moment he thought that the presence of the aura in his eyes seemed to be able to change something.

“Xiao Rui, come and help mom to pass the oil on the charred leaves.” Mother’s voice came from the kitchen, also interrupting Zhuang Rui’s thoughts.