Yang Kening said, "Thank you in advance!"
I probed, "Where's Su Qian? What did she do?"
Yang Kening was stunned and said, "Sun Tao asked her to stay!"
I had many guesses and asked, "Why did she ask her to stay?
Could it be... "
Yang Kening gently patted my shoulder and said, "Actually, what Sun Tao did today wasn't appropriate for him.
We're all classmates, all classmates.
Sigh, don't think too much. Maybe Sun Tao's Land Rover can't accommodate all of us! "
I was shocked. "What do you mean?"
Yang Kening said, "No, nothing."
He took a deep puff and threw the cigarette butt away. "Alright, I'm not going to chat with you. I won't send you off. You can go back first!"
I calmed down and heard Sun Tao and Niu Dezhu's conversation in front of the Land Rover.
Niu Dezhu asked Sun Tao, "Why didn't you ask Zhao Long? That's not good. We're all classmates.
Also, Su Qian invited him here. How can he go back? "
Sun Tao said, "He can go back however he wants!
A security guard is useless to me. I don't need to spend money for him. "
Niu Dezhu said, "That's true.
But it seems he's still waiting for Su Qian. If he knows we have other plans and didn't ask him to come, what will he think? "
Sun Tao said, "I'll take care of it."
While talking, I saw Sun Tao striding toward me.
He stopped in front of me and asked politely, "Zhao Long, how are you going back? Do you need me to drive you?"
I smiled. "No need.
I'm waiting for Su Qian. We'll go back together. "
I looked at Sun Tao and he lowered his head in embarrassment. Then, he said, "Su Qian will be back later today. How about you take a taxi back?"
I said, "Okay.
I'll go back myself! "
I turned and left. Complicated feelings welled up in my heart.
After exiting the hotel, I turned around to take a look and saw that everyone was already sitting in Sun Tao's Land Rover off-road vehicle. I also faintly heard a burst of laughter.
Using the lights in the night, I wandered on the noisy road.
Car horns, one after another, like the noise of the city, attacked my fragile eardrums.
I felt like someone who had been abandoned. A special feeling of loneliness grew stronger and stronger.
Looking back at the class reunion, what else could I feel but bitterness in my heart?
Fifteen minutes later I called Susie tentatively.
Susie's voice and loud music came from the other side.
I asked her curtly, Where are you, Susie?
Suqian lowered her voice apologetically, "I'm really sorry, Zhao Long."
We were singing.
It was Sun Tao's treat.
I asked again, "Who's there?
Suqian said, "Today's gathering classmates are all here."
I smiled and said, "Except for me.
Suqian said, "Today I am really sorry, Sun Tao insisted that we go, I could not refuse."
Why don't you take a taxi home? I'll treat you alone another day!
I said: No need!
No need!
The moment I hung up the phone, I faintly heard Sun Tao's cold laughter from the other side of the phone: Zhao Long, that brat, is looking for humiliation!
He clearly knew that we were going to sing, but he still asked for a snub and insisted on asking! "
The phone on the other side suddenly hung up.
I put away my phone and felt that it was particularly cold today with a slight breeze.
I didn't know how long I paced on the road, but I finally mustered up the courage to call Qi Mengyan and ask her to drive over to pick me up.
At times like this, I needed someone to comfort me!
Although I was not a weak person, the gap between reality and fantasy made it impossible for me to untie the knot in my heart and accept the cruel reality.
Sun Tao's actions were really too much!
I did not expect to take advantage of him, nor did I expect him to help me. But he went behind my back and called all my classmates to sing. What did this mean?
To me, or to anyone else, this was an unbearable insult.
To him, was I, Zhao Long, really so useless?
I could see that he was too scheming. Everything he did was about giving and receiving. In his heart, I was just an ordinary security captain. A small person like me had no value to him.
Therefore, he did not care about my feelings and resolutely rejected me outside the door. He openly invited all his classmates to sing and abandoned me.
Why do people always put benefits as the most important thing?
Could it be that between people, there can't be a little bit of pure feelings?
I had to admit that I was really wrong!
Perhaps, I should not have come to this class reunion.
I took out my phone in disappointment and was about to call Qi Mengyan when I heard a female voice behind me calling my name.
"Zhao Long, wait for me, wait for me!"
The female voice was so familiar, but to me, it was so harsh.
I turned my head and saw that the person was none other than Zhao Jie.
She trotted up to meet me and stood directly in front of me.
I held a cigarette in my mouth and asked her, "What are you doing here? Didn't you go to sing?"
Zhao Jie was slightly surprised as if she had done something wrong. She lowered her head and said, "You know?
Sigh, Sun Tao really shouldn't have done that today.
I went to the karaoke hall and found out that he didn't invite you! "
I smiled and said, "It doesn't matter.
I don't like to sing, especially with a group of people. "
Zhao Jie said, "I saw that you didn't go, so I immediately drove back.
I drove for a long time to find you here!
Zhao Long, get in the car, I'll drive you! "
I said, "Thank you!
Where's your car? "
Zhao Jie scratched her hair and said, "Behind, about a kilometer away."
I blushed with shame and said, "Why did you park your car there?"
Zhao Jie said, "After I found you, I immediately stopped the car and wanted to catch up to you. But you walked so fast and walked so far away in a short time!"
"Oh," I replied. Suddenly, I found something cute on Zhao Jie's face.
At critical times, only she cared about my feelings.
Zhao Jie quietly looked at me as if she was waiting for a positive answer.
I temporarily threw everything to the back of my mind and followed Zhao Jie to her Honda Accord.
Zhao Jie skillfully started the car, released the hand brake and said with a smile, "Where are we going?"
I frowned and said, "Of course we're going back!
Take me to Wangjing Subway Station. "Of course, I couldn't let Zhao Jie know where my office was.
Zhao Jie said, "No problem.
Sit tight! "
She drove the car and drove on the road.
Speed up, speed up.
I suddenly seemed to have realized something …
The car quickly drove to Wangjing Subway Station. I was about to ask Zhao Jie to stop the car when Zhao Jie's phone suddenly rang.
After she picked up, I didn't know what the other side said.
Zhao Jie said 'Ah' and said anxiously, "Okay, I got it. I'll go back now, right now!"
She decisively hung up the phone and shouted, "Oh no, oh no, something big happened!
Zhao Long, come back with me? "
I asked, "What happened?"
Zhao Jie didn't have time to answer and hurriedly turned around. The cars that were blocked in front of us frantically honked at us.
I quickly reminded Zhao Jie, "Are you crazy? You can't turn around here!"
Zhao Jie fiercely turned the steering wheel and said, "We can't care so much!
They're fighting, they're fighting! "
In the blink of an eye, she had already turned the car around and stepped on the gas pedal. The car flew out.
I had to admit that the Honda Accord sped up very quickly.
I asked, "Where did they fight?"
Zhao Jie turned the steering wheel and said, "Inside!
It's not like you don't know that Sun Tao and the others drank a lot today. They, they're fighting with people! "
When she mentioned Sun Tao, I couldn't help but feel a bit resentful and frowned, "What does it have to do with us!
If you do things too high profile, you'll suffer sooner or later!
Zhao Jie, turn around, let's go! "
Zhao Jie hurriedly said, "We're all classmates, we should at least go and help them, right?"
I deliberately said, "Help them?
We'll get beaten up if we go, what's there to help! "
Zhao Jie said, "I think it should be fine.
Sun Tao is rich and powerful in Beijing, who would dare to provoke him?
If we go, it'll just be for show.
Now that we know the situation, if we don't go, it won't look good. "
I didn't say anything, I just held a cigarette in my mouth, opened the window, and exhaled.
Zhao Jie seemed to have realized something and opened her mouth in shock. She stepped on the brakes and said softly, "Zhao Long, don't be too angry at Sun Tao.
To be honest, your performance tonight was a bit lacking. "
It was as if someone was knocking on my head. I stared at Zhao Jie and smiled bitterly, "I'm lacking?
Can you give me an example and give me a chance to correct myself? "
Zhao Jie said, "You're always trying to gain Sun Tao's face!
Why did you say that Sun Tao's wine was fake? "
I smiled, "Isn't it?
It was fake to begin with. I don't like to tell lies, and I don't like to flatter power even more.
You know that! "
Zhao Jie said, "You're still doing things according to the military's style!
This is society, there are a lot of truths and lies in society, could it be … "She stopped talking, looked at me thoughtfully, and said," Zhao Long, can you become more tactful?
If you go back with me, even if we just stand on the side and watch, Sun Tao might change his opinion of you. "
I interrupted her and asked, "Do I have to do things according to Sun Tao's mood?
Who does he think he is?
He's just a civil servant of the Inspection Department, he doesn't have the qualifications to call the wind and summon the rain in front of me! "
Zhao Jie frowned and said, "You still can't change your stubbornness.
I know that when you were in the military, you had some skills and some power.
But now, you're just a security captain.
If you have a good relationship with Sun Tao, he can help you a lot, a lot.
Friends, classmates, we all use each other! "