First, I don’t understand chinese so i’m using google translate.
second, my english is enough for another to understand my meaning, so correct me if I am wrong.
third, I will try my best.
April was a cozy, not too cold, not too hot. Today’s weather was good, the sun was shining, but Gu Anran’s mood was poor. Yesterday, the handed design plan was beaten back this morning, there was no reason. The Commissioner said only one word, change! About exactly what to change, how to change, he said nothing.
The discouraged Gu Anran put down the pen and drawing, her hand moved from her temples toward the back.
The desk phone rang at this time. She took the phone, looked at flashing numbers on the screen calls, frowned. She did not want to take this call, but seemingly she had to take.
A little deep breath, Gu Anran phone was turned on by pressing this key, “Mom.”
“Night at the coffee shop on the first floor of hotel, table number 2, Lin An Jie, male, 31 years old, college graduates, civil servants, height 173, no bad habits, do not smoke, do not drink. 19:00, you saw his face before. You have dinner. ” Lin Xiao Fen said quickly, almost no pause.
“Mom….!” Gu Anran pleaded. She really defeated by her mother quickly, attached 24 hour/7day, almost without interruption.
“Anran!” Lin Xiao Fen sighed. she knew that Anran was forced to close her point, “you are 28 this year, not 18 years old. a woman can have a few years of youth, and now you can choose one. Well, if the next year, it was estimated that someone pick you up, I will be passed sixty. I would like to wait for you to marry and to give birth to the child. while you has not confused, you have time to help with the kids. if you again and again can not really move on, say …. ”
Gu Anran was powerless listen to her mother. she was afraid of these words. Moreover, she was able to recite every word. Her mother had to say a few times every day. She really did not want to remember. With difficulty, she interrupted her mother rambling, “Mom, at seven, Okay? I will be on time.”
“ah, after work, you go to the bathroom and get extra makeup. This man was introduced by aunt Zhang. His conditions and character are good. if appropriate, two of them at the first, ah! ”
“Ok. I know, Mom. I did not draw it as well as a drawing, the first so ah, I will be on time tonight, rest assured.” Then hastily hung up the phone. Long sighed, she had calm yet suddenly the phone rang again. Anran was taken aback, looked at the caller, picked up, the tone was very poor. She said: “Do not tell me you want to call me blind! ”
“Anran, congratulate me, and I want to get married! ” the side of phone was Anran’s buddy and college classmate, Lin announced loudly.
Gu Anran was silent a moment, then ridiculed her, said: “Your boyfriend, Cheng Xiang and you finally get married, ah!” Cheng Xiang was their university students. Calculating the time those two spent, they entangled almost 10 years.
“Ah, acquired shoot wedding, the wedding will be next month. The fifth of the next month, you get to be my bridesmaid.”
“so nasty!” she calculated the time, there was no one month time.
“That …… I have, Cheng Xiang family superstition, just a lunar month, and if you have to wait until April of lunar calendar, where I can live like, ah, when the stomach will be too big.”
“You got it!” Anran abruptly shouted.
“Oh, you got the point.” Lin rebuked. Because she was pregnant now, she could not withstand the scare.
Anran emotionally, said: “how surprising you become a mother in a blink of eye. ”
“yes ah.. I have as a mother, you don’t lose me the point. don’t say get married. you say, you always have to find someone to fall in love it. “Lin said, in fact, on this issue, she had told her many times, but she did not hear a word. since graduated from college to now, Anran was single for many years. “You still don’t think about Fuxin Han, do you?”
Anran felt in the hearts. She muffled uncomfortably, then said “I am. I have to draw the drawings first. so be it.” she hastily hung up the phone.
The man’s face was still clear in my mind. That day, his guilty eyes filled with regret. In these years, he always came out from time to time in her eyes, so she wanted to hate him but also hopeless.
Some distraught and she took a pencil sketch to modify the design in order to appease her upset mood down.
18:55, Anran stopped her Chery, the car she bought last year with the company’s money, in front of the hotel. In fact, she was a mechanical idiot. All about mechanization was a big problem for her, so she had been more accustomed to hand-animated figures, rarely used in computer, and as interest in the work, she sat in the office every day in addition to draw outside. It was to go to the site to view, so a car was a lot of convenience for her. However, she had to learn how to drive and passed the driving test so she really didn’t spend less time and effort.
She took off a mirror from the bag and carefully examined her makeup. though she had some dislike for this endless blind date, and then faced a completely strange man laughing his own dinner but went disgust, she always still attend the meeting seriously.
Into the hotel, with the hotel waiter lead to the agreed seat, the other party had arrived. flat head, with glasses, eye sort of a small, nose not very high, it can not be handsome, see Anran over, he stood up, a little gentleman. The hand extended with grip, “Gu Anran, I am Lin Anjie.”
“Gu Anran.” Anran pulled hand back, nodded, and seated across from him.
Linan Jie handed the menu and drink list. There was a variety of coffee and tea, and of course wine. Anran asked for a cup of caramel macchiato. she addicted to sweet and there was like the taste of coffee, so the caramel macchiato became her only best choice.
Lin Anjie asked for a cup of cappuccino, then he returned the menu to the waiter.
Anran opened her mouth, but she closed the mouth not long after. she did n’t eat dinner, so originally she wanted to be a meal, but he did not seem to see this meaning. she also didn’t have the nerve to call.
“Gu Anran was engaged in what industry?” Lin Anjie asked and pick up the coffee.
“Dry building. I am working in a construction company now.” Anran gracefully said, and then reach for coffee to drink.
Lin anjie nodded and said: “Girls engaged in building is not too tired yet?”
Anran smiled. “No way, this line is too professional. it was difficult to divert.”
Then they drank some coffee. At noon, because the drawings changed, so she did not even have time to eat in the morning. She was really hungry now.
Linan Jie nodded, watching Anran was quite satisfactory, but it was a big point that at this age she should not have to rely on a blind date. “Gu Anran is in a very good condition. What drag you to not married at this age? it was the vision too? ”
“No, usually I am too busy working, and so has no time to spare. it flashed onto this age. “Anran replied.
Linan Jie smiled, nodded, took a sip of coffee, and said: “Actually, my requirement for a wife are not high. It is enough, as long as she have a steady job and spare her time for family. but after the marriage, we will live together with my parents. After all, they kept me so many years was not easy, and now they are old, but also it is time for us to take care of them. After marriage, I think it was best to merge our wages so it will help our arrangements. In fact, we don’t use much money for boarding house. It will really help when we can talk to my mother to take care of it.”
Anran smiled dryly and did not speak anymore. Not to mention, this the first time I saw how kind of marriage between them, and now discuss about these, as so exaggerated it?
“Also my mother her legs was not very good, so you may have to be responsible for the family home after marriage. in fact, laundry, sweeping, cooking will not be tiring. I will help. “Lin Anjie continued. Anran did not find it strange. “In fact, my parent……”
“That” Anran interrupted his torrent of words. She pointed to the empty cup, said: ” can you refill it?”
Lin Anjie looked at her eyes, nodded, and called the waiter. The waiter came quickly with a smile appeared on their face, and asked: “What can I help you ,sir?”
“Can you refill it?” Lin Anjie pointed to Anran’s cup and him.
“I’m sorry sir, we can not continue this coffee cup.” Waiter profession smile.
Linan Jie frowned for a moment, to that waiter asked: “What does not add money? ”
” uh, ” the waiter stunned. The waiter tried to keep a smile and said:” Water is free. ”
Wen Yan, Lin Anjie the man said: “Then, you can give us a cups of water.”
Anran thought that the waiter’s mouth were twitching, but in fact she felt some wind in the messy.
They sat for a moment. When Anran put the cup of boiled water, Lin Anjie had not finished his rambling about the requirements of his future wife. Anran excused to toilet. Anran called Lin for help in the toilet, and then returned to her seat. It didn’t one minute, Lin’s call came in. Anran said that the company had urgent matter and she had to go back. Linan Jie nodded and summoned the waiter for bill.
If she knew the next thing, Anran would not wait a little longer. she also thought he was just as stingy, but she did not think he actually took coupon cafe from his wallet and handed it to the waiter, and finally their date meal only took 5 dollars service fee. Then, in the eyes of contempt the waiter had, they went out of the hotel.
Anran did not know that there were two men witnessed her whole blind process behind her. When Anran left, a man clutched his stomach laughing incessantly. He looked at the man in front of him and said: “Haha, Yi Cheng, I have some sympathy for her.”
He glanced at the man’s eyes, mouth half-hook, did not speak, continued to look at the hands of the file. In fact, the woman he had met yesterday in another cafe, she seems had a blind date too.