C17

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The day after I had dinner with Ning Nan at the vegetarian restaurant, Elisa called me for coffee.

"Zou Li, are you free at noon?" Come and have a cup of coffee with me. " I never said a word to her request, as long as I had time.

At 11: 30 P.M., Elisa and I met at the appointed Café de l'Ind.

Island Coffee, is a Taiwanese opened in the mainland of the coffee chain store chain, the whole country has nearly 300 Island Coffee Shop. Compared with Starbucks' "small money" atmosphere, the island seems to have a bit more of a business atmosphere. The majority of consumers come for "business." Coffee and diet are secondary, and an environment that is easy to talk to is the most important. The food on the island coffee, more in line with the taste of the young people, generally as long as each person consumes up to 40 yuan standard, coffee shop cold food, dim sum and western style thick soup, can be freely to drink. The interior of the coffee shop was also decently decorated: European style, simple and grand, with green as the main hue and yellow as the main hue. Elisa and I had coffee here a few times.

"Hey!" As soon as I entered, I saw Elisa sitting on the sofa by the left window. She smiled and waved at me. I hurried over.

Considering that I was a vegetarian, Eliza gave me a salad with a slice of wholemeal bread and a cup of cappuccino, while she asked for shrimp rice and Blue Mountain coffee.

We ate and talked. She began by introducing herself to me: After returning home, she had served as an assistant to her father in managing the company, participating in meetings and decisions at the company's size, getting to know the company better, and preparing for succession.

"During this time, I was so busy that I only slept for five hours a day." she said with a sense of accomplishment.

"The boss isn't that easy to deal with. You have to be mentally and mentally prepared." "No," I said.

"..."

After five minutes of the usual chitchat, she started to get down to business:

"I heard that you and Ning Nan had a good chat last night?" she asked.

"Not bad." "No," I said.

"Ning Nan has a good impression of you." "No," she said.

"Is that so?" I smiled.

Seeing that I didn't fall into her trap, Elisa got anxious.

"What is your impression of him? "Ning Nan is very outstanding, there are many girls chasing after her."

"After all, we just got to know each other, so we need to understand more." "No," I said.

"His mother is very impressed with you." Eliza said.

"Where did this come from? I just met Ning Nan not too long ago, and I don't even know where her house is, how the hell do you know me? " I asked curiously.

"Did you guys eat at the know vegetarian restaurant yesterday?" She was beginning to be suspenseful.

"Yes!" Does that matter? " "No," I said.

"Did you go to that vegetarian restaurant often after you came back?" she asked mysteriously.

"Yes. "But I didn't know Ning Nan at that time." "No," I said.

"That's right. Do you know what Ning Nan's mother does? " she asked proudly. She's the owner of that vegetarian restaurant! " "No," she said.

"Even so, how did she know me?" I asked.

"I should say that his mother saw you and paid attention to you more than half a year earlier than her son." Eliza said.

I was very surprised — I was looking at the scenery on the bridge, but I didn't know that I had already become the scenery in the eyes of others …

"After you go back, you probably eat at that vegetarian restaurant a lot, and you sit by yourself at the window on the left side of the street and slowly savor the dishes. From what Mother Ning Nan said, you basically go at a fixed time every week and sit in a fixed seat. You ate all the veggies in their family, and more than once... So, she gradually noticed you and began to observe you. "

"She once told me about it by accident. She said there was a girl who was very special and frequented their vegetarian restaurant. She looked like a foreign student who had just come back from abroad. She was very refined and gentle. She's interested in you. So she showed me your photo taken by the waiter, and when I saw that it wasn't Zou Li, I told her I knew her, and that we were college classmates. "

"What a coincidence!" I asked.

"Yes!" That's why I invited Ning Nan and you to my family's party. I just did not expect the two of you to have met, and they both have a good impression of each other. " She said

Next, Elisa and I introduced Ning Nan's family situation in detail.

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Ning Nan's parents were very capable, and they were both strong people in their careers.

His father, the big boss of N City Electrical Appliances Company, had annual sales of hundreds of millions of dollars; his mother, a leading member of the restaurant industry in the city, had spent years cooking in Jiangnan and, in recent years, had opened more than a dozen vegetarian restaurant chains in the East China Region. Her business was booming, and her annual gross profit was also in the tens of millions.

Perhaps it was because the couple were too strong, but after the business grew, a dragon, a tiger, and a dragon and tiger battle, both of them were injured. In the end, the matter was brought to the court and their divorce case was brought to trial.

The couple's vitality was too great. After the divorce, they quickly got married again.

Ning Nan's father had found a university student who had just graduated from university and was 20 years younger than him. Moreover, he had given birth to another boy not long after.

On the other hand, Ning Nan's mother found a grade 1 civil servant who had just retired from the government department …

They were in their own places, but their lives were good. It was just that after suffering Ning Nan and not having a complete home, there were now three people that he didn't know how to address – his father's wife, his mother's old man, and his' little brother 'who was twenty years younger than him …

The court sentenced Ning Nan to her mother. Ning Nan's father had never cared about home since he was young. He had grown up with his able mother, and the two of them had a deep attachment to each other. So, Ning Nan's mother often said that in the future, Ning Nan would find a suitable wife, and she absolutely could not let Ning Nan suffer.

Ning Nan had been a top student ever since she was young, studying all the way to university. Because his mother was worried that he was physically weak, she encouraged him to join the school track and field team from high school. His life changed dramatically until he was admitted to a science university in Beijing. In his senior year, when the college student sports meet, he signed up for the 1000-metre long distance race. Who would have thought that he would get first place in the preliminaries and once again get first place in the finals … In this way, he was selected by the national track and field team, and taken away from the school for specialized training. In the future, Ning Nan would participate in the Asian Games, the World Championships of Track and Field, the National Games, and other competitions. After graduating from college, he stayed in the national team for two to three years. As he had previously represented his country in the Asian Games and the track and field championships, he was appointed vice-captain as soon as he returned to the provincial sports team.

Elisa kept talking to me, and the image of Ning Nan gradually became clearer before my eyes:

The family lived a rich life, its spirit was poor, and it lived under the shadow of powerful parents all year round. Although its exterior was strong, its innermost world lacked sense of security.

Actually, Ning Nan's evaluation of her was too arbitrary. In the contacts later on, she gradually dispelled my impressions of her. And mother Ning Nan's observation of me could be said to be extremely meticulous …