Chapter 544 Welcome Home
Liu Wangxue saw that Xu Qingsong just smiled but did not answer. Just when he was about to use some tricks on him, the elevator "dinged" and stopped on the eighth floor. After the door opened, two people came in. There was a man in home clothes, carrying a garbage bag in his hand. It looked like he was going downstairs to throw away garbage. Liu Wangxue said no more and leaned sideways to Xu Qingsong to make room for them.
When the elevator went down to the negative floor and the two of them came out, Liu Wangxue continued the topic and poked Xu Qingsong's lower back with his finger: "Tell me, which home should you go to?"< br>
Xu Qingsong put his arm around her shoulders and walked towards the parking lot: "You'll know when you get there."
Liu Wangxue said "tsk" in her heart, stopped and started to cheat: " If you don’t tell me, I won’t leave.” In fact, I already had a guess in my mind.
Xu Qingsong's hand on her shoulder moved to her back, half pushing and half leading her to the car, smiling happily: "Get in the car first, and I'll tell you after you get in, okay?"
< br>As he spoke, he took out the key and unlocked the door, took Liu Wangxue to the passenger door, opened the door, let her sit in, closed the door for her, and then went to the other side.
When the car started and drove out, Xu Qingsong said: "We are going to the house in my name. It is not far from here. It takes more than ten minutes to drive if there is no traffic jam."
Liu Wangxue guessed correctly, but it was also the first time she heard him say that he had his own house. She was a little surprised: "Have you bought a house?"
She thought, the housing prices in Beijing are not cheap, and in this city In such a location, there is no highest, only higher. But then I thought about it, he also had this family background, the wealth of the previous generation, and what he had accumulated himself. Whether it was full payment or a loan, it was no problem to buy a house.
Xu Qingsong shook his head and said with a smile: "I didn't buy it. I have never planned to buy a house. I have a place to live at home, and there is a small courtyard in Taojia Village, and I have planned to live in Taojia Village for retirement for a long time. So, I I feel that there is no need to spend my hard-earned money to buy a pigeon cage in the city. It is better to spend the money on other places where you can actually enjoy it."
Liu Wangxue asked: " What is your house?”
"My uncle gave it to me." Xu Qingsong said, and added, "To urge marriage."
Liu Wangxue thought she heard the sound of the abacus beads moving, and she echoed: "Wow, this way of urging marriage is indeed It’s a joy to hear.” After that, he asked, “When did it start?”
Xu Qingsong really didn’t have Xiao Jiujiu in mind at this time. He was just stating the facts: “When I just graduated from college.”< br>
When Liu Wangxue heard this, he suddenly remembered the love affair he had talked about in college. She turned to look at him with squinted eyes and asked, "Isn't he urging you to marry your first love?"
Xu Qingsong's face was startled, and then he quickly turned to look at her, as if he smelled the smell of vinegar, and felt very happy, but he hurriedly swore on his face: "That's not true! Before my uncle gave me the house, , she and I have already broken up."
Liu Wangxue smiled: "I just asked casually, and it made you nervous."
Xu Qingsong said quickly. After looking at her, most of the joy in his heart immediately dissipated: "I thought you were jealous, can't you take a bite?"
Liu Wangxue thought to herself, why are you jealous? Aged vinegar? Then you have to die of soreness? But seeing Xu Qingsong's expression and tone, she decided to take a bite: "Then let me gloat. I guess the reason why you broke up with your first love must not only be that you are not ready to enter marriage, but also 80% of the reason why you broke up with your first love. There is a house.”
After Xu Qingsong said this, he remembered: "It seems that we have indeed discussed the issue of the house."
"Look, look, I really guessed it!" Liu Wangxue adjusted his seat. The angle of the chair, lean back comfortably, " Did you tell people that you don’t plan to buy a house?”
Xu Qingsong recalled: “Really——”
It was the second semester of senior year, and all the classmates were there. Busy working on internships and thesis. Of course, there are also some good news about weddings in this busy time. For example, a couple in Xu Qingsong's class received their certificates before the start of school and planned to take their graduation photos as wedding photos. All the classmates in the class received their wedding invitations and wedding banquets. Just do it on graduation day.
At the end of March, the results of Xu Qingsong’s postgraduate re-examination came out. He passed successfully and his tutor was appointed. His girlfriend at the time was going to treat him to dinner to celebrate.
In fact, he felt that there was nothing to celebrate, because he was recommended, and the re-examination was just a formality. His tutor was also the tutor of the teacher who tutored him in high school, and he also attended the exam during his four years in college. I have long been familiar with many of this instructor’s classes. But his girlfriend said she wanted to celebrate, so he couldn't let her down, so he went to the date.
While chatting while eating, my girlfriend said that there was also a couple in her class who planned to get married as soon as they graduated, and they wanted to work together to buy a house in Beijing. Then she changed the topic and asked Xu Qingsong some ideas about the future, such as work, house, children, etc.
Liu Wangxue asked: "So you told her what you just said to me?"
Xu Qingsong nodded: "Absolutely, because I don't think I really need to buy a house. , You have also seen my house. It is really spacious. Even if I get married at that time, even if I have children later, six or seven people can still live there. "
Liu Wangxue said: "I guess your first girlfriend didn't think so, right?"
Xu Qingsong said "Yeah": "She wanted to buy a new house so that she could have her own little family, but my thoughts at that time were different from hers. My parents got married late, and after the marriage they stayed with my grandparents. Even after I was born, my parents didn’t propose living alone when they changed houses, so when my grandfather bought a house, he bought two adjacent floors and turned it into a duplex like my grandma and grandpa’s house. My uncle and my aunt have been living together with the old couple since they got married, so when I talked about this topic with her, I subconsciously felt that the family must live together."
"So this is the reason for the disagreement. "It's here." Liu Wangxue said, "Some people just don't want to live with their elders, let alone private space. They are mainly afraid of conflicts caused by different life concepts. If both parties take a step back, People are okay, but if they are not, it will really bring unhappiness everywhere.”
“Yes, my parents and my grandparents basically don’t have any conflicts. Even if they do, they can just talk about it in a few words. It was settled on the spot, as were my uncle, aunt, and grandpa..." Xu Qingsong said, as if enlightened, "It turns out that the reason for the breakup was not just that I didn't want to get married after graduation!"
Liu! Wangxue put her hand into the pocket of her down jacket and found two mint candies, which seemed to have been handed to her by Jing Yujun after lunch yesterday, so she put them inside.
Liu Wangxue took out one, peeled one and handed it to Xu Qingsong. There was a red light in front of her, Xu Qingsong stepped on the brakes with the flow of traffic, tilted his head and ate the candy with her hand.
Liu Wangxue peeled another one for herself, and then said: "I think your first girlfriend should be a very delicate and long-term thinking person." Feeling cold, Xu Qingsong took a breath and looked at the red taillights in front of him: "It's true."
My girlfriend was revealing that she also had the idea of getting married after graduation. Xu Qingsong was not stupid. Of course you can hear it. He is not a playboy, and he also wants to lead the partner he met in college into marriage like his parents, cousins, and cousins, but he was really not ready for marriage at that time.
After graduating from college, he will go to graduate school immediately. After graduating from graduate school in three years, he will also have to consider a job - he is not sure whether he will stay in Beijing and develop his career. He is worried about getting married too early. He has to worry about family, studies and career. But come on, no matter which side is sacrificed, he is not willing to see it.
Xu Qingsong controlled the car and moved forward slowly with the convoy, and said: "So when I understood what she was thinking, I immediately confessed to her."
Liu Wangxue also took a breath, feeling cool to the stomach and feeling very comfortable, and asked: "You didn't tell her to wait for you, right?"
"No." Xu Qingsong answered negatively first. , thought about it again, and said, "That's not called waiting. What I mean is that if you think about getting married, you have to wait at least until you graduate from graduate school. It depends on your job. I I wanted her to focus on her studies first. It was not too late to take the postgraduate entrance examination. If she didn’t want to continue studying, she should find a job. After all, one’s future must be in one’s own hands.”
“ You are right," Liu Wangxue played with the candy wrapper in his hand, "This is the truth, but in that situation at that time, Under the circumstances, it may have a different meaning to her ears."
"I found that you are really understanding and transparent." Xu Qingsong stepped on the brakes again, and the red taillights flashed in front of them. Before it was over, the intersection turned red again, and he turned to look at Liu Wangxue with admiration for her in his eyes, "No wonder When we broke up, she said that I didn't care about her at all."
Liu Wangxue smiled, remembering that Xu Qingsong had told her that he was the one who initiated the breakup, and then reached out and touched his face: "Mr. Xu. ——I really didn’t expect that you, who are so gentle, considerate and considerate, can be so straight sometimes.”
Xu Qingsong took her hand off, held it in his palm and squeezed it: "Oh, I was too young at that time and didn't think so much."
They discussed whether to get married from March to June. , seeing that the graduation ceremony was coming, her girlfriend gave Xu Qingsong an ultimatum, saying that if he really didn't plan to get married, they would break up, because she had no reason to stay in Beijing anymore, and her parents had already found one for her. A stable job kept urging her to go back.
Xu Qingsong felt at that time that he was being forced to compromise by the other party. He was sad and a little angry at the same time. He didn't understand why she had to get married so early, and why she couldn't wait until both parties' studies and careers were stable before discussing the marriage. Family matters.
The conversation ended unhappily. Within two days, Xu Qingsong was called by his instructor to join the research group. As soon as he got busy, he forgot about the matter and did not talk to his daughter for several days. Contact friends. I was very depressed when I received another suggestive message from the other party. That was the girl he had liked for nearly three years, and he couldn't let go of her. It was precisely because of his reluctance that he didn't want to get married to her without being prepared. So, he went home to seek answers from his parents.
No matter big or small, Meng Wanqing and Xu Chonglin will never make decisions for him. They will only help analyze the pros and cons. The final choice must be made by himself. However, in this matter, parents still have selfish motives and will prefer their sons. Ever since Xu Qingsong was a child, they had never forced him to make a choice. The little girls outside actually forced him to get married by breaking up. They felt that the marriage really did not need to be concluded because they believed that happiness could not be obtained by forcing. .
Xu Chonglin said: "If you choose to get married now, we also support you, because you may have a happy family, but it is only possible. Marriage is a responsibility. It is easy to pick up this burden, but it is not so easy to put it down. You have to think carefully."
Meng Wanqing said: "If she wants to leave, it is her own choice. You can win her back by meeting her requirements, but you have to think clearly about how to meet her requirements. It's also the way you don't like. If something unpleasant happens after marriage, you may think of this day, and the love between you may soon be worn away."
In short. In a word, if you have different outlooks on life, it is better for each to make its own choices and go its own way.
On the day of the graduation ceremony, Xu Qingsong took his girlfriend to a wedding banquet hosted by his classmates. At the dinner table, they were asked when they would get married. Everyone was making noises and waiting for wedding candies, but Xu Qingsong responded with a smile. It's past.
After the show, Xu Qingsong sent his girlfriend back to school, and the two talked about this topic again on the way. Xu Qingsong asked her to stay, and she said there was only one way to stay.
Xu Qingsong explained a lot, but she didn't listen. When he got angry, he blurted out: "Then let's break up." Then he heard his girlfriend say "ok" and saw the sadness in her eyes - only sadness, no Surprised, as if this was the outcome she expected. After breaking up, my girlfriend calmly confessed her feelings.
Without Xu Qingsong's explanation, Liu Wangxue could guess: "Did she say that you didn't include her in your future plans?"
The green light turned on, and the person in front The car finally started moving again, and Xu Qingsong also held the steering wheel and moved forward at a snail's pace. The words the girl said that day came to mind: "Well, she said I don't plan to buy a house, and I don't think about starting a family with her. , she only has graduate school and future work in mind, and she cannot see herself in my future. She also said that no long-distance love race ends with "happy together", and a girl's youth only lasts for a few years. The best age for childbearing is only these few years, and she can’t afford to wait.”
When Xu Qingsong said this, he smiled a little self-deprecatingly: “Maybe I am selfish.”< br>
Liu Wangxue looked sideways at him. If the car was not still running, she really wanted to go over and hug him: "I don't think you are selfish. I think Auntie is right. This is a human being." It’s a choice made under the premise of different outlook on life. What you said is right. The future must still be in your own hands. It doesn’t matter whether you have the future of others or not. What’s important is that you have to live well every day. .”
"Liu Wangxue!" The intersection was finally passed. Xu Qingsong turned the steering wheel and turned left. He had no time to look at her, so he called her full name. He couldn't believe it and was deeply hurt. "What do you mean, 'Other people's futures will not matter whether you have your own or not.'" It's not important when you say this Don't you think about how I will feel when you hear it?" Liu Wangxue wanted to say that I was trying to comfort you, but as soon as she thought about it, she knew what Xu Qingsong was saying, so she smiled flatteringly and said coquettishly: "I didn't mean that. La~”
Xu Qing let go of the car and turned left, then went straight. He quickly turned his head and glanced at Liu Wangxue, not answering the coquettish voice at all: "Then what do you mean?"
Liu Wangxue deliberately changed the subject. : "Look, don't you now have a profound understanding of It feels like your first girlfriend! She was 100% feeling the same way you are now."
Xu Qingsong suddenly became speechless and was speechless. He finally managed to say: "I really thank you. Oh!”
Liu Wangxue waved her hand and said with a smile: "It's easy to talk. It's easy to talk. Which one of us will follow whom?"
Xu Qingsong glanced at her with his peripheral vision and saw the way she smiled. He really wanted to kiss her and say Speechless. I also felt that she could say such a sentence because she had accumulated disappointment in her previous relationship, so I couldn't help but feel sorry for her, thinking that I would love her even more in the future.
Liu Wangxue didn’t know what Xu Qingsong was thinking, and was worried that he would still hold on to these words, so he changed the subject again and asked him: "Then do you still have contact with your first girlfriend? ?”
Xu Qingsong deliberately misunderstood her He meant to tease her, raised his eyebrows and smiled, and asked: "What, you want to ask me if I still have any unresolved feelings for her?"
Liu Wangxue immediately counterattacked: "Then do you want me to give it to you?" Can you sing a song called "Can't Forget"?
"Okay!" Xu Qingsong said cheerfully, "I would like to ask Miss Liu to bring a song to Mr. Xu, "Unforgettable", applause and encouragement -"
"You are so beautiful!" Liu Wangxue He leaned back in his chair and laughed loudly, turning to look at Xu Qingsong, "I'm curious. Didn't she talk about youth or childbearing age? Did she really go home to get married and have children after breaking up with you?"
Xu Qingsong first clarified the connection: "I heard about it later at a class reunion. Didn't her parents find a stable job for her? Not long after she returned, she met someone on a blind date who was from the same work unit. They got married soon and seemed to have a son and a daughter."
"So you see, it's just a different outlook on life." Liu Wangxue comforted him again, "We, Mr. Xu, must not blame ourselves. ."
"Okay!" Xu Qingsong responded with relief.
There was a slight traffic jam on the road, and it took them nearly half an hour to drive to the gate of the community.
There are decorative lights installed at the gate of the community, and you can basically see the outline clearly. It is an imitation European style. Liu Wangxue specifically looked up and commented: "Oh, it's quite gorgeous."
Xu Qingsong chuckled: "It's okay to worship foreign countries and be courteous to foreigners. At that time, many of the properties developed were like this, and the advertisements were all about European-style gardens, as if you could have picnics and afternoon tea on the sunny lawn every day when you moved in. "
"Well, it smells like that. "Liu Wangxue had a picture in his mind instantly.
The car was stopped by security at the door, and foreign vehicles need to be registered. During the registration process, the security guard discovered that Xu Qingsong was the owner and had a parking space, so he asked him if he wanted to enter the license plate number into the system.
Xu Qingsong said: "No, thank you, the car belongs to my friend."
After registering, he passed the pole and drove in. Liu Wangxue remembered that he had a curious question just now, so he asked him: " You said this house was given to you by your uncle to facilitate your marriage. Yours, but you had already broken up, why did you have the nerve to accept it? Your uncle didn’t ask for a blind date or anything like that?” He tensed up and laughed out loud.
“I’m asking you a question, answer it carefully.” Liu Wangxue reminded him.
Xu Qingsong understood: "The point is blind date, right?"
Liu Wangxue's little thought was exposed, and he simply admitted: "Ang, are you there?" In fact, it was a bit unexpected.”
The time goes back to the Spring Festival when Xu Qingsong was a junior. Shortly after the Spring Festival, a relatively famous foreign painter died of illness. After the funeral, news came out that his family would hold a traveling commemorative exhibition for him.
After Xu Qingsong's uncle Meng Duanyang got the news, he asked many people to help contact him and invited them to come to country Z to hold an exhibition. He also hoped that the stop would be in Beijing, so he volunteered to be the organizer of the exhibition.
After the matter was settled, the traveling exhibition at Jingshi Station was successfully held that summer.
The exhibition not only displays the paintings, but also sells them to the public. Meng Duanyang had just met a real estate developer who was arty and wealthy. After being invited to the exhibition, he wanted to buy one.
The developer didn't know the business, so he asked Meng Duanyang to help him with reference. Of course, Meng Duanyang would not cheat him just because he didn't understand the industry, so he recommended two paintings worth collecting in his own opinion, and the developer bought the more expensive one.
Half a year after the successful conclusion of the exhibition in Beijing, that is, the Spring Festival during Xu Qingsong’s senior year, a foreign publishing house published a biography of the painter. Two months later, with this A movie based on a painter was also released simultaneously around the world.
Because the movie was shot by a well-known director, and the person who plays the role of the painter is also a popular international movie star. The movie itself is well-made, and it has a lot of publicity and promotion. The box office and reputation are very popular. The painter's The valuation of the paintings has also risen as a result.
The painting that the developer recommended to buy after Meng Duanyang happened to be mentioned in the movie, and was given some meaning in a vague way. As a result, the valuation of the painting increased several times. .
The purpose of developers buying paintings is not for collection, but for investment. After waiting and watching for a while, he asked Meng Duanyang to help him contact the buyer, and he made tens of millions from the sale.
The investment profit is still a huge profit. The developer is simply overjoyed. It happened that the real estate he developed was completed and put on the market. With a wave of his hand, he gave Meng Duanyang the internal price and allowed him to buy as many units as he wanted.
Meng Duanyang also bought the painter's painting, the slightly cheaper one he recommended to the developer, and its valuation also increased a lot. He bought the painting for collection, expecting it to appreciate in value, but he did not expect that the price would rise like a rocket in a short period of time.
After thinking about it, Meng Duanyang felt that if he had money, he would be a bastard. This valuation was all speculated and was artificially high. Maybe after that period of time, it would be difficult to sell at that price again, so he I also sold the painting.
After selling the painting, he had a lot of spare money. After hearing what the developer said, he immediately bought a house and spent all the money, buying six houses in one go.
Xu Qingsong's aunt also asked him why he bought so much, and he didn't want to live there.
What Meng Duanyang is thinking about is that his son is about to graduate from graduate school, and he also plans to marry his girlfriend. His daughter is a graduate student and has a good relationship with her boyfriend. It seems that she will get married soon after graduation. This is the only house. A wedding room for the son and a security for the daughter.
As Meng Duanyang planned this, he thought of Xu Qingsong. He felt sorry for the three children at home and could not favor one over the other. Moreover, he also heard from Meng Wanqing that Xu Qingsong’s girlfriend also wanted to get married, but Xu Qingsong seemed to be temporarily Don't really want to. Meng Duanyang thought, no matter whether he thought about it now or not, he would get married sooner or later, so he would give it to him first and use it as a wedding room in the future.
He renovated and kept the remaining three units first, hoping that they would definitely increase in value in the future.
Xu Qingsong briefly described the process to Liu Wangxue and said, "That's why the house was given to me."
"Awesome!" Liu Wangxue sighed, and at the same time lamented the luck of Meng Duanyang and the developer. She even thought, why didn't she have such luck?
The car turned a corner and Xu Qingsong motioned to Liu Wangxue to look to the right: "My cousin lives in this building. My cousin's house is in the building in front of me. The building in front of me is mine."
“It’s so close.” Liu Wangxue looked at them one by one.
"I chose this specifically," Xu Qingsong said, "Since we are all in the same community anyway, we just live next to each other. It will be more convenient for us to take care of each other in the future."
Liu Wang Xuexiao said: "You haven't been here all year round. I think it's your cousins who help you take care of the house, right?"
Xu Qingsong also laughed: "It's true. I bought this house as a rough house. It has been kept in my name for several years. It was simply renovated after I started working. But I didn't come back to live in it, so I often asked my cousins to help me. Open the window for ventilation."
As he said that, he turned into the underground garage. After parking the car, Xu Qingsong took down the suitcases, a big box for Liu Wangxue and his suitcase. He didn't let Liu Wangxue get his hands on them. He pushed them both and led her towards the elevator entrance.
The floors in this community are relatively high, and there are two households on one staircase. However, Meng Duanyang didn't buy anything that high. They were basically on the middle floor. The ones he picked also had a wide view. The one he gave to Xu Qingsong was on the twelfth floor.
When the elevator arrived, Xu Qingsong pushed a suitcase to the right in each hand and reached the door in less than two steps.
The lock uses fingerprints and passwords. Xu Qingsong first took out his mobile phone, opened an APP, and held Liu Wangxue in his arms: "Here, record your fingerprints. If you come to Beijing again in the future, don't stay there. It’s a hotel, stay here.”
Liu Wangxue cooperated with him in taking fingerprints, but also asked: "What do you mean?"
"What do you mean?" Xu Qingsong said, "Isn't it obvious? This is who you will be from now on. The mistress of the house!"
After finishing his fingerprint recording, he took Liu Wangxue's hand and pressed the lock switch on the door. When the lock light came on, a mechanical sound sounded: " Welcome home."
Xu Qingsong pushed the door in and walked in with Liu Wangxue in his arms: "Welcome home!"