single sickness

After returning from Du's house in the evening, Xiang Mo and Du Chi went to the shopping mall near the old bungalow.

Earlier, Xiang Mei said that she would meet some old friends when she returned to China, but in fact, she wanted to attend the university alumni meeting held in a five-star hotel tomorrow.Her best friends will bring their husbands to participate, but she is alone, so she can only ask Xiang Mo to be her male companion.

Xiang Mo didn't have any formal clothes in his closet, and he didn't know much about suit brands, so Du Chi naturally became a consultant.

"Show him that triangle collar blazer again."

In the magnificent brand store, Du Chi was sitting on the sofa, with his right leg crossed over his left, his fingers crossed on his lap, like a strict casting director, looking up and down at Xiang Mo.

"Isn't this one okay now?" Xiang Mo frowned slightly, not wanting to change into the eighth set of clothes again.

"It's not special." Du Chi's lips parted slightly, and he said without negotiating, "Change."

Well, Xiang Mo really doesn't like shopping.

If he is still single now, he can paint, watch movies, and do whatever he wants during this period of time, instead of being here to satisfy this stinky dog's bad taste.

Du Chi was obviously enjoying the dress-up show, Xiang Mo was not blind, it's not that he couldn't see it.

But love is such a miracle. Once you have a relationship with your lover, you will unconsciously want to compromise on things you obviously don't want to do.

Of course, Xiang Mo's compromise is not without a bottom line, at least sacrificing time to satisfy the stinky dog ​​is still worth doing in his heart.

After changing into a pure white suit, a middle-aged woman dressed casually in short sleeves and jeans suddenly walked in at the door of the store.

Xiang Mei went straight to Du Chi and sat down, folded her arms around her chest, looked at Xiang Mo and said, "Are you looking forward to it?"

"Five sets." Du Chi said, "Auntie, let's take a look."

Even Xiang Mo didn't know which five sets Du Chi had his eye on, but that wasn't the point. He looked at his mother and asked, "Aren't you going to have dinner with your best friend?"

"I came here after eating." Du Chi answered the question as it should be, as if this kind of thing should be asked to him.

Xiang Mei also tacitly agreed that it was Du Chi who answered for her. She ignored Xiang Mo and asked Du Chi, "Which five sets? Show me."

Xiang Mo tried on so many suits, but Du Chi actually remembered which five suits they were.

Originally, he only wanted to buy a suit for tomorrow's alumni meeting, but a certain rich man insisted on paying and bought everything he was satisfied with.

"Where are we going next?" Xiang Mei asked, holding Du Chi's arm.

Du Chi suggested: "Women's clothes on the third floor?"

Xiang Mei made a gesture of rushing forward: "GO!"

Xiang Mo followed behind with a lot of paper bags, thinking how did these two become best friends?

Who is the husband?How can I let my wife carry things by herself!

After Xiang Mei had finished shopping, Xiang Mo and Du Chi took her back to the hotel room where she was staying.

Tomorrow's alumni meeting will be held in this hotel. At this time, the banquet hall on the second floor is already setting up tomorrow's venue. When Xiang Mo and Du Chi took the elevator and passed the second floor, they could still see the signboard at the entrance of the hall, which read Author of "XX University Chinese Department Alumni Association".

The signboard flashed by, but neither of them paid much attention to it.

Coming out of the hotel, Du Chi asked Xiang Mo, "Do you want me to accompany you tomorrow?"

"No need." Xiang Mo shook his head, "Aren't you still preparing for the press conference in your studio?"

Previously, Du Chi had won the Founder Award in his personal capacity. Now that the studio is established, he really needs an opportunity to let more people know.

Today I went back to Du Chi's villa to meet Du Chi's father. In fact, Xiang Mo's art exhibition was secondary, and Du Chi's press conference was the focus.It was also because of this that Du Chi's father, who had no feelings for Xiang Mo, was willing to take the time to meet the two of them.

The time and place of the press conference have been confirmed, and it will be held at the Fanghe Art Museum next weekend.In the next week, Du Chi needs to prepare his speech and determine the font he will promote at the press conference.

In comparison, nothing is more important than Du Chi's press conference right now.Naturally, Xiang Mo also thinks so, because he and Du Chi are a whole.

"Then I'll pick you up after you're done." Du Chi said.

It only takes about 10 minutes to walk home from the hotel, but for couples in love, even this short [-] to [-] minutes, they don't want to waste it.

Xiang Mo raised the corner of his mouth: "Okay."

The next morning, Xiang Mo came to the hotel by watching the time.

He was wearing a beige suit. The design of the cuffs and the cut of the trouser legs were different from traditional suits, making him look young but elegant.

Xiang Mei, who was walking beside him, was wearing a long bohemian dress with a big red flower pinned behind her ear. Compared with the mature and stable ladies in dresses, she looked downright Like Xiang Mo's peers.

"Meimei, my God, is your son so handsome?"

As soon as he entered the venue, someone greeted him with a champagne glass.Xiang Mo was not used to being with so many people for a while, so Xiang Mei took two glasses of champagne from the waiter beside him and handed him one.

"This is mom, my college roommate." Xiang Mei introduced the two of them, "A talented woman who has published many collections of poetry."

Xiang Mo nodded and said, "Hello, Auntie."

"Is your son not married yet? Is there a partner? I have a relative's daughter—"

Xiang Mo's brows twitched imperceptibly, how come the topic of a blind date is brought up in just three sentences after meeting?

"Okay." Xiang Mei waved her hand and interrupted her, "My son has a partner, and the relationship between the two is good."

After separating from this aunt, Xiang Mei brought Xiang Mo to meet many people.If Du Chi is a social terrorist, then his mother is no different.

Fortunately, only good roommates would talk about blind dates with Xiang Mei, and other ordinary college alumni would only praise Xiang Mo for being young and handsome, and would not know much about his love life.

Most of the people who graduated from the Chinese Department of prestigious schools are doing well.There are writers, screenwriters, and many teachers.

Just as Xiang Mo followed Xiang Mei through the crowd, an excited voice suddenly sounded from behind them: "Sister!"

Xiang Mei turned her head first, and then her eyes lit up: "Du Bin!"

Xiang Mo has nothing to do with the word "senior sister", so he didn't react when he heard it.It was Xiang Mei who turned her head first, and then he followed her slowly.

However, seeing this, he almost had a heart attack.

"...Dubin?"

Xiang Mo looked at the middle-aged man who was walking over. He was obviously not smiling when he was eating yesterday, like a Bodhisattva Fudo, but today he was smiling like a different person.

"Have you heard of Du Bin?" Xiang Mei heard Xiang Mo's murmur, "He's a very famous collector, a student just a level behind me, and he had a good relationship with me when he was studying."

Xiang Mo knew this Mr. Du, but what he didn't know was that this Mr. Du was called Du Bin.

He silently took out his phone, clicked on Du Chi's WeChat dialog box, deleted the word "Du Bin" in the note, and replaced it with "husband".

At that time, Du Bin had already come to the front, and Xiang Mo quickly put away the phone.

"Sister, it's really hard to see you." Du Bin focused all his attention on Xiang Mei, "How long are you going to stay in China this time?"

"I'm leaving the day after tomorrow. I owe several manuscripts, so I don't have much time to relax."

"I have read all the articles you wrote, and they are as sharp as ever."

Speaking of this, Du Bin seemed to have finally noticed Xiang Mo, just as he said "this is", his smile froze on his face.

It wasn't the kind of displeasure and anger, and Xiang Mo couldn't describe it, but he guessed that maybe this Mr. Du was experiencing an emotion so embarrassing that he wanted to pick his toe.

"Isn't this...Xiang the painter?"

The voice suddenly became much more stable, and the joyful expression disappeared.

Xiang Mo seemed to see a dog running around happily, and suddenly found someone taking pictures, and immediately became reserved.

It is true that like father, like son.

"You know each other?" Xiang Mei looked at the two of them in surprise.

"He and my son..." Du Bin was obviously not sure whether Xiang Mei knew about this, and hesitated whether to speak out.

"Hello, Uncle." Xiang Mo greeted generously, and then said to Xiang Mei, "He is Du Chi's father."

"What?!" Xiang Mei's eyes widened immediately, "Why didn't you say it earlier?"

Xiang Moxin thought, how do I know you know each other?

"Xiao Xiang." Du Bin changed his address, and treated Xiang Mo much more kindly, "Uncle didn't take good care of him yesterday, so don't take it to heart."

"Yesterday?" Xiang Mei asked strangely.

"No, Uncle Du." After Xiang Mo said this, he said to Xiang Mei, "I went to Du Chi's house yesterday."

Xiang Mei immediately understood what was going on, looked at Du Bin with a frown and said, "Du Bin, don't you kid bully my son."

"How could it be, senior sister." Du Bin laughed a few times, and came over and put his arms around Xiang Mo's shoulders, "Xiao Xiang, the art exhibition is left to uncle."

the other side.

Du Chi's cell phone vibrated while frying steak.

He picked it up and saw that it was a group photo sent by his wife.

There are three people in the group photo, all of which he is very familiar with, but the appearance of these three people in the same group photo completely puzzled him.

Du Chi: "?"

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Du Chi: You see, I would say that we are destined.