People are often afraid of loneliness, so they must know a lot of people, preferably very powerful people. This way, you will feel safe when you are among people.

Therefore, we often talk about the word "network" and rely on friends when going out. It seems that the more people you know, the easier your life will be.

But after experiencing the world, you will gradually discover that adult friendship is ultimately an exchange of resources, and the more money is talked about, the easier it is for the relationship to collapse.

There are copper walls between people. In real life, it is difficult for you to understand the whole picture of a person, but reading can break the situation.

Therefore, novels often contain secrets that you cannot see in the real world.

Regarding adult relationships, read Jia Pingwa's novel "Sitting Temporarily" and you will understand.

Hai Ruo, the owner of the tea house, is a rich man, so the best friends around her are all glamorous, and they get together every now and then.

Hairuo has a wide network of contacts and is generous, so she is the core figure among the sisters.

These women either run businesses or open shops. In short, they are all big or small bosses. They are financially independent and can buy whatever they want and go wherever they want.

They get together to talk about their worries. The most important thing is to exchange resources. You introduce your business to me, and I will bring a few wealthy bosses to your store.

It seems harmonious and beautiful, but such a relationship can be broken at the first glance.

Among the ten sisters, there is a beauty named Yan Nianchu.

She was young but very rich. When she met the sisters, she had just been divorced and was selling medical equipment.

Because he was in the medical equipment business, Yan Nianchu became extremely close to a middle-aged man named Dean Wang.

In order to please Dean Wang, when she heard that one of his friends was in urgent need of money, she pulled Ying Lihou, a good sister she met at the teahouse, over.

Ying Lihou is a wealthy landlord. She has 23 front-end houses for rent under her name, so she is very rich.

Dean Wang, a friend, urgently needed 10 million cash for business, so Yan Nianchu encouraged Ying Lihou to lend money. When Ying Li later learned that when she lent the money, she would get 500,000 yuan in interest every month, she agreed without hesitation.

In the first three months, the interest was paid exactly.

But in the fourth month, the boss ran away because he owed too much debt and the business was losing money.

Ying Li suddenly became anxious. Not to mention the interest, she couldn't even get back the principal now.

Dean Wang is quite reliable and said that as a guarantor, he will definitely repay the money for his friend. However, because he does not have much money, the money will have to be paid back in four years.

The longer someone waits to pay back the money, the lower they are. Ying Li suffered such a big loss and was in a daze all day long. She was very afraid that Dean Wang would not be able to pay back the money.

At this time, Yan Nianchu suddenly revealed her "villain" attitude.

She drafted a new contract with Dean Wang. In the contract, she quietly removed her status as "guarantor" and was freed from all responsibilities.

Ying Li felt aggrieved and complained. Later, she was blackmailed by a debt collection company, and she felt depressed.

But her good sister Yan Nianchu still went shopping in the most upscale shopping malls and didn't care about her pain at all.

When making friends, you are most afraid of meeting people like Yan Nianchu. You regard her as a friend and trust her, but she uses this trust to plot against you and hurt you.

However, Queen Ying Li is not completely innocent.

She was already very rich, but she was still greedy for more money. She had to wait for a long time and never knew how to be satisfied.

There is greed in human nature, but what differs from person to person is whether everyone can control their greed and not let it lead them into the abyss of desire.

Another mistake she made after marrying Li was that she trusted her friends too much and signed the newly signed contract without reading it carefully.

Friends are friends, and money is money. If you confuse the two, you will get neither.

Among the sisters, Xia Zihua, who was originally a model, got leukemia. So, the sisters were united and everyone took turns taking care of her.

But the woman lying dying on the hospital bed was still a creditor.

Good sister Feng Ying owes her 200,000 yuan but has not repaid her. Feng Ying is also a creditor. The person who owes her debt is the sisters' good friend, the writer Yi Guang. Yi Guang owes Feng Ying 150,000 yuan.

Feng Ying asked Yi Guang to return the 150,000 he owed him directly to Xia Zihua.

Yi Guang is not a man who is short of money. He has hundreds of thousands for every word, but he has not returned the money to Xia Zihua. He even felt angry that someone else forwarded his message, as if he was unwilling to pay back the money.

However, it was not until the end that Xia Zihua passed away, and Yi Guang suddenly discovered that Feng Ying, who had asked him to pay back the money, had died in a plane crash, so he panicked and quickly took out 150,000 to pay for Xia Zihua. Treat it as funeral expenses and pay off the debt.

Yi Guang himself is not short of money, but he always quietly forgets about "repaying money".

Perhaps, in his subconscious mind, Xia Zihua, who was already lying on the hospital bed, could not spend anything more, so why should he be in a hurry to pay back the money.

So, unconsciously, I put the matter of paying back the money out of my mind.

She had never thought that Xia Zihua had an old mother and a child who was not yet sensible. Both of them would need money in their future lives.

Moreover, although the sisters said that they would share the funeral expenses of Xia Zihua equally, it was too unkind for Yi Guang to pretend to be ignorant and cover up the money that originally belonged to Xia Zihua.

It is easy to borrow money but difficult to pay back. Therefore, debt collectors are always anxious. On the one hand, they are afraid of offending their friends with inappropriate words, and on the other hand, they are anxious to get their money back.

In order to properly collect debts, you have to think about it over and over again, and then find a suitable time to speak out. However, no matter how polite you say it, the person being debted will feel uncomfortable even if he pays back the money right away.

Therefore, before borrowing and repaying, the friendship is compromised.

When adults talk about money, the relationship is like being pulled apart, and the appearance immediately changes.

Jia Pingwa's "Sitting Temporarily" tells the stories of twelve women.

Like the once popular "Abandoned Capital", "Temporarily Sitting" is also an urban theme and is also set in Xijing.

"The Wasted City" writes about the decadence of men, while "Temporarily Sitting" writes about the confusion of women.

Jia Pingwa has lived in Xijing for more than 40 years. He knows this city just like he knows his own kitchen, bedroom, and living room. Even if he turns off the lights, he knows what is there.

Jia Pingwa wrote "Sitting Temporarily" because a teahouse he used to go to every day suddenly moved away, but he still remembered very clearly the grace of the female boss there and her group of best friends. .

However, the deeper the relationship, the more he discovered the unknown sides behind their financial independence and glamor.

So it took Lao Jia two years and four deletions to write his second urban-themed work "Temporarily Sitting".