Two years later, I had completed an internship at a company directly under the central government, and like all recent college students who had just graduated and had no relationship, I was assigned to work in the office building of this small 18th-tier county. Everything in the past was swept into the pile of personal history, including the events of my college days and the people I came into contact with.

I got a dormitory in a small county town called Shunhe Street, next door to my colleague Lao Fan, who asked me to call him that because he was two months older than me.

Because of his family connections, he did not intern, but went directly to the agency, which also made him respected by clerks at all levels like us, because everyone thought he was a related person.

This is because my unit and all the state-owned enterprises directly under the central government are carved out of the same mold, with the same benefits and advantages as all state-owned enterprises directly under the central government, and at the same time, they also have the same atmosphere.

At this time, I worked diligently in the unit every day to do work that had nothing to do with my hobbies and future. I didn't learn the same drinking and playing mahjong that college students who graduated and joined the work in the same year as I did, nor did I learn the trick of older colleagues to invite the leader to dinner and give gifts to the leader to make personal career progress.

I wake up at half past six every morning, water my crab claw orchids, feed my two red-capped tiger heads, and then hike to the snack bar in front of the Shunhe Street vegetable market for breakfast, usually two buns and a bowl of soy milk, and sometimes eat a bowl of fat intestine rice noodles like the locals.

Then he walked to the office, cleaned up before Lao Zeng and Sister Liu, who were in the same office, arrived, then smoked a cigarette, sat in his seat for a while, and waited for the start of the day's work after going to work.

At noon and at night, I was in the cafeteria full of all kinds of gossip and gossip, eating the food contracted by the rural relatives of the unit leader, which tasted bad but was cheap and abundant, and after dinner, I walked back to the dormitory on Shunhe Street, and wrote a novel about the love between teachers and students under the withered yellow lamp.

This kind of life makes me seem to have no desires and no desires, and I will not offend anyone, but it is my attitude towards work and life that makes many people in the unit dissatisfied, and I can't understand the psychological state of these people until many years later.

Human life is like the floating clouds in the sky, and like the endless waves of the sea, the calm time accounts for most of the time, and the wind blows the clouds, the moment of stormy waves will always appear.

The reason for the incident was that Sister Liu, who was in the same office, wanted to introduce me to a girlfriend.

My colleague Sister Liu, like other middle-aged women in the unit, is keen to introduce new unmarried college students to their partners.

Because in the eyes of all the middle-aged women in our unit with traditional virtues and historical heritage, every college student is a potential stock. Of course, Lao Fan was the first target to be selected, and I, who had no relationship or background, was the last one.

Sister Liu told me about this on a sunny afternoon. On that day, our leaders went to the construction site to accompany the leaders of the superior units to inspect. And full-time errand runners like me and Sister Liu are not qualified to perform in front of the leader, so the two of us stayed in the office together.

I was working on the plot of the novel at my desk by the window, when a bee buzzed out of the window and flew onto my keyboard, and I was annoyed that my train of thought had been interrupted, so I picked up my notepad and "snapped" it on the keyboard.

Sister Liu, who was watching a movie with headphones on, sensed the movement, took off the headphones, stood up and walked to me, looked at me who was cleaning up the bee corpses that had changed from three to two, and said with a smile: "Xiao Xu, you are a little violent!"

I took the toilet paper and swept the flat version of the cute little bee to the trash can under the table, turned my head to the explosive head shape that I knew at a glance that it was rolled out of household plastic hair curls, wearing a dark red old-fashioned red shirt that no one could ask and buy from a cheap stall in the wholesale market on the edge of the city, dark blue bodybuilding pants of the same style as the dancing aunt in the square, and Sister Liu, who was issued by the unit with calfskin heels and leather shoes from the labor insurance expenses, said lightly: "I'm not afraid that it will sting you!"

Sister Liu laughed, and her mouth exuded the smell of meat in the canteen at noon after three bites, and only the taste of vegetable and meat buns in the skin was left after the fourth bite.

"Not bad, Xiao Xu, I have learned to care about you Sister Liu. She said with a haha.

"Yes, yes, you usually take good care of me. I replied calmly, hoping that she would leave as soon as possible, and I still had a little bit of the plot of the novel that I hadn't thought through.

"Tell me something!" she continued.

You say. I said, feeling irritable.

"Look, your parents are gone, and you're here alone, and you're usually quite lonely. She said, looking at my face.

"It's okay, I don't have many hobbies, and the unit is pretty good to me. I said calmly.

"What's good? Men should get married and women should get married, you are in your twenties, although it is no problem for men to get married and have children later, but you know your own conditions, and it is not easy to find. Her voice sharpened, as if she was reprimanding her husband, who joined the work 20 years ago and is still working as a technician in a grassroots unit.

"What do you mean?" I asked tentatively.

"Well, what about me, I have a distant relative from the Institute of Physics, you know that they have just moved from the mountains to the city, not far from us, and they are still in the prefecture-level city. They have a female doctor in their department, she has a house and a car, she is three or four years older than you, she is called a beautiful person, and it is more than enough to match you, and she has no boyfriend yet, and she wants to find a husband and go straight to get married. Do you think you'll have time to go and have a look?"

"That's right. I hesitated for a moment, and was about to refuse, but she continued: "Don't hesitate, there is no such shop in this village." ”

Without waiting for me to answer, she continued: "Then Sunday, remember to wear the spirit point, I asked my relatives to bring people over, after all, she has a car, and we are tall and handsome guys, but we can't let them underestimate it." ”

I was overwhelmed by her barrage, so I had to say, "Listen to your arrangement." ”

She turned around happily and went back, saying as she walked, "Listen to your sister Liu, I'm going to call." ”

Taking advantage of this opportunity, I quickly packed up my things and fled the office, not even going to the cafeteria, and ran back to Shunhe Street.

On Sunday morning, I slept an extra two hours as usual.

After getting up and washing, I accompanied my crab claw orchid and tiger head on the balcony. I lit a cigarette and was about to think about the plot of the novel when Sister Liu's call came.

Wearing a T-shirt printed with a pulsing green villain, a navy blue suit issued by the unit for the conference, and jeans that had not been washed for a week as usual, and a pair of pull back shoes of 68 yuan that had just been washed two days ago and had not dried very well, I went out and ran to the river.

Arriving at the bottom of the teahouse located by the river, I looked at myself in front of the mirror in front of the service desk. Under the eyes are big bags formed by staying up late to write novels, and the lips are a little chapped because of long-term smoking, and they are dark purple, and everything else is fine. I combed my hair with my hands and walked upstairs with my legs up.

It was too early at this time, and there was little business in the teahouse. Walking into the hall, I saw Sister Liu sitting next to the booth facing the direction of the hall door. She also saw me, raised her hand and shouted exaggeratedly: "Xiao Xu Xiao Xu, here and here." Her shrill cries echoed through the empty halls, and my ears were filled with a constant "...... of "

I was slightly embarrassed and said, "I heard it, I heard it." Walked to the booth and sat down next to Sister Liu.

Sitting opposite was a middle-aged woman with short hair and tortoiseshell glasses about the same age as Sister Liu, wearing a small blue suit and a glittering corsage pinned to her chest that she knew was expensive at a glance.

Next to her sat a young woman in a lilac dress and large-rimmed black glasses, with a ponytail and no makeup, holding a cup of milk tea with her head down.

"Let me introduce you. Sister Liu laughed twice and said. I turned a deaf ear to Sister Liu's words, and my eyes drifted to the window, and the willow trees by the river sent out new branches, and the tender green fluttered in the wind. Several middle-aged people wearing hoods and sportswear walked down the embankment. The river was nowhere to be seen, and in the distance the sun had broken free from the mountains and was struggling to rise.

I was thinking about whether I should go to eat the fat sausage dry rice at the iron gate threshold or the mixed sauce noodles of old Beijing for lunch, when I heard a cold and unfamiliar but familiar voice from the other side.

"Aunt Liu, no need to introduce. ”

I looked up and saw that the young woman opposite me had already put down the milk tea, her eyes behind black-rimmed glasses were bright and deep, and her face was smiling and revealing two small shallow dimples.

In an instant, the memories of two years ago that had been sent to the cold palace by me flooded into my mind like a tide. I stood up "rubbing", and as soon as I stepped out of the booth, I heard the other party say in a playful tone: "You run a try? Haven't you understood my sister's methods?"

I fixed my mind, ignored the surprised eyes of the serious middle-aged woman and Sister Liu across from me, and retracted my feet and sat back in the booth.

The young woman leaned back with her hands folded, looked at me and smiled, and said, "That's right, my sister is a black belt with five ranks." ”

I looked at her and smiled, but didn't speak.

She raised a hand to wipe the bangs on her forehead, and said neatly, "Xiao Xu, don't come to harm?"

I said helplessly, "What the hell do you want to do?"

She shrugged her shoulders and continued to look at me with a smile on her face for a while, and said, "I need a husband, so come on a blind date!"

I said, "You go to someone else, this blind date was unsuccessful." ”

She said: "That's not good, you were requisitioned by your sister, and your sister will be responsible for doing things!"

I sneered and said, "You are all female doctors, senior intellectuals, think for yourself what is the behavior of forcing others to do things that others are unwilling to do by force in modern society?"

She also sneered and said: "It's not good for others, there is no difference between willing and unwilling to treat you." ”

I was speechless, ready to deal with this crazy woman with silence.

But she was silent, and with a calm face, she took out a bulging purse from her jacket pocket and threw it on the table with a "pop".

I laughed angrily, turned my head to the dumbfounded Sister Liu and said, "I'm sorry, Sister Liu, today's blind date was unsuccessful." He said to the middle-aged woman with the same expression as Sister Liu on the other side, "I'm sorry." With that, he stood up and prepared to leave.

She slammed her fist on the table and yelled, "Sit down." ”

I sneered twice, and was about to take a step, but I saw her take out a photo in her wallet and throw it on the table with a "pop".

The morning sun shines on the photo in the center of the table, a chubby, bald kid holding a big apple and smiling brightly at me, it looks like a child advertising milk powder on TV, no, much cuter than those children.

I looked at the woman across from me in amazement.

Her face flushed slightly, and then she said in an obviously gentle tone: "Your son can't get a household registration, so you must marry me." ”

Then she regained her cold expression, looked at me indifferently and said, "Of course, if you really don't agree, it's okay, I can find someone to do it." ”

I ignored her, picked up the photo and looked at the little fat man in the photo carefully, the photo of me when I was a child appeared in my mind, and it was almost carved out of a mold.

The aunt and Sister Liu on the other side looked at each other, and Sister Liu said cautiously: "Xiao Xu, why don't you talk, let's go first?" I ignored her. The woman on the other side said to her, "Well, thank you." ”

The middle-aged woman on the other side stood up and said to me, "Xiao Xu, our Xiao Miao is very good, although she was sick before, but now she is all well." The woman opposite slammed the punch on the table again, and the teacup on the table jumped, and the lid of the cup made a jingling sound. The two middle-aged women were frightened, and quickly left the teahouse with their bags.

The waiter at the teahouse stood at the door and asked, "What's wrong?" She didn't look back and yelled, "Get out." The other party quickly shrunk his neck and retreated.

The teahouse fell silent, and I asked with a slight tremor in my hand holding the photograph, "Is this true?" while looking at her with questioning eyes.

But she waved her hand impatiently and said, "Give me a good word." ”

I said, "I don't have experience, do we need to get to know each other first?"

But she lowered her face and said, "What else do you want to know?"

I thought about it, laughed, and said, "I didn't bring my ID card and household registration book. ”

She looked at me, and suddenly the corners of her mouth turned upward, her face flushed, and she whispered, "Fool, today Sunday, tomorrow morning I will come to you." ”