Chapter 20: The Rings of the Brand
It was already three o'clock in the morning when I got home with Du Yuan on my back, and I wanted to write something after I was drunk.
I had no choice but to have a terrible headache, and I had to go to work the next day, so I went directly to the cubicle next door, and I didn't bother to take off my clothes, so I slept under the quilt.
When I woke up in the morning, Du Yuan cooked me millet porridge, and while I was surprised that she could cook porridge, I found that everything on my table seemed to have been moved.
"You've read all the manuscripts on the table?"
Du Yuan filled me with a bowl of porridge and put it in front of me: "Well, I want to know about you, I want to know what you are thinking here, I thought about it for a long time last night, so I read those manuscripts." Du Yuan pointed to his heart and said this to me.
I avoided Du Yuan's topic, picked up the bowl and drank millet porridge: "I'm going to work today, do you go home or say something." ”
I remembered the key in the drawer in my room, put down the bowl in my hand, went back to my room, took the key out and put it on the table.
"No, the key to your house, I went to get you clothes last time, and when I went back, I found that you were gone, and the key has been with me for a long time. ”
Du Yuan put away the key and scooped the top layer of millet porridge in the bowl with a spoon: "You're not afraid of being hot?"
"It's okay, I didn't feel hot. Remembering that the last time Du Yuan ate a soup dumpling in the hospital, she was afraid of being hot, and thought she was just sick and sensitive to temperature: "Is it hot, you can't eat it?"
"Hmm. ”
"Then you can let it cool for a while before eating, but don't be too cold, it's better to eat something to warm your stomach in winter. ”
After eating, I put down the bowl, and if I went to the company late, I would be late, put my phone in my pocket, and was ready to go out.
"Give me a pair of keys from your side. Du Yuan cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks I had just put down.
Without thinking too much about it, I took the key out of my pocket and threw it to her.
When I arrived at the company, Sister Zhang, the human resources director, told me that I was arranged to go on a business trip with our department head in the afternoon, and I might not be able to come back in the evening.
When I returned to my seat, Park Hao, the head of our department, called me over, and then went to the conference room with two other people in the department.
Brother Hao opened the folder in his hand: "It's almost New Year's Day, recently the company took over a project, which is a real estate promotional copy, in the afternoon, Li Da and I went on a business trip, went there for a field trip, and when you came back, you told them some detailed things." ”
After seeing me nodding, Brother Hao continued: "Hurry up the things at hand before New Year's Day, all projects will enter the final stage after New Year's Day, if nothing else, there will be only a few promotional copywriting for the real estate that I went to inspect this afternoon, is there any problem?"
On my first business trip in six months since I came to the company, I don't know much about some details: "Is the theme of this time their characteristics or artificially given by us?"
"It's not decided yet, and I'm not in a hurry, I won't talk about it when I get there, you don't have to prepare in advance, there is a high probability that this project will be after New Year's Day, so the most important thing is to follow up on the things at hand, and if there is no problem, the meeting will be dismissed, Li Da, you go and prepare for it." ”
After the meeting, I went there to ask Xiao Wu, about the initial research of the project, Xiao Wu took the planning of a previous real estate project and gave it to me.
"This is a promotional copy from before, and it's pretty much the same, so take it back and read it. ”
After understanding the general framework structure, I marked the key parts involved, and then went out to call Du Yuan.
"I'm on a business trip this afternoon, and I shouldn't be able to go back in the evening, and if you go back, you won't have to come over tonight. ”
I actually have a hunch in my heart that Du Yuan will not go back, and we maintain a complicated and ambiguous relationship, although she has repeatedly wanted to break through, my constant evasion has left her helpless.
"Well, then you pay attention to safety, pay attention to keep warm. ”
I hung up the phone, and it seemed like overnight, and our relationship was actually a little different from before.
At noon, after Brother Hao took me out for dinner, he drove directly to Suzhou, and it was already four or five o'clock when I got there.
Booked a hotel, went out to have dinner with Brother Hao and returned to the hotel, Brother Hao pressed my shoulder: "Have a good rest at night, there is not much to pay attention to, tomorrow you will see how I go to investigate, you cooperate with me next time, next time you will be responsible, let others cooperate with you." ”
I nodded, returned to the room, and as soon as I lay down, I began to think about what Du Yuan was doing, whether she had gone back or not, I was hesitating to call him, and the phone came from her side, and I answered the phone.
"Hey, what's wrong. ”
"Where do you guess I am?"
"Well, at your house?"
"No, guess again. ”
"Confucius Temple?"
"Still not right. ”
At this time, I heard the engine voice of Du Yuan's boat: "You are by the river." ”
"You guessed it, punish you and say goodnight to me. ”
"Good night. ”
As soon as I finished speaking, Du Yuan hung up the phone over there, which made me a little baffled, I didn't know what Du Yuan was doing, but fortunately I didn't think about it.
I opened my phone and looked at the circle of friends, Tang Xi updated the news in the afternoon, a selfie of her, with a text: I was emotional today, and I cried after watching a movie.
At this time, I thought about Tang Xi watching a movie and crying, and commented below with a smile.
As soon as he finished commenting, Du Yuan called on WeChat.
"What are you doing?"
"Ready for bed. ”
"Sleep so early, are you lying to me?"
"No, I'm on a business trip today, and I'm going to visit a project tomorrow. ”
"I don't believe it. ”
Tang Xi's phone hung up quickly, and then the video came, and when I hesitated to answer, my hand had already clicked.
"Xixi, look, this is in the hotel, I didn't lie to you. ”
"You're not in good spirits, and you've lost a lot of weight. ”
I looked at Tang Xi in the video with a smile: "Are you okay?"
"I want to say I'm good, but I don't want to lie to you, I'm not good. ”
I was stunned by Tang Xi's sudden words, I thought that she was not doing well, what I didn't expect was that someone who would never say bad would really say that she was not good to me one day.
"Lie to you, I thought about a lot of things, we were too irrational at the time, I said I was rational, if I was rational at the time, I wouldn't have been like that with you, so during this time I was reflecting on myself.
I thought about it a lot, and a lot of what you said was right, and I felt that when I was rational, it was actually the time when I was the most emotional and the most unable to control my emotions. ”
After listening to Tang Xi say so much, I found that she had changed, and the way she thought about problems was different from before, she didn't seem to be reflecting, but just blindly leaning in my direction.
"You can live well, be kind to yourself. ”
"Don't talk about it, my mom should come to see me again in a while. ”
I didn't react to the sudden interruption of the video, and Du Yuan also hung up my phone suddenly.
I seem to be a little embarrassed, about Tang Xi and Du Yuan, I don't know how to choose, Tang Xi tried to make changes for me, but Du Yuan I don't want to hurt her.
Unconsciously, time seems to have carved an indecisive label on me, the so-called time nick, and the annual rings like a tree appeared on my body, circle after circle, which represents that I have always been the same trajectory.