Chapter 32: Looking Back at Dusk (4)
The first thing I did when I got off work was to move into a private office on the 52nd floor.
The speed of the engineering team is really fast, and it only took a dozen days for the layout of the 52nd floor to take on a new look. In addition to the newly added offices, there are also lounges, gyms, and multi-purpose halls. I never knew that the 52nd floor was so large.
I was placed in a room at the end of the hallway, and the acrylic sign at the door read "Designer Xu Nian", which made me feel strange.
It's just that this corner is the farthest distance to go.
It's better to stay away, I said in my heart, at least I won't encounter it often.
Pepper happily came to me to show me the plants she had personally selected for me.
In front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, there are rows of large and small plants, full of life.
"Are you asking me to come to the 52nd floor to raise flowers?"
"You have no conscience, I sacrificed my vacation in order to pick these for you, and accompanied Mr. Gu and Mr. Liang to spend an afternoon in the Vermilion Bird Flower Market...... And, you see, everything in your office is hand-picked by us. ”
I swept my eyes around, and it was indeed carefully arranged, not like the tables and chairs distributed by the manufacturer like the assistant room on the 36th floor.
It's just Gu Qichen? How could he?
"Nian Nian," Xiao Pepper suddenly became serious and asked, "I have always wanted to ask you, why did you and Gu Qichen separate back then? Was it because he abandoned you because he was too cumbersome after the family changed? Or did he have a new love? But why do I always feel that he doesn't look like that kind of person?"
I didn't expect this past to be mentioned.
The nightmare memory.
"Xixi, Aunt Fang shouldn't have made such a request to you at this time, but I only have one child, Chen'er, his grandfather and his father have high hopes for him, and Chen'er has repeatedly postponed his study abroad plan because of you, you may know all of this......"
"If Chen'er succeeds in learning and can run the company well in the future, he will still admire you at that time, and Aunt Fang promises you that she will never stop you. But now, you must separate from him and let him leave without distractions. ”
What is it in my nightmares?
"Your family has fallen, you can't be a stumbling block to his future, leave my son, you are not worthy of him at all......"
"From now on, don't make any extravagant hopes, you are not all the way......" The voice in the dream was poignant and cold.
"Lin Yuxi, thank you for letting me go. How happy I am now, how happy!"
"Lin Yuxi, you don't deserve to be loved and hurt by others, you are a betrayal. In the dream, another voice was wanton and indifferent.
"Nian Nian! Nian Nian!"
Pepper shouted my name next to her.
I came back to my senses.
"If you don't want to say it, don't say it, but don't cry, I don't ask!"
I realized that I had already burst into tears.
Pepper handed over the tissue and said with pity, "How hard you have worked all these years! But now it's okay, from the time you meet my sister. I will always be there for you and give you support. As he spoke, his voice was dumb.
"Hey," she sniffed through a tissue, "it seems that sensationalism is not for me." ”
We all laughed at the funny look.
"But your office is so far away, it would take me a few minutes to go back and forth. I don't know who arranged for you here?"
"How can you be so exaggerated?"
I don't want to think about how long it takes to take the elevator from the 1st floor to the 52nd floor?
"Alright," she patted me on the shoulder and said, "Sister is leaving, work hard, don't be lazy!"
After Pepper left, I collapsed into my chair and didn't want to move.
I thought that after all these years, I had already learned what it means to be strong. But what's wrong with me these days? How can I be so vulnerable?
It wasn't until three o'clock in the afternoon that my stomach began to ache faintly, and I remembered that I had missed my meal at noon.
On the corner of the first floor street, Lao Fan's house asked for a red bean and millet porridge, the store asked me if I wanted to add sugar, I shook my head, pointed to the soup used to adjust the dough and said to him to add two spoonfuls, he looked at me in astonishment, Xu thought that this girl was a little strange, and then did it casually.
When the meal was served, I was stunned when I looked at the bowl of fragrant and smooth millet porridge.
I remember when I was a child, I drank my mother's millet porridge, and paired with her own special crispy diced radish, the taste was simply delicious.
Actually, I was not born with a golden key, if I want to say with a golden key, it should be Lin Shangyang, he is six years younger than me, after he was born, my father's company has been quite large.
When I was a child, Gu Qichen and I would often eat the rice cooked by my mother, and she would always go to school to do her business after boiling porridge, and when she left, she told Gu Qichen and me to let it cool before drinking.
Millet porridge is our favorite drink, and sometimes when we finish eating the diced radish and don't know how to cook anything else, he will pour the soup into the bowl and stir it and drink it sizzling.
I followed his example, and when I first drank it, I choked on my tears, and then I couldn't stop falling in love with this mixture of sweet and sour.
drank a sip of porridge, without the taste of my mother and the breath of Gu Qichen.
It turns out that time has changed not only people, but even the taste of childhood memories has drifted apart.
Involuntarily my eyes were fogged.
"Yo! I met someone with the same taste as me again!"
A flamboyant voice came from his ears.
I looked up, and the tears in my eyes only allowed me to see a vague shadow.
When he looked down, tears flowed down one by one and fell into the bowl.
I gulped down the porridge with tears, as if I had tasted the bittersweet and sour taste, as if I had been vaccinated, so that somewhere in my body would not be so painful.
Seeing that I couldn't respond, the man pulled out the chair in front of him and sat down on his own.
"Boss, I want a porridge that is exactly the same as this young lady. ”
The sound was so loud that the eyes of the entire restaurant were drawn to it.
I drank the porridge and quietly shed tears, not wanting to have any contact with him.
Suddenly, a hand reached out from the other side and grabbed the tablet on my chest, and I had to lean forward.
"New Territories Decoration, Designer, Xu Nian!
I raised my eyes.
He has a good-looking face, white skin, like carved facial features. A well-cut handmade suit doesn't fit in with this small restaurant.
How long has it been since you cried in front of outsiders?
I thought the tears would run out in the past. In just a few days, it was as unbearable as the flooding of the Yellow River.
Being watched by outsiders like this is somewhat abrupt and unscrupulous.
I specially found a corner to sit in, but I was still disturbed.
I don't have the extra heart to pay attention to the people I'm talking to. Paid the money and walked out.
When I was about to get downstairs at the company, I heard the sound of a car engine behind me.
A red sports car was parked about a meter away from me, the window rolled down, and it was the man in the shop just now.
"Sister Porridge, we'll see each other soon!" he poked his head out, looking smug.
The teasing tone and his upside-down face simply complemented each other.
I glared at him, but he didn't care.
With one foot on the accelerator, the red sports car disappeared in a puff of smoke.
I made up my makeup in the bathroom for a long time, but I couldn't cover the traces of crying, so I just left.
Now in the same company, what should be seen is always to be seen, no one can stop what should come, and what should be remembered cannot be forgotten.
But life has to go on, and I really enjoy what I do.
In the evening, there was an extra shift, and the lights were already shining outside the window. I turned off the lights and was about to leave, only to remember that the USB flash drive was still on the computer. Then I took advantage of the light of the mobile phone to touch the computer and pulled out the USB flash drive.
When I turned around, the lights were dim on the other side.
Gu Qichen stood tall with his hands in his pockets, standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window.
He's in the light, I'm in the dark, and our eyes meet like this.
I wandered over him in the dark background, my gaze unscrupulously......