It's already the beginning of June, and Wu Xue has been working at Xinlong Group for a month. People are always very adaptable. A month ago, she was in terrible pain and unbearable to wake up at six o'clock every day, but a month later, she is no longer so uncomfortable.

A month ago, she was still complacent about some old employees because they bought a bag of two or three hundred yuan and a pair of shoes of four or five hundred yuan, and they were proud and showed off everywhere among several sisters in the department and felt that these people were just dirt buns who had never seen the world, and they didn't know what was really high-class and what was really first-class; a month later, she began to yearn for the things she once disdained and despised, wondering whether to buy one or a pair of them.

As for the food that used to be like pig food in the group canteen, after eating "pig food" for a month, she can now slowly taste some "pig food". She has begun to slowly get used to the rhythm of the new life, and seems to be ready to accept her fate to meet the new life.

Until not long ago, a scolding phone call from her father woke her up like a slap in the air, waking her up when she no longer had any hope for the future.

On the phone, her father sharply asked why she only called 300 yuan to come back last month? The family was going to build a house, and her brother had a girlfriend and was going to get married in two years, but the woman said that she wanted a bride price of 50,000 yuan, and that she would have no house or bride price, so what would her brother marry? sacrifice", without the support of the whole family, young and old, would she be where she is today?

Bullshit college student!

In the end, her father warned her in a loud voice that if she dared to "withhold" the money sent to the family next month, he would not recognize her as a daughter, and asked her to return the "hundreds of thousands" that the family had spent on her in the past 20 years, and then break away from her father-daughter relationship!

In the face of these clichéd scoldings from her father, Wu Xue did not refute, only said "I know" and hung up the phone. Because she is used to it, she is also numb, and she is too lazy to argue, because the more she argues, the more she will arouse the anger of her extremely patriarchal father. Now she just regrets it, and she regrets why she was so big at the beginning, and she proudly told the whole family about her real income from her part-time job.

In addition to regretting telling her family about her actual income, she also regrets the betrayal of her best friend Chen Xiang a month ago. Now it seems that her parents, her younger brother who only knows how to spend money with a big hand, and is not angry, the whole family is not as good as Chen Xiang's classmates, at least, in the past four years with Chen Xiang, Chen Xiang, a good best friend, is willing to share hardships with her when it is difficult, and the two face the hardships of life together; It's ridiculous that a month ago, she betrayed Chen Xiang ungratefully.

"It's really a ghost!" Wu Xue sighed sadly.

After the sigh, the practical difficulties had to be solved, and the father's request had to be met as much as possible—she wouldn't really leave that house and then break away from her father, right?

She used to give Wang Bo an income of about 1,200 as a "life assistant", and at the end of each year, Wang Bo would also give him a big red envelope, initially 2,000, later increased to 3,000, and last year it was 4,000.

For salary, she spends 200 a month, saves 300, and sends 700 to her family.

As for the year-end bonus, since she knew that her parents were "insatiable", she didn't tell her family that she had a year-end bonus. She has saved the year-end bonus of a total of 9,000 yuan given by Wang Bo in the past three years, plus what she usually saves, and now she has about 20,000 yuan on hand.

Therefore, even if she is now interning in Xinlong, she can't save 700 yuan a month except for food and transportation, and with the savings of these two years, she can still maintain 700 yuan a month for her family for a long time.

However, she couldn't stand it anymore. Her father's scolding made her feel that her current life was meaningless. She gets up at dawn all day long, and can only go home at eight o'clock every night, six days a week, people are so tired that they don't say it, the money is still less, the money is still less, but in the end she can't get a good word, she was scolded by her parents who gave birth to herself and raised herself, people live to this extent, and are so tricked by fate, what is the meaning of her life?

It's not that she wants to die, it's better to die than to live, she hasn't had enough of this great world of flowers, she has a lot of enjoyment, such as the mysterious, let people die and live, like the love of men and women like ascending immortals, she hasn't tried it yet, how can she die easily? She just doesn't want to be like this, living like now, living without people, ghosts, not much worse than the walking dead. A month of internship and the baptism of cruel reality made her finally understand and finally realize:

If there is heaven, the days of staying by Wang Bo's side are heaven;

If there is a shortcut, follow your good girlfriend Chen Xiang to take the shortcut;

In addition, for her, an ordinary person who is poor and white, and has no background, it is her mother's "hell mode"! Not to mention anything else, let's just say that Xinlong has worked for several years as a salesman, if the business is not good, playing soy sauce in the department, the annual income is not much more than that she gave Wang Bo as a life assistant, but she is much tired! And she stays by Wang Bo's side, just the food expenses for a year, the income of those soy sauce salesmen for a year is not enough!

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Wednesday, 2 June 2004, a normal day for work. On this day, Wu Xue asked the leader of the department for a day off. She didn't go anywhere, didn't eat, didn't eat breakfast or lunch, and stayed in the dormitory to read.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, she took a shower, found her best clothes to change into, and then carefully put on makeup. As soon as she saw the time, it was almost five o'clock, and she began to go out.

Wu Xue, who got out of the girls' dormitory, went directly to the main teaching building near the school's Sun Plaza, and then took the elevator up to the seventh floor. She opened a classroom, walked to the window, and looked down through the window, there was a dormitory of the higher vocational college, a lotus pond, and an apartment for international students.

Wu Xue didn't open the window, just stood behind the window, and then stared at the door of the apartment in the international student apartment where the BMW she had sat in many times and the orange mini/cooper that she had never sat in before. The MINI was a car bought by Wang Boxin shortly after she started her internship in Xinlong, mainly used to commute to and from work for Zheng Yan, and Chen Xiang usually drove it when she bought vegetables. These are all things that Chen Xiang told her. If she hadn't gone to Xinlong for an internship, she would still be Wang Bo's "life assistant......

Wu Xue shook her head, there is no if in this world.

At half past five, Zheng Yan, a white-collar beauty with an elegant temperament wearing a professional skirt and a short-sleeved white shirt, walked out with a satchel, opened the door of the MINI, and got in. Soon, MINI skillfully reversed, turned around, and quickly drove out of the door of the student dormitory.

"The rest of Mr. Wang, Xiangxiang, Xinyue, and Luo Lin, I'm afraid they should be ready for dinner, right?" Imagining the scene in the house, Wu Xue, who hadn't eaten all day, swallowed her saliva and felt a surge of hunger.

Wu Xue continued to stare at the familiar apartment door, and about half an hour later, someone came out again, this time it was Chen Xiang, Luo Lin and Zhang Xinyue. Three times in turn, he waved to Wang Bo who was standing at the door and said goodbye. Wang Bo also nodded at them, and after the three of them turned to leave, he also turned around and entered the house without closing the door, which made Wu Xue somewhat relieved.

The condescending Wu Xue watched Zhang Xinyue and Luo Lin go out of the door of the international student apartment together, and saw Chen Xiang walking along a gentle slope towards the rented house halfway up the mountainside, so she withdrew her gaze.

Then, Wu Xue hurriedly went downstairs, walked out of the teaching building, passed the nearby boys' dormitory, and stepped into the door of the international student dormitory. Wang Bo's BMW and the room she was very familiar with, but she hadn't entered for more than a month, appeared in her sight.

At this time, Wu Xue paused in her steps, then inhaled deeply and took several deep breaths, allowing her heartbeat, which was beating more and more violently, to slowly calm down.

Then she lifted her head, raised her chest, and bravely walked towards the half-covered, familiar door.