Chapter 9: Domino

The three of us stood downstairs in the dorm room, like a stable triangle. I realized that our lives are like a well-built dominoes, and as soon as we knock down the first one, we will all fall down with a click.

If I hadn't waited for Ah Huan, I wouldn't have been the last to reply, if I hadn't been the last to reply, I wouldn't have gone back to the dormitory with the brakes, if I hadn't gone back to the dormitory with the brakes, I wouldn't have invited them to eat fried yogurt, if I hadn't asked them to eat fried yogurt, the brakes wouldn't have chased me back, if the brakes hadn't chased me back, I wouldn't have escaped from bed, if I hadn't escaped from reality, I would have gotten on the bus home, if I had gotten on the bus home, I wouldn't have met soy sauce head-on, if I hadn't met soy sauce, I wouldn't have known that they might have to break up, and if I didn't know that they might break up, I wouldn't have thought that soy sauce was being bulliedIf I hadn't thought that Soy Sauce had been wronged, I wouldn't have run downstairs in my pajamas......

"Why are you here?"

The soy sauce brush hid behind me, and my little hands were still playing with the lace on the back of my pajamas, and I was so angry that I patted the back of her hand.

"I bought takeout and was about to go back to the dormitory to eat, by the way, come to your downstairs to have a look," Brake changed his clothes, wearing a blue and white striped shirt, with denim trousers, his Adam's apple was not buttoned twice, and when he spoke, I stared at his purring Adam's apple, thinking it was funny, "Look why you haven't replied to my message yet." ”

"I didn't have my phone with me, I didn't see it, I'm sorry, I'm embarrassed. I stretched out my hands, both empty.

"Then you go back and confirm the payment. ”

"That's not going to work, that's what I'm asking you to eat. I shook my head.

"How can a boy ask a girl for a treat, besides, I'm still your senior. ”

"It's okay, I never treated you like ......" as a boy...... Before I could say anything, I realized that something was wrong and hurriedly remedied, "...... As a senior, you are not from our department, even if you are an acquaintance brother. ”

"Big brother, I'm still an old sister!" Soy sauce whispered behind me, and was slapped again by my paws.

"Okay, then even if it's your big brother, but I don't take advantage of people for nothing......"

Don't say invite me to dinner...... Otherwise, what is the difference between such brakes and other boys.

"Are you ready for work now?"

"Huh?" I looked at Soy Sauce, and although it was basically no problem to stay at the company where I was interning, I was always a little nervous in my heart. Especially after Qi Zhijia got married, my desire to start a new life became stronger and stronger.

"My counselor has a group here, outsourcing to the Wanzi Group for internship, graduates can sign a tripartite agreement after passing the probation for a month, which is quite suitable for graduates to do a springboard, the salary and benefits are a little worse than that of group employees, but you can try, do you want to go?"

"Huh?" I grew up, the Wanzi Group is notoriously difficult to enter, let alone inexperienced fresh graduates. Before I could think about it, Soy Sauce rushed out from behind me and agreed, "Let's go, let's try, hehe." ”

"Okay, I'll send you the address and time later. Let's go. The brakes waved at us and turned away.

He came, like a dragonfly dotting water, and he left, vibrating his wings and flying away, not taking a cloud with him. I was a little stunned, like a groundhog poking out of a hole, looking at his back sneakily.

Who knew that the brake came to the intersection, stopped, and when I looked back, I was like a primary school student who was caught cheating on the exam, and I instantly retracted my head.

I can't help but go back and be ridiculed by soy sauce.

The dominoes are still clattering forward, stretching for thousands of miles, with no end in sight. It's just that I didn't know what I was going to see at the end, and I didn't even expect it.

On Saturday, Soy Sauce and I were at the subway station, and as soon as we met, we laughed. I wore a black suit skirt, flesh-colored stockings and black block-heeled leather shoes, my hair was in a bun, especially like an insurance seller, and Soy Sauce also chose a black suit, and the air bangs that she kept on weekdays were neatly clamped by her with hairpins, especially like the front desk of the sales office. In the past four years, the two of us have never seen each other in formal clothes, laughing at each other and complaining at each other. In the end, I said that soy sauce was like a sushi roll that had been left for three days, and she said that I was like an old eggplant that couldn't be sold at a discount in the supermarket. The two expired food products held hands and marched towards the Wanzi Group together.

Wanzi Group is located in the newly developed business district on the outskirts of the city, a huge commercial square, inaccessible, only a few security guards in suits patrolling, especially deserted. I looked up, and the eight buildings were surrounded in a circle, imposing, like a besieged city. Above the first floor is the office area, and the front desk on the first floor doesn't look properly renovated, it's empty, and it looks like a ghost town. The sunken plaza is a shopping mall and a restaurant, which is not cared for at the moment, and is surrounded by unfinished rough buildings, which look gray and cold.

It was still early, and the two of us walked around the park cautiously for a while like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden. Several buildings were similar, and we couldn't see the difference, so we asked the security guard for directions and found Building 5, where the interview was located. For some reason, from the moment I stepped into the area of high-rise buildings, my body and mind kept repelling this reinforced concrete forest, and the dark blue reflective glass looked like empty museums.

I didn't expect that I would see Perry again here. She sat on the far left from me, her eyes calm and confident.

The teacher who interviewed us was a professional woman who seemed to be shrewd and capable, with a suit that conformed to her figure, tailor-made, and looked back at me as if she was wearing my clothes, not me. I sat among the five girls (including soy sauce) who were interviewing with me, and I involuntarily straightened my back.

The interview teacher speaks fluent Mandarin, with a slight southern accent, which is soft and glutinous, and very comfortable. She introduced herself as a project manager of an outsourcing company, and after this round of interviews, she would arrange for the personnel of Wanzi Group to come and meet us again.

"So, tell us about yourselves. ”

We said hello to each other, ready to be the first to start the introduction by Perry: "Hello teacher, I am xxx from the School of Economics and Management of XX University, and my specialty is ......"

After listening to it in a circle, the five of us were recommended by different teachers in the school, and we happened to belong to different majors (although I and Soy Sauce were in the same dormitory, we were not in the same class);

"Well, I like you girls, I can tell you that working in our company, you must grow very fast, and it is no problem to work here for two years, and it is no problem to go out and become a project supervisor. Salary, for fresh graduates, is certainly not bad, overtime meal allowance and bus fares can be reimbursed, overtime can go to the staff canteen to eat buffet on holidays...... By the way, you had an intern before, I liked it very much, the docking company rushed to poach people, how could I be willing to let him go, communicate directly with the Wanzi Group, and transfer to the group as soon as he graduates, and enjoy the same treatment as the turtle of other graduate students...... It seems that it is also from your school, and he did it here in January, and he has become a phoenix now. ”

I frowned to myself, this was not what I expected, it was not that there was a lot of competition among the interviewers, but that the interviewers were in a hurry to sign us and didn't even care about our own situation. I thought carefully about the five words "fast growth" in the teacher's mouth, and suddenly realized that this job has a lot of work and a lot of business, so it is natural to grow rapidly. They are not stupid, we are not stupid, they are in dire need of screws, especially cheap labor, we signed a contract, that is, outsourced employees, salaries and benefits are not accounted for within the group. From her subtext, overtime on holidays is very common, let alone weekdays.

"In this way, you think about it first, I'll call your senior sister to come and talk to you about the specific work content, and you can see if it's suitable. ”

When the teacher went out, Perry said: "It's good to work overtime, I'm still worried about my room and board, it's so remote here, if you borrow a house near here, it will definitely be a lot cheaper." ”

Perry's hometown is in Guangdu, which is a generation that has received a good Western education, and he went to Modu to study because of the phrase "I want to see a bigger world" on the Internet, in fact, Guangdu is not inferior to Modu at all, and it is also a first-tier city with very good development prospects. If she does sign a contract with this company, she will inevitably be locked into the suburbs outside the outer ring, no different from the third-tier cities. However, at least when she goes home for the New Year, she can still get the respect of her relatives as a white-collar female in the magic capital, and she will not be forced to get married and have children early. Distinguishing the so-called rights and obligations by gender is the sorrow of our generation of girls.

I whispered to soy sauce and said: "What kind of job to find still depends on our own ideas, some people like to struggle, some people like stability, no matter what, it is nothing more than using money to buy time, to exchange family affection, to let the gray hair climb up the green silk, and finally to return to the starting point, what kind of life do you want." All I want is to be able to get home from work and be at the table with my family and have a hot meal. ”

Perry was very dissatisfied with my salted fish thoughts, probably thinking that I was targeting her, and snorted in his nose: "I really envy you, at least you don't have to spend more than half of your salary to rent a house." We're different, and it's 120 times harder to stay in the city. is pampered at home, and is taken care of by male classmates at school, and it is really a lovely person who has grown up in honey, and he doesn't know the cost of firewood, rice, oil, and salt. ”

Recalling the days and nights I spent in the hospital last year, I wrapped myself up like a caterpillar and wept silently, praying to God that anything would make my father better.

I stood up as soon as I brushed it, as if the grievances I had received in the past two years exploded all at once: "You say it again?"