"Meal card 400, mobile phone fee 66, bus fare 80, miscellaneous expenses 300 ......" In the dormitory, Lin Xiaomu was cross-legged on the bed and routinely wrote down his expenses in the diary, while Yu Yun, who was sleeping on the top bunk, was eating snacks while watching anime on the iPad.

After Lin Xiaomu settled the account, she told Yu Yun about meeting Yan Sheng today, and Yu Yun immediately paused the anime on the iPad, "Wow, you can meet like this!"

"No, you don't know how scared I am of him for continuing to find fault with me. ”

"Wait a minute, someone in my skating association group has a part-time job, are you going?" Yu Yun poked her head out towards the lower bunk and beckoned Lin Xiaomu to come up and take a look.

Lin Xiaomu climbed onto Yu Yun's bed, took her snacks, and looked at the part-time information on the iPad: cartoon puppet play, male or female, female height is above 158, male height is above 168, you need to wear props and costumes to distribute flyers, can bear hardships and stand hard work, salary: 200-300/day (daily settlement).

"Go, go, sign me up. Lin Xiaomu said without hesitation when he saw the salary.

"Look at the way your little eyes glow. Yu Yun seemed to see that Lin Xiaomu's eyes were full of gold flickering.

In the Shengyi office building, Yan Sheng's assistant Yang Xiaochang took out a bunch of plans from Yan Sheng's office with difficulty, and everyone immediately greeted them after seeing them, "Everyone, please redo it, Mr. Yan said that none of them are wanted, and ......" Yang Xiaochang looked embarrassed, "Moreover, Mr. Yan was furious, saying that the customer this time was hard to win, let you think about what the customer wants about the advertising benefits and creative points that the customer wants." ”

Yan Sheng was even more upset when he heard the voices of Yang Xiaochang and the others squirming outside the door, opened the door, and shouted, "Take your plan and go back and redo it." The crowd was so frightened that they hurried away.

There is no one in Shengyi Group who does not know Yan Sheng's bad temper, especially the advertising planning department, which is the most troubled department in the company.

Yan Sheng's mood today is really terrible, I feel that there is always a lack of some capable people around him, I looked at the time of my phone, it was 19:12 at night, he picked up the car keys, and prepared to go back to the home that he thought was very noisy.

During the rush hour of work in H City, there is a lot of traffic, and any good mood will be worn out by traffic jams. Yan Sheng was distraught by the sound of the horn of the anxious car behind him, and he felt that his patience was about to run out, and it was a bad day. Extremely depressed, he pressed the start button, the sunroof slowly opened, and the midsummer evening breeze gently blew along with the slow progress of the car.

He took a deep breath and felt much more relaxed. The car dragon continued to squirm slowly like a snail's speed, and when he walked to a square, a small figure in a bubble tea shop on the side of the road attracted him.

The little figure walked over the packaged milk tea and handed it to the woman in the car in front of Yan Sheng, she smiled and politely lowered her head to talk to the people in the car, and then ran back to the store with quick steps, Yan Sheng looked at her back with interest, and saw her ponytail and skirt fluttering briskly at night.

His heart softened inexplicably, and his original anxious mood eased down after seeing this small figure.

It looks like he should be no more than 24 years old, like a student, why do you always do these jobs outside?

Doesn't she have to go to class?

If you're not a student, why don't you get a better job?

Why do you keep running into her lately?

……

With the tune on the car's radio, he fell deep into thought.

On Saturday evening, as the sun sets, the clouds turn red into a bloody landscape. In front of the Shengyi Building, people come and go. Lin Xiaomu wore a duck card channel uniform to distribute flyers in this hot August, this huge "yellow duck" looked bloated and clumsy in the crowd, several children even pulled her to take pictures, the laughing children didn't know that the people in this "big duck" were already sweating profusely at this moment, and breathing in the huge duck's head was a problem. After the children left with their parents, Lin Xiaomu finally couldn't stand it, she took off the duck head on her head with difficulty, breathed heavily, and her wet hair kept dripping sweat, heh, she finally came back to life.

Lin Xiaomu put the duck's head on the side of the road and continued to distribute leaflets, the crowd gradually became denser and denser, and her "bloated" body became more and more inconvenient to take root in the crowd, so she moved to the gate of the Shengyi Building, ready to finish distributing the remaining leaflets here.

"Hello, Qiaozi-chan ramen restaurant has opened a big deal!" Lin Xiaomu skillfully read the slogan, and handed a flyer to a stranger who didn't have time to look up. She reacted and immediately looked up, and met the pair of eyes that made her feel extremely domineering, the sunset gradually converged and the light was about to slide into the sky, and the shadows of the two were gradually elongated, as if the world was only them, the air was filled with an embarrassing and intriguing atmosphere, only the flyer that stopped in mid-air still flashed with a strange light.

"Are you short of money?"

“……”

Lin Xiaomu's mind was blank, maybe she hadn't woken up in a coincidental encounter, or maybe she didn't know how to answer at all, she was really short of money, so she took on any part-time job, because in this huge city, other classmates studied and lived easily under the care of their parents, and she could only live by herself.

After Yan Sheng finished speaking, he saw that she didn't answer, turned around and walked into the company, he really couldn't stand her embarrassed appearance, what kind of girl was it, her body was full of copper smell. The moment he walked into the elevator, he suddenly couldn't understand his behavior, why he felt a feeling of tightness in his chest when he saw her just now. Why did such a skinny little girl with a pretty face live like this? What did her parents think? and...... How did I get to know her?

Lin Xiaomu stayed where she was, and the people passing by cast strange eyes at this "yellow duck", the more she thought about it, the more aggrieved she became, thinking of all kinds of difficulties when she went out today, thinking of the various fees to be paid at school, thinking of the meal card she was about to run out, and thinking of being humiliated by this ghostly man...... At this moment, all she had in her mind was Yan Sheng's disgusted face, why did she humiliate me again and again? The flame in Lin Xiaomu's heart became more and more intense, so she subconsciously immediately turned around and dragged her bulky body into the Shengyi Building. She suddenly regretted the moment she walked into the elevator in front of everyone, she didn't know what the identity of the man was here just now, on several floors, only his name! So, when the elevator room was almost full, she once again dragged her heavy body out of the crowd, and then walked straight to the front desk on the first floor.

"Hello, do you know a man named Yan Sheng here?" Lin Xiaomu cautiously asked the front desk lady.

"Did you have an appointment with us before?" Looking at the bloated "duck" in front of her, the front desk lady was full of doubts.

"I ......" Lin Xiaomu couldn't answer for a while, but he was unwilling. "He knows the ...... of my name".

"Okay then, I'll contact us first, please wait." The front desk lady obviously didn't realize that Lin Xiaomu's words just now were not confident.

"Hey, hello Mr. Yan, there is a young lady here who said that she was looking for you, and she said that you know her, and she ...... Please wait" The front desk lady paused, and motioned to Lin Xiaomu to report her name with her eyes.

Lin Xiaomu weakly reported his name, "Mr. Yan, it's Miss Lin Xiaomu!"

Putting down the phone, the front desk lady asked Lin Xiaomu to go up to the general manager's office on the third floor to find Yan Sheng, and Lin Xiaomu walked into the elevator in the surprised eyes of everyone.

The elevator rose slowly, and after a while, it reached the third floor, Lin Xiaomu was uneasy, and she didn't step out of the elevator door for a long time, and she didn't come to her senses until the door was closed.

She eventually walked out of the Shengyi Building.

She hugged the duck's head, her mind was heavy, and her face was covered with a cloud of sorrow. She found that her anger had subsided, and her heart was full of sorrow for the unsatisfactory life......

When he heard the front desk secretary say Lin Xiaomu's name, he suddenly became excited in his heart, and he was looking forward to the arrival of that person, but after waiting for a long time, he didn't see anyone come in, and finally he couldn't help but call back to the front desk to ask, and the front desk secretary said that he saw Lin Xiaomu just walking out of the door.

He put down the phone in disappointment, walked to the window and opened the blinds to look down, the "little duckling" was crossing the sidewalk, her head was always drooping, so lifeless, her back in the crowd seemed so lonely and weak.

He regretted what he said to her, maybe her life was really difficult, and these words were even worse for her?

But he didn't know why he just didn't want to see her like this anymore, she was occupied by the hunger and cold of life, and she made him feel a little pity in his heart inexplicably, he hated this feeling, which should not have been a casual feeling for a person like him.