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Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle bells -

One, two, three...... Ji Wei frowned, shrunk her nose, and counted silently, unwilling to answer the phone in her heart.

Today is January 1st, and for Ji Wei, this is not just a simple day as New Year's Day, but a vacation that she finally looked forward to after three weeks of continuous work. Oh no, maybe it's not just three weeks straight. Since starting a small software company with Kevin a year and a half ago, the concept of taking a vacation is almost absent from my memory. As a partner of the company and a product creative director, in addition to writing designs, managing project progress, testing project quality, dealing with internal personnel issues within the company, and dealing with customers 24 hours a day.

Recently, during the year-end period, there are constant trivial matters, and everyone knows Ji Wei's tiredness.

The night before New Year's Day, Kevin worked overtime until ten o'clock in the evening, Kevin locked the door with her and left, and jokingly said to her when they parted: "Strong woman, take a good rest tomorrow, even if the sky falls, I will help you block it, and I won't disturb your rest." ”

However, at eight o'clock in the morning on New Year's Day, the call that would only come when the sky fell.

Four, five, six, seven, eight-

When the phone rang for the eighth time, she finally reached for the phone placed at the bedside, and the formulaic tone reflexively popped up: "Hello?"

"Ah, Vivi, it's me, Xiaoyun." A brisk voice came from the other end of the phone.

Ji Wei was slightly stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Ah, Xiaoyun, Happy New Year!" ”

"Happy New Year!" With a smile in his tone, after blessing, Xiaoyun continued, "You sound quite energetic, I'm worried that calling you so early will disturb your sleep." ”

"Hehe, it's okay, I'm used to getting up early. It's been a long time since you've been in touch, how are you now? ”

"Well, I'm fine, I was about to ask if you have time to come out today and have a good chat."

"Come out?"

"Well, I'm in Shanghai."

Quickly brushing her teeth, washing her face, and dressing up, twenty minutes is more than enough for Ji Wei, who rarely wears makeup. It's just that taking advantage of the time slot of making coffee and drinking coffee, it took some time to check and reply to emails. When she got into the back seat of the taxi, she glanced at her watch, and there were still twenty-two minutes until ten o'clock, guessing that if there was no traffic jam, she should have been able to arrive at Zhongshan Park a few minutes earlier. As a result, sure enough, at 9:50, she had already arrived at the agreed place, the Starbucks next to Exit 7 of Zhongshan Park Station.

took the medium-sized Mocha she had just bought, and chose a position by the window at the end of the sofa area to sit down, Ji Wei picked up her mobile phone, recorded Xiaoyun's phone according to the caller ID, and her thoughts drifted back with the memories unconsciously.

Guan Yunyun, I haven't seen her for two years......

This girl was born on the same day, the same year, the same month, and the same year.

I met her seven years ago, when Ji Wei worked for an art outsourcing company in Taiwan. This company was founded by a Taiwanese surnamed Chen, who has passed the age of confusion and has made no achievements, but with a choking of blood and tears for the high-tech industry, he sold a few acres of orchards and a few western-style houses in his hometown in Taiwan, and began to work hard in the mainland.

The nature of the company determines the intensity of the work, and the dense list of jobs is plastered all over the glass walls of the perimeter, and each torn off is quickly replaced by a new one. Every employee is accustomed to working day and night in a completely unsystematic waterfall management style, while listening to Boss Chen's high-pitched talk from time to time - unconvincingly describing the bright future prospects. In such an environment, it is naturally normal for the company's employees to be replaced in batches. After a year of lying on the salary, Ji Wei became the only one who stayed among the employees who joined the company at the same time, and was naturally promoted to "senior", and also promoted from the position of art design to the head of the art department. She didn't feel any joy about this. The way of working every day has long worn out her enthusiasm for work, and in the face of the lifestyle of sleeping in addition to work, the word "boring" is enough to summarize everything simply and comprehensively.

It was at this point in time that she met Guan Yunyun.

It was a hot summer afternoon, and this tall girl in a pink dress, with a pot lid on her sister's head, exaggerated black-rimmed eyes, and a shy expression, gently pushed open the glass door of the art department with a stack of picture clips.

"What's the matter?" Raising her head from the pile of work, Ji Wei looked her peculiar dress up and down, and asked her with wide eyes;

"My name is Guan Yunyun, and I'm here for an interview." The girl replied shyly.

The mobile phone rang suddenly, pulling Ji Wei's thoughts back quickly. Glancing at the caller ID, she took a deep breath and ...... Pick up the phone: "Mom, Happy New Year." ”

"Happy New Year!" The voice on the other end of the phone was as high-pitched as ever, "Are you up, have you had breakfast?" ”

"Eat, eat, I'm outside, waiting to see a friend."

"Friends? What friends? Male or female? ”

"Female...... Guan Yunyun, you know. She went back to Shanghai. ”

"Oh......" The mother's tone was visibly disappointed, but it was only a brief moment, and it immediately returned to a high-pitched tone, "Are you coming back for Chinese New Year this year?" When will you be back? Your dad and I have an old classmate, the son of a colleague's colleague is coming back from Australia for the Chinese New Year this year. I've seen the photos, a very energetic young man, who looks at least 1.75 meters tall, only 33 years old, which matches your age. He is a hotel manager, he should be quite promising, and he should be very good at taking care of people......"

[Oh my God, here we go again.] Ji Wei wailed in her heart.

"Mom!" One hundred and one times with her fingers in a circular circle tugging at the end of the shawl, she finally couldn't bear to interrupt her mother's introduction, "You and my dad don't worry about me...... This year has been quite eventful, and there is a very critical project that needs to be rushed...... I don't think I'll be coming back. ”

"Why, you know the job-you're almost thirty-year-why don't you have any plans at all......" Mom grumbled on the other end of the phone, and then she and Dad had a vague discussion on the other end of the phone.

"Mom, I'm going to hang up, you and Dad take care of your health, Happy New Year."

"Wait!" When he was about to press the cancel call button, his mother's voice came loudly, shaking Ji Wei's eardrums, "I discussed with your father, if you don't come back this year, we will go to your side for the New Year." ”

"Oh, okay. Call me before you come and I'll pick you up. ”

"Of course. By the way, you still have to spare a week or two to come out, your dad and I have a few friends who met a few children who are developing in Shanghai through customers, and they are very good, and when the time comes, I will introduce you to you, I heard that there is a manager who does real estate sales......"

"Mom! ――My phone is out of battery, I'm free to call you, Happy New Year, bye-bye! ”

This time, without waiting for any reaction on the other end of the phone, Ji Wei acted quickly to cut off the call. Throwing the phone into her red patent leather shoulder bag, she took a deep breath and sat down on the couch, closing her eyes in hopes of calming the nerves bouncing around her temples.

At this time, a familiar tone floated out-

"Hehe, you still haven't changed at all, Lao Ai frowned."

When I opened my eyes, it was as if I had stepped back in time, and the girl I met that summer was right in front of me, except that the pink dress had been transformed into a small floral woolen skirt, brown stockings, green boots, and a floral jacket with a dark gray background.

"You haven't changed at all, you still dress like a young grass." Ji Wei sat up and looked at her with a playful expression.

"Haha, that dare is. Two days ago, I was chatting with an uncle on the train, and the uncle asked me if I was twenty years old, and he was so happy that I was happy. Guan Yunyun sat on the sofa facing Ji Wei and grimaced.

"Would you like to go buy a drink first?"

"Ah, no, I just ate out and I'm a little full now."

"Oh, good. Hehe, how did you talk to that old man later? You shouldn't have revealed your true identity as an old woman, right? ”

"Of course, how can I spoil the old man's good thoughts."

"Heh, you really haven't changed at all." Ji Wei chuckled and shook her head, and then suddenly remembered something and asked, "What about Wang Yuming?" Why didn't he come with you? ”

After being silent for a while, Guan Yunyun replied lightly: "We broke up." ”

Although falling in love and breaking up is human nature, just like eating and sleeping, Ji Wei still felt a little shocked. Because compared with himself, a workaholic who has no nerves, the deep relationship between Guan Yunyun and Wang Yuming still seems to be vivid.

Guan Yunyun met Wang Yuming in his hometown in the northeast, and then came to Shanghai to work hard. The arduous journey that has just started is like a plot that has been written badly in a popular novel. Both of them draw comics for a living, and in China, where there is no environment for comics to develop, finding a suitable job has become a difficult goal. In addition, both of them have ordinary family backgrounds, and the stubborn couple did not ask for money from the family, so they did not bring sufficient living expenses. In order to save money, they rented coal stoves and old workshops, sweating like rain in the summer and snuggling up to each other in the winter, eating instant noodles, porridge and mustard all the way.

Two years ago, when Guan Yunyun resolutely decided to follow Wang Yuming back to his hometown to settle down again, Ji Wei seemed to have decided that the two of them must have gone home to get married, have children, and spend their lives together.

"How so? ......" Ji Wei did not hide her surprise.

"Lots and lots of messy things, some of which are hard to explain." Guan Yunyun smiled bitterly, "After taking him home to meet my parents, my parents were very opposed to us being together, thinking that he had no money and no future, of course I didn't care...... So I fell out with my family. His mother was very good to me, and you know that his father died early, and it was not easy for his mother to take him alone, so she naturally loved him very much. But...... He's too stressed. Both of us were under too much pressure and began to quarrel over all kinds of trivial things, and after a long time, we quarreled without feelings. And...... He had an affair. ”

Ji Wei looked at her and didn't know what to say for a while.

"Actually, it's nothing, I'm determined to start over. That's why I went back to Shanghai. ”

"Have you found a house?"

"I've found a house."

"What about work?"

"I've been taking on various illustration jobs when I was back home, and now I have some regular sources of income and I'm ready to live this way for the time being. It's going to be a little bitter, hehe. ”

"Hey, you must have been here for a while, why are you looking for me now?"

"Well, I've only been here for a week, and I want to settle down and look for you again, I know you're busy, and I've been hearing from your old friends." Guan Yunyun always kept smiling, "Of course I'll look for you, you are my best friend in Shanghai." ”

"Hmm...... It's good to come. Ji Wei smiled comfortingly;

"What about you? How are you now? ”

"It's still the same, busy every day."

"Do you have a boyfriend?"

"No, I'm already married to a job."

"Haha, that's like what you said. What was your parents' attitude towards your laissez-faire outlook on life? ”

"Ahh Don't mention it, I'm almost annoyed by my parents. The blind date list they prepared for me is almost up to the Pacific Ocean. In this regard, there is a very sharp contradiction between us, and this is an irresolvable class contradiction. Ji Wei frowned and shrugged her nose.

"Haha, could it be that the call just now was from my aunt?"

"Clever!"

"Actually, there's nothing wrong with blind dates, maybe your mother's list really has your true destiny. You know, how difficult it is to meet the right man now. ”

"Yes, good men are as if they are dead." As soon as the words fell, Ji Wei immediately felt regretful, how could she not mention which pot in this time period, however, the words had already been spoken, and she didn't know how to deal with this heavy topic for a while.

Guan Yunyun laughed out loud: "Why are you more pessimistic than me, I think both of us will meet the destined person soon." ”

"Oh? Right. ”

"It should be......" Guan Yunyun sighed;

[Stupid, why are you discouraged again......] Ji Wei thought to herself, her index fingers intertwined twice, her eyes rolled, and asked, "Do you want to gamble?" ”

"Bet on what?"

"Bet on the two of us who will find happiness within this year?"

"Find the legendary 'good man'?"

"Well, do you dare to bet?" ’

"How can I not bet," Guan Yunyun smiled and propped up his chin: "What are the conditions for winning or losing and the rules of rewards and punishments?" ”

"We can make it simpler." Ji Wei paused and thought for a moment, "If you find that 'good man' before New Year's Day next year, you will win, otherwise, you will lose." I can't think of any interesting way to reward a winner, but if you lose, the losing side should sponsor the winning side to take a trip to a hot spring in Japan. If both sides lose, it's a draw, but we can still travel together. ”

"How can it be such a cheap itinerary for a hot spring trip in Japan, at least it must be a tour of eight European countries."

"Okay, if you say eight countries in Europe, you will be eight countries in Europe."

"Maybe it's okay, the loser has to call the winner 'sister' for the rest of his life, haven't we always had a dispute about this issue, hehe."

"Hehe, yes." Ji Wei remembered that in the past, two people who were both born in the early morning of June 28 in the early 80s, always argued about the question of "who is the sister and who is the sister", "Okay, this time I will block a big deal with you!" ”

"High five!" Guan Yunyun stretched out his right hand;

"It's a deal!" Ji Wei also stretched out her right elbow;

"It's hard to chase a horse!!"

The sound of the palm slapping rang out at the same time as the words, and the two foreigners at the table turned their heads sharply and widened their eyes in fright.

“Sorry!” Ji Wei stuck out her tongue at the two foreigners with an apologetic expression;

Immediately, the two little girls laughed wildly, attracting even more side eyes.