The entire office was gone, and it was dark all around, except for the computer on my desk. I looked at the time in the bottom right corner of the monitor, and at 21:38, it was less than half an hour before the building closed, but I didn't hold back half the story. I sighed helplessly.

The person in charge of the column talked to me this morning, which means that I, as the youngest full-time employee recruited by this editorial department this year, should work harder than the old staff. In her words, it is "full of enthusiasm, regardless of one qiē, crazy dedication, to be the way a young man should be." "Indeed, it's been almost a month since I joined the company, and I still don't have anything to do.

Our column is mainly responsible for the social sector, that is, those parents are short, neighbors, or anecdotes, love and hate, etc. These things are probably toilet reading materials printed in newspapers, and although this kind of story happens all the time in the world, I can't figure out any of them, because I always want to write a new report that is earth-shattering, and avoid worldly subjects, which is really difficult. It's really not good, I'll have to find a way to go out to the field with my sister in the group tomorrow.,I don't care about any news.,Write a copy and hand it in first.。

With that in mind, I turned off my computer and prepared to pack up and go home. When I left the building, the lights had been turned off, and the security guard in a military coat at the door was already drowsy.

"The little girl is new." He sighed and kept rubbing his hands.

"Hmm." I nodded. As soon as I left the building, I felt the whole winter coming at me, and the air was so cold that it seemed to be pressed down, and although there was no wind, it made people unable to move. On such a cold day, I guess everyone wants to go back to the bed quickly, so I pulled the scarf around my neck and buried my face inside.

"It's cold, let's go home early next time!" The security guard waved at me and walked back to the duty room.

Our company is near the city center and is well lit all the way. It stands to reason that there should be no one on the road at this point, but today there are still many couples strolling around the store one-on-one, and there is a sweet and greasy atmosphere of pink and pink everywhere, and I wonder if there is any discount I missed.

The phone in the pocket suddenly vibrated non-stop, and it was a call from my mother.

"Sick, did you sleep?" The sound of my mother in my ears is very warm in this cold season.

"No, I just came out of the company and was on my way home."

As soon as I told me that I hadn't come home yet, my mom started to worry. My family is in a small city in the second and third tiers, and when I was in college, I came to N City, where I am now, and I didn't go back to my hometown after graduation, so I found a job here and rented a house. My parents have always felt that their family conditions are not bad, and told me not to work too hard, and to go home and find a job, so that they may be able to help me in life and work. To be honest, I do have this idea, but I feel that it is not yet time, and I always want to see if I can live independently while I am still young, and maybe I will go home when I am tired in a few years.

The house I rented is near the company, about ten minutes away, and it is a better apartment in the city, and most of the people who live here are senior white-collar workers and the like. Most of the rent is paid by my parents, which they insist on, I think there is so much that can help me, and the most important thing for girls to be alone outside is safety, our apartment security is really good, the environment is also very good, the first floor is the garden, the second floor is the beginning of the housing, it is really difficult for unfamiliar people to come in.

"Okay, let's not talk about it, I'll be at the door, you and Dad go to sleep."

Hanging up the phone, I opened the door and prepared to take a shower and go to bed. looked at the phone, 22:13, hurry up and send a text message to Sister Zui, it's not good to forget it tomorrow.

As soon as I finished pressing the send button, the machine connecting to the downstairs access control rang, and a shrill call suddenly sounded in the quiet room.

It must be a little couple on the other side of the door again. I thought to myself.

Each floor of the building is home to two residents, and I live on the twelfth floor. After graduating in June, I stayed with my local classmates in N City for a while. Later, I found a job and moved in soon after. About ** month, there was a beautiful little girl living in the opposite side, named Xiaoyu, thin and small, still in college. We are not much older than each other, and we have become acquainted with each other since we came and went. I prefer to call her "Cat Mom" rather than Xiaoyu. She brought two cats with her when she first arrived, and later her boyfriend bought her another one. I've loved cats since I was a child, but because my mother didn't let me keep them, I never had the opportunity to touch them. When she first moved in, I had to go to her house almost every day to rub cats, and she was also cat-centric every day, and the cats were estimated to be more expensive than me, and they had to buy them all kinds of toys and houses, and they served like a little princess. At first, she lived alone, but later I found out that from time to time a man in his thirties would come over, and Xiaoyu said that it was her boyfriend.

Because I often take the cat out, when the cat mother buys something and it is inconvenient to open the door with the cat, she likes to ask me to help her open the door. As soon as I turned on the monitor, a huge tongue licked over, I subconsciously screamed, and Xiaoyu laughed happily behind me. Looking at the shape of this tongue, it must be mangosteen, I think. It looks like I'm about to practice the trick of recognizing cats by looking at my tongue.

It didn't take long to hear the voice of Xiaoyu coming out of the elevator, as if she was talking to someone. I opened the door to greet her, when Mangosteen jumped up. Mangosteen is a small Siamese raised by Xiaoyu after moving over, and it is particularly clingy. I picked it up, and it meowed and meowed in my arms, looking full of food and drink, and wore an oversized pink bow on its head, which was very cute.

"Sister Wu, I'm sorry to ask you to open the door again." Xiao Yu was full of smiles, blushing, and didn't know if she was in a good mood today or if she was freezing outside. She was dressed very beautifully today, with a beaded lace on the upper body and a pink puffy skirt under the milky white cashmere coat, and the whole person was full of happiness.

"It doesn't matter. Why did you come back so late today? ”

"After buying things, I went to the movies again, and I didn't control the time." She raised the large bag she was carrying towards me with a look of victory. I thought to myself how unsafe it would be for a little girl to be outside at such a late hour, and what if I ran into a bad person. Although Xiaoyu hasn't been with me for a long time, I've already treated her like a sister. Probably seeing my worries, she smiled, "Sister Wu tomorrow is Valentine's Day, I went out to celebrate in advance today, and my boyfriend sent me back, don't worry." ”

That's when I reacted. Sure enough, when I got to work, I couldn't even figure out the day, no wonder there were still a lot of people on the road today. Xiaoyu hugged Mangosteen back, ready to say goodbye to me.

"Oh, just talk about me, Sister Wu, this is your friend." Because my door was ajar, I didn't notice that there was a person standing behind the door, and I was startled when Xiao Yu pointed at me.

A tall and strong man walked over, probably in his twenties, wearing a thick gray down jacket, his hair was short, and his face was a little red from the cold after being outside. I couldn't see it very clearly under the night lights, and I thought about the people I knew in this city, but I didn't find the corresponding familiarity, it shouldn't be the people I know.

My first reaction was that it wouldn't be the kind of criminal who pretended to be an acquaintance to rob the house, our two little girls here shouldn't be his opponents, I immediately turned around and prepared to call the police with my mobile phone. He panicked all of a sudden, and hurriedly said to me in Mandarin with a northern accent, "Miss Wu, I am a friend of Qin Chuyi, and I have something urgent to find you!" ”

Qin Chuyi? I was stunned. My elementary school classmate was in junior high school, and he played well with me since I was a child. His family is near my house, and our mothers are still card friends, so the relationship between the two families is very good. My mother, in particular, treats him like a son, and calls him to come to my house to play if he has nothing to do. Later, he went to college in the United States. We used to keep in touch from time to time, but after he went to the U.S., due to the time difference, we only sent emails occasionally. He said that he would come to see me when he returned to China and bring me a gift, why, this big living person is a gift for me? Is it afraid that I'm going to have Valentine's Day tomorrow or a single dog?

Seeing that I looked puzzled, the tall man quickly took something out of his pocket and handed it to me. As soon as I looked at it, I knew that this person was indeed a friend of the first year of junior high school. He gave me the keychain I gave him when I first went abroad. Once, my computer was in need of upgrading, and he volunteered to help me buy new equipment after he found out, saying that my computer was as old as a seventy or eighty-year-old lady, and told me not to buy an all-in-one computer, but to find a master like him to help assemble it. I kept the CPU he replaced, and made it into a keychain and gave it to him when he went abroad. The keychain in the hand of the tall man in front of me was the "seventy or eighty-year-old lady" in my family, and it also had my name abbreviation W.Y engraved crookedly.

I relaxed my guard for the time being, but Qin Chuyi didn't tell me about it, anyway, he should have given me a call beforehand. Xiaoyu also felt that something was wrong, but I didn't know if the other party knew me or not, and I didn't know what to do.

"Sister Wu, do you want to call the police?" Xiao Yu's eyes widened, and she said to me like this.

"He must have forgotten to tell you! This kid! Don't worry, I'm definitely not a bad person, and if I were a bad person I could stay here for so long without doing anything? The tall man quickly took out his mobile phone and made a call. It really made me break out in a cold sweat.

I only heard him on the phone saying things like "the first year of junior high school", "kill me", "not a brother", "only know how to play games", "make it impossible for you to pass the fifteenth", and when he hung up, my phone rang.

"Hey, Sample! See my friend? Before I could speak, Qin Chu's voice on the other end of the phone exploded.

"I said you're sick! Let a man come to my house in the middle of the night? Don't know how to tell me in advance? "I don't have time to ask him if he's doing lately or something, so I quickly ask what's going on.

"I said why haven't you seen me for so long, the first thing I said was that I was sick! That stupid big guy is my friend Lu Yao, I've arrived at the domestic airport, I'll go to your house in a few hours, I didn't forget to tell you first, you let the family stay at your house for one night, rest assured that he is definitely not a bad person, I will vouch for my personality! That's all! I'm really cold in China! Before I could answer, he hung up the phone. Dead boy, he talks to me about personality like that. Can't you arrange for people to stay in a hotel at night, really? Wait, how does he know I live here?

"Oh yes, Miss Wu, Qin Chuyi's parents already knew that he was going back to China to find you, so they gave him your address, and I returned to China first, so I visited in advance."

Well, it turns out that Uncle Qin and the others have known about this for a long time, do the Qin family not have a good memory? Either way, I'm relieved. I asked Lu Yao to follow me into the house and said goodbye to Xiaoyu. After a false alarm, Xiaoyu went back with Mangosteen, and before entering the door, she gave me a malicious smile, and I could only shake my head.

I made a glass of milk for Lu Yao, asked him to sit on the sofa for a while, and I went to the storage room to get him a quilt. After I helped him fold the sofa into a bed, lay out the quilt and put the pillow, Lu Yao looked at me with great admiration. "Miss Wu, you are really virtuous, you have a job and a house, you clean up and tidy and make me tea and make a bed, thank you so much! Qin Chuyi, that kid also said that you don't know anything, I can only sleep on the floor when I go! As he spoke, he took a sip of milk, leaving a white stain on his lips.

"This is really like what he said", I gave Qin Chu a roll of his eyes in the air, looked at the clock on the wall, it was already past eleven o'clock, and if I didn't sleep again, I would definitely not be able to get up when I went out tomorrow. "Don't call me Miss Wu, Miss Wu, call me Wu Chao. What kind of urgency are you talking about? ”

After listening to me, he immediately put down his cup and said to me with a stern expression: "To tell you the truth, I haven't slept well for more than a week." "It's true that I didn't look at him carefully before he walked in. Now his face is not so red under the light, but the deep dark circles under his eyes are very obvious. The beard probably hasn't been shaved for a while, so that the milk stains can be stained so easily. The skin that should have been fair looked a little withered and lifeless.

"You have to go to the doctor like this, and I can't help you."

"I've seen the doctor abroad a long time ago, and I've done the examination, even if I take sleeping pills, I can't sleep well."

"The doctors can't help you, how can I help you?"

Then he said to me with a stern expression and a resolute face, and said to me without doubt the three words that have scared me to this day,

"Follow! I! Sleep! ”