Chapter 1 Unsatisfactory
If life allowed to be re-chosen, Zheng Long probably wouldn't want to go back to 2001. www.biquge.info In that year, China had just joined the WTO, its economy had just taken off, and the Menao Special Administrative Region had just returned to the motherland for two years.
At that time, there was no haze, and girls were still ashamed to ask for a house or a car when they went on a blind date; However, the most important thing is that Zheng Long is in his second year of junior high school, which is the era when he is in his prime and does not understand the world.
Compared with all the joys and sorrows of life later, life at that time was as pure as a blank sheet of paper. Although he was born in an ordinary family of teachers on the southeast coast, the family did not have much money to spare, but he never went hungry. Of course, there is no such thing as being rich and rich.
Naturally, the righteous brothers in the class, the school flower with a crush, and the head teacher with a bag in the brain are almost what any Chinese second-year junior high school student has to experience. At the time, I thought life was so simple and boring, but now looking back, it was almost the most carefree time in my life.
Don't worry about houses, cars, tickets. There is no girlfriend who asks every day when she can afford to buy a house, no mother-in-law who asks when she can afford a down payment, no annoying boss who asks when the copywriter can be handed over, and there is no haze now.
"Hey, life at that time was so good!"
Zheng Long put the pen on the bridge of his nose, and gradually, his eyes began to blur...
"Hey, what's your kid doing?"
The colleague next to him stabbed Zheng Long with his elbow.
Zheng Long came back to his senses and found that he was at an advertising proposal meeting, listening to his boss making an advertising proposal.
The idea of this advertising proposal meeting called "Bedogan women's underwear" was originally thought up by Zheng Long. But you know, in the humane society of Huaxia, this credit has long been attributed to Lin Lili, the boss who is making proposals.
"We believe that Bedogan is the most considerate brand for women, so the theme of underwear should be fit, so our advertising slogan is - it looks big, you can too!"
"It's often said that women are bound by social constraints and can't do what they want like men. Even choosing a pair of underwear that you like is sometimes not enough. Doesn't look sexy enough? Not confident enough about your figure? No problem, we'll take care of it, and you, just take care of it! ”
As she spoke, Lin Lili gently stroked her hand in the direction of the audience, and made a very cheesy gesture, as if scolding Fang Xuan, as a success lecturer often does.
"Whew!"
Mixed with Zheng Long's sighs, thunderous applause rang out from the audience. The boss of Party A's company took the lead in standing up, and then the girl in the skirt behind him quickly echoed and stood up and clapped her hands, with a very streamlined feeling - it seems that this proposal should have been passed.
This is a case of 5 million yuan, and it is also the main case that Zheng Long's company has been focusing on in the past three months, so it stands to reason that Zheng Long should be happy. However, he was not happy at all.
"Sooner or later, I'm going to make her pay!"
As soon as he walked out of the venue, Zheng Long ordered seven wolves to suck it up, and vented the resentment in his chest fiercely. Life mixed with this kind of field, can not but be said to be a failure - I am already at the age of Ben San, and it has been six or seven years since I graduated from college, and I have seen my classmates and friends buy houses, buy houses, buy cars, buy cars, and buy cars, but I am still a little-known small advertising copywriter, and the things I write have to be requisitioned by the creative director for free, which is unbearable!
"You, just say a few words!"
The person who said this was the person who had just reminded Zheng Long in the venue, called Lin Chen, an old friend of Zheng Long, an equally down-and-out advertising designer. As we all know, advertising companies are the most terrible companies to work overtime, and they usually go home in the middle of the night and are mistaken by drivers for bad industries - and the most pitiful thing in advertising companies is copywriting and design.
As a pair of hard-working CPs, Zheng Long and Lin Chen hated their boss Lin Lili when they entered the company, but they were helpless at all - you don't want to do it, get out of it as soon as possible, anyway, it's not too easy to recruit a recent college graduate for 2000 yuan - this is the original words of creative director Lin Lili.
Unfortunately, this is indeed the case.
The threshold for advertising is so low that when you come in, those ambitions have become foolish words, and they are not enough for outsiders. The advertising industry is an industry that devours people's youth and dreams, and there are so many of them today.
Lin Chen saw that Zheng Long was so depressed, hooked his shoulder from behind and said: "Okay, okay, all in all, winning the bid is a happy thing, today the company is kind enough to give us a half-day vacation, I invite you to go to the food stall to drink." ”
"You're in for a treat, I don't have any money on me."
Lin Chen couldn't help but sigh and said with a smile:
"Alright, alright, miser, I'll give you the money."
So, the two walked to the familiar barbecue stall, ordered a few strings of kidneys and mutton skewers, and then picked up some Pearl River beer, and ate it happily. During this period, Zheng Long has been concerned about the mobile phone, whether he swiped it open and looked absent-minded.
"What the hell are you tmd, just eat, always look at your phone and be a bird?"
Zheng Long smiled embarrassedly and did not answer. In fact, he is grabbing red envelopes, after all, there are dozens of red envelopes he grabs every day, which is almost equivalent to half a day's salary.
"Hey, look at you, when I first joined the company, I was a more motivated literary and artistic young man, who pulled me to see art exhibitions every day on weekends, and took me to Hong Kong City to watch some experimental dramas every three or five days, and now he is actually like this!"
"It's called Daoliang! You know what! ”
Seek for Daoliang! Seek for Daoliang! Indeed, when life reaches middle age, it is often impossible to change, and the ambitions of the year have become a flashy dream, only the real red envelopes and claypot rice are the most important!
However, to say that Zheng Long's absent-mindedness was purely to grab the red envelope, he was really wronged.
In fact, he was waiting for a reply.
The man on WeChat hadn't replied to him for days. What is missing is probably just a decisive word. It is impossible for him to be with her, but who can say that sad sentence first and make others regret it for the rest of their lives?
At least, Zheng Long can't do it. Although he knew that it was impossible, and knew that his mother-in-law's ultimatum - he would never be able to buy a building in Guangcheng, he really didn't want to give up on her like this.
After all, it's been almost ten years since I started college. In the past ten years, the joys and sorrows they have experienced can definitely be made into a TV series, but when it comes to talking about marriage, they still can't avoid vulgarity, and they will eventually be tortured by the house and car, and even the end of the breakup is difficult to avoid.
How many decades can there be in life?
"Happy breakup, I wish you happiness, you can find better
I don't want to survive the winter, I get tired of being heavy, so I fly to a tropical island to swim..."
Suddenly, Liang Jingru's "happy breakup" sounded on the side of the barbecue stall.
"nm, what are you doing with such sad music? Boss, if you're not there, can you change the song? ”
Lin Chen knew that Zheng Long was breaking up with Zhang Meng during this time, and he also cared about his feelings. However, Lin Chen screamed and his throat was cut and there was no boss coming. The boss, who was still wearing flowers and butterflies among the customers just now, suddenly disappeared in confusion.
"I'll go find the boss in the back!"
Lin Chen said.
"No need!" Zheng Long said:
"I have received your wishes, forget it."
"Oh...... I said, what the hell are you and Zhang Meng! After so many years of relationship, how can you say that it is divided? Isn't it just a house for TMD? Big deal, brother, I'll go with you tomorrow to rob the bank, let's go together, how much to rob, see if it's enough for a down payment! ”
Zheng Long glanced at Lin Chen and sighed. Although these words are idiotic, in this materialistic society, it is worth it to have such a brother who can stick a knife in his ribs.
"Thank you!"
"Hey, what are you talking about!" Lin Chen also drank a glass of Pearl River, sighed and said:
"The current housing prices may not be affordable even if they are really robbed of the bank. GTN! Hey, forget it, where are the women, next time I will introduce you to the little sister of our Academy of Fine Arts! ”
"Good! Good! ”
Between the staggering, Zheng Long seemed to have forgotten those troublesome things, forgotten the humiliation of his mother-in-law at Zhang Meng's house yesterday, and forgot that the idea he had worked hard to come up with with Lin Chen all night was stolen by Lin Lili as his own hatred. All sorrow is dissolved and dispersed in the wine. His face, Zhang Meng's face and Lin Chen's face beside him, even Lin Lili, and the mother-in-law's face were all reflected in the wine glass, clearly emerging.
Life, when you can only put your feelings in wine, is already infinitely sad and has nowhere to express.
"Hey, whatever! Drink him and get drunk! ”
"Yes, drink! If you are a brother, you must drink! ”
Drinking, the most refreshing thing is that the cup of yellow soup goes down, no king Lao Tzu ignores it, the Son of Heaven can't get on the boat, and all the sorrows in the world are temporarily put aside. When consciousness begins to blur, and then drunk like mud, everything in this world is like a dream bubble, how can there be any boundary between real and unreal!
Suddenly, Zheng Long's eyes began to blur, his vision began to blur, and everything around him seemed to be dim. The barbecue stand is also gone, and an infinitely rotating world appears around him. He seemed to be in a scene he had never entered before, bang! My head hurt like I had been stabbed with an electric drill.
"Ahh