Chapter Seventy-Two: There Will Always Be a Way
The day after experiencing those things, Jia Yi still decided to go to the store with Yu Ran as usual, and she tried her best to make her life a little more ordinary.
It happened to be Saturday, there were many guests, and the girl in the flower room was a little too busy.
Jia Yi had just packed dried flowers for an old customer, and the dim sum that Yu Ran had made was about to be served, she ran to the bar without touching the ground, and as soon as she got the dim sum, she just turned around and bumped into the customer who came in the door, and one of the men held her with his hand in time to prevent her from slipping.
As soon as the man touched her cold wrist, Jia Yi smashed the plate on the top of his hand at the man in horror, and the man's face changed, and he pointed at Jia Yi and scolded: "You stinky girl who doesn't know what to do......"
Yu Ran hurriedly walked over from the kitchen when he heard the sound, although Jia Yi was not injured, his whole body was trembling and cold sweating, standing motionless in front of the man and bowing his head, but he was silent and did not say a word.
Yu Ran hurriedly helped her, bowed his head for her and admitted his mistake, the man saw Yu Ran, a big beauty, personally wiping his upper body with a tissue, and apologized so sincerely, without too much care, and asked his friends to order in the flower room.
Jia Yi was pulled by Yu Ran to the back of the bar, her whole person had not completely recovered, and she kept holding Yu Ran's hand nervously, Yu Ran had to let her sit at the back of the bar to help place orders and check out, so as to avoid too much contact with strangers.
"We obviously want Margaret Dew, what is this?"
"We only need a pot of black tea and two cherry blossom mousse cakes, and you want to charge us 200 yuan? You're crazy about money......"
"I came first, why can't I order first, you're discriminating in this store?"
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Jia Yi stood at the bar for a morning, said dozens of words "I'm sorry" in a row, kept bowing her head and apologized, but she didn't dare to look at people, and finally suffered from the noon when the flow of customers was decreasing, she finally couldn't support it, the whole person sat on the ground against the bar in pain, constantly grabbing her arms, biting her hands, full of red scars and tooth marks, Yu Ran had to stop her, persuading: "Don't be like this, it's okay, let's go back and rest......"
Jia Yi grabbed Yu Ran with tears on her face and begged: "Yu Ran beat me, hurt me, so that I can't take care of anything else, my body is useless anyway......"
Yu Ran shook her head, hugged her who was almost collapsed, and coaxed her: "Okay, okay, it's okay, there will always be a way, there will always be a way......"
She muttered to herself, as if mechanical repetition could be twisted into a powerful thought to dissolve the poor man's pain.
No matter what, Yu Ran knew that Jia Yi couldn't stay in the store anymore, so she strongly asked Jia Yi to go back to the apartment to rest, and called Yuanyuan to come over to help take care of her.
Sheng Building.
On Monday, Gao Qu still had bruises on his face, but he still reluctantly returned to the company, and he urgently needed to solve the big mess in front of him because he was absent from the company's important review meeting yesterday.
But things weren't as simple as he imagined.
"Gao is always good!"
"Well, hello!" Gao Qu nodded slightly, then suddenly turned his face to the female colleague in front of him and said, "Last time you borrowed my foundation, can I borrow it again?" He pointed to the wound on his face and smiled awkwardly.
"Ahh Why is this face like this, I almost can't recognize it hahaha......" Sheng Fuyang didn't know where to come from, and was laughing mercilessly.
But Gao Qu didn't mean to deal with him at all, he just took care of receiving a female colleague to borrow his cosmetics, Sheng Fuyang still refused to give up, and continued to smile and said: "Why does Mr. Gao already rely on women's fat powder to save face?" β
"On the bright side, you still have to be clean, I advise Mr. Sheng to sometimes use this to cover up his ambitions, all written on his face!" Gao Qu raised the corners of his mouth and walked towards the office without looking back.
"Gao Qu!" Sheng Fuyang's lips trembled with anger, but he still didn't give up, and continued to follow Gao Qu into the office, as soon as he entered the door, he sat on the desk with his butt, and said with a deliberate smile: "I admit that I have ambition, but I also have strength, and the most important thing is that I have a little more luck than you, don't you deny this?" β
Gao Qu loosened his tie and gasped, not responding.
"However, Mr. Gao also has luck, but he is not at work, I'm afraid that after such an experience yesterday, he would have already returned with a beauty, right? To be honest, I still envy you, frustrated in the workplace, but proud in love! β
"Yes, so I'm very grateful to you, yesterday I told me about Jiayi in time, and I'm going to redraft a report, about the security system coefficient of Nanbin Mall, how do you think I should praise you?"
"Haha, this doesn't bother you Mr. Gao, if you have this mind to worry about my department, it's better to think about how to deal with the board of directors, of course, if you insist on doing it, it's okay, after all, maybe after I become the vice president, the business center will be handed over to you hahaha......" Sheng Fuyang laughed and left.
Although Gao Qu was already familiar with Sheng Fuyang's tone, he couldn't help but worry about his future at the moment, after all, in Sheng's senior management, he was the first to miss the board review meeting, and sure enough, he was told in the morning that he didn't need to make any more reports.
"But this report is the work of our department for nearly half a month, and I still hope that the board of directors will consider it!" Gao Qu pleaded with Sheng Dong.
"Gao Qu, you and I both know that this meeting has nothing to do with any department, it is aimed at you and Xiaoyang, but after yesterday's incidents, I and the board of directors feel that maybe Xiaoyang is more suitable, I don't mean to favor anyone, but if you want to be a leader, no matter when, the company is the first, at least you must have this spirit of sacrifice to be the vice president, but you obviously have no ......"
"I was yesterday because of Xiao ......Yin," Gao Qu knew that he couldn't say with a conscience that he was absent from the meeting because of Xiao Yin.
Sheng Dong raised his hand and said, "Mrs. Lu told me, I know what happened yesterday, you don't need to explain, in view of the fact that you are also injured at the moment, I suggest that you should rest for a while recently, and it will not be too late to come back after taking care of your personal affairs!" β
Gao Qu was still in place, Sheng Dong had already stood up, walked up to him and patted him on the shoulder and said, "You will always have a way, I still believe in you more than Xiaoyang!" β
Gao Qu frowned, he didn't recover for a long time, he was so "rested"?
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Qiao Le, who was also in a state of rest, came to the psychological counseling center on Fang Quan's business card.
He was received by a middle-aged man in the center, Meng Tiangao, who was said to be Fang Quan's customer before, keen on flipping houses, and many properties in his hands were entrusted to Fang Quan to take care of, but Meng Tiangao still showed Qiao Le his professionalism in psychological counseling.
He tapped his shiny head with a pen and said, "Well, it seems that you don't have a lot of confidence in yourself. You need to know that what I can do for you is only to help you sort out the experience, not to make decisions for you. So, you have to have this positive idea first, build confidence, not only believe me, of course, you don't necessarily believe what I said, right, but more importantly, believe in yourself. β
"But I'm still afraid that I'll lose control again and hurt the people I hold dear, and I know I'm getting more and more out of control myself......"
"Then you must hurt yourself first, don't try to think about yourself with the concept of 'control', okay?" Seeing that he didn't respond, Dr. Meng lowered his head, his hand still very restlessly grasping the chair sitting under him, considering that he was in a more anxious state again, and asked, "What are you thinking about at this time?" β
"I don't know...... The brain is very messy......
"Shall we talk about family or school?"
Qiao Le just shook his head, dazed.
"Okay, so what do you think about the most, a person or a thing, when you feel like you're in a bad mood?"
"I've thought a lot about using my boss, my clients, my girlfriend, her cousin, and ...... And Calam. He frowned, endured the pain, and let faces emerge in his chaotic head.
"Jia Yi is your ......," Dr. Meng noticed, in Qiao Le's mouth, that he was the only one who did not have an identity.
Qiao Le suddenly raised his head to look at him, and slowly lowered his head, his hand holding the chair harder, and said for a long time: "She is my college classmate." β
"Then tell me about your university." Meng Tiangao threw the pen and notebook on the table, crossed his fingers and held them against his chin, waiting for Qiao Le to speak.
Qiao Le told the story of him and Jia Yi from beginning to end, which he had never done before, he had only said it to himself in the dead of night, word by word, for five years, and now he had finally found an audience, but he had finished it in just an hour.
"Every time those memories come to mind, they are like ropes thrown out of hell, holding my throat and pulling them down, not allowing me to think about anything else, I hate those memories to death......"
"Don't resent memories, people live by memories, it is the accumulation of information in the cerebral cortex that we can form the category of experience, but to turn memory into a tool that allows us to live better, instead of being enslaved by memory, you have to try to control it, the key is not to be trapped in some memory fragments, but to find problems, summarize the past, extract experience, and even repair the memories that you feel painful."
"How can memories be repaired?"
"Of course, it's all about how you go back and define the past you and her." Meng Tiangao closed the notebook on his lap and nodded.
When Qiao Le came out of Meng Tiangao's office, his face was not much better than before, but he noticed that downstairs of this consultation center was a chic cafΓ©, and the brown wooden board was written in pencil: Good mood today! Half price for the second cup!
He walked to the counter and ordered a macchiato, when suddenly a clear female voice sounded in his ears: "I'm with him, can I ask for a mocha?" β
Qiao Le turned his head and looked at the woman beside him who was wearing a dark green blouse and a yellow silk skirt, her small nose was upright and her lips were slightly upturned.
"Jiayi?" He couldn't believe it.
Jia Yi slowly turned her face to him and smiled, and said, "Half price for the second cup, pay for it." β
Qiao Le and Jia Yi sat down on a chair outside the store, both holding a cup of fragrant coffee in their hands.
"How did you end up here?" Qiao Le couldn't help but ask.
"I'd like to come and see you, and of course I'd like to do some inquiries."
"Consulting? What to consult? β
It was only when he said that he realized that he was asking knowingly, and the guilt that had been hidden in his heart for a while was finally awakened by the rich aroma of coffee.
"I'm not here because of you, I'm here because of myself." Jia Yi looked at his slightly embarrassed expression and said immediately.
"Because of yourself?"
"I think I might be ...... too Not very able to control themselves. But she immediately denied it: "Oh, Dawei said that you can't keep talking about it!" β
"David, your psychiatrist? Why did my psychiatrist tell me the same thing? He didn't know why a smile suddenly appeared on his lips.
Jia Yi took a sip of Mocha and said with a smile, "Then he must let you talk casuallyβ"
Qiao Le immediately rushed to say: "Family life and school matters." β
"Hahahaha, they're really a routine! So what are you talking about? β
"University. What about you? β
Jia Yi hesitated, didn't look at him, just nodded and said, "Me too." After saying that, the two looked at each other and smiled, sat on the chair and swayed their legs, immersed in the aroma of coffee, which finally hooked up the deepest memory.
This is the first time that when she said the word "university" to Qiao Le after she returned to N City, her body did not have any overreaction, she was very calm in her heart, and she was filled with a kind of emotion and warmth.
"Hello Qiao Le, long time no see!"
"Hello Jiayi, long time no see!"
The reunion after five years turned out to be today.