In June, Shenzhen-Hong Kong City is like a huge steamer, even if it is already more than 11 o'clock in the evening, there is still not a trace of cool breeze, except for a few night stalls, there are people blowing water and chatting bare-chested, and the noisy street during the day has long been empty at this time.

Coming out of the company, Yuan Lang trotted all the way, and finally caught the last bus that was about to leave the station.

"Yo, young man, so late today?"

The bus driver on the evening shift already knew Yuan Lang and said hello to him with a grin.

"No way, overtime."

Wiping the beads of sweat from his forehead, he took out two yuan from his pocket and threw it into the box, Yuan Lang replied with a wry smile, and found a seat closest to the window and sat down.

Yuan Lang is 23 years old this year, his hometown is in a small county town south of Shenzhen and Hong Kong, since he was expelled from school, he happened to work in this home improvement company called Hongxin, for two months and 20 days, half of which were overtime to the stars.

In Shenzhen and Hong Kong, a metropolis with a permanent population of more than 10 million, Horizon Home Improvement is not a large company, mainly engaged in interior decoration business, in addition to the construction department of a little more people, just say that Yuan Lang's design department, plus external designers, a total of less than ten people.

However, just a few days ago, the company's boss personally came forward and pulled a large order with a decoration budget of more than 2 million, which directly led to Yuan Lang's recent work getting off work later and later.

It is said that the owner of this single is the owner of one of the top three gold jewelry brands in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, not only the initial decoration budget is more than 2 million, but the design fee alone reaches 301 square meters, according to the whole villa more than 300 square meters, there are more than 100,000 yuan in the hands of the designer.

The company's husband also personally spoke, no matter which designer's work wins the bid, an additional 50,000 yuan will be rewarded.

Money can make ghosts grind, with six-figure stimulation, several designers in the company have been working enthusiastically in the past few days, and one by one is like being beaten with chicken blood.

However, this money has nothing to do with Yuan Lang, he is just an intern designer who is not even a contract worker, he has neither resources nor qualifications in his hands, and he is not qualified to participate in this kind of business in the company at all.

Moreover, it is said that he is a trainee designer, but because there are not many people in the design department, in fact, in addition to doing some basic water and electricity drawings every day, he has to do finishing work for the renderings of other designers, and he also has to serve tea and water, run errands, and even he is the one who moves the projector in the company's meetings, so he can't get off work without waiting for others to finish.

People are floating in the rivers and lakes, how can they complain.

Even so, Yuan Lang cherishes this job a lot, after all, he is attached to his profession, and his salary of 1,08 a month can at least keep him from starving.

Moreover, who said that they didn't even have a graduation certificate? Even if you want to change jobs, a slightly larger company won't want it.

"Damn, when will I be able to afford a house in this city?"

The bus was driving fast, the neon flashed outside the window, and Yuan Lang was suddenly a little dazed as he watched the high-rise buildings continue to speed by......

More than three months ago, he was a senior at the School of Design at Shenzhen-Hong Kong University.

About to graduate, Yuan Lang also had the confidence to start a career, but unfortunately fate made a little joke with him - he prepared a graduation project for half a year before the internship, and won a famous interior design award in China, but he signed it and became the president of their school's student union.

The fruits of hard work have actually become someone else's work, which is the same as the feeling that his son has become the old king next door, the young and vigorous Yuan Lang went to the student union president at that time.

"You hillbilly, from a tutor to a student in the design institute, who wouldn't dare to give face to Lao Tzu? Lao Tzu just imitated it, you came to me, didn't you just want to blackmail Lao Tzu for a sum of money? I heard that your sister came out to sell it for you to study, and Lao Tzu gave you 10,000 yuan, even if it was to take care of your sister's business. ”

——These are the original words of the president of the student union, and Yuan Lang estimates that he will never forget it in his life.

His parents left early, and Yuan Lang was almost pulled up by his sister since he was a teenager, and his sister relied on a fast food restaurant opened in a small county town to prevent him from dropping out of school.

Therefore, Yuan Lang didn't ask for money, he asked for the two front teeth of the student union president, if the police hadn't come in time, that kid might have donated his children and grandchildren.

Later, the president of the student union used his family connections to let Yuan Lang stay in the detention center for nearly a month, and after he came out, the school did not accept him again, and he didn't have to think about his graduation certificate.

Twenty-three-year-old Yuan Lang saw for the first time what it means to reverse black and white, and what it means to have money to make ghosts grind.

He didn't dare to tell his sister from beginning to end, he rolled up the cover and moved out of the school, relying on solid basic skills, he finally found the position of intern designer in Hongxin.

"Phoenix New Village has arrived, please pay attention to the passengers who get on the bus, please go well and take care of your ...... when you get off the bus"

A crisp sound of announcing the platform pulled Yuan Lang's thoughts back, got up and patted his calves that were sitting a little numb, and Yuan Lang strode off the car.

Fenghuang New Village has a nice name, but it is actually just a group of dilapidated and low-rise buildings, an inconspicuous urban village, and as far as the eye can see, many dirty walls have been painted with a scarlet lettering.

Shenzhen-Hong Kong rice is expensive, and it is not easy to live in vain.

Because of the cheap rent, this urban village has become a paradise for factory girls, homeless people and migrant workers, of course, more young people like Yuan Lang, who are young and want to have a better future.

"Boss, do you have any new books?"

bought a bowl of cold noodles for three yuan at the intersection, and Yuan Lang habitually walked to the used bookstall downstairs where he rented.

has no money and no leisure for other entertainment, so he comes to find a book to read and enrich himself from time to time, which has become one of the few pleasures for Yuan Lang.

"Home Improvement Books?"

The yellow-toothed boss saw that it was Yuan Lang, grinned, and took out a bundle of old books wrapped in fiber rope from the corner and threw it over: "I just received it from an old man's house, if you take all fifteen yuan." ”

"Decoration Feng Shui", Environmental Science, ......"

It seems that this old man is still a companion with himself, and he casually flipped through the first two books, and they all fit Yuan Lang's taste.

"Ten dollars, it's all broken like this." Yuan Lang picked up the first book casually: "Look at it, the covers are all yellow, I'm afraid I'm older than me." ”

"Okay, okay." Boss Huangya also estimated that this book could not be used for postgraduate examinations, but could not be used for civil service examinations, and there were not many people who wanted it, so he said: "Take ten yuan away." ”

"Thank you!"

Yuan Lang smiled, showed a mouthful of white teeth, quickly took out ten yuan from his pocket, stuffed the book into his bag, and walked up the fifth floor from a staircase on the side.

He lived on the top floor of this building, and the room was not large, with a single room and bathroom adding up to less than twenty square meters, five hundred and a month, barely within his affordability.

The only thing worth the whole room, except for the broken computer he used to compose the drawings, was only an electric fan that would fall apart at any time, and this was the landlord's private property.

I have to get up early tomorrow, and I have to clean the office before a few designers arrive, and Yuan Lang didn't dare to delay more, so he took a shower and quickly fell asleep.

"Ahh Big brother, you're so powerful......"

Just turned over, and there was a man and a woman snorting and chirping next door.

The sound insulation effect of the resettlement room is really poor, and the voice of you and me fell into Yuan Lang's ears without a word.

"Your sister, this weather is also so good."

Seeing this, the battle next door couldn't stop for half an hour, Yuan Lang was a little depressed and simply turned on the light, and casually took out the old books he had just bought from his bag, intending to kill time.

"Yuan's Taoism?"

Casually pulled one of the thickest, Yuan Lang found that it was still a book about feng shui and physiognomy, but it was already a little miserable, the yellowed cover was blurred, and it was not less bitten by insects and reptiles at a glance, but the quality seemed to be quite good, except for some stains, there were no missing corners.

"The eyebrows are shorter than the eyes, and the temperament is withdrawn. The high brow bone has many tribulations. The eyebrows are scattered and low, and they are lonely and poor all their lives. Eyebrows are interrupted and brothers are separated. ”

Open the first page, there are four small poems, each sentence has a hand-painted eyebrow shape on the side, and then with a variety of face shapes, the word does not want to be a font that should be brushed, like a person with good calligraphy, written with a brush gilt, there are even signs of alteration on it.

"Heh, the painting is not bad."

Yuan Lang was a little interested, after all, he was studying design, and he also knew some knowledge such as feng shui physiognomy, and the portraits in this book, although they were only a few strokes, were extremely vivid, and the characters jumped on the paper, completely like a living person.

"Yes, it's sticky."

Flipping down further, there are two pages in the middle, I don't know if it's glue or something, it's glued together, if you don't look carefully, you really won't be able to see it.

"Poof......

As soon as he reached out and tore it, the page was only torn open by Yuan Lang, and the two sticky papers were like a squid farting, and a thick black mist came out.

"Ahem!"

At this moment, the text and portrait on the photo book seemed to have received some order, and it turned into a puff of green smoke in an instant, and suddenly looked like Yuan Lang's head drilled into it.

I only felt that my nose rushed, and Yuan Lang's eyes suddenly went black, and he fell headlong......