Chapter 3: He's Too Skinny
It was a pale-faced man, not very old, probably around thirty years old. He wore a black shirt and black trousers, which a thin man of his weight should not have chosen to wear. This man is really thin, with narrow shoulders and a thin waist, as if he is less than a hundred pounds combined. The man has a split head, a pair of black-framed glasses, and the corners of his eyes are a little drooping, and he looks full of bitterness.
When Tang Wan and Yuan Li saw this man, he was waiting for the elevator.
It was more than one o'clock at noon, and Tang Wan and Yuan Li went back to the company after eating lunch outside. The *** was at the elevator entrance, with a straight back, and when I heard the two girls behind me walking over with a smile, her neck moved, and she still didn't turn her head to look at it after all.
Yuan Li is a lively little girl who just graduated from school last summer, and she jumps around after working in the company on weekdays, and there is no quiet moment when she is chattering. When Yuan Li was in college, she worked part-time as a radio host, and she developed an iron mouth in two years. When she first arrived at the company, some male employees saw that she was beautiful, so they came to her with nothing to do. She began to pretend to be silly, and when the male staff thought they could tease her with all their might, her lips only moved, leaving the men who felt good about themselves dumbfounded.
As the saying goes, as soon as the connoisseur stretches out his hand, he knows if there is one, Yuan Li's mouth is a set, there is no need to make a draft to damage people, and he goes around and around, obviously hurting people, and the damaged people are still smiling with their faces, and they can't react for a long time. Later, everyone finally understood that this little girl was amazing, and everyone was deceived by her innocent and ignorant appearance. Since then, no one in the company has dared to provoke Yuan Li.
Tang Wan and Yuan Li are actually not very familiar with each other, but she likes Yuan Li's character very much. She is a notoriously cold beauty in the company, unsmiling, and always modestly maintaining a relationship with everyone, so her colleagues gradually ignore her existence. Although beautiful women are pleasant scenery, men nowadays are very realistic, and what they need is the kind of bonsai that they can carry in their pockets and take home, so their eyes are always used to staying on those girls who are within reach.
Keeping men away may be the only thing Tang Wan and Yuan Li have in common.
In the company, the two of them came together naturally. In my spare time, I chatted for a while, went to the Zizhulin white-collar restaurant to eat at noon, and went out to wait for the elevator after work. In fact, their relationship is limited to this, and the time outside of real work has never passed. But even so, they are already very good friends in the eyes of the rest of the company.
At noon that day, the two went to Zizhulin Restaurant for lunch again, and when they returned to the company after eating, they met the lean man at the elevator entrance.
When the elevator came down, the lean man in front of him advanced the elevator, and Yuan Li and Tang Wan followed behind. The man turned around after going in first, and Yuan Li and Tang Wan happened to take a look at him when they came in. After coming in, Yuan Li's eyes stared at the man, and even Tang Wan on the side felt that her gaze was too flamboyant. Tang Wan thought, even if she wanted to stare at others, at least she had to be subtle.
Yuan Li had never seen such a thin man, the shirt he wrapped around was dangling, and the belt was swaying to the last buttonhole, and it looked loose, as if it could slip off his waist at any time. And the man's face, the chin is pointed like a vertebrae, the cheeks are deeply sunken, the nose looks very straight, and the glasses look very large.
Yuan Li, this little girl is used to being naughty, you look good at others, but then she couldn't help laughing. The man got up uncomfortably, and leaned to the side, trying to avoid Yuan Li's gaze. Who knew that his body turned, and Yuan Li's body also turned. The man coughed lowly, his face flushed, his eyes flickered and glanced back at Yuan Li, and then hurriedly looked away.
This time Yuan Li smiled even more happily, she took Tang Wan's hand, and her body trembled with laughter.
Tang Wan frowned, pulled her hand down, and said in a low voice, "Okay, okay, don't laugh." Yuan Li said: "Do you know why I laugh, I thought about a friend of mine last fall. My friend just bought a motorcycle last year and rides around all day. Then one night when the wind was blowing, he rode so fast that he hit me and didn't see me. There was an intersection not far ahead, and I watched him stop at the intersection on his bike, and then slowly-" Yuan Li slowly leaned towards Tang Wan's side, and made a posture of holding the handlebars with both hands.
"He fell to the ground little by little in front of me." Tang Wan asked strangely, "Why did he fall to the ground?" Yuan Li glanced at the thin man beside her, nodded like a chicken pecking rice, and said, "My friend is so thin, as soon as the car stopped, he was blown down by the wind." Tang Wan wanted to hold it back, and she covered her mouth with her hand and laughed out loud.
The man was stunned, his face flushed, and he wanted to have a seizure, but he was too timid to speak. At this time, the elevator stopped, and when they arrived at the floor where Tang Wan and Yuan Li's company were located, the two girls got out of the elevator with a smile. At this moment, Yuan Li suddenly turned around and said something that Tang Wan didn't expect.
Yuan Li said: "My friend is thinner this year, and his girlfriend wants to treat him, just use a thumbtack to hang him on the wall." The elevator door slowly closed, and the man's pale and gloomy face disappeared into the elevator. The two girls no longer had any scruples at this time, and even Tang Wan smiled and bent over.
Yuan Li said: "I have never seen such a thin man, such a man can be sent to the zoo exhibition." Tang Wan also said: "He is really too thin, so thin that he is a little sick." A few colleagues didn't believe Yuan Li's words and accused her of insulting gay men in a different way, Yuan Li patted her chest and wanted to lead everyone upstairs to find the man.
Time passed quickly, and when it was time to go to work, everyone got to work, and the topic of the lean man was over. Tang Wan and Yuan Li also quickly forgot about this matter, there is so much work to do every day, who has the energy to put their minds on an irrelevant person?
They didn't expect that when they left the elevator, the pale and thin man suddenly began to tremble all over, as if he couldn't control the trembling. His hands hung limply, his shoulders hunched slightly, and his face grew paler from the tremors. Later, he held on to the inner wall of the elevator and slowly crouched down, his eyes behind his black-rimmed glasses revealing a desperate gaze.
The elevator stopped, and the people who came in saw his appearance and asked him if he was not feeling well and if he wanted to call an ambulance.
The lean man didn't say a word, and he sped out of the elevator and headed straight for the nearest bathroom.
In the bathroom, he began to vomit and vomited incessantly.
He vomited for a long time, but he didn't vomit much. He finally stopped in front of the pool and splashed the water on his face. The lenses were stained with water, and he removed them, and dimly saw in the mirror in front of him a thin man who was not human-shaped.
He started vomiting again.
In the evening, Tang Wan was worried that Tan Dong was coming to pick her up, so she packed up early and waited for work. Just after six o'clock on the wall, she said hello to her colleagues and went out. When passing by Yuan Li's cubicle, Yuan Li waved at her without raising her head to say goodbye.
Yuan Li had a business plan to do, and when she was working in the afternoon, she chatted with a few colleagues for a while, delaying some time. And this project is to be used by the director on a business trip tomorrow, so she must finish it tonight and send it to the director's e-mail.
In fact, even if she finished her work, she just went downstairs with Tang Wan, and then went their separate ways at the door of the company. Relationships seem to be becoming more and more delicate in modern times, especially for those who work in large companies. They always try to maintain an easy-going and pleasant relationship, but in fact, each of them puts a barrier on themselves, not letting others get too close to them, and not getting close to others.
And when this relationship becomes a habit, it seems to be ignored by everyone.
When Tang Wan was waiting for the elevator, she thought of the thin man she saw at noon. At this time, she suddenly had a strange feeling in her heart. When she thought of the thin man, she no longer felt ridiculous, but felt extremely uncomfortable, like listening to people talk about disgusting things during a meal, or coming back from the street to find that her newly changed clothes were stained with unclean things.
Tang Wan couldn't forget that she once went to the cinema, and when she came back, she didn't go to bed at night until she found that a piece of chewing gum was stuck on the buttocks of her pants. The gum had turned black, and she tried to remove it, but it stuck firmly to her pants and never got clean. That night, Tang Wan hid in the bathroom alone, washing desperately, rubbing desperately, rubbing desperately, but the dirty piece of chewing gum still had a thin layer stuck to her pants.
Later, Tang Wan knocked over the basin in the bathroom, and she was slipped by the water on the ground again, and she fell to the floor, bleeding from her knees. She just fell on the ground and cried, and when the family knocked on the door outside, she wouldn't open it. I don't know how long I cried, the night seemed to be very deep, the family had already slept, Tang Wan stopped crying, she wiped away her tears, took off her clothes little by little, and let herself stand naked under the shower.
The cold water fell, and her skin spasmed, and she folded her arms, but her face was tilted back in the direction of the current.
Tang Wan has a flawless body, a slender waist, towering **, slender limbs, and delicate and fair skin like jade. Droplets of water fall on the body, splash quickly, or slide slowly. Because of the moisture of water, the body presents a crystalline texture, and those graceful lines carry full drops of water, like rose petals in the morning carrying dewdrops.
It's just that this body has been washed by the cold water for a long time, and later it has become strangely pale.
The night was as cold as water, and Tang Wan's body was as cold as ice.
Tang Wan in the elevator remembered the past and couldn't help but feel a little chill in an instant.
There will be some untouchable corners in everyone's heart, and time can disguise these corners, but there will be times when you will feel the real feeling coming from that corner. In this way, you will panic, you will be afraid, and you will have nowhere to run.
Tang Wan's mood darkened inexplicably, maybe not inexplicably, but at least at this time, the gloom came at an inexplicable time. Tang Wan thought that it was all because of the thin man she saw at noon. At this time, the appearance of the thin man appeared in his mind again, with a strangely pale face, sunken cheeks, a gloomy gaze behind black-rimmed glasses, and the deep helplessness he felt when he faced Yuan Li later, and his flickering eyes when the elevator door closed.
Tang Wan shook her head, trying her best to get rid of the thin man's shadow.
At this time, it was time to get off work, and Tang Wan suddenly felt that there was something strange in the elevator. At this time, the elevator is almost overcrowded, and there are often people who can't get in because of overcrowding. And today there is only one person in the elevator, and the inner wall of the stainless steel in the elevator is reflected everywhere, and those shadows are vague, somewhat distorted, and the shadows are so large that they are like some ghosts that are about to move.
Tang Wan leaned her back against the wall, gasping heavily, some long-standing fear undoubtedly captured her again at this time. Now she just hoped that there would be more people in the elevator, or that she would be able to go down faster, faster, faster. There was a time when she was afraid of crowds, afraid of putting herself in the midst of many strangers, but at this time, she had so many desires for crowds. And the sun, and the noise, and so many things she used to avoid.
The elevator stopped, and Tang Wan rushed out quickly, without stopping at all when she walked through the lobby. The afterglow of the setting sun slanted from the top of the building, and the building across the road scorched the light of the setting sun in Tang Wan's eyes.
It was exactly what she needed, and she couldn't wait for the light, not to mention, she knew that there was someone she loved waiting for her across the road.
Tang Wan's figure went out of the revolving door, she didn't see the staircase on the west side of the lobby, a pair of eyes burst out with sadness, and followed her closely.
It was the lean man, still wearing his black shirt and pants.
He was too skinny, he shouldn't have chosen a black outfit. Because of his thinness, all the sleeves of his shirt were lowered, and the collar was only unbuttoned at the top, so that his whole body was wrapped in his clothes, but the clothes were dangling, as if his body could not support the clothes at all.
The staircase was the darkest part of the lobby, and his face grew paler in the gloom—a little white.
He looked at Tang Wan's back, and his eyes showed such a deep sadness. If it weren't for the fact that he wore a pair of wide-rimmed black-rimmed glasses, the sadness might have been even stronger.
- He didn't know Tang Wan, he had only met once in the elevator, why did he feel sad for Tang Wan?
He walked out of the staircase, his originally straight back stiffened, as if being in a bright place was a headache for him. His brow furrowed, but he didn't hesitate to walk in the direction of the door.
The thin man walks very strangely, and when you look at it, you will think that he walks very slowly, because he seems to think about it with every step, so the pace is very slow. But he was tall, with long lean legs, and he could take one and a half steps to catch up with others, so he moved forward very fast.
The thin man had already walked out of the revolving door, and he stood on the steps of the building and saw the scene of Tang Wan being hit by a car. At that moment, the sadness in his eyes was a little thicker in time. Even, he couldn't bear to step forward to check Tang Wan's life and death like many onlookers.
For such a beautiful girl, will her death be as beautiful as her appearance?
He stood on the steps and hesitated, because the terrain was slightly high, he could clearly see Tan Dong knocking down the driver with a punch and leaning down. At this time, the onlookers surrounded Tan Dong and Tang Wan tighter, and he had no way to see the scene after Tan Dong hugged Tang Wan. But what does it matter, a predetermined ending has already taken place, and no one can change it. At this time, apart from sadness, what kind of mood can a bystander have?
However, the truth is not what he thinks.
When he saw Tan Dong hugging Tang Wan, the whole person seemed to have quieted down. His eyes widened, and then he saw Tang Wan break free from Tan Dong's embrace and stand straight in the middle of the crowd.
- It is really strange that Tang Wan, who was hit by a car, would be unharmed.
He didn't believe his eyes, but the facts were in front of him. His wheezing began to grow, and he felt some strength churning through his body.
There is only one possibility that Tang Wan is unharmed, that is, the car stopped before hitting her body, and because of fear, she subconsciously fell in the direction of the car, and because of excessive fright, she fell down, and the person fainted.
The driver over there stroked his nose and smeared his grinning face with a nosebleed.
The expressions of the onlookers were different, some were pleased, some were disappointed, and some stepped forward to ask questions. Tan Dong and Tang Wan were obviously not very comfortable being the focus in this situation, Tang Wan's eyes turned to Tan Dong, Tan Dong understood her intentions, hugged her to separate the crowd, stopped a passing taxi, and quickly left the scene.
Tang Wan left, and the lean man was still standing on the steps. Although he was separated by a layer of lenses, there was already a disappointment in his eyes that could not be concealed. Disappointment and sadness appeared on his face together, and his expression was a little strange, and some people who passed him stared at him with strange eyes, but he withdrew his gaze and hurried away.
The lean man's chest rose and fell, and he faced the gradually dispersing crowd, and the old monk stood still for a moment, and then finally descended the steps and walked forward.
His steps were slow, but fast, and in a few moments he disappeared from our sight.
The sun set in the west and finally disappeared, and the brilliant clouds in the western sky were also dispelled by the growing twilight. Then the lights came on, and the neon lights all over the street were brightly lit up in an instant. Night came, and the city lived in the desolation of night.
Yuan Li finished the project and sent it to the director's e-mail, which was the end of the day's work. She stretched lazily and found that there was no one else in the company but her. In a huge office, only the lamp in her cubicle was still on. She muttered something dissatisfied, vented her emotions, and took out her makeup bag from her bag to touch up her makeup.
Beautiful girls always care about their appearance, but it is those who are average or ugly who are too lazy to dress up. Yuan Li hummed a song in her mouth and tossed it on her face for half an hour. Although the night has come, it is not too late, and people who are used to nightlife will always regard the night as their best decoration.
Yuan Li finally chose a rose-red lipstick to apply to her lips, and her person immediately looked a little more charming. Just then, she seemed to hear a slight footstep in the hallway outside. The footsteps were strange, as if they were half a beat slower than the average human pace. She listened intently, and the footsteps disappeared.
Maybe someone from another office has just left. Yuan Li thought.
Yuan Li left the office and waited for a long time for the elevator to come up. There was no one in the building anymore.
When she entered the elevator, she suddenly felt a chill on her body, as if a gust of wind was blowing through her body somewhere. She subconsciously looked around the elevator and smiled. How could there be a gap in this elevator, this is really a ridiculous thought. However, the coolness on her body was so real that she could even look down and see goosebumps on her bare arms.
What's even more strange is that at this time, her heart was like when Tang Wan entered the elevator, and she suddenly thought of the lean man with a miserable white face she saw at noon. That man is too thin, and it is estimated that such a thin man is not of much use in this world, Yuan Li thought, if anyone finds such a man as a boyfriend, it will be the biggest disaster in her life. Fortunately, she had nothing to do with the man, everyone just passed by, or they could meet again in this elevator in the future, but Yuan Li decided not to look at the man again in the future.
Because at this time, when she thought of the man, the coldness in her heart became heavier.
Yuan Li shook her head, wanting to expel the lean man from her mind, but the miserable white face was still shaking in front of her eyes. Yuan Li thought what was wrong with me, why did she keep thinking about that person. So Yuan Li asked herself to stay for a while where to eat, and a colleague of the company said that a "Hawker" steakhouse had just opened on Antarctic Road, and I heard that the beef was imported from the United States. Yuan Li just wanted to stay for a while and go to the high roller, but to go to the high roller, you have to wait for the elevator to stop, and the elevator seems to be going down very slowly today.
Yuan Li finally suddenly thought that when the elevator stopped, would the lean man with a miserable white face wait for her at the elevator entrance?