CHAPTER XVI

Luo Jingjing met Long Xiaoyu because of a car accident.

At that time, Luo Jingjing had just obtained the driver's license of the car, and said that she got it because she did not get the license herself, but asked Director Wang to do it. Moreover, it was hidden from her father. Luo Baochun is very pampered with this baby daughter, and she does everything, but she is not allowed to learn to drive. It is also a kind of pampering that she is not allowed to drive, since she is afraid of falling in her hand, and she is afraid of melting in her mouth, of course, she is not worried about driving all over the street alone.

Therefore, Luo Jingjing learned to drive secretly, can she learn well if she learns secretly? When her father went to Shanghai on a business trip, she drove a Honda out to practice, and as soon as she drove out of the city, she scraped a young man riding a bicycle and leading people at a bend in the city. The young man's riding skills are probably similar to Luo Jingjing's driving skills, and there is a pretty girl behind the car, who staggers when she sees a car coming. Luo Jingjing saw them swaying in front, and panicked first, and hurriedly turned the front of the car into the intersection, and somehow the rear of the car ran into the bicycle that was so tattered that no one picked it up. The young man riding the bicycle and the girl who was carried by him fell on the side of the road together, Luo Jingjing saw the situation of the bicycle falling behind him from the reflector, and before he could figure out what was going on, he heard someone shouting loudly in front of and behind:

"Hit someone! It's a hit! Stop the car! ”

The nearest sound came from the front, there was a small restaurant on the side of the road ahead, and several men who were eating in front of the small restaurant ran over and stopped the car. Luo Jingjing was frightened by this formation. She got out of the car with a pale face, looking at the man and woman lying on the side of the road, helpless, she was so nervous that she forgot to say a word of greeting the injury.

It was the men who were eating, some ran to care about the injuries of the people who were hit, some were about to call the traffic police, and some were afraid that Luo Jingjing would hit and run, so they simply opened the car door and pulled out the key. The young man who was injured was picked up from the ground at this time, and he limped and tried to walk a few steps, but the woman was still lying on the ground and could not get up. Someone stopped a passing military vehicle at the intersection and carried the woman up to the hospital, and someone helped the man to reason with Luo Jingjing to the traffic police team. Luo Jingjing didn't know where the traffic police team was, she almost cried. She asked, "Where's my car key?" A man in his thirties who took her car keys returned the car keys to her, and at the same time played the role of a mediator, saying: "In this way, if you want to go to the traffic police team, go to the traffic police team, if you want to be private, you can discuss it yourself, you can discuss it yourself, and both parties will save trouble." He asked the boy who was hit, "Who are you?" The boy said, "It's my girlfriend." He asked, "Can you represent her?" The boy said, "Yes." The mediator then said: "Then you can tell me a number, going to the traffic police team is just asking her to pay you some money, you say a number, if she is willing, you can save yourself from running to the traffic police team, you should hurry up and go to the hospital to see your girlfriend." ”

The boy hesitated for a moment and asked for the price: "My girlfriend, I don't know where the injury is, and I don't know how much it costs to go to the hospital, you can give 20,000 yuan first." ”

Luo Jingjing was taken aback: 20,000? But she didn't dare to refuse, she hadn't experienced this kind of thing, and she didn't know how much money was reasonable, and what price to pay for this kind of thing. In the end, it was the mediator in his thirties who paid her back:

"Twenty thousand, that's not a big number, but you see that this girl is not bent on hitting you, can you still negotiate this number?"

The boy did not speak.

The mediator said, "Ten thousand, how about it?" ”

The boy said: "Fifteen thousand, one point less will go to the traffic police team." ”

The mediator shifted his gaze to Luo Jingjing and waited for her to speak. Luo Jingjing said: "I'll call my father's unit first. She wanted to call Director Wang at that time, but she really didn't know how to deal with this scene.

The mediator said: "People have to rush to the hospital, they can't wait. If you can do it, if you can't, go to the traffic police team, I don't care. After a pause, he persuaded him with good words, "When I arrived at the traffic police team, at least there was more than that." You have to pay for the medical expenses, you have to pay for the nutrition expenses, and you have to pay for the lost work expenses of other people's injuries. If that woman is seriously injured and doesn't come out of the hospital, you'll have to throw your money into that bottomless pit like water. Besides, once you enter the traffic police force, your driver's license will have to be revoked by the police, and it will cost you at least a few thousand ...... to get another license So, it's definitely not cost-effective for you to go to the traffic police force, you think about it, you can go if you want to......"

The mediator's tone was not very good, a little hooligan, but what he said was quite the same thing, and Luo Jingjing was moved, and finally expressed her attitude, she said: "I didn't have so much money with me, I have to go back and get it." ”

The mediator said, "Okay, let him go with you." ”

He turned his face again and asked the boy, "Will you go by yourself, or will you let me go with you?" ”

The boy immediately said, "Please come with me, brother, and I will be grateful." ”

So, the two of them got into Luo Jingjing's car together. Luo Jingjing pulled them to her residence. She took 2,000 yuan from her residence and handed it to the boy who was hit, and wrote an IOU of 13,000 yuan, which was dictated by the mediator word by word, and Luo Jingjing wrote it down one by one: "The perpetrator Luo Jingjing drove and injured Long Xiaoyu (the two), and voluntarily compensated 15,000 yuan, 2,000 yuan has been paid, and 13,000 yuan is owed to be paid off in three days." If not, the penalty will be doubled. Luo Jingjing forgot how to write the word "Zhao" for a while, and asked the mediator, who took a pen and drew a few times, but the writing was not correct. Or "hit the person" Long Xiaoyu took the pen and skillfully wrote a correct word "Zhao" on the back of the IOU, and the handwriting was very good-looking.

wrote the IOU, along with Luo Jingjing's driver's license and ID card, as collateral and gave it to the mediator, who in turn gave it to the boy who was hit.

The two men are gone. Luo Jingjing called Director Wang and cried to him about what happened to her, and she asked Director Wang for help: first, find a way to get 13,000 yuan; Second, don't let her father know about it.

Luo Jingjing didn't want her father to know, because she was afraid that her father would lose his temper if he knew that she was driving, and he would completely ban her from driving. In fact, after this fright, her father even agreed that she would not dare to drive. Later, she really rarely moved the car, Han Ding and Luo Jingjing lived together for more than half a year, and they didn't know that Luo Jingjing had driven a car before.

It was easy to keep Luo Jingjing's father from knowing about this car accident, but under this premise, getting 13,000 yuan within three days made it difficult for Director Wang. If he doesn't have this money, who is his father going to go with? Director Wang and Luo Jingjing discussed and planned again and again, and finally decided that he would make up a lie for Luo Jingjing, and he personally called Luo Baochun, who was far away in Shanghai, saying that Luo Jingjing's modeling company wanted to buy clothes for the models, and the models needed to pay a deposit of 13,000 yuan each. Luo Baochun was really fooled, and agreed that Director Wang would first receive 13,000 yuan in cash from the company's finances, and hand it over to Luo Jingjing the next morning. Luo Jingjing took the money, her mood improved, and she waited for the person who was injured by her to come and withdraw the money, so as to solve this unfortunate matter satisfactorily.

The deadline to pay the compensation to the boy who was hit was three days, and Luo Jingjing thought that they would come to the door on the third day, but she didn't expect to see them in advance on the night she got the money.

The world is too small, and Pingling is even smaller. That night, Luo Jingjing went to buy drinks at Jiajia Supermarket, the largest supermarket in Pingling, and saw someone arguing at the cashier next to her when she was paying. She tilted her head to look and quickly realized that it was a girl who had taken a bottle of shampoo without paying for it and had been seized by the device as she passed through the exit. Several supermarket guards rushed over and stopped the girl and shouted a reprimand. The girl, who was clearly not a local from her accent, insisted that she had inadvertently forgotten to pay the money, and the guard asked her to pay the money, but she couldn't take it. Luo Jingjing first felt curious, then saw that the girl was a little familiar, and finally, she saw a boy rushing from the supermarket, helping the girl talk, and digging through every pocket on her body, wanting to pay for her. Only then did Luo Jingjing recognize them, they were the pair of boys and girls who were hit by her car yesterday.

The boy rummaged through his body and only pulled out a dozen dollars. But the bottle of shampoo cost thirty-eight dollars, and the guards had to pay a fine of twice the price of the goods. If they can't get the money, they will take the person away, or hand it over to the public security organ to be punished as a thief, or ask the leaders of relatives and friends to bring money to collect the person. Just as the guards were pulling and pulling to take the young man away, Luo Jingjing stood up.

She asked the guards, "I'm sorry, what's wrong with them?" I'm their friend, and I'll pay the fine. ”

She paid for them, not only did she pay twice the fine, but she also bought the bottle of shampoo. In fact, it was only a total of more than 100 yuan to settle this matter, which was nothing to Luo Jingjing.

The guards let go, and then squinted at Luo Jingjing and the two "thieves" walking out of the supermarket door together. At the door of the supermarket, Luo Jingjing stuffed the bottle of shampoo into the hand of the out-of-town girl and said, "Goodbye." ”

The girl was stunned for a moment, then pushed the shampoo back and said, "I don't want it." ”

The girl's eyebrows and eyes are very delicate, and her temperament is a little earthy, so she can see that she is from a small place. She refused Luo Jingjing's gift because she was embarrassed, but her actions and tone were extremely impolite, which made Luo Jingjing a little embarrassed. Embarrassed, she handed the bottle of shampoo to the boy and said, "Then give it to you, I don't use this brand of shampoo." ”

The boy behaved more politely, took the shampoo with a red face, said thank you, and said other polite words, he said, "Count us against you, and pay you back later." ”

Luo Jingjing smiled and said, "I still owe you something." She added, "Are you all right?" I'm still worried about your injuries, so I'm fine! ”

The boy didn't speak. The girl said casually: "Ah, it's okay......" and then immediately reacted and quickly corrected, "Why is it okay, the hospital said that my brain may have been broken, and I need to be thoroughly examined." My thighs are swollen too, don't believe me. She gestured to her pants, "I don't have such thick thighs, and if I do find something wrong with my bones, we'll have to look for you." ”

Luo Jingjing's already improved mood made the country girl turn bad again, she turned her face to the boy and said, "I'm ready for the money, it's late tonight, you can come to my house tomorrow to get it." ”

The boy was much more sensible than the girl, and his expression was polite and polite enough, and he said, "Ah, thank you, thank you." ”

After he finished speaking, he pulled the girl by the hand: "Let's go." He said goodbye to Luo Jingjing, and then pulled the girl and walked away quickly. The girl first walked briskly, and then made a limp appearance, and Luo Jingjing also knew that it was for her to see. She thought, anyway, if her injuries weren't serious, that would be fine.

Luo Jingjing didn't go out the next day, because she made an appointment to pay today. She also called Director Wang, afraid that if the other party asked any questions again, she would not be able to deal with it alone. At nine o'clock in the morning, the boy came, rang the doorbell outside, and Director Wang opened the door and let him in. To their surprise, he came alone, without a girl or a mediator. Although they are rivals, Luo Jingjing somehow has a good impression of this boy. The boy is not only very pleasing to the eye, but also quite cultivated. Luo Jingjing let him sit down in the living room, and opened a bottle of frozen fruit tea for him, and then she stood on the edge of the fireplace, and Director Wang negotiated the matter on her behalf.

Director Wang is forty years old and has a lot of social experience, and in the face of this kind of half-grown man in his twenties, he looks casual and easy. He sat face to face with the boy on the couch and asked slowly, "What do you call you?" ”

The boy said, "My name is Long Xiaoyu. ”

Director Wang asked again: "You're not a local, are you?" Where are you? Do you have a job in Pingling? ”

The boy didn't answer, he glanced at Luo Jingjing and said, "I want to talk to her alone, okay?" ”

Director Wang said: "Aren't you just talking about money, I'll talk to you, and I'm her representative." The boy said, "I'll talk to her first, and then I'll talk to you if I need to." ”

Director Wang still wanted to block the front, but the boy directly looked at Luo Jingjing on the edge of the fireplace and asked, "I'll say a few words to you, okay?" ”

Luo Jingjing was stunned, not knowing what to say. Director Wang raised his voice and forced the boy's gaze back to himself: "If you have anything to say, just tell me, ah!" Go ahead. ”

The boy looked at Luo Jingjing again: "I'll tell you alone, okay?" ”

Luo Jingjing was pulled by that gaze, hesitated, and nodded: "Okay." ”

Director Wang also looked at Luo Jingjing: "What's the matter, you tell him first?" ”

Luo Jingjing said, "Ah." ”

Director Wang took a look at the boy's face, got up from the sofa a little uneasily, as if to give Luo Jingjing courage, said "I'm in the next room", and left the living room.

There were only two of them left in the living room, Luo Jingjing was still standing in place, leaning against the fireplace, she said, "Then, you can say it." ”

The boy said, "I don't want the thirteen,000 dollars anymore." After a pause, he looked at Luo Jingjing's stunned expression, and added more clearly, "I don't want the money." ”

Luo Jingjing asked, "Why?" ”

The boy said: "I just fell and didn't get hurt, Siping didn't get hurt, didn't you give 2,000 yuan the day before yesterday, we have enough." ”

Luo Jingjing was stunned for a long time, and then asked stupidly: "That...... Is it enough? ”

"That's enough."

Luo Jingjing didn't know whether she was happy or confused at that time, this situation was a bit sudden for her. She really felt indebted to them this time. She could see that they were from out of town, they had no money, and the thirteen,000 yuan might be a lot of money to them. Such a poor person encounters such a large windfall that is not in vain, and he really doesn't want it, is there still such a good person? Luo Jingjing asked in disbelief: "Then, what should I do about this?" You see, you still need ...... Need anything else? ”

The boy said dryly, "There is no need for anything." You gave two thousand dollars, and we are already very grateful. ”

The boy took out Luo Jingjing's driver's license, ID card, and the IOU, and put them on the coffee table. Luo Jingjing was stunned for a long time, and then asked, "Then your girlfriend, she, is she really okay?" Is her brain and legs all right? ”

The boy said, "It's okay, thank you for caring about her, your heart is so good." ”

Luo Jingjing was moved by the boy's behavior, she didn't know what to say, so she said: "Then let's be friends in the future, you said last time that your name is Long Xiaoyu, right?" My name is Luo Jingjing, you know. What's your girlfriend's name? ”

The boy said, "Her name is Zhu Siping." ”

Luo Jingjing asked: "Listening to her speak, it seems that she is a southerner?" ”

The boy said: "We are from Shaoxing, we are fellow villagers, and we are all from Shaoxing, Zhejiang." ”

Luo Jingjing asked, "But you don't seem to speak like her." ”

The boy said, "I speak Mandarin well, but she doesn't speak well." ”

Luo Jingjing asked: "Are you coming to Pingling to work, or to play?" ”

The boy said, "Come and work." ”

Luo Jingjing asked, "Where do you work, did you just come?" ”

The boy said, "It's been a month, and I haven't found a job yet." Siping works in an engineering team. It's the engineering team of the male brother who came with me to get the money that day. He is also a native of Shaoxing, and has been a foreman contractor in Pingling for several years, so he is very familiar with this place, and he can often get work, and Siping is working there for him. After a while, if I can't find a job, I want to go to work on the construction site with Brother Xiong. ”

Luo Jingjing asked, "Have you studied any majors?" What job are you looking for? ”

The boy said: "After graduating from high school, I went to school at the Shaoxing School of Economics to study economic management. My father passed away last year, and I had no money to study, so I came out to look for a job. However, it is too difficult for someone like me who dropped out of school halfway to find a job related to economic management, who can ask me? ”

Luo Jingjing said: "If you want to study economic management, I can ask my father." My dad is in business, and I asked them if they wanted people in the factory. ”

The boy listened, as if he didn't believe it, but a smile appeared on his face, and the smile was very shy and full of gratitude, and he said, "Is it? Then you can help me ask, I can do anything, I can do manual work, I can do manual work. ”

The meeting between Luo Jingjing and Long Xiaoyu is the beginning of the relationship between the two parties, and it is also a continuation of each other's good feelings. After Long Xiaoyu said goodbye, Luo Jingjing was already determined to help him find a job that he was satisfied with. Director Wang was extremely surprised that the compensation for the accident was resolved by Luo Jingjing, and he was also skeptical, because he could not hear any convincing reason from Luo Jingjing's account to cause the country boy to give up the windfall calmly. He tentatively suggested that Luo Jingjing return the 13,000 yuan to the company's finances, so as not to ask the modeling company about the clothing deposit in the future, anyway, she can ask her father for the money. Luo Jingjing is basically a very responsible little girl, although she spends a lot of money, she is limited to buying clothes, skirts, face oil, etc., as well as going to restaurants and eating snacks, there is nothing out of the ordinary. Her father has always been lenient and generous with her money. Therefore, she obediently returned the money to Director Wang, and Director Wang returned the money to the company's finance on the same day, so as not to cause trouble in the future when the matter he personally operated was exposed. On the third day, Luo Baochun returned to Pingling from Shanghai, and everything seemed normal at the company and home, as if nothing had happened. Luo Baochun went to the south several times, and was very optimistic about the market prospects of the company's products. He decided to borrow from the bank to expand the factory, establish new workshops and production lines, recruit talents, improve management and technology, and increase the output of Baochun oral liquid several times, striving for the goal of a domestic pharmaceutical giant.

Just when Luo Baochun was gearing up to make a big move, Luo Jingjing came with Long Xiaoyu. Baochun Pharmaceutical Factory is the time to employ people, Long Xiaoyu has studied economic management, he is handsome, and after a few words, he feels loyal, so Luo Jingjing's job search process for Long Xiaoyu was smoother than she originally expected, and in less than half an hour, Luo Baochun agreed that Long Xiaoyu would go to work in the pharmaceutical company and go to the company's office as a secretary first.

Of course, this was overjoyed for Long Xiaoyu, even Luo Jingjing could see it, he definitely didn't think that such a simple conversation would be able to cross the threshold of this well-known private enterprise in Pingling, and he was still working as a white-collar worker in the office. In fact, Baochun Pharmaceutical Company has only one department, that is, the company office, and the entire company's business system is on the establishment of Baochun Pharmaceutical Factory. The pharmaceutical factory is like a complete tower, and the pharmaceutical company is just a small tip on top of it. Although this tip is small, it is a condescending command core. Long Xiaoyu, a young man from this small place, who has learned a little knowledge of economic management but has no qualifications, and does not even have a formal education, can actually step to the top and walk into this spire with a small capacity but a lot of power, is this a dream? A dream, of course!

It was a dream brought to him by a girl, a dream of rich colors with marching accompaniment. This dream began in a magnificent rhythm, and Long Xiaoyu followed this dream into a chapter of life with a rapid page turn. He started with a salary of 800 yuan a month, mainly working in the office, and soon won the appreciation of Director Wang of the company's office, and then won the favor of other staff in the office, and finally even Luo Baochun himself noticed and liked this new young man, and began to give him some important affairs for him to handle. For example, accompany important customers to visit and shop; For example, help him deal with some family matters, such as sending things to Luo Jingjing, supervising the decoration of the house, and so on. Regardless of business or private affairs, Long Xiaoyu did it very well, it was fast and thorough, he never made any mistakes, and he could deal with any trouble just right.

Why did Long Xiaoyu do so successfully? Is it because he is particularly capable of working and has a lot of social experience? Neither. In fact, he is just a little more diligent, a little more modest, a little more hard-working, a little more self-disciplined, and a little more mindful of the subtleties than ordinary people. For example: arrive a little earlier when you go to work every day, leave a little later when you get off work, do more chores in the office like sweeping the floor, fetch water and wipe the table, have a more enthusiastic attitude when others ask for help, and don't care at all when the company sends money and things to distribute any benefits. But it is these "points" that are difficult for most young people to do now, and some simply can't do it at all. But Long Xiaoyu did it, so he stood firmly in this company.

Long Xiaoyu stood still, which may also be due to his personality. He was a man of few words but never withdrawn, with the virtues of humility and courtesy, and the warmth of his fellowship with others, and his appearance was relatively sunny. Who doesn't like such a personality and such an appearance? History's evaluation of a person mostly focuses on merit and demerit, while reality's evaluation of a person focuses on how to behave in the world. A superior's likes and dislikes of a subordinate are often determined by the subordinate's ability and contribution, while the peer's perception of a peer of a peer is often determined by his conduct and character. Long Xiaoyu is a young man who has just walked the line, maybe he understands that when he first arrives, he is by no means in a hurry to show his ability and establish meritorious deeds, and what he uses to gain a foothold is actually the kind of good personality and character that he tries his best to show.

Long Xiaoyu stood still, probably because of his survival instinct. He has always lived adrift, without relatives and no support, can he not cherish such a job? This job can not only bring him good food and clothing, but also may become a starting point for him to settle down in his career in the future.

It was indeed a dream, a magnificent march with a serenade, a romantic rosy in the bright colors of the sun, and a young man who suddenly came to work quietly became a protagonist in the modern men's version of Cinderella's story. When, how, and what process did he fall in love with Luo Jingjing? What kind of heart-to-heart emotional path did they go through after that, and how did they reunite later? Little was known about this history before Han Ding was able to spy on it as Long Xiaoyu's defender.