There is only human heart in the world, and everything needs to be nurtured by God.

- "Water Margin"

Hearing Ah Lai announce the start of the game, Ye Wei first glanced at the reactions of the others. With the exception of a few people who did not see obvious emotions, most of them showed a mixture of excitement and nervousness.

Silently followed, following the crowd towards his own territory.

Ye Wei could feel a kind of look, and that kind of look had been with him since he was 22 years old. It was as if wherever he passed, others would look at him with a subtle expression of discrimination, sympathy, or disgust, and treat him as an anomaly.

It all started with the word "carat" on the first door.

……

Ye Wei was a child with heroic dreams when he was a child, and Jin Yong's martial arts were popular in the whole school during junior high school. Although he doesn't like to read, he will read at night under the covers with a flashlight and a lamp like everyone else.

Ye Wei's favorite and most wanted person to be is Qiao Feng, who is both wise and brave, courageous, heroic, and not angry. These four idioms were summed up by others, but he remembered them for a lifetime.

Because of his poor studies, when he was 18 years old, he was preparing to take the college entrance examination for the police academy, but the result was worse than 100 points, and he finally went to a vocational high school with a bad reputation to study at a junior college, majoring in computers.

I thought that I would say goodbye to my hero dream from now on, but in the second semester of my sophomore year, a wave of conscripts came to the school, and they didn't need them to mobilize Ye Wei to be tempted.

It's the same if you can't be a policeman and be a soldier, you stay in the army for a few years, and when you need to go to the battlefield, you roll up your arms and sleeves, ready to sacrifice your life for the country at any time. You don't need to be honest for a few years, and when you get your graduation certificate and get a job, you also have an advantage when you are discharged from the army and assigned a job.

So two years later, when Ye Wei was twenty-two years old, he got his wish and got out of the army, found a software development company near his home, and worked as an assistant to the boss.

The boss, Jin Min, is a young man in his thirties, with a big belly, a fat head and big ears, and he doesn't know anything about software development. It was only because my family had money and I heard that software development made money that I opened such a company.

As soon as Ye Wei arrived, he knew that he had a long way to go.

Jin Min doesn't understand the market, all he can think of is to spend a lot of money to poach people from similar companies, he thinks that as long as the hardware is in place and the software is in place, he can wait to count the money, but this kind of boss who has no opinion will only make countless enemies and make a mess of the company.

And Jin Min recruited Ye Wei to this company not because he liked his major, but because he felt that junior college students were cheap and easy to call, and with two years of experience as a soldier, he could just do the work of a security guard while serving tea and pouring water.

Thursday, July 23, 1998, happened to be Ye Wei's birthday.

Early in the morning, Ye Wei came to the company in advance to swipe the access control card, and walked to the rest room to boil water and grind coffee. This is his routine, the company plus Jin Min has a total of eight leaders at the manager level or above, and what they have to do before going to work every day is to give them eight people to brew coffee according to their personal tastes, not too cold and not too hot, so the time has to be carded.

When he was almost done, he looked up at the clock on the wall, it was seven fifty, and he was ten minutes before he went to work. Just drink some of it yourself. Ye Wei scooped two spoonfuls of ground coffee and put them in his cup, because he liked sweetness, he added two sugar packets and half a cup of milk, and the taste of the coffee was diluted to negligible.

"Xiaoye, eh, eh, you're there!"

Just as Ye Wei was savoring his masterpiece, Jin Min rushed in without warning and saw Ye Wei drinking coffee. Ye Wei was taken aback, Jin Min usually doesn't appear in the company before half past eight at all, why did he come so early today?

"Ahem, ahem, I'm sorry boss, the coffee has been brewed and hasn't had time to put it on your table, so I'll ...... it."

"It's okay, I'll put the coffee, you can do me a favor." Jin Min hurriedly shook his head, put his hand on Ye Wei's shoulder like a buddy, and dragged him to the door of the company building: "There is a big customer coming at ten o'clock, this window has not been wiped for half a year, just these two hours, wipe the window." ”

Ye Wei looked up, the whole building is ten stories high, the picture looks good, all the exterior walls are made of black glass, from the inside, each room is a big floor-to-ceiling window, four sides, let alone two hours, even two days can not be wiped out.

"Boss, am I doing it alone?" Although the boss usually assigns himself some impossible tasks, today is particularly excessive: "I can't finish wiping it, and I don't even have a safety measure ......"

"Yes, yes, yes." Jin Min showed great enthusiasm: "In the early years, when I invited someone to wipe it, I left a set of safety ropes, but I also wanted to invite someone, and the customers were all seen so early, so I can only rely on you." ”

Jin Min raised his eyebrows slightly, encouraged Ye Wei with his eyes, and showed a look that this matter must be yours: "Young man, don't be so shafty, if you can't finish wiping, you can wipe the place where people can see it first, and take your time where you can't see it!" ”

After all, he is a fledgling and an intern, so he can only silently accept the boss's unreasonable but achievable requirements.

A few minutes later, Ye Wei hung an anti-fall safety rope on his body and went up to the tenth floor.

Ye Wei is not afraid of heights, on the contrary, he likes the feeling of being hung in the air, in fact, if he is a little free, it is also very cool to run out to pick up private work and clean the glass for others.

Rubbing all the way from top to bottom, an hour passed to solve less than a third of the front. Although it was only a little more than nine o'clock at this time, because it was dog days, the sun shone on the black window, and the refracted heat made Ye Wei hot and thirsty, which was very uncomfortable.

It was probably also at this time that he had already rubbed to the sixth floor.

Just as Ye Wei washed the mop in his hand, avoided the dry water, and was about to wipe a window in front of him, the window was opened.

The window was facing the boss's office, and the person who opened the window was the boss's only son, who was more than eight years old. Ye Wei didn't know what the boss's son's name was, he only knew that his nickname was Carat, and everyone liked to call him Jinla.

As usual, as long as it is a weekend and winter and summer vacation, Jin Min will bring him to the unit.

Ye Wei likes Carat very much, although he is usually eccentric and doesn't like to study, and he still dislikes his academic qualifications by tutoring him with homework, but it doesn't prevent him from being as rich as his father, and he can't help Ye Wei with money to help him go to the parent-teacher conference to earn a little extra money by the way.

"Uncle Ye, drink some water."

Cara leaned over with a smile, took a glass of water from a paper cup and handed it over to Ye Wei.

"Thank you Carat." Ye Wei took the water while smiling, and took a sip without even looking at it.

"Ahem, ahem!!"

In fact, Ye Wei felt that something was wrong a second before drinking, but his brain didn't catch up with the behavior, and after drinking it, his throat was violently stimulated and he spit it out.

"Hahaha! Uncle Ye, this is my dad's Wuliangye, why is it not delicious? ”

Carat was as round as Jin Min, and her eyes narrowed into a slit when she laughed, and she looked at Ye Wei's eyes with a kind of joy after the prank succeeded.

"Carat, go study, uncle, do your job, good."

Facing the boss's son, Ye Wei could only hold back his anger and coax with a smiling face.

"It's boring."

Cara's face fell in an instant, it has been nearly three months since he first met Ye Wei, and this uncle has always been obedient to him and never angry. The eight-year-old child himself is very naughty, he relied on his father to be the boss and repeatedly played pranks on Ye Wei, but he had never seen Ye Wei lose his temper, so challenging Ye Wei's bottom line became a must-do every time he saw him.

Why isn't this uncle angry?

Kra sat at the table in a daze, his eyes suddenly glanced at the utility knife in his father's pen holder, and a wicked smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he walked towards the window step by step.