The afternoon sun is so strong that any beam of light can pierce people through the ground and nail a wilted shadow.

Even the glass curtain wall of a Grade A office building can't withstand the heat, and no matter how strong the air conditioner is, as long as you are close to the window, you can't wait to be swept to the ground by a heat wave.

It's August and it's also the hottest time of the year in Ben Thanh.

This day the fire is not as good as the knife, fkfkfkfk...... Jiang Huai patiently answered the questions of the little reporter from the third-party website on the opposite side with a warm and thoughtful official smirk on his face, while cursing in his heart that this brainless weather does not leave people a way to live - in order to make the framing appear tall and bring out the majestic momentum of the mountains at a glance, he had to sit on the sofa by the window, photosynthesizing through the tempered glass high multiple.

The assistant chose a dark blazer for him.

In short, the time and place are favorable, and if he doesn't suffer from heat stroke in his office today, even if he dies.

"Mr. Jiang, you just said that the experience of studying abroad is an important turning point in your career," the reporter looks like he has just graduated, and he is still a little boy with a young face who can only read the outline of the problem according to the script, even if the problem has already been familiar to him, he still can't help but glance at the A4 paper in his hand at a frequency of once every three seconds, and his voice makes people's throats tight, "This will also be ten years, so do you remember anything that had a great impact on you?" Is it convenient to talk about it specifically? ”

"Not ten years, the eighth year of this year," Jiang Huai's back was straight, and he was ironing his back by the iron of the sun, and the curvature of the corners of his mouth was very limited, "It's mainly a cultivation of independent consciousness, hehe, but it's been so many years, and I can't remember the specific things clearly, so let's not talk about it." ”

"Yes, you were 22 years old when you went abroad...... the little reporter wasn't sure.

“21。” Jiang Huai said.

"Oh, 21," the little reporter smiled, glanced at the outline again, and looked for an incision bluntly, "Then did you think that in such a short period of time, you would become the first place in the performance of the 6th Bincheng Private Equity Competition with a management scale of 0-100 million groups?" ”

This question is a bit of a language problem, but it probably means that Jiang Huai understood, and it came to the pretending cliché that he had always been good at, and the prepared tirade slipped into his throat, and he couldn't hold back and wanted to jump out, and his smile deepened.

"First of all, our company's product in this competition, although the management scale is not very large, but the product structure has a very rigorous combination framework at the beginning of the design......

"For a small sunshine private equity firm like ours, the investment research team has always been our most trusted asset, and the trust of our clients has always been the most important responsibility on our shoulders......

"The current market environment is relatively severe, but under any market conditions, there will be a money-making effect, and we firmly believe that as long as there is the right strategy, there is no swing income that cannot be grabbed......

"I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the organizing committee that invited us to participate in the competition, after all, there are more than 20,000 private equity companies in the country, and Bincheng accounts for more than half......

Whenever Mr. Jiang said these words, he would suddenly become another person, a person who was a stranger to him, so that he was shining all over his body, and he was like clockwork after writing a program, almost able to blind the dog eye of the fledgling little reporter opposite.

After two long hours, I finally escaped from the sofa purgatory.

Jiang Huai stood up, beckoned the assistant to send the little reporter away, turned around and took off his suit and put it on the back of the chair.

On the desk are six computer monitors on the upper and lower floors, each of which is the trend of a different dimension of the market, with a black background, and the K-line rises and falls, like his heartbeat.

He pinched the shirt on the back with two fingers, flickered a few times, and the wind was breathable, and the sweat had not subsided, and it was better than nothing.

Assistant Pan Hong knocked on the door, smiled before speaking, and handed over a cup of ice American, "Mr. Jiang, great, I guess I can put it on the homepage of the website for us, I also saw the photos, the little reporter's photo level is really good, and the photo is very handsome!" ”

"Why is Mr. Jiang not handsome?" Jiang Huai raised his eyebrows at Pan Hong lightly, took a sip of coffee, closed his eyes, and then sighed, "Now the market environment is not good, the industry is difficult, I hope this interview can give the company a wave of publicity, so that the mainland Mr. Huang and their confidence in increasing capital and investing in our company can not be delayed any longer," he let out a long sigh, "Otherwise, I wouldn't have shouted so hard." ”

Pan Hong has been following Jiang Huai since he started his own business, and now it has been almost four years, the two are about the same age, and their attitude in private is also casual, she glanced back at the door, walked forward in a few steps, half leaned on the edge of the table, touched Jiang Huai's leg slightly, and said in a light tone: "By the way, what do you say about my sister-in-law's birthday in two days?" ”

Jiang Huai sat in the swivel chair and glanced at her, "You are too competent." ”

"Come less," Pan Hong laughed, "I also picked a gift last year, what do you say this year?" ”

Jiang Huai rarely took these things to heart, except for his daughter's birthday.

He frowned slightly, then stretched out again, and said: "I've been thinking about a lot of things in my head recently, it's messy every day, I can't calm down, it's better for you to pick, um......" He leaned forward and gently hooked Pan Hong's chin with his index knuckle as if teasingly, "The same, buy one for yourself." ”

Pan Hong turned her head away and walked out with a smile.

Jiang Huai's smile faded, and he really felt a little like heat stroke, and his temples began to ache from one after another.

If it is the first time to hear the melon friend who has just been talking, you will probably think that there is a personal relationship between this young talent and the assistant secretary, but no, there really is none.

Pan Hong has a boyfriend and is emotionally stable.

And Jiang Huai's own wife, Huang Li, was his classmate when he was studying abroad for a master's degree, and her family is well-off, and their children are now in kindergarten.

As for the relationship between him and Pan Hong, first, it is ambiguous to make some personal relationships that are convenient to wander away from official affairs, after all, this position requires too much heartheartedness, everyone on the table does this, and he also follows the trend, and he doesn't feel that there is anything wrong.

Second, Huang Li is not exclusive to Pan Hong, last year he knew that it was Pan Hong's birthday gift for himself, and praised Pan Hong's aesthetics better than Jiang Huai, so Jiang Huai himself didn't feel the need to work hard to bother with that thought.

After staring at his eyes for a few more minutes, the market entered the call auction period, and there will be no more suspense on the market today, Jiang Huai's eyelids were a little heavy, and as soon as his spirit relaxed, he fell asleep in a daze.

There was a noise outside the office, and it was estimated that it would not be more than five minutes before Jiang Huai fell asleep.

He frowned, crossed his legs in a different direction, and continued to nap.

There was a helpless fake laugh outside, and Pan Hong's tone became higher and higher, "Eh, we really don't need it, yes, we have the investment research support provided by the PB business brokerage, it's enough, really, your software, the price is ...... for us"

I don't know what was said over there.

Pan Hong said "eh" a few times in a row, "I don't need to try it, really, really don't need it...... No, it's useless to find someone else, it's up to me...... Hi, our Mr. Jiang is not here, he ...... Huh! You wait! You wait! ”

The floor of the company is covered with soft carpets, and there is no sound of walking, but you can still hear the faint sound of rustling, which is coming towards your office.

Jiang Huai was disturbed by the successive disturbances, and suddenly felt a burst of upset, secretly thinking that if Pan Hong couldn't stop such a simple product salesman, he would have to find a reason to beat her at the regular meeting next week.

There was a hasty knock on the door, and immediately after leaving him no room at all, the door was quickly pushed open.

A man laughed and shouted, "Jiang always, I'm ......"

Jiang Huai frowned, opened his eyes without a good face, and looked towards the door.

Time suddenly seemed to be like a long river that had been frozen, and Jiang Huai's heart seemed to be suddenly clenched tightly......

It was still the sofa just now, and the two men sat at opposite ends.

Pan Hong brought two glasses of water, put them on the coffee table, glanced at Jiang Huai with a confused face, and asked in a low voice, "Mr. Jiang?" ”

Jiang Huai leaned forward, tried his best to cover his clenched hands under the coffee table, and used tight twisting to control the irrepressible tremors, slowing down several rounds of breathing before he reacted, raised his head and glanced at it quickly, "Ah, this, this is my classmate abroad, Ge Zheng." ”

"Oh, that's it," Pan Hong nodded with a smile, "Then don't delay your two old classmates to catch up, I'll go out first." ”

As soon as she left, the room was filled with a slight embarrassment again.

Mr. Jiang, who is exquisite, only feels that his brain can always blow out at the moment of greetings, and he is exhausted.

His eyes could only remain fixed on the tips of the shoes that were faintly peeking out under the coffee table.

Ge Zheng, who was still sitting opposite, smiled and said in a very familiar tone: "Why did you change your name, Jiang Huai?" Oh, I didn't even think about it. ”

Jiang Huai quickly glanced at the person opposite, but he didn't see his eyebrows clearly, and his gaze avoided to the side again, "I've worked, and I changed my stage name." ”

"Hahaha," Ge Zheng took the burden very cooperatively, and raised his head to look at it with a slightly exaggerated range of movements, "It's a good mix." ”

Jiang Huai subconsciously hooked the corners of his mouth, and let the rapid heart rate fall back, he wanted to say that he was ...... No, this beginning is not very natural, and I want to ask now...... No, at the beginning and now, he thinks it is difficult to continue the topic of which sentence structure is extended.

A thousand emotions poured out in my head, boiling a full head of paste.

This is when the phone rings to save lives.

As soon as the mobile phone rang, he was almost strangled to death by Jiang Huai himself, he made a swallowing movement with difficulty, shook the mobile phone, and stood up, "I'll answer the phone." ”

"Okay." Ge Zheng replied softly behind him.

Jiang Huai walked into a small empty conference room.

On the phone, a friend in the same industry came to exchange his views on the day's market, there was nothing serious, it was pure nonsense.

Jiang Huai has always regarded this kind of conversation as an important checkpoint to hone his ability to soar, and he has always been able to run the train with his mouth full of five thousand years of talking with others in one go.

But today, he was panicked in his heart, his mouth was casual, but his brain didn't know where it flew, as if he had drunk a big fragment, a lump of blankness.

", what time is it, you're getting drunk?" I found a clue on the other side of the phone.

"I just finished an interview, and I'm out of oxygen." Jiang Huai reluctantly replied.

He was very conflicted, with the urge to hang up and rush back, and the hope that the phone would never be hung up, so that he could have an excuse to stay here forever.

He turned around and glanced at the office door quickly, and with a single glance, his eyes were hot and he almost burst into tears.

That door became the entrance to heaven and the stairway to hell.

The secrets of youth locked there are like a dry well covered with silt, brushing away the dead leaves, and leaving the mouth of the well open and swarthy, making people pulsate and suffocate.

Jiang Huai didn't even know when the phone hung up, and when he regained consciousness, there was only a shrill busy sound left in the earpiece.

He tried to lift his foot, but the soles of his shoes felt like they were nailed to the ground.

He was a little crazy, and even had the desire to shout at all costs.

No, it's almost ...... Unable to stand.

Pan Hong is a good assistant in the world, she pushed open the glass door at the right time and walked in, like a mouthful of scarce oxygen, giving Jiang Huai, who was drowning in the deep sea, a breath of respite.

When at least a second person is present, Jiang Huai will order himself to calm down.

He raised his wrist with difficulty and looked at the time above, "You...... Book a hotel, a small private room with a little seclusion, the environment is better, and the grade is ...... Taller, I'm going to please...... Classmates have a meal. ”

Pan Hong's expression between her eyebrows was a little subtle, but she didn't show it patiently, "Mr. Jiang, your classmate ...... As soon as you come out to answer the phone, he's gone. ”

Gone......

How did you go......

Jiang Huai leaned on the conference table and sat down nearby—he didn't want Pan Hong to see his strangeness.

Pan Hong bent the corners of her lips and said with a smile: "But to tell you the truth, your classmate is really good-looking, it's just ......" She frowned quickly, and her voice was lowered, "It's just that you look a little down." ”

Gone......

Jiang Huai didn't even hear Pan Hong's words clearly.

There was only one empty and relieved thought in his mind: Ge Zheng was gone.

After he had been looking for him for eight years, he appeared unexpectedly, and so briskly...... Let's go.