"Xianqian, come in!" A beautiful woman with red lips, white teeth, and big eyes leaned back on the back of the chair and beckoned to the visitor with a smile.

"Hello Mr. Li!"

"Come, sit!" Li Yubing pulled a chair for Wu Xianqian, a veteran employee of the editorial department.

The two sat down, and Li Yubing spoke.

"How many years have you been with the company?"

"It's been almost five years."

"Not bad! Not bad! I thought you had been around for two or three years and still treated you like a newcomer. ”

"Heh......"

"It was already said at last week's meeting...... Belch...... That's right, the company doesn't need so many people in the new media sector at present, and after discussion, the work of your new media group of seven people will change. You and Yang Hailu have very similar work contents, and the company has decided to keep only one of them. Now that the magazine has been cut down, the work of the editorial department as a whole is much more idle than before, that ...... Now there are three options for everyone to choose from - one is to keep the job unchanged and the salary to be halved; One is that wages remain the same and jobs increase; The other is to leave, and the company does not renew the employment contract. If you leave, you will be compensated reasonably, and you will be given enough time to find your next job. ”

Wu Xianqian, an older mother, learned that she was being interviewed today to be cut off, and her color had already changed greatly. The bad news was gently smashed down, neither anger nor sorrow, and Xian Qianliang was speechless for a long time.

"What if both Yang Hailu and I choose to stay?"

"No, she's already decided to go. She has a mortgage on her, and she has to repay more than 8,000 a month, and the company has not raised Hailu's salary in the past two years, and she is already very dissatisfied, and now she ...... I've already talked to her. If you want to stay, you can; If you want to go, you can too. The work of new media is not as laborious as before, and Xiang An Gang and Tong Junyong said that they can also take over and do it. From beginning to end, Li Yubing had a pleasant face, a soft voice, and a smile at the corner of her mouth.

Seeing that Wu Xianqian lowered her head and didn't speak, Li Yubing continued: "Xianqian, who is not in a hurry, you can't decide to think about it slowly for a while. It takes time for the company to adjust and lay off employees. The current market environment is sluggish as a whole, you can take a look on the major recruitment websites, no matter which industry or occupation, the average market salary has not risen in the past two years, and it is almost the same level as one or six or seven years. As for ......" Li Yubing wanted to say something, but suddenly stopped.

"Sister Li, my child is still young, and it is not easy to change. We also have a mortgage on the house in our hometown, and we have to repay 3,500 a month, plus the rent here, the monthly expenses of the family are at least 112,000. Besides, the child is still young and really needs more companionship and care. Belch...... These three plans ...... "Wu Xianqian is obviously confused, and she doesn't know how to go or stay.

"Actually, the company is in the same situation as you now. Don't dare to make big changes for fear of messing up the foundation, the expenses are too large and can't be sustained, and so many businesses and jobs also need manpower, but the profits are very small...... That's okay Xianqian, I'll give you two weeks to think about it, how about it? Three optionsNo matter which one you choose, I respect you. I am also a mother, I understand your difficulties, and I hope you can also understand the situation and decisions on the company's side. ”

"Okay, Mr. Li, I'll think about it again and give you an answer as soon as possible."

After talking, Wu Xianqian got up to leave, and Li Yubing got up to send it off.

Young people are looking for jobs and quitting jobs, and their brains are hot, and they decide to implement it in one minute and two minutes, but the middle-aged people who have stepped in from their young years no longer have the courage to be willful and frivolous. Mortgage or rent, children raising or going to school, and the daily expenses of a family – these are just three of the most basic subsistence expenses in contemporary society, which have become shrinking turtles step by step. Middle-aged people no longer scoff at cheap wages and menial jobs, because changes in identity and age have deprived the bottom of the only advantage of being young and strong.

Passive in life, numbness to change, consideration of small gains and losses, extreme miserliness towards oneself or one's family or outsiders, greed for money in the face of humiliation or sadness...... All of this is forced by life. No matter how high-spirited and ambitious he was, one day, people would suddenly look down on himself as a failure now. A penny is difficult to defeat a hero, this is not just a joke in the play.

Wu Xianqian remembered that about half a month ago, she was also given birth to a second child by the family planning staff in the community at home, and at this time, thinking about it, real life is really magical and sad.

Li Yubing also felt uncomfortable, and personally opened his mouth to force others to resign, which was not a righteous act or a shameful thing. Especially when I interviewed the laid-off employees on the list one by one, I realized that they were all living pillars of a family. Helplessly, as the management of the company, it is her job to maintain the effectiveness and efficiency of the company. In the workplace, there is no need to talk about feelings or relationships, compassion or charity, everything pursues the supremacy of ability and profit. Only by staying sane and sober can the company survive and benefit employees after making a profit.

It's been days, it's been indecisive, it's been procrastinating.

At noon on Tuesday, after Bao Xiaoxing got up from his lunch break, he lowered his eyes and watched his sleeping son, not knowing what to do. Going to the hospital to treat my son is very repulsive, the approach is very blunt, and the economy does not allow it; Doctors always say that it is so easy to change the environment in this situation; Suppose they return to their hometown, they have to adapt to the environment, the villagers, the rhythm of the countryside, and the new peasant life, and can they solve all kinds of challenges...... If I was sick, maybe it wouldn't be good to procrastinate, but now that my son is moderately autistic, this semester is coming to an end, and if this semester and winter vacation can't be cured, it will definitely drag down the next semester.

Imminent. However, she couldn't make a decision.

Bao Xiaoxing was worried day by day, so drowsy and short of breath that he was depressed. The expenses in the city remain high, and only this spicy night shift job can't cope at all, and now I can't pay off the bills, I can't see a doctor, and it's difficult to return to my hometown...... It is difficult to move forward, and the woman is in a hurry.

At two o'clock she got up to wash up, and looked at herself in the mirror to get old again. His hair is greasy and yellow, his face is dark and tortuous, his body is messy and sloppy, his teeth are yellow and his mouth is dry, and his chin has three black whiskers...... At the age of forty, she understands that when people are under great stress, they can be out of balance. Hyosung touched his beard and looked in front of the mirror, but suddenly he was inexplicably poked and cried. I cried silently in the bathroom for a while, and then sat on the toilet for a while.

Somehow, as if possessed, the woman took off her clothes and went into the bathroom in the middle of winter, and took a cold shower. When she came out, she was red and shivering, and then she dressed and washed, put on light makeup, put on lipstick, put on a scarf, put on a blue coat, and stepped on low-heeled leather shoes, and the woman went out of the house.

Bao Xiaoxing walked briskly all the way, swept the car, parked the car, showed his ID to register, and entered the school gate. She first went to the office of Ms. Zhang, the head teacher of Xuecheng, who was not there and was in class, so Hyosung waited quietly outside the office. Standing on the corridor overlooking the quiet and pleasant campus with the sound of books, Hyosung's eyes turned red again.

This is one of the few excellent primary schools in the district, a few years ago in order to enter this school did not take much effort to buy things, but after entering this school, my son is not very happy. He couldn't adapt to the competition and singleness here, and he couldn't adapt to the small class environment full of utilitarianism and comparison, so he didn't have any friends when he was promoted to the fourth grade.

Today's education is like a wheat field, plowing a piece of wheat that is sown, grows, and bears fruit at the same time. Any plant that is different – potatoes or sesame seeds – that does not grow the same as wheat will be classified as a weed in the field. Weeds are destined to be hoeed or poisoned. Bao Xiaoxing firmly believes that her son is not a weed but a sapling with a difference, and she is confident that he will grow up healthy.

"Huh! Are you a learning mom? After class, Mr. Zhang walked slowly with the courseware in his hand.

"Yes, yes, yes! Hello Mr. Zhang, I am here to go through the procedures for my child's suspension. Bao Xiaoxing tried to keep restraint and smile as much as possible.

"That's it! Did you bring all the things you needed to take a leave of absence? Student ID, ID card, household registration booklet, etc. ”

"I checked it on the Internet and brought seven things, Mr. Zhang, you can check it." Hyosung pulled out a large pile of documents, photos, and other materials that she had prepared for a long time.

After the teacher audits, he returns to the office, opens a form on the computer, prints it and gives it to the parents to fill in, and the class teacher signs and seals it after filling it out. After finishing the incident, the two went to the office of the teaching office with a large number of materials, found a leader surnamed Wang, briefly talked about the students, and then signed and sealed. At four o'clock, I found a director Mao to sign and seal, and received a departure procedure; At half past four, Mr. Zhang led the parents of the students to another office to get a stamped certificate of suspension. Bao Xiaoxing thanked Teacher Zhang for his patient help, and then left the school with the certificate in his hand.

After leaving the school, the cold-hearted woman picked up a roadside seat and sat down. The cars kicked up dust and pounced on her, the big dogs sniffing around her legs, and the cold wind blowing made her forehead ache slightly...... The woman looked up at Baiyun in a daze, where could she take care of these. The white clouds are in a clump of clouds, one place and another, like movement and stillness, like emptiness and reality, like staying and walking, like far and near, like cool and warm, like sadness and joy...... The clouds and people looked at each other in pairs, as if the world disappeared in an instant, like a bubble shattered, like a dream has been awakened.

All extremes lead to one place, and only those who go to extremes understand. I wish it was a dream, but when would she wake up? All the good, evil, sorrow and joy are gathered here, and the sorrow that can never be reconciled and healed overwhelms all. Bao Xiaoxing longs to find an incomparably powerful, or incomparably dark, bad soul in the next life, so that he will not be tired of living.

Over the years, miracles and good fortune have been bribing themselves, and Hyosung has stubbornly guarded the bottom of the well and rejected them one by one for the sake of his family, for the morality in his heart, for the values of thirty years, and for the sake of unwarranted hopes. Today, in the same way, for the sake of her family, for the morality in her heart, for the thirty years of perseverance in values, for the sake of unwarranted hope, she wants to jump out of the dry well, she wants to create good luck, she wants to seek miracles.

Her son's future, at this moment, is in her hands.

Maybe she was greedy for safety and guarded the dry well and was unwilling to take risks, but today, for the sake of her son's future, she wants to give up herself and let go of herself.

Sacrifice, when it comes to the moment of practice, is not painful at all, but makes her crazy, makes her noble, and urges her to be great. She is determined to leave in search of the vast sea, the vast realm of the turtle's mouth.

The city is both a palace and a prison; The city, with endless treasures to be mined, but also endless desires to fish.

Hyosung wanted to take a few more looks at his presence in the city—the figure of activity, the figure of thinking, the figure of smiling, the figure of sadness; The figure of always riding a car, the figure of always making money in a hurry, the figure of always being silent, and the figure of always carrying the mountain.

The leaves rustle overhead in the wind, one after another; The sound of construction in the distance is sleepless, ruthless and painless; The horn of the car around the corner is intermittent and unpredictable......

From the Fuchun community to the farmer's market to the school his children attended, Bao Xiaoxing didn't know how many times he walked and how many roads he crossed about this place. She can also touch the small street where her daughter Meimei's favorite beef pho or spicy tang is located with her eyes closed, and she goes to the street where her son learns to buy school uniforms, stationery, and toys almost once a month...... She knows the roots of Shenzhen where she has lived, explored, and loved.

There is a dense kapok tree planted on both sides of Wanghui Road, and only one of them produces white flowers in winter; There is a dragon house with a row of flowers on the side of the road, and she has seen the discounted flowers in front of the store hundreds of times but is never willing to buy a pot; There is a small shop of three square meters on Minxing Road, where an old Henan couple sells round baked cakes and sesame cakes that have never increased in price for more than ten years; There is a small road behind the farmer's market where a couple whose husband is a dwarf runs a car wash shop, where Hyosung used to take a detour...... Shenzhen, which collects half of her years; Shenzhen has witnessed the growth of her children.

It's always when I leave that I realize that it's also good.

Everything seen by the human eye is vertical, three-dimensional, three-dimensional, and perhaps in the eyes of some animals, man is cone-shaped, columnar, and flat; The colors seen by humans are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple, while the earth in the field of vision of some animals is only blue, purple, indigo, and indigo. When I was a child, I heard that there is no shadow after people become immortals, how strange it is that there is no shadow, I don't know why, at this moment, Bao Xiaoxing just wants to take his son to find a light world where everything is flat, everything is blue and purple, and everything has no shadow.

Mother's love is a special medicine for all physical and mental diseases of children.

On Tuesday afternoon, according to the daily plan, at this point, He Zhiyuan was turning on the computer to query group messages. After Deng Renhui's call last week, Zhiyuan searched for several teacher groups on the Internet and added them, browsing the news of each group at a fixed time period every day, hoping to dig out some valuable suggestions or information.

After reading it for a long time, when I turned to the group message on page 22, Zhiyuan found a link about recruitment, and when I opened it, I saw that it was a private training institution called "Liben Academy" recruiting lecturers. The recruiter requires the recruiter to have speech experience, be familiar with Chinese culture, and have a graduate degree or above. When He Zhiyuan saw that Liben Academy was located in Shenzhen, he was very interested in meeting his conditions, so he searched for the introduction of that training institution on the Internet. This institution has been established for many years, and the training objects include the popularization of ancient culture for students at all levels, the introduction of famous works for corporate CEOs, and the lectures on Chinese culture for company groups, and the curriculum design includes calligraphy, Chinese painting, guqin, traditional Chinese medicine, health and so on. After He Zhiyuan searched, he determined that this Liben Academy was regular, so he revised his resume and sent it directly.

I didn't expect a response soon. The recruiter from Liben College called, and after a brief inquiry, the two sides made an appointment for an interview on Thursday. Thinking that he would be a professional speaker in the future, Zhiyuan was full of vitality and hummed happily in the room. The day after tomorrow, it's late today, and I have to prepare something tomorrow Wednesday.

After a few sneezes, Bao Xiaoxing was shivering cold on the side of the street, and when he looked at his watch, he found himself sitting in the wind for forty minutes. She can't catch a cold because she's the protector of her son. Bao Xiaoxing wrapped up his clothes and walked forward, but he didn't know where to go. As she walked, she changed her direction and walked to the door of the Malatang shop opened by Dou Dongqing. At this time, it was not yet six o'clock in the evening, and the store had not officially opened customers, and Holly and a few little girls were preparing vegetables, boiling soup, and cleaning. Hyosung entered the store silently, trying to shout but couldn't.

"Huh! Hyosung, why did you come to this point? Dou Dongqing was taken aback when he wore an apron and hugged the vegetables out of the shipping room.

"Brother Dou, excuse me! Tell you something. "Hyosung is wearing makeup today, she is more than ten years younger, and at first glance, she looks so embarrassed that when the people in the store see Sister Bao coming, they all come out to greet her.

"You say." Holly said as she put the dishes away, wiped off the water in her hands, and invited Hyosung to sit down.

After the two sat down, Hyosung spoke: "Brother Dou, I have something at home, and I can't continue to do it anymore!" My son is sick and I want to take him back to my hometown to recuperate, so I'll do it this month until yesterday. ”

"Sister Bao, you're leaving! Why? Why did Sister Xing'er ...... so suddenly" The little girls who were also working in the Malatang shop exclaimed.

"Oh! That's it, it's okay, it's New Year's Day tomorrow, and the month is over. Belch...... I'll do the math, you've been doing it for four months, right? ”

"Hmm."

After a period of silence, Dou Dongqing got up and went to the counter to get a notebook and pen, then sat down and said, "Then I'll settle this month's salary for you!" ”

Ten minutes later, Holly paid her salary to Hyosung's card, and Hyosung thanked her again and again, said goodbye to the little girls, and finally left decisively. As soon as Bao Xiaoxing left, Holly hurriedly called her cousin and told her the exact words about Hyosung's resignation. Kong Ping, who was decorating the store at that time, heard that every inch was in chaos, and he went out to chase and did not leave the supervisor, so he was very anxious. There are a lot of people in the city, and if they are really separated, it is not a farewell to death, but also a farewell.

On Tuesday night, Lao Ma accompanied Yangyang to do his homework. Today's homework is to write Chinese characters, and copy three lines of the four words "sister", "sister", "aunt" and "aunt" in the Tian character book, and the other three words are better.

"Grandpa, do you know who is the boss in these words?"

"Who?"

"This-aunt!"

"Why?"

"Because it's the biggest, it can't fit in Gege (Tianzi grid)."

"Huh, okay! It's the boss, you can't write it down? Why do you write back to the outside of Gege? ”

"It's too big for me to fit!" The child's shoulders shook and he roared.

"It's done, it's done! If you can't fit it, you can't fit it, let's write it quickly, I've only written five, and I have to write two and a half lines! The old horse urged, for it was already half past eight in the evening.

"My hands hurt! I can't write it! "Yang Yang is coquettish and lazy.

"Where does your hand hurt?" The old horse frowned and pretended to be angry.

"Here! Here! And here! Yang Yang stretched out his hand and said nonsense.

The old horse blew a few breaths on the child's little hand and asked, "Does it still hurt?" ”

"It doesn't hurt now! But...... Grandpa I want to drink water! Sweet water! "The dog's tail is grass and coquettish.

"Honey water?"

"Hmm!"

The old horse let out a long sigh, couldn't help shaking his head frequently, got up to make her honey water, and was so angry that he talked to himself all the way.

"One moment here, one moment there, writing a homework is like digging a mountain - stumbling! I can't see you when I draw or play with toys. Since you were a child, you have been a good person, and sooner or later you will have to make your grandfather's heart go wrong with your homework! ”

The old horse complained, and the child sat on the chair waiting for the hot honey water, and kicked his feet arrogantly under the chair. Yangyang dared to be so casual with her parents, just because since she found out that her grandfather was obedient to her and even satisfied with her, the villain boldly exposed the side of the domineering princess. After the honey water was served, the two of them sat opposite each other, staring at each other, each holding a glass of honey water and drinking.

"Grandpa, are you married?" Yang Yang suddenly asked.

"Hah! It's over! The septuagenarian laughed silently at the question.

"When did you get married? How could I not know! The little man was not very happy with this answer.

"Hey, hey, hey...... Previous years...... Hehe......" The old horse was afraid that the honey water in his mouth would squirt out with laughter, so he hurriedly swallowed it, almost being burned, and after drinking it, he bared his teeth and grinned to dissipate heat.

"And who did you marry?"

"A woman, her name is Grandma."

"Grandma...... Where are you now? ”

"Heaven dwells. She is a fairy, a little fairy in front of the Queen Mother. ”

"Fairy! So where does she sleep at night - on the roof? ”

"Huh! No, above the clouds. ”

"Do fairies do their homework at night?"

"No, you don't! Fairies don't have to do homework, only children have to do homework! ”

"That's great! I want to be a fairy too! The little man was sincerely envious.

"Because fairies don't have to do their homework?"

"Yes!"

"Think beautifully! Hurry up and drink, and continue to write when you're done! ”

"Uh-huh......" the dog's tail grass kicked and coquettish.

"Grandpa, I remembered something!"

"What?"

Fang Qitao said...... If I don't want to do my homework, he can do it for me! ”

"This bastard! So bad since childhood! I'm going to take you badly! You tell Fang Qitao that if he helps you with your homework, you will beat him. Do your homework once, spank your ass! ”

"No! Don't hit him! Yang Yang twisted his waist in anger and pouted.

"What? You like him! Reluctant? ”

"Well, yes."

"Why do you like him? Is Zhou Zhou bad? ”

"The circumference is too low!"

"Oh! Do you like Fang Qitao because he is tall? ”

"Not either!"

"Why, exactly?"

"No reason! Even if Fang Qitao is low, I like him! ”

"Poof!" The old horse smiled clumsily, and after laughing, he asked, "Na...... You're so short, so low, do you like yourself? ”

"Huh?"

This can stop a dog's tail grass, and he can't move for a long time. The old horse couldn't wait, poured her a few sips of honey water with a small spoon, took away the cup, pulled her over to face the homework book, put half a pencil into her right hand, and forced her to continue copying the outrageous word "aunt".

The decoration of the hardware store came to an end at eight o'clock in the evening, and today Kong Ping asked the decoration team to get off work early, took a shower in the rental house on the second floor of the shop, and changed into the most formal and expensive new clothes. After going out to get a haircut, buying a beautiful fruit basket, and choosing a bouquet of sunflowers suitable for children in the flower shop, the man took the car to find his sweetheart. He had already inquired about Hyosung's community, and after arriving at the Fuchun community at half past eight in the evening, Kong Ping sent a message to Hyosung nervously.

"Xing'er, I'll wait for you downstairs, at the south gate of your community, if you don't come down, I won't leave-Kong Ping."

The first time he contacted by text message, the man was extremely nervous, panting frequently, and walked around with a bunch of sunflowers in his hands in the crowd at the south gate.

Hyosung knew he couldn't hide, and after seeing the message, he went downstairs to meet him. The two met, beckoned when they were four meters apart, and stood one and a half meters apart.

"You said you lived here before, I remember." Kong Ping spoke first.

"What's the matter?" Hyosung asked in the cold wind.

"It's okay, just look at you! You said you left suddenly, and you didn't say hello! Haha......"

Kong Pyong's eyes stared at Hyosung with a smile.

"Go over there, be quiet over there."

Bao Xiaoxing saw that it was inconvenient for people to stand on the side of the street, so he led Kong Ping to a square outside the community.

"I know your son is sick and I wanted to go to your house to see him, but it was inconvenient. Give him this bouquet of flowers, I hope he is in good health! The round-headed Kong Pyeong smiled and handed Hwa to Hyosung with both hands.

Hyosung was poked in the vital point, her nose was a little sore, and she either broke down or was sad when she mentioned her son. After hesitating for a few seconds, he finally took the bunch of sunflowers.

"Thank you!"

"I don't know how many people you have, this is a little fruit, for the old man!" Kong Ping passed the fruit basket with both hands.

"Uh...... No! ”

Hyosung shook his head fiercely and didn't want to accept it, but the simple man Kong Ping stubbornly held it, and Hyosung was helpless, so he took the fruit basket and put it between the toes of the two.

"You quit your job at the store?" Kong Ping asked, rubbing his hands.

"Hmm."

My brother said...... You're going back to your hometown, aren't you? ”

"Hmm."

Bao Xiaoxing clasped his chest with both hands, stared at his right toe, and the woman was so cold that she was cold, not like the pleasant state when she worked in the store in the past. After three months of getting along, Hyosung understands and can strongly feel the strong feelings of a young man in his thirties for her, but she and he are completely not in the same world, and she has no need to respond to him at all.

Seeing this, Kong Ping, who was giggling, playing jokes, helping Hyosung with work, inviting Hyosung to supper, and fighting for Hyosung, became a mute at this time, and couldn't spit out words.

"Have you eaten for the night?" Kong Ping finally took out a sentence.

"I ate it, I made it at home, I ate it with my son."

"Oh!"

"How's your son doing?"

"Not so good."

"Oh."

It's silence again—the silence of cutting the face and worrying the heart.

"Didn't I tell you that I was going to open a hardware store, and now the hardware store is being renovated! Today, the wall is painted, the ceiling will be done the day after tomorrow, the angle steel frame will arrive the day after tomorrow, and the shelves will be distributed immediately after they arrive. In the past two days, I have been shopping online, and I have also gone to the East Gate and Huaqiangbei to see it a few times. ”

"Congratulations! You're very capable, and you're sure to mix well in the future! ”

"Where, where! Don't elevate me and embarrass me, Shenzhen is not something that ordinary people can afford. ”

Hyosung looked sideways at the newly paved marble floor tiles on the sidewalk not far away, but did not respond, unwilling to gossip.

"Recently, I have been riding my bicycle to various hardware stores almost every morning, and I found that some hardware stores still have lamps, door locks, sinks, 24-hour unlocking, home maintenance, and rental of electric drill trailers.

"Not bad! You have an active brain and a lot of ideas. ”

"I went to a hardware store this morning, and there's a service in the store, guess what? Installing a safety net on the balcony of a new house, starting from seven or eight hundred at a time, I thought that I had the technology and materials, and I could install this in the future, or hire someone or something! Just doing this is very profitable, and you can also open a Taobao store to provide services in the same city. ”

"This ...... Pay attention to safety, working at height, it is very dangerous. Hyosung reminded coldly, afraid that he would think too much.

"I've done the math, and I'm going to have to put a lot of effort into procuring the goods. From nails to ladders, industrial fans, and 2,000 things of all kinds, when the time comes, you may have to buy a car to pull goods and deliver them. ”

"Well, the car is necessary."

"This time, I went out and designed the store to be spacious, white and shiny, and I could store goods from the bottom to the top. I bring some daily use that sells fast, and I also bring some decoration materials that sell slowly but make money, and then set a billboard, light box, and plaque when it's done, and give it a little more atmosphere. Either we don't do it, or we have to get out of the way if we want to do it. ”

"Don't invest too much at one time, it's hard to get back to the original, make some money and add some more, revitalize it first and then expand." Hyosung reminds with experience.

"Well, I'm also thinking about taking my time. But people have to have a big idea in their hearts, right? People have ten goals to be very motivated, aren't they? I've been thinking about the name of the hardware store for a long time, it's called 'Xingping Wanxing Hardware Store', what do you think? Stylish? Kong Ping hinted with a smile.

Bao Xiaoxing was immediately shocked when she heard the name of the store, and she responded with a steady face: "The name is very important, and it will take many years!" Try to find something that sounds good and is easy for guests to remember, such as what is Longfa, Xingtai, Pingyuan, or named after the village or street. ”

"Thank you for the pointers, or do you have an idea. After the decoration in the past two days, I want to clean up the second floor of the shop, the second floor is more than 30 square meters in total, it is a large single room, I plan to separate a two-bedroom and a living room. After getting it done in the future, as soon as you enter the door, there is a six-square-meter single room on the left, a nine-square-meter living room on the right, and a nine-square-meter big house after passing through the living room, and a three-square-meter balcony inside the small house, and then the remaining space outside the house is used for the kitchen! It's no problem to live three people like this! ”

"Oh! Very well designed, not bad! ”

Hearing this, Hyosung's nose was sour, a little choked, and he was so moved that he couldn't speak. She had no intention of Kong Ping, but Kong Ping's plan had her and her son.

"In the future, I will add a big wardrobe and buy a dressing table next to the wardrobe, facing the small window outside, and the green leaves of the mango tree sticking out of the window downstairs. I decided on this shop because this waist-thick mango tree is downstairs, and I feel that the feng shui is very smooth. ”

"Not bad!"

"Xing'er, are you willing to be the proprietress of my hardware store?"

Kong Ping mustered up his courage and finally said what was in his heart.

The man is full of affection, and for the first time in his life, he can't wait to take out a heart for her to verify.

The words were as heavy as a mountain, and the two were silent.

After a few minutes, Kong Ping then whispered: "That little house for your son to live in, I will be good to him for the rest of my life; That dressing table is for you, and I will accompany you for the rest of my life. ”

Hyosung looked at the ground, her heart beating faster, she was not happy at all, and a thick coldness accumulated in her heart.

"You take care of the accounts, and I sell the goods. You can live your life how you say you live, and you can spend it how you say you make money. ”

The gentle and kind Kong Ping stared into Hyosung's eyes without blinking—just as he did at the beginning, from beginning to end.

"You don't have to think about the age difference between us, and don't mind if I'm not married or you're married, I don't value these, your child is my child, it's up to you to decide whether you have children in the future, I don't care if it's my own or not."

Bao Xiaoxing had already collapsed, and tears were dripping down in the night, but she still held her breath with her hands on her chest to prevent the other party from noticing.

Kong Ping finished saying all the words, he couldn't get an answer from her, he didn't dare to take a half step forward, he didn't dare to force a question. The two of them stood so dryly in the shadows of the dark light trees, and they didn't know that they thought that these two people were talking about work from afar.

After a few minutes, Hyosung controlled himself from crying, looked up at passers-by, and said, "It's already nine o'clock, I'm going back to accompany my son!" I will go back to my hometown next week and will not come to Shenzhen again. You live well, come on! Thank you for the flowers! ”

After speaking, Hyosung hurriedly turned around and strode away with a bouquet of flowers. Ran at the south gate of the community, and as soon as he entered the elevator, he first deleted Kong Ping's WeChat, then blacklisted his mobile phone number, and finally deleted the number named "Kong Ping" in the mobile phone address book that was saved two hours ago.

When she got home, the woman strode into her room, closed the door and hid under the covers, crying uncontrollably. In other words, she doesn't like Kong Ping at all, why is she crying so much? It's time to cry for yourself, crying that your own man has treated herself very affectionately over the years; Crying that he has never met such a sincere and delicate man as Kong Ping in his life, crying why he didn't meet Kong Ping earlier in his life.

When people reach middle age, they are about to be half a hundred, and what they want for marriage is nothing more than warmth and steadfastness, and there is no need to ask for anything else.

Kong Ping stupidly pestled in place, and the boss was like a telephone pole for a while. The adult didn't move, didn't shout, didn't chase, just quietly frowned at her and left, but his heart was shattered and ached. That night, Kong Ping stood in the square outside the Hyosung neighborhood for more than two hours before finally turning away sadly. The design of the two-bedroom apartment on the second floor of the hardware store is the most exciting and happiest fantasy he has ever had before going to bed every night for the past month. The man with cold feet walked back like this, and the cold night was like his cold heart.

He and her have not seen each other since.

Unfortunately, Kong Ping's hardware store closed as soon as it opened due to some force majeure (the new crown epidemic in 2020), and he returned to his hometown in Shenzhen in frustration, spent a year decorating his old house in a small village in Henan, and continued to work in Zhengzhou after the renovation. In Zhengzhou, he met a girl and was fortunate to get married with that girl. Three years later, the couple saved enough money to open a small hardware store in Zhengzhou, and Kong Ping, who was 40 years old at the time, had a settled life. It's just that the years in Shenzhen, the southern country of pearl and wine, and the gentle and gentle Hyosung, have become a rainbow in his hopeless and mediocre life, and he will feel like a dream, beautiful and wonderful at any time in his life.

(End of chapter)