Chapter 4 Once Upon a Time
At 1:20 p.m. on July 24, 2014, the cicadas were still chirping.
You're chilling down.
You eat half a bowl of Dafugui sauce and fried cold noodles with large intestines, and you don't put vinegar, you have to put vinegar when you eat cold noodles. Another problem is that the sauce fried large intestine with cold noodles is really not suitable.
Fortunately, the chilled mint mung bean soup in the Kowloon Ice Room is really good, and the bowls packed are custom-made, with a LOGO and texture. You drank two bowls and cooled down.
Lao Wang stood at the door, through the gap in the blinds, saw that you didn't eat, and came in to help clean up.
You looked at Lao Wang's sad appearance and said with relief: "Some things are just coincidences, Brother Wang doesn't have to take it to heart." I'm going downstairs to do a foot on the Liangzi Foot Road now, mainly to go to the squinting meeting, and there is a party in the evening. You tell Xiao Shi to wait when he gets off work and give me a paragraph. ”
Lao Wang nodded and said, "Don't worry, Mr. Sima, there is no signal there during the day, no matter who looks for you, I will say that you have business to go out, and your mobile phone is charged on the table." ”
Smart this time, you nod your head.
When you stand in the elevator and descend slowly, you think, how does Lao Wang know that there is no signal for Liangzi Zudao to work?
You stop thinking about it, you're a good person.
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In this world, sometimes it is really difficult to be a good person.
Liangzi Foot Road is located on the first floor and the negative floor of the podium of the Windsor Building where you are located, and there are not many customers at this point. So when you enter the turnstile in the hall, there are at least four greeters, two leaders, and a front desk manager bowing at the same time, and they all say, "Welcome, Liangzi Zudao welcomes you!" ”
You raise your wrist and look at the table below, 1:45.
A young man in the lead stepped forward and asked respectfully, "Mr. Sima, one today?" ”
You were stunned for a moment and said, "You know me?" ”
The young man smiled and said, "If you work in this building, if you don't know Mr. Sima, you either just came to work today, or you are ready to be laid off and don't have to go to work anymore." ”
You listened to it very usefully, nodded and said: "I'm just alone, mainly I want to find a place to sleep, two hours, just arrange a package." ”
"Understood," the young man nodded repeatedly, "Please come with me......"
You look at the four welcoming ladies standing at the door and say, "It looks like it's empty now?" ”
Because you know, the greeting of a normal foot bath shop standing at the door is a technician nine times out of ten, and the boss will not pay another salary to hire someone to stand at the door. The technicians who are waiting in line for the bell are also idle, just to welcome the guests, and also to improve the grade of the store.
If you don't see a welcome at the door, it means that you are busy now. In most cases, guests will be taken to a private room to rest, serve fruit snacks first, turn on the air conditioner to stabilize, and make you embarrassed to go.
It's a routine, and it's a service.
You hum and say, "Either it's the fourth one." ”
The young man in the lead looked at the door, and the welcome technicians were all wearing the same satin blue cheongsam, which was not very recognizable. He called, "No. 55", and saw the girl in the second back right turn her head with the voice, and confirmed: "Sima always o'clock." ”
Your intentions are good, you don't know number 55. You think that the fourth place must have been waiting for a long time, if you come in order, you may have to stand for a long time, and the first place will be the next one anyway.
As No. 55 walks happily towards you, the other three welcome technicians look at you with disdain. seems to be saying, it's another person who judges people by his appearance, isn't it just that No. 55 is younger and looks handsome?
You're a good person, and it's hard to be a good person.
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When the young man in the lead takes you around the private room, you understand why the secretary Lao Wang wants to remind you that the mobile phone is out of signal. In this kind of enigmatic private room, the police can't find you at once, let alone a signal.
It's okay, you think, steal half a day of leisure.
Sometimes, it's really good to lose touch with the world without your phone. You'll feel like it's good to empty your mind and not be so tired. You will understand that you are not that important, and that the world is still operating as usual without whom.
When you think about it like this, you still can't hold back, and finally look at your phone.
"The Flower of the Other Side"!
I don't know when on the phone, there is a WeChat message, which is "No. 7 classmates group". "The Flower of the Other Side" clicked on you and said to you directly: "After a while, I will be next door to you." ”
was so angry that all the old classmates in the group were silent......
"No, who are you? Where is it? "You want to send a message back, but you find that you can't send it, there is no signal.
"I'm the flower of the other side, and I'm next door to you." You can't send it, but you can receive a message, and the "flower on the other side" seems to know what you want to ask.
You feel a chill rising from your heart and swimming all over your body.
If you want to connect to the wifi of the foot bath shop, you want to say that the wireless in public places is not safe, and you can hack into various payment accounts in your mobile phone when you encounter a master.
After thinking about it, you said to the young man in the lead, "Find me a secluded room, and I will sleep." ”
The young man said: "Mr. Sima, don't worry, I will take you to the most luxurious single room on the first floor, with a bathroom." ”
You were stunned, I didn't hear that the foot bath shop also has a separate toilet, there used to be a shower room, and all the anti-pornography and anti-pornography were rectified in the first half of the year.
The young man in the lead seemed to see your doubts, showed a strange smile, and said: "That's our general manager's office here, there is a desk with a sofa and a coffee table bathroom, and you won't meet acquaintances in the dead corner of the end." ”
"Acquaintances?" You say, "Are there still people from our company here today?" ”
The young man in the lead rubbed his hands together awkwardly and said, "How many of them...... There was ......"
"Stop," you say, "it's work time, and I haven't heard anything." ”
The young man in the lead nodded quickly and said, "Yes, yes, thank you Sima for your understanding." ”
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After a three- or four-minute walk, you come to the end of the walkway. There is one door that is clearly different from the other private rooms. While the other rooms have brown doors with long glass windows, this room has a white European embossed lacquered door.
Above the door, there is a sign with black characters on a white background, "General Manager's Office", and the word is a strange official book that is not commensurate with the surrounding environment.
When I opened the door, although it was not large, it was very elegantly furnished. A dark brown boss desk, a large and comfortable large chair, two rows of light brown glass cabinets behind it, can hold documents and books, and the second row is vertically placed dozens of novels. Diagonally facing the dark green sofa chair, you can sit or lie down, there is a coffee table on the left, and there is a door on the right, which should be a toilet.
On the wall next to the air conditioner, in a brown frame, is a framed painting with the words "Tranquility and Distance". The font is elegant and timeless, with a line of author's inscription date and red seal.
The whole room is clean and bright, just like a general manager's office.
The young man in the lead said respectfully: "Mr. Sima, what do you think of this room?" In the innermost part, it has its own bathroom, and you will never happen to meet anyone. ”
You nodded, approached the glass cabinet and said, "The room is good, yes, but it always seems to smell something?" ”
The young man's face changed slightly, and he said, "The ventilation in the basement is not very good, and it may be that this room has just been renovated and has not yet entered the guests." ”
You look at his expression suspiciously, a little inexplicably nervous.
"It is said that before the construction of Windsor Building, this area was the cemetery of the old Xuancheng." You said slowly, word for word: "The podium where we are now, a long, long time ago, was the place where the graves were most concentrated. ”
The young man in the lead didn't dare to look you in the eye, turned around and said, "You...... Mr. Sima...... Hold on...... I went to get fruit and tea, and urged the water delivery and technician to ......"
He forgot to ask you what tea to drink today, which set meal to make, and even forgot to ask you if you could charge your card today. The basic salary of the usherin is very low, and the income mainly depends on the commission of recommending items to guests and charging cards.
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At this time, there was a gurgling sound in the aisle. A gray-haired old man in a cleaning uniform was pushing a small flatbed truck with a foot bath barrel heading here.
The cart stopped at the door, and the old man shook the barrel and lifted it to the sofa.
You notice that the water in the barrel has splashed on the floor. The barrel was swaying from side to side, and the old man's left foot was probably a little lame, and he walked a little strangely.
You hear, the old man muttering something, not really, as if it was, a long, long time ago......