On Saturday, she asked a few high school classmates to come out for afternoon tea, slept at home all morning on Sunday, and packed her bags early in the afternoon and returned to Nanzhou.

Without Pan Rui, life is not as sad as she imagined.

She goes to work, she walks in a hurry, she compresses each work task into a tight time, requires herself to be completed, and keeps her head running at high speed at all times. If you don't stop, there's no time to think nonsense.

She is herself, but tolerant of others. She regularly invites her small department to have afternoon tea once a week, and her subordinates do not do a good job, she takes the initiative to help share the work, and when her subordinates do something wrong, she goes to help carry the pot.

Wang Boyi shook his head at her again and again at the supervisor's meeting on Monday: "Xia Solstice, you can't do this." The leadership skills are so poor, you see what kind of team you have with you. ”

Xia Zhi picked the ballpoint pen in both hands, and his eyes kept staring at the conference table and did not dare to speak.

That being said, Wang Boyi still did not remove her, but instead raised her salary by 500. She was a little ashamed, didn't she do her job well and didn't bring the team well?

However, Cheng You said to her: "Mr. Wang speaks very sharply, but he approves of you." You just don't be too honest, what you should do, you do, what you shouldn't do, just share it with others. ”

After Cheng You finished speaking, he took off his apron and went to the bathroom.

"Let's eat first." Yuan Jia raised his chopsticks and greeted the summer solstice. The summer solstice has become a frequent visitor to their house, not only do they have nothing to eat when they get off work on weekdays, but sometimes they also buy a few vegetables on weekends and bring them over.

Xia Zhi quietly asked her, "When are you going to get married?" ”

Yuan Jiayi graduated four years ago, and is 26 years old this year, Cheng You is 4 years older than her, and she will run for three years after the New Year. The two have been in love for eight years, and Xia Zhi thinks that he should have met his parents.

has a house, a car and a career, the two respect each other like guests, and have enough emotional foundation, isn't this the most perfect love in Xia Zhi's mind?

However, there was a trace of sorrow on the corner of Yuan Jia's mouth: "Maybe...... Let's ...... at the end of the year"

"Really?"

Xia Zhi was really happy for the two of them, but Yuan Jiayi had a touch of panic on his face when he heard the toilet door open: "Don't say it, eat it quickly, if you don't eat it again, it will be cold." ”

Leaving the cozy nest of the two, Xia Zhi will go shopping alone, watch a movie, find a café to read a book for an afternoon, or go to various free exhibitions, and participate in some cultural salon activities.

Guo Yunxi, the first-year student of the Academy of Fine Arts who added her QQ when she watched the installation exhibition before, really sent her various activity information from time to time.

Some of them are external activities organized by the student union of their Academy of Fine Arts, and some are activities organized by people in the society who are idle and bored.

Xia Zhi asked her in QQ: [Where did you find so much activity information? 】

Guo Yunxi sent her a string of smiling faces: [Find it on the Internet yourself, or introduce it to a friend. Sister Xia Zhi, we have an activity group, do you want to join? 】

Xia Zhi said okay, anyway, a person is really idle.

She went to a book club held by her friends in a private art space, and the entrance fee of 10 yuan could get a glass of lemon water and an afternoon of talking about books;

She went to a studio to carry out a zero-based oil painting experience activity, and smeared it according to her own heart;

She followed her travelers to climb the mountain, not taking the cement road planned by the government garden office, but looking for those little-known sheep intestine trails to see the primitive beauty hidden in the modern city of Nanzhou......

She's doing well, she doesn't have to worry about how hard her life is, just let it fall like water.

During the Spring Festival of 2007, she had nearly 15 days of annual leave.

Xia Zhi did not go home immediately, but first went to Xiao Yiqing's hometown of Yeyang, a third-tier city that can be reached by train for six hours and directly by car for more than four hours.

Xiao Yiqing found a fellow villager's car to carpool back, and it was still early, the blockage of the Spring Festival had not yet begun, and the road was smooth, and when they arrived at the center of Yeyang City, Xiao's father drove in place early and waited for them.

In the four years of college, she always listened to Xiao Yiqing boast about the beauty of her hometown: a small fish pond in front of the door, you can catch fish and shrimp, there are many fruit trees by the pond, there is no shortage of fruits all year round, and she sits on the rooftop at night to watch the stars.

"At this time, gardenias, grapefruit flowers, yellow melon flowers, mango flowers, osmanthus flowers are all about to bloom, and we can still pick strawberries." Xiao Yiqing happily introduced.

Xia Zhi stayed at Xiao Yiqing's house for nearly a week, and only returned to Kangzhou on Chinese New Year's Eve.

It is indispensable to accompany He Yan to visit relatives during the Spring Festival, although she can only barely recognize most of her relatives, but she still has to accept interrogations such as how much people are paid and when they get married.

He Yan was a person with a straight face at home, and only in the homes of these relatives who couldn't see each other a few times a year did she become cheerful, and she laughed and said, "I don't have a boyfriend!" Cousin, you can introduce a good one! ”

Xia Solstice sat on the side, only laughing. Getting married seems like a distant thing.

She can't stand such silly conversations, isn't she still young? is less than 23 years old, He Yan is in a hurry to marry her?

When she was in college, they always told her not to rush to find a boyfriend, and as soon as she graduated for only half a year, they hoped that she could get married immediately, and her parents were really difficult to serve.

On the summer solstice, he stayed up until the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, so he used the excuse of returning to Nanzhou early to prepare for work, and escaped from the enthusiastic eyes of his relatives who were constantly flowing every day.

She goes to work on the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, and she has four days off.

For fifty-two days, Pan Rui did not call her, and she did not call him. As they say they do, they don't connect, giving each other plenty of time and space to think.

Xia Zhi felt that she was doing well now. He may not have been as big a part of her life as she had imagined.

Thinking of him was a very fortuitous thing. Usually when she wakes up in the middle of the night, she will grab her phone to see if there is a call from him.

She seemed to see him in a dream, but she didn't, and there was a corner in her heart that was empty, and no matter how much she tried to fill it, there was no way to fill that corner.

"Are you okay?" She turned her head to look at the window and asked herself, and she asked him what she had seen in her dreams.

She thought she had slept for a long time, but it was only eleven o'clock, and she fell asleep at about nine o'clock. The dream was so deep, so heavy, like she had done it all her life, she almost couldn't get out.

There was a knock on the door.

The knock on the door seemed so sudden in the darkness of the night. Xia Zhi sat up from the bed, pulled the quilt to her chest, looked at the door, and every knock on the door hit her head like thunder.

"Who?" She screamed into the darkness.