On February 10, 2019, I returned home safe and sound, and in the days that followed, peace was restored.

On February 12th, I started work and needed to make a 40-minute commute from the subway station downstairs to the industrial area where I went to work every day.

My job is a purchasing assistant, the company is making auto parts, and the main customer is Ford.

Since October 18, Ford has cut production by jumping off buildings, and our company has barely survived until the end of the year.

On the first day of the 19th year, it was a meeting to listen to the boss complaining about the bitterness.

Finally, at the end of the conference, there was a decision to take three days off and four days off, and the two-day working day off was regarded as a no-pay day.

"An Ning, do you think our company is going to collapse?"

Mina, who was sitting next to me, slipped into my ear with a chair and asked in a whisper.

"Shouldn't it be, didn't you take orders for a few Japanese cars?"

I peeked at the minister, who was talking on the phone with a black face, and answered Mina's ear.

"An Ning, do you want to resign too?"

Mina opened the WeChat group on her phone and showed me the swipe screen in the colleague group, this group was created by Mina, and it was full of colleagues from the company.

The most heated discussion in the group was about March, four days off and three days off, adjusting salaries, and not being able to afford family expenses.

"I only bought the car at the end of the year, and I have to pay back 5,000 yuan every month, and the company is like this, so I should resign!"

Seeing that I was not responding, Mina put away her phone, returned to her place, and continued to hold her phone to send messages.

Do you want to leave your job?

This is a question worth pondering, my rent is paid every six months, after returning to work during the Chinese New Year, there is only 300 yuan in the whole body, if the company really implements the first four days off and three days off in March, then I don't want to eat instant noodles every day?

Moreover, I don't know when the last four days off and three days off will end, and if it drags on until June, then won't I have to sleep on the street?

"The people from the purchasing department all follow me to the small conference room, and our department has a small meeting alone!"

After the minister hung up the phone, he gathered all eight people from our department.

First of all, the minister affirmed our dedication to the company and thanked us on behalf of the company.

Secondly, each of us is an indispensable individual of the department.

In the end, the company's decision is only temporary, and we should stick together to tide over the difficulties.

In summary, the company needs you, and you can't be ungrateful, turn around and leave when the company is in trouble.

"In the next three months, I don't want to receive a resignation letter from any of you, understand?"

This last sentence is simply a threat.

"Is this forcing me to buy a lottery ticket and win?"

Finally made it to work, and on the way to the subway station, Mina complained to me all the way.

"Why don't we find some part-time jobs when we take a break?"

Cutting wages and not being allowed to resign, if you don't go out to do odd jobs again, you are really going to become a beggar.

"I'd better go buy a lottery ticket!"

Mina shook her head and waved goodbye to me.

After returning to the area where I lived, I didn't go home, but went to the Walmart supermarket on the first floor of the mall, planning to take advantage of the New Year's event to buy more instant noodles and stock up at home.

Diagonally opposite the entrance to the Walmart supermarket, there is a self-service lottery ticket vending machine.

Buy a lottery ticket?

I fumbled for the cash in my pocket, there was just 10 yuan, why don't you give it a try?

In front of the vending machine, a short-haired girl, thin, wearing a black cotton shirt and cotton pants, stood there with her head bowed.

For 10 yuan, you can buy 4 packs of instant noodles for 2.5 yuan, which is also a huge amount of money, or not, right?

My footsteps swayed to the vending machine and took it back.

"Are you going to buy a lottery ticket?"

It was the girl, she grabbed the corner of my coat and spoke in a hoarse voice.

"I don't, I'm just looking!"

I immediately denied it.

"Can you lend me 10 bucks? I'll pay you back tomorrow! ”

The girl looked up, and it was a slightly pale face, with two eyeballs bulging outward, and a listless look.

"Are you a student?"

I can't guess what she is.

"Lend me 10 bucks, I know you have!"

She tugged at my sleeve and didn't let go:

"As long as you lend it to me, I can give you back 1,000 yuan!"

"Okay, I'll lend it to you!"

Looking at her thin figure, my sympathy began to overflow, and I handed her all the 10 yuan I had just touched.

"Here you go, go to the lottery center tomorrow to get the money!"

The girl stuffed all the 10 yuan I gave into the vending machine, and then stuffed the lottery ticket spit out from the vending machine into my hand, turned around and left.

What a strange person!

I looked at her back, shook my head, took the ticket I bought with my money, and turned around and went into the Walmart supermarket.

The next day, when it was time to go to work, Mina actually bought a lottery ticket.

When the lottery was drawn at 10 o'clock, she didn't do anything, and directly took out the stack of lottery tickets to check.

"An Ning, I didn't even get a penny!"

Mina, with a sad face, came to my side with a chair.

"How can there be such a thing as pie falling from the sky, you don't want to buy it anymore!"

I comforted her that the lottery was originally a low-probability event.

"I still have to do it in my daydream, what if I get it?"

Mina didn't give up, clenched her fists and said hatefully:

"100 yuan lottery ticket, you can let me win 1000 yuan!"

I can't laugh or cry, why are I still thinking about this!

"By the way, I also bought a lottery ticket yesterday!"

Speaking of lottery tickets, I took out the one from last night and handed it to Mina:

"Can you help me see if I have won the lottery?"

Mina snatched the ticket from my hand and rushed back to her seat, checking the winning numbers one by one.

"If you win the lottery, I'll give you half of it!"

I couldn't help but laugh when I saw her so fascinated.

"Hit, really hit! An Ning, what kind of fairy luck are you! ”

Mina excitedly came to me with her mobile phone and pointed to the winning numbers:

"1,000 bucks!"

"Is it really 1,000 yuan?"

I couldn't believe it.

"It's true, you said it, divide me in half!"

Mina was bouncing and jumping with me, and the minister, who was sitting across from us, coughed twice in dissatisfaction.

"Okay, half of it!"

Mina pulled back her phone in my hand and whispered in my ear.

I remembered the girl's words, I'll pay you back 1,000 yuan tomorrow.

Is this the 1,000 yuan she said?

After work, I went to the entrance of the supermarket again, and the girl, sure enough, was still there.

"Did you get the 1,000 yuan?"

As soon as I got closer, she looked up, looked at me and smiled.

"How do you know that number will win!"

I was a little excited, and took out 500 dollars from my pocket, and 500 dollars, which I gave to Mina.

"I've always known that!"

The girl tilted her head to look at me, and her protruding eyes began to shine.

"Shall I invite you to dinner?"

I really didn't know how to express my inner gratitude, so I pulled her and walked outside, saying as I went:

"I know there is a casserole skewers, which are particularly delicious, and their house will open on the sixth day of junior high school!"

The girl didn't object, and let me pull her to the shop.

There weren't many people in the shop, and with our table, there were only 4 tables, so after ordering the soup base and flavor plate, I went to get the skewers.

"I'm not hungry, you can eat!"

The girl didn't move her chopsticks, and she shook her head when I was about to hand the skewers to her bowl.

Don't eat it? I was a little surprised, and I asked again and again, and the answer I got was still the same.

"Then I'll invite you to drink milk tea later!"

Since you don't eat skewers, you should be able to drink a cup of milk tea!

At the time of checkout, the boss charged me 7 yuan less.

"Boss, are you missing 7 yuan?"

I often eat skewers at his house, and I remember the price.

"Although you asked for two saucers, you are the only one, and I won't charge for that saucer!"

The boss recognized me, and when he said that, I didn't care anymore.

I was indeed the only one eating this meal, and the girl didn't touch a bite.

Out of the casserole skewer shop, I pulled her to the food street next to it, and ordered two cups of bubble tea at a little milk tea shop.

The girl, standing a short distance behind me, kept her head down, motionless, as if she were standing in front of a vending machine.

"Here you go!"

I handed her a cup of packaged milk tea.

"I'm not thirsty!"

She still shook her head and refused the milk tea I handed over.

"I've bought it all, so you can take it!"

There weren't many people in the food city, and not far from us, a girl in a beret came to see her.

"I'm not thirsty, drink it!"

The girl shook her head, still refusing.

I'm a little angry, you don't eat when you ask for dinner, you don't drink milk tea, since you don't want it, why don't you refuse, why do you come with me?

"Hey—"

The beret girl next to me, while talking on the phone, walked behind me, and I heard her complain:

"Why haven't you come yet?"

"There's a woman next to me, talking to the air and delivering milk tea, it's weird and scary!"

Against the air?

I looked around and saw that it was only me around her.

The walls of the food court are covered with black tiles, and the shadows of people can be seen under the light. Beyond the face of the person in front of me, I saw the wall behind her.

I was the only one, holding a cup of milk tea, standing there stupidly.

"Although you asked for two saucers, you are the only one, and I won't charge for that saucer!"

I remembered the words of the owner of the skewer shop, you are the only one.

"What's wrong?"

The girl tilted her head and looked at me without blinking.

Smack-

All the milk tea in my hand fell to the ground, and I didn't look back, so I pulled my legs and ran out.