(The storyline is fictitious, the official must not sit in the opposite seat, the similarity is purely a coincidence)

Jing Hao read this email carefully several times, but she still didn't know how to reply. The content of this email is nothing more than a further confirmation of what she knew before. Harry was still dodgy, she thought, and he didn't explain it directly. Of course, he is not wrong, as Zhang Yiyun said before, he always has to deal with this matter very carefully.

The parents found that Jing Hao's mood was not very high, but they didn't think too much about it, thinking that she hadn't rested yet. A week later, they urged her to hurry back to work. She's busy, all kinds of interviews, it's all about patching up others, and she's just coming back from being away for so long, and she's trying her best to do as much as she can, without complaining at all. But at this time, she found out that several people had left the newspaper, and there were even two old colleagues, both of whom were almost fifty years old, a man and a woman, who had all gone to large enterprises, what were they doing? One went to the internal magazine, and the other went to the office to be responsible for external publicity.

At this stage, her life's major events have become the most headache for her parents, and they began to arrange a blind date, but she didn't see any of them. That night, Jinghao's mother almost quarreled with Jinghao.

Mom said, "This time this young man is good in all aspects except for being a little shorter, what's wrong with you going to see him?" Deliberately angry with us? ”

Jing Hao said: "I'm not too old to be old, why do I have to go out on a blind date?" ”

Mom said, "The little girls in their early twenties are all on a blind date, you are already thirty, when do you have to wait?" Let yourself go out and make friends, and you don't have the right one, are you always like this? ”

Jing Hao said: "What's wrong with being alone? Do you think I'm annoying you at home? Or do you think I'm so old that I'm ashamed not to get married? ”

Mom said, "Aren't you messing around?" What's wrong with you, the older you get, the more ignorant you become? ”

Jing Hao said, "What's wrong with you?" I'm a person, not a thing, I think it's good to be a person, it's just good, why do you have to be like a thing, being taken to match? ”

Mom was so angry that her face changed: "It's all made your father spoiled!" At your current age, if you don't hurry up, you can only find a second marriage, or even be a stepmother! If you drag it out any longer, it will be even more difficult to find it by the thirty-fourth five-year. ”

Jing Hao said: "Then don't look for it, I just think it's good to be alone!" ”

Mom said, "Then you don't have a family of your own, what should you do when you get old?" Can your dad and I stay alive forever? Cooking for you all the time? Always with you? ”

Jing Hao said: "Aren't you just afraid that I won't survive? I go to a nursing home! ”

Mom was so angry that she slapped the table. Dad hurriedly ran to act as a good person, criticized Jing for a few words, and persuaded her mother to go back to the living room to watch the TV series.

Every weekend, Harry walked to the Centre for Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford in the city to attend Chinese language lectures and exchange activities, and he walked through the four seasons with a large canvas schoolbag on his back: summer, autumn, winter, spring, his clothes and shoes changed from season to season, and occasionally he changed the style of his glasses......

He often encounters showers, and every time it rains, he will stand in the rain, recalling the encounter with Jing Hao in the rain, and the scene of going to an Italian restaurant to take shelter after watching a movie together......

Jing Hao was woken up by the alarm clock, and the sky was already bright, only to realize that it was a dream just now. Harry in his dreams is so clear, like a movie picture, especially as he walks through the streets of Oxford with a large canvas satchel on his back, and the seasons are constantly changing, like a picture from the movie "Notting Hill". She couldn't help but get up and open her laptop and check her mailbox, it was all spam, and she was disappointed.

Harry sent two emails without a response, and he no longer looked forward to getting in touch with Jinghao through his mailbox. He is not the kind of age and personality who can send ten emails in a row with a shy face and say a bunch of sweet words, he is measured and decent.

Six months after she graduated, the Jinghao school mailbox automatically expired. However, Jing Hao still remembers Harry's mailbox, and even if she forgets it, you can find it on the school website. On two occasions, she was impulsive enough to send a greeting email to Harry's mailbox using her daily 163 mailbox, but she eventually gave up.

Jing Hao went to work at the newspaper every day, sometimes driving the family car, sometimes taking the bus, sometimes riding a bicycle, and almost every night she went home on time to eat with her parents. Under the impact of online media, the newspaper is going downhill like a cliff, and the situation is much more severe than before Jing Hao went to study abroad. Their business cards are all stamped with a new title: newspaper network & APP reporter. At the meeting of the Journalists' Day, the leader said: "Facing difficulties and creating brilliance again...... In fact, many people have a feeling of "chaos and misfortune" in their hearts, and they don't know where to go.

On this day, while having dinner with her parents at home, her father suddenly asked her: "I heard that Liu Juncheng from you has just been admitted to our university?" ”

Mother interjected: "To go to PhD? ”

My father said, "No, I was admitted to university to work." ”

Jing Hao said: "It is said that he has been taking the exam for three years, and finally got in this time." ”

The mother said, "What did he do?" ”

Jing Hao said: "A deputy director of a department." ”

The mother asked, "Isn't that good, what can he do when he goes to college?" ”

Jing Hao said: "What he wants is nothing more than a career establishment. He used to be hired on a contract basis at the newspaper, but now that the newspaper is in a recession, his department doesn't know how long it will last, so he has always wanted to pass the exam. ”

The mother said, "It's really a time and that time." ”

The father said, "No......

The mother said, "Quietly, you have to cherish your job!" ”

Jing Hao looked up at her mother and said, "I'm afraid it's not going to be easy." ”

My father said, "It's true that there are a lot fewer people reading newspapers now, right?" ”

Jing Hao said: "Hey, you guys, you are really people in the ivory tower, you don't know anything, who still reads the newspaper now?" ”

My mother said, "If I had known that this would happen, I might have let you stay in college at that time." ”

The father said, "Oh, don't be impatient, the newspaper is not about to collapse!" ”

Jing Hao said: "Anyway, just our own department, in less than half a year, three more people have left, and those who have the ability have left." ”

Mom looked up at Dad, who was a little surprised, as if he had just understood what this change meant.

Jinghao occasionally goes out to party with her friends, but she is the more silent one, often sitting gently on the side, others are elated, and occasionally her boyfriend teases her for a sentence or two, but she doesn't even change her expression, as if she can't understand the language, and her participation in their various topics is not high, which makes people bored, secretly thinking about the next time she comes out to play, and simply doesn't call her......

She was once persuaded to drink a glass of colored fruit wine without drinking, the other party felt bored, while she turned her head, a friend who was not very familiar with her whispered to the person who persuaded the drinker: "She is probably not in a good mood, she came back from the UK last year, worked hard to study for a master's degree, and studied language and preparatory courses before, and it had to spend five or six hundred thousand yuan before and after, what's the use?" Maybe they will be laid off soon, and their newspaper will be reported at the same time as a newspaper in the province, have you heard? ”

In fact, Jing Hao doesn't know why he is unhappy. If you really lose your job, I'm afraid it won't be her turn so soon, even if you report it, and where it goes, it counts, and if you report it to the province, you will be the person who reports it to the province. However, the department said at a meeting that the provincial newspaper is now difficult to protect itself, and it is not so easy to report again, involving too many personnel in all aspects, especially the arrangements of leaders, and there are too many complicated things. If you are really laid off, you have to resettle these personnel in the establishment. In short, let it go, I'm just a small soldier.

In summer, autumn, winter, and spring, she walked along the seaside boardwalk, streets, alleys, and office corridors, all the way, her clothes changed in the four seasons, and her hair changed several times, sometimes wearing glasses, sometimes not wearing them, and the seaside scenery was also changing...... The electronic calendar on the computer and the small calendar hanging on the wall quickly jumped backwards and turned over page by page, and in the blink of an eye, it was almost a year back. Newspapers were closed everywhere, and more and more, sometimes several newspapers closed on the same day, but fortunately, the newspaper where she worked was still alive.

In the afternoon sun, Jing Hao wore a beige British style short trench coat, a light gray hooded sweatshirt, smoky gray skinny jeans, and crossed the blue-gray Kipling shoulder bag that she usually used when she was in the UK, walking alone on the boardwalk by the sea. The color of the clothes is matched with the scenery of the seaside, which looks very bright.

Some tourists stroll on the beach and boardwalk.

Chen Dongliang and Lei Xiaoming walked up, they were pushing a stroller, and inside was a fat and cute doll, unable to distinguish between boys and girls, a bit like a boy.

Jing Hao didn't see the appearance of the two people coming over from the opposite side clearly, and when they were more than ten meters apart, they saw each other clearly, and it was too late to turn around and leave.

The expression on Chen Dongliang's face was obviously the same. He was a little embarrassed, a little flustered, and a little embarrassed......

Lei Xiaoming didn't know Jing Hao, she still sweetly held Chen Dongliang's arm, talking and laughing.

The four of them got closer and closer, Jing Hao looked at Chen Dongliang, and Chen Dongliang also looked at Jing Hao.

Jing Hao calmed down, smiled, and nodded lightly with Chen Dongliang as if nothing had happened. Chen Dongliang also nodded his head at her lightly and said, "Such a coincidence, you, that, are you free today?" ”

Jing Hao smiled and replied, "Oh, yes, what a coincidence. On weekends, go out for a walk. ”

Chen Dongliang said again: "After you come back, are you all right? ”

Jing Hao said, "It's good, thank you." ”

After the greetings, Jing Hao passed by Chen Dongliang and his wife.

I only heard Lei Xiaoming ask Chen Dongliang: "Who, it's quite familiar." ”

Chen Dongliang replied: "Oh, an old classmate, I haven't seen you for a long time. ”

Jing Hao walked towards the depths of the boardwalk, the sea was blue, the waves were slowly surging and receding, and the beach was illuminated by the sun, like a piece of fine gold......

Jing Hao walked slowly, her face was very peaceful, and there was no expression at all.

From a distance, Chen Dongliang pretended to be casual and glanced back at Jing Hao.

He saw that in the sun, the sea was blue and the colors of the sand were dazzling......

He also saw that Jing Hao was always walking forward, not looking back at them...... Chen Dongliang blinked, turned around, and pushed the stroller with Lei Xiaoming and continued to walk forward. After walking for a while, the child cried, Lei Xiaoming picked it up and coaxed him, Chen Dongliang also stopped, looked back at Jing Hao again, and found that it had only been a few minutes, and Jing Hao had already walked far away. They are in opposite directions, of course, double the distance.

The wind blew her quiet hair, and the strands of hair fluttered backwards, and she shook her head a few times, and shook her hair vigorously, as if hoping that the sea breeze would blow away some of the things in the past, happy and unhappy, and let them drift away......

It's just that the years are ruthless, and the current Jinghao is obviously better than the one more than a year ago, the Jinghao who came back from the UK with his bags on his back, has aged a little, and to put it nicely, he has matured a little. There were already a few fine wrinkles looming at the corners of her eyes, and her skin was much drier and rougher because of the sea breeze......

Suddenly, someone patted Jing Hao's shoulder from behind, and when Jing Hao turned around, it was Chen Dongliang. She didn't expect him to come to her again.

Chen Dongliang gasped and said, "Quietly, you guys, something happened to Vice President Zheng of your unit, you know?" ”

Jing Hao said: "Which vice president Zheng?" Oh, Deputy Director Zheng, what's wrong? ”

Chen Dongliang said: "It is estimated that you will notify it internally tomorrow, we notified it internally with the government department yesterday, and it is said that he has, he has a woman problem, it seems that there are more than one or two, and there are economic problems, of course, the main problem is economic problems." I've only heard about it now, so I don't know if there's anything else. ”

Jing Hao said: "Oh, I haven't seen him for a long time, didn't he go to a county-level city to take a temporary post?" ”

Chen Dongliang said: "This is what happened just now, he also participated in a summit forum organized by that county-level city last week, and I heard that he was taken away by the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection before he finished speaking, and his coat was left on the back of the chair." I guess some people in your newspaper should have known about it. ”

Jing Hao said: "Ah, really? We didn't say anything at the meeting. ”

Chen Dongliang said: "So, that, I just want to come over and tell you, your newspaper is very unstable now, is it not as efficient as before?" I heard an acquaintance say that a lot of people have gone one after another, and now this thing has happened, if, if you also need help, call me, my phone number has not changed, you are willing to re-add my WeChat, my parents still have some way, I know a few people now, maybe I can help. Your parents, they're too pedantic, they're too rigid......"

Jing Hao said, "Thank you." Thank you. ”

Chen Dongliang said: "You're welcome, I, be quiet, there are some things that I haven't had a chance to explain to you...... Of course, I don't have to say that I'm not at fault at all, but there are some misunderstandings......"

"It's all gone, and my parents didn't do well at the time, I'm sorry for you. Thank you for telling me about Lao Zheng and about changing jobs, thank you very much. Jing smiled and stretched out her hand to shake hands with Chen Dongliang and say goodbye.

When I got home, I found the cute green notebook I used when I was in England, and looked at the few pages with text in it, which was the mood at that time, including some banging and troubles and confusion......

She closed the notebook, yes, maybe she is too unrealistic, and the happiness of reality is probably just like Chen Dongliang and Lei Xiaoming, when they reach the age when they should get married, they will form a family, and then have children, as their mother said, be a child of nature, and do what age when they reach what age......

She reopened the notebook, decided to tear off all the pages where she was writing, tore one of them, tore them halfway but stopped, smoothed them again, closed the little notebook, put her two hands together, and pressed hard, as if doing so would make the half-torn paper grow again......

She got up and opened the first drawer of the chest of drawers next to her, and put it in the innermost part, tucked it into the bottom of some colorful gift boxes, as if to hide the little book completely......

There was a wooden-framed mirror on the chest of drawers, the size of half an A4 paper, she caught a glimpse of herself inside, I don't know if it was just running out to blow the sea breeze, why is a face so haggard, she glared at herself in the mirror exaggeratedly, as if she was a little "disobedient to the old".