Chapter 2: August 16

"Ding Ding Ding, Ding Ding Ding", at 7:30 in the morning, the mobile phone next to the pillow rang on time.

"Meow... Meow... "The one-year-old cat heard the alarm bell and came to the bedroom door and called me gently. I turned on my phone, put on my glasses, and after ten minutes of struggle, I still got up lazily at 7:40. Looking out the window, the morning sun was orange, the sky was still clear, the clouds were floating in the distance, the pigeons on the roof began to circle around the house in the distance, and the wind was blowing in my hair.

Putting on a gray T-shirt and jeans, and taking care of my curly hair, I finally went out at 8:10 after pouring cat food on my cat's dinner plate. The aunts in the square downstairs have already danced a square dance, and it seems that every day is the same tune "Time is like a shuttle and the stars are moving, and the years have witnessed the magic of love... But I don't know what song it is. Walking out of the gate of the community, the doorman still had that indifferent expression, the shared bicycle at the door was placed next to the corner, I turned on an orange bicycle and rode to the subway station, and there were large and small vehicles passing back and forth on the road.

The uncles at the entrance of the subway station greeted the passers-by, and I parked my bike to the side, like most people, and ignored them. At half past eight, the aunt next to the elevator handed out today's newspaper, and I waved my hand and didn't ask for it. Because it is the starting station, there are not many people on the subway, and this is Metro Line 3 that has just opened in C City. Across from me sat a fashionably dressed woman, in a white crop top T-shirt and hot pants, and her white thighs seemed to be a summer sight.

I took out my phone, today is Wednesday, August 16, 2017, sunny. The subway TV began to broadcast the subway news: "The Perseid meteor shower arrived as scheduled this morning, and many astronomy enthusiasts came to the Fangcun Mountain on the outskirts of the city to watch the meteor shower, let's enjoy the beautiful meteor shower." "Next are a few photos, most of the meteors are white, occasionally red, yellow and other special colors, and there is a purple meteor in the photo, which seems to be very rare. I took out my phone to turn on the news, the situation on the border is still tense, the United States is fighting with North Korea again, the housing prices in City C seem to have risen again, the domestic film protection month has not ended, and yesterday was the 72nd anniversary of the end of World War II.

The subway station is still a short distance from the company, and when I walked out of the subway station at about 8:52, I ran to the side of the road and swiped a cup of eight-treasure porridge on WeChat for breakfast, 3 yuan, and drew a random red envelope of 0.12 yuan. While eating, I walked to the company, and there was a little orange cat on a leash at the door of the grocery store on the side of the road, and I couldn't help but tease it twice.

At nine o'clock, I walked into the door of the company and started to work. My name is Liu Yitian, I am a grassroots scientific researcher in the laboratory, and it is not a very high research, but a relatively basic chemical testing work, and I have been working in this company since I graduated from graduate school, and I have been single for three years. I'm not a native of City C, I came from other places to study, and I stayed here to work after graduation.

"Senior brother, another batch of samples were sent today, which were sent by Xingyuan Chemical Company, and I want to test the heavy metals." My colleague Zhang Han came over and said to me. There are not many people in our laboratory, and they are all young people, and everyone still retains the title of senior brother and sister in school. I looked at the sample, it was a few bottles of relatively clear water, I looked at the time, and at 9:28, the stock market was about to open. Open the mobile phone software, the A-share index basically opened flat today, and the Shanghai Composite Index opened 3.41 points lower, down 0.1%.

I have been testing water samples in the laboratory all morning, and today the instrument is in good working condition, there are no problems, everything is in order. Take a look at the stock with your mobile phone during the test, and swipe the circle of friends, we don't have so many constraints here, as long as you do what you do well, no one will stare at you. There are not many interesting new things in the circle of friends, Li Moumou is showing the baby again, Zhang Moumou is taking selfies again, the old classmates in the distance posted the apples they grew at home, and some people who do micro-business group buying and ask for likes, Chen Moumou posted the mileage of 7.44 kilometers he ran yesterday. I turned on my pedometer, yesterday's step count was finally fixed at 12156 steps, and I could also randomly draw a red envelope, and I clicked on it to draw 0.31 yuan, which is not bad. The market in the morning was generally flat, and at 11:05 in the morning, the annual round shares rose to a limit, but unfortunately I didn't buy it. My stock, Xinte shares, is still trading sideways.

At noon, the canteen ate roast beef with radish, but unfortunately there was not much beef, and colleagues at the table were talking about last night's meteor shower.

"Did you see a meteor shower yesterday?" Xiao Luo, an intern who had just come over, brought up this topic.

"What meteor showers are there in the city, you can't see anything." Although I am interested in astronomy, I have largely given up stargazing now due to my years of experience in stargazing in the terrible weather and lights of City C.

"No, yesterday we classmates watched the meteor shower on the roof of the dormitory together, and we still saw it." Xiao Luo has not graduated from his senior year.

"I also saw one yesterday, and it's very bright, purple, so beautiful" Senior Sister Zhang Han also responded.

"Purple? It's rare. Colleague Zhou Tong was a little surprised. The purple one, which I also saw in the news, "I remembered the photo in the morning subway news."

"We still have a lot of couples making wishes, standing on the roof of the dormitory, hahaha," Xiao Luo said with a smile. I wondered how couples could get to the roof of the girls' dormitory. "My girlfriend and her boyfriend stood on the roof of their respective dorm buildings to watch the meteor shower, and then made a wish together on WeChat." Xiao Luo said.

"Isn't it impossible to make a wish?" Zhou Tong asked.

"I didn't say it, I only allowed typing, not voice, haha" Xiao Luo laughed again.

"I don't make a wish anymore, I used to make a wish when I was studying, hoping that meteors could make love last forever, but in the end I broke up, and now I'm still single." Zhang Han looked playful and helpless, and everyone laughed.

At noon, the company downstairs is still engaged in decoration, the sound is very loud, Xiao Luo may have slept too late last night and slept soundly on the table, while Zhou Tong was so noisy that he couldn't sleep, and ran downstairs to reason with the decoration master.

The lunch break passed quickly, and the afternoon was still hot, and it was a bit lazy in the air-conditioned room. Soon the stock market closed, with the Shanghai Composite down 4.18 points, or 0.15%, the Shenzhen Component Index up 41.00 points, or 0.39%, and the ChiNext up 26.62 points, or 1.48%. My Xinte shares fell 0.72% and are still trading sideways.

At about half past three, Li Feifei from the laboratory next door came to me and asked me to teach her how to use the atomic absorption instrument. Li Feifei is 2 years younger than me, with a lively and cute personality, enthusiastic and active, although she is a newcomer, she is more likable. The instrument was actually relatively simple, and I quickly taught her, and she tried to make a test sample with a lead concentration of 1.61 mg/L.

At 5 p.m., go home from work. The subway back is crowded, the morning news is still playing on the subway, and the smell of desire fills the crowded subway in summer. "What are you doing? You stinky rascal. Suddenly, a coolly dressed girl got up from her seat, pointed at the uncle next to her and scolded, and then they quickly got out of the car and probably walked to the police room. Presumably it was another groping pig's hand incident, and now it's no longer strange.

It was half past six when I got home after eating, and as soon as I opened the door, Xiao Qi was coquettish to me, and I stroked her little furry head twice. The news in the evening is very flat, it seems that there is no more attractive news except for the border situation recently, and the news on TV has stopped paying attention to the border situation and has begun to be filled with all kinds of social news and traffic news, it seems that the world is now calm, so calm that small traffic accidents at intersections can make news headlines. I don't like to watch TV dramas very much, and it's August now, and the Anti-Japanese War drama is still dominating the screen.

Pick up a book called "Parallel Universe" on the desk, this is an advanced book of popular science, and it is quite interesting to combine science fiction and popular science. Suddenly, the phone rang, and I saw that it was my dad calling. It turned out that my mother accidentally uninstalled WeChat in my phone, and my father called me to ask how to install it. It's still more troublesome to explain on the phone, but there is no way, who called me the only child in the family, and I can't take care of my parents when I go away, and it's a little sad to think about it, especially at night alone.

Hung up the phone, chatted with a blind date netizen Ami who met on the Internet, I haven't met for a few days just now, and I'll meet in a few days, and then let's go to a movie together, although it doesn't seem to be very close. At ten o'clock in the evening, opposite the window is a hotel a kilometer away, and there will be a different number of rooms lit up every day, and today may not be very good because it is a weekday, only three windows are lit.

Teased the cat Xiaoqi for a while.,It's almost half past ten.,So I turned on the computer and played a DOTA2.,Random call.,I went with the blood demon.,There's Peggy and a musket on the other side.,Finally, we GG.,The game played for 42 minutes.,It's not early.,Wash and sleep.。 said good night to Xiao Qi, lay in bed, and brushed up on the night news, but there was still nothing new. The alarm is still half past seven; At 12 o'clock in the evening, turn off the computer on time, get a good night's sleep, and welcome the arrival of a new day.

It was Wednesday, August 16, 2017. It's no different from the past, in fact, if you think about it, every day seems to be like this every day in the past few years, sometimes you will imagine that time is not really moving forward in a trance, and sometimes you will sigh and helpless about the life of these two points and one line. When I lie in bed and think about this day, I really wish that everything was just a dream when I close my eyes and open them, and if I open my eyes and find myself waking up from my childhood desk, and then everything starts all over again, maybe there will be another life, maybe better, maybe worse. Unfortunately, this can only be a dream.