It was almost noon, Pi Yan came upstairs and said in a loud voice: "Gu Chi, what are you doing?" Gu Chi didn't react for a while, not understanding the meaning of his words. "Gan Mani" was originally the local dialect of Jiyun, which is roughly equivalent to the meaning of what to do, and it is difficult for outsiders to understand its meaning at first hearing.

So, he said vaguely: "It's almost cleaned up just now, Director Pi." He pointed to the broken table outside the door and the outdated documents in the corner of the room, and said, "It's just that these things are useless, and they take up too much space in the house. ”

"Where?" Pi Yan seemed a little surprised, "These are all state property, you say throw it away, who is it if you throw it?" Now that the office space is tight, there is no free space, so let's put it in the house first. ”

Gu Chi was speechless for a while, and looked at Pi Yan's expression suddenly became extremely serious, thinking that Fang had just said the wrong thing. He didn't expect at all, and he didn't understand very much, what was important about a broken table and a few old newspapers.

Pi Yan paced back and forth in the room, glanced around, and then went to the next room to take a look. Donnie Yen sat up from the bed and said hello to Director Pi. After briefly explaining where the canteen was and who to contact for the meal card, he turned around and went downstairs.

Gu Chi was about to enter the house, and Luo Haiwen came up, holding a few large cardboard boxes in his hands, and said, "Brother, I saw you tidy up the house just now, there are just a few empty cardboard boxes in my office, do you think you can use them?" ”

Gu Chi gratefully took the cardboard box and said, "Thank you, Brother Wen." These things were going to be thrown away, but Director Pi said just now that they couldn't be thrown away, and now there is no spare space in the building to store them, so they can only be put in the house for the time being, and the box can just be used to hold sundries. ”

Luo Haiwen was stunned, a little ignorant, and said unclearly: "Director Pi? Which Pi Director? ”

Gu Chi said: "It's the director of the government's office!" ”

"Oh-" Yu Haiwen suddenly realized, laughed, and said meaningfully, "It's okay, if these useless things are in the way, they should be put in the corridor first." In the afternoon, I asked people to come and move somewhere else. ”

The two of them had different meanings, Gu Chi didn't know who to listen to, and muttered: "But ......"

Luo Haiwen smiled and said, "Don't worry, if someone asks about it in the future, just say that I asked you to do it." ”

Furuchi smiled happily. The two chatted, and Donnie Yen came over to say hello. Luo Haiwen asked them how they were doing with their registration, and Gu Chi told them what had happened before and after. Luo Haiwen called the two of them to go out to eat together at noon, Gu Chi only felt that he was tired from a long distance, his body was tired, and he had no interest in eating at all, so he said some words of thanks and refused. Luo Haiwen didn't force it, just told him to rest a few words, and then walked downstairs.

With great effort, Gu Chi put all the old paper in the corner of the wall into a box and placed it next to the broken table outside the door. Looking at the newly renovated room, which was no longer the same as when he came, his whole body was filled with great pride, and his body felt more and more tired. Closing the door, Kimono lay on the bed, and breathed a long sigh of relief. He felt that the whole room had now become a world of his own, and although the space was small, he had no scruples. So, lying on all fours, lying wantonly. Now he happened to be looking at the roof, the white putty walls were mottled, and most of them were gray and earthy. An old lamp hung on it, and the surface was covered with black left by flies, making it look dirty. The nerves that had been tense gradually collapsed at this moment, and the vision couldn't help but become more and more blurred, and the consciousness disappeared.

This night, Gu Chi slept very soundly, until he was awakened by a knock on the door. When I opened my eyes, the light in the room was dim, and it was close to dusk, and I realized that I had slept for more than six hours. He opened the door and found that it was Donnie Yen, and turned back to the bed and lay down again. Zixian handed over a white plastic card, it turned out that when Gu Chi was sleeping, he went to the cafeteria to make a meal card for the two of them. It was already dinner time, and he called Gu Chi out to eat together. Gu Chi Chang woke up from his dream and didn't have any appetite at all, so he shook his head and said that he couldn't go, so Zixian went outside alone to solve dinner. Gu Chi wanted to continue sleeping, but suddenly lost his sleepiness. So, I took out my mobile phone and called home, and briefly talked about the unit. Mom and Dad kept telling me to pay attention to safety and take care of myself when I was alone. When he was at home, Gu Chi had always disliked these nagging, but now that the voice came from thousands of miles away, he felt extremely warm in his heart, and hung up the phone after comforting his parents for a few words.

At this moment, he stood in front of the window, looking at the night view of the county. At this time, thousands of lights are shining, several arterial roads are full of traffic, and everything is still so unfamiliar. It was already hot in his hometown, but it was still slightly cool here, and the breeze was blowing, and he remembered many things from the past, and he didn't know if he would regret his choice today when he got up tomorrow morning. He tried to make himself look less sentimental, and he comforted himself that there were many other people in his companions, even if there was a fire pit in front of him, and there were others who would jump down with him. If it comes, it will be safe. Man's destiny is predestined, how can everything be forced? Let it be, maybe that's the wisest choice.

Gu Chi suddenly wanted to know about the situation on Fanxi's side, so he took out his mobile phone, found the number saved yesterday, and dialed it. After two busy tones, a sweet voice sounded in the microphone: "Hello, Gu Chi." ”

He was a little surprised and said, "Hello, Xixi, you know it's me so soon?" ”

He giggled and said, "Of course, I don't have your number in my phone, you are really a noble person." ”

Only then did he react, feeling that what he was asking was too unlevel, and he was a little hesitant for a while: "Yes, yes, my head is not very good." How is it at the Civil Affairs Bureau? Have you cleared the check-in formalities? ”

Fan Xixi said: "It's been done, this side is not as good as your county government, this year the unit has recruited a civil servant, it seems that I will become a loner in the future." Hey—"

Gu Chi didn't hear the ridicule in her words, and comforted: "Don't worry about the road ahead, no one in the world knows you." Why feel lonely? You see, it's only been one day, and you've gained two friends, me and Donnie Yen. After a long time, once I have more friends, I don't feel lonely. Today, you have also seen in the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau that so many newly hired civil servants, in the past, everyone was 'in the same case', and the relationship was better than relatives. In the future, as long as you are in touch with each other, you will not feel lonely. ”

The other end of the line giggled and said, "You shouldn't say 'we,' you should call 'us,' that's right." You are an ancient poem between the lines, and you are in the same case, I can't even understand what you mean. ”

Gu Chi didn't expect Fan Xixi to point out that he was sick in his words, and he felt a little embarrassed. In fact, there is no difference between the two words in the dialect of his hometown, but now that I taste it carefully, I find that the meanings of the two are really different. was about to thank the correction, but the other party said, "Let's talk again when we have time, I'll go out to dinner with my colleagues in the office immediately, they have to pick me up tonight." Okay, let's not talk about it, I'm urging. Then, there was a busy hang-up from there.

He felt very stunned, in fact, everyone can do their own thing, and suddenly felt that he was a little worried. A burst of urine hit, he hurriedly walked towards the toilet, walked to the corridor and found that the sundries he had cleaned up in the morning were gone, thinking of the Luo Haiwen he had met during the day, and his heart swelled with gratitude. Back in the house, it was dark, he reached for the switch on the wall, and the two fluorescent lamps flashed a few times, and finally only one came on. Looking at the empty walls of the house, I always felt that something was missing. Remembering that he still had a piece of writing in his bag, he took it out and hung it on the wall opposite the bed. He was half-lying on the bed and looked closely.

The three-foot white xuan is vertically written with five big characters "gentle and frugal", the dot painting is crisp and beautiful, the bone strength is strong, and the knot is tight, and it is not a day's work to be able to write the willow body to this part. The upper right corner of the character is stamped with an idle seal, and the lower left corner is stamped with the name and character of the writer in yin and yang characters.

Gu Chi loves this character very much, not only because of the extraordinary skill shown between the lines, but also because of the hand of his own teacher. When he was in college in Jiangnan, he formed a deep friendship with his mentor, and both of them loved calligraphy on weekdays, so they had a close personal relationship. Because of this, he not only gained a lot of professional knowledge in four years, but also benefited a lot from doing things and being a person.

The past is vivid, that summer in July, the whole class was full of sorrow and farewell before graduation. The evening before leaving, in front of the teaching building, the tutor quietly handed him the painting and told him to open it again when he returned. He told Furuchi that this was a work he wrote by himself at night, and he was entitled to a little gift when they broke up. Remember that no matter how difficult the road ahead is, you must take every step seriously, because there are no ifs in life. At that time, the afterglow of the setting sun hit the teacher's face, casting a thick shadow, and that three-dimensional face was deeply imprinted deep in Gu Chi's heart. In this way, he carefully framed the painting as his own warning. Whenever I see the above five words, my ears seem to hear the teacher's earnest teachings.

Gu Chi suddenly remembered that he hadn't practiced calligraphy for a long time, so he quickly got up and went to his duffel bag to find a brush and rice paper. I tossed around and found that I didn't bring it, so I gave up and went back to the bed to lie down. Thinking that a new tomorrow was coming, he became a little passionate in his heart, and fell asleep in a daze in infinite anticipation and beautiful vision. In the middle of the night, from time to time, there was a faint sound of xun, whimpering, adding a bit of desolation.