Ai Xiang put down the phone, stood in the corridor and pondered for a moment, then turned around and walked into Yu Mei's office.

Yu Mei was flipping through a newly published magazine "Frontiers of Latest Technology", and a large pile of books and materials were spread out on the desk in front of her, looking like she was thinking about something. Seeing Ai Xiang come in, he looked up at him, Ai Xiang hesitated, Yu Mei looked at Ai Xiang's appearance of wanting to speak and stopped and said with a smile: "What's the matter that is not easy to speak?" Go ahead. ”

Ai Xiang said truthfully: "Sister Mei, a friend I met in Banshan Temple asked me out, I want to go out, the data you gave me, I will sort it out when I come back in the afternoon." After thinking about it for a while, he added: "There are some things that I haven't fully figured out myself, and my brain seems to be full of all kinds of irrelevant thoughts, which are indeed a bit messy, and it takes time to sort them out slowly." After thinking about it, I'll talk to Sister Mei again. ”

Yu Mei put down the magazine in her hand and looked at Ai Xiang with a tired face: "I just want to tell you that in addition to engaging in scientific research, you can't be opportunistic, and sometimes you even need to stick to a path to the dark, in terms of life, no matter what problems you encounter, don't be too serious and calculating." You should know that you should turn when you should turn, and you should let go when you should put down, and you should not put too much pressure on yourself. Because excessive mental stress will not bring you good results, but negative consequences of physical and mental exhaustion. Under serious circumstances, this kind of negative consequence will damage physical and mental health, and will cause people to slowly fall into depression. ”

Ai Xiang felt that a ray of sunshine shone into his heart that had been dull for a long time, and there was a kind of warmth that made a crack appear in the ice deep in his heart, and the confusion in his eyes gradually dissipated. "Sister Mei, I understand." Ai Xiang's gaze stayed on Yu Mei's gentle and smiling face, and on her white cheeks, there seemed to be no trace of being entangled and tossed by the years, and she still looked young and beautiful, containing infinite vitality.

Ai Xiang knew that Yu Mei had experienced the failure of her marriage and the twists and turns of her career, but in his eyes, he had never found her to show any frustration, not even a little bit of grief, let alone any depression. I only saw that she worked diligently for her academic and career, and she never slacked off.

If it weren't for Yu Mei asking him to dispose of her wedding photo, he would never have known that the negative man Yu Yan had paid a lot for had left her. Yu Mei is such a person, she will not be entangled in the past, she will only be busy with tomorrow's things wholeheartedly, and she only has tomorrow in her eyes.

Ai Xiang also asked her about the family with concern, why did she give up so easily, she just smiled and said: "That doesn't belong to me anymore, since that's the case, why be nostalgic?" Besides, all this has happened in the past, and it has proven that this is something not worth cherishing, so why give up? Like the experiments we've done, if the data has proven to be wrong, why keep doing it? Why continue to experience that process of failure? Why not choose to start over with a new experiment? ”

"yes, why can't you start a new experiment again?" Ai Xiang asked himself in his heart. Only with new experiments can there be new hope.

In a sense, life is also a process of continuous experimentation, since we can allow and accept failure in the laboratory, why can't we accept the failure of various experiments in life? Why can't we have a normal mindset of scientific inquiry in the laboratory when facing people and things in real life? Why is it that after encountering various failures in life, it is difficult to let go of gains and losses, and it is unwilling to stop losses in time?

Walking out of the building of the appraisal center, looking at the bustling and lively traffic on the street, Ai Xiang naturally remembered the tranquility of Banshan Temple. He thought: We need not only a rich material life, but also a spiritual world deep in the soul. A life without a spiritual life is poor, a poverty in the depths of the true soul.

As long as there is a pure land in your heart, your soul can attain a tranquil super-energy. This kind of tranquil energy can allow you to face the impermanence of the world, the rights and wrongs of the world, so that you will not get lost in the rolling red dust, and will not indulge in all kinds of temptations and troubles.

After Ai Xiang returned from Banshan Temple, in addition to burying his head in the laboratory, he locked himself in a rented house and slept with his head covered, or wandered aimlessly with his eyes open. He seems to have become a recluse living in a modern city, and although he walks through the flow of people, his mind wanders outside the city. Now, he walked out onto the street again, as if for the first time he had discovered beyond the office building a lively world full of the smell of fireworks and worldly temptations.

Ai Xiang walked out of the office building according to Li Yulian's words, turned right and went west, and after walking through the street park, he saw the red store name plaque of "Roast Pheasant on the Edge of the Mountain", Li Yulian was already standing outside the store, smiling at Ai Xiang who was looking around, as if he felt that he was just a mountain man who had just stepped into the city and looked at the street scene everywhere.

"Isn't it fun?" Li Yulian is still like when Ai Xiang first met her, wearing a red cardigan and a pair of black trousers, looking tall and long.

Ai Xiang narrowed his eyes and looked at the mountain girl in front of him again, her clear eyes were both honest and shrewd, and her young and ruddy cheeks showed the unique health color of mountain people. A simple and classical makeup that does not lack fashion elements looks simple and capable, making people have a pleasing aesthetic feeling.

Ai Xiang said with emotion: "Mr. Li is really fun, and he is also very good at playing, in your hands, doing business is like a child playing at home, and he moved such a good-looking and delicious roast chicken restaurant from the mountains to the city while playing." It's so much fun, haha. ”

Li Yulian wanted to laugh but couldn't help it, deliberately covered it with her hand, bent slightly to Ai Xiang, and then stretched out her left hand to make a gesture of invitation to the store: "Guest officer, please, welcome, our store will definitely make you feel at home and feel the different smell of fireworks in the mountains." ”

Ai Xiang walked into the store with a smile, and the waiter in charge of welcoming guests at the door immediately bent down and signaled, "Guest officer, please, welcome." Then another waiter stepped forward and asked to take Ai Xiang to find a seat. Li Yulian smiled and waved her hand, signaling them all to retreat: "No need, this is my guest." ”

Ai Xiang looked around the newly renovated shop, it looks about 100 square meters, although not spacious, but bright, the booths are all made of primary color wood, the wall is just right to arrange some decorative paintings, the choice is a stick figure made of charcoal on the wooden board, most of them are pictures of mountain life, but also some mountain scenes and portraits.

The whole environment creates a different kind of mountain living scene, Ai Xiang can't help but think that being in such an environment, enjoying a delicious meal of roast pheasant-based mountain delicacies can indeed make people appetite and make people forget to return.

Ai Xiang found that there were no more vacant seats in the dozens of booths in the store, and five or six young waiters dressed like Li Yulian were busy, and he could see at a glance that the business was booming. It's not lunch time yet, and it's not a legal day off, but in general, barbecue restaurants have the best business in the evening, because it's a time for people to relax after being tired, and as you can imagine, business is definitely more buzzing in the evening.

"Sir, do you want to eat?" A little girl who looked to be no more than eighteen or nineteen years old and dressed as a waiter took the initiative to ask when she saw Ai Xiangdong looking curious. Li Yulian glanced at her and said with a smile: "He is my guest, I will arrange it myself, you go and do something else." The little girl hid her face and smiled, and hurriedly went to work elsewhere.

"I still have to wait for someone, so you have to wait patiently first. Let's go and sit in my office first. Li Yulian said mysteriously.

The office that Li Yulian said was just a narrow space on the side of the stairs that was originally stacked with miscellaneous items, less than three square meters. A desk, smaller than the booth in the hall, occupies half of the room, and two chairs of the same original wood are placed against the wall, leaving no extra space.

Li Yulian smiled and said, "How is it?" My general manager's office is big enough to be magnificent, right? Ai Xiang nodded with a serious look and said, "Well, this is the most luxurious office I've ever seen." The two looked at each other and laughed.

There was a set of delicate purple sand tea sets on the desk, Li Yulian lifted the teapot and poured a cup of freshly brewed camellia for Ai Xiang first, and a wisp of fragrance immediately filled the small space, making people suddenly lose the sense of oppression brought by the small space.

"This is home-grown camellia, can you taste it first and see how it tastes?" Li Yulian looked at Ai Xiang.

Ai Xiang took a shallow sip, savored it carefully, then took another sip, sniffed the wafting aroma, and then took three sips before saying seriously: "Well, it's really good tea." It's a little different from the last time I drank it at the store in Mid-Levels. This tea is very bright, and the tea flavor is mellow and sweet. There was a hint of bitterness at first, but after tasting it again, I tasted the sweetness, and now I feel the fragrance in my mouth. ”

Li Yulian pointed to a tea can made of bamboo on the table, and said with a smile: "I prepared a little tea for you, it can be regarded as your sister, hey, it is better to call me little sister according to the name you gave me, I am not used to calling my sister myself, and it can be regarded as your reward for accompanying my little sister to lunch." ”

Ai Xiang couldn't help laughing again: "You were originally a little sister, a rich little sister." ”

Li Yulian said happily: "Call it whatever you want, I don't know why, you always make me feel a sense of intimacy." It's a bit of a special feeling, and I can't tell you exactly what it is. Listening to you and looking at your expression, I naturally have this experience in my heart. Do you think it's weird? Then he said, "Let's go upstairs and have a few private rooms upstairs." ”

Ai Xiang didn't seem to hear what Li Yulian was saying, just stared at the photo on the wall behind her, and asked as if in a dream, "Why do you have this photo too?" ”

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