Listening to the whispered advice of Wu's father and Wu's mother, I thought about my parents and sister who were thousands of miles away, as well as my uncertain fate. Although the heat outside the window was blocked by the car window, the plants hanging on the side of the road and the bright light on the road still made me feel like I was in the heat wave rolled up by the high temperature, and my mood began to get irritated inexplicably.

The car drove for about ten minutes, and Wu's father turned into an industrial zone as soon as he hit the steering wheel, and Wu's mother also took advantage of the situation to explain to us: "Kaikai, Xiaoyuan, we have a very important customer coming over in a while." You've been on the bus all the way, and you were supposed to take you home to rest first. But we're running out of time, so why don't you go to the office and take a break and then go home together when we're done? ”

Of course, I have no opinion on this, Wu Kai also nodded obediently, and naturally we were led into Wu's father's office.

Along the way, people kept greeting Wu's father and Wu's mother, and the sound of "Mr. Wu, Mr. Xie" was exceptionally crisp and loud. Wu's father and Wu's mother also kept responding, always with a warm smile on their faces, giving people a feeling like a spring breeze.

When I saw Wu Kai and I following them, we both asked with puzzled faces whether we were all their children. Mother Wu naturally kept explaining to everyone that the tall one was their child, and I was his classmate.

The workers also reciprocated with kindness and attitude, and nodded to the two of us. By the way, I praised Wu Kai, who was tall and handsome, and Wu's mother naturally stroked her son's head dotingly and kept thanking him.

Wu's office is on the top floor of a small four-story building with the name "Administration Building" written on it, and the outside of the building is a green glass curtain wall. There are two rows of king coconuts planted in front of the building, and when you look at it from a distance, the four-story building is set off incomparably majestic.

The first floor is the company's front desk and exhibition hall, because of the relationship between receiving customers, Wu's father is in a hurry. As soon as I entered the lobby, I anxiously rushed to the front desk and began to arrange the reception. As soon as the gentle and elegant Father Wu entered the state of work, he was like two people who had just been judged. I saw that his expression was solemn, his tone was firm, and there was an unquestionable momentum.

Soon, a few more people came down from the office upstairs and stood behind Father Wu, and only after he finished explaining to the front desk did he whisper something to him.

Mother Wu saw that Father Wu had already started to arrange work, so she turned to me and said, "Let's go, I'll take you upstairs to your Uncle Wu's office to take a rest." When he's done, I'll take you to a big dinner in the evening. ”

After speaking, he led me and Wu Kai in front and led us to the stairs next to us.

The staircase is built behind the glass curtain wall, extending upwards in a spiral shape, and it is just one room up after a turn. On each floor is an office building with a large open door, and in the workstations of small cubicles, a group of workers in blue shirts are constantly busy.

Some are quietly discussing something in twos and threes, some are staring at the computer screen with their fingers flying, constantly tapping on the keyboard, and some are frowning and thinking about something seriously. Every time you go up to the first floor, you can hear a buzzing sound, like a swarm of bees at work.

Mother Wu led us all the way up to the fourth floor without stopping, and I even noticed that she didn't even squint her eyes. He led us to the fourth floor and stopped in front of a room with the chairman's office hanging at the door. Pressing his hand on the fingerprint lock, there was a rustling sound in the door, and then the door opened with a click. Wu's mother pushed open the office door and turned sideways to let Wu Kai and me in.

Inside, you will be greeted by a large desk, behind which is a mahogany chair. On the wall behind the chair is Daddy Wu's own book, "Honesty First", and he once gave me a painting to encourage me. So I recognized at a glance that the "people-oriented" in the back was from his handwriting. The iron pen and silver hook are vigorous and powerful, which is completely inconsistent with his temperament as a weak scholar.

And when my eyes swept to the opposite wall, I was simply startled by the scene in front of me, the whole wall was a large bookcase filled with jagged books. is different from the hardcover tomes placed by the big bosses on TV, there are all kinds of books in Daddy Wu's bookcase, colorful and uneven. It seems out of place with the luxurious decoration of the office, and even a bit of a scenery distraction.

Mother Wu saw me staring at the "book wall" with my mouth wide open in a daze, and said angrily: "These are all books that your Uncle Wu has read over the years, let him throw them away and be reluctant, all put them here, and guests don't dare to bring them to his office when they come." How I cleaned him up also looks like a mess, and now I just don't care about him, let him go. ”

Mother Wu's words shocked me even more, I have read them all, there must be three or five thousand books on this wall, and Father Wu has actually read them all. Sure enough, like Father Wu I know, although he went to the sea to engage in business, he has a book business spirit in his bones, and books are his best partner.

"Kaikai, Xiaoyuan, you just take a rest here, I'll ask them to buy you something to eat and bring it over, you eat first. If you are sleepy, lie down on the sofa, no one will come into this office, and you don't have to worry about making noise. The customer will arrive in a while, and I have to go down to receive it, and the customer can't slack off when he comes for the first time. We hurriedly nodded and agreed, and said that we would take care of ourselves and let Mother Wu go about her business. Mother Wu glanced at the watch in her hand, and she was also anxious, so she didn't stay anymore, turned around and opened the door and walked out, and took the door to us again.

I walked over to the couch against the wall and sat down, not quite recovering from the irritability I had just had, and reached into the pocket of my pants and pulled out the crumpled cigarette case. I took out one and was about to stuff it into my mouth, but when I saw the environment of the office, I hurriedly took the cigarette from my mouth.

Wu Kai watched my movements, smiled softly, took an ashtray from the executive table, and put it on the coffee table in front of the sofa. Then he snatched the cigarette from my hand, lit it to himself, took a hard puff, and gestured at me.

Seeing that I was still hesitating, I took the cigarette case in my hand again, took out one and handed it to me, and said, "Smoke, it's okay, my dad smokes himself, what are you afraid of." ”

Hearing him say this, I put on the cigarette and took a deep breath, trying to calm my emotions. But the pungent smell of the cigarette made me cough incessantly, and finally tears flowed down my eyes.

Wu Kai saw my embarrassed appearance, and asked me puzzled: "Why are you doing, I won't rob you, are you so nervous?" ”

Without explanation, I struggled to adjust my breathing and put the cigarette back to my mouth. With a faint smell of tobacco rushing up to the end of the nose, the brain fell into a brief void, and then the consciousness of the whole body seemed to be taken away in an instant. The whole person felt a sense of relaxation, and his emotions slowly calmed down.

I don't remember when I started to like smoking, but the first time I smoked it has always been firmly engraved in my mind. When I was about five or six years old, my neighbor my age mysteriously gathered our little gang.

Then he took out a pack of "silver firs" from his bosom like a baby, and gave one to everyone in the adoring eyes of all of us. Then he took out a box of matches from the pocket of his pants and carefully scratched it on the wax skin, but probably because he was too nervous, he didn't scratch it several times. In the end, I couldn't help it, and I lit the match and lit the cigarette in my mouth under the expectant eyes of my friends.

Like an adult, he held the cigarette between his two fingers and put it on the side of the road and took a deep puff. Then there was no more, and the smoke rushed into my lungs in an instant, and before I could react, I was so scorched that tears and snot came down. There was a burst of laughter from everyone, and then a friend who couldn't bear it snatched my cigarette from my hand and lit it with his cigarette butt.

He also passed the cigarette into his mouth with his index and middle fingers as I had just done, and with my experience, he was obviously much more careful, just took a shallow puff, and was also choked and coughed.

Then several friends tried it one after another, and the results were all choked without exception. In the end, after discussion, everyone agreed that it was the friend who stole the cigarette that stole the fake cigarette that led to the failure of the cigarette stealing operation. Everyone's curiosity about cigarettes was stifled by the smell of cigarettes, and I lost my curiosity about cigarettes for many years afterward.

Smoking again should be something after meeting Wu Kai, and I still remember the first night I entered the high school dormitory. After everyone returned to the dormitory, Wu Kai took out a pack of "Soft China" from his luggage, and then gestured to the six people in the dormitory, and asked, "If anyone smokes, take it yourself, you're welcome." In the future, everyone will be brothers in the same dormitory, and they will be blessed together. ”

There were six people in the dormitory, from six different junior high schools, and on the first day of school, they were somewhat uncomfortable. But Wu Kai's move undoubtedly shortened the distance between everyone in an instant, and it was not surprising that all five people reached out to the cigarette box handed out by Wu Kai. After a few minutes, the dormitory was full of smoke, and the distance between the six had been narrowed considerably.

Because of the first time I lived in the dormitory, I was still anxious, but because of Wu Kai's good start, I also settled down. Since then, I have started my career as a smoker under the leadership of Wu Kai, an old smoker.

Compared with Wu Kai, an old smoker for many years, I, a novice who has almost no addiction to smoking, is already a great good citizen. This guy is so addicted to smoking that sometimes he can't sit still in a class, and when he meets a talkative teacher, he has to run to the toilet to "take drugs" under the pretext of going to the toilet.

Later, with my earnest teachings and the joint efforts of the living expenses at the end of each month, his smoking addiction was gradually curbed a little. And after Dad Wu knew that I helped him control his smoking addiction, he did not hesitate to praise me.

Now his addiction to smoking is basically the same as mine, smoking is just for fun, passing the time by the way to pretend to be cool, play handsome or something. Especially this guy vomited a good smoke ring, and it became a good story in school, and even the teacher asked him to perform his "stunt" in private.

As for the time when I liked smoking, I can't remember it, anyway, I smoked it one after another for three years, and suddenly I found that I liked this kind of feeling that can make the brain lose control in an instant. And because of his contribution to Wu Kai's tobacco control, the part of the cigarettes he got rich naturally became mine, and it didn't add much burden because of smoking.

At this time, there was a knock at the door, Wu Kai got up and opened the heavy door, and I looked in the direction of the door. Behind the door stood a tall, thin girl with a plastic bag of snacks in her hand.

When he saw Wu Kai open the door, he smiled and said to him: "You are Wu Kai, Mr. Xie just asked me to order takeout for you, but you may have to wait for a while, I have some snacks here, you can eat some mats first." ”

After speaking, he handed the plastic bag in his hand to Wu Kai, Wu Kai took the plastic bag and thanked him, and the girl turned to leave.

Before Wu Kai could close the door, a scream with a lowered voice came from outside: "Wow, it's really handsome, even more handsome than Mr. Wu." ”

Hearing this, I already know in my heart that this guy is really the object of being watched by girls wherever he goes. When I went to school, from time to time, my sisters and sisters came to our classroom to inquire, and their performance was exactly the same as the girl just now.

We've long been unfazed by this, and when I look at him, this guy doesn't forget to flick his hair with his hand. I raised my right hand and showed him my friendly middle finger, and he kindly threw the bag at me.

When I opened the bag, I was shocked by the array of snacks inside, from the time Wu's mother went out to the time when the girl came in with the snacks, it took less than five minutes. Even the cigarette we had just lit in our hands was still smoking, and we looked at the types of snacks, biscuits, chocolate, spicy bars, candy, and two red Fuji, a few bananas, and a few boxes of yogurt.

Obviously, this is not just out to buy, so the origin of these snacks is self-evident, and these little girls have also made a lot of money in order to see the face of this big young master.

It's also a familiar scene, when I was at school, my desk was always filled with all kinds of snacks from the forty-one classes of the school. Wu Kai doesn't know if it's to keep in shape or for other reasons, he has never been very cold to snacks, so he can only cheapen me.

I didn't say anything polite to him, I took out a banana, and it was rare to use my hands, so I bit off one end with my teeth and stuffed it into my mouth.

One day and two nights, in addition to parking twice in the service area to go to the toilet, I also stopped once in a remote village where I couldn't even navigate. When I got out of the car, I was really shocked, and I wondered if I was in a black car, and I instantly went through all the stories about black shops that I had read before.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt that the store in front of me looked like a black shop in the story, because I came at night, and I couldn't see anything outside in the dark. But there was not even a single house with lights on along the way, obviously not in front of the village, and there was no store in the back.

When we got off the bus, there were already four or five buses parked inside, and the passengers on the bus all got off the bus, talking in small and low voices. The men had a cigarette in their hands, and the women went to the toilet in groups of three or five.

The only good news is that the people around me speak in a strong country accent, which gives me a little comfort in my hanging heart. Fortunately, none of the things in the story happened, and the only thing that scared my heart was the fast food for 50 yuan and the instant noodles for 30 yuan.

Wu Kai and I took a look at the black vegetable pot and the vegetables like pig food, and finally gritted our teeth and held on. Along the way, I relied on a few bottles of drinks and a few cans of eight-treasure porridge bought in the small shop at the station before getting on the train, which would have been so hungry that my chest was pressed against my back, and I didn't care about my image.