Chapter 3: Suddenly this summer
I took a step and walked into the building, where I needed to swipe my card to enter the elevator. Akikiyono was waiting for me at the place where the card was swiped. The management here should be quite strict. Access is restricted to staff from the building. The floor of Aki Kiyono's studio is 28 floors. Half of the office is for the design department, and a small area is for the promoters. The whole office has a strong sense of line under the dress of these designers. Whether it's the placement of the desk, or some decoration on the wall. The visual sense is very good. A large area of floor-to-ceiling windows gives you a view of the people and cars coming and going in the city. Very comfortable working environment.
"If you're willing to come to work, this is the place for you. I thought about it, you should like this position," Akikino gestured to the left. A desk by the window. The sun poured in halfway. There are also some succulents on top. I looked at a few desks nearby, almost every one of which had a representation of the owner of the location. Jazz music was playing in the office similar to the one in his car that day. There is also a burst of coffee aroma. This seems to be the work environment I've been waiting for for a long time.
"Can I ask you why, why did you choose to hire someone as unprofessional as me as your assistant? Aren't you afraid that you will be recruited to eat rice?"
"Everyone who can become a boss must have a unique vision for discovering talents, and being able to recruit is also an indispensable condition for success. That day, I saw you in the café Weibo and saw the decoration design, software cover design, photography, plus you have also learned a little, I think you are also very hard-working, if you meet a good Bole again, you should be able to achieve something in this area, interest is the best necessary for success. Human potential is limitless. If you don't try it, who knows if you have the treasure I want, and I trust my vision. ”
"Okay, since you think I can do it, then I don't need to deny myself more, then thank you boss, please give me more advice in the future"
In just a few minutes, I was inexplicably able to start a new job. In the early days, my job was actually very simple, when I had nothing to do, I would steal the technology from the seniors in the office, and when they were busy, I would need to send their designs to the client via email and WeChat, asking if they needed to be modified. The need for revisions is to learn more about their ideas and then communicate them to the designer. Then there is the bureau of accompanying Qiu Qingye to deal with various Chongqing local tycoons. Some just really make money just for the sake of making money, and start speaking in tongues as soon as they are happy to drink. Non-stop drinking. Chongqing is very bold in drinking beer. If you twist and turn on the matter of drinking, most of the time you can't talk about it. When encountering this kind of situation, Qiu Qingye will always suffer a lot of crimes. But because of the fact that there are many encounters in such a bureau, Qiu Qingye's alcohol consumption has also increased rapidly over a period of time, and my task is not only to bring the contract, but to take it out at the right time to find a chance to sign it, and the rest is to be responsible for sending the drunk Qiu Qingye safely to the car of the substitute driver. There are also some who are really rich and have experience in the workplace. These people are relatively easy to deal with, and everyone only talks about business at the wine table. If you need to drink, that is, when you are happy to talk, you will touch a glass of wine, and then you will continue to talk, and you may have signed a contract, and you have not finished drinking a bottle of red wine. These people know very well that although alcohol can help the fun, drinking too much will always hurt the body. Earn so much money if you don't have a good body to spend it slowly. It was a shame that I struggled in my youth. It doesn't matter what the bureau is. Akikino never let me drink too much. For a while I wondered if I had become a secretary. But when Akikino occasionally talks about design in meetings, he asks me if I have any good ideas. After thinking about it, I guess I didn't work hard enough. So it's still stuck in this identity that you can only take other people's documents. A month still flies very fast. Qiu Qingye successfully completed the work in Chongqing and is about to return to Shanghai. He came to me a week in advance to talk about it. Asked me if I would like to go to Shanghai, he arranged it. Qiu Qingye was leaving, and his colleagues helped him hold a farewell party. I learned that Aki Kiyono turned out to be the CEO of this company. It was he who started the company with his brother. Specifically, it should be his younger brother who studied design abroad and wanted to open a design company, so he took out his funds to help his younger brother open a joint venture in Shanghai. Of course, the big head must have come out of his own. But his younger brother found a Chongqing girlfriend. Had to stay in Chongqing. So Qiu Qingye came to Chongqing again to help his younger brother get the Chongqing branch on the track. His younger brother is now in Shanghai to take over the job. When Qiu Qingye returns to Shanghai, the two of them will exchange cities for work.
I thought about the person Qiu Qingye. It's really good. Very nice and even perfect person in every way. Although this person is his younger brother, a man who is successful in entrepreneurship can give others what he has worked so hard to build. It is true that this kind of behavior will add a lot of points to his character.
Wendan once asked me if I liked him after spending so much time with him.
I thought about it. I can't tell whether it's appreciation or liking. After contact, I have a good impression of him. But I'm always wondering if it's a person of this age who has a lot of problems when thinking about feelings. It feels like Qiu Qingye is like an enhanced version of Chen Sheng. Have a more stable job and have a better source of income. Has a more mature character. Everything seems to be perfect. But I don't know why, it's just something missing. It's just because something is missing, so I can't take this step. Even if you know that you missed it, it is no longer easy to find. Even at this age, when I see my friends around me getting married and having children, I want to find someone who can quickly become a family. But I still seem to be looking forward to love.
The farewell party of Qiu Qingye here in Chongqing. My colleague said enviously beside me. It is a blessing for them to be able to go to Shanghai.
I just laughed when I heard it. And there was no sound. For me, the reason I went to Shanghai was more to avoid my mother's daily frenzied urging to get married. I can understand my mom's thoughts. After all, when I see some little couples and babies in my heart, I will also think briefly that it would be nice if I had a family, but I also know it. I'm not a complacent.
"That's right, Mu Qing. Didn't you ask me to inquire about the accommodation in Shanghai, two days ago I chatted with a colleague in Shanghai, I heard that there is a colleague in Shanghai who is also from Chongqing, and then chatted for a while, and found that he is still a junior high school with you, I don't know if you know him. If you know, you can have one more fellow in the past, and the two of you can take care of each other," Lu Xiaohuan sat next to me with a drink and chatted with me
"yes, do you know the name?"
"I know, his name is very easy to remember, but the latter word is not easy to write. I don't know how his parents remembered to give him this name, his name is Xiao Xuan. Do you know each other?"
It's been too long since the name "Xiao 㒎" has appeared in my life
"Mu Qing, Mu Qing?"
"Well, I'm sorry," I shook my senses and continued to listen to Lu Xiaohuan
I heard that he had just been transferred from Wuxi to Shanghai. I was also admitted to the university in Wuxi from Chongqing before, depending on your reaction, is he your classmate?"
"Well, yes, junior high school classmates"
Hearing this name that was engraved in my heart, the memories that were suppressed in my heart came back again.
Some of the people who have been obsessed with it turn out to be many years later. When we were young, we regretted not being able to make the brave choice, and many years later, God would probably reward us for such infatuation, and would secretly put the opportunity in our hands again. But how will we make choices when we grow up? Choose real life or unfinished love. I've thought about this question countless times.
I sat in the room with the lights off and looked out the window. It's 3 a.m., and I haven't had insomnia for a long time.
When I was sober, I didn't dare to seriously think that Xiao Yu could appear in my life again. For so many years before, I tried to contact him repeatedly, but there was no reply. I've been forced to accept the fact that I really don't have anything to do with him. But now, so many years have passed. It's almost time for a reincarnation to pass, but he appears again.
Look at the itinerary reminder on the app on your phone. Tomorrow's flight time to Shanghai. My heart began to get tangled. Still a little scared. I haven't been so messed up in a long time. It's been a long time since I've had such a strong upheaval and fall.
I clicked on the interface to make the call and called Wen Dan. I'm going to talk to her. I need a sober person to give me a suggestion. Wen Dan's reaction to hearing this was obviously much calmer than mine
"At three o'clock in the morning, you called just for this? Go on. You weren't going to go to Shanghai in the first place. And haven't you always wanted to know why he disappeared?" Wen Dan's voice on the phone was still like waking up from a dream.
"I'm a little scared" When I said this, my voice became smaller and quieter
"No, Xia Muqing, when you don't have a chance, you want to see him in your dreams. Now that I have the opportunity to work with him, and I have the opportunity to know why, you tell me that you are afraid? ”
"yes. You're not afraid. After all, I tried to contact my family for more than four years, and people have never paid attention to me, so I may not be able to get an answer if I appear in front of him so boldly, and he will still ignore me when the time comes, I am not more embarrassed, and have you forgotten the last time I went to Wuxi, I haven't tried"
"Then do you want face or do you want answers, doesn't he know that you liked him before? If you are afraid that he will hate you, then you should simply not go, live in your own imagination every day, and then think of more reasons for yourself, why he ignores you, and then just live your life like this. Wen Dan asked, I was almost a little speechless.
"This happened to me, and if it were you, you would have to listen to me, and it was all too fast. I'm not ready" "Everything you feel fast, Qiu Qingye asked you to go to work, you feel fast, now it's been almost five years since I met Xiao I, you have a chance to ask him why. You still feel fast. Xia Muqing, when did you become so cowardly, then you should prepare. Prepare to wait until Xiao Yu gets married and has children, and then see if there is so good luck, you wait until he divorces, and then prepare. Let's see if we can have a twilight love. ”
I don't speak. Listening to Wen Dan's shouting, I don't know what I think in my heart. I wanted to discuss this with her, but now she has counted me down. "If you don't speak, then I'll sleep, and in the middle of the night, whether you want to get through it or not, don't bother me anymore. Xia Muqing, as your friend for so many years, I give you a word of advice. I know you too well, believe it or not, if you can't let go of Xiao Xuan, or this time you coax, you don't do it once according to what you think in your heart, you don't think about getting the love you expect in your life. Because there is only one protagonist in your beautiful love, that person is Xiao from beginning to end. That's why your relationship over the years has never ended well every time. You think it's someone else who is not suitable. But in fact, no one can really live up to the standard in your heart, think about it yourself. Goodbye"
Wen Dan hung up the phone directly before I could open his mouth, listening to the busy tone on the phone, I became even more irritable, I threw the phone aside, and buried my head in the bed. Sleepless night. I was thinking about everything in my head, but I didn't come up with anything specifically. But the next morning I showed up at the airport as scheduled. Because Wen Dan got up early in the morning, ran to my house and dragged me out of bed.
Sitting in the waiting room, there were planes taking off and landing non-stop, and I never left Chongqing for a long time from the time I was 8 years old to the age of 25. I've been living in this city, and after being too familiar with it, I don't have much passion. Every day is a fixed three-point line. Maybe I really change places, maybe, I ask the answers I want, and I can find a better and newer self. That's what I thought and hoped when the plane took off.
But it's not about changing places and having a new beginning, meeting the people you want to meet, and doing the work you like more. Can you really slowly finish all the bad life tracks? Actually, I didn't know it in my own heart. My personality is always afraid of the unknown and making the results worse in advance.
The plane flew for two hours to Shanghai, and in just two hours, my new life was about to begin. When I arrived in Shanghai with Qiu Qingye, I followed him to the company by car, and when all the employees went out to greet him, I saw Xiao Yu. Standing tall at the back, he was still so conspicuous. Just like five years ago, standing in the crowd, a lot taller. Qiu Qingye said a simple hello and asked them to go back to work. I stopped. Let Qiu Qingye go to work first, saying that I just saw an acquaintance and wanted to go and say hello. Qiu Qingye didn't ask much, just said that if there was a problem, call him. He went up to the dormitory with his own and my luggage.
When Qiu Qingye walked away, I walked around. I found a stool and sat down.
Just now, Xiao Xuan appeared in front of me so suddenly, without warning, that I couldn't take a step away from my nervousness. I hid in the car and looked at him through the window, not daring to blink my eyes, for fear of blinking, which became an illusion of exhaustion after too long on a plane.
Thinking about what just happened. Now my heart is still pounding, when he appeared in front of me just now, only a few steps away, I was afraid, now that he is gone, I want to see him again. I sat on a stool. For my toss-and-turn entanglement, I was upset and restless. Before I met him, I had imagined countless times what it would be like if I saw him again. There will be somebody. Even in the spring, summer, autumn and winter seasons, my makeup is dressed up. I've thought about it all. So many years have passed. I didn't forget him, but I had more and more thoughts in my head. When it's serious, even playing with my phone, or running to catch the bus, or eating breakfast with wolf, at any beautiful or embarrassing time, I will suddenly think that at this moment, if he appeared in front of me. What should I do, but the funny thing is that I haven't seen him until I have so many thoughts that have been filmed in the TV series. At that time, I just felt that the world was too big. That's why I couldn't touch him. After a long time, my hopes were disappointed so many times that I even felt that I would never see this person again. He'll only be in my memory forever. It wasn't until time allowed him to blur his features and memories of him in my mind, and I could only remember him again by looking at the few pictures we had. As time passed, in the end I could only remember one of his names and how I felt about him in my heart.
But today, when I thought I wouldn't see someone again. Or at least someone who isn't ready to meet right now. Suddenly, he was able to stand in front of me with a sound and movement. Even if you have been prepared, you are still caught off guard.
"After sending this document, you can go directly to the place set by the fat man, and you won't have to run back and forth."
"Okay, Brother Xiao."
"If there's anything you don't know, just send me WeChat, pay attention to safety"
"Okay, then I'll go first"
I was still sorting out my thoughts, Xiao Xuan and a boy who was a head shorter than him walked out of the office building one after another, Xiao Xuan typed quickly on the mobile phone. The shorter boy was checking the contents of the file bag, and neither of them noticed me. I unconsciously stood up and followed him. Step by step, walk carefully. I don't dare to get too close, and I don't want to get too far away. When he leaned a little sideways, I nervously ducked behind a tree.
Although I had an irrepressible urge in my heart, I never dared to take another step. The heart beats strongly under the palm of the hand. I don't know if it's excitement or anger.
Another boy got into the car, and Xiao Yu continued to take out his mobile phone and type and walked back to the road he had just come. I walked around the tree next to me and continued to follow him.
But I didn't expect him to turn around suddenly. Stand two meters away from me and face me head-on. He looked me straight in the eye with a smile on his face. There is tenderness between the eyebrows and eyes.
I looked at Xiao Xiao in front of me and was completely blinded. My mouth felt like I was being covered and I couldn't breathe. There was a stiff body left. I was still sweating on my head.
That road is not wide. I stood in front of him and blocked his way. He looked at me and smiled first.
"May I ask you what's the matter? Who do you need to find?" he didn't seem to recognize me
I can't move my feet. Unable to speak, I looked at him and shook my head. Still standing tense in front of him.
"Then I'll borrow it, thank you" I looked at him. I still can't say a word about what I want to say.
"Ma'am, can you let me pass for a moment?"
After all the efforts I still couldn't speak, I finally lowered my head again, and turned sideways as I had last seen him. Let him walk away from me. His back disappeared behind the office door.
When we met again, I couldn't say a word in the end, and I lowered my head and wiped the tears from my eyes with the back of my hand.
"Xia Muqing, it seems that you are really cowardly, it seems that others have completely forgotten about you"
I sent a message to Aki Kiyono and turned around and walked towards the dormitory.
In the evening, I walked into the private room side by side with Qiu Qingye, and the side of Xiao Ying came into my eyes again. I watched him talk and laugh with the men and women at the table. I even drank liquor. There is a difference between what he sees in his eyes and what he remembers, and what he saw four years ago. He looked at Qiu Qingye and got up in time to greet him.
"You, aren't you the one in the afternoon? It turns out that you are a friend of Mr. Qiu," the person next to him shifted his position. Leave the middle position to Aki Kiyono. The position on the right next to Qiu Qingye is his younger brother, and the empty position on the left is next to Xiao Yu.
"Have you seen it," Qiu Qingye asked Xiao and me after sitting down. I didn't say anything more and nodded slightly
"Well, I saw you briefly in the afternoon, and she was at the door of the company. It just so happened that Li Zhong and I went out and saw her, and when I asked her, she didn't speak, so I went in. It turns out that you are here to find Mr. Qiu, so why don't you say it?"
"You must have scared other people's little girls. You see that no one else dares to sit down next to you, and you don't make a sound."
"Can I look uglier than you?"
He still didn't recognize me. We've really been apart for too long, and we've changed too much. Maybe he doesn't have me in his memory anymore. I stood by and pestle for a long time. I pinched my own fingers hard.
Akikino heard the sound and discovered my abnormality. Stand up and hold my shoulders. He asked softly, "I thought you were greeting them, why don't you sit down?" Isn't it too stuffy in the private room?" I shook my head. Trying to pull out a smile.
"Is that not used to so many strangers, or is it too long to sit on a plane?"
"I'm fine"
"It's rare to see Mr. Qiu so caring and gentle to a woman. Is this the rumored Xia Muqing of the Chongqing branch who attracted you to Chongqing and was reluctant to return to Shanghai? I can hear Xiao Xuan and Xiaoqiu say that the beauties of Chongqing are all open. Why, is it scary to see too many of our men?"
My name was said by a drunk, red-faced man at the table. I quickly glanced at the man with some horror, and subconsciously looked at Xiao Xuan. He also looked at me with some surprise in his eyes when he heard my name. From that time when he said goodbye, to now, almost five years. In exchange for less than five seconds of eye contact between me and him. However, Xiao Yu quickly regained his composure. He stood up and smiled at me again, smiling brighter than he had been in the afternoon. The pair of dimples on his face were exposed. It's like the way I saw him smile on my first day in junior high school. He held out his hand to me, "No wonder I feel familiar, long time no see, old classmate." Come on, come on, sit, I haven't seen you for so many years. I didn't expect you to mix so well now. I made a girlfriend in Wuxi, Shanghai for so long, you just came, and found our so good, talented and rich handsome Mr. Qiu, really congratulations, I just transferred to Shanghai, then I have to ask my old classmates to take care of me" After speaking, he picked up a glass of wine and drank it all. Then he sat down and continued to talk and laugh with others. It seems that the change in his mood in the few seconds just after looking at each other is like my own delusion, and the feeling he looks at me and laughs is like really just seeing an old friend who hasn't seen him for a long time, but for more than four years, he has not replied to the messages I sent him. How could he just greet me so casually? I looked at him, and the grievances in my heart for so many years swarmed at this moment
"Yo, you two really know each other, that's really a fate to meet thousands of miles away. I didn't expect Mu Qing and Xiao to be classmates" The man who had drunk too much just now walked towards me with a glass of wine, and before he finished speaking, I took a glass of liquor in his hand and dried it up. The man looked at me with wide eyes, and I couldn't say anything after drinking, and my throat ached. I also felt a breath in my chest. Breathing heaved and the entire ribcage ached. Qiu Qingye handed me a glass of white water, and I took a sip to recover.
"It seems that the beauties of Chongqing are really as bold and unpretentious as the legend. I like it. Okay," the man took the lead and applauded. The people at the table applauded
"Come on, I was a little out of shape just now. I'm going to take a lap of the wheel now. Big brothers and sisters, pour good wine into the glass. I started from the right, I can't ruin the image of Chongqing beauties in your hearts" I took two bottles of Jiang Xiaobai and started drinking from his younger brother next to Qiu Qingye. Jiang Xiaobai said on the bottle. May you be able to hold back your tears and smile at the past, Qiu Qingye pulled me, and I glanced at him with a smile, "It's okay, you still don't believe in my drinking." "Then don't force it," I had a drink with everyone. After a round and more than a dozen people, only one bottle of Jiang Xiaobai was dried. I don't usually drink liquor, and I can't stand it after drinking a bottle on an empty stomach. The stomach is turning upside down, burning and hurting.
When I walked next to Xiao Yu. I put down the bottle that I had already drunk. Open another full bottle and face him "Xiao 㒎." My old classmate, I didn't expect you to forget me. But that's okay, I won't take it to heart. In the future, you will have to take care of me more, after so many years of friendship, I can't do anything with a glass of wine, I have a bottle dry. You are free" I took a bottle of Jiang Xiaobai and touched his wine glass lightly, and then without saying a word, I directly dried up the whole bottle. After it dried, my stomach couldn't drink or eat anything.
"It's been too long to fly today. It's a little uncomfortable, I have to go, I'm sorry everyone, I'll go first, wait a few days, I'll invite everyone to eat" After speaking, I ran out of the private room crookedly with my bag. Leaving the hotel and hugging a tree, he began to vomit. Qiu Qingye chased after him, still holding a bottle of water in his hand. A pack of paper.
One of his hands was gently placed on my shoulder, and the other hand slowly patted my back.
"I'm sorry, I didn't find out sooner, he and you, is it ....." he said this, and I knew that he knew why I was like this.
"No, I'm just old classmates with him"
I pushed him away. I sat on the side of the road and bit my lip desperately. I became irritable. My heart was full of anger.
Why is it such an encounter? Why even if they met at the wrong time. Why can't I stand by your side when I grow up? Why are you showing up again. Why, even though I know that none of this will change, I still have to come to you without giving up.
I crouched down with my head down, I didn't want to talk at the moment, I didn't want to face anyone.
Thinking back to the scene just now, I don't know whether I was sad or felt hurt my self-esteem, my nose was sour, and my heart was full of grievances. Xia Muqing. Why didn't you wake up sooner? Why deceive yourself? You think you can handle it. As a result, it's not a mess. And someone else has a girlfriend now. No one else remembers you anymore. You're the only one who stays stupidly where you are. You think that when you come to Shanghai, there will be changes. Don't be stupid, nothing. Nothing.
I pounded the floor next to me with my hands. Punch after punch hit the ground. It's as if the harder I try, the more I can smash the luck that is still growing crazy in my heart. A whole decade. I still haven't forgotten you.
Akikiyono took my hand and held my hand in the palm of his hand
"Don't do this to yourself, it's not your problem"
I still kept my head down, clenched my fists and didn't speak
"I'll send you back to the dormitory, or I'll book a ticket to accompany you to Chongqing tomorrow."
"No" As soon as he finished speaking, I turned my head and hurriedly rejected him. Firm attitude. I saw a flash of disappointment in his eyes
"I'm sorry, I...
"It doesn't matter. Let's go. Since you don't plan to go back to Chongqing, I'll send you back to the dormitory, so let's have a good rest today," he helped me up and walked towards the Mercedes-Benz that I had driven in Chongqing
"Did you send it back too?"
"I'm just like you, I'm a long-term person," he said, opening the door and helping me fasten my seatbelt. He drove smoothly. It's still the jazz music I heard in Chongqing. He didn't say anything all the way. It wasn't until I drove downstairs to his company's staff dormitory that he sent me to the door, helped me open the door, and handed me the key, that he spoke. "Although I don't know if this incident will make you sad or happy. But I guess I have to tell you. Xiao Zheng's dormitory is across the street from you, and he lives here alone. Also, I sent a message to Wendan and she will call you later. If there's anything you can't say to me, you say to her, don't hold back. You're not familiar with the environment, I'll pick you up tomorrow morning. Good night" After saying that, Qiu Qingye didn't stop any longer and left.
About half an hour or so, just as I was crackling and scolding on the phone with Wen Dan, I received a long WeChat message from Qiu Qingye on my phone
Yu Hua wrote in "Alive":
Nothing is more convincing than time, because time can change everything without notifying us.
Time has passed, and no one can reverse it. Forget about those who can't get it, and forget about those helpless things.
Time is indeed cruel, but it is also gentle, it takes away something, and it will give some compensation.
As you walk, you will find that the dishes you once hated tasted good; The nasty person turned out to be not so bored either; What makes you so anxious that you can't sleep is not so difficult when it comes to the end......
The past cannot be looked back, and the years never stop.
Loved, lived, and experienced is the best reunion.
Not afraid of the future, not thinking about the past is the most beautiful response to time.
The rest of your life is long, don't panic.
Don't look back, don't dwell, don't miss the old.
After two minutes, he sent another sentence, don't look back, don't entangle, don't miss the old, that's what Yu Hua said, what Qiu Qingye wanted to say was that if you really can't let it go, then do whatever you want, I will wait for you.
I forwarded these two paragraphs to Wendan. Wen Dan sighed after reading it. I asked her what she sighed for. "Sometimes I think God is good to you," she said. Chen Sheng was also determined to be good to you at that time. Your stinky temper really can't stand your parents and me, but someone else Chen Sheng has really spoiled you for three years. Although I have to quarrel with you. But in the end, he relented. Now an autumn Qingye, from the way I saw the way he looked at you when I met, I knew that he liked you, and he was good to you without regrets. You're a non-professional, you've never done it before, you are offered such a high salary, you are taught by hand, and you are taken to Shanghai. Take care of you. I almost didn't put you in the palm of my hand, and now that I know Xiao Yu, most people can guess what's going on, even if I know that you are taking advantage of others, others don't say a word about you but let me comfort you. But sometimes I feel that God is not good to you and always asks you to do multiple-choice questions. One is the one who loves you and he longs to marry you, and the other is the one you love and has been thinking about marrying him for ten years. If it were me, maybe I would choose to love me, so it wouldn't be too hard, but it's hard for me to say about you."
"What should I do?"
"Didn't Qiu Qingye say, accompany you back to Chongqing, others don't want to have a career for you, but are you willing to come back, and haven't you fantasized with me countless times, if you meet Xiao Xuan, what will you do, what are you doing now, the opportunity is in front of you, you have been waiting for almost five years. You don't have that many five years in your life. Hey, I'm really convinced of you, I'm anxious when I look at you."
"Think about it. I thought about it, "This time I didn't wait for Wen Dan to finish speaking, and hung up the phone first."
The way I consolidate my memory of you is by repeatedly flipping through the sixteen photos that there are few. I won't forget how vague you are in my memory. I've met too many people in more than four years. Your appearance seems to have overlapped in my memory. You'll always be in my dreams what you were when we were students. There are a lot of things that are too old for me to remember. It's a little strange to see you again now. Maybe it's really me who left it alone in my memory and didn't want to come out.
Write this text in the circle of friends that can only be seen by yourself. I left a small lamp and went to sleep. But strangely, I slept unusually peacefully this night.
When I woke up the next morning and opened the door, I saw Qiu Qingye quietly leaning against my door with coffee and sandwiches. Maybe he got up too early, and he didn't tidy himself up too well. It's a bit more casual than usual. Wear a loose suit with sneakers. Wearing a thin-rimmed black glasses. Some of my hair is not as good as I usually comb. Lazy and lazy on the head. He looked a lot younger.
"You, so early, why didn't you send me a WeChat message saying that you were here?"
"I'm afraid to wake you up, it's okay, I've just been there for a while. Breakfast was brought to you, now hurry up, we can still go to the cafeteria for a meal"
"Good"
I walked slowly in his footsteps, keeping my head down.
"Look at the road. Rest assured, they have already gone to the office" Hearing his words, I let go of my constant fear, dared to raise my head and looked at the road next to me seriously.
When he arrived at the cafeteria, he first found a vacant seat. I took out the milk, tore the sandwich bag and opened it in my hand, and then went to the window to get my fingerprints and got the ordinary breakfast handed by the staff and sat next to me, eating it with relish, I looked at him, and saw that the milk and sandwich were still hot in my hand. I can't help but feel a little warm in my heart. Qiu Qingye in front of him is really a person who can take care of people.
"In the future, you don't have to go out of your way to buy breakfast. I'm used to eating."
"Okay, I was worried that you would miss breakfast in Chongqing, but I didn't expect me to worry too much"
"Actually, breakfast was pretty much the same. But I've never seen a boss who is so nice to his employees in all my years of work. Your building has five floors, one floor is a place for employees to eat, rest and entertain, and two floors are accommodation. Two floors of offices. Most of this is for employees, so you should invest a lot."
"It's true that the five-story building was actually renovated from an old building that I bought. It cost my dad and almost all of my assets to get this thing in front of you. However, providing employees with a comfortable working environment and better living conditions will allow employees to have better energy to do their work. I'm very adamant about that. And my persistence also proves that I am not wrong. I paid for this investment in a few years. I think it's a good deal. Didn't feel like I had anything to lose. Instead, I feel like I'm here. I myself singled out the elites one by one. It has become a great asset to me. It can create more and more benefits for me than tens of millions. We all have outstanding talents and brains. These are things that no amount of money can buy. And empathy, if I am from another place and come to a strange city, I still need a lot of living expenses. I won't give up on my boss's career. So since I invited someone else, I have to be responsible, and I can provide better conditions. Those guys will give me a better reward. Everyone can be in a comfortable environment, without intrigue, and full of positive energy every day, which is really my work state that I like very, very much. It can also reduce the probability of being poached, hahaha. Maybe my boss is a little different from others. Hahaha. ”
Qiu Qingye's words almost didn't stop, and I couldn't help but feel that every day I came into contact with him seemed to have subtle changes. It's unpredictable.
"Am I talking too much at once?"
"No, I'm just thinking that you're so successful, shouldn't you be a treacherous and mean boss, will you be too honest with your employees in that big paragraph just now, tell me everything clearly."
"Then don't you think these words look like lines copied from a TV series?" he said, with a childish look on his face. I shook my head at him.
"I believe you are a big tyrant, so you can be rich and willful" After saying that, I lowered my head and continued to eat my breakfast. I'm still thinking about the question I haven't figured out since I met Aki Kiyono. Why is such a good person just let me meet.
Akikiyono's company name is Nodo Design Studio. As for the name, Qiu Qingye said that he didn't have any ideas, just a combination of his brother's name and his own name. It doesn't take too much brains, it's the customers who need to spend their brains, and they need to leave some brain cells to do useful things. But in terms of decoration, it is not so casual. The office building is mainly divided into two parts, the first floor is the reception room and rest area of the front desk, the second floor is the exhibition of some former works, the third floor is the office area of designers and promoters, and the fourth floor is the office of personnel personnel, conference room, pantry, dining and leisure area. The fifth floor is the office of the boss's partners, and I haven't successfully transformed into a designer yet, so I'm still Akikiyono's assistant. Of course, my office is next to him. Xiao was just transferred from the Wuxi branch to the Shanghai headquarters. His office is on the third floor, so there's little chance of encountering it. I can honestly say in my heart that every day is tangled. I hope that at some moment, I can meet it, and I pray that I will never meet it. Coming to the office became something I hoped for and feared at the same time.
The elevator went straight to the 5th floor, and Qiu Qingye got out of the elevator and entered the office, and he was very busy when he just returned to Shanghai. Before he returned, his secretary in Shanghai had already arranged lunch and evening dinners every day for the week. Whenever I see his secretary's resolute style, I always wonder what I do. His achievements in recent years have made him appear in front of people like a group of dark horses. The big bosses of all walks of life continue to invite him. At that time, I didn't know why the CEO of a design and promotion company would be liked by so many bigwigs in Shanghai. I can only say that there are still too many things on Qiu Qingye's body waiting for me, including his employees, to dig up and discover. Of course. I didn't have a chance to eat in the cafeteria at every meal. followed Qiu Qingye and his secretary to walk in the private rooms of major hotels. Except for a hurried glance that day. Xiao and I are just like we did before we reunited, and nothing has changed. After work, I went back to the dormitory with Aki Kiyono. I've never touched it, and I can only hear the sound of the door closing from the other side. The only thing that should be related is that there is a common group in DingTalk and WeChat. But that's the general group of employees. Each design group has its own group. We still don't have any intersections. Didn't meet. Nothing happened.
After coming to Shanghai, I finally had the opportunity to make an appointment with Tang Lei for afternoon tea after being busy for a while. Wei Yin was a college classmate of mine, but only had contact during my freshman year. The feelings are not deep or shallow. Later, a few days before she was about to leave for Shanghai, she got in touch. After chatting a few words on WeChat, I learned that she resolutely gave up her job as a teacher in Chongqing because her boyfriend was in Shanghai, and although she struggled for half a year, she finally decided to go to Shanghai for the development direction. At that time, I admired her courage. felt that she dared to try a new life, instead of having to get by, but when she talked about it, she was full of helplessness. She said that if she had encountered this at a young age, she really wouldn't have struggled with it for so long, and it was a big deal to fail and start all over again, but at this age. I can't think things are so optimistic. But no matter how reluctant you are, you can't help it, after all, the overall development of Shanghai is better than that of Chongqing. It was impossible for her to get her boyfriend to give up his job in Shanghai to develop in Chongqing, so she had to go to Shanghai.
She came to Shanghai earlier than me, she is more familiar with it than me, and after I arrived in Shanghai, she quickly sent me a WeChat message saying that she would come out together on the weekend to catch up. When I get older, I really start to know how to cherish every friend around me.
Watching Wei Yin walk over in professional clothes and stepping on high heels. I got up from my seat. gave her a big hug as she approached.
"It's really a special kiss to see old friends in a foreign land, you didn't have such affection for me when you were in college" Wei Yin teased me as soon as he sat down
"Of course, I also know an old friend of yours in this city. If you don't give you my enthusiasm, will you keep it in my heart and burn myself?"
"You're finally talkative now, not as hard as you were at school."
"Hahaha, how many years have you been graduating, if you haven't changed a little, it's not Bai Chang's age, how is it, how are you doing in Shanghai now?"
"That's good. When I first came, I was very uncomfortable, except for the work experience in Chongqing, the resume was blank, and the salary for coming to work was not enough to pay the rent, but fortunately my boyfriend subsidized me a little, otherwise I might not be able to persevere. What about you?"
"I'm working in an advertising agency now, and the pay is pretty good. There is a dormitory with meal allowance, there is not much cost, and life is okay"
"Then you are much luckier than me, you don't come to Shanghai to suffer"
"It's okay, luck. Didn't you say you were preparing for the exam on WeChat before?"
"yes. I'm too busy for this. I've been working here for a year now, and I can't get up. To be honest, whether you can increase your salary or not depends on this time."
"When the time comes, please remember to be rich and noble, and don't forget each other."
Wei Yin and I didn't even have time to eat dinner at this party. In the middle of the conversation, Wei Yin was hurriedly called back to the meeting, and when he left, he didn't forget to tell me that this is what it is like to struggle in Shanghai, and he needs to be ready to work overtime at any time.
At the time, I didn't know if I was wrong or what, but I always felt that the way she said this was actually enjoyment, and she enjoyed the sense of fulfillment that her current life brought her.
I thought that life would be so uneventful, until Thursday, the WeChat of the work group kept popping up on my phone screen one by one, and the frequency became more and more frequent. There is me and Xiao Tsu, it should be the second time I meet Xiao TÒ and his girlfriend.
"It's the end of the year. It was another bumper year. Last weekend, although we unfortunately sent Xiaoqiu to Chongqing to develop, but also ushered in two new colleagues, I hope the boss can open his wallet tomorrow night to welcome the arrival of new colleagues. Raise your hand to come. "The initiator is a man called Fatty. Go out to eat with Qiu Qingye every day. I didn't have a lot of face-to-face meetings with my colleagues on the third floor. I can't even name some of my colleagues on the third floor. But because he is the only fat man in our company, I can still match his name with his appearance, and the others are still a little vague. Akikiyono in order not to embarrass me when others greet me. Every time, I will take the initiative to add someone's name and say good morning. Then I repeated what he had just said, after hearing him say it. But I don't know how I can't remember. Even so, he always reinforces my memory every day in this form, and he always says, it's okay, take your time.
Open WeChat, and the group's chat screen is full of emojis of raised hands.
In less than five minutes, the fat man sent a few words that were passed by all the staff. Finally, a few minutes later, I added, by the way, Xiao Yu's girlfriend will also come. There are also some staff who will bring their families, don't mind talking, I'll tell the boss in advance, lest I say that I, the dead fat boy, has eaten one more person, and I don't carry this pot.
Akikiyono made an OK gesture. And so it was settled. I don't know if I should go to such a party, I always feel that it is not good not to go to the company when I first come to the company, and I feel that I went to see Xiao 㒎?? 's girlfriend may get out of control again.
I opened WeChat, typed words on the keyboard, and chatted with Qiu Qingyekou inappropriately.
"I've just come here, and I've participated in two dinners, what is the standard of one person at your dinner?"
"Nothing to relate to. Everyone can eat and drink as much as they want, and the most important thing is that everyone is happy."
"When I used to work in Chongqing, our boss stipulated that we could only have dinner once a month, and the standard of 50 fast for one person was 50. It seems that your net worth of more than 10 million is not completely plagiarized from the lines in the TV series."
"That's why I'm more successful than your boss," he added, with a cute expression. I deleted the words that I had typed on the screen one by one. Don't talk nonsense. Xia Muqing is 25 years old. Do you still need someone to help you make a choice? And you also want to ask Aki Kiyono. Turn off WeChat. I held my head up, a little distraught.
Sometimes I really don't know much about Aki Kiyono. When I first got to know him, I always felt that he was mature and stable. Later, when I got in touch with him, I realized that he was a more interesting person than our age, and he could always live his life the way most people imagined it in their minds. Perhaps a person's life situation really stems from his own character, whether it is success or failure. Follow him for this short period of time. It's really changed a lot for me. Previously seen in the book. Living with a good person will make you better. Truly. Now I have finally found fulfillment in 25 years of life. Satisfied with the nature of the work, satisfied with the salary, satisfied with the place where they work, and even satisfied with every colleague who works. He brought it all to me out of the blue. I really thank him from the bottom of my heart. But I also know something special about me. It's just that whether in Chongqing or Shanghai, he didn't ask me about the problems between us alone. Thinking of this, I slapped myself hard.
Xia Muqing, what is the difference between you and some of the women you scolded. Eating from the bowl and looking at the pot. I picked up a pile of papers and continued to work to escape the matter. Since I'm only here tomorrow, I'll finish today.
When it was time to get off work, Qiu Qingye came out to turn off my computer after tidying up today's work, saying that it was time for dinner. Pulled me out of the office. In the car, he said that he would never force everyone to work overtime, nor did he advocate everyone to work overtime, so everyone left when they arrived. He said that what overtime could give was often worse than he thought. When the brain gets a good rest, it can create a better imagination. The longer I worked with him, the more I realized that he was really a model of a conscientious boss. I don't know how much he is worth now, but I believe that his way of working will definitely make him rich for the rest of his life.
In the evening, after eating. On the drive back, he didn't ask for my opinion about tomorrow's meeting. I didn't take the initiative to mention it. I'm a little weird. Why didn't he mention it. But after thinking about it, what's the use of bringing it up? Is it because of me. Is the employee dinner also canceled? After arriving, they said goodnight to each other and went back separately. He lives in the same building as us, but the room is bigger than the room. Because he added a desk to his room. Although he does not encourage employees to work overtime, he sometimes works on some documents in his room. This is what I saw when I went to his room to borrow something on the first two days of my arrival.
When I returned to the room, I couldn't bear it anymore after swiping Weibo and swiping the circle of friends, and I sent a message to Wen Dan about tomorrow's dinner and told her. Even though I knew my problem she couldn't solve it. Sure enough, she said, you can do it yourself. And then there was a ride that didn't come back. After a few words, I gave up talking to her. I thought I could handle it well, but I didn't expect that night I still had some insomnia. When I couldn't sleep, I remembered the party Hussen had organized after graduating from high school a few years ago. At that time, I didn't dare to go. Later, I regretted it too. But if I were to go back to that time, even if it was my current age, let me choose again. I'm not going either. I'm such a timid person. Whether it's when you're studying, or meeting four years after graduation, or meeting again now. The distance between us has not been shortened by time. I was scared to see him. I'm even more afraid to see his girlfriend. It's the dead of night, and I only dare to tell myself the truth.