Pokémon: World of Wonder

Chapter 321 Asking about the world

While half asleep, a strange yet familiar ringtone rang in his ears. Jiang Ye opened his tired eyes, took a few breaths as if he was terminally ill, slowly moved his weak body, picked up the phone on the cabinet and turned off the alarm.

What is this? A smartphone?

After unlocking the phone with fingerprints, Jiang Ye turned on the camera and switched it to the front camera. He had a medium-length haircut, deep eye bags, and a pair of eyes that seemed energetic all the time, but were actually as cold as a corpse.

I stretched, got out of bed, and went to the bathroom like a zombie to wash my face and brush my teeth. Looking at my ordinary self in the mirror, I realized that the dream I had last night was really long, and I almost couldn't wake up.

Can't wake up? Maybe that's not a bad thing.

After brushing my teeth, I picked up my phone and took a look. Is today Wednesday? Looks like I have to work overtime again.

7.42, oh no, I’m going to miss the next subway.

I quickly got dressed, grabbed a steamed bun and a steamed bun from the breakfast shop downstairs, and rushed into the subway station. After much haste, I finally squeezed into the subway car during the morning rush hour.

Boom, boom, boom. In the carriage filled with a faint, indescribable smell, Jiang Ye was bored and spent time swiping on his phone. Although he subconsciously wanted to ignore the 99+ in the work group, he forced himself to open the message.

After entering the group, there was a group notification waiting to be received. Jiang Ye clicked it and found that it was the schedule for next week's adjustment of holidays. It turned out that the project would be launched next week. It was hoped that the testing and maintenance department where Jiang Ye was located could work hard or something.

In general, they are told not to rest on their only day off, and they are told that they will be praised once the project is launched.

Of course, there was no overtime pay, no overtime subsidy, no five social insurances, and no employee benefits. The company only gave Jiang Ye some basic salary and a basic salary that was nominally overtime pay.

But in this era, this is already a very good company. At least, it allows Jiang Ye to sit in the office and have a meal at the same time.

Sitting in the office, this is the vision that his parents, who are engaged in manual labor, have longed for for many years.

I struggled to squeeze out of the subway, got out of the subway station, walked through the steel jungle to an office building that looked very high-end, and waited in a long queue with the workers on other floors to get the elevator.

The elevator stopped on the 24th floor. Jiang Ye walked out alone and turned left along the familiar road. This entire floor was contracted to four companies, and Jiang Ye's current company was one of them.

Jiang Ye clocked in at the time clock machine at the door, which looked like it was from the last century. With a "bright" smile on his face, he greeted the girl at the front desk, then put his things at his workstation and took out a banknote.

Turning around and walking into the conference room, many people had already arrived, but the team leader of their department had not arrived yet. They were all chatting and bragging out of boredom, and Jiang Ye joined them very smoothly.

What is the most important thing when you are out there?

Jiang Ye has known this since elementary school. He has to learn how to form cliques and factions while not giving all his secrets to others.

You treat others as true friends, but only they know whether they treat you as a fool or a sucker.

Jiang Ye’s few real friends now are only two or three junior high school classmates and seven or eight high school classmates. Jiang Ye classifies the others as people who only have interactions for interests and work.

After receiving the part of the work task he was assigned, Jiang Ye returned to his workstation with the indicators and started working non-stop.

Although the work documents seem complicated and numerous, in the eyes of Jiang Ye, who has been working for more than a year, they are just some work like screwing on an assembly line.

However, Jiang Ye worked very slowly, and even had to go online to look up information from time to time. When he entered the company, a senior who had worked with him and has now resigned once warned him.

You get what you pay for. If you hire people with banana money, you will only hire monkeys.

Compared with his colleagues, Jiang Ye controlled his workload very accurately. No matter how busy he was every day, his work progress always remained the same, neither going up nor down.

In this way, he can spend more energy on things he likes after get off work.

I started working at 8:30 and worked until 12 o'clock, which was actually nothing. The afternoon was the really hard time, from 1:30 to 5:30, and finally I worked three hours of free overtime.

Jiang Ye dragged his tired body out of the office building. Looking back, he saw that many floors of the office building were still brightly lit. An important day of his life had just passed in this way.

After looking at the fast food restaurant downstairs which was already a bit nauseous, Jiang Ye chose to go back home and make two packets of instant noodles.

I went home and finished some unfinished work on my home computer. I turned on my favorite game live streamer and started playing the same game while watching the live broadcast.

After half past ten, I washed up, went to bed, and curled up in the quilt to read a novel until I fell asleep completely near the early morning.

My life is almost repeating the same thing over and over again. Occasionally, my parents will call me and ask me why I don’t go find a girlfriend.

Jiang Ye always dealt with this question reluctantly, because he was very frugal with his own money, and having a girlfriend depended on whether he had the financial resources.

But parents always don't understand, thinking that the children they "carefully" nurtured will definitely do well in society, so what's wrong with having a girlfriend?

Of course, they don’t know that their children, after studying for more than ten years, can only be a dispensable part in the lower class of society that can be optimized at any time.

In this big country, there are more than 10 million young people who just enter the society every year. How many of them can really make it? About one in ten thousand.

The real big men, when they find that they cannot make it in life, return home and follow their parents to inherit the family business.

Those who farm should just farm honestly, those who run a company at home should just be bosses honestly, and your life is determined by your birth.

The world seems very big, but young people who have nothing have only a few choices. There are many kinds of life, but most people will not choose more than three.

It's National Day again this year, and my father called me and asked, "Aren't you coming back for this National Day?"

"The company has not arranged any holidays and is working as usual."

"Why don't we have a holiday on National Day? Is it a replacement holiday?"

Even though he was criticized every day when he went to work and came home, Jiang Ye still patiently replied, "Well, they said we'll have one more day off at the end of the month."

"Then you can take a leave early at the end of the month and come back. I have contacted a family at home and their child is willing to come and visit."

Faced with this unquestionable tone, Jiang Ye reluctantly responded, "I'll ask if it's okay."

"If you want to ask for leave, can't you just tell me? He won't let me take leave?"

His father has never worked in a company. He learned skills on construction sites when he was young. Now he is a freelance worker who takes jobs in his hometown and can make time for it whenever and wherever he wants.

Although he didn't know how other parents were, Jiang Ye's parents, especially his father, always treated him like a three-year-old child and never took his words to heart.

Even though he had said it more than a hundred times, Jiang Ye still patiently said, "If your leave request is not approved and you don't go to work without permission, it will be considered as absenteeism without reason and you will be fined. If you stay absent for a long time, you will be fired."

"Anyway, you can come back once this month, and then we can go to their house together."

"it is good."

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Ye felt a sense of suffocation, as if an invisible noose was hooked around his neck, suffocating him and trapping him in breathing, which was torturous and painful.

A hard-earned day's rest was destroyed by a phone call. Lying on the bed and looking at the white ceiling, he felt a little breathless.

I can only close my eyes and use sleepiness to relieve everything.