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"Cheers—" A group of young people toasted around the round table.The boss placed a large plate of sharp spicy crayfish in the center of the table.Seven or eight people ate with their eyes shining, and each of them screamed because of the spicy food.

Lu Xin looked at the few edamame shells in front of Li Yichu, stuck out his tongue and asked him, "Why don't you eat crayfish?"

Li Yichu: "I'll eat some pan-fried dumplings first. I haven't eaten for a day, and my stomach is flat."

Xiao Fang, who was sitting on Li Yichu's right hand, smiled and said, "Brother Li, are you very nervous today? I didn't see you eat the lunch box at noon."

Li Yichu smiled: "I've never signed such a big contract before, of course I'm nervous."

Lu Xin watched him raise his eyebrows and smiled, thinking that Shanghai is really the right place.

After eating something, Li Yichu went to another table to toast, exchanged some pleasantries with everyone before returning to his seat, and opened his stomach to eat.

Full of wine and food, everyone, you support me and I take yours to the roadside to take a taxi. Li Yichu and his male colleagues sent a few girls into the taxi, and then stopped a car to go back to his home.

Li Yichu leaned on the passenger seat of the taxi, squinting at the colorful street lights on the roadside, the cool night breeze blowing in front of him made his half-drunk brain seem to wake up.He and Lu Xin came to Shanghai four years ago, and they lived together in an old residential area in the suburbs. Last summer, Lu Xin found a girlfriend and moved out to live with him. Li Yichu moved out and rented a small apartment of [-] square meters in another community. live alone.

When I get busy, time flies like water, as if it was just a matter of getting drunk, four years have passed, and eight years have passed.

There was a regular meeting on Monday morning. Li Yichu drank alcohol last night and overslept accidentally in the morning. When he hurried to the company, several team leaders were heading to the meeting room on the fifth floor with their notebooks.Li Yichu glanced at his watch, there are still 10 minutes left before the meeting, why are you so active?

He grabbed a passing team leader and asked, "Is today's meeting brought forward?"

Team leader: "As the vice president said last week, today's regular meeting is held by the general manager. Brother Li, have you forgotten?"

Li Yichu was busy signing the contract last week, and had long forgotten what the vice president had said. Now he reminded him that today's regular meeting seemed quite formal.He went to the office to get his notebook and hurried upstairs to the conference room.

General manager Chen An's office is also on the fifth floor, and the transparent glass blocks the voice of people talking inside.Li Yichu passed by the general manager's office with a notebook in his hand. From the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the man in the office who was talking to Chen An. The man's back was facing Li Yichu, and his body was mostly covered by the office chair. He turned around uncontrollably, and when he wanted to see more clearly, Lu Xin pulled him into the meeting room from the side: "It will start soon, what kind of stake are you standing here?"

The weekly regular meeting is attended by leaders above the team leader, and it has become a customary rule for everyone to sit in their own fixed positions around the long round table.Li Yichu was pushed to the seat by Lu Xin, and he pressed his fingers on the case of the notebook, typing nervously.

Five minutes later, Chen An and a handsome man walked into the conference room, and introduced to everyone with a smile: "This is the technical director transferred from the Beijing headquarters, Liang Xuan. Welcome." After speaking, he took the lead in applauding.

Liang Xuan looked around at the people present, then smiled lightly and said, "I would like to ask everyone for your advice in the future."

"Sit." Chen An pointed to the seat on the right for Liang Xuan to sit down, and continued: "Director Liang is very prominent in the business of the headquarters and has also worked abroad, so the head office asked him to come to us to help us with technology. Let’s raise the level of the company, and later we will explain the current work situation and Director Liang one by one, so that he can have a preliminary understanding. Or we can follow the old rules, and the product planning department will come first? Manager Li, tell me .”

Li Yichu was sitting on Chen An's left hand side, his whole body was already lost in thought, when he was suddenly clicked by Chen An, he was startled: "Huh?"

Chen An smiled: "If you're not ready, why not tell Liang Xuan about the project you just signed last week?"

Li Yichu opened the notebook stiffly, and coughed before speaking: "This project was approved on July [-] this year, and it took two months..."

Liang Xuan spread out the notebook, took off the fountain pen clamped on the cover, turned the cap of the pen back to the end of the pen, lowered his head and began to memorize what Li Yichu said.

Li Yichu's eyes fell on his right hand holding the pen, holding the pen in exactly the same posture, and also put the cap on the end of the pen.

——Why do you always lose the cap of your pen?Let me tell you, every time you write in the future, put the cap on the back of the pen so that you won't find it once you finish writing.

When did you say this?Sophomore or senior?I don't remember clearly.

"Manager Li?"

Li Yichu was called out softly by the colleague on the right, and he recovered from his stupefaction. When he looked up, the whole table was staring at him strangely.Li Yichu looked at his notebook again: "I just said...uh..."

Forgot to say where.

Li Yichu was about to flip through his notepad and start talking again, when Liang Xuan on the opposite side calmly said, "You said that your original design prototype referred to foreign websites."

Li Yichu quickly said: "Oh yes, let me continue, this website..."

After stuttering, 10 minutes had passed, and Li Yichu was still looking at his notebook with his eyes down.Chen An asked Liang Xuan: "Is there anything unclear about Director Liang?"

Liang Xuan: "No, let's continue."

Chen An: "Okay, let's talk about it next, Manager He from the Operations Department."

The employees of Internet companies are generally young, but there are only department managers here, and they are basically over 30 years old, so that Li Yichu and Liang Xuan, two people in their twenties sitting in front, seem out of place.

The meeting lasted for more than two hours. Except for the product planning department, every department manager's report was highlighted by Liang Xuan. With Furui's tone of voice and flat expression, the questions he asked were irresistible. of precision.After just one meeting, everyone knew that the young technical director transferred from the headquarters was not in vain.

After the meeting, Li Yichu went downstairs with his colleagues. His office was on the fourth floor. The entire planning department, including 23 people including him, occupied a site of more than 200 square meters. The manager's office was in the corner.After Li Yichu entered the office, he lowered the blinds to block the sight of the outside world, and then sat behind the desk in a daze.He had an unreal feeling, as if everything today was imagined by himself, but it didn't actually happen.

Just as this thought flashed through his mind, he twitched the corner of his mouth in a self-deprecating manner.The memories that usually floated in his mind suddenly disappeared at this moment, and he could only see Liang Xuan's mature and calm face just now.It doesn't seem to be much different from the person in memory, but it feels different everywhere.

Someone knocked on the door, Li Yichu let him in, the group leader came in with the materials to discuss with him, Li Yichu clenched his fist and brought himself into the work.Since then, people have come in and out one after another. On the Monday after the project just ended, it was always spent in various summaries and new arrangements.

Li Yichu still stayed in the office until almost ten o'clock before finishing all the work arrangements. After closing the office door, he took the elevator to the garage to drive his second-hand Hyundai.

At this time, the parking lot was empty, and at a glance, only two cars were still parked there.

Li Yichu's car was parked at the far end, and he walked in with his computer bag in hand. When he passed by the car next to him, the lights of that car suddenly turned on.The dazzling light made Li Yichu subconsciously look into the car with his hand.

Liang Xuan sat in the dimly lit driver's seat, examining him motionlessly.

Two people, one in the dark and the other in the light, looked at each other through the car window without speaking, as if several years had passed.

It's just that in the past days, Li Yichu was the one who was in the dark, which was the exact opposite of this moment.

After a long time, Liang Xuan got out of the car, walked up to Li Yichu and stretched out his hand: "Long time no see."

Li Yichu shook hands with him: "Long time no see."

Liang Xuan leaned against the hood of the car: "Don't come here without any problems?"

Li Yichu smiled: "It's okay, how about you?"

Liang Xuan loosened his tie with his hands, and after a pause for a few minutes, he opened his mouth and said, "What do you think?"

Li Yichu used to be afraid that Liang Xuan would talk to him with a half-smile, and now it is even more so.He glanced at Liang Xuan's car logo and said, "It looks pretty good."

Liang Xuan: "It's not bad. I used to be afraid of being poor, and I worked hard to make money when I started working."

No matter how stupid Li Yichu was, he could understand the meaning of his words. The past events flooded into his mind instantly without even thinking about it. Li Yichu turned and walked to his car. He could not stay here and talk to Liang Xuan, not even a word.

Liang Xuan looked at the figure from behind, and stopped him when he was about to get into the car: "Li Yichu."

Li Yichu's hand stopped by the car door.

"In the future... happy cooperation."

Li Yichu opened the car door and sat back in the car. At that moment, he wanted to just drive away from Shanghai. He admitted that he had thought about seeing Liang Xuan again countless times, but when he did see him, he instinctively just wanted to stay away. , other than that, there is no retreat, no future.