bedtime counseling

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Returning to the night market with heavy steps, the boss had already cleaned up the mess, and when Liang Ze came back, he didn't say anything, just snorted coldly: "Get the plate."

Liang Ze didn't react immediately.

He stood there, his eyes fixed on the lively scene at the door, and he nodded after a while.

"Forget it, let's go wash your face and change your clothes. Who would dare to eat dishes that are as dirty as a beggar..."

The boss drove him away again.

The bathroom is messy, full of cigarette butts, mops, and vomit.

Turning on the rusty faucet, the blood on the back of his hand was washed away.Liang Ze bowed his body, turned his head to let the cold water directly splash on his cheeks, and his tightly closed eyelashes were washed into a mess.

It took him a while to turn off the water, lifted his shirt, and wiped his face with the clean side.

It's still three o'clock to finish work tonight.

When sweeping the floor, Tang Miao, the cashier girl, yawned again and again, and when she swept to a corner, she yelled, "What is this?"

There was a plastic card on the ground, she picked it up and looked left and right: "Haohan Consulting...Wu Ke, who left the badge here, hey!"

A hand behind snatched the sign.

"You scared me!" Turning her head to see Liang Ze, Tang Miao, who was about to get angry, patted her chest.But Liang Ze didn't even look at her, his eyes were firmly locked on the small work card in his hand.

Wu Ke in the photo is very energetic, not smiling, but not serious, just so faint.The shirt on his body was different from the one he was wearing tonight. It was light blue, very formal and neat, and the knot of the tie was also very full.Even his appearance may have been photographed for a long time, so he is younger than tonight, closer to the appearance in Liang Ze's memory, both modest and calm.

The sudden heartache almost knocked Liang Ze down.

Tang Miao was a little startled by his expression: "You...are you alright?"

He shook his head, carefully rolled up the work card together with the rope, and put it in the pocket that fitted him best.

Back in the staff dormitory, everyone rushed to take a shower, and it was almost dawn when it was his turn.

Here is two rooms and one living room, four people live in one room, bunk beds.Liang Ze's bed was close to the corner and farthest away from the window.Hearing the snoring around him, he lay quietly for a while, but he still couldn't hold back, and took out the work card from under the pillow.

Just one glance.

Just take a look.

With the faint light, the people in the memory overlap with the photos.Liang Ze lowered his hands little by little, and the photo was getting closer and closer to the tip of his nose, so close that he could smell the smell of plastic.

He kissed Wu Ke with trembling lips.

One touch away.

He also knew it was embarrassing.

After kissing, he put the photo on his chest and opened his eyes to look at the gray ceiling.It is obviously empty and blank, but there seems to be something sinking in the atrium, filling it up bit by bit.

After a long time, Liang Ze tilted his head and turned his face to the wall, the pillow was very wet soon.

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At noon the next day, he was woken up by the sound of playing cards.

Even though the boss made repeated orders not to allow gambling, everyone left their hometowns to work, and they usually have no other entertainment except playing cards together.Because Liang Ze didn't participate every time, they often said behind his back that he was difficult to get along with.

Liang Ze got up in a daze, and opened the door to let the people outside keep their voices down.

The one who likes playing games the most is called Chen Junbo, and he is always dissatisfied with the way his boss teaches Liang Ze the skills.He held a cigarette sideways in his mouth, staring at the cards in his hand without even lifting his eyelids, "Hey, wake up? Your butt doesn't hurt, does it?"

There were six people sitting or standing in the living room, all of them glanced behind him intentionally or unintentionally.

Liang Ze's face changed slightly, and he became sober in an instant.

"What do you mean."

Chen Junbo sneered and puffed out a puff of cigarette, and squinted at him through the white mist, "It's nothing interesting, I'm just envious. Why don't those people come to touch me, I also want to earn some money to buy cigarettes."

The others finally couldn't help it anymore, and laughed rustlingly.

Liang Ze pursed his lips tightly, as thin as a blade.

"Who should play the cards? Hurry up and play."

A few people started clamoring and throwing cards again, no one cared about Liang Ze at all.Liang Ze stood there for a few seconds, went back to his room, took out his phone, and walked up to them as if nothing had happened.

"Hey 110, I want to report someone gathering for gambling, the address is—"

"Hold!"

Chen Junbo and the others stood up with a bang, packed their things in a hurry to grab the mobile phone, and pushed the tables and chairs.Liang Ze looked thin and weak, but there was a terrifying ruthlessness in his bones, and the veins in his right hand, which was pinching the phone in the chaos, bulged.

Half the light bulbs in the living room were out, and the other half weren't working very well.Under such lighting, Liang Ze's figure was not considered tall, but when he moved a little, everyone backed away collectively, staring at him intently.

But Liang Ze didn't really make a move.

"I haven't studied for a few days, and I have no parents and no worries, so I can do everything." He said slowly, "It's not good for you to push me into a hurry."

The world is so quiet.

When he returned to the room, he closed the door, closed the curtains that had been opened, and climbed onto the bed, but he was no longer sleepy.

He turned on the phone.

I bought this a few years ago, and the screen broke two corners, and to be honest, it should have been replaced a long time ago.But I managed to save a little money to buy a computer for my sister, and I never had any spare money, so I have used it as an antique computer.

a bit slow.It took several minutes before he finally opened the map software and entered the words "Haohan Consulting Company".

It was unexpectedly close.

Will Wu Ke come to look for Gongka?

Thinking of this possibility, Liang Ze's heart fluttered, and he couldn't help but start imagining what to wear, what to say, and... what to leave behind.

Thinking about it, the phone was hot when he held it, and his heart was also extremely warm.

But God seemed to be teasing him, knowing what he was expecting, so he just didn't let him get what he wanted.After several days in a row, the person who was waiting has never appeared.

Didn't Wu Ke know that he fell here?

In this back and forth hesitation, the day of rest on Thursday arrived.In the morning, Liang Ze was sent by his boss to go shopping at the market. After he finished his work, he ran back to the dormitory to take a shower. He didn't even bother to eat lunch, so he took his things and went out.

But he didn't go directly to Wu Ke.

Holding his wallet, Liang Ze found a barber shop with a relatively large frontage on the street, and went in bravely.

"Do you have an appointment?"

"No."

"What price do you want to choose? We have 38, 58, and—"

"The cheapest one will do," he interrupted.

There were only a few customers in the store on weekdays, and the other party glanced at him unhurriedly: "Go and wash your hair."

Liang Ze didn't close his eyes when he lay down, he kept looking at the ceiling with exposed pipes.Xiaogong's nails scratched him a little, and he pursed his lips slightly, but he said, "Please help me wash it again, please."

Half an hour later, the too long bangs have been cut short, and he has regained some youthful spirit in the mirror.The little brother who cut his hair seemed quite satisfied, and kept persuading him to put some pomade. After being rejected, he said regretfully: "Are you in a hurry? If you are not in a hurry, stay and take two promotional photos for me. I will put them on." Go to that review site."

Liang Ze smiled: "It's something, it's very important." He actually looks really good when he smiles.

Haohan Consulting is three stations away.

It is a high-end office area, and Liang Ze has never been there.When you get there, you can see the giant H&H logo on the roof from a distance.

It's a very grand place, and it's very fragrant, a strong and well-tuned perfume.

"excuse me--"

The receptionist on the first floor raised his head: "What's the matter?"

"I'm looking for Wu Ke from Haohan Consulting."

"Visitor, the visitor needs the other party to come down to pick you up before he can go in. Please contact him."

Liang Ze shook his head: "I won't go in, can I trouble you to call him? Just say..."

This blankness appeared abnormally, and the other party glanced at him suspiciously.

"Just say that someone came to return his things."

Seeing the work card in his hand, the receptionist dialed the phone upstairs, "Hey group five? Is Wu Ke from your group there? There are visitors downstairs looking for... When will it be open? Okay... um..."

Liang Ze looked at her.

"He's in a meeting. It doesn't matter when it will end. Why don't you give me the card and I'll hand it over for you."

Liang Ze lowered his head, and silently retracted his right hand, "You guys can sit on the sofa here."

The receptionist rolled his eyes slightly: "If you want to wait, just wait."

The hall is very spacious, decorated gorgeously, and there are Western-style abstract paintings on the walls.Liang Ze walked over and sat down on the sofa under a square picture frame, silently watching the hurried expressions of the staff.

The weather is fine today, and the sunset is just outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.But these people didn't stop to appreciate it, and didn't even glance at it.They are well-dressed, or chatting on the phone endlessly, or clanging their feet with no distractions.

Seeing them, Liang Ze couldn't help thinking about them.

Wu Ke must be like this at ordinary times.Talking on the phone in English, wearing a suit and tie, holding either a briefcase or a coffee cup.

This kind of Wu Ke was not unfamiliar to Liang Ze, and it's not like he had never fantasized about it before.The first time he entered Wu Ke's room that year, he was surprised by the many fashionable things in that room.

"Wu Ke, aren't you! All these English books on the bookshelf belong to you?"

What did Wu Ke say at that time?It seemed that he replied indifferently: "There are also my grandma's."

Their family has been senior intellectuals from their ancestors.

"Tch." Liang Ze was very irritated, "Fake foreign devils, what's the use of good English, I can't even understand the dialect of my hometown."

"you--"

"Ake Ake! Ake Ake Ake! Cough Ke Ke Ke Ke Ke." He laughed loudly at the name, which seemed strange when pronounced in dialect.

"you shut up."

Wu Ke was annoyed with him, obviously.But Wu Ke is a good-tempered person, no matter how annoying he is, he will not drive him out, just put him on the bed and cover his mouth with a pillow, and when he is out of breath, he will say "brother", "ke Ke" screamed.

From a very close distance, the two looked at each other, stopped laughing, and sat on the bed flushed as if they had fallen out, back to back, without saying a word for a long time.Then you get out of bed from the left side, and I go down from the right side, you do your homework, I read my cartoons, and no one takes the initiative to talk to anyone else.

At night, Liang Ze poked Wu Ke with the cap of his pen, "I'm hungry."

Wu Ke cooked instant noodles for him.It was too hot, Liang Ze blew while eating, rolled up a stick with his own chopsticks, and fed it to Wu Ke's mouth, "Taste it."

Wu Ke stared at the tip of the chopsticks, shook his head, "I don't need it, you have used it before."

"Cleanliness." Liang Ze rolled his eyes at him and sniffed.

All kinds of things yesterday are like death yesterday.

No one asked Liang Ze to remember these things, he just couldn't forget them.

Just when the image in my memory was about to be chewed, the two elevator doors suddenly opened at the same time, and many people came out back and forth, including men and women.

In the gap between several people, Liang Ze saw a light blue figure.Because of his tall stature, Wu Ke stands out wherever he goes.The person next to him was talking to him, and his head was slightly tilted.

Suddenly, Wu Ke seemed to feel something, turned his head this way, and then stopped.

Liang Ze got up in a hurry, his lips were almost calling out that title, but his voice was suppressed by Wu Ke's frown instantly.

He just stood there stiffly.

"Huh? It's you again."

I took a quick glance at the night market that night, but I didn't expect that Wu Ke's colleague would actually remember him.Liang Ze turned around and picked up the things on the sofa, then he turned his head and the other party had already walked up to him, "Are you here to find Wu Ke?"

Liang Ze's first reaction was not to answer, but to look over his shoulder at the person behind him.

Wu Ke's face was very ugly.

The man turned around and waved, "Your classmate! Here!"

Wu Ke walked over, his eyes fell on Liang Ze's face, Liang Ze's heart was pounding, and he quickly clenched the work card in his hand.

"I'm here to—"

"Huh? Isn't this Wu Ke's key card? It's been lost for several days." The colleague took it very naturally, "Where did you find it?"

"It's the restaurant where you had supper that day." Liang Ze didn't think too much about it, "We found it while sweeping the floor after closing the stall."

The colleague didn't turn the corner, and asked: "Ah, did you drive that?"

No wonder he didn't understand well.That night when he went to check out, he didn't see the scene of Liang Ze fighting with anyone at all. Besides, today's Liang Ze looked much better than that night, so it's not impossible to open a small restaurant.

"No……"

Liang Ze felt that he had said the wrong thing, so he glanced at Wu Ke nervously, but Wu Ke didn't even spare him the slightest bit of peripheral vision.

Liang Ze lowered his eyes.

A few colleagues who were waiting impatiently came over and urged: "Do you still want to eat?"

"Eat, eat, eat! I'm starving to death, so what if I don't eat?"

Wu Ke suddenly said: "I'm not going, you go."

The voice was businesslike indifference.

Liang Ze was taken aback.

"How can I do that? You are in charge today, so don't try to rely on it."

"Are you going to eat with your old classmates? Don't mind, just add more chairs."

When the others heard that their high school classmates came to him, they immediately expressed that they would not mind eating together, since Wu Ke would pay the bill anyway.

Liang Ze hastily declined: "No need, I'm just here to return the work card, so I won't bother you."

"What's the trouble, there are so many people, isn't it Wu Ke?"

Wu Ke's eyebrows tightened even more.

"It's really unnecessary, I have—"

The colleague interrupted with a smile: "I know that you are a restaurant owner and you have food at home, so you don't get tired of eating every day? It's a rare opportunity to change your taste, let me tell you."

The misunderstanding is getting deeper and deeper, and there is no time to clarify it.Liang Ze looked at Wu Ke, his face turned pale.He wasn't afraid of embarrassment, but he was afraid of embarrassing Wu Ke.

Wu Ke turned sideways, his profile was a gloomy arc: "Leave if you don't want to eat."

Although the voice was very low, the others sensed that something was wrong, and the atmosphere became a little awkward on the spot.

There was a short silence.

No one spoke.

Wu Ke turned around and left.

"I'll go—" Liang Ze's mind went blank, and the promised words blurted out, "I'll go with you."