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Chapter 28
Is it possible to go home? "
Pei Han posted an emoji with a kitchen knife in the group, urging him to come back quickly. It is best to buy a pack of ingredients for crayfish and thirteen spices at the supermarket in front of the community. The ones at home have expired.
Sister Xue's relatives respect Pei Xu a little bit, because this kid is "very bad", and sometimes he doesn't show face to others, and Pei Han and his wife are very defensive and always only look towards Pei Xu.
When Pei Xu entered the door, he felt that the little aunt didn't want to talk to him, she left her bag and ignored the guests, and went straight to the kitchen.
"Why don't you go out to eat? It's so tiresome to do at home, the smell of oily smoke is heavy, and washing dishes is troublesome." Seeing that his brother was so busy that his feet didn't touch the floor, Pei Xu silently walked over to help peel the garlic.
Pei Han shrugged and said nothing.
"Don't do it, it's too hot in the kitchen in summer." Sister Xue pushed him with her elbow, "It's rare to come back, so go out and watch TV and play for a while."
Pei Xu didn't go out, and took over the important task of washing the crayfish from his brother.
The little aunt stood at the porch, talking to Sister Xue.
"Xiaoxue, do you not want to have a baby or something? Why is there no movement at the age of 30? It will be bad if you give birth later, and your mother is also worried."
Pei Xu was a little annoyed to hear this kind of parental gossip.
Sister Xue still smiled and said: "I don't want to have a baby, maybe the fate is not here."
"That's good. Someone from us told you that you still have to give birth. A woman who doesn't have children is incomplete." The little aunt said, "It's really different to lose a piece of flesh from yourself."
Pei Xu turned sideways and asked his brother with his mouth: "Can I hate you?"
Before Pei Han could speak, Sister Xue saw it and signaled him to stop messing around with her lips.She gave two perfunctory "ah" and interrupted, "Have you chopped up the garlic? Where do you put it?"
However, this topic is what my aunt is best at, so she couldn't get away from it. She came back after two laps, and couldn't escape until the dinner table.Talking about this, the two men couldn't get in the way, and the cousin was not interested in playing with his phone with his head down all the time. Only Sister Xue, like an interview with Luyu, replied from time to time with "Really, is it, haha."
Pei Xu sighed, the sigh was a bit heavy, and everyone at the dinner table looked at him for a moment.
"Why are you frowning?" Sister Xue asked, "Is the food not tasty? Is it salty?"
Pei Xu said with a half-smile: "No, I'm reflecting. I won't be able to give birth to a child in this life. I don't even have a uterus. My life is destined to be incomplete. What should I do?"
Pei Han laughed "poof".
The little aunt said: "It's not the same thing. Of course, a man can't have a baby if he doesn't have it. If a woman doesn't have a condition, she will lack important experiences in life."
"There are too many experiences that are indispensable in life. If you have a womb, you have to have children, and if you get married, you have to get divorced." Pei Xu continued nonsense, "Little aunt, if you don't get divorced, your life will be incomplete. It's best to do it when you are old." One twilight love, it couldn't be more complete."
The little aunt was embarrassed and went to talk to her son.
Pei Han glared at him and said, "If you don't speak, will someone treat you as dumb?"
Sister Xue put the peeled shrimp in Pei Xu's bowl with a smile.
Pei Xu quickly refused and said, "Don't peel the shrimp for me, it's not that the shrimp you peel yourself has no soul."
After seeing off the guests, Pei Xu slumped on the sofa and watched TV.
Sister Xue said: "Tell me the truth, have you ever been beaten because of your cheap mouth when you have been working outside this year? If you are beaten, don't be brave. Home is your eternal harbor and your eternal wharf. .”
Pei Xu looked like he didn't want to talk to her.
Sister Xue rubbed her belly, and shouted at Pei Han who was washing the pot in the kitchen: "I eat a little too much, where are the Jianweixiaoshi tablets?"
"In the medicine cabinet."
Pei Xu finally lay down half-lying, stood up and said, "Which medicine box? Where did you put it?" He dug out a plastic box from the cabinet, opened it and saw that it was full of medicines, and searched for digestion tablets , found that in addition to the commonly used medicines, the rest are messy tonics.
"What are these things?" Pei Xu asked.
"My mother made it for me to recuperate my body before."
"Don't eat without doctor's advice." Pei Xu sat down, handed over the digestion pills, and collapsed as if he had been hit by Shixiangruanjinsan, "Look at how lucky you are to find someone like my brother who has a car and There is no father or mother in the house, so that you will not be harassed by your parents-in-law, why are you being urged by your own mother."
Sister Xue slapped him on the head: "Did you say that about your brother? Lawlessness." She became a little melancholy. She didn't really want to have a baby in the past two years, but her family urged her to start preparing for pregnancy in a daze, but there was no news. Originally, it didn't matter if I had it or not, but I still insisted that I was ready to see God's will, and I was a little upset that I hadn't conceived her for two years.A thing that was originally dispensable began to be related to self-esteem-this inexplicable self-esteem.The older you get, the more you can't help yourself, and even your emotions will be controlled by bits and pieces.
Pei Xu boredly pressed the remote control to switch channels, and said amidst the changing noise of the TV station: "Sister, your feelings are the most important. Don't care what outsiders think, don't care what your mother says, as long as you are happy." He said: "My brother must also think so, but he is stupid, so he may not be able to say it."
Sister Xue's nose was a little sore, she swallowed the digestive tablet, and suddenly realized that Pei Xu had never changed her name to sister-in-law.
When she was in love with Pei Han, she asked Pei Xu to call her elder sister. After talking for many years, she got used to calling her sister, and she didn't ask him to change it after they got married.Although Pei Xu said that this is my brother-in-law, he never called her sister-in-law in front of her.Most of the time, there is no need to call by title, there are only three people in the family, and you can tell who you are calling by the tone of your words. On rare occasions, Pei Xu will call sister Xue, and on rare occasions, he will call elder sister like he did when he was thirteen or fourteen.
Sister Xue said "Hello" and said, "Why don't you call me sister-in-law?"
Pei Xu was silent for a while, and said, "Didn't you tell me to change my mind?"
"Huh? Why don't I remember?"
Pei Xu became even more impatient with pressing the remote control, and said, "When you said it yourself when you got married, my sister-in-law always sounds a bit unscrupulous, so don't let me change it."
Sister Xue said embarrassingly, "Sounds like my reason. It's okay if you don't call me sister-in-law. Let's just be sisters."
Pei Xu curled his lips, and when Pei Han sat down, he whispered, "Sister-in-law sounds so distant, you are not just sister-in-law, you are a sister." From the corner of her eye, she saw Sister Xue's hand reaching out to touch his head, Pei Xu Xu said again: "Don't touch my head, I have golden hair, I don't want to go bald at a young age like you."
——The hand that was about to be gently touched paused for a second, and then slapped it hard.
Pei Han said, "Aren't you looking for a fight?"
Pei Xu laughed.
In the evening, the editor of Geography Magazine called Pei Xu to ask for a manuscript.He sat in front of the desk, looked at the number of [-] words displayed in the lower left corner of Word, and declined.
"Thank you, Mr. Wang, I have other writing plans recently, and I may not be able to spare the time."
After hanging up the phone, he continued to read the written part.
- Dissatisfied, always dissatisfied.It's all literal garbage.
After turning a few pages, his editor-in-chief also sent him a WeChat message asking him to attend a meeting at the newspaper office in City A on Monday.Pei Xu replied simply, and the little inspiration that had just emerged disappeared.He habitually turned on his phone to search for friends, saw Zhong Jurui's dot flickering, and was stunned for a while.
On Sunday morning, when Zhong Jurui entered the office, half of the people were already there.Their team occupies the south side of the office on this floor, and the division is called "Mexico". However, none of the people sitting here has the enthusiasm of Mexico, and everyone is old-fashioned and quiet.
Some Internet companies are the same as foreign companies, and employees have English names, while some companies like to use Chinese nicknames, and employees can be called whatever they like.Zhong Jurui and his company also took nicknames.Of course regulations are one thing, implementation is another.
For example, the small area where Zhong Jurui is located has all kinds of things.This is mainly because they have too many PhDs in their team.These doctors are in their 30s and hold important positions. Even if they have fancy names, the young people dare not call them, so people usually add "Bo" after their surnames, such as Zhang Bo and Li Bo.There was no problem at first, but there were two doctors whose surnames were Chen, and everyone was in a dilemma. They themselves didn't want to be called Chen Bo, so we called them both by their English names.The few remaining people are not doctors, but their strength should not be underestimated if they can fight their way out in this kind of place, so everyone jokingly calls them the boss.Zhong Jurui has only been working for two years, and his position is not that high. He had no idea when he chose his nickname. He gave it to him, and he became the only one in Mexico who used his real name.Their department can be divided into three groups in a simple and rough way. One group is doing AIresearch, which is mainly composed of a few PhDs. They usually do scientific research and development conference papers. The other group is AI application, which is also Zhong Jurui's group. They are mainly doing deep learning. Model algorithm, the last group is the business group, which makes wheels every day, but the business group has the most people, not sitting in Mexico, but on the next floor.
Zhong Jurui took out his glasses and put them on, but before he could get a bottle of water from the tea room, Li Bo called him over.They installed a row of adjustable desks in the aisle by the window for this group of sedentary people to stand and work. In the first two months, after Kyle in the group got hemorrhoids and went to the hospital for a knife, the utilization rate of this row of adjustable desks increase rapidly.At this moment, Li Bo took a seat, leaning on him with a charming posture. They talked about the project for a while, and Du Ang, Zhong Jurui's other colleague, also came.
Du Ang's nickname is Duang, and he is Zhong Jurui's senior. When Zhong Jurui first entered the school, he was a graduate student and had been a teaching assistant for Zhong Jurui's professional courses.It wasn't their group that Zhong Jurui met before. Du Ang saw his resume and picked it up. Zhong Jurui only knew this after he joined the job.And Du Ang pushed him here because of the ACM competition a few years ago, Zhong Jurui and his classmates were not usually friendly, and they couldn't get people in the team competition. In the final preliminaries, after a classmate was caught, he had no choice but to call out a math department. Programming enthusiasts come to paddle.This competition is a team battle, and three people share a computer to complete the answers. Before the competition, Zhong Jurui said: "You two watch from the side, don't talk too much, and you can sleep for a while if you are tired." The classmate said: "Learn God, the three cobblers have surpassed Zhuge Liang, so we can do something." Zhong Jurui hesitated and said, "Isn't this an IQ test? I'll call you when I fail." However, after 3 hours When Zhong Jurui did not fail in the game, his teammates had an afternoon tea and walked out of the competition field very comfortably, and rushed out of the preliminaries.Although the finals dragged their feet, they still spared no effort to publicize the demeanor of Xueshen, the first and the second.Du Ang always remembered Zhong Jurui.There are many places where their work intersects, and he gradually discovered Zhong Jurui's biggest weakness: too focused.When Zhong Jurui was thinking about things with all his heart, talking to him would go in one ear and out the other, and he said yes, maybe he didn't even notice you.
"We have a temporary meeting at eleven o'clock, remember?" Seeing Zhong Jurui brainstorming with Li Bo, Du Ang knocked on the table to remind him, "The intern little sister is not here today, no one is urging you, go on your own meeting room."
Zhong Jurui nodded, and conveniently added a reminder.After entering the meeting room, I realized that it was not a technical meeting, but that the big boss had hired a strategic consulting company to do assessment and planning for them. The boss of their department came to convey this matter, saying that there might be some issues that require their cooperation with the consulting company. place.
"Strategic consulting? What do you want to do?" Du Ang didn't quite understand, "Where does the wind blow in a different direction?"
"Although AI is hot now, everyone is betting on it. The tide has not receded and we don't know who is swimming naked. We have been spending money here, and the big boss needs some endorsement to convince shareholders." The department boss said.Departments that have been spending money are always disliked, and no one can say whether they will make money in the future. Who doesn't want to have income right now?Probably I want to find a consulting company to make some good-looking data, so as to give directors and shareholders a little reassurance.
But this is not really about Zhong Jurui's business, he was still thinking about the new idea that Li Bo told him, when he heard the boss say something unimportant, he asked the meeting to adjourn.
"Curie, you stay here first."
Du Ang patted Zhong Jurui on the shoulder, and left with the computer between his arms.
It's been two years since Zhong Jurui joined the job, and it's time to talk about salary increase again.They also talked more than once, and they are very familiar with the routine. After a few words of concern, the boss gave a new salary.Zhong Jurui was not dissatisfied at all, he guessed before that he thought it was worth the price.
"Is work and life going well? Is there a lot of pressure? You can tell me if you have any unpleasantness." The boss tried his best to put on a loving look.However, this product is the favorite to play when it comes out of the office, and it doesn't put on airs. Zhong Jurui doubts that what he is thinking is to tell him something unhappy, so that he can be happy and forward it to the group to have fun with the people.
"It's okay." Zhong Jurui said.
"You told me yesterday that you have to work overtime. It's really unnecessary. Making money is not for living." The boss thought about it and said, "Your University A is too ambitious, and Du Ang is also you. He is to pay back the flat What is your mortgage for? You also bought a house?"
Zhong Jurui smiled and said, "No."
"Don't be so tight." The boss said, "Okay, go to work and call Du Ang for me."
Zhong Jurui grabbed the notebook on the table and nodded, then walked out. He saw cumulus clouds outside the window, and there would be showers.He twisted his neck, a little wanting to work at the lift table, he paused and went back to his station.
——Every time I stand in the aisle to work, I always feel that the footsteps in front of my eyes are accompanied by the whispers of "This is Zhong Jurui", which is particularly noisy, so it's better to just hide in the cubicle in a low-key manner.
☆、Chapter 55
Work really is the most healing thing.Zhong Jurui regards his work as his wife, indulges in tenderness every day, and forgets to leave. If he works overtime until one or two o'clock temporarily, it is like burning firewood with his wife.Ren Duang and the others' eyes were black and blue from working overtime, and their stomachs were getting more and more protruding from sitting all day long. Zhong Jurui was always dressed in a cool outfit, wearing glasses, with long legs, and he remained handsome and motionless.
The bitter summer is coming to an end, he restrained the feeling of missing Pei Xu in his busy work, and no longer had any cheap places to find friends.
Pei Xu probably left early after his vacation, he thought.
Until early autumn, Tang Cheng sent a WeChat message saying that his cousin Zheng Xianwen was getting married and asked him to attend the wedding.
He and Zheng Xianwen have known each other for a long time. When he was in high school, he and Tang Cheng—then they called him Golden Snake—were used as gunners to write codes for others. Occasionally, Tang Cheng himself was so busy during the exam week that he would let Zheng Xianwen take over. Later, Tang Cheng worked hard to start a business and opened a game company. Zheng Xianwen helped test it. Now that Tang Cheng has made some achievements in his career, Zheng Xianwen naturally still follows him.Because of the contact with Tang Cheng in the past few years, Zhong Jurui and Zheng Xianwen naturally have intersected intermittently.
Tang Cheng really had nothing to say to this cousin, Zhong Jurui felt that his brother was just like that.But after thinking about it, he felt that Tang Cheng was very nice to everyone. Seeing that he was bored with work, he even sent an invitation to him to join in the fun.Originally, based on his friendship with Zheng Xianwen, there was really no need for him to join in the fun at the wedding.
"Xianxian gets married, I'll just follow suit, I've been quite busy recently..."
"Busy, the wedding banquet is on Saturday, so you won't have to work overtime, right? Come here! Xianxian specially left you an invitation card, if I can't invite you, I can only ask him to come in person."
Zhong Jurui had no choice but to agree.
He put down his cell phone, moved his neck, and heard the "click" sound of bones.Heard a "fuck!"
Kyle at the next table was finally able to sit down and work. After the hemorrhoid operation, he became visibly irritable and growled "fuck" every now and then.Zhong Jurui originally thought that he was cursing his mother because of the pain of his wound, but later he found out that this guy installed a GitHub project called thefuck. After typing a wrong command in the terminal, there is no need to modify it and type it again. Just type fuck, and the project will automatically fix. Kyle couldn't stop using this function, he used it so much that he shouted while typing.
Zhong Jurui just twisted his neck like this, feeling a little hopeless.
Du Ang walked by and asked him casually if he had lunch, Zhong Jurui shook his head and asked Du Ang if he had eaten.
"Migraine." Du Ang said with an uneasy expression, "I'll have a party on the table, and you can pack something for me when you come back."
Zhong Jurui agreed, picked up a thin coat and got up, ready to go to the cafeteria.After waiting outside the elevator for a while, I saw the boss bringing two young people from the conference room. Both of them were wearing white shirts and suit pants, which were out of tune with the code farmers in casual clothes on this floor. Zhong Jurui took a closer look. Lo and behold, one of the faces he recognized.
"Hi!" Chen Jiarui said happily, "I didn't expect you to work here."
Because it was at work, Chen Jiarui stretched out his hand out of habit and smiled slightly.
——I don't really want to hold it.Kyle roared violently in Zhong Jurui's mind, Falk.
The boss asked: "Do you know each other?"
"En." Zhong Jurui said, he shook Chen Jiarui's hand quickly, then let go, put his hand back into his pocket, and stopped talking.
Chen Jiarui glanced at him and felt vague hostility.
The boss was not surprised by Zhong Jurui's taciturnity - Zhong Jurui was a man who couldn't beat a fart with three sticks - he walked into the elevator talking with the two visitors very kindly.Zhong Jurui stood in the corner of the elevator and looked at Chen Jiarui's back.He heard that Chen Jiarui was the consultant sent by the consulting company. The consulting project was finalized in August and is currently in the early stage.Listening to the meaning of the boss's words, Chen Jiarui's title is not low, and he can be called young and promising.
They ate lunch in the company cafeteria. The boss brought two visitors and warmly introduced that the cafeteria had hired a Sichuan cuisine chef recently. The boiled beef was worth a try.Zhong Jurui walked away silently carrying the dinner plate, but his gaze could not help but drift towards Chen Jiarui.
This is Pei Xu's current boyfriend.
It's just two eyes and one mouth, no difference.he thought a little jealously.
Check a job-seeking app on your phone to see what the average annual salary of Chen Jiarui's position is.
Tsk, he's not much taller than himself, Chen Jiarui is two years older than himself, so that's about it.
Zhong Jurui stared blankly at the phone screen, and suddenly felt so boring again.
Eat your uncle's vinegar.Not at all open minded.
After he finished his meal, he silently placed an order to buy a copy of whenyourrelationshipends.Even if the god of learning is broken in love, he is ready to get out of it through learning knowledge.
From this day on, Chen Jiarui appeared more frequently in the company, and when they met each other in the bathroom, Zhong Jurui was able to straighten his face and nod relatively politely.Chen Jiarui only thought that the low air pressure he felt in front of the elevator was because Zhong Jurui was under too much work pressure, so he didn't take it seriously, and chatted with him while washing his hands.According to Chen Jiarui, he has been stationed here recently and will leave after a week.
Zhong Jurui put his hands under the dryer and blown slowly, then suddenly said: "You...know me?"
Chen Jiarui is simply strange, what do you know?
Looking at his expression, Zhong Jurui felt that he didn't seem to know the past between him and Pei Xu, maybe Pei Xu didn't explain it.He really wanted to say something plausible to spoil their relationship.This bit of scheming was soon wiped out, Zhong Jurui was upright, and didn't want to be a scheming man who instigates people behind his back.
Chen Jiarui said: "What do you mean? What do you know?"
"It's nothing." The wind blew on his hands, Zhong Jurui struggled for a while, and then asked, "He's gone?"
"Who?"
"Pei Xu."
Chen Jiarui was even more surprised, how did he know whether Pei Xu had left or not.The last time they met was in the summer, they lived in a hotel by chance, and they didn't keep in touch with each other often, at most they were acquaintances who liked each other in the circle of friends.No matter how you think about it, you feel that the relationship between him and Pei Xu is not as close as that of Zhong Jurui and Pei Xu, so he said, "Don't you know?"
Zhong Jurui felt that this sentence was like a rhetorical question, as if he was mocking him, and said to the imaginary enemy with a cold face: "I'm just asking casually."
This nonsensical conversation made Chen Jiarui confused, and further strengthened Zhong Jurui's idea that he had become a weirdo.Time probably not only cut off Zhong Jurui's facial nerves, but also messed up his thinking nerves.Chen Jiarui didn't know that he was regarded as Pei Xu's incumbent and was hostile. He just thought Zhong Jurui was weird.
Pei Xu's cell phone dinged.The director took the topic of the newspaper to the pre-editing meeting, and the correspondents who had been dormant online for most of the day suddenly seemed to come alive, sending in various manuscripts in a hurry.Nothing major has happened recently, and the messy manuscripts add up and still can't find any bright spots. The editor-in-chief is anxious, and keeps posting in the group: "Dig a hole three feet, and dig some materials for me. How can there be nothing? Then Ask, go to the official websites and check again, why do you have to remind me every day?"
It was only then that Pei Xu felt the disadvantages of working in City A, so he muted his phone with a heavy heart.
The one-year expatriate expired, and while he was on vacation, the editor-in-chief asked him to return to work in City A after finishing his work. Every day was very regular, but there was no taste at all.
"What do you want? Do you know how many inspections I wrote to the Propaganda Department last year? How many people have been ordered to abolish the In-Depth Reporting Department in the past three years? Do you not know how many? Do you know that Zhong Nanping was resigned after the fall? Who Don’t you have any news ideals? You are the most noble.” The editor-in-chief slammed his pen, “There are so many mouths, everyone has to eat! Do you understand?”
Pei Xu wanted to pretend to be a wolf with a big tail, because the sensitive/sensitivity manuscripts were not the most withdrawn, but more due to the mediation of several parties with conflicting interests, which finally turned into a bubble.He published a manuscript last year, but it hadn't been sent out yet. Someone came to him with a suitcase, and he realized that the cash in a suitcase was not a plot of a movie screenwriter.It's a pity that he didn't have the guts to accept it.His report was still stopped, and it is not known whose hands the box of money ended up in.
After all, it's not a question of money.
Pei Xu walked out holding his breath and called his brother.
"I still want to be an investigative reporter." Pei Xu lit his cigarette irritably, "I've tried it. I've been working for a year, and I'm sure I don't want to continue."
Pei Han said he disagreed.
"If it doesn't work, you should change your career. If you don't like the status quo, you should stop doing news. If you want to be a reporter, stay away from those smoky things."
"How is it possible to stay away?"
Pei Han didn't have anything to say, but he bit him to death and didn't support it.However, it doesn't matter if he supports it or not. Pei Xu is an adult and financially independent, so he has no ability to influence Pei Xu's choice.
Pei Xu leaned decadently on the corridor to smoke, and hung up without saying a word.
Zhong Jurui is practicing waist strength in the gym.The coach seems to like him very much, obviously he didn't hold private lessons, so he came over to give some pointers.No matter how insensitive Zhong Jurui's radar was, he also discovered that it was a strike-up.
He pulled out the cable and put it on until the coach tactfully walked away.
This Saturday was a cool autumn day. After exercising, he quickly took a shower, went to the barber shop he frequented, and spent 48 yuan to cut the simplest straight male hairstyle. Then he took a taxi to Zheng Xianwen's wedding venue.
Zheng Xianwen dropped out of school due to illness in his early years, and his friends are all friends from childhood, and the number of them is not many.He is now an employee of Tang Cheng, so most of the colleagues he invited belonged to Tang Cheng's company. Zhong Jurui took a rough look inside and found that several of them were common in previous dinner parties.He paid the money at the door, but Tang Cheng dragged him away and led him to his seat.Zheng Xianwen's colleagues sat at two tables, and Zhong Jurui happened to be one more, who was placed at the friend's table.
"I'll sit with you later." Tang Cheng said, "I'll help greet the guests first, and my aunt will call me!"
The wedding photos scrolled on the big screen, and sweet pop songs were played all the time.Zhong Jurui looked at the bride from a distance, and felt that the wedding photos hadn't been photoshopped yet, so that the relatives would not recognize her.His table was not full, probably because this table was full of Zheng Xianwen's close friends, and Zheng Xianwen was either making trouble at the door, or being the best man, and he hadn't had time to sit down yet.
Zhong Jurui never imagined his own wedding.He hasn't even attended a few weddings since he was a child. Recalling the last time, it was his father's second marriage. Not long after he appeared on the stage, he was taken away by his relatives, fearing that he would make trouble, and locked him in a small box. Two crabs and a plate of pistachios.He dismantled the crab legs and got his hand pricked.His only thought about that wedding was that crabs still had to be dipped in vinegar.
He is not familiar with everyone at the table, and the acquaintances have already chatted with each other, and he lowered his head to play with his mobile phone.
Two people stood beside him.
One said: "Can this drink be opened first? I'm thirsty."
Another said: "The wedding hasn't even started yet, don't open the one on this table, you can ask the waiter."
Someone at the table said: "This table is not an outsider, Li Gou, open it when you are thirsty!" He said and was about to twist the bottle.
"Don't, don't, don't! Leave it alone." The person who blocked him waved his hand.
Zhong Jurui looked up and saw that the one who wanted to drink water had the flower of "best man" pinned on his chest, and was pushed away by another person.
The scene was really lively, as if everyone was kissing everyone.It is said that this venue was booked a year in advance. Zheng Xianwen and his wife originally wanted to book for the National Day, but the National Day stall was booked two years in advance.Zhong Jurui listened to the two girls at the table chatting about the wedding venue, and couldn't help but think, what if they both leave when it's time for the wedding, if they book it two years in advance.Before he could think too much, Tang Cheng sat back.
"It's about to start." Tang Cheng wiped his bald head with a napkin and wiped off the sweat, "Oh my God, I'm not getting married today, I'm sweating all over."
Tang Cheng has a lot of affection for this cousin. According to him, it’s because his parents were busy making money in primary and junior high school. He was fostered by his aunt’s house for ten years. He and Zheng Xianwen were like brothers until he was sent abroad by his father in high school. He usually buys any digital products, clothes and sneakers, and he will definitely buy them for Zheng Xianwen.Later, when his cousin fell ill, he even made up his mind to take his cousin with him in everything he did in the future.
Zhong Jurui said with a smile: "Perhaps your cousin has long wanted to make his own way, seeing that you can't do anything, so he has to stay and support you."
Tang Cheng laughed and said it was very possible.
"I'm afraid I'll cry." Tang Cheng said, "If I feel emotional later and cry out, don't laugh at me."
Zhong Jurui said no.
The lights dimmed, and the groomsmen returned to the friend table and sat on Zhong Jurui's left.In this wedding, the master of ceremonies didn't say a single obscene joke, just recalling the growth of the bride and groom made a lot of tears.Tang Cheng didn't cry, but kept applauding vigorously.Zhong Jurui caught a glimpse of the best man group from the corner of his eye, and found that Li Gou was already in tears.
The big screen is still displaying a group photo of Zheng Xianwen and his good brothers in middle school. It is obvious that Li Gou is shoulder to shoulder with Zheng Xianwen.Li Gou lay on the shoulder of the young man beside him before, and the young man said helplessly: "Didn't you cry once when Xianxian got engaged? Why are you still crying when you get married?"
"This master of ceremonies who kills a thousand knives, the wedding is the wedding, what childhood memories are you playing? It's so fucking teary. The smoke cage is cold, the water is moon cage sand, and Xianxian has a new home from now on. Isn't it normal to be sad? Think about going to an Internet cafe secretly with him before. , I always feel that it is not far away, but in fact it has been ten years." Li Gou finally straightened his back.The master of ceremonies asked the bride and groom to kiss each other, Li Gou whistled enthusiastically and booed.
Zhong Jurui suddenly felt very envious.Not to mention whether he had a wedding in his life, even if he did, who would appear in the photo of his teenager, who would cry sadly, and who would whistle at him from below.After much deliberation, no one.
This is the most heart-wrenching part of attending this wedding.It was too lively, it was lively and lively, and I found that the excitement had nothing to do with me.
☆、Chapter 56
The wedding banquet was coming to an end, some guests left scatteredly, Zheng Xianwen and his wife stood at the door to see off the guests.The people at the friend's table were clamoring about how rare it was for Lu Yi and Li Gou to return to China for a reunion, and they were going to play mahjong all night, and Tang Cheng didn't know where to go.Zhong Jurui looked around for no acquaintances, and it seemed superfluous to stay any longer, so he greeted Zheng Xianwen, congratulated him on his happy wedding, and prepared to take a taxi away.
He couldn't help but drink some wine at night, his ears were a little hot, and he stood at the door and was shaken by the night wind.
A girl patted him on the shoulder: "Zhong Jurui!"
Zhong Jurui turned his face away, and he had the impression that this girl belonged to Tangcheng Company, but he couldn't remember any more details.
Seeing his unchanging expression, the girl was not annoyed, and said, "I'm Yan Xi, Tang Cheng's junior, and I'm also working under him now. You really can't remember me? I even sent you An umbrella."
Zhong Jurui said "Oh" twice, and said very politely: "Thank you."
Yan Xi took out the car keychain from her bag and wrapped it around her fingers: "Are you going home? I will do a good deed every day and I will give you a ride." Before Zhong Jurui could refuse, she said, "The two of us live together The place is only 500 meters apart, so it’s very convenient.” He blinked slyly, “Don’t ask me how I found out.”
"Don't bother, I still..."
Yan Xi said: "I'm a girl, can I eat you?" She smiled brightly, "Really, don't think too much, just give me a ride and give me a chance to be Lei Feng?"
Zhong Jurui suddenly realized - no wonder Tang Cheng insisted on asking him to come to the wedding, he also said that Xianxian wouldn't insist on him coming so politely.In the past, Zhong Jurui always refused on the grounds that he was too tired to work overtime. Tang Cheng probably couldn't explain it to his sister, but this time he simply brought everyone to the wedding - no wonder he slipped away as soon as the wedding banquet was over.
It would be hypocritical to refuse again, so he had no choice but to follow Yan Xi into the car.
The car fragrance is particularly strong.Yan Xi lived in it for a long time and didn't smell its fragrance, but Zhong Jurui felt that his nose was uncomfortable in the co-pilot, and kept frowning.He is not a person who can be both right and wrong, his social skills are average, his face is red from drinking alcohol, his thinking is very slow, he just stares at the road ahead, and doesn't stir up topics.
Yan Xi took a sneak peek, broke the silence, and said with a smile: "Tang Cheng said that you are invulnerable to all poisons, and it is true." He sighed again, "I didn't pass your WeChat account, and I didn't come out in the game. It's so difficult A piece of bone."
Zhong Jurui was amused by her tone of singing and sighing three times.He smiled shallowly, his eyes fell on the flickering lights on the trees by the street.
"Why are you so hard to chase?" Yan Xi said with a smile, not resentment in her tone, just teasing.
Zhong Jurui suddenly said: "I'm not hard to chase."
"what?"
Red light, the car stopped.
The orange street lamp outside the window shone on Zhong Jurui's face, and his straight nose cast a small shadow.
Zhong Jurui lowered his eyes and said: "I'm not hard to chase, someone has tried it. Just ignore me for three days, ignore me for two days, first piss me off, then talk sweet words to coax me, just hang around like this, and I'll be hooked immediately .”
Yan Xi probably didn't expect Zhong Jurui to say such a thing suddenly, so she didn't react.
Zhong Jurui turned around and smiled.
"Really? Can it be done like this?" Yan Xi also adjusted a smile.
"It can be done." Zhong Jurui said, "I can vomit my heart out to him."
"So it's said that routines have been popular since ancient times." Yan Xi smiled awkwardly.
Zhong Jurui didn't say anything this time.When the car started again, Zhong Jurui said: "Look, there is someone in my heart who started a new relationship in such a muddle-headed way. I'm sorry for myself, and even more sorry for others. If I make people wait, I don't know how long it will take. It will be even more delaying." Thank you for always being willing to ask me to go out for a gathering, but next time, don’t make things difficult for Tang Cheng.”
Yan Xi smiled and said: "My God, I thought you were being subtle, but I didn't expect you to be so direct? You said it clearly, and it made me die clearly."
Zhong Jurui looked forward very gently.
Yan Xi said: "So what's so good about that person?"
Zhong Jurui thought very seriously, and finally smiled: "It seems that there is nothing good."
"You can't let go, why did you break up?"
"Then who knows, it's a mess, if he wants to break up, he will break up." His tone paused, "Probably something is wrong with me."
Yan Xi defended Zhong Jurui's injustice: "I don't want to cherish someone like you."
Pei Han posted an emoji with a kitchen knife in the group, urging him to come back quickly. It is best to buy a pack of ingredients for crayfish and thirteen spices at the supermarket in front of the community. The ones at home have expired.
Sister Xue's relatives respect Pei Xu a little bit, because this kid is "very bad", and sometimes he doesn't show face to others, and Pei Han and his wife are very defensive and always only look towards Pei Xu.
When Pei Xu entered the door, he felt that the little aunt didn't want to talk to him, she left her bag and ignored the guests, and went straight to the kitchen.
"Why don't you go out to eat? It's so tiresome to do at home, the smell of oily smoke is heavy, and washing dishes is troublesome." Seeing that his brother was so busy that his feet didn't touch the floor, Pei Xu silently walked over to help peel the garlic.
Pei Han shrugged and said nothing.
"Don't do it, it's too hot in the kitchen in summer." Sister Xue pushed him with her elbow, "It's rare to come back, so go out and watch TV and play for a while."
Pei Xu didn't go out, and took over the important task of washing the crayfish from his brother.
The little aunt stood at the porch, talking to Sister Xue.
"Xiaoxue, do you not want to have a baby or something? Why is there no movement at the age of 30? It will be bad if you give birth later, and your mother is also worried."
Pei Xu was a little annoyed to hear this kind of parental gossip.
Sister Xue still smiled and said: "I don't want to have a baby, maybe the fate is not here."
"That's good. Someone from us told you that you still have to give birth. A woman who doesn't have children is incomplete." The little aunt said, "It's really different to lose a piece of flesh from yourself."
Pei Xu turned sideways and asked his brother with his mouth: "Can I hate you?"
Before Pei Han could speak, Sister Xue saw it and signaled him to stop messing around with her lips.She gave two perfunctory "ah" and interrupted, "Have you chopped up the garlic? Where do you put it?"
However, this topic is what my aunt is best at, so she couldn't get away from it. She came back after two laps, and couldn't escape until the dinner table.Talking about this, the two men couldn't get in the way, and the cousin was not interested in playing with his phone with his head down all the time. Only Sister Xue, like an interview with Luyu, replied from time to time with "Really, is it, haha."
Pei Xu sighed, the sigh was a bit heavy, and everyone at the dinner table looked at him for a moment.
"Why are you frowning?" Sister Xue asked, "Is the food not tasty? Is it salty?"
Pei Xu said with a half-smile: "No, I'm reflecting. I won't be able to give birth to a child in this life. I don't even have a uterus. My life is destined to be incomplete. What should I do?"
Pei Han laughed "poof".
The little aunt said: "It's not the same thing. Of course, a man can't have a baby if he doesn't have it. If a woman doesn't have a condition, she will lack important experiences in life."
"There are too many experiences that are indispensable in life. If you have a womb, you have to have children, and if you get married, you have to get divorced." Pei Xu continued nonsense, "Little aunt, if you don't get divorced, your life will be incomplete. It's best to do it when you are old." One twilight love, it couldn't be more complete."
The little aunt was embarrassed and went to talk to her son.
Pei Han glared at him and said, "If you don't speak, will someone treat you as dumb?"
Sister Xue put the peeled shrimp in Pei Xu's bowl with a smile.
Pei Xu quickly refused and said, "Don't peel the shrimp for me, it's not that the shrimp you peel yourself has no soul."
After seeing off the guests, Pei Xu slumped on the sofa and watched TV.
Sister Xue said: "Tell me the truth, have you ever been beaten because of your cheap mouth when you have been working outside this year? If you are beaten, don't be brave. Home is your eternal harbor and your eternal wharf. .”
Pei Xu looked like he didn't want to talk to her.
Sister Xue rubbed her belly, and shouted at Pei Han who was washing the pot in the kitchen: "I eat a little too much, where are the Jianweixiaoshi tablets?"
"In the medicine cabinet."
Pei Xu finally lay down half-lying, stood up and said, "Which medicine box? Where did you put it?" He dug out a plastic box from the cabinet, opened it and saw that it was full of medicines, and searched for digestion tablets , found that in addition to the commonly used medicines, the rest are messy tonics.
"What are these things?" Pei Xu asked.
"My mother made it for me to recuperate my body before."
"Don't eat without doctor's advice." Pei Xu sat down, handed over the digestion pills, and collapsed as if he had been hit by Shixiangruanjinsan, "Look at how lucky you are to find someone like my brother who has a car and There is no father or mother in the house, so that you will not be harassed by your parents-in-law, why are you being urged by your own mother."
Sister Xue slapped him on the head: "Did you say that about your brother? Lawlessness." She became a little melancholy. She didn't really want to have a baby in the past two years, but her family urged her to start preparing for pregnancy in a daze, but there was no news. Originally, it didn't matter if I had it or not, but I still insisted that I was ready to see God's will, and I was a little upset that I hadn't conceived her for two years.A thing that was originally dispensable began to be related to self-esteem-this inexplicable self-esteem.The older you get, the more you can't help yourself, and even your emotions will be controlled by bits and pieces.
Pei Xu boredly pressed the remote control to switch channels, and said amidst the changing noise of the TV station: "Sister, your feelings are the most important. Don't care what outsiders think, don't care what your mother says, as long as you are happy." He said: "My brother must also think so, but he is stupid, so he may not be able to say it."
Sister Xue's nose was a little sore, she swallowed the digestive tablet, and suddenly realized that Pei Xu had never changed her name to sister-in-law.
When she was in love with Pei Han, she asked Pei Xu to call her elder sister. After talking for many years, she got used to calling her sister, and she didn't ask him to change it after they got married.Although Pei Xu said that this is my brother-in-law, he never called her sister-in-law in front of her.Most of the time, there is no need to call by title, there are only three people in the family, and you can tell who you are calling by the tone of your words. On rare occasions, Pei Xu will call sister Xue, and on rare occasions, he will call elder sister like he did when he was thirteen or fourteen.
Sister Xue said "Hello" and said, "Why don't you call me sister-in-law?"
Pei Xu was silent for a while, and said, "Didn't you tell me to change my mind?"
"Huh? Why don't I remember?"
Pei Xu became even more impatient with pressing the remote control, and said, "When you said it yourself when you got married, my sister-in-law always sounds a bit unscrupulous, so don't let me change it."
Sister Xue said embarrassingly, "Sounds like my reason. It's okay if you don't call me sister-in-law. Let's just be sisters."
Pei Xu curled his lips, and when Pei Han sat down, he whispered, "Sister-in-law sounds so distant, you are not just sister-in-law, you are a sister." From the corner of her eye, she saw Sister Xue's hand reaching out to touch his head, Pei Xu Xu said again: "Don't touch my head, I have golden hair, I don't want to go bald at a young age like you."
——The hand that was about to be gently touched paused for a second, and then slapped it hard.
Pei Han said, "Aren't you looking for a fight?"
Pei Xu laughed.
In the evening, the editor of Geography Magazine called Pei Xu to ask for a manuscript.He sat in front of the desk, looked at the number of [-] words displayed in the lower left corner of Word, and declined.
"Thank you, Mr. Wang, I have other writing plans recently, and I may not be able to spare the time."
After hanging up the phone, he continued to read the written part.
- Dissatisfied, always dissatisfied.It's all literal garbage.
After turning a few pages, his editor-in-chief also sent him a WeChat message asking him to attend a meeting at the newspaper office in City A on Monday.Pei Xu replied simply, and the little inspiration that had just emerged disappeared.He habitually turned on his phone to search for friends, saw Zhong Jurui's dot flickering, and was stunned for a while.
On Sunday morning, when Zhong Jurui entered the office, half of the people were already there.Their team occupies the south side of the office on this floor, and the division is called "Mexico". However, none of the people sitting here has the enthusiasm of Mexico, and everyone is old-fashioned and quiet.
Some Internet companies are the same as foreign companies, and employees have English names, while some companies like to use Chinese nicknames, and employees can be called whatever they like.Zhong Jurui and his company also took nicknames.Of course regulations are one thing, implementation is another.
For example, the small area where Zhong Jurui is located has all kinds of things.This is mainly because they have too many PhDs in their team.These doctors are in their 30s and hold important positions. Even if they have fancy names, the young people dare not call them, so people usually add "Bo" after their surnames, such as Zhang Bo and Li Bo.There was no problem at first, but there were two doctors whose surnames were Chen, and everyone was in a dilemma. They themselves didn't want to be called Chen Bo, so we called them both by their English names.The few remaining people are not doctors, but their strength should not be underestimated if they can fight their way out in this kind of place, so everyone jokingly calls them the boss.Zhong Jurui has only been working for two years, and his position is not that high. He had no idea when he chose his nickname. He gave it to him, and he became the only one in Mexico who used his real name.Their department can be divided into three groups in a simple and rough way. One group is doing AIresearch, which is mainly composed of a few PhDs. They usually do scientific research and development conference papers. The other group is AI application, which is also Zhong Jurui's group. They are mainly doing deep learning. Model algorithm, the last group is the business group, which makes wheels every day, but the business group has the most people, not sitting in Mexico, but on the next floor.
Zhong Jurui took out his glasses and put them on, but before he could get a bottle of water from the tea room, Li Bo called him over.They installed a row of adjustable desks in the aisle by the window for this group of sedentary people to stand and work. In the first two months, after Kyle in the group got hemorrhoids and went to the hospital for a knife, the utilization rate of this row of adjustable desks increase rapidly.At this moment, Li Bo took a seat, leaning on him with a charming posture. They talked about the project for a while, and Du Ang, Zhong Jurui's other colleague, also came.
Du Ang's nickname is Duang, and he is Zhong Jurui's senior. When Zhong Jurui first entered the school, he was a graduate student and had been a teaching assistant for Zhong Jurui's professional courses.It wasn't their group that Zhong Jurui met before. Du Ang saw his resume and picked it up. Zhong Jurui only knew this after he joined the job.And Du Ang pushed him here because of the ACM competition a few years ago, Zhong Jurui and his classmates were not usually friendly, and they couldn't get people in the team competition. In the final preliminaries, after a classmate was caught, he had no choice but to call out a math department. Programming enthusiasts come to paddle.This competition is a team battle, and three people share a computer to complete the answers. Before the competition, Zhong Jurui said: "You two watch from the side, don't talk too much, and you can sleep for a while if you are tired." The classmate said: "Learn God, the three cobblers have surpassed Zhuge Liang, so we can do something." Zhong Jurui hesitated and said, "Isn't this an IQ test? I'll call you when I fail." However, after 3 hours When Zhong Jurui did not fail in the game, his teammates had an afternoon tea and walked out of the competition field very comfortably, and rushed out of the preliminaries.Although the finals dragged their feet, they still spared no effort to publicize the demeanor of Xueshen, the first and the second.Du Ang always remembered Zhong Jurui.There are many places where their work intersects, and he gradually discovered Zhong Jurui's biggest weakness: too focused.When Zhong Jurui was thinking about things with all his heart, talking to him would go in one ear and out the other, and he said yes, maybe he didn't even notice you.
"We have a temporary meeting at eleven o'clock, remember?" Seeing Zhong Jurui brainstorming with Li Bo, Du Ang knocked on the table to remind him, "The intern little sister is not here today, no one is urging you, go on your own meeting room."
Zhong Jurui nodded, and conveniently added a reminder.After entering the meeting room, I realized that it was not a technical meeting, but that the big boss had hired a strategic consulting company to do assessment and planning for them. The boss of their department came to convey this matter, saying that there might be some issues that require their cooperation with the consulting company. place.
"Strategic consulting? What do you want to do?" Du Ang didn't quite understand, "Where does the wind blow in a different direction?"
"Although AI is hot now, everyone is betting on it. The tide has not receded and we don't know who is swimming naked. We have been spending money here, and the big boss needs some endorsement to convince shareholders." The department boss said.Departments that have been spending money are always disliked, and no one can say whether they will make money in the future. Who doesn't want to have income right now?Probably I want to find a consulting company to make some good-looking data, so as to give directors and shareholders a little reassurance.
But this is not really about Zhong Jurui's business, he was still thinking about the new idea that Li Bo told him, when he heard the boss say something unimportant, he asked the meeting to adjourn.
"Curie, you stay here first."
Du Ang patted Zhong Jurui on the shoulder, and left with the computer between his arms.
It's been two years since Zhong Jurui joined the job, and it's time to talk about salary increase again.They also talked more than once, and they are very familiar with the routine. After a few words of concern, the boss gave a new salary.Zhong Jurui was not dissatisfied at all, he guessed before that he thought it was worth the price.
"Is work and life going well? Is there a lot of pressure? You can tell me if you have any unpleasantness." The boss tried his best to put on a loving look.However, this product is the favorite to play when it comes out of the office, and it doesn't put on airs. Zhong Jurui doubts that what he is thinking is to tell him something unhappy, so that he can be happy and forward it to the group to have fun with the people.
"It's okay." Zhong Jurui said.
"You told me yesterday that you have to work overtime. It's really unnecessary. Making money is not for living." The boss thought about it and said, "Your University A is too ambitious, and Du Ang is also you. He is to pay back the flat What is your mortgage for? You also bought a house?"
Zhong Jurui smiled and said, "No."
"Don't be so tight." The boss said, "Okay, go to work and call Du Ang for me."
Zhong Jurui grabbed the notebook on the table and nodded, then walked out. He saw cumulus clouds outside the window, and there would be showers.He twisted his neck, a little wanting to work at the lift table, he paused and went back to his station.
——Every time I stand in the aisle to work, I always feel that the footsteps in front of my eyes are accompanied by the whispers of "This is Zhong Jurui", which is particularly noisy, so it's better to just hide in the cubicle in a low-key manner.
☆、Chapter 55
Work really is the most healing thing.Zhong Jurui regards his work as his wife, indulges in tenderness every day, and forgets to leave. If he works overtime until one or two o'clock temporarily, it is like burning firewood with his wife.Ren Duang and the others' eyes were black and blue from working overtime, and their stomachs were getting more and more protruding from sitting all day long. Zhong Jurui was always dressed in a cool outfit, wearing glasses, with long legs, and he remained handsome and motionless.
The bitter summer is coming to an end, he restrained the feeling of missing Pei Xu in his busy work, and no longer had any cheap places to find friends.
Pei Xu probably left early after his vacation, he thought.
Until early autumn, Tang Cheng sent a WeChat message saying that his cousin Zheng Xianwen was getting married and asked him to attend the wedding.
He and Zheng Xianwen have known each other for a long time. When he was in high school, he and Tang Cheng—then they called him Golden Snake—were used as gunners to write codes for others. Occasionally, Tang Cheng himself was so busy during the exam week that he would let Zheng Xianwen take over. Later, Tang Cheng worked hard to start a business and opened a game company. Zheng Xianwen helped test it. Now that Tang Cheng has made some achievements in his career, Zheng Xianwen naturally still follows him.Because of the contact with Tang Cheng in the past few years, Zhong Jurui and Zheng Xianwen naturally have intersected intermittently.
Tang Cheng really had nothing to say to this cousin, Zhong Jurui felt that his brother was just like that.But after thinking about it, he felt that Tang Cheng was very nice to everyone. Seeing that he was bored with work, he even sent an invitation to him to join in the fun.Originally, based on his friendship with Zheng Xianwen, there was really no need for him to join in the fun at the wedding.
"Xianxian gets married, I'll just follow suit, I've been quite busy recently..."
"Busy, the wedding banquet is on Saturday, so you won't have to work overtime, right? Come here! Xianxian specially left you an invitation card, if I can't invite you, I can only ask him to come in person."
Zhong Jurui had no choice but to agree.
He put down his cell phone, moved his neck, and heard the "click" sound of bones.Heard a "fuck!"
Kyle at the next table was finally able to sit down and work. After the hemorrhoid operation, he became visibly irritable and growled "fuck" every now and then.Zhong Jurui originally thought that he was cursing his mother because of the pain of his wound, but later he found out that this guy installed a GitHub project called thefuck. After typing a wrong command in the terminal, there is no need to modify it and type it again. Just type fuck, and the project will automatically fix. Kyle couldn't stop using this function, he used it so much that he shouted while typing.
Zhong Jurui just twisted his neck like this, feeling a little hopeless.
Du Ang walked by and asked him casually if he had lunch, Zhong Jurui shook his head and asked Du Ang if he had eaten.
"Migraine." Du Ang said with an uneasy expression, "I'll have a party on the table, and you can pack something for me when you come back."
Zhong Jurui agreed, picked up a thin coat and got up, ready to go to the cafeteria.After waiting outside the elevator for a while, I saw the boss bringing two young people from the conference room. Both of them were wearing white shirts and suit pants, which were out of tune with the code farmers in casual clothes on this floor. Zhong Jurui took a closer look. Lo and behold, one of the faces he recognized.
"Hi!" Chen Jiarui said happily, "I didn't expect you to work here."
Because it was at work, Chen Jiarui stretched out his hand out of habit and smiled slightly.
——I don't really want to hold it.Kyle roared violently in Zhong Jurui's mind, Falk.
The boss asked: "Do you know each other?"
"En." Zhong Jurui said, he shook Chen Jiarui's hand quickly, then let go, put his hand back into his pocket, and stopped talking.
Chen Jiarui glanced at him and felt vague hostility.
The boss was not surprised by Zhong Jurui's taciturnity - Zhong Jurui was a man who couldn't beat a fart with three sticks - he walked into the elevator talking with the two visitors very kindly.Zhong Jurui stood in the corner of the elevator and looked at Chen Jiarui's back.He heard that Chen Jiarui was the consultant sent by the consulting company. The consulting project was finalized in August and is currently in the early stage.Listening to the meaning of the boss's words, Chen Jiarui's title is not low, and he can be called young and promising.
They ate lunch in the company cafeteria. The boss brought two visitors and warmly introduced that the cafeteria had hired a Sichuan cuisine chef recently. The boiled beef was worth a try.Zhong Jurui walked away silently carrying the dinner plate, but his gaze could not help but drift towards Chen Jiarui.
This is Pei Xu's current boyfriend.
It's just two eyes and one mouth, no difference.he thought a little jealously.
Check a job-seeking app on your phone to see what the average annual salary of Chen Jiarui's position is.
Tsk, he's not much taller than himself, Chen Jiarui is two years older than himself, so that's about it.
Zhong Jurui stared blankly at the phone screen, and suddenly felt so boring again.
Eat your uncle's vinegar.Not at all open minded.
After he finished his meal, he silently placed an order to buy a copy of whenyourrelationshipends.Even if the god of learning is broken in love, he is ready to get out of it through learning knowledge.
From this day on, Chen Jiarui appeared more frequently in the company, and when they met each other in the bathroom, Zhong Jurui was able to straighten his face and nod relatively politely.Chen Jiarui only thought that the low air pressure he felt in front of the elevator was because Zhong Jurui was under too much work pressure, so he didn't take it seriously, and chatted with him while washing his hands.According to Chen Jiarui, he has been stationed here recently and will leave after a week.
Zhong Jurui put his hands under the dryer and blown slowly, then suddenly said: "You...know me?"
Chen Jiarui is simply strange, what do you know?
Looking at his expression, Zhong Jurui felt that he didn't seem to know the past between him and Pei Xu, maybe Pei Xu didn't explain it.He really wanted to say something plausible to spoil their relationship.This bit of scheming was soon wiped out, Zhong Jurui was upright, and didn't want to be a scheming man who instigates people behind his back.
Chen Jiarui said: "What do you mean? What do you know?"
"It's nothing." The wind blew on his hands, Zhong Jurui struggled for a while, and then asked, "He's gone?"
"Who?"
"Pei Xu."
Chen Jiarui was even more surprised, how did he know whether Pei Xu had left or not.The last time they met was in the summer, they lived in a hotel by chance, and they didn't keep in touch with each other often, at most they were acquaintances who liked each other in the circle of friends.No matter how you think about it, you feel that the relationship between him and Pei Xu is not as close as that of Zhong Jurui and Pei Xu, so he said, "Don't you know?"
Zhong Jurui felt that this sentence was like a rhetorical question, as if he was mocking him, and said to the imaginary enemy with a cold face: "I'm just asking casually."
This nonsensical conversation made Chen Jiarui confused, and further strengthened Zhong Jurui's idea that he had become a weirdo.Time probably not only cut off Zhong Jurui's facial nerves, but also messed up his thinking nerves.Chen Jiarui didn't know that he was regarded as Pei Xu's incumbent and was hostile. He just thought Zhong Jurui was weird.
Pei Xu's cell phone dinged.The director took the topic of the newspaper to the pre-editing meeting, and the correspondents who had been dormant online for most of the day suddenly seemed to come alive, sending in various manuscripts in a hurry.Nothing major has happened recently, and the messy manuscripts add up and still can't find any bright spots. The editor-in-chief is anxious, and keeps posting in the group: "Dig a hole three feet, and dig some materials for me. How can there be nothing? Then Ask, go to the official websites and check again, why do you have to remind me every day?"
It was only then that Pei Xu felt the disadvantages of working in City A, so he muted his phone with a heavy heart.
The one-year expatriate expired, and while he was on vacation, the editor-in-chief asked him to return to work in City A after finishing his work. Every day was very regular, but there was no taste at all.
"What do you want? Do you know how many inspections I wrote to the Propaganda Department last year? How many people have been ordered to abolish the In-Depth Reporting Department in the past three years? Do you not know how many? Do you know that Zhong Nanping was resigned after the fall? Who Don’t you have any news ideals? You are the most noble.” The editor-in-chief slammed his pen, “There are so many mouths, everyone has to eat! Do you understand?”
Pei Xu wanted to pretend to be a wolf with a big tail, because the sensitive/sensitivity manuscripts were not the most withdrawn, but more due to the mediation of several parties with conflicting interests, which finally turned into a bubble.He published a manuscript last year, but it hadn't been sent out yet. Someone came to him with a suitcase, and he realized that the cash in a suitcase was not a plot of a movie screenwriter.It's a pity that he didn't have the guts to accept it.His report was still stopped, and it is not known whose hands the box of money ended up in.
After all, it's not a question of money.
Pei Xu walked out holding his breath and called his brother.
"I still want to be an investigative reporter." Pei Xu lit his cigarette irritably, "I've tried it. I've been working for a year, and I'm sure I don't want to continue."
Pei Han said he disagreed.
"If it doesn't work, you should change your career. If you don't like the status quo, you should stop doing news. If you want to be a reporter, stay away from those smoky things."
"How is it possible to stay away?"
Pei Han didn't have anything to say, but he bit him to death and didn't support it.However, it doesn't matter if he supports it or not. Pei Xu is an adult and financially independent, so he has no ability to influence Pei Xu's choice.
Pei Xu leaned decadently on the corridor to smoke, and hung up without saying a word.
Zhong Jurui is practicing waist strength in the gym.The coach seems to like him very much, obviously he didn't hold private lessons, so he came over to give some pointers.No matter how insensitive Zhong Jurui's radar was, he also discovered that it was a strike-up.
He pulled out the cable and put it on until the coach tactfully walked away.
This Saturday was a cool autumn day. After exercising, he quickly took a shower, went to the barber shop he frequented, and spent 48 yuan to cut the simplest straight male hairstyle. Then he took a taxi to Zheng Xianwen's wedding venue.
Zheng Xianwen dropped out of school due to illness in his early years, and his friends are all friends from childhood, and the number of them is not many.He is now an employee of Tang Cheng, so most of the colleagues he invited belonged to Tang Cheng's company. Zhong Jurui took a rough look inside and found that several of them were common in previous dinner parties.He paid the money at the door, but Tang Cheng dragged him away and led him to his seat.Zheng Xianwen's colleagues sat at two tables, and Zhong Jurui happened to be one more, who was placed at the friend's table.
"I'll sit with you later." Tang Cheng said, "I'll help greet the guests first, and my aunt will call me!"
The wedding photos scrolled on the big screen, and sweet pop songs were played all the time.Zhong Jurui looked at the bride from a distance, and felt that the wedding photos hadn't been photoshopped yet, so that the relatives would not recognize her.His table was not full, probably because this table was full of Zheng Xianwen's close friends, and Zheng Xianwen was either making trouble at the door, or being the best man, and he hadn't had time to sit down yet.
Zhong Jurui never imagined his own wedding.He hasn't even attended a few weddings since he was a child. Recalling the last time, it was his father's second marriage. Not long after he appeared on the stage, he was taken away by his relatives, fearing that he would make trouble, and locked him in a small box. Two crabs and a plate of pistachios.He dismantled the crab legs and got his hand pricked.His only thought about that wedding was that crabs still had to be dipped in vinegar.
He is not familiar with everyone at the table, and the acquaintances have already chatted with each other, and he lowered his head to play with his mobile phone.
Two people stood beside him.
One said: "Can this drink be opened first? I'm thirsty."
Another said: "The wedding hasn't even started yet, don't open the one on this table, you can ask the waiter."
Someone at the table said: "This table is not an outsider, Li Gou, open it when you are thirsty!" He said and was about to twist the bottle.
"Don't, don't, don't! Leave it alone." The person who blocked him waved his hand.
Zhong Jurui looked up and saw that the one who wanted to drink water had the flower of "best man" pinned on his chest, and was pushed away by another person.
The scene was really lively, as if everyone was kissing everyone.It is said that this venue was booked a year in advance. Zheng Xianwen and his wife originally wanted to book for the National Day, but the National Day stall was booked two years in advance.Zhong Jurui listened to the two girls at the table chatting about the wedding venue, and couldn't help but think, what if they both leave when it's time for the wedding, if they book it two years in advance.Before he could think too much, Tang Cheng sat back.
"It's about to start." Tang Cheng wiped his bald head with a napkin and wiped off the sweat, "Oh my God, I'm not getting married today, I'm sweating all over."
Tang Cheng has a lot of affection for this cousin. According to him, it’s because his parents were busy making money in primary and junior high school. He was fostered by his aunt’s house for ten years. He and Zheng Xianwen were like brothers until he was sent abroad by his father in high school. He usually buys any digital products, clothes and sneakers, and he will definitely buy them for Zheng Xianwen.Later, when his cousin fell ill, he even made up his mind to take his cousin with him in everything he did in the future.
Zhong Jurui said with a smile: "Perhaps your cousin has long wanted to make his own way, seeing that you can't do anything, so he has to stay and support you."
Tang Cheng laughed and said it was very possible.
"I'm afraid I'll cry." Tang Cheng said, "If I feel emotional later and cry out, don't laugh at me."
Zhong Jurui said no.
The lights dimmed, and the groomsmen returned to the friend table and sat on Zhong Jurui's left.In this wedding, the master of ceremonies didn't say a single obscene joke, just recalling the growth of the bride and groom made a lot of tears.Tang Cheng didn't cry, but kept applauding vigorously.Zhong Jurui caught a glimpse of the best man group from the corner of his eye, and found that Li Gou was already in tears.
The big screen is still displaying a group photo of Zheng Xianwen and his good brothers in middle school. It is obvious that Li Gou is shoulder to shoulder with Zheng Xianwen.Li Gou lay on the shoulder of the young man beside him before, and the young man said helplessly: "Didn't you cry once when Xianxian got engaged? Why are you still crying when you get married?"
"This master of ceremonies who kills a thousand knives, the wedding is the wedding, what childhood memories are you playing? It's so fucking teary. The smoke cage is cold, the water is moon cage sand, and Xianxian has a new home from now on. Isn't it normal to be sad? Think about going to an Internet cafe secretly with him before. , I always feel that it is not far away, but in fact it has been ten years." Li Gou finally straightened his back.The master of ceremonies asked the bride and groom to kiss each other, Li Gou whistled enthusiastically and booed.
Zhong Jurui suddenly felt very envious.Not to mention whether he had a wedding in his life, even if he did, who would appear in the photo of his teenager, who would cry sadly, and who would whistle at him from below.After much deliberation, no one.
This is the most heart-wrenching part of attending this wedding.It was too lively, it was lively and lively, and I found that the excitement had nothing to do with me.
☆、Chapter 56
The wedding banquet was coming to an end, some guests left scatteredly, Zheng Xianwen and his wife stood at the door to see off the guests.The people at the friend's table were clamoring about how rare it was for Lu Yi and Li Gou to return to China for a reunion, and they were going to play mahjong all night, and Tang Cheng didn't know where to go.Zhong Jurui looked around for no acquaintances, and it seemed superfluous to stay any longer, so he greeted Zheng Xianwen, congratulated him on his happy wedding, and prepared to take a taxi away.
He couldn't help but drink some wine at night, his ears were a little hot, and he stood at the door and was shaken by the night wind.
A girl patted him on the shoulder: "Zhong Jurui!"
Zhong Jurui turned his face away, and he had the impression that this girl belonged to Tangcheng Company, but he couldn't remember any more details.
Seeing his unchanging expression, the girl was not annoyed, and said, "I'm Yan Xi, Tang Cheng's junior, and I'm also working under him now. You really can't remember me? I even sent you An umbrella."
Zhong Jurui said "Oh" twice, and said very politely: "Thank you."
Yan Xi took out the car keychain from her bag and wrapped it around her fingers: "Are you going home? I will do a good deed every day and I will give you a ride." Before Zhong Jurui could refuse, she said, "The two of us live together The place is only 500 meters apart, so it’s very convenient.” He blinked slyly, “Don’t ask me how I found out.”
"Don't bother, I still..."
Yan Xi said: "I'm a girl, can I eat you?" She smiled brightly, "Really, don't think too much, just give me a ride and give me a chance to be Lei Feng?"
Zhong Jurui suddenly realized - no wonder Tang Cheng insisted on asking him to come to the wedding, he also said that Xianxian wouldn't insist on him coming so politely.In the past, Zhong Jurui always refused on the grounds that he was too tired to work overtime. Tang Cheng probably couldn't explain it to his sister, but this time he simply brought everyone to the wedding - no wonder he slipped away as soon as the wedding banquet was over.
It would be hypocritical to refuse again, so he had no choice but to follow Yan Xi into the car.
The car fragrance is particularly strong.Yan Xi lived in it for a long time and didn't smell its fragrance, but Zhong Jurui felt that his nose was uncomfortable in the co-pilot, and kept frowning.He is not a person who can be both right and wrong, his social skills are average, his face is red from drinking alcohol, his thinking is very slow, he just stares at the road ahead, and doesn't stir up topics.
Yan Xi took a sneak peek, broke the silence, and said with a smile: "Tang Cheng said that you are invulnerable to all poisons, and it is true." He sighed again, "I didn't pass your WeChat account, and I didn't come out in the game. It's so difficult A piece of bone."
Zhong Jurui was amused by her tone of singing and sighing three times.He smiled shallowly, his eyes fell on the flickering lights on the trees by the street.
"Why are you so hard to chase?" Yan Xi said with a smile, not resentment in her tone, just teasing.
Zhong Jurui suddenly said: "I'm not hard to chase."
"what?"
Red light, the car stopped.
The orange street lamp outside the window shone on Zhong Jurui's face, and his straight nose cast a small shadow.
Zhong Jurui lowered his eyes and said: "I'm not hard to chase, someone has tried it. Just ignore me for three days, ignore me for two days, first piss me off, then talk sweet words to coax me, just hang around like this, and I'll be hooked immediately .”
Yan Xi probably didn't expect Zhong Jurui to say such a thing suddenly, so she didn't react.
Zhong Jurui turned around and smiled.
"Really? Can it be done like this?" Yan Xi also adjusted a smile.
"It can be done." Zhong Jurui said, "I can vomit my heart out to him."
"So it's said that routines have been popular since ancient times." Yan Xi smiled awkwardly.
Zhong Jurui didn't say anything this time.When the car started again, Zhong Jurui said: "Look, there is someone in my heart who started a new relationship in such a muddle-headed way. I'm sorry for myself, and even more sorry for others. If I make people wait, I don't know how long it will take. It will be even more delaying." Thank you for always being willing to ask me to go out for a gathering, but next time, don’t make things difficult for Tang Cheng.”
Yan Xi smiled and said: "My God, I thought you were being subtle, but I didn't expect you to be so direct? You said it clearly, and it made me die clearly."
Zhong Jurui looked forward very gently.
Yan Xi said: "So what's so good about that person?"
Zhong Jurui thought very seriously, and finally smiled: "It seems that there is nothing good."
"You can't let go, why did you break up?"
"Then who knows, it's a mess, if he wants to break up, he will break up." His tone paused, "Probably something is wrong with me."
Yan Xi defended Zhong Jurui's injustice: "I don't want to cherish someone like you."
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