[K Mo] Open the door, send a courier!

00.

The calendar has passed the new year, and the streets and alleys ushered in the last bustle.

People are not in the mood to work, thinking about what to buy for the New Year all day long. The sellers of dried fruit and candied fruit on the street, and the sellers of window grilles and couplets are next to each other. The festive atmosphere is permeated on everyone's face. Several times.

KO even shook the spoon for two hours, no matter how strong his arm was, he began to feel sore now. He put the shredded fish-flavored pork on a plate, threw it to the waiter, and sighed hard.

Chinese New Year is the most hated day of the year for KO, not one of them.

If you want to talk about why, firstly, both of his parents died and he has no relatives, and he has only a bare-handed commander. To him, the new year is no different from the usual.Second, the food stalls before the Chinese New Year were busier than usual. Normally, they could get off work at ten o’clock in the evening, but now they have to be busy until one or two o’clock in the morning before the last batch of supper customers can be sent away.

The only thing that makes him happy is the annual leave and the red envelope given by the boss.

"Brother KO, your phone keeps ringing." The part-time student girl with cute twintails and a tray reminded her, "It's been ringing several times."

KO was busy with the next dish, and had no time to care about the mobile phone in his pocket, so he said indifferently, "It's a scam."

The student girl burst out laughing: "How can there be such persistent scam calls, maybe I have something important to ask you."

"No." KO cherishes words like gold: "No one looks for me."

I have no family, relatives, or friends, and my network of relationships is pitifully simple. Apart from the calls of the food stall owner and landlord, there are only 10086 and advertising text messages left in my mobile phone.

Recently during the Chinese New Year, there have been more fraudulent calls. KO connected to two yesterday, and both of them opened their mouths to cry when they picked up the phone: "Dad! I was arrested for whoring! You hurry up and send me bail...!"

KO thought for a while, and before hanging up the phone, he replied, "Go in and make some improvements."

But as the student girl said, today's fraudulent call was really tenacious, and she made one call after another, like a series of deadly calls. KO was annoyed by it, so she simply put the phone on vibrate.

It was already 3 p.m. after the busy lunch rush. KO breathed a sigh of relief, put his apron back in the kitchen, rubbed his shoulders and went to the door to smoke.After a while, he heard the group of part-time students newly hired by the boss laughing and laughing behind his back.

Today's children are really energetic, and they still have time to mess around after a busy day. KO puffed out the smoke ring, and from the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of those young people gathering together and peeking at him. He turned his head with some doubts, but saw that those children were actually holding his mobile phone.

When KO touched his pocket, he remembered that the phone and apron were in the back kitchen together.

The leading boy laughed dryly and said, "I'm sorry, brother KO, I saw your phone vibrating all the time, so I wanted to give it to you, and I accidentally saw the text message your girlfriend sent you... I was so careless!!"

"I said that KO is so handsome, he must have a girlfriend," the student girl with pigtails held out her hand triumphantly: "I'm willing to bet and admit defeat, and take money for money."

Another boy took out the ten yuan in his pocket and sighed: "Brother KO's girlfriend is really nice. If only my girlfriend cared about me so much, she might not be able to call me every day."

"Don't you see that you are as handsome as KO?" The boy holding the phone snorted: "But KO, even if you are handsome, you can't ignore your girlfriend, she is dying of anxiety."

KO listened for a long time with a cigarette in his mouth, but he didn't understand what these people were talking about. He reached out and picked his chin, and the children ran over like dogs and obediently handed in their phones.

I swiped open the screen and saw that there was indeed a number that sent several text messages in succession.

"Why haven't you answered my phone?"

"No matter how busy you are, you should call me back! Even a message is fine."

"I can't reach you, do you know how anxious I am? Can you understand this feeling?"

"Can you stop doing this in the future? It's not the first time. I'm about to collapse!"

The words are sincere and the voice is full of emotion. KO felt a little embarrassed after reading it, and replied a text message guiltily—"Who are you?"

The other person came back immediately: "A courier."

01.

KO twirled the cigarette butt with his foot and looked at the sky at 45 degrees.

There is finally a person in the world who will be anxious when you can't find him, but he is a courier.

This oolong is really a man who will be silent when he hears it, and a woman will cry when he hears it.

02.

After all, KO answered the phone, and an energetic young male voice came from the receiver:

"Brother, you can answer the phone, the express delivery is heavy, do you know if you are at home, come out and get it!"

KO's tone was flat: "Not here, you leave the door."

The other person became angry: "Why put the door, your community didn't even put the door on the door, and someone else took it away, but I am unlucky, there are many thieves at the end of the year, our company has explicitly requested that it must be delivered to the customer, Where are you now? I'll send it to you!"

His nasal tone was soft, but it was the continuous bombardment that made him dizzy.

The owner of the food stall has a rule that it is not allowed to receive express delivery during working hours. KO estimated the distance from home, thinking that he could run back and forth within 20 minutes, so he asked the waiter to help him cover for a while, and started to drive in the direction of home .

"Stay where you are and wait for me."

03.

KO ran into the corridor, and as soon as he turned a corner, he saw a big boy in a courier uniform sitting on the steps in front of his house, squatting there, playing with his mobile phone bored.After hearing the movement, he raised his head, revealing a rather cute face, with the peaked cap on his head worn backwards, a pair of black eyes blinking at himself, and soon the smile became cracked, and the whole person jumped up : "Oh, I can count on seeing you."

KO breathed a sigh of relief, stepped forward to pick up the package, and held the heavy package in his hand, which seemed to be the kitchen utensils he ordered a few days ago.

The courier brother smiled, pointed at the courier slip and handed over a pen: "Sign here."

KO silently signed and nodded: "Thank you."

"No thanks, no thanks," the other party waved his hand: "I will be thankful if you can answer the phone well in the future. I have been taking over this area for several months, and every time you can't get in touch, it will affect my performance. I know, last time I squatted at the door of your house for two days with the courier, I didn’t even see a person, and finally I had no choice but to put it at the door for you. I was afraid that someone would take it away, so I stuffed it in a fireproof box. , do you remember?"

How could it not be remembered, KO was silent to himself, it turned out that you were the one who stuffed the courier into the fireproof box.

"I'm busy with work, so I don't necessarily go home."

"You are really dedicated," the courier boy clicked his tongue: "Our boss has recently made a new regulation, which requires the customer to sign for it in person, otherwise we will have to compensate the lost item at the price, or you can directly fill in the address of the unit in the future. "

KO shook his head: "Our unit does not accept express delivery."

"How can there be such a thing!" The boy jumped up: "You have to find a way!"

KO thought for a while, then took out a silver key from his pocket: "Here you are."

The opposite person looked confused: "What... what do you mean?!"

KO calmly said, "The key to my house."

"No...you...you!" The courier boy was dumbfounded: "I didn't mean you, big brother. There are a lot of bad guys these days. You can't just give the key casually like this. Isn't it just a courier? At worst, I'll wait until the weekend to get back to you." Just give it to you..."

"I also go to work on weekends." KO inserted the key into the lock, turned half a circle clockwise, opened the outermost security door and pointed: "Put it here."

After looking at it, I realized that there was a wooden door inside the anti-theft door, which is a typical structure in old-fashioned residential buildings. There is a large space between the two doors, which is indeed a good place to put packages.

Although the safety is guaranteed, everyone has never met each other before, and they always feel that there is something wrong with just taking other people's keys. The courier brother scratched his head for a while before he seemed to suddenly think of something, and took out his work card from his bag: "No , let me show you, I am a full-time employee of Zhiyi Express, I will not run away, you can rest assured, and this is my phone number."

KO took it over and took a look. The boy in the ID photo was not wearing a hat, with soft bangs lying on his forehead, smiling innocently. The photo was stamped with the stamp of Zhiyi Express Company, and a letter was printed in black and white underneath. Name: Hao Mei.

04.

KO and Hao Mei got to know each other like this.

In fact, the acquaintance is a bit far-fetched, the two are just the relationship between the courier and the courier.

But if you think about it carefully, the other party not only knows your name, mobile phone number and home address, but even got the house key.

KO, who has been alone since the death of his parents, suddenly realizes belatedly—this guy named Hao Mei, according to common worldly standards, is ridiculous, and has become the closest person in his social relationship .

05.

Day by day, the increasingly festive atmosphere on the street formed an unimaginable contrast with more and more closed shops.

The extreme excitement was followed by a sudden depression.

Migrant workers returned home in batches, and the shops on the street, large and small, pulled down their shutter doors one by one and put up rest notices.

It was finally the last working day of the food stall, and the boss smiled and handed out year-end bonuses one by one with red envelopes.

As the head chef, KO naturally received the thickest stack, which can be regarded as a reward for his hard work for a year.

"Haha, keep working hard next year." The chubby boss patted KO on the shoulder: "I heard that you got a girlfriend a few days ago, so I specially put a few more photos for you to buy some gifts, young people don't Don't take life's important matters to heart, it's hard to coax girls these days!"

The boss who is usually stingy is so generous, this is probably a miracle that can only happen in the New Year.

The corner of KO's mouth twitched, but in the end he didn't say anything. Holding the red envelope, he bent over to the boss: "Thank you."

Who would have trouble with money? If you misunderstand, just misunderstand, and you won't lose a piece of meat.

On the way home with big and small bags of ingredients, the bustling crowd exudes joy, and KO feels out of place in it.

He couldn't help thinking of the prose sentences he had read in his few student careers,

"The excitement is theirs, and I have nothing."

This is the real reason he hates Chinese New Year.

When others are reunited, a lonely person can no longer escape his loneliness.

Or how to say that the leak in the house happens to rain all night, God sometimes likes to play tricks on those miserable people.

KO was carrying big bags and small bags, standing at the door of the house he hadn't come back for several days. He took out the key ring from his pocket and found that one was missing.

Where is the missing one, KO immediately remembered that it was given to the courier by himself.

The landlord gave him two keys for the main door and the auxiliary door. One is usually carried with him, and the other is kept for later use.

That day he gave the key to Hao Mei, thinking of hurrying back to the food stall, he forgot to replace the spare one in his haste.In the past few days, he was so busy that he didn't touch the ground. After work in the early morning, he slept directly on the spring bed in the food stall warehouse. He didn't think about it for several days.

Standing at the door of the house at this moment, staring at the keyhole, the scene is very embarrassing.

06.

Hao Mei wandered around the street twice, but couldn't even find a restaurant that was still open. She was singing empty plans in her stomach, and finally had to go to the supermarket to buy two boxes of instant noodles.

It's so tragic, those who heard it were sad and those who saw it shed tears, and those who celebrated the Chinese New Year were reduced to the point of eating instant noodles.

Hao Mei couldn't stand it anymore, so she brought two more ham sausages——in order to express her celebration of the festival, she bought the most expensive one specially.

In fact, in the express delivery industry, I am usually as busy as a spinning top, but at the end of the year, I rest earlier than others.

Zhiyi Express stopped picking up packages a few days ago, and we call it a day when the packages in our hands are delivered.Hao Mei has been answering many phone calls at home these days, all urging him to go back, because his mother at home doesn't understand these things, so he talks nonsense, saying that he has to deal with a difficult client in a while, and what in a while The company was going to hold a year-end summary meeting, and after procrastinating day after day, it was finally impossible to procrastinate, so I bought a ticket to go back on New Year's Eve.

Colleagues around me have been on the move since last month, making plans to grab tickets for the Spring Festival travel rush, and they all wished they could fly their wings and go home.However, Hao Mei was not in a hurry, his home was in the next city, the journey was only two or three hours away, there was no shortage of short-distance bus tickets, even if bought on New Year's Eve, there might be a seat.

As the end of the new year approaches, the streets and alleys become deserted. Not to mention the rented house, it’s so cold that you can’t even find a place to eat. The days are nothing compared to the good food and warm quilt after returning home, but Hao Mei just doesn’t want to go back.

Back then, he applied for the information management major of University A behind his father's back. If you want to talk about what the information management major is, in fact, Hao Mei didn't know it at all, and it didn't matter. The life trajectory planned for him, and the paper full of college and department major options, in his opinion, as long as his father didn't ask him to study financial management, any one would do.

This kind of irresponsible behavior for his own life greatly angered the old father at home, who was so angry that he almost hung him up and beat him.But it was a done deal, and in the end, he could only watch helplessly as his son boarded the train to college.In the end, the debt was fully deducted into Hao Mei's living expenses, 600 yuan a month, which is enough to eat.

The family had originally calculated that he would not be able to bear the hardships and would come back to admit his mistakes in a few months.Never thought that Hao Mei, who is usually soft and sluggish, will become as stubborn as a piece of granite. She will not be able to pull back even eight rockets, not to mention eight cows. She not only finished 4 years of university, but also found a job in City A , made up his mind not to go home.

It can be said that if you don't go back, you will not escape when the New Year comes.Hao Mei was walking slowly with her bag in her hand, sighing, her whole body was not happy during the big festival—staying in City A, she could only eat instant noodles alone, and when she returned home, she would be saddened. There is no hope.

Hao Mei was in grief, when the phone in his pocket rang loudly, guessing it was his mother calling him again to urge him to go home, he couldn't help getting upset, so he pretended he didn't hear it, put the phone in his pocket, and continued to shake Walk leisurely home.

07.

At this time, not to mention changing the locks, even those who pick the locks have gone home for the New Year.

Facing the key ring missing a key, KO thought about it, and took out his mobile phone to call the courier.

No answer on one call, no answer on two calls, three calls...

KO pinched his cell phone, pulled out a cigarette from his pocket angrily, and put it in his mouth.

No phone calls, only text messages.The few urgent messages that Hao Mei sent before are still lying in the message records, and at this moment there is a sense of ridicule for his upside-down position.

Now he finally understood Hao Mei's mood when she sent him the message, it was really good and evil finally repaid, the way of heaven is reincarnation.

The words were divided into two parts, the phone in Hao Mei's pocket finally stopped ringing, and changed to a short-term vibration like a text message.

If you can say that you didn't hear the call if you didn't answer it, then you will definitely be sprayed to death by your own mother if you don't reply to the text message.

Hao Mei sighed, reluctantly took out her phone, swiped open the screen only to find that it was a text message from KO, fixed her eyes as soon as she read the first sentence, she almost tripped over her right foot and fell out.

——"I can't reach you, do you know how anxious I am? Can you understand this feeling?"

08.

"Pfft...!" Hao Mei burst out laughing.

After reading the text message, he fully understood KO's predicament, and leaked air out of his mouth very unsympathetically.

He never thought that it would be such a joy to meet a guy who is even more unlucky than himself in this year when others are happy to smile and cheer him up, but he is gloomy.The grief of "I am the worst in the world" that lingered in my heart before was washed away by this text message.

The city is so big, people come and go, behind every face there are unknown troubles,

But so what, isn't life still going well?

Hao Mei replied the text message, put the mobile phone back into her pocket, turned her feet, hummed a ditty with crooked eyebrows, and even walked a little briskly.

09.

KO's phone vibrated, and a text message popped up.

——"You stay where you are and wait for me."

Yes, these words are also familiar, and I have learned to copy and paste my feelings.

——TBC——