One must have a confidant in life

Chapter 6

更新时间：2014-02-1515:00:02字数：5614

Outside the window is the blue sky and the snow-white clouds like cotton wool.Zhu Yi sat on the comfortable seat, resting his neck on the soft back of the chair, closed his eyes, and prepared to take a nap to kill the remaining few hours.However, it seems that the active cerebral cortex is unwilling to take a short rest. The memories of the past few days, like a flashing light, linger in Zhu Yi's mind, lingering.

He thought of the night of keeping the New Year's Eve a week ago, the noisy room, the little guys running all over the ground and the barking robot dog, the sound of firecrackers, the flickering TV screen, and the pair of OK Hands with rough touch.

In the early morning of the first day of the new year, when it was supposed to be a lively time for every family to visit relatives and friends, he returned to the apartment alone.Facing a room of 20 square meters with simple and elegant decoration, he always likes to be quiet, but for the first time he felt what is called "cold silence".It's only a [-]-minute drive, but it seems to be transformed from one time and space to another.In this "home" that should be all too familiar, even though the air conditioner and heating are turned on, it still can't make him feel warm enough, and even the lights seem indifferent and impersonal.

Zhu Yi is not a fool, of course he understands that the reason is not the house, the decoration or the lighting.He just felt helpless and funny, laughing that he, who was over [-] years old, would be like a young boy, and after half an hour of separation, he began to miss that unscrupulous smiling face.

However, the busy life that followed made him not see Shen Wenruo for a week, and this time, now it seems, must continue to increase.

When he was on duty in the second year of junior high school, he once called Shen Wenruo.But because he had to pack his luggage at night to catch the plane to Lanzhou in the early morning, he declined the invitation to eat at the other party's house.At that time, Zhu Yi never imagined that on the sixth day of the sixth day when he rushed back from Lanzhou to replace the shift in N City, he received an urgent notice asking him to rush to Hainan to deal with the local real estate project the next day. The reason for having to fly to the warm southern islands.

The company decided to change its strategic policy in the next year, first focusing on real estate projects in Hainan, and launched a series of holiday and retirement landscape houses with favorable prices.On the one hand, the landscape environment of Hainan is really good, it is very suitable for leisure and vacation, and health preservation.On the other hand, Haikou, as the capital city of the province, is driven by tourism, and its construction is getting better and better. Compared with the developed cities in the southeast coast, Haikou is not bad, both in terms of infrastructure and medical and health conditions.Therefore, for the elderly, this is indeed a place where they can choose to retire.

Zhu Yi agrees with the company's project decision very much, and he is also full of energy to make the project the best it can be.After arriving in Hainan, Zhu Yi threw himself into work almost immediately.In addition to the site selection of the landscape house, he has personally reviewed everything from the architectural design to the interior decoration of the model house, and strives for perfection.

Occasionally, he would hide in the landscape housing community that has entered the second phase, using "supervision" as an excuse, but actually sneaked in to enjoy the sea breeze.Looking at the well-decorated room, standing on the balcony and looking at the sea, sometimes he would think, if he and Shen Wenruo can retire here when they grow old in the future, that would be a good choice.

However, every time he thought of this, Zhu Yi would laugh at himself.He has already started to think about these things like an old man.

"Missing" is a very common word, but Zhu Yi couldn't say it, he always felt that it was too shabby and nasty for a grown man to call and say this word.Therefore, the content of his conversation with Shen Wenruo often revolved around Xiao Shenhe, or it was just pure bickering and joking.

The two of them never said anything related to their feelings. They seemed to have a consensus. No one broke the words, but kept calling every two to three days, even though there were not many new things in ordinary life. Use it for after-dinner conversation.

Later, Shen Wenruo and Shen He's long winter vacation, which Zhu Yi envied, finally passed.One big and one small reluctantly went to work and school, and occasionally complained on the phone that "the winter in N City is cold", or snorted coldly and said, "Zhu Yi, you unconscionable self, basking in the sun and watching the sea and the beach in Hainan." Beauty".

Every time he encounters such sour complaints, Zhu Yi will heartlessly nod his head on the phone pretending to agree, "That's right, one is as beautiful as the other." Across the sea and radio waves, he However, he unconsciously made a beating expression, as if Shen Wenruo was standing in front of him and grinning maliciously twice.

Day by day, it seems that the winter is getting away.Not just the weather, but the market.The company's economic situation has improved, and it has begun to slowly return to its pre-depression state, and it has also begun to recruit new employees.After Zhu Yi got the news, he immediately called the two newcomers who had been laid off and invited them to return to the company and continue working in his team.After successfully passing the written test and interview, and with the guarantee from Zhu Yi, the two returned to the office building in N City quickly, and expressed their thanks to Zhu Yi by phone.

Everything seems to be fine.The warm climate in the south is very pleasant, and the sea breeze makes Zhu Yi darker again.Steady and gradual work, a healthy biological clock from [-] to [-], is obviously a comfortable life, but Zhu Yi is starting to get a little impatient.Day by day, he has been working here for nearly two months, and he misses the city of N more and more every day, even though he has always complained about the air quality and traffic conditions in the city center.

He understands that, in fact, that place is just his part-time job, but the difference here is that there is Shen Wenruo there.

Expectation is like a disease.It is obviously a busy day at work, every hour seems to pass quickly, but the numbers on the calendar are moving extremely slowly. This kind of gap often makes Zhu Yi stare at the calendar on the desk in a daze.

It's not that he hasn't thought about returning to N City, but he always feels that there is no reasonable excuse.For him, there was no precedent for such a long-term business trip in the past, but he had never missed N City so much, and missed the place where he did not intend to take root before.

Sometimes, Zhu Yi would think back to the last time he came to Hainan.He remembered that on the morning of the day he was catching the plane, he met Shen Wenruo for the second time who brought a female graduate student out for an internship.A short encounter, a short encounter, he boarded the plane without any worries.At that time, he never expected that half a year later, at this time, there would be a person, a friend, in his heart, and it would be enough to make him look forward to "going home".

Three months, three months have passed since the Spring Festival holiday.Hainan in May is not much different from winter. It will always be evergreen, sunny and blue sea all the year round.But Zhu Yi couldn't help but think of N City, which has four distinct seasons, and the "N University" where that person lives. It's time for flowers to bloom.

The feeling of anticipation is getting stronger every day.Until the middle of May, Zhu Yi, who was notified by his superiors, booked a ticket with the airline for the day almost as soon as he hung up the phone.

Come back home.

At an altitude of more than 7000 meters, clouds blocked Zhu Yi's sight.Looking out of the porthole, it is absolutely impossible for him to see through the gap between the sky and the earth theoretically.However, the anticipation of the destination allowed him to picture the brightly lit street and the warm yellow light from the beige curtains in his mind.

After getting off the plane, Zhu Yi raised his hand to look at the watch on his wrist.It was less than three o'clock, so he decided to go back to the company to report, and throw the information on Hainan into the office.After get off work, give Shen Wenruo a call and ask the big and small ones to go out for a good meal.

This should have been a perfect plan, but it was changed after Zhu Yi entered the 27th floor.

Walking through the large office with non-single rooms, Zhu Yi took a glance and found that there were two empty desks where his team was located.Without a computer, without any office equipment, the sudden vacancy made Zhu Yi raise his eyebrows.Leaning the luggage against the door, Zhu Yi went straight over and asked the colleague sitting next to him.

Then, the answer he got, "I didn't get a full-time job after the internship expired," made Zhu Yi frown.These two are young people who are very serious about their work. If it is a problem with the market environment that they were dismissed for the first time, but this time, he thought the company was on the right track, and the new opportunities he won for the two actually changed. Came the same consequences.

The sense of responsibility to his subordinates made Zhu Yi feel angry and blamed himself.If he was not far away in Hainan, he might still be able to argue for them.But in fact, he let the two young people who were grateful to him taste the taste of being deceived again.He is responsible for this matter.

Zhu Yi, who did not speak, walked straight into the personnel department.Facing his questioning, the personnel director gave almost the same answer as the first time—"This is what the boss meant. This time, all the newcomers who are still in the probationary period have no chance of becoming a full-time employee."

This time, Zhu Yi did not choose to be silent. He continued to question the other party loudly: "Since this is the case, why does your personnel department still conduct open recruitment when you know that you will not hire new people? Isn't this an obvious trick?"

Zhu Yi's tough attitude made the other party unhappy, "Aren't they just two newcomers, and they are not your relatives. If you don't fire them, you will pay them?"

The personnel director, who couldn't understand why Zhu Yi was so angry, watched this man who usually doesn't talk much walk out of the office, and half an hour later handed over his resignation letter and the key to the office, "If this is what the company calls' Integrity'," Zhu Yi said with a sullen face, "then I choose to leave."

Zhu Yi's decision shocked the personnel director.After all, Zhu Yi, who is the director of the Hainan project, is on the same level as him.He immediately called the boss of the company, and after getting the answer of "don't let him go", he immediately changed his impatient attitude and tried to negotiate with Zhu Yi with a smile: "Hey, it's just a trivial matter, why are you so angry? Come on, sit down and let's talk."

Zhu Yi squinted at this guy who turned his face like a book, and he didn't even bother to say a word, so he went back to the office and took all the office materials and project planning folders into the hands of the personnel director.At the same time, he also made a list of all the office supplies he handled and returned them to the company, even the small steel folders and boxed tissues were not missed.

Not wanting to say a word, Zhu Yi put his belongings into the recycle bag one by one.In addition to the pens that I keep in my pocket all the time, there are those few reference books. "Modern Chinese Dictionary" and "Dictionary of Idioms" reminded him of when he first met Shen Wenruo, that guy stood by his desk and smiled "huhu".However, at this moment, he has to quit the job he has worked for for eight years, even if this is the opportunity for him and Shen Wenruo to meet.

Zhu Yi pursed his lips, put two months' salary totaling 4000 yuan in an envelope, and threw it in front of the HR supervisor.After all, he was the one who unilaterally terminated the contract, and the liquidated damages should be paid by himself.

After taking care of all these things, Zhu Yi ignored how loudly the other party called and persuaded him to stay, but walked steadily into the elevator without looking back.

Zhu Yi lost his job.

This job for eight years is also the only job he has had so far in his life.That year, he was admitted to a well-known science and technology university in N City from the distant Lanzhou. He chose civil engineering as a major and joined that real estate company in the second half of his senior year.He started as a planner at the most basic level, and with his excellent professional skills and steady work style, he gradually became the person in charge of the planning group, and then he became the supervisor step by step from the second in command of the project.In the past eight years, he has participated in many real estate projects and projects of the company.And the project in Hainan was established by him alone.

Now, he chose to leave.

On the afternoon of the resignation, Zhu Yi did not call Shen Wenruo again.Not that day, and not since.

In a sense, Zhu Yi is a very practical person.He understands what it means to be unemployed. Although the savings are enough to support him for a while, after all, in addition to living, he still has a house to pay for the mortgage.

Zhu Yi, who started looking for a new job almost the day after he resigned, sent his resume to several good real estate companies in N City.Two of them immediately expressed the hope that he could go for an interview.However, just when Zhu Yi was getting ready for the interview, two phone calls declined, almost one after the other.

After that, Zhu Yi's resume was like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no echo.A colleague who was acquainted secretly told him that the boss only said one sentence at the wine table of the industry annual meeting, which made him unable to gain a foothold in the real estate circle.

The understanding Zhu Yi didn't hold back, just sat at home and thought about it quietly.He is over [-] years old, and all his qualifications and achievements are in the real estate circle.At this time, it is not easy for him to give up the major he has studied for four years, give up the field he has worked in for eight years, and start all over again.

If you don't want to give up, you can only leave N City.

Zhu Yi, who also understood this point, pursed his lips tightly.In the end, he did not choose this path, but chose to choose a new career.

However, he has no experience in other industries, and his age has also become a disadvantage.Coupled with the background of the economic crisis, the bleak market did not provide many vacant jobs.After hitting the wall several times, Zhu Yi decided to sell the house.

The original monthly salary of more than 7000 is considered a very good income in this provincial capital city.Coupled with the fact that there are not many expenses for living alone, after several years of accumulation, Zhu Yi has the strength to pay for this house.It's just that now, the plan is not as good as changing, and he has lost his job and income, and he can no longer afford it.

When Shen Wenruo called, it was already a week after the two lost contact.At that time, Zhu Yi had just handed over the sales information to the intermediary company, and was sorting and packing the objects in the room.

The flashing name on the phone screen made Zhu Yi hesitate.The word "dumb" entered by himself has become an existence that silences him at this moment.If he could choose, he didn't want to hear Shen Wenruo's voice.

Zhu Yi is not a person who is fussy and loves to get into a dead end.However, his self-esteem as a man made him slightly resistant to Shen Wenruo.For the man with a stable job, a comfortable life, and a high social evaluation and status as a "university teacher", Zhu Yi at this moment is a jobless vagrant who intends to sell even his nest.

Zhu Yi became annoyed by the unequal positions, and he threw his mobile phone far away to a corner of the sofa.Finally, after the long music rang, the room returned to silence again.Zhu Yi tightened his lower lip and put the books into the cardboard box, but the next moment, the annoying phone rang again.

Zhu Yi knows that avoidance is not the solution.At the same time, Zhu Yi also understood that if Shen Wenruo had no news from him, he would definitely go crazy if he could not contact anyone alive or dead.Sighing silently, thinking not to worry the other party, Zhu Yi got up, bent down to pick up the phone, and started the call.

"Zhu Yi? Is that you?" a tentative voice. After hearing him respond with "um", the other party was obviously relieved, "Where are you?"

Zhu Yi was silent for two seconds, "At home."

The laughter of "Huhu" was not as casual and relaxed as usual, Zhu Yi could hear that his friend was tentatively probing on the other end of the phone, "Huhu, Zhu Yi, I haven't contacted for a long time, it's not a good accident. let me know?"

Zhu Yi didn't want to talk, but he couldn't just hang up like this.After casually lying about "a lot of things have happened recently", he unilaterally ended the call with the lame excuse of "the phone is running out of battery".

Then, he turned off the power of the phone.

The only sound in the silent room was his own breathing.Zhu Yi silently put the phone into the cardboard box.For the indifferent attitude just now, Zhu Yi actually felt a little guilty.He didn't want to target Shen Wenruo, and he would never target Shen Wenruo.

After all, if he could let it go, he would have chosen to go to another city to continue developing his expertise instead of staying in City N, even if he gave up his previous achievements and started all over again.

Silent Zhu Yi, put the last book in a cardboard box.Just then, the doorbell rang unexpectedly.And the magnified smiling face in the cat's eyes is all too familiar to Zhu Yi.