1,
The worst one even went to the emergency room.
At that time, Ye Ji'an had just graduated, and he went to school early. He was only 24 years old. The first company he interviewed was a big group with a very famous name, state-controlled, involving real estate, military trade technology, cultural relics collection, etc. In this field, he had been an intern before, and after three rounds of interviews, he was finally hired to do risk control in an investment department under the group.
Of course, the director can't be the one. He is a red card soldier with layers of leaders on top of his head. He is in charge of doing things while others are in charge of making decisions. Risk control is a troublesome job. There are not many colleagues at the same level, and one is on maternity leave and one is suspended for inspection. Ye Ji'an has become the main labor force by accident. He has learned a lot of things and adapted to the position. , Every day is not to make reports or to write documents, or to go online to understand the policies, sort out the dry goods, and then hand them over to the leaders.
It's normal to stay up until you can't get on the last train.
It's not uncommon for me to lie down on the table and squint for a while when I don't go home for a week.
As for overtime pay, no one mentioned it.
Ye Ji'an deeply suspects that he is willing to hire a stupefied young man like himself who has no experience.
Fortunately, the salary level is medium and high, the five insurances and one housing fund are complete, and the rest of the benefits are also good, and even solved the household registration problem for him. Compared with all the classmates, Ye Ji'an felt that he was already lucky.
If you are tired, you can drink coffee. There are freshly ground coffee in the tea room, and there are also those who want to drink concentrated. They are all free.
Ye Ji'an is content and happy.
As for the subsequent accident, it happened too quickly, so it seemed like a fake. I just joined the company in August, and the accident happened in February of the following year. Ye Ji'an boiled for three days and two overnights, drank countless cups of instant coffee, and sat on the ground on the way to hand in the report.
It was only six o'clock in the morning, and there were very few people in the company, at least there was not even a cleaning aunt on this road. He originally planned to shove the documents into the crack of the boss's door and then go back to his work station to sleep for two hours, but seeing that, even that would not work.
Ye Ji'an found that he couldn't stand up.
So he just lay down.
There was a dusty smell on the carpet, and it was a little dark in front of my eyes. I could see the central air-conditioning vent on the ceiling, the shutters were light gray, and the lights were bright white. Ye Jian felt that he was spinning or falling. A building was a hurricane, so he became a calm eye. He took out his mobile phone and dialed 120. He wanted to report his specific location, but he didn't know what he was talking about. what.
Maybe fall asleep after that.
When he woke up, the nurse was at the bedside, changing his infusion bag.
He got such an explanation: insufficient blood supply to the cervical spine, severe lack of sleep, only twenty-four years old, and if he hangs on coffee like this, he will almost die suddenly at thirty-four years old.
Or sudden death, lying in bed for the rest of your life.
Ye Ji'an said he understood, and asked the nurse to ask for a glass of boiled water. He turned on his mobile phone and looked through it. At that time, he was still trending text messages. He was lying in bed for two days.
Ye Ji'an pressed the phone under the pillow and stared nervously at the white wall.
Can this be considered the afterlife? Unreality still lingers. In short, it was the first time he asked himself so seriously, do you really want to die
In the end, I came to the conclusion that it is okay to die, but when and how to die, I have to decide for myself. Dying from overwork in front of a dazzling computer screen at an overtime job is so stupid.
Soon after he was discharged from the hospital, he quit his job.
2,
During Liang Xiao's work abroad, it is not that he did not work overtime.
To be precise, his colleagues worked too hard, especially the Indians and Japanese in the same period. Go first, so that he doesn't want to be lazy. For him, work is not a punishment. Most of the time, it is quite interesting. Although what he does in the extra time is often not his original work, it can be tolerated. The biggest trouble that overtime brings to him is actually disrupting the time rhythm of life.
For example, if he wants to watch a movie, if he is in a hurry, he has to miss the premiere and watch it again, and he does not rule out the risk of being spoiled.
For example, a gecko egg hatching at home would be troublesome if something hatched while working overtime.
For another example, if you meet someone who wants to understand more deeply, so as to get rid of the single life, at least try to have a little sex life, but because of overtime delays, and then walk out of the company with the bag, Liang Xiao often suddenly loses his love for everything in an instant. interest.
Movie? never mind.
garrison? Leave it to fate.
Meet up? I don't want to add anyone to my life, so crowded.
The ten minutes after returning home can be said to be the time when Liang Xiao was most at ease. He clenched the steering wheel, stopped at the red light, and watched the never-quiet streets of Manhattan. Behind the building, sometimes it was dawn, sometimes it was sunset, and sometimes it rained. Sometimes it's dark and nothing at all. He occasionally felt that his life was being wasted.
At this time, he often misses domestic food, hot dishes, and lively restaurants, as if this can rekindle his enthusiasm for life. However, most of them are not impressed, just a big and transformed concept, representing "delicious".
Liang Xiao feels that it doesn't matter, people do not have to love life.
In the end, he chose to resign when he received the news of his promotion, because he wanted to go back to China to eat authentic mutton. The Americans said he was crazy, Liang Xiao thought about it, and thought it was themselves who were crazy.
3.
Ye Ji'an was convinced that he was the first person Liang Xiao came out of the closet in the whole department.
It seems that you can't be in the place of the junior and fan friend who is simply and quite familiar? People trust him. When a brother? Ye Ji'an also felt that something was wrong. It wasn't that Liang Xiao was different. This kind of wrong was only reflected in Ye Ji'an's own psychological state.
Liang Xiao said, "The person I like", "I must have him", "It's a man". These three elements are always tied to Ye Ji'an, just like a fire that only owes the east wind, whenever Liang Xiao appears in front of him again, these three elements seem to be able to become sound, floating in Ye Ji'an's ears, constantly reminded him.
Liang Xiao smiled at him, he thought, is it me
Liang Xiao took him to try a Mexican restaurant, and he took off the grilled meat and put it on his plate first, he thought, is it me
Liang Xiao asked him to borrow fire in the smoking room and said, "Senior's tie is very spirited today. He still thinks, is it me?"
Ye Ji'an sometimes feels that he is very boring all day long.
But don't doubt it, he is unwilling.
That time, a colleague in the department fell ill and was lying in the hospital with his appendix removed. That person happened to be in charge of the same project as Liang Xiao, so the burden naturally fell to one side. Ye Ji'an thought about it, it was the busiest time of the department, everyone had to live and die, he didn't want to put stones on anyone, and finally decided to do it himself to get enough food and clothing.
Now that you are a boss, you are responsible for the bottom line.
He and Liang Xiao naturally became the overtime partners who stayed until the latest.
On the day of the ending, Ye Ji'an had some problems. He called and asked the sick guy again about the situation. Sure enough, there was a mistake, and if he corrected it, the progress was delayed. But it was more than enough to finish it all night. He found Liang Xiao in the pantry, "It's hard work, I can do the next thing."
"It's okay, senior, hurry up two people," Liang Xiao was tinkering with the coffee pot, and another new cup rushed in. He turned his head and smiled at Ye Ji'an, "I'm not very sleepy, and I can take a taxi when I get home."
"I'm not going back, you can catch the subway now."
"If I don't leave now, then we can both go back." Liang Xiao insisted.
Living Lei Feng is you. Ye Ji'an read silently.
Then the one you said... is it me? He began to think so again.
Feeling speechless to himself, Ye Ji'an realized that he was actually afraid of being selfish. He took off Liang Xiao's black coffee and warmed him a cup of whole milk with brown sugar. "Then lie down for a while," he lowered his eyes. Looking at the decreasing number on the microwave, "Coffee can't be drunk like this, a lesson from the past."
"But you also drink a lot."
"You good young man can't be like me." Ye Ji'an smiled, patted his shoulder, and took out the milk and handed it to him. Liang Xiao opened his mouth but didn't say anything. He stretched out his hand to pick it up. The two of them put their fingers on the wall of the glass, touching each other. Except for the sound of the air conditioner working, the night was very quiet, maybe you could hear their hearts beating quite fast in this second. Maybe an illusion.
Ye Ji'an was stunned for a moment, maybe less than half a second, but the stun really existed. This kind of insignificant physical contact must have happened before, maybe just a few days ago, before Liang Xiao came out of the closet. But he couldn't remember once, because his heart didn't skip so much.
So now, here, what exactly is there? Ye Ji'an almost stubbornly thought, here are two poor people whose heartbeats may be about to die suddenly because of caffeine and staying up all night.
After thinking about it, I knew I was lying to myself.
He looked at the young man who was drinking milk silently in front of him, sip by sip, he drank it quite seriously, he had the urge to put his forehead against his shoulder, so Ye Ji'an stumbled and went back to the office to work.
Liang Xiao leaned on the dining table, looked at his back, and made up his mind countless times that he must accompany him to work overtime to the end before taking over his company and being able to support this person.
The milk is sweet, with a layer of milk skin that sticks to the lips, very thin and soft.
Sometimes people still have to love life.
4.
Cloudy days and smog seem to be standard in early spring. Liang Xiao has been in the city for nearly two years, but he still has no habit. That day, the two of them didn't work overtime until it was too late, it was just after nine o'clock, and many colleagues were still there, but they met in the bathroom, washed their hands, and looked at each other in the mirror.
After all the colleagues left, Liang Xiao spent the night in Ye Ji'an's office.
The glass wall, the lights are afraid to turn on, and everything is sneaky, even if a diligent person suddenly comes back, but it is also very exciting.
The next morning, Ye Ji'an woke up on the sofa, while Liang Xiao was half awake, still resting on his lap. Looking at the time, it was only over an hour before work time, so it was definitely too late to exercise, but I still had to eat breakfast, and I was very hungry after tossing all night. The two were going to eat a sumptuous meal, such as Cantonese-style morning tea, shrimp dumplings with chicken feet.
After washing in the bathroom that met his eyes last night and walking to the elevator, Liang Xiao was still a little out of bed, frowning and flipping through his phone, Ye Ji'an was walking in front of him, but suddenly stopped, "It's so early." He followed Colleagues who are also waiting for the elevator say hello.
"Ah, yes," the little girl was a little trembling, as if she didn't dare to look at the two of them, "I forgot to take something, I went downstairs to get it... Director Ye came too early."
Ye Ji'an smiled and said, "Yes, yes." She pressed the elevator door and let the girl go in first, but she almost understood in her heart that the child's work station was facing her office. Inside the glass wall, Liang Xiao was lying on his lap and yawning, so he hurriedly ran away trying to pretend that nothing happened. After all, he bumped into his boss's hottest private affairs, which was more terrifying than exciting for a newcomer who just joined the job, but it was a coincidence. , the elevator is coming too slowly, and it hits right at this moment.
For Ye Ji'an, it's not a big deal to be seen. Anyway, after finishing the work the night before, he put on his clothes, wrapped the sleeves with several layers of toilet paper, and threw them into the trash can. The thing is, this girl is stumbling now, will she still be more afraid of herself in the future, and her nerve sensitivity will affect work communication and so on.
But from his standpoint, it's not easy to take the initiative to explain anything.
Looking back, Liang Xiao had put away the phone, put it in his pocket, pursed his lips and looked at the falling numbers on the screen, with a smile from the corner of his eyes.
You are quite beautiful, Ye Ji'an thought.
Then I don't have to worry about it anymore, he thought, why don't you think about what kind of porridge to drink later, is it raw fish slices or pumpkin and millet
Sure enough, as soon as they reached the first floor, the frightened girl trotted away. Ye Ji'an covered her face with inexplicable guilt, reminded Liang Xiao to put on her mask, and the two walked out of the building fully armed.
The smog was overwhelming, and the wind was very cold. The morning tea shop was just across the road. The green light was still there, and Ye Ji'an was ready to start rushing.
Liang Xiao grabbed his sleeve, "I've saved enough money," he said.
"Today is Senior's birthday." He said again.
Ye Ji'an was still a little unresponsive, and turned to look at him, only to see a pair of smiling eyes, and a small piece of skin that looked exceptionally fair in the cold weather, "I forgot."
"Look back." Liang Xiao held his cheeks and twisted it back slightly. Ye Ji'an followed his strength and turned around, looking up—
On the LED screen of the company building, the XX Bank advertisement that had not changed for several months disappeared.
It was replaced by a line of large characters, red and bright, with a height of more than ten stories, each character was as large as several rooms, and it was especially conspicuous in the gray and fuzzy air, "Happy birthday, the world is long and the sky is long."
Ye Ji'an was a little breathless, and Liang Xiao was at a loss for words for a while. The two stood side by side and continued to look up.
These words make them seem small.
The morning rush hour has already begun, and there is a lot of traffic behind them. These pedestrians and vehicles pass through this huge screen and may go to any corner of the city.
Is it possible to say that this screen and these eight characters have also passed through the entire city of Beijing? Ye Ji'an thought about it like this.
"Two and a half million." He broke the silence.
"Well, it can be put on for the whole day, or it can be turned off now. I didn't put my name in the end. I feel like I will be found by many strange people." Liang Xiao's voice was muffled by the mask, and after a pause, he said again. , "Wait until the evening will be better."
"I've seen the Citi Tower, really good evening," Ye Ji'an took out his phone to take a picture, "I think I'm going to faint, should we post a circle of friends? Don't have news elsewhere on the Internet, the deity is still there. No movement."
"... I think it's a bit silly." This time, it was Liang Xiao's turn to cover his face.
"I like it very much, I have already posted it," Ye Ji'an raised her voice, "or do you want to refute the above two sentences?"
"But it's just silly."
Ye Ji'an pulled off the mask, also tore off Liang Xiao's, and nibbled at him fiercely. Liang Xiao was caught off guard, but he hugged him and didn't let him go, and licked his lips softly. Ye Ji'an finally opened his mouth well, took Liang Xiao's hand, reached into his pocket, held the phone, and said in a low voice with a smile, "You have to send it too."