Graduation thesis, interview topics, this month's interview draft, on-duty proofreading... Yu Hao thought that there were still so many things to do, and he had the urge to resign. He began to understand why there were always people who wanted to quit. It was really cool to lie at home and do nothing every day! Going to work day after day, year after year, no matter how much you like the job, you will feel burnout. It's only been less than half a year, and it's still the job he wants to do the most... Yu Hao didn't even dare to think about what would happen now if he found a job he didn't like.
"Don't worry about it, okay?" Zhou Sheng said, "You can play Duke Bao with such a face."
It was still cold and windy in Beijing in February. Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng dragged their suitcases and pushed open the door of their house. There was no one in the house for nearly half a month, and there was a musty smell unique to winter. Zhou Sheng kicked the suitcase to the corner, opened the curtains, rolled up his sleeves, and started cleaning. Yu Hao put the grapefruit peel on the radiator, wiped the table, made coffee, and spread out the computer on the table.
"It can't be done!" Yu Hao said frantically.
Too much work really made Yu Hao collapse, and his anxiety lingered. On the high-speed train, he even quarreled with Zhou Sheng. The reason was that Zhou Sheng was too engaged in the game console. Although he was wearing headphones, the buttons didn't work. Yu Hao's mind was always disturbed by the slanted movement of his body. In the end, Yu Hao angrily told him to stop playing, while Zhou Sheng had a puzzled look on his face. After the two quarreled for a while, Zhou Sheng had to sleep on the back of his chair. Yu Hao banged on the computer angrily. He leaned over, leaned on Yu Hao's shoulder, and slept all the way. When they got off the car, the two of them were fine again, okay.
"Just write whatever you want." Zhou Sheng said, "Or should I write it for you?"
"Kaikai can tell." Yu Hao stroked his forehead hair, the hair was too long, Zhou Sheng found a rubber band from nowhere, tied a pigtail to him, and said, "Eat more sugar, and then the brain can move. , look, what did you write? You are a reporter, why are you writing this?"
The topic of Yu Hao's thesis was "self-identity", which was a very complicated category. After reading it, Chen Yekai didn't suggest that he choose another topic, but thought it was a good one. After all, the unity of personality and the basis of self-perception are the important cornerstones of why a person is a person. And after traveling through many dreams through the Golden Crow Wheel, this is the most important issue he perceives, and it is also the point he most urgently needs to understand.
Having experienced the dark self on the Great Wall, the dazed Chen Yekai in the depths of Chichen Itza, Satan Zhou Sheng in the arena, Liang Jinmin's childhood and marriage, Fu Liqun's ancient city of Loulan... Yu Hao in Jung, Freud, Searching in the writings of Dewey, Wundt, and others, hoping to find an explanation for the birth of personality from unity, and these ideas, like hidden in a cloud of fog, he knew very well that they must be there, just everywhere, ignoring Five fingers, it will take a long time to capture clearly.
This was the source of all Yu Hao's anxiety.
"What are you doing?" Yu Hao noticed that Zhou Sheng was looking around, checking cabinets, wardrobes, bedside tables, and decorative paintings, like a detective dog.
"The wiretap." Zhou Sheng said, "Didn't you find it? When we were not at home, someone came, and it was two groups of people."
"How did you find out?" Yu Hao became vigilant.
Zhou Sheng: "Of course a private detective has a private detective's way, otherwise how can you get away with it?"
Yu Hao thought to himself that before Zhou Sheng left, he should have done some tricks at home. Now that he said that, he probably didn't find the bug. After Zhou Sheng checked his territory, he pulled out a vacuum cleaner and started vacuuming. Yu Hao was disturbed by the sound of the vacuum cleaner, so he had to stop writing his thesis and come over to clean up with him.
"What should I do next?" Yu Hao asked.
"Wait." Zhou Sheng replied, "Wait for them to come to the door and negotiate with Huang Ting."
Yu Hao said, "I have a hunch, Zhou Sheng, about the Golden Crow, we may have to wait for an end soon."
Zhou Sheng poured out the dust in the vacuum cleaner, sneezed, and said, "Why? Are all the gifts from fate secretly marked with prices?"
Zweig said that sentence, and Yu Hao also knew that Zhou Sheng had never completely let go of the existence of the Golden Crow Wheel. From the first day he got it, the Golden Crow Wheel had become a double-edged sword in their lives. . There needs to be some kind of vigilance at all times to watch out for any troubles associated with it.
Although in the past few years, every time the Golden Crow Wheel was activated, it had changed a lot for them, and it had never failed them, even if it was a good friend of mine. If it's conscious, it's not fair to see it that way.
Zhou Sheng and Yu Hao were sitting at the dining table, Zhou Sheng's thumb popped out the golden black wheel, and Yu Hao caught it.
"Do you think we will lose it in the end?" Zhou Sheng asked.
Yu Hao replied, "I can feel that someone is going to take it away no matter what." Then he bounced the Golden Crow Wheel back, and the Golden Crow Wheel drew a flashing arc in the air and landed in Zhou Sheng's hands.
Zhou Sheng: "Three times in my life I thought about giving it up. The first time was after I rescued Ni Ni. I had the urge to throw it into the river." Hao, Yu Hao caught it.
That was when Zhou Sheng and Yu Hao first met, and Yu Hao couldn't help but think of the past. If he hadn't guessed that Zhou Sheng was the general, maybe he would still have difficulty confirming his intentions, but he didn't know whether they would be together in the future.
"Why didn't you give up?" Yu Hao shot the Golden Crow Wheel at Zhou Sheng again.
"You made a bracelet for me." Zhou Sheng replied, "The second time, after I won the runner-up in the bicycle race, I want to either take you to Australia to play and throw it into the sea on the Great Barrier Reef."
The golden black wheel bounced back, and Yu Hao caught it, "What about the third time?"
"When it was handed over to Kaikai." Zhou Sheng pondered, "However, from the moment they set their eyes on the Golden Crow Wheel, the third time they thought of it, throwing it away was useless."
Yu Hao put the Golden Crow Wheel on the table, and the two of them looked at it together.
"Do your job," Zhou Sheng said, spreading out his book, "don't think about it, everything will be resolved."
Yu Hao closed his graduation thesis and began to revise his special manuscript on MLM, but his mind was not on it.
"The Golden Black Wheel has been taken away by Huang Ting," Yu Hao said, "Has he found out that it is a fake? If he finds it, it makes sense to enter our house. If he doesn't find it, what will he do? And he hasn't installed bugs or monitor?"
With a smile in his eyes, Zhou Sheng glanced at Yu Hao and gave a thumbs up to signal that he was smart.
Yu Hao thought for a moment, then said, "Zhou Sheng, tell me, what exactly do you want to plan?"
Zhou Sheng pondered, Yu Hao said, "Don't keep hiding from me, I know you don't want me to worry, but if you don't say anything, it will only make me more worried, you know?"
"It's not that I don't want you to worry." Zhou Sheng closed the book, looked up at the ceiling, thought for a moment, then looked at Yu Hao and said, "There is a link in our plan that will be perfect without your knowledge. combat power."
Yu Hao looked at Zhou Sheng with doubts, Zhou Sheng picked up the Golden Crow Wheel, tapped lightly on the table, and said, "It's like a dream, you must not know that you are in a dream before you can borrow your hand. , to go through the whole process, and before that, once it's explained to you, it adds to the risk."
Yu Hao could roughly understand Zhou Sheng's words, and immediately nodded, "Okay, I won't ask."
But after a while, Yu Hao couldn't help but ask another question.
"What is the ultimate goal of all this?" Yu Hao said, "Can you tell me?"
Zhou Sheng didn't answer, he opened the book again, turned the pen a few times in his hand, and the pen turned between his dexterous fingers.
"Bring out all the enemies," Zhou Sheng said nonchalantly. "Let them forget all at once. After the matter is over, throw the Golden Crow Wheel back to the place where I first picked it up, and it's over."
Yu Hao: "..."
Zhou Sheng added: "But before ending this matter, I want to know the truth as much as possible."
"What's the truth?" Yu Hao asked.
"What is it, where does it come from, what is it for, and why did I choose my truth?" Zhou Sheng said, "Aren't you curious? Of course, this plan may ultimately be based on the information I got from the Golden Crow Wheel. , make some corrections, so a lot of things are quite uncertain, can change at any time, and can't be discussed clearly with you."
"Okay." Yu Hao could only say, "You just have to know what you have in mind."
"Trust me." Zhou Sheng said, "Trust me at all times."
"I've never been worried about you." Yu Hao replied.
Zhou Sheng smiled and said, "Look at your adoring little eyes."
The next day, Yu Hao went to report to the unit. He didn't want to go to work at all, he felt very tired. Lin Ze originally thought he would come after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. In the office, there was a big red paper with blessings from spring, and there were New Year's candy and dried fruits on the table. It was freezing cold. . Lin Ze, Situ Ye, and Jin Weicheng were eating snacks and drinking tea in the office chatting, and everyone was discussing newspapers hahaha.
Yu Hao: "..."
"Oh!" Situ Ye said, "Why did you come without calling me?"
Yu Hao almost exploded, saying, "Don't you all need to go to interviews?!"
"Didn't you write it well?" Lin Ze said, "I use all your manuscripts these days."
When Yu Hao was a big New Year's Eve, he racked his brains every day to submit two short drafts to the department. After Lin Ze got it, he used Yu Hao's draft to submit it. The three of them had nothing to do, eating peanuts in the office. Yu Hao said sadly and indignantly, "You guys are going too far! I worked so hard to write for you at home, you guys are playing here?"
Situ Ye held the red envelope and motioned to Yu Hao, "What should I say? I won't give it."
"The proprietress, Gong Xi Fa Cai!" Yu Hao immediately said obediently, accepting the red envelope, it was heavy, at least one thousand.
Lin Ze said, "Good, I'll give another to your husband." Then he gave Yu Hao another.
Jin Weicheng is very natural, and he just pretended that nothing happened, and said to Yuhao, "The first draft is well written. When the editor in charge arrives, I will arrange it for you."
Thank goodness, the editor-in-charge was finally hired. Yu Hao thought that the manuscript would not need to be edited countless times, but... he looked out and said, "Why do you still keep a dog?"
"The dog at home, no one takes care of it, brought it here." Situ Ye said, "Anyway, everyone is not afraid of dogs, let him check the door during the day, and bring it back at night."
The gigantic Alaskan was obviously well-fed, fat and slick, with smooth fur, tied to a rope and wagging its tail like a broom on the ground. Yu Hao said, "Can't your family support you?"
"I came over to be on duty the day before yesterday." Situ Ye said, "Aze went to buy vegetables, but he didn't take it for a walk. It was pulled in the living room..."
Yu Hao: "Stop!"
Yu Hao remembered that dog couldn't hold back its poop at home, and then the robot vacuum cleaner automatically turned on at regular intervals, pushing the poop and evenly smearing it on the floor of the whole house, and finally being roasted by the indoor heater in the north... Began to sympathize with Lin Ze and Situ Ye.
Jin Weicheng said: "Recently, there are always people poking their brains across the road. It's better to tether a dog during the day."
What? Yu Hao thought to himself, is there any? Contacting himself, Zhou Sheng, and the matter of the Golden Crow, he couldn't help but be suspicious. Lin Ze and Situ Ye glanced at Yu Hao, then looked at each other again, but didn't say anything.
"The pennant is here." Lin Ze motioned to Yu Hao to look at the wall.
Yu Hao lost his mind and glanced at the pennant on the wall. The words "Savior" were written in big characters.
Yu Hao: "???"
Situ Ye said: "During the investigation and interview of Guangxian Battery Factory, didn't you send out a medical record of the pregnant woman?"
Yu Hao had forgotten about this, and there was still a pennant! That day, he happened to go to Nanlu. Before the Chinese New Year, the family of the pregnant woman found Beijing and brought the pennant. He cried and thanked Lin Ze and the leaders of Taili. The weather was too cold for the victim to come over, so he wrote a handwritten thank you letter to Yu Hao.
Lin Ze showed the thank-you letter to Yu Hao, Yu Hao unfolded it, three pages densely packed on it, as if through the letter paper, he saw a living person, holding a child, crying while writing a letter to Yu Hao, on the letter paper There are also tears.
"I..." Yu Hao almost cried when he saw it, he had to put down the letter after reading it for a while to ease his emotions.
Lin Ze threw peanuts and took it to his mouth: "The stage is going to give you an exclusive interview. You will be asked to write the manuscript yourself, and then I will say goodbye."
"No no no." Yu Hao said, "Of course not! I wrote my own manuscript, and I signed an intern reporter Yu Hao, I'm going to be laughed at!"
Several people laughed for a while, and Situ Ye said, "I said you took a photo by the way, I didn't think too much about it."
"That's right." Thinking of this, Yu Hao had to admit that at that time, he was really just doing a lot of work, and when he returned after posting the photos, Lin Ze was doing all the things such as transferring to the provincial bureau to report the case, and his role was very insignificant.
After reading the letter, he looked at the pennant on the wall again, and lowered his head a little guiltily. Lin Ze laughed and threw him a piece of candy. Alaska thought he was crying, so he wagged his tail and rubbed Yu Hao's calf. Yu Hao patted its head, as if a force filled his body, just like when he first became an investigative reporter, all his energy came back at once.
"Okay, work!" Yu Hao said, "I hope the editor-in-chief will take up his post soon!"
Situ Ye moved a chair, came over and sat down, put a handful of melon seeds on the table, and said, "I saw the photo you uploaded, this guy is quite handsome."
Knowing that Situ Ye was talking about Fu Liqun, Yu Hao replied, "He will come to Beijing tomorrow night, sign up for a German class, prepare for the exam, and introduce you to him when the time comes."
Yu Hao has finished revising the manuscript. This time his topic is MLM. However, unlike other newspapers and online media's manuscripts related to MLM, Lin Ze hopes that he can deepen the topic, so Yu Hao doesn't make the same old sensational stories. Incarceration, corporal punishment, etc. are the focus of the topic, but the topic falls on the point of why pyramid schemes can trap people.
Lack of self-confidence, acting as a homeless person for a long time, doing nothing, difficult to realize self-worth, easy to be brainwashed, and strong desire to prove oneself... Yu Hao interviewed the employees who escaped with Fu Liqun that day, including Fu Liqun's own explanation. From the company's sharing encouragement group to the step-by-step slogan-style brainwashing... Using various weaknesses of human nature to fool them into the thief boat step by step.
"More than 80% of the employees who are involved in pyramid schemes have a common characteristic, that is, they urgently need the reconstruction of their values..." Lin Ze glanced at the manuscript and said, "How is the percentage determined?"
Yu Hao said, "The percentage of interviewees."
"It's not convincing," Lin Ze said. "What I want is to look at the whole from an individual case."
"Then... most of the employees?" Yu Hao said, "Function words are even worse."
Lin Ze said: "Leave only one example, and let the readers evaluate the rest. We only tell the facts and do not draw conclusions."
"Organization chart, MLM model, incentive materials, the process is really clear." Jin Weicheng looked at Yu Hao's materials and drooled, "You can even get the MLM company's report."
Yu Hao smiled, Situ Ye said, "It's just that the photos are lacking in heat."
Yu Hao said, "Is it a bad shot?"
Situ Ye said: "This is all a close-up of your man, how do you get on?"
Yu Hao: "..."
Yu Hao had to work with Situ Ye to choose the photo of Zhang Zhousheng jumping up and kicking, and all the security guards looking at him in horror, and tried every means to cut Zhou Sheng out. Situ Ye made a black strip at random to block Zhou Sheng's eyes, Yu Hao burst into laughter, and the two began to play hahaha. The cover, the cover of "Journey to the West", and the long hair in ancient costumes, and then give Zhou Sheng a Thor's Hammer to play "Avengers", and put two lightsabers on Zhou Sheng's boxing COS "Star Wars"... In the end, Situ Ye found a poster of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" and dug out Zhou Sheng's photo and filled it in. Yu Hao finally begged for mercy, his stomach hurt from laughing, lying under the desk and hurriedly waved his hand for help, begging Situ Ye not to Play again.
Alaska screamed a few times suddenly, got up and stared outside, Yu Hao laughed until tears came out, Situ Ye pulled Yu Hao from under the table, Lin Ze said, "A friend is looking for you, Yu Hao. Enough! Be quiet! "
Yu Hao looked back, and Huang Ting's voice said from the door, "It seems that being a reporter is quite fun, not bad."
In the office, Lin Ze, Situ Ye, and Jin Weicheng stared at Huang Ting together. Huang Ting was wearing casual clothes today, a leather trench coat, leather pants, and sunglasses. He looked like a big boss. There is absolutely no way to hide these reporters, everyone has the same expression on their faces—
- Slip! The note is here!
"My friend." Yu Hao said to them, and greeted Huang Ting again, thinking that he was indeed here, but instead of looking for Zhou Sheng, he found himself directly.
"Where is Master Tiaozi?" Situ Ye asked with a smile.
Lin Ze: "Is there a Land Rover?"
Yu Hao: "Don't make trouble! Wait, what is Land Rover?"
"Look at him, the leather-pants-" Situ Ye sang.
"Thirteen Land Rovers in front of the door—" Lin Ze also sang along.
Yu Hao: "..."
"Director Lin." Huang Ting said, "I have admired the name for a long time, like thunder."
Huang Ting took off his sunglasses and shook hands with Lin Ze in the past. Lin Ze just sat and shook his hand politely. Yu Hao found that Lin Ze was quite domineering at this time, and Huang Ting seemed to be a little jealous of Lin Ze. .
"Is there anything you need help with?" Lin Ze said, "All ears."
Huang Ting replied, "borrow your little brother for a night and find him a meal."
"Then wait a while." Lin Ze replied, "We don't get off work until six o'clock, unless he is willing to leave early."
Yu Hao said, "I'll fix these pictures and give them to the boss, and they'll be fine soon."
Huang Ting snapped his fingers and went out to wait.