Three or Two Things about Rebirth

At noon, Sister Wan came to the reading room with a girl in a red dress.

"Qiu, let me introduce you. This is Chen Xingchen, who was assigned to our unit just the day before yesterday." He turned around and said, "Xiao Chen, this is Qiu Luming who jumped into the water to save someone a few days ago. Xiao Qiu."

Qiu Luming looked at the girl, who was in her early twenties, with upturned eyes, a very standard drooping eyelids, and she looked powerful even without saying a word.

She laughed at herself and said to Sister Wan, "It's true that I jumped into the water to save someone, and it's also true that I needed help from others later!"

Sister Wan also laughed, "Anyway, your spirit of sacrificing yourself to save others is worthy of praise and learning. Don't say I can't swim. Even if I could, I wouldn't dare to go into the water. The dock at the port is so deep. A man drowned there last year!"

"Well, I was a coward too. I just jumped in when I saw my friend fall into the water. If it happens again, I'm afraid I won't dare to do it again."

Chen Xingchen had been looking at Qiu Luming coldly, and suddenly spoke, "Don't be offended by my harsh words. Your intention of saving people is good, but your method is wrong!"

"Oh?" Qiu Luming put away her smile. She didn't expect that when they met for the first time, Chen Xingchen would speak like this.

"If you find someone falling into the water, you should first shout for help to let more people know the danger, instead of just splashing into the water like a stone. You should first find a lifebuoy or a wooden board or something that can float on the water and throw it to the drowning person. You also have to judge your own ability. If two people fall into the water at the same time, do you have the physical strength to save them, or do you want to risk your own life?"

This is really like what she said, "unpleasant words", but because they are new colleagues, Qiu Luming suppressed the words that were about to come out of his throat, and imitated the way of the elder sister-in-law, "What you said makes some sense, but the situation was urgent at the time, and the two people had already sunk into the water. I didn't have time to think about it, so I just rescued them." Then he smiled and pulled over two chairs, pretending to be polite, "There will be no readers at noon, please sit down quickly."

Sister Wan immediately said she didn't want to sit down anymore because the reading room would be unattended.

Chen Xingchen sat down, "Then you go back first, I'll sit here for a while."

Sister Wan was slightly stunned and said, "Okay, you two can chat!"

After Sister Wan walked away, Chen Xingchen stood up again, walked around the reading room with his hands behind his back, and said, "Xiao Qiu, I'm a few years older than you, so I'll just call you Xiao Qiu.

I have a sharp tongue but a soft heart. I say things that are not pleasant to listen to. Please don't be unhappy. Look at your reading room. The arrangement of the publications is extremely unreasonable. Look at the tables here. In the morning, the sun shines directly in. The readers are blinded by the bright sun. How can they read? And here, you can put a pen holder with a few pencils in it for readers who want to take notes or excerpts. "

Qiu Luming really felt that what she said made sense this time. He had never considered these things from the reader's perspective. It seemed that no matter how annoying a person was, he could still find her good points. So he nodded, "You make sense. In winter, readers like to be by the window with sunlight. In summer, we should indeed consider changing the location of the desk and newspaper rack."

Chen Xingchen clapped his hands, "I'm right!"

She walked to Qiu Luming's desk and looked through her work log. "Hey, your handwriting is pretty good, but your handwriting... Tsk, if you don't know, you might think it was written by a man. It's not pretty enough."

Qiu Luming stopped talking and sat behind her desk, looking at Chen Xingchen leisurely. This was the first time she had come across someone who desperately denied others.

"Xiao Qiu, you may not know that I am in the same class as your third brother, but he started school earlier and is one year younger than us. Qiu Moshi's sister is my sister, and I am saying all this for your own good.

By the way, my mother is the deputy director of the Price Bureau, and my sister works in the Personnel Bureau. Just let me know if you have any questions!

Oh, your arm... Don't be offended by what I say. Your arm will definitely be scarred. Such a big piece of skin is all oily. Tsk, why don't you bandage it? Isn't your father a doctor?"

For the first time, Qiu Luming realized that a person's outspokenness could be so annoying. She decided to reflect deeply on herself when she got home.

"Have you eaten soy sauce and soybean paste these days? Don't eat them, otherwise even if there is no scar, there will be a black spot there, which is very ugly! Hey, why is your skirt so long? Did your leg get damaged?

Don't be displeased with what I say. You are too impulsive. Although the teacher always tells us to help others and sacrifice ourselves for others, which fool would really believe it?

I tell you, children from intellectual families like you are a little too naive!

I heard that you didn’t study well in junior high school, don’t be offended...”

"I don't like it!" Qiu Luming interrupted her loudly. In Chen Xingchen's surprised eyes, he imitated her tone and stood up and said, "Chen Xingchen, although you are a few years older than me, as a senior with half a year more experience than you, I have the responsibility and obligation to tell you that when you first arrive at a new unit, you should be brave enough to put forward your own opinions and express your own views... You are right!

Moreover, I think you should continue to carry forward this spirit of not fearing death or offending others. In the afternoon, you should go to Director Fang's office and have a good talk. You can make good plans for the museum's work plan for the second half of the year, personnel appointments, and year-end awards! I think your mother and sister will also strongly support you!"

"you!"

As soon as Chen Xingchen opened his mouth, Qiu Luming interrupted him:

"Hey! Listen to me! Even though you deny me everywhere, I have to affirm you! I am not a good person, I can't compare with you. On the first day I came to the library at the beginning of the year, I remembered in the morning that I was a newcomer and had to behave myself. But I forgot about it by noon and actually got into a fight with my senior, Sister Ma! Oh, speaking of Sister Ma, I still feel sorry because I stole the position she had chosen in a daze. This time, you, tsk tsk, seem to have taken the position she had chosen again! What kind of luck is she! Oh, look at me, my words are not nice either, too straightforward, don't be offended!"

"I'm trying to help you out of kindness, why are you like this?" Chen Xingchen patted Qiu Luming's desk, his face flushed.

"I mean well, too!" Qiu Luming also slammed the table and looked her in the eye.

Chen Xingchen snorted and turned away. Qiu Luming felt that he had suddenly started a new way of speaking, which was quite interesting to use at critical moments. He also felt it necessary to practice it again with Qin Huifang one day.

After a while, she heard Chen Xingchen in the reading room ask Sister Wan in dissatisfaction, "What's going on between Qiu Luming and Sister Ma?"

Sister Wan briefly explained what had happened in a low voice.

Chen Xingchen sighed, "Does Xiao Ma also think highly of Sister Zhang's arrangement?"

"I'm not sure. I really don't know. But it's true that she's the only one in our library who doesn't have a staff position."

"Sister Wan, you are good in every way except this one thing. You are too dishonest. I am sincere to you, but you didn't tell me such an important thing! And why didn't you tell me that Qiu Luming is so sharp-tongued..."

"I...you..." Sister Wan, who is always eloquent, was speechless.

After get off work in the evening, Qiu Luming stood on the roadside waiting for Qiu Jiashu to pick her up. Because of her knee injury, she did not ride a bicycle today.

The colleagues upstairs had all left work early, only Qiu Luming, Sister Wan and Chen Xingchen left the latest.

Sister Wan smiled and said, "You can't ride a bike, let me take you home."

"No, no, I'll wait for my second brother. He'll pass by our company after get off work."

"There are still people at the Public Security Bureau who get off work on time. Let me take you there."

"Really, thank you, Sister Wan."

Chen Xingchen pushed his bicycle to the main road, looked at Qiu Luming, and said with an expression that he couldn't help but say, "I'm telling you, Qiu Luming, don't be unhappy. Your hiking shoes don't look good with this long skirt! When you are in the reading room, you should take a look at how the stars in those magazines match their clothes."

Qiu Luming was not angry either. He looked her up and down with a smile, "Chen Xingchen, don't be unhappy with what I say. My taste in clothes can be improved, but your legs are so short that you can't make them longer by reading any magazines!"