pedestrian

Reason belongs to reason, emotion belongs to emotion, these can be restrained, only instinct, and no one can control himself.After Tao Ran bid farewell to Zhou Zhe that night, he always felt that there was a flame in his heart, which burned uncomfortably.When the taxi was only two or three kilometers away from home, he changed his mind and asked the driver to go in another direction.

If you refuse for a while, you have to deal with the sequelae yourself.

The last time I came to this bar was the last weekend before joining the company. After more than a month, I opened the door and everything I was familiar with.The slightly drunken air, the endless jazz, all kinds of people and smiles, all calmed his somewhat disturbed mood.

The world is still like this, always like this.Old friends and old love are just a moment of melancholy, what he needs now is spirits, not memories.

Unexpected and expected, he saw Chang Zheng in the corner.

The deck is hidden in the shadow left by the scattered light, with a good view, it is most suitable for waiting for people.While picking his phone, Chang Zheng looked up from time to time, and happened to find Tao Ran.

It was the Venerable Master's time, he pushed aside the crowd and came over, Tao Ran was thrown a soul-striking question by him.

"Why do you want to have a drink alone after finishing your meal?"

Tao Ran sat down and sighed: "Poke someone's sore spot like digging someone's grave, boss."

"Waiting for courtesy. Let's avoid it in the future. If you call me the boss, it will definitely not be a good thing."

In a certain place in the north, this poor mouth is almost an infectious disease, but anyone who has been there for a few years can almost catch it.Tao Ran has been a southerner from birth to now, and he really likes this accent, so he immediately glanced at Chang Zheng with a smile.

He saw that Chang Zheng was in a bad mood, so he quickly took a sip of wine to cover it up.

Probably due to a little alcohol, Chang Zheng at this moment is really different from the daytime.Same face, same person, but the strings have been loosened.He no longer guessed the meaning of every sentence, and was no longer always ready to deal with customers who opened the door. He took off his tie and unbuttoned the second shirt button under his collar.He began to talk and laugh freely, and his mind was relaxed.

He looked like walking hormones.

Who will tell him what should his subordinates do when the boss turns on the screen?Tao Ran avoided his gaze, and suddenly found that his tie was still on him.

No wonder Chang Zheng wanted to laugh at him, yes, why did he still have his tie after eating for so long.

Meeting the opposite face who still understood and smiled, Tao Ran developed a subtle revenge mentality: "Why hasn't the person you were waiting for arrived yet?"

Chang Zheng shook the glass in his hand boredly, as if he wanted the ice cubes to collide with each other, and made a less boring sound: "I'm here early. You see, it's not good to have an appointment. If you don't have an appointment, just find someone." will be much faster."

"How old are you, and you only care about efficiency?"

Chang Zheng put away his carelessness, but asked seriously: "Then what are you looking at?"

Avoid the important and take the light, and everyone who lives to be in their thirties is familiar with this.Tao Ran smiled and turned the game around: "I don't know what you should look at. It's just your attitude, I'm afraid it will make our designers sad."

Chang Zheng really took the bait: "Do you know Du Liangheng?"

"It's not acquaintance. A year or two ago, a friend used their studio to decorate a house. I met him with him. I can't remember the name, but I can still recognize the face."

The silence came without warning, and the topic that should have been easily continued was like being soaked in wine and swallowed by Chang Zheng, and he strangely didn't answer any more.

Tao Ran was carefully rolling up his tie, which he had no place to put. With his movements, he gradually realized that it seemed too quiet.Chang Zheng's voice, which was much lower than usual, rang out at this moment.

"I won't say anything, Tao Ran."

Tao Ran miraculously grasped his true meaning, so he suddenly raised his head and looked into his eyes.

"You tell me that you know Du Liangheng, what benefits do you have? Why do you do things that don't benefit you. You are not such a person in the first place, and you don't need to know something because I know... Maybe you didn't intend to let me know change the way you behave.”

Almost subconsciously, Tao Ran countered his rhetoric: "Oh yes, you know what I am like?"

"You know what you are. Don't attack the other party to eliminate all possibilities of being understood. I just want to tell you that it's really unnecessary. I won't say anything, and I won't judge you. We still have to Colleague, I want you to know that I pose no threat to you."

Under Chang Zheng's steadfast gaze, a smile that could be described as soft but sure of success gradually took shape.Tao Ran answered him softly: "I just mentioned that I know Mr. Du, so why bother you? I'm covered in thorns, I'm too worried, what about you?"

It's really unnecessary to go on, Chang Zheng quickly withdrew his troops and put on his lazy mask again.

"Just as long as you understand what I mean."

Du Liangheng, like a savior, fell from the sky at this moment.

"Ah Du Liangheng is here, Tao Ran, do you want a bottle of wine, let's have a drink together?"

Tao Ran got up decisively and said goodbye: "No, this is not the place. If I sit down again, it may cause some misunderstandings. I don't want to receive strange invitations in the future, the three of us together..."

Chang Zheng and Du Liangheng, who happened to hear these words, both laughed, Tao Ran waved at them coolly, walked around the bar, and quickly blended in with another group of people.Obviously they were all acquaintances, Chang Zheng was only a little late to look away, and saw someone hugging Tao Ran and kissed him on the cheek, Tao Ran responded with a familiar smile very decently.

Everything is back on track.Chang Zheng heaved a sigh of relief.

Du Liangheng, who had been silent for a long time after being seated, suddenly raised his fingers and tapped on the table: "Why do you have the expression of being raped?"

Chang Zheng really didn't react: "Huh?"

"When I came just now, you looked at that man, as if I was going to have an affair with you, and you were afraid of being caught by him."

Chang Zheng thought about this sentence secretly, then smiled without saying a word.

Don't want to get entangled in indifferent topics, Du Liangheng himself still has a lot of things on his mind.It's ridiculous, but after thinking about it, he can only talk to Chang Zheng.

Seeing that he was about to speak but then froze, Chang Zheng asked with a smile: "What's the matter, what do you want to say? Why do you have to come here to spend money on wine to talk about it?"

Du Liangheng seemed to really not know what to say. After deliberating over and over again, he let out a sigh of relief: "I really never thought that I would have no friends while I was alive. I can only talk to you in the end."

Who is not.When I was young, I knew friends all over the world, and then the world was turbulent, and after a few cool autumns, I suddenly found that I really had no friends.Time and circumstances have polished everyone bit by bit, but the lines and directions are quite different.It seems that in the blink of an eye, no one in the world is facing the sunset.I opened the address book and flipped through it, and I couldn't even remember who some of the names were.

At this moment, Chang Zheng temporarily let go of the messy involvement between him and Du Liangheng.Like a real old friend, he patted the other person on the shoulder: "Just say what you want. The studio has been open for several years, and I feel it is not easy for you."

"You just said to order a bottle of wine, does it still count?"

"Why doesn't it count, just call, just don't go too far."

Du Liangheng seemed to be in a really bad mood. He frowned and replied, "Don't worry about it, I'll pay for it. Today's incident is really disgusting. I think I deserve a good bottle of wine."

The bartenders know them and have known them for a long time.Du Liangheng went over to say a few words, and not long after returning, the bartender personally delivered a bottle with more than half left, and said to them in a nonchalant way: "I have money and nowhere to spend it, so I can drink something."

Chang Zheng wanted to thank him anyway, but Du Liangheng raised his hand to hold him down, looked at the back of the bartender and said, "It's okay, he owes me a favor."

"Not bad, you, there are people who owe you favors everywhere."

——One time I made an appointment for dinner, and the restaurant insisted on waiving the bill after eating. It is said that I owed Du Liangheng a favor and didn't pay it back.

Speaking of work, he should have been a little proud, but now he is really annoyed, and he pushed back angrily: "What kind of favor, don't you just use me as a free consultant. Always ask me to see Let’s take a look at the house one by one, how to make a porch here, how to make a bay window there. You have to register first to see a doctor, ask me if you have any suggestions and don’t pay, everyone is shameless..."

Chang Zheng was not surprised at all: "How normal, don't talk about you, just in my line of work, people actually ask me if I can get a discount. The company is not mine, and I still have a lot of bad things every day. If it’s not fair, I’ll go and offer discounts to acquaintances, just kidding.”

Du Liangheng's outer shell, which has always been calm and composed, seemed to be cracked tonight.He drank twice as much what other people used to sip one mouthful at a time. Only when the alcohol was strong did he find the feeling of confiding a little bit.

"Today, someone in my group told me that it's not once or twice that our junior children have been dragged to other groups to work overtime. Some time ago, I had a few orders that I had to do by myself. I didn't pay much attention to the trivial matters in the office, but when I went back and looked, several people who had just learned something were about to leave. I thought there was something wrong with my management, and I thought I would find an opportunity to ask them... ..."

Chang Zheng interrupted him: "Them you mentioned, are you referring to other partners?"

Du Liangheng pinched the glass fiercely with the fingers that had been holding the paintbrush for a long time, cold white under the nails: "Yes. When I came out with them to open the studio, I was indeed the most junior. If it wasn't for the lack of manpower, I guess it's nothing to do with me. In the past few years, the dirty work has been tiring, and their team has selected the remaining work that they don't want to do. I try my best to take over and deal with it. I think I have done my best."

The interlacing is like a mountain, in fact, I can only listen to it.Seeing that he drank too fast, Chang Zheng had no choice but to persuade him, "It's not the first day you became your own boss, so what?"

Du Liangheng laughed at himself, his smile was uglier than crying, "Yeah, as for...why not, I keep my face in everything because I'm somewhat moral. What about them, just because I'm easy to talk? I Willing to work? Those children are the foundation of the future, how much time I spent going down, and as soon as I let go, I was forced to leave by them."

"In the final analysis, you are still inferior to others."

"...Yes, my innocence is because I am stupid, because my skills are not as good as others."

Chang Zheng finally couldn't stand it anymore, and took the cup from him directly: "Okay, don't you think it's clear. If you lose the scene, you can find a way to get it back. As long as you are still at work next Monday, you will still have a chance .”

Drinking in sorrow, his vision was a little blurred, Du Liangheng allowed himself to faint for a while, then moved slowly, and took Chang Zheng's hand on the table.

"I said now that we change places, isn't it very abrupt?"

This is the tone and atmosphere that both of them are familiar with. Chang Zheng pulled him closer with this movement, and caressed his hot ears: "Where are you going?"

Du Liangheng's fingertips were cold, and he even trembled a little. The bad temper he had been bored for too long seemed to have exhausted his remaining strength, and made him need a little familiar temperature.

"It's good to go anywhere."