Find him in the crowd

Xiang Sixi did what he said.I really asked Master Liu to learn how to cook.

Master Liu is over 60 years old. He used to be a hotel chef and has been retired for two years.Because of the newly developed project of the villa area, he was hired back to be An Mingye's full-time chef.Master Liu Quan was here to distract his mind, and to earn some pension by the way.

As soon as Xiang Sixi said that he wanted to learn how to cook, Master Liu showed the posture that he wanted to pass on his lifelong knowledge to him, and he knew everything and said everything.It's a pity that Rome wasn't built in a day. After Xiang Sixi cut the third carrot into sticks, he put down the knife in his hand, "I really don't have the talent to be a chef."

Master Liu comforted him, "If you can practice this in one morning, the old man and my decades of effort will not be in vain. Young people, don't you have the patience?"

Xiang Sixi was a little embarrassed, "It's not that I'm impatient, it's just that our ingredients here are rationed, and it's not good for me to waste them like this." Even the length, size, and color of carrots were carefully selected, and he After so many knives, I'm afraid it won't work anymore.

"What are you afraid of? I'll cut it into cubes later and cook him a soup with corn ribs. It won't affect me at all."

Xiang Sixi "..."

In order to solve An Mingye's food and clothing problem as soon as possible, Master Liu said, "I will teach you how to make a sandwich, mix a vegetable salad, and cook a pasta. You don't need to pay attention to the taste of these things, you can eat them with salad dressing or tomato sauce .It doesn’t need to be as troublesome as frying and frying.”

Xiang Sixi thinks this method is very good.

Since then, Master Liu will make some desserts and put them in the refrigerator every day. When you want to eat, take them out and heat them up.Xiang Sixi continued to learn how to cook, and the ingredients he cut into strange shapes would eventually be reborn in Master Liu's hands and served on An Mingye's dining table.As a result, Xiang Sixi's mood would be very complicated when it was time for dinner.

After learning from Master Liu for a week, the knife skills are still in a mess.Fortunately, as long as there are ready-made ingredients, he can still make a decent meal according to Master Liu's recipe-although the appearance is not good, and the taste may not be as good... But it is definitely edible!

But that day, An Mingye didn't come back for dinner, he dismissed Xiang Sixi's cooking, and put the dinner ingredients prepared by Master Liu for An Mingye into the refrigerator.The big clock in the living room clangs to tell the time.

Xiang Sixi said. "It's ten o'clock. Master Liu, you should go back first. Mr. An probably won't eat when he comes back. Aunt Zheng, you should go and rest too. I'll just wait for him here."

It was a little late, Xiang Sixi asked the driver to take Master Liu to the station, and Aunt Zheng went back to her room to rest.Xiang Sixi was watching TV in the living room while waiting for An Mingye.He is a person with a regular work and rest schedule, and suddenly it becomes irregular, Xiang Sixi doesn't know what to do, and it's not a problem to just wait like this.

The big clock swung past twelve, but An Mingye still didn't come back.Xiang Sixi was a little worried, and found out An Mingye's mobile phone number from his notebook, but the other party hadn't answered, so he was even more worried.After dialing more than a dozen times in a row, the call was connected. It was very noisy over there, and Xiang Sixi could not hear what was being said, so Xiang Sixi couldn't help but increase the volume, "Can you hear Mr. An? Where are you?" He had to yell several times , I don’t know if the other party heard it.

As soon as Xiang Sixi finished speaking, the other end of the phone suddenly boiled over, and amidst the music that shook his ears to the point of exploding, he vaguely heard "...the family members came to check the post..." The booing became even louder.Xiang Sixi felt that her ears hurt a little from the noise, and just as she took the receiver away, the other end of the phone became quiet.

"Xiang Sixi?" An Mingye's deep voice, a little hoarse, mixed with some drunken laziness, came from the phone.

Just hearing his voice, Xiang Sixi blushed, "Mr. An, I'm a little worried that you haven't come back so late, so I called to ask, I hope I didn't disturb you. Are you okay?"

An Mingye cleared his throat, and his tone was as gentle as ever, "I was drinking with my friends just now, and it was too noisy inside, so I didn't hear your call. It made you worry."

An Mingye's voice came from the other end of the phone, as if it was also infected with electric current, and Xiang Sixi's ears were numb from the electric current, "Then, are you coming back tonight? Do you need a car to pick you up?"

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while, and then he said an address, "I'm here, you can send a car."

It took An Mingye more than an hour to come back, already drunk and unconscious, his whole body weight was on Xiang Sixi's body, he stumbled and sent him to the bedroom, but An Mingye vomited all over as soon as he entered the door.Xiang Sixi's voice was so shallow that he couldn't see this, and almost vomited along with him.Immediately, he couldn't care about An Mingye, and hurried downstairs to Aunt Zheng for help.

Changed An Mingye into clean clothes, covered her with a quilt, and cleaned up the room with Aunt Zheng. Xiang Sixi changed her clothes and took a shower. At three o'clock in the morning, she could finally rest.Although it's a bit late, fortunately tomorrow is the weekend, and An Mingye is so drunk, he won't be able to get up early tomorrow, so he can just sleep in.

Xiang Sixi went to sleep peacefully, and in the half-dream and half-awake state, he could always hear someone saying, "The family members are here to investigate..."

In the early morning, An Mingye dragged his heavy hangover head and went downstairs to look for food after washing up. Last night, when he said he wanted to leave, he was stopped by those bastards and drank three bottles of wine before letting him go.If it wasn't for his hungry stomach, he wouldn't want to wake up.In the kitchen, Xiang Sixi was watching the fire, stirring the pot with a spoon.

"What did you make, it smells so good." It's not the smell of rice, but the smell of flowers.

Xiang Sixi said, "Osmanthus taro seedlings are only learned from Master Liu."

"You really learn how to cook, then I will be lucky in the future." An Mingye sat down on the chair opposite him, put his arms on the bar, and stretched his neck to look into the pot.He didn't wear perfume today, and he only smelled of detergent on his body, which was refreshing.The hair should have just been washed and not carefully taken care of, and there is still a bunch of dull hair on the top of the head. "Can I eat it? I'm so hungry... What's the matter? See what I'm doing."

Xiang Sixi pushed down the dull hair on his head for him, stroked it several times, but it still curled up.He laughed and said, "Mr. An, you are so cute today." There is no neat suit, no scent of pine wood, loose cotton T-shirt and messy hair, so cute—oh, so this is cute.

An Mingye was confused by the scent of sweet-scented osmanthus for a while, and then lingered in Xiang Sixi's smile.Immediately, I felt that my head was not so heavy after the hangover. "Thank you yesterday, otherwise I would have been troubled by them all night."

Xiang Sixi arranged the breakfast one by one, and almost fed him, "Because I want to be a good housekeeper."

"You are already a good housekeeper." The soft taste of taro and the scent of sweet-scented osmanthus dispelled the last bit of discomfort. "Delicious! I can be an all-round butler in the future."

Xiang Sixi also knew that An Mingye was teasing him, but he still felt happy.I met such a nice person.

"Weekends are the rest time, you can do your own things, you don't have to be around me all the time. I'm not that delicate." An Mingye said to Xiang Sixi while flipping through the newly arrived magazines after breakfast .

Xiang Sixi thought about it carefully, "I don't have anything to do..."

"Not hanging out with friends? Shopping? Watching a movie?"

Xiang Sixi shook his head.He doesn't have any friends here, but a colleague asked him to go to the movies with him, but the movie tickets are too expensive, so he is not willing to buy them.

"Don't you still want to earn money and continue to go to school. Why don't you go to the library and read books."

library.

When he was in school, there was a library in the school.A specially vacated classroom is surrounded by bookshelves. Books are usually bought by the school, and more are donated by institutions or individuals in society.During the years of school, he went through them one by one.On the eve of the exam, there will always be a few students in the class meeting to go to the library in the city to review.I heard that the library in the city is as high as a three-story building, full of books, and there is no admission fee. Anyone can go, and the people who read there are very learned people.But from the town to the urban area, it takes two hours by bus, and then two buses.Xiang Sixi has no travel expenses.

"Library, where is..."

"Haven't you been there?" An Mingye took his coat from the hanger in the entrance. "I'm going to meet a friend. I passed by the library on the way. I'll take you there. By the way, bring your ID card with you."

At the entrance of the library, An Mingye parked the car on the side of the road, "Do you have any money with you?"

Xiang Sixi grabbed a handful of change from his trouser pocket.An Mingye took another [-] from his wallet and gave it to him, "When I come back, I will take the bus back. If I can't find the bus, I will take a taxi back."

Xiang Sixi quickly refused, "I can go back, even if I take a taxi, I can't use your money, it's inappropriate."

"What's inappropriate, I'll bring you out, and I have to be responsible for your safety, otherwise what if you lose it."

"I'm an adult now, I won't lose it."

"Oh, by the way... It seems that you need to apply for a card to borrow books here, and you need to pay a deposit to apply for the card, but the deposit will be refunded to you when you return the card." An Mingye took another two hundred from his wallet and stuffed it involuntarily. Xiang Sixi put it in his coat pocket, "Hold it, and I will deduct it from your salary when you get paid."

"Then...then thank you, Mr. An." Xiang Sixi got out of the car and bowed again to thank you, "Thank you!"

"Hurry up and go in, there won't be any seats available later." An Mingye watched him enter the door, closed the car window, turned around, and drove towards the villa.

It was the first time for Xiang Sixi to visit such a big library—not just three floors.Xiang Sixi went around every floor, there were so many people but there was no noise at all, everyone lowered their voices to talk, even Xiang Sixi unconsciously lowered his footsteps.

He didn't know which classroom to go to, so he only entered a room with relatively few people, found a few books and imitated the others to sit there and read.There are so many titles of books that he has never heard before, which are different from the famous books and fairy tales he saw at school. They are stories and thoughts of adults that Xiang Sixi has never seen before. They are fascinating as soon as they are opened. .

Xiang Sixi didn't apply for a card.I just silently wrote down the title of the book and the page I saw, planning to read it next time.I asked the security guard at the door about the nearby bus stop sign, but there was no direct connection, so I reversed the bus and came back.The 300 yuan that An Mingye gave him was pinched in the palm of his hand, wrinkled, and he was unwilling to spend it.

Xiang Sixi became a frequent visitor to the library.Arrived half an hour early in order to reserve a seat. Behind the library is a residential area. A small garden was built from the gate of the community to the area behind the library. He came early to find a place to sit and read, and sometimes read aloud. When practicing Mandarin, he is very concerned about his accent.After a long time, I became acquainted with the hawkers in this area, and the uncles and aunts walking their dogs.

By the way, when I got my salary later, Xiang Sixi counted one by one, and found that there was a lot of money.Xiang Sixi was taught since he was a child that "No matter how poor you are, you can't take more than a penny from others, and make people look down on you." It was fine if it was deducted from his salary, but now that it was not deducted, he felt that the money was biting his hand.He immediately took the money back to An Mingye, but he didn't want the always gentle An Mingye to get angry because of this, and he failed to return the money, and he didn't talk to him for two days.Xiang Sixi spent two days in anxiety, looking forward to his return, but also afraid of his return, deeply feeling that the days are like years.

At night, Xiang Sixi couldn't sleep, so he tiptoed upstairs to see that the light in the study was still on, and then went down to make a midnight snack.He wanted to explain clearly to An Mingye while delivering supper... But why?Xiang Sixi didn't even know why he was angry. If anyone in the village borrowed money from others, the borrower would want to come to the door every day to ask for the debt. Why would he not want to pay the money back in the city?

But Xiang Sixi didn't have the time to think about these things, thinking of apologizing by herself, she quickly turned over this page.At that moment, he had planned a lot of situations in his mind, but after knocking on the door of the study, An Mingye acted as if nothing had happened, and divided the supper with him in half, joking with him as usual, saying He is cute, and praised him for his great improvement in cooking.It seemed as if my two days of panic were hallucinations.

Xiang Sixi returned to the room, opened the drawer of the bedside table, holding the 300 yuan that An Mingye gave him devoutly like a believer, and felt for the first time that a person's mood was so important to him.It wasn't the angry majesty of his parents that made him afraid.Or a friend's anger made him feel guilty.When An Mingye got angry, he messed up the whole person. In the past few days, he was worried all the time, for fear that that person would not like him from now on...

do not like……

do not like?

Mr. An, does he like me?

Such a bold idea suddenly appeared in his heart, and he suffocated for a moment.He seemed to have accidentally opened Pandora's box, knowing that he had caused trouble, he panicked for a moment and didn't know how to make up for it, and then he was dazzled by the treasures in the box, and he was fascinated, and wanted to take it for himself.

The moonlight shining from the window makes the room not so dark that you can't see your fingers.The curtains were fluttered by the night wind, and they fluctuated irregularly. The ticking of the second hand of the bedside alarm clock was amplified infinitely in the quiet night, which was actually somewhat disturbing.

Suddenly, like a movie, the school in the mountain village, the teacher with pigtails playing the guitar, and the father who was full of expectations to send him to the train... and then An Mingye.

An Mingye's deep eyes, An Mingye's deep voice, An Mingye's smile, An Mingye's scent, An Mingye's hand on his shoulder, and the 300 yuan in his pocket...

"Endless, reincarnation continues, chasing that huge nightmare full of love and desire."

As soon as the National Day is over, time passes quickly, and the end of the year is coming in a blink of an eye.In the smog and dry cold air, Xiang Sixi ushered in the second cold after winter, but the weather does not mean that it will snow.He dragged his sore body and his stuffy nose to drive to the company.

Xiang Sixi seldom goes to the company, but she has a strong sense of presence, like a "company's first brother".Therefore, when he came, the employees couldn't help getting together and discussing gossip like "The company has received another big order~" "The company is going to do something again~" "Is the company going to go bankrupt?" and other gossip.Finally, I will end with "Xiang Sixi's current reputation in the circle is still willing to stay in our small company, which can be regarded as true love".

It's no wonder that the company he works for is not big and not well-known. The boss of the company is a girl in her early thirties who looks like a girl in her early twenties, named Ye Jiwen.This girl is very assertive in running the company - she does not engage in artist business, does not participate in film investment, and only does script writing. She used to use the name of originality, but now she also follows the trend and adapts some popular IPs.Although the quality is generally average, there are too many intermediate links in a story from the script to the finished product, and no one can guarantee that the result will satisfy everyone.Therefore, there are cases where it hits the street quietly, and after the popularity, actors, directors and investors have nothing to do with the screenwriter, and there are cases where the screenwriter finally blames the actors for the earth-shattering.The company's top executives seem unmoved by the status quo.It has the meaning of "as long as there is a script to write and the company can still operate, then let's do it first".

Acting in such a manner, the colleagues in the company agreed that the boss is by no means a self-made strong woman, but must be a wealthy Bai Fumei.Starting a company may be just to earn some pocket money, and pass the free time by the way.

This is Xiang Sixi's sixth year in the company.

With his current influence, he can stand on his own, have more power to speak, and have more opportunities - Luo Rui persuaded him several times.Xiang Sixi always dismissed him with a sentence of "the kindness of knowing you".

Xiang Sixi said hello all the way and approached the boss's office. The office is a well-regulated business model. Although the boss looks very girly, his style has nothing to do with girls.Over-the-shoulder-length hair, somewhat naturally curly, slightly yellowed in the sun.A large white sweater, black wide-leg pants, and a pair of high heels that are completely opposite to the season. She wears delicate but not heavy makeup. The lip color is natural, as if she has applied lipstick, but also seems not to have applied it.The whole person is stable and dignified, without the sense of oppression brought by identity, but in such an environment, he can't help but bring a bit of seriousness.

Ye Jiwen has already made the coffee, it is steaming but not hot, and the temperature is palatable.Xiang Sixi took a sip, put down his glass, and heard the boss sitting opposite say, "I came to you today because I want to discuss the contract with you."

The author has something to say:

"Endless, reincarnation goes on, chasing that huge nightmare full of love and desire." - Bai Xianyong's "Nie Zi" here hints at the book Xiang Si hopes to read