born to ashes

It’s almost the May Day holiday, and the students’ hearts are extremely restless. They are in the classroom and at home, and their buttocks are like a row of nails. Go down and say a few words.

After class, the students ran out like having fun, Wei Linze packed up his things, shook his head, young people are different.

Qiao Wang came to the podium with a USB flash drive and a bag, "Teacher, the part of the electronic manuscript I'm in charge of has finished recording." He said and handed the manuscript in the bag and the USB flash drive to Wei Linze.

"So soon?" Wei Linze took over the manuscript and flipped through it, "Okay, after Jiang Wenwen's part is recorded, you can proofread it together, are you free?"

Qiao Wang nodded, "I'm free, I'm free."

Just as Wei Linze was about to take off his glasses, he saw Jiang Wenwen standing behind. She lowered her head embarrassedly and said, "Teacher... I haven't finished recording yet."

"It's okay, there's no rush." ​​Wei Linze smiled at her, but didn't take it to heart, he wasn't in a hurry.

But Jiang Wenwen has always taken this matter to heart.In fact, her speed is not slow, and she usually lays down in front of the computer to type whenever she has free time, but she can't compare with Qiao Wang, who is used to spinning around.

The last class of Jiang Wenwen's class before the May Day holiday was ancient literature. The students couldn't hold back for a long time, and Jiang Wenwen was absent-minded throughout the class.The moment Wei Linze announced that get out of class was over, the whole class couldn't help applauding. He almost lost his expression. What does this... mean?The meaning of farewell is too obvious.

Jiang Wenwen didn't applaud, nor was she in a happy mood. She sat listlessly on her seat, and gave Wei Linze the USB flash drive and the manuscript after all the students had left.

Jiang Wenwen stood there and did not leave, and asked for a long time: "Teacher, do you think I am unreliable in doing things?"

Wei Linze didn't know why she thought so.

Jiang Wenwen is usually very active, but she is absolutely calm when she is given any task, otherwise he would not be the first to think of asking her to help record the electronic manuscript.

"No, you are quite reliable in business matters." Wei Linze said.

After saying this, the screen of his mobile phone lit up, and he looked at the message, it was from Josh.

——What do you want to eat tonight?

- fish soup.

——When you come back, go to the vegetable market and buy some crucian carp to bring back.

After this message was sent, before he had time to reply, Jiang Wenwen hesitated for a long time, and suddenly said: "Then why did you leave the follow-up proofreading to Qiao Wang? It's because... am I slow in recording the electronic manuscript?"

"Huh?" Wei Linze didn't expect Jiang Wenwen to come up to this floor, so he didn't speak for a long time.

He really didn't think too much about it, he just thought that the follow-up proofreading work was not heavy, and he could handle it by himself, which happened to give Josh some more money.

Jiang Wenwen smiled helplessly, "Teacher, I actually don't want to compare with Qiao Wang, but I kind of want to know what you guys think, why don't you value me so much? Am I really unreliable?"

He stepped off the podium and waved to Jiang Wenwen, sat down on the chair facing her, and said: "Let's talk about your ability to handle affairs first, at least with me, you are very reliable in handling affairs, otherwise I wouldn't let you You helped record the electronic manuscript, right?"

Jiang Wenwen nodded.

"Let's talk about the proofreading. It's because you think too much about it. Originally, follow-up proofreading is not a heavy job, and you don't have to worry about time. You can do it alone. As for why I chose Qiao Wang, because I think he needs it more than you That money." Wei Linze looked at Jiang Wenwen's still dumbfounded expression, and sighed, "To put it bluntly, helping me with this favor is considered a part-time job, and there is no such thing as taking it seriously or not."

I don't know what happened to Jiang Wenwen to get into this dead end. Under normal circumstances, she wouldn't fail to figure this out.

Jiang Wenwen spoke, "I think our liberal arts college is a bit patriarchal, because there are more girls than boys in the liberal arts college, so we look at boys differently?"

Where did this start?

Wei Linze was in a fog, and laughed directly, "You don't have to play riddles with me, you also know that your teacher and I have limited emotional intelligence, if you want to talk, you can tell me, I might be able to solve it you."

"Then I'll ask you before I say that," Jiang Wenwen followed Wei Linze with a laugh, "Do you think the typesetting of my magazine is good?"

"Okay." Wei Linze said.

"Why do I feel so perfunctory?" Jiang Wenwen said, "Anyway, I personally think that no one in the Academy of Arts is better at typesetting than me. I have used AI for many years, and now half of the people in the Academy of Arts know AI. I taught it."

Wei Linze nodded with a smile, he was [-]% like him in that he was not modest.

"Recently, the team in charge of the magazine is about to change. The order from the leader is that the person in charge of typesetting must be a man. It is said that the typesetting is the big head, and I may have to deal with great writers in the future." Jiang Wenwen said of the leader. There was a pause between the two words, probably to suppress the swear words, "I just don't understand why women can't deal with each other?"

"Didn't the great writer go back to school a while ago? Our courtyard has also started to pay attention to magazines. Before, what my parents didn't love and what my mother didn't love, now it's a piece of fat. The student union with a bit of a back door wants to get involved. Fuck, originally the magazine was only concerned with manuscript selection, typesetting, proofreading, and cover design, and I will also be able to do typesetting, isn't this obvious and pull me out?"

Jiang Wenwen sees these things quite clearly.

"You said they don't select people based on their ability to work, but on men and women first."

"Looking at boys differently, although I don't want to say that, but what you said is true." Wei Linze said, "Even in the whole society, this kind of situation is not uncommon, even if equal rights for men and women are in full swing now But it’s all superficial, asking people to be able to do this or not to do that, it’s all about formalities, the concepts in their hearts, and even some people who call themselves feminists don’t understand it.”

Jiang Wenwen nodded approvingly.

Some things are just like this. It seems that there is nothing wrong with it, but when you think about deep-seated thoughts, even some behaviors that seem to protect women's rights are unequal.

"You can't completely say that our yard treats boys differently." Wei Linze unconsciously knocked on the table a few times with his fingertips. You should work hard, in the future people will talk about it, not that woman - Jiang Wenwen, but Jiang Wenwen."

Jiang Wenwen nodded, "I know, teacher."

It's not that she doesn't understand this truth, and the problem can't be solved by being in a bad mood, it's just that this incident made her angry.A group of people who don't know anything skipped through the back door, but this set is still very useful, can this not be annoying.

Jiang Wenwen couldn't help but sneered a bit, isn't she just doing crooked ways to compare with her?That is to say, disdain to do it, who is more crooked than these.

In fact, because the great writer returns to school, the teacher is not stopping here.It is not only the students who need to be rectified by the magazine team, but the teachers are also starting to fight. The chicken ribs of the year suddenly turned into fat chicken legs, and the fools don't want to share a drop of oil.

When I think of chicken legs, I actually want to eat fried chicken.

Wei Linze happened to stroll to the vegetable market, where the fish seller was at the beginning, and there were several stalls.After hesitating for a while, he decided not to eat fried chicken, but to drink crucian carp soup.He didn't go inside, he squatted down in front of the stall at the top, looked in the water tank for a while, but couldn't tell what kind of fish it was.

"Boss, pick me a crucian carp." Wei Linze asked the boss directly for help.

"Okay, want a bigger one?" The boss put his hand into the water.

"The two of us will eat, you can choose."

The boss put the fish into a black bag, poured some water into it, and handed it to Wei Linze.

Wei Linze paid the money and took the fish.He was walking home with his bag in hand. He turned on his phone and glanced at it, but there was a message from Josh on the screen. He probably talked to Jiang Wenwen and didn't look at it.

——Remember to buy from Uncle Wang at the second store, his home is cheap and fresh, don’t buy it at the first Uncle Zhou’s.

Wei Linze looked at the fish in his hand. He didn't expect Josh to understand this. He looked at such an unreliable person, but he knew whose fish was fresh and cheap?

Where did he buy this fish from?

It seems to be the first one.

You shouldn't be able to see it, it's the same when the fish is out of the pot.

With that in mind, he entered the house confidently.

Josh was squatting in front of the coffee table, and when he heard the door knock, he looked up, then lowered his head again, swiping with a pen, and said by the way, "I'm back."

With the fish in his hand, Wei Linze walked to the coffee table and took a look. Josh was lying on the table writing comments.

If you read it correctly, this is his collection of "Dream of Red Mansions". He was reluctant to write directly on the book, so he specially attached a small notebook for writing notes on the side.

The page Josh turned to was his note.

[Old Cao loves Baochai very much.

As an author, I really shouldn't be so partial. The difference in treatment between Chai and Dai is obvious. The author's undisguised likes and dislikes are reflected in the book, which is irresponsible. 】

Josh made a cross next to "Old Cao Loves Baochai", and wrote on the back, "Old Cao Shen hates Daiyu".

After reading it, Wei Linze laughed.

Josh made sense.

In fact, he understood it when he looked at the back, and wanted to change it, but forgot.

The word "difficulty" is used well.

After Josh changed, he took the fish in his hand, opened the bag, took a look inside, and said, "Whose fish is this?"

Wei Linze was shocked, but he wasn't so evil, could he see it?

"Just crucian carp." He said.

Josh laughed angrily at him, why was he aggrieved, "I don't know if it's crucian carp, I'm asking who you bought it from, not what kind of fish."

"Okay, the first one, that's because I didn't see any news about you." Wei Linze pulled the mouth of the bag with his fingers, and took a look inside, "You are too amazing, you can see it?"

Josh put away the bag and wandered into the kitchen, humming a little tune.

"You guys are really good cooks?" Wei Linze also followed to the kitchen door, watching him put the fish on the chopping board in a lace apron, "I thought you'd find out that you had to put it in your mouth anyway."

Josh turned his back to him and laughed, "You seem to have a good brain, why are you so stupid?"

"I think my brain is pretty good."

"No, I'm almost suffocating, I can't breathe." Josh waved his hand holding the kitchen knife, "Your face fills this room."

With his other hand holding the fish, the fish jumped a few times under his hand and flicked its tail. Josh pointed at the fish and said to Wei Linze, "Look, this fish can't even breathe."

Wei Linze took a closer look at the fish, "I saw that these fish all look the same, how did you know that?"

"Stupid." Josh pushed him back a few steps with his elbow, "The bag at Uncle Wang's house is transparent. I don't have to ask if you brought back a black bag?"

"Oh!"

It turned out to be so boring.

He thought Josh really had some special skills.

"Okay, you go out quickly, don't interfere with my performance here."

Josh drove Wei Linze out, and Wei Linze pulled his slippers into the sofa to play with his mobile phone. He just started the game and before he finished solving the first puzzle, Josh yelled in the kitchen, "Wei Wei, there is no tofu at home." Already!"

"Huh? Tofu?" Wei Linze grabbed the back of the sofa and looked into the kitchen.

Josh poked his head out, "Go out and buy some tofu."

"Why buy tofu?"

"Tofu crucian carp soup." Josh took the fish scales in one hand, and retreated to the kitchen to wash his hands, "I'm frying the fish now, and you can just buy the tofu and put it in the pot."

"Why do you put tofu in crucian carp soup?" Wei Linze complained, but still put down his phone and moved towards the door to change his shoes. Josh glanced at him, pursed his lips, and held back his smile.

"This soup tastes better with tofu in it." Josh shouted at Wei Linze.

He heated up the oil in a pan, put the fish in, and a small circle of "sizzling" oil stars appeared around the fish. After a while, the fragrance came out. Josh was about to turn over when the door was knocked It rang.

So fast?Maybe I forgot to take the money.

He looked at the fish in the pot, hesitated for a while, turned it over and turned off the fire.

The person at the door was not Wei Linze.

Josh stood at the door without saying a word. He had seen this man before. That was the man who was drinking with Wei Linze when he saw Wei Linze in the prosperous age.

Seeing Josh come to open the door, Han Huai's face changed several times, "Did I go to the wrong door? Isn't this Wei Ergou's house?" After speaking, he took a few steps back to look at the house number.

"It's his house." Josh took a step aside, "Come in first?"

Han Huai probed inside to see that the layout inside had not changed.After entering the door, he stared at Josh in a lace apron and squinted his eyes. Who is this?

But it's not because he is married, Wei Ergou feels lonely.

But looking at his flamboyant, coquettish bitch, he doesn't seem like the type Wei Ergou likes.

But it's not certain, looking at him as if he can cook, maybe Wei Ergou will give up his principles when he sees the food.

But Wei Ergou is not like the kind of person who has no principles and no bottom line.

Han Huai thought about it one by one, and his thoughts disappeared in the blink of an eye, "Who are you?" Han Huai asked.

Josh was stunned, this explanation is really complicated, he thought for a long time whether it is better to use the word "cohabitation" or "shared rent", both words are not very appropriate.

"I live here," Josh said, and added, "It's a shared lease, Mr. Liu asked me to come here."

"Oh, Mr. Liu—" Han Huai nodded, and then stretched out his hand to Josh, "Han Huai, Wei Linze's buddy."

Josh shook back, looked at Han Huai and smiled, "Josh."

Sitting on the sofa, Han Huai saw the books spread out on the table and went over to take a look. After seeing clearly, he simply squatted down, tilted his head and struggled to read the cover, but couldn't get his hands on it.

Seeing how hard he was struggling, Josh reached out and closed the book, revealing the cover directly.

After closing the book, the booklet where the commentary was written before was exposed. Josh conveniently added a period to the last sentence he wrote and sandwiched it inside the book.After finishing it, he realized that Han Huai was looking at him in surprise.

"You put this book on the table?"

Josh nodded.

"Are you still scribbling on his annotation book?"

Josh thought I was not scribbling, but he didn't bother to correct him, so he nodded.

Han Huai glanced at the cover again, and looked at Josh with regret, "Brother, Wei Linze is annoyed by others flipping through his books, how dare you scribble on his annotation book, and bring it to the coffee table? And Do you know what this book is about?"

"What's the background?" Josh looked indifferent, why didn't he remember that Wei Linze bothered others to look through his book.

"The prize, the collection of a certain Hongxue master," Han Huai looked around pretendingly, "it may be the most valuable thing in this room."

Josh took a look at the book, and Wei Linze just put it on the bookshelf without any discrimination. Who would have thought it would be so valuable.

"You'd better hurry up and put it where you got it, and ask yourself for blessings. If he finds out, it will be considered easy to drive you out." Han Huai quietly tapped the book cover with his index finger, and then mended it One sentence, "It's useless to have Mr. Liu's support."

Josh smiled, "I don't think Wei Wei... Linze will kick me out."

"Why are you still stuttering?" Han Huai said, "Let me tell you, just because I have such a strong relationship with him, because I folded a corner as a mark when I was reading this book, he almost missed me. To die, I have been explicitly forbidden to touch his books from now on."

Josh thought about it, and there was indeed a trace of a folded corner on the front page.

"Our relationship is so strong that we didn't discuss it." Han Huai deliberately emphasized the "relationship" several times.

Josh suddenly moved closer to Han Huai, then tilted his head and smiled.Iron relationship?Why do you think this treatment is far worse than mine?

"I'll put it back right away."

He took the book into the study, put it on the desk, and smiled unconsciously.

"I think Wei Linze has a good temper." Josh said as he walked out from the study.

Han Huai sat on the sofa, "He has a good temper and good eloquence. If you do something that makes him unhappy, he will be reasonable and educate you to doubt life." Han Huai paused , and then pressed the phone and said, "Like a cult."

"Yes." Josh felt that his description was very appropriate, and echoed it.

"Hey, why hasn't Wei Ergou come back?" Han Huai muttered to himself, and then continued to say to Josh, "I still have the video of Wei Ergou's peak debate back then. At that time, the little girls on the opposing side were all crying by him. gone."

Josh imagined Wei Linze's appearance in a debate on the stage. It should be a bit rustic. Wearing a suit, it looks like a formal suit rented at the school gate. Wearing glasses, he should speak slowly.

"Because of his tireless education, I feel guilty whenever I go to places like Nanning Street or Shengshi," Han Huai said.

In fact, if Wei Linze heard this, at most he would scold him for taking it out of context, even Han Huai said it casually.

But Josh was a little distracted after hearing this.

When the phone rang, he came back to his senses.

Han Huai was frowning and looking at the mobile phone on the table, Josh also glanced at it, Wei Linze forgot to bring it when he went out.

He didn't care about it, and pressed the mute button. The screen turned on for a while and then went dark. After it went dark for less than a minute, it turned on again. Josh leaned over to take a look, and it showed: Ji Hongxiu.

Ji Hongxiu persistently called three times, and when the screen lit up for the third time, Josh reached out to pick it up, but Han Huai held him down.

After automatically hanging up, Ji Hongxiu didn't call again.

Han Huai took Wei Linze's phone in his hand, deleted Ji Hongxiu's call history, and then made a "shh" gesture with Josh, "Don't tell Ergou that this person called him."

Josh raised his chin and smiled, "Why?"

"This man is Wei Linze's relative, and he's here to ask for money." Han Huai told him looking at Josh's smile.

"Wei Linze owes someone money?"

"No," Wei Linze's debate video was still on, and Han Huai took the phone and turned it off before saying, "Ergou was taken care of by them for a few years when he was a child, and now he is like a parasite, almost draining Ergou dry. After so many years, I gave them all the money I earned.”

Han Huai hated that iron can't be made into steel, "Pi Ergou also pursues the trick of dripping water. To be honest, they didn't spend their own money to raise him, and they didn't want the money left by his parents. Now those people are building houses in their hometowns to eat and drink spicy food. Look at him, he is an educator who eats the food of the country, and he can’t save a penny every month. Up to now, he lives in the teacher’s house. old house."

Josh glanced at the cleared call log, and said in his heart: Ji Hongxiu.

"Hey ancestor." Han Huai suddenly changed his tone and said this sentence, which made Josh get goosebumps all over his body. Josh turned to look at him. He was talking on the phone with his phone next to his ear.

"Where is it, I'll pick you up right away."

Han Huai covered the receiver and said to Josh: "I have to go first, you can tell Wei Linze later and ask him to call me."

Josh nodded, and Han Huai signaled him not to see him off, and then went out by himself.