a quarter of his

Lin Jingfan's throat was dry.

When Zhou Hao didn't answer the phone, he seemed to be possessed by a demon, calling over and over again.

Now that he answered the phone, he didn't know what to say.

"Hi", he swallowed and greeted the opposite party.

"Happy New Year."

Zhou Hao's deep voice came from the receiver, and Lin Jingfan felt the urge to cry almost instantly.

The long-term miss came with the attack of grievance, as if it would drown him in the next second.

"Happy New Year", he tried his best to control his emotions, but his voice was unavoidably trembling, "Are you... at home?"

There was a moment of silence on the other side, and then Lin Jingfan heard Zhou Hao say "hmm".

"Have you eaten... the New Year's Eve dinner?" Lin Jingfan wanted to bite off his tongue, and every question he asked was mentally handicapped, and every sentence didn't make sense.

This time Zhou Hao remained silent for a longer time, so long that Lin Jingfan suspected that he had hung up the phone, when another deep "hmm" came from the opposite side.

"Oh", Lin Jingfan said, "Then... did you watch the Spring Festival Gala?"

Zhou Hao: "...um."

Lin Jingfan: "Oh."

Lin Jingfan nodded, but didn't know what to say.

The silence continued, Lin Jingfan opened and closed his mouth several times, and wanted to ask him how he was doing, and whether he had encountered any unhappy things during the time of separation, but he couldn't open his mouth.

The distance between the two ends of the phone is not only the distance of hundreds of kilometers on the map, but also the few months they have been apart.

He has a lot of things he wants to say to Zhou Hao, but he is afraid that he is not in the same city now, so he won't be able to see his expression on the other side.

I am afraid that my words will not express my meaning, which will cause deeper misunderstandings, and my heart is full of sincerity and fear, without a fulcrum.

It was a chaotic night, and the sound of firecrackers outside the window was intermittent.Zhou Hao didn't say much all the time, Lin Jingfan could only judge whether he was still there by the vague breathing sound in the receiver.

He couldn't even remember what he said, but he only remembered asking at the end, "Then... when are you going back to City C?"

After a long silence, Zhou Hao said, "Not sure, maybe in May."

"Can we... meet again?"

Zhou Hao didn't answer, maybe he answered, but he didn't hear it.

But Lin Jingfan knew that they had to meet again, and that might be their last chance.

At the end of February, the graduation project opening report was submitted.

Lin Jingfan chose to follow Yang Hui in the end. His current job content is also in the field of artificial intelligence, which just coincides with Yang Hui's research direction.

Now that I think about it, everything is really doomed. I joined Yang Hui’s research team by mistake, and then joined ET by mistake when I was looking for a job. I was destined to be tied to artificial intelligence in this life.

In early March, Lin Jingfan, accompanied by Shen Fangfei, went back to City C for myopia laser surgery.

That was something he wanted to do a long time ago, and he finally implemented it when he was about to graduate, completely taking off his black-rimmed glasses.

After the operation, he needed to stay away from light for a period of time to recuperate, so he stayed in the rental house every day, occasionally reading paper papers.

I can't use electronic devices for a long time in the days when I am alone, and everything returns to the original.

Friends asked him to play a few times, and went back to work on their own.

When he feels lonely occasionally, he always thinks of Zhou Hao, thinks that he has been walking alone, always alone, and he can't help feeling distressed.

The two haven't contacted each other since the night of New Year's Eve. Lin Jingfan has always wanted to find an opportunity to meet and talk about everything, but he has never been able to find an opportunity.

In mid-March, Ying Zhe returned to school from home and brought Lin Jingfan a kitten.

The kitten is a British short-haired blue cat, three months old. It is the offspring of Ying Zhe's Ji Ji and a fold-eared cat, also a small folded-eared cat.

The first time Lin Jingfan saw the cat, his heart melted away.

It was only as big as his palm. It had just gotten off the plane and was lying weakly on the ground, motionless. Its eyes like glass beads looked at the environment in front of it in fear.

Ying Zhe brought him some toys and snacks that cats are familiar with. Lin Jingfan had already bought a series of utensils such as litter box and cat food, and was waiting for the little one to move in.

He carefully picked up the cat and put it into the small nest prepared for it. The kitten gave a soft "meow" and its eyes moved uneasily. Lin Jingfan fell into a slump almost instantly.

The arrival of the kitten injected new blood into his life. From that day on, Lin Jingfan’s daily routine was to accompany the cat at home, except for his graduation project.

In the first few days, the cat was very unadapted to the new environment, often vomited after eating, and had a few times of fever.

When Lin Jingfan encountered this situation for the first time, he was almost scared to death, and called Ying Zhe in the middle of the night for help.

Ying Zhe was much calmer than him, and only said that the cat probably had a stress response from changing the environment, so he asked him to replace the cat with the bowls and water basins it used before, and put its old toys on its small bed , let it find a familiar feeling first, and then slowly adapt to the new environment.

Lin Jingfan hurriedly followed suit, and bought probiotics and goat milk powder to feed it, and tried not to disturb it except for feeding and shoveling shit.

A few days later, the kitten began to explore every corner of the house, occasionally jumping up and down cheerfully, Lin Jingfan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In the past few days, because of the condition of the cat, he was absent-minded when running data in the laboratory every day. As soon as the results of the experiment came out, he immediately packed up his bags and went home to look at the cat. He almost spoiled the cat to heaven.

However, cats are really the most healing creatures in the world. Even if you just sit quietly on the sofa and watch them play every day, you will feel that life is simply too beautiful.

It also feels broken once in a while, and that's every time you shovel shit.

The cat's poop is really stinky, Lin Jingfan almost fainted when he shoveled shit for the first time, so he named this little boy "Smelly" in a fit of rage.

Smelly doesn't know that his father despises him so much. His little head is only eating, drinking, sleeping, or chasing his toys around the house.

Sometimes Lin Jingfan wanted to pick him up and beat him up. Whenever this happened, Smelly would tilt his head and look at him innocently with big eyes. slave.

At the beginning of April, mid-term defense of the graduation project.

The subjects Lin Jingfan chose were quite satisfactory, but after following Yang Hui for so long, the most important quality he learned was being down-to-earth.

Although the topic is not very good, the victory lies in the steady and steady progress. No matter how tricky the teacher asks, he can answer it with ease.

After the defense, Yang Hui gave him a few points for improvement and let him go.

After successfully passing the mid-term defense, the graduation project is basically finalized. In the future, it is enough to make a few improvements, run a few more sets of data, and do a few comparative experiments. Lin Jingfan decided to return to ET to work from next month.

This year, ET and C City Public Security Bureau have cooperated on several projects, which developed rapidly, and the problem that followed was a large shortage of manpower.

HR had contacted him once a month ago, asking if he could return to work in the company ahead of schedule, Lin Jingfan was at the most critical juncture at that time, and he really couldn't get away.Now there is only finishing touches left for Bi She, so she can go back and help.

The day I arrived at the company was a Thursday, and there happened to be a group of newcomers coming for interviews.

Lin Jingfan swiped his card and walked into the office. He hadn't been here for half a year, and felt both familiar and strange to this place.

He subconsciously walked in the direction of the development and testing department, and he didn't realize that he was now a member of the product operation department until he saw that other brothers were already sitting at Zhou Hao's desk.

But I don’t know if I don’t come, but when I came, I found that there were several new faces in the development and testing department, and most of the previously vacant positions were occupied.

Lin Jingfan's eyes flicked across the office, and after greeting a few familiar brothers and sisters, he was about to return to his office when he met someone's gaze unexpectedly, and his eyes widened in surprise. Eye.

At the station directly opposite, the girl looked surprised and waved to him excitedly. It was none other than the girl in red she met in Yunnan.

Lin Jingfan opened his mouth, and was about to walk over to greet her, but the girl waved her hand, indicating that now is not the right time, and pointed to her phone, meaning to chat on WeChat.

Lin Jingfan nodded, winked at the girl for a while, and then returned to the product operation department.

On the first day of returning to work, there were no substantive tasks. I went to Ye Ming's office to say hello to her, chatted a few things about the school, and then went back to my work.

Click on WeChat, the girl in red has exploded in the group.

"Meng Nan Nan Nan Nan": I rely on me, rely on me, guess who I met in the new company!

Girl in blue:?

"Meng Nan Nan Nan Nan": @不见的风, this is too predestined! ! !

Girl in blue: what? ! ! !You two are in the same company?

"Meng Nan Nan Nan Nan": Yes! ! !When I saw Jing Fan in the office just now, I thought I was mistaken! ! !

"Invisible sail":! ! !I rely on Sister Nan, where is the fate of thousands of miles, when did you join the job? !

"Meng Nan Nan Nan Nan": At the end of April, I just came here for a week, how about you?

"Invisible Sail": I have been practicing here since my junior year!Is Sister Nan doing development or testing?Who interviewed you?Who is the boss now?

Lin Jingfan only felt that he had a lot of questions to ask, and Meng Nan said in the group: Let's have a meal together at noon and have a good chat.

"Invisible Sails": No problem, please!

Xu Chen slowly put out a question mark in the group.

Only then did Lin Jingfan realize that Xu Chen was still in this group, and the two of them just talked for a long time like no one else, it was too embarrassing, so he immediately clicked on Meng Nan's WeChat to add.

The two chatted on WeChat all morning, and as soon as twelve noon arrived, they couldn't wait to meet at the elevator entrance.

Lin Jingfan took Meng Nan to a fish factory in the shopping mall next door, and after ordering, he sat opposite to each other and began to sigh.

The last time they met, they were both students, but they became colleagues when they met again. The fate is really amazing.

Meng Nan was born in 95, one class higher than him.

During the chat, Lin Jingfan learned that she signed a contract with a big factory in Shenzhen after graduation, but because she couldn’t stand the high-pressure environment of the big factory and was too far away from home, she resigned resolutely and returned to her hometown. She only entered through social recruitment last week. Go to ET, and now do testing in the development and testing department.

The two are about the same age, and their learning experiences and personalities are surprisingly similar.

"Great! You will definitely like this place," Lin Jingfan said boldly to Meng Nan when we parted, "If you need any help, you can come to me at any time, welcome to come and play at home on weekends, you rua cat and I will cook. "

"Great," Meng Nan readily agreed, and the two made an appointment to play together when they had time.

Lin Jingfan hummed a song and went back to his work station, feeling that life is full of surprises.

In the afternoon, he sorted out the files on the computer for a while, and when he was secretly paddling to watch a stinky little video, the task came.

At four o'clock, the product operation team held a small meeting, and this time Ye Ming directly handed over the big project of cooperation with the police to him.

When the task was arranged, Lin Jingfan could almost hear the sound of breathing in and out of the surroundings.

Sister Wang was sitting opposite him, and her face immediately turned dark when she heard the news.

"Are you up to it, Fanzi?" Ye Ming ignored everyone's expressions and looked at him encouragingly.

Lin Jingfan took a deep breath and said firmly, "Don't worry, Sister Ming, I can do it."

When the opportunity comes, you have to take it. What do you think so much about?

The author has something to say: When writing Smelly, a lot of inspiration came from my kitty, it was so happy.

I still love you today~