Ashes in the crematorium

Li Ran couldn't sleep, and woke up at five o'clock. There are two interviews today, one at ten in the morning and the other at two in the afternoon.

He closed his eyes, thinking about sleeping a little longer, otherwise he would be sluggish in the afternoon, but the more he slept, the more awake he became. He sighed, lifted the quilt and got up. The sky was still cold, as if it was raining outside. The rain beat against the windows.

He was sitting on the sofa, staring at the wall in a daze, the lights were not turned on, the room was dark, and the wind was blowing the curtains tossing like ghosts in the room.

Li Ran looked at the curtains, and remembered his days like a spinning top. After school, he was either in a supermarket or a restaurant.Cleaning, waiter, he hadn't done anything, and his biggest wish at that time was to stop for a day and do nothing.

Later this wish came true.

He stopped for six full years.

Now, he can hardly remember the days when he was so tired that he went into shock.

Suddenly Li Ran wanted to smoke a cigarette, but he knew that even if he scratched the corner of the wall, there would be no spark. After going to Ren's house, he forcibly quit.

Li Ran rubbed his face, glanced at the shopping bag lying in the corner, took out the suit from inside, lifted it up to look at it, he was cool and handsome, standard equipment for elites, I don't know what he looks like when he wears it, he Haven't worn this thing yet.

He thought for a while, put it on directly, then looked at the tie in his hand and fell into deep thought. He took out his mobile phone, searched on Baidu, and there was a push in it, how to turn you into a successful person with [-] ways to tie a tie, Li Then clicked in.

Looking at himself in the mirror, it looked like a real thing. He made a movement of buckling his watch and then pulled his tie. He thought it was quite pretentious when he saw Ren Wanlin doing it before.

Seeing that the time was almost up, he went downstairs, the security guard at the door greeted him and said "Bon voyage", Li Ran nodded with a smile.

With deep-fried dough sticks and soy milk in hand, he rode a small yellow bike to the company where he was interviewing.

There were quite a lot of interviewees, each of them received a form, which was an information collection form, and after filling out the information, they sat next to them and waited. There were two girls in their thirties sitting next to them, chatting chirpingly, Li Ran was also idle when he was idle Come on, just listen to them.

"I've been looking for it for four months. As soon as I heard that I had a child, I was sent home and waited for news. Didn't this clearly pass me? It's really difficult for women now..."

"You think it's difficult to be married, but it's also difficult for people like us who are not married. You are over 30, and when you hear that you are unmarried and have no children, your face immediately turns dark."

Although Li Ran didn't look sideways, his ears didn't miss the conversation between the two women.

"Li Ran!" Someone came out and called his name, Li Ran straightened up, walked in with his resume.

An interviewer sat inside, looking at his resume solemnly, then frowned.

Li Ran saw that his forehead lines were getting deeper and deeper, almost killing mosquitoes, so he knew that he was dissatisfied. The interviewer asked him, "You graduated from University A, right?"

"Yes." Li Ran replied.

He still remembers the expression on his father's face when he got the admission notice back then, he was so happy that he almost invited the whole village to dinner.

After listening to Li Ran, the interviewer took out his mobile phone and asked, "Can you tell me your ID number or student number?"

Li Ran kept smiling, then told him his student number, and finally added a thoughtful sentence, "You can directly log in to the official website of school A and enter my student number, then the search results will be faster."

The interviewer looked up, glanced at him, then took back the phone, and said, "Have you been in charge of any major projects? Or you can participate in it."

Li Ran's eyes fell on the resume, and said, "It says Yes."

The interviewer's ballpoint pen stroked his profile one after another, looking at the column of marital status and the column of work experience.

A stroke of the ballpoint pen made an ink mark. The interviewer took a look at Li Ran, then his eyes drifted away, and he cleared his throat, apparently wanting to express his feelings.

"The present era is an era of rapid development of science and technology, and it is also an era of tolerance. This technology is a double-edged sword. Although it is not unusual for men to marry men, they can rely on technology to reproduce offspring. This is the era brought by technology. The good thing is that I used to hear about occupational sexism, but now, raising children is not necessarily dominated by women. In this day and age, the elimination cycle is shortening rapidly. If you don’t have the skills, you will be He was severely left behind, with zero work experience..."

Speaking of this, the man shook his head and pursed his mouth, "There is a position in our company that is more suitable for you, do you want to consider it?"

Li Ran stared at the interviewer's pen that almost smashed his resume, with a smile still on his face, "Say it."

"There is still a vacancy at the front desk of our company. I personally think it is more suitable for you. Although you are a bit old, I think you have a good image and can be admitted..."

"No need!" Li Ran interrupted him, then stood up, "I'm only interested in this position."

"And..." Li Ran continued, "Can you return my resume to me?"

The interviewer's face was as black as charcoal, Li Ran ignored him, directly took the resume on the table, and wiped the scratches on the resume vigorously.

Li Ran pushed the door away, and the two women outside were still chatting, pouring bitter water.

He especially wanted to interject right now, who said that only women are discriminated against?

Walking to a bridge, he took out a pack of cigarettes he had just bought from the supermarket, and took a sharp puff. The stained ink marks on his resume could not be wiped off no matter how much he wiped. He put the resume beside him and watched a gust of wind blow However, the resume floated unsteadily on the surface of the river, and it didn't know where it went with the current.

He lost this first battle, and with the first match as a foreshadowing, it is not surprising that he lost the second match.

After being abused for a month in a row, his heart was as still as water, and he no longer felt it.

He bought a bunch of flowers, drove to the nursing home, walked through the garden, and the sweet-scented osmanthus in it bloomed in clusters, and some fell to the ground, staining the soil with fragrance.

Li Ran passed by, getting closer and closer to the ward of the old lady of Ren's family, and heard the sound of falling things, as well as the seamless wailing of doctors and nurses, the corners of his mouth suddenly raised.

There was a doctor who escaped from the ward with disheveled hair, painted on his body, and the words "near escape" written on his face. When he saw Li Ran, his eyes immediately lit up, as if he had seen a savior.

"It's great to see you!" The doctor ran forward, tightly wrapped around Li Ran's arm, dragged him into the ward, and urged, "Hurry up and use your magical magic, let the old man Make your wife obedient and cute!"

Li Ran couldn't help laughing, and when he entered the ward, the two little nurses inside stared at him with wide eyes, almost weeping with joy, as if seeing an angel descending, Li Ran felt that he must be exuding a sacred spirit Light, only a magic wand is missing.

The old lady was wearing a hospital gown, her back was hunched, she held the cane in both hands, and she swung a beautiful circular arc, which was still continuous, reminding him of the propeller on the plane. The old lady probably learned this skill from Monkey King.

Li Ran walked over, took away the old lady's golden cudgel, and said with a smile, "You are so energetic!"

The old lady calmed down immediately when she saw Li Ran. The doctor and the nurse smiled at each other, with bright smiles on their faces, a bit like the unspoken tacit understanding between superheroes after saving the world. They rubbed their shoulders together and had a good time together left.

The old lady was sitting on the hospital bed, pointing to a pear, Li Ran took the pear and began to peel it, she took two bites and then stopped, pointing to a peach.

"It's not good to waste like this!" Although Li Ran said so, he still peeled the peaches.

The phone in his pocket rang, Li Ran looked at the unknown phone number, hung up the phone, it rang again not long after, and he swiped to connect calmly.

"Excuse me, is this Mr. Li Ranli?"

"En." Li Ran responded softly.

"We are Zhongxiang Real Estate Group, are you interested in the position of real estate sales manager in our company?"

Li Ran turned his head to look at the old lady of the Ren family, said calmly, "No, thank you." Then he hung up the phone.

"Whose phone number?" the old lady asked.

Li Ran had a natural expression, "An insurance seller."

Ever since he posted his resume on the Internet, his phone calls have never stopped, ranging from the CEO of a well-known Fortune 500 company to the small housekeeper in a residential property. .

Not long after, the phone rang again, the number was still unknown, the old lady was looking up at him, Li Ran either answered or hung up, hesitated for a while, but still connected the phone.

"Hello, is this Mr. Li?"

"Ah."

"Hello, this is Siyuan Technology. You submitted a resume in our company before, right?"

Li Ran had no image at all, he only knew that he voted a lot,

"Yeah." But he still agreed.

"Our company is recruiting AI technology research and development, algorithm engineers, machine engineers, what kind of position are you interested in?" Li Ran took a peek at the old lady, and saw her face full of curiosity, Li Ran was going crazy, Can't these be discussed during the interview?

Li Ran bit the bullet and said, "Be the first."

"Then the second one, don't you like the third one?"

Li Ran: ...

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"The first... the first one is fine."

"Okay, so can you tell me why you don't like the last two?"

"Actually... I like them all..." Li Ran pretended to have a natural expression, but in his heart he just wanted to complain, this guy is so funny, is there more to it?Why don't you ask me what I ate and pulled yesterday.

Li Ran Khan was about to come out, and while avoiding the old lady's probing eyes, he responded with words of um and ah

After 2 minutes, the brother on the phone finally got to the point.

"Then can you come to Tianheng International No. 28 for an interview at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon?"

"Okay." Li Ran agreed.

When the phone hung up, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Wan Lin's call?" the old lady asked.

"Yes." Li Ran bit the bullet and replied.

"The relationship is so good, why don't you want a second child?"

"Let's talk about it when Ren Ran is older." He couldn't let the old lady know that they were divorced, otherwise, according to her temper, the hospital would definitely be demolished, and Ren Wanlin might also face the danger of being divided into pieces.

"Then you must tell me when you have a second child. I still have to name the child."

Li Ran smiled ugly, "Okay."