Upper Class

Early the next morning, He Xian woke up on the bed in the room, and the sofa in the living room had returned to its original state, leaving no trace of someone staying overnight.The pajamas were washed and hung on the drying rack.Lin Sitao had already left.

During the lunch break, Ding Shengguang went to He Xian's office to sit and chat.

Ding Shengguang is a person who can't do without being alone for a moment, and He Xian is busy with something on the computer, so he just hums and slaps Ding Shengguang perfunctorily.

Ding Shengguang just laughed: "Can't you rest for a moment?"

He Xian said: "Can't you stop talking nonsense for a moment?"

The printer hummed, and a thick stack of documents was printed out in a short while.Ding Shengguang went to pick it up and took a look: "What is this? Who has a child who needs to take the college entrance examination? No, Xiaohan is only in junior high school. And this... No one needs this, right?"

He Xian said: "It's not a child of relatives or friends. It's Lin Sitao."

Ding Shengguang has forgotten the name: "Who?"

He Xian could only say, "Child labor."

Ding Shengguang was stunned. Of course he also felt that the young people who came out to work on the construction site at the age of seventeen or eighteen were very pitiful, but this kind of pity was no different from his pity on the beggars on the roadside. He would not take special actions against a specific object. .Charity should be done on charitable activities.

"You are so cute. Be careful not to be entangled." Ding Shengguang reminded him.

He Xian sorted out the printed materials and put them in the file bag without saying a word.

He was going back to the company in the afternoon, so he stopped by the construction site, called Lin Sitao to the side of the car, said a few words, and handed him the information bag.

The temperature is high at noon and the lunch break is long.There is no sound of construction work, and the construction site is much quieter.You can even hear the chirping of cicadas.

"Here are some documents, take them and have a look." He Xian handed them to Lin Sitao through the car window.

Lin Sitao was a little dazed, He Xian waited for him for three seconds, but he didn't say anything while clutching the information bag.

"Look carefully, I'm leaving first. I'll talk about it later." He Xian's voice came from the car.Lin Sitao lowered his head, and when the car drove away, he still stood there for a while.

Lin Sitao ran back to the dormitory in one breath.There is no one in the six-person dormitory. It is too hot at noon. There is no air-conditioning in their simple room, and few people come back to take a nap.

He opened the information bag—it contained several materials, all of which were student loan application methods, national grants and scholarship policies.

Lin Sitao scanned it roughly, only to feel flustered and excited like a thief.Suddenly there was a coughing sound outside the door, and someone pushed the door in, and he hurriedly stuffed things under the pillow.

In the evening, Lin Sitao took his phone IC card and ran to the public phone booth opposite the construction site to make a call.

He calls home every few days.Grandpa has bad ears, only grandma talks to him.

After reporting safety, grandma said to him: "Is it hard on the construction site?"

"It's not bitter." Lin Sitao said.

Grandma just laughed: "The mouth is so hard, how can the construction site not be bitter."

Lin Sitao really didn't feel bitter.He is young and has plenty of strength.It's just boring.I thought sitting in the classroom and listening to lectures was boring, but I didn't expect that working on the construction site was ten times more boring than listening to the teacher's lectures.The endless loop of piling sound seems to have no end.

After hanging up with his grandma, he hesitated and made another call.

"Hello." A lively female voice rang out.

Lin Sitao called her: "Dandan, it's me."

Xu Dan yelled and blamed him loudly for having not heard from her for half a month and only calling her now.

He and Xu Dan were classmates in junior high school, and they were together again in high school, and they were close to Xu Dan's family.Xu Dan's family is better than him, his father is still there, but he doesn't care about family affairs at all.

"You work on the construction site, so you should be able to buy a lot of things, right? It's great, you can make money by yourself." She said enviously.

Lin Sitao asked her seriously: "Do you think I should continue to work at the construction site?"

He and Xu Dan had nothing to say.He also discussed with Xu Dan about dropping out of school to work before leaving, but he never made a decision.

"Why? So serious. Didn't you say you should work for a while before you talk about it? Maybe you won't be able to stay on the construction site if you want to," she chirped, "I saw a news on TV today. It is said that it is difficult for college students to find a job now, and I am afraid that in the future all those who work on construction sites will be college students.”

Lin Sitao was amused by her.

Xu Dan scolded him.Both of them fell silent, and she said, "Then I will ask you a serious question."

Lin Sitao hummed.

"Am I your girlfriend?" she said.

He and Xu Dan always play together, and go to and from school together.I was teased by my classmates and joked that they were a couple.

The school doesn't care about puppy love, there are people in the class and in the society outside the school who fall in love.People like them can already be called innocent.

Maybe it's too innocent.

Nothing happened between him and Xu Dan.They tried to kiss once, but before he could stick out his tongue, he pushed Xu Dan away.

Since then, they have had no more intimate physical contact.

"Am I your girlfriend?" Xu Dan asked again.

Lin Sitao answered her: "It shouldn't be counted."

Xu Dan said quickly: "I did it with Curly." After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone.

Lin Sitao was stunned.Curly is also their neighbor, two years older than them, has attended a vocational high school, has graduated as an intern, and works in a car repair shop.

He couldn't laugh or cry, held the phone and called again, but Xu Dan didn't answer.

Just after leaving the phone booth, he saw He Xian slowly walking over with his hands in his hands.

He Xian changed his clothes again, a white T-shirt, gray loose pants, and flip flops, with a leisurely look of going out for a walk after dinner.

He waved at Lin Sitao.

The two crossed the bridge and walked for 10 minutes until they reached the square garden on the other street.The night market there was as lively, and they sat on the benches and watched the aunt practice dancing.

He Xian bought two ice creams, he took one and gave Lin Sitao one.

They ate and chatted.

"Did you read the things I showed you?" He Xian asked him.

Lin Sitao really wanted to ask him why a big man like him cared so much about him, but he seemed too ignorant - he was poor, what could He Xian want from him.

"Look," he said.

He Xian didn't ask any further questions, but just smiled and said, "Just look at it."

He cherishes words like gold.

After a while, he said: "It's a pity to give up your studies because of external reasons."

Lin Sitao understood what he said.

He Xian took the ice cream and didn't eat it, a drop of melted cream dripped on his hand.He shook his hands and handed the ice cream to Lin Sitao: "It was all bought for you in the first place."

"Director He..." Lin Sitao almost couldn't help asking—why are you so kind to me.

He Xian looked at him, and Lin Sitao said, "Thank you."

As soon as he returned to the dormitory, someone laughed at Lin Sitao for calling his little girlfriend for too long, with a few dirty jokes mixed in between.

Lin Sitao was lying on the bed, he couldn't hear the sounds around him at all, he only thought about the drops of cream dripping on the back of He Xian's hand, and He Xian's gesture of shaking his hand.

He felt very guilty towards Xu Dan, because the world was spinning so fast that he didn't have much thought for her.

At noon the next day, He Xian didn't come over.Wu Jianghai's driver told Lin Sitao to go to Lao Wu's office.

Wu Jianghai was playing Doudizhu on the computer, and he didn't lift his eyelids when he saw Lin Sitao coming in.

"sit."

Lin Sitao sat down.

Wu Jianghai clicked the mouse a few more times before saying, "What I'm going to tell you next is for your own good. Old Chen said you were honest, and I only said it because you were honest."

He raised his head and looked at Lin Sitao.

"Someone saw you walking very close to Director He. Let me remind you - he is different from us."

Lin Sitao thought to himself, of course Director He is different from the others.

Wu Jianghai said: "He comes from a very poor family, and he came to us to be a small engineering director because of his scandal."

Lin Sitao said: "What?" He was beyond surprised.How could such a nice person like He Xian have scandals?Besides, he thought the director was good enough.

Wu Jianghai's eyes flickered: "He doesn't like women, he likes to play with men."

Lin Sitao froze.

Wu Jianghai said triumphantly: "Be careful. He's the kind of person... whoever tells others to be lucky is born higher than us. If you were a little girl, you might still have a little hope of climbing high. But you are a A man who is poor and has no background, if he plays, he will be played for nothing."

He flicked the lighter to light a cigarette, glanced at Lin Sitao: "Go."