Let go of the past

Behind the desk for one person outside Ji Bing's office, the assistant girl stood up and greeted the visitor with a smile: "Hello, Mr. An."

Mr. An held a stack of documents in his hand, nodded and smiled at her, and pointed his chin inside, "Are you there?"

"Here I am."

Mr. An pushed open the door, walked straight to Ji Bing's desk, opened the document, pushed it along the table to the other person's eyes, tapped somewhere on it, and looked at Ji Bing meaningfully: "This is the headquarters office." The letter of appointment that was handed over has not been officially released. This time, the amplitude of the big change over there is relatively large, and the headquarters is scattered, which hurts your vitality to some extent. Originally, you were allowed to stay for three years, but now it has been shortened to one year. I'm also afraid of long nights and more dreams. How about it? What's your idea?"

Ji Bing leaned back in his chair and said calmly, "Follow the company's arrangement."

Mr. An raised his eyebrows, opened the opposite chair and sat down, a stone in his heart fell to the ground, and he couldn't help gossiping in a good mood: "So simple? Have you reconciled with your ex-wife?"

"No."

Mr. An regretted politely: "That's really a pity. Do you have any children?"

"No."

"That's very difficult. If you have children, you can still play the family card. If you don't have children, you two are alone. Whoever leaves can live. Once the relationship breaks down, it's hard to recover."

Ji Bing closed the letter of appointment, pushed it back to him, and replied indifferently: "Thank you."

"You're welcome, it's what everyone expects." Mr. An joked, "I mean the letter of appointment."

Ji Bing didn't respond to his joke, but he heard the other party suddenly and gossipingly ask: "Are you playing tricks outside and were caught by the other party?"

Ji Bing: "?"

"I have heard a little about the sensational incident in the shopping mall opposite last month." Boss An crossed his legs and said in the tone of someone who has been there: "I didn't mean you, you can be on the hot search even if you break up with your lover, and you are still a male mistress. Which woman has been wronged like this?"

"..." Ji Bing was expressionless: "That person is not Xiaosan."

Mr. An: "???"

"He is my ex-wife."

"Boss," He Leiwei kicked his feet, and the swivel chair smoothly and skillfully slid to Li Ziqing's side, "help me with a question."

Li Ziqing stared at the computer in front of him without moving his eyes, and replied quickly: "Check it online first."

He Leiwei, who had long been used to the boss's gentle and caring care, suddenly became depressed. He stared sadly at Li Ziqing's sideways face, and muttered faintly: "Boss, you have changed, and you are no longer the amiable and lovely you you used to be." It's..."

Anni Liang propped his head on the opposite side, with a happy expression on his face: "Hey, Comrade Leiwei, should you be weaned too? Ziqing has been taking care of you for more than a year, and he will call the boss when he encounters problems. Pay the tuition first?"

He Leiwei rolled his giant eyes, "This is called solidarity and mutual assistance among colleagues. We are a Team."

Liang Anni: "Ugh..."

He Leiwei was used to being targeted by Liang Anni, and he felt nothing in his heart. He turned his eyes back to Li Ziqing's computer screen, and asked curiously, "What are you looking at the school forum for? S City No. [-] Middle School?"

The mobile phone placed by the table rang very timely. Li Ziqing minimized the webpage, grabbed the mobile phone and stood up, and replied lightly: "Nothing."

"Hello, Ziqing." Su Mei's voice was mixed in the noisy hawking, slightly raised the decibel: "Are you at work?"

"Well, you called suddenly, what's the matter?"

"I'm shopping in a supermarket near your house. Isn't it Friday? I'll go to your house for dinner with Lao Xiao at night. It's lively." Su Mei said, holding her phone away as if she was bargaining with the stall owner. When it was over, he moved closer and continued, "By the way, check your blind date results."

"..." Li Ziqing suddenly felt dizzy: "It's okay for you to come to eat, just check the results of the blind date and forget it."

"How can you forget it? This is the business, okay? I've heard people say that I recommended you a very high-quality candidate a few days ago. Haven't you all added WeChat? How is the chat going?"

"..."

"You have to be careful," Su Mei said angrily, and sighed, "Good men are rare, and it's even harder to find them among gays. You must be quick and ruthless in your strikes. Today's little 0, all of them are like him." Like the young master in The Legend of Zhen Huan, she has sharp eyes and ears."

"..."

In which circle did Su Mei, who regarded homosexuality like a scourge back then, become so infatuated that she is now like this, talking nonstop and endlessly?

"Ziqing, are you listening? That's right, that's the one, help clean it up, thank you, Auntie." Su Mei didn't delay on both sides, her mouth was like a rented one: "If you don't be active, I'll just pretend you're still thinking about Ji Bing."

"Okay," Li Ziqing really had nothing to do with her, "I see."

"It's too perfunctory. I want to check your chat history tonight. If you don't have 99+, I'll call Ji Bing and ask him to persuade you for me."

"Don't mess around." Li Ziqing's complexion darkened, and he said in an unhappy tone, "We've already cleaned it up."

Su Mei hesitated, and quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, I was too impatient, so don't be angry."

Li Ziqing was a little tired, "Okay, you can do your work first, let's talk about it when we meet at night."

After hanging up Su Mei's phone, Li Ziqing leaned against the wall of the tea room with folded arms, looked up at the ceiling and sighed, after a while, picked up the phone again, switched to the small screen on WeChat, and the chat history with that person was still on hold. Say goodnight to each other last weekend.

He thought for a while, put his finger on it, and sent a message to the other party: Good afternoon, senior.

Lee: Good afternoon seniors

At noon, Ji Bing and several other senior executives went out to eat and chose a newly opened Japanese grocery store near the company.During the dinner, those few people probably heard the news that Ji Bing was going to be transferred to the headquarters, and rushed to pass the message to him. After several visits, Ji Bing was so annoyed that he simply lowered his head and played with his mobile phone.

So as soon as I logged into the WeChat account, I received a message from the other party.

Nathan: good afternoon

Lee: I'm sorry, I forgot it's already lunch time, sorry to bother you.

Nathan: ok

Nathan: Are you having lunch?

Lee: Ordered takeaway, waiting.

Nathan: um

Lee: What does a senior do?

Nathan: working for others

Lee: Most people are working for others to make a living.

Nathan: Working for foreigners

Lee: oh

Nathan: What's wrong?

Lee: It’s okay, senior. Although we came here for a blind date at the beginning, I think it’s better to treat each other as netizens first. The purpose is not strong, and it’s more natural to get along.The feeling that you are talking to me now seems to be deliberately hiding, and there is a certain degree of defensiveness inside.

Nathan: sorry

Lee: The takeaway is here, the seniors should eat too, let’s talk later (smile)

Nathan: good

Li Ziqing threw the phone back on the table in a dispirited mood, feeling that chatting with that person would be tens of thousands of times more tiring than staying up all night studying algorithms by himself.

"Ziqing, lunch is here."

The other party also had the same original intention as myself, at best it was just a boring adjustment, after all, it was on the premise that they had turned off each other's lights from the beginning.

Li Ziqing took the takeaway from Liang Anni, while thinking with lingering fears, it seems that he should have less contact with Su Mei in the future, if he is not careful, he will be instigated by her brainless passion, and making some troubles will be embarrassing for others own insane behavior.

After returning from the project meeting in the afternoon, He Leiwei pointed to his forgotten cell phone on the table and said, "Boss, your cell phone vibrated several times just now."

Li Ziqing sat down, picked up his phone and pressed it on, and was stunned for a while. He forgot to switch back his WeChat account at noon, and he was still logged into the small account at the moment. Several messages in a row were actually sent by that taciturn blind date.

Nathan: Eating at the same table with other people at noon, it is not convenient to keep looking at the phone.

Nathan: I didn't mean to guard against you, it's just that I haven't come out of the previous relationship, so adding you as a friend is an impulsive act.

Nathan: I will be transferred to New York next month, and I will stay for about a year and a half.

Nathan: I've failed someone already, so I don't want to keep you up.

Nathan: You can delete friends now.

Lee: Does that person know you're leaving?

Nathan: He shouldn't want to know about me.

Lee: ok

Nathan: Don't you delete friends?

Lee: We don't know each other. If you are a netizen, it doesn't matter if you are at home or abroad.

Nathan: Didn't you add friends because of a blind date?

Lee: Forget about blind dates...

Lee: Actually, I joined you on impulse, and I also just broke up in love, and we are both fallen in the world, so don't expose each other's scars anymore.

Nathan: good

Lee: [picture]

Nathan: What?

Lee: The 90th anniversary of No. [-] Middle School next month, if you haven’t left by then, let’s go to see our alma mater together.

The range hood in the kitchen is humming, and the pig's trotter soup is slowly simmering in the milky white casserole on the stove.

Su Mei was standing in front of the chopping board cutting vegetables, Li Ziqing was helping, Xiao Kaicheng's daughter's laughter could be heard from time to time in the living room, cooperating with the noisy variety show on the TV, the lights outside the window just came on, and the breeze sent bursts of refreshing music through the window. The fragrance of flowers, several pots of green plants placed on the window sill in the living room, the leaves swaying in the wind, lively and lively.

Su Mei nimbly put the chopped celery on the plate, took a glass bowl from the cupboard, cracked three eggs in it, and started to get to the point while stirring: "Ziqing, how well did you chat with that person?" How about it?"

Li Ziqing pretended that the noise was too loud and couldn't hear him, and he let out a bewildered sound. Su Mei reached out and turned off the range hood, "I asked you how your conversation with that person went?"

Li Ziqing: "..."

"The other party just broke up in love, so I don't have that intention yet, let's be friends first."

"You also just broke up in love." Su Mei quickened her movement of stirring the egg liquid, "Don't you just need each other's comfort at this time?"

Li Ziqing looked at the egg liquid that was about to burst out of the bowl in horror, and said with a headache: "There is no comfort, he will go to the United States next month."

Su Mei put down the bowl with a snap, and said dumbfounded: "What? Then when will he come back?"

"It will take a year."

"Fuck," Su Mei couldn't help swearing, "This matchmaker is too unreliable!" She wiped her hands on the apron quickly, and shouted out of the kitchen: "Old Xiao, put Get the phone from my coat."

Xiao Kaicheng hugged Xiao Xiaoxiao and asked her, "What?"

"Mobile phone!" Su Mei pinched her waist angrily, "I want to complain about that gay matchmaker."

Xiao Kaicheng handed Li Ziqing a confused look about what she was doing, and Li Ziqing returned the helpless expression of "Can you take care of your daughter-in-law?" Fat hand pinched his throat to imitate the tone of a child and said, "Oh, Mama, don't be angry, it doesn't look good when you get wrinkled, right?"

Xiao Xiaoxiao went in without knowing it, but lived up to his name, giggling like a crowing, abruptly extinguishing most of Su Mei's anger, and glaring at Xiao Kaicheng angrily.

Xiao Kaicheng took advantage of the situation and said: "The sky is big and the earth is big, and eating is the biggest. Let's cook first, we are all hungry Xiaoxiao, aren't we, Xiaoxiao?"

After coaxing his wife Xiao Kaicheng out of the kitchen, Li Ziqing walked to the stove, reached out and turned on the range hood, then picked up the frying pan, and said to Su Mei, "Let me cook."

"Okay, okay, I've wanted to try your handicraft for a long time." Su Mei said happily, and then added another sentence after what she just said: "Ziqing, that person will go to the United States next month. Before that, if you think If we can talk, let's meet him first. It's only been a year, and it's gone in a flash. You two are talking about your foreign relationship first. Anyway, you have experience, so let's be familiar with each other once..." Su Mei didn't know each other. He stopped, said the wrong thing again, and waved his hands again and again, "You fry first, I'm going to clean up the table!"

Li Ziqing watched her jump out like a rabbit, shook his head helplessly, turned on the fire to heat up the oil, poured the onion, ginger and garlic into the pot, and the scent burst out from the whole room with a zla sound. He looked at the sizzling vegetables in the pot , for a long time, sighed softly.

Is it reborn twice?

But the determination and enthusiasm that never looked back were no longer there.