Stubborn illness

The catastrophic flood in [-], before the summer vacation, there were reports all over the place where the water level exceeded the standard, where the embankment was about to fail, where the railway hub was flooded, the trains could not run, and the north and south were disconnected.

The students were panicked and worried that they would not be able to go home during the holidays. Xiao Wei told him the specific situation: "Boss, I won't be able to go back this summer vacation."

"what's wrong?"

"Just read the news and you will know that the trains are stopped and the sale of train tickets is stopped."

"Oh, yes, hey, take a plane, can you take a plane?"

"This..." On the other end of the phone, Xiao Wei faltered and raised his hand to scratch his head.

W said that he wanted to send money, and he would send money as soon as possible to buy us air tickets. For three people, A Zhen, me, and Xiao Wei, we are all infinitely grateful. There is no need to waste it. We all bought train tickets and came back. That year, I went to Zhongshan and played for a few days. When I arrived in Dongguan, W told me where to get off. He drove a black women’s motorcycle on the side of the road. To pick.

We had lunch in a small but clean restaurant, the same as when we were in school, two dishes and one soup, I remember one of them was salt and pepper pork ribs, big chunks, fried chicken legs that looked slightly burnt, piled On a white oval porcelain plate, some fine white garlic granules, like the decoration on the cone ice cream, are embedded inside, which looks very attractive.

"Eat, eat more, and order more if you don't have enough." W sat opposite, flicking his motorcycle keys with his right finger, crossing his legs, leaning back on the back of the beach chair, with a relaxed and leisurely look, watching I.

"What about you? You eat too." I felt embarrassed.

"I eat it often. I don't know what tastes good to eat. I'm not hungry at this time." He sat up straight, put the car keys on the table, picked up the chopsticks, symbolically picked one, and put it in his mouth.

"Ah X, would you like some wine?" A middle-aged man in white clothes and black trousers came out from behind the counter, and greeted W from afar, looking very familiar with each other.

"Do you drink? Two beers?"

"No, you know I don't drink alcohol, especially when I'm in a car."

"No more, I have something to do later, and I'll have a drink at night." W said loudly, facing the counter.

After playing in Dongguan for a week, he was still the same, he was in a hurry, busy, doing things during the day, clubbing at night, driving a women's motorcycle, inviting a few classmates and friends, cheering.

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The two-and-a-half years of technical secondary school life is over, there is no assignment, no suitable recommendation, we are like a group of tadpoles who have given birth to the soles of their feet and retreated their tails. In life, we must first find a job.

Before the Lantern Festival in [-], I came to Dongguan again, because my brother was working in Dongguan, and I was recommended by W. I thought it would not be too difficult to find a job, but...!

"Actually, you can run your business."

"If you grow taller, if your English is better, it shouldn't be so difficult to find a job."

"Hello, are you recruiting waiters here?" "Who does it? Is it you?" "Yes, hello." "Oh, our male waiters must be at least 1.6 meters five." "Then..., Then..., do you still need cleaners here?" "Where are your documents? Let me see." I gave her my documents, including a BEC certificate, and the beautiful lady from the personnel department looked left and right, and looked up. , Facing me: "Don't do it for the cleaner, it's too wasteful, please leave me your phone number, and I will contact you when there is a suitable location." Although I never got her call, even after the end Didn't even get a job as a cleaner!But her expressions and words at that time were deeply imprinted in my mind.

One day, ten days, one month, I lived and boarded at W's house. Once, his mother came back, "We are usually outside, and this boy is the only one at home, so we won't disturb you. Just, don't learn from my son. He is too playful, not mature, can't settle down, and always has half-hearted thoughts on everything..." Like most other mothers, Auntie is eager for her son to become a success.I have said a lot, and expressed the same great maternal love to my children in a demeaning way.

On the third day after the conversation, his mother asked her brother-in-law to help me find a general worker in the plywood factory.Three months later, his aunt called me away, "I heard from my brother-in-law that you are very honest and can endure hardships. I just want to find someone like this, but if you go to my place, the salary is not high. Start It’s 500 yuan, well done, I’ll help you add it, the work is not too hard, just look at the store, and it takes a little longer.” The meeting didn’t even exchange pleasantries, just straight to the point, and then I helped her for four years, this is a worthy Dear and grateful lady boss!

As an aside, when it comes to W's flirtatiousness, my proprietress always has an indignant expression: "This kind of person,..." But his uncle, my boss is very indifferent: "What's the matter, people are not romantic. Young man." Immediately, the proprietress gave him a hard look.

Hehe, looking back now, we are two completely different types of people. I belong to the kind of obedient and obedient boy who learns passively, and he belongs to the kind of naughty bad boy who learns actively.

Thanks to him, even these words may have been given to his original ideal.

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In the next few years, although we were in the same township, we each had our own jobs, and we seldom got together. In my heart, I didn't know when, quietly, full of Lian Yu, so that Xiao Wei came over, I also lost enthusiasm.

I still remember that once, I don’t remember whose birthday, W called me, and Xiao Wei also called me: "Brother Hua, where are we going to play at night? Today is a big day..."

"Let's see it tonight." I actually forgot about it at night until Xiao Wei called again. I told them my location, and when the car got downstairs, I couldn't remember whether I gave them a hundred or two when I got down. Bai, I didn't realize it at the time, that kind of behavior was like dismissing, and after dismissing, I returned to Lian Yu by myself, although Xiao Wei repeatedly shouted in the car: "How can you not go on such an important day."

But I threw them on the side of the road and just didn't follow.I am like a wild boar, Xin, I have already followed Lian Yu to run wildly on the mountain, he likes to bet on golden flowers, so I gamble on golden flowers with him, he likes to drink herbal tea, so I will accompany him to Xinglinchun.

Later, Lianyu went to Huangjiang, and Xiaowei was also in Huangjiang. He was helping Gao Lao. It was the first time to find Lianyu. Excited, he stopped by to see Xiaowei. He called in the morning and arrived in the afternoon. But Gao Lao said that he was sick, sleeping upstairs, and didn't come down, nor let me go up. I don't know if it was true or just pretending. Angry with me, resentful, did not sit for long, I also left.

I don’t know if it’s someone alienating me or me alienating others. In [-], one day, a middle-aged and elderly female colleague who was usually in the company, who could go all over the world, men and women, and joked around, pulled a stool. Sit down next to my desk, look around, look at me, mysteriously: "I tell you, don't be angry."

"what?"

"Will you be angry first?"

"What's the big deal?"

"I heard that...the short one in the canteen, she said, you, you always get along well with others at the beginning, but gradually it gets worse, and you just ignore others. Is this true?"

"Haha, we've known each other for more than two years, what do you think?" I stopped what I was doing, laughed, and raised my neck.

"I don't see it." She blinked her eyes a few times, like a very curious child.

"Turn around, turn your back to me, and say it again." I said seriously.

"What are you doing? What are you doing to turn around? What are you doing to turn your back to you?" She was extremely puzzled.

"Hahaha, forget it, forget it, the so-called bystander is clear, maybe, maybe that person is right, you go, go, get out." I raised my neck again, laughed, and pushed her away pretending to be angry go out.

Between alienation and clarity, when I want to find my true self more and more, we become more and more alienated.Like an ostrich, I just stuck my head in the sand.

Life is picking up and discarding, many people, many things, thanks to memory, words are generated.