Lu Zhengkang is sitting in a familiar office. He has joined this advertising company since graduation. His major is financial management, but the content of his work has little to do with finance. He is responsible for creative design. The foreman is a team leader.
A senior fellow student from the same school was two years ahead of him. He was a slow-talking and upright person.
Lu Zhengkang’s girlfriend is named Xu Yuanqi. She is a college classmate. She majors in fashion design. She is from the north. After graduation, she stayed in the southern city. Together with Lu Zhengkang, she is responsible for publicity and post-production in an online studio. Her working hours are relatively free, at least compared to
Lu Zhengkang was free.
The Jiangnan area in May is warm and rainy. It is not accurate to say that. After all, the city where Lu Zhengkang is located has rain almost all year round. The difference lies in whether the rain is heavy or cold.
At 18:51 in the afternoon, it was time to get off work, but the team's work was not completed, and a new rookie was responsible for it. Someone whispered that they saw the rookie playing games secretly. But the rookie said that he
If your ability is insufficient, you will definitely improve in the future.
Everyone is used to such excuses, and everyone believes that this rookie will still bring trouble to everyone in the future. To be precise, it is Lu Zhengkang and the team leader.
Senior brother called Lu Zhengkang to join him. The three of them worked overtime to complete the task, and the others had already dispersed.
After Lu Zhengkang finished typing a document, his phone vibrated.
Xu Yuanqi sent a message, she asked, why didn't you come to pick me up?
Lu Zhengkang unlocked the screen, clicked on the message, and then stared at the WeChat chat background in trance. For about five seconds, he slowly typed: [Almost there.]
Xu Yuanqi replied instantly, "You are lying."
[You must still be at the company, are you working overtime again? 】
Lu Zhengkang glanced at the documents on the table.
【……No.】
[Be in front of me in five minutes!] She also included an angry emoji.
【no.】
Lu Zhengkang turned off the screen and looked around.
The lights on the floor have been turned off. Apart from the dim twilight outside the glass wall, there are only three yellowish eye protection lamps still on in the room. Of course, there are also the computer screen and the senior brother's forehead.
Lu Zhengkang smiled. His senior brother stood up, walked to him, and took away a document. He always did this, helping others to the best of his ability. The reason why he never suffered a big loss was because of his excellent ability.
"Thank you, Brother Yu."
"Don't thank me. If it weren't for me, you would have picked up Qiqi a long time ago, right?"
"……yes."
"It's getting late, you should go first."
"I'm almost done."
"Let's go."
"Thanks."
Senior Brother smiled and took away all the backlogged documents.
Lu Zhengkang shut down the computer and stared at the shutdown animation for a while.
When he left the company, Xu Yuanqi was waiting downstairs. She held an umbrella. It was raining lightly, but it stopped raining when Lu Zhengkang came out.
"Are you a koi? As soon as you come out, everything will be fine."
"I'm not. When I saw you, spring flowers were blooming everywhere."
"Russian love words, disgusting, mouth area!"
They have dinner together, a habit they have had since college.
At the dinner table, Xu Yuanqi said, "I still want to go to the United States."
Of course, Shangmei is in Shanghai, which is not far from here in that city, but the economic level is far behind.
Lu Zhengkang stopped using his chopsticks, but his mind began to wander.
Night Shanghai, Night Shanghai, you are a mother-in-law!
"Well, I have everything." He lowered his head, stuffed a mouthful of minced meat and eggplant, stuffed a mouthful of rice, and started chewing.
Xu Yuanqi frowned and stared at Lu Zhengkang with sad eyes. He was very serious about how he ate, so serious that he could make people look hungry. She recalled her college days, because of Lu Zhengkang's happy eating appearance, she always exceeded her quota.
Enter the heat and it was a happy time.
Xu Yuanqi forced a smile, lowered his head and fiddled with the few rice grains in the bowl, "That will happen in the future, let's not talk about it now."
After the meal, they said goodbye and went back to their homes.
Their companies have arranged dormitories for employees, but Xu Yuanqi rented a room with a best friend.
In the middle of the night, Lu Zhengkang was awakened by thunder.
For some reason, he didn't feel too sleepy. He sat up, unlocked his phone, and leaned on the bedside to browse through Moments.
Today is the 14th, and yesterday the 13th, my mother shared five chicken soup articles and two health articles throughout the whole day on the 13th, as well as some modern issues, such as pension issues, and the pros and cons of children working in different places.
Something like that.
My father shared some landscape pictures and some young words about literature and art.
Xu Yuanqi posted nine consecutive photos of dinner six minutes before midnight.
Lu Zhengkang gave them a thumbs up and blocked several WeChat merchants.
He also wants to post on Moments.
【The only way to live up to your hard work is to work without hesitation.】
His intuition told him that what he said was stupid, but in a semi-sleepy state, he felt that what he said made sense, so he carefully selected a beautiful deer head pattern as a picture and clicked send.
When I woke up the next day, there were about 40 messages in the circle of friends. In addition to likes, there were only four messages.
Mother said: Come back when you are tired and rest early.
Father said: Come on, thumbs up.jpg
Xu Yuanqi said: Don’t force yourself too hard.
Senior brother said: It makes sense.
Xu Yuanqi sent him a message and asked him if he was under too much pressure recently, otherwise she would not go to the United States.
Lu Zhengkang replied: The circle of friends is just a casual chat.
They exchanged messages, and Lu Zhengkang explained for a long time before dispelling Xu Yuanqi's guilt.
From then on, he rarely posted on WeChat Moments, even though he rarely posted in the first place.
He began to block some people to prevent them from seeing his status, so that it became a whisper in the circle of friends and would not spread everywhere.
One year later.
He was not promoted, but his senior brother was promoted. Fortunately, he also got a raise, and the rookie was fired because he was watching the live broadcast when the boss came to inspect.
After his senior brother left, he became the team leader. No one would help him handle the work, and he was unwilling to assign people. He was often the one who stayed and worked overtime.
His mother is urging him to get married and return to his hometown to develop his career.
His father asked him to pay attention to his health, but other than that, the father and son did not communicate much.
Xu Yuanqi was preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination, so she quit her job in the studio and chose to work some light odd jobs, so that she could free up more time to prepare for her studies.
Senior brother occasionally meets each other and exchanges a few simple words. They are neither familiar nor familiar. Lu Zhengkang knows that senior brother takes good care of everyone around him. There are too many juniors like him, and there are simply too many juniors like him.
People can't place it in their minds.
Lu Zhengkang talks less and less.
On the Internet, he is a transparent person, but in reality, his presence is not strong.
I don’t know how many times I was late, Xu Yuanqi sent him a series of ellipses on WeChat, and at the end, he attached a tired emoji.
Sitting in a restaurant, Xu Yuanqi ordered food.
The food was all served and no one used their chopsticks.
"I'm so tired, do you understand?" She gently pressed the dark circles under her eyes.
"……"I see.
"You are becoming more and more indifferent now."
"..." I just don't have the strength.
"I don't want to go on like this."
"……"don't want.
"Let's eat."
Lu Zhengkang quit his job. Half a year later, he went to the train station to see Xu Yuanqi off.
It is rare for snow to fall in the Jiangnan area, and winter always fails in previous years. However, this year, the air mass in the north is extremely cold, and the Asian high pressure is indeed high pressure.
Standing outside the station, hesitating.
Lu Zhengkang closed his eyes, and the girl hugged his neck from behind.
