Chapter 2 Distance
Your figure in the sun, so real, yet so far away, is as far away as the distance between you and me.
The introducer tactfully and implicitly relayed to my mother the idea that the other party didn't want to climb high on me, although my mother was rejected, she didn't get angry, but comforted and encouraged me over and over again: "Manman, although we are a little older, we can't give up on ourselves, what ...... that Song."”
Song Yi! "That Song Yi is really not good! Marriage is not a child's play, a lifelong thing, you can't be too complacent, besides, you are now a little more difficult at age, nothing else is difficult, your psychological pressure is not too great, don't worry, let's find it slowly. ”
I looked at my mother with a demented face, what did Song Yi say to the introducer? How can I self-depreciate and trample on myself, so that my mother can give birth to the idea that I want to be cheap?
My mother thought that I was uncomfortable that I couldn't get married, and I tried my best to make me happy, and at dinner, I was braised with fish, sweet and sour pork ribs, and osmanthus wine, and my father and I talked about tea, football, and chess. For the first time in two years, my family's dinner table was far away from my life's events, something I had always dreamed of, but now I don't know whether I should laugh or cry.
My parents can't rely on it, I can only rely on friends, I mobilized all the heaven and earth lines at hand, made eighteen turns, told twenty-four big lies, and promised countless oral treaties of "losing power and humiliating the country", and finally, at ten o'clock at noon on Monday, Song Yi's background information was faxed over.
Name: Song Yi.
Gender: Male. Age: 30 or 31
Education: Financial Engineering, Berkeley, USA.
Tsinghua School of Economics and Management, China.
I was holding my breath, staring at the fax paper and studying it word by word, when the ** on the table rang suddenly, so scared that I almost fell off the chair, and I was calm before I dared to answer**.
Hello, I'm ......”
The eldest sister's voice cut off my routine politeness, "Su Man! What are you doing? As soon as I entered the office, I picked up three **s, saying that there would be personnel changes in our company, and headhunters had already begun to act. I'm strange, with such a big change, how come I don't know anything? ”
The eldest sister's surname is Lin and Mingqing, she is not only my top boss, but also my senior sister, six times higher than me, since I entered the company, I have been taken care of by her, I can sit in today's position, and there is definitely more than half of her in the military merit medal.
No wonder the eldest sister wants to question me, the change of the top management of a large company will not only have a profound impact on the company, but also may be a ** for the entire industry. I didn't expect that my personal behavior would bring such consequences, or it should be said that Song Yi is too concerned in the industry, just asking about him will cause an uproar.
I'm sorry!I wanted to find someone's information, purely for personal reasons, and I didn't expect it to be spread like this by the outside world. "It seems that my lies have already been seen through, but the truth they speculate is more absurd than the lies.
After all, the relationship of more than five years is not ordinary, and the eldest sister accepted my true but thin explanation, and decisively ordered: "I don't care how you deal with personal grievances, but don't let them affect your career, especially not the company." ”
Before I could speak, there was another ringing in **, and the eldest sister immediately hung up**.
I sat at my desk, staring at the fax paper in a daze, and half an hour later, I found myself still staring at the thin page of fax paper.
At the beginning of this year, it was rumored that the president of MG Greater China would retire, and there was a grapevine within MG that Lu Licheng, who had a background in Chinese mainland, would take over, but it was rumored in the industry that the US headquarters was inclined to have a mixed Chinese and Western culture with a Western background, and would send a person back, but it was not implemented until two months ago, when Song Yi was suddenly stationed in Beijing, I heard that this person was shrewd and calm, and when he was on Wall Street, he was called a crocodile from the East.
Grapevine!Rumors!I heard!In the financial world, which has always demanded information accuracy, what are these words?If you don't know the background of this person, you must suspect that this fax page is from the hands of the Hong Kong paparazzi.
I sighed heavily, MG's personnel changes are not trivial, it must have been rumored in the industry for a long time, I haven't heard of anything, no wonder Malatang scolded me for having no chest and no brain.
I couldn't do anything while sitting in the office, so I simply went out, picked up my handbag, and made up an excuse to sneak out of the office.
I walked slowly along the road, and on Monday morning, everyone was rushing for a living, everyone who passed by seemed to know what they wanted, and every step was full of strength and hope, except for me who was anxiously confused. I knew he was there, but I didn't know how to get in front of him and let him see me.
Forty-five minutes later, I was standing on the side of the street, across the street and looking at MG's building.
When I first graduated from university, this company was my professional dream, but it had just begun to expand its business in Chinese mainland, and only three people were recruited in the entire mainland.
The elevator doors opened, and the bustling crowd poured out, and I realized that it was lunch time.
Looking left and right, I hid in a coffee shop on the second floor. Although it was lunch time, there were very few people, probably because they only sold coffee, cakes and sandwiches, and they were ridiculously expensive.
I searched for the best spot to see the building across the street through the glass window, but there was already someone in the best spot.
I stood there for a moment, and finally stepped forward cheekily: "Sir, can I sit here?" ”
The man buried in front of a newspaper looked up, his eyebrows were quite displeased, and his gaze swept to the empty table and chair, suggesting that the meaning was clear.
I said in the most pitiful voice, "I'll just sit for a while." ”
Unmoved, he lowered his head and flipped through the newspaper: "No." ”
I don't speak, I don't make any sound, I just want to borrow this window, I promise, absolutely not to bother you! ”
No way. He didn't even raise his head, and his whole body exuded a cold indifference.
Come on! Come on! You look like a nice person, please grant me this little request! ”
My eyes widened, my hands clenched into fists, placed under my chin, and kept bowing. This trick is what I learned from Japanese cartoons, and it's my ultimate ** for my mother and Malatang, almost a hundred times, and I sarcastically said with Malatang: "What is bad to learn?" Learn to be numb! Immature! "Flesh is flesh, naivety is childishness, but there is no disadvantage.
The man finally lifted his head from the newspaper room, and although he looked at me calmly, the corners of his mouth twitched faintly. He probably had never seen a person in a serious professional suit with unmessed hair in such a childish and ridiculous act. I quickly blinked my eyes again, trying to make them foggy, and he was probably caught up in my thunder, and turned his head, not knowing whether he was laughing or vomiting, and pointed to the other side of the other side to motioned for me to sit.
I immediately turned my crying face into a smile: "Thank you! Thank you! You're such a great person! There will definitely be one of the best jobs in the world, finding one of the cutest girlfriends in the world, and having one of the prettiest babies in the world! ”
He turned his head and looked at me with a blank expression, almost stunned, perhaps trying to figure out how a psychopath like me managed to get out of the asylum. I didn't have time to study his expression, my eyes locked on to the building opposite.
Half an hour later, when the employees in the building were almost **, I saw Song Yi coming out of the building, a smoky gray suit, with a simple cut, but he was comfortable to wear, looking both fresh and clean as a young man, and calm and introverted as a mature man.
The two men beside him had been talking to him, smiling and nodding from time to time. On the day of the blind date, he seemed to be no different from the teenager in my memory, but today he is a stranger.
He disappeared around the corner, and I stared at the endless stream of cars and crowds, and I had a very unreal feeling. It's been seven years! Seven years have been separated from me and him? Why, after all these years, can I still stare at him from afar?
When I came back to my senses, I noticed a steaming cup of coffee in front of me.
I don't remember if I ever asked for coffee! His gaze swept suspiciously to the man opposite, his eyebrows raised lightly, and he said crisply, "I won't pay for your coffee." ”
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Only then did I notice that he had a pair of very handsome sword eyebrows and very indifferent eyes. I stared at him for thirty seconds. Probably, it seems, it seems, maybe, just now a woman's voice was asking, "Miss, what do you want to drink?" The voice was repeated many times, and then a man's voice replied impatiently, "Whatever." ”
My face is a little hot, how nymphomaniac am I just staring out the window? Hopefully he just thought I was in a daze.
I laughed dryly twice and prepared to get up and run away: "Thank you, goodbye." The voice of the cry in my heart is, never goodbye, no one likes to say goodbye to someone who knows their unknown side.
When he reached into his handbag and touched the money, he touched it empty. Purse? Quickly opened the handbag and rummaged through it, there were a bunch of messy things inside, but there was no wallet. No way, I used an electronic card to open the door when I entered the office today, and the electronic card was in my wallet, so I must have brought my wallet. I put my handbag on the table and began to carefully check everything, my phone, the flower fairy key, a vintage notepad that imitated parchment, a fluffy fake quill, a kitty cat, chocolate, jelly, and a feather shuttlecock ...... that I used to eat at noon
Within fifteen seconds, all the contents of the handbag were spread out on the table, occupying half of the table, and the colors were so colorful and beautiful.
I, the waiter, and him, all three of us looked at the things on the table in a daze, but the reasons for the daze were different. I have a question mark on my face, an exclamation mark on the waiter's face, and a ...... on his faceMaybe it's the ellipsis!
When I went to work, I had a handbag on my left shoulder and a computer bag on my right shoulder, and I took my wallet out of my handbag, took out my electronic card and opened the door, and then maybe, probably, very likely, I put my wallet in the computer bag on my right hand side while entering the door.
The waiter's gaze has gradually changed from an exclamation point to a question mark, and I am becoming more and more embarrassed. Joke! By the time she drove from Beijing's economic development zone to the second ring road, I had dried it into a specimen of a café to warn future generations to check the economic foundation before entering. Mom? Schoolmate? Friends ......None of the plans were implementable, and finally, in desperation, he looked at the man opposite.
This time it was genuine and pitiful: "Sir, I ......."I forgot my wallet and I ......I'll definitely pay it back, that's ...... I work at wI promise ......”
All the documents were in my wallet, and there were no written documents to guarantee the authenticity of my words, so I looked at the things on the table, knocked myself on the head hard, and muttered, "Why don't I use the notepad and pen issued by the company?" ”
Maybe he was afraid that I wouldn't be able to figure it out anymore and would bang my head on the table and ask myself, but it is more likely that he was afraid that my psychopath would behave more out of line, and for the safety of his heart, he finally broke his declaration just now: "I'll pay the bill!" ”
Woooooo It was the most beautiful word I had ever heard, and I smiled flatteringly, and immediately opened the notebook, handed him the quills and the notebook, and said in a sincere voice: "That, sir, I will definitely return your *** to you as soon as possible, how about noon tomorrow?" I'm coming here, do you work around here? ”
He glanced lightly at the fluffy quill pen, frowned slightly, leaned back, and I immediately smiled dryly and took the notebook and quill back.
I held my pen and was going to record: "Yours**?
No need to ......He paused, stared at me, and simply quoted a string of numbers.
I hurriedly wrote down his mobile phone number, and waited for a long time, he still didn't sign up, I shrugged my shoulders indifferently, tore off a page, wrote down my English name and mobile phone number, and handed it to him: "My name is Freya, this is my *** thank you!" ”
He took it and put it next to the newspaper. My gaze followed the small page of paper and found that he was looking at the recruitment column just now, and a few lines of big words jumped into my eyes at once, MG's recruitment notice! My heart is beating a little fast.
After I promised him again that I would pay back the money tomorrow, I left with my handbag, and after walking a few steps, I suddenly realized a very serious problem, how can I go back without money? hesitated, stopped, turned around, and at the same time whispered to himself: "Shameless twice is no different from shameless once, I don't know him anyway, and shamelessness with strangers is equivalent to not happening." ”
Unexpectedly, he was also about to leave, and was striding out, my sudden turn made the two almost face to face, I didn't speak, laughed dryly, immediately let to the side, bent over, humble attitude, followed him step by step, he ignored me.
When he got to the elevator, he seemed to ask helplessly, "How did you get from W's building?" ”
This man is very treacherous, I didn't say anything, he knew what I wanted. I sneered in my heart, but my voice was like a mosquito: "I came ......."Hmmm......Walked over. ”
Can't you go for a walk back now? ”
Forty or fifty minutes! ”
Squinted at him, there was no response, I could only continue to support me: "Now the sun is very big, I'm tired of walking, I haven't eaten lunch yet, I don't have the strength to go, there is work waiting for me, I ......."When I came, I walked casually, and I came over as I walked, and I didn't feel tired, and now I am like an arrow. ”
When he reached the side of the road, he finally stopped, pulled out his wallet, and gave me a hundred.
I can only repeat the hundredth "I will definitely pay it back".
He walked away noncommittally.
When I took a taxi back to the office, the first thing I did was to check MG's recruitment news on the Internet. Management vacancies in large companies are generally solved through their own internal channels, or there are specialized headhunting company services, and the positions open to the public are ordinary positions.
I was munching on the bread as I browsed the web, and before I could finish the bread, a crazy thought had completely taken over my entire brain. Half an hour later, I walked into my eldest sister's office.
You're out of shape today. The eldest sister glanced at me and continued to bury herself in the papers.
I ......I ......I want to resign. ”
I said this carefully, my legs were strong, my hands slightly raised, ready to escape the office with my head in my hands at any moment.
Do you know the consequences? The eldest sister did not look up, as if she was still looking at the papers, but the hand holding the pen had stopped.
I know, I know I'm breaking the rules of the game, maybe that's the end of my career, but it's the only way I can think of at the moment, the only way to be in his sights.
freyasu。The eldest sister raised her head and stared at me like a torch.
Although the atmosphere of the company is that everyone uses their English names, my eldest sister and I never call each other by our English names when we talk to each other alone. It was the first time in five years that she had called me by my English name. She spoke slowly: "What conditions did the other party give you?" What position are you given? ”
I was stunned for a moment and reacted: "Eldest sister, although I am serious in my work, I dare to fight, and my professional knowledge is passable, but I am not smart enough in terms of human sophistication, this circle has achieved a certain level, and the reliance on emotional intelligence is far greater than IQ, I am not outstanding, no headhunting company comes to me, no one comes to poach me." ”
The eldest sister's expression softened, and she smiled and said, "You underestimate yourself too much, you are just a little less ambitious, not ...... enough."The eldest sister didn't seem to be able to find a suitable Chinese expression and used English, "You are not ambitious enough, so you lack motivation." ”
I looked at my eldest sister's smile, hesitated for a moment, and decided to tell her the truth for the sake of her cultivation and care for five years. Otherwise, my departure will certainly damage her power in the company, but the greater damage may be my betrayal.
I'm going to go to MG to apply for a position as an ordinary employee, and I'm ......I ......The eldest sister's gaze was puzzled, I bit my lip, and after a while, I finally blushed and squeezed out a complete sentence, "I'm going to chase a boy." ”
The eldest sister didn't seem to understand what I was saying, and looked at me blankly, and suddenly began to laugh, laughing so hard that her whole body trembled, and tears were about to burst into laughter. I was annoyed and angry, and my usual recklessness came back to me, and I shouted dissatisfiedly, "What's so funny? Now it's the 21st century, what's the big deal with girls chasing boys? ”
The eldest sister was still laughing, "It's not uncommon for women to chase men, but it's very rare for you to abandon your career and go down in one go, just because it's the 21st century, so a decent career is far more reliable than a man!" How old are you? Isn't it a ten** little girl in college, still playing this game crazy for love? How competitive is it right now? A large number of college students are waiting to take up their posts, and by the time you regret turning back, you will already be a hundred years old. I'll give you a week's vacation, you go outside for a lap, I'll pay for it, and when you come back, pack up your mood and work hard. ”
I said seriously, "Big sister, thank you. But I have already decided, maybe the final result is that I have nothing, no love, and no career, but if I don't try, I will regret it for the rest of my life. ”
Are you serious? ”
I nodded vigorously, the eldest sister's expression was momentarily melancholy, and she said very gently: "Su Man, why do you have to go to MG?" There should be other ways. ”
I shook my head sadly: "I've had a crush on him for a long time, if I don't walk in front of him, he will never see me, is there a closer way to contact than a colleague?" ”
In today's society, people really spend time with colleagues, not parents and friends, so office romances are popular.
The eldest sister stared at me silently for a while, lowered her head expressionlessly, and said very coldly: "Okay, I agree with you to go, but I won't write you a letter of recommendation, and you don't expect me to speak for you, your place will be occupied soon." ”
The right-hand man who was cultivated with one hand said that he would leave his job, and the eldest sister didn't say ** me at this time, it was already a grace, I said "thank you" in a low voice, and exited her office.
Back in his office, he stared at the potted plants on the table, and couldn't help but feel a little sad. When I first got my own private office last year, I was so excited to buy countless small things to decorate it, but I didn't expect to be back in the cubicle so soon.
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