Chapter 24 Chapter 1 Madagascar (1)

The alarm clock rings, and Marty is lingering in one last dream.It was a dream about the sun and the ocean. Between the white sand and sea water, stood a white, Greek-style stone gate, about ten meters high.From the door, Marty could see the peaceful horizon in the distance, and a few warm white clouds in the blue sky.The sun was so strong that it seemed that Marty's eyelashes were about to be exposed to salt crystals. Both the sea and the sky were full of high chroma, and the salt and color stimulated her eyes. I finally woke up, and when I opened my eyes, I saw the sky through the window at the head of the bed, the typical Taipei sky, which was light gray even on sunny days.The next steps are standard, Marty washes up, changes into work clothes, puts on some foundation, draws eyebrows, eats the leftover porridge from father and younger brother, then puts on lipstick, goes out, and takes a long walk Jingmei takes the bus.

It takes 20 minutes to walk this section of the road, but there is a bus No. 252 from Muzha to the company that can go directly to the company without changing buses, which is very lucky.As Marty walked, he made a promise to himself for the twentieth time that he would buy a pair of sneakers just for this walk, and put the high heels for work in the company. It is less than a few kilometers from Jingmeizhong to the company, but the bus can drive for a full 30 minutes, because it is the peak traffic jam in the morning, and the tide of traffic always freezes on Baoqiao on time. Marty also thought about bringing some English books to read on the bus, on the one hand to relieve the tedium of traffic jams, and on the other hand to strengthen his English skills.But in the end she finally admitted that self-education on the bus was impossible.It's not because of the jolting of the car when it stops and goes, it's not because of the harsh music played by the inferior speakers in the car, but mainly because of the sluggishness in the car, which comes from the huge sluggishness that everyone infects and breeds together.

It took about an hour's struggle to get to the company, and Mattie was relieved that her travel fatigue was the mildest among her colleagues.For example, Emma from the accounting department, because she cannot afford the cost of renting a house in Taipei, has been working since graduation and is still living in her hometown in Luzhou. She has to take three buses to arrive at the company in the morning.She tasted the long-awaited feeling of waiting for the bus six times a day. For example, Xiao Chen from the business department borrowed 3.5 million in debt, bought an apartment in Xizhi, and drove back and forth between home and the company for four hours every day.Four hours in a day of life!Matty joked that he could just spend another four hours in the car and become a taxi driver, and his income would not be short.This joke made Xiao Chen melancholy for a while.

Most of the morning work is busy, because Dr. Chen has the habit of concentrating meetings in the morning, and Marty is always by his side.And Marty also strictly abides by the responsibilities on the "My Reminder Sheet", try to use the morning to do thinking work, and check the items on the work log in detail before the lunch break. One thing Marty couldn't comply with was the item "Lunch with colleagues from different departments three times a week".Noon is her private roaming time.Although the city around the company was so messy and crowded, she still tried her best to find some space to wander inside.For example, go to Sanshang to look at girls' hair accessories and necklaces, go to a stationery store to pick up a stack of small cards, or go to a fast food restaurant to get a cup of hot coffee, spread out your own little brochure, and write something related to it. own inner dialogue.

Lunch is well spent.In order to cope with the office workers who go out to look for food like a flood at noon every day, many eateries have sprung up nearby. After a long period of automatic market adjustment, they can roughly be in two forms: meals for 50 yuan per customer, and 150 yuan. Ten yuan per customer, a light commercial meal with coffee.Except for special social gatherings, most of the colleagues bought very simple lunch boxes and went back to the office to sit and eat together. Xiao Song from the planning department said that our generation of white-collar workers is called the onion family. They have a glamorous appearance and look like a human being.Life in Taipei is like this. I eat half a month's worth of boxed lunches for 50 yuan, but my last KTV session cost me several weeks of lunch expenses;If you have the courage to borrow money and become a family back home, then you will suffer hardships that last for ten or twenty years.

"You don't want to be in debt? Very good." Xiao Chen from the business department said, "But it's better to make sure that you still think so when you are fifty. Let me tell you that I bought this house for my child, so that when the child grows up, I don't want to pay for it again." If he suffers once, he will blame me." At the end of the day, Marty was in good spirits, but when he squeezed the bus home, he was generally exhausted.She took off her shoes and entered the door, only to hear her aunt talking loudly. "Ah? No time?" The aunt who was on the phone glanced at Marty, "Well, then you don't come back. Anyway, your eldest sister is still living in your room. If you want to come back, what should you do?"

Marty went into the room, threw the bag on the bed, and threw himself on the bed as well.After working for a month, Dr. Chen specially invited her to lunch today, the kind of business lunch with coffee, and told Marty that due to her outstanding performance, Dr. Chen ended her probationary period ahead of schedule. "Congratulations! From now on, you are an official employee of the company." Dr. Chen said, "You are already a part of the company organization. I hope you will grow together with the company and create a better tomorrow." Why did Marty find this a less seductive tomorrow?As a member of the company organization, that tomorrow has already been registered in the company's future planning.Marty's seniority will accumulate, and his rank will increase. From the secretary of the chairman to the special assistant to the supervisor of a certain department, the monthly salary ranges from 30,000 to 50,000 or even 60,000 to 70,000. Every one or two weeks, I go to KTV with my colleagues to party all night.and then?Marty will be old, as old as Sister Liu, her job scope will be intertwined throughout the organization, her life and the company will fill each other, and in the end?Maybe I bought a house, paid off the loan, and I just got old enough to retire. I have nothing to do, but I have exhausted my physical strength and youth.

Marty rolled out of bed, slapping her to the floor, feeling good.She came to the table, took out a bag of books bought on Chongqing South Road last night, and opened it with great care, like opening a window facing the sea. Yesterday, after get off work, she took the familiar bus No. 252, the difference was that she took the opposite direction across the street.The bus drove straight to the train station, and she got off and walked to Chongqing South Road, buying books as soon as it rained after a long drought.She bought Levi Strauss's "Wild Mind", Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", "Look!The Man," "The Wisdom of Joy," Schopenhauer's "The World of Will and Representation," and Isaiah Berlin's "Four Essays on Liberty."After shopping, she roamed the book street with still unfinished business until she saw the boy.

It was a very, very young boy, and there was still a boy's toughness and cheerfulness between his eyebrows and eyes.In fact, Marty first saw the crowd surrounding the boy, and then she pushed through the crowd to see the boy. The boy is challenging a video game.It's a very simple and stupid game. The main mechanism on the game console is a punching bag. As long as the boy hits the sandbag, he can fight the demon in the game machine.The demon is also divided into three levels, namely a crab-shaped sea monster, a train, and a meteor that hit the earth. The boy used astonishing explosive power, smashing the demons to pieces with fists weighing more than 130 kilograms each, and passed three levels in one breath.But the boy still couldn't contain his anger. He tossed coins and punched again. Again and again, the monsters were defeated and fled, but they still couldn't escape the boy's crazy pursuit.Amidst the intense admiration of the onlookers, the boy tossed the coin seven times and punched twenty-one times, so that the game console reassembled its boxing champion ranking list again and again.

Under the adoring gaze of everyone and Marty, the boy left.The tall and thin boy was carrying an old schoolbag, with one hand resting on his tired right fist.It was probably bloody.The crowd parted contentedly, and Marty opened her notebook, feeling that she should not forget the excitement she had witnessed that day.She saw the date on the notebook and immediately understood everything. This day is June twenty-ninth.On Chongqing South Road, which is very close to the Nanyang Street cram school, Marty understood that the college entrance examination will be the day after tomorrow.