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Chapter 3 three

Pumpkin Tofu 王小波 2260Words 2018-03-19
three Someone tapped me on the head and I woke up to see my boss walking away angrily from me.He walked a few steps, turned around abruptly, waved his fist at me and said: Wake up—it's time for work!Then, all morning, I heard him say to others: I always sleep in my class—it’s like eating a big pot of rice, and I can’t give him a salary for nothing.It really pissed me off--you know, we've got gray-haired or bald-headed guys like him everywhere, and if you want to be learned or not, if you want to be virtuous, it's annoying.I looked around and saw that my colleagues were all stern, and there was only one person whose face was red. He was the one who wanted to omit a hundred words from his dream.It seems that he also received a training.Xiao Pan (she is the recorder of our company) came up to me and asked: What did you dream about again?After everyone laughed, she showed me the record under my name, which read: Pumpkin Tofu——Pumpkin Tofu——Pumpkin Tofu——Nan Bean——Nan.She said, if you dream of pumpkin tofu again in the future, I won't even write the character Nan, so I'll draw a line for you, do you agree?I don't disagree with that.The girl is beautiful, but too young.I told her to go away, took out a blank piece of paper from the drawer, and pretended to write something.If the boss is peeking at me, let him think I'm working on a sales plan.In fact, the things he asked me to sell didn't need any plan at all, or I already had the plan, that is, if I don't sell it to him, I can delay it for as long as possible.BTW: what he asked me to sell was the Dreamless Sleeper.There are so many such things on the market now, such as Wumeng watches, Wumeng glasses, Wumeng bracelets, Wumeng socks, and so on.In good conscience, our dreamless sleeper is not bad, and even if it can't play a good role, it can't play a bad role either.People often complain that wearing dreamless glasses makes triangular eyes, and wearing dreamless socks creates corns. Our products will not have such side effects.The only downside is that if it's cold in the room, you'll catch a cold if you wear it to sleep.But I just don’t want to sell to him—now the TV is not good, the newspapers are full of advertisements, if you don’t let people dream, it would be too overbearing...

Regarding my dream, I need to add that it is pumpkin and tofu, even in the archives of the Dream Office.It's just that the four characters "pumpkin tofu" were in italics when they first appeared, but later changed to Song style.Then it became official characters, and then gold and stone oracle bones appeared one after another.Predictably, this was the inevitable reaction of the scribes to the "pumpkin tofu" year after year and day after day.Later, pumpkin tofu became a picture, with watercolors, crayons, pencils, pens, all kinds of paintings, colorful.In addition, there are also pumpkin tofu recipes, such as pumpkin row, pumpkin pie, tofu, and small tofu.Judging from the recipe, small tofu does not belong to the list of tofu, it is just wild vegetables and bean noodles.As the founder of Pumpkin Tofu, I feel extremely humiliated.Suddenly, it became "Pumpkin Tofu, I love you".After that, she (I hope it was her) resumed her meticulous handwriting and wrote "Pumpkin Tofu, I love you." Of course, she could also evade and say, "I love you" was not written by her, it was marked by someone else. .Since then, the pumpkin tofu is still so meticulous, "I love you" has become more and more flowery, Italian italics, German curlicues, etc. have appeared, love has also become a red lip print, and you have also changed to look like a human face. Quite like me.In good conscience, from regular script to Song Dynasty, from vegetables to lovers, I can bear it all. What I can't bear is other people's random comments on the files.Those words are so embarrassing that they cannot be listed here.This account is very clear to me. What I'm talking about is only pumpkin tofu. Later, someone fell in love with me, and then someone made a fuss.But I'm afraid that others will not be so clear and put all these messes on my account, because my name, place of origin, and date of birth are written on the file, just like ironclad.Now when I walk on the street, people often whisper behind me: Do you know who he is—who—pumpkin tofu!Then someone squeezed in front of me, trying to see my face.Fortunately, not everyone knows about this.To be clear, I'm not interested in perverted sex (my file is full of it), and I'm not called Pumpkin Tofu.

At noon, when it was time to order lunch for everyone, the boss rushed out of the small office and said: Don’t order me and Lao Wang, I will treat him to dinner at noon today.As we all know, bosses don't take employees out to dinner very often, so that means I'm going to be in trouble.But that doesn't make me anxious—there are few things in this world that make me anxious.Besides, as the saying goes, there is no place to stay here, but there is a place to stay.He didn't stay with him everywhere, so he held him back.There is another version of this ballad. The last two sentences are: Don't leave me anywhere, and I will go to the eighth way.The Eighth Route Army will want me. I am a sharpshooter who can shoot well, and I am educated, but I am a little older... When the boss orders food, I don’t say a word.When the cold dishes were served, I still remained silent.He poured me beer, squinted at me for a long time, and suddenly knocked on the table with his fist and said, "Old Wang, you are too shameless!"That statement made me relax because it wasn't the tone of my firing.I guess he wouldn't dare fire me either.It's not that I hate me, but my customers.He wanted me to hand over the list of clients many times, but neither threats nor inducements worked for me.Later he said: I can't see that Lao Wang is so thoughtful when he is alone in a daze.This statement is ridiculous!I don't think it's decent for the boss to ask us to hand over clients, so I don't.This is a matter of principle.

When it comes to how I have so many customers, it is also a kind of adventure—I would never have the kind of mind to get to know a large number of people in the business department in order to sell fake and inferior products.A few years ago, I was teaching in Hanyuan (it is said to be Hanyuan, which is actually in charge of all adult education). The students are relatively old and slow to read, but they also respect the teachers.This is something that happened when diplomas were hot. Now if you go to Hanyuan to teach, you will get nothing.I admit that I have a lot of relationships, but I never use them for bad things.The goods my boss gave me were too bad, so I wouldn't sell them to him.I can't hurt my students.The boss pretended to hate me for dozing off, but he actually hated my principles.He looked at me through gritted teeth and said: I don't even know what to say to you.now it's right.There is nothing wrong with me, why should I say.

The boss invited me to eat hot pot. I didn't pay attention when ordering. All he asked for were weird things, such as rabbit ears and sheep tails.I don't eat any of these things.I was looking for the lady with my eyes, and wanted to add something, the boss fired at me again: "Old Wang, don't be so confused, even if it's not for me, it's for yourself... Open your eyes and see, everyone is making money where!These words are full of money, and I barely bear it.He knocked on the table with his fist again, and said: Money is flowing, and you can grab it with your hands... This is simply nonsense: whose money is flowing?how do you get itTo be polite, I reluctantly replied: I know.Then he said: One more thing, don’t keep dreaming about pumpkin tofu in the future.I replied very strongly: Yes, as long as you can prove that there is nothing wrong with pumpkin tofu.This time pushed him back.

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