Chapter 5 4. People who trade their lives for money

"Do you understand my request?" A girl about my age, dressed in a Chanel vacation outfit, frowned slightly, staring at me and asking. I nodded: "Don't worry, since my editor-in-chief told me to do this project, I will definitely be very serious." The girl who called herself Mlisa nodded with satisfaction, turned around slightly, and started chatting with a few other rich second-generation friends, completely pretending that I was not there. This is a personal job, introduced to me by the editor-in-chief of the magazine I work for, to design a menu for this girl’s new restaurant, including the name of the dishes and the positioning and pricing. Earn some travel money, I'm looking forward to it.

"Mlisa, your dad is so kind to you, and opened a restaurant for you again? What about the cafe last time? Quit it?" "Don't do it, it's annoying." Mlisa gently pinched the teacup with her orchid finger, "That cafe is not a good place to find, and there are always small white-collar workers sneaking in. What kind of coffee do people who trade their lives for money know? You make a cup Give them cat litter to drink, and they can't even drink it." I, who was taking notes on the side, got an arrow in the back for no reason. Several girls laughed in agreement, and one of them nodded sharply: "I can't stand it either. My dad asked me to go to his company for an internship a while ago. I couldn't stand it after two days. It completely broke down. Going to Huairou Farmhouse, I am ashamed to post on Weibo!"

The girls chuckled contrivedly, and I, who was sitting aside, tried to block out these voices, stood up, and prepared to leave. "Mlisa, I'll take my leave first. I'll contact you when the menu comes out." Mlisa nodded: "Okay, remember, what I care most about is..." "We want people with a monthly income of less than 30,000 yuan to leave in a sensible way after reading the menu." I automatically followed her words. Turning around and walking towards the hotel entrance, I knew the group of girls were watching me from behind, so I tried to straighten my back.

At this time, the phone rang, and there was a text message from the editor-in-chief. "Xiao Cheng, come to the agency, the Tuscany wind gathering plan has been cancelled..." When editor-in-chief Lily came out of the conference room, her face was exhausted, the makeup on her face had been worn off, and her face was shiny. I was waiting in the corridor and rushed up and grabbed the editor-in-chief: "Sister Lily, I have been waiting for you to come. on." "Ah, it's for going abroad, right?" The editor-in-chief walked straight to the elevator with a distracted expression.

"Yeah, why can't you go all of a sudden?" "I didn't say you won't be allowed to go abroad, it's just that the place has changed a little." Sister Lily walked into the elevator impatiently. I also followed in: "It's not a slight change! We changed from Italy to Nepal!" Sister Lily pressed the button of the B2 parking lot: "Because the plan in Tuscany is yellow." "How could it be? After planning for so long..." Sister Lily frowned and leaned against the elevator wall, staring at the changing numbers on the display screen.

"There are a few young rich second generations who are going to go fishing in New Zealand. There is a father of a child who is advertising in our agency. Let us discuss with us and let our magazine follow up and report, so as to provide some positive points for these children. It’s better to link up with charity and the expression of self-worth for the brighter and brighter reports. In return, people are willing to double the amount of advertisements for our agency. If you talk about this, can the agency Promise? Win-win, win win." I was a little anxious: "But what can these rich second generations write when they go out to eat, drink and have fun? Do they know how to read?"

Sister Lily looked at me patiently: "It doesn't matter if you don't know how to read. Those who have money can help them. Originally, the agency said that if fishing in New Zealand can become a big topic, there is no need to send people abroad. Later, I asked the director "It's not easy for Xiao Cheng, she has never been abroad before, and this time the passport is urgently needed, so I'm afraid she won't be able to go, so at least let her go abroad once." I was silent for a moment, but my anxiety continued to heat up. "I have done so many strategies for going to Italy, how to eat various ingredients, how to find delicious small restaurants, I have been preparing for three months! Suddenly I went to Nepal, is the gap too big, too bad It's fair!"

After hearing this sentence, Miss Lily turned around suddenly, stared at me motionlessly, then reached out her hand roughly to cancel the floor of B2, and directly pressed the 29th floor on the top floor. I was startled: "Sister Lily...where are you taking me?" "I'll take you to find justice," she said. After dragging me out of the elevator all the way, and standing on the edge of the top floor, Sister Lily pointed to an old residential building opposite us, and said coldly: "Look at this building opposite, it was built during the founding of the People's Republic of China, right? Every household still uses public toilets, and you have to wipe other people's noses when you turn around in the corridor, do you think this is fair? Isn't it fair?"

I was taken aback. Sister Lily pointed to those windows: "Look, in that house, the couple are arguing, right? In the house downstairs, six people huddle together to eat in a room as big as flea droppings, and the lamp on the head is only three watts." ?” I looked at those windows and didn't know how to answer. "I can assure you that in the whole building in front of you, none of them will feel that they are living a very happy and comfortable life." "Sister Lily, I don't want to complain, I just feel wronged..." "Grievance? That's fine, I won't comfort you, you are so wronged, you jump down with hatred! I can guarantee that once you jump, the people in the whole building opposite will be happy immediately, because they are not the worst, With you at the bottom, at least they are alive."

I looked at my feet, the wind was blowing up, and the noise of the wind covered the noise of the street. I took a step back. The editor-in-chief pointed to a high-rise hardcover apartment behind the Tongzi building. The apartment was brightly lit and very grand. "The building at the back is hardcover, 60,000 square meters, and the top floor is a duplex villa with a private sky garden." The editor-in-chief looked at me: "Where is the fairness you want, but can you get it? Worry? What's the use of being anxious, fly if you have the ability, have you grown wings?" I could only look at her in silence.

Sister Lily sighed, and the expression on her face softened: "I'm not forced to jump off the building, and I don't have the conditions to climb to the sky in one step, can we just be down-to-earth, there is a chance for you, just a step, bow your head Just climb up, don't be arrogant and have to look up." Sister Lily took out a page of planning book in the binder in her hand and pointed it out to me. "Cry out in the center of the world: I am so happy!" "Xiao Cheng, I think your happiness index is very low, and you always feel that others are against your self-esteem. But, look at this society, everyone is so busy, who has time to tease you? I think you go to Nepal , It was a blessing in disguise, to see how their happiness index is so high, to breathe oxygen into the soul, to loosen the spirit, Enjoy it! (Go and enjoy!) This is the theme of our time, I I will make three editions for you, you write over there, and I will publish it for you here, OK?" Sister Lily looked up at me and smiled very standard. "That's all I advise you to do. If you really don't want to go, I won't make things difficult for you. I'll send Xiao Lin from the advertising department, and the kid won't choose." I looked at the sample sheet in the editor's hand, and at the four characters "I'm so happy". The traffic under my feet, the old buildings in front of me, and the luxury apartments in the distance, at this moment, it seems that they all have something to say to me. "Those who trade their lives for money..." Suddenly, what the daughter said flashed through my mind. Sister Lily is right, those of us who trade our lives for money, just keep our heads down and climb up, we are not qualified to look up. Why bother to look up. "Sister Lily, I'll go. You worked so hard to give me a chance. I'm already very happy. I was a little childish just now." Sister Lily nodded in satisfaction: "That's right, as long as you adjust your mentality, Nepal can also be Tuscany, right?" "exactly."