Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Distance

The introducer tactfully and implicitly conveyed to my mother that the other party did not want to climb up on me. Although my mother was rejected, she was not angry. Instead, she comforted and encouraged me over and over again: "Manman, although we are a little older, we can't give up on ourselves. , that Song..." "Song Yi!" "That Song Yi really can't do it! Marriage is not a child's play. It's a matter of a lifetime. You can't be too casual. Besides, you are now a little bit difficult at your age, and nothing else is difficult. Don't put too much psychological pressure on you. Don't worry. Let's find it slowly. .”

I looked at my mother in a daze, what did Song Yi say to the introducer?How can I demean myself and trample on myself, so that my mother will give birth to the idea that I want to sell at a low price? My mother thought I was sad because I couldn't get married, so she tried her best to make me happy. At dinner, I had braised fish, sweet and sour short ribs, and sweet-scented osmanthus wine. My father and I talked about tea, football, and chess.For the first time in two years, my family dinner table meeting is far from my lifelong event, something I've always dreamed about, but now I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

My parents can’t rely on me, I can only rely on my friends. I mobilized all the world and earth lines at hand, made eighteen turns, told twenty-four outrageous lies, and agreed to countless verbal treaties of "defeating power and humiliating the country". Finally, at 10:00 noon on Monday After a while, Song Yi's background information was faxed over. I was holding my breath, staring at the fax paper and studying word by word, when the phone on the desk rang suddenly, I was so scared that I almost fell off the chair, and I dared to answer the phone only after I collected myself.

"Hello, I am……" The eldest sister's voice cut off my routine politeness, "Su Man! What are you doing? I answered three calls as soon as I entered the office, saying that there will be personnel changes in our company, and the headhunters have already started to act. I'm surprised, With such a big change, how come I don’t know anything?” The eldest sister is surnamed Lin and named Qing. She is both my immediate superior and my senior sister. She is six years older than me. Since I joined the company, she has been taking care of me. I can sit where I am today. She is definitely included in the military medal more than half of.

No wonder my elder sister called me to question me. A change in the top management of a large company will not only have a profound impact on the company, but may also be an earthquake to the entire industry.I didn't expect that my personal behavior would bring about such consequences, or rather, Song Yi has received too much attention in the industry, and just asking about him will cause an uproar. "I'm sorry! I want to find someone's information. It's purely for personal reasons. I didn't expect it to be spread like this by the outside world." It seems that my lie has already been seen through at a glance, but the truth they speculate is more absurd than the lie.

After all, the relationship of more than five years is not ordinary. The eldest sister accepted my true but flimsy explanation and ordered decisively: "I don't care how you deal with personal grievances, but don't let them affect your career, especially don't affect the company." Before I could speak, the phone rang again, and the elder sister immediately hung up the phone. I sat at the desk, staring at the fax paper in a daze. Half an hour later, I found myself still staring at the thin page of fax paper in a daze. At the beginning of this year, it was rumored that the president of MG Greater China would retire. There was a gossip in MG that Lu Licheng with a background in mainland China would take over. However, it was rumored in the industry that the US headquarters tended to be of mixed Chinese and Western culture with a Western background, and would send someone back. It has not been implemented until two months ago, when Song Yi was suddenly stationed in Beijing. I heard that this person is shrewd and calm. When he was on Wall Street, he was called the crocodile from the East.

Gossip!rumor!It is said that!What are these words in the financial circle that always requires the accuracy of information?If you don't know the background of this person, you must suspect that this page of fax paper came from the hands of the Hong Kong paparazzi. I sighed heavily. MG's personnel changes are not trivial. They must have been widely circulated in the industry. I have never heard of them. In my state, 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 slip out of the office. I walked slowly along the road. On Monday morning, everyone was running for their livelihood. Everyone passing by seemed to know what they wanted, and every step was full of strength and hope. Only I am anxiously confused.I know he's there, but I don't know how to get up to him so he can see me.

Forty-five minutes later, I stood on the side of the street, looking at the MG building in the distance across the flowing road. When I just graduated from university, this company was my career dream, but it just started to expand its business in mainland China, and only three people were recruited in the whole mainland. I sent out my resume and didn't even get an interview opportunity. The elevator door opened, and the bustling crowd poured out. Only then did I realize that it was already lunch time. Looking left and right, he hid in a coffee shop on the second floor.Although it is lunch time, there are few people, probably because they only sell coffee, cakes and sandwiches, and the prices are ridiculously expensive.

I used my sight to search for the best position where I could see the opposite building directly from the glass window, but there were already people in the best position. I stood there in a daze for a while, and finally stepped forward cheekily: "Sir, can I sit here?" The man who buried his head in front of a newspaper raised his head, his brows were rather displeased, and his eyes glanced at the empty tables and chairs, implying that the meaning was very clear. I said in my most pitiful voice, "I'll just sit for a little while." Unmoved, he lowered his head while flipping through the newspaper: "No."

"I can't speak, I won't make any noise, I just want to borrow this window, I promise, I will never disturb you!" "No." He didn't even lift his head, his whole body exuded an indifference. "Please! Please! You seem to be a good person at first glance, please agree to this little request of mine!" My eyes widened, I closed my hands into fists, put them under my chin, and kept bowing.I learned this trick from Japanese cartoons, and it is my ultimate weapon against my mother and Malatang. I have tried it all, and satirized me with Malatang's words: "What is wrong with learning? Learning from people is nasty! Childish! "Nicky is gross, naive is naive, but it's always good.

The man finally raised his head from between the newspapers. Although he looked at me calmly, the corners of his mouth were twitching faintly.He probably has never seen such a childish and ridiculous behavior by a person wearing a serious professional suit and a neat bun.I quickly blinked my eyes again, trying to make them foggy. I'm afraid he was stunned by me. He turned his head away, not knowing whether he was holding back a smile or vomiting, and pointed to the opposite side for me to sit down. I immediately turned my crying face into a smiling face: "Thank you! Thank you! You are such a kind person! You will definitely have the best job in the world, find the cutest girlfriend in the world, and have the most beautiful baby in the world!" He turned his head and looked at me blankly, maybe he wanted to study how a mental patient like me escaped from the lunatic asylum.I didn't have time to study his expression, and my eyes were tightly locked on the opposite building. Half an hour later, when almost all the employees in the building had left, I saw Song Yi coming out of the building. He was wearing a smoky gray suit with a simple cut, but he was extremely comfortable to wear. He looked fresh and clean like a young man. , and the calmness and introversion of a mature man, the two extremely uncoordinated temperaments merged into one in him, exuding a very unique feeling. The two people accompanying him have been talking to him, and he smiles and nods every now and then.On the day of the blind date, he seemed no different from the boy I remembered, but today he is a stranger. He disappeared at the corner of the street, and I stared at the endless stream of cars and crowds, feeling very unreal.Seven years!Seven years have passed between me and him?Why after so many years, the distance between me and him can only be a distant gaze? When I recovered, I found a cup of steaming coffee in front of me. I don't remember ever asking for coffee!Looking suspiciously at the man opposite, he raised his eyebrows and said flatly, "I won't pay for your coffee." I just noticed that he has a pair of very handsome sword eyebrows and very indifferent eyes.I stared at him and thought for thirty seconds.Probably, it seems, it seems, maybe, just now a female voice asked: "Miss, what do you want to drink?" The voice repeated many times, and then a male voice replied impatiently: "Anything." My face was a little hot, how insane was the expression I stared out of the window just now?Hope he just thought I was in a daze. I laughed dryly "hehe", and was about to get up and run away: "Thank you, goodbye." The voice shouted in my heart was, never to see you again, no one likes to say goodbye to someone who knows their unknown side. When I reached into my handbag for money, it was empty.wallet?Quickly opened the handbag and rummaged through it. There was a pile of messy things inside, but there was no wallet.Impossible. I used an electronic card to open the door when I entered the office today. The electronic card is in my wallet. I must have brought the wallet.I put my handbag on the table and began to check everything carefully, cell phone, flower fairy key, vintage notepad imitating parchment, fluffy fake quill, KITTY cat, chocolate, jelly, and one for me to digest at noon Feather shuttlecock for weight loss... Within fifteen seconds, all the things in the handbag had been spread out on the table, occupying half of the table, and the colors were so colorful and beautiful. The three of us, the waiter and him, looked at the things on the table together 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...maybe an ellipsis on his face! Thinking back carefully about what happened in the morning, when I went to work, I had a handbag on my left shoulder and a computer bag on my right shoulder. The wallet is in the computer bag on the right. The waiter's gaze has gradually changed from an exclamation mark to a question mark. I am getting more and more embarrassed, and I have countless plans in my head. Call Mala Tang?joke!By the time she took a taxi from Beijing's economic development zone to within the second ring road, I had dried it into a specimen of a coffee shop to warn future generations to check their economic foundation before entering.Mom?classmate?Friends... Every plan is not feasible. In the end, in desperation, I looked at the man opposite. This time it's really tearful and pitiful: "Sir, I...forgot my wallet, I...I will definitely return it, I work for W...I promise..." All the documents are in the wallet, and there is no written document that can guarantee the authenticity of my words. I looked at the things on the table, knocked myself hard on the head, and muttered to myself: "Why don't I use the notebook issued by the company and Pen?" Maybe he was afraid that I would not be able to figure it out any longer and would bang his head against the table to ask himself. However, the more likely reason was that he was afraid that I, a mental patient, would act more out of line. For the safety of his own heart, he finally broke his heart. Declaration: "I will pay the bill!" Whoooo!This is the most beautiful words I have ever heard, I smiled obsequiously, immediately opened the notepad, handed the quill and notepad to him, and said in a very sincere voice: "That, sir, your contact information I will return it to you as soon as possible, how about noon tomorrow? I am coming here, do you work around here?" He glanced lightly at the fluffy quill, frowned slightly, and leaned back. I immediately took back the notebook and the quill with a dry smile. I held the pen and planned to record: "Your phone number?" "No..." He paused, stared at me, and simply reported a series of numbers. I hurriedly wrote down his mobile phone number, waited for a while, but he still didn't give his name, I shrugged 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 Freya. This is my contact information, thank you!" After he took it, he placed it beside the newspaper.I followed the small piece of paper with my eyes, and found that he was looking at the recruitment column just now, and a few lines of big words jumped into my eyes, MG's recruitment notice!My heart beats a little faster. After I reassured him that I would pay back the money tomorrow, I left with my handbag in my hand. After walking a few steps, I suddenly realized a very serious problem. How could I go back without money?He hesitated, stopped, turned around, and at the same time cheered himself up in a low voice: "There is no difference between being shameless twice and once. I don't know him anyway. Being shameless with a stranger means nothing happened." Unexpectedly, he was also about to leave and was striding out. My sudden turn made the two of them almost bump into each other face to face. , followed him step by step, he ignored me. When he got to the elevator, he seemed to be somewhat helpless and asked, "How did you get here from W's building?" This man is quite treacherous, I didn't say anything, he knew what I wanted.I muttered in my heart, but my voice was like a mosquito: "I came here... um... I came here for a walk." "Can't we go back for a walk now?" "Forty or fifty minutes!" I squinted at him, but there was no response, so I could only continue to stammer: "The sun is very strong now, I'm tired from walking, I haven't eaten lunch yet, I don't have the strength to leave, I have work waiting for me, I... will just do it when I come here." Let's go, I came here as I walked, and I didn't feel tired, and now I feel like returning home." When he got to the side of the road, he finally stopped, took out his wallet, and gave me a one hundred. I can only repeat "I will definitely pay it back" for the hundredth time. He walked away noncommittal. After taking a taxi back to the office, the first thing to do is to check MG's recruitment information online.Management vacancies in large companies generally have their own internal channels, or they have the services of a dedicated headhunting company, and the openly recruited positions for the public are all ordinary positions. I was browsing the web while nibbling on the bread. Before I finished nibbling the bread, a crazy idea had completely occupied my whole brain.Half an hour later, I walked into the eldest sister's office. "You are very out of shape today." The eldest sister glanced at me and continued to bury her head in the documents. "I...I...I want to resign." After I said this sentence carefully, my legs gathered strength and my hands raised slightly, ready to escape from the office with my head in my arms at any time. "Do you know the consequences?" The eldest sister didn't look up, she seemed to be still reading the document, but her hand holding the pen had stopped. I know, I know I broke the rules of the game, and maybe my career is over, but this is the only way I can think of right now, the only way to stand in his sight. "Freya Su." The eldest sister raised her head and stared at me with blazing eyes. Although the atmosphere in the company is that everyone is called by their English name, my eldest sister and I never call each other by their English names when we talk alone.This is the first time in five years that she called me by my English name.She spoke very slowly: "What conditions did the other party give you? What position did they give you?" I was stunned for a moment, and then I realized: "Sister, although I am serious in my work, I am brave enough to work hard, and my professional knowledge is passable, but I am not smart enough in terms of people and the world. To a certain extent in this circle, I rely on EQ far more than IQ. I'm not good, no headhunters came to me, no one came to poach me." The eldest sister calmed down, smiled and said: "You underestimate yourself, you just lack ambition, not enough..." The eldest sister seemed to be unable to find a suitable Chinese expression, so she 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 about her five years of cultivation and care.Otherwise, although my departure will certainly damage her power in the company, the greater harm may be my betrayal. "I'm planning to go to MG to apply for the position of an ordinary employee. I...I..." The eldest sister looked puzzled, I bit my lip, and after a long while, I finally blushed and said a complete sentence, "I'm going to chase a boy." The eldest sister didn't seem to understand what I said, she looked at me blankly, and suddenly started laughing, laughing so hard that her whole body trembled and she almost burst into tears.I became angry from embarrassment, and my usual recklessness came out again, and I shouted dissatisfiedly: "What's so funny? It's the 21st century now, what's the big deal about girls chasing boys?" The elder sister was still laughing, "It's not uncommon for women to chase men, but it's unusual for you to abandon your career and get stuck in it. Because it's the 21st century, a decent career is far more reliable than a man! How old are you? You’re not an eighteen-nineteen-year-old girl in college, and you still play this crazy game for love? How fierce is the competition now? There are a lot of college students waiting for the job, and when you regret it, you will already be a hundred years old Yes. I will let you take a week off, you go outside to play around, I will pay the expenses, after you come back, pack up your mood and work hard." I said seriously: "Sister, thank you. But I have already made a decision. Maybe the final result is that I have nothing, no love, and no career. But if I don't try it, I will regret it forever." "Are you serious?" I nodded vigorously, the eldest sister's expression was momentarily bewildered, she said 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 any closer contact than a colleague?" In today's society, people who really get along day and night are colleagues, not parents and friends, so office romances are so popular. The eldest sister stared at me silently for a while, lowered her head expressionlessly, and said coldly: "Okay, I agree with you to go, but I won't write you a letter of recommendation, and don't expect me to speak for you. Your place will be filled soon." The right-hand man who was trained by one hand resigned as soon as she said she would leave. The elder sister didn't say to block me at this time, it was already a kindness, I said "thank you" in a low voice, and quit her office. Back in my office, staring at the potted plants on the table, I couldn't help feeling a little sad.When I first had my own independent office last year, I was so excited that I bought countless small things to decorate it. Unexpectedly, I would return to the cubicle so soon. While packing up, he called Malatang. "I resigned." There was silence on the phone for a while, without asking me why, I just said with a smile: "That's a good relationship! After we eat together, you can ask me to pay the bill as a proletarian, but let's say first, no shark fin is allowed , bird’s nest, abalone, or I’ll stew you like abalone!” Since I was promoted, Malatang has been blackmailing me on the grounds that I have joined the ranks of capitalists, and the two of them have dinner for entertainment, and she always has a reason not to pay.Now, hearing her voice is still the same, I feel that the world is no different from before I resigned, and that bit of sadness immediately disappeared. "Sneak away early and help me get things!" At night, Malatang took me to eat spicy crayfish, and the two of them were poured cold beer. When I was half drunk, I began to complain and told her that I wanted to go to MG, but I dare not write W company on my resume, because if People from the human resources department call to do a background check, and they will find that my qualifications are far beyond the requirements of ordinary employees. The eldest sister will refuse to cooperate with the other party, I will be rejected by MG, and I will not have a job. Malatang laughed at me without sympathy, saying that I have lost the skills and ability to survive in this wild jungle world. "But I want to go to MG, I want to go to MG, I want to go to MG, I want to go to MG..." My sister-in-law Xianglin babbled, Malatang wanted to choke me to death with crayfish, but I babbled and stuffed the crayfish into her mouth bitterly, so she could only promise that she would help me get it done A resume, so I can go to MG. In the real life, no one is willing to prove my ability to work, but in the fake life, there are at least three people who can prove my dedication and hard work.My life is completely changed in a few words between me and Malatang.