Chapter 4 fourth quarter

In the middle of the night in Beijing, the temperature is close to ten degrees below zero. When I walked out of the office building, I didn't pay attention to the ice and snow on the ground, and the soles of my feet slipped.Fortunately, lawyer Fang who was walking behind me gave me a hand so that I would not fall. "Ma Zhuo, I'll see you off." Lawyer Fang said. It is my aim not to bother others as much as possible, but now that the buses and subways are gone, in such a cold day, even if you take a taxi, you may have to wait for a long time.I was hesitating when I suddenly saw Xiao Zhe standing across the road.Even though he was wearing a thick Lei Feng hat, covering most of his face, I recognized him at a glance.He stood motionless next to a telegraph pole, as if he were in a competition with it to see who could be straighter.On his left foot, there is a quiet birthday cake.

He should have seen me, but he didn't move.I don't know how long he has maintained this "alternative Madou" appearance. I really wonder if he is really frozen, so that his IQ and thinking are all zero. "Thank you." I said to the opposing lawyer, "I can return it myself." "I'll be relieved if someone picks up. I'll see you tomorrow." Lawyer Fang looked across the road, patted my shoulder knowingly, turned and left. I trotted all the way to Xiao Zhe and raised my head to look at him.Snowflakes floated up finely at some point, and under the street lamp, Xiao Zhe's eyes looked empty and strange, as if someone had chanted some spell related to the stasis technique.

"Hey!" I pushed him hard and shouted to him, "Why are you in a daze!" He still ignored me, and I knew he was getting sick again.Needless to say, it must have been that I was too busy to celebrate his birthday with him. "There are a lot of things to do today, so I have been working overtime until now." I stretched out one hand to pick up the cake on the ground for him, and held him with the other hand and said, "Let's go to the intersection to take a taxi, we are about to freeze to death!" He broke free from me and said in a muffled voice, "Are you really working overtime?"

"What do you think?" Could it be that he thought I was singing karaoke in the office? "Why did you add it so late?" "It's not finished yet." "What are you busy with?" "Lawyer Xiao," I said angrily, "I've been working all day, can you stop interrogating me?" "Who are you yelling at," he said, "don't call me a lawyer, I hate lawyers the most." I glared at him. "I don't like that person." He finally got to the point, "Why don't you pat your shoulders? People who use their hands and feet are the most uncultivated. Also, I have seen an intern, but I have never seen an intern like you. , be careful of others using the guise of work..."

I didn't wait for him to finish, put the cake back on the ground and left.When I was most annoyed by his chattering, Xiao Zhe had always been a radio guy—playing tirelessly like a cold radio, thinking that this was called communication.More importantly, since they only want to teach people a lesson, why should he wait here in the freezing cold in the middle of the night! "Ma Zhuo!" he called out to me behind me. I ignored him and didn't give him any color. He never knew the severity of what he said. "Student Ma Zhuo!" He shouted again, but his tone was obviously more tactful, "You missed my birthday again, don't you even have an apology?"

I walked back, raised the watch on my wrist and said to him: "You see clearly, it's eleven fifty-five, and you're still celebrating your birthday, birthday boy, I'm sorry, happy birthday, OK?" "I don't have time to make a wish." He said anxiously. I bent down, unwrapped the cake for him three times, found a candle and plugged it in, and asked him, "Is there a fire?" "Is it necessary to be so avant-garde?" He asked suspiciously, but squatted down cooperatively, took out the lighter and handed it to me. I lit the candle, and he didn't look at the candle, but at my face.Complimented me in a low voice: "You are always so creative, I admire you." Through his thick glasses, I found that there was a layer of light gray under his eyes, and his mouth was grinning, just like a frog.I looked at my watch and said to him, "Hurry up and make a wish, it might not work after twelve o'clock."

"What should I make?" He took off his Lei Feng cap and stuffed it into his pocket, clasped his hands together, closed his eyes, and said with a sigh, "It seems like every wish is made with this one, but I don't know when it will come true. Is it smart to change it as soon as possible?" However, before he could finish these long and nagging questions and answers, a gust of wind could not wait to blow out the candle first. Fortunately, he didn't pay attention, probably immersed in those good wishes. I scooped a little cream with my fingers and dabbed it quickly on his nose.But he grabbed my finger and asked me loudly: "Don't you really care about my wishes at all?"

The snow began to fall bigger and bigger, and fell on his glasses and the bridge of his nose, which made him look like a monument, a hero who stood in the snow and couldn't move forward. "What are you laughing at?" He asked puzzled. "Laugh at you funny." I said. "Then laugh whatever you want, as long as you're happy. Come on, I'll share the cake with you." He said, "You have to eat a little bit, which will help my wish come true." "Okay." I happen to be cold and hungry, and I don't mind eating a piece of sweet birthday cake standing by the telephone pole at this moment.Xiao Zhe leaned over, carefully took off the birthday candle on the cake, threw it into a nearby trash can, ran back quickly, solemnly cut a small piece of cake, put it on a paper plate, and placed it on my palm.Then, he cut a piece himself, and said to me while eating: "It's the first time for me to make a birthday wish and eat a birthday cake on a snowy curb, hehe, I can't tell whether it's romantic or not." sorrow!"

"Wrong word!" I criticized him, "Where is the sadness?" "The sadness of not having a home! Think about it, if at this moment, we were staying in a warm home with a large living room, soft carpets, a large French window that could see the lights of thousands of houses in the capital, and a glass of red wine , oh no, two glasses of red wine, what more can I ask for?" He said the last five words very lyrically and carefully.I could only stuff a big mouthful of cake, pretending to be choked, unable to make a sound. "Are you cold?" He finished his mouthfuls, took out his big Lei Feng hat from his pocket and put it on for me.The hat was warmed by his body temperature, and the cold ears suddenly felt warm, and there was a slight tinnitus.

"By the way, Ma Zhuo," he said, "do you want to hear the surprise I mentioned?" "Say it." I held the pink cake paper in my hand and looked up at him.His appearance looked quite different from the sad one just now, and there was a huge piece of good news hidden between his brows.In fact, since he was admitted to university, he kept telling me good news.He won the highest scholarship in the whole hospital, won the first place in many competitions, and bought the right stocks to earn the N pot of gold in his life. All kinds of good news are commonplace for him, and I have long been used to it.

In fact, what I admire most about him is his spirit of never giving up.No matter what he does, he seems to be full of passion and confidence. Compared with the many boys in our school who are always wandering in place in the grand plan, people like Xiao Zhe are indeed a rare breed in today's society. While waiting for him to announce his great news, he bent down to pick up the cake on the ground, preparing to take it back to share with the sisters in the dormitory.It's so late today, I'm sorry to wake them up again.Frankly speaking, the work in a law firm is many times more tiring than I imagined, but my stubbornness does not allow me to back down. Until he announced loudly like singing on top of my head: "Forget it, forget it, I won't let you guess, I'll tell you directly, Uncle Anan is moving to Beijing!" "What did you say?" My ears really rang. "Your father, Uncle Anan, is moving to Beijing!" Xiao Zhe said excitedly, "He bought a house in the Asian Games Village, with two bedrooms and one living room. Today, the notice will be handed over next week! You will have a home in Beijing after the Chinese New Year! It's really enviable. But I will also fight and try to catch up with you!" "When did it happen?" The news was like a bolt from the blue to me. "It was planned a year ago, and I paid the house deposit for him. He was afraid that you would disagree, so he kept it secret from you. But I think you should be happy, and you can be with Dad again Yes. I know where you live, it’s not far from the subway, it’s very convenient.” "How much is the house?" "I don't know very well," Xiao Zhe said. "It's more than 20,000 yuan per square meter. The house price in Beijing is outrageous. It would cost around 2 million yuan for a set." "Where did he get so much money? Is it a loan?" I thought I was going to cry. "I really don't know much about these things," Xiao Zhe said, "But Ma Zhuo, you don't have to worry so much, Uncle Anan is not the kind of person who comes around blindly, he has a sense of propriety, you just need to trust him. " "What do you know!" I threw the cake into his arms angrily, but he didn't catch it, and the whole cake fell to the ground.I guess it would be horrible to pick it up again, but compared to my messed up mood at this moment, it's nothing. I threw back his battered hat to him, put my hands in the pockets of my overcoat, and walked quickly to the intersection.It's cold enough, but I think I need to calm down. "Ma Zhuo!" He ran forward to hold me back, and I pushed him away and continued walking. He followed me and murmured: "Uncle Anan did this because he hoped that you would be determined to stay in Beijing after graduation, and not go back to that small place with no development because of him. You must understand his painstaking efforts." .So, Ma Zhuo, you should be happy, or he will spoil the fun!" "This is my family's business." I turned to him and said, "What does it have to do with you?" He obviously didn't know how to answer me, he just opened his mouth half-open with an embarrassed expression. One mouthful and one Uncle Anan, presumably in these years, everything that should be discussed between him and him must have been discussed.However, even if they sympathize with each other, they have no right to do anything related to me behind my back, or to coerce me into making any decisions.For whatever purpose, I don't like it. The snow was getting bigger and bigger, and it fell on my face, but I felt the heat on my face. They evaporated to the top of my head, and then slowly fell, until it wrapped my whole body tightly, making me almost suffocate.I'm not sure if Xiao Zhe is still following me, of course he must be following me, but I don't want to look back, if he really treats me as a friend, one day he will understand where my unreasonable temper comes from . It's just him, he is almost fifty years old, he has paid too much for me, how long does he want me to owe him?When will he understand that I have grown up and I am no longer the orphan Ma Zhuo who needs his constant care. "No, it's just that I didn't sleep well." She avoided my gaze, pointed to the pile of clothes in the living room and said to me, "I used to have three customer service staff, one of whom was a grandfather who died and asked for leave to go back to his hometown. The other walked well. I fell down and got a broken bone and was hospitalized. Another aunt came today and couldn’t get out of bed because of the stomachache. I have to be busy with all the big and small things in the past two days. I am so tired that I want to dismantle and reorganize myself. " "Then make less money." I said, "There is never enough money to be made." "You put it lightly." Yan Shushu said, "The competition in online stores can be said to be a real spike. If you don't pay attention, someone will kill you to death. You said, I almost got into a fight with someone in order to grab a batch of goods at the factory the day before yesterday!" I said: "Okay, okay, my boss Yan, I don't know how to talk nonsense. Please hurry up and book a ticket online for me. I want to go back to my hometown tomorrow. It's so late, I can't use the Internet at school." "What's the matter?" she said nervously, "Did something happen to your family?" "It's okay," I said, "I just wanted to go back and see my dad." "Oh," she said, pointing to the computer on the table, "Book it yourself, I'm going to bed." After she finished speaking, she ignored me, turned around and entered the bedroom, and the door was closed heavily.I walked to her computer, and found that the screensaver was a blood-red typing: Get lost!It seems that the mood is really bad to the lowest point.I walked to the door of her bedroom, pushed the door open, and saw her sitting motionless on the oversized bed with her head buried and her legs hugged. "What's wrong?" I leaned against the door and asked her. "Nothing," she said. "Is it really depressed?" "Okay, Ma Zhuo." She said impatiently, "When did you really treat me as a friend? You all have so many secrets. Can you allow me to have a little secret of my own?" "Did Xiao Zhe offend you?" I said, "It's his birthday today." "Don't mention this person to me!" Yan Shushu said, "I really, really, really hate this person now." "Me too," I said. "Forget it," she said in disbelief, "he won't make you angry, making you happy all the time is the greatest career in his life." "My dad bought a house in Beijing." I said, "I have to rush home to persuade him to return the house. I don't want him to bear too much pressure for me, and we are all too tired." "Ma Zhuo, you are always so strong." Yan Shushu stretched out her hand and called me, "Come and sit." I walked to her bed and sat down, she suddenly held my hand and said, "If you want, you can come and live with me, if you are afraid of noise, I can live in the living room, anyway, I have to work until midnight every night. " "Why are you so nice to me?" I said. "I was suddenly afraid of being lonely." She said, "The customer service was not available for the past two days, and I was alone all day, facing a lot of lifeless clothes, and there was no one to talk to. I was just thinking about myself. This life, is it going to be like this, I feel very hopeless." "Crying because of this?" I said, "Hurry up and find a boyfriend. With conditions like yours, it's not just random." "Why don't you fall in love?" She asked me, "Are you still thinking about that person?" "What about you?" I retaliated, "Are you still thinking about that person?" "I don't have anyone!" She puffed her cheeks and said, "I had an argument with Xiao Zhe in the afternoon. Now the only rumored boyfriend is gone." Sure enough. "Why?" I was really curious. "I had a takeaway here at night, and he insisted on making AA with me." Yan Shushu said, "I scolded him. The total is only twenty-eight yuan. You said you have been friends for so many years, why is he Is it always so boring? Is the friendship between us not worth twenty-eight dollars!" "Maybe I want you to treat him to a big meal." I comforted her. "We quarreled fiercely." Yan Shushu put her head on my shoulder and said, "I said all kinds of bad things. I think from today, I will no longer be friends with him. It's okay, it's easy." "I say that every time I quarrel, I really don't understand why you have so many quarrels." The heating in the room is very strong, I got up and took off my thick sweater, halfway through the clothes, I began to feel something was wrong .I found something missing from the neck, yes, his amulet, it's gone. Under Yan Shushu's strange eyes, I pinched myself all over to confirm this fact. Without even thinking about it, she knew it was her doing it—the unscrupulous girl Luo Diudu.In Lawyer Fang's office, when she rushed over angrily to fight me desperately, she took it and stole it. "What's wrong?" Yan Shushu said, "You seem to have lost your soul." I ran to the living room, dug out the note that Luo Diudu had left for me in my bag, and called her.I called until the fifth time, but no one answered the phone.That girl with a strong desire for possessiveness probably has to do whatever she can to get what she likes before she is reconciled.I know she did it on purpose, she just wanted to make me sad.If I hadn't shown so much concern for the talisman and given her a second look, maybe she wouldn't have done it.How can this young lady who wants to get wind and rain like rain really cherish anything? I'm really afraid that she has had enough fun and will give it away or simply throw it on the road. I want to get it back I'm afraid it's a fantasy. "Are you okay, Ma Zhuo?" Yan Shushu chased out of the room barefoot, "Your face is really bad." I sat down on the sofa, and when I was about to call Wu Meimei, my cell phone rang. Luo Diudu yelled triumphantly on the other end of the phone: "Sister, why are you looking for me?" "Where are you?" I asked her. She gave a place name, but she was so loud that I couldn't hear it. "It's only been a long time since we've been apart, so I miss me, sister, you're so sweet." I felt that she drank some wine, because I heard her slurred.But luckily she seemed to come out of some chaotic place, at least I could hear what she was saying clearly. "Listen," I said to her, "if you lose my things, I'll kill you." "I just don't want to live," she said. "Thank you for helping me." "Where are you?!" I yelled at her. "Working body candy." She said, "not necessarily in half an hour." I hung up the phone and asked Yan Shushu, "Can we reach Gongti Candy within half an hour?" Yan Shushu looked up at the dark window where the snow was falling, and answered me slowly: "If you don't want to die, you can."