Chapter 9
An Jing took a deep breath and wanted to explode, but considering that there was someone for him, he didn't want to embarrass Lao Bian. After living together for a few years, although An Jing was heartless, Bian Lu, who worked and had housework, saw it and never urged him to go to work.
My boyfriend is great in every way, except that he thinks too highly of me. — Of course, An Jing has selectively forgotten her past as a jerk.
"Chatting with the youngsters." An Jing pretended to be casual and patted Zhan Mu's arm, saying, "Look at him, this handsome man with a righteous spirit, he's absolutely perfect to be a leader, isn't he?"
Here it comes again. Lawyer Bian glanced at him a few times and knew that he was unhappy. He was used to being in a superior position and giving orders, but now that he had left Lanzhou and had to start from the grassroots level without the protection of power, he felt a huge gap in his heart.
"Don't be so reckless." Bian Lu whispered a smile to An Jing, "Prince, your Lanzhou government is dead."
An Jing's expression suddenly froze, he pursed his lips, looked away, and shut up.
Speaking of this buddy... Zhan Mu looked at him carefully for several times and was surprised to find that he looked very familiar, as if he had seen that person on the news?
An Jing is the only son of An Xingmin, the former leader of the Blue Continent government.
In other words, he is a true second-generation powerful person, and his father's rank is that of a top national official in the political arena.
“…” Zhan Mu suddenly fell silent and even wanted to run away. Why did he meet so many people who were beyond his family’s social class recently?
"Please don't scare me, okay?" An Jing glanced at Zhan Mu with a smile. Of course, it was all from Teacher An's inner sense of superiority and arrogance.
Zhan Mu clicked his tongue, nodded and smiled. He didn't want to deal with this person who had arrogance written all over his face, so he considered himself unlucky and planned to say goodbye and stay away from them.
Lu Chao's phone vibrated, and a text message suddenly popped up: "Can you help me get to know An Jing?" Because his family background is complicated, he might know a lot.
Zhan Mu sighed, put his phone in his pocket, went to a convenience store to buy a popsicle, and when he went out, he ran into the husband-controlled man buying chocolate for his boyfriend. He also had a handsome face... Zhan Mu was silently curious whether he was 1 or 0.
"Hey, don't worry about it." Bian Lu took out several milk chocolate bars and offered him one, saying, "The guy who teased you isn't a bad guy, he just likes to joke around, you know."
"You call that lively? Haha." Zhan Mu took the chocolate from his hand. Even though he didn't like desserts, it would be a waste not to eat it. It could be considered as compensation for his rudeness.
"My name is Bian Lu, let's be friends." Bian Lu took out three bottles of soda from the cooler and handed them to him. "What's your name, buddy?"
"My name is Zhan Mu." Zhan Mu said no, but asked curiously, "Who is that Teacher An?"
"He's just an ordinary civil servant in Xia Country now," Bian Lu said. "His superiors have criticized him for his shady handling of your business. Hahaha, they even asked him to write a public letter of apology."
Zhan Mu could sense the protectiveness in his words and pursed his lips to hide his annoyance. They walked out of the convenience store together and met An Jing, who had just finished printing out his certificate and was being scolded by his female leader, who made him nod his head repeatedly, looking very humble.
In the middle of summer, his female leader stood in the shade, while poor Comrade An Jing was exposed to the sun and was watched by other colleagues. Although no one laughed, their expressions and actions seemed to imply that they were missing a bag of melon seeds to watch the show.
"This...isn't his situation a bit embarrassing?" Zhan Mu whispered, feeling that this man was in a difficult situation.
"He is from Anguo and used to be the son of the boss of the Blue Continent government. However, recently the Blue Continent underwater base was incorporated into the Xia Kingdom. It's really fate - a tiger in plain land is bullied by a dog." Bian Lu commented meaningfully, and his attitude actually seemed to imply that he had disliked An Jing for a long time.
It's strange. Aren't they a couple? Why does it always feel like this person's attitude towards that person is a little subtle?
"When did it happen?" Zhan Mu was a little surprised.
"You know him? Indeed, anyone who follows current affairs should have heard gossip about him," Bian Lu said. "The original strategic development policy for establishing the Blue Continent base was flawed."
"Think about it. Humans are land animals, meant to live under blue skies and white clouds. Yet, we're building bases in the sea, competing with aquatic animals for resources. If that's not destroying the natural environment, what is?"
Zhan Mu pursed his lips, not wanting to listen to these political affairs. He always felt that they were heavy and far from the life of an ordinary citizen like himself.
"His father is the boss of Blue Continent, which means he is the beneficiary under the designated rules. From today's perspective, he is just a vampire." Bian Lu said calmly, with some jealousy hidden in his eyes, but more of it was heartache for An Jing who had to bear the family karma.
"I heard about it, An, An Jing, right?" Zhan Mu said with difficulty, "He was very popular for a while, and everything was dug up. It was said that his family had a Tianlong background and they were pushing him to be the next leader of the Blue Continent Base. He was very motivated, but the way he handled things was very cruel. He would rather kill someone innocent than let them go. In short, he offended a lot of people."
"For a politician, cruelty is basic skill," Bian Lu said, taking a sip of soda. "Of course, his problem was abuse of power, and... he was born into the wrong family, because the Blue Continent Base was already on the verge of collapse and in jeopardy."
This strange guy was very frank with him... Although people eating at roadside food stalls could chat about national affairs anytime and anywhere, Zhan Mu always felt that this person's identity was probably different.
"Do you... know Lu Chao?" Zhan Mu asked casually, and at the same time wanted to take out his cell phone to buy a condom with him.
"Who?" Bian Lu was about to ask in detail, but subconsciously clicked on the QR code and agreed to his friend request, adding more connections.
As it happened, An Jing finally got off work. He was exhausted and haggard after being scolded by his leader. He rubbed his brows, walked over to take off the badge hanging on his name, threw it into Bian Lu's arms, took the soda water in his hand, drank a few mouthfuls, and squatted on the side of the road with an irritated look on his face.
Bian Lu was about to speak when An Jing laughed at himself and said, "Without connections in the system, you're worse off than a dog."
After saying this, he glanced at his colleagues and made sure that they had all gone home before continuing to be lazy.
"Let me tell you first, I never forced you to go to work." Bian Lu used his name badge as a small fan to blow air for him, smiling.
An Jing snatched the badge and replied, pouting as if in a state of annoyance, and scolded him, "With the little money you earn, you have the nerve to be the head of the family?"
"You want to live a life of luxury, but of course I can't give it to you."
"Shut up! I'm serving the people now, stop using those petty-bourgeois adjectives to describe me..."
"No, Old An, you're really too humorous. The daily interest on Yu'e Bao in Blue Ant is higher than my salary. Please stop pretending, okay?"
"You hate me so much because I'm richer than you, so why would you live with me? Get lost!!"
"Um, well..." Zhan Mu wanted to interrupt, but found that he couldn't find the right opportunity. It was obvious that the two of them disliked each other, but when they chatted, they were quite harmonious.
So Zhan Mu stopped talking and went home.
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The afternoon sleep passed by in a flash.
The weather was very hot. Zhan Mu woke up from his drowsiness and saw that the incandescent light bulb on the ceiling above his head was crawling with small insects. He felt inexplicably empty. At the same time, as he opened his eyes from the dream, he felt a strange and irritating sense of loss.
Many years later, Zhan Mu described this feeling as the belated realization of entering society and the growing pains of adolescence.
This is especially reflected in any afternoon when the wind blows the curtains. The protagonist looks at the sunlight casually and recalls that he is already an adult in his twenties, but the white butterfly on the swing when he was a child still seems to be right in front of him.
This kind of sadness is indescribable.
The simple explanation is: It hurts! It hurts so much!
It's very similar to the inexplicable emo literature on NetEase Cloud Music.
Coincidence happened quietly again. The couple next door to the rental house started quarreling again. Zhan Mu silently turned on the bgm of "Back in Time" and began to feel sad for this love that had gone sour.
"So boring..." Zhan Mu suddenly said this.
And began to feel strangely sad.
The portable elf reappeared, and Lu Chao reminded him, "Play games. Your three-month ban has expired."
"Ever since I became a game streamer, I've realized I don't really enjoy playing games," Zhan Mu said. "After playing games for a long time, I'm pulled away from the world of the second dimension. When I'm faced with the mediocrity and boredom of my own life, the sense of loss in my heart becomes even stronger. So it's better for me to not play games."
Lu Chao had a profound insight and, acting as a confidant, told him, "I love watching movies. Like you, I've had that mentality before, so I learned to hike and travel. During my sophomore year, I organized a bike ride with my roommates to Gushu Lake. I feel like my university life was truly wonderful and fulfilling. Sigh... I miss them so much."
"Haha." Zhan Mu finally understood why people with different economic conditions had no topics to talk about. It was obvious from what Lu Chao said about his self-driving tour in his sophomore year that his family could support him in buying a bicycle and going on a self-driving tour during the holidays.
For his family, being able to run the supermarket at home is considered easy. If the supermarket business is not good, buying a train ticket to work in an electronics factory is a real reality!
Zhan Mu also understood why he always felt bored and had inexplicable puberty pains... Because his family's financial situation meant that he had no other new entertainment options except playing games on his phone.
Not to mention career planning. His parents only say, "Rely on yourself," "Hard work," and "As long as you work hard, you won't starve to death"—a joke! The question is, do people still starve to death in today's society? If people do starve to death, I'm afraid those who work on poverty alleviation will also die.
"I'm just annoyed, really." Zhan Mu seemed to be muttering to himself, and he sneered as if he had thought of something. He said, "I've moved bricks at a construction site, worked as a waiter in a big restaurant, and worked as a porter in a supermarket... It's not that I can't endure hardship, nor that I don't know how to endure hardship, but I feel like why should I learn to endure hardship? Was I born to endure hardship?"
"So I don't want to work. I think I'm not the only one who feels this way. Young people nowadays don't like to work."
Zhan Mu suddenly became depressed and his words became sharp, as if he had been provoked by An Jing in the morning. He stood up, picked up a pillow and slammed it into the cubicle of the rental house.
With a loud bang, the wooden house shook.
Even the quarreling couple next door were frightened and fell silent for half a second.
He roared, "Do they think it's me, the fucking one, who likes living in this shabby little wooden board rental house?!"
"I'm so annoyed. I'm really annoyed." Zhan Mu blinked his eyes, as if he was suppressing the depression in his heart. He muttered to himself but complained to himself, "I don't know what annoys me, but I'm just annoyed, simply annoyed."
"Some of my roommates got into graduate school, and their grades were always good. One went straight home to inherit his family's restaurant chain. Turns out they were all faking it, and I'm the only one who's broke. The most ridiculous one, the one I was closest to, fucking ended up hooking up with a rich woman and just died."
Zhan Mu laughed dryly, covered his eyes, and said, "Actually, I also wanted to take the postgraduate entrance examination when I was a senior in college, but my dad said that you should go out to work first, and then earn money to take the exam. My sister is also in college and can't support you to continue studying for a master's degree...Haha, what else can I say?"
"Forget it. I can't pass the exam, and I don't want to. I hate studying. I've never liked going to school. Damn it... This society only cares about money. No matter how good your grades are or how good the university you get into, don't you still have to find a job to earn money after graduation? It's so funny, but schools don't teach you how to make money. Because university teachers are also here to get by, hahahaha..."
Lu Chao wanted to comfort him, but found himself helpless. After all, this was almost the same dilemma he had faced. In fact, this was the disillusionment that every young person experienced when entering society.
"Just now, the game Juejing launched a PVP competition for all servers, with a first-place prize of 500,000 yuan. How about I sign up for you?" Lu Chao silently acted as a computer assistant and logged in for him.
Zhan Mu had tears in his eyes. When he heard this, he turned back abruptly to wipe them away. He jumped off the bed, looked over, and nodded, "Okay! Of course! Damn, this is God helping a poor bastard like me, hahaha."
This person is quite resistant to pressure, Lu Chao smiled silently.
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