Chapter Thirty-Nine: Supermarket 1 (What Benefits Does It Give You from Killing Your Colleague?)
Because she had a nightmare, she woke up early and arrived at the office early in the morning.
After a while, my colleagues arrived one after another.
As soon as Ning Lu entered the office, she sensed that Yun Xin was acting strangely today, and asked with concern, "Why do you look a little unwell?"
"I had nightmares last night and didn't sleep well," Yunxin said, taking a sip of coffee to perk herself up.
"Fortunately, there's not much work lately," Ning Lu encouraged. "Go home early after get off work today and get some rest. You'll have plenty of energy after a good night's sleep."
"Okay," Yun Xin replied with a smile.
This was originally just an ordinary conversation.
Liu Yongchang suddenly interjected, "Even if you can't sleep well, you have to try to sleep! Otherwise, how will you have the energy to work the next day?"
Yunxin was stunned.
Ning Lu's expression was complicated, and she looked like she was saying, "Please shut up."
Unfortunately, Liu Yongchang didn't grasp the point at all and continued, "When you encounter difficulties in life, you have to learn to overcome them yourself and not let them affect your work."
"I know," Yun Xin smiled gently. "You should also try to grow your hair long!"
"Pfft." Ning Lu accidentally laughed out loud. Realizing it, she quickly turned around, her back to Liu Yongchang.
Liu Yongchang's face turned bright red. "This is just middle-aged hair loss! It's a normal phenomenon."
“When you encounter difficulties in life, you have to learn to overcome them yourself,” Yunxin said gently. “Early detection, early diagnosis, and early treatment are key. Midlife hair loss is not a serious illness and can be cured.”
Liu Yongchang was furious and bluntly said, "I'm going to buy coffee."
The person then went out.
"You're amazing!" Ning Lu's eyes sparkled as she looked at Yun Xin with admiration.
"What's going on? What's wrong with him?" Yun Xin wondered. She hadn't said anything, so why was she being lectured?
“It’s none of your business, that’s just how he is.” Ning Lu got angry when she mentioned it. “No matter what happens to others, he ‘encourages’ them to try to overcome it.”
"The problem is that some difficulties can be overcome, while others cannot. He doesn't care, and he forces people to overcome them. If they can't overcome them, it's because they 'don't try hard' or 'don't care'."
Yun Xin felt a deep empathy. "I don't usually dream. It's rare for me to have a nightmare, and I don't even know why. He actually told me to try to overcome it..."
"Yeah, if everything in the world could be solved by hard work, what would be the point of doctors?" Ning Lu pouted. "He's always criticizing others. Why doesn't he try to grow new hair and save his hairline himself?"
Listen carefully and listen carefully.
Yunxin noticed, "He said that to you too?"
Ning Lu shrugged. "I feel unwell for a few days every month. I feel like I'm about to die, and I wish I could take a day off and just lie at home like a corpse. He said I'm not hardworking enough and can't even endure this little bit of hardship."
“Me too,” Yin Hang joined the conversation. “Because of hereditary depression, I have poor emotional regulation. Sometimes when I encounter unhappy things, it’s harder for me to get over them than for most people. When he found out, he insisted that I was too weak and couldn’t even overcome this small difficulty.”
"But it's precisely because of a lack of ability that we can't overcome it that we're considered sick! If we could easily overcome it, we'd be considered healthy and normal."
“Every time he says that, it feels like I accidentally caught a cold and have a runny nose, and he says the reason I have a runny nose is because I didn’t try hard enough and didn’t try to overcome it…”
"Sometimes I wonder, if one day he gets a fever of 40 degrees Celsius and the temperature just won't come down, is it because he's not trying hard enough?"
"Hahahahaha." Ning Lu was hit where it hurt and was laughing hysterically.
"Ignore him, just pretend you didn't hear him," Yin Hang advised Yun Xin, speaking from experience.
Yunxin remained silent.
Although no real harm was caused, the person involved must have felt uncomfortable hearing Liu Yongchang say those words.
In December, a cold wave arrived, and the entire city seemed to enter winter overnight.
Ning Lu had been laughing heartily at Yin Hang's antics a few days ago. Little did she expect that just a few days later, she would actually catch a cold. Her nose was running uncontrollably.
"Oh no." Ning Lu's first reaction was, "I'm going to get nagged again."
"Take some medicine, I see your nose is all red." Yin Hang handed over the medicine.
"I think you might need some moisturizer," Yunxin said quietly, handing her some cream.
"Waaaah!" Ning Lu was overwhelmed with emotion. "You two are so sweet."
God knows how difficult things are for her right now.
His nose was constantly running, red and dry, and the skin around it felt flaky and dehydrated. The better everyone else was doing, the more Liu Yongchang appeared cold and unapproachable.
Ning Lu seemed to have thought of something and said fiercely, "I'm already in such a miserable state, if he dares to nag me again, I'll start cursing!"
As they were talking, Liu Yongchang stepped into the office.
Before he could even open his mouth, he rubbed his nose and blew his nose.
Ning Lu immediately felt a sense of relief—you yourself have a cold, you can't gossip about it to your colleagues.
The next second, Liu Yongchang put down his briefcase, took out a tissue, and stuffed it into his nostrils.
He said, "Even if I encounter difficulties in life, I can't let them affect my work. Small problems can be overcome."
What good will it do you to ruin your colleague's life?
Ning Lu was furious.
Yin Hang had mixed feelings. "I didn't expect him to be such a ruthless person."
Looking at Liu Yongchang surrounded by a thick, dark gray fog, Yun Xin thought to herself, "Hold on! What we can't overcome might be just around the corner."
The morning passed in a daze.
Liu Yongchang, propping his head up, asked Ning Lu, "How are you? I feel... a little dizzy?"
Ning Lu answered with a slightly nasal tone, "Aside from a few wasted tissues, everything else is fine and doesn't interfere with my work."
She was afraid that Liu Yongchang would insist on imparting his "advanced experience" to her and make her stuff her nose with tissues, so she took the initiative to emphasize that "it will not delay our work."
"It seems my symptoms are a bit serious. I'll go to the pharmacy to buy some medicine during my lunch break." With that, Liu Yongchang stood up and walked out of the office.
Ning Lu blew her nose for the nth time. "Is he acting strange today? He didn't nag me at all."
"He's sick, he's probably weak," Yin Hang guessed. "When he stood up just now, I saw him sway. He's never usually this weak."
“Going to the pharmacy now might not guarantee you'll be able to buy medicine.” Yun Xin waved her phone. “I just received a notification that this flu outbreak is very serious, many people are sick, and pharmacies have run out of cold medicine. Some people have gone to three different pharmacies and still couldn't buy any medicine, and they're complaining online right now.”
Ning Lu and Yin Hang exchanged a glance.
Yin Hang solemnly raised his hand, "I am willing to donate my medicine and give him a few pills so that he can go to work while sick."
During his break, Liu Yongchang visited four pharmacies in a row. But the staff either said they didn't have any or gestured for him to look at the signs.
The sign read, "Cold medicine is sold out and will take two to three days to arrive."
Liu Yongchang was speechless. "What era are we living in? Why can't we even buy cold medicine?"
What's even more worrying is that in the dead of winter, with the wind biting cold, he ran around in the wind, but when he got back to the office, he hadn't gotten the medicine and his condition had worsened.
Liu Yongchang pondered whether he should take half a day off to go to the hospital to buy medicine. The medicine in the pharmacy was sold out, but the hospital might have some.
At a critical moment, his "good colleagues in the federal government" extended a helping hand to him.
"You couldn't buy cold medicine, right? No problem, I have some here, take it first." Yin Hang was unusually enthusiastic today.
Ning Lu also said, "No matter what troubles we encounter in life, we can't let them affect our work. It just so happens that we have a lot of work to do today. After taking the medicine, the four of us will work together, and we should be able to finish before we leave work."
Liu Yongchang thought about it and agreed.
With so much work to do, if he takes leave, what about the others who can't finish their tasks? Won't they have to stay and work overtime?
Thinking of this, he didn't stand on ceremony anymore, took the medicine and swallowed it with water, and then continued to devote himself to his busy work.
Half an hour passed.
Liu Yongchang felt heavy-headed and his work efficiency dropped to 20%-30% of normal.
Even more strangely, my body ached slightly and I felt uncomfortable all over.
He couldn't help but ask Ning Lu, "Do you feel any pain in your body?"
Ning Lu was taken aback by the question, "Why would my body ache if I have a cold?"
Liu Yongchang couldn't quite describe it, but he just felt uncomfortable all over.
"It's just a little pain, but I can overcome it with a little effort." Ning Lu said, taking out her usual painkillers. "If I can't overcome it, I can take painkillers, and I'll be fine after taking them."
Liu Yongchang felt that these words sounded strangely familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard them before.
He took the painkillers and continued working.
My eyes are clearly looking at the report, but after looking at it for a long time, I can't get any information.
My brain is like mush, I can't think straight.
A thin layer of sweat appeared on his forehead.
At the same time, his breathing became rapid.
"I...I don't think I can keep going..." Liu Yongchang managed to say. But his voice was too low, and he doubted that his colleagues, who were engrossed in their work, could hear him at all.
Liu Yongchang was both anxious and frightened, and wanted to ask others for help. But he closed his eyes and fainted.
Just then, Yun Xin looked up and exclaimed, "Oh no! He's fainted!"
The ambulance arrived in a hurry and then quickly took the person away.
Ning Lu couldn't believe it. "He always tells others that 'hard work can overcome all difficulties,' but when it comes to himself, this is it?"
Yin Hang was a little worried, "If we force him to stay and work while he's sick, what if something happens and he comes looking for us?"
“We didn’t know he was so fragile before he collapsed.” Ning Lu is still in a daze. “He always complains about other people’s poor stress tolerance, but in the end, he’s the worst one.”
“Normally I can endure the discomfort and work until I get home. But this guy couldn’t even last an afternoon and had to be taken away by ambulance.”
"It's just the flu, is it really that big of a deal? Come to think of it, I've caught a cold myself."
As Ning Lu spoke, she saved the document Liu Yongchang had made before he collapsed. She glanced at the report and scoffed, "This work is practically useless; his efficiency is even lower than when I wasn't feeling well."
"This flu outbreak seems a bit unusual." Yunxin noticed another notification on her phone and checked it carefully. "The news says that several people have been taken to the hospital, and they are generally experiencing headaches, bone pain, and difficulty breathing."
"What kind of new variant virus is this?" Yin Hang felt uneasy. "I've never heard of a cold causing body aches."
Ning Lu also found it strange, "I also have a cold, how come I'm fine?"
Although constantly blowing my nose was quite miserable, it was nothing compared to those people.
"Who knows? Scientists are said to be researching it." Yun Xin only found out from the news. "This flu has spread widely, not just in our city, but similar symptoms have appeared all over the Federation."
"Who cares! With so many experts and professors, they're bound to develop a miracle drug." Ning Lu steered the conversation back on track. "Now let's think about how the three of us can divide the work so we can finish this before we leave work..."
(End of this chapter)
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