"I'm sorry, I don't often curse people... No, curse monsters." Chu Zhishui held her forehead, "Wait a moment, I'll recall some insulting words."

She planned to use her poor dirty words to wake him up.

"Are you angry because you were rejected?"

"Do you really not understand what people say?" Chu Zhishui took a deep breath. She had never heard such outrageous words. She frowned and said, "I sincerely suggest that the bureau use serious medical treatment to heal your brain."

Xin Yunmao was not annoyed by being scolded, but calmly said: "If this can make you give up, then you can swear a few words to vent your emotions."

"..."

Chu Zhishui was disgusted.

Now, when she scolded him, she became angry out of shame and hated him out of love. If she hadn't seen Jin Yu's strength and was afraid of being hurt by his thick skin, she would probably fight on the spot.

"Absurd, funny, ridiculous." Chu Zhishui blurted out three words in a row. She asked in disbelief, "Do you think you are excellent?"

Xin Yunmao spun the pen lazily: "Isn't it obvious."

"...Goodbye."

Chu Zhishui felt that she couldn't waste time with him anymore, so she picked up her things and left work, not even wanting to give any extra glances to the self-confident monster.

"Your pen."

"It's dirty, I don't want it."

Not to mention taking the black signature pen he handed over, she was now uncomfortable breathing under the same roof with him.

Xin Yunmao watched Chu Zhishui leave in a hurry. He sat alone at the table in silence for a few seconds. He wanted to lean over and put the black signature pen on Chu Zhishui's desk, but after thinking about it, he threw it back into his pen holder.

At the door, Jin Yu hummed a tune and returned to the office. She saw that only Xin Yunmao was in the room. She immediately retreated outside in panic and did not dare to stay in the logistics department for any longer.

Xin Yunmao was not surprised by this. Most of the monsters in the bureau were either afraid of him or regarded themselves as invisible. He simply squinted his eyes and enjoyed the evening sunset in the house alone. The golden and red afterglow dyed the sky bloody, and the setting sun was like a dragon with golden eyes that captured people's hearts.

Xin Yunmao opened his eyes in the last daylight of the day. He wanted to find a candy to satisfy his tooth, but found that the computer was already placed on the empty front desk. It was obvious that Chu Zhishui was going to settle down here for a long time.

The moment Chu Zhishui left the office angrily, she decided to treat Xin Yunmao as an invisible monster in the future.

She thought it was a loss of face for her to get entangled with such a monster.

Fortunately, Xin Yunmao rarely appeared, and there was no sign of him in the logistics department the next day. Chu Zhishui arrived at her seat on time. She didn't even glance at the empty back desk. She is still speechless when she thinks of the overly conceited monster.

After Chu Zhishui sat down, she was about to start her day's work, but she touched a candy on the table. The light and transparent candy wrapper and the simple packaging were common snacks in childhood. In my memory, it seemed to have a sweet and sour taste. It appeared on Xin Yunmao's desk yesterday.

How could this monster throw away even his own things?

Chu Zhishui casually threw the candy on the back table, not taking it seriously at all.

The work of the Logistics Department of the Huaijiang Observation Bureau is neither difficult nor easy. In short, it is boring, repetitive and boring. Prepare material reports, count and clean warehouses, move all kinds of goods, and all kinds of trivial tasks that pop up suddenly. There is no technical content but it is tiring.

Chu Zhishui did not find it difficult to do it. Although she thought from the bottom of her heart that this kind of easily replaced job was meaningless, she had done it before when she was an intern at school. She quickly got the hang of it and her efficiency was even higher than Jin Yu.

The only shortcoming of the Observation Bureau is that the cafeteria is too bad. Chu Zhishui asked Niu Shi tactfully, and the reason he gave was simple and direct - no money.

Of course, new shortcomings soon surfaced.

A text message popped up on the phone, and the lit screen caught Chu Zhishui's attention.

[Your card with the last digit 1232 received an income (salary) of 2,174 yuan from Yinhai Bank at 10:12 on the 5th.]

Chu Zhishui looked at the text message in a daze. She thought she had read it wrong for a while, and checked it again carefully. It was indeed two thousand and one. Although she has not worked in the new unit for a full month, the Observation Bureau pays the monthly salary on the 5th of each month.

The last time Chu Zhishui received a similar salary was when she was an intern in a large factory in her freshman year. The daily salary was 200 yuan, and she worked 20 days a month, which was a little more than the Huaijiang Observation Bureau.

Chu Zhishui was prepared for a pay cut when she came back, but she was still deeply shocked and couldn't recover for a long time.

Many companies have expressly prohibited employees from asking each other about wages, but the Huaijiang Observation Bureau is not a company. Chu Zhishui coaxed Jin Yu over with a few words, intending to find out about the income situation of the new unit.

She suspected that it was because she was still in the probation period, or that there were other performance awards that had not been paid in the bureau.

"Salaries are paid today?" Jin Yu seemed to have trouble remembering the day. She only reacted after being reminded, and then exchanged information with Chu Zhishui, admiringly saying, "You are amazing, you get more than me."

"How is that possible?"

Chu Zhishui moved to Jin Yu's computer. She saw that the other party's salary was actually less than hers.

"This is because they didn't pay for performance." Chu Zhishui speculated, "Generally speaking, there should be a sum of money at the end of the month."

Jin Yu blinked her round eyes and said ignorantly, "What is performance?"

Chu Zhishui looked at her ignorant look, and a bad feeling surged in his heart. He patiently explained, "The Observation Bureau is not a fully funded unit. If the unit has its own income, it can be used as performance to subsidize employees on the job..."

She clearly remembered that the Yinhai Observation Bureau had performance, and the income of employees on the job was not bad.

Jin Yu seemed to understand and shook her head honestly: "I haven't heard of it."

"It means that our unit earns money and pays itself..."

"I haven't encountered it, just this one."

"..."

Very good.

Chu Zhishui was sure that he had fallen into a trap. The Huaijiang Observation Bureau had poor performance and should be a unit that could not pay for performance. The current salary is far below her expectations, which makes her feel uncomfortable.

She began to think about how to maintain a car. If she takes into account the cost of commuting gas and car insurance, she might be working for nothing for a year. Judging from the current situation, if she wants to prevent her living standard from plummeting, she can only change jobs. After

getting off work with a lot on her mind, Chu Zhishui drove away from the Huaijiang Observation Bureau, intending to pick up her mother who was out buying groceries. After she found a parking space near the supermarket, she was afraid that Xie Yan would not be able to find the specific direction, so she simply walked to the door to meet her.

The open fruit stalls on the street were bustling with nearby residents carrying cloth bags. The loudspeakers of the discount store next door kept ringing, noisily and mechanically repeating price reduction notices, full of the atmosphere of the market.

Chu Zhishui saw her mother Xie Yan being held by someone from a distance. Both of them were holding full shopping bags. They looked like they had just come out of the supermarket.

"Oh, this is Zhishui. Girls really change a lot when they grow up!" The middle-aged woman, dressed in bright red, orange, yellow and green, called out, "Do you still remember me? We used to live in the same compound."

Chu Zhishui lived in the house of her parents' unit when she was a child. At that time, everyone in the compound knew each other and knew the situation of other children.

She guessed that this person was Xie Yan's colleague, and searched her mind: "Hello, Aunt Liu."

"I still remember Aunt Liu!" Liu Kemei said excitedly, "Zhishui was so famous in our school back then. He was a three-good student praised by teachers every year, and he even got into Yinhai University in the college entrance examination. Unlike my troublesome brat, he couldn't even get into a key university. Fortunately, his work is still okay..."

"Hey, I heard from your mother that you also went back to Huaijiang to work? How is your salary now?"

Facing Liu Kemei's tentative words, Chu Zhishui looked at Xie Yan who was frowning and replied politely: "Yes, just two or three thousand."

Liu Kemei's tense face relaxed instantly, and her face was like a blooming flower. She hurriedly said: "Not bad, very good. My son only makes five or six thousand. It's not easy for young people nowadays."

"Look at him, he doesn't make much, but he still insisted on buying me a new mobile phone. I told him I didn't want it, but he just knew how to waste money!" Liu Kemei happily took out a mobile phone from her pocket. It was an older model of iPhone, which currently has a market value of about three thousand.

How could Chu Zhishui not know what the other party wanted to hear, and said kindly: "Filial piety."

Xie Yan: "Yes, yes, you are really blessed!"

Liu Kemei was even more delighted when she heard it, and her face was almost filled with pride.

After a while, the mother and daughter said goodbye to Liu Kemei at the door, carrying large and small bags to their own car. Chu Zhishui took most of the things for Xie Yan and led the way at a leisurely pace.

Xie Yan followed her daughter across the road: "You actually still remember Aunt Liu."

Chu Zhishui stopped her mother humbly, reminding her to avoid the cars on the side of the road, and said: "Of course, I will never forget her no matter who I forget."

This is the famous person who once said, "Your daughter's grades are so good, it's a pity that she is not a son."

Chu Zhishui put the shopping bags on the back seat and prepared to take Xie Yan back. Chu Xiaohe had already come home to cook, so they could eat soon after returning.

"Don't take her words to heart, she has always been like this." Xie Yan fastened her seat belt properly. She glanced at her daughter who was paying attention to the road conditions and pouted, "Your father and I didn't tell anyone about your purchase of a house and a car, otherwise she would have been showing off."

Xie Yan was of course aware of Liu Kemei's intention to show off, but she didn't dare to tell anyone about her daughter's income in Yinhai City, as it would be too stimulating to the people around her.

"It's okay. Everyone likes to hear these stories. They have high scores but low intelligence and can't find a job. They don't make any progress in society..." Chu Zhishui laughed at herself, "Besides, I am actually making 2,100 yuan now. I just got it from the bureau today."

"Okay, it doesn't matter how much money you get. Mom will support you." Xie Yan stared at her daughter's profile in a trance. Thinking about Chu Zhishui's performance just now, she suddenly smiled and sighed, "You were not like this when you were in school. You were so sharp-tongued."

Xie Yan still remembered that when Chu Zhishui was in school, there was a honor roll at the gate of the school, and passers-by could see his name. The rule at that time was that the perfect score in a single subject and the first in the grade would be on the list. However, one time the difficulty of the exam was too high, and no one in the whole grade had a perfect score in a single subject, so the teacher put Chu Zhishui, who had the highest score, on the list.

Liu Kemei criticized her son for this, but her son was not convinced and argued in the courtyard: "Chu Zhishui didn't get full marks at all. She didn't have the qualifications to be on the list, but she just flattered the teacher!"

Xie Yan still remembers her daughter's mocking tone after hearing this.

"Wait until he has the ability to be on the school's honor roll, then come and discuss this issue with me."

She was so arrogant.

That year, the adults in the courtyard laughed and turned over the matter.

From then on, Chu Zhishui often stayed on the honor roll, and she never fell down again until she was admitted to Yinhai University.

Xie Yan said softly, "Now you have learned to save face for others."

Chu Zhishui concentrated on driving: "She just wants to use other people's misfortune to prove her own happiness. Just coax her a few words, why bother?"

It is understandable to retort at the age of fifteen or sixteen, but it is really boring to be tit-for-tat at the age of twenty-five or twenty-six. She is too lazy to compete with others, just live her life wisely.

"Baby, you have grown up."

"Yeah." Chu Zhishui glanced at the conspicuous white hair in Xie Yan's black hair, then calmly moved his eyes away, and softened his tone, "I should grow up too." When he

opened the door again, the room was full of warmth.

Going home to have dinner with his parents is the happiest time of the day for Chu Zhishui.

She has been absent from this kind of life for seven years. From college to work, she has been stationed in Yinhai. Every bit of Huaijiang City is strange and familiar to her. Strangeness is the friction and adaptation of returning to her hometown, and familiarity is that the memories of childhood occasionally surge out, and with the fermentation of time, a more unique taste is formed.

She staggered and grew up in Huaijiang City, and she has to witness her parents' gray hair and slowly grow old here.

The meals at home are delicious and well-matched every day, which makes the meals of the observation bureau so simple that they are unpalatable.

Chu Zhishui came out of the cafeteria in a really bad mood. She was thinking about whether to accept her parents' extra meals and bring meals from home in the future. It was not easy to order takeout in this remote place. She was already reaching the limit of her tolerance for work meals, and her stomach was also starting to feel uncomfortable. She didn't know how Jin Yu had been eating for twenty years.

The excessive sunlight at noon only disturbed people. Chu Zhishui was thinking about leaving work, but who would have thought that there would be complications in the afternoon.

Section Chief Wu Changgong was pot-bellied. He held two lists in his hands and started arranging work as soon as he entered the room: "Put aside the things on hand for now, and deal with these two in the afternoon!"

Niu Shi took a list, he saw the content on it clearly, and said dissatisfiedly: "Isn't compensation the business of the Finance Department?"

"It will take a long time for that old turtle to crawl over. It will take too long in the afternoon, so I'll leave work later today." Wu Changgong said and slipped out of the Logistics Department, with no intention of getting involved.

To check the compensation on site, we have to leave the Observation Bureau. The two places are far apart, and it takes a lot of time to go back and forth. Niu Shi has already gone to the warehouse to get something and prepare the materials needed later.

Jin Yu said helplessly: "It looks like we have to work overtime."

Chu Zhishui exploded when she heard the word overtime. She showed strong emotions for the first time: "Why do we have to work overtime? Let's act separately and finish before five o'clock."

"But this kind of work must be done in groups. There are only three of us..." Jin Yu looked at her timidly.

Chu Zhishui understood the subtext, the work requires two teams, at least four people. She said decisively: "There are exactly four people in this room."

"Ah, you are not going to look for him?" Jin Yu glanced at Xin Yunmao's empty table in panic, and only relaxed after making sure that the demon in question was not there, and advised, "It's better to have less contact with him."

"Why?" Chu Zhishui raised an eyebrow, "Isn't he also in the bureau, is it reasonable for him to be idle every day?"

Chu Zhishui usually turned a blind eye to these, but if it affected her getting off work on time, she would never sit idly by.

"But he obviously won't listen to me..." Jin Yu looked embarrassed, and then suggested cheerfully, "How about we deal with one thing first, and you leave work at the appointed time, and Brother Niu and I will go to the next one later, so as not to delay your return home for dinner."

"What are you going to do then?"

"No problem, we won't rush back." Jin Yu patted his chest and said proudly, "And Director Hong said he would take good care of you!"

Chu Zhishui was moved by the silly Jin Yu, and she couldn't help rubbing her head.

Jin Yu was confused and rubbed: "Are you going to slack off again?"

"Yeah, slacking off."

Jin Yu said so, but Chu Zhishui didn't have the face to do it. She wanted to go home on time, but she couldn't neglect her duties. While her young colleague went to the bathroom, she simply went downstairs from the second floor to find Xin Yunmao.

Since the incident of the good guy card, Chu Zhishui occasionally met Xin Yunmao in the corridor, and she directly treated him as a ball of air. He doesn't often appear in the logistics department, and often hides under a big tree in the yard to bask in the sun.

Chu Zhishui sat by the window of the office and could just see his figure, like a dark rock. She found that her colleagues never mentioned this monster on their own initiative. Even the section chief Wu Changgong, who loved to give orders, rarely came into contact with Xin Yunmao.

The light outside was strong, and only the shade of the tree was cool. Xin Yunmao was hiding under the tree. He was tall and slender, with straight legs. He sat upright on a round stone stool, unable to move. He leaned back against the tree trunk in a comfortable semi-lying posture.

The breeze rustled under the tree, and it was really a good place to be at ease.

Chu Zhishui walked over, and she waved the list in her hand, and informed in a businesslike manner: "We will work together later to deal with the compensation."

Xin Yunmao had closed his eyes to rest, but when he heard the voice, he opened his eyes, recognized Chu Zhishui, and said hesitantly: "I thought you gave up."

The two sides did not speak for a long time. Xin Yunmao thought that she had given up and no longer wanted to bother him.

Chu Zhishui's expression was slightly stagnant: "...Is your illness not cured yet?" Even the hysteria was getting worse.

"There are two places in total, Jin Yu and Brother Niu will be in one group, and then we will be in another group. It's just time to get off work after we finish it." Chu Zhishui explained seriously, "I don't bother you normally, but I'll go today."

In fact, Chu Zhishui didn't even call him when filling out forms now, so he had no choice but to go out in pairs to do things.

Xin Yunmao's expression was dull and he said nothing after hearing this. He wished that his face was full of "what does this have to do with me".

Chu Zhishui stared at him closely, but he did not respond. Just like what Jin Yu said, a troublemaker would not be obedient.

In the stalemate, some unspeakable emotions spread secretly and broke out, completely breaking through the perfect and kind decoration on the surface, breaking the perfunctory attitude she had developed in the adult society, and activating the rebelliousness, sharpness and aggressiveness dormant in her bones.

She found that his eyes were pure black, but his skin was white as jade, and he was cold and distant. She didn't know what kind of monster he was.

If he didn't explode in silence, he would become perverted in silence.

Three times is not enough. Chu Zhishui is sure that he has provoked her to regain her harshness in the past. Now she must teach this arrogant man a lesson.

"Xin Yunmao, I admit that your little trick is very successful." Chu Zhishui suddenly spoke, her voice was sweet, and her eyes were like crescent moons when she smiled, exuding unstoppable tenderness, "I do remember you."

This was the first time she called his name.

Xin Yunmao was confused.

"Why did you chase me out because I like you, and then you took the initiative to say nonsense. I didn't understand your logic at first, but now I finally react. Are you deliberately trying to attract my attention?" Chu Zhishui said gently, "You are quite resourceful, childish but effective. I have come into contact with many colleagues of the opposite sex, and you are indeed the one who impressed me the most."

She had to personally smash his dying look, and then step on him mercilessly.

As expected, Xin Yunmao's eyes suddenly lit up with fire, and he pursed his lips unhappily: "What did you say?"

He seemed to find it incredible.

"I just repeated what you did before, is it necessary to make such a fuss?" Chu Zhishui saw his chin tightened, and his cold face was stained with a little anger. She couldn't help but become more and more happy, "You clearly went out to deal with the compensation, but now you are dragging your feet and refusing to leave. Is this also your trick of playing hard to get? I hope I will come to you again tomorrow?"

Her smile was harmless and brilliant, but her words were completely opposite.

Xin Yunmao still remembered her panic when she first saw him, and he could not understand her amazing change at all.

Little did he know that Chu Zhishui's good temper had been exhausted by him.

Xin Yunmao frowned and retorted, "I didn't expect you to have such a delusion!"

She actually thought that he deliberately provoked her interest!

"I think you are the least qualified person in the world to discuss delusions with me." Chu Zhishui said in a calm tone, showing a white and black smile, and commented, "You say you stay away from you, but you secretly leave people with the opportunity to get close to you. You are quite scheming."

The light in his eyes flickered, as if brewing a storm: "Hu Chenrui doesn't dare to talk to me like this."

Hu Chenrui is the director of the Huaijiang Observation Bureau.

Chu Zhishui: "It doesn't matter, you like to play this kind of push-pull game, then I will come to you with the list tomorrow, so that you won't find a good excuse in the future..."

Xin Yunmao snatched the list from her hand and said coldly: "Leave now."

He will never tolerate this human being to smear his reputation again!