Here, Chu Li, who had no idea what cruel and inhumane thing his best friend had done to him, rushed back to the magazine office in high spirits. It was lunchtime around 1:30 pm when he arrived. Everyone was sitting in the office eating takeout and occasionally chatting with others on the computer or doing some work. Chu Li stepped into the office and greeted everyone...
I just think everyone looks so cute today, even the parrot fish and scavenger fish in the fish tank at the door are so cute.
Chu Li walked quickly to the editor-in-chief's desk and opened her bag to take out the contract. She was about to tell Yu Yao the good news that Zhechuan had successfully won the contract, but Yu Yao spoke first: "Why are you here just now?"
"Ah," Chu Li was stunned for a moment, and paused with the hand holding the contract, and pointed his finger outside, "I'm still out on the field. Didn't Editor-in-Chief Yu say that we have one week to get the contract and start to stop it, so we have to visit Zhuchuan until he is willing to sign the contract. So I also went to Zhuchuan's house today. I was late because-"
Teacher Zhuochuan asked me to sign the contract at 11 o'clock.
The first words of greeting have not yet been spoken.
Behind her, Lao Miao sneered and said, "It's another wasted trip, isn't it?"
After Lao Miao finished speaking, Xiao Niao, who was also a new editor, looked up from her takeout and sighed softly, "It's really miserable to run around every day. It must be hard to get Teacher Chuan, right? But field work is good. When I was in college, I worked in the student union and I liked field work the most. I didn't have to attend meetings and I could occasionally get up late..."
Chu Li: "..."
Chu Li was stunned for a moment. He felt that there was something wrong with what was said, and turned around with a puzzled look on his face.
At this time, the art editor Lao Li took over the conversation: "If I can start work in the afternoon, I might be able to send the children to school in the morning... My wife always complains that I leave too early in the morning. I am out when the children are having breakfast. I am not like a father."
Lao Miao: "Tsk, tsk, tsk, how pitiful!"
Xiao Niao turned to Chu Li and smiled: "After work, you won't have the opportunity to go out on field trips anymore. I'm really jealous of you, Chu Li."
After a pause, he raised his hand to cover his mouth and whispered "Oops", apologetically: "But I was talking about my laziness in college. I'm not saying that you would use the excuse of being out on a field trip to sleep in and deliberately not come to work... Everyone is super busy, how could you dare to delay coming to work, right?" As he spoke, he laughed again.
Ah Xiang, who was sitting opposite Xiao Niao, raised his head and looked at her. Xiao Niao raised her chin towards her and said, "Isn't that right, Ah Xiang?"
Ah Xiang smiled foolishly and did not comment.
Lao Miao looked at Chu Li and asked, "Where's the contract?"
Chu Li was already confused by their barrage of criticism, and blinked without answering... Yu Yao smiled, and spoke before Chu Li in a half-joking tone, "Old Miao, don't push Chu Li too hard. You spent half a month trying to get Zhu Chuan after I gave you the contract, and Chu Li is still a newcomer. How can you expect her to get it in four days?... But Chu Li, you don't have to be out for a whole morning. You have other things to do, not just to be in charge of Zhu Chuan."
Yu Yao said this while looking at Chu Li.
Chu Li was just about to say no, the editor-in-chief contract had already been signed, but out of the corner of his eye he saw Lao Miao's expression suddenly become a little stiff, and after standing there in a daze for more than ten seconds - the fingers that were holding the folder and trying to take it out suddenly loosened, and let the folder fall back into the bag.
——As a small herbivorous animal, her innate alertness when facing threats made her swallow the words she was unable to say out loud.
Chu Li stood up straight, put the bag in her hand on the seat, and then gave Yu Yao an apologetic smile: "Sorry, Editor Yu, I will try my best to convince Zhu Chuan, and I will not come to work so late tomorrow."
While Chu Li was speaking, the whole office fell silent. Lao Miao turned his chair, making a soft "bang" sound, and everyone else returned to their lunch. When Chu Li turned around to face everyone, the expressions on everyone's faces showed that they were enjoying their lunch naturally.
It was as if nothing had happened.
“…”
Chu Li smiled, said "I'm going to the bathroom" and walked out of the office. He walked out of the door and far away in the corridor. When he heard the echo of his heels hitting the ground, Chu Li stopped and looked behind him.
She looked down at her legs, which were still shaking a little.
Her mind was full of "why", "what's going on" and "what happened". She took out her mobile phone with her slightly trembling hands, slid her fingers into the text message interface, and found the only text message record that was still retained, which was "Come to my house at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning, no waiting after the time". After hesitating for a moment, she pressed the button to dial the other party's number. The phone rang three times and was quickly picked up.
【Hello.】
"Hello, Mr. Chuchuan, I'm Chu Li, the editor of Yuanyuesha who came to your house this morning to sign the contract."
There was a clatter of something heavy falling to the ground and a dog barking on the other end of the line, and it seemed like a chaotic situation. Chu Li waited patiently for a while before the man's low and cold voice sounded again: [What's the matter?]
Chu Li tightened her grip on the phone in her hand: "Hello, teacher. I'm sorry to bother you again. This is what I'm saying. I just returned to the magazine office and after thinking about it for a while, could you please keep the fact that we have signed the contract today a secret until the Monday after next week..."
【What do you want to do now? 】
"..." Chu Li lowered her eyes, "Because it seems that it is not so convenient to follow up here immediately. I am a little scared... No, ah, please, okay?"
There was silence on the other end of the line.
In a place where Chu Li couldn't see, Zhu Chuan raised his eyebrows and took the phone away from his ear to take a look - as if he could see what the person on the other end of the phone was doing at this moment...
The speech is incoherent and the voice sounds pitiful. What is going on?
Weren't you as happy as a monkey just now?
Zhuochuan thought silently for a while. During this time, he logged into his QQ account and took a look. Looking at the avatar of editor Lao Miao in the friend list, which showed a message coming in, he paused, as if he had figured something out.
Here.
After waiting anxiously for what seemed like a century, Chu Li finally heard the other party say, "It's up to you. No matter what you do over there, just don't affect me." Then he hung up the phone... Chu Li stared at the phone that returned to the table after being hung up for about four or five minutes. Then he came to his senses, trotted to the bathroom, washed his hands, pretended to have just finished using the bathroom, adjusted his facial expression in front of the mirror, and then walked briskly back to the office.
…
Later.
Since Yuanyue Society required the working time to be 9:30 in the morning, after being reminded by Yu Yao, Chu Li arrived at the office on time at around 10:50 every morning, neither too early nor too late, just the right time as if she had gone to Zhuchuan's house to make a report and then rushed back to the office - the signed contract was placed in her bag and carried back and forth safely.
Then the first work week was over.
Chuli spent the weekend lying in her rental apartment, emptying her mind. She had no one to complain to - to be more precise, she didn't know who to complain to, because as early as Wednesday night, when she wanted to find Mr. L to complain about the little bitches in the office, she unexpectedly discovered that this person suddenly disappeared from her QQ. She wondered if she was blocked or something, and asked everyone around her who they both knew, but in the end she only got a reply that "I haven't seen Mr. L recently."
Chu Li couldn't help but sigh that when people are sick, even drinking water will get stuck in their teeth.
Her colleagues inexplicably targeted her, and even her best friend, with whom she had lived peacefully for more than three years, blocked her for inexplicable reasons.
She was inexplicably abandoned by the whole world.
ah.
Collapse.
There is nothing to love about life.
…
What Chu Li didn't know was that she was not the only one having a hard time these days.
Since Wednesday night, in a high-end residence in the center of City G, there is also a guy who has been in a state of restlessness for three days and three nights.
On Wednesday night, after finishing his typing, Zhuchuan was bored and went online to read the news for a while. When he saw some weird news, he subconsciously copied the sharing code and logged into the account of "Disappeared Mr. L". He opened the friend list and was slightly stunned when he didn't find a familiar monkey avatar in the first second.
Then I remembered that I deleted the person due to a disagreement at noon.
…………Delete it and get rid of the trouble forever.
Good deletion.
Ignoring the fact that he had copied the sharing code to send it to someone, Zhuchuan opened a bunch of unread messages and found that all the people who left messages were friends that he and the monkey knew in common.
[The ghost behind you: Ah L, the monkey asked you where you went... What happened to you? Did you delete her? Did you have a fight? She said you didn't have a fight! ]
【Little Wild Flower: What happened between you and Ah Hou? 】
[Swaying in the Wind: Monkey is looking for you, what's wrong with you? Has your account been hacked? ]
【Swaying in the wind: Are you still here? 】
[Swaying in the Wind: The monkey cried miserably, looking for her husband all over the world. ]
Zhuchuan: “…”
What are you crying for?
He must be so happy about having Chuchuan's contract that he can't sleep.
Staring at the word "husband", Zhaochuan curled his lips and felt his teeth ache.
After a long while, the man chuckled, stretched out his legs, shook them, and said to himself, "You have quite a lot of lobbyists."
He closed his small QQ account, opened his main account, checked the online list, grabbed Comrade Jiang Yucheng and pasted the copied sharing code to him. After receiving a series of “???”s, Zhuchuan started chatting with his friends.
It was just this chat that lasted for three days. Every day after Jiang Yucheng finished typing, he would see more than a dozen messages left by Zhu Chuan, reporting on his "wake up", "what did you eat for lunch", "what do you want to eat in the evening", "this news is so interesting hahahaha", "damn, look at this weird author making trouble again", "Long live the Celestial Empire, may our motherland be prosperous and strong", etc.
Jiang Yucheng's heart was broken.
Until the weekend night, he finally couldn't help but explode -
[Zhuchuan: The curry beef brisket I had tonight was so bad that I saw the Buddha. How did this restaurant survive until today? ]
【Jiang Yucheng: …………………………Brother? Are you free? Whether what you ate tonight was delicious or not has nothing to do with me. You didn’t invite me to go with you! ! ! 】
【Tsukawa: …】
【Zhuchuan: I will just tell you.】
【Zhuchuan: It's boring. Why are you so fierce?】
【Jiang Yucheng: If you are bored, go write some articles. There are so many readers waiting for your update. If you update more, they will be so happy. Why bother to talk nonsense to me when I won't pay you for your article?】
[Zhechuan: How can you be so worldly? With my value of a thousand words, the words I have said to you are enough for me to buy another house in G City.]
【Jiang Yucheng: From Wednesday night to now, what you said can at least share the living room, bathroom and study in that apartment.】
【Jiang Yucheng: What’s wrong with you? 】
【Jiang Yucheng: ………………Don’t be so terrified by my sudden love for me. I’m just an outdated author, so I’m not worthy of your attention, am I?】
【Zhuchuan: ???】
【Zhuchuan: If my sexual orientation is normal, I will be bored. 】
【Jiang Yucheng: How did you spend the past three years, ten months, and eleven days that we knew each other, when you didn't harass me and were as quiet as a chicken?】
Jiang Yucheng asked the question, but the other side did not answer for a long time.
What Jiang Yucheng didn't know was that at this moment, Zhao Chuan's hands left the keyboard. He sat in front of the computer, staring at the screen, lost in thought...
He knew the standard answer to Jiang Yucheng's question - in the past three years, ten months, and eleven days of knowing Jiang Yucheng, when he had not harassed him and was as quiet as a chicken, he had gone to harass someone else.
It’s just that that person was blocked by him three days ago.
Zhuchuan: “………………”
ah.
Boring.
There is nothing to love about life.