Chapter 1 Coincidence
I walked out of the gorgeously decorated train station and wiped my sweat off my head. No wonder people say that the capital is crowded, it is worthy of being an international metropolis, and there are so many people. People with various accents hurried past me. The strange dialect and local language made me feel like I was listening to foreign languages. It was really a donkey in the south and the horse in the north and the north, but it was quite a bit of knowledge.
Forgot to introduce myself. My name is Fang Juexiao, from T City, Province. Age? State secrets, nothing to be told!
Ha, just kidding. I am 30 years old this year. According to traditional Chinese sayings, I have reached my thirties. That is to say, I should start a family and start a career. I have become a family. Not only did I get married, I also married a very beautiful wife and a four-year-old daughter. The wife is a word used by literati, and we call it a wife. But what disappoints me is that I have not started a career! Not only do I have no career, but I don’t even have a formal job.
You guessed it right! I was unemployed. The nice saying is that I was laid off. MD! Just because I didn’t give gifts to the boss of the unit during the New Year and the holidays, when the unit was streamlined, the leader made me gloriously "retired" from that state-owned enterprise. But I was not too sad at that time. In that half-dead company, I only earned 600 to 700 yuan a month, and it was difficult for me to support my family!
"If you don't support me here, you will support me. If you don't support me everywhere, you will be a self-employed person." I don't know who said this first, but I appreciate this sentence. At least I have courage! Is a big man afraid of starving to death with his hands and feet?
But I was wrong! I thought myself too high. I only realized when I came out of the "revolutionary melting pot" of the factory. Several years of factory life have already made me escape from this era of rapid development. I am behind the scenes! I have been refined into waste by the "melting pot"!
I clearly remember the scene when I first went to find a job and applied for a job. The first sentence of the person in charge of recruiting the person asked me, "What degree? Master or Bachelor's degree?" I also told me stupidly that I was from high school. When I saw him and the contempt and disdain in the eyes of college students around him, I understood that I was not qualified to seek this career at all, so I had to walk away in shame.
I was so depressed at that time! I really wanted to yell: I am not worse than you at all! Isn’t it just a lack of diploma? Damn!
I started to try other recruitment units again, and the result was the same - I came happily and returned home in disappointment. Gradually, my confidence began to slowly disappear.
Being stuck at home all day makes me angry, and I get angry with my wife at any time (about eight out of ten men have this bad habit and likes to vent my anger with my wife). My wife Song Jing has a gentle personality. She never quarrels with me and always persuades me softly. Later, my mother-in-law learned about this situation and gave me an idea to go to the capital to work. A distant cousin of my mother-in-law opened a large advertising company in Beijing, saying that he still lacks staff and I can go over and help.
How come that sentence is: people move to live, trees move to die. I think it’s better to go out and make a career! (Ah Q-style self-comfort) So I made up my mind to work and make a living in the "heart of the motherland".
City T is not far from the capital, and it only takes three hours to take the train. When I was still looking forward to a bright future, the train took me to my destination.
I looked around, wanting to find someone to pick me up from the crowded crowd like ants. Before I came, my cousin said I was afraid that I would not find the location of the company for the first time. He would send someone to pick me up at the station. I was really moved to give me such courtesy and decided to contribute all my life to my cousin's "great" advertising career. (Hehe, of course, property, wife, and children must be excluded!)
"Catch a thief!" A loud roar scared me. Looking in the direction of the sound, a young man in his twenties ran over quickly, chasing behind him a middle-aged man dressed in a migrant worker.
"Quick! Stop him! He stole my money!"
The middle-aged man behind chased and shouted loudly. The crowd around stopped and looked at the scene in front of him, but no one went up to stop the thief who was running away.
"Damn!" I cursed and decided to be a hero who acted bravely again.
I put down the luggage in my hand and blocked the thief's way with a big strode: "Stop!"
"You are so stupid! You are looking for death!" The thief rushed over while cursing, slamming his fist into my face.
How could I let this little gangster's fist hit my "handsome" face? Besides, I have learned martial arts from my master for many years. Although I am not diligent in practicing and not very strong in martial arts, I am still more than enough to deal with such little gangsters.
I flashed, let the thief's fist, grabbed his wrist, pulled forward, raised his right leg and kicked it hard on the thief's leg. The thief screamed in pain, threw his body to the ground, and threw a mouth to chew mud!
"Bastard! Steal my money!" The migrant worker brother who chased him made a beautiful tiger pounce without hesitation and flew on the thief. His body, which was 160 or 70 kilograms, slammed on the thief again, allowing him to "taste" the pain like a mountain pressing down on him. The terrifying howl could be heard in the entire square.
Not to mention, the security in the capital is good. In less than a minute, the police arrived at the scene. After briefly asking about the situation, they asked the stolen migrant worker brother to go back to take a record with them.
"Brother, thank you." The stolen migrant worker held my hand and said gratefully: "Thanks to your help, he stole the 30,000 yuan, but if the living expenses of more than a dozen people in our team are lost, we can only sleep on the road and drink cold water. Thank you, thank you."
"Brother, don't be polite. It's just a matter of raising your hands." I couldn't help but feel a little proud. This is the first time I've been praised for being a hero.
"My name is Zhou Dahu, give it to me! My business card. If you have any problems in the future, I will come to find my brother. I can help you. I will definitely help you!"
I took the business card awkwardly and took a look. I didn't expect that Zhou Dahu was also the captain of the engineering team. He really couldn't be seen.
I said my name, and the police also came over to praise me a few words. Then I took the thief and went back to record the confession with Zhou Dahu.
I looked at the business card in my hand again, smiled and put it in my pocket. It seemed that I could not keep up with the development of the times. Even migrant workers who worked in the city knew to use the business card. I, a high school graduate, dared to apply for a job in the talent market, deserved to be embarrassed!
"Fang Juexiao!" A voice came from behind me calling my name loudly.
The person who came to pick me up has arrived!
"I am!" I turned around while agreeing, and in an instant, I was stunned.
Behind me was a young and beautiful woman. She had short brown hair dyed and her tailored professional suit, she could tell she was an authentic brand-name product. Her big black and bright eyes were staring at me up and down.
"Are you here to pick me up?" I felt even more grateful to my cousin who had not met yet. This courtesy is too high! It is such a great honor to actually ask such a beauty to pick me up!
"You!" The beautiful woman glared at her beautiful big eyes and looked at me angrily. But she looked very charming too! I'm lustful? Nonsense! I'm not lustful, it's called a love of beauty. I don't believe that you are walking on the street and passing by a very beautiful woman by your side, and you will step forward without looking sideways. Hehe, unless your girlfriend is staring at you and looking at your reaction, you will do that. Right?
I smiled, not taking her anger at all: "Miss, I didn't offend you, are you? Why do you look at me with such a deep hatred?"
My wife once said that I am not bad, but I am too unscrupulous and smiled all day long, not like an adult. At that time, I solemnly protested her "slander" words and said that I am approachable. But I know that I am not very serious. Oh, there is no way! The country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change. I am afraid that this personality cannot be changed, so I have to just let it go.
"You really don't know me anymore?" The beautiful woman opposite seemed even more angry. Her fair face appeared with a faint blush because of anger, making her look even more beautiful and charming.
"You?" I looked at her carefully for a few seconds, finally recognized her, and said in surprise, "You are Lin Meifang?"
She was my classmate in high school and also lived with me at the same desk. But she hasn't seen her for more than ten years and has become so beautiful. I don't dare to recognize her anymore.
Lin Meifang burst into laughter, "It's a pity that we are still a deskmate for three years. You can't even recognize me. What's your memory?"
I was so happy, "Don't I dare not look carefully? If I don't know you, I will stare at you, such a noble and beautiful lady. I will definitely call the police and sue me for harassment. That's not a joke."
"I'm still so polite!" Lin Meifang giggled. The crisp laughter and beautiful smile made the nearby men turn their eyes to both of us. When I was a hero just now, there were not so many people watching me. It seems that most men are lustful, and I am sure of this.
"Why are you here in the capital?" Lin Meifang asked me.
I pretended to be in pain and sighed and said, "There is no way. I'm unemployed and come to work. I want to make a living in the prosperous capital. What about you? You are here to make gold, right?"
"You don't know," Lin Meifang raised her beautiful eyebrows and said in dissatisfaction: "I stayed in the capital after graduating from college and worked in a company. Haven't you asked me where I am in so many years?"
I was so happy: "I want to ask, but I forgot later. I didn't dare to ask when I got married, for fear that my wife would say that I was terrified and wanted to step on two boats."
Lin Meifang blushed and spat: "Bah! She is so slick and not serious!"
"You're doing well, your outfit is so high-end."
"Go, I'm talking nonsense again. By the way, do you have a place to live?"
I chuckled: "What, don't you want to take me in?"
"You are so beautiful! I think that our old classmates should contact each other more in the future and take care of each other. Besides, I am more familiar with this place than you. I may be able to help you if you have any problems."
"Thank you," I touched my body on purpose: "It's broken! I forgot to bring my business card."
Lin Meifang giggled again: "You are still the same as when you were in school, and you are not serious."
"So, there are two professions I can never do, the judge and the police."
"You still like to stand up for trouble just as you were in school. If you hadn't caught the thief just now, we might have missed it again."
"I have to thank that thief brother, who was a coincidence for our old classmates. I will go to the police to tell him a love affair. Don't judge him too much, it will be three or four years."
Lin Meifang giggled: "You are the same as before, and she still likes to joke so much for so many years."
"Okay, it's getting late, I'll pick up another customer, give it to me!" Lin Meifang handed me a beautifully printed business card: "Call me if you have something to do."
I took the business card: "What, can't you contact me if you have nothing to do?"
"Yes, I'm afraid you won't dare to look for me."
"You are not a tiger, what am I afraid of?" I smiled: "But, in order to avoid your husband being jealous of me, a handsome guy, I will try to contact you as little as possible."
"Come on, you're the handsome guy," Lin Meifang curled her rosy little mouth: "It's not your turn to take a fishnet here with a big-eyed fishing net."
I glanced at her business card: "Ha! It's amazing, I've become the vice president, a real urban white-collar nobleman. I admire you, admire you!"
"All right, stop talking nonsense." Lin Meifang glanced at the exquisite watch on her wrist: "I'll leave first if I have something to do. By the way, do you still remember Jiang Yufei?"
"Little pepper? Remember."
"Go! I'm so grown-up, I'm still nicknamed. She's here too. When will we have time to gather together?"
"good!"
Lin Meifang said a few more words and turned around and left in a hurry. I looked at her back and sighed that the world was so small that I happened to meet an old classmate who had not seen for more than ten years here. How did I say that, by the way, it was a coincidence that I could not find a book.
"Fang Juexiao!" Someone was calling me behind me, and it was the voice of a woman.
Chapter completed!