Chapter 10 Pay
In the "Luyuan" advertising company, Su Mei's qualifications are very shallow, and she can't even write a decent copy.At first she tried hard to ask the old staff for advice, but they kept pushing each other.Slowly, Su Mei realized that she was excluded by these people just like when she was in school.

The manager was nice to her, not only didn't make things difficult for her, but also gave her a copywriting job.

"Submit two papers to me the day after tomorrow, is that okay?" the manager asked.

Su Mei looked at the advertisement for the bicycle in her hand. She knew very little about it and felt a headache, but she couldn't refuse it, so she had to bite the bullet and agree.

After two days of hard work, only two mediocre documents were handed in. The manager looked at them with a frown and said to her, "Call your team leader here."

Su Mei was startled for a moment, then went out and called the team leader.

The team leader was a young girl in her twenties. She usually acted vigorously and vigorously. It was rare to see her dejected, but after she came out of the manager's office, her face was extremely ugly.Su Mei sat silently on the chair, she didn't dare to ask, she just lowered her head and sorted out the materials, only dared to fetch water from the tea room when she was very thirsty.

As soon as she walked to the door, she heard the group leader sigh: "I can't write a copy of a bicycle advertisement well. Isn't this kind of person causing trouble for me?"

"Why did she join our company?"

"Do you think that success in this world is reserved for people with dreams? Wrong, it is reserved for people with connections. The manager said that she was introduced by our biggest client, Boss Song."

"Boss Song, what does Su Mei have to do with him?"

Several girls laughed ambiguously in the tea room: "Face, you have such a pretty face that you can go through the back door."

Su Mei gritted her teeth and silently returned to her cubicle.After finally getting off work, she silently returned to her rented apartment, and saw Liang Yi and Song Wenqi sitting on the steps waiting for her.

"I just came back." Liang Yi stepped forward and took her hand, "Song Wenqi said that you found a new job and wanted to treat you to dinner to celebrate. How about it? Are you still used to the new job?"

She thought of the conversation in the tea room in the morning and bit her lips.

Liang Yi looked at her habitually, only then did he notice the abnormality on her face, she frowned: "What's the matter?"

Su Mei just gritted her teeth and stared at Song Wenqi without saying a word.

The air suddenly became very quiet, so quiet that you could smell the autumn noon breeze and the smell of green bushes in the wind. Song Wenqi walked up to her quietly and asked softly: "I've messed with you again!" ?”

Su Mei raised her head and looked at Song Wenqi with delicate features in front of her. He always had a light and pleasant smile, like a harmless vegetable. She suddenly said loudly: "Don't you understand what you did?"

He continued to smile, rubbing his hands innocently, and when he smiled, there were tiny dimples at the corner of his mouth: "I just have too much money to spend, and I want to treat you to a meal, which is also wrong."

"fraud."

Liang Yi listened curiously, and opened his eyes wide from time to time: "What's wrong with you?"

"You asked her, it's just making trouble for no reason." Song Wenqi laughed guiltyly, "Stop making trouble, I'll treat you to Western food."

She didn't know Song Wenqi's turbulent inner world at this time, her eyes narrowed slightly, she looked like a deer, or a deer with watery eyes: "Don't change the subject, what are you lying to me, don't you know?"

Song Wenqi looked at her angry look, as fierce as his mother's kitten.He saw it in his eyes, but felt like a kitten was also beautiful. When he really liked someone, it was probably like this. He wanted to give her the best, and he didn't want her to suffer any grievances, let alone see her suffer any harm.No matter how fierce and annoying she is to him, she still thinks her losing her temper is very cute and beautiful.

Seeing him staring at her without speaking, Su Mei raised her eyebrows and asked, "Why are you silent, are you guilty?"

He didn't answer her words, his eyes passed her face, as soon as dusk approached, the light of the city was extremely dim, he felt powerless to be drowned by this dimness, what should he say?

She suddenly threw the advertisement copy in his face forcefully: "Do you know what those people said about me behind my back? They said that I got into the 'Luyuan' with my face and my wrist, but they were right, I did It's through relationships."

He shook his head: "I didn't intend to lie to you at first, but if I said to help you, would you accept it?"

"Don't make yourself sound like a saint, you just want to see my jokes."

"Are you just that capable?" He suddenly looked at her seriously, "It seems that I underestimated you. I thought that as long as I gave you a springboard, you would work hard on your own strength. Just ask me in the workplace. Those who work hard in the world, who has not been underestimated. They underestimate you, you just work hard, and slap back hard with your strength."

Su Mei was stunned, she never thought that Song Wenqi could speak like this, while Su Mei was in a daze, Liang Yi grabbed her hand: "What Song Wenqi said is not unreasonable, he just laid a bed for you. How to walk depends on yourself, doesn’t it?”

Looking at Song Wenqi, a subtle change occurred in her heart, like a cotton candy in the breeze, her heart suddenly softened.

After three months of getting along, she has always been very cautious and never confronted her colleagues. Gradually, those colleagues did not treat her like they used to. Occasionally, they would call her when they went shopping, and they would take her with them when they had a meal. .

She is also used to this kind of workplace life. When she comes home every day, she will talk to Ye Meixiang for an hour, and spend the rest of the time on further studies.Liang Yi would come to accompany her on weekends, and the two of them would clean up the house together, and when the sun came out, they would carry the quilt to the roof to dry.

The two sat cross-legged on the roof of the building, just like sitting cross-legged on the road when they were in high school, but the world at that time was so pure that there was no trace of impurities, Liang Yi put his hands on top of his head: "How is your mother's condition? "

"It's much better. I can go out to buy vegetables now. The doctor said that I can stop taking the medicine in half a year."

"I guess your mother's illness is only temporary. It's just a bit of stimulation. It's like depression. It will heal slowly after a long time. Lu Haiyang's mother's mental illness is more difficult to treat." Liang Yi suddenly realized that After saying the wrong thing, she looked at Su Mei in a daze.

Su Mei didn't seem to pay attention, and continued to bask in the sun carelessly with her eyes squinted. Liang Yi was relieved and changed the topic: "Is your manager still picking your fault?"

"No, they praised me two days ago, saying that the copy I wrote recently was not bad." She concealed her emotions with a smile.

In fact, the three words mentioned in Liang Yi's words just now pierced into her heart like needles. The three words "Lu Haiyang" have been baked into her bones and blood.Only she knows in her heart that she has never forgotten Lu Haiyang, and she will find Lu Haiyang one day.

The bravest thing in this world is emotion, because the most timid thing is also emotion.

She was very afraid, she was afraid that if she didn't look for it, Lu Haiyang would really disappear in this world full of people.

As soon as winter comes, Encheng gradually cools down, and people are packed tightly when they go out.

Su Mei has always been afraid of the cold. When she goes to work every day, she always wears a velvet jacket, a velvet cap on her head, and leather gloves on her hands.Every time her colleagues laugh at her as nondescript, she doesn't look like an advertising person in the fashion circle at all, she is noncommittal, and she still dresses like a stupid penguin every day.

However, in the eyes of young people of the opposite sex, no matter how indecently dressed a beauty is, she is still cute, so every time Su Mei leaves the company gate, those boys who come to draw billboards from outside always whistle at her.

At first she was afraid of causing trouble, so she let them play, but later she found it annoying, and when they played again, she deliberately turned her head and looked directly at them.

Those boys usually paint billboards outdoors, and occasionally come to their company to visit.In fact, they have heard her rumors a long time ago. They feel that she is far away and full of curiosity about her.Because of those curiosity and unnecessary admiration and infatuation, seeing her staring at her right now, they all froze in place.Seeing that she had the upper hand, she smiled triumphantly, wrapped her clothes and walked into the desolate cold wind.

As soon as she left, those few people came to their senses: "Did she just smile at me?"

"Don't be sentimental, she smiled at me."

"Would you like to ask?" At first, it was just a provocation between a few young people, and there were always one or two passionately gearing up, eager to try.

"Just ask, who is afraid of whom?"

Su Mei stood under the bus plate, and those young boys stepped forward shyly.

Su Mei was a little impatient after waiting for the bus for a long time. She frowned and looked at those young colleagues.

"Su Mei, let's have a meal together." Naturally, those young people didn't dare to ask who Su Mei was smiling at, so they invited her to have dinner together.

Su Mei shook her head: "I have something to do."

The boys were usually a bit arrogant, but when Su Mei directly rejected them, they couldn't hold back, and one of them raised his voice: "Are you so busy? It's just a meal with colleagues."

Su Mei folded her arms and stood there quietly, she didn't like to cause trouble.

Seeing her ignoring her, the boys became even more impatient, and came forward to lean towards her: "Su Mei, you can't really be a canary raised by others, you have to rush back to report, right?"

"Say it again!" She smiled softly, almost wickedly, remembering the company's earlier rumors.

Unexpectedly, her reaction was so extreme. The boys were taken aback for a moment, and suddenly laughed as if they understood something: "It's obviously not clean, why are you pretending to be pure?"

Su Mei's voice was cold: "You guys are deceiving people too much."

Before those boys could comprehend her words, she rushed forward, clawing at the playful man's face with her cat-like paws.If it was just a good-natured joke at the beginning, her action touched their bottom line. No one wanted to admit that they were scratched in the face by a female colleague at the company gate.

Several people rushed forward and grabbed her hand, and one even put an arm around her waist.

"What are you doing?"

In a panic, Su Mei heard Song Wenqi's voice.

Those people have been coveting Su Mei for a long time, even if they can't get her, it would be great to find a chance to play a prank, kiss her lips, or touch the legendary soft little hands.

But the opportunity they finally found was destroyed by this weak-looking person in front of them. They were furious and glared at Song Wenqi viciously. One of them rushed up and kicked Song Wenqi twice, and Song Wenqi couldn't bear it anymore. Sitting on the road, those people laughed loudly: "Where did you get the little boy who is overconfident?"

"Again, I'll call the police." Song Wenqi, who was sitting on the ground, raised the phone, "Several people surrounded her girl in broad daylight, how shameless?"

Those few people didn't think Song Wenqi was easy to provoke, so they left cursing.

Su Mei supported Song Wenqi: "How is it? Are you okay?"

Song Wenqi felt that this was a silly question: "Do you get kicked a few times to see if it hurts?"

"Thank you, every time something happens, you always come out to help."

The boy's sharpened outline is warm and soft, like a lake of water slowly dizzying at the corner of his mouth: "Are you trying to say that I am your savior?"

"Why are you so thick-skinned?"

Song Wenqi smiled slightly: "I offended these few people today, won't it cause you any trouble?"

"No, they are just young, and they just want to make fun of it. If something happens, they should be the most afraid of them."

Song Wenqi stared at her, she was a little embarrassed, and asked, "What's wrong? Is there something on my face?"

"No, I think you have changed and become wiser."

The taste of the New Year in Engang is as strong as brown sugar water that cannot be melted. When the twelfth lunar month comes, every household has posted couplets and hung red lights. Before the holiday, the advertising company gave them each a box of seafood. .

Su Mei came home with a box of seafood, Ye Meixiang was overjoyed, she smiled at Su Mei, "You can eat grouper now."

Grouper is very ordinary in Engang. Before Lu Haiyang lived next door, he always liked to say loudly to his mother: "Mom, let's steam grouper."

Unconsciously, Su Mei thought of Lu Haiyang again, she shook her head with a wry smile, forced herself not to think about it, took a grouper and hid in the kitchen as if fleeing.

During dinner, Liang Yi brought her a bag of fruit, and when she saw the dishes on the table, she exaggeratedly said: "Wow, Su Mei, you are a typical snail girl now, you actually cook seafood."

Su Mei replied: "Everything is forced out."

"Incisive."

The two chatted for a while, and Liang Yi suddenly thought of a big event: "It seems that both of your houses have been auctioned. Someone has been doing cleaning these days. I guess the new owner has moved in."

Su Mei gave a soft "oh".

Seeing that she was unhappy, Liang Yi quickly changed the subject: "My mother wants me to ask you to come to my house for the New Year this year."

"No, my mother and I can just get something to eat."

"Go, go, my mother said she hasn't seen you for a long time, she misses you." Liang Yi slumped on the sofa, pretending to be pitiful.

Su Mei was helpless: "Then I will go to the port to visit your mother in two days, and I won't go there during the Chinese New Year."

Liang Yi was aware of Su Mei's temper, and she followed through on what she was sure of. The two of them finished their dinner after a fight, and made an appointment to go to Liang Yi's house on the weekend.

On the weekend, she brought some nutritional supplements to Liang's house.When she reached the port, her legs were like stepping on cotton candy, and she froze.She stood alone on the road, with a shallow voice in her heart: Lu Haiyang, I'm back again.She walked very slowly, and slowly reached the courtyard where Lu Haiyang lived.Suddenly, a cat meow startled her.She looked up and saw a cat lying on the stump of the sawed-off camphor tree.Its fur had lost its luster, and so had its round belly.It stared at her with wide-eyed eyes, and she suddenly burst into tears, tears all over her face.

The door in the yard was suddenly opened, and a middle-aged woman looked at her curiously: "Girl, what do you want?"

Su Mei pointed to the courtyard of Lu Haiyang's house, and begged softly: "My friend used to live there, can you give me the things of that family?"

Seeing her being pitiful, the woman pointed to the port and said, "It's useless for us to throw it into the sea."

Su Mei ran to the beach as soon as she could, and met Liang Yi on the way home carrying cooked food.Liang Yi looked at her and shouted in surprise: "Su Mei, what are you going to do?"

"To the port."

"Are you crazy? It rained only two days ago, and the port is very dangerous."

Seeing that Su Mei didn't reply, Liang Yi became anxious and called Song Wenqi: "Song Wenqi, come quickly, something serious happened, Su Mei ran to the port."

When Song Wenqi arrived at the port, Liang Yi and Su Mei were arguing.

"Are you crazy? Those old things have been swept away by waves for a long time. How do you find them?"

There was a sound of waves in the distance, it was the waves hitting the beach, Su Mei struggled stubbornly: "Let me go, how do you know they were swept away by the waves, maybe they weren't."

Song Wenqi stood there, watching her struggle like crazy.Probably a person became crazy, his strength was incalculable, Liang Yi was thrown on the beach by Su Mei.

Seeing him standing on the shore, Liang Yi shouted angrily, "Song Wenqi, why are you still standing there?"

Song Wenqi stood on the shore and watched her running on the beach like crazy.He looked at her stubborn back, she silently and stubbornly used her own way to miss someone, he felt his nose a little sour, and shouted at Su Mei: "Is it really so difficult to forget? Is it really not possible? Lu The man Haiyang, he left by himself when something happened, why is he worthy of your mourning for so long?"

Su Mei ignored him and ran towards the front of the beach.

"Go after her. I'm so fat and I can't chase her. Today's waves are so big and the beach is so slippery. It's dangerous."

Song Wenqi jumped down in frustration, Su Mei had already stopped at this moment, she seemed to have discovered something, and stood there blankly.He ran forward and heard her murmuring in a low voice, as if afraid of waking him up: "Lu Haiyang, I knew I would find it."

Song Wenqi stood there in a daze, some trophies and certificates were piled up on the corner of the beach, and the words "Lu Haiyang" were written on the trophies.Song Wenqi felt that he was stabbed and defeated by these three lifeless words, and his body was bruised, only endless melancholy lingered in his heart.

He watched her squat down and hold the trash in her arms like a baby.

Neither of them spoke. The waves rolled over and wet their clothes, but they still didn't realize it.Liang Yi stomped his feet anxiously from behind: "You two come back quickly, the waves are too big, it's dangerous."

As soon as Liang Yi finished speaking, a huge wave hit, Su Mei lost her balance and fell into the sea.At this thrilling moment, Song Wenqi came to his senses and stepped forward to hold her tightly: "Go ashore, it's dangerous."

Su Mei struggled like crazy: "Trophy and certificate."

In the past, Song Wenqi felt that a girl like Su Mei had received too much love, and that one day she would fade her love for Lu Haiyang into time, but she never thought that she was still such a fool, paranoid and stubborn. Willing to forget.

He remembered that someone once said to him: "Some people meet the person they like, and it is a lifetime. You haven't met, so you don't understand."

At that time, he was young, so he sneered a little bit, thinking it was ridiculous, nothing lasts forever in this world, but now he believed it, he dragged Su Mei to the shore: "Go ashore first, I'll help you pick it up."

Su Mei was dragged ashore by him, and he turned around and plunged into the sea.Liang Yi looked at Su Mei panting: "You are simply a lunatic, you can go crazy by yourself, and Song Wenqi should accompany you to go crazy together. Don't you know that such a big wave can break every minute? There will be dangers, so let Song Wenqi go ashore quickly."

Su Mei woke up now, she looked at Song Wenqi who was looking for her things in the sea, and shouted anxiously: "Song Wenqi, come up, I don't want those things anymore."

But her voice was drowned out by the waves, and Song Wenqi sank and floated like a piece of driftwood.She and Liang Yi were so scared that their faces turned pale. Fortunately, Song Wenqi was good at swimming, and when they were about to collapse from fright, they swam back with a few trophies.He stood unsteadily in front of Su Mei: "I'm sorry, I only found so many."

Su Mei didn't dare to speak, she raised her head, only to realize that she was already in tears, she choked up and said, "Thank you, Song Wenqi."

Song Wenqi took a deep breath, smiled weakly, and fell down on the beach before he could speak.He had already exhausted his physical strength, and he swam back just now.

Su Mei patted Song Wenqi's face: "Song Wenqi, don't scare me."

Liang Yi said palely, "Call an ambulance."

Fortunately, Song Wenqi only choked on some seawater, and after the treatment of the emergency doctor, there was no serious problem. He only needed to be hospitalized for two days for observation, and he could be discharged if there was no problem with his lungs.

Liang Yi went back first because the fruit shop was busy, leaving Su Mei alone in front of the hospital bed.Song Wenqi kept silent and did not speak, and Su Mei didn't know what to say, and the two remained silent until the end of the visiting time.

When the nurse came to tidy up the room, she said: "Our hospital stipulates that the family members of ordinary patients are not allowed to accompany the bed. Patients can ring the bell if they have something to do, and a nurse will help you."

Su Mei froze for a moment, then said silently: "Then I will come to see you tomorrow."

"You better not come, I'm fine." Song Wenqi said firmly.

Being rushed by him like this, she stared at Song Wenqi in a daze.Song Wenqi tilted his head and refused to look at her, leaving only her back.She said blankly, "I'm sorry, I hurt you."

He didn't speak, but his body shook slightly.

After touching her nose, she thought he was still hating her recklessness, so she obediently shut her mouth.

At this time, Song Wenqi was huddled on the hospital bed, dazed and stunned, but there were countless sorrows in his heart.How could she understand his desolation at this time.Her heart and her feelings were all given to another person, no matter how much he did, all he could get was her gratitude and guilt.The desolation made his whole heart ache, as if the whole person was stuck in the mud, unable to pull out, with chest tightness and shortness of breath, but lingering on his breath.She's always going too far and going her own way.It's been so long, he thought she had forgotten what happened in the past, that she had forgotten Lu Haiyang who left without saying goodbye, but those wounds, those past events, just lacked an opportunity.

When the time comes, the past will come flooding back.

The two were silent for a long time before Su Mei twisted her fingers awkwardly: "You think I'm stupid, don't you?"

"That's right, you're an idiot, what's the use of sticking to those things when nobody's here anymore?" Song Wenqi said mockingly.

Although he called her a fool, he was not a fool.As early as that night, she was standing at the door of the private room, her glance was like the wind passing by her eyes.

So short, but permanently imprinted on his heart.He thought it was the best and most beautiful encounter in his life, and there will be no better encounter in the future.

(End of this chapter)

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