between clouds and mud

Chapter 39
When returning to school at the beginning of school, Zhou Song was still thinking about how to introduce Chi Ye to his friends, but fortunately Chi Ye didn't care about it and didn't embarrass her about it.

Facing the friend who saw her off, Chi Ye nodded indifferently as a greeting.

Zhou Song pursed his lips and dared not speak, waved goodbye to Zhang Fang, and was about to get in the car.

The off-road car was tall, and Chi Ye took the initiative to reach out to pull her, but Zhou Song turned a blind eye and went up with the handle of the car.

Until the car drove away, the people behind were no longer visible.

Zhou Song pushed aside the mirror, checked the wound on his lip, and was a little dissatisfied: "Next time, don't bite."

Chi Ye didn't take it seriously: "If you are obedient, you won't."

At the destination, Chi Ye didn't send her to school, but turned into a nearby neighborhood.

This is Chi Yi's home. At that time, Zhou Song was angry for buying this house.

The house is near Zhou Song's school, and Chi Ye bought it for the convenience of the two meeting each other.

At this time she was sleeping in the co-pilot, Chi Ye slightly opened the window to let in air, he unbuckled his seat belt, leaned over and kissed her tenderly.

Zhou Song was woken up by him, she was a little dissatisfied, and bit him slightly hard.

"Are you a dog?" Chi Ye was in pain, he pinched her little face, and his tone was somewhat helpless.

Zhou Song was still a little confused, and looked at the underground garage: "Where is this?"

"What do you think?" Chi Ye kissed her on the cheek, with a cautious tone: "Go to my house and sit for a while, okay?"

After hearing this, Zhou Song was shocked. She pushed away the person in front of her without hesitation, and she already guessed where it was: "No, I'm going back to school."

The two have been together for half a year, and Zhou Song never nodded on this matter.

"I swear, I won't do anything." Chi Ye looked at her guarded attitude: "You haven't been there once, just help me see how the decoration is going."

"The new house is full of formaldehyde, I won't go." Zhou Song shook his head: "I want to go back to school."

Chi Ye didn't play Tai Chi with her anymore, he knew Zhou Song's feelings well over the years.

"Have you ever done it with him?" he asked directly.

Zhou Song pretended not to understand: "What?"

"Zhang Chengnian." When he pronounced the name, Chi Ye gritted his teeth: "Have you ever done it?"

Facing Chi Ye's straightforwardness, Zhou Song was also stunned, and she didn't answer.

"Then why, you can't do it with me?" His eyes were secretive, cold and stinging.

At this point she didn't know what to say.

Chi Ye got up and opened the car door, and immediately hugged her horizontally.

Zhou Song grabbed the seat tightly: "No."

"I just ask, why?"

After a moment of silence, Zhou Song said slowly: "It's different."

"I grew up with him and went to get married."

Chi Ye's eyes became even colder, and he laughed at himself: "Then I'm going on a blind date with you, isn't it just to get married?"

Zhou Song was a little surprised: "Lele said, you are unmarried."

"It's someone else, marrying you, I am willing." Her words softened Chi Ye's attitude, and asked in a gentle tone: "Are you willing?"

This Zhou Song didn't expect it to be so sudden.

"I'm still in school."

"Graduation certificate in one hand, marriage certificate in the other."

Zhou Song shook his head, Chi Ye was very good at making girls happy.It is enjoyable to be with him, and she is sometimes moved, but it is not enough to call it love, the two of them are limited to this.

Since they want to go on a blind date and choose a partner, Chi Yi is nothing more than a good candidate for a boyfriend.

Chi Ye knows that this kind of occasion is really not suitable for talking about these things.

If marriage is proposed, it should be formal as well.

But he was inevitably disappointed in his heart. He buried himself in her arms, and said in a somewhat dependent tone, "Song, I really miss you these past two months."

The relationship between two people is a silent game.

The person who is emotional first has lost the opportunity.

Chi Yi has been in love for many years, and he used to play really flamboyantly, and he can't count the number of girlfriends he has dated.

There is only one girl named Zhou Song, whom he has missed for many years.

She is not very beautiful, and her personality is not coquettish.

But this girl attracted all his attention.

This year's New Year, Zhou Song stayed in Changsha.

On the first day of the new year, instead of receiving a text message from Zhang Chengnian, she received a phone call.

This is a call from Singapore.

"Xiao Liu, Happy New Year." These were the first words he spoke.

A deep voice came from the other end of the phone, and even the tone was familiar. There seemed to be a roar in Zhou Song's mind, and her world caused a silent shudder.

After a moment of silence, she replied calmly: "Brother Cheng, Happy New Year."

She felt it carefully, Zhang Chengnian's voice was very quiet.

Unlike Changsha, the sound of firecrackers is deafening, and there are still guests coming and going to pay New Year's greetings in the community.

Zhou Song closed the window: "What are you doing now?"

"Just finished breakfast, rest today." Zhang Chengnian asked her, "How about you?"

"I just woke up, so it's rare for me to take a break." She yawned as she spoke.

“Still love to sleep late”

When the two were together, Zhou Song always liked to drag Zhang Chengnian to stay in bed together. He is usually a very self-disciplined person, and he is willing to wrap up with her in the quilt on weekends.

There was a knock on Zhou Song's door, and Zhang Chengnian heard a man's voice on the phone. The relationship between the two could be felt through the phone. He called her: "Song."

Zhang Chengnian's finger joints holding the phone were stiff, his breathing stopped for a moment, and he listened carefully to the voice coming from the phone.

But he was hung up in a hurry, leaving only a busy tone in his ears.

He stood there, looking at the scenery outside the window, and he didn't recover for a long time.

Zhang Fang told him that Xiao Liu had a boyfriend, but he didn't care.

Zhang Fang continued, "He is different from Ye Ting."

Zhang Chengnian held his breath for a while, listening to Zhang Fang's words, he stopped his busy work.He suddenly calmed down, his palms trembling uncontrollably.

After the phone call, Zhang Fang's words were verified.He is the only one who can't let go of this relationship.

Little Six, she is doing well.Zhang Chengnian felt gratified in his heart, but the surging sourness flooded his world like a huge wave.

Zhang Chengnian was lying on the sofa, pressing his abdomen lightly. His stomach pain was also related to his emotions.

At the age of 29, Zhang Chengnian has been in Singapore for three years, and he plans to return to China one year ahead of schedule.

He returned to the mainland from Hong Kong, and the first old man he saw at the airport was Lao Gu.

As for his homeland, he left alone at the beginning, but now he has nothing to worry about, only a friend named Lao Gu who treats him like a brother and a father.

Sitting in the car, I saw the rapid development of Shenzhen in recent years.Zhang Chengnian looked at everything in a strange way. Time has changed and the world has been turned upside down here, so things will change, people... will also change.

The two ate, and when paying, Lao Gu scanned the QR code with his mobile phone to pay, and Zhang Chengnian looked at the novelty.

After receiving the bill from the cashier, Lao Gu wondered, "Don't you need Alipay abroad?"

"Singapore currency, pay in cash." Zhang Chengnian followed the old Gu's advice and tried Alipay to scan the QR code.Can't help feeling: "The motherland is getting better and better."

When I was eating, I saw several riders coming to pick up the food. There is already a takeaway app in China.

"Back then, the year I delivered food." Lao Gu said with emotion: "I've been thinking about this, and it's not far from the current operating model of Meituan. Alas, I didn't have the start-up capital, otherwise I will be the one who is lucky now. "

When Lao Gu was young, he used to deliver food.

I even organized a takeaway team, but unfortunately, I couldn't do it without money.

Nowadays, in the era when big data is king, everything is different from the past.

It's useless to just bury your head and work hard. In the end, it depends on the opportunity.

The two chatted about new media and big data for a while, and the era when traffic is king has begun.

Zhang Chengnian works in a state-owned enterprise. His current level, with the blessing of his resume, basically represents the first echelon of design level in the industry at that time.

I have to say that those who have stayed abroad are fragrant.

The five-figure basic salary, starting with three, was already very impressive at the time.

Zhang Chengnian is not used to ordering takeaways. There is a staff restaurant in the office building, so it is very convenient to eat.

The building he is in is basically a well-known design company, so many well-known big names in the industry gather here.

As a cutting-edge designer who has just returned to China, Zhang Chengnian has good resources. The projects he has done are basically museums, star hotels, large exhibition halls, and public spaces in shopping malls.

His first project was a five-star hotel in Hangzhou, so he ran between Shenzhen and Hangzhou.Most of the time he still stays in Shenzhen.

In the elevator, he saw a little girl running in a hurry from a distance, so he pressed the button for a while and waited.

The little girl quickly thanked her, and pressed the [-]th floor several times in the elevator, but the light didn't turn on.

She said a little shyly, "Is this elevator broken?"

"The [-]th floor is the design institute. Go up and report to the property." Zhang Chengnian explained to her.

The little girl looked at him bluntly for a while, her face blushed even more, she hurriedly said she was sorry and walked out of the elevator.

The moment the elevator closed, she retreated outside the door, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "So handsome."

But she didn't forget her business, and turned to report to the property.

But the people in the property management didn't have a good look at her, probably because they saw that the little girl was dressed too poorly.After checking with the design institute at the front desk, there was no appointment for the little girl.

how can that be possible?
It was obvious that these people deliberately made things difficult, so the girl had no choice but to call her boss to confirm. Hearing that she couldn't even get in, the boss also scolded her bloody.

Suffering from a full stomach of uselessness, the little girl can't help it.Start walking from the fire stairs. This is the eighteenth floor. It will take half your life to climb up.

The little girl leaned on the wall and was almost exhausted after climbing to the tenth floor.

When she got to the seventeenth floor, she ran into the handsome guy in the elevator just now, and she was in such a mess, she could only smile awkwardly.

"Climbed up from the first floor?" Zhang Chengnian snuffed out the cigarette in his hand, and kindly reminded: "Next time you can take the elevator to the seventeenth floor and climb again."

Yes, she nodded her thanks and continued to climb.

I couldn't help but glanced back at him secretly, if my boss could be so gentle and good-tempered.

The little girl didn't expect that he would become her own boss later.

Apart from not swearing, this boss has a lot more problems than others.

What's even worse is that she is willing to be exploited by him and work for him. Evil capitalism.

After much effort, she finally reached the [-]th floor and took her business card to find a designer——Chen Gong.

The administration of the design institute made an internal call, and then said with a very cold expression: "I'm sorry, Mr. Chen is not here."

The next day, the little girl went again, but Mr. Chen was not there again.

She went there for a week without seeing anyone, so she secretly guarded the door of his company.

When it was time to get off work, she was really told to squat.

Chen Gong obviously put the pigeons on purpose, and he also made it clear: "I'm sorry, I can't go to your project, please ask Gao Ming."

"Then why did you agree before? It's about to start now. Where can we find someone?" The little girl was very angry at being tricked, and stood at the door to argue.

Chen Gong smiled: "The contract is not signed, how can it be called an agreement?"

The little girl refused to leave, and in the end they called the security directly to invite her out.

She was humiliated by a group of people in front of her. A girl in her early 20s had a thin skin after all.

She secretly wiped away her tears, and after her mood stabilized, she called the leader to report the work situation. After the call was connected, she was reprimanded endlessly: "You can't do this well. Why don't others lose the chain? If you send a contract, it will be dirty, where can you find a replacement now?"

After hanging up the phone, the tears she had finally stopped burst again.

At this time, she was sad and hungry, and there was a restaurant next to her, but she was short of money and her job was about to disappear, so she could only watch helplessly.

Until the sound of rattling on the floor and walking towards her, a pair of black leather shoes stopped beside her and went up the straight trousers.

The little girl wiped her tears, and she saw a face with sword eyebrows and starry eyes.

It was the handsome guy in the elevator, holding a plate in his hand, looking at her with a helpless expression.

A hearty lunch was pushed in front of the little girl, along with a glass of orange juice and a pack of tissues.

The man didn't say much, left these and went to the other side for dinner.

She was so hungry, she ate hungrily and wiped her mouth clean.

After a glance, the man was still on the other side of the cafeteria, eating slowly.

She walked over and thanked solemnly: "Thank you."

Zhang Chengnian stopped the bowl and chopsticks, and explained to her for some reason: "I have a younger sister who also liked to cry when she was young."

When the little girl heard this, she said in an envious tone, "Then your sister is very happy."

Zhang Chengnian didn't answer, he pondered for a moment: "Although the road is long, the journey will bring us closer. Although things are difficult, we can achieve them if we do them."

"what?"

"Next time, don't cry."

It turned out that this sentence was to comfort her.

The little girl was moved by the sudden caring, and her mood turned from rainy to sunny at this moment.

But the grievances in her heart were mixed with strong sadness. The corners of the little girl's mouth were curled up, and tears flowed out uncontrollably.

She stretched out her hand to cover her eyes, secretly wiped it with her sleeve, and forced a smile.

(End of this chapter)