strange i love you

Chapter 15 Look, Time's Clown (4)
"Have you cooked?"

The unhappiness accumulated in the conflicts yesterday dissipated instantly, and Lin Youxi's voice eased a lot, "Get off work so early tonight?"

"What's with that dress?" Qin Zhihao pointed to Zheng Tao's coat.

"Oh, it belongs to a colleague." Lin Youxi cried out inwardly, and hurriedly explained what happened last night.

Qin Zhihao didn't react when he heard this, and said lightly: "Let's eat."

There was Lin Youxi's favorite fish-flavored eggplant. She filled a bowl full of rice for herself, buried her nose in the rice bowl, and was eating with great relish when Qin Zhihao suddenly called her name.

"What's wrong?" She raised her eyes and asked.

"I have something to discuss with you."

"Well, you said."

"It looks like it will be Chinese New Year in one month." Qin Zhihao hesitated and said, "I called my family a few days ago, and they asked me to take you back to celebrate the New Year this year."

"no problem--"

"By the way, get engaged."

Lin Youxi shook her hands in shock and almost dropped her chopsticks on the table: "Engaged... engaged?"

"We're almost ready to get engaged, too."

Having been together with Qin Zhihao for six years, Lin Youxi had fantasized about marrying him countless times.At that time, with a girlish feeling, she thought of her wedding as romantic and dreamy, such as an ancient castle wedding, hot air balloon, and a lot of roses. She fantasized that she was wearing a beautiful wedding dress like Princess Anna, and she was holding Qin Zhihao's arm under the envious eyes of everyone. hands into the church.But now Lin Youxi knows that these are not realistic.In the past one or two years, she even considered nude marriage, because Qin Zhihao had nothing, now he bought a house, and both of them had jobs, the situation seemed to be better, but it was not good enough to hold such a wedding.

"Is your expression unwilling?"

"No, yes, yes." Lin Youxi had completely forgotten the food in her hand, and smiled foolishly, "Then what should I do from now on? If you get engaged, what do you all have to prepare?"

Qin Zhihao smiled, and glanced at Lin Youxi: "You just need to make yourself fatter."

By the end of the year, the work in hand was gradually coming to an end, because of the engagement, Lin Youxi always seemed in a good mood.However, this good mood did not last long before it was broken by what happened later.

The current project in hand is done by Lin Youxi and Wu Feier together. Although Wu Feier is completely useless as before, she is lazy every day, either eating or gossiping, but after staying up late for several days, she finally finished the case. out.Because there was a problem with Lin Youxi's laptop, she copied the data into Wu Fei'er's computer, so that it would be useful when she went to Party A's company for a meeting tomorrow.

As a result, early the next morning, Wu Fei'er came to tell Lin Youxi with a sad face that she accidentally poured coffee on the computer while watching a drama last night.

"What should I do, do you have a backup?"

"It's in the USB flash drive, but I didn't take it when I went out in the morning."

"Then go back and get it, I don't know when my computer will be repaired!" Wu Fei'er's upright look made Lin Youxi very unhappy.She was the one who made a mess of things, but she didn't even say the most basic apology, and she still uses herself like this now.

"Go quickly, go quickly, take a taxi and go back quickly, I will delay some time with the docking person."

There was no other way, Lin Youxi had no choice but to go home to get a USB flash drive, and then meet her downstairs in the company.

When she arrived at Party A's company, when Lin Youxi was lecturing on her planning ideas to the client, Wu Fei'er actually fell asleep there. Lin Youxi was so anxious that she really wanted to throw the pen in her hand.At the end of the meeting, the other party expressed their satisfaction with the plan.After they left, Lin Youxi said, "Why did you fall asleep in there just now?"

"I slept too late last night, sleepy."

"...I watched Korean dramas."

Wu Fei'er did not answer directly, but yawned.Lin Youxi finally couldn't hold back the anger in her heart: "Although you have your uncle backing you up in the company, what you did was too much."

"What do you mean?" Wu Fei'er turned her head, "Are you accusing me of not working hard?"

"No." Lin Youxi didn't want to argue with her, so she ended the conversation in time.

But what happened next made her intolerable.Back at the company, the director actually divided the commission of this project between Lin Youxi and Wu Fei'er.Lin Youxi was immediately dissatisfied and said: "I am the person in charge of this project, shouldn't I get the big head?"

In the end, the director didn't even look at her: "You two did it together. The person in charge is just a title and has no practical effect. You and Wu Fei'er are at the same level, so this project is naturally considered to be done together."

"But she didn't do anything at all!" Lin Youxi couldn't help it, and began to complain, "Not only did she not do anything, but she almost messed up everything this morning. If two people were responsible, it would be better to say that it was me. I did it by myself. Wu Fei'er has been in the company for so long, and you, the director, don't know that she is at work—"

"It's probably not your turn to talk about your colleagues' work performance." The director raised his head and gave her a blank look, "Go back to work."

This time, Lin Youxi didn't choose to be a steamed stuffed bun like before: "It's too much to treat subordinates so unfairly, even if Wu Fei'er has relatives at the company headquarters, she wouldn't be so partial to her. "

"Lin Youxi!"

"Am I wrong? I have paid so much to the company these years, and my health is getting worse and worse, but what have I got? I have nothing at the company's anniversary, just sitting there by myself ..."

"What do you think you can get?" The director finally put down the things in his hands, "Lin Youxi, when I was your age, I encountered more unfair things. In the real world, you don't get rewarded for your hard work .Do you think you should be rated as an excellent employee of the year? Or promoted and raised? Why do you think so? There will never be a lack of people who work harder than you in this company, let alone people who are more talented than you Man, why do you feel that you are different?"

The director's words made Lin Youxi speechless for an instant, and she was completely stunned.There was a pang of sorrow in her heart, and she felt like a fool.

The director picked up the folder on the table again, without looking at Lin Youxi: "Go to work."

After returning to her seat, Wu Fei'er heard movement behind her, thought it was the director coming, and hurriedly closed the open video window.It turned out that it was Lin Youxi, and she breathed a sigh of relief: "I was really shocked."

Turning her head, she found that Lin Youxi had tears on her face. Wu Fei'er was stunned for a moment, and asked, "Did the director scold you? Didn't we just finish a project?"

"That's what you did, it's none of my business." Lin Youxi stuffed all the information on the table into the file rack with a "snap" and then turned around without looking back with her personal belongings on her shoulders left.

"Hey, it's not time to get off work, where are you going?" Wu Fei'er's voice came from behind, but Lin Youxi didn't want to hear it at all.

This was the most impulsive thing she did as an adult, she didn't even bother to resign from her job, she just left!Anyway, staying here is exhausting, she cried as she walked towards the elevator, and accidentally bumped into someone who was walking towards her.

"What's wrong with you? Hey, why are you crying?" Zheng Tao asked doubtfully, but Lin Youxi didn't give him time to ask, and left him straight away.

The elevator door closed slowly, Lin Youxi was the only one inside, finally she couldn't help squatting down and crying loudly.This company has been in this company for several years before graduation.This is her first job, and she has put all her passion into it, but unfortunately, after a few years, she didn't get what she wanted.

Lin Youxi thought to herself, if she could be more mature and more sophisticated, maybe she wouldn't do such impulsive things.But is it considered mature to be indifferent to unfair treatment?She didn't have an answer, she just wanted to go home at this moment, and she just wanted to hide in the quilt and cry a lot.

She felt so tired, really tired.

When the lights above her head came on, Lin Youxi opened her eyes, turned around with sleepy eyes, and saw Qin Zhihao standing at the door of the bedroom.

"Are you uncomfortable?" he asked.

Only now did Lin Youxi come back to her senses, she was still lying on the bed.After returning from the company in the afternoon, she stayed in the room, crying and falling asleep.

"What time is it?" Lin Youxi was dizzy from sleep, so she sat up and smoothed her hair.

"Eight o'clock. Have you eaten yet?"

Lin Youxi shook her head.

Qin Zhihao noticed that something was wrong with her, walked over and sat down beside her, reached out and touched her forehead: "Are you feeling unwell? What do you want to eat? I'll go out and buy it for you."

"No need." Lin Youxi shook her head, took Qin Zhihao's arm, and leaned her head on his shoulder, "I don't want to eat anything, just sit here and accompany me for a while."

Time passed by, Qin Zhihao knew that Lin Youxi didn't want to talk, so he didn't ask.Lin Youxi's tears started to fall again, soaking the clothes on Qin Zhihao's shoulders.After an unknown amount of time, Lin Youxi was tired from crying, so she said in a hoarse voice, "I won't go to the company tomorrow..."

Qin Zhihao was still taken aback when he heard this sentence, because Lin Youxi is not the kind of girl who would resign casually or stop working when she gets emotional.She is so conformist that if something hadn't happened, she wouldn't have said that.

"What happened?" Qin Zhihao asked her gently, "Did you have a conflict with your colleagues?"

"No. I won't go anyway, and I don't want to go to that crappy company again." Lin Youxi sucked her snot, looked up at Qin Zhihao pitifully, "I want fried rice with eggs, add three eggs."

"No, let's talk about your problem first, shall we?" Qin Zhihao took Lin Youxi's hand, "Tell me what's going on?"

"I don't want to say it." Lin Youxi pulled out her hand, "I really don't like that company. I wanted to resign a long time ago. This time is just right, so I won't have to go through any resignation procedures. I will never set foot in that company again. company step."

When Lin Youxi's stubborn temper came up, Qin Zhihao had no choice but to get up and cook rice for her.The sound of "ping ping pong pong" came from the kitchen, and the aroma of fried rice with eggs floated into the living room, and Lin Youxi's mood gradually calmed down.The idea of ​​not going to work is actually not her impulse. Compared with fighting in the workplace every day, she wants to stay at home and do housework, cook for her husband, clean up, arrange beautiful tablecloths, and learn flower arranging , yoga these elegant things.But how is it possible, she doesn't have such good innate conditions, she is just an ordinary girl, after leaving this company, she is bound to continue to go out to find a job.

But at this moment, can she be allowed to give up on herself for a while, because she is really tired.

When you don't go to work, your body's biological clock automatically adjusts, and Lin Youxi doesn't wake up when it's the usual time to wake up.Qin Zhihao got up early to go to work, Lin Youxi vaguely heard him say "Let's go" to herself, she lazily replied "Yes", and went back to sleep.It was almost noon when I woke up again, and there were several missed calls on my phone.Lin Youxi was glad that she had switched to silent mode, otherwise her good sleep would be disturbed.

The person who called her was the director and Wu Fei'er.Lin Youxi deleted it directly, and also deleted the contact list by the way. After doing all this, she felt that her whole body was cleared up.It feels great not to look at people's faces, and not to be cautious about being a person and doing things.On the first day off work, she made a plan for herself, planning to rearrange her home, buy some potted plants, change out the curtains, tablecloths and bed sheets, and then bought a lot of handmade trinkets online to prepare herself DIY.She also listed a nutritious diet for herself. Didn't Qin Zhihao ask her to make herself fatter before?Anyway, it's New Year's Eve, so let's take it as an early holiday for myself, she wants to raise herself to be white and tender, and she can't embarrass Qin Zhihao.

She ate casually during the day, and at night she cooked a big table of sumptuous dinner.When Qin Zhihao came back, he saw that the house was completely new, and the table was full of steaming meals.Lin Youxi also specially changed into a beautiful dress, her hair was loose, and she put on delicate makeup on her face.

"Hurry up and wash your hands, dinner is ready." Lin Youxi was full of smiles, it seemed that staying at home made her very happy.

The two sat down facing each other, Lin Youxi poured Qin Zhihao a glass of coke, and began to ramble about what she had done that day.

"I came across cheap olives today and bought a lot of them. I used them to make wine." Lin Youxi looked very happy when talking about these trivial things, and said that she planned to go to the mall tomorrow to buy an oven and bake cakes at home. .

Qin Zhihao was still listening with great interest at first, but the expression on his face changed after hearing the second part: "Are you planning to stay at home for a long time?"

Lin Youxi had just put a piece of ribs into her mouth, and her articulate words were a little slurred: "I hope, but our economic conditions don't allow it." She said teasingly, "But if you want to raise me, I won't mind."

"I also hope that I am the second generation rich, so that I can not only support you, but also live in another villa." Of course Qin Zhihao was mocking her, but Lin Youxi was in a good mood and didn't hear it.

She happily picked up a piece of meat and put it into Qin Zhihao's bowl: "It's better like this. We will work hard together, repay the mortgage and car loan together, and have another little fat boy."

Lin Youxi's mind has been completely immersed in the beautiful longing and yearning for the future life, as if those days were within reach, and she couldn't help humming a song while washing dishes in the kitchen.

Qin Zhihao didn't know who he was talking to on the phone in the bedroom, his voice was very low.Lin Youxi came out of the kitchen with the cut fruit and found that there was no one in the living room. She took an apple and wanted to sneak into the bedroom to scare Qin Zhihao, but just as she put her hand on the doorknob, she heard Qin Zhihao say, "You Don't be like this, I'm coming now, wait until I come."

Lin Youxi froze immediately, her brain short-circuited for a moment.She quickly sat down on the sofa not far away as if she had a guilty conscience, and then pretended to concentrate on eating the fruit.

The bedroom door opened, and when Qin Zhihao saw her, he said with an unnatural expression: "My colleague asked me to go out for a drink, it's hard to refuse, I'll go over and have a few drinks, and I'll come back right away when I can deal with it."

Lin Youxi nodded, watching Qin Zhihao put on his coat, shoes, and scarf, a series of movements were presented in his eyes like slow motion in a movie.After the door closed, she jumped off the sofa in a jerk, randomly found a thick coat from the closet, put it on, and followed out the door.

It was the first time in Lin Youxi's 25-year life that she followed her. In fact, it was not as thrilling and exciting as in the movie.The taxi followed Qin Zhihao's car and stopped outside a residential area. Seeing Qin Zhihao getting out of the car and walking in with ease, Lin Youxi knew that she had committed a fool again.

What about my colleagues?How about a drinking party?
She followed behind quietly, and Qin Zhihao didn't notice from the beginning to the end.Lin Youxi stood downstairs in the unit, looking at the constantly lit floors, she didn't know which floor he would stop at, which door he would stop at, and which door he would finally enter.

Lin Youxi knelt down and hugged her knees and began to sob slowly. The winter wind blows and takes everything away. No one will know that on this night, a girl stayed here for a short time, and then put her Sadness stays here.

(End of this chapter)