under fern mountain

Regarding the matter of Pei Haojie on the Internet, it's not big or small.In the past two years, there are not many game internet celebrities who have made it out of the circle, and he is one of them.

His name on the Internet is Ajie, and the game videos he publishes are both dry and cool, and refreshing.The laughs are dense, the voice is sexy enough, and occasionally he drives with a high mouth, and occasionally runs the train with his mouth full.People in the game circle love to watch, marketing accounts love to turn, female fans are very sticky, and they can also poke the jokes of public netizens.In the past two years, he has become more skilled in operation. Once he finds his position, the traffic will gradually increase.

The increase in traffic means more business cooperation and olive branches, and it also means more right and wrong.This time, a diehard fan of his broke the news about the job-hopping incident. He claimed to work on the platform that Pei Haojie had signed with before, and he came out to scold others for being arrogant and ungrateful.

On the Internet, it is easiest to listen to one-sided words. Not many people know what the inside story of the two is.Between the stone and the egg, people are more willing to stand on the side of the egg.What's more, that die-hard fan was really pitiful and innocent. A "confession" was written in a thousand times, saying that Pei Haojie was a white-eyed wolf to him, and a bird was hiding everything.

"Do you know why I fell out with him?" Pei Haojie's smile gradually collapsed, "Because he picked up my information and almost picked up on you... This is my bottom line!"

Shi Ran opened his mouth, and finally just asked him how he planned to deal with it.

"Let's cool down for two days. I'm sorting out the whole story." Pei Haojie pinched the bridge of her nose with a headache, "I don't have any feelings for this platform, and I have quarreled many times in private because of business contacts. I didn't leave before because I was carrying a debt of favor. , now I can walk more simply."

"Then explain the matter clearly." Shi Ran approached him cautiously like a temptation, with no sincerity in his eyes, "You don't have to worry about me, I have nothing to be afraid of!"

Pei Haojie tilted her head and looked at him for a while, then put her hands on his cross-legged legs.The heat from the palm was transmitted to Shi Ran's knees, and he warmly ironed his patella through his trousers.

"Of course." Pei Haojie called him, "I can make money, and I will earn more and more in the future. In the past, you invested in me, but now I want you to breathe. Now I can share the pressure for you, and I can let you in the future Take the burden off. Have you ever thought about what you would do if you had money one day?"

Shi Ran looked at him a little dazedly.

Over the past few years, he has worked nine to five and supported Pei Haojie's freelance career. He has long been accustomed to this rhythm, and has no more plans in the short term.

"Or let me put it another way, if we achieve financial freedom before the age of 30, what do you want to do?" Pei Haojie earnestly induced.

"I thought about this problem a long time ago. Do some... more romantic careers, such as opening a coffee shop, a handicraft store, etc... I also want to raise a dog!" Shi Ran's eyes crossed his face, not She smiled shyly, "Actually, I'm quite vulgar."

"You have a petty bourgeoisie in your bones." Pei Haojie also laughed.

"The more you work, the more unrealistic you feel. Relaxation should be a state, not an attitude. People who are greedy for relaxation are prone to laziness."

"I really want to make it easier for you." Pei Haojie sighed, rubbing her thumb against Shi Ran's tired eyes.

Shi Ran knew from before that Pei Haojie had an idea.

When they first met, Pei Haojie was still in college, and when they came out for an internship, they met Shi Ran who had just started working.In fact, the two of them had little social experience at the time. When colleagues had a dinner, Shi Ran thought that his senior was blocking the drink for the intern, and the intern sat obediently beside him, accepting all his kindness without stopping him.Until Shi Ran successfully got himself drunk, he didn't have time to see the burning enthusiasm in the intern's eyes.

Including when the two dated for a period of time, Shi Ran belatedly discovered that Pei Haojie had a good background and family.At that time, Pei Haojie said to him while washing the dishes, I have become completely independent.The stinky habit of squandering that I developed in the past will gradually change in the future.Shi Ran really wanted to scold him for missing the point.

Pei Haojie's changes in the past two years are also very obvious.Time preserved the vigor of his body and the edges and corners that had not been polished, and at the same time allowed some things to settle down.He learns responsibility, learns to bear, and learns to be careful about trivial things.

Now he told Shi Ran that he wanted him to breathe too.

Why isn't Shi Ran moved?

At six o'clock in the evening, when it was time to get off work, his colleagues invited him downstairs to have a drink of beer. The fried chicken shop had a discount today.Shi Ran has a good relationship with Fu Liang who is next door. He is tall, thin, and has a straightforward personality. He has some minor problems, but he has helped Shi Ran a lot of work in the company, so when he sent the invitation, Shi Ran thought about it and agreed.

"Should I eat first when drinking?" Shi Ran asked as Fu Liang walked out with his shoulders hooked.

"When you go to a fried chicken restaurant, you must order fried chicken!"

"That's enough for you, I have to go home for dinner tonight." Shi Ran said and looked at the time on his phone, "I can only stay for about half an hour."

"Look at that! I'm so sore!" Fu Liang pointed at him and looked at the others, which immediately aroused the booing of his colleagues, "Is it different for those who have a family?"

With a little smile on his face, Shi Ran sent a WeChat message to Pei Haojie amidst the uproar, saying that he would not work overtime today and would be home for dinner before seven o'clock in the evening.

Pei Haojie replied almost instantly: Stir-fried bacon with garlic sprouts, cold shredded chicken, thousand-sheet tofu, okay?

Shi Ran: Awesome, Chef.

Pei Haojie: Not a chef, but a private chef (shy)

Shi Ran smiled and replied with a "wow" expression.

Shi Ran and his colleagues walked into the fried chicken restaurant and sat down by the window.Six people ordered two barrels of fried chicken and three beers.This group of people went to work during the day and the board was very upright, but the way they relaxed after get off work was crazy, gagging, showing their true nature, and the atmosphere relaxed within a few minutes.

Shi Ran has been refraining from drinking too much, and he didn't even eat any fried chicken.He thought of Pei Haojie cooking at home, so he didn't want to start a small stove outside by himself.

In the midst of the excitement, he suddenly heard someone calling him. He looked around for a while, but before he saw anyone, his phone rang.

The reality of the WeChat call is a friend who has not been in touch for a long time, "Iron Head."

Tietou is one of Shi Ran's high school classmates who have a good relationship and keep in touch. The two used to be at the same table, and they often met when they were in college.The contact was not broken after work, until Tietou went to other cities to develop, and the contact between the two gradually decreased.His nickname of Iron Head was also given by Shi Ran when he was in high school. He thought he was too iron-headed in playing games, so he just wanted to have a blast.

"Shi—ran—" A familiar and rascal voice came from the other side of the microphone.

"What are you doing?" Shi Ran snapped.

"What am I doing? Turn around at seven o'clock!"

What are the chances of bumping into a buddy you haven't seen in a year at the fried chicken restaurant downstairs?Shi Ran didn't know, but when he saw Tie Tou's face, he cursed in his heart.

Fu Liang followed Shi Ran's gaze.A round inch man in a striped shirt waved to him a few tables away.

"Meet someone you know?"

"Students from high school!" Shi Ran kept looking back, and greeted his colleagues with a smile, "Drink first, and call me for the bill!"

Shi Ran went over to touch his glass with a beer glass: "Okay, you! Sharp eyes!"

"You are blind!" Tietou scolded him.

"You have changed too much." Shi Ran took two steps back and looked at him.

Tie Tou looked different than when he was in college.Cut the square board size.He has a natural fox face, with curved lips and curved eyes even when he doesn't smile... Now that he has neatly twisted short hair, he is much more masculine than before, no wonder he was not recognized just now.

There was also a woman sitting next to Tietou, who looked at Shi Ran with a smile, her facial features were familiar, but Shi Ran didn't find this person in his memory.

"I don't recognize you?" Tietou shook the woman in his arms, "Li Qing'er! She is my wife now."

Shi Ran suddenly realized, and hit his palm with his fist.Li Qing'er was their junior high school girl, and was also the girlfriend of Tie Tou before, but unfortunately the two broke up when they were in college. Come together and achieve positive results.

"So fate is destined!" Shi Ran joked.

Friends like Tietou are different.There is no need to be decent, fake, or polite, because this kind of relationship is established in the most innocent period of teenagers, and their youth is directly connected with each other.The three of them were old acquaintances. After drinking two glasses of beer, they had no scruples about speaking.

"By the way, I remember that your family used to make tea." Tietou said with a smile, "Li Qinger and I are now making a flower and tea art studio. You know this, how about coming with us?"

Shi Ran couldn't control it, he still drank too much, and when he got a little drunk, he would stare blankly.Li Qing'er said beside him, don't coax him when he is drunk, Tietou lit a cigarette and smiled, and leaned there waiting for Shi Ran's answer.

"I think..." Shi Ran said.

Tietou patiently waited for the next sentence, but finally he said, "I feel a little sick."

Tietou was dumbfounded, and Li Qing'er laughed beside him.

The three of them forgot the time while chatting, and when Shi Ran realized that his colleagues had all paid their bills and left, they didn't bother him at all.While he was thinking that it was going to be bad, he took out his mobile phone to check, it was almost eight o'clock, and it showed that there were several missed calls from Pei Haojie.

Fu Liang also sent him a WeChat message, asking if he was going home for dinner?

Shi Ran hastily greeted Tie Tou and Li Qing'er, then quietly paid the bill and left.He was walking out while putting on his coat, and just as he was about to call Pei Haojie back, he saw the Lexus on the side of the road.

Pei Haojie leaned against the car door to smoke, her appearance was very slow and graceful.His youthfulness has faded away, and he has a stronger masculinity.He kept his eyes on the door of Shi Ran's company building.There was a ticket on the windshield wiper, and he didn't bother to take it off.

Seeing Pei Haojie's expression, Shi Ran knew something was wrong.

He knew Pei Haojie's temper, it came and went quickly.It's easy to coax, but it's also easy to get out of control.

The expression now is very bad.

He seemed to be waiting casually and patiently, but the car was parked on the single lane, the ticket was ignored, and there was an almost competitive paranoia about the person waiting.

He is indeed a paranoid man, Shi Ran has experienced it before, and knows that he cannot make excuses or fool him at such a time.

Shi Ran put the phone back into his pocket and walked over slowly: "I can explain."

Pei Haojie's posture didn't move, she just tilted her head, her eyes fell on him, and she sized him up from the bottom up: "Have you been drinking?"

"Drink a little." Shi Ran was made nervous by his gaze, "Let's get in the car first? It's not easy to park here."

Pei Haojie even opened the car door for him in a gentlemanly manner, which made Shi Ran feel even more uncomfortable: "I met Iron Head downstairs today."

"Is it that high school classmate who used to play games with you?"

Shi Ran smelled of alcohol, his face was flushed, and he was drunk, and he knew he was happy when he saw it.He was clutching the seat belt on the co-pilot, his eyes moved slowly, and everything he saw was also very slow.He watched Pei Haojie go around the front, tore off the ticket from the front window and put it in his pocket, opened the door and sat in.

Shi Ran used his gallbladder to ignore Pei Haojie's depression: "Didn't he love playing games before? Now that he has gone to a game company to do product planning, he really squandered so much back then, and now he is earning ten times and a hundred times from where Come back! Speaking of which, do you two count as colleagues? What a coincidence." He said for a moment.

"How much did you drink?"

"Huh?" Shi Ran didn't respond.

"I drank beer for an hour, at least one beer?"

"Ah... ah, almost."

Pei Haojie started the car, and cool wind poured in from the window, blowing towards her face.The more Shi Ran's alcohol got stronger, the numbness spread up along the nerve endings.He was a little dizzy and a little excited, and there were many thoughts in his head, happy, depressed, arrogant, irresponsible...

Maybe he was really a little drunk, but Shi Ran's words were ten times faster than usual, and he couldn't stop rambling along the way.Pei Haojie ignored him, and he was enjoying himself, instead he didn't seem to be talking to anyone, but just talking to himself.

"Tietou's daughter-in-law, Li Qing'er! An elementary school girl who was a year younger than us in high school. She used to be chubby and a little baby fat. Tietou always chased her around the playground, and Li Qing'er was so angry that she scolded her! "

"Later, Tietou played games all the time and was not doing well in studies. Li Qing'er quarreled with him, scolding Tietou for not being up to date and not motivated... In fact, she was impatient. She studies well and wants to go to university in the future. She wants Tietou went to a good university with her."

From how the two of them broke up, to how Tietou fell out of love...he didn't know how the two got back together and how they got married, so he was quiet when he talked about it.

"It's definitely not easy." Shi Ran ignored Pei Haojie who was driving, and leaned on him unsteadily, "It's not easy for the two of us."

As soon as the chattering voices in the carriage stopped, it became a little quiet. Pei Haojie had been silent for a long time, but when she heard this, she turned her head to look at him, and gave an indistinct "um".

Shi Ran was a little uncomfortable being blown by the wind, closed his eyes and took a deep breath, and opened his eyes again, he was already in the underground garage.Is it drifting?Crossed over?There were still high-rise buildings outside the window just now, why did you arrive home in an instant?Shi Ran was a little dazed, alcohol made him unable to understand the current situation.

Pei Haojie didn't give him a chance to react, got off the car and walked forward with big strides.Shi Ran followed behind him step by step, staggering, feeling a little worried.

He was thinking nervously: Pei Haojie's temper is hard to deal with.I'm drunk now, what if the more I talk about it, the more angry he gets?

Facts have proved that a person's temper has nothing to do with age, but with experience.Although Pei Haojie has learned to restrain her temper in the past two years and is no longer good at it, her nature cannot be changed easily.

Pei Haojie locked the door after Shi Ran entered.

If he is angry, he will vent his anger.