detour

Distraught, Xu You drove the car around the streets and alleys of the island city, and by accident, he drove to the Pearl Plaza again.

Pearl Plaza has been built for some years, but because the location is a bit out of the way, it has not been able to become lively. Usually, except for nearby residents who come out for a walk and walk their dogs, few tourists come to visit.

It is a very quiet place.Especially at noon, there were hardly any people to be seen.

Across the wide lawn around the square, you can see a touch of breathtaking blue from a distance.Not far away, Yinsha Island is like an arm extending from the land, tightly protecting the entire inner bay in its arms, so the sea in this area is exceptionally calm.

This used to be Xu You's favorite place.

At that time, he was just an adult, Zhuang Shijie picked him up whenever he had time, and found an open place to take him to practice driving.At that time, Pearl Plaza was still an empty and desolate beach, and there was an abandoned seafood processing factory nearby. The gates were gone, and only a few dilapidated factories and a yard the size of a football field remained.Xu You drove Zhuang Shijie's silver-gray Porsche around the yard, round and round, and never got tired of going around.

At that time, Xu You lived a fulfilling and satisfying life every day.Whether you are sitting in the classroom for class, or queuing up in the cafeteria for a meal, as long as you think of someone waiting outside the school gate, you will smile involuntarily.

At that time...

At that time, the world in Xu You's eyes was not so cold.

Xu You was lazily leaning against the car door with a cigarette in his mouth.In mid-spring, the noon sun already felt scorching hot, and there was a faint fragrance floating in the air.The sea reflected the dazzling sunlight, and it was as quiet as a blue brocade.

Xu You suddenly felt uninterested.

In this place, only the piece of sea water in the distance is still as it is in memory, and the rest has disappeared in the depths of the years just like his memory, without a trace.

That person, those carefree years, no matter how unwilling he is, will never come back after all.

Xu You threw away the cigarette butt, and was about to get in the car when Meng Feng called.Xu You vaguely guessed the message to be conveyed by this phone call, and felt a little hesitant in her heart.

"XCMG, I have a job." Meng Feng said straight to the point: "There is an accident in a factory in the suburbs, and they need a competent person to supervise the rectification."

Xu You didn't say anything.

Meng Feng added: "It's a short-term job, but the salary is good. As I said there, in addition to the company's fee, 100 million will be given to you alone."

Xu You sneered, "Zhuang Shaodong is generous."

Meng Feng said with a smile: "I listened to Mr. Zhuang, you still have a little bit of trouble for him. But as I said, public affairs are public affairs, and private affairs are private affairs. What do you want to do with so much money for doing things?"

This is also true.

What do you think about so much?The place that once carried the best memories in his life has disappeared, what else can be retained?

What else is worth comparing?

At this moment, he is empty-handed, cold-hearted and disheartened. He is no longer the young man who was full of hope for life back then.If Zhuang Shijie saw him, would he recognize him?

Xu You couldn't help asking himself: If he were here, what would he want to do?

After a day, Xu You appeared in the conference room of the main control building of Longsheng again, and Xu You was in a very delicate mood.

In fact, this subtle feeling was not as offensive as he expected.Xu You looked at these familiar faces and the look of wholehearted trust in their eyes, and was even moved in his heart.

Tan Fei from the design institute also came, together with the technical directors of each construction team and the table full of drawing change orders, the huge meeting room was almost filled.Xu You flipped through a stack of blueprints that was taller than him, and his brows became more and more wrinkled.He found that the actual situation was worse than he expected. The transfer station in Zone D needs to be rebuilt, part of the main control pipelines and auxiliary pipelines need to be dismantled, and the partial pressure pipelines that have been demolished by Su Chengze also need to be redesigned, and the equipment damaged in the explosion in Zone E also needs to be contacted with the manufacturer. Arrange repairs, and some damaged equipment needs to be re-ordered after review.

It is said that it needs to be redesigned, but in fact the design institute only plays an auxiliary role in it.To produce a design drawing for a new factory, the general design can be competent.After all, there are many similar designs that can be used for reference, and sometimes it is only necessary to take out the previous design and make a slight modification.But the situation in Longsheng is much more complicated. This is a finished product that has gone through countless changes, and the redesign of each pipe may involve changes in the parameters of several districts at the same time.Tan Fei has no practical experience in working in a factory, and he is incapable of dealing with such a chain reaction that affects the whole situation.

In this conference room, Xu You and the technical leaders are the protagonists. What Tan Fei needs to do is to sort out their opinions, and then create a new drawing.

Time is tight and the workload is too much.As soon as several people plunged into the meeting room, they were very busy.Chen Shu has also been completely reduced from Xu You's work assistant to a specially hired nanny. In addition to preparing tea, towels, and three meals a day for these workaholics, he also efficiently set up two camp beds in the meeting room.

This busy, is a whole week.

Zhuang Shaodong was startled when he walked into the meeting room.

The clean, tidy and orderly meeting room in his memory has turned into an ancient battlefield full of corpses: on one side of the rectangular conference table, there are piles of drawings, change orders and laptops, and on the other side are piles of instant noodles that have not had time to clean up Boxes, soy milk cups, and plastic bags containing buns.There were at least two lumbering men crammed into each cot, and two more sleeping on benches pushed together.

The only person who was awake was Xu You, who was standing in front of the whiteboard by the wall and writing shift notes.The overalls on his body hadn't been changed for a few days, they were crumpled, and the neckline was open, revealing a delicate collarbone.

Hearing the sound of someone opening the door, Xu You turned sideways and glanced at him with a tired face.His eyes were a little dull, and Zhuang Shaodong wondered if he could clearly see that the person who came in was himself.Xu You's face was originally pale, but after a few days of busy work, there was even a bit of unhealthy bluish gray in his pale complexion.Her hair was messed up like a bird's nest, and there were faint bruises under her eyes.

Zhuang Shaodong had never seen Xu You in such a mess.Xu You in his memory was always tidy, both his hair and the shoes under his feet were clean.When a friend half-truthfully told Zhuang Shaodong that men with the G attribute are very picky about their appearance, the first image that popped up in his mind was that junior Xu You who was wearing a white T-shirt back then.

However, at this moment, this once clear-eyed boy is wearing messy hair like a bird's nest and wearing crumpled work clothes soaked in sweat. In the room, he was so tired that he didn't even bother to show him a disdainful face.

Zhuang Shaodong's mood suddenly became complicated.

Even though he knew that Xu You would stand here, it was definitely not because of any change in his opinion of himself, or because he extended a helping hand to him because of his surname Zhuang.He just regards the affairs here simply as a job, a reasonable transaction that requires painstaking effort after getting paid.But at this moment, standing in this chaotic place, looking at the exhausted and numb look on his face, he still felt inexplicably... moved.

Zhuang Shaodong coughed twice unnaturally, "I'll come over to see what's going on."

Xu You wrote and drew in the notebook on his own, and didn't respond to his lack of words at all.For several days in a row, he was extremely sleepy before touching a place to pour himself out for a while, and at this moment his mind was already numb.However, both the camp bed and the chair were occupied by guys who moved faster than him, so he had to force himself to find something to do for himself.Wait for the handover person to come and explain to go home and rest.

"Where's Chen Shu?" Zhuang Shaodong scanned around and found that Xu You's all-purpose assistant had disappeared.

Xu You froze for a moment as if he had just noticed his appearance, and asked him belatedly, "What did you say?"

Zhuang Shaodong smiled helplessly, "I said how is the progress?"

"Oh, the progress." Xu You came back to his senses, and lazily put down the things in his hand, "Chen Shu sent Tan Fei back to the design institute, and we'll talk about what's going on after the blueprints are finished. Everyone is on holiday today."

The pressure in Zhuang Shaodong's heart suddenly eased, "Already have a plan?"

Xu You nodded, randomly stuffed his notebook into the computer bag, looked around, grabbed a few more sheets, folded them up and stuffed them together.

"go back?"

Xu You nodded again, since Zhuang Shaodong is here, it's the same with him.Xu You didn't want to wait for Lin Chenghu any longer, he couldn't bear it any longer.

"I'll see you off," Zhuang Shaodong couldn't bear it, "You can't drive in this state."

Xu You waved his hands impatiently, "I'll take a taxi."

"This is the suburbs." Zhuang Shaodong looked at Xu You who was about to hit the door frame, and pulled him helplessly, "The road outside has not even been repaired, so there is no taxi for you."

Xu You was so tired that she couldn't open her eyes. Being dragged by him like this, she followed out like a puppet.Xu You hardly had any memory of how he went downstairs and how he got into Zhuang Shaodong's car.

Feeling that she was stuffed into a soft seat, Xu You fell asleep almost immediately.