The three-year itch, the seven-year luck

"Senior sister, when I met you in Hong Kong, I always wanted to ask you why you gave up your postgraduate study and left school. The professor said that he originally wanted to accept you as a closed student in this life, but he didn't expect you to graduate Certificate degree certificate and leave without saying goodbye. I was not convinced at the beginning to follow the professor to study in graduate school, but after reading a few papers you left behind, I knew where the gap between me and you is. Sister, the professor is still complaining Huai. And I think you still have the aura in you, and you shouldn’t bury the talent you should have in the vulgar life. Please contact me.”

I was speechless for a long time after reading such a stunned text message.That's right, on the boat back from Lamma Island, I met my college junior, Xia Jin.This is also the owner of the account that was borrowed in the game back then.At the beginning, I didn't know that these two people were the same, I only vaguely knew that there was a student one level below me who was very fierce.The professor she was talking about was Professor Zhang Guhan, who was in charge of my academic thesis and graduation thesis, and a leading figure in domestic historical research.I love history, but I don't think I can fall into the eyes of his old man, and I still have self-knowledge.One day I went to the student union, and my roommate at the time yelled at me and said a few words on the stage. When I came down, she stopped me. At that time, Xia Jin was the vice chairman of the student union. I thought something was wrong, but when she opened her mouth, I was scared He said: "Old Zou, I'm Xia Jin." It turned out that Feng Xie accidentally added her in the masquerade once, so he knew that I was a girl and remembered my voice.I expressed my admiration for her memory, and left after a few random sentences.Afterwards, I met in the game, and after I left, she took her graduate school exam, and I didn't contact her again.

As for letting me contact her, what should I contact her for?After four years of graduation, I am no longer a fool who just went to college. If I learn with young people with my current mind, I will not be ashamed to death.

What's more, let it go as soon as it should, and what you can't forget will have an echo is just nonsense.

I deleted the text message and didn't plan to talk to Xia Jin.She is self-conscious, and every once in a while she will give me some long talks about what they are doing now and what they are discussing.Sometimes they will send me a copy of Professor Zhang's latest academic papers.I regard it as a free historical literature magazine, and I read it when the text message comes, and I read it with gusto.

With the start of the new semester, Xiaoyan really wants to be promoted to assistant teacher.When I knew the news was almost a foregone conclusion, I was so happy that I even bought a cake for her to celebrate.But Xiaoyan was calm and breezy, and didn't take it seriously at all.However, she did have a lot of free time. It is said that the project has finally passed and the software testing has gone smoothly. As a technology shareholder, she presumably wants to make a lot of money.Coupled with the improvement of the domestic stock market, Xiaoyan started to flip the stock market again.I hated watching the big market trends on a tablet and hurting my eyes, so Tete bought her a desktop computer and replaced it with a big screen.

So every morning when I get up, she gets up too, and when I walk the dog, she watches the news.I spent money to buy breakfast, and she has already decided whether to invest today and which stock to invest in.This is the gap, I can only comfort myself like this every time I think about it.

And I also have things that are more difficult to deal with, that is, the sudden increase in workload for some reason, and the reminders from the leaders who seem to have nothing.I didn't understand much at first, but one day I accidentally discovered why my colleagues always like to chat with me unintentionally, and I felt something was wrong.

This is not normal, as I said earlier, if you have no background, are outsiders, and don't want to make progress, the relationship with Da Zhou in the unit is better.If I had discovered it earlier, I might have been able to deal with it flexibly, but now I feel a little helpless.

I guess what's going on here.

Or rather, I know what's going on.Inter-provincial transfers within the system must reach a certain level.I am 26 years old now, which is the time for initial improvement.When I realized this, the panic made my hands and feet cold, and I took several sips of hot tea, but I didn't recover.This can only be caused by my parents. When I got my graduation certificate, I immediately left my hometown. I planned to never go back in my life.However, I didn't expect that their hands would be so long after a few years.

I remembered what my mother said when they came to see me in the hospital when the fracture was broken: "Zou Chen, there are some truths, your father and I thought you could figure it out by yourself, but sometimes parents inevitably want to remind their children. "

This is the so-called reminder.But now, I seem to have lost the momentum I had at the time. After thinking about it, I am thinking more about how I can keep my simple life now.I can’t continue what I like, and now I am doing a job that I don’t like but I can accept. I do my best and never complain. For this reason, I have no burden to get thousands of dollars every month.

Because of this incident, I was very afraid in my heart.But when I got home, I didn't want to say anything more - I already knew that if I had to settle it completely, I would have to resign.But now, after all, there are nearly [-] people, and it is self-evident what losing my job means to me.Xiaoyan doesn't care about these things, but I do.She is such an excellent and brilliant person, if I really lose my job and rely on her to support me, how can I deserve it.

Therefore, I was often in a daze, so I had to start playing the game again and cut the newly released copy. On the surface, I enjoyed it, but actually I was avoiding the eyes of Xiaoyan who asked me several times.

I must not tell her.I must make it through.

The result of the two-sided attack is that in the summer, the temper is extremely bad.But I am not a person who can make a fuss, I just don't say anything, except when necessary, I am like a transparent person at home, and I have no communication with Xiaoyan.And she also knew that I was like this when I was stubborn, so she didn't take the initiative to find me too much, and was busy with her own affairs.

So the only vent is Lucky.During that time, I walked the dog every night, and at the end, I would hold its head, and slurred some nonsense in my mouth.Lucky was puzzled by my behavior at first, but later it seemed to notice that I was emotionally unstable, so every night, it would obediently stand still in front of the stairs, and wait until I had enough chatter before running upstairs.

The unit has announced the list of candidates for promotion, which to me is like a bolt from the blue.Da Zhou also began to get farther and farther away from me, I can understand, he probably thinks I'm pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger.But every time I talked, I made it so obvious that I didn't want to improve, and I was completely ignored.I even want to go back to my hometown and have a big fight with them, please stop interfering in my life with those high-sounding reasons!

But after all, I don’t have the guts—I should be afraid.

So in this panic, Xiaoyan's birthday was ushered in.She lived with her grandfather when she was a child, and according to her, he was a very traditional old man, so her birthday was on the lunar calendar, the day of Hanlu.Even if there are often cold wars during this period, even if I haven't picked her up from her school for a long time, on this day, how can I be willing to make her slightly unhappy?What's more, I broke my foot last year, and she didn't allow me to do anything when she was at home, even ordering longevity noodles.

I took half a day off this day, and rushed home to change into clothes that were pleasing to the eye. I specially wrapped a red scarf around Lucky. Its appearance perfectly matched, and it was so handsome.I checked the time, knelt down and rubbed Lukcy's cheeks: "Today is your sister Yan's birthday, how about you pick her up from her school with me? Be good, don't let you woo, woo!"

"Aww!" This guy seemed to understand, I was very happy, put on my shoes, carefully put a small box into the inner pocket of my jacket, put a strap on it and led me downstairs.I stopped three taxis in a row, and finally the fourth car was willing to take Lucky. The driver probably had a dog at home, so he reached out to pet Lucky friendly: "This dog is well-raised, my dog ​​doesn't expect it to be so safe. "

I was also happy, chatting casually with the driver, he looked at the school I went to and thought I was a student: "Why does the school allow dogs?" I replied: "No, I will go to see my sister, there is no one at home, I am afraid that it will be at home Just take it with you when you're bored."

"You are not a student, you look so young." The driver brother looked at me from the rearview mirror, I was a little proud, isn't it, we are small, but still humbly said: "No way, I am 27 gone."

After chatting casually like this, I finally arrived at the school. I paid the bill and said goodbye to the driver brother. After seeing that it was still early, I entered the school through the small gate.At this time, my heart began to beat fast, and I felt an inexplicable sense of tension.Admittedly, some time ago we got along with each other the most unpleasantly in these years, the relationship between the two has almost dropped to the freezing point, and I have always felt that I can't break the ice.

Last night, when I returned to the bedroom, Xiaoyan had already fallen asleep on her side.She left a small lamp for me so that I wouldn't stumble because of the smear when I entered the house.I walked over to her and squatted down, asking myself, do I love her, or do I only love her?The answer is only one word, yes.This kind of self-questioning in my heart made me feel relaxed, as if no matter how difficult the road ahead is, we will always overcome it.She just breathed shallowly and fell into a deep sleep.I smiled slightly, went to bed lightly and turned off the lights.

I took out the little box from my inside pocket, a dark blue velvet jewelry box, with a diamond ring inside.Forgive me for being unavoidable, but I have hidden this ring for a long time, and I wanted to give it to her when I was in Hong Kong.The money was earned bit by bit from my contributions, and it took me more than three years to save enough.I especially want to tell her: Zou Chen doesn't have such a strong arm and doesn't have much promise, but she always wants to be with you, Yang Zhiyan, for the rest of her life.

Seeing the brilliance on the face of the ring, I squatted down: "Little brat, do you think your sister Yan will throw herself into your arms when she is happy? Hey! Just look at it, don't lick it! Before Lukcy could reach me, I immediately stood up and dodged with my arms raised high.After such a fuss, I felt a lot more at ease, put the box away again, and went for a walk in the small garden.At this time, there were only students in twos and threes. When they saw Lucky, they were a little bit bold and wanted to come and play with it, but this little bastard was timid and determined not to stay two meters away from me, so those students were doomed to be disappointed.

Waiting and waiting, Lucky finished feeding the chicken jerky in my pocket, looking at the watch, it was almost time for Xiaoyan to leave get out of class.I turned around and walked towards the parking lot.I was full of expectations for this process, and even walked a little smoothly.I also scolded myself, what a promise!

I found Xiaoyan's car, calculated the distance, and hid behind a large off-road vehicle about ten meters away, so that I could see over there, but Xiaoyan couldn't see me when she came over. Lucky knew Xiaoyan's car, and he kept thinking about it, but I slapped him, finally being honest.It probably understands that this is my prank again, and is cooperating with me honestly.I was still worried that Xiaoyan would come over and this guy would rush out—there are many precedents of being betrayed like this, so I clamped the idiot with my legs in an extremely indecent posture, held the idiot firmly, and jumped at me if there was anything wrong. Go down and cover its mouth!

The plan was perfect, I held back my excitement and waited silently.

Xiaoyan finally came, she changed into a dark purple long trench coat, her long hair was hanging down, and the rhythm of her high heels all had her personal gentle style.I lowered my waist subconsciously, and my heart was completely cold before I smiled.

She was followed by a person on the right back, whose appearance was still familiar to me, and who was also a professor at the school.His pursuit of Xiaoyan is too obvious, not only in the campus, but even I know it.In his hand was a bouquet of red roses, and the two looked so matched.Xiaoyan smiled all over her face, without the deliberate indifference she usually put on.

"I booked a seat at Steve's, and it's just the right time for us to go now." He said it so easily, as if he had already been there many times.Xiaoyan didn't say anything, just nodded and walked in front of her car.I squatted down subconsciously, wrapping my hands around Lucky's mouth, and my mind went blank.

It wasn't until a Passat drove out for a long, long time that I slowly recovered.I squatted down and completely pressed Lucky to the ground. He probably didn't understand why he stopped playing pranks, and why his sister Xiaoyan left.I stood up slowly, my legs were numb, and I waited until I could move freely.With a wry smile, I became a loner after all.At this time, the phone vibrated, and it was Xiaoyan's text message: "Something happened in the department, so I will go back late at night."

My heart completely fell into the ice cellar. ?