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"Ah, hello, my name is Xi Yan. Zhong..." Xi Yan wanted to call him Mr., but somehow he didn't like it, so he changed his name, "Brother Zhong, are you the person in charge here?"

Zhong Qin nodded and gave a hum, and took Xi Yan into the reception room on the first floor of the office building with big strides.

"Aqin? Why are you free to come here today? I just want to go out to pick up the new supplies sent by brother Xi, and I just planned to ask brother Guang when he will be back... Who is this?"

Xi Yan said to the person in the reception room: "Ah, hello, I'm the one who called at the door just now."

"Oh! Hello, hello," the man walked up to Xi Yan and shook hands with him, "My surname is Hu, Hu Xue—this is Zhong Qin, the person in charge of our base. Sorry, I'm going to ask When you go out, if you want to know anything, just ask him directly."

Before Xi Yan could finish the word "good", Hu Xue threw down a sentence of "Aqin, I'll go first" with an exclamation mark, and swept out the door like the wind.

Xi Yan sighed for no reason: "... so energetic."

It's like when he was a teenager.

The reception room is simply decorated, but the place is spacious.The office area and the reception area are simply divided, and there is a snack cabinet and a few reclining chairs in the corner.In several places, there are piles of unidentifiable debris, but the house is not chaotic, but gives people a sense of life and comfort that has been inhabited for a long time.

Zhong Qin picked up a work badge in front of his desk and hung it around his neck. The badge had a blue plastic protective case and a white retractable lanyard—it was the social animal smell that Xi Yan was all too familiar with. .

Zhong Qin pointed to a chair: "Sit. What do you want to know?"

In fact, Xi Yan couldn't tell what he wanted to know for a while, so he frowned and rubbed his nose, and said an annoying truth: "I don't know anything, but I want to know everything, so... I don't know where to start."

Xi Yan knew that his remarks were a bit of a joke, but this man with a cold expression was unexpectedly good-tempered. He was silent for a moment, and then he briefly introduced the situation of "Yougui".

Zhong Qin said: "The base is a non-profit organization with relevant licenses and qualifications. We mainly rescue and shelter stray animals. Most of the funds required for expenses come from social charitable donations and fixed donations from investors. The general manager of the base He is not here today, if you want to know about the operation of the base, you need to wait for him to come back. Hu Xue and I are responsible for the work related to volunteers, if you have any questions about this part, you can ask me now."

Xi Yan got a general idea from Zhong Qin's brief words, and based on this, he asked the question he was most interested in: "How can I come here to be a volunteer?"

Zhong Qin didn't answer this question right away, but first suggested: "I can show you the cage, do you want to go and see it first?"

Xi Yan's eyes lit up instantly: "Hmm!"

Zhong Qin stepped out first: "Let's go."

Xi Yan saw the cage house from a distance behind the office building. It was a row of neat and square concrete houses. with green trees.

"Wow, brother," Xi Yan couldn't help but say, "brother! The conditions here are really good!"

Xi Yan's "actual mental age" is still relatively young, so he calls "brother" when he catches people, without any psychological burden.

The voice is also clear and cheerful.

"..." Zhong Qin was stunned by his shout, guessing that he should be in a better mood now than when he was squatting on the side of the road, and replied, "The base used to be in the outskirts of the old city, and it was moved here after it was developed there. The place is big and the conditions are slightly better.”

Xi Yan stared at the environment of the base without blinking, and unconsciously quickened his pace. After Zhong Qin finished speaking, he nodded obediently and hummed twice.

Zhong Qin looked back at Xi Yan.

This man was looking around all the way, like a puppy who was curious here and there, frizzy, walked without looking at the road, and almost bumped his head on his back.

Then the man smiled apologetically, and rubbed his nose with his hand again, but his eyes were shining for some reason, which was completely different from when he was squatting outside just now.

He is familiar with himself, but he has a sense of proportion, and he can stand on the ground with a delicate skeleton and play disco.

Accidentally not annoying.

Zhong Qin slowed down and didn't mind letting this man look around for a while longer.

After visiting the cages one by one, Zhong Qin briefly explained some situations to Xi Yan, including the physical condition of cats and dogs, adoption status, rescue methods, logistics management and so on.

Suddenly, Zhong Qin paused, turned sideways and asked, "What's wrong?"

——Xi Yan didn't keep up with his footsteps, he just stopped outside a cage in a daze.

In the cage, a black and yellow dog was resting its front paws on the iron fence and wagging its tail lively towards Xi Yan.

Xi Yan was stunned: "It..."

Zhong Qin then walked back to Xi Yan, patted the dog's head, and then the other dogs in the same cage came up to get close to Zhong Qin. Obviously, except for the black and yellow dog just now, they didn't give Xi Yan any attention. equal treatment.

So Zhong Qin said with some surprise: "It seems to like you very much."

Xi Yan came back to his senses, and carefully asked: "Is this lively puppy also rescued?"

"Forget it, it's a stray dog ​​that strayed into the campus." Zhong Qin said, "But it's not a puppy, it's almost ten years old."

Xi Yan's heart skipped a beat, he raised his face to look at Zhong Qin, and almost blurted out: "Is it the fifth middle school...?"

Zhong Qin raised his eyebrows lightly: "Yes."

Xi Yan choked for breath for a moment, aroused the "memories" physiologically, subconsciously grasped the somewhat cold fence in the autumn, and murmured: "The puppy at that time... was brought back by you..."

At that time, the dog mother who went to the school to look for children died under the security baton, but the heartless puppy stopped wandering and had a home because of a blessing in disguise.

In misfortune, it is luck again.

Xi Yan immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "Brother, you are my alumni! Do I want to be called senior?"

Xi Yan suddenly felt that he was getting closer to Zhong Qin. It seems that the saying "When a fellow countryman sees a fellow countryman, tears come to his eyes" still has some factual basis.

So Xi Yan told Zhong Qin the year he graduated, but Zhong Qin said, "Same grade as you."

Xi Yan was a little surprised: "Then why don't I seem to be familiar with you?"

Zhong Qin said casually: "I arrive at school late, and I don't go to group activities very much. I have suspended classes in the second and third years of high school. It's normal that it doesn't look familiar."

"You're a scumbag than me!" Xi Yan suspected that this person didn't have many friends in high school, and he was secretly shocked for a while, then frowned and tried to recall, "But I haven't met you in the exam room before." ..."

Zhong Qin's eyes lowered, inexplicably mocking: "Which exam room?"

The elementary school scum searched his memory, rubbed his nose and said in embarrassment: "When you perform supernormally, can you go to the ten-23 exam?"

Zhong Qin nodded, raised his hand and flicked Xi Yan's hand gripping the fence tightly, motioning him to let go, and said lightly, "I'm usually alone."

Xi Yan: "?"

Zhong Qin led the doubtful Xi Yan around for a while, and finally went back outside the gate of the cage, and stopped for a while.

One half of Xi Yan's mind is filled with those cats and dogs who are disabled or sick, and the other half is filled with Zhong Qin who is like a tyrant who cuts scum.

Xi Yan wanted to listen to Zhong Qin for a while, so he asked, "What do the volunteers usually do?"

Zhong Qin said: "Short-term volunteers are mainly students who come to do social activities. They need to do such work as cleaning, transporting and distributing donations, and Hu Xue is in charge. Long-term volunteers have more responsibilities, mainly to maintain The base is operating normally, and I am responsible for participating in rescue when necessary."

Today's weather is fine, Xi Yan looked at the lawn from a distance, with the afterglow of the setting sun reflected in his eyes.

"Brother," Xi Yan called Zhong Qin in a low voice, but he didn't change his words, there was a not difficult to detect hope in his eyes, "Do you still want someone?"

Zhong Qin looked into Xi Yan's eyes and was stunned for a moment.

Then he admitted: "I do have vacancies here."

"That's great!" Xi Yan smiled immediately, "Do you want me?"

Zhong Qin saw that Xi Yan's tone was cheerful, and he didn't seem to be making fun of others, so he responded, "Go back to the office and talk."

After returning to the office.

Zhong Qin asked Xi Yan to sit beside him, then gave him some information about the base, let him read it, and said to himself: "We don't have high requirements for volunteers, and it's better to have social work experience. It doesn't matter if you don't have any. But a certain level of background investigation will be done. In addition, we must emphasize that we are a non-profit organization and have no salary to pay."

"Yeah yum!" Xi Yan nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, "I see! You can investigate me! After the investigation is completed and I pass the test, I will resign immediately. Well, let me think about it. Come on, next month, will you still want me at that time?"

Zhong Qin: "..."

Zhong Qin raised his eyebrows: "I mean, I won't pay you."

"Huh?" Xi Yan didn't know why Zhong Qin repeated it, with a puzzled expression on his face, "I heard clearly."

Zhong Qin didn't know how to answer these words for a while.

He was silent for a while, and then said: "So I suggest that you should use your spare time to do volunteer work."

Xi Yan snorted, then asked cautiously: "You don't care about food?"

"..." Zhong Qin said, "It doesn't matter."

"That's fine." Xi Yan waved his hand and said indifferently, "I worked overtime for three consecutive days until two o'clock in the morning last week. If I want to have extravagant spare time, I can only resign!"

Zhong Qin: "..."

Zhong Qin didn't know whether the person in front of him was serious or joking, but he could feel the ease in his words.

I don't know what kind of unlucky job I did, so that I squatted on the side of the road with red eyes, sniffing like a homeless stray puppy.

So Zhong Qin asked: "Why do you want to be a volunteer?"

The smile on Xi Yan's face faded slightly.

Xi Yan didn't shy away from it, and said frankly: "I picked up a stray puppy before and raised it up. It saved my grandma's life, but I was hit to death."

Zhong Qin was slightly startled, but did not speak.

Xi Yan was silent for a long while, inexplicably feeling that he could confide these things to Zhong Qin who met him for the first time: "I am very grateful to it, and I miss it very much. If I can do something for its brothers and sisters, that would be great." OK."

Zhong Qin looked at Xi Yan's drooping eyelashes for a while, and then pulled out his WeChat QR code business card: "Consider it, then contact me."

More than half a month later.

Xi Yan's main follow-up project has progressed very smoothly, and he won the land on the outskirts of the city soon.

Xi Yan refused the project team's internal celebration banquet on the grounds that he was unwell. After returning to the temporarily rented residence that night, Xi Yan wrote a lengthy transaction report seriously, and then combined this report with his resignation application. Together they were sent to Qiu Ling by email.

And he didn't leave any room for retreat, he also submitted the resignation approval on the company's system, and copied it to his colleagues.

The next day, Qiu Ling summoned Xi Yan into the office the moment he saw the approval information.

Qiu Ling looked serious: "Why do you resign for a good job? Hurry up and revoke it for me, and I'll pretend I didn't see it."

"Did my colleagues see it?" Xi Yan smiled, and said in relief, "Mr. Qiu, this time I fought a good fight for you, and it's a perfect ending."

Qiu Ling stared: "What do you mean fighting a good fight for me? I didn't pay you a salary or something?"

"Hey, I'm just relying on your little salary to live." Xi Yan waved his hand with a smile, "Mr. Qiu, I've thought about it carefully. I actually don't like this job. I want to take a break and do some love. What I did. I have been with you since I graduated, and I have remembered every bit of care and support you have given me. I am very grateful, really. Don’t worry, I will finish the work well, and I promise I won't cause you any trouble. In the future...after leaving the company, I hope to have the opportunity to be friends with you."

Qiu Ling was silent for a moment, and asked, "What do you like to do? Do you want to invest or start a business?"

"I don't even want to," Xi Yan blinked, "I want to go home and raise a dog."

Qiu Ling choked for a moment: "...Are you kidding me, brat?! You might as well say that you want to go home and farm!"

Xi Yan said innocently: "Then my family must also have land?"

In the end, Qiu Ling would like to call Xi Yan a wolf-hearted dog-in the end, he still failed to keep him.

The project bonus for Xi Yan's participation in the sale of a piece of land was paid out together with the performance bonus for this quarter, and it will be credited at the end of June, plus salary settlement after resignation, annual leave conversion, etc...Xi Yan's e-wallet has an extra 5 Yuan money.

His current consumption concept is still at the stage of a high school student. If he moves back home, the 5 yuan will be enough for him to eat for a year or two!

Xi Yan bid farewell to this bald real estate company refreshedly, hummed a popular song with a sense of "age", and took a taxi to "Yougui" that he was thinking of.

Xi Yan took ID cards, household registration books, university graduation certificates, degree certificates, resignation reports, and bank statements for the past three months... all in one breath on Zhong Qin's desk: "Brother! Take me in! "

Zhong Qin: "..."

Well, the stray dog ​​has suddenly turned into a rascal dog, and it's strange to stare at it.

Zhong Qin looked at this righteous laid-off person waiting for employment, and for some reason wanted to laugh.

Young, not low salary, and working in such a place full of smart people... how naive.

Although a bit naive, but surprisingly simple and straightforward.

The look of gearing up to make a career in the base is really like a dog wagging its tail vigorously.

"Brother?" Xi Yan almost stared at Zhong Qin. Seeing Zhong Qin's delay in answering, he begged pitifully, "Brother... I have resigned and I have nowhere to go. You stay here." Let me, transfer me, inspect me, give me an internship... whatever, just keep me."

Zhong Qin raised his eyebrows: "I forced you to resign?"

Xi Yan pursed his lips and lowered his head.

Zhong Qin seemed to see the dog's tail not moving, and the dog's ears drooping.

After a while, Zhong Qin pointed to the vacant seat beside him and said, "Sit here from now on."

Xi Yan was taken aback for a moment, then raised his head instantly, his originally beautiful eyes were immediately stained with a pleasant smile.

Zhong Qin sighed slightly imperceptibly, he couldn't bear this kind of rambunctious rascal.

In particular, this rambunctious dog is sleek and handsome.

Zhong Qinshun opened the bench next to him and let the handsome dog sit down: "The general manager of the base is Yue Guang, and the investor is Tang Xi..."

……

In the small attic of the "other companion".

Xi Yan rubbed his blurry eyes, turned over and slipped into Zhong Qin's arms, rubbing against him: "Ah Qin, turn off the alarm clock..."

Zhong Qin turned off the alarm clock, then returned to rubbing Xi Yan's hair.

When Xi Yan woke up from sleepiness, he yawned and said lazily, "I just had a dream..."

Zhong Qin was not in a hurry to get up, he hugged Xi Yan's waist loosely, pressed his fingers on Xi Yan's stomach, and asked, "Get rich?"

"No," Xi Yan pouted, "I dreamed that I was laid off and waiting for a job."

Zhong Qin: "..."

Xi Yan's eyelashes trembled, and he put his eyes on Zhong Qin's neck again, and said in a daze, "But I met a good boss, and he took me in again."

Zhong Qin heard Xi Yan slurring his words: "It seems that people who should meet will always meet."

Today is the day when the third graders of the fifth middle school go back to school to take graduation photos.

Xi Yan dragged Zhong Qin to stay on the bed with him for a while, and the two started from "the other partner" and went to school together.

Based on the hard work in the first and second years of high school, Xi Yan was successfully assigned to class [-] in the third year of high school, and got his wish and left a graduation photo standing side by side with Zhong Qin in the school history of No. [-] Middle School.

Someone said: "Let's go! Let's go to Lizhi Building like the group of seniors before, and enjoy the envy of the juniors!"

Xi Yan loves to join in this kind of fun, so he happily followed, and Zhong Qin followed behind him.

Xi Yan said: "Let's go to the classroom of the first year of high school."

Li Wenrui snapped his fingers, and Ding Xuan agreed in unison: "Where the dream begins!"

Passing under the plaque of "Benevolence, Courtesy and Wisdom", a group of wild dogs happily rushed into the courtyard of Lizhi Building.

The little students in the classroom on the first floor seemed to dislike this group of high school seniors who came to harm others after they were liberated. While pulling up the blinds angrily, they sang loudly: "Get up! People who don't want to be slaves!"

Xi Yan laughed with everyone crookedly, and couldn't help raising his head to glance at the independent staircase.

The tall osmanthus tree next to the stairs has luxuriant branches and leaves, and the crown of the tree seems to be able to cover the stars and wear the moon, and it can also hold the bright sunlight.

Everyone went up the stairs.

Xi Yan stopped at the back door of Class [-], Senior High, and then turned to look at the classroom of Class [-], Senior High opposite.

After watching for a while, Xi Yan raised his head nostalgicly again, and looked at the classroom of Class 22 upstairs.

He remembered that Zhong Qin was sitting in the classroom as if he was indifferent to everyone.

I remember one time, when there was no one in the classroom, he sat on Zhong Qin's front desk, Zhong Qin caught off guard and leaned over to kiss him.He propped his elbows on Zhong Qin's desk, and grabbed Zhong Qin's school uniform collar to bluff.

Finally, he lowered his head in embarrassment.

I also remember that earlier, he snatched Liu Zhao's beloved paper airplane, and the paper airplane carried a corner of youth, gliding melodiously in the bright sky.

The graduation ceremony is also a coming-of-age ceremony prepared by the Fifth Middle School for graduates.

Soon, this group of young students will fade away their youthful faces and set sail again.

——Some will become lakes, and some will run to the sea.

Some people will never meet again, and some people's names may be forgotten.

But at this moment, everyone wished their classmates a bright future from the bottom of their hearts.

The 20 days passed quickly, and the results of the college entrance examination were announced.

In "Another Companion", Zhong Qin walked lightly to Xi Yan's side, and put his freshly washed hands on the back of Xi Yan's neck.

Xi Yan was startled, and immediately chased and fought Zhong Qin amidst the barking of dogs: "You are the only one who is still the champion of the province! You are not naive! Come here! Let me be confused..."

Fortunately, there is a pair of scorching sun-like teenagers who have to leave together forever.

The university admission notice is uniformly sent to the mail room at the gate of the school, and students only need to collect it by themselves within the specified time limit.

Xi Yan picked a Saturday and went to school with Zhong Qin. Of course, he also made an appointment with Ding Xuan and Li Wenrui and his classmates.

After receiving the admission notice in the mail room, you need to sign the confirmation form.

Zhong Qin wrote it for Xi Yan who was too lazy to write, and Xi Yan lay beside Zhong Qin and leaned over to read it.

On the confirmation form, there are two lines above and below, which read:

"A major, computer science, Chung Chin"

"A City University of Agriculture and Forestry, Veterinary Medicine, Xi Yan"

Li Wenrui and the others made a fuss behind the scenes and asked, "Xi Baba, Brother Gou, do we still have to go to the senior three classroom?"

Zhong Qin looked at Xi Yan.

Xi Yan smiled: "How many times have you watched it? Keep some emotions and miss it next time. Let's go."

The century-old famous school stands in the alleys of the city, solemn and quiet.

The spirit of the numerous students and the famous school has been inherited in one continuous line and is endless.

The teenagers stood side by side at the school gate, and the envelopes containing the admission notices in their hands were dazzling bright red, just like their youth and dreams.

It seems that when people grow up, a wall will be built outside "youth". People always struggle to hold the edge of the wall, put their feet up, and look inside eagerly.

Zhong Qin is the clear window that Xi Yan left on that wall.