Ode to Joy is for you

"Mom, I have dinner today, and I won't go back for dinner tonight." Tang Gong called his mother and drove to the city center.

Tang Gong grew up in a teacher's college since he was a child, and he also had a few good friends who grew up with him, but now he is in different places, so he finally came back, so he naturally wanted to connect with everyone.

There are not many people still living in the teacher's compound. The houses here are not new. They are two-story single-family houses with mediocre infrastructure. Many people choose to move to the newly built community. Most of the rest It is those old professors who have feelings for this place. Of course, Tang’s mother is one of them. She has lived here since she married Tang’s father. The two have stumbled for 15 years. This old house carries too many memories. The attachment to this place is difficult for outsiders to understand.

Of course, Tang Gong also respected Tang's mother's decision. He bought a house in Suzhou and rented it out temporarily.

Driving to the center of Wuxi, there are new buildings and shopping malls everywhere along the way. Sunan has developed rapidly in recent years.On the edge of the large shopping mall in the center of Wuxi, Tang Gong parked his car and walked into "many".It's not to help his own business, but his good friend is his franchisee.

"Yanzi, how is business?" He sat on the bar counter as soon as he came in, talking to his good brother.And Liang Yihuan, who was busy in the open kitchen, saw his old friend, smiled and stretched half of his body to bump into Tang Gong, "Haha, Xiaoduo, you are here. Thanks to you, it's not bad!"

Tang Gong's nickname is Duoduo, and those who have a good relationship with him call him Xiaoduo.

This "many" store was the first in Wuxi, and there were similar stores later, but many of them were well-known in the Yangtze River Delta, and Liang Yihuan also made a lot of money through this shareholder style.

Liang Yihuan is from Wuxi. His father and Tang's father are colleagues. They are elementary school classmates. Li looks pitiful, and he has been covering him up in the name of big brother.In fact, he has been relying on Tang Gong to cover him, tutoring him when he was in school, and trying to make a living for him after graduation. The friendship between the two is self-evident.

Liang Yihuan went to an average school and major. After graduation, he searched for a job for a long time, but he couldn't find any job he wanted. In the end, under the instigation of Tang Gong, he opened this "many" company. We have settled down, and now we are preparing to open a third store in Wuxi.

"How are you doing recently? Are you going back to the United States to get drunk?" Liang Yi said with a smile, and put a cup of green tea with milk cap in front of him. "Are you going to follow us to cultivate your body? I want to be your child's godfather." Liang Yihuan is two years older than Tang Gong, and is 27 this year.

"Come on, you're not married yet, I'm still early." Tang Gong took a sip of the tea, covered his mouth with thick milk, and licked it with his tongue, "It tastes good, it seems to be I got my seven-point true biography, no wonder the business is so good."

"Come on, it's still seven points. It's been a long time since you did it. Maybe you're not as good at it as I am now." He took two boxes of cold chicken feet and packed them up for the delivery guy. Now the online business is pretty good. After the takeaway app, there will be fewer people queuing up in their stores, but there will be more deliveries.

"What about the others, why are they still missing?" Tang Gong asked.

This time it was a small gathering, just the two of them, plus Hou Jie, who was the sales manager of the real estate next door, and Meng Xiao, who lived in the real estate next door.

"Probably not that fast. Monkey called just now and said he would not be able to leave until [-] o'clock after work. Their boss is going on inspections today, so they can't leave on errands. Meng Xiao is probably asleep. That dead house doesn't stay up until the wee hours of the morning every day." , let’s pack the vegetables and go directly to Meng Xiao’s place later, and don’t go out and wander around.” These years, everyone has gone their separate ways, and it’s not easy to get together once. Nature is still there.

"That's all right, I'll go pack it, you go pick up the monkey, and we'll meet up at Meng Xiao's house later." Tang Gong went out unsteadily.He is very familiar with this mall, they have met here several times.

This is the central area of ​​Wuxi. Tang Gong wandered around on the fourth floor of the shopping mall. When he saw a store with good business, he walked over to look at the menu. Alas, what a mistake. good.

A middle-aged woman was walking towards her, looking around and walking in a hurry. As soon as Tang Gong turned a corner, they bumped into each other, and all the freshly packed meals in his hand were scattered.

"Are you okay? I'm sorry, little brother," the woman hurriedly stopped, took out a handkerchief from her bag and handed it to Tang Gong, "Wipe it quickly, isn't it burnt?"

"Auntie, it's okay, I'll just deal with it myself." Seeing that the woman's flustered expression didn't seem to be intentional, and he was also wrong in looking around just now, Tang Gong said embarrassingly: "It's me I didn't look at the road, it's okay, I can handle it myself, if you have something to do, you can go first."

"I'm fine, I just made an appointment with an old classmate, and I was looking for her just now." She saw that the cleaning staff of the mall had come over, and the child she bumped into was fine, so she said a little embarrassedly: " I'm sorry, little brother, look, how about I pay the dry cleaning fee for this clothes." Then he started to take out the wallet from the bag, ready to give the money.

Tang Gong refused with some amusement: "Auntie, there's no need to do this. It's okay. I have something to do, so I'll go first. Just be careful when you walk." It wasn't that he was short of these few dollars, However, the aunt's attitude was quite good, so she didn't want to pester her anymore, and turned around to go in the other direction. Fortunately, she spilled it, and it didn't look very tasty.

The woman was a little embarrassed to see him leaving quickly, but the classmate over there was already waving to her, so she had no choice but to go where she was.

Tang Gong, carrying a large bag of food, came to Meng Xiao's house. After knocking on the door and entering, he saw Meng Xiao lying dead on the sofa. He took the things to the kitchen on his own, and poured a glass of water after packing. , walked out, "Have you not slept for a few days? How did you do this?"

Meng Xiao is a programmer. In addition to coding, he codes every day. It is common for him to stay up all night. "I was early last night, and I went to bed at two o'clock. The main reason was that I didn't have much inspiration last night, and I felt sleepy while doing it, so I had to go to bed."

"My God, two o'clock is still early. You are coding with your life, and you are not afraid of dying young?" Tang Gong was stunned. Although he often heard Liang Yihuan talk about Meng Xiao's abnormal schedule, he did not Thinking of how abnormal it is, "How much money can you earn a month?" Is it worth working so hard?

Meng Xiao jerked his head upright, and sat up, "It's not much good, I'm thinking about whether to change my job. How about I go to Shanghai to join you?" He has been in this small company for three years. , Money was earned, but it was so hard, he was almost in the Mediterranean.

"Okay, I welcome you, but I'm not familiar with this area, so I can't help you. At most, I can provide you with a place to live." Tang Gong thought for a while, "Just the house I had in Fudan before. , haven’t rented it out yet, if you want to go to Shanghai, I can live there for you, there seems to be a company similar to yours in that area.”

"If you look for me again, you must go to a big company. I have a classmate who is as professional as me. He went to Sogou. His monthly salary is twice as much as mine. I just thought about it for a long time. At the beginning of this year, my dad also told me He wants me to go back to take over his class, and if you say it’s just me, it’s definitely not going to work.”

Meng Xiao's father opened an auto repair shop, and the business was decent. All he wanted was for his son to go back and inherit the family business.

"It's fine to pick up your father's shift, but it's good if you go to Shanghai. I also have several shops there, at least eating is not a problem." The four of them grew up wearing the same pair of pants. We all know each other. When I was young, I often slept in the same bed and ate at the same dining table. Tang Gong's parents were busy, so they were often placed in Meng Xiao's foster care.

"Hey, tell me, I'm already 27, so I just came to change jobs, isn't it a bit late." Meng Xiao picked up the water glass and poured it up. "In our line of work, what we eat is youth food."

"That's my water..." Tang Gong was speechless to this guy.

Meng Xiao rolled his eyes and waved his hand, "What kind of friendship do we care about? Hurry up and take out the food you just brought back, I'm starving to death, I ate instant noodles last night, and today I still don't know what to eat." I haven't eaten yet." He is a bit tired after being so busy every day, especially recently, his hair is falling out badly, and he is actually nervous in his heart, what if he loses all his hair.

Tang Gong went into the kitchen to process the food in the microwave, and brought it to the dining table, "Come here and eat first, I'll call Huanzi, why are they so ink-stained?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the door opened, "Here I come!" Hou Jie hurried into the room and went straight to the air conditioner, "I'm so hot, the weather is really abnormal, it's autumn, and it's still so hot." He was wearing a suit, his hair on his forehead was already soaked, his smiling face was pink and tender, and he looked smaller than Tang Gong.This is the pain of the baby face, even though he is already running three, he still looks like a stupid kid.

"I brought you chicken wings, as well as chicken feet and duck wings. Be generous." Liang Yihuan took out the packing box and opened it. There was a hot and sour smell mixed with the aroma of garlic, which made it very appetizing.

Meng Xiao pulled the chicken feet and put them in front of him, "It's still generous, why don't you bring a few boxes to honor me, die!" He angrily inserted a chicken wing with a fork, the chicken wings wrapped in yellow flour flour , the juice will come out once you bite, the crispy shell, tender meat, delicious in the world!

"I announce that I'm going to Shanghai to join Xiaoduo!"

The author has something to say: There are not many manuscripts saved, so I can only update them every other day, thank you for your understanding!