as pure as a radish

Back at my desk, I drank both cans of coffee in one gulp.The sweet and slightly bitter liquid slid down my throat, my body revived, and I could fight for a whole day again.

Before the lunch break, the manager walked to the middle of our workstations and announced, "This year's team building will continue as usual, and the time will be next month..."

I heard a familiar date, the same date as the neighbor's daughter's wedding.I was immediately relieved. I could refuse to participate in the company team building in the name of participating in a friend's wedding, and I could refuse to participate in the wedding in the name of participating in the company's team building.It is rare to encounter such a good thing that kills two birds with one stone, thank God for his blessing.

"Director Li will make a list of those who will and will not go, and give it to me before get off work. It stands to reason..." The manager walked to my desk, "If the interns want to go, the company will not bear the cost."

I don’t want to go either, I thought to myself.

"But it's not expensive at your own expense. You should think about it carefully." The manager said the second half of the sentence very seriously.

After the manager left, everyone was surprisingly quiet. After a while, some people left their seats to go to lunch. Unlike before, everyone left alone, not in groups.

I will not participate in any activities until it is clearly told that I will be expelled if I don't participate in group activities. I don't want to change the fact that I don't fit in.So I told my old competitor without hesitation: the timing was unlucky, my relative got married that day and couldn't go.

She nodded absently and waved me away.

I was the one who didn't sleep all night. Why is it that I'm the only one who is so energetic in the whole office?

I worked all afternoon huffing and puffing. At five or six o'clock, my body was a little bit unsupported, and occasionally I would faint for half a second when I raised my head.So when it was time to get off work, I picked up my bag and left, in case anyone came to trouble me again.When I entered the elevator, I breathed a sigh of relief, no one stopped me, luckily.

In order to avoid unexpected complications, I also rushed frantically when I got out of the elevator.Squeezed into the subway car, finally able to rest.I tugged on the armrest, panting in relief.

Suddenly, I realized the problem.I hurriedly took out the phone that I had muted, but it was too late, Liu Ziyun's missed call lay quietly on the screen.I called back, the phone connected, and I was even more impatient, "I accidentally forgot to go with you, really forgot, not making excuses or something, it disappeared from my mind inexplicably, I got off work I never thought of that…”

Liu Ziyun: "Fool~"

me?"

"Where are you now?" Liu Ziyun's voice still sounded relaxed.

She is not angry?I think should not be.I secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "I was in the subway... I just remembered when I got in..."

Liu Ziyun: "What's the next stop?"

I looked up at the road map, and honestly reported the name of the station, "But... it seems a little troublesome if we meet again... It's a traffic jam around here, and I doubt you can even drive on this road."

"I walk to find you?"

"Then I'll walk to find you?"

We blurted out at the same time.

The carriage announcement sounded, and the next stop was coming soon. I let go of the armrest and moved towards the exit recklessly.But when I got to the exit, I suddenly retreated.The door of the carriage opened, and the people who followed me found that I did not get out of the car, and many of them clicked their tongues.

"Didn't get out of the car?" After I didn't speak for a long time, Liu Ziyun had already noticed something.

"...How about next time?" I said hesitantly.

Liu Ziyun didn't speak for a moment, and then her sweet voice came to my ears, "That's fine."

We politely hung up on each other.The voice of her saying goodbye is still lingering in my mind. From her dragging tone and hesitation, I seem to feel her emotions.She kind of misses me, doesn't she?

In the evening, I sat by the open window and drank vegetable juice.I still don't have much appetite, and I want to clean up my physical and psychological garbage, so I bought a handful of vegetables and squeezed the juice to drink.

The breeze was blowing lightly, no one was moving around downstairs, and the world was quiet.I was distracted while drinking, and stood on the table in a daze.

"Wow... ah..." Not long after I let go, the harsh and noisy voices of children playing came rushing towards my face.

I was suddenly very irritable, and immediately got up and closed the window.As soon as I grabbed the handle of the window, I suddenly thought of Wen Yue, and glanced at her window, she was also standing by the window!Why didn't this man pull the curtains today? !I just wanted to take a casual look at what was going on with her. I didn't want to look at each other face to face through the window like this.

Fortunately, at this distance, we can't see each other's expressions, so I don't care about her anymore.After closing the window, I moved to the side, trying not to expose myself to the window.

By the way, what are the kids downstairs yelling about?Watch them dance in a circle.I had nothing else to do right now so I took the binoculars to see what they were doing.

The telescope first took a picture of a little boy, about seven or eight years old, waving his arms and bouncing around, as if he was full of pride in something.I looked next to him, the little boy was squatting on the ground, his eyes were staring at somewhere on the ground.I moved the binoculars along his gaze.

sky!On the ground were the dead bodies of three birds, one large, two small.The feathers had been plucked to pieces, and the big bird's head had been smashed so flat that it was almost embedded in the ground, bloody and bloody, while the belly of the two young birds had a bamboo skewer inserted into each of them.

Putting down the binoculars, I can still see a few children jumping.If you open the windows to listen to their laughter, shouts, or even face their swollen facial features, the picture must be extremely vivid.I have no intention of watching the caper after a kill, though.

Not long after, a familiar figure appeared at the entrance and exit of the low building.Wen Yue came out from there and walked towards the group of children. I saw that she seemed to say something, and then the group of children ran away in a swarm.

Then, Wen Yue returned to the "crime scene", bent down, took out a tissue and spread it on the ground.

I thought about it, and went downstairs.Go touch it, and if she hasn't done the aftermath by the time I get there, I can lend a hand.

Passing through the gap, I poked my head out, and Wen Yue was still there.I walked over to meet her back, and then squatted down beside her.

She glanced at me, "You saw that too?" She said as she took away the three small bodies wrapped in paper towels.

"Wait." I opened the paper towel she used to wrap the corpse, and she broke the bamboo stick in the baby bird's abdomen, but it didn't bleed. "Is that how you're going to bury them?"

"Otherwise?" she said coldly.

"Can we not have these traces of humans when we die?" I spotted the bamboo stick head protruding slightly from the belly of one of the young birds, and before Wenyue realized what I was going to do, I pinched it. Tighten the head of the bamboo stick, and pull it out with great force.The bamboo stick was wrapped in flesh and blood and left the baby bird's body, and I could still hear the stabbing sound.

She stared at me with wide eyes.I repeated the action on another bird.

"You..." Her voice was weaker than ever.

"Let's go. Pick a good place." Holding two bloody bamboo sticks in my hand, I took a step forward.

It took her a while to follow.We didn't talk until they were buried.After that, we naturally had to go back to our respective homes.

At a short distance along the same road, I asked, "Is that pen really yours?"

"Or it's yours?" she replied.

"If it's yours, you can prove it's yours. For example, where did you buy it, and did you keep the receipt? Or must there be an online shopping record? If you didn't buy it, but someone else gave it to you, you can say who gave it to you. ’ I wondered where she got it.

"Why do you care so much about a pen?" She stopped suddenly and turned her head to stare at me.

I felt guilty all of a sudden, "And why didn't you deny our relationship last time?" I rambled about other topics.

She sighed, "The world is not as safe as you thought, please be careful in the future, and don't get involved with anyone if you have nothing to do."

"You told me?" I turned to her, "What about you? A woman was hanging out with them..."

She frowned, turned back to look forward, and said with an understatement but also with some kind of persistence, "Don't judge the world you don't understand at will."

"There's nothing I don't understand, at most I'm not familiar with it." I replied to her.

"Let's go." She quickened her pace and separated from me. I don't know if she heard my last sentence.