Lin Feng sat in a swivel chair in the corridor in the south row of the general office, looking sideways at the window on the south side, unconsciously kneading the paper cup that had drunk the dried water in his hand.
This is one of the office rooms of an office building in the bustling city center, divided into two areas by a glass partition, the window is the office of the boss Pang Zong, and the larger space by the door has placed two rows of simple desks with corners in the north and south, a total of 6 workstations, all facing the west corridor.
Mr. Pang sat facing east in the boss's chair, constantly talking on the phone, one would be Chinese-style English, the other would be Mandarin with accents, and occasionally mixed with the local dialect that Lin Feng was familiar with. The sunlight passed through the glass, directly on Pang Zong's glasses, glowing, and he could not see his expression clearly.
The central air conditioner was so air-conditioned that the hostess Lan Xin had to put a thin coat over the dress, and she took a roll of tissue from the closet and walked to the bathroom, muttering in her mouth: It's as fast as eating.
Lin Feng watched Lan Xin walk around in front of him without squinting, just like he was air, his heart was cold and hot, but he was anxious and angry when he asked someone to do things, and he tried to pile up a peaceful and slightly humble expression.
Lin Feng had been sitting for almost two hours, the first glass of water was poured from the water dispenser, although he was still a little thirsty, but he had no desire to drink again, and he did not want to be annoyed because of the small matter of drinking water. The paper cup spun around in his hand, almost crushed by him. He looked up at the wall clock on the wall, it was already 11:30, and without opening his mouth, the morning's wait was wasted again.
Lin Feng glanced at Pang Zong's last phone call, and the next phone call was still in the gap between the keys: "Dexing, things have reached this point, no matter what, you have to help this, the old classmate begs you."
The pang general manager named Dexing stopped pressing the button with his right hand, stood on the table with his left elbow, and the phone handle held up in his left hand did not fall, just blocking half of his face, he kept this posture motionless, and after a few seconds of stalemate, he said in a flat tone: "Wait a minute, my lawyer is still watching, if the lawyer thinks there is no problem, I will stamp and sign."
"Pang Dexing, I am not a proper legal person, who loves to be who, without my consent you will stamp?!" Lan Xin, who was playing with flowers and plants in the corridor, shouted menacingly.
Lin Feng understood that all of Lan Xin's anger was directed at him, but he didn't want to ignore her. He stood up, turned his chair in the normal direction, and said:
"Dexing, think for yourself, if you hadn't promised to be happy, I wouldn't have signed a contract with the Japanese side, and at this time you regret it again, a little unauthentic, I am not without consulting a lawyer, this matter has no impact on your company, not only can not leave a bad record, really to the day of listing, you will be more beneficial to acquire more companies."
After Lin Feng finished speaking, he turned around and walked towards the door, and by the way, he "snapped" the paper cup and threw it into the garbage basket next to the door.
Pang Dexing is a classmate of Lin Feng's high school and a good brother.
In the second year of high school, Dexing transferred to Lin Feng's class, and the two of them had close seats in class, and when they returned to the dormitory to eat, they also partnered up, often partnering to set up a "fine dish" that the teacher ate. At that time, they could only go home once a month in school, the canteen food was very poor, and the students were either skinned potato pieces or stewed cabbage in water, and the quality of the teacher's "fine dishes" was slightly better, at least the potatoes were peeled, and occasionally one or two pieces of fat meat could be eaten inside.
The student's coarse dish costs two cents a portion, each person eats half a portion, only one dime, the teacher's fine dish four cents a piece, half a portion costs two cents. Students can't afford to eat, and occasionally they team up to beat a small dish. Lin Feng doesn't eat meat, so the boys are rushing to partner with him, just so that they can eat one or two pieces of fat meat alone.
Because they do not eat meat, the village is close to the sea, Lin Feng's family will send a lunch box full of scallop meat or scallop pillar eggs every week, dexing is still as a partner, unceremoniously follow the big meal. Sometimes Lin Feng sent his family to the school gate, and when he came back, the dishes in the lunch box were often eaten to the bottom. Lin Feng occasionally won a scholarship in the exam, and Dexing would drag Lin Feng to the school gate and invite him to eat a bowl of meat noodles.
Lin Feng felt in his heart that the relationship with Dexing was really good, and he could be regarded as a good brother who "touched a spoon in a pot".
After graduating from college, Lin Feng first settled down in the small town and did an ordinary accounting job. Lin Feng rented a dilapidated house, the floor of the room is still earthy, uneven, often walking on the air or on the tip of the toe, if you do not pay attention will be frightened. On either side of the room were two 90-centimeter-wide iron beds, and in the middle were an elderly wrecker desk with drawers half-stretched out.
Lin Feng's girlfriend is his high school classmate, and he and Dexing are naturally classmates. The girlfriend works in another small town, the rest time is not fixed, occasionally take a minibus to see Lin Feng after work at night, and live in Lin Feng's broken rental house at night.
Dexing did not find a suitable job for a few months after graduation, staying at home, the villagers inevitably asked and asked with concern, he felt humiliated, and in order to participate in the talent exchange meeting and interview in various units, he often went to Lin Feng to stay, and it was common to live with Lin Feng and his girlfriend.
In the past few years, Lin Feng and his girlfriend have plans to get married, so the girlfriend quit her job and came to Lin Feng's side to prepare for marriage while looking for a job. At this time, Dexing had not yet found a suitable unit, and lived in Lin Feng for half a month. During the day they were busy with their own affairs, and at night they lived in that small house, using a small electric stove to cook some food and cook.
Are just graduated poor students, three people only Lin Feng has a meager salary, living expenses naturally rely on Lin Feng, sometimes Lin Feng's girlfriend is busy stir-frying, will take out a few dollars for Dexing to go out to buy steamed buns, Dexing has never refused to take money.
Next to the pillow of the single iron bed where Dexing slept, there was a small wooden box with a lock, which Dexing brought from home, Lin Feng and his girlfriend always felt that it was nothing more than documents and cash and other things that needed to be kept well, after all, the broken door of this rental house could be kicked and broken with a single foot. Until one day, when Dexing was lying on the bed against the quilt to eat a snack, he was touched by Lin Feng's girlfriend who returned to the house halfway.
It was a very high-end snack in the countryside of that era, similar to the current cake, only made when the married girl first returned to the door, using flour, eggs, sugar and peanut oil and noodles, without mixing a drop of water, the noodles were mixed and kneaded into egg-sized dough, flattened, and slowly baked on a fine fire. The finished product is golden in color, fragrant and sweet, and it is not easy to break.
When Dexing saw Lin Feng's girlfriend enter the house, he quickly closed the lid of the wooden box with his hand, held up the cake in his hand, and said curtly: "Taste it, when I come out of home, my mother will carry it for me."
Lin Feng's girlfriend smiled: You eat, I am in a hurry to go out." After saying that, he casually took something and fled the house, as if he had offended Dexing and seen something she shouldn't have seen.
After a period of time, Dexing and Lin Feng's girlfriends both found jobs, Dexing went to work on the other side of the town, Lin Feng and his girlfriend also re-rented the building, and returned to their hometown to simply do the wedding.
Lin Feng's new home is a second-floor room shared with another high school classmate, the classmate lives in a smaller room, which has two single wooden beds and a desk, and Lin Feng and his wife live in another larger room, which is the double bed they bought for marriage and a simple dining table that was originally in the room.
When Dexing is fine, he will come to Lin Feng at night, he will not leave after eating, the classmate next door does not like Dexing, he thinks that Dexing does not look at the fire when he eats and does things, he enters the house and closes the door and locks it, and does not allow Dexing to go to the idle bed in his house to sleep. Lin Feng looked at his wife every time, embarrassed. They were all classmates in the same class, and Lin Feng's wife was not good at changing her face, so she went to the side of the bed and pretended to sleep. Dexing took off the wooden door of the room with a hippie smile, spread it on the floor next to the bed, begged for a blanket, and fell asleep. The life of three people living together still plays out from time to time.
After another year, the house that Lin Feng and his wife bought was finally simply renovated, and it was a fourth floor. After moving to a new home, Lin Feng beckoned a group of classmates to eat a big meal at home, which was a celebration, and Dexing was naturally one of them.
At that time, Dexing already had a girlfriend, who was introduced by a colleague of Lin Feng's wife, a local girl who was slightly a year or two older than him, and at that time, twenty-seven or eight years old was already considered to be older. She was not good-looking, long-faced, skeletal, and masculine; but she was capable, working part-time, running a supermarket, and renting a taxi, and seemed to be able to do everything. Dexingtu she is capable, the girl looks at dexing eyebrows clear eye show, is still a college student. Both sides also take what they need.
When Dexing ate and drank at Lin Feng's house, he said that he also wanted to buy a house and get married. Lin Feng said: "I heard that the second floor has not been sold, it was kept by the developer at the beginning, you look for someone to ask, we live up and down the stairs neighbors, you no longer need to sleep in my house."
Dexing's girlfriend was really magical, looking for an acquaintance to introduce, bought the second floor, and it was lower than Lin Feng's original price.
During the renovation of the house, Lin Feng's wife was pregnant and waiting for delivery at home, Dexing used Lin Feng's family as a canteen, fortunately, he did not pick and choose, no matter what he did, even if it was just to cook a bubble noodle and beat a poached egg, he ate it with relish, and he could also change a more appropriate word - gobble- gobble.
When the wedding ceremony was held in Dexing, the mother-in-law died less than a year ago, and according to local customs, the daughter could not marry from her own family when she married. So Dexing found Lin Feng and asked if he could let his wife marry from Lin Feng's house, saying that even renting a wedding car could be saved by leaving a building. Lin Feng naturally accepted it.
On the day of Dexing's wedding, Lin Feng and his wife cleaned the simple little home spotlessly, and hung up the flowers in a conspicuous position at the entrance, just like the mother's family marrying a girlfriend. Lin Feng's wife joked that I didn't have this treatment when I got married.
On the second night of the wedding, Dexing went up to the fourth floor and said that his wife was suspicious of the wedding and asked to travel to Beijing, but he only had 500 yuan on hand and wanted to borrow 1,000 yuan from Feng. Lin Feng called his wife to open the bedroom drawer to see how much money there was at home, when he learned that there was a total of 1534 yuan, he took 1500 yuan to Dexing, saying that the poor family was rich, bring more, we will not be hungry at home.
Dexing took his wife to travel beautifully, this 1500 yuan, until a few years later, he changed to a big house and bought a car without mentioning. As for renting a car together to buy a dining table for a chair, Dexing has always only paid for his furniture.
Dexing's wife is Lanxin, a legal person of Pang's head office.
Although Lan Xin was introduced by herself and lived upstairs and downstairs, Lin Feng's wife was not very familiar with her. Lin Feng's wife is gentle and quiet, smiling with everyone, blue heart is cold, and in front of several poor students, she is even more proud. The two of them looked at each other and were not people on the same road.
Blue Heart goes to work far away, leaves early and returns late, and goes to the supermarket to open for business after work. Her supermarket runs in the red light district, and there are very few customers during the day, so she simply closes the door during the day and takes turns with her sister at night, providing cigarettes, drinks, snacks and daily necessities to the men and women who are having fun at night. In the past few years, Lin Feng's wife has only a few opportunities to meet with Lan Xin.
When Lin Feng's wife took the children downstairs to play after work, she could occasionally hear some news about Blue Heart. For example, Lan Xin's reputation in the unit is not very good, and the bicycle is often broken by colleagues, such as her relationship with the boss is not clear.
Once, lin Feng's wife had just come downstairs, and was stopped by an aunt in the next corridor: "I heard about it?" This afternoon, the mother of the young classmate cried and went back to her hometown, and there was no personal delivery, and the old mother was strange and pitiful, so it was easy to come. ”
What's going on? Lin Feng's wife did not ask the exit, and the aunt continued: "I heard that XiaoLan slapped her classmates in front of her mother-in-law, which mother-in-law can stand this?" Alas, it is said that the daughter-in-law has become a mother-in-law for many years, and in this society, when the mother-in-law has something good, she has begun to eat the daughter-in-law's anger again! ”
Dexing's mother is also a powerful role in the countryside, will give people a pulse to call the soul, both capable and strong, at home to say one thing or the other. After Dexing's father died of illness, she was not willing to live worse than other families, in addition to being invited by the villagers to see the "disease", she also had to work on those acres of land early and greedily, often took lunch to work in the field, if she could not see at night, she would hate to live in the field. Dexing's sister worked with such a strong mother and suffered a lot. In the year before the Dexing college entrance examination, after a day of high-intensity farm work, my sister was scolded by her mother for some reason, and she could not think of it for a while, and drank pesticides to commit suicide.
It was such a powerful mother-in-law who was still defeated in front of Lan Xin. Occasionally encountered at the bottom of the building, Lan Xin always had a lofty tone:
"I don't care about her family's set of Taoist children, Chinese New Year's Eve it's too cold in my hometown at night, I call someone from the city to drive to pick me up, pick up the child and leave."
"I've been married for a few years, and I haven't spent a penny on Pound."
"What, Pound has the ability?! A few days ago, a shipment of cargo lost another 100,000 yuan. ”
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At that time, when foreign trade was booming, large and small trading companies sprung up, and Dexing, who studied foreign trade English, also resigned and rented a ten-square-meter office to start trading. In the first two years, Dexing did suffer a lot, and it is said that he was reluctant to go out to eat at noon, and always used a pack of calcium milk biscuits to beat his stomach. The pressure of a man to support his family, coupled with the sneering irony of The Blue Heart, with his feet to think, Dexing's life will not be much better.
Later, I heard that the time when the mother cried and walked, it was when Lan Xin complained at home that Dexing had no ability, and the mother-in-law was not convinced, and said: My son is a college student, can he still be smaller than you? Lan Xin let Dexing admit that he really did not earn money, Dexing refused, glanced at Lan Xin, and Lan Xin was angry and slapped.
After several years of dormancy and experience, Dexing's foreign trade undertakings have finally embarked on a smooth road, he bought a car, moved a large house, and also bought dozens of acres of land, ready to build a factory. Dexing's defensiveness is very strong, not allowing others to meddle in the core business, and all customers are firmly in their own hands. Every time a new employee is recruited, he will resign after a few months, one is that he cannot learn the business, and the other is that he is always picky by the boss lady.
Dexing's hands are not big, the business has not been able to grow, and it is even worse than 18,000 miles away from the listing. (To be continued)