Shape

Chapter 32

"Cheers—" A group of young people toasted around the round table.The boss placed a large plate of sharp spicy crayfish in the center of the table.Seven or eight people ate with their eyes shining, and each of them screamed because of the spicy food.

Lu Xin looked at the few edamame shells in front of Li Yichu, stuck out his tongue and asked him, "Why don't you eat crayfish?"

Li Yichu: "I'll eat some pan-fried dumplings first. I haven't eaten for a day, and my stomach is flat."

Xiao Fang, who was sitting on Li Yichu's right hand, smiled and said, "Brother Li, are you very nervous today? I didn't see you eat the lunch box at noon."

Li Yichu smiled: "I've never signed such a big contract before, of course I'm nervous."

Lu Xin watched him raise his eyebrows and smiled, thinking that Shanghai is really the right place.

After eating something, Li Yichu went to another table to toast, exchanged some pleasantries with everyone before returning to his seat, and opened his stomach to eat.

Full of wine and food, everyone, you support me and I take yours to the roadside to take a taxi. Li Yichu and his male colleagues sent a few girls into the taxi, and then stopped a car to go back to his home.

Li Yichu leaned on the passenger seat of the taxi, squinting at the colorful street lights on the roadside, the cool night breeze blowing in front of him made his half-drunk brain seem to wake up.He and Lu Xin came to Shanghai four years ago, and they lived together in an old residential area in the suburbs. Last summer, Lu Xin found a girlfriend and moved out to live with him. Li Yichu moved out and rented a small apartment of [-] square meters in another community. live alone.

When I get busy, time flies like water, as if it was just a matter of getting drunk, four years have passed, and eight years have passed.

There was a regular meeting on Monday morning. Li Yichu drank alcohol last night and overslept accidentally in the morning. When he hurried to the company, several team leaders were heading to the meeting room on the fifth floor with their notebooks.Li Yichu glanced at his watch, there are still 10 minutes left before the meeting, why are you so active?

He grabbed a passing team leader and asked, "Is today's meeting brought forward?"

Team leader: "As the vice president of the regular meeting said last week, today's regular meeting is held by the general manager. Brother Li, did you forget?"

Li Yichu was busy signing the contract last week, and had already forgotten everything the vice president said at the regular meeting on Monday. Now he reminded him that today's regular meeting seemed quite formal.He went to the office to get his notebook and hurried upstairs to the conference room.

General manager Chen An's office is also on the fifth floor, and the transparent glass blocks the voice of people talking inside.Li Yichu passed by the general manager's office with a notebook in his hand. From the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the man in the office who was talking to Chen An. The man's back was facing Li Yichu, and his body was mostly covered by the office chair. He turned around uncontrollably, and when he wanted to see more clearly, Lu Xin pulled him into the meeting room from the side: "It will start soon, what kind of stake are you standing here?"

The weekly regular meeting is attended by leaders above the team leader, and it has become a customary rule for everyone to sit in their own fixed positions around the long round table.Li Yichu was pushed to the seat by Lu Xin. He pressed his fingers on the case of the laptop and tapped nervously.

Five minutes later, Chen An and a handsome man walked into the conference room, and introduced to everyone with a smile: "This is the technical director transferred from the Beijing headquarters, Liang Xuan. Welcome." After speaking, he took the lead in applauding.

Liang Xuan looked around at the people present, and then said blankly: "I will ask you to give me more advice in the future."

"Sit." Chen An pointed to the seat on the right for Liang Xuan to sit down, and continued: "Director Liang is very prominent in the business of the headquarters and has also worked abroad, so the head office asked him to come to us to help us with technology. Later, we will explain the current work situation and Director Liang one by one, so that he can have a preliminary understanding. Or we can follow the old rules, and the product planning department will come first? Manager Li, tell me .”

Li Yichu was sitting on Chen An's left hand side, his whole body was already lost in thought, when he was suddenly clicked by Chen An, he was startled: "Huh?"

Chen An smiled: "If you're not ready, why not tell Liang Xuan about the project you just signed last week?"

Li Yichu opened the notebook stiffly, and coughed before speaking: "This project was approved on July [-] this year, and it took two months..."

Liang Xuan spread out the notebook, took off the fountain pen clamped on the cover, turned the cap of the pen back to the end of the pen, lowered his head and began to memorize what Li Yichu said.

Li Yichu's eyes fell on his right hand holding the pen, holding the pen in exactly the same posture, and also put the cap on the end of the pen.

——Why do you always lose the cap of your pen?Let me tell you, every time you write in the future, put the cap on the back of the pen so that you won't find it once you finish writing.

When did you say this?Sophomore or senior?I don't remember clearly.

"Manager Li?"

Li Yichu was called out softly by the colleague on the right, and he recovered from his stupefaction. When he looked up, the whole table was staring at him strangely.Li Yichu looked at his notebook again: "I just said...uh..."

Forgot to say where.

Li Yichu was about to flip through his notepad and start talking again, when Liang Xuan on the opposite side calmly said, "You said that your original design prototype referred to foreign websites."

Li Yichu quickly said: "Oh yes, let me continue, this website..."

After stuttering, 10 minutes had passed, and Li Yichu was still looking at his notebook with his eyes down.Chen An asked Liang Xuan: "Is there anything unclear about Director Liang?"

Liang Xuan: "No, let's continue."

Chen An: "Okay, let's talk about it next, Manager He from the Operations Department."

The employees of Internet companies are generally young, but there are only department managers here, and they are basically over 30 years old, so that Li Yichu and Liang Xuan, two people in their twenties sitting in front, seem out of place.

The meeting lasted for more than two hours. Except for the product planning department, every department manager's report was highlighted by Liang Xuan. With Furui's tone of voice and flat expression, the questions he asked were irresistible. of precision.After just one meeting, everyone knew that the young technical director transferred from the headquarters was not in vain.

After the meeting, Li Yichu went downstairs with his colleagues. His office was on the fourth floor. The entire planning department, including 23 people including him, occupied a site of more than 200 square meters. The manager's office was in the corner.After Li Yichu entered the office, he lowered the blinds to block the sight of the outside world, and then sat behind the desk in a daze.He had an unreal feeling, as if everything today was imagined by himself, but it didn't actually happen.

Just as this thought flashed through his mind, he twitched the corner of his mouth in a self-deprecating manner.The memories that usually floated in his mind suddenly disappeared at this moment, and he could only see Liang Xuan's mature and calm face just now.It doesn't seem to be much different from the person in memory, but it feels different everywhere.

Someone knocked on the door, Li Yichu let him in, the group leader came in with the materials to discuss with him, Li Yichu clenched his fist and brought himself into the work.Since then, people have come in and out one after another. On the Monday after the project just ended, it was always spent in various summaries and new arrangements.

Li Yichu still stayed in the office until almost ten o'clock before finishing all the work arrangements. After closing the office door, he took the elevator to the garage to drive his second-hand Hyundai.

At this time, the parking lot was empty, and at a glance, only two cars were still parked there.

Li Yichu's car was parked at the far end, and he walked in with his computer bag in hand. When he passed by the car next to him, the lights of that car suddenly turned on.The dazzling light made Li Yichu subconsciously look into the car with his hand.

Liang Xuan sat in the dimly lit driver's seat, examining him motionlessly.

Two people, one in the dark and the other in the light, looked at each other through the car window without speaking, as if several years had passed.

It's just that in the past days, Li Yichu was the one who was in the dark, which was the exact opposite of this moment.

After a long time, Liang Xuan got out of the car, walked up to Li Yichu and stretched out his hand: "Long time no see."

Li Yichu shook hands with him: "Long time no see."

Liang Xuan leaned against the hood of the car: "Don't come here without any problems?"

Li Yichu smiled: "It's okay, how about you?"

Liang Xuan loosened his tie with his hands, and after a pause for a few minutes, he opened his mouth and said, "What do you think?"

Li Yichu used to be afraid that Liang Xuan would talk to him with a half-smile, and now it is even more so.He glanced at Liang Xuan's car logo and said, "It looks pretty good."

Liang Xuan: "It's not bad. I used to be afraid of being poor, and I worked hard to make money when I started working."

No matter how stupid Li Yichu was, he could understand the meaning of his words. The past events flooded into his mind instantly without even thinking about it. Li Yichu turned and walked to his car. He could not stay here and talk to Liang Xuan, not even a word.

Liang Xuan looked at the figure from behind, and stopped him when he was about to get into the car: "Li Yichu."

Li Yichu's hand stopped by the car door.

"In the future... happy cooperation."

Li Yichu opened the car door and sat back in the car. At that moment, he wanted to just drive away from Shanghai. He admitted that he had thought about seeing Liang Xuan again countless times, but when he did see him, he instinctively just wanted to stay away. , other than that, there is no retreat, no future.

Liang Xuan raced all the way home. This apartment was arranged for him by the company. It has a high floor and is decorated in a very modern and minimalist style.After Liang Xuan entered the door, he went to the wine cabinet in the study and opened a bottle of red wine. The elegant demeanor he had studied for many years was forgotten by him at this moment. He directly poured the bottle into his mouth, and drank most of the bottle Take the bottle to the balcony.

The lights of thousands of houses downstairs were in stark contrast to the cold and dark room behind him.

Liang Xuan blew the cold wind on the balcony for a long time, and the appearance of that person in his mind gradually became blurred, so he turned and went to the bedroom to take a shower.

After work, Liang Xuan never slept in. He arrived at the company at seven o'clock, passed by the fourth floor, and saw that the lights in the manager's office were already on.Liang Xuan didn't need to look carefully to know that it was Li Yichu. He turned around and knocked on the door.

Li Yichu was drawing a concept map while eating bread, when he heard the voice without raising his head, he said, "Please come in."

After a while, Li Yichu didn't hear the voice, and raised his head wonderingly: "Why didn't you say—"

Li Yichu put his face in his mouth halfway, and froze on the spot.

Liang Xuan: "I just met yesterday, but I don't know each other today?"

Li Yichu swallowed the bread: "You, what do you do?"

With a mocking expression on his face, Liang Xuan stretched out his hand to take Li Yichu's sketch to look at, and threw it on the table after a few seconds: "This is already a concept three years ago in foreign countries, don't you know?"

Li Yichu: "However, the technical level in China is not as good as that in foreign countries."

Liang Xuan: "I thought the planning department was going to be ahead of the technical department, but it wasn't."

An understatement, full of irony, and left the office after speaking.

Li Yichu threw the remaining half of the bread aside, turned on the computer and connected to the Internet, and the keyboard was crackling.Unknowingly, more than an hour later, Xiao Yan, the assistant to the general manager, knocked on Li Yichu's door, stretched half his body in and said, "Brother Li, Director Liang said that the planning department and the technical department will hold a meeting at nine o'clock, please prepare." .”

Li Yichu hit enter hard.

Xiao Yan was startled, trembling: "Uh, the meeting lasts for three hours, Director Liang said to let everyone go up after eating."

Li Yichu had no expression on his face: "Got it." Looking at the bread next to him, he had no appetite.

Li Yichu has always had a habit. During meetings, he generally doesn't like to argue with the leader or subordinates one by one. He usually asks others to express all their opinions, and then he explains his own opinions one by one. It is best not to interrupt each other.

But now he has been speaking for less than 10 minutes, and has been interrupted five or six times by Liang Xuan.

From concept to process, from demand to promotion, almost every point has been singled out a lot of problems.

Even if he is as dull as Lu Xin, he can still feel that Liang Xuan is deliberately finding fault.The colleagues from the technology department were sitting opposite, and the more Lu Xin looked at that row, the more unpleasant it became. When Liang Xuan finally kept silent, he said, "Director Liang, if you think our planning department is not good at everything, then Your technical department can cover everything."

Li Yi knew from the beginning that Lu Xin had a straight temper, and he had always been like this.He said what he wanted to say the most, Li Yichu's eyes gave him a warning, but the corner of his mouth hooked intentionally or unintentionally.

Liang Xuan put down his pen and leaned on the chair, and said calmly: "If you can do everything, and you can write codes after planning, why do you need us?"

Just as Lu Xin was about to fire, Li Yichu pressed his shoulder: "Lu Xin speaks straight, don't mind the director. In this way, we will start from the beginning, as long as you feel dissatisfied, we will start all over again."

Liang Xuan's eyes fell on Li Yichu's hand holding Lu Xin's shoulder, and he said slowly: "There is no need to start from the beginning, as far as the point discussed just now, start all over again. Let's move on to the rest."

All members of the planning department: "..."

At twelve o'clock, the most painful meeting in the planning department's history finally came to an end.Liang Xuan said to Xiao Yan: "Just to let you know, there will be a meeting between the operation department and the customer service department in the afternoon." After speaking, he looked at the people in the conference room: "The meeting is adjourned."

Manager Zhou of the technical department came out of the meeting room and walked to Li Yichu's side: "Brother, I didn't say much today, don't hate our technical department."

Li Yichu: "How could that be?"

Manager Zhou: "One code is one code, and we don't talk about work after get off work. Where do we go for lunch?"

Li Yichu: "Oh, there are takeaway orders."

Today, the meeting planning department was dismissed. Manager Zhou intentionally invited him to have a meal to relax, then shook his head and said: "How can you be full with takeaway? You are young. If you don't eat enough, how can you work hard? Let's go." Go for a walk and go to the Sichuan restaurant across the street to eat."

Before Li Yichu had time to refuse, he was pushed into the elevator by Manager Zhou, so he couldn't die. There were only two people in the elevator, and one of them was Liang Xuan.

Manager Zhou pushed Li Yichu in, and stood close to the button.The elevator stopped halfway on the fourth floor, and a group of people rushed in. Li Yichu retreated, and when he lowered his head, he saw Liang Xuan stretching out his hand to block the people who were squeezing in front of him.Li Yichu lowered his head to look at the arm in front of him. His memory flashed that they took the bus together many years ago, and Liang Xuan also subconsciously blocked the crowd for him. Li Yichu's eyes were sore, and he turned his head to the other side.

When the elevator reached the first floor, everyone ran out one after another. Liang Xuan and Li Yichu walked out of the elevator at the same time. Manager Zhou smiled and asked Liang Xuan, "Where is Director Liang going to eat?"

Liang Xuan: "I just came here, and I'm not familiar with restaurants, where are you going?"

Manager Zhou understood the meaning of his words, and hurriedly said: "Let's go to the Sichuan restaurant across the road. This restaurant has the best reputation in this area. Why don't Director Liang come with us? Three people are better than two, right?"

Liang Xuan smiled: "That's just right."

The three of them chose a seat by the window, with a long sofa on each side of the rectangular table.Manager Zhou asked Liang Xuan to take a seat first, then pushed Li Yichu to the other side, and he and Li Yichu sat on the other side.The waiter delivered the menu, and Manager Zhou looked at Liang Xuan: "Let this gentleman order first."

Liang Xuan resigned: "I'm not familiar with it, you can order it, I can do any flavor."

Manager Zhou took the menu, looked at it and said, "Brother Li, you like spicy food, right? I still remember the last time we had a dinner together, and in the end you alone compared the two boys from Hunan in our department."

Li Yichu: "Order a couple of non-spicy ones, Liang Xuan..."

When Manager Zhou heard Li Yichu directly calling Liang Xuan's name, he looked at them amusedly: "You two know each other?"

Liang Xuan: "Old classmate."

Li Yichu: "Not very familiar."

The two spoke in unison.

After Liang Xuan heard those three words, he glanced at Li Yichu, and smiled at himself after a while.

Manager Zhou: "Since it's an old classmate, it's easy to talk about. I was still worried in the morning that our two departments won't get along in the future. It turns out that you have friendship, so there will be no hurt feelings for work. I'm relieved."

Li Yichu didn't say much throughout the meal, he just ate with his head down, but Liang Xuan and Manager Zhou had a very happy chat, either talking about the economy or Shanghai's attractions, Li Yichu had never heard Liang Xuan talk so much to anyone in his memory.

"So you have only been working at the headquarters for less than a year? Then why did you come to the branch? Isn't the platform at the headquarters better?" Manager Zhou couldn't understand when Liang Xuan said that he applied for the branch by himself.

Liang Xuan put down his chopsticks and wiped his mouth with a napkin, glanced at Manager Zhou and raised the corner of his mouth: "I'm not too young, I want to come to Shanghai to start a family."

Manager Zhou smiled and said, "Why, girls in Beijing can't catch your eye?"

"That's not true." Liang Xuan still had a calm look: "I'm nostalgic for the past, so I like to find a certain type."

Manager Zhou gossips: "What type? You tell me and I'll keep an eye out for you. I'll introduce you when I find a suitable one."

Liang Xuan turned his gaze to look directly at Li Yichu: "No, I have to do this kind of thing myself."

Li Yichu was stared at by those eyes, a chili was stuck in his throat, tears were about to come out immediately, he grabbed his head by the side of the table and coughed non-stop.

Liang Xuan stood up and poured a glass of boiled water to his hand, Li Yichu waved at him.Liang Xuan kept that posture motionless.Li Yi glanced at him for the first time, lowered his eyes, took the water glass and took a big gulp into his mouth.

Li Yichu, who ate a meal, almost had a stomachache, and the other two chattered about going to work before calling the waiter to pay the bill.Li Yichu didn't want to interrupt, he lowered his head and gnawed out the large plate of pickled peppers and chicken feet in front of him. The bones piled up into a hill. When he left the restaurant, he felt like his lips were bitten by countless ants.He took a breath and said to Manager Zhou: "I'm going to buy some water, you guys go back first."

Manager Zhou returned to the company on the same road with Liang Xuan. He was surprised to find that Liang Xuan suddenly stopped talking, as if the easy-going and talkative person just now was not the same person as Liang Xuan in front of him.

Liang Xuan returned to the office to prepare materials for the afternoon meeting.In the mailbox was the plan sent by the planning department. After he clicked on it, his eyes stayed on the three words "Li Yichu" on the signature.He knew that this plan would fail again.

As long as Li Yichu is not a fool, he can feel that Liang Xuan is targeting him.

Liang Xuan rubbed the three words on the screen with his hand, do you hate him?Even Liang Xuan himself couldn't tell.

But if you don't use "hate him" as an excuse, what excuse do you use to appear in front of him?