The Pentium Era - South to North

After finally holding on until the afternoon, Zhang Chen felt that it was not possible. The problem could not be solved by hiding like this, nor could it be avoided. There were funds coming in and out at the construction site every day. Of course, the main ones were going out, and they had to go through Gu Shufang's hands. All reimbursements were made. , also need to go through Gu Shufang, how long can I hide? If we hide any longer, I'm afraid the project will stop.

Zhang Chen didn't know what would happen if he met Gu Shufang again. Anyway, he had already made up his mind that nothing should happen. After a night and a morning, the rational, calm, and vicious Zhang Chen had the upper hand.

Zhang Chen kept telling himself that you are here to complete this project and take your first step on this island, not to mess up your career and ruin your career. You want to go back to where you were. The days of being an instructor, or the days of constantly looking for a job, being ridiculed and rejected, and almost going to plant rubber?

After offending Hai Batian, Zhang Chen vaguely felt that it was hard to say whether he could survive in this city. I'm afraid that by then, you wouldn't even be able to plant rubber.

Zhang Chen sorted out the documents in the drawer, and decided to go back and have a face-to-face talk with Gu Shufang. No matter what happens after the two people meet, this time in the afternoon is always better than at night. That house is now Except for Gu Shufang, there will be no one else.

Zhang Chen returned to Wenming East. When he reached the first floor, he was stunned. He found that outside the railing of the corridor on the second floor, there was a clothes drying pole on the patio, where the dirty clothes he had changed yesterday were drying. Zhang Chen looked at it. Seeing that there was no sign of Gu Shufang at the stairs on the third floor, he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

Zhang Chen walked up to the second floor and walked softly unconsciously. He saw that the door to his room and the door to the office opposite were both closed. Zhang Chen walked to the door of his room and opened the door. He didn't get used to it for a while. After a while, he remembered that Gu Shufang helped him clean up the room yesterday, and apparently did it again this morning, washed the dirty clothes, and then closed the door.

Gu Shufang said, I just like raising pigs. Only then did Zhang Chen understand that her words had meaning, and wasn't he just that pig now?

Zhang Chen put his bag in the room with the receipt in his hand. He walked to the stairs, but didn't have the courage to go up again. He thought about it and walked to the office opposite. He deliberately made a loud noise and opened the door. Went in.

In fact, Zhang Chen didn't need to make a loud noise, Gu Shufang knew that he had come back. She heard the door below open and close, and heard him go upstairs more lightly. Gu Shufang waited, and she waited for him to walk up to the third floor. When he came upstairs, he opened the office door.

Gu Shufang's face was pale. She was sitting in her restaurant. She knew that Zhang Chen was sitting downstairs. In terms of vertical distance, they were less than three meters apart.

Gu Shufang waited for more than ten minutes, but Zhang Chen did not go upstairs. Gu Shufang stood up. The sun was strong outside, and her face looked even pale in the sunlight. She went downstairs step by step.

Zhang Chen held his breath and heard her coming downstairs. Zhang Chen sat there, not even daring to raise his head.

Gu Shufang walked into the office. She looked at Zhang Chen without saying a word. She walked over, finished her set of procedures, and then sat down.

The two people sat there facing each other, neither of them speaking. In order to cover up his dilemma, Zhang Chen picked up a pen and wrote on a piece of paper, while Gu Shufang took out the receipts and account books from the drawer, writing them down one by one. Accounting.

The office was extremely quiet. The two people tried their best to control the speed of their heartbeats, but they felt that they could still hear their pounding heartbeats.

Neither of them knew what to say, and what else could be said. What was supposed to happen had already happened, the layer of window paper had been pierced, and all the ambiguity and haziness had become clear.

The attitudes of both parties were very clear. For Gu Shufang, it would be self-humiliation. But for Zhang Chen, what else could he say? Although he had planned to have a good talk when he came here, when he came here, face to face, he felt that it was no longer necessary.

Say sorry again? What are you sorry for?

Zhang Chen took a deep breath. He took out the stack of documents from the drawer and pushed it to Gu Shufang. Gu Shufang didn't even look at it. Zhang Chen said softly:

"Sister Shufang, please arrange this amount of money."

Gu Shufang didn't even raise her head. She took the stack of receipts and put them in the drawer without even looking at them, and continued accounting.

The two people were silent again. They seemed to be waiting for the other person to speak, but they felt that even if they spoke, it would be meaningless.

Then remain silent.

In the office, the only sound that could be heard was Gu Shufang tapping on the Casio calculator.

After being silent for more than half an hour, Gu Shufang finally finished accounting. She put the account book into the drawer, took the stapler on the table, and wanted to staple a few documents together. She pressed it, but the staples got stuck. But it was not ordered yet. She pressed it again, but still nothing.

Zhang Chen raised his head and looked at her, wanting to say, let me help you take a look.

Gu Shufang suddenly exploded. She clenched her hands into fists and banged on the stapler. Zhang Chen stood up and looked at her in shock.

Gu Shufang also stood up. She picked up the stapler and banged it on the table. With a wave of her left hand, all the documents on the table were swept to the ground. Before Zhang Chen could react, Gu Shufang turned around and rushed towards him. Go out and run upstairs.

If she didn't run, she felt like she would burst into tears right there standing there.

Zhang Chen chased out of the office. Gu Shufang was no longer on the stairs. Zhang Chen ran a few steps upstairs and stuck his head out of the third floor. He looked both ways and saw that the doors to the three rooms were all closed.

Zhang Chen stood in the middle of the stairs for a while, but still didn't go up.

Zhang Chen returned to the office, picked up all the documents on the floor, and placed them neatly on Gu Shufang's desk. He picked up the stapler, opened it and took a look. The rows of staples inside had been beaten and twisted. He Dumped them all out, installed a new row of staples, clicked, the stapler wasn't broken yet.

He put the stapler on the pile of documents, turned around and walked out. Standing at the stairs leading to the third floor, Zhang Chen sighed.

He closed the doors to his office and his room, walked downstairs, and returned to the construction site.

In the evening, Liu Ligan and Erguo came. Zhang Chen took the initiative to ask where to go for a drink. Erguo said Huajiang dog meat, Liu Ligan said coconut chicken hot pot, and both Zhang Chen and Xiao Wu said they should go eat Dongyang hotpot. , Liu Ligan and Erhuo had no choice but to comply.

When the second guy came, he gave Zhang Chen an envelope. Zhang Chen asked what it was. The second guy said, "I went to the beautiful girl's golf driving range's annual pass yesterday. Old Tan asked me to bring you one."

Before Zhang Chen picked it up, Liu Lipole shouted, give it to me, and took it over.

Zhang Chen snatched it back from his hand and cursed, "You are a family member, what kind of card do you want?"

"Yes, I can see it." The second-rate guy shouted, "Forcing that girl to lie down, she'll be willing to use any green for you."

Zhang Chen and Xiao Wu laughed. Liu Ligang grabbed the second guy's head and wanted to hit it on the table. The second guy shouted: "Don't hit, don't hit. If you don't let me kowtow, I already admire you to death." .”

Liu Ligan let him go and asked strangely: "What do you admire me for?"

The second goods said: "Forced to raise, you are a girl's bubble, Ding Ding is still playing, it is not delayed, I can’t do it."

When the four of them separated, Zhang Chen returned to Wenming East at around nine o'clock. The house was dark, and there was no light even on the third floor. Zhang Chen was a little surprised and didn't dare to go upstairs. He walked to the office and sat down. , he thought Gu Shufang would come downstairs, but after waiting for a long time, Gu Shufang did not appear, and it was quiet upstairs.

Zhang Chen took a shower, returned to the office, and continued to sit there until almost eleven o'clock, but Gu Shufang still didn't show up.

Zhang Chen took out a few reimbursement receipts that Xiao Wu gave him from his bag. After signing them, he put them on Gu Shufang's desk. After thinking about it, he took a piece of white paper and wrote: "Sister Shufang... …”

Zhang Chen crumpled the paper into a ball and threw it into the wastebasket. He thought that he and Gu Shufang were not the only two people who could enter this office. The title "Sister Shufang" was too affectionate to be seen by others.

Zhang Chen wrote again: "Accountant Gu: This is the purchase reimbursement document. I have reviewed it and please reimburse it. Also, there is insufficient reserve fund at the procurement location. Please make arrangements. Thank you!"

Zhang Chen signed his name and date at the bottom. He still stapled the note and the receipts to Gu Shufang's desk.

The next morning, Zhang Chen saw that the stack of documents was still there. He looked upstairs and found that it was still quiet.

In the afternoon, Zhang Chen couldn't hold himself back. He asked Xiao Wu, did Accountant Gu deposit the reserve fund on your bank card?

Xiao Wu said, "Save it. Why?" What's the matter?

Zhang Chen shook his head and said it was okay.

Next, Zhang Chen and Gu Shufang seemed to have returned to the starting point. The relationship between the two was more indifferent than before. If anything happened, Zhang Chen would usually leave a note for her.

The two of them rarely met. Even if they bumped into each other occasionally in the office, they would do their own things. After finishing their work, they would get up and walk away without lingering. Even if they had to communicate, they would use the simplest language.

They no longer talked about things other than work, and both seemed to have forgotten that there was an unfinished painting upstairs that neither of them mentioned again.

One night, when Zhang Chen went back, he saw his easel and painting box standing against his desk.

Zhang Chen opened the oil painting box and took a look. There was a bottle of turpentine missing.