Gu Qingyu drank some wine, his face turned red, and his face was so rosy that he seemed to be able to squeeze out water.

Out of politeness, Wang Lin opened the back door and asked Gu Qingyu to get in the car.

By the time he came to his senses, Zhou Jun had already sat in the passenger seat.

Wang Lin had no choice but to get into the back seat and told Luo Wei to drive.

Zhou Jun chuckled and said, "Speaking of which, Meng Zhiming, Liu Yuhui and I haven't had a party together for a long time. These people are all human beings, and they all have a good time."

Gu Qingyu said with a hint of coquettishness: "You have the nerve to say it! Since you got a wife, do you still have friends like us? How many times have I dated you? When did you go out? We all know that you are a henkeeper.

Yan, I don’t dare to date you now.”

Zhou Jun hurriedly defended: "You are serious, we will always be friends! It's just that my wife is pregnant, the pregnancy is serious, and I can't go to the kitchen to cook, so I am busy during this time."

Gu Qingyu's big, watery almond-shaped eyes glanced at Wang Lin, who was sitting next to him: "Isn't Mr. Wang's wife also pregnant? Look how lively he is! He's going to Xiangjiang and Xi'an again!"

Wang Lin smiled and said: "Why do I feel that you are criticizing me?"

Gu Qingyu chuckled and said, "I don't dare. I think a man should look like a man. Don't you think so?"

Wang Lin found it hard to accept this.

Suddenly we arrived downstairs at Gu's house.

Gu Qingyu said: "Would you like to sit at my house for a while? Have a cup of tea before leaving?"

Wang Lin was about to refuse, but Zhou Jun said: "Okay, if I don't go to your house, you will have something to say about me later. You will say that I passed through your house without entering!"

Gu Qingyu smiled sweetly and said: "That's right! We have been old friends for decades, and we work in the same city. It is rare to have a few good friends in life. After getting married, can we no longer have friends?

?”

Zhou Jun wanted to go upstairs to drink tea. Wang Lin couldn't say no, so he said to Luo Wei, "Luo Wei, will you come too?"

Luo Wei smiled and said: "Mr. Wang, I won't go up. I'll wait for you below."

Wang Lin and Zhou Jun got out of the car and followed Gu Qingyu upstairs.

Gu Qingyu lives in the TV station's dormitory, which is similar to the Tongzi Building where Wang Lin used to live. Under the windows in the corridor outside, there is a row of stoves and pots for cooking.

Although it was already night, the smell of various oil fumes was still floating in the corridor.

Walking all the way inside, I heard various sounds coming from the room next to me. Some were playing musical instruments, some were practicing their voices and reciting poems, and some were reciting lines loudly.

Wang Lin smiled and said: "Sure enough, people of the same species flock together, the cultural atmosphere here is very strong!"

Gu Qingyu said with a smile: "When I don't have gatherings, I usually stay at home and memorize my lines. The knowledge of lines is our daily compulsory homework. Everyone is making progress, and whoever is lazy will soon be replaced by others."

Wang Lin said: "Is involution serious in your industry?"

"Involution?" Gu Qingyu was startled, "What do you mean?"

Wang Lin chuckled: "After a certain type of cultural model reaches a certain final form, it can neither stabilize nor transform into a new form, but can only continue to become more complex internally. Yes.

Understood as irrational internal competition, it can also refer to peers competing to put in more effort to compete for limited resources.”

"This word is used well!" Gu Qingyu said with a surprised smile, "Since the reform and opening up, competition in all walks of life has increased, and the phenomenon of involution will only become more and more serious."

Zhou Jun smiled and said: "There is also the phenomenon of involution within the system. In our unit, there are often several people competing for a position."

The three of them came to Gu Qingyu's room. She took out her key, opened the door, and turned on the light inside.

This is a single dormitory, with an area of ​​more than ten square meters, a single bed, a desk, a dining table, a bookcase, and several pots of green plants on the windowsill, covered with a layer of snow.

, the green plants were all wilted and shivering in the cold wind.

Ordinary anchors and reporters on TV stations have not yet been commercialized. They are just employees, receiving ordinary wages, and their houses are all allocated collectively. If they do not go to work, do commercial performances, or do endorsements, they will have no additional income.

.

Not long after Gu Qingyu joined the job, although he was a well-known TV host, he could only be assigned to a single dormitory, but it was much more convenient than the double dormitories of others.

Zhou Jun asked: "Didn't you live at home before?"

Gu Qingyu smiled and said: "I just moved out recently, and it's not a big deal to bother my brother to pick me up and go to and from work! He's also very busy at work. I live here, it's close to Taili, and it's more convenient to go to work. You can do whatever you want.

Sit down, don't be polite. I'll make tea for you."

She picked up the boiling water bottle, shook it, and said with a smile: "There is no more boiling water. I will boil some water. It will be quick."

Wang Lin walked to her bookcase, looked at it, and said with a smile: "Do you also read "Life" and "The Ordinary World"?"

Gu Qingyu said: "Well, I have watched it several times. Especially "Life", I think it is so well written. Are you really going to Xi'an tomorrow?"

Wang Lin said: "Yes."

Gu Qingyu suddenly asked: "Can you take me with you?"

Wang Lin smiled and said: "It's just Xi'an. It's not going abroad. You can go if you want to. Do you still need me to take you with you?"

Gu Qingyu smiled and said, "Isn't it convenient for you?"

Wang Lindao: "It's nothing inconvenient. Is this a last-minute idea?"

"I heard you talking about Comrade Lu Yao, and I also want to meet him, maybe do an interview." Gu Qingyu said, "But you want me to go alone, and I'm too lazy to leave. Shall I go with you?"

"

Wang Lin took the book, sat at the desk, flipped through it, and said casually: "Okay!"

Gu Qingyu asked: "Are you taking a train or a plane?"

Wang Linda said: "Take a plane."

Gu Qingyu filled a kettle with water, put it on the stove to boil, and asked, "Flying on a plane? I haven't flown on a plane yet! Are there any procedures required?"

Wang Lindao: "You need to get a work certificate from your unit, a letter of introduction, and just bring your ID card or household registration book."

"I have all of these. I often do interviews outside, so these are always available."

"That's almost it."

“Is the flight expensive?”

"Let me buy a plane ticket for you. You treated me to dinner today, and I'll treat you to a trip to Xi'an as a reward."

Gu Qingyu chuckled and said, "Is that so good? Then I would be disrespectful! Who calls you the big boss?"

Zhou Jun saw a photo album on the table, picked it up, looked through it, and said with a smile: "Qingyu, these are all photos of us when we were young. Do you still keep them?"

Gu Qingyu said: "Yes! I have always kept my photos. I still have all the black and white photos taken in the state-owned photo studio when I was one year old!"

Wang Lin smiled and said: "Let me see!"

Zhou Jun spread the photo album on the table, pointed at one of the photos, and said with a smile: "Look, this is me, this is Qingyu."

"You two still have a photo together!" Wang Lin said with a smile, "Young sweethearts here!"

Zhou Jun chuckled: "We grew up together in the past. There were more than a dozen of us. The ones you saw today, Meng Zhiming and Liu Yuhui, grew up together with us. Meng Zhiming is a few years older than us, and Liu Yuhui

Gu Qingyu, who is the same age as me, is younger than us."

Wang Lin pointed to another photo: "Who is this little girl with two pigtails?"

"This is Zhou Porridge!" Zhou Jun laughed and said, "You didn't recognize it, did you?"

Wang Lin laughed and said, "Is this Zhou Congee? She looked very naughty when she was a child!"

Gu Qingyu walked in and said with a smile: "Zhou Zhou is the youngest, but he is also the most naughty!"

Zhou Jun looked at the old photos from the past and was filled with memories: "Qingyu, I don't have many photos at home! Why do you have them?"

Gu Qingyu said: "You must have some at home. I probably lost them when I moved. I bought a photo album and put it in it. When one photo album was full, I bought another one."

As soon as the water boiled, she went to make three cups of tea and brought them over.

"I don't have anything to eat at home, so I can only drink some tea." Gu Qingyu said, "Mr. Wang, when will you go to the airport tomorrow?"

Wang Lin said: "I'd rather go earlier than buy a ticket! About half past eight. Let's meet at the airport."

"Okay." Gu Qingyu said, "I have been waiting for the publication of the third part of "The Ordinary World"! Are you going to make a special trip to visit Comrade Lu Yao? Or do you have something to do there?"

Wang Lindao: "We are going there to purchase treasury bonds, and we will pay a visit to Comrade Lu Yao on the way."

Zhou Jun shook his legs and said: "Qingyu, you don't have a stove in your dormitory? Don't you feel cold where you usually live?"

"Fortunately, when I am alone, I huddle under the quilt. If you are cold, go to my bed and cover your legs with the quilt!" Gu Qingyu said with a smile, "I have a stove, and I am going out today.

It’s time to eat. Didn’t you just come back? I’m too lazy to light the stove.”

Zhou Jun said: "How can that be done? There is still such a long time in the evening! Let me help you go next door to change the briquettes! You can light a fire very quickly."

While he was talking, he put down the photo album, ran outside, picked up a stove, and went to change the briquettes with the neighbor next door.

Wang Lin said: "Brother Jun is very concerned about you!"

Gu Qingyu said: "He has been caring about people since he was a child. Among our few friends, he is the one who cares about me the most. He is more like my brother than my brother."

Wang Lin pondered for a moment and asked, "In that case, why didn't you get together?"

Gu Qingyu shook his head gently: "These are two different things. He and I are so familiar, as familiar as the palms and backs of our hands! On the contrary, it is difficult to have a super-friendship feeling. The relationship between him and me is more like a family relationship. So,

If your sister is afraid that something will happen between me and him, she is completely unfounded."

Wang Lin nodded, expressing understanding.

After a while, Zhou Jun came in with a briquette stove and said with a smile: "Okay, change it to a hot briquette. You wait for it to burn for a while before closing the door. Before going to bed at night, you must remember to mention it outside and remember to change it."

A briquette, otherwise the fire will be extinguished again tomorrow morning."

Gu Qingyu smiled and said, "Thank you."

Seeing that he was so busy that his forehead was sweating, she took out a new handkerchief from the drawer and handed it to him: "Wipe your sweat. This handkerchief is new. You can keep it for use!"

Zhou Jun smiled and said: "I am a big man, I don't need a handkerchief, I can just wipe it with my sleeve."

Gu Qingyu said: "You are both a father and a department-level cadre now, how can you be so casual anymore? Why are you so polite to me? How many cents does a handkerchief cost?"

Zhou Jun took it and wiped the sweat on his face. The handkerchief turned from white to black. He was too embarrassed to return it to Gu Qingyu, so he had to put it in his pocket.

The two drank tea, chatted, and then stood up to say goodbye.

Back home, Wang Lin and Zhou Zhou were playing at his house.

Wang Lin and Li Wenxiu were knitting sweaters, while Zhou Zhou and Li Wenjuan were watching the video.

"You're back?" Wang Lin said with a smile, "I'm back too. Zhou Zhou, why don't you go home after watching this?"

Zhou Zhou glanced at Wang Lin and said, "No, I'll go home too."

Wang Lin smiled and said: "Why do you leave as soon as I come back?"

Wang Lin said: "You're back, and my guy is back too, right? I can't go with him? He's not drunk, right?"

Wang Lin said: "I didn't drink much."

Zhou Zhou said: "You guys have finished watching this video, and you can lend it to me to watch tomorrow."

Wang Lin said: "Okay, you can just come and get it tomorrow."

Looking at her, Wang Lin suddenly thought of the little girl with two towering braids in the photo, and couldn't help but laugh.

Zhou Zhou was puzzled by his smile, and it was hard to ask him, so he rolled his eyes at him and followed his sister-in-law home.

Wang Lin went to take a shower. It was already nine o'clock in the evening when he came out. His pager kept ringing. He suddenly remembered that he agreed to Shen Xue to visit her in the evening, but he was delayed for an hour at Gu Qingyu's house.

, this time is a bit late.

He couldn't help but hesitate, should he go there?

Li Wenxiu said: "It's so cold outside, why do you still want to go out?"

Wang Lin groaned: "There's something going on at the sanitary napkin factory, I'll go take a look."

"It's really strange. When you're not at home, the sanitary napkin factory is fine, but when you come back, there's something going on there every day?" Li Wenxiu asked.

Wang Lin sneered and said: "What you said makes no sense! If I'm not at home, can people still look for you? Of course they should look for me! Even if I am outside, I still contact the factory every day! Do you think I am the factory director?

Is it a good deal?"

Li Wenxiu chuckled and said, "I know you worked hard! Then you go and come back early."

Li Wenjuan shouted: "Brother-in-law, remember, you are taking me to Xi'an tomorrow!"

Wang Lin said: "Okay, I'll take you there! But we're not here to play, but to purchase treasury bills."

Li Wenxiu said: "That's right! Wenjuan, why don't you go? It's snowing! It's too cold. It's even colder over there in Xi'an!"

"I'm going! I'm going!" Li Wenjuan said, "I'm going with my brother-in-law, not you! You don't have to worry about it! Humph, your words don't count anymore!"

Wang Lin said: "Okay, okay, go, go!"

Li Wenxiu said: "Sooner or later she will be spoiled by you! Let's see how she gets married in the future!"

Li Wenjuan said: "I won't marry! I won't marry!"

Wang Lin was about to go out when he suddenly saw his cousin Wang Lin walking over. Looking at her face, she was very unhappy!

"Sister, what's wrong?" Wang Lin asked.

"Wang Lin, tell me, did Zhou Jun really drink with you tonight?"

"Yes!" Wang Lin suddenly thought and asked, "We have always been together!"

"Are there any other women?" Wang Lin asked.

"No! Just a few big men." Wang Lin's level of lying became higher and higher.
Chapter completed!