Exclusive Memory Chapter 9 Part 4

Back in City A, life has undergone a series of changes. First of all, because I didn't go to work in time, Zhao Xiaotang's company directly dismissed me. Then, Liu Qi was sent to a township judicial office 100 kilometers away from the A-city area.

When he told me the news, I was startled: "Impossible, how long will it take to transfer back?"

"I don't know, maybe I can't."

"Really, is this fake?"

"So it's wise that you chose to break up with me." He laughed at himself.

"Liu Qi!" I was in a hurry.

"I haven't agreed with you yet, though." He said.

I joined the army of job hunting again. Read the newspaper's recruiting section every day, or rush to the job market's twice-weekly job fair on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Finally, after listening to Zhao Xiaotang, I posted a lot of information on the Internet.

The first company was an insurance company, and there were fifty if not sixty applicants who lined up with me. The first pass is a written test. I thought I was applying for a secretarial job, and my major was English, so I would definitely be given an English test paper. I didn't expect that the subject of the written test was to write a composition.

A few days later, the insurance company notified me that I had passed the written test and needed to attend interview training.

When I arrived at the training place full of confidence, I found that basically none of the fifty or sixty people was missing, waiting for training just like me. The content of the training includes teamwork, memory competition and expression ability. If you pass all of them, you will become a new employee of the world's top 500.

I said to the person who signed in: "I am not applying for a salesman, but a secretary."

The other party replied to me with a professional smile: "In our company, secretaries must also have business knowledge. And whether you are suitable for clerical work or business, it depends on the actual situation."

I nodded blankly. After memorizing a long list of disease names mechanically, the energetic trainer on the stage summoned everyone and chanted the company slogan loudly and as a whole, I finally couldn't bear it and escaped.

I said to Bai Lin, "I was scared to death. I thought I went to the wrong place, to a pyramid scheme."

Those companies either require age or work experience, and there is no room for it.

The second company is a foreign trade company. The other party asked me to introduce myself. After asking me some questions about the future prospects of the company, I asked again: "Why did it take you so long to find a job after graduation?"

"Uh—" I froze.

Can you tell me about the failure and frustration experience that impressed you most ?" The other party asked again, "How did you solve the problem?"

"Uh—" I was stuck again, and Mu Chenghe's figure suddenly appeared in my mind. The most frustrating experience in my life happened to be him. When I thought of him, I was at a loss, as if someone was peeping into my mind, and finally blushed, and even said a very stupid sentence, "Can I not say it?"

So, people didn't follow me up.

When I reported to Bai Lin again, she "poof-" sprayed.

She said: "You should be honest, maybe he still thinks you are a talent."

I asked: "Why?"

Bai Lin said: "You have repeatedly defeated and fought against Mu Chenghe, and the more you fight, the more courageous you become. If you were placed in the company for sales, how could you not be a talent."

Later, Bai Lin looked up a job recruitment information for me on the Internet, and I carefully wrote a cover letter and attached my resume to send it. Then I came out of her house.

"Or, stay and live, you don't go to work anyway." Bai Lin said.

"If Senior Brother comes back later, I'm embarrassed to let him sleep on the floor." Saying goodbye to her, I took the bus home.

There is still a section of road from the station to my neighborhood. Wearing earplugs, I turned into the shortcut I used to take without thinking about it. It was only halfway through that I realized that I suddenly came back to my senses, and then I remembered that I had thought about it during the day and that I couldn't go this way at night. Because demolition has been going on in the past two days, the original shops have basically been relocated.

The street lights on both sides are dim, and the walls and roof have been demolished in half.

I stopped and looked back and forth, and the distances coming and going were about the same. At this time, a man came from behind me on a bicycle, and then disappeared in front of me in a flash, and I heard the sound of him ringing the bell at the intersection over there.

I hesitated for a moment, bit the bullet and continued walking. After walking a few steps, I felt a noise behind me. Looking back, I saw a shadow flashing in the corner of the wall not far away. I felt a little nervous, so I had to speed up my pace. I couldn't help but look back and look again, but there was nothing. Fear suddenly spread from my heart, I took off the earplugs, walked faster and faster, and finally ran back to the gate of the community in one breath.

In the middle of the night, sleeping on the bed, I vaguely heard an unusual sound.

I listened carefully again, and it seemed that someone was really there. My heartbeat suddenly accelerated. I lay flat on the bed and held my breath to distinguish the source of the movement. Not the living room, but the kitchen.

My mother taught me before that if someone comes to steal, there are two situations.

First, the other party has already entered the room and is already by his side, even if he wakes up, he has to pretend to be asleep.

"What if someone stabbed me twice?" I asked her.

"Ordinary thieves don't want to hurt people unless they have to." My mother explained, "If someone is here to kill someone, this trick won't work."

The second is that the other party has not yet entered the room, or is ready to leave at the end stage, you can suddenly speak loudly or turn on the light, so that the other party will be scared away. So I usually go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, even if I can see it, she also asks me to turn on the light all the way from the bedroom to the bathroom. First, to avoid knocking, and second, if you are afraid that some bad guys are hiding in a corner, you will just meet them.

She said: "The purpose of turning on the lights is to tell the other party that someone is awake, so let's go."

But the safety education my mother gave me since I was a child didn't work when I was on the spot. She didn't say how to judge whether someone's main business was murder or theft. It didn't say whether such a movement had entered the house or was about to leave?

I sat up from the bed very carefully, then barefooted, walked to the door of the bedroom and listened again. There was a rustling sound from the kitchen, as if the other party was breaking open the door. I made up my mind and turned on the light in the bedroom.

The voice stopped immediately.

Then I shouted: "Second brother, I'm going to the toilet." Then I deliberately made some noises, turned off the light, and was quiet in the dark for a long time, and after confirming that there was no movement at all, I quietly touched the kitchen and turned on the light.

Outside the kitchen is the living balcony, with a plastic steel door between them.

It was summer, and the house was on the fourth floor, so I locked the door occasionally. But just before going to bed, it was accidentally locked, which just happened to stop the footsteps of the person just now. Maybe the sound that woke me up should be the result of his trying to pry open the door.

The knife I used to cut watermelon was originally placed on the washing machine, but now it is lying on the ground by the door.

My whole body trembled all of a sudden, I turned on all the lights, picked up my mobile phone and dialed the property security.

Because the security guards made a lot of noise, some neighbors also came.

The aunt on the first floor pointed to the property's nose and said: "How do you manage these properties? The building next door was stolen once last month, and they promised us to strengthen patrols."

An uncle said: "The property fee is so high, and these things are ignored."

The leading security guard smiled and said, "Take care, we will take care of it. The police station will come later and we will adjust the surveillance video together."

Another neighbor said, "Xiao Xue, we're fine on the third floor. It's not like a thief is staring at your house, it's just you're just a little girl, people think it's easy to come and steal."

The person next to him nodded: "Yes, you should be careful by yourself, why don't you install an invisible anti-theft window."

So the enthusiastic neighbors talked about it. After a while, people from the police station came and left. It was past four in the morning when I was left alone.

I wanted to call my mother, but I remembered her expression of worrying about my accident last time, so I had no choice but to give up. I was sitting alone in a huge house, surrounded by eerily quiet surroundings. I couldn't help staring at the kitchen, always afraid that someone would jump out.

Finally couldn't bear to dial Bai Lin's cell phone.

More than half an hour later, Senior Brother Li appeared with Bai Lin.

While surveying the scene, Bai Lin exclaimed, "It's too dangerous! It's too dangerous!"

Brother Li checked all the rooms for me again.

Bai Lin hugged me and said, "Well, I'll move in and live with you."

Brother Li said: "Come on, if there are really bad guys coming again, it's useless for you two to go up together."

Bai Lin turned to Senior Brother Li and said, "Why don't you come and live with me too."

Brother Li glanced at me, hesitantly said: "That...isn't that good."

I know what Senior Brother Li means. He is a big man living with two women, and he is afraid of being gossips. Moreover, he and Bai Lin managed to change from being sneaky in the school dormitory to a two-person world that is now open and aboveboard. It's not very kind of me to intervene.

So, I said, "Forget it, how far is my home from where you work."

Bai Lin asked, "Then what should I do?"

I said, "I'm not afraid. At worst, I'll find someone to install anti-theft windows tomorrow."

Bai Lin asked again: "Your property allows you to install it?"

I said, "Our neighborhood is so dilapidated, if you disagree, it's all installed downstairs."

The next night, I was alone again.

Before going to bed, I checked all the doors and windows and closed the whole house tightly. Probably because I basically didn't close my eyes the first night, so I fell asleep on the bed. Closing my eyes in a daze, I still thought, if I die like this, it will be considered a murder case in a secret room.

I had that long, long dream again.

In the dream, my father took me to the amusement park. When I bought a ticket at the gate, I found that the money was lost. Then he said to me: "Tongtong, wait for Dad here, and you are not allowed to go anywhere." So I licked the malt candy and sat on the playground. On the steps at the entrance of the amusement park, I waited and waited.

Later, an aunt came over and said in surprise, "Hey, kid, your mother's name is Tong Yumei, right? Auntie is your mother's friend. We met last time."

I glanced at her and nodded, as if I had seen her before.

She smiled, "Why are you here alone?"

"Dad is looking for a wallet, I am waiting for him."

Your mother asked me to pick you up. She said she asked me to pick you up and go home first. Your father is already home."

"But Papa said..."

"Your father has the final say, or does your mother have the final say?"

I thought for a while and answered, "Mom."

"Your mother asked me to pick you up, so shouldn't you listen to me?"

Finally, looking around, I was led away by this woman.

I always thought I had forgotten something, but I remembered it in my dream.

In the playground, the aunt who took me away was actually the mother of a female prisoner in the mother cell. I met her because my mother took me to the prison for a day when she was on duty, and she happened to visit her daughter at that time.

Her daughter has been released after serving her sentence, but she was locked up in a small prison many times because she fought with others many times in prison. My mother is very strict in this regard, so she was also full of resentment after she was released from prison.

The mother and daughter happened to see me when they passed by that day, and they felt revengeful.

I can't remember how many days they locked me up. I just remember that when the police rescued me later, my grandma and dad hugged me and cried loudly.

Maybe it was after that that the relationship between parents began to fade. Mom never let me touch anything related to her work.

I rolled over and tried to get myself back to sleep.

The dream suddenly changed. I dreamed of the pool of blood at the scene where my father was assassinated, and also dreamed of the watermelon knife outside the kitchen door. When I finally dreamed of Chen Yan's body, I woke up suddenly.

I took a breath, sat up slowly, and was about to go to the living room to get a cup to drink water, but when I reached the door of the bedroom, I dared not go any further, so I folded back and curled up on the bed.

The darkness outside the door frame was accompanied by fear. I frantically turned on the lights, but still felt uneasy. I always suspected that there were bad guys hiding in the closet next to me and under the bed, or I didn’t even dare to look out the window, and felt that someone was staring at me outside the window.

Just when this fear tortured me to the point of suffocation, I dialed Mu Chenghe's cell phone.

After three rings it was connected.

"Xue Tong?"

The moment his voice rang in my ears through the earpiece, all my psychological defenses collapsed.

I said incoherently: "I dare not tell my mother, I am afraid that if she finds out, she will not allow me to stay alone in city A. I didn't dare to call Bai Lin, yesterday I caused them to stay awake all night. Although Bai Lin is good with me, Senior Brother Li is still an outsider after all. After thinking about it, I won't find another person outside of you."

"What's the matter?" His tone also seemed anxious, "Speak slowly."

"A thief broke into my house yesterday." I wiped away my tears, "I'm so scared to death right now."

"You turn on all the lights and the TV, and I'll be right over," he said.

When Mu Chenghe came to my house, after listening to me describe the dangerous situation last night and the nightmare just now, the first thing he said was: "You can no longer live alone."

"Bai Lin and Zhao Xiaotang both have boyfriends. I can't let them live with me all the time."

"Are there any other close relatives in the family?"

"There are my grandma and them, but they don't want to see me." I said, "And if they know something happened at home, they will definitely tell my mother."

Mu Chenghe pondered for a while, and finally said: "Then you can live with me."

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