The earth will not turn because of one person, and time will not pass because of one person.
Just like Master Confucius said while standing on the river: "The deceased is like a man who does not give up day and night."
Although we don’t know whether Old Master Kong was describing the person or the time that he slapped to death, Lu Xun once said: "Elder brother... Bah, Saint Kong was right."
Lu Xun: "You fart (Tiger King emoticon)!"
Well, no matter what, there are generally three types of famous quotes in this world, one is what Confucius said, the other is what Lu Xun said, and the other is others.
So there must be something to it.
For example, right now, when Gu Bei and the others were discussing in the hotel, the extraordinary "ordinary person" they called Ben Parker had returned home.
No matter what Gu Bei and others said, in Ben's heart, he was always just an ordinary person.
Ordinary birth, ordinary growing up, ordinary schooling, ordinary work, ordinary marriage to the person you love.
Well, the last one is not ordinary, Ben is a winner in life in this regard, but it is a pity that May did not give him a child.
But it doesn't matter, his brother and sister-in-law, Richard Parker and Mary Parker, who were excellent in every aspect, lost news for unknown reasons, and the only thing left was their son Peter, who had not yet grown up. Parker.
And it just so happened that Ben and May didn't have any children.
The nephew filled a void in the family.
Ben and May raised Peter as their own, and the family has remained calm until now.
For Ben, his life is no different from other people's. It is ordinary with some minor accidents, but it is all ordinary food, rice, oil and salt.
He loved Mei, he loved Peter, and he loved this family.
But he has been under a lot of pressure recently.
Because of the economic downturn, his company is laying off employees.
Ben has been with the company for more than ten years. It can be said that he has been doing this job since before there was Peter.
Not because this job has any special meaning, but because its hourly wage is enough to support a family of three and save money for Peter to go to school.
In the past few years, the company has had several layoffs, but those were normal personnel changes.
Ben also relied on hard work and hard work to avoid layoff crises again and again.
But this time's layoffs are significantly different from usual ones.
The company actually decided to lay off ten employees in one fell swoop.
This situation was unprecedented, and in the subsequent work, Ben was also keenly aware of the tense atmosphere around him.
Ben also fell into this atmosphere unconsciously.
As someone who has been working at the bottom for more than ten years, Ben knows very well that maybe he can't escape this time.
Ben actually sees it more clearly than many people in the workplace. He has not been promoted for more than ten years. The reason is simply that he has no money, no background, and lacks sufficient abilities.
This is America, this is New York, this is capital.
This country advocates hard work, but no one will ever pay for hard work. They just squeeze cheap labor and turn it into green money.
In this country, money always comes first, followed by background and ability, and finally freedom.
Diligent? what is that?
Only the chimpanzees in the orchard are industrious!
Therefore, Ben has not had any form of promotion in the past ten years, only a slight increase in salary.
And what about the people around him who work with Ben?
Either he has a good background in his family, or he graduated from a prestigious university with high ability. The worst thing is that he was a young man before.
And Ben isn't even young anymore.
Therefore, he is doomed by this layoff.
No matter how hardworking and capable they are, no matter how practical and reliable they are, no matter how hard they work overtime until midnight every day, Americans are not
The people of the Celestial Dynasty, who play tricks on people's hearts, don't need a big eunuch around them who can only be a repeater, but a person who has the ability, ideas and methods.
They are not afraid of others replacing them, but they are afraid of settling in a corner without change.
Ben pushed the door open. The lights in the room were not turned on, and it was dim. Then the moonlight filtered into the room from behind. Ben saw Mei sleeping on the sofa covered with a blanket, and there were cold meals on the table next to her. Vegetables and fish.
Ben closed the door, put on his shoes, and tiptoed into the room, but he still woke up Mei on the sofa.
"Are you back? Ben?"
Ben took a few steps forward and turned on the switch at hand. The lights in the room flickered, illuminating the small but clean and warm room.
"It's me, honey, it's time for you to go back to your room and sleep."
Ben smiled. He didn't want to bring his bad mood to his family, but even he didn't notice how forced the expression on his face was.
Mei did not do as I was told. Instead, she stood up from the sofa and went to the dining table. She picked up the cold fish on the table and said, "You can rest for a while. I'll heat up the food."
"……good."
Ben sank into the sofa, staring blankly at the dim lights on the ceiling.
His thoughts seemed to be flying far away, but they never seemed to move, and his eyes seemed distant.
After a while, Mei walked out of the kitchen with hot food in her hands: "Although I feel aggrieved, please be quieter when eating. Peter has already fallen asleep."
"Um."
Ben sat at the dining table and began to enjoy this late-night dinner. He had been working overtime today and he really hadn't eaten yet.
Mei sat across the table, watching Ben finishing the food on the table in a hurry. He hesitated for a moment and finally said, "Dear, I've been thinking these past few days, should you try to change your job?"
"Why?"
Ben paused in his movements, swallowed the bread in his mouth, and looked at Mei with confusion.
Mei pursed her lips: "You look so tired recently, and you always look gloomy. I think..."
"But now this is the best choice."
Ben interrupted Mei: "Other jobs don't have such a high hourly wage, unless they are jobs with high demand, but I can't meet the requirements of those jobs. Once I leave my job, our lives and... Peter...it's fine as it is now. I'm just tired because I've been busy recently. It will be fine in a while."
Ben comforted Mei, but Mei's next words made him feel like he was struck by lightning.
"I heard about the layoffs."
Mei looked at Ben: "Dear, if it really doesn't work, forget it. I can find another job and I can go out to work. Then the two of us will get two salaries, which will be enough for Peter to go to school."
"Then who will take care of Peter?"
Ben stared into May's eyes: "We both go out to work, who will take care of Peter? He is still a child."
Mei gritted her teeth and said, "Then I won't go to work. I can take care of Peter at home, and then do some manual work for others and earn some money. There is always a way."
Ben was silent.
After a while, Ben moved again and swept away the food on the table: "Let me think about this again."
Mei shouted in a low voice, "Ben!"
Ben was unmoved and picked up the empty plate on the table: "Don't wake Peter up. We'll talk about this later. I'll wash the dishes and you can go rest."
With that said, Ben entered the kitchen without looking back.
Mei stared at Ben's back and said after a while: "The medicine you asked Peter to get for you has been brought back. In the second compartment of the cabinet, Dr. Brian said that if you have time, it's best to do it yourself." Go over there and he will check you over and decide whether the treatment should continue."
The sound of washing and scrubbing in the kitchen was intermittent, and it took a long time before one word came out: "Oh."
Mei was unwilling to say: "You are already taking medicine, so keep going
What's the point of going? "
The sound of washing in the kitchen stopped, and only the water flowed. Ben's voice flowed out along with the sound of water: "It's just an ordinary stress reliever. Go and have a rest."
Mei looked at the figure in the kitchen and didn't know what to say, so she could only turn around and go back to the room.
Ben put the washed dishes back into place, then walked out of the kitchen and took the medicine bottle from the second compartment of the cabinet.
The medicine bottle is the same as the previous ones, with no words or pictures, just like a three-no product.
But I wasn’t worried, because the first few times the medicine was very effective, it was very effective in relieving the mental state.
Sanwu is just because this is a drug developed by Dr. Brian himself.
He wasn't cheating on Mei, there was nothing wrong with it being a drug to relieve mental stress.
He opened the bottle, poured out two pills as red as blood, and swallowed them.
There was no strange reaction.
Putting the medicine back, Ben also returned to the room.
Mei was lying on the bed with him on her back, wondering if she was asleep.
Ben also lay down and fell asleep.
Tomorrow is a new beginning, a new day, everything is new, even myself is new.
The morning light is faint.
Both hybrids and cultivators have extraordinary control over their physical condition. Things like jet lag can be reversed after just a little adaptation overnight.
Gu Bei and the others got up early and arrived at the designated location, waiting to meet with the commissioners and operatives arranged by the college.
But this place...
TheDeuce.
Also called Forty-second Street, it is a main street in Manhattan. The Deuce is the common name for this place among New Yorkers.
The street is famous for its theaters, especially near *** Square at the intersection with Broadway, so this intersection is also called the Theater District.
But it also has another familiar name.
The core industries here were at their peak in the 1970s and 1980s.
The scenes and postures here are also diverse and varied.
There are various types of beans, various types of peaches, and various types of unspeakable things.
Yes, this is the New York that was popular in the past. Even now, it is called a crazy paradise, full of depravity and corruption...
redlightdistrict
(Due to some kind of force majeure, please understand)
However, later on, Americans were too free, and when they were free enough to fire bombs wherever they wanted, location and region no longer mattered.
Then this place gradually became lonely.
However, the four people in Gu Bei didn't know much about this kind of thing. The only one who could be considered a "local", Old Tang, was an otaku. Not to mention 42nd Street, when he heard Broadway, he thought it was in the Magic City.
Poor baby.
Fingel is an expert in this area, but he doesn't really care, he just picks up the conversation, it's the same everywhere.
So he also forgot to introduce the long history of this place to the other three people present.
Maybe it was intentional?
This caused Gu Bei and the four of them to stand at the door of Broadway for a long time against the autumn wind. People coming and going around looked at them with curious and strange eyes, and there were even various women. They came up to ask for their contact information from four people - most of them asked for Chu Zihang's.
These women ranged from eighty to eighteen, and there were all kinds of women. Gu Bei once thought that Chu Zihang accidentally stabbed the woman's nest, and he did not suspect the reason to the place where they were standing.
Until a blond man wearing a coat and dressed like a secret agent came over and looked at the three of them strangely: "Why are you here?"
The man flashed the certificate in his arms. On the cover was the emblem of the Half-Dead World Tree and the school emblem of Kassel.
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My name is Ethan, a specialist in the New York Executive Department. I graduated from Kassel in 2002 and my pedigree grade is A. "
Fingel's eyes lit up and he ran over and grabbed Ethan's hand: "Good brother, I am also from the 2002 class. Do you still recognize me?"
Ethan looked Fingel up and down several times, and then asked in a very suspicious tone: "Are you... Fingel?"
"Yes, yes, it's me."
Fingel excitedly held the other person's hand and shook it up and down: "I didn't expect that all the students in the same class have become specialists in the execution department. They really have a bright future."
Ethan did not break away from Fingel's hand, and he was also very excited. After graduation, Fingel's students will be assigned to perform missions around the world, or become branch specialists. In addition to being arranged together from the beginning, Otherwise, I'm afraid it would be difficult to see each other again. Although he was not familiar with Fingel, he was still a former classmate and had some friendship with him.
"I didn't expect to meet you here, Fingel. What are you doing now? Did you discover this mission?"
Fingel banged his chest: "Yes, I discovered this mission together with several junior students. I originally wanted to send them to school for orientation, but I didn't expect that we would encounter this kind of thing. ,Unfortunately."
Ethan nodded, without thinking carefully about what Fingel meant by "junior", and a smile appeared on his face: "Bringing freshmen to school, okay Fingel, if I remember correctly, this should be Is it a professor's job? Is it possible that you stayed in school? What's your current position? I said that you were the strongest in our class. Even though you were A-level, I felt that I couldn't compare with you. It seems that my guess was quite accurate. of."
Fingel smiled mysteriously: "I didn't graduate."
"Oh, I didn't graduate, I didn't graduate... I didn't graduate!?"
Ethan turned to look at Fingel, as if he had seen a ghost: "Then this year you are..."
Fingel smiled even more happily: "Daqi."
Although he didn’t know why this guy felt proud instead of being ashamed, Ethan still silently took his hand away from Fingel.
It's better to stay away from him in the future.
