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On the second day of the Chinese New Year, she slept until eight thirty and got up, boiling water to cook instant noodles. Half of the man’s face was still buried in the quilt, his two good-looking eyebrows slightly furrowed, “Where are you going so early?”

“I’m on duty today. I’ll go at ten and be back by four in the afternoon.” She broke the pastry and put it into the boiling water, “There’s triple pay for today’s shift, hey, there’s also oh on New Year’s Eve, cash that’s paid out at the start of the vacation.” She a new person no bonus no thirteen pay, only a pitifully small amount of holiday pay, think about it or overtime to make money fast. What’s more, the first to the third day of the New Year is the time for people to visit friends and relatives, the preparation of the early preparation, come to less people, she played games in the office to mix a few hours back, how to think is earned.

The noodles rolled up and the seasoning was put down. She was slurping her chopsticks when she heard a commotion behind her, looked back straight into the room, and saw the man was putting clothes on his body, “Why don’t you get some more sleep?”

“To accompany you on duty.” The man seems to have not slept enough, head half drooped, forehead hair hanging down a blame, “A person in the house is very boring.”

She blushed, “This is not good, right, a shift also a drag two.” It’s embarrassing for people to see.

“What’s wrong with that, is it better to have employees abandon their families to go on duty on New Year’s Day.” He snorted, “I’ll just sit in there with you and won’t touch anything.” She wanted to say that even if you went there and didn’t touch anything, 80% of the time something would happen, but seeing how insistent he was, she let it go. She was quite uneasy about leaving him alone at home on New Year’s Eve.

Nine-thirty past the two only dragged out, she held him walking a think and feel wrong, “ay, I think you still do not go, the office and not only I am a person, you go with really some strange.”

The man stopped walking, turned his face to the corner of his eye slightly upward, “Good.” She ate a shock, thinking that just now he still has a lot of reasons, this moment why so dry? Murphy ……

Sure enough, immediately after this man said, “Just now I see the door of the mahjong hall opened ……”

This move is too ruthless!

She palpitated and clutched his hand, her palm was wet with sweat, “But don’t dare any more, but don’t dare any more, you’re like this we’ll really be swept out of the neighborhood by that group of senior citizens.” Their current savings were pitifully low, whether they could make it until she was paid was still a question, let alone find a new place to live.

He poofed out a laugh and half gathered her into his arms, “Just kidding, they’ve suffered once and won’t fall for it again, and playing pig in a poke can only be used once in the same place.”

“Well, that’s true,” she yawned, “By the way, you’ve been abroad, how come you know how to play mahjong as well, and you’re so good at it?”

He held her hand and put it in his pocket, “Used to manage the casino.”

“Casino?” In her mind casinos were the kind of place with a tarp, a bamboo pole, and a couple hundred watt light bulbs hanging from it. On the simple table piled up money and dominoes or something, and then tattooed with dragons, tigers, snakes and leopards bare-chested men with cigarettes in their duck voices yelling to buy and leave. She snapped out of it, “Ho, you’re cheating!”

“Gamblers do not cheat,” he nodded his head, “Gamblers need to be precise calculations to win with the highest probability.”

“Don’t believe it, underground casinos are all cheats.”

“It’s a regular casino, licensed.” He narrowed his eyes, “That field is in Las Vegas, quite good. The person in charge now?…… also counts with me a little ‘friendship’, take you to play two or can.”

“Thanks, I’ve always been unlucky, will lose money.” She pouted, thinking that now, not to mention Las Vegas, can go to Hainan Island is still a problem, “These are not good camp, to live a life or have to find a serious job, nine to five.”

The man nodded, “Yeah, I’ll go find one.”

She got excited, “Then you tell me what you’ve done before besides managing a casino, I’ll go to the office and type up a resume for you.” This excited, completely forgetting that the man in front of her had a forged ID.

The man thought very seriously, “Tuning and modifying firearms, training bodyguards …… probably the type of people you’d call hitmen, and working as an analyst for a while.”

“Analyst?” This one had the makings of something! “Tell me, what’s the job description?”

“Finding the weaknesses of competing characters by any means necessary, waiting for an opportunity to make a move, attacking them, and making sure to hit them right on the head.”

“…… Simply put, it’s to look for opportunities to frame people and then threaten them and finally make them cry and beg for forgiveness and give in, and then you can do whatever you want, right?”

“That’s right.”

“…… You’d better stay home.”

“What?”

“People can’t be too selfish, I have to think about the safety of others too.”

The days of rest always flew by, the seven-day Spring Festival vacation was over, and work and life returned to their original pace.

Ya Xiao was now very accustomed to the current life, two points and one line every day, work place – home. On weekends, the two of them would drag their hands to go around the neighborhood a few times, and then go to a small square nearby to sit, or chat about something or watch the children in the park play roller skating.

The weather has slowly turned warm, but the wind is strong in the open space. She always used to put her hands in his pockets, neck shrinking short and then arched her face into his clothes, playful, clothes were torn a little deformed.

He just laughed, “How you and the groundhog like.”

“It’s a turnip.” She casually responded, looked up to see him in ambiguous bad smile, to fine a thought, bad, this is really yellow too violent, hurriedly corrected, “I mean this is a little warmer.”

He nodded, “Indeed, the turnip in the hole is warmer than being pulled out.”

The more he said, the more embarrassed he became!

She pulls her head back and shrinks into her collar, indignantly, “Rascal.”

He continued to laugh, “The truth.”

She simply should not, if a man is shameless, it is more terrible than anything else. Especially the more usually do not love to talk to the man, a start to be simply more powerful than the fox with nine tails.

On the square there is a pair of couples taking wedding photos, the equipment and set decoration is a bit miserable. Photographer wearing a watermelon skin hat, two moustaches on the mouth, holding a home SLR, mouth constantly moving, asking the new couple to pose for him to ravage a variety of poses, on the side of the crowd of onlookers.

“Where is the trouble of getting married, just pull a license, what shooting location ah. I want to get married to death to take a picture of an indoor, through the addiction to wear a wedding dress will become.” She looked at the bride in white gown sneezed a few times, shook her head and said, “blindly tossed to people like a monkey show, burn money and labor. There is this free money might as well save up to go on a honeymoon, a few thousand dollars is enough to have a good time.”

“Where do you want to go on your honeymoon?”

“Maldives, paradise on earth. However, it is very expensive is, or in the domestic play is more economical, Hainan is also good ah, Xiamen is also good ah, by the sea, there is blue water, blue sky and white sandy beaches. Wait until the off-season of tourism to go, the expenses are not big, you can play a few more days.” She shook her head, “Wait until the first of May vacation, we will go out to play. Just hang around the neighborhood, it won’t cost much.”

“Good,” he looked down and nibbled her ear, smothering a smile, “I’m looking forward to going to the beach, seeing the blue water and blue sky …… and then trying to plant radishes in the sand… …”

“–You, rascal!”

“Nasty, shameless thing.” Ya Xiao hatefully poked the carrots in the dinner plate, really thanks to that man, these days when she saw the carrots, she thought of the beach, and when she thought of the beach, she was ……. But these days the cafeteria master chef also do not know what wind, what dishes are with a little shredded radish, red and white, and flowers in the heart of the beauty of the radish, really eat until she regurgitated.

Received a call from the man before work, said to do a light hot pot, go home quickly, go to the movies at night.

“Hell you’re still hiding personal money!” She raged, “How dare you buy something as extravagant as a movie ticket!”

The man on the other end of the phone was quite helpless, “The neighborhood committee sent them, saying that there was some kind of mission to make sure to go. However, if you don’t want to watch it we can just watch TV at home.”

She bristled and said that if it was free, forget it, just think of it as a way to spice up your life.

There was only one movie theater in this small city, on the east side, built in the 1980s, very large but the equipment and other things were old, so the ticket prices were cheap. Ya Xiao hadn’t seen a movie in a long time, although she knew that the movies with free tickets were usually classic patriotic films, but how to say that two people going to see it together always felt different.

After clocking out of work, she jogged all the way to the bakery on the corner for a 20% discount, so she had to hurry to grab the crispy breadsticks that both she and Shan Yanxiu loved to eat. In time, there were two breadsticks left, so she wrapped them up.

When she crossed the street, she was in a hurry and stepped on the red light before it jumped off. A car was just starting up, and she was knocked to the ground when the brakes were not applied. The responsibility of this matter was originally in her, and only fell to the ground, did not suffer any injuries. The owner of the car was very polite and courteous, and after unsuccessfully requesting that she be sent to a doctor, he took a step back and said, “In that case, I’ll give you a ride, as an apology.”

Although Ya Xiao was embarrassed, but seeing that the delay was long and she had to listen to the man’s nagging when she got home late, she didn’t make any pretense and pulled open the car door and got in, “Then I’ll trouble you.”

The owner of the car is a gentle and elegant man, talk is also extraordinary. The fingers holding the steering wheel were long and slender, and the nails were manicured and rounded. The cuffs of his white shirt were pulled up, and a silver-colored watch emitted a brilliant light on his wrist.

Seems, some familiar ……

Ya Xiao’s mind drifted, and her heart jolted violently, “Uh, this gentleman, I didn’t know your name until now.”

The elegant man’s face turned slightly sideways, a piercing prism of light sliding across his silver-rimmed glasses, and

“My last name is Bay, Berry. Please be kind enough to tell me more.”