When we got off the train, the sun had fully risen and the early morning fog had completely dissipated.

Yang Yang dragged his suitcase to the roadside at the train station exit, bought a cup of milk tea, and drank it while waiting for Didi's driver to come over.

The warm sunshine and the sweet milk tea relieved Yang Yang from some of the fatigue caused by the nightmare on the train.

A man suddenly appeared and tapped him on the shoulder.

Yang Yang turned to look at this person and found that it was his junior high school classmate Li Xiaodong.

Li Xiaodong said enthusiastically as soon as they met: "Yang Yang, is it really you? I was afraid that I had mistakenly admitted the wrong person. You just came back?"

"I just came back. I took annual leave from the company and came back to take care of some things." Yang Yang replied with a smile on his face.

Li Xiaodong has changed a lot. I met him once a few years ago. He has shown signs of gaining weight and now looks like a energetic young man.

Although it was a courtesy, Yang Yang felt better after being able to see his former classmates and feel a touch of humanity in life.

"It's better to work with companies in your big cities. In our city's companies, even a clerk like me gets 796 blessings every day, and sometimes even gets deprived of vacations. Not to mention how frustrating it is."

"It's all work, it's inevitable. When it comes to big projects, I'm as busy as a spinning top. As soon as I'm done, I apply for annual leave to come back and relax." Yang Yang said following Li Xiaodong's words.

Anyone who has truly experienced working hard in a big city understands that working from 9 to 5 is just a joke. If you really want to get ahead, if you don’t have extraordinary abilities, you still need to spend time accumulating.

The time it takes to be reluctant to rent a high-priced rental house near the company, the time it takes to travel to and from the bus and subway, the time it takes to study hard after work, the time it takes to stay up late and work overtime when you don't want to do the work.

Flexible working hours are the biggest joke in the workplace, second only to people with free working hours.

In fact, there was a time when Yang Yang thought about starting a side job, such as writing novels.

But later he discovered that people with free working hours actually had no freedom at all and had to think about work all the time.

I already have a workaholic wife at home. If he doesn't take care of the family, then the home will be no different from a garbage dump.

His ex-wife Li Yaoyao had the ability to just throw a change of clothes into the washing machine and forget about it? We didn’t know until it turned sour and smelly in two days.

At the beginning? He thought that everyone forgets sometimes, so it’s okay? Even if the clothes have mildew stains that can’t be washed off? Just throw them away and buy them again.

But there are more and more things like this. How can he dare to start a side job? When there is no time to clean up the house, the two of them live in an environment full of mold? Everyone should be sick.

When he was willing to marry Li Yaoyao? It was because he fell in love with Li Yaoyao's positive attitude towards life, but he didn't expect that he would be defeated by her attitude towards life in the end.

Yang Yang could understand it at first. As a woman, it takes hours to put on makeup when you go out. That was before you bought a car? You still have to squeeze into buses and subways. After a day’s work, you’re exhausted. It’s normal to like to watch some TV series and short videos to decompress.

, there is basically no free time left.

Since she has no time to do anything? There has to be one person to do it, and he is the only one left.

But what happened next? He became busier and busier. When people are tired, their moods get worse. Or even collapse. As the first quarrel begins? The days from now on are no longer dull at the beginning, with a little ambiguity.

It's not like he hasn't thought about hiring a nanny? But if they don't have children, they still need a nanny? It's too subversive of Yang Yang's three views.

They are not bosses, nor do they live in a villa. They work exhaustingly outside every day and spend the least time at home.

Why hire a nanny to go home? Do you want to enjoy peace and happiness?

He would rather use the money from the nanny to buy some practical gifts for the elderly of the two families, so that the lives of the two families can be more comfortable and humane, even if he himself has to work harder.

"Hey, Yang Yang, what are you thinking about? You're so distracted." Li Xiaodong waved his hand in front of Yang Yang's eyes.

"Nothing, I didn't sleep well on the train and I'm a little sleepy." Yang Yang looked at his phone and saw that the Didi train was about to arrive in about a minute.

"Are you waiting for the Didi train? Then I won't talk to you here. This time I am on a business trip and I have to take the train. I may have to travel frequently in the future. Life is miserable..."

When Li Xiaodong left, he muttered.

Yang Yang watched him walk into the train station, feeling envious in his heart that he could go on business trips from time to time.

Being able to leave the cage of reinforced concrete and walk around and see every stranger is so new.

They come in all shapes and sizes, and most of them don't require you to carefully manage interpersonal relationships. Everyone is just a passerby of each other.

You can say what you want, complain about your terrible boss, talk about the difficulties of life, and listen to other people's stories.

"Hey, is this the Didi Hitchhiker you called?"

A woman's voice called Yang Yang back. Yang Yang picked up the phone and took a look, and found that it indeed matched the other person's license plate number.

It was him who ordered the car, but the driver seemed to be different. The software showed a man instead of a woman.

"This car isn't yours, right?"

"It belongs to my brother. Do you want to sit down? If not, I will drive away."

The woman's face was smeared with powder, with some tiny particles floating on it, and her lips were smeared with red lipstick, but they were still dazzlingly red.

One thing to say, this woman is not ugly.

But she reminded Yang Yang of the nightmare he had last night, which inevitably made him feel a little uncomfortable.

Out of kindness, Yang Yang finally chose to sit on it.

Even if you take the car you ordered, you should finish the ride.

"Should the suitcase be placed in the trunk or in the rear seat?"

"The back seat, the trunk, and the two pots of orchids I bought, I'm afraid you might crush them."

The eldest sister was a little impatient with Yang Yang, feeling that the mother-in-law of an old man was not happy enough.

After Yang Yang got in the car, she looked out the window without saying anything, which made her feel like she had picked up a weirdo.

Halfway through the journey, the eldest sister began to be unable to bear the too quiet atmosphere.

"Where are you going?"

"go home."

"Just came back from overseas?"

"Um."

The eldest sister asked, and Yang Yang replied, keeping his head looking out the window.

"Something on your mind?"

"No, sister, the foundation on your face is smudged."

"Um?"

"It's too eye-catching. I'm afraid it won't be polite if I keep looking at it."

"..."

Yang Yang still said what he said and continued to look out the window.

The eldest sister labeled Yang Yang as a straight man. He couldn't speak at all and would he die if he just made any excuse?

If you have to point it out, it will embarrass both of you.

But the eldest sister doesn't know that in Yang Yang's eyes, except for those close to him, everyone else is the same whether they are male or female.

We are all adults, why do you need me to take care of your emotions?

If it were in the past, Yang Yang might still be thinking about cultivating connections and forming a good relationship.

Now he is tired and too lazy to pick up the mask of hypocrisy.
Chapter completed!