When He Smiles - Chapter 44

Hangzhou’s night is cooler than Jiangcheng, and Xiao Hang likes to go around. Meng Shengnan couldn’t sleep alone, so she ran to sleep with her grandmother in the wing. The old lady is 72 years old, with bright ears and bright eyes, no one can compare to embroidering flowers, and no one can be idle. On the bed in the room, grandma talked to her while embroidering.

Meng Shengnan lay on the side and teased the cat.

“I want to be a cat in my next life.”

Grandma laughed, “Envy it, right?”

“Eat and sleep, wake up and eat again, how comfortable it is.”

Grandma laughed again, “Look at you too lazy.”

She was happy.

“After the New Year is 25, your mother can’t urge it now?”

Meng Shengnan shook his head and smiled.

“Is there someone you like?” the old man asked with a smile.

She was silent for a while and nodded.

“Call that tonight?”

Meng Shengnan blinked, “Why do you know everything?”

The old lady raised her eyebrows: “I know how you look at you.”

Then I fell asleep and turned off the light. There was moonlight coming in through the cracks in the curtains, and there was such a warm light in the room. Grandma didn’t fall asleep, and told her something about the past. She listened attentively, with a cat lying on her feet.

After a while, the old man asked, “Nan Nan, what does that kid do?”

Meng Shengnan paused for a few seconds in the dark night.

“Grandma.”

“Ok?”

Meng Shengnan: “What if he has nothing?”

Grandma smiled, “I don’t have it now, I won’t have it later.”

She hummed softly and laughed.

“As long as you like it.”

Meng Shengnan hugged the quilt and leaned against her grandmother.

Grandma patted her on the back, “Go to sleep.”

“Ai.”

In the dark night, Meng Shengnan smiled at the corner of his mouth, and couldn’t help but smile again when he thought of his nasty words. At that time, Chi Zheng was typing the code and sneezed twice in a row. He frowned and rubbed his hair, looked at the phone, and pondered for a moment. Then picked it up and dialed a number. The other end was picked up almost immediately, but there was no opening.

Chi Zheng lit a cigarette.

“Why, I can’t speak after two years of contact?”

The other end smiled suddenly, “Yes, poor words.”

Chi Zheng bit the cigarette, turned on the lighter and then extinguished, repeatedly. His eyes were quiet, pitch black as ink, and he raised a low laugh, “Or is it not a brother?”

“One day, the whole life.”

Chi Zheng ‘fucked’, “Are you all talking about literature like this?”

There was a laugh.

Chi Zheng threw away the lighter, took a cigarette in one hand and inhaled, “What have you been up to these two years?”

“It’s the same, foolish.”

Chi Zheng didn’t even bother to talk nonsense, and went straight to the subject.

“I have an idea, do you want to do it together?”

There was no sound for a long time, and after a long time, he said slowly: “That thing—”

“Don’t be like a maiden, give me a chance.”

The head paused, and the voice was earnest and earnest: “I’m just waiting for your words.”

Chi Zheng was silent.

“I will leave early tomorrow morning.”

“Can you stay away?” Chi Zheng asked.

“Nothing.”

Chi Zheng smiled, “Yes, I will pick you up at that time.”

In just a few words, all that should be said has been said. There was another silence in the room, and Chi Zheng swallowed mist in the dim light. Early the next morning, he set off to pick up people at the airport. The weather forecast said it was cloudy to fine, but light rain started on the way there.

Across the road, the two looked at each other for a few seconds.

The man carried the bag and suddenly smiled. At the same time, he stepped closer and gave a heavy hug. Chi Zheng smiled and said, “It’s hard work all the way.”

With a smile, ‘hatred’.

The man lowered his head and raised his head, “Starting today, my life, Lu Huai, is yours.”

Chi Zheng was silent, “I don’t want my daughter-in-law?”

The man’s face was full of laughter.

Rain or shine all the way to the shop. Lu Huai stood at the door and looked at it for a long time, “This name is too lazy.”

Chi Zheng leaned on the glass cabinet, touched the cigarette and passed it.

Lu Huai shook his head, “Quit.”

“Drink some wine?”

Lu Huai shook his head again.

Chi Zheng frowned, “Also quit?”

Lu Huai shrugged, “It was the fault of wine back then. My buddy swore that he would never touch it again for the rest of his life.”

Chi Zheng didn’t say a word for a while.

“How is your aunt?” Lu Huai asked.

Chi Zheng said: “Very good.”

Lu Huai nodded, took out a card from his wallet and threw it to Chi Zheng.

“What are you doing?”

Lu Huai raised his hands flat, “It’s not mine.”

Chi Zheng pondered, “That one?”

“He said he would definitely not want it for you.”

Chi Zheng raised his eyes: “You will ask for it if you give it to me?”

Lu Huai smiled, “I won’t go back now.”

“how?”

Lu Huai said: “He gave a cruel word, don’t just throw it away.”

Chi Zheng smoked a cigarette and said nothing.

Lu Huai said: “Take it, it’s his heart. Just use it as the project’s start-up capital, and let him become a shareholder.”

Chi Zheng chuckled.

Lu Huai knew this was acquiescence, and he asked, “What shall we do now?”

“Find a house.”

Lu Huai asked, “Is there enough for a hundred square meters?”

“Enough.” Chi Zheng said, “I’ll get a few more computers at that time.”

Lu Huai is a kind of activist, smashing a house in two days. The renovated second-hand house is located in Jinding District, Kunming Road, with a lease term of one year. It is a three-bedroom and one living room on the seventeenth floor. The living room is spacious, and Lu Huai has placed several two-meter-long tables with four or five large desktop computers. Chi Zheng spent another day and a half assembling the plug-in cables, which were all the best hardware. After everything was done, both of them fell asleep on the ground tired.

Chi Zheng was addicted to cigarettes, leaning on the sofa behind him, smoking one by one.

Lu Huai looked for an opportunity to ask: “Have you been single for the past two years?”

Chi Zheng laughed with a cigarette in his mouth.

“What do you mean?”

Chi Zheng raised his eyes faintly, and asked instead: “Have you been alone?”

Lu Huai sighed.

“Seeing you are single, brother can at least find some comfort.”

Chi Zheng raised his eyebrows, “That’s really sorry.”

“What’s the matter?”

Chi Zheng said tepidly, “I just left the order a few days ago.”

Lu Huai obviously didn’t believe it, “Come on, you, do you really have the temperament you can stand?”

Chi Zheng laughed and asked a question casually.

“I remember the new concept that you participated in with the guy surnamed Jiang back then.”

Lu Huai: “Yes, why did you ask about this?”

“It’s a coincidence.”

“What? Speak clearly.”

Chi Zheng curled his lips, “You probably know me too.”

“Who?” Lu Huai was interested.

Chi Zheng deliberately sold Guanzi, “What anxiously, I will know when the time comes.”

“Fuck.”

Chi Zheng began to smoke casually again, chatting with Lu Huai sometimes. Later at night, Lu Huai camped in the house. He left to go back to the shop, and it was only a ten-minute walk between the two places. He walked on the road, groping for cigarettes while calling Meng Shengnan.

No one answered for the first time.

Chi Zheng frowned and dialed again, this time it took a long time to connect there. Meng Shengnan’s voice was lazy and greasy, she put her mobile phone to her ear and made a sound. Chi Zheng frowned even more, she didn’t know how much she flirted with him like this.

No one was speaking on the phone, and Meng Shengnan opened his eyes to look at the display, and he became sober in an instant.

“Chi Zheng?”

She yelled cautiously, and Chi Zheng said faintly.

“You haven’t slept so late?” she asked.

Chi Zheng: “It’s late?”

As soon as the voice fell, he went to check the time, only to realize that it was past eleven o’clock.

Meng Shengnan answered, “It’s almost early morning.”

Chi Zheng stuffed his cigarette into his mouth, and a car passed by. Meng Shengnan heard the sound of the lighter and couldn’t help asking him.

“you are outside?”

“Ok.”

Chi Zheng took a mouthful of cigarettes and said, “I have been busy these past two days, and I don’t have time to call you.”

“I know.” She said softly.

Chi Zheng was funny, “What do you know?”

Meng Shengnan was questioned by him, and said slowly: “At most, it is just taking a job or something.”

Chi Zheng smiled lowly, “What have you done these two days?”

“It’s nothing,” she said, “to accompany my grandmother to buy groceries and make a meal and talk.”

“anything else?”

Meng Shengnan thought for a while, “Grandma taught me to embroider.”

“How is the embroidery?”

Meng Shengnan paused for a few seconds, “Not easy to learn.”

“Really.” Chi Zheng said with a smile.

“Ok.”

Chi Zheng: “Then don’t learn.”

“No way.”

“Why not?”

Meng Shengnan said: “Grandma taught me very seriously.”

On the street, the street lights are dim and bright. The road ahead is vaguely visible, and the trees on the side of the street rise with the wind. It is rare for Chi Zheng to be in such a good mood. He jokingly smiled: “Then study hard. You will learn it in at least one or two years.”

Meng Shengnan glanced secretly when he knew he was teasing her.

Chi Zheng laughed sharply, “It really doesn’t work for three years.”

“Ah!” Meng Shengnan raised his voice.

Chi Zheng: “Yeah, will you still be angry?”

Meng Shengnan said nothing.

Chi Zheng: “Really angry?”

She still didn’t say a word, not because she didn’t want to speak, but she didn’t know how to speak. After the two were together, most of them took the initiative. It seems that it was not until this time that Meng Shengnan realized that even being silent was acting like a baby.

“No.” She said slowly.

Chi Zheng: “I didn’t hear you clearly, you say it again.”

Meng Shengnan: “Don’t tell me.”

Chi Zheng laughed lowly, “Sure, you can do whatever you want.”

She buried her face in the quilt, but the corners of her mouth kept bending upward. I just heard him say: “I just happen to have a question I want to ask you.”

“what?”

Chi Zheng said indifferently, “I didn’t call you, and you didn’t call me either?”

Meng Shengnan was stunned for a moment.

“No.”

“what is that?”

Meng Shengnan blinked, “You are busy.”

Chi Zheng nodded, “This reason is still a livelihood.”

Meng Shengnan: “…”

After talking for a while, Chi Zheng heard her yawn, and said no more. Meng Shengnan was also sleepy. She shed tears when she yawned and couldn’t stop it. When she was about to hang up, Chi Zheng asked when she would be back.

She hesitated for a long time, “It’s still a while.”

Chi Zheng: “Okay, go to sleep.”

“Oh.”

Chi Zheng received his mobile phone and walked on the road in the evening breeze, extinguishing the scarlet fire between his fingers. When he arrived at the shop, he pinched his cigarette, took a shower for a few minutes, and fell asleep. Lu Huai was still asleep when he got up at 5 or 6 o’clock the next day and went to Jinding.

Chi Zheng entered the bedroom, walked over and kicked him up.

Lu Huai opened his hazy eyes, “So early?”

Chi Zheng glanced at him and went to the living room, turning on the computers at the same time. He sat on a chair, eating the vegetable box he had just bought and drinking mineral water. Lu Huai took the slippers to wash slowly, then sat beside him, picked up a piece and ate it. Chi Zheng was about to speak when the phone rang in his pocket.

Shi Jin came back and asked where the others were.

Chi Zheng talked about the place, and said to Lu Huai: “I’ll introduce you to a brother in a moment.”

After the two of them dealt with each other, Shi Jin came. It was also shocked to see this posture as soon as I entered the door, this is simply the style of a small company, and it is this person-damn few. Chi Zheng gave an introduction to the two of them, and Lu Huai asked, “Which history and modern soldiers attacked?”

Chi Zheng smiled.

Shi Jin’s eyes widened, “Do you like it too?”

“It must be.”

Chi Zheng smiled and shook his head, there were two more goods. So, in that one hundred square meter area, three twenty-five-six-year-old young people began to reshuffle their lives. Shi Jin manages safety management and operations, and Lu Huai and Chi Zheng concentrate on programming.

At that moment, the sky slowly brightened.

Chi Zheng said: “I’ve said everything that is simpler. You two haven’t asked me what I am going to do?”

Lu Huai smiled.

“Before I came here, my brother told me to **** with you. You are more measured than we are. Naturally, I said it when it was time to say it, asking so many questions.”

Shi Jin’s eyes seemed to light up, and immediately stretched out his palm. Lu Huai knows, the two givemefive.

“Confidante.” Unanimously.

Chi Zheng suddenly felt a pain in his head, so he turned the computer thirty degrees to the two goods.

“What is this?” said in unison.

Chi Zheng lifted his chin, “Asocialq&asite.”

“Damn, your English is against the sky?” Shi Jin’s eyes stared out.

Chi Zheng laughed.

Lu Huai spoke slowly: “Social Q&A website.”

The author has something to say: Let me explain this website. Everyone knows Zhihu, right? Zhihu began to operate on a large scale in the second half of 2012. The threshold is not high, and it probably became popular around that time. What Chi Zheng is going to do is a bit similar to Zhihu, but it also feels like a realistic prototype. Zhou Yuan, the CEO of Zhihu, can think about it this way. When I first met him in the news, the reporter interviewed him: “Why are you doing this?” Zhou Yuan said, “I think it’s a cool thing to type code.” I liked him instantly. In the novel, I just mention it briefly. They are all fictitious and some are not rigorous. If you are serious, you lose. (laugh)

One more thing: What do you think is a good name for this website? I thought for a long time, intending to use Meng Shengnan’s initials, and then discovered a big earth-shattering secret: MSN. (It’s not on purpose.)