catch the dream

Outside the high-speed railway station, Chen Yekai quickly got off the car, looked down at his watch, and Zhou Sheng was coming out of the station. The two looked at each other, and Zhou Sheng was sweating.

Chen Yekai said, "Going away?"

Zhou Sheng spread his hands helplessly, and Chen Yekai said, "I just wanted to tell you that I will go to Beijing in a while, it doesn't matter, we will meet again then."

"What?!" Zhou Sheng was startled and looked at Chen Yekai warily. Chen Yekai said: "Your school has established an exchange relationship with a university in Beijing. They sent a young lecturer over, and I will go there."

Zhou Sheng was surprised. He saw Chen Yekai get into the car and watched him leave.

Yu Hao was tossed and tossed by Zhou Sheng all night last night, and his back hurts when he lay down, so he had to sleep on his stomach.This dream came and went, he felt that Zhou Sheng was trying to enter his dream, but his dream was shaking all the time, which was affected by the surrounding environment when he fell asleep, and the distance seemed to be a certain obstacle.

"Sleep well." Finally, Yu Hao said to Zhou Sheng, "Otherwise you'll be very tired again when you wake up tomorrow."

"Then... good night." Zhou Sheng said a lot, but Yu Hao smiled before him: "Good night."

He pressed his hand on Zhou Sheng's forehead, woke up on the high-speed rail, turned over, and fell back into a deep sleep after a while.

Arrived in Beijing at four o'clock in the morning.

This is the first time Yu Hao has left Ying City alone. Although he occasionally went out to play with Zhou Sheng during winter and summer vacations, he has never wandered alone in unfamiliar places. Yu Hao suddenly became a member of this Bei Piao army.

Everything around him was within his imaginable range, it was not surprising, but there was a sense of strangeness, the people outside the high-speed railway station were pulling accommodation, and the passengers who hired intermediaries for black cars, Yu Hao used his mobile phone to call a car, and found a parking lot to sit in. Didi's car left.In the past, he would definitely look for the bus or subway, but after following Zhou Shengduo, he began to know that he had money, cards, cameras, and computers with him, and he couldn't save these things when he was a newcomer.

After taking a taxi for more than 120, Yu Hao first followed the address given by Lin Ze, and arrived at the main road outside the newspaper office in Xicheng District at 06:30, and sent a message to Zhou Sheng to report his safety, and then found a fast hotel nearby to stay, and was going to report first Rent another room.

The early morning in Beijing in September is getting cooler, and there are many old men and women doing Tai Chi outside the park.From getting off the high-speed rail to staying at the hotel, Yu Hao felt that the city was very friendly to him. Everyone was very enthusiastic when asking for directions, and the aunts even took the initiative to guide him.

Zhou Sheng asked him every 10 minutes at first, and Yu Hao took pictures of him with his mobile phone to report the progress. When it was past seven o'clock, there was no movement from Zhou Sheng's side, and he probably fell asleep again.After finishing the check-in, Yu Hao checked in and got a room, took a shower and washed his hair, changed his shirt, dressed a little more concisely, put on his camera bag and went to report to the newspaper office.

The newspaper office is in an alley. It is a small four-story building with "Qinghua Times" engraved on the door. There are a large row of blue vertical plaques on both sides. They are all news organizations, youth media units, etc., which are quite organ-style. , There are two small stone lions at the door.When Yu Hao entered, there was no one there, so he asked at the door, and when it was quiet, he called out again.

"Here we come!" An aunt's voice said, "I heard you!"

While sending a message to Lin Ze, Yu Hao said, "I'm looking for Lin Ze...reporter, editor?"

The aunt said with a blank face: "I don't know, who is that?"

Yu Hao: "..."

Yu Hao thought to himself, he was cheated?Then can't I go home?It is estimated that Zhou Sheng would be crazy to see him go back at night.

"He asked me to report. This is his business card..." Yu Hao showed the business card to the aunt, and the aunt said doubtfully, "Isn't this the newspaper office in Chongqing? What are you doing in Beijing?"

Yu Hao explained again: "Didn't he transfer here?"

"Wait a minute." The aunt got up and went in. Yu Hao was very anxious, and told Zhou Sheng what had happened to him. Zhou Sheng replied: 【I think you should come back, this is God's will. 】

"Here!" Lin Ze stepped out quickly, waving at Yu Hao in the corridor.The aunt said: "Don't go through this door in the future, go through the side door, I thought it was some leader who sent someone to visit secretly, oh my god it scared me..."

Yu Hao: "..."

"Thank you, big sister." Lin Ze signaled Yu Hao to follow him.

"Isn't this the newspaper office?" Yu Hao said, "The newspaper office is still afraid of unannounced visits?"

Yu Hao didn't know why every time he saw Lin Ze, his complaint skills seemed to be activated automatically. Lin Ze said, "You came at such a good time, I just need someone to help me..."

Lin Ze pushed open the door of an office, and Yu Hao was shocked.

It was like a vegetable market inside, with dozens of desks and messy manuscripts piled up everywhere, and Situ Ye was still arguing with an editor.

"Why is there something wrong with my photo..."

"The face is all black!" the editor said, "How do you want me to post it?"

Situ Ye: "That's because the time to take pictures is at night!"

Lin Ze: "Have a better attitude!"

Answering the phone, making calls, A4 papers flying around, and the printer was still beeping wildly, Yu Hao thought that the machine was going to explode in a matter of minutes.He had only seen this scene in one place, and it was Xiao Yujun's Yingjiang Daily.

"You sit here." Lin Ze said to Yu Hao, "No matter who tells you to move your seat, don't move, don't get up, just say this is your seat, sit and wait for me... Teacher Yang! My man is here! There's already one!"

Yu Hao: "..."

Yu Hao took off his camera bag, and as soon as he sat down, a bearded man came over with a cigarette in his mouth, holding a large stack of manuscripts in his hand, and looked down at Yu Hao.

Yu Hao: "Hello."

"Make room!" the man said, "Where did you come from?"

Situ Ye sat on a desk and said to the man, "People from our department!"

The man said, "Where's the badge? Take it out."

Situ Ye said: "Isn't this done yet? I'm looking for Teacher Yang."

The man said: "Hey, young man, what are you doing?" He threw the stack of papers in his hand on the table, walked straight to look for Situ Ye, Situ Ye immediately said: "What are you doing?"

"What are you doing?"

Yu Hao was terrified when he saw it, for fear that they would fight, the man pushed away a reporter who was making a call in front of him, and went to look for Situ Ye, but Situ Ye jumped off the editor's desk and ran outside.

Yu Hao: "..."

A girl wearing glasses at the side said to Yu Hao, "Can you help me find out what this word is?"

Yu Hao said: "I... this..."

The girl was holding a manuscript, on which was a pile of extremely scribbled handwriting, Yu Hao looked at the context, and said, "This should be...the banner..."

"Yes, yes, yes!" the girl immediately said, "I'll add chicken legs..."

The male editor in front turned around and said, "Isn't this the manuscript you wrote yourself?"

The girl said: "How can I recognize what I wrote? Handsome guy, please help me read..."

The bearded man came back again and said, "Hey, you should go, get up!"

"I'm asking something!" the girl said, "Can you stop bothering me?"

"This is my place!" said the bearded man.

"Isn't it the same where you sit?" The editor turned around and said, "You can't sit in the corner?"

"That's the toilet!" the bearded man roared, "Would you like to sit by the toilet door and have a look?"

The scene was in total chaos, and within a short while, the entire big office fell silent. Yu Hao looked up and saw an old lady about 60 years old, wearing a red dress, lipstick and make-up, coming from the small office at the end of the big office. Coming out with a teacup, Lin Ze followed behind her.

Lin Ze pointed at Yu Hao and said, "Here, I recruited someone."

"Okay." The old lady's voice was a little rough, and when she came to Yu Hao's side, Lin Ze said, "Stand up quickly! Call someone!"

Yu Hao thought to himself that you told me not to get up no matter who I see... Hurriedly getting up and shaking hands with the old lady, Lin Ze said, "It's Teacher Yang."

"Hello, Teacher Yang." Yu Hao said, noticing that she was wearing a badge with "Yang Hong" written on it.

Yang Hong took Yu Hao's hand, like a leader to express his condolences to the employees, and said to Lin Ze: "He must have worked hard all the way here, let him go back and rest first."

"It's okay." Lin Ze said, "Yu Hao has already rested, he just wants to get back to work now."

Yu Hao was going crazy in his heart: What is this all about!You promised me to take my teacher?

"That's good for you." Yang Hong said again, "Well, good for you, thank you for your hard work."

As she spoke, she picked up the teacup, looked around, and went in. Then the whole office quarreled again. Situ Ye came in, relieved and said, "Fortunately, I saved it. Find me a chair..."

"No." Yu Hao said, "You can sit on my seat, I'm squatting."

"Sit here, Xiao Ye." The editor in charge pointed to a stack of books, and Situ Ye stacked up the whole set of "New Notes on Chinese Character Shapes", and put a copy of "Party Style and Party Discipline" on it, and sat down.

"I'll sleep for a while." Situ Ye said to Yu Hao, "I can't hold on any longer, call me anytime if there is a situation." As he said that, he lay down on the table and began to sleep.

Lin Ze followed Yang Hong into the office again, and the vegetable market in the editorial department started to be noisy again. There were books in all directions. Yu Hao glanced behind him. This group of editors was like juggling. There was also a glass filled with tea on it, or a half-eaten lunch box, Yu Hao was afraid that the book behind him would fall and smash himself to death on the spot.

Zhou Sheng sent a few messages asking how it was, and Yu Hao replied, during which Situ Ye fell asleep from the table, slid onto Yu Hao's lap, and then slid to the ground, falling asleep under the table in a distorted posture. up.

This guy has long legs too... Yu Hao thought to himself.

"Are you an editor?" the editor in charge asked back.

Yu Hao said: "I'm a reporter, an intern reporter..."

The editor in charge said: "Ah, people from Mr. Lin's department, you reporters know journalists best, help me translate this..."

Yu Hao: "..."

The editor in charge handed over a handwritten manuscript that had been scanned and reprinted, and the girl next to Yu Hao said, "I really can't stand Teacher Wang, what the hell is he writing!"

"Don't talk about it! Hurry up!" said a middle-aged man with a cup of tea. "The paper will be published in four or 10 minutes!"

Everyone yelled frantically at once, and Yu Hao said, "Where... is the translation?"

"Translate the full text!" said the editor in charge, "Write it below."

Yu Hao borrowed a pen, and there was no need to translate the full text, some handwriting was not difficult to read, so he circled some words that seemed difficult to understand, and made notes.

"Do you think there is something wrong with your language?" The girl next door asked Yu Hao again holding the manuscript.

"How could he know what you wrote yourself!" He laughed at her later.

"Adverbials cannot be placed after..."

Suddenly the bell rang, and everyone stood up in unison. Even those who were speaking in the middle of their speech did not move. They all put down their manuscripts, turned and left.

Yu Hao: "..."

While Situ Ye was still sleeping under the table, someone called out to Yu Hao, "Have some tea and some snacks."

Yu Hao followed a group of editors to get some snacks. After 15 minutes, the bell rang again, and everyone came back to revise the manuscript one after another.

After Yu Hao finished translating the handwritten manuscript, Lin Ze finally came out, threw Yu Hao a badge, and said, "Go to the Human Resources Department to fill out the form this afternoon, did you bring your photo?"

"Bring it." Yu Hao said.

"Let's eat first." Lin Ze said.

Yu Hao got up from the maze, shook Situ Ye, and said, "Get up and eat."

"Have you eaten?" Situ Ye woke up immediately when he heard the meal, rubbed his eyes, and almost bumped into the stack of books behind him, but fortunately Lin Ze had a sharp eye and quick hands, and supported the large stack of books.

"I will apply for the office in the afternoon."

At lunch, Lin Ze used his card to order meals for Situ Ye and Yu Hao. Yu Hao was shocked when he saw the prices in the cafeteria. Braised pork for one yuan, fried kale with black fungus, and braised crucian carp for one yuan. eat!

Yu Hao: "This cafeteria..."

"It's so unpalatable." Situ Ye dejectedly took the soup for rice.

"Let's make do with it, we won't be able to eat a few meals." Lin Ze said, "As soon as I applied for the office, I won't have this cafeteria to eat. Can Yu Hao know how to cook?"

Yu Hao: "Yes... for a while, I will follow Zhou Sheng to study."

"He must be very helpless when you come to Beijing." Lin Ze said.

Yu Hao replied: "It's okay, he will fly over to see me every week."

Lin Ze and Situ Ye nodded. Lin Ze said, "I'm the only one in our team now. They didn't give Xiaoye a position, and the office didn't apply for it. They said that unless they recruited people in the team, it would be very difficult to do."

"What about the one who interviewed with you?" Yu Hao asked.

"That's a writer." Situ Ye said, "The legendary killer of the coal boss came here to help out temporarily. Last time he was bitten by a dog, he went back to Chongqing for an injection."

Yu Hao: "..."

Lin Ze said: "In the afternoon, you fill out the form and give it to me. I will go through the process. I hope this time I can go through it."

Yu Hao: "So...you won't be working here all the time, right?"

"Reporters don't work with the editor in charge." Situ Ye said, "It's too noisy, it's a mess."

Yu Hao thought it was okay, this newspaper office is too chaotic, Lin Ze said again: "There are many young people here, so the teachers' offices are very quiet. Reporters also have reporters' offices..."

Situ Ye said: "It's better to be in the editorial department. Sitting in the reporter's office for a day can smoke me into bacon."

"You go to Lama Temple this afternoon to offer incense," Lin Ze said to Situ Ye, "Bless our office to apply for it this time."

Situ Ye said helplessly, "All right, Sun."

Yu Hao: "..."

In the afternoon, everyone in the entire editorial department lay on their stomachs in rows, and finally calmed down, like a group of zombies.At two o'clock in the afternoon, everyone woke up at the same time and started to make noise again.The only difference from the morning is that everyone is proofreading and revising manuscripts in the morning, and drinking tea and chatting in the afternoon.

Yu Hao thought to himself that this is really a weird place, and everyone was not surprised by his appearance at all, they greeted him to eat cookies, and asked him to help add some hot water as a matter of course, the girl next to him played poetry solitaire with the editor in front, and the girl in the back The two editors are playing flying chess.

A fat middle-aged man came, put down his bag, and said to Yu Hao amiably, "Yu Hao?"

Yu Hao nodded, stood up and shook hands with him, thinking this is the teacher who took him?

The middle-aged man smiled and said, "Hello, hello."

Yu Hao: "Hello, hello."

Middle-aged man: "Can you lend me this desk for a while?"

"No." Yu Hao said expressionlessly.

There was an embarrassing silence between the two parties, and the middle-aged man left again, wandering around, and being rejected by editors everywhere.

"Are you so short of seats?" Yu Hao asked the girl next to him.

"Because that desk of yours was used by reporters to temporarily edit manuscripts." The girl ate sunflower seeds and said to Yu Hao, "Now it's moved to the toilet for them, of course I don't like it."

"You put things on it." The editor in charge taught him, "Put some hidden weapons on the chair, and no one will come to take your place."

"It's annoying." Another editor said, "Sitting for hours, I can't get up."

Yu Hao was completely speechless, and sent text messages with Zhou Sheng for a while in the afternoon. Zhou Sheng had already boarded the plane and was about to go to Guangzhou.

[Everyone says that your custom-made suit looks good. 】

Zhou Sheng seemed to be completely used to playing the role of the heir of the company.

Yu Hao looked at the selfie he posted with a smile, and the moment he saw him, all the fatigue from today was immediately cleared away, and he was revived with full blood.Yu Hao chatted for a while while filling out the form, Lin Ze came over and took his entry form and ID card to copy.

The reporters' manuscripts came again, and the whole office was in chaos.After drinking two cups of coffee, Yu Hao calmed down a bit, borrowed the professional book proofread by this editor, and carefully looked at how much he could make up... When it was nearly six o'clock, Yu Hao was about to ask the girl next to her when she got off work. Suddenly, I found that the people around me had changed!

The girl next door turned into an uncle, and a fat man wearing glasses sat behind him, and everyone in the office changed their appearance!What's even more frightening is that these people all know each other, chatting slowly and step by step.

Yu Hao was so startled that he didn't know what to do. He thought he was filmed by some prank show, and looked around in fear and trembling, thinking where is this?who I am?

"Who are you?" Yu Hao said to the uncle next door.

The uncle looked up in confusion, and raised his head from the manuscript: "Who are you?"

"who are you?"

"who are you?"

In the editorial department's office, the fans whirled and turned, and the fluorescent lights made everyone's faces pale. People who didn't know each other raised their heads from the light of the desk lamp in front of them and looked at Yu Hao together.

"Who are you?" Yu Hao asked fearfully, "Who am I?"

This scene was like a nightmare, Yu Hao immediately lowered his head to send a message to Lin Ze, took pictures of the surrounding scenes, and Lin Ze called.

"Why haven't you got off work yet?" Lin Ze said, "It's already 06:30, let's go eat."

"What's going on here?" Yu Hao asked, "Why did everyone change their appearance?"

Lin Ze: "That's the night shift responsible for editing and proofreading...the shift has changed."

Yu Hao: "..."

The surroundings realized that Yu Hao was frightened, so they burst into laughter. Yu Hao was extremely embarrassed for a moment, hurriedly put away his things, bowed to everyone, and left in a panic.

"Boss, you didn't tell me what time..."

"Just call Aze." Lin Ze said, "You don't need to clock in, just come if you want, just help me occupy this table, and the work card will be given to you tomorrow, by the way, you will pick someone up for me when you are free... No If it’s empty, leave him alone.”

Lin Ze sent Yu Hao the train schedule, Yu Hao looked at it, and Situ Ye said beside him, "Come and eat, don't worry about it."

"It's okay! I'll pick it up!" Yu Hao replied, he went back to the hotel first, and suddenly remembered that he hadn't done the most important thing today... He didn't even go to rent a room, the first day of employment was really chaotic.Now there is no way to look at the house for the time being, so let's pick him up first, Zhou Sheng gave him more than 3 yuan, and it doesn't matter if he stays in an express hotel for a few more days.

Yu Hao now truly feels that being with Zhou Sheng is really the happiest thing in his life. Ever since they were together, he has hardly ever worried about money.A few years ago, I only had a few thousand dollars in savings, and now I must have been anxious.

Zhou Sheng's plane was late, so he urged him to go to dinner and asked him to eat something more expensive, so Yu Hao went to find Mr. Li to have dinner, thinking that it was really unpalatable... This braised pork was over-steamed and not sticky at all. There is not enough time to soak the dishes in advance... Forget it, you are away from home, so you can't be too picky.

Zhou Sheng finally flew.So Yu Hao looked at his watch, rushed to Beijing West Railway Station, made a call, and turned off the phone.

Yu Hao didn't have a printed nameplate ready to pick up the person, so he could only try his best to identify at the dim exit, which one was the person in the photo sent by Lin Ze.

"Teacher Jin Weicheng!" Yu Hao started to shout with the last resort left, "Is Teacher Jin Weicheng here?"

In the photo was a fat, mountain-like young man, wearing a basketball uniform, but Yu Hao didn't look the same.After shouting for a long time, a hand suddenly stretched out from behind and put it on his shoulder without anyone noticing it, Yu Hao was startled.

"Stop shouting." A tall, thin man said weakly, "I'm..."

Yu Hao: "..."

Yu Hao looked at his phone, then at the tall and thin man in front of him.The other party wears a pair of thick old-fashioned glasses. He looks about 40 years old, with a slightly hunched waist, wearing an old silk shirt that has been washed yellow, gray trousers, and old-fashioned sandals. A briefcase, holding a thermos cup modified from canned oranges in his right hand, just like a liar who came out of a drama in the era of reform and opening up, holding a stack of documents and opening leather bags everywhere.

Yu Hao thought to himself that this is not right, he is not alone!

"This is a photo of me ten years ago." The man said, "I'll show you my press card."

Yu Hao has seen the press card, it is indeed Jin Weicheng, and there is a sign of "Korean nationality".Yu Hao hurriedly shook hands with him and introduced himself.Jin Weicheng was 1.9 meters tall and very thin. He stood and thought for a while, lowered his head, and said to Yu Hao, "I'm starving, let's go get something to eat first. Will the editor-in-chief of the agency provide us with meal supplements? "

Yu Hao thought for a while and said, "Yes, you can eat whatever you want."

This person seemed to be trying to cheat and hadn't eaten for several days. Yu Hao thought that Lin Ze didn't tell him what to do when he received him, so he took him back to the restaurant outside the train station and ordered for him. A set meal.Jin Weicheng said: "My mobile phone is out of battery, and I can't find Editor-in-Chief Lin."

Yu Hao called Lin Ze, but there was no answer. After a while, Situ Ye sent a message: [Take him to dinner, and then find a place for him to stay, let him play freely, he will come to the agency to report tomorrow by himself . 】

Situ Ye transferred 500 yuan to Yu Hao on WeChat, but Yu Hao didn't dare to accept it, so he replied that he would put it on hold first, and send the invoice tomorrow, but Situ Ye didn't say anything.Yu Hao found out that Lin Ze seemed to be quite busy, it would be faster to ask Situ Ye for everything.

When Jin Weicheng saw the meal, he started to gobble it up.

Yu Hao thought to himself that this should be a member of the team. Earlier Lin Ze told him that he would arrange for a reporter teacher to take him, so it must be this person.After Jin Weicheng ate two mouthfuls of food, he looked around for a place to charge it. Yu Hao hurriedly got him a power bank to charge it. Jin Weicheng took out a Xiaomi phone with a broken screen and started to watch the news.

This guy was almost as tall as Fu Liqun, and he didn't know how to put his legs in the booth, so he had to lift them up and step on the side.Beijing is a very inclusive city, there are quite a lot of migrant workers, there are well-dressed rich people as well as busy migrant workers, no one will cast strange glances wherever they go, from this point, Yu Hao likes it very much.

Zhou Sheng was still live broadcasting his itinerary after arriving in Guangzhou. Yu Hao was sleepy at first, but once he talked to Zhou Sheng, he regained his energy.