This article is dedicated to the ceramics builders who still stick to their job of moving bricks during the downturn in the ceramics construction industry.
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When he woke up, Wu Jincheng had a splitting headache.
Dizzy, he picked up the mirror on the table and took a look, and found that there was a piece of gauze wrapped around his forehead, with a few dried blood stains on it.
Last night I was just having dinner and drinking with colleagues from the district. Getting drunk was no big deal, but how could he be so seriously injured?
He tried hard to recall what happened all day yesterday, but his head ached, accompanied by a feeling of nausea - he must have stopped drinking last night, he couldn't remember anything, and his mind went blank.
One
Suspense
"Uh..." A feeling of nausea and vomiting emerged again. Wu Jincheng took off his tight thick jacket and hurriedly ran to the bathroom. When he walked to the door of the bathroom, there was a sudden "pop" behind him, as if something fell from the sky, which startled him and scared away his desire to vomit. He looked back and saw a half-new gray towel and a disposable white plastic bag lying on the ground.
He has never used such towels or bought such plastic bags. These two items are definitely not in his home.
Could it be that the landlord is renovating the house?Was it left behind by the decoration workers hired when I was young?
His home is a single apartment-style rental house. The floor, walls and ceiling were empty before he moved in. Except for the necessary doors, windows, power switches and sockets, faucets and electric water heaters, everything else was added by him. of. How could a towel and a plastic bag be hidden somewhere without him noticing?
Could it be leaking from the neighbor's house on the third floor?
He looked at the ceilings of the entire living room and bathroom. There were no holes and they were intact. How could it be something that fell from upstairs?
Could it be...? Could it be...?
He has been under a lot of pressure at work recently, and often relieves his stress by watching detective, mystery, suspense, and horror movies, and his imagination becomes rich and ridiculous.
He suddenly thought, could there be a perverted murderer living nearby? What special means and techniques did he use to get these two things into his home?
If a perverted murderer really targeted him, it would be very scary.
He quickly looked at the window in the living room. The glass window was closed and locked. It was impossible to throw anything in from the outside. Then he ran into the bathroom and looked at the window. The glass window was about 10 centimeters open. Although it was possible to use some tools. He passed the bathroom through the open glass window to get the things to the living room floor, but it was impossible to get the things to the living room floor through his body that almost blocked the entire door... If not, how on earth could he get this thing? Where did the two things get into the living room? And it was so accurate, just when he was about to walk into the bathroom? His mind started working quickly, and he recalled all the tricks in detective, mystery, suspense, and horror movies he had seen, but he still didn't know how he did it. This situation is impossible.
He wondered again, could this be a supernatural event? What unjust person had lived in this house before?
It would be particularly terrifying if an evil spirit really stalked him.
He imagined that his ghost came back and wanted to use these two things to tell him how he was killed and ask him to avenge him; or he thought that he was his enemy and came to avenge him... He I can't even imagine what kind of horror that is. Is this possible?
I don’t know how long it has been, “A sneeze", a sneeze made Wu Jincheng suddenly realize.
It turned out to be this: He went to get a haircut at noon yesterday. When washing his hair, in order to prevent the water from getting his cotton clothes wet, the girl who washed his hair put the disposable white plastic bag and the old gray towel on his neck, and did not take them away until he got a haircut. Come down. After getting his hair cut, he forgot to take off the plastic bag and towel and return them to the barber shop, leaving them on his neck. Later, they slid down his neck and got caught in his back under his tight, thick jacket. No wonder he always felt something wrong on his back and a little itchy later on. When he took off his jacket and threw it on the bed, the towel and plastic bag fell, creating the illusion of falling from the sky.
My mind was blank and confused, so I came up with so many random things.
II
Murderful
Wu Jincheng figured out where the towels and plastic bags came from, but he was still confused as to how his forehead was injured.
He only remembered that he attended the district's party to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new year last night. He couldn't remember anything else. He even hesitated for a few seconds to determine who his last name was.
Thinking of this, his heart skipped a beat. He was probably suffering from selective amnesia. How can a salesman with amnesia sell ceramic tiles well? Salesman? ceramic tile? By the way, now that I think about it, I am a ceramic tile salesman, a rookie ceramic tile salesman who has just been transferred from the marketing department to the sales department for just one year.
To be honest, although the transition from planning to sales is inseparable from objective factors such as the unprecedented cold winter in the construction and ceramics industry, it is also inseparable from his own subjective initiative.
He has always worked very hard since he joined Taobao Decoration Ceramics Co., Ltd. because he fully understands his situation.
His family background is not good, he has no older brothers and sisters and only one younger sister, and his parents are not in good health.Very good, you can only rely on your own strength to earn money to get married and support your parents. He was not highly educated, having only received a college degree, and he was not smart or tactful. He had only done low-end jobs such as telemarketing and credit card sales before. He was about to turn thirty but had not made much money. Later, he met an acquaintance. After being introduced, I joined Taobao Decoration Ceramics Co., Ltd. as a terminal promotion specialist. He cherishes the hard-won work and works extremely hard.
At this time a year ago, in order to buck the industry's downturn and seize the market, and further make the company and brand bigger, stronger, and more sophisticated, Taobao Decoration Ceramics decided to expand its sales team. On the one hand, it recruited from outside, On the other hand, it also gives internal staff in the marketing department and other back-office positions an opportunity, so that fresh blood can stimulate those sales veterans who are unwilling to make progress under severe situations such as overcapacity, channel fission, and consumption upgrades.
Because he is a down-to-earth and hard-working person, he was favored by the marketing general manager who was fairly fair in dealing with people. He successfully seized this opportunity and was transferred from a terminal promotion specialist to a salesman, and then upgraded to a logistics staff member or "General Manager ×" in the mouth of the dealers. ” or “× Manager”.
After the job transfer, because he worked hard as always, and the sales area he was responsible for was remote but not bad, he, a sales rookie with low emotional intelligence and only immersed himself in the terminal to do some practical work, actually got the majority of customers (dealers) Recognized by the company, he has exceeded sales targets for many months in a row. His income as a salesperson has at least doubled compared to his income as a terminal promotion specialist. Less than four months after he started working as a salesperson, his prospective girlfriend, who he had been dating for nearly a year, officially accepted his pursuit and promised to work with him to earn money to buy a house in Foshan. Once they bought the house, they would go to get the certificate with him. He calculated that if he continued to earn money at this rate and borrowed a little more money, he would be able to collect enough money for the down payment by the second half of the second year.
It was not until then that he understood the real reason why many salesmen who had been in sales from the beginning or some who had switched from logistics to sales talked about how hard it was to do sales every day, but they had to do it even if they died; what's more, the current situation of the industry is that some businesses It is really not difficult for employees to make money, especially in those years when the industry was developing rapidly, especially compared with marketing department personnel and other support staff.
Do you have to do sales even if you die? Thinking of the word "death", he suddenly remembered some vague fragments about the district dinner last night.
He vaguely remembered that everyone was talking and laughing very happily during the dinner. He was the only one who lowered his head and drank sullenly. After being drunk, he used the wine to question the regional director Chen Liren: "Mr. Chen, please tell me, our region has a total of With eight people, I ranked fifth in total performance and ranked first in annual sales task completion rate.Third, it reached 100.5%. Why was my score in the annual assessment ranked last? Want to be one of the eight salesmen laid off from the company? ”
"Xiao Wu, you...what do you mean?" Chen Liren, who had been praised by his subordinates and was drunk for a long time, was surprised by the sudden questioning and couldn't help but get angry. "The layoffs have not been officially announced yet. What are you excited about? Besides, you don’t know how you behave.”
"Be a human being?" He was immediately offended by Chen Liren's words and said indiscriminately, "Just because I give you gifts, money and flattery means you know how to be a human being? What a joke!"
"...Wu Jincheng, you are so unruly. Believe it or not, I will ask you to get out of the company now and you won't get a penny of the commission for 2018?"
"If you say one more damn thing, believe it or not, I will beat you up right now!"
He originally wanted to scare Chen Liren and push him a few times. Unexpectedly, Chen Liren, who felt humiliated, jumped in and threw the bowl in his hand, hitting his forehead and causing blood to flow. He was so angry that he picked up a chair and threw it at Chen Liren. Chen Liren groaned and fell to the ground, his head bleeding profusely.
……
Recalling this, he finally remembered: he smashed his boss's chair in front of so many people, he had caused a big trouble, and he might have killed someone.
三
The truth is revealed
Watching so many detective, mystery, suspense, and horror movies, and seeing so many murderers in the movies, Wu Jincheng can’t think of anything.One day he will become a murderer.
Compared with killing someone, being laid off because of being last in the annual assessment is really nothing!
He regretted it so much that his intestines were blue. Even if the court convicts him of manslaughter, he will definitely go to jail.
This matter is a done deal and there is no way to change it; the only thing that can be done is to accept the fact calmly. But can you accept the cruel fact of being in jail?
If he goes to jail, what will his girlfriend do? Without even thinking about it, she would definitely run away with someone else.
What will your parents do if you go to jail? I can't even imagine how sad it would be for them, who are old, weak and sick.
If I do it, will the dealers in my sales area still meet a salesperson who is as responsible as me and who cares about them wholeheartedly? It’s funny to think about it, I’m in doubt about my life and death, and I’m still thinking about my customers.
It's really ridiculous and sad. The ancients said that you stand up at thirty, and he is already thirty years old: he has never even had a true love, let alone married a wife; he has not even managed to let his parents not worry about him, let alone be filial. They thought that their personality could also lead to sales, but they did not expect that the results of sales would be like this; they thought that they would soon buy a house and a car and become a new Foshan person, but they did not expect that this dream has just begun and has slowly ended...
It's over, everything is over. He was distraught.
At this time, his cell phone rang. Frustrated, he picked up the phone and pressed the virtual answer button.
"Are you at home? Why doesn't the door open after knocking for a long time?" A woman's voice came from the other side of the phone. It was his girlfriend Gan Xiaoning.
"I'm at home," he said to Gan Xiaoning, but it was more like saying to himself, "Everything is over."
"What's going on? Open the door for me!" Gan Xiaoning said.
He slowly walked to the door, opened it, and saw Gan Xiaoning wearing beautiful new clothes.
"Xiao Ning, I killed someone." He said sadly.
"What did you say?" Gan Xiaoning asked in surprise.
"I...I, killed, people." He hesitated and answered word by word.
"Do you have a fever?" As Gan Xiaoning spoke, he reached out his right hand to touch his head, and then noticed that his head was wrapped with gauze.
"What's wrong with your head?"
"Last night at our district's year-end dinner, I had a fight with our leader...I missed...and killed him..."
"No way. Absolutely impossible!"
"Why?"
"First of all, you are so honest. When you were still in the marketing department, your manager assigned you all the dirty work, and you didn't dare to say 'no'; now that you are successful, you dare to fight with your leader. ?”
"Xiao Ning, I'm not in the mood to listen to your jokes now. I was drunk last night."
"Okay, even if you were drunk and cowardly last night. Let's look at the second point. From yesterday to now, you have seen in Tencent News, WeChat Moments and other places that a salesman in the ceramic industry accidentally beat his leader to death. News? No. Anyway, I haven’t seen it. If what you said really happened, it would have spread throughout the ceramic industry and the entire Internet. It’s something that comes from random thoughts while drinking.”
"Then where did the injury on my head come from? Did it come out of thin air?" After listening to his girlfriend's analysis, he became suspicious of his vague memory of killing people, but he still had doubts.
"I don't know about this. Just call and ask the colleagues who had dinner with you last night." Gan Xiaoning reminded.
Wu Jincheng quickly picked up his cell phone and dialed the number of a colleague who was present last night. While talking to his colleagues on the phone, his expression gradually changed from confused and dejected to clear and determined, then to surprise and disbelief, and finally to joy.
As soon as the call ended, he couldn't wait to say to Gan Xiaoning: "Xiao Ning, it's true as you said, I didn't kill anyone. My colleague just told me that I did fight with our leader last night, and he injured me with a bowl , I knocked him unconscious with a chair. Both of us were sent to a nearby clinic for bandages. We were all fine, so no one called the police... The most gratifying thing was that although the police didn't know about it, someone reported it to us. The senior leaders and bosses of the group company felt that the evaluation and layoffs of our Tao Bao Decoration Ceramics leaders were just nonsense, so they held an emergency meeting overnight and decided to fire our regional director Chen Liren and punish our marketing boss. ...I don’t have to leave, we will definitely be able to buy a house next year! Come on, let’s celebrate the New Year and have fun!”
"What are you playing for? It's already the evening of January 1, 2019! Let's go watch a movie."
When the lanterns came on, the green trees and flowers on Taobo Avenue were shimmering, and the high-rise buildings on both sides looked even more majestic.
In the night, the short Wu Jincheng and the sweet-natured Gan Xiaoning held hands and walked across Taobo Avenue towards Geely Shopping Plaza.
Wu Jincheng secretly vowed in his heart: He must be good to Gan Xiaoning. At the same time, you can never get drunk again. No, I will never drink again, even if the customer says to himself, "If you drink a glass of wine, I will give you a cupboard."
"People are in the world, and they can't help themselves." Can he really do it?
✎ The original title of this article is "There is no negotiation for your dismissal". The stories contained in it are purely fictitious. Any similarities are purely coincidental.
