The following month.

Ji Tianqi slowly adapts to the life in the rental house, and rarely mentions the Ji family. The relationship with Tian Jing is better than before. She likes to stick to her mother at all times, like a little tail.

Tian Jing is still pregnant, her energy is very limited, and it is a bit difficult to take care of her, but the bitterness is sweet, and she is willing to make trouble without Ji family, no matter how tired she is.

The rental house is closer to the city than Ji’s house. There are many shopping malls around it. It is convenient to eat, drink and play. Tian Jing likes to take her out for a walk when she is finished. When Jihuai is off work, the family will go back.

Today, I went to the cake shop. Ji Tianqi wanted to eat egg tarts. Tian Jing bought one, but he was not willing to buy one. It cost five yuan each. Fortunately, I was not greedy when I was pregnant with this child. I was so greedy when I was pregnant with the first child. I had no appetite, but I always wanted to eat.

Sometimes Ji Huai went to buy her food in the middle of the night, and she couldn't eat a few bites. She didn't get fat during the whole pregnancy, but he had gained more than ten kilograms.

"Ding."

With a vibration, the phone received the message.

Husband: I have to work overtime today, so I won’t go back to eat. You have to eat early.

Tian Jing twisted her eyebrows and quickly answered: Are you busy? Why have to work overtime again?

It's the fourth day of overtime this week.

Husband: I’m not very busy. The department also ordered food. They did it together before going back. Everyone saved effort.

His explanation made Tian Jing feel at ease, and said a few more words with him, then put away the phone and walked home with her daughter in hand.

The other end.

Ji Huai also put his cell phone aside, watching the constantly bombarding news on the computer, one after another, the irritability between his brows was not as relaxed as Tian Jing felt.

Companies continue to squeeze their time and energy, there are more and more endless things, more and more rules, and unpaid overtime has become the norm.

He stretched out his hand and rubbed his forehead like a headache, and after a long time, he looked blankly at the request sent in the chat box on the computer, and the crackling of the keyboard and the click of the mouse sounded again.

He Tian Jing said that the department ordered the meal, which is actually a fried noodle, which is hard to die.

The client is still rushing, and I have to start working again after a few bites. My eyes are getting dry at eight, nine, and ten o'clock. After sitting for a long time, my backache and neck are uncomfortable, and I have to endure working overtime.

When he got home, it was half past eleven, and when he reached the door of the house, he took a deep breath and then went in.

Tian Jing asked nothing but whether he was hungry.

He took the clothes and prepared to take a bath, and answered truthfully: "Somewhat."

She said as she walked to the kitchen, "I'll make something for you. Do you want noodles or fried rice? I also made dumplings with corn, mushrooms and leeks."

Ji Huai: "Dumplings."

When he came out, a bowl of dumplings had been cooked and put on the table, fearing that he would not be full, she cooked a large bowl.

Ji Tianqi was already asleep, and Tian Jing was sitting on the other side of the small dining table, her eyes on his face. Although she didn't say anything, she was sensitive.

"Would you like to eat one?" He took a few mouthfuls and handed it to her mouth. "Try it, it tastes good."

Looking at the dumplings in front of her, Tian Jing did not refuse, and took a bite, "Tomorrow, I will make dumplings for you to take to the company? Or eat something else?"

She just moved here some time ago, and she was raising her body, so she didn't cook him lunch. His lunch at the company was takeaway, which was unhealthy.

"I want to eat steamed dumplings." Ji Huai put the remaining half of the dumplings in her mouth again, chatting with her.

He came back late recently, and he couldn't do part-time jobs. Most of the time Ji Tianqi was asleep. He would look at his daughter and then the two would chat together.

She talked about what she did today, and he talked about things at the company today. There was nothing in the conversation, and the atmosphere was flat but warm.

Ji Huai has been preparing for job-hopping. Tian Jing also helped him pay attention to the recruitment information and changed his resume many times.

At present, the company he works with is also slightly famous in the industry, and many people still have an olive branch. Ji Huai chose a few after careful comparison, but the interview results were not satisfactory.

Tian Jingting is worried for him. He has been working overtime recently, and he has also asked him not to go part-time, or to change jobs. Let's take it easy. Let's talk about it after this year.

Ji Huai didn't show any pessimism. Instead, he said, "It's okay if you haven't had an interview. Just accumulate experience. It's not a big deal. Just continue to review."

He felt that he was quite able to resist pressure. In the previous life, he lived in a muddle-headed life for decades, and life was just like that, but because of being too optimistic, Tian Jing put his mind on him even more, trying to enlighten him, fearing that he would take the horns.

In her eyes, he was still the one who hadn't experienced major setbacks, passed away, and didn't have any self-motivated people. Now that the pressure is so high, he doesn't know if he is carrying it on his own.

How did she know that he had experienced the abandonment of his wife and daughter, and his life was extremely bleak, what was it now? But in order to let her relax, Ji Huai didn't hide his tiredness either. He wasn't mentally tired, but he was too busy, and his body really couldn't bear it.

After working overtime for half a month in a row, I couldn’t spare on weekends. I finally got off work early and received another order for driving. Far away, it can be calculated as seven or eighty yuan. With this seventy or eighty yuan, tomorrow's meal money will be available.

He didn't hesitate to go next, instead of going home, he went to the driving place directly, and waited two hours later in the community.

Xu is too tired. After two months of smoking habit, he went to the small supermarket downstairs and bought a pack of cigarettes. Sitting on the chair below, he only wanted to smoke one, and ordered another one later.

He wanted to sit a little longer to get rid of the smell of smoke on his body, but he didn't expect that before the second one was finished, Tian Jing, who was throwing garbage downstairs, saw him.

Ji Huai has a guilty conscience, for fear that she will scold him for smoking again and hide the cigarette.

But she shed tears in front of him. The crystal tears fell from the eye sockets and couldn't stop it. He panicked even more, hurriedly messing around, and threw the remaining cigarettes into the trash can.

"Stop smoking, this is the first time for me, and I will definitely not next time." He promised quickly.

After quitting for so long, he is not so addicted to cigarettes, but when he is tired, he will think about it and commit an addiction.

"Are you very tired? If you are too tired, you can change to a lighter job. We can move to another place, there is always a cheaper place." Tian Jing said in a cry.

It was so late. He sat downstairs alone and smoked a suffocating cigarette. He must be afraid that she would worry and put all the pressure on himself.

Ji Huai stretched out his hand to wipe her tears, and simply told the truth, "My energy is indeed limited. Tired is definitely more tired than before, but not as bad as you think."

Tian Jing sat down beside him, "Then why don't you go home?"

"I have to rest for a while. The wind is very comfortable outside. Chen Yang said to call me later, will my daughter go to bed? I was afraid of waking her up, so I smoked a cigarette and waited for him to call me." Ji Huai replied .

Chen Yang is his university classmate, the one who has been in contact recently.

"What did he call you for?" Tian Jing asked.

Ji Huai: "Isn't there still an interview in two days? There is a newly established company. His friend went for an interview before. I want to find out and ask him something."

As soon as the voice fell, his cell phone rang.

Tian Jing listened to him by the side, but quietly did not speak. After talking for about half an hour, Ji Huai hung up with the other party. He was in a good mood, took her hand and stood up, "Let’s go, go home. I have to prepare well for the interview in two days. Chen Yang said that the other party is the first He is a technical nerd and he is not proficient in all aspects of the business. With the company's resume, if you prepare well, it should be good."

"New company?" Tian Jing felt that the new company had many problems and was incomplete in all aspects.

"It's better than squeezing in this company, and the flow of funds should be no problem." Ji Huai pulled her up the stairs and told her half jokingly, "This time it depends on how I fooled."

"How can you fool you?" Tian Jing felt that his level of fooling was not high, and he couldn't say that he didn't know how to work, but he didn't have experience in this area.

"Do you believe it? Human potential will explode in a specific environment." He looked at her seriously, "I can't continue to be slaughtered by others, mainly because my current income cannot give you and your children a quality life. I have to go higher, there is no second way."

"People always grow up."

Tian Jing remembered very clearly what he said that day, saying that most men are boys all their lives, and Ji Huai was half a boy before. Although he is a father, he only needs to make money as before, at most. If you want to raise your child, spend less.

Now it is different. The life of the family is all weighed on him, spending every day. If you don't work hard, there will be no rent for next month.

He grew up quickly and steadily in a short period of time, and forced her to support a home, which made her moved and distressed.

The day before the interview, he and Chen Yang had a phone call for three and a half hours, and another friend had a phone call for nearly an hour. Several sheets of paper were densely written.

Immediately afterwards, he repeated it to Tian Jing and asked her to help make a summary.

Tian Jing also spent the night with him, digging out details, simulating, asking questions, and helping him sort out.

Two days later, Ji Huai took a half-day vacation and rushed to the interview. The interviewer wore a pair of thick glasses and was not trimmed. It seemed that he still hadn't slept well. It seems that he worked overtime last night.

He carefully read Ji Huai's information and began to ask questions.

This time he is recruiting a product manager for technical flow, which means he must have experience and be very proficient in the entire process.

From business flow and data flow to third-party and quotation, and then from architecture and system deployment, Ji Huai can answer one-to-one, and put forward his own ideas, and finally summarize, especially the product customization and various processes. unambiguous.

In the meantime, the interviewer nodded and continued to look at his information, holding back the last two questions.

By this time Ji Huai was already very confident and answered more calmly, because the questions asked were very watery, and he overestimated the other party. After answering, the other party and him started talking about salary, and the two still talked for a long time.

Tian Jing was very worried at home, and she didn't dare to ask when he saw him go home. He prepared so carefully that she was afraid that he would not be hired again. She looked at her daughter, smiled and eased the atmosphere, "Qiqi, Dad is back."

"Dad." The little girl sitting on the sofa watching TV slipped off, her sweet voice echoing in the small bedroom.

Ji Huai squatted down and hugged her to wash his hands. After he sat down, Tian Jing put a bowl of soup for both father and daughter, put it in front of them, and said softly, "Drink Nuanweiwei first."

"Don't ask me how was my interview today?" He didn't drink any soup, raised his chin slightly, and looked at her with dark and deep eyes, a bit like a kid who needs to be praised for getting a small grade.

Seeing this, Tian Jing quietly breathed a sigh of relief, followed him and asked, "How was your interview today?"

"It's over." The corner of his mouth curled up, "I will resign tomorrow and plan to go to work there in a few days. Guess what the salary?"

"How much?" She was very curious about this, but it should be better than the original salary, or if there is less overtime here, that's fine.

"Twenty thousand six." Ji Huai was still very proud.

Tian Jing was stunned, this was a 1.5-fold increase, but when he was in the advanced company, his salary was less than 10,000 yuan, which was far beyond her expectation.

"Technology flow is inherently expensive, and the new company has just been established. The team needs to be supervised. What he meant is that I want to participate in this management role, so I won a high salary." Ji Huai explained.

The other party has just started a business and is an otaku who is not short of money. He has good skills, but the other party does not understand this aspect. He needs someone to help him. As long as it is someone he recognizes, the salary is not less than a few thousand yuan.

"But you don't have management experience." Tian Jing is still very worried, and what worries her even more is that Ji Huai is not a technical stream in this area.

"That's learning. I understand more or less during this period of time. I work overtime while studying. In this company, I work overtime or overtime for free. I can study slowly when I have this time. Overtime is fine, as long as the salary is in place." Huai was not afraid at all, and said, "There are so many people who have switched industries. Sister Cai does not do UI design now. After being fired, she went to Chengbei Company and her salary doubled."

At any rate, he has also been in this big company for several years, and he is also a bit accommodating. Recently, frequent firing of old employees has also made him a lot more important, and his ability has been continuously improved.

"You can learn, I'm afraid you are too tired." Tian Jing is worried that he will expose the problem and it will be troublesome then, but now that the Internet is developed, it is possible to learn something quickly. Ji Huai has already been preparing before, and it is not completely unknown.

"Chen Yang has good abilities and can help me solve problems at any time, so he won't be desperate, but it's not good to trouble him all the time, so I have to trouble you with some things." Ji Huai needs her assistance, Tian Jing's ability is better than him, and The ability to gather information is also far better than him.

The most important thing is that he is afraid that she will be bored at home, so she thinks more about it, and she always feels that she will degenerate at home and be eliminated by society. The last time she went to find a job gave her a big blow. In addition to her poor health, she could not fight like before , Her self-confidence has disappeared a lot, and now this is the situation again, and she is also very anxious.

He wanted to find something to connect the two people so that she could keep studying. He knew that Tian Jing was unwilling to be at home all the time. She was suitable to shine in the workplace, but now there is no way.

"I'm not afraid of trouble." Of course she was willing to help him.

"Then there is no problem. Since you are suffering everywhere, then you have to make more money." Ji Huai actually has a further plan in his heart. He is very optimistic about the development of the new company. Because it has just started, it can be more rooted.

Tian Jing nodded his head seriously, "Yeah."

Ji Huai went to resign the next day. The leader asked him the reason for his resignation and talked to him for a long time.

His position in the company is not very important, but recently many old employees have been fired. If he leaves again, he will be a little too busy. Moreover, Ji Huai is married, has a wife and a daughter, and has a good temper. He can still squeeze hard. of.

The other party knew that he was moved by reason and sentiment, and he sold his feelings and drew a big pie, but in the end he had a conscience. Knowing that all the resignations were due to the lack of money, he said to help him get a raise.

How much can the salary increase? Two or three thousand is not bad, Ji Huai did not agree, and he was very determined to resign.

The other party had no choice but to approve and politely said that he could come back at any time.

Ji Huai soon joined the new company. Because it is a new company, it is certainly not well-known in the industry, the position is embarrassing, the internal is scattered, and various departments are immature.

The basic salary of 26,000 is really not for nothing. His knowledge of the boss is refreshed again. The other party is skilled, but it is also a real house. The management is in a mess, focusing only on technology, and business and management capabilities are messed up.

During the interview, I heard him say that the product and sales ideas are very clear, and the management of the product and sales department should be good. Only then did he agree to the conditions he set out and wanted to quickly bring him over to work.

What Ji Huai has to do every day is to go to work diligently. When the boss throws the pot, he has to run the sales and product department by himself, and because it is an airborne, it is a lot of trouble.

Tian Jing is better than him in this aspect of management. Many times she can give him advice and will also encounter technical troubles. Ji Huai went to trouble Chen Yang for several days because it was really tricky to deal with.

Later, he came back every day to communicate with Tian Jing. The two solved problems together and thought of plans together, and they gradually adapted.

Tian Jing's anxiety has also improved a lot. She started to study with the idea of ​​helping a group of Ji Huai. As she deepened her study, she felt that she had been making progress and dabbling in a new industry. Choose more, but relax a lot.

Since joining the new company, Ji Huai has no longer part-time jobs. What he has to do every night is to study and resume. Tian Jing learns with him and helps him deal with things.

In the first month, the two did not rest for a day, and both had to go to bed after eleven o'clock. When they were busy, it was one or two o'clock, but after twelve o'clock, Ji Huai would urge her to go to bed and work on her own.

Although this kind of life is busy, Tian Jing feels fulfilled, and what she even most looks forward to is that he will come back from get off work early. Counting the time, she will make the meal. When he comes back to eat together, he goes to wash the dishes, she takes care of her daughter, and when she falls asleep, under the lamp on the table is their time.

Ji Huai will talk to her about the situation of the entire company, the problems encountered in technology, the confusion encountered in management, and everyone's troubles.

Tian Jing grew up in a more complicated environment than him, so she would be much more transparent than him in terms of human relations and societies. When the salary was paid the next month, she transferred the 20,000 yuan he transferred back to him and said, “If you want to If you move smoothly between multiple departments, you must be smooth enough, and some expenses cannot be saved, and you must often invite them to eat and eat, and make friends with each other in private, so that you won’t be embarrassed at work."

Ji Huai was originally unwilling, but was urged by her to go. He also said that the money could buy them a lot of ribs. Tian Jing really couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this.

She thought he had no ambitions, and now the salary is good, so she should be very satisfied. When he was able to solve the problem easily between various departments in the fourth month, he immediately proposed a salary increase to the boss.

Tian Jing said that he was too anxious, and this person plausibly said, "I am not working alone. It is the two of us who receive a salary. Now I am in charge of everything. I don't spend less money on humanity, and you are still pregnant. , So hard, shouldn't the salary increase?"

At this time, Tian Jing had been pregnant for nine months and was inconvenient to help him too much, but she was still trying her best.

She was always afraid of putting too much pressure on him, so she tried her best to help, and she was also afraid that she would drag him down. Every time he received his salary, he said that he was half of hers, or even more than half of hers. Every time he heard, She felt at ease in her heart and felt recognized.

Ji Huai said again, "When I get a salary increase, I'll go and hire a sister-in-law for you, someone will take care of you when you have a baby."

"No, don't ask." She shook her head and declined.

They have all lived here, how can they afford a concubine? And where does Yuesao live? Isn't that ashamed of spending money?

And it’s so expensive, it’s still a little bit less expensive. Raising a child is very costly. With this money, she can do a lot of things. She is not afraid of hardship, she has been suffering all the time.

"Or, can you ask Mom if I can take care of you? I'll buy her a plane ticket and let her take care of you. Will I be with you by the way?" Ji Huai suggested again, and said, "The confinement wife who doesn't live at home also It costs a few thousand yuan, but there is no need to rent another house in the community. There is a shared single room downstairs, and we can rent it to my mother."

This kind of shared single room only needs more than two thousand years. Ji Tianqi is still young, and she has to confine her and take care of the big and the small, which is really too busy.

It is impossible for Ji's mother to help them, unless she goes back and gives birth to a daughter, the other party will not give a good face.

The last words he said silenced Tian Jing. She lowered her eyes, looked at the old floor, and whispered for a while, "My mother has never been out of the market, she knows nothing."

Not to mention the city, I haven't even been to the county a few times. The time I went to the city, I had a heart bypass operation, and I returned after being discharged from the hospital. Her mother has been in the mountains for a whole and a half of her life. She only speaks dialects and writes her own name. She may not understand all Mandarin.

She has not been home for more than two years. When she was pregnant, she said that she would have a child and then take the child back. Later, she gave birth to the child. The child was too noisy and had no money and energy. Later, when the child was older, she had to go out to earn money to support the family and go to work. How can there be time later? Then came the second child.

"But mom doesn't need to do anything, just need to take care of you, right?" Ji Huai looked down at her and slowed down his voice, "You call mom and ask okay? Someone has to take care of you before I can go to work without worry. ."

Tian Jing did not call immediately, she was still hesitating, although she told the other party that the child had not been killed, Ji Huai had already taken them out, Tian's mother had no other choice but to worry, in order to prevent the other party from worrying, many things She didn't say.

Why don't you want Tian Mu to come? Because she didn't want the other party to see that their family only lived in such a small house, and it was rented, she was about to have a second child, and the family of four had no place to stay in this city. In the mother’s perception, marriage requires a house, then a home. How sad is it to rent a house? No matter how poor the place is, there is a house for marriage, even in the country.

But at the bottom of her heart, she wanted the other person to come. When she was sad and wronged, she would miss her mother and home. When she gave birth to her second child, when would she go home next time? Not even she knew.

Maybe one year later, two years later, or even longer.

Ji Huai managed well, and the salary increase proposed was agreed. The increase was not much, only 10%, but his provident fund became higher and the provident fund offset the rent, so their living pressure was not so great.

Tian Jing has been doing her best, unwilling to let her parents know that she is not doing well. This time, after struggling for a long time, she dialed Tian's mother. After talking about it for a long time, when she finally asked the other person to take care of her, she choked up as soon as she said it, and her eyes were red.

I don't know if she became hypocritical during pregnancy. She hardly cried before, and crying was useless.

Mother Tian was panicked. She had never been out of the gate in her life, but she wanted to take care of her daughter. Hearing that Ji Huai would make arrangements, she agreed without hesitation.

Tian Jing smiled with tears. She has a little selfishness. Even in this city, she hasn't been able to let Tian Mu live in her home, but she also wants the other person to go out of the mountains to see the outside world and see this bustling City, look at her children. :,,