Tangerine

Lao Ma held the orange in his hand. The orange was not particularly pretty, with some spots on it, but it was ripe and yellow. After a while, Lao Ma felt frightened again. He put the orange on the table in front of him and lit his eighth cigarette. Lao Ma is a forty-one-year-old honest man with a daughter who is in junior high school. The family's conditions are not very rich, but they are decent. The family of three lives in an old-fashioned house with an area of ​​more than 70 square meters. This afternoon, Lao Ma and his colleagues had to renovate their workplace, so they got off work early at noon. Several colleagues went to a restaurant together at noon. In fact, they just ordered a few side dishes from a small food stall. Lao Ma usually doesn't like to drink, but in front of his buddies, who wants to be that "man who doesn't drink"? So they made a fuss and had several beers. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.