When Xu Xinghe walked out of Mr. Liang's office, the time was just fixed at nine o'clock in the morning.
He returned to his office with a normal expression, then took the materials and coffee and went to the three groups to continue the unfinished work yesterday.
Gu Nai didn't come to work today. Hearing from the same group that he had asked for sick leave, a trace of surprise flashed in Xu Xinghe's eyes, and then he nodded calmly: "I see, let's go to the meeting."
It was autumn in a blink of an eye, and the light of the artificial sun spread into the ark, revealing a bit of bleak warmth.
This should have been an ordinary and busy morning. No one expected that a sudden emergency investigation was quietly staged inside the ark, breaking the original tranquility of the office building.
The cause was a post that appeared on the boating forum last night. Since it involved a confidential project, the investigation work was not carried out with much fanfare. However, because the post involved many people, even some people who left messages and replies in the post were called to go. Inquired, so things inevitably leaked out.
There was an undercurrent in the morning, and some people who relied on anonymity to speak out in the posts, after hearing the news, went online to delete their replies with a guilty conscience, for fear of getting burned.
However, Xu Xinghe, who was concentrating on the meeting, didn't know about this.
For a whole morning, he spent the entire morning in the conference hall discussing with the leader of the three groups, Conrad Alva, and other team members how to solve the problem of interplanetary network communication delays and how to reduce data transfer losses.
The fierce debate and in-depth research lasted for more than three hours. The team leader of the third team who had been in this position for more than ten years was helplessly and gratified to find that Xu Xinghe at work was really as serious and stubborn as the rumors , and highly professional, very reliable.
When the preliminary solution was finally formed, everyone finally left the meeting in a hurry and went to lunch.
Xu Xinghe returned to his office and turned on the electronic smartphone on his wrist.
Originally, he wanted to see if Ling Changfeng had sent any emails, but unexpectedly in the LINK communication, he saw an unfamiliar account requesting to add him as a friend.
Postscript: "I'm Gu Nai."
Xu Xinghe was slightly taken aback, and clicked to agree to the application.
Gu Nai: "Sorry."
Almost immediately after the application was approved, Gu Nai sent these two words.
Xu Xinghe: "?"
The other side was silent for a while, and suddenly a paragraph came—
Gu Nai: "I saw that post. The person who posted the video in the Ark Building clearly violated the rules. I have already reported the specific situation to Mr. Liang. He said he would deal with it. I just went to the forum to see it. , the post has been deleted, I just hope it didn't affect you"
Xu Xinghe: "..."
He was a little surprised to find that some of Gu Nai's thoughts were quite consistent with his.
Xu Xinghe replied unhurriedly: "It's late."
Gu Nai: "What's wrong?"
Xu Xinghe: "I have already told President Liang"
After a pause, he continued: "It wasn't a big deal at first, but you asked for sick leave because of this?"
Gu Nai: "..."
Xu Xinghe teased him: "When the third group is so busy, it's not kind of you to skip work."
As soon as I sent the words, I remembered that I had taken sick leave the day before yesterday, and I didn’t seem to have the confidence to speak out against others, so I stopped talking and said: "No one will say anything after today, you can go to work tomorrow."
After a while, a word came from the other side: "Okay"
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Xu Xinghe was still writing code in the third group, and was called to the office by Mr. Liang.
"Do you know this person?" Liang Shilei stretched out his hand, and a picture of a young man appeared on the screen.
Xu Xinghe looked at the somewhat impressive face, tilted his head, frowned and said, "Dong Yue?"
Mr. Liang nodded: "Well, Dong Yue from the logistics department is the one who secretly took pictures of you yesterday. His behavior seriously violated the regulations of the Ark. He has been officially expelled after being approved by the personnel department. As for whether he leaked secrets in violation of regulations, we have The results will not come out until the people from the security department investigate. The details have already been reported to the police. If he is convicted, he may face three to five years of imprisonment... "
After finishing speaking, he raised his head and glanced at Xu Xinghe: "Do you think this is okay?"
"Huh?" Xu Xinghe couldn't laugh or cry when he heard him ask this question, "Don't look at me, Boss Liang, it's not what I want him to do. It doesn't matter to me whether he is fired or sent to prison for the trouble he caused himself. You follow the rules. Just deal with it and don’t need to notify me.”
Xu Xinghe shrugged his shoulders, but his expression slowly faded: "I'm just curious. This isn't the first time this guy has lied about me behind my back. I have no grievances or enmities with him. How could he be so malicious?"
Liang Shilei opened his mouth, but did not make a sound. Regarding the criticisms surrounding Xu Xinghe, he hadn't heard anything about it for more than a year.
After being silent for a long while, he slowly opened his mouth and said, "There is a saying in the ancient books - conduct is higher than others, and everyone will blame it. This is an unavoidable thing. But Xinghe, you have to believe that as you climb higher and higher, you will become more and more powerful." The farther you go, these gossips will be the same as those who talk about you behind your back, sooner or later you will be left far behind."
After hearing this, Xu Xinghe just smiled silently: "Then it seems that I have to speed up... I'll go to work first, Mr. Liang, and try to get the Thunderbolt engine to start a trial run within this week."
After speaking, he turned around and walked out of Mr. Liang's office with a normal expression.
The news that Dong Yue was expelled and was further taken away by the security department for investigation quickly spread within the Ark.
After an afternoon of fermenting, Xu Xinghe clearly felt that some of his colleagues looked at him differently.
Some people began to become very enthusiastic, while some people looked at themselves with evasive eyes, as if they had done something sorry to themselves and were afraid of being held accountable by themselves.
Xu Xinghe also knew the reason for this change, but by now, he had already learned to ignore all kinds of eyes around him, and the recent huge workload left him with no time to think about it, so he just continued his work calmly. Work.
At six o'clock in the evening, the original off-duty time, Team Leader Xu still had a lot of work to deal with, so he had to stay and work overtime.
At about half past six, he received an email from Ling Changfeng: [Are you still working overtime today? ]
Xu Xinghe: [plus]
Ling Changfeng: [When do you leave work? I will pick you up]
Xu Xinghe: [No need, I don't know what time to add to today, you go back to eat first]
After a while, Ling Changfeng replied: [Tell me before leaving get off work]
Xu Xinghe: "..."
He stared at the email for two seconds, then simply stopped talking, closed the mailbox, and devoted himself to his work wholeheartedly.
Unknowingly, however, he sped up his movements.
It wasn't until after nine o'clock in the evening that Team Leader Xu finally rubbed his sore shoulders, got up and moved his limbs.
Then reopen the mailbox and send an email to Ling Changfeng saying: [I am off work]
Within five seconds, I received a reply from Ling Changfeng: [I am in the T0 parking lot]
Xu Xinghe: [? Are you there already?]
Ling Changfeng: [arrived]
Xu Xinghe was taken aback, quickly shut down the optical brain, pulled off his coat and went out the door.
Seeing two other people in the group clacking and typing on the keyboard, they walked and said to them: "Ethan, Ryan, I'm withdrawing first, and you all go back quickly, and it's not too late to do the rest of the work tomorrow."
After that, he disappeared at the door like a gust of wind.
Ryan raised his head and asked Ethan on the opposite side blankly: "What did the team leader just say? It's not too late to do the rest of the work tomorrow??"
Ethan put down his work, stood up and said, "Then listen to our team leader Xiao Xu and get off work."
Ryan suddenly said: "It's not right, is this the team leader I know? Didn't he always say that the head can be broken, the blood can flow, and the work must be completed?"
Ethan shrugged: "It's not what it used to be. In the past, the team leader couldn't even force him to leave after working overtime. Now..."
The end sounded for a while, then looked at Ryan and shook his head: "If you have someone to pick you up every day, you must want to leave work early."
Xu Xinghe walked through the heavy gates and quickly came to the T0 special parking lot.
As expected, Ling Changfeng's car was already waiting in his dedicated parking space.
Xu Xinghe got into the car, fastened his seat belt and asked, "Why are you moving so fast? What time did you arrive?"
Ling Changfeng's eyes fixed on Xu Xinghe's body for a moment, and then he said calmly: "I have nothing to do after get off work, so I came early."
He didn't go home last night, so he didn't see Xu Xinghe for more than 36 hours.
Guess what.
Ling Changfeng looked away leisurely, and asked, "Have you had dinner yet?"
Xu Xinghe leaned on his seat and said casually: "Of course, it's already half past nine, if I don't eat any more, I'm going to starve to death... What about you? What did you have for dinner?"
As soon as the voice fell, I realized that I was asking too much.
Sure enough, Ling Changfeng replied with his expression unchanged for thousands of years: "Nutrition."
Xu Xinghe moved to a more comfortable position to lean against, and began to close his eyes and meditate: "I'm actually the same, I don't have time to go to the cafeteria for dinner, so I just ate a light meal in the office with my colleagues."
"Thank you." Ling Changfeng looked sideways at his face, seeing that his little spouse was indeed tired, so he didn't say anything about his original plan to take him out for supper, and silently changed the route to return to Marshal government.
"How long will your project last?" Ling Changfeng asked.
"Next Wednesday at the latest, and there may be an extra day of work on weekends." Xu Xinghe said, yawned, stretched his body in an undefended and relaxed posture, "Fortunately, there are three extra days after the project is completed." take a vacation."
A faint smile flashed in the different pupils, Ling Changfeng had a plan in his heart, but on the surface he still asked calmly: "What do you want to do on vacation?"
Mentioning this, Xu Xinghe regained his energy a bit, opened his eyes and said, "Maybe the two groups will go out together for a tour group building. Our President Liang said that as long as we can get things done by next Wednesday, we will reimburse all the team building expenses!"
Ling Changfeng: "..."
The light in the different pupils flickered slightly, and Ling Changfeng said expressionlessly: "Oh, is three days enough for you to travel?"
"There were five days in a row last weekend!"
"Going to another place?"
"Well, but I haven't decided which city to go to. I'll talk about it after I'm done with my current work."
Ling Changfeng observed the expression on Xu Xinghe's face. There was a little excitement and joy in his brows and eyes, obviously looking forward to this vacation trip.
So Marshal Ling opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything.
It was just that when he thought that he would not see his little spouse for five days, he felt agitated for no reason.
Xu Xinghe felt sleepy, and yawned again in a daze, halfway through, but stopped suddenly.
He blinked at Ling Changfeng, then poked his head over: "What's wrong? Are you unhappy?"
Ling Changfeng's eyes flickered, and the fluffy dark chestnut head had already rubbed against him.
People can't help but want to rub it.
And he was slightly taken aback, and suddenly realized that even if he was not in the susceptible period, his emotions were more and more easily perceived in front of Xu Xinghe.
He lowered his eyes, pursed his thin lips, and said softly: "It's nothing."
Xu Xinghe leaned back on his seat, smiled and raised his chin: "Why? Do you envy me for having a vacation?"
"..." Ling Changfeng glanced at him indifferently, "Well, I'm very envious."
After finishing speaking, he suddenly thought of something: "Do you have other unused vacations?"
Xu Xinghe looked at him inexplicably: "What?"
"Honeymoon leave." In the dimly lit compartment, Ling Changfeng's voice came softly, "Ark has a two-week honeymoon leave, when do you plan to use it?"