The twenty-fifth of the twelfth lunar month.
The weather was gloomy, and the biting cold wind swished into people's necks like knives.
Qin Guanglin took half a day off, drove He Wu to the train station, and reluctantly told her not to run around at night for a long time, watching her get in the car before going back to the company.
This separation lasts at least ten days.
It's the longest time two people have been apart since they were together.
I'm still not used to it... Qin Guanglin went back to the company listening to the soothing music, and just as he took off his scarf and hat, he was dragged into the office by Chen Rui.
"What's wrong?"
"Of course there is a happy event."
Chen Rui smiled and sorted out a few documents from his desk, "Although we have only worked together for more than half a year, we have shared joys and sorrows and experienced hardships together..."
"Don't be sensational." Qin Guanglin quickly interrupted, "I just do what I should do."
"Ha... Seriously, if it weren't for you and me working overtime until midnight these few months, the company would have been hard to survive. It's the truth."
"Recruiting people, outsourcing, they won't be unstoppable, right?" Qin Guanglin felt that at most it was just a serious injury to his vitality, and he couldn't recover for a long time, and it was far from being unbearable.
"Outsourcing is easy, but getting it back is difficult. A manga can be drawn by several people, and it is still our main product, not to mention..." Chen Rui smiled, shook his head and said, "Let's not talk about that, anyway, in the past few months, It's the two of us who stay up until the wee hours now and then... well... I want you to be a director..."
Seeing that Qin Guanglin was stunned for a moment and wanted to speak, Chen Rui stretched out his hand and pressed it weakly, and continued: "Of course, now we are a little bit of a person, not all directors are the same - so let's put it aside for now, when we have more people, there will be dozens of people I'll bring it up to you later."
"So the happy event is the postponed director? More than that—" Qin Guanglin felt that according to Chen Rui's style of doing things, it's not that simple, and there might be surprises later.
"Of course more than that."
Chen Rui's words made him excited, he rubbed his hands and leaned forward, "What else?"
"You'll find out later." Chen Rui didn't intend to say it now, after mentioning the director's matter, he stretched out his hand and pushed the information on his hand to Qin Guanglin.
"This is the plan for the beginning of spring next year. You can refer to it for reference... You can also refer to it when you go home after the holiday. After finishing the rest, we will have a holiday. If you don't get stuck on twenty-eight or twenty-nine days, just let it go." Early leave, after all, the past few months have not been ordinary hard work."
"Okay, then I will go to work first."
Qin Guanglin put away the files, turned around and went out to continue drawing his cartoons.
This small company has not been airborne, and the position of the second in command... should be stable.
As the end of get off work was approaching, Chen Rui checked the work progress, clapped his hands and called everyone to form a circle on one side of the table, to make a simple year-end summary, and to have a meeting to talk about something.
After finishing the summary, I took out another travel bag, and started to take money out of it one by one like at the end of October.
"In the past few months, everyone has worked hard."
Chen Rui glanced around, and could clearly see the joy on everyone's faces.
Everyone likes the year-end bonus, especially the one given by such a generous boss.
"In October, half of the company left, and I don't want to mention them again."
"With the rest of the guys working overtime, we still got everything done, and did it pretty well."
Chen Rui looked at the crowd, finished speaking one sentence at a time, and bowed slightly to signal.
"I want to thank you all."
"..."
Everyone didn't say a word, just waiting for Chen Rui's next words.
"They left and left, and we stayed and did things well, so the salary and bonuses that should belong to them..." Chen Rui patted the money on the table and said with a smile: "The company is not I can support it alone, and I don't think it would be so good to save such a large amount of expenses. Since the rest of us have worked overtime to finish things, the saved salaries and bonuses must of course be paid by everyone. Divide it up together."
"In a way, we also want to thank them for leaving."
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I don't know who gave Chen Rui the idea. The year-end bonus gave out a wad of cash, a bulging bag. Qin Guanglin silently carried off work, went to the bank to save the 80,000 in his hand, and then drove towards home.
The 80,000 is salary plus commission plus year-end bonus. He didn't look at the ratio carefully. He took a look at the salary slip and just tore it up and threw it away.
Anyway, I can't calculate so much, I can only say that Chen Rui is generous-according to Chen Rui's words, he gets the same salary as Qin Guanglin himself, and the commission is also strictly calculated.
Humming a ditty all the way home and opening the door, Qin's mother was nibbling on coke chicken wings, eating very happily, when she saw Qin Guanglin come in and make a move, her mouth was still glistening.
"Why are you back again?"
"...I guess you didn't cook my meal?" Qin Guanglin's good mood froze instantly.
It's so fragrant, but it's not for him.
"You didn't say you were coming back to eat... why not? Go home for the New Year?"
"Yeah, she's gone back. I'll go to Hecheng to bring her back in a few years, and I'll walk through the door of my future husband's house... Hey, why isn't there anything in the refrigerator?"
As Qin Guanglin spoke, he opened the refrigerator, and it was empty, only some small pickles, the kind He May taught Qin Ma to make a long time ago.
Qin's mother gnawed on the chicken bone with relish, and said, "Why do I save so much food by myself, I eat fresh food every day...you can order takeaway."
"Order takeaway for Chinese New Year..." Qin Guanglin's plan to cook by himself was forced to stop, and he went out again muttering in a low voice, "I'll go to Sha County to see if it's open."
He just earned 80,000 yuan, but he still has to go out to eat Shaxian steamed dumplings... Fortunately, Shaxian hasn't returned home for the New Year. Qin Guanglin angrily ate an extra bowl of noodles, belching to be barely satisfied.
"I just sent 80,000 yuan." He showed off to He Wu with his mobile phone.
"Wow, that's amazing."
Why not reply seems very perfunctory.
Qin Guanglin took a photo of the empty drawer and empty bowl on the table and sent it, "Then ate the steamed dumplings from the Shaxian Hotel."
"Wow, you eat so much, I want to eat too!"
"..." Qin Guanglin realized that she had missed the point, so he could only remind him: "Once you leave, I will have to live this kind of hard life."
"When I go back, I will make a big table of delicious food to compensate you."
Now Qin Guanglin was satisfied, and after telling her to open the video at night, he put away his mobile phone to check out, and went home humming a little song.
"Are you full?"
Qin's mother had already cleared the table, holding a cup of tea made by Pang Dahai and slowly sipping it, when she saw him come back, she asked.
"I am full."
"Come here, I have something to tell you."
Qin Guanglin was about to go back to the bedroom for a video chat, but he stopped when he heard her words, "What's the matter?"
Whenever Qin's mother said, "Sit down, I have something to talk about", his skin tightened.
It's definitely not normal to be so serious.
Qin's mother didn't return, she took a sip of the fat sea tea, looked up at him, and waited for him to sit down before pondering for a while, and said, "Are you going to get married first or buy a house first?"
"Buying a house...you have to be able to afford it." Qin Guanglin breathed a sigh of relief, "Can you sponsor me? If I earn more next year, pay a down payment to buy a house, and then I will propose..."
"Wait, wait." Mother Qin stretched out her hand to interrupt, "Are you going to buy a house first and then get married, or get married first and then buy a house?"
"Of course you can buy it first." Qin Guanglin didn't hesitate, and after a pause, he realized that there was something in Qin's mother's words, and pursed his lips: "This... let's talk about it at that time, there is no need for her and I to think so much - it's all about two people , Why are you so clear?"
(end of this chapter)