Just after 10:30 the next morning, I was sitting in my office when I received a call from Luo Xiangdong from the president's office, asking me to deliver two cups of coffee.
This time I had a better memory and ordered a cup of Brazilian black coffee without sugar according to Luo Xiangdong's taste. When I waited for another cup, I made instant drink and added milk and sugar cubes.
I knocked on the door and went in. On the sofa directly opposite, I saw Luo Xiangdong wearing a maroon short-haired sweater. He had no shirt underneath the sweater today, and the round-neck sweater exposed his slender neck and delicate collarbones.
There are very few men with long and delicate collarbones, and Luo Xiangdong is one of these few. He poked at it casually, and it was like a living clothes rack. Those international male models walking on the catwalk of Paris and Milan Fashion Week were nothing more than that.
There were beautiful cake boxes on the coffee table in front of Luo Xiangdong. I walked over, called Mr. Luo, then put the coffee in front of him, the other cup on my side, and finally sat down on the sofa opposite him.
Luo Xiangdong said: "Breakfast will be around this time in the future. Unless I don't come to the company, you can eat it in my office from now on."
I feel so good that I have free high-end cakes for breakfast. This is not a pie-in-the-sky good thing.
But I had to live up to my reputation, so I said, "Thank you, Mr. Luo, but I'm embarrassed to trouble you every day."
Luo Xiangdong took a sip of coffee, then raised his eyebrows and said to me: "What else? How about I invite you one, three, five, and you invite two, four, six?"
I immediately said: "Okay, but it's Saturday off, so I'll take care of it."
The corners of Luo Xiangdong's lips curved slightly, and he replied with a bit of indifference: "Okay, I'm just kidding you."
My eyes suddenly widened slightly and I said aloud: "Mr. Luo, can you still joke?"
Luo Xiangdong stared at me and said, "What do you mean?"
I quickly defended myself and replied: "It's not interesting, I was just curious."
"What are you curious about?"
I pursed my lower lip and said cautiously: "I've only heard you tease me in the past, but I've never heard you make fun of me."
Luo Xiangdong made an inaudible sound, and then said, "I'm teasing you for treating you as one of my own."
own people.
I immediately raised my eyes to look at Luo Xiangdong opposite, and saw that he was holding a coffee cup in his left hand. Every movement he made while drinking coffee was as if he was taking a photo shoot. He was so handsome that he couldn't live in this world.
My heart beat wildly for a moment. Although it was just fleeting, I quickly regained my strange emotion and said with a smile: "Thank you, Mr. Luo."
When Luo Xiangdong heard this, he raised his head and glanced at me, and then said: "Thank you all day long, do you really think that I am an evil capitalist, and you will be fired just because I don't take good care of you?"
Look, if he doesn't tease me for three minutes, his name is not Luo Xiangdong.
I pursed my dry lips and comforted myself with those words of "myself" in my heart.
I lowered my head while eating the cake, and in the middle of it I thought about what Kuang Yiyang called me yesterday. I raised my eyes and asked Luo Xiangdong, "Mr. Luo, do you know that Teacher Gu is going to have a funeral this Saturday?"
Luo Xiangdong hummed: "I know, I will go."
I thought so. With Luo Xiangdong's friendship with Teacher Gu, he would definitely know.
Luo Xiangdong added: "The specific time has not been determined yet. When it is determined, you can contact me and I will pick you up then."
I didn't refuse, nodded and replied, "Okay."
That afternoon, I received a call from Teacher Gu’s son. He said to me on the phone: “Zijin, my dad’s funeral is scheduled for 9 o’clock this Saturday morning. You can just come to Ningshan Cemetery directly. I I just called Yi Yang and told him.”
I said okay, paused, and then said: "Uncle Gu, people can't be resurrected after death, don't be too sad."
After chatting with him for a few words, I hung up the phone, and then called Luo Xiangdong on his personal phone. Luo Xiangdong said, "I just got the call too. It's nine o'clock on Saturday morning, right?"
I hummed, and Luo Xiangdong said: "It takes more than an hour from here to Ningshan Cemetery. I will pick you up from downstairs at 7:30."
"Okay." After saying that, I was about to hang up the phone.
Luo Xiangdong said: "Do you have an appointment tonight?"
I said, "No."
Luo Xiangdong said: "Then come with me tonight. Zeyu just called and said he still wanted to go to the place you took us to yesterday."
I didn't expect that they would become addicted.
Smiling slightly, I replied aloud: "Okay, I have brought my wallet today, I must invite you."
Luo Xiangdong said: "If you invite me, I will invite a few more people."
I said, "No problem, I can still afford it here."
Luo Xiangdong said: "That's it, see you in the parking lot after get off work."
"good."
After hanging up the phone, I rarely breathed a sigh of relief. After a few seconds, I realized that I was no longer as nervous as before when I was talking to Luo Xiangdong. It seemed that as soon as I picked up the phone, my whole back tensed up with fear. Same as saying the wrong thing. This is all thanks to the meal yesterday.
I was sitting in the office waiting to get off work. In the middle of the day, I received another call from Xu Lu. She said: "Zijin, Teacher Gu's funeral is on Saturday at Ningshan Cemetery. Yi Yang just called me to tell me. Ningshan The cemetery is more than two hours and almost three hours’ drive from us. It’s too far. How will you get there then?”
I thought of what Luo Xiangdong had said, and replied in an evasive manner: "I'll go by car."
Xu Lu said: "Then I'll go to your place on Friday night, and we can take a taxi together the next day. Otherwise, if you have to go through my place, I'll probably have to get up at six in the morning."
Hearing this, even with the risk of being misunderstood, I had to pretend to be calm and tell the truth: "Okay, Luo Xiangdong happened to say that he would drive me over the next day, so let's take the two of us together. Brought them all over.”
When Xu Lu heard this, she immediately asked in surprise on the other end of the phone: "What? Luo Xiangdong will drive you there?"
I knew it would be like this. Xu Lu couldn't hear the word Luo Xiangdong.
I pretended to be calm and replied: "Yes, he is going too, so he took me there along the way."
Xu Lu said: "Hua Ca, Zi Jin, is your relationship with Luo Xiangdong at this point now?"
Listening to her surprised and meaningful question, I couldn't help but raise my eyebrows and replied: "For my sake, don't think blindly, keep your thoughts simple."
Xu Lu smiled and said: "Sister, that's Luo Xiangdong, how can you make me think so simple?"
I said, "If you don't look at Luo Xiangdong, then you still don't look at me. How can you not know who I am?"
Xu Lu said: "Luo Xiangdong is someone that anyone can see, and anyone can ride in his car. You are really the proud disciple of the emperor now. Not only do you face Luo Xiangdong day and night every day, but now you can even ride in his car." Just sit down if you want. Tsk, tut, my blood boils just listening to this. I don’t know how you, the person involved, could hold back your nose."
I rolled my eyes and replied in a long voice: "Please, sister, can you stop being such a nymphomaniac, not to mention that Luo Xiangdong has a girlfriend."
It's okay that I didn't mention this. Xu Lu immediately choked me. She said: "How dare you be so unscrupulous when I have a girlfriend. I heard that Du Ting is abroad now. Be careful of what kind of scandal you create." , I won’t be able to eat anymore and walk around.”
Xu Lu's smile was like that of a thief, but deep down in my heart, I felt a little guilty about being a thief, so I quickly retorted: "We haven't done anything bad, so why are we afraid of others saying it?"
After that, I added another sentence: "Who told you not to come to the city to accompany me? If you were with me every day, I wouldn't be so boring."
He was so bored that he followed Luo Xiangdong every day. He was more like a follower than an assistant. As long as I have some personal life, Luo Xiangdong will always ask me if I have an appointment. My answer is always the same: no.
It’s really sad to think about it. I think back then, whether I was in Liangcheng or in university, I always responded to everything. The most important thing around me was companionship. It's better now. We are really alone. One person is full and the whole family is not hungry.
Hearing this, Xu Lu suddenly let out a long sigh. I listened and asked, "What's wrong? Your transfer hasn't been finalized yet?"
Xu Lu was silent for a few seconds, and then said: "Zijin, if you don't mention this matter, I will be embarrassed to talk to you."
As soon as I heard this, I couldn't help but ask aloud: "Luzi, what's wrong?"
Xu Lu sighed again, and then said to me: "Zijin, you think Zhou Mingkang is such a fucking bastard."
My heart skipped a beat, thinking that Zhou Mingkang had done something to Xu Lu.
Xu Lu continued: "Originally, he wanted to hide the rules from me. I met you last time and knew that you were Luo Xiangdong's assistant. He also knew that I have a good relationship with you, so when he came back, he treated me A 180-degree change, that’s a good thing.”
I said: "This is a good thing. I deliberately mentioned Luo Xiangdong last time to achieve this goal, so that even if he is afraid of the relationship between the two of us, he will not dare to do anything to you casually."
Xu Lu sighed on the phone, and I could almost imagine her frowning face with a sad look on her face.
She said: "Zhou Mingkang no longer flirts with me, but he uses other methods to torture me."
I asked hurriedly: "What did he do to you?"
Xu Lu hesitated to speak. After I pressed her for three seconds, she finally agreed to say: "He gave me a business. If he wanted to be transferred, he had to show results first. I saw that the business was good." Several million dollars is simply not something that I, a newcomer in the workplace, can afford. Besides, Zhou Mingkang gave me a limited time and said it must be obtained within two weeks. Isn’t this fucking clear for me to beg you for? , let Mr. Luo sign this contract with our company."
"Zijin, I've thought about it. I can't stay in this damn company anymore. After I get this month's salary, I'll go to the city center to find another company. I'll accept the lower salary. Zhou Mingkang I will no longer serve this bastard. When the time comes, I will go to you and we will live together, and you will have to support me when the time comes."
Xu Lu's last few words were understated and lighthearted, but I knew she must have been holding this in her heart for several days. If I didn't ask her, she would never tell me.
I didn't expect that Zhou Mingkang would take the wrong approach and use any relationship he could in such a dirty way. It seems that I thought things were too simple. How could someone like Zhou Mingkang, who has been struggling in society for so many years, be fooled by me
If I don't handle this matter well, I'm afraid Xu Lu won't be able to stay in the company well in the future. In the end, it was my kindness that harmed Xu Lu.