With three chances to make mistakes, Luo Qi instantly felt relieved. Usually, she said "Thank you Mr. Jiang" the most times, and she was afraid that she would come if she didn't pay attention later.
She can sing, but she doesn't want to sing in front of the boss.
Secretary Ju didn't think it was a big deal to watch the excitement, "No, I still don't trust you, so I made a sign for you to hold."
"what brand?"
"You'll know in a while."
Secretary Ju went to the waiter and asked the waiter for a whiteboard marker, a pair of scissors and a piece of cardboard for the lid of the beer box.
She cut the cardboard into the shape of a ping pong paddle and wrote on it in large letters:
Please do not say "Thank you Mr. Jiang"!
Don't say "you"!
Secretary Ju put on the cap of the pen, and passed the handle of the reminder card to Luo Qi's hand across the table, "Listen to me, you will always hold it in your hand, and you will never be punished for singing."
Xiao Jiang is the most active: "This is absolutely practical. Sister Luo, we have to help each other tonight. Every time I speak, you hold up a sign to warn me."
Luo Qi is easy to talk: "No problem."
Secretary Ju has a lot of ideas: "The sign warning is not enough, what if you forget to lift it while drinking. If any of you say something wrong, the others will quickly interrupt, and the voice should be louder, so that the wrong word can be interrupted."
Xiao Jiang raised her hands in agreement, "This is necessary, we can't fight alone, we have to pay attention to strategy and tactics. Sister Luo, you are most likely to be wrong, don't worry, I will cover for you. I am the one who has the loudest voice in our secretary office."
Luo Qi smiled, "Okay. I'll treat you to coffee tomorrow."
She used the reminder card as a fan and slapped herself a few times.
A few strands of hair were blown up.
Jiang Sixun leaned on the back of the chair, lazily eating candy, watching their gang of actors perform hard, it was quite interesting. After the sign was finished, he even took a few pictures with his mobile phone.
Jiang Shenghe sat there quietly taking off his cuff buttons, listening to them discussing how to cheat collectively.
After taking off the cufflinks, he put them on the table and rolled up his sleeves.
They were still blatantly discussing how to fool him.
Jiang Shenghe leaned against the edge of the table, drinking from a glass of water, "Keep your voice down when discussing cheating, lest I can't hear you."
They laughed, and Luo Qi's laugh was the smallest. She was the closest to the boss, so she had to restrain herself.
While joking, the waiter brought up the food.
The menu arranged by Xiao Jiang includes both Chinese and Western food, and everyone's preferences are taken into account.
Jiang Shenghe tilted his head slightly, looked at Luo Qi's side face and said, "I hold chopsticks in my left hand, and I can easily touch your chopsticks. Do you want to change seats with Jiang Sixun?"
If she had to choose between sitting next to him or sitting opposite him, Luo Qi would choose the former without hesitation, at least she could avoid staring at him.
"You're welcome..."
As soon as she uttered a word of thanks, Jiang Shenghe raised his hand and tapped the sign in her hand.
Luo Qi smiled and put her hand on her forehead. If the boss hadn't released the water in time to remind her, she would have almost blurted out the words 'Thank you Mr. Jiang'.
Since the breakup, she laughed the most today.
My heart was finally not so blocked.
The waiter brought two jugs of wine, Jiang Shenghe got up, and motioned the waiter to give him the jug, and he wanted to taste their self-brewed wine when they came to this tavern.
He took the wine jug, walked to Secretary Ju's side, and poured wine for Secretary Ju, "First glass, congratulations to Mr. Ju for his promotion, and thank you for your hard work for the president over the past few years."
Secretary Ju was still flattered, holding up the wine glass with both hands, "Thank you. It's my job."
After finishing speaking, he explained, "I don't count as a foul, I didn't say those four words."
The others roared with laughter.
Xiao Jiang gave Master a thumbs up.
Jiang Shenghe poured wine for everyone in turn, except Luo Qi.
Everyone works as a secretary, says thank you in English, and gets away with it.
Jiang Shenghe said: "The end of the year is coming soon, and everyone will have to work hard again."
"Mr. Jiang is polite, it should be."
"Whoever you want to drink with, you don't have to follow the rules of the dinner." Jiang Shenghe sat back in his seat and said to Luo Qi: "You drink tea."
Luo Qi didn't want to be special, "Drinking half a glass is fine."
Jiang Shenghe couldn't resist her, so he poured her a small glass. He toasted her with his own glass. Tonight he poured wine for everyone, but only toasted her, "Have a nice time together."
Luo Qi drank half of the glass of wine and said thank you in Suzhou dialect.
Jiang Shenghe likes to hear her speak in dialect, no matter what she says, whether he can understand it or not.
Halfway through the meal, the table was divided into two groups, which looked like eating at the same table.
Luo Qi and Jiang Sixun were familiar with each other, they had something to say, Jiang Shenghe occasionally echoed a few words, the three of them were on the same page.
Secretary Ju joined the other party, and even moved the chairs. The six played a game with a deck of cards, and the losers drank.
The laughter continued.
Jiang Shenghe asked the waiter to bring them a jug of the best wine to play games, and told them not to drink too much.
Xiao Jiang boldly asked: "Mr. Jiang, do you want to play two games?"
Jiang Sixun took the opportunity to complain: "You President Jiang is the most boring and disappointing person. You usually eat with me and never join the game."
Jiang Shenghe stretched out his hand, "Give me the cards." He asked, "Which one of you will come? If I lose, I will drink by myself. If you lose, Jiang Sixun will be in charge of drinking."
They laughed and booed: "Yes, yes."
Jiang Sixun: "..."
He bit a cigarette in his mouth, and was about to go out to smoke. Hearing what Jiang Shenghe said, he was about to win. He took down the cigarette and decided to fight in person, "I'll do it. You shuffle the cards first."
He shook the cigarette in his hand, took the lighter and went out.
Xiao Jiang brought the cards, and everyone else stood behind the boss and Jiang Sixun's chairs to watch the excitement.
Jiang Shenghe put down his chopsticks and took the cards.
The table was full of food, and Luo Qi helped to collect it from her side, and also brought the boss's dinner plate to make room for it.
Secretary Ju took the table runner, folded it a few times, and put it on the table to place cards for them.
Luo Qi took a tissue from the bag, spread it on the table, and put the boss's black cufflinks on it, so that it would stand out so that it would not be crushed by the plate.
Jiang Sheng and Yu Guang caught her every move.
Soon, Jiang Si came back.
Jiang Shenghe shuffled the cards, and the game began.
Almost evenly matched, Jiang Sixun lost two in a row, then Jiang Shenghe lost three, and then Jiang Sixun lost again.
They played cards without talking, and the loser drank a glass of wine, and Xiao Jiang was responsible for pouring the wine.
The waiter brought the grilled lamb chops, and Xiao Jiang specially ordered them for Luo Qi. When he was in Haicheng, the boss ordered the lamb chops. He speculated that the lamb chops were Luo Qi's favorite.
They don't pay attention to it. They take the lamb chops and stand and chew. The most important thing is to look at the cards.
A total of nine games were played, Jiang Shenghe won five and lost four, and he lost the last game.
If there is another one, maybe it will be a tie.
Jiang Sixun threw down his card, "We'll continue with the dinner next time."
Jiang Shenghe handed the cards to Xiao Jiang, "Go ahead and play."
When he turned around to pass the card, he was a little too wide, accidentally rubbing off the chopsticks, and he didn't realize it.
Luo Qi picked up the boss's chopsticks, sent them to the dining cabinet next to her, and replaced them with a pair of clean chopsticks.
Jiang Shenghe turned around, but Luo Qi was not there, so he couldn't help looking for her. She was in front of the dining cabinet, holding chopsticks in her hand, and she didn't know what she was doing.
He looked back without a trace.
Playing cards with Jiang Sixun just now, he drank four glasses of wine without taking a bite, there were two pairs of chopsticks on the plate next to him, two or three empty plates, and only this pair of chopsticks, Jiang Shenghe naturally thought it was his own Chopsticks, picked up the food and put it in his mouth.
Luo Qi came back with new chopsticks and was biting the lamb chops when she saw that the boss was actually eating, but her own chopsticks disappeared, the lamb chops missed her bite, and she bit the tip of her tongue.
There was a piercing pain.
Fortunately, the light was dim, and no one else noticed that the boss had dropped his chopsticks.
Now that the matter has come to this point, she can only bury this secret.
At the end of the table, Xiao Jiang and Secretary Ju played cards again.
Luo Qi went straight over there with the new chopsticks, stood behind Secretary Ju, and looked at the cards as if nothing had happened.
After watching for a few minutes, he returned to his seat with a calm face.
Jiang Sixun picked up the towel at hand and wiped his hands slowly, laughing to himself, put down the towel, picked up a lamb chop, gnawed on the phone, and typed with one hand: [You used Luo Qi's chopsticks. 】
Jiang Shenghe's cell phone vibrated, and after reading the news, he looked up and saw Jiang Sixun was looking at the lamb chops in his hand, but he didn't look at him.
No wonder Luo Qi went to look at the cards and was very quiet when she came back.
It turned out to be annoyed about it.
He went back to Jiang Sixun: [It doesn't matter. 】Just can't tell Luo Qi, he doesn't mind.
After exiting the chat, Jiang Shenghe casually put the phone on the dining table.
Luo Qi caught a glimpse of his screen inadvertently. The background of the screen saver was Times Square. Before he could see the whole picture clearly, the screen of the mobile phone shut down.
In the last week of October, Luo Qi took the high-speed train to Sioux City again.
The boss didn't say how many days of the business trip this time, and she asked Luo Yu to go to the rental room to take care of her cucumber seedlings when she was free.
Yesterday, Jiang Dong went abroad with Jiang Sixun, and he was not sure when he would return.
Inexplicably a little sad.
Luo Qi took a few photos out of the car window, looked through the photo album, and turned to the one in the tavern.
'You come, I'm still here'.
She came and didn't know who was there.
【Sister, are you going home? 】
Luo Yu asked her.
[Return, the hotel is five hundred meters away from home, it would be shameful not to return. Go back and see how my dad and mom got mad at me (dog head)】
Luo Yu: [No matter what the second uncle and the second aunt say, don't take it to heart. Adults are like that, and they like to talk about things with others. 】
【Sister, when you feel better, I will introduce new friends to you (excited) (star eyes) (star eyes)】
Luo Qi: 【It's your father of Party A again? 】
Luo Yu typed a series of hahaha, blurring the main point: [A very good friend, I introduce you to know, I guess you will develop in Beijing for a long time in the future, I will return to Shanghai after the project is over, I don’t worry about you alone, who will Take care of the little melon seedlings for you? Multiple friends, multiple paths. By the way, he is also from Sioux City. I can talk to him because of the Sioux City dialect. 】
[Stop talking, the leader told me to go over. Don't worry, I will take good care of your cucumber. 】
When they arrived in Sioux City, Jiang Shenghe made an appointment with Lu Baisheng, and they still let them arrange their own time in the evening.
As always, he drove himself.
Luo Qi had already opened the door of the business car, and suddenly remembered something, and turned to stop Jiang Shenghe, "Mr. Jiang."
Since he used her chopsticks at the bistro that night, now she couldn't look him straight.
Jiang Shenghe's car drove away slowly, and saw Luo Qi chasing him from the rearview mirror, he stepped on the brakes and slid down the window, "What's wrong?"
Luo Qi gave him the glasses, "I forgot to give you this."
He couldn't see clearly when he drove at night without glasses. He said it once, and she always remembered it. There are spare glasses in this car, but Jiang Shenghe still took them.
He took out his glasses and put them on, watched her get into the commercial vehicle and closed the door from the rearview mirror before he stepped on the accelerator and left.
After arriving at the hotel, Luo Qi checked in and put the suitcase in the room. Before it was dark, she went home.
I bought a small bunch of sunflowers for my mother and walked to the stone bridge. The memories of the past couldn't stop pouring out, and she tried her best to suppress them.
From June to October, things change and people change.
At the entrance of the alley, I met my neighbor, Grandma Qian.
Grandma Qian knew that she had broken off the engagement, and when she saw her, she said, "My niece is back." She turned and went back, "What a coincidence, I made yogurt today, and I'll bring you a box."
"Thank you grandma."
Grandma Qian brought her yogurt, and picked out the biggest box in the refrigerator, "Your father is on a business trip, and your mother may not be off work yet."
"How are they doing?"
"It's pretty good." Grandma Qian didn't tell her the bad things, "You've lost weight, eat more."
Regarding her and Pei Shixiao, even though Grandma Qian was curious, she didn't ask too many questions.
Rocky opened the door of the house, found a vase, filled it with water, and inserted the sunflowers.
My mother hung the clothes to dry on the balcony, and she took them one by one, folded them, and put them in the closet in her mother's room.
Just as he opened the yogurt given by Grandma Qian, voices came from the door.
"Is Qiqi back?" It was the voice of the eldest aunt.
They all knew that Luo Zhiqiu was on a business trip in Shanghai, the lights at home were on, and there would be no one else except Luo Qi.
Jiang Yifang would rather her daughter not come back. Who knew that the eldest aunt came over today, and now the eldest aunt visits her every now and then, and every time she accuses them of not being able to educate the children, she is used to it.
From time to time, he mentioned a few more things about owed their family 10 million.
The door opened, and Rocky was eating yogurt without looking up.
"Yo, it's really Qiqi." Thinking of being hung up by a junior last time, the eldest aunt felt so useless that she had nowhere to vent her anger.
Seeing that her daughter had lost so much weight, Jiang Yifang almost shed tears. Fortunately, my daughter doesn't know what the family has been up to this month.
The eldest aunt sat down on the sofa, "I heard from Luo Yu that you rented a house in Beijing, and it takes more than two hours to commute to and from get off work. You say you are a child, why do you have to make things difficult for yourself? You just have a good life, but you just live it. "
"Are you stupid? Shi Xiao's condition is so good. From now on, the Pei family will be his. You should catch it well. Why are you taking advantage of that mistress?"
Luo Qi covered the yogurt, took the yogurt and the bag, and glanced at the aunt, "If you are really busy, clean up our house."
With a 'bang', the door slammed away, and the door panel shook.
The eldest aunt had a heart attack and almost fell out, she patted her heart, "Look at the good girl you raised, it's incredible. I've never seen such a bad..." Well-bred! "
The last few words endured and endured, but didn't say it, "I don't know what's good or bad!"
Jiang Yifang thought to herself, her daughter slammed the door well.
She and her husband will never be able to owe money to others. Since the company went bankrupt, they can't wait to be grateful to those who have helped them.
If she and her husband had told the truth to their daughter, were considerate of her daughter, and supported her daughter breaking up with Pei Shixiao, her daughter would not have blacklisted her relatives for their consideration, let alone slammed the door.
Luo Qi walked down the stone bridge, calmly, opened the yogurt and ate it while walking.
I walked aimlessly along the path, and before I knew it, I came to the gate of the high school. It was still the same as before, and nothing seemed to have changed.
The car repair shop was in the alley, and Luo Qi turned in.
The people in the car thought they were confused and asked the driver, "Is that Luo Qi?"
Mrs. Pei was still looking out of the car, and the figure was getting further and further away.
The driver met Luo Qi and was sure: "Yes."
Mrs. Pei thought for a moment, then called her son.
Pei Shixiao was abroad, it was early morning over there, and he had just woken up.
"Mom, what's the matter?"
"I saw Luo Qi. She was alone at the alley in your high school. She lost a lot of weight."
Pei Shixiao was bending over to take a water glass, and his hands stopped. Memories flooded in. The first time he met Luo Qi was after the college entrance examination. He invited his classmates to play ball at school.
It was in that alley that he saw her for the first time, and at that moment, he saw her in his heart.
Mrs. Pei asked: "Has Cui Peng resigned?"
"I don't know. I left it to the secretary. I didn't ask." Cui Peng deleted him, but he didn't add it.
Isn't she going on a blind date?
That's fine, there's no need to contact me again.
"It's best not to ask, and you don't have to ask again in the future. Otherwise, I will clean up with you." Xiaosan is absolutely intolerable with her, this is the bottom line.
Even if it is her son, she will not break this bottom line.
"Mom, why are you calling me?" It's definitely not to tell him that Luo Qi is in Sucheng, and his mother has never been so free.
"If you still want to get back together with Luo Qi, mother can help you, on the premise of taking care of her self-esteem and her mood."
Pei Shixiao couldn't believe it: "Mom...you don't like Luo Qi?"
He thought he broke up with Luo Qi, just as his mother wanted.
"Even if I'm dissatisfied with her, I can't stop you from going to her and begging for forgiveness." Since childhood, the son has never compromised with her and her husband only in the matter of Luo Qi.
"Luo Yuli's company, Luo Yu's job, Luo Xin's small company, the other seven aunts and eight aunts of the Luo family, I will settle all the bad things. I can still put down my face and talk to Luo Qi's mother. "
Mrs. Pei was open and honest: "Of course, it's not without conditions. You are my son, the only person I care about, and my mother doesn't want to use you in private under the guise of doing your best. So this time, we put aside the separation of mother and child, Business talk business, how is it?"
Pei Shixiao picked up the water glass and took a few sips, "What conditions?"
"The board of directors will be reelected next year. I want to be the chairman. You have the highest voting rights besides me and your father. If you vote for me, I will definitely win your father."
"..."
"When you were ten years old, your dad had someone outside. I wanted a divorce but I couldn't leave. Although I had shares in the company, I didn't have a firm foothold. If I left, even if your dad allowed me to be in the company, Xiaosan wouldn't be able to tolerate me. .If he remarries and has children, how much property will he have from you?"
So she is not reconciled.
She swallowed her anger for twenty years, and everyone in the company stopped defending her, including her husband.
"I want the control of the group, rubbing your father under his feet, and after I get revenge on him, the company will give it to you in a few more years."
"You are better than your father anyway, and you haven't reached the point where you can't pull back nine cows. Back then, your father insisted on divorcing me because of Xiaosan, and he didn't even fight for your custody. I don't want my face anymore. Li. Treat Luo Qi well in the future, no matter how good the relationship is, it will fade away, you have to take responsibility and responsibility."
Pei Shixiao remembered when he was a teenager. At that time, there was a lot of noise at home, and there were various sounds of falling things in his parents' bedroom, but he didn't know the reason.
I just remember that his mother sent her to school with red eyes the next day, and he sometimes didn't see his father for several months.
He never knew that his mother had suffered so much for him. Even if his parents quarreled, his mother never used him as a punching bag. He lost it to the nanny and driver.
"Mom, I'm sorry."
"Except for that Cui Peng, you didn't feel sorry for me. That's because I was willing to wrong myself. You didn't stop me from firing Cui Peng, and you barely made up for it. Telling you about the past is not to make you feel guilty, but to let you know The truth is, this is a fair deal. If I don’t tell you, I will ask you to give me the right to vote, and you won’t hesitate at all.”
But she didn't want to lie to her son.
"Are you going to divorce my dad?"
"I have to leave. I want to leave him when I'm at my best. I want to see him humbly begging me not to leave. That's the only way to relieve my anger. Just pretend you don't know my plan and entrust the right to vote to me at that time. At worst, your father will be killed." He was so angry that he was hospitalized, anyway, he didn’t recruit you, who made him owe you before, and he had to bear it when he died of anger. You go to the hospital to accompany him for a few days, and do your filial piety as a son.”
"..."