After Li Qi left, Lin Sijia sat alone on the bed and thought for a long time. Finally, she looked at her haggard appearance in the mirror, looked at her slightly swollen cheeks, and recalled everything she had experienced last night. Finally, she
She clenched her fists with both hands and beat her heart again and again. She let out a hoarse and shrill cry from her dry throat. Finally, like a madman, she squeezed her fingers tightly and said to herself: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, I
You can do it by yourself, you can definitely do it..."
With that said, Lin Sijia took out a USB flash drive from the bedside table and held it tightly in her palm.
"Hehehehe..."
She was alone in her room in the afternoon, very happy and smiling ferociously.
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An Ning has been staying for a week in the temporary design department of Tongcheng XX project specially established by the design company on the 19th floor of Zhongtian International.
There are only six people in the temporary design department, huddled in the northeast corner of the tenth floor. Except for An Ning and another girl named Su Ju, the other four people were transferred from various design branches.
I have some tempers, especially since I used to sit in a large separate office, but after coming here...
"This project is so big, but the entire temporary design department is less than half the size of our department. There is a cubicle and they are all crowded together. I thought it would be a lot more fun to come to the headquarters, but it turns out it is nothing more than that."
"House prices in Tongcheng City have been close to those in Beijing in recent years. Every inch of land costs a lot of money! They don't even have a decent office!"
"Haven't you heard that Tongcheng is very exclusive?"
"It's better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix. This sentence really makes sense, but the territory of Beijing is much larger than that of Tongcheng. Why don't you see people in Beijing looking at people with their nostrils like that?"
…
In the corner, two women and a man were talking quietly.
In the seat next to the floor-to-ceiling window, the owner of the table, An Ning, was watering several pots of tiger orchids that were growing very vigorously. Then she divided the spider plants into pots and put one in the small flowerpot she brought.
Then use it as a table setting.
"You're quite skilled, so give me a pot. I'll be in front of the computer all day long to protect myself from radiation." Suddenly a girl said with a powerful smile and handed over an empty small flowerpot.
Her name is Su Ju, and she was hired from another company along with the design leader of this project. She is not from Tongcheng.
An Ning took it.
Anyway, I have nothing to do if I stay in the office like this all day long, it’s just a matter of effort.
The project started a week in advance. However, they were all here, but there was no sign of starting anything. They just read various materials related to the project there every day, but the discussion meeting was not held even once, let alone
There is a clear division of labor.
And about this...
"I heard that this project is related to the absconding case of the general manager of XX Steel Group named Zhang Chengfa. The reason why it has not been officially launched yet is because the audit team is investigating."
"What to check?"
"I just heard from an old employee here in the bathroom that they were investigating the four billion yuan that Zhang Cheng had embezzled. It just so happened that there was almost the same amount of money in the start-up capital of this project whose source was unclear."
"Are you saying that the 4 billion that Zhang Chengfa didn't have was invested in this?"
"Also, I heard that the relationship between our president and Zhang Chengfa is extraordinary. The mining investment company made nearly 100 million from XX Steel Group in half a year, but now it has been found out that the price was fraudulent, and 50 million has already been paid back.
, I really don’t know how much benefit Zhang Chengfa gained from that one hundred million miles.”
"I really don't know if I didn't come here. I have learned a lot. If this were in our place, we would probably not know until the truth came to light and it was reported in the news."
…
"careful!"
An Ning was listening when suddenly Su Ju shouted like this and immediately pulled her wrist.
Before An Ning could react, she felt a tingling sensation in the pad of her right index finger.
Su Ju frowned at the side and said: "Do you think the cactus is a spider plant? Can this thing be touched directly with hands?"
An Ning suddenly woke up. She unknowingly reached out to the pot of cactus on the side. If Su Jue hadn't pulled it in time, blood would have flowed from her palm.
But despite this, An Ning's right index finger was inevitably stabbed.
There was no blood, but the moment it was stabbed, it hurt so much that if you bite it between your lips and teeth, or touch it lightly with the tip of your tongue, it hurts, as if toxin is spreading into the body along the small wound. An Ning feels
Somewhat uncomfortable.
And this uncomfortable symptom actually lasted until get off work.
The elevator dinged, and An Ning was about to walk in, but when she looked up inadvertently, she saw two faces she was very familiar with among the five people standing in the elevator - Jiang Lichuan and Zhou Lu.
This was the first time An Ning met Jiang Lichuan after she came to Zhongtian International to report.
However, how could he take this elevator?
This building has a dedicated elevator that goes directly to the 36th floor. As the president of Zhongtian International, there is no need for him to take the employee elevator.
But just when An Ning had doubts and began to hesitate, in the elevator, Zhou Lu had already reached out to block the door of the elevator. Although he tried his best to smile politely, it still seemed a bit disobedient.
"The elevator on the thirty-sixth floor is broken and is being repaired." Zhou Lu said, and then said: "Why are you standing there, come in!"
Just as An Ning was about to refuse, he was suddenly pushed from behind.
"Why are you dazed? Let's go."
An Ning was pushed into the elevator by Su Ju without paying attention.
"Listening to Chen Mei and the others complaining there all day long makes my ears feel calluses. Why don't they tell me how much better our lunch boxes are compared to other people's lunch boxes every day? The chicken, duck and fish are all delicious, delicious and delicious. It's like going to a restaurant.
, I think if I stay here all the time, I don’t know how much fat I will gain." Miss Su Ju had never met Jiang Lichuan, let alone knew that he was the president of Zhongtian International, so she opened her small mouth as soon as she entered the elevator.
He just started talking non-stop.
Normally, An Ning would still chat with her for a few words, but now...
An Ning felt uncomfortable just standing here. She always felt that there was a complex and deep gaze staring at her from behind. She knew who it was, but she continued to pretend not to notice.
As for Su Ju's words, An Ning just responded lightly,
Fortunately, Su Ju didn't notice it and continued to talk to her.
An Ning didn't listen carefully at first, until Su Ju suddenly pulled her and said: "An Ning, this elevator can't..."
An Ning had been lowering her head, thinking that the elevator was waiting for people to come in and out, so she didn't have any 'objections' to the fact that it was not moving at the moment.
But at this time, following Su Ju's line of sight, he saw that the elevator door was tightly closed and was stuck motionless on the ninth floor.
Someone just said in panic, "Hurry up and press..."
Before the man finished speaking, suddenly the lights in the elevator flashed several times and went out. At the same time, the elevator that had been stuck suddenly dropped rapidly downwards.
At the moment of sudden weightlessness, everyone in the elevator, including An Ning, screamed.
And in the panic, a pair of arms hugged An Ning, and the familiar breath came from the tip of her nose. An Ning felt that her suddenly sinking heart was like grabbing a piece of driftwood on the boundless sea, and suddenly became...
Get settled.
"Don't be afraid, I'm here." A quick voice rang in her ears.
As soon as he finished speaking, the elevator miraculously stopped again. The surroundings were still dark. An Ning leaned in Jiang Lichuan's arms and couldn't help but grasp the edges of his clothes with her hands.
Although the elevator has stopped, it is still stuck, and there is a risk of falling again at any time, so everyone inside is holding their breath carefully.
"It's me. The president is trapped in the elevator on No. 3. Send someone here quickly." After Zhou Lu calmly finished the call, he looked at the person huddled in a ball on the side with the faint light of the mobile phone screen.
The three grown men in the corner, he spat fiercely and said: "Get out of here!"
On the side, An Ning was staring at a petite figure curled up in the other corner. She recognized it as Su Ju at a glance. Through the faint light of the screen of Zhou Lu's mobile phone, she could see that Su Ju's shoulders were shaking.
With.
Could it be cabin fever?
Thinking of this, An Ning immediately stood up, but...
Jiang Lichuan tightened his arms again and shouted, "Zhou Lu."
Immediately, Zhou Lu, who was standing by, immediately understood. He walked over and patted Su Ju a few times, only to find that the other person was shivering and curling up even more. Just when he didn't know what to do, the elevator suddenly lit up, but it wasn't the light above his head.
The light is the flashlight function downloaded into Jiang Lichuan's iPhone.
An Ning blinked, and then a low and joking voice whispered in her ear: "Don't tell me you didn't know that you can download this software on your iPhone."
She really doesn't know.
She only uses her iPhone because of the company's configuration. She spends most of her time drawing drawings and going to the construction site. For her, the phone only has the function of communicating and sending emails, checking the time, alarm clock, map navigation, and temporarily acting as a camera to take on-site photos.
Among the several functions, the only one is the game software that comes with the phone as soon as you get it.
"Jobs will be angry with you." Jiang Lichuan chuckled.
An Ning was too lazy to pay attention to him.
After there was light in the elevator, Su Ju's condition seemed better, but he seemed to have passed out.
An Ning was about to get up and go see her, but Jiang Lichuan said, "Zhou Lu is here."
He still refused to let go, just holding her in his arms and spending those six uneasy minutes quietly in the elevator.
Six minutes later, the elevator door finally opened.
The moment the light penetrated, Jiang Lichuan finally let go and walked out of the elevator first to scold the staff who came over.
With the help of Zhou Lu, An Ning supported Su Ju and left without looking back.
It was as if there was a tacit understanding between them, as if the scene in the elevator was just a man's heroic instinct to take care of a weak woman in a critical moment, and nothing else.
However, as the sun sets, An Ning knows whose warmth still remains in her palms, but this warmth... will eventually be blown away, because it does not belong to her.
And in those short six minutes, it seemed that everything was forgotten and they just relied on each other, but in the end it could only become a memory.
It turns out that even if you are deceived, you can't help but rely on it.
In the bleak autumn wind, Tranquility smiled desolately.
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[The company will have a power outage during the day tomorrow, so I decided to take the broken printer out for repairs. I will try my best to get home from get off work early to code and update later. ]
Please give me a monthly ticket! Please give me a monthly ticket! I need it now! I can’t afford to be hurt by rushing to the top!!!