Fang Zhu clapped her hands to attract the attention of others, and then heard her say: "It's too late today, let's get here first and continue tomorrow!"
As soon as she finished speaking, two young men in the office stood up, shook their heads, and moved their waists.
"Sister Fang, it's already so late, why don't we go have some midnight snacks together." One of the young men named Lan Yufu said proactively.
It’s different here than in the north. The nightlife has just begun, so it’s normal to have late-night snacks at this time.
When Cao Huifang first came here, she was a little unable to adapt.
She is used to the pace of life in the north and usually goes to bed before 10 o'clock.
But after coming here for more than two months, she gradually accepted the habits here.
After Lan Yufu finished asking, everyone else looked at Fang Zhu. They knew that their leader Fang Zhu was quite easy to talk to in private.
As expected, Fang Zhu smiled and said, "Okay, everyone has been working very hard recently. I'll treat you to whatever you want to eat."
"Long live Sister Fang!"
The shameless guy has already started to flatter me.
Fang Zhu didn't care either. She asked several people in the office: "Which of you drove here? Bring the others who didn't drive."
At last count, including her, there were a total of 8 people in the process office, three of whom drove, and the vehicles were sufficient.
"I want to take Sister Cao's car. The back seat of Sister Cao's car has a lot of space and is comfortable to sit in." Another young girl, Chen Tingting, said.
Cao Huifang drives a new 1.8t Magotan to work, which is nothing new.
As for Cao Huifang being able to afford such a car just after graduating from college, everyone is not curious.
There are many wealthy families these days. What if Cao Huifang’s family is a demolition household?
These are all things that cannot be said for sure.
In addition to Chen Ting, another girl, Liao Fei, also clamored to ride in Cao Huifang's car.
The remaining four people all chose to take the car of another old colleague Wei Xinlei.
When Fang Zhu saw that no one chose her, she even asked the others with a fierce face: "What's the matter, you don't dare to sit in my car, are you afraid that I will eat you?"
"No way, Sister Fang, how can we ask the leader to be our driver? How can we carry out this work in the future?" Lan Yufu, who was the first to speak, added.
Fang Zhu didn't care and said: "As much as you have many reasons, let's not waste time here. Let's go quickly and go to the night market food stall we went to last time."
Others nodded and applauded.
Eight people and three cars drove towards their destination.
It took about 20 minutes to get here. When they came, the food stall was already full of people and parking was difficult.
Let Lan Yufu and others get off the car first to find a place, while Fang Zhu, Cao Huifang and Wei Xinlei find a place to park.
By the time they parked and came over, Lan Yufu and the other five had already found an empty table to sit down at, and there were three empty seats next to them, which were just reserved for Fang Zhu, Cao Huifang and Wei Xinlei.
"Sister Fang, this way."
"Waiter, take your order."
"Handsome guy, would you like to order a song for all the beauties?"
"Selling yogurt, iced yogurt, do you want to drink it?"
As soon as I sat down for a while, a burst of human smoke came to my face!
This was the second time Cao Huifang went out for late-night snacks after coming to Shencheng, and she began to like this atmosphere.
"Beauty, here are 8 yogurts." Cao Huifang waved to the girl selling yogurt.
"Sister, here we come." The girl selling yogurt came to Cao Huifang almost running, holding a blue incubator.
After she confirmed with Cao Huifang that she wanted 8 pieces of yogurt, she told her the price, which was 5 yuan each, which was not a high price.
Then he opened the lid and took out 8 sealed bowls of yogurt.
Cao Huifang had already scanned the QR code on the box using WeChat Pay on her mobile phone and paid her 40 yuan.
"Beauty, you've finished paying. Take a look." Cao Huifang showed the payment page to the other party.
"Thank you, sister." The girl selling yogurt expressed her gratitude to Cao Huifang.
Cao Huifang conveniently distributed the yogurt to other colleagues.
Everyone expressed their gratitude to her again, but Chen Tingting still stayed by Cao Huifang's side and kept saying good things about Cao Huifang. She was a typical flatterer.
"Huifang, how can I ask you to pay?" Fang Zhu, who had just sat down, asked.
Cao Huifang said with a smile: "Sister Fang, it's okay, I don't usually eat with you, but today I just have this opportunity, everyone gathered together, give me a chance, I'll treat you today, and you can order whatever you want to eat.
"
Hearing what Cao Huifang said, Chen Tingting said, "Sister Huifang, how can we let you spend money? We can do it as AA."
"It's okay, Sister Fang, give me a chance and let's do it again next time." Cao Huifang looked at Fang Zhu.
Fang Zhu also looked at her, and seeing Cao Huifang's firm eyes, she smiled: "You foodies, Xiao Cao invited you to dinner today, why don't you thank her quickly?"
For a while, the voices of 'Thank you, Xiao Cao' and 'Thank you, Sister Huifang' kept coming and going, making it even more lively.
Cao Huifang can clearly feel that the relationship between him and these colleagues seems to be more harmonious.
"Look at what you want to eat, order whatever you want." Cao Huifang said again.
It has been more than two months since I came here in mid-July, half of which was spent looking for a job. Cao Huifang just paid her salary for August this month, because it is not a full month, plus deducting insurance,
Her actual salary was only over 4,000 yuan.
But she seldom went out to go shopping. She stayed at home alone and mostly cooked and ate by herself. The rent was paid in one lump sum for one year with the money given by her parents and her brother and sister-in-law.
To be honest, she still had more than half of her first month's salary, which was more than enough to treat these colleagues to dinner.
"Sister Huifang, please order some winter melon Gu, and a fried squab, do you want to have a dragon-phoenix fight?" Lan Yufu asked.
Dragon and Phoenix Dou is a soup made from snake and free-range chicken meat. It has the deliciousness of chicken soup and the tenderness of snake meat. It is indeed a delicious dish.
But Cao Huifang had never eaten this thing before. When she thought of snakes, she felt panicked and uncomfortable.
When Lan Yufu asked them for their opinions, Cao Huifang remained silent.
Fang Zhu was very experienced, and he could see the strange expression on Cao Huifang's face at a glance. After a little thought, he could guess the reason: "Lan Yufu, let's not order this dish and replace it with something else."
"Okay, listen to Sister Fang." Lan Yufu handed the menu to the others.
Then I ordered some more vegetables and two soups, and asked the waiter to bring over 4 bottles of beer and 6 bottles of juice.
There are a total of 8 people in the process engineering department of Yifang Semiconductor Packaging Co., Ltd., including senior director-level engineer Fang Zhu.
There are three male employees and five female employees.
Wei Xinlei drove, leaving only two young boys drinking.
The five female employees, Fang Zhu and Cao Huifang drove, Chen Tingting, Liao Fei and Man Xiyun did not drink.
After waiting for the ordered dishes to be served, several people drank wine and drinks respectively, and the atmosphere became better and better.
Cao Huifang is the last employee to join Yifang Semiconductor Packaging Co., Ltd. and is also one of the three engineers in this department. Others are actually quite curious about Cao Huifang's identity.
Chen Tingting, who is one year younger than Cao Huifang, asked her: "Sister Huifang, was your home demolished?"
With the hugely profitable development of real estate, demolition of the nouveau riche is still a hot topic at the moment.
Chen Tingting felt that Cao Huifang was driving a new car worth more than 200,000 yuan just after graduation. She did not seem to be short of money. She positioned Cao Huifang as a nouveau riche family.
When Chen Tingting asked this question, Lan Yufu and another male employee, Gao Tong, stopped drinking and listened carefully.
Among the three male employees in this department, Liao Xinlei is married and has a wife and children.
Qualcomm and Lan Yufu are young and single, and they are not particularly old. They are both under 30 years old. Based on the mentality of first-come-first-serve, they still have some thoughts about single girls in the department.
But Chen Tingting and Liao Fei are very picky, and Fang Zhu is already married, leaving few to choose from.
Cao Huifang, the newly arrived engineer, is single and this is an opportunity.
But they were also helpless. Cao Huifang usually only talked about work and nothing else.
Sometimes I want to take the opportunity to have dinner together and have more contact with Cao Huifang, but Cao Huifang basically refuses to go.
This time they finally had a chance. When they heard Chen Tingting asking Cao Huifang such a personal question, they were very concerned. They also wanted to know what was going on at Cao Huifang's family.
But Cao Huifang smiled and said nothing.
When we ate, drank, or chatted, no one asked about each other's personal affairs.
After finishing the meal, Gao Tong took advantage of the wine and suggested whether we should go sing karaoke together.
Here, late-night snacks and singing karaoke are actually very common.
But Fang Zhu had to go home, Liao Xinlei also had to go back to take care of the children, and Cao Huifang was not interested in singing K.
The remaining five people all wanted to go, but they didn't have a car.
Chen Tingting wanted to ask Cao Huifang to go with her, but Cao Huifang said she was too tired. When Chen Tingting saw this, she didn't ask again.
At this time, Cao Huifang went to settle the bill. The overall cost was not much, only more than 300 yuan, which Cao Huifang felt was very cheap.
When Cao Huifang came back after settling the bill, several people discussed it again. It was almost 12 o'clock in the evening. They simply didn't go anywhere and went home to rest.
Cao Huifang dropped Chen Tingting at the door of the community where she lived. When she returned to her rented place, it was already past midnight.
She rarely played so late, and she felt really tired this time.
When I got home, I washed up and fell asleep.
…
She went to bed too late yesterday, and it was already past 7 o'clock when she woke up this morning. Cao Huifang got dressed in a hurry. After a few minutes of washing up, she didn't even have time to put on makeup, so she came downstairs carrying a small bag and drove to the company.
Halfway through, her cell phone rang. Cao Huifang saw that it was her mother Wang Yuelan calling. She didn't know what happened to her mother at this time. Cao Huifang saw the traffic jam ahead, so she was not in a hurry to answer the call.
It wasn't until she arrived at the company that Cao Huifang called her mother back.
As soon as the call was dialed, Cao Huifang heard her mother ask: "Fangfang, I just called you..."
"Mom, I was driving just now. There was a heavy traffic jam, so it was inconvenient to answer the phone." Cao Huifang explained.
Wang Yuelan understood instantly and told her daughter to put safety first.
"Mom, what's the matter with you? I have to go to work." After checking in, Cao Huifang bought some breakfast while passing by the company restaurant, and carried the breakfast to the process engineering office.
Wang Yuelan didn't say much else, and told her daughter directly: "Let me ask you, the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, will you be back?"
"And your uncle's cousin is getting engaged in October. Do you have a holiday during the National Day? Can you come back then?"
Wang Yuelan wanted to ask her daughter if she had a partner during this period of time?
But when the words came to her lips, she couldn't ask the question, which was extremely contradictory.
"Mom, we only have one day off during the Mid-Autumn Festival and seven days off during the National Day holiday. I won't be going back during the Mid-Autumn Festival. After work on the 29th, I'll take the high-speed train back on the evening of the 29th and I'll be there on the morning of the 30th."
"To Quancheng or to Yiling? I'll ask your dad to pick you up." Wang Yuelan was inexplicably surprised.
She thought her daughter would never come back.
"I started grabbing tickets half a month ago. I went to Yiling and took a flight from Quancheng on my return trip. I didn't grab the train tickets," Cao Huifang said.
In the past two months since I came here, Cao Huifang has also felt homesick.
I just didn't expect that my cousin was getting engaged and married.
"Okay, let's talk about it if you come back." Wang Yuelan happily hung up the phone.
Cao Huifang sighed as she listened to her mother's laughter coming from the phone.
After coming to Shenzhen from her hometown for more than two months, and spending nearly 70 lonely nights, Cao Huifang suddenly understood why her mother did not want her to come here, nor did she want her to find a partner here.
To be honest, Cao Huifang also misses home.
Others might feel distressed at the cost of a round trip of more than 2,000 yuan, but Cao Huifang didn't care.
If you have money, you don't care about this.
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In Caojiazhuang, after Wang Yuelan hung up the phone, she called her son and said, "Shujie, your sister will take the bus back to Quancheng on the 30th."
"She's coming back. I thought she wouldn't come back."
As soon as Cao Shujie finished speaking, his mother kicked him.
"You kid, your sister is more homesick than you, unlike you who didn't want to come back when you went out." Wang Yuelan scolded him so that he didn't dare to say more.
Cao Shujie kept laughing.
Cheng Xiaolin heard the noise upstairs and saw her husband hanging his head and not speaking through the floor-to-ceiling glass window being scolded by her mother-in-law. She wanted to laugh.
The day after tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Looking at her son who is sleeping soundly with his hands and feet spread out on the bed, Cheng Xiaolin also misses her parents a little.
While his son was still sleeping, Cheng Xiaolin took his cell phone and went outside to call his mother.
Not long after, Li Xiaojuan answered the phone.
"Mom, is my brother okay now?" Cheng Xiaolin asked her mother.
I heard my mother say that her brother Cheng Yunping is not involved in any investments now, and the money saving card at home is also kept with his wife Liu Yingying.
The couple is not talking about divorce now.
Cheng Xiaolin breathed a sigh of relief. In her opinion, everything was going well with her family.
"Mom, I'm quite busy these days. We'll go back to see you after the holidays," Cheng Xiaolin said.
