When I was talking, I noticed that she hesitated several times, so I immediately said to her: "Don't ask me why, just do it like this. You will know why after a while."
"But..." she still said.
I immediately interrupted her, "That's it, you contact Shangguanqin as soon as possible. Ouyang, I have always been grateful to you, but I really don't have the time and energy to take care of the company's affairs. If you need my help with anything in the future,
Just tell me if you want, and I will definitely try my best to help you."
She looked at me suspiciously, and then said, "Okay."
After she left, I suddenly felt very relaxed, but after a while, I suddenly felt a little empty, as if something was suddenly missing.
And just in the afternoon of that day, I received a call. It was from Wu Yaru. She used a landline number, so I didn’t know it was her when I started reading. When I heard her voice coming from the phone,
Suddenly I felt an irresistible longing.
"Feng Xiao, are you okay?" This was the first thing she asked me, and I immediately knew who she was across from me.
"Yeah." I replied, feeling confused and confused.
"Xiaojie said your wife passed away, right?" This was the second sentence she asked.
"Yes." I replied, and I could feel that my voice was dry. In fact, I was still in the conflict of not knowing what tone to use to talk to her.
But she suddenly shouted, "Are you okay?"
I hurriedly said: "It's okay, it's really okay."
She then said: "Okay, let's have a meal together tonight. I just came back from the countryside."
I hesitated immediately, "I..."
"I know you're in a bad mood, but I have something to tell you. You have to come out. So, come to my place and I'll buy some wine and food," she said.
I can’t go! I can’t go to her place again! I said to myself immediately in my mind, and then said to her: “Let’s do this, I’ll make a reservation at a restaurant, and we’ll have dinner there in the evening. I’ll send it to you then.
Short message."
She said: "Okay."
After we met, I noticed that she had lost a lot of weight, and she didn't look as pleasing to the eye as before. I immediately felt that it would be better for a woman like her to be fatter, at least when she was fat, she wouldn't have such obvious wrinkles as now.
When she saw me looking at her, she immediately shook her head and sighed: "Don't look at me, I'm an old woman. I spent a lot of time living in the countryside, and I turned into a yellow-faced woman."
"It hasn't changed much," I said hurriedly, and then asked her, "Why are you going to the countryside?"
"Sketching. Some time ago, I always felt that I had no inspiration, so I had to devote myself to nature." She said with a smile.
I said, "Oh? How was it? Did you gain anything?"
"Sketching is not the purpose, the main purpose is to think about some issues. After a while, I plan to go to Tibet. Next year, maybe next summer," she said.
I said: "Actually, I envy you artists who are unconstrained and unconstrained, and can leave beautiful things on the canvas for more people to appreciate."
"We are not that noble, are we?" she said with a smile, "Actually, what we have to do is very simple, that is, to feel the beauty, and then use a paintbrush to record the best things in our hearts."
I said: "You can compare with writers."
She looked at me, "Feng Xiao, what's wrong with you today? Why do I feel like you're speaking so casually? Is it because we haven't seen each other for a long time?"
I shook my head and said, "Don't talk about it. I'm not in a good mood lately."
She was still looking at me, with concern and sympathy in her eyes. After a while, she said to me: "Feng Xiao, I understand."
"Come on, let's eat and drink." I raised my glass to her. I felt very strange myself: I didn't feel a trace of excitement after seeing her today, and my heart was as calm as water, unruffled.
She drank with me, but she still came to ask me: "You, what are you going to do in the future?"
I didn't understand what she wanted to ask me, "What should I do?"
"Are you still going to find a mother for your child?" she asked.
I didn't expect that she would ask me so directly without any explanation. You know, ordinary people would not ask me like this at this time. Lin Yi asked me that day, and later Lin Yu and Hong
Ya and Kang Demao both asked me about this matter, but they both said something like this later: I'm sorry, maybe I shouldn't ask now...
This suffix is very important. It is the most basic etiquette for people to get along with each other. They are asking me because they care about me, but they must take into account my state of mind at the time. So even if they ask me questions that I shouldn’t ask, I don’t
I felt disgusted. But today was different. Wu Yaru asked directly like this, and there was no follow-up immediately. This made me feel uncomfortable immediately, but then I thought: Maybe people like her who are engaged in art
That's how it is, I don't think too much about worldly things.
Thinking of this, I no longer felt any discomfort, so I shook my head and said, "I'm not looking for it anymore. It's boring."
"Oh, we can talk about it after a while. Now that you are in a bad mood, you will definitely not think about it for the time being." She said, but did not come to see me, as if she was talking to herself.
I suddenly felt that she seemed to have a different meaning, and I immediately felt a kind of vigilance in my heart, so I immediately said: "I really won't look for her again. I don't want my children to be upset in the future, and I don't think it means anything."
She shook her head and said: "No, you are still so young."
I had to ask her, "Why did you say that? Do you have any other meaning that you haven't said yet?"
This is what I think: Rather than putting off facing some things until you can't refuse them in the future, it's better to solve them now. Many things are actually put off, and I know this very well.
"It's nothing, I just want to ask." She said.
Now I can't continue to ask, but I think it's okay not to tell her, since I won't see her more in the future anyway.
"Feng Xiao, Xiaojie had a great time working in your company. I have to thank you for this." Then she came to propose my drink.
I said: "Actually, you shouldn't thank me. The main thing is that she did a good job. I asked the people below and they all said that she is very smart. It is a pity that she does not have a diploma, otherwise she can work in those big companies in the future."
She nodded, "I asked her too, and she said she also wanted to study. But now..."
I was startled, and then said: "It's okay if she wants to go to school. I'll tell them, give her a basic salary, and find a way to reimburse her for part of the tuition fee."
She looked at me in surprise, "Why are you going to tell them? Isn't the company yours?"
I had no choice but to tell her the truth, because I found that she was really an honest person, "My company has been transferred to Jiangnan Group. I will no longer care about it from now on."
She looked even more surprised, "Why?"
I said: "Sister Yaru, you have to keep this matter a secret for me for the time being. Because the matter has not been completely determined yet, I don't want more people to know."
She said: "Don't worry, I'm not the kind of person who likes to go out and talk nonsense. My social circle is also very narrow, and I have no chance to talk to others."
I nodded, because I knew what she said was true, so I said: "That's right, I may be transferred to the provincial government soon, so I can no longer own my own company, lest others gossip about me in the future."
Her eyes widened, "You? Go to work for the provincial government? Are you kidding me?"
I knew what she was thinking, so I smiled and said, "You think I'm an obstetrician and gynecologist, so it's impossible for me to work for the provincial government, right? But you may not know that I'm from the Foreign Affairs Office of the Medical University.
Where's the director? According to the Civil Service Law, I can be directly transferred to the provincial government to work at the same level without taking the civil service examination."
"But why do you want to go to a place like that? Aren't you a good doctor? You have to know that after you went to the provincial government, you won't be as free as you are now." She said with a look on her face.
A confused look of incomprehension.
I sighed: "Where do I want to go? It's Governor Huang who insists on asking me to be his secretary. Hey! Sister Yaru, as long as you know this matter, don't tell others about it for the time being.
Haha! It’s not that I don’t trust you, but this matter is indeed too important, and it’s not completely determined yet. It would be embarrassing if I couldn’t go by then.”
But she didn't seem to hear what I just said, because I felt that the tone of her next words was as if she was talking to herself, "That's it..."
I saw that we had almost eaten, so I held the cup and said to her: "Sister Yaru, let's go back early today. I still have some things to go back and deal with."
But she had no intention of leaving, "Feng Xiao, wait. I haven't finished speaking yet."
I had to look at her patiently. To be honest, what I am most worried about now is that she will say ambiguous words to me. She and I once had that kind of relationship. If she really wants to propose to me now,
I really can't say no to intimacy or anything like that directly, so I feel very uneasy right now.
I had no choice but to smile bitterly in my heart, and then said to her: "You tell me, I'm listening."
"Now that your company has been incorporated into Jiangnan Group, I don't want Xiaojie to work there anymore. You know the reason," she said immediately.
I was stunned for a moment, "What...what should I do? She doesn't have a diploma, so it's hard to make other arrangements?"
She said: "You think of a way."
I suddenly felt a headache, and after a while I said, "I still have a restaurant, is it okay for her to work there as a deputy manager?" Then I shook my head, "No, that place has to be managed by Jiangnan Group." (To be continued.