Xue Ling was not surprised at all and asked: "As an editor at work, no matter whether your business is good or bad, it shouldn't affect your work, right?"
"I took the leave application form and applied for a long leave from the director." Xiao Jiaxue explained with a smile: "The doctor at the hospital gave me a certificate and said that my blood pressure was too high. I gave the director some Korean ginseng, but he turned a blind eye.
Yiyan approved a three-month long vacation for me."
Xue Ling nodded and said: "If the work unit is not busy, keeping you there will only consume more air and electricity bills, so I might as well push you further away!"
"Screw you!" Xiao Jiaxue looked around and asked, "Why don't you have any snacks or anything in your office? You don't have any sugar biscuits or anything to go with your tea, it's not delicious either!"
Xue Ling said with a smile: "I'm not a child, what snacks can I make? I usually drink tea and chat with guests in the office, and some fruits. The canteen provides some fruits every day. What do you want to eat? I'll ask the secretary to get it for you.
.”
"Whatever comes to you," Xiao Jiaxue said, "I've never been picky about food."
Xue Ling looked at her "huge" body and nodded: "I can tell."
Xiao Jiaxue was amused by her and went to drink tea by herself.
Xue Ling walked out and told Secretary Chen.
Soon, Secretary Chen came in with a plate of fruit.
The golden autumn of August is the fruit harvest season. The plate is not big, but there are several kinds of fruits piled on it - apples, pears, grapes, olives, and star fruits.
Xiao Jiaxue said happily: "As expected of a big group, you really have everything here, even fruits."
Secretary Chen pursed his lips and snickered, and explained: "You misunderstood, Mr. Xue usually doesn't like snacks. This is the leftovers from the canteen's lunch supply, and I bought the grapes and star fruits myself."
"Oh?" Xiao Jiaxue said embarrassedly, "Then I can't have it."
Secretary Chen hurriedly explained: "I bought two portions, one to eat at home and the other to give to Mr. Xue. Don't worry, I bought a lot and just washed them together. Please try it with Mr. Xue."
"Thank you!" Xiao Jiaxue thanked her.
Xue Ling also thanked him and pinched an olive to eat.
Xiao Jiaxue couldn't help but mutter: "It's great to be someone's boss. Your subordinates will flatter you and make you the boss!"
Xue Ling shook his head and smiled bitterly: "It's just on the surface. I used to make money for myself, so I just thought I was making money and didn't have to worry too much. But it's different now. If the interests of the group are harmed, the interests of all the employees who follow me will also be harmed.
, so I have to be more cautious, lest everyone follow me and have nothing to eat."
"You don't have to be afraid at all!" Xiao Jiaxue said: "Your group has so many advertisements, new products almost every year, and it also organizes giveaways from time to time. It is a very active and famous product in the market. It has penetrated tens of millions of women.
Why are you still not satisfied in your heart?"
"The market is highly competitive. Once there is no sense of crisis, we will quickly regress." Xue Ling explained: "Once we regress, it will be difficult to follow up. I have always kept in mind the principle of sailing against the current."
Xiao Jiaxue clicked her tongue twice, as if envious or jealous.
"There are not many people at our age who can maintain such a sense of self-motivation and pressure. When I entered the unit, I went from editor to editor-in-chief, and then to part-time as deputy director of the department. Those are the three levels. That's all gone. Not yet.
By the time I turned thirty, I no longer had any enterprising spirit. The salary difference between the chief editor and the deputy director was tens of dollars a month, so where was the motivation? No motivation! On the contrary, it was you who wanted money and people.
Wherever you need it, you can build a bigger group, but you can still maintain a sense of crisis and work hard, it’s really amazing!”
After staying in the workplace for a long time, people quickly lose motivation. They have to cope with life every day, and their work efficiency is low. They look at the schedule and get off work every day. Anyway, if you work hard, you can get so much salary. If you don’t work, you can get so much salary. You work so hard.
What?
Xue Ling has worked in a newspaper office, which can be considered as working in a serious unit.
"At that time, I didn't have much work at my job. I could finish it in at most one or two hours a day. The rest of the time, I would quietly work for you to earn translation fees."
"Yes!" Xiao Jiaxue laughed excitedly, and quickly rejected it: "Where did you get a job for me? It's all the royalties from the publishing house. I'm running errands for you, okay?"
Xue Ling laughed and said quietly: "Twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye - so fast!"
"No!" Xiao Jiaxue quickly stopped: "I can't bear any memories or remembrances now."
Xue Ling asked curiously: "What's wrong?"
Xiao Jiaxue gnawed on the pear and muttered: "Just thinking that we have graduated for more than 20 years and I have still accomplished nothing, I can't help but feel sad."
"Deputy Director, don't be so modest." Xue Ling joked, "You are the only foreign lady in our class."
Xiao Jiaxue curled her lips and whispered: "It seems like there is nothing except these two."
"Where's the apartment you bought?" Xue Ling continued to tease: "Where's the car you bought?"
Xiao Jiaxue shook her head: "That's all, it's really not much."
At this point, she sighed quietly and whispered: "My biggest regret in life is probably not having children."
I finally got married, and married a fat husband who didn't dislike my fatness. I thought my life would finally be complete, but I didn't know that something crucial was missing.
"Fortunately, my husband is a foreigner and is not too obsessed with the concept of continuing the family line, otherwise I would probably have divorced."
Xue Ling's eyes dimmed and he whispered: "Nine times out of ten, life will be unsatisfactory. How can everything go as planned? I have been very annoyed recently... My cousin and my sister-in-law are probably getting divorced."
Xiao Jiaxue glared, then sighed quietly.
"Let me tell you, no one is perfect. My husband said that if we don't have children next year, we will go to an orphanage to adopt a girl. He said that as long as the limbs are sound and the intelligence is sound, it will be fine. I just hope that we will grow old.
When we are young, it would be nice if the children can come to keep us company occasionally so that we won’t be too lonely.”
Xue Ling nodded and said: "Girls are much more considerate than boys, and are not as naughty as boys - better! Foreigners don't have as strong a concept of inheriting the family line as we do. They don't force you, and you won't be too stressed. Finally come back.
Let’s face it, you didn’t pick him wrong in the first place.”
"Their family values are not as strong as ours, and their parents don't pay much attention to him." Xiao Jiaxue explained: "During the holidays, everyone gets together to have fun for a few days, and everyone else goes about their own business during the rest of the time. I will marry him and give him another
One advantage is that I don’t have to support my parents-in-law. I really can’t imagine living with my parents-in-law and facing them every day – it’s simply torture!”
"It's not that exaggerated." Xue Ling shrugged: "I have always lived with my father-in-law and mother-in-law, and it has always been good."
"That's your luck." Xiao Jiaxue snorted: "Nine out of ten of our female classmates have mother-in-law's heart problems. They are either seriously ill or critically ill, and there is no way to save them."
Xue Ling chuckled and said: "So you are the luckiest. Your parents-in-law are thousands of miles away and they don't have to get along with you at all. They meet once every few years. They are harmonious and happy, and they treat each other well.
good."
"That's because their family concepts are different from ours." When Xiao Jiaxue said this, she couldn't help but smile bitterly: "When I first told him about my family and how we live together as a family, he thought it was incredible. Yes.
Once I wanted to lend him money to my parents, but he actually asked me why my parents didn’t save their own pension, so how could they ask for money from their own children - I was really speechless at that time!"