Lu Ming, with a black face, had to go to the company in the midst of Ji Yanchen’s incomparable goodbye wave. Because he went in a hurry, Lu Ming missed a document.
As soon as he arrived at the company, the physically and mentally exhausted Xu Ling’s eyes glowed as if he was seeing the reincarnation of the living Buddha, almost hugging Lu Ming’s thighs and crying.
But Xu Ling could only cry in his heart, because in reality, Lu Ming’s face was particularly bad. As soon as he came, he fired Xiao He on the spot for not doing things seriously, and then dealt with his work seriously.
Xu Ling tightened his nerves and adjusted his state immediately: “The Deputy General Manager of XX Company has half an hour to get off the plane. I have already sent someone to pick him up.”
Lu Ming nodded his chin slightly: “Tell everyone to go to the conference room and start today’s quick meeting first.”
“Yes!”
After recovering his memory, Lu Ming was still as serious as usual in the company, not as gentle and good-tempered as at home. He had always been unsmiling about his work and extremely calm when things went wrong. In the eyes of ordinary employees, Lu Ming was not much different from the past.
But Xu Ling, who was with him, saw many changes in Lu Ming.
The most obvious point was that Lu Ming no longer had a stern face all day, his tone of voice had also become more calm; a lot of the defenses and boundaries were no longer there.
This gave Xu Ling a little more confidence in the job. Of course, Lu Ming also gave a lot of salary and Xu Ling was very satisfied with this, so he did not want to leave at all.
After half an hour, the quick meeting ended extremely quickly. With Lu Ming here, everyone’s work status was online and there was no delay.
Afterwards, Xu Ling followed Lu Ming all the way to his office, where he neatly placed the organized documents on Lu Ming’s desk: “Mr. Lu, you need to read these first, I’ve sorted them all.”
Lu Ming casually flipped through a few pages and glanced at Xu Ling’s haggard face. He looked down at the documents and said in an extremely normal tone: “After this busy week, you should take a break.”
“Ah?!”
Xu Ling’s body jolted and he almost lost his footing.
The company was now at the time of employing people. He did not understand why Lu Ming wanted to give himself a long vacation. Was it because of today’s mistake?
Xu Ling swallowed a mouthful of saliva in fear and thought desperately: It’s over, Xiao He just has been fired. Now, is it his turn?
However, Xu Ling was clear that it was indeed he did not handle his work well, which led to such a low-level mistake today.
It was understandable if Lu Ming wanted to let him go and he had nothing to say.
But Lu Ming did not hear Xu Ling’s answer, so he raised his head. Only to see Xu Ling’s pale face with rather deep eyebags under the eyes were clearly presented in front of him. Lu Ming thought that Xu Ling was indeed under too much pressure as Chi Qiu said.
So, out of humanitarianism, Lu Ming added: “A week of paid leave. If you go on a trip, you can ask for reimbursement for the expenses from personnel.”
Xu Ling’s brain couldn’t react to Lu Ming’s attitude even if his brain was spinning continuously.
He murmured and asked, “Mr. Lu…you are not going to fire me?”
“Why should I fire you?” Lu Ming, again, did not understand Xu Ling’s brain. He said: “It’s been hard for you recently. Starting tomorrow, I will return to work normally. If you don’t want to take a vacation, you can continue to work.”
“…”
Xu Ling, who immediately understood, almost bit off his tongue.
Oh my God, is this still the iron-faced Lu Ming?
Xu Ling burst into tears with a mouth stammering hard, almost biting his tongue: “Thank, thank you, Mr. Lu! I, I will have a good rest!”
“En.” After giving a little sweetness, Lu Ming got up, and when he pretended to give him work, he reminded him ‘unintentionally’: “You should try not to complain in front of Chi Qiu in the future, it is not appropriate.”
“…”
“Can you do it?” Lu Ming did not want Chi Qiu to misunderstand him as an unreasonable boss who only exploited his employees. He had to accumulate points here until he got full marks.
Xu Ling couldn’t help but stiffen his back. It turned out that Lu Ming had seen through his own little thoughts. He deliberately complained, just to let Chi Qiu personally ask Lu Ming to go back to work.
Looking at Lu Ming’s smiling expression, Xu Ling finally understood. This person, Mr. Lu, it turned out that only Mr. Chi could cure him.
On the other side, the hospital, as always, was filled with the smell of disinfectant.
With the help of Ji Yanchen, Chi Qiu followed the nurse to do several tests. The report came out quickly, and the doctor said that the fact that Chi Qiu’s right eye was able to perceive light was a good sign, indicating that he was recovering well.
It was just a pity that the doctor was not sure about the time of recovery: “Mr. Chi, it is reasonable to say that if you can perceive the light, there should be no problem…Have you been working too hard lately?”
Thinking of his daily study, Chi Qiu felt that he was using his brain too much: “I’ve been learning things lately, I may not be in control of my time.”
“I think you need to keep a good mood and pay attention to rest, not to strain yourself. You can rest assured that looking at the test results, everything is already normal in your right eye. It should only be a matter of time before you regain your sight.”
Chi Qiu was excited. After thanking the doctor, he touched his mobile phone and couldn’t wait to make a call to Lu Ming.
However, Lu Ming was probably busy and didn’t answer. Chi Qiu remembered that Lu Ming was at work.
He was so happy that he forgot about it for a moment and hurriedly put away his phone, ready to wait for Lu Ming to get off work.
On the side, Ji Yanchen collected Chi Qiu’s checklist, folded it twice, and clipped it into Chi Qiu’s medical record book: “Lu Ming has to be furious, I actually know the good news before he does.”
Chi Qiu resumed his helpful attitude: “He’s not that petty.”
“Come on, you’re siding with Lu Ming1the author used 护短 here, which is to side with a disputant who is in the wrong every day now.” Ji Yanchen wrapped his arm around Chi Qiu’s shoulders, striding across the six relatives,2so there’s two meanings to this: one is to be disrespectful or ungrateful. The other one is the literal one which is not to recognize one’s own closest relatives. So my small brain couldn’t fathom what does this mean in this context. and took Chi Qiu to his brand new sports car. While chatting with someone on his phone, he hooked up the corners of his mouth and said, “It’s still early, let’s go have an afternoon tea.”
“I don’t want to go, you can send me home.”
“A friend just opened a shop, go and support him, ah.” Ji Yanchen had many friends. Usually, when he said this, Chi Qiu basically wouldn’t ask which friend they were.
Anyway, he didn’t know them.
Ji Yanchen opened the navigation without waiting for Chi Qiu to reply: “Go, ba. You’re not bored staying at home every day, ah? Now that the matter of Chi Xia and Lin Yuming are settled, let’s go out for a stroll and take a break. Your doctor said you need to keep being in a good mood, maybe today your eyes will be ‘opened’.”
In order not to give Chi Qiu room to refute, he said: “I’ll take you to Lu Ming’s company when it’s almost time to get off work.”
Chi Qiu, who was still hesitating at first, was suddenly moved: “Actually… it’s not bad to have a cup of tea.”
Now it was Ji Yanchen’s turn to laugh bitterly: “Okay, then you go home with him later. I happen to have something else to do.”
“You’re not going to my house for dinner?” Chi Qiu obediently fastened the seatbelt. The vague swaying shadow in front of his eyes was the sparkle of the winter sun.
Ji Yanchen turned back, attracted by the looming light in Chi Qiu’s eyes, as he answered the question: “Lu Ming is petty.”
Chi Qiu frowned: “What?”
Ji Yanchen smiled helplessly: “No, next time. Today’s good news, it’s not suitable to have me as the light bulb in your house, right?” Besides, if Ji Yanchen still stayed with Chi Qiu at night , Lu Ming’s vinegar jar might have been knocked over.
Ji Yanchen had already overwhelmed Lu Ming today. He was pleased enough that he didn’t need more pleasure.
…
He took Chi Qiu to a uniquely decorated dessert store with a quiet environment.
After the waiter came up and asked, he enthusiastically led the way: “Mr. Ji, our boss has prepared a spot on the roof for you and Mr. Chi.”
Ji Yanchen looked around, but there were no customers.
The waiter replied with understanding: “Boss said that you and Mr. Chi are today’s honored guests, so we delayed the opening by one day.”
This worked for Ji Yanchen: “He’s quite good.”
The waiter brought them to a glass room decorated with flowers on a small terrace on the second floor.
Chi Qiu could not see, but he could smell the rich fragrance of flowers. He put away his guide cane and sat on the chair that Ji Yanchen had pulled out for him.
“Sir, I’ll give you the menu.”
The waitress carefully asked them what kind of coffee or what kind of tea they would like to drink. Chi Qiu listened to the name of the teas she quoted and picked a cup of jasmine tea casually. When it was time to order dessert, the waiter put away the menu: “Today’s dessert is a winter limited citrus cake. Our boss is preparing it and will bring it to you two in a moment. Please wait a moment.”
Chi Qiu wondered; he followed Ji Yanchen to eat at so many restaurants opened by his friends, but it was the first time he met the owner who made desserts himself.
Ji Yanchen crossed his legs and looked at the decoration style around him with interest: “Good taste.” He said to Chi Qiu, “The decoration is quite nice. After this, you can come back again to see.”
“It’s your friend’s store, what am I doing coming here again?”
As soon as Chi Qiu’s words fell, a familiar voice sounded outside the door——
“Welcome, welcome, sorry for the long wait!”
Bai Yan, dressed in a patisserie uniform, strode across the room and walked up to them with a high spirit: “Chi Qiu, long time no see!” He turned around and shouted to the person behind him, “Luo Xu, what are you doing? Hurry up and bring the cake I made especially for Chi Qiu!”
Immediately, the big star Luo Xu also acted as a waiter, providing a private service for Chi Qiu and Ji Yanchen: “Welcome, we will ask the two of you to take care of our Xiao Yan dessert shop in the future.”
He put down the small six-inch cake in his hand before cutting each one into pieces one by one, and put them on a porcelain plate. He said to Chi Qiu: “Say hello to Mr. Lu for me.”
As soon as Chi Qiu heard Luo Xu’s voice, he remembered his ability to use three boxes of condoms at once on Bai Yan. He got up at a loss for words, not even remembering for a moment that Luo Xu was the spokesperson for Lu Ming’s products: “…Okay.”
After he breathed in and smelled the sweet smell in the air, he was instantly sat down again by Bai Yan who was pressing his shoulders.
Bai Yan smiled and said, “Chi Qiu, Luo Xiu is always so humorless when he speaks. You don’t need to care about him.”
Luo Xu’s eyes were full of doting: “Well, don’t mind me.”
And Bai Yan had always been a simple-minded person. Today, he only wanted to invite Chi Qiu to taste his own craftsmanship and also to support his own dessert store. “Yanchen and I have been in private contact and he told me about you. Chi Qiu, congratulations.”
“Thank you.” Chi Qiu said embarrassedly, “Why did you suddenly open a dessert shop?”
“I’m determined to return to China to develop. It’s easier to take care of my parents and I don’t have to be away from Luo Xiu as much.”
In the few years abroad, Bai Yan had mastered making desserts.
“In the future, if it’s convenient for you, come and visit the shop often, I’ll give you a discount!” While not forgetting to collect the money, he attentively handed the fork to Chi Qiu: “Do you want to try it?”
In front of the talkative Bai Yan, Chi Qiu was silent.
He could not keep up with Bai Yan’s speed of speech, so he took the fork and slowly took a bite of the cake and put it in his mouth. In an instant, Chi Qiu felt that his heart was about to melt. Since childhood, Chi Qiu had eaten so many cakes, but he dared to say: This is the best cake he has ever eaten!
The silky smoothness of the cream and the softness of the cake, no overly sweet cloying taste, only the melt-in-your-mouth sweetness. The middle was dotted with the fragrance and taste of citrus. The fruit grains burst in the mouth like the winter sun and the beads burst open, relieving the sleepiness of the sunbathers, with a hint of mint fragrance.
“…”
Chi Qiu never knew that a cream cake could actually make people feel good.
“Delicious!” Chi Qiu heartily praised and finished a piece of cake in a few bites. Even before leaving, Chi Qiu cheekily asked Bai Yan to ‘buy’ some cakes.
Bai Yan was very generous: “Don’t be polite to me, take everything you like! I won’t charge you today!”
When Ji Yanchen saw this, he pulled the corner of his mouth: “It’s hopeless.”
Therefore, while the clerk was packing, Bai Yan approached Ji Yanchen, kicking his butt and lowering his voice: “How is it hopeless to like my dessert?”
“Are you being unreasonable?” Ji Yanchen hesitated, but after seeing Luo Xu, who was like a bodyguard beside Bai Yan, his temper instantly improved as he explained patiently: “He is taking it home for Lu Ming, he is now thinking of Lu Ming in everything, hopeless.”
Bai Yan was confused: “Then are they still divorced?”
Ji Yanchen felt that Bai Yan’s married life was too happy and might not be able to understand the twists and turns and ups and downs between Chi Qiu and Lu Ming. So, Ji Yanchen searched his brain for a long time before he found two key words for Bai Yan: “Breaking up and getting back together, divorce first and love later.”
Understand?
The author has something to say:
Thank you, everyone, the guide cane will be thrown away tomorrow.
