I became a poor little sophora japonica in the courtyard

"Hey! Is there any more? Give me some more."

Xu Damao ignored Jingyi's questions and wolfed down a bowl of egg fried rice in just a few mouthfuls. He then held the empty bowl and asked the chef for more.

"Alright! You should avoid overeating on an empty stomach. Save some room for dinner."

Jingyi hurriedly stopped him, and Xu Damao reluctantly put down the empty bowl. But he picked up the egg drop soup again and began to drink it in big gulps.

While drinking his soup, he began to answer Jingyi's questions. "I heard that my mother lives in No. 95 Siheyuan, and I want to come and see her. I did something wrong before, and I don't ask her to forgive me."

"Then you must be late! I heard that your mother passed away a few years ago." Jingyi was not afraid to tell him the truth.

Xu Damao held the bowl of soup and suddenly burst into tears. He also began to slap himself repeatedly, slap slap slap! His cheeks soon became red and swollen.

Jingyi quickly ordered someone to pull him back! She began to scold him: "If you had known this would happen, why did you do it in the first place? You hurt your own parents, this behavior is the most shameful. But it has already happened, you have to find a way to make up for it. But you have disappeared for several years."

"I also wanted to come here earlier to remedy the situation, but I couldn't help myself." Xu Damao beat his chest and stamped his feet in regret.

After he lost all his fortune in the deception of Li Huaide, he was like a gambler who had lost all his money and was only thinking about making a comeback.

In a moment of thought, he stole his parents' real estate certificate and sold it as capital, hoping to get rich quickly so that he could redeem his parents' house.

But where did the opportunity to make quick money come from? It just so happened that he had a friend who knew him from showing movies, who told him there was a way to make a lot of money, and asked him if he was willing to join him.

When he knew that they were going to the neighboring province to import small discs and sell them in Sijiu City, he was a little scared. This would violate the law! But then he thought that reselling them would double the profit, so he was a little tempted. In addition, his friends kept encouraging him, so Xu Damao made up his mind. He couldn't delay his parents' house! He immediately agreed.

So the two of them went to a neighboring province and bought a small batch of goods to test the waters. The movie discs were indeed in great demand, and the doubled profits made the two of them a small fortune.

The second time, the two bought several thousand pieces directly. Unexpectedly, they were unlucky. As soon as they came out of the market with the goods, they were detained by the police along with the goods.

Finally, he was sentenced to ten years in prison by a court in a neighboring province for the crime of trafficking in obscene materials. He was released this month! When the court in another province wanted to notify his family, he gave his parents' address. When the court called to contact him, they found out that his father had passed away and the house had become someone else's!

He spent these years in remorse all the time! He actively worked to reform himself, hoping to be released as soon as possible, kneeling in front of his mother to confess. So he performed well in prison and was released two years early.

He is now sixty-one years old, and it is all his own fault that he ended up like this.

"Do you have anywhere to go now? Do you want me to help you contact Qin Jingru?" Jingyi felt a little sympathetic towards Xu Damao, but there must be something hateful about a pitiful person.

Xu Damao shook his head and said: "How can I have the face to see her now? Why should I go and make myself unhappy. Thank you for the fried rice!" After that, Xu Damao stood up and was about to walk out.

Now the snow outside is getting heavier! Jingyi was afraid that he would freeze to death in a corner, so she decided to help him first.

"There is a lounge in the lobby of my company. If you really have nowhere to go, you can stay there first." Jingyi stopped Xu Damao and suggested to him.

Her company has a team of security guards on night shift, and the rest room in the gatehouse is for them. There are two bunk beds inside, so everyone can take turns patrolling and resting.

Xu Damao looked up at the snowflakes flying all over the sky. He really had nowhere to go, so he thanked Jingyi.

Jingyi took him to the lounge in the gatehouse and took a look. The bedding and mattress were neatly laid out, so she let him stay there for a few nights.

I also specifically told the security guard at the gate that this old man was the boss's former neighbor and that he could be taken to the employee cafeteria for dinner. I told the night shift workers not to bully him!

Oh my! My koi.

Jingyi left the lobby and then remembered her koi. She quickly went to the third floor of the Yellow Crane Tower! While no one was around, she sent the fish and the bucket into the space.

Jingyi drove back to Dongdan Lou Mansion. After the family had dinner and had some free time, Jingyi told her grandmother Tan Yali about what happened today with Xu Damao, which caused her to sigh.

"This is called a single misstep that leads to eternal regret! It's too late to regret now. So one should not lose one's composure! Jingyi, you are almost 38 years old. Do you plan to live alone for the rest of your life?" Tan Yali had just been talking about Xu Damao when she suddenly changed the subject and started urging Jingyi to get married.

"What can I do now? Are you happy for me to find someone in her 40s or 50s? But you would definitely not be happy with someone in her 20s. So, it's good to live alone." Jingyi began to argue.

The family was at a loss as to what to do with Jingyi's lifelong affairs. The main reason was that there was really no good candidate! This was because Jingyi was too good in every aspect, and no man could match her.

The next day, Jingyi and her secretary Xiaoqi flew to Hong Kong and attended a bunch of annual events. After the official events, she attended the business community. At the beginning of 1999, she received a bunch of invitations from the entertainment industry.

The top movie in the top ten box office rankings in Hong Kong in 1998 was neither a Hollywood movie nor a local Hong Kong movie. It was a daily horror movie called "The Ring". Even Stephen Chow's "The King of Comedy" and Chen Long's "Glass Bottle" couldn't beat it!

Hollywood's "The Mummy" and "Black and White" are both inferior to it.

At the Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony this year, the movie "Beast Cops" won the Best Film and Best Director awards. Anthony Wong also won the Best Actor award. He became the biggest winner of this year! But the box office of the movie didn't even rank 15th. The Best Actress award this year was Sandra Ng.

In Jingyi's opinion, all the top ten Chinese Golden Songs Awards in Hong Kong this year are just for show, and none of them can reach the level of Golden Songs! The music scene in Hong Kong is getting more and more decadent. Zhang Xueyou and B Day Band did not release any songs last year!

Eason Chan's "Every Tomorrow", Andy Lau's "Goldfish and Wooden Fish", Nicholas Tse's "Must Go" and so on. Anyway, Jingyi, as a judge, didn't like any of the songs. The score form she submitted was blank. This made the Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Awards committee very embarrassed!

After finishing her work, she flew back to Beijing. She hadn't been to the company for more than a month. On her first day at work, she saw an old man from the reception desk in the company's lobby.

Jingyi had completely forgotten about Xu Damao! Did this guy never leave? Did he just take up his post at the gate?

When Xu Damao saw Jingyi coming in from the lobby, he immediately ran out to greet her. "Good morning, boss! Are you here for work today?"

Jingyi didn't have time to bother with him anymore. She hadn't been here for more than a month and had a lot of things to deal with. She just nodded to him and went to her office.

By the time the work was done, it was already noon. She stood in front of the window on the third floor, looking at the garden view below. Employees from various departments of the company began to enter the restaurant in groups of three or four to have lunch.

Just then, the security captain appeared at the entrance of the restaurant. Jingyi asked Xiaoqi to pass on a message, asking the security captain to come to her office after lunch. She wanted to know what Xu Damao had done in the company over the past month.

When the security captain heard that the boss was looking for him, he came to Jingyi's office without even having lunch.

"Sit down! I asked you to come up because I want to ask, has Xu Damao been in our company for more than a month?" Jingyi asked as soon as she came up.

"Are you talking about Uncle Xu? He has been working at the company's concierge, helping with some things. He registers visitors, sends and receives emails, and helps pass messages. In his spare time, he also helps the cleaning lady and the small restaurant. He works very hard! He has a good relationship with us all."

The security team leader thought Xu Damao was the doorman hired by the boss and praised him highly.

"Okay! I understand. Go eat first."

After the security captain left, Jingyi instructed her secretary Xiaoqi: "Go to the Finance Department and tell them to make a salary list for the doorman, Mr. Xu. And pay him last month's salary as well!"

Xu Damao had earned a job as a non-staff member through his own efforts. As an important figure in the Siheyuan world, Jingyi didn't want him to be miserable in his later years.