reprieve

Seeing that the meal was ready, it was the nearby fresh food supermarket that delivered food.

Sui Ran also thought that the temporary cooking Huai would not make it too difficult for him. When he opened the package, he found that the label on the top of the box was "Hutang Jingru". The finished semi-finished product can be heated in a pan or microwaved.

The position moved to the kitchen, Sui Ran wanted to make a move, but was politely invited out by the host: "It will be fine in a while, you rest."

Since Mr. Huai has always said one thing, she didn't force it.Sitting alone in the living room and playing with a mobile phone is not suitable, so I stay outside the kitchen, ready to hand over a plate to wash or do dishes at any time.

As a result, he didn't find a chance to intervene.

A long time ago, Sui Ran noticed that Huai'an had a methodical and neat way of doing things, as if every action had been rehearsed in his mind, and his gestures were smooth and smooth.

The same goes for chores.

Things heated in a steamer, microwaved, things that need to be washed with clean water, and placed on a plate... Take out things, take a look at what time to do, and follow a moving line. Every step is just right, and every second is fully utilized. There is no redundancy. I didn't feel in a hurry, and I added some kitchen lighting filters, and the visual enjoyment was full in one go.

Realizing that she stared at people for too long, Sui Ran quietly moved to the door.From the last standing angle, she could only see a small half of the kitchen and a pair of hands on the sink. Huaian was rinsing the grapes soaked in salt water, and removing the fruit from the lunch box to the small white porcelain disc.

"Part of the reason is that I didn't do a good job handing over. Fiona added an extra bidding process, so this kind of thing happened." After washing the fruit, Huaian took off the towel to wipe his hands, without turning his head, "Haicheng thinks so Yes."

Today's President Huai still predicts things like a god.

Sui Ran capitalized the word "serve" in his heart, and then thought, Boss Huai knows Hai Cheng quite well.

That's right, the two have been friends for five years, and Huai'an had met Haicheng alone not long ago.

On the other hand, Haicheng also knows Huai'an quite well - when she just resumed work, Haicheng encouraged her to boldly follow up with President Huai, as if if it were Huai'an, no matter what mistakes or omissions she made, she could be understood and forgiven.Even though she ignored those actions to bring her and Huai'an together overtly and covertly, they were finally defeated by the sentence "everyone has been waiting for you for four years".

Four years.

If she knew that Huai'an had looked for her four years ago...

Four years...

"Sui?" Huai'an leaned forward.

"Hey...but it really has nothing to do with you." Sui Ran responded in a panic, and returned to the kitchen door without denying her guess about Hai Cheng, "Just like the NIP project we did before, the only person who was connected from the beginning to the end was You, don’t there still be bad intermediaries going to pry corners from you.”

Compared with the horror of being lured into an abandoned factory yesterday, the hardships experienced during the NIP project are actually almost meaningless.

But for Sui Ran, who had just left school and entered the society at that time, the various situations encountered during the period were enough to wake her up from nightmares for many nights.

The smiling face of a tiger-like business recruiter is one thing in front of the other, another thing in the back, a bad intermediary cut him off halfway, and the boss Huai in front of him who made his department colleagues call him a "turtle" and made him decide to resign...

"I really want to thank you," Sui Ran clasped his hands together, solemnly expressing his gratitude, "I have regained my confidence and hope. I believe that there is still true love in the world, and there are still many good people in the world."

Huai'an pointed at Sui Ran with a piece of square honeydew melon, "Changed the topic again."

Sui Ran pinched her ears and said with a smile, "Seriously."

"NIP period is the information leaked by the investment manager, what about this time?"

Perhaps the fruit taken out of the ice was still cool, Huaian tilted his head and narrowed his eyes slightly.

"There is no impenetrable wall in the world."

Flies do not bite seamless eggs.

Sui Ran looked at the fruit plate on the kitchen counter, and omitted the last sentence.

Honeydew melons, yellow peaches, emerald green grapes, three-point circular dinner plates in bright and bright colors, neatly matched with geometric stickers, absolutely pleasing to the eye and the eye on Instagram.

Speaking of flies, I am so sorry for the situation.

"Our business relies on information to make a living. It's not a basic operation to grab orders from customers, but it's not uncommon." She shook her head.

The atmosphere of the jungle is particularly strong in this industry: first, industry norms have not been established, let alone perfect, and loopholes in the process are easy to be exploited; second, profit-driven, of course, no one will grab a small order of several thousand yuan, which attracts people's attention The ones with huge commissions and considerable profits are often the ones with huge commissions; moreover, it is also normal for the handlers to want to get a piece of the pie.

The more stakeholders involved, the greater the variables.

After staying in the industry for a long time, the more I can feel the savagery that is about to burst out-it should be rare outside of the violent zero-cost Internet, but it is very exciting.

Taking advantage of Mr. Huai's silence, Sui Ran continued: "Speaking of which, as long as there is a certain market in the industry, there will be similar situations more or less. Then the saying that a hundred times the profit dares to trample on all laws, isn't it all bad. What's more, in the eyes of many people, we are completely empty-handed white wolves with nothing to gain."

She met Huai'an's gaze, and her speech speed gradually became faster: "Whether it's developing the market or grabbing the market (market share), it's a battlefield without gunpowder. You know, for the first time, Ms. Fei asked us to Let's go together. We formed a small group during lunch, and I also hid and pretended not to understand the situation."

When stopping, Sui Ran took a short breath, and Huai An handed over the plate: "Try it, the sweetness is just right."

It seemed that it meant to let her rest and not talk, Sui Ran nodded knowingly, and said with a smile: "Xie Huai President."

"Since it has nothing to do with me, I can't understand why you didn't tell me, you even..." Huai'an paused, "It's intentional to hide."

Sui Ran took a small half step back with the honeydew in his mouth, trying to determine whether Huai Zong was trying to scare her again.

But no.

She is leaning half-body on the kitchen counter, her posture seems to be relaxed, but her right hand is pressed on the countertop, her collarbone protrudes to the upper right, and her center of gravity is also on this side, so her gaze is not parallel, and she is cautious in watching.

The dinner fork held in his hand felt cool as metal, but at the same time, it was unbearably hot.

Sui Ran lowered her eyes, put the white slippers embroidered with golden English letters one meter away, into her eyes, took the plate with her other hand, and slowly chewed the cold honeydew melon.

It's so cold that the gums hurt, and I can't taste the sweetness.

She is waiting for an answer, Sui Ran thought.

Although the answer is well known to each other.

The reason why Haicheng misunderstood Mr. Huai's failure to handle the handover was entirely because she found it troublesome. He didn't explain why Bai Yuan temporarily changed the manager, and why Huai'an let go so thoroughly—after all, she wanted to avoid suspicion.

In order to take care of her strange obsession with moral cleanliness and her fragile self-esteem, which was once bitten by a snake and afraid of well ropes for ten years, Huai'an made the greatest concession.

She keeps backing down.

Full of grace.

Although she will take the initiative to attack unexpectedly, she has mastered the "speed" very well and rarely makes people feel uncomfortable.

like now-

The white slippers on the opposite side moved forward slightly, and the words that followed were as light as the wind from the air conditioner.

"Do not think too much."

Immediately, the forehead - to be precise, between the eyebrows - seemed to be touched by something.

Delusion?

The frowning brows were unknowingly loosened, Sui Ran raised her head in a daze, not missing Huai An's movement to close her hand.When she fell back to her side, she clutched it weakly and turned back to the kitchen counter.

"Do you like your job?" Huai'an turned off the heat of the steamer and asked with his back to her.

"If you don't like it, you won't be the first to think of coming back to do it." Sui Ran secretly thanked President Huai for letting her go, and said in a relaxed tone without further questioning, "I have been idle for too long, I really want to find another job It may not be easy to find. At least Zhaoyue has Haicheng around, who can give me a hand."

"Haicheng is very special to you."

Sui Ran couldn't figure out whether she followed her own words and mentioned Hai Cheng, or had other thoughts about Hai Cheng, so she thought about it and said, "She is a friend who wants to ask for help when encountering difficulties. She is very powerful."

Huai'an said "um", indicating that he was listening.

As individuals in society, people probably have a conscious or unconscious need to affirm their own existence value—in other words, to be "needed", or "to be relied upon", or both.

Some people will put their needs to the outside world, and then get satisfaction from the feedback from the outside world.

Others focus on themselves, no matter how the outside world is disturbed and changed, he/she knows where the road he is walking leads to, and he/she will not doubt the value of the career he/she is doing and will be doing, and the meaning to himself.

Haicheng belongs to the latter group of social circles that can be counted on one hand. Sui Ran reckons that he will never reach her level in his life, so he has to be a brick mover and watch the road being paved brick by brick under his hands. open.

For example, start with a firm footing.

"I came back to Zhaoyue to do this job with speculative ideas. Hard work is hard work, and there are many things to do, but the money comes quickly, and the income has no ceiling." Sui Ran said, "It is also the harvest of the NIP period."

Five years ago, the NIP project gave her a thorough social lesson.Under the pressure of the company and Haicheng, she went back and forth between the owner's investment promotion and Huai'an, turning around like a spinning top, and was frightened by some prying customers from time to time. The toss was horrendous, but the final income exceeded imagination, and the return was several times paid.

The NIP project can be regarded as a turning point in her life. Since then, it has pointed out her path for the next few years.

"Generally speaking, the results of this business are immediate, and the feedback given on success and failure is quite immediate. Unlike your investment, a project cycle may take many years." Speaking of this, Sui Ran suddenly thought of Feng Chenchen. , adding, "It's even more incomparable with research and development."

"I'll tell you the story of Mr. Feng later." Huai'an reached out and took the fruit plate in Sui Ran's hand, pointing to the plates lined up on the kitchen counter, "Put the fruit away first, let's get ready to eat."

President Huai is probably not proficient in mind reading.

I don't know how she grasped the key so keenly.

Sui Ran held up the plate with both hands in awe, his eyes swept across Huai'an's face.The blueness in front of her eyes has faded a little bit compared to when she first saw her in the morning, just a little bit, and her tiredness is hard to hide.

Sui Ran asked: "Should I take a rest and take a nap after eating?"

Listening to the story is the same in the morning and in the evening, Mr. Huai's eyelids are almost stacked three times, and he needs to catch up on sleep first.

"also."

Huaian did not refuse.

……

Hearing the slight movement of the master bedroom door closing, Sui Ran let out a sigh of relief, returned to the guest room, took out her mobile phone and poked Hai Cheng's profile picture, and directly sent a voice request.

Haicheng refused and wrote back: "In the meeting. Please indicate the restriction level [Warning]"

Sui Ran pinched the bridge of her nose and looked at her phone, following everywhere.

The deep doubts and depression accumulated before the meal gathered in the chest again, like a fruit that was eaten too fast and had no time to chew it, stuck in a certain position, unable to go up or down.

She has always liked the feeling of eating with Huaian, the tacit and unembarrassing silence allows people to focus on the food itself.

The meal just now was no exception, it should be.

As usual, the two of them seldom talked, but it couldn't be said that she was guilty, or that the opposite party was out of energy. A few times, the two people's eyes met, and Huai An seemed to have something to say, but in the end it was either because of her avoidance that she wanted to cover it up. cough lightly, or just smile a little, and ask if the food suits your taste.

As long as Mr. Huai doesn't have a frightening face, and a slight curvature at the end of his eyes and lips, he will have the charm of spring weather and rain, and he can't talk about hiding a knife in his smile.

She also didn't really settle accounts after autumn, she must tell the reason for concealing it.

Instead, hold it up high and put it down gently.

After thinking about it, Sui Ran had to admit that the problem was her own.

Haicheng: "Hello? Are you there?"

Haicheng: "What's the matter?"

Haicheng: "Mr. Huai, won't you have dinner with us tonight?"

Haicheng: "If you don't answer me again, I'll call President Huai."

What about the meeting written in black and white?

Sui Ran: "Are you done?"

Haicheng: "Soon."

Haicheng: "Wait for me for 5 minutes, I'll call you when I'm done."

Sui Ran put on her earphones and came to the window.

Looking down from tall buildings, the city is no longer as crowded as usual, and the skyline is divided into two by the curved Huangpu River, stretching east and west.Large and small ships dotted the white river surface, and the sound of long sirens was vaguely heard.

Looking to the right, a car drove out of the underground garage and headed for the exit of another road in the community.

One night more than a month ago, after she said "waiting for your return", she also left through that exit.

The phone vibrated for three seconds, Sui Ran clicked to answer.

"If you call me when you are free, it means Mr. Huai is free to answer the phone. If you need a tree hole, please Q1, and if you need other services, please hang up." Haicheng was in a good mood, more out of tune than usual.After talking for a while, she didn't hear the reply here, so she restrained her joking thoughts, "Of course?"

"Mr. Hai." The voice that reached my ears was low and cold, very strange, not like myself, "I want to know how many times Mr. Huai has contacted you since I left, and what exactly he said."

The author has something to say:-

The fork is the fork of the past, not the present and future.

Timeline in the article: Sui joined the NIP project five and a half years ago (referred to as five years ago), the NIP project lasted for nearly a year, and left the job four years ago.So there will be expressions such as "five years ago" and "four years ago".

It may be repaired when I wake up.

I have been busy at work recently (busy to earn enough money early to continue to concentrate on what I want to do), so please forgive me for the update frequency.

Thanks to the bosses who cast deep-water torpedoes: Jiang Lansheng and Sunshine Non-Youth. 2;

Thanks to the boss who cast the rocket launcher: useless baboon, Ringo, do you want to eat steamed buns? 1;

Thanks to the boss who threw the grenade: Ringo 2; ​​declined Xu Jiaqi 1 times [-];

Thanks to the bosses who cast mines: 6 for Absurdity; 3 for Ringo; 2 for Hani’s beauty mole; , 297170851;

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