After getting on with the enemy

Overtime is the norm in the financial industry, and it is often day and night in emergencies.

That night, Zhou Xiyun stayed outside for the night and did not return to the Xijing compound, and he disappeared until Monday morning.

Xu Ziqing also sighed because of this: "Young people today are more stressed than we were then. They just rested for half a day, and they were called back before they could catch their breath. It's really..."

Grandma said: "The baby is getting older, you need to earn money to support the family."

Ms. Xu didn't think so, and turned her head to tell Qiao Yan: "You and Rong Yin are also opening a store. Take a break when you have to. Don't learn from those big companies. If you are really too busy, hire two more people."

Qiao Yan said, "Don't worry, I know."

Qiao Yan had to go back to work in the store in the morning, and he was humming and humming to move things to the car, so he didn't have time to care about these irrelevant chats.Her mother and grandma prepared a lot of food for her to take away, including raw and cooked food, for fear that she would have a bad life outside, and wished she could empty out the refrigerator at home.

Xu Ziqing helped pass a cardboard box over, "This is the sauced beef and canned food for Rong Yin, don't miss it."

Qiao Yan said, "No, I'll give it to her after I pass."

"Do you remember what to do on Thursday?" Xu Ziqing asked.

Qiao Yan said "ah".

"I went to the east of the city that night," Xu Ziqing said, pulling her ear. "Your grandparents called not long ago to inform you about this, and forgot?"

On Thursday, Qiao Yan's grandfather celebrated his [-]th birthday, and he invited her, his granddaughter, early in the morning, hoping that she could attend the birthday banquet.

Originally, Xu Ziqing and grandma were also on the guest list, but considering that Dad Qiao had formed a new family in recent years, in order to avoid the embarrassment of the two parties meeting, only Qiao Yan was sent here alone.

The birthday gift was prepared last month, and it was Qiao Yan's money, but she was dazed by all kinds of troubles recently, and she really didn't remember this.Qiao Yan patted his head, "I left the gift behind, and it's still in the cabinet upstairs."

Xu Ziqing said: "I know you have a lot of forgetfulness, so I put you in the passenger seat a long time ago."

Qiao Yan quickly hugged Ms. Xu, "Thank you, Mom."

Xu Ziqing was funny, and pushed her daughter away in disgust, "If you don't leave, you can stay for lunch if you linger."

"Immediately, immediately," Qiao Yan let go, and shouted to the old man at the door, "Grandma, I'm leaving, I'll be back in a few days!"

Grandma said: "Drive carefully on the road, don't rush."

Qiao Yan waved his hand and bent over the car.

The white Volkswagen gradually moved away, and the old one-story building area was completely left behind in a short while, and the scenery on both sides of the street turned into blurred lines.

Qiao Yan glanced at the rearview mirror, the Zhou family's house became smaller and smaller in the mirror, and finally disappeared into a wall.

Return to Kafah before nine o'clock to start a busy day.

There are many customers on Monday, so you have to start working immediately when you arrive in the store. Qiao Yan didn't have time to tell Rong Yin what happened after returning home, so she tied her hair to do cleaning work when she entered the door, and then took root in the baking room all day, only four o'clock It took a while to rest in the middle.

Rong Yin accepted the gift from Xu Ziqing and said, "Thank you to Auntie for me."

Qiao Yan replied, "You tell her yourself."

Rong Yin smiled, "That's fine, I'll go see her next time I'm free."

Qiao Yan made a gesture, then slumped on the stool slowly, leaning his upper body on the table limply, while clicking the mouse to view new orders online.

Someone ordered flowers again today, but they were not sent to Yifeng Group, and the contact information left was not Jiang Kaipin's number.

Qiao Yan dragged the page to the end slowly, and checked it line by line.After half a minute, she sat up straight, took out a pen and post-it notes from the drawer, and asked casually, "How many people ordered flowers in the past two days?"

Rong Yin didn't notice her strangeness, and while cleaning the machine, he thought about it, and said uncertainly: "It seems that there are not many, there should not be many orders, it is not as good as a few days ago."

"Have you delivered it to the company next door?" Qiao Yan asked, opened the cap of the pen, wrote down the order, checked the information, and made notes.

Rong Yin grabbed the clean cup and swirled the water, "Which company is next to you? Yifeng or Peisheng? Or the other ones?"

There are quite a lot of companies around that can be called by name, there are many large and small ones, the large ones are connected to several buildings, and the unremarkable ones are just a shabby office room. .

Qiao Yan opened his mouth, wanting to answer which group it was, but stopped.She twirled the pen twice, her thin white fingers were nimble and agile, and after a while she changed her mind and said, "Let me see for myself."

"What's the matter, what's the problem?" Rong Yin asked puzzled.

"No," Qiao Yan said, "just asking casually."

Rong Yin didn't delve into her emotions, and reminded: "Someone ordered a bouquet of roses earlier, and it has to be delivered around seven o'clock. Remember to prepare."

Qiao Yan said, "I see."

"Are you going to deliver it later?"

"can."

Rong Yin said: "I have something to do tonight, and I may leave work early."

Qiao Yan: "You are busy with your work, I will take care of it here, if not, let Yang Yang go."

After checking all the online orders, Qiao Yan found a stack of cards from the drawer, copied the notes on the post-it notes, and wrote down the style of the bouquet.

The guest left a comment, which was also a sentence beginning with a capital letter P. Qiao Yan didn't read it seriously enough, so he wrote: Passionatelo...

In the middle of writing, she stopped writing and glanced at the post-it note again.

Wrong, not this sentence.

The letter P in the guest's remarks is an expression, it should be ": P".

Qiao Yan carefully distinguished for a few seconds, drew a mark on the card with a signature pen to invalidate it, and replaced it with a new one to rewrite.

Later, a group of customers came to the store one after another.

Qiao Yan bandaged the bouquet first, then went into the baking room to make desserts, and waited for the sky to darken before sending flowers.

Rong Yin left at 07:30, and Qiao Yan rushed back to replace her after delivering the things.

Monday is always an overtime day, and at night Kafa is almost out of order, the takeaway notification sound keeps ringing, and many people come to the store to place orders.

Once people have something to do, they don't think indiscriminately. The redundant thoughts in Qiao Yan's mind are squeezed away by the continuous orders, and the whole person's state gradually recovers, and those messy thoughts are completely thrown away.

Because she was too tired during the day and night, after returning to the house on Qinghe Street at night, Qiao Yan even gave up on washing up, and just fell down on the bed and fell asleep, closing her eyes and falling asleep.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, it was Rong Yin's turn to take a vacation, and it remained the same for the next two days.

It's not easy to manage the beverage store alone. Qiao Yan has to take care of all three parties. Even with the help of Yang Yang and the others, she still keeps spinning from morning to night and can't stop for a moment.

But after leaving home, away from familiar faces in the Xijing compound, and living in Kafa every day, Qiao Yan naturally couldn't see Zhou Xiyun.

Let alone encounter, there is no news at all.

Communication between people is like this, changing circles is like cutting off contact, as long as you don't take the initiative to contact the other party, you will definitely not see each other for a long time.

Qiao Yan's and Zhou Xiyun's circles don't overlap very much. Apart from the Xijing compound, there seems to be no other connections.

After these two days of wandering around, when she finished cleaning the shop at night and was about to leave, Qiao Yan dully remembered that she still had a package from abroad that she hadn't picked up, so she went upstairs to find that thing, took it home and opened it. .

The package was delivered by an old acquaintance, who was also a playmate in the compound when I was a child, but the time we spent together was not that long.

The old acquaintance's full name is Song Xinyu, and he is the same age as Qiao Yan.

Developed in the United States a few years ago, there was a tendency to settle abroad. This time, for some reason, I decided to send a gift back home.

Qiao Yan still keeps in touch with Song Xinyu, but not frequently. She only sends emails to each other during the holidays. She doesn't know what Song Xinyu's sudden message means, and she hasn't received the news in advance.

Maybe it was because he wanted to surprise her or for other reasons, but Song Xinyu was more romantic, which was quite in line with the other person's nature.

Inside the package was a limited-edition animal pendant and a letter.

The handwriting on the letter paper is beautifully written: "To Jojo, be happy."

After reading the obverse, Qiao Yan turned to the reverse to have a look.

Nothing, just that paragraph.

Qiao Yan accepted the gift, took a photo of the real thing and sent it out, expressing his thanks to Song Xinyu through the network cable.

Regardless of whether you like it or not, this thing is better than your heart. The package has been signed for a few days, and you should tell others about your feelings and reason.

It was probably just early in the morning in the United States, and Song Xinyu didn't reply to the news while he was still at work.

Qiao Yan didn't care too much, and soon put it aside.

After all, the world is far away, whether it is news or email, whether the two parties can get in touch depends on fate, and there is not always time. There is no need to wait for someone to reply to the message. It is better to reply after waking up.

Thursday was sunny and sunny.

But the good weather can't offset the hard work, and the rest of the day is still a hard day.

Yifeng Group came with a big order, ordering more than 200 drinks in total.

The store does not send out such orders, but arranges for its own employees to deliver.Qiao Yan was one of the delivery people, and went up with Yang Yang and the others.

Yifeng Group has a large locality, and more than 200 cups of drinks had to be sent to three different departments.

Qiao Yan randomly picked a department to deliver, went in with a heavy incubator on his back, and handed over drinks, sugar packets, and repacked ice cubes to the corresponding person in a thoughtful manner.

When the last cup of drink was delivered, she let out a long sigh of relief, and just picked up the incubator and planned to go back... A person walked up to her, and he opened his arms and hugged her.

Qiao Yan was stunned, and was caught off guard and couldn't avoid it.

The sudden warmth of the embrace carried a familiar smell.

The one who hugged her chuckled, and said to her gently: "Qiao Qiao, long time no see."

Qiao Yan blinked, and it took him a while to recover.

"Sister Xinyu?"

Song Xinyu continued to smile and said, "Well, it's me."

At the same moment, a few meters away.

Zhou Xiyun stood there, silently observing the situation from the other side.