Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Warmth

After tossing and turning all night, he still didn't come up with a good idea. He just got two pimples on the top of his forehead. Facing the mirror, he squeezed the pimples and cursed Lu Licheng. When I entered the office, I found that Susan, who had been transferred, was sitting in the original position. I couldn't understand it, so I could only secretly grab Young and ask, "Isn't Susan transferred to Alex?" My question was a bit idiotic, But Young's patience is very good: "Although we are divided into two departments, we actually do similar things and belong to a common department, so Alex and Elliott often call each other's people. For some very large customers, the two departments have to work together."

When I heard it, I was even more reluctant to resign. The emperor can take turns to sit, let alone me?Maybe next time I will be able to work under Song Yi's subordinates. "What is the standard for calling people? Why was Elliott so anxious to hire people last time, but failed to keep Susan, Peter, and Jack? He is so arrogant, and Mike helps him again. Who would dare to rob him?" Young wanted to say nothing, he hesitated for a while, and then whispered: "Elliott is not as handsome as he appears on the surface. He can do whatever he wants in the company. The personnel affairs of foreign companies may not be as complicated as state-owned companies. My brother-in-law was all involved, but when the fight really started, it was definitely more intense than a state-owned enterprise. After all, which one of the people here didn't come up with real skills? What happened last time was equivalent to going to the front line, and the general was temporarily replaced. You, Elliott, will really suffer, anyway, as long as you know it."

"Oh!" In fact, I still don't know, but Young has already made it clear and thorough, and I don't want to continue on this topic, so I can only pretend to understand. "Actually, you can write an application to the above and ask to be transferred to another position." "Really?" I asked excitedly. Young encouraged me with a smile: "Of course you can apply for other positions with your ability. And Elliott looks indifferent, but he is actually the best for his subordinates. If you apply for the position you want, he will definitely help you."

I opened my mouth into an O shape, was she talking about Lu Licheng? Young glanced around secretly, and said in a low voice, "Why do you think Elliott is so important to Mike? Why are there obvious factions in the company between those who support him and those who oppose him?" I watched it when I was very young, so I understood the spirit of the old urchin, and immediately asked: "Why?" "I heard that one of Elliott's former able-bodied staff got into a catastrophe and caused tens of millions of losses to the company. It had nothing to do with Elliott, but in order to protect his friends, he did not hesitate to sit on his own. He told Mike that if he wanted to deal with it, Please expel him and send him to prison."

I sighed softly: "Then what happened afterwards?" If it is true, it is indeed rare.In the financial circle, when it is prosperous, it is really prosperous. Wealth, power, and power can all be grasped in one hand, but the situation is also the most unpredictable. It has only been more than five years since I graduated, but how many bank presidents have been killed? In prison, how many company's chief financial officer fell flat?It also includes my two brothers.China's financial system and legal system are not perfect. Whether it is a foreign company or a state-owned company, many operations are in the gray area between black and white. In the event of an accident, don't talk about friends, even close relatives will avoid it for fear of being late.

"Later, although Elliott's subordinates left MG, MG said that they resigned voluntarily and their reputation was saved. Elliott offended many people because of this incident. People have been loyal to him since then. It is said that Mike really started to look at him differently because of this incident. It is rumored that once he had a party with the bosses of the East Asia region in Thailand, and he told the big head in Singapore in Chinese that Lu Licheng had a chivalrous spirit and he was a man of great affection. righteous people." I burst into laughter: "Mike's Chinese is so good? Even read our martial arts novels?"

Young rolled my eyes at me: "More than that! People even know Bada Shanren and the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove. I heard that Elliott was not like this before. He was a very enthusiastic person, but he gradually became so indifferent now. Speaking of it, He is a person with no background, it is really not easy to get to this position all the way, I don't know how many plots and betrayals he has suffered, can you not feel cold?" I curled my lips and said with a smile: "Hey! Don't be an idiot! Maybe the bigger the official position, the bigger the natural airs."

Young gave me an embarrassing look: "You're right! At this moment, at this moment, of course he doesn't have to be like us now, and everyone will smile when he sees it. If I can be in his position, I will also let him Let my tired face take a rest." With a "bang", a stack of invoices was thrown in front of me. "Working time, not chatting time." Under Linda's cold gaze, Young didn't look unhappy, just smiled with his eyes down, quietly sat back in his seat, and started working with his head down. Seeing her appearance, I thought of what she said just now, "Let my face that is tired from laughing take a good rest", and I wanted to laugh for no reason, and the corners of my mouth curled up.

But my laugh and Young's laugh obviously conveyed completely different meanings, Linda frowned in disgust. "Next month, the auditor will come to check the accounts, and you have to recheck all the invoices from last year." One year's invoices need to be checked in a month, is she kidding? "Is this necessary? According to audit principles..." Linda sneered: "Have you been in the company longer, or have I been longer? Are you the supervisor, or am I the supervisor? Do you understand the system, or do I understand the system?" Who knows more about the audit system than she and I?I stared at Linda's belly, said "she's pregnant" three times silently, and said respectfully, "Okay, I'll do it right away."

Linda shuffled and walked back to her seat, but I always felt that there was a pair of eyes staring at my back, making me feel like I was sitting on pins and needles. In the midst of being busy, the time passed extremely quickly, and I felt that it was already noon in a few moments. I ordered a beef brisket rice for lunch. It tasted very good, and I was a little full. Seeing that it was still early, I decided to go to a nearby bookstore to see if there were any good books to eat. Walking casually among the rows of shelves, I saw Jimmy's old comic "Turn Left, Turn Right", and picked it up and flipped through it.On the other side of the bookshelf, a woman flipped through the books and said, "This book is very good. I bought one when I was pregnant. It's very good to read."

"Really? Then I'll take one too." It turned out to be Linda's voice.I didn't want to meet Linda, so I crouched down, hid under the bookshelf, and waited for them to leave.Unexpectedly, they chatted while picking out books, from Linda's pregnancy, to which guy in the company had a new girlfriend, and finally to gossip about Elliott. "Linda, I heard that you have a new girl under your command. Elliott thinks highly of her. How does she look?" "How small is it! It's not much different from my age." "Does Elliott really think highly of her?" Linda giggled and said in a low voice, "It's really important!" With a strange long voice. The woman also laughed: "They all said that they were out of line. They just came here for a few days and didn't know anything, so they became the project leader, but they couldn't even do the project demonstration under the title of project leader. I helped her. Girls nowadays are really getting better and better than our generation! Elliott is also in a daze. Letting someone as capable as you not use it, he should use such a vase girl. Could it be that you feel that you have no hope, thinking that you have the power to use it, and it will become invalid after the expiration date?" I really didn't expect that I, Su Man, would be able to rely on hue for a living one day!I bit my lip, and pulled Jimmy's manga more and more vigorously with my hand. On the pages of the book, two men and women who were walking left and right, and gradually moved away, were gradually rubbed together by me. Someone walked over while browsing the books. Originally, I should have taken the initiative to give way to him, but I shrank under the bookshelf and didn't want to move. He didn't seem to intend to go over, and stopped beside me. The conversation next door still came from time to time, Linda sneered: "Who knows? It doesn't matter to me what they are messing with, but it's better not to affect my normal work, otherwise, barefoot people are not afraid of wearing shoes, Don't think about it, everyone!" The woman smiled: "By the way, what does that woman look like? I'll find an excuse to go to your office in the afternoon, and you can tell me who it is." Linda said disdainfully: "What's so good-looking? At most, she can be considered handsome, and there are many people in our company who are more beautiful than her." "Ah? Elliott is notoriously indifferent, how did that woman subdue him? Couldn't it be because she is so good at bed..." The person next to me coughed twice across the bookshelf. Linda and the woman probably felt that it was not appropriate to talk about this in public, so they lowered their voices and took their books to check out. The person next to him squatted down: "Don't take it too seriously, rumors stop at wise men." It turned out to be Song Yi's voice! I raised my head abruptly, met his gaze, but immediately lowered my head, feeling ashamed, ashamed and afraid. After a while, I was able to utter a complete sentence: "What they said...is not true." "I believe!" I squeezed the book and just wanted to cry.Humans are very strange animals. When alone, no matter how much wronged they suffer, they often grit their teeth and get over it, but when there is someone who cares about them, they can't help but cry out in pain and shed tears. Song Yi glanced at his watch, and regardless of the famous brand he was wearing, he sat next to me and sat on the ground: "When I am about to graduate from Berkeley, the position I should apply for is a quant in an investment bank based on my knowledge background. I don't want to be a quant, I want to enter the IBD department, but they usually only recruit MBA graduates, it is very difficult to get in with my knowledge background. So I thought of a way to find the person in charge of the MG department Name and address, write him a letter, introduce myself, and hope he can give me an internship opportunity in his department, but he never replied to me, I guess I read too much at that time, and insisted on mailing him a handwritten letter every day letter." I was attracted by his story, and my anger gradually faded away: "Did he write back to you?" "A year later, when I graduated, I was planning to go to another investment bank to be a quant. He wrote to me and told me, 'I don't plan to give you an internship, but I plan to give you a job directly. I hope your Ability is like your perseverance.' I got into the industry I wanted to enter as I wished, but because I did it against the rules, it caused a lot of people's speculation, and the rumors spread very quickly with the help of some caring people." I smiled wryly: "Is your boss a woman? They say you have an affair with your boss?" Song Yi rubbed his nose with his thumb, and my heart was touched gently. His little action still remained unchanged. He said with a wry smile, "I hope! The actual situation is even worse. My boss is a German man. Rumor has it that I am gay, and I happen to prefer black-haired, dark-eyed, tall men, but I have a girlfriend who also works on Wall Street, and everyone in the office knows, so I unfortunately became bisexual. At that time No matter where I go, I always feel that someone is watching me." He spread his hands towards me and said with a bitter face, "Look! Your current situation is not the worst!" I really want to sympathize with him, but this is so unbelievably funny, such rumors can only be produced in the eccentric society of the United States, so I hugged my knees, suppressed my voice and laughed wildly. He apologized: "I'm sorry! I didn't mean it, I just felt... felt..." Song Yi smiled and said: "That's right, no matter how bad things are, we have to face them. It's better to face them with a smile than to cry." He stood up and held out his hand to me, "It's time to go to work." .” I hesitated for a while, then held my breath, and gently put my hand in his hand, he pulled me up from the ground, I lowered my head and said softly: "Thank you", his hand was just as I imagined, warm and warm Dry and powerful. The book in my hand has been ravaged by me, so I can only buy it.When I went to pay the bill, the salesperson wanted to smooth out the crumpled pages of the book for me. Just after I said "yes", I glanced at the two men and women leaning back to back on the screen, and hurriedly said, "No more!" I understand, but I pay and I talk, so I can only do as I tell you. After leaving the store, Song Yi and I walked side by side. He looked down at the comic book in my hand and asked, "Why are the pages folded?" I was embarrassed to answer, so I just said, "Guess, I'll tell you if you guess right." He didn't care about my word games, smiled and said: "Because I can't bear to break them up?" I looked at him in surprise, but he was staring into the distance, with a smile on his lips, but his expression was vague and sad. One moment, he was still by my side, but the next moment, I felt that he was very far away from me. I wanted to ask several times: "Where is your girlfriend? What made you stay away from each other?" However, until we walked to the elevator, I didn't have the courage to ask. When we were walking towards the elevator, Lu Licheng came in from another door with a cup of coffee, and saw Song Yi and I walking side by side, he only smiled at Song Yi and said hello.Although he didn't even look at me, I always felt like a sharp sword was pointing at the top of my head. I slowed down and opened the distance between Song Yi and me. Thinking of the rumors that Song Yi heard just now, I felt even more dizzy. He didn't dare to lift it, and shrank to the corner as much as possible, keeping a distance from both of them. The two of them were chatting and laughing. When they reached the seventeenth floor, the elevator door opened and they walked out together.When the elevator door closed and shut their backs, I immediately let out a long breath, but in just a short while, I felt so tense that my muscles all ached. Call Malatang in the afternoon and ask her to have dinner with her in the evening.After get off work, I waited until Linda was gone before I dared to leave.I went to see my elder sister first, bought her some seasonal vegetables, chatted with her, cooked the porridge, and fried two dishes of green vegetables. Seeing that the time was coming soon, I wanted to say goodbye, but the elder sister was very interested in talking and kept talking Sitting at the bar, watching me cook, chatting with me, and even jokingly said that he would learn how to cook with me. The eldest sister’s parents and relatives are thousands of miles away. When she is healthy, there is a halo of work, which makes people dare not look down on her. But she looks very lonely and lonely when she is sick. I thought about it and called Mala Tang Called to the eldest sister's house, made two more dishes, three women, four dishes, and drank porridge together. After Malatang entered the door, he kicked off his high heels. The leader inspected the house like a censor. The eldest sister feigned anger: "When I only sleep three or four hours a day for a month, what are you doing? All I have is obtained by the labor of my hands." Mala Tang gave me a frightened expression, blinked her eyes and asked, "Why are people vying to become a proletarian now? I'm afraid people will say she is rich." "Because the society hates the rich, and you and I happen to be two of them, the eldest sister is afraid that we will blackmail her, blackmail her, and use her, and then slander her." I replied solemnly. The eldest sister said "bah", looked at Malatang with a smile and said, "Who is the proletariat, who is the bourgeoisie, who should hate whom, it is still uncertain." Mala Tang laughed, put his arms around the elder sister's shoulders and said, "I only hate her beauty, elder sister, your skin is really well maintained, which beauty salon gave you care?" As long as you are a woman, you can't stand other people's compliments, not to mention a compliment from a beautiful woman. The eldest sister was very happy and talked to us about her beautician with a smile. I was moved in my heart, Malatang has always been arrogant, if it wasn't for me, she would never take the initiative to please a stranger, she made a "thank you" gesture to her, she was stunned, smiled and lowered her head. Amidst the laughter and cursing, the temperature of the room rose immediately, and the city lights under the large floor-to-ceiling windows showed that he was no longer alone.The eldest sister seemed to have no reaction, but when she sent us away at night, after saying "goodbye", she said "thank you" softly to me. When we walked out of the eldest sister's building, Malatang looked up at the towering building.The bright and dark windows are like stars blooming in the dark night.In this city, no real starlight can be seen, but countless such starlight has been added. "Manman, don't you think it's strange? If a man has such a house in such a location in Beijing, let alone his thirties, even if he is in his forties, he will be called a diamond man, but why the same woman Became a disaster?" Malatang's expression was blurred and confused, even faintly sad.This fake literary young woman once again used other people's drama to vent her depression.I took her arm and dragged her forward: "If you see the elder sister swearing in the office, you will know that the disaster is a disaster, but it is definitely not the elder sister's disaster. In fact, the blind date is not necessarily so bad, at least Think of it as meeting customers and talking about business! When we were young, our parents coaxed us and made us happy. When we grow up, it’s our turn to coax them and make them happy. Besides, even if we don’t want to coax them, we must Make yourself happy! Go once, and you only need to suffer for two hours, and you can shut their mouths. If you don’t go, their nagging will ravage us for at least twenty hours.” Malatang leaned over my shoulder and smiled: "As expected of an accountant, the figures are very clear." He still didn't let up in his words, but his tone was not as absolute as before. The past few days have been uneventful, and my only trouble is printing invoices. There are endless stacks of invoices, as high as mountains and as many as seas.All three fingers of my left hand were swollen because of constantly rubbing and flipping the paper. As long as it came into contact with harder paper, it would sting reflexively. When Young and I had dinner together, he secretly advised me: "Occasionally, you can be negative at work, and you also know that it is Linda...so there is no need to be so serious." I picked up a chopstick of bean sprouts, put it in my mouth, and said with a smile: "It's not a bad thing to take this opportunity to practice counting invoices. When I count money now, I can pass three bills at a time." Seeing that I didn't understand, Young had no choice but to give up, but Malatang quit, wishing to rush into MG immediately, drag Linda out and parade in the street, it would be best to dip in the pig cage at the end.I can only beg her: "Grandma, working in the company, these things are always unavoidable. If you have to hit the door every time, if the enemy is not dead, we will be exhausted first. Who said that this is a cruel The savage jungle world? I think if you can’t bear this thing, you can find a meal ticket as soon as possible and become a housewife.” The eldest sister stood aside, holding a glass of wine, and said leisurely: "Wrong! These days, do you think housewives don't need to fight bravely? A marriage certificate can't guarantee anything, you are a little stupid, little three, little four, little Five will lay you off soon, and if you fail, you won't even have severance pay." I covered my mouth and laughed, Malatang looked at me, looked at the elder sister, couldn't be relieved, but lost her temper, and said to the elder sister: "It is said that you two are not masters and apprentices, but you have a virtue! Say you two are masters and apprentices, apprentices Being bullied like this, the master didn't respond at all." The eldest sister was surprised: "Who said I didn't respond? Didn't I invite her to eat chicken feet with pickled peppers? Keep your shape!" When I was in the same company with my eldest sister, I never found her so humorous.I almost went under the chair laughing, but when I put my hand on the bar, I let out a wail.Malatang hurriedly supported me, held it back for a long time, but couldn't hold it back, and laughed: "Tomorrow I will invite you to eat pork knuckle with soybeans." After coming out of the bar, Mala Tang beat him first.Seeing her leave, the eldest sister suppressed her smile, and said to me solemnly: "My name, Lin Qing, has some weight in Beijing's financial circles, but you can't even lower yourself to a small guy. Don't say that you once It's my subordinate." I nodded repeatedly, assuring that I would never let anyone know about my relationship with her. The elder sister was an irony, but I didn't expect that I would be so obedient and glared at me. The taxi leaves. After thinking about it for a long time, I decided to write an application letter, asking Lu Licheng to change my position. I didn’t dare to apply directly to Song Yi’s department. The work I do now, no matter how much I call it, no one will need me. After get off work, when Linda left, I pushed the invoice aside and started to write articles in front of the computer. It was really not easy for his mother to write English as Yangliuan Xiaofengwanyue. After tossing and tossing until after nine o'clock in the evening, he only wrote two short paragraphs.I went to the western restaurant downstairs and ordered a steak. I ate it and thought about how to say it next. He was fighting with the beef with the two fingers of his right and left hands, when the light in front of him dimmed. "Can I sit here?" My heart skipped a few beats in an instant, and I stood up with a "bang", wanting to talk, but there was still half-chewed beef in my mouth, and I hurriedly swallowed, but instead of swallowing, I was choked and coughed. Earth-shattering, snot and tears almost came down, Song Yi hurriedly brought me water, I turned sideways, covered my mouth with a napkin, lowered my head and refused to let him see my distressed appearance, it took a long while before I returned to normal. He was sitting opposite me, staring at me with a smile, the candlelight on the table danced lightly, and the soft piano sound was in my ears, as if I had imagined countless romantic scenes, but my head was blank, and all the words I had prepared were all overwhelmed. Overwhelmed with annoyance.I just want to look up to the sky and yell, why is this again?Almost my whole life's embarrassment will be seen by Song Yi. "What are you mainly responsible for now?" I was stunned for a moment before I realized that they were asking me something! "Linda asked me to review employee travel expenses reimbursement." "Do you like the company atmosphere of MG?" "not bad." During the question and answer, my heart gradually stabilized, but I still didn't dare to raise my head. I just lowered my head and cut the beef, one knife after another, until the beef was as thin as silk. "Do you like your job?" "Are you asking me how I like to count invoices, type my calculator, and do addition and subtraction?" He laughed, and said casually while eating: "I hope you are interested in doing company reorganization, M&A and listing." My heart flickered, staring at the shredded beef on the plate, my mind was spinning rapidly, but I still didn't understand. "It seems that you haven't checked your email yet. I discussed it with Elliott, and after talking with Mike on the phone, I decided to transfer you to my department. The email should have been sent to the mailboxes of all employees. I'm afraid the official notification will be tomorrow afternoon. I hope you enjoy your new job." I was still dazed and couldn't believe what I heard, he jokingly said: "You look nervous, am I such a terrible boss? You don't decide to resign as soon as you come under me, do you? Then I will go to Facing the wall and thinking about it.” I shook my head immediately, like a rattle: "No, no." After trekking through thousands of mountains and rivers, I finally came to your side, even if you kill me, I won't leave. He smiled and said very gently: "Don't worry, I believe we will have a pleasant cooperation." I immediately nodded again, as if taking a kowtow pill: "Mmm, um." How could it be unpleasant?As long as I can see you every day, I am very happy. After a dinner, I didn’t know how to taste it. I couldn’t wait to go home and read it. I went back to the office to check my email. It really wasn’t a dream. I couldn’t close my mouth with joy. Song Yi's men?Could it be that he heard the rumors and wanted to avoid suspicion?After thinking about it, I started laughing again. I really regarded myself as an onion.At that time, Lu Licheng had no choice but to rely on me in order to save the emergency. Now that he has time, what kind of talent do he want?Indeed, as the eldest sister said, with his status, why should he have trouble with a pawn like me? The sky was full of dark clouds, and he deleted the half-written letter from the computer, called Malatang, and asked her to have supper at night.Malatang sneered: "I really want to thank that iceberg. Now whether someone is willing to treat me to dinner depends on his temperature. When will the iceberg be brought out for a walk? Let me judge whether it is a mule or not." ,is horse." Girl, I'm in a good mood today, so I don't bother to argue with you, a bitch!I said goodbye with a smile and hung up the phone. He went downstairs with his bag and stood at the intersection to take a taxi. After waiting for a long time, he couldn't stop a taxi. He was stamping his feet in a hurry. A black Wrangler stopped by the road, and the window slid down. The person in the car turned out to be Lu Licheng. . He looked at me sideways: "I'll give you a ride." I smiled hypocritically: "Don't bother." He stared at me without speaking.The car behind honked its horn fiercely, but he ignored it as if he hadn't heard it.I was terrified by the horn, so I jumped into the car and reported the address of the food stall, and he started the car without saying a word. I lowered my head and played with my fingers, and he suddenly asked, "Did you get the mail?" While continuing to point fingers, I said cautiously: "Got it." "Feel sorry!" My two fingers stopped in the air, and after a while, they slowly came together: "You also heard the rumor? It's nothing!" Confusion flashed in his eyes, but he asked calmly, "Why are you so well informed? When did you know about it?" "It just happened to me that Linda was chatting with a woman outside and didn't see me, so I overheard it." "What did they say?" "It's not that you are a lustful boss, and I am a vase girl who betrays her beauty..." I suddenly realized that Lu Licheng is not such a talkative person.I pointed at him and called out, "You don't know any rumors at all!" He suddenly smiled, the originally cold and hard outline appeared soft in the night, and there was a hint of mischief in his eyes: "You are not too stupid." My accusations had no effect before he had no guilt, so he simply stopped wasting his feelings and just stared at the street lights flashing by outside the car window, angry with himself and himself. He called me a few times, but I ignored him. He smiled and said, "You are too incompetent as a vase girl. You are not beautiful and gentle, but you have given me a false name for nothing." "You..." stared at him angrily, unexpectedly he was also looking sideways at me, his thin lips were lightly pursed, half a smile, I suddenly felt a little embarrassed, I quickly turned my head back, "You are quite calm." He said lightly: "Anyway, it's either this rumor or that rumor, and this kind of rumor doesn't do any real harm." I sneered: "Yeah, it doesn't hurt. You are a man and I am a woman. You just add a few flirtatious words, but my reputation is damaged. Fortunately..." At the last moment, I put the word "Song" on the tip of my tongue. He swallowed it back, but broke out in a cold sweat. "Fortunately what?" "Fortunately, my boyfriend didn't hear these gossip, otherwise how should I explain to him?" I asked plausibly. Unexpectedly, with a sneer on his lips, he said coldly: "You have a boyfriend? If your boyfriend doesn't understand what you are like, you still need to explain. Such a boyfriend should break up as soon as possible!" I was completely speechless, and decided not to talk to this person, otherwise I would either be frightened or angry. Already at the destination, the car has not stopped, I want to open the door and jump down: "Thank you, goodbye!" He grabbed my hand and said, "Be careful!" A car roared past us, my face was pale with cold sweat on my forehead, and he was also pale, yelling at me: "Are you tired of working? You jumped off before my car pulled over? " I glared at him angrily, gritted my teeth and said, "Let go!" He saw that my expression was not right, so he reacted, pinched my wrist, raised my hand, and watched carefully with the light outside, a few red and swollen fat fingers were immediately revealed, I shook off his hand vigorously, drilled out of the car. "Su Man!" He called me, as if he wanted to say something, but I couldn't wait to escape from this plague god, so I didn't hear him.When I walked a long way and turned a corner, I caught a glimpse of his wrangler still parked there from the corner of my eye, and suddenly remembered his "sorry". If it wasn't because of rumors, why was it?However, I will never ask him.