Chapter 450 Starving yourself to death?

"Alright." Qiao Xing sighed. This meticulous planning is reckless.

No one had any objections, so it was settled. The rest of the day was spent dealing with this payroll issue.

Qiao Xing didn't receive her salary until evening. After taxes, it was only 60,000 yuan. After lending Shen Boyan another 30,000 yuan, she still had 30,000 yuan left.

No wonder he didn't want to transfer the money directly to his account. He wouldn't get 30,000 yuan, but he'd have to pay her back 30,000 yuan later. It would be a real loss for him.

Sun Miao also returned the 10,000 yuan to her.

Tao Yang suddenly remembered something, "Oh right, we've withdrawn all the money, so we're not hiring anymore?"

“We need to hire people. Didn’t Shen Boyan say that Li Ya’s app could be made in a week? So we don’t need to hire so many people. Let’s hire two graphic designers for Sun Miao.”

Sun Miao nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes."

"Sigh, I thought I could rest for two days."

Qiao Xing smiled and went back to check the job posting website. There were already more than thirty resumes that she hadn't looked at.

However, it was already very late, so she decided to go back and watch it later.

Shen Boyan also gave her the task of training the model, as well as the management game she had made before, so she'll be quite busy.

When Qiao Xing got home, he opened his laptop and went through all the resumes. He selected a few that looked okay and planned to ask them about them the next day.

Then comes the matter of model training. She still needs to discuss it with He Yu. If they have any reply settings or word blocking settings, they need to set them up in advance.

She chatted with Qin Ce for a few minutes, then went to sleep.

The next day, she called He Yu to ask about customer service. He Yu was probably a little impatient and gave her the phone number of the manager in charge of this area.

Qiao Xing could only communicate with that manager again.

Qiao Xing has been so busy these past few days that she hasn't had a moment to breathe, and she hasn't even had time to practice driving.

However, they managed to recruit two graphic design interns with a monthly salary of three thousand, and the other party happily agreed.

However, Tao Yang and his team have difficulty recruiting programmers because there are certain technical requirements. After all, AI can do simple tasks, and the people they recruit are those who can't do AI's work.

Those with this skill are not short of companies that can't find internships. They wouldn't be interested in her three thousand yuan offer, and those they would be interested in aren't skilled enough.

After searching for several days without success, they could only discuss raising wages. However, the three of them disagreed on how much to raise the wages, and argued about it for most of the day.

Qiao Xing wanted to raise it to six thousand, but Shen Boyan thought it was too high and Tao Yang thought it was too low.

In the end, the price came down to 5,500.

Qiao Xing updated the salary again, waiting to see if he could recruit someone he liked.

She counted the days; a week had passed, and Qin Ce should be back in another week.

Tao Yang brought in a bunch of things from outside. "The Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon, how about we take a holiday?"

Sun Miao immediately raised her hand in agreement, "Let's have a holiday soon, I want to go back to see my dad."

"You are so filial, going back home several times a month."

"He's not in good health."

"I know, I know, you've said it so many times, just go back, no one's stopping you."

Actually, Sun Miao is quite considerate. Her father is in poor health and spends a lot of money on medicine every month, but she still insists on staying with them. Anyone else would have gone out to find another job long ago.

Tao Yang gave her two gift boxes, saying, "Here's an extra one for you."

"Is it that good?"

"Now you know how good I am?" Tao Yang snorted. "This is a holiday gift that I bought for you guys with my own money."

As he spoke, he distributed the gifts to Qiao Xing and Shen Boyan.

Qiao Xing took the gift and asked in surprise, "Have you struck it rich?"

"Does not being rich mean I can't buy gifts? Don't think of me as so stingy."

Qiao Xing chuckled awkwardly, "Sorry, I was being petty."

These gift boxes aren't expensive, only a little over a hundred, but they represent the sentiment.

Actually, he bought these gifts because of Li Ya's project. He didn't participate in anything; Sun Miao at least drew a few page diagrams. He didn't even write a single line of code, but when it came to distributing the money, he received the same amount as everyone else.

He felt embarrassed, so he bought them some things during the holiday, and he also treated them to meals from time to time this week.

With his good intentions and attitude, everyone feels more comfortable sharing the money with him.

What I fear most is that kind of person who does nothing but wants to get the most money.

Qiao Xing quickly changed the subject, "Tao Yang, are you also planning to go home?"

"Let's go back. It's been half a year since I've been back."

Sun Miao's home is nearby, only a two-hour high-speed train ride away, but his home is far away, requiring a four-hour high-speed train journey and a two-hour transfer, making it very inconvenient for him to go back.

Tao Yang then asked her, "You're from here, so you shouldn't need to go back to your hometown, right?"

"No, no need."

"That's great! Boyan won't be lonely anymore. He definitely won't go back. I'm afraid if we leave, he'll starve to death here all by himself."

"No way?" Qiao Xing thought he was joking. He was a grown man who had just received his salary. He couldn't possibly starve to death, could he?

Tao Yang clicked his tongue, pulled over a stool, and sat down next to Qiao Xing to berate Shen Boyan.

"How could that be? When he's alone, he has no sense of time, and once he starts writing code, he's practically in a trance. Look, does he even react?"

Qiao Xing glanced at Shen Boyan subconsciously. Sure enough, he was focused on the computer, with headphones in his ears, and didn't hear Tao Yang talking to him at all.

"You know you're hungry, right?"

"Then you're wrong. He really doesn't know that last time he was fixing that bug he forgot to eat and fainted from hunger. Isn't that outrageous?"

"Did he really faint from hunger?"

"Really? Why would I lie to you? You can ask Miaomiao if you don't believe me."

Sun Miao nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes."

"Right? The food was on the table, but he didn't eat it."

When they called him during dinner, he said he would wait a bit, but by evening, he hadn't moved an inch.

When we called him in the evening, he said he would wait a moment, and then we both forgot about it because we were busy. The next morning, he suddenly fell off his chair and onto the floor.

Tao Yang and the others were terrified. They thought he had died suddenly from staying up all night. They called an ambulance to take him to the hospital, where they spent several hundred yuan to check. It turned out he was just hungry.

Tao Yang still feels lingering fear when he talks about it now. Sudden death, how terrifying.

Qiao Xing found it unbelievable; could there really be people who starved to death these days?

Tao Yang patted Qiao Xing's shoulder solemnly, as if entrusting her with a heavy responsibility, "So while we're away for a few days, he's in your care."

"Okay, I'll try my best not to let him starve to death."

Considering that Qin Ce wouldn't be able to come back for the Dragon Boat Festival, she could only come to the company, so she shouldn't let Shen Boyan starve to death.

Tao Yang gave her an approving look, "You're reliable, I trust you."

He sighed, "Luckily I pulled you back then. You're so virtuous. Your husband should be an elite, otherwise he's not good enough for you at all."

Qiao Xing was stunned for a moment.

Fortunately, Tao Yang didn't know Qin Ce, otherwise she would have said that she was not good enough for him.

Qiao Xing said somewhat embarrassedly, "I didn't do anything, it's not as exaggerated as you say."

"No, no, it's no exaggeration. Look at you, I've never seen this clean before, not even during the Chinese New Year. You can cook, and you have such a good temper. Where can you find that nowadays?"

Sun Miao was sitting over there, and he glared at him when he heard this.

Qiao Xing became even more embarrassed by his praise. It seemed that this was the first time someone had pointed out so many of her strengths, and she hadn't even considered them strengths.

"Stop praising me."

"I'm not exaggerating, I'm just telling the truth. Seriously, these days, many girls almost have a stress reaction when these things are mentioned."

They spout nonsense about gender equality, like who says housework is solely a woman's responsibility.

Tao Yang said, "Actually, I think these things don't belong to anyone, but I really hate that kind of take-for-granted attitude. Men and women are the same, it's all reciprocal."

He added, "You always clean up our place every time you come, which I think is quite remarkable, so now we don't dare to leave things lying around."

"These are all minor matters..."

Qiao Xing didn't think they weren't messing things up. Of course, they probably thought it was already very clean, but for Qiao Xing, it was just a little better than before.

"You can really see a person's character in small things. Anyway, I think it's hard to find someone like you anymore. I'll look for someone like you when I look for a partner in the future."

After all, many of the girls he met couldn't cook.

"Don't say that, I'm a little scared." Qiao Xing subconsciously pulled the chair away from him a little further away.

Tao Yang laughed and said, "Why are you so nervous? I meant that I'm looking for someone like you. I didn't say I was looking for you. It would be more likely if you weren't married. But since you're married, I definitely wouldn't make a move on you."

"Hmm... Good luck then."

"Absolutely! I definitely need to work hard to earn money, otherwise I'd be too embarrassed to look for a partner."

Qiao Xing nodded in agreement. She still thought highly of Tao Yang on this point. When he was looking for his own standards, he would also examine himself and strive to meet the standards of others.

He's different from ordinary men.

After chatting for a while, Tao Yang suddenly realized, "How come I've been talking so much, just like those old ladies downstairs? I'm not going to say anything more, I need to hurry up and finish what I need to do and go home."

He dragged the chair back to his computer.

Qiao Xing continued doing his own thing, not taking his words to heart, and certainly not getting arrogant because of this praise.