Chapter 43

When Xia Kaiqun walked out of the room, Lian Yijian took out his mobile phone, opened WeChat, and prepared to see if anyone @ him in the project WeChat group. He had joined more than a hundred project groups of the company, both large and small, internal and external.

Whether it is a weekday or a weekend, or even one or two o'clock in the morning, if the project manager cannot handle something on the project, he will @Lian Yijian.

With so many people looking for him, his energy is limited. His way of dealing with problems has always been to focus on the big and let go of the small. He manages the projects in the entire southern Jiangsu area very well.

Lian Yijian also compiled the experience of Southern Jiangsu District into four meetings (internal project handover meeting, demand review meeting, project inventory meeting, and acceptance meeting) and one check (checking weekly reports and organizational process assets) and replicated it in the delivery departments of other branches of Beijing Wisdom Company across the country.

Zhang Qin, the client project manager in the Wujiang Rural Commercial Bank project group, @连易见 at nine o'clock tonight, when Lian Yijian was on his way to send Xia Zhongqin off, and asked him if he could arrive at the rural commercial bank project site on time tomorrow morning. He replied: Yes, at nine o'clock tomorrow morning.

Seeing that there were no new WeChat messages in the group, Lian Yijian was about to leave the WeChat chat interface when Guan Yan, who had not been in contact for a long time, sent him a WeChat message.

Guan Yan asked him on WeChat whether Xia Kaiqun was with him, saying that the child's condition had worsened and he had lobar pneumonia and needed to be hospitalized immediately. The deposit for hospitalization was 3,000 yuan, but she did not have that much money on her, and she could not contact Xia Kaiqun.

After reading the message, Lian Yijian immediately transferred 10,000 yuan through WeChat, and then answered Guan Yan's questions one by one. He was a little worried, so he made another voice call.

He had just connected with Guan Yan on the phone and had chatted for less than two or three sentences when Xia Kaiqun, who had just finished taking a shower, walked out of the bathroom.

Seeing Xia Kaiqun coming out, Lian Yijian quickly handed him his phone and said, "Your wife, Lele has lobar pneumonia."

However, before Xia Kaiqun picked up the phone, Guan Yan had already hung up the call. Lian Yijian saw that the status of the 10,000 yuan he had just forwarded was "Received", and he felt a little relieved.

Lian Yijian looked at the man he had known for over a decade with an incomprehensible look in his eyes. "I don't know how you and Guan Yan got to this point today, but no matter how bad your relationship is, the child is innocent. You can't just ignore him when he's sick. Lele is in the hospital and Guan Yan has no money. She said she couldn't contact you, so I just transferred 10,000 yuan to her."

"Since June last year, she has blocked my phone number and WeChat. Yi Jian, transfer another 10,000 yuan to her and I will transfer it to you via WeChat." As he said that, Xia Kaiqun transferred 20,000 yuan to Lian Yijian's WeChat.

"I'm not in a hurry. Are you making ends meet there?" Xia Kaiqun has to pay his mortgage and support his wife and children every month. He also has to mail a thousand yuan to his parents who live far away in the countryside of Jiangxi.

"Yes, the private function I took on last month has been completed and successfully launched. The client has paid the second installment of the launch fee."

Lian Yi Jian didn't say anything, just accepted it silently. Then he transferred another 15,000 yuan to Guan Yan, saying that Xia Kaiqun asked him to transfer it.

Soon, the 15,000 yuan was also received.

In the past, when Xia Kaiqun stayed at Lian Yijian’s rental house at night, the two had endless things to talk about, and they all talked about the Southern Jiangsu project.

But tonight, after Lian Yijian transferred money to Guan Yan again, the two silent people sat on the left and right ends of the camp bed, smoking one cigarette after another.

After a while, the air-conditioned room was filled with smoke.

The originally clean ashtray on the bench between the two of them soon had more than a dozen cigarette butts.

Unable to bear the oppressive atmosphere, Xia Kaiqun spoke up first, saying, "Yi Jian, are you looking down on me right now? Do you think I'm not a human being and not manly enough?"

"That's not that serious. It's just that your love with Guan Yan was so passionate at the beginning, but in less than ten years, you two have developed to the point where you are strangers. I can't accept it for the time being." Lian Yi Jian did not hide it and expressed his doubts.

After listening to Lian Yijian's words, Xia Kaiqun stopped smoking and told Lian Yijian bit by bit about his and Guan Yan's ten years of acquaintance, understanding, love and breakup.

Lian Yijian didn't interrupt him at all. He just listened quietly while smoking. By the time Xia Kaiqun finished his recollections, it was already 1:30 in the morning.

Lian Yijian used to think that the child would be too pitiful after Xia Kaiqun and Guan Yan divorced. From a friend's perspective, he did not agree with their divorce.

But after listening to Xia Kaiqun's recollections, Lian Yijian realized that it was best not to advise others without first experiencing their suffering. He no longer insisted on his original idea and said, "Uncle Xia, I hope you and Guan Yan don't regret it. You just said that after the divorce, the house, children, and savings will all be given to Guan Yan, and you will leave the house empty-handed. If you return to Shanghai, you can stay at my house temporarily to save on rent."

"Thank you, Yi Jian, for taking me in." Xia Kaiqun glanced at Lian Yijian. "I feel Xia Zhongqin is a pretty good girl. Yi Jian, if you really like her, talk to her properly and make sure you get along well with her before getting married. Otherwise, the final outcome might end up like Guan Yan and I, breaking up in no time."

This time, Lian Yijian didn't avoid Xia Kaiqun's topic like he did before. Instead, he followed up on his topic and asked, "Tell me what Xia Zhongqin is like in your eyes?"

"I haven't met her much, but she gives people a very comfortable feeling and is very approachable. She doesn't seem too lively, nor too introverted, and her personality complements your reserved and sultry personality perfectly." Xia Kaiqun answered truthfully, "Yi Jian, I know there are two people in the Sucheng branch who like you very much. One is Liu Qingqing, and the other is Pan Lulu from the delivery department. However, these two women are very scheming, so you should be careful."

Lian Yijian rolled his eyes at him and said, "Do I have such low taste and poor vision?"

"Go to sleep. I'm going to Wujiang Rural Commercial Bank tomorrow morning and will take you back to Liangxi in the afternoon." After saying that, Lian Yijian stood up from the camp bed.

Lian Yijian had just taken two steps forward when he heard Xia Kaiqun's desperate voice coming from behind him.

"Oh my God, what sin have I committed? I came to Su City and can't even go back."

Lian Yijian replied, "Who told you not to drive?"

Lian Yijian had just laid down on the bed when he received a call on his cell phone. It was Wang Dayu.

After he picked up the phone, he heard a woman's voice on the other end. It was Wang Dayu's girlfriend Nana.

Nana said that Wang Dayu and she had spent a night together in a bar on Shilu Women's Street. They both drank and needed him to pick them up.

This kind of scene is not the first time. Since Wang Dayu was promoted from sales director to regional general manager of the Shanghai Legion, there are always a few times a year when Wang Dayu gets drunk outside, and the first thing he thinks of is not to find a designated driver, but to find him as a free driver.

He doesn't always go to pick him up. Sometimes when he is working overtime on a project or it's too late, he will find a designated driver for Wang Dayu. He will only go to pick him up in person once a year at most.

Wujiang Rural Commercial Bank still had a big battle to go on. As usual, Lian Yijian called a designated driver for Wang Dayu on Didi and set the alarm.

"Old Wang is really getting more and more outrageous. There's really a red flag flying high at home and colorful flags flying outside. His wife is also very capable. She has never left him for so many years." Xia Kaiqun, who was already lying in bed, complained.

"Everyone has his or her own way of living. We just need to take care of ourselves. Go to sleep, Uncle Xia." As Lian Yijian uttered the last word "Uncle", no one spoke in the room anymore.

For three consecutive days, the Centennial Project Group posted new requirements and business form optimization services. No matter how the heads of Centennial's relevant business departments, Chu Zhencheng, or Wang Xuesheng @Lian Yijian and Xia Zhongqin, neither of them responded.

On the fifth day, the actual offline business was affected because the business processes in the travel expense reimbursement form, expense reimbursement form, loan form, repayment form and cash payment application form in the financial management function module were not adjusted.

Another issue is that Bai Nian was fined for non-compliant invoices and suffered serious business losses because the contracting party was insolvent and could not pay the down payment.

The invoice attachments uploaded by the four major functional modules of the previous financial management function (travel expense reimbursement form, expense reimbursement form, purchase payment application form, check and transfer payment application form) were not uploaded by Xia Zhongqin. Before the financial management function was launched, Xia Zhongqin recommended that they buy a financial OCR invoice plug-in from Mairis. This financial OCR invoice plug-in from Mairis supports invoice authenticity and weight verification.

This set of Mairuisi's financial OCR invoice plug-in is also integrated into the four major functional modules of financial management (travel expense reimbursement form, expense reimbursement form, purchase payment application form, check and transfer payment application form) on the mobile office APP supporting the Centennial Project.

It supports both PC and mobile terminals, which is very convenient and necessary. The cost of this set of Mairuisi's financial OCR invoice plug-in is 5,000 yuan per set. Invoices are recognized at 1 cent per piece, which is not too expensive.

After more than a year at Beijing Smart Internet Company, Xia Zhongqin has previously participated in projects where all clients with financial management functions have basically purchased the financial OCR invoice plug-in from Mairis.

However, the client Bai Nian was an exception. Wang Xuesheng only said "no need" to Xia Zhongqin's proposal.

Less than a year later, this Wednesday, Bai Nian was caught by the tax department for non-compliant invoices and was fined 500,000 yuan.

Xia Zhongqin has looked at the business data in the four functional modules involved in invoice uploading in the financial management of the Centennial Project.

Although she had specifically noted on the expense reimbursement form: Please upload the corresponding reimbursement receipts (tobacco, alcohol, tea invoices or transportation invoices, etc.) in the attachments, and on the travel expense reimbursement form: Please upload the corresponding reimbursement receipts (train tickets or bus tickets or plane tickets or accommodation invoices or food and beverage invoices or transportation invoices, etc.) in the attachments, the uploaded invoices were still not in compliance with regulations, and many of them were handwritten.