Chapter 73

"Sister Zhong Qin, just treat this mad dog as air. We can just ignore it. Yi Jian will take care of it. You can go up and have an early rest tonight. We won't be going to the Sucheng subway project tomorrow. Yi Jian should have the same idea as me."

Xia Zhongqin said, "Goodbye, Teacher Xia," and went upstairs.

As soon as Xia Zhongqin left, Xia Kaiqun turned and headed towards the north gate of Modern Garden Community.

There is a fruit shop on the left side of the north gate of Modern Garden, and he plans to buy some fruit to take back.

At 11 o'clock in the evening, Wang Dayu's office in Suzhou District of Beijing Smart Internet was all lit up.

Three core figures from Southern Jiangsu District and two key figures from Sucheng District were seated on the sofas and office chairs on both sides of the office.

Wang Dayu, the general manager of the Southern Jiangsu District, sat alone in his office chair.

The delivery director of Southern Jiangsu District sat on the sofa on the left side of the office, while the sales director of Sucheng District, the human resources manager of Southern Jiangsu District and the delivery manager of Sucheng District sat on the sofa on the right side.

The office went from being tense at the beginning to being quiet now.

Wang Dayu, who had been trying to smooth things over in his office chair, glanced at the sofa on his left, then at the sofa on his right. After a moment, he said, "Yi Jian, I think what Xia Cheng said makes sense. As the delivery director of the Southern Jiangsu District, you shouldn't be focusing all your energy on the Sucheng Metro project. The Zhongtian Interconnection project that Yao Xiang is in charge of in Tongzhou District needs your support even more. Starting tomorrow, Xia Cheng will be fully responsible for the Sucheng Metro project. You should go to Tongzhou District to support the Zhongtian Interconnection project."

He had already discussed the current status of the Suzhou Metro Project and the consequences of changing the project manager during his earlier argument with Song Xiaojuan and Xia Cheng in the office. He didn't want to waste any more time arguing, so as he left the office, he simply said to Wang Dayu, who was sitting leisurely in his office chair, "Boss Wang, Xia Zhongqin and I will go to the Zhongtian Interconnection Project in Tongzhou District tomorrow."

As soon as Lian Yijian left, Xia Cheng, looking excited, suggested, "Boss Wang, let's go to Jiangbianyang on Shilu Food Street for a midnight snack. I'll treat you."

"Okay, Xiaojuan and Qingqing will go together. After the meal, Qingqing will ask the store to issue an invoice, and then ask the company to reimburse the reception fee." As he said that, Wang Dayu called his girlfriend Nana and asked her to take a taxi to the Jiangbian Lamb BBQ Restaurant.

When Lian Yijian returned to his residence in Yonglin New Village, it was already half past eleven. Xia Kaiqun was sitting shirtless at the computer desk in his room, busy sorting out the passenger development needs of the complex passenger development project in Liangxi District. During this period, he was busy supporting the Sucheng Metro Project, and Xia Kaiqun had handed over the passenger development projects in Liangxi District to his subordinate Wang Zhiduo.

Like Xia Zhongqin, Wang Zhiduo is a newcomer to the workplace who has just graduated from school for a year. He only joined the Beijing Smart Internet Suzhou Liangxi District Branch in February last year. He can only handle simple customer development requests. He does not have the technical level to handle logically complex customer development requests, so he has no way to handle them and can only hand them back to Xia Kaiqun for processing.

The two greeted each other, and Lian Yijian took his spare clothes and went to the bathroom to wash up.

After washing up, Lian Yijian also washed his spare clothes. Xia Kaiqun had already washed them when he took a shower.

After the clothes were hung out to dry, it was almost half past eleven when Lian Yijian returned to the room. The customer development needs of the complex customer development projects in Liangxi District had all been sorted out in Xia Kaiqun according to their priorities. He was sitting on his exclusive camp bed and sending WeChat messages.

Before he could close the WeChat chat interface he had opened, Lian Yijian, who was passing by him, happened to see it.

The reason why he didn't have time to delete the message was because they were too involved and excited in the conversation. It was not until Lian Yijian got close to Xia Kaiqun that he noticed it, but it was too late. After deleting WeChat, he got up and went to the living room. When he came back, he had a box of watermelon slices in his hand.

"Yi Jian, I know you're in a bad mood tonight. Listen to me, brother. Except for life and death, everything else is trivial. Eat some watermelon to cool down."

In front of Xia Kaiqun, Lian Yijian never knew how to write the word "polite". He took the watermelon, cut it with a fork, ate a small piece, and then said, "Uncle Xia, don't think you can buy me off with a box of watermelon. You and Zhao Panpan are more intimate than Zhong Qin and I. Zhong Qin and I are in a serious relationship and are planning to get married. What you and Zhao Panpan are doing is nothing. It's completely nonsense."

Xia Kaiqun didn't pick up Lian Yijian's topic. Instead, he told Lian Yijian everything they had talked about when he was sending Xia Zhongqin home today, as well as Xia Zhongqin's concerns about him. He then said with a sly smile, "Yijian, your sister Zhongqin really loves you. Now she lives alone in a house, and Lao Wang is messing with you again. Why don't you move in with her? That way you can better cultivate your relationship."

Normally, if Xia Kaiqun was talking about other people's gossip or trivial matters, Lian Yijian would have gone to work at his computer desk. This time, Xia Kaiqun was talking about Xia Zhongqin, and he listened to the whole thing patiently. Then, when he received a WeChat message on his phone, he ignored the person who was expecting his reply with a gossipy look on his face, and immediately made a WeChat video call.

In the past, when Lian Yijian received a call at this time, it was always an emergency on the project. It was the first time that Xia Kaiqun saw Lian Yijian make a WeChat video call in the middle of the night in front of him, so he came forward out of curiosity, and the video call happened to be connected.

A cute girl wearing pink rippled clothes, with her hair loose and a pretty face appeared in the video. Before Xia Kaiqun could finish his sentence "Hello, Zhong Qin", Lian Yijian had already stood up with his mobile phone in hand and walked to the bed.

"Brother Yi Jian, you and Teacher Xia haven't rested yet? Mr. Wang is not going to let us participate in the Sucheng subway project anymore. No matter what the result is, I will stand by you, Brother Yi Jian."

Xia Zhongqin's voice was not loud, but the two people in the room could hear her soft words clearly.

As soon as he left the company, Lian Yijian called Xia Zhongqin, but the call didn't go through. The voice prompt said her phone was busy. After a while, he called again, but the call was still busy.

On the way back from the company, he called Xia Zhongqin eight times, but without exception, none of them went through. Just as he was about to turn the car around at the intersection and go to Xia Zhongqin's house, he received a WeChat message from Xia Zhongqin saying that she was answering a call from her aunt Hong Miao and would contact him after the call ended. Only then did Lian Yijian stop calling and returned home with peace of mind.

So as soon as he received Xia Zhongqin's WeChat message, Lian Yijian immediately called her via WeChat video. This was the first WeChat video call between the two of them in more than a month since they officially started dating, and it happened at such a late hour.

In response to Xia Zhongqin's caring questions in the WeChat video, Lian Yijian replied gently with a smile on his face.

"Don't worry about me, Zhong Qin. I'll pick you up downstairs at your house at 8:30 tomorrow morning. You, Uncle Xia, and I will go to Tongzhou District to support Yao Xiang's Zhongtian Internet project."

The two of them were together in the video for more than half an hour. In the end, Lian Yijian saw Xia Zhongqin yawning constantly on the other side of the video, and he felt sorry for her and asked her to go to bed early.

While Lian Yijian and Xia Zhongqin were having a sweet video chat, Xia Kaiqun was not idle either. He continued to chat with Zhao Panpan. When the video call between Lian Yijian and Xia Zhongqin ended, Xia Kaiqun reluctantly replied to Xia Panpan, "Baby, go to bed early tonight." Coincidentally, this sentence was caught by Lian Yijian again.

"Uncle Xia, I didn't realize it before, but you have a soft side. Your marriage to Guan Yan is still ongoing, so don't play it too hard. You might end up losing both your money and your life. I really regret agreeing to meet Guan Yan's parents on your behalf. If I hadn't gone, you and Guan Yan wouldn't be at this point today."

This time, Xia Kaiqun didn't refute Lian Yijian like he had before. He waited for him to finish his words for a while, then took a deep breath and replied, "Yijian, you're right. Guan Yan and I shouldn't continue to waste time like this. By the end of the year at the latest, Guan Yan and I will complete the divorce procedures. I've also decided on Kaikai's custody. If Guan Yan wants it, she can give it to him, including the house. I will also compensate them financially to the greatest extent possible."

Lian Yijian didn't say anything else and started packing his luggage for going to Tongzhou tomorrow. He would probably stay in Tongzhou for a long time this time.

Wang Dayu arranged for him to go to Tongzhou to support the Zhongtian Internet project. This matter was too sudden. The company required long-term business trips (more than one month) to one place, so he could not stay in a hotel and had to rent a house locally. The company would provide a room subsidy every month, and the extra rent had to be paid out of his own pocket. Lian Yijian decided to stay in a hotel for the first two weeks of his trip and find a house as soon as possible within half a month.

Seeing Lian Yijian packing his luggage, Xia Kaiqun said speechlessly, "Yijian, are you serious? Do you really need to bring so many clothes? I think you should just pretend and bring two casual clothes. You and I both know that not everyone can be the project manager of the Sucheng Metro Project. I estimate that within three days, Lao Wang will call you back. Like that mad dog Xia Cheng, he would have crippled the entire project team in less than a day."

"Also, I have to go back to Liangxi tomorrow. There's an urgent matter on the project that needs my attention. Once I'm done, I'll meet up with you in Tongzhou the day after tomorrow morning."

While Xia Kaiqun was talking, Lian Yijian had already packed his luggage. He looked suspiciously at someone whose face would blush whenever he lied.

What kind of urgent matter requires going to the project site to deal with it? It's really a lame excuse. Lian Yijian knew the real purpose of Xia Kaiqun's return to Liangxi. It was to meet the female guest intern named Zhao Panpan. After all, they had known each other for more than ten years. He knew everything Xia Kaiqun was talking about, not to mention this obvious little thought. So, over the years, Lian Yijian had always had Xia Kaiqun in his control. This time, he did not refute as he did in the past. He just said "hmm" without any extra words.

After the WeChat video call with Lian Yijian, it was already half past twelve in the morning. Xia Zhongqin simply packed her luggage and only brought two sets of clothes. She knew very well that she would not stay in Tongzhou for more than a week, and she, Lian Yijian and Xia Kaiqun would be tossed back again. After all, not everyone can take over the Suzhou Metro project. They were so impatient that they didn't even leave any time for the handover of the project.

How could someone like Xia Cheng, who does things without any logic, take on the important task of being the project manager of Sucheng Metro? Xia Zhongqin felt that Wang Dayu did this deliberately targeting Lian Yijian, so let them do whatever they want.