In the year 2700, a time of rampant materialism, highly developed social production, and a progressively ruined natural environment teetering on the brink of collapse. Niannian, a little red panda ...
Chapter 69 Nian Nian's Salary
His overly respectful tone and attitude startled people, and the parents holding their chopsticks were inevitably shocked by his grand act of delivering food.
Suddenly, Shi Guilin felt as if he was recruiting and abusing child labor, as if cold handcuffs were already clasped around his wrists. Without even bothering to drop the chopsticks in his hands, he immediately took the lunch box from Nian Nian's hands with both hands, reverently saying thank you several times.
At the end, he gave a thumbs-up and praised: "Thank you Nian Nian for sending us a delicious meal. I give you a five-star praise."
Not to mention, Nian Nian's yellow outfit makes her look like a delivery man from a certain group.
Nian Nian, who was praised, stood there and twisted her body with a smile.
Chen Yi laughed out loud. She stood up and walked to the work area. She opened the drawer of Shi Lihan's desk, picked up a small stack of red banknotes at random from a thick stack, and came to Nian Nian.
"Niannian delivers meals promptly, arrives at work on time, and does a great job. We should pay salaries and bonuses to outstanding employees." Chen Yi handed a stack of hundred-yuan bills to Niannian. "Here, this is from Niannian."
Nian Nian raised her little hand and took a large amount of red banknotes, estimated to be about three thousand, and said happily: "It's Nian Nian!"
It was not enough to just talk, he also held the money and turned it around, which was bound to make everyone in the Shi family look at him with approval.
Shi Jianfeng thought he was cute, so he took a photo of Nian Nian receiving her salary and posted it on his Moments.
I noticed that there were new comments on his last post on WeChat Moments.
From Jiang Shengjun: You old man are so sinister [angry] [angry] I accidentally let Duan see this on WeChat Moments, and now he wants to work at Jiang's [fainted] [fainted]
Shi Jianfeng teased him: "Just let him come and water your flowers in the office, that's great. As a grandfather, you should be like me, open and honest."
After replying, he leisurely turned off his phone.
At that time, Nian Nian was stuffing money into Shi Guilin's hand, saying, "Papa, this is for you. Nian Nian doesn't want it."
Shi Guilin confiscated it and asked him: "Why don't you want it? This is your hard-earned money." It was earned through hard work.
Nian Nian didn't think the money was hard-earned. She grabbed Shi Guilin's arm and forced the money into his hand without leaving a single one. "Papa, Nian Nian will support you."
“Hahahahahahahahahahaha…”
"Now you know how to support your dad, hahahahahaha..."
Several people burst into laughter. Shi Guilin found it funny, but he felt really warmed in his heart, so he didn't express his opinion for a while.
Shi Lihan did express his feelings. He stopped eating, opened WeChat and sent a message to Shi Linzhuo: "You are already fifteen years old, why don't you know how to make money to support me?"
Shi Linzhuo replied immediately: "Dad, go to work. Okay, be obedient."
When Shi Lihan saw the message he sent, his eyes darkened. He turned off the screen and threw the phone away, thinking out of sight, out of mind.
Shi Guilin rolled up the wad of money in his hand, unzipped the small bag Nian Nian was carrying, put the money in, and then zipped it up again. After zipping it up, he patted Nian Nian's little bee bag and pondered for a moment: "Nian Nian, keep the money and save a lot. You don't have to support Dad, Dad will support you."
"Save a lot." Nian Nian refused to listen to the advice. "I'll make a lot of money and support dad."
"Okay then." A smile appeared between Shi Guilin's eyebrows.
Anyway, the money is in the little guy's hands.
After lunch, Chen Yi rested for a while before returning to his department. Shi Lihan took a ten-minute nap, sat down in his office chair, took a long breath, and looked at his afternoon schedule.
He pondered for a moment, then dialed the phone on the upper right corner of his desk. "Ask the design department to bring over the latest quarter's product design plans for our review."
"Okay, Mr. Shi, please wait."
After giving the instructions, Shi Lihan continued to read the stack of documents.
Wang Xiulin went home first, and Nian Nian and Shi Guilin were chatting on the sofa, their voices were not loud so as not to disturb Shi Lihan's work.
Shi Jianfeng saw through Shi Guilin's thoughts and knew that he was having a great time with Nian Nian and definitely didn't want to go back to the office to work, so he turned a blind eye and did not ruin the atmosphere and separate the father and son.
“Knock knock.”
There was a knock on the door, and the director of the design department came in with a smile, holding a document. He put the document on the table with both hands and pushed it to Shi Lihan.
"Mr. Shi, the plan."
Shi Lihan looked at him meaninglessly for a few seconds. The director of the design department gritted his teeth and twitched the corners of his mouth, trying his best to keep a straight expression.
“Clatter, clatter…”
Shi Lihan went through the design drawings page by page, his brows furrowed, the corners of his lips drooping. The head of the design department dared not utter a word.
"Pa." Shi Lihan threw the folder, and it fell on the solid wooden table with a sound.
The head of the design department stood straighter, met Shi Lihan's dissatisfied gaze, and gave an awkward smile: "Boss Shi, is there something wrong?"
Shi Lihan glanced at Nian Nian who was sitting on the sofa, and lowered his voice: "What are you laughing at? Do you think I'm going to praise your design department?"
The head of the design department felt nervous.
Unexpectedly, Shi Lihan's next words were considerably calmer than usual: "At last quarter's press conference, the new product's appearance was so ugly that it went viral. Do I need to tell you that sales dropped by a few percentage points? And you're still asking me what's wrong? Ask yourself, what's the difference between this product's appearance and last time?"
Director of the Design Department: “…”
"Oh, so the camera switched from the left to the right." Shi Lihan said sarcastically, "That's a big change."
Nian Nian heard Shi Lihan's tone of voice was different from that at home, and she turned her head to look over. Shi Guilin winked at his brother frantically.
Shi Lihan's expression froze. He avoided Nian Nian's gaze, swallowed the other words he hadn't said yet, and summed it up in one sentence: "Fight back and try again." He waved his hand and asked someone to leave.
The head of the design department seemed to have been pardoned, and he picked up the discarded design drawings and ran away.
Nian Nian turned her head back and continued playing with her father.
Ten minutes later.
The door rang three times in total.
Shi Lihan looked at the proposals in his hand, each one worse than the last, and was so angry that he lost his voice. He closed the file, pressed his eyebrows hard, and asked in a deep voice, "Who told you to send me all the proposals?"
The man confessed the culprit without hesitation: "The design department said so. They said you were in a good mood today and didn't curse as much..."
His voice gradually weakened under Shi Lihan's increasingly sharp gaze.
Shi Lihan became even angrier.
This group of people really did it on purpose! He was almost pissed off. They took advantage of Nian Nian being in the office, so he couldn't lose his temper and dared to show him any rubbish!
Shi Lihan took a few deep breaths and turned his head towards the sofa: "Gui Lin, take Nian Nian out for a walk."
Shi Guilin was very sensible. He saw that his brother was about to get angry, so he hurriedly left the office with Nian Nian, who was confused and watching.
The door is closed.
Nian Nian stood beside Shi Guilin and held his hand, with a confused look on her face: "Papa, where are you going?" Why did you suddenly come out?
Shi Guilin thought for a moment and said, "Let's go to the tea room. Dad will get you some biscuits."
Nian Nian, who loves biscuits, is like a kitten smelling fish. She holds her father's finger and follows Shi Guilin through the secretariat to the tea room.
Employees rushing between workstations would invariably glance back as they passed by, their first reaction being, "Huh? A yellow blob went by!"
I stopped and turned around to see, oh, it turned out to be a jumping baby.
There weren't many people in the tea room, and the presence of someone was immediately noticeable. The few who had arrived earlier instinctively glanced over when they heard footsteps.
"Auntie." Nian Nian excitedly ran to one of the women who turned her head, and her hand loosened so quickly and suddenly that Shi Guilin almost couldn't hold him back.
The secretary was a little surprised and tucked her hair around her ears: "Little friend, we meet again."
"Yeah." Nian Nian nodded her chin. She was not even as tall as the table in the tea room.
Shi Guilin was confused. When did he meet this aunt?
As a member of the secretariat, the secretary naturally recognized the newly arrived Hour General Manager Shi Guilin. Seeing his puzzled expression, she took the initiative to explain, "We met the chairman and the kid in the elevator. I accidentally bumped into him, and the kid was very kind and forgave me for my rudeness."
Shi Guilin: "Oh, I see."
The secretary handed a bag of cookies to Nian Nian and got down from the high stool. "Little friend, these cookies are the best. Here you go. I'll go back to my workstation first. Bye."
"Bye." Nian Nian waved to Xiang Xiang's aunt, holding up the biscuits and shaking them, "Papa, pay."
Shi Guilin took his biscuits, tore open the package, and returned them to him: "Eat them, these biscuits are free."
It's free. Nian Nian took a bite of the biscuit. It was sweet and delicious. He said sincerely, "Here, Nian Nian likes it."
Shi Guilin wiped the biscuit crumbs from the corner of his mouth and said, "You like free biscuits. Then daddy will buy you a biscuit castle for you to live in."
"Papa is staying here too." Nian Nian pressed forward, "Everyone come."
Shi Guilin agreed without hesitation: "No problem, buy a big one and let everyone Nian Nian likes live in it."
Nian Nian emphasized: "Yuan Yuan wants to stay here too."
"Okay." Shi Guilin complied, "Any species Nian Nian likes can live here."
This is foolproof now.
Sure enough, Nian Nian found nothing to complain about and munched on the biscuits with satisfaction.
Shi Guilin hadn't finished half a pack of cookies when his phone rang. It was a video call on WeChat, and the note was "Sister Cheng."
Shi Guilin glanced at Nian Nian and picked up the phone.
"Hello? Hello, uncle." Jiang Duan greeted politely, looking at Shi Guilin's face in the camera, his expression did not change much.
If Shi Guilin hadn't known that he had autism, he would almost doubt whether what he said about his uncle being good was a good thing or not.
"Are you looking for Nian Nian?" Shi Guilin asked, but he had already handed the phone to Nian Nian.
Jiang Duan's words were stuck in his throat before he could say them, and his black pupils reflected Nian Nian eating biscuits.
"Nian Nian."
The little guy put down the biscuits, held up the phone, and looked back at Jiang Duan with big eyes: "Short brother."
Jiang Duan's background was a flood of natural light, making it seem as if he wasn't actually in a villa. He flipped the camera, and suddenly a litter of kittens appeared in the shot.
"Nian Nian, the little orange cat gave birth to a baby."