Chapter 26

The little girl was too lively. Jiang Bai held his forehead and covered his eyes with his fingers. Lan Shu glanced over through the gap. Jiang Bai put down his hand and held it seriously.

When the people around saw a beautiful woman coming on stage, they all cast their eyes over to her. Some were wondering what song "Little Jumping Frog" was.

Only the cheerful prelude sounded, followed by Lan Shuqing's cheerful singing:

Happy Pond Planted

Dreams become oceans

…

Lan Shuqing sang, waved her hands and stared at Jiang Bai. Jiang Bai wanted to cover her face so that no one could see her. She felt like her face was about to smoke.

But his face remained calm, so calm that he had no expression on his face.

As long as I am not embarrassed, others will be embarrassed.

Yes, the embarrassing one is Lan Shuqing.

Lan Shu sang softly and called out during the interlude: "Children who can sing, come along~"

Jiang Bai's face was almost familiar. She pretended to be calm and looked at Lan Shuqing. Unexpectedly, several children ran up to join Lan Shuqing, and the adults around them also followed.

La la la la la ~

La la la la la ~

With you by my side, Leap Frog

…

Does everyone give this much face?

Some people were whispering about where this girl came from. The atmosphere on the lawn suddenly became lively. Lan Shuqing's voice mixed with the children's, as cheerful as the little jumping frog.

During this time, Lan Shuqing winked at Jiang Bai, and Jiang Bai glared back at him from a distance, standing below and clapping his hands.

That's all she could do.

Lan Shuqing sang while observing Jiang Bai, seeing that she had no expression on her face but was actually so nervous that she wanted to run away, and seeing that she wanted to run away but still stood there obediently, like a baby.

…

Confident Growth

With you by my side

leap frog

…

Little Jumping Frog was very short, only a little over two minutes, but Jiang Bai felt like a year had passed.

After Lan Shuqing finished singing, he handed the microphone to other children and ran down from the stage.

Jiang Bai took a step back, and Lan Shuqing rushed over and hugged her shoulders, saying boastfully, "How was it? Did I sing well?"

Buzz!

Jiang Bai felt a puff of steam rising from her head. She quickly grabbed Lan Shuqing's arm and walked out quickly. "Beautiful, beautiful! You sing the best!"

If he stayed any longer, Jiang Bai would really be dead!

Lan Shuqing looked at Jiang Bai's red ears and laughed happily behind him.

Jiang Bai pulled Lan Shu and walked briskly for nearly a hundred meters before slowly relaxing. She looked back in the direction of the open-air cafe. No one should be able to see them.

Finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Jiang Bai turned around and met Lan Shuqing's smiling eyes. Jiang Bai glared at her. How dare she smile!

Lan Shu reached out his long hand and brought Jiang Bai to him. "I'll sing for you next time!"

Jiang Bai exclaimed, "Ah!" and said hurriedly, "Not next time!" There was a hint of fear in his voice.

Lan Shu chuckled softly, and she leaned on Jiang Bai's shoulder, laughing so hard that she couldn't straighten her back.

Seeing this, Jiang Bai reached out and poked Lan Shuqing's waist fiercely, "Stop laughing!"

Lan Shuqing laughed and said, "Jiang Bai, haha, you are so cute~"

Jiang Bai rolled his eyes again, and he was about to move his fingers. He might as well cover this person's mouth. However, before Jiang Bai could move, Lan Shuqing grabbed Jiang Bai's with her right hand and shook it. "Okay, okay, I won't laugh anymore," she said, glancing at her waist. "It hurts so much~"

Dare to act like a spoiled child. Jiang Bai snorted, "Serves you right!"

Lan Shuqing stared at Jiang Bai's profile, a dark glint in her eyes. She tightened her grip and jokingly said, "I'm doing this for your own good."

Jiang Bai tilted his head to look at her suspiciously, "Hmm?"

"I'm afraid you'll feel bad."

Jiang Bai's face was clearly reflected in Lan Shuqing's eyes. Jiang Bai coughed lightly and pushed her, "Stand still."

But Jiang Bai did not refute the fact that he felt bad about it.

Lan Shuqing let her go, covered his chest, and pretended to be pitiful, "It really hurts."

Jiang Bai choked. She reached out and gently touched Lan Shuqing's chest. After realizing what was happening, she said unhappily, "Let's go."

Lan Shu chuckled and followed. She held Jiang Bai's arm, and Jiang Bai glared at her again.

The circumference of the lakeside park is about ten kilometers. It is impossible to walk around the entire park. It will take until dark to walk all ten kilometers.

Lan Shuqing felt it was a pleasure to just walk and talk like this. Usually, Lan Zhaoting seldom took them out to visit parks or go on picnics. Most of the time, they went to tourist attractions or had dinner with other business leaders.

Lan Shuqing called the people from other companies the heads of the business. Every time they had a dinner together, they would talk about some work issues. It was a social event. Lan Shuqing was still young and didn't participate in social events very often. Only Lan Qi and Lan Zhaoting would go there from time to time to hold a meeting and have a meal.

As for Li Liyue, Lan Shuqing's mother, she prefers to read books to rest, or watch some TV series to pass the time. Lan Shuqing's studies do not require her to supervise him, and she pays more attention to Lan Shuqing's life, interactions and psychological development.

After walking about another kilometer, Jiang Bai and Lan Shuqing started to return. After walking six kilometers back and forth, Jiang Bai felt that his exercise volume today had met the standard.

Just as the two of them walked back to the open-air cafe, a boy suddenly came up and started chatting with Lan Shu.

"Hello, can you add me on WeChat?"

The boy looked to be in his twenties, about the same height as Lan Shuqing, with a delicate appearance and good at hitting straight balls.

Jiang Bai was still a little confused when the boy came over, until he heard this sentence and felt the people around him stiffen for a moment. Lan Shuqing smiled very formally and refused, "No."

The boy wanted to say something else, but Lan Shuqing took Jiang Bai's arm and left. He sighed, thinking that it was indeed not that easy to add a beautiful woman on WeChat.

Jiang Bai glanced back at the boy, then turned to stare at Lan Shuqing and said, "Lan Shuqing, you are still young and can't fall in love."

Jiang Bai looked at her seriously. Lan Shu hummed softly and said, "But I'm already nineteen. It's okay to have a relationship, right?"

After saying that, she blinked at Jiang Bai with an innocent look on her face.

Jiang Bai looked at Lan Shuqing, worried about her like an old mother, "At least wait until the college entrance examination is over. You are in your third year of high school now, which is a critical time."

Lan Shu gently took her hand and smiled, "I know, Mother Jiang."

Jiang Bai looked at her again, but didn't say anything else. She put her other hand in her pocket and clenched it quietly.

After visiting the park that day, Jiang Bai felt inexplicably depressed. Although he knew that Lan Shuqing was very likable, being approached in person was another matter.

At that moment, Jiang Bai clearly realized the gap between her and Lan Shuqing.

Lan Shuqing is so outstanding, but I am so ordinary.

But life doesn't leave her much time to be sad. After all, the next step is the monthly settlement, and after the monthly settlement is the year-end project completion report in December. According to past practice, she also has to make a year-end performance review in January.

Lan Shuqing also had to take the monthly exam in November, so the two of them didn't have much time to chat or meet again, which in turn gave Jiang Bai some buffer time.

Soon, November passed by in a flash.

In December, the final report of each project was officially launched. Zhenghe Group is divided into headquarters and business departments, and the business departments are divided into multiple project departments. Jiang Bai belongs to the headquarters. Like other projects in charge of the headquarters, the reporting time is on the 14th, and he must report to the leaders of the headquarters and the business department at the same time.

It takes half a month to prepare in total. Jiang Bai's leader is a sister who is three years older than her. She usually calls her Sister Zhu. During this report, Sister Zhu gave special instructions and asked Jiang Bai to prepare well.

After all, they have three subordinate departments here, and each department has to report once. Although there is an opportunity, the project is not as big as the business project, and a lot of time is allocated. The content of the report must be important and precise. The general manager attaches great importance to it, and Sister Zhu also attaches great importance to it.

So Jiang Bai lived in dire straits for half a month. He had to do his daily work, answer questions from team members, make PPTs, and prepare for lectures.

In the end, I had very little time to chat with Lan Shuqing in the past half month.

On the 14th, Jiang Bai specially wore formal clothes. In order to avoid being too dull, she took out a light green suit jacket that she hadn't worn for a long time, put on a V-neck white T-shirt, beige suit pants, a pair of white shoes, and tied her hair into a ponytail, looking formal and capable.

Sister Zhu expressed her satisfaction. It is said that clothes make the man. Jiang Bai looks pretty good in this outfit, except that she doesn't know how to put on makeup.

Jiang Bai never wears makeup.

The reports were submitted in the order of Departments One, Two and Three. Jiang Bai was the third one in the morning. The reporting room was in the conference room on the 23rd floor of the group building. The leaders sat in the front and those waiting to report sat in the back. Jiang Bai held a notebook with the speech manuscript inside and sat upright.

She went on stage when it was her turn. Because she had rehearsed earlier, Jiang Bai spoke smoothly and answered the leaders' questions logically without any problems. When she came down, Sister Zhu quietly gave her a thumbs up.

Jiang Bai smiled in response, but her palms were actually sweaty. The more nervous she was, the more expressionless her face became, and the more formal it looked. She only slowly relaxed after returning to her seat.

It's finally over.

Lan Shuqing knew that Jiang Bai was going to make a report, and also knew that she had to prepare well in the past half month, so she restrained herself from sending her many messages.

After Jiang Bai finished his report, Lan Shuqing had no way to find Jiang Bai, because Lan Zhaozhao was going to their house for dinner today, and as a member of the host family, she could not be absent, even if dinner had already been eaten when she got home.

But after returning home, Lan Shuqing unexpectedly got news about Jiang Bai.

Because Lan Zhaozhao is the general manager of the business department, she is also present at the daytime report.

"Speaking of which, Shuqing, who do you know at Zhenghe Group?" Lan Zhaozhao sat on the sofa. They had been chatting since Lan Shuqing came back. She was really curious about who her niece had become friends with. "I happened to be having a meeting with someone from headquarters today. Maybe I've met him before."

Lan Shuqing sat on the sofa, hugging a pillow. Aunt Yao had prepared some after-dinner fruit and placed it on the coffee table. She was staring at the coffee table in a daze, and only came back to her senses when she heard Lan Zhaozhao's words. She rested her chin on the pillow and replied lazily, "Call me Jiang Bai."

Lan Zhaozhao was a little surprised, "It's her."