Chapter 36 Grandma is Missing
A few days after Song Yilin submitted her work plan to her boss, Boss Zhou personally visited the Jianghai store, and Song Yilin hosted him for a day.
In the end, Boss Zhou rejected all the data prepared by Song Yilin and gave her a set of data directly.
Next year's sales target is to increase by 20% compared to this year, and after-sales service output value is to increase by 15% compared to this year.
This data is something that couldn't be achieved even during the years of rapid economic growth, let alone now that the national economy has stabilized.
If you don't complete it, you won't get the bonus.
This boss is a hundred times more ruthless than I imagined.
Song Yilin called Shao Min for a casual chat. After listening, Shao Min laughed and said, "You think Boss Zhou is a good person? Actually, I knew from the beginning that he didn't want to give this bonus, but he wasn't as blatant as he is now."
Just as Song Yilin was having a headache, news came that Wang Yide, the general manager of the Yishi store, had resigned.
When she left Yishi, she knew that General Manager Wang Yide was wary of her, but who would have thought that their ultimate enemy would not be each other, but Boss Zhou.
Even the fact that she and Wang Xiasheng had been competing fiercely for so long was something the boss was happy to see.
She previously divided the group into two competing teams and was quite pleased with herself for being so clever. Now that she thinks about it, she was just a pawn in the game. But if Song Yilin were to sit in the same position as Boss Zhou one day, she would probably be doing the same things as Boss Zhou.
After calming herself down, Song Yilin threw herself back into her work.
She couldn't fight city hall; she had to support her family and children. She couldn't just quit on a whim. She became general manager for the high bonuses. Without those bonuses, her final salary would only be slightly more than when she was a sales director, but she put in ten times more effort.
Song Yilin left the company exhausted again today. The boss scolded her for a whole hour because of the decline in after-sales output, but Boss Zhou didn't seem to notice the much higher sales profits.
Song Yilin sat on a bench downstairs in the community for a long time, looking up at the starry sky, but all she could see was light pollution from the city, and she couldn't see any stars at all.
Looking down, I saw a Maybach.
Xu Qingmin's gold-rimmed glasses shone brightly in the night.
Song Yilin wanted to go forward, but Xu Qingmin had already come down.
I sat on the other side of the bench.
Xu Qingmin's magnetic voice rang in my ears: "Are you that tired every day?"
Song Yilin didn't know what Xu Qingmin's attitude was towards seeing her, so she could only answer each of his questions with, "It's okay, I work overtime occasionally."
I apologize for my inappropriate remarks.
Song Yilin looked at Xu Qingmin in surprise.
Shouldn't she be the one apologizing?
She said those hurtful things on purpose; she was the one who wronged him from the very beginning.
Why is Xu Qingmin apologizing to her?
The more Xu Qingmin acted this way, the more guilty she felt.
"It's okay. In the end, it's me who has wronged you more."
"It's so late, go upstairs. Don't worry your family."
Song Yilin's heart was suddenly warmed. Xu Qingmin, such a decisive and ruthless person, treated her with the gentleness he had shown throughout his life. Xu Qingmin, such a proud person, actually apologized to her.
When she got home, her mother-in-law had warmed up the food and was waiting for her.
"Mother-in-law, you don't need to bother, I can do it myself. You should rest."
"Why are you working overtime more and more lately? Aren't you the general manager? You're the boss now, why are you forcing yourself to work overtime?"
"The boss came today, so he won't be coming back so late anymore."
She also needs to have her own life. It's true that she has a lot more free time after becoming the general manager, but she is also more tired than before.
Ms. Meng, looking at her phone, said, "You should know how to balance work and rest. Come back earlier in the future and join us for square dancing. The old lady has been dancing quite well lately and has even caught up with the old men in the neighborhood."
Ms. Meng's words pulled Song Yilin out of her low mood.
"Are there still elderly men like that in our neighborhood?"
Ms. Meng: "Of course! Our old lady has such great charm that people from 90 years old to 60 years old are all captivated by her."
Grandma threw this pillow at Ms. Meng: "Nonsense, she only danced once or twice."
Seeing that his great-grandmother was angry, Bai Guanqun realized that his maternal grandmother wasn't making it up, and excitedly joined the conversation: "My great-grandmother is shy."
A group of women, one after another, made the great-grandmother so embarrassed that she went back to her room.
Cai Hong slapped Bai Guanqun: "You have no manners, making fun of your great-grandmother."
Bai Guanqun pouted: "I was just joking with Great-Grandma, and I think Great-Grandma was very happy."
Song Yilin chimed in, "Grandma is genuinely happy, but she's just shy."
After finishing her meal, Song Yilin returned to 602 and lay on her bed, pondering why Xu Qingmin had come all this way—was it simply to apologize to her?
If you can't figure it out, then stop thinking about it.
The next day, just as Song Yilin was about to get off work, her mother-in-law, Cai Hong, hurriedly called her.
Her family usually doesn't call her when she's at work unless it's an emergency.
"Linlin, something terrible has happened! The old lady has disappeared."
"Don't worry, I'm coming back now."
As soon as Song Yilin arrived at the neighborhood, she saw her mother and mother-in-law frantically searching for someone.
When did Grandma disappear?
"She went out dancing this morning and I even saw the old lady in the morning. I didn't see her come back for lunch, so I thought she had just gone a little far away, but she still hasn't come back."
"Has Grandma acted strangely today?"
My grandmother is over eighty years old, but she doesn't have dementia and is in good health. Her sudden disappearance probably means something unexpected happened.
An elderly woman who looked familiar from the neighborhood saw them anxiously searching for someone and came over.
"Um, your old lady might have run away from home."
Song Yilin immediately followed up with, "Have you met my grandmother?"
The old lady immediately waved her hand: "I haven't seen her, but the old lady from the Ke family spoke with your grandmother this morning. I guess she was provoked by those words and ran away from home."
"What did you say?"
"That old lady from the Ke family said your grandmother is shameless. Her son and grandson are both dead, yet she still lives with her granddaughter-in-law, letting a granddaughter-in-law with no blood relation support her. She wants to make her granddaughter-in-law never marry so she can support her for life. She's a selfish old hag. Then your old lady sat here for a long time, in a very bad mood, looking pitiful."
The old lady of the Ke family, isn't she Ke Qu's mother? Now she finally knows why Ke Qu got divorced.
Song Yilin knew that these words hurt not only her grandmother but also her mother-in-law: "Mother-in-law, you don't need to take these words to heart. They are just jealous that you have such a good daughter-in-law. I have long regarded you as family. Don't overthink it."
Ms. Meng said from the side, "Yes, you are my sister. If anyone dares to talk nonsense in the future, I will tear their mouth apart."
Cai Hong slowly composed herself and said, "The most important thing now is to find the old lady. Let's call the police."
Song Yilin knew that calling the police would be useless, but she still did it to appease her mother-in-law. According to regulations, the police cannot accept cases of adults going missing for less than 24 hours.
But now she's afraid that her grandmother might suddenly have a mental breakdown, and if she has to wait 24 hours, it will be too late.
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