The two were very fast, and in just ten minutes they arrived at the finance department. A large crowd had already gathered there, each person craning their necks and staring intently at the line in front of them, wishing the long queue would disappear immediately so it would be their turn.
Xu Xinchen and Lin Bingchun arrived late, so they could only obediently wait in line at the back, watching the number of people in front of them decrease at a snail's pace.
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Seeing that they had been inside for several minutes and there were only a few people ahead of them, Xu Xinchen couldn't help but sigh. This was one of the shortcomings of this era. If it were in her time, her salary would have been deposited into her account long ago, and there would be no need to queue up and sign to receive cash.
Lin Bingchun, unaware that Xu Xinchen was lamenting the drawbacks of this era, assumed she was annoyed by the long queue ahead of her and quickly comforted her, saying, "Don't worry, although there are a lot of people, the finance department staff are quite fast, and it will be our turn soon."
Hearing Lin Bingchun's words of comfort, Xu Xinchen looked up at Lin Bingchun and smiled, "Okay, I understand."
"Forget it, what's past is past. Since I'm here, I should accept it all," Xu Xinchen comforted herself, and quickly cheered up again.
Lin Bingchun's definition of "fast" is relative to people of this era. Anyway, by the time Xu Xinchen received his salary, about ten minutes had passed, which Xu Xinchen didn't consider fast at all.
Xu Xinchen held the tan envelope in her hand. Inside was a white piece of paper and a thin banknote. On the white paper...
The document recorded Xu Xinchen's due salary, and the banknote was a fifty-yuan note, which was about the same as her salary when she was a teacher.
Lin Bingchun, standing next to her, looked a little envious: "Min Shi, your first month's salary was fifteen yuan higher than mine."
Xu Xinchen thought for a moment and then comforted her, "That's because I was lucky this month. A few small orders that the senior employees didn't want to take were given to me, so I was able to earn so much. If it weren't for those orders, I would probably be in a much worse situation than you."
Lin Bingchun smiled when she saw Xu Xinchen's slightly nervous expression: "Don't worry, I'm just a little envious, I didn't say anything. Earning more or less depends on one's own ability, I won't hold a grudge against you because of this."
Xu Xinchen's hand, which was patting Lin Bingchun's shoulder, paused, and an embarrassed expression appeared on her face. She'd been seen through. However, hearing Lin Bingchun say that she wouldn't hold a grudge over this, Xu Xinchen breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't want her hard-won friend to drift apart because of these things.
The two of them returned to the office chatting and laughing as they received their freshly paid wages. Xu Xinchen sat down at her desk, put the envelope containing her wages into her bag, zipped it up, and reached for the document she had just finished working on.
When Xu Xinchen saw the placement of the documents, a look of confusion appeared on her face: "That's strange, why does it seem to be in a slightly different place than where I just put it?"
Lin Bingchun had just finished cleaning up the trash on the table and was walking past Xu Xinchen when she overheard Xu Xinchen's mutterings to herself. She couldn't help but ask in confusion, "Min Shi, what are you saying? What happened?"
Xu Xinchen pulled out the document and opened it: "I feel like this document has been tampered with, it's in the same place I just put it."
Not quite the same?
"Really?" Lin Bingchun didn't think much of it. "But everyone has different jobs. Why would they touch your files? Could it be that they accidentally bumped into them or you remembered them wrong?"
Xu Xinchen frowned slightly and carefully examined the document: "I must have misremembered. The document itself looks fine."
Xu Xinchen initially suspected Lin Lina, but the documents looked perfectly intact, with no traces on them. If Lin Lina had tampered with her documents, why would she leave without doing anything? That didn't make sense.
When Lin Bingchun heard Xu Xinchen say that she might have misremembered, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good. To avoid any mistakes, you should still calculate it carefully again."
Xu Xinchen looked up, her eyes filled with a warm smile: "Okay..." I understand.
Xu Xinchen couldn't finish her sentence because a voice came from the doorway: "Lin Lina, why aren't you going into your office to work? What are you doing standing here?"
Xu Xinchen pursed her lips. The person speaking was Wu Jiayi. Was Lin Lina eavesdropping on their conversation outside? Thinking of the location of the document, Xu Xinchen gripped the edge of the document tightly, so tightly that the skin on her fingers turned white.
Lin Lina's flustered voice came through: "Supervisor?"
Wu Jiayi frowned, a hint of displeasure on her face: "Why are you in such a panic?"
Lin Lina bit her lip and looked into the office, where she met Xu Xinchen's probing eyes. Lin Lina was immediately panicked: "I, I, I'm resting, yes, I'm resting."
As Lin Lina spoke, she reached out and rubbed her foot: "I twisted my ankle when I was walking up the stairs. I'm standing here to rest for a bit."
Wu Jiayi's expression softened slightly, and she glanced at Lin Lina indifferently: "Since you twisted your ankle, go inside and sit for a while. Standing there will only make it hurt more."
Lin Lina took a step forward and entered the office: "I understand, I'll just sit here for now."
Xu Xinchen watched Lin Lina walk in, his eyes fixed on her. Lin Lina's behavior made her look guilty no matter how you looked at it.
However, Wu Jiayi followed Lin Lina into the office, which made it difficult for Xu Xinchen to keep an eye on Lin Lina or question her about whether she had moved the documents.
Firstly, there was no evidence at the moment, and secondly, Wu Jiayi was there. If she rashly questioned Lin Lina like this, and Lin Lina stubbornly denied it, it would easily leave Wu Jiayi with a bad impression of her.
Let's wait until Wu Jiayi leaves and then observe carefully. If it was Lin Lina who made the move, she wouldn't just sit idly by. We just need to wait patiently.
Lin Lina felt flustered under Xu Xinchen's gaze and couldn't help but glare at him. This glare was seen by Wu Jiayi, who was walking over. Remembering Lin Lina's reputation, Wu Jiayi frowned again.
"Lin Lina, what grudge do you have against Lu Minshi?"
Lin Lina shuddered, immediately stood up and shouted, "No! I have no grudge against her!"
Wu Jiayi's face darkened instantly: "If you don't have one, you don't have one. Why are you shouting like that?"
Lin Lina turned pale, realizing she had overreacted, and quickly tried to salvage the situation: "I... I was just nervous."
"Yes, I was nervous for a moment."
Wu Jiayi's face was very unpleasant. Although she didn't say it outright, her eyes were full of reproach, clearly asking Lin Lina why she was so nervous.
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