Chapter 42
While waiting for the elevator, Nana, who had been nestled in Wang Dayu's arms, whispered in his ear, "Old Wang, is this girl also from your company? She seems to have a special relationship with President Lian."
Although Nana's voice was very low and soft, because it was very late, there was no one on this office floor, and there were only four of them waiting for the elevator. Even Yi Jian and Xia Zhongqin didn't speak, so her words still fell into their ears.
Both of their faces turned red unconsciously, and their reactions were all seen by Wang Dayu and Nana.
Wang Dayu just said "hmm" softly as a response.
Nana naturally understood and didn't ask any more questions.
After a while, the elevator arrived. Wang Dayu and Nana got in first, followed by Lian Yijian and Xia Zhongqin.
Wang Dayu is going to take Nana to the bar tonight. He has already called a taxi and pressed the elevator button for the first floor.
Lian Yijian's car was parked on the B1 floor.
The elevator reached the first floor. When getting out, Wang Dayu looked at Lian Yijian meaningfully, then hugged Nana out of the elevator.
After the two left, the awkward atmosphere in the elevator eased a little.
The camp bed was still on the second row of seats, so Xia Zhongqin could only sit in the passenger seat. The second time, she fastened her seat belt quickly by herself, and was obviously not as nervous as the first time.
The car drove out of the underground garage and onto the road. Lian Yijian's mobile phone received a video call from Xia Kaiqun.
I pressed the answer button on the video call interface and heard Xia Kaiqun's voice coming from the video.
"Yi Jian, I just finished dinner with Teacher Liu at the Sucheng Center. You haven't left the company yet, right? Come and pick me up."
Lian Yijian was steering with his left hand and holding his phone with his right. The car was still in the core area of the CBD. Although it was already past ten o'clock in the evening, there were still many cars on the road. He replied, "I'm driving."
Xia Kaiqun did not hang up the video, but waited silently.
When they reached the intersection ahead, the light was red, and Lian Yijian continued, "I've already left the company. You can take a taxi directly back from Sucheng Center."
In Su City or Shanghai, no matter how late or far away, as long as Xia Kaiqun asked, Lian Yijian would make sure his mission was accomplished. This was the first time that he was rejected by Lian Yijian. Xia Kaiqun on the other side of the video was stunned for a moment.
But Xia Kaiqun didn't wait for too long. When the red light turned green, Lian Yijian only said three words, "Hang up first," and hung up the video first.
Just as Lian Yijian hung up, Xia Kaiqun called him again via video. The car was turning, and Lian Yijian kept his hands on the steering wheel, letting his phone keep ringing on the center console.
Almost a minute passed before his phone stopped ringing.
The two did not say a word all the way until they arrived outside the house in Loumen Xiatang that Xia Zhongqin rented.
When Xia Zhongqin got out of the car, Lian Yijian also got out and took her computer bag out from the back seat.
When Lian Yijian handed the computer bag to Xia Zhongqin, he said, "Hurry up and go to bed early tonight."
Taking the computer bag, Xia Zhongqin replied, "Thank you, Mr. Lian, goodbye." Then she walked quickly into the alley.
Lian Yijian did not get in the car immediately, but looked in the direction of the alley. He waited until Xia Zhongqin's back disappeared from his sight before getting in the car and leaving.
When they arrived at the parking lot downstairs of Yonglin New Village, Lian Yijian took the camp bed out of the car and returned to the house rented for them by the headquarters.
The house that the headquarters rented to Wang Dayu and him was over 100 square meters, with three bedrooms, a living room and two balconies.
After moving from the Shanghai Legion to Southern Jiangsu two years ago, he has lived in this house in Yonglin New Village most of the time and rarely returns to his home in Shanghai.
The housekeeper comes to clean the house every Wednesday and Friday. He and Wang Dayu rarely cook at home, so the house is relatively clean and tidy.
After changing his shoes at the entrance of the living room, Lian Yijian took the camp bed and went directly to his bedroom.
His bedroom is thirty square meters, very large and spacious, but the facilities in the room are very simple, with only a single bed, a desk and a chair.
On the desk is a DELL brand large-screen desktop computer and a pot of thriving spider plant.
Lian Yijian placed the camp bed next to his single bed near the window.
The community that the company rented for them was an old one. The houses were multi-story, with the highest floor only on the sixth floor. There was no elevator, and their house was on the fifth floor.
After carrying the camp bed from the first floor to the fifth floor and carrying a computer bag on his back, Lian Yijian's clothes were already soaked.
After putting the camp bed in place, Lian Yijian took his spare clothes and went to the bathroom to take a shower.
When Lian Yijian was hanging clothes on the bedroom balcony, Xia Kaiqun came back.
Xia Kaiqun was holding the grilled lamb skewers he brought back from the Loulan Xinjiang theme restaurant in the center of Suzhou City. He brought them specially for Lian Yijian.
When they first moved into the house in Yonglin New Village, the agent gave them three keys, one each to Lian Yijian and Wang Dayu, and the other one was given by Lian Yijian to Xia Kaiqun.
Lian Yijian, who had finished hanging the clothes, turned around and saw someone standing in the bedroom with a large bag of packaged mutton skewers in his hand, looking at him. Lian Yijian smiled and said, "Mr. Xia is back."
"A guy who values women over friends." As he said that, Xia Kaiqun handed a large bag of mutton skewers in his hand to Lian Yijian.
Lian Yijian smiled, reached out to take the mutton skewers, and asked, "Wu Youbao, your channel, is treating you to a meal today. Is he going to get you for free again?"
Xia Kaiqun slowly pulled out a pack of unopened slim Zhonghua cigarettes from his pocket, slowly opened it, took a cigarette out, put it in his mouth and lit it, then replied: "Fuck you, Yi Jian, I've noticed that your words are getting more and more unpleasant."
Seeing the thin Zhonghua cigarettes that Xia Kaiqun had just taken out, Lian Yijian understood instantly. He sat down on the camp bed, took a skewer of lamb, and began to eat slowly.
Lian Yijian was not actually hungry. If it weren't for his favorite barbecue, he wouldn't be able to eat at this time. He also didn't have the habit of eating midnight snacks. Even if he worked overtime until two or three in the morning, he would just have a cup of coffee to refresh himself and would definitely not eat anything.
After finishing two large skewers of lamb, there were still two left. Lian Yijian couldn't eat any more, so he handed the rest to Xia Kaiqun with his right hand. At the same time, he stretched out his left hand and hooked it at Xia Kaiqun with his left index finger twice, "Give me a Da Zhonghua."
"Go away, let your sister buy it for you. This is for me."
Lian Yijian was confused by the word "old sister", but he soon found the answer from Xia Kaiqun's face who was looking at him with a smirk.
Lian Yijian stuffed the barbecue into Xia Kaiqun's hand, then snatched the cigarette box from him and took a cigarette from it. Instead of smoking it immediately, he returned the cigarette box to Xia Kaiqun who was eating the barbecue he had just handed over, "Don't talk nonsense, it's not what you think."
"What's that?" Xia Kaiqun looked at him with amusement, as if to say, in front of me, a master in the love field, you, a newbie, have nowhere to hide.
Lian Yijian changed the subject and said, "Youbao is looking for you today. Are you going to provide technical support to your partners again?"
Xia Kaiqun flicked his cigarette butt with his fingers and replied, "He said that Mr. Lu from Zhihe Company contacted him and needed a technical director to train their customers and explain the company's latest technology, V8."
Lian Yijian thought of the last time Wu Youbao also went directly past District Manager Wang Dayu to find Xia Kaiqun and asked Xia Kaiqun to help another partner train Ke Kai. As a result, he and Xia Kaiqun were severely criticized by Wang Dayu.
Unexpectedly, less than two months later, Wu Youbao approached Xia Kaiqun again to do something beyond his authority. He hurriedly asked, "You didn't agree this time, did you?"
Xia Kaiqun touched his nose twice and took two deep puffs of his cigarette.
Through Xia Kaiqun's actions, Lian Yijian already knew the answer.
Lian Yijian said with a look of disappointment, "I'm really speechless. You didn't get scolded by Lao Wang last time, okay? It was just a meal and a pack of Zhonghua cigarettes. Next time you want to eat out, I'll pay the bill. If you're craving cigarettes, my Liqun cigarettes are enough. Uncle Xia, please have some backbone. You're going to kill me."
"It's easy to be grateful for what you have received. Yi Jian, why didn't you tell me earlier that you would treat me to a meal and a cigarette?" Xia Kaiqun said slowly with an innocent look on his face.
Being blamed for something else, Lian Yijian didn't want to argue with him anymore. He called Wang Dayu directly and reported it in advance.
Last time Wang Dayu accused him of shielding someone, but this time he reported it in advance, so Wang Dayu had nothing more to say.
After the call, Lian Yijian repeated what Wang Dayu had just said to Xia Kaiqun: "Old Wang just made it clear on the phone that he will talk to Wu Youbao about the training you've given to Zhihe tomorrow."
"In the future, if the channel needs to ask internal employees to provide training to partners, they must report it to him and obtain his approval before doing so. Otherwise, if we find out, we will deal with it seriously. It will not just be as simple as deducting wages, but there is a high possibility of dismissal."
When he heard the word "fired", Xia Kaiqun's expression froze, and the cigarette butt unconsciously slipped from his index finger and fell onto the clean and shiny wooden floor.
Lian Yijian has a slight obsession with cleanliness. Looking at the unextinguished cigarette butt on the wooden floor, Lian Yijian hurriedly got up, opened the floor-to-ceiling window on the balcony, went to the balcony to get a broom, and quickly cleaned it up.
When he sat back on the cot, he saw Xia Kaiqun, whose face still looked a bit dazed. Lian Yijian said, "Next time the channel comes looking for you, just push it to me and let them come to me directly. Don't be a pushover anymore. These days, it's not easy to be a pushover, and it's not worth it."
This morning, on the way back to the Suzhou Metro project team from Shanghai, Xia Kaiqun lay down in the back seat and fell asleep as soon as he got on the bus. He didn't get up until Lian Yijian called him at the B1 parking lot of the Suzhou Metro Transportation Building.
So Lian Yijian didn't ask about him and Guan Yan along the way. At the moment, both of them had nothing to do, so Lian Yijian quickly asked, "Did your relationship with Guan Yan improve after returning this time? How is the child?"
"Next time I go back, I will stay directly at your house, Yi Jian. You just need to leave a room for me. The child has acute bronchitis, and the doctor said that a few days of intravenous drip will be enough." After saying that, Chen Kaiqun took out a set of clean clothes from his computer bag and prepared to go to the bathroom to take a shower. Obviously, he had no intention of continuing the conversation.
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