Chapter 17 Let's not talk about him
【Daily Life of Boarding Student Mian Xiaoli (3)】
Taotao's mother
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I slept with Zhizhi again. They have such a good relationship.
Zhizhi's Dad
Fortunately, Zhizhi is a male. If it was a female, I would have thought it treated Xiaoli as its own cub.
Where is our Taoer?
Taotao's mother
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The printer is in the same place as always. It won't let me print anything.
Humble Xiaozhuo Online Brickwork
Ah? You found Taotao. When did you go back?
Zhizhi's Dad
Alas, we searched all night long and found nothing. We sent group messages to various communities and even put up flyers on telephone poles.
Wow, he came back by himself the next morning, so hungry. He usually disdains food, but he ate a whole bowl of food.
Since then, he has become as well-behaved as a cat. He no longer hits me and is very clingy.
Now, even with the window open, it has no intention of going out.
Taotao's mother
After seeing the dangers of the outside world, home is still the best.
Humble Xiaozhuo Online Brickwork
It's so funny, I've experienced the beatings of society.
How are you today, Lili? Are you being obedient?
Taotao's mother
I'm very well-behaved, don't worry.
Let's have dinner together tonight? Ari's treat.
Zhizhi's Dad
Just last time you kept saying you wanted to eat fish hotpot but didn’t have time.
After get off work, I will go home to pick up Xiaohui and Xiaoli, and then go to your company to pick you up.
Humble Xiaozhuo Online Brickwork
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Great, great, my dull office life suddenly feels motivated!
I won't say any more. Rumor has it that the company is going to lay off employees. I have to work hard and show my performance to get a chance. Otherwise, I will definitely be the one who suffers.
Taotao's mother
My love, come on, for your son’s milk powder money!
Zhizhi's Dad
How did he become a son?
Humble Xiaozhuo Online Brickwork
Don't talk nonsense, that's my Kamisama who is full of merits, superb, jumping around and dominating.
Zhizhi's Dad
Is this how these words are used?
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Zhuo Can is really not sensationalizing.
It refers to the part that says the company is going to lay off employees.
From the second day after he returned to work, rumors spread throughout the company that the company might be on the verge of bankruptcy, and that either some employees would be laid off or everyone would go bankrupt.
Zhuo Can works for a small Internet company. The salary is not high, but the work is not tiring. In this era where Internet people all work 996 and 007, if their company is lucky, they can still work from nine to five, which is really not easy.
Zhuo Can knows that he has always been a person without luck, and he does not expect to get promoted or get rich. He just wants to live a good life. A simple and ordinary life is the real life.
His goal before was to support himself, have enough food to eat and enough clothes to wear, be able to pay the rent and save enough for a down payment, and buy things for his parents during the holidays.
Zhuo Can has never thought about distant and luxurious things like falling in love, getting married, and having children. Living alone, he occasionally feels lonely, but most of the time he is very comfortable.
Now the situation is different. He is inexplicably involved in an escape game. After going through life and death, he returns to the real world and a little god falls from the sky.
No matter how long Mianli can stay here, he must be served with good food and drink.
Forget about it in the short term, but if it goes on for a long time, I can't always bother Xiaohui, and there will be extra expenses for a nursery or even a kindergarten.
Xiaohui is right. This is not the way to take care of a younger brother. This is the way to raise a son.
He is only 24, has no house, no car, no savings, and no partner. He skipped a lot of pre-songs and went straight to raising a child. Why is life so difficult?
Strangely enough, he never considered giving up the sleeping ritual.
It was a little burden, yes, but he had no intention of getting rid of Him.
The company group announced a meeting in an hour, but didn’t reveal the content. All employees were worried: all the previous rumors were likely to come true. Which unlucky guy would be kicked out?
Everyone is in danger.
The air seemed to be filled with dark clouds. Zhuo Can felt depressed and uncomfortable. He stood up and went to the next office to make a copy.
As we walked, we had more and more materials in our hands, all of which we asked him to take with him.
Although Zhuo Can complained a lot in his mind, he was actually a good-tempered and easy-going person. He was also the youngest person with the least experience in the company, and he had unknowingly gotten used to being ordered around.
There's nothing wrong with it, he consoled himself, it's just the inevitable path of being a corporate slave. Once he's old enough to start getting interns, he'll be free.
When I left my workstation, there were only a few thin sheets of paper, but when I came back, there was a huge pile.
Zhuo Can's vision was blocked, and he moved carefully in the aisle, while sending their materials back to Brother Wang and Sister Li.
When turning around, he accidentally swept his clothes against his colleague's cup, and his position was precarious. Seeing that the beautiful glass was about to jump off the table and shatter into pieces, at the critical moment, Zhuo Can caught the cup with a twisted posture that ordinary people could hardly achieve!
He caught it!
Speed 10, posture 10, appearance 10 - full marks overall!
Applause of worship suddenly broke out all around.
If it were in the past, with Zhuo Can's bad luck, this cup would have been broken into pieces and turned into dust long ago.
But today, he actually caught it, which was simply a spectacle in the office.
Colleagues and Zhuo Can himself were all shocked. Could it be that the unlucky guy's luck was about to change?
An unprecedented ecstasy rose from the bottom of his stomach. Zhuo Can felt that he had not only caught a cup, but had grasped the future in his hands.
Is his luck about to change? Is it? Is it?
Zhuo Can put the cup back on the table, his heart pounding. Amidst the prolonged applause from his colleagues, he continued to distribute copy paper.
Happiness is always short-lived.
Unfortunately, no one paid attention to the water dripping from the cup just now. Zhuo Can, who had impaired vision, stepped on it and fell down with the documents, and the papers fluttered like snow.
Zhuo Can: “…”
colleague:"……"
Otherwise, he would be said to be a pure unlucky guy.
There is no such thing as good luck coming your way. Fairy tales are all lies.
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Meetings are always long and boring, going around in circles without getting to the point. As long as the leader is happy, that's all that matters.
Zhuo Can sat in the corner, secretly dozing off.
Ever since he brought Mian Li back home, he hadn't been able to sleep through the night. Zhuo Can deeply understood what Qi Rui had said before about the feeling of two cats doing parkour together at night.
A cat can lock the door and correct its sleep and rest, but can a fairy lock it? It’s useless even if it is locked!
If he gets angry, he might even destroy the door and tear down the house, which would be a waste of time.
Just lay off employees. There’s no point in being afraid. It’s better to get more sleep so that you have enough energy to eat hot pot in the evening.
Zhuo Can comforted himself in this way, but he was actually so bold as to fall asleep in the meeting.
He was woken by the whispers of people around him.
“So handsome!”
"You look so young."
"It is said that he just returned from studying abroad for a doctorate, with two degrees."
"Is this someone who grew up according to the template of a dream lover? Can we mass-produce it on a factory assembly line?"
"It's not that I have any problem with our company, but it's really a waste of his talent for him to be in charge."
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Zhuo Can opened his eyes hazily and secretly wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes: "Where were we talking about? Are they starting to lay off employees? Are you including me?"
“Wake up, wake up, no more layoffs!”
Zhuo Can said sleepily: "Ah...ah?"
“We’re not downsizing, we’re expanding!”
"No, no, we were swallowed up."
"Annexation sounds so bad. Acquisition, it's acquisition."
Zhuo Can was confused: "What happened?"
"We were swallowed up by the Xinyue Group—no, acquired!"
No matter how little you pay attention to the market, it is impossible that no one does not know about Xinyue, the Internet giant.
That is the place that countless top students dream of, and they will try their best to get in. Xinyue's offer seems to represent a passport to success.
Their small and inconspicuous company was unexpectedly acquired. Overnight, they went from being an unknown small workshop employee to a member of Xinyue, which was like a sparrow turning into a phoenix.
Zhuo Can's brain was still slowly processing the information that subverted his worldview after waking up. He raised his head and glanced at the new leader who was speaking on the stage.
His last name is Lu and his given name is Song. He looks tall, rich and handsome, totally different from someone like him... well, not short, poor or ugly, but just a nobody in the world.
Zhuo Can's world is filled with ordinary people like him. Qi Rui comes from a wealthy family, and Xiao Hui can earn her own money. The two of them have the best conditions in the circle he has come into contact with.
And this Mr. Lu, who shines brightly wherever he stands, is someone from a completely different dimension that he would never even think about.
This is what Zhuo Can thought before his boss said the next sentence.
Then the boss said that a department was to be split up, and part of it would be directly under Manager Lu.
Zhuo Can still felt that it had nothing to do with him.
He didn't pay any attention to what his boss said next.
Until everyone's eyes, including Mr. Lu, were focused on him.
Zhuo Can touched the back of his head, confused: "...What's going on?"
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"The result is, uh, it's so spicy. Why does a fish hotpot need to be so spicy..."
"Didn't you ask for a shabu-shabu hotpot? Do you want me to get you some drinks?"
"No, I'll just drink water. Any ice?"
"Yes, I'll give you some."
"So what's the result? What's the result?"
Zhuo Can's lips were red, and he gasped for air from the spiciness. He took a moment to explain to them the sudden incident that he still couldn't understand: "I... became the new department head directly under the new CEO."
Qi Rui's mouth opened into a circle: "Oh my god, Caner, this is too lucky, it's like taking off from the ground!"
Zhuo Can took a gulp of ice water. "I'm so lucky I'm still in shock. It's like I've been handed a script by some winner in life."
Xiaohui laughed heartily and raised her glass. "Congratulations! Let's have a toast! A promotion and a raise, the next step is to reach the pinnacle of life!"
Qi Rui added: "And marry a beautiful, rich woman."
The child next to him, who was not even as tall as the table, couldn't eat the spicy hot pot, so he tied a pink bib with a bunny pattern and drank pumpkin porridge with a spoon in a baby chair.
At this time, she raised her head, her lips stained with custard, and asked, "What is Bai Fu Mei?"
Xiao Hui patted Qi Rui and said, "Don't talk nonsense in front of children."
"Is this considered misleading young people?" Qi Rui felt wronged and explained to Mian Li, "It's just that there is a beautiful sister or a beautiful aunt who is with your Cancan."
After he finished speaking, he realized that his tone sounded a bit like asking a child from a single-parent family whether he wanted a new mother.
Fortunately, Mian Li wasn't that sensitive and didn't quite understand the difference between the lines: "And then?"
"And then? Then...this sister will also live in your house."
"Why?"
"Well, because she and Chan-er are going to become a family."
The little boy finally sensed the danger and frowned deeply, looking confused and a little frightened: "Will Cancan not want me anymore?"
Zhuo Can choked on a mouthful of tripe and coughed for a long time.
Xiao Hui glared at Qi Rui: "I told you not to talk nonsense."
Zhuo Can drank half a glass of water before he could suppress the burning sensation in his mouth. He turned around and wiped the soup stains from the corner of his mouth with paper: "No, I won't give up yours. You are the almighty Kami-chan."
"Really?"
"Of course it's true." Zhuo Can raised his right hand. "I swear to God... no, to you, I will never abandon you."
Even though it was a little sloppy, it was the oath he made before God.
The three adults used a lot of coaxing and deception to finally bring the topic over.
Zhuo Can, who was originally excited about his promotion, felt complicated.
In fact, Mianli did not tell Zhuo Can about the appearance of Oriel and other gods' messengers that day.
But at this moment, Zhuo Can looked at the child who lowered his head to drink the fragrant soup again, and an indescribable melancholy welled up in his heart.
Long before he had the chance to start a family of his own, the little god would be the one to abandon him and return to another world.
The author has something to say:
Little Fairy: You don’t need to be polite anymore QmQ
Humble Human: No matter how you look at it, I'm the one who's more likely to be abandoned by you =皿=
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