Tong Xuelu went to the restaurant after she had finished her company affairs, not too early or too late.
To develop and occupy foreign markets, the most effective way is to attend various exhibitions when the Internet is not yet well developed.
She plans to attend the Autumn Fair, and before that she has to prepare many things, including products, packaging, and recruiting foreign trade personnel. There are many things waiting for her to arrange. When she
arrived at the restaurant, Jiang Junli, the restaurant manager, came up to her: "Director Tong, you are here?"
Tong Xuelu nodded: "Are your cousins here?"
Jiang Junli nodded respectfully: "Yes, Comrade Fang is here too, and is now in the VIP room."
Tong Xuelu didn't expect that she was the last one to arrive, so she quickly quickened her pace and went over.
After opening the door of the VIP room, laughter came out from inside -
"Jingyuan, how do you take care of yourself? I heard that your figure will be out of shape and your skin will get spots after giving birth, but you haven't changed at all. Instead, you look younger."
Fang Jingyuan laughed like a fool: "You are the first one to compliment me, but what I said is nothing. Xuelu is amazing. She gave birth to twins and still looks like a girl. You will know when you see her later. Others are getting older and older, but she is getting younger and younger, and she is still so capable. I envy her to death."
"Really? Then I have to open my eyes and take a good look later..."
Before she finished speaking, Jiang Baihui raised her head and saw Tong Xuelu pushing the door and walking in.
She was stunned for a moment, a flash of surprise flashed in her eyes, and then she pulled her red lips with lipstick on them and smiled: "Xuelu, you are finally here! We were just talking about you."
Tong Xuelu looked at her and walked in: "Sorry, I have some things to deal with in the company, so I am late."
Jiang Baihui looked more mature, with makeup on her face, bright lipstick, and big waves in her hair, looking very powerful.
She was wearing a bright red long skirt, which was above the knee, showing her slender figure perfectly.
Her dress was very avant-garde and fashionable in this era. In recent years of reform and opening up, many people still wear skirts below the knee.
When Tong Xuelu was looking at Jiang Baihui, Jiang Baihui was also looking at her.
Before, when she heard Fang Jingyuan say that she was getting younger and more beautiful, she thought Fang Jingyuan was flattering Tong Xuelu, but she didn't expect it to be true.
Tong Xuelu wore a white waist-length dress, her long straight black hair was draped behind her, she wore pearl earrings, her lips were red without makeup, her eyebrows were green without makeup, she looked elegant and moving.
Fang Jingyuan was right, Tong Xuelu was more beautiful and younger than before, she dressed up specially today, but now compared with Tong Xuelu, she felt that she looked deliberate and vulgar.
Jiang Baihui's eyes flashed, and she smiled: "I'm not late, the time is just right, and you are a busy person, it's understandable that you are late."
Tong Xuelu glanced at her and smiled at Fang Yan, as if the latter sentence was just a joke, and there was no weirdness.
When Liang Tianyi saw her coming in, he stood up and said, "Hello, Comrade Tong, long time no see."
Tong Xuelu looked at him and said with a smile, "Long time no see, welcome back to China!" "
Thank you!"
Compared with the enthusiastic Jiang Baihui, Liang Tianyi looked much calmer.
Tong Xuelu sat down next to Fang Jingyuan, glanced at the table and said, "Why didn't you order anything? Order whatever you want, don't be polite."
Then she handed the menu to Jiang Baihui and Liang Tianyi.
Liang Tianyi declined twice, but failed to refuse, so he had to order a vegetarian dish.
Jiang Baihui ordered a meat dish and a dessert, Fang Jingyuan ordered two meat dishes, and although it was enough for four people, Tong Xuelu still ordered an extra chicken ginseng soup and steamed fish.
There were fish, meat, vegetables, desserts, and fruits, and the table was filled to the brim, which was enough to show the host's enthusiasm and generosity.
Fang Jingyuan was amazed and said, "As expected of a big boss, you are really rich and generous. It seems that I am right to come here for a free meal
." Tong Xuelu glanced at her sideways and said, "What do you mean I am rich and generous? Although this welcoming banquet is held in my restaurant, the cost is shared by both of us."
Fang Jingyuan screamed, "Wow, I just praised you for being generous and you immediately slapped yourself in the face. It is true that the richer people are, the more they take."
Tong Xuelu picked up a piece of green vegetables with chopsticks and nodded, "Congratulations on finally discovering this truth."
Fang Jingyuan couldn't help rolling her eyes at her thick skin.
Jiang Baihui sat opposite them and felt a sense of being ignored when she saw the two of them talking to each other.
She put down her chopsticks, stood up and drank tea instead of wine and said to Tong Xuelu: "Xuelu, Jingyuan, we postponed the day before yesterday without notifying you. I am really sorry. I will use tea instead of wine to apologize to you!"
Liang Tianyi heard her say this and stood up as well: "Comrade Tong, Comrade Fang, I am really sorry. I was delayed by some things at that time and didn't have time to inform you."
Fang Jingyuan blinked and asked curiously: "I asked you the reason just now, but you didn't tell me. You said you would wait until Xuelu came. Can you tell me now?"
Jiang Baihui showed a shy look on her face: "I am pregnant. Before going to the airport, I suddenly vomited uncontrollably. At first I didn't take it seriously, but when I got to the airport and smelled the gasoline, I vomited again."
"Tianyi was worried about my health, so he suggested to postpone my return. I wanted to hold it in, but later on, in addition to morning sickness, I also had bleeding, so I had no choice but to postpone my visit to the hospital."
"Seeing a doctor in Germany is not as troublesome as it is in China. You need to make an appointment by phone in advance. I had a temporary problem, so I had to queue up at the clinic. Because the doctors were not available, we waited in line for several hours before it was our turn."
"After various tests, the doctor confirmed that I was pregnant. Tianyi and I were so excited and shocked to hear the news, and it was already late, so we forgot to call the school to inform you. It was our negligence. I'm sorry!"
Fang Jingyuan said, "It turns out that you are pregnant. Congratulations. You have been married for four years. Now that you are back in the country, it's time to have a baby."
Tong Xuelu glanced at her belly: "You are bleeding. Why don't you rest here for a few days before coming back?"
The smile on Jiang Baihui's face froze for a moment: "Because Tianyi is in a hurry to come back to report, I'm worried about affecting his schedule, and I know my own body well."
Tong Xuelu nodded: "Then take good care of the baby."
Then everyone drank tea instead of wine, and the matter was over.
Halfway through the banquet, everyone put down their chopsticks.
Jiang Baihui asked, "By the way, why didn't you bring the twins here today, and your daughter, Jingyuan? I've only seen their photos so far."
Tong Xuelu: "The child is too noisy. You're back home now, and you'll see her in the future."
Fang Jingyuan nodded: "When the child is well behaved, you want to give her the whole world, but once she starts crying, you want to stuff her back into your stomach and pretend you've never given birth."
Jiang Baihui touched her stomach and stuck out her tongue, saying, "Is it so scary? I don't dare to give birth anymore after hearing this. Yes... "Xuelu, do you still have the diapers for your twins?"
Tong Xuelu nodded: "Yes, what's the matter?"
Jiang Baihui smiled and said: "I heard that diapers used by children can bring good luck. You have a son and a daughter in one pregnancy. I don't know how many people are jealous of you. So I want to ask you for two diapers used by your twins to see if I can share in your good luck and have a son and a daughter too."
Compared with Jiang Baihui who looked full of maternal love, Liang Tianyi who was sitting next to her was a little absent-minded throughout the whole process. Even when talking about children, he seemed to lack interest.
Tong Xuelu thought he was a little strange, but didn't think much about it: "The diapers for the two children are still there, I'll get them to you later."
Jiang Baihui waved her hand: "No, I'll just go to your house to get them, and visit your two little babies by the way."
Thinking of the two children, the lines on Tong Xuelu's face softened and she nodded.
Jiang Baihui suddenly changed the subject and said apologetically: "Director Wen is not angry about our postponement, right?"
Tong Xuelu: "If he is not angry, and he is not the director of the Institute of Mechanics now."
Jiang Baihui showed a shocked look: "I heard you say that Professor Wen was sick and took a year off. Didn't he continue to serve as the director after returning?"
Liang Tianyi, who was absent-minded, also raised his head and looked at her.
Tong Xuelu shook her head: "Yes, he did not continue to serve as the director, he changed his research direction."
Jiang Baihui: "What is that research?"
Tong Xuelu: "I don't know much about that, you also know that the base's affairs are confidential."
Wen Rugui had mentioned to Jiang Baihui in her previous letter that he would rest for a year, but she did not mention the change of research direction.
She was not lying, the base's affairs, even if they were very ordinary things, could not be spread casually.
Jiang Baihui seemed not to have heard what she said next, and continued: "It's a pity that he can't be the director. I heard that if you change your research direction, you have to start from scratch. Then isn't Professor Wen an ordinary scientific researcher now?"
Tong Xuelu smiled and said, "Yes, but we are all working for the country. The position is not important."
Jiang Baihui frowned and said, "I can't agree with you. Serving the country is of course important, but promotion and salary increase are equally important. Professor Wen has served the base for so many years. I thought this time he would return to the base. He must have been promoted to vice president, but he was demoted instead of promoted. People can't help but feel sorry for him. "
Liang Tianyi frowned and pulled her clothes: "Don't talk nonsense!"
Jiang Baihui: "Where did I talk nonsense? Besides, Xuelu and Jingyuan are not outsiders. I just said it in front of them. I won't say a word outside. Xuelu, Jingyuan, you won't tell others what I said, right?"
Fang Jingyuan shook her head: "Of course not."
Tong Xuelu felt that Jiang Baihui's personality had changed a little bit.
Before going abroad, she was a person who was good at dancing with long sleeves. She always did a good job in saying what to say in what occasion. Why did she become so angry after working in the diplomatic embassy for four years?
She looked like a silly and sweet girl. The change from her previous personality was too big, which made Tong Xuelu feel inconsistent.
But facing the other party's piercing eyes, she still smiled and nodded.
Jiang Baihui glanced at Liang Tianyi: "You see, I said they would not betray me. The three of us are best friends and best friends. You will not understand the feelings between best friends."
Liang Tianyi was not a good talker. He looked embarrassed when she said that.
The meal lasted for more than an hour before it ended. Jiang Baihui made an appointment to go to her house to get diapers in two days.
**
Tong Xuelu and Fang Jingyuan's homes were in one direction, and the Liang family was in the opposite direction. Everyone went their separate ways.
After walking a long way, Fang Jingyuan shook her head and said: "I used to think Baihui talked a lot, but I didn't expect that she talked even more after going abroad."
At the banquet, she was the only one who kept talking.
Talking about foreign scenery, German culture and customs, and constantly asking about what happened in the past few years.
Like a sparrow, he kept chattering, and she felt that her ears were almost irritated.
Tong Xuelu brushed the loose hair in front of her forehead behind her ears: "Maybe no one talks to her abroad."
Fang Jingyuan laughed heartlessly: "It's possible. When she first went abroad, didn't she say that she couldn't get along with the people in the diplomatic embassy? It's really hard for her to stay in a place where she is unfamiliar with for four years."
Tong Xuelu responded.
At this time, the atmosphere between Liang Tianyi and Jiang Baihui was not very good.
Liang Tianyi kept walking forward with his head down, and Jiang Baihui followed behind him in high heels.
Liang Tianyi looked very serious, and his steps were very big, gradually leaving Jiang Baihui behind.
Jiang Baihui was so angry that she stopped walking.
Liang Tianyi didn't notice it at first, and he walked for a long time before he realized that there was no one around him.
He stopped and looked back, only to see Jiang Baihui standing more than 200 meters away from him, her cheeks puffed up with anger.
Liang Tianyi walked back, licked his dry lips and said, "Why don't you leave?"
Jiang Baihui looked at him with her watery eyes: "My feet hurt, I can't walk!"
Liang Tianyi looked down at her shoes: "I told you not to go out in high heels. You have a child now, and no one in the country wears such high heels."
Jiang Baihui pouted her red lips and whispered, "That's why I said don't go back to China. The economy there is so good, and they pay so much. Why do you want to come back and live such a miserable life?"
Liang Tianyi glanced around and said in a low voice: "Don't say this again in the future. If someone hears it, it will be bad for both of us!"
"The country spent money and effort to send me abroad and train me to become a talent. Now that I have returned from my studies, I naturally want to serve the country!"
Jiang Baihui wanted to say more, but Liang Tianyi looked at her seriously, so she had to swallow the rest of her words.
**
Xiao Jiaming and his siblings finally returned home.
When Xiao Ranran saw her aunt coming back, she immediately abandoned her aloof personality and ran over with her short legs: "Aunt, hug me."
Xiao Mianmian is twelve years old this year and is taller than her peers. It is not a problem for her to hold a three-year-old child.
She picked up her niece and kissed her twice on the face, making Xiao Ranran blush with joy.
"Aunt is beautiful again."
Xiao Mianmian teased her: "Is it aunt who is beautiful, or your mother?"
Xiao Ranran tilted her head and thought for a while: "Both are beautiful."
Xiao Mianmian: "How can they both be beautiful? There must be one who is more beautiful."
Xiao Ranran looked around and there was no one else, and whispered: "Aunt is beautiful."
Tong Jiaxin suddenly appeared from nowhere: "Okay, I heard it all, I'm going to tell your mother."
Xiao Ranran was immediately anxious: "Uncle, you are bad, you eavesdropped on other people's conversations!"
Tong Jiaxin pinched her little face: "Then kiss your uncle, and your uncle won't tell your mother."
Xiao Ranran snorted, buried her head in her aunt's shoulder, and said in a baby voice: "Dad said not to kiss stinky men."
Tong Jiaxin: "..."
At this moment, a burst of laughter came from outside.
"Xiao Ranran, you are right, your uncle is a stinky man, don't kiss him!"
As soon as the voice fell, a tall girl walked in.
The girl has fair skin, short hair, long legs, round eyes, and looks full of youth.
When Tong Jiaxin saw her, the tip of his ears turned red for no reason, but fortunately, his skin was darker, so no one noticed.
Xiao Mianmian: "Sister Zhuzhu, you came as soon as I came back. You didn't ask Douya to wait outside, did you?"
Wei Zhuzhu grinned and said, "You are smart. Where are the autographs you asked for me? Have you brought them back?"
Wei Zhuzhu is fifteen years old this year and will take the college entrance examination next year. She is usually busy with her studies, but as a star-chasing girl, studying is not as important as the autographs of idols.
"I brought it back."
As she said that, she took out the signed postcard, which was signed by the popular actor Gu Bai.
Wei Zhuzhu screamed with excitement.
Tong Jiaxin curled his lips and whispered: "It's just a photo, is it worth being so happy?"
Wei Zhuzhu glared at him: "What do you know!! Gu Bai is my idol. If I can meet him in person, I would be willing to reduce my life by ten years!"
Tong Jiaxin curled his lips again, looking indifferent.
At this time, a shout came from outside: "Selling fried dough twists, delicious Jinshi fried dough twists, if they are not delicious, you can pay."
Wei Zhuzhu's eyes lit up: "I haven't eaten fried dough twists for a long time, I'll go out and buy some."
As soon as the voice fell, Tong Jiaxin said: "Xiao Ranran must want to eat it too, so I'll go buy it."
Xiao Ranran: ???
She didn't say she wanted to eat it.
But Tong Jiaxin had already run out, chasing the speaker selling fried dough twists.
"Wait, I want to buy some!"
The old man in front didn't hear him and continued to ride forward on his bike.
Tong Jiaxin chased him desperately, and finally caught up with the old man selling fried dough twists after chasing him for two streets.
He was panting and was about to say he wanted two kilograms of fried dough twists when he heard the horn in front of the old man's bike sound: "Collecting waste, waste paper, waste electrical appliances--"
At the same time, the shouting of a fried dough twist seller came from another street in the distance.
Tong Jiaxin: "..."
He chased the wrong old man QAQ
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