Chapter 6: Hot Steak
Xu Mo planned to pick up the Polaroid camera after get off work in the evening, around seven or eight o'clock.
So Zhao Tingyu left the company at four o'clock in the afternoon.
Zhao Tingyu's company mainly engages in franchise business. Due to the resources left by his parents, it has a monopoly position in the market. Although it is small in scale, it makes a lot of money quietly.
He is the boss, and no one dares to say anything even if he leaves early.
Xiao Zhang, the newly employed receptionist, met the boss for the first time and was surprised that the boss of this small company was so young and handsome.
"Sister Mei..." Xiao Zhang followed Zhao Tingyu's figure closely, asking indirectly, "Is Mr. Zhao in a hurry to go home? To pick up the child?"
Sister Mei glanced at her. She had seen Xiao Zhang's little tricks many times. In recent years, many young girls in the company were not interested in work and only wanted to become the boss's wife.
Once, she went to Mr. Zhao's office to deliver some materials, and she ran into a female receptionist wearing black stockings trying to sit on his lap. Sister Mei was embarrassed and quickly retreated.
Although it is not known what happened between Mr. Zhao and that woman afterwards, the female receptionist resigned soon after.
Sister Mei said directly: "Mr. Zhao doesn't have any children, but he has a girlfriend who he has been dating for eight years."
Xiao Zhang instantly looked like a frosted eggplant, his head hanging down. "Okay."
Although she is obsessed with looks, she also has a mental obsession with cleanliness.
I can't accept that my boyfriend had been with another woman for eight years.
Eight years, two thousand nine hundred and twenty days and nights, how many entanglements must there be.
Xiao Zhang asked curiously, "Did Mr. Zhao and his girlfriend have a school romance? Childhood sweethearts?"
Sister Mei said, "It should be."
"Oh," Xiao Zhang said, "It's been eight years. They're probably getting married soon. A childhood sweetheart relationship like this is great. You know everything about each other, and both sets of parents know each other. There won't be any mother-in-law and daughter-in-law conflicts..."
When Xiao Zhang mentioned Zhao Tingyu's family, Sister Mei's expression changed slightly: "Get back to work and stop asking about the boss's affairs."
Before driving, Zhao Tingyu ordered a takeaway and bought two fresh steaks, rosemary, cherry tomatoes and asparagus.
He went home and started watching video tutorials online.
[This is how you fry steak so it won’t burn]
How to control the heat of steak
Zhao Tingyu used kitchen paper to absorb the moisture, washed the tomatoes, and took out the garlic from the refrigerator.
At about six fifty, he turned on the range hood, spread peanut oil on the bottom of the pot, and put the steak in.
Before leaving get off work, Xu Mo received a temporary task from Manager Wu to help prepare a PPT material.
Manager Wu told Xu Mo the launch meeting of the Landa Group project, which would be held at 8 a.m. next Monday.
"Mr. Lin was generally quite satisfied with our situation when he came last. The contract has been signed, and the first payment has been deposited into our company account," Manager Wu said to Xu Mo. "Landa Group takes this project very seriously. The kick-off meeting will be held at Landa Group headquarters next Monday. Not only will Mr. Lin be present, but Mr. Fei, the chairman of Landa Group, will also be in attendance. So, we must prepare the materials for the kick-off meeting before this Sunday."
Xu Mo calculated that there was less than a week left until the launch meeting.
She suddenly felt the urgency of the matter.
Manager Wu sent Xu Mo the materials for the bid submitted to Landa Group some time ago and talked to her about his ideas for revisions.
Xu Mo held the mouse and quickly reassembled the modules on the bidding materials.
When Zou Keyin was fetching water, she passed by Xu Mo's workstation and glanced at her screen.
"Momo, has the Blue University project been confirmed to begin?"
Xu Mo didn't look back, her fingers clacking on the keyboard: "Yes."
Zou Kexin said, "Come on."
I was supposed to get off work at 6:30, but because I was preparing PPT materials, my get off work time was naturally delayed.
Xu Mo sent the prepared [Landa Group Launch Meeting Materials V1].PPT file to Manager Wu's email. After receiving Manager Wu's OK feedback, she got up and packed her things.
When I looked at my phone, I realized it was already half past eight.
She paused and suddenly remembered that she had made an appointment with Zhao Tingyu to go to his house to pick up the Polaroid camera tonight.
She quickly packed her things and rushed out to press the elevator button while calling a taxi.
She opened the call log and found no missed call from Zhao Tingyu.
He hasn't called her yet, nor has he sent her a message on WeChat.
Xu Mo breathed a sigh of relief, and her anxious mood calmed down a little.
But another kind of faint loss welled up in my heart.
She hadn't been there for so long, and he wouldn't call her or worry about whether something had happened to her.
She sometimes thought that even if she really died in an accident, Zhao Tingyu would probably be the last person to know.
It was almost nine o'clock in the evening when we arrived at Zhao Tingyu's house.
His house has one apartment per floor. When Xu Mo came out of the elevator, she covered the fingerprint lock with her thumb without thinking and pressed down her wrist.
With the sound of the door lock that meant it was successfully unlocked, Xu Mo opened the door of Zhao Tingyu's house.
She realized later that Zhao Tingyu seemed to have forgotten to move her fingerprint into the door lock system, and with her current identity, it was not appropriate for her to directly open the door of Zhao Tingyu's house.
Walking from the entrance towards the house, Xu Mo saw Zhao Tingyu sitting on the sofa looking at his mobile phone.
He was wearing a light grey pullover sweatshirt and black casual trousers, looking relaxed.
Zhao Tingyu glanced at her calmly, and Xu Mo said, "Sorry, I'm a little late because I worked overtime today."
"Yeah." Zhao Tingyu stood up and nodded in the direction of the restaurant. "I'll put the things there for you."
Xu Mo nodded and said okay, then went to the dining table to pick up her Polaroid camera and put it in her bag.
"Then I'll go first." Xu Mo said.
Zhao Tingyu was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Have you eaten?"
Xu Mo was stunned for a moment and thought, is Zhao Tingyu going to treat her to a meal?
It's already nine o'clock in the evening. If her stomach is still the iron stomach it was before she started working, it would be fine.
But after working for a few years, her stomach and intestines had become very fragile.
Xu Mo had no appetite and shook her head, saying, "I'm not eating tonight."
After she finished speaking, Zhao Tingyu didn't say anything else, so Xu Mo went straight to the entrance and changed her shoes.
"By the way." Before leaving, Xu Mo suddenly turned to Zhao Tingyu and said, "Remember to delete my fingerprint from the door lock app."
“…”
Xu Mo opened the door and left.
Zhao Tingyu took a deep breath and his shoulders sank.
I feel inexplicably irritated.
He returned to the kitchen, looked at the steak heating up in the pan, was silent for a moment, and sneered.
Then dump the steak into the trash.
After Xu Mo left, Zhao Tingyu took a shower and lay on the bed playing games.
He fought in the bushes, focusing on ferocity.
Despite winning five games in a row, the emptiness in his heart still could not be relieved.
The yellow light from the ceiling lamp was inexplicably dazzling.
Throwing the cell phone on the mattress beside him, Zhao Tingyu raised his hand and covered his eyes with his arm.
Is Xu Mo serious this time?
Over the years, Xu Mo has broken up with him many times.
The most serious incident was when she came to his city to find him when she was still in college.
She must have been suppressed for a long time, and she asked him cryingly why she didn't go to college in the same city with him. They had already agreed to go to Guangzhou together, and he could have applied to a university in Guangzhou, so why did he have to go to a different city with her?
He was in a bad mood at the time, so he just looked at her coldly without saying anything.
She rushed out with her suitcase, and he didn't go to look for her at that time.
Two hours later, Xu Mo came back by herself.
He didn't explain the incident later. The next day, Xu Mo seemed to be fine again. She greeted him with a smile and told him which mall they were going to today, what special dishes they were going to eat, where they were going to watch the Happy Twist performance, and which cat cafe they were going to the day after tomorrow.
Zhao Tingyu played games for a while and fell asleep when he was tired.
At the same time, Xu Mo returned home.
Just after taking a shower, she opened her phone and found that Lin Jingchuan had sent her a WeChat message.
[Is it convenient? Consultant Xu.]
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