"Forget about those crooked ways, just hurry up and collect the loan."
Tao Ping smiled easily, lowered his head and took a sip of tea.
"You and Wan Cheng are old classmates, and you know Chairman Wan Lao very well. For a company as big as Marriott Group, how difficult is it to repay a loan of 100 million!"
After saying that, Tao Ping looked at Li Ji.
He had a smile on his face and a naive demeanor, just like the Maitreya Buddha who saves all sentient beings.
After standing still for a moment, Li Ji suddenly felt calm.
God is going to destroy Cao!
Li Ji inexplicably thought of the Three Kingdoms.
"Okay, I understand," Li Ji stood up as if waking up from a dream, with a calm look on his face, "Thank you, Mr. Tao!"
"it's okay no problem......"
Tao Ping smiled magnanimously, like a almsgiver facing a beggar.
Li Ji turned to leave, but was stopped by Tao Ping: "Hey, Xiao Li, wait a minute..."
Li Ji was stunned, stopped, and looked at Tao Ping doubtfully.
"Let me ask you something..." Tao Ping stood up, with a kind and friendly smile on his face again.
"You tell me, I'm listening..." Li Ji endured the depression in his heart.
"You know Han Mei, right?"
"Han Mei?" Li Ji was stunned.
"Well, from the Rural Credit Cooperative, the daughter of Director Han of the Banking Regulatory Bureau..."
As Tao Ping spoke, he looked at Li Ji with good eyes.
"We know her, my junior sister from the university, from the same department."
Li Ji answered simply.
"Oh, oh..." Tao Ping nodded, thinking. After a pause, he tapped the table a few times with his fingers, and then asked, "Is your girlfriend a teacher at the Finance School?"
"Yes," Li Ji spread his hands, a little puzzled, "My college classmates and everyone in the industry know about it."
"Oh, oh, yes, yes..." Tao Ping's eyes were long and seemed to have deep meaning.
"Is something wrong, Mr. Tao?"
Li Ji glanced sideways.
"No, it's okay...just ask..."
Tao Ping shook his head and picked up the tea cup. His hand stayed there but he didn't drink.
"If nothing happens, I'll go, Mr. Tao."
After Li Ji finished speaking, he walked out without waiting for Tao Ping to say anything else.
Back in his office, Li Ji's upset mood gradually calmed down. He leaned on the sofa to rest for a while, and suddenly he wasn't so scared anymore.
I have fought against the world, and success or failure is not in my hands.
It's going to rain and my mother wants to remarry, so let it be.
God will not starve the blind house sparrow to death. The world is so big, is there no place for me, Li Ji, to stand?
For a moment, he suddenly felt that leaving CCB might not be all bad. Maybe we will see a bigger world outside.
When he graduated, many people persuaded Li Ji to stay in the provincial capital, and a large and well-known state-owned enterprise in the province also sent him a letter of intent.
But Li Ji came back because he couldn't worry about his mother. One of him and his sister always wants to be with his mother.
Many students stayed in the provincial capital after graduation and seemed to be doing well. On the contrary, I have been living in this small town for these years, feeling a bit like "the wife and children are on the hot bed", and I feel like a frog in the well.
Don't forget, he was the outstanding graduate of the school back then, ranking first in the comprehensive evaluation of his grade.
Sometimes, it's not always fun to be content. In the seemingly peaceful life, there may be crises of all sizes hidden.
When it rained heavily, I realized I didn’t bring an umbrella. When I was seriously ill, I realized that my seemingly bulging wallet would become as flat as a girl's chest in an instant.
Maybe my life was going too smoothly in the past, and I never thought that one day I would face the risk of unemployment.
But in a cookie-cutter life, how many ordinary people can have the foresight to prepare for a rainy day? I'm afraid even gods can't predict the future.
However, if a person has no long-term worries, he must have immediate worries. What the elders said is right.
However, if the tree is moved, it will die, but if the person is moved, it will live.
Thinking about it, Li Ji's heart was filled with hope. For a moment, I couldn't wait to leave.
He walked around the room, opened the tin cabinet, and began to clean out the contents.
After working for a long time, I left behind a few professional books that I might need to read later. I put the remaining dozen books and some printed business materials together and sorted them out a little. Then I picked them up and went to the next room to hand them over. To Xiao Zhu.
"Xiao Zhu, these are for you..."
Li Ji said, stacking books and materials on the corner of the table.
"Head, what's going on?"
Xiao Zhu was surprised. He looked at the things on the table and Li Ji's face, feeling a little confused.
"It's nothing," Li Ji smiled slightly, "I have nothing to do, so I took care of it and you can see if it's of use."
"Well," Xiao Zhu flipped through it casually, with a happy face, "I have always wanted to read these books, but I can't buy them anywhere. Now it's better..."
At this point, Xiao Zhu suddenly realized something and stopped suddenly. He looked at Li Ji steadily: "Boss, what happened?"
"It's okay, what can happen?"
Li Ji stepped forward, patted Xiao Zhu's shoulder and smiled lightly.
"Boss, please don't blind me!" Xiao Zhu pointed to the books and materials on the table, "Then what do you mean..."
"It's not interesting!" Li Ji reached out and poked Xiao Zhu, "I just don't need it anymore. I'll give it to you to see. It's better than selling waste paper..."
Xiao Zhu stared at Li Ji with disbelief.
"Keep whatever you need; throw whatever is useless into the trash can for me."
After speaking, Li Ji clapped his hands, turned around and walked out. Xiao Zhu was left alone, with a look of shock on his face and full of questions.
The days are still passing by...
Li Ji stayed in the office most of the time.
Oddly enough, there was always a constant stream of people coming to Li Ji to discuss business and chat with him. But now, none of these people can be seen.
Li Ji felt a little sad when he thought about it.
In the past few years at CCB, except for Xiao Zhu, no one in the bank seemed to be close to me. Daily interactions are mostly limited to business and are mostly general colleague relationships.
Maybe I am too rigid and have not learned to be diplomatic and flexible.
When the water is extremely clear, there are no fish; when people observe it, there are no disciples.
Society is a big dye vat.
There are no absolutely good people or absolutely bad people in this world. Using "good" and "bad" as standards to divide people in the world is a "truth" that only children have.
The adult world is full of complexity and variables. Only in the eyes of a child can there be absolute "good or bad", pure "black and white", an either/or distinction.
The person who was good to you in the past may change his face at some point. In the workplace, believing easily can be a disaster.
Li Ji was thinking wildly, free and boundless, like the little John Christopher in Romain Rolland's novel.
He felt that the time was long and unbearably boring; at the same time, he was very scared, worried that that day would come soon.
He has already thought about it.
No matter how embarrassing it is, no matter how hard it is to say it, I still have to go to the provincial capital to find my sister. After all, there were still few people there who knew him, and it was estimated that no one would care about a young man from a small town.
As for the future, there is also Liao Ying. Li Ji has not yet fully thought about their marriage, let alone can't think clearly about it. Right now, all we can do is step on the watermelon rind and take one step at a time.
He waited quietly.
Like a prisoner waiting to go to the gallows.
