Wei Chun returned to Nanguang on the afternoon of the 13th, and it was already 3 pm when he arrived at the magazine.
After work, it was time to catch up with the editorial meeting. Wei Chun sat down on the edge as if nothing had happened. The editor-in-chief glanced at her but said nothing at the time. Wei Chun is a veteran here and has longer working experience than most of the staff. The only people who are senior to her are the chief editor and three or four others. Everyone else respects her on the surface.
The editor-in-chief was promoted from another department a month ago. Wei Chun sat on a chair with his legs crossed, his face raised and he smoked heavily. The editor-in-chief glanced at her impatiently from time to time, but said nothing at the time.
However, as soon as the meeting ended, the editor-in-chief said, "Come here for a moment." He called Wei Chun to a quiet place where no one was around.
"Did you know that there is an editorial meeting at exactly o'clock this afternoon?"
The editor-in-chief had a questioning tone from the beginning. Wei Chun looked at him stubbornly.
"Know!"
"Do you know why you're still two hours late?"
"I tried my best to arrive early, but I was still late. Is there anything I can do?"
There was no apology in his eyes or words.
"I wanted to come early but was late. What's the reason?" asked the editor-in-chief.
"It's a private matter. Because it's a private matter, please forgive me for not being able to tell you."
Wei Chun's words of resistance became more formal.
"Personal secret!" the editor-in-chief said mockingly, "Didn't you take two days off until yesterday?"
"It's annual leave."
"Of course you can, and I agree with you exercising this right. However, today you are two hours late... To be precise, you should arrive at the company before 10 a.m., so you are five hours late, and I don't agree with that. !”
"You are too harsh. No one has ever conscientiously abided by the 10 a.m. deadline for starting work. You yourself often don't come until 1 or 2 p.m."
"Those are all valid reasons. Our work is different from business. According to the contributor's time, sometimes we have to visit or conduct interviews before work, so we are late. We cannot be on time every day. It is all due to work. You If you want to ask, I can explain it to you. I didn't hold you accountable for being late before, because I thought you might have gone somewhere to contact the work. But today is an important editorial meeting, and I told you that everyone would be there, but you were the only one who was late. Two hours later. You came late, so you didn’t understand the content of the meeting, and you didn’t speak at the meeting. You just sat on the chair and smoked. If you were late two hours, it means you didn’t do anything today. … So I If I want to ask you why you were two hours late, you can't just tell me because it's a personal secret." The furious editor-in-chief said angrily.
Wei Chun blinked his eyes and listened, with a sneer on his lips. What the editor-in-chief said was nice. He loved going to bars and would come to work from the woman's apartment after 1 o'clock every time. Everyone in the company knew this.
"Did you go elsewhere during the two days of vacation?"
Because Wei Chun remained silent, the editor-in-chief asked again. The newly appointed editor-in-chief had long planned to subdue this arrogant woman in the department.
"out."
"You just said that you tried your best to come back early but you were still late. So, there is some irresistible obstacle that prevents you from going to work on time, right?"
"Okay, don't ask any more questions, just deduct one day's salary from me!"
Wei Chun said angrily, then turned and left.
She left the magazine at five o'clock. None of the other employees have left. She still has a backlog of work from her two-day vacation, but she has no intention of dealing with it. Originally, she was planning to work overtime tonight. The reprimand from the editor was really unbearable. For her who has more seniority in the job, that is an intolerable insult.
Okay, I’m quitting this month! Wei Chun made up his mind to have fun this month! The consequences will be reflected in the art column of next month's issue. The art column is an important part of women's magazines. If this column is not as good as other magazines, the editor-in-chief will be panicked. He will regret reprimanding an old editor and will give in to her like the previous editor-in-chief did. Thinking of this, she felt as if she had gotten her revenge.
Although Wei Chun got off work early, he was still angry. If Zuo Yunshan was here at this moment, you could call him and invite him to have dinner together, and then live in your own apartment or somewhere else; but at the moment he is still in Fuchang.
Wei Chun suddenly remembered something. It's more like doubting than thinking about it. She found the public phone and hung up the phone at Ye Ya's home according to the number she had written down in the book.
"I'm Madam's friend. I'm sorry for calling you so late. Is Madam at home?"
"No, I went on a trip yesterday." A maid replied sleepily.
"Travel? Where?"
"Said he was going to the beach..."
"When are you coming back?"
“The day after tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.”
After walking out of the public phone booth, Wei Chun felt dizzy. Ye Ya said that she was going to the beach, and the time coincided with her return to Nanguang.
After Zuo Yunshan returned to Nanguang, Wei Chun asked him about his whereabouts in Fuchang after she left. Zuo Yunshan was well prepared and answered her in a flawless manner.
But Wei Chun still expressed doubts and kept asking questions.
Zuo Yunshan finally showed an impatient look.
"you are lying."
Wei Chun stared at him. But unconsciously, her expression softened, as if she wanted to compromise with him.
"Oh, it's true. What are you guessing about?"
"Ye Ya will not be in Nanguang on the 12th."
Zuo Yunshan had already anticipated this. Wei Chun most likely called Ye Ya's house. In fact, when he saw her expression, he got a few points.
"What does it have to do with me whether she is in Nanguang or not? Have you asked where she went?"
"I heard I went to the beach."
"Who told you that?"
"It seems like a servant."
"She said she would go to the beach, so there would be nothing wrong with it. I went to Fuchang."
"What the seaside, I don't believe it! The day she left Nanguang happened to be the day before I returned to Nanguang."
"Weren't you in Fuchang with me on the 12th? If she really came to Fuchang to meet me as you guessed, then I can't be with you. Right? On the 12th, day and night Aren’t we both together?”
"I left Fuchang on the morning of the 13th. Maybe you met her after I left."
"Don't be ridiculous, if that woman chases Fu Chang, then I can't throw her aside."
"You're so smart, maybe you did it very cleverly."
There is no end to the debate. Wei Chun didn't know Ye Ya's whereabouts and couldn't use it as a basis to get to the bottom of it. On the one hand, she asked Zuo Yunshan, but on the other hand, she hoped from the bottom of her heart that he had not met Ye Ya. It is indeed unlikely that Zuo Yunshan would agree to have a tryst with two women in the same place at the same time. Ye Ya chased her to Fuchang without authorization. This behavior was unexpected. If she wanted to go on a tryst, she must make an appointment in advance. If you agree in advance, you will certainly not deliberately put yourself in trouble. If Ye Ya arrived in Fuchang on the 12th, then just like Zuo Yunshan said, he had to find an excuse to slip away from him, but in fact he never left. He left work in the afternoon and stayed by her side all the time. Looking back on the situation at that time, he was not too uneasy. He was just worried about the work in the theater at first. After knowing that it was completely late, he calmed down. Wei Chun was thinking about it and gradually became uninterested in arguing with Zuo Yunshan.
