Part One: Intertwined Time and Space Chapter One: Daily Life
Section 7 Dinner
The week flies by quickly, and the weekend is here in a blink of an eye. Today happens to be the birthday of a leader of the company, and it is the weekend. The directors of various departments in the company wanted everyone to relax, so they organized this dinner.
The company Yue Qing works for is not very big. There are about 500 people in the company, including the sales and promotion staff outside. In fact, there are only a hundred people working in the company at this level. Today is the birthday of the deputy general manager. , several senior executives of the company organized a birthday celebration for the leader. There were probably less than 50 people attending the party. Originally, Yue Qing, a small accountant, didn't want to come, but their department's financial manager and technical department manager Chen Yuan both said they would come, so she followed.
"I told you that you would definitely come too. I saw you from afar." Zhang Yuan came earlier than me and was waiting for me at the door of the restaurant.
"Ah, you came early." Yue Qing approached and said to Zhang Yuan.
"I didn't go anywhere after get off work. I originally wanted to go find Odana, but I got angry just thinking about it, so I didn't go. Then I walked around here for a while, and then I came. I saw many people came, and when I got off work, I didn't go anywhere. Why didn't I see you? I wanted to hang out with you." Yuanzi said, holding my hand and going in together.
"I didn't go anywhere? Maybe I would have been in the finance office when you came to see me. I was handing in reports. It's not like you don't know. I just submit all kinds of forms every day," I replied.
"Hey, really, can you share the work with Liu Fangfang? Come on, let's sit together." Yuanzi said.
"I'm used to it, it's okay. It doesn't matter if a lot of business goes smoothly." Yue Qing said nonchalantly.
"You are the only one with a good temper. If it were me, I would have started a quarrel a long time ago. But I heard that there seems to be something going on at home that makes them so bad-tempered." Yuanzi said gossiping.
"What's going on?" I asked her with a smile.
"It seems like something happened to her mother when he was a child," Sonoko said.
"Oh, it sounds like there is a story. Is it on the first floor?" I asked casually.
"Isn't that right? I still listened to the people in our company. It's on the second floor. Let's go up." Yuanzi said.
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The company arranged the dinner at a hot pot restaurant. The restaurant was not small, with buffets on the first floor and private rooms on the second and third floors. There were some smaller tables on the first floor, and rows of tables of the same style were neatly arranged. The decoration is magnificent, at least on the surface. The entire first floor is based on bright yellow, with various pendants hanging above various tables. There are many small lights on the roof. An extra-large layered crystal ceiling lamp in the center, coupled with uniform square crystal lamps distributed everywhere, makes the entire first floor very bright.
The decoration of this restaurant looks very comfortable, and the business is also very good. There are all kinds of people coming and going in the hall, including those who take food, deliver food, make condiments, pay, and collect bills. of.
Yueqing and Yuanzi quickly went up to the second floor. The second floor is much quieter because they are all private rooms and there are very few people walking in the corridor. There are multiple service staff standing outside the door of each box, waiting for guests' orders and other needs at any time. Yuanzi took Yueqing to the private room reserved by the company. When he went in, he saw that no one was already there. Everyone was saying hello to each other. There was a very large rectangular dining table in the very large private room, enough to accommodate sixty or seventy people. Yue Qing took Yuanzi to find a seat at the back.
After waiting for about half an hour, colleagues from the company arrived one after another. The deputy general manager arrived accompanied by several department heads, and Chen Yuan was also there. After a while, the seats were given up, and the deputy general manager took the host and guest seat.
Then I heard the deputy general manager say that everyone has been working very hard during this time. The old comrades are the backbone of the company, and the new friends are also working very hard. This time, several department heads suggested that everyone come here to relax, eat and drink, and continue to work hard next week to create more benefits for the company.
Yue Qing heard almost that much from behind and was listening blankly.
"Well said." The head of the human resources department shouted, and then took the lead in applauding. Then after the applause stopped, he continued: "But, Mr. Ren, do you know what day it is today?"
"What do you mean?" The deputy general manager looked confused.
"It's your birthday today, and our departments wanted to take advantage of today's day off to celebrate you. You were so busy that you forgot about it."
"Oh, do you still have such a meaning?" Vice President Ren said with a smile.
Then the colleagues laughed together.
Then the box door opened, and the waiter came in pushing an extra-large cake. Vice President Ren looked at it with a happy face: "You guys are really thoughtful."
"Today is a good day for Mr. Ren, you just have to be happy today." The head of the administrative department said to Mr. Ren, while pouring a glass of wine for Vice President Ren.
"Okay, okay, everyone, please eat and don't patronize me. Everyone will be happy today."
The colleagues cheered loudly, and then everyone started to eat after Vice President Ren picked up the food.
Yue Qing was not very good at drinking. After drinking three small glasses of red wine, she stopped drinking. However, Yuanzi was a good drinker. She had already had a lot of drinks, and Yue Qing did not persuade her. Yueqing didn't have enough to eat and wanted to go to the bathroom, so she talked to Yuanzi and went out.
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After going to the bathroom, Yue Qing looked at the door of the private room and felt that it might be a long time before they entered. She didn't want to go in, so she walked out of the restaurant to get some fresh air.
Yue Qing was a little tipsy, so she walked along the roadside to enjoy the wind and relieve her hangover. It was already getting dark now, and in early spring, it gets dark relatively early. The street lights illuminate the whole street very brightly, and all kinds of shops are busy doing business. The lights are brightly lit and people come and go.
Yue Qing walked for a while, and the night wind made her sober. She felt a little bit. When I looked up, I saw that some of them were a bit far away. When she turned around to look, she happened to notice an old man looking at her at the door of a shop selling vintage jewelry. When she saw Yue Qing's eyes facing her, she didn't take her eyes away.
This shop has a round table, which looks a bit old, and the small stools placed on all sides of the table are also retro. It is indeed a shop selling retro jewelry. The old man's clothes are also a bit old. He is wearing a double-breasted coat that people of the previous generation wore. It looks a bit thin, and his trousers are relatively old-fashioned. The whole outfit looked like it had been washed countless times and worn for a long time. The color was gray, but it was clean and tidy.
Yueqing lives with a girl and has no companions. Seeing that the old man didn't mean to look away, he was a little scared, so he quickly looked away, pretended not to see him, and walked back.
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After walking for a while, they were almost at the restaurant booked by the company. Yue Qing could already see the bright yellow light coming from the first floor of the restaurant. Suddenly I heard a little boy crying. I looked up and saw a little boy wearing a gray and white plaid thermal beret, crying and calling his mother. He was very well-dressed and kept very clean. He looked about 3 years old, about the same age as his little nephew. Not far from Yue Qing, the people around him saw him crying. A few looked at him and ignored him, but most of them ignored him and walked away.
Seeing that Yue Qing was not far away from her, she took the initiative to walk over. The little boy saw Yue Qing walking over and hurried towards her, looking a little clingy.
"Little brother, what's wrong with you?" Yue Qing bent down and asked him.
"Look for mommy." The little boy cried and kept rubbing his eyes with his little hands.
"Where's your mother?" Yue Qing asked next.
"Don't know?" the little boy cried.
"Then do you know your mother's name?" Yue Qing asked patiently.
"Don't know?" the little boy continued to cry.
When Yue Qing heard that her mother seemed to be separated, she quickly called 110 to call the police.
"Hello, is there anything to report to 110?" The call came through as soon as I called the other side.
"Oh, hello, there is a lost child here, a little young." Yue Qing said to the other side.
"Where are you?" asked the other side.
Yue Qing reported the address and was told that the nearest patrol car would be sent there and that he should wait where he was.
Yueqing hung up the phone, looked at the little boy, and asked him, "Do you know your home phone number? Or where you live?"
The little boy didn't speak and just kept crying. Yue Qing then said: "Can my sister help you find the police for help?"
The little boy stopped crying for a moment and said, "Don't let the police arrest me." Then he cried even harder.
"No, the police won't arrest you, they only arrest bad people." Yue Qing wanted to laugh. explained to him.
While they were coaxing, a police car came and parked nearby. Two police officers got out of the car and looked around.
Yue Qing quickly stood up straight and raised her hand to say hello: "This way!"
The two policemen trotted over in a standard manner and asked, "Did you call the police?"
"Yes, this is the child." Yue Qing said with a friendly smile.
When the child saw the police, he hid back in fear and cried, "Don't arrest me."
Yue Qing knelt down and hugged him quickly, turning her head to the side and laughing hard. The little boy's soft body was cute and fun to hold, and Yue Qing couldn't hold back her joy.
One of the policemen was a young man who looked a little handsome. He said to the little boy in a funny way: "No arrest, no arrest, come and let uncle hug him." Then he patted his hand twice.
The little boy was stunned for a moment with a suspicious look on his face, but he still chose to believe him and stretched out his hands.
Yueqing quickly stood up and handed the little boy to the police.
The little policeman nodded to Yue Qing and left.
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Watching the police car drive away, Yueqing calmed down. The pressure that the old man put on her just now was washed away by this incident. She ignored the looks of people around her and turned around and walked towards the restaurant.
When she walked to the door of the restaurant, she saw Chen Yuan smoking beside the door, looking unhappy. Yue Qing was stunned for a moment. She had never seen her senior smoking in her image. Yue Qing didn't ask in detail. Everyone has their own life. Seeing that he had already looked over, she stepped forward to say hello.
"Brother Chen, why are you out?"
"Oh, I drank a little too much. Come out and get some fresh air." Chen Yuan looked at her and said.
"Oh." Yue Qing replied.
"You are quite caring." Chen Yuan continued.
"Huh?" Yue Qing was surprised.
"The little boy just now is quite cute." Chen Yuan pointed out.
"Oh, it's so far away, you just saw it." Yue Qing said embarrassedly. "My sister's family has a little nephew that I like very much. He is about the same age as the kid just now. Seeing him is like seeing my little nephew. I couldn't help but go up to help."
"Yeah." Chen Yuan responded.
There was silence.
"When you mention your sister, your whole person will feel different and you will talk more." Chen Yuan then opened the topic.
"Ah? Is there any?" Yue Qing raised her head, but she didn't feel it.
"Look, his eyes are bright." Chen Yuan pointed out.
Yue Qing quickly looked away embarrassedly. "Maybe my sister took care of me a lot when I was a child. You also know that my father passed away early, and my mother was too busy to take care of the fields, the family, and us. Then, my sister Maybe it was the eldest child. She had been very sensible since she was a child, and she took special care of us during that time. You have to know that we were not very old at that time, and my sister was not very old either, but at that time I felt that as long as she was here, the family would not be in chaos. At that time, she spent all her salary on our education and daily living expenses, so I was a little dependent on her."
"From what you said, I know your sister is a strong woman." Chen Yuan said.
"She is not a strong woman, she is very gentle." Yue Qing disagreed. "I'm going to go to their house in a while."
After saying that, he asked Chen Yuan: "Doesn't your family also have a child?"
"Yes, there is a little girl who is very cute." Chen Yuandao.
Yue Qing didn't answer, and there was another silence.
The atmosphere was awkward. At this time, there was another commotion on the road. A woman was asking people on the roadside that her child could not be found. A shop owner told her what happened just now and pointed at Yue Qing. The woman came over.
"Thank you. I was just buying something and Tiantian couldn't find it. It scared me to death." The mother said to Yueqing.
"It's okay. If you call 110 now, or go directly to the police station, you can find your child." Yue Qing said to her.
"Thank you, thank you." Her mother thanked her again and turned to go to the police station.
After a while, the roadside became quiet and people walked away. Chen Yuan and Yue Qing were still standing here.
"How have you been talking to Wang Bo recently? A few days ago, our wife asked me." Chen Yuan reopened the topic.
"Ah, that's it. I may have been busy these two days, so I didn't call much. I was in contact some time ago," Yue Qing replied.
"Oh, so is Wang Bo. You guys work in different cities, and this guy is not diligent. Let's talk about him later." Chen Yuan pretended to be angry.
"No, he might be a little busy." Yue Qing explained quickly.
Chen Yuan looked at her with a smile, then put out the cigarette, and then said to Yue Qing: "Let's go in."
"Okay." Yue Qing replied.
The two men walked in together.
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As soon as I entered the box, I saw that my colleagues were still drinking. The deputy general manager was a little drunk, and several other supervisors were not much better. Some of them were already sleeping on their stomachs.
When Liu Fangfang saw Chen Yuan and Yue Qing coming in together, she raised her voice to remind everyone: "Hey, what are these two doing out together?"
Many people turned to look at them. The re-elected vice president also looked at them, and several colleagues even started to boo. Yue Qing was stunned for a moment, wondering what Liu Fangfang meant. Just when he didn't know how to answer, Chen Yuan spoke first.
Chen Yuan smiled and explained while sitting back in his seat: "Oh, you don't know, just now Yueqing went to be a hero, and I just happened to go to see a play." Yueqing was embarrassed to say that.
"Oh, tell us what happened." A male colleague said with a smile.
Chen Yuan vividly told how the little boy had gone missing, Yue Qing coaxed him and then called the police, and finally told everyone what happened to his mother.
As the protagonist, Yue Qing sat in the corner, lowering her head to eat her own food while receiving everyone's attention. Yue Qing elbowed her beside her, but Yue Qing ignored her.
"Hey, you should be given a reward for bravery." A male colleague cheered after hearing this. Yue Qing didn't answer.
"Yue Qing's character has always been good in all aspects." Vice President Ren also looked at Yue Qing and said.
"Nothing." Yue Qing looked at Vice President Ren and answered.
Seeing that Yue Qing didn't have much reaction, the colleagues stopped talking about the topic and started eating and drinking each other.
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After the meal, Vice President Ren saw that it was getting late and everyone had almost eaten, so he made a summary and let everyone disperse. Several supervisors arranged for Vice President Ren to leave, and then everyone went home.
Chen Yuan watched Yueqing and Yuanzi packing their things and asked her, "Is your home a little far away? How about I give it to you?"
"It's okay. I can take it back by myself. It's quite easy." Yue Qing refused.
"Okay, then be careful on the road." Chen Yuan said to her without insisting.
The colleagues said goodbye to each other and went their separate ways. Yueqing watched Yuanzi get on the car, and then she also hailed one and rushed home.
