Wen Man was slightly aroused.
She stroked the phone with her slender fingers, and after much hesitation, she did not send the WeChat message immediately, but sent it half an hour later.
[Sorry, Lawyer Huo, I fell asleep.]
On the other side, Huo Shaoting was holding a glass of wine in his hand. After seeing Wen Man's message, he smiled lightly.
——Teacher Wen's reserve is a little cute.
He did not reply again, but slowly sipped the red wine in the goblet.
Huo Shaoting did not appear in the next few days, but occasionally sent a WeChat message to Wen Man, sometimes a photo or one or two sentences, the sentences were lazy but revealed the unique flavor of a mature man.
Wen Man did not reply every time.
But the ambiguity between them was known to each other.
Early that morning, Wen Man received a call from Huo Shaoting on the way to work.
She hesitated for a moment and answered: "Lawyer Huo?"
Huo Shaoting was sitting in the car with a document on his knees, which was the document of Wen Boyan's case.
Huo Shaoting recalled that when he asked lawyer Jiang Ming for the documents last night, Jiang Ming smiled meaningfully and said, "Shaoting, why did you change your mind? Because of Teacher Wen? I think Teacher Wen is very good, Jiang Rui likes her very much..."
At that time, Huo Shaoting smiled lightly and asked Jiang Ming not to tell Wen Man first.
He said he would think about it again.
At this time, Huo Shaoting gently flipped through the documents and said to Wen Man over there, "I'm going on a business trip for a week! When I come back... let's meet! I have something to tell you."
Wen Man couldn't guess, but she knew in her heart that it would not hurt to build a good relationship with Huo Shaoting.
She said yes softly.
Huo Shaoting's heart suddenly softened. He lowered his voice and whispered like a lover: "Why are you so obedient and soft? Do you know that you will be bullied by men like this?"
Wen Man blushed and couldn't speak for a long time.
Huo Shaoting smiled and let her go.
After hanging up the phone, he took the documents and looked at them for a long time... Making this decision was not just a simple transaction, but mixed with pity for Wen Man. He thought it would be a compensation for her.
*
Wen Man put down her phone over there. She was guessing what Huo Shaoting would tell her in a week.
She was so distracted that she almost missed her stop. She
hurried to the music center. When she clocked in, her colleagues looked at her differently.
Wen Man didn't understand why. Finally, a colleague who had a good relationship with her quietly told her: "Wen Man, the director knows about your part-time job outside. He should talk to you later!... I heard that Ding Cheng reported it. You and she entered our school at the same time. You teach well. Excellent students all come to you to learn. She has been unhappy for a long time. This time she finally got the chance."
Wen Man was stunned for a moment.
The colleague whispered a lot more, something like she was in trouble now and everyone could understand.
At this time, Director Li's assistant came over and politely invited Wen Man to come over.
Wen Man followed her to the director's office on the second floor. The assistant knocked on the door: "Director Li, Teacher Wen is here."
"Come in." A female voice came over.
Wen Man found the door and went in.
Director Li was a woman in her early 40s, smart and capable. At this time, she was sitting behind her desk with her head down looking at documents. Wen Man came in and she motioned for Wen Man
to sit down. Wen Man wanted to explain, but Director Li made a gesture to interrupt her: "It was indeed Ding Cheng who reported it to me, but I have always turned a blind eye because your family is in trouble! But Wen Man, since yesterday, some parents have learned about your part-time job outside, and there are a lot of calls to replace you. I receive dozens of calls a day!... You also know that the children who learn piano in our music center have rich or noble backgrounds. Not to mention that even I, President Wang, can't afford to offend these people."
When she said this, Wen Man naturally understood.
She didn't want to embarrass the director who had always taken good care of her, and she couldn't be so shameless as to not leave. Wen Man gently took off her work badge and put it on the table, and said softly: "Thank you for taking care of me over the years."