During this period, Hui'an Technology's business was in a state of panic and difficulty.
Facing this situation, Yang Shao, the company's president, also realized who was behind all this.
The day before signing the contract with Donghe, Lingrong Technology suddenly found him and said that if he gave up the cooperation with Donghe, they would give a new project to Hui'an. This project had just been approved, and many people were watching it.
Yang Shao was very hesitant at first, but Lingrong's reputation in the industry was much greater than Donghe. It was an old-fashioned company that had been in business for decades and had a deep foundation. And as far as he knew, Lingrong would soon parachute in a new leader with an unfathomable background.
Although Donghe had outstanding capabilities, it had only been in operation for four years, and their boss was not a big shot. At least he knew what was in the territory where he had worked all his life.
So he agreed to Lingrong. But now he wanted to go back to a month ago and slap himself for being so self-righteous. What the hell did he think this place was? The people here carried a heavy history and culture just like every brick and stone in this historic city. You never know which dynasty that brick was left behind. Similarly, you can never guess what a person's background is.
It's not that Donghe can't find out, but that he can't find out at all. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
In order not to ruin his career, he decided to struggle desperately.
First he went to Lingrong to seek help.
Unexpectedly, Lingrong didn't see him at all, but just replied to him with a text message.
'Mr. Yang, I'm sorry I don't have time to entertain you today. We have also heard about Hui'an's affairs and we deeply sympathize with you. But we agreed that day that if you refuse the contract, we will give you the project. Now that project has been handed over to you, our deal ends here. When doing business, everyone will encounter some problems. I hope Hui'an can get through the difficulties as soon as possible. If there is a chance, I'm still happy to continue to cooperate. '
Seeing this, Yang Shao's face suddenly turned cold and he threw his phone. Damn it, what's the problem? It's obviously Dong He who is messing with him. Ling Rong is playing them as pawns. What can he do? He asked for this situation himself and should have anticipated the consequences of being used as a gun.
Two parties fight, and the third party suffers.
Ridiculous!
Now, he has to go to the door in person to apologize.
Jiang Yubai was sitting in the office processing the documents at hand. He realized that tomorrow was the agreed day. He had not seen him for a long time and was looking forward to it.
The knock on the door brought him back to his thoughts.
"Come in"
A woman in a black suit walked in. It was Assistant Xu. "Boss, Mr. Yang from Hui'an Technology is on the first floor and has been waiting for a while."
"Why didn't you tell me earlier? Prepare tea." Jiang Yubai said this in plain words. But his tone was not blaming, and he didn't even raise his head, as if he had expected it. Since he had already recovered in other matters, there was no need to embarrass others on these trivial matters.
"Mr. Yang, you've been waiting for a long time."
Yang Shao hurriedly stood up and held out his hand. "Just arrived."
Jiang Yubai's face was full of smiles, but his tone was cheerful. "Mr. Yang, please sit down and try this West Lake Longjing tea. I wonder if it suits Mr. Yang's taste. What's the matter with you coming here today?"
Yang Shao picked up the teacup and took a sip. Although it was a freshly brewed tea with an 85-degree degree, "Good tea. It's nothing serious. I just felt that it was inappropriate to change my mind at the last minute before, and I never had the opportunity to come to apologize in person."
Jiang Yubai leaned slightly on the chair, and his black eyes stared at him quietly. "Mr. Yang, I manipulated everything. What do you want to do?" After speaking, Jiang Yubai laughed again, but there was no sarcasm or disdain in his laughter. "What can you do?" His words were full of teasing. Yang Shao was stunned for a long time and couldn't say anything. He didn't expect the person in front of him to admit it so directly and so naturally. His tone was not high, but it gave people an invisible sense of oppression.
Yes, what can he do.
He can't afford to offend.
The air was silent for a few seconds. Yang Shao's voice trembled slightly, "Mr. Jiang, it is indeed our fault. Please give Hui'an a way out." Jiang Yubai tapped his hands slowly on the armchair and did not respond immediately. He was not a person who liked to say polite words, nor did he want to play a show with others. He just told the other party what he wanted to hear. Now that things had come to this, his "gift" was done, and he really had no intention of continuing. "Okay, let's turn the page on this matter." Yang Shao was surprised again, but he didn't feel surprised for too long before he stood up and thanked him quickly, "Thank you for Mr. Jiang's tolerance and generosity. Hui'an has nothing to repay." Yang Shao walked out of the Donghe gate and looked up at the tall building. He felt a faint burning sensation on his hands. The culprit who pushed him into the abyss has now become his grateful savior. The next day, the much-anticipated end of the world finally arrived. Jiang Yubai got up and looked outside. Countless white snowflakes floated down like feathers in the gray sky, and soon, they enveloped the entire city. Beijing's appearance seemed to have changed back to Beiping. Other than that, there is nothing special. Because today is Friday, I still have to go to work as usual.
I received a WeChat message on the way.
Is Xi Bu Xi: I have a full class today. The last class ends at 6pm.
Jiang Jiang Jiang Jiang: I have to go to work, someone will pick you up at 6pm
Is Xi Bu Xi: OKjpg.
There are also messages from Ye Bairong and Wang Xu.
Wang Xu's words sounded very excited. Today is the end of the world. Don't you have any ideas? For example, express your reluctance to part with me and make a promise to be brothers in the next life.
Ye Bairong was not emotional as expected: I am at work.
Wang Xu: Boring. Maner Maner Maner Maner Maner Maner Maner
Jiang Yubai: I must not know Wang Xu in the next life.
Wang Xu said he was speechless and disappeared.
The three of them grew up together and have a good relationship. Now both of them have been working for several years, only Wang Xu is still like a child, and when he is free and bored, he will go back to his company to kill time, but most of the time he still travels around the world to have fun.
At 7 o'clock in the evening, Liang Xihe was picked up by Xiao Chen to the company. She originally thought that this person only had a small company because he was too idle, but she didn't expect it to be quite large, like a big company.
She took the elevator to his office, raised her hand and knocked on the door and heard a voice from inside.
"Come in"
Liang Xihe was really unexpected. When she first came in, she thought she had walked into the wrong set. She always felt that the office of the domineering president should be the same as the ones in TV dramas and novels that Xu Chu read every day. Gray and white tones, pretending to be rich but not high-profile.
Why did it become like this when it came to him? How to describe it, childish! But it doesn't seem to be abrupt on this person, but there is an inexplicable harmony. "The office is nice."
Jiang Yubai saw that the girl today was wearing a goose yellow long cotton coat, like a little yellow duck. There are still some small water droplets on the slightly curly black hair, which should be the snowflakes that just stained it. The temperature difference between outside and here caused her flawless face to be slightly red, and I really wanted to pinch it hard. "Thank you for the compliment, let's go eat first and then I'll show you." Jiang Yubai seemed to ask, but he had already picked up the black coat beside him. Liang Xihe agreed, anyway, she didn't eat. The two went downstairs together and prepared to go to the copper pot hot pot about one kilometer away from here. It's not far, so they can walk there. The snow is not as heavy as during the day, and it's only scattered. "Isn't it the end of the world today? Are you scared?" "No, it doesn't feel any different." "Not too stupid." Jiang Yubai's tone was full of teasing. Liang Xihe curled his lips, "You are so rational that you can see through everything. You are the smartest person in the world. Are you satisfied? How about I say something more?"
Jiang Yubai's narrow smile revealed an obvious smile, "Satisfied, but if you want to continue to praise me, I have no objection, I can satisfy you"
Liang Xihe resisted rolling his eyes, thinking shameless in his heart.
Soon, the two of them walked to the place. There were not many people. After ordering the dishes, they went to make the dipping sauce.
"Can you make sesame sauce?"
"No"
"You are so confident, what are you afraid of?"
"I don't eat onions, ginger, garlic and cilantro."
"Wow, you are afraid of all these. Why don't you eat sesame sauce at all?" After saying that, Jiang Yubai got up and went to the ingredient table to make sesame sauce. Although he had never been in the kitchen, his grandmother was the best at making this. After watching it many times, he naturally became proficient. When he came back with two bowls of sauce, the dishes were already served.
"Here, try it." Liang Xihe dipped the meat in the sauce and found it surprisingly delicious. The sauce was very rich, different from what she usually eats in the store. She couldn't help shaking her body twice and gave Jiang Yubai a thumbs up. "Really good, is this a skill that every Beijinger can do?" Jiang Yubai looked at her little action and curled the corners of his mouth. "I don't know about the others. But this is inherited from my ancestors, and ordinary people really can't eat it." Liang Xihe rarely did not argue with him because the sauce was delicious. "Hey, we agreed last time. You tell me what those words mean, and I'll tell you my nickname." "That's Nanjing dialect, really complimenting you, praising you for being reasonable." Liang Xihe thought I definitely couldn't tell you the real meaning anyway, you wouldn't know. "Aren't you from Yangzhou? You speak Nanjing dialect so smoothly." Jiang Yubai put down his chopsticks and said. "My father is from Nanjing, and my mother is from Yangzhou. They mix the two dialects. No, how do you know I'm from Yangzhou?" Liang Xihe looked at him in confusion. "Guess what?" Jiang Yubai leaned back in his chair and looked at her. Her resume was still in the second drawer on the lower right of his desk.
Liang Xihe didn't want to argue with him about this meaningless thing. If he wanted to know, there was always a way to find out. "What's your nickname?"
"Manman, the full moon"
"Manman, that's strange. Were you born during the Xiaoman period?"
"No"
"Then your family loves you very much."
Jiang Yubai's eyes were full of sarcasm, but it disappeared before Liang Xihe noticed.
After the two finished eating, they returned to the company.
"Come on, show me your article." Jiang Yubai threw his clothes outside.
Liang Xihe took out the printed article from her bag and attached the part she translated.
Jiang Yubai saw after reading it for a while that it was an article published in a foreign scientific journal, with many professional terms. It shouldn't be difficult for them, a sophomore, to do this, but he was not an English student, so he didn't comment. He continued to read the girl's translation. The overall meaning was fine, but some sentences were not properly grammatical and she didn't notice the professional terms and translated them literally.
"Here, pen." Jiang Yubai stretched out his hand, and Liang Xihe quickly handed him a pencil.
The man quickly circled the part she translated, "Come and see."
Liang Xihe approached the man, and his warm breath hit her ears. She could smell a faint cedar scent, which was very nice. "You don't need a preposition here. The previous word can be used as an adverbial modifier independently. And here, you used the previous word incorrectly." Jiang Yubai circled and drew, "Here you confuse the logic before and after, and this string is a professional term, and you broke it apart." She listened to the man carefully pointing out every problem for her, and couldn't help but admire him. He would not point out every problem and give her the answer, but after finishing a part, he would either point to the problem and let her say where she was wrong or point out the scope for her to find it herself.
It was already 11:30 in the evening when all the problems were dealt with. Liang Xihe felt particularly fulfilled. The man's tone was calm and gentle, unlike the usual casual tone, which soothed all the tired factors.
"Thank you, I didn't expect you to be so good." Liang Xihe praised sincerely.
"It's okay, just a little bit. You can download the international broadcast when you have nothing to do. Listen to it until you can memorize it. Forget it, I'll send you some information tomorrow." Jiang Yubai leaned on the sofa and said casually. "Wait later, I'll introduce you to someone who is your predecessor?"
"Excuse me, how can I thank you, handsome Jiang." Liang Xihe has mastered the method of making the man in front of him happy.
"No need, but if you really want, accompany me through the end of the world, there are still 20 minutes." Jiang Yubai is still as unreliable as always.
Liang Xihe pouted, "Don't you believe it?"
"I don't believe it." Now he can't get into the dormitory when he goes back. Liang Xihe thought about finding a hotel at the school gate to spend the night, so he nodded and agreed. The two dared not do anything in the remaining 20 minutes. They sat side by side on the sofa in front of the French window and looked at the sky.
Snow fell on the long street, covering all the filth, leaving only the whiteness that penetrated the bones.
The two people only had each other in their eyes, but unfortunately they never met for a moment.
When it was 59 minutes, Jiang Yubai suddenly asked her to close her eyes. She did not refute. If the end of the world really came true, it would be okay if the last person she saw in this life was Jiang Yubai.
In the silent atmosphere, Liang Xihe didn't know whether it was an illusion or something, but she felt that the heartbeat and the bell sound overlapped. She didn't know whose heartbeat it was, and she didn't know where the bell sound came from.
Liang Xihe felt that this minute passed very long until she heard Jiang Yubai's voice "Open your eyes."
After she opened her eyes, she found a box in her sight.
"Happy birthday! Dongdong, you have successfully survived the end of the world, congratulations!"
Liang Xihe looked blank for a moment, and a warm current surged in her heart. "How did you know?" Her tone was full of disbelief and imperceptible emotion.
"Don't worry about it, open it and take a look." Liang Xihe opened the box, it was a cream-gray Hermès bag. She knew this brand from Xu Chu, the price was very attractive "How can I not want it, it's so expensive." Jiang Yubai just smiled, "Sorry, of course not. Take it, and celebrate that the end of the world didn't happen." Liang Xihe knew she couldn't refuse after hearing this. In this era when the average salary is only about 4,000, this man casually threw her a six-digit bag, just a bag. Liang Xihe looked at the light and reflection in the man's black pupils, and for some reason she wanted to slow down time. "Okay, don't be stunned. If you really thank me, you will accompany me on my next birthday. Let's go, I'll take you back." After saying that, she picked up the key on the table. Liang Xihe nodded vigorously and followed the man with a firm look in her eyes, "I will definitely accompany you." After getting in the car, Liang Xihe turned on her mobile phone. There were a few blessings from high school friends on the phone, and there were people celebrating and reveling online, successfully surviving the end of the world. Some people were criticizing the rumor makers. In short, the world is safe! After arriving at the school, Jiang Yubai didn't stop, but just said, "I booked a hotel for you, and you can't get in here." "Thank you so much today." She felt that it would be nice if the person next to her didn't talk too much. She originally planned to pay the man for the room, but she felt that he wouldn't want it even if she gave it to him, so it would be better to give it to him in another way later. When they arrived downstairs of the hotel, Jiang Yubai took Liang Xihe to check in and sent her to the door of the room, and told her to close the doors and windows before leaving. Liang Xihe entered the room and ran to the window to see the man's car downstairs disappear at the intersection before she closed the curtains. After washing up, she looked at the box on the table next to her and always felt that today was unreal. But maybe she was too tired, she fell asleep quickly.