Get off work and become a magical girl

Chapter 259 Hong Siyu's work report

The three juniors came back when Cuiqiao and Hongsi were talking on the phone. At this time, it was two hours after Cuiqiao said goodbye to Mohe.

Although she, the director, temporarily left Fangting City, the work of Fangting City's Strategy Bureau could not be stopped. As the official secretary of the director, Hong Siyu naturally took over part of the director's work. Cuique also did not want to be a hands-off boss and throw all the responsibilities to Hong Siyu, so the two of them needed to make a special call to communicate about the work of the Strategy Bureau.

The calls were scheduled to be held once a week. Hong Siyu had to report on the recent work progress of various departments of the Strategy Bureau, financial expenditures, meetings and discussions with other government departments, instructions and documents from the General Administration, as well as the handling of reports from the public and the overall security situation in Fangting City... Cuiqiao needed to provide feedback on each item one by one, including the various applications she had approved remotely today and the communication between other leaders of the municipal government departments and herself, so that she would know what work to do next.

It would naturally take more than two hours to finish discussing so much content, so until the juniors came back, Cuiqiao was still discussing it intensely with Hongsi:

"Let me summarize it for you. In the middle of last year, the municipal government and the then Strategy Bureau applied for hosting this year's statewide exchange seminar as a matter of routine. In the past, such things were not very reliable, but later, Fangting defeated the conspiracies of the two major criminal organizations, Black Cinder Dawn and Claw Mark, for three consecutive months, and the Strategy Bureau also completed the amazing feat of rebuilding from a complete destruction in four months. So Tiandu City really chose Fangting City as the venue this time... Are you sure?"

Delphinium repeated what Hongsi had said earlier, tapping her fingers on the side of her phone. "That sounds like some crude joke that was made up while I was away."

"Haha... I hope this can be a joke."

Hong Siyu's voice was also somewhat helpless on the phone: "The director from the municipal government who came to deliver the documents didn't know anything. I even called their leader to confirm that it was really approved by Tiandu City."

"Is there an electronic file?" Delphinium continued to ask.

"Yes." Hong Siyu said this, and then sent a file package to Cuique through the chat software.

Delphinium opened the file and clicked on several marked documents in silence. After confirming the contents, official seals, and the validity of the signatures, she frowned slightly and spoke:
"What's the meeting time?"

"May, we still have about three months to prepare." Hong Siyu answered quickly.

"The time is a bit too tight, why did you approve it now?"

"Because it was originally supposed to be decided in August last year, and at that time it was decided to be Linyang City."

"Linyang City..." Cuique understood now.

Because this was another unlucky city that was attacked by Black Dawn at the end of last year.

Throughout the Queen's calendar year 1999, in addition to the small city clusters including Fangting and Bai'an, three larger cities around the world became the targets of the Black Dawn. These three cities are Linyang and Taiyu in Donghua Province, and Xinyue in Xiluo Province. Compared to Fangting where Cuique is located, there are no top-notch magical girls stationed in these three cities, so they all suffered heavy losses.

Among them, the buildings in two urban areas of Linyang City were wiped out, and the number of casualties was in the five or six figures. Even the generating device of the city's defense network was partially destroyed, so it is still under repair. Under such heavy damage, their Strategy Bureau was naturally not much better. If Fangting City's Strategy Bureau was only reduced to ruins during the Full Moon Festival, then Linyang City's Strategy Bureau was razed to the ground.

With things like this, Linyang City naturally couldn't afford to host any more seminars. The right to host the seminar was passed around in the hands of the leaders of Tiandu City, and finally it was "cheap" to Fang Ting.

"Does the city government have any candidate venues?" After figuring this out, Cuique knew that this was a troublesome matter that could not be evaded, but that was how work was, it would never leave you just because you didn't want to do it: "Even if each city only sent three or five representatives from the Strategy Bureau in the entire Donghua Prefecture, it would be a huge number to gather in Fangting, and a normal venue would not be able to accommodate them."

"They want to set the location in the Green Tower..." "Green Tower?" This was what Delphinium said to herself after getting the answer.

——"What green tower?"

This was another voice that suddenly came from behind the Delphinium.

Cuiqiao looked back and found that it was Lin Xiaolu lying on the back of the sofa behind her. She looked curious and said, "Is that Hong Siyu across from you? What are you talking about?"

"...It's not polite to interrupt someone's phone call, Bai Mei."

Since she thought that the topic they were talking about was not secretive, Kuei-Chrysanthemum said calmly, "And I've told you many times that you should use code names."

"...Haha, it's okay."

Hong Siyu on the phone obviously didn't care about how Lin Xiaolu addressed him: "You guys are still in the hotel, right? Others shouldn't be able to hear it."

"If you don't develop good habits in your daily life, you will fail in situations where you really need to develop good habits."

Cuiqiao was obviously not as tolerant as Hong Siyu. She reached out and patted Lin Xiaolu's arm that had been wrapped around her neck at some point: "So don't think you can get away with it by acting like a spoiled child. Be serious."

"Hey, I'm sorry."

But Lin Xiaolu was obviously in a good mood. She had no intention of being persuaded by Cuique's words. Instead, she continued to reach out from behind the sofa and hug Cuique, saying in a rather sweet tone: "Just forgive me, Cuique."

"...What on earth were you three doing outside?" Lin Xiaolu's coquettish voice gave Cuiqiao goosebumps all over his body. He finally shifted his attention away from the phone and looked at the other two in a daze.

"Ahaha, well..." Xia Liang scratched his face and looked away.

"Let's go out and play!" Bai Jingxuan made meaningless gestures with a very exaggerated expression.

Because of this incident, Cuique and Hongsi naturally couldn't continue their phone call, so the two could only make an appointment for the next call, and then Cuique would go to inquire about the cause and effect of the matter.

From Xia Liang's answer, which was obviously hiding something, and Bai Jingxuan's usual fragmented summary, Cuique roughly understood why Lin Xiaolu was clinging to her like an octopus:
They were trying out desserts in the shopping street. When they were trying out chocolate, they found a chocolate with alcohol syrup as the filling. Because it tasted really good, everyone tried it, but only Lin Xiaolu ate several of them before she knew the chocolate had alcohol as the filling...

"So that's why she's like this now?" Cuique pushed Lin Xiaolu's cheek, which was almost touching hers, helplessly.

Xia Liang said nothing except an awkward smile. Bai Jingxuan looked at Lin Xiaolu with a hint of envy, but surprisingly did nothing. These abnormal reactions further confirmed Cuique's judgment:
——These little girls must, absolutely, have done something hiding from me.

(End of this chapter)