What do you want in life

Chapter 57 Don't Want to Lose Your Smile (8)
"Mr. Shen, your apartment has been settled. It's in a high-end neighborhood not far from here. You can move in anytime after you move in the newly purchased furniture on the weekend."

"Thank you!" Shen Juncheng nodded slightly to her, then lifted his chin slightly out of the window, and asked her with a smile, "Do you think Minghu is beautiful?"

A circle of silver street lamps along the embankment of the lake emits crystal clear and white light, which makes people feel cold.

Shen Juncheng seemed to see himself three years ago, walking excitedly along that white chain-like light.

At that time, he was running around for Xiaoying and himself's beautiful home, thinking that it would be his final destination, warm and happy, but how could he have expected that three years later, he would be standing not far from that small apartment? Looking back on the past in the highest level of the far away hotel, lamenting the helplessness of the world and the erratic fate.

"Well, very beautiful!" Xiao Yuxin replied, but her eyes lingered on Shen Juncheng's handsome side face. The light in the room was very dark, and there were projections on his face that flickered, but the lines were clear and sharp. Such a man, There must be many women lost for him, he is like the wine in her glass, the longer it is kept, the more mellow and delicious it will be.

Xiao Yuxin suddenly felt a heat in her heart, and her face seemed to be on fire, hot and red. She suddenly turned her face away, and asked softly in a hoarse voice: "Tonight...do you want me to stay?"

Shen Juncheng's thoughts were pulled back from his long-term memory by her words. He was slightly taken aback, the reality and memory were a bit inconsistent. After a while, he looked out the window and replied in the same low voice as her, "No Yes, thank you!"

In fact, it's okay to stay with her, but tonight, there are too many shadows of memories deposited in his body, and he can't get excited, so he can only apologize to her, she must be disappointed.

He didn't hear Xiao Yuxin's response right away, and after a while, he turned his face away, just in time to catch her staring at his eyes, "Sorry," he hastily added an explanation, "I'm a little tired today."

A well-behaved smile slowly climbed onto Xiao Yuxin's face, although she looked a little weak, "It's okay."

She approached him tenderly, and pressed a kiss on his lips, "Then, good night."

Her figure quickly disappeared into the night.

In the afternoon, Xiaoying was copying two documents in the photocopy room. Fan Zhijun's secretary came to her panting, "Ah! Xiaoying, so you are here. Mr. Fan is looking for you everywhere!"

"Oh, okay, I'll go as soon as I finish copying the materials!" Xiaoying said hastily.

The information was also for Fan Zhijun, so he happened to bring it along with him.

After entering the office, Fan Zhijun's face was full of high enthusiasm, "Xiaoying, come and sit!"

Xiaoying handed him the information, but he had no intention of looking at it, and told her loudly, "Just now Xiao Yuxin from Shen's called me and said that she had read our information and was very interested in our products. I hope I can meet and have a good chat when I have time, I took the opportunity to invite her to dinner tonight! Xiaoying, it seems that your call to Xia Bin worked! You must come with me tonight!"

This result was not only within Xiaoying's expectation, but also surprised her, because it went so smoothly and too quickly, but she felt embarrassed about the dinner, "Mr. I don't quite understand, there is nothing to say when I go there, and we don't know how Xia Bin recommended it to the company. If Miss Xiao finds out that there is a personal relationship in it, it may not have a good influence on Xia Bin himself, or It's better to be more cautious, don't you think?"

Fan Zhijun didn't think it was a big deal at first. Hearing Xiaoying's analysis, it seemed reasonable. After all, the horoscope has not been written yet, so it is indeed reckless.

"Then... why don't you call Xia Bin again and find out what he's saying?"

"Okay, I will, but for the dinner tonight I really..."

"Okay, you don't have to go." Fan Zhijun waved his hand to her with a smile this time, exposing her straightforwardly and said, "I know, you are worried about your son!"

Xiaoying also laughed a few times and felt relieved.

When leaving, Fan Zhijun called her back again, "Thank you, Xiaoying!"

Xiaoying read the obvious sense of gratitude from his voice.

The reason why she was so resolute in rejecting her direct participation in the Shen family was, on the one hand, to avoid suspicion, and on the other hand, she was also worried about Li Zhen.

Last night, Xiaoying was greatly surprised by his sudden change of color, and also noticed the knot in his heart that was already firmly tied.

She stayed up all night, thinking about the past, present and future, and finally decided to compromise with Li Zhen and their family. For three years, they lived peacefully, and she didn't want to destroy this hard-won family because of accidents.

She found time to call Xia Bin, and Xia Bin naturally gave her a high-sounding explanation according to Shen Juncheng's explanation, but in private, he added a few heartfelt words excitedly, "I didn't expect Shen Juncheng to treat you The company attaches so much importance to it, either because you Ke Lan is really good, or Mr. Shen just wants to use you to win over Li Zhen, Xiaoying, you have to be mentally prepared, haha!"

Xiaoying's heart was in a mess, "By the way, Xiao Xia, did you call Li Zhen yesterday?"

"No!" Xia Bin's blunt answer made Xiaoying feel so regretful that she wanted to hit the wall, "Mr. Shen told me not to look for him. He said that if he really wanted to invite Li Zhen over, he would do it himself—look, Mr. Shen is right. Li Zhen values ​​it so much! Xiaoying, I think you can communicate with Li Zhen first, I think it will be a matter of time before Mr. Shen finds him!"

Xiaoying could only smile wryly, and ended the call. She was in a difficult mood. It seemed that she couldn't hide from many things, so she could only take one step at a time.

When it was time, she greeted Fan Zhijun and left work on time.

All the members of the project team were sitting in Fan Zhijun's office, including Xiao Jiang and Wang Kai, and Fan Zhijun was arranging for them how to start the topic at the evening dinner.

When Xiao Jiang saw Xiaoying, he laughed and teased, "If you don't go, we might not be able to hold on!"

Xiaoying is usually friendly with everyone, so although people in a project team have obvious closeness to Fan Zhijun due to different division of labor, it is common for them to meet each other and make jokes.

"Xiao Jiang, don't make fun of me." Xiaoying immediately responded with a smile, "I really don't know anything about technology. It depends on your hard work tonight. I will wait to hear your good news tomorrow."

The night was getting dark, but Li Zhen hadn't come back yet, Xiaoying felt uneasy.

After the two quarreled last night, he went to the room next door to sleep all night.When Xiaoying got up to cook breakfast in the morning, she found that he had left without a word.

There has never been such a serious situation before. Li Zhen and Xiaoying's tempers are both mild-tempered. Once one of them is too wordy, the other will always consciously stop talking, preferring to rot the opinion in his heart. Therefore, in the past three years, let alone quarreling, there were not many opportunities for the two to even have a few words occasionally.

After serving Xiaozhi to sleep, Xiaoying closed the door, entered the guest bedroom, and read a book absently under the lamp. The mobile phone was placed within the range of her vision. She glanced at it several times. When they brought it over, the two of them got into an awkward situation, and one of them had to go down the steps first. She didn't like to keep her depression in her heart like this.

The color bell rang several times before Li Zhen answered. Xiaoying tried to make her voice softer, "Still working overtime? Why is it getting later every day?"

Li Zhen was silent for a moment, as if he had breathed a sigh of relief, and then answered her calmly, "No, I'm out with...friends, and I'll go back later."

"...Oh." Xiaoying was caught off guard by this answer. Li Zhen is used to following the rules. He either goes to work or stays at home. Even if he goes out to eat and chat, it is mostly a company event or a necessary entertainment among colleagues. I have never heard of him. A good friend to hang out with at night.

"Then..." Xiaoying really didn't think about how to express it. After thinking about it, it's not a big deal. If he really has one or two friends who can talk to relieve his emotions, maybe it's a good thing, at least it can ease the pain. Under his tense nerves, Xiaoying felt that with his character, friends are actually very necessary.

"Then when will you come back?" Her tone became more relaxed.

"I don't know yet." Li Zhen heard her soft tone, but suddenly became a little stiff, paused for a few seconds, and finally became a little depressed, "Is Xiaozhi asleep?"

"Ah."

"Go to bed early too, I'll be back in a while."

"Okay, be careful on the road."

After closing the line, Xiaoying sighed silently, stared at the phone in a daze for a while, then put it aside again, and started to read the book again, this time paying more attention than before.

Li Zhen put away his mobile phone, and Zhou Ting, who was sitting beside him, had already stopped sobbing, staring at him with red eyes, guilt-filled face, "Did I disturb your rest?"

"It's nothing." Li Zhen turned his head and glanced at her. Zhou Ting's pretty face was wet, and after all the crying just now, she was already in a mess.

He took a piece of paper from the tissue box in the car and handed it to her, "Wipe it off."

Zhou Ting took it gratefully and silently wiped the tears on her face.

Her emotions were really out of control today. Her boyfriend who had been in love for three years suddenly proposed to her to break up without warning. The reason was that he fell in love with someone else.

Last night, he packed up all his belongings in the rented house and moved them away. He didn't say a word to her, and he wanted to leave her so evasively. She was furious for a moment, and when he was about to step out of the house, she couldn't bear it. She couldn't stop stepping forward to tear at him, but was pushed hard by him, bumped into a corner of the low table, her knee was bruised, and his heartless figure quickly disappeared at the end of the field of vision.

During work today, Zhou Ting was always in a trance, unable to concentrate on specific affairs, and made frequent mistakes when taking notes in meetings. Her gaffe was quickly noticed by Li Zhen.

When it was time to get off work, he deliberately left her to work overtime for a period of time, and he didn't let her go with him until he finished the work at hand.

He drove the car to a remote fork, stopped on the side of the road, and asked kindly, "Did something happen?" Zhou Ting's tears flowed down immediately.

Afterwards, he spent about half an hour listening to Zhou Ting crying intermittently and complaining about her ex-boyfriend's ugly behavior until Xiaoying's call came.

"Do you feel better now?"

"Yeah." Zhou Ting nodded vigorously, then quickly raised her head and glanced at Li Zhen, she felt a bit ashamed when she regained her senses.

"I'm really sorry to let you listen to my nonsense here, and it took up your time. I know, it must be your wife who called just now. You...you all have families, and I..." Zhou Ting As he spoke, his mind fell into chaos again, and sadness came from it, and tears instantly filled his eyes.

Seeing her unbearably miserable appearance, Li Zhenxin couldn't bear it. He slowly stretched out his hand and rested on her hair. He gently stroked the back of her head twice. Zhou Ting's ambiguous behavior beyond the normal limit made Zhou Ting The crying stopped suddenly, and reminded Li Zhen in an instant. He withdrew his hand in embarrassment, and a cloud gradually covered his heart.

Zhou Ting lowered her head and carefully wiped away the tears, but she no longer dared to cry. The atmosphere in the car was extremely embarrassing.

In fact, ever since she was scratched on the palm of her hand in the workshop, she could feel the care from Li Zhen. his department assistant.From the bottom of her heart, her gratitude to him is not enough to express in words, even though she doesn't know what virtue and ability she has to win Li Zhen's gracious treatment.

If it is said that he has a plan for her, she will never believe it, because Li Zhen has never behaved or said or done inappropriately towards her, and he has never even looked at her ambiguously. What's more, no one in the company knows Li Zhen has a beautiful wife and a lively son, he loves them more than anything in this world, he is almost the representative of the model husband recognized by the company.

It is precisely because of this that Zhou Ting's gratitude and trust to him are even deeper. She respects Li Zhen like an elder.

However, all these seemingly impenetrable defenses were defeated by his gentle caress just now. Zhou Ting's heart seemed to be tied together with thousands of strings, and it became more and more difficult to sort out.

After about three or four minutes, Li Zhen calmed down first, staring at the front of the car, calmly persuaded in the old-fashioned tone of the elders: "Some people don't deserve your sadness for him at all, he left you, right It's a good thing for you. You should feel lucky that you can recognize his true face earlier. You have to have a long memory in the future, and the most important thing to find a boyfriend is his character, you know?"

"Understood." Zhou Ting obediently nodded in agreement.

She got some kind of comfort from his calm and calm tone, and the scene that stunned her just now seemed to have a reasonable explanation, she no longer guessed randomly, the Li Zhen in front of her was nothing like the Li Zhen she knew before Separate, care about her equally, and give her the backbone in the same way.

Fan Zhijun led his team to contact Shen's side very smoothly.The dinner allowed both the host and the guest to get to know each other in depth, and they also made an appointment for Shen to visit Kelan's factory on a specific date.

This result caused quite a stir within Ke Lan. At first, everyone thought that Fan Zhijun was a dying figure, but he didn't expect that such a big commotion would be made when the time came. Even the company's senior management was alarmed. He had an interview with Fan Zhijun in person, discussed how to deal with Shen's investigation, and redistributed manpower and material resources to his project team. Fan Zhijun finally regained some of his real power.

In private, he said sincerely to Xiaoying, "I realize more and more deeply that recruiting you into Kelan is the most correct thing I have done this year—Xiaoying, you are mine Lucky Star!"

But Xiaoying's feedback from Xiaojiang was much more vivid than Fan Zhijun's.

"Ah! I didn't expect Xiao Yuxin from the Shen family to be such a number one person! I used to hear her voice on the phone, and I felt cold. I didn't know until we met her. Dare to say, there is absolutely no woman in our Kelan who can compare to her!"

As soon as Xiaojiang finished speaking, he realized that it was not appropriate to praise other women so highly in front of Xiaoying, so he quickly added, "You are an exception, you are an exception!"

Xiaoying could only sneer at him.She has always been self-aware, and she is not arrogant enough to be jealous of a professional elite who is not her opponent at all, so she quickly changed the topic.

"Mr. Fan said that Mrs. Shen will come to visit our factory next Wednesday. Who will be here?"

"The other party didn't make it clear, so it's inconvenient for us to ask more questions, as if we don't trust him." Xiao Jiang thought for a while, "Those who had dinner together last night, like Miss Xiao, Manager Xia, and their product manager The manager, the one surnamed Zhu, should all come. Anyway, Ke Lan is going to make a big fuss now. Mr. Fan said just now that Mr. Qiao will personally review the visit process, and he will personally receive Mrs. Shen when the time comes. The visiting personnel! This project finally has a turning point!"

Xiao Jiang's guess was right. For this project, Ke Lan was fighting like a war. First, there was a wave of 5S in the entire office hall and workshop, followed by the standardization of the production process, from written documents to specific operations. , came a thorough inspection, and occasionally employees complained that this battle was even stricter than the ISO audit back then.

After a week of careful preparation, the day of Mrs. Shen's visit finally came long overdue.

As the chief person in charge of this project, Fan Zhijun has once again become the focus of the company's attention, and the situation is also moving in the direction he expected - he has successfully connected with Shen's line, and he has full confidence in how everything will proceed. .

Shen's visitors are expected to arrive at the company at ten o'clock, and at 09:30, Fan Zhijun and the project team members are already waiting in the office early.In order to make the visit safe and leave the best impression on people, he drafted a question-and-answer form overnight and distributed it to everyone early in the morning, so as not to lose the big because of an inconspicuous mistake in the process of communicating with customers.

At five minutes before ten o'clock, Mr. Qiao's secretary personally came to the door and told Fan Zhijun that Mr. Qiao had arrived at the company and would go with them to meet the guests in a while.

Fan Zhijun was delighted that the project he presided over was so valued by the general manager, "I don't know who will be the highest-ranking person among the Shen's visitors. If it's just a few generals, Mr. Qiao will come forward in person." Does it fit?"

Mr. Qiao's secretary smiled slightly, "Mr. Fan, don't worry, Mr. Qiao has already found out clearly that Shen's general manager, Shen Juncheng, will come to Kelan in person."

Fan Zhijun was stunned when he heard the news, and at the same time his heart sank. An ominous premonition slowly spread in his body, but he couldn't help but smile and said, "Then there will be President Lao Qiao."

When Xiaoying, who was sitting in Fan Zhijun's office, heard the news that Shen Juncheng would come in person, her heart skipped a beat!
Ke Lan's project may be very important to Fan Zhijun, but to Shen's, it seems that it is not so important that Shen Juncheng must personally come forward. If so, what is his purpose for coming?
Xiaoying didn't dare to think about it.

When her gaze inadvertently passed over Fan Zhijun's face, she unexpectedly discovered that there seemed to be some displeasure in his smile, and the original excitement and expectation seemed no longer so pure.

At five minutes past ten, Fan Zhijun's secretary came in and told everyone that Shen's people had arrived, in the largest conference room.

Fan Zhijun immediately called his subordinates to go with him, Xiaoying walked at the back, hesitantly trying to find an excuse to avoid, but seeing everyone's serious expressions, he had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​running away, and followed with lowered eyebrows and downcast eyes. Everyone went out together.

In the conference room, Mr. Qiao led a few managers who were in the limelight in Kelan and were chatting with the people of Shen's. The laughter spread to Fan Zhijun's eardrums wave after wave, and his depression became more and more severe.

(End of this chapter)