Beijing, after all, has nothing to do with me

Chapter 11 A Trip to Suzhou (3)
"Isn't it good for you? Everyone said, what should we do if Mr. Yuan doesn't do good for you?" The capable salesman asked his companion.

"Then punish the teacher to sing a song for us!" Someone suggested with a smile.

There was a burst of applause all around.

Tao Jie's face became more and more red, and Mai Zhiqiang saw that she was about to lose her strength, so he began to consider whether he should stand up and block her from drinking.

But to his surprise, Tao Jie suddenly picked up the cup on the table.

"I really don't know how to drink wine, but I don't even know how to sing." She stared intently at the red wine in her glass with a painful expression on her face, but when she thought that if she didn't drink it, these people might not let her go, so she simply grew up. The pain is worse than the short pain!

She gritted her teeth, raised her neck, and downed the whole glass of red wine.

There was an uproar, "Teacher Yuan is a good drinker!"

Tao Jie put the wine glass heavily on the table, she felt her whole face was burning.

"Come here, Teacher Yuan, I offer you a toast, you are such a heroine, this is!" Three or four wine glasses rushed to her at almost the same time, and everyone was shocked by her "heroic feat" just now!
Tao Jie knew that she couldn't drink any more, so she resolutely refused, "I can't drink any more, the glass just now is my toast to everyone, and besides, there is class tomorrow, if you drink it, no one will run errands for you!"

"It's okay, it's okay, if Teacher Yuan really gets down, just sleep well, and we won't bother you!" Sheng Jun, who was always standing beside her, said glibly.

At this time, Tao Jie's face was like a peach blossom, charming and charming, and there was a kind of charm that was rarely seen in ordinary times in the flowing water. Mai Zhiqiang looked into his eyes, and was touched deep in his heart for no reason.

"Okay, okay, let's just stop in moderation, everyone." Mai Zhiqiang stood up with a smile to make a relief, "Can't you see, Mr. Xiao Yuan really doesn't know how to drink, how can you be your opponent!"

"Hey! Mr. Mai is helping Mrs. Yuan? That's fine! Can you drink all the wine we gave Mrs. Yuan for her?" The salesmen went downhill and turned their attention to Mr. Mai Zhiqiang.

Tao Jie supported the back of a chair in front of her, and watched everyone gag in a daze, without saying a word, as if she was out of the way, her mind was chaotic and clear, and she felt a kind of unbridled pleasure.

Mai Zhiqiang quickly glanced at Tao Jie, and by the look on her face, he could tell that she was probably drunk.

"Yes." He said to the toasters unhurriedly, "but it's limited to the few glasses that have already been placed on the table, and it would be rude for anyone to fish in troubled waters and insist on toasting!"

He counted the cups in front of him, there were five cups in total. Before Tao Jie came, he didn't drink much. He thought to himself, he should be able to hold it, so he took a breath, and raised up to drink one by one.

Every time a drink is finished, someone will take the lead in applauding, probably because the scene here is so exciting, and many people from the other two tables also came to watch.

When Mai Zhiqiang was in sales, he held a good amount of alcohol, but after he had stomach bleeding, he drank obviously in moderation.He drinks differently from others, his face doesn't turn red as soon as he drinks, but the more he drinks, the whiter his face becomes, and the more energetic he becomes.

When there was the last cup left, he just stretched out his hand, but Tao Jie snatched the cup first. She pouted slightly, smiled and said loudly to the instigator, "I'm not a teacher, but since you Call me teacher, will you listen to what the teacher said or not?"

At this time, the onlookers were worried that the atmosphere was too dull, and they shouted for him, "Listen, of course."

Seeing Tao Jie's intoxicated appearance, the salesman was naturally embarrassed to bully her again, nodded and smiled and said, "Okay, I'll listen. Even if Teacher Yuan asks me to go up the knife mountain and down the oil pan, I will not hesitate!"

Tao Jie smiled, "That's not necessary, the frying pan needs to be set up, which is very troublesome."

Everyone laughed, unexpectedly, this shy little girl turned out to be Neixiu.

"I suddenly thought of a sentence just now, it's not rude to come and go. You have offered me so many glasses, no matter what, I have to pay back!" She turned her head and said to Mai Zhiqiang suddenly: "Mr. Mai, this toast I can use it as a favor, do you have any objection?"

Mai Zhiqiang didn't know what kind of medicine she was selling in her gourd, but it was always a good thing to drink less, so he nodded with a smile.

A glass of red wine is really trivial for sales, so he took it without saying a word, and drank it down in front of everyone.

Tao Jie applauded with satisfaction, at this moment her head began to swell, she realized that she had to leave as soon as possible, otherwise she would not be able to make a fool of herself.

"It's getting late, I think everyone should have almost eaten, let's stop here today. I'll go to checkout, and you should go back to rest early."

"Hey, Teacher Yuan, this is not too..." The salesman obviously didn't enjoy himself and wanted to continue making trouble.

Tao Jie turned around, waved her hand, and simply refused, "I'm a counselor, and I have the final say. Also, my surname is not Yuan, but Tao."

Checkout is very simple, just ask the person in charge of the hotel reception to sign.

After signing, Tao Jie felt top-heavy, so she didn't go back to the box, and walked directly to the elevator by touching the wall, ready to go back to the room to rest.

Her room was on the same floor as Betty's, and just after she got out of the elevator, she saw Betty rushing towards the elevator, walking while answering the phone, frowning, looking extremely bored.

"...Listen to me, I have arranged everything, even the biggest project I just finished reviewing with the boss yesterday... I know, just wait for me for two more days, I finish my lecture tomorrow, and I can go there the day after tomorrow, I Tickets are all bought...

She seemed to be explaining something to someone, but the other party seemed dissatisfied with her answer. After a short pause, her voice suddenly raised, "Then what do you want from me? I also have a job, and I can't lose it." The next thirty students don't care..."

Betty stood sternly at the elevator entrance, looking very excited. Tao Jie was a little embarrassed when she passed by her, and didn't know whether to greet her, but it was obvious that Betty's attention was not on anything other than the phone.

Tao Jie stayed behind her for a few seconds, touched her hot cheek again, and finally decided not to disturb her, just brushed past her.

Back in the room, she boiled a pot of hot water for herself, tore open the free green tea bag, made a cup of scalding hot tea and left it on the table, and then went to the bathroom to take a shower.

Just as he changed into his pajamas, someone knocked lightly on the door.

She glanced at the door twice, not knowing who it might be, but there are many students, so people often come to her.She had to change another dress and walked over to open the door.

Standing outside the door was Mai Zhiqiang. Seeing that she was able to walk over to open the door calmly, a look of relief immediately appeared on her face, "Are you okay?"

Tao Jie was quite embarrassed, "It's nothing, I'm not drunk."

"I saw you just now...cough..." Mai Zhiqiang stopped talking halfway, "It's just as long as you're fine."

"Thank you Mr. Mai for your concern." Tao Jie said with a smile, sincerely thanking him.

Mai Zhiqiang just wanted to see how she was doing, and he was supposed to leave after seeing her, but he couldn't move.

"Would you like to come in and sit down?" Seeing that he was standing still, Tao Jie invited him out of politeness. However, if he really came in, she felt that she might be a little nervous. She couldn't tell why, but it was not so nature.

Fortunately, he waved his hand and said, "Oh, no need."

But he didn't leave immediately.

"Why did you snatch the last glass of wine just now?" He asked half-jokingly.

"That's not a robbery!" Tao Jie raised her hand to shake her hair, squeezed the bridge of her nose, and made a strange face of embarrassment. If he is drunk, naturally he will not attack him. In fact, he is not necessarily drunk. On the contrary, the more he drinks, the whiter his face is. It looks like he has a lot of alcohol, but in fact, that is the most likely to hurt his stomach. I just saw you like that, Your face is frighteningly pale, so I'm a little worried, and I think it's better for you not to drink."

Mai Zhiqiang watched her quietly. Tao Jie's eyes were not X-rays, so he couldn't see what was going on in his mind at the moment, but he felt that his eyes were a bit unusual compared to usual, so he hurriedly explained: " You were just blocking the drink for me, if I drink you to the ground, I will be guilty of a serious crime."

Mai Zhiqiang suddenly laughed, his face was bright, he didn't say anything, he nodded slightly and said: "It's getting late, you should rest." His voice was extremely soft.

Tao Jie gently closed the door, thought for a while, raised her hand and pressed the "Do Not Disturb" warning light, then turned around and walked a few steps, then hurried back to turn off the light, stood at the door and blinked a few times Eyes, I can't figure out what I'm doing.

She was very sleepy, but her nerves were already in a state of excitement. Looking at the time, it was almost time to talk to Li Yaoming, so she sat in the armchair and called him.

Li Yaoming's voice was a bit noisy, and after asking, he found out that he was having dinner with Wang Fei and Lao Lang outside. It seemed that Zhao Zhicheng was about to leave Beijing, and they wanted to see him off.

"Why did he leave?" Tao Jie asked this purely out of boredom, she hardly had any impression of Li Yaoming's former colleague.

"I don't want to stay in Beijing anymore." Li Yaoming replied sullenly, sounding unhappy, but he didn't intend to talk too much.

Tao Jie thought that he must be concerned about the open mouths around him, since it was nothing serious anyway, so she hung up hastily.

She didn't dare to tell Li Yaoming that she had been drinking, for fear that he would be worried.

After talking on the phone, Tao Jie slowly drank the already cold tea, feeling a little complacent in her heart. Li Yaoming didn't realize that she had drunk, maybe she wasn't drunk, otherwise how could her consciousness be so clear.It's really not necessarily a good capacity for alcohol, and I haven't tried it before.

Feeling tired gradually, Tao Jie drank the last sip of water and planned to go to the bathroom before going to bed.

She didn't know that Li Yaoming on the other end of the phone was already flushed from drinking, but this was definitely not a happy vent, but more of confusion and panic about the future.

Zhao Zhicheng drank the last drop of wine in his toast, and covered the bottom of the glass to his buddies, "Brothers, I'm going to go first!"

Wang Fei cleared his throat and looked at him with bloodshot eyes, "Have you really decided?"

"Well, it's decided." Zhao Zhicheng nodded emphatically, "Actually, this idea has been formed in my heart for a long time. I have worked here for five full years. Five years, but I still can't find a sense of belonging."

Zhao Zhicheng’s voice reveals a vicissitudes that are not commensurate with his age, “Now I finally understand—Beijing is great, but it doesn’t belong to me. So, I have to thank the company for this layoff plan, which gave me the final decision. opportunity for determination."

He received the company's dismissal letter during the new round of layoffs, and received a fairly decent termination fee.

"This money, if I go back to my hometown to appraise a piece of foundation, it will be enough to build a two-story building." Zhao Zhicheng stuffed a piece of meat into his mouth with a smile.

But no one here agreed to laugh with him, and everyone felt heavy for their own future.

An ethereal melancholy hangs over their heads.

After the banquet was over, Li Yaoming and Lao Lang didn't separate immediately. They found another food stall and sat down. Neither of them knew what to talk about, but simply felt that they couldn't just separate silently.

The old wolf ordered another bowl of sparerib noodles, burying his head in his mouth and munching. Li Yaoming said beside him, "Fuck! Why are you like a pig? Didn't you feed you with all the big fish and meat just now?"

The old wolf didn't raise his head, "I wasn't in the mood to eat just now. You see, I only moved a few chopsticks tonight."

"Now you're in the mood?" Li Yaoming gave him a sidelong glance, and lit a cigarette leisurely.

"Yeah!" Old Wolf nodded fiercely, and poked him with the handle of his chopsticks, "Let's do that, we have to hurry up, what do you think?"

Li Yaoming took a deep puff on his cigarette, and after a while he asked, "Do you have enough money? Should we wait a little longer, what can we do if we don't have the money to start a company?"

"I don't want to wait any longer. Can people suffocate to death? Even if I borrow it, I have to borrow it!"

After eating the noodles, the old wolf wiped his mouth and said, "I have fifty or sixty thousand in my hand, I can take them all out."

Li Yaoming glanced at him, "Gu Jiaken?"

"What is she not willing to do? She is so excited! When the company is formally established, she will come over immediately and become an administrative manager or marketing manager or something. Anyway, she can't work in a bank. She is used as a nanny every day. Qian can't even match the director's fraction, it's so fucking inhuman!" The old wolf spattered, paused, and then said again: "By the way, Tao Jie is okay, right?"

Li Yaoming didn't answer immediately, he smoked a cigarette into a short stub, and then extinguished it in a small dish of hot sauce.

"It should be fine." He said flatly.

"That's good." Lao Lang slapped the table cheerfully, finally got rid of the depression of tonight and cheered up again.

Because of drinking some wine, this sleep was extremely dark and sweet. When she woke up, Tao Jie felt that she had only slept for more than ten minutes. Looking at the reminder clock on the bed cabinet, it was already six o'clock in the morning.

The morning time was still going smoothly. It was approaching eleven o'clock. Mai Zhiqiang made some comments on the completion of the projects of each group. Session with a consultant.

Taking advantage of the time when the students were grading the course, Tao Jie chatted with Mai Zhiqiang who was standing beside him.She asked him when he would return to Beijing, and Mai Zhiqiang said it would be early in the morning.

"I'm so happy, you can finally be free." She sighed sincerely, thinking that the next two days would be spent in this crooked hotel that she was tired of looking at, and she felt terribly bored.

"You don't like this job?" Mai Zhiqiang looked at her and asked.

Tao Jie curled her lips, "You can see that I spin like a top every day! No one would like such a job."

After getting along these few days, she has become acquainted with Mai Zhiqiang a lot. Mai Zhiqiang is not as harsh as Betty, and he always speaks kindly, and he takes good care of her everywhere. It is easy for people to forget that he is a director level. Tao Jie unavoidably relaxed her strings and spoke a lot more casually. She even secretly thought that it would be great if her boss was Mai Zhiqiang. There will be so many complaints like now.

But after thinking about it, she is not brave enough to really talk to Mai Zhiqiang. BR's personnel management system is relatively complicated, and it can be said that it is troublesome to transfer positions. It depends on whether there are vacancies in the position. What the other party's boss wants must also take into account the feelings of her own boss; more importantly, Tao Jie is a self-disciplined person. She would rather suffer a little loss than make people think that she is a person who does not hesitate to use all means to gain advantage. Therefore, the better someone treats her, the less she wants to let him down, and the less she can ask him to help.

Mai Zhiqiang smiled and didn't answer her fault, but instead asked: "Is there a dinner party tonight?"

"No!" Tao Jie answered very simply, "Betty said that the training costs might be overrun, so I'll find a way to save some money. Besides," she tilted her head and secretly made a face at Mai Zhiqiang, and muttered, "I can I don't want to be drunk again."

Mai Zhiqiang pursed his lips and laughed, "You can drink quite well, so you won't be able to."

He likes to see her occasional naughty appearance, like a cat that can only change faces. I don’t know if this is her true face. Many professional women have become more and more professional in the workplace, with quick thinking, decent speech, and competent handling. But at the same time, it also loses a lot of the cuteness that women should have. When dealing with them, it is often easy for people to ignore their gender.

People handed in the evaluation forms one after another. Tao Jie glanced quickly, and happily said to Mai Zhiqiang: "Your score is very high! Maybe there will be an Excellence Award this quarter."

Mai Zhiqiang said with a smile: "It's not surprising that it is rated, but it is unexpected if it is not rated!"

Tao Jie raised her eyebrows, thinking that this person is really conceited, but the instructor's score is directly related to the evaluation results of the overall training, so it is a happy thing anyway.

Mai Zhiqiang looked at his watch, "I'll finish after I say a few more words." He glanced at Tao Jie hesitantly, "Are you free tonight?"

"I don't know, it depends on Betty's arrangements." She raised her head, "What do you want?"

"Oh, it's nothing... Just ask." He actually wanted to invite her to dinner alone, but he felt a little awkward, so he decided to give up after thinking about it.

There was a short nap at noon, and the students were unwilling to stay in the boring classroom, so they walked out of the hotel to wander around. Tao Jie took this time to check all the items that Betty needed for her lectures, and found that a page turner was broken. Yes, this is indispensable for Betty's lectures. Fortunately, she still has a spare and put it in her room, so she hurried upstairs to get it.

While opening the box to search, a sudden knock on the door startled her.She walked to the door, didn't open it right away, and asked cautiously, "Who is it?"

"It's me, Betty." Sure enough, it was the boss's voice.

Tao Jie quickly opened the door.

Standing outside the door was Betty, who looked miserable and was about to cry.

(End of this chapter)