Beijing, after all, has nothing to do with me

Chapter 22 Everyone Has a Secret (3)
Gu Jia continued: "When we first registered the company, Li Yaoming made an agreement with us, Zhang Jian, that half of the funds would be paid by each person, and Li Yaoming still patted his chest to ensure that there would be no problem, but it turned out that more than half a month had passed, and his money was still late. If you can’t get it out late, ask him. He always has reasons of one kind or another. It’s not that we are unreasonable and we must do something to him, but the company has started normal operations and needs money everywhere. Zhang Jian is an iron buddy with him. , I’m sorry to open my mouth, but things can’t be done like this. He wants the title of the second shareholder, but he refuses to get the funds in place, so we are always holding on. So I thought about it, and I think it’s more reliable to discuss it with you, Li Yaoming Don't you always listen to me?"

"When was your company registered?" Tao Jie finally stopped coughing, her face was still flushed, but her mouth was full of bitter taste.

"Just at the beginning of the month, almost a month has passed, and the legal representative is still your family Li Yaoming!"

At the beginning of August, Tao Jie calculated in her heart that it was around the time she came back from Suzhou, that is to say, at that time Li Yaoming had already made up his mind to start a company, no matter whether he wanted to or not.

"How much does he owe you?"

"It's not how much money we owe, but the company." Gu Jia corrected her seriously, "The registered capital plus some expenses after operation is about 11 yuan. become."

As Gu Jia said, she scrutinized Tao Jie's expression carefully again, as if a little disbelieving, "Li Yaoming...has he really never told you about this?"

Tao Jie lowered her head and ignored it, disappointment welling up in her heart like a tidal wave.

"I've always wondered why Li Yaoming is so procrastinating. See, you're not such an unreasonable person! He didn't tell you if he dared to..." Gu Jia chattered to herself.

Before she asked her next question, Tao Jie raised her head, stopped her and said, "Can you take me to their company?"

Gu Jia was taken aback for a moment, then hurriedly said: "Yes, of course."

The new company is also in Shangdi, but it is close to the urban-rural junction, the location is relatively remote, and the buildings are also very old, but once you walk in, you find that the inside is actually a thriving scene.

Mingjian Software Creative Co., Ltd. is on the third floor. When you enter the door, there is a very beautiful and grand front desk. Although you can recognize it at a glance, it is just a modified podium. There is a long-haired girl standing behind the podium. She looks very young. Seeing Gu Jia, he greeted enthusiastically, "Sister Gu!" At the same time, he looked at Tao Jie who was following Gu Jia with curious eyes.

Gu Jia nodded to her, "Mr. Zhang and Mr. Li are there?"

"They're all here! I haven't been out this afternoon." The girl replied with a smile.

Tao Jie felt that the title "Mr. Li" was so strange that it was almost ridiculous, but the two people in front of her were talking in a serious manner. She immediately smiled in her heart, and the really ridiculous person was actually herself.

A wall away from the front desk is the entire office hall, about [-] square meters, with several cubicles, a row of low cabinets by the window, copiers, fax machines and other office facilities are readily available and neatly arranged.There are not many employees, except for the girl seen at the front desk, there are only one or two figures shaking in the entire office area.

"Don't look at how small this place is, it only cost [-] to [-] yuan to decorate and buy these office furniture! I borrowed it from two friends who are securities dealers. Zhang Jian and I don't have so much money!" Gu Jia followed Tao Jie's attention His eyes are still explaining.

At the end farthest from the door, there are two or three rooms separated by frosted glass. In the interlacing of light and shadow, people can be seen moving inside.Tao Jie has good eyesight, and she saw a copper signboard on the glass door at a glance, with the words "President's Office" and "Technical Director's Office" written on it.

As if reading Tao Jie's mind, Gu Jia smiled again and said: "These signs, and the marks on the file cabinet, including the front desk at the door, are all your ideas. It's all set, according to Zhang Jian and I, it's not too late to wait for the business volume to increase before recruiting people, of course, these are not big problems."

Tao Jie found that Gu Jia was talking about these business experiences with a bit of a proprietress air.

"Here, Li Yaoming is in that office." Gu Jia pointed to the door marked "Technical Director" and said to Tao Jie.

The office walls are frosted glass, and the doors facing the walls are completely transparent.Through the glass door, Tao Jie saw that Li Yaoming was leaning over to point out a girl sitting in front of the computer. The girl was not ugly, but she had a boyish accent, super short hair, a plaid shirt, jeans, and something glistening on her nose. It was shiny, and when I looked closely, it turned out to be a nail on the nose!
After Li Yaoming finished pointing, he raised his hand and gave the girl a slight push on the head, "You are so stupid!"

The girl didn't care, and stretched out her hand to caress the place he pushed, her eyes were full of admiration, and her face was full of anger and joy, "You still have this unique skill, if you don't tell me sooner, what kind of master are you!"

Li Yaoming straightened up proudly, as if he didn't care about her, "Think and think about it yourself, don't be too lazy to learn from the master."

The moment he stood up straight, his eyes caught the two people at the door. When Tao Jie's expressionless face came into his sight, his originally confident and joyful face suddenly turned pale and colorless.

"Li Yaoming, your girlfriend is here to find you!" Gu Jia shouted with a smile.

Tao Jie noticed that the girl sitting in front of the computer shot at herself with sharp eyes.

"You, why are you here?" After being stunned for a moment, Li Yaoming rushed out hastily and asked Tao Jie incoherently.

Tao Jie wanted to put on a relaxed smile, but she couldn't after trying several times. She just realized that what she cared most at the moment was not Li Yaoming's concealment of the matter of starting a business, but the intimacy between him and that girl just now. Her behavior, to her, was an unprecedented and dangerous atmosphere.

Gu Jia's loud voice called out the old wolf from another office. Seeing the embarrassing confrontation between Li Yaoming and Tao Jie, he immediately understood that something was wrong, so he could not help complaining to Gu Jia in a low voice, "I want you to be troublesome." !"

Gu Jiali replied bluntly: "Sooner or later, let her know that there is nothing to hide, and it's not a bad thing!"

The old wolf looked at Li Yaoming and Tao Jie at a loss, then at the girl in Li Yaoming's office who was studying computers, scratched his head and said, "Why don't we go to my room and talk about it?"

Lao Lang's office is very messy, there are not many chairs, everyone can only stand and talk.

In fact, there is nothing to say.

The old wolf saw that the situation was not right, so he pulled Gu Jia and walked towards the door. When he reached the door, he turned his head and said awkwardly: "Hey, you two, have a good talk, have a good talk."

Li Yaoming didn't know where to start talking to Tao Jie, "Tao Zi, I..." He opened and clenched his palms, and then opened them again. He knew that no matter how he explained, the crime of "deliberately concealing and failing to report" was a crime. There is no escape.

Tao Jie interrupted him suddenly and quickly, "Don't say anything."

She lowered her head and took out the passbook stored with the wallet from her small leather bag. She always carried this passbook with her, and there was not even a lockable drawer in the rented house.

"This, you can use it." She handed the passbook to Li Yaoming, but did not look at him, "I don't want to hear them say that about you behind your back."

Li Yaoming didn't answer, her abnormal quickness made him feel uneasy, and shame gradually gathered in his eyes, "Tao Zi, this money is, it's...for us to get married and buy a house..." His voice became lower and lower.

Tao Jie smiled, buying a house and getting married sounds like such a distant topic, she didn't pick up on him, she took a few steps forward, put the passbook directly into his hand, and then zipped her small bag, " You are busy, I have to go first, I will only interfere with your work here."

A few words that were obviously very chic, but when she said them, she found that her tears had already flowed to her nasal cavity, so she hurriedly turned and walked towards the door.

"Wait a minute!" Li Yaoming hurried over and grabbed her arm in time, but he didn't want to return her passbook, but said with guilt, "I'll see you off."

When the two came out side by side, the old wolf was still arguing with Gu Jia in a low voice in the corner. When he saw that they were about to leave in peace, the old wolf was no less astonished than Li Yaoming, "Tao Zi, let's go now?"

"Yeah." Tao Jie nodded, she had successfully suppressed her tears, smiled at the old wolf and said, "I'm sorry for delaying you for so long, it's all my fault."

"What did you say?" The old wolf was very annoyed, and when his eyes passed over Li Yaoming, he only felt that his face was gloomy.

After leaving the office building, Li Yaoming sent Tao Jie to the nearest station. The sun was shining so hot that there was nowhere to hide.

"If the bus is too crowded, you can take a taxi."

"En." Tao Jie responded, still turning her head away from him, "Hurry up and go back, don't stand here."

Li Yaoming didn't move, "Tao Zi, you...are you really not angry with me?"

After a while, Tao Jie finally turned her face to face him. There was something in her eyes that he was not familiar with, cold and cold, but there was a clear smile on the corner of her mouth.

"What's there to be angry about? You've done what you need to do. What's the use of being angry now?"

Li Yaoming felt ashamed, "I didn't mean to hide it from you. When I told you about this, I had already discussed it with Lao Lang. I thought you wouldn't have any objections... I didn't tell you afterwards, just because I was afraid that you would get angry. "

"I'm not angry, really." Tao Jie looked back at the old office building, "at least half of it is yours, right?"

Li Yaoming was a little puzzled but still couldn't help smiling proudly.

The car came, Tao Jie squeezed up with the people waiting for the car, Li Yaoming stared at her back, and suddenly shouted loudly: "Tao Zi, I will go back early tonight!"

He anxiously waited for Tao Jie's reply, but she just squeezed into the car and never looked back.

Back in the small nest, Tao Jie took off her little flower slippers from the shoe rack at the door. This is one of the petty bourgeois hobbies that she has achieved so far since she came to Beijing. The rubber soles stepped on the gray and gray brick floor, feeling a little tired. The unrelenting procrastination and heaviness, which was about to trip her up and keep her where she was, why didn't she feel it before?

She tossed the bag on the couch, along with all the camouflage, and lay down on the bed, crying hard and loudly.

It's really not about the money.

But what is the problem?She asked herself anxiously, but she couldn't get an answer. She just felt that she was getting farther and farther away from Li Yaoming.

Of course she heard what Li Yaoming yelled under the car, and a sneer appeared in her heart at that moment, what is this?Take out the passbook to return it?
In the evening, Li Yaoming really came back early.

Tao Jie had already cleared up all her emotions, cooked a few summer appetizers, and a pot of millet porridge.

"Hey, it's really delicious!" Li Yaoming lifted the lid of the pot and smelled it, and praised a little exaggeratedly, "It's really good to eat this in summer!"

"If you want to eat, do it yourself." Tao Jie sat in a newly bought small rattan chair and watched TV. She no longer jumped up and down around him as before when she saw Li Yaoming come back.

Of course Li Yaoming is also very knowledgeable, he took a bowl to serve the porridge and ate it, while chatting up Tao Jie, "Does it look good, this one?"

"It's okay." Tao Jie replied lightly, she was watching a long and boring Korean drama, and the paper fan in her hand was slowly fanning.

She knew that although Li Yaoming pretended to be relaxed on the surface, he had been secretly watching her all the time.

She really wanted to turn her head and yell at him, "Are you tired?"

Of course she didn't do that, since he pretended to be relaxed, she could do it too, so she endured it and pretended she didn't see anything.

After eating, Li Yaoming took the initiative to wash the dishes, and then dragged a small bench to sit beside Tao Jie.

"Here." He poked Tao Jie's arm with a stack of hard things, she lowered her head, saw a stack of thick banknotes, and hurriedly avoided it.

"What are you doing?"

"It's for you, keep it." Li Yaoming said softly, "I gave all the money that the old wolf should give, and there is still some left."

"No need." Tao Jie flatly refused, "You keep it for yourself, don't expect Gu Jia to come to me again in a few days."

Li Yaoming was a little embarrassed, "She, cough, the old wolf has already said about her."

"She's right." Tao Jie said flatly, "If it were me, I would ask Lao Lang for it."

Li Yaoming didn't dare to speak anymore, but he never retracted his hand holding the money. After a while, he said again: "There is also a part of your money in that passbook, I can't..."

Tao Jie's face visibly froze for a moment, and even her fan froze, but only for a few seconds, she glanced at the money in Li Yaoming's hand again, took it over without saying a word, took out her bag and put it away .

When she straightened up, Li Yaoming hugged her from behind her. Tao Jie resisted instinctively in her heart, but her body was very weak. She just let him circle her, and she felt that she was sneering all over her body.

After a moment of silence, Li Yaoming turned her around again, letting her cheek rest on his chest.

The buttons of his shirt rubbed tightly against Tao Jie's delicate face, which hurt a little.

Don't cry, she told herself in her heart, don't cry.

She really didn't cry.

(End of this chapter)