strange i love you

Chapter 23 Run, Grapefruit (1)
From: Grapefruit

I am unemployed again!
To make matters worse, John also left the company.I don't know why this kind of thing happened, I have been in the workplace for so long, how can this kind of thing still happen.Commercial plagiarism, really angry! !But what can I do?But fortunately, I finally found a new job, so I won't become a member of the Sanwu.

Tomorrow is another day, let the bad guys drink the northwest wind!
come on!Damn it!

Best Response

Pillowing with Baby Bear: It's just too unprofessional, okay?Alas, you are still too young, you should pay more attention next time!

Yellow-yellow marmalade: come on!
Boss Xu is me: Now that you have found a new job, let’s start a new life, don’t cry, the crown will fall!
On the day of reporting to Zheng Tao's company, Lin Youxi called him a day in advance. Zheng Tao didn't say much on the phone, but said succinctly: "Come on, the door of my studio is always open for you."

It's really just a studio, much smaller than Lin Youxi thought.The studio is located in a residential area, only [-] square meters. The green paint on the walls was painted by Zheng Tao himself and his friends, but the layout is very warm and comfortable. It doesn’t feel like an office. Instead, it looks like a secret built by several friends. base.

"We arranged it however we felt comfortable. We all know each other, so we don't have to feel reserved." Zheng Tao arranged a place for Lin Youxi, and there was a glass vase on the table with blue bellflowers in it.

"It's very emotional." Lin Youxi reached out and touched the flower, "But you haven't told me how much my monthly salary is."

Lin Youxi doesn't like these vain things. No matter how cozy the office is, the salary is not high, and Lin Youxi has no motivation to work.Lin Youxi followed Zheng Tao to his office, Zheng Tao poured her a cup of coffee, Lin Youxi shook her head and said, "I'm trying to lose weight, just drink plain water."

After hearing this, Zheng Tao couldn't help teasing her again: "Are you ready to start a new life?"

"I want to work hard and earn back everything I lost before."

"Haha." Zheng Tao smiled, sat down, and said seriously, "Now the salary I give you is definitely not as high as you used to be in the company, and I can't afford that much. We are now equivalent to starting a business, the initial stage I can't promise to give you much better treatment, but I will definitely not default on wages."

"I know." Lin Youxi said, "I understand that the studio cannot be compared with ordinary companies. I can apply for other companies, but I choose to come here. Do you know why?"

Zheng Tao thought for a while, but couldn't think of any reason, and then deliberately asked jokingly: "Could it be that you have a crush on me?"

"I have a crush on your size." Lin Youxi rolled his eyes at him, "I think that with you, at least the effort is directly proportional to the gain."

Zheng Tao was startled, then smiled and said, "Of course, as long as a project is successfully completed, the dividends I will give must be higher than those of the previous company."

The two happily reached an agreement in this way.

Including Zheng Tao and Lin Youxi, there are eight people in the studio.The studio was just established, with little money, hired three or four new people, and one or two hadn't graduated from college yet.Lin Youxi couldn't help feeling a little worried. According to the status quo, she still has to work while bringing in newcomers, and the newcomers brought out probably won't stay in the studio for long.Zheng Tao looked optimistic, laughing and joking in the office, and even asked people to buy snacks online and eat them in the office.

The working atmosphere is very relaxed. After lunch, everyone sits on the wicker chairs on the balcony to drink tea and eat snacks.Because there are so many young people, they don't have so many scruples in speaking, and what they say often makes everyone laugh.The discussion plan was also thought of by everyone, and Lin Youxi quickly integrated into this new group.This is the happiest stage of her work in the past few years.

After working overtime in the evening, a group of people wandered to the street outside the community to have supper.Because some people's homes are far away and they have to catch the last bus, they left first.In the end, Lin Youxi, Zheng Tao, and two girls were left.Everyone chatted while drinking cold beer.

When someone asked Lin Youxi if she had a boyfriend, Lin Youxi froze for a moment, the chopsticks in her hand almost fell to the ground.Zheng Tao, who was at the side, sensed something was wrong with her, and hurriedly cheered her up: "Are you worried that your sister Lin won't get married? Haha..."

Lin Youxi glared at him: "You can't marry a wife."

"I have a lot of people chasing after me, okay?"

Before Lin Youxi could speak, the two girls across from her started giggling.

"We think Director Zheng and Sister Lin are a good match. If they are still single, we can try together."

Lin Youxi was drinking water, when she heard this sentence, she spit out a sip of water.She wiped her mouth, pointed at Zheng Tao in disbelief and said, "I'm not interested in sissies."

"I'm not interested in fat people either."

"...Who are you calling fat!" Lin Youxi rolled up her sleeves and showed her wrists, "I've lost a lot of weight, okay?"

"Haha, I usually see you guys being so noisy in the company, and I feel like happy enemies." The little sister who just graduated really dared to say anything, which made Lin Youxi's face turn red and turn pale.

Zheng Tao coughed twice and said, "Okay, okay, let's eat quickly. If you two guys can put your gossip mind into your work, you might have already become regulars."

Lin Youxi buried her head in eating the squid, she didn't know if it was because she put too much chili or what, her face was so hot.

After eating supper, Zheng Tao said to drive Lin Youxi off, but Lin Youxi declined: "You can still take the bus, don't bother."

"Suddenly so polite?" Zheng Tao thought of something, and asked in surprise, "You shouldn't be because of what they said just now—"

"No, I just want to walk alone. Nothing."

"What happened to you a while ago?" After hesitating for a while, Zheng Tao still asked, "Did you quarrel with your boyfriend? When you mentioned boyfriend just now, you looked dazed."

"we broke up."

"Aren't they all ready to get married?" Zheng Tao asked in surprise, "Haven't all the houses been bought?"

Lin Youxi took a deep breath, and smiled forcedly: "Yes, but we still broke up. Even I didn't expect it. We have been together for six years. I thought we would get married and be together forever, but It ended up being separated."

Zheng Tao didn't know what to say for a while, but found a piece of bonbon in his bag.He said to Lin Youxi, "Stretch out your hand."

"What?"

"Stretch out."

Lin Youxi stretched out her hand, and Zheng Tao held her hand, closed her eyes, and said with a serious face, "I will cast a magic spell on you, which can help you improve your luck. You will be fine in the future Wake up, you will meet a prince charming, work smoothly, make a lot of money..."

Zheng Taoxu babbled about it for a long time, and finally took out the liqueur chocolate from the bag and put it in Lin Youxi's hand: "Eat this, and your wish will come true."

Lin Youxi laughed out loud, "You are really naive."

"This is a beautiful blessing." Zheng Tao unwrapped the chocolate wrapper and fed the chocolate into Lin Youxi's mouth, "Eat it and it will come true."

"Didn't you say that I'm fat, and you let me eat chocolate, and you don't feel at ease." Although she said so, Lin Youxi still took the chocolate.The chocolate slowly melted in the mouth, and the heart of the wine overflowed as soon as the teeth were bitten.

Maybe it's because she hasn't eaten anything sweet for a long time, but Lin Youxi thinks this chocolate is so delicious.

While sitting on the bus, Lin Youxi received a call from Qin Zhihao.After returning from the Chinese New Year, the two contacted online several times because of the house.When she answered the phone, Qin Zhihao asked her if she was at home.

"Just got off work, on the bus. It will be there in about 10 minutes."

"I just finished eating with a client around here and wanted to talk to you."

"Well, yes."

"Then I'll wait for you downstairs at your house."

Although it's spring, the weather is still cold.Qin Zhihao was wearing a down jacket and a linen scarf.The scarf was woven for him by Lin Youxi, and he kept exhaling white air, putting his hands in his pockets.

Lin Youxi called his name from a distance, waved to him, and took him to sit in a nearby KFC.She didn't take him home, after all, the two had broken up.After ordering two cups of hot drinks, Lin Youxi didn't know what to say when they met each other.

"That." Lin Youxi moved her mouth and said, "What can I do for you?"

Qin Zhihao took a big sip of the drink before his body slowly recovered, he sniffed and said, "It's about the house."

"Didn't you say you were going to sell it?"

"I thought so before, but now I think it's a pity."

"What are you going to do?"

"Why don't you transfer the house to my name, and I'll give you some money?"

Lin Youxi was stunned for a moment, she knew that Qin Zhihao had no money at all.I have always agreed to sell the house for a penny before, which can ease the financial constraints by the way.Why did you change your mind all of a sudden?
"How much money do you have in your hand?" Lin Youxi asked, "Can you come up with that much money at once?"

"Me." One sentence made Qin Zhihao speechless, he looked a little embarrassed, coughed twice and said, "I really don't have that much money now, so it may take several times before I can give it to you."

Lin Youxi had no money in her hand, and she originally wanted to get the money from the house sale to buy some financial management funds, but she couldn't tell Qin Zhihao that she couldn't.

"Then when are you going to pay it off?"

"This year, before the end of this year, I will definitely return all the money to you." Seeing that Lin Youxi had no intention of objecting, Qin Zhihao looked very happy.

"Why did you suddenly change your mind?" Lin Youxi asked abruptly.

The expression on Qin Zhihao's face froze instantly, as if he was trying to hide something, he said uncomfortably: "After all, it is a house that we have decorated and furnished together, and we have developed feelings after living in it for a long time, so I don't want to change it. Anyway, I will buy a house in the future , I don’t want to be so troublesome anymore.”

Lin Youxi didn't pursue it any further, she nodded lightly and said, "Okay, the house will be given to you, you can arrange a time, let's go through the formalities."

Qin Zhihao originally said that he wanted to write an IOU to Lin Youxi, but he couldn't find the pen and paper for a while, Lin Youxi saw it and said directly: "Forget it, if you can't find it, you don't need it. We have been together for so long, so we don't need the IOU." .”

Qin Zhihao sighed, and said with some guilt: "I'm sorry, Youxi, I'm really wrong about this matter."

"Don't talk about it, we will go our own lives in the future, and we will never have anything to do with each other again."

Lu Li's accident happened a week later.Lin Youxi was having a meeting with colleagues in the studio at the time. This was the biggest project their studio had received since its establishment.If this project is done well, they can continue to cooperate with Party A, which means that the studio's capital turnover will not have any problems for the time being.

The room was only that big, so Lin Youxi went to the balcony to answer the phone.As soon as it was connected, I heard Lu Li sobbing in a low voice.

"Yuzu, save me..."

At that time, Lin Youxi's mind was lost. She had never heard Lu Li talk to herself like this. For a while, she even wondered if the other party was Lu Li.Lu Li still said hoarsely: "His wife has come to the door, I dare not go out, help me..."

Lin Youxi came in from the balcony, rushed out with her coat in her arms.No one in the room reacted, Zheng Tao chased her out and stopped her and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Sorry, I'm in a hurry and I have to go out."

Looking at Lin Youxi's determined expression, Zheng Tao let go of his hand and made way for him: "Go, be careful when crossing the road."

On the phone, Lu Li intermittently explained the general situation. The man proposed a divorce to his wife, but his wife disagreed, and quickly found out about Lu Li's existence. After knowing her work unit, he brought someone over to find her.She was not in the lobby at the time, and was talking to a customer. A colleague outside called her name and said someone was looking for her. Before she went out, she recognized him from a distance.She had seen a photo of the man's wife on her mobile phone, so she recognized it.Immediately she panicked, ran to the women's toilet without saying a word, and locked the door behind her.She didn't dare to go out, she couldn't afford to lose that person.

Lu Li on the phone was like a hurt deer. She kept calling Lin Youxi's name, hoping that she would pass by quickly, although she didn't know how Lin Youxi could help.But as long as Lin Youxi is here, she won't be so afraid.

Lin Youxi rushed to the wine club as quickly as possible.She had been there once before, and the environment was fairly familiar.Sure enough, as soon as she entered, she saw a middle-aged woman yelling loudly: "Call Lu Li from your store to come out, why don't you feel embarrassed when you seduce other people's husbands, and now hide from me again!"

There were other customers in the store, the manager came out and tried to drag her to the office beside her, but she didn't leave, she stood in the hall like a sculpture, and said, "I'll just wait here, if I don't believe her, she's been hiding in there all the time." Out."

Lin Youxi lowered her head and walked quickly past her. Lu Li was in the bathroom. There was a knock at the door, but there was no movement inside.

"Who the hell is in there? Really, I can't get out." A little girl was obviously impatient, and she took out her mobile phone to check from time to time.

Lin Youxi walked over and patted her on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "Your manager seems to be looking for you."

She raised her head, seeing someone she didn't know, immediately asked suspiciously: "Who are you?"

"I'm new here." Lin Youxi lied without blinking, "The manager told us to go out before I had time to change."

The other party really went out to check the situation in doubt, Lin Youxi immediately went to the door and knocked, then softly called Lu Li's name.

"Lily is me."

Lu Li immediately opened the door when she heard it, and when she saw Lin Youxi, she hugged her.

"Is she still outside?"

"Well, it looks like you won't leave until you go out." Lin Youxi asked her, "Don't you have a back door here?"

"Yes, but you have to go around the hall and go to the other side."

"Did you call that person?"

Lu Li looked shocked, with aggrieved and frightened eyes, she shook her head: "No."

"Why don't you fight? Shouldn't he know about this kind of thing?"

"I don't know either, but I just don't want him to know." Lu Li lowered her head and twisted the corner of her clothes with her fingers. "Now his wife is making trouble and everyone knows it. I can't stay here any longer."

"What are you talking about." Lin Youxi said, "There will be a solution."

The noise outside became louder and louder, and someone came in again.Lu Li was so frightened that she hurriedly pulled Lin Youxi into the bathroom, and locked the door again, isolating the terrifying world outside.

The bathroom door was slapped, Lu Li and Lin Youxi stood inside and looked at each other, not knowing what to do.At that moment, Lin Youxi thought of the horror movie she had watched before.At this moment, she and Lu Li were like the only two surviving protagonists in the movie, and the outside was full of scary zombies who wanted to come in.The door banged louder and louder, as if it would be knocked open in the next second.

"What should I do..." Lu Li held Lin Youxi's hand tightly, and she looked at Lin Youxi in panic. She was her only straw.

Lin Youxi held Lu Li's hand, she didn't know what to do, she could only sit and wait for the door to be knocked open with a "bang".

Then a group of people rushed in. Before Lin Youxi and Lu Li could react, Lin Youxi had already been slapped twice.

The other party mistook Lin Youxi for Lu Li.

After being slapped twice, Lin Youxi's mind was completely fogged, and even the burning pain on her face became blurred.She saw the mouths of the people in front of her open and close, and she saw someone trying to persuade a fight, someone swearing, and someone crying.The one who was crying was Lu Li. She was cornered with a helpless expression on her face.Lin Youxi finally woke up, she just grabbed a mop beside her, without thinking about it, she took the mop and rushed towards the group of people.Sweeping the mop over their faces, seeing them yelling and dodging aside, Lin Youxi quickly grabbed Lu Li's hand and ran out.

After rushing out of the crowd, out of the clubhouse, and onto the street, Lin Youxi belatedly threw away the mop in her hand, and continued to run forward, grabbing Lu Li's hand.

(End of this chapter)