Chapter 9
From: Grapefruit

I just paid the down payment, and this time I'm really at the end of my rope.My boyfriend's parents and I each paid half of the money, plus our meager savings, to buy a small apartment.Although I was a little unhappy about buying a house before, I was still very excited on the day of moving to a new house, isn't it!However, because we had no money, we only went to the second-hand market to buy some furniture, but after the arrangement, it was a bit Vintange.There will be a class reunion in two weeks, and I will be busy again.

Work is smooth and stable. After that gaffe, Wu Fei'er is now more concerned about work, and sometimes asks me if there is anything I want to help.But this is her job!Why can't I help?Although I growled inside, I was still a little relieved to think that she had completely ignored her before.

Okay, I'm going to cook, I'll update it next time.

Best Response

Meng Meng Da Congee Congee: I feel that the host’s life is better than before, please come on, host!Good girls will be rewarded!
The person who loves you the most is me: the landlord agreed to resign...

Lu Luxiu and Pikachu: I feel that the landlord is really good at Baozi, I can't stand it anymore, why should that Wu Fei'er be so polite to her, the job is whose job it is.You will only suffer in the future!

Just arrived at the company early in the morning, Wu Fei'er had new gossip.As soon as Lin Youxi put down her bag, Wu Fei'er leaned over her head: "There is super exciting news."

Any gossip to Wu Fei'er is breaking news.Lin Youxi asked: "What news?" Lin Youxi was also curious about where Wu Fei'er heard these gossip, she took off her coat and put it on the back of the chair.

"Zhao Zixin's confession was rejected." Wu Fei'er must be a rare talent if she is a reporter, she can sum up everything concisely, and there are absolutely no missing elements.

"Confession? To whom?"

"you guess."

"..." Lin Youxi had black lines all over her hair, "How could I guess, it's from our company?"

Wu Fei'er shook her head: "No, but you probably haven't seen it before. It's the company we proposed with Tang Mengran last time."

"That company? Who is it?" What appeared in Lin Youxi's mind was the slightly bald middle-aged person in charge.

"It's the manager of a department in their company. His name is Xu. He has never dealt with us on this project."

"Oh." Lin Youxi nodded, half understanding.

"At a reception yesterday, Zhao Zixin drank too much, and went berserk at the reception, causing Manager Xu to die of embarrassment. I definitely don't want to have anything to do with her in the future." Wu Feier looked optimistic, Lin Youxi I couldn't imagine what would happen if Zhao Zixin got drunk and went crazy.

"How do you know so many things?" Lin Youxi finally couldn't help asking.

Wu Fei'er blinked and said, "My uncle took me to the reception yesterday."

No wonder.Lin Youxi suddenly realized.

Zhao Zixin didn't show up at the company in the morning, and the gossip about last night's reception was whispered among colleagues, most of which should be attributed to Wu Fei'er.

At noon, Lin Youxi took up a seat in the cafeteria to eat, when suddenly a shadow came over, Lin Youxi looked up and saw Zheng Tao.He sat down opposite with the dinner plate, raised his eyebrows and glanced at the food on Lin Youxi's plate.

"Don't you even eat cauliflower?"

Lin Youxi looked at the dishes on the plate and said to Zheng Tao: "If you like it, you can eat it."

Originally, she was just making a joke, but Zheng Tao actually put his chopsticks into her dinner plate and put the cauliflower into his own bowl.

"I heard that you didn't get that project in the end?" Zheng Tao lowered his head and said vaguely while eating.

Lin Youxi frowned, and hummed, thinking it wasn't all about you.

"Looking at your expression, you must be blaming me."

Lin Youxi coughed twice: "No, it's because I didn't make a good plan, and you helped me so much afterwards."

"It's a pity that I didn't get the 5.00% commission." Zheng Tao put a piece of meat into his mouth, and continued, "Otherwise, I can pay for a bigger house."

"What did you say?" Lin Youxi was startled, "How do you know about my house purchase? And the 5.00% commission, who did you listen to?"

Zheng Tao was stunned: "Don't everyone know these things?"

"You know?" Lin Youxi's head suddenly became dizzy. Since when did she become the object of everyone's attention?
"The proposal didn't work out last time, so everyone knows that you cried at the elevator entrance, I thought it was..."

"Who said that!" Lin Youxi slapped her chopsticks on the table angrily, "Where did you hear that?"

Zheng Tao immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing, picked up the plate and said, "I'm done." He was about to leave, but Lin Youxi stopped him.

"Is that Wu Fei'er?" Other than her, who would know that she was crying at the elevator door.

Zheng Tao shook his head, expressing that he didn't know: "I heard it by accident, you just treat me as an eight-year-old mother-in-law just now, and nothing happened."

Lin Youxi let go of his sleeves, gave up asking, and sat back on the chair by herself, falling silent.Zheng Tao turned around, seeing that Lin Youxi didn't speak, he was a little frightened, and sat back again: "Hey, are you okay?"

Lin Youxi lowered her head and poked the remaining rice with her chopsticks, and said in a low voice, "It's okay."

Zheng Tao apologized, "How about treating you to dinner tonight as an apology?"

"You didn't do anything wrong, it's my own problem." Lin Youxi put her hands on her head, "It's my own problem."

"Don't be like this." Zheng Tao patted her lightly, "I invite you to dinner tonight, don't be unhappy. People in their 20s can't lose a piece of meat after being talked about."

Lin Youxi didn't speak.

"Alas, let me tell you some good news in advance, don't worry about it." Zheng Tao cleared his throat and said, "The company has recently accepted a big project and plans to reorganize the team. You are on the shortlist."

"What project?" Lin Youxi became interested.

Zheng Taofu whispered something in her ear, and Lin Youxi's eyes widened in disbelief: "Really? Are you sure they want to cooperate with our company?"

Zheng Tao nodded: "The contract has already been signed."

"How did the team members determine?"

"The company held a meeting yesterday, but it hasn't been finalized yet, because some people just have other projects in their hands and are too busy."

"The prize money for this project must be super high."

Zheng Tao couldn't help giving her a blank look: "The bonus is good, but the most important thing is that if you do this project well, you can add a little red flower to your resume."

Seeing that Lin Youxi was in a better mood, Zheng Tao smiled: "It seems that it's all right, then I'll go first. That's really nothing, hardworking girls will always be rewarded."

Back in the office, Wu Feier was eating potato chips while watching a drama. Seeing Lin Youxi coming, she stretched out the potato chips and asked, "Would you like cucumber flavored ones."

Lin Youxi pushed away the potato chips and said coldly, "No."

Lin Youxi's expression towards Wu Fei'er at this time was quite different from usual, and Wu Fei'er couldn't help but sarcastically said, "Who are you showing your ugly face to?"

Lin Youxi opened the chair and sat down, clicked on the document to read the information, and didn't have any intention of talking to Wu Fei'er at all.

Wu Fei'er became even angrier: "What's the matter with you, it's inexplicable, you got angry elsewhere, why are you losing your temper with me?"

Lin Youxi finally couldn't hold back anymore, she turned her chair and said to Wu Fei'er: "I just don't have so much time to focus on other people." The words were neither painful nor itchy, and Wu Fei'er didn't understand what she said mean.

"What are you trying to say?" Wu Fei'er paused the video and put down the potato chips, "I don't pay much attention to my work, but you take all the commissions from the project alone. I just divided the corners , What are you dissatisfied with. If I worked hard before, would you have achieved so much performance? Let alone buying a house. "

Hearing the words "buy a house", Lin Youxi couldn't help but get angry: "Yes, I bought a house, but you don't have to talk about it everywhere. Zhao Zixin didn't recruit you either, so why do you put someone else on the house last night? Publicize everything about the reception, don't you think it's too boring to stay in the company?" Lin Youxi's voice was not loud, but several colleagues around heard it. I didn't see or hear, and continued to bury my head and pretend to work hard.

Wu Fei'er was stunned, seeing that she had no advantage, took a deep breath, continued to pick up the potato chips and pretended to eat them as if nothing had happened: "I don't know what you are talking about."

Lin Youxi didn't want to embarrass the scene, so she finally said, "You just need to know it yourself."

After getting off work in the evening, the get off work at hand was also finished, Lin Youxi stretched her waist, and finally didn't have to work overtime.I took the bus and got off one stop earlier, went to a nearby large supermarket to buy some vegetables and went home, and walked on the road thinking about the dishes I was going to make later.Qin Zhihao likes to eat pig's feet, so he stewed a kelp and pig's feet soup. He also likes to eat spicy food, so he mixed a vegetable cold dish, and made a beef stew with potatoes. Today happened to be a variety show that they all like, so they can watch TV while eating.Thinking of this, Lin Youxi went to the convenience store across the road to buy some candied nuts and small cakes, thinking that watching TV after dinner could be a snack.It feels like it's been a long time since she and Qin Zhihao enjoyed the two-person world like this, Lin Youxi began to look forward to it.

But before he got home, Qin Zhihao called.

"Where are you now?" Qin Zhihao's tone was a little rushed, as if he was in a hurry.

"It's almost home, what's the matter?" Lin Youxi had a bad premonition in her heart.

"Going home soon? Then you go and get some money and come to the hospital. My mother is sick and hospitalized. I don't have enough money now."

"Auntie is in the hospital?" Lin Youxi was startled, but Qin Zhihao was obviously not in the mood to explain further to her, Lin Youxi hurriedly said, "Okay, I'll go get the money right away, which hospital are you in?"

Lin Youxi and Qin Zhihao's monthly living expenses and rent are shared equally by the two of them, and they also have a joint bank account, but the money saved in it is all pasted into the new house.Lin Youxi didn't have much money in her own small coffers, and it was Lin Youxi who paid for Qin Zhihao's time when he was unemployed and staying at home.She inserted the card into the ATM machine, mechanically entered the bank password, and then checked the balance. After seeing the numbers displayed on the screen, she sighed deeply, and then took them all out.

Qin Zhihao's mother has always been in poor health, but she is not bad to Lin Youxi.Lin Youxi still remembered that she was super nervous when she went to his house with Qin Zhihao for the first time, she had to ask Qin Zhihao no less than ten times about everything from dressing and makeup to what gifts to buy.

Qin Zhihao said impatiently: "My parents are very good, there is no need to be so nervous."

Qin Zhihao's parents were both elementary school teachers, and his mother had been out of work a few years ago due to poor health, so she stayed at home.They were all polite to Lin Youxi, and they were very satisfied with her, the future daughter-in-law.But after all, she is not her biological daughter, and this kindness is also due to Qin Zhihao, so she still feels alienated when getting along.

Lin Youxi gave Qin Zhihao the money, and accompanied him to pay the hospitalization and surgery fees. Seeing his worried expression, she comforted her and said, "It's okay, Auntie is lucky."

"What kind of astronomy is there!" Qin Zhihao said, "This is an old problem. If there is a real astronomy, it won't be like this."

Lin Youxi sat with Qin Zhihao in the hospital corridor, she asked him if he was hungry, but Qin Zhihao didn't speak, so she reached out and patted his back, got up and went outside the hospital to buy some food and came back.All the vegetables bought in the supermarket were put in the refrigerator. Vegetarian cold dishes, seaweed and pig's feet soup, and roast beef with potatoes also went far away, and Lin Youxi had no chance to make them.He bought two lunch boxes and took them back to the hospital, and ate them in silence with Qin Zhihao.

"Go back after dinner." Qin Zhihao said, "You have to go to work tomorrow."

"Hmm." Lin Youxi picked up the meal, then raised her head and asked, "Then have you asked for leave from the company?"

"For a week."

Lin Youxi didn't speak anymore, and after a while he hesitated and said, "Actually, we can ask for a nurse. You just went to work in the new company, and if you ask for leave now, the boss may have some opinions."

"Now my mother is living in the hospital, and my father has no time to take care of her because he has to go to work. As a son, shouldn't I be by her side?" Lin Youxi didn't expect his reaction to be so strong, "You are full of thoughts now. It's work, work, can you have anything else on your mind besides work?"

"I didn't mean that, I was also for your own good..."

"You like working so much, so go back to work as soon as you finish your meal. Anyway, I won't be back tonight. You love to read documents and no one will disturb you no matter how late you are."

Lin Youxi looked at Qin Zhihao aggrievedly, she wanted to explain, but she didn't know what to say.There were a lot of people coming and going in the hospital, and she didn't want to quarrel with him here, so she stood up and straightened her wrinkled clothes: "Then I'll go back first, and I'll bring you and auntie breakfast tomorrow morning."

Have you ever been so very, very sad that you really wanted to fall asleep and never get up again, and you wanted to find any excuse for not going to work or school, canceling all appointments and meeting people?I think there must be, there are many such moments.When I was a child, I was scolded by my parents for failing exams, and when I went to sleep at night, I hoped that the sky would never dawn, so that I would not have to get up to face my mother's anger that had not dissipated.And when I was in middle school, I had a fight with my best friend, and when I got home at night, I lay on the bed and cried all night. I really hope that tomorrow is the end of the world.These can be reasons to be sad, but we know that the night will be the day, and the probability of the end of the world in our lifetime is too small, so when we wake up the next day, even if we don’t want to, we still have to put on our clothes and wash up , Continue to go to school, continue to work, continue to do what you should do.

Therefore, even though Lin Youxi was so wronged that she was alone at home with insomnia all night, she got up early the next morning, took out the pig's feet to make soup, and sent her to the hospital.Qin Zhihao didn't sleep all night, with two dark circles under his eyes, he didn't say much after taking breakfast.Lin Youxi thought it was fortunate that she put on makeup in the morning, so that at least people would not be able to see her haggardness, and no one would notice the tears she shed last night.

Even though I thought so, I still felt uncontrollably sad.

Lu Li called and asked to go shopping together at night, Lin Youxi said she was going to the hospital after get off work, but she refused.As soon as I logged on to QQ, the QQ group of my classmates kept flickering.It's no wonder that the class reunion is coming soon, and as the organizers, Lin Youxi and Qin Zhihao disappeared at the same time, and no one said a word in it, no wonder everyone got into a commotion inside.Lin Youxi replied to the message saying that Qin Zhihao's mother was ill, and when she recovered, she would invite everyone to a gathering at home.

——I heard that you bought a house?Are you going to get married?
This sentence suddenly popped up in the group, Lin Youxi was stunned when she saw it, and then replied: "Well, I bought it, but I don't know when it will be married."

Then the group booed and blessed Lin Youxi one after another. If it was before, Lin Youxi must have felt super happy, but at the moment she didn't feel much.I chatted with my classmates for a while, and then blocked the group and went to do things.

In the morning, Zheng Tao's QQ avatar lighted up, and he sent a grinning emoji and said, "Guess what's good?"

- Can't guess.

Lin Youxi replied.

"The project I told you about last time has been officially finalized. You are sure to join it. Your boss will definitely come to you soon."

Zheng Tao sent a big smiley face behind her, and Lin Youxi felt a little guilty for Zheng Tao.For so long, Zheng Tao has also helped him a lot. Although the two often confront each other, he is very serious about important matters.

Lin Youxi replied: "Thanks to you, I treat you to dinner when I have time."

Sure enough, the director Lily's QQ avatar lit up, telling her that an important project was organized in the company to work in a team, and Lin Youxi was in charge of the copywriting in the team.If this project is done well, the year-end bonus will be given at the end of the year, and Lin Youxi's enthusiasm will be rekindled.

(End of this chapter)

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like