Eight Fresh Soup

Chapter 31 I will never go on a blind date again (2)
I went into the kitchen, opened the lid of the pot and looked at the rice that Jonah cooked for me, what, the rice was still burnt!Cousin really has nothing to do with the kitchen.Helpless, I had to re-cook a small pot of porridge by myself.Then, I took out the pickled and salty cabbage in the refrigerator, steamed a small bowl of white rice and dried shrimp for myself, and took a small plate of fried peanuts from the glass jar. So, a light, delicious and delicious lunch came it is done.

While enjoying my lunch, I wondered what I should order this afternoon.I decided to call my old colleague Du Xiaofen first. Xiaofen was an inquirer from our previous unit. If I asked her for old gossip about Chai Ying and Zhang Ximin, I would definitely be right.I also plan to check the news reports on the "Butterfly Valley Death Incident" online.As long as I think of the weird expressions of those men when they heard "Butterfly Valley" last night, I feel very up and down in my heart. I always feel that this matter has something to do with Chai Ying's death.

It took me half an hour to finish my lunch, and then I hung up the phone to Xiaofen.

"Mo Lan, you also went yesterday?!" Xiaofen sounded very excited.

"Yeah, look at how unlucky I am! It's rare to go on a blind date, and this kind of thing happens to me!" Just thinking about what happened yesterday makes me want to cry.

"Oh, little Moran! You are so unlucky, hug, hug." Xiaofen coaxed me like a child on the phone.

"I will never go on a blind date again, Xiaofen." I swore wrongedly.

"Honey, you shouldn't go with Zhang Ximin and Chai Ying even on a blind date." Xiaofen said with a smile, she wasn't sad at all, and she didn't even bother to pretend.

I heard something in her words.

"Why?" I asked puzzled.

"I heard that they like to work together and pretend to quarrel to flatter each other." Xiaofen asked me, "Do you still remember Wang Meihua from the creative department? The one who always complained about her stomachache?"

A sickly face appeared before my eyes.

"I remember. What's the matter with her?" I said.

"She also went to a six-person dinner with Chai Ying and the others last month. She said that she didn't even have a chance to speak that night, and Chai Ying and Zhang Ximin took all the limelight. Did you meet the same person yesterday? Condition?"

These words reminded me of the back and forth conversation between the two of them last night. I thought they were flirting with each other, but now that Xiaofen said this, it really sounded like a bragging.Is the rhetoric just a smokescreen?The purpose is to improve each other?Are the two of them enemies or friends?

"That's right, Xiaofen, they were like this last night." I replied.

"Hmph! I knew it!" Xiaofen smiled gloatingly.

"But I remember you told me before that the two of them are rivals in love, why are they so good now? They even joined forces to act together? Xiaofen, is your information wrong?" I asked her.

"Hey, when did I, Du Xiaofen, report fake news?" Xiaofen immediately retorted, and then said in a low voice, "They used to be rivals in love, but since that man got married, the two of them have turned enemies into friends."

"Really?" I decided to inquire about the details, "What's going on? Xiaofen?"

"Hey, it's actually very simple." She seemed to have taken a sip of water, and I seemed to see her looking around to see if there was anyone around before she spoke, "At the beginning, Zhu Qiang first got along with Zhang Ximin, and they didn't fall in love for long. , Zhu Qiang moved to Zhang Ximin's house to live with her, and later heard that Zhang Ximin was urging her to get married, but Zhu Qiang was unwilling, and the two began to quarrel over this matter, and then Zhu Qiang often stayed out at night, and then he simply didn't come back, Zhang Ximin I come to see Zhu Qiang every day at work, and the two of them don’t make any noise, they just sit face to face in such a quiet way, which makes all the colleagues in the imposition department panic and lose their minds about work.”

"They never quarreled once?" I pressed.

"Of course, there was a quarrel once, otherwise how would we know that Zhu Qiang dumped Zhang Ximin because of Chai Ying? It turned out that he ran into Chai Ying in a bar after a quarrel with Zhang Ximin, and the two chatted happily. That night He went home with Chai Ying. For this matter, Zhang Ximin slapped Zhu Qiang in the office. Although I don't like Zhang Ximin, I think she slapped her well." Xiaofen sighed , asked, "What do you say?"

Women are generally unanimous in their attitudes towards cheaters.

"I agree, it's time to fight! What happened next? Chai Ying took over this trash?" I didn't expect that Chai Ying, who was always very conservative, would have this romantic affair.

"Yes, but their time together was even shorter. Later, Zhu Qiang stepped on two boats, going to Zhang Ximin for a while, and Chai Ying for a while."

"Damn man!" I couldn't help cursing.

"You don't know. At that time, the greatest pleasure for us people to go to work every day was to watch the three of them fight, not to mention how interesting it was! Later, Chai Ying and Zhang Ximin couldn't stand him anymore, and they proposed to resign at the same time. As a result, the boss fired Zhu Qiang It's gone." Xiaofen laughed, "The boss said that he didn't want to lose the dragon Chai Ying for the sake of Zhu Qiang."

"The boss has a good eye. Compared with Chai Ying, Zhu Qiang can only be regarded as the younger brother who makes tea in the imposition room."

"But Chai Ying left later. She went to "Big News." Xiaofen said.

"That's true. How did they become comrades-in-arms later?"

"Zhu Qiang went to "X Evening News" shortly after he left the magazine. He was very talented. Not long after he got there, he fell in love with a female employee in the advertising department. I heard that the other's parents were very rich, and they got married not long after they fell in love. Yes. Zhu Qiang is really thick-skinned, and even came to our magazine to give out wedding candies, Zhang Ximin poured a glass of water on him on the spot."

When Xiaofen mentioned this, I also started to like Zhang Ximin a little bit, and felt that she was so pungent.

"This matter spread quickly in the circle. Not long after, Chai Ying invited her old colleagues to her birthday party, including Zhang Ximin. That night, I saw the two of them sitting together and whispering After talking for a long time, I guess they reconciled that day."

"No wonder! I was wondering yesterday, how come they come together. Do they often have these dinners for six?" I asked.

"That's not true. As far as I know, there was only one time before yesterday, which was the time when Wang Meihua participated." Xiaofen laughed when she said this, "I heard from Wang Meihua that Zhang Ximin found all those men from the Internet. Yes, isn't she always online?"

"I didn't expect Zhang Ximin to find a man online." In my impression, she is an introverted girl who plays tricks at best, but is definitely not open.

"She said that, who knows? In fact, I also think she is not that courageous." Sure enough, Xiaofen also said the same.

"But yesterday she said that her hobby is Latin dance, hot Latin dance!"

"Ah, you don't know about this. Not long ago, our magazine held an event with a Latin dance school, and the other party gave us two tickets for free dance lessons. No one was interested, so we gave them to Zhang Ximin and Wang Meihua, Wang Meihua said that there were middle-aged people there, and she had only been there once in total and would not go there, but she said that Zhang Ximin seemed to be very interested in Latin dance, and she went there by herself. In fact, she was limited I think this is her only social activity, if she is very open, she should have a boyfriend long ago, what do you think?"

I think what Xiaofen said makes sense.

"Wang Meihua said that when Chai Ying notified her, she acted very enthusiastically, which made her unable to refuse. She didn't know until later that she was just pulling her to make up the number of people. No wonder people called Chai Ying behind her back like a smiling tiger."

From Xiaofen's tone, I knew she didn't like Chai Ying at all, so I asked, "Xiaofen, how popular is Chai Ying?"

"How should I put it? When she was with us, she seemed to be popular, but after she went to "Big News", she..." Xiaofen didn't continue.

"Is she not popular in "Big News"? Why?"

"Honey, I don't want to speak ill of the dead." Xiaofen suddenly put on a trick.

"Come on, you've been talking for a long time. What did she do?" I tore off her mask and urged.

Xiaofen hesitated for a moment.

"I heard people over there say that she can do anything to climb up, and sometimes she will do whatever it takes to select a news topic. People in the news department over there don't like her, saying that she specializes in stealing other people's jobs."

"Unscrupulous? Is there an example?" I was extremely curious.

"I heard that she reported a very sensational news not long ago. But Xiao Wang from their news department found the clue first. She asked Chai Ying if she needed to follow, and Chai Ying told Xiao Wang that it was of no value. , told her not to follow, but in the end she ran away to do the interview secretly. Later, at the topic selection meeting, she told the leader that she found this news from the beginning to the end by herself, which made Xiao Wang half dead, but There is no other way, who made Chai Ying her superior."

"Which one is the latest sensational news?" I asked, three words popped up in my mind: Butterfly Valley.

"It's about the Butterfly Valley. How could you not know about it? Later, many newspapers reprinted it, and it was a sensation." Xiaofen's words confirmed my guess.

"I happened to be in France when it became a hit," I explained.

At this time, I heard someone calling her on the other end of the phone, and then Xiaofen hurriedly said to the phone: "Mo Lan, I'm going to a meeting now, I'll call you after the meeting, I have something very urgent I want to tell you something interesting, and it has something to do with you."

"What is it?"

"I'll talk about it later. By the way, how were those men last night?" Xiaofen asked hastily.

"Alas, a stutterer, a pseudo-artist, a sour scholar, no interest, no interest." I hung up the phone with a smile, and now I can't wait to check the news stories about Butterfly Valley online.

(End of this chapter)