175. You didn't say it to me
"So the company hired me in the first place, was he helping?" I already figured out the answer without anyone answering. ββ ε «ββ ε «ββ Readingβ β book, .2β²γ
Earlier, Lu Xudong said that when I met Zhang Ruiran in our company, I suspected that someone helped me open the back door for my work, but I didn't expect that Mr. Zhang would be related to Zhang Ruiran at that time...... Now that the answer has finally been revealed, it is inevitable that I am a little confused, how happy I was when I was admitted, I thought I was relying on ability, but it turned out to be ......
Mr. Zhang may have seen my loss, and comforted me very kindly: "Although you were admitted exceptionally, but I still recognize your ability, you are very practical and serious, and your work is also very conscientious, if it were not for Ruiran's recommendation, the company may miss a talent because of academic qualifications, how about it, are you willing to come back to work after your body is recuperating?"
The person who is the boss is different, and he can speak to the hearts of the people in three or two sentences, and he can say that the hearts of the people are full of joy.
Although I knew that people were comforting me, I still smiled embarrassedly: "Thank you, Mr. Zhang...... I ......"
I was going to use the remarks I made in the morning, but Mr. Zhang understood what I meant as soon as I heard me speak, and before I finished speaking, she said to me with a very natural look: "But I see that your face is not very good, I guess you have to recuperate for a while, right?"
I breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank you, I will!"
As I spoke, I had already arrived at the door of the unit in Building 20, and Mr. Zhang said to me without the slightest hesitation: "Goodbye." β
I was still hesitant to invite her to sit at home, and when I watched her leave, my whole body felt like she had taken off her skin.
Although Mr. Zhang looked kind and very kind just now, I didn't forget her indifferent and arrogant unapproachable appearance when she was in the company, at first glance I saw her like this, I was awkward not to say, I thought that she was Zhang Ruiran's aunt, and because of Zhang Ruiran's kind attitude towards me, I was even more awkward.
When I got home, I took out my mobile phone and called Zhang Ruiran, and when he picked up the phone, his voice was very happy: "Yo, what's the wind blowing today? You actually took the initiative to call me?
I said "um", I didn't want to discuss the messy things of the Lu family with him at all, hesitated for a while, but still said tentatively: "In the morning, the personnel of my original company called me and asked me if I wanted to go back to work......
"It's a good thing!" Zhang Ruiran said in a very happy tone for me: "Didn't you just say that you were looking for a job last night, this is really a coincidence, it looks like you have good luck this year!
I resisted the urge to roll my eyes, pursed my lips as if I hadn't heard him, and continued, "I refused...... After thinking about it carefully, I think it's more important to recuperate your body first. β
Zhang Ruiran was stunned for a moment, and then said casually: "The body is the capital of the revolution, and of course it should be put in the first place." He paused, apparently speculating about why I was calling him, for he then asked me, "You called me to tell me this?"
I thought about it for a moment, and replied in a calm tone: "I think I should tell you, after all, I wasted a piece of your kindness!"
"What is wasting my kindness?" Zhang Ruiran pretended to be real, and his voice was particularly innocent: "Why don't I understand it so much?"
I couldn't help but pierce him directly: "Don't pretend to be you, I've met Mr. Zhang." β
"Huh?" Zhang Ruiran still wanted to deny: "Which Mr. Zhang? You don't think that as long as the surname Zhang is related to me, right?"
"Zhang!Rui!Ran!" I was a little angry, I shouted at him word by word, and then said in a hard voice: "Your aunt has admitted it, so don't pretend anymore!"
Zhang Ruiran laughed a few times at this time, "Okay, okay, I admit it, I did ask my aunt for help, but it just happened that there was a lack of an accountant in her company at that time, just by the way......"
I ran around for interviews, but I couldn't beat his sentence by the way, although I know the reality of this world, but it is inevitable that my heart is still a little blocked, one is because I am really inferior, if there is no Zhang Ruiran's help, God knows if I can find a job at the beginning;
I sighed unconsciously.
Zhang Ruiran's tone suddenly became a little nervous: "Hey, you won't be angry, right? You also know, many companies now recruit female employees with high requirements, you say that you are married and have not had children, everyone knows that you may not have long to work and have to go back to maternity leave, how can they still hire you......"
"Well, thank you!" I interrupted him listlessly, and asked him in a deep voice, "Don't you feel a great loss for you to do me so much and not let me know?"
As a result, he stopped me with one sentence: "What is there to worry about between friends?"
I can't tell how I feel in my heart, obviously I didn't treat him as a friend at that time, I was quite annoyed with him, I thought he was unreasonable, but he silently helped me without saying anything, and I knew that I went to my mother and sister-in-law to ask about me.
I hesitated for a moment, and whispered, "Otherwise, when you are free, I will invite you to dinner, right?"
"Do you think that inviting me to dinner will be regarded as a return for gratitude?" Zhang Ruiran resumed his tone again: "Then you have to invite me to a few meals, right? You see that you said last night that you wanted to invite me to dinner, and yesterday's life-saving grace, how many meals will this be counted?"
......I silently resisted the urge to hang up the phone, and said to him patiently: "I will ignore you anymore if you are so unorthodox!"
"Why am I not in shape?" Zhang Ruiran protested: "I'll tell you the truth! I've told you that I just treat you as a friend, you don't have to be obsessed with my help, and there is no need to invite me to dinner to express my gratitude." β
Okay, the last sentence was finally normal, I didn't insist anymore, and said: "No matter what, thank you so much!" I was about to continue: "Then I'll contact you when I'm free!" and then hung up the phone, but Zhang Ruiran grabbed ahead of me and said, "Thank you, how about coming out for afternoon tea with me?"
I immediately didn't know whether to refuse or not, if I refused directly, wouldn't it be too unreasonable?
"Anyway, you're okay at home, just buy a gift with me, I've been shopping in the mall for a long time. Zhang Ruiran said in a very earnest tone: "Come and help me come up with ideas?"
I sighed and pouted helplessly, "Okay, where are you?"
Before my words fell, Zhang Ruiran suddenly said happily: "I'll pick you up!"
"No need, you give me the address, and I'll go over directly, saving you the time of running around and wasting time on the road. "I actually regretted it as soon as I agreed, but I thought it would be better to return the favor, and I still didn't change my mind.
Zhang Ruiran didn't insist anymore, and quickly reported the address to me - it happened that a shopping mall that Lu Yanxi took me to before was the one I saw Lu Xudong and Ye Shengyin a few days ago.
When I arrived at the place, I learned that Zhang Ruiran was picking a birthday gift for his aunt, and when I asked, I learned that Mr. Zhang's lunar birthday was actually one day with my mother, both of which were the twentieth day of the first month.
Zhang Ruiran was happy as soon as he knew this, and said cheekily: "We really have a fate!"
I gave him a blank look: "You're mistaken, it's my mother and your aunt who have the same birthday!"
He answered me confidently: "Then we have to have the fate of the two of us before we can have their fate!"
I really don't want to argue with him anymore, besides, a man and a woman, it seems too ambiguous to talk about what fate is not fate, so I simply changed the topic: "What birthday gifts did you give your aunt before?"
"A lot, clothes, scarves, cosmetics, and jewelry!" Zhang Ruiran frowned, and said with some emotion: "The first time I chose a gift for her, I chose a lot, but after a few years, I feel more and more that I don't know what to give!"
He paused, looked at me, and asked, "What about you?"
I shook my head, a little weak: "My mom doesn't like to receive gifts!" "My mom has been frugal all her life, where to spend her birthday, let alone birthday gifts, birthday cakes, often don't even have a bowl of noodles or an egg, she always says: "What birthday is not a birthday, it's not the same life!" It seems that the so-called birthday is not uncommon at all.
"How can someone not like to receive gifts?" Zhang Ruiran didn't believe this statement at all, and said directly: "It's just that you don't want to spend this money, don't you think it's necessary to spend this money, the first time I gave my aunt a birthday gift, she said I was wasting money." But when she said that, I could feel that her heart was simply happy. β
Of course, I agree with Zhang Ruiran's point of view, but I believe that with my mother's character, it is better to buy her a gift than to directly turn the wallet you bought a gift into a red envelope for her. For people who have everything, gifts are the embellishment of life, but for people in families like us, gifts really need to be practical.
I didn't discuss this issue with Zhang Ruiran too much, but I dutifully helped him choose a massage chair as a gift for Mr. Zhang, Zhang Ruiran was very satisfied with this choice, and forced me to choose a gift for my mother, no matter what I said, I was going to give my mother a red envelope directly.
In the end, I had no choice but to agree to buy my mom a dress, and he took me to go shopping again.
Later, I took a fancy to a coat in a specialty store, but the price was slightly higher, I was still hesitating to buy such expensive clothes, my mother knew that I didn't know how long I had to talk about it, but Zhang Ruiran secretly ran to pay for it without saying a word.
So the two of us stared at each other through the clothes, he insisted that I had worked hard to accompany him shopping, anyway, the clothes were picked by me, and the mind was mine, although he paid, but it was just watching me accompany him to the mall and come up with ideas to help him pick gifts.
But I insisted on returning the money to him, I felt that friends belonged to friends, and my own brothers had to settle accounts, so how could I just let him pay so much, and it was also the money I gave my mother for her birthday.
After a stalemate for a long time, Zhang Ruiran finally came up with an idea: "Why don't you invite me to dinner!"
I was still hesitating, and he added again: "Anyway, I bought all the clothes, I can't use them, and I don't want your money, if you really think it's hot to take this money, wouldn't it be good to invite me to a big meal and spend it?"
So originally I just wanted to accompany Zhang Ruiran to have afternoon tea and pick a birthday gift by the way, but in the end, it was not enough time for an afternoon, and I also took dinner time.
The place to eat is on the first floor of the shopping mall, which is a very famous chain Haidilao hot pot restaurant, although it is not yet dinner, but the business in the store is very good, almost full.
After ordering food, I excused myself to go to the bathroom and called Lu Xudong, saying that I went out shopping with my friends and ate out at night, so he would eat at the old house.
He was quite surprised and asked me, "With whom? It's rare that you would actually think of going shopping and your stomach doesn't hurt?"
"Well, your brown sugar ginger soup has a miraculous effect...... I didn't dare to tell him that I was with Zhang Ruiran, so I could only divert my attention and ask him instead: "How is my mother and sister?"
Lu Xudong smiled: "I just arrived, my mother is fine, my sister is upstairs, I haven't seen her for the time being, but my mother said that she is in a good state, don't worry." β
How could I not be worried? Lu Yanxi is so paranoid, this time she is glad that she has a big life, if she is not sober a little more, and something happens, I think it must be terrible.
But what's worse is obviously now, because Lu Xudong then asked: "Who are you with?"
Just kidding! How can I get him to pick me up! I immediately refused: "No, I'm with my former colleague, he can drive, and he'll take me back later!"
Lu Xudong let out a faint "oh", and told me to be careful, until I was about to hang up the phone, he asked me with some hesitation: "Cersei, aren't you with Shengyin?"
My heart sank, and I didn't reply for a long time, Lu Xudong coughed twice, and then said a little unnaturally: "I didn't mean to restrict you, and I also know that you and Shengyin are sisters, but you may be more sensitive recently...... Forget it, you didn't tell me, it's fun!"
Originally, I was not very happy when Lu Xudong kept asking me who I was with, and I felt as if I needed to be monitored all the time, but after listening to him say this, I instantly understood his dilemma.
I said softly: "It's not with her, don't worry, until my sister's affairs settle down, I will try to avoid contact with Shengyin." "It's not that I want to wronged myself, but before Jiang Junxiu's divorce, I really didn't know how to face Ye Shengyin, who became a "third party".