Summer in the city is already very hot, and a morning rain brings a temporary coolness, but as the sun breaks through the clouds, the only post-rain coolness will soon disappear.

In this city full of steel and concrete, there are too many things that are cold and emotionless, and there is no memory in the rapid change and development, so the people who live here are the same, especially for outsiders like her, there is no sense of belonging at all.

Just like now, she thinks she is standing on a high place, but when she looks up, the building not far away is at least 10 stories higher than the one she is currently in, and you think that even if you can't overlook the whole city, you can at least see an area, but now you find that it is not easy to see the end of a road.

Xia Qixi has chosen a place far away from home since she was in junior high school, and she needs to live on campus and only go home once a week. When I was in high school, I went home once a month, and when I was in college, I only went back during the winter and summer vacations.

For so many years, everything has been decided by herself, whether it is being sick with a fever in the middle of the night, working overtime until late at night, she is alone. The appearance has long been forged into steel in the daily wind and rain. However, human nature is difficult to change easily, just like she will still be unconsciously sentimental in her heart, from one thing to another.

Xia Qixi pulled herself out of this pessimistic mood and forced her mind to follow her eyes, looking at the street downstairs, the passing cars and people.

And so, she stood for about five more minutes before turning and going downstairs.

When Xia Qixi returned to the office, it was already lunch time, and everyone had made an appointment to have lunch, only Jiang Xue was still sitting in the position, and as soon as she saw her come back, she immediately got up and asked

"Xia Xia, why have you been there for so long, the female devil didn't embarrass you, right?"

"I'm fine, why didn't you go to dinner with them?" Xia Qixi deliberately avoided the focus of the topic

"I didn't see you come back, how could I go to dinner with peace of mind, don't you know, just the posture she had when she had a meeting this morning, she almost swallowed her life alive" Jiang Xue said, her eyes swept over Lin Qiao's office, confirmed that the lights had been turned off inside, and then continued, "Xia Xia is really sorry, you must forgive me"

"Why do you want to say I'm sorry to me" said so, but in fact, Xia Qixi had already guessed the reason in his heart

"I wanted to help you ask for leave this morning, but you didn't see Lin Qiao's appearance at that time, she was angry, asking why you weren't there, I just wanted to help you ask for leave, she exploded like thunder, and slammed the folder directly on the table, so scared that I didn't dare to say anything, so ......"

"It's okay, it's just that she scolded her" Xia Qixi smiled and patted Jiang Xue's shoulder

"Then I'll be relieved, I was still thinking just now, if she fires you because of this incident, then I'll go with you" Jiang Xue said with a swear

Xia Qixi smiled "Thank you, dear"

"Let's go, I'll invite you to dinner and help you suppress your shock," Jiang Xue said, picking up the wallet and mobile phone on the table

"Thank you for your kindness, but you see I still have a bunch of emails that have not been processed, and there is a report to be used for tomorrow's meeting" Xia Qixi said and opened the mailbox, and sure enough, there were no less than 5 reminders of unread emails.

Jiang Xue was also reluctant to "Okay, I'll help you bring the takeaway back"

Xia Qixi listened to Jiang Xue's thin heel shoes gradually disappearing, and she couldn't tell what it was like in her heart.

Jiang Xue's words, Lin Qiao's words, she doesn't want to distinguish the truth from the false for the time being, it doesn't make the slightest sense to pursue these for her, it will only increase her troubles, it is the truth, there will always be a time when it will be revealed to the world, she just needs to wait patiently, and wait for time to help her verify.

Approaching the end of the month, the emails are basically attendance and payroll accounting reports, because Lin Qiao has been acting as the regional administrative director, so the branches in the region and the stores in the region will submit the attendance and payroll accounting tables to Lin Qiao for approval before the end of the month.

What Xia Qixi has to do is to sort out and summarize the data of these reports received, and at the same time check with the company's salary policy implemented this month, although the same set of plans are implemented in the region, but the local branches will be updated and changed on the basis of regional policies according to their own actual local operations, so Xia Qixi has to call and check with the report responsible personnel in each region every time they check it.

Looking at the past one by one, when I saw the 4th email, Xia Qixi was dumbfounded, it was a new branch opened this month, and there were not many people, but the report was not done in accordance with a unified format, and the calculation of individual items also violated this month's salary policy, even I didn't agree with myself and the symbols, large and small, some places were marked with colors, and some places used the wrong formula.

It may be a little difficult for a newcomer to do this kind of data for the first time, but as far as Xia Qixi knows, the person in charge of the report of this new store is transferred from another store in the region, and he should be very experienced in this regard.

This kind of data is simply a waste of time, Xia Qixi is a little annoyed when she looks at the messy report, and she must notify them to correct it immediately, and she may need this data for tomorrow's meeting.

Xia Qixi picked up the microphone of the telephone on the table, and was just about to dial, when he accidentally saw the time in the lower right corner of the computer desktop, 12:00. So I reluctantly put down the microphone and wanted to get up to make myself a cup of coffee, but the mobile phone in the bag rang.

"Xiaoxi, it's Mom," came her mother's voice on the phone

"Mom, is there something wrong? I'm working," Xia Qixi took the phone in one hand and the cup in the other to make coffee in the pantry

"What time is it and you're still working, and the company won't give you a lunch break."

"Because I haven't finished my work," Xia Qixi replied as she poured the coffee into the cup and added two spoonfuls of sugar

"Knowing that you are busy, work is more important than your mother" Xia's mother said while complaining, "Okay, I'll make a long story short, you get off work early today, and your aunt asks us to dinner"

"Eat? Which aunt is it? Xia Qixi took a sip of coffee and asked

"Which one else is the one who introduced you to your boyfriend" Xia's mother felt that her daughter was asking knowingly

"Why did she invite us to dinner?"

"Actually, it wasn't she who invited it, it was Chen Ziyu and their family, and your aunt was just a middleman," Xia's mother replied

"My work here is not finished yet, I will definitely have to work overtime tonight, I think it's better to change the day" Xia Qixi didn't know what was going on at all at this moment except for refusal, why did he suddenly mention eating, or the parents of both parties.

"Your father and I have already agreed, at 7 o'clock in the evening, you are not allowed to be late" Xia's mother did not give Xia Qixi any chance to refute, and decisively ended the call.

Xia Qixi listened to the beeping sound on the phone, and wanted to cry without tears.

This book was first published in Reading Books