The full-time working hours make the licorice rice, which is used to part-time working hours flexible, a little uncomfortable. Although the company is small, there are many things. Once she inadvertently said that I was a little too busy, and after hearing it, Sister Zhang said lightly: "This is not much, I am also doing your work when you are not there, you can think about what kind of state I was in at that time." ”

called her Sister Zhang, but in fact, she was not much older than Yan Licorice, she looked like she was twenty-five or sixteen years old, the whole person was fat, her face was round, and she was very happy when she laughed. Sister Zhang came to this company as soon as she graduated, and she has been working for almost three or four years, except for the boss, she is the oldest employee of this company.

"Have you been the only one who did it? I mean, it starts when you join the company. ”

Sister Zhang smiled when she heard this, "When I came, the person in my position just resigned, taught me for two weeks and left, and the rest is for me to learn by myself." Later, I was too busy, so the boss helped recruit a little girl, but the little girl didn't work for two months and left, and then recruited two after another, but it didn't last long. As she spoke, she glanced at the swallow licorice, "You don't want to learn from them, you won't just do it for a month or two, right?" ”

Yan Licorice smiled at Sister Zhang and didn't answer, she wasn't sure how long she could do it here, "Then why do they only work for a month or two and then leave, isn't the company good?" ”

The smile on Sister Zhang's face was a little mocking, "There is no qualitative, I can't endure hardship, the company is not good, I can do it for so long?" Do it well, and the boss won't treat you badly. How good you are now, I can teach you by hand, I used to figure it out by myself, and it was much harder than this. ”

If she knows how to behave, she should show her determination at this time, or pat Sister Zhang's ass, but even if she knows it in her heart, she can't let herself open this mouth. She just smiled and replied, then lowered her head and did her own thing.

On the second day after entering the company, my colleague prepared a dinner party and directly pulled the swallow licorice on it. Yan Licorice saw the three colleagues, thinking that they were all young people who had a meal, so they agreed to follow. Who would have thought that when he got off work, the boss knew about it and followed. Now the atmosphere of the meal has changed, and the atmosphere is relaxed and pleasant to raise a glass and chat while eating. After the boss came, the casual drink between colleagues turned into a formal dinner, and the two male colleagues and Sister Zhang got up one by one to toast the boss, and then the colleagues toasted each other, polite and distant.

There were not many people, only 5, and there were not a few rounds of toasting, but the atmosphere was much stricter than Yan Licorice imagined, which made her very uncomfortable, and she was a little restless.

When she came back, she got off the bus when she was still two stops away from school, and the night wind blew a little cold on her face, and she walked slowly to eliminate her food. I thought of the time when I met Zhang Changtao, at that time, Zhang Changtao's company was not as busy as it is now, and he often had time to take her out to dinner. Most of the time, he went out to dinner with some of his friends.

Once Zhang Changtao took her to a dinner, all male generals, his former colleagues or friends. In a small restaurant, Zhang Changtao met a few acquaintances on the first floor, much older than them, a middle-aged man with a big belly, Zhang Changtao greeted them eagerly and took her to the second floor.

The guests on the second floor are about the same age as him, and everyone eats, chats and drinks together, and the atmosphere is very pleasant. Halfway through the meal, a boy took a glass and went downstairs to toast. After asking, I found out that there were two people downstairs who had just greeted him, and it was his leader. Yan Gangcheng shouted for him in his heart when he heard it, bad luck, and he could still meet the leader when he ate. After a while, the man who had gone down came up, his face flushed.

After a while, a friend next to Zhang Changtao said, "Licorice, did you just see Lao Chen at the table downstairs, who usually plays with us, and I heard him praise you last time, do you want to go down and toast?" ”

The swallow licorice listened to the mouthful of green vegetables in her mouth, and she didn't know whether it was better to spit it out or swallow it. She was very slow-burning, and a table of people she didn't know toasted each other, and she couldn't put it down. In the past, the wine to honor her parents and elders during the Chinese New Year was also very shy, but now although it is much better and her skin is thicker, she can't do it if she goes down to eat and drink with only one person she knows.

She looked at Zhang Changtao and shook her head, Zhang Changtao also heard the man's words, patted Yan Licorice on the shoulder, picked up her wine glass and handed it over, "Go down and touch a glass, and then come up with a round of wine." There are not a few people, just a few minutes. ”

Yan Licorice directly refused, "I don't go, and I'm not familiar, I'll go to toast when others praise me, so how much toast." ”

Zhang Changtao's friend smiled and said, "It's Lao Chen, it's okay, go down and pay respect." ”

Yan Licorice wanted to reply to him, it doesn't matter, you just go down, why call her. She shook her head, picked up the greens in the bowl and continued to eat. Zhang Changtao touched her arm holding chopsticks when he saw it, "Go down and salute one, there is a customer I knew before, it's magnificent." ”

Yan Licorice's heart softened a little when she heard this, but she still couldn't let her toast to someone she didn't know, she didn't move, sat at the table, and put down the chopsticks in her hand. Zhang Changtao met with that friend and began to encourage her again. Later, the swallow licorice couldn't hold it and went down with a cup.

She always remembered that scene vividly and remembered the mood at that time. The embarrassment and crampedness of the toast, she thought she would never forget it in her life. She was sitting on pins and needles, looking at a middle-aged man in front of her who didn't know what to call or how to introduce, and was isolated. She was very grateful to the old city, helped her introduce her one by one, saw her cramped and talked to her very intimately, and poured juice into her cup when toasting. After a round, he found a reason to let her go.

When she went upstairs, she felt relieved, but she didn't have a good mood or a good face for Zhang Changtao and his friend. After that, she pretended to be sleepy and fell asleep on the edge of the table. At the end of the meal, Zhang Changtao wanted to send her, but she refused, and just like now, she walked on the road alone to eat, thinking about the toast just now.

She felt aggrieved, disgusted, disgusted, and resentful, resentful that Zhang Changtao pushed herself out like that, and resentful that she had compromised like this and had no bottom line of her own. Every time I think about it, I feel uncomfortable, and I can't get out of my breath. Now that I think of the state of mind at the dinner table again, it seems that what I ate today is destined to be difficult to digest.

Since that time, the swallow licorice has stopped going with him if he knows that there are some unfamiliar people during the meal, even if he eats it most of the time. Sometimes when she sees those unfamiliar people coming over to clink glasses with her, she will guess in her heart what kind of mentality the other party is, doesn't she feel uncomfortable?

After a few times, Zhang Changtao knew about this problem of swallow licorice, and always encouraged her to be more atmospheric, but she couldn't be angry. There was a small dispute, but the result of the dispute was that both sides lost, and slowly Zhang Changtao stopped taking her to the dinner.

Ruan Jiaojiao and Zhong Ling sometimes saw that Yan Licorice didn't go out on a date with the dormitory, and sometimes they would ask. Yan Licorice didn't want to talk about it, but if she didn't say it, she panicked in her heart, so she said it in one go.

Zhong Ling has always been immersed in the world of books, and her contact with the outside world is much smaller than that of the licorice, and she can think of the situation of the licorice at that time, so she is naturally on her side. Ruan Jiaojiao came into contact with a much larger crowd than them, and her cousin took her once or twice when he went out to socialize, and she could understand that this was the rule of the game in the "adult world". She just said, "In the future, we will encounter this situation after we graduate and work." ”

"I know there will be such a situation, there is no problem with everyone touching a cup while eating, the problem is, he let me go down alone, except for one who has met and met, I don't know any of the rest, do you know how I felt at the time? What's more, I actually went down. ”

"What you have in mind is actually your own actions."

The swallow licorice fell silent!

"Are you like this now, Zhang Changtao doesn't speak?" Ruan Jiaojiao asked.

Swallow licorice is still silent.

"Zhang Changtao is a bastard, you are not a good bird, it's not a family that doesn't enter the door, it's up to you."

Two stops away, the licorice walked out of the time of six stops. When I arrived at the dormitory, the door was locked, so I asked the dormitory manager to open the door. The two people in the dormitory did not sleep, and they turned on the small table lamp and nested on Zhong Ling's bed. The bed was covered with photos, all of which were photos of the three of them together.

It turns out that Ruan Jiaojiao washed out the group photos of the three of them in the past few years today, and the two of them are now sorting out their memories in bed!

"Who paid for today's dinner?" Ruan Jiaojiao saw that the person who opened the door was Yan Licorice, so she asked.

"Boss." She walked over to the bed, picked up two photos, and looked, "How much did this cost?" ”

"Your boss? Didn't you say a colleague dinner? ”

"The boss heard us talking while we were leaving, so he followed."

"That's fine, save you money for a meal."

Yan Licorice put down the photo in her hand, ready to soak her feet on the bed and look warmly, "It's a province, I don't have to eat tomorrow morning, I have indigestion." ”

"It's over, there are only a few people in your company, it's simple, what's not easy to digest, it's that your own pressure resistance is too low." Ruan Jiaojiao disagreed, thinking that it was a trivia of licorice.

Yan Licorice heard Ruan Jiaojiao's tone, "Don't look at our few people, we are estranged, one by one we toast, it's not pretentious, I think the company is good before I eat, and I feel like that after eating." ”

"You are arbitrary, it is not easy for everyone to come out and eat."

"Maybe, you haven't said how much the photos were washed?"