After dinner, Ansu couldn't wait to share what she brought back with her good friends. After Xia Bizhu announced that she would spend the night at An Su's house, He Xiangnuan went home with the gift An Su gave him, and the two women began to divide things happily.

Every time Xia Bizhu came to An Su's house, all the housework was contracted by her. After a long time, as long as Bizhu enters the door of her house, she will automatically adjust to queen mode. While Bizhu was doing housework, she took a comfortable hot bath.

The fashion designer is also an artist, but Ansu's home has no artistic atmosphere at all. The house is a small two-bedroom apartment, very simple decoration, without too many decorative objects. The reddish-brown wooden floors, reddish-brown wooden doors, snow-white walls, and even the decorative lights are simple in shape and smooth lines. A few must-have pieces of furniture are also in plain tones and simple shapes. If there's anything else in this house that looks more artistic, it's the painting on the wall behind the TV cabinet in the living room, which she painted herself.

When he was decorating the house, Ansu found paint and painted a painting on it. She has been painting Chinese painting since elementary school, and she has studied under Master Zhishan, a master of Danqing, and she has a good foundation in Chinese painting. She painted a pear blossom tree on that wall, and everyone who saw this painting couldn't help but admire, because it seemed like a simple painting, but it felt that it gave too many emotions to it, and everyone who saw it was moved. Xia Bizhu loves to see this painting very much, and every time she comes to An Su's house, she will always concentrate on it for a long time when she sits on the sofa.

A few days away from home, the house is still spotless, obviously Bizhu cleaned the house today, and even the room was opened for ventilation, An Su smiled unconsciously. She never takes her work home, no matter how busy she is, even if she works overtime all night, she will finish in the office and come home. Home is a place where she can relax, where she can take off the coat of the strong man in the workplace and let loose her emotions. Many times, she likes to stay home alone, light a sandalwood stick, sit quietly in the living room, and let her heart go back in time. For countless nights in the past, she always dreamed of time travel, waking up when the sandalwood burned out.

Leaning back on the sofa, looking at the pear blossom tree on the wall. At this time, she was tired of eating pears. Ever since she left Myohoji Temple, she has never eaten such a delicious pear. Sometimes she can't help but wonder if the pears at Myohoji Temple are better than those elsewhere, or because of the change in the hearts of the people who eat them. Is this what the little monk once said, "should contemplate the Dharma boundary, and create a qiē idealism"?

Buddhism is too profound for Ansu. Although she went in and out of temples and heard countless chantings, it was no different from ordinary music to her. Although she studied under the monks, she only knew a few verses, and she didn't even understand the meaning. Although she has entered the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion of Myofa Temple many times, she has only read one scripture book, the Diamond Sutra. Why the Diamond Sutra and not the other scriptures? This is only because she only has a copy of the "Diamond Sutra" in her hand, which was written down and given to her by the young monk Mo during the Spring Festival in the first year of junior high school. The little monk left only two things for Ansu, one was the string of Buddhist beads in her hand, and the other was the hand-copied "Diamond Sutra". She went to read this scripture because she missed the little monk too much. Over the years, she has read it countless times, but the Buddhist scriptures are obscure and difficult to understand, and she does not understand the meaning at all. She often laughs at herself, it is really in vain that she has studied art with a monk for many years. If she could turn back time, she would definitely learn from the little monk.

As she had done countless nights in the past, Ansu took out the quaint wooden incense burner and placed it on the coffee table, opened the lid, and lit a sandalwood stick. The light smoke curls, and the refreshing fragrance seems to float gently from the distant time and space tunnel, and the room becomes peaceful, quiet and distant. Ansu nestled on the sofa, half-squinting, looking at the pear blossoms on the wall through the light smoke, as if she saw the white pear blossoms gently swaying on the branches, like a breeze blowing through the branches. A shallow smile tugged at the corner of her mouth, her eyes were quietly closed, and even her breathing became gentle and long.

The hair dryer in the bathroom was "buzzing", and it was Xia Bizhu who was blowing her hair. The voice brought Ansu's thoughts back to reality. She didn't open her eyes, just let out a long breath and adjusted her position.

The sound of the hair dryer stopped, and the bathroom door was opened.

As soon as Xia Bizhu stepped out, she smelled the familiar scent of sandalwood, and found that the living room had been replaced by a soft wall lamp, and An Su was curled up on the sofa. She knew that Ansu liked sandalwood, and it was incense, not essential oil incense. Aromatherapy is popular, especially for women. Nowadays, many people like incense, and essential oil is the most common one. She also learned about the effects of some aromatherapy, such as lavender and sandalwood. There was a time when her insomnia headache recurred, and in order not to rely too much on medication, she learned from the Internet that lavender essential oil can improve insomnia and headaches, relieve emotions, and calm the nerves. After persisting for a while, she didn't know if the drug was working, or if lavender really had this effect, and the insomnia headache disappeared. It is said on the Internet that sandalwood not only has a relaxing effect, can calm nervous tension and anxiety, but also has aphrodisiac properties. She believes in the relaxation and soothing effect, but she does not agree with the aphrodisiac. She hadn't used it herself, but seeing Ansu's appearance, she couldn't believe it anyway. Is a person who likes to burn incense to the point of obsession because he pursues that inner peace, or is he obsessed with the past? She sighed softly, in a way, she was still very similar to Ansu.

Xia Bizhu said: "Why did you order sandalwood again?" Didn't I send you an electric incense and a bunch of essential oils before? I haven't seen you use it. ”

Ansu was still curled up on the sofa, not even opening her eyes, "It's not the taste I want." ”

"Sandalwood is the smell you want?"

Ansu didn't shake her head or nod.

Xia Bizhu looked back at the pear blossom tree on the wall and sighed lightly, "You just want the taste of memory." ”

Ansu was noncommittal.

Xia Bizhu saw that An Su was still wearing wet hair, sighed lightly, went into the bathroom and took a dry towel out. She pulled Ansu up and wiped her hair with a dry towel in her hand. She wiped and nagged: "Why don't you blow dry?" Look at the clothes all wet. Hurry up and change your clothes! ”

Ansu obediently went back to the room and changed into a loose nightdress. When she came out, she saw that in the dim living room, Xia Bizhu was sitting on the sofa with her arms and knees, her eyes unblinking at the incense burner on the coffee table, as if she could see something through the curling cigarette. In a haze, her beautiful face seemed to be painted with deep longing, and she was in a trance.

An Su walked over, sat down beside her, picked up a towel and wiped her hair while asking, "Xiang Nuan asked if you want to go to the surrounding area for two days?" ”

Xia Bizhu shook her head, took the towel in An Su's hand and helped her wipe her hair carefully, "I can't go, I'm going on a business trip tomorrow to inspect the store in the North District, and the first stop is Harbin." This time I went to many cities and took a long time. The recent sales in the North District are not ideal, and there is a Golden Week in October, and Lao Hu has set a high task for our direct sales. ”

Ansu simply lay on her lap and let her wipe her hair. It's become a habit, and she likes Bizhu to help her wipe her hair, and her movements are so gentle. She remembered something and said with a smile: "Then I won't go either, I also have a new mission." ”

An Su excitedly told Xia Bizhu that she would design a dress for Sun Jing to attend the festival. Then tell her how the two met on the streets of Paris. Thinking about the dress she designed to shine on the red carpet of the film festival, An Su couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Xia Bizhu didn't say a word, listening to An Su say happily, her hands still gently helping her wipe her half-dried long hair. She loves seeing Ansu's side and hopes that she can always be as simple and happy as she is now. After Ansu finished speaking, she told Ansu about the three major events that happened in the company during her business trip. The first is that there is a new chief operating officer, the second is that the organizational structure of the marketing center will change, and the third is the resignation of Ji Ya, the manager of the commodity department.

I hadn't heard that there would be an operating director before, but if you think about it, the company will develop upwards and the operating model will become more and more formal, which is also a normal thing. If you can stay in a clothing company for two to three years, you can be considered a veteran employee, which shows how mobile the industry is. Senior positions in apparel companies like to be parachuted, which may be related to the high turnover of employees in the apparel industry. It is unclear whether the company is unable to promote employees because of high employee mobility, or whether it is because employees choose to change jobs because they are not promoted. Companies and employees have their own opinions. Enterprises will think that the stability of employees is not enough, the ability is insufficient, the courage is not enough, etc., while the employees are more realistic, if the salary has not risen, or there is no hope of promotion, or feel that the company has not given themselves a good development platform, etc. Whatever the reason, it is an indisputable fact that there is a high turnover of employees in the apparel industry. Regarding Xia Bizhu's failure to be promoted to chief operating officer, An Su thinks it is normal. Even how long she herself will be able to serve the C brand, she herself does not know. As ANN continues to grow, she could leave Rosewood at any time.

The change of organizational structure is a major event, and the resignation of the head of the commodity department, as the core department of the company, is also a major event.

Ansu couldn't help but think that the change in organizational structure should have little to do with the resignation of the manager of the commodity department, no matter how it changes, the commodity department is a relatively independent department in the marketing center. In fact, this doesn't have much to do with her, but her resignation at this juncture will have a certain impact on the work progress of the R&D center. The R&D center is very important for the R&D center to analyze the number of products, plan products, adjust the category structure, and feedback terminal information.

"How could Jiya resign so suddenly?"

"I don't know, but I heard that it was a resignation submitted just after the end of the order meeting. On the day of your business trip, you had a new merchandising manager. At first, everyone didn't know, but when Lao Hu introduced to everyone that he was the new manager of the commodity department at the morning meeting of the marketing center, everyone was quite surprised, and only Ji Ya smiled clearly. ”

"Do you know when she's leaving?"

"I've completed my resignation today. I didn't expect it to be so soon, and I thought I was going to have a meal with her before leaving. As a result, she sued me and went through the formalities today. I wanted to eat together at noon, but she said she had an appointment. ”

"Dizzy, which company's commodity manager can leave after a week?"

"We also thought it was quite strange, seeing that Lao Hu seemed to be eager for Jiya to leave quickly, and she was also eager to flee. It is said that the boss once intervened to keep her, but she still insisted on leaving. Xia Bizhu seemed to know what An Su was worried about, and continued, "Before she left, she had already done a good job of planning and analyzing the product structure for next autumn and winter." I see that she has been working extra for several days in a row, and she is also a person with a strong sense of responsibility. ”

Ansu nodded.

Xia Bizhu said: "After the director of operations came, everyone was speculating whether it would be a change in the organizational structure to add a commodity director, and Ji Ya wanted to go up, but Lao Hu didn't let her go, so she left."

"Then there is an airborne operation director, I didn't let you go up, why don't you leave?"

Her hair had been dried, and Xia Bizhu put the towel aside. Ansu adjusted her posture and half-leaned on Bizhu.

Xia Bizhu helped An Su pull a few strands of hair on her face behind her ears before saying, "Seriously, it's not that I don't want to be the chief operating officer, but I have other plans." Besides, it is really difficult for me to compete with the marketing department with my ability at Rosewood Life. You also know that the C brand is mainly based on franchise, and direct sales are far inferior to franchises, depending on how many goods are withdrawn by the franchise each season. It is the chief operating officer who should be a little stronger to compete with the marketing director Lao Xu. ”

Xia Bizhu said several words, but An Su only grabbed one of them. "What are your plans?"

Xia Bizhu was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "The plan I said is that there is a boss on top, so that I can better do what I want to do, at least I don't need to come forward for conflicts with the marketing department." ”

An Su nodded his head: "That's right, but this Jiya is a little strange." ”

"What's even more strange is that the general department head will do a farewell when he leaves, and someone like Lao Hu who likes to do superficial work will do it even more. Usually he always invites the heads of departments to dinner, watch movies, sing K or something, but today when Ji Ya left, there was no movement, just symbolically went in to say hello to him. Usually everyone gets along well, which is really puzzling. ”

"It's gone, there's nothing to say. Anyway, it's still in the same city, contact Jiya after a while, and the three of us will come out to get together. ”

Xia Bizhu nodded, and told An Su about other things that happened in the company, and finally said that the lawsuit between the company and the agent had reached an out-of-court settlement. Although Xiang Hui was not mentioned, An Su felt as if he had deliberately told her.

An Su was silent for a while before saying, "I met Fei Qingya on the plane today, and she sat next to me. ”

Xia Bizhu suddenly stared at her big eyes. Although she knew that An Su might not necessarily answer her questions, she still asked, "She didn't ask you about you and lawyer Xiang?" ”

An Su wanted to ask her what happened to Xiang Hui, but after witnessing what happened that night, how could Bizhu believe it. Bizhu has been her bosom friend for many years, and she has nothing to say about herself. Remembering the night before the order fair, the two of them looked at the dew drops on the grass, and Bizhu must have missed her relatives very much. She lost the morning dew, she lost her purity, the same pain, and she will definitely have the same thoughts.

I don't know if it's an illusion, the fragrance in the air is getting stronger and stronger, and the light smoke rising from the incense burner is getting lighter and lighter, almost transparent and straight lines, as if it goes straight to heaven. An Su stared at the wisps of green smoke, and through the wisps of cigarettes, he saw the long staircase, the snow-white pear blossom, and the figure of the little monk at the end of the stairs......