Chapter 75: Friends You Can Trust
The next morning, while I was still immersed in a dream, my mother woke me up, and I complained vaguely, "Mom, what time is it?" Wake me up and let me sleep a little longer. ”
"Don't sleep, I'll ask you something."
"Don't ask, I said I had nothing to do with that girl, it really doesn't matter." I yawned heavily, closed my eyes and lay back on the bed.
"I'm asking you what that girl likes to eat, didn't you say that she was going to come to our house today, I'll go grocery shopping later."
"You just buy some lotus root, bell peppers, gluten, river shrimp, and make a spicy chicken or something."
"Isn't this what you love to eat?"
"Young people have similar tastes, you can just watch it yourself."
"It's not ...... sloppy"
Before my mother could finish speaking, I interrupted and said, "You can buy it with confidence, she must love it." ”
My mother finally stopped nagging, thought about it and asked me again, "Have you made a phone call to care about other girls' breakfast?" ”
"Mom, we are not people of the same era, don't put your living habits on us, she doesn't know if she gets up or not, you buy the vegetables first."
"You just nag me all day long, don't I do this for your good, hurry up and call the girl, and then ask her when she will come, you go to pick her up."
"I'll do what you say, and you can let me sleep a little longer, okay? Just for a moment. I begged.
"Then don't forget what I just told you, did you hear that?"
I nodded my head in response, and my mother muttered a few more words before leaving my room.
……
After my mother left, I gradually lost my sleepiness, tossed and turned in bed for a long time, and finally took out my mobile phone and dialed Mi Cai's phone.
Mi Cai quickly answered the phone and said to me politely, "Good morning." ”
I replied with a "good morning" and asked, "Have you had breakfast?" ”
"I'm eating at the hotel's restaurant."
"Oh, you're in good habits, it's time for breakfast."
Mi Cai responded to me with an "um" sound.
This conversation made me feel a little stiff, and after thinking about it, I asked, "What are you going to do after dinner?" ”
"Browse your department stores and shopping malls in Xuzhou."
"Mr. Mi made a special trip to Xuzhou to do market research!" I sighed and said.
"No, I came to you on a special trip, and the market survey was just done incidentally." Mi Cai said to me in a very serious tone.
I was afraid that people would talk to me very seriously, and I didn't say anything for a while.
Mi Cai said to me again: "Xuzhou is your home field, don't you come to be my guide?" ”
"There's no problem with this, I have a lot of time right now anyway."
"Then I'll wait for you in front of the hotel."
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Ending the call with Mi Cai, I got up quickly, and washed up quickly, less than 10 minutes before and after, I really want those women to see that this is called speed.
I didn't have time to eat a bite of breakfast, so I drove Banda's Santana 2000 to the hotel where Mi Cai lived.
After arriving at the hotel for a while, I saw Mi Cai waiting at the door, I pressed the window and asked her, "Do you want to take my car, or do you drive yourself?" ”
Mi Cai didn't say anything, she answered me directly, she opened the co-pilot's door and sat down next to me, and I immediately started the car.
In the process of driving to the city center, Mi Cai has been looking at a photo in the car, this photo is our family photo, but I was still very young at the time, with a very immature smile holding the leg of the father.
Mi Cai's expression was a little gloomy, and she smiled again, I understood that she was gloomy because of her deceased father, and she smiled because she was envious of the reunion and happiness of our family.
I pressed the photo frame, not wanting the photo to continue to tear Mi Cai's feelings, so I changed the subject and asked, "I heard that your Zhuomei stores in Shanghai and Nanjing are in preparation, and doing market research in a third-tier city like Xuzhou is not in line with your big city strategy, right?" ”
Mi Cai shook his head and said: "In fact, there are differences among our internal executives about the direction of Zhuomei's future development, and I personally think that Zhuomei's strategic focus should be on the second- and third-tier top cities, the competition faced by the first-tier cities is too fierce, and it will also consume a lot of our resources, and if it is not profitable, it will soon affect the operation of the entire group." ”
I nodded, and I roughly understood in my heart that Mi Zhongde's strategic plan for Zhuomei is in the first-tier cities, while Mi Cai is biased towards the second-tier and top third-tier cities, this difference will definitely deepen the contradiction between the two again, I have a hunch that the future of Zhuomei, Mi Cai and Mi Zhongde cannot coexist, as for who can completely control Zhuomei in the end, I can't assert lightly.
Throughout the morning, I accompanied Mi Cai to visit several large department stores and shopping centers in Xuzhou, and the two also exchanged some views on the market, which is one of the few common languages we have.
Before going to my house as a guest, Mi Cai insisted on buying a lot of gifts for my father and mother, and I acted as a coolie to carry these gifts, and then complained: "You really don't need to buy any gifts when you come to our house, make you look like my girlfriend." ”
"Do I have to be a girlfriend to buy a gift?"
"It's not, but we are now at the age when men get married and women get married, and the elders will inevitably misunderstand, and when you see Daddy and my mother later, you have to explain our relationship to them."
Mi Cai asked me rhetorically: "Then what do you think is our relationship?" ”
I thought about it and replied, "A little more with each other and a little less with friends." ”
Mi Cai shook her head in denial and said, "I didn't take you as an opponent." ”
"And what do you take me for?" I asked with great interest.
"Friend, a friend you can trust."
I smiled and said, "That's what you said when you introduced yourself to my parents later, but you must not change your opinion of me because of that incident, and then blindly trust me, I'm really not a good person!" ”
Mi Cai shook her head and said, "I don't want to think too complicated about a person, it will be very tiring, so I prefer to trust my instincts." ”
"Did you think so when we first met?"
"No, I just thought you were a scumbag at that time, a rare scumbag!"
I said, "So, you don't judge me intuitively, or rather, I'm still a scumbag in your first instincts." ”
Mi Cai smiled and said, "Don't discuss this, I've been shopping for a long time, I'm hungry, hurry up and try the food cooked by Daddy." ”
I grabbed Mi Cai, who was walking forward, and asked suspiciously, "What did you just call my dad?" ”
"Daddy!" Mi Cai replied, reacted instantly, and hurriedly explained, "I just think it's fun to shout like this, so I just shout like this, there is no other meaning." ”
"You can't shout like this in front of him, he always thought that the board father was my father, you have to shout, this matter is really big."
Mi Cai realized the severity of the situation, nodded very seriously, and then the two of us looked at each other, and laughed together inexplicably, and her smile was so heart-pounding at noon when the sun was just right.