Chapter Twenty-Three: Caught in Sweetness
"Dangdangdang" A very urgent knock on the door pulled Zixi back from his thoughts.
"Please come in" Zixi has always been very polite to visitors.
The door opened, and Zixi saw that it was Fu Mengmeng who walked in, limping not very steadily.
"I just went back to the office, and I heard the department member tell me that you were looking for me in a hurry, so I hurried over."
Fu Mengmeng's tone of voice was much gentler than before, so mild that it was a little difficult for Zixi to accept, she made up her mind and made sure that it was none other than Fu Mengmeng who was standing in front of her.
"Yes, I'll tell you about the bidding work this time, you go back and prepare, and report back to me, that's right! What's going on with your legs isn't still fine in the morning."
"Don't laugh when you say it, I've been in bad health for the past two days, and I've had to go to the toilet for a long time, and my legs are numb after squatting for a long time, hehe"
The treacherous and cunning Fu Mengmeng smiled hypocritically, and found a reasonable reason to prevaricate Zixi in front of her, pretending to be gentle and delicate like a wounded tiger, although the soft-hearted Zixi was a little suspicious, but looking at the pitiful Fu Mengmeng in front of her, as a colleague for so many years, she still believed her.
Zixi simply explained the details of this bidding meeting and the final preparations, there was a lot of content, but Fu Mengmeng listened to it, it was all complicated and trivial work.
"You mainly take these members on the list to work together to prepare for this bidding, as for other things, you don't have to worry too much, you still have things to do in the marketing department, too tired is not good for your health"
Zixi did not explain the relevant things about the bidding documents and the bottom of the bid to Fu Mengmeng, although she believed everything she said, but she was still on guard in her heart.
Fu Mengmeng sat on the chair in Zixi's office, absentmindedly listening to Zixi's nagging at herself, in her opinion, she didn't hear a word of usefulness, and she was about to fall asleep when she leaned on the chair in the office.
"If there is nothing to do, I will hurry up and prepare, the time is very close, and many details of the bidding meeting need to be finalized repeatedly."
Fu Mengmeng looked at Zixi and still didn't believe in herself, "Narcissistic guy, I want to see how perfect you can do the bidding this time" scolded in her heart while getting up and walking out of the office door.
Fu Mengmeng, who returned to the office, although she was very unaccustomed to Zixi's approach, she was very dedicated, and she didn't want anyone to catch any of her negligence in such an important work, and let her colleagues in the company poke her backbone behind her back.
She completed every job very dedicatedly, and even reached the point of forgetting to sleep and eat a few days ago, working overtime to prepare for the bidding.
[10 days later]
The bidding work was held in the company's conference hall under the cooperation of the whole team, and there were not many companies to participate in the bidding.
Yan Qing also brought his assistant Liu Zihe and several vice presidents to the venue this time, as a cooperative invitation to the company to participate in the bidding ceremony of key cooperation projects.
Out of the relationship of avoiding influence, Yan Qing just smiled knowingly after meeting Zixi like a stranger at the venue, and did not say too much. In each other's hearts, they all know very well who will win this tender.
In the first row in front of the venue, Zixi Fu Mengmeng and other companies are mainly responsible for bidding staff sitting.
"This tender is just a formality, I think you already know who will do it!"
"Who will cooperate in the end, it is the ability of each company to have the final say, not me alone, you are also a department head, how can you not even know this!"
Zixi originally had a string hanging in his heart, afraid that something would go wrong halfway, and hearing Fu Mengmeng's ill-intentioned words added fuel to the fire, and responded in a very strong tone, for Fu Mengmeng, such a tone had only been heard in the boss's mouth before.
"What are you angry about! I'll just talk about it, could it be that you are a thief and have a ghost in your heart."
Fu Mengmeng is not a vegetarian either, and the knife in her mouth stimulates Zixi beside her.
"Do I have a ghost in my heart, with a clear conscience! I'm afraid that if someone pretends to be a ghost in human skin, it will be disgusting! ”
"You-!"
Fu Mengmeng originally wanted to pinch Zixi hard when she heard such words, but seeing so many cooperative companies and executives in the company present, she still endured it again and again for the sake of her future career.
"Okay - you're good!"
Fu Mengmeng glared at Zixi and sat down in a seat on the side. The bidding work was carried out quite smoothly due to the very adequate preparation in the early stage.
The bidding meeting lasted for more than an hour, and finally the dust settled, and Yanqing's company was selected as a partner. At this moment, Yan Qingxin knew very well what his company could win on this strong battlefield and win the jackpot.
Yan Qing sat on the chair in the back row, looking at Zixi's blessed face in his eyes, his heart was full of gratitude, and he secretly vowed to give Zixi a very touching and unforgettable for her life.
Just when the audience stood up to give Yanqing Company blessings, no one noticed that Fu Mengmeng, who was sitting in the corner, smiled fiercely at Zixi, who was sitting in the same row, and involuntarily sinister smiled like a strange poison in the TV series, and tightly held the only iphone6 mobile phone with evidence in his hand.
The bidding meeting lasted for a morning, and the companies participating in the bidding were invited to attend the bidding banquet at noon, but after announcing that Yanqing Company had won the bid, other companies left in a hurry after congratulating Yanqing.
There were very few left, Zixi and the company's staff were cleaning up the venue, and Zixi walked over to Yan Qing.
"Congratulations, I hope we can have a good time working together next"
Zixi walked in front of Yan Qing and congratulated him from the bottom of his heart.
"I don't know how to thank you"
"Thank me for what to do, this is won by your strength, and besides, I don't need to listen to your words, it's enough to have me in my heart"
Originally, Yan Qing wanted to take advantage of the fact that there were not many people in the venue to take a step to speak, avoiding the company's entourage and saying something to Zixi alone, but Zixi left with a slight smile after a few words.
"Mr. Yan, how can she be like this!"
Liu Zihe looked at Zixi's cold and arrogant appearance in front of Yan Qing, and was very unhappy in her heart, so she came to Yan Qing's ear and complained.
"It doesn't matter, she's like this, like a rose growing on the top of the Tianshan Mountain, which makes people feel unattainable, but in fact, she longs for someone to be good to her"
Yan Qing looked at the bewitching figure of Zixi leaving, stood in place and sighed.
"By the way, you will plan all the work of the bidding cooperation with the vice president and them in a while, and see when the cooperation document will be signed, the sooner the better."
Yan Qing looked at Liu Zihe, the assistant who was standing on the side, and motioned for her to go with the accompanying company personnel to contact the relevant departments of Zixi's company and put the follow-up cooperation in place.
"Okay, Mr. Yan, I'll do it"
The shrewd assistant Liu Zihe has always attached great importance to what Yan Qing said, and it seems that he can guess Yan Qing's mind at some point.
Yan Qing plans to celebrate the next day, after all, such an important cooperation plays a vital role in the future development of the company, and Zixi's help has brought Yan Qing's company to a new level of development.
Of course, he who had a love experience with Zixi before, he did not forget that tomorrow is Zixi's 25th birthday, and it can be regarded as out of gratitude, Yanqing plans to hold a birthday party in a more atmospheric bar in Houhaibao, firstly, to celebrate the company's winning bid, and more importantly, to celebrate Zixi's birthday.
Yan Qing called Liu Zihe, an assistant who was discussing cooperation with other people in the company, to his side.
"Now you give the job at hand to the vice president, let him take the company's personnel to do things about cooperation, and you go to Houhai Street"
"What are you doing on Houhai Street? It's all bars."
Liu Zihe's curiosity prompted her to interrupt Yan Qing's words.
"What are you surprised about! I'm not done yet, tomorrow I want to hold a birthday party at a private bar, you can go and see which bar is more atmospheric and help me book one."
Yan Qing's face showed a look of impatience.
"You want to have a birthday? I remember it's not tomorrow either."
"When did you become so talkative! I'll let you do it, just treat it as my birthday, okay? ”
Yan Qing saw Liu Zihe grinding and chirping and asking questions, and stood there with some anger in his heart, and reprimanded, his voice was so loud that it attracted the people around him to stop and watch.
"Hurry up and do it! I'll wait for you to call before tonight."
Yan Qing looked at the people around him and realized that his emotions were out of control and sometimes he was really embarrassed, and he didn't like the feeling of being watched, so he strode out of the crowd and walked out of the door.
"What a murderer! Didn't I just ask, as for me, what would happen to me! ”
Liu Zihe watched Yan Qing leave, and only then did he start muttering in his mouth when he stood there.
"You know what a companion is, like a tiger! How unfortunate is this! ”
The company personnel accompanying him saw this woman who was usually bullying and yelling at the company standing there at this time, looking lonely and out of favor, just like the virtue of the princess before she was beaten into the cold palace in the costume TV series.
The entourage sneered at her lukewarmly, and they seized this opportunity to vent quickly, and when they returned to the company, they would go back to the past.
"I really want to take a picture of her beloved Nikon camera today, swipe it on Weibo, and sign it as a beautiful picture of a bad woman without makeup"
A clerk accompanying him didn't dare to be too loud, so he whispered to other colleagues, his face fluttering with excitement, and his happy expression was like the day of payroll.
Liu Zihe is worthy of being the assistant to the president, and it is not so easy to be discouraged when she usually follows Yan Qing through various occasions, she relies on her inner strength, and after a few minutes of temporary malaise, she regained her spirits, and continued to pretend to be cute and very domineering and left Zixi's company.
Fu Mengmeng left the bidding venue very early, she stood in front of the boss's office for a long time and watched people come and go, she hesitated for a long time and decided to cancel the interview, returned to her office, turned on the computer and re-registered an anonymous mailbox.
She took the things about Zixi and Yanqing that day in her mobile phone and sent this anonymous email to the company's boss and vice presidents and executives of other departments, and shamelessly went to Zixi's office as if nothing had happened after the email was successfully sent.
"Please come in"
Zixi was sitting in the office thinking about how to write a report to report the bidding work to the boss, and when he heard someone knocking at the door, he politely answered the door.
The moment Fu Mengmeng pushed open the door and came in, Zixi's love was immediately twisted 180 degrees, and there was no smile on her face, but Fu Mengmeng was also accustomed to Zixi's indescribable expression.
"I'm here to congratulate you, you see that you have completed this important tender so well, which is an important test for you from the company's senior management, and you are expected to be promoted!"
"How do you know I'm going to be promoted? Could it be that you heard something in advance? ”
"Look at you, a little romantic thinking is not okay! I don't want you to be promoted, why do you always look serious, which makes me a little nervous."
"Then I owe you Jiyan, if I am promoted, I will not forget your blessing, is there anything else?"
"I can't stay here if it's okay, I just want to see you, I'll leave when I've seen enough!"
Hearing that Zixi's words had some bang in it, Fu Mengmeng's heart was blocked and couldn't let go.
"Don't be angry, I really have business to do, so you go back first, I'll send my photo to your computer, so you can see me at all times, and maybe use it as your desktop background"
Zixi sat on the chair in front of the desk, drinking coffee while leisurely looking at Fu Mengmeng, whose face was green.
"No, I have a lot of important texts on my computer, what if I use your photo as a background and the computer strikes, you're busy! Don't let me see you have time to spare! ”
Although Fu Mengmeng glared at Zixi in her eyes, although she felt that her aura was a little weak, she was still secretly happy in her heart, she was still proud to send out the so-called evidence by herself, and left happily.
After Zixi saw Fu Mengmeng go out, he still stayed in front of the phone unhurriedly.
"You wooden man! Didn't say anything! ”
Zixi is not waiting for someone else, she is waiting for Yan Qing's call, the mobile phone is placed on the table, and the volume is turned to the maximum, she doesn't say it but she is really looking forward to Yan Qing's phone call in her heart, in her opinion, it is better to be caring and happy with a man, after all, it is not as reliable and warm as taking the initiative to call and thank you.
Yan Qing received a call from his assistant Liu Zihe in the afternoon, saying that he had booked a private room in a bar, and he would rearrange it by tomorrow afternoon according to Yan Qing's request.
"Thank you for your hard work, it's not easy to have such a hot weather, and today I'm really a little anxious."
Yan Qing apologized a little tangled to Liu Zihe on the other end of the phone, who knew that Liu Zihe was already sweating profusely for the charter of the venue, and the light makeup on his face was made up several times.
It's not because of the price, it's mainly because many bars in Houhai have old customers, and the business is chartered by old customers who can't get in, which affects the credibility and reputation, and the bars that can be chartered also have to wait until after two o'clock in the morning. Liu Zihe gave full play to his beauty and mouth to successfully win down a bar owner and agreed to pay for a charter.
And Zixi, who was sitting in the office, waited until she got off work until Yan Qing didn't have a phone call, her heart was like a plumb hammer and was suddenly pulled to the negative pole, and she spent a sleepless night of tossing and turning.
In the evening of the next day, Zixi, who was almost disappointed, was packing up her things in the company and preparing to go home from work, the phone on the table rang, and she hung up angrily when she saw that it was Yanqing. After a while, the phone on the desk rang briefly.
"I'm waiting for you downstairs, are you busy working overtime? You forgot that today is your birthday and want to surprise you" Zixi opened the phone screen with a text message from Yan Qing.
Zixi put down the work in his hand and went straight to the window to see Yan Qing sitting in the red Maserati waiting for him.
Zixi picked up her phone and dialed back.
"I'm not busy! I don't need to work overtime today, but I still have some things to figure out here, do you want to ......? ”
"So I'll go up, it's quicker for one more person to help"
Yan Qing actually understood what Zixi didn't say when he heard it, so he locked the car and took the elevator upstairs directly.
When he came to the door of Zixi's office, the door was not closed and was half-hidden, but Yan Qing knocked on the door out of politeness.
"Come in, pretend to be polite, now the company is off work"
Zixi's voice was different from the one on the phone just now, it looked low and charming, and the sunset shone in through the window and hit her right on, Yan Qing walked to Zixi's side.
Zixi stepped forward and tentatively hugged Yan Qing's neck, seeing that Yan Qing not only did not refuse, but also hugged his waist, and the eyes of the two were glued together.
Yan Qing gradually brought his face closer to Zixi's face, Zixi felt that his heartbeat was accelerating, and an energy accumulated in his body was about to burst out.
"Didn't you say you needed help with something at work?"
Yan Qing's eyes showed a hint of teasing and ambiguity.
"Are you really stupid or pretending to be stupid, do you think I need your help with any work?"
"You're such a bad thing"
Yan Qing pressed her face closer, and her hands hugged Zixi's waist harder than before, although she felt a little uncomfortable, but Zixi still enjoyed this feeling.
The two kissed each other slowly......
After a while, Yan Qing took Zixi downstairs by elevator.
"It's my birthday, do you remember, where are you going to take me?"
Zixi sat in the passenger seat and asked Yan Qing in front of him.
"You'll know when you go, you'll love it"
Yan Qing looked at Zixi, and started the car and drove directly towards the bar street in Houhai. Yan Qing may be in the mood, today the car is driving a little faster than in the past, and the race mode that has been used has been used has arrived at the door of the bar in a few minutes, at this time the sky has darkened, and the neon lights shrouded in the night have entered.
"What are you bringing me to the bar for?"
Zixi sat in the car and refused to get out of the car, looked at the door of the bar and asked Yan Qing suspiciously.
Yan Qing didn't make any superfluous explanations, and after getting out of the car, he walked directly to the passenger seat and led Zixi down.
"You close your eyes, rest assured, I won't let you down tonight, I said I was going to surprise you on your birthday, how can you break your promise, don't you say?"
Yan Qing's words are the same as the smell in the air - warm, which makes people feel very warm. Zixi closed his eyes gently, holding Yan Qing's hand as if he had found the feeling of his first love, and slowly walked to the bar, Zixi, who was very sensitive to light, could clearly feel that there was darkness around him, without any light.
"You open your eyes"
Hearing Yan Qing say this, Zixi slowly opened his eyes, and just when Zixi felt that there was darkness around him and couldn't figure out what was going on, the lights slowly lit up from the stage in front of him, and the lights in the bar gradually became colorful.
Zixi found himself standing on a glass table in the center, the layers of peach-shaped pillars of light around him gradually lit up from the inside out, and there was an ice bucket on each table around him, with pink champagne in it, and a blooming rose was inserted in each champagne barrel, and the cold air coming out of the ice bucket seemed to have a color under the illumination of the light.
A singer on the stage held an electric guitar and played Ah Mei's song "Can I Hold You"
"I remember you told me that you liked this song the most, and I thought about playing it for you in this way for a long time."
Zixi could no longer control his excitement, and covered his mouth with his hands in surprise and looked around, looking like a qiē that only appeared in a dream.
"Happy Birthday"
Zixi clearly heard a man's birthday greeting in her ear, she couldn't believe her ears, this long-lost voice seemed to be a little strange because she hadn't heard it for too long, but it was so intimate.
"I want you to say it again, I didn't hear it clearly, please, tell me again, okay?"
Zixi turned around suddenly, hugged Yan Qing tightly and begged him to say it again to himself, his eyes were occupied by a sea of tears, and tears rained down so much that he couldn't even control himself.
In this bar, Zixi spent what she thought was the most romantic birthday in 25 years, and even she couldn't believe it, the electric guitar playing in her ears, and the pink champagne had always been the one she was most looking forward to drinking.
The most memorable is of course the 25-layer princess cake specially customized by Yan Qing for her, each layer of the 25-layer cake has a different birthday message written on each layer, each layer is filled with birthday candles, and each layer has a rainbow of colors, symbolizing Zixi's future career and life full of colorful colors.
"Make a wish"
Hearing Yan Qing say this, Zixi stood in front of the 25-layer cake with his hands folded very seriously, and kept silently reciting in his heart, "Yan Qing loves me forever"
After making a wish, Yan Qing was very curious, so he asked Zixi what kind of wish he had.
"It's a secret" Zixi smiled mysteriously at Yan Qing.
This night, Zixi still did not resist the temptation of champagne, indulged in romance and drank a lot, and the drunk Zixi kept the last trace of sobriety and walked out of the bar.
Yan Qing looked at her watch and it was not too early, so she drove Zixi to send her back to the apartment to rest.
Zixi, who was sitting in the passenger seat, smelled of alcohol and arrived downstairs in the apartment in a half-asleep state.
"My legs are a little weak and I can't walk, can you help me go up?"
Zixi looked at Yan Qing beside him with hazy eyes, and said vaguely in his mouth.
"Okay, I don't feel at ease if you go up like this"
Yan Qing turned off the car, helped Zixi upstairs, and saw that Zixi couldn't insert the key into the keyhole for a long time, so he took the key and opened the door, and helped Zixi into the house.
"You know what! Yan Qing, I've always liked you, you know that if you like it, you like that feeling, you are also a person who has come over, or someone who has been with me before, you don't need me to say that you understand what I mean, right! ”
Zixi grabbed Yan Qing's clothes tightly, as if he was afraid that the big man in front of him would lose it.
Yan Qing was different from usual, sitting there today listening to Zixi talk but not saying a word.
"You know me, I can do anything for you, I can give anything! I'm cheap! It's cheap! All I have left is to think about how to treat you! Why can't you understand or pretend to be confused and unwilling to accept me? Why did I get scared as soon as I saw you! It's mentally retarded! You sue me, is it really like what they say, when a woman's IQ is in love, she has to go to zero like a calculator? Why don't you speak! What is deep? ”
Zixi poured out all the words in his heart with the strength of wine, and he was very excited. Yan Qing knew very well what she said, but she was speechless, and she didn't want to stimulate Zixi, who was excited at this time.
Maybe it was the strength of the wine that rushed to Zixi's cranial nerve endings again, or it fulfilled the sentence that the more out of control, the easier it is to be anesthetized, Zixi yelled at Yan Qing like a splash for a while and then slowly fell asleep, Yan Qing picked up Zixi and put him on the bed in the back room, seeing that Zixi was not uncomfortable but slept, and left quietly.
The drunk Zixi didn't go to the alarm clock, and slept groggily until the morning when the sun was rising. It was already dawn, and she was still sleeping comfortably on the round bed.
After a while, Zi Xitou, who gradually woke up from his dream, still felt a little dizzy, but it was not too much of a hindrance. After lying on the bed for a long time and waking up with hysteria for a while, she suddenly realized that she didn't go to work on time today, which doesn't have much impact on the occasional occurrence of this situation at her level in the company, but sometimes it can be terrifying.
She picked up her mobile phone and was about to check the time, but saw that the company staff had made more than a dozen missed calls and text messages for urgent callbacks.
She called back to the staff.
"I was too late yesterday, you can help me take a leave of absence to come later, thank you"
Zixi said calmly after answering the phone.
"What a leave of absence! Hurry up, you know that today is not just about taking leave for you," came from the phone with a panicked tone.
"What's going on, so nervous?"
"If you come and see for yourself, I'm not scaring you, it's just headlines!"
Without waiting for Zixi to ask something, the member hung up the phone.