Li Zhibin was late on Monday morning. He set himself a seven-thirty-past work time, but when he came to the office today, it was already seven forty-five. Tao Tang has already arrived and is looking at the documents.

There's no time to clean the office...... What a damn one! I didn't hear the set phone alarm.

Yesterday afternoon, Tao Tang arranged for him to take the questionnaire collected from the trade union, and asked the general manager's office to read it first and make classified statistics. After he reported to Director Zhang, Zhang Xingwu immediately convened a meeting to make arrangements and handed over the work to the secretary group. Each of the seven secretaries took on a portion of the task of reading and summarizing, and then everyone went their separate ways.

Li Zhibin knew that Mr. Tao attached great importance to this questionnaire that he had personally revised the topic, and Mr. Tao's sense of time was particularly strong. So he decided to get it out as fast as he could. He didn't remind others, but sent a text message to Chen Yan asking her to work overtime. After getting off work, he hurriedly ate dinner, and came directly to the office without returning to the dormitory, and twenty minutes later, the familiar footsteps sounded in the silent corridor, and Chen Yan came obediently.

"Is it really that urgent? It's going to be a holiday soon. Chen Yan stood at the door of his office and said to him.

"Mr. Tao has a strong sense of time, since he said that he will get it out as soon as possible, then he must want to see the results before the holiday. Let's finish early. If there are a few meetings tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, where will there be time? Maybe you'll have to sacrifice your vacation. Li Zhibin stood up and replied.

"I don't want to work overtime on holidays...... Chen Yan turned to her office.

Li Zhibin knows that this May Day is more special. Meng Fan had already organized an outing, Chen Yan would go, he would go, and he decided to use this outing to do that.

After reading more than a dozen questionnaires, he had a rough idea in his mind, and began to design the table on the computer, and deliberated and modified the categories he set. The work took him twenty minutes, and then he read a dozen volumes from another unit. I fine-tuned my classification table, then typed out a blank form on the printer and took it to Chen Yan's office.

"For your information." He put the form in front of Chen Yan, who was immersed in reading.

"Oh, that's good. It is worthy of being the No. 1 secretary, and the level is high. Chen Yan admitted that Li Zhibin's classification and statistical table is very scientific, basically covering all kinds of problems raised by employees.

"You look at a copy, just draw the right words on it, and after reading it, the statistics will come out."

"Do you really want to see them all?" Chen Yan looked at the large pile of rolls in front of her with a bitter face.

"Tao is always a very serious person...... By the way, you're only given four units, right? I'll print you three more empty tables, one for each unit count. I have noticed that the report of the unit is not 100%, and you have the number of registered units here, right? ”

"But I have a retirement center. This must be Zhang Xingwu's punishment for me. Chen Yan said with a bitter face. Do you want to be registered? ”

"The questionnaire recovery rate should be indicated in the remarks. In addition, similar statistics should be made for various types of problems. ”

"You're really detailed, you should go to the Issuance Department to do comprehensive statistics. Oops, after all this big stuff, you still can't sleep? ”

"I want to hand it over to Mr. Tao tomorrow morning, work hard, there is no harm."

"Director Li, Leader Li, if you don't make progress, it's unreasonable......

Li Zhibin ignored Chen Yan's ridicule and went back to work, and half an hour later, he came over again and gave Chen Yan a box of mints, "Refresh." ”

Chen Yan glanced at Li Zhibin, unscrewed it and popped it up, and threw it into his mouth.

The two were completed at about the same time, Chen Yan sent the completed form over, and Li Zhibin said to her, "You give me your pile of papers, you can go back first." I'll do the rest. Wait, I'll send you back. Too late. ”

couldn't help but say that Li Zhibin accompanied Chen Yan back to the dormitory. In fact, the office building is not far from the single building, and the straight-line distance is less than 200 meters, but it is already half past one in the morning......

Neither of them spoke on the way. Li Zhibin watched Chen Yan enter the bachelor building, turned back to the office, and continued the rest of the work. He typed the two men's handwritten statistical tables into the computer, then double-checked them and corrected two statistical errors. Print out the summary sheet, and then organize the roll again. When he left the office, he looked at the table below, and it was already three o'clock in the morning.

As a result, I overslept and woke up at 7:40 a.m., and hurried to the office without even eating breakfast.

"I'm sorry Mr. Tao, I'm late."

"Oh," Tao Tang looked up at his secretary, "didn't sleep well?" ”

"Last night's statistical questionnaire, it was a little late......"

Sure enough, Tao Tang became interested, and he closed the folder, "The statistics are out?" Take it for me to see. ”

He handed over two statistical summaries totaling 11 units to Tao Tang, "Yesterday afternoon, Director Zhang made a division of labor for several of our secretaries, which was only made up by me and Secretary Chen. He deliberately accentuated his tone in the afternoon.

"Where's the original?"

"I only have our ...... handy"

"Hmm...... That's a good job. Tao Tang quickly finished reading the classification summary, "The reporting rate is not high, what is the reason for you to ask the union?" Tao Tang knew that Chang Wenhai had assigned this work to the union.

"It's a bit higher, and the average of the seven units I'm in charge of is 77 percent. The grassroots level is 62%, and Xiao Chen's part is 79% and 63% respectively......"

That means that 30 percent of employees did not fill out the questionnaire...... Why? Tao Tang muttered to himself.

He didn't answer.

"Good work. Well done. You pick out the rolls of several units such as research institute, technology, development regulations, marketing, production, procurement, quality control, etc., and select two other branches...... Well, 11 and 3 branches. ”

"Understood."

He immediately asked for the unit roll that Tao Tang wanted from several other secretaries, and he saw Chen Yan yawning and gave her an understanding look.

At about nine o'clock, Mr. Tao threw the two folders to Li Zhibin and went to Secretary Zhao's office, Li Zhibin endured the constant sleepiness and began to deal with the materials of Tao Tang's instructions and signatures. One of the two folders contains documents and internal references, and the other contains requests and reports. Unlike Song Yue, Tao Tang is always very neat in handling document requests, never delaying, and returning them to him at this hour every day. If it is approved to the company's leader or the chief assistant or deputy chief engineer, he needs to send it in person, and those from other units will call the following to pick it up.

It took him an hour to do it all. Mr. Tao didn't come back, and it is estimated that he went down to the grassroots again. For some reason, Tao Tang never took him to the workshop, let alone anyone, and always rode Master Wang's old-fashioned bicycle alone.

Today is the 29th, and due to the change of two public holidays, there will be a five-day consecutive holiday. Li Zhibin, who has worked in the General Manager's Office for more than two years, has already felt the unique atmosphere of the approaching festival. That's a special feeling, if you use one word to describe it, it's "receiving", shrinking, not doing what should be done, waiting for the arrival of the festival. The forces of habit are always exceptionally strong, and there are obviously fewer meetings in Building 3 today, and there are also many fewer vice presidents and middle cadres who come to Mr. Tao for instructions and reports.

This "May Day" holiday has an unusual significance for Li Zhibin. He has signed up for Meng Fan's "tour group" and will experience a hike with more than a dozen single college students. I didn't like this kind of activity, just like he didn't usually participate in mahjong, bridge and all kinds of ball games for singles. Not only because of his quiet and inactive character, but also because of his unique position.

In this trip, he will take the opportunity to make a clear and unmistakable confession to Chen Yan. According to his judgment, the odds of his success are more than seventy percent. After he had an in-depth long conversation with Chen Yan that did not involve personal feelings, his confidence exploded.

That day, Mr. Tao unexpectedly came to the singles building, played a wonderful game of badminton with Meng Fan, and went to Chen Yan and You Benling's bedroom to talk a lot with the singles about the propaganda work. That night, as usual, he went out for his walk—an activity that was ridiculed by singles as a sign of premature aging. When he came back, he saw Chen Yan sitting alone on the stone table on the side of the court in a daze, so he seized the opportunity to have a heart-to-heart long talk with Chen Yan.

The topic started with Mr. Tao. Chen Yan said that Tao is much stronger than Song Yue.

He said, Chen Yan, I once told you that in our industry, it is most taboo to evaluate leaders in private.

Chen Yan said, isn't this talking to you? You don't agree with me, and everyone else's point of view? How has Song Yue ever been to the single building, and how has he ever cared about the lives of singles? You see, the bathroom is almost ready, and the reading room is stocked with new books.

He said, I'm not saying that Tao is bad. Mr. Tao must be a rare good leader. I mean, the main ability of our secretaries is to adapt to various leaders, not to choose leaders. It is our blessing to meet a good leader, and we have to adapt to a bad leader.

Chen Yan said, I understand why Zhang Xingwu chose you and Mr. Tao. You're going to make progress quickly, and you'll have to cover me when the time comes.

He said, "Why do you think I can be promoted?"

Chen Yan said, because the director likes you.

He said, can the director be promoted if he likes it? Not to mention, Song Yue has been in the middle level for four years, and Mr. Liang before Song Yue has been in the middle for three years, with an average of one per year. Do you think it's the director's credit?

Chen Yan said, what do you mean has nothing to do with the director? Was it mentioned by the company's leaders?

He said: Ma Zhe said that things should grasp the main contradictions. You have been in the factory for two years, and you really can't understand the company's cadre management system? There is only one person who plays a decisive role.

Chen Yan nodded, then she was even more congratulated.

He said, "I'm not done yet." There are sufficient and necessary conditions in mathematics. Unless you grasp the main contradiction, the director, or the leader in charge, is often not enough to achieve this kind of thing, and more than to fail.

Chen Yan said, you are really vicious. But you're right, teachable.

So you're going to change your personality, he said. The first step is to make them not hate you. Our system doesn't fight hard-working people, nor lazy people, but also people who don't have long eyes.

Chen Yan said, I'm afraid I'm the one who doesn't have long eyes.

And he said, Thou art not. Even if the directors didn't like your style in the past, now it's a new beginning, and everything is in time.

Chen Yan asked, is it too late?

Of course, he said. You're smart, and you're hard-nosed. I dare say that the chances are more for you. Isn't the quarterly work summary given to the CEO by the General Manager's Office every quarter and every year when you get the first draft? Did you hear what Mr. Tao said that night? Why don't you write a manuscript for the factory newspaper? Mr. Song never reads the factory newspaper, but Tao always reads it, and he reads it very carefully. If you think about it, it is said that once the son of heaven is a courtier, how much Mr. Song mentioned, Mr. Tao is afraid that he will also mention it. When he first came, whoever made a good impression on him had a chance. Maybe, I'll want you to take care of it.

Chen Yan smiled, you can be my teacher. Compared to you, my two-year secretary is for nothing.

He said that it was in vain in the past, but now it is not in vain.

He knew that Chen Yan had listened. Otherwise, Chen Yan wouldn't have listened to him and stayed up late working overtime to count those questionnaires.

He likes Chen Yan. I like her beauty, I like her straightforward and hearty personality, and I like her nature of not admiring vanity. After Chen Yan rejected the hairy boy, he knew that his opportunity had come.

His and Chen Yan's personalities are completely different, in Chen Yan's words, he is too "wilted". There's nothing wrong with that, aren't there countless examples of this in life? Couples with complementary personalities live happily ever after.

The judgment is based on the facts, and Chen Yan's ridicule and sarcasm about him have increased significantly recently. This is a good phenomenon, which shows that Chen Yan cares about him. Just like the long talk he had with Chen Yan outside the bachelor building that night, it is absolutely impossible to put it aside in the past.

He has pursued Chen Yan in his way for a long time, including when Chen Yan was friends with others, and he didn't give up. He stubbornly believed that Chen Yan's love would not succeed, and it turned out to be the case. In his eyes, Chen Yan is a very special girl, she is not the kind of person who loves vanity and pursues material first, nor is she a woman who worships power, she is like a fairy who advocates freedom, attaches importance to spirit over material, despises all rules, and works in a department that pays the most attention to rules. So she was always criticized, complaining, and dissatisfied with the status quo. The three leaders of the General Manager's Office, Director Zhang was dissatisfied with her, and Secretary Zhu was the same. Deputy Director Jia, who admired her, had other intentions for her. Li Zhibin can see this. Fortunately, Chen Yan is very upright, and Jia Jianxin can't find any opportunities.

When he shared the same office with her, he had admonished her, telling her what to pay attention to and what not to do in a tactful tone, but always in exchange for her ridicule and sarcasm. He didn't care, trying to make up for possible mistakes for her as much as he could. He firmly believes that everything he does is felt by her. Sure enough, after she ended her last relationship, on a relatively quiet afternoon, she talked to him a lot about her depression at work, talked about the reasons why she rejected the other party, and regarded him as a trusted friend. At that time, Song Yue had just been taken away, he was on standby, and the office location was back in Chen Yan's office, so he had the opportunity to have a deep conversation with Chen Yan. He told her that jobs can be exchanged for jobs, but marriage cannot, and that person is indeed not a good match for you, so your decision is right.

You were born to be a secretary, and I wonder if you are hiding your age. However, it is really much more comfortable to talk to you. Chen Yan said to him.

He knew what she was worried about. He told her, you don't have to worry about Mr. Liu retaliating against you. They are too busy to take care of themselves, where will they have the energy to take care of you? Rest assured. However, you are really not suitable for the general manager's office, and you should change positions, but you can't be in a hurry. Because there is only one opportunity, you must wait for the leader to put it forward, and then you throw out your requirements, in order to let you leave peacefully, eighty percent will meet your requirements.

As a result, without waiting for the leadership to act, Mr. Tao came. Naturally, the matter was put on hold.

He knew about Chen Yan's family situation, but she didn't necessarily know about his situation. They are all ordinary citizens with no background. Otherwise, relying on Chen Yan's character, she would have resigned a long time ago. The reason why she didn't leave Red Star, which was treated very ordinarily, was not because she had an attempt to improve, but because she was dragged down by her family. Her parents are divorced, she is with her mother, and her mother is not in good health, so she can't leave Pingquan, and in Pingquan, get rid of Red Star, there is no better state-owned enterprise. Her diploma and major have restricted her freedom, such as East Lake, the treatment is definitely better than that of Red Star, but she can't go. He knew that she had secretly applied for Donghu Real Estate, but failed.

It's an old-fashioned and decadent notion, but it's very practical. Couples with very different family backgrounds are more likely to have conflicts. He didn't like Chen Yan's family, but felt better. Because his parents were also ordinary, it was impossible to give him the material support he hoped for in his marriage. Chen Yan does not admire vanity, it is precisely the good match he has been looking for for a long time. He worked hard and tried to figure out the intentions of his leaders in order to achieve his goals. The goal is simple, get into the middle of the company. If nothing else, the generous treatment in place, for the happiness of his small family in the future.

He firmly believes that love without a material foundation cannot last. Spirit can never replace matter.

His career suffered one of its biggest failures. That was Song Yue's downfall. Almost pushed him into the abyss. After Song Yue was subjected to two regulations, he was questioned twice by the Provincial Anti-Corruption Bureau, of course, against Song Yue. His attitude is sincere, he will answer all questions, and he will never hide it, but he will never make something out of nothing, and he will never make unfounded speculations. He has only been with Song Yue for less than four months, and he has not gained Song Yue's true trust, and most of Song Yue's private affairs have not been involved, which has saved him, and what he has encountered is only temporary "unemployment". Unexpectedly, he became Mr. Tao's secretary, which was completely supported by Director Zhang. This strengthened his outlook on life and proved that his previous work methods and attitude were completely correct.

Hope is reborn. But he found that Tao Tang was a completely different type of person from Song Yue, and it seemed more difficult for Mr. Tao to trust him. Mr. Tao never talked to him about any topics outside of work, and Mr. Tao was more strict with his work. He privately summarized Mr. Tao's work style, two points, one is a strong sense of time, often accurate to the hour or a smaller unit of time, there is no such word as "a few days". Correspondingly, subordinates must also give explanations according to his schedule. The second is accuracy, and his report, data, personnel, and content must be accurate.

This puts pressure on him, but it also brings him greater opportunities.