At the same moment, Xiaoya sat on the bed, and Fu Lingyuan, who was by the bed, smiled softly: "Happy birthday, Mr. Fu." ”

The dark eyes looked directly at her, Fu Lingyuan's thin lips pursed, he was silent, and said lightly: "You rest first." ”

With that, he got up to leave.

"Mr. Fu......" Xiao Ya grabbed his cuffs and asked timidly, "You...... Are you mad at me......"

"Loosen." Fu Lingyuan is still faint, but the two words are obviously not angry and arrogant.

Xiao Ya didn't do as she said before, staring at his crisp back: "I know that I delayed Fu Lingyuan's matter." I really didn't mean to. ”

"I was willing to take sleeping pills. I knew that Mr. Fu was still worried about me, so he fed me sleeping pills to be safe. I came from a nursing background, so I couldn't have taken sleeping pills all the time without noticing. Presumably Mr. Fu is also very aware of this, but you still keep putting it in the bird's nest. I really willingly ......"

"I just didn't expect the side effects to be so serious this time...... I don't want to disturb anyone else. If I could, I'd rather die in my room myself than-"

"I see." Fu Lingyuan interrupted her, and his voice remained steady, "I won't give it to you again in the future." ”

"Mr. Fu can change other medicines to me. Or......" Xiaoya bit her lip and held back the redness of her eyes, "Or, Mr. Fu can control me with poison." As long as Mr. Fu, you can rest assured. ”

"No need." Fu Lingyuan only said these three words, and he couldn't hear the specific emotion.

His lips moved, Xiao Ya seemed to have something to say, he paused slightly, and let go of his cuffs: "Thank you, Mr. Fu......"

Fu Lingyuan left the bedroom.

"Boss." Li Qing waited outside the door, lowered her voice and said, "I have already asked Sister Ruan not to wait according to your instructions." ”

Fu Lingyuan's eyebrows and eyes were cold, and he was like a storm.

Li Qing glanced at his expression, and then said, "Sleeping pills do have side effects. Different constitutions react differently. Xiaoya's dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea are one of them. ”

"Don't worry, boss, you turned back in time, and everyone can see me in the villa, no one knows that you have left, boss. Although Xiaoya alerted the servants and bodyguards when she fainted, everyone only thought you were in the study. ”

Fu Lingyuan turned his head and glanced at the bedroom door, then swept over the fragments of the large vase that had been knocked down from the bedroom, and did not say anything more.

Li Qing asked his opinion: "Boss, why don't I set up the program, and you still give Sister Ruan a call?" A text message is a bit thin after all. ”

"No, I don't. She'll understand. Fu Lingyuan's eyes were bottomless. Seeing the maid coming from the first floor with the rice porridge boiled for Xiaoya, he stretched out his hand to the servant, "Give it to me." ”

…………

The curtains were not drawn the night before, and the early morning sunlight penetrated through the glass and hit Ruan Shu's face, Ruan Shu squinted uncomfortably, turned over, and rubbed his cheek on the pillow.

Immediately, he habitually rolled over on his side, stretched out his arms, and threw himself into the air.

She was out of position again, but she still threw herself into the air.

Only then did she open her eyes, lift the quilt and sit up.

Looking around at the layout of the room, she realized that it was too late yesterday, and she didn't drive by herself, so she simply slept here.

Without much delay, she quickly got up to wash up and dress, and when she walked out of the living room, she turned into the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, and took out the yogurt and toast inside—also purchased yesterday.

Seeing that there was still one copy left, Ruan Shu was in a trance for a second, took it out, threw it into the trash, and unplugged the power of the refrigerator.

After breakfast, she simply cleaned up the aftermath, took her bag and the garbage she had made, locked the door and went downstairs.

After going to yesterday's supermarket to get his car back, Ruan Shu went directly to the company.

When I arrived at the door of the company, I happened to receive a call from Lu Shaocong.

"Miss Ruan, did you come to Brother Ayuan's birthday party today?"

Ruan Shu was silent and said without waves: "Take a look." I don't know when my work for today will end. ”

"Isn't work meant to be over?" Lu Shaocong smiled.

Ruan Shu said lightly: "Say it again." ”

"Did Miss Ruan misunderstand something?" Lu Shaocong explained, "Although most of them are representatives of our Qingbang and brothers of Sihaitang, it is really just an ordinary birthday party. ”

"I'm not mistaken." Ruan Shu was bland, still the same sentence, "I'll take a look." ”

Ending the call, standing for a while, she was about to enter the door, when suddenly someone behind her called: "Mr. Ruan." ”

The sound is familiar. Ruan Shu turned his head, Li Mao was dressed straight, and walked in front of her in three or two steps.

"Why are you here?" Ruan Shu was surprised.

The bright sunlight shone a shimmer on her face, her face was very white, her skin was delicate, and when the sun shone, she could almost see the fine fluff on her face, and at the same time, the blue and black under her eyes became obvious.

Li Mao looked at her: "Didn't sleep well last night?" ”

"Obviously?" Ruan Shu touched his face perceptively, avoided talking about it, only sighed, and smiled indifferently, "After all, you are not young, and makeup can't completely cover the traces of time." ”

After speaking, she immediately turned back to the topic: "You haven't answered me yet, why are you here?" ”

"Why can't I come?" Li Mao asked rhetorically.

"Nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace." Ruan Shu looked him up and down and guessed, "It can't be that Boss Cao has entrusted you to negotiate with me, right?" ”

"Almost."

"Huh?" Ruan Shuhu was suspicious, "He didn't tell me in advance?" ”

Li Mao smiled, stopped playing dumb riddles with her, took out his resume from his briefcase and handed it to her, and bowed slightly politely: "I came to apply for your company's sales position, and I hope that Mr. Ruan will give me a chance." ”

Ruan Shu reacted: "You won't resign from Huaxing, will you?" ”

When she was still cooperating with Huaxing to compete with the Lin family for agency rights before, Li Mao once offered to come to Bang her, but she refused. I didn't expect him to ...... now

saw Li Mao shake his head: "No, I'm not resigning." After a deliberate pause, he continued, "I was fired by Boss Cao." Now I have come to join Mr. Ruan. ”

Ruan Shu was slightly stunned.

Five minutes later, the office.

Ruan Shu rejected Li Mao with a serious expression: "Your resume can go to a very good company, we have a small temple here, and we can't afford it." ”

"You refuse to let people out the door like this?"

Ruan Shu frowned when he heard this-he didn't forget that Zhang Weimo was a typical example of overuse in the past.

Of course, she trusts Li Mao.

"The ordinary salesman I recruited, the basic salary is not high, the commission is divided, it doesn't matter if you have no experience, just be a seedling and can be cultivated-"

"Just like me back then?" Li Mao interrupted her, smiled, made a gesture for her not to speak first, and then said, "I'm not exactly here to apply for a job, but more to be your partner." ”

"I have also saved a lot of savings over the years, although I am not as good as Mr. Ruan, but it is still thick enough to invest in your current company, anyway, I didn't plan to eat a lot of it, plus my labor investment. Do you want to recruit salespeople and cultivate them all yourself? Aren't you tired as a boss? It's better to count me and let me be the vice president, which not only gets a strong sales, but also can be shared by Bonnie. ”

Analyzing, Li Mao finally said: "Share the pressure and share the risk." ”

Ruan Shu pursed his lips and was silent. At first, she hoped to have a partner, didn't she try to invest in her technology since Lamar? However, Ma Yi ruthlessly refused and educated her.

Now Li Mao ...... I have a tacit understanding with her for many years at work, and I don't need to run in anymore, which is actually a good choice......

Merely......

Leaning back in the chair, Ruan Shu smiled: "Give me time to think about it." ”

Miao Jia knocked on her door: "Mr. Ruan, today's interview is about to start." ”

"Then you can do it yourself, now I and Miao Jia are the two light commanders, the other half is still decorating, and you can walk around the rest of the place." Saying that, Ruan Shu picked up the folder and went out to get busy.

At noon, the three of them had lunch together, and Li Mao talked about Lin's seizure and investigation by the police, and couldn't help but sigh, and was glad that he sold the employee shares he held when he left his job, otherwise he would have suffered heavy losses. At the same time, he also did not forget to care about the shares in Ruan Shu's hands.

Ruan Shu didn't say much about this, and simply said that he was also cleared when he just left.

Later, the three of them also talked about a lot of old things - it is indeed a coincidence that Miao Jia and Li Mao are both their own people who were cultivated from a blank sheet of paper when Ruan Shu first accepted the Lin family, and now she is starting from scratch, and she is also surrounded by these two people......

After sending Li Mao away in the afternoon, Ruan Shu called Chen Qingzhou and went straight to the point: "Did you ask Cao Wangde to arrange Li Mao to come over for me?" ”

Otherwise, it would be too strange for Cao Wangde to fire Li Mao for no reason.

Sure enough, Chen Qingzhou admitted: "It's what I meant." ”

"However," he said, "Li Mao's own wishes are also more like to work with you." ”

For the rest he didn't say anything more. Ruan Shu understood his intentions, was silent, and only asked him: "Did you take money to Li Mao behind your back, and then let Li Mao invest in me?" ”

Chen Qingzhou was obviously stunned, and laughed out loud in an instant.

Ruan Shu: "......" can't blame her for worrying too much, it was his previous behavior that made her think too much.

"Shaocong has been looking for you again in the past two days?" Chen Qingzhou asked.

"Hmm."

"The royal court and the Lin family have two storms in a row, Sanxin Group has been deliberately low-key recently, and you should have seen the high-profile public welfare in anti-drugs. You...... After the scandal with Shaocong came out, Shaocong's reputation was affected. The board of directors actually has opinions, and it stands to reason that he should be under pressure, but he didn't expect to continue to go his own way. ”

Ruan Shu remembered what happened in the restaurant that day, pursed his lips, turned back to his senses and asked, "Are you going to go to the birthday party tonight?" ”

"Well, yes." Chen Qingzhou was silent for a while, as if he was thinking about something, and then he asked, "You...... It's been a long time since I've met Ling Yuan alone? Have you been in touch lately? ”

Ruan Shu lowered his eyes slightly, and quickly smiled: "Haven't you and Uncle Rong not met alone for a long time?" ”

"By the way," she suddenly remembered, "Lu Shaocong invited me to the birthday party tonight to join in the fun." Since you're going to be there, I might as well take a trip. At least I can see you from afar. Take advantage of the crowd, maybe you can say a few words face-to-face. ”

"Come on, then. It's hard for you to think of me like that. Chen Qingzhou's tone vaguely contained the meaning of seeing through but not piercing.

Ruan Shu's hand was on the pen and he unconsciously drew several circles on the paper.

"I'll turn a few eye-catching bodyguards to look at you a little more. You yourself should have a sense of precaution about Shaocong, so I won't tell you more, so that you don't think I'm verbose. ”

Ruan Shu laughed out loud when he heard this: "How do you know that I think you are verbose?" ”

"I'm your brother, how can I not know what my sister is thinking." Chen Qingzhou's tone also relaxed with her.

…………

With a decision, Ruan Shu was not in a hurry and took the initiative to call Lu Shaocong to inform her to accept the invitation and return to the psychological counseling room from the company to prepare.

At around four or five o'clock, Lu Shaocong came to ask her again as she expected.

Ruan Shu listened to him talk a few more words, and then pretended to be embarrassed to agree, and then he was busy washing and changing clothes.

Here, Lu Shaocong put away his mobile phone, turned around with joy, looked at Fu Lingyuan who was sorting out the dress for tonight's banquet through the mirror, and shared the good news with a smile: "Miss Ruan agreed to participate." Haha, my girlfriend tonight is finally here. ”

"Be careful that the backyard is on fire again." Fu Lingyuan pinned his cuffs, and his voice teased, meaning something.

Lu Shaocong's face pulled, and a haze flashed: "I let people look at the clothes." She was still locked up by my mother. Don't dare to run around. ”

Fu Lingyuan hooked his lips slightly and did not comment.

"How is Xiaoya? Have you recovered? I heard that I fainted last night? What disease? Lu Shaocong turned the topic to him.

"Ate something bad, a little diarrhea, no big problem." Fu Lingyuan replied succinctly.

Lu Shaocong smiled maliciously: "I thought you were tossing people too much." ”

…………

Fu Lingyuan's birthday party was held in the hotel of Sanxin Group, which was the same place as the previous Lu family banquet.

Although Lu Shaocong said at that time that Fu Lingyuan was unwilling to be high-profile, and only his own people in the state were lively, in fact, other brother states sent their subordinates to give gifts to show their hearts, and from the morning to the evening banquet, there was no stop. For this matter, it also occupied a small section of Haicheng News, and Ruan Shu learned about it from this.

When I arrived at the hotel, night fell, and in addition to the hotel staff at the door, it was the Lu family's black west bodyguards.

Originally, there was no pass, and it was not allowed to be approached within 200 meters of the surrounding area. However, Lu Shaocong greeted Heixi's bodyguards in advance, and Ruan Shu was let go without hindrance.

The banquet hall is on the ground floor, in the form of a semi-open-air buffet, and the interior part is like a villa, with a spiral European staircase, and the outdoor part is a huge swimming pool.

The lights are bright, the clothes are fragrant, and there are many guests. Ruan Shu didn't know most of them, and shuttled through the crowd, trying to find Chen Qingzhou's trace.

But before she found Chen Qingzhou, she was tripped by Lu Shaocong first.

"Miss Ruan, you're really here."

Lu Shaocong was surprised and looked at her.

Although her black dress was very simple compared to the other ladies present, and her makeup was very light, as if she was deliberately low-key, her skin became fairer and fairer, and her delicate red lips were particularly attractive.

Ruan Shu greeted lightly: "Well, I just arrived." ”

Immediately, he asked embarrassedly: "Do you want to include gift money?" ”

In just a few minutes, she found that groups of people were discussing their gifts to "Boss Fu", if she heard correctly, it seemed that in order to avoid cumbersome procedures, each hall reached a consensus, unified and did not think about tricks to give gifts, and each hall included 100,000 yuan in gifts.

She...... It came empty-handed. On the one hand, they did not take into account the rules of their state, and on the other hand, they wanted to avoid suspicion. And then there's ...... She was originally going to give Fu Lingyuan a gift, didn't the bamboo basket fetch water last night......

"No, no, of course you don't, Miss Ruan. Brother Ayuan's birthday is of course prepared by me, and you are my female companion tonight. ”

Ruan Shu paused for a moment on the word "female companion" in his heart, and emphasized: "I'm just here to have a good time as Master Lu said, as for Master Lu's female companion, I am really not qualified." ”

Lu Shaocong didn't force her, and nodded along with her meaning: "Okay, good, you are the guest I invited." So Miss Ruan is satisfied? ”

A bit perfunctory.

Ruan Shu didn't take it too seriously. After all, she made the decision to come over.

"Miss Ruan didn't see anything special about me today?" Lu Shaocong couldn't help asking, stretched out his hands, and obviously reminded her to pay attention to his dress.

Naturally, she noticed...... I noticed it at first glance, but I just didn't want to talk about it. With a light breath in his heart, Ruan Shuqing smiled lightly: "Master Lu is dressed very energetically today, and the tie looks more suitable for you than it was that day." ”

Lu Shaocong hahaha: "It was Miss Ruan who picked out the eye." ”

Ruan Shu lowered his eyes. Seeing that he had no intention of leaving, she said suggestively: "Master Lu go and get busy, you don't have to accompany me, I'll walk around by myself." ”

"I'm not busy. What do I have to keep busy? It's not my birthday, it's Brother A Yuan who is busy, and Brother A Yuan is the protagonist today. Saying that, Lu Shaocong suddenly grabbed her forearm without asking her for her consent and took her in a certain direction, "Let's go over there, Brother Ayuan is about to come down." ”

This posture is like I can't wait to take her to watch some show.

But it turns out that it's really a show......

Not long after she was taken over by Lu Shaocong, Fu Lingyuan appeared.

As the protagonist of tonight's banquet, the appearance is naturally the attention of the audience.

The huge crystal chandelier hung down from the ceiling, and the slender and upright figure of the man fell, and his idle smile was more friendly than ever, holding a woman in his hand, both of them descending the spiral European staircase.

There is nothing surprising about the identity of a woman, it is Xiaoya.

The aqua blue chiffon dress is ankle-length, the soft and flowing fabric outlines the slender figure, and the waist-length hair is slightly curled, picking up two pinches from the temples and tied behind the head with crystal hairpins.

The right hand is on Fu Lingyuan's arm, the left hand is lightly lifting the skirt, the steps are elegant, the eyebrows are faintly smiling, and the whole person is elegant, demure, gentle and generous......