The company had a holiday about 10 days before the New Year, but Chen She was still working overtime until Chinese New Year's Eve.

When I returned home on Chinese New Year's Eve, my wife complained: "Even if you give more money, you can't call people like this, so you can let people celebrate the New Year." ”

In fact, the last year was not good, and on Chinese New Year's Eve, he had to send red envelopes to each employee individually one by one, which was not required by the company - in fact, the money for the red envelope had already been knocked down, and he could send it whenever he wanted.

It's just that Chen She himself thinks that it is more shocking to send such a large amount of money on Chinese New Year's Eve - these are additional, not counted in the year-end bonus.

Because most of the company's employees are highly mobile, Wu Xiaoqing plans to use this money to keep as many people as possible - Wu Xiaoqing can't give employees hope with any ideals and future, and it can't be said that their work in the company is to save alien civilizations.

Wu Xiaoqing can only use something as vulgar as money to express his sincerity, and the company's future "money" is unlimited.

It's not so much dedication, it's better to say that Chen She is afraid. If these employees celebrate the New Year, they will feel that the company is unreliable and run away - at that time, all the things will have to be pressed on Chen She alone, let him find a way. Then he really has the heart to die - in the words of his wife, he died with a million annual salary and did nothing.

After handing out red envelopes on Chinese New Year's Eve and getting surprise thanks from all employees, Chen She finally relaxed a little.

When I woke up, it was already 12 noon.

Although his parents live in Shenhai, their hometown is still in Jiangnan, according to the habit, he still has to go home to meet his wife, and then go to his hometown in Jiangnan to pay New Year's greetings, and by the way, show off his new daughter-in-law to all his relatives, and then go to Jiangbei to show off his new son-in-law to his father-in-law.

Fortunately, the car was in good condition along the way, and the people in Shenhai were almost gone, and the highway to Ningzhou was smooth. When I got home in the afternoon, I called my wife, calculated the time, and took the initiative to cook a meal before my wife got home.

When it comes to cooking, it's actually very simple, it's about cooking pasta and adding two steaks. He doesn't like these foreign things, but his wife does—there's nothing else in the fridge, that's all.

As soon as Chen She's wife opened the door, she smelled the strong smell of meat in the kitchen. While waiting for the meat to be cold, the two of them confirmed the final schedule by the way - it was best for them to have dinner early and drive early, so that they could get to Chen She's hometown at 10 o'clock in the evening. Find a hotel nearby and rest for the night, get up early tomorrow and go to the New Year in good spirits – you don't have to drive there again.

The plan was perfect!

With good expectations, Chen She began to eat his dinner. Authentic thickly cut T-bones, medium rare at 5 minutes, chew in each bite, as if teeth are kissing beef...... Coupled with a sip of red wine and a faint candlelight, the beauty of life can be seen.

But, the phone rang at this time.

With a "dang" sound, the table knife fell to the ground. Chen She looked at his left hand, and the dinner knife was in his hand - it belonged to his wife. Her eyes were staring fiercely at the buzzing phone on the table at the moment, and she had the feeling that she could pick up her fork and poke it at any moment, and die with it.

Chen She couldn't be more familiar with this state, before his wife grabbed the phone and threw it out, he snatched it over for the first time, and said in his mouth: "Don't be nervous, in case it's a New Year's greeting from relatives." ”

But after he looked at the caller ID, he shut up - what a crow's mouth.

"It's Mr. Wu." Chen She sighed, then stood up as if resigned to his fate and walked to the balcony.

After about 10 minutes, Chen She came back, and Chen's wife looked at his face and calmed down a little: "The company's business? In a hurry? ”

"Anxious," Chen She said the bad news first, and then hurriedly said the good news before his wife changed face, "but soon, the matter of a few phone calls ......"

said that it was a few phone calls, but by the time Chen's wife finished dinner, the phone call was still not finished after all. Fortunately, Chen's wife can drive, and after a short gesture, Chen She entered the "mobile office" mode in the car.

Wu Xiaoqing's meaning when he called him was very simple, there were temporary projects, involving two scopes of procedures and languages, and the specific standards had been mailed.

It must be difficult to find people in China now, not to mention temporarily finding people to work overtime, even if it is a few programmers in the company, it is impossible to pull out to work.

The atmosphere of this festival is here, even if people find it, their hearts are not here.

And the requirements of this project are very high - Chen She has not read the email, but he knows that Wu Xiaoqing usually does not say some extreme adjectives, "very high" and other descriptions, even if he was looking for Yevgeny, he did not say so before.

If he is looking for someone in China, Chen She may inevitably have to work overtime, after all, this is within his scope. But if it is a "very high" requirement, the only thing Chen She can do is to contact the relevant professionals that Qinglan Consulting has consulted before, and then ask them to help find it on his behalf.

Linguistics and programmers, related professionals have been invited by the company before, although today is the first day of the new year, but it should be no problem to help make a call. If it's a foreigner, it's even more convenient.

20 minutes later, Chen She basically completed more than half of the work - four or five people have been contacted, three of them have promised to come, of course, first-class tickets and five-star hotels or something, all of them are all-inclusive by Qinglan Consulting - after he sent the contact information of these people to Wu Xiaoqing, it is basically completed.

When he arrived at his hometown in the evening, after entering the hotel, Chen She was still not at ease, so he called Wu Xiaoqing to confirm - there should be no problem with the personnel, right?

Wu Xiaoqing said that everything was normal, the other party had already started boarding, and the preparations had begun here - but there was a small problem, that is, the employees' holidays may need to be extended appropriately, because the office may need to be occupied temporarily.

"How long?" Chen She was worried about the blind imagination of these employees.

"A week or two," Mr. Wu said, "reassures them that their wages will be paid." ”

The next day, Chen She was a mascot with his wife as planned, first meeting up with his parents, and then going to a few relatives' houses to exhibit a circle, giving out countless red envelopes, and receiving a bunch of promising comments. On the way to the station, the parents also persuaded the two to have children as soon as possible - to give birth early and take back these red envelopes sent out early.

But where does Chen She still have the idea of having a child now, after a whole day of work here, he can't help but think about the company in his head, and Wu Xiaoqing said, "occupy the company's office".

There is no doubt that the company is starting a project again, and the scale is not small. He, the general manager, can't hang outside all the time! With such a high salary!

Chen She can bet that if he leaves Qinglan Consulting, with his qualifications, I am afraid that he will never find a job with such treatment in 15 years.

Chen She's worries made his wife see it, and after returning to Ningzhou, his wife took the initiative to say that he didn't have to go to his mother's house - men still have to focus on their careers.

On the morning of the third day of the new year, Chen She woke up in the morning, and he was not in the mood to eat breakfast, so he came to the Qingtian Building.

Luckily, it doesn't seem to have changed much. When parking in the parking lot, looking at the empty parking lot, Chen She thought to himself.

But when the elevator door opened and he came to the door of the company, he knew something was wrong.

The doors of the company were closed—but not locked from the outside, as usual, but locked from the inside. Chen She tried to swipe the card, but it didn't open it, just after a while, Wu Xiaoqing walked over from inside and opened the door for him.

"What? Come and get something? Wu Xiaoqing asked him.

Chen She's gaze crossed Wu Xiaoqing and saw that the company's original workstation was already densely packed with people at this time. At a glance, I am afraid that there are more than hundreds of people. The workstation that usually sits alone is surrounded by at least five or six at this time.

In addition to the hall of the office, there are several other rooms, the offices of Chen She, Wu Xiaoqing, and Shen Changwen, a dedicated conference room, and even on the corridor on the ground of the company...... There are people everywhere. Most of these people have foreign faces, have a variety of hair colors, and whisper in a variety of languages.

The computers used by the employees have been centralized in the conference room, which now looks like an Internet café. In addition to the employees' computers, there are also notebooks that many people bring with them. Even through the glass door of the conference room, the crackling keyboard that could come from inside was no lower than the hundreds of people outside.

"No, just come and see," Chen She smiled awkwardly, "You won't keep it a secret from me." ”

"No, think about it too much," Wu Xiaoqing said, "It's better if you come, they all stayed up all night, order a takeout, just coffee sandwiches, it's simple." Don't make the company smell everywhere. ”

Chen She wanted to say that the company had coffee machines and snacks, but when he saw it, there were at least 100 people in front of him......

Five minutes later, Chen She's mobile phone received a call from the coffee shop: "Mr. Chen, are you sure it's 120 copies?" ”

"Sure, let's get it delivered quickly."

"Excuse me...... The amount you want is too large and may be a little later. ”

"As soon as possible."

After putting down the phone, Chen She followed Wu Xiaoqing and found a chair in his office. The people around were busy, only Wu Xiaoqing and Chen She seemed to be more leisurely, Wu Xiaoqing was more concerned about how Chen She ordered takeout: "I called them last night and said that I couldn't find so many people to deliver them." ”

"What time did you shout?"

"It's past 2 o'clock."

"The result?"

"The delivery man took a taxi to bring it to me," Wu Xiaoqing said, pointing to the company's trash can, "and they went to dump it themselves." ”

"What project, engage so many people? I only put you in touch with three people at the time! ”

"I'll ask the three of them to contact other people for me," Wu Xiaoqing said, "The foreigners have a lot of connections, and they can get together so much in one day." ”

"What are they here for?"

"Translation."

"Translation?" Chen She didn't understand, "What is the translation?" 24 History? ”

"Almost," Wu Xiaoqing said, "translate the dictionary." ”

Wu Xiaoqing: This is an analogy, but it is not. Of the 118 people, 79 are linguistics majors. Among them, nearly 60 people, Wu Xiaoqing called them over, but in fact, he just asked them to do the topic.

Wu Xiaoqing made a simple change to that form, he deleted more than 80 percent of the content, leaving only 20 percent as a reference for known information - and then asked these linguistics majors to translate the remaining 80 percent according to the 20 percent.

The purpose of this is very simple, it is to test the gap between the earthling and Wu Xiaoqing's contact, the gap between that civilization - to see what difference everyone translates.

The remaining 19, that is, these people who are now in Wu Xiaoqing's office, are the ones who really do linguistic research.

Their job is to find the linguistic rules of the fourth column of languages based on the correspondence in this table, and then to make a general description of the civilization background of the other party from a linguistic point of view. This work had been used in the task of ascending to the Heaven Realm before, and Wu Xiaoqing felt that the effect was very good, so he carried it forward this time.

Finally, it's the programmers in the conference room...... Their job is the hardest.