Chapter 14: Harmony
Dinner was prepared quickly in a harmonious and friendly atmosphere.
Ning Yan made tomato and shrimp pasta for ten people, Wang Shuhan fried two steaks and cut them into slices and put them on plates, and the others worked together to prepare some snacks and fruits, which were also placed on the table.
"Wow."
"Thank you for your hard work."
"Everybody's doing their part."
"Yes, everyone's worked hard."
The guests gathered around the table, praising the delicious food, their eyes swept over the faces of the others, but they just didn't sit down first.
Everyone felt that the location of the first meal was crucial.
"I'm going to sit here, on a first-come, first-served basis."
Li Yichen quickly chose the middle of the long table and sat down directly, a little impatient.
This place is the closest seat to the pasta.
Wei Zhipeng saw Li Yichen sit down first, so he smiled and proposed: "Then let's sit staggered between men and women." ”
"It's okay to sit casually, right?"
Wu Shiming asked casually and pulled away the chair on Li Yichen's right hand.
"Well, that's right, just sit down."
Zhao Wenfeng attached Wu Shiming's position and sat in the right corner.
Ning Yan and Wang Shuhan were witty and occupied the two boys' seats opposite Li Yichen at the same time, and Wei Zhipeng, who was a beat slower, could only sit in the left corner of Li Yichen's side.
Zhao Jingyi chose the middle position again and sat elegantly opposite Li Yichen.
Tang Meilin stared at the position in the center in disappointment, and walked to the position next to Ning Yan, facing Wei Zhipeng, which made Ning Yan a little lost.
Sun Qianru sat down on Li Yichen's left hand side, facing Ning Yan, which made him happy again, but Wei Zhipeng was disappointed.
Zhou Hanying sat in the last position expressionlessly, looking a little indifferent.
"Come, let's just touch a glass and eat."
Li Yichen had already poured red wine for everyone when everyone was choosing a seat, and when the last Zhou Hanying sat down, he immediately raised his red wine glass.
"Let's come together."
"It's a pleasure to meet you."
"Let's live in harmony."
"Take care of each other."
In the clinking of glasses of "ping pong".
"Do you want to kill it?" Wu Shiming asked.
Li Yichen took a sip of red wine, had already put down the wine glass and reached out to hold the pasta, and was shocked when he heard this, for fear that everyone would echo Wu Shiming's proposal, so he hurriedly persuaded:
"Let's eat something first, it's not good to drink on an empty stomach."
After speaking, he put a small plate of pasta in front of Wu Shiming, hoping that she could gag her mouth with food.
Wu Shiming really stopped talking, put down the wine glass, held her long hair in one hand, and elegantly rolled the pasta with a fork in the other.
"I'll help you fill it, please hand me the plate."
Ning Yan learned from Li Yichen's actions, stood up, and reached out to take Sun Qianru's plate.
"If it's not delicious, everyone will tell me directly, you're welcome."
"It's really delicious."
Li Yichen gave a thumbs up.
"Really?"
Ning Yan tried to make himself look less happy and make himself humble.
"It's delicious."
Sun Qianru praised.
"Haha......"
Ning Yan tried his best, but he really couldn't hold back.
He felt like he was about to take to the skies.
"Come on, Yichen, eat more."
"Okay."
……
Wei Zhipeng was forced to sit in the corner and was uncomfortable, watching Li Yichen pour wine for everyone, Ning Yan helped everyone pretend to eat, he also wanted to show his maturity and thoughtfulness, but because of the position, it would seem too deliberate to force it.
"Anyway, do you want to introduce yourself again? Detailed, name, age, occupation ......"
Wei Zhipeng suggested that he could only fight for the dominance of the conversation.
Wu Shiming just regretted that she was late, and now Wei Zhipeng took the lead, and also echoed: "Okay, where to start?" ”
"Then, let's start with Zhou Hanying."
Wei Zhipeng tried his best to make his voice appear unselfish.
"Me?"
Zhou Hanying pointed at herself.
"Do you want to stand up?"
"No, no, let's be comfortable."
Wei Zhipeng shook his hand again and again.
"Be comfortable, why don't you come first."
Zhou Hanying couldn't help complaining in her heart, but she also introduced herself with a smile.
"Well, my name is Zhou Hanying, age, 26 years old, I am a programmer, I like travel and food outside of work, and occasionally do it myself, that's it, next?"
Zhou Hanying finished speaking briefly, looked at Wang Shuhan next to him and Zhao Wenfeng opposite, and didn't know which of the two of them was going to introduce himself next.
"My side, my name is Wang Shuhan, I am a freelancer, because I like to travel, so after graduating I worked in the company for a year and then resigned, I plan to travel all over the country before the age of thirty-five, and this year's age is 27 years old."
Hearing this, everyone applauded and looked at Wang Shuhan with envious eyes, his life should be what most people want to do but can't do.
Wang Shuhan saw that everyone responded enthusiastically, and still added a sentence uneasily.
"Of course, if I am lucky enough to meet the other half of my life during the journey, I will stop for her."
The reaction is even more enthusiastic, no matter how much truth this sentence has, anyway, the sentence itself is worthy of applause.
However, most people can't envy Wang Shuhan's life, after all, according to the information he inadvertently revealed, their family has a lot of dogs in many houses.
"Uh-huh, it's my turn, hello everyone, my name is Zhao Jingyi, I am 23 years old this year, I am still a college student, majoring in violin, I hope to have the opportunity to hold my own violin recital in the future."
"Then remember to invite us then." Wang Shuhan looked at Zhao Jingyi.
Zhao Jingyi smiled: "If there is such an opportunity, I will definitely invite everyone." ”
"Everyone is so good, I'm a little embarrassed, my name is Ning Yan, 26 years old, I am currently running a small homestay, as you can see, I will personally prepare three meals a day for the guests, I hope it is still to everyone's taste."
"It's so good, it's delicious!"
Li Yichen shouted with a fork in one hand.
"Hahaha......"
"It seems that Li Yichen really likes to eat."
Everyone laughed and made a fuss, and the somewhat solidified atmosphere was relaxed, after all, except for the first Zhou Hanying's profession, which sounded ordinary, the second generation behind was either a rich second generation, or wanted to have a recital, and even the one who said "I'm sorry" was a small boss.
The people in the back are under too much pressure.
"It's my turn, everyone, my name is Tang Mary, maybe I am the oldest among the girls, 29 years old, working as a small director of the advertising department in a Fortune 500 multinational company, I usually like to cook, and I will go swimming or traveling in my spare time."
"I really can't tell the age, it's fake."
Ning Yan covered his mouth exaggeratedly.
"Liar."
Wei Zhipeng's mouth was open and his eyes were glaring, and his reaction was not inferior to Ning Yan.
"Haha, really, it's your turn."
Tang Mary pointed at Wei Zhipeng.
"As for me, I'm probably the biggest in the audience."
"The name is Wei Zhipeng, thirty ...... Two-year-old, haha, a lawyer by profession, is ready to set up his own law firm this year. Occasionally I go golfing and skiing, hoping to find a woman here who is willing to stand behind me. ”
This faint show-off and greasy feeling may have caused discomfort among the female guests, or it may be that everyone didn't think about what to react to, and they were cold for a while.
"Wow, lawyer, that's so handsome, my dream when I was a child was to be a lawyer."
Li Yichen exclaimed and saved the sudden embarrassment.
The others reacted and applauded.
Wei Zhipeng smiled knowingly, feeling that he had not helped Li Yichen out of the siege so many times in vain.
"Hello everyone, my name is Sun Qianru, 26 years old this year, currently working as the chief actor of the Hua Provincial Ballet, I am more rough in life, I hope everyone will include more, if there is something bad to do, you must tell me directly, it doesn't matter."
"Also, I don't know how to cook, so I can do the dishwashing in the future."
Sun Qianru squinted and looked at the applause, and she applauded.
Among a bunch of outstanding young people, Li Yichen feels that he is a younger brother.
Except for being handsome, it's nothing good.
However, this reassured Li Yichen, the better the other guests, the more mediocre and unobtrusive he became.
"Hello everyone, my name is Li Yichen, I am also 26 years old, I am a staff member of the TV station, everyone is very good, I don't have any hobbies, I don't know a lot of things, so I can also help wash dishes in the future."
Sun Qianru looked at Li Yichen with a smile, and felt that Li Yichen's good impression of her was too obvious.
He said that he wanted to wash the dishes, and he immediately followed and said that he wanted to wash the dishes.
Are you afraid that you will work too hard?
Or do you want to create opportunities for solitude?
Hum!
"Is this here? Eastborne? Tang Mary pointed to the ground and said curiously.
"Well, yes."
"Then you're too modest."
Tang joked that she is a person who often deals with Dongchuan TV, and she knows too well the energy and potential of this cutting-edge TV station, and advertising industry insiders are gossiping about it, and it is said that Dongchuan will give a large equity incentive to veteran employees who have been in the company for more than five years in the near future.
As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Donghua Group, Dongchuan TV Station is not short of money at all, and it likes to spend money the most, and it smashed 1.8 billion yuan to build a TV station building before the station, which caused a sensation at the time, so no one has questioned this rumor, and they are all sour and envious.
"No, no, I'm really just doing chores."
Li Yichen thinks about how often he is seconded everywhere, just like this time, even the guests of the blind date show got together, isn't it just the same as doing miscellaneous work.
However, he is also used to it, as Li Yichen, who entered the Dongchuan internship by chance at the beginning of his freshman year, he has been employed for eight years, and he is almost the first batch of old employees.
He occasionally joked with Wu Zhi.
Do odd jobs, and you are a professional.
Li Yichen didn't want to talk about himself more, so he looked at Wu Shiming and said, "It's your turn." ”
"Hello everyone, my name is Wu Shiming, I was late because of the traffic jam, and I made you wait so long, I'm sorry."
"Then I'm going to apologize." Wei Zhipeng hurriedly stood up.
Although he had been notified to be here before two o'clock in the afternoon, this was not the time to care about such trivial matters.
As a result, the guests were humble for a while, and finally they all turned their heads to look at Li Yichen.
Because he was the first to arrive, he couldn't apologize to the air.
"It must be the reason for the staggered time of the program team's notice, I'm just a little bit earlier than everyone."
Li Yichen hurriedly threw the pot to the program team and asked Wu Shiming to continue to introduce herself.
"Hehe, then I'll continue to introduce myself, I'm engaged in real estate sales, I'm 25 years old this year, I'm usually busy, and I don't have any hobbies."
Wu Shiming winked at Li Yichen after speaking, and then turned his head to look at Zhao Wenfeng.
After a round, he was the only one left.
In the eyes of everyone, Zhao Wenfeng's cold sweat stayed again.
He has been drinking water frequently since Zhou Hanying began to introduce himself, and now, he is about to drink up a large pot of water in front of him, he is so nervous, his body trembles slightly, his heart is pounding, the guests are very powerful, and he is under a lot of pressure.
It wasn't until Li Yichen said that he was just a small clerk that he sighed.
"Hello everyone, I'm ...... I drank saliva. ”
"Don't be nervous, take your time."
Wu Shiming handed him a tissue and comforted.
"Thank you."
Zhao Wenfeng looked at Wu Shiming gratefully, but quickly turned his head away with a red face.
"I'm sorry everyone, I'm a little nervous, my name is Zhao Wenfeng, 22 years old this year, I am currently a doctoral student in artificial intelligence, and my usual hobby is research. Also, I can wash the dishes tonight. ”
"Wow, at this age, a genius!"
"This is the legendary school bully!"
Everyone couldn't help but sigh, who hasn't experienced the fear of being dominated by someone else's child.
Although everyone here occasionally acts as "someone else's child", this does not prevent them from admiring Zhao Wenfeng.
"No, no, one of my seniors has completed his doctorate at the age of 22, and I'm just an ordinary person compared to him."
The crowd fell silent.
It's going to be a dead day.
In that case, let's wash the dishes.