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The man on the other end of the phone, his voice was in the middle of the pitch, and when he heard it, he was much older than Tang Xien, and Tang Xien quickly changed his title: "I am, may I ask who you are?" ”

The other party said: "I am Director Li of the Department of Treaty and Law of the Ministry of Commerce, do you have time to meet?" ”

In just a few seconds, Tang Xien remembered that three years ago, Director Li frequently invited him to work for the Department of Treaty and Law of the Ministry of Commerce, and the last time they met, it was a year and a half ago when she submitted information to the Ministry of Commerce for the "Fu family" being levied a high double anti-dumping tax by country M.

Every time Director Li contacted her, he probably wanted to dig her up and go to the Law Division, could it be this time?

Tang Xien came back to his senses, looked at Jiang Yao, who was already walking towards him, didn't think about it anymore, didn't ask more, and smiled at the person on the other end of the phone: "Director Li, Happy New Year, when will you meet?" ”

Director Li said: "You can come to the ministry office at any time on weekdays, and if it is convenient for you, you can come to the ministry office at any time." ”

"Okay, I'm in Z City today, and I'll meet you in your office tomorrow afternoon."

Director Li was very cheerful and said, "Okay, I'll wait for you!" He hung up the phone.

When the phone was cut off, Jiang Yao just walked to the front of the car, waved her hand to Tang Xien in the car, and pointed to the door behind her that had been opened, signaling that she could drive the car in.

Tang Xien stepped on the accelerator, the car took a few steps closer to Jiang Yao, and lowered the passenger window: "Get in the car." ”

Jiang Yao smiled and got into the car. As soon as I got in the car, I raised my hand to look at my watch: "There is enough time, don't rush, take your time." ”

Tang Xien smiled politely, the two exchanged a few words, the car was parked in the parking lot, and they went to the office building together.

Because the area of the factory is too large, the square in front of the office building is amazingly large, and the two of them walked for several minutes before walking from the parking lot to the office building.

When waiting for the elevator, Jiang Yao said: "Our company is a branch of ST Group in China, mainly engaged in electrical and nuclear power components, and belongs to the first batch of smart factories in China to meet Industry 4.0. ”

Tang Xien asked: "That is, an unmanned factory?" ”

Jiang Yao nodded: "Yes." ”

Tang Xien suddenly realized: "No wonder I was observing outside for a while just now, but I didn't see anyone walking around in the factory." ”

Jiang Yao was sent to Aachen University in Germany to study mechanical design as the champion of the youth group of the World Robot Competition, and later studied all the way to a doctorate, and was hired as a mechanical engineer by a top German robot company after graduation, with an annual salary of more than 5 million yuan. Tang Xien is very puzzled by her sudden return from Germany a year ago to become the CTO (chief technology officer) of this unmanned factory, but she seems to understand her a little.

is also a person who left his hometown after the college entrance examination to study alone, Tang Xien knows very well that he is actually very lonely outside and has no sense of belonging. As long as there is an opportunity and a reason, people who are outside can come back without hesitation.

For example, she wanted to find her biological father and take care of Li Miaolian, so she gave up the offers given by the California court and several top California law firms and returned to China. And Jiang Yao must also have her own reasons for returning to China.

Tang Xien didn't ask much.

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I interviewed the general manager of the factory, and the other party sincerely invited Tang Xien to be the legal director of the factory, but the salary he gave was really ......

To put it mildly, the monthly salary offered by the other party is almost enough for Tang Xien to pay the monthly rent of the hotel apartment and the salary of the nurse.

Coming out of the general manager's office of the factory, she went to Jiang Yao's office and sat with Jiang Yao for a while. Hearing that the factory gave a salary of 30,000 yuan after tax, Jiang Yao was so sorry that her face was embarrassed: "Or, I'll tell our president about it later?" ”

Tang Xien smiled and patted the back of her hand: "No need. For a legal director who only occasionally handles labor disputes, employee disputes, provides legal inquiries, and assists relevant departments in handling intellectual property affairs, the salary of 30,000 yuan after tax is actually quite reasonable. ”

After speaking, she stood up: "Yaoyao, let's talk again at dinner in the evening, I won't disturb your work now." ”

"Okay." Jiang Yao sent her out.

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The next day, because he had to arrive at the Ministry of Commerce, which is located in the first ring of City B, at 2 p.m. to meet Director Li, Tang Xien departed from Z City at 9 a.m. and arrived in B City at 1 p.m. She had a brief lunch at the restaurant opposite the Ministry of Commerce, and arrived at Director Li's office at 1:50 p.m. to wait.

At two o'clock, she met with Director Li, and the other party was as enthusiastic as in the past, and after shaking hands, inviting a seat, and making tea, she directly pointed out the meaning of yesterday's phone call: "A few years ago, the director of the 'WTO Law Division II' of the ministry resigned, and I asked you to come over today, mainly to ask you if you have any ideas to work for the Law Division." ”

The meaning of this sounds like she is going to put her in the position of director.

Tang Xien felt unlikely, with her qualifications, it was far from the level of becoming a director.

She asked tentatively, "What is the nature of this 'work' you are talking about?" I know that your company has cooperated with many excellent law firms and lawyers in the private sector, so what do you mean? ”

She thought that if Director Li wanted her to assist the Treaty and Law Division in dealing with trade disputes between countries and other countries as a civil lawyer, she would have to clarify that she had left Collective and had not yet found a law firm willing to accept her.

But Director Li, who understood what she meant, said with a smile: "I want to recommend you to be the director of the 'WTO Law Division II', it depends on whether you have the will!" ”

Tang Xien was surprised, there was an unexpected but unreasonable surprise.

As if he had expected her entanglement, Director Li said: "It's not the same old thing as before, and now it's whoever has the ability to go up!" Don't worry about your lack of qualifications or your young age, I know you have that strength! ”

The "WTO Legal Division" is mainly responsible for prosecuting, responding to and appealing trade disputes involving countries in the WTO, participating in the settlement of WTO disputes as a third party, and participating in the external consultation of trade disputes involving countries before resorting to the WTO dispute settlement mechanism.

Tang Xien is quite familiar with WTO rules. She not only focused on foreign-related economic law during the ten years of studying law, but also has been handling various foreign-related economic cases since graduating from Harvard. During his tenure as a foreign-related lawyer, he also went to the WTO in Geneva with other lawyers to assist the Treaty and Law Division in handling trade disputes with other countries.

Director Li did not hesitate to praise her before, not only repeatedly inviting her to work for the Department of Laws and Regulations, but also expressing his appreciation and praise for her in public many times.

Presumably, Director Li has been observing her for many years, and when her career is reshuffled this time, he will throw an olive branch to her.

It's just that even if he is appointed as the director, the salary is probably not as high as the treatment given by the ST factory in Z City yesterday.

Tang Xien currently has to bear the living expenses of himself and Li Miaolian, as well as Li Miaolian's nursing expenses, medical expenses, and huge surgical expenses that may occur at any time.

Coupled with her food and clothing in the past two years, she has been accustomed to the level of light luxury by Fu Shiyu, just for personal expenses, including car maintenance, buying cosmetics and skin care products, buying clothes, shoes and bags, doing beauty and hair maintenance, and occasionally going to Hong Kong or abroad with Fu Shiyu, at least 40,000 or 50,000 yuan per month.

The bonuses owed to her by the "Fu Group" still have eight months to be paid, although she has saved these bonuses, but there are still decades in her life, and she can't sit back and eat.

This is one thing, there is another aspect, if she agrees to take up the post of director, it is equivalent to parachuting, while dealing with the huge and complicated work, she also has to spend a lot of time to deal with the relationship between superiors and subordinates, to deal with the dissatisfaction of many subordinates, that kind of scene, just imagining, she feels overwhelmed.

These two worries have become an obstacle for Tang Xien to enter the Department of Laws and Regulations. She didn't immediately agree to Director Li, but only said that she had to think about it for a few days and would reply to him on Monday.

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After coming out of the Law Division, Tang Xien called the nurse, and after confirming that the nurse could accompany Li Miaolian in the apartment at night, she did not go back to Z City, but went directly back to Fu Shiyu's apartment.

After parking the car, she went around to the fresh food mall to buy vegetables, prepared to go back in a while, and began to wash vegetables and prepare for dinner.

In fact, she wasn't sure if Fu Shiyu would go home for dinner at night, she didn't call him to tell him that she was back in City B today, and she planned to surprise him in the evening.

After washing the dishes, Tang Xien saw that it was still early, so he took the Kindle to lie on the recliner in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and rest for a while.

It has been more than ten days since spring, and it is difficult for City B to have a big sun today. At four o'clock in the afternoon, looking out of the floor-to-ceiling windows, the brilliant golden sun in the distance hung high in the sky, although it will set in the west in another hour, but the feeling of such a golden light spilling into the house at the moment really makes people feel warm and full of hope.

She was lying on the recliner basking in the sun, her Kindle was gently resting on her lower abdomen, her arms were pillowed behind her head, her legs were folded, and her eyes were calmly looking at the old town of City B on the other side of the bridge, full of bungalows, and her thoughts drifted back to more than ten years ago-

She went to school early, jumped two levels in elementary school, and went to Z City No. 1 Middle School to study in high school alone at the age of thirteen.

Z City No. 1 Middle School is the best high school in the whole H province, the annual college entrance examination rate is 100%, she was in the science experimental class, the whole class except for her and several other students who went abroad to study undergraduates, the rest went to 985 University.

It's just that in such a top high school, no one expected that the top science student in H Province that year was a 16-year-old girl from a famous poor county who was two years younger than her classmates, and she didn't expect that the girl would dare to go to Hong Kong to study alone at the age of 16.

It took the girl five years to get two degrees in law and economics at the University of Hong Kong, and then returned to B University with the savings saved from working in Hong Kong for several years. After obtaining a master's degree and a domestic lawyer's license in the two years of B, she was persuaded by her professor to apply for a doctoral program at Harvard Law School.

For ten years, she had to spend a lot of time and energy studying and working; Ten years later, she finally broke out of the "sky" in City B.

But not long ago, she found that this piece of sky is so fragile that it will collapse at any time.

The sky is not secure.

When she first returned from the United States, she relied on Li Tao's recommendation to enter "Guantao" and became one of the lawyers involved in the outside world with an extremely considerable annual income in the top law firm in City B. In less than two years, she used the first pot of gold earned in "Guantao" to buy a small two-bedroom apartment in City B, where every inch of land is expensive, but she was not satisfied with the status quo at that time, and came up with the idea of doing a homestay. Later, the homestay project failed, and she relied on Fu Shiyu's recommendation to earn a second pot of gold from the "Fu Group" and opened a law firm with Wang Yuan and others; But in the end, she didn't keep her position in the law firm.

These seemingly brilliant achievements are actually because she took shortcuts, so at any time, a false accusation or a post made by some trolls on the Internet can easily destroy all of this.

She actually belongs to the army of tens of millions of entrepreneurs, the ones who failed, if it weren't for Fu Shiyu to carry her, she wouldn't know where she is living now after mortgaging her house to start a business......

She thought it was time for her to get down to earth. Don't rely on anyone, don't take any shortcuts, and create a new territory of your own business steadily and steadily.

Perhaps this invitation from the Department of Treaty and Law will make her another possibility.

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The "Fu Group" usually gets off work at five o'clock, and Tang Xien estimates that Fu Shiyu may arrive home at about six o'clock, and get up at half past five to cook.

The rice was washed and put in the pot at four o'clock, and the time was reserved, and it was ready to be eaten on time at six o'clock in a while.

At this time, Tang Xien put the marinated beef he had just grasped into the pot and stir-fried it until it was medium-cooked, and then poured the cut green pepper into it.

There is still water on the green pepper, and as soon as it is poured into the oil pot, the oil splashes and crackles in an instant.

Tang Xien quickly closed the lid of the pot for a while, and when the sound of oil splashes was quieter, he picked up the spatula and prepared to stir it a few times before it came out of the pot. As soon as the spatula in his hand moved a few times, his waist was suddenly tightly circled.

The clear and elegant smell of the man's body went from the back of her neck to her face, rushing into her nasal passages and brain stem. That's the taste that belongs to Fu Shiyu.

The man hugged her from behind, kissed the tips of her small and cute ears, and laughed lowly: "Why didn't you tell me I was coming back today?" ”

She smiled and raised her hand to touch his cheek perched on her shoulder: "What about the surprise inspection!" And the reason for advance notice? ”

"What did you check?"

She stir-fried the beef and green peppers in the pot, and pretended to be angry: "On the bed, in the bathroom, in the cloakroom, there is a woman's long hair everywhere!" ”

"Well, those hairs are my wife's."

She laughed, elbowed his lower abdomen, turned off the fire, turned around to look at him, put his hands around his neck, and said coquettishly: "Good Fu Shiyu!" As soon as I go back to my hometown, who will you marry? ”

"With the woman I love!" As he spoke, his forehead against her, he made a gesture to kiss her.

She had the heart to tease him, and raised her hand to cover her mouth, and he kissed her round, clean fingers.