When I returned to Shanghai, it was already mid-April, and I had planned to stay in Japan until early April, but because of the cherry blossom wine, I stayed there for two more weeks. The schedule was very tight, and when I came back, I still didn't see Yaeyo, and the recipe for the cherry blossom sake I had agreed with her was also handed over to her by Nantian, and without even saying a word of farewell, I returned to Shanghai, and my days in Japan have become my memories.

In the second week after returning to the company, the head of the planning department asked me to talk, he held two slips in his hand, and said to me, "I have now received two orders about you, one is from the manager of Nantian, and wants to transfer you to the marketing department to be his assistant; The other is the general affairs department, the company is about to set up a branch, and now there is a lack of some clerks, and I want to transfer you to help. Now I'm also embarrassed, because I don't want to let you go, so I want you to choose. ”

I was a little overwhelmed by such conditions, although I felt that going to the preparatory committee of the branch was almost a cold-faced god's idea, but why did Nantian also want to transfer me away? The business department is a place that many people want to go to, and it is a treasure in the company, but I have already said that I want to start from scratch, so I will not think about anything else.

"Minister, I hope to work in the preparatory committee of the branch, learn more things, and want to return to your department in the future." That's what I said to the minister.

The minister smiled, he had already guessed my choice, "Xiao Xia, go over there and study hard, I hope you can come back as soon as possible, there are still many things waiting for you to do here!" ”

When I left the minister's office, I had a lot of sighs in my heart, the appointment was issued three days ago, and it seems that the minister was also embarrassed, so I was asked to choose it myself. The organizing committee of the new company is on the Lujiazui side, which is not far from where I live, but it is not very convenient to cross the river to work every day.

The official date of reporting to the organizing committee is after the May Day holiday, before which I have to hand over the work here, and in the last two days before the holiday, the organizing committee held a meeting, and I was also notified and invited to participate.

The new company rents the 10th and 11th floors of an office building, which has just been renovated, and the preparatory committee has several offices on the eighth floor, and when I came, the others had been working for nearly two months and were familiar with each other. The people here are all fresh faces to me, and I am also to them, and the person in charge here is Manager Zhou Wangnian from Beijing, who is very strict, and everyone is afraid of him, and I am the same. Because on the first day of the meeting, he pointed the finger at me.

"I know that you are all excellent personnel drawn from various departments, but in my case, please put aside all the achievements you have done in the past and start over." His eyes swept over everyone, "I don't care what background you have behind you, in my place, I have my own standards for judging my subordinates." I won't buy anyone's account, and if I don't do a good job, I'll return it unceremoniously. His eyes finally fell on me, and I felt a shudder.

It can be felt that everyone is very careful in doing things, for fear of a mistake and being driven back by him, although it is not a very bad thing, but the result of being driven back, who knows?

Because I came late, I could no longer participate in the preparatory work of the organization, and I was assigned to the training department. Now the branch is recruiting, there has been a month of recruitment in April, and there is a month of recruitment activities in May, and the new employees recruited will be trained in Shanghai for two months, and the trained personnel can go to Japan for training, which is similar to our model at that time.

"You get acquainted with the working environment, and then you put the recruiter's information into the archive." My companion is a famous beauty in the preparatory committee, who was also transferred from the Shanghai headquarters, named Fang Jing. She guides my work.

Fang Jing is from the training department of the Shanghai headquarters, and she happened to be on annual leave when I joined the company, so I didn't have a chance to get to know her. She is a very good woman, gentle as water, but simple in her work.

She told me what to look out for first, and then left me alone to do things here. Although the typing work is very boring, I can understand a lot of things, and when I was training in Japan, I also entered a lot of text information, but it will help me a lot in my future work. The key is whether you also carefully memorize it in your head when you type.

The two days passed like this, and the regular meeting at nine o'clock in the morning every day made me have to go out at half past seven, which is far away from where I live, and it is very troublesome to cross the river.

"Are you going home on May Day?" Su Mei called me in the evening, she had already arrived, and the first thing was to call me.

"Well, I didn't buy a ticket for the 30th, my plane on the morning of the 1st." I fiddled with the pen in my hand, today is the last day of April, and many people have been leaving since the afternoon, and it is not yet time to get off work, and everyone is almost gone.

Su Mei's voice over there was a little tired, "Is that Daewoo guy back?" ”

"Daewoo and I booked a time to come back together, and during this time he was busy writing reports, and he didn't get together with me after he came back." I heard Su Mei yawn, she must have been on the train all night. Exhausted.

"Well, well, call me when you come back," Su Mei said, "I'm going to go to bed, I'm too tired to do it." ”

"Okay," I smiled, "do you want to take anything back?" ”

"Bring a handsome guy back!" Su Mei said nonchalantly.

"Isn't Daewoo just for you. But watch out for your old white, he's going to eat you. ”

"Well," Su Mei nodded, "it's still eaten raw." ”

We all laughed, and across the phone, we felt that it was good to have such a friend, who could say anything or nothing, and it was hard to find such a real feeling after coming out.

When he got off work, the cold face god called, "Let's have a meal together!" He added, "Come to me." ”

If it was Su Mei, I would definitely analyze the meaning of a man inviting a woman to his home first, but I didn't, and I couldn't think of it so much, so I opened my mouth to agree, remembered the address, packed up the things on the table, and got up to leave.

The apartment of the cold face god is not very far from the branch side, half an hour by taxi, the first time I arrived at the house I was not too embarrassed to be empty-handed, so I went to the nearby supermarket to choose a bottle of wine and brought it up.

The house of the cold face god is actually on the top floor, and there is only one household on the first floor of a unit, so only rich people can afford to come to this kind of place. When I arrived at the door, the cold-faced god had already opened the door and was waiting for me. He took the wine I brought, handed me a pair of slippers, and let me into the house.

"Do you want to take a break or visit first?" He asked me.

I raised my eyebrows, "Do all the women who come to you want to visit?" ”

The cold-faced god shook his head, "It's just that women's curiosity is heavier." ”

I sat down on the couch, took off my coat, and the cold-faced god hung it up for me, "Curiosity hurts the cat." Have you heard of Bluebeard's story, I'm too timid to be curious about a room that shouldn't be opened. ”

The cold-faced god smiled, "Really not curious? Aren't you afraid that I'm hiding someone in it? ”

"I'm more curious if it's a living or a dead person hidden inside." I cooperated with him.

The cold face god scraped my nose, "There's music on the CD rack, choose your favorite and put it on, I'll go to the kitchen and take a look." ”

Watching Leng Mian leave, I crouched in front of the CD rack, I thought that Leng Mian must be the kind who likes classical music, but on it I found many foreign rock music CDs, it seems that his taste is still quite elusive. I chose a CD of an Italian opera and put it on the disc player, then stood up and looked around.

The room was very large and I loved the décor in his living room, especially with a small bar and a wine cabinet at the back filled with all kinds of wines.

"Do you like Italian opera?" The cold-faced god stepped out and stood behind me.

I shook my head, "My taste is not so noble, because it's all foreign music, and I can't understand it anyway, so it's better to have a picture that I haven't heard and feel it." ”

The cold-faced god smiled, leaned over from behind, and gently hugged me. I wasn't used to this kind of intimacy, my body trembled a little, and the cold face seemed to feel it, and the strength relaxed a little, giving me time to get used to it.

"Compared to the convention that other people don't understand and have to pretend, you're too direct." The cold-faced god whispered.

"I'm just an ordinary person, and the education I received is nothing special, and there are very few foreign songs that I can understand. Gradually, I got used to his temperature, and I calmed down, "If you give me some time to do my homework, maybe I can get through the test." ”

Chatting with the cold-faced god like this, my eyes wandered in front of his wine cabinet, and he really had a lot of wine to open a small exhibition.

"Ahh I discovered the New World, "Chateau Lafite Rothschild in '82? ”

The cold-faced god let go of me, opened the wine cabinet, and took out the bottle, "I still have a bottle of seventy years old." ”

"It's so extravagant, two bottles of red wine are 100,000 yuan. The wine in this wine cabinet alone is worth a lot. "I didn't dare to take the wine he handed over, this bottle of wine is more than 50,000 yuan, and my annual income can only be exchanged for a bottle of wine, which is too expensive.

"This wine was given by a friend from France." Seeing that I didn't take it, the cold face god put the wine back again, "Wine is drunk, not stored in the cabinet, and the taste of wine is very seriously affected by the environment, if you don't drink it in time, it will be spoiled." ”

I looked inside his wine cabinet, it was controlled by a thermometer, such a professional thing, not something ordinary people can have. I'm a bit of a dirty bun in comparison.

"I'll test you," the cold-faced god said again, "Chateau Lafite Rothschild?" Which vintage is the best? ”

"You can't bother me with this." I leaned back at the bar, tilted my head and replied, "At the Bordeaux Red Wine House in France, a 1787 Lafite auction at Christie's in 1987 sold for $155,000, and no one has broken this record so far." ”

The cold-faced god nodded, "Go on." ”

"Lafite has a well-balanced structure, a well-balanced character, flavour and acidity, and a personality that is known for its elegance, and it is not the most powerful, but it is the oldest red wine brand. A good vintage of Lafite takes about 20 years or more, and the best time to enjoy it is when the wine is ripe. The 1982, 1986, 1988, 1989 and 1990 vintages of Lafite are all masterpieces of recent vintages. These five vintages are of outstanding quality, bringing out the perfect balance of Lafite, the incomparable aroma and the elegance of the wines.

I've seen a 1847 Lafaite that costs 310,000 Hong Kong dollars. "I said a lot in one breath, and the cold-faced god was quite satisfied.

"It seems that your research on wine is a little better than that of food." The cold-faced god looked at me with his shoulders crossed, "Ah, let's see what the wine you bought looks like?" ”

Before he took the wine, I snatched the wine bag and hugged it to my chest, "I can't handle this before you have so much good wine." ”

"Can you still ask for it back if it was given to me? How can there be such a reason. The cold-faced god stood in front of me, "You are a wine taster yourself, and you should be confident in your choice." ”

"It used to be great, but now it's gone." When I opened the wine bag, it was just a very ordinary bottle of sweet wine from China in the 90s.

The cold-faced god smiled, took the wine and put it aside, and came over to hold me, "Let me take care of the wine, I can have a side dish!" ”

"Western food?" I asked.

"Well," he hugged me in his arms and brought me close to him, "how?" ”

"It's troublesome," I pouted, "I haven't eaten it." ”

"Really?" He didn't believe it.

I nodded, "I haven't eaten very authentic Western food, how can you say that you eat with a knife and fork, I have eaten." ”

"Finally there's one thing you won't." The cold-faced god smiled, "My self-confidence is full now. ”

There was soup boiling in the cold noodle god's kitchen, and I could smell it, but I couldn't guess what he was doing. The cold noodle god pulled me to set the table together, and explained to me as he set it up, "Western food generally has soup, meat, pudding and cheese, so the tableware should be arranged according to these staple foods. ”

"Wine and food usually have a fixed pairing: the first course is accompanied by a cocktail; Drink pear wine when drinking soup; Drink unsweetened white wine while eating fish; Eat meat dishes with red wine; Drink red wine with cheese and sweet white wine or champagne with pudding; Pair fruit or sweets with wine; Coffee is usually served with liqueur. ”

The cold noodle god picked up the tableware again, generally put it aside and said, "The first course of Western food is generally eaten with a fork, don't use a knife, and the waiter won't equip you with a knife in the hotel, so don't ask for it, otherwise you will make a joke." The types of knives are: edible knives, fish knives, meat knives, cream knives, and fruit knives. The types of forks are: edible forks, harpoons, lobster forks, etc. The knife edge should always be inward, and the tines should always be upward. The number of knives and forks should be equal to the number of dishes in the order in which they are served, from the outside to the inside, and when eating, they should be taken in this order. When the dish is removed, the used cutlery is removed as well. ”

I struggled to digest what he said, my eyes following his hands. Seeing me like this, the cold-faced god couldn't help but put down the work in his hand, "Don't go to rote memorization, learn slowly, Western food is also a very learned subject." ”

I nodded, and when the cold face god started to make dinner, I stood in the kitchen, watching the cold face god go about his business, but he couldn't help at all. However, Western food is more beautiful than Chinese food, and a little bit of small portions takes a lot of effort, and it seems that the special chef of Cold Noodle God is much better than imagined.

The cold noodle god knows that I don't like to eat red meat very much, and the main dish is the main fish, although the sea fish does not have an earthy smell, but it is not easy to deal with the smell of the sea. And the cold noodle god is very well handled here, the fish is fresh and tender, and there are no thorns, plus a little lemon, which makes the taste reach a certain level of sublimation, which is really delicious.

"How's it going, is it delicious?" The cold-faced god asked tentatively.

"Well," I swallowed, "it's delicious, a hundred." ”

The cold-faced god smiled, perhaps it was a very happy thing to be praised. In order to match the sweet white wine I bought, he made a fruit pudding, so that my wine was not idle, and it took an hour to eat a meal, so that I could truly taste the good enjoyment of Western food.

Because I didn't have to work, I took the initiative to take on the job of washing dishes, "I can't eat for nothing, and if I don't do some work, I won't be happy." ”

The cold-faced god watched me wash the dishes from the side, "There aren't too many girls like you. ”

"And how many have you encountered?" I turned back.

The cold-faced god thought for a moment, "You're the first." The woman who had eaten with me before did not take the initiative to ask for this kind of work. ”

I smiled and dried the washed dishes and put them in the cupboard, "So what do they do?" ”

The cold-faced god didn't speak, I put the last saucer, dried my hands, turned around, and repeated with my eyes. The cold-faced god looked at me, walked straight over, pressed me against the sink, and kissed me. In his mouth, there was still the taste of pudding, a little bit of wine, sweet. I hugged his neck and responded gently, not too violently, and it was best to leave it at that.

After a while, he let go of me, and what he couldn't hide in his eyes was a simple desire, "Today, don't go!" ”

I put my forehead against him and said softly, "Not today, I have a plane tomorrow morning, and I haven't packed my things yet." Tomorrow my classmates will come to me and go home with me. ”

"Really?" He pressed the tip of his nose against mine and whispered to me.

For a while, I almost wanted to agree, I couldn't say what I thought at the time, it wasn't that I was pretending to be innocent, but I wasn't ready, I wasn't ready to accept a man with my body and mind.

After a long time, I nodded, "Today, no." ”

The cold-faced god said "um" understandingly, "Then, stay a little longer, stay with me." ”

I had no reason to refuse this request, so the two of us sat on the carpet, back to back, listening to the opera on the CD with our eyes closed, our hands clasped together, and the warmth of the man coming from the back made people feel very happy. It would be nice if it could go on like this.