Chapter 85: Who is the Third Party?
Of course, I didn't know that he had changed so much, and after ordering pink roses for him, I asked him if he needed to prepare red wine, and he quickly sent me two words "eventful".
I'm really troubled, if I knew that the red wine I gave to Shirley a few days ago that I had collected for many years had all been in Zhuo's stomach, I was afraid that I would have to go to the door and pick his throat and make him vomit!
I thought that his assistant would be able to come back and stick to his post after half an afternoon off, but I didn't know that the assistant was willing to even work with a daily salary of nearly 1,000, and he sent me a message and transferred money to me, so that I could serve again, no, assist Mr. Zhuo, I was completely speechless.
When I appeared in his office for the third time with the papers, he looked up at me, frowned deeply and asked, "What about Xiaolin?" ”
"Her mother had a heart attack, and she had to take care of her mother." I replied truthfully.
Zhuo Ou picked up the landline on the table and crackled, or turned on the hands-free, and soon the voice of the personnel manager came from the phone, very polite, "President? ”
Zhuo Ou said very politely: "Settle the salary of my assistant, and find a new assistant for me." ”
Before the HR manager could say yes, the phone was cut off.
I'll admit it, I still couldn't resist the urge to fight up, and asked him coldly, "Don't you think it's inappropriate to do this?" Am I not doing well? Why can't you replace her as your assistant for a few days? ”
Zhuo Ou didn't answer my words, just glanced at me, turned his head to the computer, and said lightly: "I asked you to be the manager of the marketing department, not to let you be the assistant to the president." ”
Me: "......"
I put down the documents angrily and turned to leave, and when I came to the door, Zhuo Ou suddenly spoke, "Let's have dinner together in the evening?" ”
I was stunned for a moment, thinking I had misheard, and when I looked back at him, I heard him say, "That restaurant was pretty good yesterday, and I want to take you to try it." ”
I was a little flattered by his sudden invitation, and I didn't know why I was so panicked, as if I was looking forward to this date, and as if I wanted to escape.
Zhuo Ou didn't give me this opportunity, and when I was about to leave work, he appeared directly at the door of my office, and I heard the sound of chattering outside the door, and I looked up and saw him.
I resigned myself to eating the veal steak on the plate, because it was medium-rare, I couldn't cut it, Zhuo Ou took my plate quietly, handed him to cut the portion, and began to cut my portion again.
I suddenly wanted to ask him something, but as soon as I said, "Thank you." ”
He looked up at me and asked, "Thanks for what?" ”
I didn't speak, he paused and asked, "Thank you for this meal or thank me for letting you come to New York?" ”
"Thank you." I really can't choose what I want to thank, I just knot my tongue and say the wrong thing.
He smiled faintly, "No thanks, it's Xiao Ran and Qi Dong's intention to come to New York, how about this meal, how about our parting dinner?" ”
I frowned at him and asked, "Breakup dinner?" When have we ever been in love? It's just a marriage contract, wouldn't it be too serious to say that? ”
He pursed his lips and didn't speak, and called the waiter to bring red wine, and I could see at a glance that it was clearly the bottle of red wine I gave to Shirley, but it was only a small halfway down, and there was still a lot left.
I couldn't help but ask him, "Where did this wine come from?" ”
He looked at the wine, looked at me with sparkling eyes, and said, "Familiar, right?" ”
He poured me a glass and said, "Do you think there is such a good thing as fate in this world?" ”
Scratching my head is the same as a person who doesn't have my head around, and I can't answer.
"This is the red wine I gave you when I was eleven years old, I heard them say that you have always been with you, I didn't believe it at the time, you know, many places don't allow this thing to be brought on the transportation, they laughed at me stupidly, saying that even if you spend a few hundred dollars on the courier, you will never let this wine leave you for more than a month, but the month we went out, I really didn't see this bottle of wine. Just yesterday, when Shirley brought me this bottle of wine and invited me to taste it, I suddenly felt like, you really don't love me anymore, do you? ”
He said such a long sentence, I drank several sips of red wine, I knew that there was nothing wrong with me, but I was pretending to be drunk, smirking and shaking my head, and said: "No, I love, I love, you are the boss, pay me a salary, such a high salary, such good benefits, how can I not love it?" I love you more than I love Brother Xiao Ran! ”
He suddenly laughed a few times, and regardless of the people next to him looking at us and pointing, he raised his hand and poured a whole glass of red wine down, then looked at me and said, "yes, how did I forget?" I'm your boss and I pay you a salary, how can you not love money, right? ”
I asked him again, "What about you?" Do you love me? As soon as I asked this sentence, I wanted to take it back a few times, but unfortunately, the words I said were like water spilled out, and it was difficult to collect it.
"Me? I love, of course I love you, otherwise I wouldn't have dared to steal a million of my father's wine for you. ”
I couldn't help but widen my eyes, pointed to the bottle with my index finger and asked, "This wine, a million?" ”
He closed his eyes in agreement, then poured himself another glass and said, "It's three million now." ”
I didn't dare to drink anymore, so I put the glass aside, and didn't care about pretending to be drunk, I took the bottle of wine he had in hand and asked, "You say, how much can this half bottle of wine be sold for?" ”
He chuckled, "When people buy wine, they collect it, and when they open the wine, do you think that people are willing to drink it like you?" ”
I asked rhetorically, "What are you sending me for?" ”
"I'll send you to prepare what you pass on to our children, and the children will pass on to the children! Haha~" He said it seriously to the end, and laughter betrayed him.
"Perverted!" I scolded him angrily, then drank half of the glass and poured myself a glass.
When he saw me like this, the curvature of his mouth rose a lot, and he quipped, "Do you think this wine should be given away now that you know it?" ”
I stroked my forehead depressedly and said, "I want to know that if you are so perverted and give me such an expensive wine, I wouldn't have asked for it in the first place." ”
"But this is our token of love, if I am not there after the operation at that time, this wine may be able to make you carefree for the rest of your life."
"Forget it, are you a waste of people paralyzed in bed without hands or feet? I'm going to live on your bottle of wine for the rest of my life? I puffed back.
"But I also thought that if my operation was successful, then this is our token of love, and we can drink it together at the wedding."
"Then aren't we not married yet, and you drank it with other girls, don't you think it's ridiculous to say something about a love token?" I feel like I'm not at all polite.
Zhuo Ou didn't mind too much, looked at me intently and asked, "You tell me the truth, what is the reason why you have to divorce me?" When we went to get the certificate, you had to go, and now you are the one who is separated, don't you think it's a little unfair? ”
Probably because the red wine is too old, there is a taste of ginger or old spicy, wine is still old, I thought about it for a long time, he didn't urge me, just waited for me to answer.
By the end, I was telling the truth.
I can see that he doesn't know about this, and Xiao Lazy's assurances to me are true.
He didn't speak for a long time, he only cared about drinking, although he drank it in small sips, and drank two glasses, and there was only a shallow layer left in the bottle, I poured it into my glass, took a deep breath, and was about to end the dinner, but Zhuo Ou spoke.
"I, Zhuo Ou, am I such a superficial person in your eyes? Do you think I love you, but I love you as a fertility machine? Don't you think there is a woman out there who wants to give birth to me? I have to care about those, I'm afraid the Zhuo family is not in the current situation now. ”
"It's not for me to think about whether you care or not, I just think that a good person like you should be treated fairly by God."
"Huh!" Zhuo Ou sneered, "Fair treatment? Have you been fair to me from beginning to end? ”
I thought about it, it seems that it really didn't, from the beginning, I deliberately treated him badly, as if this was the only way to attract his attention, I know, this is a very clumsy approach, but I can't help it.
I shook my head and said, "I'm sorry. ”
He suddenly reached out and touched my hand resting on the table, "What I need has never been this sentence, is it so difficult for you to say 'I do'?" ”
I was stunned for a moment and didn't know how to answer, so I had to shake my head, but he reached out and put his hand on my head and said, "Don't shake your head, say it with your mouth." ”
Normally, at this time, I would say it back with my mouth, and it would be difficult to say it with my nose without saying it, but today, I am not in the mood.
I stopped my movements, looked at him with a firm gaze and said, "It's hard, I think I may not be able to say these three words in my life." ”
Zhuo Ou's sudden helplessness and decadent appearance pierced my heart deeply, but I understood that such pain may only be temporary, and if I selfishly believe that he feels that he can get by, I am afraid that his pain will become the whole of my life in the future, and I can't bear it.
We had that meal until the early hours of the morning, and Zhuo Ou sent me downstairs and insisted on going upstairs with me, and he refused to turn around when he saw that I had returned home safely. It's all very similar to before, I feel very familiar, very warm, and now it is a luxury for me.
Strange to say, Zhuo Ou and I used to treat each other coldly, after that meal, we were completely clear, except that we didn't change the card, we were like two familiar strangers, but different from strangers, we could clearly remember each other's preferences and taboos, and we took care of each other at many banquets that both of us needed to attend, and we were like old friends.
If it weren't for Zhou Wei's sudden arrival in New York, I think we might have been able to maintain this appearance until Brother Xiao Ran sent me back to China with an order.
Zhou Wei came to write a war letter, but the Paris branch he led before fell miserably under Xiao Ran's hands, and now the American branch of Mushi is also a little confusing.
But then again, he doesn't have the slightest bit of confidence, at least in my opinion, he's not a simple person, and from the fact that Zoo was on his side from the beginning, I think his chances of winning are almost half likely.
As I expected, Zhuo Ou really received him very politely, I heard that Zhou Wei stayed in the president's office for an afternoon, and he didn't come out until dinner time, Zhuo Ou also sent him out, asked the secretary to book a restaurant, and then asked the driver to send him over.
If I can't figure out Zhou Wei, then what I can't figure out is Zhuo Ou. He doesn't seem to shy away from anyone in the company, and even introduces Zhou Wei's identity with some fanfare like some managers.
In fact, he doesn't introduce and almost no one doesn't know Zhou Wei, I think at the beginning, he used his blonde hair to completely brush some foreign media, and now, it is a shallow hairstyle, coupled with that cold and evil appearance, it is difficult for people to forget, not to mention, at that time, when the American branch and the Paris branch of the four seas were dead and alive, the company's PPT was the most of his various photos, because he was the spokesperson of their company, and almost every best-selling product was used as a case study on his body.
I only met Zhou Wei later, at that time it was not a few days before his first visit, I was punching in the punch card machine, I don't know what the reason is, the punch card machine here is not easy to use at all, I looked for the administration several times and still failed to punch in smoothly, so I had to stand patiently every day on the far side of the punch card machine that no one went to slowly face the green frame, just like that, I have to get up early every day for nearly ten minutes.
On this day, I was playing the card for the third time, and I had a hunch that the machine was about to drop to tell me that when I was successful in punching in, a person next to me bumped into me, I was defenseless, and I almost fell, and I couldn't help but feel a little angry, staring at the past, but I saw Zhou Wei standing leisurely against the wall.
He greeted me, "Hello, don't be a manager." ”
I angrily replied to him, "It's not good! Because of you, I'll have to do it all over again to get the card on! ”
As soon as I stood up, I just pointed at it, and immediately there was a prompt that the punch was successful. This made me embarrassed, Zhou Wei spread his hands on the side, "It's very simple." ”
I didn't bother to reason with him, so I walked into the aisle on my own, and he followed me into the elevator, and when I was still wondering why he came and went so freely, Zhuo Ou also followed. It's strange to say, it's the point of work, but this elevator only came up to the three of us, I was about to go out to see if the elevator was posted with the logo of the president's special elevator, Zhuo Ou stretched out his hand and pulled me into the elevator and said: "I want to be a decapitated ghost!" ”
I pouted and didn't make a sound, stood in the corner of the elevator and pressed my floor, helped them press the button on the top floor, and then stood aside and didn't make any movement, who knew that Zhou Wei didn't want to let me go, walked in my direction, and continued to talk almost at my distance, "Don't manager, when will we have a meal together?" ”
I rolled my eyes and wanted to ask him, what was the need for us to eat?
But because Zhuo Ou is still there, and he seems to be very special to Zhou Wei, I didn't dare to do that, first, I was afraid of losing my job, and secondly, I was a little afraid that Zhuo Ou would misunderstand, I can't say that I have to give up on his people, how can I still be afraid of these things, but more things are better than less things, this is the truth of the ages.
Sure enough, when Zhou Wei saw that I ignored him, he didn't speak again, but Zhuo Ou suddenly said to me: "Bei Li, let's have a meal together after work, right?" ”
I thought about it, this person is my boss, after work, then he shouldn't invite me to dinner, but recently we seem to have developed a relationship of friends, and it doesn't hurt to have a meal, but didn't he say he loved me before? How can I tolerate this man who invited me to dinner to eat with us? He is inevitably too special to Zhou Wei, too differentiated!
To be honest, thinking about the previous events, I even think that I may be a third party between them now!
But I finally went to have an awkward dinner with them, it was the restaurant booked by Zhuo Ou's new assistant, which was much higher than the last restaurant, there were many men with similar temperament to Zhuo Ou, I was dazzled, there was a handsome guy with a good figure at the table, I was a little angry and didn't see the face, and when I wanted to turn my head to look, Zhou Wei coughed lightly and reminded: "Don't be a manager, you are like this, our Zhuo is a little unhappy." ”
I didn't expect Zhou Wei's observation of Zhuo Ou to be so careful, I sat opposite him but didn't feel the slightest discomfort from him, but Zhou Wei's unabashed look at me made me not very comfortable, so I could only look at the handsome guy to divert my attention.
Zhuo Ou sent me back to the apartment as usual, but this time I was only sent downstairs, and I didn't get out of the car, only to see that I got out of the car and closed the door and said to the driver to drive.
I can finally feel his discomfort, when he is angry, he likes to say nothing, think about it carefully, it seems that when he was eating just now, he really didn't say a word, and it was also in the car, I got in the car and he sent me Zhou Wei pretended to be kind and pushed me into the car, the driver has long been familiar with the route of my home, no need Zhuo Ou to make a sound, he drove over, now think about it, tomorrow or ask Zhuo Ou, is the driver master okay?
My position in the American branch of Mousse is indeed the same as in China, but the authority is regular, I don't know all the things that I shouldn't know, and when I know some big decisions and events, basically the whole company is almost clear.
At first, I was not very comfortable with this situation, but time can change everything, in less than two months, I can deal with it calmly, my turn to do things, I am meticulous, I don't ask much about things I don't do, even if sometimes I go up to Zhuo Ou to have something, I will never speak.
So, about Zhou Wei's affairs, I knew about it for almost the same time as Shirley, which really made me a little depressed.
Because of the last bottle of red wine, I haven't thought about how to face Shirley for a long time, strange to say, I didn't know the existence of Zhuo Ou when I started to get along with Shirley, I can calmly say some of my own careful thoughts, attitude towards Zhuo Ou, planning for future life, but after knowing the relationship between Zhuo Ou and Shirley, I gradually unconsciously opened the distance between myself and Shirley. Probably Shirley is also very busy, she rarely takes the initiative to contact me, even if she takes the initiative to contact me, I don't have a mobile phone for a meeting every now and now and then I don't receive a call, so our contact will naturally be less.
This weekend, I really didn't have a reason to go to the company, I honestly nestled in the small apartment to watch the DJ, and suddenly the doorbell rang on the door, and I was stunned for two seconds before getting up to open the door.
I thought it was the young man from the property who came to me to ask about something, and he always came to solve some troubles for me before, but when I opened the door and saw Zhuo Ou in a slim black suit, I admitted, I was stunned.
We haven't seen each other for a long time, since the last time he didn't say a word for a night, I was very conscious that I didn't mess with him again, and I don't know if he didn't want to meet me, I didn't even see him in person at the large meeting of the company's management, even if it was a staff meeting, he was also the focus of standing on the stage to shine, and I, the seat was just a member of the seat in the corner of the farthest table, far from the difference.
He raised the things in his hand and showed it to me, and I could tell at a glance that it was a small glutinous rice cake made by my father, and I loved to eat it, and when I was at home, I could eat five or six pieces without adding anything, even at night.
I was pleasantly surprised to take the bag and invited him in, but he stood at the door and didn't move, I didn't understand what he meant, and asked him, "What's wrong?" ”
He smiled faintly, "It's your birthday today, go out to eat, I booked a table." ”
I wanted to refuse, but I felt that such a deliberate refusal was a bit embarrassing, so I turned around and put my things down, took my coat, took the key from the bowl at the door, and went out with a smile.
Zhuo Ou seemed to be in a better mood, and he said some words to me on the way, all of which were good words that my father asked him to bring to me. He has a very strong ability to convey other people's meanings, I think, he must have polished those words, Dad will not say such literary words to me, at most say one sentence to me, girl, Dad just wants you to live well, just be happy every day. How simple and unpretentious, right?
Zhuo Ou still sent me home, and when I was downstairs, I invited him to sit down, but he shook his head and rejected me, looked at me intently for a while, and said, "Happy birthday, I hope you will always be happy, no matter what you want, I hope you can be happy." ”
I grinned, not wanting to talk about sentimental things, "Of course I'm happy!" With you who are good for me, it's hard for me not to be happy! ”
I don't know if he was out of habit, but when I said this, he leaned very close, touched my hair, and imprinted his lip print on my forehead.
I was stunned for two seconds, shook my head at him and asked, "Why kiss me?" ”
"In return for bringing a gift, it seems that you still earned it, right?" He laughs.
I suddenly felt that we seemed to get along very well like this, so I nodded unconsciously, stood on tiptoe and imprinted a kiss on his face, "Thank you." ”
I'm still a girl after all, and I'm not a little bit shy of what I should have, and it's awkward, so I ran back to the apartment immediately after the kiss.