Since the beginning of the year, Shifeng Company's business has been relatively flat, everyone is not too busy, and there is no need to work overtime to catch up with the work, but there has always been orders and work, and everyone has something to do.

Most of the orders received now are the decoration of houses that are just needed, such as marriage housing, pension housing, rural housing, etc. Lu Lanshi's business is developing more and more in the countryside, and this year she has received several orders from the surrounding villages of F City, and she also plans to increase investment in the development of towns and rural markets around F City.

In the first two years, Lu Lan was a boss and a worker by herself, doing everything herself, and she was often busy in the dark. Now that the company has stabilized a little, she no longer does everything herself, focusing on management issues. For the list that does not require much, Lu Lanshi usually gives the two contracted designers Tong Xuemei and Zhang Yanzhi to do. Zhang Yanzhi is old, and his health has not been good in the past two years, so he has done relatively little. Those lists with relatively high requirements and considerable difficulty are basically done by Zhao Jing now, and when Zhao Jing is too busy, Lu Lanshi will do it himself.

Zhao Jing returned to YAD Company last year to do the Cultural Palace Grand Theater project, and after a few months, the project was completed, she took a commission, and then returned to Shifeng Company to work.

Now the work is not very busy, and the time is very free, Zhao Jing also feels a lot easier, although the money is less, but it is not a problem to support the family. At least she can balance work and family now, and has enough time and energy to take care of and educate her son without delaying her work.

When Zhao Jing doesn't go to school during the holidays, Zhao Jing will take her son to Shifeng Company. Although the company is not a place to take children, her son is relatively well-behaved and does not affect everyone's work, Lu Lanshi did not say anything about this, and basically acquiesced.

After a busy week, on Friday afternoon, everyone started to talk about how to spend the weekend, and wanted time to pass quickly and go home from work early.

"Lan Shi, then I'll go first. ”

Not long after going to work in the afternoon, Zhao Jing communicated the progress of the work at hand to Lu Lanshi clearly, and was ready to leave work early to pick up her son from school.

Her son is now in the third grade, an hour later than when he was in the first and second grades, so she doesn't have to rush to school every afternoon just after work, so she picks up her son at school at half past three and then takes him back to work with him. Now her son is out of school after half past four, she rushed to school at about half past four, and after picking up her son, if she went back to the company, everyone else was off work, so she picked up her son and went home directly.

"Good. Lu Lanshi looked at her, nodded, and then said, "Sister Zhao, let's go on a blind date tomorrow with peace of mind, dress up beautifully." ”

Zhao Jing sighed and said: "Hey, I'm so old, no matter how I dress up, I'm not an old woman." ”

Moreover, she doesn't look forward to tomorrow's blind date, but she just wants to deal with it.

During the Chinese New Year, Zhao Jing took her son to a reunion of several old classmates, and when they talked about the situation over the years, she inevitably said that she was divorced and took her son to live by herself.

There was a classmate who had a good relationship before, and now he wants to introduce a man to Zhao Jing, a classmate's colleague is called Xu Kunting, and the colleagues are all called Lao Xu. The classmate also sent her a few life photos to let her see what people look like. Xu Kunting is still forty-two or forty-three years old, is the director of another department of her classmate's company, has a good annual income, has been divorced from his wife for more than a year, and has a daughter who is in junior high school. As for the reason for the divorce, it was said that his wife was cheating, and he had to divorce, and his daughter didn't want it, so he got back together with his first love.

The old classmates felt that Zhao Jing and Xu Kunting were in a similar situation, their respective conditions were comparable, and they were quite suitable, so they wholeheartedly introduced them to each other, and as for whether they could make it, they had to meet again. Zhao Jing couldn't shirk it, so she agreed to meet Xu Kunting.

On Saturday afternoon, Zhao Jing still dressed up a little, put on a well-fitting dress, put on light makeup, and took her son to an appointment.

arrived at the agreed afternoon tea restaurant, and after entering, Zhao Jing saw that Xu Kunting had arrived first.

Both of them have seen each other's photos and recognize them at a glance when they see a real person.

Xu Kunting was dressed more formally and seemed to attach great importance to this blind date. His real person is not much different from the photo, his facial features are upright, and his face is kind, but the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes are more obvious than in the photo, and he looks two or three years older. Zhao Jing's first impression of him was not bad.

After seeing Zhao Jing, Xu Kunting's smiling face slowly appeared, and it seemed that his first impression of Zhao Jing was okay.

After politely introducing themselves to each other, Xu Kunting motioned for everyone to sit down, summoned the waiter, and asked the child to order his favorite food first.

But Zhao Minghao was more curious about the strange uncle in front of him, and couldn't help but ask his mother: "Mom, why don't I remember this Uncle Xu, have we seen him before?"

The son said before that he wanted to find a new father, but Zhao Jing thought that if he told him directly, if he met with this Uncle Xu now, he was going to find a new father for him, I was afraid that he would not be able to accept it, so she replied perfunctorily: "I thought I hadn't seen it, it's normal that you don't remember." Now my mother wants to talk to Uncle Xu about something, and I will wait for you to eat your food obediently, adults talk, children must be polite, don't interject, you know?"

"Oh! I know!" Zhao Minghao nodded obediently.

According to his understanding, his mother said that she wanted to talk to this Uncle Xu, that is, as usual, to meet different people and talk about things at work. He doesn't understand those things, when his mother is talking to others, he has to stay aside, either playing with himself or doing homework, anyway, it can't affect his mother's work.

"Your son is so obedient. Xu Kunting praised Zhao Jing, looked at the menu, and said to Zhao Minghao, "Haohao, there are a lot of delicious foods here, you can order whatever you want, you don't need to be polite to your uncle." ”

"It's very well-behaved in front of people, and it's usually quite naughty. Zhao Jing replied casually, and then asked, "Why don't you bring your daughter with you?"

Xu Kunting shook his head: "She, she doesn't like to come out with me to meet people, ask her to come out, she would rather play games at home by herself." ”

After the ordered food was delivered, Zhao Minghao ate obediently. Having something good to eat makes him happier than sitting or doing his homework.

Zhao Jing and Xu Kunting chatted casually, and soon talked about each other's work.

Knowing that Zhao Jing was working in the start-up company of his former colleague and current friend, Xu Kunting suddenly said: "You are committing a big taboo in this job." ”

Zhao Jing was stunned when she heard this, and then asked puzzledly: "What kind of taboo do you commit?"

Work is work, and there will be a big taboo?

"As the saying goes, never go to work at a friend's company, especially a startup. Xu Kunting looked at Zhao Jing's puzzled expression, and said in a very serious tone, "Friends are friends, friends just have nothing to get together to drink, chat, and drink tea." Friends are often equal to each other, and when money is involved, they are no longer pure friends, and they are easy to tear their faces apart because of interests. Moreover, when a friend becomes a boss, an employment relationship is formed, and it is difficult to grasp the proportions of the relationship, both parties will suffer, and the friend will also be in a dilemma when managing, and rewards and punishments are easy to cause criticism. The result can be imagined!"

"That's right. Zhao Jing smiled after listening to his so-called taboo, "But it's not so absolute, it varies from person to person." ”

In order to have enough time and energy to take care of her son while working, she had to quit her stable job at YAD and give up her seven or eight years of seniority and high salary in YAD to work with Lu Lanshi. If she didn't go to a friend's company, who would give her such working conditions, and which company would allow her to arrive late and leave early, and to bring her children to the office?

She currently needs a more free job, and Shifeng needs a designer like her, so to speak, to take what she needs. Of course, this cooperation model is only temporary and cannot last long, but this is an opportunity for her to take her son through the predicament. is in a friend's company, she tries her best and strives to do a good job, even if she finally breaks up because of interests or other differences, she herself has a clear conscience and is worthy of her friends.

Besides, she, Lu Lanshi, and Tao Yunfeng are not pure friends who get together to drink, chat, and drink tea. They are colleagues at work, and the relationship between colleagues, the problems of interests, and the rules of getting along, everyone has experienced them, and they all know in their hearts what they want, how to do it, and for now, it is still very good.

Seeing Zhao Jing smiling easily, obviously disagreeing with his argument, Xu Kunting continued: "Don't laugh, you just started now, there are no big problems, it looks good, but the further you go, the more problems there are." ”

"I've been doing it for over a year. Zhao Jing said.

I resigned after the Chinese New Year last year, and I started to work at the beginning of the year, and it has been a year now.

Recall that time flies so fast!

Xu Kunting said again: "It's only been a year, isn't it just the beginning!"

Zhao Jing smiled again and further explained: "Actually, when I go to work in a friend's company, I don't just go to work for a friend, I have a share. The company is small, the investment is small, and the money is not much, but the company also has my share. ”

"If you become a shareholder, it is equivalent to starting a business with a friend, right?" Xu Kunting asked, just now he mistakenly thought that Zhao Jing was purely going to work for a friend, so he said so much.

Zhao Jing nodded slightly: "Sort of." ”

The company is still in its infancy, and she has a share, which can be regarded as starting a business together.

I don't want Xu Kunting to say again: "Starting a business with friends, this is also a big taboo!"

"Really?" Zhao Jing laughed again, remembering a common saying, "Don't start a business with a good friend, right?"