I picked up my phone and took a look, this time it was a message from Qin Weilan. A short sentence, but it made my heart sink and the whole person fell silent.

Immediately after, before I could figure out how to reply to Qin Weilan, Qin Weilan sent me a message again.

"When I got off work this afternoon, Kevin came to our company with a cooperation contract, and wanted to negotiate with us about the cooperation between the commercial plaza and our group, and we are still talking, we haven't had dinner yet, and I don't know what time it will be to be busy."

"Jingfan, I'm really sorry, I missed the appointment...... I'm going to keep busy, and I'm going to take the time to get back to you when I go to the bathroom to explain this. ”

With mixed feelings, I silently typed and replied to Qin Weilan.

"It's okay, if you have something to do, get busy first, you can be busy first."

After replying to Qin Weilan's message, she was indeed busy and didn't continue to talk to me.

I put down my phone in frustration and lit a lonely cigarette as I watched the growing number of people in the tavern.

Before Chinese New Year's Eve, everyone said that they would come to the tavern here, spend the last day of the year together, and come to the tavern for activities, but when it was actually this day, none of them came.

Just like Lao Wei or Gao Hangfeng, one of them told me before, Qin Weilan and the others will come over because of the "face" given to me? It's funny that maybe I'm not as "important" and "big" as they think.

Impermanence, there will always be some unexpected situations, but what makes me wonder a little is why Kevin would be so coincidental and choose to go to Qin's Group to find Qin Weilan on this day to discuss the cooperation of the shopping mall? And it's still at this point in time, just when I'm ready to get off work.

Qin Weilan is not coming, and Jiang Xue also has a dinner party to attend, so it seems that ...... Then only Mannie is left, and Qin Weilan hasn't come over, so she shouldn't be here either, right?

Who knows? But it doesn't matter anymore.

After smoking a cigarette, I cleaned up the "little emotions" in my heart, and then walked out of the bar and followed Lao Wei and Gao Hangfeng to continue to be busy.

At eight o'clock in the evening, almost nine o'clock, the people in the tavern began to gradually increase, and at a glance, there were still more than thirty people.

When I returned to the bar and checked the data in the background of the computer applet, suddenly a customer came to the bar, and I guess the other party came to have some bartending.

"Hello, a whiskey on the rocks, thank you."

Without raising my head, I shouted to the bartender next door: "Xiao Kun, entertain me, I'm busy here." ”

The bartender Xiao Kun reminded me with a smile: "Brother Fan, take a look again, who is coming?" ”

Suddenly, I raised my head and looked up, and the person who came was Qin Weilan's best friend, Mannie!

"Mannie!?" I stood up and smiled at her and said, "I thought you weren't coming!" Sit down, do you really want to drink whiskey on the rocks? ”

Mannie smiled and said, "Definitely not, whiskey with ice, isn't that your favorite drink?" I thought you'd react if I said that...... Bring me a cup of Long Island Iced Tea, I haven't had it in a long time. ”

As I spoke, I also walked out of the bar and took Manny to the small table and sat down, because all the booths had been booked by customers, and the booths that were originally reserved for our own people at the beginning were also given to other customers because Qin Weilan and they were not coming.

A moment later, Xiao Kun brought me and Mannie a glass of Long Island Iced Tea and whiskey with ice, and Mannie and I picked up the glasses and touched them lightly, taking a sip of the wine in the glass.

I looked at Mannie and said softly: "Wei Lan, she has something to do, so she can't come, Jiang Xue too, the model competition area of JK Group, said that there was a dinner tonight, and it is estimated that she will not come, so I thought you would be the same." ”

Mannie smiled, put down the cup in her hand, and chuckled, "The same what?" Thought I wasn't coming, did you? No, they are them, I am myself, and when it is evening, I will leave it to the staff to take care of it, and when the time is almost up, I will let them leave work freely. ”

"It's also ......" I looked at Mannie with a surprised expression and asked again, "Yayun has hired someone?" ”

Mannie smiled abruptly and explained: "It's not really recruiting, it's already the end of the year, and there is still about half a month to go on annual leave, how can anyone change jobs?" It's just that I temporarily found a part-time job to top it. ”

I nodded slowly, listening to her say this, it makes sense, at this time at the end of the year, it is indeed difficult to recruit people.

"By the way, Jingfan, I came here tonight, I actually came to look for you, and I have one more thing to tell you."

I winked at her with a puzzled look and asked, "Looking for me?" What's the matter? ”

"This ...... For you. Mannie took a large envelope from her small bag and handed it to my desk, then explained with a smile on my face.

"This is the marketing campaign you did for Yayun Art Agency before, didn't I only give you a deposit of 10,000 yuan before? Now I will give you the rest of the payment, including the New Year's red envelope given to you in advance, accept it. ”

I was not in a hurry to accept the money immediately, and after glancing at the envelope, I smiled at Mannie and teased: "You are in such a hurry to settle the payment for me, are you not afraid of Yayun's reform, which did not succeed, but lost?" ”

"What if you lose? Working is to give money, doing business is inherently risky, so you can't work for you, you don't give money, right? ”

"Yes, yes, you have a point, then...... I took it, Mannie, thank you! ”

"Thank me for what? Isn't that how it should be? ”

Not long after I sat down to chat with Mannie, suddenly Lao Wei called me, and after I turned my head to respond to him, I said to Mannie apologetically.

"Well, Mannie, I'm sorry, I'm going to get busy, you sit back first, I'll come back later."

"It's okay, you go get busy, you must be vomiting very slowly today, you don't have to come to me deliberately."

I smiled and nodded at her, then got up to leave, only to be called out to me by Mannie behind me.

"Hey, this, you have to take it! The heart is so big. Mannie gestured to the envelope on the table.

I smiled at her awkwardly, then went back to take the money from the envelope on the table and put it in the pocket of my clothes, and then walked towards Lao Wei.

"Old Wei, what's wrong?"

Lao Wei handed me a cigarette and said to me with a solemn and worried expression: "Lao Xue, I'm afraid I want to trouble you to go over to the old tavern to keep an eye on it, just now the staff told me that someone in the old store had a little corner of his mouth and quarreled, you go over and help deal with it." ”

"Someone is arguing on a day like this?" I paused for a moment and said, "Okay, then I'll go first, indeed, the three of us are here, it's really not good, otherwise be careful of being 'stolen'." ”

"Okay, you go, remember to pay attention to safety, if necessary, there is really no way to control it, you can call the police." And ah......"

Lao Wei sighed, and continued in a helpless tone: "Lao Xue, it's past nine o'clock, and the flow of people in the tavern is still not very large, if it goes on like this, I'm afraid the effect of tonight's event will not be so ideal." ”

I took a look around me, and although it was true that it didn't achieve the desired effect at this point as we had envisioned, I naturally had to hold on.

So, I gave Lao Wei a reassuring smile, patted him on the shoulder, and comforted.

"Don't you say, it's only nine o'clock now? It's different tonight, maybe everyone is still out for dinner and the holidays? There will definitely be more people later, don't worry...... Alright, I'll go to the old store first. ”

"Hopefully!"

After I finished chatting with Lao Wei, I was about to walk out of the door of the tavern, but I saw that where Mannie was sitting, she was gone, probably because I was busy, and she was bored sitting there by herself, so I also left.

The "should come" didn't come, but the "shouldn't come" came, and there was a small accident at the old tavern on this big night. I put the cigarette that Lao Wei handed me in my mouth and walked out of the tavern with a little loss.