Chapter 82: Forty-Five
The director's office is really on the third floor, but it's a two-story space. Unlike most offices that seek upward height, the director's office extends downwards with a spiral staircase leading to the second floor. The floor is a whole sheet of transparent tempered glass, with only a square slot at the staircase interface for people to go up and down.
Below is a spectacular map of Thailand with mountains and green grass and ocean currents. The mountains are all equivalent altitudes, which are similar to the actual altitudes. Green grass is a real plant, and you can almost feel the fragrance of green grass. The river between the mountains and the plains is also really flowing with water, emitting a faint vapor, as if it were really clouds and rain and fog. Although it is similar to the sand table, it is much more delicate than the sand table.
Rushing in, Yu Zijin was startled. It's a bit of a long sky plank road, and she is very uncomfortable. Kiyoyuki took her to the door and left. When he said goodbye, he gently shook her hand and said, It's okay. Then he smiled. Yu Zijin felt warm for her care. This is a poor woman, and there must be many, many stories behind it.
There was no one in the director's office. Yu Zijin looked curiously at the layout inside. Except for the geographical setting below, the entire third floor is partially empty, with a desk, a bookcase, and a coat rack. The rest is the sofa for the guests to sit on. The design of the sofa is very modern, handmade from light white high-quality cowhide, which is very expensive. On the wall hangs a Chinese painting of a rooster catching insects, with a tall cockscomb and body, colorful feathers, and a majestic overall style. On both sides is a Chinese character calligraphy couplet, which Yu Zijin recognizes, and it is written that "every major event has a calm atmosphere, and I don't believe that there were no sages in ancient times." The font is vigorous, and it is a beige road.
Yu Zijin was not sitting, nor was he standing, he was hesitating, and the sound of footsteps outside the door came. She looked back, and her hanging heart suddenly relaxed. It turned out that the director was a very well-dressed sister who was not very old. The elder sister wears a traditional Thai tripping tail mantle, which is one of Thailand's ancient traditional costumes. Yu Zijin is usually only seen at the festival celebrations of Mei Sile. The stumbling tail mantle is made of a piece of cloth about 3 meters long wrapped around the legs, and then the two ends of the cloth are rolled together, passed between the legs, and tucked into the waist. Due to the wide hem of the sarong, it is comfortable and cool to wear, so it is popular among Thai commoners.
But as the times progressed, more and more Western-style elements began to be added to traditional Thai culture, and Thais began to wear Western-style tops, lace, and began to wear socks and shoes. After the twentieth century, the stumbling tail mantle gradually withdrew from the stage of history and began to change into a Western-style tube skirt.
The tube skirt is the same as the sarong, the two ends of the cloth are sewn into a cylinder shape, when wearing, first put the body into the cloth tube, and then use the right hand to the right side of the bula, the left hand holds the cloth on the right side of the waist, and the right hand then bra back, fold back to the left, fold each other at the left waist, and tuck it into the left waist casually. It can also be done in the opposite direction with the same movement with the left hand.
Nowadays, we often see eight styles of Thai women's traditional clothing, including Nyaungtun, Giralda, Amaline, Polom Phiman, Dusit, Chokri, Sivalai and Chakhapa, which were designed and advocated by Queen Sirikit of Thailand in the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century.
But no matter which one, Yu Zijin didn't wear it. She and her sister usually wear used clothes donated by the neighborhood or second-hand clothes that her father found at the thrift market. On weekdays, Yu Zijin is very envious of the sisters who can wear standard Thai women's clothes. Today, she saw that her preference for dress greatly outweighed her fear of unfamiliar places.
Yu Zijin looked at the director with joy and couldn't take his eyes off it. When the director saw her appearance, he smiled all at once.
The director said kindly, sit down. I don't serve guests to drink water here, please forgive me. Yu Zijin couldn't help but be curious about her habit, and couldn't help but say, I don't like to drink water.
This woman with a very touching look and charm seems to have a kind of magic, and Yu Zijin is completely fascinated by her. She said with a smile, My name is Lu Panpan, and you can call me Sister Lu.
Yu Zijin has no maternal love since she was a child, and her father and their sisters are also less together at home, and at this moment, she completely transforms this Director Lu into her mother, her sister, and her own family. She shouted involuntarily, Sister Lu.
The director laughed happily, and the smiling director was affectionate, dignified and generous, and Yu Zijin, as a girl who had just fallen in love, couldn't help but feel a wave in her heart.
The director briefly asked Yu Zijin about his family situation, and although these Yu Zijin provided information when he applied to join the institute on the Internet, Yu Zijin was still happy to explain it to the director in detail.
When he heard that Yu Zijin and his sister had no mother when they were very young, the director frowned and asked her, what is your father doing now?
When it comes to his father, Yu Zijin can't help but feel sad. She recounted the details of her father's journey from truck driver to paralyzed at home. The director listened very carefully, and did not show any impatience at all.
After listening to Yu Zijin's statement, the director also briefed her on some information about the Twin Institute. According to the director, this is a major university research project funded by her father, and the research objects are mainly some major contemporary physics topics. Her father, the former chairman of Thailand's largest insurance company, Thai Hua Life Insurance, retired from management because of his advanced age. Now she is entrusted with the management of this research institute, and hopes that Yu Zijin can live happily here.
Yu Zijin couldn't help asking, you need me, but what can I do here?
The director smiled and waved his hand and said, no hurry, no hurry. Little sister, life is long, we don't have to solve the problem today.
Yu Zijin was completely impressed by the director's graceful temperament and ability. She thought to herself, how happy she would be if she could be like her sister.
It's just that it's usually like a mirror, and the other side may be thick black paint or hard walls. These, perhaps many years later, Yu Zijin, who left the forest with his children, will understand. Maybe she never regretted knowing the director, but if there was a chance for her to choose again, she would definitely not go into that good night gently.
Except for the director, every employee here is a twin or a multiple. The director asked her, do you know how many twins the world's most powerful mother has born? Yu Zijin shook his head.
"It's 15."
"Forty-five?" Yu Zijin raised his head stupidly and asked innocently.
The director was amused by her for a moment, and felt a little out of shape, so he stopped talking.
Later, Yu Zijin returned to the room and deliberately took out the computer to check it, only to be so laughed by his talent that he rolled all over the bed and couldn't straighten his waist.