Chapter 48: Mom-and-pop shops
Ning Shuyi listened to Xia Shilong's narration, made a record on the notepad he carried with him, and after writing, he added two underlines under the word "leader".
After listening to his words, Huo Yan asked, "Do you think there are any other external reasons for the change in your relationship with Wu Meifang?"
Xia Shilong looked at him, "Do you want to say if there is a third party?"
"You understand correctly." Huo Yan nodded, acknowledging his understanding.
Xia Shilong immediately shook his head: "No! Absolutely nothing!"
"You're pretty confident in your relationship." Ning Shuyi raised his eyes and looked at him.
"Of course! No...... What do you mean?
You don't think that the leader and Wu Meifang are not related, there is something else, right?" Xia Shilong frowned, as if he was a little unhappy, as if he had been greatly humiliated, "As for her leader, it's not like I haven't asked!"
Wu Meifang said, that old man is in his forties, have you ever heard of a half-old man in his forties who can loosen the corner of a young man?"
"There are no absolutes." Ning Shuyi smiled and didn't care, "And since you said that there is absolutely no third party between you, what did you ask about the leader of the other unit?"
Xia Shilong immediately replied, "Then didn't I also make sure that there was no third party between us after my own elimination!
At the beginning, I also felt that when the two of them were on the phone, Wu Meifang always avoided me, and when she was talking on the phone, her demeanor was different from usual.
At that time, I thought that this was someone of the same age as us, but the more I listened to it, the more wrong it became, and I felt that it was not like that, that person must be much older than Wu Meifang.
So then I asked her why the leader always looked for her, is this appropriate!
Wu Meifang didn't have a bad temper like she did later, she was unhappy when she saw that I was jealous, and she coaxed me to come, saying that it was the leader of her unit, and they were all in their forties.
She said that she usually has to rely on the leader to take care of her in the unit, otherwise, one step at a time, so of course the attitude must be better, which leader will like the kind of subordinates whose faces are longer than Mount Emei every day!
She also said that there is no harm in girls talking a little in front of the leader and sweetening their mouths, and laughed at me for being jealous of a man of that age.
When I think about it, I'm right! An old man is nothing more than a little oilier in his mouth and a little more rhetorical, but after all, the age is there, no matter how he can stand up to a young man like us?
Being jealous of this kind of person, it seems that I look down on myself a little, and later Wu Meifang also asked me if I don't trust her, so what else can I say! I don't believe my own girlfriend!
So this matter turned over the film, and it has always been like that since then, especially during this period of time, her leader has not contacted her as often as before, so I don't have to worry about it!
That man didn't affect us much, we were in a relationship, and we didn't get influenced by anyone else."
"Is there something affecting her work?" Ning Shuyi asked again, "Otherwise, why didn't the leaders often contact her to work overtime during their breaks, but then they suddenly didn't look for her much?
Is it marginalized in the unit?"
"Marginalization...... You mean someone in the unit squeezed out her? Isolate her?" Xia Shilong didn't understand what Ning Shuyi meant.
Ning Shuyi shook his head: "It's not necessarily exclusion and encouragement, but also because of lack of work ability, improper work attitude, or ...... offended the leader, so I deliberately left her aside and didn't reuse her."
As soon as Xia Shilong heard this, he seemed to be inspired, and remembered something that he hadn't remembered before, he sat up straight suddenly, and the towel on his back slipped to the ground because of this sudden movement, but he didn't pick it up, and he didn't even realize it.
"Ah! I almost forgot to tell you! Yes! Wu Meifang: She has
It's not a pleasure at work!" He seemed to have an inexplicable excitement because he remembered something very important, "There was a while before, probably ...... About half a year ago!
At that time, her leader didn't look for her as often as before, and she was always in a bad mood, asking me more frequently than before, but she always looked not very happy.
I asked her what was wrong, and she didn't tell me at first, but then I chased and asked, and I didn't know if I couldn't hold it back, or if I was annoyed by it, so she complained to me.
She said that things did not go well at her work, and the leader drew a big cake for her, and this big cake was painted for several years, and it was better to say than to sing, but the things promised to her had passed for several years, and they had not been fulfilled at all!
She was not happy in her heart, and mentioned it to the leader several times, but the leader not only did not fulfill what she promised, but also lost her temper, saying that she had the wrong attitude and was ignorant or anything, and continued to fool her with the pie.
So she and the leader are not very happy, I don't know what will happen in the future, and she is in a bad mood."
"What happened? What has changed in Wu Meifang's work?" Huo Yan asked.
"No, nothing has changed." Xia Shilong shook his head, "I comforted her at the time, I said that anyway, things have happened, and this contradiction will make trouble!" Who can stand to draw a big pie all day long, isn't that bullying!
I told her, let's not be angry, what a broken unit, they are all adults, and they are not allowed to fall in love, they don't care about this and that, and their parents at home are not as wide as her broken unit!
I said that since we are all so unhappy anyway, the quarrel will be noisy, otherwise I will simply resign! So that we can be generous together, anyway, my studio is my own business, she simply came over and helped me take care of it, and we made this a mom-and-pop shop!
Every penny we earn is our own, and I'll leave it to her to take care of it for me! Let's work together to save money to buy a house and get married!"
"Did she agree?"
"......No," Xia Shilong shook his head a little disappointed, "She said at the time that she would think about it, and she would have to wait and see, if there was really no prospect, she would listen to my plan and resign to build a fitness mom-and-pop shop with me."
She was so good to me at that time, so good that I felt flattered.
I felt that she must have been squeezed in the unit, so she needed to be comforted, otherwise a girl as independent as her would not suddenly be so small!"