Chapter 16

Christmas Eve of the year falls on a Saturday, and Norbert's annual meeting is scheduled in a four-star hotel.

Tao Ting changed into a dress and put a long coat on the outside, Yang Fangting was afraid that she would freeze, so she stuffed several warm babies into her pockets.

"Do you want to put on a show?" Tao Zejun asked his daughter.

"I don't."

Tao Zejun took out his mobile phone and pointed it at her: "Come on, come on, look at me." ”

Tao Ting was holding on to the door frame to change her shoes, raised her head and smiled perfunctorily.

"Have fun."

"Go home early."

"Gone." Tao Ting waved to her parents.

Before going to the hotel, she picked up An Jin on the way, and as soon as they got in the car, the two of them saw each other and said "wow".

"You're not afraid of the cold, aren't you?" Tao Ting touched her hand, and sure enough, it was ice.

"Why are you still wearing this makeup?"

Tao Ting touched her cheek: "I'll only do this." ”

"Come here." Ahn Jin opened his makeup bag and said, "Close your eyes." ”

Tao Ting obediently did so and leaned her face over.

The eyeliner slid over the eyelids, cold and cold, Tao Ting worried: "Wouldn't it be too exaggerated?" ”

"No, it's pretty." An Jin took out the mascara again, "Open your eyes and look up." ”

Tao Ting felt itchy and wanted to blink.

An Jin had no choice but to give up: "Forget it, your eyelashes are long enough anyway." ”

She took out a tissue and gave it to Tao Ting: "Wipe the lard on your mouth." ”

“......”

An Jin helped Tao Ting change her makeup from beginning to end, she admired her work from a distance, and nodded with satisfaction: "That's right." ”

Tao Ting pulled down the visor, looking left and right, she was not used to this self in the mirror.

"Much prettier, isn't it?" An Jin asked.

"It doesn't look like me."

An Jin packed up his cosmetics and stretched out his frozen hand to the air outlet: "Do you have anything to eat in the car?" I'm dying of hunger. ”

Tao Ting said: "No, you can bear with it." ”

An Jin pouted: "Why don't we eat a bowl of noodles on the side of the road and go again?" ”

Tao Ting shook her head: "Isn't that a loss?" I'm going to eat the company. ”

Fortunately, there was no traffic jam on the road today, and they signed in at the entrance, and the staff said that there was a buffet on the first floor.

When An Jin heard this, he hurriedly dragged Tao Ting in.

Liam asked where we were. Tao Ting held her mobile phone in one hand and staggered.

"Let him come to the first floor." An Jin took a small cake, and in order not to rub off the lipstick, he directly stuffed it into his mouth.

Seeing that she looked like a hungry tiger pounced, Tao Ting asked, "You lost so much weight just for today's mouthful?" ”

"I haven't eaten anything all day, and I'm putting on makeup when I wake up." An Jin squinted his eyes to show her long, curly eyelashes, "See?" Stuck with me for more than an hour. ”

"Wow, pretty girls." Liam found them and walked over to the side and grabbed them one by one, "Which department?" Leave a contact information. ”

Ahn Jin slapped his arm away, stuffing something in his mouth and scolding him.

Tao Ting asked him, "Have you seen Leon?" ”

"It's all upstairs."

Seeing Tao Ting about to leave, he stretched out his hand to stop him and said, "Eh, don't go up now." ”

"What's wrong?"

"I saw him with the chairman, do you have something to do with him?"

Tao Ting took out a plate of pills from her bag: "He just texted me and asked me to bring painkillers, but fortunately I have them in the car." ”

Liam was puzzled: "What does he want painkillers for?" ”

Tao Ting shrugged her shoulders and said she didn't know.

"I want to know too." An Jin interjected next to him and said, "It's impossible to cure menstrual cramps." ”

Tao Ting guessed: "Maybe it's a headache?" Toothache? ”

"I just saw that he was in good shape."

"I'll go up and have a look." Tao Ting pinched the hem of her skirt, the heel was too high, and she had to step on every step of the stairs before she dared to take the next step.

The senior leaders who had already arrived at the scene were drinking tea in the lounge, and Tao Ting walked behind Leon with light steps.

She lowered her body and asked, "Do you want to give you the medicine now?" ”

Leon didn't answer, but stood up and motioned for her to go out.

"Where's the medicine?"

Tao Ting took out the painkiller from her bag, and Leon stretched out his hand and said, "Peel one for me." ”

Tao Ting put the peeled capsule into his palm, Leon stuffed it into his mouth, and swallowed it with water.

Tao Ting carefully observed his expression and asked, "Where are you uncomfortable?" ”

"Headache." Leon said.

"Did you catch a cold?"

"It's not."

Tao Ting told him: "Then remember not to drink at night." ”

Leon took the empty paper cup from his lips, looked at her, and nodded.

"Today." He cleared his throat and whispered, "It's beautiful." ”

His breathing stalled for a moment, and when he returned to the lounge, Tao Ting was still standing in place, maintaining the posture he had just taken.

If Liam hadn't come upstairs to find her, she wouldn't have known when she would have been disconnected.

"What are you doing here?" Liam walked around to Tao Ting.

Tao Ting came back to her senses and looked at him blankly.

"Got the medicine for Leon?"

"Hmm."

"Let's go, let's get ready to take a seat." Liam held out his arm.

Tao Ting got up and glanced through the crack in the door into the lounge.

Ahn Jin took a seat for them, and there was a program list on the table, and Liam picked it up and flipped through it, already having a premonition of how boring it would be.

"It's all lyrical, unintentional."

An Jin encouraged him: "Then you go up and have a "Poker Face", do you dare?" ”

Liam surrendered with both hands and confessed in time: "I don't dare." ”

Before the official start of the banquet, Chairman Bo Yongzhang stood in front of the stage to deliver a speech.

"It's not easy for him to come out and say a bunch of good things in this situation this year." Liam whispered.

"I heard that the results of the investigation came out, and there was a problem with the clutch of the automatic transmission, and Norbert recalled all the cars on sale and returned them to the factory for re-inspection, and now they can't even sell them with the first generation."

Tao Ting was puzzled: "Isn't that the engineer's problem?" So what's the matter with Leon? ”

Ahn Jin said: "Why is it none of his business? He was sent by August. ”

Liam leaned over curiously: "Expand and say." ”

An Jin glanced left and right, and the people at the same table were all from the marketing department, she lowered her voice, and said mysteriously: "It's not convenient to say here." ”

There was applause in the room, and Tao Ting raised her hand, she also wanted to know what Leon's origin was.

The flowing water table was the most boring, the waiter served a dish of beef soup, and Liam took a bite and put down the spoon.

"Doesn't it taste good?" Tao Ting asked him.

"Cold." Liam wiped his mouth with a wet wipe, "Our company may really be finished, I heard that last year it was an open-air western restaurant by the river." ”

"It's good that I'm full downstairs." An Jin looked around and said in frustration, "Why don't you even have a handsome guy?" Is there only so many people in the whole company? ”

"Nonsense, we don't even have a R&D department, we rely on the headquarters to feed us." Liam told her, "You try to get into the headquarters, and the office building over there takes up an entire campus, and you can pick and choose." ”

An Jin put down his chopsticks and immediately said, "Let's slip away." ”

"How?" Tao Ting looked at her colleagues and leaders around her, and hesitated, "Isn't it okay?" ”

On the stage, Aron from the legal department was singing, and An Jin listened to it for half a minute before he heard that it was Jay Chou's "Sea of Flowers".

"What's so bad." She rubbed her tormented ears, "I really can't take it anymore. ”

Liam patted Tao Ting's shoulder: "You go out to drive first, and we will look for you later, let's go out and find a supper to eat, isn't it much happier than here?" ”

Tao Ting was moved: "Then I'm going to go to the toilet." ”

"Go quickly."

Tao Ting picked up her handbag and walked all the way to the door with her head down.

The hall was stuffy and noisy, and it was much more comfortable when I came out.

Coming out of the bathroom, Tao Ting shook the water from her hands.