Part One: Intertwined Time and Space Chapter One: Daily Life in the World
Section 7 Dinner Party
The week passed very quickly, and it was the weekend in a blink of an eye. Today happened to be the birthday of a leader of the company, and it was the weekend. The directors of various departments in the company wanted everyone to relax, so they organized this dinner.
The company where Yue Qing works is not very big. There are about 500 people in the company, including the sales and promotion staff outside. In fact, there are only about a hundred people working in the company at this level. Today is the birthday of the deputy general manager.
, several senior executives of the company organized a birthday party for the leader. There were probably less than 50 people attending the party. Originally, Yue Qing, a small accountant, did not want to come, but the financial manager and technical department manager Chen Yuan of their department both
He told me to come and she followed.
"I told you that you would definitely come too. I saw you from afar." Zhang Yuan came earlier than me and was waiting for me at the door of the restaurant.
"Ah, you came early." Yue Qing approached and said to Zhang Yuan.
"I didn't go anywhere after get off work. I originally wanted to go to Odana, but I got angry just thinking about it, so I didn't go. Then I walked around here for a while, and then I came. I saw many people came. When I got off work, I didn't go anywhere. Why didn't I see you? I wanted to hang out with you." Yuanzi said, holding my hand and going in together.
"Where didn't I go? Maybe I would have been in the finance office when you were looking for me. I was handing in reports. You don't know. I submit all kinds of forms every day," I replied.
"Hey, really, can you share the work with Liu Fangfang? Come on, let's sit together," Yuanzi said.
"I'm used to it, it's fine. It doesn't matter if a lot of business goes well." Yue Qing said nonchalantly.
"You are the only one with a good temper. If it were me, I would have started a quarrel a long time ago. But I heard that there seems to be something going on at home that makes them so bad-tempered." Yuanzi said gossiping.
"What's going on?" I asked her with a smile.
"It seems like something happened to her mother when he was a child," Yuanzi said.
"Oh, it sounds like there is a story. Is it on the first floor?" I asked casually.
"Isn't it? I still listened to the people in our company. It's on the second floor. Let's go up." Yuanzi said.
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The company arranged the dinner at a hot pot restaurant. The restaurant is not small. It has a buffet on the first floor and private rooms on the second and third floors. There are some smaller tables on the first floor, and rows of tables of the same style are neatly arranged. It is decorated.
Magnificent, at least on the surface, the whole place
The building is based on bright yellow, with various pendant ornaments hanging above various tables. There are many small lamps on the roof, with an extra-large layered crystal ceiling lamp in the center, and scattered throughout.
The unified square crystal lamp makes the entire first floor very bright.
The decoration of this restaurant looks very comfortable, and the business is also very good. You can see all kinds of people coming and going in the hall, people picking up food, delivering food, making condiments, paying people, and collecting bills.
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Yueqing and Yuanzi hurried up to the second floor. The second floor was much quieter because they were all private rooms and there were very few people walking in the corridor. There were many service staff standing outside at the door of each private room, waiting for guests to order food and other items.
Class needs. Yuanzi came with Yueqing
The private room reserved by the company went in and saw that no one was already there. Everyone was saying hello to each other. There was a very large rectangular dining table in the very large private room, enough to accommodate six to seventy people. Yue Qing led Yuanzi to look for it.
He took a seat at the far back.
After waiting for about half an hour, colleagues from the company arrived one after another. The deputy general manager arrived accompanied by several department heads, and Chen Yuan was also there. After a while, the seats were given up, and the deputy general manager took the host and guest seat.
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Then I heard the deputy general manager say that everyone has been working very hard during this time. The old comrades are responsible for the company's backbone, and the new friends are also working very hard. This time, several department heads suggested that everyone come here to relax.
Let's eat and drink, and continue to work hard next week to create more benefits for the company.
Yueqing heard almost that much from the back and was listening blankly.
"Well said." The head of the human resources department shouted, and then took the lead in applauding. Then after the applause stopped, he continued: "But, Mr. Ren, do you know what day it is today?"
"What do you mean?" the deputy general manager looked confused.
"It's your birthday today, and all our departments wanted to take advantage of today's day off to celebrate you. You were so busy that you forgot about it."
"Oh, do you still have such a meaning?" Vice President Ren said with a smile.
Then my colleagues laughed together.
Then the box door opened, and the waiter came in pushing an extra-large cake. Vice President Ren looked at it with a happy face: "You guys are really thoughtful."
"Today is a good day for Mr. Ren, you just have to be happy today." The head of the administrative department said to Mr. Ren, while pouring a glass of wine for Vice President Ren.
"Okay, okay, everyone, please eat and don't patronize me. Everyone will be happy today."
The colleagues cheered loudly, and then everyone started eating after Vice President Ren picked up the food.
Yueqing is not very good at drinking. After drinking three small glasses of red wine, she stopped drinking. However, Yuanzi is a good drinker. She has had quite a few drinks, and Yueqing did not persuade her. Yueqing can't eat.
It was almost done, and I wanted to go to the bathroom, so I talked to Yuanzi and went out.
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After going to the bathroom, Yue Qing looked at the door of the private room and felt that it might take a long time for them to go in. She didn't want to go in, so she walked out of the restaurant to get some fresh air.
Yue Qing was a little tipsy, so she walked along the roadside to enjoy the wind and relieve the hangover. It was getting very late now. In early spring, it gets dark relatively early. The street lights illuminated the whole street very brightly.
All kinds of shops are also in busy business, with lights brightly lit and people coming and going.
Yue Qing walked for a while, and the night wind made her sober. She felt a little bit. When she looked up, she saw that some things were a little far away. As she turned around to look, she happened to notice an old man at the door of a shop selling retro jewelry.
Looking at her, she saw Yue Qing's eyes facing her, but she didn't look away.
There is a round table in front of this shop, which looks a bit old, and the small stools placed on all sides of the table are also a bit retro. It is indeed a shop that sells retro accessories. The old man's clothes are also a bit old.
People of the previous generation wore double-breasted coats, which looked a bit thin, and their trousers were relatively old-fashioned. The whole outfit looked like it had been washed countless times and worn for a long time. The color was gray, but it was clean and tidy.
Yueqing lived with a girl without an escort. Seeing that the old man had no intention of looking away, she was a little scared, so she quickly looked away, pretended not to see him, and walked back.
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After walking for a while, she almost arrived at the restaurant booked by the company. Yue Qing could already see the bright yellow light coming from the first floor of the restaurant. Suddenly she heard a little boy crying. She looked up and saw
A little boy wearing a gray and white plaid thermal beret,
He was crying and calling his mother. He was very well-dressed and kept very clean. He looked about 3 years old, about the same age as his nephew. Not far from Yueqing, people around him saw him crying, and some of them looked at him.
I ignored it for a while, and most people just ignored it and walked away.
Seeing that Yue Qing was not far away from her, she took the initiative to walk over. The little boy saw Yue Qing walking over and hurriedly walked towards her. He looked a little clingy.
"Little brother, what's wrong with you?" Yue Qing bent down and asked him.
"Look for mommy." The little boy cried and kept rubbing his eyes.
"Where is your mother?" Yueqing asked next.
"Don't know?" the little boy cried.
"Then do you know your mother's name?" Yue Qing asked patiently.
"Don't know?" the little boy continued to cry.
When Yue Qing heard that her mother seemed to be separated, she quickly called 110 to call the police.
"Hello, do you want to report something to 110?" The call came through as soon as I called the other side.
"Oh, hello, there is a lost child here, a little young." Yue Qing said to the other side.
"Where are you?" asked the other person.
Yue Qing reported the address and was told that the nearest patrol car would be sent there and that he should wait where he was.
Yueqing hung up the phone, looked at the little boy, and asked him, "Do you know your home phone number? Or where you live?"
The little boy didn't say anything and just kept crying. Yue Qing then said, "Can my sister help you find the police for help?"
The little boy stopped crying for a moment and said, "Don't let the police arrest me." Then he cried even harder.
"No, the police won't arrest you, they only arrest bad people." Yue Qing explained to him, wanting to laugh.
While I was coaxing, a police car came and parked nearby. Two police officers got out of the car and looked around.
Yueqing quickly stood up straight and raised her hand to say hello: "This way!"
The two policemen trotted over in a standard manner and asked, "Did you call the police?"
"Yes, this is the child." Yue Qing said with a friendly smile.
When the child saw the police, he hid back in fear and cried, "Don't arrest me."
Yue Qing knelt down and quickly hugged him to coax him, turning her head to the side and laughing hard. The little boy's soft body was so cute and fun to hold, Yue Qing couldn't hold it in anymore.
A policeman was a young man who looked a bit handsome. He said to the little boy in a funny way: "No arrest, no arrest, let uncle hug him." Then he patted his hand twice.
The little boy was stunned for a moment with a suspicious look on his face, but he still chose to believe him and stretched out his hands.
Yueqing quickly stood up and handed the little boy to the police.
The little policeman nodded to Yue Qing and left.
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Watching the police car drive away, Yueqing calmed down. The pressure that the old man put on her just now was washed away by this incident. She ignored the looks of people around her and turned around and walked towards the restaurant.
Walking to the door of the restaurant, she saw Chen Yuan smoking next to the door, looking unhappy. Yue Qing was stunned for a moment. She had never seen her senior smoking in the image. Yue Qing did not ask in detail, everyone has their own
Seeing that he was already looking over, he stepped forward to say hello.
"Brother Chen, why are you out?"
"Oh, I drank a little too much. Come out and get some fresh air." Chen Yuan looked at her and said.
"Oh." Yue Qing replied.
"You are quite caring," Chen Yuan continued.
"Huh?" Yue Qing was surprised.
"The little boy just now is quite cute." Chen Yuan pointed out.
"Oh, it's so far away, you just saw it." Yue Qing said embarrassedly. "My sister's family has a little nephew that I like very much. He is about the same age as the kid just now. Seeing him is like seeing my little nephew.
Just like my nephew, I couldn’t help but went up to help.”
"Yeah." Chen Yuan responded.
There was a moment of silence.
"As soon as you mention your sister, your whole person will feel different and you will talk more." Chen Yuan then opened the topic.
"Ah? Is there any?" Yueqing raised her head, but she didn't feel it.
"Look, your eyes are bright." Chen Yuan pointed out.
Yue Qing quickly looked away in embarrassment. "Maybe my sister took care of me a lot when I was a child. You also know that my dad passed away early, and my mom was too busy by herself. She had to take care of the fields as well as the house.
, and she has to take care of us. Then, my sister may be the eldest, she has been very
She was always sensible and took special care of us during that time. You have to know that we were not very old at that time, and my sister was not very old either, but at that time I felt that as long as she was here, the family would not be in chaos. She spent all her salary at that time
She comes to provide for our studies and daily living expenses, so I am somewhat dependent on her."
"From what you said, I know your sister is a strong woman." Chen Yuan said.
"She is not a strong woman, she is very gentle." Yue Qing disagreed. "I will go to their house in a while."
After saying that, he asked Chen Yuan: "Does your family also have a child?"
"Yes, there is a little girl who is very cute." Chen Yuandao.
Yue Qing didn't answer, and there was another silence.
The atmosphere was awkward. At this time, there was another commotion on the road. A woman was asking people on the roadside that her child could not be found. A store owner told her what had just happened and pointed to Yue Qing. The woman came over.
"Thank you. I was just buying something and Tiantian couldn't find it. It scared me to death." The mother said to Yueqing.
"It's okay. You can call 110 now or go to the police station directly and you can find your child." Yue Qing said to her.
"Thank you, thank you." Her mother thanked her again and turned to go to the police station.
After a while, the roadside became quiet and people walked away. Chen Yuan and Yue Qing were still standing here.
"How have you been talking to Wang Bo recently? Our wife asked me a few days ago." Chen Yuan reopened the topic.
"Ah, that's it. I may have been busy these two days, so I didn't make many phone calls. I was in contact some time ago," Yue Qing replied.
"Oh, so is Wang Bo. You guys are working in different cities, and this guy is not diligent. Let's talk about him later." Chen Yuan pretended to be angry.
"No, he might be a little busy." Yue Qing explained quickly.
Chen Yuan looked at her with a smile, then put out the cigarette, and then said to Yue Qing: "Let's go in."
"Okay." Yue Qing replied.
The two people walked in together.
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As soon as I entered the box, I saw that my colleagues were still drinking. The deputy general manager was a little drunk, and several other supervisors were not much better. Some of them were already sleeping on their stomachs.
When Liu Fangfang saw Chen Yuan and Yue Qing coming in together, she raised her voice to remind everyone: "Hey, what are these two doing out together?"
Many people turned to look at them. The re-elected vice president also looked at them, and several colleagues even started to cheer. Yue Qing was stunned for a moment, wondering what Liu Fangfang meant. She didn't know how to answer, so Chen Yuan spoke first.
Chen Yuan smiled, and while sitting back in his seat, explained: "Oh, you don't know, just now Yueqing went to be a hero, and I just happened to go to see a play." Yueqing was embarrassed to say that.
"Oh, tell us what happened." A male colleague said with a smile.
Chen Yuan vividly told how the little boy had gone missing, Yue Qing coaxed him and then called the police, and finally told everyone what happened to find his mother.
As the protagonist, Yue Qing sat in the corner, lowering her head to eat her own food while receiving everyone's attention. Sonoko bumped her with her elbow, and Yue Qing ignored her.
"Hey, you should be given a reward for bravery." A male colleague yelled after hearing this. Yue Qing did not answer.
"Yueqing has good character and quality in all aspects." Vice President Ren also looked at Yueqing and said.
"Nothing." Yue Qing looked at Vice President Ren and answered.
Seeing that Yue Qing didn't have much reaction, the colleagues stopped talking about the topic and started eating and drinking each other.
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After the meal, Vice President Ren saw that it was getting late and everyone had almost eaten, so he made a summary and let everyone disperse. Several supervisors arranged for Vice President Ren to leave, and then everyone went home.
Chen Yuan watched Yueqing and Yuanzi packing their things and asked her, "Is your home a little far away? How about I give it to you?"
"It's okay. I can take it back by myself. It's quite easy." Yue Qing refused.
"Okay, then be careful on the road." Chen Yuan said to her without insisting.
The colleagues said goodbye to each other and went their separate ways. Yueqing watched Yuanzi get on the car, and then she also hailed one and rushed home.