Ode to joy

Chapter 8

Love is the best stimulant.In room 2202 on Saturday morning, only Qiu Yingying got up energetically, washed and painted, and was ready to go to class with Supervisor Bai.When Fan Shengmei heard the movement, she wanted to cover her ears and go back to sleep, but suddenly thought of the change in the attitude of those male friends towards her after she was with Andy last night and her status was increased out of thin air, and she couldn't lie down. 30 years old does not seem to be the end of the world.

Seeing Fan Shengmei with dark circles under her eyes, Qiu Yingying couldn't help giving a bright smile.Fan Shengmei thought for a while before realizing what was going on.She hesitated to speak, and went to the bathroom.When she comes out, the first important thing is to drink a glass of warm water, which is said to be the best for detoxification and beauty.Qiu Yingying saw it, and hurriedly poured a glass of water to drink. Now she has the most urgent need for beauty.

"Where is Sister Fan going to play today?"

"Wait a while to accompany a girl to have an abortion. An engineer left a few days ago. Yesterday, the girl was dying or jumping off a building. After asking, she found out that she was accidentally pregnant with the engineer's child. Now the engineer won't admit it. She ran away. The girl lived in a dormitory, and she didn’t dare to tell her family, and she didn’t dare to find friends. Only the company sent someone to accompany her to have an abortion. If you are a good girl, if you don’t pay attention before marriage, you will only be unkind.”

"But there are many people who marry with their sons."

Fan Shengmei squinted at Qiu Yingying, "You can try to get married in a rented house and have a child without registered permanent residence. You can't afford a nanny. Every day, the mother-in-law and husband will scold each other, or you will start a war with your mother-in-law. Life will be chaotic. Nian is quickly becoming a yellow-faced woman. Let me tell you, even swallows have to build a bird's nest for themselves before laying eggs, let alone humans."

Qiu Yingying's face, which had been shining all night and morning, finally changed color. "But I can't pick and choose and waste until I'm 30 years old. I pick others, and they still pick me. What am I?"

Fan Shengmei's face tightened, and then she laughed and said, "That's right, you are full of water. Don't forget that there is still an exam. The two of you are motivated enough to study together."

"Yes, yes." Qiu Yingying immediately changed from cloudy to sunny. "We are all thinking, if we pass the exam, we will change jobs."

"It should be." Fan Shengmei is no longer troublesome, "A question, what kind of reception did your company hold last time, that is, the time when you were asked to wear cheongsams as hostesses, who came here, and how do people you don't know greet each other ?”

"I don't know. I'm too busy. I just know that they are drinking and talking. Who knows who they are. Sister Fan has a reception to attend?"

"No, how can there be? The labor and personnel association in the whole district holds a training gathering for a working meal, and we can't even drink beer." Fan Shengmei watched Qiu Yingying go out with a happy face, tightly holding the breakfast prepared for Director Bai .When Qiu Yingying walked into the elevator, Fan Shengmei turned her eyes back.She was actually fine this morning, just to remind Qiu Yingying that she improvised a story about a girl's miscarriage, but she didn't expect that Qiu Yingying didn't take it seriously at all, and almost brought her along.

She drank the last sip of water, and was just about to close the door to boil water for instant noodles, when she suddenly saw Qu Xiaoxiao coming out of the elevator bouncing. "Hey, you're early today."

"It's late, my friends have an appointment to eat hairy crabs, and I'm running out of time. Sister Fan turned around and talked. Ah, where did you buy this dress? My mother also wore it this morning."

Fan Shengmei was speechless, looking at the back of Qu Xiaoxiao, who was begging them for help last night, sneaked into 2203. "Damn!" Fan Shengmei couldn't help swearing.Why is everyone talking about her 30 years old, as if she has faded away.

However, there were many things to do today, and Fan Shengmei was about to close the door and boil water for instant noodles again, when she saw Andy rushing to the elevator in a work attire. "Andy, morning, are you still at work today?"

"There is a forum, and it's my first time returning to China to participate in a forum, so I don't intend to be late." As the elevator was delayed, Andy added, "Last night I helped Xiaoqu until early in the morning, so I overslept unconsciously. "

"Ah, Xiao Qu got up earlier than you. She is going to go eat hairy crabs with her friends right away. Ah, Xiao Qu changed her clothes so quickly."

It was too late for Qu Xiaoxiao to stop Fan Shengmei with winks, and then she looked at Andy, but she only glanced at her indifferently, and then turned to the elevator.She believed that Andy must be angry.Qu Xiaoxiao ignored Fan Shengmei, walked quickly to Andy's side, and said with a smile, "We didn't sleep this morning, so we rushed out the report." At this point, the elevator opened, and Qu Xiaoxiao took a step back to let Andy First entry.But before she entered the elevator, she did not forget to give Fan Shengmei a sideways glance.Even if she didn't sleep all night, she knew in her heart that if she casually said that Fan Shengmei wore the same clothes as her mother, she offended the old girl.As soon as the elevator door was closed, she continued to report, "Then I had breakfast with Xiao Guan, and I immediately sent the report to my father, and it was very well received. Without a doubt, this is the best report I have produced in my life .I really don’t know how to thank you and Xiaoguan. Now I’m going to a hairy crab party, and one of them may be the first customer of GI products. Uh, I don’t know if I will fall asleep while eating hairy crabs. But at The only way to develop business friends in China is to make more friends, friends introduce friends, and friends help friends. There is no way, like my parents, they can only catch them early in the morning. At night, they don’t know which hotel box they are in. I have been like this since I was a child, and I was a nanny. Andy, do you like hairy crabs? I will bring you some back."

"It's the same everywhere. Be careful on the road, I'm a bit overwhelmed driving today." Andy thought for a while and added, "It's as long as your dad likes it. You need to work hard on the next job."

Qu Xiaoxiao almost cleverly blocked Andy's way to the car after getting out of the elevator, "Do you have any plans for the evening? I really want to invite you and Xiaoguan to have a meal to express my gratitude."

"You don't need to make up for sleep? You don't need to treat me as a customer, we are neighbors."

Qu Xiaoxiao breathed a sigh of relief, and then let Andy go to drive.

Qu Xiaoxiao managed to get to the assembly point with her eyes open. The lead friend lined up everyone, stuffed all the women into the car driven by the male driver to ensure speed, and a group of famous cars set off.But Qu Xiaoxiao fell asleep and fell asleep, she really couldn't hold on anymore.Before going to bed, she thought of one thing. She handed in the report half the time ahead of time, and one of the friends in the team car helped her to register the branch, so that all business and tax registrations could be obtained by Monday.Even though she finished everything opportunistically, she finished everything ahead of schedule.Completion is everything.

Andy was the first person other than Qiu Yingying to meet Director Bai.She drove out and stopped in front of the traffic light, and saw Qiu Yingying and a young man were almost glued together, also waiting for the green light.The attitude of the two of them was too close, and the pedestrians beside them looked sideways.Andy looked at the young man, he was fair and elegant.Looking at the postures of the two, it seemed that Qiu Yingying was more active and bold.Andy waited until the light turned green and drove away without saying hello.She doesn't like Qiu Yingying.

When I arrived at the forum venue, I registered and signed in, and someone gave me a corsage made of fresh flowers.Andy got up after signing, his eyes were right on the corsage, he couldn't help but lose face, and took three steps back.But she stabilized immediately and smiled: "I'm sorry, I have severe hay fever allergies. Thank you for the corsages." She dodged the corsages and entered the venue like a minefield.Of course, there are flowers everywhere in the venue, and Andy can only turn a blind eye.This is an industry-specific forum. Even though Andy has just returned to China, because many executives in this industry are returnees similar to Andy, they are more or less familiar with each other.Grab the one you are most familiar with first, and then, as Qu Xiaoxiao said, friends introduce friends, and friends help friends.Tan Zongming is a signboard, and Andy himself is not. People who carry signs can easily break into the social circle.Just like a general on the Peking Opera stage, the more flags are planted behind the back, the higher the flag, and the appearance is like the center of the stage.

After a while, the host came to the stage, everyone returned to their seats, and Andy took out the computer and put it on his lap.She has always listened to this kind of meeting with two minds.After connecting to the Internet, she asked a friend next to her how to open QQ.Friends have MSN but no QQ, but remember that QQ comes from Tencent.Andy followed the clues, downloaded, installed, activated and read the usage method.Finally, dig out the string of numbers in memory, start searching, and add friends.Then she didn't know what to do. Although QQ was turned on, there was no other change on the screen.Obviously, the singularity may not be online.

At noon, old and new friends had dinner together in a private room. Due to the ups and downs of the times, everyone took the opportunity to exchange views.I ate a full lunch for three hours, twice as long as the forum time.Andy returned to the car after eating. He was not in a hurry to get on the road, so he couldn't help but turn on the computer to check the changes.Still, QQ is indifferent.Andy couldn't help being impatient, and punched the car seat next to him.But he refused to take out his mobile phone and even send a text message to Singularity.

Fan Shengmei was bored and called her friends, but most of her friends at her age already had families, and no one would accompany her on weekends, so she could only go out and sweep the streets by herself with her bag on her back.

On the 22nd floor, only Guan Juer was sleeping soundly.Sleeping until noon, Guan Juer was startled awake by the bright light coming in from the window, thinking that he was late for work, and when he jumped up and rushed to the kitchen, he realized that today was the weekend, so he held his chest and felt his heart beating like a drum for a long time, and returned to the office. Continue to sleep on the bed.

Qu Xiaoxiao was not so lucky. She got out of the car and was forced to wake up. She tried her best to eat hairy crabs with her friends and meet strangers.She couldn't even taste the taste of hairy crabs, but she didn't forget to pay for a big one and send it to Andy and Guan Juer as a thank you.Naturally, she doesn't need to do these things, she just needs to sit delicately and move her mouth, and Yao Bin will help her handle everything.Yao Bin is the best boyfriend she has had since returning to China.

A group of people played by the lake until the sun went down, and then they flocked back to the city, gathered together for dinner, and then split up for nightlife.Qu Xiaoxiao asked Yao Bin to send her back to Ode to Joy, because she couldn't hold on to anything, even though the night had just unfolded her charming figure.

The streets were crowded on weekend afternoons, and Andy made an appointment and drove for half a day before arriving at Tan Zongming's house.Even if Tan Zongming came to the door personally and opened the door with her own hands, she still refused to let go, "Who, um, lives in such a remote place, and wastes a good life on four wheels?"

Tan Zongming smiled and said nothing, and directed Andy to park the car in the garage, and then counterattacked: "Are you sure you didn't include a lot of wronged roads in your long journey?"

"Unless the taxi driver leading the way with an empty car lied to me. Hey, you've already got the Panamera? Give it to me. This Xiaobai is too high-profile now."

"Sister, look at the turbo on the tail. Which one of my cars is not high-profile? You want to steal my new car. At least make up a better reason."

"I have met four new friends, and the GT2 can't fit in it, so I have to borrow this Panamera. Otherwise, I will turn my face in a second."

"It's really Sheng Mien, Dou Michou. Find the keys by yourself, hate to death, I only drove this car twice when it was brought here. We are waiting for you in the backyard."

Andy laughed, got into the car and pulled out the key.But when he got the key, he sat on the chair and took several deep breaths before getting up and getting out.Turning to the backyard along the Qingshi Road, I saw another middle-aged man sitting by the pond with two white geese floating.Tan Zongming introduced that this is his old friend, Yan Luming who helped Andy inquire about his younger brother.Yan Luming shook hands with Andy, and the first sentence was: "I expected you to be a beautiful woman, and you are."

Andy smiled at Tan Zongming and said, "Old Tan, you didn't introduce our relationship to Mr. Yan in detail."

"I don't think it's wrong for Lao Yan to think so. Except for his fiancée, who you say would dare to enter my garage like no one else."

Andy smiled at Yan Luming and said: "I just asked Lao Tan to borrow a new car that arrived. At present, this car has a grudge against me. Statistics show that the type of beauties that Lao Tan likes is not my type. Especially For middle-aged men like Lao Tan, statistics are often more reliable than words."

Yan Luming said: "Statistics also show that if you rashly intervene in a conversation between a man and a woman, you will often die. Even if the household registration remains in place for a few years, the population has already spread all over the coast. I made a few surveys and found that the cost of finding people is sky-high, and many people will never be found in their lifetime unless they go to the wanted net. Returning to my hometown. Therefore, I feel that I cannot complete the task of finding your brother. I am very ashamed and apologize to you in person."

Andy froze, his first reaction was to look at Tan Zongming.Tan Zongming spread his hands, "Old Yan just told me in detail what he did this month. Even if the cost can be ignored, many practical problems cannot be solved. Unless God gives you luck. But it is not impossible for Lao Yan to go in person this time. After returning from success, he figured out your life experience, and there is also a birthday that you regretfully never knew about, I asked Lao Yan to tell you, do you need me to avoid it?"

Andy was stunned again, and after a while he said: "I've been deceiving, Mr. Yan is so motivating to help me find my younger brother, in fact, I should have known that you can discover my life experience. Don't avoid me, old Tan. You used to say that I was weird. You'll understand when you hear it today."

"If you don't want the past to be revealed, I can guarantee that this matter will not be spread until Lao Yan talks about it. I will not ask. Some things may not have to be clarified."

Andy thought for a while before saying, "I want to figure it out too. I have a lot of questions to answer. Old Tan, as you said, my brain is too easy to use, and I remember too many things from my infancy, which makes me tired. Please Mr. Yan knows everything."

After hearing this, Tan Zongming ordered the nanny to bring a large bottle of water and put it directly in front of Andy.Sure enough, Andy was welcome to drink a large cup to calm himself down.Yan Luming looked at all this and wondered, "Why aren't you a couple?"

"I once suffered from Andy at work, and I still remember it vividly. The female counterparts with too good brains are terrible. They can only be friends, not wives."

(End of this chapter)