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"It will be held online at six o'clock, and it is expected to be three hours."

"Ah."

"The plane at ten o'clock tomorrow morning, if all goes well, I will return to Haicheng at noon next Friday."

"Understood," Sui Ran said "OK", "Pick-up arrangement."

Slowly strolling to the side of the car, after going through the itinerary from [-] pm to next Friday, Huaian asked, "Are you going to die directly tomorrow morning? Is it too late?"

Sui Ran hummed, "I asked Mr. Hai for leave, and I'm two hours late, so I won't be in a hurry."

"Okay." Huai'an nodded, "The investigation within the team should be carried out according to our capabilities."

"Got it." Sui Ran dragged on.In the past few days, Huai'an has mentioned this matter more than once or twice, as if her colleagues can really do such a foolish thing.

The last time someone tricked her into being trapped in an abandoned factory building in the suburbs, she was quite embarrassed, but Sui Ran still tended to be a low-probability event, after all, the opposite party was doing the tricks in the dark, and she was in the open.This time is different. Colleagues who know the basics in the company will tear their face at most.

"Don't worry, Mr. Huai, we are civilized people, we pay attention to the gentleman's words but not his hands, and convince people with reason."

The result of convincing people with reasoning is that Mr. Hai and she have obtained solid evidence, and then everything will be dealt with according to the rules; or if the good people have been wronged, Lao Lou and Lai Shuai are innocent, then she will come forward and apologize. They are both working outside the home. People, it’s a big deal and the rivers and lakes will disappear—anyway, there is a solution for everyone, Sui Ran thinks very openly.

Huai'an glanced at her, as if he saw through her indifferent optimism, "Try to avoid confrontation, if you need something, you can go to Sister Enyue and Rui Lan, don't be embarrassed, they are looking forward to your visit."

"Got it, got it." Sui Ran opened the car door for her, "Go back for 10 minutes, if you delay a few more minutes to catch the evening rush hour, you will be late for the meeting."

"It's too late." Huai'an turned around, straightened her neckline, brushed her thumb over her earlobe, and pinched it lightly, "Really don't want to go back together?"

"Boss Xiaoxiang will come to pick up the vegetables later, I have to help Mr. Feng..." Thinking of the old man's frowning saying "there is no distinction between grains", Sui Ran stumbled and didn't say "choosing vegetables".

It's a bit funny to say, after a few days, I get to know Mr. Feng well, and the old man is finally willing to eat at the same table with the two of them. Today, he didn't see her very much and asked her to cook at noon.

Chef Huai was in charge of cooking, and Sui Ran was the second, but without noticing for a while, he mixed green vegetables and weeds into a plate of original ecological green food.

Although Mr. Feng lived a pastoral life with ample food and clothing by himself, he picked the freshest greens and the tenderest buds, and all the good things were exquisite and organic for himself.

As a matter of course, the old man gave the "shepherd's purse" and "spicy wormwood" to Mr. Huai, who had never liked it very much. How could he think that the one who was really confused was Sui Ran, whose performance in farm work was not satisfactory.

It can only be said that Mr. Feng's soil is fertile, and the weeds are more juicy than vegetables.

"Go back soon. Boss Huai cares about my work, and I can't hinder Boss Huai's career." Sui Ran took her wrist, kissed her generously, and helped her to send her in, "Drive slowly on the road, Friday See."

"Hey," Huai'an called to stop her, "The annual meeting in Lanshan Bay on Friday night, think about it again?"

Mr. Huai had mentioned about the annual meeting, but Sui Ran refused at that time. She would definitely feel uncomfortable going to such a place where big bosses gather, and she didn't want to bother Huai'an to take care of her.

However, she took the opportunity to ask for an invitation letter for Haicheng, which is a kind of apology—she did not insist on bringing Yu’an’s project to the Lingang Park operated by Zhaoyue, but helped Huai’an contact the park here in Science and Technology Valley, saying, "Eat inside and outside." "Not too much.

"Let's talk about it." Sui Ran waved his hand with a smile, "Bye."

It was very chic to send someone off, but when I saw the car driving on the main road, I felt melancholy: I felt that the two of them had done a lot together in the past few days, but when I thought about it carefully, there was no substantial result at all.The time is almost completely fed to the big piece of soft land in the backyard.

Oh, and those cats who take turns brushing their presence day and night.

Back in the backyard, there were a lot of picked green vegetable leaves and weeds piled up at Feng Lao's feet, Sui Ran moved a small bench, and watched Feng Lao's movements to learn carefully.

The old man quickly picked off the leaves, Sui Ran observed for a long time, and found that the old man's hands were quite heartless: many leaves that were just wilting and definitely not withered and yellow were also treated, and all that was left were green and fresh.

Such a bunch of organic vegetables are sold in "grams" in supermarkets, and the price is extremely high.

"gone?"

Sui Ran picked up a handful of vegetables, and heard Feng Lao squeeze out two words like a toothache. She raised her head, and the old man's movements were not slow, as if he was just looking for something to say casually.

"Well, she has a meeting later."

"Why don't you go back with her?" Elder Feng asked, "It won't do me any good."

Sui Ran didn't understand, "What?"

"Don't worry, don't waste your time." Feng Lao pulled off a vegetable leaf, "My friends know that it's not necessary, Yihuatou always pays too much."

The old man likes to speak dialect whether he is happy or not, Sui Ran understands it vaguely, and Mr. Feng thinks that leaving Huai'an is because he thinks it is useless to work here, so he gives up trying to persuade her to do research.

"No." Sui Ran said with a smile, "She didn't give up so easily." Sangu thatched cottage came once, and that's where she went.

The deepest impression Huaian gave her was patience.Once you identify someone or something, this person's patience is unfathomable.

Elder Feng sighed heavily, "Nongge deserves to live longer, help Ning count the banknotes."

Sui Ran didn't quite understand the content, but the tone was obviously somewhere between "hate iron but not steel" and sarcasm, she had an intuition that it was not a good thing, so she simply pretended not to hear it.Anyway, Mr. Feng has never been nice and angry in front of Huai'an, which confirms Huai'an's view of her, the old man is not good with investors.

She believes in Huai'an and understands "President Huai" based on the impression she has gradually formed based on long-term relationship and working together.Old Feng didn't have much contact with Huai'an, and he had opinions on people in this industry, Sui Ran had no intention of forcibly changing the old man's thinking.

Everyone's position is different, and their past experiences are also different. It doesn't mean that if you admire and trust a person, you have to bow your head and others will think the same. I sigh in my heart that the Huai Road is long and obstructive.

When the mobile phone on the small table was turned on, there was the faint sound of a car approaching in front of him.The blue cat nestled under Old Feng's chair jumped out without a sound, and ran to the front yard like flying.

"Is Boss Xiaoxiang here?" Sui Ran got up with her mobile phone, "I'll go out and have a look."

The boss of Xiaoxiang is in her early twenties, her full name is Chen Xiangjun, she is about the same age as Yao Ruo, she is a very calm young girl who can even be described as "cool".

The day before yesterday, Huai'an and her went to see Boss Xiaoxiang. They originally wanted to inquire about Mr. Feng's situation in recent years, but none of them spoke. The little girl went straight to the point: "Does the old lady know that you are here? Does she agree?"

Erlian's question hit the nail on the head, Sui Ran almost lost control of her expression management, and explained with a smile that she had no other purpose in coming to the store, just to drink her soup.

The little girl raised her eyelids and glanced indifferently, which is still vivid in my memory now.

The two of them drank two small bowls of beef soup that were full of portions, Huaian went out to answer the phone, Sui then took a step, but the boss Xiaoxiang who came to collect the bowl was relieved, and asked her to have a word with the old lady, and come to pick it up the night after tomorrow a la carte.

The day after tomorrow, that is, today.

Walking to the corridor leading to the gate, Sui Ran looked at his phone, it was 58:3.Huaian got home [-] minutes ago and posted a photo of the succulent jungle: "The little master sent by the flower shop this time is not distracted :("

Zooming in on the picture, there are a few succulents that are much more sluggish than the last time I saw them.

Sui Ran walked back and said, "Don't ask a flower shop for a random delivery next week, let me come [hehe]"

Huai'an replied in seconds: "Okay: D"

Sui Ran was editing "Boss Xiaoxiang seems to be here, I'll pick her up", when he suddenly heard a whistle in front, followed by a girl's voice, Qing Lingling, "Will you see the way?"

Boss Xiaoxiang is holding a stack of foam fresh-keeping boxes piled up, which looks a bit heavy, but walks as silently as a cat.The lights in the corridor were dim, Sui Ran didn't notice when the little girl was so close to her, put away her phone, and reached out to help the little girl get the fresh-keeping box.

"Need not."

The little girl turned briskly away from her.

Empty boxes don't need help, but moving boxes full of greens outside does.

It took half an afternoon to choose vegetables, and it only took 10 minutes to transport them. Sui Ran followed the old and the young with the last box in her arms and went out. Hearing them say "Ira" and "Ala", she didn't understand a single word of the key information. .

Boss Xiaoxiang's legs and feet are inconvenient to drive, and the pickup truck is driven by a girl who looks a few years older than her.The girl dyed her hair red, which made the incandescent lights on the car shine extra brightly, bright as fire.

The red-haired girl took the foam boxes that Xiaoxiang's boss handed over one after another, put them on the electronic scale in the carriage, and reported the weight to Xiaoxiang's boss.

At first, Sui Ran was attracted by her particularly impactful red hair, and paid attention to her for a short time, and then found that she tilted her head and said something to Boss Xiaoxiang, her eyes kept looking at Sui Ran, without concealing her curiosity and scrutiny .

The eyes of the two met, and the red-haired girl raised one corner of her mouth, showing a smile of unknown interest.

Sui Ran was full of disappointment as he watched Boss Xiaoxiang leave in the small truck.

She thought that Boss Xiaoxiang asked her to say "Come and get an order" to the old lady that day, implying that there would be a chance for a conversation at that time, but she didn't expect that the "Get food" that the little girl said was really just a one-time payment. First-hand delivery of the sale.

Feng Lao put the cash that Xiaoxiang's boss gave her into his trousers pocket, and said, "You, like your friend, like Xiaoxiang's friend, like Xiaonan fighting?"

Sui Ran: "...Ah."

Sui Ran: "What?"

Only then did she realize what the red-haired girl's eyes meant.

With a slightly hot face, Sui Ran said, "Yes...that's right."

Old Feng asked again: "Do you like that friend of yours?"

Sui Ran nodded.

I don't know why, but a sentence popped up in my heart: She likes me too.

His face became hotter, and his whole body became hotter.

Sui Ran quickened her pace unconsciously, and heard Elder Feng laughing from behind.

But the laughter sounded uncomfortable. It was not a sneer to say that a sneer was a sneer, and it was clearly mocking and joking.

Sui Ran looked back at her, under the dim light, she couldn't see Mr. Feng's expression clearly, but only saw two flickering lights hidden under her eyelids.

When people get old, their eyes will grow pathological shadows to some extent, but some people have special maintenance skills, and they can always maintain a pair of clear and transparent eyes, with the innocence of being relieved of everything, but also the unforgiving years. Sharp.

Feng is always the latter.

"Your friend, you don't really think highly of me." With his hands behind his back, Mr. Feng seemed to think that saying this was a little worthless, and curled his lips, "I don't want her to think highly of me, and your friend is not a good person either. She is secretive and not open enough."

"How is that possible" came to Sui Ran's lips, and was abruptly forced back by the latter sentence.

How could Huaian look down on Mr. Feng?

She has great admiration for Mr. Feng, and the almost blind and desperate trust born of it-if Yu'an's investors withdraw their capital because of Mr. Feng's qualifications, and the team disbands, Huai'an will gamble all his wealth to make the project proceed as scheduled.

Huaian always has a "fan" mentality towards Mr. Feng.

Received an invitation from Mr. Feng, who has always been calm and calm, so nervous that he sent two pages of the restaurant name;

She went to meet Mr. Feng with a seriousness that Sui Ran had never seen before. When they met, she did not use any negotiating skills to detour. She was related, and asked whether the legs of Qu Dehui's daughter Chen Xiangjun were related to her;

Feng Lao confessed that she indirectly caused Qu De to commit suicide, but she said that "Feng Lao really wants revenge and wants to kill someone, the method should be more clever and more concealed";

Huai'an withstood all the pressures and did everything to the extreme where Mr. Feng couldn't see it, but what he got was—"Not a good person"?

Sui Ran couldn't remember to breathe for a long time, her mind went blank.

"I don't know what you mean by your definition of a good person." She said with anger in her heart, "I've seen a lot of people of all kinds, ordinary people, not so ordinary people, some are sanctimonious, and some are duplicitous. Most of them are mediocre ordinary people. She is one of them."

The words that made my ears sore my teeth when I said them face to face, I said them so naturally in front of Mr. Feng.

Old Feng said, and smiled kindly: "It's nice to be young."

The heat on his face receded, Sui Ran calmed down a bit, and didn't speak in a hurry.

"At your age, you have illusions about making friends and falling in love. I understand. At your age, I believed in pure love, pursued great ideals, believed that the world needed me, and thought that I could change the world."

"But children, love is the most unreasonable and easily changeable thing. For people like them, love has another characteristic, it is cheap, and it has to be added the most."

Because of walking, or maybe it was rare to warn him intentionally, Feng Lao spoke very slowly, and he said a sentence with a huge amount of information in an easy-to-understand manner.

Sui Ran had already passed the rebellious stage of being impatient to listen to the elders' preaching, so she settled down and listened quietly.

“It’s not so much that they enjoy the chase as much as they enjoy the feeling of being chased during the chase. They like to transform what is not theirs into theirs, giving the target the illusion that they are theirs. What they do is entirely for you, and it is from the heart. Children, they have no one in their eyes, but only things, a string of numbers."

"Every time we have a conversation, you are there. You see, she never talked to me about how much benefits the project can bring, and she certainly hasn't talked about it with you. She only talks about ideals and how much you can save if you succeed. People. Who doesn’t know that good things can save people. The advent of penicillin saved hundreds of millions of people, isn’t it an exaggeration? How many billions of flu vaccines are sold each year? Talk about things with Xiaoxiang, why? She wants to take advantage."

No, it's not.

Sui Ran shook his head.

She knows best how much Huai'an attaches importance to Mr. Feng, and she believes that Huai'an will not ignore or underestimate the interests that Mr. Feng deserves, but at the same time, she thinks: Huai'an may have her own arrangements, and she is not good at talking about it, let alone replacing Huai'an and even Yu'an promised.

"She must have told you that the old lady's past was unclear, and that she had to predict the risks and control the crisis, and she had to think more about me. Is that what she told you?"

Sui Ran was speechless.

She remembered the night when she broke up with Mr. Feng. In the cold night wind, Huai'an said, "Old Mr. Feng's past, any point that has no evidence to prove his innocence will become an indefinite time bomb", saying, "It's a matter of great importance, personal Emotion is second, if these issues are not clarified, follow-up cooperation cannot be carried out", saying that she has passed this test, and there are others...

Feng Lao said: "You see, she didn't tell me about the project once when she came here, but instead talked about my land."

Yes.

Sui Ran thought that Huai'an should seize the opportunity to introduce the project to Mr. Feng these few days, but she didn't. Instead, her words were a compliment to the old man's foresight and foresight to get involved in real estate—once she wondered vaguely whether it was an illusion, Ever since she said unintentionally on the day she came here, "With this piece of land, the old lady can make dishes by herself", Mr. Huai has paid special attention to the value of this real estate.

"She's very smart, and these people are very smart. She pretends to be uninterested to me, but in fact, she's a petty sloppy foot." The old man rubbed the mud on his hands and said with a pun, "Dirty, really dirty. "

The old man's mouth is really...

Since resuming work, Sui Ran has gotten used to the modern civilized life of talking nonsense to others, and has never confronted a senior like Feng Lao who has both seniority and improper seniority, and was crushed to death.

Sui Ran looked at her hands, walked quickly to the sink, turned the faucet to the maximum, and let the cold water pouring down wash her hands.

There is no doubt that Huai'an respects Mr. Feng.

But even so, she had said "crossroads" a long time ago.

——She said that Mr. Feng has gone astray.

——But she also said that outsiders could not criticize Mr. Feng's own choice.

Half a minute later, Mr. Feng came to the sink, turned off the faucet, and said, "Their promise is only valid for a moment before the contract is signed."

The old man looked at Sui Ran with those clear eyes, "Have you ever thought about it, one day she has had enough fun, what will you do?"

I thought about it.

In the dead of night, Sui Ran looked at the ceiling and answered silently.

Thought about it many times.

So she has been hesitating and has been unable to make up her mind to respond.

When the phone vibrated, Sui Ran was taken aback, even a little afraid that the message came from Huai'an.

Realizing that such a thought slipped through the depths of his heart, Sui Ran was stunned for a long time, and when he came back to his senses, he had to sigh with emotion, "What a ruthless old lady".

She still wanted to do the work of the old man, but she didn't expect the old man to easily shake the morale of the army.

There is no bloodshed.

Sui Ran thought and raised her phone.

Sure enough, the message came from Huai'an: "There is one more thing I want you to make up your mind about, where to go during the Chinese New Year?"

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