The Hope You Gave Me: 58-bricks

Yin Xu smiled at one of Min Hui's resignation reports, and didn't mind: "I thought you would get tired of working with me for a week at most, but I didn't expect you to persist for a month, it's not easy. You are IT guy, this is not your home-" He took out an envelope and handed it to her, "I'll pay you a month's salary, plus a design fee, thank you for helping me design this online store, and for teaching me how to operation."

Min Hui didn't answer: "I don't want the money."

"You're welcome, this is earned from labor." He leaned against the counter and said with a smile, "You've been on work for 20 days anyway."

"Because I have something to ask you." Min Hui said, "I heard that you used to be very good at Sanda in addition to tennis at the Sports Institute?"

"Yes, I've won three city-level Sanda champions." He nodded, "Who do you want me to beat for you, tell me?"

"Can you teach me? I need some intensive Sanda lessons," she said. "In exchange, I can take care of your website for free and provide technical support at any time."

He looked at her curiously and frowned: "Of course I can teach you, but I don't recommend you use violence to solve problems, you will get into trouble."

"You just need to teach me, I will handle the rest by myself, you don't have to worry about it."

He thought about it and said, "Okay. Anyway, I'm alone now, I don't work, and I have a lot of free time. When do you want to start?"

"Today."

"How much do you want to be?"

"As long as you can protect yourself from being attacked."

"Do you mean - anti-wolf art?"

"Yes."

He looked at her and said, "Then you should eat more and grow stronger. Skills are only one aspect. When you meet someone with great strength, no amount of skills will help."

"Understood." Min Hui scratched her head, "We still need a venue."

"It's easy, I have a buddy who opened a gym, let him borrow it." He said lazily, "He owes me a lot of favors."

"That's it."

***

The first two weeks of working in tide watching were calm.

Cheng Qirang added the title of "Project Manager" to Cao Mu as promised, leading the research and development of GS2.0. In this way, Min Hui doesn't have to report directly to Ding Yifeng, although it is inevitable to encounter large and small meetings.

Cao Mu tried to arrange the R&D team of GS in the same office area, but the tide watch station was tight and he paid attention to first come and first arrival. He couldn't let the old employees move out just to let the new ones sit together. Individuals are arranged on the same floor. Min Hui got an office with a window in the corner. It was small and relatively quiet. She wrote programs in the office every day, and only came out at lunch time.

Guanchao has its own staff restaurant with rich dishes, cheap prices and free drinks. Most of the staff will go to the restaurant to eat. Min Hui decided not to be greedy or join in the fun, and always invited Cao Mu to the downstairs shop to eat Vietnamese pho.

"The BBGs have all moved here," Cao Mu said while drinking soup at a tall building across the street. "The interior decoration is super stylish."

"What style?" Min Hui took a bite of the spring roll.

"I can't tell, the main color is light gray, with lots of borders and glass, and occasional greenery. The overall feeling is icy cool."

Min Hui nodded in her heart, sure enough, it was Xin Qi's style.

The entire Haitian Building is composed of light blue glass, with only a few white arcs at the top. When the weather is good, the building is azure blue, integrated with the sky, and it seems to disappear from a distance. When the lights are bright at night, it will reveal the hexagonal steel structure, which looks like a honeycomb, and the people inside are like busy worker bees, which are calm and cool.

“The designer got two sculptures from somewhere and placed them in the lobby. I visited them once, and they were visually stunning.” Cao Mu added.

"Really?"

"You haven't been?"

Min Hui concentrates on the beef brisket in the soup base: "No."

Her cold war with Xin Qi has been going on for over a month. In the first two weeks, when she went to visit Su Quan, she could still meet Xin Qi, and the two only had the simplest conversation. When she went back again, she either met the nanny or Yunlu—Xin Qi basically disappeared all the way. Min Hui thought he had returned to New York, but when asked about Yun Lu, he said that he had been in Bencheng all the time, but it just happened to be "at this time" when something happened.

Min Hui was angry and felt that he was deliberately posing, and when she went to see her son again, she simply didn't even ask.

Haitian Building and Chenzhong Building are only separated by a road. Min Hui only needs to walk 15 minutes from the subway to reach her office every day. She passes by BBG headquarters twice a day and never goes in. Both buildings are glass structures, and Min Hui's office is also on the side of the road. When her eyes are tired and she needs to rest, she will habitually look out the window. Layers.

Xin Qi never came to look for her.

Well water doesn't make river water, Min Hui thought, you should be your CEO, and I'll be my code farmer.

When she came back after eating pho, she was reminded by her phone that there was a meeting, so Min Hui went directly to the conference room. It was ten minutes before the meeting time. Min Hui was about to go to the bathroom when a middle-aged man suddenly came over and said, "Hey, there's a box of cold drinks over there, please send it to everyone, one bottle per person."

Min Hui was stunned, then thought that she was the only girl in the conference room, and that person took her for granted as a secretary.

"I'm the leader of the GS team," she explained.

"I know." The man replied casually and continued, "Cold drinks are over there, come on, the meeting is about to start."

"You have your own hands, why don't you go?" she asked rhetorically.

After that, I just sat down.

"Because you are young, you are new."

"I'm the new team leader, not the new secretary."

The man didn't expect to encounter such resistance, he was speechless for a while, and after a long time, he couldn't get off the stage in front of everyone, so he knocked on the table, pointed to the back row, and said, "You Sit over there, this row is for the head of the department."

"I'll sit here." Min Hui leaned back and lifted Erlang's legs: "This chair is very comfortable."

After saying that, he plugged in his headphones and pretended to listen to music, and the man stomped his feet, so he had to carry the drinks himself.

This happened repeatedly throughout Min Hui's career, especially when she was just starting out. Some male colleagues are accustomed to thinking that in the company, things like making coffee, printing materials, organizing parties, tidying up the venue, etc. - are all women's duties, even if she is not a secretary but a colleague of equal position to them. During meetings, the girl's speech is interrupted frequently, and her ideas are either ignored or usurped. If you get angry and get angry, the younger ones will be considered as "the aunt is here", and the older ones will be considered "menopause is coming". If you have children, they will think that your mind is at home and will not concentrate on work at all. Even if you work more overtime than anyone else, you will not miss a deadline.

At that time, she had just entered the workplace and had not yet turned into a regular. Unfamiliar with life, and caring about the job and salary, no matter how much unhappiness is, I can only endure it... Even knowing that I am being insulted and being teased, I have to force a laugh with them.

Min Hui checked the news in the work group on her mobile phone, and replied a few WeChat messages. There was a chatter behind her, and a few words drifted into her ears:

——Wow, this is the legendary Min Hui, don't mess with it, she had a lawsuit with President Cheng back then.

——It's really beautiful, the gravitational waves are so strong...

——She is single, right? Dare to chase after her?

——The family already has children.

Boys gossip more terrifyingly than girls. Min Hui turned around abruptly, trying to find the person who said the sarcastic words, but the sound of chattering suddenly disappeared. Ding Yifeng strode in. There were obviously two vacancies in the first row, but he chose to sit down at Min Hui's right hand, cleared his throat and said, "Now for the meeting. All departments and project teams share the current progress and Report any problems you encounter."

There were more than 30 people sitting in the small conference room. The seat near the "leader" in the first row was a little crowded, and there was only a palm-width distance between the chairs.

There are many regular tide watching meetings - Min Hui had a deep understanding of it when she first started working a few years ago, and now it is even more serious. Three or five meetings a day are normal, seven or eight are not surprising. Because the campus is scattered, the departments are complex, and there are various conference calls.

The time seemed long and uninteresting, each department reported one by one, each person in charge holding a pile of tables and talking in a mechanical tone. Min Hui almost fell asleep when she heard it, and had to drink a few sips of coffee to refresh herself.

As soon as the hot coffee entered her mouth, she immediately realized something was wrong with her body. Looking down, I immediately understood. Across the white tablecloth, Ding Yifeng's thigh was tightly touching his right leg.

At first she thought it was unintentional, after all, the seats were too crowded. So she moved her leg to the left. A second later his legs also moved over and continued to lean on her thighs.

She turns her head away and coughs, signaling him to move his legs.

Ding Yifeng glanced at her half-smile, indifferent. After a while, she gently rubbed her calf with the tip of her shoe.

The long tablecloth blocks everything. Min Hui was wearing a gray suit and skirt with only one layer of stockings on her calf, and she was so disgusted by his actions that she vomited.

The toes of the shoes rubbed repeatedly along the belly of the legs... On the table, Ding Yifeng sat upright, holding a marker in one hand, and kept making important points on the documents, as if nothing happened under the table.

Min Hui's hand suddenly swayed, the coffee cup was poured, and there was no lid, and the brown coffee was poured straight out, just on his crotch.

The mug was still steaming. The coffee had just been poured, and it was about 80 or 90 degrees. Ding Yifeng couldn't help but let out an "oh". His thighs were so hot that he stood up in pain. Fortunately, his pants were black, except for a wet piece, he couldn't tell. He had to walk quickly to the bathroom.

There were voices behind her. Min Hui calmly took the coffee cup and walked to the tea room next to her to fill up the coffee. She didn't cover the lid and continued to sit in her seat.

Someone secretly went outside to smoke a cigarette, and there was a strong smell of nicotine in the conference room. The atmosphere became dull, the director was obviously absent, and everyone didn't speak, just because a woman with a gloomy face sat on the table.

Min Hui turned on her phone and browsed the information casually. A few minutes later, Ding Yifeng returned to the conference room, hurriedly said, "Today's meeting is here first" and it ended hastily.

Min Hui returned to the office in a victorious mood. Before she could sit down, Ding Yifeng walked in like a gust of wind, closed the door, and said with a stern face, "Min Hui, you did it on purpose just now!"

"You did it on purpose."

"You hurt me." He raised his eyebrows, "I have to make up for it? Let's have dinner together after get off work?"

"Ding Yifeng, you dare to provoke me again——" Min Hui sneered, "Believe it or not, I cut that thing and put it in an iron skewer and grilled it as a mutton skewer!"

I don't know if it's because the camera sense of these words is too strong or Min Hui's voice is too loud, Ding Yifeng subconsciously took a step back, but he refused to admit it, and lowered his voice and threatened: "Min Hui, I advise you not to get carried away! You are my subordinate now, and I can kill you in minutes."

"I'm not afraid, I'll report you to HR later!"

"Go, go anyway!" He sneered, "Have you gone to HR less often? You couldn't do anything to Cheng Qirang back then, but now they're even better at pretending to be deaf."

"Getout!"

Ding Yifeng snorted, turned around and walked towards the door. Just two steps, a dart whizzed past his ear and nailed it to the door. He looked up and saw a wooden dart board hanging on the back of the door. Turning around again, Min Hui held a dart in her hand, and said with a half-smile, "I'm sorry, just a small pastime when writing programs, just call me if you have something to do in the future, don't come in casually, in case you miss a shot If you are blind, you will be in trouble."

He walked away without looking back, leaving her with a hateful back.

Although the battle has achieved a staged victory, Min Hui warned herself not to take it lightly. Ding Yifeng is right, in any unit, if the superior wants to rectify the subordinate, there are many ways. Compared with Cheng Qirang, Ding Yifeng is just a minion, and his rank is much lower. She would rather meet ten Ding Yifeng than meet one Cheng Qirang.

As it turns out, she laughed too early.

When I got off work, there was lightning and thunder outside the window, and it was pouring rain.

The taxi can't be called at all, Min Hui thought, it takes fifteen minutes at most to walk from the building to the subway station. If you walk fast, it will take you ten minutes. Folding umbrella sprints in the rain.

After walking for less than five minutes, a black car slowly stopped beside her, the door of the back seat was pushed open, and a faint voice came: "Come up, I'll give you a ride."

The sound was mixed with the sound of thunder and rain, making it inaudible. Min Hui turned her head and looked inside. The man inside was wearing a black trench coat with a raised collar, revealing Burberry's pattern.

It's Cheng Qirang.

She ignores it and moves on.

The car followed all the way, the door was half-closed, and Cheng Qirang continued to say inside: "What's the point of the wind and rain? Since we work together, you can't avoid me forever."

She didn't answer a word and walked straight.

"By the way, you are going on a business trip with me the day after tomorrow. There is a hospital in Beijing that wants to buy our GS1.0. You have to negotiate with me."

"I'm not going!"

"This is work, and you have to go." His voice was neither loud nor low, but full of authority.

She ignores him and continues walking quickly.

It's not walking, it's trotting.

There was the sound of wheels rolling behind her. After a while, she was probably finally getting impatient, and the car suddenly accelerated past her, blocking her way.

The rear window is rolled down halfway: "It's raining heavily, come up, I'll see you off."

"Go away! Go as far as you want!" She waved her umbrella blown by the wind in the rain and yelled at the car, "You **** me again, believe it or not, I'll beat you to death!"

The car continued to follow her. Min Hui exploded with anger. Seeing that there was a brick on the ground, she picked it up and slammed it on the glass of the car, only to hear a "click", and the glass cracked. The hole, revealing a half-familiar face, covered in blood. The person in the car saw the brick in Min Hui's hand, thought she was going to throw it at him, and subconsciously hugged his head.

Min Hui was shocked and the brick fell to the ground: "Xin Qi?"