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After being scolded bloody last time, the sales department held another departmental meeting. This time Xu Yao kindly thanked everyone for their efforts and hoped that they could spend the new year together as one.

The typical radish and stick, beat a meal and give a candy, Raymond snorted disdainfully, this kind of trick was outdated 800 years ago, okay!You thought you were coaxing elementary school students!

"In order to reward everyone, I decided to add an extra 10% to the year-end bonus for everyone in the department as a reward."

The candy delivered by Mr. Xu was too sweet, and Lei Meng was unable to resist, so he became a primary school student willingly.

"However," Xu Yao deliberately paused, successfully whetting everyone's appetite, "Recently we have accepted a big project, and everyone knows that it is very difficult to accept a big project in the near future, and it will be aborted if you are not careful. Without this project, the year-end bonus will become a blank check, so I hope everyone can keep it a secret for the sake of common interests, and after the contract is signed, I will make it public at the right time."

"Actually, many customers are still willing to cooperate with us, but they pointed out that our quotation is too high. It is because the general manager refuses to lower the price and cannot compete with the competitors' cheap prices, so it is very difficult to accept large projects." Yuan Jie couldn't help complaining, "Otherwise If we can get a few more orders, the year-end bonus might reach 20%.”

"Because of this, everyone must pay attention to Xu Weichen's new project and actively cooperate with him." Xu Yao followed his words and said, "Now it is only the stage of bidding and bidding, and it is still uncertain whether it will be won in the end. People with bad intentions know that the abortion of the project is not good for everyone."

Everyone had a clear expression and nodded in a second.Lei Meng looked around in confusion, was he the only one who didn't know who Xu Yao was talking about?

After the meeting ended, Yang Qili went straight to Xu Yao, put her hands on the table, and asked with a frown, "I heard that you and Xu Weichen are going on a business trip alone?"

"Ah."

"Why not Remon? For such a large project, it is safer for the manager to take over directly."

Xu Yao picked up his notebook and stood up, distanced himself from her, his voice was indifferent, obviously unwilling to talk, "I have my own arrangements."

Yang Qili opened her mouth, her eyes seemed to be burning with flames, and her nails were almost embedded in her palms.In the end, she didn't say anything, and walked away on her high heels.

After leaving the door of the conference room, Lei Meng secretly grabbed Yuan Jie, "Who are some people with evil intentions...?"

Yuan Jie lowered his voice, "Song Sifan from the project department, who else?"

Raymond was confused, "How could it be him?"

"You don't even think about the previous project of Tenglong, who almost broke it?"

Although Song Sifan's absence during that time was indeed dereliction of duty, but the Tenglong project was deliberately made things difficult by the other party. Song Sifan also reminded himself that there was a problem with the Tenglong project. After all, it shouldn't be him who made things bad?Besides, Xu Yao has been to Tenglong on a business trip, Xu Yao should be very clear about this.

"Everyone thinks so?" Lei Meng asked unwillingly, "Could you have misunderstood Mr. Xu?"

"Impossible! You tell me, who else can there be besides him? The whole company knows that Mr. Xu doesn't want to see Song Sifan, and Mr. Xu didn't deny it."

Obviously knowing that everyone misunderstood, Xu Yao didn't clarify, Lei Meng felt a little weird.But since Xu Yao said so, he must have his reasons. Lei Meng thought about the last time Song Sifan came to Xu Yao, did the conversation between the two collapse?

After work, Lei Meng was not in a hurry to leave. He stared at Song Sifan's small lighted avatar on the group's internal chat tool, waited until it went out, and ran towards the parking lot just in time.

The little wine-red BMW stood alone waiting for its owner. Lei Meng went to Song Sifan's office again, but it was all in vain.After wandering around the Zia Building, I found Song Sifan at the smoking spot in the corner of the lawn.

It was cold and windy, and he was wearing a thin suit, so he didn't seem to notice the cold.Only the fire of the cigar had a little warmth, and the cigar flickered on and off, reflecting half of Song Sifan's monstrous face.

Ramon never knew he could smoke, too.

As the night fell, the Zia Building not far away was brightly lit, but there was only a lonely street lamp near the lawn, and the afterglow hit him, making his shadow very long.

Song Sifan, who seems to be free and easy in front of people, has spent countless unknown nights like this, smoking a cigarette alone, and then leaving alone?

Raymond thought that when he first airborne Zia, he was isolated by the entire department, and sat alone in a corner during the project handover meeting, facing the lively crowd across the table.

Later, when he revealed his background in high-level relations, he should have become the object of everyone's scrambling to curry favor, but he was still the only one.

He never seemed to be on the same planet as others, and Raymond could only watch him from afar, autobiography alone.

Is this how the little prince feels when he leaves his rose to travel to other planets and looks up at the stars every time?

Maybe it was because the moonlight was so gentle, Raymond didn't turn away like before, he coughed lightly.

Song Sifan turned his head and noticed his existence, he snuffed out the cigar and smiled habitually, "You haven't left yet?"

"Well, I found that there was a fire here, and I was afraid it would cause a fire, so I came here to take a look." The atmosphere was a bit weird, and Lei Meng made a joke, trying to adjust the frozen air.

"Heh... the fire has been extinguished in the ashtray." Song Sifan looked at him with starry sky shining in his eyes, "Let's go together?"

"Okay."

The two people with cars didn't drive, and walked towards the nearest subway station at the same time.

Raymond stared down at his shoes, kicked a stone in boredom, and began to ask for words, "Is your father gone?"

"Well, let's go."

"Go back to America?"

"Correct."

"how about you?"

"I?"

"Well... you are from the United States, right? Your home is in the United States, so you don't want to go back?"

"Why should I go back? I still have to go to work every day."

Lei Meng secretly breathed a sigh of relief, which should mean... he won't leave, right?He felt that Song Sifan had bypassed his question on purpose.What he wanted to ask was not whether he would go back to America with Song Qiujiang to visit relatives, but whether he would leave.

The night wind was blowing, mixed with biting cold, heralding the coming severe winter. Raymond wrapped his suit jacket tightly and counted the days, "Christmas is coming soon..."

"Yes."

"Did you receive Christmas presents every year at this time in the United States?"

"There used to be presents for Christmas, birthdays and Valentine's Day."

"Then if you've been in Porcelain Country this year, wouldn't you have none?"

"Yeah, are you going to send me?"

"you think too much……"

Song Sifan laughed in a low voice, and the laughter condensed into a thin thread that penetrated into his ears, and was blown by the wind, lightly scratching Lei Meng, urging the unintentionally planted seeds to germinate quickly.

The rose in my heart quietly got out of the soil and stretched out two green leaves.Raymond felt his cheeks were a little hot, thankfully it was too dark to see it.

Song Sifan didn't seem to care about his strangeness, "How are you... recently?"

"Me?" Raymond didn't know what he was referring to, "I've been fine."

"You seem to be avoiding me?" Song Sifan lifted his bangs casually, staring at him with brown eyes.

Lei Meng's heart skipped a beat, he turned his face away and took two steps back, "W-Where is it?"

"Really? Then you still agreed to come to the project management department?"

"What?" Raymond didn't react for a while, and stared at him blankly, "Come to the project management department?"

"Yeah, since you're not avoiding me, what you promised to come to the project management department before, you still count on it?" Song Sifan showed a tricky smile.

Lei Meng opened his mouth to refute, but Song Sifan's unquestionable tone forced him to remember the invitation he had casually agreed to, "I thought you were joking then..."

Song Sifan's brown eyes were dim, "I never joke...you are the one who jokes."

Lei Meng thought of the joke he entrusted to himself in the "Old Time", and his heart sank. The ground under his feet seemed to disappear at once, and his whole body was suspended in the air. Fear spread along his skin and surrounded him.

The rose tremblingly produced a small bud, showing it shyly, wanting more sunshine and rain.

In this feeling of weightlessness, Lei Meng looked at Song Sifan, trying to get some answers from his face.

Noticing his gaze, Song Sifan looked away, and asked seemingly casually, "I heard that Xu Weichen from the sales side has taken on a big project?"

"Well, just now Tommie was in a meeting about this matter, the big orders at the end of the year, he attaches great importance to it, and basically follow up personally."

"Wait," Raymond suddenly realized something was wrong, "Tommie insisted repeatedly that the news must not be leaked, how did you know?"

Song Sifan smiled without saying a word.

Lei Meng couldn't help reminding Song Sifan, "Don't worry about our project, you should think about yourself. Now the entire sales department regards you as an imaginary enemy, and Tommie also hinted that everyone should be especially wary of you."

"The person Xu Yao wants to guard against is not me."

"……Who is that?"

Song Sifan just laughed.

Raymond's heart trembled, and the loss swept over him. Before the delicate rosebuds had time to bloom, they were blown away by the rain and the wind, and the red ones were all over the ground.

This feeling of being excluded made Raymond very depressed.He could feel that Song Sifan was hiding something from him, Song Sifan was even willing to share it with Xu Yao, but refused to tell him.

Is he so untrustworthy in Song Sifan's heart?

Song Sifan didn't continue this topic, and seemed to concentrate on driving.Raymond followed behind him, and he couldn't even find a reason to walk side by side with him.

He and Song Sifan are neither close nor close, not even good friends, so who have the right to ask about his plan?

Lei Meng was full of questions but couldn't open his mouth. Song Sifan was still calm beside him, and he had long since lost the loneliness of smoking alone.

Lei Meng secretly slapped himself, telling you to mind your own business.

Song Sifan who was walking in front suddenly stopped and looked up at the sky.

"The moonlight is so beautiful tonight..."

Lei Meng followed him and raised his head. The pure and round full moon was like a silver plate, shedding a thin layer of light, and the quiet night was peaceful and gentle.

The stars are beautiful because there is a star with a flower that no one can see.

The author has something to say: The rice cakes in this chapter have been modified so hard!It can be eaten together with chapters 14 and 30!

Jinjiang seems to have smoked today, and the five hundred characters I worked so hard to type this morning disappeared, causing me to type it again...

I sprinkled a lot of sugar on the chicken today, so I also... put some vinegar?

【small theater】

"Don't! Don't, I'm just joking!"

"I was just joking too."

……

"I never joke...you are the one who jokes."