Extra Chapter 32: Gentle and Virtuous Xu Zhixi, Thoughtful Lin Siqi
It was already late at night when they returned to eastern Guangdong. Chen Jianghe was like a hitchhiker driver many years later. He first dropped off his aunt, then his sister-in-law, and finally took Teacher Xu back to Yuejin.
"Come to my dorm?"
Every time Chen Jianghe returned to school early, there were always a few animals in the dormitory who arrived earlier than him. The most outrageous time was during the National Day holiday in his freshman year. He took Teacher Xu into the boys' dormitory, and when he pushed the door of 414, he happened to catch Wang Yuanpeng's "good deed".
"Do you have a lot of dirty clothes and smelly socks hidden under your bed in the dormitory that you haven't washed?"
Xu Zhixi knew very well that Chen Jianghe had been driving for more than ten hours today and definitely did not have the extra energy to do anything bad, otherwise he would not have gone around to the downstairs of the boys' dormitory, but would have gone straight to the faculty dormitory and stayed in Room 502.
"That's not true." Chen Jianghe denied it flatly: "I am a clean person."
"Yeah?"
Xu Zhixi smiled and said, "I only looked at the head of your bed before, but never checked under it. I'm going to check it out today."
"Okay."
Chen Jianghe rubbed his hands together, then confidently took Teacher Xu upstairs. When they arrived at the door of Room 414, he did not rush to take out the key. He knocked on the door a few times, but no one responded. He put his ear close to the door and listened. It was very quiet.
However, when he opened the door, the light in the dormitory suddenly came on.
What followed was a uniform slogan: "Welcome to Red Romance!"
“What the hell?!”
Chen Jianghe was shocked.
"Distinguished guest..."
Sun Tian, the sixth-best student who shouted the loudest slogan, was about to add the following line, "VIPs, please come in for a foot bath or massage," but when he looked up and saw Teacher Xu behind Chen Jianghe, he got stuck.
"Hey, Xiaotian, didn't you just say you were hungry and wanted to have a midnight snack? Come on, I'll treat you."
Wang Yuanpeng's brain was working very quickly. He took Sun Tian and prepared to escape under the pretext of having a midnight snack.
"I'm going too."
"I'm going too."
Liu Dongliang, Zhang Kai and Li Jun all responded positively.
In the blink of an eye, Chen Jianghe and Xu Zhixi were the only ones left in dormitory 414. Even from a long distance, they could still hear the funny laughter of those guys downstairs.
"Red Romance should be a leisure club, right?"
Xu Zhixi glanced at Chen Jianghe: "It seems like you guys go there quite often."
"Red romance usually refers to bathhouses in Northeast China."
Chen Jianghe smiled and gave Teacher Xu some scientific knowledge, and explained: "My roommates and I occasionally go out for a foot massage, but you know me. I never participate in activities that cost more than 20 yuan. If a school beauty asks me out for a relationship, I ignore her. I always keep myself clean."
When Xu Zhixi heard this, she wanted to laugh but held it back and deliberately rolled her eyes at him, as if to say, "I don't believe you."
Seeing that Teacher Xu did not pursue the matter further, Chen Jianghe did not say much.
Xu Zhixi obviously went upstairs with the intention of washing clothes and socks for Chen Jianghe, but she found that he was really fond of cleanliness and kept the head and bottom of the bed tidy.
Having nothing to do, Xu Zhixi checked around and then turned to Chen Jianghe and said, "It seems that Liu Dongliang is the only honest student in dormitory 414."
Chen Jianghe's eyes widened slightly, and he was very puzzled: "Teacher Xu, do you have any misunderstanding about the word honesty?"
"What do you mean?" Xu Zhixi asked with a faint smile.
Chen Jianghe imitated the tone of Zhang Kai, the honest man in the dormitory, and said, "The most coquettish person in our dormitory is Liu Dongliang.
"He was the one who violated the rules by using the campus network to download pornographic movies and was repeatedly warned by the college youth league committee. He was the one who always wanted me to get corrupted when he had good resources. He was the one who always encouraged me to buy PetroChina shares with him..."
Chen Jianghe enumerated Lao Liu's "three sins", took the lighter from his computer desk, glanced at the vaguely visible pink girl , and put it in his pocket.
Xu Zhixi was also impressed by Chen Jianghe's profound ability in making jokes while being serious.
I admire him even more for his brazen act of taking away his classmate’s lighter in front of the teacher.
I guess Liu Dongliang will go back to the dormitory tonight and toss and turn in bed, wondering where his lighter went.
However, after Liu Dongliang and others left the dormitory, they never came back at night. They stayed in the Internet cafe for five consecutive days and played all night.
Early the next morning, when Chen Jianghe walked out of the dormitory gate, Zhou Jinfu had been waiting downstairs for a long time.
"Happy New Year, Boss!"
Seeing Chen Jianghe, Zhou Jinfu grinned.
"Happy New Year."
Chen Jianghe smiled and handed him the first red envelope since he started working, with a lucky number of 1888. Then he didn't rush to get in the car, but walked to the Light Chaser base first.
"boss!"
Just as I walked out of the school gate, a clear and pleasant voice of "Boss" came from the door of the Light Chaser base across the street.
This is also the key factor why Chen Jianghe is not in a hurry to go to the group headquarters.
The Light Chaser Base is not only where his career and dreams began, but also where his beloved secretary lives.
Chen Jianghe had almost gotten used to it. Every time he came, Lin Siqi would either be waiting for him at the door or checking accounts in the office. And the voice of "boss" was engraved in his bones.
"When did you come?"
Chen Jianghe walked quickly to Lin Siqi and was about to take out the red envelope, but he found that there were piles of red envelopes on the desk not far behind her, at least several thousand of them.
"Just got here, a little earlier than you."
Lin Siqi smiled and looked at the boss. "I have prepared all the bonuses for this year. They have been distributed in the base. When Ziyu and the others come, we will go to the group headquarters together."
Chen Jianghe stroked the secretary's hair and praised her, "You are the one who is thoughtful and helps me save time and effort."
Lin Siqi smiled sweetly: "I have prepared a little surprise for you."
Chen Jianghe raised his eyebrows: "What surprise?"
"Keep it secret for now, I'll tell you tonight."
Lin Siqi rarely whetted the boss's appetite, with a smile on his face.
"It's quite mysterious." Chen Jianghe said, "I'm really looking forward to it."
"Well, I guess you will be very happy then."
Lin Siqi stood on tiptoe and gave Chen Jianghe a kiss on the face. She turned around and saw her roommates from Dormitory 711 walking out of the school gate side by side. Her pretty face blushed slightly, and they slipped away.
"Why are you shy again?"
Chen Jianghe was somewhat confused, but Siqi was a "versatile little secretary" who could switch between various styles at will. What was rare was that each style precisely hit Chen Jianghe's aesthetic like acupuncture.
When the group resumed operations, in addition to distributing red envelopes to employees, the more important thing was to receive visiting leaders at all levels.
In the early days of his business, Chen Jianghe often felt distressed by the "care" and "love" of his leaders. After all, at that time he was only focused on making money, expanding his team, and occupying the market. He had no time to deal with all these social conventions and extortions, so most of the time it was Lin Siqi and her father Lin Zheping who secretly helped him settle things.
Now that the company has become a group and its major industries are booming, Chen Jianghe knows very well that to make further progress, building good relationships with leaders is the most pragmatic and crucial prerequisite.
Moreover, he has made sufficient preparations for this. In addition to office floors, the group's headquarters building is equipped with luxury hotels, high-end clubs, local restaurants, fitness and entertainment areas, art viewing areas, and so on.
The service staff inside are all beautiful college students.
The art viewing area, in particular, has recruited a group of dancers under the age of 22 who have outstanding talents and whose looks and figures are in line with the aesthetic standards of the times, from major art colleges across the country.
"Xiao Chen, the receptionists, hotel customer service, and dance troupe here are of very high quality. Especially the dance troupe, which is very artistic and enjoyable."
"After watching their wonderful performance, I couldn't help but think of a dance artist I met a few years ago. She was as light as a swallow, with a graceful body and very good flexibility, but her endurance was a little lacking."
“Haha~”
