"Being a narcotics officer is so dangerous, why is he doing this?"
"When he was in school, the types of police he wanted to be were either criminal police or narcotics enforcement. I'm not surprised that he chose to be a narcotics enforcement officer."
After the two of them finished talking about this, someone came from the opposite direction so they changed the subject to something else. They had a meal together and went to watch a movie they hadn't seen before.
It was already twelve o'clock when they got home. The two were talking on the phone, talking about some meaningless things, but neither of them was willing to hang up. When Lin Shuyue got up the next day, the phone was automatically turned off due to the calls.
In these days, there was no very portable way to recharge your phone, so you could only go to a store and buy a recharge card. After washing up and eating breakfast, Lin Shuyue bought a recharge card and went to the newspaper office.
As the Chinese New Year approaches, the atmosphere in the newspaper office begins to become festive. At the end of the year, everyone is not very busy. After work, everyone will get together to discuss holiday plans.
Most of the married women were talking about what they needed to buy for their families during the Chinese New Year.
Those who are not yet married talk about what kind of clothes to buy for the New Year and whose winter clothes are particularly beautiful.
Li Mingfang was an outlier, but what she said was different. She was asking whose gold was of better quality and whose jade was the most genuine.
In response to her question, everyone's eyes fell on Li Weisheng, who was still wearing a plaster cast but was strong-willed and insisted on coming to work at the newspaper every day.
"Mingfang, are you and Ah Sheng going to get married soon?" Everyone in the newspaper knew about Li Weisheng and Li Mingfang's office romance.
Li Mingfang glanced at Li Weisheng, then nodded generously: "Yes, we are planning to get engaged. It's just that the date hasn't been set yet. When it is, we will send out invitations to everyone. Everyone remember to come."
Li Weisheng also echoed from the side: "Yes, everyone must come when the time comes."
"Okay, I'll definitely go when the time comes." The office suddenly became lively.
Someone asked Li Mingfang, "But when you get engaged, doesn't the mother-in-law have to give the gold and jade as a gift? Why do you have to buy them yourself?"
"Don't I have some savings? I want to buy some before I get married." Li Mingfang's mother likes gold very much, and she wants to buy some gold jewelry for her mother before she gets married.
Although her mother didn't need it, she had been her mother's daughter for more than ten years and was about to get married, so she wanted to give her mother a gift.
"A wise choice." The married elder sister gave Li Mingfang a thumbs-up. "Let me tell you, Jin Fengxiang is pretty good. I worked hard last year and I want to buy some gold jewelry to reward myself. Let's go together then."
"Okay. It's settled."
"Me, me, I'll buy one too." Lin Shuyue also joined the ranks of buying gold. The baby in Lin Shuxing's belly was about to be born, so she had to prepare some longevity locks and the like.
In her previous life, while shopping at a mall, Lin Shuyue saw a goldsmith shop crafting spoons and chopsticks out of gold and silver. She thought they were beautiful and charming, and the meaning was good, so she wanted to get them for her nephew/niece, whom she had yet to meet.
"Let's go together." There is no female comrade who doesn't like gold, so the team buying gold quickly grew to more than ten people.
A small number of them are unmarried. When they receive their bonuses at the end of the year, they also want to buy themselves some nice jewelry.
Seeing that they were discussing heatedly, some men also joined in. They didn't know how to judge the quality of jewelry, so they asked people they were close to to help them choose.
During the Chinese New Year, gold jewelry is quite a present whether you are giving it to your mother or your wife.
After much discussion, the group decided on a date two days later, the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, when the newspaper distributed bonuses and was also a holiday.
So on this day, Wang Mingzheng booked a restaurant. After distributing the bonuses in the afternoon, they could go there to eat at six o'clock.
The 26th was also busy on the day. They were backed by the Dingsheng Group owned by Boss Xun, and they had a year-end banquet to entertain all their employees.
This year-end banquet is also a celebration banquet, and the prizes are extremely generous. It is said that the grand prize is also a house.
As soon as the news came out, everyone in the newspaper office, regardless of whether they had a good relationship with Lin Shuyue or not, came over to shake hands with Lin Shuyue.
The men were embarrassed, but they all sat down at Lin Shuyue's workstation.
Lin Shuyue, the main person, was forced to stand aside and was not allowed to sit there.
Lin Shuyue held the snacks handed to her by her colleagues, feeling both amused and helpless.
Li Mingfang had walked up to Lin Shuyue at some point, grinning from ear to ear: "Ah Yue, why do I feel like you're just a ticket inspector?"
It would have been fine if Li Mingfang hadn't said anything, but once she did, Lin Shuyue couldn't help herself. At this moment, another colleague stuffed a bag of plums into Lin Shuyue's hand.
Hey, it looks even more like it.
Xiao He at the front desk leaned back in her workstation, laughing so hard she was bent over. "A house! How many people have worked their entire lives for it? And it's a Dingsheng property, famous for its quality. Who wouldn't want it?"
"I just want to hold Ah Yue in my arms and sleep with her, so that I can enjoy the blessing." As soon as Xiao He said this, the female comrades looked at Lin Shuyue with strange eyes.
"Young people are always quick to think. I think it's okay, Ah Yue, shall we go to your house at noon today?"
"Okay, okay, okay." The interpersonal relationships in the newspaper office were simple. They had been together for so long without any conflicts, and no one had any bad habits. They were not the kind of people who were not satisfied with taking advantage of small benefits, so Lin Shuyue agreed.
So after getting off work at noon and having lunch in the cafeteria, a group of more than ten people went to Lin Shuyue's home in Xijiang Apartment.
Everyone lay down on the big bed in Lin Shuyue's room and soon fell asleep. Some of them couldn't sleep there and just slept on the floor next to the bed.
They had no other thoughts, just wanted to take advantage of Lin Shuyue's good luck. In the afternoon work, Lin Shuyue got a lot of fruit snacks, and when she went home in the evening, she would carry them back home with her.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it's the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month. Everyone's handed in the articles assigned by their leaders for the holiday. This needs to be scheduled in advance to prevent a gap in the supply of articles. They can't just rely on reprints, right? They have to have some original content.
It was already afternoon when everyone lined up to go to the finance office to collect their wages.
Lin Shuyue's salary plus bonuses totaled 50,000, which was undoubtedly a huge fortune in this era.
But both the leader and Lin Shuyue felt that she deserved such a large bonus.
The first year after Lin Shuyue received the money, she planned to buy a house. However, this time, she wanted to buy not a pre-built commercial house in the residential complex, but a small two-story house in the village.
Lin Shuyue saw that house on her way to work a few days ago. It was not a big house, with only one floor covering an area of over 100 square meters.
It's at the end of the village, in a less-than-ideal location. Built in the 1980s, the house doesn't have the best lighting. But the two floors combined aren't expensive, just over 100,000 yuan. The first floor could be rented out for a small shop, and the second floor could be used for living. The annual rent should be at least 4,000 to 5,000 yuan.
Lin Shuyue, who possessed the memories of her previous life, knew that before long, a subway would be connected. By then, the prices of houses in this area would skyrocket. In a few years, a university branch would be built here, and the demolition compensation would be in the tens of millions.
Investing now is definitely worth it.
While her colleagues who had agreed to buy gold jewelry were still receiving their salaries, Lin Shuyue called the landlord and agreed to see the house again tomorrow. Then she waited with peace of mind.
Half an hour later, after the last colleague received his salary, everyone headed towards a nearby shopping mall. On the first floor of the mall was Jin Fengxiang's gold shop.
As the year was coming to an end, Jin Feng Xiang was also having a sale. Lin Shuyue looked around and decisively bought a bracelet, a longevity lock, and a set of gold bowls and gold spoons.
After buying the gold jewelry, the group of women went straight to the clothing store on the second floor and shopped there from 3:30 to 5:00. Following this shopping trend, Lin Shuyue also bought a few sets of clothes.
Because her choice of outfits were beautiful, she even helped her colleagues put together several outfits.
At five twenty, a group of people ran to the restaurant that Wang Mingzheng had booked.
This restaurant is famous for its taro chicken. As soon as Lin Shuyue entered the restaurant, she smelled a strong aroma of taro.
Lin Shuyue and the others found a random table and sat down to chat with everyone. It was very noisy around them, and everyone had to speak loudly.
The leaders at the table with Wang Mingzheng, Huang Qiang and others were sitting together and talking. Li Weisheng's uncle, the head of the advertising department, touched his belly again and again when he talked about something happy.
Li Mingfang leaned over to Lin Shuyue and said, "Ah Yue, do you know what happened last night after everyone got off work? The leaders of our company took turns sitting in your seat for a long time."
Lin Shuyue exclaimed, then burst out laughing: "They are quite funny."
"That's right. During the day, They're afraid of having to work at your station, which might affect their image. But at night, they take turns working there. They're all part of the leadership team, so it's not embarrassing."
"Then how did you know that?"
"Ah Sheng said that there was a dinner party at his house last night, and his uncle said he would take him home. He waited from the time he got off work until dark, and he got so impatient that he kept sending me messages."
As soon as Li Mingfang said this, Lin Shuyue could imagine how depressed Li Weisheng was when he sent the message to Li Mingfang.
At six o'clock, all the colleagues from the unit arrived, and the hotel kitchen started serving the dishes and wine. As usual, Wang Mingzheng gave a summary of the work of the past year, encouraging everyone and hoping to do better next year. There was no more nonsense after that, and he hoped that everyone would eat and drink well.
Lin Shuyue followed the example of her predecessors, had a drink with the leaders, and then sat down to taste the food. Soon, people came with glasses of wine to toast them one by one.
As a prominent figure in the newspaper office over the past year, there was an endless stream of people toasting Lin Shuyue.
After dinner, a group of people decided to go singing. Lin Shuyue howled with her colleagues for a long time and drank a lot of beer. When she felt a little confused and suffocated, she got up and went to the bathroom of the KTV.
It was about ten meters from the bathroom to the large private room they had booked. Lin Shuyue texted Hang Jiabai while walking.
When turning the corner and entering the box room, Lin Shuyue subconsciously glanced at the box next to her. At just one glance, she saw the man sitting in the middle of the box.
The man had dyed hair in a yellow-red gradient, and on each side sat a young girl in cool clothes.
This is not the most shocking thing. The most shocking thing is that the man looks exactly like Zuo Xiangfeng from the capital!
"Ah Yue, what are you doing standing at the door? Come and roll the dice. They are too powerful. I can't beat them."
Li Mingfang looked at Lin Shuyue standing at the door and called out immediately. Lin Shuyue responded and walked in.
She didn't notice that after she entered the room, the man who looked like Zuo Xiangfeng and was chatting enthusiastically with the girl in the next box glanced at the door where she had just stood.
"Brother Ah Feng, what are you looking at? Do you know the beautiful woman just now?"
"What, are you jealous? She's so pretty and you won't let me take another look? Come on, keep going, it's my turn to fire you, three-one!"
"Wow, I lost again, Brother Ah Feng, you are so mean, you don't know how to be gentle with women at all~"
His voice was artificial and so sweet that it made people sick. The cool stage lights shone on him, but the man called Ah Feng didn't even look at the door again.