"Clang clang—"
Gao Feng's angry curses were heard only by the sharp-eared little fox, while no one else did. However, Gao Feng's "bang bang" kicks on the rolling door were audible all down the street, including in the Four Delights Tea House.
Whenever there's commotion, the families in the teahouse drinking tea and eating pastries instinctively glanced sideways, wanting to see what was happening on the street.
But alas, Gao Feng had already retreated to his newly purchased Porsche with temporary plates, frantically dialing to notify all employees to return.
Yu Xueqing held Ansheng, standing on the windowsill with her parents, but saw nothing.
However, upon seeing the Gao Feng Consulting Company's sign, Yu Zhenghong snorted, his expression slightly sour.
Meanwhile, Ansheng's mouth slightly curled up, and a peculiar smile appeared on Chen Fengshui's cheek.
Clearly, both knew who had just been kicking the rolling door.
After watching for a while with nothing else to see, everyone returned to their seats and began ordering food.
"Mmm mmm—"
Ansheng moved closer to Yu Xueqing, eyeing the menu.
Xia Dong, Xia Nan Region's morning tea culture, Ansheng had already experienced in his past life, which involved drinking tea and eating pastries.
But for the people here, morning tea is actually a family-focused social activity.
Ansheng liked showing off his breakfast but felt somewhat resistant to morning tea culture.
Anyone who has done business in the Xia Dong and Xia Nan Region knows they are very pragmatic here—it's exactly how pragmatic?
Let's say small businesses are done together, everyone earns together, and letting a little profit doesn't hurt.
In doing business here, nothing is exaggerated, but slightly larger transactions, especially for sole proprietors, require bringing family members along for a meal.
They won't look at you, but at your family, with children as a focus of observation.
Adults can be hypocritical, but children are hard to hide, and family upbringing reveals the adults' character.
This community is cautious with bachelors, but extremely wary of loners.
A whole family worships the heavens, mana boundless.
If they roll out, there's no trace of them.
Ansheng had tasted morning tea socializing, and felt immensely annoyed at the partner's genealogy-like scrutiny.
I'm damn tired just attending class, unable to freely have meals or pay rent across two places—getting married and having kids would just be adding trouble to an already unhappy life, wouldn't it?
Ansheng used to despise morning tea socializing.
But now...
"Mmm mmm—"
Ah Qing, quick! The shrimp dumplings are running out!
Ansheng propped his forelegs on the table, standing upright, urgently raising his hand to point at the shrimp dumplings on the table.
A basket of shrimp dumplings consists of three, even though they had just ordered three baskets, only two had been served.
Ansheng's strategy was to strike first, devouring the two baskets on the table before snatching the next one.
"Xiaolan, don't rush..."
Yu Xueqing muttered with her mouth full of a barbecue bun, responded vaguely, picked up her chopsticks, and placed a shrimp dumpling on Ansheng's plate.
Devour my mouth!
Ansheng was full of delight, gobbling with gusto.
At Four Delights Tea House, Ansheng ate and recognized the fair pre-made dishes.
But free things are always delicious.
Just like Ansheng's colleague from his previous life, solemnly telling him: "I don't smoke Lotus because it has metaphysical traits; when you buy it yourself, you'll never taste the lotus fragrance..."
As he said, he unwrapped the Lotus cigarettes Ansheng had prepared to give a client.
All the colleagues sighed; free is indeed the most fragrant.
Then....
The office had cigarettes but no lighter, everyone grumbled and chattered, trying to find something to light them.
But Ansheng knew they enjoyed the challenge of having cigarettes without a lighter.
...…
Compared to the joyful and family-friendly atmosphere at Four Delights Tea House as two families happily showed off,
Gao Feng Wisdom Consulting Company was enveloped in sorrow.
After the locksmith removed the door lock, the sight was a mess at the front desk.
The frosted glass partitioned bar and the public area looked like chaotic Jinxi Northwest.
Gao Feng's heart skipped a beat; he didn't dare imagine what the second and third floors were like.
"Whoa! My Red Label Gesha coffee beans!"
Gao Feng's heart skipped, but so did the dozen employees.
The company had a bar, but didn't stock beverages; employees brought their own drinks.
An employee from Gao Feng Consulting, teary-eyed, ran to the bar behind the glass partition, seeing a very familiar coffee bag and a big basin of soil.
The company's money tree was gone, while its pot was filled with Red Label coffee beans.
"Dammit! My tea can is full of milk!" Another employee ran to the bar, initially somewhat relieved to see his red tea can intact.
However, upon picking it up, it felt unusually heavy, like there was liquid inside.
Liquid.....
Not a big deal; even if someone added water, the tea leaves inside could still be boiled into tea eggs.
When he opened the can and saw the sweet milk inside, he was struck like lightning.
Dammit...two thousand three hundred per kilo of tea leaves, used to make milk tea!
"Thud thud thud..."
The lightning-struck man staggered backwards, leaning against the bar, eyes redden, breathing heavily.
His monthly salary barely exceeded four thousand, and this can of tea was intended as a gift, now turned into milk tea.
"....."
Seeing the disaster on the first floor, those consulting company individuals primarily working on the second floor hurried upstairs.
The computer screens were neatly arranged, unharmed.
But on closer glance, all peripherals either lay on the floor or dangled in mid-air, resembling an elderly hanging himself.
Pots, documents, cups, had all smashed down from the desks themselves.
"My ledger! Wah—" The finance person returned to her office, seeing some intact items, just as she felt a slight sense of relief.
When she touched the ledger and felt a sticky sensation, she felt a pit in her stomach, the texture reminiscent of something her boyfriend had snorted.
She resisted vomiting, attempted to open the ledger to inspect the accounts.
But with one flip, the entire ledger was flung up by her previous actions.
The finance person's face of disgust gradually faded, seemingly realizing what the gluey stuff in the ledger was. Her face turned stark white, trying to pry it open.
Glue...filled the ledger with white glue!
The company's financial ledger was filled entirely with glue!
"Wah—" The finance person's cry was thunderous, a crash that echoed down the street.
"Boom—"
Just as finance and cashier cried helpless, a dull thud came from the office, shaking the entire building.
A stout man lay dazed in the restroom, yellow fluids flowing from his crotch.
Too rushed to the company, he held his morning's first pee in his bladder all along.
Entering the bathroom, he slipped, jolting his bladder hard, and the gate could no longer close.
The bathroom floor was wet...covered in soap.
Super slippery.
Other colleagues who heard the noise instinctively ran to the bathroom to see what was happening.
Then, like the Seven Brothers saving Grandpa, they started assisting.
Amid continued thuds, someone finally noticed the water stains before the bathroom; the yellow looked somewhat suspicious.
"Damn! The soap smells like pee!"
"There's pee in the water! Boo hoo hoo—" Someone facedown cried a guttural wail outside the restroom.
Gao Feng stood dazed, with heavy steps walked to the third-floor office.
His office door...had been pried open.
"Damn..." Gao Feng seemed in disbelief, muttered under his breath.