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The boss quickly brought up the remaining two plates of barbecue. There was so much food that it even blocked the line of sight between Ou Jingnian and Dugu Jieao.

"Let's eat." Ou Jingnian waited for the dishes to arrive, and said on the other side of the meat mountain, Dugu Jieao knew that Ou Jingnian's attention was not on food at all just by hearing the voice.She turned on her phone again and looked at the messages. Except for Xiao Song, no one sent her any messages anymore.After a short moment of surprise, the diners next to them resumed their own conversations, and every table and every couple except theirs was filled with a happy atmosphere.

Dugu Jieao felt a little lonely inexplicably. She also felt this kind of loneliness on the morning of her 25th birthday. The pride of beating all beings was drowned, and this time, she had nothing to dispatch this loneliness.

The people around are celebrating their festivals in their world, and everything here has nothing to do with her.

Dugu Jieao let out a sullen snort, wanted to cry up to the sky, and remembered that this place was no longer a top mountain villa where she could run amok, no matter how lonely and depressed she is now, she can only bear it, at most, she will let this This boredom vents on food.

Dugu Jieao fiercely and quickly took a roasted chicken leg to fill his hunger, and when he went to get another chicken leg, a voice suddenly came from Ou Jingnian's end: "Niannian, Merry Christmas."

It was a woman's voice, and it sounded very close to Ou Jingnian.

Dugu Jieao stopped grabbing the chicken leg, and chewed it habitually, but his ears were already pricked up like a rabbit.

There was a lot of noise around, and Ou Jingnian obviously didn't hear the content of this WeChat clearly, so he played it again, and then replied with a laughing voice: "Auntie, Merry Christmas!"

Dugu Jieao's hanging heart just let go and brought it up again - if she remembers correctly, Ou Jingnian only has one uncle, and this uncle is still so unclear with Yang Aihong?

Dugu Jieao suddenly chewed the chicken leg faster, she tore off the poor chicken leg with her teeth angrily, and then heard the next message: "Niannian, your uncle said that you will come back to the old house for dinner on New Year's Day ?”

Dugu Jieao felt that she was really going to become a rabbit, at least her ears had reached the limit of being able to stand up.She stood up abruptly, and pulled all the squid, eggplant, and potato chips piled on the top to her plate, so that Ou Jingnian could slightly poke his head out of the pile of barbecue. Yu was rapidly destroying the food on the plate at the speed just now, while monitoring Ou Jingnian's expression wholeheartedly with his eyes over the flattened pile of meat.

The smile on Ou Jingnian's face faded a little, he picked up the phone, pursed his lips, smiled again and said, "Yes, I will go back on New Year's Day, but I need to work overtime temporarily, so I may only be able to go there at night."

Her aunt's message soon came again: "You have to work overtime on New Year's Day, and your unit is too strict. Why don't you tell your uncle to change jobs for you."

Ou Jingnian smiled wryly, put the phone to his lips, and said in a soft voice, "Auntie, our unit is pretty good, we don't need to make special transfers, and we don't usually work overtime. This time it's because I took a lot of leave before. Some materials need to be supplemented, so there is no way.”

Dugu Jieao felt that there was something weird about Ou Jingnian, but if she really wanted to tell her, she wouldn't be able to say it for a while.

She lost her mind for a while, and when she came back to her senses, she only heard Ou Jingnian's aunt crackling on the receiver: "Aren't you newcomers? Why are you not allowed to write materials for newcomers? You have been in the unit for several years , I haven’t seen your leader give you a promotion, but it’s Feng or something. Recently, she was rated as excellent and promoted. It’s obviously all your work, but she took all the credit and made you work overtime on New Year’s Day. You tell them, don’t write, you are an official establishment, what can they do with you?”

"Aunt," Ou Jingnian said with a helpless expression, "I was originally in charge of the materials, so I should be asked to write. Sister Feng is old and highly educated, so promotion is a matter of course. Auntie, don't mention it to uncle, I don't want to rely on home."

Not long after she sent these words, she received a call. Dugu Jieao took the opportunity to get up to get a drink and glanced at Ou Jingnian's phone interface. The caller ID was "Auntie".

Dugu Jieao immediately moved the hand holding the soy milk to the Coke, and returned to the table with several bottles of Coke.

Ou Jingnian gestured to her as soon as he went, and took his mobile phone to the distance to answer the call.

The barbecue stall was too noisy, Dugu Jieao could only listen to the general idea intermittently, at first Ou Jingnian's aunt insisted on asking Ou Jingnian to change jobs, but Ou Jingnian very tactfully refused her, so the aunt turned to playing the card of warmth, Xu Xu He kept talking about the situation of Ou Jingnian's grandparents, and at the same time repeatedly mentioned the "family banquet" a few times, telling Ou Jingnian to dress nicely and celebrate in every possible way, so as not to make his grandparents unhappy.

Ou Jingnian had a very headache when answering the phone, and finally hung up the phone, just as he was about to turn around and go back, Wen Bai called again, and as soon as she picked up the phone, she heard Wen Bai yelling over there: "Old Ou, are you coming to the store today? There are so many beautiful girls."

Ou Jingnian originally wanted to refuse, but when the words came to his lips, they somehow changed into: "How beautiful?"

Wen Bai whistled on the other end of the phone, and said cheerfully and loudly, "It's more beautiful than Dugu Jieao anyway."

Ou Jingnian shook his head helplessly, and said into the microphone, "You're not going to hire a model to accompany you in the shop again, are you? Be careful of Chen Feng being jealous."

Wen Bai was muttering something, but the other end was too noisy, Ou Jingnian couldn't hear clearly, so he said in a hurry: "I'm in Shanghai now, I can't spend Christmas with you, I will definitely accompany you on New Year's Eve You, it’s too noisy there, I’ll call you tomorrow.” After she finished speaking and hung up the phone, she just turned her head when she was taken aback by Dugu Jieao who appeared by her side at some point: “Dudu Dugu, why are you so elusive? of?"

Dugu Jieao held a pair of chopsticks with only half of them left in his hand, and smiled innocently beside her: "I feel a little thirsty, can I have some drinks?"

Ou Jingnian calmed down his frightened little heart before saying, "Of course, you can order whatever you want."

Dugu Jieao showed a somewhat contrived and melancholy smile: "I think it's better to always tell you."

This sentence made Ou Jingnian feel a little sentimental, she was silent for a while, and then said softly: "Dugu, we can't be lovers, but we can still be friends, if you need my help, just ask."

Dugu Jieao smiled, didn't follow along, just turned around and shouted cheerfully to the boss: "Boss, here's a bottle of Coke, 1.5 liters."

Ou Jingnian was startled again: "Dugu, you drink so much, be careful that you faint from drinking." She still remembers how Dugu fainted from Coke.

Dugu grinned and waved his hand to show he was fine. When the boss brought the Coke, he poured Ou Jingnian a glass first, and asked casually while pouring: "Jingnian, I heard people around me say 'New Year's Eve',' What is New Year's Eve?"

Ou Jingnian happened to be thirsty from the phone call, so he picked up a Coca-Cola and drank a big gulp before saying, "New Year's Eve is the New Year's Day when we count down to the New Year together. We now use the Gregorian calendar, so there are New Year's Day and Spring Festival. .I spend New Year’s Eve with Wen Bai every time.” She hesitated for a while, but still didn’t invite Dugu Jieao, and Dugu Jieao didn’t take the initiative to propose, but continued to ask: “If the New Year’s Eve is so grand, will you all know each other that night? Going out to eat? Will the business of our restaurant be good?"

Ou Jingnian nodded: "Every time between Christmas and New Year's Day, good restaurants in the city have to queue up for meals, and sometimes the queue at Sawatika can go around Baba Ke. I heard from Xiaobai that the week of Christmas The turnover can reach a whole month in normal times.”

Dugu Jieao asked: "Will Savadika have special Christmas activities or New Year's activities before?"

Ou Jingnian shook his head: "Usually it's just our two shareholders and Wen Bai's friends who gather in the store after closing time, hold a small party, and have no external activities—why do you think of asking this?"

Dugu pretended to say: "I think our store should introduce more services during this kind of holiday, such as opening all night, hosting midnight banquets, etc. This will be good for word of mouth and income."

Ou Jingnian thought about it for a while, and thought it was a good idea, so he looked at Dugu Jieao encouragingly: "If you really want to do it, just come up with a plan, and I can talk to Wenbai for you?"

Dugu Jieao: "I will make a plan when I get home tomorrow, and I can implement it this New Year's Day."

Ou Jingnian had just reached out to grab a bunch of meat, and turned around in surprise when he heard this: "There are only a few days left for New Year's Day, are you going to make it this time?"

Dugu Jieao nodded vigorously: "Of course, the sooner you do it, the more money you will make."

"It's okay." Ou Jingnian stuffed the meat skewers into his mouth indifferently, and he remembered the crux of the matter after eating a whole lamb skewer: "Then we can't have a New Year's Eve party in the store this year?" God, it's really not easy to book another satisfactory place.

Dugu Jieao smiled and said, "You can continue to spend New Year's Eve in the store. There are definitely not as many people as there are normal meals when you open all night. You can do activities and let customers participate together, which will make it more lively." As the store manager, of course she will I stayed to supervise the first all-night business, and by the way, reluctantly participated in the New Year's Eve organized by Wenbai ╮(╯_╰)╭.