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Miss Pender also looked more formal than yesterday.She still wears trousers, but in a darker color, a light-colored sweater under the suit, and no jewelry.In addition to Xinhe Yimin whom I met yesterday, there were several more people on the BCG side. The chair to the left of the big boss was empty, and behind him was a man who hadn't taken a formal seat, probably Miss Pan De's secretary.On Kevin's side, there were about the same number of people as us, and An Ning was there, sitting near the door, and now she stood up and nodded when she saw me.

This time there are no tricks, and the big show is about to begin.

The meeting was chaired by Miss Pender herself.This is to give our big boss face-well, yes, he is still wearing a T-shirt, just get used to it.As soon as we came in, the group of kids behind us started talking in low voices, how have these internet kids ever seen anything in the world after a long time of peace?I thought Miss Pender was a new kind person.Before the BCG side noticed it, I immediately warned them with my eyes. This group of people stopped their voices quickly, but unfortunately they still lost the battle. Kevin looked at me from the opposite side, and then at the boss, with a taunting look in his eyes. beyond words.

"Good morning, everyone." The room fell silent, and Miss Pande said, "I am Sonia Pande, a partner of BCG Singapore, and I am in charge of your company's resource integration project. We should meet frequently in the next few months. Meet, you can call me Sonia."

Resource Integration.I repeated it silently in my heart, the word was very vague, but I heard it clearly: a soft knife cuts flesh.

"This is Xu Xin, our project manager, and Lin Yimin, our consultant, from the Shanghai office." Lin Yimin is the man in suit who appreciated my joke yesterday.The rest are all from the Singapore office, and their ranks are not high.I am ready to write down the names and faces one by one.

Then we also made an introduction respectively.The big boss briefly talked about the situation of our company, which was basically a condensed and enhanced version of what Sanjay and I demonstrated yesterday. Immediately afterwards, BCG's explanation began.I didn't take any notes on the surface, and I wanted to bluff Kevin today, but I'm just listening to the lecture.The so-called resource integration soon became clear under the unified presentation of BCG: It seems that some people in the group are dissatisfied with the split of the largest department of our company into two. .But simple suture obviously can't solve the problem - BCG came to help us dismantle the company.

Kevin's confident eyes began to be mixed with hypocrisy, and sure enough, he also recalled it.The little soldiers are all wandering. Today is such a big meeting, and there are outsiders. Few people dare to take advantage of it openly, but only a few really keep up with the rhythm.I pretended to look at the chairman, but I was actually observing the boss' face.He's still poker face.The big boss was listening attentively to the demonstration, and Jocelyn was sitting behind him, recording something all the time, rarely raising her head.

I do two things.The big boss is the founder of the company. Although he does not directly guide the specific technical business, he has a lot of ideas about the framework of the entire company. He definitely does not want us to dismantle it - but he did not stop the people invited by the group to consult. .This means that either he thinks he won't do it, or he can't stop it. With such a large team from BCG, it is a long-term project, and the asking price may be expensive.It was decided to spend such a large sum of money at the beginning of the year, so the intention of the group is very firm.

I quietly looked at Miss Pender.I don't know if she, the partner, negotiated this business, or the group approached her directly?

The big boss still has a lot of say in the company at the moment. Kevin is pulling the strings at the moment. If the department is not dismantled, he will look good at that time.It seems that we have become comrades in arms again: things in this world are often difficult to distinguish between black and white, and I feel much more pleasing to the eye when I look at his face now.The teeth whitening is really good, I will ask him where he did it later.

The company allocated an area on the [-]th floor for the BCG project team to work.This arrangement is very interesting, because the space utilization rate on the twentieth floor is not very good, there is not even a cold drink cabinet, and they come to our nineteenth floor to get ice cream and so on. It is separated from us and does not work on the same floor.It's not that I think too much about it: Hui Lin, who is in charge of the arrangement, is a fine person, and she must have noticed what I have thought of.

At the end of the meeting, the boss took Lao Huang and went straight to the smoking area downstairs.I was still busy with things in Vietnam, and finally caught my breath, and saw a message from a newly registered intranet account, and I saw the suffix: Well, the man in the suit of BCG, I can’t ignore it.After I dealt with it, tomorrow's lunch time is also booked out, and I have been thinking about it all morning, and I feel a little bit out of energy.Originally, February was not too busy. I planned to buy a refrigerator as soon as I got back to Singapore. I was free at noon today, but now I want to buy a refrigerator?forgive me.

It's really inconvenient without a refrigerator.I basically live on microwave food and frozen instant food. The food courts near my new home have limited varieties and mediocre taste. If I eat around the company, I always feel like I will be caught back for a meeting at any time.Moreover, there are countless places suitable for light meals in the Raffles area, and sometimes they feel uncomfortable when they meet young colleagues.

I repainted my eyebrows, and stayed at the door of the bathroom, unwilling to go back.

At the end of the corridor is a floor-to-ceiling window.As far as the eye can see, the Singapore River turns golden under the strong sunlight.In the past, this place was a business center, and most of the bungalows used as warehouses or shops have become high-end restaurants today.I don't know if people who work at Raffles would like to spend money here in their spare time.I definitely don't want to: I think I will be caught and brought back to the meeting.

Yes, I'm already very hungry.But I'm afraid to eat it, and I'm afraid to buy my refrigerator.I can only use the window to organize my hair by the reflection of the golden light, hoping that this short break from the busy schedule will slow down the flow of time and give me a little rest.

Almost telepathically, I took out my phone and saw a message that had just been sent.It is a forwarded news about the domestic confirmed situation, which contains a brief science popularization of various protective measures.I swipe up and found that the last message I received was already in April last year.

"Dad, don't worry about me. Is there enough disinfectant for masks? Shall I send some back?" I sent a voice over.

His text message back: "Yes."

So simple.

There's something awkward about our relationship.I don't know if the younger ones were so awkward when they didn't remember anything, and I don't have anyone to prove it to; but since the fourth grade of elementary school, I bumped into him one day with an aunt, and then we were alone Talking is always a little awkward.We never talked about it, but I think he saw me then and knew I saw him.

Apart from this, I can't think of any reason for the current relationship.It should be said that there are no other reasons: my dad's sense of existence is quite weak.I remember one time he took me home and bought a popsicle for me on the way; another time, I was about to enter high school, and he suddenly asked me how my grades were.Other than that, I really don't remember anything about him.He didn't say a word even when my mother made a big hole, and he never complained to me.

Lao Huang greeted me with a smell of cigarettes all over his body.I felt nauseous, rolled my eyes, and couldn't help laughing at the end.

Old Huang said: "One of us must be a peacemaker."

I didn't answer.

"At the same time, he can't just be a nice guy."

I didn't look him in the eye: "What does the boss mean?"

"It depends on how you look at it." He shook his head as he spoke, "Besides, who in our team can take on this important task?"

My slightly more serious eyes could only move away from him, look out of the window, and finally said: "Vietnam is very challenging. It is best to go to the field to see, but many things this year have to be considered in the long term. It’s easy to send people there now, but when can they come back? Online communication or wired communication is limited, if only I could have a helper.”

"You want someone new?"

I smiled at him: "Then I told the boss last year."

Old Huang was silent: "Let's roll the roll."

I pretended to think for a while, then said, "How about Reuben lending me?"

Xiaoding is from the BBC. In the company, everyone calls him Ruben.

Lao Huang looked reluctant to give up his love, nodded slowly and said: "I will mention it to the boss."

"You're the nicest guy." I winked. "Lunch?"

He shrugged: "Let's go."

Now is the time to unanimously speak to the outside world. Our side has the intention of reconciliation. Of course, Kevin also needs to send some goodwill signals.Sanjay was the one who had the least conflict with us. I was not surprised that he invited me to dinner that night.They briefly exchanged the intentions of their respective bosses, I think he is exhausted enough, they are all wage earners, why bother to embarrass each other?So I suggested that I simply finish it with dinner, so that I can go to bed earlier.Sanjay has never worked with me before, and seeing my usual attire, he may think that Kevin and I are the same kind of people.Hearing this, I felt that he was obviously relieved, obviously he was unwilling to spend too much time on this kind of flamboyant social interaction.

I got home before nine o'clock.Today I tore off the film of the sofa and pushed them one by one to the place I had imagined before. It didn't make too much noise, but the process took a little longer. I hope the neighbors don't mind.I didn’t do the soft decoration of the house at all: I really didn’t have time to do it. I bought the bedroom and the bathroom as soon as I bought the house. I didn’t even put a scented candle in the bathroom. That’s it, it took up a lot of sleep time .After that, I am afraid that there will be a lot of toasts and chips. Don't say that we want to talk about it, and the information that BCG has is probably not enough.I'm thinking that I can make more appointments in restaurants with better decoration, so that I can kill two birds with one stone, and I can also find some references for the soft decoration of the house.