mutual benefit [gl]

Twenty minutes before the end of the lunch break, Ji Cixi and his colleagues returned to the training class.

As soon as she put down her bag, half of the buttons of her coat were unbuttoned. A colleague hurried over and said to her:

"Sister Liu asked you to go to the reception room."

Sister Liu is a course consultant in the high school department. There are often photos of her smiling brightly posted on the display boards of the star staff at the front desk. She looks about 40 years old.

Ji Cixi was a little strange. It stands to reason that the work of teachers and consultants is like two infinitely extending parallel lines, each of which is carried out without interfering with each other.She called herself suddenly, what could happen?

Before reaching the reception room, Sister Liu's chattering and laughing voice faintly entered Ji Cixi's ears.

It seems that this is not a private conversation between her and Sister Liu, Ji Cixi's hanging heart is slightly relieved, but a little doubt arises again.

Who is Sister Liu asking her to meet?

After she raised her hand and knocked on the door three times, she put her hand on the cold doorknob, waiting for the people in the room to let her in.

But she heard the sound of high heels. Sister Liu walked to the door quickly and opened the door for her.

Looking up to meet Liu Jie's enthusiastic smile, Ji Cixi was a little dazed for a while.

She was not familiar with Sister Liu, so unfamiliar that she forgot her real name, and would only politely call her Sister Liu along with others, but how could she be so warm to herself?

"Xiao Ji, come in quickly!" Sister Liu grabbed Ji Cixi's hand, there was a thin layer of sweat on the palm of her hand, and the sticky feeling made Ji Cixi extremely uncomfortable.

"This is Ms. Liao."

Fortunately, after Sister Liu led Ji Cixi into the room, she automatically let go of her hand, and she closed the door while introducing the third person in the reception room.

The woman called Ms. Liao stood up from the sofa and walked in front of Ji Cixi.

"Hello, Teacher Ji."

"Hello."

Ji Cixi politely greeted the woman in front of her, and looked at her calmly.

She should be in her early forties, but just by looking at it, she can tell that she is well maintained. Although she wears light makeup on her face, she can still see that her skin is good.The ivory wool dress on her was ironed as if it was custom-made for her, and it neatly outlined her slender waist.

"Don't stand still, sit down and talk, come." Sister Liu courteously led the two of them to sit down, she poured another glass of water and put it in front of Ji Cixi, looked up and said with a smile: "Xiao Ji, you and Ms. Liao are still alumni Well, what a coincidence."

"Yeah, I thought it was a coincidence when I found out." Ms. Liao smiled, "I just don't know what major Mr. Ji is."

"Financial mathematics." Ji Cixi nodded slightly.

"Then it seems that Mr. Ji's science is really good." The woman laughed.She picked up the teacup, and her little finger carelessly traced the pattern on the cup, but she didn't drink the tea.

"I'm not good at science. I studied sociology in college." She laughed.

Seeing that the topic of the two gradually deviated from the main line, Sister Liu showed a little anxiety on her smiling face, but she couldn't bring the topic directly.

Ji Cixi saw it in his eyes, but he was silent in action, just waiting for the woman to bring the topic back.

After the woman and Ji Cixi said a few more words on the topic of the two of them sharing the same university, they took the initiative to return to the topic:

"I heard that Teacher Ji's mathematics teaching is very good."

Ji Cixi smiled humbly, "You are too much."

"Where, the parents of the classmates in my daughter's class have spread the word, saying that following you to learn, the improvement is very fast."

"Yes," Sister Liu agreed, and she smiled at Ji Cixi.

"Xiao Ji's courses are also the ones that come to me for consultation the most."

Ji Cixi smiled, she picked up the paper cup and took a sip of water, and didn't put the cup down immediately, but held it in her hand, the hot water transmitted heat to Ji Cixi's cold hands through a thin layer of paper wall, This made her palms ache.

"I heard that Mr. Ji's one-on-one tutoring class this winter has not been scheduled yet?" Ms. Liao asked.

Sister Liu rushed to answer: "Yes, we haven't scheduled classes yet!"

"Oh...that's it." Ms. Liao finally took a sip of tea, then she put the porcelain cup lightly on the tea table, looked up and asked with a smile, "Can you give me all of it?"

Hearing this, Ji Cixi couldn't help raising her eyes to look at Ms. Liao, with surprise and doubt in her eyes.

Sister Liu was also obviously taken aback, her normally eloquent lips parted slightly, a few words stuck in her throat.

"Here, Ms. Liao, you are sincere, and I have to tell you the truth. This..." Sister Liu's smile stuck to her face dryly, she slurred this and that for a long time, and finally said a complete sentence if.

"Our fee here is 350 yuan an hour. If you take all the teacher's class hours for the whole winter... it will be a lot of money."

Ms. Liao laughed when she heard the words, and she said to Sister Liu:

"Children's studies are more important than anything else. If you spend a little money, if you can let your children go to a better school, it's worth it. You said it is..."

"Hey--"

Before Ms. Liao could direct her words to herself, Ji Cixi suddenly jumped up from the sofa and interrupted her abruptly.

A drop of water was rolling down the hem of her coat, and the coat with a large dark mark from the water was faintly steaming, the paper cup rolled to the ground, and hot water continuously flowed out of the paper cup and seeped into the wooden floor in the gap.

Ji Cixi frowned slightly, looking as if she was in pain, she had no time to care about the coat, but raised her arms and rolled up the sleeves.

The hot water was splashed on the flesh, and several red blisters instantly popped up on the white arms.

"Hiss—" She bit her lip in pain, raised her head and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I didn't hold it steady just now, so..."

"Are you all right?" Sister Liu asked anxiously.

Ji Cixi forced a smile and shook her head.

"What did you want to say just now?" She took the initiative to ask Ms. Liao.

Ms. Liao said with a smile: "It's nothing, Teacher Ji's clothes are all wet, I wonder if there are any clothes I can change?"

"Ah, this, it's okay." Ji Cixi waved her hand, this action once again involved the place that was scalded by the water, and she couldn't help breathing.

"Teacher Ji should deal with it quickly." Ms. Liao said.

"Ah, it's okay, didn't you just finish talking?"

"That's a trivial matter. Teacher Ji's injury is more serious than that. I can come back another day."

"Then..." Ji Cixi smiled apologetically, and borrowed the slope to get off the donkey: "Then I'm really sorry..."

"Xiao Ji, go and deal with it quickly, don't get worse." Sister Liu urged Ji Cixi to leave the reception room logically.

After closing the door of the reception room, the smile on Ji Cixi's face instantly disappeared without a trace.She looked down at her scalded arm, and the burning pain from the blisters became more intense.Fortunately, only water was splashed, and the coat was dark brown, so it would not be obvious.Ji Cixi breathed a sigh of relief, she put down the wide sleeves of her coat, and left the corridor.

The conversation in the reception room continued.

"Ms. Liu, no matter how much it is, as long as you pay the bill."

Sister Liu smiled with some embarrassment and said, "It's Ms. Liao like this. We still have rules and regulations here. We must discuss this class arrangement with the teacher. Look at what happened just now. I didn't have time to discuss it with Teacher Ji, it's really..."

Ms. Liao nodded and said, "I understand. I would like to ask Mr. Liu to discuss with Mr. Ji. After all, I heard that she is very prestigious among the parents of the students, and my children have been recommending her to me, so... "

"Of course, we will definitely discuss this with Mr. Ji, don't worry!"

"That's good." Ms. Liao stood up and picked up her handbag. "Then I will ask Mr. Liu."

"This is what we should do." Sister Liu also stood up, and Ms. Liao waved her hand with a smile, indicating that she didn't need to send it off, and turned and left the reception room by herself.

Before going downstairs, Ms. Liao did not forget to walk to the door of the teacher's office. She glanced inside, but did not see Ji Cixi.

"Ms. Liao?"

When she heard the sound, she turned around, and Sister Liu was standing behind her.

"You..." Sister Liu hesitated to speak, she obviously didn't expect that Ms. Liao was still here.

"Oh, I'm still thinking about the injury on Teacher Ji's arm, and I want to see her." Ms. Liao said calmly.

"Oh..." Sister Liu nodded, and she also walked over and looked into the office, but she couldn't find Ji Cixi after searching around, so she asked in the office, "Where is Teacher Ji?"

The colleague sitting next to Ji Cixi raised his head and replied, "I said I went to buy burn ointment."

Ms. Liao said with a smile: "In that case, I won't bother you anymore." After that, she said goodbye to Sister Liu politely, turned and went downstairs.

After walking out of the gate of the training class, she put on her windbreaker, walked a few steps to the road where the training class was located, and found her car.

Sitting in the car, she started the car, and while waiting for the heater to surround the entire cab, she took out her mobile phone from her handbag.

"It's a little trouble." She lowered her voice and said to the phone.

Although it is cold winter, occasionally dry leaves can still be seen on the tree holding on to the branches in the wind, hoping to survive as long as possible.However, the cold wind is getting colder and colder, sometimes accompanied by ruthless snowflakes.

With a sound of "swish", another dry leaf fell and hit the silver-white car, but after only a short rest, the dry leaf unfortunately rolled under the wheels that had just started to turn and was smashed into pieces.

And not far away, Ji Cixi was holding a freshly bought burn ointment in her coat pocket. She watched the beginning and end of this silent and bloodless killing with cold eyes. Finally, she turned around and walked away slowly.

After returning to the office and sitting down, Ji Cixi took out the burn ointment from her pocket. She walked through the cold wind and returned to the well-heated room, but the chill on her body was not dispelled, but instead penetrated into her body .

The colleague saw her holding the scald ointment in a daze, and couldn't help asking her with concern: "Is your hand okay?"

Ji Cixi turned her head numbly when she regained her senses, and smiled perfunctorily.

"It's okay, it's okay."

"Oh..." The colleague moved his leaning body back to his seat, but he felt that he hadn't said enough, so he paused and added: "If you have time, you should go to the hospital to have a look. Neither big nor small."

Ji Cixi agreed verbally, but she was noncommittal in her heart, but when she heard the word "hospital" from her colleague's mouth, her heart suddenly shrank.

"I didn't look good when I walked today. I'm really sorry for bumping into you. If you have any questions in the future, please contact me."

A woman's voice rang in her ears, what was that woman's name?

Ji Cixi frowned slightly, trying hard to search for the woman's name in her mind, she remembered that she had seen it on the business card that she hadn't answered.

Chen...Chen...Chen Yuanzhen!

Ji Cixi's spirit was lifted, she couldn't care about the burns at all, she moved to the computer, and quickly typed the word Chen Yuanzhen in the search engine with her ten fingers.

The search engine found only 47 relevant results for her, and she scanned them one by one, but none of them could be matched correctly.

The cloud of suspicion in Ji Cixi's heart slowly surrounded her thoughts again.

That luxury car that appeared where it shouldn't be, that woman, and today's inexplicable Ms. Liao.

Is everything that happened recently really just a coincidence?

Thinking of this, she reached out and rubbed the swollen eyebrows.

Ji Ciwen's health is getting worse day by day, and Ji Xu hasn't given her any peace of mind these two days, Ji Cixi thinks that maybe she is really too tired to be so suspicious.But even so, she still decided not to visit Ji Ciwen in the hospital during this period of time, the so-called fear of ten thousand, just in case.

On the other side, the central business district of City Z.

The red sports car stopped in front of the skyscraper office building, and a woman wearing a dress of the same color as the sports car—the same fiery red dress got out of the car. After getting out of the car, she first tidied up the black coat she wore on her body, and then looked down. Looking at the pair of small black leather shoes on his feet, he bent his mouth in satisfaction.

Although wearing flat shoes is a little uncomfortable for a while, but the feeling is not bad.

After she ordered her assistant to park the car, she went straight into the office building. The staff at the front desk immediately bowed when they saw her.

"Director Chen."

She waved her hand in a good mood, and then walked into the elevator.

The moment the elevator door closed, she put away the delicate smile on her face.

Everyone in the entire Chen Group only thought of her, Chen Yuanzhen, as a waste of nothing but eating, drinking and sleeping. They bowed to her only because she was "Chen" Yuanzhen.

But thinking about it, Chen Yuanzhen raised his beautiful eyebrows.

It doesn't matter that Chen Yuanzhen is a woman, she is the product of Chen Zhishan, the chairman of the Chen Group, who had a one-night affair when he was young.

At a banquet, she overheard those rich wives discussing behind their backs, and those women spit and stared all over the sky: If it wasn't for Chairman Chen, she would still be affectionate and righteous, she, Chen Yuanzhen, an illegitimate daughter, would not deserve to stay in the Chen family. How about Miss Chen Jiasan?

Chen Yuanzhen's eyes became deeper and deeper, she raised her head to look at the scarlet jumping numbers on the display and couldn't help but sneer.

In the mouths of those women, Chen Zhishan is really a good man and father who values ​​love and responsibility.

But how could she not be clear about Chen Zhishan's little plan?

The reason why he let her come to the Chen family was simply to play a pawn in the possible political marriage in the future.

As for the Mrs. Chen at home, she probably wanted to maintain her role as a magnanimous wife in front of her husband, so she gritted her teeth and let her live in.

After all, Chen Yuanzhen is an illegitimate daughter, and she has no right to inherit the group in front of her two sons. In addition, Chen Yuanzhen now looks like a rich lady who only knows how to eat, drink and have fun, so she is not a threat no matter what.

"Ding--"

The elevator stopped on the fifth floor and slowly opened the closed doors to both sides.

Chen Yuanzhen adjusted his breathing and smiled again.

She stepped out of the elevator and stomped her feet lightly. The soles of her flat shoes were also soft when she stepped on the ground, not at all as loud as the soles of high heels.

Chen Yuanzhen smiled with satisfaction. She brushed her wavy hair, took out a pair of sunglasses that could almost cover half of her face from her handbag, and put it on in front of her eyes. Then she took out a bottle of perfume from her bag, squeezed Holding her nose with the other hand, she sprayed vigorously around herself a few times, the pungent fragrance made her want to cough.

Chen Yuanzhen's set looks like a gaudy vase, no matter how you look at it, it has nothing to do with capable female elites.

And that's exactly what she wanted.

She twisted and twisted across the long corridor, and the employees passing by her could not help frowning when they smelled the strong perfume on her body, but they still bowed and said hello to her helplessly.

Chen Yuanzhen accepted them one by one with a smile, and continued to twist and walk happily, not caring how many times those employees would roll their eyes at her the moment they turned around.

After walking for about 5 minutes, Chen Yuanzhen stopped in front of the door that said "Deputy General Manager's Office".

After raising her hand and knocking on the door a few times, she heard a man's "please come in" from the door, so she opened the door and walked in.

"Let me see what my second brother is doing." She closed the door behind her back as she said, and after walking around in the huge office, she took off her sunglasses and said to the thin man sitting at the desk with a smile:

"The main thing is to see for the second sister-in-law to see if you hide behind her back~"

The man stood up and walked around the desk. When he smelled the perfume on her body, he sniffed unconsciously, but he didn't show any impatience on his face.He waved his hand to signal Chen Yuanzhen to sit down on the sofa beside him, and he himself sat on the main seat.

"You girl, talk nonsense to your second sister-in-law again, be careful that I won't give you pocket money next month." He scolded with a smile.

Chen Yuanzhen didn't speak, just pursed her lips and smiled, she scanned the office calmly.

I remember that the last time I came here was one and a half months ago. In less than [-] days, the second brother Chen Yuanshuo was not only promoted from the position of director to deputy general manager, but even the office was completely renovated.

She couldn't help but smile coldly in her heart.

No wonder big brother Chen Yuanyang is so anxious recently.

"Yuan Zhen, Yuan Zhen?" Chen Yuanshuo called her name.

Only then did Chen Yuanzhen come back to his senses, seeing Chen Yuanshuo still smiling brightly.

"You girl didn't go shopping today, why did you think of looking for your brother?" Chen Yuanshuo said, looking up and down Chen Yuanzhen.

"Why are you wearing this skirt again?" He frowned slightly.

"What's the matter?" Chen Yuanzhen also looked up and down at himself when he heard the sound, "It's so red, so festive."

"Look at the way you remember eating and not beating." Chen Yuanshuo said angrily, "Have you forgotten how Dad reprimanded you in the company last time?"

Of course, Chen Yuanzhen would not forget, after all, she had waited for a long time until the day Chen Zhishan came to the company, and was specially reprimanded by him.

But facing Chen Yuanshuo, Chen Yuanzhen pretended to be suddenly enlightened.She looked frightened at first, then smiled slyly.

"What are you afraid of? Anyway, he is in a meeting now, so I just avoid him."

"Tsk, tell me, it would be great if you could put this cleverness to work?"

Chen Yuanzhen stuck out her tongue and did not speak. She turned her head to look at the desk, where the newly made "Deputy General Manager" nameplate on the desk was still shining with big gilt characters.

"I heard..." Chen Yuanzhen suddenly raised the topic seemingly casually.

"what?"

"I heard...Brother is looking for someone with great fanfare recently." Chen Yuanzhen turned his face, looked down at the colorful manicure on his hand, and said in a low voice.

Sure enough, Chen Yuanshuo's body trembled when he heard the sound, and his spirit instantly revived.

"Find someone?"

"Well, second brother, don't you know?" She raised her head and looked at Chen Yuanshuo innocently, "I thought the big brother's commotion was public, but I didn't expect him to keep it from you?" After she finished speaking, she rolled her eyes and laughed.

"Then tell me, will he also hide it from Dad?"