If the world had no daylight

Chapter 126 The Way of Raising Pigs

After the short-haired girl left the cafe, the young man in formal attire sat for a long time in the quiet corner of the booth.

The coffee in front of him was already completely cold, and the cloudy brown was covered with impurities of sugar. It looked like the worst cup of cappuccino in the world.

The black tea on the opposite side still has a clear and mellow color, which clearly reflects the busy traffic outside the glass window.

The cell phone in his arms rang, Ye Li came back to his senses, took it out and connected it.

"Boss, there will be a meeting in the conference room in half an hour. How long will you be at the company?" The person on the other end of the phone was a little puzzled by his abnormal situation. Although it was just a temporary meeting during the holidays, Ye Li was never late.

He replied calmly: "Prepare the materials, I will be there on time."

After hanging up the phone, the young man stood up and walked to the cashier to pay the bill. After the cashier gave the change, the man standing in front of him didn't leave. She raised her head and asked politely, "Is there anything else you need, sir?"

The glass door at the door was pushed open, and then closed again after someone came in. The sunlight outside refracted a ray of light on the transparent glass, hitting the man's side face, making him squint his eyes subconsciously.

"Please call the manager of your store for me, I have something to discuss with him."

On this day until the last time he went home, Bai Tian didn't buy the few things he had planned.

She was full of worries along the way, and when she entered the house, she checked the time, and she had already missed the lunch time, so she simply didn't bother to make any further fuss, took the microwave to heat up a rice ball, and then dismissed it.

After barely filling his stomach, Bai Tian took a book and sat on the balcony basking in the sun, and organized his thoughts in this absolutely quiet afternoon.

Ye Li's words and his expression at that time, she could recall, clearly he was exactly the same as before, but for some reason, Bai Tian just felt a little strange.

In the end, she attributed these subtle changes to "everyone changes."

"Actually, I haven't thought about the specifics yet, because I didn't decide to contact you until an hour ago." The young man lowered his head slightly when he said this, looking embarrassed and helpless.

He finally sighed, and said, "Whether you believe it or not, I didn't intend to meet you again."

Bai Tian listened with no expression on her face. She didn't doubt this sentence at all, because for anyone, not taking revenge would be the best of humanity, and who would rush to disgust herself.

Ye Li clenched his hands, his joints turned white, but he tried to maintain a calm face, but this posture was not well hidden.

"Actually, after the project is officially launched, I will go to Tokyo with the R&D team, and I will probably not come back for a long time."

Bai Tian finally moved his fingers, but still didn't speak.

The person in front of her took a deep breath, looked up at her, and said bluntly: "This is the limit of what I can do, as long as this period of time passes smoothly."

He has shown his cards, making no secret that this is essentially a deal.

She helped him tide over the difficulties, he stayed away from the city, and the two sides never met again.

Bai Tian decided to agree from the very beginning, no matter what his conditions were.But at this moment, she still couldn't help thinking about why he still looked like this until now, neither hysterical nor full of resentment.

For a moment, Bai Tian seemed to leave his body consciously, standing in the perspective of God, indifferently looking down on the drama between this pair of men and women, and casually analyzing this situation that cannot be reproduced in ordinary people.

——Is it because the knife she stabbed was not deep enough, or he is really high-spirited.

The next second, Bai Tian came back to her senses, her emotional system had already been torn apart, so she simply stopped thinking about this meaningless question.

No matter what the nature of this deal is and who it benefits in the end, since she has already agreed, she will not go back on her word.

Let it be what it seems, and take what you want.

In the last two days of the long vacation, Bai Tian hadn't heard from Ye Li. She couldn't even make preparations until the plan of "how to help" was given, and she could only passively wait for his arrangements to be made.

And the other person who was supposed to keep in touch with each other every day, as if it had been discussed, disappeared in the past two days, and Bai Tian didn't get a single reply to the message he sent.

But this was something that had been told in advance, Bai Tian could only wait patiently, waiting, there was nothing he could do but wait for her.

After school started, Bai Tian forced herself to go to work and went to school step by step. Teacher Fan asked about He Xiaoyun's situation several times. After weighing it for a long time, Bai Tian still didn't tell her about He Xiaoyun's disappearance again.

Teacher Fan is a teacher who really cares about the students. If she insists on intervening in this matter, it will be equivalent to involving another ordinary person. This is probably something Ye Wan does not want to happen.

On the contrary, after Liu Ran came back from abroad, because of the big news, his work was booming and he was so busy that he didn't seem to have the energy to ask about this matter anymore. Instead, Bai Tian breathed a sigh of relief—she was really afraid of Liu Ran. However, once again, the blood was on the top of his head, and he took risks alone.

Nothing in daily life seems to have changed. She still goes to work alone and goes home alone. She is exhausted from school chores and students' grades every day. When she gets home, she just wants to fall asleep.

This kind of life has been lived for several years, and Bai Tian should have gotten used to it, but now whenever she lays down on the bed after taking a shower and doesn't want to move anymore, a thought will come to her.

——Does she really want to live a life like this?

But she is neither Teacher Li nor Teacher Fan. She has never loved this job, nor has she had a sense of belonging to this profession.

She just complied with some people's expectations and walked towards the sunny avenue that everyone admired.

But can't see where the end is.

It has been some years since the headquarters of Shiweixuan Catering Group moved to the capital, but the foundation has always been in City S. Every year, Shi Chen spends a few months going back to inspect and supervise, and take care of other industries there by the way.

However, this year is almost at the end of the year, and the people in the headquarters found that the chairman seems to have no sign of leaving to return to City S. For a while, the middle management was a little flustered.

This group of people is the closest to the top management, and there are many ambitious people who have sharpened their heads and want to climb up. For these people, a little trouble in the top management of the company is enough for them to be alert, lest they accidentally miss something. opportunity, or stepped into a minefield.

People with quick brains have already started to use their contacts to quietly ask if there is any major event this year. The end of the year is always eventful, and no one wants to prepare for it.

No matter how tall and solid a building is, the interior is also intricate. The power of this network of relationships between people cannot be underestimated by anyone. Even if it is an impenetrable copper wall and iron wall, there will be gaps under this network of relationships. Drillable.

After layers and layers of twists and turns, those who are interested have already got reliable news, and then, the news spread in a small area in the middle layer.

—— Rumor has it that there may be a reshuffle of the board of directors at the end of this year.

Of course, the gossip was exaggerated, and those who heard it didn't believe it all, but they still paid close attention.

It didn't take long for these rumors to reach the ears of some people on the board of directors. Even if they didn't believe them, they would feel a little sense of crisis. After all, they were at the top and knew Shi Chen better. It must be because he was so abnormal this year. What to do.

For so many years, there were not seven or eight people who wanted to confront Shi Chen head-on, but they all ended up miserable, making the board members who were waiting and watching more and more afraid of this man who was said to have no high school education.

Although today's Shi Chen is no longer what he used to be, he is more and more low-key, and has released a lot of power in his hands to his cronies, but the people on the board of directors are all veterans, and no one is willing to be that stupid person in his early years bird.

Unexpectedly, the first person to attack was Shi Chen.

Is this rumor believable?Of course not.But there may not be no basis at all. After all, the actions of high-level officials cannot be hidden from everyone, and there is always some leaked news.

Everyone realized that this old and subconsciously fearful man really wanted to attack the board of directors.

All of a sudden, the high-level executives made frequent small moves, and there were quite a few acts of private group wooing, but Shi Chen didn't know that Shi Chen saw all of these.

At 06:30 in the evening, in the study.

Lian Ke poured a cup of freshly brewed tea for the man in front of him who closed his eyes and meditated. This was a batch of Maojian tea he bought recently, and he was reluctant to drink it himself, and used it to honor his immediate superior.

"Director Wang is still calm." He said, putting down his teacup and facing him.

The person leaning on the sofa opened his eyes, picked up the teacup and sniffed the aroma, and rarely praised: "Good tea."

Is it okay to buy it with real money?

Lian Ke didn't have time to worry about his own money, so he continued: "Director Li has already contacted Director Zhang and Director Qian. It seems that the three of them know how much public money they have spent in the company over the years. As soon as the news was released, they immediately sat down. Can't stop."

Shi Chen took a sip of tea, put down the teacup, then picked up the heavy wooden crutch beside him, stood up and moved his body.

When he was young, he worked too hard and hollowed out his foundation. Now his body is not getting better every year, and he needs to move around frequently to avoid sitting for a long time.

The man holding the cane finally turned his back and stood in front of the study window.

"I lived in the country when I was a child, and there was a pig farm next door." He opened his mouth suddenly, but what he said was irrelevant.

Lian Ke couldn't hold back the look of surprise—he had been working with Shi Chen before graduation, but he never heard him mention his past on his own initiative.

Maybe when people get old, it is inevitable to recall the past.

Thinking of this, Lian Ke's expression softened, and he quietly became the most qualified listener.

The person holding the cane is actually only in his 50s, but he never deliberately conceals his aging. His hair turns gray when he is gray. When he was young, he used a cane when his legs and feet were not working well. When he was sick, he went to the hospital openly. Seeing a doctor and being hospitalized doesn't care if others say that he "has money but is not blessed to spend it".

He didn't know why he mentioned his past, but his tone was normal, as if he was just talking about everyday gossip on a whim.

"In the early years, my family had a bad life. I couldn't eat meat a few times throughout the year. Only when the next door slaughtered a pig during the New Year, they would send some meat. So I like that family very much. I often visit their house just to eat meat. It’s a good relationship, and I can have a meal of meat during the Chinese New Year.”

The man with white temples looked out the window. He planted all the vegetables in the yard, just like when he was the eldest of the family when he was a child, he had to go to the field before he even started reading. He bent over against the sun, one after another planted in the soil.

"Once I went to return a hoe next door, and saw my aunt feeding the pigs with pig food. The food was so good and plentiful. I was very puzzled, so I asked her why the pigs were eating so much, people couldn't get enough."

Shi Chen turned around, looked at the person sitting on the sofa, and seemed to laugh.

"My aunt told me that when raising a pig, you must feed the pig. The more it eats, the fatter it will grow, and it will be able to be slaughtered and sold at a high price in the future."

Lian Ke paused, and finally understood the seemingly endless words.

Then there was a chilling feeling, the man in front of him was indeed a born businessman.

Such a person was born in a family whose ancestors have been cooks for three generations, which really made him feel a little strange.

When the people in the study left, the pot of tea on the coffee table was already cold, Shi Chen took a look and poured it all into the flowers in the yard.

After Lian Ke got married, he seldom had dinner with him. He saw this junior from fledgling to married, and now he is a father-to-be, so he couldn't help feeling a little emotional.

Most people in this world are actually walking the same path.

Shi Chen locked the door of the courtyard, walked slowly back to the kitchen, picked up the iron pan, cleaned it, and prepared to cook.

Although I am a lonely family, I still have to eat.

It's a pity that his cooking skills will never be as good as those who taught him. Even if he has obtained all the recipes, he still can't cook the original flavor that belongs to the Bai family.

Probably because there is no blood of the Bai family in his body.

Shi Chen calmly lit a match and threw it into the firewood pile, then took the apron at the side and tied it neatly, rolled up his sleeves, and raised his hand to pull out a kitchen knife.

Every movement of the flowing clouds and flowing water is very much like the person who has passed away for many years.

The author has something to say:

I'm sorry that the computer graphics card is broken. Yesterday I asked for leave from Weibo (Although the plot has started to follow the main line, please don't give up and leave a comment. Every comment is my motivation 55555

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