Chapter 1098 Friends Circle

At eight o'clock in the evening, the peak dining time has passed. There are only a few customers in the store. They look like white-collar workers who just got off work in the nearby office building. They are a little tired and a little relieved. They are not interested in chatting at this time. They just sit in the booth quietly and deal with their set meal.

The girl standing behind the bar to greet customers used to envy these white-collar workers who generally received higher education and looked very glamorous.

Now that I have more contact with them, sometimes I feel that it is not easy for them. Their working hours are not guaranteed, there are few opportunities for promotion, and their welfare benefits may not be as high as mine. As for income, most of them are definitely not as high as the store manager...

For herself, as long as she works hard for a few years, it will be a natural thing to be promoted to store manager. By then, not only will her income increase a lot, but she can also apply for transfer to other companies in the group as a supervisor. Although every transfer requires an exit audit and pre-employment training, her development space can be said to be unlimited, and she will definitely not work hard for several years and still be standing still.

So even though she is still a cashier and waiter now, she feels more and more psychologically advantageous when facing these white-collar workers she used to envy.

The mental state of the whole person is naturally not bad, at least worse than those diners who seem a little depressed now.

When Feng Yiping came in, he saw a young girl who was still energetic and enthusiastic after the evening rush hour. "Hello, welcome," she greeted someone as soon as she saw him come in, and then she reacted, "Mr. Feng?" The little girl seemed to be a little bit unbelieving of her eyes.

"It's me, thank you for your hard work, give me a bowl of big pork chop noodles, a wheat cake with green onions and lean meat, how about you?"

"I want beef noodles, pickled vegetable wheat cakes, and a glutinous rice chicken," Xiao Zhijie said.

"I'll do the same as his, plus a plate of peanuts, how much?" Wang Changning was the last to order and pay.

The kitchen had already known the news at this time. Several people in chef uniforms took turns looking at the door of the back kitchen. The big boss came to the store to eat noodles. Such opportunities are rare.

Feng Yiping really rarely came to the noodle shop. After receiving the two who also worked overtime in the evening, he decided to eat noodles on the spur of the moment while looking for food on the road.

When asked at that time, all three of them felt guilty because they had not taken care of the noodle shop business for at least half a year.

"Well, wheat cakes are fragrant and always taste the same, so delicious,"

"Remember when we were in the countryside, we often shared one among three people, right," Wang Changning said.

At that time, they failed to make noodles. The wheat cakes they made either had too little filling, so they didn't eat the filling halfway through, or had too much filling, so much that they couldn't wrap it up and broke when baked in the pan on a low fire.

The buns they made were even worse, and they never rose, so these two were the two things they rarely bought outside at that time.

"The wheat cakes I make now are not worse than this," Wang Changning said.

Feng Yiping believed that during the holidays, they all helped in their own noodle shop and had done all the processes, so making wheat cakes was naturally no problem.

"Yiping, there is a question I can't figure out. Some people we meet are always socializing with people in the business circle. Now that you have achieved this, don't you have some friends who are also big bosses?"

"Have you never taken the time to have a meal with them, and talk about recent developments, whether there are opportunities for cooperation, etc." Xiao Zhijie was a little curious.

"Isn't it necessary to spend time making some friends and joining some circles, whether it is for individuals or companies?"

"Friends?" Feng Yiping shook his head, "Just the two of you are enough."

In the original time and space, the three of them were later separated in three places, and each of them got married and had children, and had ties. Not to mention meeting, even the phone calls gradually became less frequent, and on average they could not contact each other once a month. It seems that they are not as close as some people around them.

In fact, those "friends" around them who often go out together are incomparable to them in any way.

When there is any difficulty, just a phone call, even without saying the reason, just say what you need, and the other two will immediately do their best to meet your requirements without saying anything. Many brothers can't do such things.

Sometimes, you will receive a hasty call from them, with no beginning or end, just a few words, which makes you a little confused. Maybe you will not understand the reason for the inexplicable call until you see the news later: there are some sudden things in your place that day, such as natural disasters, or major safety accidents, etc. As soon as they see such news, they will call to confirm whether you are safe.

Feng Yiping does not expect to meet more friends who will not become alienated due to time, space, the amount of contact..., just the two of them are enough.

"Besides, do you still expect to find real friends in the business world?"

"Including the circle you mentioned, there are indeed some opportunities. For example, in a circle, A says, I want to build a factory, B says, I just happen to have a piece of land, and C follows up with a sentence, I just happen to have the equipment you need..."

"I don't really need such opportunities, and I'm tired of such social activities. There is no need and I don't want to mix in the circle. The only circle is the circle of the three of us,"

"Yes, now it's other people who want to enter your circle," Wang Changning said.

"Do many people approach you? For example, invite you to play golf, or invite you to some dinner parties?" Xiao Zhijie said.

They did not continue to talk about the topic of "friends". Their interactions were definitely not as sentimental as Aunt Ni Ping's.

"It turned out that some people did contact me or send me invitations to some activities. Later, they never went to see me, and gradually no one came to bother me anymore,"

"You also know that these successful guys are generally arrogant and unwilling to do things that are not popular with others,"

"This is actually quite good. You see that so many people have been in trouble in the past two years. If you don't interact with them, you will actually avoid a lot of trouble," Wang Changning said.

"Yes, the circle is big, there are all kinds of people, and there are a lot of right and wrong," Xiao Zhijie said.

"We have to go to work tomorrow, so I can't take you there,"

"When have you ever taken me there?" Feng Yiping smiled and said in a low voice, "After this busy period, let's go find a beach to see beauties?"

"No, if I go, I'll just be your supporting role. There will always be beauties looking for you, like the time in Hawaii, do you remember Lao Wang?" Xiao Zhijie asked Wang Changning.

"I don't envy him. It's not necessarily a good thing for him to have so many beauties looking for him," Wang Changning said very considerately, "Also, Yiping, when Tongcheng.com was founded, if you were not in China at that time, there would be no need to rush back,"

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Ma Ling now feels very annoyed. Since meeting Vincent in the city center and hearing him say "Dad has been on a business trip abroad for a long time", she often "ran into" Pei Si on campus at the beginning.

Now it has developed into a blatant pursuit.

Every afternoon before going home, Pei Si always uses various reasons to ask her out. Even if he didn't succeed once, he still persists in his repeated failures.

Now many people in the school know that Ma Ling has a very infatuated pursuer.

This is also not a good thing. Not only did it successfully bring trouble to Ma Ling, but it also made some girls dislike her.

Girls' logic is sometimes strange. They often don't like girls pursued by boys with good comprehensive conditions.

However, Ma Ling has always been used to being independent and doesn't care about such things.

It's just that Pace's dog-skin plaster is really annoying.

At around 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Ma Ling rode an electric bike back to the parking lot and saw the Lamborghini parked behind her Lexus RX. She couldn't help but frowned immediately.

Just like the previous few days, as soon as she saw Ma Ling, Pace came out of the car immediately, holding a bouquet of red roses in his hand.

"Ma Ling, this is for you," Pace handed over the carefully selected flowers in his hand.

Ma Ling didn't even look at him, "I'm sorry, I've said many times that I won't accept it,"

Such words really heard more than once, and Pace didn't care. He smiled and threw the flowers on the car casually, trying to take over Ma Ling's electric bike, "I'll put it away,"

How could Ma Ling let him touch it now? "No need,"

This has become somewhat commonplace. Pace still stood aside with a smile on his face. "Ma Ling, this weekend, some of us are going to Pennsylvania to ski. Do you want to join us? I think Vincent will like such a place,"

"Sorry, we have plans for the weekend,"

"There is also an invitation to a movie premiere in Los Angeles. How about going together? A friend's business jet is very convenient for round trip,"

"Pace," Ma Ling did not rush to leave this time, "I understand what you mean, and I think I have made it clear enough. If you don't understand, I will make it clear again. My boyfriend and I have a good relationship!"

No wonder, if they have a good relationship, your son will say that he is on a long-term business trip overseas? This is a common excuse for breaking up with a boyfriend, okay?

"Ma ​​Ling, I don't mean anything else. I like Vincent very much and hope to have the opportunity to take him around. In addition, the people who participate in these two activities, in addition to those from the embassy and consulate, there are also many people whose fathers are from Capitol Hill and Wall Street. It is said that Chelsea (Clinton's daughter) will also go. It's not a bad thing for you to meet a few more new friends,"

He also planned to ask Ma Ling out by saying that he would expand his circle of friends.

"I'm not interested at all. I hope that from tomorrow on, I won't encounter these meaningless things again," Ma Ling was naturally unmoved.

"Ma Ling," Pace called her again, "Vincent needs his father's company at this age, and I'm happy to serve,"

He was sure that Ma Ling didn't have a boyfriend now, and Vincent didn't have a father to love him.

Ma Ling was annoyed, "You don't need to ask about Vincent's affairs, and you don't need to worry about my life,"

"Okay," Pace smiled, "Can I get an invitation to Vincent's birthday party?"

This was also what Vincent said, saying that his father would definitely attend his birthday. Pace really wanted to see if that person would really show up, and what kind of person he was.

If Vincent was right, "often traveling overseas for business," then he must not be young, but an old man!

"Sorry, this party is not open to the public, please get out of the way," Ma Ling said coldly.

She really regretted taking Vincent to the city center that day.

"Pace, I repeat, tomorrow, I don't want to encounter such a meaningless thing again,"

Back home, Vincent is still sleeping, Ma Ling crossed out another day on the calendar, it's only a few days until the 20th, when will you arrive?

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In Silicon Valley, Amanda insisted on taking the vacuum cleaner from Huang Jingping, but how could such a little girl like her hold the vacuum cleaner steadily?

Seeing that her mother would not give it to her, she did not say anything, but pulled the corner of her mother's clothes, pretending to be pitiful.

"You annoying little thing," Huang Jingping turned off the vacuum cleaner and scraped her daughter's nose, "Let's go and see how the lawn outside is mowed?"

The main work at home these two days is to clean thoroughly.

In order to welcome the arrival of both parents and Mei Jianzhong, she and Leticia are responsible for the hygiene of the house. If she did not want strangers to enter private places such as the study and bedroom like Feng Yiping, she would even consider hiring a professional cleaning company.

However, the outdoor lawn, swimming pool and tennis court can only be maintained by a special person.

In the evening, the indoor and outdoor inspections were qualified, but it was not time to rest. She took out a long list and said, "This is the list of materials we need to purchase tomorrow. They are only available in Chinatown. I will take care of them. For the others, Leticia, you need to make more trips."

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At Google, Page convened a brief meeting and listened to the reports of various project teams. The main reason was that Feng Yiping, the part-time "Chief Experience Officer", was coming to the United States.

Is he coming? Mayer rarely skipped a meeting like this.

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