Chapter 580: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 580: Taking Dong Xiaoling to Eat

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

In the end Dong Xiaoling accepted Wang Erhai's invitation, deciding to have a meal with Wang Erhai at noon.

For this she even carefully touched up her makeup in advance.

But what she never expected was that Wang Erhai inviting her to eat was not going to an outside restaurant to dine alone, but bringing her back to the rental house to eat this lunch together with Liu Mei Qi.

When Wang Erhai brought Dong Xiaoling back to the rental house, the moment he pushed open the door, Dong Xiaoling saw Liu Mei Qi and was completely stunned.

Liu Mei Qi saw Dong Xiaoling and was also full of surprise.

She was speechless inside.

The lunch she had carefully prepared for Wang Erhai, Wang Erhai actually brought another woman to eat—what did this mean?

Most importantly, Wang Erhai actually hadn't given her a heads-up in advance!

"Xiaoling, why are you here too?"

Liu Mei Qi did not directly let her emotions explode, but restrained herself, smiling dryly to welcome her.

"General Manager Wang asked me to come..."

Dong Xiaoling smiled with an embarrassed face.

She herself knew she had been somewhat rude.

"You brought Xiaoling over, why didn't you give me a heads-up in advance?"

Liu Mei Qi glanced at Wang Erhai.

Wang Erhai said:

"I told you on WeChat, you didn't reply to me."

Liu Mei Qi checked WeChat, and only then learned that Wang Erhai had indeed sent her a WeChat message; she had just been busy stir-frying dishes, how could she have time to look at her mobile phone?

"Xiaoling, sit down, no need to be reserved, treat it as your own home."

Wang Erhai greeted Dong Xiaoling to sit down, and then personally poured a cup of tea water for Dong Xiaoling.

Liu Mei Qi called Wang Erhai to go to the kitchen together to serve the dishes.

After Wang Erhai poured the tea water for Dong Xiaoling, he hurriedly went to serve the dishes.

In the kitchen, Liu Mei Qi pinched Wang Erhai's arm hard, and asked in a low voice:

"Wang Erhai, what exactly do you mean?"

Wang Erhai's face twisted into a knot from the pain, "Don't pinch me so hard, isn't this for your own good? You're about to be transferred to Human Resources, you don't understand many things, you need to build a good relationship with Dong Xiaoling, after all, in the Human Resources aspect, she is the professional."

Liu Mei Qi said:

"Wasn't it agreed that I would be the head of Human Resources? Then it should be her building a good relationship with me, how did it become me needing to build a good relationship with her?"

Hearing this, Wang Erhai immediately showed a disdainful expression:

"Do you understand or not? Power does not come from your position; you are the head all right, but if the people below don't listen to you, isn't your being head just an empty reputation? If you want to manage the people below, you first need to manage Dong Xiaoling well, and then let Dong Xiaoling help you manage others—do you understand?"

Liu Mei Qi felt Wang Erhai's words made some sense, but she still didn't quite believe Wang Erhai.

She suddenly asked a tricky question:

"Honestly tell me, do you and Dong Xiaoling have something going on?"

Wang Erhai was immediately shocked into a face full of question marks:

"What??"

He had kindly arranged everything for Liu Mei Qi, smoothing out all the difficulties she would encounter before taking up her position, and instead got this kind of questioning from Liu Mei Qi—it simply hurt his heart too much!

"Liu Mei Qi, is water in your brain? Is it that you need a slap again? Ask such a stupid question again, believe it or not I'll slap you to death!"

Wang Erhai said angrily.

"You don't have something going on with her, so why invite her to eat?"

Liu Mei Qi continued to question.

Wang Erhai laughed from anger; if Dong Xiaoling weren't outside in the living room and he didn't want to make too much noise and let Dong Xiaoling see the joke, he might really have slapped Liu Mei Qi.

"If I had something going on with her, would I still bring her to eat with you? Do I have a brain disease?"

Liu Mei Qi thought about it, and indeed that was true.

If Wang Erhai had something going on with Dong Xiaoling, he should be hiding it; how could he directly bring Dong Xiaoling to eat with her?

"Don't let Miss Dong Xiaoling see the joke, hurry up and serve the dishes!"

Wang Erhai scolded with a cold face.

Liu Mei Qi hesitated a little:

"But, the dishes I made..."

"What's wrong with the dishes you made? Isn't it just tomato scrambled eggs, five-flower meat stir-fried with greens, and an old chicken soup?"

Wang Erhai didn't understand.

Liu Mei Qi had an embarrassed face:

"After I got to the vegetable market, I changed my mind."

Wang Erhai was stunned, and hurriedly went to look at the dishes already made:

"Let me see what dishes you made?"

Wang Erhai looked and couldn't help covering his face and sighing.

The dishes Liu Mei Qi made were: a dish of stir-fried pork kidneys, a dish of scrambled eggs with leeks, and an Ox Whip Old Ginseng Soup.

"I was thinking you might have been too tired last night, so I made you some tonic……"

Liu Mei Qi's face was full of embarrassment.

"All day long, you only think about that bit of nonsense!"

Wang Erhai was quite speechless.

Liu Mei Qi could only smile wryly:

"I didn't know you'd bring a guest to eat here, did I?"

No choice, the dishes were already made; surely I couldn't just throw them away and remake them?

Besides, it's already twelve o'clock now; if we remade them, we wouldn't eat lunch until two.

So Wang Erhai said:

"There are still greens in the refrigerator; stir-fry some greens."

Then he carried the dishes to the living room.

Liu Mei Qi quickly took the Shanghai greens out of the refrigerator, simply washed them, then hurriedly heated the pot, added oil, and stir-fried them.

Stir-frying Shanghai greens is very simple; put them in the pot over high heat and they'll be done in less than three minutes.

Wang Erhai put the stir-fried pork kidneys and stir-fried leeks with eggs, as well as the Ox Whip Old Ginseng Soup, on the dining table, then went to serve rice; by then Liu Mei Qi had already finished stir-frying the Shanghai greens.

"Xiaoling, it's time to eat; make yourself at home, don't be reserved!"

Wang Erhai warmly greeted Dong Xiaoling.

Dong Xiaoling politely picked up her bowl and chopsticks to eat.

Seeing the dishes Liu Mei Qi had made for Wang Erhai, she couldn't help but smile inwardly, though she didn't say anything.

She actually didn't like eating pork kidneys, nor did she like eating leeks, but she still reluctantly picked up a few chopsticks.

As for that soup, she didn't know what soup it was, thought the taste was all right, so she drank two more bowls.

"What soup is this? It tastes great? Sister Mei Qi's cooking is truly superb; no wonder she could win General Manager Wang's sincere heart!"

Dong Xiaoling smiled and praised; anyone who could rise to her position definitely had emotional intelligence at least above average.

Liu Mei Qi smiled embarrassedly:

"If it tastes good, eat more; today I didn't know you were coming, so I didn't make many dishes; next time you come, I'll make a few more dishes!"

Wang Erhai replied:

"This is Beef Offal Soup, simmered over a low fire for a long time, so naturally it tastes good."

"Oh, so it's beef offal; no wonder it has a beef flavor, but it's not quite the same as the beef offal eaten outside; this beef offal soup is much more delicious than outside!"

Dong Xiaoling continued to praise.

Liu Mei Qi could only smile embarrassedly.

Well, the Ox Whip Old Ginseng Soup specially prepared for Wang Erhai ended up being more than half drunk by Dong Xiaoling.

"Erhai, you drink a few more bowls of beef offal soup too."

Liu Mei Qi quickly served Wang Erhai a bowl of "beef offal soup."

Wang Erhai only took a small sip:

"I'd rather eat more greens to supplement some vitamins; that's healthier."

Wang Erhai pretended to be ignorant, because he knew that if he drank this soup now, Liu Mei Qi would probably torment him again tonight.

He had been tormented all night last night; if he was tormented again tonight, he couldn't take it.

Seeing Wang Erhai like this, Liu Mei Qi lowered her face and said:

"I tell you to drink more, so drink more; don't give me a hard time!"

Wang Erhai was extremely speechless; with Dong Xiaoling here, he couldn't resist Liu Mei Qi's pressure.

So in the end he could only reluctantly, forced to drink several bowls of Ox Whip Old Ginseng Soup.

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