Chapter 32 4. Company year-end party

There are no fixed working hours for editors. Sometimes I go to interview or pick up manuscripts on the way to work, and I arrive at the office in the afternoon;The so-called working hours are either yes or no, and the content of the work is more important than the time a person stays in the company. Of course, for positions like Jiu Mu who are no longer in the front line, most of them come at ten o'clock in the morning and leave around six o'clock in the afternoon. But tonight there is a year-end party in the investigation room. After five o'clock, everyone stopped their work and prepared to go.

Jiu Mu put away the materials and put them back on the shelf, and left the company with Yokoyama. The destination was the Chinese restaurant in Shimbashi. The two took a taxi together. The closer they got to Ginza, the more congested the road was. After entering February, the streets also start to become lively, and the restaurants and restaurants are full of guests.Having said that, the economy has not really recovered, but there are many drunken people who want to forget the depressed year because they are impatient with the long-term recession. The two arrived at the Chinese Cuisine Workshop, which was the venue of the year-end party, a little earlier than the scheduled time. They first went to the reserved private room on the second floor to check, but no one else had arrived, so Jiu Mu went back downstairs and used the Tried calling Rinko's house from the public phone.

It was almost six o'clock, and if she went shopping nearby, she should be home by now. But he was still worried that it might be her husband answering the phone again, so he purposely moved the receiver away.The bell rang, but no one answered. After ten rings, I had to hang up first, and then redialed again, but still no one answered. It seems that Rinko and his wife are not at home. Where did she go?Could it be that the couple went on a trip? Standing by the public phone in a daze, his colleagues had all arrived, so Jiu Mu had no choice but to give up making calls and return to the room where the year-end party was held.The investigation room is nominally part of the General Affairs Department, so it used to participate in the year-end party of the General Affairs Department, but since two years ago, the investigation room has held the year-end party by itself.For a small gathering of five people including Miss Secretary, each person will share a membership fee of 8,000 yen.

First, Suzuki, who is equivalent to the head of the office, got up and gave a speech: This year is coming to an end, everyone has worked hard, and I hope that next year we can open up our respective work fields with a new attitude.It's all corny. It was the first time for Hisaki to participate in this meeting. Although everyone was in the investigation room, everyone did things differently, so Suzuki was right to say that. Afterwards, fill their respective cups with beer, toast and drink together, and then the meal begins. At the beginning, the topics focused on the personnel affairs in the agency and the latest news from various units, etc., but gradually they turned to private topics, and then some people began to complain bitterly about the grievances they suffered in the personnel arrangement.

As the wine got stronger, the atmosphere of the banquet became lively, and the most popular among them was the only female secretary in the investigation room.She wasn't pretty, but she had a good temperament, so the topic naturally revolved around her. She was thirty-five years old and divorced. Someone asked her if she had found a new lover, and then they kept talking about what kind of women they liked.Even Suzuki, who is always stern-faced, became active as soon as this topic was mentioned, and asked her: Who is the most popular with women here? Miss Secretary said that it was hard for me. After looking around everyone, she said: It's hard to say whether there is a woman, but if there is a possibility of her, it may be Mr. Jiu Mu, right?The audience was in an uproar.

Nothing like that. Jiu Mu hastily denied it, but the men began to touch his sore spots with jealousy. First, Suzuki said: I thought it was strange that he was carrying a mobile phone, as expected!Hengshan continued: He will definitely take it with him when he leaves the office.Even the younger Muramatsu said: No wonder he is so excited to see him these days. Jiu Mu desperately denied it, but the situation became darker and darker. The topic changed from Jiu Mu seeming to have a lover to having a lover long ago, and finally even asked about the details of the date. It seems that I also have to learn.

Suzuki, who seems to have no relationship with love, mutters, and Yokoyama, who seems to have a crush recently, inquires about the best place for a tryst. Or go to the hotel? Hotels are outdated now, and it would be too tasteless not to go to the Metropolitan Hotel with the woman I like. Suzuki thought so, and Muramatsu asked: It costs a lot of money to go to a restaurant every time we meet, right? As long as she likes it, it's not too expensive.After Suzuki finished speaking, he looked at Jiumu and continued: You see, he already has a house, his only daughter is married again, and his wife is still working as a consultant in the pottery company, so money is not a problem at all.

As expected of the Director of the Investigation Office, I know it very well. He has a lot of money.It's not like we still have a home loan. If you want to go to one more bar, your purse will be empty. If you even worry about this, how can you be in a good mood. To talk about a decent relationship, you must first have leisure and money. Everyone here has a lot of time, but Interrupted by Hengshan's laughter, the meeting became more lively. Suddenly, Jiu Mu realized that his mobile phone was ringing. Normally, he would turn off the phone when he was having dinner with his colleagues, but tonight he has been thinking about Rinko, so he put the phone on and put it in the small leather bag.At this moment, the phone did ring, but it was inconvenient to answer it in front of everyone.

Jiu Mu hurriedly got up, and walked out of the room with the small leather bag that kept ringing. The stairs were just ahead, and he took out his phone to answer the call when he reached the stairs. Hello Hearing this voice, Hisaki was almost in tears, although there was a noise like the beating of waves in the distance, but there was no doubt that it was Rinko's voice. Very good! He couldn't help saying, because he almost bumped into the waitress who was serving food, he hurried out of the way. Where are you now? Yokohama. you wait a minute! It was too close to the room, he was a little worried, and the passage was too narrow, he still pressed the phone to his ear, walked down the stairs, and called Rinko again after reaching a slightly more spacious place at the entrance.

Hello, hello. It's me! Hearing her voice again, he fell to the ground with a stone and couldn't help complaining. I have been looking for you, and you are not there when I call your house. Sorry, because my father passed away. Father? Received the notice this morning and hurried back to my house I heard that Rinko's natal family is in Yokohama, and her parents run an imported furniture company. What disease? It seemed to be a heart attack. Yesterday he was fine, but at dawn, Jiu Mu didn't know that such a big thing happened. The possibility of imagining was not close at all.

I didn't know that he didn't know what to say to express his condolences at the moment, so I just murmured: Don't be too sad! Thanks. Nice to hear your voice though. This is Jiu Mu's undisguised true feeling at the moment, it seems inappropriate on the day of his father's death, but he still said it. I want to see you. He heard a lot of things from Mizuguchi and Yichuan during the day, and what disturbed him even more was that when he called her, her husband answered. Still feeling uneasy.