"Director Li, you're back?"
"Mm-hm, I got back yesterday."
"Then you didn't rest at home for a few days? But while you were gone, it felt like we'd lost our backbone. The sooner you came back to work, the sooner we could rest easy."
"Hehehehe~"
When Li Ye returned to work, many colleagues expressed their welcome and how much they had missed him. Still, this habit of sucking up made him somewhat uncomfortable.
Even a technically oriented enterprise as "progressive and positive" as the First Branch Factory apparently could not escape such worldly conventions.
So Li Ye reminded himself from time to time that, aside from one's parents, no one praised you without wanting something. When others praised you, you had better not take it entirely seriously.
However, Li Ye took Lu Zhizhang's words rather seriously.
The moment he saw Li Ye, he praised him while complaining bitterly. "You were away running around for more than a month, and you came back without even resting for a day. Are you trying to compete with those workers for Model Worker?
But thank goodness you're finally back! I've been so busy these days that I'm completely frazzled. If you hadn't returned, my head would have exploded."
Li Ye tossed Lu Zhizhang a small box and said with a smile, "Here's a little souvenir first, to ease the resentment in your heart. You're the load-bearing pillar of our factory, so whatever happens, don't collapse."
As Lu Zhizhang opened the box, he said, "I used to think I was the load-bearing pillar too! But only after you left did I realize I count as half a pillar at most. I really don't know how you used to handle all those messy affairs.
Eh, what's this? Hetian jade?"
After opening the box, Lu Zhizhang found