"Ah, Li Ye, you came too?"
Li Ye had meant to slip away quietly, but the flashlight beam had been too conspicuous when he came over, so Lu Zhizhang had spotted him after all.
"Oh, I'd already eaten at home and had nothing to do, so I thought I'd come over and take a look. Strange—Old Lu, do you have a night owl's eyes? How did you recognize me from so far away?"
Li Ye walked over with a smile, though he was puzzled. Even though a flashlight could be seen from a long way off in the middle of the night, how had Lu Zhizhang recognized him? His night vision was nowhere near as good as Li Ye's!
Lu Zhizhang smiled. "I don't have night owl's eyes, but your flashlight is a little different from everyone else's. Haven't you noticed the difference yourself?"
"Well, I really hadn't noticed."
Li Ye walked closer, then acted as if he had only just noticed the Head Factory Director. He hurriedly greeted him with a smile. "Oh, the Head Factory Director is here too! Factory Director, happy New Year, happy New Year."
The Head Factory Director gave Li Ye a long, deep look and said mildly, "Looks like the three of us all put our careers before our families. Even during the New Year, we're worrying about the factory. Isn't it quite a coincidence that we happened to run into one another?"
Hmm, what was that supposed to mean?
Everyone in the Light Vehicle Company knew that Li Ye doted on his wife. Not only had he bought a Santana just to pick his wife up from work, but when Wen Leyu had been admitted to the hospital to await delivery, he had actually publicly dropped everything and walked out in the middle