Chapter 1368: Chapter 1367: Ling Zhengwei’s Phone Call
Ye Qiu, Ling Fei, and Liu Lingxiu rested here for a while, then went back to the luxury suite.
After returning to the luxury suite, having just finished the buffet which replenished their energy, and having taken a nap in the morning, they felt really comfortable. Now back at the hot spring pool of the suite, Ye Qiu first took off his clothes, tested the water temperature, and comfortably entered the hot spring pool.
Ling Fei and Liu Lingxiu returned to the room, changed their clothes, and came wearing lingerie to join in the hot spring pool again.
Ye Qiu lay comfortably there, looking at the view outside the window. It wasn’t snowing now, but the outside temperature was really low. Here, all the hot spring pools, including the outdoor ones, were steaming with white smoke due to the cold weather, so much so that the water vapor turned into many white mists, like the fairyland Ye Qiu saw during the day.
There was a TV hanging there, but with the steam, it wasn’t very clear to see. Besides, they weren’t here to watch TV, but to soak in the hot spring.
Liu Lingxiu and Ling Fei chatted there, the two women have been getting along for a long time, and their personalities were really similar, so they had a lot to talk about, naturally, there was no sense of rejection between them.
However, this wouldn’t be the case if it was Li Qianqian or Su Luoluo. Liu Lingxiu certainly couldn’t get along like that, because Li Qianqian and Su Luoluo’s personalities were very different from Liu Lingxiu’s, with completely different living environments, so it was certainly difficult for Liu Lingxiu to get along with these two women.
Ling Fei was different, her family background might be similar to Liu Lingxiu’s, but because of her parents, she was traumatized since childhood, so she understood things at a young age.
Also, this time, Ye Qiu brought Liu Lingxiu and Ling Fei to the printing factory together, preparing to help solve those problems for Ling Fei’s parents.
Their relationship seemed to have improved even more.
Actually, Ye Qiu hadn’t thought about these things either, and right now he still considered Ling Fei as an ordinary female friend, really unlike how he viewed Liu Xia, Zhao Ruxue, and others.
While Liu Lingxiu and Ling Fei were chatting, Ling Fei’s phone suddenly rang, so she got up to wipe her hands, then picked up the phone to answer, and found that it was a call from her father.
"Dad, what’s up?" Ling Fei asked.
"Xiaofei, where are you?" Obviously, Ling Fei could hear her father sounded very happy, not like his usual sighing tone.
"Dad, I’m out playing with Ye Qiu."
Ling Fei didn’t dare to tell her father they were soaking in a hot spring, naturally afraid her father would overthink. Of course, soaking in a hot spring is indeed a very private matter, and the fact she was willing to tell Ye Qiu about it meant she indeed had a different feeling for Ye Qiu.
"Dad has some good news, are you coming home for dinner tonight? Dad will cook for you!"
Right now, the closest person to Ling Zhengwei was this daughter, Ling Fei. Besides her, there really wasn’t anyone else. Now suddenly promoted to team leader, he surely was very happy.
He originally wanted to call Ling Fei during lunch, but he was just in a meeting then.
This was also his first time having a meeting collectively with other team leaders as a team leader.
"Dad, what’s the good news? Do you have a favorite aunt and want to bring her home for me to see?"
"What are you thinking? Dad just got a promotion, so I’m happy and wanted to invite you home."
Actually, it’s been more than half a year since Ling Zhengwei and Zhou Xiaolan divorced, a considerable time. If Ling Zhengwei found another aunt, Ling Fei would think it’s normal.
But she didn’t expect dad actually got a promotion.
"Dad, what position did you get?"
"Team Leader, managing dozens of people."
"Dad, that’s great. But I haven’t planned to come back tonight, I’ll come back tomorrow to celebrate with you!" Ling Fei said.
When hearing her father so happy, Ling Fei was naturally happy too.
"That’s fine, be careful outside, and have fun."
After hanging up with her father, Ling Fei looked at Ye Qiu and said, "My dad just called, saying he got a promotion and wants to invite me back for dinner, he’s very happy."
This was surely within Ye Qiu’s expectations. Of course, he didn’t expect the shareholder boss of the printing factory to promise so quickly. After all, according to Ye Qiu’s treatment, the other party would take at least three to five days for hair to slowly start growing, so he didn’t expect the other party to promote Ling Zhengwei so quickly.
"What position did your dad get?"
Clearly, in such a government-owned company, promotions and being a manager are very tempting for ordinary lower-level employees.
Especially in this situation, Ling Zhengwei suddenly got promoted, surely he would be very happy, in front of other colleagues, he might also appear more prestigious.
"He’s a team leader."
Team leader?
Ye Qiu wasn’t familiar with the hierarchy of a printing factory and didn’t know what exactly this team leader position was, but it didn’t sound like a big managerial role.
"My dad said he manages dozens of people."
"That’s just an ordinary team leader."
Such a team leader is just slightly better than an ordinary employee, which naturally doesn’t count as anything significant in Ye Qiu’s eyes.
At least in his idea, the other party should have been promoted to a middle management role, like a workshop director, to really count.
However, Ye Qiu also knew to let the other party advance step by step, if they suddenly promoted him to workshop director, it might be hard for Ling Zhengwei to accept at once, and those colleagues might not accept it either.
"Then our first step is considered effective, you can call your mom and try to see if she has any thoughts?"
"About this!"
At first, Ling Fei felt a bit embarrassed.
But she indeed needed to know what her mom currently thought of her father. After all, a former husband suddenly got a promotion, a normal person might have different feelings, not to mention they have been divorced for more than half a year, but lived together for over twenty years. Even though it was that kind of relationship where they were familiar strangers, it’s still the case.
Ling Fei took her phone, dialed her mother Zhou Xiaolan’s number, and after Zhou Xiaolan answered, she asked, "Xiaofei, did you miss mom?"
"Are you working now? Is it convenient to take a call?"
"No problem, go ahead."
Zhou Xiaolan’s work was relatively free, or perhaps that’s the style of a government-owned enterprise, as long as she’s not tied up, it’s fine. Furthermore, it’s to Zhou Xiaolan’s mobile phone being called, not her office landline.
"Just now, my dad called and said he got promoted. Have you heard about it?" Ling Fei asked.
Zhou Xiaolan had heard this morning, and her female colleagues in the office also mentioned it. She was certainly aware, but now her daughter asked, she couldn’t lie.
Could she say she hadn’t heard?
"I heard, what’s up?" Zhou Xiaolan asked.
"Dad seems very happy, invited me home for dinner, but I’m out playing, planning to go back tomorrow."
"Oh, be careful."
Zhou Xiaolan didn’t want to mention Ling Zhengwei because many people brought it up in front of her today, maybe some unintentionally, some intentionally.
But she constantly felt annoyed.
After all, now that she and her ex-husband are divorced, even if he suddenly became a big boss, she wouldn’t have any reaction, at least that’s how it looked on her face.