When Xu Xinghe walked out of Mr. Liang's office, the time was just fixed at nine o'clock in the morning.

He returned to his office as usual, then took the materials and coffee and went to the third group to continue the unfinished work yesterday.

Gu Nai didn't come to work today. When someone in the same group said that he took sick leave, Xu Xinghe's eyes flashed with surprise, and then he nodded calmly: "I see, let's go to the meeting."

In the blink of an eye, it is already autumn, and the light of the artificial sun spreads into the ark, revealing a bit of bleak warmth.

This should have been an ordinary and busy morning, but no one expected that a sudden emergency investigation was quietly staged inside the Ark, breaking the original tranquility in the office building.

The reason was a post that appeared on the Xingzhou forum last night. Due to the confidential project involved, the investigation work was not carried out with great fanfare, but because the post involved more people, even some people who left a message in the post to reply were also called to go. Inquired, so things inevitably leaked.

Undercurrents were surging all morning, and some people who relied on anonymity to make nonsense in their posts, after hearing the news, went online and deleted their replies with a guilty conscience, for fear of getting burned.

However, Xu Xinghe, who was concentrating on the meeting, didn't know about it.

For the whole morning, he spent the entire morning in the conference hall with the three group leader Conrad Alva and other team members to study how to solve the problem of inter-planetary network communication delay and how to reduce the loss of data transfer.

The fierce debate and in-depth research lasted for more than three hours. The team leader of the three groups who had been in this position for more than ten years was helplessly and gratified to find that Xu Xinghe at work was really as serious and stubborn as the rumors. , and is highly professional and reliable.

When the initial solution was finally formed, everyone finally hurriedly broke up and went to lunch.

Xu Xinghe returned to his office and turned on the electronic smartphone on his wrist.

Originally, I wanted to see if Ling Changfeng had sent any emails, but unexpectedly, in the link communication, I saw an unfamiliar account requesting to add him as a friend.

Postscript: "I'm Gu Nai."

Xu Xinghe was slightly startled and clicked to agree to the application.

Gu Nai: "Sorry."

Almost as soon as the application was approved, Gu Nai sent these two words.

Xu Xinghe: "?"

The other side was silent for a while, and suddenly a word came out—

Gu Nai: "I saw that post. The candid photo of the poster in the Ark Building is obviously a serious violation. I have already reported the specific situation to President Liang, and he said he will deal with it. I just went to the forum to see it. , the post has been deleted, I just hope this matter does not affect you"

Xu Xinghe: "..."

He was a little surprised to find that some of Gu Nai's thoughts were quite consistent with him.

Xu Xinghe replied unhurriedly, "It's too late"

Gu Nai: "What's wrong?"

Xu Xinghe: "I already told Mr. Liang"

After a pause, he continued: "It wasn't a big deal at first, so you asked for sick leave because of this?"

Gu Nai: "..."

Xu Xinghe teased him: "When the three groups are so busy, it's not very kind for you to skip work"

As soon as I said the words, I remembered that I had also taken sick leave the day before yesterday, and I didn’t seem to have the confidence to speak to others, so I simply stopped talking, just said: “No one should say anything after today, you can come back to work tomorrow.”

After a while, a word came from the other side: "Okay"

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Xu Xinghe was still writing the code in the third group, and was called by Mr. Liang to the office.

"Do you know this person?" Liang Shilei stretched out his hand, and a picture of a young man appeared on the screen.

Xu Xinghe looked at the somewhat impressive face, tilted his head, frowned and said, "Dong Yue?"

Mr. Liang nodded: "Well, Dong Yue from the logistics department is the person who secretly photographed you yesterday. His behavior seriously violated the regulations of the Ark. After the approval of the personnel department, he has been officially dismissed. As for whether he leaked secrets in violation of regulations, he also We have to wait for the people from the security department to investigate before we can get the results. The specific situation has also been reported to the public security. If convicted, he may face three to five years of sex..."

After speaking, he looked up at Xu Xinghe: "Do you think this is okay?"

"Huh?" Xu Xinghe couldn't help laughing when he heard him ask, "Don't look at me, Boss Liang, it's not what I want him to do. It doesn't matter whether he is fired or imprisoned, you follow the rules. Just deal with it, don't notify me."

Xu Xinghe shrugged, but his expression slowly faded: "I'm just curious, this isn't the first time this guy has spread rumors about me behind his back. I have no grievances with him, so why is there such a big malice?"

Liang Shilei opened his mouth, but did not speak. Regarding the criticism surrounding Xu Xinghe, he has not been completely unheard of for more than a year.

After a long silence, he slowly opened his mouth and said: "There is a saying in the ancient books - the action is higher than the human being, and the public must disagree. This is an unavoidable thing. But Xinghe, you have to believe that as you climb higher and higher, The further you go, these gossips will be left behind by you sooner or later, just like the people who talk about you behind your back."

After Xu Xinghe listened, he just smiled silently: "Then it seems that I have to speed up my pace... I went to work first, Mr. Liang, and strive to start the trial operation of the Thunder Engine within this week."

After turning around, he walked out of Mr. Liang's office as usual.

The news that Dong Yue was expelled and further taken away by the security department for investigation soon spread inside the Ark.

After an afternoon of fermentation, Xu Xinghe clearly felt that some colleagues looked at him differently.

Some people began to become very enthusiastic, while some people looked at themselves and became evasive and shrinking, as if they had done something wrong to them and were afraid of being held accountable by themselves.

Xu Xinghe also knows the reason for this change, but by now, he has learned to ignore all kinds of eyes around him, and the huge workload recently has left him no time to think about it. He just continued his work calmly. Work.

At six o'clock in the evening, the original off-duty time, Team Leader Xu still had a lot of work to deal with, so he had to stay to work overtime.

At about half past six, he received an email from Ling Changfeng: [Are you still working overtime today? ]

Xu Xinghe: [Add]

Ling Changfeng: [When do you get off work? I will pick you up]

Xu Xinghe: [No need, I don't know what time it will be added today, you go back to eat first]

After a while, Ling Changfeng replied: [Tell me before leaving get off work]

Xu Xinghe: "..."

He stared at the email for two seconds, then stopped talking, closed the mailbox, and threw himself into his work wholeheartedly.

But unknowingly, he quickened his movements.

It wasn't until nine o'clock in the evening that Team Leader Xu finally rubbed his sore shoulders and got up to move his limbs.

Then reopen the mailbox, send an email to Ling Changfeng and say: [I'm off work]

Within five seconds, I received a reply from Ling Changfeng: [I am in the t0 parking lot]

Xu Xinghe: [? have you arrived?]

Ling Changfeng: [Arrived]

Xu Xinghe was stunned for a moment, then quickly closed his light brain, pulled his jacket and went out the door.

Seeing that there were two other people in the group tapping the keyboard, they said to them as they walked, "Ethan, Ryan, I'll withdraw first, you should go back as soon as possible, and it's not too late to do the rest of the work tomorrow."

After that, he disappeared like a gust of wind at the door.

Ryan raised his head and asked Ethan on the opposite side blankly: "What did the team leader just say? It's not too late to do the rest of the work tomorrow??"

Ethan put down his work, got up and said, "Then listen to our team leader Xiao Xu and get off work."

Ryan suddenly said: "Something's wrong, is this the team leader I know? Didn't he always say that his head can be broken, blood can be shed, and the work must be completed?"

Ethan shrugged: "It's not what it used to be. The team leader used to work overtime and couldn't urge him to leave. Now..."

The tail tone dragged, then looked at Ryan and shook his head: "If you have someone to pick you up every day, you must also want to leave work early."

Xu Xinghe walked through the gates and walked quickly to the t0 special parking lot.

Ling Changfeng's car was already waiting in his dedicated parking space.

Xu Xinghe got into the car and asked while wearing his seat belt, "Why are you moving so fast? What time did you arrive?"

Ling Changfeng's eyes glued to Xu Xinghe for a moment before he said calmly, "I have nothing to do after get off work, so I came early."

He didn't go home last night. In total, he hadn't met Xu Xinghe for more than 36 hours.

Weird about him.

Ling Changfeng took his eyes back leisurely and asked, "Have you eaten dinner?"

Xu Xinghe leaned in his seat and said casually, "Of course, it's half past nine. If I don't eat it, I'll starve to death... How about you? What do you have for dinner?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he realized that he was asking too much.

Sure enough, Ling Changfeng replied with his expression unchanged for thousands of years: "Nutrition agent."

Xu Xinghe changed to a more comfortable position and began to close his eyes to rest his mind: "I'm actually pretty much the same. I don't have time to go to the cafeteria for dinner, so I just ate a light meal with my colleagues in the office."

"It's been hard work." Ling Changfeng looked at his face sideways, and saw that his little spouse was indeed tired, so he didn't say that he planned to take him out for supper, and silently changed the route to return to the marshal. government.

"How long will your project last?" Ling Changfeng asked.

"Next Wednesday at the latest, there may be an extra day of work on weekends." Xu Xinghe said, yawned, stretched out his body, and relaxed without defense, "But fortunately, there are three extra days after the project is completed. take a vacation."

A faint smile flashed in Yitong's eyes, Ling Changfeng had a plan in his heart, but on the surface he still asked calmly, "What do you want to do on vacation?"

Speaking of this, Xu Xinghe regained his spirits and opened his eyes: "Maybe the two groups will go out together to build a tour group. We, Mr. Liang, said that as long as we can get things done by next Wednesday, all the expenses for the group building will be reimbursed!"

Ling Changfeng: "..."

Yi Tong's eyes flashed slightly, and Ling Changfeng said expressionlessly, "Oh, is three days enough for you to travel?"

"Five days last weekend!"

"Going abroad?"

"Well, but the exact city to go to has not been decided yet. I'll talk about it when I'm done with my current work."

Ling Changfeng observed the expression on Xu Xinghe's face, there was a little excitement and a little joy in his eyebrows, obviously looking forward to this vacation trip.

So Marshal Ling opened his mouth, but in the end said nothing.

It was just the thought of not seeing his little spouse for five days, and my heart felt irritated for no reason.

Xu Xinghe felt sleepy, and yawned in a daze, but stopped abruptly when he was halfway through.

He blinked at Ling Changfeng, and immediately put a head over: "What's wrong? Are you unhappy?"

Ling Changfeng's eyes flickered, and the fluffy dark chestnut head had already rubbed in front of him.

Makes me want to rub it in.

He was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that even if he was not in the susceptible period, his emotions would be more and more easily perceived in front of Xu Xinghe.

He lowered his eyes, pursed his thin lips, and said softly, "It's nothing,"

Xu Xinghe leaned back to his seat, smiled and raised his chin: "Why? Are you jealous that I have a vacation?"

"..." Ling Changfeng glanced at him calmly, "Well, I'm very envious."

After that, something suddenly came to mind: "Do you have any other vacations that you don't use?"

Xu Xinghe looked at him inexplicably: "What?"

"Honeymoon leave." In the dimly lit car, Ling Changfeng's voice came in a low and soft voice, "Ark has a two-week honeymoon leave, when are you going to use it?"