Chapter 321
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Chapter 321: The Dining Table is a Battlefield
Throughout the entire morning, Lu Yang felt like he was going crazy.
He had originally thought that sorting documents by number would be an easy task, but the workload was simply too enormous!
His mind had already turned into a complete mess, until a crisp female voice broke the extremely fast-paced work atmosphere in the office.
“How many of you are eating lunch here today?”
He subconsciously looked up and saw Shi Yaoshan and Liu Xing, at their other desks, raise their hands without lifting their heads.
Lu Yang quickly followed suit and raised his hand, while Liu Dong, the remaining one, spoke up.
“I need to make a trip to the Architectural Engineering Department later to verify some information. I’ll take care of lunch outside along the way.”
“Okay, got it. Three people from the secretary’s office…”
The girl who came to ask, named Liu Ye, held a charcoal pencil, speaking and jotting things down.
Liu Dong, after saying what he had to say, quickly finished the document in his hand, then wrote something on the nearby bulletin board with a charcoal pencil before leaving the office.
Throughout this entire process, Lu Yang, with his hand raised, remained in a state of bewilderment.
Shi Yaoshan, who seemed to have remembered something, quickly said.
“Although you don’t need to run any errands for now, I’ll tell you anyway.”
“Sometimes, some reports require you to personally go to the respective departments on-site to confirm and handle them.”
“When you go out, remember to write your whereabouts clearly on the nearby bulletin board, otherwise, it will be counted as absence without leave.”
“Also, Miss Liu Ye, who just came to ask how many people are staying for lunch, is also the one who takes care of His Majesty’s daily life. In other words, be polite to her.”
“Of course, Miss Liu Ye is a very kind person and usually doesn’t cause any trouble.”
After some more time passed, a crisp bell rang from outside.
Hearing the sound, Shi Yaoshan and Liu Xing, who were still in the office, stretched in sync and loosened their limbs.
Looking up at Lu Yang, who was sweating profusely from organizing work documents, Shi Yaoshan shook his head.
He walked over and patted Lu Yang’s shoulder.
“Let’s go, it’s lunchtime.”
“But there are still some reports left to organize.”
A trace of shame was in Lu Yang’s voice. What he originally thought would be easy, he still hadn’t finished.
“Don’t worry about it. Everyone is like this when they first start. Honestly, your efficiency is much faster than ours when we first arrived.”
As he spoke, Shi Yaoshan turned to look at the small stack of remaining reports on the cart.
“You know, on Liu Xing’s first day here, by lunchtime, there was still a third of the reports left on this cart.”
“Get lost, why do you have to be so talkative?”
Liu Xing, whose name was called by Shi Yaoshan, rolled his eyes exasperatedly.
“You weren’t any better.”
“Alright, let’s hurry and eat. If we’re late, the other beasts will finish everything.”
“Are there others here?”
Lu Yang asked curiously.
“Of course.”
Shi Yaoshan casually gestured.
“Besides our office, there are more than a dozen different department offices.”
“Come on, I’ll take you to the cafeteria. You can finish the rest of these after lunch.”
“Fewer reports will be delivered in the afternoon than in the morning, so you’ll have plenty of time.”
“You catch on quickly, unlike that guy Liu Xing, who was silly when he first came and even knocked over the organized files several times because he was too nervous…”
Lu Yang instinctively imagined that, and then his face darkened.
Files that were finally organized, then knocked over, that was simply hell, wasn’t it?
“Damn it, say what you want, but why do you keep dragging me into it?!”
“Am I not educating a newcomer and needing a bad example?”
“Shi Yaoshan, you old bastard!”
Lu Yang realized that Shi Yaoshan and Liu Xing had a very strong relationship.
This was indeed the case, the atmosphere in Luo Ji’s secretary’s office had always been quite good, with virtually no infighting.
Of course, from another perspective, with that kind of workload, if you still had the energy to scheme against each other, then you truly had some skill.
Walking all the way to the cafeteria, Lu Yang continuously saw many people along the way.
Shi Yaoshan diligently introduced them as they walked.
In Shi Yaoshan’s words, the secretary’s office had a lot of work, and he would eventually have to deal with people from other offices, so it was good to get familiar with them first to make things easier later.
Then, as the aroma of food wafted into his nose, Lu Yang’s stomach couldn’t help but rumble.
This had never happened before, causing his face to flush slightly.
He subconsciously glanced left and right but found that no one was paying attention to him.
The people working here were all clutching their stomachs, looking as if they were about to faint from hunger.
Being extremely hungry from work was practically the norm here.
Walking into the cafeteria and seeing the large round tables, Lu Yang’s eyes flashed with novelty.
As a young master from an aristocratic family, when had he ever eaten at such a large communal table?
“Come, come, let’s sit here.”
Before Lu Yang could react, Shi Yaoshan had already pulled him and quickly walked towards one of the empty large round tables.
9 dishes for one table, 3 meat, 5 vegetables, and 1 soup.
For this era, it could be said to be very rich.
Once the round table was full and the meal began, Lu Yang, who had originally wanted to eat more gracefully, instantly saw 7 or 8 pairs of chopsticks criss-crossing in front of him, giving him a strange feeling as if he was in a hail of gunfire and arrows!
Looking at Lu Yang, who was holding his rice bowl and completely stunned, Shi Yaoshan, who quickly picked a large meatball into his own bowl and took a bite, then quickly put one into Lu Yang’s bowl.
“Don’t just stand there dumbfounded! The dining table is a battlefield! You’ll starve to death like this sooner or later!”
“Eat quickly, the clear stewed meatballs in this cafeteria are superb!”
As he spoke, Shi Yaoshan smacked a pair of chopsticks that had reached over from somewhere, and then everyone at the table simultaneously glared at the ‘beasts’ at the next table.
“At the same time, you also need to be especially careful of certain exceptionally thick-skinned beasts who, after finishing the food at their own table, even extend their chopsticks to others’ tables!”
After driving back the thick-skinned beast with their glares, Shi Yaoshan shoveled two more mouthfuls of rice into his mouth.
Then, looking at Lu Yang, who still couldn’t completely relax, he picked dishes into his own bowl while speaking in a tone of disappointment.
“Don’t be so fussy. Every one of these beasts at the dining table was as fussy as you when they first arrived. That’s why for the first week, they had to work hungry in the afternoon.”
For a moment, everyone at the table looked at Lu Yang, who was either fussy or eating elegantly, as if looking at their past selves.
Then, while giving him a kind look, they mercilessly swept the food off the table!
