Chapter 2278
How did that just now sound like she was disliking us for being unhygienic?
And Dan Chun didn’t deny it when she heard that, she just said blandly, "Don’t mind me, you guys just enjoy yourselves."
As soon as she finished, her phone happened to ring. She looked down at the screen, apologized to everyone, then got up and went out the door to take the call in the corridor.
Inside the room, the atmosphere that had been so lively just moments ago dropped completely.
Li Ye pulled back the hand that had been stretching into midair to grab some meat and muttered, "People who’ve lived abroad are really different."
"Different how?" Yang Chen.
"Just... blunt." Li Ye rolled his eyes as he spoke.
Maybe Dan Chun didn’t mean anything by what she said, but it was uncomfortable to hear.
"Exactly, if she looks down on it as unhygienic, she shouldn’t have pretended to be all generous and come eat hot pot with us in the first place."
"Enough, drop it, we all have to work together from now on." Chen Jun.
"Tsk, now that you’ve said that I’m even more scared. Next she’ll probably think it’s unhygienic just breathing the same air as us." Li Ye.
"Alright, that’s enough. You talk so much you can’t even shut up to eat!" Sha Qian glanced up at Ruan Bo’s expression and quietly cut them off.
A few of the guys realized talking about someone behind their back like this wasn’t great, so they shut up and went back to eating.
Xu Qing and Fei Xiaomiao didn’t say anything, but their mood was clearly not as good as before either.
Jiaojiao looked at Ruan Bo, and thinking of what Dan Chun had just said, she felt pretty uncomfortable too. She knew that when Dan Chun said those things, it definitely wasn’t some deliberate posturing; it was what she genuinely believed from the bottom of her heart. She’d grown up overseas, her education was different.
She really did look down on a bunch of people sharing chopsticks over hot pot, looked down on this kind of herbal tea that, in her eyes, had no nutritional value at all and was even cheap.
But precisely because of that, it came across even worse and made everyone feel off.
China has five thousand years of history; habits passed down generation after generation are already carved into people’s bones. No one feels this is unhygienic, especially when there are shared serving chopsticks on the table.
That call of Dan Chun’s went on for over twenty minutes. When she came back and noticed the mood at the table wasn’t as warm as before, she didn’t think much of it. She sat back in her seat and from beginning to end didn’t touch anything on the table, and no one tried to persuade her anymore.
Once Jiaojiao had eaten and drunk her fill, Duan Xi started eating his own meal. Jiaojiao bowed her head over her phone, replying to messages. She had just finished when she heard Fei Xiaomiao and Xu Qing invite her to go to the bathroom together.
Jiaojiao nodded, put her phone away, and the three of them left the private room together.
As soon as they got outside, Fei Xiaomiao turned to look at the tightly closed door, let out an exaggerated breath, then hugged Jiaojiao’s arm and said, "That was suffocating, I didn’t even dare breathe too loud just now."
She shook Jiaojiao’s arm, all the excitement she’d felt earlier when she heard that Dan Chun was coming to work at the company completely gone. Instead she muttered in frustration, "What do we do, I’m kind of scared of the office vibe from now on."
They’d only been working a few months, but Fei Xiaomiao really liked the current atmosphere. Apart from Duan Xi and Xiao Zhe not joking around with them, everyone else was easy to get along with, always chatting and laughing, and the day passed in no time.
Now they’d hired Dan Chun; thinking back to what she’d just said and then to her personality, no matter how she looked at it, the days ahead felt like they were going to be suffocating.