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After the New Year, I brought a lot of souvenirs from home back to City F, and I also picked up a... man along the way.
This person’s surname is Bai, and his first name is Xiaobai. He is my father’s favorite disciple. After graduating from graduate school, he worked as a planner at a well-known domestic game company.
"Bai Xiaobai?" It was the first time I heard that a person with such a name was coming to our house for dinner. I laughed, "Who would call such a person?"
My dad shook his head and said in an old scholar's tone: "Young Master Xiaobai has become the hegemony of the Spring and Autumn Period. The nine princes have unified the world. Xiaobei, if I tell you to study more, you can hang out online every day!"
"Who said to me when I was about to read "Historical Records": 'Girls don't need to read this, just know how to cook and wash clothes!'" I curled my lips. Because of these words, my hardcover annotated version of "Historical Records" is still thrown in the corner of the bathroom, where I place the washing machine when I am busy and my dental appliances when I am not busy.
"What's more, didn't your proud disciple abandon history and join the entertainment industry?"
My dad shook his head again: "Put what you learn into practice. If what you learn can be put to use, there will be nothing to regret. Just like you, I will be satisfied if you are as old as you and you can marry a good man."
"Why do I feel like an earthworm used for fishing?" I complained.
"Don't underestimate earthworms. I have invested a lot in earthworms." My dad said proudly.
On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Bai Xiaobai came to my house carrying flowers and fruits. In name, he wanted to pay his respects to his teacher and his wife as a disciple, but in fact everyone knew that this was to bring the two of us together.
Xiaobai, who is wearing a suit and leather shoes, looks a bit stiff but has a humble and respectful attitude. This suddenly reminded me of a person. Yi Fan also wears a suit when going to work, but rarely wears a tie. He is always unbuttoned and has a slightly open neckline. He is not as straight as Xiaobai, but he is more casual and free.
After we greeted each other politely and distantly, Xiaobai and my dad started talking about some professional issues. I smiled and pretended to be a lady who was good at listening, but in my heart I was as scheming as a profiteer: I am about the same height as Yi Fan, but my appearance... is a little different, but I am still a person who can be introduced. As for my temperament... I speak with a humble attitude. Polite and focused, his smile is honest and genuine, unlike Yi Fan who always reveals a hint of cunning and full of insidiousness inadvertently. Generally speaking, it is a high-quality product... that can be sold at a good price.
At this time, my dad patted me: "Xiaobei! Xiaobai is talking to you."
Xiaobei, Xiaobai... they sound really like a pair of puppies running happily in the small garden downstairs.
"Ah, I'm sorry, what did you just say?" I quickly reached out and rubbed my face that was frozen with laughter.
"Junior sister, you're welcome. Just call me Brother Xiaobai."
The voice is quite nice, similar to Yi Fan. But...little white pigeon? !
"I'm asking if Junior Sister works in City F?"
"Yeah, I'll go back after the New Year. I really don't want to leave home."
"Hey, Xiaobai, aren't you going on a business trip to City F right after the Chinese New Year? Why don't you just send Xiaobei off for me? This child is so old that I have to send him off every time he goes out." My dad said.
Dad, this is so unwise. I haven't seen you send me anywhere since I was five years old.
Of course, Xiaobai happily agreed. Dad felt that his clever matchmaking strategy had succeeded, and he happily took Xiaobai to the study room to show off his new inkstone. I wanted to follow him to experience it, but I was ruthlessly sent to the kitchen to help cook. At that moment, I suddenly realized that I could never get married, because after getting married, my man would be significantly more favored by my dad than I would be.
"What do you think of Xiaobai?" my mother asked in the kitchen.
"Not as handsome as Yi Fan, but he has a better personality than him. Overall... he is a good person!"
"Yi Fan? Is that the one who said you were pregnant with his child?"
"Yeah." I got angry when I mentioned this, "Mom, do you think there is such a man!"
My mother didn't answer, she just looked at me while stirring an egg, her skills were skillful and her eyes were deep.
After the Spring Festival holiday, Brother Xiaobai escorted me back to City F, and escorted me to the company the next day. Before leaving, he told me not to leave early at night and wait for him to pick me up. So, after get off work, I didn't head straight to the subway station or ride in the subway as usual. Instead, I stood in front of the company with my bag and waited.
At this time, Yi Fan's car stopped in front of me: "I just went to your office, and they told me that you left first. I was planning to drive after you."
"What's going on?" I was a little curious.
"I brought you a New Year's gift." Yi Fan took out a box tied with a ribbon from the car.
The box was very big. I held it and shook it, and it made a "clang, clang, clang, clang" sound.
"Open it quickly and take a look!" Yi Fan said excitedly.
His excitement made me a little scared. So I stretched my arms, keeping the box as far away from me as possible, and pulled the ribbon apart with one hand, ready to run away at any moment.
… I worry too much.
Inside is just a half-human-tall, exotic-looking doll with two shells hanging from its breasts. She gets on top of a dark-skinned, semi-naked doll wearing a hula skirt. She squeezes it with her hands and makes a lewd laugh. .
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I was a little confused: "...is this a gift from you?"
"How's it going? I picked it specially." Yi Fan looked proud, a bit like a child waiting for praise for doing something good.
"Haha, at first I thought Fatty asked you to bring it to me. This gift-giving idea is very similar to his. It's good, but, he just smiles too much..."
"I bought it just because I heard it laugh." Yi Fan squeezed the doll excitedly and let out a series of weird laughs. "I think it looks like you when it laughs."
Yi Fan's joyful expression made me unsure whether he was sincere or intentional. But one thing I'm 100% sure of is that from now on I won't even laugh even if I'm choked to death.
At this time, I heard someone shout: "Xiaobei!"
As soon as I turned around, I was blocked by a large bouquet of flowers.
The colors are as charming as fire.
"Happy Valentine's Day!" Xiaobai poked his head out from behind the flowers and said.
I was stunned for a moment, and then I realized that the first working day after the new year was actually Valentine’s Day.
And that bouquet of red roses made me a little panicked.
"Guan Xiaobei, why don't you introduce us?" Yi Fan said suddenly from the side.
"Sorry, let me introduce you." I said hurriedly, "This is our president Yi Fan. This is Bai Xiaobai, my father's student... here to see me off for my father." After saying that, I didn't understand why I had to Add the last sentence.
Xiaobai stepped forward and shook hands with Yi Fan warmly: "Nice to meet you. Mr. Yi, Xiaobei often mentions you."
"You mention it often? You're not saying bad things about me." Yi Fan glanced at me with a half-smile, "But I've never heard her talk about Mr. Bai."
Just saying bad things about you.
But I quickly said: "What the hell... Brother Xiaobai and I just met."
"Not just acquaintance. To be precise, I hope to be Xiaobei's boyfriend. She is a very good girl, and the teacher also hopes that we can be together. So far, we are getting along very happily. Ah, Mr. Yi really deserves his reputation. The talent is outstanding and the taste is also... outstanding. A... doll wearing a grass skirt, such a gift is very special, very special."
"She likes it." Yi Fan said lightly.
"I don't remember what toys you like." Xiaobai turned around and said to me with a smile, "I remember when I went to your room, all I saw were books. At that time, I thought of the line in "A Dream of Red Mansions" 'This and that are like This young lady's embroidery room must be that brother's study room.'"
I caught a glimpse of Yi Fan's expressionless face and quickly answered: "I like this doll very much, I really like it. It's precisely because I don't have it that I like it even more."
"Since you like it, I'll give you a bunch of them another day. Oh, by the way, I made a reservation at a hotel. Mr. Yi, can we come together?" Xiaobai said.
"No, I have an appointment elsewhere, please do as you please." Yi Fan turned around and got into his car.
Xiaobai took me to a famous Italian restaurant. There were many people waiting outside the door, all handsome men and beautiful women holding roses in their hands. But we were let through the waiting crowd.
"It's hard to decide on the location here. If I hadn't had the foresight to do it two months ago, I probably wouldn't have been able to decide on it." Xiaobai explained, "The pasta and cheese here can be called the most authentic in China. It's very I recommend you try it.”
The waiter came up to hand over the menu cards, set the table, and lit the candles placed in clear glass lamps on the table.
"Xiaobei, I think you are a very good girl who deserves to be cherished. So what do you think... of me?" Xiaobai asked when we were alone in a corner of this elegant small restaurant after ordering.
"What?" The warm temperature in the restaurant and the low and lazy voice of the singer on the stage made me a little distracted.
"The meaning of the teacher and the master's wife is also very clear. They want us to... become lovers." Xiaobai explained.
"I know." I blinked in confusion.
"But, you have never given me a definite answer." Xiaobai took a sip from the water glass and said seriously, "Tell me, Xiaobei, you agree to be my girlfriend."
The candle flame went out, and I looked at my dim and blurry shadow reflected on the table knife, suddenly feeling a little dazed.
Girlfriend... I thought we just cooperated with each other to deal with our parents.
"I think according to my conditions... the parents are interested. Xiaobei, why are you still hesitant?" Xiaobai smiled across the table.
I looked up and found that his smile looked a bit like Yi Fan's, except that Yi Fan was more narcissistic. Suddenly, I wanted to pat him on the shoulder and say: Oh my god, you are really loved by everyone. Girls are so blind when they look down on you. Also, please don't be narcissistic. But then I thought that Xiaobai was not Yi Fan, and it would be inappropriate to make such a joke with him.
How to answer him is really tricky. I really want to tell him the truth: I currently have no plans to choose a mate. All this is just the wishful thinking of my father who is not anxious about the emperor but is anxious about the eunuch. After thinking about it, I felt that it would be too detrimental to Professor Shengguan's tall image in the eyes of students.
Hey, where is the Guan Xiaobei who always finds countless reasons for things
"Xiaobei, are you willing? Promise me. I will prove that I am a suitable person for you." Xiaobai said, but his tone was a bit strong.
Hey, brother, there is no such thing as a free hand. You see, the proposal is all a deception with a ring. Although asking for a girlfriend is not as good as asking for a wife, at least you can wait until the food is served and I will be full before I can think about whether to agree to it.
However, Xiaobai is right, the relationship between us is so natural and should be so natural, and it would be contrary to common sense if it doesn't work out. But vaguely, there seemed to be something preventing me from saying that "yes". While I was desperately trying to think of a solution, the phone rang.
I have never been so grateful for Yi Fan's call.
"Guan Xiaobei, come over and work overtime!"
"G?" I wasn't grateful to him anymore. I was still waiting to eat pasta. "Aren't you off work yourself?"
"I found an error in the document you made again. If you don't want to make the same mistake as last time, come here quickly!"
I was so excited that my face turned green: "I'll be there soon." If something happened again, no one would be able to fight for me.
"What?" Xiaobai asked me.
"There was an error in the documents I made... I have to go back immediately, otherwise I will suffer heavy losses." I grabbed my bag and ran out.
"I'll see you off." Xiaobai chased after him.
"No, you go ahead and eat. It's not easy to find a place. If you can't eat it, take my portion away. I still want to try some authentic pasta."
"Then I'll pick you up?"
"No, I didn't order it." I smiled apologetically at Xiaobai and asked the driver to hurry up.
The car sped away, and I saw Xiaobai's slightly disappointed face in the rearview mirror.
sorry. I said silently in my heart.
When I arrived at the company, I found that only the president's office had lights on.
Yi Fan was looking through a project plan. When he saw me coming in, he pointed to a box on the ground: "Recheck the documents here."
I carried the box back to my seat and started working. Inside are all the documents for a bidding project that the Legal Department has recently taken over, from the letter of intent to the bid to the contract, from the bid intention to the rules for participants. There are countless things that I have done that others have done. I shouldn't be responsible for all of this, but since Yi Fan told me in such a businesslike tone, I can only be a dedicated employee.
Data, legal provisions... typos, so-called verification, in the final analysis is just one word - look. But just looking at it made my eyes dim and my back hurt. After checking the information I was responsible for several times to make sure there were no errors, it was already eleven o'clock at night.
I went to the tea room to pour water and started to trance while holding the cup... In the silent office and the dark corridor, it seemed that I had unknowingly entered a different time and space. Vicissitudes of change had taken place outside. Humanity no longer existed, but I was unaware of it. I am unconsciously doing work that no longer makes sense in this small corner...
"Hey, it's time to get off work," a voice said.
I was startled, and turned around to see Yi Fan standing at the door, with a mixture of light and dark, and his expression was not very clear.
"What are you thinking about? I saw you were stunned for a long time."
"I'm wondering if I'll work overtime until the end of the world, and I'll be the only one left on earth."
"Now that I'm here, you're not alone anymore." He smiled.
"Hahahaha," I started to laugh, "it's better to have you than not to have you!"
"You laugh like that again!" Yi Fan was angry, "There are only two people left on the earth, and you are still picky. Where are you waiting for the Martians?! By the way, what do you dislike about me? Last time Li Luo followed When you said you wanted me to accompany you to deal with your father, just smile like this, I can imagine it with my eyes open!"
As the last male Earthling, he is still disliked by the last female Earthling... Haha, Yi Fan's tangled expression is so funny.
I couldn't help but say: "Yi Fan, please stop pestering me. You are the superior CEO, I am just an ordinary girl... It is impossible for us."
Yi Fan's face turned dark instantly: "When did I..."
"Haha, I'm just kidding. I've always been looking forward to having the opportunity to dump a big shot, and then say the above words with great enthusiasm. Oh my, it's fun just imagining it." I looked at Yi Fan's gloomy face and said happily, "I mean, it's like pancakes and five-star hotels. Both are wonderful from their own perspectives, but if the five-star hotel treats pancakes as breakfast with red wine on the left and coffee on the right, they don't go together."
"Very good, you still know how to treat yourself like a piece of pancake fruit." Yi Fan thought for a while and asked, "Then you have never thought about asking me to be your boyfriend? According to folk statistics, it seems that girls who enter AC, Everyone has had this idea, and many of them have actually put it into action.”
Yi Fan is very narcissistic but has a serious face that seems to be discussing problems with the professor. It's really... too embarrassing!
I thought for a while and said, "Yes."
"Then you still... I am the last person on earth, the last one!"
You are a Martian!
I glared at him: "Boss, don't worry about it. Your abandoned face is really not worth a lot of money. In fact, every girl has had the dream of being Cinderella before she grew up, but as time goes by, Girls will realize that it is more practical to be a stepmother than to be such a silly girl. Even in the fairy tale world, only one of ten thousand princes marries Cinderella, and the rest marry princesses. It is a reality that they are well-matched And words of wisdom.”
"You layman, how old are you? You still have such old-fashioned and pedantic ideas!"
"Show me if you are good! If you are good, please marry a nanny now and take care of your children. Let me see!"
Yi Fan thought for a while: "Forget it, I'm really crowded when I try to be more serious with you. Let's go and take you home."
Xiaobai had a flight early the next morning, so I got up early to accompany him to the airport.
"I wanted to have dinner with you, but I couldn't." He looked down at me and said.
"Hey, it's all my fault. I don't work carefully at ordinary times, so I always work overtime." I said embarrassedly.
"Your boss, his name is Yi Fan..."
"Oh, he's just a lunatic. He doesn't know how he became the CEO. Don't mention him. I get a headache just thinking about him."
"Well, I don't want to mention him either. Have you thought clearly about my question last night? I'm leaving soon, why don't you give me an answer?" Xiaobai held my hand, as if that action... He seemed to want to kiss her.
"Oh, people are starting to call over there. It's too late if we don't leave." I pushed him away with an excuse.
Xiaobai shook his head gently and smiled: "Then I'll go first. If you agree, give me a call. If you don't agree, give me a call. Come visit me when you have time. You are welcome at any time."
I nodded and waved goodbye to him.
I stayed in the departure hall, watching Xiaobai's plane disappear from sight, and then turned around and left.
"Guan Xiaobei." As soon as I left the terminal, I heard someone calling me.
"Yi Fan, why are you here?"
"Send a friend away." Yi Fan opened the car door, "Get in the car and take you back to the company."
"Hey, what kind of big shot wants the CEO to deliver it in person?" I climbed into the car and asked.
Yi Fan didn't say anything, and asked after a long time: "You and that Mr. Bai..."
"Yeah. Although it's my parents' intention, but... I also want to get along with him. He seems very nice."
After a long time, Yi Fan said: "Guan Xiaobei, help me find someone to go on a blind date with. Don't want the ordinary girls on the street or in dating agencies. Just like you said, find a well-matched socialite."
The voice was cold and calm.