Lin Yao stared at his face in the mirror, the grief and anger in his heart could not be expressed in words.
After washing up in a hurry with a grimace, he rushed to the closet and began to rummage, almost crawling into it. After rummaging for a long time, he found a mask. This was the mask his mother bought for him last winter. He had been refusing to wear it, but now there was really no other way.
He stood in front of the mirror, looking at the Hello Kitty mask on his face, feeling like crying but unable to cry. Hello Kitty would have been fine, but the key was that the mask could not completely cover the spectacular and tragic scene on his left cheek.
"What's needed now is a veil," Lin Yao sighed. But this is okay, it's better than going out with half of your face exposed. He straightened his clothes and quietly opened the door, "Lift up your veil..."
Mom was still watering the flowers on the rooftop. Lin Yao ran downstairs while shouting, "You have to get to the company early today. I won't have breakfast!"
After driving the Xiali out of the yard, he breathed a sigh of relief, stretched his neck to look at himself in the rearview mirror, and once again felt sad: "Whose tears are flying... Oh my god..."
Lin Yao felt that he should take a leave, but he was afraid of scaring his mother if he stayed at home. Besides, he had work to do in the next few days. He cared a lot about this job, so he was unwilling to take a leave for an injury that did not affect his brain and hands.
In fact, he was not afraid of his colleagues seeing it. What he was worried about was that if Guan Ze saw it, it would ruin his image, which was already very good.
When the car stopped at the intersection, he looked around nervously, praying not to run into Guan Ze's car.
Guan Ze has probably developed a habit recently. Whenever he meets him, he will park his car next to him, and sometimes when he is following behind him, he will change lanes and stop in advance.
But maybe God took pity on him today, as he didn't see Guan Ze's car until the green light came on.
After Lin Yao parked his car at the company, he walked towards the elevator with his head down. He decided to learn from Zhang Zhian today and transform himself into a daffodil planted in front of the computer.
Guan Ze received a call from Ning Juan in the morning. Ning Juan planned to open a store with the money she had and asked him to help inquire about the storefront. After making the call, he drove out almost ten minutes later than usual.
He didn't see Lin Yao's small Xiali at the intersection, and the time waiting for the red light seemed longer than usual. When he thought of Lin Yao happily lowering the window and shouting "Good morning, Mr. Guan" to him, he couldn't help laughing. This kid was really interesting.
Guan Ze sometimes finds it strange. Lin Yao is obviously a person with a lot on his mind, but he can always stay in this silly and happy state.
He drove very fast all the way. When he drove into the company parking lot, he saw Lin Yao walking towards the elevator with his head down. Lin Yao didn't even look up when the car drove up to him.
Guan Ze honked the horn.
Lin Yao jumped as if startled and raised his head.
Guan Ze saw his wide-open eyes and the mask on his face and thought he might be dazzled. He took another careful look and confirmed that Lin Yao was indeed wearing a mask, a Hello Kitty one.
"You..." He gritted his teeth to hold back his laughter and pointed at the mask, "What are you doing?"
"Morning, Mr. Guan," Lin Yao did not answer the question. He raised his hand and touched the mask, as if he wanted to take it off, but also as if he wanted to cover the pink kitty cat on it. After hesitating for a long time, he simply raised both hands and covered his face, "I have a cold."
Guan Ze saw the red spots on his left cheek the moment he raised his hand and immediately confirmed that he did not have a cold. Could this kid's toothache really make his face spotted
"Take your hand away," Guan Ze pointed at his face, "Is it broken or what?"
Lin Yao covered his face with his hands for a few seconds, and finally put his hands down dejectedly: "The skin is broken."
"How did it happen?" Guan Ze was very surprised, staring at Lin Yao's face, which looked a little miserable, red and swollen, with broken skin in some places. The scars were very obvious against his fair skin.
"It's okay." Lin Yao said sullenly.
A car came in from behind. Guan Ze looked back and pointed at Lin Yao: "Wait for me here."
When he parked the car and walked back, Lin Yao was still standing there with his head down, looking at his shoes.
"How did you do that?" Guan Ze went over and patted him on the shoulder, then walked towards the elevator.
"Don't mention it." Lin Yao's teeth itched when he thought of this, and his rebellious wisdom tooth began to hurt. "I had a toothache yesterday, and a friend told me to make some garlic paste..."
Guan Ze was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Lin Yao. He couldn't believe it: "Wait, you put garlic paste on your face?"
"Didn't you apply it on your face? My face was so painful and swollen..." Lin Yao asked in bewilderment, then was stunned for a moment, and then shouted in grief, "Fuck, didn't you apply it on your face?"
"Who told you to put it on your face?" Guan Ze recalled what he said last night. None of his words mentioned putting it on the face. How did this kid come to such a conclusion
The elevator door opened, and Lin Yao made a gesture to let the leader go first. After Guan Ze went in, he followed in, holding onto the wall of the elevator, wanting to bang his head against the floor buttons: "… No one asked me to paint my face, it was me… Maybe my ability to understand was lost… because of the toothache?"
After Guan Ze came back to his senses from the shock of this child's amazing thinking, he couldn't help but raised his hand to cover his face: "Sorry, I want to laugh."
"It's okay, laugh." Lin Yao turned his head to look at him, leaning against the wall helplessly, "If this happened to someone else, I would have laughed my ass off."
When Lin Yao turned his head, his left face covered with blisters and red spots appeared in front of Guan Ze.
Guan Ze felt very uncomfortable but at the same time he thought it was really funny, so he just turned his head to the wall and laughed for a while but he couldn't control himself and laughed out loud.
"Oh, sorry." He glanced at Lin Yao apologetically, trying hard to suppress the urge to continue laughing. "You need to apply some medicine. I'm afraid the skin will break."
"Thank you." Lin Yao sighed. This was the second time that Guan Ze couldn't control his laughter in the elevator because of him. He felt that he no longer needed to maintain his image in front of Guan Ze. Image, such a magical thing, had been shattered on him.
"Is your tooth still hurting?" Guan Ze finally suppressed his smile when getting out of the elevator.
"It hurts," Lin Yao followed him listlessly, "It's no use taking anti-inflammatory medicine."
"It's useless to eat that. Come to my office later." Guan Ze said this and turned into the corridor towards the marketing department.
"Ah?" Lin Yao stood at the front desk for a long time, and only came to his senses after watching Guan Ze push open the large glass door of the marketing department and go in.
Guan Ze asked him to go to his office? To Guan Ze's office
Oh my God!
Lin Yao suddenly felt that his toothache was gone, and a variety of images flashed through his mind: Guan Ze's office! Was God going crazy
He couldn't help but cover his nose with his hand. After touching the mask on his face, he found that the girl at the front desk had been lying on the table, biting a pen and smiling at him. Fortunately, she saw his right cheek.
"Lin Yao, your mask is so cute," the little girl smiled and hooked her finger at him, "Give it here for me to see. Boys actually wear masks like this when they go out."
"I have a cold." Lin Yao ran into the design department as if escaping.
After entering the design department office, Lin Yao sadly discovered that his dream of turning into a green plant was impossible to achieve. It took him almost five minutes just to walk from the door to his seat. All his colleagues gathered around him, first looking at his Hello Kitty, then his wound. They first expressed their sympathy with a click of the tongue, then turned around and lay on the table and couldn't stop laughing.
"You are not doing this right," Lin Yao said, holding the mask in his hand, sitting down in front of his computer, "Openly and unabashedly building your happiness on the pain of the youngest person in the office..."
"Lin Yao," Jiang Yifei came over and turned his chair around, "How did you grow so big?"
"Shut up!" Lin Yao glared at him fiercely, "Be careful or I'll smear garlic paste all over your face!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the office burst into laughter again. Lin Yao stood up helplessly: "Forget it, just laugh slowly."
Going to the marketing department to find Guan Ze was an exciting thing, but how to walk through the office area of the marketing department with this clown face was a big problem. Lin Yao searched on the table for a long time and found a magazine about advertising design subscribed by the design department.
So he set off holding the magazine.
Several people in the marketing department were still having breakfast, some were on the phone, and a few were cleaning. Lin Yao greeted a few people randomly, jogged through the two rows of desks, and ran to Guan Ze's office holding a magazine.
The office door was open, and Guan Ze was standing at the window answering a phone call. It should be a call from a client. He had a very formal smile on his face, but even with this smile, Lin Yao wanted to lean against the door frame.
Guan Ze saw him standing at the door and waved, motioning him to come in.
Lin Yao entered the office and sat on the sofa. Guan Ze was still on the phone and didn't pay much attention to him. He stared at Guan Ze from head to toe unscrupulously, as if he was searching him, not missing any detail. He even peeked inside the collar of Guan Ze's unbuttoned shirt and saw a black stone hanging around Guan Ze's neck.
Very sexy.
"Come here," Guan Ze glanced at Lin Yao after finishing the call, sat on his chair and opened the drawer, "Eat this."
Lin Yao quickly retracted his gaze from Guan Ze's legs, stood up and walked to the table. He saw Guan Ze took out a small medicine bottle from the drawer and handed it to him. He took it and took a look. There were Chinese characters written on it, but he couldn't pronounce them smoothly for a long time: "What kind of medicine is this?"
"Don't you have a toothache?" Guan Ze leaned back in the chair, resting his head on his arms, with a small gap in his shirt on his chest.
Lin Yao quickly glanced at it and swallowed his saliva: "Thank you, Mr. Guan, do you still have toothache medicine in the office?"
“I bought it for my son.”
“…Oh,” Lin Yao was thinking that this was awkward, and then he saw Guan Ze’s smile. He really didn’t have the energy to be angry because of the toothache, so he could only say weakly, “Should I thank my father?”
"You're welcome. Go take your medicine." Guan Ze smiled and waved.
Lin Yao held the small medicine bottle, poured a glass of water and returned to his seat. He shook the bottle and looked at the pills inside. There were still quite a few. Well, he could take them.
If there are only a few pills left, he won't take it. He can just go to the drugstore at noon and buy a bottle of the same one. He can keep this bottle as a souvenir.
"Cat with a chin," Jiang Yifei said with a smile as he looked at him. "I'll give you an extra bowl of porridge at noon. You can't eat anything hard with your chubby face, right?"
"No, I can't eat soft food. I can't even close my mouth completely now. Drinking water makes my gums hurt." Lin Yao held his chin and stared at the computer, intending to devote himself to work in the hope of distracting himself.
From morning to the afternoon when he got off work, Lin Yao went to the toilet twice, did not eat, and certainly did not drink coffee. When he got off work in the afternoon, he felt that he had completed the transformation into a green plant.
However, when he stretched and prepared to go off work, he was surprised to find that the toothache had eased a lot. He touched his face and the swelling didn't seem so obvious. This discovery made him stand up and jump several times on the spot. He then took out the bottle of medicine that Guan Ze gave him and took two pills. It really was Guan Ze's medicine, the effect was great!
Although the toothache was better, the wound on his face, which looked like he had been beaten, did not change. When he got home, his mother rushed over screaming and hugged him, ready to cry: "What happened, son? Did you have a car accident? I'm your mother!"
"No, no, I know you are my mother, I haven't lost my memory," Lin Yao hugged his mother to comfort her. Seeing his father sitting on the sofa drinking tea, he added, "I also know that the one drinking tea is my father."
"It's okay if you don't remember him, just remember me," his mother held his face, "How did you do this?"
"I had a toothache yesterday, so I put some garlic paste on my face, and it burned me," Lin Yao pushed his mother to sit on the sofa, "but now my tooth doesn't hurt, my face doesn't hurt, and I haven't lost my memory, so don't worry."
"You put garlic paste on your face when you have a toothache?" Dad put down his teacup and turned to look at him for a long time before sighing, "You inherited this from your mom."
"What's wrong with me!" Mom pushed Dad.
"Didn't you use that pain-relieving plaster on the wound? You turned a small wound into a big one," Dad shook his head. "Luckily I have two sons. It's a blessing that Lin Zong didn't follow you."
Mom and Dad started arguing about which son looked like whom and which one was more stupid. No one cared about Lin Yao's face and teeth anymore, so he took the opportunity to slip back to his room.
The first thing he did when he entered the house was to call Hengdao: "Master, you've killed me!"
"What's wrong?" Hengdao's voice was a little lazy, and sounded very sexy.
"Is that mashed garlic meant to be put on teeth?" Lin Yao still wanted to hear the correct answer from the person who provided the recipe.
"Where have you been?" Hengdao asked calmly.
"On the face." Lin Yao replied.
"Very creative. I didn't expect Sister Xiao to be so silly." Hengdao smiled. "So after you apply the garlic paste on your face, do your teeth still hurt?"
"I took some medicine and I feel much better. It's still a little swollen, but it doesn't hurt too much." Lin Yao took out the medicine bottle and looked at it again.
“It works so well.”
"Nonsense, this is what Mr. Guan gave me, it must work psychologically, don't you think?"
"Yeah, that's right."
Lin Yao chatted with Heng Dao for a while and felt in a good mood, so he looked at the calendar and said, "Master Dao, are you free these two days? Let's go out for dinner."
Hengdao didn't say anything. He paused for a long time before asking, "Which day?"
"The day after tomorrow, it's the weekend. I think my toothache won't be there the day after tomorrow," Lin Yao picked up the diamond card his mother gave him from the table, "I'll treat you to a high-end meal."
"Can you face people with your face?" Hengdao asked slowly.
"My face..." Lin Yao touched his left face which was shedding skin, "It's okay. I don't need to be ashamed to see you."
Hengdao laughed, and after a while he said, "Okay, I'll listen to you, but there's something we need to discuss first."
"explain."
"You can only leave after you finish your meal. Anyone who leaves halfway will have toothache for a month."