It was past two in the middle of the night when they lay down, but neither of them stayed in bed the next morning. Liang Xiao said that his father had breakfast at 8:30 every day, and they finished washing up at 8:15 and went downstairs on time. Walk.
Of course, the shirt last night could not be worn, Ye Ji'an changed into a thin sweater, perhaps because of its elasticity, it was not so loose on the body, while Liang Xiao was still wearing a comfortable pure cotton shirt, rubbing his eyes and yawning. , holding Ye Ji'an's wrist, and walking on the stairs vigorously.
Ye Ji'an tugged at his cuff, "Do you think he's here?"
Liang Xiao thought for a while, "I guess he's already on the table," he rubbed between Ye Ji'an's fingers and said, "Playing puzzles on the table."
Ye Ji'an smiled at his determined appearance, and his heartbeat became a lot more stable. The impression is that the gift bag was placed on the coffee table. Could it be that the father-in-law saw it and opened it to play? As a result, when he arrived at the restaurant, he really saw a person standing in front of the long table where they dined last night, with short gray hair, medium stature, gray silk jacket, and black trousers. What is the desktop busy with.
"Dad, good morning." Liang Xiao raised his voice.
"Yo, it's good," the chairman turned around when he heard the words, with a faint smile on his face, and a few small pieces of white in his hand, "I was thinking that you would stay as long as you used to. point."
Liang Xiao shrugged and looked sideways at Ye Ji'an's face with a proud expression, which probably meant "I guessed it right." Ye Ji'an returned with a look of "you're awesome" and went to say hello to the chairman, "Good morning. ."
"Hey, Xiaoye, come and sit." The chairman made a mistake and gave the sofa stool to the two of them, while he took a seat on the high-back chair at the table, "Today, I have tomato and eggs and braised noodles. , with lettuce coleslaw and plum juice." He took the piles of white debris and grabbed a handful of them in front of him, "Spring is here, let's lighten up."
Ye Ji'an saw his results, and there was a small circle of white in the assembled picture frame. He had already assembled all four sides, and also classified the remaining pieces. Ye Ji'an couldn't help but admire the enthusiasm and professionalism of this enthusiast. He was so old, and he came back so late last night, and he didn't know what time he started.
But I heard Liang Xiao say, "I still want to drink Ohuatian."
"Come here!" Hu Ma carried two trays and ran over with small steps, three to five and two, and a bowl of soup noodles was placed in front of one person. The soup was bright red, the noodles were light, and it smelled too. The sour aroma is attractive. The other tray was filled with drinks, two cups of sour plum soup soaked in ice cube water, and a cup of light coffee-colored hot drink, which was handed to Liang Xiao, "I knew you wanted to drink this!" Hu Ma laughed. .
"Thank you." Liang Xiao raised his eyebrows and drank with both hands.
Hu Ma hummed a little tune and left, and after a while, she brought a plate of thinly sliced lettuce sliced like jade, covered with a pinch of minced garlic. It's the kind that is fried with peppercorns to give off the flavor. No wonder a cold salad dish that has no flavor can make people's mouths full of saliva. He felt like he had learned another trick.
"How was the team building yesterday afternoon?" the chairman asked.
"It's a bit boring," Liang Xiao said after biting off a chopstick of noodles, "but not very tired, the senior came back to accompany me in the second half."
"Fortunately, there is no smog and the wind is not too strong." Ye Ji'an said.
"Haha, your general manager just likes to do these things." The chairman wiped the corners of his mouth and threw the hot towel on the table, "It's because you young people lack team spirit and have to bring people together from time to time. Come together, everyone is sweating," he looked up at the two young people, "do you two find it useful?"
Liang Xiao said, "It's useless."
Ye Ji'an upholds a rigorous and serious work attitude and said: "Everyone does not focus on walking, because it is not voluntary and feels meaningless, so they are basically absent-minded, and I think the primary source of a sense of belonging is the sense of achievement, A group of people work together as a co-worker, you put in your strength, and then the group has achieved something, you will feel very autonomously that you belong here, and you don’t need others to remind you to shout slogans. Just walking this way is very important for cultivating a team. It's really useless mentally."
The chairman nodded.
Liang Xiao said again: "When we were walking, we were talking about where to go for dinner at night. We were hanging on to it. In the end, only the two of us didn't go in the whole department."
"Then you two went together? Just say there is something else?" The chairman looked at Ye Ji'an.
"Well," Ye Ji'an put down his chopsticks and sat upright, "they went to Donglaishun to eat shabu-shabu. I called three chauffeurs, and Lao Chen was responsible for the rest, deputy director of legal affairs Chen."
The chairman smiled, his eye lines were filled with love, but suddenly there was a mystery on his face, "By the way, does anyone usually gossip about you?"
Ye Ji'an was stunned for a moment. He suspected that his physical exertion was too much and even affected his brain the day before, so he had hallucinations, but he was a little anxious when he heard Liang Xiao, "Dad!"
"I'm asking seriously, you usually walk very close, and you don't deliberately cover it up," the chairman still laughed, "First of all, I'm not against office romance, and our company doesn't have those messy bullshit rules, two young They are pleasing to the eye, falling in love, justifiable and worthy of support. I just want to hear it now, if my colleagues find out about this, it's a sure thing, what are you two going to do. "
"I—" Liang Xiao was interrupted.
"Let's talk about it first." The chairman continued to look at Ye Ji'an, his eyes were bright and kind, but he seemed to have his own coercion.
Liang Xiao opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything, just lowered his eyelashes and silently looked at Ye Ji'an's hand beside his leg.
In fact, he wanted to hear it too.
"I think it's very likely that this kind of thing will happen because my colleagues are aware of our relationship," said Ye Ji'an, "Actually, I want them to find out sooner, because it's really hard to bring this kind of thing up. If At the end of the meeting, or suddenly shouting in the office, loudly announcing that Liang Xiao and I are a couple, I always feel a little too self-centered. Everyone is busy with things, so they must be willing to listen to your private affairs? But If someone asks me, it's easy to handle, just admit it, and the whole department will know about it the next day."
"It seems that you are not afraid of being discussed behind your back." The chairman tapped the table with his fingertips.
"It's okay to talk, just don't scold," Ye Ji'an was a little embarrassed. "If I scold him, I can't help but scold him. If we work together in the future, it will be embarrassing."
The chairman laughed and looked at Liang Xiao, who was pursing his lips and pretending to be serious, "It's your turn, make a statement."
Liang Xiao said it as it should be: "Actually, I wanted to borrow your building for a long time. I typed a line on the lighting effect screen. Liang Xiao Ye Ji will grow for a long time."
The chairman narrowed his eyes, "Don't borrow it!"
Liang Xiao asked again, "Is it okay to rent?"
The chairman said: "I remember that the Citi Tower on the Bund is 800 yuan per square meter for a day, and my piece must be at least 1,000 square meters, which is 800,000 yuan a day. I'll give you a family discount, multiply it three times and it will be two. One and a half million, the content of the broadcast is optional, the effect is guaranteed, just a little, and don't swipe my card."
Facing his father's serious deception, Liang Xiao raised his chin, "Oh, then I'll make a reservation first."
The chairman took out a small leather face book with a seriousness, and made a memo, stroke by stroke, "Okay, I remember it."
Liang Xiao smiled and said, "Just wait."
Ye Ji'an held back her laughter until her throat hurt.
For some reason, he really had a hunch that one day he would see some amazing images while waiting for the traffic lights at the zebra crossing in front of the roundabout downstairs before going to work.
After the meal, the chairman didn't ask the two to accompany him to jigsaw puzzles. According to his words, this kind of fun was so fun that he didn't want to be planned by others, so Liang Xiao didn't force it, he was already tired of this kind of stuff. , dragged Ye Ji'an around the house. Those past works have been well displayed. Liang Xiao has indeed accompanied his father to spell out many world famous works bit by bit. There is a special room and a corridor for display. When he saw them, he could not remember them. At my age at the time, I could occasionally think of a certain scene, in a small courtyard in Beijing, or in a living room in New York? The pictures gradually became complete, from trivial to complete. The sun fell on the lawn or the carpet. His father, who looked at him from time to time, taught him how to classify the fragments, and talked to him a lot.
"My dad likes to talk to me about life when I'm fighting. Whether I'm playing games or reviewing at the end of the term, he calls me a puzzle, so I have to go, and I will go too, I don't know why," Liang Xiao looked at the Picasso's Self-portrait, with tenderness in the corners of his eyes, "Maybe I thought it was enough to talk about just now, so I don't need it."
"Well, the focus is probably on chatting," Ye Ji'an thought, leaning on his shoulder, "Puzzles take time, so you can stay beside him for a while longer and listen to the old man."
The visit ended with a series of footsteps of a little girl. Xiaoguo ran up energetically and asked them to play flying chess with her. This is what she remembered last night. When she walked to the living room on the first floor with one hand, she suddenly changed her mind.
"I want to eat candied haws!" She shouted while pulling on Liang Xiao's wrist with both hands, and Ye Ji'an was temporarily released.
"Tell Mother Hu to buy it for you." Liang Xiao didn't want to be bullied by her.
"No! Mother Hu thinks I'm annoying." Xiaoguo was wronged again, with tears in her eyes. "Brother Xiaoxiao, come with me! You haven't been back for a long time. I have a whisper to tell you."
Liang Xiao felt that he was a hundred times more annoying than Hu's mother, but he really couldn't see the child crying. It seemed that this meant that he should accompany him to buy shopping alone. what a big deal.
He looked at Ye Jian.
Ye Ji'an smiled, "Go back quickly." A whisper.
So Liang Xiao bravely went out, carried the little girl's cuff and walked quickly, and left the courtyard in a blink of an eye.
Ye Ji'an was a little bored for a while, put on his coat, stood in the courtyard to bask in the sun, the door rang behind him, and the chairman came out wrapped in a blanket.
"One-fifth of the fight." He said, "Is there no shadow again?"
"I went with Xiaoguo to buy candied haws." Ye Ji'an gave him the sunlight sifted from a tree branch.
The chairman sighed, "That child is also a little spoiled. I heard her yelling in the room just now." After a pause, he asked again, "Isn't Liang Xiao right now?"
"You don't need to treat him like a child," Ye Ji'an smiled. "In many things, he is more accurate than me."
"I think you're quite used to him, those strange little habits, and the young master's temper, have you ever felt this way?" The chairman said, "tsk tsk tsk" greeted a few times, all the bushes in the courtyard A few chubby shadows appeared in the middle, and some cats jumped off the wall, all of them thick and fat.
Ye Ji'an's scalp suddenly tightened. These cats were obviously very family members. Mimi gathered around them when they barked, and rubbed their calves and ankles in a coquettish manner.
He lowered his eyes, staring at the animals he was inexperienced with, almost bewildered. "I don't think so," he said, "just feel comfortable with them."
"That's good."
"Are you lacking confidence in him?" Ye Ji'an was caught by a cat's tail. Seeing the two paws on his slippers, he was surprised that he didn't run away subconsciously, "Your son is more than a lot of people. Much better."
"Maybe." The chairman looked up at the sky.
Ye Ji'an watched the cat yawn, revealing a small piece of tongue and pointed teeth, and some were speechless.
"I'm always a little worried about him, I just don't want him to go wrong and get hurt again," said the chairman, "Liang Xiao is the kind of child who needs a lot of love, although he may not realize it, but He is sensitive, a little perfectionist, and he is very concerned about certain things, not everyone in the world can understand him, or rather, very few understand him, isn't he just a child in my eyes," said He folded his arms again, and looked at the magpie nest on the top of the persimmon tree from a distance, "So now, I want to tell you a little bit. How can I put it? From childhood to adulthood, we all want to give him a lot. A lot of love, but the result is that we all did not do well, but because of our own problems, we gave him more neglect and harm. This is something his peers don’t need to work hard to accept, so it’s not fair to him. ."
Ye Ji'an's attention has been diverted from the cat. Although Mother Hu came to feed, and more and more cats surrounded them, he had no time to be afraid, just nodded and listened carefully.
"When I was a kid, when my mother and his brother had an accident, I realized that I really wasn't doing very well as a father, so I quit my job and ran over to accompany him for two years. Children are rebellious, most of the time. He didn't talk to me very much, but he was very fierce when they quarreled. I remember he yelled at me once, saying that it was because of us that he had that kind of yin and yang character. It made me so angry that I felt like I had already I did my best and fulfilled my obligations to him. It was he who was thinking wildly every day." The chairman shut his mouth and was quiet for a while, "but I later came to apologize to me, the most face-saving sixteen or seventeen-year-old. , I didn't shed tears when I was in a cast when I was fighting with someone. When I said sorry, I cried. I suddenly felt that what he said before was right, his mother took his brother abroad not long after he was born, and I have been busy again. Work, I rushed to send him out when he grew up, and it happened within two years. I opened the door and saw my mother died on my sofa. There was no such thing as a person, no matter what. It will never be forgotten for a lifetime. They all say that it is never too late to make amends, but this is actually self-comfort."
"Indeed," Ye Ji'an took a deep breath, "he would lose sleep because of this later."
"now what?"
"it's good now."
"Thank you, really, Xiaoye," the chairman said slowly, "I really didn't expect him to meet such a person, and then you just appeared like this. Listen to me, an old man here. So much housework, haha."
"You shouldn't thank me, it was Liang Xiao who grew up and was picked up by me," the cat scratched Ye Ji'an's vamp, but he still looked at it, "We both have that kind of common language, when I was young I also had a very bad time, and then I tried desperately to escape, and I succeeded. I felt like I was rooted thousands of miles away. Why do I still want to die every day. But I don’t want to anymore, and I rarely even recall the pain as a child, they are all vague ."
"I don't think pain is something to remember, because you are the only one who suffers. It should be used for kicking, you want to kick it away, or who makes you want to kick it away, and then you succeed No longer afraid of it, can you really be considered an adult," Ye Ji'an turned his face, he suddenly realized that it was the first time that he looked at his big boss in such a calm mood, without any nervousness or caution, "Liang Xiao is already , so I said, he's great."
Liang Xiao bought a total of three candied haws, one strawberry for Xiaoguo, and two hawthorn glutinous rice for Ye Ji'an and himself. He didn't buy the fourth one because his father had diabetes.
When he entered the yard, he saw a strange scene. Ye Ji'an was squatting on the edge of the grass and was slowly petting a cat.
He remembered clearly that Ye Ji'an had said that he was afraid of cats, especially the three flowers that his younger brother kept. He would feel uncomfortable when he saw similar colors, and would break into a cold sweat when he touched them. .
But at this moment, a chubby tabby cat was purring under Ye Ji'an's hands.
But Ye Ji'an raised his eyes and saw Yu Yemei across the courtyard, still smiling at him.
"Senior?" Liang Xiao handed Xiaoguo to the apologetic butler, squatting beside Ye Ji'an, holding two sticks of hawthorn glutinous rice in his hands.
"I suddenly found that the cats are quite well-behaved, their fur is so soft, but they are too dirty, and they are trying to rub against my pants." Ye Ji'an licked the sugar-coated crisps on the top of the bamboo sticks, which were originally excess syrup and couldn't wrap the nuts. , just flattened and solidified, wrapped in a gray glutinous rice paper, almost every candied fruit has it, but now it has branches in the sun, shining with yellow light.
"Hold it for me for a while, and I'll wash my hands." Ye Ji'an said.