"I didn't expect that Mr. Zhu, who had been in prison for several months, still had the alcohol bug in his stomach." Xieyi took the wine glass that Zhu Anhuai handed to him and swallowed the wine in one gulp with a smile.
When Zhu Anhuai left, he did not forget to give Xieyi a vicious look.
When Xieyi came back from the restroom drunk and dazed, Qiao Hanmin was already seeing off the guests. People left one after another, and Xieyi also helped to see them off. On the other side, several women surrounded Li Zeliang and tried to get close to him, but they didn't stop until he left.
Finally, Qiao Hanmin actually said to her, "Xieyi, see Mr. Li off."
Xie Yi looked at Qiao Hanmin in surprise, but had to obey.
So, Xieyi got into Li Zeliang's car. Ji Yingsong was driving, Xiaolin was in the passenger seat, and Li Zeliang and she were sitting in the back seat. She knew he was a big client and needed to be treated with great respect, but Li Zeliang had a driver in front and a secretary behind him, so what did he need her to deliver
But fortunately, Qiao Hanmin did not ask her to send Zhu Anhuai off.
When the car reached Olympic Sports Center East Road, it was the end of some celebrity's concert and the street was jam packed with cars. Their car kept stopping and starting, delaying them for a long time.
The entire traffic jam lasted for about twenty minutes. Fortunately, the air conditioning in the car was very cool and the sound insulation was good, so it made people feel at ease.
When Xiao Lin saw that the car was about to reach a fork in the road, he turned around and asked, "Mr. Li, where are we going first..." He didn't say the word "里" at the end, and then he stopped.
She saw Xieyi's head leaning against the window glass, having fallen asleep, while her boss, who seemed to have noticed it long ago, was sitting on the other side with his eyes closed.
"Mr. Li." Xiao Lin called in a low voice.
"Um?"
"We..." The implication is that he is asking what to do.
Li Zeliang opened his eyes, looked at Xieyi's sleeping face, pursed his lips and thought for a while.
"Send her back to your home."
This... Xiaolin thought, this is the only way. Because she found that Xieyi was not sleeping, but drunkenness.
When the car arrived downstairs, Xiaolin opened the door and went to help Xieyi. However, Xieyi was already completely asleep, and it was impossible to help her with just a woman's strength. Xiaolin looked to Ji Yingsong for help, but Ji Yingsong completely ignored her and sat there, waiting for Li Zeliang to speak.
"You send Secretary Lin back first, and I'll help Miss Shen upstairs." Li Zeliang simply instructed Ji Yingsong.
This remark came out so suddenly that Xiaolin's jaw almost dropped. Ji Yingsong always had that expression, not surprised at all. He told Xiaolin to hand over the house key and then took her away.
"Hey—Mr. Li…" This was clearly sending a sheep into the tiger's mouth. After all, she was Shen Xieyi's friend, and she couldn't just stand by and watch him die.
"Yingsong..." Xiao Lin just said this when he saw Ji Yingsong's eyes flashing towards him, so he immediately shut up.
Her boss Li Zeliang is very powerful because he knows how to use the right person to solve the right problem. For example, if the person in front of her was not Ji Yingsong, but Zhang San, Li Si, or Wang Wu, Xiao Lin might still be able to fight for her friend's innocence without fear of power. But at this moment, she is also in a difficult situation.
"Then where are you sending me back to?" Xiao Lin wanted to cry but had no tears. It was clearly downstairs of her house.
Such a simple question stumped Ji Yingsong. He stopped, frowned and thought for a while: "Come to my place for now."
This is a good suggestion, Xiaolin exclaimed. So, the two walked outside the community to hail a taxi.
Li Zeliang sat in the car, holding a cigarette between his fingers but did not light it for a long time.
It was late at night, and the neighborhood was extremely quiet. It was early summer, and the occasional chirping of crickets could be heard in the grass by the roadside. Sitting there, he could clearly hear Xieyi's faint breathing. She slept like a child, with her mouth slightly open, her shell-like teeth exposed. Someone once asked her, "You sleep like this, with your teeth exposed all the time. Won't you feel cold at night?" The result was a bite on her chin.
Li Zeliang sighed deeply, got out of the car slowly, then walked around to Xieyi and opened the door.
"Xie Yi?" he called her tentatively.
no response.
He touched her head gently and called out again.
Still no response.
So, he bent down to hold her, and just as he held her in his arms and was about to stand up, he suddenly stopped, frowned, and carefully put her back.
He supported his right leg with his hand, and put one hand on the roof with his fist clenched. He rested his head on it, half bent over, and closed his eyes in pain.
After a while, a security guard on property patrol passed by and asked, "Sir, do you need any help?"
Li Zeliang raised his head and said calmly, "No, thank you."
After the security guard left, Li Zeliang sat in the driver's seat again, opened the sunroof, lit a cigarette, took a few puffs, and then put it out. A woman who was returning home late passed by and looked back at Li Zeliang in the car from time to time with curiosity, so he simply turned off the lights in the car.
After a long time, he returned to Xieyi again, changed his other foot to bear the force, and then gritted his teeth and picked her up. Then, he carried Xieyi into the elevator upstairs, opened the door and went into the house, and put her down in the bedroom. Xieyi, who was sleeping soundly, touched the comfortable quilt, raised the corners of her mouth in her dream, pushed away Li Zeliang's arms, and turned over on the pillow.
The moment he stood up, the pain in his right leg almost made him dizzy, so he had to hold on to the corner of the bed and fell to the ground.
As soon as Xiao Lin arrived at Ji Yingsong's residence, Ji Yingsong was about to leave.
"Yingsong, where are you going?"
"I've already sent you there, just take a good rest."
"Then where are you going?" Xiaolin continued to ask.
"I'm worried about Mr. Li. I'll go back and check."
Hearing this, Xiao Lin sighed. Shen Xieyi was so drunk, he probably wouldn't do anything to Li Zeliang, and besides, who should be worried about between the two of them
"I'll accompany you." Xiao Lin had no choice but to say this.
The two took a taxi back to the original place. The car was still parked there, but Li Zeliang forgot to close the car door. Or, it was not that he forgot but he simply could not move his hands to lock the car. Thinking of this, Xiao Lin suddenly understood Ji Yingsong's worries.
How could he hold Shen Xieyi
"Let's go upstairs." Xiao Lin hurriedly walked around the car and prepared to go upstairs, but was stopped by Ji Yingsong.
"Just wait here."
"But… "
"You don't understand." Ji Yingsong said.
"Don't I understand you, or don't I understand him?" Xiao Lin was a little angry.
Ji Yingsong didn't answer and let go of her hand.
"You never say anything, how am I supposed to understand?"
“We’re not a good match.”
"How do you know it's not suitable if you don't even try it?" Kobayashi smiled bitterly.
Ji Yingsong glanced at her and seemed to be hesitant to speak.
"You don't need to use polite words to enlighten me. There are many stubborn people in the world, not just me." Xiao Lin said, "Maybe the guy upstairs is the same."
Suddenly, Ji Yingsong's phone rang. After Ji Yingsong answered, Li Zeliang said only one sentence and hung up. Ji Yingsong and Xiaolin went upstairs together and walked to the door of the house, but Ji Yingsong asked her to stay outside the door, "I'll call you later."
Ji Yingsong turned on the light in the living room, looked around and saw that there was no one, so he went into the bedroom.
Xieyi was lying on the bed, covered with a quilt, sleeping soundly, while Li Zeliang was sitting on the floor beside the bed, his face covered in cold sweat.
"Mr. Li."
Li Zeliang saw that it was him and shook his head helplessly, "Yingsong, I can't hold on any longer, give me a hand."
The next day, Xieyi and Xiaolin took the subway to work together.
"I sleep like a dead body when I drink. I must have troubled you a lot yesterday." Xieyi bought a morning newspaper and rubbed his head which was still swollen and aching.
"No, it's not a problem." Xiao Lin didn't know where to start.
Last night, when she saw Ji Yingsong helping the boss out, she finally understood what he meant by "you don't understand". Li Zeliang has always been competitive and never mentioned his disability in front of others. He always acted like a normal person. Therefore, sometimes people around him almost forgot about the abnormality of his legs and treated him as a healthy person.
Perhaps, he didn't want anyone, including Ji Yingsong, to see him helpless because of his disability.
At that time, Li Zeliang's face turned pale with pain, but he still did not forget to turn around and say to her: "Secretary Lin, please take good care of Xieyi, thank you." Xiao Lin has been with him for so many years and knows that he is best at smiling but hiding a dagger, but the word "thank you" at that time really came from his heart.
"Freehand?" Xiaolin asked.
"Hmm?" Xieyi answered while reading the newspaper.
"You and Mr. Li knew each other before? I mean before I came to Li's."
"He's been to Don Joe before."
"And before that?"
"I don't know him." Xie Yi said, turning a page of the newspaper.