When Gan Qing went to work in the morning, she already felt that the atmosphere was a little unusual.
At the o'clock when she went to work, it was the time for a group of people in the courtyard to "wrap around the tree" -- the so-called "wrap around the tree movement", that is, these people formed a circle around the thickest old cypress in the courtyard, with different shapes. Posing in the shape of a Dapeng spreading its wings, stepping on the "spacewalk", staring at the tree trunk and turning in circles.
Because the gang leader Lao Yang also participated in this mysterious ceremony, Gan Qing always felt that there might be some mystery in it, and he would sneak a few glances every day when he passed by, but so far he has not understood it.
But this morning's "ceremony", Uncle Yang was delayed for some reason, and he didn't show up. There was one person missing in the circle, and the circle was sparser than usual, and those who turned the tree also seemed a little absent-minded, "Dapeng spread his wings. "Sometimes it turns into "rooster pecking rice"—sometimes someone rushes a few steps, stretches their necks and murmurs two or three sentences with the people in front of and behind them, and then retracts nonchalantly.
Gan Qing's ear is so good that she heard a few words as she passed by.
"...I just said, what can I do to make so much money."
"No object yet!"
"No, this is the most suspicious, how old you are, there must be something wrong..."
Gan Qing felt that an arrow had been hit in the knee, and hurriedly ran away.
When she was about to get off work, she was about to pack up and go to Boss Meng's restaurant when she suddenly received a voice from Zhang Meizhen.
Zhang Meizhen said, "you come back later tonight."
Gan Qing's fingers swept across the screen, and found that since moving to 111, the chat record between her and Zhang Meizhen was the first time that something other than "receive express delivery for me" appeared, so she asked, "What's wrong?"
Zhang Meizhen replied, "It's a mess in the courtyard, don't mix it up, you can find someone outside for a date first."
Gan Qing: "..."
Some senior beauties always feel that "finding someone on a date" is as simple as "finding a place to eat" - does this mean that you can find it when you look for it
Might as well let her go out and tie one faster!
At this moment, the wind chime at the door rang, and Gan Qing's contact lenses were pulled off, and she quickly said, "I'm sorry, we are already closed."
"I know," said the visitor impatiently, "I can see the big wooden sign, and I'm not blind."
"... Little Master Yu?"
Yu Lanchuan's image at this time was like that of a domineering president who just came down from the negotiating table on TV. His shirt was very strict, and his brows had a sharp murderous aura. He put his coat in his arms, pinned the door of Xingzhimeng with one foot, and casually draped his clothes over his shoulders: "This is the air vent, hurry up, I will freeze to death."
His urging tone was too natural, Gan Qing subconsciously accelerated his movements, and followed him out of the dream of stars in confusion.
Meng Tianyi just looked around: "Hey, Master Yu is here, Master Yu is a reliable person, I can rest assured that you come."
Yu Lanchuan nodded at him.
Gan Qing: "What's going on?"
"Civil turmoil in the Beggar Gang," Yu Lanchuan said briefly, "One hundred and one people are waiting too much now. Don't go back first, so as not to stir up the water when you show up."
Gan Qing: "..."
I don't know why, even though it was a good word, Yu Lanchuan's mouth was always full of disgust.
"I found a car, but I can't get in at the intersection. Let's go. Find a place to eat first." Yu Lanchuan said in a deliberately "natural" tone, "It's been a busy day, and I'm still hungry."
Gan Qing said casually, "Okay, Boss Meng manages the meals. What do you want to eat?"
Yu Lanchuan: "…"
In front of Boss Meng, he couldn't say "don't eat" directly, but he didn't even drink saliva after work, so he hurried over, just to eat at a roadside stall in a dark alley.
For a moment, he wanted to open Gan Qing's head to see what was inside.
Fortunately, Boss Meng quickly persuaded him to quit: "Tonight is too busy, and there are no seats in the store, so don't join in the fun and let Xiao Yu stand in the back kitchen to eat like you?"
Yu Lanchuan's eyelids drooped, and he put on a "I can do anything, but you can figure it out for me".
Meng Tianyi smiled and said, "Master Yu treats guests. If I hadn't had to take care of the business, I would still want to go! Don't leave quickly if you have a good meal, unlike you."
Yu Lanchuan stepped on the steps at the door of Xingzhimeng, rubbed the mud on the soles of his shoes, with a hint of a run, he raised his eyebrows and looked at Gan Qing, as if wondering, "Why do I ask you to eat, you don't. like you"
In order to "be like myself and not deliberately", Gan Qing had to sigh: "Okay."
It was all messed up by Zhang Meizhen's broken WeChat!
Meng Tianyi cheerfully waved goodbye to the two of them, turned back to the store, and bumped into the little apprentice who was poking his head.
"What are you drilling, sneaky?" Meng Tianyi slapped the pupil on the forehead, "Will you not see the fire?"
Those who came to this kind of small shop as "apprentices" were all children who came to Yanning from other places to seek a living. They worked odd jobs while wandering. They were in their teens. They didn't go to school early. There are many, but the childishness on his face has not taken off, and he has begun to have a sense of sophistication.
The elementary apprentice asked, "Boss, who is that person?"
"A friend," said Boss Meng, "what's your business?"
Junior Apprentice: "Looks like a rich man."
"Yeah," Boss Meng instructed him, "Look at you, you didn't study hard since you were a child. When you grew up, you could only chop vegetables in the kitchen, and then look at people who study hard. Do you regret it? Do you want me to tell you? , while you are still young, why don't you go back to school..."
"Hey, boss, why are you here again? It's good to go to school. You have to open your mouth and clothes to open your mouth. You don't have to do any work. If I had the material, I would still need you to tell me?" The elementary student waved at him , Baby Fatty's face showed a little worried, "Why did you let Sister Pole go with him? A sugar daddy won't end well."
"Pang... Fuck you, can you talk? Pang your head!"
The elementary school apprentice was a little worried, thinking that Meng Tianyi was like an old mother who worshipped gold in a poor heroine in an idol drama. As she got old, she had no points in her heart, and she knew every day that there were daughters such as Harazi and other daughters catching the golden turtle son-in-law, so she persuaded him earnestly: " When you fall in love, you need to be in the right place. If you don’t have money, will they take you seriously? It’s just for fun. Even if it can be done, if people want to eat lobster, you know that you can get a piece of the cake? It’s a long time. Now, once the new one passes, it won't make people look down on it. My sister is so good, why should we?"
Meng Tianyi: "Hey! You little brat, how can you look down on Ma Xiao..."
"You little brat also knows that people can't always think about taking shortcuts." The elementary school apprentice sternly taught the "old and disrespectful" Boss Meng, "It's not you who dares to suffer and hurt!"
Meng Tianyi teased him: "Is that you? What do you think of your sister Po'er? You can't have it, you haven't reached the legal age for marriage yet."
The elementary school apprentice, who had just talked a little while ago, blushed, murmured for a long time, and ran away.
Boss Meng smiled at the child's hurried back for a long time, but he couldn't laugh anymore. He looked back at the lonely door lock of Xingzhimeng, and then his eyes jumped over the low buildings and landed on the wide road in the distance. , trying to recall what it looked like before the demolition.
Can't remember.
"Sister Pole," Boss Meng said to himself, "Bronze skin and iron bones, ruthless, who can hurt her? She is willing to fall to the ground, and it will be good to have a taste of the world. Whether it’s sweet or bitter, I don’t pick. If you can really hurt your heart, there’s nothing wrong with it, it’s better than a heartless fool.”
He said, sighed, put his hands behind his back, and slowly walked back to the back kitchen.
The car was not very easy to walk in the back alley of the mud pond. With centimeter-level operation, Gan Qing could not drive by himself. Sitting in the co-pilot, he always looked at the rearview mirror and was terrified, afraid that it would wipe the wall until Yu Lanchuan pulled the car. She breathed a sigh of relief after driving out, and dared to talk to the driver: "What did you say about the civil unrest in the Beggar Gang? It doesn't really have anything to do with me, does it? If that's the case, I... "
"Moving? What does the civil unrest have to do with you, an outsider? Even if there is, it's an excuse." Yu Lanchuan interrupted her casually, "In recent years, except for those gangsters, everyone has lived their own way, and I don't have the energy to pay attention to those sects. Yes, the only remaining beggar gang is still fruitful. Before looking for people and stalking, it was troublesome Uncle Yang. They have many people, great energy, and close eye lines. Uncle Yang has suppressed them for so many years, and if they do not 'develop and grow' according to some people's ideas, some people are already dissatisfied."
"You can't say that. If you have excuses, you will be caught." Gan Qing said, "It is better to have less than more."
"This is actually what you said, I hope you will remember this sentence," Yu Lanchuan sighed, "You don't grow a beard, what are you doing with so many razors every day, don't you think it's inconvenient to take the subway? "
"Alright?" Gan Qing said, "I don't take the subway very much anyway, it's a bit expensive."
Yu Lanchuan rolled his eyes and asked her again, "Are you okay?"
Gan Qing: "Ah, what?"
"Shoulder injury."
"Oh, actually it was..."
"Don't leave at night in the future," Yu Lanchuan said, staring at the road ahead, without squinting, "I'll drop by to pick you up after get off work."
Gan Qing turned her head to look at him in surprise.
"I'm not worried about you, don't be too affectionate." Yu Lanchuan said with a stern face, "You live in one hundred and one miles, I just don't want to come back one day, and I heard that you cut someone down..."
"Uh..." Gan Qing thought for a while and asked cautiously, "So you... rented a car in order to supervise me?"
"Who did it?" Yu Lanchuan sneered, "It's been cold these days, I'm too lazy to walk to and from get off work and..."
Before he could finish speaking, a phone call suddenly came in. Yu Lanchuan pressed the car phone he used while driving, and answered it, and heard a gentle female voice from the loudspeaker: "Hello Mr. Yu, this is XX's private kitchen, you I ordered dinner for two this morning, we are ready here, when can you two arrive?"
Yu Lanchuan: "…"
The store may not realize it is booking itself a bad review.
Yu Lanchuan said dryly: "I had an appointment with a partner to talk about something in the evening. The other party happened to be delayed by other things, just by the way..."
Gan Qing didn't wait for his words to fall, and nodded quickly: "Okay, I understand."
Yu Lanchuan: "... business banquet in nature."
Gan Qing said honestly: "Sansheng is lucky."
On the way, Yu Lanchuan vaguely regretted, suspecting that he had taken the wrong medicine in the morning, so he chose this kind of restaurant. When he got there, with Gan Qing's increasingly strange eyes on his back, Yu Lanchuan wished he could cancel the reservation immediately and take her home. Cooking instant noodles - considering that Gan Qing's right hand was injured and it was inconvenient to use chopsticks, he chose a household knife and fork.
This is a private kitchen with Western food as the mainstay. There are faint bagpipes in the store. Looking around, there are all private booths.
The waitresses were probably of bat blood, and it was as dark as a movie theater. There was only a little light on each table, and there was a thin-mouthed vase of roses under the lights.
Because the environment is too quiet, the guests have spontaneously improved their quality. The volume of their speech is very low. When they walk in from the outside, every point of light that passes by is illuminated by a man and a woman. They listen carefully, and there are whispers around.
Gan Qing: "..."
Business banquet nature…
Mr. Yu is in the shopping mall, I'm afraid it's not because of beauty, right
The dignified leader... This is a bit immoral!
The thoughtful restaurant may be to prolong everyone's appointment time. The food is served very slowly. About one episode of the TV series can be finished between the two dishes.
Every dish was sprinkled with rose petals and every drop of the sauce was indigestible.
Gan Qing's meal was like sitting on pins and needles. She finally got to the end. When she stood up, she found that her legs were numb, so she walked in with two legs and walked out lame.
Gan Qing: "I don't know if it's my illusion, I always feel a little embarrassed."
Yu Lanchuan gave her a grim look, as if he wanted to silence her and destroy this dark history forever.
Gan Qing hurriedly made a move to pull his mouth up on the cable.
Holding her head in silence for a while, she suddenly realized something after realizing it—someone would actually rent a car in order to pick her up from get off work and book a restaurant early.
Followed step by step, was discovered, but also pretended to be nothing.
… a little too cute.
Yu Lanchuan kept his eyes straight while driving, and frowned: "What are you laughing at?"
"No," Gan Qing denied immediately, "Reflection, you read it wrong."
She coughed dryly, took out her phone, glanced at the time, and said solemnly, "This o'clock, should the troublemaker be gone?"
Yu Lanchuan said "um" indifferently, and after a while, he said, "The old gang leader has been around for so many years, so it's not like he can't even deal with this matter..."
His voice fell, and a car whistle suddenly sounded behind him, followed by the sound of an ambulance "Wow".
The two rows of drivers spontaneously gave way, and Yu Lanchuan's voice was interrupted.
At the moment when the ambulance passed them by, he suddenly gave a slight "chuck" in his heart.