Xu Xinghe felt that his luck was a bit bad today.
Forgot to bring lunch, the server in the 540-1611 area suddenly went down in the afternoon, and the ZZ system collapsed on a large scale. The entire technical department suddenly entered a state of preparation, and began emergency investigation and repair.
Hundreds of people worked all afternoon, until after 5:00 pm, the crash was finally fixed.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief - it seems that there is no need to work overtime.
Xu Xinghe raised his head from behind the light brain, stretched his waist, got up and stretched his muscles and bones, then put the coffee cup under the coffee machine, and pressed the "Cappuccino" mode button.
In the next second, there was a beeping sound from the coffee machine, and then the switch went off with a bang.
Xu Xinghe: "..."
Why does this coffee machine stop working every three days?
He patted the machine irritably, and the latter still stubbornly carried out the strike to the end.
Xu Xinghe had no choice but to struggle for two seconds, finally picked up the cup and walked towards the tea room.
Fortunately, it's not the break time, and there is no one in the tea room.
Just as Xu Xinghe picked up the coffee, the work communication rang again.
Ethan: "Team leader, the A64 program has reported an error again, please take a look."
Xu Xinghe: "..."
what is it today
Team leader Xu hurried back with the coffee cup he had just filled. Just as he ran to the corner, a figure suddenly flashed in front of him.
"Well!"
The two bumped into each other at the corner.
The dark blue coffee cup was dropped from his hand, and almost all the scalding coffee in the cup splashed onto the opponent's plaid shirt.
Xu Xinghe nearly fell to the ground, and when he supported the wall to stand still, he quickly apologized: "I'm sorry!"
As soon as he raised his eyes, he saw the steaming green plaid shirt on the other side, and he stretched out his hands to pick it up in a hurry: "Take off this coat quickly! Don't get burned in a while..."
The splashed young man took a deep breath, while reaching out his hand to block Xu Xinghe's paws, while grabbing the coffee-soaked part of the clothing and shaking it out, so that the hot cloth would not stick to his skin.
His breathing was a little unsteady, but when he opened his mouth, his voice did not reveal the slightest bit of pain. Instead, he said in a calm and unhurried manner: "Group leader Xu, you are welcome, but this is not a coat—I am wearing this coat today, take it off. Just gone."
Xu Xinghe was taken aback, stopped what he was doing, and looked up at him.
But he found that the colleague in front of him didn't know him.
Although he didn't know each other, seeing the slightly frowning look on his face, and looking at his clothes that were still steaming... Xu Xinghe still felt that he was burning.
The freshly poured coffee from the coffee machine occasionally gets hot when spilled on the hands, let alone spilled the whole cup on the body.
Xu Xinghe suddenly felt guilty, and didn't care whether he knew him or not: "I'm really sorry, shall I accompany you to the infirmary? Let the doctor help you deal with it."
"No, it's a small problem. I'll just go home and deal with it." The young man looked up at him, smiled and said, "I have a lot of things to do today, so Team Leader Xu should go get busy first."
The young man was handsome and handsome, at first glance he was a little taller than himself. Although he was covered in a mess at the moment, he still smiled gently.
Xu Xinghe searched in his mind, but he couldn't think of such a person in the technical department: "May I ask who you are?"
"My name is Gu Nai." The young man pushed the rimless glasses on the bridge of his nose, and continued to smile, "Group leader Xu doesn't recognize me, but I do."
"?" Xu Xinghe felt that the young man was speaking strangely.
Just as he was about to speak, the work communication rang again.
Gu Nai glanced over through the lens, and said to him again: "Group Leader Xu, let's get busy first."
Xu Xinghe really should go back to work, but he felt that it would not be good to leave him after pouring hot coffee all over his body: "Then you..."
"I'll take care of it myself when I get home, it's fine." Gu Nai took up his words naturally, as if he knew what he was going to say.
Xu Xinghe nodded: "Then I'll go to work first, where is your seat? I'll come back tomorrow to apologize."
"There's no need to make an apology." Gu Nai shook his head, smiled casually, but then suddenly changed the topic: "Why don't you treat me to dinner?"
Xu Xinghe: "..."
The change came a little too suddenly.
However, he glanced at the other party's light green plaid shirt, and a large piece of coffee was smeared on it. Even if it wasn't ironed, the shirt would probably be scrapped.
He felt that it was appropriate to invite someone to a meal.
"No problem, but I have an appointment tonight, can I do it tomorrow night?" Xu Xinghe asked.
He actually didn't have an appointment tonight, but he suddenly remembered that before going out this morning, when Ling Changfeng asked him "Would you like to go home for dinner?", he said "Go home".
"Okay, then it's a deal." Gu Nai smiled at him, then turned and left.
Xu Xinghe followed behind him and asked: "Uh... what do you want to eat? Where can I find you tomorrow night?" He didn't even have his contact information, so why did he just agree on it?
In the afterglow of the setting sun, Gu Nai waved to Xu Xinghe without looking back, "I will come to you tomorrow. Team Leader Xu, see you tomorrow night."
Due to the many emergencies today, Team Leader Xu finally worked overtime for a while.
It was already past seven o'clock in the evening when we returned to the Marshal's Mansion.
He took time to send an email to Ling Changfeng at 5:30, telling him "I may be late tonight, you can eat dinner first".
After the email was sent, Xu Xinghe stared at the screen, suddenly in a daze.
Obviously a month ago, I was still in the state of eating enough for one person and not hungry for the whole family, but now I seem to be used to having someone waiting for me at home.
After washing his hands, Xu Xinghe went straight to the restaurant.
As soon as he entered the door of the restaurant, he was stunned: "Why are you here?"
Ling Changfeng was sitting at the other end of the long table, looking down at the evening newspaper. The tableware in front of him looked untouched.
The food on the table was still steaming.
"I have something to do today, and I came back late." Ling Changfeng put down the newspaper, raised his head and looked at his little spouse calmly, "Busy at work today?"
"Too busy." Xu Xinghe was already so hungry that his stomach was growling, so he sat down and ate without saying much.
Ling Changfeng glanced at him and started silently.
Tonight's meal is made by a housekeeping robot, using the best ingredients and importing recipes from five-star hotels. But Ling Changfeng always felt that his taste was a bit off.
Xu Xinghe ate with great relish.
A meal was in the middle of the game, and it was only when I remembered that I still had something to say.
"correct… "
"correct."
Two different voices sounded at the same time.
Ling Changfeng raised his eyes: "You speak first."
Xu Xinghe: "I have an appointment for dinner with my colleagues tomorrow night, so I won't come back to eat."
Ling Changfeng frowned: "Colleague?"
"Yeah." Xu Xinghe was a little embarrassed when he thought about what happened in the afternoon, "I accidentally spilled coffee all over his body, so I decided to invite him to have a meal near the work, so I just apologized."
Ling Changfeng asked: "Why do you want to treat me to make an apology?"
Xu Xinghe: "Otherwise? How do you usually apologize? You can't give money directly, right?"
Ling Changfeng: "I usually don't apologize to people."
Xu Xinghe: "..."
"In short, meaning is still needed. Giving gifts is more troublesome, so it's better to go out for a meal." After Xu Xinghe finished speaking, he decided to leave the topic behind: "What did you want to say just now?"
However, Ling Changfeng continued persistently: "If you want to make an apology, I have a gift list for reference—" He said, seemingly casually asking, "What gender is he?"
Xu Xinghe shook his head: "I just know it's a man, with countless AO attributes, and I'm not familiar with him, I just feel sorry."
"Oh." Marshal Ling was satisfied.
Xu Xinghe suddenly asked: "Why do you have a gift list?"
Ling Changfeng: "..."
He was silent for two seconds, and began to answer Xu Xinghe's previous question: "I just wanted to ask, what are your hobbies?"
"?" Xu Xinghe was stunned, "Why do you ask this all of a sudden?"
Ling Changfeng paused slightly: "Curiosity."
Xu Xinghe: "..."
He thought for a while: "I really don't have any special hobbies. Does cooking count? This has persisted for a long time, and most other hobbies are phased."
Ling Changfeng nodded, and didn't ask further: "Then tell me after eating tomorrow, and I'll send someone to pick you up."
After a pause, "Don't drink,"
Xu Xinghe: "... Oh, don't worry, I've given up drinking."
At 6:30 in the evening, Gu Nai returned to his bachelor apartment.
It is said to be a single apartment, but it is actually a dilapidated rental house of thirty to forty square meters.
The house looks old from the outside, and the walls are slightly moldy.
The geographical location is also remote. It takes about an hour to go to the Ark, and it is a little closer to the Capital University.
Although the rental house is small, the kitchen, bedroom and private bathroom are all available inside, but it also seems that the layout of the house is very crowded.
There was a large table in the bedroom, on which were placed three optical computers of different shapes, and half a piece of bread that he hadn't finished eating last night.
This is where he lived for many years.
Gu Nai came to the mirror in the bathroom, unbuttoned it, and took off the plaid shirt on his body—
From the left arm to the front chest, the splashed part was red.
It was not as serious as expected, but the burnt part was still burning and hurting.
There was no therapeutic device at home, so Gu Nai simply took a cold shower under the shower for 20 minutes, then changed into clean clothes and went out to buy medicine.
I stopped by to feed the stray cats around.
When I bought the medicine and applied it on myself, I was covered in cold sweat again.
Gu Nai raised his head, looked at himself in the mirror, but suddenly smiled.
It's a good start...
Everything went more smoothly than planned.