At 7:30 p.m., inside Yanyan Hot Pot Restaurant.
Wearing a small apron, Xu Xinghe sat opposite to Gu Nai in front of the mandarin duck pot, and began to eat his third plate of meat.
"Come, come, don't be shy, try this too!"
Xu Xinghe saw that Gu Nai didn't move his chopsticks very often, and only put a few dishes into the mushroom soup pot, thinking that he couldn't let it go, so he generously took a large spoonful of meat from the spicy pot and handed it to him. In front of him: "here."
"Thank you, no need." Gu Nai shook his head with a smile and explained, "I have a bad stomach, and I don't like spicy food very much."
But Xu Xinghe's order is still abnormally spicy.
Group leader Xu was stunned, and took the spoon back: "Then you said earlier, we won't come to eat hot pot. There are also tea restaurants nearby, and the taste is also very good."
Gu Nai said gently: "It's okay, I can still eat mushroom pot and tomato pot."
Xu Xinghe shook his head, and looked at him regretfully: "The non-spicy hot pot lacks soul, after you raise your stomach well, we can have another meal when it's done."
Gu Nai smiled and nodded: "Okay, then I will treat you next time."
What Xu Xinghe said was of course polite, and he thought that what Gu Nai said was also polite, so he didn't pay much attention to it, but nodded, and continued to deal with the remaining dishes of meat: "Then you put more meat in the mushroom pot. A bit, the crab roe and fish roe lucky bag tastes good too.”
It took the two of them less than twenty minutes to solve the first wave of meat together.
Xu Xinghe put down his chopsticks and leaned back on the sofa, planning to rest for a while to digest.
Gu Naisi picked up the square towel and wiped his mouth politely, then asked in a gentle voice: "Fang Zhou seems to be not very peaceful recently, do you usually work overtime?"
Xu Xinghe replied casually: "Actually, it's okay. When I first joined Ark last year, it was common for me to work overtime until 11 or 12 o'clock. Since this year, it has been much better, and I even realized a nine-to-five job."
Group leader Xu patted his stomach, scanned the menu again, and planned to order a drink to relieve his tiredness.
"Recently, the workload has been more than usual, but fortunately, the problems were solved in time, otherwise we might not be able to eat this dinner today... What would you like to drink? Is sour plum juice okay?"
Gu Nai asked, "Is there any dark beer?"
"Eh?" Xu Xinghe looked up at him, "You still drink?"
Gu Nai smiled and asked back: "I don't look like someone who can drink?"
Xu Xinghe: "..." Not like that.
He looked at the beer options on the menu, struggled for two seconds, raised his head and persuaded Gu Nai with a serious face: "People with a bad stomach should not drink, drinking is harmful to the body, even I don't often drink it with a good appetite like me. Here , here is corn juice, how about we have a bunch?"
Gu Nai looked at him for two seconds, then smiled and said, "Listen to you."
Then continue the topic just now: "That's right, after all, the Ark is the largest data center in the Gamma galaxy, and thousands of hackers are staring at it every day. This wave of small troubles is nothing."
"What are you doing? You still want to do something bigger?" Xu Xinghe's face was darkened, "It can't be said that it's a small matter, this time the hackers are really smart. You know, 99.9% of them are trying to break into our system All viruses will be intercepted by the Ark's defense system, but this time it actually found a loophole to take advantage of it... However, I heard that it was also because the old section of the second group opened the external chain mail in violation of the regulations, which gave the virus an opportunity. He They are already old people in Fang Zhou, so I don’t know how they made such a low-level mistake, and I’m afraid they will be punished this time.”
"Speaking of which, which department do you work in? Front-end R&D department?" Xu Xinghe asked.
Gu Nai replied: "No, I am also engaged in system maintenance, and now I am in the third group."
Xu Xinghe wondered: "Then why haven't I seen you before?"
Gu Nai pushed his glasses with a smile: "It means that Team Leader Xu doesn't care much about his new colleagues."
Xu Xinghe: "Oh, are you newly recruited this year?"
The third group is a large group, with more than twenty people in the whole group. This year's spring recruitment also recruited two new children. It is normal for Xu Xinghe to have faces that Xu Xinghe has never seen before.
Gu Nai said: "You can put it that way."
Xu Xinghe suddenly remembered something: "Is that new intern going to be assigned to your team too?"
Gu Nai smiled: "It seems that Team Leader Xu really doesn't care much about these things—the interns came to report yesterday."
Xu Xinghe: "...that's it."
Ever since he showed that he was not interested in gossip about his colleagues, Ajia and the others rarely mentioned it in front of them. Even the news that the intern was going to be divided into three groups was mentioned when he was listening to other colleagues chatting during lunch break of.
Xu Xinghe asked: "Then he really studied finance?"
Gu Nai replied: "He is studying a double degree in finance and computer science."
Xu Xinghe nodded: "Okay, that's not too outrageous, I started to hear that he majored in finance."
After a pause, he added: "But our department didn't recruit interns before, so it's pretty outrageous that he can come in."
Gu Nai looked at him with a smile, without saying a word.
Xu Xinghe suddenly sighed: "When I was in college, I almost chose a double degree in mathematics and computer science, but then I became lazy and thought I could just major in computer science, but I didn't choose it in the end. Now I think about it, I still regret it. You should read more books when you are in college.”
Gu Nai asked: "Group leader Xu wants to keep improving, why don't you continue to study? With your grades at that time, it is also possible to guarantee graduate studies and direct PhDs, right?"
Xu Xinghe's body froze suddenly.
Silence spread between the two.
After a while, Xu Xinghe picked up the corn juice on the table and took a sip, then said in a low voice, "I didn't think about it later."
Gu Nai looked at his face carefully, and suddenly said: "It's okay, there is no end to learning, and there is a chance to learn whenever you want. When I was in high school, I had to drop out of school, and then I have been studying all the way to the present."
Xu Xinghe raised his head and asked curiously, "Why did you drop out?"
Gu Nai smiled: "The family is poor and cannot afford the tuition fees."
"..." Xu Xinghe couldn't tell if Gu Nai was joking for a while, "How could this be? Didn't Capital Star already realize full coverage of compulsory education?"
I grew up in a welfare home and even went to university. With Capital Star's current medical and education policies, it shouldn't happen that people drop out of high school because their families are poor, right
Gu Nai replied with a smile: "I didn't grow up in Capital Star."
Xu Xinghe was slightly taken aback, speechless.
Gu Nai looked at him with his chin raised, and suddenly said, "You can start making vermicelli."
Only then did Xu Xinghe come back to his senses: "Here we come."
The two began to eat the second wave of hot pot.
After eating until nearly nine o'clock in the evening, Xu Xinghe received an email from Ling Changfeng, asking if he needed to send someone to pick him up now.
Xu Xinghe thought for a while, then raised his head and said to Gu Nai, "Why don't we eat here first?"
"Okay." Gu Nai nodded, his eyes swept across the electronic instrument on Xu Xinghe's wrist intentionally or unintentionally, and asked with a smile: "A reminder from the family?"
Xu Xinghe: "..."
Considering that no one in the entire Ark knew who his "family" was, Xu Xinghe replied truthfully: "It's not a reminder, it's just that it's late, and I asked if you want to pick me up."
"That's great." Gu Nai said with a smile, "Group Leader Xu's married life is really enviable."
Xu Xinghe was slightly taken aback. Although he admitted that he enjoyed the hot pot tonight, and talked a lot with Gu Nai, but after all, the two met only yesterday, and it always made him feel weird to talk about their married life all at once. of.
What's more, how enviable is my married life? ? Ling Changfeng obviously wouldn't go home for three days.
Xu Xinghe complained like this in his heart, but he opened his mouth and said: "Uh... I'm overwhelmed."
"Then let's meet again next time."
"Let's meet again next time."
Xu Xinghe paid the bill, and walked out of the hot pot restaurant with Gu Nai.
"You go back first, I'll wait for them to pick you up." Xu Xinghe said.
Gu Nai nodded, waved to him and said, "See you next time."
The figure quickly disappeared into the night.
Xu Xinghe waited for about four or five minutes before a low-key pure black car drove up slowly and stopped at the entrance of the hotpot restaurant.
Without a military license plate, it looks like an ordinary black commercial vehicle.
However, Xu Xinghe recognized at a glance that this was the vehicle of the Marshal's Mansion, so he opened the rear door and was about to get in the vehicle.
As a result, his hand just touched the door handle, and the door opened from the inside.
Xu Xinghe was stunned.
"... Didn't you say to send someone to pick me up?"
Xu Xinghe looked at Marshal Ling who suddenly appeared in the back seat, and was a little surprised.
Why did you come in person
Ling Changfeng looked at him sideways: "You come up first."
"Oh." Xu Xinghe knew that it was not safe to open the car door wide, so he quickly got into the car, closed the door, and waited until he was seated before hearing Ling Changfeng answer: "I'm going for a drive."
Xu Xinghe: "?"
"Why did you come here in this car? Did no one follow?" Xu Xinghe asked.
In his impression, Ling Changfeng travels, although he can't say that there is much ostentation, but the general safety must be guaranteed.
Ling Changfeng replied: "Someone is following, but you can't see it."
Xu Xinghe: "... oh."
Ling Changfeng asked him: "How did you eat tonight?"
Xu Xinghe: "The hot pot is not bad. How about you?"
Ling Changfeng: "Nutrient."
Xu Xinghe: "..." I was asking too much.
There was silence in the car for a few seconds, and Ling Changfeng suddenly said, "You seem to like hot pot very much."
Xu Xinghe nodded: "Yes, hot pot is one of my favorite foods."
Ling Changfeng: "You said earlier that you have no hobbies."
Xu Xinghe: "?"
He couldn't keep up with Ling Changfeng's train of thought: "Is hot pot a hobby?"
Well, to put it bluntly, it can be considered a "hobby".
"Anyway, I really like it. Not to mention the deliciousness of the hot pot, the atmosphere of eating it is also good. It can make you happy both physically and mentally." When Xu Xinghe mentioned his favorite food, he became interested, and described it to him: " Especially going to eat hot pot with friends, a few people get together to chat and drink...tea, it is very satisfying."
Ling Changfeng looked at him in high spirits, and suddenly said: "Then next time, let's go eat together."
Xu Xinghe: "Sure, can you eat spicy food?"
Ling Changfeng: "Yes."
Xu Xinghe: "Then you have a better taste. My colleague has a bad stomach and can't eat spicy food. Today, I ate hot pot in a clear soup pot all the time... In fact, the spicy pot tastes better. I will let him nourish his stomach. I will take him with him next time." Experience the deliciousness of a hot pot."
When Ling Changfeng heard the words, a pair of different pupils slowly slanted over: "Next time?"
Xu Xinghe shrugged his shoulders: "That's it, the stomach is not healthy, and I don't know when it will be next time."
Ling Changfeng pursed his thin lips slightly: "Why is there a next time?"
Xu Xinghe was taken aback for a moment: "Why? How normal is it to have hot pot appointments between colleagues."
Ling Changfeng asked: "Did you often have dinner appointments with colleagues?"
Xu Xinghe thought for a while: "It's not very often, but maybe once or twice a month. Including the number of appointments with my classmates, it's basically once a week."
Ling Changfeng: "..."
Xu Xinghe: "Why are you looking at me?"
For a moment, Marshal Ling wanted to ask why he had never received such an invitation.
But the words passed around his mouth, and finally turned into a light tone of advice: "Eating too much hot pot is not good for the stomach."
Xu Xinghe: "?"
He found that Ling Changfeng was quite fickle sometimes.
"Then shall we still have a hot pot appointment next time?" Xu Xinghe was a little uncertain about what Ling Changfeng meant.
Ling Changfeng: "About."
Xu Xinghe: "..."
The black car was speeding at high speed on the empty tracks, passing through the bustling city center.
Xu Xinghe looked at the scenery outside the window for a while, and suddenly remembered something: "By the way, how many people attended the weekend reunion you mentioned earlier?"
Ling Changfeng replied: "There are five tentatively, including family members, a total of nine people."
"Huh? Who else didn't bring their family?"
"Qin Yuan."
"Why?"
"He is currently single."
"Huh?" Xu Xinghe was stunned, "Major General Qin is single?"
Ling Changfeng glanced sideways at him: "What's wrong?"
Xu Xinghe felt a little unbelievable: "How could he be single?"
Ling Changfeng asked back: "Why not?"
"Because he is thoughtful, and knows how to take care of others. He is humorous and talkative, but also has a lot of sweet words... Doesn't he call himself Omega's friend? He should be very popular with Omega, right?" Xu Xinghe asked.
Ling Changfeng: "..."
He pursed his lips and said indifferently: "But he spends."
Xu Xinghe: "?"
"I've changed a lot of girlfriends."
"..."
"There are more than five people who broke out in the news."
"..."
"Do all Omega like this?" Ling Changfeng frowned slightly, "Sophisticated, humorous and talkative, sweet talk?"
"I'm sure not everyone likes it, but this kind of personality is quite popular in love, and it has nothing to do with ABO attributes." Xu Xinghe commented: "Dating Qin Yuan, you should be able to gain a good sense of love experience."
Marshal Ling felt that the air in the car was a bit stuffy.
He lowered his eyes, his different pupils dimmed slightly.
After a few seconds, he heard Xu Xinghe add: "However, the experience of marriage may not be that good. After all, if the relationship experience is too rich, it will make the spouse feel uneasy, right?"
"En." Ling Changfeng raised his eyes again.
Staring at his little spouse for two seconds, he responded lightly, "That's right."
"Speaking of it—" Xu Xinghe suddenly realized something, and asked him in a low voice, "Isn't it good for us to discuss Major General Qin's relationship experience behind his back?"
Ling Changfeng: "It's okay, we can talk face to face on weekends."
Xu Xinghe: "..."
"There will be a group of people speaking with you."
"..."
Xu Xinghe's face was a little weird: "What do you guys usually talk about at parties?"
Ling Changfeng paused slightly, as if he didn't want to continue the topic, but said, "You'll know when you go."