In the first week after Li Weixi and Wen Sen returned to China, they did not immediately devote themselves to work, but got familiar with the environment as soon as possible.
The branch in China was established less than a month ago, and its office is registered in an office building next to Enrui Group. There are less than ten employees in the whole company. The branch company has just started, and the employees are expensive and not expensive. Li Weixi took the time to interview several employees one by one, and found out the temperament of several employees, and it will be more handy when assigning work in the future.
In this way, although Li Weixi has not started working immediately, there are many things that should be busy, managed, and worried. These days, he goes out at 8 o'clock in the morning every day, and he is busy until more than ten o'clock in the evening before returning Home. But he noticed that Hua Xiang next door was more sleepy than him, and he often didn't see the lights until late at night.
The schedules of the two of them are completely out of sync. In the past week, despite the fact that they live on the same floor, they have never met each other except for the day they just came back.
Several times Li Weixi stood outside Huaxiang's door, but he couldn't knock down with his raised hand.
He admitted that he really felt sorry for Hua Xiang. As a public figure, Hua Xiang exposed his privacy to everyone's eyes all the time. His original edges and corners were worn away by the entertainment circle, and then other edges and corners were artificially forged.
But Li Weixi didn't know whether Hua Xiang needed this distress.
What if... what if what Huaxiang said in the elevator that day was true? What if he is not talking hard, but really enjoying success
Furthermore, Li Weixi didn't know what capacity he should take to feel sorry for this young man—could they be considered "friends" who lived together for a month four years ago
In the end, the only thing Li Weixi could do was to hang the nutritional supplements he asked Wen Sen to buy on the doorknob of Huaxiang's house.
Then he stuffed a small note in it to cover up, saying: "Eat more walnuts. Your IQ is not high, don't be played by others."
The next night, Li Weixi saw Hua Xiang's return gift on the doorknob of his house.
Hua Xiang sent a bag of delicious freshly ground black sesame powder, and stuffed a note like a cat and a tiger, saying: "Eat more black sesame seeds. You are old and you have gray hair."
Li Weixi was so angry that he couldn't vent his anger while holding the black sesame seeds. After entering the room, he first went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror for a long time to see where the white hair had grown, but he didn't see the white hair, but suspiciously saw that there was an extra fine line at the corner of his eye.
There is no way, he is already forty years old, no matter how well maintained he is, he will still be forty years old.
And Huaxiang is only twenty-four, young and enviable.
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On weekends, Qiu Qiu and Fu Rui'en came to eat hot pot as promised. They didn't come empty-handed. They not only prepared all the meat and vegetables, but also brought a mandarin duck electric hot pot with them.
Seeing his old friend, Qiu Qiu was so happy that his dimples popped out. And Fu Ruien's face was cold, polite as if the two of them were really just an ordinary business relationship.
Li Weixi liked to see Fu Rui'en upset. He opened his arms to meet Qiu Qiu. Not only did he hug him tightly, but he also left a loud kiss on Qiu Qiu's left and right faces.
Qiu Qiu blushed with excitement after being kissed by Brother Li.
Li Weixi gave a high-sounding reason: "When I just returned to China, I tend to forget that there is no face-to-face ceremony here."
Fu Ruien: "... the United States is not popular at all with veneers."
Li Weixi pretended not to hear, took Qiu Qiu to the living room, and gave him the specially brought gift. The gift Li Weixi brought back was an autographed film record by a famous Grammy music producer. This is an antique, not particularly expensive, but very thoughtful.
Qiu Qiu likes it very much. This producer is the idol of his brother Wang Tingxie. Under the influence of his ears and eyes, Qiu Qiu also began to like the music works of that era. His new album to be released next year will pay tribute to this musician with a bold style. Retro, it is not a small challenge for him. Unexpectedly, the gift Li Weixi chose for him would meet his preferences by mistake.
Qiu Qiu threw himself on Li Weixi and gave him a big one too. It's just that he rushed too fast, Li Weixi was knocked back a few steps and fell on the sofa.
"Oh... I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Brother Li, are you okay?"
Li Weixi rubbed his waist: "Qiu Qiu, you can hug me or kiss me, just be careful and care for middle-aged people."
Fu Ruien said pointedly: "...a man is forty years old, he should take care of his waist."
Li Weixi glanced at him: "The man is forty-four years old, he should take care of his kidneys."
"Don't bother me, my waist is fine, and my kidneys are also fine."
A few years later, Qiu Qiu's skin is still so thin, and this level of conversation made him hide in the kitchen in embarrassment.
Li Weixi didn't want to breathe the same air as Fu Ruien, so he followed into the kitchen, leaving Wen Sen to face Boss Fu alone.
In the kitchen, Qiu Qiu was busy putting the dishes they brought over into the bowls and plates.
Today they plan to eat hot pot. The aunt at home has prepared the meat dishes, vegetarian dishes, bottom ingredients, and dipping sauces, and put them in small bags. They just bring them over and put them on the plate. The base ingredients in the electric hot pot had already boiled, bubbling and bubbling, and there was a fresh and refreshing aroma in the air. Qiu Qiu swallowed greedily while arranging the dishes in an orderly manner.
In order to divert his attention, he chatted with Li Weixi and asked him: "What time is it now, why isn't Hua Xiang coming over?"
Li Weixi said, "It's half past eleven, what time did you make an appointment with him?"
"... Huh?" Qiu Qiu said in surprise, "I thought you had notified him!"
"..."
The two looked at each other speechlessly, and Li Weixi felt that it was Qiu Qiu's team's game, and he must have notified Hua Xiang. And Qiu Qiu felt that Li Weixi lived opposite Hua Xiang, so he must be the one who asked Hua Xiang.
Unexpectedly, they were all together, but five of them were missing and one was missing. Hua Xiang didn't even know that there was a dinner party today, and he didn't know if he went out today.
Qiu Qiu quickly put the dishes on the table, and hurried out to find Hua Xiang.
Li Weixi sat in the restaurant watching the hot pot for a few minutes, then said "I'll go and see why I haven't come here for so long", and followed him out.
At the dining table, Fu Ruien looked at the back of Li Weixi leaving in a hurry, with a smile in his eyes.
…
It's also a coincidence that Hua Xiang didn't announce today, and he was lying at home growing mushrooms.
"I'm not going." Hua Xiang said with a stinky face, "Mr. Li and I will be rumored to be gay people if we go out for a walk with the dog, but if I eat hot pot with you, it will not be rumored as a passionate 5P. "
Qiu Qiu hit him on the head angrily.
"What are you doing!" Hua Xiang covered his head and hid.
"See if there is an echo in your head."
"Why is there an echo?"
"Because your head is empty!"
The two have known each other for many years. When they quarreled, you would not give an inch to me. At the end of the quarrel, they suddenly shut up at the same time and laughed out loud at the same time.
Qiu Qiu reached out and tugged at his sleeve, and said in a coquettish tone, "Let's go, go eat hot pot."
"..." Hua Xiang rubbed his nose awkwardly, "Eat it, I will affect Wen Sen's appetite if I go. And Mr. Li was implicated by the reporter's sneak shot that time. He probably doesn't want to see me."
"—Who said I don't want to see you anymore?" Li Weixi, who arrived at the right time, happened to hear the last sentence. He walked up to Hua Xiang, looked at him several times, and frowned, "I haven't seen you for a week, why are you so thin?" gone."
Qiu Qiu also answered: "Yes, yes, Hua Xiang, you really lost a lot of weight, and your complexion is not good." He pulled Hua Xiang out of the porch like a big carrot, and pushed him to his house. Let's go, talking about how rich the hot pot dishes are today.
Hua Xiang was a little reluctant at first, but Li Weixi didn't say anything, just reached out and pushed him on the back.
The slightly cool palms were attached to Hua Xiang's shoulder blades, and they were split as soon as they were touched. Hua Xiang only felt his whole body tremble, and the anxiety in his heart suddenly disappeared.
He looked back at Li Weixi, but he didn't expect their eyes to collide like this.
Li Weixi walked behind him with his hands in his pockets, his face was still calm and breezy.
"Look at what I do, I'm not hot pot, I don't like to eat."
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When they entered the room, Vincent was already drooling all over the table. He stared at the boiling hot pot base in the middle of the dining table, scratching his ears and cheeks greedily. Holding the plate of mutton rolls in one hand, he stretched his neck to look at the entrance. When Hua Xiang's ankle appeared in his field of vision, he immediately threw the whole plate of mutton into the hot pot.
"Hey!" Fu Ruien didn't stop him, "How can you put so much meat in one go?"
Wen Sen argued: "Mr. Fu, don't you have it now?"
The mutton was thin and tender, and it was cooked in the pot. The tangy aroma of mutton permeated the air, and the remaining three sat down quickly.
In order to take care of the two singers, they ate mandarin duck pot this time, but Qiu Qiu was greedy and didn't need to go on stage recently, so after eating a few mouthfuls of clear soup, he sneakily picked out the shabu-shabu in the spicy soup.
Fu Ruien pampered him, seeing that he loved to eat but couldn't stand spicy food, so he went to the kitchen to get a bowl of cold water for him to rinse and eat. But even so, Qiu Qiu's lips were still swollen and red.
On the other hand, Hua Xiang was very honest, he just stared at the clear soup pot in front of him, guarding several plates of green vegetables, and rinsing them on his own.
Don't look at the vegetarian food in his mouth, but the words he utters are all meaty, and he can hold the entire table by himself, and he can talk about it.
Sitting next to him, Li Weixi felt a very strong sense of disobedience. That night, Hua Xiang's fragility, despair, anger, and arrogance seemed to be hidden along with the night, and now he is alive and well, even bringing the atmosphere of the dining table alive.
The five of them are sitting here, as if time has easily let them go, making them stay in four years ago forever.
But Li Weixi knows that no one can stay in place without growing or moving forward.
On the table, Wen Sen put down his chopsticks, and said in a weird voice like an old eunuch: "Hua Xiang, I think you look like a fruit."
Hua Xiang was quite curious. He only heard that people looked like animals, but never heard that people looked like fruits.
"What fruit am I like?"
"Durian." Vincent smirked. "It's covered in thorns. When you open it, it's smelly and yellow inside."
How could Hua Xiang swallow this breath, and raised his fist to hit him.
Qiu Qiu hurriedly intervened, stopped Hua Xiang from being violent, and pulled Wen Sen to make him stop talking.
"Okay, okay." Qiu Qiu said, "Durian is the king of fruits, and whoever said that durian is stinky, if you meet someone who appreciates it, you will definitely love it to death."
There is only one year difference in age between the three of them. One is a hot newcomer in the entertainment industry, the other is a cross-circle college bully who has released records and papers, and the rest is a business elite... They all have different talents in their respective fields. Xiao Jianshu, who happened to meet together, degenerated into kindergarten in an instant.
At the dining table, two forty-year-old parents looked at each other from a distance between the noisy kindergarten children.
Then they moved their eyes away at the same time.
Li Weixi thought: Hey! Fu Ruien's eyes are really disgusting!
Fu Ruien thought: Well, there is something wrong with Li Weixi's expression...