Xia Yu was stunned: "Who are you?"
The other party laughed again: "You don't have to worry about who I am. I'm just asking if you have time? Come out and meet me if you have time."
Xia Yu thinks this person is really strange.
"I don't meet people with unknown origins!" She refused directly, not wanting to get entangled, and planned to hang up, but soon she heard another voice from the other side.
"etc!"
"Secretary Xia has a really bad temper. Okay, if you don't want to see me, that's fine, but I just want to ask you, are you investigating the case at Shen's construction site?"
Xia Yu's scalp tightened and she took a breath, "Who are you?"
"Who am I?... Tsk, even if I tell you, you may not know it! Otherwise, come and see me. I have the inside story about this case for you."
Xia Yu felt more and more that this person had some ulterior motives and was not like ordinary whistleblowers.
"How can I believe that you really have the inside story?"
"This..." the other party seemed to hiss, "There is really no way to prove it, but I think you have been running around for this case, right?" The other party seemed to know Xia Yu's whereabouts very well, and she felt more and more chills running down her spine. She looked up. Looking around, I saw an asphalt road in front of the hospital, with many pedestrians and vehicles on the road.
"Who are you? What do you want to do?"
"Want to know? If you want to know, come and see me... But there's really no need to be so nervous. How about meeting at the KFC diagonally opposite your company? There are a lot of people there, and you're afraid that I might do something to you. Sample?"
Xia Yu lowered her head and closed her eyes. She knew that she was revealing what the other party was hiding. Even if she didn't agree to meet today, if the other party really had any intentions, he would meet her in another way later. It would be better to agree readily. Anyway, Isn’t there an old saying, it’s a blessing, not a curse, it’s a curse that cannot be avoided.
"Okay, see you at KFC in half an hour!" Xia Yu hung up the phone and stopped the car.
The distance from the hospital to the company is not far, and it is not a peak period, so it only takes ten minutes.
Xia Yu got off the car and stood on the road, looking at the very conspicuous KFC door opposite. The pedestrians and vehicles were bustling at the door. She couldn't help but let out a sigh...
It was already eleven o'clock when she came out of KFC, and Zhou Yan and Wanru happened to be inviting them to dinner. Xia Yu didn't want to be alone, so she went. She didn't expect to meet Shen Yan and Zhang Hanyu there.
"Shen Yan, what a coincidence. You come here to eat too!" Zhou Yan greeted immediately.
As if she had directly ignored Zhang Hanyu, she had no feelings for this person at all.
Xia Yu on the side saw it and sighed in her heart. The two of them finally became strangers, and Xia Yu still felt uncomfortable thinking about it.
Seeing Shen Yan and Zhang Hanyu here, and thinking about the words of the person who broke the news to her just now, Xia Yu suddenly felt panicked in her heart. It would have been better if she hadn't agreed to come over for dinner. She had this idea instantly.
Shen Yan, who was standing behind Zhang Hanyu, nodded slightly without saying a word. At that moment, the waiter passing the dishes passed Xia Yu with his plate. When she bumped into him, she fell to one side, but Zhou Yan, who was standing next to him, naturally hugged her into his arms.
"careful!"
Everything happened in those brief seconds, and the cold wind blew in. Xia Yu barely stood firm in Zhou Yan's arms, and when she raised her head again, she happened to meet the pair of dark eyes opposite her.
"Are you okay?" Wan Ru asked with concern.
Xia Yu shook her head, "I'm fine."
"Xia Yu, are you here?" Zhang Hanyu, who had been smiling and silent, finally spoke, but he was ventriloquising in his heart.
Just now, Zhou Yan and Xia Yu acted so intimately, and Wanru was not jealous and cared about Xia Yu. Is this still the same Wanru? Zhang Hanyu Hanyu couldn't help but ask in his heart.
But Shen Yan's eyes only stayed briefly on Xia Yu's face, and finally glanced at Zhou Yan's hand around her waist. Obviously, he was very unhappy and wanted to take that hand away.
But he didn't do that because he knew that Zhou Yan also wanted to hold Xia Yu up to prevent her from falling.
"Doctor Zhou." Zhang Hanyu actually reached out to Zhou Yan.
Zhou Yan was not surprised and greeted him naturally.
"What a coincidence..." He paused, looked at Zhou Yan again, and suddenly asked, "You guys come here to eat too?"
Zhou Yan replied: "Yes, I heard that the vegetarian food here is good, so I came over to join in the fun."
"Then you've finished eating?"
"No, business was so good, there was no space when we arrived."
"This place is almost full every day. If you don't book a place in advance, you won't be able to come over temporarily. How about this? I've booked a private room upstairs. Since we met, how about having a meal together?" Zhang Hanyu extended the invitation, then turned to ask for advice. Shen Yan's opinion, "But I'm good at making opinions. I don't know if Mr. Yan would mind."
With the corners of his lips raised, Shen Yan said, "Dr. Zhou is my friend, so of course I don't mind, but I'm afraid it will disturb their gathering."
"Yes, yes, thanks to Mr. Yan for reminding me, Doctor Zhou..." They came here today not just for eating.
Zhou Yan still maintained his usual warm smile, but looked down at Xia Yu, who had been standing stiffly beside him, and Wan Ru, who had been standing sullenly.
"No!" It was like a refusal.
Zhou Yan felt that her reaction was a bit fierce, and Wan Ru realized that he had lost his temper, and quickly made up for it, coughing, "I don't mean to eat together. Maybe they have something to talk about, so let's find another place to eat." After she finished The hand holding Zhou Yan's arm subconsciously tightened again.
"Okay, then let's find a place to eat again." Zhou Yan's words were low-key and gentle, specifically for Wanyuan.
It was as if the stiff back relaxed a little under his gentle words and pats.
"Yeah." She nodded.
The silent understanding and communication between the two fell into the eyes of the opposite pair. Finally, Zhang Hanyu laughed out loud: "It seems that I was really presumptuous just now. In this case, it can only be done next time. I will find a chance to invite him alone next time." Dr. Zhou and Wan Ruju.”
Xia Yu thought his smile was too fake and glanced at Shen Yan.
Shen Yan was also looking at her at this time. Their eyes met and Shen Yan nodded. He took a step forward and walked past Xia Yu without saying a word. Zhang Hanyu and Zhou Yan followed after saying hello.
Seeing that everyone was going upstairs, it was as if the straight psoas muscles were softening a little.
Zhou Yan felt her fear just now and her relief now, and couldn't help but ask: "Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"
"No." He looked up and looked outside again, "Let's go and find a place to eat."
Shen Yan walked upstairs without looking back. When he turned into the box, he turned back and glanced downstairs. Xia Yu had already followed Zhou Yan out. The figure on the back was thin and thin. He couldn't help frowning until Zhang Hanyu Calling his name in the box, he slowly walked over.
Wan Ru was in a bad mood because she met Zhang Hanyu here, and Xia Yu was also in a bad mood because she saw Shen Yan and Zhang Hanyu together, and was not interested in eating. Zhou Yan found a random restaurant and the hot pot he ate was a bit shabby, so he just dealt with it.
"I used to eat hot pot a lot in Japan. Together with a few classmates, I bought the vegetables and base ingredients and cooked them myself. Because food in Japan is quite expensive, I would save a lot if I cooked it myself." Zhou Yan threw the vegetables into the pot. , while chatting with two ladies.
Xia Yu was a little surprised. Although Zhou Yan has no father or mother, his grandfather is a famous gastroenterologist and professor in China, and his family should be relatively well-off. What's more, looking at his daily conversation and behavior, you can tell that he has received a good education. , but I didn’t expect that when studying in Japan, I would cook my own food to save money on food.
"Is this how you experience life?"
"What kind of experience life?" Zhou Yan smiled and put a few slices of boiled beef on Xia Yu's plate. "Do you think I live a good life in Japan?"
"Isn't it?" In her impression, Zhou Yan had never suffered much.
But the man in front of him gently scratched the center of his eyebrows with the end of his chopsticks.
"I really didn't suffer much abroad, but during the years when I was studying in Japan..." Zhou Yan looked at the hot meat and vegetables in the pot, "Well, when I was the poorest, I even needed to compare prices to buy instant noodles. "
"..." Xia Yu was speechless for a moment.
Zhou Yan smiled again: "Isn't it surprising?"
"A little bit. I always feel that your grandfather would be reluctant to let you suffer this kind of hardship."
"The key is not my grandpa. My grandpa has always been a free-spirited person in my education. The main thing is my grandpa." Zhou Yan grew up with his grandpa, which he mentioned to Xia Yu before.
"My grandpa has a deep national sentiment, so he strongly opposed my going to Japan at first, not to mention that I went to Japan to major in psychology."
"What happened to psychology?"
Zhou Yan smiled bitterly: "There is no problem with psychology, but the major I studied in China was finance. This is the path my grandpa always wanted me to take, but I went to Japan after studying finance for a while in college. My grandpa was very angry about this. So almost all my sources of income were cut off.”
Xia Yu never expected that Zhou Yan had studied finance before.
"Then why do you suddenly want to study psychology again?"
After all, finance and psychology are two completely unrelated majors. Xia Yu couldn't help but ask one more question, but an unknown emotion flashed across the eyes of the man opposite him, like pain and helplessness.
"Because of a friend. During college, a friend suffered from severe depression due to something, and finally chose to pass away in an extreme way."
"So you were moved and went to Japan to study psychology?"
Zhou Yan paused, turned around and looked at the road outside the window.
"Actually, it's not that I was touched. If I have to give a reason, it's probably to escape..." Zhou Yan kept twirling his chopsticks with his hands and chuckled, as if he was confiding, "During that time, I didn't want to stay in the country and I didn't want to see the people around me. The people and scenery made me decide to go abroad.”
"What about now? If it were now, would you still make the choice you did back then?"
Zhou Yan shook his head, "Those who left have left, but those who remain need to continue living, right? It's a pity that I didn't understand such a simple truth at the time."
Afterwards, he raised his head and stared at Wanru, with a faint smile on his lips. Ever since he came in, he seemed to have said nothing.