Ruan Yu jumped up instantly.
Ten minutes, another ten minutes, why is it so exciting again
She rushed to the closet in a hurry, repeated the emergency measures, and ran out of the house with a stack of documents in the ninth minute, rushed into the elevator, panting on her knees.
Stepping out of the apartment building, I originally wanted to go slowly, but when I saw a Land Rover parked by the side of the road from a distance, I started to trot.
Just because of an oolong incident, the noble lawyer Xu ignored her a single punctuation mark for three days. How could she dare to make this big Buddha wait an extra minute
Running to the front of the car, Ruan Yu's cheeks were already stained with a thin layer of blush. Through the windshield, she found that the driver was the young man who received her at the law firm last time, Chen Hui.
Xu Huaisong was in the back seat, and glanced at her after pressing down the car window.
She stood by the window, bent slightly, and greeted him breathlessly: "Lawyer Xu..."
Xu Huaisong raised his chin and signaled her to get in the car.
Since he was sitting in the back, Ruan Yu of course chose the passenger seat. After all, the driver is not a blind date this time, so there is no need to avoid suspicion.
Xu Huaisong's eyes turned cold, and he said lightly, "Go to the law firm."
After closing the car door, the atmosphere was eerily quiet. Ruan Yu was curious in his heart, but he couldn't hold it back. He turned his head and asked, "Lawyer Xu, why did you just come here?"
"From the airport to the law firm, pass by."
Oh, so he didn't intend to come, but he made a special trip because of her news.
Ruan Yu smiled: "I'm sorry to trouble you."
As soon as the words were finished, Chen Hui was about to start the car, but suddenly received a call, and without saying a few words, his expression became serious.
He turned around and asked, "Brother Song, Sister Zhang was handling a case at the construction site, and something went wrong."
Xu Huaisong was silent, and nodded his head: "Turn back and send my luggage to the hotel." After speaking, he opened the car door, stretched his long legs and got out of the car.
Before Ruan Yu could react, he saw him go around to the co-pilot, looked down at her through the half-open window and asked, "Are you going to the construction site?" He said and pulled the handle on her side.
Ruan Yu said "Oh" twice, and then realized that Chen Hui couldn't see them off, so he hurriedly got out of the car, secretly complaining that he was tired of communicating with Xu Huaisong.
One more explanation, will the tongue fall off
The car door was closed, and Chen Hui disappeared with a kick of the accelerator.
It was noon, the sun was scorching hot, and Hangzhou was extremely hot these two days, and the inside and outside of the car were both ice and fire. Ruan Yu held the document in one hand, covered his forehead with the other to block the sun, and looked up at Xu Huaisong: "Then take a taxi?"
Xu Huaisong probably felt that it was too hot, too lazy to toss back and forth, frowned and said, "No." Then he glanced at the apartment building behind her.
Ruan Yu reacted quickly this time, and quickly understood: "Will you come to my house to talk?"
Xu Huaisong didn't say if it's okay, but said: "Next time if it's inconvenient, I'll go back to drinking..."
"Convenience and convenience!" She interrupted him immediately.
Five minutes later, Ruan Yu, who was slowly unlocking the door in front, wanted to slap himself.
Just because the person behind her has lived a few days, what kind of flattery has she become? She is so convenient.
If I remember correctly, she was in a hurry to tidy herself up just now, rummaging through boxes and cabinets, and now the sofa in the living room should be covered with clothes. And, probably anything.
no.
The moment the door lock "clicked" open, Ruan Yu turned around, pressed the door tightly with his hands behind his back, looked up at Xu Huaisong and said, "Well... can you wait here for a while?"
He looked down at her and nodded.
Ruan Yu opened a crack in the door and got in, then closed it, and went to the living room to have a blast sweeping the fallen leaves.
Xu Huaisong stood quietly without looking around, until three minutes later, the door in front of him moved a crack again, and a head poked out: "...that's it."
Ruan Yu invited the man in, and saw him sweeping the floor of the entrance after entering the door, which was exactly the same as Li Shican's reaction before.
She had to explain again that she didn't have men's slippers here, and told him to come in directly.
The two of them arrived in the living room without talking. Ruan Yu felt that this situation was more stressful than the sudden visit of a star. The "familiarity" accumulated with Xu Huaisong in the video seemed to have disappeared, and everything returned to the original point.
Similar to netizen face-to-face.
She wanted to find an entry point between the dimensional walls to ease the atmosphere, so she pointed to a desk in the living room and said, "I was there before to video with you."
After finishing speaking, I attached an awkward smile in the form of an international friend meeting.
But Xu Huaisong didn't look at the desk, his eyes slowly moved over the sets of beige sofas behind, and paused at the one where Li Shican sat.
He said "um", avoided that place when he stepped forward, and sat down on the other side.
Ruan Yu couldn't remember where Li Shican sat last time, and didn't care about the details, so he asked him if he wanted a drink of water.
"coffee."
"Is instant one okay?"
"Um."
Ruan Yu turned on the vertical air conditioner in the living room, then went to the kitchen to make water to make coffee. When he came back, he found that Xu Huaisong had taken off his glasses and was reclining on the sofa with his eyes closed, looking very tired.
She put down the coffee cup gently and looked at the time.
One o'clock in the afternoon Beijing time, which is ten o'clock in the evening in San Francisco. Xu Huaisong had just arrived, and he was still jet-lagged, and he spent more than ten hours in a plane and a few hours in a car.
Ruan Yu helped his forehead.
Just now, she only thought about not letting this big Buddha go for nothing, but now that she thinks about it, she should let him go to the hotel to sleep.
As soon as she thought about it, she didn't make a sound, and gently moved the laptop on the desk to the coffee table, and sat on the sofa opposite him to read the document.
Read the document for a while and look up at him.
After a few times, she confirmed that he was breathing evenly, slightly heavy, and really fell asleep.
So, what now
Ruan Yu opened his mouth, and the word "Xu" slipped to the edge of his mouth, and he swallowed it back.
She didn't wake him up until the hot coffee in hand had completely cooled down.
The computer suddenly made a "boo" sound, and a WeChat message came in. Ruan Yu quickly pressed the mute button, looked up to see that Xu Huaisong hadn't responded, and then clicked on the dialog box.
Sister Yao: "Xiaowen, are you ready to reverse the palette?"
This sister Yao was a friend in the circle who helped her make the anti-color palette when the plagiarism incident broke out. Later, the work was transferred to Xu Huaisong, and her side stopped.
Ruan Yu tapped the keyboard with the least force, and slowly typed: "It's almost there, thank you sister Yao for your concern."
Sister Yao: "It's been so many days and you haven't finished it yet? Be careful, is the lawyer delaying you on purpose?"
Ruan Yu looked up at Xu Huaisong who was motionless, and immediately replied, "No."
Sister Yao: "If it's not deliberately procrastinating, then it's because you're not professional enough. You've found the right person."
The real master was less than two meters away from her. Ruan Yu was afraid that Xu Huaisong would see these words, so he hurriedly replied: "He is quite professional, but he is busy. Don't worry, sister Yao."
After sending out this news, Ruan Yu noticed that the person on the opposite side moved a little and changed his posture of crossing his arms.
She stood up and tiptoed to the vertical air conditioner, adjusted the angle of the fan blades to ensure that the cold wind would no longer blow directly on him, and as soon as she turned her head, she heard a voice call ringing.
It was Xu Huaisong's.
He was woken up, and the first second he opened his eyes, he looked at her standing by the air conditioner, and then picked up the phone to connect: "Yeah."
"I was sleeping."
"Didn't eat."
"Um."
After just four sentences, the call was hung up. Ruan Yu pieced together the meaning of this conversation, stepped forward and said, "Have you not eaten yet?"
Xu Huaisong straightened his crumpled shirt, sat up straight, and nodded.
"Then do you want to eat something first?"
"Too hot." Xu Huaisong glanced at the hot sun outside the window and shook his head.
"Do you eat takeout?"
Takeaway isn't necessarily hygienic, she doesn't think Xu Huaisong really eats it.
Sure enough, he shook his head again.
But it's fine if you don't know, knowing that he is hungry, and asking him to discuss the case with you, isn't it devoid of humanity
Ruan Yu thought for a while, then pointed to the kitchen: "I have food at home, can you see if there is anything I can make do with?"
This time Xu Huaisong nodded, but he probably just fell asleep and was not too awake, and bumped into a stack of documents on the coffee table when he stood up.
The document slid for a while and hit the coffee cup again. With a "snap", the cup fell to the ground and broke into several pieces.
Coffee splashes.
Ruan Yu was taken aback.
Xu Huaisong pinched the space between his eyebrows.
He was rushing to deal with the case, so he slept for ten hours in three days, really dizzy.
Ruan Yu quickly waved his hand: "It's okay, I'll clean it up later."
She led him to the kitchen, opened the refrigerator to show him, and said, "You can make sandwiches or pasta by gathering the ingredients."
She deliberately chose western-style food, but Xu Huaisong's eyes fell elsewhere, and he said, "This." He was referring to a plate of rice cakes.
It turned out that he was not completely Westernized.
Ruan Yu asked, "What should I do?"
"fry."
She nodded, bent down and took out the rice cake: "Then you go to the living room and sit for a while."
Xu Huaisong walked out.
Ruan Yu put on his apron and started to work in the kitchen, but hesitated when he was about to cut the rice cakes.
This is water-milled rice cake, which is actually not suitable for frying, but she suddenly understood why Xu Huaisong wanted to eat fried rice cake.
Because among the specialties of Suzhou City, there is a kind of lard rice cake, which is usually fried and eaten.
He may be homesick.
And she happened to have the lard rice cake sent by her mother before.
She was so sleepy that she fell asleep on the sofa in seconds, how could she entertain her properly? Thinking of this, she replaced the water-milled rice cake with lard rice cake.
Ruan Yu followed the method taught by his mother in memory, making batter, beating eggs, heating the oil pan, wrapping the cut rice cakes in the batter, and frying them over low heat.
A piece of rice cake quickly turned golden yellow. The aroma is overflowing.
She was a little hungry after lunch.
While loading the plates, Ruan Yu couldn't hold back, wanted to steal one, but was afraid that Xu Huaisong would see him, so he looked back towards the living room, only to find that he was squatting there with his back to the side, with one knee touching the ground, the cuff of his shirt cuffed. It rolled up, not knowing what it was doing.
She was taken aback for a moment, just in time to see him get up and turn around, with a bucket of porcelain in his hand.
Ruan Yu hurried forward: "I'll just do it."
Xu Huaisong put the dustpan aside, and said concisely: "rag, tape."
She said "oh", found two things, and was about to squat down to clean them up by herself when Xu Huaisong pulled the rag in her hand.
He wiped the floor without saying a word, put down the rag and spread his hands towards her again.
Ruan Yu handed the tape to his palm, bent over and said, "There should be no broken porcelain in this material."
Xu Huaisong ignored her, a little bit of broken porcelain sticking to it, which should not exist, was as delicate as an operation.
Ruan Yu was slightly shocked.
Although he is responsible for his own mistakes, but looking at this scene, it is absolutely false to say that there is no emotion in his heart.
So, when she turned around to bring rice cakes and saw Xu Huaisong's surprised expression, she said something she wouldn't have said in a normal mood: "I changed to lard rice cakes, you probably haven't eaten them for many years."
Then, she ushered in a fatal torture.
Xu Huai raised his eyebrows: "How do you know that I'm from Suzhou City?"