Dear Chen Jiu

Chen Jiu is going on a business trip to Nanjiang City next week, so I checked this place during my work break.

Remotely located and sparsely populated, this South Bridge...

"How did Xiao Gu think of going to Nanjiang to play?" Sister Bai asked casually standing behind me, and handed me a cup of coffee, "No, hot latte."

"Thank you, Miss Bai."

I took the coffee, "Have you ever been to Nanjiang?"

Sister Bai took a sip of coffee, "I went there once on business."

"How's the environment?"

Sister Bai shrugged, the answer was self-evident.

Our company's treatment is very good. If the environment where Sister Bai lives is very poor, one can imagine that the city of Nanjiang must be far worse than Jiangzhou.

In the next few days, I gave Chen Jiu lunch in different ways, but I never saw Nanqiao again.

I ordered dinner at the restaurant downstairs at home. The boss knew me a long time ago. When I received the order for the first time, he called me to ask me if I had filled in the wrong address.

Chen Jiu's office is indeed a bit remote, quite far from where I live, but I don't feel at ease to order food from other restaurants rashly. The boss euphemistically said that the delivery time may be a bit long.

"Then it's hard work for you to find a relatively free waiter in your store to help you run errands. I will pay you half of the meal cost."

I thought that after I was busy these few days, I would still take time to go to the office to see what restaurants are both hygienic and delicious.

Hearing what I said, the boss felt rather apologetic, "No need, they are all regular customers. You place the order earlier, and we will find someone to deliver it when it is ready."

"Thank you."

Before I hung up the phone, I asked again, "By the way, don't put it in a plastic bag with your store name on it."

"Okay, okay, no problem."

The boss readily agreed.

After hanging up the phone, I started thinking about asking for leave.

Since I joined the job, I have asked for leave for no reason.

For the first time, I devoted myself to my work and even worked overtime to complete the task ahead of schedule.

It's one thing to leave a good impression and it's easier to ask for leave. On the other hand, I really like my current job.

"Okay, Xiao Gu, don't worry about asking for leave.

The holiday photos on Saturday are released, so you should go back today. "

Because I have always been serious about my work, Sister Bai took extra care of me.

"Thank you, Sister Bai. I will definitely finish what I have to do on time."

In fact, the work tasks assigned to us during the internship were very basic, but it was a waste of time to test patience. I raised my head and dripped two drops of eye drops to prepare to write a thesis when I got home from get off work.

Recently, the school still has homework to catch up, and things are getting together. In order to go to Nanjiang next week smoothly, I have been really busy these few days.

After I got off work, I fed Ping An cat food and then I nestled on the sofa to write my thesis. What a sin, I stayed up all night and couldn't finish my thesis.

I took my phone and looked through the calendar. Chen Jiu's flight was on Monday afternoon, and I asked for leave on Tuesday.

It's probably because I've been too peaceful and low-key these past few days. Except for eating with Chen Jiu at noon, I seldom have other behaviors that cross the boundary, so he seems to be very talkative.

When I asked him where he was staying at the Nanjiang Hotel, and I charged money to order dinner for him, he casually reported the name of the hotel.

I wrote it down secretly, and thought that his defenseless appearance was really attractive.

I sneaked closer, and Chen Jiu squinted his eyes and leaned on the back of the chair, noticing my small movements, and suddenly said, "Put your mind down and work hard."

Sure enough, I can never hide what I think from him. Perhaps for Chen Jiu, the difference is only whether I want to be known by me, rather than letting me try it.

"You know what I want to do again?" I inquired about his address in Nanjiang in a disguised form to chase after him, but I still had to refute him bluntly.

But I really have a lot of thoughts, and I can't be guessed by Chen Jiu. For example, I really want to kiss him now.

But when he was about to get closer, he thought that this was downstairs in his company after all, and he was afraid that it would cause some bad influence and bring him trouble.

Instead, she stretched out her hand and touched his ear lightly.

His earlobe seemed to be slightly red. I was fascinated by it for a moment, and couldn't help saying, "Chen Jiu, you didn't hide."

"So?" He slightly pulled the corner of his lower lip.

It happened that several designers in the office came out of the building together, I sat up straight with a guilty conscience, looked ahead and said unwillingly, "I knew--"

"you will not."

Chen Jiu opened his eyes completely as he spoke, and raised his hand to look at his watch again.

"Go to work and see you back in Jiangzhou."

I said without changing my face.

Before he got out of the car, he just looked at me, and I nodded sincerely, "I'm not going to Nanjiang, I'm kidding you, I want to stay and work hard."

***

The next day, after work, I drove from Jiangzhou, about a three-hour journey.

Because I was still in the internship period and couldn't get on the highway, I had to follow the navigation instructions to walk on the small road, which was full of potholes. Halfway through the car, I suddenly felt that this feeling was familiar and strange.

In order to catch up with Chen Jiu's birthday five years ago, I also took several trains to that remote county in the north.

As a result, he was very angry with the tattoo on my body.

Thinking of this, I subconsciously touched my collarbone again.

When I was abroad, I had a roommate who was a tattoo artist, and his skills were very good. I often saw guests coming to my house to ask him for a tattoo.

Once after taking a shower, he saw the tattoo on my body, and he praised me casually.

I asked him at the time, can tattoos really be cleaned thoroughly?

The roommate took a sip of wine, stared at the TV intently, and answered me after a while, "If you only want to talk about the part of your skin, I can wash it for you, and I can't do anything else."

Just this sentence completely dispelled my idea of ​​wanting to wash off the tattoo.

Some things, if you don't think you wipe them clean, you can treat them as if they didn't happen.

No matter how clever a master is, he can't help you with things that have been engraved in your bones long ago.

Seeing the car gradually leave the small road and drive towards the urban area, the destination is getting closer and closer.

I firmly grasped the steering wheel in my hand, but my heart was a little apprehensive.

I couldn't even find a reasonable reason to come to Nanjiang.

I'm afraid you're not used to eating and living, or I'm afraid we won't see you for a long time after you leave...

Where can there be so many excuses, in fact, I just want to see him, I want to see him every day, so I have been planning for a long time, so I am thinking about it.

Chen Jiu also indulged me in the past, so I was once lost in the details of getting along, and couldn't tell where the boundaries were.

At this moment, I suddenly wondered if my move was appropriate?

I got a room at the front desk of the hotel, and when the elevator reached the corresponding floor, I went straight to another room.

Ring the doorbell, and the door opens a moment later.

Chen Jiu didn't react too much when he saw me, but usually this person's silence can explain the problem quite well.

"I'm coming to find you."

I showed a friendly smile and expressed my intentions bluntly.

"Ah."

Chen Jiu's voice was tepid.

I figured it out, this person really hates surprises and self-righteous surprises, and hates people or things that are out of his control.

But you said, how can you control what you like.

If my reason could control my emotions, I would have gone further and further away from him in the past ten years.

I think it should be within his expectation that I will come to Nanjiang.

"I…"

Seeing that I hesitated to speak, he tapped lightly with his hand on the door frame, as if the door was about to close in front of my eyes in the next second.

"I didn't resign, I asked for leave normally, and I didn't shirk my responsibilities at work. I worked overtime in advance to complete the task before I came here."

After I finished speaking in one breath, Chen Jiu's expression relaxed a little.

In the past, I didn't know what Chen Jiu cared about, but today I found his point by accident.

"There are no rooms available in the hotel."

I lied casually, I only asked for a day off tomorrow, so please get the hell out of the way.

Chen Jiu glanced at me before letting go of his hand and taking a step back, then turned around and walked into the room.

I hurriedly pushed the small suitcase through the door and stuffed the room card along the edge of the suitcase.

The hotel room is not too big, there is a very large desk near the window, on which there is a computer, several unfinished drawings and an architectural English dictionary.

After Chen Jiu sat down, he continued to concentrate on drawing pictures. I sat on the suitcase and looked at it for a while, and then consciously turned the computer out to occupy a small corner of the table and started writing a thesis.

The room was unusually quiet for a while, and I occasionally stopped to think about what I wanted to write. I couldn't help but look at Chen Jiu again after I glanced around.

Only then did I recover.

He didn't look at me, but still stared at the blueprint in his hand.

"What about real estate?" I asked him.

"real estate"

"What about stocks?"

"Stock"

"regular-"

"Gu Zong," he raised his head slightly, "these are very basic."

I think he almost said the word mentally retarded. These are indeed the most basic words in finance, and I didn't mean to ask him.

Seeing that he finally answered my words, I simply closed the computer and looked at him with my head propped up.

"Is it very simple? When I first went abroad, I spent a long time memorizing these professional vocabulary every day."

I said to myself, "Chen Jiu, did you change your contact information when I left?"

Hearing this, he put down the pen in his hand, took out a dictionary from the thick materials beside him, and didn't answer my question, just said, "It's getting late, go to sleep."

There is only one double bed in the room, this person must be staying up late again today.

I suppressed the exhaustion brought about by running all the way, pretending to be sober and said, "I'm not sleepy, I'll wait for you to sleep together."

"Is it done?"

"Uh," I turned on the computer again, "it's not about work, it's about school assignments."

These words were quite lacklustre, and even a little inexplicably irritable. Why was I still a student in front of him after so many years? It seemed that I was always a few beats behind on the way forward.

It's like those years abroad, when I started working hard day and night in part-time jobs and studies, I barely realized Chen Jiu's hard work in those years.

Chen Jiu got up and went to the refrigerator to get two bottles of water. When I handed them to me, I noticed that his brows and eyes were a little tired.

I slid over to him in the chair and hugged him regardless.

When I spoke again, I was very honest, "I missed you so I came to see you, and I wanted to talk to you a few more words, but you are very busy."

Chen Jiu was hugged by me and put the water on the table casually.

The room was so quiet that we could hear each other's heartbeats.

I turned my head close to his body, and he seemed to be stroking my hair. In the end, I only heard Chen Jiu say, "Do your homework first."

"The homework is very fast, is there anything I can do for you?" I looked up and asked him.

He turned his gaze to the blueprints on the desktop, and I squeezed his hand hanging by his side. Of course I knew I knew nothing about architecture, but I was eager to prove something.

Then he said, "Translate a document for me, there is a dictionary on the table."