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☆、Chapter 59

The autumn rain continued.

Zhong Jurui stood at the entrance of the company lobby, with raindrops falling on his face, his glasses were immediately covered with raindrops, and his vision was a little blurred.He took off his glasses and put them back into his satchel, took out an umbrella, coughed, and walked to the subway station.

At two or three o'clock in the afternoon on weekdays, there are not many pedestrians on the road.There was an old woman at the subway entrance, sitting on a small bench with a bamboo basket at her feet, selling bracelets made of white orchids.

"Handsome guy, buy a bunch for your girlfriend, fresh white orchids, it smells good."

Sure enough, Zhong Jurui stopped, squatted in front of the bamboo basket, and picked two skewers without haggling.The white orchids are covered with thin wires, perhaps because of the rain today, the bones seem to be covered with dew.

"And earrings, do you want them?"

Zhong Jurui said no, and while the old woman was looking for money, he said, "Grandma, the road is slippery in rainy days, so be careful when walking."

The old woman kept saying in dialect: "Thank you, thank you."

Zhong Jurui had no place to put the bracelet—the flowers are too delicate to put them in the bag for fear of being crushed—so he just put them on his wrist.

Pei Xu's positioning showed that he was six or seven stations away from him.Zhong Jurui followed the positioning guide, walked downstairs to an office building, and made a phone call.

With the ballpoint pen on his lips, Pei Xu answered the phone hesitantly.

"Are you free? Come down."

"Ah? Brother, I'm at work now."

"It's only 10 minutes. If you're not free, I'll wait for you to get off work." Zhong Jurui looked around and said, "I saw a coffee shop, I can sit there and wait for you. Can you get off work at six?"

Pei Xu weighed it. After 10 minutes, he could flash back on the grounds that he was still busy with work. If he chose to meet again after work, he would have no excuse to run away. The lesser of two evils, he said he would come down immediately.

——He was really afraid of seeing Zhong Jurui.

After the shameful confession the night before, no matter how thick-skinned he was, he still couldn't handle the awkward atmosphere between the two of them. Although maybe he was the only one who felt embarrassed, although Zhong Jurui didn't mention it again, Pei Xu firmly believed that this guy must be very upset. Proud—ah, let my ex-boyfriend know that I still have deep roots in love and have not changed my mind. It’s really better to shoot him to death with a piece of thousand-page tofu—and Zhong Jurui has been upgraded to Zhong Jurui 2.0. He is invulnerable and thick-skinned , Pei Xu was very passive.

As expected, Zhong Jurui was standing under the eaves of the corridor, and the tip of the closed umbrella was dripping intermittently, forming zigzag marks on the ground.

"Aren't you going to work today? Why are you here?" Pei Xu walked over, and the two of them watched the rain side by side.

"sick leave."

Concise and concise.

Pei Xu thought to himself, what's the use of coming to me on sick leave? I'm not a doctor.

Zhong Jurui raised his wrist, took off a string of garlands, and tilted his head to look at Pei Xu.

Pei Xu felt hairy all over.

After reading it from top to bottom, Zhong Jurui lazily said, "Raise your hand."

Pei Xu immediately put his hands behind his back, took half a step back calmly, and said, "You want to give it to me?" He was very proud: "Zhong Jurui, what are you so worried about?"

Zhong Jurui looked surprised and said, "Who said I would give it to you? You are such a narcissistic person."

Pei Xu: "..."

Zhong Jurui didn't bother to observe Pei Xu's colorful expressions. He grabbed Pei Xu's arm behind his back, and when the wreath was placed on Pei Xu's fingertips, Zhong Jurui paused and asked abruptly, "Are you single now?"

Pei Xu raised his eyebrows, laughed, and said with a dragging voice: "Oh~ so you are so calm." He immediately wanted to avenge Zhong Jurui for playing him yesterday, and pretended to say: "Mr. Knowing the ways of the world, exes generally don’t communicate with each other about this kind of thing. And do you think I am such a cold-hearted person?” He immediately sent back the words Zhong Jurui sent him, “Do you know how many people have taken a fancy to me? ?”

Zhong Jurui glanced up at him, and put the wreath on Pei Xu's wrist: "Based on him, he is single."

Pei Xu said angrily: "I let you say everything, and you still ask me a fart."

"Just ask, let me see if your acting skills are good." Zhong Jurui said, he shook his umbrella and mentioned it as if he didn't care, "Speaking of which, I met an acquaintance in the company recently, Chen Jiarui, do you remember?" Said He turned to Pei Xu.

Pei Xu didn't know that there was such a big misunderstanding in Zhong Jurui's heart, and he only thought that Zhong Jurui was going to say something serious - Zhong Jurui used to be a prudent person so well established that whenever Zhong Jurui was serious, Pei Xu Xu couldn't help but also sat upright and listened attentively—he recalled it, and then said calmly: "I remember. What's wrong?"

Zhong Jurui stared at Pei Xu's reaction, and Pei Xu's face was filled with irrelevant curiosity.He smiled and said, "It's nothing, I met you today."

"It's gone?" Pei Xu was simply surprised.

There was a villain in Zhong Jurui's heart singing happily, but there was no expression on his face: "It's gone."

Pei Xu was speechless: "You came here just to talk about such a thing? Aren't you delaying my work?"

Zhong Jurui thought for a while and said, "Yes, just to talk about such a thing. Why, is your work worth every minute?"

The word "also" is accented, which has a deep meaning. Pei Xu feels that this world is too money-savvy, and it is not friendly to him at all.

"I'm leaving." Zhong Jurui coughed, "I have to go back and have a rest."

Pei Xuzheng felt that today was another day that he couldn't beat Zhong Jurui. Seeing that Zhong Jurui was about to leave, he suddenly saw the wreath in his hand, and said "tsk", with teasing eyes: "Mr. Zhong, you said 3 minutes ago that this bracelet is not The one who gave it to me also said that I am narcissistic, isn't it a bit of a face now?"

Zhong Jurui looked enlightened, and took out his mobile phone while talking: "If you don't tell me, I'd forget, this wreath is five yuan, you can scan the QR code and transfer it to me."

Pei Xu: "..."

"Why, can't you even pay five yuan with your work income?" Zhong Jurui asked with a smile.

Pei Xu suddenly regretted being at the ice cream shop that day, why did he tell Zhong Jurui that he was poor and about to lose his job.Isn't the ex's favorite thing to see is that he is not doing well?

He paid five yuan, looked at Zhong Jurui's back in the distance, suddenly reacted, and shouted at Zhong Jurui: "You are obviously buying and selling by force!"

The young man held an umbrella, turned his head and smiled and waved at him, with sword eyebrows and star eyes, very good-looking.

Pei Xu's heart moved violently again.He turned around hastily and walked into the building. In a flash of his mind, he thought that there seemed to be a bunch of white orchids on Zhong Jurui's waving wrist, but Zhong Jurui's sleeve covered him when he was chatting, so he didn't notice it.

Fuck, it turned out to be a couple wreath.

Standing in the elevator, taking advantage of no one, he kept knocking his forehead on the mirror in the elevator room, and muttered, "What's going on..."

A routine player like him was tricked by others, and he was blind for the first time if he didn't realize it. If he didn't realize it today, he would be sorry for his title of breaking his leg.Pei Xu raised his head and screamed, wanting to cry but no tears, those who did trick others were eventually tricked and asked the heavens who to spare.

Zhong Jurui seems to have opened up the two veins of Ren and Du, and he is more than capable in dealing with Pei Xu - although the cold prevented him from opening his nose, he has had a stuffy nose for a long time.

He returned home and slept soundly and soundly, and he was much more energetic the next day.

Chen Jiarui is leaving.

The company originally vacated a small conference room for Chen Jiarui and his team. Zhong Jurui passed by today and heard something saying that today is the last day.

When he saw Chen Jiarui today, Zhong Jurui felt a little refreshed—although Chen Jiarui felt that Zhong Jurui kindly patted him on the shoulder and smiled at him when he was peeing profusely. The posture was so weird that he almost lost his footing and wet his leather shoes.

"You work very hard and you often have to travel. The last time I met you, it seems that you also have to catch a plane to go to Party A?" Zhong Jurui stood in front of the urinal next to Chen Jiarui.

Chen Jiarui said: "Yeah, it's okay for those of you who are all in this city, at least you can go home."

"Then why didn't you live at home before, but stayed in a hotel instead?" Zhong Jurui was persuasive.

"My little pet ruined the floor and sofa, so I just redecorated it." Chen Jiarui had to say this again.

"Then it's quite a coincidence that you met Pei Xu." Zhong Jurui laughed.

"Yeah, I didn't recognize it at first. It's been two years since I was hospitalized." Chen Jiarui recalled, "At that time, I ate the soup and rice you sent me a few times. Don't you know? It was your mother-in-law. Give it to me, I don’t even have a thermos bowl, so I can only pour it in a disposable paper cup. Probably because my name sounds similar to yours, so you take good care of me.”

Zhong Jurui really didn't know that if he had an evening class at that time, he would go to class after delivering the food in a hurry, or if Pei Xu came for him, he might not be able to accompany grandma to eat every meal.

Perhaps because of the memory of the same old man, Zhong Jurui's smile became more sincere: "I didn't work well two days ago, so I didn't have a good temper. Don't take it for granted."

Of course, Chen Jiarui would not be offended, he even felt that Zhong Jurui would rather be as indifferent as before, and not be as enthusiastic as today, this dead face smile is too weird, he laughed: "It's easy to say, wait for everyone Don't be busy, you call Pei Xu, let's have a meal."

This was originally a polite remark, but Zhong Jurui seemed to take it seriously, and said, "Really? I'm not too busy this weekend, why don't you call Pei Xujuju?"

Chen Jiarui couldn't get off the tiger, so he had to agree.

Zhong Jurui thought very clearly.

He is now punching the old master to death, Pei Xu can't figure it out, and when Pei Xu reacts, it may not be so easy to handle.

Politeness and tepidity do not suit them. Straightball players have their preferred ways.He and Pei Xu had too little interaction, so it would be great if Chen Jiarui came forward to create some opportunities to meet each other.Sure enough, the next day, Chen Jiarui sent a WeChat message telling him to form a good game. There were about four or five people, except Zhong Jurui and Pei Xu, and his colleagues.

Zhong Jurui happened to be having dinner, and after reading this news, he began to think about what he would say next time he saw Pei Xu, but was shocked when Du Ang slapped the table.

"Can you stop concentrating so much when thinking about things? You have such a developed brain, can't you separate a few nerves from one mind to another?" Du Ang said.

Zhong Jurui asked, "Excuse me, what did you just say?"

Du Ang heard some gossip that the business team was going to be reorganized and that the top was poaching people. If the negotiation was successful, someone might want to leave accordingly.

Zhong Jurui asked how to organize it?How will the business change?

Du Ang shared everything he had heard.In the end, it was unlikely that the two of them would be involved, and they were just watching for fun.

Zhong Jurui evaluated it, and felt that his job would not be affected. Du Ang might be slightly affected. Originally, Du Ang might be able to be promoted by the end of the year according to his qualifications. The position of leader probably won't be Du Ang's turn.However, the possibility of the recruited people just dropping into their group by air is still relatively low, so there is no need to worry about it for a while.

Du Ang was even more forgiving, thinking that if he didn't stay here as a leader, he would change his job to be a leader.

Pei Xu is good at dealing with people, he has friends from all walks of life, and there are many dinner parties, so when Chen Jiarui invited him to dinner, he was not very suspicious.When he arrived at Chen Jiarui's house and saw Zhong Jurui sitting on the sofa, he became a little uneasy.

Zhong Jurui stood up gracefully, shook hands with him and said, "You are here."

Pei Xu's hands froze in mid-air.

Zhong Jurui said: "Did you also come to watch because you heard that their pets are very cute?"

"Pets?" Pei Xu asked, having never heard of pets, "Where's Chen Jiarui?"

"He went to the pet store to pick up their family..." Zhong Jurui couldn't remember the name for a while, and a buddy next to him was sitting on the ground playing with his mobile phone, and added for him, "Their family is Hongxia."

Zhong Jurui nodded: "Yes, their Hongxia went to take a bath."

Pei Xu looked at Zhong Jurui several times.

Curie is a spring, if you are weak, he will be strong.Pei Xu read it silently several times, and sat down with that buddy coldly.

Zhong Jurui didn't seem to care, and sat quietly at the farthest distance.

It didn't take long for Chen Jiarui and a friend of his to come back, bringing Hongxia with them—the cage that the two of them worked together to carry was a pig, not much smaller than a large dog.Pei Xu repeatedly weighed the two quantifiers "only" and "head" in his mind, and felt that "head" was more appropriate for Sister Hongxia's size.Because this is obviously not a fragrant pig!Anyone can see that it is a thriving meat pig!

Zhong Jurui also petrified in situ.He vaguely remembered that Chen Jiarui kept saying that their family was a little pet.

On the contrary, the buddy seemed to be not surprised, and walked over enthusiastically: "Hongxia has grown taller again!"

Chen Jiarui was sweating profusely, obviously the journey was very strenuous, he wiped his sweat and said to Hongxia: "Hongxia, look who is here, call godfather quickly." After speaking, he was kicked to the ground by that buddy.

Zhong Jurui and Pei Xu exchanged glances, both showing expressions of regret for their trip.

It turned out that Chen Jiarui bought this pig on his own initiative, but was deceived by the dealer. He thought it was a Xiangxiang pig, but after two months of raising it, it would grow and grow stronger.Chen Jiarui can't sell it even if he wants to sell it - no one who sees this pig will not be in the mood to keep a small pet, so he can only keep it by himself.The living room was ruined before, but now I have to free up a bathroom for Hongxia to live in. I even hired a nanny who fed pigs when I was young, so it can be said that she is pampered.

Five men squatted in front of Hongxia.

A buddy asked: "Has Hongxia learned how to pay New Year's greetings?"

The other buddy shook his head: "Don't look at us Hongxia is fat, but our hooves are very thin, how can we stand up?"

Chen Jiarui scolded: "How can you say that she is fat in front of the girl, what kind of hoof? Is it polite? Hongxia, don't listen to your godfather's nonsense."

Zhong Jurui and Pei Xu exchanged glances again, both showing expressions of remorse for coming here.

A buddy said: "There is no way for Hongxia to grow like this. If she grows too fat, it will be troublesome if she gets stuck in your bathroom and cannot get out. Let me help you find out if you can ask the slaughterhouse to slaughter it, even if you do it Some bacon or something."

Chen Jiarui said: "What are you talking about? This is Hongxia who we watched growing up. Every catty of meat is supported by my banknotes! Do you want to make some cured meat?" Where are the sausages stuffed with pork belly, large intestines, and pork belly?"

Pei Xu finally caught up with the rhythm, got up and opened a bottle of beer, and said, "Come on! Cheers to the great Hongxia!"

Another buddy said: "Good! Cheers to the great and delicious Hongxia!"

☆、Chapter 60

This was the most inexplicable party that Pei Xu had attended—even weirder than when he strayed into the scene of the village witches dancing during an interview.

Chen Jiarui even took out his mobile phone to take a video, as a commemoration of Hongxia's 3-month visit to this house. Zhong Jurui admired Chen Jiarui's enthusiasm for life from the bottom of his heart-this guy is too good at making things happen.

Facing the camera, they sincerely wished Hongxia to break through the 50kg weight as soon as possible, gain more lean meat and less fat, and become a delicious pig, a stomach-friendly pig, and a pig that is useful to society.Chen Jiarui used a beauty camera to add a cute pig face special effect to Hongxia's photo-although it seemed very meaningless.

Zhong Jurui couldn't understand why Chen Jiarui's friends didn't have a laugh in this nervous ceremony.Probably this is the so-called bird of a feather flocks together and people divide into groups.

They drank and watched old movies, but they didn't pay much attention to how 007 became so powerful. Instead, they chatted, from the mess of the stock market to social news, which gym had better shower facilities, and the three returnees talked about their environment during college. The embarrassment of European travel.

Pei Xu also went to several European countries during his undergraduate exchange, and heard them say that the law and order in Paris is not good, and he also said that his mobile phone was stolen at the Gare du Nord, and later encountered a petition on the street, and brought his opponent Curious about Western politics, after reading the petition, several people blocked the roadside and forced them to donate money.

The two buddies immediately agreed.

Zhong Jurui did not participate in the discussion. He ate a piece of pizza seriously and stretched the cheese.

The topic passed lively.The mobile phone rang, and the property management called to say that the residents downstairs of the two buddies complained that their house had stagnant water, which caused water to drip from the gaps in the ceiling downstairs.The two buddies took out a paper towel to wipe their hands, and wanted to go back to have a look. Chen Jiarui had some messy hardware pipe wrench drivers left over from the renovation of his home some time ago, so he simply followed them with a big bag.

"They live in the next building, I'll go and have a look." Chen Jiarui said at the door, "There are still chicken wings in the oven, I think it's almost ready, if you want to eat, take it out and eat first, don't wait for us."

So there was no one else in the house.

Pei Xu seldom encountered this kind of situation when he was a guest at someone's house and the host ran away. He raised his eyes and saw Zhong Jurui looking at him.

The house was very quiet, only Hongxia humming in the bathroom.

Zhong Jurui said, "I'm going to see the chicken wings." He took the baking gloves from the table and walked into the kitchen.

Pei Xu waited for a while, feeling a bit addicted to cigarettes, so he went to the balcony to lean against the railing to smoke, the cigarette butt under his fingertips flickered, as if the cigarette butt was breathing, he just stared at the red dot of the cigarette butt in a daze.Sensing that Zhong Jurui also pushed the door and came over, Pei Xu subconsciously wanted to pinch it out—holding the cigarette and moving it closer to the mouth of the empty beer bottle, he repented halfway and put it in his mouth again—damn, I’m afraid Zhong Jurui is a hair .

Zhong Jurui didn't say anything.

"Without you, I would probably be able to get along with them like a fish in water. With you here, I'm always ashamed to mess around." Pei Xu said with a smile.

Zhong Jurui held two bottles of Budweiser in his hand and handed over one bottle.He looked up at the night sky. There were not a few stars in the city. The autumn rain continued this week, and even the moon was covered. There were only clouds, light gray clouds.He asked: "What are you embarrassed about? I haven't seen you before?"

Pei Xu smiled: "Yes."

"Have you ever regretted going out to communicate in junior year?" Zhong Jurui asked.

Pei Xu didn't quite understand where this regret came from. He looked at Zhong Jurui's Adam's apple that moved slightly when he raised his head to drink beer, and said, "Oh, the rest is fine, but I missed a compulsory course, and that class is not in our class. In the next training program, the Academic Affairs Office would not hold that class. In the end, the teacher saw that I would not be able to graduate, so he opened a special class for me, with one-on-one teaching every week, which was super scary." Thinking about it He also said, "It was also the only time I experienced reviewing test papers after graduating from high school. It was like a nightmare."

Zhong Jurui didn't speak.He looked at the tall and low buildings in the distance, and the warm yellow light leaked from countless windows. He suddenly turned his head and put his palm on Pei Xu's head. There was soft hair in the palm of his hand. I can't find you, might I be crazy?"

Pei Xu was obviously stunned, not knowing how to answer.

Zhong Jurui didn't want to make the atmosphere too heavy, and he didn't say this to blame Pei Xu, so he laughed first and said, "It's a bit sad to leave without saying goodbye."

Pei Xu replied subconsciously: "Farewell without saying goodbye? What are you talking about?" He was a little angry, "I told you at least twice, the first time was when the counselor informed us that we could start registration, and I sat next to you to send an email, I even asked if you should choose the program in the United States. One time, when I was applying for a visa, you said that my grandma was not in good condition that day, and I went straight to the hospital after I came out of the consulate. How can you remember that I left without saying goodbye? At best... It's just that I didn't tell you the day I boarded the plane, but we broke up at that time, isn't it normal not to tell you..."

Zhong Jurui really didn't expect such a thing to happen, because he didn't find Pei Xu talking about it when he searched his memory. He only vaguely remembered that one day in the library, he was catching up with DDL. Pei Xu seemed to be filling out some form, whispering Talked to him a few words, but he didn't pay attention to the previous words. He recovered and heard Pei Xu say that he wanted to travel in Europe by the way. He nodded and said, "You can go wherever you want."

Pei Xu looked at him, and suddenly pushed his hand away from the top of his head.

So the atmosphere was really heavy.

The so-called fate made a joke, and there is no such thing as parting ways.People in it only see the dramatic climactic turn and never think about the instigator of the previous synopsis.

If the storm two years ago happened between an ordinary couple, one broke up, the other was bound to stay, and the two had a big quarrel and calmed down for a few days, maybe nothing would happen—a married couple is still alive. There is a moment when you want to kill each other. Which couple has not experienced a time when they lose their temper?Life is not a fairy tale.It's just that fate has added a heavy background color to the two people. One has experienced unprecedented drastic changes in life and spent two weeks in prison. His values ​​​​have been severely damaged and he was depressed. The sword hangs above the head, just waiting for the moment of decapitation, let alone the mood to talk about love.

Talking about love is such an extravagant word, it is only used by the young people who have nothing to worry about in the smooth wind and water to pass the boring time.

Zhong Jurui said: "At that time, I probably often ignored you..."

This is simply obvious.There were many moments when Pei Xu hesitated to speak, but at that time he always had a fluke mentality, thinking that it was okay if he didn't get to the bottom of it, and he took it for granted that there were more important things to do.

"I can understand, and I didn't really blame you." Pei Xu said, he exhaled a large cloud of smoke, and watched the smoke dissipate, "So the timing is probably not right."

Zhong Jurui immediately asked: "Then do you think the time is right now? Obviously, we still..."

Pei Xu said blankly: "I don't know...I understand what you mean, but I don't know..."

Zhong Jurui shrugged: "Maybe we need some time and some changes." He said: "Any extra cigarettes? Give me one."

Pei Xu rubbed his eyes and smiled, "There's no need to start with a bad habit. You said it yourself, smoking is a bad virtue."

"I'll try." Zhong Jurui also smiled, "You're not my boyfriend now, you care so much."

When Pei Xu was fumbling for the lighter in his pocket, Zhong Jurui said no, he grabbed Pei Xu's wrist, put a cigarette on the end between Pei Xu's fingers, and took two breaths by the fire of the cigarette.He got so close that Pei Xu even saw the faint scar on his forehead.

Zhong Jurui had never smoked before, he was choked up, and his cold had only been relieved for two days, which would cause him to cough incessantly.He seemed to feel a bit ashamed, coughed and said with a smile: "Smoking...it's a very difficult skill to learn..."

Pei Xu couldn't help laughing too, and threw his own burnt cigarettes into an empty beer bottle, then stepped forward to pat Zhong Jurui on the back, snatched the one from Zhong Jurui's hand and threw it away: "You can change something else. Smoking is not a good habit. I work on the manuscript at night, and you have no need for the bad habit I developed to refresh myself."

Zhong Jurui was still coughing violently, coughing up tears, finally stood up straight, and asked: "Then where do you think I should start to change?"

Pei Xu thought for a long time, and said, "I think you should love yourself more." His expression was not very enthusiastic, but his eyes were shining brightly, "It's okay to be selfish, narcissistic, and arrogant. You should take out your most precious self in the world. confidence."

Zhong Jurui looked at Pei Xu's face and said, "Really? Am I worth it?" There was a river flowing quietly in his heart.

Pei Xu smiled until his eyes had two crescent moons, and he was very sure: "Of course you are worth it." Then he asked, "So, what advice do you have for me?"

Zhong Jurui thought for a while, and said: "You have so many shortcomings, I don't know where to start, why don't you wait for me to go back and make an outline and send it to your email."

Then of course Pei Xu scolded him.

Zhong Jurui smiled very comfortably, picked up the beer bottle again, looked up and saw a star shining by chance, and looked carefully, it turned out to be the twinkling light of the wing of an airplane flying at night.He stared at the moving light, and when Pei Xu thought he would stop talking and turned back to the living room, Zhong Jurui turned his back to Pei Xu and said, "I'm sorry, I never really understood you before, and I always thought that I would let you Compromise. If, I mean if, you still have something you want to hold on to..."

Pei Xu looked back at Zhong Jurui's back.

"If you still have those thoughts..." Zhong Jurui said, "Pei Xu, you should go to Shine." His expression was very gentle, but unfortunately Pei Xu didn't see it.

Pei Xu wanted to cry, if he didn't leave quickly, he was really afraid that he would rush to hug Zhong Jurui, it would be a bit embarrassing, so he immediately went to the living room and said loudly: "Thank you!"

He walked too fast, so he didn't hear Zhong Jurui say in a low voice: "Actually, sometimes, I am very proud of being your boyfriend."

After speaking, the tense atmosphere between the two disappeared.When Chen Jiarui came back, he saw two people sitting on the floor playing cards in the living room. Pei Xu was obviously the one who lost badly, with a few yellow post-it notes stuck on his face.

"I wanted to leave at first, but I thought it wouldn't be good if I didn't say hello to you." Zhong Jurui said with a smile, "I have to go to work normally tomorrow, which can't be compared with your weekends. I have to go back and wash up and sleep."

Pei Xu also stood up, thanking Chen Jiarui for the hospitality.

Chen Jiarui rolled his eyes back and forth between the two of them, and said politely: "It's okay, I often come to play, I'm bored when I'm alone. When Hongxia can eat, I'll treat you to a feast."

Zhong Jurui: "..."

It was Pei Xu who kept up with the rhythm on Hongxia's question, and said, "It must be. This will be the first time in my life that the meat I eat comes from a pig I know. This kind of opportunity is too rare and should not be missed."

Although Zhong Jurui promised to love himself more, it is really difficult to put this into practice.For a while, he can't think of how he has been wronged - his work is so smooth, he has no dissatisfaction except for working overtime late, and his love life has obviously entered a stable period, occupying a position above AUO, He had a few dinner appointments with Pei Xu, and apart from not being able to touch his hands, he was not dissatisfied with anything.

Mr. Zhong is just too contented and happy.

Sometimes he feels that he may have suffered all the hardships he had to suffer in the first 20 years of his life, so now he is relaxed and has to go uphill.So in the month after he had a deep heart-to-heart talk with Pei Xu, the biggest change he made was to sign up for a driving school and start the long journey of getting a driver's license.This change seems very logical and peaceful.

Different from Zhong Jurui's peace, Pei Xu was obviously touched by that conversation.He went back and tossed and turned for two days, quickly handed in his resignation letter, and accepted the olive branch thrown by Zhong Nanping - this big man he admired resigned and established a new team with the support of the Hong Kong media - Pei Xu's cronies played a role , recommended him to talk with Zhong Nanping all night.

Pei Xu was in good spirits, and told Zhong Jurui that he would go undercover to a supermarket recently to investigate the quality of fresh food.

"I forged a resume, and I'm going to interview a tally clerk tomorrow." Pei Xu looked very excited.

Zhong Jurui was also very happy: "Okay, then remember to tell me if you succeed."

Joy loses half its meaning if it is not shared.Pei Xu enthusiastically shared how he used online materials to forge information, like a child explaining a new toy to someone.

Zhong Jurui was lying on the pillow so sleepy that he couldn't bear to interrupt the excited voice on the speakerphone, so he could only smile wryly and think, it deserves it, who told you to encourage him to shine, and now the light makes him unable to sleep, it's just retribution.

He was wrapped in a familiar blanket in this sweet retribution, and his heart beat orderly and peacefully.

☆、Chapter 61

No one has seen the appearance of the first fallen leaves in autumn.It seemed that it had been raining for a long time. When the rain stopped, the office workers in the subway changed their thin coats into thick coats. Girls who were not afraid of the cold stubbornly exposed their calves under their coats and walked quickly on the street. Want to get into the office building quickly.

It is Zhong Jurui's birthday this year.It has been two years since he celebrated his birthday with much fanfare, and every time he let the day pass quietly, except for the templated emails from his work mailbox to congratulate him on his birthday, no one else remembers it.

But this year is a little different.

Zhong Jurui made an appointment with a few friends, Tang Cheng and Du Ang were all present, and went to the bar called Norwegian Wood to celebrate his birthday. Counting from both sides, they were all in the same company, and there was no one of the opposite sex.

Zhong Jurui said: "You guys drink first, anyway, I am treating guests today, you can order anything you want. I will pick up a friend."

Tang Cheng "Oh" made a tune with nine turns and eighteen turns, and repeated: "A friend?"

"Pei Xu, you know him too." Zhong Jurui replied calmly.

The name Pei Xu hadn't appeared in their conversation for a long time, Tang Cheng didn't realize it for a while, and Zhong Jurui hurried to the door when he recalled a fair face.

Du Ang didn't know Pei Xu, and seeing Tang Cheng's thoughtful expression, he asked Tang Cheng, "What? Is it a girl?"

"That's not true." Tang Cheng stretched out his hand and called the waiter to order.

"I thought it was his girlfriend. It's really rare to see Zhong Jurui being courteous." Du Ang said.

Tang Cheng said strangely: "Don't talk about being courteous, besides a dead face, have you ever seen Zhong Jurui in other ways?"

Sure enough, Du Ang carefully recalled that although Zhong Jurui had laughed before, he always smiled superficially. Most of the time, his expression was very monotonous: when writing codes, he frowns slightly with a serious face, and when he is praised in a meeting, he also frowns slightly His brows were serious, and when he fell into the sea during the team building activities, he also frowned slightly and his face was serious. This kind of cold expression in the eyes of girls who rejects others thousands of miles away is defined as constipation in the dictionary of Du Ang, a straight man. Face.

"Why does Zhong Jurui always look constipated?" Du Ang had never thought about it before, but when he noticed it today, he immediately found the joke, "Does he have some hidden disease?"

Everyone at the table laughed.

"Isn't he ever panicked and shy?" someone said.

Everyone said they hadn't seen it.

Pei Xu was still selling yogurt in front of the freezer.

The tally staff in this supermarket work in three shifts. Pei Xu was originally supposed to be on the night shift, so he specially changed shifts with a talkative older sister. This will help the older sister to conscientiously sell to the girls in the supermarket: "Look, look! Look, it promotes gastrointestinal motility, the more you drink, the slimmer you are, and you are still doing exercises recently, one bottle is [-]% off! Two bottles are [-]% off!"

Zhong Jurui walked over, first dazzled by the red vest Pei Xu was wearing, and then noticed two or three women surrounded by Pei Xu, all trying to drink the yogurt in the mini paper cups on his tray.

A housewife in her 30s said after drinking it: "It's a bit sweet, I don't like to drink something so sweet."

Pei Xu looked harmless to humans and animals with a boyish face: "Miss, it's not that yogurt is sweet, it's that you live a sweet life, and everything you drink is sweet. I think you are so young, you must not be married yet, so buying two bottles is a little bit inconvenient." It’s a good deal, if you can’t drink it before the expiration date, just buy a bottle.”

The housewife giggled: "Why aren't you married? My son is already in elementary school."

Pei Xu immediately said in surprise: "That's really hard to see, I think you are about the same age as me."

Zhong Jurui showed an indescribable expression.Damn, even a blind person can tell that this is a housewife in her 30s, Pei Xu really dares to say anything with her mouth, and she is not afraid of being punished by God.Then he quickly thought of the countless moments when Pei Xu talked sweetly to him, and sneered at himself who used to be very fond of this kind of thing.Of course, it is a common feature of human beings to be soft-hearted and love to listen to good words, but I, Zhong Jurui, have experienced so much and grown so much. I am like a man of iron and steel, and I will never be coaxed by these sweet words again.Pei Xu's mouth is a deceiving ghost.This motto has been highlighted with a highlighter in Zhong Jurui's life book.

Zhong Jurui walked over when the people around were encouraged by Pei Xu to buy promotional yoghurt and leave.

Pei Xu was only focused on teasing the older sisters just now, and didn't notice that Zhong Jurui was there