Dead but not stiff

On Monday morning, as soon as Shen Bai entered the company, he notified the assistant to arrange the time and place for the meeting with Boss Wang in the afternoon.The little assistant took orders here, and not long after leaving Shen Bai's office, he opened the door again after a while, Shen Bai raised his head from the computer screen and asked, "Is there anything else?"

The little assistant nodded: "Mr. Shen, there is a man named Fang Shi who said that he came to our company for an internship at your behest, and he is currently in the reception room."

"Oh." Shen Bai remembered that there was still this problem, thought for a while, and said to the little assistant: "You can take him to the personnel department directly, and see if there is any suitable position for him."

"Oh, okay." The little assistant exited the door, but heard Shen Bai add: "After the position is arranged, find a reliable old employee to guide him, so that he can learn as much as possible. "

"Okay, Mr. Shen."

The little assistant came to the reception room with Shen Bai's instructions, opened the door and smiled at Fang Shi who had been waiting inside for a long time and said, "Hello, I've been waiting for a long time, you can go with me to the HR side first."

Fang Shi nodded submissively, stood up and walked out after the little assistant.

Walking around a large office area, the sound of keyboards, speech, high-heeled shoes, and telephone ringing one after another is overwhelming. The white-collar workers who are sitting, standing, or walking back and forth are all focused on the tasks at hand. , an orderly and prosperous office atmosphere.Fang Shi walked forward in small steps along the base of the wall, carefully searching for the office door with Shen Bai's name written on it, the little assistant looked back at his private search, remembered Shen Bai's instructions before, and asked with a clear smile: "You and Mr. Do you know me?"

Fang Shi looked terrified of being caught, and replied falteringly: "Forget it...you know me."

"Let me tell you, Mr. Shen has never privately arranged for anyone to join the company. You are the first one."

A gleam of joy flashed in Fang Shi's eyes when he heard this sentence, and then he heard the little assistant say: "When you arrive at the personnel department in a while, they will arrange a position for you, and then someone will show you around to familiarize yourself with the company environment."

Fang Shi paused, raised his head, and asked softly, "...Which department is President Shen's?"

The little assistant turned around and gave a suspicious sound, and then answered him truthfully: "Mr. Shen is the general manager of our company, and he is also in charge of the engineering management department."

"...Then can I go to the engineering management department?"

"Well, if your major is right, you can get in if your major is right."

"...If you're just doing clerical work, can you get in?"

The little assistant was a little puzzled by Fang Shi's persistence, but he still patiently explained: "Shen is always the general manager of the company, even if you go to other departments, theoretically you are still working under Mr. Shen. "

A look of disappointment flashed across Fang Shi's face, and he replied muffledly: "...Okay."

The little assistant thought that he was a newcomer in the workplace who had unknown tension and fear about the new environment, so he just wanted to work beside the familiar Shen Bai to seek a sense of security, so he comforted him: "Don't worry, Mr. Shen specifically explained, At that time, I will find an old employee to take you with me, and if you don’t understand anything, just ask, everyone is a newcomer, so don’t worry about it.”

Mr. Shen's special explanation once again ignited Fang Shi's inner hope, and he nodded vigorously, "Well, okay."

The whole morning passed quickly, and when it was approaching lunch time, the little assistant gently opened the door, and asked Shen Bai, who was staring at the computer research plan intently inside, "Mr. Takeaway, do you want to come together?"

Shen Bai looked at the time, it was less than 10 minutes before lunch, he thought for a while and replied: "No, I will go out later."

More than ten minutes later, Shen Bai came out of the office. The employees outside had almost gone to the tea break area for lunch. He walked through rows of cubicles, and when he was about to reach the end, he suddenly noticed a thin figure with his back turned to him. Sitting behind a cubicle, he was looking at something at his desk.Shen Bai took a closer look, and it was indeed Fang Shi.

"Why don't you go to lunch?" Shen Bai asked him as he knocked on the grille.

Fang Shi raised his head from the document, saw clearly that it was Shen Bai, stood up quickly, and said falteringly: "...Mr. Shen, I... am not very hungry."

Shen Bai put on an air of leadership and advised: "You have to eat lunch, otherwise there will be no energy for work in the afternoon."

Fang Shi became more embarrassed when he heard the words, lowered his head and remained silent.

Shen Bai looked at the few employees who were eating together at the coffee break, and asked again: "Didn't they order takeaway for you by the way?"

Fang Yi muttered softly: "...too expensive."

Shen Bai was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that Fang Shi had indeed emphasized many times that his family was poor, and there were high-end office buildings all over the area, so the consumption was relatively high, and the price of a lunch could probably cover his daily meal expenses.

He sighed, took out his mobile phone, and opened the takeaway app while asking, "Can I order a rice set meal? Chicken chop rice? Or stewed pork rice?"

Fang Shi gave a flattered ah, and Shen Bai looked up at him, as if waiting for his answer.

"Whatever...whatever."

"Then let's have chicken chop rice." Shen Bai didn't hesitate, and placed an order directly, then put away his phone and said to Fang Shi, "You can go to the front desk to get it later. The company has a cafeteria on the third floor, and it just happens to be renovated today. You can just eat in the cafeteria, the company has meal subsidies."

Fang Shi nodded hurriedly: "Okay."

Shen Bai smiled at him lightly, and stretched out his hand to stroke his hair. The child was thin and weak, and he always looked like he couldn't let go, which made Shen Bai a little unsure how to deal with it.

"Okay, I have something to go out, you can take care of yours, I left the front desk phone number for the takeaway."

Under Fang Shi's grateful and ecstatic eyes, Shen Bai was watched all the way into the elevator.

As the elevator door closed, Shen Bai picked up his phone and dialed Gu Xien's number. As soon as he got through, he couldn't wait to ask: "Daughter-in-law, what did you have for lunch?"

Gu Xien replied to him lightly: "Packed lunch."

Shen Bai concluded in one go: "It's definitely not delicious, I'll take you to eat something delicious after get off work tonight."

"Not tonight, I have to work overtime."

Shen Bai: "...you give the phone to Xiao Liu."

There was a faint smile in Gu Xien's voice: "Don't abuse your power, the progress of the project is urgent. I think the food on the construction site is pretty good, but you are picky."

Shen Bai: "I'm a picky eater, can I eat all of your overcooked noodles?"

Gu Xi'en: "...They all agreed not to mention this matter."

Shen Bai: "How can we not mention it? Not only do we have to mention it, we also have to remember it for a lifetime. Every time we quarrel, we have to bring it up and talk about it."

Gu Xian: "..."

Shen Bai was stern: "Are you reflecting deeply when you don't speak?"

Gu Xien answered him seriously: "No, I am deeply considering breaking up with you."

"...Daughter-in-law, your habit is too bad. Isn't it normal for husband and wife to quarrel at the end of the bed? It's not okay to get divorced every now and then."

The elevator door opened, and a few employees who were dining out outside saw Shen Bai, and hurriedly greeted him, Shen Bai nodded slightly with deep eyes, and strode out.

A few employees behind them murmured softly: "I seem to have heard Mr. Shen say something about divorce just now?"

"Did you hear me wrong, doesn't he even have a girlfriend?"

"I heard from the girl at the front desk that there was indeed a girl who claimed to be his fiancée and came to the company to look for him."

"Getting a divorce before getting married? Mr. Shen, a straight man with cancer, is no one more lethal."

Shen Bai, who returned to the company after eating outside, called Chen Nali to the office.

After the incident last time, Chen Nali hadn't communicated with Shen Bai face to face for a while, but this time she was suddenly summoned, and she felt quite uneasy.

After all, if the performance is really scored C, the year-end bonus will be completely ruined. Who would have trouble with money, and can't afford to hide it.

Chen Nali pushed open the office door, first slowly leaned half her body in and looked inside, but Shen Bai just raised his head, saw her hesitant posture, frowned and said: "Do you want me to carry you in?" ?”

Chen Nali: "..." Is this considered sexual harassment in the workplace?

Shen Bai pushed a document in front of Chen Nali who came over, and said to her: "You should take a look at this cooperation case first, I mean I want you to be in charge."

When talking about business, Chen Nali's eyes immediately became sharp. She picked up the document and held it in her hand. She read it carefully and quickly in 3 minutes, closed the document and said to Shen Bai: "Thank you Mr. Shen for giving me a good project. .”

Shen Bai turned the pen in his hand and nodded, "Boss Wang is here at two o'clock in the afternoon. You can come with me in the meeting. Now he is begging us to do things, and within the acceptable range of the other party, we must strive for the greatest Profit sharing."

Chen Nali raised her eyebrows and smiled while holding the document: "How about Sanqi?"

Shen Bai was slightly surprised and asked back: "Who is seven?"

Chen Nali smiled lightly: "Boss Shen, I have always despised being a threesome."

"Then I'll wait and see."

"But Mr. Shen," Chen Nali suddenly leaned over Shen Bai's desk, "Let's discuss it."

Shen Bai retreated quickly, with an expression of avoidance: "What?"

Chen Nali blinked: "If I achieve my goal, can you help me make an appointment with the Gu worker in Xiao Liu's project, I want to treat him to a meal."

Shen Bai squinted his eyes, and a dangerous signal slowly appeared in his eyes, he repeated with a fake smile: "Eat?"

Chen Nali was completely unaware of the black face of her leader at the moment, and continued to say, "Oh, didn't she just break up with her? You understand."

Shen Bai stood up, and in the astonishment in Chen Nali's eyes that gradually became aware of the strangeness, he lifted his chin and pointed to the direction of the door, "I don't understand, you go out."

In the office of the project team on the construction site, Gu Xien, who was sitting at the corner of the conference table and was burying his head in catching up with the blueprints, suddenly heard Xiao Li call Gu Gong, he looked up and asked, "What's wrong?"

Xiao Li waved at him: "Come here and help me see here."

Gu Xien put down his work and was about to get up when the phone placed on the table buzzed and vibrated.Gu Xien looked down at the incoming call from Shen Bai, pondered for a moment, then stretched out his finger to reject it.

As a result, just as he walked to Xiao Li's side, the phone buzzed persistently again. Gu Xien sighed, apologized to Xiao Li, returned to his place, picked up the phone and hung up again.

Seeing Gu Xien's actions, Xiao Li asked suspiciously, "Who is it?"

"Harassing calls." Gu Xien answered casually, looked at Xiao Li's computer screen and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Oh, then block it directly." Xiao Li sincerely suggested, and immediately began to discuss with Gu Xien about his design plan.

"Gu Gong!" Xiao Liu who ran in with his mobile phone interrupted the two of them, and said cheerfully, "Mr. Shen's phone number is for you."

Without raising his head, Gu Xien threw out a sentence: "I said I went to the construction site, and the noise was too loud, so it's inconvenient to answer the phone."

Xiao Liu let out a hey, and imitated the white parrot on the other end of the phone: "Mr. Gu said he went to the construction site, and the noise was too loud, so it's not convenient to answer the phone. Mr. Shen, if you're really in a hurry, you can just tell me. "

Not knowing what Shen Bai said, Xiao Liu resentfully put down the phone, walked up to Gu Xien and said, "You should pick it up, Mr. Gu."

Gu Xi'en took the phone helplessly, and just put it in his ear and said hello, when he heard Shen Bai cover his face and ask: "Why did that girl Chen Nali invite you to dinner?"

As Gu Xien walked out, he asked in confusion: "...What are you talking about? Who is Chen Nali?"

Shen Bai continued to growl: "It's the girl I scolded in my office last time."

Gu Xien: "...I don't even know when she is going to invite me to dinner."

Shen Bai's aggrieved voice raised eight degrees: "She just told me herself! And asked me to help matchmaking? Oh, how can there be such absurd things in the world, I give myself a cuckold? I look so Idiot?"

Only then did Gu Xien understand the smell, but he also became a little annoyed, and said coldly: "She wants to invite me to dinner, why are you arguing with me?"

"Why did she invite you to dinner for no reason? Oh yes, she just said that she wanted to pick you up. Oh, I just saw you, and I started to dream. Gu Xien, you can do it. No one has the physique to attract bees and butterflies." gone."

Gu Xien was silent for a moment, took a deep breath, and finally said directly: "You are really out of your mind." Then he hung up the phone.

He quickly walked back to the room, walked to the conference table, grabbed his mobile phone, clicked on Shen Bai's mobile phone number, blocked it, then opened WeChat, found the dialog box that occupied the first place in the list, clicked it, and clicked it. black.

Xiao Liu, who took the phone and stared blankly at Gu Xien's actions, said with fear: "Gu Gong, you can just tell me about the problems on the project, you don't need to talk to Mr. Shen directly, he is the big leader after all."

Gu Xien glanced at him, and Xiao Liu suddenly felt as if he was in an ice cave, so he heard him say: "That would be great, if you, Mr. Shen, call you later and want to find me, just say so." Speaking of this, after a pause, Gu Xien said again: "Manager Liu, I may have to leave an hour early today, and I have something to deal with."

Xiao Liu, who had originally arranged to work overtime tonight, had no choice but to nod in agreement under Gu Xien's low-pressure aura, "Okay, okay, no problem."

Throughout the afternoon, Shen Bai clearly felt the intensity of his eyelids twitching to the point where he, who has always been a materialist, could no longer ignore it.After being hung up by Gu Xien, he wanted to call right away, but he was really excited at the time, and his rationality told him that he must calm down first to calm down his emotions quickly.And the reason why I was so excited was that at that moment, not only the matter of Chen Nali, but also the matter of accidentally hearing the name of a strange man from the drunk Gu Xien came to mind .

He obviously heard the name by accident, but he couldn't let it go after such a long time, and before that, Shen Bai never knew that he had such a physique of a jealous king.Immediately afterwards, he was interrupted by the afternoon meeting with Boss Wang. Shen Bai put his mobile phone in the office and did not carry it with him, so he didn't see the five missed calls from Xiao Liu on the mobile phone until he came back from the meeting after five o'clock. Telephone.

The eyelids that had been beating all afternoon beat the gong and drum again, and Shen Bai, who was inexplicably upset, quickly called Xiao Liu back. The ring rang for a long time before Xiao Liu answered it. When it came to the stormy reprimand from the leader of his own family.

"Why did it take so long to pick up? What did you do?"

Xiao Liu, who was missed five calls by his leader, apologized repeatedly: "I'm sorry, Mr. Shen, I just went to the construction site, it was quite noisy, and I didn't hear the phone ringing."

Shen Bai asked straight to the point: "What do you want from me? Also, is Gu Gong beside you?"

"Oh, I'm going to tell you this." Hearing Xiao Liu's words, Shen Bai's heart sank suddenly, and as expected, he heard Xiao Liu go on to say: "Mr. Gu left early more than an hour ago." , said that there is something to deal with, and I can't force it to stay."

Shen Bai's heart skipped a beat, and he asked persistently: "What did he say he was going to do?"

"Gu Gong didn't say anything, but he seemed a little unhappy."

Shen Bai hung up the phone with a snap, and suddenly got up from the chair.

He probably already guessed Gu Xien's intentions in his heart, leaving more than an hour earlier, staggering the normal off-duty time, he is definitely going back to pack his things and run away from home.

Shen Bai used the speed of a [-]-meter sprint, and under the stunned gaze of everyone in the company, stepped on the shiny pointed leather shoes, rushed all the way into the elevator and down to the garage, and drove home in a hurry.

Gu Xien arrived home around five o'clock, and he had a premonition that Xiao Liu would definitely report to Shen Bai, so he speeded up and packed his things out of Shen Bai's daily utensils and wardrobe.

While tidying up, Gu Xien repeatedly questioned himself in his mind, which string in his head was wrong, which made him want to be with a man who was so straight that his cancer was hopeless, and even fantasized about it. For a lifetime.

Fuck him for the rest of his life, Gu Xien buckled the suitcase hard, thinking angrily that a straight man with cancer should live with his right hand for the rest of his life.

Gu Xien pulled the suitcase and walked quickly to the elevator entrance. He was about to reach out to press the elevator, but when the elevator ding-dong sounded, Gu Xien's heart skipped a beat.Unexpectedly, when the elevator door opened, Zhong Li's figure appeared in front of him. Seeing Gu Xien, he was happy first, and then he saw Gu Xien carrying luggage in his hand, and hurried out and asked, "Are you leaving? Where's Shen Bai?"

Gu Xien rushed up to block the elevator door that was about to close, and answered her: "I have something urgent to go back to my hometown, Shen Bai is at work."

Zhong Li also followed into the elevator again, and said regretfully, "Well, I still want to ask you out this weekend, so when will you come back?"

Gu Xi'en glanced at her, did not answer her question, but asked her instead: "What are you doing on the [-]th floor?"

Zhong Li choked for a moment, his eyes wandered, and he said falteringly, "That... I pressed the wrong floor..."

"The seventeenth floor is the last one on the left, and the eighteenth floor is the first one on the right. Why did you press it wrong?"

Zhong Li couldn't go on acting anymore, she raised her hands in surrender and admitted: "I'll do whatever I want, it was Shen Bai who called me just now to stop you, saying that you two had a quarrel and you were going to run away from home."

Gu Xien was silent, and Zhong Li became a little anxious when the elevator was going down all the way. When it was about to arrive, Gu Xien said again: "It's not a quarrel, it's a breakup."

As soon as the words were finished, the elevator reached the first floor. Gu Xien picked up his luggage, turned his head and said to Zhong Li, who was stimulated by his breaking up, "Go back."

Zhong Li stomped her feet anxiously, but did not dare to forcefully stop him, and hurriedly asked, "But...why..."

"Probably my brain is sick." Gu Xien said with a sudden smile.

"Ah?" Zhong Li was at a loss, and heard him continue: "I'm only with him if I have a sick mind."

As soon as Shen Bai's car drove to the gate of the community, he received a call from Zhong Li, who said anxiously and guiltily, "Gu Xi'en has already left, I didn't stop him!"

Shen Bai frowned deeply, and hurriedly asked, "Where have you been?"

"Just left, you should have left the community by now. Where have you been?"

Hearing Zhong Li's words, Shen Bai immediately put down his phone and opened the car door to search around. After a while, he saw Gu Xi'en, who was dragging his luggage, reaching out to hail a taxi on the side of the road not far away.

Shen Bai jumped out of the car and chased after him. Seeing that a taxi had already stopped in front of Gu Xien, Gu Xien went around and put the suitcase in. In desperation, Shen Bai stretched out his hand and shouted: "Gu Xien, You stop for me—”

Seeing that it was him, Gu Xien quickly buckled the trunk, opened the car door and got in very quickly, and urged the driver: "Master, drive quickly."

The driver naturally noticed Shen Bai who was chasing him, he was a little confused for a moment, but he couldn't ignore what the passenger said, so he was just about to step on the accelerator and walk away, when Shen Bai's tall figure flashed over outside, directly blocking the taxi. car front.

"This..." The driver turned his head and looked at Gu Xien in embarrassment. Shen Bai had already quickly moved to the rear door and slapped the window glass vigorously.

Driver master: "...This, if the filming is broken, you will have to pay for it."

Gu Xi'en: "..." He had no choice but to open the car door, and just as he was about to speak, Shen Bai bent down and squeezed his tall body in.

Gu Xien was caught off guard by his body, and he leaned back, about to fall under the seat, Shen Baiyan quickly grabbed his body and pulled him back.

Gu Xien, who was still in shock, was angry and annoyed. Before he could speak, Shen Bai preemptively frowned, looked at him and asked, "Why are you losing your temper?"

Gu Xien glanced at the pricked ears of the driver in front of him, gritted his teeth and said in a low voice, "Can you not be ashamed?"

"Then you go back with me." Shen Bai threatened.

"Go back and be scolded by you?"

Shen Bai was aggrieved and surprised: "How dare I scold you?"

"Did you say attracting bees and butterflies?"

"Is attracting bees and butterflies a curse?"

"Why is attracting bees and butterflies not cursing?"

"Two..." The driver in the front row looked back at them, and asked with a look of embarrassment but with excitement: "Are you guys filming a movie? Then am I an extra? Will there be shots? Shoot it out Which station is it broadcasting on?"

After seeing off the driver who was disappointed because of the broken actor's dream, Shen Bai dragged Gu Xien's suitcase and headed towards his own car. After walking for a short distance, looking back, Gu Xien was still standing there without moving.

Shen Bai dragged the suitcase and walked back, grabbed his arm and said, "Let's go home."

Gu Xien looked at him and said expressionlessly: "What home do you want to return to? People who attract bees and butterflies don't deserve a home."

Shen Bai's scalp felt numb all of a sudden, and he coaxed him sincerely: "Daughter-in-law, can't I be wrong?"

Gu Xien sighed suddenly, this sigh made Shen Bai's heart sink again, and the expression on his face at this moment also made Shen Bai feel strange and panicked.

The two stood like this and looked at each other without saying a word. After a long time, Gu Xien said again slowly: "Chen Bai, I am a man. Although I am curvy by nature, I also choose to be with you. Without sacrifice, the two of us are equal, and there is no one who owes the other."

Shen Bai immediately became anxious when he heard the words. He felt that Gu Xien might have misunderstood something, so he quickly denied it: "I'm not, I didn't..."

"Listen to me."

Shen Bai shut his mouth and kept silent, Gu Xien continued: "Since I sacrificed something in exchange for it, this relationship is also very precious to me. I cherish it as much as you do, and I hope it can be Live forever, you and I can be together forever, forever."

Shen Bai felt the heart in his chest, and it began to beat violently following Gu Xien's words.

"If there is a day when I propose to break up with you, it must be because our relationship will only cause pain to both of us, or it must be because you don't want to be with me anymore."

Gu Xien paused at this point, looked at Shen Bai quietly and suddenly smiled.

Shen Bai hesitated and asked suspiciously: "What are you laughing at?"

"I thought you were going to cut me off and say it wasn't going to happen one day."

Shen Bai: "I intuitively feel that this is a very dangerous sentence, and generally speaking it will not end well."

Gu Xien put his hands into his coat pockets, lowered his head and laughed softly.He raised his foot and kicked the sand on the ground, then raised his head again, the expression that made Shen Bai feel strange disappeared completely, and a vivid color appeared in his eyes, he raised his chin slightly, and raised the corners of his mouth to make a smile Deeper, "Okay, I'm hungry, let's eat."

Shen Bai breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. He approached, put his arms around Gu Xien's shoulders, and rubbed Gu Xien's hair, his eyes were full of tenderness: "Don't do this next time, you hit me when you are angry Scold me, just can't just run away from home without saying anything."

Two people and a suitcase moved forward slowly, the shadow left behind was dragged long by the street lights, the black Cayenne parked not far away was quietly waiting for the owner, and a little further away, the S In the late autumn night in the city, the neon lights are shining brightly, which is a scene of fireworks and glass in the world.