Dead but not stiff

When he was about to get off work, Shen Bai received a call from Jiang Yingyue who he hadn't contacted for a while.

"Let's have dinner together tonight."

"Don't eat." Shen Bai ruthlessly refused without hesitation.

"Who wants to eat with you? I want to see the one from your family in the legend." Jiang Yingyue didn't pretend to be a joke, and cut to the point with two sentences: "Is it the one who bumped into someone last time?"

Shen Bai: "Who bumped into someone?"

"His friend." Jiang Yingyue quickly changed his words.

"He's not available."

"Wow, how do you know no one else is available, you slut!"

"If I'm not free, he's not free."

"Shen Bai, you're so fucking boring. What's wrong with having a meal together? Can I still eat him? Am I not your best friend, checking the goods for you?"

"You don't need to come to check the goods." Shen Bai thought for a while, then changed his words and said: "It's okay to eat, but I remind you in advance, let's just eat, be careful when chatting, and leave after eating, no need to talk about renewing stalls in the bar."

"Are you kidding a student? Do you have to get home at nine o'clock in the evening and drink milk before going to bed?"

"Eat or not, it's better not to eat." Shen Bai was about to hang up the phone after speaking.

"Eat, eat, eat." Jiang Yingyue said hastily, "I'll decide the place, and I'll send you a WeChat message after I've made the decision. At seven o'clock in the evening, see you there~"

Not long after hanging up the phone, Jiang Yingyue sent over the location, Shen Bai checked that it was near the company, and he sent a WeChat message to Gu Xien.

Shen Bai: Daughter-in-law, I'll ask the driver to take you back to the company after work, and accompany me to have a meal with a friend.

Gu Xien quickly replied: What friend?

Shen Bai: The one you have seen is the one we first met.

Gu Xien: Oh.

Shen Bai:? ? ?Gu Xien, you have learned to be cold and violent now.

Gu Xi'en: ...Oh, it's a good idea. Is there a problem?

Shen Bai: Can't you be more lively?Is this the way you talk to your boyfriend?

After waiting for a long time there was no reply, Shen Bai put the phone back on the table sadly and disappointedly, but at this moment the phone vibrated again, Gu Xien replied a voice message.

Shen Bai opened it to his ears, and then heard Gu Xien's voice softly passed into his ears through the phone: "Okay."

Shen Bai slapped the phone on the table, leaned back in the chair, stared bitterly at the little brother between his legs who was as excited as his own heart at the moment, and repeatedly swiped the screen with a sentence in his heart: When the hell am I going to fuck him?

Staying in the office until almost six o'clock, Shen Bai opened the door and walked out. The little assistant had already left work, and several employees who were packing up their things to get off work saw Shen Bai, and sat back one by one silently.

Shen Bai walked briskly out with the car keys in hand, passed by the office cubicle at the end, and found that Fang Shi was still there.

He tapped on the table casually, "Let's go after work if you have nothing to do, there is no need to force overtime."

Fang Shi looked up to see him, nodded, and said obediently: "Mr. Shen, I'm going to leave now."

"En." Shen Bai stopped, said nothing more, turned around and walked straight out.

Fang Shi behind him showed a disappointed expression, but immediately regained his composure after a while, turned his gaze back to the computer in front of him, and opened the browser window.

There is a well-known forum logo printed on the webpage, and there is a post being opened at the moment, the name is Mr. S and I. Bit by bit.

The page stopped at the first floor of the latest update, with such a passage written on it.

Landlord: I made Mr. S angry today, but I was a little sad at first.At lunch time, I secretly bought some snacks and sent them to his office. He was eating alone. When he saw me coming in, he asked me if I had lunch with concern. When I answered no, Mr. S invited me to have lunch together.

XXX Building: This Mr. S is very attentive to the little brother of the landlord (laughs)

Building XXX: Mr. S is trying to guide you step by step.

XXX Building: It’s obvious. When we met for the first time, I helped the landlord’s little brother serve soup, and then let the little brother come to his company for an internship. This is obviously because he wants to get close to the water first~

Building XXX: Let’s take a gamble. When the number of floors is high, the host will reply: Thank you everyone, we are already together.

Building XXX: Emma, ​​the interaction between the building owner and his Mr. S is a bit cute. I believe in love again.

Fang Shi refreshed the webpage and watched everyone's replies one after another. The surging emotions in his heart beat his nerves like a rising tide.

It would be great if I could get to know Mr. Shen earlier, or if that person could be separated from Mr. Shen.

Jiang Yingyue was sitting on the sofa in the private room playing with her mobile phone, and when she heard the sound of the private room door being pushed open, she got up and stretched out her hand enthusiastically, past Shen Bai who was walking in front, and directly stretched out in front of Gu Xi'en: "I've been waiting for a long time."

Gu Xien raised his hand in astonishment and amused him, but was cut off by Shen Bai halfway, and directly protected him behind him, looked at Jiang Yingyue and said, "Don't shake hands, neuropathy is contagious."

"Look, I scared you." Jiang Yingyue didn't take it seriously, and he turned around and led the two of them to the table indifferently after trying to shake hands.Shen Bai looked around this magnificent box and the big round table with a diameter of two meters in front of him, twitched the corners of his mouth and said, "The three of us are so ostentatious? We have to shout when we sit a little farther away? Instead of doing this, why not Why don't you just watch the video at home and eat your own food?"

"It's the first time I've invited Xiao Gu to dinner. Why be a little more grand? And who said it's just the three of us, Tang Qi will come right away after going to the bathroom."

Shen Bai: "???"

As soon as the words fell, the door of the box was pushed open again by the waitress. She was dressed in a black suit and combed her hair back, as if Tang Qi had just passed through from the set of The Matrix. go in.However, the high-quality suit still can't suppress his arrogance and gangster spirit that breaks through the sky. Not only that, but it even perfectly blends the two opposite images of the elite and the hooligan.

The doors of the boxes in this restaurant are designed a bit low. Shen Bai's 1.8m 1.9's stature can barely touch the top of his head when he enters. Tang Qi's [-]m height is raised a few centimeters by his hairstyle. Fortunately, the waitress was there in time He yelled calmly: "Sir, be careful." It was only then that he noticed the problem of height, and he bent slightly, thus avoiding the crisis of being in close contact with the door frame.

Shen Bai sneered: "Boss Tang has applied so much hairspray, isn't it too heavy?"

Tang Qi chuckled: "There is no way you are tall, Mr. Shen, don't be jealous. If you are not convinced, you have to be reincarnated."

Shen Bai: "It's no wonder that the supply of the brain is insufficient, and the nutrients are used elsewhere. Boss Tang, are you right?"

Tang Qi: "There must always be someone who is good at one end and not enough at both ends, that would be too miserable. What do you think, Mr. Shen?"

Jiang Yingyue covered her mouth and moved closer to Gu Xien's ear, whispering to him: "It's always been like this, just get used to it."

Gu Xien pursed his lips and smiled, and answered him softly: "Didn't you plan to combine to talk about cross talk?"

"If there is another fight, it's okay to hurt yourself, but you will lose money if you hit the audience."

"...makes sense."

Shen Bai turned around and looked at the two who bowed their heads and bit their ears: "What are you two muttering about?"

Tang Qi walked over and pulled Jiang Yingyue away from Gu Xien, and said in a calm voice, "Come to my side."

Jiang Yingyue was carried to the seat opposite to Shen Gu and sat down like a chick. There was a huge round table, four people sat facing each other, and the atmosphere in the private room gradually became serious, making it difficult for people to come in and serve tea. The water waitresses and sisters couldn't stay any longer.

Jiang Yingyue slapped Tang Qi on the shoulder, grabbed the ashtray on the glass turntable and threw it in front of him, "Pinch the cigarette for me."

Tang Qi took a sharp puff, took down the cigarette butt, pressed it in the ashtray and pressed it out.

Jiang Yingyue rolled his eyes at him angrily, took the menu handed over by the waiter, put it on the turntable with a smile, turned it in front of Gu Xien and said to him: "You come first."

Gu Xien held up the menu, tilted his head and glanced at Shen Bai. Shen Bai was staring at his wife routinely. Seeing this, he grabbed the menu without hesitation, flipped through five or six pages, and ordered more than a dozen items in one breath. , and the price of each dish is not less than three digits, and some of them are even four digits.

Jiang Yingyue patted the table: "Shen Bai, are you a fucking rich man here?"

Shen Bai: "I still feel sorry for the money when I treat guests? Is Boss Tang bankrupt? If that's the case, I'll treat you this meal."

Tang Qi held Jiang Yingyue's hand: "Let him order, and if he can't finish eating, give him a package to take away."

Shen Bai crossed his legs, continued to order leisurely, and added two more soups, three snacks and four fruit platters. Gu Xien took the menu from his hand, frowned slightly and said to him: "You can do it If you don’t care about the money, you should also care about the food.” Then he turned to the waitress next to him and handed her the menu: “I don’t want the ones I ordered just now, and I’ll help the kitchen to serve the food faster, thank you.”

After sending off the waitress who took the order, Shen Bai asked Gu Xien considerately: "Are you hungry? You've already urged the kitchen to serve the food quickly."

Gu Xi'en: "Use your mouth when you eat and talk. Serve the food quickly so that you don't talk less."

Shen Bai: "..."

Jiang Yingyue almost spit out a sip of tea. He put down his teacup and slapped the table furiously, laughing loudly without regard for his image: "Hahaha, Shen Bai, you fucking have today too! Gu Xi'en, you're doing well. That's it. If you hate him to death, this person is in debt, if you don't hate him for a day, if you don't hate him for three days, you will forget who your father is."

Following up on what he just said, Shen Bai called out abruptly: "Son."

Jiang Yingyue, who hadn't reacted yet, looked at him in confusion: "Huh?"

Shen Bai raised his teacup to Tang and prayed: "Good son-in-law."

Jiang Yingyue slapped the table in a rage and stood up: "Fuck you—"

Tang Qi pushed him back to his seat again, turned his gaze to Gu Xien, smiled and asked, "Mr. Shen, won't you introduce me first?"

Shen Bai raised his eyebrows and chuckled, and said slowly, "I thought that Jiang Yingyue had just talked for a long time, so I basically didn't need my introduction. But since Mr. Tang's brain is not very bright, then I will introduce it again."

He took Gu Xien into his arms, and said to the two people opposite him: "My wife, Gu Xien, if there is no accident, she will be her for the rest of her life. Please take care of her in the future. But you two don't need to take care of her. I'll be polite."

After listening to his introduction, Tang Qi refused to comment, but turned to look at Jiang Yingyue, and seriously asked for confirmation: "I vaguely remember that Shen is always straight."

Jiang Yingyue nodded: "And he's a straight steel man who has been solo for 30 years."

Tang Qi: "Is this bent?"

Jiang Yingyue: "It's more curved than the eighteen bends of the mountain road."

Shen Bai on the opposite side picked up his teacup and knocked on the edge of the turntable, "Can you keep the secrets of the husband and wife's boudoir and go home and say that there are outsiders here."

Tang Qi ignored Shen Bai, but looked at Gu Xien carefully. Suddenly, his brows were slightly furrowed, and after a while, they were relaxed, replaced by a very faint smile on the corner of his mouth, and he asked casually: "Is it Gu Xien? Are we here?" Where have you seen it?"

Shen Bai & Jiang Yingyue: "???"

Jiang Yingyue raised her leg under the table, kicked Tang Qi hard, and said angrily, "You fucking hook up with people regardless of occasion? What are you talking about!"

Shen Bai narrowed his eyes slightly, slowly tightened his fists on the table, stared at Tang Qi and said with a nonchalant smile: "Tang Qi, I only give you one chance to say something wrong, please organize it again." language."

Tang Qi suddenly laughed twice, spread his hands to the two people who burst into anger at the same time and said: "I just said that I seem to have seen it somewhere, why are you so excited? In business, at a friend's dinner, or simply Even on the plane, on the street with people coming and going, these are all possible. Doesn’t Mr. Gu, a person who is so charming and easy to see, have the qualifications to make people unforgettable?”

Before Jiang Yingyue could say anything, Shen Bai was already in full swing. He stood up suddenly, stared fiercely at Tang Qi's face, gritted his teeth and said, "Tang Qi, I don't want to be rough in public, but if you fucking If you dare to say a single word, I will let you walk out from here today."

Tang Qi sneered twice, but finally closed his mouth and stopped talking.

Gu Xien, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke. He first said softly to Shen Bai who was in a state of rage: "Okay, you sit down first." Then he turned to Tang Qi, smiled politely, and said to him: "I should How should I call you? Tang Qi, or Boss Tang? Thank you for your absurd praise, but I can’t bear such a vocabulary. Where did it go wrong, offended you unintentionally, and you couldn't let go of it until today."

Tang Qi smiled back and shook his head. Gu Xi'en continued: "I can't remember the past. Now because of the relationship between Shen Bai and Shen Bai, the relationship still needs to be maintained. Therefore, I also ask Boss Tang to let go of the past, so that each other can feel at ease. , I thank you in advance."

Tang Qi finally burst out laughing. He turned to Shen Bai, saw that the other party was still looking at him with an ashen expression, and cupped his hands to him, saying, "Mr. Shen is really lucky. This Mr. Gu is a wonderful person. You can tell me what you mean." Cherish it well."

Shen Bai endured it for a while, and finally smiled angrily: "That's natural, you need to teach me? A person who can't even control his own lower body, what face is there to dictate other people's lives."

"Shen Bai!" Jiang Yingyue suddenly called out in a high voice. Under the eyes of several people looking over, he turned slightly pale, took a deep breath, and said to the waiter who had been waiting at the door for a long time: "Come in and serve the food." .”

Just as the few people were talking, the dishes had already been served one after another, but the waiter saw the tense atmosphere in the room, so he waited outside the door and dared not enter.

The atmosphere gradually eased during the serving process. Tang Qi aimed directly at the largest crab claws on the plate of king crabs, but was slapped back by Jiang Yingyue on the way, and scolded: "Are you a starving ghost reincarnated?"

Tang Qi withdrew his hand, his expression a bit daring to say anything, when he said it was too late, then Shen Bai quickly got up, his hands were like the wind and lightning, his movements were swift and sharp, and the target was clear. When the two people on the opposite side reacted, the crab claw It has already landed perfectly on the plate in front of Gu Xien.

"Daughter-in-law, come here, eat some crab meat to relieve anger."

Tang Qi slapped the table, pointed at Shen Bai and said angrily to Jiang Yingyue: "I'm fucking—"

Jiang Yingyue stopped Tang Qi's hand, patted him on the back, and said in relief, "Hey, let's order one and take it away."

In the following time, Jiang Yingyue contracted two-thirds of the entire vocabulary alone, and his counterparts were Shen Bai, who was fighting with him, Tang Qi, who was beaten and scolded by him, and the two former partners who complained. Gu Xien, who is black with each other.

After finishing the dishes, Jiang Yingyue, who has recently become obsessed with pounding flowers and plants, went directly to sit next to Gu Xien, and asked him for tips on how to successfully raise cacti.

Tang Qi lit a cigarette and threw another one to Shen Bai. Under Jiang Yingyue's glare, the two left the box together, walked to the water pavilion in the backyard of the hotel, and chatted about business while puffing.

"What happened to Boss Wang last time, what happened to you?"

"Still evaluating." Shen Bai flicked the cigarette ash and replied casually.

"Oh, I heard Boss Wang said that he was about to be driven crazy by a female titan under your command. If he was bitten to death, he would pay [-]% to [-]%. You really can't eat people like bones."

"Who doesn't want to make a profit in business? If he really felt that he was at a disadvantage, he would have been unable to negotiate."

Tang Qi snorted and continued: "This Boss Wang, to put it bluntly, is a scumbag. I am on good terms with his elder brother, and this time it was his elder brother who asked me to help me establish a connection. His current company was originally a scumbag. His wife, this person is very good at coaxing women. After a few years of marriage, he coaxed people to transfer the ownership of the company to him. As a result, he turned around and kicked his ex-wife with his mistress, causing her to have a mental breakdown, depression, and suicide. It’s been on social news for a while.”

Shen Bai only sneered twice and refused to comment.

"Later, the company was in his hands, and his reputation was so bad. Although the business was profitable, the businessmen had a bottom line. Some business partners who had made good friends with his wife before, those who withdrew their capital, those who broke the contract, and even the newly built ones The sales of the real estate are extremely bleak. The company has been losing money year after year, and the invested funds cannot be returned, so the land in its hands can only be abandoned. His brother couldn't stand it, so he asked me to help him think of a way, and I introduced him to about you."

After Tang Qi finished speaking, he lit another cigarette, took a puff in his mouth and said, "I've finished telling the story, it's up to you how to do it. But I also want to remind you that although Boss Wang is the biggest boss in the company now, Shareholders, but I heard that some people are already buying scattered shares in private, and it is not known whether this business can still be done after the situation is changed.”

Shen Bai threw the cigarette butt into the ashtray on top of the trash can next to him, turned his head and glanced at him and said, "Are you helping me or cheating me?"

"Wealth and wealth are sought in insurance, how can doing business go smoothly all the time."

"Is there any more smoke?"

Tang Qi glanced at Shen Bai with contempt, took out a half box of Marlboro from his trousers pocket, stuffed the lighter into it and threw it to him together, "Mr. Shen is so poor that he can't afford to smoke?"

Shen Bai took it, and said while lighting a cigarette: "I'm not addicted to this stuff, and I don't want to think about it if I don't smoke. I was brought by you today. Besides, I've been busy chasing people recently, how can I smell like cigarettes?"

Tang Qi chuckled, but he heard that Shen Bai suddenly remembered something, and asked him: "At that time you said you met Gu Xi'en, what did you mean?"

Tang Qi lowered his head and flicked the cigarette ash, looked up at Shen Bai, and said in a serious tone: "I really saw him."

With a solemn expression, Shen Bai asked, "When?"

"Three years ago, in City C, a rich second-generation local had a birthday party. I asked his father for business matters, so I went too. The party lasted from noon to night, and then the elders continued After they all left, the group of dandies began to let themselves go, and then they led a group of people out, a bunch of handsome men and women, among them was Gu Xien."

Shen Bai's face became darker and darker with Tang Qi's words, and his breathing gradually became heavy.

Tang Qi didn't see it, and continued to say: "He was too eye-catching at the time, he was a little thinner than now, and he looked better than girls in the crowd. Do you know how I recognized him?" Tang Qi turned his head Looking at Shen Bai's livid face, he pointed to the corner of his eye: "He has a mole here, which is too eye-catching." He looked at Shen Bai, took a deep breath, and continued, "That rich second generation took a fancy to him at that time. Now, no matter how courteous others are, I only want him to accompany you."

"Fuck me!" Shen Bai kicked over the trash can, clenched his fists and stared at Tang Qi with red eyes and asked, "Who is that dog than the rich second generation? Is he still alive?"

Tang Qi smiled: "Is it useful for you to be angry with this Chen Zhima rotten millet now? You listen to me. Later I found out that he seemed to be tricked there by someone, and he didn't know what would happen, so he rejected that After the rich second generation, he seemed to sense something was wrong and wanted to leave. Those people naturally refused, so he overturned several tables, even knocked down the champagne tower beside him, injured several people, and made a big fuss He took advantage of the commotion and ran away. The rich second generation originally wanted to find someone to mess with him, but he was locked up at home for more than half a year because of the incident at the banquet, and then sent abroad. This thing is over.”

Tang Qi looked at Shen Bai's slightly relaxed expression, and said with a chuckle, "So I said, this Gu Xi'en is a wonderful person, he looks thin and frail, but if he really makes a fuss, I'm afraid even you will be shocked .”

Shen Bai stabilized his mood, and said in a deep voice: "What's the name of that rich second generation?"

Tang Qi didn't mind telling him, "Just Li Huan, the son of the richest man in the Li family in City C."

"What did you say his name was?" Shen Bai's suddenly raised voice startled Tang Qi, and he frowned and repeated: "Li Huan, Muzi Li, Huan with a new look."

He looked at Shen Bai suspiciously: "What? Do you really know him?"

Shen Bai's face was livid and gloomy, and the red blood that had just disappeared from his eyes surged up again, and he said in a stiff voice, "No, I know, I know."