Dead but not stiff

Gu Xien and Jiang Yingyue added WeChat to each other, so they spent all their spare time harassing him. Gu Xien never refused to come. He would reply to Jiang Yingyue's messages when he had time to work during the day. When he got home from work at night, he would never leave his mobile phone to chat. fiery.

Finally, one time, it was past eleven o'clock at night, and Shen Bai asked him three times in a row if he wanted to take a bath and go to bed, but Gu Xien turned a deaf ear to it, and just hugged the phone and typed quickly.

Shen Bai couldn't bear it anymore, rushed over and snatched the phone, and complained angrily: "Gu Xi'en, haven't you gone too far recently!"

Gu Xien raised his head and looked at him innocently: "Huh?"

Shen Bai tapped his fingers on the screen of the phone, and said tearfully, "Look for yourself, chatting so much with outsiders and not saying a word to your boyfriend, isn't that too much?"

Gu Xi'en explained patiently: "No, Jiang Yingyue bought a few more pots of crabapple yesterday, and I don't know how to raise them. This is asking me."

Shen Bai: "What's wrong with raising flowers? Is he mentally retarded?"

Gu Xien shook his head and continued to explain: "Flowers and plants are actually not easy to grow, and there is a lot of knowledge in them."

Shen Bai was angry in his heart, but he couldn't bear to blame Gu Xi'en, and finally said simply: "That's good! In this case, we will also go to the flower and bird market to buy some flowers on weekends, and we will fill our balcony with flowers when we come back. If he harass you again, you can say You are too busy growing flowers to talk to him!"

Gu Xien burst out laughing, looked at Shen Bai and said helplessly, "You're too jealous, aren't you?"

Shen Bai argued hard: "Is this a matter of jealousy? This is defending family unity."

"Okay, okay." Gu Xien stood up from the sofa, took the phone from Shen Bai's hand, and asked again in a serious tone: "But you just said that buying flowers, does it count?"

Shen Bai: "Forget it."

Gu Xien smiled brightly, and said while walking towards the bedroom: "Okay."

The more Shen Bai thought about it, the more something was wrong, Gu Xien must have been overjoyed, as if he had planned it long ago.He chased up and held Gu Xien's shoulder, forcing him to stop, and asked him, "Did you do it on purpose?"

Gu Xian turned to look at him and blinked: "What's on purpose?"

"Deliberately chatted with Jiang Yingyue about planting flowers, and said that planting flowers is a lot of knowledge. In fact, you have been eyeing our balcony for a long time, and you are just waiting for me to fall into your trap?"

Gu Xien, who was seen through, didn't quibble, but lowered his head, and whispered something as if he was a little embarrassed: "I just think...it's too wasteful not to plant anything on such a big balcony."

Shen Bai looked at his shy and coy look, which was rare, and finally couldn't hold back. He pulled him into his arms, put his chin on his forehead, and sighed: "Why do you want to please me so much? Do you like it? Gu Xien, it is really worth it for me to meet you in my life. "

Faced with this sudden nasty confession, Gu Xien: "..."

Shen Bai, who kept his word, took Gu Xien to a large flower and bird market in S city on weekends. The two spent a whole morning in it. Strictly speaking, it should be Shen Bai who was led by Gu Xien to stroll there for a whole morning. morning.Seeing him pick and choose, he consulted and discussed with the flower grower, and finally picked out peony, crabapple, spider plant and several kinds of flowers that Shen Bai couldn't name, and the two of them had a meal outside by the way, Gu Xien hurried back to pound flowers , The two of them took the flower delivery master back home with a cart full of flowers and plants.

After arriving home, Gu Xien didn't even have time to take off his coat after changing his shoes, so he hurriedly called the master to carry flowers to the balcony.Here, there, and here, he instructed the master how to place it, while Shen Bai stood aside and watched quietly, and gradually he felt a sense of the tranquility of the years in the world.

The master who helped to carry carried the things to the balcony as instructed by Xi En, and then left. The rest of the work was naturally Gu Xi En's.Only then did he think of taking off his coat, Shen Bai walked over and stopped him from unbuttoning, "Don't take it off, the temperature on the balcony is low, you should wear it."

"Hey," Gu Xien's excited expression was rare for Shen Bai, and his eyes seemed to be shining. He said to Shen Bai, "then help me get the newly bought apron and gloves."

Shen Bai ordered, honestly went to the living room to get things, and when he came back, he moved a chair, and said to him: "You sit and do it, and your legs will be sore after standing for a while."

This side helped Gu Xien to set things up, Shen Bai went back and dragged a chair, sat on the side and watched Gu Xien make arrangements.

When Gu Xien looked up and saw him staring at him intently, he raised his eyebrows and asked deliberately: "Aren't you here to help?"

Shen Bai admitted generously: "I can't get this, if I get killed, you will make trouble with me again."

Gu Xien was too lazy to argue with him, so he changed the subject and said, "You still said that Jiang Yingyue is mentally retarded, don't you know it yourself?"

Shen Bai: "That's different. I know I'm not good at it, so I won't make trouble for myself. That bastard Jiang Yingyue is obviously not good at it, but she still likes to ask for blows. If it's not mental retardation, what is it?"

"Yes, yes, you are the most reasonable."

Shen Bai raised his legs and was not modest at all: "That's not true, and I don't want to see whose boyfriend it is."

Gu Xian lowered his head with a smile, and continued to fiddle with the work in his hands. Suddenly he felt the phone vibrating in his pocket, and he raised his arms to signal Shen Bai: "Help me answer the phone."

Shen Bai walked over and reached out to take out Gu Xien's mobile phone, and saw that the caller ID was Huang Yiwen, Gu Xien said without hesitation: "You can turn on the speakerphone, I have my hand in it."

Shen Bai smiled silently, and did as he was told.

As soon as the phone was connected, Huang Yiwen's clear voice came out: "Gu Xi'en, are you still in City S?"

Gu Xien replied to him: "Yes, what's the matter?"

"Then you don't want to play with me. Let me tell you, my Tong Tong is going on a business trip to another province this week, and I'm going to die of loneliness. You didn't contact me in the end. I thought you had returned to City C."

"No, I'll let you know when I get back."

"Then you don't contact me, oh, you know your Mr. Shen?"

Gu Xien glanced at Shen Bai, and rarely shyly denied: "No..."

Shen Bai laughed softly at the side, Huang Yiwen, who had sharp ears, heard it immediately, and shouted loudly: "You still said no, it's clearly at the side."

Gu Xien glared at Shen Bai, and mouthed to him: Shut up.

Then I heard Huang Yiwen continue to say: "So, this means that you two are officially living together?"

Gu Xian paused and said, "Is that so..."

Huang Yiwen clicked his tongue, and asked an important question without hesitation, but one couldn't answer it for a while.

"What about Shen Bai's parents, will they agree?"

Seeing Shen Bai's froze expression, Gu Xien looked away, and said to Huang Yiwen, "I'll talk about it later."

Huang Yiwen chased after him: "If you want me to say, you are both adults, and you are still hiding what you are doing, why don't you just hold hands and go to a showdown with his parents, if you can, if you can't, then think of a way. Look at me—— —”

"Stop talking." Gu Xien blocked his words, took off his gloves and took the phone from Shen Bai's hand, his expression was a little angry, "Not everyone's parents are like Tong Ying's parents, who can withstand the sudden change of their child's sexual orientation hit."

Huang Yiwen knew that his words were inappropriate, so he laughed a few times, and justified himself: "It's just a matter of trying to be sincere?" Then he raised his voice and said to Shen Bai next to him: "Mr. Shen, are you right?"

Shen Bai smiled, and didn't answer Huang Yiwen's words, but rubbed Gu Xien's hair and said to him: "You do it first, I'll go to the study, and we'll have dinner when it's time."

Gu Xien looked at him and nodded, and when Shen Bai's shadow disappeared from sight, Gu Xien said to Huang Yiwen in a serious tone: "Don't be so childish."

Huang Yiwen asked angrily, "Is he angry?"

Gu Xian paused and said, "No."

Huang Yiwen hurriedly remedied: "I'm just joking, you help me say sorry to Shen Bai."

A trace of hesitation flashed in Gu Xien's eyes, and he said, "No, he's not that narrow-minded."

After hanging up Huang Yiwen's phone call, Gu Xi'en still stood there, staring down at the half-planted potted plants on the ground. The roots of the plants were mixed with the soil, and the ground was in a mess, a bit like his mood at the moment.He couldn't tell what it was like, feeling lost or anxious, he just stared at it for a few seconds before sitting down again and continuing to deal with the plants on the ground waiting to be transplanted into new pots.

Gu Xien, who had completely emptied his mind from his work, didn't pay attention to the passage of time at all. When he was almost done, he straightened up and stretched his back. When he looked up, he realized that the sky outside the balcony window was just a gilded twilight.

It turned out to be already evening.Just as Gu Xien confirmed such information in his mind, he heard a sound behind him, Shen Bai walked over with his slippers on, and saw a row of newly potted green plants neatly stacked by Gu Xien beside the balcony wall, There was undisguised surprise and praise on his face: "You are too capable, aren't you?" He clicked his tongue twice, and commented with a smile: "My wife is really amazing."

Gu Xi'en, a working man, turned a deaf ear to Shen Bai's rarity and strangeness. He took off his gloves and stood up. Unexpectedly, his legs were a little numb from sitting for a long time, and his body staggered, and he was about to fall backwards.Shen Bai dashed forward to hug him, and after helping him to stand still, his face was full of narrowness and intimacy: "Are you implying something by throwing yourself into your arms like this?"

Gu Xian turned around, stuffed the gloves and apron into his arms, patted the back of his hand and said, "I suggest you wash these."

Shen Bai looked puzzled: "How do I wash these things? Aren't they disposable?"

The two of them tidied up and went out for dinner. When the elevator went down to the seventeenth floor and the door opened, they ran into Zhong Li again.

She was dressed in a casual style, with sneakers and a high ponytail. She was carrying a backpack and a DSLR around her neck. When she saw Shen and Gu in the elevator, her eyes were filled with surprise, and she said excitedly: "You two and Gu Are you ready?"

Gu Xien nodded in embarrassment, but Shen Bai said nonchalantly: "It's just fun between husband and wife..."

Gu Xian: "...you shut up."

Zhong Li nodded like a pounding garlic, looking very excited and happy.

Shen Bai stared at her attire, and asked suspiciously: "Where are you going this evening?"

Zhong Li let out a cry, and looked carefully at Gu Xien, who smiled at her, and she answered Shen Bai's question as if she had been given the courage to continue: "I'll pick you up at the airport. , My idol will arrive at City S at ten o'clock tonight to participate in a sponsor's event."

Shen Bai nodded clearly, followed her words and asked casually: "What's the name of that child you like?"

"...Huang Jingzhi." Zhong Li hesitantly observed Gu Xien's expression.

"Oh..." Shen Bai suddenly realized, "Speaking of it," he turned his head and said to Gu Xi'en, "You were watching this girl's idol on TV that day, right? I remember she said that you two look alike."

"Hmm." Gu Xien lowered his head and stared at the ground, with an attitude of not wanting to continue the chat at all.

"Ah! We're here!" The elevator arrived at the garage on the first floor in good time, and Zhong Li waved to the two of them, "Then I'll go first, bye~"

Shen Bai waved Zhong Li goodbye, and wrapped his other hand around Gu Xien's shoulder very naturally. As the two of them walked out of the elevator, they heard him ask briskly, "What do you want to eat?"

"Anything is fine." Gu Xien replied lightly.

"The scope of everything is relatively wide." Shen Bai said pretending to be distressed, raised his wrist to look at the time, and said with a smile: "Then how about going to eat your hometown food in City C? I know there is one, the taste It’s quite authentic, and I took my parents there to eat a few times before.”

If Shen Bai knew in advance that he would happen to meet his parents and Wu's father and daughter in that restaurant where he took his parents to eat a few times before, he would not take Gu Xi'en to visit there.

However, regret medicine is hard to buy in the world, and when Shen Bai and Gu Xien were led up to the second floor by the waiter, they heard a familiar voice calling out his name wrapped in surprise and excitement.

"Shen Bai?"

The two turned their heads at the same time, and Shen Bai's face suddenly became extremely ugly. Wu Jiaying, who was standing up and beckoning to him, and Shen's mother who turned her head to look at him suddenly looked very embarrassed, and Shen's father who looked at him expressionlessly. It was weird and dignified for a while.

After reacting, Shen's mother hurriedly got up, and explained to Shen Bai awkwardly and anxiously: "My father and I invited you Uncle Wu and Jiaying to have a meal in private, which can be regarded as an apology for what happened last time. Don't think too much about it." ah."

Wu Jiaying took Shen's mother's words generously, and said with guilt on her face: "I'm sorry Shen Bai, what happened last time... I did something wrong. I didn't care about your feelings at all. I acted willfully and recklessly. , you reject me—"

Shen Bai interrupted her in time, and said heavily: "Okay, don't talk about it, since this is the case, you can eat yours, and I won't bother you."

Shen's father scolded angrily: "You kid still kicked your nose on your face, didn't you?"

Wu Jiaying stopped Shen's father, shifted her eyes to Gu Xi'en next to her, glanced away and then moved away, and said with a smile: "Since we met, it's better to be together, Shen Bai, you don't have to worry, I have already accepted the reality .”

Shen's mother waved her hand: "Oh, forget it, Xiao Gu is here, it's not good to let colleagues have dinner with us, maybe they still have work matters to talk about."

During the verbal games played by several people, Gu Xien has basically heard nine out of ten. Before contacting him, Shen Bai deliberately avoided going home alone. The Wu Jiaying in front of him is probably Shen Bai's parents. The blind date arranged for Shen Bai may be a prospective fiancee or something.

But obviously, Shen Bai refused.

Gu Xi'en smiled silently, turned to Shen Bai and said, "Everyone is here, let's go together."

Shen Bai had an expression on Gu Xien's face that you don't want to make trouble, but Gu Xien had already turned his head and said to the waiter who ushered them in, "The guests at this table have just arrived, and now we are joining two tables into one. Are there any private rooms?"

The waiter nodded repeatedly, and stretched out his hand to guide the direction of the box: "There are some, this way please."

After taking the seat, Shen's mother was obviously still a little embarrassed, Shen's father was too lazy to talk to Shen Bai, and very consciously ran to sit in the innermost chief seat, and called his old friend Wu's father to sit beside him.Wu Jiaying looked at Shen Bai and Gu Xi'en who were sitting next to Shen's mother with piercing eyes, with a half-smile expression on her face.

Shen Bai took the menu handed over by the waiter, cleared his throat and asked everyone: "Does anyone have any taboos?"

Shen's father yelled: "Let Jiaying order."

Shen Bai handed the menu to Shen's mother next to him, "Then mom, order."

Shen's mother took the menu, glanced at Shen Bai complainingly, and suddenly realized something, then handed the menu to Gu Xien, and kicked the ball to the one who she thought was the least likely to cause a war among the group. bit.

"Let's go, Xiao Gu."

Gu Xien took the menu, ordered two signature dishes with a natural expression, then handed them to Wu Jiaying who was opposite, and said to her with a smile: "You can do the rest."

Wu Jiaying glanced at him in surprise and cautiously, then said, "Thank you."

Father Shen angrily threw a sentence at Shen Bai at the side: "Look at Xiao Gu, and look at you, you don't know how to respect girls at all."

Shen Bai: "..."

Shen's mother quickly took the conversation, looked at Gu Xi'en with a smile and said, "Yes, Xiao Gu is a very well-bred child."

Shen Bai said very winkingly: "Then I will study more like Xiao Gu in the future."

Shen's mother gave him a reproachful look: "It's a good thing you know this."

Wu Jiaying's face was a little green because of the menu.

The waiter came in to serve tea, Wu Jiaying asked the elders for their opinions, and then ordered all the remaining dishes.

While waiting for the food to be served, Shen's mother finally opened up the chatterbox and continued to chat with Gu Xien.

Wu Jiaying, who was supposed to be the protagonist of the dinner, turned green and then pale, and finally found the opportunity to intervene.

"Mr. Gu is so outstanding, your wife must be very happy?" Wu Jiaying looked at Gu Xien and smiled lightly.

Gu Xien paused while drinking water, put down his teacup, and politely said to Wu Jiaying: "No, I'm still single."

"Oh, are you talking about a girlfriend?"

Shen Bai looked at Wu Jiaying, and said coldly: "Miss Wu is here to check her household registration?"

"Just chatting casually about family affairs." Wu Jiaying looked at Shen Bai, with a sense of grievance and innocence in her eyes: "Do you dislike everything I say and do because you don't like me?"

"You are the one who wants to join the table for dinner, and you are the one who can't bear it now and feels wronged. Are you preparing to debut, Ms. Wu? You are so skilled in acting?"

"Shut up!" Shen's father stared at Shen Bai and scolded, Shen's mother then patted Shen Bai, and then scolded: "You are going to die, child, you just said that you want to learn from Xiao Gu, but after a while, you found out again Prototype."

Seeing his daughter being treated like this, Father Wu was also a little annoyed. He stood up and said to Father Shen, "I'm sorry, old buddy, we can't get on with your child, and we don't want to keep in touch with you anymore. I don't think we need to eat this meal. Eating makes you more anxious." After saying that, he took Wu Jiaying's arm and prepared to leave.

"Dad..." Wu Jiaying called her father pleadingly, looked up at him and said, "It's okay, I did something wrong earlier, and it's human nature for Shen Bai to have opinions on me. How long have you and Uncle Shen been together?" Old friend, don't break up your friendship because of us juniors."

"Old Wu, don't be angry, he is that virtuous, come back and sit down." Father Shen greeted Father Wu anxiously.

Father Wu saw that his daughter was so stubborn, there was nothing he could do about it, he sighed heavily, and sat back down helplessly.

"That's right, that's right," Shen's mother tried to smooth things over, "Just chatting casually, this child is poisonous when he opens his mouth, and sooner or later there will be someone who can kill him."

After Wu Jiaying heard Shen's mother's words, she glanced at Gu Xi'en resentfully. Except for Gu Xi'en himself, none of the other people present noticed this look.

He smiled, looked at Wu Jiaying and said, "Ms. Wu must be kind. She thought I was single and wanted to introduce someone to me, right? But don't bother Miss Wu, I already have a girlfriend."

Wu Jiaying's eyes widened in surprise, and Shen Bai looked at Gu Xien in astonishment.

Shen's mother was also taken aback, and hurriedly asked: "Ah, what kind of girl is she?"

Gu Xien replied with a faint smile: "He is from S City."

Shen's mother was surprised: "Last time I heard from Shen Bai that your hometown is in City C, so Xiao Gu, you guys are long-distance relationships? How did you know each other?"

Gu Xien: "I know him at work."

"Ah, it sounds like your girlfriend should be a pretty capable girl."

Gu Xi'en smiled and nodded: "Indeed, he is an executive of a listed company. He manages many people under him, and his ability is much stronger than mine. Sometimes I feel that I am not worthy of him."

Shen Bai watched Gu Xien slowly open his eyes wide, this, this, this is clearly him, right?Suddenly enlightened, Shen Bai put down the big stone that was instantly mentioned in his heart because of Gu Xien's words that he already had a girlfriend.

"Look at them!" Father Shen interjected in a timely manner, with a standard tone of looking at other people's children: "Younger than you, more educated than you, and your girlfriend is so good, you look look at yourself!"

Mother Shen also clicked her tongue with emotion: "Then what's her name?"

Shen Bai was drinking water from his cup to hide his secret joy, but when he heard Shen's mother's question, the stone that had just been put down in his heart was lifted again.

Then, he looked at Gu Xien's lips slightly parted, and said flatly, "Oh, her name is Chen Nali."

Chen Bai choked his throat with a sip of water, coughed heavily, stared at Gu Xi'en and wanted to say something but couldn't.

"Oh, you child, why are you in such a hurry to drink water?" Shen's mother hurriedly patted Shen Bai's junior to comfort him.

Shen Bai put down his cup, and we chatted for a long time, and for the first time tasted the bitter and indescribably aggrieved feeling.

Gu Xi'en found the right time, and secretly blinked at Shen Bai. The cough that Chen Bai had just calmed down became violent again in an instant.

In a bar in the downtown area of ​​S city, Chen Nali, who was leaning gracefully in front of the bar counter, holding a wine glass in her slender hand painted with bright red nail polish, and winking at the new handsome bartender, suddenly received WeChat message from my boss.

——How about the project of Boss Wang?

Chen Nali cursed in her heart, she still had to reply obediently.

——Hey, that old man is too stubborn, but the boss can rest assured that Sanqi is absolutely fine!

Chen Nali put down her phone, picked up her wine glass again, made a new look, and blew a kiss to the bartender who was looking over.

The phone dinged again and a new message came in. Chen Nali put down her wine glass and picked up the phone bitterly.

——Give you another two weeks, if you can’t figure it out, at the end of this year, you will only have no rewards at the end of the year.

Chen Nali: "?????"