Dead but not stiff

The next day, Shen Bai drove Gu Xien to the airport. Although he was unwilling to part with him for a short time, Gu Xien did have a business to go back to C City. Half the hometown, work house and social connections are all there.Unless Gu Xi'en is willing to follow him to move to City S now, it's probably true that as Jiang Yingyue's crow's mouth said, they will be a couple in a long distance.

"Then how long will you be back this time?" Shen Bai felt extremely heavy when he thought about it, but now he is not qualified to ask Gu Xien to move to S City to live with him, because on his side, his parents The crucial link has not yet been opened.

"It's a conservative estimate that it will take half a month. A local project has found a brother from my design institute. He happened to be studying abroad again when he caught up with him. Please ask me for help."

"So long?" Shen Bai immediately had an opinion, "Can't that senior brother of yours ask others for help?"

Gu Xien patiently explained: "Tianyuan's project has come to an end for the time being, and it happens to be in the idle period, so there is no reason to reject him."

"Why not?" Shen Bai frowned, expressing extreme dissatisfaction: "The reason is that you want to accompany your boyfriend in S city."

Gu Xien turned his head and glanced at him, "I have my own job, and secondly, I'm a man, so my life can't be centered around dating."

"I didn't mean that." Shen Bai defended, and then began to explain his reasoning: "Look, we are a couple now, and you should change your behavior accordingly, for example, every time you list yourself When planning the itinerary, can you take my feelings into consideration? Like this time, I thought you would only go back for two or three days at most, but it turned out that you needed half a month at once. Do you know how big the gap is in my heart? "

Gu Xian paused for a few seconds, staring at the wide and straight road ahead, and said lightly, "Sorry."

Shen Bai was struggling for the last time: "Is it really going to take half a month?"

Gu Xian replied without a doubt: "Yes."

Shen Bai's hands holding the steering wheel tightened, he was silent for a while, and then said again: "Then make a phone call every morning and evening, and if I'm not busy, I'll make a WeChat video. If I have nothing to do on weekends, I'll go to City C to find you."

Gu Xien helped his forehead helplessly, "Are you a primary school student?"

Shen Bai: "You are like a kite in my hand now, I'm about to let you go, don't you allow me to worry about it?"

Gu Xien was made angry by his metaphor and thought it was funny, but seeing the serious and reluctant expression on his face, he couldn't bear it, and finally had to say: "That's good, but if you come on weekends, please tell me in advance. Let me tell you, don't attack suddenly."

Shen Bai raised his eyebrows, grasping the point very carefully: "Why? Are you afraid that I will suddenly attack and break something?"

"Well, yes, so you'd better not make fun of yourself." Gu Xien followed his words.

"Gu Xi'en!" Shen Bai turned his head angrily, staring at the other party, Gu Xi'en stretched out his hand to push his head straight, and said calmly: "Drive and watch the road."

City S is an international metropolis, and its airport is crowded with people at all times. Shen Bai wanted to have another affectionate kiss before Gu Xien entered the security check, but Gu Xien was shameless, and finally the affectionate kiss was downgraded to a brotherly one. The eager hug, or the kind of hug two seconds apart.

"Call me as soon as you get off the plane." Shen Baiqian urged, Gu Xien got impatient and pushed him, "Okay, you hurry up, I'm going to go through the security check soon."

Shen Bai tugged at the man's sleeve, reluctant to let go: "Can I hug another one? The smell you left on me just now has faded a bit."

Gu Xian: "..." Are you a dog?Drug dog?

"Let's go, goodbye." Gu Xian turned around mercilessly, pulled up his suitcase and walked towards the security checkpoint.

There was a sudden gust of wind behind him, and just as Gu Xien was about to turn his head, a shadow flashed in front of his eyes, and then his jaw was forcefully pulled up, his lips were quickly bitten, and then quickly let go.

This scene happened to be bumped into by a young girl passing by them, as if instinctively, she raised the SLR on her chest and clicked a photo as a souvenir.

Gu Xien pushed Shen Bai away and looked at him angrily. Neither of them noticed that the scene of them kissing for a moment was quickly photographed.

"I'm sorry, I still can't help it." Shen Bai admitted his mistake quickly, but it made people even more angry. This is clearly a euphemistic expression of "I kiss you even if I kiss you".

"..." Gu Xian gave him a helpless look, turned around and walked away quickly without wanting to say anything.

Watching Gu Xien flee towards the security checkpoint, Shen Bai recalled the feeling of the forced kiss left between his lips and teeth just now, he was also helpless, but smiled softly with tenderness until the other party's figure disappeared completely, He turned around and walked outside the airport.

After sending Gu Xien to the airport in the morning, Shen Bai drove back to the city and had lunch outside before entering the company.

It was the lunch break, and the indoor lights were dimmed in the office area. Some people took a nap at their desks, some gathered together in twos and threes to whisper, and some simply gave up the break time and continued to work on the computer.

Fang Shi's desk was facing the door, and Shen Bai was caught by him at a glance when he passed by, and he quickly stood up and shouted: "Mr. Shen."

Shen Bai nodded, and continued to walk in. Fang Shi stopped him, and hesitantly asked with a little concern: "Boss Shen, did you just come back from work outside? Did you have lunch?"

Shen Bai paused, looked back at him, and replied in a flat tone: "I've eaten, thank you for your concern."

When Fang Shi got his answer, his eyes seemed to light up instantly, and his expression became joyful and excited, but his tone was apologetic and embarrassed, and he replied: "Then... I have something to do...Mr. Shen, you Go ahead."

Shen Bai was a little confused by Fang Shi's obvious mood change, and was just about to leave without saying anything, when he suddenly remembered what Gu Xien said yesterday to make Fang Shi's attitude better.He thought about it for a while, and his attitude towards Fang Shi was indeed too indifferent. The other party was also an intern arranged by him, and it was reasonable to show his favor to him frequently in order to express his gratitude.

Thinking in this way, Shen Bai adjusted his indifferent facial expression, showed him a caring smile from a superior to his subordinates, and said gently: "You can think of caring about your colleagues, there is nothing wrong with that, it's just that you can divide your mind a little more. At work, your leader will be happier."

Hearing what he said, Fang Shi nodded hurriedly: "Mr. Shen, I have been studying with Sister Wanwan very seriously."

Shen Bai nodded: "Well, it's a good thing to be willing to work hard. However," there was a trace of surprise in his tone: "Which department do you work in? Why are you working with Xiao Zhao?"

Fang Shi quickly explained: "I'm in the administration department now, but maybe because I just came here, the things everyone gave me are very simple. I see that Sister Wan Wan has a lot of things to do, so I will learn from her and help her share some things."

Shen Bai murmured in his heart: Do I assign many things to Xiao Zhao?Assistants can also have assistants these days?

However, this complaint can only be vomited in his heart, facing Fang Shi, Shen Bai didn't want to say too much, lest this seemingly delicate and sensitive child would have to speculate and think wildly for no reason.Therefore, he acquiesced to Fang Shi's work form, but he also ordered: "It's a good thing that you are willing to learn from Xiao Zhao, but don't lose sight of the basics. After all, Xiao Zhao didn't send you your KPI."

"I know, thank you, Mr. Shen, for reminding me." Fang Shi raised his head, and for the first time showed him a bright and confident smile. However, with an unnatural expression, he looked back and patted him on the shoulder, "Work hard."

Looking at the back of Shen Bai going away, Fang Shi stretched out his hand to caress the left half of his face. He noticed that Shen Bai's eyes had stopped on this side of his face just now, but he didn't know why the other party would make such a move.He took out his mobile phone and looked at the screen for a while, when his fingertips slid over the mole on his face, he suddenly stopped.

I have seen the mole under the corner of the left eye in the same place on that person's face, so, is this the reason why Mr. Shen stopped looking?

Fang Shi pursed his lips and bit his lower lip. Although he didn't want to have similar characteristics with that person, if this was one of the reasons why Mr. Shen liked that person, why couldn't he also use this to make an effort?

In City C, Gu Xien got off the plane and waited in the airport taxi pick-up area with his suitcase. Taking advantage of this time, he took out his mobile phone and sent Shen Bai a WeChat message.

Gu Xien: Arrive safely, don't read.

After sending, he stared at the screen and waited for a few seconds. Before the prompt that the other party was typing was displayed, he blinked lightly. Just as he was about to turn off the phone screen, an incoming call prompt came in. It was him from City C. A friend of mine called.

Gu Xien picked it up, gave a hello, and heard the other party say, "Are you back?"

"Well, just arrived."

"Come to my place tonight?"

Gu Xien thought for a while, then refused: "No, let's do it another day."

The other party laughed, but then said: "Xiao Huanzi called me yesterday, saying that he has returned to China and is coming to play tonight. Are you sure you won't come?"

A trace of surprise flashed in Gu Xien's eyes, and he asked, "When did you come back?"

"It was just the day before yesterday. I sneaked back and said it was to hide from someone. You said this kid, how can he make trouble like this abroad?"

Gu Xien chuckled: "It fits his personality."

The other party smiled and asked again: "Aren't you coming?"

Gu Xien thought for a second or two, and finally said, "Go."

The other party laughed loudly: "To tell you the truth, I told Xiao Huanzi yesterday that when you go back to City C today, there are nine out of ten that you will come to my place, that's why he clamored that you would come tonight."

Gu Xien: "So we were both tricked by you at the same time?"

"People who eat melons, there is no excitement, create excitement."

Gu Xien didn't pick him up this time, and saw the taxi slowly pulling over, and said directly: "The car is here, I'll hang up first."

"Well, see you tonight."

"it is good."

Although the nights in City C are not as eccentric and colorful as the neon-lit Shili Yangchang in City S, they also have a lively scene that belongs to her alone.Gu Xien took a taxi to the intersection of a bar street, got out of the car and took a few steps, and went straight to a bar with a light box outside the door that was obviously a little more low-key than the others.

As soon as he entered, he was caught by the eyes of a young man who was leaning against the bar, raised his hand and shouted at him: "Gu Xi'en, here!"

Gu Xien walked over, and the other party reached out for a wine glass, poured a glass of wine, pushed it in front of him, and said with a smile: "Yo, it's only been a month since I saw Gu Meiren, and she has become more and more dazzling."

This young man who made fun of Gu Xien as soon as he opened his mouth was the one who called Gu Xien earlier, and was also the owner of this gay bar - Lu Chuanning.

This person was born with a pair of fox eyes, the corners of which were narrow and upturned. When he smiles, he is charming and seductive, but if he doesn't smile, he is fierce and dangerous. It is probably the type of appearance that some older generations with conservative aesthetics don't like the most.

Gu Xien smiled, took the wine glass and shook it, and said to him, "How are you doing?"

Lu Chuening shrugged: "It's the same as usual, eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, doing all kinds of evil, so happy."

Gu Xien nodded, and gave advice very pertinently: "Just be happy."

"That's natural." Lu Chuaning said: "Anyway, I'm going to die here in this life. The past and the past are all forgotten, and all kinds of things happened yesterday, such as dying yesterday. I remember you told me this."

Gu Xien: "Now you are more and more open-minded."

"So what if I can't see it, I don't have anything to lose." Lu Chuening said, suddenly remembered something, "Oh yes, I still have this store, it's all I have to live on."

Gu Xien chuckled, and stopped talking, don't embrace sad people, Lu Chuanning has something on his mind, and he has felt it since he first met Lu Chuanning a few years ago.Moreover, Lu Chuening has one thing in common with him, that is, both of them are not from City C, but both of them have regarded this place as the only second hometown where they can live and work.

After exchanging a few words of pleasantries, the two quieted down and leaned against the bar counter to drink in silence.

After a while, a tall and straight figure flashed at the door, it was a handsome young man with hair dyed dark blond and natural curly hair, he walked in anxiously and expectantly while searching around in the crowd.

Lu Chuening touched Gu Xien's arm and said to him, "Xiao Huanzi is here."

Just as Gu Xien raised his head to look over, the young man who was searching around finally looked towards the bar counter. He saw Gu Xien standing by the bar counter at a glance, and immediately ran towards this side in ecstasy.

"Brother Xiao En! It turns out that Lu Chuening didn't lie to me, you will really come tonight!"

Gu Xien managed to avoid the wine glass that was almost spilled by the other party, and greeted him with a smile: "Long time no see, Li Huan."

Lu Chuening yelled from the side: "Hey, I'm still here, is it really okay to complain about me in front of me?"

Li Huan turned to look at him, immediately changed a sincere and polite expression, and greeted him: "Hello, Brother Ning."

Lu Chuening, who couldn't hit the smiling man with his hand, felt a little aggrieved for a moment, so he provoked other thorns: "Why do you call me Brother Ning, and Gu Xien is Brother Xiaoen? This is Xiao En, and it belongs to Brother, so you can't call me Brother Xiaoen." Do you find it strange?"

Li Huan explained naturally: "Brother Xiaoen is older than me, but he has a young face and is not as tall as me. It is just right to be called Brother Xiaoen."

Gu Xien smiled helplessly, stretched out his hand to pinch his arm muscles, and joked: "Is the food in foreign countries so nourishing?"

Li Huan replied confidently: "I exercise regularly, go to the gym four times a week, and often go climbing with friends."

Gu Xien looked at him with the eyes of an elder looking at a junior with satisfaction, and said approvingly, "Not bad."

Li Huan grinned, stretched out his hand to hold Gu Xien's shoulder, stared at his face eagerly, and asked seriously and sincerely: "Brother Xiaoen, can I be with you now?"

Lu Chuanning yelled twice, winked at the two of them and said, "Should I avoid it now?"

Gu Xien first gave Lu Chuening a look that you can shut up, then looked back at Li Huan, pulled the other's hand off his shoulder, shook his head and said to him: "Li Huan, you always knew that I I just treat you like a brother."

Li Huan became anxious when he heard that, "But, I have grown up, you see, I am so much taller than you now."

Gu Xien: "You are growing up, and I am also growing up. No one's age will remain static forever. But Li Huan, you have to understand that there is no age issue between us, but that I have never hugged you. I have had such feelings, and I will never have them in the future.”

A look of disappointment appeared in Li Huan's eyes. He looked at Gu Xien unwillingly. Just as he was about to say something, he heard a high-pitched female voice coming through the air—"Li Huan! You bastard! You have to hide from my old lady." By when?"

Li Huan didn't turn his head, but the expression on his face turned pale with shock. Gu Xi'en, Lu Chuanning and other people who were startled by the sound followed the sound and saw a hot, bright and beautiful figure standing at the door of the bar. Sister Fan, at this moment, she is pinching her waist with her hands, stretching her head to search around and cursing: "Li Huan, you bastard! You have the ability to come out, what kind of man are you hiding?"

Li Huan had already bent down quickly when she sounded the second time, moving towards the bar counter step by step, trying to hide inside the bar counter.On the way, he was blocked by Lu Chuanning's outstretched leg. He lowered his head and looked at him with a smile: "Ah, what's going on, Xiao Huanzi, first explain it to me and your brother En."

Li Huan bowed his waist and cupped his fists, begging bitterly: "Brother Ning, stop making trouble, let me in first, and when she leaves, I will tell you well."

Lu Chuening: "Oh? Let me think about it. Could it be that she is the person you said you provoked abroad?"

Li Huan quickly nodded, "Brother Ning, if you want to hear the story, wait until she is gone, okay? I'll tell you everything carefully. Let me go in and hide now. Saving a life is better than building a seventh level." Futu, brother Ning."

Lu Chuening looked at Gu Xien, Gu Xien gave him a look, Lu Chuening put down his legs and let Li Huan hide in the bar with his back bent.As soon as he entered, the girl at the door had already walked over in her high heels, looked at Gu Xien and Lu Chuening, and asked straight to the point, "Has someone named Li Huan been here?"

Gu Xien asked Lu Chuening: "Do you know each other?"

Lu Chuening smiled: "I don't know, but, miss, we are a gay bar, and you, a girl, appear here and make a lot of noise, isn't it impolite?"

The girl retorted arrogantly: "Why are you divided into men and women when you are all gay? Isn't this sexism?"

Lu Chuening spread his hands, "The reason for the separation of men and women is very simple, because the owner of this store doesn't like women."

The girl snorted coldly: "Where is the boss?"

Lu Chuening bent down and leaned forward, "It's right here."

The girl snorted heavily, but she still didn't give up her sight of searching around. However, she searched back and forth in the crowd, but she didn't see Li Huan.

The girl withdrew her gaze and stared at Lu Chuening suspiciously: "Did you hide him?"

Lu Chuening: "Why should I hide him?"

The girl cut it, "You have an affair with him, that bastard eats both men and women." Speaking of this, she suddenly spoke sincerely, and said to Lu Chuanning in a persuasive manner: "I kindly remind you, don't be fooled by his face." He was deceived by sweet words, this is what he relies on when he is abroad, he has slept with many men and women, and his private life is in a mess."

Before she finished speaking, there was a loud noise from inside the bar. Li Huan stood up abruptly, slapped the bar, and glared at the girl, "Don't you fucking spout people here! I have a cleanliness freak! I slept with you when I was abroad." !"

Gu Xien & Lu Chuening: "..."

The girl stretched out her hand and pointed at Li Huan angrily: "Okay, you bastard is here!" After saying that, she directly supported the bar countertop with her hands, and half of her body was already on the bar in the blink of an eye, and she was about to jump over to catch Li Huan. Huan.

Lu Chuanning held her down, and cursed at Li Huan: "Fuck you, get out! Don't cause trouble in Lao Tzu's territory!"

Li Huan reacted very quickly, he propped up the bar counter and flipped out from the other side in the same way. When he landed, he took off a row of strangely shaped wine glasses on the bar counter.

The sound of the shattering glass made Lu Chuanning's heart shatter along with it, and he yelled at Li Huan heartbrokenly: "I've spent a lot of effort to find this fucking thing, it's the only one in the world!"

Li Huan still did not forget to complain when he escaped: "How dare you put it on the bar to show off just this one thing! Are you sick?"

Lu Chuanning held down the girl's hand and loosened it slightly: "You fucking say it again?"

Li Huan walked around and pulled Gu Xien away, and said to Lu Chuaning: "Don't dare, don't dare, Brother Ning, I will never forget your great kindness, and you will send the bill directly to my father later. Xiao En and I Brother, take a step first, hold this girl for me for a while, and let her go after counting to a hundred."

Gu Xien was dragged by Li Huan and rushed out of the bar. The two ran along the bar street to the end, and then turned a corner. Gu Xien stopped suddenly, and Li Huan, who was still rushing forward, was grabbed by him. Staggering to a stop, he turned around and asked nervously and astonished, "Why did you stop?"

Gu Xi'en bent over and gasped for breath, and said to him with a particularly bad temper: "Why are you running?"

Li Huan: "Is it okay if you don't run? You don't know how scary that woman is!"

Gu Xi'en: "It's so scary that you have slept with it. Wouldn't you be even more terrifying?"

Li Huan was stunned for a moment, then said angrily, "...I didn't force her, she did it on her own."

Gu Xien recovered his anger, straightened his waist, looked at him and asked, "So that means you two are dating?"

Li Huan denied: "What is love, at most it is a friend with benefits."

Gu Xien sighed, shook his head, and looked back in the direction of the bar, wondering if the girl chased him out.But for now, we still need to ask Li Huan about the situation first, and then think about how to solve it.

"Let's go, everyone is out, let's talk in another place."

Li Huan let out a cry, and the two of them slowed down and walked along an artificial river embankment at the end of Bar Street.

"Tell me, what's going on?"

Li Huan followed Gu Xien, as if a student who had done something wrong was reviewing with the class teacher, and said slowly, "Her name is Huang Shiqi, and she said she is from City B. We were at the school's social gathering." We met, and then we went out to play a few times with the date, after getting to know each other, she said that she didn't want to have sex with ghosts, she had a cleansing habit, and it happened that I was the same, so we hit it off, and we slept a few times after we got together."

"It was pretty good at first, but then she became more and more unreasonable, always interfering in my circle of friends. After a few troubles, I got annoyed and said that I wanted to break up. She didn't want to, and made troubles with me in school. She even ran to the house I rented to block me. I was almost driven crazy by this crazy woman. This time I returned to China suddenly because I couldn't stand her and wanted to come back to hide, but she actually asked my roommate for my return card Flight information, I booked the same flight to come here with me. I hid in the men’s toilet at the airport for a long time, and finally changed clothes with someone before sneaking out. I thought she couldn’t find me and went back. Damn, no It's too scary to think that she can still find it here."

Gu Xien listened to him silently, paused, and only asked: "Then do you like her?"

Li Huan vetoed it almost without thinking: "How is it possible!"

"Then you are with her? Even if it is a foreign university, she is not the only Chinese student studying abroad, right? To avoid falling in love with ghosts and going to bed together, this theory is obviously untenable, Li Huan."

"..." Li Huan was grasped by Gu Xien in a few words, like a snake being held by seven inches, his anger was instantly extinguished, and he said lazily: "...In the beginning, anyway, at the beginning, I don't hate it. "

Gu Xien: "So you are really like she said, men and women take all?"

Li Huan hesitated for a moment, probably after serious thinking in his mind, before slowly opening his mouth: "...I don't know myself, I was forcibly sent abroad by my parents at that time, unaccompanied, you still refused me I feel that if it’s not you anyway, then men and women are the same.”

Gu Xien sighed: "You, when will you grow up?"

"I've grown up, you can see that I'm half a head taller than you."

"Being tall doesn't count as growing up."

"Then what is it?" Li Huan asked suspiciously.

Gu Xien stopped, glanced at him, and turned his gaze to the mottled light and shadow illuminated by the neon at night on the artificial river.

He opened his mouth and said slowly: "People need to experience some things, and then grow up in an instant."