Dead but not stiff

On the way back, there were only two people left, Shen Bai and Jiang Yingyue, Jiang Yingyue stopped making noises, but she was afraid that if she didn't say something, Shen Bai, the guy whose love had just begun and ended in a tragic way, would not be able to think about it when he went back at night.After hesitating for a long time, he just said, "Then, you don't have to worry about it. I noticed before that he and his friend with bad character came from that LaVieEnRose. Who would go there with ordinary friends? Eating inside, it must be that kind of relationship. Moreover, with that kind of person with bad character, the so-called birds of a feather flock together, he—"

"Jiang Yingyue."

"Ah?" Jiang Yingyue, who was interrupted, was puzzled.

"Shut up if you don't want to walk back to town from the airport tonight."

"Hey, I'm comforting you, my friend. The other party is just someone I just didn't know," he looked down at the time on his phone, "A stranger who is less than five hours old, just because you are good-looking, you will fall ? Are you a monk who just came down from the mountain?"

"I just want to tell you that going to LaVieEnRose for dinner together doesn't mean anything. I have asked clients to have dinner at that restaurant to discuss business more than once."

"You're kidding yourself."

"It's your thinking that has solidified."

"What's wrong with me being solidified? Hey, I said, aren't you straight? The other party is a man. You think about it clearly. If you are really together, can you pass the test in your heart? You can also pass the test of your parents at home. Is it off?"

The air in the car was a little heavy for a while, Shen Bai didn't speak for a long time, just when Jiang Yingyue thought the conversation was over, he heard him slowly say: "I will try."

Jiang Yingyue was speechless, she always felt that such Shen Bai was against harmony, but she didn't know where to start.

The cell phone vibrating suddenly broke the strange silence, Jiang Yingyue glanced at the caller ID, the expression on her face transitioned from the tropical rainforest to Siberia.

He picked up the phone slowly, the person on the other end said something first, and Jiang Yingyue answered coldly.

Shen Bai continued to drive with his eyes sinking like water, while Jiang Yingyue in the back seat kept talking to that person on the phone with an indifferent expression and perfunctory words.

"I'm with Shen Bai." "That's right, we're opening a room. Do you want to come and catch the adulterer?"

Shen Bai frowned, and interjected: "Don't bring me when you two quarrel."

Jiang Yingyue hung up the phone and leaned back on the back seat as if exhausted.

Shen Bai asked: "Arguing again?"

"Heh..." Jiang Yingyue sneered: "Is there a truce between the two of us?"

"Didn't you go to the island to play together last month?"

"Then when he was taking a shower, he accidentally saw the news about dating from the Nth little lover on his mobile phone. Isn't it wonderful?"

Shen Bai shut up and stopped asking about his friend's private affairs.

After going back and forth to the airport, he sent Jiang Yingyue back to his residence. It was past ten o'clock at night when Shen Bai arrived home.

Taking out the key to open the door of the house, I was surprised to find that the living room on the first floor was still lit.Father Shen was sitting on the sofa reading the newspaper with reading glasses, when he heard the door opening he looked up, saw Shen Bai pushing the door in, looked at him and asked, "Why are you back so late?"

The two-story villa that Shen Bai lives with his parents is the place where he grew up. When he just graduated, he used a sum of money from his parents to speculate in stocks. Fortunately, he caught up with the bull market, and after making a fortune, he left in time. .With this money and the advantages of his job, he bought three houses and two shops one after another.In addition to the investment, the remaining one is in the city center, and the original intention is to keep it for myself.When he bought it a few years ago, Shen Bai also spent some time in decorating the house.After that, I moved to live there for a while, until my father had a sudden high blood pressure in the middle of the night, and when my mother called him, he happened to be drunk because of a party that night, and he left his mobile phone in the living room and fell asleep in the bedroom.

After Shen Xi's parents sent Shen's father to the hospital overnight, Shen Bai hurried over, and was scolded by his mother and Shen Xi's parents in turn. Why can't parents take care of their children when they are old? Don't wait until the son wants to raise him But when the relatives are not waiting, I suddenly regret it.

Shen Bai admits that he is wrong, he is the only child, his family was well-off when he was young, although he can't be said to be rich, but he still has plenty to eat and drink, he enjoys the love of his parents materially and spiritually, and it is only natural for him to repay his parents when he grows up .So he moved back from the house where he lived alone to live with his parents. He was unmarried and single, and his parents were the biggest entanglement at this stage.

Shen Bai threw the key on the shoe cabinet at the door, and while bending over to change his shoes, he answered his father's question: "After get off work, I had a meal with my friends. It's so late, why aren't you sleeping, Dad?"

Father Shen put down the newspaper, "I'll tell you something when you come back."

"What can't be said during the day, it's so late, you've been waiting for me all this time just to tell me something?"

Father Shen took off his reading glasses and looked at Shen Bai solemnly, "At noon tomorrow, you come with me and your mother to have dinner with an old friend of mine."

Shen Bai vaguely sensed something, but decided to pretend to be confused: "You old friends are gathering for tea, what do you want me, a junior, to get involved with?"

"I told you to go with it and you just go with it. How long has it been since you had a good meal with your parents?"

Shen Bai was a little helpless, "Tomorrow is a working day, I'm afraid it will be too late at noon."

"It's near your company. Your mother and I will take a taxi there. You don't need to pick it up. It won't waste your time."

The only way back was blocked, Shen Bai raised his hands in surrender: "Okay, then I will ask my assistant to pick you up by car. Do you need to book the hotel in advance?"

"No need." After explaining the matter, Father Shen put down the newspaper and stood up, "It's at the house where your mother had her birthday last time. The place is secluded, your mother likes it, and it's suitable for talking about business. You just need to come when the time comes, and nothing else is needed. You worry."

Shen Bai secretly sighed, but still answered honestly: "Okay."

"Hmm..." Father Shen approached, looked at his son steadfastly, and suddenly sighed softly after a long while: "At this age, I don't know what to worry about, and I have to ask my parents to figure it out for you." After speaking, he turned around. With his back turned to Shen Bai, he waved his hands and walked unsteadily towards the bedroom.

Hearing this, Shen Bai felt a little tight in his heart for a moment. His parents forced him to marry him since the year he was working, and he had always ignored it and forgot it.

Only this time, it always felt a little different, but whether it was really different, or whether it was a change in his own subjective consciousness, he couldn't tell for a while.

I don’t know where I saw such a passage, saying that many people are vague about their sexual orientation before they meet their destined partner.In the first twenty years of Shen Bai's life, he always felt that this sentence was nonsense, but now, he felt extremely fucked by his sudden distraction tonight.

After tidying up and lying on the bed, but tossing and turning unable to fall asleep, Shen Bai simply turned over, turned on the computer and continued to read the electronic contract that he hadn't finished reading earlier.

The mailbox prompts that there is a new email coming in. It was sent by a project manager of his subordinate. He is in charge of a presentation that will be used in a project kick-off meeting. I checked the time and it was sent almost two hours ago. About It is for Shen Bai to do the final review.

The lower right corner of the computer shows that the current time is [-]:[-]pm, following the principle of completing the day's affairs, Shen Bai moved the mouse to click on the file, ready to reply directly to the other party after reading it.

In the middle of turning the page, Shen Bai's hand that slid the mouse wheel suddenly stopped, and stopped at the page of the project organization structure, only to see that in the project member composition provided by Party B's company, the column of Party B's chief construction engineer said C City Architectural Design Institute Engineer - Gu Xi'en.

At noon of the next day, Shen Bai finished his morning work half an hour earlier, closed his computer, got up and left his seat, put on his coat and opened the door of the office, but bumped into his assistant rushing inside.

"What's wrong?" Shen Bai asked in a low voice as he stretched out his hand to support the little assistant girl who was almost toppled over by the brakes too hard.

"Ah, Mr. Shen, I'm sorry, it's like this." The little girl helped her black-framed glasses, and because she ran all the way in a hurry, sweat was still dripping on the tip of her nose, "Manager Liu asked me to tell you, Tianyuan's temporary There are personnel transfers, and the project kick-off meeting next Monday may be postponed."

Shen Bai was a little unbelievable, "Postponement? Why is there such a big movement in personnel transfer? Did they just replace the project manager?"

The assistant shook his head, "No, it's the chief engineer."

Shen Bai paused, "How to say?"

The assistant also looked helpless, "Manager Liu doesn't know the specific reason, but it seems that the chief engineer resigned on his own initiative."

Shen Bai: "Where's Xiao Liu?"

"On the phone to communicate with the other party."

While speaking, that Manager Liu walked over quickly with a bitter face.

"Mr. Shen, what do you think we should do?" This manager Liu joined the company at the beginning of last year. He has been a newcomer for a year and has accumulated experience in the projects of his colleagues.This year, it can be considered that there is an actual project in hand, but such a moth happened before it started.

Shen Bai asked bluntly: "Did you send them the PPT of the kick-off meeting?"

Manager Liu was taken aback by the question, and nodded honestly: "Send it, because there are parts on the PPT that require the other party to make a presentation, so I sent them a copy, so that the other party can also fully prepare."

Shen Bai had an idea in his heart almost immediately. On the page of the organizational structure, the project director of Party A's company had written his name, Shen Bai, and he was a local real estate company in S City. If the other party is not stupid, he can probably guess from this. Nine out of ten.

Before this project, the project manager on their side had been communicating and negotiating with the other party. After the project was officially implemented, it was necessary for him at the director level to come out to make the final decision, and then attend the kick-off meeting to boost morale. Just receive the content of the project's staged report, so the other party probably didn't know him until he saw the organizational structure on the PPT.

But there is no need to be so sensitive and capricious. In order to avoid him resigning before the battle, could it be that I was too obsessed with asking for a phone call yesterday, which made the other party feel uncomfortable?

This will indeed be uncomfortable, comrade Shen Bai, a straight male cancer.

"The meeting is going on as usual, and the project personnel cannot be changed. If the other party can't do it, then we can only terminate the cooperation." Shen Bai walked towards the elevator, turned back and said to Manager Liu: "You call, call them directly Mr. Chen, I have something to go out."

"Oh, ok." Manager Liu agreed, and when Shen Bai got into the elevator, he rushed to make a phone call just like Monkey King got the Dinghai Shenzhen Needle.

Shen Bai walked into the box after the waiter in cheongsam, saw Shen's mother smiling and chatting with a young girl sitting beside her, raised her head when she heard the movement, and hurriedly greeted Shen Bai: "Here, come quickly."

Shen Bai walked over, the girl looked up at him.

"Sorry, a little late."

"I have to wait for a few minutes at the appointed time." Shen's father scolded his son in dissatisfaction, but was interrupted by Shen's mother: "Okay, okay, it's okay when people come, there are so many dead rules. Come on Come on, Mom, let me introduce you. This is your Uncle Wu. He hugged you when you were young, but you probably don’t remember it. And this one is your Uncle Wu’s daughter, Jiaying. They just came from abroad Come back, this kid Jiaying is very good, he works in a well-known foreign company and has a bright future."

Shen Bai greeted the two with a smile, and heard Shen's mother say to Wu's father and daughter: "My son, Shen Bai, has the same temperament as old Shen, and doesn't talk much."

Wu Jiaying smiled and said: "My father often mentioned to me that Mr. Shen from Uncle Shen's family is young and promising. Now that he finally meets the real person, he realizes that what his father said is true."

All mothers like to hear others praise their children, and Shen's mother is not immune. Hearing this, she repeatedly waved to Shen Bai: "What are you doing standing here? Come and sit. You can sit next to Jiaying. You young people have a lot of topics to talk about. chat."

When everyone was ready, the meals began to be served one after another. Shen's mother warmly greeted Wu's father and daughter to move their chopsticks, and the conversation started.

"Speaking of which, when I got married to my family's old Shen, Jiaying's mother was pregnant with her. I remember joking at that time that if the family had a boy and a daughter in the future, they would marry a child. How can I miss your family? Later, the whole family moved abroad, and I thought you would never come back."

Father Wu smiled and shook his head: "After all, the fallen leaves return to their roots. Besides, although Jiaying grew up abroad, she is a traditional child. This time I proposed to return to China to settle down. She is happier than me. Without saying anything, he quit his job and came back with me."

"Hey, I quit my job too. That's a pity. But capable people are sought after everywhere, so you don't have to worry, Jiaying." Mother Shen took Wu Jiaying's hand and patted it lovingly. The face said in relief.

"Auntie said yes." Wu Jiaying pursed her lips and smiled.

"Hehe, did Jiaying have a boyfriend abroad?" Father Shen filled the glass in front of Father Wu and asked casually, seemingly casually.

Father Wu squinted his eyes and smiled: "I don't care, I'm usually busy with work. Besides, I don't want to find a foreign son-in-law, so I just let her go."

Father Shen laughed, "Old Wu, I'm relieved when you say that." Then the conversation changed, his eyes turned back and forth on Shen Bai and Wu Jiaying, and he said in a rather solemn tone: "I think Jiaying is a good kid. , Our two families know the whole story, we don’t know the baby kiss we promised when we were young, and we still don’t count on it now.”

"You old man," Shen's mother pretended to be angry, "what are you talking about in front of the child."

"We've all reached the marriageable age, so there's nothing we can't say." Father Shen spoke like this, and glanced at Shen Bai again.

Shen's mother hurriedly smiled and looked at Wu Jiaying beside her, and said in a harmonious voice: "Then I have to ask Jiaying what she means."

Wu Jiaying smiled: "This is the end of your talk, let us juniors take it. But you can't just ask me alone, we have to see what Shen Bai thinks."

As she spoke, she turned her head to look at Shen Bai beside her, and there seemed to be a little expectation in her eyes.

Shen Bai picked up a dish with his chopsticks as usual, and replied: "Eat."

Father and daughter of the Wu family: "..."

Father Shen slapped his chopsticks on the table: "You haven't eaten for hundreds of years? Are you so hungry?"

Shen Bai picked up a tissue and wiped his mouth, stood up and said apologetically to the others: "I was so busy that I forgot to eat breakfast, I'm really hungry. Parents, Uncle Wu and Ms. Wu, I have an urgent meeting in the afternoon, and I need to I left the table early, so I'm really sorry. I just saw that Uncle Wu liked the almond tofu, so I asked the waiter to add another, and ordered two pots of tea and some snacks. This place is secluded and very suitable for chatting. You just sit down for a while, just take this opportunity to catch up on the old days."

After saying that, without giving a few people a chance to react, he turned around and quickly walked out of the box.

The atmosphere fell into a strange embarrassment for a while, and after a while, Shen's mother said in disbelief: "This child, it's not like this usually..."

Father Shen snorted, "It's not something you're used to. If you don't follow the rules, can you do without the rules?"

Father Wu laughed and came out to smooth things over, "Young people now think differently, and they are more career-oriented than we were back then."

"No matter how busy you are, you have to distinguish between priorities, start a family, start a family, start a business, start a family first, and start a career later. Moreover, I don't think he may devote all his attention to work. It is clear that he is not playful enough, just looking for an excuse."

"Men love to play, and they are like children before they get married. It will be fine when they get married." Mother Shen comforted Wu Jiaying: "In the future, you two will have a child, we don't dislike boys or girls, as long as they are safe and healthy, harmonious and beautiful." We can rest assured that you can live your little days."

Wu Jiaying blushed and hummed, but the happiness in her eyes was already overflowing.During the years of working abroad, there were many suitors around her, but she couldn't see her at all.At that time, I thought that maybe I would never meet a person in my life, and I wanted to join hands with him to spend the rest of my life at the first sight, but unexpectedly, now she saw her yearning in Shen Bai.

It would be great if I could really walk into the palace of marriage with him.Wu Jiaying took a small spoonful of almond tofu and put it in her mouth. The sweet taste spread from her mouth to her stomach. What kind of lover, husband and father would he be?