Dead but not stiff

At six o'clock in the morning, the screen of the mobile phone quietly placed on the bedside table flickered, and then began to buzz and vibrate.

Shen Bai, who was still sound asleep a second ago, suddenly opened his eyes, grabbed the phone vigorously, and hung up.

Chen Nali on the phone: "?????"

Shen Bai put down his phone, turned his head cautiously, and saw Gu Xien's side face buried in the snow-white pillow, his hair was spread out, and the neckline of his pajamas was slightly open. He looked peaceful, well-behaved and defenseless.

Shen Bai heaved a sigh of relief, his eyes were full of tenderness, he stretched out his hand to touch the top of his hair lightly, and pulled the quilt over his shoulders, then turned over lightly and got out of bed.

Chen Nali, who waited anxiously for more than five minutes, finally received a call back from her boss. Shen Bai, who had just woken up, asked her in a deep and magnetic voice, "What's the matter?"

"Father, do you forget things too much, old man? Is this the case? Have you signed the contract with Mr. Gu?"

Shen Bai leaned against the door frame of the bathroom, cleared his throat, and answered her calmly and self-possessively: "Sign, according to the original three to seven."

"Uh..." Chen Nali said hesitantly, "Didn't you and Mr. Gu get back together? Why are you still bullying people like this?"

"I've always kept a clear line between public and private. You have such a big opinion, is it because you think money is burning your hands?"

"I don't hate it, I don't hate it." Who would refuse to make money.

"However," Chen Nali asked suspiciously, "Would President Gu agree to such a loss-making business?"

Shen Bai changed into a comfortable position and continued to lean on, and said leisurely: "Although it is an acquisition, Huang has no intention of increasing its capital. The finances are accounted for separately, and the internal debt relationship still needs to be digested by itself. The dire situation is still in dire straits. It’s just a new group of people to reorganize the country.” He said with a chuckle, and continued: “However, when the news of the acquisition came out a while ago, the stock of this company was bluffing and following the daily limit for a few days. I'm afraid it will not end well if it comes down to the cooperation project."

"Tsk, Dad, you are taking advantage of others." Chen Nali's tone revealed a bit of schadenfreude: "Be careful of being proud in business, but frustrated in love."

"Thank you for the reminder."

"You're welcome." Chen Nali said boldly, "I'll have some meat to eat with Dad, so I'll make an appointment with Mr. Gu."

"No need, I'll tell him directly." Shen Bai leisurely said: "He probably wakes up soon, so he'll hang up first."

Chen Nali: "!!!!!!"

After hanging up the phone, Shen Bai walked to the door of the bedroom lightly, and slowly pushed the door open. The young man on the bed still maintained the previous position, sleeping peacefully and quietly.

Shen Bai breathed a sigh of relief for no reason, and then immediately felt puzzled by his inexplicable guilt, he walked slowly to the bedside, and couldn't help but leaned over and kissed the young man on the cheek.

Gu Xien's eyelashes trembled, and then slowly opened his eyes.

"Are you awake?" Shen Bai, who played a prank and disturbed people's sleep, not only did not feel guilty, but said innocently with a smile on his lips: "I want you to sleep a little longer, but it's already past seven o'clock. , Aren't you still going to the company today?"

Gu Xien blinked his sleepy eyes, sat up in a daze, hummed lightly, then got up and got out of bed.The hem of the pajamas was brought up by his standing up, revealing a beautiful waistline.Shen Bai swallowed, tried his best to suppress the evil fire that got up in the morning, covered his mouth and coughed, and volunteered: "Then do you want me to see you off?"

"No need." Gu Xien reached out to the bedside table to pick up the phone, checked the time, looked up and said to him, "I'm going to pick up the car on weekends, and Uncle Li has come to pick it up these few days."

Shen Bai was a little surprised: "It seems that he will follow you from now on? Don't you need to go to work with Huang Huaisheng?"

Gu Xien said in a neutral tone, "It's what my mother meant."

Shen Bai looked worried and said: "Is she trying to train you, or is she trying to control you?"

Gu Xien frowned: "Can you speak nicer?"

Shen Bai hated iron for being weak, and his tone couldn't help but aggravated: "I left the child alone for so many years and ignored it, but now I claim it back on a whim, and I have to follow her instructions. Gu Xi'en, you are not a Robot, won't you resist?"

The air was quiet for more than half a minute before I heard Gu Xien say slowly: "But, she is my last relative in this world."

"You are her child, and you are not an object without emotion. You throw it away at will and pick it up again, and you can put it wherever you want. What about your will and your thoughts? Does she understand? She—"

"Chen Bai," Gu Xien interrupted him, stood up and sighed, but looked at him and smiled, "I know what you said, but you are not me after all. The reason why you can say this is because I have experienced Yes, you haven't experienced it."

"However," Gu Xien saw that Shen Bai was about to refute, so he put his hand to cover his mouth, and said with a smile, "Thank you, you can say such a thing, which already makes me very happy."

After Gu Xi'en finished speaking, he walked out of the bedroom and went into the bathroom. Shen Bai chased him out, leaning against the edge of the door frame and said resolutely, "I think I need to talk to your mother."

Gu Xien paused while squeezing the toothpaste, and said with an unnatural expression: "She doesn't know about us being together yet."

"That's right, let's talk about it together." Shen Bai said: "You know she doesn't love you, why do you care so much about her thoughts?"

"I'll think about it."

"Generally speaking, when I think about it again, it is basically the same as saying, let's not talk about this matter."

Gu Xien turned to look at him helplessly: "Are you still at work?"

"I can't go to school anymore, the family affairs haven't been resolved yet, so I'm going to some bad class."

"Then you stay here and think about it slowly." Gu Xien didn't bother to pay attention to someone's nose and face, retracted his eyes and threw him such a sentence, and the electric toothbrush buzzed to cut off the deep protest in the air middle.

Half an hour later, Gu Xi'en was fully dressed, and Uncle Li's phone call came as scheduled. Gu Xi'en hung up the phone, looked at Shen Bai sitting on the sofa with his legs crossed, and his face was full of unhappiness, and said: "You want to go out with me Is it? Or shall I leave you the key?"

Shen Bai stood up suddenly, and said angrily: "Of course we go out together, otherwise you will treat me as sitting here and waiting for someone's wife?"

Gu Xi'en couldn't help laughing, walked over and reached out to stroke the thick hair on the back of his head, and said with a smile in his eyes: "Okay, snoring is fine."

Shen Bai's nose was not nose and eyes, and he said: "It's the same thing to go out with you, and you must give me a pair of keys."

"Okay, okay." Gu Xien said perfunctorily, looked at the time and was afraid that Uncle Li would be in a hurry, so he walked quickly to the entrance to change his shoes and picked up the coat on the hanger.

Shen Bai followed, changed the shoes together, watched Gu Xien hang the coat on his arm, and immediately frowned: "Put it on, it's windy outside."

"I'm going straight to the car."

"Then you have to be outside a short distance away, don't you want me to serve you when you catch a cold?"

Gu Xien surrendered, obediently put on his overcoat, opened the door and went out, when the Shenbai nagging voice sounded again: "Button it up."

The two came out of the corridor together, and Gu Xien said to Shen Bai: "Go and drive your car, Uncle Li is waiting for me at the gate of the community." He hesitated for a while, but still added: "You first Wait a few minutes before we leave and you come out."

Shen Bai was not happy: "We're engaging in a relationship openly and aboveboard, and it's not an affair, so what are you doing evasively?"

Gu Xi'en supported his forehead, and explained: "Don't let my mother know, or I'm afraid of her..." He paused, and changed his words before finishing the previous sentence: "Anyway, let's wait."

"Your mother has such a submissive son like you, she has accumulated great virtues in her previous life." Shen Bai just sneered, Gu Xien knew his inner displeasure, so he waved his hands and walked down the steps without arguing with him : "Okay, I'll go first, be careful when driving."

When Gu Xien left the gate of the community, Uncle Li's car was parked in the same place. He walked over and opened the back seat door to get in. He heard Uncle Li whisper warmly, "Master Gu, do you want to have breakfast first?"

"No need, Uncle Li." Gu Xien said politely, "Let's go directly to the company first."

"Okay." Uncle Li started the car, and the car merged into the morning rush hour convoy in S City at [-] o'clock in the morning, and drove towards the company.

After Shen Bai joined the company, he accidentally ran into Xiao Liu who had been avoiding him since the accident last time. This kid asked Shen Bai a morning with trepidation. When he turned around, Shen Bai asked, "How is the construction schedule?"

Xiao Liu wiped off his sweat and said falteringly, "It's not very ideal."

Shen Bai frowned: "The reason?"

Xiao Liu explained: "Gong Li said that there was a problem with the structural design of the ancillary building given by Mr. Gu, and he could just take advantage of the opportunity of demolition and reconstruction to redesign it, so the time was a little too late."

"What's the problem?"

"This..." Xiao Liu wondered: "I'm too professional and I can't tell the clues. Anyway, the current situation is that Li Gong cut off all the previous designs of Gu Gong, and everything is based on the new one."

Shen Bai was sullen: "Why didn't you report this kind of thing?"

Xiao Liu was confused: "Ah? Do you need to report? I thought, as a project manager, you have a certain right to speak."

"Measures that affect the progress of the construction period must be approved by the superior. You worked with other people on the project before, did they do whatever they wanted?" Shen Bai's forehead was throbbing with veins, he waved his hand and said irritably, "You Needless to say, let Li Gong come to me."

Xiao Liu nodded timidly, turned around and ran away.

Shen Bai entered the office, and just as he sat down on the chair, the phone in his pocket vibrated.

He picked it up and heard Mother Shen's quiet voice asking him, "Are you busy?"

"Mom, just tell me if you have anything to do." Shen Bai pressed the speakerphone, put the phone on the table, turned on the computer calmly, and entered the password.

"Oh, I thought about it for a while," Shen's mother said slowly, as if she was still thinking and hesitating: "If you are free this weekend, take Xiao Gu and come to our house for dinner."

Shen Bai stopped typing on the keyboard, grabbed the phone, and said happily: "Mom, can I understand that you accept this daughter-in-law?"

Shen's mother sighed heavily, and said quietly: "You can think so, this weekend, I will invite your second uncle and his family to have a reunion dinner."

Shen Bai's dross emotions that were poured in one after another early in the morning dissipated in an instant, and he said with a smile: "Okay, no problem. Do you want to book a restaurant? Or eat at home?"

"Since it's a reunion dinner, it's natural to eat it at your own home."