Difficult round

Chapter 4

Nearly a month later, on Tuesday, Gu Yan ran into Shen Qi at the Hong Kong-style tea restaurant downstairs of the company.

The first date of the two when they were in college was in this tea restaurant. At that time, Gu Yan was cut off from his source of income by his family, and one lunch cost him half a month's part-time job money. I think everything is worth it.

This area is the CBD of City A, and there are hundreds of large and small companies. Many young people who choose to stay in City A after graduation will come here to find jobs.

Gu Yan was thinking about the future and said: "After we graduate, we will come here to work together, and then come here to eat every day."

Because Shen Qi loves horseshoe cake and fried rice noodles in tea restaurants, he worked harder to find part-time jobs to earn money. He would rather eat buns, steamed buns and instant noodles by himself than tighten his belt and bring Shen Qi to eat his favorite food.

After graduation, Gu Yan joined a certain luxury goods company, and was promoted to the deputy director of the design department in March this year, while Shen Qi worked in the toy company in the building opposite Gu Yan.

The tea restaurant has a special meal specially prepared for white-collar workers at noon, and the two often come to eat, which is considered to have achieved the goal of the year.

Shen Qi still likes to eat horseshoe cake and fried rice noodles here, and he never gets tired of eating them.

In fact, Gu Yan doesn't really like to eat those sweet things. The food in the tea restaurant is exquisite and beautiful, and the quantity is very small. Gu Yan is not very full. After sending Shen Qi back to the company, he often has to buy it at the convenience store. Get a sandwich as an extra meal, or you'll be hungry in the afternoon.

After breaking up, Gu Yan didn't come here to eat again. If the little girls under his command said they wanted to eat shrimp dumplings and quicksand buns at noon today, he might not come here for a long time.

It's not that I'm afraid of seeing things and thinking about others, it's just that I don't like to eat and can't get enough.

When Gu Yan and the others passed by, Shen Qi was already sitting in the lobby. He should have come here with his colleagues. There were seven or eight people sitting at a table in the middle of the lobby.

He was very close to the young woman wearing a light green long dress with his left hand, and the two were talking and laughing, as if automatically shielding everyone around them, with only each other in their eyes.

When Gu Yan was led in by the waiter, Shen Qi just looked back, the two met each other, Shen Qi smiled at him, but Gu Yan just nodded indifferently, as a greeting.

Then he walked past Shen Qi with big strides, and led a group of young people behind him into the private room inside.Until Shen Qi finished eating, the people inside did not come out.

"Master Shen Qixi, you have been looking over there absent-mindedly since the beginning, do you know anyone?" Zhao Lingling asked him when he got up to pay the bill.

Shen Qi shook his head, "No, I'm just... thinking about the list in the morning."

Zhao Lingling took the initiative to hold his arm, Shen Xi subconsciously avoided two steps, but was still caught by the other party:

"Don't worry so much. Although my dad paid you wages, he didn't ask you to sell your life to him, did he? Don't think about those things when you're not working!"

Shen Qi snorted, and before leaving the store, he glanced towards the box again: "Well, I know, let's go."

Before the lunch break, Zhao Lingling went to Shen Qi's work station to look for him again, and showed him the photos taken during the team building of the department last month.

They went to a well-known farm in Lin City, climbed mountains, barbecued, and played some games that tested the team's tacit understanding.

Shen Qi and Zhao Lingling partnered when playing two-person three-legged. The two cooperated tacitly. Shen Qi also fell down, but luckily he lay on Zhao Lingling's body without dying.

Colleagues around stopped playing games, and just made fun of them around them and took a lot of photos.

What Zhao Lingling showed him were the photos of the two of them falling into a ball.

"Master Shen Qiqi, you are so funny, what kind of expression is this, does falling with me make you so scared?"

In the photo, Shen Qi's eyes were wide open and his face was full of fear, Zhao Lingling was delighted to see it, and said angrily, "Those who don't know think you are facing some kind of scourge!"

Shen Qi smiled embarrassedly, but said nothing.Zhao Lingling thinks she understands him——Shen Xi seems to be gentle and considerate to everyone, but in fact, he seems to be separated from everyone, polite and alienated.

But there is no rock in the world that cannot be pried away, only people who don't work hard. She believes that one day she will be able to pry away this stone Shen Xi and walk into his heart.

Just like when she was rejected when she confessed to the other party for the first time, didn't she relax a bit when she mentioned it again later.

So Zhao Lingling's enthusiasm was not repelled, she passed the photos to Shen Qi, and set one of them as a mobile phone screen saver in front of him, and said with full expectation:

"Master Shen Qiqi, let's go out to play together next time, secretly, don't call other people, so as not to be laughed at by them!"

Boom.Boom.Boom... The photos came one after another, Shen Qi pinched the edge of the phone, and rubbed with his thumb a small piece of the phone's screen, somehow reminding him of the National Day of his senior year.

At that time, he and Gu Yan were in the period of passionate love, so naturally they refused to stay at home honestly during the seven-day long vacation, and planned to take a surrounding tour a few days earlier.

This plan was known by Tang Yan, who was not half conscious when he was used to light bulbs, and wanted to go out with the young couple to play noisy.

Gu Yan wanted to kick him into outer space, but Shen Qi couldn't bear to reject him. In the end, the two of them turned into a threesome, and they went camping in a certain mountain in Linshi.

Gu Yan was very sulky because of this, and later comforted himself by using the super-large light bulb as a humanoid camera. They played in front, and Tang Yan followed behind to take pictures of the two. Not a good shot.

Tang Yan was so angry that he almost dropped his phone and left, and vowed never to play with them again.

Gu Yan put his arms around him and laughed at Tang Yan hahaha. After laughing, he did whatever he wanted, and continued to force him to take pictures.

The two pecked at each other back and forth, Shen Xi was caught in the middle, in a dilemma, and finally had no choice but to grab Gu Yan's ear and threaten him to be quiet.This finally stopped.

In the end, the quarrel was for nothing. Tang Yan took hundreds of photos, but none of them could be seen. It was either so blurry that his parents didn't know each other, or he was obsessed with the odd angle and height ratio.

Gu Yan was silent for a long time, his clenched fist became hard and hard.

Halfway up the mountain road, Tang Yan, a good-for-nothing who only knew how to play games and watch anime all day long in the dormitory, was exhausted and paralyzed. Xi left by himself, regardless of his life or death.

After all the tossing, it was already evening when the three of them finally climbed to the campsite on the top of the mountain. Just in time for the sun to set, Gu Yan excitedly took a few selfies with his arms around Shen Qi in the afterglow of the setting sun.

Maybe it's because the sunset in the mountains is so beautiful, maybe it's because Gu Yan smiled so happily at that time, those few selfies that he took casually are surprisingly good-looking.

After returning from camping, Shen Qi ran to the photo studio to print the group of photos, and then struggled for a long time to choose the one he liked the most, put it in a specially bought photo frame and placed it on the bedside table, near Gu Yan's side.

Later, the two moved from the cheap rental house to the new house that Gu Yan bought, and the photo was also packed and taken away, and it was still placed on the bedside table next to Gu Yan.

Gradually, the photo seemed to be a dispensable existence in their room. They came in and out many times a day, and Shen Qi never paid attention to it. Xi almost forgot that they ever took such a photo.

However, once he thought of it, the sense of existence of that photo became very strong, making Shen Qi eager to see it, and wanted to put it next to his bedside table.

This feeling was so strong that when he was working in the afternoon, he didn't have the mind to do anything at all, his mind was full of Gu Yan's smiling eyebrows and eyes under the setting sun.

After finally getting off work, I realized that I really didn't accomplish anything all afternoon, and I was just thinking about Gu Yan.

For dinner, I made do with the sandwiches and yogurt I bought from the convenience store downstairs. After taking a shower, I sat in the study to catch up on work left in the afternoon, but it was still difficult to concentrate.

This is so wrong.

Shen Qi closed the laptop in despair, took a few deep breaths, and then called Gu Yan——

beep beep beep beep beep

He thought he had to find Gu Yan to get that photo right away, otherwise he would definitely suffer from insomnia tonight.

beep beep beep beep beep beep...

"Hello—" The phone rang for a long time before it was picked up. The moment he heard Gu Yan's voice, Shen Xi felt as if something was stuck in his throat, and he couldn't say a word that made him feel uncomfortable.

It wasn't until the person on the other end of the phone got impatient and fed again, that he asked in a low voice, "Gu Yan, can I go home?"

back.home.

Shen Qi was stunned for a moment after the words came out, and later realized that he had said the wrong words and used the wrong words, that place was no longer his home, so how could he have the right to say that.

Gu Yan probably felt the same way, and after a long silence, he asked, "What's the matter?" in a very distant and indifferent tone.

Shen Qi asked cautiously: "I left something at home...and left it with you, can I go and get it now?"

It took a while for Gu Yan to ask him again: "Now? If it's not urgent, I'll take it to the company tomorrow and put it at your front desk. I'm not at home right now."

In normal times, Shen Qi would definitely be able to hear the embarrassment in Gu Yan's tone, and would never do such a difficult thing, but tonight he was very impatient, and said without thinking:

"I think, get it now."

After speaking, he suddenly realized that he and Gu Yan had already broken up, and he shouldn't trouble each other with his temper like this.

Of course, he could also tell that Gu Yan was not at home, the voice on the phone was loud, and there were people calling Gu Yan's name constantly, urging him to come over, they were probably in a bar or something.

So Shen Qi put away the anxiety in his heart again, hugged his knees and curled up on the sofa and said to the other end of the phone: "Forget it, let's do it tomorrow, but don't bother, I'll go get it myself."

After thinking about it, I added another sentence: "Is it done?"

After all, it was no longer his home, and whether he could go there would of course have to follow the owner's wishes.

"Okay, then come here directly after get off work tomorrow, I have something to do later." The tone was still neither salty nor weak.

This phone call was about to end, and Gu Yan's friend was urging him again, Shen Xi couldn't help asking: "Gu Yan, where are you?"

In fact, it shouldn't be asked, but Shen Qi just couldn't hold back.

Gu Yan said: "The bar." Then, without waiting for Shen Qi to say anything else, he hung up the phone directly.

Shen Qi stared at the phone interface that ended the call, and said in a low voice:

"See you tomorrow, Gu Yan."