Chapter 23
Chapter 23
On the second Monday of February, Lingyin holds a group meeting.
All employees gathered in the meeting room on the top floor.Ruan Mohan still felt bored, felt for the cigarettes and lighter in his coat pocket, and slipped to the rooftop.
She seldom drinks alcohol, keeps in good health on a daily basis, and occasionally smoking is a way for her to decompress herself.
Approaching the rooftop, this time it was not Chu Xingyun, but two other people.
A lowered female voice came from the corner: "Did you say anything?"
The male voice faltered: "I'm looking for a chance tonight..."
It's Zhong Yunli and Director Xu.
Ruan Mohan's ears are sensitive, and before he pushed open the half-hidden door of the roof, he heard the voices of the two hiding in the corner talking.
She was not interested in eavesdropping and decided to go downstairs.
Zhong Yunli's next words had already caught her ears: "Don't talk to me tonight, and don't come to me in the future! Remember clearly, the house and all your money will not be given to your wife and son!"
Ruan Mohan temporarily stopped.
Director Xu was in a dilemma: "My son is still so young..."
Zhong Yunli sneered: "You are 53, I am not yet thirty, and I am still young to you. If you don't leave enough money, how can I spend the rest of my life with you?"
Director Xu persuaded her: "Let's discuss this matter carefully. After all, that is my wife who has lived with me for decades, and my own son..."
Zhong Yunli said viciously: "There is no need to discuss! Otherwise, we will make a clean break!"
Director Xu was still persuading Xu Xu, but Ruan Mohan didn't want to listen any more, and left.
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Ruan Mohan went to the smoking room to smoke, and was going to sneak back to the conference room before the group meeting ended.
She has outstanding work ability, and no one will accuse her of slipping away, but she understands that in terms of formality, Jian Ming and the board of directors must save face.
Superficial conformity is actually the best way for adults to be lazy.
Ruan Mohan thought, Jian Shuo didn't understand this yet.
Like a little beast with teeth and claws, even the clothes are dazzling and flamboyant, even being scolded by Yang Haining, he doesn't know how to say a soft word.
Still childish.
Just thinking about Jian Shuo, when he looked up, he saw Jian Shuo's sister-in-law Bai Jingxian.
Ruan Mohan nodded in greeting: "Ms. Bai."
Bai Jingxian smiled cordially: "Director Ruan, I made an appointment with A Ming to watch a drama tonight, so I came to the company in advance to wait for him."
Bai Jingxian was wearing a light gray slim dress, Ruan Mohan glanced at her belly, it was slightly bulging, and the luster on her face became more and more moist.
The last time I went to Jane's house on New Year's Eve, Bai Jingxian couldn't tell by her loose clothes. Now I infer that she is probably five months pregnant.
Ruan Mohan is not a talkative person: "I'll go back to the conference room first."
Bai Jingxian called her to stop: "Director Ruan."
"A Shuo recently...how is it?"
Ruan Mohan turned back: "Have you not been in touch?"
Bai Jingxian smiled desolately: "We used to have a relationship, but after I found out that I was pregnant, this child seemed to be having trouble."
"No matter my phone call or WeChat, I don't reply at all."
"She spent the Chinese New Year alone. I want to ask, is she... all right?"
Ruan Mohan recalled the first time they met after the Spring Festival, Jian Shuo immersed herself in the soup, and the table beside her was full of instant noodles and self-heating hot pot.
Ruan Mohan didn't know how to answer the question whether it was good or not, so he just said: "She is an adult and can take care of herself."
Bai Jingxian smiled: "Grandma said the same. Probably in the whole family, I am the only one who thinks she never grew up."
Ruan Mohan took a deep look at her: "Ms. Bai, you seem to be very good at reading people."
The ability to recognize human nature in this way is actually a waste if it is confined to the home kitchen.
Bai Jingxian didn't want to delay Ruan Mohan's time: "Director Ruan, I'm sorry to delay your return to the meeting room."
Ruan Mohan shook his head and said he was fine: "Goodbye."
She walked into the conference room, and heard Bai Jingxian's footsteps, which sounded softly on the soft carpet, and then stopped.
As if staring at her back.
Ruan Mohan looked back while opening the door, but Bai Jingxian's figure had disappeared.
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Shortly after today's meeting, it was six o'clock, and Ruan Mohan took the elevator to the underground parking lot.
A lazy voice sounded with a smile: "I knew I would meet you first."
"You never seem to work overtime in the office."
Ruan Mohan glanced at the corner: "Why, did you switch positions?"
She didn't see Jian Shuo next to the elevator this afternoon, she was still wondering if Jian Shuo had entered the house and chased after Zhong Yunli's house.
After thinking about it, how is it possible.
Not to mention Zhong Yun Liyun's disapproval, just talking about Jian Shuo, how could he lose Ruan Mohan, an important and only audience.
At that time, she already knew that she would meet Jian Shuo in the underground parking lot.
Jian Shuo smiled lazily: "Outside your office, in front of so many people, I can only pretend to be a shy little white rabbit. I can't even see Zhong Yunli's face. How can I chase after you?"
"How nice the underground parking lot." She approached Ruan Mohan: "Dim, claustrophobic, like another underground world."
"When people come here, their vigilance is relaxed, and their desires are awakened."
She pressed against Ruan Mohan's ear, sniffed the little light brown mole: "Director Ruan, do you think so?"
Ruan Mohan walked away with a blank expression.
Jian Shuo saw that no matter how teased she was, Ruan Mohan was unmoved, so she snorted boredly.
She shook the envelope in her hand, as if offering a treasure to Ruan Mohan: "Look, the ticket, my weapon to capture Zhong Yunli."
Ruan Mohan glanced at her: "Aren't you talking about drama tickets?"
Jian Shuo smiled: "How do you know?"
"Zhong Yunli thinks that she is noble and elegant, and loves art exhibitions and dramas the most. That fat-hearted Director Xu just doesn't like these things. Obviously, she can't satisfy her vanity at this level."
She suddenly opened her hands and pinched Ruan Mohan's arms: "Oh, angel of light! I am looking up at you in the night, just like a mortal in the world, with wide open eyes looking at an angel with wings ! (Remark 1)"
She recited a classic line from "Romeo and Juliet" in an exaggerated drama tone, stared into Ruan Mohan's eyes, but was gentle and sincere, as if no matter how exaggerated she said, it was what she had in mind.
The person in front of her was really the angel she looked up to in her heart.
Jian Shuo noticed that Ruan Mohan did not avoid her touch and gaze, and squeezed Ruan Mohan even tighter.
The face as delicate as a rose approached, carrying the fragrance of dahlias all over her body, as if she wanted to see into Ruan Mohan's heart from the bottom of her eyes.
Ruan Mohan just asked indifferently, "Why did you ask Zhong Yunli to watch "Romeo and Juliet"?"
Jian Shuo: "Youth throbbing, pure love. Isn't this kind of plot my best assist?"
She answered Ruan Mohan's words in her mouth, but she did not relax at all when she stared into Ruan Mohan's eyes.
It seems that the personality can be split perfectly, while discussing with Ruan Mohan about pursuing other people, while expressing affection to Ruan Mohan with his eyes.
"Sister Mo, I did all this for you."
"do you understand me?"
The dark eyes are like the cat that Jian Shuo often teases in the underground parking lot.Simple, sincere, innocent and sincere.
Jian Shuo thought that Ruan Mohan would hide, but unexpectedly Ruan Mohan just looked back at her quietly.
Light brown pupils, like a foggy forest, once a lost traveler steps in, he will never dream of getting out.
Jian Shuo couldn't look into her eyes at all.
Ruan Mohan asked Jian Shuo: "You took Zhong Yunli to watch the drama, and it was because of me?"
"of course."
Ruan Mohan: "I thought that you chose to take Zhong Yunli to the drama tonight just to see Bai Jingxian."
The indifferent tone seemed to have greatly stimulated Jian Shuo.
Jian Shuo shook off Ruan Mohan fiercely, but Ruan Mohan staggered as he couldn't stand firmly in his high heels.
The excited light flashed in his eyes.
But soon, Jian Shuo regained his composure.
The corners of her lips curled up into a smile: "You don't think I have an affair with *sister-in-law, do you?" She asked Ruan Mohan, "Do you like this kind of plot?"
Ruan Mohan shook his head: "I just want to see if you are a completely emotionless person."
Bai Jingxian, who is like a mother, is just a bit of warmth that you are greedy for, or has it already existed in your heart.
Ruan Mohan stared at Jian Shuo like he was staring at a little white mouse.
"Interesting." Jian Shuo stretched out her slender fingers and picked Ruan Mohan's chin: "So you used me like this."
"Use me to do one of your studies?"
Ruan Mohan looked at Jian Shuo indifferently, as if he didn't even bother to avoid it.
Jian Shuo didn't get any response, so she withdrew her fingers boredly: "I've let you down."
"I took Zhong Yunli to watch a play, it has nothing to do with my sister-in-law."
"Tonight I will let you understand why I took her to the play."
She went to a corner and squatted down, as if looking for the cat every time.
"The cat is not here today." Ruan Mohan looked at her back and said, opened the door to get in the car, and left the underground parking lot.
******
Back home, Ruan Qingyin looked at her a little strangely.
Ruan Mohan: "What?"
Ruan Qingyin: "Mom, I don't know when, but when you arrive home, sometimes it will be a few minutes later."
"You are the most punctual person. In the past, when you came home from get off work, every second was accurate."
Ruan Mohan's heart skipped a beat.
She didn't expect Ruan Qingyin to be so sensitive.
On the surface, he responded lightly: "Really? Maybe because sometimes, I will wait two more red lights."
Ruan Qingyin nodded, and went to the side to flip through the picture book.
Ruan Mohan glanced at the little figure, wondering if Ruan Qingyin believed it.
In fact, she found this reason clumsily.It is not from a recent day that traffic lights suddenly appeared on the road.
Ruan Qingyin's question, she knew the answer very well.
Since which day?It started from the day when Jian Shuo would occasionally appear in the parking lot of Lingyin.
When Ruan Qingyin asked, Ruan Mohan realized that she would chat with Jian Shuo every time.
Obviously she is the person who has the most sense of time, and she never wants to waste even a minute for nothing.
Ruan Mohan suddenly said to Ruan Qingyin: "Thank you."
Ruan Qingyin raised her head: "Thank you for what?"
"Thank you for helping me bring in the takeaway food before I got off work."
Actually not.
She was Xie Ruan Qingyin's question, which sounded the alarm for her.
After dinner, Ruan Mohan continued working on his laptop.
Suddenly, the mobile phone that was put aside rang, it was the strange yet familiar number.
Jane Shuo.
Ruan Mohan thought of Jian Shuo's parking lot in the evening, and said: "Tonight I will let you understand why I took Zhong Yunli to the drama."
The extremely charming voice is like a mermaid that tempts sailors to throw themselves into the net and lose their lives.
Ruan Mohan stretched out his hand and hung up the phone.
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