We are all wooden people

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The special period is gradually passing, and the employees of the design department have gradually adapted to the remote working mode of their own bosses.Every process is approved in a timely manner, and every design stage is also finalized. Whether the boss is present or not does not seem to be so important to them.Except for some nympho girls in the department who lamented that they hadn't seen the good looks of the boss for a long time, everyone else gradually recovered the order they had when Shen Yiqing was around.

Some people settled down, and some gradually couldn't sit still.

This day, Lu Hanzhi reported to Gu Yufan on his work routinely, and when he was about to leave with the folder, Gu Yufan pressed him on the chair.

"Is... is he okay?" Gu Yufan hesitated.

"Who?" Lu Hanzhi squinted at Gu Yufan, unlike the coldness who tended to ignore him recently, there was some sarcasm and sarcasm in his tone.

"Hanzhi, don't be like this, I don't believe you don't know what I'm talking about." Gu Yufan sighed helplessly.

"Do you think he'll be alright?" Lu Hanzhi threw the folder on Gu Yufan's desk, crossing his legs like a gentleman.

"He... can't keep fighting with me like this. I can't give him any response. He should have a new life." Gu Yufan spoke with difficulty.

"Brother Fan, I still call you brother because I know you will do this and really want to treat him well." Lu Hanzhi changed his posture and put his arms on the table, "Shen Yiqing is different from you, he It’s innate to like men, it’s not something you can find a girlfriend for him. He’s just like this all his life, if you don’t have someone else, even if he goes out of his way to fight you, it’s still his Things, are you pretending not to know what to do? Is it any good for you to tear off his disguise?"

"Hanzhi, you don't understand. If you were me, you would probably be able to understand my difficulties." Gu Yufan got up from the executive chair, lit a cigarette, walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows, and looked at the downstairs. The endless stream of cars the size of a matchbox, "I have loved him from the bottom of my heart since I was a child. I have not been as patient with Yu Ming as I have been with him. He is also obedient, and he has grown up to such a size that it doesn't bother me too much." When I went abroad to study, I had a quarrel with me for a while, and when I came back later, he did his business well. In the past two years, every time I went to his house for dinner, I would be dragged into a corner by my godmother. Persuade him. You probably can't understand, but the thoughtful look in my godfather's eyes every time I look at me can make me feel a thorn in my back."

Lu Hanzhi didn't say a word, Shen Yiqing's mess was no longer a secret in front of his father.

"Do you think I don't know why he is so nice to Niu Niu? Everything he has done far exceeds what my own father should do. The more he is like this, the more I feel guilty for him. I hope he can be good Live my own life, manage my own life, instead of putting me in the first place no matter what happens. He asked me to treat Yolanda well, let me spend more time with Niuniu, Lu Hanzhi, he often said such words Don't you feel distressed when you hear it? He is an independent person, not an appendage of me, Gu Yufan!"

Lu Hanzhi sighed deeply, he understands Gu Yufan's helplessness, and also understands Shen Yiqing's stubbornness, as friends and brothers of the two, it is really difficult for him to judge who is right and who is wrong.Then again, how many right and wrong are there in love?

He took back the folder he had just thrown out, stood up from the chair and walked out the door, just as his right hand touched the doorknob, he heard Gu Yufan's low, somewhat desperate voice.

"As much as I love him, I will push him as far as possible, even if he hates me."

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Another weekend of family gatherings.

Lu Hanzhi took his daughter-in-law into the gate of Gu's house, and saw Shen Yiqing holding Niu Niu sitting on the sofa in the corner telling stories, and Gu Yuming sitting next to them playing games with his legs crossed.

"Niuniu, where are your parents?" Lu Hanzhi went to sit beside them, patted Livia and asked her to help in the kitchen.

"Mom has been staying at my grandmother's house recently, and my father has gone to pick her up." Niu Niu replied in a childish voice.

Lu Hanzhi turned his head and looked around, everyone was there except Gu Yufan and his wife, "What's going on today? Why are there so many people?"

"I don't know, my mother called one after another early in the morning and asked them to come over for lunch." Gu Yuming yawned, obviously not waking up.

"How late did you get it yesterday?" Lu Hanzhi picked up a Niuniu's toy and played with it in his hands.

"It's about three o'clock. Send those big bosses back to the hotel one by one. It's almost dawn. I didn't come back and planned to spend the night with Brother Yiqing. We hadn't laid down yet. My mother called I came here and said that I have to come back for dinner no matter what." Gu Yuming couldn't help but yawned again.

"This doesn't feel right, the whole family banquet." Lu Hanzhi felt that something was wrong no matter what he thought.

Facts have proved that Lu Hanzhi's animal intuition is so accurate that even he himself feels scared.

Not long after the meeting started, several adults brought the topic to the most important purpose of today's family gathering - the issue of Shen Yiqing's girlfriend.

Gu Yuming lowered his head to pick up the rice, and glanced at Shen Yiqing who was feeding Niuniu as if he didn't hear anything from the corner of his eye.

"Qingqing, you are not too young, so you don't need to rush to get married, but you must have a suitable partner to talk to first." Under the signal of Shen's mother, Lu Hanzhi's mother spoke, "I talked to Livia two days ago. I found one for you together, Hanhan also looked at the photos and thought you would like it, do you think you can find time to meet next week?"

Lu Han didn't swallow his saliva, and almost sprayed Gu Yufan, who was sitting next to him, with a feeling of betrayal, "Mom, when did I see the photo? Don't blame me!"

"Shut up." Mother Lu glared at her son.

"Yeah, Qingqing, the godmother also thinks that you can settle down as soon as possible and let the old ones rest assured. I have seen the girl your aunt mentioned before. She is fair and well-educated. She just came back from studying in the UK. You are a few years younger, if you go to meet him, you will know more friends." Mother Gu was also beating on the side drums.

"Mom, you don't care if my brother Yiqing makes friends, don't you care too much?" Seeing Shen Yiqing's face getting darker and darker, Gu Yuming hurriedly smoothed things over, but was kicked under the table by Gu's mother. foot.

"Brother Fanfan, what do you think?" Shen Yiqing fed Niuniu a mouthful of food, raised his head and stared at Gu Yufan with eyes that no outsider could understand.

"Sophia, I know. Our company used to cooperate with his father's company. Next Saturday is the introduction reception for her return from studying abroad. Yuming, you can go with Yiqing. I'll give you the invitation later." Gu Yufan remained calm, and picked up a chopsticks dish for Yolanda who was sitting beside him, "It's not a bad thing to know more people, and you can't go back to China for so many years, there are only a few friends of us."

"Okay, I see." Shen Yiqing took a tissue and wiped Niu Niu's mouth, "Yu Ming, call me when the time is set. I still have something to do in the company in the afternoon, so I'll go first." After finishing speaking, he hugged Niu Niu He got up and sat on his chair, turned and walked towards the door.

With a wink from Lu Hanzhi, Gu Yuming immediately threw away his chopsticks, stood up and trotted two steps to keep up with Shen Yiqing, "I'm leaving too, I'm going with Brother Yiqing in the afternoon."

Gu's mother looked at the two vacant seats, feeling a little frustrated, "It's hard to get together once, and Qingqing left without eating. How can I get better if I don't eat on time?"

Gu Yufan lowered his head and firmly held his left hand under the table. Yolanda turned to look at him without saying a word.

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If there are still traces of Shen Yiqing's disappearance last time, and Qi Sixian always knew his whereabouts, then this time he disappeared completely. No one knew where he went. Gu Yuming's mind was filled.

"Gu Yufan, are you so satisfied? Are you satisfied that he disappeared completely!" Lu Hanzhi took part of the work for Gu Yuming, working overtime until late at night every day, and finally lost his temper at Gu Yufan unbearably.

"Hanzhi, I thought you understood." Gu Yufan stopped his hand that was signing, his face haggard.

"To be honest, I can't understand you more and more these years. He has just healed the hurt you caused him to find a girlfriend, and he is willing to go out with Yuming and me to socialize. When you turn around, you turn him away in front of Yolanda. It's not a bad thing to make more friends after selling it, hehe, I really have you! Why don't you just tell him, Shen Yiqing, get married as soon as possible, once you get married, I will be completely liberated."

"I didn't mean that." Gu Yufan felt helpless.

"Then what do you mean? That's what we heard from you!" Lu Hanzhi's voice became higher and higher.

"Brother, you really went too far this time." Gu Yuming, who had been silent all this time, couldn't help but speak.

dong dong.

"Come in!" The right knock on the door eased the embarrassment for a while.

"Mr. Gu, I received a courier this morning. It looks like it was sent by Director Shen." Qi Sixian was holding a courier package, and Shen Yiqing's name was signed in the mail box. He didn't even open it, and sent it directly. Arrived at Gu Yufan's place.

Gu Yuming quickly grabbed it and opened it, and a letter of resignation fell out.

Lu Hanzhi sneered, got up and slammed the door to leave.

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When Gu Yufan received Shen Yiqing's call, it was already past one o'clock in the morning.

He ignored his wife who was already sleeping beside him, turned over and got off the bed, put on a T-shirt and jeans and went out the door.When the car raced to the compound, Shen Yiqing stood at the door and was thinking of something.

Gu Yufan parked the car on the side of the road, and strode to Shen Yiqing's side.

"Brother Fanfan, do you still remember the wooden figure we used to play with when we were young?" Shen Yiqing lowered his head, and the streetlights shone obliquely, drawing a long figure on the ground.

"En." Gu Yufan looked at Shen Yiqing's back, feeling as if his heart was blocked by a ball of cotton.

"Let's play again, this time I'll catch it."

"Okay, let's start as you say."

"We are all wooden people."

"Don't talk, don't move."

In the middle of the night, the imperial capital was still full of feasting and feasting lights, but at this time the street in front of the compound was deserted. Shen Yiqing lowered his head and looked at his toes without making a sound, while Gu Yufan just watched him who was so silent and motionless.

"Brother Fanfan, I have listened to you since I was a child, and I will do what you say unconditionally, but this time, I'm really sorry." Shen Yiqing took out the wooden keychain that he always carried with him from his pocket.

"Yiqing, I..." Gu Yufan could probably guess what Shen Yiqing wanted to say, and hurriedly opened his mouth to explain.

"You are a wooden man now! You can't speak or move!" Shen Yiqing held the wooden man tightly, and looked up at Gu Yufan with stubborn and unwilling eyes.

Gu Yufan felt that Shen Yiqing at this time was extremely strange, yet familiar.Before graduating from university, when he announced to his three brothers that he would only go abroad if he didn't enter the university, he also had this expression now.It's just that at that time, in addition to his stubbornness, he also had a kind of unwillingness to admit defeat, but now, his eyes and movements reveal a kind of indelible sadness and despair.

"I slammed the door and left your house two days ago. I didn't mean it, but I was really sad. After so many years, I thought you knew my heart. Even if you didn't, you wouldn't have the heart to hurt me. How can you do this kind of thing to poke me? Is my existence so unbearable to you? Yes, yes, I like you. I only like you since I was a child, but I never bothered You! I know you don’t want to worry about being a godmother, so I married Yolanda. I flew more than 1 kilometers to come back just to wish you happiness. I know how much you have hoped for the only one. I dote on Niuniu so much because she is your own flesh and blood, and I treat her as my own. I have never expected anything in return from you. As long as you are happy, I am willing .My only wish is to be by your side like this, have I surpassed it?"

Shen Yiqing had already burst into tears, every word he choked up cut his heart like a knife.He used to think that Gu Yufan was like him, one pretended not to know, and the other killed the other, so they could continue to live in such a whitewashed way of peace.

"Yiqing, you should choose your own life." Gu Yufan said with difficulty.

"How do you know that this is not the life I chose? Do you know me that well? Do you think that if I call you brother, everything will follow your arrangement?!" Shen Yiqing was furious, "I am an independent person, I have the right and the ability to choose the way of life I want. As long as you say Shen Yiqing, stay away from me, I will disappear forever and never see you again. But you, on the surface, seem to be worried about me in everything, is it because of you I can't bear the crime of delaying my life! Gu Yufan, where did you get the confidence? Do you think that I, Shen Yiqing, have to depend on you for the rest of my life!"

"What do you know! You don't know anything. Why do you say that about me! I have been partial to you since I was a child. If you want the moon, I will find a way to move a ladder for you to pick it off! But Shen Yiqing, people can't be too selfish in life, this You said it yourself, no matter what, my parents have Yuming besides me, but what about your parents? Are you only thinking about your own feelings and not theirs!!" Gu Yu was furious, he didn't expect Shen Yiqing, whom he had cared for since childhood, did not understand him so well.

"How do you know that my parents don't know about this? I came out to them three years ago! I just don't like women. I can't possibly like any woman in my whole life!" Shen Yiqing said hoarsely, his voice It is no longer as clear as before.In his cognition, except that Gu Yufan doesn't like him, nothing can be an obstacle. Because of that obsession, he retreated again and again until there was no way to retreat, but Gu Yufan himself forced him to a dead end.He wants him to go on blind dates, get married, and even have children, and wants him to be happy at the knees of his parents, surrounded by children.Such a picture is really beautiful, but it is really not what he wants, he can't do it.

Looking at the hysterical Shen Yiqing in front of him, Gu Yufan suddenly felt tired. Over the years, he suppressed the impulse and passion in his heart not to care too much about Shen Yiqing, but in the end it became a big joke.He thought that all he had to do was watch Shen Yiqing happy from a distance, but he didn't realize that that person had already cut off all the back roads, and silently removed one obstacle after another on the thorny road.

"Yiqing, Yolanda married me, I can't let her down, if you want to leave, I can't stop you."

Gu Yu rubbed his sore eye sockets, turned around and left with his tired body.

If this is God's will, then so be it.