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The next morning, when Tao Ran entered the office, Wei Fangcheng came out of the small meeting room.I don't know how Chang Zheng talked to him, but Mr. Wei, whose eye circles are very red, looks like a hedgehog whose spines have just been pulled out, and only his last demeanor remains.It seems that I have just cried, and it seems that I am about to find a place to cry.

Tao Ran had already walked into the corridor and found him. Looking left and right, there was nowhere to hide, so he could only boldly pass him by.Wei Fangcheng didn't even look at him, just passed by rubbing his eyes.

Strange, the contrast between Kui in the first second and Jiaohua in the second is smaller than this.The door was not closed properly. Tao Ran glanced at the crack of the door when passing by, and made sure that Chang Zheng was the only one inside.

Chang Zheng looked more tired than he had just talked with a new client.With a full suit and upper body, he could only sit upright when he was exhausted, but based on Tao Ran's understanding of him, he now wished he could lie down on the table and rest for a while.

"How? Done?"

Chang Zheng smiled wryly: "Almost... I hope."

"I can't explain why, I feel a little afraid of him." Tao Ran frowned, and he was chewing on his own words: "You said that people are so paranoid and wishful thinking that they can change jobs for someone who hasn't got it yet. .”

Chang Zheng felt that he was hollowed out early in the morning, and he didn't have the strength to play psychology with him: "Didn't you also resign for love? Tell me about science, what does it feel like?"

"I can say now, are you sure you want to listen now?"

Chang Zheng leaned back in his chair, intending to give up on himself: "Early in the morning, at 09:30, talk to Wei Fang, 'Please don't go too far, this is the last time I refuse you politely' has already broken through the bottom line of my life , this is the company, it's ten o'clock, I really... I don't think you can surprise me any more. "

Tao Ran leaned against the door, his eyes were confused for a moment, but he quickly came back to his senses: "I found out that Xu Yuan was involved with my boss... the former boss's opponents, and they were already alienating him. As a result, he Moved faster than me, and forwarded an email from my computer that the big boss should never see. Given the situation at that time, such a small matter was enough to determine the outcome. So I was Resign."

"Oh, then you are really sorry for your former boss. He promoted you, but you cheated him in the end."

Tao Ran sighed: "I misunderstood Xu Yuan, because I didn't know people well. She relied too much on me, so she didn't know people well. When I mentioned my resignation, she said that she mentioned it a week earlier than me. Everyone After they are all gone, the matter will fade away. I will try my best to pay back the favor I owe her, and if it is not finished, I have no choice but to owe it."

The story is indeed tragic, and each character is to blame.Chang Zheng found that he couldn't think of anything to excuse Tao Ran, so he simply gave up: "Xu Yuan was recruited by you as soon as he graduated, so you can be regarded as slowly learning to be double-decker, you..."

Tao Ran laughed at himself: "Who am I? Why should I show him the way? Is my way right? He's actually pretty good at this trick. I think I really can't do it. The blue is the blue And it’s better than Lan, isn’t that good.”

Things are never that simple.A passionate young man falls in love with an older lover, and must follow suit in both work and life.If Tao Ran taught him carefully and cared for him with all his strength, even if Xu Yuan grew crooked, he wouldn't become such an ungrateful thing.

So it's really up to him to take the blame and resign.In public and private, he was irreparably wrong.

Given the current situation of the two of them, it would not be a wise move to seize the opportunity to get to the bottom of Tao Ran's past.Chang Zheng was silent for a moment, and was about to withdraw the topic. Unexpectedly, Tao Ran, a child who refused to suffer, lost his temper again. Before he made a gesture to leave, he gave him a few harsh words.

"I'm going out first. If I stay for another half an hour, maybe someone outside will think that your client has a problem." Tao Ran took out his mobile phone to look at it, put it back in his pocket, and adjusted his collar in a blink of an eye. It was Manager Tao at ten o'clock in the morning in Yushu Linfeng again: "I think Wei Fangcheng's arrogance is not arrogant anymore, but I'm afraid he won't give up so easily. He is different from Du Liangheng. I advise you to be careful."

How could Chang Zheng fail to understand the stubble he left behind, and picked it up resignedly: "Why is it different?"

Tao Ran smiled and replied, "Du Liangheng doesn't like you that much. Wei Fangcheng is sincere, but he's not the right person."

"Oh, I even know that people are wrong with you."

Tao Ran refused to accept his teasing, "I'm just guessing. How can I get involved with the boss's personal affairs?"

Chang Zheng waved his hand feebly, asking him to go away.

Ten seconds later, the cannon fodder Miss Bai came knocking on the door with a notebook in her hand, and asked pokingly, "Boss Chang, Manager Tao went downstairs very happily just now, and I didn't have time to find him. I have a question, can I ask you directly? "

Chang Zheng forgot to restrain his anger, and raised his head to give the little girl a direct and clear look.Wei Fangcheng is mentally abnormal, and Tao Ran has an ambiguous relationship, so he doesn't have to worry about Bai Manman.The evil spirit soared into the sky, and if you dare to bother me again, I will chop you into pieces and rush towards the door.

So Bai Manman was frightened again, and fled in despair.

Twelve hours later, in the underground garage of a commercial complex.

Chang Zheng has a lot of things on his mind recently, and this client is fairly familiar, so he didn't take it seriously to persuade him to drink.About seven or eight o'clock in the middle of the meal, he replied to Du Liangheng's message and sent him the location, and then put the phone aside and ignored it.After the seats were over, he took a closer look, only to realize that Du Liangheng had arrived in the underground garage a long time ago and had been waiting for him in the car for a long time.

From the last phone call to make an appointment for this meeting, Du Liangheng's performance was completely different from the previous inertia.He has always been a character with a very keen sense of proportion. If Chang Zheng retreats, he doesn't need to say a word of nonsense, and he doesn't even need to look at him. He will immediately accompany him to retreat with interest.But this time, it was almost aggressive.

Opening the car door and taking a seat, the inside was filled with the lingering smell of smoke, Chang Zheng couldn't help frowning and glanced at Du Liangheng.

"Why didn't I know you smoked?"

"I don't usually smoke much, and I always avoid you. Recently..." Du Liangheng hesitated to speak, his forced smile was full of exhaustion: "Forget it, I seldom smoke in the car, so I don't know how to drive." How long does it take for the window to have no smell. Sorry, it smelled to you."

If Chang Zheng is willing to take care of others, Chang Zheng can also do it comprehensively.But these routines are best done half-hidden and half-revealed, showing a little concern casually, which is the most attractive.From the first meeting to the present, Chang Zheng and Du Liangheng conveyed their wish to each other not to go further, and took turns doing such small things that disturb people's hearts. This relationship that is not far or close has been maintained until now.

Now that Du Liangheng was putting his words on the table so harshly, Chang Zheng understood it as soon as he heard it, and suddenly understood what his intention was for insisting on making an offer.

Chang Zheng hated the smell of cigarettes. This was a detail that Du Liangheng had already discovered during the first few meetings.Since he has been hiding it, it means that if he wants to hide it, he has the ability.The smell of smoke in the car at the moment is the clearest statement.Chang Zheng is no longer someone he needs to bother to hide.

Every relationship begins and ends when it is naturally carved.

This silence lasted only three to five seconds, and Chang Zheng's eyes on Du Liangheng had changed.A smile slowly permeated the corners of Chang Zheng's eyes and brows, and the momentary connection of hearts, although not out of love, was enough to make people happy.

——No matter what the situation, what purpose.

"It was such a special goodbye."

Du Liangheng was stunned.Chang Zheng is really too smart, he guessed everything just like that.

"Chang Zheng, you..."

Chang Zheng still smiled: "Now they start calling me by first and last name, it's really fast."

Since the person being bid farewell is so free and easy, it would be really boring for Du Liangheng to carry it like this.After realizing that the matter had skipped all the steps and progressed directly to this point, he could only laugh along with it, but he let out a slight gasp because the wound on his face was affected.

"Huh? How many days has it been, and it's still so serious?"

Du Liangheng raised his hand to touch the corner of his lips that had not yet healed, and sighed inaudibly.

How many unfinished words, all paid in silence.Chang Zheng roughly speculated on several possibilities, none of which he wanted to confirm.Before today, when he saw that Du Liangheng had an injury on his face, he would not take the initiative to ask.From now on, it will be even more impossible.

"I..." Du Liangheng seemed to have finally made up his mind. After a long silence, he turned his head and quietly looked at Chang Zheng in the dim light of the garage: "I actually don't have any friends."

"Is it popular to issue friend cards now? I remember that in the past two years, they were usually good friend cards?"

Du Liangheng was amused.His movement of touching the wound was really awkward, Chang Zheng glanced at it, couldn't help it, and still laughed very unkindly.

One extremely depressed and the other slightly drunk, two laughters with different frequencies but the same sincerity blended together, and the dangerously tense string gradually loosened a bit.Only then did Du Liangheng feel that the knife hanging in his heart had finally landed.

"I've always been afraid of you asking me what happened recently."

"I'm not that kind of person, you should know."

Du Liangheng sighed again: "Yes, I know, so I'm even more afraid of what to do if you ask me."

After thinking about it, this thought was reasonable. Chang Zheng took a closer look at his face, and gradually put away his joking attitude.

"As long as you think we are still friends, that's it. As a friend, I also advise you, don't ask if you can't ask for it. Sometimes there is a way to survive by accepting fate, and struggling is seeking death."

Du Liangheng subconsciously wanted to get a cigarette, but Chang Zheng just stared at him motionlessly, so he could only withdraw his hand and put it on the steering wheel in embarrassment: "I have already accepted my fate, but he actually came to me, I..."

"If you show your face, you won't be able to control yourself. This is not called accepting your fate."

Du Liangheng didn't answer, but the sound of his breathing that deepened suddenly couldn't deceive anyone.

Chang Zheng waited patiently for a while, and sure enough, Du Liangheng's desire to confide overwhelmed his reason: "I'm not wrong, why should I just accept my fate? For so many years, I've been hiding far away, if I can take one less look, I can still How about it, I..."

Chang Zheng interrupted him indifferently: "If you keep doing this, you won't be slapped in the face. I don't know him, and I don't know you, but just by meeting him that day, I can tell that He definitely didn't come to you to express his feelings, did he?"

Du Liangheng's wry smile was worse than crying: "My mother sent him to see how I'm doing. Why do I keep pushing back and forth every New Year's day?"

"And then you think it's a godsend, right?"

No one can resist asking this question, not to mention Du Liangheng's state of confusion: "...Chang Zheng, are you so mean to all your friends?"

As soon as the words fell, Chang Zheng suddenly removed all sharp edges like a machine that retracted freely.Maybe Du Liangheng's gaze was too complicated, or maybe Chang Zheng knew too much how much a single attachment could hurt, so he even smiled slightly while being gentle: "I don't have any friends either. Besides, I'm just telling the truth."

Du Liangheng, who was sweating all over when asked, had no choice but to accept his sincere friendship like a scalpel.

That night, they ended up going nowhere.Du Liangheng didn't care whether it was blocked or not, he just drove on and off all the way, and slowly sent Chang Zheng home.

"I didn't actually want to say goodbye to you. I mean, although I intended to, but..."

Chang Zheng leaned lazily on the back of the chair: "Yes, you are here to make friends."

Du Liangheng couldn't laugh or cry: "So you are such a person."

"Friends with benefit, the focus used to be on benefit, so of course I'm polite and friendly to you."

"...That's right."

Du Liangheng's handsome side face flickered with the light outside the window, like a long shot in an old movie, beautiful but far away.Chang Zheng stared at this scene for a long time, and finally looked away.

The fate between people rarely ends in such a peaceful and tacit way.He came with a decision, and just happened to find that the other party also had the same purpose. Such a coincidence, it was a gift.

Du Liangheng and that cousin may not have a "then". Whether Chang Zheng and Tao Ran will have a future is also unknown.Fortunately, neither of them wants to interfere with the possibility of the other's life.Wherever there is a glimmer of hope, men are willing to give their hearts to fate, honey or poisoned wine, but to fate.

With such a consensus, they will eventually go their separate ways.Most of the encounters of travelers who have accompanied each other are also like this.

When the car arrived downstairs, Du Liangheng said "good night" first.Chang Zheng nodded at him, opened the car door, and set foot on the ground again.

None of them looked back.

The author has something to say: Mr. Du is just a friend from now on, and even I am a little bit disappointed when I write this.Companionship and love are always difficult to distinguish clearly, so I have always understood that companionship is just companionship, and I don't know whether it is Chang Zheng and Du Liangheng's luck or misfortune.

PS Du Liangheng's name means weight and measure.