It turns out that no one survives in love

A week after the road trip, Lin Rui didn't meet Li Tian.The reason is only one word: busy. . .

Li Tian gave the project manager Xiao Zhou a pick in Huacheng. After a group of people returned to Beijing, as long as they saw Boss Li in the company, they all looked at him with pitiful and abandoned expressions.At the end of the day, Li Tian was looked at with hairs all over, so he had to "take the initiative" to express that he would participate in the follow-up work and decision-making.When the materials and reports of this month were all on his desktop, it was too late for him to regret.It seems that the plan to "strike while the iron is hot" with Lin Rui to have dinner and watch a movie fell through.

Who made me agree?Even if I pretended to be X by myself, I had to finish pretending even when I was kneeling.

I called Lin Rui to explain the situation. Unexpectedly, Lin Rui was relieved, "In addition to class this week, I have to give a report in the courtyard, and I will go to Hong Kong for a meeting on the weekend. I will have time to meet after next Wednesday."

After finishing speaking, the two of them laughed wryly on both sides of the phone, which can be regarded as a kind of tacit understanding. . .

After hanging up the phone, Li Tian laughed at himself, thinking that the tacit understanding between the two of them is not the only thing.The two of them never had a clear discussion, but they both consciously did not tell Haiming about being together.

Li Tian didn't understand what he was struggling with, but he just felt that once he did this, he would acquiesce in Haiming's important position in Lin Rui's life.Deception, but that's all.

For Lin Rui, the reason is simpler: he is not sure.He didn't know how long he could walk with Li Tian.Whether you say he is pessimistic or awkward, he doesn't have much confidence in this relationship.He didn't know how much sincerity Li Tian had towards him, but he knew that he wasn't in love with him.The two of them are so busy that they can't even "live together", so he is a little confused.

The two agreed to video chat every night, but they never implemented it except after chatting about trivial matters on the first night.The first time was because it was almost midnight for Li Tian to go home, so he simply agreed to talk tomorrow, after the two said good night to each other, they continued to work.As a result, Lin Rui caught up with Wednesday's PPT the next day. . .

In this way, after a few days, both parties lost interest in the video and did not mention it again.

On the weekend of the second week, Li Tian finally "paid off the debt", came to his senses, and invited Lin Rui to his house for dinner.

When he arrived at the gate of Li Tian's house, Lin Rui felt a little emotional.The last time he came to Li Tian's house was to play tennis with Qin Yue and Jin Yu. The time when Li Tian was injured and sent him home, he still remembered that he was very resistant to Li Tian's ambiguous "flirtatious" behavior at that time. It was delivered to the door.Thinking of this, he resignedly rang the doorbell.

Li Tian quickly opened the door and let Lin Rui in, but immediately turned around and ran back to the kitchen, saying as he ran, "Get the slippers yourself, the second floor of the shoe cabinet." See such an "inconvenient" host.

After changing his shoes, he was curious to see what Li Tian was doing.The kitchen is open, and when viewed from the living room, it is clear at a glance: plates, bowls, sinks, cutting boards, vegetables, meat, noodles, garbage. . .Covered the entire cooking table. . .

Lin Rui was amused, "Hey~ You have made such a big show!"

As he walked closer, he realized that there was an ipad in front of Li Tian, ​​which was playing "Healthy and Good Life".Aunt Fang inside is explaining enthusiastically, "Now you can put the beef in and fry it, remember not to overheat it..."

Going to see Li Tian again, he frowned tightly, stared at the video with both eyes, followed every command and action strictly, just like doing a chemical experiment.Lin Rui couldn't hold back anymore and laughed out loud.

Li Tian immediately yelled at him, "Go and go, play with the sofa for a while, watch TV and play games, there is water on the table, drink the bottle at room temperature on the left, I'll be fine in a while."

The words were very simple and clear, his eyes were fixed on the video, and he didn't even give Lin Rui a corner of his eyes, but his tone was very gentle.

Lin Rui's smile deepened a lot, but he didn't make trouble anymore, and gave up the battlefield to this general who followed the textbook.

Li Tian didn't brag when he said it was fast, after waiting for less than 10 minutes, the food was served.Lin Rui turned off the TV, walked to the dining table, fried beef with onions, vinegared cabbage, spinach and egg drop soup, fried rice with salmon, simple and straightforward, rustic, but kind.

Li Tian set the tableware and smiled at Lin Rui, "Master, wash your hands and eat."

Lin Rui felt that something melted in his heart, and the warmth flowed through him. The corners of his mouth kept rising, and he couldn't hold it back no matter how hard he tried. In the end, he could only close his eyes, turn around and wash his hands.

Sitting down, he found that Li Tian had already served him a small bowl of soup, Lin Rui didn't say anything, just picked up a spoon and took a few sips.He thought that the other party was waiting for him to give an evaluation, but when he looked up, he found that Li Tian didn't look at him at all, and he was happily drinking a bowl of soup, so he couldn't help but find it funny.

Li Tian didn't seem to worry about the food not satisfying the guests' appetite at all, he greeted Lin Rui, "Eat some of this beef, it's good."

Lin Rui couldn't help laughing, "There's no such thing as you, you should praise yourself."

Li Tian swallowed a big mouthful of fried rice, "Try it, it's not just bragging, it's really good! Teacher A Fang's recipes are all good!"

Lin Rui finally couldn't bear it anymore, "Is this your first time cooking?"

"How is it possible?!" Li Tian was very confident, "I will make a variety of dishes! It's just that it's the first time I've made these dishes."

"Oh? Really?" Lin Rui was very curious, "Then tell me, what do you know?"

Li Tian didn't stop, and while putting a chopstick of beef onto Lin Rui's plate, he said proudly, "Tomato egg noodles, ham cucumber seaweed noodles, seafood noodles, oh yes, I can also cook spaghetti!"

Lin Rui looked at him with disdain, "So, it's cooking noodles with tricks."

Li Tian also smiled, "Yes, it's simple, full of food, and balanced in nutrition, isn't it good?"

Lin Rui took a bite of the fried rice, it tasted good, so he couldn't help eating a few more bites, and then jokingly said, "You also learned how to cook noodles from Teacher A Fang?"

Li Tian laughed muffledly for a long time, swallowed the food, and added some soup to Lin Rui, "How can I! I figured it out on my own. When we first started our business, we were just out of school, and Haiming and I invested all our money in the company It’s inside, and everything has to be saved. It’s always expensive and time-consuming to eat out, so I cook noodles. At the beginning, I throw everything in the house into the noodles, all kinds of dark dishes. What onions and cucumber slices, what leeks Eggs with ham sausage, Haiming is scared when he sees you." After saying that, both of them laughed.

After laughing enough, Lin Rui slowly picked a piece of salmon with a spoon, and said softly, "At the beginning, it was quite difficult, right?"

Li Tian smiled faintly, propped his chin up on the dining table with his left hand, looked in Lin Rui's direction, but seemed to recall through him, "At that time, it was okay, um, but it was not easy to find customers. Two stunned youths who have just graduated from school have no foundation or background in this industry. Big companies and big projects are out of our reach. We can only start with very small projects. Do both, I always say that we brothers are like 'trash pickers'.

I remember one time, there was a database upgrade project for a small company. In order to let the project manager of the other party consider our plan, Haiming and I invited the other party to drink.The other party had 7 people and opened 11 bottles of liquor.When we went out, both of us brothers were so stupid that we couldn't even sign with our cards.When I got into the taxi, Haiming said to me very pitifully, "My God, go back and cook a bowl of noodles for me. I'm full of wine and haven't eaten anything."Just like that, I didn't forget to add a sentence, 'Don't make onions and cucumbers, it's so damn unpalatable'. " After finishing speaking, Li Tian laughed hahaha, "He has been eaten out of the psychological shadow. "

Lin Rui maintained the faint smile on his face, but his heart was soaked in vinegar, sore and painful.

Whenever he thinks of the ten years when Haiming was absent, he always defines himself in the perspective of an outcast, feeling sorry for himself, he feels that he is alone on the road covered in blood, learning to be strong alone.But he never thought that he was also absent from Haiming for ten years.These two young people worked hard and started from scratch. There were so many hardships, sweat, and grievances.Eight words, ten years, in the final analysis, it was not a fault, but a miss.

He looked at Li Tian quietly, the person in front of him was very different from what he had imagined.

Li Tian didn't give him more time to distract himself, "Are you full?"

Lin Rui recovered and nodded.Li Tian quickly cleaned up the fried rice on the plate, and got up, "Sit on the sofa and rest, I will take the bowl away."

There was the clanging of dishes being put away in the kitchen.Li Tian's hands were heavy, and there was the sound of plates hitting each other from time to time, but it could be seen that the movements were very skilled.Lin Rui thought, it's okay, not a single bowl was broken.He looked at Li Tian's back, and when he didn't realize it, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

When Li Tian came out of the kitchen, he was holding a plate of apples in his hand, peeled, cored, and sliced, but each slice was different in size and thickness.He didn't feel the slightest bit of embarrassment about his poor knife skills, and directly picked up a small piece and brought it to Lin Rui's mouth. Lin Rui didn't look at him, turned on the TV with the remote control, and directly took the apple slice with his mouth , chewed a few mouthfuls, and thought, well, it’s very sweet.

Li Tian put the plate on the tea table, took a bite of an apple with one hand, and naturally rested his other arm on the back of the sofa behind Lin Rui, loosely wrapping around Lin Rui's shoulder. "Actually, you don't have to make an appointment for a special time to go on a date, nor does every date have to spend a lot of time and effort to create romance. It can also be used for rest and relaxation. You can just eat simple home-cooked food. Watch TV when you’re tired, play games when you’re bored, and work on your own if you’re really busy, with me by your side. Isn’t it simple?”

Lin Rui looked back at Li Tian's side face, "Hey, did you plan everything beforehand? Prepare everything and just wait for an opportunity to hit it?"

Li Tian smiled slowly, turned his head and looked at Lin Rui, "No, only for worthy people and things."