Know what I mean

The leather shoes stepped on the wooden stairs and made a lot of noise, but at this moment, there seemed to be no sound at all, and everything returned to silence.Qi Shi'an looked sideways at Mr. Huo, and the left hand holding Mr. Huo's wrist was also tightly grasped by the other party.

"Are you in a hurry?" Mr. Huo looked at his feet, "If you're not in a hurry, accompany me to the terrace for a rest."

Qi Shi'an nodded: "Okay, let me talk with you."

There is a long hanging chair on the terrace on the second floor, and there is a pear wood shelf on the side. On the shelf, green radishes and spider plants are scattered here and there, as well as four or five bird cages.The cage door was not closed, and the peony parrot could drill whichever it wanted.

Qi Shi'an helped Mr. Huo to sit down on the hanging chair, then stretched out his hand, and whistled again.The parrot flew out of the cage and grabbed his index finger, still staring at his round black eyes.

"Peony likes to hear you whistling, and others don't pay attention to it." Mr. Huo knocked the parrot on the head with the handle of his fan, "Go back to your cage and don't listen to us."

As soon as Qi Shi'an raised his hand, Peony flew back, and he twitched his fingertips: "Grandpa, you were fooling me just now, right?"

"What am I doing to you?" Mr. Huo patted his stomach, "Didn't you claim that you knew you were abnormal in junior high school? To tell you the truth, I knew it when you were in junior high school."

"Really?" After all, Qi Shi'an has never said anything about it, and he didn't do anything out of the ordinary in junior high school, so it's usually hard for people to think about that.What's more, Mr. Huo is still an old man, is his thinking so inclusive?

Huo Lao said: "I was born as a scout."

Qi Shi'an reckoned that he would be punished if he continued to question, so he asked, "Then how did you find out?"

Huo Lao replied: "When you were in the third year of junior high school, I went to hold a parent-teacher meeting for you, what is the [-]-day swearing-in for the senior high school entrance examination. Oh, your head teacher is so good at talking, and he just talked nonsense. I went there in the joy of praising my grandson. Who wants to listen to her study and prepare for the senior high school entrance examination."

Qi Shi'an interrupted: "Grandpa, how long is the summary? I still have a lot of work to do when I go back."

"Then let me make a long story short, it's annoying." Mr. Huo glared at him, "I'm bored, so I took an exercise book from your desk pocket, and flipped through a few small notes. What do you like about you? Let's drink soda after school, I want to know which high school you went to."

Mr. Huo has lived most of his life and has never seen anything, but it was quite unexpected to learn that his grandson had a puppy love because of the parent-teacher meeting.Surprisingly, but also very relieved, he didn't listen to what the head teacher said, and couldn't help thinking about it.

"I just thought, if you really like that girl, you should have a good relationship with her. When the time comes, you can go to a high school and join the army together." Huo Laomei said happily, "I even think about getting married in the future, Your building in the rest house will be used as your new house, if you don’t like to go out to live, it’s fine, I almost want to hug my grandson! As a result..."

"What happened?" Qi Shi'an asked.

"It turns out that the parent meeting is over, and it's time to go." Mrs. Huo told an interesting story, "I've been observing you since then, but no matter how much I observed you, I didn't notice any emotional changes in you. Did you break up? I checked and found out that the child is not a girl, but a boy."

Qi Shi'an wanted to laugh: "How did you feel at that time?"

Huo Lao said: "It feels like sitting on this hanging chair. I feel dizzy. In fact, I have seen this before when I was a soldier, but I didn't expect to share it with my family. Later, you separated from that child in high school. I comfort myself that you It’s just that you don’t know how to try to be fresh, otherwise, how can you be indifferent to others, and it’s not like a date at all.”

"For so many years, you have graduated, studied abroad, sold your building and started a company, and you have always been single. I wonder if you are also confused? I even asked Xiaozhang to make more noise when he was in love and broke up, to stimulate you. It's useless." Huo Lao suddenly patted the back of Qi Shi'an's hand, "I didn't know until you came back for dinner last time and said your friend got married."

Qi Shi'an held Huo Lao's hand: "Grandpa, are you sad?"

Huo Lao looked up at the sky: "It's not sad, it's quite comfortable."

"Really?"

"Really." Mr. Huo seemed to be looking at the stars, otherwise his old and cloudy eyes would not be so bright, "You are already 28, and you haven't said it for so many years. I know that you have been very depressed in this regard. Now you finally say it , and save me from worrying about you."

Back then, Qi Jingtang divorced and brought her son with her, but Huo Xin had to marry.Mr. Huo didn't say much, and he agreed after seeing Qi Jingtang. He respected his daughter's choice and believed in his own eyes.

He had been fierce and violent all his life, but not a smelly and hard old stubbornness.

Qi Shi'an asked: "Grandpa, what do you think of being paranoid?"

Huo Lao replied: "Be kind-hearted and kind. If you were born in a good family and grew up carefree, you may be able to make a lot of money. Now you are good enough, but my grandson is not bad, you are worthy of him."

Qi Shi'an had a lot to say in his stomach, but it seemed that there was no need to say it, so he finally only said two words - "Thank you."

It was getting late, but the heat could last all night. Shen Duoyi was scrubbing old Shen's tricycle downstairs in the community. After squatting for a while, he broke out two or three catties of sweat.His whole body looked like he had been fished out of a lake, and beads of sweat would burst out when he flicked his hair.

When I came home, I happened to meet Mao Mao and Grandpa Mao Mao. He reached out to touch Mao Mao's face and asked, "Maomao, will you take the elevator by yourself?"

"Yes, but I can't reach the button on it." Mao Mao was also covered in sweat, "Grandpa Shen said that he would take me to the park to ride the carousel on a three-wheeled ride. What date do you want to go?"

Shen Duoyi squatted down: "Let me ask for you, but Grandpa Shen is getting old and he can't ride fast. Don't think he is slow then, okay? Let's make a move?"

Mao Mao stretched out her small hand to catch Shen Duoyi's finger: "If Grandpa Shen can't ride, I'll get off the bike and push it for him!"

Surrounded by the air-conditioning at home, Shen Duoyi sighed comfortably, and finally felt tired and exhausted.He took a shower, then went to bed and lay down. He still didn't feel sleepy, so he read the "Complete Local Chronicles" that he hadn't touched for a long time.

The night passed quickly, and the book was spread out by the pillow for hours.Shen Duoyi got out of bed and opened the curtains. It was hot and muggy in August, and he really wanted to wear shorts to work.

Fortunately, Ming'an Building is very cool. Male colleagues are not allowed to wear shorts, and female colleagues are not allowed to wear short skirts. No one has any objections.

Qi Shi'an in a suit and leather shoes was already sitting in the meeting room, next to Zhang Yiming who was sorting out the materials.He pushed all the entertainment to the other party, and the afternoon meeting was brought forward to the morning. Zhang Yiming finished tidying up, cursed and left.As soon as the working hours came, the participants entered the venue one after another. Shen Duoyi was wearing a pure white T-shirt, like a college student who came to attend a class.

Qi Shi'an sat in the front and started calmly: "Is anyone paying attention to the polythene event last night? A large number of heavy warehouses died, and the second and third batches will die next. Let's talk about the investment market today on this incident." emergency measures."

No one in the audience thought that Qi Shi'an was different from usual, and no one could have imagined that the boss who talked about the unexpected incident just came out of the closet last night.

Shen Duoyi listened with gusto, so naturally he didn't know anything.He wrote down all the points Qi Shi'an said, and then processed them according to the working rules of the consulting department to form an emergency record that can directly respond to customers.

At the end of the meeting, Qi Shi'an seemed to have clairvoyance and said, "My theory has been explored little by little over the years, integrating experience and lessons, but it is more technical, so the consulting department needs to polish it."

As he spoke, he looked between Shen Duoyi and team leader Qi: "Let's make a complete plan, and then add it to the training content."

Team Leader Qi nodded, but did not respond immediately.Shen Duoyi understood, and took the initiative to undertake it: "Leader Qi has a lot of contracts in hand recently, let me do this plan, and I will show you when it is done."

Qi Shi'an asked mercilessly: "Do you have few contracts?"

After asking, he said directly: "If it is necessary to discuss, we will discuss it, and if we need to divide the work, we will divide the work. After the meeting, Team Leader Shen will ask me to get the materials."

Group leader Shen is like a student left behind by the teacher, very shameless.After the meeting, he took a long time to clean up. When he followed Qi Shi'an up to the [-]th floor, he didn't look up at him. He entered the office and sat down on the sofa directly, and began to show his face.

Qi Shi'an went to the refrigerator in the pantry and took out a drink, and said kindly, "Team Leader Shen, calm down?"

Shen Duoyi turned from cloudy to sunny too quickly: "Shabing?"

"I bought it in the morning." Qi Shi'an sat down beside him, "You and Team Leader Qi are at the same level, so you can't help him like this all the time. Why don't you chat with me if you have that extra time."

Shen Duoyi took the drink: "They are all colleagues. Recently, he often has to accompany his sister-in-law for prenatal checkups. I will help out. In the future, if something happens to my family, they will also help me."

Qi Shi'an said: "It's different, you must have a limit for helping others, and you can't exceed it."

"Isn't it? Are you investing?" Shen Duoyi smiled and had already downed a glass of smoothie. "I'll get the materials and go back to work. Don't you have any other orders?"

Qi Shi'an replied: "Not anymore."

After he finished speaking, he suddenly went to shake Shen Duoyi's hand: "I went back to the rest place yesterday, and talked with my parents and grandpa for a while. I hope you can go back with me and chat with them soon."

Shen Duoyi didn't think too deeply, he held Qi Shi'an's face with his hand, and kissed him lightly: "The fishing rod that grandpa gave is very useful, and the ginseng that I gave is also very nourishing, you want me to accompany you home For dinner, I will go shopping after work and buy a gift as a gift for grandpa."

After all, Huo Xuechuan didn't need tutoring anymore, so it was unreasonable to go to the other party's house for no reason.

Qi Shi'an looked at him: "I want a gift too."

Shen Duoyi said kindly: "Then I'll buy one for you too."

After get off work, Qi Shi'an and Zhang Yiming went to the Tokyo bar for a drink, but they didn't come for a while, and the bartender's level didn't improve at all.Zhang Yiming narrated the content of the conversation when he went out to socialize with the materials, and Qi Shi'an drank a glass of beer while listening.

Zhang Yiming kicked his chair: "Did you listen to me?"

Qi Shi'an nodded, and continued to wonder what gift Shen Duoyi would buy him.

In fact, Shen Duoyi's birthday is coming soon, so he should buy a gift.

After talking with Zhang Yiming and drinking the wine, Qi Shi'an went back to Ming'an to work overtime, and brought supper for some traders in the foreign exchange department.He was busy until eight or nine o'clock before he called the driver to pick him up and go home.

After dinner, Shen Duoyi drove to the shopping mall. Like most men, he felt sleepy when he went shopping.In order not to let himself yawn too much, he bought a big cone to cover his mouth, and watched while eating.

After shopping around, he bought Mr. Huo a thin sweater, which he can wear in autumn.Old Shen's clothes are all bought by himself, so whether it's materials or styles, he knows the taste of the elderly quite well.

Wandering around again, Shen Duoyi was thinking about buying a gift for Qi Shi'an, but he was afraid that the purchase would not suit the other party's wishes, so it took a long time to buy something he was satisfied with.

"It's not good, why don't you choose soldiers and generals?"

A familiar child's voice came from the nearby shop, Shen Duoyi turned slightly sideways, and saw French fries sitting on the sofa in the shop.He walked over and heard You Si, who was picking out his tie, say: "The gray pattern looks good, but the blue one feels better, it's annoying."

"Then buy them all, don't bother!" When the French fries were talking, they spilled the drink with all their strength, so they immediately went to tug on You Si's skirt, "Mom! My clothes are wet!"

Shen Duoyi's footsteps stopped, and she looked at the other party in astonishment. Just now, French fries called You Si... Mom?

You Si withdrew his eyes from the two ties, but before looking down at the fries, he saw Shen Duoyi a few steps away.She was also a little panicked, but she tried her best to maintain a dignified smile and said with a forced smile: "Team Leader Shen, what a coincidence."

The french fries were temporarily stored in the children's paradise, and Shen Duoyi and You Si sat on the chairs outside to rest. Out of politeness, Shen Duoyi didn't take the initiative to ask, because since You Si was willing to sit down with him, he must have something to ask Yes, then he should listen carefully.

"Group Leader Shen," You Si was a little nervous, and then smiled relievedly, "Just now I thought about many reasons, but they were all too fake, so forget it, it's better to be more generous. The French fries are not my nephew, but me The son born in Sydney, when you look at him now, does he look a bit like me?"

Shen Duoyi admired the other party's calm attitude: "The eyebrows and eyes are very similar, he is already a handsome young man."

After a moment of silence, You Si said, "Thank you for not asking who the father of French fries is. My brother has asked countless times since returning to China, and I'm about to have a cerebral hemorrhage."

"Miss You, being a single mother is hard work, you are amazing." Shen Duoyi did not hesitate to praise, "I am not afraid of your laughter, actually I thought about introducing my junior brother to you, but then I thought you might not like it."

He speaks very measuredly, and if the other party is transparent, it will be self-explanatory.

You Si was silent for a moment, then suddenly smiled at him: "Team Leader Shen, why do I think you see through me?"

When the words suddenly came to this point, Shen Duoyi also became free and easy: "You and Mr. Qi are very close, like brothers and sisters. They are also good friends. Mr. Zhang is a few years older than you, but you are very arrogant to him. He is very special. ?"

You Si couldn't stop laughing: "Of course he is special, who can open his tail like him all day long, the male peacock is reincarnated."

Seeing some hesitation on Shen Duoyi's face, You Si said: "Group Leader Shen, you are really cultivated, and you can maintain the principle of not talking about people behind your back after having such a happy chat. Let me tell you, a gentleman and a prodigal have their own differences. Strengths, some people like a gentleman, some people like a prodigal son, no one needs to understand the other."

Shen Duoyi asked softly, "Maybe, do you like prodigal sons?"

"I'm trying to like it, and I hope to succeed soon." You Si's eyes suddenly became a little sad, "Emotions are like investing. I like a gentleman, but a gentleman doesn't like me. Then I have to stop losses in time and look at the market elsewhere. However, Although my road ahead is bleak, I wish the gentleman well."

The gentleman is Qi Shi'an, and the prodigal son is Zhang Yiming.

For a moment, Shen Duoyi couldn't hear anything. The mall was about to close, and parents were calling their babies home in the children's playground. The noise was blocked by Yousi's words, and he looked at each other in disbelief.

What You Si likes is Qi Shi'an, and the various details with Zhang Yiming. It turned out that he turned around and tried to accept a relationship that could blossom and bear fruit.Maybe there are other entanglements in it, but he has no position and energy to explore.

"Team leader Shen, Shi An and I have no chance, so I never fought for anything, let alone tell him. This is my secret, and I'm almost thirty, and liking him is only a teenager. Let it go." You Si looked at him, "You are also a gentleman, thank you for not embarrassing me after breaking my secret, and thank you for your kindness."

Shen Duoyi didn't know how to react, so he scanned it quickly, wondering if the teenage You Si knew Qi Shi'an's orientation by accident, so he didn't even fight for it, and walked on the track of a friend from beginning to end.

And said there was no possibility.

Shen Duoyi was still a little dazed, but more appreciative: "Miss You, anyone who can speak so frankly will only be more open-minded in his heart."

You Si pursed his lips embarrassingly: "I was smashed by you, so I just said it all. Compared with being an unwed mother, this small thought in adolescence is really nothing."

"Little sister!"

Chips ran over and threw themselves into You Si's arms: "The paradise is closing, shall we go home?"

"Back, you can only call me mom in front of Uncle Duoyi from now on." You Si wiped the sweat off the fries' face, then looked at Shen Duoyi, "Team Leader Shen, your expression doesn't seem to have slowed down yet. come over."

Shen Duoyi nodded, reached out to cover the ears of French fries, and then replied: "Yes, I really didn't think you liked Mr. Qi."

You Si said casually: "It's the past, and he told his family that he has someone he likes before, and he said that he will explain it later, and he probably has already explained it. I wish him all the best."

Shen Duoyi hadn't fully withdrawn from the previous wave of shock, and now another wave hit him head-on.Qi Shi'an explained to his family, did he explain their relationship?But Qi Shi'an didn't say anything to himself, did he intend to bear all the pressure alone?

Ignoring the gazes of the people around and You Si's astonishment, Shen Duoyi quickly ran out of the shopping mall and didn't stop until he reached the parking lot.He quickly started the car and drove at a speed that he had never seen before. He grabbed the steering wheel with one hand and hurriedly pressed the dial button with the other.

"Hello?" Qi Shi'an answered quickly, "Calling at this time, do you want me to put you to sleep?"

Shen Duoyi looked at the road ahead: "I'll be in Yamenting right away, you come out."

Qi Shi'an didn't ask further: "Okay, I'll get down right away." After finishing speaking, he was worried, "Drive slowly, although I don't know the reason, but no matter if it's a whim or a questioning, don't make fun of safety, I'll be right at the door Wait for you."

After hanging up the phone, Shen Duoyi drove a little slower.

He thinks Qi Shi'an is really good, no wonder You Si likes it, Zhang Yiming and You Zhe should both like it.

But Qi Shian only likes him.

Shen Duoyi drove faster again.

Yamenting's apartment was already in sight, and Shen Duoyi saw Qi Shi'an standing under the neon lights.Pulling over to the side, he opened the door and got out of the car and rushed towards the other party, but when he rushed to the front, he froze.

Qi Shi'an said: "I already opened my arms, how could you brake suddenly."

"I... I went to buy a gift for grandpa, and I bought it for you too." Shen Duoyi delayed what he wanted to say, he turned back to the car, and then took out a box.Walking in front of Qi Shi'an again, he opened the box, and inside was a pair of cufflinks.

"You always take off your cufflinks and throw them on the table, they will inevitably be damaged after a long time, so I bought you a new pair." Shen Duoyi looked down at the box, "It's not something expensive, you can wear it blindly. "

Qi Shian took it: "I like it very much, I will wear it tomorrow."

Shen Duoyi gradually raised his head: "You said that my family is your family, and I am the same. Your family is my family. I want to be filial to them with you, and share the pressure from the family with you. I As I said, I want to work hard with you instead of enjoying the results of your hard work."

Qi Shi'an finally felt something was wrong: "What's wrong, is someone looking for you? My mother?"

Shen Duoyi leaned over and hugged each other, under the neon lights.He buried his head in Qi Shi'an's neck: "I'm too slow, no wonder you want encouragement and gifts, because you've been working hard recently, right?"

Qi Shi'an put his arms around Shen Duoyi's shoulders, but the other party suddenly raised his head and asked in panic, "Have you been beaten? Are you injured?"

The way Fei Yuan was beaten back then was too shocking, he was really afraid that Qi Shi'an would suffer it too.

"No, I'm fine." Qi Shi'an stroked the back of his head, "Why don't you go upstairs and take off your clothes for you to check?"

Before Shen Duoyi could answer, there was a loud door slamming not far away. The two of them separated slightly and looked over at the same time. They saw a taxi parked across the street, and a woman trembling with anger stood in front of the door.

It was Kong Yinhong who had just gotten off the plane after returning from a business trip and was full of dust.

Shen Duoyi wondered, "Is she looking at us?"

Qi Shi'an said, "It should be."

Shen Duoyi asked again: "Who is it?"

Qi Shi'an replied: "Your... wicked mother-in-law."