I'm really sorry for my low EQ.

When the phone rang for the nth time, Xu Yang sighed irritably.

After cutting off Xu Miao's phone, he smiled helplessly: "Wu Yuan, my sister called me, let's go first."

When speaking, his upper body leaned forward slightly, and his eyes looked at Wu Yuan through his forehead hair that was blown by the wind.

"Well, goodbye." Wu Yuan said lightly.

The four eyes met, and for 0.5 seconds, strange airflows floated between each other.

Lu Shenqiu watched from the side, squinting his eyes.

He suddenly remembered what Xu Yang said last time when he sent Wu Yuan home.Polite, official, as if the two are just ordinary superiors and subordinates, not even friends, and they don't know who was pretending at the beginning.

Or both?

"Go quickly." Wu Yuan said again.

Xu Yang looked at half of his face hidden in the turtleneck sweater, took a breath, tried his best to suppress the urge to hold him in his arms, stretched out his hand, and took a leaf that fell on Wu Yuan's hair.

His fingers were warm, causing a slight shudder when they touched his ears.

Xu Yang bent his eyes: "See you at the company."

"……Um."

"Mr. Lu, take your leave." Xu Yang raised his hand and said in a neutral tone.

Lu Shenqiu smiled.

"Goodbye."

The crowded crowd quickly swallowed Xu Yang's back.

After an unknown amount of time, Lu Shenqiu said, "Xiao Yuan."

He smiled: "You Director Xu must be very popular in the company, right?"

"..."

"Thought also a playboy type."

Lu Shenqiu leaned back and pushed his glasses, "This kind of person is generally nice to everyone, and sometimes he even does a lot of outrageous things in order to seek excitement, making people dazzled, but they are definitely not serious."

"..."

Lu Shenqiu: "Xiao Yuan?"

Wu Yuan was taken aback for a moment, and looked away from a distance, "What did you just say?"

"..." Lu Shenqiu's smile froze.

The road ahead widened, and finally the surroundings were no longer crowded with people, and the field of vision suddenly opened up.

Amidst the bustling voices, the four members of the Xu family were walking not far away. Xu's father and Xu's mother were both over 50 years old, and they still had to hold hands when they went to the park. In front of people, occasionally look back to see if they are following.

I don't know what Xu Miao said, but suddenly everyone laughed.

The sun was in full bloom, the scenery was pale, and the smiles of the few people were so bright that people couldn't keep their eyes open.

Lu Shenqiu glanced at Wu Yuan calmly.

There are mostly cherry trees in the park, and there are very few pine trees, but at this moment, the two of them happened to be standing under a pine tree that covered the sky, the shadows were dense, and no sunlight could leak in.

Compared with the Xu family, where the sun is shining everywhere, it's like two worlds.

Lu Shenqiu leaned back leisurely.

Does Wu Yuan want to go there too?

It was past four o'clock after returning from Yuyuantan. In the evening, Wu Yuan was cooking dinner at home and was about to serve it to the restaurant when he suddenly received a call from Meng Xiubin.

You can tell how anxious she is by hearing the sound. Recently, many people are on vacation, and the store suddenly became busy. There are twenty tables reserved for this evening alone.

Because he didn't want Lu Shenqiu to worry, Wu Yuan hadn't worked in Niji for a long time, so he hung up the phone and asked Lu Shenqiu who was sitting in the living room watching TV: "Brother, Auntie Meng needs help..."

Lu Shenqiu turned around slowly: "Huh?"

Wu Yuan paused and looked at him: "Can I go?"

"Of course." Lu Shenqiu laughed, as if he didn't understand why he asked such a question, "Go if you want to, and call brother if you come back later."

The eyes behind the lenses were bent, and the smile did not reach the fundus.

"Yes." Wu Yuan nodded. "Brother, don't forget to eat."

"Understood, I'm not a child." Lu Shenqiu smiled, and waved his hands urgingly, "Go now."

It was almost seven o'clock when we arrived at Niji.

Meng Xiubin was very excited when he saw Wu Yuan. He pulled him over and looked left and right. At first he felt that the child seemed to be thinner, and then he had dark circles under his eyes.

Wu Yuan stood there motionless until Meng Xiubin finished speaking, then put on his chef uniform and started working.

Customers kept coming into the store. Although Wu Yuan was tired, he felt a little joy in his heart. Niji's business seemed to be much better than before. For Meng Xiubin, a single mother, and Fang Miao's future studies It's all good things, at least the economic pressure won't be so great anymore.

After three hours of busy work without touching the ground, the number of customers gradually decreased when it was almost ten o'clock.

Wu Yuan was cleaning the knives while preparing the ingredients for tomorrow. When he turned around and walked to the back kitchen, the sliding door at the door was pushed open with a "wow", and a tall man with a short cut came in.

Wu Yuan paused.

Meng Xiubin greeted him with a smile: "My guest, we are closing soon, and now we can only pack ready-made ones, do you think it will work?"

The man shook his head, looked around the store, and then stopped on Wu Yuan.

With a forced smile, he walked towards Wu Yuan and said, "Wu Yuan, do you still remember me?"

Wu Yuan nodded: "Senior Wang Xiao."

Wang Xiao, Xu Yang's childhood friend and high school classmate, used to be a forward and a center in the high school basketball team.

Wu Yuan has seen him many times.

Wang Xiao nodded, with a serious expression on his face, and pointed out: "Is it convenient? Let's talk."

Meng Xiubin stopped laughing immediately, and looked at Wu Yuan nervously: "Yuan Yuan..."

"Auntie, it's okay."

Wu Yuan shook his head at Meng Xiubin, "I'll be back soon."

Wang Xiao looked sideways, his face tensed, and his heart was actually more nervous than Meng Xiubin.

Maybe because Wu Yuan cried in front of him once before, he always had an inexplicable guilty conscience in front of this junior. In his eyes, everything about Wu Yuan was introverted and he had nowhere to start, so he couldn't follow him. He was scheming, as soon as he went out, he cut to the point and said, "Xiang is in the same company as you now."

Wu Yuan stood beside the lantern and nodded.

"What a coincidence."

"Ah."

"Speaking of which, you two haven't seen each other for six years. How does it feel to meet again after a long absence? Are you overjoyed?"

Wu Yuan: "Why are you happy?"

"Hey." Wang Xiao snorted, "Your kid is quite clear now, but at that time, I didn't know who was running the court every day to see how to play, and gave away a bottle of water every day..."

"That's all in the past." Wu Yuan interrupted him.

Wang Xiao stared at him for a long while, as if he was trying to tell the truth of this sentence.

"Okay, it's best if you think about it that way." After a while, he smiled, "Then I don't have to keep going around in circles with you."

"?"

With a "click" from the lighter, Wang Xiao lit a cigarette, and said slowly, "Last time when some of our buddies got together, Wang was there, and we were talking about you at that time, do you know what Wang said? "

Wu Yuan looked at him.

Wang Xiao's smile was hidden in the smoke, and his voice was hoarse.

"He said he liked you and was going to come out."

Wu Yuan's expression suddenly froze.

"Wu Yuan, do you know what coming out means to a man? Although he is a bit picky, sooner or later he will find a partner like ordinary people, and then get married and have children. His parents are sure I also think so, but now? When you appeared, his life was completely disrupted. He used to have a very good girlfriend, but because of you, he doesn't care about him now—"

"It's fine if I'm someone else, but I'm his buddy, I can't just watch him go astray!"

The soot fell on the ground and smashed into a gray pool, and the wind blew the dust away, and soon there was no trace.

After an unknown amount of time, Wu Yuan said, "Senior Wang Xiao told me this, what do you want to express?"

Wang Xiao saw that he had no expression at all, and he was completely out of the way, his heart was relaxed, and his tone was not as urgent as before: "What I mean is, since you said just now that it was all in the past, why don't you , for the sake of looking good, stay away from him and change jobs."

"..."

"I heard that you entered University B later? It's such a good school, and the major is good. You can't find any job. Why do you have to stay in Green Sea? I know your family's situation. It's not easy for you. If you need Work, I can talk to my dad—”

The matte buckle leather shoes stepped on the soot, Wu Yuan stepped forward and looked up at him.

"Senior Wang Xiao."

The dark pupils seem to be able to suck people in, but at the same time they are frighteningly bright.

"I'm not changing jobs."

He didn't know how hard he had worked for this job.

He didn't know how he felt when he got the job and when he sold his first house.

He doesn't know that this job is all he has.

"If you're worried about the senior and I'm afraid that I will affect him, you can let him leave Green Sea."

The voice was extremely cold, like broken ice scattered on the ground, Wang Xiao breathed in the cold lingering sound, and when he met Wu Yuan's eyes, he was taken aback by the undisguised anger in them.

"But I will never leave."

Wang Xiao opened his mouth and didn't recover until the cigarette burned his hands.

"You..." He was stuck for a long time, and suddenly he couldn't say a word.

"Besides," the white chef's uniform glowed fluorescent in the dark night, Wu Yuan raised his eyelashes, and looked at him indifferently: "No matter what you do, it's up to the seniors to decide on their own. It has nothing to do with you, and you have no right to go. meddling in other people's lives."

After speaking, without looking at Wang Xiao, he opened the door and went back to the shop.

The brief noise returned to silence as the door closed, Wang Xiao's mouth was dry, and there seemed to be a lump in his throat.

When Ye Ying asked him for help, he agreed without even thinking about it. After all, he and Xu Yang grew up together, and no one wants to see a good buddy go astray.But after hearing Wu Yuan's words just now, he felt a sense of guilt for the first time.

He felt that he was just a little bit crazy.

……

"Yuan Yuan."

Meng Xiubin walked to the kitchen, looked at Wu Yuan, who had been silent since just now, and worried, "Who was that just now, what did you say to you?"

"It's nothing." Wu Yuan lowered his eyes, carefully handling the ingredients in his hand, "A senior in high school before."

"Oh, senior." Meng Xiubin breathed a sigh of relief, "Auntie was taken aback. Looking at his appearance just now, I thought he was here to find trouble, so it's fine..."

"Yes." Wu Yuan answered lightly.

The shop was quiet, he thought Meng Xiubin was busy.

Meng Xiubin has been standing beside him, frowning more and more tightly.

"Yuan Yuan."

Wu Yuan turned his head, and Meng Xiubin patted him on the head helplessly: "Even if something really happened, it doesn't matter, you have to say it, don't hold back, you know, Miao Miao and I are here."

The light in Wu Yuan's eyes flickered.

"……Um."