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52. The place to eat is not far from Tianhe City, and a taxi will arrive quickly without skipping the watch.Everyone was from Hunan, so they naturally chose a Hunan restaurant. Zhou Ruxin led Lin Suqing to the address that He Jieying gave, and soon found the room that Li Xiaobo had reserved for dinner.

Before entering the door, Zhou Ruxin looked at Lin Suqing and smiled: "Is Suqing nervous?"

Lin Suqing thought for a while: "Don't tell all the truth, and don't tell all the lies."

Zhou Ruxin nodded slightly: "OK."

As soon as they entered the door, they saw He Jieying, who was getting up to pour tea for everyone.Apart from Li Xiaobo, Cheng Xiao, and He Jieying in the room, Zhou Wen and Zhang Binbin also came. Zhou Ruxin quickly greeted everyone, "Excuse me, am I the last one?"

He also greeted Cheng Xiao alone: ​​"Long time no see, handsome Cheng is still so handsome!"

Li Xiaobo greeted the two of them to sit down, and said, "Unfortunately, you are not the last one. Shen Xin will also come later."

Then, Li Xiaobo looked at Lin Suqing, hesitated for a moment before asking, "Ru Xin, who is this?"

Zhou Ruxin was about to answer, but He Jieying smiled and said: "Brother Bo, this is my colleague and junior girl, Lin Suqing, um, I met Ruxin before, when I was on the phone with Ruxin just now, they happened to make an appointment We are going shopping together, so I decided to ask Su Qing to come here together, do you mind?"

Zhou Wen and Zhang Binbin laughed together: "It's just an extra pair of chopsticks. How do you mind if there are more people and more fun?"

Cheng Xiao looked at Lin Suqing slightly: "Jieying, it turns out that beauties are only friends with beauties. Hey, how many girls like this do you have in your unit? Call them all."

Li Xiaobo punched Cheng Xiao on the shoulder: "You bastard, you've become a dad, and you're still such a flamboyant, I don't know how many pretty girls you have harmed over the years." Everyone laughed.

Zhou Ruxin turned her head to Lin Suqing and explained with a smile: "Cheng Xiao was a famous talent in our class back then. He wrote good poems and prose with beautiful handwriting. Not only did many girls in his class have a crush on him, but girls in other classes also loved him. Someone has a crush on him." Su Qing said "Oh", and squinted her eyes at Ru Xin: "Has Ru Xin ever had a crush on him?"

Li Xiaobo smiled from the side and said, "Ru Xin fell in love with Xue Xue every day, and probably didn't even know how to write the word secret love."

He Jieying also said from the side: "That's right, Ruxin is a nerd, and she has absolutely never had a crush on anyone."

Originally, I was also joking with Zhou Ruxin, but hearing He Jieying's emphasis, Li Xiaobo always felt that something was wrong, well, usually Jieying's favorite topic when encountering such a topic is that there will be three feet of waves even if there is no wind. Classmates, make fun of each other, no one will take it seriously, the sun is coming out from the west today?

Hearing both of them say that, Lin Suqing smiled: "That's true, Ru Xin is still a nerd."

Zhou Ruxin, who was judged by the three of them in turn, sat upright, smiling, thinking in her heart, it's okay, I don't have any black history, if not, what will happen when everyone chatters later? If the black material hurts me, I am really afraid that I will be "punished" when I go home.

While talking, Shen Xin, the last one, also arrived. He was a tall and gentle man. Ruxin remembered that he had been doing programming work in a state-owned enterprise in Shenzhen. Just now Li Xiaobo said that he just started this year I was seconded to Huacheng to assist the work of the subordinate units, so that's the case.

When I was studying, Li Xiaobo, Cheng Xiao, and Shen Xin had always had a good relationship. Zhou Ruxin, who was closer to Li Xiaobo, was more familiar with the two of them. It's just that so many years have passed, and the youthful teenagers at that time have become department members one by one. The elites have lost all their youthfulness, but they have also inevitably suffered from a lot of worldly hardships.

The dishes were served one by one, and everyone chatted while eating. I don't know if it was because there were three women present at the banquet. Zhou Ruxin always felt that this time everyone spoke more politely than usual. Even Zhou Wen and Zhang Binbin rarely talked about it. As for family affairs, everyone talked about the situation at work at the beginning, but later they mainly talked about various social situations.Of course, this is also related to the nature of their work, after all, they usually deal with all kinds of people.

Lin Suqing was not familiar with everyone, but she had a pair of ears that were good at listening. Occasionally, she would say a sentence or two following He Jieying's words, which seemed very insightful, which caused Li Xiaobo to look at her more inexplicably.Perhaps because of Li Xiaobo's inexplicable attention, Shen Xin, who was sitting next to Li Xiaobo, inevitably paid more attention to Lin Suqing.

Because Shen Xin came last, everyone forgot to introduce Lin Suqing to him for a while, so he didn't know who the woman sitting next to his old classmate was.

We have been classmates for many years, and Shen Xin naturally understands Zhou Ruxin's temperament. She knows that she has always been indifferent to everyone, and she has never seen any extra closeness with any classmate. Even though she has a closer relationship with Li Xiaobo, this friendship has always been Li Xiaobo. There is a lot of active maintenance there.

However, when looking over Zhou Ruxin and Lin Suqing inadvertently, Shen Xin always felt that there was a rare intimacy between them.Could that woman be Zhou Ruxin's relative?But back then, Li Xiaobo had never mentioned that Zhou Ruxin had any sisters, and the faces of the two had no similarities.

Here, Shen Xin thought about it, and it turned out that Zhou Ruxin was the one who talked the least in the whole table, and Shen Xin was the second.

Zhou Ruxin has always been quiet, and everyone will not find it strange, but Shen Xin is also so quiet, Li Xiaobo and others are not happy: "Shen Xin, it can't be that I have been working on programming for a long time, and I only see things in my eyes. Can you see 1 and 0?"

Shen Xin smiled: "I didn't talk much before, Brother Bo, don't you know me the best?" While speaking, Shen Xin looked at Zhou Ruxin consciously or unconsciously.

Before Li Xiaobo could answer, Cheng Xiao and Zhou Wen laughed loudly: "You don't talk much, boy? Back then, you were the one who talked the most when talking in the dormitory at night, tsk tsk tsk, it seems that you are still talking after the lights are turned off. You are the one who has been caught by the moral education director the most times, right?" Shen Xin was embarrassed, blushing inexplicably.

Something was wrong, something was wrong, Li Xiaobo thought to himself, um, this guy Shen Xin said earlier that he had nothing to do with his girlfriend who had been dating for several years. Could it be that after many years, he suddenly discovered Zhou Ruxin's goodness and wanted to attack his old classmate?But Shen Xin is not such a person, if he really likes Ru Xin, he wouldn't wait until today, then, did he fall in love with Lin Suqing?Didn't we just meet today, oh, we haven't had time to introduce each other yet.strangeness!

It doesn't matter, everyone is so familiar anyway, rather than being confused here, it's better to ask directly, thinking, Li Xiaobo winked at Shen Xin, motioned him to come closer, and then asked softly in his ear : "Hey, Shen Xin, you don't suddenly find yourself in love with Ru Xin, do you? Don't mess around just because you've lost your relationship."

Shen Xin gave him a slap in the face: "Brother Bo, what are you thinking about, Ru Xin's temper, you can't fight with me."

After hesitating for a while, Shen Xin leaned over and whispered in Li Xiaobo's ear: "I just think that the relationship between Ruxin and the person next to her is not simple, maybe the programmers are more sensitive? Brother Bo, please pay attention. look."

After saying this, Shen Xin seemed to let go of some burden, and finally returned to his nature, chatting and laughing with everyone.It is said that there are three women in one drama, but in fact, three or four big men are together, and this drama is even more exciting. Everyone talks about various social situations, sometimes indignant, sometimes sad, sometimes sighing, sometimes laughing, and occasionally recalling Back then, it was more about looking forward to the future. No matter what, everyone came to the metropolis from the backwater countryside, and they barely managed to do well. Therefore, everyone was always full of confidence in the future.

Just because of Shen Xin's words, Li Xiaobo will always observe the interaction between Zhou Ruxin and Lin Suqing consciously or unconsciously.

In fact, before deciding to come to eat this meal with Zhou Ruxin, Lin Suqing made some preparations in her heart. She was determined to be vigilant to herself from the moment she entered the door and sat down. Old classmate, it would be bad if Ru Xin was embarrassed for his own sake.

And what did Zhou Ruxin think?

When she decided to bring Lin Suqing over for this meal, she thought it through.Of course, the friendship with classmates is worth cherishing, but if you can't do things like being together with her and Su Qing, then you don't need that kind of friendship with classmates.Therefore, she never worried about whether the relationship between them would be seen by interested classmates.

So, when the large plate of pickled fish came out, Lin Suqing habitually picked up a large piece of fish and removed all kinds of thorns to put it into the Ruxin bowl, uh, felt that the occasion was wrong, and was about to take back the chopsticks, but moved Zhou Ruxin, who was about to receive the fish in the bowl, glanced at her with aggrieved eyes, whether the chopsticks were accepted or not.After hesitating, Zhou Ruxin took the piece of fish from her chopsticks and put it in her mouth.

Lin Suqing had nothing to do with her, so she had to pretend to glance around unintentionally. Fortunately, everyone was eating and chatting during the dinner, and no one paid attention to them deliberately.

In fact, Zhou Ruxin has never been the object of attention at such gatherings, because she is too silent, well, it should be said, she has always been the very silent one.How silent is Zhou Ruxin's personality?Let's put it this way, when many middle school classmates learned that she became a teacher, their first reaction was: "Impossible, Ru Xin, what you said in one semester back then was not as much as we said in a week, and you actually went to Become a teacher?"

This is an unspeakable fate, just like Zhou Ruxin never thought that she would work and live in Huacheng far away from her hometown.

Seeing that everyone didn't pay much attention to the situation here, Lin Suqing felt relieved. While listening to everyone chatting, she dutifully took care of this "life idiot" beside her, removing the thorns from the fish, peeling off the shrimp shells, Quietly bite off the fat from the bacon, etc.The one who speaks has fun talking, the one who eats eats happily, the one who takes care of others takes care of them to his heart's content, and the one who is taken care of, um, has nothing to fear.Only the caring Li Xiaobo watched all this and frowned calmly.

Everyone had a great time eating the meal, because there was still a meeting in the afternoon, Cheng Xiao thanked all the old classmates with tea instead of wine, and left first.

Zhou Wen and Zhang Binbin lived far away from the city center, and they had other arrangements at night. Seeing Cheng Xiao leave, they also said "We will meet again next time" and left. Li Xiaobo and He Jieying were left. Li Xiaobo went to pay the bill first. He Jieying asked Zhou Ruxin and the two of them, and when they learned that they were going to go shopping, they originally wanted to go shopping together, but after thinking about it, they decided that it would be better not to make light bulbs, so they said they still had something to do at home. I'm leaving.

Zhou Ruxin thought that everyone had left, so let's wait for Li Xiaobo. After a while, Li Xiaobo bought the bill and came over to see the two of them. He wanted to say something, but after hesitating for a while, he chose to remain silent, so he went downstairs and said Saying "get together again when you have time", they left separately.

That night, the two finally bought some clothes and went back to the community. They ate something downstairs and returned home. They were too tired and didn't bother to tidy up. Lin Suqing slumped on the sofa and asked Zhou Ruxin to take a shower first.

Seeing her sweaty and tired face, Zhou Ruxin felt distressed, and thought: "Shall we wash it together?"

Well, she really didn't mean anything else, just seeing Suqing working so hard, she wanted her to take a shower and lie down to rest.The results of it?

It turns out that no matter how tired a person is, he still has potential to tap. Poor Zhou Ruxin was "bullied" by Lin Suqing for a long time, and when she finally took a bath and lay on the bed, she really wanted to annoy that person, but she was so weak Tight, hum.

Lin Suqing knew that she had made a "mistake". After tidying up, she obediently lay down next to Zhou Ruxin, hugged Ruxin to comfort her for a while: "Ruxin Ruxin, I promise I will never do this again."

Zhou Ruxin said bitterly: "You will never have such an opportunity in the future, and never ask you to take a shower together in the future."

Su Qing looked at her pitifully: "Is Ru Xin really angry?"

Zhou Ruxin was about to answer when her phone vibrated and a text message came in. It was so late, who would send a text message to herself?

It was Li Xiaobo who asked her, "Have you slept yet?"

Zhou Ruxin replied: "Lie down, um, what's the matter?"

Li Xiaobo's text message came again soon: "Wechat talk."

Looking at the time, just after ten o'clock, Zhou Ruxin logged on to WeChat, and Lin Suqing beside her asked, "Who is it?"

Ru Xin said, "Li Xiaobo."

"It's so late, why is he looking for you?" Lin Suqing was a little annoyed.

"I don't know." Zhou Ruxin patted the quilt lightly to signal Lin Suqing to go to sleep, while paying attention to Li Xiaobo's messages on WeChat.

Su Qing kissed the corner of Ru Xin's lips: "Ru Xin didn't annoy me?"

Ru Xin kissed her back: "Fool, how could I annoy you? I'm just afraid of your hard work, go to sleep, I fell asleep after chatting with Bo Ge."

The author has something to say:

Li Xiaobo really cared about Zhou Ruxin, and because of his sincerity, he should oppose it.