Clear Feather of the Ring

A week after receiving the remittance from France, Yiqing's office welcomed an unexpected visitor.

"Wen Yi, why are you here?" Looking at the man standing at the door, Yi Qing was a little surprised.

"I'm worried, I came back here to see you." The man was tall and tall, with straight and slender limbs, and a very stretched figure. He was the kind of person who was easy to find when he stood in the crowd.If you take a closer look, you will find that although he has an oriental face, solemn and serious, but he has light golden hair and blue eyes, he must be of mixed race.

He didn't bring anything. He entered the office in a clean suit, closed the door, and then stomped his feet: "I didn't expect it to be so cold here. Are you free? I will go to the mall with me to buy some thick clothes later. Here It's your territory, I don't even know it well, so I followed you."

Yi Qing turned up the air conditioner a few more degrees, and turned to look at him: "How many days are you staying here? Are the accommodations arranged?"

"I didn't make a plan. I can stay as long as I want. There are people in the company over there, so don't worry about it. I took a taxi to come to you as soon as I got off the plane. The luggage is still outside. Is there any vacancy where you live?" The man paused After a moment, he glanced at Yi Qing again: "Otherwise, it's okay to sleep on the sofa."

"I'll book a hotel for you right away, you go to the hotel to rest first, and I'll treat you to dinner in the evening." After Yi Qing finished speaking, he picked up the phone and dialed the number.

"Why can't I make a joke?" The man pressed Yi Qing's hand holding the microphone, and explained with a smile, "I asked someone to book a hotel before I came, so I'll come over to see you first. It doesn't matter if you go back to rest later." After finishing speaking, her hand didn't move away from Yi Qing's, and she still pressed it like that.

"You look a bit haggard, and your complexion is not good." Yi Qing was sitting at the desk, and he was standing beside him. He bent down and tilted his head to look at Yi Qing for a while, and his free hand couldn't bear it. He kept raising it to make a gesture to touch Yi Qing's cheek, but was interrupted by Yi Qing's sudden withdrawal from the hand he was holding, so he had to put it down again calmly, and gently placed it on his cheek. Shoulder, "Are you suffering from stomach problems again?" The gentleness in the voice and the concern in the eyes formed a strong contrast with his appearance, but it just happened to this person, but there was no sense of disobedience. It's as if he has been talking to Yi Qing in this tone and looking at him in this way.

"It's okay." Yi Qing pulled out his hand, stood up, walked to the window, and distanced himself from the man: "I'll take you to the hotel, and we'll talk at dinner at night. There's still a meeting to be held later , I don’t have time to entertain you if you stay here.”

With such an obvious avoidance and expulsion order, the man was not annoyed by being treated like this, and the smile on his face did not disappear at all, "Okay, I don't bother you. This is the phone number in my hotel room. You can call after work." Give it to me. I'll go back and have a rest first." As he spoke, he picked up a pen from the table, took out a piece of white paper from a stack of documents at the corner of the table, and wrote a line of numbers on it with a swipe, the forceful strokes almost penetrated paper.

Yi Qing nodded, saw him close the door and left, then sat back on the chair, put aside the paper he left on the table, and continued to work.

After processing a few documents, after thinking about it, he called Lu Ming: "Are you free tonight, Xia Wenyi is here, come have a meal with me?"

"Why did he return to China? Isn't his hometown F City? Why did he come here?"

"He said he would come and have a look. Are you free for a while? I think you two know each other well. Can you take him around casually?"

"Aren't you accompanying? He came here to see you, right?"

"That's why I won't accompany you."

Lu Ming laughed over there: "He has been chasing you for a few years, right?! He is also pretty good, at least he is more reliable than me, so why not give him a chance, at least give it a try?"

"It's really not that interesting."

There was silence over there, coughed a few times, and then said: "Okay, call me before you leave at night, and I will drive to your company together."

"can."

After work, Lu Ming really drove over.The two arrived at the hotel where Xia Wenyi was staying, asked the front desk to call, stood in the lobby and waited for a while, and saw Xia Wenyi coming out of the elevator on the side of the lobby.He had already taken off the thin coat he wore when he saw Yi Qing during the day, and put on a long black cashmere coat, which he should have bought from Yi Qing himself.Because of his Eurasian blood, his skin is whiter than that of ordinary Asians. With a black coat, under the light, his already three-dimensional facial features and eyes are more profound.

As soon as he stepped out of the elevator, he saw Yi Qing immediately, and there was a smile on his face, but when he took a second look, he found that there was Lu Ming standing next to him, and his steps slowed down a few beats.

"It's not kind to not notify me when you come." Lu Ming patted him on the shoulder and led him outside the door.

The three of them entered the restaurant that had been booked in advance, and ordered after being seated. Yi counted a few main dishes, and Lu Ming and Xia Wenyi each ordered a few of their favorites.While waiting for the food, the three of them chatted without saying a word, and they talked about Yi Qing's lack of money.

"Is that 600 million enough? Charity is a bottomless pit. If you rely on yourself alone, you will drag yourself to death sooner or later." Xia Wenyi said to Yi Qing, "If it really can't continue, why not close it as soon as possible? That money As if I borrowed from you personally, your share is still yours, how about it?"

"Why, Yishan is short of money?" Hearing what Xia Wenyi said, Lu Ming also looked at Yi Qing. This was the first time he had heard of it, and Yi Qing had never mentioned it to him.

"A while ago, some things affected the image of the organization. Many companies and social figures who used to donate regularly have stopped cooperating. Fundraising activities are not as easy as before."

"It's your brother's case at the time, right? I read newspaper reports about it, but I didn't expect it to have such a big impact."

"It's quite tricky. I can't think of any good countermeasures for a while. I can only save it first."

"Does your brother know about this? What does he think?"

"I know, but he can't do anything about it. It hasn't been long since he came out of it, and there are probably people watching in secret, hoping that something will happen to him. My dad told him that he must never interfere with the affairs of the charitable organization. So as not to cause extra problems.”

"Think about what I said just now, Yi Qing." When Yi Qing was talking to Lu Ming, Xia Wenyi kept staring at him from the side without shy away.Seeing him talking a lot at one breath, he poured a cup of hot tea on the table and brought it to Yi Qing, taking the opportunity to bring back the topic just now.

Yi Qing looked at the cup brought to her, paused, but didn't pick it up.I don't know whether Xia Wenyi didn't notice Yi Qing's attitude of not answering or deliberately pretended not to notice. He still held the cup in front of Yi Qing with one hand, while chatting with Lu Ming with a quite natural expression.

Yi Qing looked at the cup that had been fixed in front of her eyes, and her face became a little gloomy.He took a cup and poured water himself, leaned back on the chair, and drank slowly from the cup.

Lu Ming was sitting opposite the two of them. While talking with Xia Wenyi, while observing the interaction between the two, he was also sweating for Yi Qing.

What kind of person is Xia Wenyi? His father is the vice president of the Chinese business community. The family business is in the jewelry business, and the surrounding area is to develop some luxury brands related to jewelry.Those European features in him are inherited from his star French mother's blood.As the eldest son of the family, Xia Wenyi will succeed his father as the vice president sooner or later, not to mention that most of the family's jewelry shops with a long history will be owned by him.

Such a rich and powerful master, facing Yi Qing, not only didn't get him the slightest favor, he didn't even appreciate his flattery, and he didn't even seem to be angry at all, which shows how calm this man is.

While the two were talking, a waiter came over to serve the food.Xia Wenyi put down the cup in his hand, rearranged the dishes that had just been served on the table, chose a few dishes that looked light and refreshing, and placed them in front of Yi Qing. After taking a few bites, I said to the other two on the table: "Well, it's not bad, the taste is okay."

He turned his face away, pointed to a dish he had just tasted, and said to Yi Qing next to him: "This dish contains less oil and is not greasy, you should eat more of this."

Yi Qing responded coldly, but the chopsticks stretched out to the other dishes on the table.He has always been unaccustomed to the care and consideration shown to him by outsiders. Whether it is Xia Wenyi or others, because of this kind of concern, the giver must hope that he can get the same response, and he is looking forward to it in his heart. , but as the self who was given, he never needed this kind of concern, nor did he intend to accept it, let alone respond to it.

He felt as if he had spent all his patience and gentleness on Long Tianyu. After all, those who cared and were good, he had received from Long Tianyu a thousand times stronger than that. I have experienced it in detail and responded with all my heart, so that I will never have the mood to accept and appreciate the goodness that others have for me when I meet anyone in the future.

Xia Wenyi was rejected by him twice in front of Lu Ming, his face was as calm as usual, he seemed to have been used to Yi Qing's indifference towards him, and he still had to rush to taste every dish he served. If you think it suits Yi Qing's appetite, you move it to a place close to him, and if you don't, you put it far away.After eating a meal, he looked like a waiter who was invited to taste the dishes.

The three of them were halfway through eating, and the waiter brought out several plates of dumplings, and carefully placed a plate in front of each of the three of them.On the white porcelain plate are neat rows of smooth and white dumplings, all round and wrapped with thick fillings, and they are still steaming white at the moment, and it looks like they were served immediately after they came out of the pan.

Lu Ming picked up the chopsticks and picked one up. After dipping it in some sauce, he put it into his mouth in one gulp. He breathed out the heat, and he finished one in a few mouthfuls. "Eat quickly, these dumplings have to be eaten while they are hot, and the skin will harden and become sticky when cold. The dumplings in this store are hand-rolled by the pastry chef, soft and chewy."

The two people on the opposite side didn't move their chopsticks, and even Xia Wenyi, who had been competing to taste the dishes, was a little stunned.

"Why, don't you like it?" Lu Ming was a little suspicious, turned Xia Wenyi's plate to his side, picked up one and ate one, "I ordered three fillings, mine is pork with cabbage, yours is beef with mushrooms, Yi Qing's plate is shrimp. If you don't like these fillings, can I change to other flavors?"

Xia Wenyi turned his head to look at Yi Qing, and immediately pulled a passing waiter and shouted: "Hurry up and remove the few plates of dumplings on the table." After the smile on his face faded, his three-dimensional facial features showed a This kind of domineering evil spirit is particularly daunting to look at.

The waiter was pulled back suddenly by him, and almost knocked off the plate in his hand in shock. Fortunately, this is a high-end restaurant, and the waiters have undergone strict training before taking up their jobs. Even if he was so frightened by Xia Wenyi, he adjusted immediately Feeling overwhelmed, he looked at the few plates of dumplings on the table that had barely touched his chopsticks, and asked with a smile, "Excuse me, sir, is there any problem with this dish?"

"What are you talking about? Get rid of it." There was an undeniable persistence and impatience in his tone, as if he was about to flip the table if he didn't implement what he wanted in the next second.

The waiter hurriedly raised his hand to greet the other, and immediately took away all the plates of dumplings on the table with himself.It wasn't until the smell of dumplings on the table was gone that Xia Wenyi's expression softened a little, and he smiled embarrassedly at Lu Ming and explained, "I'm sorry, since I was a child, the thing I hate the most is dumplings. It's just this kind of disgust that you can't even see. You overreacted just now, don't mind."

Lu Ming was baffled by his anomaly just now. He felt that this person's emotions were unpredictable and he couldn't see through them.But since he is a guest tonight, it is inconvenient to care about it, so I can only smile, as if I don't care.But when I went to see Yi Qing again, I was taken aback.

Yi Qing's face was pale and pale, and his blood had completely gone.He stared at the small empty space in front of him, where a plate of steaming dumplings was placed just now, even though it had been removed for several minutes, the smell of dumplings was still lingering in front of him Don't go, every strand is stimulating my taste buds to wake up the bowl of cold dumplings that made me feel mixed up many years ago.Every mouthful of that bowl of dumplings was dipped in my own blood and tears as I chewed it. There was no second plate of dumplings in the world, which would make me feel so uncomfortable that I couldn’t swallow it, but I still couldn’t bear to spit it out.

He remembers the taste of every bite, every piece, that kind of dumpling, that kind of taste, every time he thinks about it, the uncontrollable feeling of vomiting that hits his heart will still sweep over again and again.

Some things, as long as they are associated with a specific thing or a specific person, they become taboos in their hearts, and they can never be heard, seen, or touched.

Dumplings are a taboo left by Long Tianyu to Yi Qing, and she will never get rid of them for the rest of her life.