hunt for programmers

No, he followed up and said with a smile, "It's almost 10 o'clock, who else can you date?"

Xiao Ran lowered his head, trying to make up a reason to get rid of this unimaginable farce, when suddenly a deep and magnetic voice came in: "Xiao Ran, I'm sorry, I'm late."

Xiao Ran raised his head suddenly, and saw Cheng Jialin standing there imposingly, looking at him with a cold expression but not for a moment, the orange light at the hotel entrance behind him seemed to be completely embraced by the man, making his eyes a little blurred.

Cheng Jialin took two steps forward, Xiao Ran reacted fairly quickly, and said, "It's okay." Then he turned around and looked at Cui Yichen silently, the meaning in his eyes was obvious - you see, I still have an appointment, you can fuck off?

Cui Yichen looked helplessly at Xiao Ran for a while, curled his lips and said, "I really have an appointment. Then I'll go first."

Xiao Ran nodded and nodded, and almost couldn't hold back and said, "You hurry up and go."

As soon as he passed Xiao Ran, Cui Yichen suddenly stopped in his tracks, Xiao Ran straightened his back, feeling like his hair was going to stand on end, isn't this guy going to be messed up again?

Cui Yichen first took a deep look at Cheng Jialin, and the latter nodded slightly at him. He smiled back, then looked at Xiao Ran, touched his chin, waved goodbye, and passed Cheng Jialin.

He thought to himself: the green fruit might be more delicious...

Together

The restaurant Xiao Ran chose had a good reputation, and even after this point, there was still an endless stream of people coming in and out. He and Cheng Jialin moved to the side and stood in an inconspicuous place.In the dark corner, he took a peek at Cheng Jialin, but unfortunately the latter lowered his head slightly, his drooping bangs cast a shadow, and he couldn't see his expression clearly, he thought for a moment, and said first: "That, what a coincidence, haha... ..."

Cheng Jialin turned his head and looked at him silently. After a while, Xiao Ran couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat. The atmosphere...was so embarrassing.

Just when Xiao Ran was searching for a topic to save himself, Cheng Jialin's cell phone rang, Xiao Ran "whoosh" cast his gaze away, staring at the phone in Cheng Jialin's hand, tears filled his eyes.

Cheng Jialin didn't entertain himself in such a good mood as Xiao Ran at the moment. He glanced at the caller ID and sighed secretly. After the call was connected, Yao Huai's cold voice came: "Have you arrived yet?"

Cheng Jialin glanced at the endless iron bumps on the road, and said expressionlessly: "Sorry, there is a traffic jam, and we may be late."

Yao Huai was a little unhappy: "Why didn't you leave early?"

Cheng Jialin glanced at Xiao Ran who was beside him and lowered his head from the corner of his eye, and said truthfully: "Some things are delayed."

Yao Huai didn't say anything at the end, but just told him to come over as soon as possible, Cheng Jialin responded, said "sorry" and hung up the phone.

Xiao Ran didn't hear the sound again, looked up at Cheng Jialin, and saw that the latter was still staring at him intently, he swallowed, and before he could speak, Cheng Jialin spoke first: "It's really a coincidence to see you, but Standing here now is unconsciously artificial."

"Huh?" Xiao Ran couldn't understand his clumsy words for a while, but then he remembered that he was answering the interrupted conversation just now, and carefully analyzed this sentence in his heart, which sounded implicit. In fact, when he expressed explicit words, he couldn't help feeling a little warm in his heart, and even softened his voice: "Is that right, that, thank you..."

It was only when Cheng Jialin heard Xiao Ran say "thank you" that he realized that he had always kept a close and polite attitude with him. He didn't like this feeling, but he also knew that there was an inexplicable estrangement between the two of them. In between, I had to pretend to ask: "Thank you for what?"

Xiao Ran was surprised for a moment. Cheng Jialin must have heard the conversation between him and Cui Yichen, so he appeared at the right time to pave the steps for him. Now he asked "Thank you" so solemnly, it made him a little confused: "Thank you for saving me just now," he carefully observed Cheng Jialin's expression through the corner of the street light, and saw that he was frowning slightly, as if he was worrying about something, "The call just now...do you still have it?" Urgent matter? Then I won't waste your time..."

"I'm sorting out some emotions," Cheng Jialin interrupted him, "If you can't figure it out clearly, just going to meet the client like this may mess things up."

Xiao Ran was stunned for a moment, he had an intuition that Cheng Jialin seemed to be different tonight than usual, and the difference seemed to be related to himself, he tentatively asked, "Is it something I can help with?"

Cheng Jialin nodded.

Xiao Ran paused for a while, then smiled lightly: "Did the previous actions bother you? If it affected you, I'm here to apologize to you. In fact, it was my own unreasonable trouble. After all, before this , such people and things must be thousands of miles away from your life... Well, in short, I shouldn't have caused you trouble, I'm really sorry, I won't be like this in the future."

Cheng Jialin remained silent. Obviously, Xiao Ran misunderstood what he meant, but not all of what he said was wrong. He really troubled himself, because he would always do some abnormal behavior unconsciously, just like the , He could obviously drive away, but before he could make a rational judgment, his sensibility had already made him turn a corner impulsively, regardless of safety, and now it made him put down his work and stand here.

All kinds of signs indicated that he seemed to have embarked on a road of no return like moths to a flame. What's more, he found that even so, he couldn't stop.

After a long time, Cheng Jialin opened his mouth and said to Xiao Ran: "This is a problem that needs to be solved, but before that, we need to solve the latest problem first."

Xiao Ran twitched the corner of his mouth slightly, what happened to the immediate visual sense of solving geometry problems?

"Who was that person just now?" After Cheng Jialin asked, he was surprised for a moment. For a senior technical nerd like him who is not good at thinking about emotional issues, sometimes he only realizes his truth after he has said it. Thoughts—so asking yourself this, is actually a little jealous, right?

Xiao Ran didn't expect that he would ask such a question first, but since Cheng Jialin asked, he naturally wanted to explain: "It's just a candidate who encountered some problems after joining the job, so I made an appointment to have a chat " Seeing Cheng Jialin's expression soften, he added, "How much did you hear just now?"

This sentence hit Cheng Jialin's entanglement point. He wasted some time just because he was looking for a parking place, and he couldn't hear their conversation from the beginning, so he was so sad, "I only heard you Said that there is still an appointment, so I naturally followed what you said, did that person make things difficult for you?"

"He's a narcissist with a second childhood illness," Xiao Ran shook his head and said, "Besides, I'm such an old man, can he take advantage of me?"

Cheng Jialin heard that he was able to talk about the matter so briskly, knowing that it was all right, he felt relieved, and asked the question that had made his heart flutter these days: "Why haven't you contacted me these few days?"

"Huh?" Xiao Ran's face was full of confusion, why are there so many tonight?

Cheng Jialin pressed the wallet in his pocket, and said in a low voice: "After reading the code you wrote that night, I have been waiting for your next step, but there has been no news since then, I thought maybe you were just joking, but I can't help but want to ask why you did this."

Xiao Ran was stunned. He clutched his chest and felt a heavy hammer hit his heart hard. How wronged he was, "With your skills, you will definitely find that there is a bug in it. I'm waiting for you Point it out and tell me or reply me after you fix it, but, you said you are waiting for my next step, what is going on here?"

Cheng Jialin was surprised: "... Isn't that actually a love letter?"

Xiao Ran's eyelids twitched: "...It is true that it is a love letter, but shouldn't you programmers blame you when you encounter bugs?" Say it to yourself in front of yourself, even if he rejects yourself again.

"..." Cheng Jialin was speechless.

Xiao Ran didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Since you regard it as a love letter, there is no reason not to reply."

Cheng Jialin turned his head and thought for a while, then said with a serious smile, "I thought I didn't need to reply."

Xiao Ran was puzzled: "Why do you think so?"

"..." Cheng Jialin looked up at the lonely night sky with few stars, his eyes were a little erratic, and after racking his brains for a while, he came to a conclusion: "That's cooler."

Xiao Ran: "..." Cool girl, don't you know that not replying to the letter means you don't like that person?Are you a mallet?

No need to look, Cheng Jialin can also imagine Xiao Ran's angry expression now, he lowered his head in embarrassment, comforting himself: This should be regarded as exposing his embarrassing embarrassment, he is really embarrassed to tell Xiao Ran, in fact, he has Just dealing with the computer, he has completely forgotten the drama of love and romance. He really didn't expect to need to reply to the letter.

At this moment, Xiao Ran has many thoughts in his mind, temporarily ignoring the self-condemnation of a second-hand technical geek who has been derailed from the world of mortals for many years.He didn't know the point for a while, Cheng Jialin said that he was waiting for his next step, shouldn't he be bored with himself?So why look forward to the next move?Wait, is it possible that my five days of poverty are about to turn around, and the willows are dark and the flowers are bright?

He couldn't believe it, and looked at Cheng Jialin expectantly, his voice trembling: "Cheng Jialin, you... What are you?"