Let go of the past

In the backstage dressing room of a variety show in S city, Bai Lisheng sat on the makeup chair, stared at the phone screen for a while, then let out a long breath, and threw the phone back on the table in front of him.

"Xiaobai, close your eyes." The accompanying makeup artist took a contouring brush and gently swept around his face, then straightened up, looked at it carefully for a moment, and said in admiration: "Perfect."

Bai Lisheng stood up from his chair and said politely, "Thank you."

"You're welcome." The make-up artist said while bending down to pack the tools. The two of them knew each other well, so they chatted a little more: "I heard you sigh just now, is there anything bothering you?"

Bai Lisheng smiled lightly: "Probably because the concert is coming up, I'm a little nervous."

After he finished speaking, he caught a glimpse of the mobile phone screen that suddenly lit up on the table, his eyes wavered for a while, and then he reached out to take the mobile phone calmly, and the makeup artist next to him suddenly realized: "Oh—I heard that, you You were in S City in high school, so for this concert, did you invite your classmates and friends with whom you have a good relationship?"

Bai Lisheng lifted his eyes from the phone, and the flash of high spirits in his eyes suddenly made the makeup artist stunned for two seconds.

"Invited." He blinked his eyes, his expression was bright and soft, as if he had just eaten a candy in his mouth, and it was sweet to the bottom of his heart in an instant.

The make-up artist was caught off guard by his own facade and was shocked by his appearance at close range. After being dazed, the girl immediately clenched her fists to cheer him up: "Then don't be nervous, you are all great, come on! "

Bai Lisheng nodded, with another layer of confidence and calm hidden in his eyes, he smiled and said, "Okay."

On Monday, when the routine morning meeting of the development department was about to end, the BOSS suddenly pushed the door in with a smile, glanced at Li Ziqing inadvertently, walked to the end of the conference table, and said to everyone: "It takes a few minutes for you, I have a good one." Benefits are to be announced to everyone.”

The people below all looked at the BOSS with surprise and suspicion. After all, this Internet company has only been established for a few years. A typical entrepreneurial enterprise has always wanted to increase revenue and reduce expenditure. Employee benefits can be described as a fantasy, which is extremely rare. .So the word BOSS, to everyone's ears, is actually no different from the effect of the villagers hearing the wolf is coming.

Facing everyone's tactful eyes and questioning, BOSS was not angry at all. He put his hands behind his back in front of him, raised a stack of tickets in his hands, and said cheerfully: "This is a concert ticket sponsored by a customer. I don’t know what kind of idol group is very popular, but you young people should have heard of it. During this period of time, the development department is busy with many projects, and I know that everyone is really working hard. After sending out these tickets, each of you will have one , If you want to see it yourself, or give it away, you can handle it yourself, and I won’t interfere, haha.” He looked down at the time on the ticket, raised his eyebrows, and added: “Yo, the time seems to be This Wednesday. Well, if you have nothing to do in the development department that day, you can leave work early, and you have worked hard for several months, let's let it go."

Everyone looked at each other in disbelief, but no one answered for a while, the boss waved to Li Ziqing, saw him stand up, and walked to him, cheerfully said: "Ziqing, you give these tickets to everyone Let's distribute it, and I won't participate in your department's internal activities." After he finished speaking, he raised his hand and patted Li Ziqing's shoulders twice, with the expressions of approval and relief in his eyes.

The BOSS handed the ticket to Li Ziqing and turned around to leave the conference room. As soon as the door closed, there was a slight excitement in the conference room. Everyone gathered together. The girl who has a better relationship with Li Ziqing is called Liang An Ni, she stood up, saw the content on the ticket, and immediately said excitedly: "Oh my god, they are still in the front row of the infield. I have often heard about this combination. It is very popular. I got a fan of their Weibo the day before yesterday." Yelling, saying that the tickets for this position have been fired for tens of thousands of tickets."

Several other male colleagues who didn't know the so-called tens of thousands, their eyes immediately lit up when they heard the word tens of thousands, staring at the tickets in Li Ziqing's hand like hungry wolves staring at meat.

"Did BOSS take the wrong medicine? Or did the locked-in stocks finally bottom out and rebound continuously?"

"Never mind him, the once-in-a-thousand-year welfare, boss, send it quickly, before the boss regrets giving it to you and wants to go back." Lei Wei said excitedly, and the whole person was eager to try.

Li Ziqing put the tickets on the table and said to them: "Take it yourself, one ticket is enough for everyone."

Everyone scrambled to divide up the tickets in the blink of an eye. Liang Anni put the tickets on his nose and smelled the expensive ink worth tens of thousands. He looked up and saw that Li Ziqing's hands were empty, and asked in surprise: " Ziqing, don’t you?” He said and looked at the others, “Which one of you has two?”

"I have." Li Ziqing raised his hand to stop her, then looked at everyone and said, "You have worked hard a while ago, and you deserve the benefits. In the future, please continue to work hard."

Everyone got a bargain just now, and they all nodded their heads in haste, making promises one after another.

"Yes, yes, Ziqing, you have worked hard."

"Yes, yes, there were a few times when I rushed to work overtime, and Ziqing finished his own work and stayed with me until midnight. Every time I think about it, I feel so touched."

"That's why," Liang Anni said decisively, "You guys have to work hard in the future to fight for a little bit, and if you have a son to cover us, why worry about not getting any benefits?"

A morning meeting ended happily. While discussing how to deal with the tickets, everyone pushed open the door of the meeting room and filed out. Liang Anni followed Li Ziqing as usual, holding the folder with a slightly red face and a look of desire. He stopped talking.

"What's the matter?" Li Ziqing sensitively sensed that she was different from the usual noise, so she asked casually.

Liang Anni paused, and waited for the group of people in front to walk away, then looked left and right, pulled Li Ziqing to a secluded corner, pointed at his neck, and said with embarrassment, "Ziqing, On your neck, the tooth marks are too obvious, and they are all bruised."

Li Ziqing's head buzzed for a moment, his face turned pale, and he seemed to gather the collar of his shirt in panic, and said in a stiff tone: "...Thank you."

"Oh, you don't have to be so embarrassed. We are all young people, and they are full of vigor, haha." Liang Anni said haha, "But your girlfriend is too tough, you are so quiet and delicate, and you seem to have a bad personality like this." They are quite complementary. When are you going to get married? I will accompany you with a big family."

The corner of Li Ziqing's mouth forced a faint smile, turned his face away from her direct gaze, and said indifferently: "Let's talk."

"What? Did you quarrel?" Liang Anni tilted his face to observe Li Ziqing's expression, and comforted him, "It's normal to quarrel. As a boyfriend, you should take the initiative and spend some time trying to coax her. Girls are easily attracted Touched by the small details. Oh yes," she said, her eyes lit up suddenly, she took out the ticket from the folder in her arms, handed it to Li Ziqing, and said to him with encouragement: "It just so happens that you two went to the concert Well, I’ll give you my ticket. Anyway, I’m single, so it doesn’t matter if I watch it or not.”

"Not a girlfriend." Li Ziqing suddenly said a word, Liang Anni was stunned, and then said cautiously: "Is that not sure yet?"

Li Ziqing was silent, Liang Anni considered his vocabulary, and asked uncertainly: "Friends with guns?"

Li Ziqing smiled suddenly, looked up at her, and nodded: "You can say that."

Liang Anni's astonished expression only appeared for a moment, and the next moment the old god sighed on the ground and said, "Since it's a friend with benefits, then forget it, and I will use the ticket myself, so as to save you trouble."

This time it was Li Ziqing's turn to be surprised, and asked Liang Anni, "Do you want to see it?"

Liang Anni shrugged, "Since I have a ticket, let's go and watch it. Although I don't have a boyfriend, it's just a good time to have a crush on the handsome guys on stage. Isn't it popular for fans to call themselves idol husbands now?"

"Then let's go together." Li Ziqing said, "I happen to be alone too."

Liang Anni immediately looked delighted: "Okay, okay, my God, can I borrow you to be my boyfriend for a day? I want to post to Moments to tell everyone that my mother has finally left the singles! Although only one day!"

Ji Bing sat in the hotel's Linjiang restaurant and ate the buffet meal provided by the hotel by himself. Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows beside him, brightly lit skyscrapers were shining in the night, and the ships on the river hummed and whistled. Open a piece of radiance, dragging long ripples to the end of the brilliant neon.

Ji Bing looked at it for a while, then looked away, the things on the dinner plate in front of him were already completely cold.Distraught, he threw the knife and fork on the dining table, and just picked up the red wine glass next to him, but suddenly a shadow flashed in front of his eyes, someone walked across the table from him, pulled out the chair and sat down.

Ji Bing looked up, saw the other person's face clearly, and said lightly: "Is the boss coming to do the customer satisfaction survey in person?" He raised his chin and said slowly: "The steak is not fresh, the scrambled eggs in butter are too fishy, ​​and the red wine is prepared according to the Mix it with water at a ratio of 1:10, I almost thought it was red wine-flavored plain water."

"Maybe you should take a bite first, and then express your opinion." The other party glanced at the untouched meal on his plate, and said with a calm smile.

Ji Bing sneered, and said with a look of annoyance: "Are you free?"

Lu Chuanbu picked up the red wine that the waiter had just poured, took a sip, and said slowly, "I heard that someone rented a presidential suite from our house for a month, so I came here to toast the benefactor. "

"Then congratulations to Boss Lu, this month's salary is finally free."

After Ji Bing finished speaking, he tilted the wine glass towards him, and the brims of the glasses collided with each other with a crisp sound. Lu Chuanbu took a sip and then served it, but Ji Bing on the opposite side directly raised his head and drank it down.

The waiter waiting at the side poured the wine again. Lu Chuanbu observed the other party's expression and asked, "Is it Li Ziqing again?"

Ji Bing raised his eyebrows: "Is this here for gossip?"

Lu Chuanbu spread his hands: "Caring about your friends, how can you say it's gossip?"

Ji Bing leaned back in the chair dejectedly, put his hands on the table and shook his wine glass, and said with a gloomy gaze, "Let's talk about something else."

Lu Chuanbu chuckled, and changed the subject, saying, "I met your dad last week, at a technology summit held in the next city."

Ji Bing snorted, "Are you going to attend the technology summit?"

"I'm going to pay the bill," Lu Chuanbu said.

Ji Bing stretched out his hand as a gesture of invitation, and Lu Chuanbu continued to speak calmly, "He asked me, did you break up with Li Ziqing?"

Ji Bing's face darkened suddenly, and he said in a deep voice, "What do you say?"

"I said I don't know, but since we didn't invite everyone to a breakup meal, we should still be together." Lu Chuanbu said with a smile: "It seems that your father is more gossip than me."

Ji Bing didn't speak, but turned his eyes to the colorful river outside the window. He was silent for a while, and then he heard Lu Chuanbu ask: "Then what's going on with you two, you have to give me a letter. Otherwise, next time I meet your dad, what can I do?" Prevarication?"

Ji Bing's face finally revealed a restless and anxious expression. He picked up the glass and drank it down, then stood up, took the coat handed over by the waiter, and turned his head to take a last look at Lu Chuanbu, with a truly bewildered expression: " You might as well ask Li Ziqing, and tell me the result of the question by the way."