Fireworks in the dark night

Even after many years, Chen Ye can still clearly remember the astonishment when he saw Chu Yanxi for the first time at the airport, with his fair skin, watery eyes like a bunny, small mouth, beautiful His melon-seeded face flushed with excitement when he saw Chu You. If Chu You hadn't said that it was his son who came to pick him up, and if he passed by like a stranger, Chen Ye would definitely think that she was a beautiful girl.

For the first time, Chen Ye was fascinated by a person's appearance, but when Chu Yanxi turned to face him, he met the same amazing eyes of the other person.The gazes of the two are unconsciously intertwined in the air, as if at that moment, only the other party and themselves in the other's eyes are left in the whole world, and no one has ever thought that this kind of shocking gaze from both sides will bring too much to the future. Entanglement and pain, the ending of the story seems to be doomed long ago. No matter how much you pay, no matter how much you lose, the person who does not belong to you may eventually let go.

"Xiaoxi, let's go." Chu You's words interrupted their staring at the right time, and they turned their heads away in embarrassment.

"Dad, who is this?" Chu Yanxi once again set his eyes on Chen Ye. He didn't understand why he had such a strong curiosity about a strange man, and there was an inexplicable desire to know and get close to him. magic.

"Look, dad is so happy that he forgot." Unlike his usual polite smile, Chu You smiled lovingly at this time, his eyes were full of fatherly love for Chu Yanxi. Hearing his son's question, he patted Chen Ye. "This is Chen Ye, the kid from ten years ago, remember? He has grown into a pretty good kid now." When Yan Zhong told him that at the bar that night, some of Chen Ye's behaviors were unacceptable. He didn't admit it, Chu You was a little surprised, he never thought that Chen Ye, who seemed mature and stable, would do such a thing, just like a child who was scolded by other children for his parents, and then angrily and others Although it was a surprise for the fight, it made my guarded heart loose at that moment, maybe it was moved, maybe it was other feelings, who would defend him like this, Chen Ye, is the first one like this child.

"Chen Ye?" Hearing his father's introduction, Chu Yanxi was puzzled, "Ten years ago?" He frowned slightly, had he ever known this person?

"Uncle Chu, let's go back first. The young master must be tired just after getting off the plane." Chen Ye looked at Chu Yanxi's face full of question marks, and suddenly found it funny and cute.

"Yes, yes, go back to rest first, what do you want to eat, let Zhang Ma make it for you at night."

"Thank you dad."

"Silly boy."

Chen Ye followed with his luggage, and the father and son walking in front interacted intimately.At that time, Chen Ye didn't understand what the fluctuations in his chest were. It was only after a long, long time that he realized that it was a kind of envy and jealousy.

As soon as I got back to the Yanbang Houdong residence, Chu Yanxi greeted the servants. Many of the servants in the mansion have stayed in the Chu family for many years. It can be said that they watched Chu Yanxi grow up. Yes, why do you say it can be counted? Chu Yanxi was brought to Singapore by his grandparents to live after he was five years old. He would only return to Chu’s house in S City when he was on vacation. After he was 15 years old, his grandparents passed away due to illness. Only then did he return to City S, but he didn't spend much time in City S, and spent most of his time traveling abroad to study painting.

Although we don't spend much time together, the servants all like this young master very much. He has a very sweet mouth, and he calls each aunt and uncle cheerfully. He is also very sensible and polite. Every time he comes back, he will give everyone some small gifts. .When Chu Yanxi came back, the happiest thing was Mama Zhang. Mama Zhang and Uncle Zhang, the housekeeper of the Chu family, had been working in the Chu family for ten years. The couple had no children, and they always treated Chu Yanxi as their own. The next time Chu Yanxi came back, Zhang Ma tried her best to make arrangements for him, and prepared everything for him properly.

No, Chu Yanxi, as soon as she entered the door, Zhang Ma looked at Chu Yanxi's fading face and began to mutter, "The young master has been in France for so long this time, he has lost weight and his face is sharpened, he must have not taken good care of it." Own."

Chu Yanxi lost her mother when she was very young, and she always felt very warm in her heart because of her love for this middle-aged woman. She took out the gift for Zhang Ma, stepped forward to put her arms around Zhang Ma's shoulder in a fawning manner and said, "Xiaoxi misses Zhang Ma. Mom's craftsmanship, you don't know how bad foreign food is, I was thinking, if I go abroad in the future, I won't take my father with me, so I will take Zhang Mama with me, how good it is."

"Master's mouth is getting sweeter and sweeter." Looking at the gift in his hand, he felt very relieved, and it was a little too expensive, "Master, you don't need to bring gifts every time, Mama Zhang has everything in Chu's house, why? Spend that wronged money."

"This is Xiaoxi's wish, Zhang Ma, you can take it." Chu You sat on the sofa, smiling and watching his son surrounded by everyone and caring.

"Mum Zhang, you see what Dad said, please accept it. Mom Zhang, I want to eat your cooking. What's good for dinner?"

Chu Yanxi acted like a greedy cat, which made everyone laugh.Zhang Ma laughed even more from ear to ear, "Okay, tonight, I will cook all the young master's favorite dishes, and let the young master make up for it. Zhang Ma will make up for the lost meat of the young master."

When Chu Yanxi heard this, she pretended to be distressed, "Mama Zhang wants to raise Xiaoxi as a pig?"

Mama Zhang doesn't want to do this anymore, "What a pig, our young master looks so good-looking, look at how thin you are, you will eat all of Mama Zhang's cooking tonight."

"Yes, Mama Zhang. I promise to complete the task with honor." After finishing speaking, Chu Yanxi stood upright, and even saluted Mama Zhang with a standard boy scout salute, which made everyone laugh, even Chu You, who usually had a serious expression. All smiles.

After getting along for a while, Chen Ye found that Chu Yanxi was a very gentle person, perhaps because he studied painting, and his whole body exuded Hexi's literary and artistic atmosphere, without the arrogance and hostility that the second generation of black people should have. There is always a faint smile on his face, and he is kind and courteous to others.Chen Ye didn't understand how such a person would inherit Chu You's position in the future. The boss of a gangster, who was neither cruel nor vicious, would never be able to lead the crowd. What made him even more curious was how Chu You would let Chu Yanxi go Learn to paint?However, these have nothing to do with him, he has his own things to do.

"Young master, Uncle Chu has something to do with him. Brother Zhong sent me to pick up the young master for the banquet. Brother Zhong will directly escort Uncle Chu there after finishing the matter."

"That's it, let's go." Listening to Chen Ye's respect, it was like a slender thorn stuck in Chu Yanxi's chest, and he was inexplicably displeased. Why he was unhappy, he didn't know himself, and everyone else called it that way. Yes, but every time Chen Ye yelled like that, he just couldn't be happy, isn't it weird?It's weird, even he himself thinks it's weird.

"Little Lord…"

Chen Ye watched Chu Yanxi's footsteps about to step out of the door, thinking about the gift he had left at the door, hesitating whether to give it or not.

"Huh?" Chu Yanxi looked back curiously at Chen Ye's hesitant to speak, thinking, it's strange that this man, who is usually as cold as an ice cube, can't open his mouth sometimes.Chu Yanxi felt a little happy in her heart, and although she was too curious, she pretended to ask calmly, "What's the matter?"

Then, he watched Chen Ye walk out of the room without saying a word with a playful face, and turned back immediately, holding a large photo frame about one meter in length and width in his hand, and he gave Chen Ye a full-faced look. , I don’t know what kind of coffin this person is selling, so I took the photo frame and turned over the front, and looked, “Wow, Van Gogh’s 'Starry Night' picture."

"Uh, cough, it's a counterfeit. My young master forgives me. The original work is collected in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is not for sale. Even if it is really sold to subordinates..." Chen Ye was speechless, he couldn't afford it, and he was really embarrassed to say it.

"This copy is very realistic, and it is hard to find such a high-level imitation. How do you know that I like Van Gogh's paintings? This 'Starry Night' is one of my favorite works."

"Guess, people who study painting should have the same preferences, as long as the young master likes it." Chen Ye left the beginning, it's hard to say that he guessed it because he saw Chu Yanxi copying a painting of Van Gogh last time.He didn't dare to look at Chu Yanxi, or dared to smile at Chu Yanxi.When Chu Yanxi smiles, the corners of her mouth are always curved, the shallow dimple on her left cheek is very cute, and her eyes glow with a very warm light.Such a simple smile was like an electric current passing through Chen Ye's heart, and it was just a momentary numbness, so fast that he couldn't grasp the strangeness.

"I really like it. This is the best birthday present I've received this year. Thank you, Chen Ye." After speaking, he carried the painting to the studio connected to the room, carefully put the painting away, and lingered before leaving. Reluctant to touch it several times.It seems that I really like it, Chen Ye thought.

"If we come across other authentic products in the future, we will definitely buy them for the young master. We should go to the banquet now."

"Well, thank you. Let's go then." Chu Yanxi went out cheerfully.

However, as soon as they walked out of the gate, the originally happy atmosphere seemed to disappear between the two of them suddenly. In the entire rear compartment, there were only Chu Yanxi and Chen Ye. The silence of both sides made the spacious compartment dull.

On weekdays, Chen Ye has always been a man of few words. Every time Chu Yanxi saw him, he followed Yan Zhong silently to do things. He had only joined the Yan Gang for half a year, but he was praised by the whole gang for his wit and wit. , Emphasis on friendship but indifference are the unanimous evaluations of Chen Ye by the brothers below.What really made Chu Yanxi admire Chen Ye was a cooperation negotiation with the Eagle Gang a month ago.I don't know if Chu You let Chen Ye take full responsibility for the negotiation based on the test of Chen Ye's ability, or some doubts about the Eagle Gang. Instead, he asked Chu Yanxi to study with him. Accumulating experience in succeeding to the throne in the future is just the real meaning of this. Smart people will naturally understand that Chen Ye is still doing what he should do as if nothing happened.But Chu Yanxi saw such an eye-catching Chen Ye for the first time, who deeply attracted his attention.

"Hmph, you 'Yan Gang' don't care about people too much. You only send someone with no status to talk, obviously you don't have the sincerity to cooperate." The other party saw that Chen Ye was still young and there were not many people. There were only four of them, and the arrogance suddenly became rampant.

"Oh?" Chen Ye said lightly, "I, Chen Ye, let me introduce to you, this is Chu Yanxi, the young master of the 'Yan Gang'." He turned his head and looked at the person who was choking just now, "I don't know if we Is it sincere enough for the young master to come here in person, or does your gang feel that our young master is not worthy enough?"

The other party was dumbfounded, and the first person named Ma Quan finally broke into a smile and said: "Where, Mr. Chen, please forgive me, thanks to the favor of Chu Gangzhu, Young Master Chu, please sit down, everyone please!"

After everyone sat down, Ma Quan spoke first, "I think it's a little too much for your gang to offer a commission for cooperation."

“How come you see?”

"We are responsible for finding the source of goods, unloading goods at the dock, transporting them, and contacting buyers. You only need to provide a warehouse and a trading venue, but you have to take [-]%, don't you think it's unreasonable?"

"Is it as simple as just a warehouse and a trading venue? If it's so easy, why doesn't the Gui Gang eat this piece of fat by itself, and it takes so much trouble to seek the protection of the 'Yan Gang'?"

Ma Quan frowned at Chen Ye's sharp point. Obviously, he was very unhappy with Chen Ye's words, but he was powerless to refute. Indeed, the reason why the 'Eagle Gang' approached the 'Yan Gang' was simply because the 'Yan Gang' had the greatest influence in S City. , to smuggle in S City without being interfered by other gangs, the 'Yan Gang' is undoubtedly the strongest backer.

"For this [-]%, we took a far greater risk than the Gui Gang. Such a large amount of goods were shipped in, and various security measures were not handled well during the transaction. Once the police noticed it, we would be the first to have an accident." Yanbang', with such a big risk, only [-]% of the money is taken, which is our gang leader's benevolence and giving face to your gang. Of course, your gang can choose other partners, and our "Yanbang" doesn't care about such small profits, just I don't know if other gangs dare to touch something that even the 'Yan Gang' is unwilling to touch?"

"Are you threatening me?" Ma Quan, who was known as the Iron Teeth in the 'Eagle Gang', was rendered speechless by Chen Ye's sharp and appropriate words at this time, and he had no choice but to ignore the signs. Aiming at Chu Yanxi who had been silent from the beginning, "Young Master Chu, do you actually allow your subordinates to be so presumptuous?"

"I'm sorry, Mr. Ma, our guild leader means that Chen Ye has the full authority to negotiate this cooperation." Chen Ye turned a deaf ear to the contempt in Ma Quan's words, and there was no trace of fluctuation in his flat tone as before.

Ma Quan looked at Chu Yanxi in disbelief, but the other party just smiled gently, spread his hands and shrugged, and said indifferently: "I'm really sorry, my father's meaning is indeed so, and I, as a son, naturally dare not violate it, sorry I can't help you, sorry."

"You... bang..." Ma Quan slammed the table angrily, and the people behind both sides quickly drew out their pistols, and the atmosphere tensed instantly.

Chen Ye waved his hand, and the two people behind him put down their guns, while Chen Ye stood up from the chair unhurriedly, walked to the table next to Ma Quan and stopped, "Mr. Ma, why get angry, Chen Ye is just discussing the matter. "

"You are deceiving people too much."

"Mr. Ma's words are wrong. It's you, the 'Eagle Gang', who are pointing guns at us now." These words obviously satirize the "Eagle Gang" for bullying the less.

"Hmph, Chen Ye, don't show off your power in front of me. If you want to draw [-]%, I'm afraid you will have this ability today." As soon as Ma Quan said this, a dozen people behind him immediately surrounded him with loaded pistols.

"Since Mr. Ma wants to see Chen Ye's ability so much, I'm afraid it won't be a good day to disappoint Mr. Ma." Clapping his hands, dozens of people outside the door rushed in immediately with the people arranged in advance by the "Eagle Gang". Surrounded Ma Quan and the others, "No matter how bad Chen Ye is, he won't let our young master put himself in danger, it's so offending, please forgive Chen Ye for his eagerness to protect the master."

"You... count yourself as ruthless." Seeing this, Ma Quan loses all arrogance, and angrily tells his subordinates to back off, "I can't decide this matter, I have to ask our leader for instructions before giving you an answer."

"Please."

Ma Quan dialed the phone, with a cautious tone, obviously the leader of the "Eagle Gang" was very dissatisfied with this result, but had to compromise in the end.

"Hmph, you're doing well, I remember you, Chen Ye."

After signing the contract, Ma Quan slammed the door angrily and walked out of the private room with his people. Chu Yanxi couldn't help laughing out of his suffocated face.

"Young master?" Hearing the laughter, Chen Ye turned his head in doubt to look at Chu Yanxi who was in a daze after getting in the car.

"Ah? Cough...it's okay." Chu Yanxi smiled awkwardly, and looked a little embarrassed that she forgot that she was lost in thought on the way to the banquet, or maybe it was because of the heating in the car, her face flushed slightly.

Chen Ye looked at Chu Yanxi steadily, but didn't speak again, and turned his gaze forward again.

Chu Yanxi obviously felt embarrassed too, and turned her face to the car window, but because of the darkness, she met Chen Ye's side face reflected on the car window, with such an indifferent expression, such focused eyes looking ahead, as if revealing Chen Ye's loneliness and loneliness made Chu Yanxi feel a different feeling in his heart for no reason. What is it?