straight to heaven

On the penultimate Thursday of December, I ended my vacation from injury and went to visit Lao Hu first.

Although the husband and wife thanked me many times and gave me many gifts that were just too inconvenient for me to refuse when I came to avoid Pei Yan, but every time I came to the door, the family of three would disappear on time.

In addition to being grateful, I still feel guilty, and I am too embarrassed to see me.

Lao Hu still didn't have much strength, but his face looked good.I peeled him an apple, and he nibbled slowly, and talked to me for a while, all in small talk.What did he eat, what did he drink, what did Nao Nao and Hu Chunman and his wife do this morning, which book did he read recently from his college classmates, and the quality was not bad.

...but he also mentioned a few other things, and Lao Hu, uncharacteristically, asked Pei Yanlai first.

"How is Pei Lu recently?"

I was taken aback, smiled subconsciously, and said, "It's good." I thought he wanted to know about Dingrun's development, so I changed my mind and continued: "Pei Lu and Judy cooperate very well, don't worry."

Lao Hu looked at me, raised his eyebrows for a while, and smiled: "Okay, it's fine."

"..."

I always feel that there is something in his words, and his smile is somewhat meaningful.

But Lao Hu threw the apple core into the trash can at his feet, and sighed with a smile: "Oh, it's better to be young."

Instinctively, I seemed to understand something, blinked guiltyly, and called him: "...Uncle Hu."

Lao Hu just patted my shoulder.

Perhaps it is really a person who has begun to reconcile with everything in his old age. Since his illness, the majestic wrinkles between his brows have faded a lot, and his eyes have become more gentle.

"Okay, stop chatting with me here, and go do your business." He ordered to evict the guests: "According to the plan, I should go to cook chicken porridge in 5 minutes. Don't make trouble for me."

porridge?Lao Hu still knows this?

Doubts are too obvious.I was betrayed by my own eyes, Lao Hu lightly slapped the back of my head, and instructed: "Learn for life, learn more from me."

I froze for a moment, then smiled and said yes.

Having known each other for so many years, such moments between me and my teacher are actually rare.

It's a little strange...but it feels good.

After leaving Lao Hu's place, I took a taxi back to Dingrun.

As expected, I was greeted by three joint trials.

Li Xiaoxiao, Xie Yi, and Xiaomi blocked me in the printing room and locked the door.I took the printed pages and calmly persuaded the three of you to have something to say.

"Pa", Li Xiaoxiao slapped the table with a slap: "You confess to me with leniency."

Xie Yi stood aside with folded arms and chimed in: "Yes, that's right, you must be strict with your resistance. Lin Xiaoshan, I solemnly warn you, we are colleagues, don't force me to be cruel."

Xiaomi shyly raised a hand: "Support, support."

"..." I looked at Li Xiaoxiao and asked, "Don't you know everything?"

Xie Yi and Xiaomi's questioning and tortured eyes instantly turned to Li Xiaoxiao, who was awe-inspiring.

Li Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment, but he reacted quickly, then slammed the table and asked me: "Lin Xiaoshan, don't blame me! You just tell me that you are unrequitedly in love with Pei... Who is unrequitedly in love with? Say whoever is interested in you!"

Xie Yi narrowed his eyes, gritted his teeth, and showed a deliberate cunning compared to the fat and strong earth pine dog in the parking shed of his hometown, "Li Xiaoxiao, good for you! If you hide it and don't report it, what should you do!"

The embarrassing thing was that the airs were put up, but no one answered.He coughed twice and glanced at Xiaomi.

Millet realized later, and nodded like a chicken pecking at rice: "According to Article 310 of my country's Criminal Law, those who knowingly provide criminals with hiding places and property to help them escape or use false certificates to cover them up shall have a three-year cap; if the circumstances are serious , three to ten years.*”

Xie Yi: "You heard me, Ms. Li knows the law and broke the law."

Li Xiaoxiao clicked his tongue, waved his hands and ignored the two people: "I promised him to keep it a secret, so you can't break your promise."

I nodded: "What the party said is true."

"Seriously," Xie Yi asked, "what's the situation between you and that person, I'll give you 3 minutes to make a brief statement, and think clearly about the consequences of making a false statement."

The three surrounded me, and I could only take a step back: "...I don't know where to say it."

"It's easy to say." Xie Yi laughed grimly: "We ask, you answer."

I sighed: "Ask."

Li Xiaoxiao rushed to ask: "I'll come first! When did you date Pei...?"

Before I could speak, Xie Yi pushed her aside in a stomachache: "Go, go, you know what happened before, Xiaomi and I were blind, and asked logically if it was possible."

Xiaomi swallowed her saliva: "Support, support."

Li Xiaoxiao rolled his eyes, and exaggeratedly made a "please" gesture: "Yes, thank you, big lawyer, please."

Xie Yi straightened the neckline of his shirt and cleared his throat: "The person involved, Lin Xiaoshan, when did you meet Pei?"

I reported a string of numbers, and then added, the first year of high school.

"How did you meet?"

I answered, in the dormitory next door, I will be at the same table after being divided into classes.

"You two are so good at following the trend... Puppy love?"

I smiled stiffly, but I thought so.

"That's why they've been ambiguous for so many years?"

I refuted that it was more than nine years since I saw each other.

Xie Yi asked curiously: "Do you belong to the old house on fire or the resurgence of old love in adolescence?"

I said frankly: "I miss him, and I will never forget him."

"Damn." Xie Yi was dumbfounded for a while: "I didn't expect you to be a lover."

In the stairwell of the hospital, Li Xiaoxiao said the same thing.

love?Pei Yanlai and I are probably the same, but this is his secret, I don't need to tell anyone.

"Wait." Li Xiaoxiao interrupted with squinted eyes. She pulled out the printout from my hand and grabbed my wrist: "This ring looks familiar."

I wear a plain silver band on my ring finger—this is the first time I wear it to work.

Xiaomi leaned over to look at it, and within a few seconds, he took a deep breath: "This, Pei, Lawyer Pei also wore it some time ago."

Hearing this, Xie Yi also had an epiphany: "Damn it, it's true."

Three beams of eyes gathered on me again.

I had to go to work the next day after I bought the ring, so I took it off, but I found out during the meeting that Pei Yanlai didn't take it off.But I didn't make any comments, it was because Pei Yanlai was impatient with people from all walks of life asking about his marital status, so he took it off by himself the next day, and then put it on when he went out, depending on the situation.

"I see," Li Xiaoxiao turned around and looked around: "You two were together on the day of Hu Lu's operation? Then whose birthday is it? The annual spring night is so short, no wonder..."

Reaching out for the printout, I dismissed her point: "No, a little earlier."

"Earlier is more..."

Li Xiaoxiao muttered about handing me the document, but she glanced down and stopped immediately.

After three seconds of silence, Li Xiaoxiao stared wide-eyed, blinked twice, and looked at me: "Lin Xiaoshan, what does this mean?"

"What, you're making a big fuss..." Xie Yi paused, and after reading ten lines at a glance, he raised his head suddenly.

"Resignation letter? You want to resign?!"

His voice was extremely loud, and I didn't intend to make the incident known to everyone, so I hurriedly made a "shh" gesture.

"Ah? Ah, ah???" Xiaomi was taken aback. After a long time, there was nothing to say.

"It wasn't decided recently." I took back the resignation letter: "I want to take the postgraduate entrance examination for further study, full-time."

During the time I was at home on sick leave, I was also idle, lying on the newly purchased sofa chair in the study and reading Milan Kundera. He said that once a person is intoxicated by his own weakness, he will continue to be weak.It fits perfectly on me.

It's not that I don't have ambition and desire to win or lose, it's just that during the days when I was left behind by Pei Yanlai, I was bound by inertia and sank deeper and deeper into the mud.

Now I want to climb out, there is probably nothing wrong with living like this-although in the eyes of most people, those who are 27 or [-] years old, resigned from the big red circle Dingrun, and then go to the postgraduate entrance examination are idiots.

"Okay, you, Anti-Age Anxiety No. 1." Li Xiaoxiao seemed to have a lot to say, but in the end he just asked: "Pei Lu has no objection?"

I thought it was funny: "What opinion can he have?" If it had to be counted, Pei Yanlai was the instigator.

Xiaomi blinked, opened his mouth, a little dumb.

In the end Xie Yi patted me on the shoulder and said nothing.

In the workplace, it is much more difficult to speak up than to hide something.

Probably on the night when Xie Yi and the others learned about the situation, the whole firm heard the news of my resignation.Even when I went to tidy up things early on Friday morning, the desk was covered with all kinds of gifts, letterheads and post-it notes.

Snacks are the most, followed by postgraduate entrance examination materials.

The number of words on the letterhead and sticky notes was uneven, so I opened and read them one by one.

[Assistant Lin, if you don’t say something today, you won’t have a chance—you’re so handsome, so handsome, so handsome!It looks like the schoolgirl in the class next door to me in high school!But the handsome guy back then is now scumbag and narcissistic, you are much better than him... Not much nonsense, in short, I wish you a bright future and everything is fine! 】

[Come on for the postgraduate entrance examination, Kobayashi!I believe that you will definitely be able to enter the dream school, and in the days to come, your studies and career will go to the next level! 】

【Dude, don't say anything, I respect you for being courageous! 】

[These materials are the spiritual and technical support provided to you by Brother Huang on behalf of our foreign affairs group.No thanks, don't be too moved. 】

[Assistant Lin, well, actually, when you first entered the institute, I wanted to ask you if you were willing to develop a sister-brother relationship, but I was cowardly and didn't ask.However, I am just a very, very pure friendship with you now, I wish you all the best and a bright future! 】

……

……

There is one that impresses me the most:

[Lin Zhu, now I want to confess one thing to you:

That is to say, since last year, I have been quietly taking a sip, really only a small sip, the CP of you and Lawyer Pei...Xinnv secretly produced some faceless fan pictures on a certain station (don't worry , I didn’t disclose any real information, even Sister Xiaoxiao couldn’t see it), I wrote the link behind the sticky note.

If you can't accept it, remember to tell me and I'll delete it; if you can accept it, I'll give you one! ! ! 】

After reading this letter, I didn't put it away directly. I smiled, took a photo of the link on the back, and sent it to Pei Yanlai.

A hundred days of injury.My wrist isn't back to full flexibility so I can't drive for a while.The original intention was to take a taxi back at the door, but when he was about to go out, he was surrounded by Li Xiaoxiao and three people.

Li Xiaoxiao turned the car key: "I'll see you off."

Xie Yi was not happy, so he asked her to step aside: "Aren't you busy today? I'll see it off."

Xiaomi faltered: "Lin, brother Lin, I will definitely learn to drive in a while."

Holding the box, I couldn't tell what it was like, it was very strange, very delicate, very subtle, but very good.

Entering Dingrun by mistake, I thought it was torture at first, but later it turned into a trial with arduous tasks.Now, looking at this door that has been pushed open thousands of times, I suddenly realize that it is a free gift and a destiny.

Godsend.It's my life.

"It will only be two or three years, and I will come back." I paused, and continued: "Be prepared."

It was Xie Yi who jumped up to hug me first, followed by Li Xiaoxiao, and finally it was Xiaomi who wanted to hug but didn't dare, and could only look at the red-eyed Xiaomi.

"Shan'er, you can definitely do it. Keep in touch."

"Brother Xie believes in you, fuck it! We'll wait for you!"

"Me, me too..."

Xiao Qiao at the front desk also came over, and patted Xiaomi on the shoulder earnestly: "From now on, the heavy responsibility of running for Pei Lu will fall on you. Baby, the sky will send a big responsibility to everyone. Come on."

Xiaomi's face instantly collapsed.

Just as I was about to laugh, I heard a car not far away honking its horn twice.

Since the car accident, Pei Yanlai sent the Lexus to the junkyard without repairing it. His new car is right behind me right now.

The car window was lowered halfway, and a hand wearing a silver ring reached out and knocked on the car window, which was very subtle and sexy.

"Xiaoshan," Pei Yanlai called me that for the first time outsiders, "Let's go."

Li Xiaoxiao and his group were the best at fueling the flames. They pushed me to the side of the car, shouted "Pei Luhao" one by one, and then swarmed back into the office.

Lest the world be in chaos.

I threw the case in the trunk with the window open - it never closed on me again.

Through this small window, Pei Yanlai's side profile was too good-looking, I caught my eye and grabbed his hand hanging outside the car window, and he squeezed it as a response.

"How will you introduce me in the future?" I asked seriously, "I'm not your assistant anymore."

Pei Yanlai's eyebrows and eyes turned into a gentle trap, and I fell into it, with a gesture of no hesitation like a sacrifice.

He rubbed my wrist bone as a warning, and said softly, "Get in the car first."

Sitting in the co-pilot, the car window was closed by Pei Yanlai, and the privacy film made the enclosed space ambiguous.

"Going home?" he asked.

I shook my head: "Let's go to the bookstore." You can't talk about it on paper, and I will start preparing from today.

He said yes.

But I was not willing to be fooled, so I turned sideways and approached him.With entangled breath, Pei Yanlai lowered his eyes, which is a signal that he wants to kiss me.

The moment the attack came, I raised my finger to stop it.

"Pei Yan is here, there are coming and going."

In the tug-of-war between me and Pei Yanlai, it is often impossible to conclude who wins and who loses.But this time, the rascals clearly had the upper hand.

He bowed his head foully and dropped a kiss on the pulse of my wrist.

Straighttoheaven with the same pattern spreads into countless unstable factors in a small space.

In the end, it was completely ignited by Pei Yanlai.

"Want to hear something nice?"

He bit my lip and gasped for breath, his whispers were like a spell, making me irreversible——

"...my love."

Oh shit.

The sun is so bright today, facing clusters of dazzling light, I have to shed tears.

The car drove all the way to the bookstore, and the windows framed the passing elementary school, junior high school, high school, coffee shop and commercial street.The crowds are bustling and the traffic is constant.

That is, when I turned around suddenly and saw Pei Yan coming, I changed my mind.

Just be hypocritical.