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As soon as Jiang Chiyu arrived at the door of the conference room, he heard lively chatter and laughter inside.

Across a solid wooden door, although he couldn't hear clearly, the key words "Sanyi Engineering accident", "Yuduo", and "Boss Jiang is happy now" still clearly fell into his ears.

The assistant Xiao Zhao next to him wanted to go in and interrupt, but he stopped him.Jiang Chiyu opened the door and walked into the meeting room, sat down at the head, spread the documents on the table, and asked with a warm smile, "What happened to Yu Duo from the Trinity Project?"

Everyone did not expect that Jiang Chiyu would arrive so early today, and the meeting room was suddenly silent, everyone looked at each other, and no one came out to answer Jiang Chiyu's question.

After all, gossiping behind the boss's back and being caught by him himself, the situation is really difficult.

Jiang Chiyu glanced at Mr. Huang, the administrative director with the loudest voice just now, "Director Huang, please speak."

Seeing his boss calling him by name, the administrator had no choice but to bite the bullet and stand up. The sentence "Boss Jiang is now happy" just now came from this man.

Mr. Huang was uncertain about Jiang Chiyu's attitude, so he chose a neutral tone, and said hesitantly: "I just heard that a tourist bus of the Sany Project fell into a river in a car accident in Yunnan, and the boss Yu Duo was also inside... "

When Jiang Chiyu heard this, he sat up straight suddenly, and accidentally knocked the folder on the desktop to the ground, and the pages in the folder were scattered all over the floor.

The assistant hurried forward to pick it up.

"And then?" Jiang Chiyu's face turned pale immediately.

Mr. Huang didn't dare to look directly at Jiang Chiyu: "Then I don't know, I also saw a small video in the WeChat group, and the official announcement hasn't come out yet..."

What President Huang said next, Jiang Chiyu didn't want to listen anymore, he glanced at his assistant Xiao Zhao, Zhao Zhu nodded and went out understandingly.

Zhao Zhu was the assistant brought by Jiang Chiyu from the headquarters, and was originally someone close to Yang Youyun.This man was tall and mighty, taciturn, and he couldn't make a dull fart with three sticks. Questions that could be answered with one word definitely didn't need two words.

But this person is loyal and reliable, and he is extremely efficient in handling affairs. As soon as the meeting ended, he returned with the latest news.

When Zhao Zhu knocked on the door and entered Jiang Chiyu's office, the shutters in the room were closed tightly. Jiang Chiyu lay back on the boss's chair with his eyes closed, and the mobile phone screen on the desktop was shining faintly.

His brows were tightly wrinkled, it seemed that he had another headache.

"How do you say it?" Hearing the sound of the assistant entering the door, Jiang Chiyu opened his eyes a little.

Zhao Zhu held the exact news he got from inside the Sany Project, and reported concisely: "The news is true, and there were no casualties."

At that time, the bus that Yu Duo was riding in was about to reach the snow-capped mountain. When turning a corner, a motorcycle suddenly jumped out from the opposite side.The bus evaded in an emergency and lost control and rushed into the river.

Fortunately, it is now the dry season, except for a few unlucky guys in the front row who had their skin scratched, no major casualties were caused.

***

Although the accident this time was unexpected, in order to cooperate with the investigation, Yu Duo still stayed in Yunnan for a few days before returning home.

The house Yu Duo lives in now is a small high-level apartment not far from the company. He moved out of Tangcun shortly after Simao's case ended.

This suite was mortgaged to him by the developer to pay for the project. The location is good, but the apartment size is really average.He sold the rest of the large apartments for cash, and the remaining two-bedroom, one-living room apartment was simply renovated, and he lived in alone.

Next door to Yu Duo lives a couple who love life very much. They usually love to grow flowers and grass.Their own balcony was so piled up that they couldn't fit it, so they raised the flowers and plants in the stairwell.

On the day of returning home, as soon as Yu Duo got out of the elevator dragging his suitcase, he heard a neighbor complaining in the stairwell: "Who is so wicked."

Seeing Yu Duo, the hostess greeted enthusiastically: "Xiao Yu, are you back? Are you not at home these days?"

"Well, I went on a trip." Seeing the hostess squatting in front of a pot of green plants, Yu Duo asked casually, "What's wrong?"

"I don't know, which bastard you are talking about is so wicked, and has been smoking here every day for several days." The hostess carefully wiped the leaves of the plants with a wet towel: "Look at this ashes, It all fell on my orchids."

These pots of orchids are the couple's baby bumps, and they have to take care of them several times a day, so they can't be blown by wind or rain.Yu Duo glanced at it, and there were indeed some sporadic soot on the leaves.

However, no cigarette butts were left in the corridor, which seems to be an unintentional mistake.

Yu Duo felt that the other party was making a fuss out of a molehill, and it was difficult to explain clearly, so he smiled and said: "Maybe some wife at home is strict, so I can only hide here and smoke."

After exchanging pleasantries with the neighbors, Yu Duo entered the house.So many years have passed, and the income level has also increased, but Yu Duo's aesthetic taste has not changed much. The decoration style of his home is not much different from when he was in Tangcun, and the broken copper and iron from the second-hand market in the past are still there. , Looking around, I can't tell that it is the home of a real estate owner.

There was no one in the house for a few days, and there was some humidity in the air. After entering the door, he first opened the window and drew the curtains, then turned into the kitchen with a few plastic bags he had just brought back.

Passing the evening market on the way back from the airport, Yu Duo bought a la carte. Tonight, on a whim, he planned to cook at home.

In the past few years of living alone, Yu Duo's living habits have not changed much, but his cooking skills have improved a lot.He didn't spend much effort in the kitchen alone, and he made two dishes and one soup.

However, Mr. Yu's practical experience is still insufficient, and it is inevitable that the hundred secrets will be neglected. When the dishes are about to be served, he suddenly remembers that he forgot to put the rice in the pot.

Without rice, the dishes on the table lost their soul, so he had to pick up the coat he had just taken off from the sofa and go downstairs to the Sichuan restaurant outside the gate of the community to "play the autumn wind".

While putting on his coat, Yu Duo opened the door and walked out of the house. As soon as he opened the door, he saw Jiang Chiyu.

"Why are you here?" Yu Duo was stunned, and the movement of putting on clothes also stopped, freezing in a funny pose with one hand in the sleeve.

"I..." Jiang Chiyu was sitting in the stairwell smoking a cigarette, he didn't expect that Yu Duo would open the door and come out at this time, before he could pinch the cigarette in his hand.

The unhappiness of the last time was still vivid in his memory, the two looked at each other in blank dismay, the scene was a little awkward.

Yu Duo looked at Jiang Chiyu's bewildered expression, and suddenly laughed. He also put his other arm into the sleeve, and said to Jiang Chiyu, "We are preparing to serve dinner, come in."

The direction of the matter was completely beyond Jiang Chiyu's expectation. He stood up from the stairs in some confusion and hesitated for a moment, wondering whether he should follow Yu Duo in or not.

While Jiang Chiyu was hesitating for a short while, Yu Duo had already turned around to open the door.

It's just that he just inserted the key into the keyhole, and suddenly stopped, as if someone had pressed the pause button, and didn't really open the door.

Jiang Chiyu guessed that Yu Duo only invited him in because of a momentary brain fever, and now he probably regretted it later, and was about to change his way to see off the guests.

After all, as a result of the last meeting between the two, the four words "break up unhappily" are not enough to describe, and the relationship can be said to have dropped to freezing point.

Jiang Chiyu thought it would be wiser to leave before he opened his mouth to chase people away, so that he would not have to rack his brains to find excuses.

However, at this moment, he heard Yu Duo laugh, turned around and said to him: "I almost forgot the business, you go in and sit down first, I'll go downstairs and ask for a meal."

As he said that, Yu Duo let Jiang Chiyu enter the door first, then turned around and entered the elevator.

The process of Yu Duo's "begging" was not very smooth. From the moment he entered the Sichuan restaurant, he stared at the big rice bucket in the kitchen in a daze.

After finally regaining his soul, Yu Duo took the box and left, almost forgetting to pay for the meal.

From the gate of the community to the gate of the house, it took only three to five minutes. With the takeaway box in his hand, Yu Duo walked faster and faster, and finally almost started to trot.

When he stepped out of the elevator, his heartbeat was loud enough to startle the neighbors next door.

He stood at the door, took a deep breath, and raised his hand to close the doorknob.

When opening the door, Yu Duo wondered if the person in the family might be gone.

Before he could settle his thoughts, the door of the house opened, and the warm lights poured out. Jiang Chiyu sat on the sofa and looked back at him, with a somewhat reserved posture.

Yu Duo pulled out the key on the door, and in a trance, time began to flow backwards.

He should be angry with Jiang Chiyu, and Jiang Chiyu may not be pleasing to his eyes, but when he saw Jiang Chiyu standing alone outside the door today, he felt sore and couldn't help letting him in.

The two dishes and one soup that had been prepared a long time ago were quickly put on the table. Shrimp, cucumber, and mussels happened to be Jiang Chiyu's favorite dishes in the past.

Perhaps the atmosphere tonight was too rare, no one mentioned the unpleasantness of the previous period, Yu Duo and Jiang Chiyu sat face to face, the news was broadcast on the TV, like every ordinary night in every household.

"I didn't expect you to come." Yu Duo poured the rice out of the plastic box into a porcelain bowl, and pushed it in front of Jiang Chiyu: "It's easy, let's just make do with it."

Jiang Chiyu nodded, picked up the chopsticks on the table, and started to eat quietly.

Jiang Chiyu didn't ask when Yu Duo learned to cook, and Yu Duo didn't ask why Jiang Chiyu appeared at his door at this time. What happened tonight was just like the two of them used to go home after get off work to eat together. It was so natural. thing.

In the middle of the meal, Yu Duo suddenly remembered something and asked Jiang Chiyu: "Did you call me a few days ago?"

"En." Jiang Chiyu's tone was flat: "I heard about your incident in Yunnan."

"It's such a bad story." Yu Duo thought of the videos of them being salvaged from the river circulated in various real estate groups, and suddenly felt a little sad: "It's nothing, it's just a false alarm."

Jiang Chiyu gave a "hmm", looked at Yu Duo, and said, "It's good that people are fine."

Since returning to the Guihu Building last time, Yu Duo released Jiang Chiyu once, and then went to Yunnan. The two have not seen each other for half a month.

Yu Duo originally thought that Jiang Chiyu came here specially today, there must be nothing good.Unexpectedly, after dinner, Jiang Chiyu didn't do anything else.

He took the initiative to clean up the bowls and chopsticks, and then took his leave and left. On the contrary, it seemed that Yu Duo treated the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain.

Jiang Chiyu said he wanted to leave, but Yu Duo didn't say any polite words to keep him, and walked him to the elevator with a pair of slippers.

After entering the elevator, Jiang Chiyu turned his head to look at Yu Duo, as if he had something to say.But the quickly closed elevator door did not give him a chance to speak.

It wasn't until the elevator reached the ground floor that Yu Duo turned around and walked back.Before entering the house, he inadvertently glanced at the neighbor's orchid.

Yu Duo saw that a few smears of soot fell on the leaves that the neighbor had just cleaned up.