blazing fire

As a result, Yuan Yu didn't contact him until after 8 o'clock that day.

"I just got off work." Yuan Yu said on the phone, "Now I am going to go back by car, if you want to come, come."

"Did you have meal?"

"Eat, there are lunch boxes at the construction site." Yuan Yu paused, "Why, you didn't eat?"

"Yeah." On the phone, Cheng Zhuo's voice sounded lazy, "I want to eat hot pot, come eat with me."

"..."

Yuan Yu silently withdrew from the line waiting to get on the bus, and asked, "Which hot pot restaurant do you want to go to?"

"Is there a Haidilao in Wantai City?"

"Ah."

"Then there." Cheng Zhuo said, "I'll go pick you up?"

"No need." Yuan Yu glanced at the bus stop sign, "I can take the bus by myself."

Cheng Zhuo didn't quite understand why Yuan Yu didn't let him pick him up and drop him off. He obviously pestered him to pick him up from school before.

Time is really gone forever.

He sighed, shook his head and put down the phone.Half of the data on the laptop in front of him has been sorted out, but he doesn't plan to continue. As far as he knows, the investment company under Cheng Guangzong's hands is one of the most important businesses of his father in recent years, and there is a high probability that he will not let it go. It's made for a fledgling young man like him, he doesn't have to push himself so hard here.

After all, the undergraduate thesis has already been written, and if it is not used in work, these data are temporarily useless.He just had nothing to do before he got used to geography.

He changed into some light clothes and was about to go out when he suddenly remembered something, and he went back to take a quick shower before going downstairs with his half-wet hair again.

Cheng Zhuo lived close by, and Yuan Yu hadn't come when he got there, so he ordered a four-slice pot bottom, and waited for Yuan Yu while waiting for the soup to boil.

The waiter came with celery and diced beef and made him tomato soup.Cheng Zhuo looked sleepy, and pointed to the vacant seat beside him: "Get two bowls, there's someone else coming."

"Ok sir."

It didn't take long for the soup to be served, and the dishes waiting to be cooked were all over the table.

At this moment, the phone vibrated, and Cheng Zhuo came to his senses, unlocked and opened WeChat.Yuan Yu sent a message: Here we go, which table?

-A19

Cheng Zhuo returned.

Yuan Yu soon came in, still wearing the T-shirt from the morning.After a busy day, he sweated a lot, and his clothes clung to his body limply, allowing people to see the muscle lines underneath.

Looming, it is wonderful with hot pot.

Cheng Zhuo stared at him subconsciously until he sat down. "Try the soup," Cheng Zhuo pushed the bowl over, "the specialty here."

In fact, Yuan Yu was not hungry, but he still tasted it.It's a small bowl, even if you chew all the beef cubes, it won't hold up well.

He drank it all at once, only to realize that Cheng Zhuo was still looking at him: "What are you looking at me for?"

"It's okay, just take a look." Cheng Zhuo then looked away, and picked up the plate to order.

There was no expression on his face, Yuan Yu didn't pay attention at first, but after eating with him for a while, he noticed that Cheng Zhuo didn't talk too much today.He looked over, and after careful observation for a while, he confirmed that it was not an illusion.

"Are you in a bad mood?"

"No, just..." Cheng Zhuo casually found an excuse, "I've been looking at the data before I came out, maybe I'm tired."

Yuan Yu responded, but the corner of his eye stayed on Cheng Zhuo.

It's a bit strange.

He thought for a while and asked, "Don't you live with your mother and the others, why didn't you have dinner?"

"I got up late today, and I had breakfast in the afternoon." Cheng Zhuo paused, "My mother and her husband took their son out for dinner, and I couldn't eat, so I didn't go."

Son... Yuan Yu thought of the little boy he met last night.He rolled his eyes and pointed to the dishes on the table: "I can't eat it either, why did you ask me to come?"

Cheng Zhuo smiled: "Are you interested? I have to make it clear - I don't want to eat with their family of three, I just want to eat with you, okay?"

This time Yuan Yu didn't answer, he felt that he couldn't answer now.

It was as if they were a family.

but……

It feels like he was right in thinking in the morning, Cheng Zhuo really seems to be the extra one.

It's pretty pathetic.

Cheng Zhuo didn't order too many dishes, but he was the only one eating, so he didn't finish it in the end.

He has a bad stomach, so he will be full if he eats a little more; Yuan Yu sat next to him and drank two extra bowls of tomato soup. When the two of them walked out of Haidilao, they were too full to talk.

"Let's go." Cheng Zhuo first proposed.

"Row."

The weather is getting hotter every day, and only at night can make people feel a little cool.The heat of the day still remains on the road, and the wind is cool. Walking on the road is as warm as soaking in water, which is very pleasant.

"Do you leave work at this time every day?" Cheng Zhuo asked casually.

"Not at all."

Yuan Yu explained to him that if there is no night work, they may leave at four or five in the afternoon, and the construction site can save a meal; night work is not necessarily the case, like this time today, it ends early, sometimes I can't leave until after nine o'clock.

Not long after the college entrance examination has just ended, all major construction sites are catching up with the progress of the previous shutdown, so they are relatively busy.When the weather gets hotter, although the time to get off work may become later, it will be easier to rest at noon.

It's just that there is not much free time.

After hearing this, Cheng Zhuo understood: "You mean you don't have much time to see me."

Yuan Yu blinked, and was about to explain, when he heard Cheng Zhuo say again: "If you're not free, then you're free, just let me know if you're free."

"..." Yuan Yu frowned.Today's Cheng Zhuo exudes frustration from inside to outside, which is not the same as a few days ago.

And this night was the most well-behaved night since Cheng Zhuo forcibly stayed in Yuan Yu's rental house.He didn't do anything, he slept until he was woken up by Yuan Yu in the morning, and obediently took a taxi back to the hotel.

Sending people away, Yuan Yu stood at the intersection and thought for a while, then turned and left.

……

Including the first two days, Cheng Zhuo came to the rental house to report for duty for a week.This week, Yuan Yu didn't get off work until evening, and they didn't meet each other during the day except for a few chats at night.

A week later, Yuan Yu got off work and sent a message to Cheng Zhuo as usual, but the reply he got was: I can't go today, so go to bed early.

Yuan Yu didn't take it seriously at first, and in his original plan, he didn't have the option of seeing Cheng Zhuo every day.

The fish have tasted enough sweetness, but they will not take the bait.

But what he didn't expect was that Cheng Zhuo couldn't come again until the admission notice was mailed.

Because the courier could arrive today, Yuan Yu specially asked the foreman for a day off and waited for his acceptance letter in the rental house.He went to his sister's place to check the admission results in advance, and he didn't have any expectations for the content of the notice, so he didn't even open the EMS envelope, and started sending messages to Cheng Zhuo when he got it.

-have you woken up?

It is past eleven o'clock in the morning, and he wants to have lunch with Cheng Zhuo, and then show the notice to him as a surprise.

Cheng Zhuo returned quite quickly.

- get up, are you on your lunch break?

- How come you have time to send me a message.

That's what I said.Yuan Yu raised his eyebrows.

However, he immediately admitted this statement. During this period of time, apart from the agreement with Cheng Zhuo to "send him a message after work", Yuan Yu did not take the initiative to contact Cheng Zhuo.

Forgive him for now.

-I asked for leave today and rested at home.

- are you sick?

- no , are you at the hotel

This time Cheng Zhuo took a while to return.

- In my dad's company, what?

Yuan Yu was a little surprised, but on second thought, Cheng Zhuo always had to work after graduation, and it seemed logical to join his father's company.

He never asked what Cheng Zhuo's parents did, but Uncle Cheng made a lot of money after leaving Yang Huai. Everyone in the village knew about it, and it was reasonable to start a company...

Only in this way, his plan may be in vain.Yuan Yu glanced regretfully at the envelope bag in his hand, shook his head and put it back on the shelf.

- It's okay. I wanted to ask if you want to have lunch together. If you're busy, forget it.

Cheng Zhuo only replied with four words: Wait a minute.

?

Yuan Yu didn't understand what he meant.Not long after, Cheng Zhuo called back.

He picked it up, and the voice from the other end of the phone was very small, as if the volume was forcibly suppressed in a quiet environment, "What do you want to eat?"

"I'm fine, you decide a place?" Yuan Yu thought for a while and said, "Not too expensive."

"I don't want you to pay for it." Cheng Zhuo muttered, "I'll fix the restaurant and send you the location in a while, so you should prepare to go out first. My place...may have to wait for a while."

His tone seemed troubled.Yuan Yu thought for a while and asked softly, "What are you doing?"

"A meeting," Cheng Zhuo paused, "there was a fight inside, I called you when I came out to go to the bathroom, I have to hang up, after a while——"

"Where is your father's company?" Yuan Yu interrupted him, "I'll wait for you near there."

"..." Cheng Zhuo hesitated for a moment, "Then I'll send you the address."

This place is located in the downtown area, and there is a bus stop at the door, and Yuan Yu often passes by.

After getting off the car, he looked up at the huge company logo on the top of the building, feeling a little emotional.

In the past, he felt that he and Cheng Zhuo were far away, which was really normal.

A young master who is so rich, and himself who has never seen anything in the world, who would associate such two people together?

Even now, he is "seeking stars."

— But the difference is that now he is bound to win.

Yuan Yu walked in.

There was plenty of air-conditioning inside the building, and there was a person at the front desk who was busy with his head down. Yuan Yu glanced around, and didn't go through the gate in front of the elevator. He just picked a side seat in the lobby and waited for Cheng Zhuo to come down.

Soon it was 12 o'clock, the front desk stood up, swiped his work card and went to take the elevator, probably to eat in the company cafeteria.In addition, a few people came down from upstairs and walked out in groups, probably planning to "go to a restaurant".

Yuan Yu waited for a while but did not wait for Cheng Zhuo, but saw a man in a suit and leather shoes coming in from outside the building.In this place, there are many men in suits, which are not eye-catching, but that man made Yuan Yu take another look.

His hair is neatly combed to the back, and he made it with pomade, and his suit is still bright in color. The most curious thing is that he holds a rose wrapped in plastic wrapping paper in his hand. Although there is only one, it is indeed a rose. , the overall shape is not like coming to work, but more like a blind date.

The man walked to the hall and stood still, took out his mobile phone and started making calls.

It doesn't look like he's here for work.

Maybe it's to wait for a girlfriend?

Yuan Yu thought, even if it was like that, it would be too coquettish.

Just then, his phone vibrated.Cheng Zhuo sent him a message, saying that we still need to wait for a while, and asked him to report Cheng Zhuo's name to the front desk and wait on the 17th floor.

Yuan Yu looked helplessly at the "Please wait for lunch break" on the front desk, and replied: But the front desk went upstairs for dinner.

Cheng Zhuo didn't reply for a while, Yuan Yu was a little bored, saw the man in the suit dial the phone, and talked to the opposite party with a smile.

He didn't want to eavesdrop, but after the people left, the hall on the first floor was very quiet, and he still vaguely heard the roar from the other end, which seemed to be a man's voice.

...It turned out that it wasn't even a girlfriend, but a...boyfriend?

It was quite new to meet the same kind while walking, Yuan Yu took another look at him.In all fairness, the man looks pretty good, but his appearance is feminine, not Yuan Yu's favorite style.Moreover, to be able to laugh like this while listening to people roaring, in Yuan Yu's view, it was somewhat creepy.

Not long after, the man put down his phone.Cheng Zhuo's reply arrived just at this time: Wait, I'll come down to pick you up.

Yuan Yu stood there waiting, but what he didn't expect was that Cheng Zhuo didn't come down alone, and what he didn't expect was that when Cheng Zhuo appeared, that flirty man went up to him faster than himself, full of The face is bright to the creepy smile.

"Cheng Zhuo!"

Yuan Yu paused and squeezed the phone tightly with his fingertips.

Cheng Zhuo also stopped in his tracks, turned sideways to let the man who came down with him pass first, raised his finger to the man in the suit with a fluffy bag, and said with a stinky face: "People are here, whoever wants to support this ancestor whoever takes it up, I don't Serve!"

The man who was traveling with me was choked, and said helplessly, "Mr. Cheng, it's boring if you do this, 'you are a guest'."

"I didn't entertain him." Cheng Zhuo snorted coldly, walked around him and walked out.

"Cheng Zhuo, Brother Zhuo." The handsome man in a suit immediately walked a few steps quickly, blocking Cheng Zhuo's way, "Is that why you don't want to see me?"

"If your family doesn't step in and rob me—what?"

In the middle of Cheng Zhuo's speech, he saw the other party raised his hand, pressed the rose to his chest, and said with a smile: "I passed by a flower shop and saw that this flower was in full bloom, so I bought it and gave it to you as a gift when we met. It's a small business, why should Brother Zhuo be so angry."

Rose.

Cheng Zhuo's first thought was, why is Yuan Yu always bumping into him at such a time?

Is he really wronged? ? ?

Cheng Zhuo didn't pick it up, looked down at the flower, took half a step back, and walked around him: "Li Yujie, you really have a hand with disgusting people."

The flowers fell to the ground suddenly.Li Yujie didn't care too much, smiled, turned around and said, "How could it be, I mean it sincerely."

Cheng Zhuo walked up to Yuan Yu, grabbed his hand, and led him towards the gate, without even looking at the remaining two people.

Li Yujie let out a "huh": "I said, why is it so familiar? Is this the little waiter that day? Brother Zhuo, so you are so good."

Cheng Zhuo didn't answer, Yuan Yu was stunned, and looked back at him.

Cheng Zhuo led the people into the elevator and pressed the button for the 17th floor.The elevator door was closed. Only then did the staff member walk up to Li Yujie and said awkwardly, "Mr. Li, shall we go up?"

"En." Li Yujie took a step forward calmly.

……

The elevator goes up.

The card Cheng Zhuo swiped was different from others. In order to prevent being disturbed, he took Yuan Yu to the president's special elevator, and there were only the two of them in it.Yuan Yu looked at Cheng Zhuo's expression and asked him, "What's going on?"

"My dad threw me a fresh food processing and delivery project to the campus. To be honest, we can handle this business ourselves." Cheng Zhuo had been arguing with people all morning, and he felt a little headache. He rubbed the space between his brows before continuing, " But the Li family—the person you just saw, his father sold vegetables with my father in the early years, and the relationship is not bad. Their family also wants to get involved in this project, saying that it is to 'exercise the children'. In the project team There are a few old people in the company who know about the relationship between Lao Li and my father, and want to sell Lao Li to save face."

"But," Cheng Zhuo changed the subject, and his tone became irritable, "isn't that because—"

He seemed to have thought of something very angry, but he couldn't say it, so he paused for no reason, and the rising sound echoed in the elevator.

Yuan Yu waited for a few seconds, and seeing that he didn't intend to continue, he said, "I didn't ask this, I asked... that flower."

"That's why he—"

Just as Cheng Zhuo said this, the elevator opened the door with a "ding" and arrived at the 17th floor.He paused, stretched out his hand to press the close button, and waited for the door to close again before saying, "Li Yujie wants to sleep/me."

Yuan Yu: "..."

"No." Cheng Zhuo frowned, "He wants me to sleep with him."

Yuan Yu: "..."

Speaking of this, Cheng Zhuo continued smoothly: "Before Li Yujie flirted with me on WeChat, I blocked it directly. Anyway, there is a small group of our friends, so if there is something wrong, we can't get in touch. On. A few days after I blocked him, Li's family suddenly popped up and said that they would come to this project to 'train children', and the person in charge happened to be Li Yujie—I really don't know what he was thinking. ? Take my business and want me to/fuck/him? Dreaming!"

"..." Yuan Yu was stunned for a moment, and suddenly burst out laughing, "No wonder you have to close the elevator to talk."

It's also too straightforward.

"I've been holding back for days - I can't just say 'Don't believe him he's here to find/fuck' in the conference room, I can only argue with the group of people over and over again that we have the ability to eat this business, and then those people insist on flattering my dad!"

"Can't you speak to Uncle Cheng?"

"This project doesn't have much profit, and the president doesn't care about it." Cheng Zhuo scratched his head irritably, "I don't really want to talk to my dad, let alone such a small matter... Forget it, it's not urgent, you wait for me first Just a moment. Li Yujie came just in time, I'll wrap up the meeting, and then we'll have dinner."

Yuan Yu nodded.He couldn't help with that either, although there were other things he wanted to ask, but the meeting was more important.

Cheng Zhuo took him to his workstation, unlocked the computer for him to play, and hurried to the conference room by himself.

The computers here are not limited to IP, and can access the Internet, but Yuan Yu has no interest in playing, and he really hasn't used the Internet much.

Bored and bored, he opened the college entrance examination inquiry website, checked the admission results again, and Yuan Yu closed the website again.

Cheng Zhuo went to quarrel for more than 20 minutes before returning, and when he came back, he saw Yuan Yu thinking about the junior minesweeper.

"Why are you playing this and not playing something else?"

"I don't know what to play," Yuan Yu said softly, "I haven't used a computer much."

"……Too."

Cheng Zhuo was stunned for a moment, a part of his heart suddenly softened, and the anger from the morning just dissipated.He looked at it for a while, then smiled and said, "Aren't you very good at it?"

"Ah."

"In this way," Cheng Zhuo pressed his hand to support the mouse and led him to operate, "the number represents the total number of mines in the nine-square grid centered on it, and if there are '1' around it, mark it like this After a mine, click the left and right keys on the number at the same time, and the part without mines will automatically appear-the primary version is still simple, next time you can play an intermediate or advanced level.”

Yuan Yu clicked a few times by himself, swept out all the thunder in the picture, then put down the mouse, raised his head: "Can we go?"

"Ah."

Cheng Zhuo responded, and turned off the computer: "I took two hours off, we can eat slowly."

"Is it okay?"

"It's okay." Cheng Zhuo smiled, "I came in under the title of 'Prince', who dares to give me any opinion?"

They walked out side by side, and when they reached the aisle, Yuan Yu saw a group of people pouring out of the conference room at the end of the corridor, and that Li Yujie was also inside.

The opponent's gaze immediately locked onto Cheng Zhuo, Yuan Yu frowned, and changed places with Cheng Zhuo.

"Huh?" Cheng Zhuo looked up, only to realize what Yuan Yu was doing, and smiled, "Why, are you jealous?"

"Is he also in the box that day?" Yuan Yu answered irrelevantly, "He knows I'm a waiter."

"Correct."

"You guys are in a small circle, right? Otherwise, you wouldn't have gathered with them on the first day back home."

"Hmm." Cheng Zhuo didn't understand what he wanted to say.

"So he knew you earlier than me, and he also knows your... sexual orientation." Yuan Yu raised his eyes, and said in a low voice, "When did he know?"

This time, the two of them still took the special elevator for the president. Once the elevator door was closed, there were only the two of them. Cheng Zhuo had no scruples in speaking, and laughed: "Do you actually want to ask when he fell in love with me?"

"You can understand it that way."

"That was later than you, he only found out that day." Cheng Zhuo said this, with a dazed expression on his face.He pursed his lower lip, reached out and tapped his right ear: "Because of this."

Today Cheng Zhuo changed into a very small basic diamond stud earring, which was not very eye-catching at first, but he was born too well, the broken hair around the ear just formed a strong contrast with the color of the ear, which made the earring a bit abrupt stand up.

"The single earring on the right ear... There is a saying that it means homosexuality." Cheng Zhuo's eyes drifted wildly, trying to make his tone sound as nonchalant as possible, "I have hit you a long time ago, and I have never hidden it from anyone. so……"

Yuan Yu: "So it was for me?"

Cheng Zhuo choked again.

At that time, he realized that he was not interested in women. With a...responsible attitude, and because he was in a bad mood, he urgently needed to do some rebellious and painful things to vent, so he went to get this ear piercing, but he couldn't say It was because of Yuan Yu.

He can use this incident to tease Yuan Yu, telling him that he is really not interested in women, but he doesn't want to lie.

Yuan Yu laughed clearly: "Look, you still can't answer."

Cheng Zhuo took a deep breath helplessly: "You must argue with me, don't you?"

"No." Yuan Yu shook his head, "Although you didn't fight for me, I'm very happy about it—so do you want a reward?"

Cheng Zhuo was startled: "Reward?"

Yuan Yu nodded obediently, turned around in front of him, and showed him the backpack on her back: "Open it and have a look."

The author has something to say:

happy new year~

In addition, although I posted it on Weibo that day, I still want to report to everyone that my Year of the Rat decoration was indeed not finished. There were too many processes, so I chose to surrender. After 11 years, it will still be a good Year of the Rat :)