Prohibition of losing contact

Pei You's work efficiency is obviously guaranteed, but the middle-aged man is procrastinating, half-cooperative and uncooperative, and he still puts off this work until after eight o'clock in the evening.

This venue is quite far from the urban area, and it takes more than two hours to drive. Zhou Qingbai came over to ask around seven o'clock, and knowing that the work would take a while, he simply booked a hotel nearby to save the trouble of the night.

Zhou Qingbai didn't like to go to the office to look at those messy bills and receipts, so he just wandered outside. When he was tired, he sat in front of the small supermarket at the door and chatted with the boss. One night, he ate three grilled sausages.

When Pei You walked out from the gate of the venue, Zhou Qingbai was sitting on a simple plastic stool in front of the supermarket, talking to the boss about education. The stick in his hand was poked with a fish tofu that hadn't had time to eat, and the soup was crumbling. Hanging on the stick, half of it can't be dropped.

"Zhou Qingbai." Pei You called him.

Zhou Qingbai paused, turned his head and glanced at him, his eyes lit up, and waved his hand at him as a signal.

"Stop talking, second brother." Zhou Qingbai greeted the supermarket owner, then jumped directly from the plastic stool to the bottom of the steps, and waved at him: "I have to go back."

As he spoke, he walked to Pei You's side in three steps and two steps, and delivered the fish tofu in front of him without saying a word.

"You're hungry." Zhou Qingbai said, "Hurry up, hurry up, I just took it out of the pot and it's still hot."

Pei You was afraid that he would throw the soup on his body, so he subconsciously grabbed his wrist and said no.

"Eat first." Pei You said, "I'm fine."

"It's okay, I ate a bunch of snacks when you were working inside." Zhou Qingbai said, "Hurry up, don't be rude, I think his Kanto soup is pretty good."

Pei You couldn't resist him, so he still lowered his head, and grabbed a piece of fish tofu on the stick with his hand.

"How is it?" Zhou Qingbai ate the remaining piece, then threw away the stick, and asked casually, "Is everything going well this afternoon?"

With something in his mouth, it was not convenient for him to speak, so he just nodded, then took off the briefcase hanging from his elbow, and unzipped it for Zhou Qingbai to take a look at.

There were some receipts and other things stacked there. Zhou Qingbai took out two randomly and looked at them, and found that they were all supplementary pages such as purchase or reimbursement forms.

The auditing work was trivial and complicated. First, you had to check the accounts, and after the check, you had to collect evidence by category. It was very boring to go back and forth on these two things. Zhou Qingbai only read two pages, and then stuffed things back into Pei You's bag.

"As long as it goes well." Zhou Qingbai stretched his waist and said vaguely: "I miss the busy night scene in Beijing."

"It's almost over." Pei You said.

He swallowed the piece of fish tofu, thought about it, and told him the news from Beijing while walking side by side to the main road with Zhou Qingbai.

"So, what you mean is that Liu Xin is using his mother's company to transfer funds for projects?" Zhou Qingbai asked.

"No accidents should be like this." Pei You said: "There are not many large holes in Dongjiang's books, which means that there should be a set of companies operating another set of public accounts. The items I have checked these days Here, their purchase prices are all higher than the average level of the market without exception, plus additional scrapping and redundant purchases, they should almost go out to do private work."

Zhou Qingbai had already sent Pei You the matter of the foreman asking for leave for no reason. These professional questions, Pei You had his own judgment, and Zhou Qingbai had always believed in his ability to work.

Compared with these bad debts, Zhou Qingbai is more concerned about when to return to Beijing.

"Isn't this enough?" Zhou Qingbai clapped his hands and said with a smile: "It's good to know what's going on, and then grab his tail and we can go home."

Although the truth is so, Pei You is not as optimistic as Zhou Qingbai.Liu Xin's assets are not small. If the company's public accounts can match his income, that's fine. If not, then he can only consider some unconventional means of embezzlement.

"but……"

"Don't let it go." Zhou Qingbai clicked his tongue in dissatisfaction, stretched his arms to catch Pei You, and said enthusiastically: "This is a major discovery anyway, and it deserves a reward. Don't go back to the hotel for a while, it's still early Well, let's go out to eat and take a stroll."

Pei You: "..."

Zhou Qingbai was good at "rewarding" himself, he would come out with a reason to have fun whenever he had something to do, but before Pei You had time to express his opinion, he was dragged away by him without saying a word.

"Where are you going to go shopping?" Pei You said helplessly, "There is no nightlife in this small town. The kitchen in the hotel gets off work at six o'clock, and there are few open restaurants on the street except for barbecue stalls."

"When I was visiting Dianping in the afternoon, I saw a special bar here, and the evaluation was not bad." Zhou Qingbai turned his head, raised his eyebrows at Pei You, and said: "Anyway, I'm here, so it's good to relax .”

He paused as he spoke, and added another: "Don't worry, it's not that kind of messy place. I called in the afternoon and asked. They don't have heavy DJs and dance floor performances. It's clear. You shouldn't find it annoying. .”

No wonder, Pei You thought, co-authoring Zhou Qingbai was "planned for a long time", and he was thinking about it in the afternoon.

But yes, when he was in Beijing, he always wanted to run to the bar, let alone when he was on a business trip for a week and was overwhelmed by work.

Pei You didn't have any resistance to places like bars, seeing that Zhou Qingbai really wanted to go, so he agreed.

"Okay then." Pei You said: "Go back to the hotel first and put away your things before you go-by the way, you said special bar, what special is it?"

Zhou Qingbai really forgot to ask about this matter, but based on his experience, specialty bars are nothing more than fancy bartending style, or music clearing bar style, he is afraid that Pei You is not familiar with that kind of place, and now he is sure There were no pole dancing or other strange performances in that place, and it was impossible to go out of the way if you wanted to.

"Not sure." Zhou Qingbai said nonchalantly, "Maybe it's just a gimmick."

Coincidentally, the "special bar" that Zhou Qingbai talked about was not far from their newly booked hotel, it was in the "downtown area" of the town, and it only took more than ten minutes to walk from the hotel.

The bar opened at the corner of the street, and there was an RGB light sign saying "light meals" and "cold dishes" hanging outside. The front door was too small, and it seemed that only one person could enter at a time.

After entering the door, there was a narrow downward staircase. After walking a few steps, Pei You realized that the bar was originally opened in the ground floor. The door above was not the real door. The serious door opened on the basement floor. You have to go through a staircase corner to see it.

The stairwell was dimly lit, and there were only a few purple ambient lights hanging on the wall. Pei You paused, turned around, and stretched out a hand to Zhou Qingbai.

"It's too dark." Pei You said, "Can you see clearly?"

The infrastructure in small towns is not as good as that in big cities. Zhou Qingbai walked half a street under dim street lights, and his eyes have actually adapted to this level of light.

But he looked at the hand that Pei You stretched out in front of him, swallowed the phrase "can see clearly" for some reason, and took Pei You's hand.

His fingertips first landed on Pei You's wrist, then he groped and moved to the side, and Pei You grabbed it in the palm of his hand.

"Be careful stepping on the steps." Pei You said, "The stairs are quite steep."

"Understood." Zhou Qingbai squeezed Pei You's hand, smiled, and said, "Then you go slowly."

Pei You hummed, and really slowed down. He didn't know that Zhou Qingbai's eyes had adapted to the light, and he thoughtfully looked back at him from time to time, for fear that he might miss the mark.

It took the two of them a few minutes to complete the short 20-odd steps. When Zhou Qingbai stepped on the platform for the last time, a thin layer of sweat broke out from the palms of the hands he held with Pei You.

The narrow and twisting stairs suddenly opened up after the corner, and a normal door opened at the end of the stairs, with a line of English cursive characters written on it, which seemed to be the title of the bar.

Zhou Qingbai didn't look at it too seriously, he bent his eyes and smiled at Pei You, walked over and opened the door first.

The stereo in the bar played soft and soothing classical music, and there were a few tables of people sitting sporadically in the room. When the welcome doorbell rang, everyone turned their heads subconsciously and looked at the new guests who entered the door.

Zhou Qingbai stood at the door, looked around the situation in the bar, suddenly raised his eyebrows meaningfully, and let out a light sigh of emotion.

"What's wrong?" Pei You looked at him puzzled, "What's so strange?"

"No." Zhou Qingbai bent his eyes, pulled him to the bar, and said with a smile: "Anyway, I'm here, let's have a drink before leaving—what do you want to drink?"

"Anything is fine." Pei You is not too picky about these things: "It's up to you to decide, as long as you don't want strong alcohol."

The light at the bar was bright, and the bartender was sitting behind the bar wiping the glasses. Zhou Qingbai pulled Pei You to sit on the edge of the bar, and tapped on the table with his fingers.

"A glass of gin and tonic, a glass of mojito -- non-alcoholic." Zhou Qingbai said.

As soon as he finished speaking, a young man suddenly stood up in the corner and walked towards the bar.

He was holding an open box of cigarettes in his hand, and a cigarette protruded from the box, just stuck the paper box lid.

"Brother." The young man sat beside Pei You without seeing anyone else, put the cigarette case on the table, pushed it towards Pei You, greeted him with a smile, and said, "Excuse me son?"

Before Pei You could speak, Zhou Qingbai had already said one step ahead of him: "Sorry, he doesn't smoke."

"I'm asking this handsome guy." The man leaned against the bar counter without being anxious or annoyed, smiled at Pei You, and asked again: "How about it, do you want to borrow it?"

Pei You didn't smoke, but he did have an emergency lighter on his body. Just as he was about to agree, Zhou Qingbai reached out his hand a bit forcefully, and put the man's cigarette back into the cigarette case.

"Sorry." Zhou Qingbai said with a smile: "He really doesn't smoke—you don't have to ask him, I can make the decision."

The man looked at Zhou Qingbai's hand holding the cigarette case, then at Pei You, his eyes lingered between the two of them for several times, then curled his lips and put away the cigarette case.

"What?" He muttered, "It actually has a master."

The man put the cigarette case back into his pocket as he said that, without saying hello to Pei You, he turned around and went back to the corner.

Pei You was at a loss, and only felt that these two people played a trick in front of him, but he didn't notice it at all.

Before he had time to ask what was going on, he heard Zhou Qingbai next to him suddenly burst into laughter, lowered his head, and shrugged his shoulders suspiciously twice.

"Didn't you see?" Zhou Qingbai laughed enough, leaned over, put his chin on Pei You's shoulder, and whispered to him in a low voice: "He wants to ask you out."

Pei You: "...???"

"This is a gay place." Zhou Qingbai said with a smothered smile, "He may have taken a fancy to your face."

Pei You: "..."

Yeah?Pei You thought blankly, and subconsciously took a look around again, only to think that everything here is quite normal, there is no one messing around, and no male couples getting intimate with each other.

Pei You was full of question marks, and couldn't help asking, "How do you know?"

He and Zhou Qingbai entered the door at the same time, and saw the same things, and he didn't know how Zhou Qingbai came to this answer.

"Didn't you notice?" Zhou Qingbai said, "When we entered the door just now, they were all watching us."

Zhou Qingbai straightened his back, like the man just now, propped his head on the bar, and said with a smile: "In the bar, no man is so interested in other men except Gay."

The author says:

Some (probably outdated) bar rules, and Xiao Pei opened the door to a new world 23333 [Thanks to Qian Xingmian, egg yolk crisp without egg yolk QAQ, Tchaikov eggs, Wang Chuan's late feeding of fish food, thank you very much ~