Prohibition of losing contact

In the end, the dinner was not finished.

That thick oily red sauce, delicious and fragrant takeaway was hung on the doorknob alone, changing from hot to warm, from warm to cold, until midnight, before being sneaked in by the people inside the door. It became a supper.

The sound of dripping water in the bathroom stopped completely, the microwave oven made a light ding, and a light mist of water came out from the vent.

Zhou Qingbai's upper body was naked, a bath towel was casually draped over it, he came out with a heated lunch box, and sat on the carpet side by side with Pei You.

After the second heating, the takeaway lost some moisture, but the taste was not lost. Zhou Qingbai picked up a chopstick of scallion chicken for Pei You, and pushed the soup bowl to his hand.

"The taste is not bad." Zhou Qingbai said, "It's much better than mine."

"It's not difficult to cook, just practice more." Pei You took a sip of the warm soup and comforted him, "I'll teach you when I get back from get off work tomorrow."

Pei You's "encouraging education" is obviously especially suitable for Zhou Qingbai - anyway, there is "comfort" for failure, and "reward" for success, so even though cooking is not one of Zhou Qingbai's hobbies, he still finds out in training his cooking skills. Kind of fun.

It's just that although Zhou Qingbai's cooking skills are steadily improving, Pei You really feels that his "energy" can't keep up because the "fringe benefits" are too generous.

——After all, doing it every day for half a month, even if his physical fitness is not bad, it is really too much for him.

But fortunately, things turned around very quickly, someone stepped in and interrupted, and finally pulled Zhou Qingbai out of his "virtuous" obsession.

Almost a month after Zhou Qingbai was suspended at home, Zhou Cangshan got the news that he was working part-time in a bar to earn extra money. He called him after a long absence, and asked him to go to Qingshan directly, saying that he had something to look for.

Zhou Qingbai could probably guess what he was looking for, so without any delay, he made an appointment with Zhou Cangshan and took a taxi to Qingshan headquarters.

Zhou Qingbai had been away from Qingshan for a while, and when he stood in front of the building in Qingshan again, he always felt that everything in front of him was covered with an inexplicable sense of strangeness.

The front desk of Qingshan changed a group of young girls who were unfamiliar, and looked at Zhou Qingbai with unfamiliar vigilance. Zhou Qingbai smiled helplessly against their scrutiny, and took out his work card that had not expired from his pocket, Swipe open the turnstile at the gate.

It was working hours now, the public elevator was going up and down, Zhou Qingbai went up all the way, and met several colleagues from the same department on the way.

These people seemed to be very surprised by his sudden appearance here, and rushed up to say hello one by one. Zhou Qingbai smiled and exchanged greetings with them one by one, always feeling that they looked at him with a subtle affection.

what happened?Zhou Qingbai wondered, am I so popular?

This kind of doubt reached its peak after the elevator reached the target floor. Zhou Qingbai clearly felt that after he stepped out of the elevator, there were obvious whispers coming from behind him, but the voice was very low and he couldn't hear what he was saying.

What's wrong, Zhou Qingbai thought.

Knowing that he was coming, Zhou Cangshan had already postponed a regular meeting in advance, so he sat in the office and waited for him.

Zhou Qingbai swaggered open the door and went in, touched an orange from the coffee table without seeing anything, and sat on the guest chair opposite the desk by the way.

"Brother." Zhou Qingbai said, "You look for me."

Zhou Cangshan raised his head from the computer screen, looked him around, and said straight to the point: "Are you going to keep fighting like this with Dad?"

"...It's not that I want to fight coldly." Zhou Qingbai knew that he was going to say this, heard this, peeled the orange peel, and defended in a low voice: "It's because Dad can't accept my sexual orientation."

"Dad has already given in, can't you also give in?" Zhou Cangshan seemed to have been tortured enough during this time, he sighed, pinched the bridge of his nose, and for the first time in his life, he took the initiative to soften his tone, and said conciliatoryly : "You guys just have a secret relationship and forget about it, just be a father out of sight and out of mind."

"That won't work." Zhou Qingbai stuffed a piece of orange into his mouth, and said inarticulately: "Pei You's mother has accepted me, could it be that our family let him be an underground lover?——No matter what you think, anyway, I Can't do this."

During this period of time, Zhou Cangshan also gradually understood Zhou Qingbai's attitude, knowing that he was particularly stubborn on this matter, so he didn't say anything more, and naturally changed the subject.

"Then just pretend I didn't tell you." Zhou Cangshan said, "Also, when are you going to come back to work?"

"Huh?" Zhou Qingbai said unexpectedly: "Brother, are you and Dad not angry with me?"

"I wasn't angry with you at all," Zhou Cangshan said.

After the radical period when he first heard the news, Zhou Cangshan gradually calmed down, and his attitude softened a lot.Moreover, Jiang Man has been chatting with him about Zhou Qingbai's problems these days. Zhou Cangshan listened to him, and his heart was indeed shaken a lot—anyway, Jiang Man was right. If you can't accept him, he can go abroad to change the environment.

"As for Dad—" Zhou Cangshan paused, and then said: "After all, Qingshan is our company, and Dad won't interfere too much."

Zhou Cangshan knew that Zhou Jianguo wanted to teach Zhou Qingbai a lesson, but he couldn't bear to let Zhou Qingbai support himself by working part-time.Under Zhou Jianguo's tough attitude, his heart was inevitably biased towards Zhou Qingbai, and he even became biased in dealing with things.

"During this period of time, you were not here, and there was still a lot of discussion in the company." Zhou Cangshan said: "It is said that I fought with you for power and profit, and finally kicked you out of the family business and monopolized the power."

"puff--"

This kind of gossip in the tea room was already abnormal when it came out of Zhou Cangshan's mouth, but it was even more ridiculous when he said it in a serious manner.

Zhou Qingbai couldn't hold it back, and burst out laughing.

"Then how about I make a statement to explain it for you?" Zhou Qingbai suppressed a smile and said, "Explain that I am voluntarily suspended?"

Zhou Cangshan didn't realize it was a joke, and shook his head seriously, saying that it was unnecessary.

"There's no need to explain the pretentious things." Zhou Cangshan said: "You can also come back to work at any time."

As he spoke, he took out a reinstatement document from the pile of documents next to him and pushed it to Zhou Qingbai, and then said: "Even if you want to be with Pei You, you must have your own job."

Zhou Cangshan's seal had been affixed on the reinstatement document, and it would take effect as long as Zhou Qingbai signed it. Seeing this, he restrained his smile, picked up the document, and rubbed it with his thumb.

Before that, Zhou Qingbai really expected to be reinstated as soon as possible, but when he actually got this document, he was not as happy as he imagined.

He found that what he felt immediately was not the peace of mind that his life was back on track, but a kind of exhaustion from the heart.

Zhou Qingbai clearly knows that he is actually a person who needs a lot of free space. Compared with the regular and precise working hours of eight in the morning and five in the morning, he prefers to be able to arrange the boundaries of work and life by himself. In a boxy and square rule, he will get tired easily, lose energy, become lazy and negative, and lose interest in watching anything.

In the past, Zhou Qingbai could indulge in a part-time job at night, but after he and Pei You are together, the number of times he goes to BlackBar will gradually decrease. After losing the only way to relax, Zhou Qingbai can hardly imagine what he will become at that time Sample.

Zhou Qingbai originally wanted to reinstate his job because he wanted to move forward hand in hand with Pei You on an equal footing, but now looking at the reinstatement document in his hand, he suddenly felt that if he signed it, he would really just stay where he was.

He wanted to give Pei You peace and stability, but he absolutely didn't want to become a pool of stagnant water.

"Brother." Zhou Qingbai was silent for a while, and finally put the document back on the desktop and returned it to Zhou Cangshan.

"I want to think about it again," he said.

The author says:

Thank you Ran Ranran, living in a dream, watching the scenery on the Changfeng Bridge for the fish food, thank you very much~