How to trap a beautiful wife

The background sound was chaotic and noisy, but Chu Ci could still hear the trill in Chen Xun's tone clearly, which made his heart tremble along with it.

"Brother, don't hang up." Chuci clutched his phone and flashed into a fairly quiet bookstore, "I don't want to leave, I have a friend who is working from abroad, and I came to the airport to pick him up."

"I didn't tell you because I was afraid of disturbing your meeting, but I left a note for you, pressed it under the vase, and told Zhou Ran to ask him to tell you. Didn't he tell you?"

Chen Xun walked quickly to the desk, and sure enough, he saw a palm-sized note pressed under the vase.

【Brother, a friend of mine suddenly came back from abroad and just arrived at the airport. I'm going to pick him up now.Can you call me after the meeting? 】

It is Chu Ci's handwriting, a little scribbled, and it can be imagined that it was written in a hurry.Even so, he did not forget to draw a little heart in the lower right corner.

Only then did Chen Xun realize that he had misunderstood.

"Sorry, I……"

"Brother, I..."

They spoke at the same time and remained silent at the same time.

This time Chu Ci didn't wait passively, his tone was brisk, as if he didn't hear Chen Xun's words just now: "I just picked him up, take him to the hotel to stay, and then take a stroll in the afternoon, you can have dinner with us tonight ?"

The edge of the note was wrinkled, and Chen Xun took a deep breath: "Okay."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Xun stood in place.At this moment, Zhou Ran's voice came from behind: "Mr. Chen, I just went to deliver materials to the project department. Mr. Chu asked me to tell you that his friend is here and he is going to pick up the plane..."

Zhou Ran's voice became quieter the further he got to the back, he seemed to have come in at the wrong time, and the air pressure around Chen Xun was very low.

"Understood, you go out." Chen Xun did not turn around, and after the door was closed, he slowly walked to the desk and sat down, closed his eyes, and let his body sink into the large chair.

On the other side, Chu Ci stood in front of the bookshelf blankly holding his cell phone until Jason couldn't wait to come to him.

Jason dragged the suitcase with one hand, and put his arm around Chu Ci's shoulders: "Allen, I haven't seen you for so long, why do you have such an expression? Fortunately, I came to see you a few days earlier to surprise you."

This time, a few of them came to China to shoot, and Jason specially came to see Chu Ci in advance.

Chu Ci was still immersed in the conversation just now, he had never heard Chen Xun speak in such a tone.

No, there was one time, six years ago, when Chen Xun said the same thing to him on Jingnan Road, which was covered with fallen leaves of phoenix trees, and asked him if he could not leave.

There was dense pain in the apex of his heart, and Chu Ci put his palms against his chest, Jason immediately asked nervously: "What's the matter, are you uncomfortable? There are too many people at the airport, do you have tinnitus, let's go quickly."

Chu Ci didn't feel better until he got in the car and stayed away from the crowd. Jason also breathed a sigh of relief, and then remembered to ask: "Who was it that called you just now?"

Chu Ci responded for a few seconds: "I...my husband."

This was the first time he called Chen Xun that way in front of others, and his heart was sweet, mixed with bitterness.

Jason gave an exaggerated "wow", with envy in his eyes: "Won't you let me see you?"

He thought Chu Ci was a "flash marriage", and was very curious about this man who could capture Chu Ci's heart in such a short time.

Chu Ci nodded lightly: "He said he would treat you to dinner tonight."

"Then I have to think about what to eat." Jason said, turning his head to look out the window, his attention was quickly attracted by a strange building, "What is that?"

Jason has a quarter of Chinese ancestry. He came to China once with his grandfather when he was very young, but he hardly left any impression. Everything he saw was novel. The master was amused.

Jason climbed on the back of the chair to talk to the driver, and Chu Ci's mood became lighter. He was a little envious of Jason, who seemed to have no worries, and was always in such a good mood and so energetic.

That's why he and Jason became friends.

If it weren't for Jason, he might have had a harder time in the past few years.

When they arrived at the hotel, Chu Ci insisted on paying for Jason's room. There was not enough money in his mobile phone, but luckily he brought Chen Xun's card.

When the front desk swiped the card, Chu Ci took advantage of the spare time to send Chen Xun a message, telling him that he had used the card, and took a photo of the hotel lobby and sent it to him.

Just sent it out and got a reply.

Chen Xun: [Chu Ci, I love you. 】;

A completely irrelevant reply, but Chu Ci immediately understood what Chen Xun meant.

His eyes were red, and he really wanted to see Chen Xun now, and tell him that he loved him very much and would never leave again.

Just after typing the words [I love it too] in the input box, Jason leaned over, and Chu Ci had no choice but to lock the screen and put away the phone.

After getting the room card, the two took the elevator upstairs. Jason thought that Chu Ci opened the business room for him, but he didn't expect Chu Ci to open the suite directly.

The room has a 180-degree curved floor-to-ceiling window, facing the most prosperous scenery in S City.

"Allen, you are so kind to me!" Jason couldn't help but hugged Chu Ci, and then remembered that Chu Ci didn't like being too close to people, and was about to let go, but unexpectedly Chu Ci patted him on the back, " No way, who made you my best friend."

Jason froze for a moment, let go of Chu Ci and looked at him, Chu Ci tilted his head and smiled: "Why, don't you know me?"

"No." Jason sniffed, "It feels like you've changed a lot."

Then he joked again: "If the former classmates saw you smiling, it is estimated that the people chasing you back then could line up from school all the way to Lake Michigan."

Speaking of school, Jason remembered another thing: "Didn't the school hold an art exhibition some time ago, and I called you to ask if your photos were for sale."

Chu Ci remembered this.

"Later, I heard from the professor that a Chinese collector contacted him through a broker and asked if the photos could be sold."

Chu Ci was helping to take out Jason's clothes from the suitcase and hang them up, when he heard this, he paused: "Chinese collector?"

"Yeah." Jason said, "The asking price is very generous, saying that money is not a problem, why, didn't the professor tell you?"

Chu Ci hurriedly checked his emails on his mobile phone, and sure enough, there was an unread email from Professor Smith.

What the professor said in the email was similar to Jason, but he added a sentence at the end.

[Allen, I know that this work has special meaning to you, so I have verbally informed the other party and told them not to have too much hope.In addition, I personally feel that the buyer seems to be more interested in you than your photography.He got in touch with me and asked me some questions, but I didn't reply without your permission. 】

Professor Smith also forwarded the buyer's email.

Chu Ci clicked in to have a look. The other party did not reveal his name, but said that he accidentally saw Chu Ci's work and liked it very much, so he wanted to buy it for collection.

The other party also asked if the original title of "Sunrise on Mont Blanc" was "XUN".

Seeing this, Chu Ci's heart beat faster.Something flashes through his mind, but it's too fast to catch.

Jason also leaned over to take a look, and suddenly said "Huh", took the phone from Chuci, stared at the screen, as if he was researching something.

"What's wrong?" Chu Ci became nervous, "What's wrong?"

Jason tapped a spot on the screen: "Don't you think it's weird?"

Chu Ci leaned over and found that what Jason showed him was the email address of the Chinese buyer, a string of English words, ccilohiveu, followed by a domain name, meaningless, it looked like it was typed randomly.

"Most people's email address is a combination of names, birthdays, etc. No matter how bad it is, it's easy to remember words, but this person's address is so strange." Jason rubbed his chin, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration, picked up the pen provided by the hotel and wrote it on the paper Brush and write the next line.

"This mailbox name is not meaningless." Jason said excitedly, "The letters are shuffled and rearranged, isn't it Ilovechuci?"

"Allen, isn't chuci your Chinese name?"

Chu Ci was stunned. He looked at Jason suspiciously, took a pen, copied the email address on the paper, and rearranged the combination.

"Look for yourself, is that what I said?" Jason was so excited that his eyes lit up, and he said with certainty, "This buyer is your admirer, and he is expressing his love to you in this way!"

Chu Ci's heart moved. Although he has lived abroad for several years, he is definitely not as sensitive to English as Jason, a native speaker. If Jason hadn't seen the email address, he might never have discovered such a mystery.

Intuition told Chu Ci that the buyer was Chen Xun, but when did Chen Xun know about the photos?

Jason asked: "I think this person knows you in reality, do you have any idea? Who could it be?"

Chu Ci interrupted his speculation: "Jason, didn't you say that someone came from Chicago to join you in two days?"

"Yes."

"Can you do me a favor?" Chu Ci's expression became serious, "Can you ask your friend to help me bring that photo over?"

"Bring it here?" Jason was a little surprised, "Isn't it showing?"

The art exhibition is not over yet. Every day of the exhibition, the school has to pay Chu Ci a fee, not to mention that it will be exhibited in other places later, and the exhibition fee will be higher.

But Jason knew that Chu Ci never valued money very much, so he swallowed his words.He sent a few messages and it was done quickly.

Jason put away his phone, feeling a little emotional: "Remember the day we went to climb Mont Blanc?"

Chu Ci nodded slightly: "Of course I remember."

It was less than a year ago, also in winter, when Chu Ci and Jason flew to France.

There was a rare heavy snow that day, and they arrived in a French town called Chamonix in the snow, which is said to be the best place to climb Mont Blanc.

Probably because of the arrival of the distant guest, the snow that had been falling for several days miraculously stopped that night, and Chu Ci decided to go up the mountain the next day.

They hired a local guide and took a different route than tourists usually take. There are fewer people and better scenery, which is good for shooting, but the climbing difficulty is also higher.

Before that, Chu Ci had already climbed many mountains with Jason, and was very skilled in mountaineering, but the snow still increased the difficulty of climbing.

They took the cable car and shuttle bus all the way, and sometimes hiked, passing through snow-covered forests and grasslands, and frozen mirror-like lakes.

At the middle of the mountain, Jason felt exhausted and proposed to return, but Chuci insisted and asked the guide to take Jason down the mountain, and he continued to walk up.

For some unknown reason, Chu Ci's visa to Europe this time was not going well. He was rejected twice and almost couldn't come. In the end, the academy sponsored him to make the trip.In case he couldn't come to Europe in the future, this time was his only chance.

Years of preparation are all for this day, and he can't give up no matter what.

Seeing that Chu Ci insisted, Jason had no choice but to accompany him.

After tossing and turning for two days, they rested at a homestay near the top of the mountain. Before dawn the next day, they went to the best place to shoot the sunrise under the guidance of the owner of the homestay.

They are located at an altitude of more than 3500 meters, and the temperature is below zero. It is so cold that even the camera casing is frosted, and the lens has to be replaced frequently.

Jason huddled in the heavy down jacket, watched Chu Ci stretch out his cold and red fingers from the gloves to change the camera, and couldn't help asking again: "Allen, there are so many mountains in the world, why do you have to To Mont Blanc?"

This time when Jason came to know that Chuci had climbed other mountains in preparation for Mont Blanc.

Chu Ci's answer was the same as before, in the exhaled white air, he said flatly: "There is no special reason."

Jason couldn't help but roll his eyes.

In some things, such as money and reputation, Chu Ci is very casual, but in some things, he is very persistent.

After waiting for more than two hours in the severe cold in the snow, they finally ushered in the sunrise. When the red sun erupted from the top of the snow mountain, Jason felt that all the hard work was worth it.

He adjusted the angle and took many photos, and couldn't help looking at Chu Ci. Chu Ci set up the camera and took pictures seriously, then suddenly put down the camera, staring at the direction of the sunrise, his lips twitched and said something.

It was a long time later that Jason found out that the two words Chu Ci said were "brother".

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