why are they still in love

Xiao Zhaoshan finally gave up and asked Xiao Chining to change his profile picture.He stared at the big picture on the screen for a long time, and unexpectedly found that the current Xiao Chining was actually very similar to himself more than 20 years ago, especially when he laughed.

No wonder, former old classmates always said that he and Chi Yan were married.

He used to think that Xiao Chining's appearance followed Chi Yan, but now, he felt that Xiao Chining was more like himself, at least the 17-year-old Xiao Chining was like this.

"Mr. Xiao." In a daze, the assistant reminded him that he had arrived at the restaurant, "What time would be more suitable for me to pick you up?"

Xiao Zhaoshan put away his phone and unbuckled his seat belt, and replied, "Nine o'clock."

The assistant came down and asked again: "Then I will park your car in the parking lot next door for you now?"

"No, it's already off work. You can drive wherever you want, just remember one thing." Xiao Zhaoshan turned his head and looked at him calmly, "This is my car."

The assistant was taken aback, then quickly nodded and said, "I understand, Mr. Xiao."

Xiao Zhaoshan smiled: "Understand what?"

"I won't show off in your car." The assistant said respectfully.

Xiao Zhaoshan patted the assistant's shoulder: "You think too much, I mean, don't break the rules."

He smiled deeper, and said softly: "Qu Cheng, don't stretch yourself so tightly, I don't eat people. The assistant in front of you has a good relationship with me. When I go out with him to do business, he is the co-pilot. that."

Qu Cheng smiled stiffly: "It's not long since I was brought up by you, so I'm afraid of making mistakes, so Mr. Xiao will take care of you."

Xiao Zhaoshan comforted: "How many years have passed in the feudal society, we don't like masters and servants. The superiors and subordinates are also colleagues. As long as the business is clear, there can be no big mistakes. Take it easy."

Qu Cheng said, "Okay, thank you Mr. Xiao for your suggestion."

"What's the point?" Xiao Zhaoshan opened the car door, "This is called communication."

After speaking, he got out of the car.

The moment he stepped into the restaurant, the remaining smile on his face disappeared instantly, and his brows and eyes were covered by pure coldness.

The waiter led him into the private room, and Dong Xin was one step ahead, and he was already sitting in his seat.

She motioned for the waiter to serve the dishes, and after the door of the private room was closed, the two of them sat at the side of the long table and fell into a tacit silence.

Xiao Zhaoshan is still in a suit and leather shoes today, he crosses his legs, puts his hands on his knees, and waits with his eyes downcast.Dong Xin, on the other hand, was wearing a ginger-yellow lace-up deep V dress, looking out at the trees outside the window with a heavy face.

The tropical-style music played in the lobby penetrated the wooden door, and the chords of the ukulele echoed in the private room. Xiao Zhaoshan recovered his smile when he heard it, and asked Dong Xin, "Why don't you talk?"

Dong Xin turned his face back and asked, "What about you, why don't you speak?"

"I'm waiting for a call." Xiao Zhaoshan replied.

Dong Xin raised the corner of his mouth: "Coincidentally, I'm also waiting for a call."

As soon as she finished speaking, her mobile phone on the table rang.

She looked at Xiao Zhaoshan, but Xiao Zhaoshan picked up the teacup to drink water.So she suppressed her smile, picked up the phone, said "um" and said nothing, just listened to the person on the other end.At the same time, two waiters knocked on the door and served four dishes and one soup.

"Hi sir, the dishes are ready."

Xiao Zhaoshan picked up the chopsticks and seemed to sigh: "Have you ordered so many?"

The waitress leaned down and explained in a low voice: "Your wife said that you don't usually eat Southeast Asian food, so I don't know your taste, so I ordered two more dishes. If you can't finish it, we can pack it for free. "

Xiao Zhaoshan raised his head and looked at Dong Xin, and couldn't help but said, "She's quite caring."

"By the way, what kind of wine do you have here? No beer." He asked.

The waiter replied: "The signature wine is Mekong whiskey, which is a bit strong. Would you like to open a bottle, sir?"

"Have a bottle. A soda and a dish of lemons, please."

"OK, wait."

There were only the two of them left in the private room again, Xiao Zhaoshan tasted the four dishes and one soup one by one, and then found that he only liked lemon fish and beef mint soup.The curry shrimp was too greasy, he only tried one chopstick and never touched it again.

Dong Xin hung up the phone and said angrily, "Hey, you're really welcome, just eat it."

Xiao Zhaoshan blew away the mint leaves floating in the bowl, and took a sip of the soup: "There are so many rules between husband and wife."

Dong Xin also served himself a bowl of soup, and asked amusedly, "Why did you suddenly feel better?"

Xiao Zhaoshan put down the bowl, wiped his mouth: "I thought of something interesting."

"what?"

"Fate." Xiao Zhaoshan paused, and said uncertainly, "Or, blood relationship?"

Dong Xin couldn't understand: "Great artist, don't ask me to guess the riddle, just tell me what you have to say."

When the wine was served, Xiao Zhaoshan poured some for her, mixed half a cup of soda water into it, and put three slices of lemon.When it was his turn, he just took a slice of lemon and put it in the glass.

"Whiskey Mékong." Dong Xin picked up the bottle, read the name on the bottle, and then asked, "Shouldn't you drink it straight away? Be careful to get drunk later."

Xiao Zhaoshan shook his head: "I told my assistant that I want to catch up with my old friends and know how to drink, and ask him to pick me up at that time. Otherwise, how dare I call Yue Zezhang's people."

"Is there anything else you dare not do?"

Dong Xin picked up the fish meat with his chopsticks, and returned to the last interrupted topic: "Tell me, what happened to fate?"

Xiao Zhaoshan swallowed the whiskey, and there was a sobering spiciness in his throat.He said slowly: "Xiao Chining has a very good friend."

"Well, so?" Dong Xin didn't hear the relevance.

"It's a woman."

"That's like..."

In the middle of speaking, Dong Xin was stunned for a moment, and he came to his senses in an instant.

She stopped her chopsticks and looked at Xiao Zhaoshan, Xiao Zhaoshan smiled at her knowingly: "It's interesting."

Dong Xin frowned: "But you told me at noon that the girl committed suicide, and then your son went to the bar where he met Leopard's man."

Xiao Zhaoshan nodded with a smile in his eyes: "Before that girl died, she stabbed her parents first."

"You know, I grew up in a single-parent family." His smile faded away, he rubbed the rim of his cup and looked out the window, and suddenly said after a while, "I used to treat Yue Zezhang as a father."

Dong Xin could hear his unfinished intentions: "Are you really going to expose his background and confront him?"

Xiao Zhaoshan withdrew his gaze, met her worried gaze, and said flatly, "Why not. Didn't you say that there is nothing I dare not do?"

Dong Xin tapped on the table and reminded him: "The police and the prosecution must have his people. Are you sure you didn't die first before killing him?"

"I know." Xiao Zhaoshan's mood didn't fluctuate at all, "That girl's parents are not dead either."

"But," he changed the subject and said darkly, "they are still lying in the hospital now."

"But this is not the same thing!" Dong Xin still disagreed, "Zhaoshan, listen to me, my friend just replied to me. Now the working group above is complicated, and there are people from all schools. You know what it means What? It means it’s useless for us to win over anyone. We can’t touch Yue Zezhang, a tiger.”

"It's useless to change the company's legal person. Don't think about it. This road won't work. I asked for you. Now the police still rely on 'identification' in drug detection. Once your assistant identifies you, you will become a suspect. Put It may be difficult for an innocent person to become a criminal, but it is too easy for Yue Zezhang to turn a suspect into a death row prisoner."

After Xiao Zhaoshan finished his first glass of wine, he silently filled himself a second glass.

Dong Xin is still analyzing the situation: "There are too many people attached to him, we can't touch anyone's cheese. The best way now is, we will give him what he wants, and you will help him to vote for him honestly. How can he prevent him from contracting Fangshan's project to others, and then we will pick ourselves out after the work is over?"

"You don't know him too well." Xiao Zhaoshan put down his glass and interrupted her, "His appetite now is not the million and eight million of 20 years ago, but more than one billion. With his personality, even if I, the No.80, don't At first glance, he will not allow me to retreat. Either I have never been No.17, or I will be his No.17 all my life until I die. This is not the 'best way' at all, it is clearly worst plans."

Dong Xin said wearily: "It's not worth paying for yourself, you insist on dying with him?"

"Who said I want to die with him?" Xiao Zhaoshan raised his eyebrows, "Can't I push him off the cliff?"

"Dong Xin, as long as a person tells a lie, the rest of his truth will become unreliable." Xiao Zhaoshan said solemnly, "The simplest method is the most effective, I don't have time to play tricks with him Playing thick and black. Didn’t he want me to come back, okay, I’ll come back, as beautiful as I want.”

"I will let countless people know that I am Xiao Zhaoshan, and let countless people believe in me. At that time, no matter how many people are attached to him, I can still let him be pointed out by everyone and scolded by everyone." He Staring straight at Dong Xin with sharp eyes, "You know, no matter how fierce a tiger is, it may be killed by fleas. Let alone thousands of fleas."

"Are you drunk so quickly?" Dong Xin couldn't believe it. "You thought you were still 20 years old? Do you think you could start over? Do you think he stepped back from his seat last time because he was afraid you would expose him? Xiao Zhaoshan, He's not because of you, he's just for himself to collect money more unscrupulously."

Xiao Zhaoshan drank the whiskey at the bottom of the glass in one gulp: "I have evidence, I have contacts, and I am famous. Why can't I start over? At worst, I will negotiate with him again."

Dong Xin observed him for a while, then nodded mockingly: "Oh, negotiation. How are you doing after negotiating with him last time? Are you comfortable in jail? Are you happy that you can't paint? This time, what price are you going to pay? "

"Don't worry, at least you won't go to prison again." Xiao Zhaoshan wiped the foam from his lips with his thumb, and said relaxedly, "Xiao Chining is too worrying, if I'm not here, he can take the world away." Turn over."

Dong Xin was surprised: "Where did you get your confidence?"

"Isn't there a saying that a woman is weak at heart, but a mother is strong?" Xiao Zhaoshan smiled, and he looked very energetic, "I may be similar. Now I feel that I am omnipotent."

"omnipotent?"

"Well, omnipotent."

Dong Xin had never been a mother before, but at this moment, she felt miraculously inspired by Xiao Zhaoshan.

She picked up the wine glass, drank a big gulp of the mixed liquor, and asked after a long silence, "Then where have you progressed, can you tell me?"

"I'm going to put down my face to arrange marketing. At the end of the month, a draft of my comeback should be posted online."

"Don't be the burden of being a talented painter?"

"Face and survival, of course, survival is the most important thing. The two of us can't be like Xiao Chining and his friends, only one survives."

"Don't curse us. Both of us are not good people, and we will live for a thousand years." Dong Xin couldn't hear his unlucky words, and asked, "Which painting are you planning to use as a comeback? Let me see."

Xiao Zhaoshan smiled: "To be honest, I haven't written yet."

Dong Xin never expected: "...then you are trying so hard to convince me to believe you, because you want me to use the air to help you build momentum?"

"There's no need to bother Miss Dong with such a trivial matter." Xiao Zhaoshan leaned back in his chair, took out a cigarette and a lighter from his arms, put away his smile and said seriously, "I want to ask you to help me with another matter."

The two of them didn't move their chopsticks much during the meal, they just drank.The waiter packed the leftovers for them and stored the leftover wine, but Xiao Zhaoshan didn't want to come to this store to drink the last half bottle of Mekong whiskey, because he really didn't like Southeast Asian food.

He paid the bill and asked the waiter to pass the packing box to Dong Xin. Dong Xin didn't want it, but asked him to take it back for Xiao Chining to eat.

"No need." Xiao Zhaoshan walked to the gate of the restaurant and said while dialing Qu Cheng's mobile phone number, "The food he cooks himself is a hundred times better than this."

"Didn't I want to try a new restaurant?" Dong Xin justified his mistake in choosing, "Hey, by the way, I haven't met your son yet, hearing your boast, when will you bring him out for dinner? "

The call was connected quickly, and Xiao Zhaoshan hung up after reporting his location.

"I'll let you see him when he's better. Don't expect too much."

"What can I expect." Dong Xin put on a windbreaker and said with a smile, "If you recall what you were like in high school, you can almost count it."

Xiao Zhaoshan turned to look at her: "What was I like in high school?"

Dong Xin replied: "My role model, okay?"

Xiao Zhaoshan sneered, and when he saw his Cayenne approaching, he finally told her: "Please don't use your company's account to handle your business."

"I understand." Dong Xin asked the question that he was puzzled just now but didn't have time to ask, "Isn't Chi Yan expanding the scale of production recently? If he gets involved, there will probably be big problems. Why don't you discuss it with her first?"

Xiao Zhaoshan turned around and faced the street full of neon lights, but did not answer immediately.

It wasn't until Cayenne pulled into a temporary parking space on the side of the road that he said flatly, "So I've been waiting for her call."

Dong Xin behind him couldn't help showing a look of surprise.She remembered that Xiao Zhaoshan's cell phone never rang during the meal.

He didn't wait.