Chapter 59: The Stranger

"Liu Piaopiao, your hands and feet are sharp, don't you see so many people queuing!"

The manager of the bubble tea shop stood at the pick-up counter and impatiently scolded Liu Piaopiao, who was in charge of packing take-out milk tea.

"Yes, store manager. ”

Liu Piaopiao hurriedly put cups of milk tea into takeaway bags according to the information on the order, for fear that she would make a mistake on the first day of part-time work.

"Oops! You're so slow that I can pretend faster than you with one hand! Forget it! I'll let someone else take care of the installation, and you send me these orders placed by the mall merchants quickly!"

As he spoke, the store manager stuffed a large amount of milk tea that had been packed to Liu Piaopiao.

"Okay, I'll go!"

Liu Piaopiao wiped her sweaty hands on her apron, and hurriedly ran out with milk tea.

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"I'm sorry to ask you to come here on Saturday to talk about the expansion. Gong Yan politely sent the representative of the company that will talk about cooperation to the door of the office.

"Mr. Gong is polite, we are used to working on weekends for a long time, as long as we can carry out the project smoothly, everything is easy to say. ”

"Then I would like to ask for your full assistance. Gong Yan stretched out his hand to shake hands with the other party as he spoke.

"Be polite, you must go all out, Mr. Gong, you can send it here, I see that your department is also very busy." ”

"I, then we won't send you, and we'll see you next week when we meet. ”

After Gong Yan waved goodbye to the company's representative, he breathed a sigh of relief, he had been busy with the expansion of the company's new shopping mall recently, and now it can be regarded as an end.

"Xiao Zhang, has the coffee arrived?"

Gong Yan, who had been busy all morning, took a breath, and then remembered the coffee he had to order for his assistant.

"Mr. Gong, I'm really sorry, the business of the café downstairs is so good, people are stunned that they don't take takeout orders, I have been following you to a meeting just now, and I can't take the time to go downstairs to buy, so I can only change to a milk tea shop and order a tea for you." ”

As Gong Yan's assistant, Xiao Zhang knows his temper and habits, Gong Yan has always been a meticulous boss who is meticulous about his work and very easy-going to his colleagues, so even if he modifies his boss's tea without authorization, he doesn't have to worry about Gong Yan turning his face.

"Well, did you send the notice of the meeting to the various departments yesterday?" Sure enough, Gong Yan didn't react, and turned around directly to go back to the office.

"Hello Miss, these are two servings of milk tea from the sales department, please check it, thank you!"

Gong Yan, who was walking back with his feet up, immediately stopped, he even thought he was hallucinating, he turned to look at the front desk, and saw that the man was wearing a ponytail, his hair was a little messy, and he was wearing an apron in front of him, and the name of the bubble tea shop was printed on the apron.

"Liu Piaopiao!"

Liu Piaopiao paused for a moment, but pretended that she didn't hear any sound, and she pulled out her legs without looking back, but the next second, her arm was suddenly clamped.

Liu Piaopiao struggled to calm her breathing, she closed her eyes and bit her lip, then turned around.

"Hey, Director Gong, what a coincidence, you're working overtime!" Liu Piaopiao's surprise was both clumsy and contrived.

"Why are you here?" Gong Yan's eyes clenched at Liu Piaopiao like an eagle.

"I'm here to deliver milk tea, I have to rush back to continue working, so I'll leave first!" Liu Piaopiao smiled and turned around to leave.

But Gong Yan refused to let go, he stopped in front of Liu Piaopiao with a stride, and asked angrily: "Why do you work in a bubble tea shop? Aren't you very homely? You lack money?"

Liu Piaopiao lowered her head, took a deep breath, and then raised her eyes to meet Gong Yan's gaze, "I don't seem to have anything to do with you, Director Gong, Director Gong, you may have had some misunderstandings between us in the past, but I think the message I sent you has been very clear." ”

Gong Yan's eyes darkened, the muscles in his jaw bulged, and he silently let go of the hand that was clamping Liu Piaopiao's arm, and turned away without hesitation.

Liu Piaopiao walked into the empty elevator, quickly pressed the floor button, and after the elevator door closed, she leaned her head weakly on the inner wall of the elevator, and tears could not stop dripping on the floor of the elevator like raindrops.

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In the evening, unable to stand Xue Rin's soft grinding and hard bubbles, Yao Zhixia, who wanted to read a book for a while, had to pack up her things and go to the supermarket with Xue Rin to buy vegetables.

With such a rich second-generation boyfriend who loves to go to the supermarket and eat home-cooked food, Yao Zhixia was a little difficult to tell whether this was fortunate or unlucky.

When leaving, Yao Zhixia also deliberately glanced at You Jia, who had been sitting near them, unexpectedly, for most of the day, she didn't make an appointment to meet anyone, just sat there alone, read a book after finishing work, ordered pasta when she was hungry, and watched a movie with headphones while eating, so uncomfortable, it seemed that she was used to living alone.

After Yao Zhixia and Xue Rin left, a rare customer came to the coffee shop.

Yue Qun stood at the door with his computer bag, he raised his glasses with his hand, looked around the store, looked around, and shook his head with a smile.

I'm such an adult, why do you still play this kind of hide-and-seek trick like a hairy young man in his twenties?

He withdrew his gaze and turned to push open the door of the café.

"Senior?"

Yue Qun was about to take a step that stopped suddenly, he turned around and was surprised to find the figure he was looking for just now standing behind him.

"Hmm...... Hello Mr. Yue, are you leaving?" You Jia looked at Yue Qun in surprise.

"Uh...... Director You, what a coincidence, no, I'm just here. Yue Qun quickly took back the hand that was on the doorknob.

"Oh, then, it's nothing, I ......"

"May I have a cup of coffee?"

"Huh?"

"I mean, I happened to be here to work overtime, and you're here, so I'm just, as a man, I'm going to have a cup of coffee. Yue Qun hurriedly explained.

"Oh, okay, thank you then, come and sit here, my stuff is there. You Jia gestured to the table in the corner.

Yue Qun breathed a long sigh of relief and followed You Jia to her desk, where an old book that was a little curly caught his eye.

"Do you like reading Edgar Allan Poe, too?"

You Jia, who was busy tidying up the table, raised her head, only to see Yue Qun staring down at the bookmark book, she immediately reached out and took back the book, stuffed it under the workbook indiscriminately, and said with a relaxed smile: "No, I haven't read it before, just buy it and take a look to pass the time." ”

Yue Qun didn't think much of it, just nodded flatly, but this book reminded him of his distant college days.

At that time, his favorite author was Edgar Allan Poe, and he would often soak in the school library, going through all of Poe's works, and he was fascinated by those exquisite sentences and amazing stories.

It was only later that when he graduated, work and entertainment poured into his life, drowning out all the things that had shocked and delighted his soul.

"What would you like to drink?"

Looking at the empty coffee cups on the table, Yue Qun couldn't help but be glad that she had come in time, maybe later, she would leave.

"I, you can drink it, I'll drink it." ”

"However, you haven't had dinner yet, right? Why don't we eat some together?" I haven't been to this restaurant, do you have any recommendations?" Yue Qun immediately proposed.

"Huh, we, together...... The Japanese fried dumplings in this shop are quite delicious, why don't you try this?"

"Okay, I don't have anything special to eat, but I never get tired of eating dumplings, no matter which country's dumplings, I'm happy to give them a try. ”

Yue Qun didn't expect that You Jia's random recommendation of the dishes hit his heart with one hit, when he was in college before, if he didn't know what to eat, dumplings must be his best choice, until now, dumplings are still his first choice when he is hungry when he works overtime at night.

"Just sit here, I'll order. After Yue Qun finished speaking, he walked towards the cash register.

You Jia watched Yue Qun's distant back, sat down slowly, she pulled out the book under the workbook, and stared deeply at the black cat on the cover.

"It turns out that you still haven't changed. ”

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After eating dinner and washing the dishes, Xue Rin took off his apron and whistled and walked to the sofa.

Seeing that Yao Zhixia was reading the book as usual again, he sighed, and with a "plop" his whole body fell directly on the sofa.

"Yao Zhixia, Yao Zhixia, Yao Zhixia. Xue Rin boredom repeated Yao Zhixia's name.

"What's wrong?" Yao Zhixia looked up from the book.

"I'm so bored!" Xue Rin puffed out his cheeks and raised his hand to scratch his hair.

"You're done?"

"Hmm. Xue Rin pursed his lips and nodded lazily.

"Why don't you go for a yo-fluff?"

Yao Zhixia looked at the floor-to-ceiling window, and saw that Peng Peng was scratching around the glass with his paws, and Ding Man jumped up excitedly and rose into the air.

Xue Rin turned his head and found that the two little fools were just attracted by a moth falling outside the glass, he got up from the sofa, walked to the door and opened the door, and beckoned to Peng Peng and Ding Man: "You two are so old, if you want to learn to be independent, the boss won't slip away from you two, play by yourself!"

Peng Peng and Ding Man rushed out with a "whoosh", and started to fight in the courtyard, Xue Rin looked at Yao Zhixia, and suddenly had a plan.

"Yes, yes, yes! That's it!"

Xue Rin closed her eyes and relaxed her head on Yao Zhixia's lap, enjoying her ear-picking service.

Yao Zhixia's movements were extremely light, she held a cotton swab and carefully rotated it in Xue Rin's ears, this was the first time she had done this work for others, and she couldn't figure out the strength and technique, so she had to grope for it.

"Yao Zhixia, why didn't I meet you earlier!" Xue Rin said with emotion.

But Yao Zhixia, who heard this, was not very happy, because she had thought more than once that if it weren't for that accident, a person like Xue Rin would not have noticed a person like her at all.

He didn't remember that he had met her at KTV was the best proof that the survival rules and living environments of their respective worlds were very different, not to mention the life trajectory before that?

Sensing Yao Zhixia's silence, Xue Rin opened his eyes worriedly, but he was about to speak, but was interrupted by the ringing of his mobile phone.

Xue Rin helplessly reached out and picked up the mobile phone on the coffee table, and when he saw it, it was Gong Yan.

"What's wrong?" Xue Rin asked casually.

Yao Zhixia stopped what she was doing, and when she caught a glimpse of "Yan Gong Gong" displayed on the screen just now, she knew that it was Gong Yan, and a sense of guilt immediately came to her heart.

"Well, well, she didn't confess? Well, what are you going to do? Well, no problem, I'm rooting for you, okay, party? Oh, okay, I'll take her, okay, see you tomorrow night. ”

Yao Zhixia didn't know what Xue Rin and Gong Yan said on the phone, but his increasingly serious expression told her that some things might not be hidden, she subconsciously bit her lip, and her back also pulled back a little distance.

Xue Rin hung up the phone and threw the phone on the sofa, he turned around, buried his head in front of her lower abdomen, and closed his eyes.

After a short silence, Xue Rin opened his mouth faintly: "Don't you plan to recruit yet?"