Chapter 78: The Other Half of Apples
As the Spring Festival approached, Ye Yanran's mood began to become depressed.
Thinking about the Ye family, she was so resistant that she didn't want to go back. Since the last unhappy parting, Ye's mother has called several times, and the topic revolves around a money word without exception, and after being sternly rejected by Ye Yanran, she simply broke off contact in annoyance and anger.
Now, whether or not to go back for the Chinese New Year has become a problem. When I went back, I was faced with another quarrel of chickens and geese, and if I didn't go back, I didn't go home to pay my respects in the Chinese New Year's Eve and it seemed unfilial.
Ji Yufan also faced the same problem, knowing that it would be unpleasant to go back, but he still had to go back out of traditional filial piety. What's more, there is a grandfather, the older people get, the more they care about this kind of happy moment for the family.
can think about Ye's mother's attitude towards Ye Yanran, and then think about his father's happy son just now, the family must be in a mess, and Ji Yufan doesn't want to go back.
"Yanran, why don't we go skiing in Switzerland during the Spring Festival!"
If she could, Ye Yanran also wanted to treat the Spring Festival as an ordinary holiday and go out to travel directly, but when she thought of the Ji family, she still felt that she couldn't be so capricious.
As a result, she in turn persuaded Ji Yufan to go home for the Spring Festival for half a day to celebrate the importance of the New Year.
Of course Ji Yufan understands what Ye Yanran said, and in the past few days, his mother has called him repeatedly and urged him to book his itinerary early. It seems that there are some things that cannot be avoided.
Ji Yufan hung his head and said a little deflated: "This is the first Spring Festival for the two of us together, and I want to spend it with you." ”
"It's okay, we have a lot of opportunities in the future. ”
After a discussion, the two decided to invite their friends to their home in advance, which can be regarded as celebrating the New Year together.
Chang Huan took Shangguan Zhen with bags of seafood, and shouted that he was the first to come with vegetables. Soon Li Xiang also arrived with two bottles of '98-year-old Lafite. Then Su Yan and Lu Li, then Yi Xian and Ah Bao. The fruit baskets and wine that I brought with me were piled up on the ground.
Ah Wei was the last to arrive, he stuck one hand in his pocket, and walked in with a smile, "I'll bring a mouth, don't mind!"
"Don't mind, come in!" Ji Yufan greeted warmly: "You sit down for a while, and start eating immediately." ”
His attitude attracted Ye Yanran's sideways. In the past, he saw that Ah Monster and Shao Jie were full of hostility, like this time, he was stingy and refused to invite Shao Jie over, why did he suddenly treat Ah Monster differently?
Ji Yufan shrugged his shoulders and smiled without explaining. He didn't want to talk about Chen Fei's castration.
Put the two dining tables together, put two electric hot pots, a clear soup pot base, a spicy pot bottom, meat slices, seafood, vegetables, red wine, white wine, and drinks on a large table.
A group of people sat around the fireplace, and the atmosphere suddenly became lively.
Ah Wei deliberately sat next to Yi Xian, but no matter how he squeezed his eyebrows, Yi Xian just chatted with Ah Bao on the other side as if he didn't see it.
Is this a bridge drawer? Help her make an appointment with Zhou Tianhan, and then turn her face and don't recognize anyone?
Chang Huan and Li Xiang sat on both sides of Shangguan Zhen on the left and right, Li Xiang had been asking about her recent situation because he hadn't seen Shangguan Zhen for a while, and Chang Huan was so busy that he was busy.
He didn't know that Li Xiang did this, and there was another deep meaning, that is, he didn't want Shangguan Yi to be uncomfortable because Ji Yufan and Ye Yanran were together, and others didn't know what was on her mind, Li Xiang was very clear! What a stupid girl.
Su Yan and Lu Li are rare and quiet here, not noisy or noisy, but it just makes people feel less intimate than before. Lu Li is also very helpless about this, Su Yan in the cold war is more difficult than her hot-tempered one.
Ji Yufan didn't have the heart to care about the relationship between the characters and the careful thinking of the people at the table, he just had to be lively and make Yanran happy.
He constantly toasted for various reasons, stirred up all kinds of topics, and kept sprinkling dog food to everyone.
Shangguan Yu lowered her eyes and focused on the dish in front of her, deciding in her heart that it was one thing to let go, and it was another thing to watch his happiness in this way, it can only be said that her heart is not strong enough.
Li Xiang felt heartache when he saw her like this, so why did he have to be stupid when he knew that this was the case?
At this moment, Ji Yufan was giving Ye Yanran vegetables and peeling shrimp skin as if no one was around, and Lu Li, who had always liked to play cold, also began to give Su Yanyan vegetables without moving.
Seeing Lu Li's move, Ye Yanran was happier than eating the shrimp peeled by Ji Yufan. It's just that Su Yan was faint from beginning to end, and he didn't know what the hell was going on.
Shangguan Yu still acted as a little transparent, minimizing his sense of existence, at this time, a shrimp fell in her bowl, and raised her head to meet Li Xiang's concerned gaze, "Look at your thinness, don't just eat vegetables stupidly, eat some meat." ”
He blinked, with a somewhat sly smile. Shangguan Zhen seemed to be seen through by him, and his heart was so weak that he lowered his head, and a distracted shrimp was stuck in his throat.
Covering her mouth and coughing sharply, she hurried to the bathroom, Shangguan Zhen was out of breath on the edge of the pool, Li wanted to help her pat her back behind her, and finally spit out the stuck thing.
"Thank you!" Shangguan Zhen leaned against the wall and exhaled.
"Why don't we go?"
Li Xiang's eyes lit up, and he took Shangguan Zhen's hand and returned to the living room, "Xiaozhen's stomach is not very comfortable, I'll send her back first." ”
Ye Yanran cared a few words, but she didn't force her to stay.
Li Xiang dragged Shangguan Yu out of the community, stretched out his hand to stop a taxi, "What do you want to eat, I'll treat you." ”
Shangguan Yu leaned back on the seat and closed his eyes, "Send me back! ”
Li Xiang's lips moved, and he finally held back what he wanted to say, and after reporting the address of Shangguan Zhen's dormitory with the driver, he also leaned back on the seat and stopped talking.
Sending the official all the way to the door of the dormitory, Li Xiang tilted his head and said, "You don't mind if I go in to visit, right?"
Saying that, he entered the room sideways, turned around and said, "I didn't expect your company to provide such a good dormitory, this environment is no worse than my apartment." ”
"It was Ji Yufan who said it to my boss, and it was all about his face. Shangguan Zhen sat heavily on the sofa, and his mood was still a little trance.
Li Xiang looked at her like this, and felt as uncomfortable as if he was blocked by something, "Can you not hook up everything with Ji Yufan?" If you really can't let him go, just go and snatch him back, what's the matter now?"
Shangguan Yu pulled the corners of his mouth bitterly, "He's not a thing, he can be robbed if he says it's robbed! What's more, he's married now." ”
Li Xiang said angrily: "You also know that he is married, so what kind of stupidity are you still doing here?"
Shangguan Yu stood up with a "rub", and roared in a hoarse voice: "Do you think I am willing? Isn't it uncontrollable? I like him for more than ten years, and my dream since I was a child is to marry him, does it mean that you can let go of it? I just can't do it, what do you want me to do?"
Speaking of this, Shangguan Zhen's tears fluttered and fell, "I've tried so hard to forget him, do you know?"
Li Xiang lost his temper in an instant, walked over and gently hugged the person in his arms, patted her on the back with his hand, and comforted her.
Shangguan Zhen punched him in the chest, "You will murder me and scold me!
Li Xiang continued to coax helplessly, and she wiped all her snot and tears on his body.
Shangguan Zhen was tired of crying, and fell asleep unconsciously in Li Xiang's arms.
Li Xiang carried her to the bed, wrung a hot towel from the bathroom to carefully wipe the tears on her face, pulled the quilt to help her cover it, combed the broken hair on her forehead, and said to himself: "I have also liked you for more than ten years, don't you know?"
The doorbell rang, and Li Xiang walked over to open the door.
Chang Huan stood outside the door, and couldn't help but be stunned when he saw Li Xiang, and then smiled softly: "Shangguan Zhen, she's okay, right?"
"She's fine, just fell asleep. You're looking for her?"
"Oh, it's nothing, I saw that she didn't eat well at night, so I didn't worry about coming over to take a look. ”
"It's okay now, thank you for your concern. Li Xiang was very polite because Chang Huan was Shangguan Zhen's boss.
"That's good. Chang Huan couldn't tell what kind of mood he was in to leave. Thinking of Shangguan Zhen and Li Xiang at the dining table, the man is young and handsome, and the woman is beautiful and moving, sitting side by side, like two pearls that complement each other, eye-catching. He suddenly felt old.
Back upstairs, open the wine cabinet, Chang Huan poured himself a glass of wine, stood in front of the window and slowly took a sip.
Thinking of the boy downstairs, and then thinking of Shangguan Yi leaving in a hurry after being scared just now, someone once jokingly whispered "Is there one", Chang Huan's heart became inexplicably annoyed......
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Following.
Ye Yanran unexpectedly received a call from Serena asking her to meet at the café opposite the company building, and after thinking twice, she still decided to go to the appointment.
Walking to the door of the café, Ye Yanran hesitated, sent a text message to Auchan, and walked in.
Serena sat in her seat with an arrogant expression, and saw Ye Yanran habitually looking her up and down, with a touch of indifferent mockery in her eyes.
What about a famous designer? There is not a single famous brand on her body, and even the khaki coat should not exceed 3,000 yuan, which is not as expensive as a scarf or a handbag. How can such a person be worthy of a man as meticulous and exquisite as Auchan?
Thinking of this, Serena raised her chin haughtily.
Ye Yanran sat down opposite her calmly, ordered a cup of coffee for herself, and took a sip elegantly, "If you have something to do, you can tell me directly, I still have work upstairs." ”
The word work directly stimulated Serena's sensitive nerves, and the expression on her face became stiff in an instant, "Ye Yanran, don't be complacent, even if you don't work in Shangcheng, Auchan and I are also old friends in the world, and I can enter and leave his home at any time." Our ties are inextricable. ”
Ye Yanran pursed her lips slightly, nodded and said, "That's good." ”
Serena didn't expect Ye Yanran's reaction to be so calm, so she readjusted her emotions and said, "You haven't been to the Ou family until now, have you?" The antique-style garden of his house is particularly beautiful, and there are many cherished ancient trees in it that are a hundred years old. ”
She observed Ye Yanran's reaction as she spoke, "In the summer, Auchan and I chatted under the tree, don't look at his usual cold face, in fact, he is also a very gentle person in private." ”
Ye Yanran hooked the corners of her mouth and showed a shallow smile, if it was really as beautiful as she said, then she would ask herself out for coffee?
She drank coffee indifferently, and listened to Serena continue to make up stories there, saying how deep the relationship with Auchan was, and how harmonious the relationship between the two families was, until she couldn't say it anymore, she said lightly, "It's really good, do I wish you an early birth to a noble son?"
Serena's face sank, and her voice suddenly became fierce, "Ye Yanran, don't pretend to be stupid here! It's all because of you, ruining our good marriage! You cheap woman who doesn't know how ugly! I warn you to get out of the way if you know each other, the young grandmother of the Ou family is not something that people like you can do." ”
Ye Yanran really didn't want to entangle with Serena anymore, she wanted to refute that if it was really a good marriage, it would definitely not be broken up, but thinking about Serena's paranoid low IQ, hearing such words would only misunderstand her relationship with Auchan even more. And she really didn't want to help Auchan act as smoke anymore, and continued to pull hatred, so that Serena misunderstood.
She nodded indifferently and said, "Okay, I see." ”
Serena was stunned for a moment and said, "Are you willing to leave him?"
Ye Yanran said with great certainty: "I just want to do my job well in Shangcheng, and I only maintain a normal relationship with Mr. Ou, so are you satisfied?"
Serena looked at Ye Yanran in disbelief, her eyes tightened, "Ye Yanran, what tricks do you want to play?"
Ye Yanran couldn't help but chuckle, "What tricks can I play?" You don't want me to be with Auchan, and I promised you, isn't this okay?"
Serena didn't believe that Ye Yanran would let go of a man with such good conditions as Auchan so easily, she thought about it and took out the check from her bag and said, "Say, how much money do you want to leave her completely?"
Ye Yanran really wants to ask if you are not sick in the brain! Have I ever asked for money?
Looking at Serena's brainless appearance, she couldn't help but play with her heart again, and turned her head and asked, "Then how much do you think Auchan is worth?"
"Auchan is priceless in my heart. ”
After finishing speaking, Serena looked at Ye Yanran's narrow eyes, and said angrily: "You are fooling me?!"
"Heh!" Ye Yanran sneered, "It's not me who is playing with you, it's you who are playing with yourself." To tell you the truth, Auchan and I have always had a relationship between superiors and subordinates, and if there is anything that makes you feel that he treats me very well, it is only because of the boss's appreciation and respect for his subordinates. You can't get his love, you don't find the reason from yourself, you have to rely on me, don't you play yourself?"
Serena shook her head desperately in disbelief, "This can't be! He hasn't had any other women around him over the years except you, if it weren't for you, why wouldn't he accept me?" She was already so enthusiastic and hot, he didn't even have any physiological reaction to push her away. This must be Ye Yanran's ghost.
"Have you ever thought that he doesn't accept you, doesn't care about anything, just because he doesn't like you. Serena, there is no way to force emotional matters. ”
"No way! We were so good, but it was because of you that he ignored me. It's all your conspiracy, isn't it? Don't you want to deceive me like this! Auchan is mine, and I won't give up. ”
Ye Yanran saw that if she was stubborn, she didn't want to waste any more time with her, so she got up and said, "I'm doing what I said, if you don't believe it, I can't help it." ”
Serena grabbed Ye Yanran's clothes, "Don't go, make it clear, how much do you want to return Auchan to me!
"Enough!" Auchan's deep, melodious voice came from behind him.
When Ye Yanran sent a text message to Auchan, she hoped that he could come over to dismantle the bomb in person, but when she didn't see his figure for a long time, she thought that he would not come, but she didn't expect it to appear again at the last critical moment.
Auchan took Julie's hand and walked up to them.
Serena looked at the two of them with ten fingers clasped in a daze, and it took a long time to come to her senses, "Brother Shang, what's going on? How can you ......?"
"Serena, I think it's time to make it clear to you, the person I like has always been Julie, and we've been together for a long time. ”
"No, it won't. She's married, she's a five-year-old, how could you choose her over me, it's impossible. ”
Compared to Auchan's liking of Ye Yanran, this fact in front of her is even more difficult for Serena to accept, how could she lose to Zhu Li, a second-married daughter who is older than her and ugly than her? And they have been under their noses for a long time, how is this possible?
"How can it be Zhu Li? Brother Shang, in order to protect Ye Yanran, you don't have to pull her out to lie to me. It's simply not possible. ”
"No, you're wrong, the person I have always wanted to protect is Zhu Li, I don't want you to point the finger at her, so I asked Ye Yanran to be a shield. ”
Auchan turned his gaze to Ye Yanran, "Yanran, I apologize to you for causing you so much trouble. It had always been me who was not firm enough to make my relationship with Julie public, but now that I have figured it out, I decided to join her no matter how much my family objected. ”
"No, I don't believe it, it can't be!" Serena pushed the crowd away and ran out.
Ye Yanran looked at Auchan and Julie in the sun, one steel and one soft together, as if it was the other half of the apple that was most suitable for each other in this world.
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Solution Bar.
Zhou Tianhan hurriedly pushed the door in and sat opposite Lin Xi with a faint chill.
"What happened to me in such a hurry?"
Lin Xi snapped his fingers at Ah Fei at the bar, "Try Ah Fei's creative cocktails, it's very interesting." ”
"I pushed two important meetings over, and you let me try the wine?"
Lin Xi ignored Zhou Tianhan's frozen eyes, and said to Ah Fei at the bar: "Two cups, I'll try his one too." ”
Ah Fei's creative cocktails are specially blended according to the temperament of each guest and the mood of the day, and Lin Xi is eager to know what kind of wine he will make for Zhou Tianhan.
Zhou Tianhan glared at him sharply, and "Teng" stood up and stepped forward to leave.
Lin Xi grabbed him and said unhurriedly: "If you don't give me face, you have to give Ah Fei a face, you see that other people's wine is served." ”
Zhou Tianhan sat down again, picked up the wine glass and took a sip, he just wanted to quickly dry this glass of wine and leave, there was still a lot of work waiting for him. If it weren't for Lin Xi, a dead boy, who said that there were 100,000 urgent things to find him, why would you leave a lot of work and sit here drinking. Lin Xi, this kid is really getting older and more impertinent.
A spicy and mellow smell came straight to his throat, choking Zhou Tianhan and coughing up his lips.
With a sly smile in his eyes, Lin Xi took a sip slowly, strong and spicy, but there was no lack of coolness, and there was a bitterness in the back mouth, just like Zhou Tianhan.
In order to hide his embarrassment, Zhou Tianhan said: "Is there anything wrong? ”
"Boss Zhou, the money is endless. You have to learn to relax. Lin Xi took another sip of wine, squinted his eyes and said, "You have been single for so many years, it can't be that there is something wrong with your psychology, right?"
Zhou Tianhan lowered his eyes and drank the wine, and he didn't intend to pay attention to Lin Xi's boring question at all.
"Is there a physical problem?"
...... "Well, the more you drink this wine, the more it tastes." Zhou Tianhan completely ignored Lin Xi's words.
Lin Xi's eyes swept to Ah Bao who was standing not far away with a wicked smile, "You don't like men, do you?
Po's eyes widened, holding his breath, waiting for the next answer. This is the biggest news of the year, and she has already thought of the title, but if she reports it, will she really not be assassinated?
Zhou Tianhan has been in the shopping mall for a long time, and he has excelled in observing words and colors, although he has been lowering his eyes, as if he has not glanced at Lin Xi, but he still keenly feels that Lin Xi's demeanor is different.
Raising his eyes and following Lin Xi's gaze, he looked back, only to see Ah Bao looking at him with a look of curiosity, as if to say, answer quickly, answer quickly, I'm still waiting to see the report tomorrow!
Lin Xi beckoned to Ah Bao and said, "Miss Chen is here, come and sit down." ”
He pulled out a chair for Po and asked her to sit down next to him, not afraid of Zhou Tianhan's sharp eyes like ice blades, he stood up and said, "I still have to go home to accompany my wife, so I will say goodbye first, let's talk." It's cold, take good care of Miss Chen. ”
After Lin Xi left, Ah Bao tried his best to cheer himself up, took out a voice recorder and put it on the table, "Mr. Zhou, thank you for accepting my interview." ”
Zhou Tianhan glanced at the voice recorder on the table and said coldly, "Miss Chen, I think you misunderstood." I'm here for a drink and to meet an old friend. Now the wine has been drunk and my friends are gone. I'll take my leave. ”
He bowed slightly, got up and left, and his long figure disappeared into the doorway, bringing a cold gust of wind.
Ah Bao grabbed the recorder and chased it out with her backpack, only then did she realize that the petite Linglong was sometimes really delayed, especially when she was fighting with Zhou Tianhan's long legs.
It had just snowed a few days ago, and there were still some places on the road that were icy, so Po only cared about chasing people, and stepped on the ice without seeing one.
"Oops!"
With a "snap", she slammed the street gorgeously in a very inelegant posture!
"Are you okay, can you get up by yourself?" Zhou Tianhan's low and cold voice sounded from overhead.
Po raised his head and squeezed out an embarrassed smile, grinned and reluctantly turned over and sat up, and looked at the voice recorder in his hand for the first time, it was okay, it was not broken.
Zhou Tianhan stared at her pants with holes in her knees, frowned, squatted down to pick up her bag, threw the things scattered on the ground into the bag one by one, and stretched out his long arm to put Ah Bao up.
Po gasped as soon as his feet touched the ground.
"What's going on?" Zhou Tianhan's cold voice was almost imperceptible with nervousness.
Ah Bao climbed Zhou Tianhan's arm, shifted the weight of his body to him, and said curtly: "It seems to have broken his foot!"
Before the words fell, Zhou Tianhan had already stopped her by the waist and hugged her, and strode towards the black business car across the road.
On the corner of the street, Lin Xi saw Zhou Tian in a hurry to get Bao into the car through the half-lowered car window, the corners of his mouth were teasingly cocked, he took out his mobile phone to take a picture of this rare picture, and told the driver to drive away.
In the hospital, Ah Bao looked at the wheelchair pushed over by Zhou Tianhan, scratched his messy short hair, and said stupidly: "Don't use it?"
"Take a wheelchair or I'll take you out, the choice is yours. ”
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