Chapter 2: Parting
The next day, Zhang Lexing got a booked ticket from San Francisco to Hong Kong, and the flight time was noon three days later. Zhang Lexing planned to take advantage of the time when Xiao Donghai and Wan Lin were busy looking for a house to go to Hong Kong to do some things and find some shortcuts to open up the situation for the company he was about to establish, and then go directly to Beijing from Hong Kong. As for the training group and the foreigner trio, after finding a foothold in Beijing, they will fly directly from San Francisco to Beijing under the leadership of Zhan Jun.
In the past few days of waiting, Yang Xinxin still rarely paid attention to Zhang Lexing, and even sometimes didn't want to say a word when she met by chance in the elevator. This situation did not change until the day before she left the United States, and Yang Xinxin rarely took the initiative to open her mouth.
"You're leaving tomorrow, right?" Yang Xinxin's words carried a hint of sadness.
"Well, tomorrow's noon plane. Zhang Lexing nodded.
"Brother, can you have a meal with me in the evening?"
In fact, Zhang Lexing and Yang Xinxin rarely go out to eat together, everyone has their own private lives, and they will not interfere with each other, and there are only a handful of days when the two go out to eat alone for so many years. Maybe it was the parting that made people melancholy, seeing Yang Xinxin's slightly haggard face, Zhang Lexing couldn't bear to refuse and nodded in agreement. In the following time, Zhang Lexing absentmindedly flipped through cards and swept mines in the office, waiting for the arrival of the time to get off work.
Just two minutes after getting off work, Zhang Lexing had already packed her things and came to the corridor early, just in time for Yang Xinxin to come out of her office. Today, Yang Xinxin has shoulder-length short hair, is wearing a navy blue waist dress, a pair of black semi-high-heeled leather shoes under her feet, and a brown sheepskin bag in her hand, standing quietly at the door of the office looking at Zhang Lexing, her lips squirming gently but not making a sound.
"Sister Xin, can I leave now?" Zhang Lexing took the initiative to say.
"Hmm. Yang Xinxin nodded slightly.
"What do you want to eat at night?" Zhang Lexing asked.
"Brother, it's up to you to decide. Yang Xinxin said lightly.
Zhang Lexing thought that Ballmer had mentioned a good place yesterday and decided to try it: "Listen to Steve, there is a newly opened Baseli Flo restaurant not far from here, which is said to be a very good French restaurant, you can taste authentic French food, why don't we try it today?"
"You can arrange it today. Yang Xinxin showed a faint smile.
The two walked into the elevator together, and soon came to the parking lot as the elevator descended. The two got into Yang Xinxin's silver Porsche 911 together, twisted the ignition key, Yang Xinxin quickly started the car and drove Zhang Le to Baseli Flo's restaurant.
The two of them didn't talk on the road, only the music of N.P. Radio was playing all the way in the car. The car drove along the highway and through a few blocks, and soon Baseli Flo's restaurant arrived.
Located on the ground floor of the Araxper Hotel, the restaurant has a welcoming brass door and lavish interiors with heavy carpets. The waiter in formal clothes was waiting at the entrance, and when he saw Zhang Lexing and Yang Xinxin, he immediately greeted him with a smile.
"Sir, Miss, how many of you?" asked the waiter with a smile on his face.
"Two people, are there still seats?" Zhang Lexing replied.
"Please follow me. The waiter made a gesture and motioned for Zhang Lexing and Yang Xinxin to follow.
Passing through the porch, the two followed the waiter to the store, and Zhang Lexing looked around as he walked. Sumptuous crystal chandeliers hang from the vaulted roof, art nouveau paintings hang on the walls, and the interior is spacious with a dozen or so dining tables scattered with snow-white tablecloths.
Under the guidance of the waiter, the two came to a window seat and sat on both sides. Delicate plates and knives and forks were already laid out on the table, and beside them stood lavish long-legged wine glasses, and a candlestick covered with lampshades flickered with flickering candlelight.
The waiter respectfully handed over the menu, Zhang Lexing took it and ordered a few of Yang Xinxin's favorite dishes, and chose a bottle of 85-year-old Latour red wine. This meal was very dull, because Yang Xinxin was always busy competing with food, but she didn't want to talk more, Zhang Lexing said ten sentences, she took one sentence at most, and as a result, Zhang Lexing lost interest in talking, and turned an originally emotional dinner into a competition between the two of them to eliminate the food and red wine on the table.
After a hasty dinner, the two got in the car and went home. Along the way, Yang Xinxin was still silent, and her white hands quietly held the steering wheel. Zhang Lexing turned on the radio boringly, and the hoarse tune of the singer came out of it, with a feeling of sadness......
When the car came to the villa where the two lived, Yang Xinxin turned the steering wheel and turned a corner, and parked the car in the garage. Turning off the engine and pulling out the key, Yang Xinxin got out of the car with her bag and walked into the house, and Zhang Lexing also walked in. When Zhang Lexing walked into the house, he found that Yang Xinxin had been lost, leaving only a brown sheepskin bag still on the sofa. Zhang Lexing walked around the first floor, but found no one, and was thinking about whether to go upstairs to have a look, Yang Xinxin appeared again, with an extra bottle of red wine in her hand, it seems that she went to the wine cellar downstairs just now.
Putting the red wine on the coffee table in front of the sofa, Yang Xinxin brought two more wine glasses and said softly, "Brother, can you have another drink with me?"
"Sister Xin, you've drunk a lot tonight. ”
Yang Xinxin didn't speak, after removing the cork of the red wine, she poured half a glass of wine into each of the two goblets on the coffee table, she picked up a glass herself, and then looked at Zhang Lexing, her eyes were full of expectation. Zhang Lexing sighed, stretched out his hand to pick up the remaining cup, Yang Xinxin raised his glass and signaled, and then drank it all.
Zhang Lexing took a sip of wine and persuaded: "Sister Xin, don't drink so fast, it's easy to get drunk." ”
"Drunk?" Yang Xinxin smiled bitterly and said wistfully: "It's good to be really drunk, you don't have to think about it, you won't be in pain." ”
Putting down the wine glass, Yang Xinxin added half a glass of wine to it and drank it all again. Zhang Lexing had no choice but to continue drinking. After a few glasses of wine, Yang Xinxin's words gradually increased, chattering a lot, mostly talking about some things she had experienced over the years.
Yang Xinxin has not been too happy in these years, because of some family matters in her early years, she decided to come to the United States, relying on her personal ability to achieve a quite successful career here. But as the saying goes, the career is smooth and frustrated, Yang Xinxin has not been able to find the other half who really satisfies her, often looking good behind the person is another set, and almost let a playboy be deceived in the first two years, of course, Yang Xinxin cleaned up this kid afterwards. But since this incident, Yang Xinxin may have given up on men and began to put her love on work, and VisualSystem's business has become more prosperous. It seems that she may have forgotten those unpleasantness, but today Zhang Lexing found that she had not forgotten, but was just deliberately suppressed.
Speaking of later, Yang Xinxin talked about some unsatisfactory things in her family, when she was fourteen years old, her mother took her younger brother away, and since then the family has gradually become unpeaceful, although her grandfather still loves her very much, but the second uncle always does not deal with her father because of his position in the family business, and there are often quarrels between the two. At that time, Yang Xinxin was still very sympathetic to her father, but not long after, her father actually found a new wife, who was not much older than her, which made Yang Xinxin unacceptable, she felt that her father was no longer the father who made her proud before. A year later, the new mother gave birth to a younger brother, and after that, Yang Xinxin found that her status at home was slowly different, and her father didn't seem to care about her as much as before, so Yang Xinxin rarely went back over the years, and even if she called, she would only talk to her grandparents and hang up after a few words.
Yang Xinxin began to sobb softly as she spoke, Zhang Lexing gently patted her shoulder, and said some comforting words in her mouth, trying to calm her mood, but the effect was not obvious. Suddenly, Yang Xinxin hugged Zhang Lexing all of a sudden, and cried sadly: "Why do you have to leave me, mom is like this, dad is like this, and now you have to leave too......"
Zhang Lexing was very nervous and a little at a loss, it was not that he had no experience in hugging women before, but Yang Xinxin, who had always cared about him like a sister, had never been like this, which made him not know where to put his hand for a while. Yang Xinxin hugged Zhang Lexing and cried for a while, gradually calmed down, and slowly let go of her hand, but the person leaned softly on Zhang Lexing's chest. Gently helping Yang Xinxin up, Zhang Lexing found that she didn't know when she had fallen asleep. Holding her carefully, Zhang Lexing walked down the stairs to the second floor, intending to put her on his bed, after all, I am afraid that two people will not be able to stand it for a night.
When he entered the house, he only turned on the floor lamp next to the sofa, and the stairs looked very dim. After going upstairs, turn left and the last room is Yang Xinxin's bedroom, gently push open the door, Zhang Lexing carefully put her sleeping on the bed. Yang Xinxin's bedroom is dressed up very ladylike, with a pink romantic atmosphere, looking at the interior decoration that she usually has no chance to watch, Zhang Lexing feels more and more that Yang Xinxin's strong appearance is probably just a deliberate disguise to protect herself.
Turning back downstairs, Zhang Lexing took a glass, poured most of the cup of boiling water, carefully held it, and came to Yang Xinxin's bedroom again. Yang Xinxin, who was sleeping, was very quiet, her eyes were slightly closed, her long eyelashes were playfully curved, and she shone with a crystal light under the light leaking through the cracks in the curtains. Zhang Lexing gently put the water cup on the bedside table, hoping to bring her coolness when she was thirsty.
When he came to the end of the bed, Zhang Lexing carefully took off the black half-height leather shoes on Yang Xinxin's feet, then turned around and put the leather shoes on the shoe rack by the door, and took a pair of slippers and put them on the side of the bed. Yang Xinxin's legs rubbed against each other a few times, maybe it was the stockings on her legs that made her feel uncomfortable, Zhang Lexing hesitated for a while, but still reached over and took off the stockings. The crystal jade legs slowly appeared, and Zhang Lexing felt that his heartbeat was getting faster and faster, and his face seemed to be a little hot.
Throwing the stockings on the side of the bed, Zhang Lexing was worried that Yang Xinxin would be easy to catch a cold when he slept on the bed like this, so he walked to the other side and lifted the corner of the quilt on one side of the bed to reveal a little place, and then gently picked up Yang Xinxin again and put her over, and then covered the quilt, finally completing the process that made Zhang Lexing blush and heartbeat a little.
Zhang Lexing got up and was about to leave, but Yang Xinxin suddenly hugged him from behind and whispered, "Don't leave me, okay." ”
"Sister Xin, you wouldn't have been like this before. Zhang Lexing sighed.
"Brother, I don't mean anything else, I just hope that a man I hate won't give me a warm hug tonight. Yang Xinxin's voice was very clear, and I didn't know if she was really drunk just now.
The thoughts in Zhang Lexing's mind disappeared with Yang Xinxin's words, but it was obviously not suitable to refuse at this time, so he had to take off his coat and burrow into the bed. As soon as he lay down, a warm body immediately poured into Zhang Lexing's arms, and his body stiffened suddenly......
Early in the morning, when Zhang Lexing was woken up by a burst of birdsong, he felt that his right arm was a little sore, and gently pinched his sore arm, and was about to continue to lie down with his eyes closed for a while, but there was a familiar aroma from the end of his nose. Zhang Lexing suddenly remembered that he was now in Yang Xinxin's bedroom on the second floor, and the whole person suddenly woke up. Reaching out to the side and touching it, it was no longer as warm and silky as last night, and the person was no longer in bed. Zhang Lexing straightened up and sat on the bed for a while, reminiscing about the taste of last night, but it seemed to be unreal like a dream, except for Yang Xinxin's words, he couldn't think of more details.
After getting out of bed and putting on his coat, Zhang Lexing walked out of the bedroom barefoot and walked down the stairs to the living room. After turning around, Zhang Lexing found no trace of Yang Xinxin, maybe she had gone to work. On the table not far away was a simple ham sandwich with a glass of warm milk. A little hungry, Zhang Lexing came to the table and found a note pressed under the glass containing milk. When I picked it up, it turned out to be left by Yang Xinxin, and the note read: "Brother, I've already gone to work." If you can see this piece of paper, it means that you have found breakfast and can destroy it immediately. If that's not enough, there's still food in the fridge and you can do it yourself. Don't forget to catch the noon flight, I don't have time to drop you off, don't mind. If you have something to say, you can write it and stick it on the top of the refrigerator. Also: Help me take a look at grandpa when I arrive in Hong Kong, there is a paper bag next to your luggage, which is a gift for grandpa, don't forget to bring it!"
"Maybe she's in a better mood now, at least she'll be smiling. Zhang Lexing thought as he tried to eliminate the sandwich and milk.
After eating early, Zhang Lexing went back to the room to check his luggage again, this time it took a long time to return to China, and some important things could not be forgotten to bring, and by the way, he also dealt with the things in his room, after all, some things are not suitable for Yang Xinxin to see. After being busy for a while, I finally packed my suitcase briefly, and finally got it all done. With his belongings in tow, Zhang Lexing and several bodyguards drove to San Francisco International Airport to prepare for Hong Kong.
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