Xia Qixi just felt like a fool in front of Jiang Yan, no matter what he said or did, her response was just the same helplessness.

Jiang Yan couldn't understand it even more, when she was in the company, she said that she was okay at work, methodical, and responsive. But the last time she was sent home from work, this time, it seemed that in addition to working time, she was more nervous in front of herself, and even tried to find excuses to avoid seeing him during non-working hours.

This strange feeling is obviously felt by both of them, but it can only be one without saying and the other not asking.

An extremely ordinary dumpling restaurant, this dazzling food street, its inconspicuous storefronts and somewhat remote location make it difficult to attract the attention of diners.

This street is civilized by food, and there are restaurants and restaurants on both sides of the road that are better than both the decoration of the store and the type of food.

Before that, she would occasionally eat here with friends, and never noticed that there was a dumpling restaurant here.

She followed behind Jiang Yan with suspicious eyes, and the receptionist at the door took the initiative to greet her, and warmly called "Mr. Jiang", Xia Qixi saw it in her eyes and listened to it in her ears, obviously Jiang Yan was already a frequent visitor here.

Walking through a long corridor, his eyes suddenly became bright, and Xia Qixi realized that there was a cave.

The two-story cloister is surrounded by many small partitions, and in the middle is a wide open hall, which uses a wide range of logs and vermilion lacquer, and carves beams and paintings, in a quaint decoration style.

It's lunchtime, and it's crowded, and it's already full.

When I arrived in the hall, another waiter came up to guide me, and led the two people straight to a private room on the corner of the second floor. Xia Qixi deliberately glanced at the details of the private room "Fennel Hall".

The two of them sat opposite each other, and the waiter delivered the menu, but Jiang Yan didn't take it, so the waiter directly sent the menu to Xia Qixi.

Xia Qixi could only reach out and take it, flipped a few pages at random, and looked at those colorful ones who didn't have any appetite, since she said that she wanted to eat dumplings, then she would follow the local customs, raised her hand and pointed at the menu, and the waiter immediately wrote it down in the notebook.

About ten minutes later, the waiter came up with two plates of dumplings.

"Hello, you ordered two plates of fennel dumplings. After that, he automatically quit.

There were only two people left, Xia Qixi and Jiang Yan, who looked at each other, and then looked at each other and smiled. Almost at the same time, he said, "You like the smell too?"

Immediately afterwards, there was a knowing smile, neither of them expected that they would break all the previous embarrassment because of this small plate of dumplings.

Xia Qixi's taste buds are a little strange when I think about it, the taste of fennel, many people don't like it, but it is her favorite, and she only eats fennel traps for dumplings.

A mixture of good umami mushrooms, fennel, celery, eggplant, a little oil and salt will make a delicious filling.

Maybe it's because the two of them have a common hobby, and the atmosphere suddenly becomes relaxed, and at the end of the meal, the two even discuss cooking.

Xia Qixi was happy for a while, and she forgot what she said, and she didn't notice Jiang Yan's eyes focusing on her.

Prior to this, for Jiang Yan, his attention to Xia Qixi only stayed on her work ability, and even her attitude towards Lin Qiao, on the contrary, he didn't pay much attention to her person.

At this moment, I found out that although Xia Qixi was not in outstanding figure and her skin was not good, she had a baby face and a pair of good-looking eyes, and when she smiled, there were two shallow pear vortices hanging from the corners of her mouth.

Jiang Yan wondered why his heart was hesitating at this moment, those preset trajectories, the originally unbreakable consciousness, were all at this moment, in Xia Qixi's defenseless smile, there was a trace of wind and grass. Immediately, Jiang Yan forced himself to remove this only bit of abnormality from his heart, and until his goal was achieved, he would never allow any mistakes or accidents to appear on him.

But Xia Qixi was completely unaware of the changes in his heart at the moment, and at the same time, her opinion of Jiang Yan began to change from this moment.

This change quickly spread out of her heart, and soon overcame her sanity, and she forgot the office creed that she had always believed in and adhered to, and everything in the office was premised on profit.

Fortunately, this warm scene was not seen by Chen Ziyu, otherwise he would have been in a hurry, and the consequences would be unimaginable.

Not to mention, he and Xia Qixi are just a contract relationship, and you can also ignore his uncertain feelings for Xia Qixi for the time being, just say that he has been busy since the morning, and he hasn't even eaten a bite of food, just for her. All I got was a goodbye.

She is eating delicious food with other men at the moment, and she is leisurely. Chen Ziyu could only stand on the side of the road under the sun and wait for rescue.

He had to wonder if it was a wrong decision to know Xia Qixi, and even suspected that she was the Heavenly Demon Star in his life. The car was driving well on the road, but suddenly the tire burst. He could only wait for rescue hungry.

"Why do you like to eat fennel-trapped dumplings?" Jiang Yan asked Xia Qixi.

To be honest, Xia Qixi has never thought about this problem, and it seems that there is no necessary reason for liking and disliking this matter, but her tongue and stomach have a soft spot for fennel.

"I can't say why, it's been like this since I was a child, probably because of it. Xia Qixi replied truthfully.

Jiang Yan ate another dumpling, and then continued to tell Xia Qixi a story.

A little boy who has never seen his father since the day he was born, has been following his mother for his life, although his life is hard, but he is also happy. My mother had no education, so she had to go out and do odd jobs, sometimes at construction sites, sometimes as cleaners.

The work is hard, but the income is pitiful. But even so, every weekend, my mother would still use a meal of fennel-trapped-filled dumplings to improve his meal.

Therefore, the fennel-trapped dumplings have become the happiest and best memory of this child. It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, it was originally a common cold, but my mother's physical condition was getting worse day by day, and the cough kept getting worse, and he was only a 7-year-old child at that time, and he always thought that everything would be fine.

It was a rainy day, and my mother asked a neighbor to make a phone call, and about half an hour later, a man appeared at the door, and the man in the suit and leather shoes looked out of place compared to the humble environment of their home.

He stood beside his mother's bed, but he looked at the man with the same eyes as him.

Later, my mother was taken to the hospital with terminal lung cancer. He was forcibly taken home by the man, and a month later, his mother died and he was sent out of the country.

Since then, he has not eaten his mother's fennel-trapped dumplings.

Xia Qixi listened to him quietly finish telling this story, and of course she could guess that the little boy in Jiang Yan's story was talking about himself.

She didn't know why Jiang Yan was telling him this, and she didn't know what she could do at the moment, sympathy and comfort didn't seem right.

Jiang Yan didn't care, it was already past lunch time in a blink of an eye, and the two of them had almost eaten, Jiang Yan took the initiative to beckon the waiter to settle the bill, and the two left.

On the way back to the company, perhaps because of the sleep replenished in the morning, Xia Qixi was in a very good state, and kept looking at the scenery outside the window. During this period, Jiang Yan answered a phone call, about ten minutes or so, although Xia Qixi didn't know who was calling, but from Jiang Yan's expression and tone, Xia Qixi always felt that something had happened.

As a result, as soon as he arrived at the unit, Xia Qixi heard an explosive news. Lin Qiao took a long vacation. Xia Qixi's first reaction was that the phone call in the car just now must have something to do with it.

Lin Qiao took a long vacation at this time, there must be a reason, if Xia Qixi didn't guess wrong, this reason was the inexplicable email.

At present, Jiang Yan has only been in office for less than a month, and he still does not know much about all aspects of work. The group has just issued the work to welcome the inspection of the factory leaders, the decoration of each store, the integration of data, and a series of work need to be presided over. The follow-up work can be put down first, just decorating this one piece, it is enough for Jiang Yan to have a headache.

Lin Qiao has always been in charge of this matter, and now it has been going on for half a month, even if Jiang Yan is really capable, but after all, he has just returned to China, and he does not know much about the domestic market situation, and he has taken over a half-done endgame that Lin Qiao has done. But the building they work in is okay, the point is that there are more than a dozen stores in charge below, all of which are carried out at the same time, who doesn't know, those things in the branch can be managed so easily.

Many people are waiting to see how Jiang Yan will end. What's more, Lin Qiao has been sitting in this position for so many years, and his contacts and resources are naturally broader.

It's a mess at the moment, no one wants to take over, and everyone knows how to protect themselves.

I heard from my colleagues that Lin Qiao had come to sort out all her things in the morning, which meant resignation, but the email from the group only said that in consideration of her hard work and physical condition, she was specially granted a long vacation.

Jiang Yan was recalled to the group for a meeting, and only the leaderless pawns of the comprehensive department were left, and everyone naturally didn't have the heart to work, and as soon as the time came to get off work, they dispersed.

At this time, Xia Qixi suddenly remembered Jiang Xue, if she was there, she could also inquire about some inside information. So after Xia Qixi left the office, she turned around and went directly to the purchasing department to find Jiang Xue, but unfortunately she was a step late and didn't catch Jiang Xue's figure, and wanted to make a phone call, but she was afraid that she would be too concerned about this matter and cause unnecessary suspicion, so she could only endure it.

Xia Qixi walked out of the office building, the sun had not yet set, and it was rare to get off work early, so I was a little unaccustomed. didn't know that there was a big trouble waiting for her at home.

Reading the first book of the novel