CHAPTER XLIII

"Going to the Soup and Fire" / Call me Meow

In my life, the most feared thing is not being able to meet someone who makes you have the urge to go to the soup.

Gu Jinchen and Xia Ran received a marriage certificate in City C and did not do anything. Xia Ran and Gu Jinchen are not people who like to be lively, but they still invited a few friends to dinner in the Gu family's old mansion.

Yao Qian was dragged by Jiang Xiaoxi, she and Jiang Xiaoxi got off the taxi, and they saw a private club owned by Mo Sen, she had never been there, but this club had a good reputation in City C. The environment is elegant and the service is in place.

All kinds of luxury cars were lined up at the door of the club without exception, and Yao Qian's eyes fell on a white BMW car, stunned. For a moment, I unexpectedly caught a glimpse of an apologetic smile on the corner of Jiang Xiaoxi's lips.

"The news I got from Gu Yan is indeed that he is on a business trip." Jiang Xiaoxi grabbed Yao Qian, who turned around and wanted to leave, and walked towards the clubhouse while explaining.

"Creek." Yao Qian held his footsteps, stood at the door of the clubhouse, and did not go in, staring straight at Jiang Xiaoxi.

Seeing that Yao Qian was so stubborn, Jiang Xiaoxi had to bow his head and admit: "Okay, I admit that I did hide a small part of the truth. But before today, Chen Ziang did go on a business trip, and he flew here this morning. Gu Jinchen's ticket money, Gu Yan's person to pick up. ”

Yao Qian glared at Jiang Xiaoxi resentfully, remembering her repeated promises last night. But when you think about it, you really can't blame her. Yao Qian frowned, looked up slightly at the inside of the clubhouse, and looked gloomy.

"Shen Bai, how long are you going to escape? Now that you've decided to let go, why can't you face Chen Ziang calmly? Unless, you still love him, and you are still reluctant to give up on that relationship. ”

Jiang Xiaoxi's voice was soft, but Yao Qian's heart seemed to have been hit hard and throbbed. Did she say it to her heart? Do you really still have an obsession with that relationship?

No, it won't. She just couldn't face the pain of the past for a while, it must have been.

Yao Qian took a deep breath, and her face against the light was a little more indifferent, "Xiaoxi, let's go in." ”

The waiter took them to the VIP room on the second floor, and the waiter was stopped by Jiang Xiaoxi as soon as he held the doorknob. After signaling him to leave, he turned his head to look at Yao Qian.

"Shen Bai, are you ready?"

Yao Qian didn't know what she was thinking, and when she heard Jiang Xiaoxi calling herself, she suddenly came back to her senses, "Huh? ”

Jiang Xiaoxi pointed to the closed mahogany door, his slender hand fell on the doorknob, and he twisted it gently, only half of it, "Is it okay?" ”

"Hmm."

The world inside and outside the compartment is polarized. Outside it was quiet and you could hear a pin drop on the ground, and the lights inside were blurry and a little noisy. Someone was singing, and the voice was a little hoarse, and not a word was in tune. It's all for the sake of the atmosphere, and he deliberately pulls his throat.

Yao Qian followed Jiang Xiaoxi in, and there were four men and two women sitting inside. Yao Qian probably swept it, and they were all faces she recognized. The only relatively unfamiliar is probably the man who is singing with a microphone, I have seen Mawson once in my memory, and his identity seems to be the manager of Mowson's marketing department, Xiao Shan. And the woman sitting on the outermost part of the sofa was none other than his wife, Rosie.

Next to Luo Xi were Xia Ran and Gu Jinchen, then Gu Yan, and then Chen Ziang. He sat on the innermost couch, where the light couldn't shine. Therefore, Yao Qian couldn't see his expression clearly, but there was always a burning feeling of being watched by him. She was startled and quickly turned her head away from looking at the others.

The sofa is very long, but because everyone is not very close together. Therefore, some of the vacated seats can seat three people, and some can only seat one person.

Yao Qian naturally wanted to sit next to Jiang Xiaoxi, so when Yao Qian just sat down, she found that it was Chen Ziang who she wanted to avoid sitting next to her place. She turned her head sideways, her gaze as if it had touched the other.

One second, two seconds. She was able to adjust to the brightness of the room a little, and the person in front of her was wearing a black casual shirt and holding a glass of wine. As she looked at him, he leaned back casually, as if looking at her nonchalantly.

She turned her head in a panic, her movements were too obvious, and the brows of the person in the corner suddenly furrowed, and a trace of strange emotion flashed in her eyes. They were like a pair of strangers, sitting but not communicating, only half a person in between, and only one person was willing to take a step forward to be able to stand shoulder to shoulder.

The atmosphere in the room was not affected by the two people in the corner, and they were very happy to roll the dice and drink, chat and joke. But it was also a small group of people who got high, here, Xiao Shan turned off the music, half sat on the table and looked at everyone, and suddenly proposed to the two people playing dice: "Gu Yan, what's the point of you and Gu Jinchen playing, let's come together." ”

"I won't play." The first to speak was Jiang Xiaoxi.

Then Xia Ran also raised his hand, and Yao Qian hadn't played either, so he watched quietly.

After one proposal was rejected, Xiao Shan proposed to play again. At this moment, Gu Yan agreed, Gu Jinchen did not object, and Chen Ziang did not react. Jiang Xiaoxi and Rosie were eager to try, and hurriedly asked people to prepare.

In order to take care of the other four women present, Xiao Shan decided to temporarily change the rules of playing. Work in pairs, take turns, and the losers of each round are punished. I don't know whether it's unintentional or intentional, such rules of the game always make people think about it.

There were eight people in the box, and there were three couples, and Yao Qian objected after hearing such rules of the game. When everyone looked at her in unison, Yao Qian realized that she had reacted too violently.

The waiter turned on the lights in the box, and Chen Ziang sat leisurely on the sofa, one leg on the other, bowing his head and saying nothing. He put himself out of the matter very well, Yao Qian looked at him and was speechless for a long time.

Xiao Shan sighed, turned around and sat back in his place, and said excitedly: "Alas, then I won't play cards." So what's the fun? ”

Gu Jinchen curled the corners of his lips shallowly, lowered his head and asked Xia Ran, "What do you want to play?" ”

After Xia Ran returned to China, she didn't know many people, and even fewer people left a good impression on her. Chen Ziang made a good impression on her, although they had only met a few times.

She once mentioned to her classmates in London that the man she admired should give people a sunny smile at first glance, warm and moist. Well, it's like the type of man Chen Ziang.

When she saw Chen Ziang several times, there were rivers and streams around her. So before meeting Yao Qian, Xia Ran had always mistakenly thought that Jiang Xiaoxi was the woman Chen Ziang loved in his heart.

After seeing Yao Qian, Xia Ran realized that there were two people in the world who were so similar. There is something distressing about the body, that is, loneliness. For some reason, she felt she should do something for these two people.

Thinking about it, Xia Ran raised his head and echoed Xiao Shan's previous proposal, "I want to play cards." ”

After all, Gu Jinchen and Xia Ran are the protagonists today, and no matter how Yao Qian resists, she can't save face for the two. You can't make everyone unhappy because she is alone.

For a while, there was no objection. On the mahjong table, four women sat down. Seats were added around them, and the men sat down one by one.

Yao Qian kept staring at the tabletop until a figure appeared in the corner of her eye, and she didn't know that someone was sitting down next to her. As soon as the man sat down, the smell of his body swept over her. Breathing in the smell, there is an indescribable sense of stability in my heart. Just when she felt that she was about to suffocate, Jiang Xiaoxi's hand was under the table, gently holding her hand on her lap. Yao Qian was startled, breathed a sigh of relief, and turned around and nodded slightly towards Jiang Xiaoxi.

There are many ways to play mahjong, but none of them are played by Yao Qian. After playing the cards twice, Chen Ziang's voice came from behind him, and he said lightly like a whisper: "You don't know how to play?" ”

The voice was very low, in order to ensure that she was the only one who could hear it, Chen Ziang turned his face slightly, and to outsiders, his mouth seemed to have been attached to Yao Qian's ears. The ambiguous posture evokes infinite reverie, but the parties don't seem to be aware of it.

He suddenly spoke, and Yao Qian, who was already nervous, was startled, and the card he had just touched was dropped on the table with a trembling hand. Luckily, the cards were dealt face down and no one saw them.

She bit her lip and picked it up, always feeling his breath behind her ears. He moved forward, deliberately widening the distance between the two, and responded in a low voice, "Hmm." ”

The person next to her was silent for a few seconds, then stretched out a bony hand and landed on her card. Yao Qian was surprised, Chen Ziang had already laid out the cards for her, and pointed to a card, "You can play this one." ”

In this short moment, Chen Ziang's chest always touched Yao Qian's back shoulder, intentionally or unintentionally, she turned sideways slightly, his hand touched her arm again, and the burning sensation of her skin lasted for more than ten seconds.

It was Yao Qian's turn to play cards, and everyone looked at their side. Seeing Chen Ziang helping Yao Qian arrange the cards, Xiao Shan protested half-truthfully: "Mr. Chen, you can't be religent." ”

Yao Qian lowered her head, avoiding everyone's gaze. Repeatedly arranging the cards in front of him, Chen Ziang glanced at it and chuckled, looking calm. Unhurriedly, he took out a card from Yao Qian's hand, played it, and said confidently: "You only said that there is one round for each round, but you didn't say that you can't help each other." ”

This game carries punishment, Gu Yan was a little worried about Jiang Xiaoxi, and he had long wanted to help, but when he heard Chen Ziang say this, he immediately cleverly agreed: "Mr. Chen is right. ”

The four women here, except for Rosie, are all novices in mahjong. Xiao Shan naturally couldn't talk about them, so he had no choice but to let them cooperate with each other in the end.

After Chen Ziang helped Yao Qian play three cards, the distance between the two was shortened a lot. When Yao Qian was touching the cards, she noticed that one of his arms was resting casually on the table, and the other hand was probably on the back of the chair behind her. Thinking so, after Yao Qian drew back the card, his body seemed to lean back inadvertently. Something was between her and the back of her chair, and she frowned, glancing at the person beside her. He was looking intently at the cards in her hand, and he didn't mean to withdraw his hand at all.

He seemed to have lost some weight, and his jaw was a little sharper. The wound at the corner of the eye was almost healed, and there was a slight bruise. But if you don't look closely, it's generally hard to see. His eyes were bright, brighter than the light overhead. Yao Qian wanted to see clearly, but she saw a person in those eyes, and it was herself.

Chen Ziang looked down at her, staring deeply, as if exploring something, but after a moment he gave up, raised the corners of his mouth and told her, "You played the wrong card." ”

Yao Qian was stunned for a moment and found that the cards in his hand had been lost. And Xia Ran on the opposite side was holding her cards, "I'm sorry, I won." ”

In the first round, Yao Qian lit the gun, and Xia Ran won the card. When changing positions, Chen Ziang whispered softly in her ear, "It's okay. ”

He was like an all-powerful warrior, sitting at the poker table, touching the cards with one hand and handling them with the other. Then he quickly threw a useless card, during which he turned his head to look at her. Seeing that she was looking at the cards, her expression was not focused, but she was not distracted. It was quiet, so quiet that only the sound of her breathing remained.

"Mr. Chen, what are you looking at, it's time for you to touch the cards."

I don't know who made a joke, Yao Qian realized that Chen Ziang was looking at him upright. Her face was hot, and he had quietly looked away.

Chen Ziang's card skills are very good, and he basically hasn't lost much, but Yao Qian has lost a few games in a row. In the end, their group lost the most, a full three rounds.

If you lose, you will be punished, Xiao Shan and Gu Yan pour the wine. Three glasses, the glass is not big but the wine is strong. Without waiting for Yao Qian to react, Chen Ziang had already finished drinking three glasses of wine by himself.

When he dropped the cup on the table, Yao Qian had a feeling of time and space being out of order. As if he was back on campus, he drank for her, touched her head and said: It doesn't matter if you don't want to drink, you still have me. 166 Reading Network