Chapter 68
Li Shuo fell asleep until midnight, and the next morning, he was woken up by a knock on the door.
"Brother Li, it's time for breakfast."
When Li Shuo heard Zhao Jinxin's voice, he covered his head with a quilt, but this could not isolate Zhao Jinxin's voice from his brain, and he still couldn't completely isolate this person from his heart.
Zhao Jinxin said with a smile: "Brother Li, don't lie in bed, everyone is up." ”
Li Shuo lifted the quilt and sat up: "Got it." He washed up, changed his clothes, and went downstairs.
Everyone was already sitting in the restaurant, and there was a sumptuous breakfast on the table, with more than a dozen types, as if the breakfast in the hotel had been moved.
"Dad, Mom, early, uncle and aunt early." Li Shuo smiled and sat down next to Zhao Jinxin, the only position that was still vacant.
Zhao Jinxin smiled: "Brother Li slept well." ”
"Very good, what about you? Adapted to the climate here? ”
Zhao Rongtian said with a smile: "I just got off the plane and didn't get used to it, it was completely from winter to summer, and now it's no problem." ”
"Son, where are we going after eating?"
Li Shuo was about to answer, but Zhao Jinxin rushed and said, "You go to visit the scenic spots, and Brother Li will take me to see the land." He smiled and glanced at Li Shuo, "Right?" ”
Mr. Li glanced at Li Shuo, Li Shuo gave him a look back, and then nodded: "Yes." "It's more tiring to be with Zhao Jinxin in front of the elders, so it's better not to go.
Sending the two elders into the car, Zhao Jinxin turned to look at Li Shuo, his eyes were a little expectant and excited, like a child who ushered in a holiday.
Li Shuo turned around and walked back into the house, saying as he walked: "You know the address, if you want to see it, go see it yourself." ”
Zhao Jinxin chased after him: "I've seen it a long time ago, I know you're not interested in crowded places, let's stay here." ”
Li Shuo was noncommittal, and when he entered the house, he wanted to go back to his bedroom.
Zhao Jinxin stood in front of him and said with a smile: "Don't you want to hear my plan for that land?" ”
"We've got the plan done."
"Planning is something that is constantly changing in the process of implementation. I plan to set aside a piece of land, isolate it from the hotel area with plants, and then build a villa by the sea for our family vacation. ”
Li Shuo frowned and looked at him, the warm smile on Zhao Jinxin's face made his sarcastic words come to his lips, but he couldn't say it. Moreover, he has scolded and scolded, and the truth has also been told, Zhao Jinxin still goes his own way, and he is too lazy to waste his tongue.
"I'll set aside a tennis court." Zhao Jinxin looked at Li Shuo with a smile, "I've been taking tennis lessons recently, if my strength is too much worse than yours, I won't be able to play with you." ”
Li Shuo didn't react, bypassed Zhao Jinxin, and walked upstairs.
"I must have you in my future." Zhao Jinxin looked up at him and said firmly, "You are in all the plans, even if there will be modifications in the process, only you will not change." ”
Li Shuo's Adam's apple rolled slightly, quickened his pace, and returned to the room.
After closing the door, Li Shuo locked the door again, and then called his assistant and asked him to prepare a loan contract with an amount of 200,000 yuan. Xiao Chen also replied to the results of his investigation of Xu Darui, and indeed as Xu Darui said, during his imprisonment, his father died, and his wife remarried with children.
Li Shuo sighed heavily.
Li Shuo had been in the room until noon, the sun was just right outside, and the sea breeze was refreshing, but he wanted to lock himself in the house, and his stomach was angry when he thought about it.
Just then, there was another knock on his door.
"Uncle Li, it's time for lunch."
Li Shuo put down the book in his hand that had not turned a few pages at all, and felt irritable in his heart.
"I've made a seafood dinner, come out and try it."
Li Shuo hesitated, but still opened the door. He can't stay in the house all day, why?
Zhao Jinxin changed into a formal suit, with a black bow tie at the neckline, and an identical one in his hand, he shook it with a smile, and couldn't help but put it on for Li Shuo.
Li Shuo opened his hand: "Take it away." ”
"Let's make it our date today." Zhao Jinxin wrapped his hands around Li Shuo's neck and put on the bow tie gently and strongly, "You said that you should tie the knot on a date." ”
Li Shuo pushed Zhao Jinxin away, then rudely ripped off his bow tie and threw it directly in his face: "Don't do these inexplicable things again!" ”
Zhao Jinxin's eyes instantly lost their luster and became gray, he squatted down, picked up his bow tie, lowered his head and whispered, "Let's eat, I have to eat anyway." ”
Li Shuo's chest rose and fell twice, and he buried his head and crossed Zhao Jinxin's side.
Zhao Jinxin put the bow tie in his pocket, then patted his face lightly, and pulled out a stiff smile.
Li Shuo walked to the hall, and Zhao Jinxin also followed: "Let's eat outside." He led Li Shuo to the garden.
In the garden is a table filled with seafood and champagne, surrounded by tropical plants, with soft sand beneath your feet, the blue sea and the pure sky in the distance, and the white tablecloths swept by the sea breeze and the gently swaying leaves in this romantic landscape.
Zhao Jinxin bowed gentlemanly and made a gesture of "please": "Come and try my craft." ”
Li Shuo looked at the table of food, how innocent it was, it would be too wasteful not to eat it, so he walked over.
The two sat facing each other, Zhao Jinxin poured a glass of wine for Li Shuo, and said softly: "It's good to be able to eat with you, I really want to stay here forever." ”
Li Shuo didn't speak, and ate by himself.
"Is it delicious?" Zhao Jinxin peeled the shrimp for a while, and used tools to get out the meat of the crab for a while, and put it all in the bowl of Li Shuo.
Li Shuo lightly blocked it with his hand: "You eat yours." ”
Zhao Jinxin's pair of beautiful peach blossom eyes were full of affection: "I like to watch you eat." ”
Under such a gaze, Li Shuo felt that he couldn't even raise his head.
"The seafood here is so fresh, most of it is boiled, which can retain the original flavor of the meat, but this squid is fried and dipped in a little pepper and salt, and this seafood stewed egg is the way of eating by the locals, I have learned now, this one is boiled in coconut water......" Zhao Jinxin patiently introduced every dish he made, even if Li Shuo did not respond.
Zhao Jinxin said for a long time, and his eyes became more and more dim: "Uncle Li, can you say a few words to me?" ”
Li Shuo paused and said calmly: "I said it earlier, there is nothing to say between us. ”
"Isn't it okay to treat me like a normal friend? We used to have a lot of topics. ”
Li Shuo raised his eyes and looked directly at Zhao Jinxin: "I can be friends with everyone I broke up with in the past, but you can't." "Only you Zhao Jinxin, let me afford to let it go, and only you Zhao Jinxin trampled on my heart.
Zhao Jinxin pursed his lips and said in a dumb voice: "Am I really so unforgivable, let you treat me like this, you used to ...... It used to be so good to me. ”
"I can forgive you." Li Shuo grabbed the napkin and wiped his hands vigorously one at a time, as if he had a grudge against that skin, "I just won't be with you, if you can stop these meaningless behaviors, I can treat you as an 'ordinary friend'." ”
"And then watch you spend the day with someone else?"
"Yes, am I going to waste my life for you?" Li Shuo said expressionlessly, "Sooner or later, I will find someone who can exchange my sincerity with me." ”
"I'm true to you!" Zhao Jinxin sighed heavily, he gritted his teeth and said, "Why can't you believe me, I did this qiē, is it just to trick you into getting laid?" Do I Zhao Jinxin lack this? ”
"Since there is no shortage, can you go find ......?"
"I can't." Zhao Jinxin interrupted him, his gaze became a little fierce, "I will never go to someone else, I only want you, and I will not let anyone stay by your side, unless I die." ”
Li Shuo threw down the napkin and got up to ask for it.
Zhao Jinxin grabbed his wrist and looked ahead with a vacant gaze: "You haven't finished eating yet." ”
"Let it go." Li Shuo shook it hard, but he didn't shake it off.
"You haven't finished eating yet." Zhao Jinxin stood up, pressed Li Shuo back into the chair, and took the opportunity to kiss him on the forehead, "Be good, eat well." ”
Li Shuo waved his hand away and glared at him angrily.
Zhao Jinxin said sadly: "Don't look at me like this. ”
Li Shuo clenched his fists, and he really wanted to overturn the table on Zhao Jinxin.
It's ridiculous. After doing all the things that lack virtue, come to be courteous? When he Li Shuo is what, give a bone and you can go back and lick the dog?!
It's shameless to pretend to be so incomprehensible and pitiful! Shameless!
Li Shuo was so angry that his face turned pale.
"You used to be so nice to me." Zhao Jinxin showed a bleak smile, "Gentle, considerate and careful." When I say I'm hungry, you will definitely prepare food for me, there are onions in the takeaway pizza and salad, you pick it out for me little by little, I occasionally have some out-of-the-ordinary requirements, and you are not angry, once I couldn't find my passport, I was so angry that I went to sleep, you didn't sleep all night, and I found it all over the house......" Zhao Jinxin's voice trembled a little, "Uncle Li, don't you like me very much, why are you willing to treat me like this now." ”
Li Shuo only felt that his eyes were sour, and he bit his lip desperately, using the pain to keep him awake.
If you like someone, you will do your best to be good to them, isn't it a matter of course? In the end, only he thinks so.
Zhao Jinxin looked at Li Shuo with reddened eyes: "You are so good, let me let go." ”
Li Shuo's eyes widened vigorously, took a deep breath, stood up again, and walked towards the room.
This time, Zhao Jinxin didn't stop him.
The four-day vacation was soon over. Together, they returned to Beijing.
Li Shuo felt that he deliberately avoided Zhao Jinxin, and the four elders could see it, his father thought that it was because Zhao Jinxin snatched the project with a knife, which made him dissatisfied, only his mother knew the truth, but his mother never came to talk to him again, he was scared, and hoped that his mother would never come to him for this matter.
After returning to Beijing, Li Shuo called Zhou Jinxing to inquire about the progress, and Zhou Jinxing said that the contract would be signed in two days, and at the same time he drafted the contract between the two and sent it to Li Shuo's mailbox.
Li Shuo now hopes that this will go as quickly as possible.
After hanging up the phone, Li Shuo contacted Xiao Chen again, calculating the time, Xiao Chen should have already met Xu Darui with 200,000 cash and a contract.
Xiao Chen answered the phone and said that the contract was signed and the money was given, and then he stopped talking a little.
"What's wrong?" Li Shuo asked.
"I think he's very angry, it's scary." Xiao Chen said, "Is it true that people stay in prison for a long time, and they will be like that?" ”
“…… I don't know" Li Shuo only knew that Xu Darui, who was not before the accident, was by no means like that, but a bold and generous northern man, he asked again, "Did he say anything?" ”
"He asked why you didn't come, and I said you were busy, so he didn't say anything, didn't even say thank you, took the money and left."
Li Shuo felt a little uneasy in his heart. He had heard many similar examples, saying that as long as he borrowed the first time, he might be blackmailed a second time, but let him see Xu Darui destitute, he really couldn't do it, not only in conscience, but also morally.
When he first opened the firm, he couldn't attract clients, it was Xu Darui who gave him his first business, and the two of them also called him brothers, and he couldn't help but miss the old love. But his bottom line, that is, this time, hopes that Xu Darui's essence has not been changed by prison life.
A few days later, Zhou Jinxing brought everyone together and signed a new equity split contract.
The four of them had their own thoughts, signed the contract, and drank a glass of wine together. On the surface, Mr. Cui and Li Shuo don't want to participate in the development at all, and Zhao Jinxin and Zhou Jinxing have to compete well in the future, and such cooperation is full of difficulties and very unwise from the beginning.
But Zhao Jinxin was still very happy and had a smile on Zhou Jinxing.
After drinking, Mr. Cui left first, Zhao Jinxin wanted to find Li Shuo to eat, but Li Shuo naturally wouldn't go, and he also left in a huff. Li Shuo and Zhou Jinxing met in another place and signed the equity transfer contract.
The price given by Zhou Jinxing was very good, exceeding Li Shuo's expectations, Li Shuo was very moved, and said sincerely: "Jinxing, your future partner is very difficult, you will have to worry more in the future, I am very happy to know you as a friend through this project." ”
Zhou Jinxing patted Li Shuo's shoulder and said with a smile: "Me too, I will have the opportunity to cooperate again in the future." ”
After signing the contract, Li Shuo's mood was very conflicted, and he couldn't say whether he should relax or feel heavier.
Although he avoided continuing to entangle with Zhao Jinxin because of this project, he put Zhao Jinxin together like this, and that kid didn't know what his reaction would be. He didn't really mean revenge, but he did feel quite happy.
it. The sky is high and the clouds are wide, and he doesn't want to live in the shadow of Zhao Jinxin forever.
A few days later, Li Shuo was playing chess with his father at home, and Zhao Jinxin's phone called. Li Shuo didn't want to answer it, but his phone was put aside, and his dad saw the name of the caller ID at a glance.
He had no choice but to pick up the phone and walk into the room: "Hey? ”
Zhao Jinxin's voice was gloomy and frightening: "Li Shuo, why did you do this." ”
"Do you need to ask why?" Li Shuo said lightly.
"Are you happy to play me like this?" Zhao Jinxin suddenly smiled, "Did it make you a little happier?" ”
"It's fine." Li Shuo quietly looked out the window, and the thoughts in his eyes were extremely complicated.
Zhao Jinxin was silent for a long time, and then chuckled: "Baby, you really me off." ”
"So what?"
“…… Why are you forcing me to be a jerk? ”
"Zhao Jinxin, you were originally a bastard."
"yes, I am, but I really don't want you to know how much of a bastard I am." Zhao Jinxin's voice became gloomy and soft, "You'll find out soon." ”
A busy tone came from the phone.
Li Shuo looked at the name of the caller ID in a daze, and slowly closed his heavy eyelids.