Xiao Rong took Gu Baisheng to eat at a small riverside shop in Beicheng.

It's not a fancy restaurant, but it's very smoky.

Because it was six or seven o'clock in the afternoon, it was the peak time for dining.

The small shop was already overcrowded.

People searching for empty seats, trying to sit down.

After Xiao Rong entered, he was recognized by the boss at a glance: "Mr. Xiao? ”

The boss came over to greet him in person, and saw that Xiao Rong also brought a young woman with a not very good complexion.

hurriedly whispered something to his wife.

The proprietress listened to her husband's words, immediately smiled, and led Xiao Rong upstairs: "There is still a vacant place upstairs, Mr. Xiao come here." ”

It's a two-story restaurant.

Fried rice and fried noodles, and some home-style stir-fries, are very down-to-earth.

It attracts a lot of people from the neighborhood to come to eat, and the price is affordable, the taste is good, and the food is clean and fresh.

Gu Baisheng didn't know why Xiao Rong knew such a place.

But after following Xiao Rong to the second floor, he saw a young girl peeling garlic sitting on a table near the window.

The girl is in her early twenties.

Seeing Xiao Rong, he smiled and got up immediately.

However, when I swept my eyes, I saw her again.

The girl's gaze froze.

"Zhuzhu, let Mr. Xiao eat at this table, you clean up."

The girl nodded, but did not speak.

turned around and neatly cleaned up the peeled garlic cloves on the table, and made a clean up for Xiao Rong to take a seat.

"Thank you."

Xiao Rong thanked Zhuzhu.

Zhu Zhu smiled shyly and left with her mother.

Gu Baisheng sat on the chair dragged out by Xiao Rong, turned his head, and looked in the direction where the girl left.

The girl happened to be looking at this side too.

His gaze hadn't been withdrawn from her.

The eyes of the two people suddenly touched each other, and Gu Baisheng frowned.

The girl hurriedly withdrew her gaze and walked away briskly with her mother.

After Xiao Rong sat down, he handed her the menu: "What do you want to eat?" ”

Gu Baisheng took the menu, looked at the dishes on it, ordered a seaweed soup, and ordered a stir-fried meat with green peppers, and put the menu down.

Xiao Rong saw that she only ordered two, and asked, "One soup and one dish, is it enough?" ”

"I'm not very hungry."

"Their salt-baked chicken here is delicious, order one."

Xiao Rong ordered, Gu Baisheng didn't say anything, she really didn't have much appetite now.

On the second floor, there are also several tables of diners.

But the other tables are far from here.

Gu Baisheng only heard the people around him talking very loudly, and didn't pay attention to what they said.

Xiao Rong ordered a few more dishes, and when he saw that there were no waiters around, he got up: "I'll go and give the menu to the proprietress." ”

Gu Baisheng nodded lightly.

Xiao Rong got up and left.

After a while, Gu Baisheng felt that there was a person standing beside him.

When I turned my head, I found that it was the girl who was sitting at this table just now peeling garlic, and the proprietress called her Zhuzhu.

Zhuzhu walked over and looked at Gu Baisheng.

Gu Baisheng also looked at her, not understanding what she was doing here.

Zhuzhu looked at her, pursed her lips, raised her hand, and gestured with her.

Gu Baisheng watched her fingers dance, and it took her most of the time to react, the girl in front of her was actually a disabled person who couldn't speak.

She is very proficient in sign language.

Gu Baisheng also recognized what she was asking at once.

'Are you Xiao Rong's girlfriend?' ’

Gu Baisheng was stunned, and then replied, "I'm not." ”

Then why are you with Xiao Rong? ’

She asked again.

Gu Baisheng felt that this question was very abrupt and strange.

If she is not Xiao Rong's girlfriend, can't she be with Xiao Rong?

It's kind of weird.

"I'm friends with him."

She replied.

When Zhuzhu heard this, she was a little angry, and continued to use sign language to make a gesture: "Can you not be friends with Xiao Rong?" I do not like you. ’

Gu Baisheng was stunned.

Some don't know how to answer.

After thinking for a moment, she opened her mouth and was about to answer.

The proprietress who had led him upstairs just now hurried upstairs and ran over.

Seeing Zhuzhu, the proprietress looked a lot worse, and she looked terrified.

"Why are you here?"

The proprietress grabbed Zhuzhu's arm and wanted to pull her away.

Zhuzhu refused to go.

Still struggling to use sign language to figure something.

But the proprietress looked at her daughter's appearance and was a little angry: "Don't be willful, come downstairs with me, I'm so busy today, don't make trouble for me." ”

The proprietress suppressed her temper and taught her daughter a lesson.

The girl struggled to leave.

The proprietress knew that Gu Baisheng had seen the joke, and she also knew that her daughter had caused trouble to the other party, so she kept apologizing to Gu Baisheng when she left.

Gu Baisheng didn't care that the other party had caused trouble for him.

It's just that her eyes looked at the girl who was pulled away, and she thought of something thoughtfully.

Dumb girl?

Xiao Rong was also mute before, so what is the relationship between this mute girl and Xiao Rong?

The proprietress pulled Zhuzhu away, and happened to meet Xiao Rong on the way downstairs.

Zhuzhu was still struggling, but after seeing Xiao Rong, she suddenly became honest.

"What's wrong?"

Xiao Rong asked the proprietress .

The proprietress was embarrassed to say that Zhuzhu went to make trouble for Gu Baisheng, but she just spoke: "Zhuzhu is willful again." ”

Xiao Rong looked at Zhuzhu's aggrieved appearance that had quieted down, and smiled: "Isn't Zhuzhu not willful?" ”

Zhuzhu lowered her head in shame.

The proprietress didn't dare to let Zhuzhu stay with Xiao Rong longer, so she pulled Zhuzhu and went downstairs: "Mr. Xiao, the food will come up soon, go upstairs quickly." ”

"Okay, thank you."

Xiao Rong went upstairs.

Zhuzhu was dragged downstairs by the proprietress .

However, as soon as Zhuzhu arrived downstairs, she shook off her mother's hand and ran out of the restaurant angrily.

The proprietress saw that her daughter was so willful, and she had no other way but to sigh again and again.

And Xiao Rong, after going upstairs, saw Gu Baisheng thinking.

"What are you thinking?"

He sat down and asked Gu Baisheng.

Gu Baisheng spoke: "That bead just now ......"

"She's the girl I met at the Faculty of Education."

"Faculty of Education?" Gu Baisheng was surprised, "Are you back at the College of Education again?" ”

"Hmm."

Xiao Rong's previous friends in the College of Education have received varying degrees of funding after Xiao Rong successfully seized the power of the Xiao Group.

Some left the academy and went home.

Some of the treatment ends with a social outcome.

Like Zhuzhu, one of them.

"Zhuzhu was not a severely disabled person who could not take care of herself in the deaf-mute class before, so when I went back to see her alma mater, I suggested that her parents take her back to live."

Gu Baisheng was a little touched.

"It's true that it would be better to come back and live with my family."

"Well," Xiao Rong smiled, with a slight sadness in his eyes, "Although the College of Education provided education and allowed her to enter a large collective, this large collective is too complicated after all, and it is not as simple and warm as the family. ”

He said it implicitly, but Gu Baisheng understood the meaning of his words.

In the Faculty of Education, there are too many children who are abandoned for different reasons.

They are more or less emotionally deficient.

Living in such a community is not as simple and happy as living with your parents.

is like Xiao Rong, who was bullied in the College of Education before.

If you don't leave the College of Education, I'm afraid there will be no Xiao Rong today.

"Her parents were too busy with work to take care of her, and they thought she should get an education, so they sent her to study in the School of Special Education, and now that she has graduated, it is time for her to leave the College of Education."

Xiao Rong smiled and pulled the chopsticks out of the chopstick cover: "So, I notified her parents to take her out." ”

Xiao Rong picked up the chopsticks.

Over there, the first course was also served.

The first dish is a dish of deep-fried shrimp, which is fragrant when it is served.

But Gu Baisheng was hungry, and when he saw something greasy, he didn't want to eat it.

Xiao Rong asked people to hurry up and serve the seaweed egg drop soup, and Gu Baisheng took a sip and began to eat.

A bowl of white rice, a few home cooked dishes.

Gu Baisheng ate little and quietly.

Xiao Rong knew that she had been hungry for a while, and she was worried that she would be uncomfortable if she was in a hurry, so he served her soup next to her.

Gu Baisheng thanked her for her kindness.

But when I look up, I can always see the beads that are secretly looking at this side from the staircase on the second floor.

Zhuzhu's eyes stared at Xiao Rong.

No, slash her with an eye knife.

It can be seen that I hate her very much.

After Gu Baisheng finished eating, he was going home.

Xiao Rong also got up immediately: "I'll send you back." ”

"You can eat a little longer."

Gu Baisheng didn't need Xiao Rong to send her back.

But if Xiao Rong takes her out, he will inevitably send her back.

So he went downstairs with her.

Waiting for Xiao Rong's beads at the staircase, seeing that Xiao Rong was leaving, he ran away without a trace.

Xiao Rong didn't notice Zhu Zhu, and Gu Baisheng persuaded Zhu Zhu to run away and stare at Xiao Rong for a meal.

It's just that she didn't mention much about beads.

On the way home for Xiao Rong, she looked at the night scene outside the window, thought for a while, and asked, "Are you in a better mood now?" ”

Gu Baisheng nodded and smiled: "It's much better." ”

"If you have nothing to do, you will feel much better when you go out and walk around."

Xiao Rong saw that the look on her face was much better, and she was a little more relieved.

Gu Baisheng responded.

In fact, in my heart, I still can't let go of the Song family's affairs.

Xiao Rong was silent with her for a while, and when he sent her to the gate of the community, he stopped the car and got out of the car with her.

"I'll send you into the community."

Xiao Rong spoke up and wanted to take the initiative to send her to the community.

Gu Baisheng hesitated: "I'll go back by myself." ”

"It's fine."

Xiao Rong knew that Gu Baisheng was afraid that the two of them would be misunderstood again when they entered the community together, so he didn't insist on it.

It's just that when Gu Baisheng left, he stopped her and said, "I'll go to work in the Song family tomorrow." ”

He has completed negotiations with the Song Group.

Now he is also a member of the Song Group.

Gu Baisheng stopped and looked sideways at Xiao Rong.

Xiao Rong spoke: "If you can, I will help you get the child back, and I will negotiate with them." ”

Gu Baisheng smiled: "No need, Xiao Min was originally a child of the Song family, he should stay in the Song family." ”