Chapter 3 The No-Show Dinner

Gao Minlang watched Mo Zhilan turn the car into the Qilin Homestead, he couldn't believe it, it was Mo Zhilan's home ten years ago, but the house was sold later.

He followed behind her, and sure enough, he saw her enter Unit 4 of Building 8. That house Gao Minlang is very familiar with, because he has spent happy afternoons there more than once, and he has tasted the pork knuckle powder made by Mo Zhilan's mother more than once...

There was a strong horn sound in the back, Gao Minlang hurriedly made way for others, turned left and right, and then arrived downstairs of Mo Zhilan's house. The fire was turned off, and he sat in the car for a long time!

Zhilan is watching the news of the financial channel, she has calmed down, she doesn't dare to say anything else over the years, how to control her emotions, she has learned a lot of ease! Otherwise, she wouldn't have been so calm when she saw Gao Minlang for the first time.

The doorbell rang, and Zhilan mistakenly thought it was the property staff who charged something.

"It's coming..."Zhilan said, casually tying her hair into a high ponytail and going to open the door with a pair of slippers.

Standing outside the door was the man she had seen at the press conference an hour earlier. Although Zhilan was a little surprised, out of politeness, she did not turn away the guests.

After Gao Minlang entered the house, he looked around, and the furnishings were relatively simple, except for a few new pieces of furniture, there was no difference from ten years ago. Does this mean that Zhilan is still so nostalgic!

"Just sit down!" Zhilan stood behind him, and no emotion could be heard in her tone.

"Thank you!" Gao Minlang sat on the sofa closest to him, and Zhilan walked around him and sat opposite him.

It's just that for a long time, the air seems to be frozen, and neither of them can speak, Zhilan has been waiting for the other party to speak first, so that she can know how to respond, but Gao Minlang doesn't know what to say.

"It's very presumptuous..."Gao Minlang felt a little embarrassed, he came up and sat like this without saying a word, which was very indecent, and would make Zhilan think that he had bad intentions.

"Presumptuous for what?" Zhilan looked down at the magazine.

"I don't know if it bothers you!" Gao Minlang straightened up a little uncomfortably.

Zhilan spread out the magazine on the tea table mountain, smiled and said, "It's okay! ”

Gao Minlang was a little puzzled, and didn't know what information was contained in the word "okay", so he further explained: "I wanted to ask you when I was in the hotel that day, but so many people didn't say that I saw you at the press conference today, just..." So I don't know how to continue.

"And with you?" Zhilan asked with an eyebrow.

Gao Minlang shrugged his shoulders and quibbled: "Actually, I just want to know how you have been doing all these years?" ”

"What about you? How are you doing? Zhilan asked rhetorically.

"Me?" Gao Minlang couldn't imagine that after so many years, Zhilan still cared about him: "I'm fine!" ”

"I'm fine too!" Zhilan stood up, went to the refrigerator and took out the mineral water, only took a bottle, unscrewed the lid and took a sip lightly and continued: "So for so many years, no matter who wants to see my jokes, I will prove it to them, don't think!" ”

Gao Minlang's body suddenly stiffened!

"Is there time for you, please eat!" Gao Minlang took the initiative to throw an olive branch.

"Good! The time and place are yours. Zhilan agreed happily.

Gao Minlang was surprised this time, he thought that Zhilan would refuse ruthlessly, and even laughed at him, but he didn't expect her to agree.

"Then I'll call you then!" Gao Minlang stood up and prepared to leave.

As soon as he walked to the entrance, he was stopped by Zhilan. He turned around and looked at Zhilan sly smiling at her: "Call me, how to call?" You don't even know my phone number! ”

Gao Minlang scratched his hair with some embarrassment: "It's too!" ”

Zhilan wrote her phone number on a sticky note, and then gently pasted it on the chest of his suit: "Remember?" ”

Gao Minlang went downstairs, returned to his car, and looked at the familiar number on the note, sure enough, she hadn't changed for so many years. Although her smile and every move reveal a different feeling from back then, but after so many years, who is the same? Even he himself took off his casual and comfortable clothes and put on a suit that he was not suitable for!

He took out his mobile phone and wanted to send a message to Zhilan to tell her the place and time of the meal, but he had already thought about it. But he was afraid that Zhilan would think that he was anxious, although he did not deny this, but he didn't want Zhilan to see it. So I drove away and went to the company first, after all, there were still a lot of things to deal with.

Zhilan stood in front of the window, watching Gao Minlang's car leave her sight before turning back and sitting on the sofa. The financial shows on TV continued, and she had lost interest in watching.

None of them called anyone's name today, not because they were unfamiliar, but because they were too familiar. They are so familiar that as long as they say each other's names, those past events will gush out, so neither of them dares to touch them.

In those days ago, those days when Gao Minlang followed her and shouted her name over and over again, will never go back.

"Mo Zhilan, why are you walking so fast..."

"Mo Zhilan, what about your language homework..."

"Mo Zhilan, don't sleep, it's time for class..."

He always called her like this, even with her first name and surname, but this was fine, so when something happened later, when he still called her like this, she wouldn't feel even more strange.

And she never called him that, she felt that it was not kind enough to show ownership. Even later, she called him the same, except that he said, "I don't want to hear my name come out of your mouth." ”

Zhilan shook her head, not wanting to remember the fragments anymore. She called Ali and said that she would come over later to prepare for the inspection at the headquarters.

Gao Minlang has been very excited since he returned to the office, and Junqiu thinks that he is so unscrupulously happy because of the success of the press conference!

"Can I indirectly ask, before the press conference was completed, you rushed out, why?" Junqiu sat on the sofa in Gao Minlang's office and said seriously.

"You're asking a very direct question!" Gao Minlang teased him: "Where is the indirect!" ”

"Okay, I'm very straightforward, what are you doing?"

"Take care of your personal affairs!" Gao Minlang thought about the date in the evening, and a smile overflowed on his face.

"About women?" Junqiu, a thirty-year-old man, also has a gossip heart.

Gao Minlang suddenly remembered something and asked, "You say, how about the newly opened Western restaurant in Rejuvenation Shang?" ”

"Not good." Junqiu said negatively without thinking about it: "You also said that it was newly opened, because of the discount, the staff is full, and it is noisy, it is really not the first choice for dating!" ”

"So where is the right fit?" Gao Minlang was excited to listen to Junqiu's suggestion.

"Of course it's a place with few people, elegant, noble, and remote..."

"For example?"

"For example..."Junqiu lowered his head and thought for a while and said, "I think our company's tea restaurant is good!" ”

Gao Minlang gave him a roll of the eyes: "I know that you kid is unreliable!" ”

Junqiu looked like a villain, and smiled back and forth: "I didn't expect Mr. Gao to have today..."

"Wait... How did you know I was going on a date? Gao Minlang asked in surprise.

"I think you've been to eat anywhere else for more than a year, except for the company canteen and necessary entertainment! If you can pay attention to where the restaurant has opened, it means that you are going to have a meal, but you are here, who do you know besides me? You don't have to be so attentive to inviting customers to dinner. You didn't invite me, I should be the more important woman..."

Gao Minlang looked at the time and cleaned up the table: "I'll get off work first, so I won't talk to you!" With that, he left in a hurry, leaving Junqiu alone to stand there looking up to the sky and sighing.

Gao Minlang drove around for a long time, and finally found a good restaurant, and after booking a place, he sent a message to Zhilan.

"Miro Sunshine Western Restaurant, see you at eight o'clock!"

Zhilan was preparing the information, she received Gao Minlang's message, glanced at it, she threw the phone aside, and when she was done, it was already half an hour later, she looked at the time at seven o'clock, so she replied with two words.

After waiting for half an hour for Zhilan's reply, Gao Minlang's frustrated mood suddenly became clear, and he immediately said, "I'll pick you up!" ”

This time Zhilan immediately replied: "No, I have a car!" ”

Zhilan put down her phone and continued to be busy with other things, time passed minute by minute, at eight o'clock, Zhilan sent a message to Gao Minlang: "Suddenly something, I'm still busy in the company, I'm really sorry, I guess it will be a little later!" ”

Gao Minlang said: "It's okay, I'll wait for you, don't worry!" ”

Zhilan raised the corners of her mouth when she saw the information, and then notified the housekeeping department to open a room for her, she was a little tired today and wanted to take a rest!

Gao Minlang sat there alone and waited idlely, he thought that after a while, Mo Zhilan came, and it was necessary for him to explain to her many things between them, after all, he was once young and frivolous, and many things were not thought through, which brought harm to Zhilan.

There are fewer and fewer people in the shop, but there is no shadow of Zhilan, look at the time, it is already ten o'clock, and the waiters have already come to ask three times. But if he called at this time, would Zhilan feel that he was urging her? Or wait! He told himself that for the first time, he must be patient!

The alarm bell rang at eleven o'clock, Zhilan got up in a daze, she had planned to make do with the hotel all night, but... She picked up the phone and dialed Gao Minlang's phone: "I'm really sorry, I can't go to the appointment today." I was so tired from work that I wanted to go back to rest. ”

Gao Minlang's car was parked downstairs at the Lijing Hotel at the moment, he arrived here ten minutes ago, and then he realized that he was just being teased by Mo Zhilan, she didn't want to come to his appointment at all, and lied that she was working, and he came to see if she was working.

But as soon as I hung up the phone, I saw Mo Zhilan walking out of the hotel, she was just wearing a thin coat, which was more exposed, and the night breeze hit people, and her slender body was blown down by a gust of wind. Gao Minlang was annoyed by his villain's heart, he should have known, Zhilan is so kind, she never plays any tricks, she also said before, she has only been working for a short time, presumably there is really a lot of work to deal with...

Thinking so, Gao Minlang pushed open the car door, took off his coat, quickly caught up with Zhilan, and then draped his coat over her!