At the door of the rental house, I was the first to come back to my senses, I pointed to the dish I was carrying in my hand and explained to Jiang Xue.

"I came back from work at six o'clock, and then I went to the vegetable market to buy some food and go upstairs......" I paused, smiled and continued: "It's not your birthday today, so I'll get off work early and come back in the evening to cook a delicious meal for you." ”

Jiang Xue nodded abruptly and explained: "I was just about to go downstairs to take out the garbage, and then take a courier by the way, I knew that you were back, so I asked you to help me get it." ”

After that, Jiang Xue walked around me, and when she walked to the door of the elevator, she suddenly stopped and turned to look at me, looking a little hesitant.

"That, Lao Xue, I just sent you a message, you ...... Have you seen it? ”

I paused for a moment, deliberately lied and said, "Really? Not yet, I'm carrying so many things, and it's not convenient to look at my phone...... What did you send me? ”

"It's okay, you'll know later, the elevator has arrived, I'll go downstairs first."

After Jiang Xue went downstairs, I also went into the house, walked into the kitchen with mixed feelings, and began to prepare dinner.

Not long after I was busy in the kitchen, Jiang Xue also came up, and then they all came into the kitchen to help me.

Jiang Xue turned her head while washing vegetables, looked at me with a puzzled expression, and asked, "By the way, Lao Xue, when I just went downstairs to receive the courier, I received a gift box of Lancôme skin care products, I remember that I didn't buy skin care products, did you buy them for me?" ”

I paused for a moment to stir-fry the vegetables in my hand, and recalled that when I chatted with Gao Hangfeng before, he had said that he had prepared a birthday gift for Jiang Xue.

"I didn't buy it, it should be Lao Gao, he asked me before, what gift did I give you for your birthday today, Lao Gao said that he just bought a skin care product for you...... Hey, I didn't expect it, Lancôme, this is a big brand! ”

Jiang Xue let out an indifferent "oh", her eyes fell on the green vegetables she was washing in her hand again, and after a while, she suddenly asked coldly.

"What did you tell Lao Gao when he asked him what gift you gave me?"

"I'll just say, I'll buy you a cake and cook a meal, it's simple...... Hey, Cher, to be honest, it's more practical to give you a gift from Lao Gao. ”

When I was frying the beef in the pot, I turned my head and looked at Jiang Xue with a smile, only to see her pick up a rag and wipe her hands, and then pulled out my mobile phone from my pocket without authorization.

"Hey, what are you doing?!"

After a while, Jiang Xue took my mobile phone, opened the WeChat chat interface between me and her, looked at me with black lines on her face, and asked in a cold voice.

"You saw the message I sent you early in the morning, why didn't you say a word about it? Is it interesting to keep it secretive like this? ”

I said in a helpless tone: "Then you can also see, I'm not busy cooking!" ”

"Then you tell me now, can you agree to the 'request' I told you?"

I closed the lid of the pot in silence, and after a short silence, I looked at Jiang Xue with a serious expression and said softly.

"Xue'er, is it really that important to you whether I move away or not?"

"It's important."

I took a deep breath and confessed, "I haven't figured it out yet, otherwise, you wait until I think about how to decide, and then tell you, okay?" ”

I saw Jiang Xue put my mobile phone back into my pocket and said with a blank look.

"No need, looking at your hesitant appearance, it's not going to be a good show, I've already figured out how to solve it for you...... It's a big deal, it's okay to take a step back alone, you can move out, but the location of the move is next door to me, or just near this neighborhood, how about it? ”

Looking at Jiang Xue's expression when she said this seriously, I suddenly couldn't cry or laugh, and said, "What kind of logic are you, how can you be like a child...... Okay, I see, even if I want to move out, it's not so fast, I have to ...... slowly."

"Ouch, look at it, just take care of it, it's almost mush!"

……

In the evening, after dinner, Jiang Xue and I sat on the sofa and chatted, it was already more than nine o'clock in the evening, because we had eaten dinner for almost two hours.

At this time, Gao Hangfeng suddenly called me. After answering the phone, I first asked him to say birthday wishes to Jiang Xue in person, and then I took my mobile phone, walked outside the balcony, and lit a cigarette.

After a moment of silence, I said to Gao Hangfeng on the phone: "Old Gao, let me tell you something serious, it's about our hometown tavern. ”

Gao Hangfeng suddenly became nervous, and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter, is there something wrong with the tavern?" ”

"Can you hope for something good? Does the business have to go wrong? I buried Gao Hangfeng, and then continued in a serious tone: "It's Liang Ruoyun, the one from Xingrui Foreign Trade, do you remember?" This afternoon, she came to the tavern to find me, saying that they Xingrui Foreign Trade has a business district development plan, so I thought about discussing it with you to see what you think about this matter. ”

Immediately afterwards, I told Gao Hangfeng all the contents of the business district development plan, and finally asked.

"What do you think of it now? I'd like to hear your opinion on this plan or not. ”

On the other end of the phone, Gao Hangfeng said in an embarrassed tone: "Oh, Lao Xue, I don't know much about these things, you just have an idea, I ......"

I couldn't help but interrupt him: "No! Lao Gao, here in the tavern, I and you are the same identity and position, you can't always let me take care of and make decisions every time except for technical things, you have to get involved, otherwise I just happened to encounter something one day and was not here in the tavern, what should you do? Take this as a start, you have to talk about your thoughts. ”

"Okay......"

Gao Hangfeng hesitated for a while, and I also heard the sound of him pressing the lighter and lighting a cigarette on the other end of the phone, and after a long while, he continued.

"If I really want to hear my thoughts, then let me say it...... I actually think that we can try to participate, you just said, what kind of development plan, is helpful for our small and medium-sized group of businesses, the cost is not high, only a few thousand yuan, just as an investment to try. Do you think, compared to us taking out tens of thousands of dollars to do a marketing campaign at every turn, it is not risky, so why not try this, maybe there will be opportunities to cooperate with other businesses in the future? ”

I took a puff of cigarette, pondered Gao Hangfeng's words in my heart, and after a short while, said.

"I'm biased towards what you said, okay! Then let's sign up for this plan, and I'll talk to Liang Ruoyun later. ”

Gao Hangfeng said briskly: "No problem, I won't tell you first, there are still guests at home, and it won't be good if I call you in the room for too long." ”

"Okay, you can get busy first, hang up."

After hanging up the phone, I took out my mobile phone and immediately sent a message to Liang Ruoyun, saying that our hometown tavern was willing to sign up for their Xingrui foreign trade business district development plan.

At the same time, Jiang Xue in the room looked at me outside the balcony and couldn't help complaining.

"I said you two big men, it's been half an hour since you made a phone call, what are you talking about?"