half thorns, half joy

"No, I just don't want to take some things too seriously. Of course, you can't take them too lightly. You can only make a decision after experiencing it yourself."

This is also the way of life that Tang Xuan has always relied on. She doesn't trust what others say, and doesn't follow suit. Most of the time, she makes decisions after her own evaluation.

"I'm so envious." Ye Nan sighed, "I'm not as transparent as you. The words 'listening to the wind is the rain' are used to describe me."

Tang Xuan laughed.

The phone rang. Tang Xuan opened the phone and looked at it. It was an email from her assistant.

She opened the chair and got up, and said to Ye Nan: "Then this Saturday, let's have dinner together in the evening this Saturday, me and Zihan, you bring your big brother Zheng."

"okay."

After sending Tang Xuan out, Ye Nan went back upstairs and told Zheng Yifan the news.

Zheng Yifan had just finished his lunch, and replied Ye Nan with a good word, put his phone on the table, and started to continue working.The department is quiet, many people lie down on the table and take a nap in the morning, and some bring their own folding beds to sleep more comfortably.

In order not to make unnecessary noises, Zheng Yifan did not use the keyboard to type, but moved the mouse lightly to check the PPT to be sent to the director in the afternoon.

While he was watching, the director came in through the door.

Seeing that Zheng Yifan was looking at the computer, he walked over and stood beside Zheng Yifan, lowering his voice: "Go, go out and smoke a cigarette."

Zheng Yifan nodded, locked the computer screen, and walked out with the director.

The stairwell at the end of the corridor is a place where women gossip and men smoke and brag. Push open the door of the stairwell and go in. The director handed Zheng Yifan a cigarette.

The two lit a cigarette and exhaled a puff of smoke.

"Huh, I'm so tired." The director looked out the glass window in the stairwell, looking at the gloomy sky, and said wearily.

Zheng Yifan echoed, "Take a rest when you're tired."

"It's not that the body is tired, the heart is tired." The director turned his head, looked at Zheng Yifan, and said strangely: "Don't you feel this way? You put all your time and energy into work, and in the end you got nothing, only left behind. sick."

"Didn't you get the money?" Zheng Yifan said jokingly.

He has a good relationship with the director, so he dared to dismantle the director's platform like this. If someone else said this, the director's face would definitely be dark now.

The director snorted and was amused, and replied unceremoniously: "It means that you value that little money and work so hard for money, but I don't value it."

Zheng Yifan didn't appear to be offended at all, he just smiled helplessly: "What should I do, I'm not the second generation rich, so I can't be like you, if you don't want to work hard, you can go back and inherit the family property."

"Come on, inheriting the family property is also very tiring. I don't want to do anything now. I just want to find a quiet and deserted island and live alone for a few years."

"The small island is not good, it's not safe. If you want to escape from the crowd and escape right and wrong, you might as well become a monk. It just so happens that you are also divorced now. Once you leave, no one can control you."

When Zheng Yifan gave this suggestion, he laughed.

The director kicked over, "What are you doing, you dare to gloat about your boss, I think you don't want this month's bonus."

"Okay, for the sake of the bonus, I won't say anything." Zheng Yifan obediently admitted.

The director looked at Zheng Yifan and saw a little tiredness in the corners of his eyes and brows, but he didn't hear a single complaint from him, or any sign that he didn't want to work.

Immediately, the director became curious.

"What's the matter with you? You're also divorced like me. Why didn't I see you lose confidence and feel tired from work? Come, teach me, how did you do it?"

Zheng Yifan looked at the director with a funny face, he was really defeated by this guy's brain circuit, he said almost helplessly: "My young master, please be considerate of ordinary people, even if the sky falls, poor people still have to eat Have you read the book "To Live"?"

"I haven't read it, I don't read esoteric books." A plane flew by in the sky, the director stared at it for a while, and suddenly said: "Maybe your suggestion is useful, and being a monk or something is also very good."

Zheng Yifan: "..."

This man has gone crazy, he has nothing to say.

The director felt sad for a while, and suddenly said: "By the way, I went out to eat one night two days ago. It was the rainy night. I saw you on the street. You were with a girl. What's new?"

"what?"

"I remembered, that girl is the one we met in the bar, she's pretty, and she seems to mean something to you." The director laughed teasingly, "That's right, Yifan, you are more lucky than me. But much better."

Zheng Yifan didn't realize it for a while, and when the director said it was raining, he realized belatedly that he should have picked up the kitten, and went to the pet shop with Ye Nan to treat the kitten, and the director saw it.

He explained: "It's not what you think, I have nothing to do with that girl."

"It doesn't matter that they are so close to you? Hey, Yifan, you are already so old, don't be a scumbag, cheating a little girl's feelings, let me tell you."

"You're talking nonsense again..." Zheng Yifan was actually a little guilty in his heart, but his words were serious, "I saved that little girl before, but she was hit by a car and lay in the grass. got an ambulance and paid for her medical bills."

Mentioning this, he murmured to himself: "By the way, she hasn't paid me the medical expenses yet."

The director was amused by Zheng Yifan's silly appearance, and the wrinkles on his smiling face were all lined up.

After laughing for a while, he said to Zheng Yifan in a tone of hatred: "What's the matter with you, pay some money to get a cute and beautiful girlfriend, what a deal, you're good, and you still plan to follow People want money, I said, are you stupid?"

Zheng Yifan replied in a dull manner: "I don't need a girlfriend, besides, falling in love is not a business."

"Okay, I can see that you are really stupid, let me take pity on that girl first, let's put someone like you on the table." Seeing that the time is almost up, the director patted Zheng Yifan on the shoulder, "Let's go, it's time to go to work."

Returning to his seat, Zheng Yifan was still thinking about what the director said just now.

In fact, this has always been a doubt in his heart. He doesn't know Ye Nan very well, and he doesn't know exactly what Ye Nan means to him.

Say it's interesting to him, he has clearly told her that he doesn't want to fall in love, and told him that he has someone he can't forget.

It can be said that she is not interested in him, so why is she so concerned about his affairs and getting so close to him?

"call……"

Emotional matters are really difficult, I really can't figure it out.

Zheng Yifan shook his head, threw out all these messy thoughts, and continued to be obsessed with work.

He is different from the director. He still has parents in his hometown, and he has to eat when he wakes up tomorrow. He has no capital to sigh. He can only work hard like every ordinary wage earner.

……

In a blink of an eye, it was the appointed Saturday.

Ye Nan got up early in the morning. She was still in bed on weekdays, but she got up before dawn, took a shower, washed her hair, and tidied herself up.

After tossing a whole set, the breakfast at home has just been cooked.

So, when she appeared in the restaurant fully armed, Xiao Zihan just rolled his eyes and flew over.

"What are you doing early in the morning? Are you going to sing an opera?"

Tang Xuan yawned and went downstairs. Seeing Ye Nan who had even put on false eyelashes, she couldn't help being startled, and she was so frightened that she was completely drowsy.

Seeing Tang Xuan's expression, Ye Nan knew that she had gone too far, and her face turned red.

"I... I'm going back to the bedroom." She didn't eat breakfast, she got up and went out.

Tang Xuan grabbed Ye Nan's hand and said with a smile, "What are you doing? Why don't you skip breakfast? Our appointment is for dinner tonight. Are you going to be hungry until nighttime?"

"No..." Actually, Ye Nan wasn't just waiting for the evening meal, she was just too excited, so she got carried away and did something stupid.

Xiao Zihan cut it, and said coldly: "The other party doesn't know what's going on yet, you just made it so grand, be careful to be disappointed when the time comes."

"Zihan!" Tang Xuan glared at Xiao Zihan, wiped her hands with a hot towel, and stuffed a steamed bun into Ye Nan's hand, "Eat it, don't listen to your brother's smugness."

With Tang Xuan's backing, Ye Nan wasn't afraid of Xiao Zihan, so she cut to Xiao Zihan, "Brother, why are you so proud? When you were chasing after your sister-in-law, you were also stupid? Why, you think I don't know?" ah."

Tang Xuan's heart skipped a beat, and she quickly looked at Xiao Zihan.

However, Xiao Zihan didn't seem to react at all. He was still looking at the tablet while drinking milk. Seeing that he wasn't angry, Tang Xuan let go of her concerns.

After drinking a glass of milk, Xiao Zihan went upstairs to the study.

After he left, Ye Nan was less embarrassed and restrained, and complained to Tang Xuan, "Sister-in-law, have you noticed that my brother has become more and more aggressive recently."

"No, isn't he always like this?" Tang Xuan smiled.

"It wasn't so fierce before. I think he's in menopause, or maybe he's just venting his desire and dissatisfaction."

Dissatisfaction with desire...

Thinking of what Xiao Zihan wanted a few days ago, after she refused, Xiao Zihan didn't seem to mention it recently. Speaking of which, they really haven't lived as a couple for many days.

In the recent period, this time is the longest one.

Ye Nan drank a cup of soy milk and ate another steamed bun before asking Tang Xuan, "Sister-in-law, do you also think that I am dressed too grandly?"

"Hmm..." Tang Xuan took a closer look at Ye Nan, and said lightly, "I'm worried that your false eyelashes will fall off by tonight."

"It seems to be like this...Then I'd better take off the makeup first, and put on light makeup in the afternoon. I'm also worried that it will be too exaggerated, and it won't be worth the candle if I scare Brother Zheng."

Tang Xuan nodded, "Well, it's better to be as natural as possible."

In the beginning, she just agreed to meet the brother Zheng that Ye Nan was talking about just to make Ye Nan happy, but seeing Ye Nan being so fascinated, she was really curious, who is this Mr. Zheng.

There must be something extraordinary about being able to fascinate Ye Nan like this.