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"Who is it?" Bai Chong asked Song Wenran after hanging up the phone.

Song Wenran said: "Comrades."

"Brother-in-arms?" Bai Chong repeated these two words, with a slightly raised tone at the end of the word, indicating that he didn't quite trust Song Wenran's answer.

Song Wenran looked at him and said, "We haven't seen our comrades who had a good relationship in the past after he retired from the army for many years."

"Haven't seen each other for many years?" Bai Chong locked Song Wenran's phone, handed it to the edge of his coat pocket, let go of his hand to let the phone slide in, "Then he can still bring you green pepper sauce?"

Song Wenran couldn't help smiling slightly. Bai Chong's words were not polite at all, but he didn't feel offended. He said, "Mr. Bai, how can you eavesdrop on my phone conversation?"

Bai Chong said solemnly: "I don't want to listen, but you want to make this call right next to my ear. I can always hear every word you say very clearly."

Song Wenran lowered his head, he couldn't restrain the smile on his face, and after a while, he looked at Bai Chong and said, "We just met a few days ago, and we happened to meet."

Bai Chong nodded, "It's really a coincidence."

Song Wenran felt that every sentence of Bai Chong was full of awkward emotions, so he could only reply: "Yes, this time when I came back to Chongfeng, the people and things I met one after another are very coincidental."

At this time, Wen Qian slid a few rounds of slides and ran towards them excitedly.She originally wanted to jump to Song Wenran's legs, but suddenly realized that Song Wenran was injured, so she had to change direction and threw herself to Bai Chong's side.

She was still unfamiliar with Bai Chong, and immediately felt embarrassed after hugging Bai Chong's leg, she quickly let go, and instead grabbed Song Wenran's clothes hem.

Song Wenran squatted down and asked her, "Is it hot?" He reached into Wenqian's back with his left hand and touched it. When he found that she was not sweating, he lifted her forehead and touched it.

Bai Chong looked down at her, "Are you having fun?"

Wen Qian held Song Wenran tightly, nodded to Bai Chong, then stuck out her tongue and smiled.

Bai Chong thought she was cute, and reached out to touch the top of her head, "Do you want to play again?"

Wen Qian said, "I won't play anymore."

Song Wenran then said: "Then let's go for a walk and go back, shall we?"

Wen Qian nodded, "Okay."

Together with Bai Chong, Song Wenran took Wen Qian around the artificial river in the park. On the way back, Song Wenran held Wen Qian with his left hand, watching her yawn as she walked, obviously feeling tired.

Bai Chong also saw it, and he said to Wen Qian, "Can uncle hug you?"

Wen Qian didn't answer, but looked at Song Wenran.

Song Wenran said to her: "If you don't want to leave, let Uncle Bai carry you back."

Only then did Wen Qian open her arms towards Bai Chong, and Bai Chong picked her up and said, "Sleep for a while if you want to sleep." Wen Qian yawned again, and leaned her head gently on Bai Chong's shoulder.

Bai Chong walked forward slowly with Wen Qian in his arms, and suddenly asked Song Wenran: "The dishes I cook are delicious, or the green pepper sauce?"

Song Wenran couldn't help laughing when he heard this.

Seeing that he just kept laughing, Bai Chong thought he was not going to answer this question.

However, after a while, Song Wenran actually said to him seriously: "Green pepper sauce is especially delicious when there is nothing delicious in the boring and hard days. The dishes you cook are delicious to me. For no other reason."

After listening quietly, Bai Chong concluded, "Actually, the dishes I cook are delicious."

The next morning, Song Wenran followed Bai Chong to the hospital.

Because they had to match Bai Chong's working hours, they set off early. At that time, Bai Ziqi and Wen Qian were still sleeping in bed.

As soon as Bai Chong arrived at the hospital, a deputy director was already waiting for him, so he could only hurry back to his office and ask Xiao Zhang's driver to help Song Wenran pack his things together.

Xiao Zhang's name is Zhang Wu, and it was the fat driver who drove Bai Chong when Song Wenran saw him in the hospital for the first time. Of course, Xiao Zhang was called by Bai Chong.

Song Wenran didn't have many things in his office, and he didn't come back after leaving, so he only needed to pack a drawer with his personal belongings out for Zhang Wu to use.

Zhang Wu knew that Bai Chong valued Song Wenran very much, and seeing that his shoulders were still fixed, he kept telling him to rest, saying that it would be good to let him come.

However, Song Wenran obviously couldn't stop, so he and Zhang Wu packed out a drawer and a wardrobe, and put some important personal items in bags, planning to take them back later.

When the things were almost packed, Chen Jie called.

As soon as Song Wenran connected, he heard Chen Jie say, "Where are you now? My car is parked in the parking lot in front of Chongyi. There are too many cars in the hospital, so I can't get in."

Song Wenran said quickly: "I'm in the hospital, come and find you now, tell me the specific address."

Chen Jie said: "The hospital? Then I'll come over, it's only a few steps away." Then Chen Jie hung up the phone.

Song Wenran had no choice but to ask Zhang Wu to help him pack up the rest of the things, and he left the office and walked towards the elevator.He took the elevator to the first floor and went directly to the hospital gate. After waiting for less than a minute, he saw Chen Jie coming from the street.

Chen Jie was wearing a black down jacket and jeans, with a baseball cap on his head and a plastic bag in his hand.When approaching, Song Wenran found that he had shaved his beard and looked more energetic than last time.

Seeing Song Wenran from a distance, Chen Jie frowned slightly. When he got closer, he asked, "What's wrong? Are you injured?"

Song Wenran looked down at the bandage, and said, "The shoulder is dislocated."

"Dislocated?" Chen Jie looked at him, "Is it serious?"

Song Wenran didn't know whether to say it was serious or not, anyway, Bai Chong took it very seriously, saying that he was afraid that he would become a habitual joint dislocation if he was not fixed properly.At this time, Chen Jie asked, and after a short consideration, he still replied: "It's not serious, and it's not a broken bone."

Chen Jie then asked: "When did it happen?"

Song Wenran replied, "Just the day before yesterday, something happened."

"Punched?" Chen Jie asked him.

Song Wenran shook his head, not intending to continue this topic, but asked him, "Is that the green pepper sauce that Auntie just sent?"

Chen Jie was reminded of the purpose of this trip by him, and he held up the plastic bag in his hand to show him. Inside the plastic bag was a transparent plastic jar, which contained the green pepper sauce made by Chen Jie's mother, "My mother sent Yes, I sent a lot, and I suddenly remembered that you like to eat this stuff."

Today, Chen Jie still remembers that he likes to eat green pepper sauce, Song Wenran also felt a little emotional, looked at him and said, "Thank you."

Chen Jie slightly lifted the hat and put it back on, as if unconsciously, "Thank you, why should my brother be so polite."

Song Wenran suddenly recalled those thoughts about Chen Jie back then, and said with some mixed emotions: "Yes, my brother."

Chen Jie glanced at the hospital gate behind Song Wenran, "You came to the hospital to change your medicine today? I wonder why you are in the hospital, aren't you driving the professor at school?"

Song Wenran said: "It's not changing the medicine, it's that the professor also holds an administrative position in the hospital, and is usually in the hospital most of the time."

"Oh?" Chen Jie became addicted to cigarettes while talking, and lit a cigarette for himself, "Then what kind of professor is really good? What does he do?"

Song Wenran couldn't hide it all the time, Xu Chu wasn't here today, he felt it would be easier to talk to Chen Jie, so he said, "It's the director of Chongyi, surnamed Bai."

Chen Jie was a little surprised, and looked over Song Wenran's shoulders and landed behind him.

Song Wenran noticed that he turned his head and saw Bai Chong standing behind him at some point. Before he could speak, Bai Chong smiled and nodded at Chen Jie, stretched out a hand and said: "Hello, my name is Bai Chong."

With a plastic bag in one hand and a cigarette in the other, Chen Jie could only bite the cigarette in his mouth in a hurry, shook hands with Bai Chong with his free hand, then pulled the cigarette out of his mouth, still a little surprised and said: "Chen Hello, Jay."

"Mr. Bai," Song Wenran called out in a low voice, staring blankly at Bai Chong, he didn't expect Bai Chong to appear suddenly, he said, "I thought you were in a meeting."

Bai Chong said: "There is no meeting, why didn't you tell me when you came out?"

In fact, according to Song Wenran's habit, he would definitely say hello to Bai Chong when he came out on occasion, but today he just wanted to come out and meet Chen Jie as soon as possible to get his things, and then tell Bai Chong when he went back.

Bai Chong looked at Chen Jie, and Chen Jie also observed Bai Chong carefully. Except for being a little dazed at first, he soon realized that the tall, handsome and calm man in front of him was the hospital director Song Wenran was talking about.

It was not surprising that Song Wenran drove the dean of Chongyi, but the close relationship between this dean Bai and Song Wenran made Chen Jie puzzled.At first, he thought that Bai Chong was just passing by here to say hello. After all, no one would take the time to meet his driver's friend. After listening to their conversation, he realized that Bai Chong was here specifically to find Song Wenran. This made Chen Jie feel Very puzzled.

A car passed by them and stopped. The person in the car pressed down the window and asked in surprise, "Dean Bai, why are you here?"

Bai Chong said: "Meet a friend, you go in first."

The man glanced at Song Wenran and then at Chen Jie, a little confused, so he continued to drive the car towards the hospital.

Bai Chong said to Chen Jie: "I heard from Wen Ran that you specially brought him the green pepper sauce from your hometown?"

Chen Jie suppressed the strangeness in his heart, smiled and said, "Yes, it's all Wenran's favorite food." After finishing speaking, he simply handed the plastic bag to Song Wenran, "He used to always snatch it from my dinner plate. Come eat."

Song Wenran took the plastic bag and smiled, and then felt Bai Chong's gaze.

Bai Chong said: "I always thought he was a very good boy."

"He is good," Chen Jie said, "He has a lot of ideas in his head, but even if he doesn't say anything, the leaders above think he is good and are willing to promote him."

As the object of the two of them talking, Song Wenran began to feel uncomfortable. He wanted to end the conversation, but he didn't know whether to persuade Chen Jie to leave first or Bai Chong to go back upstairs.

Unexpectedly, Bai Chong said to Chen Jie at this time: "It's hard for you to bring something to Wenran from such a long distance. Do you have any other arrangements this morning? If not, let's have lunch together?"

The position expressed by Bai Chong's words was too obvious, and Chen Jie finally understood what was going on with this weird feeling. To him, Bai Chong's position was like that of Song Wenran's elders or relatives, no, even a little Like lovers or husband and wife, declaring their ownership.He thought Bai Chong was very strange, but when he looked at Song Wenran, he felt that Song Wenran reacted calmly, as if there was nothing wrong.

Song Wenran simply didn't want them to have this meal together, "Mr. Bai...", he shouted, these three words were soft, not serious at all, and his voice was slightly raised.

Chen Jie was very familiar with Song Wenran, for a long time, he couldn't be more familiar with him.Song Wenran seldom yelled like this, maybe he didn't even realize that when he yelled at someone in this tone, he actually meant a little bit of coquettishness.Because he is not used to rejecting others, especially those who are close to him, he hopes to persuade you to change your mind in another way, and he will unconsciously use this tone when speaking.

In the past, Chen Jie only occasionally heard Song Wenran talk to him like this, but now he heard Song Wenran say to Bai Chong in the same tone: "Are you really busy at noon?"

Bai Chong said: "There is still time for a meal."

Chen Jie wanted to agree to Bai Chong's invitation for a moment, but quickly changed his mind. He said, "Thank you, Dean Bai, for the invitation. I have something to do this morning. Next time."

Song Wenran breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Chen Jie and said, "Another day, I'll treat you to dinner."

Chen Jie smiled, "The relationship between you and me still exists, would you please have a meal?" After finishing speaking, he reached out and patted Song Wenran's left shoulder, "Pay attention to rest, we will punch you when your shoulder heals."

Then he shook hands with Bai Chong again, "Then I'll go first, Dean Bai."

Bai Chong said, "Go slowly."

Chen Jie turned around, raised his hand to wave to Song Wenran, and walked slowly in the direction he came from.

After Chen Jie left, Bai Chong asked Song Wenran, "You don't want me to have dinner with him?"

Song Wenran did not answer.

Bai Chong didn't want to let go of this question easily, "Why?"

Song Wenran then asked back: "Why does Mr. Bai want to have dinner with him?"

Bai Chong didn't answer, just spit out two words: "Brother-in-arms?"

Song Wenran was very surprised at Bai Chong's sensitivity. He didn't know where he and Chen Jie had gone beyond the relationship between comrades-in-arms. What they said and did was completely within the boundaries of an ordinary comrade-in-arms relationship.Even if he had thought about Chen Jie in the past, it was only his unilateral thoughts deep in his heart. He never showed it, and Chen Jie never responded.

At this time, under Bai Chong's repeated questioning, Song Wenran finally couldn't bear to confess his ulterior secret to others for the first time. He said: "A long time ago, when we were soldiers together, I was concerned about his body. Overreaction." He said this in a calm tone, as if he was saying that he was hungry and wanted to eat without any waves.But his heart was overwhelmed, because he knew that the meaning of this sentence was not that simple. When he told Bai Chong about this, he was telling Bai Chong that he had feelings for men.

There was a thin layer of veil between them, and Song Wenran never thought that the first person to try to tear off that layer of veil would be himself.