A ten-year rival in love

After asking about the address of the teahouse, Li Xu found time to go there with a client.The environment there is very good, how should I put it, there is a feeling of "it really is Lu Hui's favorite style".

The interior decoration is very grand and simple, a bit close to the Tang style, and there are also pictures of ladies cooking tea in undressed and fat clothes on the murals.In the hall, there are girls performing tea skills. Their slender and clean fingers are polishing the matcha tea. Whether it is clothing or skills, it is a visual treat.

The teahouse they ordered is upstairs.The floor structure here is also quite distinctive - it is repaired into a courtyard style.On the top of the stage where the tea art is performed is a spiral caisson roof in the style of southern Fujian. It is said that this is a stage at night, which is a bit like an ancient nightclub.

The inside and outside of the teahouse are two worlds, the inside is simple and clean, and the incense with a faint fragrance is also lit.

Li Xu likes tea, but he doesn't have much research on making tea. On the contrary, the client is better at it.She spent half an hour explaining to Li Xu how to make a cup of tea, and finally asked Li Xu to try it himself.Li Xu refused with a smile.

When he returned to the law firm, he saw Xiao Zhang who was working hard in front of the computer, raised his hand and knocked on the door.

"Lawyer Li." Xiao Zhang raised his head from the pile of documents and greeted him.

"I saw a person today, I feel a bit like you." Li Xu said with a smile, "I thought you were lazy and skipped work."

Xiao Zhang's eyes didn't blink: "I've been in the office all the time, you may be mistaken."

"I know I read it wrong, but I just want to tell you." Li Xu walked to his desk, and picked up a piece of A4 paper, which was filled with various drafts.

Xiao Zhang looked calm: "..."

"The tea from Ms. Zhang." Li Xu took out a small pot of tea and gave it to him, "Thank you."

"Thank you, Lawyer Li."

When he reached out to pick up the tea leaves, Li Xu looked at his wrist again.The watch has been taken off.

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"How do you want to spend your birthday this year?"

Lu Hui poured the hot pot base ingredients into the bottom of the pot, walked a few steps away and patted the sticky residue particles on his body.

When Li Xu heard him ask this question, he stopped cutting coriander.

How do you celebrate your birthday?

He remembered that his mother had told him to bring his "girlfriend" back, and he had already agreed.

At that time, the promise was hasty, and a lot of things were unclear. He also thought that he would have the courage to tell his mother the truth before that day came.

"Then how sad his family must be."

He could imagine his mother's expression when she said this, and even her expression when she learned that she was a different kind.

"What's wrong?" Lu Hui hugged him from behind, "Suddenly you fell silent, I thought your fingers had been cut off."

"..."

"What's wrong?" Lu Hui asked again, he wanted to kiss Li Xu's face, but Li Xu avoided him.

"It's okay." Li Xu said, "My face is covered with sweat."

"What's the point?" Lu Hui smiled, "I don't lick."

Li Xu didn't take his words, and continued to chop vegetables with a heavy heart.

"There is another worry. Is it related to my aunt?" Lu Hui asked, "Or is it related to me?"

Li Xu concentrated on chopping the chopping board.

"Is it about coming out?"

Lu Hui guessed people's thoughts accurately, and now he couldn't hide anything from him.

Li Xu put down the knife: "Last time my sister said...she tried my mom, but my mom couldn't accept it at all."

Just guessed it. "Don't worry about this, you can take your time. Or is your aunt urging you now?"

"She asked me to take you back on my birthday."

Lu Hui also fell silent.

"Just say I can't go there because I have something to do, just make up an excuse."

Lu Hui went back to tinker with his own hot pot, his back view showed no emotion.

A pang of guilt welled up in him.

"I'm not unhappy." Lu Hui said with his back turned to him, "Don't think too much. There's nothing you can do about it. Coming out of the closet is a kind of harm to your family. I've already experienced that feeling, no I hope you are like me."

Li Xu listened quietly.

"Actually, I'm very happy to be able to live with you like this. I didn't dare to think about it before. As for the matter of aunt, take your time, there is really no need to rush."

"Lu Hui." Li Xu held his forehead, wanted to laugh but couldn't, it seemed that something strange was stuffed into his chest, which made his heart want to jump.

For a man like Lu Hui, it is actually very easy for people to fall in love with him.

Li Xu's birthday happened to be the winter solstice.

He was born in winter, but his physique is cold. He has been in poor health since he was a child, and he has been suffering from minor illnesses every three days.After growing up, my physical fitness has improved, and my terrible cold problem has not changed at all.

Just a few days before his birthday, Zhou Zhengdao was executed by shooting.Before he died, he asked to see Li Xu, and Li Xu agreed.

When he walked into the bitingly cold visiting room, he shivered all over his body.

Zhou Zhengdao became haggard, but the cautious smile on his face remained the same, which still made Li Xu shudder.

He said something to Li Xu: "The teacher will treat you well, he likes you very much."

He didn't answer Li Xu's several questions. He looked into Li Xu's eyes and said, "I knew this day would come. I act according to my own ideas. When I die and who I die for, I don't know." That's clear. It's my destiny."

"Crazy!" Li Xu gritted his teeth and made an evaluation.

"Hahahahahaha!" Zhou Zhengdao laughed loudly, "Thank you for the compliment."

Li Xu: "..."

Zhou Zhengdao straightened his glasses, with a crazy angle on the corner of his mouth: "Do you want to ask, why should I blame the teacher?"

Li Xu didn't want to answer, he would feel disgusted if he said a word more, so he nodded in acquiescence.

"Because I love him and want him to die with me." Zhou Zhengdao said, "But I also hate him very much. He shouldn't die like this."

He grabbed the iron railing of the viewing window and said with a smile: "You like Teacher very much, don't you? I am looking forward to your ending. Will the sheep eat the lion, or the lion eat the sheep?"

At a quarter past three in the afternoon, Zhou Zhengdao died.

It is said that his body will be auctioned off to the medical school for the interns to practice their dissection.

After working as a doctor all his life, he finally used his body to benefit his fellow students.This was probably the only good thing he did in his life.

Zhou Zhengdao's words kept lingering in Li Xu's ears, so that Li Xu could still see his face in his dream.He took out the bullet that ended his life from his mouth, and asked Li Xu with a sinister smile: "Will the sheep eat the lion, or the lion eat the sheep?"

So these days he has been awakened by nightmares.

I can't take it any longer, I must take action.

Whether it's dealing with Yang Yannan, or announcing her sexual orientation to her mother.

What he didn't expect was that on his birthday, Yang Yannan took the initiative to find him.

He didn't say hello at all, maybe because he was Li Xu's previous party, maybe he used some other means, so the front desk let him in easily.

When Xiao Zhang brought Yang Yannan into the office, Li Xu was caught off guard.

"Uncle Yang." He stood up, "Why didn't you tell me before you came over?"

"Oh... I ran into Xiao Zhang on the road. He used to see a doctor at my place. We chatted for a while and found out that he is now working as your assistant, so I suddenly wanted to come and have a look. I am old, and I can't do things with my head, thinking about it Just come over here, look." Yang Yannan patted his head, "If you are busy now, I won't bother you."

How can it be busy? This time is the lunch break of the law firm, and the tables outside may be collapsed.

Although he didn't know why Yang Yannan came here suddenly, Li Xu felt intuitively that Yang Yannan didn't want to attack him.The meaning of looking at him is not to ask him to come over for fun, but to ask him to go out for a while.

Prudence is the first priority, and prevention is still necessary.Under Yang Yannan's gaze, it was difficult for him to get the monitor in the drawer, so he just followed Yang Yannan out the door.

Along the way, he held the small electric shock stick in his pocket, chatting with Yang Yannan with a smile on his face.

Humans are such terrible creatures, no one knows what anyone is thinking through a layer of belly.

Yang Yannan said that he would like to invite him out for a meal as a thank you for his help before, and the place was chosen by Li Xu himself.

Li Xu thought to himself that this might be a means to break through the psychological defense.In order to verify his idea, he took Yang Yannan to the previous teahouse again.

What surprised him even more was that Yang Yannan was very familiar with this teahouse.

"I have been here many times, but it was just a few years ago." Yang Yannan said, "The boss at that time was not the young man he is now, and he didn't have so many famous names."

Li Xu was thinking about answering something, when Yang Yannan said again: "Qian likes this place very much, sometimes I come here with him, sometimes he comes here by himself... Later he will be with his friends, I, as a father, It was gradually forgotten.”

Li Xu: "... young people are always like this."

"Yeah, children always have to grow up and get out of their parents' arms." Yang Yannan sighed, "It would be great if I never grew up."

After Li Xu processed this sentence with his brain, he had goosebumps all over his body.

As Li Xu expected, Yang Yannan did not do anything.

For about an hour, they were all chatting, talking about something and nothing.Mostly Yang Yannan was talking and Li Xu was listening.

Li Xu didn't know what he was talking about, but Yang Yannan didn't find it annoying when he heard what he said.They didn't say goodbye until Yang Yannan reminded him that it was time to go back to work.

The rest time of the law firm generally starts at twelve o'clock and resumes work at two o'clock in the afternoon.Li Xu reckoned that the time he spent making tea in the tea house should be just in time for the end of his work and rest.

When he returned to the law firm, he saw that everyone had started working energetically.

When he went upstairs, he met Li Yansheng who was going to pour water in the tea room. Li Yansheng saw that he was empty-handed and looked like he had come back from a stroll, and asked, "Where did you go? You came back so late."

Before Li Xu could answer, he asked again: "Are you free after get off work later? You and Qiaoqiao have a birthday this year, so why don't you go out and have a meal together?"