Break up

Lin Rui had thought about how he should behave when he came here this time. He believed that Shen Fan was behind him, and Tang Yi was only promoted by Shen Fan, so there was basically no suspense in planning a good position for himself.Even before Tang Yi came over, he said proudly to his colleagues, "If I'm free later, I'll mention you by the way."

Colleagues saw that he was confident, so he served tea and poured water several times.Who knew that when he entered the office, he realized that this was not the case at all.

He smoothed the field and hit Lin Rui's Tianling Gai, and the latter's face turned dark immediately.

Tang Yirao looked at them with interest and then looked away, as if the two were just a pair of clowns singing together.Lin Rui finally couldn't hold back his face, turned his head and said to his colleague rather unkindly, "You go out first! I have something to do with Mr. Tang."

This colleague's position was not as high as his, and although he was dissatisfied, Tang Yi also made it clear before that he frowned and left first.Lin Rui waited until the office door was closed for a long time before standing up, and walked straight to Tang Yi's desk with his pants pockets in hand.

"Mr. Tang, I'm actually here mainly for work." Lin Rui lowered his head slightly and coughed lightly, "I know you may have misunderstood me, but I still hope to have a decent position in the company. Of course, I don't care if I have real power, my mother needs my care now, and I need to stay in T City."

"Oh?" Tang Yi glanced at him, and said calmly, "But there is no place for you here. What's more, there are so many companies in T City, why should you submit to me?"

His expression was indifferent. Lin Rui glanced at him, but couldn't get any useful information, and couldn't even guess Tang Yi's intentions, so he could only pause and continue to explain, "My salary in ER is the same as that of other small companies in T City. I can’t afford it. I can’t get into a big company, not to mention that I have worked in ER for two years, and I really don’t want to go to other companies to start from scratch.”

"so what?"

"So Mr. Tang, you can just give me a position at will. Anyway, the salary is paid by the headquarters, so I don't choose."

Tang Yi nodded, and asked suddenly, "Is your mother okay?"

Lin Rui froze for a moment, then answered vaguely, "It's okay."

"Thanks to that, it's okay." Tang Yi leaned back in the chair, and said gently, "Otherwise, he would be brought out by his son to talk about things over and over again, and he would look like he was dying at every turn, and now he has lost his fortune." He squinted his eyes and said amusedly, "Lin Rui, do you really think that everyone in the world is your mother? You want to join the company, you want to ask for more money, where do you not want to go..."

Tang Yi clicked his tongue, "Don't think about it, no one cares about your feelings."

Lin Rui was stunned for a while, and it took a while to react.He was by the side when Shen Fan called Tang Yi, and naturally heard Tang Yi's unwillingness and anger clearly, but there was no way, Shen Fan pressed Tang Yi, and Tang Yi had to confess to him even if he didn't want to .

He came back this time with a sense of superiority.He was parachuted into Tang Yi's department two years ago, and when he was kicked away by Zhou Hao, anyone with a discerning eye knew that Tang Yi couldn't tolerate him.He had no face at that time, and he worked in the head office with his tail between his legs for a long time before he slowly climbed up.This time he came back with Shen Fan's backing, and naturally he was full of humiliation. How could he have expected Tang Yi to change his face in just two days?

Lin Rui opened his mouth, and it took him a long time before he said, "President Shen meant for me to come back this time, and you agreed before..."

"I agreed," Tang Yi said blankly, "Just to toss you."

When Tang Yi left the company, it was completely dark outside, and the north wind greeted people's faces like a photon in the ear.He wrapped his clothes, thinking of Lin Rui's dismay when he left the company in the afternoon, he shook his head speechlessly.

Two years ago, Tang Yi's words would not have been so simple and rude.At that time, Lin Rui had conflicts with him, and there were frequent disagreements at work. Every time, he made it clear to others with reason and evidence, and even hesitated when Zhou Hao wanted to kick him away.If it was changed to before, the conversation today would probably be different. For example, Tang Yi would talk about things based on his work performance, or clearly stated that the company was about to break away from the head office, so that he could do it for himself.

But it's different now, Lin Rui should never have done it, and after saying that to Gu Yanting, he still took Tang Yi as a fool, thinking he didn't know anything.

In the evening, when Tang Yi arrived home a little late, Gu Yanting had already prepared dinner and waited for him.Weiwei woke up once in the middle, and after staring at Gu Yanting for a long time, he only asked, "Where is Uncle Tang?" For the first time in more than 20 years, Gu Yanting spoke in a child's soft tone, and said through his throat, "Su Su went to work to earn money, and came back at night."

Weiwei and him stared at each other for a long while before nodding with a serious face.

"And then?" Tang Yi ate his meal, couldn't help but asked with a smile.

"Then he went to pee, and he went back to sleep after peeing. I just checked, but I haven't woken up yet." Gu Yanting was a little excited, and said in a low voice, "Hey, why do I feel that I have such a good eye with this kid? What about Yuan?"

Tang Yi was stunned for a while, he didn't know if Gu Yanting and the child had eye ties, but the blood relationship was quite close.He was silent for a while, and the movement of eating stopped unconsciously.Almost everyone knows about Gu Yanting's biological parents now, but he himself is kept in the dark.Tang Yi wanted to talk to him, but he opened his mouth but didn't know how to say it.

Gu Yanting saw that he was not in a high mood, so he stopped talking consciously, and waited until he was about to go to sleep, then couldn't help stroking Tang Yi's eyebrows, and asked a little nervously, "Are you worried?"

Tang Yi paused, then nodded slowly.

Who knew that Gu Yanting would make a mistake, he retracted his hand and rubbed it with some anxiety, then put it back and continued to press.After doing this several times, I said uncomfortably, "Actually, I actually read the email you mentioned."

After he finished speaking, he glanced at Tang Yi carefully, but didn't continue.

Tang Yi looked up at him, and it took a while to realize what he was talking about, "Mail?"

"Mmm," Gu Yanting touched his nose and gave a muffled hum.

Tang Yi looked at him for a while, then nodded for a while.He knew that there was probably no way to explain Gu Yanting's reaction, and the meaning of that letter was probably similar to what he understood.It's just that it's been many years, and it doesn't make any practical sense to pursue it.The reason why he mentioned it was just to express the grievance in his heart, so that Gu Yanting could understand where his distrust came from.

Gu Yanting frowned, seemingly worried.

Tang Yi sighed, reached out and patted him without saying a word, and then heard Gu Yanting whisper, "I didn't know what I thought at the time, so I just said that. But it's not that I really don't like you. I just, that's it said."

"I know. Go to bed first."

"No, hey, I don't know how to say it." Gu Yanting's voice was a little anxious, "Actually, I was quite happy at the time, and that's not what I meant."

Tang Yi nodded. Just as he was about to say that I knew, Gu Yanting turned over and took the phone from the side, and poked it twice anxiously.

"Actually, I still have several more." He swallowed nervously, and pushed forward, "Why don't you read them all, and then beat me together to vent your anger, okay?"

"I won't hit you, it's all in the past." Tang Yi was a little helpless, and when he glanced at the row of emails on the phone screen, he couldn't help being stunned.

so much?

Five minutes later, Tang Yi read all those emails, including those he didn't read later, with a masochistic mentality, and half an hour later, Gu Yanting finally failed to escape the fate of being beaten.

The content of email one is the one Tang Yi saw.

Tang Yi glanced at it hastily, then scrolled down, and then saw Mail [-].

Email 3000: I went shopping with him today, he has to buy me a down jacket, you know?A piece of more than [-] yuan was paid with a bang!Fuck!I don’t know if Grandpa doesn’t like down jackets? !Super ugly.

Email 2000: Hey, let me tell you, he even quarreled with me today just because I didn't want to go out with him.How hypocritical you say, you have to open a room after the festival, and that’s all, and go to a five-star hotel, do you know how much it costs for a night? 2000 yuan!Fuck! [-] yuan to sleep for one night!Hey, let me show you...

Email [-]: I'm a bit annoying today, he insisted on buying me a cake and I refused to let me, but I got impatient...

Email Five: Fuck!I saved half a year's wages to buy him a watch, but he said it was ugly!Ugly!ugly? !Almost [-] oceans!

……

Tang Yi didn't really expect Gu Yanting to give him an explanation that completely reassures him. No matter how beautiful the words are, the damage has been done after all, and the estrangement and cracks in these years also started with an email, and gradually became dry and cracked. It's getting out of hand.

But looking back now, the same email has completely different intentions and expressions.Just like the same sentence of "Go to hell", when a lover flirts with each other, "Go to die" with soft and sticky fingers, must meet the enemy, and the "Go to die" with a thick neck and jealousy has the diametrically opposite semantics.How to understand it all depends on the background of the upper and lower environments. Gu Yanting's words of the second grade are certainly making people gnash their teeth, but Tang Yi's problem is that he already has a preconceived impression, and even holds his pride and aloofness when he sees the email. Ken looked for an explanation on the spot.

Tang Yi didn't really use his strength to start, but he was a little annoyed, but he didn't know how to express it at all.Gu Yanting waited for him to stop and kept turning his head to look at him, and waited for him to lie down to sleep angrily before wrapping around and hugging him.

"Actually, I don't mean that I don't like you." Gu Yanting rubbed his back, and whispered in Tang Yi's ear as if recalling, "I think I might be a little showing off."

Tang Yi was still upset, "What's there to show off?"

"He used to always show off, show off his computer, his mobile phone, how much money he spends on going out with people, and always compare with mine." Gu Yanting said coyly, "Afterwards, I didn't feel proud anymore, I just thought Earn some face."

Tang Yi pushed him speechlessly, but didn't push him, and suddenly remembered the time when Lin Rui had just returned to China.A tiny thought flashed through his mind, and finally he asked calmly, "He was looking for you yesterday, why didn't you invite him to a better cafe?"

"Ah?" Gu Yanting was stunned, "It's not bad, it cost more than 50."

"It's only over 50 years old. If you treat him to a meal, it won't cost you thousands of dollars."

"..." Gu Yanting was silent for a while, and finally said slowly, "Actually, that day... I just wanted to pretend to be tough. But when I paid the bill, I regretted it. I couldn't do it because I was so distressed. The invoice was scratched... I didn't win."

Gu Yanting's voice was weak when he said "no hit", Tang Yi was angry and funny, and his lungs hurt when he fell asleep.

No one knows better than Tang Yi how much face Gu Yanting had before.For example, asking for invoices and packing leftovers, two things that seem to be low-level, Gu Yanting never does it, and he doesn't let Tang Yi do it.

At that time, Tang Yi just liked him. Before the trivial fusion with the oil bottle and salt jar, that kind of liking was often very calm, and he could even list the other party's faults and shortcomings one by one.At that time, Gu Yanting's biggest shortcoming in Tang Yi's heart was good face, so that Tang Yi was often extremely embarrassed on various occasions.

For example, when the two of them went to the luxury shopping mall in the center of T City for the first time, Tang Yi had been there before for business. Later, a dessert shop opened on the second floor of that shopping mall, and he called Gu Yanting to spend Valentine's Day there on a whim.They had just started working at the time, and neither of them had the qualifications to be able to frequent such places. Tang Yi's original intention was to reward Gu Yanting and at the same time satisfy the vanity of the two of them. Who knew that Gu Yanting would arrive soon, The first sentence he spoke made him embarrassed.

Gu Yanting saw Tang Yi from a distance and walked over with a serious face, and asked, "Why are you waiting for me here?"

Tang Yi was stunned for a moment, and then Gu Yanting sighed and said in a loud voice, "Fuck, Wang Gang told me that he bought XX shoes today and spent more than 500. This is a prodigal thing."

The one named Wang Gang has not been in touch with Gu Yanting for a long time.Tang Yi and he were reluctant to buy five hundred shoes, but they couldn't make up the number in luxury shopping malls.Tang Yi wiped his face in embarrassment, but Gu Yanting didn't realize it, and looked like my friend was boasting like a rich man.

Tang Yi was very depressed at the time, but when he saw that Gu Yanting was wearing a suit of early autumn clothes, he felt a sharp pain in his heart—it was Gu Yanting's most expensive suit, but it was very thin. The north wind still smelled of ice, and the clothes did not block the cold or the wind. Gu Yanting probably chose them because he was afraid of being embarrassed by wearing shabby clothes.

Gu Yanting has a good face, so he is afraid of being looked down upon.Whether it's him wearing out-of-season clothes or talking loudly for fear that others will think he has no money, it's just a sign of guilt.There is a saying, "The more a person emphasizes something, the more he lacks something." Tang Yi took it for granted, but when he put it on Gu Yanting, he realized that he actually cared about money.

Many people have made various comparisons between children from poor families and children from rich families, and there are also many experts who have published articles on the equal or unequal nature of life.Tang Yi thinks he came up from the bottom, and he often disdains such topics-in his eyes, those who like to talk about this are mostly big losers who make excuses for their failures but don't work hard.Even whenever he sees similar topics, he will have a deep sense of contempt and superiority.

But when Gu Yanting was a little stiff and forced to stand there, and there was a young lady who was ordering elegantly not far behind him, Tang Yi realized that the gap really existed.

When he and Gu Yanting were in luxury shopping malls or high-end clubs like this, the first reaction was never to enjoy the elegance and ease, but to check themselves with restraint and low self-esteem, whether it was inappropriate, would it be embarrassing?

It's just that Tang Yi is used to restraint, and Gu Yanting still doesn't know how to hide it.

Tang Yi was embarrassed by this repeatedly, but strangely because of his empathy, he had a thought of defending Gu Yanting.Later, their salaries gradually increased, they bought a house and a car, and they had money and cards in their bags when they went out. Gu Yanting stopped talking about "having a classmate" and "having a friend".It's just that Tang Yi didn't expect that the real intention of Gu Yanting's email was to "have a boyfriend" without changing the medicine.

But if Gu Yanting asked for an invoice after eating in front of Lin Rui, just for the ten yuan and 50 yuan award, it can only be said that this is really painful.

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Gu Yanting didn't ask for leave when he came back this time. It was Wednesday when Tang Yi wrote his ink. When he got up in the morning, he received a call from the company.The colleague's tone was very good, and he even said to him slightly teasingly, "Mr. Gu, are you running away to Ruanrou Township and can't get up? But it's already December, you should stick to it and finish winning this year's year-end award."

Gu Yanting coughed a little, only to realize that it had been two days in a flash.

The colleague smiled knowingly, and said after a long delay, "But it's okay, you saved a lot of vacations before, it's useless, just come back and make up for the leave." Gu Yanting worked very hard before, and even took two Weeks of annual leave have been useless.This colleague had a good relationship with him and thought he was chasing a girl, so he kindly suggested that he use up his annual leave first, otherwise there would be no chance after this month.

Gu Yanting suddenly realized, just after chatting for a few words, he felt the phone vibrate, and another number called.He casually took the phone away from his ear and glanced at it. He didn't want to see it, and he almost hung up his colleague's phone.

"...she agrees, as long as she agrees, I can make up the leave anyway, so don't forget to fax those two pieces of paper to me," the colleague said with a smile, but when there was no movement, he called out, "Old Gu?"

Gu Yanting hurriedly recovered, "Ah, ah, I see."

"Don't forget." The colleague said, "I'll hang up first."

The colleague hung up, and at the same time Lin Rui's phone also hung up.

Gu Yanting just breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the phone screen flickering and a text message came in, "Can you accompany me to the hospital?"

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The sun in the winter morning didn't bring much warmth to people, even until eight or nine o'clock, Lin Rui couldn't see the shadow of Father Sun.He didn't wear much today. He wore a light gray jacket over an off-white cotton T. The shape was fresh and fashionable. When he stopped on Jianghuai Road, the attention he attracted was directly proportional to the strong cold wind he encountered.

When Gu Yanting ran over from a distance, he was smiling and refusing a girl's accosting, and when he turned his face away, the smile on his face hadn't faded, and he said to Gu Yanting very naturally, "I thought I interrupted you to rest."

"No." Gu Yanting wrapped the clothes around his body, and there was a handbag hanging on his arm, which was bulging.He looked Lin Rui up and down, and then asked, "Are you going to the hospital?"

Lin Rui hummed, glanced at Gu Yanting, pursed his lips, and then lowered his head.He often makes such movements, which generally mean that he is a little difficult to answer, or a little sad.Gu Yanting didn't know whether it was the former or the latter this time, so he could only jump on the spot twice to keep warm.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for Lin Rui to bow his head enough, and finally gave the answer.He raised his head and said with a wry smile, "My mom will be re-examined today, I...I don't want to go alone."

"Ah, that's it." Gu Yanting rubbed his hands and asked with concern, "Then did you tell your dad, or your uncle, aunt, grandpa, or them?"

"……not yet."

"Let's tell them." Gu Yanting said, "The situation is definitely good, so don't worry. Besides, if something goes wrong... the family should be prepared." He paused, and then he didn't quite Skillfully skipping every word, "Besides, I'm an outsider, so I can't help much."

His last sentence was not as fluent as before, but the meaning was very clear.Lin Rui was stunned, and after a while, he smiled awkwardly and explained, "Going to see my mother is just one of them, and my leg hurts a little, so I want you to accompany me to see it."

He rarely speaks out about leg pain, but whenever he mentions it, Gu Yanting will definitely listen.Lin Rui's original intention today was to ask Gu Yanting to accompany him to the hospital to see his mother, and then stop by for lunch and recall the university with him.He even thought about what to talk about during the meal that would best arouse Gu Yanting's previous affection for him, and how he concealed that he was made things difficult by Tang Yi in the company.

Who knew that Gu Yanting didn't immediately agree to go out with him just now, Lin Rui felt a little disappointed, and the expression on his face was grievance and anxiety.He was afraid that Gu Yanting might not hear clearly, so he deliberately helped his knee gently.

Gu Yanting really looked over excitedly.

Lin Rui bit his lower lip and looked at him sadly, but then he heard Gu Yanting ask, "Your leg hurts? Did it hurt recently?"

Lin Rui nodded.

Gu Yanting hurriedly looked at his leg with concern, and said, "Is it the pain after returning to T City? You were fine before?"

"Yes what's the matter."

"Tang Yi said that you must have a leg pain, but I still don't believe it." Gu Yanting breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly handed over the things in his hand, "Tsk, here you are, take it."

"..."

"Cotton trousers," Gu Yanting saw that Lin Rui didn't pick it up, so he sent it forward. After stuffing it into his hand, he sighed and patted Lin Rui's shoulder. Yes! You see, you are so sour that you lose it and wear it so much, it will be even more sad when you get old. Tang Yi bought this one before, and I didn’t wear it when I bought it too small. Ang, I gave it to you. "