[The summer solstice has not yet come] Carving time

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It was late at night after the not-so-serious dinner.

Gu Qiaochu stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyes. Seeing that the remaining friends started to clean up the trash very consciously, he turned his head and patted the sleepy and dazed Lixia, "Let's go, I'll take you back."

Li Xia hid behind Gu Qiaochu's back and secretly tightened his clothes, his hair slid down from his head and shoulders, covering a little bit of his sight.But she didn't care, she just smiled and greeted a few big boys in the yard, "Then I'll go first, you guys come on!"

Gu Qiaochu sent Lixia to the door of the house, he watched Lixia's mother thank him for the trouble, and then brought the little girl who came back late into the house.He put both hands in the pockets of his coat, when Li Xia entered the door, he noticed that the surrounding area had been filled with night fog and it was a bit cold.

At this point, Shi County had already quieted down. Gu Qiaochu was walking alone on the path paved with bluestone slabs, his shoes buckled on the ground making rattling noises.

At that time, he suddenly remembered a poem.

The sound of my hooves is a beautiful mistake

I'm not a native, I'm a passer-by

At this time, it was a bit inexplicable to think of this, he frowned and stopped by the side of the road.After standing for a while, he began to feel tired, so he took a step back and leaned against the big tree to take out a cigarette from his bag.

He no longer has to aim for a long time to light a spark like a long time ago, and he can also skillfully spit out a complete pale smoke ring.But he didn't think it was handsome at all, on the contrary, he seemed a little defeated.

He had just smoked half of a cigarette when Gu Qiaochu heard the sound of someone running over quickly.He didn't look back, he heard footsteps stop very close to him, and then he almost deliberately exhaled the most perfect smoke ring.

"...Ah Chu." He was a little surprised that the expected questioning did not come.He felt that Lu Zhiang came over and blocked him, so close that he couldn't even see the expression on the other side.

Lu Zhiang put one arm around Gu Qiaochu's waist, and the other directly pinched the hand holding the cigarette.He buried his head on Gu Qiaochu's shoulder and neck, and asked him in a hoarse voice, "Are you addicted?"

The warm breath sprinkled all over the bare neck, against the cold air that was still not soft this winter, and the small piece of skin was quickly covered with goose bumps.Unable to adapt, Gu Qiaochu slightly tilted his head to avoid it, and then he felt that Lu Zhiang bit his own neck.He sucked in a breath of cold air with a "hiss", and instead of pushing away, he patted the trembling back of the person in front of him with his empty hand, and finally said in a low voice as if admitting defeat, "No...no .”

That night Lu Zhiang held Gu Qiaochu tightly in his arms, pulled up the pure white quilt, and kissed Gu Qiaochu's warm brows and eyes in the dark according to his feeling.Half a year is not a reunion after a long absence, but this time, Lu Zhiang felt that Gu Qiaochu was very empty. He looked at the person in his arms with flushed eyes by a little moonlight, and his ears were filled with forbearance and silence. gasping sound.It was at this time that he stopped suddenly, feeling Gu Qiaochu's impatience gently scratching his wrist, and then he leaned over to wrap his earlobe in his mouth, and muttered in a low and hoarse voice with a smile, "Ah Chu, do you like it?" I."

Gu Qiaochu froze, he felt Lu Zhiang's fingers tap his back slowly, and finally realized that this was Lu Zhiang's answer to the question he left before he left.

He raised his hand to cover his eyes, listening to the deep laughter of the people around him, and even the vibration of the air in his chest was transmitted along with the tight skin.He gave up on himself a bit, reached out his hand to grab Lu Zhiang's hair angrily, "I like you, are you satisfied?"

"Satisfied...satisfied..."

After the Chinese New Year, the group returned to their respective jobs, and when Yu Lai appeared in Litong's conference room again, Lu Zhiang was no longer surprised.He took the information in his hand and sat down on the Litong employee's side opposite Yu Lai, and chatted with Yu Lai before the meeting started, "Hey, Lin An arrived later than you today."

Yu Lai raised his eyebrows when he heard the words, he glanced at the vacant seat on his left, wondering if Lu Zhiang would fall off the chair due to fright.He coughed a few times under cover, and answered ambiguously, "Senior Lin An is always the first to come."

The premise is that this meeting has his arrangements.

Hua Shang was engaged in real estate in the early days, and the previous generations of the family started early.It is a well-known fact in Asakawa that almost every building and high-end residential area with a name in the city has a part of Huashang.Later, because the hostess met many designer friends, the sideline business expanded to luxury design and high-end clothing.

In this way, it has an inseparable relationship with Litong, a famous domestic star-making factory.

Lu Zhiang saw that when Gu Qiaochu opened the door and came in, he almost knocked over the water glass in his hand. He watched Gu Qiaochu calmly walked to Yu Lai's left seat and sat down, and felt as if a group of mud horses were galloping past in his heart.

He remembered that on the day when he returned to Shanghai after the annual leave, he asked Gu Qiaochu how he arranged it, and Gu Qiaochu smiled and said that he would talk about it later.He didn't expect Gu Qiaochu to work in Huashang.

But at this time, he looked at Gu Qiaochu with a standard professional smile on his face. He was wearing a well-tailored suit with a dark twill gray shirt inside. The golden cufflinks shone gorgeously against the light.That was the appearance of Gu Qiaochu that Lu Zhiang didn't know about.

What's even more frightening is that he actually saw Allen smiling and shaking hands with Gu Qiaochu, "I heard Mr. Gu mentioning you earlier, and now I'm finally ready to take over Hua Shang's burden with peace of mind."

shit.

This time Lu Zhiang was in a daze throughout the meeting, although he had made full preparations for this cooperation before.

Huashang is going to launch this year's latest high-end suits, Litong is full of confidence and is bound to push Qiqi to win this endorsement.

No one expected that they would be stopped during the photo show, and they watched Huashang's new marketing manager make a pause gesture.He held a pen in one hand and scratched the information at hand, "If it's a spokesperson of this level, the effect of wearing it myself should be better."

Carol didn't hold back on the spot, she made a headache expression to Gu Qiaochu, "Did you make a mistake? Our Qiqi is the most popular artist in Litong now!"

"What we need is not traffic, but a professional model." Gu Qiaochu glanced at Alan, and after realizing that the other party was not unhappy because of his words, he paused and continued calmly, "Cheng Qi For our new product this time, Ms. Seven may not be able to show the full effect of our suit. If she is used as a model, her skeleton and face shape are not so suitable. Judging from the style of this new product, we are more I hope to find a professional model with a more three-dimensional face, a little colder facial features, and a slender figure."

Every word he said was irrefutable, even the last four words, to those who cared, there was a sense of ridicule.

Lu Zhiang couldn't help it when he left the conference room, but this is the company after all, he gritted his teeth and followed Gu Qiaochu and Yu Lai to the parking lot.

Yu Lai was walking beside Gu Qiaochu, he turned his head to look at Lu Zhiang, patted Gu Qiaochu's shoulder with a smile, and drove away by himself, "Brother, I wish you luck."

"Then it's Qiqi, after all, we've known each other for so long, and your words are too shameful." Lu Zhiang couldn't help but tugged on Gu Qiaochu's wrist, he saw that Gu Qiaochu finally no longer looked like he was in a meeting. With such a professional and a bit indifferent appearance in the room, I actually felt a little down-to-earth in my heart.

Gu Qiaochu turned his head to look at Lu Zhiang, he thought for a while, and then seriously replied, "From my standpoint, I am of course responsible for our designer's work."

"Okay!" Lu Zhiang thought that this was really the case, he paused, and then continued, "Then what's going on with you here."

"Well, a surprise for you?"

"There's a fart surprise, all that's left is shock!"

Now Gu Qiaochu just pursed his lips and smiled, and stopped talking.

He remembered when Lu Zhiang showed him Litong's contract, but he was actually a little angry at that time.

He had already made a plan for Lu Zhiang to return to China to take up the position of marketing manager of Huashang. He had seen Lu Zhiang's progress little by little in the past three years, and he believed that Lu Zhiang had this ability.

But after all, he was too reassured about Lu Zhiang, and he didn't know that Lu Zhiang and Fu Xiaosi would fight together after they made an appointment.

It wasn't until the temporarily hired marketing manager was poached by another company that he had no choice but to come back and accept it.But to be honest, in fact, he also wanted to see Lu Zhiang's expression when he saw him in the workplace.

It's really interesting.

He didn't expect that it would be the beginning of their last conflict, and he didn't know whether to be happy or sad when he said it.

Gu Qiaochu is an overly rational person, he wished to separate all work and life clearly, and he invited Yu Lai only because Yu Lai was really capable.

So when Lu Zhiang asked him to help him meet, he refused without thinking.

"You can help me meet you, Ah Chu." Thinking of the hardships Lu Zhiang suffered for his dream, he felt a little sad, he couldn't help scratching the rim of the coffee cup with his thumb, "She has that ability."

"If you think she has that ability, why do you ask me for such a thing." Gu Qiaochu pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, he didn't look up at Lu Zhiang, but secretly stretched out his hand to press down on the temple , "Because you also understand that if you want to make a debut, you can't rely on strength alone."

"Is that fair to them?"

"So what if it's unfair, Zhiang, this society is like this."

Gu Qiaochu's words are always reasonable, but what Lu Zhiang hates most is his face.It seems that when he is older, he understands all the truths, understands the survival rules and cruelty of this society, and understands whether human relationships should be warm or not.

It was only later that Lu Zhiang realized that Gu Qiaochu really understood.And he understood these truths later than Gu Qiaochu, but it was because Gu Qiaochu helped him block it first.