Good Night, Liang Xiao

It was past two o'clock in the middle of the night when I lay down, but neither of them stayed in bed the next morning. Liang Xiao said that his father started to eat breakfast at 08:30 every day, and they finished washing at [-]:[-] and went downstairs on time. Walk.

The shirt from last night was of course unwearable, Ye Ji'an changed into a thin sweater, perhaps because of its elasticity, it didn't fit so loosely on his body, while Liang Xiao still wore the comfortable cotton clothes, rubbing his eyes and yawning , holding Ye Ji'an's wrist, walking hurriedly up the stairs.

Ye Ji'an tugged at his cuff, "Do you think he's here?"

Liang Xiao thought for a while, "I guess he's already at the table," he rubbed Ye Ji'an's fingers, and said, "Playing puzzles on the table."

Ye Ji'an smiled at his determination, and his heartbeat became much more stable.In my impression, I put the gift bag on the coffee table. Could it be that my father-in-law opened it up to play with when he saw it?When he finally arrived at the restaurant, he really saw a person standing in front of the long table where they had dinner last night, with short gray hair, medium build, gray silk jacket, black trousers, leisurely and leisurely with one hand behind his back, looking at the table intently. The desktop is busy with something.

"Dad, good morning." Liang Xiao raised his voice.

"Hehe, that's good," the chairman turned around when he heard the words, with a faint smile on his face, and a few white pieces in his hand, "I still thought that you were going to wait until ten years like you did before. point."

Liang Xiao shrugged, looked sideways at Ye Ji'an's face, with a rather smug expression, which probably meant "see, I guessed it right", Ye Ji'an returned his eyes with "you are awesome", and then went to say hello to the chairman, "good morning .”

"Hey, come and sit down, Xiaoye." The chairman made a wrong body, and gave up the sofa stool to the two of them, while he sat down on the high-back chair at the table, "Today, I will eat tomato and egg stewed noodles." , with lettuce salad and plum juice," he grabbed the pile of white pieces towards himself, "spring is here, let's lighten it up."

Ye Ji'an saw his result, there was a small white circle inside the assembled picture frame, he had put together all four sides and classified the remaining pieces.Ye Ji'an couldn't help admiring the enthusiasm and professionalism of this enthusiast. He was so old, and he came back so late last night, and he didn't know what time it was.

But Liang Xiao said: "I still want to drink Ovaltine."

"Here we come!" Mama Hu ran over with two trays in small steps, three times and five divisions, and a bowl of soup noodles was placed in front of one of them. The soup was bright red and the noodles were light, and it smelled like The sour aroma is attractive.The other tray contained drinks, two cups of sour plum soup soaked in ice cube water, and a cup of light coffee-colored hot drink, which was handed to Liang Xiao, "I knew you wanted to drink this!" Mama Hu smiled angrily .

"Thank you." Liang Xiao raised his brows and raised his hands to drink.

Mama Hu hummed a little tune and left, and after a while, another plate of lettuce slices that were as translucent as emeralds was brought over, covered with a pinch of minced garlic, Ye Ji'an tasted it and found that hot oil was poured on it It is the kind that is fried with peppercorns, no wonder a tasteless cold dish can make people mouth water.He felt he had learned another trick.

"How was the team building yesterday afternoon?" asked the chairman.

"It's a bit boring," Liang Xiao bit off a chopstick of noodles, swallowed it, and continued, "But I'm not very tired. The senior came back to accompany me in the second half."

"Fortunately, there is no smog, and the wind is not too strong." Ye Ji'an said.

"Haha, your general manager just likes to do things like this." The chairman wiped the corners of his mouth, and threw the hot towel on the table, "It's because you young people lack team spirit, and you have to gather people's hearts from time to time." Get together, let's sweat together," he looked up at the two young men, "do you two think it's useful?"

Liang Xiao said: "It's useless."

Ye Ji'an maintained a rigorous and serious work attitude, and said: "Everyone didn't put their minds on walking, because it was not voluntary and felt meaningless, so they were basically absent-minded, and I think the primary source of belonging is the sense of accomplishment. A group of people working in partnership, you have worked hard, and then the group has indeed achieved something, you will feel that you belong here very autonomously, and you don’t need others to remind you to shout slogans. Simply walking is a great way to cultivate a team It's really useless mentally."

The chairman nodded.

Liang Xiao said again: "While walking, we were talking about where to have dinner at night, relying on this matter, we were the only ones in the whole department who didn't go."

"Then you two left together? Just say something else?" The chairman looked at Ye Ji'an.

"Well," Ye Ji'an put down his chopsticks and sat upright, "They went to Donglaishun to eat hot-boiled meat. I ordered three surrogate drivers, and Lao Chen will take care of the rest, Deputy Director of Legal Affairs Chen."

The chairman smiled, his eyes were full of kindness, but suddenly there was a little mystery on his face, "By the way, is there anyone gossiping about you?"

Ye Ji'an was taken aback for a moment, he suspected that he had exhausted too much physical strength the day before and even affected his brain, so he had hallucinations, but Liang Xiao was a little anxious, "Dad!"

"I'm asking seriously. You usually get very close, and you didn't deliberately cover it up." The chairman still smiled, "Let me tell you first, I don't object to office romances, and our company doesn't have those messy bullshit rules. I like each other, we are in a relationship, we are justifiable and worthy of support. I just want to hear what you two are going to do if my colleagues find out about it.

"I—" Liang Xiao was interrupted.

"Xiaoye, let's talk first." The chairman continued to look at Ye Ji'an, his eyes were bright and kind, but seemed to be coercive.

Liang Xiao opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't make another sound. He just lowered his eyelashes and silently looked at Ye Ji'an's hand beside his leg.

In fact, he wanted to hear it too.

"I think the possibility of this kind of thing happening is very high, that is, colleagues are aware of our relationship," Ye Ji'an said normally, "Actually, I want them to find out quickly, because it's actually not easy to take the initiative to bring up such things. If At the end of the meeting, or suddenly yelling in the office, announcing that Liang Xiao and I are a couple, I always feel a bit too self-centered. Everyone is busy with other things, so they must be willing to listen to your private affairs? But If someone asks me, it's easy to handle, just admit it, and the whole department will know it naturally the next day."

"It seems that you are not afraid of being talked about behind your back." The chairman tapped the table with his fingertips.

"It's okay to discuss, just don't scold," Ye Ji'an was a little embarrassed, "If I scold him, I can't help but scold him too, and it will be so embarrassing if we work together in the future."

The chairman laughed, and looked at Liang Xiao who was pursing his lips and pretending to be serious, "It's your turn, make a statement."

Liang Xiao said it as it should be: "Actually, I wanted to borrow your building for a long time, and type a line on the light effect screen, Liang Xiaoye, Ji'an, forever and so on."

The chairman widened his eyes, "No borrowing!"

Liang Xiao asked again: "Is it OK to rent?"

The chairman said: "The Citi Building on the Bund, I remember that it costs 800 yuan per square meter for one day of broadcasting. My piece must have at least 80 square meters, which is 250 yuan per day. I will give you a family discount. Multiply it by three times and it will be [-] million yuan." , the playback content is free, the effect is guaranteed, just one point, don’t swipe my card.”

Faced with his father's serious trickery, Liang Xiao raised his chin, "Oh, then I'll make an appointment first."

The chairman took out the small leather notebook in a serious manner, and made a memo stroke by stroke, "Okay, I will remember it."

Liang Xiao smiled and said, "Just wait."

Ye Ji'an choked back his laughter until his throat hurt.

For some reason, he really had a premonition that one day before going to work, he would see some amazing scenes while waiting for the traffic lights at the zebra crossing in front of the roundabout downstairs.

After the meal, the chairman didn't ask the two of them to accompany him to do puzzles. According to him, this kind of game is very fun, and he doesn't want others to think about it. So Liang Xiao didn't force him, he was already tired of playing with this kind of thing. , dragging Ye Ji'an around the room.Those past works have been well displayed. Liang Xiao has indeed spelled out many world masterpieces with his father bit by bit. There is a special room and a corridor for display. When he saw them, he couldn't remember them. At my age at the time, I could occasionally recall a certain scene, was it in a courtyard in Beijing, or a living room in New York?The pictures gradually became complete, from trivial to complete, with sunlight falling on the lawn or the carpet, his father looked at him from time to time, taught him how to classify the fragments, and talked to him a lot.

"My dad likes to talk about life with me when I'm doing puzzles. Whether I'm playing games or reviewing for the final period, he calls me puzzles, I have to go, and I will go, I don't know why," Liang Xiao looked at the picture of Picasso Self-portrait, with tenderness in the corners of his eyes, "Maybe I thought it was enough talking just now, so I don't need it."

"Well, the main point may be chatting." Ye Ji'an leaned on his shoulder thoughtfully, "Puzzles take time, and it will allow you to stay honestly beside him for a while longer and listen to what the old man has to say."

The visit ended with a series of footsteps of little girls. Xiaoguo ran up energetically and asked them to play flying chess with her. This was something she remembered last night. However, when the two agreed to come down, they held each other When she walked to the living room on the first floor with one hand, she suddenly changed her mind.

"I want to eat candied haws!" She yelled, grabbing Liang Xiao's wrist with both hands, and Ye Ji'an was released temporarily.

"Ask Mama Hu to buy it for you." Liang Xiao didn't want to be teased by her.

"No! Mama Hu thinks I'm annoying," Xiaoguo felt wronged again, with tears in her eyes, "Brother Xiaoxiao, come with me! You haven't come back for a long time, I have something to say to you in private."

Liang Xiao felt that he was a hundred times more annoying than Hu's mother, but he really didn't want to see the child crying. It seemed that this meant that he had to accompany him to go shopping alone. what a big deal.

He looked at Ye Ji'an.

Ye Ji'an smiled, "Go and come back quickly." A whisper.

So Liang Xiao bit the bullet and went out, holding the little girl's cuffs and walked quickly, and walked out of the courtyard in the blink of an eye.

Ye Ji'an was a little bored for a moment, so he put on his coat and stood in the yard basking in the sun, when there was a knock at the door behind him, and it was the chairman who came out wrapped in a blanket.

"One-fifth of the effort." He said, "The person disappeared again?"

"Accompany Xiaoguo to buy candied haws." Ye Ji'an gave him a piece of sunlight sifted from a tree branch.

The chairman sighed, "That child is also a bit pampered. I heard her yelling in the room just now." After a pause, he asked again, "Is Liang Xiao not such a problem now?"

"You don't have to treat him like a child," Ye Ji'an smiled, "He is more accurate than me in many things."

"I think you are quite used to him, those strange little habits, and the young master's temper, have you ever felt this way?" After the chairman said, he greeted a few times with "tsk tsk tsk", and all the bushes in the yard A few fat shadows sprang out of the crowd, and some cats jumped down from the wall, all of them were thick and fat.

Ye Ji'an's scalp immediately became tense, these cats were obviously very close, and Mimi gathered around them, coquettishly, rubbing against their calves and ankles.

He lowered his eyes, staring at these animals that he lacked experience in, almost at a loss. "I don't think so," he said, "I just feel comfortable getting along with them."

"That's good."

"Aren't you too lacking in confidence in him?" Ye Ji'an was caught by a cat's tail, and seeing the two paws pressing on his slippers, he was surprised that he didn't subconsciously run away, "Your son is better than too many people." Much better."

"Maybe." The chairman looked up at the sky.

Ye Ji'an watched helplessly as the cat yawned, showing a small part of its tongue and sharp teeth, and was a little speechless.

"I'm always a little worried about him, I just don't want him to be wrong again and get hurt again," said the chairman, "Liang Xiao is the kind of child who needs a lot of love. Although he may not realize it, but He is sensitive, a bit perfectionist, and he also cares about certain things very much. Not everyone in this world can understand him, or in other words, very few understand him. Isn’t he just a child in my eyes,” said Then he crossed his arms again, and looked at the magpie nest on the top of the persimmon tree from a distance, "So now, I may have a little too much to tell you. How should I put it, since we were young, we all wanted to give him a lot. A lot of love, but the result is that we all did not do well, but because of our own problems, we gave him more neglect and harm. This is something that peers don't need to work hard to accept, so it is quite unfair to him .”

Ye Ji'an's attention had already shifted away from the cats. Although Mama Hu came to feed them and there were more and more cats around them, he had no time to be afraid. He just nodded and listened carefully.

"When I was young, when his mother and his brother had an accident, I realized that I was really not doing very well as a father, so I put down all my work and ran to accompany him for two years. The rebellious period of children, most of the time He doesn't talk to me very much, but he is very fierce when we quarrel. I remember once he yelled at me, saying that it was because of us that he had that kind of yin and yang personality. It made me so angry that I felt that I had already He did his best and fulfilled his obligations to him, but he is the one who thinks wildly every day," the chairman closed his mouth and was quiet for a while, "but he came to apologize to me later, the sixteen or seventeen-year-old , I didn’t shed any tears when I got a plaster cast on my leg when I was fighting with someone. When I said sorry, I cried. I suddenly felt that what he said before was correct. Not long after he was born, his mother took his brother abroad, and I was busy all the time. Work, and when he grows up, he is eager to send him out, but within two years, he encountered such a thing, opened the door, and saw his mother died on his sofa. I will never forget it for the rest of my life. They say it is not too late to make up for it, but this is actually self-comforting."

"Indeed," Ye Ji'an took two deep breaths, "he will lose sleep because of this incident later."

"now what?"

"it's good now."

"Thank you, really, Xiaoye," the chairman said slowly, "I really didn't expect him to meet such a person, and then you, suddenly, just appeared. Listen to my old man here So many things, haha."

"You shouldn't thank me. Liang Xiao grew up and was picked up by me." The cat scratched Ye Ji'an's shoe, but he still looked at it. "We both have that kind of common language. When I was young Had a bad time too, then tried desperately to escape and succeeded, felt like I was rooted thousands of miles away, how could I still want to die every day. But I don't want to now, I even rarely recall the pain when I was a child, they are all blurred .”

"I think pain is not for recalling, because you are the only one who suffers. It should be for kicking. If you want to kick it away, or someone makes you want to kick it away, then you will succeed. Don’t be afraid of it anymore, only then can you truly be considered an adult.” Ye Ji’an turned his face, and he suddenly realized that it was the first time he looked at his big boss with such a calm mood, without any nervousness or caution, “Liang Xiao is already , so I say, he's great."

Liang Xiao bought a total of three sticks of candied haws, one stick of strawberry for Xiaoguo, and two sticks of hawthorn sticky rice for Ye Ji'an and himself. He didn't buy the fourth stick because his father has diabetes.

When he entered the yard, he saw a strange scene. Ye Ji'an was squatting on the edge of the grass, petting a cat slowly.

He clearly remembered that Ye Ji'an said that he was afraid of cats, especially the three-flowered cat raised by his younger brother. He would feel uncomfortable when he saw similar designs and colors, and would break out in a cold sweat when he touched them. He also kept a respectful distance from the few wild cats in the community. .

But at this moment, a chubby tabby cat was snoring under Ye Ji'an's hands.

But Ye Ji'an raised his eyes and saw Yu Yemei across the courtyard, still smiling at him.

"Senior?" Liang Xiao handed Xiaoguo to the housekeeper with an apologetic face, and squatted beside Ye Ji'an, holding two sticks of hawthorn glutinous rice in his hand.

"I suddenly found that cats are quite obedient. Their fur is so soft, but they are too dirty, and they rub against my pants desperately." Ye Ji'an licked the sugar-coated crisps on the top of the bamboo stick. It was excess syrup that could not wrap the nuts , just flattened and solidified, wrapped in gray glutinous rice paper, almost every candied haws has it, but now it is branched under the sun, shining yellow.

"Help me hold it for a while, I'll wash my hands." Ye Ji'an said.