Goldberg Variations

Pei Wen didn't even ask what time it was, nor what he was going to do.

Clearly, his lack of time was aimed at people, not anything else.

Looking at Pei Wen's leaving back, Gu Kai opened his mouth and thought: Did I do something wrong?

However, when Pei Wen walked to the door, he suddenly saw a golden shadow from the corner of his eye.

He turned his head to look, and found a pot of ginkgo bonsai more than one meter high. A few golden fan-shaped leaves fell in the large square flowerpot. as gorgeous.

Pei Wen's eyes were stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that Gu Kai closed the shop for a week, just for renovation.And this ginkgo was suggested by him.

Unexpectedly, Gu Kai really joined.

While looking at the ginkgo tree, Pei Wen slowed down, and Gu Kai, who was still puzzled, quickly followed up, grabbed his wrist and said, "If you want to see it, you can watch it slowly."

Pei Wen stopped, looked back at him, and scanned the newly renovated storefront.

The overall atmosphere embodies the colorful, bright and warm autumn, and every detail shows Gu Kai's intentions. Previously, his attention had been on Gu Kai, Wen Heyu, and he didn't notice these.

Seeing that Pei Wen was not in a hurry to leave, Gu Kai smiled slightly and said, "You haven't visited it carefully yet, many of the designs here are based on your opinion, don't you want to see the finished product?"

There were only the two of them left in the shop, Wen Heyu and Wan Ying had already left work.

Pei Wen pursed his lips, struggling a little: "Aren't you afraid that he will be unhappy?"

"He?" Gu Kai caught the word.

"Pei Wen?" Hong Qian, who had been waiting for Pei Wen outside for a long time, came in again, and leaned forward while leaning on the door frame, "What are you doing?"

Gu Kai replied for him: "We still have something to do."

Hong Qian froze for a moment, nodded with a smile, and waved to Pei Wen: "Then I'll go back first, thank you for coming with me today."

Pei Wen smiled and said, "It's okay."

He did not deny Gu Kai's words.

After Hong Qian left, Gu Kai took Pei Wen back to the sofa and sat down, and said with a smile: "Now I can tell you, have you misunderstood me?"

"What other people, him," Gu Kai sat opposite Pei Wen, "I don't have anyone else, I can guarantee this."

Pei Wen's back was straight, his knees were close together, his hands were on his knees, and he sat upright.

Regarding Gu Kai's words, he couldn't help showing a little resentment, as well as a grievance that was so obscure that it was hard to detect:

"Doesn't your employee like you?"

After he finished speaking, he realized that his words were too direct, as if he was jealous.

Although he does seem to be...

This realization made Pei Wen a little flustered.

"Indeed." Gu Kai didn't deny it, "But you can't just give me the death penalty because of this."

"He had this intention before, but he didn't express it directly, so I just pretended not to know. After Shuangshuang mentioned it that day, I took a chance to make it clear to him."

"Other than that, nothing else."

He explained the whole process in a few words.

"He's just an employee," Gu Kai said, "If you don't like it, I'll fire him... His contract is about to expire."

The one-year contract is about a month away.

Although terminating the contract early violated the spirit of the contract, there was no other way. Pei Wen's feelings were obviously more important than the contract.Moreover, he will pay Wen and Yu compensation according to the price.

Gu Kai's explanation was very clear, instantly making Pei Wen understand that he was just thinking too much.

Yet he still hesitated.

This hesitation fell into Gu Kai's eyes and was clearly seen, Gu Kai asked: "What's the problem?"

Pei Wen hesitated to speak, not knowing whether to speak out or not.I always feel that if I say it, it will appear that he cares about it.

In fact, it was just a small matter, he shouldn't care so much...

"I hope you can be more honest." Gu Kai seemed to know what he was thinking, "When we get along with each other, we need to communicate more to solve problems."

"Otherwise, small problems will accumulate into big problems, and it will be difficult to solve. If you have misunderstood me, but don't say it, don't give me a chance to explain, it's not fair to me, isn't it?" He used a soft tone to persuade Step by step, Pei Wen was induced to open his heart as much as possible.

Pei Wen was persuaded, he lowered his head and remained silent for a while: "Last night, you went to the play together."

This is a statement, not a question.

"Did you see it?" Gu Kai was a little surprised.

"No," Pei Wen said, "The auditorium is very dark, so I can't see it. It's because he ran into your employee when he stepped off the stage, he said."

Gu Kai breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that this was the case, and explained with a smile: "I didn't go alone with him, Wan Ying was also there, if you don't believe me, you can ask her, it was just a team building."

"Team building..."

"Correct."

Pei Wen finally realized that it was all because of his overthinking.

Wen Heyu only said that Gu Kai took him to watch a drama, but didn't say that he was the only one with him, but he defaulted to being alone.

So the depression these days was all imagined by him out of thin air, Pei Wen was a little annoyed.

What was even more frustrating was that his depression was discovered by Gu Kai.

This made him feel a little ashamed.

But at the same time, joy and joy jumped out uncontrollably, bit by bit, filling his heart like honey.

The two contradictory moods made Pei Wen's lips curl up, and he forced it down again.

He stared at the cracked jade bracelet on the coffee table, and pretended to change the subject: "Aren't you angry that your employees broke the guests' things?"

"angry."

"Then you just..."

Gu Kai smiled: "There were guests just now, so I can't lose my temper in front of them."

"I planned to teach him a lesson after the guest left. Who knew that he would suddenly be so blank-eyed and ask me that kind of question in front of the guest, and he didn't know what he was thinking."

Pei Wen was thoughtful.

Gu Kai thought for two seconds: "Maybe after I pointed it out, he felt a little insecure and worried that I would fire him because of this?"

Although Gu Kai is keen, it is impossible to guess every thought of everyone.

Pei Wen asked again: "Then will you fire him?"

Gu Kai: "Look at him. If he wants to leave, I won't stop him. If he wants to stay, he should work hard, don't bring his personal feelings to work, and don't have other ideas. I can treat him as a Nothing happened."

Gu Kai has always made a clear distinction between work and personal affairs.

"Well, there's more." Gu Kai smiled again, looked at Pei Wen and said, "If anyone minds, it won't count."

Pei Wen raised his eyebrows slightly, turned his face to look at the ginkgo tree, and said, "Anyway, I don't mind."

What do I care about, he thought, it has nothing to do with me whether others like Gu Kai or not.