From Pokfulam to Central

This time, Li Yan brought Qu Zhi on a business trip to assist a corporate client in handling a case that a partner applied for arbitration at the Hong Kong International Arbitration Center.As attorneys appointed by the Beijing head office, the two have been inquiring about the situation with the person in charge of the local office and legal personnel since they came to Hong Kong.

Due to the many disputes involved in this case, in the past few days, the entrusting parties have held no less than ten meetings, large or small, to communicate and discuss.Seeing that tomorrow is the day for the court session, Li Yan and Qu Zhi finally had a basic and comprehensive grasp of the situation before tonight, and also sorted out all the demands of the client. Too much mental paperwork.Li Yan asked Qu Zhi to go back to the hotel with him, and planned to work overtime together to get it out.

When the elevator door in the hotel lobby opened, Li Yan was on the phone with the people in the head office to communicate the situation. He took out his room card from his jacket pocket and stuffed it into the music handle, then put a handful around his waist, into the elevator.

Qu Zhi was stunned for a moment, turned around and asked with his eyes, and saw Li Yan mouthing "Go up and wait for me".

Not long after Qu Zhi entered the room, Li Yan also came up, opened the door and saw that Qu Zhi was already typing on the computer, he took out a bottle of wine from the bar and poured two glasses, one for himself, and one for Qu Zhi , persuaded: "Have a drink and rest, the rest of these things don't matter, and you don't have to work too hard."

Qu Zhi thanked the leader, didn't touch the glass of wine, only said that he felt at ease after finishing it earlier.

"Okay," Li Yan knew he was getting bored, "Then you write first, I'll take a shower to wake up, their meeting room is small and full of people, the meeting these few days makes me lack of oxygen every day .”

Qu Zhi's men worked very quickly, and when Li Yan came out after washing, he had already finished almost half of it.

"Are you saying that the Fengshui in this room is not good?" Li Yan walked behind Qu Zhi, opened the window and lit a cigarette for himself, "The past two days I have had a headache and couldn't sleep well, and one night when I fell asleep, I suddenly felt dizzy. When I woke up, I subconsciously wanted to call you over, but then I realized that you didn't live in a hotel, and I didn't know how far you were, so I didn't let you bother."

What Li Yan said made Qu Zhi feel a little embarrassed, as if he didn't take good care of the leader, he seemed to have neglected his duties, so he hurriedly asked, "Then are you feeling better now?"

"It's all right," Li Yan said while handing Qu Zhi a cigarette, "One?"

Qu Zhi declined repeatedly, but saw that Li Yan didn't intend to take it back, instead he hung his hand in the air, and then even fixed his gaze on himself.Qu Zhi didn't understand, so he just felt uncomfortable being looked at, and just about to speak to break the awkward staring, Li Yan stretched out his hand and pointed forward: "There are some problems here."

Looking back in the direction Li Yan pointed, Qu Zhi realized that the other party was probably staring at the document written on his computer screen just now, and hurriedly searched for the inappropriateness in the few lines he just pointed out.

However, Qu Zhi repeatedly read this passage several times and did not find any so-called problems. He was just about to ask for advice, but when he turned around, he suddenly realized that Li Yan took advantage of the gap of a few seconds to quietly join in. step forward.For a moment, Qu Zhi was even thinking about whether he had touched something he should not have touched just now.

Seeing Qu Zhi turn around in embarrassment, Li Yan curled his lips silently, then pressed the keyboard with one hand and the mouse with the other, holding the person between his arms paradoxically, "It's better to change the word here."

Now, Qu Zhi's ears are filled with Li Yan's steady and fiery breath, behind him is his chest looming under the neckline of his bathrobe, and on his neck are the cool drops of water dripping from his half-dried hair.The ambiguous posture made Qu Zhi froze there until Li Yan changed his words and let go of the restraint just now.

"Okay, you can continue writing," Li Yan patted Qu Zhi on the shoulder, "I'll read it after I finish writing."

"Actually, uh—" Qu Zhi tried his best to organize his words, "Why don't I take these things back and write them, after all, it's getting late so I won't disturb your rest, I'll send them to your email when I finish writing, and you can read it again when you get up tomorrow. In time."

Li Yan raised Erlang's legs and leaned on the sofa, looked him up and down unscrupulously with naked eyes, and then said with a smile: "It's okay, I'll wait for you, I'll be at ease when I finish it, isn't that what you said."

For the next 10 minutes, Qu Zhi nailed himself to the chair with his amazing perseverance. After typing out the last punctuation mark in a hurry, he didn't even read it through to check it again, and just showed it to Li Yan.

On the other hand, the leader seemed not in a hurry at all, and carefully reviewed it for a long time, until the hands of the clock turned around 11:30, and then returned the computer to Qu Zhi who was sitting next to him, "Well, no problem. .”

Qu Zhi finally breathed a sigh of relief, "Alright Li Lu, then you go to bed early, I'll go back first."

"Wait." Seeing that Qu Zhi was about to get up, Li Yan naturally put his hand on his leg, and stopped him: "It's too late now, why don't you stay here tonight, and go back and forth a lot."

Qu Zhi frowned imperceptibly, and got up to avoid the contact between the two, "It's still not Li Lu, I don't bring anything, and the clothes I will wear in the court tomorrow are all with my friend, so I don't want to disturb you gone."

Li Yan twitched the corners of his mouth contemptuously, "Okay, look at your nervousness, I won't eat you again."

Zhou Mi had been waiting in the downstairs lobby for a long time, until he saw that Qu Zhi had finally come down, his expression eased, and he stepped forward and said, "I came all the way on a business trip and worked overtime at night for so long, you are really a good boss." Perverted."

Qu Zhi cursed inwardly, and echoed, "It's quite perverted."

It was the first time I saw Qu Zhi say that his boss was not good, Zhou Mi thought he was tired, so he stretched out his arms and hugged him, "Let's go, today is the Lantern Festival, I'll take you to relax, let's go to Tsim Sha Tsui to enjoy the lanterns. "

Zhou Mi drove the car up the Western Submarine Tunnel, blasting the accelerator all the way, in order to get there before midnight, so that at least it was a festival together, but he was so close to him, watching the colorful lights go from being to nothing.

Zhou Mi parked the car on the side of the road, but he lost interest, and even wanted to drive home for a moment, but in the end Qu Zhi coaxed and persuaded him to pull him off.

Qu Zhi led Zhou Mi along the Avenue of Stars on the north shore of Victoria Harbor from west to east. Since it started to rain after dark today, there were almost no pedestrians on the road at this time.In the thick night, only the light on the clock tower of the old Kowloon-Canton Railway and the street lamps on the sidewalk are left, still gently shining on the two holding hands.

"I'm sorry, Qu Zhi," Zhou Mi looked annoyed, "I couldn't accompany you to spend the Lantern Festival last year because of me. I thought I could make up for it this year, but I still missed it."

Qu Zhi stretched out his hand and pinched the corner of Zhou Mi's mouth, and forcefully pulled him a grimace-like smile, "Don't make a sad face, have fun. Besides, it's not your fault that we didn't catch up this year, and we still have so many in the future." There will be a lot of opportunities to celebrate Lantern Festival, Spring Festival, Valentine's Day, Christmas, etc., and so on."

"But I just want to celebrate all the festivals with you," Zhou Mi stretched out Qu Zhi's hand, and squeezed it into his palm like a baby, "I don't want to miss any of them."

Qu Zhi laughed, wondering why he was acting coquettishly, and comforted him: "Who said you missed it, look at these lights, the one in the shape of a peacock, and that pig, they are here, it's just that it's getting dark When it rains, they just fall asleep."

The breeze was blowing from the dark sea surface with a light salty smell, and the drizzle in winter gave a slight chill to the body. Qu Zhi leaned on the railing of the seaside promenade, with two moons in the sky and in the water behind him.

Zhou Mi opened up his overcoat, wrapped the whole person up, and warmed Qu Zhi, who was only wearing a thin coat, with his own body, then leaned on his ear and said, "Well, since they are asleep, then Look at those who haven’t slept, they say the moon is sixteen on the fifteenth day, it’s a new day now, let’s watch the moon together.”

Commercial arbitration usually only holds one court session, and the verdict will take more than a month to come out, so after Qu Zhi finished the court session with Li Yan the next day, the case will be temporarily concluded.

Qu Zhi has been busy these few days and Zhou Mi has not been idle. He had a few meals with Zhao Dong in private, and learned about the current situation of the Hong Kong company, but it was limited to understanding. After all, he is nothing now, and he himself I have no idea about the business here or the company in Beijing.

All in all, both men came to Hong Kong with their own missions, and those missions were satisfactorily completed when they boarded the departing flight.Qu Zhi didn't sit next to Li Yan this time, but leaned against Zhou Mi and slept.

It was night when the plane landed, and it was late at night when the two drove home.

The few hours Qu Zhi slept on the plane didn't seem to have any effect on relieving fatigue. Instead, he slept more and more sleepily, so that he now followed Zhou Mi, who was dragging two suitcases, until he found that the man seemed to be in the corridor. After he paused for a long time without taking out the key to open the door, he realized something was wrong.Unsuspectingly, he poked his head out from behind Zhou Mi and looked in the direction of the door. Qu Zhi saw two familiar strangers that he never expected to appear.

Zhou Mi was watching these two women who appeared at their door inexplicably with guarded eyes, thinking about who they were and who they were looking for, when he heard Qu Zhi's alienated and resisting voice behind him: "Grandma? Aunt?"

"Quzhi, is it Quzhi?" In the cloudy eyes of the old man, the light of grasping the life-saving straw flashed, and she poked vigorously on the ground with her crutch in her old root-like right hand, crying : "Why did you just come back!"

Qu Zhi walked up to them from behind Zhou Mi, "How did you find this place?"

The old man stretched out his other hand tremblingly, spread out his palm, and shouted heart-piercingly, "Quick, save your dad..."

Qu Zhi took a closer look, and saw that the handkerchief wrapped in his palm was actually a bloody severed finger.