Contention

When Lu Yuexi ate half of the bag of crab roe soup dumplings, Zou Feiniao finally returned from the phone call.

Lu Yuexi watched her lift the lid of her porridge order, with a calm expression on her face, wiped off the soup stains on her lips with a paper, and asked, "Is there something wrong?"

"It's nothing." Zou Feiniao said succinctly, "It's just a project application discussion. I, a senior, called and wanted to form a team with me."

Lu Yuexi said, "Oh."

Zou Feiniao added: "It's related to the evaluation of the scholarship."

Lu Yuexi was still calm: "Oh."

After breakfast, I sat down for a while.She asked Assistant Wen to drive Zou Feiniao back, but she didn't do it herself, and only kissed the girl for a while before the other party left.

Glasses are a bit annoying.Zou Feiniao smiled, reached out to take off the glasses and pinched them with his fingertips, lowered his head, narrowed his eyes slightly, and let Lu Yuexi hug her neck.

When Lu Yuexi opened his eyes, he saw the other party's black eyebrows and deep eyes.

It moved her so much.

She has indeed grown up.

After Zou Feiniao went, he didn't come back the next day.Lu Yuexi called and said that he was busy writing the project application and couldn't leave with a few seniors.

Lu Yuexi understood and stopped disturbing.

On the day when Ying Nuo went to Kaikoura together, it began to rain lightly from the early morning, and there was a crescent-shaped bay in the distance from the hotel.

At this time, the fog was thickening, the boat was shaking and the waves were shaking, and the temperature was obviously not low, but it made people feel a chill rising for no reason.

Lu Yuexi called the whale watching company in Kaikoura, and the other party said that the light rain would not affect the sea, so she was relieved and called Zou Feiniao again.

She didn't sleep well last night, and she didn't sleep all night, so her voice was slightly hoarse at this time, and her slightly pale face was reflected on the glass, making her look particularly lethargic: "When are you coming?"

It's 25:[-] in the morning.

The other end of the phone said: "It's ready to go."

"I'll pick you up?" It's only a twenty-minute drive from the hotel to Zou Feiniao's school.

"Need not."

Lu Yuexi slowly rubbed the acupoints between her eyebrows with her slightly cool fingertips, her insomnia made her dizzy: "...then I'll wait for you, hurry up. The temperature seems to have cooled down a bit today, and it will be windy when we go to the sea later. Put on a coat."

Zou Feiniao smiled and said, "Okay."

"Bring me another crab roe bun that I ate the day before yesterday." Lu Yuexi unconsciously lowered his voice, with a coquettish tone, "It's delicious, but the ones sold in the hotel are not so authentic."

Zou Feiniao still responded: "I'll pass by later to buy."

"Yes." There were still many things to prepare before departure, so Lu Yue reluctantly hung up the phone after chatting for a while.

Assistant Wen came to knock on the door, carrying a bag of things in his hand, and said, "I've bought the seasickness medicine, is there anything else I need?"

Lu Yuexi still had a mask on his face. While taking the medicine, he thought for a while and said, "Think about it again, maybe you need to buy something. By the way, I will put this camera with you later, and I will use it later." Get off the boat and take more pictures of me and Feiniao."

Talking back to the room, he took out the camera bag from the suitcase and handed it over: "Try to take some positive photos, be clear, I will wash them out for collection after returning to Oucheng."

After giving instructions, she closed the door to put on makeup again. During this period, she went to the sink to do her hair. The hair dryer buzzed, blowing and curling. After doing it for half an hour, she looked at the person in the mirror for a moment, and suddenly remembered something.

Looking at the phone, it was almost 09:30, Zou Feiniao did not come, but the screen showed her two missed calls and three voice messages.

Lu Yuexi felt bad, so he clicked on the voice messages first, and listened to them one by one:

"The tutor has an impromptu meeting, which is quite important, and it is expected to take two hours..."

"I don't know if he will arrange things in the afternoon, so the trip to Kaikoura can only be temporarily postponed..."

"Sorry, it should be fine tomorrow depending on the situation."

After hearing the last sentence, the doorbell rang, and Lu Yuexi's temples twitched. He took a deep breath to stabilize his emotions and went to open the door. Assistant Wen was carrying a backpack, bulging, and asked, "Boss, are you ready to go?"

Lu Yuexi couldn't tell what it was like in his heart, so he was silent for a while, he didn't bother to say anything, and just waved.

Assistant Wen took a look at her appearance, then looked at the empty room behind her, no matter how many years she had been with her, she immediately realized it, and said wittily without asking any further questions: "Then I'll go back first."

"Yeah." Lu Yuexi closed the door, leaned against the door and called the whale watching company, canceling the afternoon appointment.

Looking outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, the curtains were tied on both sides, and the rain was still pattering. Just like her, she was lazy and lonely, and in the gray daylight, she gradually felt an indescribable feeling of powerlessness.

Since Zou Feiniao couldn't come, she had no choice but to go about her own business.

He handled some meetings remotely, and then held a video conference with the company executives. He came back from a random lunch in the middle, and Zou Feiniao happened to call.

Picking it up, the tone was a little tired, but the voice was soft and relaxed: "It's just over...he sent a message to call us up temporarily, and everyone was scolding him to death in private, so I probably felt embarrassed, so I specially asked We had a meal."

It was a bit noisy over there, and there was the sound of water splashing, and a female voice kept calling "Maree", which is Zou Feiniao's English name.

Lu Yuexi asked, "Where are you now?"

Zou Feiniao replied: "In the restroom of the hotel..." Maybe the female voice was too ear-catching, so she added with a smile, "My friend is waiting for me, wait a minute, I'll let her go back first."

Then there was an unclear conversation, and after a while, Zou Feiniao spoke to her again: "Okay."

"...Can you come over later?" Lu Yuexi pinched the sides of the bridge of her nose, "I want to see you."

Zou Feiniao was quiet for a moment, and then sighed: "I have to go back to school after dinner, anyway, I can't go to Kaikulana today, so I arranged other things in the afternoon."

After a pause, he lowered his voice and asked back, "Are you angry?"

"..." Lu Yuexi couldn't answer, she wanted to smile and tell the girl that it was okay.But it was too much, she took a deep breath for a long time before she calmed down, "So you can't come in the afternoon, can you?"

Zou Feiniao said: "If it's not important, just meet up, even if we meet tomorrow."

Lu Yue regretfully smiled: "Then what do I want to see now?"

"..." Zou Feiniao fell silent.

This laugh was breathy and short-tempered, anyone could hear the other party's emotions.

Lu Yuexi waited quietly.She came all the way from Oucheng by plane, left behind a lot of things and people, and squeezed out time to spend a week with Zou Feiniao, only seeing her a few times for no reason.

She is pampering the child, but it hasn't reached the point where she has no emotions and can bear any grievances.

The two didn't speak for a while.During the long period of silence, after an unknown amount of time, Zou Feiniao heard the urging voice of "Maree" again, and she had to temporarily deal with the person who came to urge her.

During this period, Lu Yuexi didn't speak. The phone was placed on the table. She leaned against the head of the bed, caressing the face of the ring on her right hand.

Lu Xi was careful, and designed the initials of Lu Yuexi and Zou Feiniao in the water-patterned diamonds.

The names engraved on the rings of the two are relative, and the three letters "ZFN" are engraved on the surface of the ring on Lu Yuexi's finger.

You can't see it just by looking at it. Only when you rub it slowly with your fingertips can you feel the texture of these three letters.

This is also the reason why Lu Yuexi habitually touches the noodle whenever he is in a daze.

"...Hello, more pity?" Zou Feiniao's voice finally rang out, no one disturbed her, her place was very quiet, even a little empty, and only her voice came from the other end of the phone, "I will definitely go to find you tomorrow, Can you not be angry? I know it's my fault, but I have an appointment with the people in the team this afternoon, and it's not good to miss the appointment."

Lu Yuexi said calmly, "But you also promised that I would come here today."

"The tutor suddenly had a meeting, and I also..."

"If you ask for leave, he won't say anything." Lu Yuexi said with a smile, "He is not a dictatorial mentor, at least you didn't complain to me that much. You chose to go to a meeting instead of coming to you, It’s just that I think it’s more important that I don’t have a meeting.”

"..."

It's really boring to argue with a child who is eight years younger than me.

But since Lu Yuexi opened this mouth, it is difficult to stop, the tone is not excited, but the content, people really can not refute: "So far, I have not stayed with you for more than thirty hours. If I It's you, so what if you ask for leave twice, what will it affect?"

"..."

After she finished the above, the other party still didn't say a word, made no excuses, and didn't compromise.

Lu Yuexi felt a little lost for some reason, and his heart sank hard to explain.She didn't know what she was looking forward to, Zou Feiniao had such a temper, she should get used to it.

"Since you're so busy, you're almost recovered anyway. I came here to see you. Although I didn't see you a few times, I did see you anyway." Lu Yuexi lowered his eyes, moved his eyes from the phone, and fell outside In the dark and rainy weather, what she said made her feel a little dazed, "...that's it, you are busy with your work, I plan...tomorrow, I will return to China tomorrow. There are many things in the company, and I should go back and deal with them , you go to eat, don't talk about it."

She didn't give the other party a chance to speak, so she stretched out her hand and hung up the call.

This was the first time she had shown her dissatisfaction so clearly in front of the girl after the breakup.But Zou Feiniao didn't look too disturbed, and he didn't call back after being hung up.

She was still as calm and plain as she remembered, as if these things would not affect her at all, and were not worthy of affecting her.

Lu Yuexi was used to being coaxed and persuaded when she got angry, but now she said what was in her heart, but the other party didn't respond, which inevitably made her a little bit uninterested.

There was a feeling of hitting cotton with a fist, and when I was depressed, I wondered if my behavior just now was too naive.

The curtains are closed, and the sound of cars outside is everywhere, which is very hypnotic in the rainy day.

Lu Yuexi asked Assistant Wen to book a plane ticket, and explained the situation to the front desk of the hotel by the way, and checked out tomorrow.

After doing all this, I feel more and more tired.Lu Yuexi tried her best not to think too much, curled up in the quilt and fell asleep not long after.

This sleep was so dark that she hadn't reacted for a long time when she was woken up by the phone ringing.Lie on the bed for a while before touching the phone.

——It was Zou Feiniao.

Lu Yuexi's chaotic brain regained consciousness for a moment. After clearing his throat, he connected and asked, "What's wrong?"

As soon as she opened her mouth, the doorbell suddenly rang outside the door.With a sudden sound, she instinctively looked towards the door.

"I'm right at the door of your room." Zou Feiniao's tone was light, without any emotion, "Open the door for me."