don't ask about those years

Fang Dongping didn't ask Lin Fan again on Wednesday, but just sent a few text messages every day to greet him as usual.

It wasn't until Thursday that Fang Dongping asked again, the few friends he had agreed with last time were all in Shanghai, would they have time to have dinner together in the evening.

Lin Fan looked at the text message, thinking that last time he missed the appointment due to temporary overtime, it would be too inappropriate not to go this time after he had already arrived in Shanghai, so he replied: "Okay, there is no problem at night."

During dinner in the evening, he found that the friend who came with Fang Dongping was very compatible with his work, and he could understand what each other said. It was very speculative to chat all night, and Lin Fan also felt that he had benefited a lot from knowing different levels of information. shallow.

Friends also had a good impression of Lin Fan. He was young but had a comprehensive understanding of technology, and they all knew about Fang Dongping. Seeing Lin Fan's young and handsome appearance, they all had guesses in their hearts.But before the dinner, Dong Ping specifically asked them not to joke around, and the friends could only exchange glances with each other while smiling when Lin Fan wasn't paying attention.

After dinner, he took Lin Fan back on his way. When Lin Fan got off the bus, Fang Dongping asked again, "Are you free tomorrow night?"

Lin Fan looked back at Fang Dongping, hesitated and said that the colleagues who came together tomorrow had a dinner party, which had already been arranged.

"Colleagues, let's get together again when we go back. It's fine if you don't come today, but go somewhere with me tomorrow night anyway." Fang Dongping said with a smile, and drove away without giving him a chance to shirk.

Regarding Fang Dongping's frequent appointments after expressing his opinion, Lin Fan didn't know what to do. Will worry about making the other party misunderstand.

Lin Fan pressed the up button of the hotel elevator, thinking that no matter what, he couldn't easily accept the invitation again.

On the last day of the conference on Friday, Lin Fan was listening to the chairman of the Electronics Association on the stage talking about the new trend of artificial intelligence next year, when a strange phone call came.

At first the phone vibrated, although he saw it, he didn't care. When the second call came in, seeing that it was the same number, he thought he didn't have any business to delay.

After looking around and finding that no matter which direction he went out from, there would be a row of people tossing, Lin Fan sat on the seat and pressed the connect button, lowered his head slightly and whispered, "Hello? Who is it?"

"When will you be back?" A straightforward question came from over there.

Even though he didn't report his name, Lin Fan recognized it immediately, so he asked, "What's the matter?"

The other party was silent for a while before saying: "The meeting is over, are you coming back today?"

"I won't return." Ben and his colleagues booked a ticket for tomorrow morning.

"Lin Fan!" After calling out his name loudly, Qi Tian seemed to deliberately lower his voice before saying, "Now, as President Yi Yun, I ask you to come back today, Friday."

"The conference just ended this afternoon. Let's take Saturdays and Sundays as rest days. That's at my own expense, and I'll pay for the hotel and air ticket to go back."

Without giving the other side any time to think, he hung up the phone after speaking, and then set the phone to airplane mode directly.

I wanted to set this number as a rejection of incoming calls, but after thinking about it, none of the employees blocked the boss's phone number, so I finally entered a few letters and saved Qi Tian as "Yi Yun CEO".

At 6 o'clock in the evening, Fang Dongping came to the hotel lobby on time to wait. When he saw Lin Fan coming out of the elevator, he stood up from the sofa, and then looked at Lin Fan from top to bottom with a smile.

Uncomfortable being stared at, Lin Fan looked down to see that there was nothing wrong with his ordinary clothes, so he asked Fang Dongping, what's wrong?

"It's okay, I'm just afraid that you will steal the limelight." Fang Dongping said with a smile.

Fang Dongping took Lin Fan to a five-star hotel, and told him after arriving that he was actually here to attend a friend's wedding today.

From Lin Fan's point of view, it was really inappropriate to attend Fang Dongping's friend's wedding from his standpoint, but since he came, he couldn't save others' face and go back, so he could only follow him to the door of a wedding banquet hall.

As a result, as soon as they entered the door, they suddenly saw pictures of two men on the big screen on the stage.

After leading Lin Fan, who was still dazed, to a seat at a table, Fang Dongping said: "This is a friend I met abroad. He and his lover are getting married today."

Lin Fan looked at the two people smiling sweetly on the screen, and then subconsciously observed the guests at the dozen or so tables. Everyone was talking and laughing naturally, just like attending an ordinary wedding, and he was probably the only one in the audience who was shocked.

Seeing that Lin Fan was still staring at the screen in a daze, Fang Dongping explained: "The one on the left is my friend. He has been with his lover for seven or eight years, and they separated for a while, mainly because his wife's family disagreed. Later, they still couldn’t live without each other, and the parents of the other party accepted it.”

Then he pointed to the old man sitting at the first table and said, "Their parents are here today."

Looking at the four old people sitting together, Lin Fan still couldn't hold back and asked, "Is this common in Shanghai?"

Fang Dongping said with a smile: "No, most people's views on homosexuality have changed a lot now, but usually when two people recognize it, it's only relatives and friends who know about it. There are not many weddings like theirs."

After a while, the wedding officially began, no different from an ordinary wedding. The two parties swore oaths and exchanged wedding rings under everyone's gaze.

When the family members of both parties came to speak on the stage, the father of one party said peacefully: "We are already old, and we only have a few requirements for the lives of our children. I hope they will cherish the people in front of them and live happily for a long time."

The father of the other party was obviously not that enlightened, and frowned slightly from the beginning to the end, until the last moment, he stretched out his old hands and hugged the two men on the stage tightly to show the greatest recognition and blessing he could give.

Seeing the old man on the stage, Lin Fan suddenly thought of his father.

Last year's Spring Festival, I originally signed up my father for a boutique senior group for more than [-] days in various European countries. Although my father initially blamed Lin Fan for his waste, he could tell he was looking forward to it and was very happy.

But one day when he came back from the tour presentation, he told him to forget it. After thinking about it, he would ask his aunt to go back to his ancestral home to see relatives, and we can wait for a while to talk about the travel.

He thought that his father might regret not going because he saw the price was too expensive, so Lin Fan didn't say anything, but went directly to the travel company to pay the balance.

When she went to the service desk to fill out the form, the little girl handed over a registration form with a smile and said, "Actually, it's really cost-effective for you as a single person, because we also provide double rooms in five-star hotels, and there is no additional fee. Other elderly couples are all at the same price."

After receiving the registration form, when he saw that among the lines of information, only the information in his father's handwriting that had been filled in at the end, he stood there and stared at it for a long time, until the little girl was ready to hand over all the POSE machines. Lin Fan put down his pen and said, "I'm sorry, let's forget it, let's withdraw..."

Lin Fan lowered his head slightly, took out his mobile phone and flipped through it casually as if he was bored, and waited until applause gradually resounded around him, then he raised his head again and followed everyone to bless the couple.

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On the drive back, Lin Fan remained silent.

Fang Dongping was afraid that Lin Fan was uncomfortable because of his friend's teasing just now, so he turned his head and said, "Sorry, I'm too familiar with it and I'm used to making jokes, didn't it make you uncomfortable just now?"

Lin Fan shook his head, "Nothing."

In fact, from the moment he entered the door, Lin Fan knew what Fang Dongping meant by bringing him here today. He thanked Fang Dongping for telling him in a way that now homosexuality has been recognized by many people, so that he doesn't have to carry a heavy shell like a snail and always put himself hide.But everyone's life is different, and his problems are far from being solved by bravely standing up and facing everything.

Fang Dongping slowly parked the car on the side of the road, turned on the double flashing lights, lowered the car window and lit a cigarette.

Knowing that he had something to say, Lin Fan just looked at the street lights ahead and waited quietly.

After a while, Fang Dongping finally said, "Actually, I saw Qi Tian when I was downstairs at your house on Sunday."

I already guessed it, but Lin Fan could only say: "...Yes, he is my neighbor now."

"Lin Fan, actually I've always wanted to ask you, are you and Qi Tian..."

"No." Lin Fan interrupted him, and after finishing speaking, he felt that his blunt tone was too impolite, so he added: "It is impossible for the two of us to be together."

Fang Dongping turned his head to observe Lin Fan's expression, and then continued: "Lin Fan, I have no intention of interfering in your life, but if you think about changing your residence or job, I can help."

In fact, seeing Qi Tian walk into the community unit that day, Fang Dongping felt very uncomfortable. Just based on Qi Tian's harsh words, he knew how possessive this man was of Lin Fan. If the house could accommodate a In the community, he must be able to get close to Lin Fan in any way at work, which Fang Dongping does not want to see.

If the two parties really intend to get back together, even though he can't bear it, he is willing to bless the two.But since Lin Fan had already given a firm answer, he didn't want to see Lin Fan in trouble.

Lin Fan listened to the sound of cars whizzing by on the expressway. Recently, he really thought about it. Since he met Qi Yaoyang last time, this thought has become stronger. Maybe he shouldn't be greedy for a short stay after a few years. The time around that person is destined to be fruitless, so it should be ended early.

But even if you want to leave, regardless of the house or work, you have to make a plan, and it is impossible to trouble Fang Dongping anyway, so Lin Fan said: "It's really nothing, Manager Liu in the company has always taken care of me, and we are just neighbors at home. It’s nothing, but thank you, Brother Dong.”

Fang Dongping snuffed out the cigarette butt and restarted the car, "Anyway, if you need help in the future, whether you treat me as a friend or a big brother, I hope you can tell me at any time, and what I said last time It's also serious, I really appreciate you at work, if you intend to come to work in our company, I would like to ask for it."

Lin Fan nodded, and sincerely thanked this person who tried to guide him and always provided help.

After returning to his room to tidy up his clothes and mood, Lin Fan was ready to return to Beijing with his colleagues the next day.

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After taking a taxi back to the community on Saturday, Lin Fan got out of the car and still couldn't help but look at the parking lot first. After he didn't find the eye-catching black Land Rover, he went upstairs with a sigh of relief.

On Friday, Qi Tian made a few more phone calls. He didn't hang up but didn't answer, and just let the screen turn from bright to dark over and over again. He knew that Qi Tian was suffocating because he had been tricked into hiding for a week. I understand that this fire will not be extinguished slowly with the passage of time, but is stuffy in the room lacking oxygen, waiting for the moment the door is opened to explode, so I thought, hiding for a day is a day.

Since he didn't go to work for a week, he had already piled up a lot of work, so Lin Fan came to the company to work overtime after ten o'clock on Sunday.

After reading through the more than 200 unread emails in the mailbox, I started to work according to the order of priority and urgency. I was busy until two o'clock in the afternoon and felt hungry, so I decided to go downstairs to fill my stomach first.

As soon as he got out of the elevator and was about to walk to the entrance of the building, he saw Qi Tian holding a child in his arms, followed by a young woman who looked unusually dressed and walked in from the other side door.

Lin Fan was at the corner of the side door, while Qi Tian and the others walked in from the main door, there was a doorpost between them and Qi Tian didn't notice him.

When the three of them got closer, Lin Fan heard the young girl ask Qi Tian, ​​"Is this where you work now?"

Without hearing how Qi Tian answered, Lin Fan took advantage of the gap and went out from behind them.

After casually eating a hamburger, he went upstairs and continued to work overtime, but his work efficiency dropped significantly after he came back. Looking at the plan that Xue Jing and the others made for a week, he felt that something was incomplete but he couldn't seem to say what to change.

It wasn't until nine o'clock in the evening that I reluctantly readjusted the plan and sorted out the work for the next week before picking up the car keys and going home.

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Lying on the bed for more than an hour at night and unable to fall asleep, Lin Fan simply got up and went to the balcony to light a cigarette. When he glanced down at the fixed parking space, the scene he saw at the company in the afternoon involuntarily appeared in his mind...

It's supposed to be like this, isn't it?Didn't you also persuade Qi Tian like this?But when the picture of a family of three came to my eyes, why was my heart churning uncontrollably?

Even though he never thought about it, he knew that that person would get married one day, no matter his status as the president of the Qi family or the pressure from his family, he would choose a suitable marriage for him. This was right...

After taking a few more puffs of cigarette, Lin Fan told himself not to think about these things that had nothing to do with him, then he stubbed out the cigarette butt, went to the door, checked the lock once more habitually, and then went back to the bedroom.

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Lin Fan's family was once attacked by burglars.

When I worked for more than two years, I worked overtime one day until after 12 o'clock in the evening. When I got home and turned on the lights, I found that the house was messy and had been turned over.

A thief has entered, and a thought flashed through his mind. When Ben was still vigilant about calling the police first, he saw the opened bedside table through the open door of the bedroom.

He quickly rushed over to check the drawer, only to find that the contents were gone.It was always packed in a sealed bag, so why was it stolen?

Without checking for other stolen items, Lin Fan rushed out to the police station to report the crime regardless.

When the police asked him what valuables he had lost, he said anxiously that he had lost a silver pendant inlaid with black sandalwood, and carefully described the shape and the letter "T" engraved on the back.

After the policeman slowly stopped from taking notes and watched him ask about the approximate value, he suddenly understood how this could be handled as a major case.

Finally, after the second questioning by the policeman, he unconsciously looked at the rows of handwriting on the record and said, "More than 100."

On the way home at 1 o'clock in the morning that day, he laughed at himself like a fool, a silver pendant, the thief probably took it away without seeing it clearly when he entered the house, if it was not so tightly wrapped, maybe the thief would find No way.

But he didn't know if it was blown by the wind, but he felt his heart cool down a little bit. The two pendants were originally made of the same piece of wood, and they were still connected to the roots... Even this was lost, maybe everything was doomed alright.

Just think about it, they have been divided and polished in different places long ago, so what's the use of being together once.He even simply hoped that the thief would throw away the pendant because it was worthless. After all, some people said that they don't like to wear the same pendant as others, so it's fine to throw it away...