Chen Zhuan and Sheng Yiqing sat in silence in the taxi on the way back.
A huge cardboard lay quietly in the trunk of the car. It was the "Best Family" award that they received from the company leader half an hour ago.
The four big characters "Best Family" were printed horizontally on the cardboard, and a long and bright rectangular block was printed in color below the big characters. It was their grand prize, square and neat, just like-
"Coffin?" Chen Zhuan identified it carefully.
"Whitening Warehouse." Sheng Yiqing rolled her eyes, "Sun Ning's company, which is the newly developed product of our client Mei Wuxian. We saw it in the factory when we were doing due diligence."
The setting sun shone in through the car window, and the two people in the car didn't speak again. Until the traffic jam, the gloomy air in the car was stagnant like traffic, and the "coffin" in the trunk was solemn and solemn.
Chen Zhuan then slowly spoke: "We are together...shouldn't everything be smooth?"
"How should I know?" Sheng Yiqing leaned her head back heavily: "It was all in vain."
"...Not really." He also imitated her posture and leaned back heavily, his eyes fell on the "coffin": "At least I got one..."
"Trouble." Sheng Yiqing covered her eyes.
The company did not let Chen Zhuan carry the huge whitening capsule back directly, but gave him a lottery ticket and left his phone number and address. The next morning, a phone call woke Chen Zhuan up. The other end of the phone was a rather impatient voice, asking Chen Zhuan if he was home now, and he wanted to deliver the whitening capsule.
When the whitening capsule was carried into his second bedroom by four workers, Chen Zhuan was completely confused.
At a certain moment when the packaging was removed layer by layer, his room seemed to have become a mourning hall.
This story was soon told to the world by Sheng Yiqing. Qu Fanyi laughed so hard that she fell backwards.
The two of them were at Qu Fanyi's house at the moment. Sheng Yiqing returned the notebook that Qu Fanyi had borrowed from her after work, and bought a fragrance gift box in the mall downstairs to express her gratitude.
Chi Wei went to work at night, and her aunt hadn't come yet. Qu Fanyi was coming down from yoga class. When Sheng Yiqing came, she had just finished taking a shower. She was wrapped in a white hair dryer cap, with two eye masks on her plain face, wearing an ankle-length rose-colored ice silk dress, a pair of sheepskin slippers inlaid with pearls and feathers, and took out a large bag of cherries from the refrigerator.
Qu Fanyi and Chi Wei's home was light-colored, with marble countertops and marble floors, light tulip-colored curtains drawn, revealing a yellowish light, the air conditioner was at a very low temperature, and the air was filled with the cool scent of grapefruit. For some reason, every time she came to Qu Fanyi's house, she could always think of such a strange word as "immortal cave".
"Why did you buy so many cherries?" Sheng Yiqing was curious.
"Didn't you ask me how to cook cherries the night before? After I told you about cherry jam sandwiches, I was tempted and bought a box of cherries upstairs. It arrived this morning. I also want to make some jam for Chi Wei's breakfast."
Qu Fanyi said as she took out mint leaves, gelatin tablets and a large can of rock sugar from the refrigerator.
The huge marble cooking table was decorated with a beige chandelier on the top, and a large bunch of Endless Summer hydrangeas were placed next to it.
Sheng Yiqing washed her hands and came to help her, "Thanks to you this time. Otherwise, I would definitely not pass."
Qu Fanyi washed the cherries and smiled, "Don't say that, I still couldn't help in the end."
Family Day was a waste of time, and Mr. Xie was a little unhappy, but Sheng Yiqing was no wonder. He just said that there was still time for the project and he would find another opportunity.
Chen Zhuan also found out that Eric and his wife would stay in Beijing for a few more days because they had just recovered from gastroenteritis. They would see if there was a chance to contact them then.
As the two of them dug out cherry pits and talked, Qu Fanyi suddenly asked, "Sister Yiqing, do you know Chi Wei's previous wife?"
"What's wrong?" Sheng Yiqing put down the knife she was using to dig out cherry pits and looked at Qu Fanyi warily, "It's all in the past, why are you asking her?"
"I've always believed that the happiest people in the world are those who have only been in love once." Qu Fanyi looked at Sheng Yiqing, "Because there is no comparison, you become the only one. When you receive a bouquet of roses, that bouquet of roses is the best roses in the world; when you hear "I love you", you think it's the only "I love you" in the world. But once you have a second relationship, or even a second marriage, you will unconsciously compare in your heart and weigh which one is the better one."
She said this sadly, and Sheng Yiqing became worried, "What's wrong with Chi Wei?"
Qu Fanyi shook her head.
There is a drawer in Chi Wei's study that is always locked. Qu Fanyi once asked him. Chi Wei answered honestly: "From my previous marriage, I installed some hard drives and certificates. I was afraid you would be unhappy if you saw it, so I just locked it."
Qu Fanyi didn't care and asked jokingly: "Do you want me to keep the key for you?"
"No." Chi Wei shook his head, "I don't even know where I threw the key."
However, two days ago, when Qu Fanyi went to the study to bring Chi Wei some fruit, she suddenly found that the lock on the drawer was gone.
Sheng Yiqing's expression became tense: "Did you look at the things inside?"
Qu Fanyi nodded cautiously, "I took a look. There are indeed some USB flash drives and documents, as well as a wedding photo album. But I don't understand why he suddenly opened the drawer."
Sheng Yiqing breathed a sigh of relief, "You don't have to think so much! I only know that the girl and Chi Wei have no contact anymore. Later, she went to the United States and quickly fell in love. Maybe she is married now."
"Really?" Qu Fanyi opened her eyes wide and asked Sheng Yiqing again: "Isn't that girl before much smarter and more virtuous than me?"
As Qu Fanyi spoke, she put the shelled cherries into the pot, added rock sugar, and stirred carefully with a spatula to make hot cherry sauce. She performed this series of movements skillfully and beautifully, which reminded Sheng Yiqing of Lin Shan - a complete master who never touched women's clothes...
Thinking of this, Sheng Yiqing looked at Qu Fanyi sincerely, "There are too few women in this world who are smarter and more virtuous than you."
"I hope so." Qu Fanyi just took this sentence as a comfort and forced a smile.
Sheng Yiqing stayed to have dinner with Qu Fanyi. The two girls had light appetites. For dinner, they had wolfberry millet porridge, kale with soy sauce, a basket of crab roe soup dumplings and honey osmanthus double skin milk made by aunt.
There was a large bouquet of pink Jiangnan Moon in a blue glass bottle on the dining table. Under the bouquet was a large stack of forms, each of which was carefully sealed with plastic and decorated with tape and stickers, just like the notebook that Qu Fanyi lent Sheng Yiqing.
She couldn't help but pick it up and take a look.
The first form was written as "Daily Cleaning Schedule", which recorded the aunt's work in detail from Monday to Sunday, such as cleaning the toilet on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, cleaning the sheets and quilts with a mite remover on Tuesdays and Thursdays, ironing clothes on Mondays, changing four-piece suits on Saturdays, cleaning the bathtub and refrigerator on Sundays, and cleaning the glass of the whole house every two weeks...
Sheng Yiqing was stunned and asked Qu Fanyi, "Did you do this?"
"Of course. Do you think I don't do any housework every day and let the aunt do it? I have to manage and evaluate. Our aunt was not like this when she first came. Now she has been trained by me for 3 months and has been reborn and very professional!"
Sheng Yiqing turned the second form with admiration, which was "Standards for the Use of Hygiene Items", which listed the specific places that need to be cleaned during each daily cleaning and the tools used. For example, red rags can only be used on the floor, trash cans, and table and chair legs; blue rags can only be used on coffee tables, desktops, and bedside tables; kitchen cleaning tools for washing dishes and hot pots must also be strictly classified, and cup brushes used to wash wine glasses cannot be used to wash tea cups or juice cups...
"Tsk tsk, are you managing everything in your life?"
"Of course! Everything can be managed. Aunts can, and men can too." Qu Fanyi blinked.
"Hahahaha, you won't even manage Chi Wei, right?"
As she said this, Sheng Yiqing turned to the third form and widened her eyes——
Sure enough, the form was printed sweetly:
"...Is it a bit embarrassing?"
Qu Fanyi was embarrassed. After all, it was a form written for Chi Wei, so it was inevitable to act cute. However, Sheng Yiqing has always been a generous person. I thought she would just laugh it off, but Sheng Yiqing stared at the form for a long time, and saw Qu Fanyi's heart was scared.
After a long while, Sheng Yiqing looked up and asked, "Why do the Level 4 students go on a trip, but the Level 5 students only need to cook dinner? Haven't you eaten the food cooked by Chi Wei?"
Qu Fanyi raised her eyebrows, "How can he cook? Once, my aunt took a leave and I was sick. I asked him if he could cook. He said he hated cooking the most, so we ordered takeout. While eating the takeout, he said that even his parents had never eaten his cooking in their lives. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to drink his hangover soup."
But Sheng Yiqing had eaten it before -
Not only Sheng Yiqing had eaten it before, but Chen Zhuan and Yu Youyang had eaten it before. The reason why they had eaten it before was all because of one person.
Qu Fanyi shrugged, "So, it's easier to let him spend money than to let him spend time cooking for me."
Sheng Yiqing laughed dryly. He put the form aside. Changing the subject, "So, how many times has this form been used?"
"Once!" Qu Fanyi sighed, "I don't know if he was too busy or something these two days, he was always absent-minded. When I talked to him, he acted as if he didn't hear me. I got angry, so I took out the form and told him that I was very angry now."
"Oh, by the way! The dessert he gave me yesterday is still in the refrigerator." Qu Fanyi got up quickly and took a piece of pumpkin cheesecake from the kitchen.
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The windows of the department are closed all year round, and the window glass is covered with a thick layer of dust, and even has a frosted feeling. The setting sun in the afternoon shone in, and even the sunlight was like hair, rolling softly on his body. Chi Wei pushed open the door of the department, put down the car keys, put on his white coat, and looked at his mobile phone again.
People in the department were gossiping, saying that Huang Nana had resigned, and it seemed that she was planning to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination full-time. After submitting her resignation, she stopped coming to work completely.
The colleague gossiped a few words, but couldn't hear Chi Wei's response, so he called out.
Chi Wei was stunned: "Ah?"
The colleague laughed: "Why are you absent-minded recently?"
Chi Wei laughed, "Nothing."
He looked at his phone again.
Three days have passed, and there has been no new message on his phone. He checked the number and it showed that it was from the United States.
The content was just a sentence without a beginning or an end:
"Wei, I will return to China next week. Are you okay?"
Qu Fanyi always called him "Weiwei", with a little bit of girlish coquettishness and coquettish love. But Lin Shan was not like that. Lin Shan always called him Chi Wei, which was energetic and convenient for her to issue orders.
Up to now, there is only one person in the world who would call him "Wei" -
That was Lin Shan when she needed him.
Chi Wei could even imagine the sound of her calling him like this, gentle, fragile, seductive, and with a little bit of grievance.
She is the person Chi Wei can't refuse the most in the world.
He was on the top of the mountain when he received the message. Usually, there would always be spam messages sent to his mobile phone. He quickly glanced at it, and the moment he reacted, he froze in place.
His heart sank with a "boom", and fell into the heart of the earth.
He secretly looked around. Fortunately, no one was paying attention to him. Qu Fanyi was busy chatting with the wives. He replied to the message immediately and asked, "Are you Lin Shan?"
There was no reply from the other side.
Before going to bed at night, Chi Wei, who had just taken a shower, sent another message, "Shan, I'm fine. How about you?"
There was still no reply from the other side.
Chi Wei became the anxious person. Lin Shan just casually hooked him up again.
"Whether a man takes the bait or not always depends on whether he wants to take the bait or not."
Qiu Zining was sitting under the bodhi tree in the nugget open-air garden at this moment. This was her old seat. For so many years, this seat belonged to her every weekday afternoon.
Of course, the time when he was robbed by a girl who had just got engaged and was reading pornographic novels and taking notes doesn't count. Qiu Zining didn't fall asleep until four o'clock last night. Melatonin didn't work. He was groggy until 2 o'clock in the afternoon. He wandered to the nugget like a ghost. He took a bite of iced American coffee and recovered half of his life.
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She rubbed her temples and pierced the Benedict eggs with a fork. The golden lava wrapped the bagel. Qiu Zining took a bite and a WeChat message jumped in, "Why haven't you replied to my message yet?" "You disappeared for almost twenty hours..."
It was Chen Ziang.
Qiu Zining replied lazily: "I stayed up all night last night and just woke up now."
The puppy immediately sent a caring message: "Then have you eaten? Do you never have the habit of going to bed early? It's okay. I won't sleep tonight either. My schedule follows yours."
Qiu Zining snorted and replied with a "hmm".
Young boys are weird. The more you don't want to pay attention to him, the more attentive he is. But once you get addicted, they will get off faster than jumping off a building.
The other end kept showing "The other party is typing..." It paused and finally turned into his nickname.
Qiu Zining could probably guess what the other party was up to.
It has been more than half a month since the last meeting. Sleeping with my sister is addictive. It's open and seductive. It's an unprecedented experience.
It's a pity that my sister is too busy. Since then, she has never contacted me. Chen Ziang hinted many times that he wanted to visit her on weekends, but Qiu Zining ignored him, so he didn't dare to act rashly. He had to bombard her with text messages every hour. But today was an exception - first of all, she was really bored today, and secondly, the house really needed someone to clean up.
Thinking of this, she curled her lips and sent him a message: "Come over now."
The other end replied in seconds: "Okay!"
Sure enough, when a man is interested in you, you never need to worry about whether he is busy or not. He is as loyal as a dog and willing to come whenever you call him.
The afternoon sun was a little hot. The days in early September were the autumn heat. It was impossible to sit outside. After brunch, she simply went home.
It was not during the morning and evening rush hours. There were few cars and people on the street. She walked unsteadily and was wandering most of the time. When she passed the intersection, she didn't notice a car turning quietly. Fortunately, the speed was not fast. I don't know what the driver was thinking. When he found out, the distance between the two was less than two meters.
"Ah!"
With a sudden brake, the Mercedes-Benz SUV suddenly stopped in front of her. Qiu Zining was scared to death, her legs were weak, and her upper body was supported on the hood of the Mercedes-Benz. She had her hair down, and her white face was only painted with lipstick. At this moment, she looked into the driver's eyes through the windshield, staring at the man inside: "How the hell do you drive?!"
Chi Wei was indeed in the wrong. He had just come back from the night shift, and the car entered a small road. He was only two turns away from home, and he was careless. Of course, the reason for his carelessness was that just now, his phone vibrated -
Did she reply to the text message?
Chi Wei quickly got out of the car and said to Qiu ZiNing apologized, but fortunately he braked in time, and it was just a false alarm. He was given more than a dozen cold eyes by Qiu Zining, and finally got in the car and left.
The car door slammed shut, but the Mercedes-Benz SUV was still parked.
Qiu Zining looked back and saw that the male owner was sitting in the driver's seat, staring at his phone in a daze.
"Idiot."
She cursed.
Therefore, Qiu Zining didn't notice that a man who had been secretly following her almost rushed out a few meters behind her when she almost had a car accident.
The Mercedes-Benz finally started, and Chi Wei's hands holding the steering wheel trembled slightly. The message was indeed from Lin Shan. Lin Shan said to herself:
"Wei, I'm at Kennedy Airport now, and I'll land in Beijing at 8 am tomorrow."