Chapter 46 Dinner

The izakaya was packed with people in the summer evening, so the four had to go somewhere a little further away, but they found that there were still company employees there.

Seeing Qin Xu coming in, they whispered to each other.

"Isn't that Director Qin?"

"It's totally out of place here."

".......I should have gone somewhere else earlier. I've been busy for a while and want to relax. I don't want to see Director Qin's face after get off work."

"Hurry up and finish eating and go."

"Wow, this place is a bit far from the company. It's unfortunate that I met Director Qin."

Amid the noisy voices, Li Nuo chuckled when he heard these words. This morning he saw Qin Xu coldly forcing back a report submitted by a manager. He was indeed the cold-faced demon in the company.

Qin Xu himself didn't care about these words. He looked around the store, chose a seat near the corner and walked over.

The group of people in the middle immediately breathed a sigh of relief; the visibility in the corners was poor and they couldn't see each other.

Qin Xu was the first to sit on one side of the table for four people. When Li Yan was about to take Li Nuo to sit on the other side, he was stopped by Secretary Yang.

"You're going to sit here with me."

"...Why?"

"You said it was you who suggested buying me a drink, so you have to accompany me."

“........”

Secretary Yang asked him to sit inside, while he blocked the entrance and exit from the outside.

He raised his chin and motioned Li Nuo to sit next to Qin Xu.

"...Secretary Yang."

"Yes, I'm here, Linuo, what do you want to eat? I've been to this restaurant before, let me recommend these dishes, all you can eat."

Secretary Yang ignored Li Yan's angry look and calmly held the menu while recommending the special dishes to Li Nuo.

Linuo asked, putting his hands on the table and looking at the menu.

"What would the director like to eat?"

"Li Nuo, just order whatever you want to eat?"

"........Why?"

"You can order whatever you want, except for the ones you can't order."

Qin Xu did not get impatient and repeated it in the same tone.

Linuo nodded slowly and turned his gaze back to the menu.

Just now, it seemed that Qin Xu called me by my name. It seemed that I had never been called like that before, even though we had communicated several times before.

How should I put it? His heartbeat was a little faster now, as if he had finally gotten a little closer to a large beast.

The table was not big, so the voices of the two people talking here could naturally be heard by the other side. The smile on Secretary Yang's face became more and more weird, while the dissatisfied expression on Li Yan's face became more and more serious.

Mo Chuan was on a business trip abroad, and Qin Xu was also very busy, working in the back office. He seldom came out except for lunch, so there was basically no conflict. Qin Xu rarely talked except for work, so she felt a little relieved.

I didn't expect that after such a long time, when I invited Secretary Yang to dinner, he caught up with me and came over together.

He is obviously not the kind of person who likes such noisy occasions, whether in the amusement park or this time, but he actually followed me here.

Honestly, I've seen Secretary Yang jokingly ask if anyone wanted to come along before, but every time he only got a deathly glare from Qin Xu.

Let’s finish our meal quickly and leave.

Li Yan felt a little upset. He shouldn't have invited Secretary Yang today.

"Then let's order these first, Director, do you want to drink?"

"No." Qin Xu was very frugal with his words and he had to drive at night.

"Li Nuo can't drink, Li Yan, what about you? Do you want to drink?"

Li Yan decisively refused. He had to go back home at night. If he got drunk, he couldn't let his frail brother take care of him.

"Tsk, then I'll be the only one drinking. Never mind, let's have two bottles first."

After Secretary Yang made a quick decision and placed the order, the ordered food was delivered promptly.

Several people started eating, but Li Nuo was speechless as he stared at the chicken on the plate in front of him.

“.......”

"Brother, don't you want to eat?"

"If I remember correctly, I ordered fried chicken?"

But what was this pure white flesh before him?

Is this the color of fried chicken?

"Yes, it's fried chicken, but I peeled off the outer layer." Li Yan said naturally.

".......Why do you have to do such a cruel thing?" Li Nuo said with a painful expression, "Can fried chicken still be called fried chicken without the outer layer of skin? It becomes boiled chicken."

It was fried chicken, how could the meat inside be any good? As a result, Li Yan took the soul of the fried chicken away as a matter of course.

Li Nuo looked at the fried chicken skin thrown aside with regret, biting the tasteless meat bitterly.

Although I know Li Yan did it for his health, it has been such a long time, what's wrong with eating it this time?

Secretary Yang sitting opposite him didn't have this concern. The fried chicken skin that Li Yan had peeled off was placed next to him, and he took a big bite.

Li Nuo's resentful gaze followed over, and Secretary Yang felt embarrassed to eat.

It was clearly Li Yan who didn't let him eat it, so why did I feel sorry?

However, perhaps because it was dark in the room, under the orange light, Li Nuo's eyes looked as if she was about to cry, which made Secretary Yang feel a little guilty.

"...Secretary Li, why don't you let him eat a little? Li Nuo is about to cry if he continues like this."

Li Yan, who was concentrating on peeling fried chicken, raised his head and saw Li Nuo opposite him with drooping eyebrows, drooping mouth corners, and deliberately blinking his eyes.

Li Yan sighed.

"Eat less."

Li Nuo's face brightened up instantly, "Well, I'll just try a little."

He cocked his head and waited for Li Yan to bring the fried chicken over, but suddenly a plate of fried chicken appeared in front of him.

"Eat it."

The one who pushed over the pile of fried chicken was Qin Xu.

Li Nuo hesitated about the food, and Qin Xu put down his chopsticks.

"Don't you want to eat what I gave you?"

"no!"

Li Nuo quickly picked up one with his fork, and after biting it into his mouth, he didn't care that Qin Xu had pushed the whole plate over to him, thinking it would be bad for him to eat it all.

After traveling through time for such a long time, he has had several big meals, but junk food is different. Linuo prefers to call it a happy meal.

He ate the fried chicken with a happy look on his face. Li Yan found it funny and said helplessly, "Eat slowly. No one is competing with you for it."

Linuo nodded and slowed down his chewing.

"Come on, let's have a toast. This is also the first dinner party for our office."

Secretary Yang raised his wine glass excitedly, and Li Nuo followed suit by raising his glass of boiled water and clinking glasses with his.

..........

"So, that partner was really annoying. You, Li Yan, hadn't come to the company at that time. I still remember that partner..."

It was obvious that Secretary Yang was drunk.

I said I hadn't drunk for a while, and since there were people I knew around me, I wasn't afraid of getting drunk, so after the sake, I ordered beer and drank the mixture.

Even though Li Yan tried to dissuade him, he simply ignored her and just kept complaining about how hard he had been working during this period, totally ignoring the fact that his boss was right in front of him.

Fortunately, Qin Xu had a deep understanding of his classmate and would not get angry because of this, but that did not mean he could tolerate someone drinking and going crazy across from him.

"Take a taxi and send him back."

Qin Xu, who couldn't bear to watch it any longer, frowned and said, Li Yan nodded. If he let Secretary Yang drink any more, he would probably be too drunk to walk.

Li Yan took out his cell phone and prepared to call a taxi, but when he wasn't paying attention, the cell phone was snatched away by Secretary Yang.

"Why are you saying that? Let's keep drinking!"

With a deft move that a drunk would never expect, he hid the phone in his other pocket.

"Secretary Yang?"

Li Yan immediately reached out to grab it, but Secretary Yang laughed and moved away.

Two big men were fighting over a mobile phone on their seats, causing the small table to shake.

Li Nuo reached out and grabbed the wine bottle on the table to prevent it from falling, but he didn't care about other things. Seeing that the bowl of soup he had just poured was about to spill, Qin Xu reached out and grabbed the edge of the table to stabilize the shaking table.

Qin Xu placed one hand on the left edge of the table. Li Nuo could clearly see the scars on his hand. They looked quite old and had not healed despite the passage of time.

After several contacts, it seems that his right hand is also covered with scars.

Is it left over from childhood?

The part of the novel I read did not mention anything about his childhood.

Li Nuo stared at his hands for a long time, and when he felt someone looking at him, he quietly raised his eyes and looked to the side.

Meeting Qin Xu's gaze.

"......I'm sorry," Li Nuo apologized silently. His voice was mixed in with the quarrel between the two people opposite. It was unknown whether Qin Xu heard it clearly.

Feeling somewhat embarrassed, Li Nuo coughed and looked ahead.

"Secretary Yang, if you continue like this, you will want to kill yourself when you sober up tomorrow."

"No, I won't regret it."

Li Yan had a headache. He just couldn't get the phone. Secretary Yang was usually such a mature and stable person, but he acted like a child after getting drunk.

Seeing that the fight between the two was getting more and more intense, Qin Xu became impatient first and kicked the chair where Secretary Yang was sitting.

The chair, which was originally tilted backwards, could not withstand such a great force and was kicked over.

Secretary Yang finally came to his senses at the moment of crisis, and quickly stood up. His chair hit the wall behind him with a loud bang.

Secretary Yang was so scared that he burped. It turned out that he drank too much and felt like vomiting.

The loud noise attracted the attention of other customers in the pub, and everyone leaned over to see what was going on.

Fortunately, the people sitting in the middle had already finished eating and left.

Otherwise, we will soon see the video of the board secretary going crazy while drunk and circulating among the internal group.

Qin Xu's face turned completely black. "Yang Wen! If you vomit on your seat, I will fire you."

Secretary Yang was shocked and quickly covered his mouth. Qin Xu seldom called him by his name. If he did, it meant that he was very angry.

Just then a staff member came over to ask what was going on.

Qin Xu signaled Li Yan to take Secretary Yang to the bathroom so that he could vomit and wash his face to sober up.

Li Yan's cell phone was still with Secretary Yang, and he was the only one suitable to help here.

He was not familiar with the place, so he had to ask the staff to lead the way.

Looking at Li Yanqie's back as he supported Secretary Yang and left, Li Nuo breathed a sigh of relief.

This was the first time he saw someone drunk. It had to be said that alcohol was very powerful. Secretary Yang seemed like a different person. But the fact that he could drink so much did mean that he was very happy, didn't it?

He loosened his grip on the bottle, looked at the half-full bottle of wine, and tilted his head.