Chapter 12 You are Xu Yuqi Gao...
The sunlight shone into the bedroom through the thin gauze curtains, occupying most of the bed and completely dispelling the dull atmosphere of the night.
It was already bright outside the window.
Tao Siyun was sleeping soundly when he suddenly received a call from Li Huan: "Tao Siyun, I'm telling you that we're moving our dinner venue tonight. Cao Wenzheng forced me to cancel my reservation at the revolving restaurant and book a new hotel near his KTV."
"Um……"
"I'll ask Jiang Zhen to pick you up later."
"Ah? No need. Just send me the address and I can go there myself." Tao Siyun had not fully woken up from his sleep. He spoke weakly, and his voice was full of fatigue.
"Okay, I didn't know you yet. Jiang Zhen was just going to pick up his girlfriend and picked you up on the way."
"Oh, all right then..."
After hanging up the phone, Tao Siyun struggled to open his eyes and looked at the time. He didn't expect that it was almost afternoon.
I had made an appointment with Bian Chengzi to go shopping together in the morning so that we could buy Tao Qian a birthday present, but I ended up oversleeping accidentally.
There were no missed calls on his phone, nor were there any bombardments of messages from Bian Chengzi. Tao Siyun rubbed his sleepy eyes and tentatively sent a WeChat message: [Are you up?]
Bian Chengzi: […If I say I just woke up, would you believe me?]
Tao Siyun: [I believe it, because I just woke up too.]
“…”
Bian Chengzi: [How about we make an appointment tomorrow?]
Tao Siyun: [I thought so too...]
The so-called best friends are those who can always maintain the same tacit understanding for more than ten years at critical moments.
After getting up, Tao Siyun took a quick shower. While applying the facial mask, he made himself some food to fill his stomach first. By the way, he also sent the location of the community to Jiang Zhen.
Then she sat at the dining table, eating the glutinous rice balls in the bowl while looking at the 99+ unread messages in the group.
Cao Wenzhen was yelling in the group early in the morning, complaining about the internet-famous restaurant that Li Huan had previously booked, which had become extremely popular recently. He said that the location was bad and too far from his KTV, and he didn't know what time it would be when he went there after dinner.
Cao Wenzheng: [Those internet-famous restaurants are all hype. The food isn't tasty at all, and the prices are incredibly expensive. They're not economical at all.]
Jiang Zhen: [Seconds]
Cao Wenzheng: [This is just to trick you girls who have a lot of money and love to blindly pursue a sense of ritual into checking in. I say, girls, please stop being so vain. We're going to eat, not to show off and take photos to post on WeChat Moments, okay @李焕]
However, his words were retorted by a stranger in the following profile: [Bullshit, you are the one who is stupid and rich, you are the one who is vain @Yinzhuo KTV singing in tune Cao boss]
Cao Wenzheng: [Okay, bullshit, but! I’m not stupid! ! ! ! ! !]
Li Huan: [……]
Only then did Tao Siyun notice that there was one more person in the original WeChat group of five people. This unfamiliar avatar seemed to be very familiar with Cao Wenzhen and the others, like old friends who had known each other for many years, and they spoke without any reservations.
Although he gave in briefly, Cao Wen Zheng still forced Li Huan to cancel her stay at the internet-famous revolving restaurant that she had carefully selected for a long time, despite her objections, on the grounds that he was a regular customer, had a discount coupon, and insisted on eating at the number one braised pork restaurant opposite the KTV.
Then she continued to scroll down and saw the news that Jiang Zhen volunteered to pick her up since she was not good at finding her way.
After dinner, Tao Siyun returned to the bedroom and lay on the bed to play mobile games to kill time. It was not until Jiang Zhen sent her a message saying that he would arrive in half an hour that she reluctantly got up from the bed and changed her clothes.
After putting on her shoes and preparing to go out, she glanced inadvertently at the dressing mirror and happened to catch a glimpse of the black baseball cap that she had placed in the cubicle behind her.
It was raining that night, and Xu Ji put the hat on her head.
I haven't had the chance to return it to him for so long.
Tao Siyun thought about it, took off his shoes, turned around to find a bag, and carefully put the baseball cap in it.
***
Ji Yao saw from a distance the person standing at the intersection ahead, looking down at his phone.
She narrowed her eyes, blew a loud, uncouth whistle, and pried onto the car window, saying without hesitation, "Wow, this girl standing on the road doesn't seem to be from the same dimension as everyone else. I've never seen anyone so ethereal. Is she the heroine of a novel?"
The car braked and stopped in front of Tao Siyun. Jiang Zhen rolled down the window, revealing a smiling face. He waved and honked at Tao Siyun enthusiastically like a taxi driver soliciting passengers: "Here, here~"
The car door opened with a click, and a cool girl sat in the back seat, with her legs crossed. She was wearing a black T-shirt with abstract patterns. Although she was not wearing any makeup, her facial features were very three-dimensional.
Ji Yao's eyes lit up when he saw Tao Siyun up close. He quietly moved aside and greeted her: "Hi, how are you~"
"Hello." Tao Siyun smiled at her politely.
Normally, Tao Siyun wouldn't feel comfortable facing unfamiliar people, especially when faced with that gaze in the car that had been staring at him without any concealment since just now.
After she got in the car, Jiang Zhen introduced them to each other: "Ji Yao, my girlfriend, and this is Tao Siyun, our high school classmate."
Ji Yao drawled out a slow "Oh," then suddenly realized, "Tao Siyun? You're Xu Yuqi's high school boyfriend?! I was wondering why the name sounded so familiar."
Tao Siyun: "..."
"Hahahahaha, yes, yes, this is me..." Jiang Zhen slapped the steering wheel, "Oh, no, I only mentioned it once in front of you. It's been so many years, how come you still remember it so clearly? Hahaha!"
After Ji Yao confirmed that Tao Siyun was the person who had an affair with Xu Ji, she seemed very excited. Her already curious eyes fell on her even more unscrupulously. The fire of gossip was burning in her heart, and her eyes wanted to see through her from top to bottom, inside and out.
"How could I forget that? I remember it so vividly. Damn, he had such high standards."
Although she was gossiping, after noticing Tao Siyun's embarrassment and restraint, she restrained herself and retracted her unsatisfied gaze. She pressed her phone and made small talk: "Where is Xu Ji? Has he finished get off work? It's already so late and he doesn't reply to WeChat messages or answer calls. It's like he has lost contact. He has only been in the company for a few days. Could it be that he has been sexually harassed by some female boss who is attracted by his beauty and has taken advantage of him so quickly?"
Jiang Zhen: “…”
Tao Siyun: "..."
Ji Yao tilted his head, resting his elbows on the car window, stretched his crossed legs forward, and kicked the front seat. "Hey, honey, give him another call. My phone is almost out of battery. Tell him to bring two red grapefruits and some oranges or something. We forgot about them when we passed by the fruit store just now. We can eat them when we go to KTV after dinner."
"I'm driving," Jiang Zhen suddenly called Tao Siyun, "Do you have Xu Ji's phone number? Give him a call."
Tao Siyun had been lowering her head, pretending to be busy, but her name was suddenly called. Her hands, which were playing Connect the Dots on the screen, paused. She licked her lips and stammered, "I don't have his phone number."
There really wasn’t any. Even Xu Ji’s WeChat was pushed to her by Jiang Zhen last time.
Jiang Zhen didn't disbelieve it: "Oh, it's okay. I told you to remember it and ask him to buy two grapefruits when he comes. The phone number is 180..."
"..." Tao Siyun had no choice but to exit the game interface, and opened the dial pad to dial Xu Ji's phone number.
After two rings, a gentle female voice came: "Hello, the number you dialed is temporarily unavailable. Please call again later... Beep, beep, beep..."
Tao Siyun felt relieved and said awkwardly, "I still can't get through."
"Why don't you give him a try by giving him a WeChat voice call~"
Why is it never-ending?
"..." Tao Siyun couldn't help but look up and glance forward. When he saw Jiang Zhen's evil smile and raised mouth corners in the rearview mirror, he was 100% sure that his behavior just now was definitely intentional!!!
But she couldn't say directly: How about I give the phone to your girlfriend and let her call, since she seems to be quite familiar with Xu Ji anyway.
After all, this was the first time she and Ji Yao met, they couldn't even be considered acquaintances...
Tao Siyun could only bite the bullet and open WeChat again, making a voice call, praying that no one would answer, otherwise...
However, after a few rings, just when she was about to hang up, the phone was connected the next second!
!!!
There was a brief burst of noise on the phone, and then Xu Ji's voice rang out in the quiet car. There was a subtle surprise in his tone, and the ending tone rose as he asked lazily, "What's going on?"
Tao Siyun: "..."
"Well, when you come over later, buy two grapefruits and an orange." Then he added, "Um... I want the grapefruits with red hearts."
"?" Xu Ji was silent for a few seconds, as if he didn't quite understand. He asked hesitantly, "Do you want to eat?"
"No," Tao Siyun glanced at the rearview mirror. Jiang Zhen's mouth was almost grinning from ear to ear. She said lightly, "Jiang Zhen wants to eat."
"Oh," Xu Ji's tone returned to normal, and he asked quietly, "What else does he want?"
She was about to ask them, but Ji Yao was just playing with his phone with his head down, and Jiang Zhen was driving in silence. The two of them were busy with their own things, as if they didn't hear her, and didn't even look at her.
Tao Siyun lowered his head silently, staring at the Tiffany bracelet on his wrist. He took a deep breath and said, "Whatever, it's fine. Just buy whatever you like."
There was another silence on the other end. Tao Siyun didn't know what to say next. She wanted to say, why not just leave it at that and hang up?
At this time, Xu Ji's voice once again came through the phone speaker and was extremely clear to every corner of the car: "Do you want yogurt?"
The other two people in the car did not respond, and Tao Siyun didn't know whether they meant "yes" or "no".
She said "hmm" to indicate her agreement.
However, Xu Ji seemed to have suddenly become indecisive and asked her in a very serious tone, "What flavor do you want?"
???
"Just...anything is fine."
"So it's still mango flavored?"
Jiang Zhen: “…”
Ji Yao: “…”
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