In the office, after a brief silence, Special Assistant Xu did not disturb his boss anymore, closed the door considerately, and then left the office.
But not long after he left, a phone call came in, and he had no choice but to push open the door of his boss's office: "There's news from Gu Zhengsong."
Chen Shiming frowned: "Has the person been caught?"
"The police have already deployed. Gu Zhengsong seems to have made a deal with someone else. He wants to destroy other evidence in a short time." Special Assistant Xu said: "They are already laying an ambush. The people in City B want to take action when Gu Zhengsong is making a deal."
City B, Gu Zhengsong ended the call, "Have you arranged the transaction?"
Confidant: "It's arranged. The last batch of goods will be shipped tomorrow night."
The police in City B are investigating very closely. He had hidden the goods before, but with the speed of the police, it would be troublesome if he kept the goods in his hands. So he could only take the risk and find someone to take over. Once the goods were cleared out, all the evidence would be gone except for Gu Shen who was not aware of the situation.
His eyes remained on the newspaper on the table. A whole night passed in silence. He only received news that an ambulance stopped at the prison gate. The police were keeping the news very tight, but the ambulance stayed at the gate for a little too long, so no news came out from Gu Shen.
"Is the person not dead?" Gu Zhengsong asked.
The confidant explained, "I'm not sure. Our informant said that the ambulance stopped for a long time. Someone was also taken away in the ambulance. We can't be sure if it was Gu Shen. Our people didn't dare to get too close. Mr. Gu, Gu Zhengxun is under great pressure. There are a lot of people watching us recently. Also, our movements in S City seem to have been noticed by the Chen and Shen families... They might guess that we were the ones who attacked Gu Shen."
Thinking of the Chen family and the Shen family, Gu Zhengsong's mood became a little worse. Getting rid of Gu Shen was the top priority, but he didn't want to let go of either the Chen or Shen family, especially after he had suffered so many losses during this period of time. Thinking that all his foundation was almost lost in the hands of these people, he felt a little unwilling in his heart.
"Chen Qizhao just celebrated his birthday, right?" Gu Zhengsong asked.
Confidant: "Yes, we sent someone to take a look at the birthday party last night. The Chen family was well guarded."
"Gu Shen dealt with the Chen family before, and we sent Gu Shen's people over to alert them. They are probably on guard against the Chen family now, and they want to take action under the noses of the police. I don't want to give them a handle."
Gu Zhengsong threw the newspaper aside. On the open file on the desk was written a part of Gu Shen's secret industry left in S City. "I asked you to send someone to keep an eye on the youngest son of the Shen family. How is the situation?"
The confidant handed over the photo and said, "I'm keeping an eye on it. I'm doing it according to your instructions."
Gu Zhengsong lit a cigarette and sneered, “After this batch of goods is finished, I will give the Shen family a big gift.”
The cafeteria of the Ninth Institute is located outside the laboratory building, between the institute and the staff dormitory building. Employees' families also come here to eat on weekdays, and the supervision of personnel is not as strict as inside the institute. Liu Sui and his colleagues didn't wait for Shen Yuhuai. They entered the cafeteria and found a more spacious seat. They went to the stalls to get their meals. When they came back after getting their meals, Shen Yuhuai hadn't come yet, so they started chatting.
"The seat next to him was given to Yu Huai. I don't know who he is going to take with him. Why hasn't he come over in such a long time? Why don't they go somewhere else to eat? Why do they come to our cafeteria? Isn't that too much of a stretch?" Liu Sui looked at the dishes on the plate and sighed, "It's summer vacation for S's freshman year. We have fewer places to eat."
Colleague: "You better stop talking. The lady at the stall just rolled her eyes at you."
Liu Sui glanced at the stall and found that the aunt was really looking at him. He lowered his voice and said, "Why did you find a seat so close? Didn't you hear me saying her food was bad?"
Colleague: "It's not the first time. Last time I ate with you, half of the meat fell off when I came to get the food."
Liu Sui: “…”
He changed the subject and asked something else: “Who will Shen Yuhuai pick up at this time?”
"Didn't you just say he spent last night at his girlfriend's place? Go pick up his girlfriend."
"It's possible. I heard that young couples are like this. When they first get together, they like to stick together every day." Liu Sui was no longer interested in the phone. He poked his head towards the cafeteria entrance. "Why would it take so long to pick someone up? Our cafeteria is only 5 minutes away from the entrance of the institute."
After a while, Liu Sui saw Shen Yuhuai's figure appear at the entrance of the cafeteria. Shen Yuhuai's clothes were conspicuous. He waved when he saw him from a distance. He looked to his side and saw a man in a black and white coat following Shen Yuhuai.
Liu Sui narrowed his eyes, "With a hat on, I can't see his face."
"Those legs are so white and straight!"
"Where it is, let me see!!"
The person following Shen Yuhuai was wearing a coat and loose shorts that reached below the knees, revealing his straight, white legs. He was wearing a hat so his face couldn't be seen clearly, but he looked vaguely familiar. Liu Sui saw the person getting closer and closer. He was about to say something to warm up the atmosphere for his brothers, but when the person came closer and took off his hat to reveal a familiar face, he swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth, "Qizhao?"
"Yeah." Chen Qizhao greeted.
Shen Yuhuai said: "You sit down, I'll go get some food."
As soon as Shen Yuhuai left, the people around him looked uninterested. Chen Qizhao casually placed his hat on the chair next to him and looked at them with a little confusion, "What's going on?"
Liu Sui said: "Nothing, I thought Yu Huai took so long to pick someone up, so he went to pick up his girlfriend."
"Girlfriend?" Chen Qizhao asked.
When it comes to girlfriends, the people around them explained the situation in a few words. It was a pity that they didn’t get to see Shen Yuhuai’s girlfriend, but they felt more comfortable seeing Chen Qizhao and the others, “But aren’t you on vacation? Why are you hanging around S University when you have nothing to do? If you knew you were coming, let’s go to a restaurant next door.”
Chen Qizhao: "Oh, did he say what his girlfriend looks like?"
Liu Sui said: "That's nonsense. Who doesn't love a beauty who looks like a fairy? Let me tell you, he has a photo of his goddess hidden in his computer. When I went over, he wouldn't let me see it. What kind of beauty hides it so well? When he was in B University, many girls sent him love letters, but he never even glanced at them. He even sneaked in to look at the photo in the middle of the night. Tsk tsk."
Chen Qizhao asked again: "Looking at photos in the middle of the night?"
"Not only that, in order to celebrate his goddess' birthday, he started working a week in advance and was late for the laboratory this morning." Liu Sui was about to say that Shen Yuhuai was still wearing his girlfriend's pajamas and that they had spent the night together last night, but before he could finish his words, his eyes suddenly stopped on Chen Qizhao's coat.
Just as Chen Qizhao was about to speak, Shen Yuhuai, who had gone to the stall to get food, came back.
There were mostly meat dishes on the plate, all of which were Chen Qizhao’s favorites. After Shen Yuhuai put the plate down, he asked again, “Is the drink still Coke?”
The weather was hot and there was no air conditioning in the cafeteria, except for a big fan overhead.
Chen Qizhao was originally planning to buy a bottle of water from the vending machine, but he nodded after hearing Shen Yuhuai say so much.
Shen Yuhuai put down the plate and ran to the vending machine to buy water.
The people who were talking felt a little strange when they saw Shen Yuhuai coming over with two plates, but thinking that Chen Qizhao didn't know which stall in their cafeteria had stepped on the thunder, it was reasonable for Shen Yuhuai to serve food to people. It was just that in this back and forth, it was as if there was a tacit understanding between the two people that they could not get involved at all.
When Shen Yuhuai sat down, Liu Sui couldn't help but look at him, and then glanced at Chen Qizhao: "I didn't notice it just now, but now I see that the clothes you two are wearing seem to be of the same style."
Damn, to be exaggerated, they look like couple outfits.
The people around nodded. Although Chen Qizhao was wearing a thin black and white jacket, there were a few scribbled letters printed on the jacket, which inexplicably matched the print on Shen Yuhuai's T-shirt. People's aesthetic style is fixed, and Chen Qizhao's dressing style has always been like this, very trendy and a little flashy. Liu Sui didn't notice it before, but now looking at the two people sitting in front of him, there is an indescribable sense of harmony...
"It's the same style." Shen Yuhuai put the cutlery on Chen Qizhao's plate, "The one on you is his."
"Hey, I thought this was a style, it turns out it's..."
Liu Sui was stunned in the middle of his speech, "Isn't this your girlfriend's pajamas!"
Not only him, but also the people listening nearby were stunned.
S University, students, they have also seen...
Finally, they turned their eyes to Chen Qizhao, who was silent. He looked calm and even picked up a meatball from the plate and ate it.
With a sizzling sound, the silence was broken by the sound of a can of soda being opened. Chen Qizhao said, "It's just that I bought it too big and didn't wear it as pajamas."
Others: “…”
Shen Yuhuai sat next to Chen Qizhao, not choosing to sit directly opposite him. In the narrow cafeteria seats, their shoulders were almost touching. There were no extra movements between the two of them while they were eating, just like ordinary friends. But when you observe carefully, you will find that there is an unbreakable atmosphere between them. The two of them didn't say anything further, but since the matter had come to this point, and they weren't the kind of old-fashioned people who knew nothing, it was almost as if they were being told the truth.
Liu Sui smiled awkwardly: "No way?"
"Yeah." Shen Yuhuai said calmly, "No goddess, no girlfriend, he is my boyfriend."
Liu Sui couldn't help but ask: "Why didn't you tell me before!"
Shen Yuhuai: “I didn’t catch up with her before.”
My colleague asked, “What about birthdays?”
Chen Qizhao spoke at the right time: "Yesterday was my birthday."
Liu Sui: “… Shit, what about those photos of goddesses stored in your computer?!”
Chen Qizhao slightly side-glanced and looked at Chen Yuhuai.
Shen Yuhuai picked up some food for Chen Qizhao. His expression was very natural, and a puzzled look was appropriately hung on his face. “Are there any photos?”
Liu Sui felt like an idiot for what he said before. Looking at the food on the plate in front of him, he didn't know for a moment whether the food in the cafeteria was bad or he couldn't swallow it. His curiosity was about to explode. During the meal, he glanced at Shen Yuhuai and Chen Qizhao from time to time. What he was thinking in his mind was when these two people got together and when they confirmed their relationship. How come he didn't see any signs after eating together so many times.
He was too embarrassed to continue asking, so he clicked on Shen Yuhuai’s circle of friends and took a look, then looked at Chen Qizhao’s circle of friends, and finally stopped at Chen Qizhao’s avatar.
"Fuck." Liu Sui.
Colleague: "The cafeteria aunt is looking at you again."
Liu Sui glanced towards the stall and noticed that the cafeteria auntie had one hand on her waist and the other on the stall platform, looking at him coldly and ruthlessly, as if the next time he came to the cafeteria to eat, she would shake out all the meat on the tray.
“…”
After lunch, it was lunch time. Shen Yuhuai had to go to the laboratory in the afternoon, so Chen Qizhao couldn't follow him into the laboratory. Once the lunch break was over, their short time together was also over.
I didn’t think there was any difference between us going to work before, but once I became the free person, Chen Qizhao always felt that he didn’t have enough time.
Before they parted, Shen Yuhuai stopped him and handed him something.
Chen Qizhao looked at the key in his hand and asked knowingly, "What is this?"
"The key to my apartment." Shen Yuhuai said.
The two of them didn't say anything, but Chen Qizhao clenched his keys tightly. The driver of the online car-hailing vehicle had arrived in the distance and was honking towards him.
"Then I'll go first." Chen Qizhao said.
Shen Yuhuai responded, “Send me a message when you get there.”
Chen Qizhao thought that even with the key he might not go to the apartment, but after getting in the car he discussed with the driver to change the address from the original S University Library to an apartment in the city half an hour away from the Ninth Institute.
After arriving at the place, Chen Qizhao opened the door with his key. It was the first time he entered the house without the owner being present.
Shen Yuhuai's apartment was not big, just enough for a man living alone. Chen Qizhao walked around the house, looking at her boyfriend's house openly, and finally stopped at the balcony full of green plants.
The failure of the experiment in the morning led to an increase in workload in the afternoon, and investigating the cause of the failure became a top priority. During the experiment, people from the research institute came to discuss time with their person in charge, saying that new equipment was going to be brought into the laboratory and asked them to free up some time to move the equipment. This matter was handed over to Lao Wang to handle. When Shen Yuhuai's work came to an end, he saw Lao Wang talking to a man in a suit outside.
His gaze lingered on the other person for a while, until the other person looked in their direction, Shen Yuhuai retracted his gaze and walked directly to the computer.
After confirming the time, Lao Wang came in from outside the laboratory with the form, and saw Shen Yuhuai standing near the door, so he pulled him aside to have a conversation.
Shen Yuhuai glanced at the form in his hand, “Has the time for the instrument to come in been determined?”
"It's confirmed. There are a lot of instruments coming into the laboratory building, and we have to copy out all the data. We have agreed with them for the weekend, so it won't affect us then." Lao Wang handed the form to Shen Yuhuai, and then said, "They have to debug the instruments after they come in, otherwise it will be troublesome if the experimental parameters don't match. It's better to leave these to professionals."
The time was recorded on the form. Shen Yuhuai noticed the signature and time before returning the form to Lao Wang. "So it means we have a holiday on Sunday?"
"It's a holiday, it's a holiday. When have we ever worked overtime on Sunday? We have two days off this week."
After coming out of the laboratory, Shen Yuhuai went to the administrator's office. When he arrived at the lounge, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon. He checked his mobile phone messages as usual and found that Chen Qizhao had sent him a video an hour ago.
[-Zhao: [Video]]
[-Zhao: How do I water these? Is it the same as the potted plants I have? ]
The location was his apartment. The boy's appearance could not be seen in the video, but his footsteps could be heard. Shen Yuhuai's eyes were gentle, and he replied to the other party's message seriously. After the message was sent, Chen Qizhao did not reply. Shen Yuhuai originally wanted to wait a little longer, but Liu Sui had already come to the lounge to urge him to come over.
Until Shen Yuhuai got off work, he did not receive a reply from Chen Qizhao.
"Yu Huai, do you want to go eat grilled fish after get off work?" a colleague called out.
Shen Yuhuai rejected the good intention, “You guys go ahead.”
Liu Sui, who was finishing recording data, peeked out of the laboratory door and saw Shen Yuhuai walking straight to the elevator entrance, "Men who are in love are different."
It was some distance from the institute to the city, so Shen Yuhuai drove directly there after get off work, but when he was at the gate of the community, he turned and went to the supermarket to buy some vegetables. When he returned home and opened the door, he saw the boy lying on the sofa. The other person was lying on the sofa with his legs bent, covered with a coat. He seemed to be sleeping soundly, and the sound of the door opening did not disturb him.
Shen Yuhuai lightened his steps, went back to the bedroom, got a blanket and covered him, then took something into the kitchen.
Chen Qizhao woke up in a daze. He heard the sound of running water in the kitchen. When he woke up, the lights in the room were on and there was a layer of dusk outside the window. He sat cross-legged on the sofa and looked towards the kitchen with sleepy eyes. A man in an apron was cooking and the aroma was wafting out.
He felt sleepy after taking the medicine, and after arriving at Shen Yuhuai's house, he lay on the sofa waiting for someone to reply. Maybe because he got up early in the morning, he fell asleep while waiting, and slept until this time.
Chen Qizhao lowered his eyes and saw the blanket covering his body.
The place where it touched the skin was warm and soft, and the blanket carried the scent of Chen Yuhuai.
"Awake?" Shen Yuhuai asked.
"Yeah." Chen Qizhao looked up at him and lifted the blanket: "When did you come back?"
Shen Yuhuai: “I just came back not long ago, wait a moment, dinner will be ready soon.”
He then added: "I've told Aunt Zhang that you won't be going back for dinner tonight."
Chen Qizhao originally wanted to send a message to Zhang Yazhi, but he paused after hearing this, changed the message in the input box before sending it. After he sent the message, he saw the voice message that Shen Yuhuai had sent him in the afternoon, which detailed how to water the green plants on the balcony.
The person was in the house. Chen Qizhao leaned against the glass door of the kitchen and spoke one by one.
The external speaker's voice was exceptionally loud, and Chen Yuhuai said, "I'm right here, you can ask me directly."
"Oh." Chen Qizhao listened to the voice message and said, "Did you water it?"
"Not yet." Shen Yuhuai responded, and then he saw Chen Qizhao, as he instructed in the voice, first went to change the water in the watering can, and walked back and forth on the floor in slippers. The different sounds added a different feeling to the apartment.
When Shen Yuhuai finished cooking and returned to the restaurant, he caught a glimpse of the balcony from the corner of his eye.
Chen Qizhao watered different green plants according to the content of the voice message. He clicked on each voice message and listened to it twice. Shen Yuhuai walked silently behind him and watched the boy watering the plants awkwardly. Only after he had watered all the green plants according to the voice message introduction did Shen Yuhuai say, "Wash your hands. It's time to eat."
Chen Qizhao did not move. His hands were a little dirty and were placed behind his back. His eyes were frank and honest. Chen Qizhao has always had a well-behaved appearance. After losing weight, his features became much more stern, but if you look closely, you can still see the childishness on his face, especially when he looks at people without saying anything, his eyes are fixed straight ahead.
Shen Yuhuai paused for a moment, walked to the other side, and bent down slightly to kiss his family.
Chen Qizhao looked up to respond to him, and the two kissed briefly on the balcony.
After dinner, the apartment became quiet. Shen Yuhuai received a call from the laboratory. It seemed that a colleague had found out the reason for the failure of the experiment in the morning. When he was on the phone, Chen Qizhao said he wanted to take a shower and went to the bathroom in Shen Yuhuai's room.
"It may be a problem with the materials. Are the parameters registered in the last material table still there? Try it again with the machine tomorrow." Shen Yuhuai was talking on the phone with his colleague and noticed the sound of water dripping from the door that was not closed tightly.
The door was not closed, and from his angle, the frosted glass door in the master bedroom bathroom didn't seem to be closed tightly either.
The person on the phone didn’t hear Shen Yuhuai’s response after he finished speaking, so he asked again: “Yuhuai?”
The apartment seemed a bit stuffy, so Shen Yuhuai turned on the air conditioner. "Okay, let's talk about the rest when we get to the lab tomorrow. Liu Sui should have a copy of the materials. I'll ask him to give it to you later."
After the call ended, the sound of water in the bathroom had not stopped.
Shen Yuhuai walked over and saw the tightly closed frosted door. He was about to go in when he suddenly heard the sound of water inside stop.
"Brother Huai, I forgot to tell you that I didn't bring any clothes." Chen Qizhao's voice sounded a little muffled through the door.
Shen Yuhuai looked away when he heard that, “I’ll get it for you.”
The clothes in the closet were neatly arranged. Shen Yuhuai's hand paused at the row of pajamas for a while, and finally took out a set of pajamas he often wore.
The sound of water in the frosted door stopped, and a figure walked behind the door. Shen Yuhuai knocked on the door, and the door opened directly.
The other person's hands were wet, with water droplets dripping onto the floor. Looking along the fingers, one could see faint knife marks on the white arm.
Shen Yuhuai's eyes deepened slightly, and he handed over the clothes, "Only pajamas."
But Chen Qizhao did not take it. His hands moved slightly down and did not hold the clothes. Separated by a door, they couldn't see each other's condition. Shen Yuhuai's eyes stopped on that hand. He saw the other party's wet hand brushing across his clothes and finally holding his wrist.
The hands were not cold but warm, and extremely hot when touched.
Shen Yuhuai did not move, and neither did Chen Qizhao behind the door.
The door opened a little, and Shen Yuhuai saw that Chen Qizhao's hair was wet and water was still dripping down.
A scent of mint shower gel that was familiar to Chen Yuhuai wafted towards him, with a faint fragrance.
Chen Qizhao seemed to see the location of the clothes, he let go of Shen Yuhuai’s wrist and took the clothes.
When the door was about to close, Shen Yuhuai's hand happened to be stuck in the crack of the door, and his voice was hoarse: "Can I come in?"
This sentence, spoken in Shen Yuhuai's tone, carried an unspeakable restraint, but it was like a signal to remind both parties.
The frosted door did not need to be pressed hard, just gently pushed open, and the scene inside the door was clearly visible.
There was no response from the other party, and there was silence for a while.
Shen Yuhuai slightly opened the door, “Then I’ll come in.”
The shower door was not closed tightly and the shower head was still dripping a little.
There was steam in the bathroom and the mirror was covered with a layer of fog. In the hazy smoke, both faces had a soft look.
After a moment of silence, Shen Yuhuai walked over and put his arms around the other person's waist, pressing the person against the cold wall of the shower room, and the kiss that he had restrained for a whole day fell. He started kissing Chen Qizhao from the corner of his eyes, kissing away the water droplets on his face, and finally pried open his lips and teeth and rushed in.
The stuffy feeling became more and more severe. The exhaust fan in the bathroom was still running. During the kiss, someone touched the handle of the shower switch. As if on purpose, warm water fell on their heads. No one could leave this shower room.
Chen Qizhao went to pull off Chen Yuhuai's T-shirt, and the printed T-shirt that he had worn for a day fell off the man's body and fell wetly in a corner of the bathroom.
…
In a silent competition, Chen Qizhao glanced at him in a short breath, and glanced at the dirty clothes basket not far away, "There is something in the coat."
Shen Yuhuai reached into the dirty clothes basket to take out the black and white jacket, pulled out a box of something from his pocket, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Where did you buy it?"
"There's a convenience store in front of your institute." Chen Qizhao looked at him with tears in his eyes. "When you get off the bus there..."
Before Chen Qizhao could finish his words, the man bit his lip, his wet slacks rubbed against his skin, the packaging box fell to the ground in confusion, and the second half of his sentence turned into short breaths, gradually disappearing in the sound of dripping water.
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