The moment he sat down beside her, he brought with him not only the familiar atmosphere but also all the memories of their time together.
It came like an overwhelming force.
Min Xi couldn't control the turmoil in his heart and could only try his best to keep a calm face.
Yan Heyu did not interrupt. At this time, he disappeared, took out his mobile phone and chatted with someone, pretending to be very busy.
Min Xi didn't look at Fu Yanzhou, but looked at the various small wine glasses in front of him and took the initiative to chat: "What are you busy with recently?"
Fu Yanzhou didn't shy away from her gaze, and his eyes never left her since he sat down.
He thought about what she meant by asking this question. For the past three months, every weekend he would post his schedule for the next week on his Moments, visible only to her.
She asked this specifically, probably to tell him that she had blocked his circle of friends and that he didn't need to report his itinerary anymore because she wouldn't read it.
Fu Yanzhou still said: "It's almost the same as in the itinerary, not much different."
Min Xi had no choice but to say, "I didn't watch it. Not even once."
She said calmly, "We've lived together for so long... there must be many habits that are hard to change all of a sudden. Just change them slowly. I'm also trying to adapt."
It was difficult at first to adapt to the days without him and no longer be able to like him, but now that I have gotten through the most difficult three months, it should be easier later on.
She said, “Don’t post it anymore.”
Fu Yanzhou nodded and agreed to her.
He would not do anything that would cause her trouble. She will be able to close the Shengshi Automobile case in October, which is just over two months away.
The conversation between them fell into silence from time to time, and they were afraid of making mistakes if they spoke too much.
Min Xi had something else to tell him in advance. She turned her face slightly to the side, and her peripheral vision was only enough to see his straight nose, without looking up.
"I have almost adjusted myself now. You don't need to feel guilty about the project. Next, I will delete WeChat. If one day you suddenly need to contact me and find that you can't send the message, don't be too surprised, and don't worry that I am upset. I won't."
I didn’t delete it when I got divorced because I was thinking of waiting until the day when I was calm and composed before deleting it.
They had known each other since childhood, lived in the same compound, and had liked him for so many years, so she wanted to leave herself a memory that was not so embarrassing. After you calm down and delete the contact information, slowly fade away and become a stranger who no longer contacts each other.
"Don't delete WeChat, I won't bother you." Fu Yanzhou unconsciously exerted force on his knuckles while holding the water cup. The veins on the back of his hand bulged, and his heart was being tortured inch by inch.
"Xixi, even if we get divorced, we still have other relationships. We have known each other for so many years."
"But no matter how many years we have known each other, the relationship of us being ex-husband and ex-wife cannot be changed. It is not appropriate to keep contact information." Min Xi looked at him again, still could not see clearly, only saw a rough deep outline.
I wanted to explain a few more words, but I felt it was unnecessary.
She told him that she was just giving him an idea, not asking for his opinion.
Fu Yanzhou turned around again and looked at her intently: "You are the first contact on my WeChat. Did you forget how to add me?"
Old memories flooded over her. Min Xi raised her head and pretended to look at the stage, without responding to him.
Fu Yanzhou hesitated to speak and looked towards the stage. He should be one of the first users of WeChat after its launch. It was winter vacation at the time and Min Xi was a freshman in high school that year.
She paid attention to the relevant news and called each person one by one, asking them not to rush to add her as a contact, as she wanted to be the first friend in all of their address books.
Except for her who was the most active, no one else took it seriously and didn't pay much attention to the newly launched instant messaging tool.
She made downloading WeChat a top priority during the winter vacation, and first went to Yan Heyu's house to download it for them and import their contacts.
It was already afternoon when I knocked on their door. I heard that in one morning, she had helped more than ten people in the compound download the app and successfully became the first friend in everyone's address book.
Someone asked Min Ting: Is Xixi helping someone complete the downloading task? Look at her positive.
Min Ting replied: Where does the mission come from? During puberty, various hormones are secreted excessively. Don't worry about her.
When Min Xi arrived at his house, he had just woken up from a nap. Like everyone else, he was not enthusiastic about his new chat job, so he gave her the phone and let her play with it herself.
He asked her, "Have you finished your winter vacation homework?"
She rolled her eyes at him, turned around and sat with her back to him, ignoring him.
After a while, she turned around again, raised her eyelids and asked him, "Are you in love?" The tone she used was almost the same as his uncle's.
"Why do you worry about everything? Go home and take care of Min Ting."
"I ask this question to everyone. If you are in a relationship and have a girlfriend, I will introduce your girlfriend as your first friend."
"No."
She not only helped with downloading, but was also responsible for choosing nicknames and avatars. back
He changed his profile picture, but his nickname remained the same over the years. It was still the one she had randomly chosen.
More than ten years passed in a flash.
Fu Yanzhou put away his thoughts. She was stubborn and there was basically no way to persuade her to change her mind. He could only appeal to her emotions: "You need to get over the divorce, and I need time too. Xixi, I know you feel bad, and I am not much better than you. If you insist on deleting it," he bought time: "Delete it after half a year."
Min Xi didn't respond.
But I didn't refuse.
The interests of the two companies have not yet been untied, and the follow-up matters cannot be concluded in a day or two.
Half a year later, they should be able to accept it calmly, face it calmly, and will no longer think about contacting each other. Even if they delete the information, there will not be much waves.
She also hoped to let everything be forgotten and let nature take its course. She didn't want him to become her obsession and make her feel unhappy from then on.
"Hello, Mr. Fu." Someone else came to talk to him in the banquet hall.
Fu Yanzhou nodded to the man, feeling tired of dealing with it.
Yan Heyu, who was sitting on the other side of Min Xi, stood up and exchanged a few words with the visitor. He stood behind Fu Yanzhou's chair and blocked all the people who came to say hello for Fu Yanzhou.
The wedding had not yet started and there was nothing to see on the stage. Min Xi withdrew his gaze and habitually reached for the cup at hand to drink a sip of water. The cup was empty, and before he could touch the cup, he retracted his hand in time.
Fu Yanzhou put his glass of water in front of her: "I haven't drunk it yet."
The water temperature was just right, probably less than 40 degrees.
Min Xi inadvertently lowered her head and noticed that the hem of her skirt was spread out. She gathered the hem of her skirt and stretched it under her legs, trying not to lean towards him.
Her movements were very small, but Fu Yanzhou saw them all. He recalled that in November of the year before last, she suddenly took her annual leave and rushed to the airport to surprise him. At that time, she deliberately pushed the hem of her skirt over his trousers.
But now, there was no way her skirt could touch him, so she pulled it back.
The wedding ceremony lasted quite a while and included a segment where Chu Yi proposed and confessed his love for her.
Min Xi watched the whole thing carefully, but she couldn't avoid being distracted occasionally, but she would quickly adjust herself.
When the wedding banquet was over, she was the first person to stand up at the table.
His legs were still resting on the chair, and he wasn't standing straight.
She turned around and wanted to move her chair back, but Fu Yanzhou had already taken a step ahead of her and moved her chair back half a meter.
"Are you free tonight?" Fu Yanzhou said again: "Let's have dinner together. It's my birthday tomorrow."
Any slightly special day can trigger her memories. The scene when he rushed from Jiangcheng to Shanghai to celebrate her birthday with her on a typhoon day is still before her eyes, as if it has not been long.
But that was two years ago.
Min Xi smiled and refused: "No, I have to work overtime tonight."
Finally, he said: "Happy birthday."
Fu Yanzhou didn't respond, but asked her: "On the plane to Melbourne two years ago, you wanted to play a game and I chose the big adventure. Do you remember?"
How could I forget?
Her big dare punishment for him was to make him confess his love to her until she was moved. She still remembers every word he said that day.
Min Xi asked back: "What's wrong?"
Fu Yanzhou looked at her: "That's what I really think."
"Thanks."
After two seconds of hesitation, she thanked him, her voice a little hoarse.
Min Xi tried hard to calm himself down, said hello to Yan Heyu, and left first.
Walking out of the banquet hall, she breathed a sigh of relief and gave up controlling her facial expression.
If it weren't for the Lemeng Food incident that happened later, and if she hadn't discovered the illusion of her parents' love, when she knew that he also had some feelings for her, even though it couldn't be called love, this liking would have been enough to support her to be with him for the rest of her life.
But life is never as we wish, and some blows always come unexpectedly.
After Min Xi left, Yan Heyu moved to sit on her chair. There was still wine in his glass. He clinked glasses with Fu Yanzhou and said that it was unnecessary to say anything else. He just drank up the wine at the bottom of the glass.
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In the hotel's underground parking lot, Fu Yanzhou met Lu Zhen.
Lu Zhen came out of another elevator. She came here today to attend the full-month banquet for a big client's child. She had something else to do in the afternoon so she left early.
What a coincidence, we met here.
The last time she met Fu Yanzhou was at a Shengshi Technology press conference, and they have had no contact since then. Although I am curious about the reason why he and Min Xi divorced, now that I am working with Min Xi, and as someone who once pursued him, it is not convenient for me to talk to him any more.
Anyway, whether he is single or not, there is no possibility for her to be with him.
"Boss Fu, what a coincidence, you're entertaining people here?"
She simply said hello.
Fu Yanzhou: "My classmate is getting married."
At this time, Lu Zhen's cell phone rang. It was a call from Xiao Chang.
Xiao Chang came to Beijing today and asked her to meet him to hear her feedback and comments on the oil control products. After work on Monday, he went to Jiachen to visit Min Xi.
Lu Zhen temporarily muted the phone and apologized to Fu Yanzhou: "Mr. Fu, you are busy. I have something else to do."
Neither of them wanted to talk any more, so they left in their own cars.
Fu Yanzhou refused his friends' offer to celebrate his birthday tonight, and even turned down the group organized by Yan Heyu, and went straight back to the old house in the compound from the hotel.
His mother took a special leave of absence and came back to have birthday dinner with him.
After the divorce, he received more care from his parents than in the previous thirty years combined. He told his parents many times that he was fine, but his parents wouldn't listen.
After drinking two glasses of white wine at noon, Fu Yanzhou got in the car and leaned back in the chair to rest. He opened his eyes and looked outside the car when the car rolled over a long speed bump.
Only large compounds have speed bumps that are this long and this obvious.
The car was heading in the wrong direction. His family was turning right, but now the driver turned onto the road on the left.
Turning left leads to Min Xi's house.
He went to see Min Xi so often in the past few months that it became a conditioned reflex for the driver to go wherever he could meet Min Xi.
Passing by the door of Min's house, her car was parked in the parking space, and her father-in-law's car was also there.
Min Xi was mixed with sadness and joy today. She was sad from the wedding scene until halfway through the journey when she received a call from Min Ting, who said that her parents would be back today and asked her to go home for dinner in the evening.
The joy of seeing my mother diluted the sadness by half.
When she got home, her father was squeezing watermelon juice for her.
The first thing Min Xi said when he saw his father was: "When will mom come back?"
Min Jiangyuan was not sure: "I called and your mother's secretary answered. The secretary was not sure when she would finish the meeting, but she would definitely be back tonight."
The secretary answered the phone and heard his voice, which was a little stuttering because he was so nervous.
He didn't make things difficult for the secretary and hung up the phone first.
Min Xi leaned against the cooking table while her father dug out the watermelon pulp. She pinched a piece and ate it.
"Dad, do you remember how long it has been since you last saw Mom?"
Min Jiangyuan paused with the spoon in his hand, continued to scoop the pulp, and said, "More than four months." It was in April this year when he was attending a meeting in the city where his wife was on a business trip, and they met in the evening.
Today, their jobs are special and they can no longer come and go freely like they did when they were young. The extra travel would increase the workload for too many people.
Moreover, his work schedule was so tight that he simply couldn't spare the time to fly to another place. In addition, my wife doesn't want to meet him, so the opportunity to meet him is even more difficult.
Min Xi was about to reach out to pinch another piece of watermelon when her cell phone rang. She took a tissue to wipe her hands, then picked up the phone. It was her mother calling.
"Hello, Mom."
When Min Jiangyuan heard the name, he suddenly turned to look at his daughter.
Jiang Rui is at the airport now. He just received a notice that the flight cannot take off normally due to bad weather. As for when the flight can take off, the broadcast did not say.
"Xixi, it's raining heavily here, so the plane can't take off. I definitely won't be able to have dinner with you tonight."
"It's okay. We will wait for you to come back no matter how late it is."
"You guys eat first, in case we arrive in the middle of the night."
"Then I'll wait for you until midnight." Min Xi dispelled her mother's worries: "My brother and I don't have work tomorrow, and Dad is also on vacation. I can't fall asleep so early, so I'll stay at home tonight."
She was looking forward to her mother's return and felt like she was back in her childhood. When she was little, every time she heard on the phone that her mother was coming back, she would look at the pendulum clock in her grandfather's house from time to time, wishing that the hands would move faster.
"Xixi, are you at home now?"
"Yeah, they're all at home."
Min Xi no longer mentions her father alone when she calls her mother. In the past, she would definitely say, "Dad is making watermelon juice for me."
I chatted with my mother for more than twenty minutes before hanging up the phone.
Min Jiangyuan waited for his daughter to take the phone away from her ear before he plugged in the juicer.
His own cell phone was on the other side of the counter and he took it and held it in front of him.
Two glasses of watermelon juice were squeezed, and there were no incoming calls on his cell phone.
It is also cloudy in Beijing today, and heavy rain is forecast. The sky is gloomy but it hasn't rained yet.
Because it was cloudy, it got dark early. It was not even half past six when dusk fell.
Her mother sent her a message saying that the plane had not taken off yet and might not be able to fly today.
[Then tell me before you take off, and my brother and I will go to pick you up at the airport. 】
Jiang Rui promised her daughter: "Okay." 】
Since their mother couldn't make it back in time, they had to make do with dinner, and their father made them wonton noodles.
She and her brother prefer wontons, while her mother likes noodles.
Before finishing dinner, the wind started to blow outside, and then it started to rain heavily. Min Xi looked at the heavy rain outside the window, worried that his mother's flight might be cancelled.
After dinner, my father went upstairs to get his glasses and read some documents in the living room. Min Ting also took the computer to the living room and handled emails while chatting with her.
She gave herself a complete day off today and didn't think about anything related to work.
She was the most idle person the whole night, leaning on the sofa drinking soda.
Min Jiangyuan sent a text message to his wife: [How are things going over there? 】
Jiang Rui gave a formal reply: [Can go back, but there are large delays, waiting in line for takeoff. 】
Immediately afterwards, she sent another message: [Told Xixi that the plane hasn’t taken off yet, and now she knows she’s going to the airport to pick her up. 】
At 10:30 in the evening, my mother sent me a message: [Xixi, Mom just got off the plane and will be home in the early morning. If you are sleepy, take a nap first. 】
Min Xi quickly replied to his mother: [Dad said you haven’t taken off yet! 】
Jiang Rui smiled. She didn't want her daughter to run back and forth on a rainy day: "I told your dad to lie." Mom has a driver, so there’s no need to pick her up. 】
"Mom got off the plane." Min Xi told his father and brother.
Min Jiangyuan said "hmm", finished reading a page of the document, turned it upside down on the coffee table, put away his glasses and went to the kitchen.
At 23:55, Min Ting's cell phone vibrated. It was an alarm.
He canceled the alarm and opened his Moments to edit photos.
Just as he finished editing, a car drove into the yard and his mother came back. Min Xi put on his slippers and walked quickly to the door.
At 11:59 pm, Min Ting posted an update on his Moments. The content only contained a picture of a cake emoji, without any text. The accompanying pictures were six photos of cakes. Each cake was different, and the shapes ranged from ugly to ugly to elegant and exquisite.
He left a message in the comment section: Xixi made it for me.
Dozens of likes instantly.
Yan Heyu left a message: You are killing people and destroying their hearts.
I just left a message and the time jumped to midnight, and it was August 9th, Fu Yanzhou’s birthday.
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