Romance
You Jing bit a cigarette, leaned against the wall outside the box, and called Ye Yuanyin again. The voice came again, "Sorry, the user you dialed is temporarily unavailable."
The cigarette rolled to the corner of his mouth. He smiled with his lips pursed, thinking that he had finally grown up and knew how to hide. But how long could he hide?
The door of the box was suddenly opened, and a young man with a flat head and a straight face came out. He was a good friend who grew up together. His name was Zheng Yi.
"Brother Jing, come and play cards. We're waiting for you."
"Right away."
You Jing said something and pressed the lighter in his hand. It was a plastic lighter that he had picked up from some dinner party, but he pressed it several times but it didn't light up.
He stopped a man who was about to pass by in the corridor and said, "Hey, buddy, can I borrow a light?"
The door of the box was opened again, and Zheng Yi rushed out, holding up his cell phone with a happy look on his face.
"Hey, hey, hey, Ain went to find Zhou You."
The lighter popped up with a flame as high as his index finger. You Jing lit the cigarette, took two puffs, squinted his eyes and took his mobile phone. The photo on the screen was enlarged, and he saw his "little Dong Shi" at a glance.
"Walk!"
*
Ye Yuanyin helped the institution's instructor collect all the children's drawings. She pulled out one and saw the little boy had written his name, "Mumu," in the lower right corner.
The theme of the painting is "My Mother and I". The black lines are very rough, the mother is extremely tall, and the child is standing on the diagonal very far away from her.
Ye Yuanyin looked at the painting carefully again and felt that the information revealed by the picture was very bad.
That night, after waiting for a long time but not seeing the child's mother, she asked the teacher, "Who usually picks up Mumu?"
"It varies. Sometimes it's a woman, sometimes it's a man."
Around eight o'clock in the evening, the person who was supposed to pick him up finally arrived. He was a man in his thirties. Ye Yuanyin shook the little boy's hand and asked, "Do you know him?"
Mumu looked over with numb and empty eyes, which was not what a five or six year old child's eyes should have.
Ye Yuanyin asked the man in front of him: "What is your relationship with the child?"
The man said impatiently, "What relationship? Are you new here? Everyone here knows who I am."
Ye Yuanyin insisted, "You ask the child's mother to call us. As long as there is no problem after verification, we will of course release him."
The man argued with her for a long time, but no matter what he said, she refused to let him go.
"Why are you so stubborn?" The man was angry and pushed her.
There were several electric bikes parked in front of the consulting agency. Ye Yuan bumped into the handlebars of one of the bikes, and a crack appeared on his solar plexus, which felt sour and cold as if it had been touched by wind oil.
She didn't care and stood up and said, "I still say the same thing. No matter who entrusts you to pick up the child, as long as the child's mother calls, you can take the person away. If she doesn't call, and you dare to make trouble again, I will call the police."
"Damn, there's so much to do!" the man cursed as he left. "Don't even think about asking me to run errands for you anymore."
When Special Assistant Wang arrived, he became extremely irritable and impatient because the work was not completed.
When he saw Ye Yuanyin, he became even more furious.
"Why is it you? Didn't I make it clear that I won't forgive you?" Special Assistant Wang demanded loudly, "What are you doing now? Are you trying to use my son to blackmail me? The Shen family is in decline, so how can they recruit such despicable people?"
She vented her anger on the child again, "Mumu, come here! Why don't you go home with the confinement nanny? Do you think your mother's work is not busy enough? Why are you so disobedient!"
The boy's small body trembled non-stop. Ye Yuanyin covered his ears with both hands and said calmly, "Don't go crazy again."
"You dare to call me crazy?!" Special Assistant Shen's forehead was bulging with blue veins, and he couldn't believe it: "Who do you think you are talking to?!"
Ye Yuanyin didn't back down. She also had a lot of complaints. "Work is important, but the child is more important. Can't you see he's in pain? Although he's young, he has his own ideas! As a mother, how can you be so ignorant?"
During the four or five minutes they were talking, work calls kept coming in.
Special Assistant Wang had been pushed to his limit and yelled nervously, "Don't waste my time anymore. I have so many things to deal with. Mumu, follow Mom!"
Ye Yuanyin grabbed the child and pleaded, "Please calm down, even for a minute. I have something very important to tell you."
Special Assistant Wang sneered, swung the bag and smashed it down on her head and face without hesitation. Ye Yuanyin raised her hand to block it.
The child burst into tears of fear, but Special Assistant Wang ignored him, only focused on venting his own anxiety and anger.
Ye Yuanyin bent over and hugged her head. At first, she felt pain in her flesh, but later the pain subsided. Puzzled, she looked up and saw Chen Yanan standing beside her, holding the woman's bag with one hand.
Of course, Assistant Wang knew who he was. She was shocked and her strength weakened. She pulled her child away.
Chen Yan threw the bag back at her feet, turned to look at Ye Yuanyin, and saw that her cheeks and the back of her hands were covered with bruises. He asked angrily, "When someone hits you, you don't even know how to fight back?"
Ye Yuanyin was stunned for a moment, his expression childish as if admitting his mistake: "I didn't react."
Chen Yan'an's thin lips drooped, his expression grim. "Next time, if anyone dares to hit you, I'll pay you back tenfold or a hundredfold."
"……good."
Special Assistant Wang couldn't understand why Chen Dian suddenly appeared. He was still pretending to be strong, but his tone was trembling. "I don't care who you ask for help. If you made a mistake, you made a mistake. I won't change my mind."
But there was no mention of the beating.
Chen Yanan sneered, "You have no right to make conditions. Regardless of the previous situation, you made the first move now, and the initiative is in our hands. What's a mere contract worth tens of millions? I just want to send you to the police station and make you lose your job immediately."
Special Assistant Wang was hit in the groin, and his heart was in turmoil. He couldn't help but plead for peace: "Assistant Ye, there is still room for discussion on the contract."
"Really?" Ye Yuanyin's brows lit up with joy.
Yan Dian glared at her, not allowing her to abandon the city, and changed the subject, reminding her, "What were you trying to say about the child?"
"Oh, right," Ye Yuanyin was slow to react, but he gradually regained his train of thought. "Assistant Wang, what I want to say is, please pay more attention to the child. The one who came to pick him up tonight is not a confinement nanny, but a man in his thirties."
She took a step forward and covered the little boy's ears tightly. "Also, Mumu's paintings always use very clear lines to draw reproductive organs. Of course, it's normal for children his age to be curious about their own bodies. But based on the normal development of children's paintings, their cognition will definitely not be so clear. You - do you understand what I mean?"
Assistant Wang's face changed drastically. She lowered her head and saw her son's innocent eyes. She couldn't believe the words she heard.
"You—what are you talking about?" She was like a madman, trying to pull the child out of her arms. "Mumu, what are you doing? What kind of nonsense do you usually watch? Tell mom..."
Ye Yuanyin used his body to protect the child, and was grabbed several times on the back by her. He was so anxious that he said bluntly: "Don't ask, don't ask, it's not his problem. It's someone else, someone else is bullying him. Go find them and settle the score!"
The child looked at his mother's hateful eyes and burst into tears again.
A strong woman with a will as strong as steel was finally defeated.
*
Unable to park the car in the busy city, Ye Yuanyin followed Shen Ji'an to the parking lot sadly.
"well--"
She couldn't count how many times she had sighed unconsciously. She couldn't pretend to be deaf and reminded him, "If you sigh again, you'll become like a little old lady."
"Why are you here? How did you know I was here? Oh, by the way, Mitsuki told you."
She asked and answered her own questions, completing a perfect logical loop in just a few seconds.
The more Chen Yan looked at her, the more he couldn't tell whether she was smart or stupid. He shook his head and said, "You didn't even bother to consult me when you encountered something. You're brave but not wise."
"How can I contact you?" Ye Yuanyin spoke hastily, then realized she was complaining too much. She quickly retracted her tone and said seriously, "You're on a business trip, and I'm afraid of causing you trouble. But...if the contract really can't be signed, can you help me pay back the money?"
"No." Chen Yan didn't even bother to lie to her. "You wish."
Ye Yuanyin was still sad, "Why is it like this? There is no love between husband and wife at all."
"You have a supervisor above you, and above you the president. How could you possibly let this contract get lost? Even if it was lost, no matter how they try to hold you responsible, it won't be traced back to a lowly employee like you. Those veterans assess the situation and shirk responsibility. Only you, with all your passion and sincerity, are willing to risk your life to handle this matter."
He raised his hand and dropped it to her head, pushing it along the way. "You're such a blockhead."
When Ye Yuanyin accidentally touched the wound, he cried out, "It hurts, be gentle." Suddenly he felt happy again, "As long as it doesn't cause any losses to the company, it's fine. I've been worried and feeling guilty for several days. If I had known this was the case, no matter what you and Ji—you are doing, I should have asked you first."
Chen Yan thought that if it weren't for her efforts, with the shrewdness and efficiency of those people, the matter would never have been resolved so quickly. It turns out that being "brave without being wise" is not without merit.
She didn't feel anything when she was tense, but once she relaxed, everything started to feel right. Ye Yuanyin looked at the shops on both sides of the road, the aroma of food filling her senses, and she just wanted to have a good meal.
But she spent all her money on coffee.
Yan Cheng'an knew what she was thinking at a glance and asked, "Are you hungry?"
Ye Yuanyin nodded.
"What do you want to eat?"
She warned: "It would be better if you consider my ability first and then make a decision."
Chen Yan suppressed a smile and said, "I know, poor little devil, I won't let you spend money."
The smile spread from the tip of his heart to his face. Ye Yuanyin pointed at the restaurant across the street, but the smile on his face was suddenly frightened.
The autumn wind blew away the dark clouds in the sky, revealing half of the moon. The neon lights flickered, illuminating the face that had been staring at them from the darkness.
When Ye Yuanyin saw this, he was suddenly shocked and his feet stopped involuntarily.
You Jing walked slowly towards him from across the street. He was facing the light and his figure was very large in the darkness.
Ye Yuanyin took a few quick steps and reached out to grab the clothes on Chen Yan'an's back.
He was stunned and turned his head, just in time to meet You Jing's hostile eyes.
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