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Stay one night?
Kirimi Wei thought that she must be overthinking it, this was just normal work.
She didn't dare to delay at all. She quickly put on some light makeup, straightened her hair, changed into a more formal cardamom green silk tea dress with a collar, and went downstairs carrying her travel bag and laptop.
When she stepped out of the community gate, Meng Yanxiu was already standing outside the car waiting for her.
Although they were almost there, Wu Jianwei still jogged a few steps, thinking that he was getting impatient, and said, "Sorry."
"Why are you running? Didn't I say I would wait for you?"
Meng Yanxiu spoke in a gentle tone, naturally taking the travel bag from her hand and handing it to the driver. He then opened the back door and let her get in first. "I'm just getting some fresh air. Don't worry. My foot has only just healed, and it needs some rest."
When he took the bag, the back of Kirimi's hand was covered by his palm again.
She was inexplicably nervous, then she withdrew her hand, held down her skirt with one hand, and got into the car carefully: "Thank you."
"It's okay." Meng Yanzheng was about to close the car door when he was stopped by a shout.
"Rice fog."
Wu Jianwei heard the sound and stuck his head out. After seeing who was coming, he got out of the car immediately.
"Zhou Shuye? Why are you here? Long time no see."
She was so focused on talking to Zhou Shuye that she didn't notice that she used too much force when getting out of the car, and bumped into Meng Yanxiu's hand that was holding the car door. Just as her shoulder slipped through his fingers, the veins on the back of his hand suddenly bulged.
Meng Yanxiu said nothing, his gaze fixed on the two people who had reunited after a long separation, his eyes cold.
Zhou Shuye, dressed in casual clothes, stood in front of the car with a warm smile. He handed an exquisite bag to Wu Jianwei: "Take a look."
"What?" Wu Jianwei had just taken the bag when the weight of it made her shoulders suddenly feel heavy. She opened it and saw warmth in her eyes, which was also sensed by Meng Yanxiu behind her.
"Shuye..." Kirimi bit her lip slightly, "Thank you."
"What's there to thank me for? I didn't make them." Zhou Shuye pointed them out to her one by one. "This is the mint cake and lotus cake your mother made. This is the osmanthus sugar rice cake your father made. I heated it up at home and brought it here. Do you want to try it now?"
When they were in Suzhou, the family quarreled all the time. But when they were far away from home, the relationships between the mother and daughter, and the father and daughter, became more harmonious.
"Okay..." Before the word "Okay" was uttered, Wu Jianwei turned around and suddenly noticed that Meng Yanzheng was staring at them.
"Would you like to move a table and warm up two bottles of wine so you can reminisce?"
Meng Yanxiu stood there for a long time and finally couldn't help but speak. These two people completely ignored him.
Zhou Shuye looked at Meng Yanxiu, then asked Wu Jianwei, "Who is this?"
"This is my boss."
Wu Jianwei put away the bag and didn't mean to ask them to say hello. She turned around and introduced Meng Yanxiu: "Mr. Meng, this is my senior."
Meng Yanxiu said in a calm tone, "Yeah."
Wu Jian slightly straightened the corners of his lips and said to Zhou Shuye, "How long will you stay? You just said you were coming from home? You won't stay in Suzhou? Forget it, I'll treat you to dinner next time and we can talk. I have work to do today, so I have to leave first."
"Okay, go ahead and get busy. I just came to tell you that I'm back for an exchange year." Zhou Shuye looked at her gently, "Now that I'm here, I can also look after you for my uncle and aunt."
"Oh, is that so? I'm leaving now. You should go back now."
Wu Jianwei finished speaking and smiled at Meng Yanxiu again: "Mr. Meng, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for so long."
Meng Yanxiu opened the car door and blocked the door frame with his hand: "Let's go."
"good."
Wu Jianwei waved to Zhou Shuye and got into the car. Meng Yanxiu glanced at Zhou Shuye, then pushed hard and closed the car door with a "bang".
Lin Jue then got out of the driver's seat. He hesitated. Which door should he open for his boss? The front passenger seat or the back seat? According to business etiquette, only in SUVs does the boss sit in the front passenger seat. For other models, the boss sits in the back seat and the secretary sits in the front passenger seat. This situation was a bit reversed.
"Mr. Meng." Lin Jue thought for a moment, as if he understood what Meng Yanxiu meant, and decisively opened the other side of the back seat door.
Instead, Kirimi was slightly stunned. Why was he sitting in the back seat? But then again, this was his car. How could a secretary like him control where the boss sat? It wasn't strange for him to sit in the back seat.
But the atmosphere in the car was inexplicably awkward.
And she felt that the side of her face was being burned by Meng Yanxiu's gaze.
To break the silence, Wu Jianwei took the initiative to ask: "Mr. Meng, what is the meeting? I'll check the relevant information in advance."
Meng Yanxiu retracted his gaze and closed his eyes: "Let's eat first. The meeting will be tomorrow night."
"Eat?" Wu Jianwei hasn't done any serious work in the past year. It can be said that apart from dealing with Meng Yuetong's weird requests, she has nothing serious to do. Now she is asked to eat. Is there a business reception?
Meng Yanxiu still had his eyes closed and said softly, "You don't have to prepare anything, just focus on eating."
It seemed that it was indeed a business dinner. She didn't need to speak and just had to concentrate on eating. Who wouldn't know how to do that? Kirimi nodded slightly and continued asking questions.
"Don't you need to accompany the bar?"
"Accompany drinking?" Meng Yanxiu suddenly opened his eyes, and Lin Jue unconsciously glanced back, then quickly retracted his gaze.
"Hmm? You want me to drink with you?" Wu Jianwei's eyes rolled around. "Mr. Meng, I don't drink."
"Don't drink alcohol. If you want to drink soup, drink soup. If you want to drink water, drink water." Meng Yanxiu looked out the window, wondering what Meng Yuetong had done.
Kirimimi nodded again.
After a while, Meng Yanxiu turned his head to look at her and suddenly asked, "Your name is Mi Wu?"
"Yeah, that's what my close friends call me," Wu Jianwei explained. "When I was little, I was a bit confused, so my family called me Mi Wu. But some elders said the word 'Mi' wasn't a good name, so they called me Mi Wu. 'Mi' means grain, which means I'll never have to worry about food in the future."
As for the people close to him, Meng Yanxiu felt a sense of inexplicable annoyance suddenly blocking his chest.
Lin Jue listened to their conversation and keenly sensed that the atmosphere was not right. He subconsciously stepped on the accelerator harder, hoping to reach his destination as soon as possible.
Half an hour later, the car drove out of the city and passed through a very long tree-lined avenue with purple jacaranda trees planted on both sides of the road.
Wu Jianwei has been in this city for five years, four years in college and more than a year working, but she has never been to this road and has never even heard of it.
She hesitated for a moment, then mustered up the courage to ask, "Boss Meng, where are we going?"
"I won't sell you out." Meng Yanxiu's gaze shifted from her face to her fingertips. Her hand was on the car door button. "Do you want to jump out of the car?"
"How could that be?" she thought to herself, who would jump out of the car in such a desolate place.
"We're almost there." Meng Yanxiu looked ahead.
After passing through the tree-lined avenue, a Baroque manor suddenly opens before your eyes.
The garden in front of the manor stretches as far as the eye can see, more than enough space for playing football. In the center of the garden is a circular array of carved fountains, the water droplets jumping and tumbling, reflecting a rainbow in the sunlight.
Wu Jianwei saw the rainbow and closed her eyes and made a wish. She knew with a little thought that this would make her seem ignorant. Then she opened her eyes and met Meng Yanxiu's gaze. He was looking at her.
"Mr. Meng, even if there was a rainbow reflected under the fountain in the park or outside the mall, I would still make a wish. It's not shameful."
Meng Yanxiu seemed to smile: "I didn't say anything."
Wu Jian smiled at him: "Hmm..."
The car drove around the entire garden and stopped in front of a row of white pillars.
Lin Jue immediately got out of the car and opened the door on Meng Yanxiu's side. Wu Jianwei followed suit and opened the door and got out.
"Let's go, no need to take the bag." Meng Yanxiu waited for her to go together, and Lin Jue stopped outside the door.
"Okay." Wu Jianwei didn't take the travel bag and computer in the trunk. She just carried a black shoulder chain bag and walked beside Meng Yanxiu, glancing at him from time to time.
Meng Yanxiu took her into the first floor hall: "Relax, it's just a meal."
"Yeah." Kirimie Wei kept the same pace with him. She was not nervous, just curious.
But before she could finish her words, she suddenly screamed "Ah!" and staggered, almost falling.
Meng Yanxiu stopped when he heard the voice, and immediately stepped forward, holding her fair arm steadily with one hand, and subconsciously put the other hand behind her waist. His fingertips did not touch her, but he used force on his wrist to gently pull her towards him.
She half-fell into Meng Yanxiu's arms without any preparation. Her eyes widened instantly, and she suppressed the surprise in her throat and quickly turned her face away. Her hair brushed against Meng Yanxiu's neck.
In their nostrils, the scents of ebony rose and wormwood vetiver entangled and blended, lingering around their bodies, as if a subtle electric current seeped into their blood and passed through their touching skin. Both of them felt like they were electrocuted, and their fingertips suddenly felt numb.
But in just a moment, the heat wave hit her cheeks and neck. She froze in Meng Yanxiu's arms and could clearly feel that even her earlobes were bright red.
Then, she quickly raised her eyes to glance at Meng Yanxiu, then looked away as if she had been burned. Her eyes dropped to the ground in panic, and she said softly, "Thank you, I'm fine..."
Meng Yanxiu looked at her as if she had been paused. He was stunned for a second, his Adam's apple moving slightly, and he responded in a low voice: "Well, be careful."
After he finished speaking, seeing that she had stood firm, Meng Yanxiu withdrew his hand, but the warm touch remaining in his palm lingered for a long time.
Wu Jianwei then lowered her head and straightened her already smooth skirt, her heart in turmoil. She recalled that this was the second time Meng Yanxiu had helped her today.
Just as she was hesitating whether to say something to ease the atmosphere, she heard two sounds under her feet...
"Woof! Woof!"
The snowball that almost tripped Wu Jianwei just now suddenly rushed in front of him again.
Kirimi's attention was instantly attracted by it. She half-knelt down, picked up the puppy running around at her feet, raised the corner of her lips and said, "So cute!"
The snow-white cockapoo is covered with fluffy curly fur, and its brown ears flutter like little wings on its round head. Its two front legs pounce towards Kirimi Wei, which is very adorable.
Kirimi held it in her arms and kept praising it for being cute. It seemed to understand and lay on Kirimi's shoulder, making a series of "嘤嘤嘤" sounds of coquettishness.
Meng Yanxiu's gaze lingered on her brightened face for a moment, then he paused and asked, "Do you like it?"
"Yes, it's so beautiful. I like beautiful puppies."
Wu Jianwei touched the fur on its head, and it immediately stuck out its tongue to lick her neck.
The next second, before it could lick it, it was picked up by Meng Yanxiu without any warning, with its four legs hanging in the air, flapping their wings.
"Huh?" The puppy in Wu Jianwei's hand was suddenly snatched away by Meng Yanxiu. She had no time to react and was still holding the dog, but the dog was no longer in her arms.
"Mr. Meng, do you want to touch it too?"
"..." Meng Yanxiu gently placed the dog on the ground. After it stood firmly, he let go of his hand, stood up, and said to Wu Jianwei, "I don't want to touch it."
"Oh." Wu Jianwei thought, what do you want to touch? If you don't want to touch it, why did you take it away?
The puppy was very good at fighting for itself. As soon as Meng Yanxiu put it down, it pounced on Wu Jianwei again.
Wu Jianwei couldn't help but squat down and hug it.
"Biscuits!" Meng Yanxiu shouted in a low voice.
The sound was not loud, but the puppy suddenly stopped jumping on Wu Jianwei's legs. Its front legs slipped from Wu Jianwei's arms, and it let out a "woof". It ran to Meng Yanxiu's feet, stretched out its limbs, and lay down obediently on the marble floor. Its dejected round head tilted to the right and fell on Meng Yanxiu's shiny leather shoes.
Kiri leaned down slightly, looked down at the puppy, and asked, "Is your name Biscuit?"
"Why are you asking it instead of the person standing in front of you?"
Meng Yanxiu was worried that she would suffer from hypoglycemia if she bent down from time to time, so he picked up Bing Bing again. Bing Bing lay motionless on Meng Yanxiu's arm, not at all as clingy as when he was on Wu Jianwei.
"Oh, Mr. Meng, do you know biscuits?"
Wu Jianwei looked at him with a darkened look in his eyes, a little confused. What was he unhappy about?
Meng Yanxiu suppressed his displeasure and glanced at the biscuit: "This is the ancestor raised by my great aunt."
"Aunt?" Wu Jianwei looked around, thinking about something.
Meng Yanxiu took a step forward and waved behind him, and Lin Jue walked over quickly.
"Don't let Cookie run around. There are a lot of people here today, and he's a crowd pleaser, so he might get stepped on easily."
Meng Yanxiu handed the biscuit to Lin Jue. Lin Jue held the biscuit and nodded repeatedly, constantly comforting it.
Meng Yanxiu said to Wu Jianwei, who was full of confusion, "Let's go in."
"Okay." Wu Jianwei took one last look at the biscuit and reluctantly looked away.
"Give me your hand." Meng Yanxiu stretched out his right hand to her.
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