Here We Meet Again Chapter 9:

When the lights are on, the night scenes on both sides of the road are prosperous. The antique lamps lined up in a row emit dim light, reflecting the wide and straight road, and cast mottled and silent light and shadow all over the place. Not far away, high-rise buildings towered into the darkness, and the whole city was grotesque, yet peaceful and serene.

Gao Leng called the Kuai taxi app downstairs and located Xu Yanshi's apartment.

Xiang Yuan sat in the co-pilot and took a peek at the driver's mobile phone on the bracket. It seemed that her home was facing north and south, and it felt like the end of two worlds. She scratched the tip of her nose, she didn't expect to go to his house in such a way after many years, and she felt a little complicated.

She doesn't know how to greet Xu Yanshi later, people don't reply to her messages, and even go to other people's houses to grab a meal, if she didn't add that sentence, I would have disliked you a long time ago, fortunately, once I added it, it seemed There are so few three hundred taels of silver here, although she said it seriously, the phone has been quiet so far, she has a kind of embarrassment that she can't struggle after being choked by fate, which is too unreasonable. In addition, she just came back from the desert today, and it is not appropriate for her to run to someone's house without taking a good bath.

So when the car drove halfway, it turned into a small road. The street lights were shorter than before, but brighter, and more and more pedestrians passed by in a hurry. Xiang Yuan made up his mind to find an excuse, turned back hesitantly and said to Gao Leng and Lin Qingqing, "It suddenly occurred to me that I seemed to have an appointment with a friend tonight... Besides, I didn't give out a year-end bonus, so there's nothing to celebrate."

The reason sounds good enough.

In the rearview mirror, Gao Leng and Lin Qingqing exchanged glances. Who knows, Lin Qingqing also looked at Gao Leng hesitantly and said: "If Team Leader Xiang doesn't go, then I won't go either. They're all boys, so it doesn't make sense for me to go."

"Don't! Didn't you say it well just now?" Gao Leng was anxious, his brain flashed, and he gestured to Xiang Yuan five times, "Well, I will give you five yuan, the year-end bonus , the focus is on participation."

Xiang Yuan smiled, "It's really something."

Gritting his teeth coldly, he learned from the pain: "Twenty, no more."

Xiang Yuan was discussing with the driver to stop at the intersection ahead, when Gao Leng's phone rang, and he immediately picked it up as if grabbing a life-saving straw.

"Where are you?" You Zhi was on the other end of the phone.

Gao Leng: "There are still two traffic lights. But now there is a problem. My team leader said that I don't want to go. Lin Qingqing also said that she didn't want to come when she heard it. What should I do?"

The intersection ahead was about to pass soon, Xiang Yuan kept his head down and swiped Moments without saying a word, but he didn't look at it any more.

After talking for a while, Gao Leng handed over the phone involuntarily, "Boss said, let you answer it."

Xiang Yuan stared blankly at the name "You Zhi" on the lit phone screen. Was it Xu Yan who answered You Zhi's call? She hesitated for a moment. Gao Leng urged her impatiently, "Hurry up!"

"Hi." She pressed the phone to her ear.

From the other end of the conversation came a deep male voice, usually indifferent, calling her name.

"Xiangyuan."

She was slightly stunned, but her voice was clear but inexplicably dissipated the chill in her heart, because it was so long-lost and familiar, in a trance, she almost thought that the person standing at the end of the phone was the once proud boy.

She lowered her eyes, her eyelashes fluttered slightly, and she swipe through Moments aimlessly, "Say."

He didn't speak immediately, but was silent for a moment.

Xiang Yuan seemed to hear someone yelling suddenly on the phone: "Where are you going?"

He seemed to have walked to a quiet place, and Xiang Yuan was feeling uneasy, and his circle of friends swiped faster and faster, and he had reached the state of three days ago, just as she was a little impatient to lock the screen, and wanted to yell at the phone, are you still alive? When he was about to say nothing, the other side suddenly spoke.

"Didn't you say you don't like it anymore?" Xu Yan paused for a moment, then seemed to smile: "Why, don't you dare to come?"

Xiang Yuan's chest suddenly shrank, and he teased unexpectedly, it was originally a lake of muddy water, and he gently threw a huge boulder from not far away. She thought that when Xu Yan received that text message, there might be thousands of reactions, disdain, ridicule, indifference... She never expected that he would say it directly.

"I miss you too much," Xiang Yuan turned her head to look out the window, and just happened to catch a glimpse of a nearby lobster shop, she blurted out: "I want to eat lobster, Gao Leng said you eat hot pot, I've been on fire recently, and I can't eat spicy ones .”

"Okay, are you really not coming?"

Xiang Yuan got tangled up again, hesitated for a while and turned to ask the driver, "Where did you go?"

The driver pointed to the intersection ahead, "It's just a turn."

She suddenly felt that she had been tricked, and Xu Yanshi's phone call was just to delay time. Everyone has gone downstairs, why don't you take a taxi back? This is too embarrassing, right? The phone in Xiang Yuan's hand hadn't been hung up yet. In a blink of an eye, the driver had already slammed the accelerator to drive the car downstairs, pulled the handbrake, and turned on the roof lights, as if a halo of "doing good deeds without leaving a name" was shining above his head: "It's here, five-star praise, thank you."

…

Gao Leng and Lin Qingqing got off the car, and Xiang Yuan was still sitting in the car, when he saw Xu Yanshi, who was also holding the phone, standing on the girl beside the flower bed under the dim streetlight. He was already tall, and the street lights illuminated his whole body neatly. His gray sportswear was more energetic than before, but he didn't wear a coat, so he looked thinner among the passers-by who came and went wrapped up like bears.

The appearance is really outstanding.

Xiang Yuan: "I saw you."

Xu Yanshi just looked this way, and Gao Leng had already shrunk and ran towards his boss. Lin Qingqing followed slowly, turning her head three times a step to make sure that Xiang Yuan got out of the car.

Like an octopus, Gao Leng threw himself into his arms, but was blocked by Xu Yanshi with a cold face of disgust. Then came his voice on the phone: "Get out of the car. I'm going to buy lobsters."

This voice has no emotion, is not gentle, and is not something to coax people out of the car. It was no different from "Hello", but it made Xiang Yuan's heart skip a beat. The point is, the expression is obviously cold, as if the person who said this is not the man outside the car with "Keep away from strangers" written on his face.

"Okay."

She put away her phone and pushed the door open.

——

This is a very old community, and the facilities are still a few years ago. Not far away is a park for the elderly. They... There are also people walking their dogs and teasing children. The crowds are turbulent, and even the street lamps are full of popularity.

Xu Yanshi went up with them to get his coat and prepared to go downstairs to buy lobsters. The room was already in a mess, Gao Leng, You Zhi and a few other boys were playing games, a wave of eating chicken, a wave of kings.

Gao Leng dragged him down, and You Zhi smashed his mobile phone, pinned him on the sofa and beat him violently.

Lin Qingqing was watching an English cartoon with Xu Chengli, and she didn't understand a few sentences, but Xu Chengli understood it and was still muttering, the lines in this movie are so idiotic, they must be for three-year-olds. Lin Qingqing looked shocked and doubted her life.

Shi Tianyou and Zhang Jun were complaining about the actors in her favorite idol drama, "This actress's line-carved nose is so good that she can play the Condor Shooting."

Zhang Jun has been a fan of Jin Yong for ten years, so he got excited and started discussing with him seriously: "Is it Huang Rong?"

Shi Tianyou raised his index finger and shook it, "nonono, perform the sculpture."

Zhang Jun felt that Jin Yong was insulted, and was angry: "That is the Condor Heroes."

Shi Tianyou said oh, not very interested.

…

Xu Yanshi went downstairs to drive, dressed very casually, wearing a simple gray sweatshirt, a white down jacket that reaches to the knees, and a pair of simple white sneakers. The calf outlines neat lines, clean but powerful.

He pressed the key to get out of the car.

The car lights flashed and unlocked. He just put his hand on the car door, glanced at the rearview mirror casually, and paused, there was a person standing in the mirror.

Xu Yanshi didn't wear glasses, so she squinted slightly to recognize Xiang Yuan's figure. Then he let go and stood up straight without looking at her. He tilted his head and hooked his hands to the girl behind him.

Xiang Yuanshou slowly stuffed it into the pocket of his down jacket and walked up to him.

Xu Yanshi's down jacket was open, holding the car key in one hand and putting the other in his trouser pocket, looking down at her: "Looking for me?"

Xiang Yuan looked around, but he didn't look at him anyway, and said empathetically, "Actually, you don't need to buy it...it's too much trouble, I'll just eat hot pot."

Xu Yan said oh, she let go, leaned on the car, and looked at her: "So, the crayfish is just an excuse for not coming?"

Gritting her teeth, Xiang Yuan wanted to slap herself to death, she was really shooting herself in the foot.

"Nor...not."

But he simply leaned his whole body on the car, changed his hands to his chest, very loose, and continued to casually throw stones at her feet: "It's not that you said let us let go of the past , did you start over?"

—Hey, when did she say that, how did this person change the concept secretly?

"I was afraid of your embarrassment, so I gave you a step down," Xiang Yuan said, lowering his head and licking his toes, "And you didn't reply to me."

"Then what do you want me to do? Got it? Oh? Okay?"

Indeed, it seems that such a return is not appropriate. How to reply to this WeChat seems a bit strange. So she was really hotheaded, she shouldn't have posted like that at the beginning, and the already awkward relationship between the two of them became even more awkward now.

"Is that my fault?"

"I don't know." Xu Yanshi glanced away, stood up straight, put his hand on the doorknob again, lowered his head and asked her, "Do you still eat crayfish?"

"Eat."

Xu Yanshi hooked her lips without emotion, opened the car door and got on the driver's seat, Xiang Yuanyan quickly walked around the front of the car, got into the passenger driver, fastened the seat belt, sat upright obediently, and looked at him with a smile: "Let's go together Let's go."

…

The interior decoration of the car is very simple, and the car is also an ordinary model. It can be seen that there is really no money.

Xu Yanshi drove very well. She didn't answer the phone or play with her mobile phone. The only thing she did was she was a little lazy. She leaned on the driver's seat with one arm on the car window, controlled the steering wheel with one hand, and even parked with one hand. Steering wheel, typical old driver.

The two went to the supermarket after buying lobsters, and asked Yuan what he bought.

He didn't speak. When Xiang Yuan was waiting at the door, she caught a glimpse of a flower-shaped lollipop jar on the counter. Gen, put it in your pocket with lightning speed.

The waiter thought she had robbed something, and almost turned out from the counter to catch her, and Xiang Yuan immediately took out his mobile phone to pay, and persuaded: "Pay and pay."

The talent rolled his eyes and swiped the barcode.

On the way back, the two were waiting for a red light, when Gao Leng called and urged him to come, Xu Yanshi lazily leaned on the seat, glanced at her, but didn't answer.

"Why not answer?"

He took off the collar of the down jacket, held the steering wheel again, tapped his index finger once and for all, looked at the rearview mirror and said, "We'll be there soon." His voice was a bit hoarse, and he cleared his throat after speaking .

As a result, when the car passed the traffic light, Gao Leng's phone call came again.

Xiang Yuan directly picked up the mobile phone in the armrest box, leaned over slightly, put the microphone to his ear, and forced him to answer it.

"It sounds annoying."

Xu Yanshi didn't look at her, her gaze was still ahead, but she paused with her index finger on the steering wheel, and said "Hello".

Xiang Yuan's fingers happened to touch his ear, and she was as cold as anyone else. When her fingertips touched, her nerves suddenly tightened, and the pores of her whole body trembled as if electrified. This man's blood is probably cold.

But gradually, his ears became hot, and together with Xiangyuan's fingertips, a gust of warm wind inexplicably blew up in the cramped carriage, softening his tense nerves just now, and his voice seemed to be non-existent. Hovering around her ears, it scratches people more than feathers.

Gao Leng seemed to ask where she was.

Xu Yanshi was listening to the phone while absently calling directions, the car turned into a sparsely populated road, and said impatiently: "Stay with me, hang up."

And then it really hangs up.

Xiang Yuan put the phone back in the armrest box and asked the question she had always wanted to ask, "How did you come to this company?"

"A coincidence."

“…”

Turning through several intersections, the scenery in front of me gradually became familiar.

Xiang Yuan glanced at him suspiciously, "I heard from Gao Leng that you don't seem to be going well here... Have you thought about going to another company? I can... find someone to introduce you to you."

Xu Yanshi parked the car, turned off the engine, took the car keys, and finally turned her head, looked at her with a complicated look, mockingly or self-deprecatingly: "No need."

After finishing speaking, he untied his seat belt and got out of the car. After sitting in the car for a while, Xiang Yuan felt that he had said something wrong. If he mentions this in front of him, it will make him more discouraged, right?

Why does she always go crazy when she meets Xu Yan?

She hurriedly got out of the car to catch up, when Xu Yan heard the door closing behind her, she locked the car without looking back, and strode towards the building.

She chased after him and entered the unit door, her slender arms were directly across the dark and heavy old iron door, blocking people, and she called him by his name with a playful smile: "Xu Yanshi?"

The man looked down at her with a cold face.

Xiang Yuan took out the two lollipops he bought at the supermarket just now from his pocket: "Look what I brought you back from the Great Northwest?!"

Xu Yan looked like she was watching a movie, showing an expression that she had never seen a lollipop before, and raised her eyebrows in a magical manner. The expression seemed to say - this was bought in the Northwest, and the products on the moon are all Brought back by you?