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Chapter 33
Chapter 33
After get off work in the evening, Lin Hui and He Jianshan arrived at Xue Pei's newly opened restaurant on time.
The restaurant is called "Yinxian" in the food street west of Jinghua. As you can see from the name, the main focus is seafood. Xue Pei bought an old building at the end of the street, with the theme of boat and sea, and asked the designer to redo the decoration design, which not only improved the grade, but also took into account the atmosphere.
The two sat down in the box, and Xue Pei sat down with them. When He Jianshan saw the table full of seafood, Xue Pei kept calling them to eat, and he didn't seem to want to leave, so he asked, "The store seems to be busy, don't you need to help?"
"It's alright, there are enough people. And I've already paid for it. If you want me to contribute, then it's boring to be the boss."
Lin Hui smiled and glanced at He Jianshan: "Wan Zhu's busiest is the boss."
"I can't congratulate you. You see that I have such a strong personal relationship with him that I still can't make an appointment, even half a month in advance."
"Didn't I come today, the same."
Xue Pei shook his head: "It's really not the same. If you came to me as soon as you came back yesterday, there would still be more bluefin gold guns on this table." Then he complained again: "I told you to come after you get off the plane. I'm here, if Lin Hui doesn't go to work on Sunday, he can come here earlier, but I have to say something, what a big thing, don't eat dinner?"
He Jianshan laughed: "A major event in life."
Lin Hui's face was hot, he didn't dare to look at He Jianshan, he just kept his head down and didn't speak.
The three chatted, and the topic somehow turned from the design of "hidden freshness" to the decoration of He Jianshan's house. Xue Pei seemed to remember something and said to Lin Hui, "Lin Hui, have you been to Lao He's house? ?"
"I've been there, what happened?"
"Have you seen the bathtub in his house?" Xue Pei was excited, "Isn't the bathroom in his house very luxurious, especially the bathtub looks super enjoyable."
Lin Hui couldn't help but secretly looked at He Jianshan, but found that He Jianshan was looking at him. The two looked at each other, Lin Hui quickly looked away, and stammered, "Oh, oh, that..."
Xue Pei was very excited: "I was really greedy when I saw it for the first time, I was greedy to death, but unfortunately it was too expensive, so I couldn't afford it. You said it was a waste for Lao He? He is such a person who doesn't know how to enjoy, he would rather It won't work if you put the ashes."
He Jianshan was noncommittal: "Who told you that I wouldn't use it?"
"You just use it to raise fish, you won't even take a bath." Xue Pei said firmly.
"You're right, it's fish farming."
When Xue Pei saw He Jianshan's eloquent words, he was a little confused: "Ah? Is it true? What kind of fish?"
He Jianshan paused: "Mermaid."
"cough"
He Jianshan and Xue Pei looked at the perpetrator who was coughing, and Lin Hui said with a flushed face, "I'm sorry, this is a bit spicy and I choked."
Xue Pei saw that it was fried sea melon seeds with chili peppers. He hurriedly stood up: "Then I will tell the chef quickly, don't make it too spicy. Lao He said that you can eat spicy food well, but if you are too spicy, it must not work." He went out.
There were only two people left in the room, and it suddenly became quiet.
He Jianshan took a cup of coconut milk and put it in front of Lin Hui: "Water doesn't solve spicy food, let's have a drink."
Lin Hui glared at him.
He Jianshan wanted to laugh inexplicably, but said innocently, "Assistant Lin, you've used this trick for the second time."
Lin Hui felt that at the moment his face was so hot that the seafood could be cooked. He Jianshan said that he would not accept it, and he would not accept it. If he accepted it, he assumed that he was the mermaid; Embarrassed. He thought silently: Is this still the He Jianshan I know? Did he use the one he used at the mall against me?
Assistant Lin, who has always been articulate, suddenly fell into a crisis of lack of words!
"Just bully me." Lin Hui muttered, and couldn't help but use the honorific title again.
He Jianshan smiled again, and he stretched out his hand in Lin Hui's direction: "Come on, Lin Hui."
Lin Hui looked at him, hesitated for a moment, and then slowly put his hand into his palm.
He Jianshan grabbed his hand.
I don't know if it was because the air conditioner was on in the house, but He Jianshan's palm was very hot, with a slight dampness. He Jianshan said in a low voice, "Look, I'm sweating, and I'm also nervous."
Lin replied with a smile: "I don't believe it."
"I—" He Jianshan was about to say something, but he heard the door lock suddenly turn with a "click", and Lin Hui pulled his hand back with a "swoosh". Sure enough, Xue Pei pushed open the door and walked in. He was holding a serving of garlic and bamboo razor. When he looked up, he saw He Jianshan looking at him expressionlessly, while Lin Hui was sipping his drink.
Xue Pei showed it: "...This razor is very fat."
He put the dishes on the table and sat down again: "Speaking of which, why did you two turn around today—"
He ordered He Jianshan: "Lao He, there are more words—"
He Jianshan is the kind of person who doesn't talk a lot when he drinks in private, but today he rarely talks non-stop, and his desire to express is too strong.
Then he turned his eyes to Lin Hui again: "Lin Hui, don't say a word."
In recent years, because He Jianshan always loves to bring Lin Hui, and even Xue Pei is very familiar with him. As long as the three of them eat together, he and Lin Hui are basically chatting non-stop. Lin Hui was born with a strong affinity and could chat happily with anyone.
Xue Pei's suspicious eyes flickered between the two, and Lin Hui seemed very calm: "Isn't it because Boss Xue, your seafood is delicious? I'm busy eating!"
Xue Pei frowned and shook his head: "Don't you have a conflict because of your work?"
He Jianshan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Xue Pei, actually we—"
"No noise." Lin Hui suddenly interrupted He Jianshan. He Jianshan was taken aback and looked at him. Lin Hui avoided his gaze, looked at Xue Pei and said with a smile, "I'm tired from the last day's work, so I don't want to talk anymore."
"Then eat more and make up."
After dinner, He Jianshan drove Lin back home. Originally worried about going to Xue Pei's side to drink, the two only drove out in one car. Lin Hui sat in the co-pilot, feeling a little uneasy. He couldn't stop looking at He Jianshan, and couldn't help but say, "Are you angry?"
He Jianshan glanced at him: "I'm not angry."
He paused and said again, "You interrupted me suddenly today, are you worried that I will tell you about our relationship?"
Lin Hui was silent for a while, then nodded.
"Actually, I didn't want to say this at the time. However, I'm a little curious now, why don't you want to say it?"
As soon as He Jianshan's voice fell, the car had already arrived at its destination. Lin Hui came out of the car, and a gust of cold wind made him sneeze. Before he could react, He Jianshan took out a scarf from the car and wrapped it around Lin Hui's neck. The air conditioner in the car warmed the scarf on the floor. Lin Hui glanced at it, and he was suddenly stunned. After a while, he whispered, "I gave you this scarf."
He Jianshan didn't understand why he was so surprised: "Yes, you remember."
Lin recalled, how could he forget?
Wanzhu Group has a birthday benefit: employees can receive a gift on their birthday, including a half-day holiday, a shopping card of 500 yuan and a small cake, even He Jianshan is no exception. But in the entire Wanzhu, He Jianshan may be the only one who didn't enjoy this benefit: he never used it during the holidays; the cakes were distributed to other people in the office; and the shopping card, he usually returned to Lin directly.
At first, Lin Hui didn't know what it meant. He Jianshan just said "you keep it" and left. Lin Hui thought he was going to buy something for him, so he put it in the drawer and waited for him to explain. Later, when He Jianshan's birthday the next year, he threw another card over, and he realized that this card should be given to him.
In this way, every birthday, every year a card. In the sixth year, the administrative staff simply gave the shopping card directly to Lin Hui. Lin Hui was really helpless, he opened the drawer, and there were five cards neatly placed in it. He thought: Is this also called a birthday?
Although he had no parents since he was a child, and his family was poor, his grandmother was a very particular person. Every year on his birthday, he had to make a delicious meal and buy him a gift. Later, when he went to college, even if his birthdays were at school, his grandmother would always remember to call him on time, and take the trouble to tell him that he must eat well, buy gifts, and not give up money on his birthday.
In his view, birthday is a very important thing. But He Jianshan didn't seem to care at all.
Lin Hui looked at the figure who was working hard in the office, looked at the card in his hand, took the car key and went out.
In the afternoon, Lin Hui came back from outside with a bag in his hand. As soon as he came back, he went directly to He Jianshan's office.
He Jianshan was looking at the document when he saw him hurried in and asked, "What's wrong?"
Lin Hui smiled: "Today is your birthday."
He Jianshan suddenly realized, lowered his head and continued to read the contract: "divide the cake, and then you'll be—"
A paper bag appeared in front of He Jianshan.
He Jianshan raised his head in surprise.
Lin Hui scratched his hair and seemed a little embarrassed: "You have given me several cards, I have never used them, and this year's Minato bought you a gift."
He Jianshan didn't speak for a long time.
Lin Hui was a little embarrassed: "Birthday is very important. You don't need the shopping card, but I can still buy this one. Would you like to take a look?"
He Jianshan didn't move for a while. He didn't seem to react, and he seemed to hesitate, and even for a moment, Lin Hui felt that he was a little scared. After a while, he slowly took out the contents of the paper bag: it was a large and small box, tightly wrapped with dark blue striped paper, and the upper right corner was tied with a red ribbon a bow.
This is a well-wrapped gift that needs to be unwrapped.
He Jianshan raised his head and looked at Lin Hui, Lin Hui's eyes were full of smiles, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, looking a little smug: "It took me three shops to find this color of paper, it is more suitable for you, the others are too naive— -Would you take it apart and take a look?"
He Jianshan carefully untied the ribbon bow, and then removed the wrapping paper——
Inside was a scarf, a soft light-colored cashmere scarf, light and soft when they touched the skin, as if breathing.
He Jianshan smiled slightly: "Thank you."
Lin Hui seemed to be relieved: "Is it alright?"
"It's beautiful, I love it."
Lin Hui smiled and said, "Then... I wish you a happy birthday."
He Jianshan actually didn't have the habit of wearing a scarf. The winter in Jinghua is short, and He Jianshan is basically accompanied by air conditioning and heating when going in and out. He rarely has the opportunity to wear it. But every winter, he always turns it over and puts it on the car. He always feels that there may be a sudden cold snap one day, so he needs to wear this scarf to resist all the cold.
The two recovered from their memories and looked at each other in unison.
Lin Hui stroked the scarf and said softly, "I haven't seen you wearing it, so I thought you didn't like it."
"This is my birthday present, remember to return it to me when you run out."
Lin Hui hid in the scarf and started laughing: "You don't bring it."
The two laughed and started walking towards home slowly. After all, it was winter, and after nine o'clock, not even a person could be seen on the road. He Jianshan took Lin Hui's hand and put it in his pocket.
"Okay, now tell me what you think."
The night wind rustled the leaves, and the heavy rain the day before left no trace. But for Lin Hui, everything is still in front of him - he hasn't reacted yet, he hasn't woken up from the terrifying joy that He Jianshan said to himself, "falling in love".
"We've only been there for a day... I may... not quite used to..."
When Lin Hui said these words, he thought it was absurd: he had a crush on He Jianshan for so many years, and now the two are really together, but he felt it was too fast and not used to it, not to mention, they were even lovers The most intimate things have been done. He was a little frustrated, he didn't know how to describe his mood to He Jianshan, it sounded strange and hypocritical.
But He Jianshan nodded: "You're right." He squeezed Lin Hui's fingers in his pocket, "Then let's get used to holding hands first - will you feel uncomfortable?"
Lin Hui shook his head. He thought, how could it be uncomfortable, in fact, it was too comfortable-they even fit their bodies so well, the tremor and desire from the depths of their souls almost made Lin Hui unable to face himself.
He Jianshan smiled lightly: "Do you think why I can be so calm and reasonable in the matter of love?"
He Jianshan guessed right, Lin Hui did think so, and he was even a little unconvinced: I liked him first, why do I feel that I can't date him in love?
"Do you deliberately pay attention to how you breathe?" He Jianshan suddenly asked an irrelevant question.
Lin Hui shook his head.
"I've been alone all this time, and it took me a long time to realize the 'love' thing, it's so hard to tell, like breathing, I don't even realize it. And when I want to understand it If you do something, then when facing you, what you say, what you do, everything will be as natural as breathing.”
Love tames time, it melts in every second, every glance and every passing moment, He Jianshan has no way to strip it out of his life.
As if remembering something, He Jianshan laughed again: "Actually, when I walked this road to find you yesterday, I kept thinking, why is this road so long, why haven't you shown up yet? I want to invite you to see The movie, I want to tell you that I want to pursue you. I thought about apologizing first or talking about things first. I thought about it a lot, and my mind became a mess. Even the moment I saw you, I was still thinking, what should I do? ?"
Lin Hui was a little stunned. He didn't know that his reason was as calm as He Jianshan, and he would have such a panicky moment.
"Even now, if you ask me what I like about you, I may not be able to answer." He Jianshan felt helpless, "It's hard to tell. Even if you are by my side now, even if I hold your hand ,I"
He Jianshan stopped and turned to look at Lin Hui: "I still miss you."
"I say this to tell you, Lin Hui, that I can't live without you, that I can't wait to establish a relationship with you, and that the initiative in this relationship is in your hands."
"Don't care about anything, just do what you want, accept it if you want, reject it if you want, and play with it—"
Lin Hui couldn't help shouting, "There is no such option!"
His voice was so loud that even the wind seemed to be frightened and stopped for a moment. The two were silent for a few seconds, and then laughed together.
He Jianshan tidied up Lin Hui's forehead, which was ruffled by the wind, and looked at him carefully: "Like all people in love, you can ask me to do anything."
After a long time, Lin Hui said softly, "Can I do it?"
He Jianshan nodded.
Lin Hui's eyes were bright, he took his hand out of He Jianshan's pocket and took a step back:
"Hug me, He Jianshan, hug me."
Winter is great.
Lin recalled that he never knew that winter could be so warm—
It wasn't the heating and sunshine, the coffee and milk tea, the thick clothes and the bed at six o'clock in the morning, but he was wearing He Jianshan's scarf, and he was hugged tightly by He Jianshan.
They share each other's heartbeat, temperature, and those who have spoken or have not spoken of love.
He thought: This winter is really good.
The author has something to say:
Everyone seems to be a little surprised that Mr. He is so "willing". In fact, Mr. He has always been very good at making Lin Hui happy at the bar, inviting him to drink some songs he likes, and writing small cards; in Changning, he said that Lin Hui did not continue to read gardening, "it was a loss for all, but it was my blessing", At that time, I didn't realize my intentions, and I started to unconsciously seduce people. He is slow in love, but he is not dull, and even he is very good at "talking". I remember I mentioned that when he was chatting and laughing with people at the wine table, everyone couldn't look away. It's just that there is a bit of performance in his work, so Lin Hui has always felt that he is tired, because he is not a person who likes to talk, but in this position, he needs to talk a lot. But it's different from Lin Hui's falling in love, because there is love driving him, when he devotes himself to it, he is really sullen and knowledgeable, and also has a strong desire to express, tsk tsk, man...
It's Friday, as usual, we'll see you at 0:00 next Monday.