strange i love you

Chapter 25 Run, Grapefruit (3)
"What's the reduction? Isn't it good that you are doing this now?" Zheng Tao looked a little angry, and took out a chocolate from his bag, which was exactly the same as last time. Xi Xi said, "You thought you looked good when you were thin, like a telegraph pole."

It's so strange, as soon as the chocolate came into her mouth, Lin Youxi felt that the discomfort in her body eased a lot.She curled her lips and said, "Didn't you always say I was fat before?"

"Didn't I just joke with you?"

"This chocolate is delicious, why do you carry chocolate with you all the time?" Lin Youxi asked.

"It just happened to be in the bag." Zheng Tao patted Lin Youxi's shoulder lightly, "Do you feel better? I'm ready to fight."

Every time Zheng Tao described the meeting with Party A’s clients as a “battle”, as if he was really going to war. When he said this, Zheng Tao’s face was a little childish, which really didn’t match the neat suit.

"Get ready." Lin Youxi deliberately saluted him with a military salute, with a relaxed smile on her face, "Let's go to fight."

Zheng Tao took out the projector and started to give a presentation on the PPT. Lin Youxi spent two nights working on the PPT. She only briefly explained it, and Zheng Tao knew it by heart. To be precise, he spoke better than Lin Youxi. It seems that he is the creator of this PPT.Lin Youxi is not good at words, and Zheng Tao happens to be a strong player in this area, and the two match up like ducks in water.

Walking out of the company, Zheng Tao raised his palm to Lin Youxi, and Lin Youxi slapped him tacitly.

"Successful retreat."

"Should we have a banquet to celebrate tonight?" Lin Youxi joked.

"Yes." Zheng Tao said seriously, "Two bowls of Master Kong beef noodles."

Lin Youxi smiled: "Can I add a piece of ham?"

The two walked toward the hotel happily, and Lin Youxi suddenly remembered that she hadn't called Lu Li yet. Although she was temporarily staying at her home, she was still a little worried.Lin Youxi was talking to Zheng Tao while holding her mobile phone, and then saw Zheng Tao's face suddenly changed.

Zheng Tao stood stiffly in place, staring straight ahead in a daze.Lin Youxi looked over, the phone in her hand almost fell to the ground.

Tang Mengran is actually here too!
Lin Youxi and Zheng Tao looked at each other, Tang Mengran seemed to have known for a long time that they would return to the hotel via this route, and was just waiting here, waiting for the two of them.

Long time no see, Tang Mengran seems to be haggard, not as capable and powerful as he was in the cafe last time.She waved to Zheng Tao with a smile on her face, and then walked towards them.

"What a coincidence, I'm also here on a business trip." Tang Mengran said and glanced at Zheng Tao, "Didn't I tell you that I was here before? Why didn't you tell me when you came, although I only came a day or two earlier than you, but I have to do my best to be a landlord. Do you have time to have dinner together in the evening?"

Lin Youxi didn't know how to deal with it at all, and kept scanning Zheng Tao with her eyes.Zheng Tao smiled awkwardly: "We will go back tomorrow."

"Me too, which flight are you on?"

"..."

Zheng Tao and Lin Youxi looked at each other again, Zheng Tao looked at Tang Mengran and said, "We are on the train."

"Train?" The surprise on Tang Mengran's face can be stored as a QQ emoticon, "How short of money is your studio now?" When she asked the latter sentence, she looked serious, as if the dean was talking to the teacher. Talk like a student who has made a mistake by himself.

Zheng Tao frowned: "It doesn't seem to have anything to do with you."

"Why don't you want the two projects I introduced to you before? Are you in such a desperate situation now?" Tang Mengran said with a look of resentment, "I have said that it is not so easy to open a studio. Now Even business trips have been changed to take the train instead.”

"It's our freedom to do what you want. You can do whatever you want, but it's not your turn to dictate the affairs of my studio."

As soon as Zheng Tao's words came out, the expression on Tang Mengran's face changed immediately.She looked at Lin Youxi who had been standing aside and said nothing: "You are his girlfriend, are you just watching him set himself on fire?"

Lin Youxi turned to look at Zheng Tao, who winked at her.Seeing that Lin Youxi didn't speak, Tang Mengran said: "It's a good thing that you want to start a business, but it's better not to bring your children's affair to work. Working together and traveling together every day, being together all the time is what every couple wants Yes, but to be honest, it will affect the work..."

It turned out that Tang Mengran thought that Lin Youxi and Zheng Tao were in love now, so even though they seemed to be on a business trip at the same place, she took a taxi an hour earlier and waited for them.Lin Youxi heard the meaning in her words and knew that Tang Mengran really liked Zheng Tao, but privately she was on Zheng Tao's side, so she said: "Thank you for your concern, we will deal with both work and relationship. Very well."

With just this one sentence, Tang Mengran stopped talking and did not continue to speak.

"We won't go to dinner, but thank you anyway." Zheng Tao said to Tang Mengran, and then pulled Lin Youxi away from her.

Before going far, Lin Youxi withdrew her hand and said to Zheng Tao: "She really likes you, so she never thought about getting back together?"

Zheng Tao took a breath, saw the convenience store next to him, and said to Lin Youxi: "Let's buy some food and go back to the hotel, don't worry about it."

Lin Youxi took a shower, changed her clothes, went to Zheng Tao's room to eat instant noodles, and discussed the next work by the way.Before taking two bites of the instant noodles, Zheng Tao's cell phone rang. He looked down and saw that it was Tang Mengran.He directly pressed hang up.

"Maybe she is in a hurry?" Lin Youxi said.

"Let's eat your noodles."

Before he could finish speaking, the phone rang again.The three big characters "Tang Mengran" kept flashing on the screen, and Zheng Tao put down the bowl and picked up the phone.

As soon as he said a few words, Zheng Tao's face changed, and he kept saying: "Okay, I'll be right there."

"What happened?"

Zheng Tao went to get his coat from the coat rack: "Tang Mengran is drunk, I'll pick her up."

Lin Youxi was afraid that Zheng Tao would not be able to handle it alone, so she immediately took another sip of instant noodles, and followed her out of the hotel without changing her clothes.After taking a taxi to the tavern, Tang Mengran was lying on the table unconscious.Fortunately, the owner of the tavern is kind, otherwise I don't know what will happen.

"Why did she drink so much?" Zheng Tao patted her, and she pushed him away drunkenly, mumbling something in her mouth.

The tavern owner had an aggrieved expression: "Before she came to drink, she gave me your mobile phone number, and said that if she was drunk, she would call, and someone would come to pick her up." The owner said and handed Zheng Tao a handful of change , "I also paid for the wine in advance, and this is change."

Lin Youxi who was standing aside opened her mouth in surprise, then shut it again, not knowing what to say.Seeing that Zheng Tao couldn't support Tang Mengran alone, she hurriedly borrowed her shoulder: "Give me her hand."

"People who are drunk are dead." Zheng Tao sighed helplessly, and it was not the first time for her. She used to use this trick when quarreling in college.Find a small bar, hand over the money and the phone number to the boss, and say that you are drunk and make this call, and someone will come to pick her up.Every time Zheng Tao came in a hurry, not only to get her back, but also to be vomited all over by her.When he woke up the next morning, Tang Mengran looked innocent and innocent, as if he was not the one who got drunk and did something wrong.In the end, the two will reconcile naturally and inexplicably.But this time is different, Zheng Tao thought as he carried Tang Mengran out.

Lin Youxi gave up half of her bed to Tang Mengran, and she had completely fallen asleep.

Zheng Tao was rather apologetic: "I have to trouble you tonight, just call or knock on my door if you need anything."

"Don't worry, I've long been used to taking care of drunks." Qin Zhihao used to socialize and drink, never got drunk, "Go to sleep, don't worry about us."

Zheng Tao glanced at Tang Mengran lying on the bed, then at Lin Youxi in front of him, without thinking much, he reached out and touched Lin Youxi's head almost subconsciously.After he reacted, in order to avoid embarrassment, he deliberately teased a few words and said: "I will reward you with an egg tomorrow, and I won't eat instant noodles."

Tang Mengran vomited twice that night, and it was Lin Youxi who was busy taking care of her. She didn't ask Zheng Tao for help, she cleaned up the vomit by herself and helped Tang Mengran change her clothes.Tang Mengran woke up first in the morning, and when she saw Lin Youxi sleeping beside her, she sat up directly from the bed.

The headache after a hangover made her unable to help but hit her head hard a few times, and accidentally knocked the things on the bedside table to the ground.The sound woke Lin Youxi up. She turned over and saw that Tang Mengran was awake, so she sat up sleepily, rubbed her eyes and asked, "It's so early."

"Why would I sleep with you?"

"Oh, you were drunk last night, we didn't know your hotel address, so we brought you back."

"Where's Zheng Tao?" This was Tang Mengran's concern.

"He's in the opposite room."

Tang Mengran was taken aback, looked at Lin Youxi with complicated eyes, and then asked, "Don't you live together?"

"..."

"Ah, no." Lin Youxi immediately lied, "Originally we lived in the same room, but I was afraid that you would vomit alone and no one would take care of you, so I slept with you."

Tang Mengran rubbed her head, stood up from the bed, and said calmly, "As expected of a good Chinese girlfriend, she can be so tolerant even to her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend."

Lin Youxi lowered her head and said nothing.When she looked up again, Tang Mengran was already getting dressed, she turned her head and said to Lin Youxi, "Change your clothes, don't have dinner together, let's have breakfast and bid farewell to the head office."

Tang Mengran seemed to be a different person suddenly, and he was no longer so aggressive when he met Zheng Tao.The three of them took a taxi to the breakfast restaurant Tang Mengran mentioned, but no one spoke along the way.Zheng Tao asked Lin Youxi what happened last night with his eyes, Lin Youxi shrugged and said that he didn't know.

When I got out of the car, it was a small house of flies.Zheng Tao clasped his hands in front of his face, he was a little surprised and said, "After taking a taxi for a long time, I thought you were going to take us somewhere to eat."

"This store tastes good." Tang Mengran said.

"Have you been here before?" Lin Youxi asked.

"For the first time, I checked the strategy on the Internet. Many people said that the rice noodles and fried dough sticks in this restaurant are a must. If you don't eat it, you will regret it."

"...Are you here for business or travel?" Zheng Tao was a little puzzled, but he was never polite to food.

"For a person like me who is busy with work for 360 days and five days, a business trip is equivalent to tourism." Tang Mengran seemed to be familiar with the menu in the store, ordered a few special snacks in the store, and took them at the counter Three pairs of disposable chopsticks, "Thank you for your care last night."

Zheng Tao broke off the chopsticks and handed them to Lin Youxi: "This is the one you want to thank. I didn't do anything except get you back to the hotel."

The tone was meant to be joking, but Tang Mengran cautiously picked up the big bowl of rice noodles in front of him and touched Lin Youxi's: "I'm sorry to trouble you last night." Then he carefully blew on the hot mouth with his mouth. I took a big sip of the soup.

Zheng Tao didn't know where he was going to sing, Lin Youxi generously picked up the powder bowl in front of her and took a sip of the soup.

After breakfast, Zheng Tao said to send Tang Mengran back. She waved her hands and smiled brilliantly. She patted Zheng Tao's shoulder and said, "Your girlfriend is nice, so be careful. I won't go back alone. Something happened."

After saying this, Tang Mengran turned around and left, leaving Zheng Tao standing there with a look of astonishment.

"Did you say anything to her?" Zheng Tao who turned back asked Lin Youxi inexplicably, "Why did she feel weird when she woke up after sleeping?"

"I don't know, I didn't say anything special to her."

Sitting in the taxi back to the hotel, Tang Mengran was already crying stupidly. The driver didn't dare to ask any more questions when he saw it.

In fact, when he was on a business trip here, Tang Mengran got the news through the circle of friends, but the news in the circle of friends was learned through their former mutual friends.Tang Mengran's return to China this time was not for Zheng Tao as rumored, but when she knew that Zheng Tao also happened to return to China, she was pleasantly surprised.In the years since they separated, Tang Mengran also made new boyfriends, but she never let go of Zheng Tao in her heart.At the beginning, when she proposed to break up, she was just acting out of emotion, but Zheng Tao didn't expect that guy to take it seriously, and didn't even say a word about getting back together.

She wants to get back the love she lost when she was young, but Zheng Tao said that he already has someone he likes, and he already has a girlfriend.Tang Mengran didn't believe that Zheng Tao really liked Lin Youxi, so he kept pestering her.Before coming here, she planned to use drunkenness to trick Zheng Tao out alone, and then wake up in the morning as before when she was in school.She vomited on him at night, woke up and smiled at him naturally and harmlessly, and then settled the suspicion.She even checked the strategy on the Internet, where the breakfast is the best, where the local dishes are the most distinctive, and where the attractions are most worth visiting.But this time something went wrong, he woke up, and Lin Youxi was sleeping next to him.

At first Tang Mengran didn't have the slightest affection for Lin Youxi. The first time we met was in the meeting room of Party A's company. When she saw her explaining the PPT, her legs and feet trembled nervously. Tang Mengran still laughed inwardly.Later, when I found out that she was the girlfriend that Zheng Tao said, I couldn't sit still. His ex-girlfriend was so good, and the new girlfriend was not so good, but she definitely couldn't be like Lin Youxi. Not surprising, timid and cowardly.In fact, to put it bluntly, she felt that her rival in love was too easy to deal with, and she didn't need to do anything to win Zheng Tao back.

Upon hearing from a former friend that Zheng Tao wanted to open his own studio, Tang Mengran immediately helped find a place, and introduced several places with good locations and reasonable rent to Zheng Tao, but Zheng Tao didn't appreciate it.Tang Mengran didn't give up either, calling him from time to time, giving him a gift or even letting him do some projects that he took over, but Zheng Tao didn't accept it.If it was an ordinary girl, she would have quit a long time ago, but who is Tang Mengran? When Yuxi was on the verge of retreating.

Lin Youxi is a good girl.Tang Mengran could safely give Zheng Tao to her, but she changed her mind when she knew that Lin Youxi would take care of her for a night of hangover.

Go back, she said to herself.The love that was not grasped when he was young became a regret in the last years, but regret does not mean love. Tang Mengran finally figured it out, although he still cried into tears on the taxi back.

You see, sometimes a person’s enlightenment does not require any earth-shaking or life-and-death events to happen. It is just at that moment that he suddenly realizes, ah, so it is like this.Why didn't I figure it out before.

When Lin Youxi went back, she bought some local specialties, thinking of taking them back for Lu Li to eat.Lu Li has not been idle these days, she re-submitted her resume online to find a job.She turned off her mobile phone, and only used Lin Youxi's landline at home to communicate with the outside world.

"Tell me, what should I do?" Lu Li sat cross-legged on the floor, peeled a piece of grapefruit, and ate slowly, "I submitted my resume, there are translators, tour guides, and celebrity assistants. A little bit of work is suitable for me, and the tour guide and assistant feel pretty good."

Lin Youxi was speechless: "Why does it sound so unreliable?"

"Next Monday, I will go to the company to receive this month's salary." Lu Li said, "Will you accompany me then?"

Seeing that Lu Li's expression seemed to have recovered from what happened last time, Lin Youxi still remembered that after returning home, the two carried a case of beer from the convenience store downstairs. Lu Li cried loudly while drinking, and then called Called that person, but Lin Youxi didn't hear what she said clearly, Lu Li didn't say anything, just kept crying with the phone, I don't know if she was tired from crying in the end, or the phone ran out of battery , just terminated the call.Lu Li didn't tell Lin Youxi how she and that person were doing now, and Lin Youxi didn't ask either.She knew that Lu Li would naturally say it when she wanted to, and she had her own reasons for not saying it now.

(End of this chapter)