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Chapter 148 Yu Anran X Qi Pei: Hot Pot

Yu Anran also wanted to know why he came to BJ.

Speaking of which, they haven't been in touch for many years, and she doesn't understand what kind of meeting this will be.

But what Yu Anran was most curious about was why that person found Song Shi's studio.

"Have you posted about my studio in your circle of friends?" Song Shi analyzed, "That is, someone revealed it to him. Now social software is messy, nothing unusual."

Yu Anran thought it was possible.

She rubbed her right shoulder, "Don't bother with him anyway."

After work, Qi Pei and Qin Shen walked to the parking lot together.

Tan Shen didn't drive here today, his home and the Summer Palace happened to be at the two ends of the city, so Qi Pei had to take a long way to take him back.

Halfway through the journey, Qin Shen put away his cell phone, "Auntie asked me to persuade you."

"What?" Qi Pei rubbed his cheeks, "It's still the same thing?"

"Ah."

Qi Pei sneered, "You can put on a show, don't really persuade me."

After being silent for a while, Tan Shen said to himself: "I don't think uncle should want you either..."

Qi Pei said in a deep voice, "Tan Shen."

Tan Shen stopped speaking, took out the cigarette case from his pocket, and with a "pop", sparks of fire flashed out.

Qi Pei is actually a very good-tempered person, but every time he touches on this matter, he will change his face.

He lowered the window a little.

Tan Shen took a breath of smoke, "Why haven't you seen you smoking recently, have you quit?"

To be more precise, it should be that after Qi Pei came back from Nanlan, Tan Shen didn't see him smoking much.

Qi Pei didn't deliberately quit smoking, but after being with Yu Anran, he would take her more or less into consideration, and the frequency of smoking decreased unconsciously.

"Tan Shen," Qi Pei said, "when you talk about someone, you won't ask me that."

The two started their business together in the year they graduated from university.

This idea was actually proposed by Qin Shen first, but it is really difficult to start a business alone.

Qi Pei is lazy and doesn't like the repetitive work of [-] to [-], but he has a bit of knowledge in the management team.

So when Tan Shen proposed an invitation to him, he just thought about it all night before agreeing.

It was indeed difficult for the two of them to start. In the first few days, they were often overwhelmed. The people around them changed one after another. Most of them thought that they would not be successful, and it was difficult for BJ to survive. It was better to go back to work honestly.

Tan Shenhua puts more effort into it than Qi Pei. He lives alone, and Qi Pei has to take care of his younger sister and family, so the effort in work is naturally less.

After the company is on the right track, there are still many chores.

The boss can't stay out of it completely. Many things have to be done in person, such as business trips, negotiating partners, holding exchange meetings and so on.

Most of these tasks will fall on Qin Shen, so during the years of managing the company, he has no intention of talking about feelings.

When Qi Pei called him in Nanlan back then, he didn't have much trouble in his heart. Although he and Qi Pei were good friends and brothers, they didn't know how to discuss emotional matters with each other.

When he came back to his senses, the cigarette ash had already fallen on his clothes, Tan Shen patted it off lightly, "Let's talk about it when we meet."

After a pause, he said again: "Or..."

"Or what?"

Tan Shen shook his head mockingly, "It's nothing."

That woman has a big heart, and she probably forgot him a long time ago.

After sending Qin Shen home, Qi Pei took another detour.

There is a small photography shop in the alley. The owner is Duan Baiyun. In his thirties, Qi Pei met when he was playing photography.

Seeing him coming, Duan Baiyun, who was working in front of the computer, stopped what he was doing, and said, "A rare customer."

Qi Pei gave him a hammer, "How are you doing recently?"

"It's okay," Duan Baiyun said, "Small business, enough to support you."

Qi Pei didn't exchange much greetings, took out a USB flash drive from his pocket, and handed it to Duan Baiyun, "The photos in it, help me make an album."

"Nan Lan's promotional photo?" Duan Baiyun asked.

"No."

He was only in charge of taking Nan Lan's promotional photos, and there was no need to make an album of them himself.

"That is?"

"Specifically ask me to send you back," Qi Pei said, "Can it be done a year ago?"

"Let you join the team!"

Qi Pei smiled and patted Duan Baiyun on the shoulder, "Thank you."

On Tuesday, Yu Anran went to work as usual.

Jian Qing took half a day off today, without the little girl chattering in her ears, she was much quieter.

Yu Anran doesn't like to deal with people, but these people in the same department are very enthusiastic and the atmosphere is quite relaxed. Sometimes Yu Anran can insert a few words when they are chatting.

She didn't know if it was the reason for the change of mentality, but it seemed that this team was more harmonious than the previous one.

The work itself is boring, but a good working atmosphere can alleviate this negative emotion to a certain extent.

In the afternoon, Jian Qing returned to work.

Yu Anran took advantage of the situation and asked, only to realize that the girl had caught a cold in the morning.

Near the end of the year, the weather is getting colder and colder, and it is indeed easy to catch cold.

"Sister An Ran, my mother sent me our family's souvenirs yesterday, and I brought you some."

"Aren't you going home for Chinese New Year?"

"No," Jian Qing said, "The air tickets for Chinese New Year are so expensive. I'll go back later when I have time."

Yu Anran let out an "oh".

"Sister An Ran, where are you from?"

"Suzhou."

"Suzhou, that's far from BJ."

Yu Anran smiled.

Jian Qing asked again: "Are you going home for the New Year?"

"No return."

"Oh," Jian Qing sighed, thinking that Yu Anran's reason for not going home was the same as her own, "Poor Beipiao people."

Yu Anran stopped what she was doing, and glanced at the things Jian Qing gave her on the table.

She found that Jian Qing only gave her local specialties, but no one else.

It's strange to think about it, although she and Jian Qing met in their previous jobs, but now Jian Qing has been in this company longer than her, logically speaking, she should have a colleague who has a better relationship than herself.

"Jian Qing," Yu Anran asked directly, "You seem to be clinging to me after I come here?"

Jane said bluntly, "Because I like you."

Yu Anran never thought that one day she would hear such words from a girl.

Coincidentally, Jian Qing also finished the work in hand, she leaned back on the back of the chair, "Sister An Ran, I don't know if you still remember, when I was an intern in the previous company, you helped me."

Yu Anran frowned and thought about it, but she didn't remember.

She shook her head.

Jian Qing put it simply, probably because she had just graduated at that time, and she didn't understand anything when she first entered the workplace. After a few days of work, she was reprimanded by the leader because the report format was not correct.

At that time, she was just a rookie. After being scolded, she was at a loss and didn't even know how to change it.

It happened that Yu Anran was sitting next to her. Seeing that she was helpless, she specially spent more than an hour correcting her step by step.

"And this?" Yu Anran really couldn't remember.

"Really," Jian Qing sat up straight exaggeratedly, "That would make you feel like an angel! It's a pity that you left the job not long after."

Frankly speaking, Yu Anran is a person who does not believe in friendship.

She always thought that Jian Qing's kindness towards her was just because the two had known each other before, but she never thought that there was such a relationship.

"But Sister An Ran, you will look cold and indifferent. I didn't dare to get in touch with you at first!"

"What about now?" Yu Anran asked.

"Now?" Jian Qing stared, "It feels a little different from before."

Before Yu Anran could ask more questions, the conversation was interrupted by a colleague at the side, and the conversation was abruptly interrupted.

After get off work in the evening, Qi Pei was going to pick her up.

But he received a call from Pei Xin temporarily. Pei Xin said that he had an operation and was too late to pick up Pei Sheng from school, so he asked Qi Pei to pick it up for him.

Naturally, Yu Anran didn't want to rob the little girl of her elder brother, so she asked Qi Pei not to come, and she took the subway back.

It snowed again in BJ today, and the street was completely white.

Song Shi said that she wanted to eat hot pot, but she didn't want to go out because the weather was too cold, so she finally asked Yu Anran to buy some ingredients in the supermarket downstairs, and the two of them started a small stove at home.

The house they rented did not have a dining room, and Song Shi dug out a pot out of nowhere and placed it on the table in the living room.

The hot pot base is also bought ready-made, and it is very simple to put it in directly after the water is boiled.

Yu Anran waited until the surface continued to bubble, and then poured the meatball-like ingredients into it first.

"An Ran, you don't eat mutton, right?"

"Ah."

The mutton smells like mutton, Yu Anran can't accept it.

"Then I'll put this in at the end." Song Shi said, "But the two of us are also curious, since neither of us can eat spicy food, can it still be called hot pot?"

Yu Anran didn't think so, "Who said hot pot must be spicy?"

Song Shi stirred it with a spoon, "I remember that the Nanlan you went to before had a strong taste, can you bear it?"

Yu Anran's diet was indeed unacceptable to Nan Lan.

But so many things happened on the road, more often she and Qi Pei ate self-heating rice, and when they returned to the inn, Anan took her into consideration and prepared relatively light meals.

"The main thing is to see the beautiful scenery," Yu Anran said, "I don't care too much about eating."

Ever since Yu Anran came back from Nanlan, Song Shi hasn't had a good chat with her about the trip.When this was brought up, she inevitably thought of the unpleasant phone call with Yu Anran back then.

"Why did you suddenly become enlightened?" Song Shi asked, "I thought you were still indifferent after I said that."

Yu Anran picked up a beef ball with chopsticks, and answered honestly: "Qi Pei said, I should exchange my sincerity for my sincerity, and I can't always think about staying away from people who really care about me."

"Your boyfriend is quite good at enlightening people." Song Shi commented.

The hot steam of the hot pot is constantly bubbling in the air, engulfed in the warm white light.

After being silent for a while, Yu Anran poked the sausage in the bowl with chopsticks, and said slowly: "Xiaoshi, do you know why I didn't want to talk to anyone about anything before?"

"Why?" Song Shi swallowed the thing, "It has something to do with the things you don't want to talk about?"

Yu Anran nodded lightly, "Dr. Su, who first saw me, used one word to describe me."

"what?"

"Self-enclosed." Yu Anran said, "He said that the reason why I have emotional apathy is because I consciously don't accept other people's feelings. At that time, he also asked me what I had experienced in the past, but I didn't tell him."

Yu Anran pulled her lips, perhaps the atmosphere had reached an inexplicable level, while eating and chatting, she said to Song Shi
Out of his rotten and dramatic native family.

After Song Shi finished listening, the balls on the chopsticks fell into the bowl again, and he was dumbfounded.

After a long time, she put the bowls and chopsticks back on the table, and there was a noise when they collided, and she said in a tone full of righteous indignation, "No, why is your family like this! And your aunt, who has hurt you for so many years, just leave?"

"So you feel that any relationship is unreliable, and you simply face life indifferently?"

"It can be said like this," Yu Anran picked up a chopstick of green vegetables calmly, "I don't believe that any relationship is long-lasting, and I don't believe that I will be loved."

"Anyway, you will be left behind in the end, why should you give your feelings?"

The same goes for friendship, that's why she was so indifferent to Song Shi at the beginning.

It seems unreasonable, but in fact it is just a fear that after gradually possessing and relying on her, she will suddenly lose it like his parents and aunt.

Song Shi hesitated to speak, and really wanted to knock Yu Anran on the head.

"Then aren't you in love?"

With a pause, Yu Anran lowered her eyes, her voice was obviously very soft, but it echoed in her ears: "But Qi Pei is so kind, he was the one who told me that I should live a good life."

Yu Anran smiled, "He also said that everything will go well for me in the future and I will always be happy."

That night in no man's land, she knew that it wasn't the Leo star shining in the night sky that blessed her, but Qi Pei.

This man is very careful and knows what she needs most.

Yu Anran: "So I want to try it out with him. It doesn't matter even if we don't have a result in the end. I've already obtained valuable things."

"Did you tell your boyfriend these words?"

"Of course not." Yu Anran answered very quickly.

"Tsk tsk, I don't know if your boyfriend will be sad after hearing this."

Yu Anran was puzzled: "Why?"

Song Shi sighed: "Normal men will feel a little uncomfortable when their girlfriends frankly accept that they don't have each other?"

"Besides, you two seem to be in such a good relationship."

Yu Anran murmured: "Really."

Song Shi stopped talking about this and changed the subject: "But An Ran, we've known each other for so many years, don't you still believe me?"

"Ok?"

Song Shi stared at her and said an old story.

In the summer vacation of the year she graduated from high school, Song Shi came to BJ without telling her parents.

The family is strictly controlled. When she first applied to BJ's school, Song Shi's mother disagreed with her life and death, saying that the girl's family is too far away from home, which is not a good thing.

Song Shi was born rebellious, the more her parents opposed her, the more energetic she became.

When I first arrived in BJ, I was unfamiliar with the place, so I stumbled to a milk tea shop in front of the university. After ordering, I realized that I had lost my wallet.

The boss cursed, thinking that Song Shi wanted to eat the overlord's meal.

It happened that Yu Anran was working part-time in a milk tea shop at that time, and she used her own money to help Song Shi make it up.

"Then why didn't you tell me?" Yu Anran asked.

"I don't want to tell you such a shameful thing!"

As soon as she entered university, she found out that Yu Anran was her roommate, and Song Shi was very excited.

Although Yu Anran seemed to no longer remember herself, even so, Song Shi still entangled her by relying on her self-acquaintance.

"So, An Ran," Song Shi said, "Don't always feel that you have no reason to be loved, and don't think that you will be left behind."

"Really, don't think so badly of yourself. You were just unlucky before, so you can't kill all the people who are sincere to you because of this?"

The soup in the pot boiled dry, Song Shi added some hot water.

Yu Anran stirred the contents of the bowl boredly, speechless for a while.

She was thinking about whether she had really hurt many people with her indifference, including the thing she hadn't said to Qi Pei, whether it would make him feel that she was not honest enough.

But at the beginning, she really didn't fully believe that this love could last forever, so she had some reservations.

While thinking, the phone suddenly vibrated.

【Qi: What are you doing? 】

【An Ran: Eat hot pot at home. 】

[Qi: My mother asked me to ask you, do you want to come to my house during the Chinese New Year? 】

Bring this up again.

Yu Anran originally thought that she was just saying it casually at that time, but she didn't expect Qi Pei to bring it up again now.

Seeing that Yu Anran didn't reply for a long time, Qi Pei changed the subject.

[Qi: I prepared a gift for you during the Chinese New Year. 】

【An Ran: What? 】

[Qi: You will know when the time comes. 】

It's also quite mysterious.

Yu Anran stared at the phone, thinking whether to give Qi Pei a gift too.

Song Shi scooped the blanched beef into Yu Anran's bowl.

Yu Anran: "You can order the mutton, I'm almost full."

She had just eaten the fat cow in the bowl when the phone vibrated again.

But this time it wasn't Qi Pei, a small red dot appeared in the WeChat address book.

Yu Anran clicked in and saw a new friend verification message.

The remarks column that came into view read: [I am Xu Wei. 】

(End of this chapter)