“Lan Yu Feng, let go.”
“Now go eat.” He was bossy and refused to let go.
Where did Zige have any appetite to eat?
“I don’t want to go, I’ll go back alone.”
But where was there room for her to be unwilling? Lan Yu Feng didn’t reply at all anymore, only clasping her tighter, not giving her any room to backtrack.
This is a very authentic Chinese restaurant. In this kind of weather, there are not many customers. There are only a few Chinese people sitting in the lobby, shabu-shabu, and chatting with the owner of the place.
The owner is an authentic Chinese man with a bushy beard and wild, naturally curly hair. He laughed heartily while talking to his customers, his voice was loud and strong, and he was a cheerful person. When he saw Lan Yu Feng walk in, he quickly got up from the table next to him, walked over with a smile, opened his arms and embraced Lan Yu Feng, as if he was a very familiar old friend.
“Finally, it’s here again! Thought that house of yours had to be vacant again for the first half of this year.” The boss said.
“Fortunately, thanks to you watching out for me, the wine in the wine cellar is safe and sound.” There was a rare trace of a smile between Lan Yu Feng’s features.
The boss laughed brightly, “Actually, I just covet those fine wines in your cellar.”
“Have you tasted the wine I had sent to you two days ago? How does it taste?”
The boss slapped him, “You sent it here, can it be bad? Alright, don’t chat all the time, go sit inside. I’ll personally cook a few dishes for you today.”
“Uh-huh.” Only then did Lan Yu Feng start walking inside. Zi Ge, who had been silently following behind him, then appeared in the boss’s line of sight.
“Hey, so you’ve got such a pretty little girl doll hiding behind this one?”
The boss’s voice was raised high, and the entire restaurant was bustling with surprised eyes looking towards Zi Ge. Zi Ge was in a bad mood and could only barely raise a smile in response to the boss.
“Come sit.” Lan Yu Feng turned back to speak to her. Compared to his tone when he spoke to his boss, his tone was now hard and warm-free.
Zi Ge didn’t pay any attention to him, just walked right over with a stern face and crossed over to sit down alone. Lan Yu Feng narrowed his eyes and sat down opposite her. Watching this scene, the boss laughed straight away. Pulling the menu and handing it to Zi Ge, he followed them to sit down at the table.
“Come, come, what do you want to eat, you order.” The boss greeted warmly.
“Thanks.” After Zige said that, she lowered her head and bet her eyes on the menu, looking like she was browsing carefully. In reality, it was just a matter of face. At the moment, with a clogged heart, where was there any appetite?
“No need to thank you. It’s rare that someone dares to put a face on this kid, and now I feel fresh looking at it!” The boss laughed.
Lan Yu Feng sank his face.
Zi Ge glanced at him and smiled nonchalantly, “You flatter me, how would I dare to give Mr. Lan a look? Don’t you know what kind of person he is?”
“Tell me, what kind of person am I.” It was Lan Yu Feng who replied back. His eyes were stoic as he looked at her, sharp as knife blades.
Zige let out a laugh, “Your personality, don’t you know it best? There’s still a need for me to say it.”
“Just because it’s not clear, that’s why I specifically wanted to ask you.” His eyes were as deep as dark night.
Rude, cruel, rude, selfish …
A series of bad words ran through Zige’s mind, and before she could say anything, she only heard the boss on one side of the room smothering a laugh with a lowered head. “It’s quite refreshing to see you two fight. I didn’t realize that this kid would also have a day to fight with his girlfriend.”
“I’m not his girlfriend.” Zige froze for a moment and subconsciously retorted. Instead, he pursed his lips and didn’t say anything. Upon hearing his words, he instead cast a heavy look over, looking at Zi Ge in bewilderment.
“Not a girlfriend?” The owner smiled in a different way, “But he’s never brought a girl here before this. No longer a girlfriend, but always special, right?”
There was no way for Zi Ge to ignore the jumping feeling in her heart. Could it be that he hadn’t even brought Zhuo Yunruo before?
Originally, I thought that Lan Yu Feng would definitely deny or explain, but instead, he just glanced at his boss with a slightly impatient look, “Has anyone ever said that the older you get, the more you nag?”
“Old? Where am I old? Eh, you let your girlfriend judge, but I’m just 35. it’s called being in the prime of life!” The boss freaked out, one mouthful of girlfriends, and surprisingly, Lan Yu Feng didn’t retort.
Instead, he sidled up to her, tapped on a menu that couldn’t have been simpler, and instructed her, “Order and don’t freeze.”
All he wanted to do now was to branch out of this talkative person.
“Oh.” Zi Ge returned to her senses and lowered her head. However, she still couldn’t help but lift her eyes to look at him, her eyes floating.
A meal, eat tasteless, two people each mind. The whole meal down did not eat much, more did not say a word. The boss wanted to come over to enliven the atmosphere, but was killed by a glare from Lan Yu Feng, and had to shrink back to serve the guests at the other tables.
When he came out of the restaurant, it surprisingly started to drizzle. The boss handed him an umbrella, so he held the cane in one hand and the umbrella in the other. Zige gamely didn’t get too close to him, and the rain flew in, wetting half of her small face and shoulders in a moment, freezing the corners of her lips a little black.
Lan Yu Feng subconsciously propped his umbrella over a bit and leaned his body towards her. Zige stood over some more without any trace. Looking at her stubborn, and pitifully frozen appearance, Lan Yu Feng was instantly enraged.
“Take my hand!” His tone was almost commanding.
Ziggy just buried her head and walked her own without saying anything.
“Meng Zige, don’t challenge my patience!” Each word he spat out from his lips was suppressed with a fire. “If you have to keep provoking me, maybe I’ll be more interested in you and refuse to let you go even more!”
Ziggy couldn’t help but give a sideways glance.
So he thinks she’s in fear of tangling with him for the rest of her life?
Smiling bitterly, she finally raised her hand to take his arm. The not-so-large umbrella, enveloping the two of them, the rain more or less still flies in, Lan Yu Feng glances at her and hands her the umbrella, “Hold it up.”
“Hmm?” Zige took the umbrella over and looked at him in slight surprise. Only to see him silently remove the scarf, and without even looking at her, he put the scarf around her neck. The warmth came from her, Zi Ge was stunned, looking at his neck exposed to the air, a trace of intolerance surfaced in her heart, raising her hand to remove the scarf.
“Put it on!” He drank.
Zige’s hand lurched and looked at him. But he had already taken the umbrella back, curved his arm in front of her and raised it, signaling her to hold on to him. Zi Ge pursed her lips, took a look at the umbrella that was mostly covering her head, and the anger in her heart inexplicably dispersed for the most part.
Tightly gripping his jacket, she pursed her lips, “Lan Yu Feng, I find that you’re really hard for people to read …”
Lan Yu Feng slightly lowered his eyes at her, “What do you want to see clearly?”
Accompanied by the sound of the fine rain falling, his voice was sandy and even better. Zi Ge inclined her head to look at him, wanting to say something, but in the end, she wanted to say something, “Forget it, I won’t be able to see clearly if I say it anyway.”
Lan Yu Feng looked flatly ahead and asked faintly, “My heart, you want to see it clearly?” .
Zige froze, narrowing her eyes at his side face. This man, with such a powerful guessing mind, if he were to cross him, I’m afraid he would only die without a burial site!
“Have you ever let anyone see your heart clearly?” Without nodding, she asked rhetorically.
“Ever since my mother left, no one has been able to see me clearly here.” He compared his finger to his chest, “Not even Yannan.”
“Doesn’t that make you tired?”
She tilted her head back to look at him.
Lan Yu Feng froze for a moment, a light sentence, as if it swung directly into his heart, touching wherever, some subtle pain, but also some uncontrollable sourness.
After all these years, it seemed, it was the first person to ask himself that.
“Numb.” Ultimately, he returned this way.
However, the complex emotions that flowed out from the bottom of his eyes had not yet had time to cover up, and was caught by Zi Ge. Heart suddenly tightened, for a moment unexpectedly could not bear to ask further, just tightened his arm.
“Perhaps it is not only others who cannot see your heart clearly, but I fear that even you cannot see it yourself.” She spoke softly.
Why else would he be erratic?
Her words made Lan Yu Feng frown. Bending his head, he glanced at her and ultimately said nothing, only smoothing out the scarf around her neck so that it blocked her neck more tightly.
In the afternoon, Lan Yu Feng was picked up by Yan Nan again. Zi Ge was left alone. She was bored and thought for a while, went back to her room and rummaged through Lan Yu Feng’s coat to put it over herself, and hurried out the door with her bag.
During the rest stall of the negotiations, Lan Yu Feng stood on the building, overlooking the downstairs. Outside, the sky became very fast, the wind was raging, scraping the windows ‘clattering’, like a wild beast crossing the border. Lan Yu Feng lowered his eyes and looked at his cell phone, wanting to dial a number, but did not ultimately did not press a word.
Yan Nan pushed the door in, “Sir, the meeting is coming up soon in a little while.”
“Got it.” Lan Yu Feng nodded slightly. Yan Nan then prepared to exit, but he suddenly called out, “Wait.”
“Hm?” Yan Nan looked at him in surprise.
Lan Yu Feng threw his cell phone into Yan Nan’s hand, “Make a call to Meng Zige.”
“Huh?” Yan Nan was confused.
Lan Yu Feng looked out the window expressionlessly, “Ask her if there’s a blackout at home.” Seemingly feeling that this was a bit wrong, he added, “Don’t mention me.”
Yan Nan was confused, but he didn’t dare to ask too many questions, and only followed his instructions to make the call.
“Madam.” The phone was quickly picked up, and Yan Nan respectfully called out. Immediately came Zi Ge’s voice over there, “Yan Nan? Do you have something to do?”
“Oh, it’s fine.” Yan Nan swept his eyes at the gentleman, only to see that he had already turned his back, so much so that he couldn’t even clearly see his expression at the moment. Yan Nan said, “Just asking you if there is a power outage at home. I heard that the power went out for a long time last night because of the heavy rain.”
“Oh, it shouldn’t have stopped. Is there anything else you want to do? If not I’ll hang up now, I’m in the middle of something.”
Hearing her say this, where would Yan Nan dare to delay her?” It’s fine, then you are busy.” With a greeting, she disconnected the call.
“Sir, madam says there’s no blackout.” Yan Nan replied, handing the cell phone back. Lan Yu Feng turned around and held the phone in his hand, his hanging heart slightly lowered.
A meeting that went on all afternoon. When he came out of the hotel conference room, he was a bit tired. However, he did not stay much longer, grabbing the car keys and heading out of the hotel. Yan Nan was uneasy and chased after him, “Sir, the rainstorm outside is getting worse now, you’d better take a rest and wait for the rain to subside before leaving, it’s safer.”
Lan Yu Feng had already walked to the door, pushed open the door, saw the sky outside and then closed his footsteps. There was not a single pedestrian on the road, even the vehicles were few and far between, and it looked indescribably bleak. The evergreens along the street were scoured to the point of falling to the west, and would break at any time.