Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Halfway through the ride, because the phone rang several times, Yan Mu had no choice but to find a place to pull over, stop the car, and put on wireless headphones to answer the call.
“F**k, Brother Mu, you just said you were going to make a phone call, how come you didn’t even call me before leaving?” The voice of Zhuang Yu came from the headset, and he seemed a little exasperated.
“Sorry, I have something to do here. You guys party by yourself in the afternoon. I won’t go over,” Yan Mu glanced at Lu Chengyu beside him, “I’ll treat you tomorrow.”
“Okay,” Zhuang Yu knew that the Yan family still had some things to deal with, and Yan Mu was not the kind of person who usually left early without saying hello, so he said, “Okay, I’ll tell them, be careful.”
“Thank you.” Yan Mu frowned and hung up the phone. What happened to him today? He left early without telling his friends and parked directly at the door without paying attention to the hotel rules. This was too inconsistent with his usual style. These impolite behaviors simply violated the education he had received over the years.
Although Lu Chengyu was already half drunk, he still found that Yan Mu’s face seemed a little wrong. But he calmly moved his gaze away. Sometimes, people should learn not to ask questions that they should not ask.
The car was not driving fast. Lu Chengyu leaned against the comfortable backrest, listened to the guqin music, and slowly fell asleep.
While waiting for the traffic light, Yan Mu covered Lu Chengyu with his suit jacket. This was the second time he was sending a drunk Lu Chengyu home.
This person usually had a smile on his face, but when he was asleep, he didn’t look like a smiling person at all.
As a boss, he knew that his concern for Lu Chengyu had exceeded the emotional line between a boss and an employee. When the red light turned green, he started the car and drove forward steadily. Maybe there were some things he should think about seriously.
The car entered the community, and Yan Mu half-dragged and half-carried Lu Chengyu back to his home.
After putting him on the bed, Yan Mu half-knelt down to take off his shoes for him, put the room key on the bedside table, opened the window, and quietly looked at Lu Chengyu sleeping on the bed.
When he first saw Lu Chengyu’s interview materials, he thought he might be a very hardworking young man. Who knew that he would meet him in person at Bai Weixuan the next day, and he also happened to pick up his wallet on the ground. If he hadn’t walked fast, the wallet would have been picked up by another person.
When Lu Chengyu turned around and smiled and said thank you, he somehow thought of the clean and neat white shirt in the closet, which made people feel close to it but reluctant to reach out and touch it, so as not to wrinkle it and get it dirty.
After thinking for a long time, he suddenly frowned. His friends said that people like him were dull and boring. Did Lu Chengyu, who never lacked attention in the company, also think of him that way?
After leaving the master bedroom, Yan Mu found the mung beans he bought last time in the refrigerator. Seeing that the bag of mung beans had not been touched, he knew that Lu Chengyu rarely cooked for himself.
After soaking the mung beans in a bowl, he walked around the house and found that the trash can in the living room was almost full. It was full of snack packaging and fruit peels. There were also instant noodle packaging bags in the kitchen trash can. There didn’t seem to be so much garbage when he came last time?
Bending down to collect all the garbage, Yan Mu went back to the room to get the key and went out with the garbage.
Xiao He was the president’s driver hired by the company, but because Yan Mu sometimes liked to drive himself, he usually did odd jobs in the company. Because he was honest and hardworking, his salary had increased by 5% recently.
But this honest and hardworking young man felt a little unwell now.
He had just parked Assistant Lu’s car and was about to send the car keys upstairs, when he saw the boss coming out with several large bags of garbage. The elegant clothes and the garbage bags were really incongruous.
Poor Xiao He was stunned for several seconds before he reacted. Then he ran to Yan Mu and reached out to take the bulging garbage bag in Yan Mu’s hand: “Boss, why are you here? Let me carry it.”
“No need,” Yan Mu avoided Xiao He’s hand, “I’ll take it. Are you here to give Assistant Lu the car keys?”
Xiao He nodded. Seeing that the boss really didn’t need his help, he scratched his head and smiled: “I have parked the car and I just called Assistant Lu’s cell phone, but no one answered, so I thought of sending the keys upstairs.”
“No, just give me the keys,” Yan Mu took the keys from Xiao He and let Xiao He go back.
On the way home, Xiao He thought of several reasons why the boss might have appeared downstairs of Assistant Lu’s house. He felt that the most reliable reason was that the boss had a property in this community, and the least reliable reason was that the boss was helping Assistant Lu clean up the room.
Although the boss was a good person, he was not good enough to help his subordinates clean up the room. Even if he put this kind of thing on the Internet, no one would believe it. Xiao He felt that he was thinking too much, and as a driver, one of his duties was to keep his mouth shut, so he kept this to himself.
Yan Mu didn’t care what Xiao He thought about this. After throwing away the garbage, he went to a nearby supermarket to buy fruits and vegetables. When he returned to Lu Chengyu’s house, Lu Chengyu was still asleep.
He put the processed ingredients into the pot and simmered them slowly over a low fire. He knew that there was a study in Lu Chengyu’s house, but it was very rude to enter a place like a study without the owner’s consent. In the end, he had to sit on the sofa and turn on the TV to pass the time.
“You keep saying that you don’t love her, but you always look at her, pay attention to her, and are even willing to put down your status for her and do things you don’t usually do, if you say you don’t love her, are you lying to me or to yourself?!”
Yan Mu, who was originally preparing to switch to the news channel, suddenly stopped. Looking at the woman crying heartbreakingly and the roaring man on TV, his brows were tightly knitted. Finally, he took out his mobile phone and called his friend.
Zhuang Yu was playing tennis with his friends. When he saw the bodyguard bringing the phone into the court, he took the phone while wiping the sweat off his face. Seeing that the caller was Yan Mu, he immediately smiled and said, “Why, Brother Mu, do you have time to come out and play now?”
Then he listened to a sentence that surprised him a little, and his expression suddenly became weird: “You have done this for this person, and you still don’t know why?”
There was silence on the other end of the phone, and he sighed helplessly: “Brother Mu, congratulations on your love. Which beauty could attract a man like Brother Mu? Bring her out tonight…” Before Zhuang Yu could finish speaking, he heard a beep from the phone. Was he hung up on?!
“A 28-year-old man is still shy about falling in love,” Zhuang Yu threw the phone to the bodyguard, “Even someone like Brother Mu has a target. Am I a bit pitiful?”
“Sir, you just broke up with Miss Yang two days ago,” the bodyguard took the phone and said in a flat tone, “Miss Yang also said that she didn’t want to see you in this life.”
“As a bodyguard, it’s enough for you to have good skills. If you have such a good brain, it will be very troublesome for the employer.” Zhuang Yu raised his eyebrows and looked at the bodyguard.
The bodyguard was silent for a while, and finally said under pressure: “Bodyguards with bad brains have been unable to survive in this industry a long time ago. It’s not easy in any industry now.” A few days ago, he heard from a buddy who worked for the third master of the Yan family that he broke into a house on impulse and was punched away by a gentle young man. Now this buddy had changed his career and was selling skewers at the night market.
Zhuang Yu glared at the bodyguard. Those bodyguards in sunglasses in the movies were fu**ing fake, because in reality, the bodyguards he hired were one more unreliable than the other.
When Lu Chengyu woke up, the lights were already on. He smelled the fragrance coming from outside the door and couldn’t help swallowing. After changing his clothes that smelled of alcohol, he walked into the living room and saw Yan Mu sitting on the sofa watching a movie. Although he was sitting on the sofa, this man sat with his back straight, and there was an indescribable style all over his body.
He touched his chin. Could this be the legendary nobleness?
“Awake?” When Yan Mu saw Lu Chengyu coming out, he wanted to smile at him, but in the end, he just twitched his lips. He then stood up suddenly and walked quickly to the kitchen to get the mung bean porridge[1] and pig’s trotter soup[2] that had been cooked long ago.
Lu Chengyu looked towards the kitchen door in confusion. It seemed that the boss was walking with the same hand and foot just now, or did he just wake up and his mind was not clear yet and he saw it wrong?
He was about to go to the kitchen to help, but Yan Mu had already brought the things out. The soup in the insulated bowl was emitting wisps of white smoke. Looking at Yan Mu, who had a blank expression as he came out with two bowls of porridge, he curved his lips and smiled, walked to the dining table and said, “What is stewing, boss?”
Handing Lu Chengyu a spoon and a pair of chopsticks, Yan Mu turned to the kitchen and brought a plate of kimchi and two empty bowls and put them on the table: “You drank wine at noon, these are good for your stomach.” He glanced at Lu Chengyu, then quickly looked away, and said while serving the soup, “I saw fresh pig’s trotters in the supermarket this afternoon, so I bought some back.”
The bowl full of soup was pushed in front of Lu Chengyu. Lu Chengyu picked up the spoon, blew on it twice and stuffed it into his mouth. Although the soup was a little hot, it tasted very good. He nodded and said, “It’s delicious. I heard from my friends that people who have never touched water go abroad and come back with proficient cooking skills. Is it true?”
“It’s not that exaggerated,” Yan Mu looked at Lu Chengyu who was blowing on the soup and stuffing it into his mouth hurriedly, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, “But it’s true that many people will learn to cook simple Chinese home-cooked dishes after going abroad.”
Lu Chengyu nodded with emotion: “Being away from home is the best training for people.”
Yan Mu thought of Lu Chengyu living alone in an empty house, then he tightened his grip on the chopsticks and turned the topic to work.
Seeing Lu Chengyu drinking soup and discussing work seriously, Yan Mu thought that it was not unacceptable to talk while eating. After the two finished their meal, Yan Mu sat with Lu Chengyu for a while, and only got up and said goodbye when he saw that he was not feeling unwell due to being drunk.
After Lu Chengyu’s repeated attempts to keep him were in vain, he sent him to the elevator door. He didn’t turn around and go back to the house until the elevator door closed and the number on the floor button panel dropped to 1.
He opened the refrigerator, which was neatly filled with fresh fruits and vegetables. He couldn’t help but smile. He would be embarrassed to face such a good boss if he didn’t work hard to repay him. There were piles of fresh fruits and vegetables.
Then… he took out a snow pear from the refrigerator, washed it and started eating it.
More than a week later, Lu Chengyu received a call from Director Zhang. “Flying Bird” had been completed and the post-production had begun. After the post-production was completed, he would go to the higher-ups to get the approval number and try to get everything done within a month.
After Lu Chengyu hung up the phone, he looked at the calendar on his desk. It turned out to be September as per the Gregorian calendar. No wonder there were always mooncake ads on TV recently. It turned out that the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching. He marked a date on the calendar. On this happy day for the whole family, if the quality problems of Liang’s house were exposed in advance, wouldn’t it seem livelier?
He loved liveliness the most. How could a festival representing the traditional reunion of the Celestial Empire be without gossip to add to the fun?
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