Endless Love

Chapter 22 Extra Three: Those Years Watching You
At four o'clock in the afternoon in Boston, because of the advance of daylight saving time, the sunlight coming in from the floor-to-ceiling glass windows was still fierce, and the blackout curtains had to be drawn in the conference room; and the other end of the video conference, the other side of the ocean and the back of the earth, was exactly Beijing time Four o'clock in the morning.The screen is full of old colleagues who have worked together for three or four years. The experience of working overtime all night is not new to them, but there has never been such an exciting anticipation and restlessness like today.

The system time in the lower right corner of the computer skipped 16:00, and the chart on the projector also stopped changing.The old horse on the opposite side closed his notebook, smiled and said to everyone: "The closing price is 47.26 US dollars. Congratulations to all of you present. This is the reward you deserve for the hard work of thousands of people who spent days and nights without sleep and food."

The conference room was full of joy. Colleagues who hadn't closed their eyes all night completely forgot the fatigue of staying up all night. They all jumped up and clapped and hugged in celebration. Some people couldn't wait to take out their mobile phones to calculate.

Xiao Zhang couldn't help but jumped up from his chair and whistled, but the other person in the conference room didn't respond.He punched Qu Weien, "Why didn't you react at all? Why are you pretending to be calm? We are also millonaires from today! Did you take too much and become numb?"

Qu Weien didn't answer the call, said goodbye to the colleagues on the opposite side, and turned off the video and computer.Xiao Zhang was excited, and he pressed the calculator on his mobile phone while muttering, "The stock price is 47.26, the cost price is 8.88, I have 15000 shares, and the US dollar exchange rate is 6.82, so the total is..."

"390."

Xiao Zhang looked up in astonishment, making sure that he didn't have any calculation tools in his hand, "I haven't finished pressing this, you figured it out?" He still didn't believe it, insisted on pressing the calculator, and the result was more than 392 million.He thought about it over and over again but couldn't find a tricky way, "Do you have special mental arithmetic skills? Just like those speed calculation prodigies on TV, I always thought they were colluding to deceive people."

Qu Weien picked up the laptop and walked out, "386 can't understand the speed of Core, it's normal."

"You don't have to look down on people like this, right? I can be considered a gallop anyway, right?" Xiao Zhang followed with a sullen face, "I don't work overtime today, where are you going to be happy tonight? You can choose whatever you want for dinner, and I'll treat you!"

Qu Weien thought about it seriously.Xiao Zhang thought he wanted the lion to open his mouth to kill people, but he heard him say: "Panbing fruit."

"what?"

He repeated it earnestly: "Suddenly I want to eat pancake fruit."

"Brother, for such an important event, you just want to eat pancake fruit to celebrate? Besides, this is Lao Mei's place, and it would be nice to have Chinese food. Where do you want me to get you pancake fruit?" Xiao Zhang scratched his hair, "Forget it, it made me a little homesick. There is a Sichuan Jiugongge hot pot in Chinatown that is pretty good. Let's go around the street after dinner to see if there are pancakes for sale."

There are a lot of Chinese in Boston, and there are a variety of restaurants in Chinatown, not to mention the fast food restaurant with the Tianjin pancake fruit sign, and the aroma of chopped green onion and egg batter intertwined on the iron plate can be smelled from a distance.Xiao Zhang bought two and took a bite, "It's not bad, the crispiness is not crisp enough, but the taste hasn't changed too much."

Qu Weien frowned slightly, "It doesn't taste like this." Even so, he ate the pancakes in a hurry.

Xiao Zhang said: "The taste is not right and you still eat it so fast! I will treat you again when I return to China next month. You can eat as much as you want, okay?"

A few weeks later, the two returned from a business trip. Colleagues would inevitably eat and drink when they reunited after a long absence.On Friday, it was the turn of an alumnus who also graduated from the University of T to treat them. He came to see the two of them after get off work, "Don't stay in those small restaurants near the company on weekends. Let's drive to a farther place today." Ask Qu Weien: "How about going to the East Gate? You haven't been back to school for a long time, have you missed anything in particular?"

Seeing that he was frowning and thinking, Xiao Zhang stared and shouted: "Don't talk about pancakes! I'd rather eat the Chengdu snacks downstairs!"

The schoolmate asked curiously: "What happened to the pancake fruit?"

Xiao Zhang couldn't help complaining: "This guy doesn't know what is wrong. He said he wanted to eat pancakes in Boston last month. I have invited him to eat several times when I came back. Every time he said it was wrong. Pancakes are so delicious. The thing can still eat flowers?"

The alumnus smiled and said, "I must miss the pancake stand under No. [-] building. Only we who have eaten it can understand this. If you want to eat it so much, you can just go back to school for a while. It's been so long since I graduated, and I don't know about that pancake. Is the booth still there?"

A few people go to the parking lot together after get off work.There are many companies in the park, and it seems to be a small satellite city, a country of its own.After get off work on Friday, even people who live nearby can’t help but want to go to the city to have a good time. The sidewalk leading to the subway station is crowded with people, pedestrians occupy the road, and traffic jams.

Xiao Zhang said: "It's only been two or three years since there are so many people. I think back then when we first moved here, the area was still like nothing. Hey, there are so many young girls!"

A colleague said: "Now is the recruiting season, and many college students who come to interview for internships will not be so lucky after a while."

At this time, the intersection light turned green, and the cars in front drove away one by one, but they didn't move for a long time when it was their turn.Xiao Zhang noticed that Qu Weien was staring out the window in a daze, so he slapped him, "What are you looking at? See which pretty girl can't move her eyes?"

Qu Weien looked away from the crowd, "I saw it wrong."

"What?" Xiao Zhang was about to gossip, but the people in the back seat started discussing what to eat for a while, so he had to turn back.

T Dadongmen has been away for a long time, and everyone is not familiar with it. After discussing for a long time, there is no conclusion.Qu Weien interjected while driving, "Just Baiyu's home cooking."

Even though Xiao Zhang has never been there, he can tell that this is not a high-end restaurant.The alumni laughed and said, "Don't be so polite and save me money, right?"

Qu Weien replied casually: "It's nostalgic."

As a result, the old man did not become pregnant.I haven't seen it for more than two years, and the outside of the East Gate has already changed drastically. Many small restaurants have almost disappeared, replaced by brand new office buildings and well-known chain restaurants.The storefront of Baiyu's home cooking turned into a Japanese restaurant, and everyone reluctantly remembered it on the old site.

After dinner, it was past ten o'clock, and we said goodbye to each other.Xiao Zhang wanted to go home with Qu Weien's car, he said, "I want to go back to school, do you want to go?"

"You're really addicted to nostalgia. After ordering this, what else is there to do in the school?" Xiao Zhang thought about it and shouted exaggeratedly, "You don't think you still miss your dreamy pancake fruit. Right? You just finished eating, can you eat? I can't even walk, you obviously ate more than me!"

Qu Weien put both hands in his pockets and walked straight to the garage, "If you are in a hurry, go back by yourself first."

Xiao Zhang had no choice but to trot two steps to follow, "Okay, I would like to see what the charm of this pancake fruit is, so that you can't let it go. Hey, slow down, my legs are not as long as yours. I just ate and walked too late." I'm going to have indigestion soon!"

It took more than ten minutes to drive around to reach the northernmost dormitory area. Xiao Zhang couldn't help feeling "your school is really big" all the way.The lights in the dormitory building have been turned off. On the playground, there are boys playing ball and running with excess energy in twos and threes, and hard-working students with earphones in their ears wandering back and forth to recite vocabulary under the street lights.

"It's still open."

A single white shed stands downstairs in the dark dormitory. The dim incandescent light reflects the curling white air from under the shed, and the warm and familiar fragrance can be smelled from a distance.

Xiao Zhang took out his wallet, "If I hadn't seen it in Boston, I wouldn't understand the obsession with running so far in the middle of the night to eat a pancake. I'll treat you to the end and let you eat as much as you want."

When he got closer, he found that the boss was going to close the stall. Xiao Zhang hurriedly said, "Master, master, don't rush to close the stall. We came here specially to taste the fruit of your pancakes. Let's make the last one for us."

The pancake master looked at the two of them and the car parked not far away, and smiled, "A graduate alumnus, right? Come early and I'll make it for you, but there's nothing I can do if I run out of batter."

Qu Weien followed up and said, "Scrape the bottom of the bucket and spread it out."

Xiao Zhang glanced at him speechlessly.Just a pancake, as for?It's like I haven't eaten for three days.

"Hey! Just now a little girl who comes here often bought the last two. You two think alike. Such a small girl can eat two pancakes by herself, and the batter is only enough to make one. Scrape and scrape together the two, and now it is really impossible to scrape it out at all." The master stretched out his hand and pointed forward, "It hasn't gone far there, why don't you discuss it and ask her to give you one?"

Xiao Zhang looked in the direction he pointed, and there was indeed a small and exquisite girl with two pancake bags in her hands.He just wanted to say no, but Qu Weien pushed him, "Go."

Xiao Zhang's eyes were straightened, "Did you make a mistake? You have to go to such a shameful matter by yourself."

"Who said it was a treat?"

"A treat doesn't include begging from others!"

Qu Weien stuffed his hands into his trouser pockets to look at the streetlights, "Then you don't want the year-end bonus next month."

"If you don't want it, then don't! A scholar can be killed and can't be humiliated!"

"You look more handsome than me."

This reason... well, it is impossible to refute.

Seeing that girl was about to enter the building, Xiao Zhang gritted his teeth and chased after him, "Classmate! That classmate who just bought pancakes!"

The girl really stopped when she heard the cry, and when she turned her head, Xiao Zhang was taken aback.This girl is quite cute and looks familiar, as if she has seen her somewhere.

"What's the matter?" She asked, her voice soft and cute.

Xiao Zhang lied: "My classmate and I didn't have dinner to buy pancakes. The master said that the last two were sold to you. Now the cafeteria and supermarkets are closed. If I wasn't too hungry and couldn't buy anything, I wouldn't follow Open your mouth, can you... resell me one?"

The girl blinked her deer-like eyes, as if she was also surprised by this request.

Xiao Zhang continued to pretend to be pitiful, and pointed his hand behind him, "Look at my classmate, he is so big, 1 meters and 88 catties! He hasn't eaten anything since noon, and he is going crazy with hunger. He usually eats a pound of rice in one meal. !"

The girl seemed to be touched, and looked behind him, "Where is your classmate?"

Xiao Zhang turned his head, and Qu Weien, who was dishonest, actually retreated into the car.He scolded him secretly in his heart, and joked embarrassingly: "You are too hungry to eat the bark..."

The girl didn't doubt it because of this, and handed him two pancakes in her hand, "I'll give you all of them."

Xiao Zhang asked: "Don't you eat it yourself? I just want one."

The girl smiled bleakly, "It's okay, anyway, I didn't buy it for myself... just treat it as my treat." She stuffed the pancakes into his hand, and before he could take out the change from his wallet, he turned around and walked in. In the nearby dormitory building, Xiao Zhang kept calling her.

When he got back into the car, the lights in the dark car were turned off, and Qu Weien sat in the driver's seat in the dark without saying a word.Xiao Zhang threw a pancake into his arms, "here, the pancake you wanted. Today is a rare thing, that girl didn't give me both pancakes for a penny, you said you two are not worth it A strange couple?"

He sat down and peeled off the pancake bag, saw Qu Weien’s wallet key in front of him, and suddenly remembered, “By the way, that girl just now looks a bit like your ex-girlfriend, she looks pretty cute, you probably like her Type. You should have the audacity to do it yourself, such a good opportunity wasted."

Qu Weien was eating pancakes, looked up and asked, "What ex-girlfriend?"

"It's the one in your wallet. When we live together, we always take it out to peek at it at night. Don't deny it! Hahaha, don't worry, I won't tell others."

He didn't say anything, just lowered his head and continued to eat pancakes.

Xiao Zhang said to himself: "What pancakes are so amazing, I'll try them too...it's nothing special. The only thing worthwhile on this special trip is to meet that cute girl just now."

A pancake was eaten very quickly, and the stomach finally felt full, and the empty place next to the stomach, in the chest cavity, was finally filled.

Why are you so obsessed with pancakes?

He didn't understand at first, but was driven by the feeling of hunger and emptiness, looking for the pancake fruit that could really satisfy his stomach and heart.But after searching for so long, no matter how many or how many kinds I eat, I always feel that there is something missing.Until he returned to this familiar pancake stand, saw the familiar figure from the back, fled back into the car in panic when she turned around, and closed the door tightly, his uncontrollable heart throbbing like many years ago, He finally understood what he was looking for.

Are you obsessed with pancakes?
Never.

Since when did you start to suspect that "flying cup of water"?
Didn't pay attention to this person at first. Nine out of ten of the glamorous and enchanting female blood elves in WOW are shemale, and they are sharp in operation and not talkative, and they are especially enthusiastic and patient with female players.Qu Weien did not remember his ID after forming a team several times, but only remembered the word "Qu", which is a four-letter word, which is also in line with the temperament of a ladyboy.

The first time I noticed that he had just completed the level and went to the normal trial to brush equipment. There are Chitu and his wife in the team and I can see you who came to help.Both death knight and paladin are plate armor professions, and the shemale stole a lot of equipment, Qu Weien was a little annoying to him.

Boss No. 2 is a random one out of the two, and it takes several times to encounter the silver priest Paltress once.At half blood, the priest releases the summon past memory skill, summons a dark purple phantom, and at the same time rebounds without injury.

In this situation, of course, the phantom should be knocked out first, and the others greeted the phantom without any hesitation, but the transgressor started paddling and stood still at a distance.Chitu's wife Lu Bu reminded him: "Don't be in a daze, Liushang, come quickly."

Of course the ladyboy wouldn't open the mic to talk in YY, he typed and said, "I can't do it."

Chitu is a very perceptive person, and asked, "Have you ever played League?"

Only then did Qu Weien notice that the phantom summoned by the priest was Van Cleef, the final boss of Deadmines.Deadmines, for many alliances, is just a quick upgrade path for a dozen or so levels, but it has a special meaning for him.

That was the first dungeon he... brought her down.The two spent the entire afternoon brushing together, he had never been alone with her for so long before, and the dark mine was as bright as the scorching west mountain in autumn.

Chitu asked again: "I have a lot of affection for the alliance? Then why come to play with the tribe."

The ladyboy continued typing and said, "It's just that I'm more concerned about the plot."

This made Qu Weien finally have a good impression of him.He's a drama guy, and he loves Van Cleef as much as she does.Ever since I went to eat supper outside the north gate with her that night and told her the story of Van Cleef, she never wanted to go to the Deadmines again.

Speaking of going to eat supper outside the North Gate that night...

stop.He shook his head, taking his thoughts back.

In the memories of the past, the name of this skill is really appropriate.

Lu Bu didn't understand the alliance, so Chitu popularized Van Cleef's deeds.Lu Bu said: "Liu Shang, you are so soft-hearted, you actually have feelings for the NPCs in the game. I said you must be mm, otherwise, who among the three elders can't do it?"

In fact, there are many similar clues, but with the preconceived idea that he is a shemale, there is such a string in my mind that I haven't turned around.

Compared to this shemale blood elf paladin who was courting Lu Bu all day long, he was even more suspicious of that alliance death knight QWE, wearing his ID, with the same female dwarf shape as he was back then, chasing him to give away his head beyond his control, and even Will yell "Mandosbor" in close chat.

But when he found the meaning of this word on Google, he felt that he was thinking too much.how is this possible?

The first time we met at the swimming pool, Xiao Xi whispered to him, "This sister is interested in you."

He sneered, "Stop talking nonsense."

"How do you know if you don't try? Hey, are you a man? If you have the ability to hide someone's photos in your wallet, you can't chase after them?" Seeing his embarrassing appearance when his mind was discovered, Xiaoxi was proud, "Don't think that no one will know if you hide it so deeply. Auntie can see your little thoughtfulness, and I feel sorry for you guys in science and engineering who forgot to recharge their EQ and haven't dated a lot at this age."

"I tried," he pursed his lips, his face turned red and pale, "twice, but failed."

Xiao Xi pinched her chin, "Impossible, how can my sixth sense be inaccurate? How about this, I'll try her for you. In exchange, you will be responsible for my mother and your mother."

When Xiaoxi said this, he would also deliberately pay attention to her attitude towards him.Sometimes he felt that Xiaoxi's sixth sense seemed reasonable, and her behavior seemed to be a little bit ambiguous; but sometimes he felt that the sixth sense was pure nonsense, how could anyone treat someone he liked like that?
"Don't you understand if you want to greet but refuse? Do you understand women's reserve? Do you understand what is duplicity?" Xiaoxi hated him, "Liu Bei still visited the thatched cottage to settle Zhuge Liang, didn't you hear her say that she doesn't have a boyfriend now? If you chase it again, you will die?"

Is visiting a thatched cottage the same thing as chasing girls and falling in love?
When I went to a meeting on the sixth floor, I met you and asked him: "Ruan Jing treats you on Saturday, she doesn't have your mobile phone number, let me tell you."

He hadn't contacted Ruan Jing after graduation, "What kind of guest are you looking for?"

"Dr. Ruan Jing has graduated, please get together with your former comrades-in-arms. However, because of the affectionate lead, he must want to take the opportunity to make trouble."

Saturday is his birthday, "I have something to do on Saturday, let's see what happens then."

"By the way," I could see you saying, "Ruan Jing specifically asked me to tell you that Donggua was not to blame for your account, it was Jiangdong Zhoulang who did it, and Donggua was also kept in the dark."

"I know she didn't do it."

"You know? Then why do you still..." I can see you sigh, "Okay, I get it."

Of course it couldn't be her doing it, he never doubted this, she just has a bad eye for picking men.But what's the difference? As a result, she chose someone else again, and became someone else's girlfriend in front of him again.

The first time he missed it, he didn't grasp it, and the second time he thought everything was ready, but it was still the same ending.

Just like what Ruan Jing said to Naihe Qingshen, you are not my type at all, and it will never be possible.

What she likes is Zhou Yuanhang, a refined and elegant white-faced scholar, like her second and third boyfriends, anyone can see at a glance what they have in common, and he is the diametrically opposite type.When he met Jiangdong Zhoulang for the first time, he knew that he had lost again, the three years of waiting were in vain, and love could not be won by hard work.

I can see you asking again: "It's been so long, and now we are colleagues again, don't you mind having a meal together?"

He sensed the implication in the words: "Winter melon is going too?"

"Of course, she has such a good relationship with Ruan Jing."

Well, Saturday is fine.

To his surprise, Ruan Jing accepted Nai He at the dinner.

Perhaps, nothing is impossible.He wavered again.Or, on a night she didn't know about more than a year ago, when she was obsessed and insisted on rushing back to school to eat a pancake, hiding in the dim car and staring at the long-lost familiar figure, he had already shaken.

At that moment, he thought it was God's will in a trance.

After returning to China, I found that she became a colleague of the same company and department, which is also God's will.

There are so many clues, perhaps he has been vaguely aware of them, and only one opportunity is needed to turn the string in his mind.

So, after fighting the boss in the middle of the night, the transvestite said to go to the pancake house in the community to buy pancakes, he and I could see that you also met and went downstairs to look for food together, when we saw that little figure at the end of the pancake stall with white steam , he seemed to really hear the ding sound in his head lighting up like in a cartoon.

It's pancake fruit again.

It really was God's will.

It's been a long time since I went back to Xuezhi Garden. One day, An Sidong suddenly found out that the old Wang's pancake in the community, which tasted like the pancake stall downstairs in No. 1 school, had closed and disappeared.

She was a little annoyed, "Okay, why did you close it? The pancake house in the school was also demolished, so I won't be able to eat it anymore."

Qu Weien asked: "You like pancakes so much?"

"Not anymore..." I just feel that the meaning is different, just like the old Feng's skewers outside the north gate, entrusting special memories.

"If you want to eat, I'll make it for you."

She thought he was just talking. After all, with Mr. Qu's culinary skills, an egg can be fried into briquettes, and the skill level of pancakes is too high and too difficult.Unexpectedly, after a few days, he actually bought a large frying pan and all kinds of miscellaneous grain flour, picked up a lot of recipes for homemade pancakes from the Internet, printed them out one by one and tried them out.

Needless to say, the process was of course very tragic.

In the end, she couldn't stand it anymore, "Okay, don't waste food. Isn't it just pancakes and fruits, it's no big deal if you can't eat them."

"Don't you love to eat?"

"I don't like to eat it. Pancakes smell delicious and taste like that. I prefer egg-filled pancakes."

"Then you still eat two at a time at night."

"I don't want to eat it if I have other choices..." She suddenly widened her eyes, "How do you know I eat two at night?" This is an absolute secret that even Mao Ying doesn't know!

He looked up at the sky, "Oh, I took my colleagues to school to eat pancakes on a whim one night, and I happened to see you bought two and took them away. The pancakes at school are so substantial, I'm full from one, and you eat two by yourself. Are you not afraid to hold on?"

"I, I brought it to my roommate!"

"You brought it for your roommate, and you casually gave it away to others."

"Huh..." She also recalled this strange experience of being begged for pancakes and fruits, "So that day... Ah! I remembered! It's Xiao Zhang, right? No wonder I always thought he looked familiar!"

Mr. Qu said sourly: "Do you think he looks familiar because he looks a bit like your ex-boyfriends? That's why you gave him pancakes, right?"

An Sidong recalled Xiao Zhang's appearance, he was really a thin and fair boy with single eyelids.But she didn't pay attention to this at all, okay? "Who said that! I gave it to him because he said that his classmate's 1 meters and 88 catties can eat a catty of rice per meal, so I thought..." She suddenly stopped talking, puffing her cheeks and stopped talking.

His face softened, "What do you think of?"

"Think about it yourself!" She stomped her feet in shame and turned around, but he was pulled back and held her in his arms, with her chin resting on the top of her head.

"You gave me the pancakes, did your roommate blame you when you went back?"

"No..." She found a more comfortable position and retracted into his arms.

It was for you too, she whispered in her heart.In fact, she was the only one in the dormitory that day, and her roommates were not there.She often bought two pancakes when no one was in the dormitory, facing his photo, you and I pretended to eat together, and finally ate them all by herself, so idiot that she couldn't move.

This is an absolute secret that even Mao Ying doesn't know.

(End of this chapter)