When Wei Bin came, he walked into a blind spot without attracting anyone's attention, and the matter ended quietly.
No one knew that Lin Yuxi had been kidnapped last night.
But because she left her post without permission, she was severely criticized by Director Yuan.
Coming out of Director Yuan's office, there were several workers in the corridor, setting up ladders to dismantle the original camera.
There was a buzz in the office about the hospital preparing to replace and add a batch of cameras.
Xiao Cui's mouth boomed: "It is said that this new monitoring can achieve 361 degrees without blind spots, and strive to make every mosquito that flies into the hospital leave precious footprints!"
Sister Man expressed shock: "Why did the iron rooster like the dean suddenly grow hair? How many times have I told him that there are some bad cameras, and I asked him to change them, and he refused to change them, as if he could kill him."
"Whatever, it's a good thing for us to change anyway. From now on, we won't be so scared when working the night shift, and Sister Yuxi won't have to worry about that pervert!"
Xiao Cui didn't know that the pervert had been dealt with yet, so he patted Lin Yuxi's shoulder to comfort him.
Lin Yuxi said "hmm" twice: "Would you like some coffee? I'll treat you to some coffee."
"Drink, drink, drink." Xiao Cui said happily, "How come you keep inviting me to drink coffee recently? Are you getting rich?"
Lin Yuxi said "hmm" again: "I made some divorce money."
Su Cheng curled her lips in dissatisfaction and couldn't hold back her curiosity: "How much money did your husband give you? You are so lavish."
"Anyway, it's enough for me to resign if I don't agree with you. You know, we rich people are more willful."
Lin Yuxi opened the medical record that she had not finished last night and said slowly, "I will definitely take you with me when I resign, so you'd better not mess with me."
"..." Su Cheng muttered something about tugging, and then slammed the folder again.
Xiao Cui saw her frustrated and laughed beside her: "Oh my god, money is indeed a person's confidence!"
At the end of the year, the bank's year-end accounts and statements from various branches piled up every day. Zhou Sheng'an only had four or five hours of rest every day, and he didn't go back to the Zhou family's old house for several days.
After the busiest period, he took time to go home for dinner.
He was still talking on the phone when the car drove into the yard, turned around the path, and the car lights illuminated a figure on the front steps of the house.
There was still snow falling outside, and Zhou Yanjing stood on the porch, smoking his third cigarette.
He watched Zhou Shengan get out of the car and walk over.
Zhou Sheng'an explained a few more words and hung up the phone: "What are you doing standing here in the cold weather?"
"Waiting for you." The blue-white smoke mixed with the white breath he exhaled while speaking and swirled up. There was a tired look between Zhou Yanjing's eyebrows, and the deep meaning in his eyes was difficult to distinguish.
"Wait for me?" Zhou Sheng'an was surprised. Looking at his expression, he put his phone in his pocket and reached out to ask him for a cigarette.
"You have something to tell me?"
Zhou Yanjing dropped the cigarette case to him, and Zhou Shengan took one out and lit it.
The two brothers stood side by side in the cold wind, puffing away their smoke. Whether it was their handsome and deep faces or their tall and straight bodies, they looked very similar.
However, they have different temperaments. One is calm and restrained, while the other is noble and undisciplined.
It took a long time before Zhou Yanjing spoke.
"Brother, do you like her?"
"Who are you asking?"
"Lin Yuxi."
Zhou Sheng'an made a movement and turned to look at him: "Are you drunk? What's wrong with you?"
"Don't worry about me. Who made her like you? You are my brother. If you really like her, I am not incapable of adult beauty." Zhou Yanjing lowered his eyelids, dusted off the ashes, and looked lazy when he spoke, making people feel indifferent.
But does he really not care?
Zhou Sheng'an's expression was both shocked and doubtful. In short, it was complicated: "What on earth are you talking about? How could Xiao Xi like me?"
Zhou Yanjing said: "I'm serious, I'm not kidding."
Zhou Sheng'an's nerves were like taut strings in the past few days. He was so tired that he had no time to rest. His brain cells were already overloaded. When he finally came back to take a breath, his dear brother was completely exhausted.
He pinched his brows, worked hard to digest it, and found the most likely conclusion: "You two quarreled again?"
Zhou Yanjing himself laughed, but the smile was too short and thin, and was blown away by the wind before it could reach his cold eyes.
He and Lin Yuxi loved to quarrel. They always used the word "again" in their mouths.
"It's really not noisy this time." He took a puff of cigarette and looked at the dancing snowflakes under the street lamp.
Zhou Yanjing didn't like winter before, because it was cold, the weather was bad, it was troublesome, and it was inconvenient.
But the best time for him and Lin Yuxi was only that winter.
It was snowing so heavily, and the two of them were nesting in a villa in the northern suburbs. No one disturbed them, and they had nothing to worry about. It seemed like they were the only ones in the world.
Lin Yuxi is like a piece of ice wrapped in a stone, which must be warmed carefully, patiently, and over a long period of time.
When the stone is heated, the ice inside melts, and at first it is light water, and then slowly it condenses into very sweet honey.
Zhou Yanjing has tasted that feeling.
On New Year's Eve that year, downstairs in the hospital, a scumbag like him, who had been scolded more than once for being callous and heartless, once stood in the cold winter snow and waited for someone.
Lin Yuxi ran towards him, her face red, whether from the heat or from being teased.
With the warm temperature of the room on her body, she threw herself into his arms and was held by him obediently. She raised her head and looked at his eyes, which were so focused and bright.
At that time, Zhou Yanjing thought he had warmed up the stone.
Until that time when he came back to get his passport, arranged the itinerary and wanted to give her a honeymoon, he heard Ling Yaqiong talking to her best friend on the stairs.
The aunt was full of praise for Lin Yuxi: "You are really good at choosing a daughter-in-law. She is good-looking and well-behaved, and you and Yan Jing have a good relationship. Last time I met your Yan Jing in the restaurant and took her to dinner, and she was so affectionate. "
Ling Yaqiong disagreed: "What kind of relationship is good? She still wanted to marry Sheng'an at that time. It's only been so long now that she can be somewhat sincere to Yan Jing."
The aunt was surprised: "Is there such a thing?"
Ling Yaqiong said: "She has liked Sheng'an more since she was a child. If Sheng'an came back, she would have been waiting in the living room for a long time. When Yan Jing came back, she would not come out to take him. But she didn't look at her identity. How could Sheng'an Marry her."
Zhou Yanjing always thought that she was the first choice for that engagement, until that moment.
He stood in the shadow of the stairs, his chest seemed to be squeezed into a square piece of ice.
It was both chilling and painful at the same time.
His mother valued his eldest brother more and chose to sacrifice him.
He treated Bingpupao like a treasure, and the one he originally wanted to marry was his eldest brother.
Those are the two women he loves most in the world, but they don't love him.
What is he?
He is the lighter end of Ling Yaqiong's scale. If one person must be sacrificed, it can only be him.
He was Lin Yuxi's forced second choice. Only when his elder brother didn't want him would it be his turn.
"Yan Jing, do you want to talk to Yu Xi again? I don't think the person she likes is me." Zhou Sheng'an said, "She was drunk that day and kept crying and asking you why you didn't love her."
Thinking of the way Lin Yuxi snuggled into his arms that day, crying and asking "Have you ever loved me?", Zhou Yanjing felt panicked in his heart, and the temperature in his eyes dropped again and again.
"She's asking you. She's holding you."
"She just recognized me as you."
Zhou Yanjing pulled his lower lip and asked, "How do you know that she admitted her mistake and was not expressing her true feelings under the influence of alcohol?"
Zhou Shengan was speechless.
"I think there are a lot of misunderstandings between you."
"There is no misunderstanding. She admitted it herself."
Zhou Yanjing began to feel irritable again. Why should he be magnanimous and help them? What kind of wrongdoer is he?
But remembering the way Lin Yuxi was bullied by Wei Bin, his heart sank again.
She didn't want his protection, but he couldn't rest assured.
"Brother, I don't trust her with anyone else. If it were you, you could at least protect her. She likes you so much. If she can marry you, it will be her wish."
