Enchanted (GL)

Chapter 44

Sitting on the sofa, Qiao Zhiyu carefully wiped the blood stains on Ji Xi’s fingertips with a cotton swab, blowing gently with his mouth from time to time.

Ji Xi also lowered her head, quietly watching Qiao Zhiyu help her deal with the wound. The place that was cut by the knife was hot and painful, but her current attention was not on the pain, but on other things.

She didn’t blame her for thinking too much, sometimes she and Qiao Zhiyu were not like ordinary friends.

She was still thinking about the few words Qiao Zhiyu said just now, like an ambiguous suggestion, but also like a casual mention. She couldn’t see Qiao Zhiyu’s thoughts…or could the friendship between a woman and a woman be as good as a couple?

Ji Xi couldn’t figure out the relationship between her and Qiao Zhiyu.

“The teacher is amazing.” Qiao Qing said suddenly.

Ji Xi turned his attention to Qiao Qing, and did not understand the envious tone of the little guy, and asked with a smile, “Why?”

Qiao Qing said: “The teacher is not afraid of pain.”

Ji Xi opened her mouth before she had time to speak. She saw Qiao Zhiyu raise her head and said quietly: “She has a hard mouth, not that she is not afraid of pain.”

“I also help the teacher blow.” Qiao Qing hurriedly closed her small mouth and exhaled.

It’s just a cut. Ji Xi really doesn’t know what to say when being taken care of by two people who are on the left and the right. She did have a problem with a hard mouth. She thought that the tattoo was so painful and cold sweat that she wrinkled her eyebrows at best, and it was okay to say something aggressively.

Ji Xi doesn’t think being strong is a bad thing. She was able to reverse her bad fate just because of her hard work. If hard work can change the predicament, it is also very happy to suffer and suffer.

After the wound was wrapped tightly with bandage tape, Ji Xi felt less painful.

Qiao Zhiyu said: “Stop cooking for the wounded, I’ll do it.”

“This is called a wounded?” Ji Xi raised her finger.

Qiao Zhiyu: “I said even if it is.”

Ji Xi: “…”

Qiao Zhiyu got up first and looked back at Ji Xi: “Come and teach me cooking.”

Ji Xi followed and stood up: “Yeah.”

Although Qiao Zhiyu didn’t go into the kitchen very much, she was not the type who didn’t touch the water with her ten fingers. She learned things quickly, and was a little rusty when she first started cutting vegetables.

It’s not difficult to make a home-cooked stir-fry, but it’s a little frightening to get sizzled.

Seeing how Qiao Zhiyu was frying in the kitchen, Ji Xi smiled unkindly. After all, he was used to seeing Mr. Qiao’s calmness.

“Turn the fire down a little bit, it’s going to be battered.” Ji Xi reminded with a smile.

“What are you laughing at?” Qiao Zhiyu turned the greens in the wok with a shovel. It was a little muddy, and she overwhelmed her to turn the fire down a bit, muttering, “It would be nice to be able to fry it like this for the first time.”

How dare Ji Xi refute: “Yeah.”

Qiao Zhiyu: “Bring a plate here.”

Ji Xi immediately bent over to look for plates in the cupboard, and took out three small bowls to serve the rice.

The smell of vegetables was pervasive, and the kitchen was full of smoke and fire. Qiao Zhi caught a glimpse of Ji Xi, and smiled secretly, enjoying the triviality.

He hurriedly made three dishes and one soup and put it on the table, like that.

“taste good or not?”

Ji Xi and Qiao Qing said in unison: “It’s delicious.”

“You have to finish eating deliciously.”

Ji Xi: “Good.”

When Qiao Zhiyu cooks for the first time, Ji Xi and Qiao Qing both give face and eat deliciously. Except for the heat, the taste is not bad. The three people sat around a table, and the afterglow spilled into the room, adding warmth.

Seeing Ji Xi bury his head and eat especially fragrant, Qiao Zhiyu said: “Just joking, don’t force it if it doesn’t taste good.”

“It’s really delicious, much better than the first time I made it.”

Qiao Zhiyu stared at her face: “I’ll make it for you next time.”

Ji Xi smiled, bowed his head and picked up rice, and did not look at Qiao Zhiyu for too long.

There was another wave in the office.

When Ji Xi went to tea and indirect coffee, he heard two girls in the human resources department discussing the newly recruited vice president of risk control, and she looked hopelessly idiotic.

The newly appointed Vice President of Risk Control is Xiao Che. Ji Xi has seen him twice. In their line, there are many handsome men and beautiful women. If they can make people who are idiots in the Ministry of Human Resources, their appearance must be resistant to fights.

Ji Xi is not interested in handsome men and beautiful women.

So don’t care.

“Xiao Meng, what’s the matter with you? You made such a low-level mistake.” Shao Yu took a document and walked to Meng Jing and said to her, “What’s going on recently? It depends on your absent-mindedness.”

Meng Jing got up apologetically: “I’m sorry, Manager Shao, I will print a copy again.”

“When you go to work, put your mind on work, and I don’t see if you are in a daze once or twice.” Shao Yu is a person who can’t lose his temper. Even if he is angry, his tone of admonition is gentle.

“Sorry, sorry.” Meng Jing apologized again and again.

Ji Xi also noticed that Meng Jing’s state was a bit wrong. She asked Meng Jing for information in the morning, but Meng Jing searched for it for a long time but couldn’t find it.

At noon, Ji Xi usually eats with Meng Jing, but today Meng Jing has something to go out. It just so happens that she has a lot of things at hand, so she ordered takeout and went to the pantry to eat.

I ordered a claypot rice, the rice was a bit hard and hard to chew.

So that she eats more slowly than usual.

Halfway through the meal, Ji Xi heard the people next to him yell: “Mr Qiao, Mr. Xiao.”

With half a mouthful of rice in his mouth, Ji Xi looked up and saw the graceful figure of Qiao Zhiyu, and the man standing next to Qiao Zhiyu was the newly appointed director of risk control Xiao Che.

Qiao Zhiyu saw Ji Xi’s mouth bulging slightly, and suddenly smiled at her.

Ji Xi chewed the rice and smiled quietly.

Xiao Che said: “Mr. Qiao, I will invite you to dinner at noon. What do you want to eat?”

Qiao Zhiyu: “Can I eat anything?”

Xiao Che: “Of course, it’s okay.”

Qiao Zhiyu: “Then I’m welcome.”

…

After Qiao Zhiyu and Xiao Che left side by side, the two girls at Ji Xi’s table began to chat and get excited.

“Xiao is always so handsome, not greasy yet.”

“Yeah, so handsome.”

“Hey, do you think that Xiao always wants to chase after Joe?”

“Yes, yes! Absolutely! You pay attention, Mr. Xiao often goes to Qiao’s office for a stroll.”

After hearing them talk about Qiao Zhiyue, Ji Xi’s focus was subconsciously turned off. She is not very involved in the discussion of these topics, and often listens silently, then smiles again.

“They had cooperated before, and I heard that it was Mr. Joe who admired Mr. Xiao and recommended him to come.”

“If they are together, it would be too seductive!”

“Actually I think…”

“what?”

“Mr Joe should also like Mr. Xiao.”

“How to say?”

“How cold is President Qiao usually, but he is so enthusiastic about President Xiao, there must be some meaning in that respect.”

“Knocked up, knocked down.”

“Look, they will definitely be together.”

…

Ji Xi listened, buried her head and said nothing, holding the rice with chopsticks and not delivering it to her mouth. The rice was too hard and it was a bit too hard to eat, so she reluctantly ate two small mouthfuls. She smiled and said, “I’m done, you eat slowly.”

“You just have to eat like this?”

“I’m full, I still have something to do.”

Ji Xi went back to her work station, did not rest, and continued to do the presentation she hadn’t finished in the morning. Her waist was upright, and she still looked like an emotionless machine when she started to work. Only she knew that she was distracted, thinking about something messy.

She stared at the computer screen, not finishing a PPT for a long time.

Ji Xi lay down on the desk, or take a lunch break, otherwise he would be sleepy in the afternoon.

“Manager Shao, the PPT has sent your email address, look at it.”

“Okay, I received it.” Shao Yu opened the mailbox and said with a smile: “Xiao Ji, today’s speed is a bit slow, not your usual level.”

Ji Xi was silent.

Shao Yu immediately said: “It’s okay, it’s already great, keep on working hard.”

Ji Xi nodded: “Yeah.”

When he was about to get off work, just like the people in the personnel department said, Ji Xi saw Xiao Che go to Qiao Zhiyu’s office again. After a while, the two came out side by side, talking and laughing.

Ji Xi retracted her gaze, without any expression on her face, crackling on the keyboard.

I live a lot today and have to work overtime.

Until the end of get off work, Ji Xi walked out of the office building alone, feeling like being held by a thread in her heart. She would still be hungry if she didn’t eat at noon. She walked into the convenience store and ate bubble noodles as usual.

While eating instant noodles, while swiping the phone.

Ji Xi saw Qiao Zhiyu’s WeChat message to her: “Remember to have dinner when you work overtime.”

Sliding up the message record is their chat last night:

Ji Xi: “Are you free tomorrow night? I invite you to dinner, dry pot chicken”

Qiao Zhiyu: “There will be dinner tomorrow night”

Ji Xi: “When will you have time?”

Qiao Zhiyu: “Two more days”

Ji Xi: “Yeah”

The water in the instant noodles boiled off. When Ji Xi took the first bite, her tongue was scalded. She just felt hungry. Now that the noodles are soaked, it’s just like that. Ji Xi fiddled with the instant noodles in the bowl with a fork, and began to eat dumbly.

Still thinking about Qiao Zhiyu.

Today, hearing colleagues gossip about Qiao Zhiyu and others, she felt uncomfortable. She doesn’t know why she cares so much, why she thinks about it…

Only a few bites of the instant noodles.

When Ji Xi received the call, it was the grandma from her hometown.

“grandmother.”

A vicissitudes of life came from the microphone, “Xixi, are you off work?”

“It’s off work.” Ji Xi said a little louder because her grandma’s ears were not working well.

“Then you, have you eaten yet?”

“Eating, how about you?”

“Eat it so late, I have eaten it.”

Ji Xi asked again: “Is it hot at home?”

“It’s not hot, it’s very cool at night, and you don’t need to blow the fan.”

Ji Xi: “Don’t save electricity, the fan doesn’t use much electricity.”

“Hey…”

Ji Xi heard that she had something to say, and hesitated to say in embarrassment, “What’s the matter? Is the leg uncomfortable again?”

Grandma Ji said: “No, I…”

“What’s the matter?” Ji Xi asked.

“I……”

Ji Xi couldn’t help but worry, “Grandma, don’t worry, you speak slowly.”

“Dear…” Grandma Ji changed her words as soon as she said, “People from Zhou’s family came to me again yesterday. If they want to live or die, I will ask Nan Nan to tell them your address. Xi Hope, I can’t help it either.”

Ji Xi has a big head.

The Zhou family members are from her biological parents. The old man’s ears are soft, and he is so crying and making noises, where he can hide his words.

Ji Xi pretended to smile lightly, and in turn comforted: “Grandma’s okay, just tell me. If they come to me, I will just make it clear to them. Don’t worry, don’t worry.”