Dead but not stiff

Chapter 42 Chapter 42

The moment he woke up, Gu Xien's consciousness was still chaotic, but his body felt the dryness and warmth around him first. He stared blankly at the ceiling for a long time, and then slowly propped up his body and sat up.

His throat was dry and sore, and there was an abnormal scorching heat in his breathing. He reached out and touched his forehead, and it was really hot.

Probably because of a fever, Gu Xien thought numbly.

Shen Bai pushed open the bedroom door. Gu Xien was trying to turn over and get out of bed, but as soon as his toes touched the ground, his legs went limp, and he sat back uncontrollably.

Shen Bai coughed, and Gu Xien looked up, his eyes seemed to be glowing with water, and Shen Bai felt so guilty when he looked at him, he quickly walked over, reached out and touched his forehead, and said earnestly after a while: " You have a fever."

Gu Xi'en ignored him, sat on the edge of the bed for a while, reached out and turned on his phone to check the time, and asked him, "Why didn't you go to work?"

"You have a fever, why should I go?" Shen Bai said as he followed the trend and pushed the person back to the bed, "It is said that sick people are emotionally fragile, you can't find me when you wake up, don't cry."

"Just take some medicine, it's not serious." Gu Xien lowered his eyes and said slowly, then looked up at him after a while and asked, "Don't you need to go to the hospital to see your mother?"

Shen Bai's eyes lit up, "That's kind, I'll take you to the hospital and visit the old lady by the way."

"No need." Gu Xian refused without thinking.While speaking, Gu Xien's mobile phone on the bedside table suddenly buzzed and vibrated, and he was about to reach for it, but was snatched away by Shen Bai first.

"Give it to me." Gu Xien frowned and said with a slightly serious face.

Shen Bai glanced at the caller ID, and handed the phone back to him without any change in expression, but the next moment he smiled and said: "I am teasing you, you are still angry."

Gu Xien took the phone and saw that it was Chen Huan calling, so he picked it up calmly.

The other party's tone revealed a sense of oppression that was about to come, "Gu Gong, are you in S City?"

"Well, what happened?"

"That's really great." After saying these words, Chen Huan's tone was not filled with excitement, "I just got off the plane, at ten o'clock in the morning, let's find a place to meet, and we will send you a WeChat message after the location. "

Gu Xi'en had doubts, but still responded: "Okay."

"It's better for Gu Gong to be straightforward, and we'll talk about the specifics after we meet."

Gu Xien hung up the phone, looked up at the calm Shen Bai, and asked him, "What happened?"

Shen Bai answered irrelevantly: "Did Chen Huan ask you to meet?"

The suspicion in Gu Xien's heart was even bigger, and he asked again: "What happened?"

Shen Bai looked at him calmly for two seconds, and said, "There was an accident on the construction site, a worker was injured, and the people from the Quality Supervision Bureau said that a batch of steel bars did not meet the national standards. Xiao Li told me that the steel bars in that batch The suppliers are chosen by your hand."

The look of astonishment in Gu Xien's eyes flashed past, and he calmed down after a while, "The supplier was provided by Tianyuan's purchasing manager, and my role is just to review and confirm. The problem, the random inspection is also qualified, and the supervisors of both parties have also signed to confirm." He looked up at Shen Bai, his eyes were clear: "Which link do you think is wrong?"

Shen Bai had a panoramic view of his expression, and let out a chuckle from his nose: "So Chen Huan asked you to meet."

Gu Xien pondered for a while, then rolled over and got off the bed. When he landed, his body staggered slightly again. Shen Bai frowned and supported him: "Are you really going?"

Gu Xi'en hummed and didn't continue. He pushed Shen Bai's arm away and walked straight to the bedroom door.

"You're still running a fever, you can't walk steadily, what are you trying to do?" Shen Bai went up to hold him, his eyebrows furious, his emotions suddenly became agitated, and his tone was full of arrogance. "You also said that you are only involved in the review and confirmation role. As the construction party, Chen Huan put the building materials that did not meet the standards into use without authorization. I just ask him to explain it. What does it have to do with you?"

"Your affairs with him, and my affairs with him, there is no conflict between the two." Gu Xian pushed away Shen Bai's body blocking the door, walked slowly but steadily to the bathroom and began to wash.

Shen Bai chased to the door of the bathroom, blew his beard and stared resolutely: "Since this is the case, why do you have to make an appointment in private? Let's go directly to our company to talk, and then each of you will be responsible?"

Gu Xien stopped wiping his hands, turned to look at him, and said slowly, "What do you mean?"

"I don't mean anything, I'm just telling the truth." Shen Bai became angry and began to speak indiscriminately, "People who have no ghosts in their hearts naturally don't think too much."

The towel was thrown into the sink with a bang, and the splash of water soaked half of Gu Xien's shoulders, which also shocked Shen Bai.When he came back to his senses and looked intently, he saw Gu Xien's face was as cold as ice, his chest heaved slightly, and after a long while, he uttered a word coolly: "Okay."

Shen Bai subconsciously asked angrily: "What's the matter?"

"Mr. Shen's analysis is good." Gu Xien looked away, picked up the towel and wrung it dry, hung it on the towel rack, walked over and walked sideways from him, after a set of movements, he didn't give him half a look.

"I..." Shen Bai's gaze followed him into the bedroom, but he hesitated to catch up.

The next moment, the bedroom door was shut with a click from the inside. The sound was neither soft nor heavy, but it fell on Shen Bai's heart, but it was as heavy as a thousand pounds.

He would rather Gu Xien slam the door hard, so that he would have a reason to break in, in the name of blaming Gu Xien for his temper, in the name of comforting his lover.

But Gu Xian didn't.

Shen Bai stood firmly in the middle between the bathroom and the bedroom door for a while, with a doomsday expression on his face. After a while, the bedroom door opened again, and Gu Xien, who was dressed neatly, came out. He looked much more energetic than before, but Her face still looked weak and white, which made her lips especially red.

Such a sick beauty with weak willows and strong winds, but he actually wants to let such a Gu Xi'en to see outsiders, it is simply unbearable.

Thinking of this, Shen Bai stepped forward quickly, and began to apologize with ease, wagging his tail, "Daughter-in-law, I was wrong, I shouldn't make that kind of joke, I will accept whatever punishment you want."

However, Gu Xi'en turned around and avoided it, and went straight to the entrance to change his shoes.

The old tricks didn't work anymore, Shen Bai started to retreat, and said affectionately to the past: "Well...you can go if you want, where are you dating, I'll take you there."

Gu Xien turned a deaf ear, changed his shoes, took his coat from the hanger at the door, and before opening the door to go out, he finally looked back at him and said calmly: "I'm not angry with you, I'm just angry with myself. During this time, I'm probably too complacent to fall into other people's traps."

Leaving behind a sentence of unknown meaning, Gu Xi'en walked out with strides, and slowly closed the door behind him.

Shen Bai, who was locked inside the door, was stunned by Gu Xien's words before leaving, how many times?Shen Bai pondered over this word over and over again. Could it be that in other places that he didn't know, had Gu Xien encountered other difficulties that were difficult to solve?

After thinking for a while, Shen Bai looked up at the quartz clock hanging in the living room, the hour hand was about to go to nine o'clock in the morning.

He turned around and walked back to the bedroom, grabbed the mobile phone that was thrown on the sofa in the bedroom, and quickly dialed Xiao Liu.

Xiao Liu picked it up, and his voice was full of excitement as always: "Mr. Shen, good morning! Is there anything you can do for me early in the morning?"

Shen Bai said succinctly: "Change the emergency meeting with Tian Yuan to ten o'clock in the morning."

Xiao Liu was stunned for a moment, and said in embarrassment: "But... Mr. Chen called just now, saying that the plane is delayed and may arrive in the afternoon."

Shen Bai was furious: "What kind of mistake did you make with the blue sky, white clouds and clear sky?"

Xiao Liu: "Uh...maybe a storm came suddenly?"

Shen Bai: "..."

Gu Xien arrived at the cafe where Chen Huanfa came, and the other party was sitting in a corner near the bathroom, talking on the phone anxiously.Obviously, the cafe was sparsely populated at this time in the morning, but he deliberately chose such a place to hide from people's eyes. Gu Xi'en walked over, Chen Huan looked over, saw him, and quickly waved: "Gu Gong, you sit first."

Gu Xien heard him say to the person on the phone in a bad tone that you can figure it out, then hung up the phone, raised his head and smiled politely at him, and pushed the coffee he bought in front of him to Gu Xien, "First Drink something to moisten your throat."

Gu Xi'en didn't reach out, looked at him and said straight to the point: "Mr. Chen, let's talk about it directly."

Chen Huan laughed twice, and said slowly: "Gu Gong, you must have heard about the matter, and I just learned about it. Let's put it this way, it is true that our Tianyuan purchasing manager is not enough when purchasing. Rigorous," he paused, Gu Xien gave him a noncommittal look, and Chen Huan's expression became serious: "However, this supplier is also the supplier of several brands that we agreed in the other party's bidding document at that time It was chosen from within. So now that something goes wrong, naturally we can’t be the only ones responsible, right?”

Gu Xi'en understood, Chen Huan really wanted to take advantage of the loopholes to shirk responsibility after what he said, and he pulled himself as a push hand by the way.

"The scope is given by the other party. You are the ones who decide the purchase, including the subsequent review and inspection. You are also in charge. All I see is the result. What do you want me to do?"

"You can't say that. As the chief engineer, Mr. Gu, the purchase of materials is also within the scope of your responsibility. Didn't the other party's Li Gong also participate?"

"Although I am in it, what I see is only what's on the surface, and what's behind it. I'm sorry Mr. Chen, I don't know, so I don't have the right to speak."

Chen Huan's face changed slightly: "What does Mr. Gu mean by that?"

Gu Xien stood up, "It's not interesting. If you can get rid of the responsibility for the accident, it's your luck. If you want to use me as a gunman, Mr. Chen probably found the wrong person."

After Gu Xi'en finished speaking, he really didn't want to stay for a long time, so he turned and walked towards the door, but at this moment, there was a sinister sneer from behind him: "I found the wrong person? I think I found the right person. Didn't Gu Gong and their Mr. Shen already Did you mess around in bed?"

Gu Xien suddenly stopped, turned his head and looked at Chen Huan fixedly, with anger in his eyes: "Are you investigating me?"

Chen Huan smiled, "Is there still a need for investigation? Isn't everyone on the wine table already kissing?"

Gu Xien pretended to be surprised, and sneered: "You also take seriously the jokes?"

Chen Huan had no intention of practicing Tai Chi, and finally asked: "So, Gu Gong is determined to stand by and watch?"

"Yes." Gu Xien answered in a leisurely manner, and simply reached out to pick up the takeaway coffee that Chen Huan had handed him earlier, and waved it in front of the other person's eyes, "I wish you good luck, Mr. Chen, thank you for the coffee."