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Chapter 18

On weekend evenings, Duan Yan routinely took the dog out for a walk. When he came back, he saw a girl dressed in a T-shirt and shorts wandering in front of the kennel. Duan Yan had a good memory, and immediately recognized that she was Xiang Mingqiu at the canteen at the entrance of the village last time. High school girls drinking together.

The girl stood on tiptoe, stretched her neck, and tried to look into the room through the gap in the door, as if she wanted to find someone.

"Wang—"

The Boss standing at Duan Yan's feet suddenly barked loudly, the girl was startled, turned around hastily, smiled at Duan Yan unnaturally, and said "hi..."

Duan Yan thought she was coming to look for Ming Qiu, and said, "That guy is not here today."

While speaking, he took out the key from his pocket and prepared to open the door.

A hand stretched out and grabbed Duan Yan's wrist: "I'm not here to look for Brother Qiu, I'm here to look for you."

The girl directly told Duan Yan why she came here. Her name is Wang Keyi, she is a sophomore in high school this year, and her family lives in the alley in front of her. She met Xiang Mingqiu because her mother often came to play mahjong.

"You must be Brother Yan. Brother Qiu showed me your paintings before, and it was a big touch! I also like to draw, so I just want to ask... um, can I ask you to teach me?"

Some people have said similar things to Duan Yan before. Those people are almost trying to hook up with Duan Yan in the name of learning to paint. Naturally, Duan Yan thought that this Wang Keyi also had impure motives for himself. He stated in advance: "I am not interested in minors."

"???" Wang Keyi was stunned for a while, and it took a while to understand what Duan Yan meant, and smiled a little awkwardly, "Brother Yan, I'm afraid you misunderstood... I really want to ask you about painting Things, these are some of my usual paintings, why don't you take a look? If it's convenient, can you give me some proper comments?"

Wang Keyi handed the few picture books she brought to Duan Yan. She is not an art student. She has always relied on self-taught painting. The works in the picture book range from copying to original. It seems quite immature, and the amount of practice is not enough, and it has not yet formed its own unique style. It is hard to say whether it has potential, but it does not deny that each painting is drawn with great care.

Duan Yan saw that her attitude towards studying was quite correct, so he reluctantly agreed, and out of curiosity, he asked, "Are you very familiar with Xiang Mingqiu?"

Wang Keyi nodded, and began to chatter endlessly: "Brother Qiu is very nice, he often invites me to eat, and also helps me with my homework. I can't tell that he still remembers the courses he took in high school..."

"He often teaches you homework?" Duan Yan interrupted, remembering the scene where he ran into Xiang Mingqiu's hair at the canteen at the entrance of the village, and asked, "Has that guy ever taken advantage of you?"

"Ah?" Wang Keyi blinked.

Duan Yan continued: "If he sexually harasses you, you can call the police or sue him directly. If you can win the case, I can introduce you to a lawyer."

"..."

Wang Keyi finally clarified to Ming Qiu, and he didn't know whether Duan Yan believed it in the end, so he had to start another topic: "By the way, brother Yan, let's add a WeChat for easy contact. I can usually send pictures to you." Let me show you, and let you give me some pointers."

Duan Yanchou said at the beginning: "You can add WeChat, but don't talk to me about things other than painting. I advise you not to have other thoughts about me."

"..."

After 08:30 in the evening, Rex officially began to open for business. Xiang Mingqiu was sitting in front of the computer in the office to check the new quarterly report. At this time, the mobile phone on the desktop rang an information prompt.

[Wang Keyi]: Brother Qiu!According to what you said, I took the initiative to run to talk to Brother Yan!

[Xiang Mingqiu]: Oh?Did he agree to teach you how to draw?

[Wang Keyi]: Hmm~ By the way, Brother Qiu, do you have a bad relationship with him?

[Xiang Mingqiu]: Neither good nor bad, why ask?

[Wang Keyi]: Because when I heard him talk about you, he seemed a little bit against you

[Xiang Mingqiu]: Haha, after getting along with that guy for a long time, you will find that he is quite interesting

[Wang Keyi]: I don't know if it's interesting or not, but I know he is a very narcissistic person!

[Xiang Mingqiu]: What's wrong?

[Wang Keyi]: I have already told him that I just want to learn painting from him, but he always thinks that I am interested in him and wants to take the opportunity to hook him up, as if I have never seen a man more handsome than him in my life [ Roll eyes]

【Wang Keyi】: Why is this person so narcissistic [Black Question Mark.JPG]

Xiang Mingqiu couldn't help laughing while reading the message, the people in the office were suddenly pushed away, and Ajie rushed in in a hurry: "Brother Qiu! It's not good!"

Xiang Mingqiu put away his phone, glanced at Ajie, and said slowly: "Don't worry, just speak slowly if you have something to say."

"Mr. Qin and his group of friends had a conflict with another group of customers in the store. The quarrel was so fierce that it was about to start a fight! The manager failed to mediate their dispute. Brother Qiu, you should think of a way."

The full name of Mr. Qin in Ajie's mouth was Qin Huan, and he was a well-known local tyrant in the city. Thanks to the help of this local tyrant and some friends around him, he contributed a lot of profits to the store.

Xiang Mingqiu learned that the source of this dispute was nothing more than a bottle of foreign wine worth a thousand dollars. In his opinion, it was not important whether the dispute started because of Qin Huan. What was important was that he could not offend this A big customer who patronizes Rex nightclub all the year round.

Xiang Mingqiu straightened his clothes, quickly organized a round of arguments in his mind, and then quickly walked towards the two parties in the dispute.

"Mr. Qin, I heard the quarrel here just now when I was standing at the door, don't get excited, let's talk about something, if it's not right, let's talk about it until it's right."

The guests at the other table spoke first, and said angrily: "You are the owner of the shop, right? You come to comment on the reason. The last blue card in the shop was ordered by us just now, but the people at the next table insisted on letting us Transfer the wine to them, why? It’s a big deal to pay twice the price? Who do you look down on?! Why did I refuse to let it go, but you still got into a fight with me, look at it..."

It is indeed Qin Huan's usual style to like to use money to pressure people. Xiang Mingqiu did not judge this. He looked at the guest in front of him, clapped his hands, and persuaded in a peaceful tone: "Brother, I remember you. You and your business partner came to the store to play, and you were sitting in the booth over there. We are all businessmen. In business, the most important thing is peace. Don’t you think so? I’ll let the manager see you off later. Membership card, tonight and in the future, you can enjoy the most powerful discounts when you come to the store to spend."

Then he turned to Qin Huan and said, "Mr. Qin, everyone comes to the nightclub to have fun, isn't it just a bottle of blue label, there is no need to get angry, and the lack of stock does not make up for it in time, which affects the consumption of customers. My negligence as an operator, I apologize to you here, how about this? I will give you two aces of spades, let’s get over this matter, don’t worry about it anymore, do you think it’s okay?"

It can be said that Xiang Mingqiu showed enough sincerity, tried his best to appease the emotions of the guests without offending both parties, and handled it quite mellowly.

"Succeed, since I have told the boss so, I will definitely give this face!" Qin Huan slapped his thigh, and picked up two full glasses of wine from the table, "But I will give face to the boss, and you have to give me face too Don’t you? Come on! Come and have a drink with me tonight, you won’t get drunk and you won’t return!”

At the gate of Ziyangxuan, the new security guard in the duty room had never seen Duan Yan's face before opening the door for him, and asked, "Sir, which building are you going to?"

Duan Yan raised his hand and pointed forward: "That's it, on the 7th floor of Block 8, play cards with friends."

It was getting late, at this hour, most of the residents had already gone to bed, Duan Yan was walking alone on the road in the community, Jiang Yunzhi called again to urge people.

"Where are you Sanhuo? Everyone is here, waiting for you to start the stage, please move faster."

"It's almost there, wait a little longer, don't act like a reminder."

Duan Yan was talking on the phone while walking, when suddenly a pedestrian rushed out from the fork in front of him. The man leaned crookedly against the lamppost beside him, slowly squatted down, and vomited wildly while facing the ground.

You don't need to look at the scene deliberately, you can imagine how disgusting it is just by listening to the vomiting sound, but this is the only way to Jiang Yunzhi's residence, Duan Yan can't avoid it, so he can only bite the bullet and follow the drunk man walked by.

Walking forward step by step, the distance between the two gradually narrowed. The more Duan Yan looked at the drunk man, the more familiar he looked.

"Hey!" He covered his nose and lightly kicked Xiang Mingqiu with his foot, "What the hell are you doing?!"

Xiang Mingqiu raised his head with a strong smell of alcohol, and seemed to recognize Duan Yan in front of him. He smiled and said, "Hey, why are you here?"

"Your family opened this garden community? Why can't I be here?"

Xiang Mingqiu didn't speak, and after hiccupping, he slowly stood up while supporting the lamp post, and staggered away.

His family obviously lived in Block 10, but now he was walking in the opposite direction. Duan Yan stood at the same spot, looking at the staggering figure, thinking that he would just wait to hit the street with this walking method, but in the next second, Xiang Mingqiu crashed into the trash can on the side of the road.

Duan Yan, who originally just wanted to stand by and watch, followed subconsciously: "Hey, do you know what you're doing?"

"Who are you talking to, Sanhuo?" Jiang Yunzhi heard the conversation between the two over there, and asked curiously.

Xiang Mingqiu vomited again, even worse than before, he looked uncomfortable and in pain.

Duan Yan stared at the person in front of him, inexplicably, he changed his mind, and said to his friend: "Let's not chat for now, I'll go find you later."

Without any explanation, after hanging up the phone, Duan Yan grabbed Xiang Mingqiu's arm, pulled him up, cursed "dead drunkard", and then turned back in the direction of seat 10 just now.