Reemployment Guide for Laid-off Players

Jiang An really didn't expect that Xia Yao, who usually talked so little and couldn't even ask him to act coquettishly in front of her face, was really unequivocal when talking about love.

The two had breakfast face to face to disarm the "alarm" in the morning. When packing the bag, Jiang An said, "It seems that your favorite food is similar to Jiang Le's. Next time, I will buy buns for you."

Xia Yao smiled and said nothing. Just as he threw the bag into the trash can, Jiang An pinched his chin as soon as he looked up. Then Jiang An quickly kissed him on the face, and hummed a song to wipe the table as if nothing had happened.

After the two packed up and went out, the car drove on the expressway around the city. Xia Yao watched Jiang An connect his mobile phone to the car's bluetooth to play music, and sang along, laughing, "Why are you so happy?"

Jiang An lowered his voice and said, "I'm glad to see you."

Xia Yao looked away uncomfortably, and changed the subject abruptly: "What are you going to talk to my dad about later?"

"I'll listen to you." Jiang An crossed his arms and looked at him sideways, "I'll talk to my uncle whatever you want me to talk about."

"...My dad wants to talk to you, not me." Xia Yao corrected him.

"Pu Jin is a businessman, I know, Xinxin, I thought carefully about that ten-year contract of sale, but I can't sign it. I talked to Lao Li last night."

Just be careful, don't worry about it.Xia Yao thought to himself.

"Not to mention that Pu Jin won't let people go, but at least I have to finish the fifth season in Shenyan Leng, what do you think?" Jiang An said again.

Xia Yao stretched out his hand to turn down the wind of the air conditioner, nodded and said: "Well, I also thought about this last night, you can't just leave them and leave."

"It would be the best if I can convince my uncle to continue running Hanjiang Yingxue today."

"I've said it before." Xia Yao tilted his head and glanced at Jiang An, then turned back and looked at the road ahead with the corners of his lips slightly raised, "I will find a way to balance this matter, even if my father doesn't agree, I think Hanjiang Yingxue It's no longer worth it, and I won't give it up."

Jiang An stared at him for a moment: "Then show the value to Uncle, Hanjiang Yingxue is your painstaking effort for so many years, how can you say that it is worthless if it is worthless——

"Aren't you Hanjiang Yingxue's greatest value?"

Xia Ren was busy with business, so he could only spare an hour to talk with the two at the headquarters. Jiang An followed Xia Yao and was led into the office by the secretary. There was still tea on the table before he could take it away.

"Sit there, don't stand." Xia Ren tugged on his tie and drank the last sip of water in the teacup, and handed the cup to the secretary: "Two glasses of orange juice."

Xia Yao glanced at Jiang An, and immediately said, "Just a glass of orange juice—"

"It's okay, just orange juice." Jiang An raised his hand to press down Xia Yao's arm, and then said to the secretary, "I'm sorry."

Xia Ren crossed his hands on the table, looked at Jiang An and smiled, and said, "Jiang An has been playing games for a long time, right?"

Looking at Xia Ren's ambiguous smile, Jiang An really couldn't tell what he wanted to say, and after considering it, he smiled back with the same politeness, and replied: "Well, I have been playing games for several years, and I have been playing games for three years. "

"Let me tell you this—" Xia Ren said while looking at Xia Yao, and then changed his words again: "You young e-sports players must find a way out for the future, think about what to do in the future, Right?"

Jiang An nodded, and answered him politely: "Uncle is right, so now we should play a few more games and get more bonuses."

Xia Yao reached out to take the two glasses of orange juice brought in by the secretary, gently placed it beside Jiang An's hand, and poked him silently.

"I heard Xia Yao talk about you before, what are you talking about... oh, you are his target in e-sports, and you--"

Xia Ren was halfway through, Xia Yao interrupted him hurriedly: "Dad, you don't have much time, let's hurry up."

Jiang An raised his eyebrows and said nothing, only smiled slightly.

"That's right." Xia Ren opened a folder in front of him, and asked as he flipped through it, "Three people in your team suddenly left. Is it because you ran out of money?"

Xia Yao did not choose to evade Xia Ren's point of view, explaining: "One retired and two transferred—but not all because of money."

Xia Ren then asked: "I heard that you stayed in that youth training camp for a year because of Jiang An?"

Jiang An, who was suddenly named, froze with a smile on his face. When he was about to make a distinction, Xia Yao said first: "He doesn't know that I am in the youth training camp. It's not his problem, it's—"

"It's the rain in the eaves." Jiang An pressed the back of his hand, and said to Xia Ren: "The rain in the eaves has a player who has a personal grudge with me. Before the transfer, he was in our youth training camp. Later, the rain in the eaves Using this point to spread rumors that Drunken Tage was too harsh on newcomers, Xia Yao was a newcomer at that time, so he couldn't say anything, I just figured out these things a while ago."

Xia Ren was noncommittal, pondered for a moment and smiled: "You are all focused on the competition, you don't understand a lot of things in the mall, back then Yaoyao promised me that he would bring Hanjiang Yingxue to make a good show so that I wouldn't suffer, I knew he was going to suffer a lot from this matter."

"I didn't think carefully about lending money to Pu Jin."

"You know what I'm talking about?" Xia Ren laughed again. He stood up and went to the tea tray to boil water, and said, "Dad has told you that you will go back to the company to study for two years. If you have any difficulties, just contact me." Dad said, you said earlier that you could still be as difficult as today if you encountered such a thing?"

Xia Yao slowly clenched his hands into fists, and said in a low voice, "Dad, I can handle it myself."

"You've been saying that since you were a child," Xia Ren shook his head and sighed, "I said in high school that I would transfer to another school, but I checked later. I don't know what kind of child you are? You will never take the initiative to fight Man, you changed schools because you helped your friends, right?"

Jiang An was taken aback, seeing Xia Ren looking at him with a smile, his mouth moved, and he forgot how to speak.

"I'm--"

"I know you can handle a lot of things well, but this kind of thing is too big, do you understand? Yaoyao, you rarely handle things that require you to use your brains on others—I think Jiang An handles it very well. You should learn more from him."

Jiang An was still in a daze just now, but now he understood that Xia Ren was talking about the rhythm of the rain behind the canopy. He coughed dryly and said, "Uncle, Xia Yao is simple and good."

Xia Ren corrected him seriously: "What's so good? Look at Pu Jin's matter, and that team called Rainy Rain spread rumors about you. You said yesterday that you two are friends, so you can't always protect his so-called Pure heart."

"Yes, uncle is right, I will definitely improve in the future."

Hearing what Jiang An said, Xia Ren felt that his words were too much, and his tone softened a lot and he said to Xia Yao: "Yu Er came to report to me this morning, Hanjiang Yingxue is short of liquidity now, and your bonus is worthless." Filled in the logistics expenses, what do you use? If you don't have money, won't you talk to your father?"

Xia Yao shook his head: "All the funds allocated by the head office this year have already been paid in place. I can't ask for any extra money. This is what we agreed in the morning."

When Xia Ren heard this, he was so angry that he slapped the table: "I'm your dad! Does your dad know!! It's the kind of dad who can give money to his son when he has no money!!! Why do I think I'm not even as good as an ATM machine?! "

Jiang An endured and endured so that he didn't laugh out loud.

"Dad, I didn't treat you like an ATM."

Xia Yao actually explained seriously that Jiang An really couldn't help it this time, while Xia Ren got up to get the tea, he raised his hand and pretended to wipe his face, laughing silently until his shoulders shrugged.

"Since you don't want to talk to me, then find another way." Xia Ren held a piece of tea cake in both hands, knocked a piece into the teacup, and said while heating the water: "I heard that the World Championship has started. The competition in Europe is synchronized. I also asked last night. The end of the fifth season will be the World Championship. The prize pool is very rich-I don’t understand the feelings of e-sports. I know, is Jiang An sure to join Hanjiang Yingxue?"

Jiang An thought it was finally my turn to speak, and quickly sorted out the manuscript in his mind, and replied: "Yes, after typing—"

Unexpectedly, Xia Ren simply raised his hand and interrupted him: "Just say this. I have made financial preparations for Hanjiang Yingxue's allocation for the next quarter, and I have to prepare for the World Championships. All aspects of equipment must keep up with it. Just these two days. Yu Er packed up and reported the situation."

"Thank you...thank you, uncle..." Jiang An's [-]-word essay was pinched by his mouth, and in the end there were only four words left at the end, and it was not easy to say it.

Xia Ren looked at him: "Thank you for what I did, I helped my son but didn't help you."

"I didn't mean that, I meant—"

"I'm looking for you today for nothing else. I just want to know if Jiang An will come to Hanjiang Yingxue to play with peace of mind. If a player with such commercial value comes to Hanjiang Yingxue, I won't need my dad who is not as good as an ATM. Help me," Xia Ren said, taking a sip of steaming tea, and said to Xia Yao, "I know you can lead the team through, but Dad just wants to help you, do you accept?"

Xia Yao suddenly remembered what Jiang An said to him last night - "You don't even need to say it, they know how to love you and care about you."

These words touched the softest and most defenseless part of his heart so lightly, the "unworthy" that had been lingering in his heart for a long time tended to spread slowly, allowing a small beam of light Come in, according to the warm current surging in his heart.

He came into this world vigorously, and from the very beginning, he claimed such a precious life from his mother. He is used to slowly ignoring his "needs". Whether it is to love or to be loved, it is too extravagant for him .The older he got, the harder it was for him to accept Xia Ren's care and love. Instead, he tried his best to "make up for it", but he also knew that he couldn't make it up no matter what.

Especially when he went his own way and established Hanjiang Yingxue, he couldn't convince himself to accept the usual giving and receiving between father and son—even when interacting with other people, he would often feel that he was "not worth it".

Over the years, the question he has asked himself the most is: can I really have these.

Seeing that he didn't speak for a long time, Xia Ren asked again: "Yaoyao, Dad just wants to help you, can you?"

Jiang An put his palm on his clenched fist calmly and squeezed it lightly, then nodded to him.Suddenly he let go of his fist, rubbed his index finger and thumb together, and finally replied in a low voice: "Thank you, Dad."

Xia Ren smiled at him very gratified.

Within a few days of talking in the office, the funds for the new quarter arrived, which relieved Han Jiang Yingxue's urgent need, and also prevented Jiang An from dedicating herself to love——Pu Jin held on to a "deed of sale" and could not wait for Jiang An himself signature.And the close partner of White Rabbit Foods has been shelved repeatedly because of his contract issues, and finally returned to Xia Yao.

After playing for a year, at the end of November, Xia Yao took the initiative to give the whole team a few days off. The second day of the holiday happened to be Jiang An's birthday on the 28th. He originally planned to go out together to celebrate his birthday. Yao had a cold and a fever the night before.

Jiang An got up early again, bought breakfast and rushed to the door of Xia Yao's house.

Xia Yao moved to the house closest to the industrial park, and closer to Jiang'an.He didn't expect Jiang An to come so early, he heard the phone vibrate in a daze, pressed the answer button and opened his mouth but couldn't speak.He turned over again and wanted to open the door, but his physical strength was exhausted as soon as he lifted the quilt on his body, and he didn't want to move anymore.

The phone was not hung up, and Jiang An asked him over there: "Can you come over and open the door? I can drive in by myself, whatever the password is."

"I—" he managed to squeeze out a word from his throat, his throat was burning with pain, and he couldn't make a sound at all.He had no choice but to hang up the phone and send Jiang An a WeChat message.

Then, hearing the sound of the door opening and closing, he quickly turned his back and turned inside, and pulled up the quilt to wrap himself tightly, leaving only his face outside.

When Jiang An entered the house, he took off his clothes in the living room due to the cold, and walked lightly into Xia Yao's bedroom with breakfast in hand.He looked at the person who was almost huddled on the bed, and tentatively called out: "Xinxin?"

Xia Yao was silent for a moment, cleared his throat, and answered him with difficulty: "Why are you so early?"

"If you didn't let me come last night, I would have come last night." Jiang An put all the food on the small tea table, walked slowly to the bed, knelt on one leg and hugged the quilt from behind Staying at Xia Yao, he leaned into his ear and asked, "Is your throat uncomfortable?"

"Ah."

"I'll go get you some water."

Jiang An got up again and poured him a glass of warm water, took a straw, walked around to the other side of the bed, handed the glass to Xia Yao's mouth, and asked him, "Are you hungry?"

The warm liquid flowed through the parched throat, Xia Yao finally didn't have so much effort to speak.He coughed twice and shook his head: "Not hungry, sleepy."

"Then sleep a little longer." Putting down the quilt, Jiang An climbed onto the bed and stepped over Xia Yao, tucked the quilt behind him properly, patted him lightly, and said, "I'll call you later, go to sleep."

Xia Yao responded with a "hmm", hesitated again and again, not knowing how to "invite" Jiang An to come under the quilt, so he could only move forward, and then turned his head to look at him.Jiang An looked at his movements and eyes, lifted the quilt knowingly and got in, stretched out his hand generously and hugged Xia Yao in his arms.

He held Xia Yao's arm with both hands, and said softly: "I said, why don't you tell me what the password is, so it's my birthday, are we still embarrassed?"

"If it's your birthday, no one will be able to guess it." Xia Yao argued.

Hearing his pale explanation, Jiang An couldn't help but burst out laughing, leaned up and bit his ear, and said, "It seems that I'm really easy to use."

"I didn't mean that..."

"It's okay, it's a good idea, just use it if you need it." Jiang An still smiled, rubbing his forehead against the back of Xia Yao's neck, "Go to sleep."

Xia Yao moved, and said for a while, "Don't hug her so...so tightly."

"Huh? Are you uncomfortable?" Jiang An let go of his hand a little, then stepped back a little, and asked him, "How are you doing now?"

"......a little better."

Just like that, the two of them hugged and lay down for a while, but neither of them could fall asleep.Jiang An was not sleepy in the first place, but Xia Yao's situation was a little more complicated.

He put Jiang An's hand on his waist with both hands, and moved forward cautiously, his heart beating abnormally fast.Since there was no movement behind him, he thought that Jiang An was asleep, so he quietly turned his head to take a look, turned around and let out a long breath, closed his eyes and took several deep breaths.

Jiang An, who hadn't fallen asleep at first, noticed his awkward movements, grabbed both of his wrists with his backhand under the blanket, slowly lowered his other hand, hooked his thumb around the waist of his trousers, and asked him in a low voice: "Let us Let's see which kid doesn't sleep well."

Embarrassed, Xia Yao broke free and held Jiang An with one hand, secretly biting his lower lip without responding.

"It's fine for this kid not to sleep, but he's still lying." Jiang An then grabbed his free hand, hooked his trouser waist and pulled it down, and blew gently against his ear: " Think now?"

Xia Yao still didn't speak, but he used a lot less strength in his hands. When he turned his head and saw Jiang An's smiling eyes, he felt those two lips pressed against each other.He could even feel the heat of his own mouth through the temperature of the other's lips and teeth, and the moment of sobriety made him turn around and push the person out.

"I have a cold and it will infect you." He said this seriously, but he didn't know where he hit Jiang An again.

Jiang An squeezed one leg into his knee and leaned back, asking him, "Do you feel uncomfortable?"

"No."

"Then I'm not afraid of your infection."

"I--"

......

Later, Xia Yao didn't have breakfast, but Jiang An ate it as breakfast.Seeing the refreshed look of the person in front of him, he decisively issued a eviction order and drove him to the living room, pulled the quilt back and fell asleep comfortably.