Secretary Xiao's office is next to the iris access control and is easy to find. Xu Nanxing stood at the door, adjusted his breathing, and knocked gently on the door.
A moment later, the door creaked open. Secretary Xiao, who was always neat and tidy, was wearing a wrinkled shirt with his sleeves rolled up casually. He didn't wear glasses. He didn't look like the gentle, polite and shrewd professional elite he usually is.
"Come in."
Secretary Xiao looked her up and down and walked in first.
Xu Nanxing followed behind, and a small bed was simply set up in the room. The blankets were messy and messy, which showed that the person who had just been lying here to rest had not had time to clean up.
"I just picked up the chairman and took a rest here temporarily." Secretary Xiao explained quietly.
Xu Nanxing raised his eyes, his eyes filled with deep apology, and he swallowed back the words that came to his mouth.
"Secretary Xiao, I'm sorry to disturb your rest!"
Secretary Xiao waved her hand silently, pointed to the sofa, and said warmly: "Sit."
Xu Nanxing sat down as instructed and said eagerly: "Secretary Xiao, I am here this time..."
"Wait a minute!"
Secretary Xiao interrupted her and looked at her with gentle brows and eyes, but without the cover of his glasses, Xu Nanxing felt that Secretary Xiao's eyes were sharp and invisible.
She felt nervous for no reason.
"Why does Expert Xu think I am your mother...Rong Yu's friend?"
Secretary Xiao looked at Xu Nanxing carefully. The slightly raised corners of his mouth did not lessen his seriousness, but gave him a sense of uncertainty.
Xu Nanxing breathed a sigh of relief. She organized her thoughts and said in an orderly manner: "I thought about it after the banquet that day and felt that you are different from the legendary Secretary Xiao."
Xu Nanxing raised her eyes and saw Secretary Xiao's slightly encouraging eyes. She was a little surprised, but she was infected by his eyes and became relaxed.
"I heard that you didn't introduce any connections to Zhang Lanxin at the banquet, you only introduced them to me. I think this honor was not obtained in vain. Am I right?"
Secretary Xiao smiled and said nothing, and just motioned for Xu Nanxing to continue talking.
Xu Nanxing calmed down and his thoughts became clearer.
"At the banquet that day, you took special care of me after you asked about my life experience. Why did you suddenly ask me about my life experience? It was the first time we met and we didn't say a word. The only thing about me that aroused your interest was my face."
"So I guess it must be that someone you once knew looked similar to me, so you ignored etiquette and rashly asked me about my identity. Later, you took great care of me, which shows that I have a relationship with your old friend.
Relational.”
"My grandma said that my mother once worked in the microbiology laboratory of Jingming University, and you are an old man in the microbiology laboratory. I think we know you and have a good relationship with her."
Xu Nanxing raised his eyes and looked at Secretary Xiao, his clear eyes full of determination.
"Secretary Xiao, is there something wrong with what I said?"
Secretary Xiao's eyes were full of undisguised admiration, "These are just small details. Most people just think it's strange and pass by. I didn't expect you to remember and connect them together."
Xu Nanxing smiled bitterly, "Looking at people's eyes is not a skill at all. Living under someone's roof is just a matter of knowing some survival skills."
The smile on Secretary Xiao's face suddenly disappeared without a trace, and he turned to say angrily: "I did know your mother back then. Even when you were young, I thought about taking you out to raise you. After all, your father is like us.
I’m really worried!”
"It's just that we were in the initial stage of the laboratory at that time, and we often needed to go abroad for closed-door study. You were still young and needed someone to take care of you, so we had to give up this plan."
Xu Nanxing nodded, expressing understanding. After all, everyone has their own things to do, and there is no obligation to help others for the rest of their lives, but...
Xu Nanxing didn't understand something.
"You just said 'we'?"
Secretary Xiao smiled and nodded, without saying much, "You called me because you wanted to find something your mother left for you?"
Upon hearing this, Xu Nanxing immediately abandoned his doubts and nodded hurriedly, "Yes, can you take me to get it?"
"No." Secretary Xiao smiled and rejected her, "The things your mother left for you are placed in her office, and only the chairman can enter there."