Chapter 6 Chapter 6 Surprise

Zhou Xin is sick in the apartment, so Gao Chun can take off work.He accompanied Jin Kui back to the garage, thinking about how to be romantic on this birthday night.Unexpectedly, outside the garage door, they accidentally saw Master Li's family waiting here. From the luggage piled up at the door, it can be seen that they are definitely not visiting or traveling.Gao Chun immediately realized that something must have happened to Master Li's family. If he hadn't been helpless, it would be impossible for him to leave his hometown with such a big suitcase and small bags, and his whole family came to vote!

That night, Master Li's family was settled in the garage, and Jin Kui gave up the place where Gao Chun lived on the side of the partition wall, and spread the bedding of Master Li's family of three.Master Li's wife called her daughter to Jin Kui and told her to thank sister Jin Kui quickly, saying that last time sister Jin Kui took so much money for you to go to school in the future!The age difference between Junjun and Jinkui is not very big, and they soon became kind to each other. Taking advantage of the moment when her mother turned around and coughed, she whispered to Jinkui: Actually, I don’t want to go to university at all, I want to go to film school.Jin Kui smiled and said: Film Academy is also a university, and there are also exams.Junjun said: That would be much easier.You are going to be admitted to the dance academy, you must not want to take culture classes, right?Cultural class is very annoying!

On the other side of the partition wall, Master Li held Gao Chun's birthday gift to Jin Kui under the lamp and looked at it. The price tag on the small bag surprised him.Yo, such a small bag costs 1200 yuan, it seems that you guys are really rich?Gao Chun couldn't explain clearly for a while, and then heard from the other side of the partition wall, after Master Li's wife thanked him a lot, he suddenly burst into tears: I know my disease, and even if it is cured, how much will it cost?Our house has been demolished, and I heard that we will have to pay some more money when we move back in the next year.This year, our Junjun is going to take the university entrance exam. If we don’t pool the money for her, if we pass the exam and have no money to go to college, Junjun will hate us for the rest of his life.

Junjun said: "Sister Jinkui, why don't you help me find a regular job. My mother has this disease, and my father lost his job. I don't even want to take the exam. What's the use of passing the exam if I don't have money?" Master Li walked to the partition wall and said seriously to his daughter, "Prepare well. Whether or not the family has money is my responsibility. It is your responsibility if you fail the exam. You must pass the exam for me. Your father will go out and sell it." Blood, I will pay you to go to college!" Gao Chun also came over, and said with a smile, "Junjun, your parents are counting on you."

Junjun retorted: "You keep talking about me, didn't you not go to university? Isn't it pretty good now?" Gao Chun resigned himself to the disadvantage and said, "Me? My parents don't point at me. If they want to point at me, I must pass the exam." Junjun curled his lips at his parents: "I can see that it's good to have no parents and no parents. How free you are to live, at least there is no such pressure. You are still good." Gao Chun couldn't answer, Jin Kui wanted to smile, but didn't. Master Li was not angry, and said: "Gao Chun, he traveled thousands of miles to Beijing to find his father! What is it like to have no father and no mother, just ask Gao Chun!"

Everyone chatted very late, and then went to sleep separately with the partition wall as the boundary.This is the first time that Gao Chun and Jin Kui meet each other on the pillow, and they no longer give or take each other in the dark.They hugged and kissed each other, but because "the walls have ears", every movement must be done slowly, so the love is more lingering... The spring night is short, and the sky just dawned, so Gao Chun had to leave the girl in his arms, Get up and hurry on the road.As usual, he parked the car outside Zhou Xin's apartment and waited patiently for the target to come out.

On this day, Master Li also got up early and went to the labor market to find a job.Jin Kui took Xiaojun to a nearby store to buy daily necessities for the "settlement" of Master Li's family.Fortunately, the garage is huge, and the presence of Master Li's family doesn't make the place look crowded.It's just that Jin Kui and Gao Chun can't practice dancing and kung fu sooner or later. The music is too loud and the movement is too loud. Master Li has a sick wife who is bedridden and a daughter who is preparing for the exam. It is very inconvenient to practice again.

A week later, Jin Kui's mother came to Beijing again. She took a taxi to Jin Kui's residence, and saw Master Li drying the quilt outside the garage door, she couldn't help but look puzzled.After entering the garage, she saw Jun Jun, a girl sitting on a small bench doing homework, and a woman with a sick face on the bed.She looked at them, and they also looked at her, and they all regarded each other as outsiders who came unexpectedly. Finally, she saw her daughter in another corner of the room. The daughter was a little surprised: "Mom, why are you here?" Mother still came here just for Jin Kui's marriage.

There are outsiders staying in the garage, so it is inconvenient to elaborate.Jin Kui walked out of the garage with her mother. The mother and daughter had a bad conversation. Seeing that Gao Chun hadn't moved out, the mother seemed very dissatisfied. Jin Kui said: "Mom, haven't you seen it all? There are so many of us living together, what can I do with Gao Chun?" It seems that the purpose of mother's special trip here is not Gao Chun.She turned away and went straight to the topic of this trip: "Your father asked me to come here this time just to ask you a question about Yang Feng, do you agree or not?"

Jin Kui said: "Didn't I say it a long time ago, I have to concentrate on preparing for the game for a while, and I don't want to think about other things at all." Mother said: "Kui'er, don't go around playing around with Mom, just tell Mom the truth, do you have any intentions about this matter with Yang Feng?" Jin Kui was silent for a while, and answered very solemnly: "Mom, I have someone I love." Although the mother had expected it long ago, her daughter's announcement still made her face darken. On the day Jin Kui's mother returned to Yunlang, Yang Feng's assistant came to Jin Kui's family's Chaohuang Restaurant and began to discuss the repayment issue with Jin Kui's father and brother.This assistant surnamed Lin was about the same age as Yang Feng, but his tone was more domineering than his boss.

"Although Mr. Yang of our company doesn't care about one or two debts, the amount advanced to you is still a large sum, so we should have a repayment agreement, but our finance department insists that we In addition to this loan agreement, you have to sign another guarantee agreement with you. You have to find a bank or corporate entity to provide an unconditional repayment guarantee for your loan. Once your Chaohuang Restaurant cannot repay the loan The loan will be repaid by the guarantor on your behalf." Jin Peng anxiously said: "If the bank is willing to guarantee the repayment of the money for us, we would not beg you at the beginning. Now there is no corporate entity willing to take this risk for others, where do you tell us to find a guarantee! " Assistant Lin smiled lightly: "It doesn't matter if you don't have a guarantee, then you Chaohuang Restaurant will protect itself. You can sign a mortgage contract with our company and use all the assets of the restaurant as collateral. Once you still don't pay the money, we will The company will have the right to dispose of the mortgaged assets..." "This won't work!" Jin Kui's father, who had been silent all this time, flatly refused, "I can't take my restaurant out, I'll pay with my life, that's fine! If you don't pay the money, let Yang Feng take my life! " Jin Kui's mother had been standing by the door listening, and when she saw the veins on her husband's forehead twitching, Jin Peng also had a look of resentment on her face, and hurriedly stepped forward to smooth things over: "Hey, the patronage is talking, it's past twelve o'clock, hurry up and invite the guests to eat in front." Let's have lunch..." But Yang Feng's assistant stood up nonchalantly with a vague smile on his lips. "If you don't eat, I'll save you a little bit. It's okay if you don't sign the guarantee, so you should hurry up and pay back the money." Yang Feng's assistant left without lunch.When the manager of the restaurant sent him out of the gate of the restaurant, two wedding banquets were being held at the same time in the lobby on the first floor of the restaurant, with the sound of firecrackers and music one after another.But the joy of the newcomers did not dispel the bad luck from the manager's room on the second floor of the restaurant. Jin Kui's parents and elder brother were still struggling to discuss countermeasures, and the countermeasures were finally discussed on Jin Kui. Jin Kui's mother has been to Beijing several times, and she already has a personal experience. She said to her husband: "I see that Kui Er has a deep relationship with that dancing boy. It's useless." Jin Peng said bitterly: "We are working hard to make money here day and night, but she is smiling and talking about love in Beijing. She is not from the Jin family anymore. Now that the family is in trouble, why should she Regardless! I'm going to Beijing right now! Dad, this matter between Jin Kui and Yang Feng is up to you to decide, and you have to give Jin Kui a death order!" The mother is still used to talking to her daughter: "This is not a matter of giving orders. Besides, she can earn money to support herself now. If you order her to die, what can you do to her! " Jin Kui's father pondered for a moment, shook his head, and said, "These two months are the peak season for catering, and there are several wedding banquets almost every week. Our Chaohuang Restaurant has built a reputation for wedding banquets, which is also a way to make money. You tell Xiao Chen, let him do more business, send more people out to promote sales, and give some red envelopes to the wedding company. As long as our income increases, we will first pay back the interest on Yang Feng's advance, and later think about things." Jinpeng said: "If the interest is paid back, what about the principal? He still forces us to sign a mortgage contract if the principal is not paid. Once the mortgage contract is signed, he can dispose of us at any time." Jin Kui's father said: "Let's hold on to the mortgage contract first. What Yang Feng wants is Jin Kui. He won't turn against our family until he finally despairs. As long as our wedding banquet has been so prosperous in the past few months, we don't have to worry about looking for it." It’s not a buyer’s partnership to buy shares. Now many bosses’ money is idle, and when they see a good project that can make money, someone must invest. So the key is business.” Then Jin Kui's mother interjected: "Then, Jin Kui, what should we do?" In the evening of that day, when the lanterns first came on.Jin Kui's brother walked into a restaurant in the center of Yunlang alone. The person waiting in the lobby was the assistant Lin who had almost turned his back on the repayment during the day, but Jin Peng only found out when he walked into the private room of the restaurant on the second floor. Yes, it was Yang Feng himself.Even though the quarrels and anger during the day had not dissipated, Yang Feng's wine of courtesy and virtuousness still made Jin Peng feel that he had a lot of face. However, after drinking for three rounds, Yang Feng and his assistants could tell that when Jin Peng talked about his half-sister, his tone was no longer as sweeping as before.He shifted the responsibility to his father, and said truthfully after drinking, he was soft on his father's repeated hesitation, and complained a lot.Yang Feng's assistant couldn't help reminding Jin Peng that the situation in Chaohuang Restaurant no longer allows you to hesitate any longer. Your father should understand that there is no such thing as a free lunch!Assistant Lin's tone was tough, and Jin Peng didn't like it. In order to save face for a while, he actually told the countermeasures agreed at noon in terms of food and wine: Recently, our wedding business has been booming. Many people think that Chaohuang's place is particularly auspicious, and the newlyweds are very happy, so it shouldn't be a problem for us to repay the interest of each installment.When we make the wedding banquet more famous and attract some bosses who have spare money to invest in the shares, it should not be difficult to pay back the capital owed to you! Yang Feng and his assistant looked at each other and did not judge the Jin family's wishful thinking, but he smiled meaningfully at Jin Peng and asked casually: "Is Chaohuang's place really so auspicious?" It was too early for dinner, so Zhou Xin came out of Dongfang Building and got into a taxi on the street.Gao Chun followed her to an open-air cafe, and he saw and took pictures of her dating the young painter.He saw them talking for a while, and soon there was a dispute. The young painter yelled at Zhou Xin and got up and left. Zhou Xin stayed on the seat alone, looking a little embarrassed. Zhou Xin returned to the residence very late that day, and did not come out after entering the building.Gao Chun used the leftover piece of bread at noon for dinner, and was dazzled by hunger when he finished the mission. That night, Master Li’s wife also ate bread. Halfway through the meal, she vomited for some reason. Her daughter, Junjun, called her father. A nearby street clinic.After Master Li arrived in Beijing, he brought his wife here to see a doctor. The doctor had known that they were in dire straits, and only inserted the infusion needle into the patient's hand out of the obligation to save lives and heal the wounded.The doctor said to Master Li: I will infuse this bottle of medicine for you first, and discuss with your family whether to continue infusion.Master Li asked with embarrassment: How many bottles do you have to lose?The doctor replied: At least two bottles should be given tonight, preferably for three days in a row.Master Li couldn't finish the sentence, so Jin Kui stepped forward: "Just lose for three days."We pay! Jin Kui went to the mall that night and returned Gao Chun's birthday gift to her.The exquisite handbag is worth 1,200 yuan, and 1,200 yuan is enough to relieve the urgent need for Master Li's wife's illness. After three consecutive days of infusion, the condition of Master Li's wife has greatly improved.At noon three days later, Jin Kui took Jun Jun to work in a restaurant.The restaurant is quiet amidst the hustle and bustle. The owner is a woman who is also a student of the Lake Watching Body Training Class. After three months of training, she is still bloated, and she doesn't know what weight she should have before.The female boss gave Jin Kui a lot of face, and agreed that Junjun would go to work that day, with a salary of 800, and two meals.Eight hundred yuan is almost a timely help for the current situation of Master Li's family! It rained for two days in a row, Zhou Xin didn't go anywhere, Gao Chun's task was simple, but he was bored.After the rain on the third day, Zhou Xin went out in the afternoon. Gao Chun threw away the half-eaten instant noodles and followed the sun all the way west. In the afternoon in the west of Beijing, the smog is deep, the Baiwangshan Park is majestic, and the forest is full of smoke.Zhou Xin climbed to the top with the clouds on his back, looking down from the heights, with a panoramic view of the beauty of heaven and earth.At the foot of the mountain, you can see some large and small cars parked in front of the park, and you can see the small flags of tourists and tour groups.Gao Chun's car was parked in the parking lot in front of the door.He stared at the gate of the park through the windshield of the car. The sun finally sank behind the mountain, and Baiwang Mountain became a huge shadow.Gao Chun saw Zhou Xin appearing at the gate of the park, dialing the phone and walking towards the taxi waiting on the side of the road.At this time, Gao Chun's cell phone rang suddenly, he picked up the phone, and it was Zhou Xin who called. "Gao Chun, I'm Zhou Xin. Do you remember who I am?" Gao Chun was taken aback: "Ah...ah, of course I remember, are you okay?" Zhou Xin said: "It's okay, thank you very much last time. Where are you now, are you free today?" Zhou Xin had already walked in front of Gao Chun's car at this time, Gao Chun quickly shrank his body under the steering wheel, and his voice was muffled by his hands: "Ah, I, I'm fine, I'm outside, are you okay? " Zhou Xin passed by the side of the car window, and was thrilled not to see Gao Chun in the car, "I want to treat you to a meal, are you free today? Ah, there is nothing special, just want to express Thanks... are you free?" Gao Chun raised his head slightly, exposing his eyes to the window sill. He saw that Zhou Xin had already walked to a taxi on the side of the road and opened the door, so he dared to sit up straight. "Ah, you mean today?" The place where Zhou Xin dated Gao Chun was a restaurant with a unique atmosphere.The scale of the restaurant is small, but it is the kind of place that white-collar workers and petty bourgeoisie flock to.The theme of this dinner was originally just to express gratitude, but the dim lights in the restaurant and the romantic candles on the table created a taste of a tryst between the man and woman sitting across the table.This smell happened to be smelled by Jun Jun, who just came here to work. Jun Jun was sitting in front of a cash register and learning to collect the bill. , looked at Junjun in a daze. Facing a glass of iced drink after dinner, Gao Chun and Zhou Xin talked about their life experiences.Gao Chun believes that Zhou Xin's narration comes from the heart, but his own narration must be both true and false. He said: "I have liked dancing since I was a child, but now my ideals have almost been shattered, and I can only find a job to make ends meet." Zhou Xin smiled and asked, "Just driving for the boss?" After telling the truth, it is a lie. Gao Chun lied, after all, he stuttered a bit: "I, I don't know anything else. Fortunately... I have learned to drive." Zhou Xin took Gao Chun's late speech as sadness, so he comforted him and said, "It's not bad to drive, you see how free you are when the boss is not around." Gao Chun also smiled: "You are more free, you can engage in the art you like, at least if you like painting, you can paint." Zhou Xin also laughed: "We set up a painting workshop with a group of painters. The paintings of many Chinese painters are actually quite good, but they lack channels and platforms for promotion, so we also want to hold art exhibitions abroad, combining Chinese paintings and It takes money to introduce Chinese painters to the world.” Gao Chun asked: "With the salary of a secretary alone, can you get together the funds for your art exhibition?" Zhou Xin was silent for a moment, and seemed to be telling the truth: "Actually, I didn't work as a secretary in that company to make money." Gao Chun asked, "Then why?" Zhou Xin said: "My mother asked me to go to fulfill her wish." Gao Chun asked: "Your mother...why does she want you to be the secretary of the company? What does your mother do?" Zhou Xin said: "She is an accountant, an ordinary accountant." Seeing Zhou Xin's serious expression, Gao Chun tried to make her relax. He smiled and said, "Your mother works as an accountant in the company? I heard that is the most profitable job!" But Zhou Xin didn't laugh. She said: "My mother is just a little accountant who keeps accounts. Now she can't even keep accounts. She is sick, and she has gone home to recuperate." Gao Chun had no choice but to get serious, and asked, "Are you working to earn money just to treat your mother's illness? Where is your father, taking care of your mother at home?" Zhou Xin said, "My father is long gone." Gao Chun was stunned. "I'm just the opposite of you. My father is seriously ill and my mother is gone." Both sides fell silent, experiencing each other's life.After a while, Zhou Xin toasted: "Let's have a toast, let's share fate and love each other." They talked to each other, comforted each other, and no one expected that there was a pair of childish eyes staring at them all the time at the restaurant cashier. After the meal, Gao Chun drove Zhou Xin back to the apartment.Before getting out of the car, Zhou Xin said to Gao Chun: "I want to ask you to do me another favor, would you like it?" Gao Chun asked, "What's busy?" Zhou Xin was silent for a while, seeming to choose her words carefully, she said, "I want to ask you...to be my boyfriend, would you like it?" Gao Chun was taken aback, wondering if he heard clearly. It was already very late when I arrived at the Guanhu Club from Zhou Xin's residence. Jin Kui was waiting impatiently at the back door of the club.Gao Chun explained that the goal was too late to go home today, and he just ate a box lunch. The two walked into the club while talking, walked through a dark internal passage, and walked into the men's and women's locker rooms respectively.A few minutes later, the two appeared in the empty practice hall. Jin Kui put a tape into the sound card of the practice hall. The melody of "Ice and Fire Love" was particularly moving in the dead of night.They didn't turn on the lights, and the moonlight outside the window was like quicksilver, and they danced their dresses on the hazy quicksilver.The volume of the music is not loud, the moonlight is quiet and silent, their dance is not earth-shattering, but it is a cycle of joy and pain, desolation and sweetness... The night on the street is golden. Gao Chun and Jin Kui drove home when there was no one on the street.On the way, they somehow talked about Zhou Xin. Zhou Xin's life experience gave Gao Chun a tolerant understanding of her disregarding the elegance of an artist to become a secretary for a private boss, and Jin Kui didn't know whether it was out of a woman's instinctive jealousy that she understood Gao Chun's explanation for Zhou Xin. Sneering, she firmly believes that if a person's choice is upright, there is no need to make so many excuses for herself, such as mother's wish, which is far-fetched and irrelevant.And Gao Chun feels that everyone in life has their own difficulties, even if it is to earn money, there is nothing wrong with it. In addition to treating her mother, Zhou Xin also set up a studio with a group of poor painters. It is impossible to engage in art without money. Jin Kui's words became sharper: "Anyway, I wouldn't make money for art. If her mother was an upright person, she wouldn't want her daughter to use this method to make money for her medical treatment. Unless Zhou Xin really loves That Boss Lu, that's another matter." Gao Chun was surprised: "Zhou Xin...does he really love that Boss Lu?" Jin Kui tilted her head and asked strangely: "Why, don't you want her to really love that Boss Lu? " Gao Chun quickly shook his head: "Ah? No, of course true love is good, long live love." Gao Chun seemed to be insincere, and Jin Kui felt resentful, and of course the resentment was so unfounded. The next day, Gao Chun drove away early as usual.Jin Kui also got up early to join in the fun and wash up in the sink outside the door with Jun Jun.Jun Jun watched Gao Chun drive away, and whispered to Jin Kui, "Sister Jin Kui, I saw Brother Gao Chun yesterday." Jin Kui asked, "Where did you see it?" Junjun said, "It's in our restaurant." Jin Kui asked: "In your restaurant, when is it?" Junjun said: "Last night. He brought a woman to eat at our place. I couldn't go over to talk to him at the bar. Our restaurant has regulations that prohibit employees from chatting with acquaintances. " Jin Kui's face was a little restless: "He brought a woman? What kind of woman is that woman?" Junjun recalled: "Well, I'm a little shorter than you, with short hair, and I'm pretty good-looking, and I'm well-dressed, and I can tell he's a white-collar worker. Is he a colleague from Brother Gao Chun's unit?" Jin Kui was stunned for a long time, without even realizing it, when she spoke again, her voice became angrily: "What time was it yesterday?" Before lunch time, Zhou Xin appeared at the door of Dongfang Building, and she got into a company car with another woman.Gao Chun was about to follow, when Lu Ziqiang suddenly called him to stay and let him get out of the car. This was the first time that Lu Ziqiang asked Gao Chun to enter his company. A staff member of the company brought Gao Chun in from the door of the company and all the way into Lu Ziqiang's office.After the staff left, Lu Ziqiang asked Gao Chun to report on Zhou Xin's performance in the past two days. "I haven't shown much in the past two days. She comes to work every day. When she's not at work, she goes to the painting workshop to be with the painters. She even went to the park to paint landscapes." "Has she ever taken anyone to her place?" "No, she brought a painting home the day before yesterday, and she asked me to..." Lu Ziqiang didn't hear clearly: "To whom?" Gao Chun realized that he had lost his words, and quickly covered up: "Ah, let the man I told you last time move it, and that man is also a painter of their group, he helped her carry the painting up and left immediately. " Lu Ziqiang was convinced of Gao Chun: "Where did she eat last night?" Gao Chun was taken aback, panicked and didn't know how to answer: "Last night..." Lu Ziqiang's sharp gaze made Gao Chun almost think that the dinner with Zhou Xin last night was "an accident", and his breath became short: "Last night, last night... She had dinner with a painter from the painting workshop. , there is a restaurant on the other side of Guanghua Road." "The young painter again?" "No, it's an older one, cough, but it's ugly and dirty." Lu Ziqiang seemed relieved, and finally said: "Okay, just keep following. If you find out that she has gone to any suspicious place or contacted any strange people, you can call my mobile phone at any time." Gao Chun was also relieved: "Okay." Lu Ziqiang said that the meeting can be over: "Then you go." He said: "Hey, I won't call you in the future, and you don't come to the company yourself." Gao Chun nodded in response, and exited Lu Ziqiang's room. He walked towards the company's exit along the passageway he came in.He saw people busy in every office of the company, and people in the corridors were all busy.At the corner, he received a call from his mobile phone, and it turned out to be Zhou Xin's voice again. He suppressed his voice and sped up a few steps, and quickly walked to the end of the corridor. Zhou Xin called from nowhere. She asked Gao Chun what he was doing, if he was free, and if he would like to come to their studio.She suggested that Gao Chun accept a little enlightenment of modern art, and their studio can take on such functions. Gao Chun agreed to Zhou Xin, and hung up the phone hastily.At the end of the corridor is the company's exit, and the company's exit is facing the elevator going downstairs.After pressing the elevator button, Gao Chun had no intention of looking back. His eyes seemed to be glued to a piece of gold in front of him. That piece of gold was the signboard hanging at the entrance of the company. The signboard was inlaid on the white wall of the floor. The two big characters in contrast are particularly eye-catching, making Gao Chun look at it without blinking. - Encyclopedia! Underneath the two big characters is a line of small characters. Compared with the grandeur of the big characters, the small characters appear to be engraved meticulously, with delicate strokes. —— Encyclopedia Investment Co., Ltd. The more you live in a small city, the more frightening the scene of weddings and funerals. Holding a wedding banquet in the not-so-high-end Chaohuang Restaurant is by no means a prominent family, but not only the couple's car is red and colorful, but the motorcade of relatives and friends is also very imposing.Firecrackers were fired one after another in front of the door, and the guests in the hall celebrated with each other.In the noisy music, the bride and groom were accompanied by bridesmaids and best men down the grand staircase. The host's slightly humorous tone was ups and downs, stirring up the heat of the scene. The wedding in the restaurant officially kicked off. Two large buses suddenly stopped outside the restaurant, and a group of men and women in plain clothes filed down, all of them solemn and gloomy.The first few were dressed in sackcloth and filial piety, and the following group held high the mourning flags. They rushed forward and back, and climbed the steps.The doorman and the leading lady of the restaurant couldn't stop them, and this group of dejected people had already rushed into the hall. The wedding ceremony in the lobby on the first floor was getting better and better. The couple on the stage drank and exchanged glasses, and the relatives and friends in the audience enjoyed themselves happily. He couldn't help bluffing the wine glass and lost his hand, his face was like paper. The manager of the restaurant was also panic-stricken. He rushed up to try to prevent the large piece of mourning banners from entering, but he and the waiters around him were obviously weak, and the funeral staff had already dispersed and filled the seats. Empty table.A middle-aged man came up and loudly ordered the manager to bring the menu, saying that they wanted six tables in total, three hundred and one tables including drinks.The manager frowned and negotiated with the middle-aged man in a low voice, but it was obviously too late, and there was already an uproar at the wedding. The manager pulled the middle-aged man's arm and said incoherently: "No, hurry up... I'm sorry, I'm sorry, this hall is reserved, you go to the second floor, there are seats on the second floor..." The middle-aged man blows his beard and stares: "Isn't there a seat here? It's not like we won't give you money!" The manager said: "The guests in this hall are having a wedding, please help to sit upstairs, I will take you there!" The middle-aged man simply yelled and shouted: "Hey! What's the matter with your restaurant, you only accept red banquets but not white banquets, is there such a business!" The high-pitched and loud voice of the middle-aged man was intended to spoil the situation.A few women were still crying the name of the deceased in high and low voices, and those who didn’t cry also shouted “consolation”: people can’t come back from the dead, condolences, auntie, your body is important... and so on.The staff of the wedding company and the relatives and friends of the couple also rushed up to grab the restaurant manager and reasoned indignantly: "What's the matter? Why does your Chaohuang Restaurant have no distinction between weddings and funerals? Why do you still accept the funeral banquet when we have a wedding today?" Does your restaurant have public morality, are you so mercenary?You are too wicked, lacking virtue for eight lifetimes... you will never give up. The emcee of the wedding was stunned on the stage just like the bride and groom. It wasn't until the bride ran up the stairs crying that the emcee remembered what to say to save the situation: "Ah, there were some minor accidents in our wedding today, but I believe our newcomers Xinqi will definitely push back all accidents! "It's a pity that before his words fell, the groom also ran away, shouting the bride's name all the way, catching up with the stairs. There was chaos in the audience, the relatives and friends of the newlyweds almost stood up, some chased up the stairs to comfort the newlyweds, some rushed to the manager of the restaurant to question angrily, some drove away the group of uninvited guests who disturbed the situation, and some stood still and moved At a loss...the two groups of people at the wedding banquet and the funeral banquet fought violently.The entire restaurant hall was instantly smashed into a mess.Jin Kui's mother heard the sound and came down from upstairs. The scene downstairs made her feet go limp. Jin Kui's father and elder brother drove back from the outside. Contrary to the hustle and bustle of Yunlang Chaohuang Restaurant, the Dumu Painting Workshop in Beijing is unusually quiet at this time.Gao Chun accompanied Zhou Xin into the studio, but the spacious studio was empty.Gao Chun followed Zhou Xin and walked past the finished and semi-finished paintings and sculptures. His eyes were all novel in the artistic atmosphere that he had never been there before.It wasn't until Zhou Xin moved an oil painting out of the warehouse that he quickly stepped forward to help her move it to the car outside the door.He didn't ask where he was going until the car started. He didn't expect Zhou Xin to say that he was going to the Lake View Club. "Watching the lake...club?" Of course Zhou Xin didn't understand why Gao Chun was so sensitive to Guanhu Club, and he hesitated to change direction.At this time, there were very few guests in the club, and the dressing room seemed empty. Zhou Xin opened the cabinet he had left unused for a long time, and took out the clothes, soft shoes, towels and bath liquid stored here.When she left, she left the key of the cabinet on the door, signaling that she would never return here. Of course she didn't notice that since she entered the club, Gao Chun, who was waiting in the car, had been sitting on pins and needles, until Zhou Xin returned to the car, until the car drove onto the road, Gao Chun's heart sank.In fact, luck was not favored, and fate cannot escape coincidence. Before that, he looked forward and backward to help Zhou Xin open the car door, but Jin Kui, who went to work early, had a panoramic view. At this time of day, Jin Kui always comes to the club early to prepare for class before her students.So when she was outside the club, she saw Gao Chun's car by accident, saw Zhou Xin by accident, saw Zhou Xin rushing to Gao Chun who opened the door for her, and said something with a smile, with a suspiciously affectionate expression. Seeing the two driving away in a hurry, she immediately called Gao Chun's cell phone, but the cell phone rang and no one answered.Jinkui was absent-minded throughout the afternoon. The students were doing movements, and she was chanting passwords, and she always stopped after chanting.The students all looked at her strangely, not knowing what happened to the teacher today.During the break, Jin Kui called Gao Chun again, this time Gao Chun answered, Jin Kui's annoyance can be imagined. "Gao Chun, where are you now?" At this time, Gao Chun was in Zhou Xin's small apartment, helping the master tidy up the studio.Of course he could hear Jin Kui's questioning and unhappiness on the phone, but since Zhou Xin was by his side, he could only lie to prevaricate for a while. "I'm working, I'll talk to you later... What? I'm alone, of course I'm alone, just now? I've been alone. I'll talk to you later, ah." Before Gao Chun finished speaking, Jin Kui hung up the phone angrily.As soon as she hung up the phone, Jin Kui burst into tears. The students walked into the practice room one after another. Someone asked her, "Coach, are you starting?" She quickly turned her back and wiped her face, and said, "Ah...start." Gao Chun's expression changed immediately after answering the call, and Zhou Xin also faintly felt it.She asked: "Are you busy? I didn't delay your business, did I?" Gao Chun took the phone and answered hastily: "Ah, no." Zhou Xin then changed the topic: "Having a car is really convenient, is it difficult to learn to drive?" Gao Chun was absent-minded, and didn't know what he answered: "Ah...it's not difficult." Then he said: "Oh, I have to go first, okay?" Zhou Xin said, "Of course." Of course Zhou Xin could see that Gao Chun was disturbed by the phone call just now.Otherwise, he wouldn't have left in such a hurry, almost panic-stricken. Jin Kui finally made it to the end of get out of class time.When she was changing clothes in the locker room, the student who was the proprietress of the restaurant noticed her red and swollen eyes and asked her with concern: What's the matter, coach, are you okay?Jin Kui said in a concealed manner: It's all right.Tears welled up again. The female boss shouted: "Yo, what's the matter, what's the matter, what's the matter?" Jin Kui also couldn't tell what was wrong with her. She walked out of the Guanhu Club, just as Gao Chun rushed over, and the two bumped into each other at the club's entrance.Gao Chun yelled: Jin Kui!Jin Kui turned a blind eye, turned her head and shook her face, and went straight to the bus stop on the side of the street. Gao Chun chased after him, knowingly asked, "What's wrong with you, why are you angry?" When the vehicle pulls into the station, Gao Chun tries to hold Jin Kui, but Jin Kui throws him away, and the two tug at the bus stop.Jin Kui simply raised her hand to stop a taxi, got in the car and left, Gao Chun yelled and chased after a few steps, beyond reach.He hurried back to his car, drove back to his residence, ran into the garage, and saw only Master Li's wife was in the house.Gao Chun hurriedly asked: Auntie, where is Jin Kui? Master Li's wife got up from the bed and said: I went to work, and left after lunch. Gao Chun asked: Did you come back just now?Master Li's wife shook her head: No, what's the matter, nothing happened, right? Obviously, Gao Chun's expression was wrong, and Master Li's wife became nervous.Gao Chun turned his head and ran out of the garage. He didn't know where to look for Jin Kui. He drove blindly and kept calling Jin Kui's cell phone, which was always off.He dialed Fang Yuan's cell phone again, but no one answered Fang Yuan's cell phone. At night, Gao Chun drove back to the garage.李师傅早就回来了，正在收拾刚刚吃完的碗筷，高纯站在门口，目光在屋里每个角落快速扫过，知道金葵并未回来。他没有理会李师傅夫妻询问的目光，扭头又跑出了车库。 高纯去了他和金葵去过的小餐厅，去了他和金葵一起购物的商场，当然没有任何奇迹发生。高纯心焦如灼，他看看手表，时间已晚，用手机再次拨打金葵的手机，手机依然关着。高纯站在商场外的街边，街上的行人已渐渐稀少，他犹豫再三，终于用手机拨打了云朗金葵家里的电话。 “喂，这是金葵家吗？我是金葵的同学，听说她要回家了，她今天没给家里打电话吗？” 保姆答：“没有啊，你找她有什么事吗？要不要跟她妈妈说说？ " 高纯连忙表示：“啊，不用了，不用了，谢谢。” 高纯挂了电话，他能感觉到金葵的母亲就在保姆身边，他能想象到当金葵的母亲听到“金葵”二字时，表情该有多么关注，如果不是他早早挂掉，金葵的母亲肯定会接了保姆手中的话筒。 他猜得没错，金葵的母亲就在金家的客厅，就在保姆的身旁，当她听到来电话的人是找金葵的时候，果然接过了话筒。她冲话筒喂了一声，发觉电话已经挂了。 金家的客厅里，这时正在进行一场重要的会晤。会晤主宾，是金葵的父兄和一个辗转请来的律师。会晤的内容，是关于潮皇大酒楼与婚礼事件的受害方日益复杂的官司。从金葵父亲和律师的脸色上，金葵的母亲看得出他们已经谈得焦头烂额，唯有金葵的哥哥金鹏仍然嘴硬，一副理直气壮的模样。 “办丧事的那批人又不是我们请来的，又不是我们拉来的，又没在我们这儿预订过，他们自己冲进来……” 律师打断金鹏：“可结婚的这家人向法院提交的证据已经证明办丧事的这家向你们酒楼预订过那天的餐位，也就是说，潮皇大酒楼那天应当知道他们会来。” 金葵父亲闷着头，没有做声。金鹏断然否认：“不可能，要是有预订我肯定知道。酒楼的业务我天天盯着。” 律师说：“他们通过你们内部的人，从你们酒楼的电脑里打出了酒楼的预订登记表，上面记载着在婚礼的前一天，有一个四十六人就餐的预定，而且预交了五百元的订金。” 金鹏脱口而出：“四十六人，原来就是他们？” 金葵父亲抬头，不满地扫了金鹏一眼。金鹏支吾了一下，不得不向父亲承认：“陈力凡说，那天是有一桌四十六人的预订，可不知道这伙人是办丧事的呀，而且他们那天来了至少六十多人，谁知道他们就是这拨人呀。” 律师说：“来的人是不是超过四十六人，并不影响他们曾经做过预订这个事实的成立。” 金鹏说：“他们预订时也没说是办丧事的呀，我们还以为预订的那拨人没到呢。” 律师说：“现在办婚事那家找到了办丧事那家，可能是给他们塞了钱吧，反正拿到了他们订餐人的一份证词，订餐的人在证词中咬定，他订餐时就说了是四十五六人到六十人之间，是丧事，要求桌上不放花，不围红色台裙……” 金鹏叫道：“不可能，要这么说了我们的人肯定会记下来的，他们不可能说了。” 律师继续说：“订餐的和接受订餐的，一个人说说了，一个人说没说，在没有第三者佐证的情况下，就要看哪个人与本案没有直接利害关系。显然，订餐的人与本案没有利害关系，而接受订餐的一方，也就是你们潮皇大酒楼，与本案有直接利害关系，所以，法院很可能采信订餐人的这份证词。” 金葵父亲开了口：“娄律师，你的意思是，这次他们告我们，肯定能告得赢啦，那法院能判我们怎么着？” 律师想了一下，答：“原告方作为受害人，他们受到的损害是确实发生了的。既然有损害发生，就必然有责任人。法院很可能认为： 潮皇大酒楼作为婚礼的承接人，不是在预订安排上存在纰漏，就是对突发事件现场的处理上有不足之处，法院在责任认定上，肯定不会让你们一点责任不承担的。一旦确定我们酒楼方面有失误，那肯定就要进行赔偿。 " 金葵父亲最关心的正是这个：“赔偿多少钱呢？” 律师最不敢答的，也是这个：“赔偿包括经济上的赔偿和精神损失的赔偿，特别是精神损失的赔偿，法无定数，不好估计。” 金鹏傻眼去看父亲，父亲想了想，又对律师问道：“如果，我们现在跟他们私了这事，他们肯不肯？” 律师说：“现在对方已经向法院起诉了，当然起诉也可以撤诉，庭外和解当然可以。不过，如果婚礼这一方对官司已经有了必胜的信心，我们这一方现在才提出私了，对方提出的赔偿数额恐怕不会比他们原先想要的减少太多。既然这样，还不如把这官司打了呢，法院总不会比原告要求的数额判赔更多吧。” 金葵的父亲沉默下来。 律师又说：“还有，我听说原告方已经把这个事情捅到云朗晚报上去了，晚报很可能这几天就登出来。你们在报纸那边要是有熟人的话，最好把这篇稿子压下来，否则对你们潮皇大酒楼的声誉，对接下来的这场官司，都很不利。” 金葵父兄彼此看看，没有应声，从他们的表情上律师已经看出，他们在新闻媒体方面，没什么过硬的关系。 律师走了，金家老少还都留在客厅里，愁眉不展。 金葵的父亲已经预见到即将到来的灭顶之灾：“官司一打，至少半年，这半年生意不可能好做，万一报纸再一登，谁还愿意到咱们这儿来办婚事？好事不出门，坏事传千里，那些个记者，就喜欢小题大做。” 金鹏的血气也降了下来：“生意一差，想给咱们入股投资的人还怎么来呀……” “废话，”金葵父亲说：“现在还想什么入股投资！” 金葵母亲想到的，则是眼前现摆的麻烦：“那……欠杨峰的钱，怎么办？” 金葵父亲低头抽烟，屋里沉默良久，直到他把烟头缓缓按灭，闷声说了句：“不是我们不认命，是命不认我们。”金葵的母亲目光发呆，在她的印象中，丈夫似乎从未如此气馁。 “现在，咱们一家的命，都攥在金葵手上了。”金葵的父亲看一眼妻子，说：“只有咱们这个宝贝女儿，能救咱们。”