Chapter 10 Chapter nine

Xiaoou's continuous silence made Duan Kaiwen gradually calm down from being terrified. He thought that Mei Xiaoou probably gave up his original intention of recovering debts from him after hearing his friend's story of rationalizing his bad debts.Duan Kaiwen felt that her consciousness was general from the very beginning, and this incident proves that she really is. When Xiaoou suddenly appeared in front of him on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year a few months later, he looked as if he had just remembered that there was such a person as Mei Xiaoou in the world. The spying on his whereabouts during the Spring Festival holiday was divided into many small pieces, and the spying was done piece by piece.No one in his company knew about Mr. Duan's family going on vacation, but Xiaoou sent Ah Zhuan to spy on him.Ah Zhuan found out about it from Mr. Duan's daughter's college.Duan Wendi works as a teaching assistant at the University of London and graduated last year.This message is what Lao Liu once said inadvertently.Ahzhuan called Duan Wendi's department, pretending to be Duan Wendi's Chinese classmate, and went to London on a business trip. He was eager to know Duan Wendi's mobile phone number in London so that he could have dinner with her.The department secretary told Ah Zhuan Duan Wendi's cell phone number.Ah Zhuan got through Duan Qianjin's mobile phone, claiming to be a Cantonese scholar sent to London, and the department recommended Wendi as his academic exchange partner.Wendy immediately apologized, she was on vacation in Sanya, China with her parents and younger brother.If he needs academic discussions, he can call her Chinese mobile phone, so that she can save on international roaming charges.A Zhuan said by the way that he likes the Ritz-Carlton the most in hotels in Sanya, and Duan Wendi also said by the way that her family lives in the Carlton.Ah Zhuan added another compliment, of course, Duan Wendi has such a great father, so she must be staying in the best hotel in Sanya.Duan Qianjin was proud, and asked Ah Zhuan how she knew who her father was.Ah Zhuan said who doesn't know Duan Wendi's father?It has been in the newspapers many times!Before the call ended, he wished Duan Wendi and her parents a happy Chinese New Year.

Eight hours later, a thin, fair-skinned woman in inappropriate clothes appeared in the lobby of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Sanya.The vast majority of hotel guests extend the beach to the hotel lobby, as well as the road and street shops, so they wear beach clothes there.Mei Xiaoou is wearing a spring and autumn suit, the color and complexion ironically reflect the tropical style and customs.Duan Kevin's heart was too eager to clear Duan, she got on the ferry to Hong Kong without changing her clothes, and then boarded the plane from Hong Kong to Sanya. The front desk connected the call to the suite owned by Mr. Duan Kevin's family.No one heard.The front desk clerk asked Xiaoou if he had Mr. Duan's cell phone number, and why not call his cell phone in case of emergency.Xiaoou said Mr. Duan never answered his cell phone during vacation time.A new family arrived in the lobby. They came from Beijing. The man is American, and the children are Chinese and American with loud voices, occupying several front desk attendants.Xiaoou was completely ignored.Anyone who doesn't stay in this hotel doesn't deserve the front desk waste of time and smiles.Xiaoou looked at the price of the room on that day, and made a call to the reservation department with his mobile phone, and replied that the room was already fully booked.Not even an emergency one?Yes, luxury suites are available at market prices during peak seasons, without discounts.

Xiaoou accepted the sky-high price without hesitation.After booking the room, she called Ah Zhuan and asked him to ask a nanny to take her son to Sanya immediately.After finishing the arrangement, she asked Ah Zhuan to take good care of her clients.The Spring Festival gamblers make Xiaoou and Azhuan so busy that they can be compared with the Macau Customs. She will actually offend the customer if she leaves the customer to Azhuan alone.But she really wants to see Duan Kaiwen being attacked by her by surprise, and she wants to see the good scene where Mei Xiaoou, who is in awe of Mr. Duan, launches a general attack on Duan.After lurking in silence for several months, he suddenly appeared out of nowhere, what should he say when he attacked Duan Kaiwen?The first sentence must be classic, so that Duan and herself can remember the last moment of their lives. "President Duan, what a coincidence, why are you here?" No, the surprise attack was not strong enough.Then, "Mr. Duan didn't expect me to be here, did he?" It's not good, it's more insidious, not enough to be a positive person. "Hi Mr. Duan, it's not easy to find you." If the tone is handled better, this line is still pertinent.Is it easy to find him?All relevant personnel in his company have been trained to deal with her: don't call outside calls to his office, is there anything urgent for you?I will ask Mr. Duan to call you back.Xiaoou was blocked by the receptionist and the male secretary countless times on the phone.No, it can't reveal how she found him.Her silence for several months made him reflect on himself, so, "Mr. Duan, long time no see." This sentence is enough.Needless to say, he would understand that during the past few months, there was not a day when Shen Mo Xiaoou didn't want to fly to Beijing, find his home, and liquidate him in front of his wife and children.Every day she delays action is a day he should spend on introspection and wasted by him.The months of her silence were more than a hundred days when she watched him quietly, watching him owe a woman more than 20 million yuan, wrong, plus interest it should be nearly 30 million yuan.Don't think that once you pinch the softest persimmon, you can squeeze it to pieces with peace of mind.A good show that is handled in a low-key manner is even more interesting. "Mr. Duan, long time no see." This simple greeting can contain all kinds of emotions, from helplessness to sadness to anger to helplessness, hidden in the middle, relaxed in the middle, passive and active, Tai Chi-like mental movements , in this plain sentence.After Duan Kaiwen has passed his life, before closing his eyes or not, he must think of how Mei Xiaoou's big action to liquidate him started with a simple greeting.

But when the good show came, she said nothing.She forgot the lines of a female Junket Operator and left herself on stage as an ordinary woman.The dramatic conflict was completely ruined, and Duan always remained active and calm as before, saying: "Xiaoou, you are so surprising, aren't you?"What else could she do, she stretched out her hand to him like a puppet, making him hold it tightly like a long-lost friend for a long time. She was busy enough before finding him, arranging all the details of her son's beach vacation, and at the same time trying to call the Duan family from her luxurious suite.It was not until the evening that someone in the Duan's suite answered the phone.President Duan has left Sanya, Mrs. Duan told Xiaoou.Xiaoou claimed to be a guest of the hotel, and he was here for vacation with his family. He heard from a friend in Beijing that Mr. Duan was also staying at the hotel. He wanted to do a short interview with Mr. Duan because she invested in a special TV program on successful entrepreneurs. Preliminary character selection work is in progress.Mrs. Duan made no secret of her pride, saying that Xiaoou's special program was absolutely correct in selecting Lao Duan.Mrs. Duan has a strong Jiaodong accent.There are beauties in Jiaodong, but beauties cannot come out of Jiaodong, so I put Jiaodong in my accent and bring it to all parts of the country.The Jiaodong beauty welcomed Xiaoou and her family to her suite as guests, and at the same time told her the room number of the suite.Xiaoou felt that the house number sounded familiar, 2818, she suddenly realized that she was the neighbor of the Duan family.Mrs. Duan assured Xiaoou that she would do her best to support Xiaoou's special program. Many people always interviewed her first because she knew Lao Duan better than Lao Duan.

Xiaoou was standing at the door of his own suite, listening to Mrs. Duan's promise across the door.The promises made in Jiaodong accent are more straightforward and sincere than those made in other dialects.This simplicity made Xiaoou relieve his hesitation, and put his finger on the doorbell of 2818. The conversation across the door paused for a moment, and was replaced by a shout in Jiaodong accent, "Wenwen, go and open the door." Immediately afterwards, Mrs. Duan forgot where the conversation was just now, and invited Xiaoou to be a guest again. The chubby Wenwen wearing glasses stood in the open door. Xiaoou couldn't interrupt Mrs. Duan's invitation, and with a mobile phone in one hand, she answered Mrs. Duan who was sitting in front of the French window.

"Excuse me, who are you looking for?" Duan Qianjin was guarding the gate for his father.A woman of Xiaoou's age should be considered a mature woman, but she is still a good trap for a man of her father's age. "Look for Mrs. Duan." Duan Wendi, who is not beautiful, still does not loosen her guard. "Who is it, Wenwen?" Mrs. Duan walked from the floor-to-ceiling windows to the hall. She was indeed tall and plump, but she was just a late beauty.Mrs. Duan looked at Mei Xiaoou who was smiling at her at the door, and the hand holding the mobile phone stopped half a foot away from her cheek.

"Do you have anything to do with me?" Mrs. Duan walked up to her daughter warily. "You invited me here!" Xiaoou made a fuss with his voice and posture.She seemed to feel that Mrs. Duan was the kind of woman who confused bluffing with boldness. "I invited you here?" "Yes!" Mrs. Duan looked at her bewildered daughter in a daze. "Put the phone on your ear!" Xiaoou gestured. Mrs. Duan complied.Xiaoou also picked up the phone, the phone was still talking, Xiaoou greeted the phone with a smile: "Mrs. Duan, you invite me to be your guest, don't you? Here I am!"

Mrs. Duan raised her eyebrows, laughed loudly, and said to the mobile phone, "Come in quickly! I didn't expect you to arrive so soon!" Xiaoou pointed behind her: "I didn't expect it to be so fast! From 2817 to 2818, it took a total of three seconds!" "Do you think it's a coincidence, Wenwen? This is Ms. Mo, who invests in a special program. She wanted to be a special feature for your father, but she didn't expect to live across the door from us!" The word "Mei" was changed to "Mo" when Xiaoou gave his surname, and "Mei" in Macau sounds closer to "Mo".

"What a coincidence, my dad went to Haikou yesterday. He bought a piece of land there more than ten years ago, and now he is building a building." Duan Qianjin said.Her eyes did not give up on the gatekeeper's scrutiny.She intuited that things would not be that simple, it was just a coincidence that this young woman, who had just entered her prime, lived opposite the suite her father had ordered. "When will the chairman return to Sanya?" Xiaoou asked. "Maybe tomorrow, maybe the day after tomorrow." Mrs. Duan invited Xiaoou into the room, took the large dragon fruit on the fruit plate and put it on the tea table in front of Xiaoou, as if the guests could eat the dragon fruit like a steamed bun. "Before he comes back, you can interview me. The two of us have been able to go to college! At that time, I helped her take care of the child at my aunt's house, and often took the child to the campus to play. Whenever the old Duan heard what I said, he would come up and talk to me. I spoke up. His family is not from Jiaodong, but they are all from Shandong. Later, he told me that if you marry a Shandong wife, you will not want to go home for the rest of your life.”

Looking at Mrs. Duan carefully, she is still a beautiful person, with a Danfeng Chaoyang style of beauty. At the age of 19 or 20, Duan Kaiwen, a poor boy suffering from homesickness, must no longer miss home.Not only do they miss home, but they also miss the whole human being and the world.It is conceivable to imagine the sense of fullness that "wouldn't even do it for the emperor" with the tall and plump young Mrs. Duan in her arms.Xiaoou felt that she had a very good impression of Mrs. Duan, which was dangerously good: if the two became friends, her premeditated surprise attack on Duan Kevin would be more difficult, so she found an excuse to leave quickly, anyway, she had already got Duan is the address of the construction site in Haikou.When she returned to her suite, she sent a message to the nanny who brought her son, asking her to put him in the small bedroom of the suite and order two meals to eat in the room.Never go to the beach after dark.She also sent a message to her son's mobile phone, promising that she would come back to accompany him to the sea the next day after finishing the work.

The car to Haikou was waiting in front of the hotel in fifteen minutes.The driver's white uniform was stained and stained, with sauce dripping from his chest, but his white gloves were spotless.He opened the door for Xiaoou, and put his white gloves on the top of the door frame.The rapid development has made Sanya's folklore rough and overly particular about compatibility, making Xiaoou sometimes between flattered and extremely dissatisfied. It was already evening when we arrived in Haikou.The land Duan Kaiwen bought is more than 40 kilometers away from Haikou, and the land is in a barren banana forest; on the left and right of it are two built residential areas, which seem to have been built for a long time, and there are gray and black water stains on the building. It is a watershed where the rainwater on the roof of the building loses its circulation channel and floods after the sewer pipe is blocked or ruptured. The community security told Xiaoou that no one knew who the big wasteland between the two communities belonged to.Sometimes there is a lot of excitement on the wasteland, a group of northerners quarreling, pushing and shoving on it, and soon the birds and animals disperse, and the wasteland is still wasteland. Xiaoou heard a humming sound in the air.Mosquitoes in the wasteland smelled fresh blood rushing towards Xiaoou tide.Before fleeing, Xiaoou caught a glimpse of a wooden sign lying in the weeds: "Please call 13 to buy land...".While asking the driver to close all the doors and windows, she wrote down the mobile phone number on the palm of her hand with a pen.Looking back, there was a cloud of black mist floating where she had just stood.How many people's blood does it take to feed so many gnats waiting for their future owners. The first second seeing Mrs. Duan is the moment when Xiaoou changes his decision.She decided to settle the matter with Duan Kevin privately without disturbing Duan's family.Duan Kaiwen, who is a husband and father, is the sun and air of his family, Xiaoou felt this immediately.The Duan family enjoys happiness because of Duan Kaiwen, and the happiness they enjoy lies in the speech and behavior of Mrs. Duan and Duan Wendi.They are the kind of women who have men fighting fiercely for them on the front line and they don't know the battle ahead in the rear.A woman like Mei Xiaoou who rushed to the front couldn't bear to let the flames of war burn to their rear.Anyway, she had figured out Mr. Duan's rear, so she could always attack the rear later. The collapsed wooden sign on the wasteland gave Xiaoou a clue, and she dialed the mobile phone number on the wooden sign in the car.The other party spoke Mandarin, with correct words.Xiaoou's next big discovery was that she was listening to a recording.Recording Callers who intend to buy land please leave your phone number so that you can get a call back as soon as possible. Xiaoou was stumped.Duan Kaiwen had already memorized her mobile phone number, if he was sitting next to the land sales recording, Xiaoou's surprise attack would be exposed.She made a small deal with the driver, gave the driver one hundred yuan, and borrowed his mobile phone to make a few calls.People from all over Hainan are more deceitful and less moral, and the driver has long been used to this. As long as he pays, he can help anyone's deceit and immorality.Xiaoou left the driver's cell phone number on the recorder, and two minutes later, the driver's cell phone rang. "Hi, hello!" Xiaoou picked up the phone. "I heard that your company is selling land? What price?" She is fluent in Cantonese. He told her what the price was in Mandarin.Anyway, she was ignorant of the price of land in Hainan, anyway, she didn't plan to buy it, she just wanted to make a Guangzhou buyer look better, and asked if the price was negotiated, and if they could meet to discuss it.Putonghua told her that there was not much room for negotiation, because there were already seven or eight buyers.As for meeting and discussing, he asked Xiaoou and others to inform. Putonghua must have discussed with Kevin Duan.After the two-minute discussion ended, Xiaoou was allowed to have a face-to-face meeting. "Do you have decision-making power?" "……Ok?" "Because I am the company's decision-maker, the negotiation is successful, and I can sign the contract and pay the deposit on the spot. I don't want to travel so far to negotiate with someone who has no decision-making power." "Oh, please wait a little longer." This time Xiaoou only waited for less than a minute, and the other party answered her that the boss of the company would negotiate with her personally.May I ask the boss's name?You can't just call him "boss" when you meet, can you?The boss' surname is Duan. This goes back to the breaking point of the climax of the drama, the moment Duan Kaiwen saw Mei Xiaoou who suddenly appeared on the stage.Before that, it was the driver who laid the groundwork. The driver stepped into the negotiation scene first. Sorry for the announcement, his female boss will always be five minutes late. As an employee of the legal department, he can take a look at the contract on her behalf.Duan Kaiwen looked at the dark and thin man, who looked like a young fisherman no matter what.He raised his wrist and glanced at his watch. The young fisherman's eyes didn't move a millimeter from the contract.He was about to ask if he would like to read and explain the contract to the fishermen when Xiaoou walked in.She stopped three steps away from Duan.Duan sat on a three-seater sofa, with a long glass tea table in front and a literate driver holding a contract on the right.Kevin Duan's face and body turned to the right, resembling an impatient literacy teacher.Xiaoou's appearance was so slight that Duan Kaiwen didn't look at her with the first glance, but at her feet.She was wearing a pair of latex sandals that she bought on the spur of the moment, light and cheap.After dusk, there are markets for this kind of goods on the overpass and on the side of the road.In Duan Kaiwen's mind, wearing these sandals is worse than bare feet.He wanted to see how the owner of these feet dared to step into this four-star hotel, into the small conference room he had borrowed.The whole process only took about a second, from turning around to looking up from the bottom. All Xiaoou can do in this second is to smile hastily. "Xiaoou, you are too surprising, aren't you?" Mr. Duan jumped up from the three sofas. If it weren't for the extremely popular glass coffee table blocking the way, Xiaoou felt that Duan would jump up and hug her.He held her hand with the magnitude and strength of a hug, dragged her back to the sofa on his left, and dragged her down on the sofa. "You girl, are you being naughty with me?" Xiaoou realizes that she was the one who was attacked.What changed from passive to active?Duan Kevin will always make you passive.He glanced around, he was still the king here, his subordinates understood at that glance, and immediately slipped out the door.Only the chauffeur, who played the role of the legal employee, was obsessed with the role, sitting there squeaking and drinking tea, smacking the tea into his mouth and spitting it back into the cup. Xiaoou said "sorry" to the driver, and invited him outside for tea. "You don't need to speak. I know." Duan was still so forgiving to Xiaoou.He owed her more than 20 million yuan. He knows what kind of liar, rogue, and rascal you think of him. He forgives and understands that you spoiled him in your mind. "President Duan..." Xiaoou's eyes were red again. Duan saw her bloodshot eye circles and nose, and immediately stretched out a "pause" hand. "Don't. I know all about it. I came to Hainan to deal with that piece of land in a hurry, isn't it just for you?" Xiaoou let him take the initiative again.She had no choice but to be passive and listen to a story about a series of value-added prices of his land, how much it increased in a certain year, and how many times it increased in a certain year.Even if it is a gold mine, such a large pile of gold cannot be dug out.There were so many people vying for the land that he decided to auction it off.He owed her only a few dollars to Mei Xiaoou, and if he didn't believe Duan's words, Duan could count Mei Xiaoou as one of the owners of his real estate, owning one-sixth or one-seventh of the land.How to get one-sixth or one-seventh of the amount is not simple. The most conservative evaluation value of this piece of land is one-sixth or one-seventh of the amount, which is equivalent to what Duan Kevin owes to Mei Xiao. Gull's 24 million! "Mr. Duan, you forgot the rules of the casino: no interest will be charged for repayment within ten days, and interest will be calculated after ten days." Xiaoou warmly reminded. Xiaoou wrote down calculations one after another on the sticky note, stroke by stroke, in black and white, I am not afraid that you will be confronted by the whole world.Looking up, she was startled, Duan's gaze pierced through the back of her glasses, piercing her: You cannibalistic bitch, you earn your money in such disgraceful ways, you eat The casino eats gamblers again, greedy... "The interest rate is high enough, huh?" He gave an unhappy smile. "I told you this when you borrowed chips from the casino, and you agreed." Xiaoou's words sounded like a warning, but they were still warm. "The interest rate is too high!" Duan Kaiwen stood up from the sofa.He wanted to be angry with Xiaoou a long time ago, and now interest has become the reason for his anger. "It's not what I ordered..." "I know it's not your rule! It's not the casino's rule, right?" He was arguing. "Yes, it's the rules. The Mage gambling industry has been in business for hundreds of years, and the rules are sound. If you don't rely on the rules, it would have collapsed." Xiaoou felt warm and undiminished, feeling that he was actively breaking free from his passiveness of more than 20 minutes, and kept "relaxing" ", finally began to "Zhang". "What bullshit rules, this is blackmail!" His aggressiveness was his passivity. "When you borrowed chips from the casino, you should protest like this. You didn't have to recognize this rule at the time." Kevin Duan turned his back to Junket Operator.His big Shandong man's back is still square and square, and there is not much fat. The gym, his age, and diet have competed with him for many years and competed for him.How can I say that Duan Kevin is an excellent man, if there is no city called Mage in the world. "No wonder you haven't looked for me these past few months! The longer the days drag on, the more interest you get." He turned his back to her and revealed. "You know that, Mr. Duan." "what do you know?" "The longer the day drags on, the more interest there will be." "I can say that I don't know. I can say that you never explained it clearly to me." Duan's hooligan tone was revealed. "Azhuan heard me explain to you." "Who expects Ah Zhuan to turn to me? Of course to you! The dog still doesn't bite the hand that feeds it!" Xiaoou's mobile phone received a text message from Shi Qilan. "I have arrived in Vietnam, and I can pay off your debt soon!" Old Shi refused to listen to the advice, and took his cousin of the Shi family to a casino in Vietnam.On the night of the full moon on the fifteenth or sixteenth day of the lunar calendar, she still had a secret love affair with Lao Shi in her heart. "No wonder you haven't looked for me for several months." Duan turned around, completely enlightened. Xiaoou stood up from the sofa.Lao Shi is a hopeless bastard, she shouldn't treat him differently.She deserves it... "I gave you a few months of grace, what do you take my good intentions for?" Xiaoou knew that his accusation was not true, and the silence for several months was a psychological war with Duan Kaiwen. "I thought I would give you a few months, and you could reflect on it quietly. You treated the scenes that Mei Xiaoou made up for me, as if you were really arranging money remittances, and you really had money to remit. A woman who is alone with a child is not ashamed to panic? I will give you a few months, just to embarrass you, and let you be ashamed under the grace of me as a woman." There was indeed a thin smear of shame on Duan's face, but it disappeared immediately. "I don't need interest." Xiaoou said. "No need! What is that little interest? I, Duan, are not haggling with you!" Xiaoou didn't give in.Pushing back would be seen as underestimating him.Then repay the principal with interest.Xiaoou took out the prepared paper from her handbag, opened it, and put it in front of Duan Kaiwen. "President Duan, please sign." It was a simple contract, and Duan Kevin, the debtor, admitted to repay all the debt owed by the creditor, Mei Xiaoou, within five days.Duan stared at Xiaoou, and fiercely grabbed the contract with a clatter.The phone on his belt rang.He looked at the phone number and immediately pressed the answer button.The tense fighting posture suddenly relaxed, and he became a loving father. "What's the matter?" Dad protested with a smile, "If I can't go back tomorrow, I will definitely go back the day after tomorrow, okay? My sister said bad things about me... Who... interviewed? Which TV station's special program? What kind of woman?" Duan glanced at Xiaoou for some reason. Xiaoou hugged her arms tightly in front of her chest, resisting the air-conditioning of the four-star air conditioner.Using artificial heating and cooling to create the opposite of the natural climate is the extravagance and luxury of a star hotel. The person talking to Duan now must be Duan Wendi who came back from London University. Duan Kaiwen looked at Xiaoou from time to time.Xiaoou is sending a message to Lao Shi at the moment: "Mo, Mo, Mo." Although her stepfather has made her lose her appetite for Chinese all her life, the poems forced into her can't help but grow in her heart. Lao Shi immediately replied: "The distant cousin is lucky, he won 1.2 million! I can share it with him!" Xiaoou replied another text message: "Wrong, wrong, wrong." She saw Kevin Duan go out from the small conference room.It is inconvenient for Xiaoou to have a conversation with his daughter in front of her.She sent a text message to Ah Zhuan, asking him how the gamblers are doing and whether there are any candidates who can develop long-term customers. Duan Kevin came back when she was texting with Azhuan.She manipulated text messages skillfully with her fingers, but her face was dealing with Duan. "Well, you Mei Xiaoou, you are amazing!" Duan exclaimed in fear before she finished writing the text message. Xiaoou pressed "send" on the phone, then raised her face to Duan.Of course she knew what he meant by "powerful": she actually sneaked into the Duan family's enemy's rear first. "I can't tell, she's teary every now and then, what a weak woman..." Duan took deep breaths continuously, his shock, fear and resentment seemed to consume a lot of oxygen. "What are you going to say to Jiaying?" Xiaoou didn't know who Jiaying was, but she quickly matched up with the tall and tall Mrs. Duan. "That's how I booked the room, and it happened to be opposite your house." Xiaoou said honestly. Duan Kaiwen looked at her, as if he was looking at a female ghost gradually appearing.The female ghost is already causing trouble. To use a political saying in the Chinese past, it is: He must be "rectified".He couldn't predict the methods and steps she used to punish him, but judging from the few tricks she used just now, the methods would not be bad.It took him more than 20 years to build a happy family, which was more difficult than building a brand industrial company, because there was no need for any hypocrisy, how many mistresses were successfully got rid of, and were defeated outside his happy castle.It's not easy.And this female Junket Operator somehow got through the secret passage, and when you find out, she is already in the center of the castle. "What exactly do you want to do?" Duan Kevin asked in the tone of a character in the TV series.The kind of person who finds out that he has been fooled and has been held hostage to his death. "I didn't tell your wife anything, and I won't tell her." "What are you trying to do as the producer of the special program? Just want to make friends with Yu Jiaying?" "Can't you?" Xiaoou shrugged. "She told you my whereabouts, and you chased me to Haikou." "I don't need to chase you to Haikou, because you will definitely return to Sanya in two or three days. I can definitely wait for you at the Ritz-Carlton, which will save trouble and money for me. Imagine that I am in your suite and mine What will you say when you meet at the door? I can definitely do anything." Duan's eyes froze behind the lens, and he could see the scene in his imagination: Junket Boy appeared when he and his family were so happy that they didn't need the care and trouble of this world, and appeared in front of his Jiaying and his daughter , Young Master explained the reason for the appearance.He saw this picture in his reverie, blinked, turned off the picture, and then looked at the Junket Boy with a different look. Xiaoou's smile seemed to say: I'm really not a good person, I'm really not easy to mess with, and it's hard to deal with when I'm in a hurry. Then, Duan Kaiwen lowered his head and read the contract in grief, indignation and humiliation. Old Shi's text message said: "My distant cousin won another million! I'm starting to gain weight!" Xiaoou clenched his teeth so hard that his eyeballs ached.Bastard, scum, the hopeless Shi Qilan.I was born to be useless... A series of vicious cursing in her heart, and the reply has already been typed: "What do you use to add weight, do you use Chen Xiaoxiao and your son's food money?" "Use the pump my cousin gave me! Forgot? If he wins, I can get 10% of the pump!" Old Shi replied. Xiaoou took the time to reply: "Should I inform Chen Xiaoxiao and your son to rush over to play with you?" Old Shi didn't reply.Probably the gambling table was tight, and he couldn't care less about Xiaoou's bitterness.Duan Kaiwen slapped the contract on the glass tea table. "Okay, I'll sign." He took out a pen from his suit pocket. Xiaoou saw that he was using an ordinary signature pen.Duan has never used luxury or oversized brands.He has a lot of excellence, he is not a vulgar thing.His mood was like signing the Treaty of Nanking or the Treaty of Tianjin or the Treaty of Shimonoseki.The same signature should be placed on the ambitious and far-reaching project contract.Once the same signature is signed, how many cranes that enter the clouds, the sea of ​​concrete, and the tide of migrant workers... Yes, this signature is written on paper, how many young farmers have walked from cornfields, wheat fields and rice fields. Get out and climb on the train into town.This signature, like others of its kind, is responsible for the millions of villages that disappear every day in rural China. Duan, who signed the signature, was always the defeated country, and without saying a word, he lowered his head and hurriedly walked towards the door.It's too humiliating and doesn't give him any dignity left.A person without dignity has no etiquette, no manners to talk about, so he doesn't have to leave.Xiaoou heard a follower shouting outside the small meeting room: "Mr. Duan! Where are you going, Mr. Duan?" Mr. Duan hurried out of the meeting room like the wind, as if he didn't know anyone.Xiaoou picked up the contract signed by two people.The contract says that if the owed party does not pay off the debt within five working days, the creditor can sue in the local court.This time, the place is Chaoyang District, Beijing, where Hongkai Industrial Company is located.The prosecution will arouse heated discussions in the capital's large and small media. How much can Chairman Duan reduce his integrity overnight with the extensive information network of Skynet?How much will the personality be discounted?He will be re-evaluated by the banks that financed his development projects, and will be re-evaluated by the big project clients who are about to and are hiring his firm.It's not that no one persuaded him with kind words to stop playing "dragging", there were some, such as her Mei Xiaoou. Xiaoou wrote a text message to Shi Qilan on the car back to Sanya.The decision to go back to Sanya overnight was made after the negotiation.She asked the driver to drink two cups of coffee, and set off at eight o'clock in the evening, heading straight for Sanya.The text message to Lao Shi basically emphasized her proposal, Lao Shi completely quit gambling, and she, Mei Xiaoou, completely sold off her debts.If Lao Shi and Xiaoyu couldn't bear it and insisted on compensating for a few red sandalwood or huanghuali objects, she, Xiaoou, would keep them as treasures forever. Lao Shi was having fun in Vietnam, and he didn't reply to her until half an hour later.He followed his cousin's weight gain and won, and now he has 300,000 in his hand.Xiaoou immediately replied to him that this is a new casino trick to lure newcomers like his distant cousin to take the bait with winnings, but it is not far from a miserable loss.In the next text message, Lao Shi told Xiaoou that with her young lady's good words, his cousin won again, and the winning amount was as high as 3.4 million. The distant cousin who won the money is no longer a "distant cousin", and Lao Shi is so affectionate with each other.The old history is completely abolished.Xiaoou rested his head on the back of the car seat, looking at the floating sea outside the expressway.The moonlight flickers on and off, and the sea is an uneasy undulating black when it is dark.Nature at night is a little scary, and it suddenly makes people think that it is not a good thing for people to fight against it for too long.Conquering, exploiting, enslaving nature abounds, right outside their little car.Her fear is similar to that between races: a race that thinks it is stronger and more aggressive has done too many bad things to a primitive and submissive race, and at this moment, Xiaoou, as an individual of the strong race, is placed in the boundless and infinite weak race. In the middle, she has too many reasons to be afraid... Even though there are many cars walking on the highway, Xiaoou is still inexplicably afraid.When the sea is brewing a tsunami, is it also so calm? She turned her face to the darkness inside the car.This dark human being, which smelled of driver's hair oil and sour sweat, was more human, and it comforted her who was frightened. Back at Ritz-Carlton's suite, the first thing I saw was my son's shoes, one sideways and the other turned upside down.The son, who didn't know the mother's details, was shocked when he entered such a luxurious suite, and then burst into ecstasy.These are two ecstatic shoes.She stood in the hallway with no lights on, and the room was cold and quiet.Quiet and cool at the Ritz-Carlton level.It was so quiet that the nanny and son could be heard sleeping soundly.Those who are safe listen to the sea, the sea is friendly, gentle, and hypnotic. When I met the Duan family in the breakfast room, Mrs. Duan called Yu Jiaying greeted her loudly from afar.Xiaoou, her son and the nanny were waiting at the entrance of the restaurant for the usher to assign tables, she smiled and waved.Duan Kaiwen also rushed back to Sanya overnight, directly after signing the contract.He must be ahead of her, Mei Xiaoou.Can she trust Mei Xiaoou's verbal confidentiality agreement?Of course not.Duan Kevin wants to personally defend his happy family castle.After Mrs. Duan greeted Xiaoou, she explained something to her husband, and kept pointing her eyes at Xiaoou. Here, she is the feature producer. The guests at the table next to the Duan's house had finished eating and left the table in twos and threes.Mrs. Duan started yelling at Xiaoou's family again, telling them to sit down.The fat on her two thick arms was thick and thick, dangling and shaking in the sleeves of her T-shirt.Xiaoou pointed to her son, and then pointed to the door near the sea, indicating that she could only sit there according to her son's wishes.What a good cover and cover her son is, she didn't sit at the next table of Duan's house because it was for Duan Kaiwen's good, so that he would not be nervous and shrink his appetite.After sitting down, she turned her head and glanced at Duan's table.Duan Kevin is also looking at her.He and she became two rival snipers, one in danger of being hit by the other.Although her glance was brief, she still saw the happiness of the Duan family: Duan Wendi was joking with her fifteen or sixteen-year-old brother, and her wife was putting shelled prawns on her husband's small plate.The son of the Duan family looks exactly like his mother, with cheerful eyebrows and a naturally ruddy face.Tell him his father's bad deeds of gambling and reneging on bad debts, Xiaoou also felt that heaven would not allow it.It's not justified to say hello, but it's easy to pass through, and the greeting scene in the past was too difficult to perform. "Hello, Mrs. Duan!" Xiaoou greeted happily as she straightened the long curls she had just made, and walked across the dining tables. "Okay, okay! Old Duan, this is Ms. Mo, what I just told you!" Duan Kevin's face darkened, and he was anxious all night about this moment.The palm was in Xiaoou's, and a wave of cold damp soaked her.Xiaoou casually babbled the language of chasing stars, but none of them entered Duan's consciousness.His smile is like that of a country bumpkin who is sitting in front of the camera in a photo studio for the first time, and is yelled at by the photographer.In his misty eyes, he only looked at a woman with long sleeves and a good dancer. The woman acted out the most difficult scene for him. Duan Wendi's eyes flickered on his father's face, then on Xiaoou's face, and then back to his father's face.A daughter is the rival of all her father's lovers.Any woman (regardless of status) who came to her father was likely harboring a lover or would-be lover.Success and wealth, like bad smells, attract young women like flies.这个藏在制片人身份里的女子在父亲眼里还算年轻貌美，作为父亲所有情人的情敌，段雯迪觉出这“初次见面”当中多出点什么。晓鸥从段家那桌往儿子身边走去，深感自己在段千金眼中缺乏说服力。她刚才当着段家所有成员跟段约采访，同时邀请段太太做嘉宾，补充细节，增加女人的感性叙事。段凯文泛泛地答应下来，说下面几天抽空吧。 段的手机短信在晓鸥吃下第一口燕麦粥时到达。 “请你自爱，不要再出现在我家人面前。” 刚吃下去的燕麦粥突然不顺着正常管道下行了，结成坨停在食道底端。这绝对是个傲慢至极的输家。儿子提醒晓鸥，母亲瞪了他半天了，他做错了什么吗？晓鸥是在等那一坨燕麦粥化解，别像一团垃圾一样堵在下水道口。 “段总，请你明白，给我发这种信息本身就欠缺自爱。” “不管怎样，你不许再出现在我家人面前。” “别操心我，操心汇款的事吧。中国银行已经开门办业务了。五天限期并不长，别忘了契约的限定。” 春节长假临近结尾，不少银行的营业部开门了。晓鸥专门把这些银行的地址搜寻到，一一发送到段凯文手机上。在她写短信的同时，几条短信又发至她的手机。其中两条是史奇澜发的，一条来自段凯文。 “你在恫吓威胁我。”段的短信说。 “我认为我在温馨提示。”晓鸥回复。 她撇下段凯文，打开老史的信息。第一条告诉她太好了，他一夜睡醒，表弟把赢来的钱全输回去了。第二条要她立刻去越南。表弟输的钱，就是他史奇澜偿还晓鸥的钱。表弟输一千万才好，他老史就得逞了，把他欠晓鸥的债务转嫁给越南赌场的老板了。 晓鸥一身无力。老史是拉不动的。不如就顺着他，让他把她晓鸥当西墙来补，拆越南赌场那堵东墙的砖石。她梅晓鸥对他仁义、慈悲，婉谢他来补她这堵墙，说不定他拿拆下的砖石到别处补去。老史欠补的墙太多，说不定拆了越南赌场的墙补他自己呢！How is it impossible?当总领班的中国人不是答应借老史一千万筹码吗？老史转借给表弟的这一千万一旦输光，表弟会偿还老史一千万，而老史难道不会用这一千万重回妈阁豪赌吗？太可能了！段凯文的一条新短信来到。 “能不能请你单独谈话？”段的短信说。 “我要陪儿子到海滩上玩。” “那好，半小时后海滩上见。” “你们家的人不去海滩吗？” “他们上午约了朋友打麻将。” 原来段太太也是有赌兴的。 半小时后，晓鸥和儿子都换上了泳装，保姆换了背心短裤，一块向海滩走去。晓鸥没想到儿子会这么热情地来度这个假期。假期一共两天，儿子在享受它的每一秒钟，把这短短的海滩假期变成一块美味糖果，吮吸它的甜美又担心它融化得太快。他的每个表情都是满足和不舍，每过去的一秒一分，他已经开始不舍，那必将来临的终结，他已经在提前缅怀。晓鸥心里酸酸的，她没有很好地爱过儿子，至少没有把爱放在行动和形式中。没有形式和行动的爱，就是没有容器盛装的水，哪怕它是甘霖琼浆，也涓涓流散，儿子对这甘霖的干渴，永远不得缓解。 之所以把全家带到此地，大概段凯文出于类似的歉疚的爱。他如此憎恨晓鸥，她深深理解。 段凯文已经等在阳光超饱和的海滩上。他没穿海滩的时尚服饰，只是戴一副墨镜一顶草帽，意思一下海滩风尚。他比这些度假客少见阳光，肤色发阴，是一种阴黑；她呢，是一种阴白，如同不见天日的所在培植出的白芦韭黄笋或者金针菇之类。在这个阳光人群中，他和晓鸥是两小块阴天。保姆带着儿子扑进海水，海面红红绿绿的浮游玩具中又添了两块鲜艳色彩。 段凯文点着一根烟，眼睛看向海，海里热火朝天地翻腾着他的心事。 “对不起，我知道我不该在这个时候来打搅你。不过……” 段的手猛一抬，在晓鸥的“不过”上打了个顿号。动作很小，但气势足以静止一个交响乐团。他不用她“不过”，他完全知道她的“不过”后面的句子。 “我确实在资金上有困难。”他说。 晓鸥听出这句话百分之百的诚恳。她也诚恳地点点头。 “同时做那么多大项目，在全国各地铺开做，资金链难免给绷得很紧。”他把抽了两三口的烟扔在沙子上，用脚仔细埋葬了烟蒂。 晓鸥发觉自己给他拖进了说情交谈。他为自己在说情。在中国做事，许多情形下理管不住，要靠情。理是死的，情是活的，理把事办死了，情往往可以把事救活。段凯文在欠债的事上已经被理打死，他现在要靠激发晓鸥的情来救活自己。 “我可以再宽限一点。”晓鸥说。 "how many days?" “合同上规定五天。我再给您五天。” “五天不行。” “那您需要几天？” “几天够干吗的？无济于事。” 晓鸥蒙了。这个人还不懂得他现在的位置吗？昨晚的签约不是已经把他放到他该待的位置上了吗？五天内还清债务，否则法庭上见，很可能跟媒体一块见。这可是个不容置疑的位置，他得稳稳当当待在那里。他看出晓鸥的懵懂，又开口了。 “现在我在预售楼盘，估计三四个月之后资金能回笼一部分。那时候我肯定有足够的现金还给你。” “段总，您可是有好几个'三四个月'了呀。” “我知道。可我不是跟你说了吗？我的现金流出了点问题。” 晓鸥接下去是冷冰冰的一大段沉默。她的沉默他也是懂的：你来赌厅借筹码玩“拖三拖四”的时候，没想到现金流会出问题吗？现金流问题不就像所有开发商的伤风感冒一样时不时发生吗？那时怎么都劝不住拦不住，非要玩大，非要“拖三”，要不硬拦着就玩上“拖五”了！现在把你一家子都快拖进去了吧？ “段总，合同都签了。我在国外工作了十多年，合同对于我是神圣的。”晓鸥平心静气地说。 “就算你晓鸥帮我一个忙！” 这是段凯文能说出的最软的一句话了。 “我是帮你了啊，段总！”晓鸥苦苦地说道。“我劝你不要玩拖三拖四，本来你还要拖五呢！我不帮你你现在欠的债更了不得了。” 段不言语了。光天化日之下，他不敢连这个事实都赖掉。昨天晚上他在四星级酒店小会议室有过流氓一闪念，并把一闪念说出来了：他可以诬赖晓鸥没有告诫他到期不还款的利息。晓鸥知道赌徒们很可能把流氓一闪念变成流氓作为，达到流氓目的。 “那你说吧，你帮我这个忙到底能帮多大？” “我只能再宽限五天。不然我们昨晚费那么大劲儿签的契约有什么意思？” "Ok." 他的“动之以情”的打法显然在晓鸥这个铁血叠码囡面前不奏效。他都那么没出息地求她帮忙了，她还不动情。晓鸥不多说什么了。不跟他说：“我碰到段总你这样赖账的太多了。我个个忙都帮，最后饿死的就是我梅晓鸥和儿子。我坚信那时不会有任何人帮我的忙。”也不跟他说：“你一个大男人，拥有那么大的公司和实业开发着那么多大项目，倒要我这个小女人帮忙，也没看你让你的家人受半点委屈，担半点惊吓。你的资金链出问题，没见你勒索他们啊！照样住大套房，该怎么豪华就怎么豪华，倒要非亲非故的我来帮你松活资金链？” 晓鸥感觉到他掉头走了。又是个连“拜拜”也没有的离别。人的风度各异，成了赌徒就只是统一的赌徒风度。 晚上和儿子、保姆吃了晚饭之后，晓鸥嘱咐保姆回房里点两个少年儿童的电影看。她自己拿着手机看史奇澜那边的战报。老史的表弟在输和赢之间拉锯，赢得越来越吃力，输得越来越爽快。现在输到五百五十万了。老史跟着表弟，势如破竹地输，伤筋动骨地赢，把之前加磅赢的几十万又都输光了。表弟想休战一夜，好好修订一下战略战术，检讨一下急于求赢的心态，争取再上台时更智慧更冷静。晓鸥冷笑，上了赌台的人难道还有智慧？ 她犹豫着要不要去一趟越南。越南赌场的中国总领班承诺借给老史的一千万筹码，老史说不定自己会用去赌，这对老史和晓鸥都是最糟的前景。总领班是被老史的个人魅力征服了，才用一千万的筹码拉老史去他的赌厅。他不知道老史的公司已经是个空壳子，空壳子的价值是一亿几千万的赤字。没人能像老史那样漫不经意地魅惑一个人，那种自我贬低、爱信不信的态度能征服女人的心，同样能征服男人的心。晓鸥曾经亲眼看见他把商店门口等候主人的狗都魅惑得醉了一样，跟他跑了好几条马路。但越南赌场的总领班只会被老史魅惑一次，因为他很快就会知道，他借给老史的一千万筹码不过在老史公司的赤字上增添了个小零头。假如史奇澜这老烂仔再把那一千万魅惑到手的筹码玩光，何不让他把一千万归还她晓鸥？在她家厨房便饭时他被假茅台醉出了真心话：他此生痛感亏欠的就是陈小小和梅晓鸥，晓鸥何不给他一次机会，让他称心一下，把他对晓鸥的亏欠感缓释一点，做点补偿？ 好吧，让她来成全他史奇澜的厚爱吧。可以让保姆继续带儿子在这里度假，她只身出发去越南。她知道儿子爱的不是三亚，儿子是爱有母亲同在的三亚。他会爱任何一个母亲和他同在的地方，远也好，近也好。晓鸥想到即将要被母亲辜负的十二岁儿子，眼睛一热。 有一条手臂从她身后伸过来，狠狠拉了她一把。这样粗鲁的一拉是为了把她身体调转过去，使晓鸥面对她，面对被甜美地称为家英的段太太。余家英的宽眉大眼此刻被挤窄了。 “你想怎么着？”段太太说。“我家老段都跟我说了，不就贪玩输了几个钱吗？多大个事儿？好嘛，还化装成什么节目制作人盯梢咱家了！我可以马上报警，让警察把你抓起来！就凭你隐姓埋名，在我家套房对面开房间搞特务监视，凭你跟踪老段，敲诈勒索他，就能把你关起来！你以为跟你们澳门那种乌七八糟的地方一样……” 晓鸥从来不是口讷之人，但段太太的惊人语速让她一个字也插不进。余家英的脸凑近看是微微生了一圈胡须的，红润的嘴唇被淡黑的唇须衬得越发红润。她的相貌和生命都那么浓墨重彩，跟她相比小了十多岁的晓鸥无论形象还是健康，都比段夫人显得久经风雨褪色显旧了。 “你以为这里容许你这种赌场来的女人搞恐怖？”余家英说话时把自己丰厚的胸都甩动起来。胶东口音并不妨碍她表达都市人的政治自觉性。“你以为这里让你搞澳门黑社会？” 段凯文之类到澳门就是专门干这个地盘上不让干的事。晓鸥从受惊失语到存心失语，看余家英还怎么往下骂。 “告诉你，老段别说才玩掉那点儿钱，就是玩掉一个楼盘、两个楼盘，咱都玩得起！你至于吗？背着老段到我这儿来打听他，打算跟我告他刁状，顺带挑拨我们夫妻关系是不是？卑鄙玩意儿！” 晓鸥明白自己对付段凯文的手段没什么档次，她对此坦荡得很。赌场不是个培养高贵品质的地方。等余家英红润的嘴角渐渐潽出白沫，白沫渐渐浓酽好比牛奶发酵成奶酪，她冷静地承认赌场确无好人，只有稍好的人，赌徒和赌场老板都包括在内。等余家英的第一轮胶东腔指控扫射过去，晓鸥向她解释了赌场的法规和行规。 “我家老段到底欠赌场多少钱？”余家英似乎要打开钱包，拿出钱拍到晓鸥脸上。 晓鸥几乎脱口说出数目，但忍了回去。她还想做人做得稍微漂亮点，让段凯文更无地自容。段总欠的不是赌场的钱，是私人的钱，晓鸥这样不着痕迹地把段太太的提问转移了方向。段凯文除了钱数，其他都向老婆主动交代了。段本来就几倍地强势于余家英，这点谁都看得出来，因此强势者主动向弱势者坦露一次劣迹，给弱势者一次仲裁自己的权力，弱势者只有感动得心碎。段凯文明白他所有弱点都能得到妻子的原谅（几乎所有弱点），因为妻子一直自知不太够格做段太太，因为她一直在隐隐心虚地做着段太太，她不可能改变自己过低的起点，不可能不吃不学文化的苦头——这种细化苦头比老家扛重活的粗重苦头难吃多了。所以段凯文每暴露的一项弱点就使她感到做段太太更够格一点，他们在婚姻里的地位也更平等一点。这两年，段凯文被网络、报纸、电视变得越来越公众化，在余家英这样实诚的女人眼里越来越形而上，因此他每犯一次错误，每重复一次旧弱点或生发一个新弱点，余家英感到的却是他人性复发，感到他终归跳不出血肉之躯的局限，是有懈可击的。段凯文似乎也懂得自己的弱点在妻子眼里是弱，这弱刺激了她的强，她强悍地为丈夫护短，就是她在对丈夫示爱。段凯文在她梅晓鸥把余家英拉入她的战壕之前，就把妻子拉成自己的壮丁，替他挡子弹，替他冲锋。何况她梅晓鸥根本拉不动余家英，何况她梅晓鸥连拉的妄想都没有。 “告诉你，你再纠缠我家老段，我饶不了你！” 余家英在酒店大堂里拉出个场子来，本来是私下的对质和泄愤渐渐往公众批斗转化。 “跟我说行规！什么行当啊我问你？背着人家老婆勾引人家男人去赌博，你是干这行的吧？骗了多少人到那个叫什么妈阁的鬼地方，教他们赌，让他们输钱，他们不输钱你挣什么钱啊，是不是？”余家英此刻很少面对晓鸥，大部分时间是面对四周乡亲，因此她在人群中的空地上游走。演街头活报剧的演员一般也很少面对跟她演对手戏的角色，而是像余家英这样打转，确保自己的演出能送达每个观众。 “你还来跟我们要债？我们没跟你算账就是我们仁义！你教坏了多少男人，我孩子爹苦出身哪，哪儿知道世上有个叫什么妈阁的地方，哪儿知道有你们这种行当的女人专教人不学好，学赌，学瞒着老婆孩子扔钱！要不是我男人自己跟我坦白，你还不定怎么坑他呢！说不定你蒙得他倾家荡产！” 在三四十个人的活报剧场子里，人们看着这个公敌。诱发人劣根性的人就是所有人的公敌。晓鸥不记得在哪本外国小说里读到个情节：一个男人去买巧克力，在路上碰见个妓女，从这妓女身上染了梅毒，他恨的不是妓女和自己，他恨巧克力。 不知从谁的口中飞出一口唾沫，吐在晓鸥赤裸的背上，温乎乎的一团，定在她两个肩胛骨之间。大堂的空调足够让候鸟南飞，假如此地有候鸟的话。冰冷的空气使唾沫尤其热乎，并且浓厚，因为它定了好大一会儿才开始慢慢往下流，流到吊带裙上，被裙子慢慢咽下。不知从谁的身上伸出一只手，又一只手，推搡晓鸥。人之所以为人，当然而且自然地有着劣根性，本来劣根安分守己，谁让你诱发它们？用妈阁这座城市的千万张赌台，用这个看上去文雅秀气的女子……人本来是有犯罪潜能的，这不能怪人，怪只怪诱发他们犯罪的机会，余家英揭露的，就是提供给人犯罪犯错误机会的女人。 晓鸥不想与余家英和众人摆公共论坛，她只想马上走开。儿子万一此刻看厌了少儿电影，来到这里当观众，以后她怎么做妈？但人已经筑成墙，拆不烂的墙，酒店保安都无法拆。 大堂经理走进人墙，拉起晓鸥吆喝着往外走。走到电梯门口，人们的嘘声起哄声还跟着，晓鸥被解围的时候看见了段凯文。他站在人群外三四米的地方，对人群沉着脸。大堂经理把晓鸥送进电梯时告诉她，自己是受段先生之托来解她于重围的。段先生一家是好人，是酒店的老主顾。他的言下之意晓鸥是这么听的：段家若不是好人你梅小姐早就被黑打了。或者可以这么听：尽管你是干这行的，拉了段总下水，段家还是没把你如何，段总还亲自组织营救你。还可以这么听：段总多好啊，你把他制造成赌博的牺牲品，并当杨白劳追踪逼债，他还是以德报怨，他要是不管你，你说不定已经非死即伤在乱众之中了。现在中国民众的莫名仇恨和怒气多大呀，随时能找个人当靶子打一打，哪怕打两拳占占便宜也好。民众总觉得什么人什么地方总在让他们上当吃亏，上的是闷当吃的是闷亏，奶粉假的肉里注水蔬菜含毒物价房价飞涨贪腐官员轮不着他们清算出拳，一切误差的事物只能越来越纠结地误差下去，他们不明不白地总在被什么占着便宜，因此碰到可以骂几句打几拳的对象他们就或骂或打，以此不明不白把便宜占回来一点。网络上骂这个骂那个也不过是跟此刻一样，是小小地占点便宜，因为一种或多种无形而巨大的存在始终在占他们的便宜。 从电梯里出来，晓鸥突发奇想：也许刚才那出活报剧是段凯文一手编导的。她在电梯门外愣住了。赌博真能把人变得这样无耻吗？真能把段凯文变成卢晋桐、史奇澜吗？段应该是意志坚强的人，少年吃苦、青年奋发的段凯文没有卢晋桐和史奇澜那样优越的家境培养他们的脆弱，培养他们的自我纵容。 卢晋桐在晓鸥决定离开三亚那天发了条短信，他已不久于人世，他对人世间最后的索取是儿子的陪伴。从短信息的哪一个字晓鸥都能品尝出情感敲诈的滋味。 电话铃响起，她认不出那个手机号。来电者头一句话就问她是不是梅晓鸥。答曰是的。对方说晋桐动了大手术，很想见他的儿子。对方听不见晓鸥的任何声音，又加一句，她只是传话的，主意该她梅晓鸥拿。传话的还是听不到任何声音，喂了几声，判断出电话没被挂断，声音嘶哑地再添上几句，人都快死了，还记那么大仇干吗，况且晋桐待她梅晓鸥不薄。 晓鸥挂了电话，推开儿子卧室的门。卢晋桐的老婆是个大度的女人，晓鸥有些妒忌她的大度。儿子从毯子里跳出来，一股浴液香味。他没有玩电子游戏，也没有上网。有母亲同在的三亚让他充实满足。他跳出毯子是要母亲看他腿上一道礁石擦出的伤。这伤不疼，只不过三亚的母子关系让他想撒娇了。