Chapter 9 Chapter 9 Evil

In Zhou Xin's studio, a simple floor was laid out, and a small lamp was placed beside the pillow. Gao Chun and Zhou Xin sat face to face on the bed, and their topics became more harmonious that night.The narration of the past made the two parties trust each other.They talked about their respective mothers, and they felt the same respect for their mothers. Zhou Xin said: "I am actually the same as you. My mother raised me. My mother is too straight and can't tolerate any ugliness in her heart. But a person who can't tolerate ugliness, if there are many ugliness around him, then She must have lived in great pain."

"Because she refuses to join forces?" Zhou Xin nodded: "She doesn't want to join forces with others, and she doesn't want to live in peace. Maybe my mother and I are different in this point. I won't compromise with the ugly, but if there are two ways to fight and avoid, I might choose the latter." "You dare not fight?" Zhou Xin shook his head: "If the power is weak, what's the use of fighting? As long as you can protect yourself, a piece of jade is not as good as Waquan. Waquan can protect himself, and he is also protecting a good person for the world."

"If you don't do anything unconscionable, you are a good person?" "According to current standards, it should be." "Why don't you take your mother here to live, don't you and your mother have a deep relationship?" "My mother didn't know that the house I lived in was given by our boss, so I didn't take her to live in it." "Is it a dishonorable thing for the boss to give you a house?" "Some people may think that there must be some story between me and the boss." "Is there a story between you and the boss?"

Gao Chun's question was a bit sharp, but it seemed cute and innocent when asked so bluntly.Zhou Xin asked back, "What do you think?" Gao Chun immediately said: "From the feeling that the boss came to look for you just now, it should be." Zhou Xin smiled: "Yes, I don't deny it." After a pause, he added: "But the plot of the story is definitely not what you imagined." Gao Chun also smiled: "Doesn't that Guzi also like you very much, your story is all about him?" Zhou Xin didn't answer but asked instead: "Do you see that he really likes me?"

Gao Chun cleaned up the coffee cups on the floor, got up and walked to the kitchen: "It should be, you are a good match." Zhou Xin followed to the door of the kitchen and asked him, "Hey, are you willing to help with the matter I begged you last time?" Gao Chun turned around and replied: "I wish!" Then asked: "What matter?" "Have you forgotten about being my boyfriend?" "Didn't you say that you don't need it? You have already canceled this matter. Did you forget?" "Now I need it again." "Now?" "No, not now, but tomorrow."

Tomorrow is coming soon.In the morning, Gao Chun drove Zhou Xin to the Siheyuan Gallery outside the Donghua Gate of the Forbidden City.An avant-garde art exhibition is being held in the gallery, and the exhibition hall is empty with few viewers.At the beginning of the scene, Zhou Xin suddenly took Gao Chun's arm affectionately, and walked in intimately.Gao Chun walked a few steps before seeing the young painter Gu Zi standing in front of a large painting not far in front of him.Gu Zi was looking at them approaching from a distance side by side with astonished eyes, he obviously doubted whether his eyes had suddenly gone crazy.

Zhou Xin deliberately turned a blind eye to Gu Zi's indignation. She grabbed Gao Chun's shoulder and explained to him an abstract sculpture standing beside the aisle.Gu Zi walked over, Gao Chun couldn't help stealing a look, but Zhou Xin tugged him quietly, which meant to tell him not to turn his head, so Gao Chun fixed his gaze on the incomprehensible mud block again, seeing it completely. absent-minded. Gu Zi walked behind them and shouted angrily, "Zhou Xin!" Gao Chun turned his head first, and Zhou Xin also turned his head, with a peaceful expression on his face, and said lightly: "Oh, you came so early." Then he introduced to Gao Chun again solemnly:

"This is with us. His name is Guzi." He asked Guzi again, "When did you come?" Gao Chun nodded friendly to Gu Zi, and Gu Zi stared at Zhou Xin angrily: "Please introduce your companion to me again, your introduction yesterday was too light!" Zhou Xin pretended to be confused: "Ah, why understate it, he is my friend." Gu Zi said, "My friend, didn't you say that he is not your friend?" Zhou Xin said: "Ah, from today on, forget it. What's the matter, okay?" Gu Zi was so angry that he couldn't speak clearly: "Oh, okay, why do you like this type now? It's changed. Can you tell me where you met again?"

Zhou Xin said, "I met on the Internet." Gu Zi sneered: "Online? You also made friends online? Performance art?" Zhou Xin said: "Why can't I make friends online? We chatted and had a good time, so we made an appointment to meet, can't we?" Gu Zi was angry: "Okay, yes, yes, haven't you met many times? " Zhou Xin: "That's right, I've met many times, and we feel good about each other, so let's see each other." Gao Chun sat on the wall and watched, looking left and right, with honest and innocent faces.Soon Guzi was furious, and walked away angrily: "Okay, okay, I congratulate you, congratulations on your thinking! You have fun!"

Guzi strode towards the entrance of the exhibition hall, walked a few steps and then came back, and sternly said to Zhou Xin: "Be careful not to play yourself into it! There are too many scammers on the Internet, cheating money and sex, you should do it yourself .” After Gu Zi finished speaking, he turned his head and left.Gao Chun glanced at Zhou Xin, Zhou Xin's face was stiff, and he did not refute.Gao Chun then yelled at Guzi's back, "Hey, who are you calling a liar?" Gu Zi left without looking back, Gao Chun turned to look at Zhou Xin again.Zhou Xin's expression was gloomy, and there was no joy of victory on his face.Gao Chun reminded her: "Hey, he's gone." She didn't answer, turned and walked away in another direction.

They were not in the mood to watch those avant-garde art anymore, and walked out of the gallery's exhibition hall sadly.On the way, Gao Chun asked her: "Is the company you work for called Encyclopedia?" Zhou Xin was thinking about his own affairs, and answered absently, but he didn't know what to answer.Shaoqing suddenly stopped and asked, "How do you know our company is called Encyclopedia?" Gao Chun faltered: "Oh...you said it last time." Zhou Xin thought about it, but couldn't think of it, so he had to move on: "Ah, what's the matter?" Gao Chun said: "It's nothing, just ask casually. What is your company's business?" Zhou Xin said: "Trade, investment, electronic products, everything." Gao Chun nodded: "Oh, how many bosses does your company have?" Zhou Xin said: "We have only one boss, the one who came to my house yesterday. But he is not the real boss. The real boss used to be his father-in-law, but now he is his wife. But his wife never shows up at the company. It's like a legend, and few have actually seen it." But Gao Chun only paid attention to the former: "What's the name of his father-in-law?" "It's Cai Baike, the founder of Baike." Gao Chun shut up in disappointment: "Oh." When the two walked to the side of the street, Zhou Xin changed the topic: "Where are you going?" Only then did Gao Chun come back to his senses: "Ah, where are you going, I'll see you off." Zhou Xin said, "I'm going home. How about you, do you still live with me today?" Gao Chun said: "No, no, I really bothered you yesterday. I'll find a place to live after a while." Zhou Xin didn't hold back, but nodded and said, "That's fine." Gao Chun sent Zhou Xin back to his residence, and then went to the garage again. In the garage converted into a vermicelli processing room, he found the workshop owner who was working, and gave the workshop owner a note, asking him to help with one thing. The owner of the workshop looked at the note and asked, "Jinkui...male and female, is this her phone number?" Gao Chun: "This is my phone number. If someone named Jin Kui comes to pick up her things, you must ask her to call me on this number." The boss accepted the note and said, "Okay, no problem." Gao Chun followed up again: "If she doesn't call, you must call this number and tell me." The boss said again: "Okay, no problem." Gao Chun thanked him, turned around and left the garage, the owner of the workshop called him behind him: "Hey, there is a girl living here with her parents, do you want to find them? " Gao Chun hesitated and stopped, but didn't respond clearly for a while: "Is there still a girl living here? " An hour later, Gao Chun drove to an old street in Nancheng and walked into an old building here.This kind of old building that may be demolished at any time is rare in Beijing. The light is dim, the corridors are tortuous, and the residents are crowded, which is not a sight.There was an oily smell of cooking in the building, as well as a girl's out-of-tune singing.At the door of a house, Gao Chun saw Master Li who was poking a briquette stove, and Li Junjun who was singing loudly.Master Li and Li Junjun also saw him, with expressions of surprise and embarrassment on their faces...Chapter Nine Evil (3) Junjun is still working as a cashier in that restaurant. Anyone who walks into this restaurant will not notice the cash register nestled in the corner of the bar, but Junjun sitting in the cash register can have a panoramic view of every corner of the restaurant.She has been practicing in this position for a long time, and she has been able to handle the cash register and billing with ease. Master Li also found a job as a traffic coordinator, standing at the intersection to direct pedestrians and vehicles every day, and urging everyone to obey the traffic rules.Those traffic hubs in Beijing are full of traffic from morning to night. Compared with the quiet Yunlang, the never-ending congestion is hard to tell whether it is noisy or prosperous. After the rush hour of traffic at 7:30 in the evening, Master Li could not return home.Of course, Gao Chun came home later, about the same time as Junjun got off work.In a corner of this old building, Gao Chun and Master Li's family of three live in peace and harmony.Master Li's wife is still sick in bed, and Master Li is still taking care of him tirelessly every morning and night.If Gao Chun came back early, he would also help the master with work, such as cooking medicine and heating rice. Even the patient himself, Junjun was not allowed to do anything. Junjun's main task after returning home from get off work was to do the endorsing of the questions and make the final sprint for the upcoming college entrance examination. Occasionally, everyone will chat about Jinkui. Master Li asked Gao Chun: "Jin Kui still hasn't written to you, right? I ran into an acquaintance of Yun Lang at the intersection where I went to work today, a colleague who used to work as a handyman in a restaurant with me. Speaking of that Yang Feng is here." Regarding the topic of Jinkui, Gao Chun had deliberately avoided it long ago, but Master Li's words still made his chest tight, and his movements of washing the towel in the washbasin were slow for a moment, and he didn't look up. "Which Yang Feng?" "It's Yang Feng who chased after Jin Kui. Did you forget?" Master Li went on to say, "Our colleague told me that Yang Feng didn't marry Jin Kui, and that Yang Feng found another woman later, who was also a dancer. , He took that girl to the restaurant where I worked and had dinner several times, and they were married to each other. It was that kind of relationship at first glance. It's not Jinkui." Gao Chun still didn't look up, and his words were pretending to be casual: "Why is your colleague talking to you about Yang Feng for no reason?" Master Li said: "Yang Feng is a celebrity in our Yunlang! A young entrepreneur, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference or something, with a lot of titles..." Seeing that Gao Chun didn't respond, Master Li said, "Ah , I asked him first, didn’t Yang Feng treat Jin Kui’s family to dinner at our restaurant last time? Our colleague has seen Jin Kui before, so I asked him. He said that Jin Kui definitely didn’t marry Yang Feng.” Gao Chun raised his head and looked at the wall: "Is she really not married to Yang Feng?" Gao Chun couldn't hide his concern, which made Master Li's words hesitant. He said hesitantly: "But I heard that Jin Kui is doing well now. I heard that her father sent her to study abroad." Gao Chun turned around and questioned Master Li: "Impossible, their business is about to collapse, where did they get the money to send her to study abroad?" Master Li took it for granted: "Someone must have paid for it. The Jin family has a flower like a golden sunflower, so I'm afraid it won't be able to attract bees and butterflies... Uh, attract investment?" Gao Chun still wondered: "How do you know?" Master Li waved his hands and replied, "It's not obvious..." Gao Chun asked the bottom line: "How do you know?" Master Li was stunned for a moment: "I just heard what my acquaintance said. Yunlang is such a big place, good things don't go out, and bad things spread thousands of miles. Oh, of course, this is not a bad thing. " Gao Chun asked again: "Which country did she go to study in?" Master Li shook his head: "I don't know." Master Li's wife and daughter carefully looked at Gao Chun's face, seeing Gao Chun's burning eyes slowly wither away, and there was no sound in the room for a while.After a while, I heard Gao Chun speak again, and the voice of the question was weak. "She went abroad...still learning to dance?" No one answered.Master Li nodded his head, shook his head again, everything was specious. The place where Jinkui goes is called Kuding Mountain. The blacksmith who bought the golden sunflower had no name since he was a child, and he called himself Wang Kuding. Wang Kuding is in his thirties, with a simple appearance and a strong black body.During those days when Jin Kui was at his house, he put down all the work in the blacksmith shop, and took care of Jin Kui at home every day, eating three meals a day, living in the morning and evening, and taking care of everything.Wang Kuding's family lived in the back building of the blacksmith shop, and Jin Kui was locked in a room on the second floor of the back building. Every meal was delivered to the bed by Wang Kuding. The generosity and hospitality of the people in the mountains. Wang Kuding has a good appetite, and he eats every meal. When he sees Jin Kui lazily moving his chopsticks, he always persuades him with good words: "I know you miss home, and you have to eat when you miss home. When we live a good life, you give me a baby." Son, I'll go back to your house with you to see your parents, that's all right." Jin Kui still didn't move her chopsticks, but finally spoke: "You let me go home first, and I will talk to you about life." Wang Kuding is a farmer, but the farmer is not stupid: "You have to live with me first and give birth to a child for me before I can let you go home." Jin Kui said: "Who are you to me? Why should I live with you! Why should I give birth to you!" Wang Kuding said: "You are my daughter-in-law! I spent so much money to buy you here, just to live with you! My money is hard earned, not stolen. You eat it! I If I tell you to eat, you have to eat, and you are my daughter-in-law, so you must obey me! You eat!" After being gentle and courteous for a while, Wang Kuding still couldn't bear his temper, and soon revealed his true nature of a man, with a fierce tone in his mouth, and stepped forward to force Jin Kui to eat.Jin Kui struggled twice, overturned the Kang table while torn and twisted, and the food spilled all over the floor.Wang Kuding became angry from embarrassment, and he used his old fists. It is only natural for a man to beat his wife in the mountains, but Wang Kuding didn't think it was a big deal. It gets dark earlier in the mountains than in the city, and the lights go back to the courtyard in a blink of an eye. People in the mountains are used to going to bed early, and the whole village soon becomes silent.Only in the back building of the blacksmith shop at the entrance of the village, men and women continued to yell and scold, pots and pans were beaten, until the electric lights were suddenly smashed out by something, the fighting in the back building stopped for a moment. In the dead of night. Master Li's family also went to bed, and everyone in the whole building went to bed early.Only at this time, Gao Chun can take the heart-shaped jadeite wrapped in yellow silk and take it under the lamp to study it carefully, and then he can suppress his thick voice and cry secretly like a child.How happy he would be if he knew that there was a remote mountain village thousands of miles away, where the girl he was crying for was also crying for him.But he doesn't know.Jin Kui didn't know either.Only the bright moon in the sky can see the tear stains on Gao Chun's face and the bruises at the corners of Jin Kui's eyes. Wang Kuding, who was very angry, also went to bed early. Wang Kuding slept soundly. When Kuding Mountain was just dyed red by the dawn, the farmers went out one after another to make a living.Wang Kuding unlocked the iron lock on the door of the back building, and walked into the room with a hot breakfast in his hand.Jin Kui, who was leaning on the corner of the kang, was startled by the sound of the door. She stared blankly at a black and strong man coming in. The memory of yesterday slowly came to life. Just as the horror came to her face, what she saw was the face of the blacksmith. Simple and honest expression.Wang Kuding put the breakfast on the kang, smiled shyly at Jinkui, and said: Let's have some hot porridge.Then he went out in embarrassment.Jin Kui heard the sound of the door being locked, so she crawled over to look at the contents of the bowl.In addition to the hot porridge and pickles in the bowl, there is also a deep-fried egg, which is fried golden.Jin Kui was stunned, and the corner of her numb mouth moved slightly. Throughout the morning, the dilapidated wooden building behind the blacksmith shop remained silent. It was unknown whether the owner had gone out or was busy in the shop.It was not until noon that Wang Kuding reappeared upstairs. He opened the door and brought lunch.He also brought Jin Kui a magazine that had been refurbished, and put it on the bedside with lunch. "This book is very readable. I borrowed it from Wang Changgui's wife. Please read it to relieve your boredom." Jin Kui glanced at it, it was a magazine.She said coldly, "It's already expired." "Ah? The book is still due..." Wang Kuding was seriously puzzled: "Our place is too far away from the town. Next time I go to the town to buy a new one for you." Jin Kui didn't speak any more, Wang Kuding said again in a pleading tone: "Let's eat." Jin Kui then ate.Ten minutes later, Wang Kuding came back again, brought some clean clothes and put them on the kang, and said to Jin Kui, "Change your clothes, take them off, and I will wash them for you." Jin Kui's clothes were already dirty, and the fight with Wang Kuding made it even more filthy, but the two clothes on the kang were obviously not for women.Wang Kuding saw the look in her eyes, and said, "You first make do with your clothes, and I'll wash and dry your clothes before you change them back. I'll go to town in a few days and buy you nice clothes." Jin Kui suddenly thought of something, and asked Wang Kuding, "To the town... how far is it?" This afternoon, Wang Kuding didn't go to the blacksmith's shop to forge iron, but has been washing clothes in the courtyard.Jin Kui's door hadn't been locked since lunch, and Jin Kui finally walked out of the house after several trials.Hearing the sound of the stairs, Wang Kuding looked up with sweat on his face. He saw Jin Kui coming down the stairs, walking all the way to the middle of the yard, and even took the clothes in his hands and started washing them.Wang Kuding was so happy that his face was full of silly smiles. Unexpectedly, Jin Kui had just washed it twice, and suddenly yelled: "Hey! Why did you wash your clothes with mine! It's disgusting!" Jin Kui took Wang Kuding's clothes, shorts, and socks out of the big basin and threw them on the ground with a look of disgust on her face.Wang Kuding hurried forward to pick up his underwear and socks one by one, and took them aside in embarrassment. Jin Kui poured out all the soapy water in the basin, as if she couldn't get rid of the dirt in her heart. There were still some trembling embers left in the sun, and there was another rattling sound in the courtyard of Wang Kuding's house.Blacksmith Wang Kuding became a carpenter, and the kang table that was broken by Jin Kui was quickly repaired.The sun finally set, and oil lamps were lit at Wang Kuding's house.The electric lamp was also smashed the day before, and the oil lamp seemed to be an essential utensil in this mountain village where there was a power outage every two days. Wang Kuding put the food on the Kang table that had just been repaired, put the chopsticks in front of Jin Kui, watched Jin Kui pick up the rice bowl, and then murmured: "We two..." Seeing Jin Kui staring vigilantly, He stuttered more and more: "Let's... Let's... Let's eat together?" Jin Kui hesitated for a while, then nodded: "Ah." Wang Kuding just sat on the edge of the kang, leaned to the other side of the kang table, and started eating with a smile on his face, forgetting himself for a while, and kept adding vegetables to Jinkui.Jin Kui avoided her job, frowned and said: "Bring another pair of chopsticks." Wang Kuding was stunned for a moment, not knowing why, but he went down to get a pair of chopsticks and came over. Jin Kui put the pair of chopsticks on a bowl and said, "From now on, we will use serving chopsticks for serving vegetables!" Wang Kuding seemed not to understand: "Chopsticks?" He pointed to the pair of chopsticks: "This one?" After dinner, Wang Kuding and Jin Kui sat one at the head of the kang and the other at the end of the kang. There seemed to be thousands of gullies between them, but the conversation between them sounded calm. Wang Kuding said: "...I don't need to lock the door. I won't lock the door tomorrow. If I don't lock the door, you can't run away. If you go out from here to the highway, you won't be able to walk for half a day. You don't know the way. You can't walk in one day. So I'm not afraid of you, you can't run away." Jin Kui said: "I can't run away. Why do you lock the door? I don't understand what is the use of you locking me! Afraid I will go to your village chief? Do you have a village chief here..." Wang Kuding said, "Why are you looking for the village chief? Our village knows about my situation, and the village chief is still waiting to drink my wedding wine." Jin Kui said: "You guys here... are stupid! You go out, I'm going to sleep." Wang Kuding said: "Go to bed so early, don't the people in your city go to bed late?" Jin Kui said: "Nonsense! I haven't slept much these days, you go out, I'm sleepy!" " Wang Kuding moved his buttocks and said, "Then... what about the two of us?" Jin Kui said, "What's the matter with us?" Wang Kuding said: "It's about having a baby and living a life. I'm the only child in my family. If my parents die, what kind of person will I be in this village?" Jin Kui said: "It's not my responsibility that you will die. Get out soon, I'm sleepy, you let me sleep!" Wang Kuding stood up and continued, "Sleep as long as you sleep. I want to live with you anyway. If you agree, you have to agree, and if you don't agree, you have to agree. I have always told you good things. Don't toast and not eat and punish Wine. I have saved money for more than ten years, and I finally married you back. I will never let you go if I die! If you don’t do it, I will lock you here for the rest of my life. I will beat you every day, I think Are you convinced!" Wang Kuding's face was simple and honest, but his eyes showed fierceness again, Jin Kui's surface was stubborn, but his heart began to tremble again. Gao Chun accompanied Zhou Xin to draw pine trees in Jietai Temple for a day, and it was completely dark after returning to the city.While waiting for the red light, his cell phone rang suddenly, and the caller showed Lu Ziqiang's number, so he hurriedly rang the phone off.A few seconds later, the ringtone came back angrily, and Gao Chun simply turned off the power of the phone. Gao Chun didn't answer the phone, and Zhou Xin, who was in the car with him, was also puzzled: "Why didn't you answer it? Why did you turn off the phone?" Gao Chun concealed: "It's okay, a boring person." Zhou Xin smiled: "A woman?" "No, man." Zhou Xin nodded and said, "Oh." Shaoqing asked curiously, "Have you got a girlfriend yet? Seeing that Gao Chun didn't answer, he smiled: "There is no beautiful young man who doesn't have flowers."Those who think they have capital and don't take women seriously. " Gao Chun said: "Girls your age are even more terrifying! When a man falls in love with a woman, he usually falls in love with her. If a woman falls in love with a man, he usually falls in love with his money! Because having money will make a woman feel safe, and it will make her feel at ease to pursue everything she likes, including art. " The car had already driven to the door of the apartment, and the two of them were making meaningless jokes at first, only Gao Chun couldn't help talking about Jin Kui in the last sentence, which was a sore spot in his heart, but Zhou Xin might think that Gao Chun attacked Seeing himself, he couldn't help being silent for a moment before pushing open the car door. "I don't know why you came to such a conclusion about me serving as the boss's secretary." Zhou Xin said, "I don't want to explain anything, you can think whatever you want. Thank you for a hard day, you have helped me a lot these days and I will thank you. After finishing speaking, before Gao Chun could answer, Zhou Xin got out of the car and walked into the building door. The car door was slammed shut, Gao Chun was sitting in the car, he saw the heart-shaped colored glass hanging in front of the car, tears suddenly welled up in his eyes, he still can't believe that his golden sunflower is the same as the one he once swore to Jin Kui, really for money, or, for dancing, went with another man she didn't love. After leaving Zhou Xin's residence, Gao Chun drove the car aimlessly. After driving for a long time, he realized that he was heading to that garage again.He stopped the car and parked on the side of the road for a long time before he remembered to turn on the phone and dialed Lu Ziqiang's cell phone.Lu Ziqiang's mobile phone was always busy, Gao Chun then saw a summon message from him who did not know when... Gao Chun drove to the pier, Lu Ziqiang was still drinking with guests on the yacht, he turned to the stern of the boat, and rushed to the boat that had just arrived Gao Chun lost his temper. "What did you do just now? Why didn't you answer my phone when I called you? Why did you turn it off?" Gao Chun lied: "My mobile phone is out of battery, and it cuts off as soon as I connect it. I just recharged it." Lu Ziqiang retreated slightly in anger: "Why haven't I heard from you these days?" Gao Chun replied: "Didn't you say that there is something suspicious before you call? There is nothing suspicious these days, everything is quite normal." Lu Ziqiang asked, "Where did she go today?" Gao Chun replied, "I went to the temple." "What are you doing in the temple?" "There is a tree in the temple." Someone on the front deck was calling Lu Ziqiang, saying that it was time to cut the cake. Lu Ziqiang hurriedly said to Gao Chun: "I tell you, what you do is also a profession. You have to have professional ethics. If I find you Fool me, and you won't get the number we agreed on." The yacht did not return to its voyage until the mid-day of the moon, and this business reception came to an end.The guests of honor walked onto the pier chatting and laughing, shook hands and bid farewell to each other, the doors of the cars slammed, and cars drove out one by one.After entering the urban area, the convoys scattered, going in different directions or running east and west, and Lu Ziqiang's Mercedes-Benz crossed the street with majesty.Turning into an alley with the turn signal flashing, he stopped firmly in front of a house not far from the entrance of the alley.With a metallic sound, an electric garage door slowly opened, and after the Mercedes-Benz entered, it slowly closed again, and the entire alley was silent. Half a minute later, Gao Chun's car also drove past the courtyard gate. He did not leave after leaving the yacht. He was waiting near the dock for Lu Ziqiang to come out. He followed Lu Ziqiang until this point, parked the car a little far ahead, and got off Walk back to the entrance of the house, step on the steps in front of the door, and peep through the crack of the door.He saw a screen wall carved with bricks, the carvings were exquisite and simple.The dim electric light illuminated the doorway in the courtyard into a deep silence, and no sound could be heard inside. He stepped back down the stone steps, raised his head and looked up, his vision framed the vermilion lacquered door that opened across the door.On the wall on one side of the gate, there is an iron doorplate, which says "No. 3 Renli Hutong" in small regular script characters.He saved the address on his mobile phone, and the whole alley was empty after he left. Gao Chun thought that Zhou Xin would ignore him, but two days later Zhou Xin called again and asked Gao Chun to go to her apartment. The largest room in this apartment serves as Zhou Xin's personal studio.After brewing two cups of tea in the studio, a drawing board was set up, on which a half-body sketch of a young man was already outlined.On the opposite side of the drawing board, on the window sill where the sun pours down, sits the model she copied - Gao Chun. The high-purity silhouette is illuminated by the afternoon sun, the skin is gorgeous like satin, the lines are undulating, and the face that is gradually taking shape on the drawing board is almost perfect. The shadows from the sunset also changed the tone of Zhou Xin's studio, Gao Chun, who had just been colored on the drawing board, looked melancholy and cold.By the time the painter and model turned on the lights, they had both left their positions and squeezed into the kitchen to make their simple but stylish dinner together. After dinner, Gao Chun helped Zhou Xin wash the dishes in the kitchen, and Zhou Xin was revising "Gao Chun" in the living room.She repaired the colored glaze on Gao Chun's neck with green, trying to reproduce the jade-like luster.Seeing Gao Chun walking out of the kitchen, she smiled and asked, "It doesn't seem like something men wear." Gao Chun asked indifferently: "Is this also divided into men and women?" Zhou Xin said: "Of course, men wear at most a piece of rough jade, and rarely wear a heart. Heart-shaped jewelry generally symbolizes feelings. Feelings are something that women care about." On Gao Chun's face, even a wry smile failed: "Women... really care about feelings?" "It's generally like this." Zhou Xin said: "Men care more about their careers. If they are too affectionate, they are not men and have no prospects. Women are different. Women care about their inner feelings. They care about their parents, children, especially It's... the one you love." "Is there no exception?" Gao Chun asked. "Of course there are. There are exceptions to everything. I mean generally." "Didn't you say that women generally love money the most?" "That's another matter. You brought up a topic in another category." Zhou Xin said. On the way out of the apartment, Gao Chun was still depressed. He held up the glass hanging around his neck and stared intently, wondering if it could really hold a woman's affection. Before returning to his residence, Gao Chun went again to the Renli Hutong that Lu Ziqiang had followed secretly. It was an old alley in the old city of Beijing, and there were rows of old-fashioned courtyards with brick walls and tiles.The quietness and cleanliness of the alleys show that the residents here are no longer ordinary people. Many Beijing courtyard houses have become the residences and collections of the wealthy, and have become symbols of taste and wealth.Gao Chun parked the car by the wall not far from the No. 3 courtyard, got out of the car and walked to the gate of the courtyard on foot.The location and appearance of this courtyard gate in this alley seem to be the most prominent, and the big tiles of the rich family are really eye-catching. It was late and there were no pedestrians on the road, so Gao Chun looked around along the fence.Not far away, a family is opening the door to see off customers.Gao Chun thought for a while, then strode over, the guest's car happened to drive away, the two hosts were about to enter the door, Gao Chun stepped forward and stopped him with words: Excuse me, do you know who lives in the No. 3 courtyard over there?The man and woman were about fifty years old, and looked at Gao Chun with sophisticated eyes. The man replied: I don't know.Gao Chun persevered: Is the person living in the courtyard surnamed Gao, or someone named Gao Longsheng?The man replied again: I don't know.And turned around and entered the door.The woman followed behind the man, but she turned around and asked Gao Chun: What do you do, do you know what's going on with that family?Gao Chun was suddenly asked back, and answered hastily: Oh, I...I'm looking for someone.The woman repeated: We don't know either.Then he followed the man into the courtyard gate.The moment the courtyard door closed, Gao Chun remembered that he should say excuse me, and realized that he was not only reckless, but also stupid in prying like this. It was night and no story happened. After lunch, Zhou Xin walked out of Dongfang Building on time, and Gao Chun followed her to the apartment.In Zhou Xin's small studio, portrait copying continued.Although the understatement has not yet been colored, the high-purity outline on the drawing board is initially drawn, and the trace of melancholy between the brows is particularly realistic. Zhou Xin said: "We usually hire models for 50 yuan a day. But I always feel that it is not good to give you money." Gao Chun replied: "Ah, it's not very good. I don't want money." Zhou Xin said: "You don't seem to be very happy these days, can I help if something goes wrong?" Gao Chun replied: "Ah, no, no, you don't want me to laugh." Zhou Xin looked at Gao Chun in the painting and asked, "Is your eyes naturally melancholy, or have you been in a bad mood for the past two days? But this is exactly the kind of look I want." Gao Chun said, "Really?" Zhou Xin asked: "Do your eyes look like your father or your mother?" Gao Chun said: "Like my mother, I have never met my father." Zhou Xin said: "Oh, I remembered, you came to Beijing to find your father, haven't you found any clues yet?" Gao Chun said: "No." Then said: "I don't want to look for it anymore." Seeing that he didn't want to talk about it, Zhou Xin changed the topic and talked about something else: "You always wear that colored glaze on your body. Do you wear it casually or is there something special about it? Do you miss someone? Miss your mother?" Gao Chun didn't answer. The studio suddenly fell silent, and the wind seemed to start blowing outside the window.