Chapter 13 Chapter Thirteen

In the evening, the young man surnamed Zhao who had a blind date with Jin Kui came. From the pleasantries between him and the old lady, Jin Kui heard that he had traveled at least 80 li of mountain roads by bicycle to and fro that day.The medicines caught are both Chinese and Western. Although the varieties are quite conventional, in this remote place, it can be regarded as exhausting resources.Traditional Chinese medicine promotes blood circulation and removes stasis, Western medicine reduces inflammation and relieves pain, and the eighty-mile mountain road is bumpy and tossing, so all of them are extremely precious.

The old lady and the young man took care of Jin Kui and took the medicine together, and left the back room under the pretext of having something to do, leaving room for the two young men to chat by themselves.As soon as the old lady left, Jin Kui felt very embarrassed, peeking at the young man, he was also restrained. "I heard from Grandma Hu that you are 21 this year, so it doesn't look like you." The young man finally found a way to talk, and he spoke coyly.In contrast, Jin Kui was still calm: "Ah, do I look big?" "No, you're young. You're less than twenty. You haven't done much farm work, have you?"

"How old are you?" Jin Kui asked. "Twenty-six." The young man replied. "It's not like either." Jin Kui said. "Am I too young?" The young man laughed. "Looks old." Jin Kui didn't smile. "Oh……" The young man was a little embarrassed, and the two were speechless for a moment.After a while, it was still a man who took the initiative to choose another topic, and when he heard it, he had nothing to say. "I bought you fruit from the town, and I'll get it for you to eat." "No, no, I don't like fruits."

"Oh." Seeing that Jin Kui was quite determined, the young man lifted his buttocks and sat down again, and said, "I heard from Grandma Hu that your hometown is in Yunlang. Is Yunlang far from here? I heard that your family is not rich. Are there many young people running out there like you?" "Our family..." Jin Kui didn't know how to explain herself, "Our family is okay, I left the house because I had a quarrel with my family, so I ran out." "Oh," the young man said with great interest, "Why are you arguing about money?" "No." Jin Kui answered crisply, "Because of my boyfriend!"

"You...your boyfriend?" The young man was a little silly: "You, do you have a boyfriend?" "My family doesn't agree with me having this boyfriend. They have to introduce me to someone I don't like. I ran out when I had no choice. Later, I was lied to... Cough, it's hard to say." "Then you, what about your boyfriend?" The young man obviously only cared about this relationship between men and women, not other things.When he heard Jin Kui say "my boyfriend is still waiting for me in Beijing", the surprise and despair in his eyes were hard to hide.

"Your boyfriend is still waiting for you in Beijing?" "That's right, Grandma Hu didn't tell you?" The young man shook his head in panic, "No, then you and your boyfriend...haven't broken up yet?" "No, my boyfriend is still waiting for me." Jin Kui said, "Hey, do you know where I can make a long-distance call from here? I want to make a long-distance call to my classmate and ask her to send me Some travel money. Can you take me to make a long-distance call? Do you have a cell phone?" The young man nodded in panic, then shook his head: "I, I don't have a mobile phone." He suddenly got up and walked to the front room: "I'll go ask Grandma Hu." Jin Kui knew that what he wanted to ask was of course not the mobile phone.

Soon, she heard a young man surnamed Zhao arguing with the old lady in the front room. His voice fluctuated loudly and softly, and he couldn't hear clearly, but he could hear the young man complaining and asking questions, while the old lady was comforting and explaining. After a while there was no sound, Jin Kui hopped one foot to the door and wanted to listen carefully, but unexpectedly bumped into the old lady who hurried into the back room. Jin Kui fell to the ground, the old lady ignored her, and complained loudly: "Hey, let you two young people have a good chat, why did you make him go away? You are now seeing a doctor and taking medicine, taking so much Good things are all sent by others, why can't you have a good talk with them."

Jin Kui got up by herself: "I told you well, who knew he was going to leave." The old lady said: "What did you say, did you say you have a boyfriend?" Jin Kui said, "I told you. I already have a boyfriend." The old lady said helplessly: "Oh, what's wrong with him, he spends so much money on you. You, don't want to put gold and silver basins. Is your boyfriend richer than others? Why do you throw you here if you have money? Is it? If you have money, you must have changed your mind." Jin Kui's eyes suddenly filled with tears: "My boyfriend...my boyfriend won't change his mind, he loves me the most."

The old lady said: "Men, I have seen too much. When women are not around, they are bothered." Jin Kui wiped her tears, and suddenly smiled: "Then grandpa is also fickle?" The old lady glanced at the old man sitting in the corner of the room, and said: "He, if a woman wants him, he is not a good guy." She called the old man: "Hey, why are you sitting here and watching when you are sick? go to sleep!" The old man obediently got up and went to sleep in the hut.The old lady turned her face and said to Jin Kui: "Anyway, you won't be able to leave for a while. It's better to have a good time with Xiao Zhao. People here are very honest. We treat people as good as they are good, and as bad as they are bad. It's not like People in the city are so sloppy. Listen to grandma's persuasion, you should find an honest person. You and Xiao Zhao have a try, if it doesn't work, say no."

Jin Kui was bored for a moment, then raised her head and replied, "Grandma, how much did you charge them?" This morning, Gao Chun drove Zhou Xin and Gu Zi to the airport, and the painter Xiaohou was also seeing him off in the same car. Xiao Hou entered the waiting hall with Gu Zi's luggage, and Gao Chun followed Zhou Xin's luggage. behind.Zhou Xin found a place for Gu Zi to sit down, and then checked luggage at the check-in counter with Xiao Hou. After check-in, Xiao Hou went to find Gu Zi. Zhou Xin and Gao Chun faced each other, not knowing what to say to say goodbye. Zhou Xin broke the silence first, and repeated the reason for his farewell: "Guzi is injured, and I can no longer drive long distances with you back home. I will go with him first. You must sleep well tonight. When driving on the road, safety comes first."

Gao Chun nodded and said, "Yesterday you stayed with Guzi all the time, and I never had a chance to say thank you to you." Zhou Xin said, "Thank you for what?" Gao Chun said, "Thank you for saving your life." Zhou Xin was silent for a while, and said: "I have never had the opportunity to say thank you to you. Since I met you, you have helped me a lot. I know that you are good to me, and I know... But I can't be sorry for Guzi. I've been thinking about it these days, you've given me so much help, I have to find other ways to repay you." Gao Chun was also silent for a while, and said: "Oh, you misunderstood, all I do for you are small things, and I can know you because... ah, you misunderstood." Zhou Xin smiled and said: "I know that I hurt your self-esteem by rejecting you like this. The self-esteem of a beautiful man is born with him. There is no giving for no reason in this world. You treat me well, I appreciate it, and I will repay you of." Xiao Hou walked over with Gu Zi on his arm, the two stopped talking, Xiao Hou said let's go, if you don't go in, it will be too late.Zhou Xin nodded and said yes. They walked towards the boarding entrance, Xiaohou waved goodbye to them.Zhou Xin turned around and cast a last glance at Gao Chun, who stood motionless with no expression on his face. At noon that day, the father of the young man surnamed Zhao came again and had a heated negotiation with the old lady in the outhouse.The old man was still sick, and he sat wearily by the bed in the back room.Jin Kui sat at the entrance of the corridor weaving baskets by herself, listening attentively to the conversation in the outer room. The voices in the outer room were not very clear, and it could be heard intermittently talking about money.The Zhao family came to settle accounts with the old lady, not only the hard work they gave to the old lady, but also the expenses they hired for Jinkui to hire a donkey cart to buy medicine, food, nutritional products, etc. Their village chief's gratitude fee, and so on, are not small sums when calculated.The Zhao family's father was righteous and confident, and the voice of questioning the crime was heard, and the old lady was short of breath, and the words of defense lingered.After a while, the front room became quiet, and the two sides seemed to break up unhappy.After a while, the old lady staggered into the back room. Jin Kui looked at her, she avoided looking, and walked into the kitchen alone. Before dusk, the old lady went out alone, and she didn't know where she went, and she didn't come back for dinner. Jin Kui warmed up the leftovers, took care of the old man and went to sleep, then she split her legs and bent down on the bed as usual, trying to recover.Her ankle was still swollen, and when she accidentally touched the sore spot, the pain was excruciating. Jin Kui slept soundly that night. After all, the dispute between the old lady and the Zhao family was not her responsibility. It was Zhao's family's voluntary decision to see a doctor and take medicine, and she never promised half of it before.When it was darkest before dawn, she was awakened by a loud knock on the door. She got out of bed and opened the wooden door with a limp, and saw the old lady standing at the door. There are often power outages here at night, and the old lady holds an oil lamp in her hand, illuminating her old face in a terrifying and frightening way. The old lady stammered, a little out of breath: "You, get dressed and go, the Zhao family is coming soon, they want you to pay back the money, if you don't pay back the money, they will take you to They go there, you go quickly." Jin Kui's eyes were sleepy: "Why do you ask me to pay back the money?" But the old lady interrupted involuntarily: "Poxia Village is also a poor village, and the people are very wild. They spent so much money on you, and they don't want to find you Who to look for, I have no money to look for me, they know." Jin Kui said: "I, I, I have no money..." The old lady interrupted her again: "If you don't have money, they want your people. If you want to go, I will leave you alone. If you go, whether you pay the money or make sense, you can see for yourself!" Jin Kui was stunned for a long time before fully waking up. The first reaction after waking up was to turn around and go back, putting on pants and clothes in a hurry.The old lady disappeared at the door for a moment and then reappeared. She handed Jin Kui a roll of loose money, then pushed Jin Kui out the front door, pointed her in the direction, and let her stagger towards the dark night at the entrance of the village. The moon was dark and the wind was high, and the road was quiet. A barking dog sent Jin Kui out of the village. She ran on the bottomless dirt road with deep feet and shallow feet, and she couldn't tell whether the wound on her foot was painful or not.The wind blew head-on, smashing the two lines of teardrops on her face to pieces. Its daybreak. The painter's convoy set off from Shanhaiguan and returned triumphantly. It was still Gao Chun who took the lead, the difference was that there was no Zhou Xin by his side.All the painters were talking and laughing, but Gao Chun was the same as when he came here, depressed and reticent. As the sun rose, Jin Kui was ashamed and limping along a dirt road. Looking back, there were no pursuers.In the wilderness where the morning mist dissipated, she was the only one walking alone. The sun has risen, and the sun is shining in the trees. The painter's convoy is galloping along the wide forest road. Gao Chun puts down the sun visor, and the light and shadow on his face are still dark and bright. When the sun illuminated the land, Jin Kui finally got on a tractor, and the end of the dirt road was far away.She counted and counted the change that the old lady gave her, and found out that she had more than two hundred yuan of precious money.She let out a long sigh of relief, because the money was enough for her to return to Beijing! Yes, the place she wants to go back to is not Yunlang, but Beijing. When the sun was setting, the painter's convoy approached Beijing, and the old and sour little Hou was all asleep. Only Gao Chun held the direction of the car, with a serious face and his eyes fixed on it. Under the same setting sun, a long-distance passenger car was also heading towards Beijing, speeding forward.Jin Kui looked at the sunset outside the window with a haggard face and piercing eyes. When the motorcade returned to Beijing, Gao Chun was deeply moved by those familiar streets and alleys. He didn't know whether he should forget or remember this city where he lived.He helped Lao Suan and others move down the tent and various tools during the trip in the single-wood painting workshop. Lao Suan also said a lot of thanks and farewell words to him, and they made an appointment to keep in touch and meet again when they had time.After he broke up with the painters, he drove to his residence, and he didn't slow down when he passed by Zhou Xin's apartment building. Beijing is also the end of Jinkui's nightmare.After several months, she finally returned to the city.This is a city she is familiar with.She experienced her first love here. She used to be a beautiful scenery in the city, even though her face was full of vicissitudes at this time, and her clothes were dirty and shabby like a beggar... After dark, Gao Chun walked into the apartment he shared with Master Li's family. The old building where I lived.There are guests in the Li family, Master Li is busy cooking in the corridor, Junjun is still reviewing his homework on the small table, Master Li's wife is lying on the bed, weakly accompanying the guest's parents to chat.Everyone was very happy to see Gao Chun come back. Master Li asked him if he had eaten, and Jun Jun asked him where he had been for so long. Say I'm fine, I'm driving more steadily than my master now.Master Li introduced his guest to Gao Chun: This is the old horse, and it also belongs to our Yunlang. I saw the car with me at Yunlang Restaurant, and now I work as a purchaser in a company. I am going to work in Beijing today, so I will come over Look at me.Gao Chun, you haven't eaten, let's eat together, the meal will be ready soon.Gao Chun said yes, I'll put the things back first. Like Gao Chun two months ago, the first place Jin Kui went back to Beijing was their former common lair—the garage that had been turned into a vermicelli workshop.Like Gao Chun, she was stunned by the changes here. Every corner here has become messy.It started to rain in the sky, and the workers were busy putting raincloths on the dried vermicelli, but no one cared about Jin Kui's astonishment.The last thing Jin Kui saw when he left was a kite discarded in the debris pile.A piece of dirty red silk tied to the kite wet Jin Kui's eyes.That was the headscarf she designed for Gao Chun. In the dance of love between ice and fire, it was a soul-stirring flame! The raindrops were getting bigger and bigger, and with trembling hands, Jin Kui picked up the piece of red silk that had been trampled by dust and dirt. Yun Lang's guests left. The only small lamp in the room is for Junjun to prepare for the exam. Gao Chun and Master Li sit side by side in a corner outside the lamp shadow and talk with each other. Only those unbearable past events can stand the nagging. Master Li said: "For the past, forget it if you should. Didn't you also hear my colleague say that Yang Feng did not marry Jin Kui, and many people in Yunlang knew that Yang Feng and the Jin family had turned against each other. That's a big slap, Yang Feng is a celebrity, good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles, Jin Kui has become Yun Lang's celebrity by relying on Yang Feng, even the old horse knows that Jin Kui dumped Yang Feng and climbed to another boss in another place Gao Zhi, Yang Feng in turn brought this matter to Jin's restaurant. I heard that Jin Kui's elder brother also injured Yang Feng's people. Now the court has sealed the restaurant and arrested them. They are waiting for the auction to pay back Yang Feng's money. Woolen cloth." Gao Chun bowed his head and listened silently.The light was too dim to see whether the expression on his face was sadness, despair, or insensitivity.Master Li's face was only briefly reddened by the light of the cigarette butt, and then his brows were also blurred.His emotion was choked in his throat by the smoke, mixed with a hoarse and unpleasant sound of phlegm. "Jin Kui's child has brought her family a hard time. It makes sense that she didn't want to marry that surnamed Yang because of you. She suddenly ran away with a foreigner. Her family really didn't expect it. The old horse said , that foreigner doesn't seem to have as much money as Yang Feng, and he looks very rustic. I don't know what kind of tricks he used to subdue Jin Kui. Some people say that Jin Kui only got revenge on her family members, so she and that If that person is really good to Jin Kui in the future, if he can really help Jin Kui's family pay off their debts, then the Jin family will not suffer too much. If Jin Kui and this person can't get along, then her parents It's really a waste of raising her. If our Junjun treats us like this in the future, we parents will be so chilled!" Gao Chun turned to look at Junjun, and Junjun was also staring at them under the lamp. She obviously heard her father's emotion, but she didn't know whether she could satisfy her parents' heart in the future. Gao Chun went to find Fangyuan the next day, and wanted to ask Fangyuan to help him find a job.Although he knew that Fang Yuan had just returned to Beijing after spending a few days in Chengdu, and he didn't have a regular job yet, but in the huge Beijing, Fang Yuan was the only "capable person" he had a deep personal relationship with. "You won't do it for that boss?" Fang Yuan asked him, "Or the boss won't let you do it?" "I don't want to do it myself," Gao Chun said, "I'm so familiar with Zhou Xin, it's impossible to follow her for a long time without being exposed. Besides, Zhou Xin is a very nice person, and I don't want to do anything to hurt her anymore." Instead, Fang Yuan excused Gao Chun: "You have been following her for so long, no matter subjectively or objectively, you have not done anything to hurt her. You don't have to feel guilty." Gao Chun said, "Can you help me find something else?" Fang Yuan said: "What do you want to do? You can't carry your hands on your shoulders, and you can't do things that use your brain and wisdom. As I said earlier, children who dance are simple-minded and well-developed limbs. They can do nothing but dance. If If you can dance, you are an artist. If you can’t dance, you are not as good as a migrant worker. Tell me what you want to do, and what can you say you can do?” Gao Chun was bored for a while, then lowered his head and said, "I still want to dance." Fang Yuan was stunned for a moment, not without surprise: "You still want to dance?" As if he hated iron for being weak, he asked, "Can you still dance?" Gao Chun said: "I have been practicing without interruption. As long as I resume regular training, I will definitely be able to jump." Fangyuan thought for a while and said, "I'm going to Hangzhou tomorrow. There is a song and dance troupe called Super Dancer in Hangzhou who wants me to be a marketing manager. I'll go and see the situation first. But even if you can dance now, there is still room for you." If you want to dance, then you have to figure it out, the money you earn from dancing may not necessarily be more than what you earn from driving now!" Gao Chun said: "I made an appointment with Jin Kui before, and I must go to the dance school, and I must persist in dancing. If we can't dance, we will teach students, even if we return to our Yunlang Art School to teach students..." Fang Yuan interrupted him: "But Jin Kui doesn't dance anymore, she's already married and has a family, and she won't be admitted to the Beijing Dance Academy anymore, dancing has already drawn a rest for her. You insist on dancing alone, Are you not alone?" Gao Chun was silent for a long time, and said a little waywardly: "No, I love dancing, just like I love Jin Kui, and it will never change in my life. I think if I keep dancing, if I am admitted to the Beijing Dance Academy, Once I meet Jin Kui again in the future, I can tell her that I have kept our agreement, and I have stuck to our ideals..." "So what?" Fang Yuan said, "Can you make her change her mind? If she changes her mind, are you still willing to have her?" Gao Chun paused, then he shook his head slowly: "I only want her to know that I fulfilled our agreement, and I only want her to remember that we had an agreement. That's enough." Fangyuan fell silent. Before finding a job, Jin Kui also went to find Fang Yuan.Fangyuan's phone number was stored in her mobile phone, but the mobile phone was gone, so she had to go to Fangyuan's residence.But the door of Fangyuan's residence was locked, and there was no response after knocking for a long time. Jin Kui came to find Fang Yuan in order to find Gao Chun. She repeatedly recalled every possible place where Gao Chun could be found, but she couldn't find Gao Chun's whereabouts.It was only from a salesperson of the car rental company that Gao Chun had just been here a few days ago. Jin Kui was very excited. After she returned to Beijing, the information about Gao Chun was always vague and illusory. Only this time, she seemed to hear Gao Chun's footsteps just now. "Judging from our registration situation, he came the day before yesterday. He came here the day before yesterday to return the car he rented, and went through the formalities of returning the lease." Although the deal between Gao Chun and here has been terminated, Jin Kui still sees hope: "Did he leave his phone number? He should have left his phone number with you." The clerk checked the records on the computer: "He left a mobile phone, which he left when he registered to rent a car, and also left the address and ID number on his ID card..." Jin Kui couldn't wait: "What's his phone number?" The salesman turned his eyes away from the computer: "Ah, it is inconvenient for us to tell you this, we keep the personal information of our customers confidential, and we have no right to disclose them unless the public security organs or judicial organs investigate according to law, sorry. " Jin Kui was so anxious that she almost shed tears: "Please tell me, please! He is my boyfriend, I can't find him now, I have accompanied him here, someone here should have seen me ..." All the people working in this room were attracted by Jin Kui's entreaties, and a person who looked like a manager came over to persuade him: "Hey, miss, do you want to know about the client? Who are you? You Do you have a document? Girlfriend? No girlfriend. If you really want to know, you can go to the Public Security Bureau. Is your boyfriend lost? Then you should go to the Public Security Bureau to report the case first, let the Public Security Bureau come to us Check, that's the way to go. You go back and search again, it's no use begging us..." The manager and the salesperson spoke to each other, ignoring Jin Kui's begging, Jin Kui grabbed the counter and refused to leave, pleading repeatedly: "Just tell me, you see, I have begged you so much, we have an appointment to go to the exam I learned it, so I have to find him immediately, or it will be too late...Is his phone number 13910999180?" The clerk looked at the computer, then at the manager, who also looked at the computer, raised his head and asked Jin Kui, "Since you know why you don't call?" "This is from the past. He changed his number long ago. Didn't he leave a new number when he came the day before yesterday?" The salesman shook his head: "No." The manager glanced at the notebook and also shook his head. Jin Kui lost her voice and sat down on the ground. For three days in a row, Jin Kui failed to find Gao Chun, a job, or even a place to live.The two hundred yuan that the old lady gave her had long been spent, and she spent every night in the waiting hall of the railway station, leaning on the benches where passengers waited, waking up, sitting and lying down.Gao Chun has no relatives and no place to live in Yunlang, so even knowing his ID card is useless.The address on the ID card is just his past history, and where he is now, Jin Kui is faintly desperate. Two days later, Gao Chun met his employer, Lu Ziqiang, in a reception room of Encyclopedia.After the secretary who brought Gao Chun in left the room, Lu Ziqiang questioned Gao Chun. "As far as I know, you came back three days ago. Why did you report for duty today? Why is your mobile phone turned off? Don't lie to me. Since I can hire you to follow Zhou Xin, I can also hire someone to follow you. .” Gao Chun replied wearily: "Zhou Xin didn't have any special situation these days. I have reported to you on the phone all the way. I have been looking for a job when I came back, so I was delayed for two days. But I have already bought that car. Refunded, they didn’t refund my deposit, and the owner of the rental company said they would pay you directly.” Lu Ziqiang was slightly surprised: "Looking for a job? So, you came to find me today to resign?" Gao Chun said: "Yes, I don't want to do this errand. You promised me before I left last time that you will pay me when I come back." Lu Ziqiang reacted for a while, and smiled dryly: "Okay, pay the bill!" He said: "Did you bring what I want today? We will pay for it and deliver it. If the goods are real, the price I will give you will also be paid." It will be real." "What goods?" "You forgot everything, what did I ask you to do this trip! What about the photos? The ancient Great Wall and fashionable beauties, I have to see if your photography skills have improved during this trip." Only then did Gao Chun remember: "The photo..." Gao Chun knocked on Zhou Xin's door. Zhou Xin, who opened the door for him, was fully dressed and was in a hurry as if she was about to go out. She welcomed Gao Chun into the room in surprise, just like seeing a long-lost relative. "Gao Chun, come in quickly, you have been back for a few days, I guess you will come to me. Come, come and sit. I haven't had time to go to work after I come back, I have been..." Zhou Xin's enthusiasm was interrupted by the sound of footsteps, Gao Chun looked back and saw Gu Zi walking out of the bedroom: "Who's here?" Gu Zi's inquiry just came out, and Gao Chun's eyes met head-on.The eyes of both of them were awkward for a moment, but it was Zhou Xin's words that changed the atmosphere. "I have been taking care of Guzi since I came back. I went to the company to meet up yesterday. I haven't officially started work yet." Zhou Xin noticed the awkwardness between Guzi and Gao Chun. She hesitated and said to Guzi, "Guzi, go down and call a car first. Wait for me for a while, I will come after I have a few words with Gao Chun." Gu Zi was puzzled for a moment, then nodded, "Ah, okay, then I'll go first." Then he bowed his head and walked out of the room.Zhou Xin watched him go out, then turned around and smiled at Gao Chun explainingly: "I will accompany Guzi to the hospital for a checkup, and he has almost recovered. Are you okay, has your boss returned from abroad? " Gao Chun said, "Not yet." With just one sentence, the two of them had nothing to talk about.Gao Chun then revealed his purpose for coming here. "Ah, last time I took some photos with your camera, I want to print those photos, I don't know if it's convenient." Zhou Xin also suddenly remembered: "Oh, by the way, I have photos of you in my camera, are you in a hurry? If not, I will print them out for you in a few days?" Gao Chun said: "Ah... I'm going to work in a few days, I changed jobs, maybe I won't have time to come here..." "You changed your job? Did you! What did you change?" "I still want to dance. A friend of mine helped me contact a dance troupe in Hangzhou. I have an exam in a few days. If I pass, I may have to leave here." "Ah, that's not bad." Zhou Xin smiled considerately and said, "You still can't forget your dance. But it's also very good. People always have a career they love, and they always have sustenance." While Zhou Xin was talking, she went into the bedroom and took out her digital camera. This was the camera that Lu Ziqiang bought for Zhou Xin, and it was the camera that Zhou Xin lent him in front of the ancient Great Wall.Gao Chun put the camera in his satchel, thanked him and said goodbye, Zhou Xin called him to stop. "Gao Chun." She said, "Are you really going to Hangzhou? Can we meet again? " Gao Chun stood at the door, thought for a while, and said, "I will never forget Beijing. I have many experiences here, including my most unforgettable experience. I have a lot of affection for this place." Zhou Xin hugged Gao Chun: "Forgive me, I really like you. But maybe Guzi needs me more. Guzi is a man with a strong appearance but a fragile heart. Compared with you, he may need me more. My mother I was told from a young age that the reason why a person is happy is because someone needs him especially.” Gao Chun let Zhou Xin hug him dumbly, not knowing what to say and what to do.He didn't want to tell Zhou Xin that she was being self-indulgent, he didn't want to stab Zhou Xin with words, he and Zhou Xin were like relatives, they knew each other well, and they were like brothers. He said: "Then I admire you. There are fewer and fewer people who are willing to live for the needs of others. In fact, everyone knows that a society where everyone only cares about themselves is hell, but they regard other people's happiness as their own happiness." There are still too few people.” Zhou Xin let go of Gao Chun, and she said, "Thank you, you can praise me so much, it means you forgive me." Gao Chun is about to leave Beijing, in search of dance and dreams.And Jin Kui returned to Beijing to find love.She went to the garage again, and the landlord of the garage opened the cabin where the luggage was stored for her.Gao Chun's things have been taken away by Gao Chun, and only her own box and bedding, as well as a few cardboard boxes full of clothes, are left in a room full of sundries. Before finding love again, she also has to find a job.The sound of the piano in the practice hall of Guanhu Club is still the same, but the passwords that come out with the rhythm of the piano are a little strange.A new coach has been replaced here long ago, and the rhythm of life in the whole city has not changed or stopped at all, only different faces have changed. As time goes by, things change.The intersection of time and space is always just a short moment, and only those photos developed and printed from the camera can retain this moment. Those photos made Gao Chun see the Great Wall again.From Hebei to Inner Mongolia, from Shanxi to Shaanxi and Gansu, most of the pictures were taken by Zhou Xin himself, but in the part of the picture taken by Gao Chun, the Great Wall becomes unimportant, often just a background behind Zhou Xin. Gao Chun copied this part of the pictures he took on a floppy disk, and there are still a few white pictures in the camera storage that are not clearly miniature, obviously not from the trip.Gao Chun hesitated for a moment, perhaps just out of curiosity, he opened and enlarged the pictures on the photo agency's computer, and what he saw were several complicated charts with densely packed numbers.He continued to enlarge the chart, and the Chinese characters on the chart could gradually be seen clearly.Gao Chun saw the balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement, expense schedule, etc., and what caught his eye was the words "Finance Department of Encyclopedia Investment Co., Ltd." in the lower corner of the report. I don't know when and who these mysterious charts are Deposited, they are hidden deep in the camera's storage space, and they seem to be sneaky and not aboveboard. After leaving the photo agency, Gao Chun went directly to Lu Ziqiang, and he spread the developed photos on Lu Ziqiang's desk.There are not many photos, and Lu Ziqiang's dissatisfaction is palpable. "Why did you take such a photo? Why did you go there!" Gao Chun said: "I took a lot of photos at the beginning, but I accidentally deleted them later. Anyway, she really didn't do much in those days except draw, walk, eat and sleep." Lu Ziqiang swallowed, and asked, "How are she and that young artist named Gu Zi?" "It's okay," Gao Chun said, "It's all group activities. The men live in the same room, and the women live alone. It's okay." Lu Ziqiang lowered his head and looked through the photos. In the photos, Zhou Xin was either alone or with a group of people. There was nothing suspicious or abnormal. Lu Ziqiang asked: "She hasn't come to work since she came back, have you visited her again in the past few days?" Gao Chun said, "No." When it was very late, Zhou Xin took a taxi back to his residence.She got out of the car and went upstairs, entered the elevator, and took the elevator up to the floor where she lived. When she took out the key and opened the door, she suddenly saw a figure sitting on the ground.She was startled, and by the dim light in the corridor, she recognized that the standing figure was Gao Chun. Of course Zhou Xin couldn't guess that Gao Chun's visitor was not kind. When she saw the printed pictures on the coffee table in the living room, she couldn't help being shocked. "What do you mean?" Maybe Zhou Xin really didn't realize it, and really forgot that in addition to the magnificent scene of the Great Wall in her camera, there are also these ulterior secrets hidden. "Where did you get it?" She asked Gao Chun. "It's in your camera." Gao Chun could tell that Zhou Xin was pretending to be calm, and she said, "Oh, these are our company's reports, what's the matter, what are you typing them out for?" Gao Chun answered irrelevantly: "I heard that a company's financial statements are the company's core secrets, and you don't seem to be in charge of financial work in Baike." Gao Chun's meaning is very clear, but Zhou Xin still wants to hide it: "But I am the assistant to the president of Baike Company, that is to say, I am his confidential secretary. Everything in the company is not a secret to me." Gao Chun persisted in her doubts: "You are not Lu Ziqiang's confidential secretary, you are just a Xiaomi raised by him, a Xiaomi who doesn't ask questions and doesn't understand the company's business." Zhou Xin was stunned, and finally couldn't calm down. Gao Chun's never-before-speaking straightforward and unceremonious tone made her unable to estimate his intentions. "Gao Chun, I don't understand what you mean. You come today, you print out the things in my camera, what do you want to explain?" Gao Chun said: "I don't want to explain anything. I'm just curious about you. Besides, you saved me, so I'm here today to say sorry to you." Zhou Xin's eyes were confused: "Why are you sorry, did you do something to hurt me?" Gao Chun said: "I know you, I always follow you, and I drive to accompany you to the Great Wall, all of this was arranged by someone to monitor you." "Who?" Zhou Xin's eyes tightened in astonishment: "Who arranged it?" Gao Chun said, "It's your boss." Zhou Xin shouldn't have expected it, so she was shocked: "Lu Ziqiang? Who are you? " "I'm a spy hired by your boss! That night, Zhou Xin took a taxi to the Fanghuali community again. She was still in the mysterious residential building, and she knocked on the door of the room she often visited late at night. Gao Chun came with her in the same car. This was Gao Chun's first time entering the house that he had repeatedly spied on and guarded, and it was the middle-aged woman who opened the door.She glanced nervously and surprised at the familiar Gao Chun, and watched him follow Zhou Xin into the room. They went all the way into the bedroom. On the bed in the bedroom lay a skinny woman who hadn't fallen asleep yet, staring at them blankly with a pair of dull eyes. "This is my mother!" Gao Chun politely called "Auntie". Zhou Xin said, "She can't hear." Gao Chun asked, "Is she deaf?" Zhou Xin said: "She has no consciousness at all, she is a vegetable." Gao Chun was shocked. When the two young people walked out of the Fanghuali community, it was already dark, the last bus had already left, and there was no visible overhead light of a taxi.They walked along the empty streets, looking back at the past in the dead of night, and almost every word could reach their hearts. "Lu Ziqiang didn't know that my mother was also an employee of Encyclopedia." Zhou Xin said: "He didn't know my background. He thought I was just a painter and knew nothing about Encyclopedia." 高纯默默地听着，他对眼前这个女孩更加好奇。这个他以为只是贪图老板钱财的女孩，只懂得画画的女孩，原来竟有这样一个不可告人的背景。 “百科公司自陆子强当上总裁之后，一直采取制造虚假账目的方法瞒税骗税，赚取黑心的利润。我妈只是公司财务部的一个普通会计，可她慢慢发觉公司里是有两套账的，真实的账是给陆子强看的，假账是给税务局看的。我妈提醒过公司的财务总监，告诉他这样做等同犯罪，可他们不听。那时候我还在上大学，我妈有一天给我打了一个长途电话，她问我如果她不能供养我了，我能不能半工半读完成学业。她说她要到税务局去举报她的公司，她说她这一去就等于把自己的饭碗砸了。举报自己公司的财税内幕对一个职业会计来说，就等于把自己一生的职业全都毁了，也许以后没有一家公司愿意聘用这样一个会计。” 周欣停了下来，高纯看到，她的眼里含了泪水。他问：“后来，她真的去了？” 周欣摇头：“她还没有来得及去，就在她把她的决定告诉我的当天晚上，她在回家的路上被人下了毒手。他们本来是要让她死的，可她没死。她在医院昏迷了半个多月，醒过来以后就是现在这个样子，再也不会说话，再也没有表情。可是陆子强没有想到，被他除掉的这个小小的会计还有一个女儿，这个女儿还能说话，这个女儿还有表情！” 高纯怔了半天，他想起周欣不止一次和他谈到过母亲，她不止一次地说起过母亲的正直，不止一次地说过母亲要她完成的事情，她只有遵命，她必须完成！ 他问：“你后来是靠自己打工上完大学的？” 周欣说：“我没有上完大学，我退了学，回到了北京。尽管我在这里找到了许多志同道合的朋友，我参加了他们的画坊，但这并不是我到这里来的目的。我到这里来，就是为了进入百科公司！” 高纯不再疑问，此刻他对周欣，对她的母亲，全都肃然起敬。 周欣怀了感激，也带了信任，她对高纯说道：“我感谢你高纯，你不止一次地帮我，不止一次。我想再问你一句，你还愿意再帮我一次吗？” 早上，周欣拿着一沓文件走进陆子强的办公室里，陆子强正和财务总监窃窃低语，见周欣进来，两人都收了话头。 陆子强对周欣说：“你昨天就上班了吧，我听小张说你昨天来了。怎么样，这一趟跑的，真和两万五千里长征差不多了吧。” 周欣笑笑，没有作答，把文件放在陆子强桌上，说：“这是总裁办刚送过来的文件，还有王主任让我问问您，中午和审计事务所的人吃饭，您几点出发？” 陆子强说：“十点半准时走吧。我得先到，别让他们等我。 你让王主任提前去游艇布置一下，别再出上次的笑话。 ”见周欣应声要走，他又把她叫住：“哎，你等等，我还有事跟你说呢。 " 财务总监见状，起身告辞：“那我先走了，报表您先看看，有问题您随时叫我。” 陆子强也起身绕过周欣，和财务总监一同出门，两人一同放低了声音。 “给税务局那套报表不是已经报了吗？这一套就不急了吧？” “两套表都拷在那张盘里了，您先看看，今天中午审计事务所要问的话你也好说。” “这来不及了，我回头把盘带上，等下午送走他们，我在船上看看……” 门外的声音越来越小，听不清了，少顷门声一响，陆子强回到屋里。他亲热地搂了一下周欣，笑道：“想没想我？我可是天天想你，你要再不回来，我还想过去找你探营去呢。” 周欣应付地笑笑：“你刚说有事要和我说，什么事呀？” 陆子强说：“没什么事，有点想你了和你多说几句话还不行嘛。 " 周欣说：“王主任等我回话呢，您不是让他早点上船检查一下中午的活动吗，我得赶快告诉他去。” 陆子强只好放了周欣：“好吧，你先去吧。哎，下午五点你到船上找我，咱们聊聊，晚上我在船上请你吃饭，给你洗尘接风。” 周欣说道：“哦……好啊。” 下午五点，周欣被公司的一辆汽车送到京郊游艇码头，乘上了等候在此的一艘快艇。太阳正把西方烧红，整个湖泊风平浪静，快艇划开蓝色的水面，绕过一艘艘闲散的游船，向陆子强的船舶靠近。游艇上的盛宴早已曲终人散，除了开船的舵工只有陆子强一人没走，他坐在舱房里的一台手提电脑前，审阅着财务总监上午交来的两套报表。 周欣上船以后，陆子强立即从电脑前站起身来，亲手给周欣倒了饮料，邀她一起坐进沙发闲聊，问长城风光，问途中见闻。看来中午和审计事务所的人谈得不错，陆子强印堂放光，春风得意。周欣不冷不热地喝着饮料，问一句答一句，既不沉默，也不饶舌。 陆子强的雪茄灭了，他让周欣替他去找火柴。雪茄烟专用的长火柴就在写字台上，周欣取火柴时看到电脑的屏幕处在自动保护的状态，但电脑旁两张磁盘的外盒却赫然触目，周欣的目光未敢久留，取了火柴便抽身离去。她把火柴递给沙发上的陆子强，陆子强却叼着雪茄让她点上。 周欣说：“雪茄怎么点，我不会。” 陆子强说：“不会学呀，你做不了我的业务助理，总应该做做生活助理吧。” 陆子强示范地划着一根火柴，然后用火柴燃烤着雪茄的一端，雪茄的端头慢慢红了，陆子强才把火柴熄灭，“看见了吧，就这样点，下次你来。”陆子强的雪茄叼在嘴上，还未来得及吸上一口，就被轰的一声巨响震落在地。整个船身都在这声响动中摇摆起来，周欣若不是顺势扶住一根柱子，险些也要跌倒在地。 陆子强顾不得去捡地上的雪茄，恼火地从沙发上站了起来，歪歪斜斜地走出舱门，想到外面查看究竟。他走到前甲板才明白他这艘宝贵的游艇是被一条机动船撞了一下，陆子强的舵工正与那小船激烈理论。陆子强一边询问舵工，一边责骂小船，一边探身察看游艇的伤势……他忘记客舱里只留下周欣独自一人，也想不到这个只懂画画的女孩对他留在电脑里的磁盘会有兴趣，更不会想到这时周欣已经用最快的动作，拷下了磁盘中的全部内容。 小船上的人一再争辩，大意是说并非他们撞了这条大船，而是大船撞了他们……其中一人陆子强看着煞是面熟，那人戴了草帽，留了胡子，陆子强一时想不起在哪里见过。 疑惑之际他的下意识似乎被忽然触动，不知想到什么急急转身，走到一半他已经从客舱的窗外看到周欣在动他的电脑，那一瞬间两人的目光甚至隔窗相持。陆子强似乎还没有完全意识到事情的性质，但周欣那一刹那的目光让他陌生至极。 陆子强大步进门，磁盘的复制恰正完成。陆子强的视线在自己办公桌凌乱的桌面上快速扫过，似乎才真的意识到发生了什么，但已晚了，周欣直接登上桌子踢开窗扇一跃而出，动作之麻利干脆，犹如一个身手矫健的男子。 陆子强的思维尚在恍惚，但反应却本能地快如脱兔，他冲出客舱快步追去，仅差一步就要抓住周欣，周欣危急中越舷跳水，跳得竟有几分英勇壮烈！ 陆子强扶着舷索大声喊叫：“抓住她！别让她跑了！”也不知竟是喊给谁听。舵工闻声跑了过来，不知就里地扔下一只救生圈去，陆子强气急败坏眉目走形：“我让你抓住她！”吼得舵工不知还能做甚。 接下来的情形更是出乎意外，他们眼睁睁地看着刚刚撞击游艇的那只机械船快速折返，戴草帽的青年也跳入湖中，他挥臂划水游向周欣，搭救她攀上机动小船，小船随即开足马力，向岸边野渡破浪直行。陆子强五官麻木，只能疯狂挥舞手势让舵工赶快开船，除此竟然气噎失声。等舵工跑回舵舱开动引擎急起直追，小船已经走远，在视线可及的水面，化成一只绽放的浪花。 陆子强跌跌绊绊跑回客舱，客舱的写字台如遭洗劫，两张磁盘胡乱地扔在电脑一侧，那一刻陆子强的脑袋里万念俱空。