Chapter 14 Chapter 14 Secret Realm

Lu Ziqiang hurried back to the company. His expression when he walked quickly through the corridor of the company made everyone who met him secretly surprised. When he returned to the office, a staff member came into the room with some trivial matters and asked for instructions: "Mr. Lu, the black Mercedes was repaired yesterday and has come back from the repair shop. Master Yang asked you..." He The words were immediately interrupted by Lu Ziqiang. "Hurry up and call the director of the finance department!" "Okay." The staff obediently turned around and retreated to the door, turning around and asking again in an ignorant way: "Master Yang asked if you want to change to this car today..."

"Go and call Director Xiang!" Lu Ziqiang let out a roar, and the staff panicked and retreated in a panic.Soon, the chief financial officer came, and Lu Ziqiang signaled him to close the door. Judging from the boss's face and tone, the chief financial officer obviously knew something serious had happened. The first thing Lu Ziqiang wanted to ask was whether the account could be corrected immediately, but this idea was dismissed by the chief financial officer without thinking. "It's impossible to change the accounts. In the past, the monthly accounts were reported to the tax bureau. If you want to change, you can only change the last month. The impact on the annual report data is unlikely to be great."

"If..." Lu Ziqiang tried to analyze the matter: "If she is an undercover agent sent by the tax bureau, then the tax bureau must have been following us! Zhou Xin has been here for more than half a year, right?" His analysis made him nervous, but the chief financial officer's judgment was not so pessimistic: "No, the tax bureau manages so many units and so many companies, how can it spend so much energy to send us undercover agents for half a year. Besides. The Taxation Bureau is not the Public Security Bureau, so they will not send undercover agents. I guess... Mr. Lu, Zhou Xin is by your side these days, do you keep telling her about the company? Maybe she took your Shortcomings, I think it can knock you a sum of money, I think this possibility is more likely."

Lu Ziqiang lowered his head and recalled: "No, I didn't discuss financial matters with her." The chief financial officer said: "Mr. Lu, you may have drunk too much and brag about how you make money in front of girls. It's not guaranteed. You will forget it after you finish talking. But if Zhou Xin is really trying to knock you off The money is a good thing, at least she will not dare to reveal the account after taking the money, because extortion itself is also a crime. Now we have to find her quickly, negotiate with her, and see what price she wants. " Lu Ziqiang understood, he stood up hastily from his seat, and strode towards the door.Halfway there, he turned back and grabbed the phone on the table.

He dialed Zhou Xin's mobile phone, and even dialed it twice, but the ring rang in vain and no one answered.The chief financial officer watched his expression nervously until he put down the phone. "Shut down?" "She won't answer." "That……" The chief financial officer wanted to say something, but Lu Ziqiang pushed the phone away with a bang, opened the drawer and found a key, and walked out without even closing the drawer.The chief financial officer looked at his back with a heavy expression, as if he had a premonition that the general situation was about to fail, and that there was a lot of bad luck.

Lu Ziqiang went directly to Zhou Xin's apartment. He drove the black Mercedes blazingly fast, and Zhou Xin's apartment became within easy reach.He took the elevator upstairs and went straight to Zhou Xin's unit, took out the key and opened the door vigorously, after entering the door, he frantically searched for each room.Zhou Xin was not there, indeed he was not. He even opened the closet, even opened the drawers of the bedside table and desk, and there was no trace of people or disks. After leaving the apartment, Lu Ziqiang drove the car onto the road, and the speed was ridiculously fast.He took out his phone to call his mobile phone, and when he dialed his mobile phone, he almost collided head-on with the opposite car. He slammed the steering wheel and dodged it, and squeezed a normal truck beside him. One long angry whistle.

An hour later, in a private room of a restaurant, Lu Ziqiang anxiously waited for some guests whom he had urgently asked to meet. The leader was a bald man who was a guest on his yacht not long ago.After the guests entered the room, the door was closed immediately, and the service lady outside the door didn't even hear the due greetings between the guests. The dining table in the private room was covered with food and wine, but Lu Ziqiang didn't touch the rice after the whole meal.It was already late when he left the restaurant, he didn't go home, he drove to a secluded street near the restaurant alone, the chief financial officer who had been waiting here got out of his car, looked left and right across the street, and got into Lu Ziqiang's Mercedes-Benz .

"How's the situation?" Lu Ziqiang asked. "I have been calling Deputy Director Yuan of the Local Taxation Bureau since before dinner, but he has not answered. I just found him by calling his home. " "what did he say?" Lu Ziqiang's voice could no longer conceal his extreme nervousness, but his face still maintained his composure. The chief financial officer replied: "I deliberately said that our annual report would be audited by another accounting firm this year. I asked him to recommend one for us. I wanted to hear what was unusual about his tone..."

"Is there anything unusual?" "It can't be heard on the surface. He said that there are quite a lot of qualified accounting firms. He will help us think about it." "Didn't you say anything else?" "I didn't say anything else, just a few polite words before and after, nothing substantial." "Then why didn't he answer the phone?" "He said that he went home early today and forgot to take out the phone in his bag." "Oh……" Lu Ziqiang heaved a sigh of relief, lowered his head and pondered, and the chief financial officer asked in turn: "You have talked to Sun Bold and the others, can they help you? It's not appropriate to let them get too involved in this kind of thing, their level is not good enough. High, sometimes success is not enough, and failure is more than enough.”

"I asked them to help find Zhou Xin first, at least to keep an eye on Zhou Xin's place for a few days. In addition, I asked them to help find out where the motor boat is. I remembered the last three numbers of the boat number This kind of thing makes it inconvenient for people in the company to check." The CFO stopped talking. Sun Bold is a friend Lu Ziqiang met in his early years, and he has many followers.It is also necessary for people who walk in the business field all the year round to have one or two such friends from the rivers and lakes.No one is sure that there will be no troubles, and some troubles can be settled by people like them, which is much less troublesome than routine handling.

After dinner that day, a minivan was parked across the road from Zhou Xin's apartment. Two men sat in the car all night, one fell asleep and the other stared at the door of the apartment.But until the rising sun turned from blue to white, and gradually dyed the whole building red, Zhou Xin's figure was not seen coming in and out of the building door. When the sun jumped out of the col, another Puma appeared at the Lake District Wharf in the eastern suburbs.There are many docks in the lake area, including exclusive docks for yacht clubs and rental docks for general cruise ships and motorboats.These strange men lingered at the chartering dock for a long time, and the charterer and driver asked one by one.Looking from a distance, no one knows their names, where they are sacred, whether they are looking for people or asking questions... Cruise ships and motorboats carry tourists into and out of the port as usual, and the sound of motors is as usual. At noon, Sun Boldly rushed to the lake area, and on Lu Ziqiang's yacht, he and Lu Ziqiang completed their first transaction - Lu Ziqiang handed Sun Boldly an envelope containing 20,000 yuan in cash, and Sun Boldly gave Lu Ziqiang an envelope containing 20,000 yuan in cash. A note that is two fingers wide. There was an address on the note, scrawled on it.But Lu Ziqiang didn't ask any questions, put away the note, and thanked him. "The owner said that the person who rented this steamboat was a young man, and the owner didn't ask what his name was." Sun boldly pointed to the note and said, "Yesterday, the owner sent someone to follow this person because the charter fee was increased when the boat was overdue. His family withdraws money. His family lives in the south, an urban village that is about to be demolished, and the place is full of foreigners. The terrain is quite complicated. If you want to catch this person, you need to bring more people." In the evening of that day, Lu Ziqiang, Sun Bold and others took several cars and went straight to the urban village full of alleys.They quickly found the address written on the note, and they found that it was an old small building with a winding courtyard and steep stairs.At this time, it was time for every family to open fire for cooking. When men and women saw a large group of burly men passing through the narrow passage, they avoided fighting in horror.They saw this group of uninvited guests knocking on the innermost wooden door. The sound was loud, and Master Li, who lived next door, stepped forward tremblingly to intervene: May I ask who are you looking for?The wooden door was knocked open before the words were spoken.Master Li and Junjun standing at the door of their house only heard a burst of shouting: catch him!Don't let him run away... I saw the group of men half rushing into the house, half turning around and running downstairs along the same road.Master Li was too terrified to speak, and Jun Jun was so frightened that his eyes widened.No one knows what happened, only that those people missed the target.Perhaps only those who have been in that hut can understand that there is a small window in the back wall of the house, and the downstairs of the back wall is a winding alley, and the exit of the alley is a wide avenue where people come and go. . Lu Ziqiang followed the group of people and chased downstairs. They kicked away the birdcage at the entrance of the building and knocked over the stove in the hallway.Master Li hurried into Gao Chun's hut, and the window of the hut was opened. He turned back and ran downstairs again, and ran along a narrow passage to the back wall. He saw the group of men forming a group under the back wall, and two passers-by who had witnessed Gao Chun's jump from the flying window stood aside in shock. , Lu Ziqiang was the last one to arrive. He rushed to push aside the thugs surrounding Gao Chun, and turned the body that fell unconscious. He saw the young and pale face. No one could understand Lu Ziqiang's gaze. Why are you so stunned.But Lu Ziqiang himself suddenly understood at that moment, he didn't know whether he was talking to Sun Boldly next to him or in his own heart, murmuring his belated awakening. "I know where she went!" Compared with the crowded urban village, the Fanghuali community is a bit secluded.Lu Ziqiang's Mercedes-Benz took the lead, followed by Sun Bold's broken cars. A string of dazzling headlights meandered forward, breaking the tranquility of the place wantonly. It was also the first time for Lu Ziqiang to enter this residential area, but from Gao Chun's countless reports, he already knew that this was a "den" of Zhou Xin, so when he saw the building number, he immediately looked familiar, and brought Sun Bold and his thugs rushed into a building door. When they rushed out of the elevator on the 14th floor, the corridor was pitch black, and the light beams of several flashlights flickered wildly, until the door they were looking for was knocked hard, and the knocking sound was presumptuous. It's almost like the bandits are fighting with open flames. It was the middle-aged woman that Gao Chun mentioned many times in the report that opened the door for them. Lu Ziqiang pushed her away and strode into the house. Ziqiang broke into the bedroom. The layout of this one-bedroom, one-living room house was simple. They did not find Zhou Xin in the bedroom, and there was only a skinny woman lying on the bed.That woman made Lu Ziqiang stop suddenly, that sallow face seemed familiar.When the thin woman saw Lu Ziqiang suddenly appearing in front of the bed, a strange expression gradually appeared on her rigid face, her usual chaotic eyesight suddenly shifted, and she stared straight at Lu Ziqiang's surprised face, as if she recognized the long-lost murderous face. enemy.Lu Ziqiang seemed to recognize her too, he took a step back in disbelief, he clearly saw a smile on that face that had been numb for a long time, he couldn't tell what the faint smile was trying to express, was Victory or ridicule. That night, Gao Chun was still in a coma when he was sent to the hospital by Master Li's father and daughter. He was sent to the ward after five hours of rescue.No one knows whether Gao Chun's comatose brain still has dreams, whether he can still dream of the woman he loves.And the woman in his heart has actually re-approached their common dream - she put on the veil skirt of "Ice and Fire Love", and she found the long-lost dance again, even though it was only temporarily hired by the dance class of the Children's Palace A teacher position, but she finally returned to the practice room.In the huge mirror in the practice room, she tried to dance, jump and spin. Her movements were cautious. She was relieved to find that she still felt good about dancing. The flexibility and strength of her body still gave her confidence... Early in the morning, Gao Chun woke up.Maybe he really met Jin Kui in the night when he was unconscious, maybe he really dreamed that he and Jin Kui taught two teenagers who were learning to dance to dance "Love of Ice and Fire". The first picture he saw after waking up was still Jin Kui's face. He opened his mouth to call her, but suddenly found that it was Zhou Xin who was leaning over and watching him anxiously.Behind Zhou Xin, Gu Zi was still standing with a serious face. After eight o'clock in the morning, the doctors went to work one after another. After the doctor on the day shift handed over to the doctor on the night shift, he notified Gao Chun's "relatives and friends", that is, Zhou Xin and Master Li, of Gao Chun's injury. "The patient's two arms are fine, except for some muscle contusions. The humerus of both legs is comminuted, and two of the left ribs are broken. The pleural hemorrhage is serious. Last night we performed emergency rescue and used anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs. The patient was in a coma when he was admitted to the hospital, and whether there were injuries to the head and other parts needs further diagnosis." Zhou Xin asked: "His legs, and ribs, are they all connected now?" The doctor said: "I haven't picked it up yet, because the overall injury needs further diagnosis, and how to treat it needs to be discussed with the relatives of the patient. Who are you from the patient? Are you his father?" The doctor asked Master Li, and Master Li shook his head again and again: "No, I'm his neighbor." The doctor asked Zhou Xin: "Who are you, girlfriend?" Zhou Xin was stunned for a moment, without nodding, she said eagerly: "He has no relatives, and we are his relatives. Please treat him quickly, doctor, and don't delay him. If you want to treat him, hurry up." Treat him, doctor!" The doctor looked at Zhou Xin, then at Master Li, and asked, "Is there no one else in his family? Are you his relatives?Who will pay for his hospitalization fee, operation fee and treatment fee? " Zhou Xin and Master Li looked at each other, and Zhou Xin asked, "How much do you want to pay?" Before the doctor could answer, he said, "Hurry up and get treated first, we will definitely pay the money!" The doctor said in a business-like manner: "You should pay the money first, the operation fee, treatment fee and yesterday's emergency check-up fee, plus the hospital deposit... If your financial situation does not allow it, pay less, first pay 30,000 yuan. After paying the money, we will perform the operation immediately. The patient will suffer less pain if it is done early. In addition, please collect the clothes that the patient carried before the rescue.” Zhou Xin and the doctor handed over the high-purity clothes. The only thing that caught the eye was a heart-shaped glass.The colored glaze was as green as jade, obviously it was an ornament on Gao Chun's neck.Rubbing it with his hands, Zhou Xin seemed to feel the beautiful texture of the "heart" - cold and delicate, extremely oily. After waking up briefly in the morning, Gao Chun fell into a coma again. The coma might be considered a kind of sleep. The doctors and nurses were not in a hurry.At dusk he opened his eyes again, and what he saw was still a girl's face, but it was no longer Zhou Xin, but Master Li's daughter Junjun. "Brother Gao Chun, you're awake." Jun Jun leaned over, trying to find Gao Chun's gaze. She saw Gao Chun looking up, and there seemed to be a sound in his mouth. "what?" Jun Jun approached Gao Chun, and she heard Gao Chun's words clearly. "My heart...I want my heart..." Junjun didn't understand: "Heart, isn't your heart here, it's jumping here!" Gao Chunqi is like a gossamer, repeating again: "I want my heart..." "Is it the glass that Miss Jinkui was wearing? Where did you put it?" Unexpectedly, upon hearing the word Jin Kui, tears filled Gao Chun's eyes, and his words suddenly became very clear: "Junjun...can you find Sister Jin Kui? I...I want to see her..." "Sister Jinkui, isn't... isn't she married?" At such a young age, Junjun already knew that Gao Chun should give up, but he still spoke with trepidation, for fear that Gao Chun would be provoked again.Unexpectedly, Gao Chun only wants to see her, and seems to have given up on reliving her old dreams. "She's married... I'm happy for her. I just want to meet her, I just want to dance with her..." "Where shall I find her?" Gao Chun didn't know where to look for her, he closed his eyes, and an untrapped teardrop rolled down from the corner of his eyes, making the surroundings of Jun Jun's pupils flushed. Jin Kui's pupils also flashed red. It was a fiery red scarf, fluttering on a young man's head.Under the rolled up white skirt, the red scarf looked extraordinarily dazzling.The two boys and girls danced skillfully. The dance music "Love of Ice and Fire" made Jin Kui intoxicated like a dream. She seemed to see herself jumping over the concrete barrier in the rain and fog and running towards the high-purity car at the toll booth. ; I saw her talking with Gao Chun under the light in the attic; I saw her and Gao Chun buy green glass and a red scarf; I saw the red scarf on Gao Chun's head; Seeing Gao Chun and her dancing with the wind... The headscarf brought Jin Kui's sight back to reality, the boy in reality lifted the girl into the air at the climax of the music... The children's palace usually ends after eight o'clock in the evening.At 8:30 in the evening, Jin Kui waited punctually at a bustling bus stop to meet another girl who had just come.This girl is one of her seniors at the provincial art school and was the president of the student union of the provincial art school.Jin Kui met by chance when she was applying for a job at the Children's Palace, and the alumni met each other like relatives.The senior was studying at the Beijing Dance Academy, and Jin Kui asked her to find out if there was a candidate named Gao Chun in the dance academy this year. She wondered whether Gao Chun would go to the dance academy alone, and the result of her senior's investigation made this conjecture that she didn't even believe in it completely shattered. "I've searched for you. There is no candidate named Gaochun in the undergraduate, junior college, higher vocational and advanced courses this year. I also asked someone to find an acquaintance from Jiuyou.com who has been sponsoring various dance competitions. See if he has signed up for some competitions like the Dance Forest Congress. He hasn't responded yet. Is he still in Beijing?" Jin Kui's answer was very hesitant: "It should still be there." But then he denied himself, "At first he came to Beijing to find his father, but now his father can't be found, and he is not familiar with Beijing, and he doesn't even have a classmate or friend. If he hadn't applied for the dance school, would he have stayed here?" The answer turned into a question. Of course, the senior didn’t know what happened, so he could only give an example from the nearest place, and reasoned logically: “It’s also possible, you are not familiar with the place in Beijing, and the things in Beijing must be more expensive than those in your hometown. I also stayed here and didn’t want to go home. Me too. I didn’t go home for a visit during the Spring Festival this year. For young people, especially for those of us who are engaged in art, Beijing will always be the most attractive! How long have you been Didn't go home?" Crossing a small street from the bus station, I arrived at the senior's residence in Beijing.This is the end of the emotion about Youzi and Beidiao.After Jin Kui broke up with her senior, she stood on the side of the road for a long, long time. Then, she used the public phone on the street to dial Yun Lang's home phone number. This is the first time that Jin Kui made a phone call at home after she escaped by jumping out of the window. The phone was dialed, and someone answered quickly: "Hello..." Jin Kui didn't speak. On the other side of the phone, the mother's voice was a little puzzled: "Hey, hello, who are you looking for?" Jin Kui hung up the phone gently. At the same time, Zhou Xin and Master Li left the hospital together. Master Li is Gao Chun's fellow villager and Gao Chun's master, but when it comes to Gao Chun's situation at this time, Master Li can only do nothing to help. Zhou Xin asked him: "Apart from you, does Gao Chun have any other friends in Beijing? Does he have any friends in Yunlang? In his situation, he can only rely on his friends to figure out a solution. I can go one by one. Find, go beg them." Master Li shook his head without thinking about it: "His friends are all classmates in the art school. After graduation, they went their separate ways and have nothing to do with each other. Gao Chun followed me to drive and do jobs. He didn't have any regular friends in this line of work. He used to The girlfriend’s family is rich, but the girl’s family objected to her dating Gao Chun, and the girl is married now.” Master Li paused, then thought of someone again: “When he and the girl were on good terms, There is an elder brother whose surname is Fang—it’s not relative—he often sees him, I know he lives in Wudaokou, if he doesn’t work, I’ll look for it..." Zhou Xin asked: "Is his elder brother... rich?" Master Li also couldn't tell whether Fang Yuan had money or not.But that night he really went to Wudaokou to look for Fangyuan. When he found Fangyuan, Fangyuan happened to be moving, and all the big things had been taken away. Fangyuan was packing "software" in the messy empty room.Fang Yuan moved as frequently as he changed jobs. It seems that Master Li was really a coincidence. He missed Fang Yuan one step later. I am afraid that even the only "big brother" who knows Gao Chun will never be found again. After Fangyuan heard the news about Gao Chun, he showed the care that "big brother" should have, and followed Master Li to the hospital to visit Gao Chun the next day.But the answer he gave Master Li when he left made Master Li sad like yesterday. "What I said seems a bit hopeless," Fang Yuan said, "but that's all I can say. I just came back from Hangzhou. There were several places where I wanted to go, but I still have to think about it. I can only decide. Now I really have no money, as you saw last night, I can’t even pay the rent, so I can only go to my friend’s for a while.” Fang Yuan said so, but still paid He gave 1,000 yuan to Master Li: "This 1,000 yuan can't solve any problems, it can only be regarded as my wish." Master Li took the wad of money and stood face to face with Fang Yuan, neither of them had anything to say. Zhou Xin is also raising money.In this city, or even in this world, the only people she can turn to for help are those colleagues who paint.On the third day after Gao Chun was admitted to the hospital, Zhou Xin received 30,000 yuan from the painters in Dumu Painting Workshop. She stood in front of a large painting table in the studio, watching her companions come over one after another, put the same amount of banknotes on the painting table, and then went back to their own drawing boards to immerse themselves in painting.Zhou Xin lowered his head, made a bow, and said thank you in a voice that only he could hear.Gu Zi stepped forward and put the money into the bag for her. One morning a few days later, Jin Kui boarded a train bound for Yunlang and left Beijing. When the train arrived at Yunlang, it was just getting dark and it was a bit chilly. The alley of Jin Kui's house lacked the bustle it should have at this time, the wind was blowing the residual leaves on the ground, highlighting a somewhat unfamiliar depression. It was my father who opened the door for Jin Kui. The eyes of father and daughter meeting were separated by a threshold, and they were as desolate as a world away.The mother saw Jin Kui from behind her father, and called out tremblingly, "Kui'er!" The mother's call was still familiar, and Jin Kui's eyes were dazzled with tears, and she let go of her handbag unknowingly, and rushed into the long-lost home. . On the third day after Jin Kui returned home, she met her brother Jin Peng in the meeting hall of Yunlang Prison.Jin Peng was sentenced to prison half a month ago, his hair was just shaved, and his prison uniform was brand new, but his face was ashen as dead.Through the glass of the meeting hall, he may have seen the early vicissitudes on his sister's face, and he didn't know if it was guilt or distress in his eyes. Jin Kui called him "brother" with the girl's sympathy, which made Jin Peng teary.He said hoarsely: "The restaurant has collapsed, and our house has also collapsed. Why are you still coming back..." Jin Kui said: "Let's let the restaurant collapse, but our family is not, and neither are our parents. We are all waiting for you, waiting for you to come out!" My sister's voice was still as innocent as a child's, with the tenderness of a mature woman added.Jinpeng picked up his avoiding eyes again, and he seemed to find the tenacity of motherhood in his younger sister's youthful eyes. It was still the same dusk as before, and the dusk was still as gorgeous as ever. When Jin Kui re-entered the attic where she had "take refuge" here, her dry eyes could not reflect the warmth that she had back then. This loft is located on a high place in Yunlang, from which you can overlook the whole small town.The sky above the small town is shrouded in white mist of cooking smoke, just like Jin Kui's mood of emptiness at this time. This place used to be a haven for the soul and the starting point of a long journey of love. Since Gao Chun left here and took her away to the capital, this attic has been vacant until now.The original old furniture in the house was covered with dust, and the large roof also looked desolate and desolate.Jin Kui slowly stroked every sundry piled up on the roof with her eyes, every corner inside and outside the house made her reluctant to part.Unknowingly, she imitated the gaze of the years, as if she really saw a year ago——a year ago, the young boys and girls were so beautiful, they danced "Ice and Fire Love" for the first time on the rooftop under the setting sun, the dance of flowing clouds and flowing water Graceful like the wind, light like yarn...Compared to the small town of Yunlang, Beijing is of course a vast metropolis. Compared to the simple rooftop on the attic, the rehearsal hall of the Children's Palace is certainly magnificent.However, when dancing on the roof of the attic, you can see the whole Yunlang, and when you return to the rehearsal hall to continue teaching, what Jin Kui sees is only the lonely dancing posture of a pair of teenagers, and her own wandering even more lonelyly - in the floor-to-ceiling mirror. One corner, alone. Gao Chun is going to have an operation. The broken bones in his chest, abdomen and legs suffered from pain every day, and he couldn't eat or sleep.Finally, this morning, the doctors and nurses pushed the stretcher, and someone came up to move his body. No one explained to him, but he knew that he might be saved.He wanted to smile, to smile at everyone, but the muscles on his face were exhausted by the constant pain, and he didn't know how to smile anymore.He wanted to calm himself down and to feel happy again, but the moment he was pushed into the operating room by the stretcher, the bewilderment and panic on his face still revealed the loneliness in his heart.This was the first time in his life that he was lying under the shadowless lamp, completely naked, with strange faces in front of his eyes, and the cold impact of metal instruments on his ears.He wanted to find some memories that could calm and comfort him, and find some source of warmth, so he thought of dancing.Along with the dance is his dear Jin Kui. He was put on an anesthesia mask, and he saw Jin Kui in a trance.Jin Kui was dressed in a white veil, entangled with the red scarf on his head, and they danced together in a white and transparent world like weeping, they were connected with each other, inseparable... Gao Chun's vision blurred , the veil and the red scarf gradually fade away, until they all fade out from the field of vision, leaving only empty and chaotic white between the sky and the earth, and everything is empty... The dance in the dream is over, and Gao Chun's operation is also completed.He was still awake when he was wheeled out of the operating room.But the sleeping face had regained its tranquility.The doctor then notified Gao Chun of Gao Chun's condition to Zhou Xin and Master Li who were waiting outside, Fang Yuan who came here specially, and Gu Zi who had been with Zhou Xin all the time. "The bones have been connected, and the operation went relatively smoothly. But before the operation, the patient had a strong pain in the chest, but no feeling in the lower limbs. Therefore, it is suspected that his nervous system has some damage. The bones are connected, but are there any other problems that affect the patient? It is not too early to be optimistic. The patient may need long-term treatment, and he will not be discharged in a short time. The money you paid last time to pay for emergency treatment and surgery is almost enough. The next step is to continue the treatment and you will need to spend some money. Which of you will bear the future expenses and whether you can afford the future expenses? I hope you can discuss it as soon as possible and give the hospital an answer. " The doctor didn't say how much it will cost in the future, neither Zhou Xin nor Master Li asked.Is this still a question? It must be indispensable.Who knows how long it will be "in the future", and who knows how much money will be needed to make Gao Chun dance and walk normally like before. Zhou Xin stayed at Gu Zi's house for a few days.She brought her mother and the aunt she hired for her.Gu Zi lives in a building that is about to be demolished behind the Dumu Painting Workshop. The room is so big and empty that Gu Zi and Zhou Xin whisper in one corner of the room, and there is no need for the aunt who takes care of Zhou Xin’s mother in the other corner to hear it. . Zhou Xin knew clearly that Gu Zi was not a suitable person to talk to about Gao Chun's affairs, but until now, she couldn't find another person to discuss with.When she discussed Gao Chun's illness with Gu Zi, she couldn't tell whether she was seeking Gu Zi's understanding or seeking Gu Zi's opinion. She said to Gu Zi: "If Gao Chunzhen is like the doctor said... if the trunk nerves are damaged, I'm afraid it won't be cured in a day or two, so I think we should..." Gu Zi interrupted Zhou Xin: "We have exhausted our benevolence and righteousness. We are all not rich, but we managed to scrape together more than 30,000 yuan for him..." Gu Zi's words were interrupted by Zhou Xin: "But he did it for me..." Zhou Xin was interrupted by Gu Zi again: "But you have saved his life before, this time let's pay it back, you don't owe him anything now!" Zhou Xin was stunned for a long time, she stared at Gu Zi until Gu Zi averted her eyes guiltily.Zhou Xin said, "But you owe him!" What Guzi wanted to say, he tried to explain, but Zhou Xin didn't allow him to speak. "It's also because of you that I want to save him today! Because your buddy once wanted to kill him!" Gu Zi bowed his head and stopped talking. Zhou Xin said, "So I owe him!" Gu Zi looked up: "Even if we owe him everything, even if we want to save him, do we have the ability? If he stays in the hospital for several years or even longer, do you have the ability?" This time, it was Zhou Xin's turn to be speechless. Gao Chun lives in a noisy and crowded ward, and his postoperative state is quite sluggish.When Zhou Xin walked into the ward, Gao Chun was already awake, and the girl who was guarding him by the bed was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl. Zhou Xin recognized that it was Master Li's daughter Junjun. Junjun and Zhou Xin had met each other long ago, and their exchange of greetings was brief.Gao Chun's body was weak, so weak that he couldn't even move his eyes, Zhou Xin could only lean closer to the bed and lean over to look at him.She saw that Gao Chun's eyes were dry, but his eyes seemed to be filled with tears. She asked Gao Chun: "Are you better?" Gao Chun closed his eyelids as a response, but I don't know if he really feels better.Zhou Xin comforted: "The doctor said that your operation was very successful. As long as you adjust your mood, you will recover soon." There was a smile on Gao Chun's face, it was ugly because he was reluctant. "……Thank you." His vocalization was quite difficult.Zhou Xin took out the heart-shaped glass from her purse, and presented it to Gao Chun, "Is this yours?" She asked, "What is this?" That piece of emerald green heart-shaped glass made Gao Chun's eyes shine suddenly.He said in a barely audible hoarse voice, "This is the heart...it's my heart." Zhou Xin nodded, put Liuli beside Gao Chun's pillow, and said, "I'll put it here for you." He asked again: "Do you really have no relatives? Besides Master Li's family, do you have any other friends?" When asked about relatives, Gao Chun's eyes froze immediately, and he stared straight at the roof, as if he was thinking, but at the same time he seemed to be at a loss. Beijing's Bar Street is the busiest place in the city at night, but during the day, the whole street becomes deserted.This is the most familiar place for urban white-collar workers, artistic youth and the leisure class. It is quiet and convenient to talk about things during the day, so Zhou Xin invited Fang Yuan here. The two were not familiar with each other, and the only topic they met was Gao Chun, and before they got to the point, Fang Yuan talked about the missing Jin Kui. "Gao Chun originally had a girlfriend, heck, otherwise this child is also pitiful. He is really devoted to his girlfriend. Both of them dance and have a common language. The girl's family is still open in Yunlang. Going to a restaurant, she might be considered a little rich, but a while ago she suddenly left Gao Chun and married in a lightning-like manner... Nowadays, flash marriages are really popular. I heard that she married a rich local rich man, and Gao Chun was worried about this matter. It's going crazy, the stimulation is too great!" Zhou Xin was a little surprised: "Gao Chun... has always had a girlfriend?" "Yes, it's always been fine!" "His girlfriend...is married? Then, can she still remember their old relationship and help him? " "This may not work, you think, how could her husband pay for her former boyfriend. Besides, the girl had a falling out with her family, and she and her husband married out of town. I didn’t contact her anymore, and I couldn’t find her either.” Zhou Xin was a little desperate: "Then Gao Chun...has no other friends, no relatives far away?" Fang Yuan said: "Friends are classmates and neighbors. It's okay to come and see him, but it's unrealistic to ask people for money these days. It's better to publish newspapers or get some donations online. I also count Gao Chun’s friend, but I’m the same as you, I can raise some money, but I don’t have the strength to let the hospital cure him all the time.” Zhou Xin asked: "Can you get money online or in newspapers?" Fang Yuan said skillfully: "Of course it's not easy. If so many people who have no money to see a doctor can get money like this, then don't engage in medical reform. The key to getting money like this is to have a special plan. First, you have to make up What a story, a bit sensational. For example, it is said that Gao Chun is a talented dancer, that he lost his father and mother since he was young, and he has no relatives. He completed his studies through part-time work and part-time study. Gao Chun relied on his mother to provide him with education, and his biological father is still alive, but you can’t say that, it’s not enough to attract public sympathy. There is no special stimulating story for public sympathy, and the media also Not interested in……" "Gao Chun's biological father is still alive?" 方圆忽然被周欣打断，有些恍神：“啊……在呀。” “那李师傅为什么不告诉我呢？他为什么没告诉我高纯还有父亲，却告诉了我你的电话，他父亲也没能力帮他？” “他父亲……我估计应该是个有钱人吧。”方圆说：“高纯从云朗跑到北京，就是来找他父亲的。他父亲曾经委托一个人到云朗来找高纯，说他父亲患了绝症，立了一份遗嘱，大概是要承认高纯这个私生子了，还留给他一大笔钱——咳，也不知道真的假的——高纯想拿到这笔钱和他的女朋友到舞蹈学院上学去。可他还没到北京呢，他父亲委托的那个蒋教授就被车撞死了，等他到了北京他女朋友又跟人跑掉了。高纯爱他女朋友，爱跳舞，现在全都不行了，他还能不能走路都成问题了，能走路还能不能生活都成问题了。唉，这就是命，命运啊！” 周欣被命运二字震惊。她仿佛看到了那一幕幕情景，仿佛看到了高纯在目睹车祸和女友背叛时愕然无助的神情。 一连两天傍晚，周欣都会到医院来，给高纯带来吃的东西。那几天负责在医院轮流照顾高纯的，一直是李师傅父女二人。若轮到君君来时，李师傅便让她带上课本和复习资料，趴在病床的一侧边读边写。 高纯的气色未见好转，胸肋的疼痛还挂在眉梢，他平躺在床上一动不动，听着君君在周欣耳边不停唠叨。 “医生今天又催咱们交钱呢，说再不交钱就不让住了。催得我爸都不敢来了，总让我来。” 周欣问：“他好点了吗？” 君君答：“他老说疼。骨头断了，肯定疼吧。” 君君做出的模样，仿佛对那疼痛感同身受。她问周欣：“你找到他朋友了吗？他朋友能帮忙吗？” 周欣没有回答，她俯身下去，与高纯双目相迎。高纯的呼吸显然牵动着肋部的剧痛，显得吃力而又紧张。他辨认良久，认出眼前的面容，用几乎无声的气息，说出三个颤抖的字音： “太疼了……” 周欣含了泪水，她用轻柔的声音，贴近垂死的高纯。 “你有一个父亲，你亲生的父亲，我能找到他吗？” 周欣在地图上查了很久，她确信那个地方应该在怀柔。 “青龙口、白马台、红尘去、古今来。” 像武侠剧中的炼丹秘境，像反特小说中的接头暗语，这是蒋教授留在观湖俱乐部的一个住址，也是以前高纯唯一没有查过的地方。 怀柔红螺寺以东，在地图上看，有一个青龙湖，去怀柔的长途汽车在青龙湖有一站停靠。周欣从青龙湖车站搭乘乡间的拖拉机向湖区的方向走了一个时辰，才知道青龙湖原来藏在一座大山的背后。进山之处险隘夹天，路旁有碣，上面刻的，便是“青龙口”。 进山便开始徒步。下车前向拖拉机司机打听，司机从未听过白马台这个去处。沿途又问了数人，大都脸上茫然，只有一人遥指前方，说半山倒有白马寺一座。周欣看到湖水的时候也看到了镇湖的山上，果然有一座庙宇，红墙黄瓦，佛光环绕。放眼巡看，视野之内，似是唯一可居可游之境。周欣于是逢山登山，遇庙拜庙，进寺先烧一炷高香，后拜正殿里的佛像，出门向值守的一位小僧打听，小僧竟然向北一指，确认“古今来”就在庙后。 周欣大喜过望，绕过庙墙，沿山间石径，向上逶迤，一座石砌门拱，凛然出镜。门拱上有凹刻字样，“红尘去”三字赫然入目。碎石曲径从门拱下穿过之后，林木渐渐茂盛，一座白墙小院，掩映其中。 小院残损破败，门锁却是八成新的。门楣上方，高悬“古今来”三字石匾，字形古拙。门缝里可窥见院内孤房一檩，黑旧的瓦顶从院墙的杂草中寒酸半露。周欣击门呼喊：有人吗？There was no sound.周欣返身回到庙内，再问小僧：山上那院子有人住吗？小僧答：有人住。周欣问： 住什么人啊？小僧答：城里的人。周欣又问：那城里人叫什么？小僧答：叫教授。周欣最后问：那教授年老还是年轻？小僧答：老。 周欣让小僧带她找到了一位老僧，老僧大概就是这庙里的住持。 从老僧口中周欣知道小院的租主果然姓蒋，是区里什么领导介绍来的。住在这里读书写字，寒暑也有两来回了。前阵说要出趟远门，去了至今还没回来。这院子他当时一下租了五年，租期未满，门上的锁都是人家自己的，我们也打不开的。周欣说：蒋教授离开这里是到云朗找人去了，回来的路上遇到了车祸，他已经死了。我是他的学生，我有件东西放在蒋教授这里了，你们能不能打开门让我进去找找？老僧小僧一齐双手合十，低头哀悼：阿弥陀佛。弄得周欣也连忙跟着合掌颔首。老僧说：蒋施主是区里游处长介绍来的，我们要报告游处长，他的房子可不可以打开，还是请政府决定吧。老僧言罢，又吩咐小僧到正殿里，去为仙逝的蒋施主烧三炷香，佛祖会保佑他的，阿弥陀佛……周欣只得随着小僧退了出来，一起去正殿里燃香致哀。小僧为蒋教授念经超度，周欣也在佛前闭目默祷，而她心里祈福的，却是高纯。求高纯命有佛佑，能健康地活下来，求大家最担心的事情，一定不要发生。 陆子强最担心的事情终于发生了，这一天的上午，几个税务官员在百科公司的会客室里，约见了他和公司的财务总监，出示了执法检查的有关文件，宣布了税务当局的决定：因百科投资有限公司涉嫌税务欺诈，经市地方税务局批准，从即日起对百科公司立案调查，公司的财务账表须全部封存，接受审计，希望公司的负责人和财务负责人暂时不要离开本市……虽然，税务官员们说的只是“希望”，但在陆子强听来，官员们的口气是强制性的。他自己心里清楚，一旦出了内鬼，百科的账目是经不起查的。这“希望”二字让他感到绝望，知道败局已定。