Chapter 42

Time flies by quickly, and December has come to the last day.

The General Office of the State Council and the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China promulgated relevant regulations on strict ecological development of all walks of life, especially the technology industry, as well as instructions on strictly observing ecological defense lines. If they are issued at different levels, dozens of companies in Beijing have been ordered to rectify or even close down. Stop, several manufacturers complained that they could not survive.

But after two days of wailing, he went to work obediently.

"Where's the embarrassment coming from? It's all because of the petty profit and you don't want to rectify it." Mu Yao chewed melon seeds, her bright red nails slightly raised.

She keeps her nails less than half an inch long, but she doesn’t like doing manicures. During this time, she often paints her nails with various colors.

Xu Zhi is a person who is very afraid of trouble. Wouldn't it be a waste of time to ask her?

Mu Yao glanced at her and said, "Do you understand the fun? Life should have a little flavor."

At noon, Xie Chengan came to see her with a box of hairy crabs. There were 12 crabs in a box, as big as the palm of your hand.

This kind of crab does not require any cooking skills, and the original flavor is the best. Once it is stuffed in the steamer, the aroma will be fragrant when it comes out of the pot, and the white steam will go straight to the ceiling.

"It tastes good." Mu Yao removed all the crab bodies on her plate, and piled the remaining crab claws and legs in front of Xie Chengan.

"You woman-" Xie Chengan laughed angrily.

He was tilting his head and watching her eat, and laughed out loud when he saw this.

He has a very lazy voice and a pair of sparkling peach blossom eyes, but his indifference is deep in his bones.

The two of them rarely see each other on weekdays, and he will never come to Mu Yao's door if she doesn't look for him.

But when Mu Yao asked for something from him, even if she called him and said a few words, he wouldn't be pretentious, and he would just meet and greet her as needed.

So Xu Zhi didn't know what kind of feelings he had for Mu Yao at that time.

Xu Zhi didn't understand that for people like them, they didn't dare to give too much even if they liked someone.

There is no end in sight for hurting others and hurting yourself.

In the evening, they decided to go clubbing in Sanlitun.

Due to the recent cleaning activities, many bars on this street have closed, leaving only two clean-up bars open.

The night was dark, and the shadows of the trees along the street were swaying under the street lights. This group of one man and two beauties attracted a lot of attention.

Xu Zhi also heard a young man passing by mutter: "Men still have to have a bitch face. It's so awesome. All the beautiful women are hugging him."

This was Xie Chengan.

He was still smiling casually, but Mu Yao had already elbowed him: "What about you."

He spread his hands, with a helpless and indifferent look that made people hate him.

Later, they randomly picked a bar and went in to sit. Xu Zhi chose a seat at the bar, boredly listening to the song and shaking the cocktail in his glass.

The taste of the wine is not good, but the feeling of being tipsy is good. A slight heat spreads throughout the body, numbing the nerves that delay pain relief.

The music seemed far away in her ears, too far to be heard, and suddenly it seemed very close, so close that it was as if someone was tugging at her ears and laughing constantly, making sarcastic comments like cross talk.

She picked up the glass, drank it in one gulp, and stood up.

Several friends around her looked at her with different eyes.

She knew that her face must not look good at the moment, but she didn't care about anything, or she didn't have the energy to explain anything at all. She just smiled at them and said, "I'll go for a walk."

"I'll accompany you out." Xie Cheng'an As if he was worried about her, he whispered something into Mu Yao's ear, then trotted out with her coat in hand.

Mu Yao's eyes were still worried, and she made a "be careful" gesture towards her from a distance.

Xu Zhi gave her a relieved smile, turned around and walked out.

It was windy outside, and Xu Zhi couldn't help but sneeze twice.

It started to rain again and I had to stop.

There was an escape room shop on her left. The door of the shop was open, but there were only a few people inside, and the owner was nowhere to be found. She took two steps up the steps to take shelter from the rain.

Looking back, Xie Chengan stood under the locust tree at the foot of the steps and lit a cigarette. He lit it, took a puff, and slowly and skillfully exhaled the smoke from his nose.

Xu Zhi knew that he must know that she was looking at him, but he was too lazy to turn around and talk to her.

Even though he was as polite to her as usual in front of Mu Yao, I'm afraid he had already scolded her countless times in his heart as a "heartless bitch". Of course, it's possible that she was overthinking it, and maybe he never paid attention to her, but was just a little unhappy about what happened to Fei Nanzhou.

People from families like theirs have delicate minds and are accustomed to pretending. It is difficult to tell the truth from the lies.

Their masks have long been integrated with their bodies, making them inseparable.

But she expected that he must have something to tell her, otherwise he would not leave Mu Yao and chase him out.

Silence means thinking and looking for opportunities to speak.

After being with Fei Nanzhou for a long time, Xu Zhi had somewhat figured out some of the ways in which people like them behave.

So she didn't rush to speak, waiting for him to speak first.

Xie Chengan was so shrewd, he had already figured out her silent resistance in the silence.

So he stopped being pretentious: "Decided?"

Of course Xu Zhi knew what he was asking, and shrugged as if he was relaxed: "Didn't you see it that day?"

This relaxation was also a disguised reply, which was quite meaningful. A smell that alludes to him taking off his pants and farting.

It was a kind of self-defense. In fact, she was quite resistant to contact with the group of people around Fei Nanzhou at this time, not to mention Xie Chengan, who had a very close relationship with Fei Nanzhou. It can be understood that she felt guilty.

Xie Chengan glanced at her leisurely: "You don't like it or do you think it's not suitable?"

"Is there a difference?"

The smile in his eyes deepened: "Of course, I won't talk nonsense to you about the former, but I think it's okay for the latter. I can save him."

Xu Zhi: "..."

She was convinced that this person didn't use curse words.

"If you have anything to say, just say it." Xu Zhi gave up resistance and seemed to feel helpless.

He looked serious: "I've known him for many years, and it's rare to see him being manipulated. If I didn't really trust you and love you, you wouldn't have this opportunity."

He glanced at her silently.

Xu Zhi's brows moved slightly, and it was obvious that what he said touched his mind.

Xie Chengan continued: "I don't really like it, he won't take such a big risk. In fact, I can also understand the reason for your choice. It is nothing more than concerns about reputation, his family, and his future. But have you ever thought about it? By doing this, you are stabbing him in the back while he is trying to fight for your future. You left him. His reputation is better, but the blow to him is greater than what he got. Have you ever thought about it? He is not an indestructible machine or an omnipotent god. He is a human being who is made of flesh and blood and can be sad, suffer, and lose. "

He is not here to argue today. Try to keep your tone of voice as calm as possible.

However, the rising and falling chest still revealed some traces of his thoughts.

Xu Zhi did not answer his words, or in other words, had nothing to say.

The temperature dropped sharply at night, and she sat alone on the balcony for a long time that night.

At his feet was a pile of extinguished cigarette butts.

She didn't like the smell of smoke, and she was punishing herself in this way to stop thinking about it.

Some truths are actually very clear, but it is too difficult to take that step.

In the middle of the night, she took a deep breath, got up and went to the kitchen to find a drink of water. When she turned the corner, she accidentally glanced at the unfamiliar version of herself in the mirror. It turned out that her face had already been covered with tears.

-In

the days before Fei Nanzhou left, Xu Zhi had completely faded out of his life.

At first, they were invisible to each other's friend circles, and then they both tacitly blocked each other's WeChat and phone numbers.

The only contact she had was when Yao Yanlan asked her to go to Xiangshan and said she had something important to discuss with her.

Xu Zhi hesitated before going.

The weather was sunny that day, with green trees under the blue sky. The arborvitae on both sides of the road were evergreen all year round, and they did not lose their leaves even in such cold weather.

Xu Zhi walked over on foot and stopped a hundred meters away from the villa.

There was a black car parked in front of the door, and a young boy stood at the back window and poked his head in.

She recognized it was Hang Jiaze.

I was originally hesitant to take a detour, but I felt that this was too deliberate and inappropriate. During the hesitation, Hang Jiaze turned around, saw her, and greeted her enthusiastically: "Xu Zhi—"

Xu Zhi squeezed out a smile and walked over to say hello: "Hello, I didn't expect to meet you here.

Hang Jiaze said with a smile: "Come and see Aunt Yao, who wants to meet Brother Nanzhou here?"

Xu Zhi didn't know what to respond, but not responding seemed more problematic, so he smiled as a response .

Hang Jiaze asked her where you were again.

Xu Zhi said: "Come here to do some errands." Hang

Jiaze didn't know about her entanglement with the Fei family, but he had vaguely seen her a few times at the Fei family before and thought he was an old friend, so he didn't ask much.

"I have something else to do, so I won't keep you up." He smiled and waved goodbye to her, then walked a few steps and got into his business car.

The surroundings fell silent, and Xu Zhi hesitated for a while before asking in a low voice: "How are you doing lately?"

"Not bad, thank you." Fei Nanzhou looked forward and smiled lightly when he heard the words.

The conversation ended here, as if someone had forcibly pressed the pause button. Someone came out of the villa to look for him. The two of them joked for a while before the vehicle drove away in her field of vision, gradually turning into a blurry shadow.

Xu Zhi froze on the spot, her heart numb as the cold wind passed by. After a while, she turned around and knocked on the door of the villa.

Yao Yanlan entertained her in the octagonal hall on the first floor and asked Aunt Zhang to make a pot of Xinyang Maojian.

This is her favorite tea. It is light and relieves greasiness, and it also has the effect of refreshing and refreshing.

Xu Zhi took two sips and held the teacup without saying anything.

Yao Yanlan was silent for a while, said that she had lost weight recently, and asked her about some work plans.

Xu Zhi answered one by one.

I don’t know when it started, but the conversation between the two became so formulaic.

Yao Yanlan's eyes were complicated and she hesitated to speak. Then she didn't say anything. She lowered her head and took out an agreement from her bag and pushed it in front of her with a pen.

Xu Zhi looked at it in surprise and realized that it was a gift agreement. After reading it carefully, he understood the value of this agreement.

It clearly states that one-third of the property under her name, including 5% of Jones Day shares, will be donated to her. She only needs to sign it with her fingers to become a billionaire.

But she refused, pressing the pen against the agreement and returning it intact.

Yao Yanlan's eyes were a little sad: "Do you really want to sever ties with me?"

Xu Zhi shook his head: "It's just not suitable."

In the past, we knew everything but now only two of them looked at each other, as if they had become two people who had not seen each other for a long time. Meet strangers and old friends.

Yao Yanlan later stopped forcing her and walked her to the door in person.

After all, Xu Zhi was not so cruel. He turned around and hugged her before going down the steps: "Pay attention to your health."

Yao Yanlan choked up, and thousands of emotions surged into her heart, but she didn't say anything.

She stood on the steps, watching her walk away step by step.

In fact, this gift agreement was also to make up for her inner guilt. Just three days ago, she knew that Nancy was not her daughter.

In the study, she placed two paternity test reports on Fei Pucun's desk and asked him why he lied to her.

Fei Pucun lit a cigarette nonchalantly without looking at her: "What did Lao Wu tell you?"

Lao Wu was the one who made the paternity test report for her and Fei Nanxi.

It was also his instruction.

Everything was to settle the matter and appease her emotions.

"...Where is my biological daughter?" Yao Yanlan stared at him, as if she had just met this person on her first day.

At first he didn't want to answer, but later she forced him to tell her the truth. It turned out that her biological daughter had passed away more than 20 years ago.

At that time, the Xu family failed to take proper care of the child after miscarrying it, and the child died of illness. To avoid being blamed, they gave Nancy Nancy to them.

"So, in order to prevent me from causing trouble, you just made the mistake?" Yao Yanlan smiled, seeming to find it absurd and unbelievable.

"You were in such bad health at the time, I didn't dare to tell you the truth."

"Can I bear it now?!"

Fei Pucun's eyes flashed with a hint of impatience, and he called Hu Qishan: "Madam is sick, let her go back and get better Rest."

-

The day before Fei Nanzhou left for the south, Xie Chengan asked him to go out for dinner, which was a kind of practice for him.

Winter in Beijing is not as warm as in the south. The snow particles are floating and swaying like coarse sand. They walked side by side along the lake shore for a while, their faces dry and sore from the blow.

On the south shore of Houhai, large swaths of ice have formed on the lake. Five or six groups of people are gliding and playing on the ice. The words "Thin Ice and Danger" are clearly displayed on the bridge.

Xie Chengan stopped and looked at the bridge for a while, and said with a smile that they often came here when they were children.

At that time, like most children of this age, they were naughty and unrepentant. One time he accidentally fell into an ice hole, and it was Fei Nanzhou who pulled him out.

"It's a great kindness to save my life. I'll never forget it. Remember to take care of yourself when you get there, and don't carry it alone if something happens." Xie Cheng'an looked at him deeply.

Fei Nanzhou nodded and said, "Definitely."

Xie Chengan smiled and shook his head: "You promised so readily, but I was worried."

The north wind blew harshly on his face, and Fei Nanzhou smiled silently.

It was approaching noon, and the crowds gradually became denser. Xie Chengan looked at his watch and suggested going to a shabu restaurant on the shore to eat mutton, and Fei Nanzhou happily agreed.

As he was getting off the bridge, he passed two girls. One of them bumped into him on the shoulder and dropped a hairpin.

Fei Nanzhou subconsciously picked it up and turned around to call the person, but his voice was already stuck there.

Xie Chengan's expression also changed, the girl's back was too familiar.

When the other party turned around after hearing the sound, it was a completely unfamiliar face. He hurried over and took the hairpin. When he left, he kept looking back at him, with a faint blush on his cheeks.

Fei Nanzhou had turned around, and the two of them got off the bridge together. Xie Chengan turned to look at his indifferent expression, and smiled: "You are the one who is being controlled by her."

Fei Nanzhou knew what he was talking about, so he responded. He smiled kindly and didn't answer.

This smile seemed cool but was actually forced, as if it would disappear in the wind in the next second.

"...Cry if you want. There is no one else here." Xie Chengan said.

Fei Nanzhou laughed: "Am I so worthless?"

Xie Cheng'an was silent for a long time: "Actually, don't blame her. Everyone has their own choice. Love is not the only inevitable option. A person's life, career, Family ties, family...it's hard to tell which one is more important. Nothing is perfect, so you have to make a choice."

"I don't blame her." He looked up and saw the warm sun shining quietly on the lake, but it was already empty. the human voice.

Taking a deep breath, the chest seemed to be filled with cold air.

The world is so silent that no other sound can be heard.

After a long time, his own voice rang in his ears: "It's understandable, but it can't be forgiven."

If there is a disaster in his fate, this will be his late destiny.

In the boundless destiny, there will never be such a person in this world, which hurt him deeply and hurt him to the bone.