Long time no see, Mr. Qin

Chapter 21 Between us, like vines and trees (8)

After I walked out, I felt dizzy, and my whole body leaned against the wall like a prostration, unable to move for a long time, and many things floated in my mind: the luxurious Shanghai, the bustling road, the feeling of loneliness when walking on the street , a coffee shop without friends, the anxiety when sitting alone in the room hugging the quilt, the humility when toasting someone at the wine table... Now, everything is gone, and a deep powerlessness hits me.

Three days later, Zhang Dong called me and asked me to go up.

It was already off work at that time, and most of the people in the company had already left, and it was eerily quiet when we reached the top floor.

The lights flickered, followed by the sound of my own footsteps, click, click, click, reminiscent of some scenes in horror movies.But calm down and take a closer look. In fact, the light didn't flicker at all, it was bright, but I had a ghost in my heart, so I felt that ordinary things looked terrible.

That ghost is my taboo to Mr. Zhang. After all, not long ago, he just touched me in that big Benz. Even though he restrained himself later, it still made me feel scared.

But thinking about that 50, I feel full of strength.

Dangdang knocked on the door twice, and before I could push it with my hands, the door was pulled open from the inside.

"Sit down." Zhang Dong pointed in the direction of the sofa.

"No, I just want to settle the money as soon as possible."

He walked to the table, picked up a cigarette on it, it was Zhonghua, soft-packed, then took out a match, lit it on the fire, took a few deep breaths, and exhaled a large circle of smoke. Look at me, but don't speak.

Such a scene made me feel very strange, and the inexplicable fear and worry came up slowly and little by little.

"Mr. Zhang, that amount of money is not a small amount to me. I'm in a hurry. Can you please give me a letter of what's going on?" I asked anxiously.

"I know."

Finally, he took a deep puff and put the cigarette butt out in the big hollow cloisonné ashtray.

He raised his head, his eyes suddenly stared at me sharply, like two swords, the sharpness on them made people unable to open their eyes, only felt a blunt burning sensation spreading in all directions.

"The money will never come back," he said bluntly.

With a buzz, the brain exploded.This sentence is like announcing the death penalty to a person who is waiting to be sentenced. All expectations, waiting, and anxiety will eventually come to naught.The sky in front of him suddenly became dark and gray, and he couldn't see anything.No, not only the sky, but the air around me, even the air that has no concrete form, turned gray.

I just stood there blankly, like a puppet without a soul.It's a pity that the puppet still has a stringer, but I don't have anything, only this empty shell is clinging to it.

He didn't speak, his eyes were as deep as the sea, and he looked at me quietly.

He came over, put his hands on my shoulders slowly, and put his head on my forehead.

"Su Nianjin, I really like you. It's been a long time since I've felt this heart-wrenching. The words I told you last time were not because I was drunk. I... I just said something from my heart through my drunkenness. I suppressed those words for a long time, People like me often can't sleep at night. For some reason, when I'm with you, I always feel that the stale air becomes fresher, and I seem to be younger, as if I'm back in my 20s The state of mind is like... It's like a person who has been trapped for a long time at the bottom of the sea and suddenly sees a submarine. The submarine is very strong and full of energy. Most importantly, it can take me out of the bottom of the sea , see the sun on the sea.

"Hehe, don't blame me. I'm old and my mind is full of business knowledge, but I came up with such a stupid metaphor. It's not a submarine, it's... well, I'm very clumsy, anyway, I hope you can understand."

He raised his head and looked straight at me, "Follow me, I will treat you well, and I will give you the 50, or even more..."

My ears are still buzzing, and what is playing in my mind is still that the 50 is gone, or it will come back.I don't know how long it took before my brain started to function normally, and then I seemed to be bitten by something terrible, so I hurriedly pushed Zhang Dong's hand away, and took a few steps back in horror.

"I won't agree. I, Su Nianjin, won't be anyone's shady woman. Not even 50, not even 500 million."

When I mentioned 500 million, I suddenly felt sad. That kind of sadness almost drowned my whole body. The huge flood covered my neck, strangled my throat, and made me unable to breathe.

My hands were trembling, so trembling that I couldn't control it. Something deep in my heart made me tremble and resist this sentence deeply.

"Don't get excited, Xiao Su, I won't wrong you, I will give you a title."

"Fame?" I sneered, "If I remember correctly, Mr. Zhang already has a wife. His daughter is a talented student in the Physics Department of the University of California, and his son is studying art at Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts."

He was speechless for a moment, his brows were furrowed, he put his hands on the table, and sighed, "Give me time, I'll take care of it."

"Deal with it? How to deal with it? Give your current wife a divorce agreement? That's the mother of your two children. Didn't everyone say that it is not easy to train a college student, and it is even more difficult to train two college students, and the woman behind a successful man is also difficult. It may not be easy, but you, Zhang Dong, are considered a successful man, so she is doomed to be even more difficult. I don't understand, how are you going to deal with it?" The anger suddenly disappeared, and all the resentment seemed like It was fired like a series of cannons. At the end of the shooting, he was speechless and silently lit another cigarette.I also felt boring, especially boring, so I stopped.

"Really, Mr. Zhang, if I had any hope and respect for you before I entered this door, then at this moment, it has disappeared. You make me despise you."

After finishing speaking, I went straight to the door, opened the door and paused, turned around and looked at him, "I will call the police for the 50 yuan. If I really can't get it back, I will admit it."

There was a loud bang.

Then I took a taxi directly to the police station and reported the case, but I know that in most cases, it is impossible to recover.

At the end of the month, I went to the finance department early in the morning to get my salary slip and went to the bank to get the money. When I came back in the afternoon, the first thing I did was to submit a letter of resignation to the competent department.Zhang Yuntian immediately asked someone to summon me up.

"What's going on here?" His expression was a little ferocious, and his hands holding the resignation letter were shaking a little.

"I quit."

"Why? The treatment is not good?" He asked, and said hastily: "No, I can give you a salary increase, and it will be increased tomorrow."

"You know why in your heart, don't you?" I looked straight at him and asked calmly.

He remained silent, and the panic and anxiety just now were wiped away in an instant, and he returned to the calm and serious boss who has been up and down in the business world for more than ten years.

"Su Nianjin, if you really don't want to agree, I won't force you." He said, then pointed to the sofa opposite, "Come and chat with me."

The topic changed a little quickly, I didn't react for a while, but I instinctively shook my head and refused.

"No, I have everything packed. This city is not for me, nor is the climate."

He didn't speak, but looked straight at me, his eyes were still so vicissitudes, it made people feel a little distressed at this moment, because I found that there was a small prayer in it.Once a person who never asks for help shows a little gesture of begging, it will make people feel very distressed and pitied, not to mention this person, I have deeply respected him.

I went to the sofa and sat opposite him.

He clasped his hands on the boss's desk, staring at a certain point, as if trying to remember something.

"My parents are both cadres, and the fire at home was dumping coal, and a car cost hundreds of thousands. At that time, my parents became more and more busy, and I was the only one who went home all day. Gradually, I met some friends, all of whom were outside. The gangsters, not to mention the underworld, most of them are idlers, fooling around and waiting to die. I was also one of them at the time, but my family was rich, so there were many people around. Later, I took a fortune from my family The money made an illegal transaction, made a profit, and then fell into it. Later, my mother took a large sum of money and entrusted various relationships to get me out of the situation. I went home The first thing was that my dad beat me hard, but what chilled me the most was that he said that my mom shouldn't have saved me, and he just let me stay inside. He doesn't have such a son. I At that time, I was also young and vigorous, and I shook my head and left after hearing this, without taking any money, and those so-called brothers who used to get along well with me gradually alienated me when they saw that I had no money. In fact, this is also okay I understand, I used to be the one who pays the bills when everyone eats together, and I like to hang around you. Anyone who takes advantage of it is willing to do it. When you run out of money, even your share will become a burden. , you go out to eat and play with others, who is willing to pay you? It’s okay to pay once or twice. When I got addicted to cigarettes, I went to pick up the cigarette butts that people had smoked and threw on the ground.”

"Hehe, you are really stubborn. If I were me, I would rather go home and admit my mistakes to my parents. How can my parents see their children suffer." I was speaking from the bottom of my heart, and sometimes I felt that it was meaningless to argue.

"No, you won't, you are not such a person, you will be worse than me, you will say this because you have not heard those words, you have not been beaten by him like that, you have not seen his face, and he is outside There is also an illegitimate child." When he said this, his eyes dimmed.

"But you're right. I couldn't stand it at that time, and I had to go home and admit my mistake, even kneeling on the washboard. At this time, a woman gave me food and land, but that woman was a prostitute."

When he mentioned the word "prostitute", he gritted his teeth fiercely, "She is kind to me, she is really kind, and subsidizes all the money she earns. I was very moved at first, but after a long time, I felt normal. Especially when she smells other men on her and thinks she's a whore."

"But this bitch is raising you." I said bitterly, because I couldn't understand the man's pretentious appearance the most.

"Yes, but men are always selfish. On the one hand, they know that she is very grateful to him, but on the other hand, they feel that she is not worthy of him and want to trample on her."

"Men are mean."

"Hehe, maybe it is. Then one night she came back, smelling of alcohol all over her body. I didn't let her in, so she stayed outside all night. The next day, she still smiled at me and cooked for me. Yes. I think she really loves me. She said that she can't leave me. She knows that I am not in the same world as her, but she just likes me and finds me attractive. After a while, she said that she wants to have a child This thought shocked me, and I hurriedly said that it was impossible, and even if there was, it would not be with her."

When he said that, I hurriedly made him stop, and I said, "Give me some water."

He handed me a disposable paper cup, and I took it to the water dispenser to get water.The water trickled in slowly from above, and my heart seemed to be pattering along with it.

I held the water in my hands and drank it slowly, then raised my head and said calmly, "And then? Did you have a baby?"

"Yes. She secretly pierced a lot of small holes in the condom herself. The contraceptive pill I bought for her was replaced by vitamins. When I found out, she was already pregnant."

"Child...do you want a child?" I didn't know how to say this sentence, my voice was trembling, and my heart was pounding.I don't know whether I want him to say whether he wants it or not, I just know that somewhere in my heart is hurting, it hurts so hard that I can't breathe...

"Yes, she hid by herself, and when she came back, she was holding a child in her arms. The child had already been born, and I could only be with her. In addition, she forced me to die. I hurriedly took the household registration booklet and got the certificate with her, and when my parents found out, they almost severed ties with me."

"You can be considered conscientious." I sighed, and unconsciously touched my lower abdomen, where a life was once conceived, but I gave it up alive, and was forcefully forced by his father. Kicked to death.

Hehe... I laughed suddenly, and my eyes were blurred.

"what happened to you?"

"It's nothing." I raised my head, remained silent for a while, and opened my eyes, "Is your story finished? If I finish, I'm leaving."

"No. The back is the key." He came over and held my hand, and was about to speak, but I covered it with my hand.

"No matter how important it is, it's your key, not mine. Just stop here, I can guess what you want to say, but it has nothing to do with me. You should treat her well, even if she is humble, but After all, there are not many women who love not your money but your people, and there are not many people who can give up their lives for you, and she is the only mother of your child. Let's stop here."

After I finished speaking, I resolutely turned around and left, leaving him with a handsome back.But in fact, he was not unrestrained. He was alone when he came, and he was still there when he left, and he lost 50 yuan.

I flew to Beijing that day.

After getting off the plane, I went to the bank, intending to withdraw some money to go to the hotel. By the way, I checked the bank card that Qin Ziyang gave me, and found that there was an extra 50 yuan in it.

I immediately turned on the switched off cell phone, and there was a text message from Zhang Yuntian.

"If you have any difficulties, you can come back to me. I am responsible for the 50 yuan. It has already been transferred to your account. Keep it, and... cherish it."

There are still many good people in this world...

Of course, the premise is that this good person must not be short of money.

(End of this chapter)