In the past few days before leaving for Japan, Cao Zhiqiang had been staying in the Houhai Courtyard on the Qinghong side and did not go back to the hotel.
This is normal. After all, Qinghong is his official girlfriend. The house where Qinghong lives is theoretically Cao Zhiqiang’s official residential address. In addition, Cao Zhiqiang did spend less time with Qinghong and stay away from each other before. So before going to Japan, he Naturally, living here can be regarded as compensation for Qinghong.
Of course, Qinghong was very happy about this, after all, they had rarely seen each other before.
If it weren't for her parents' instructions, heavy homework, and Gu Zhenzhen's company, Qinghong might not be able to bear the situation of not seeing Cao Zhiqiang for a long time, and she would definitely have random thoughts.
Fortunately, Qinghong is a typical traditional woman after all, and she also knows that Cao Zhiqiang has many positions and a lot of work, so she has never complained, and just thinks that the future will be long.
Of course, even if Cao Zhiqiang stayed at Qinghong's side during these days, there would actually be no discomfort. In other words, the hotel did not give up.
Let's put it this way, during normal working hours during the day, Cao Zhiqiang would not go to the office building of the publishing house to work unless there was something important. Instead, he would go directly to the long-term rental house in Jianguo Hotel to work.
Writing songs and books are basically done in hotel rooms. As for other things, such as recording songs or dubbing, he would go to a special recording studio or dubbing studio. But after he is busy with other things, he will Go back to the hotel and stay alone.
As for units such as publishing houses and film studios, they have dedicated personnel in charge. Normally, Cao Zhiqiang does not need to worry too much. If Cao Zhiqiang needs to make an decision, he can just contact him by phone.
In other words, Cao Zhiqiang is currently using the long-term rental house at Jianguo Hotel as his private office. Once it is time to get off work in the evening, he will go back to live with Qinghong and have a good reunion with Qinghong, which can also be regarded as fulfilling his responsibility as a good boyfriend. .
In fact, originally, Qinghong wanted to move to Cao Zhiqiang's long-term rental house and live there alone with Cao Zhiqiang. The reason was that there were currently two women living there, and it was inconvenient for Cao Zhiqiang to come over often.
Cao Zhiqiang thought about it again and again, but still rejected the proposal.
Mainly because Cao Zhiqiang wanted to give himself a space to be alone.
If Qinghong moves to Jianguo Hotel, then Cao Zhiqiang will really have no privacy at all. How can he manage his time?
However, it was fine that Cao Zhiqiang was away in the past, but now that Cao Zhiqiang often comes back, it is a bit inappropriate for Gu Zhenzhen and Wang Xiaohong to still live here.
So Cao Zhiqiang later arranged for Gu Zhenzhen and Wang Xiaohong to live in the old house in the old courtyard, and be neighbors with his sister's family.
Anyway, over at the old courtyard, Cao Zhiqiang had already bought the west courtyard. The main room was for his sister and brother-in-law's family, and the east and west wings of the old house could be used by Gu Zhenzhen and Wang Xiaohong.
The old courtyard is a typical large courtyard with more people living there, so it is more suitable for Gu Zhenzhen and Wang Xiaohong to live there.
Therefore, Qinghong and Cao Zhiqiang are the only two people living in the place where Qinghong lives at this time, and they have returned to their original appearance.
However, this actually has advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage is that there are no other people around, and this is the world of Cao Zhiqiang and Qing Hong, with more privacy and freedom.
The disadvantage is that the house is too big and there are few people, so it seems a bit deserted, and it is also very troublesome to clean.
In the past, Qinghong didn't go to college and stayed at home, so she naturally had a lot of time to clean the yard and room. But now she is a college student, and a freshman at a prestigious university. She is under a lot of study pressure and doesn't have much time anymore. I went to clean up the yard and room with my spare time.
Not to mention cleaning the room, because her original foundation was so poor, Qinghong was under great pressure after going to college. She even lost the thought of cooking. Before, when she came home from school, she was busy making up lessons at home, but even so, Still worried.
There is no way, Qinghong can go to college purely by cheating, not by her true ability.
Passed the exam.
As a result, after passing the exam, she found that the courses there were very difficult. Qinghong couldn't keep up with most of the content, so she had to secretly make up classes by herself, but even so, it was still very difficult.
Therefore, as early as when Cao Zhiqiang was still filming in Jinling, he contacted Xiang Dongfang and asked Xiang Dongfang to help teach Qinghong.
Xiang Dongfang's ability is undoubted, and he is one of his own. Even if he finds that Qinghong's foundation is too poor and he doesn't look like someone who can get into college, he won't say much.
Anyway, in this period, whether you can go to college depends on your college entrance examination scores. As for your previous scores and your subsequent scores, no one cares.
Of course, if you really stretch your hips after going to college, and you really can't graduate, but even so, you are still a college dropout, so that's fine.
Qinghong's academic performance, what should I say? It is indeed not good due to the original environment, but it does not mean that Qinghong's learning ability is not good either.
In fact, although Qinghong seems to be more introverted, in fact, because she can endure her temper, has good concentration and IQ, her learning ability is still very good.
Especially after meeting Cao Zhiqiang, Qinghong has always had a low self-esteem and always felt that she was a little unworthy, so she was very motivated to study in private, thinking about studying hard so that she could help Cao Zhiqiang after graduation, and how much she could be worthy of him. .
Therefore, after entering college, Wu Qinghong's enthusiasm for learning has increased unprecedentedly, much better than when she was in her hometown.
In fact, Wu Qinghong met Xiang Dongfang with the help of Cao Zhiqiang before. After recognizing Xiang Dongfang as her study tutor, she almost never went back to Houhai's house. Instead, she went directly to Cao Lili's house after school every day.
The house where Cao Lili lived was only occupied by Cao Lili, Qiao Simei and Xiang Dongfang. After Qiao Simei was later adopted by Chen Jiabang, there were no changes. The three of them still lived in the family building where they studied internal affairs.
After Xiang Dongfang became Wu Qinghong's tutor, he originally wanted to go to Wu Qinghong's place at night, but after comprehensive consideration, Wu Qinghong decided to go to Xiang Dongfang's residence and not let Xiang Dongfang come to her place.
The reason for this choice was not only to allow Xiang Dongfang to travel less, to show respect for Xiang Dongfang, and to make it easier for him to study with his tutor, but also to build a good relationship with Cao Lili and Qiao Simei, Cao Zhiqiang's younger sisters.
After all, Wu Qinghong now considers herself to be Cao Zhiqiang's official girlfriend and future wife. In Cao Zhiqiang's absence, it is also what she, the future sister-in-law, should do to help take care of the two sisters-in-law.
Even though Cao Lili and Qiao Simei are not Cao Zhiqiang's biological sisters, they are better than biological sisters, so Wu Qinghong does not dare to neglect this aspect.
In the past, Wu Qinghong didn't know much about this aspect, but after her summer trip to Shanghai and some enlightenment from her parents, she immediately became enlightened and knew how to maintain the relationship between her husband and her family.
So usually, Wu Qinghong would go directly to Cao Lili's house after school, tidy up the room a little, cook a simple meal, and then eat and chat with Cao Lili, Qiao Simei and Xiang Dongfang, and the relationship would get better and better.
After eating, Wu Qinghong didn't have to leave. She could go directly to Xiang Dongfang's room to study. After studying, the two of them could sleep in the same room.
In addition, Wu Qinghong also often goes to the old courtyard to visit Cao Zhiqiang's eldest sister and her family to increase her presence.
It can be said that in fact, when Cao Zhiqiang was filming in Jinling, Wu Qinghong basically didn't go back to the house in Houhai except to play with Gu Zhenzhen. She usually lived with Xiang Dongfang, Cao Lili and Qiao Simei.
Only after Cao Zhiqiang came back did Wu Qinghong move back in.
Moreover, Wu Qinghong felt that when Cao Zhiqiang was away, it would be more comfortable to live with Cao Lili and Xiang Dongfang.
Although the house Cao Lili lives in is not big, the more it is like this, the less sense of distance there is and the more secure her life becomes.
On the contrary, the courtyard house on the Houhai side is larger, but it is empty, making it a bit scary to live there.
But there is no way. Now that Cao Zhiqiang is back, Wu Qinghong cannot leave Cao Zhiqiang alone and go with Xiang Dongfang and Cao Lili.
Naturally, it was impossible for Cao Zhiqiang to live with Xiang Dongfang, so Wu Qinghong could only let Wu Qinghong return to the courtyard house in Houhai.
Although he was not used to living in the courtyard house in Houhai for a long time, he felt a little uncomfortable coming back to live there, but since Cao Zhiqiang was here, Wu Qinghong was naturally happy.
As for the work of cleaning the yard, Cao Zhiqiang and Wu Qinghong did not need to do it. Cao Zhiqiang asked the neighborhood committee in charge of this area to help find a reliable neighbor aunt to work as an hourly worker, and she could just come and clean it every day during the day.
But the aunt is only limited to cleaning the front and back yards, not the inside of the main house where people live.
The main room is always locked, and the cleaning lady doesn't have the key.
The reason is that there are many expensive appliances and furniture in the main house, so be careful of them being stolen.
This is not an era where people don’t pick up things along the way, so it’s always right to be careful.
Anyway, Cao Zhiqiang has been living with Wu Qinghong at night these days. Only during the day will he take time to fool around with Hao Shuwen, no, to talk about work.
Jin Xiuying, Yu Yuanyuan, and Cao Zhiqiang also went to see them, but they just went and left without staying too much. The main purpose was to stabilize them and save them from wandering.
Otherwise, saying that a man is busy at work is a good excuse. As long as he says that he is busy at work and a woman feels sorry for you, usually no matter how big the resentment is, it will dissipate.
However, this also made Cao Zhiqiang a little vigilant, and he kept warning himself that he should be careful in the future and never provoke women again.
With just so many women, he felt a little weak and lacking in time management. If there were a few more women, even if his body was not good, his energy would not be able to keep up.
This is also the reason why when he was in Jinling, he knew clearly that the female doctor who looked like Ding Qiunan was interested in him, but he pretended not to know. It was because he didn't want to incur a love debt.
Going to Japan had been decided long ago. According to the original schedule, he should have left long ago.
It was just because there were suddenly many things happening here, and there were so many women here to appease, that Cao Zhiqiang delayed his trip again and again.
After all the procedures were completed, the visa was issued, and things here were almost arranged, Cao Zhiqiang finally booked a flight and decided to officially leave for Japan the next day.
Due to the special nature of this trip to Japan, Cao Zhiqiang took no one with him. He was the only one, without even a translator.
This is actually more freeing. Anyway, his current Japanese level is top-notch, better than ordinary translators, so he doesn't need a translator at all.
However, just as Cao Zhiqiang packed his luggage at the house in Houhai and sat down with Wu Qinghong to have dinner and chat, there was a sudden knock on the door.
When Cao Zhiqiang went over and opened the door, he found two strangers, or rather uninvited guests.
The visitors were two young men in their twenties and less than thirty years old. They were all wearing inconspicuous blue tunic suits. They all stood upright with serious expressions.
"Who are you looking for?" Cao Zhiqiang frowned.
"Hello." One of the young men, who was a little older and had a slightly dark face, and was obviously the leader, said, "Are you Comrade Cao Zhiqiang?"
"I am." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "Who are you? Looking for ***?"
"Don't get me wrong!" The young man with a slightly dark face smiled and said, "We are not bad people."
Having said this, the young man quickly took out an ID from his pocket and handed it over: "Here, this is my ID. You can take a look."
Cao Zhiqiang took a look at the ID handed over and immediately raised his eyebrows: "Ministry of Security? Are you from the Ministry of National Security?"
"Yes." The young man smiled and nodded, "You may not know much about this department. I can explain it to you briefly. In fact, we are..."
"Okay, don't explain, I understand." Cao Zhiqiang squinted at the other party, "I know what you are doing."
Indeed, the Security Department was just established this year. Others may not know what it does, but Cao Zhiqiang, as a time traveler, knows very well what this department does.
"Great." The young man smiled, "Since you understand, I don't have to take out another ID."
"Another ID?" Cao Zhiqiang was stunned, "Do you have other IDs?"
"Yes." The dark-faced young man said with a smile, "That's right, I also have a public security ID."
"Oh, I understand." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "Dual-certification enforcement, transitional period?"
The young man with a slightly dark face was slightly surprised, and then said with a smile: "Comrade Cao Zhiqiang, you seem to know our work very well, which is really rare."
Cao Zhiqiang frowned: "Are you looking for ***? Do you suspect that I am a spy?"
"You misunderstood." The dark-faced man smiled and said, "That's right, our leader wants to meet you, so let us pick you up and meet the leader."
"Your leader? Who?" Cao Zhiqiang asked.
"Well, I'm sorry, I have no comment at the moment." The dark-faced man shook his head, "You'll know when you see him."
Cao Zhiqiang continued to frown: "So, you are here to arrest me?"
"Of course not." The dark-faced man in Mao suit smiled again, "I said, we are here as an invitation."
"Invitation?" Cao Zhiqiang sneered, "You suddenly did this late at night, do you think this is an invitation?"
"There's nothing I can do." The dark-faced man in Chinese tunic suit said, "I know it's a bit rude, but it's safer."
After a brief pause, the man in Chinese tunic suit suddenly said with a serious face: "Comrade Cao Zhiqiang, we hope you can come with us immediately. But please rest assured, we definitely have no malicious intentions. If we did, it would not be this attitude."
Having said this, the man in the Chinese tunic suit turned sideways and pulled the hem of his clothes slightly, revealing a holster containing a May 4th pistol and a pair of handcuffs.
After showing Cao Zhiqiang the pistol and handcuffs, the man in the Chinese tunic suit put down the hem of the Chinese tunic suit and continued to smile at Cao Zhiqiang: "Now do you believe our sincerity?"
Cao Zhiqiang was silent for a moment, and then he chuckled: "Oh, something has been revealed earlier! If you had revealed this thing earlier, wouldn't I have understood it earlier?"
Okay, I'll go with you, but just wait a moment while I tell my girlfriend, okay? "
"No problem." The dark-faced man in Chinese tunic suit smiled and nodded, "But please hurry up and don't waste time. Also, don't run away. If you do, the consequences will be serious."
Cao Zhiqiang shrugged: "I'm not afraid of shadows, and I haven't done anything bad. Why should I run? Okay, wait a moment, I'll say hello, and I'll follow you."
After saying that, Cao Zhiqiang didn't close the door, and went directly back to Qinghong and said, "Qinghong, someone is looking for me. It's a bit urgent. I have to go out immediately. You should stay at home."
"What's going on?" Wu Qinghong frowned, "I'm still looking for you so late? Can't we do it tomorrow?"
"It's something urgent at work." Cao Zhiqiang said, "Don't worry about it. If it's not serious, I'll go and come back. But if it's too late and you don't come back, you can just go to bed first."
"But……"
"Don't do it!"
Cao Zhiqiang glared and said with a straight face: "Men do business, women should talk less!"
Upon hearing what Cao Zhiqiang said and seeing his serious expression, Wu Qinghong immediately nodded: "Okay, then be careful on the road."
Cao Zhiqiang, who had turned his head, waved to Wu Qinghong, and then continued walking outside.
After arriving at the gate again, Cao Zhiqiang looked at the two men in Chinese tunic suits still standing outside and said, "Okay, let's go. By the way, how do we walk? Just walk like this?"
"The car is right outside." The young man with a slightly dark face said, "It's just a short walk away. Just come with us."
"No need to be blindfolded or handcuffed?" Cao Zhiqiang asked.
The same dark-skinned man smiled and said, "Of course not. You are not a prisoner, so there is no need."
"Then you are not afraid that I will remember the way?" Cao Zhiqiang asked curiously.
"Don't be afraid." Another man with a fair complexion and who looked like he was in menopause said, "It doesn't matter if you remember the way. We are not bad people. We want to arrest you and imprison you. We are taking you to see the leader. Even if you know about that place, it doesn’t matter.”
"Oh, that's right." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "It seems like you guys are not bad people."
"Of course not." The menopausal man said, "We used to be serious police officers, but now we specialize in anti-..."
"Xiao Zhang, shut up!" The dark-skinned man immediately scolded his companion.
After the other party shut up, the dark-skinned man turned slightly sideways and said to Cao Zhiqiang with a serious face: "Please come with me, Comrade Cao, don't keep the Prime Minister waiting for long!"
