The interns from Joel's secretarial department are conducting a week-long training. Today, they will count the number of people, issue work uniforms and work badges, and assign job content. Tomorrow, they will take the bus to go to other places for centralized training.
The water pipe in the dormitory bathroom was broken and the pipe kept spraying water. Cheng Xi took the basin and went to the public washroom on the first floor to wash his hair.
The washroom is outdoors, with a cement ceiling, walls on the south and north, and exits and entrances on the east and west. It is a rectangular bungalow with a tube. The temperature has been low recently, the faucet has frozen, and the water is not hot. Cheng Xi shivered. Washed.
The dormitory aunt dragged a garbage bag and passed by the bathroom door, "Cheng Xi! Your brother!"
She arched her body and twisted the water from her hair, "My brother?"
"Tall man, if you have a fever, I sent you back to the dormitory!"
Cheng Xi straightened up immediately, water drops dripped down her forehead, and she wiped it with a towel.
Zhou Jingchen was leaning against a locust tree with a crooked neck, and behind the tree was the frozen Lovers' River. He was wearing a white coat and a dark plaid scarf and was talking on the phone.
Glancing over here from time to time.
The warmth of the sun softened his heroic and resolute edges.
Cheng Xi continued to wipe his hair.
After making the call, he put his phone in his pocket and walked over, "Didn't you see me?"
"Saw."
"Why isn't your car downstairs in the dormitory?"
She had never driven Zhou Jingchen's Audi A6, and it was still in the 4S shop. She was urged to pick it up, but the Zhou family had a lot of things going on these days, and she didn't have time.
"I'm going to pick up the car next Tuesday and have to go on a business trip."
She picked up a plastic basin and poured water on it. The basin stood on the wall and turned to leave.
Zhou Jingchen grabbed her, "Why don't you live in the old house?"
Cheng Xi whispered, "Uncle Zhou and Aunt Zhou are not at home."
He narrowed his eyes slightly, a little dangerously, "To avoid suspicion, right?"
"If anything goes too far, the nanny will catch you..." She whispered more and more, "I will report it to Aunt Zhou."
Another call came in, and Zhou Jingchen pressed it down.
"You'd better not come to school." Cheng Xi secretly watched his reaction, feeling scared and panicked, "Aunt Zhou suspects that she is a girl in my class. If she investigates and finds me..."
The man's expression was not good and gloomy, but he suppressed it and said, "Geng Shiqing returned to the city early."
Cheng Xi's unfinished words were choked in his throat.
She was stunned for a while.
"The Geng family and his wife are visiting the Zhou family at noon. I will take you back."
She seemed to be nailed to the spot by several nails, her blood was getting colder, and she couldn't move at all.
Zhou Jingchen's expression was still calm and calm.
In Cheng Xi's impression, his noble master's demeanor has never collapsed, let alone lost his composure, not counting his rough and ferocious behavior when he was passionate in bed.
She adjusted her mood and said, "If you send me back, will you come in?"
"I haven't thought about it." Zhou Jingchen refused to give a definite answer, as if he was holding her up and forcing her to ask him.
"Cheng Xi, can I ask for leave for you?" An Ran came out of the cafeteria, holding a bun in her mouth, but did not go in or look in at the entrance.
"Ask for leave -" Cheng Xi bowed and shouted outside.
"You will fail the course if you ask for marketing again!" The teaching building is far away from the bathroom. After An Ran reminded her, she ran all the way to class.
Cheng Xi followed Zhou Jingchen out of school.
Hongqi L9 is still parked in the same place.
Very hidden.
Like this shady affair between them.
It's both irritating and immoral.
Cheng Xi subconsciously looked at the back seat. The box of last night's necklace was placed on the seat. He didn't take it when he got out of the car. Now it's gone.
"Are you from the Hua family?"
Zhou Jingchen turned around and drove out of University City Street, "Yeah."
As expected, it was given to Hua Jingjing.
A necklace that cost tens of millions of dollars should be given to the nominal fiancée as a matter of course.
It would be strange to give her a dowry to a sister with a shady name.
The radio was on in the car, and a man and a woman were arguing. The woman accused the man of being a pervert and domestic violence, and the man accused the woman of cheating and being unvirtuous.
The host tried to persuade her to make peace, but the woman cried and expressed her difficulties. The man's disability in his left arm and right leg was caused by his mother's disease. He had been discriminated against since he was a child. He had a distorted mentality and a violent temper. After marriage, he often lost his temper, smashed furniture, and beat and scolded her day after day. , domestic violence is not easy to prove, and divorce is impossible. She suffered for more than ten years, exhausted both physically and mentally, and got close to her single neighbor brother.
When the man learned that she had cheated on her, he almost beat her to death. Although she was saved, she had to wear a urine bag for the rest of her life.
The woman on the radio cried, and Cheng Xi's eyelids twitched.
It made her feel frightened.
"What are you broadcasting?"
Zhou Jingchen held the steering wheel, his face calm, "Documentary interview."
"Change the channel."
"It will be good for you to learn her self-rescue method." He did not change, but turned up the volume.
Cheng Xi was trembling all over, and he couldn't tell whether it was fear or anger.
"Zhou Jingchen——" She smacked her teeth and called his name intermittently.
He turned out of the intersection and hit the brakes.
He picked up the cigarette case and lighter from the locker, fell silent, and slammed the car door.
Cheng Xi hugged herself tightly, lowered her upper body and curled up into a ball.
The situation of the man on the radio was exactly the same as that of Geng Shiqing.
The most taboo of a powerful family is to expose family scandals. If it was her turn to be unlucky, the Geng family would suppress the call. Even if the Geng family worried that the Zhou family was behind her, Geng Shiqing, who had been here for three to five years, did not dare to do anything. In ten or eight years, Zhou Huaikang The couple are dead.
Cheng Xi calmed down and turned to look at Zhou Jingchen for a long time.
He doesn't like smoking, but he smokes one or two every day these days.
The parking position was downwind, and the smoke blew into the car, mixing with the light fragrance of his clothes, and an indescribable smell filled the air.
"Have you considered it?" He put out his cigarette butt and got into the car sideways.
The radio and car windows were closed, and only the sound of breathing could be heard in the silence.
Cheng Xi said nothing and grabbed the safety knot on the roof of the car.
Zhou Jingchen was patient and waited while looking at the busy traffic in high-rise buildings outside the window.
After waiting for seven or eight minutes, he raised his hand.
The red tassels of the Chinese knot flowed between Cheng Xi's fingers, and her long hair flowed between Zhou Jingchen's fingers.
This scene is peaceful and quiet, but full of desire and separation.
"Is that your answer?"
Cheng Xi's shoulders couldn't help rising and falling.
"Don't regret whichever path you choose." Zhou Jingchen took back his hand without any hesitation, started the car, and went straight to his old house.
...
The Geng family attaches great importance to this meeting. When Cheng Xi entered the house, they were already in the living room.
As soon as the door rang, Mrs. Geng immediately stood up and said hello, "Mr. Zhou."
Zhou Jingchen strode towards her, "Mr. Geng, Mrs. Geng, please wait."
Mrs. Geng smiled, "You must have thanked Mr. Zhou for a trip." She looked across the screen and stared at the figure in the entrance, "Is it Xi'er?"
"Xi'er, come into the house." Mrs. Zhou, who was in charge, also put her head in to urge her.
Cheng Xi understood that there was no way to escape, so he had to make peace with himself once he came.
She walked in, stood behind Zhou Jingchen, and followed him to address the Geng family and his wife.
"Xi'er, you're wrong." Mrs. Zhou corrected her, "It's Uncle Geng and Aunt Geng. It's so unreasonable for you to call me that."
Zhou Jingchen also turned back to stare at her.
She opened her mouth but made no sound.
"Mrs. Geng is a joke, Xi'er is thin-skinned, and when she first met Shiqing, she looked down upon her." Zhou Jingchen smoothed things over, and the Geng family naturally didn't care.
There was a pair of crutches lying on the single sofa in the corner, and Geng Shiqing was sitting there.
