Beat Generation

Wen Xi never showed up.

Searching all the newspapers in the south and north, there is no news about Wen Xi.

Chen Ai didn't know what the situation in the south was like now, but the Huanjing where she was located didn't seem tense at all. There was a subtle smile on everyone's face, as if every northerner had seen through the secret.

The air is filled with the verdant atmosphere of summer flowers and trees. The tall sycamore trees almost block out the sky in some sections of the road. Both sides of the road are replaced with seasonal flowers. When the sprinkler passes by in the evening, the setting sun is condensed on the water droplets on the petals. At night, when the children pass by after school, the water drops will be blown off by the evening wind.

The summer of Huanjing is here.

The banquets that Chen Ai went to were never short of interesting topics. The women put on tulle-like summer dresses and talked about their secret affairs on the deck chairs in the garden, and the men sat around the round table playing two cards Yan said a round of high-sounding entertainment.

When she first attended the banquet, this kind of singing and dancing really made Chen Ai dreamlike. It may be due to her status as the daughter of Chen Ruoxi, and few people mentioned the current "North-South syndrome" in front of her, whether they said they were happy or not. The official words of worry made her ears callous; the more banquets she was invited to, the more Chen Ai felt that the hearts of the people under the goblet were shaking. The bottom is leaked.

Chen Ai came to Huanjing at this time. She was sensitive and sensitive to her identity and the situation she was in. Many people were not sure how to treat her. Many people saw her young and came to test her tone and asked her Pro-South, or Pro-North?She could only prevaricate by borrowing what her father said in the past: "Aren't they all the same when they are close to the South and North? The North and the South are originally a family."

The words were slick, and it was not easy to get rid of it, and it was nice to say it if you like to spread rumors. Chen Ai met many old classmates and friends from the past, and they all kept silent about the affairs of the Bo family. Most of them have already married and established businesses, with children running around the field.

Chen Ai also couldn't explain why, she didn't like children very much in the past, but now it's different, when she sees a child who hasn't learned to walk, she always wants to hug and tease her before letting go.

When the banquet was long and boring, she would also ask the novice mothers how to raise their children, what kind of milk to drink for a few months, what food supplements to make for a few months, how to take care of the child and hold the child, etc. She asked very detailed questions, which made everyone start to spread rumors about it. This "little frontier princess" is probably determined to marry a certain son of the Zhan family.

Regarding this point, Zhan's mother, who secretly looked at her daughter-in-law, was very satisfied. She felt that this future daughter-in-law was still a bit traditional.

The bodyguard wrote the observation report on Chen Ai to Zhan Banbi and Zhan Jinhuai every day. The more Prime Minister Zhan looked at it, the more he felt that Chen Ai had his own heart.

Zhan Banbi is not willing to take this job, the daughter-in-law has already been brought to the door, and the two younger brothers are fighting for it. Why is she, the eldest sister, so busy to be the matchmaker?However, the two younger brothers were busy with military exercises, and they returned to the team immediately after playing with Chen Ai last time. The three armies cannot take this sensitive moment lightly.

There are also constant turmoil in the army and the army. Can Wen Chong's position be cut?The opinions of the South and the North are completely at odds.

After listening to her father's long series of gentle words, Zhan Banbi finally rubbed the bridge of her nose and hung up the phone. She was going to visit Wu Ershan's house with Zhang Tuan at night, but because of her father's begging, she had no choice but to spare her time at night. Come out to Chen Ai.

Seeing her tired face, Guan Yongquan asked softly, "Miss Chen, is it hard to deal with?"

"It's the first time for a child of her age to go out of the house. She said that the wind is the rain, and she will go to the sky for a while and go to the sea for a while. She can't wait to play with a flower." Zhan Banbi shook his head with a headache, "Too much energy."

Guan Yongquan smiled, "The special car is waiting outside, I asked the driver to change the route. Change the arrangement for the evening?"

Zhan Banbi nodded, and she stared at the message on the screen that the National Security Bureau replied to her with a gloomy expression—she shook her head, there was no news about the three special forces who sent Wen Xi away, and neither did Wen Xi, these four people disappeared from the world It seems that there is no living person but no dead body.

When getting in the special car, Zhan Banbi was still thinking about the day when Wen Xi was put into the boat. As time went by, Wen Xi's appearance that day became more and more clear in her heart...

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The driver circled the alley several times, and Zhan Banbi looked at the sycamore trees covering the sky, and said to the driver, "Wait on the main road, don't go around here again."

The driver nodded. This Ms. Chen was busy making friends with all the people in Beijing. She changed the party in almost 3 minutes. She said it was at Hu's house, and at Zhang's house... Really...

When the special car drove to the main road, Zhan Banbi sat in the car and looked at the two female students at the intersection. The driver also noticed the two female students who were absent from class. They were standing behind the thick sycamore tree like no one else...

The driver is old, probably still wondering what the two female students are doing?

But Zhan Banbi knew they were kissing.

Before the driver could speak, Zhan Banbi stood up, honked the horn twice, and the two female students ran away with their schoolbags like frightened skylarks!

At this moment, the car door was opened, and Chen Ai, who was dressed in a cocktail smell, sat in. Zhan half turned to one side, she was still wearing the uniform of the tax department, and Chen Ai was wearing the same red striped school uniform as the two female students just now. The two sat in the car, and the contrast was quite strong.

Zhan frowned slightly and looked at Chen Ai, but Chen Ai didn't look at her.

Zhan suddenly felt that it was too easy for a child to learn to be bad in Huanjing. Chen Ai closed his eyes and leaned on the seat in the most comfortable posture. Zhan raised his eyes and saw that the owner of the house chased him out. He was clutching something as if he was going to give it to Chen Ai, but when he saw that the person sitting in the car was Zhan Banbi, he bowed and turned back.

Zhan looked at Chen Ai whose eyes were still closed, and suddenly felt like a parent who came to pick up a girl from school. Not only did she want to pick up the child, but she also wanted to drive away Yingying and Yanyan who were surrounding the child. She rubbed her temples.

"drive."

The car drove forward, and the music and voices of the banquet were all forgotten.

Zhan Banbi turned his head and saw that on the balcony of the owner's house, several female students were releasing pink balloons, royal blue goldfish balloons and some strangely shaped balloons. They loosened their white-gloved hands and these balloons It went to the sky, and some hydrogen was insufficient, and they were blown onto the windshield in front of the car by the wind.

The driver turned on the windshield wipers—after swiping several times, the balloon drifted away obliquely.

For some reason, when Zhan saw these balloons, he suddenly remembered the scene when the Bo family held a party in the past.

She frowned, her eyes dimmed, and she immediately told the driver to drive faster.

The driver shook his head, the intersection ahead was blocked, and he had to wait for a while.

The car finally got stuck in the small alley with four high walls. Zhan Banbi looked back and forth. In front of the alley was a small vendor selling sweet tofu nao, and at the back was a mobile small stall for mending clothes. Looking up, he saw the lush Chinese parasol trees The leaves are like a pair of palms covering the sky.

There was still some time before dark.

The small alley was not quiet, and the children were shouting endlessly, which made Zhan's heart flutter like a flutter.

She wanted to smoke, but after glancing at the drowsy young girl, she put the cigarette back anyway.

I don't know how long the traffic jam will be... The driver said he wanted to get out of the car and look ahead, but Zhan refused and said, "Wait."

She didn't want to wait, so she turned around and dialed Guan Yongquan's number, asking him to find someone from the Ministry of Communications to "call the pulse" to clear the way, and then asked Guan, "Send me my route today."

Zhan's travel routes are all planned in advance, and the driver usually follows the prescribed route, which is safe, but today... Zhan looked at Chen Ai who couldn't even lift his eyelids. She didn't know how much she had drunk, so she raised her hand and walked over He touched her forehead and covered her with a blanket.

The route was sent, and the mouse was drawn on it twice, Zhan Banbi said to the driver: "I will not take Baijun Wangfu Road today... I will not go to the teahouse..." She hesitated for a moment, then said in a deep voice: "Go back to Yaerhai. "

The driver was stunned, "Aren't you going back to the house at night?"

Zhan Banbi nodded, "That's not a good place to talk at candlelight night....Go back to my house."

The driver understood, then turned his head and asked, "Director, do you think there is something wrong with today's route?"

"Maybe. Go as I say."

The road ahead was smooth, and the car in front also started to turn into the avenue. Zhan Banbi looked back and forth again, and the bodyguard car was behind.

Out of the alley, a sports car cut off her car and the bodyguard car.

The driver asked if he wanted to wait for the bodyguard car to catch up. Zhan shook his head and told him to step on the accelerator and drive forward.

The driver obeyed the order, and the car deviated from the original route at the intersection, galloping all the way, and the road suddenly became unimpeded.

They hadn't reached the Panshan Expressway at Shangyaerhai when Guan Yongquan got a call. Zhan Banbi listened expressionlessly, until she put down the phone, she wiped the ooze from her temples with a handkerchief A little sweaty.

"Turn the radio on and turn the volume down a little," Zhan said.

The driver nodded and turned on the radio. The traffic station quickly said that a few gangsters who robbed gold shops just appeared on the road of Baijun Wangfu... The driver turned around and looked at Zhan Banbi. There were no gangsters, and after thinking about it, that was exactly the section of road that Zhan was going to pass today. After thinking about it again, the driver felt that he had saved his life.

"Hurry up," Jen said again.

The driver accelerated again and again. This highway near the sea was not easy to drive. No matter how steady he drove, it was still a little bumpy.

Halfway through the drive, Chen Ai opened his eyes, retched twice, and was about to vomit.

"Let me go out, I'm uncomfortable." Chen Ai begged.

"I'll get you a bag, and you spit in it." Zhan pulled out one of her briefcases, and she looked at Chen Ai, "Take it and spit it out yourself."

"You know, the wine in Huanjing is really bad. Ugh~"

Chen Ai didn't take the briefcase and let Zhan carry her like this. She spat a few times, and all the spit sprayed on Zhan Banbi's hands.

Now she can see the expression on Zhan's face without opening her eyes.

"I'm sick, you let me out."

"parking."

Zhan finally compromised.

As soon as the car stopped, Chen Ai ran to the roadside railing and vomited. Zhan Banbi sat in the car, looking at the sunset in the distance, the sea rolling like gold, and the skirt that was lying on the green railing, throwing up. The girl who looks like no one else... The picture is extremely beautiful, and when her eyes are in a trance, this girl overlaps with the old Bo Mei... The situation is too bad, even filthy and filthy, she shook her head, Bo Mei has never been drunk, more Never vomited in front of her.

Thinking of this, Zhan felt sick to her stomach. She took out a bottle of mineral water, washed her hands first, and then walked to Chen Ai with a bottle of mineral water.

"Do you want to rinse your mouth?"

Chen Ai lay on the railing with a dazed look, pointing to a lighthouse in the distance and asking, "What is that, and why is it shining?"

Zhan laughed, "Lighthouse No. [-] in Military Port."

"What did you bring me here for? What's so interesting here."

Zhan pointed to the house built on the cliff in the middle of Yaerhai in front of him, "That's my home."

"What did you bring me to your house for?" Chen Ai walked over, staggered and fell into Zhan Banbi's arms, Zhan hurriedly called the driver over, but the girl in his arms had already passed out, and she looked at the driver with a headache : "How much did she drink? Didn't the bodyguards even watch?"

The driver carried Chen Ai into the car and drove all the way to the door of the house.

The housekeeper, Mo Shi, stood at the door in surprise. She had not been notified in advance that Zhan would be back.

After entering the house, Zhan said to Mo Shi: "You deal with this little drunk, I have something to do."

Zhan went into the study without looking back. Mo Shi looked at Chen Ai, who was smelling of alcohol, and immediately felt a headache. She asked the driver to carry her into the guest room, let her lie down comfortably, and then went to the kitchen Made hangover soup.

As soon as the door was closed, Chen Ai opened her eyes. She wiped her lips and sat up from the bed. She first took out a detector from her bag to check if there was a camera in the room?

After confirming that there was no camera, she took out a small telescope from her bag, knelt by the window, and looked at the quiet military port in the distance.

——What she and Bo Hui wanted was in this military port.

After observing for a long time, she put the small telescope back in her bag. Tonight is a good opportunity, and she wants to beg Zhan Banbi to take her to visit the military port.

But she knew—Jen would never agree.

Summer nights always come late.

Chen Ai gulped down two bowls of hangover soup, and she kept talking to Mo Shi, which made Mo Shi feel that this child was too energetic!She seemed to be full of curiosity about everything, seeing her drink the last sip of hangover soup, Mo Shi quickly left the guest room with a bowl.Chen Ai wiped her mouth apologetically. The housekeeper was almost bored to death by her... Her index finger touched her lips, and from the window here, she could see the white house at the highest point of the cliff at a glance—— It was Wu Ershan's house. She remembered that there was a top-notch diving suit in the house.

It's dinner time.

Even though the young girl made the master and servant avoid it, the table was still served with dishes for the guests and a cluster of yellow roses hanging with dewdrops. Chen Ai went downstairs with flamboyant steps. She bowed her head and kissed the Yellow Rose.

When Zhan Banbi came out of the study, what he saw was such a warm picture - a girl in a large white nightgown gently opened her red lips, as if she was sucking water drops from flower buds, half of her face was sunk in the shadows , half of his face was surrounded by bright lights.

Perfect profile.

Red lips and roses, matched with Chen Ai's blonde hair.

Her gestures, her movements... Zhan held her breath slightly, she felt that this scene was very familiar - kissing flowers is a rather romantic way, only those women who are truly of noble blood can do it elegantly, ordinary women It's either pretentious or ridiculous, or it's full of temptation.

Zhan has seen Zheng Lianhe kiss a clump of orchids in the study, and Bo Mei kissed the red roses she gave her...Now she sees Chen Ai who came from the wild land kissing those yellow roses, that feeling Somewhat similar.

Just when Zhan felt something flowing out of her heart, Chen Ai pulled off a petal, dipped the petal in some cream, stuffed it into her mouth, and started to chew.

... Zhan Renjun couldn't help taking off her glasses. How could she associate the bold girl in front of her with Bo Mei?They have nothing in common.She shook her head, rubbed the bridge of her nose, turned and went into the kitchen.

Mo Shi took off her apron and said, "I won't be here tonight, I invited my sister to dinner."

"Thanks. Good job. Need me to have someone drive you?"

Mo Shi shook her head, she looked up at the living room, and saw Chen Ai sitting cross-legged on the sofa looking out of the window, she whispered to Zhan Banbi: "Are you sure she will be your sister-in-law? baby."

Zhan shrugged, “did she say anything to you?”

"She kept asking me what's in the military port? Is it fun? Let me take her to see it. She told me that she had never seen the sea."

Zhan nodded, and reluctantly took a bottle of red wine and two goblets from the wine cabinet, and said to Mo Shi, "Let's go, leave the child to me."

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Chen Ai turned his head, spat out a mouthful of chewed petals onto the handkerchief, and said, "I didn't see you when I woke up, what are you doing?"

"Working on some files."

Zhan sat at the dining table, and Chen Ai asked again: "What documents are you dealing with?"

Zhan curled her lips, she opened the red wine, poured herself a glass, stood up again, picked up the mixed juice, and poured Chen Ai a glass.

"Some classified documents. . . . and you, what did you do when you woke up?"

"Some very confidential things. I can't tell you." Chen Ai raised her eyebrows mysteriously. She took a sip of the juice, picked up the knife and fork, and put down the knife and fork again. "Sorry, I don't have much appetite."

"You can drink some porridge." Zhan started to cut the steak, she heard the sound of the engine of the car outside the door - Mo Shi left, and only she and this little girl who didn't know what was thinking in front of her were left in the house ancestors.

I don't know why, but Zhan Banbi doesn't want to stay alone in the same space with Chen Ai from the bottom of his heart. It's okay in the restaurant, but in her own home, she always feels weird?Probably it was the wild imagination of young people that made her feel overwhelmed.

Chen Ai took two mouthfuls of porridge, looked at Zhan, and whispered, "What's in the military port opposite?"

"It's an abandoned military port. There's nothing there. Only... the lighthouse you see now and a few broken ships." Zhan knew that she was talking nonsense with her eyes open, but she said it so firmly that Chen Ai's photo was under the light. Her shiny white face was wrinkled together.

Seeing the little devil like this, Zhan felt happy, and she continued: "But there may be monsters there. It used to be a sea laboratory, specializing in some super-scientific research."

Chen Ai patted Zhan's wrist, "Don't scare me! I'm not stupid. It's a normal military port. When it was getting dark, I saw a very large warship passing by. It seemed to be patrolling?"

"Chen Ai, are you really curious about what's in the military port?..." Zhan took a sip of red wine, reached out and fiddled with the bangs on her forehead, "Are you really curious?"

Chen Ai blinked, "I'm curious, I'm curious, can you take me there?"

Zhan chuckled in a low voice, "Sorry. I don't have permission, can I ask one of my two younger brothers to take you there?"

Chen Ai's face immediately became half a foot long, she slumped on the chair with her arms crossed in anger, and kicked Zhan's ankle with her toe, "You're lying to me again, you're always lying to me."

Zhan smiled again, "I didn't lie to you, I can only manage the tax department, if you want to visit the government building now, I can take you there. But, Military Port, I'm not a soldier."

"Don't fool me. I know you. You have the authority to go anywhere, wherever you want. I know, I just know."

"...What do you just know?" Zhan asked curiously.

"..." Chen Ai stared into Zhan's eyes, "You really want me to choose your younger brother to take me there?"

Zhan nodded firmly, "Choose one, and I'll call him right now. It's very simple, you choose one."

Chen Ai just stared at Zhan Banbi for a moment, and finally she stood up suddenly and overturned the dining table!

With a "click", the door opened at the same time, and several special forces rushed in and aimed their guns at Chen Ai.

"It's okay. I was not careful. You go out." Zhan Banbi waved his hands, and the special forces disappeared like ghosts in an instant. Chen Ai stood there with her hands on the table. She lowered her head and looked at Zhan Banbi. Looking at each other, Zhan felt a sense of oppression that he had never felt before... Immediately afterwards, this sense of oppression disappeared with Chen Ai's flick of his sleeve.

When the little devil went upstairs, Zhan felt an inexplicable emptiness in his heart again.

This is really a lawless little devil, how dare he overturn the table in front of her?Zhan couldn't help laughing, and the special soldiers guarding the perimeter of the house were also amazed by the sea breeze. How could Director Zhan, who had just had an assassination attempt today, face the offense of Chen Ruoxi's daughter so kindly?

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Chen Ai locked himself in the bedroom.

After a long time, Zhan Banbi went upstairs with some rice porridge, and she knocked on the door.

"My cooking skills are not very good, why don't you drink some porridge to warm your stomach?...Chen Ai?"

"I don't want to talk to you! You are the same as my father! You are equally boring, you all want to put me on someone!"

Chen Ai inside shouted loudly like this, Zhan rubbed her ears, those special forces must have heard, she leaned against the door, knocked on the door and said: "I'm sorry. I don't know much about talking with teenage children. Deal, if I say something that makes you angry, I take it back. Chen Ai?"

There was no response.

Zhan Banbi said: "I know you come here alone, you are a little scared...you are a little lonely...it's okay, I will be with you, you don't have to make any decisions so quickly. No one will force you, and neither will I. Yes. I just..."

A teenage girl is still in a sensitive period, and Zhan Banbi feels sorry for her behavior of insinuating and asking her where her heart belongs. She knocked on the door a few more times, but there is still no response from inside, which is hard for her!

Zhan also experienced Bo Mei's uncertain and rebellious period. Bo Mei always made her dizzy at that time. She remembered that the night before she was going to take the tax department exam, the two had a big fight in the car. She was distracted at the time, and she could have won the first place in the country, but in the end she became the second in the country. Her father was worried about this matter for many years, and the whole family thought that she would definitely be the first in the country.

She would spend the whole night whispering to Bo Mei, but she would not spend the whole night explaining to Chen Ai that there were enough things for today, so she put the porridge at the door, knocked on the door again and said: "I'm also very tired today, and I'm going to rest. I'll leave the porridge at the door, and I'll take you back tomorrow morning. I'm sorry."

Chen Ai, who was inside the door, listened closely to the door, and she was greatly relieved when she heard the footsteps fading away.

Turning off the light with a "snap", after Chen Ai got used to the darkness in the room, he took out the binoculars to look at the quiet military port in the distance.

There is only a little light on this huge military port, and its outline has disappeared into the night. Just looking at it, you can only see a few large ships parked there...Chen Ai hid under the quilt, took out the lipstick from the base A small map, she glanced at it with a magnifying glass.

This military port is the largest military port after the founding of the Southern Kingdom. Chen Ai remembers sitting on a plane and looking down when he was a child, as if he was looking at a floating island. His father spent most of the time in this military port every year, and occasionally took them with him. Brother and sister go to play.

Will that thing be there?Chen Ai took a deep breath. When the night got darker, she sneaked out of the house and trot along the road to Wu Ershan's house. She climbed over the wall and went in. It was empty inside, and she quickly found it in the equipment room. wetsuit.

It was a calm night and she could easily dive into the sea.

The world under the sea is not turbulent either. It’s black when you first dive into it, and then you can see a faint light when you dive down to the second level. According to what she and Bo Hui expected before, you can see glowing cables in the shallow sea. .

Following the glowing cable, she could find the entrance to the military port from the bottom of the sea.

Zhan Banbi tossed and turned, she covered the quilt and then lifted the quilt, she turned on and off the TV in the middle, finally she put on her pajamas, walked out of the bedroom, and saw that the porridge placed at the door had been brought in, she breathed a sigh of relief again.

When she returned to the bedroom, she still couldn't sleep. Out of worry, she found out the key of the guest room, gently inserted the key into the keyhole, and walked in lightly. The quilt was raised high, Zhan Banbi pursed her lower lip, she thought, she was too kind to this girl, which made her dare to flip the table without pretending?

But what was it that provoked her?Zhan Banbi seems to have seen his own shadow in this girl. She was also chosen by her father to do many things that she was not really willing to do.

Just as she was about to leave, the sea breeze blew up the curtains, and Zhan Banbi walked over to close the window again. She turned her head and took a serious look under the dim moonlight, and it was clear that the quilt was empty.

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