Prisoner's Dilemma

The warm winter sun makes people drowsy. Xie Moshu wears a linen button-down cardigan on his upper body and black silk trousers on his lower body. His rosy face looks dull. At first glance, he thought it was a boy walking out of a painting .He stepped on a stone and rolled it under his feet. He noticed Han Shaojun's gaze, raised his face, and showed a polite smile.

He was obviously a ten-year-old child, but when he smiled, he seemed condescending. Han Shaojun frowned indistinctly, and turned his gaze to Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen put one hand on his waist, and held the phone in the other: "What? You're not coming? What are you busy with? You changed your mind about what you said...Nonsense, of course I can do it with Shao Jun! I'm calling you together for you Save face... get away, you're the only one who talks too much!"

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Chen opened the car door and greeted Han Shaojun and Xie Moshu to get in the car.

"Xiao Jin isn't coming?" Han Shaojun guessed from his words.

"I'm not coming, I don't know what he's been up to lately, he's mysterious, we don't care about him." Jiang Chen complained while fastening his seat belt, then turned around to confirm that Xie Moshu had sat firmly in the back seat, "Let's go."

Han Shaojun looked at Xie Moshu from the rearview mirror. The latter looked out of the window quietly, completely unable to see any connection with the boy in the photo who pointed a gun at someone's head.

Jiang Chen and his party set off early in the morning and did not arrive at their destination until three o'clock in the afternoon.

They came to a small town and walked through the center of the town to the ancient city. They got out of the car and walked.The road is paved with bluestone bricks, the poplar trees are lush and straight, and the houses on both sides are quite ancient.The three of them stopped in front of a blue-gray building. The white walls and black tiles showed signs of rain and weathering. The pillars with peeling vermilion lacquer supported an archway, and the cornices carved with spirit beasts stood tall.On the beam in the center, there are carved the majestic four characters "Xie's Ancestral Hall".

The door was locked, Jiang Chen made a phone call, and after a while a fat middle-aged man and a dark and thin man walked towards them.

"Mr. Jiang, right? Hello, hello, I'm Xie Mojie." The middle-aged man said with official enthusiasm.

"Thank you, mayor, hello." Jiang Chen stepped forward.

The person who called himself Xie Mojie patted Jiang Chen's arm and laughed loudly: "It's not here to discuss business, so don't be so polite, just call me by my name."

After shaking hands with Jiang Chen and Han Shaojun one by one, Xie Moshu walked up to Xie Mojie and extended his hand generously: "Hello."

Xie Mojie held his hand tightly, and said with a pleasant smile, "You must be Xie Moshu."

"It's me." Xie Moshu looked up at the big characters on the lintel, and said with emotion, "I never thought I would come back here in my lifetime."

This is the purpose of the trip of the three of them, Xie Moshu wants to recognize and return to his ancestors.

In some years, the clans have their own pride to some extent, not just anyone who wants to recognize their ancestors can recognize them. Although Xie Mojie behaved amiably, he just patted the back of his hand with a smile without answering, and greeted everyone thoughtfully: "Let's go in and have a look together."

The man following him took out an old-fashioned key and opened the lock, and the three of them entered the ancestral hall.The interior of the ancestral hall has been repaired in the late period, but because it is not used frequently, the air is filled with the musty smell of the old house.Walk through the white stone passage and push open the main hall gate. There are two portraits of people hanging in front of it. The people in the paintings are wearing ancient costumes.

The man handed over a thick genealogy, Xie Mojie turned to one of the pages, slid his finger, and stopped on a name: "This is your great-grandfather, I heard my grandfather mention him, when the great-uncle went away in high spirits I gradually lost contact with him in other places, so I couldn’t write down this branch. I didn’t expect to see his descendants, and I was really surprised when Mr. Jiang called me.”

As he spoke, he nodded at Jiang Chen, Jiang Chen smiled back, while Xie Moshu stared at the small letters on the genealogy tree, unable to see the emotion in his eyes clearly.

"But think about it, fallen leaves always return to their roots..."

Han Shaojun and Jiang Chen walked out of the ancestral hall, leaving only Xie Moshu inside.

The golden crow fell to the west, and the clouds in the sky were magnificent and colorful, and Han Shaojun's face was covered with a ray of light: "Can you do this move?"

Jiang Chen didn't dare to brag in front of him, and honestly explained: "Li Yuan didn't respond to Xie Moshu's activities, it was nothing more than thinking that what he did was trivial, and he couldn't become a real head of the family. What kind of head of a gang family like them? Yes, the clan concept is very strong, and there are a few old guys in the family who really want to come back. If Xie Moshu can facilitate this matter, and the old guys come back to kneel and worship, can Li Yuan continue to be calm? After all, he is a man after all. An outsider, at most, is the role of the eunuch."

"Can they thank the head of the family for agreeing? I don't believe they don't know anything about what the unworthy descendants are doing outside."

"It depends on Xie Mojie. The patriarch is his father. He has worked in this prefecture-level city for some years and has always wanted to go to the province. Besides, Xie Moshu didn't come here empty-handed."

Seeing that Han Shaojun didn't respond, Jiang Chen laughed dryly: "I don't care if it's successful or not, let's treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor."

Han Shaojun looked into the distance, the setting sun was hidden in the clouds, it was a bit dazzling after watching for a long time, and his voice was a little erratic: "It's not just that Xie Moshu didn't have time to start."

Xie Moshu's weight is still a bit lighter. Mayor Xie is interested in Jiang Chen as Xie Moshu's platform, and Han Shaojun can see through the truth at a glance.

"This Xie Moshu pulled you to endorse for no reason, it's insidious and cunning!" Han Shaojun has always been hostile to Xie Moshu.

If this matter goes well, it's fine, once something goes wrong in the Xie family, Jiang Chen will definitely be implicated.

Not for nothing!Jiang Chen thought to himself, he just looked at Han Shaojun's handsome profile in the setting sun, and didn't speak.

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On Xie Moshu's side, the consensual negotiation went fairly smoothly, and it entered the stage of preparation for the ceremony. If nothing else happened, the matter of recognizing the ancestors and returning to the clan would be over.The personnel are exhausted, and the next thing is to listen to the destiny.

But the days are still passing, Han Shaojun's situation has not changed at all, and it is still deteriorating at an accelerated rate.Sun Han is chasing after him fiercely, the company has negative news constantly, old projects are losing money every day, new projects cannot be pushed forward, and all the news of entering and leaving the office are bad news. Some people are even estimating that if Han Shaojun's company goes bankrupt, what else is there? Can sell the price.

Han Shaojun seemed normal, he went to the company on time and returned home on time every day, and seemed to be completely unaffected by this turmoil, but the more normal he behaved, the more worried Jiang Chen became.

After returning to her mother's house for dinner, Xia Wenyan felt very distressed when she saw her son like this: "Come back and stay for a few days. Mom will cook you something delicious. It's still worrying that you will be alone without anyone to take care of you."

In the past, it was Han Shaojun who wanted to live, but Xia Wenyan refused, saying that such a big son would be disgusting to others, but now Xia Wenyan wanted to call him back. Come back to find your mother for comfort, what is this?

"There is still some food to eat, mom, just put your heart back in your stomach. But you should be careful, I'm busy recently, so I can't come to see you often." Han Shaojun smiled gently.

Jiang Chen on the side hurriedly chimed in: "There's me too, I'll see if he won't let him do anything wrong. Auntie, you probably don't know, I'm a good crafter, I can't guarantee anything else, I'll guarantee three meals a day Stuffed in his stomach, is it Shao Jun?"

Jiang Chen really didn't dare to stay away from Han Shaojun now. Before, he was afraid that Sun Han would do something wrong, but now he was afraid that Han Shaojun would lose control by himself.Han Shaojun couldn't drive him away, but he got used to it after a long time. At least he got hot soup in the morning and snacks when he worked overtime at night.

But Han Shaojun didn't want to talk to him very much, he hummed a few times indiscriminately, which was to give him face in front of Xia Wenyan.

Xia Wenyan quietly picked up a chopstick dish for him, and sighed: "It would be great if your father was still here."

In an instant, Han Shaojun's face was pale and bloodless.

In the middle of the night, Han Shaojun was wrapped in a thick nightgown and curled up on the couch on the sofa. The sky outside the window was dark and dark, and a floor lamp was dimly lit.Han Shaojun was holding a document in his hand, but he wasn't looking at it, his eyes were fixed on the square inch in front of him without focus.

Jiang Chen stood in the shadow of the room, holding the cut fruit in his hand, he couldn't take this step no matter what.

He felt bad.Han Shaojun's life is too difficult. The company's situation is not ideal, and his physical condition is also very bad. He is in a state of fragmentation anytime, anywhere.He had thousands of comforting words on his lips, but he couldn't say them all, because he knew that Han Shaojun's situation today was mostly due to himself.

In the past, even if Han Shaojun and Sun Han were at odds, at least on the surface it was still good and bad, but because of the whistleblowing, the two completely tore their skins apart and Sun Han retaliated.Although Sun Han is also being troubled by them now, so what?So what if Han Shaojun bit off a piece of Sun Han's flesh?Loss is loss. The real money thrown into the water and the accumulated negative emotions are all real and cannot be made up.

If Jiang Chen had done nothing wrong back then, Han Shaojun would never have been forced into a desperate situation today.He didn't know when he realized this problem. Before, he firmly believed that it was Sun Han's fault, Sun Han bastard, but one day he woke up suddenly, and he found that he was the bastard, the one who was concentrating on meeting the enemy in Han Shaojun. The person who stabbed him in the back whileSo Jiang Chen was very regretful and contradictory, he felt that he had no face to appear in front of Han Shaojun, and he had to stay by his side with a shameless face, so he was ashamed and shameless at the same time.

"Eat a pear, I heard you have a cough today, eat a pear to moisten your lungs." Jiang Chen put the fruit on the tea table, "Stop looking, go to sleep."

Han Shaojun's expression was a little dazed, he slowly glanced at the fruit, then slowly raised his head: "Today my mother mentioned my father."

Jiang Chen sighed: "Auntie misses uncle, they have such a good relationship."

"You didn't understand what she said, what she meant was: my father is gone, orphans and widows are being bullied." Han Shaojun snorted half-smilingly, and the orange light painted his bloodless face. The layer was sallow, and it looked a bit hideous, "Not only did I not let my mother live a comfortable life, I tired her from worrying about me, and now I forced her to speak about orphans and widows, my life was in vain!"

Jiang Chen panicked in his heart: "You think too much, she just misses uncle, there is no other meaning."

"I'm really useless! I can't even protect my own mother! What a thing!"

Han Shaojun clenched his fist and beat the armrest, thump, thud, especially harsh in the quiet night.Jiang Chen was afraid that he would hurt himself, so he hurriedly put his palm on the armrest: "Don't think about it, you just think too much. Let's go to bed, okay? Don't think about anything and get a good sleep first. You have to sleep tomorrow." Get up early."

While speaking, Jiang Chen followed his movements and embraced him firmly, the instant fullness in his arms almost made him cry.It had been too long since he had hugged him, and Jiang Chen suddenly found that hugging made his heart beat faster.

But before Jiang Chen could savor the beauty of this moment, Han Shaojun suddenly got up, and Jiang Chen, who was squatting, was taken away, and almost sat down on the ground.

One looked up, his arms were empty, and the other looked down, his eyes were full of resentment.

At this moment, Jiang Chen realized very clearly: Han Shaojun hated him.