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After Mu Qing left, he didn't come back for a whole week. The Mu family and the Xin family have cooperated for so many years, and they have long been indistinguishable from each other. How could they be able to distinguish clearly in a short time.

Besides, the Mu family has a lot of influence in Binhai, and it's not something the Xin family can easily get rid of.

When Shi Yan was in a bad mood and depressed, Meng Yun would often bring Jiang Keqing over to visit the house. After coming and going, the relationship between the three became better and better, and Jiang Keqing gradually opened up.

Before the end of the spring break, Shi Yan planned to accompany her grandma back to the nursing home to complete the discharge procedures, but was rejected by the old man.

"Yanyan, the head nurse at the nursing home told me to help with the cleaning and pay some salary every month, which can also be used to deduct accommodation and food expenses. I have recovered well now and plan to stay on the island for a while. .”

"How can this work, grandma, you are 68 years old, how can you still work. No way!" Shi Yan didn't expect that grandma had already thought of them first, and didn't intend to disturb their world of two.

"What is 68 years old, grandma, I am tough." Grandma comforted Shi Yan with a cheerful smile, "Seeing that you are so happy now, grandma is satisfied. I can still move now, and I can help you a little bit, Yan Yan .”

Shi Yan still shook her head, "It's my fault, Yan Yan is not filial, has no ability, and can't take care of grandma."

"You haven't graduated from college yet, silly boy, you can get a salary of tens of thousands of dollars before you graduate from college. Much better than your father." Grandma Shi took his hand and patted it in the palm of her hand, with a slow expression on her face. Slowly becoming dignified, "Besides, we can't completely rely on others, Yan Yan, even if grandma left you a way out, okay?"

Shi Yan still felt uneasy, it was really unfilial for grandma to worry about him at such an advanced age.

Grandma Shi saw that he still refused to let go, so she coughed uncomfortably, and said, "I also have many old friends in the nursing home. We all share the same interests and live happier lives instead. Don't blame yourself."

It's a pity that Shiyan didn't notice grandma's strange expression, leaning her head on her shoulder, coquettishly, "Grandma, I'm a little scared."

Mu Qing's family is too rich, and he is too insignificant, so what if he graduated from a famous university, but he is just an undergraduate, and there are a lot of people like Binhai.

Grandma Shi held his hand and encouraged: "Don't be afraid, calm down, I gain my life and lose my life, don't force it, don't make yourself suffer, Yanyan."

Subconsciously, Shi Yan didn't think that he and Mu Qing could last long, maybe everyone else around him thought so too.

Shi Yan shivered, and suddenly felt so uncomfortable that she wanted to cry.

Two days before going to work, Yan sent her grandma back to the nursing home. After getting off the ferry, she did not expect an old man in a black coat to wait at the ferry.

The spring break isn't over yet. Logically speaking, these old people should still be celebrating the New Year at their children's homes. Why did this old man come so early?

Until I saw an old man who was over [-] years old come to help Grandma Shi carry things, "You are tired on the road, I asked Nurse Chen to prepare hot soup and desserts, and go back to the house to warm up."

Shi Yan stopped in shock, Grandma Shi stroked her temple hair uncomfortably, and said, "Yan Yan, Grandpa Zheng, you have met him a few times, I can talk to him quite well."

When Shi Yan came back to her senses, she always felt that the other party was familiar, but she couldn't remember where she met her.

"Oh, oh, okay, Grandpa Zheng, give it to me."

"It's okay, it's not heavy, I'll carry it, you help your grandma." Old man Zheng was a little flattering, protecting Shiyan from the bag.

Shi Yan frowned, feeling that the other party was a bit rascal.

This old man is also a fine person, immediately noticed Shi Yan's displeasure, laughed twice and said: "Everyone has been together for so long, it's okay to help with luggage."

After settling down with grandma, before leaving, Shi Yan tentatively asked a few words about old man Zheng, but Grandma Shi didn't hide it, and said generously, "He wants to be with me, but I haven't made up my mind yet. After all, he is so old. When you are old, you will be laughed at if you speak out."

"If grandma likes it, I have no objection. But this person looks very frivolous, I don't know his character." He looks gentle and elegant, but he always feels a kind of glib.

"I don't know if what he said is true or not. He said he was the former mayor of Binhai. I wondered, don't all the rich people like to go abroad to retire now? Who would like to stay in China?" Grandma Shi made a joke Speaking casually, I completely felt that the other party was lying to me.

Shi Yan suddenly realized, indeed, this is the former mayor of Binhai, and he remembered that he had stepped down for many years due to dereliction of duty.

For a while, I couldn't make up my mind whether to mention this matter to Grandma Shi, this is a corrupt official, I heard that it took a lot of effort to get out of it.

When he was hesitating, there was a knock on the door of Grandma Shi's room, and old man Zheng stood at the door with a small dining table, "I told Nurse Chen that you would not go to the cafeteria to eat if you were tired after sitting for so long, and I will bring it to you. Hurry up and eat, I was blown by the wind for a while on the road just now, I'm afraid it's a bit cold."

"Oh, it's really troublesome for you." Grandma Shi stepped forward to help move the small table in and put it next to the coffee table in the room.

Uh, forget it, let's wait and see for a while.

Doesn't look like a bad guy either.

I stayed with my grandma on the island for a day and a night. I saw that old man Zheng really wanted to chase after grandma. I heard that he helped lead the work on the island. Shi Yan originally wanted to ask the head nurse to push this matter away, but was stopped by grandma. , Said that the work is not heavy, it should be exercised, and the old man Zheng is quite supportive.

When Shi Yan thought about it again, it was true that ordinary people really couldn't afford to live in the nursing home on this island. It cost millions of dollars a year, and most of them had special caregivers. Grandma mainly helped clean the public areas. Young people are responsible for sweeping leaves and garbage, and mopping the floor. Since grandma is willing, let her do it first, and come over to help when she has time.

Although he comforted himself so much, he still couldn't bear it. After returning home, he tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. In the middle of the night, he got up and sat on the bedside to call Mu Qing.

The talks between the Mu family and the Xin family finally collapsed. Tomorrow is the first day of work in the new year. I am afraid there will be big news.

"Baby, it's already twelve o'clock, and you still haven't slept yet?" Mu Qing's voice sounded tired and hoarse.

"I'm uncomfortable." Shi Yan cried while lying on the bed, covering the quilt, "I'm really useless, grandma is so old, and she still makes her work."

"I think it's pretty good. She lives with us, and she doesn't even have anyone to talk to. In the nursing home, everyone is about the same age, but they can open up." Mu Qing persuaded him patiently.

"Yeah." Shi Yan looked at the phone and said softly, "Mu Qing, I miss you."

"Me too."

"Can you promise me that no matter what happens in the future, don't leave me, Mu Qing? I love you, and I can't leave you anymore." Shi Yan covered her mouth and cried softly, "I'm so scared, Mu Qing. "

What happened in the past six months made him feel an unquenchable sense of fear and anxiety, and he became more and more afraid of the future.

"Okay, Yanyan, don't be afraid, no matter what happens, I will be with you." Mu Qing heard his crying, her heart was so soft that it was a mess, and she comforted her softly.

Shi Yan just chatted with Mu Qingxu on her mobile phone until she fell asleep.

Halfway through, I heard a vague sentence: "Wait for me to come back." After that, I fell asleep.

In the middle of the night, when she was drowsy, Shi Yan was hugged into a cold embrace, and instinctively rubbed the man's chest twice with the familiar fragrance in her embrace, and then she fell into a deep sleep again in his embrace.

Mu Qing sighed and wiped away the remaining tears from the corners of his eyes. After kissing his forehead, he hugged him and closed his eyes. He didn't bother to take off his shirt and trousers. Let's talk about it tomorrow morning.

He really loves this person so badly. Hearing him cry, it feels like he has to rush back even from the ends of the earth.

When Yan woke up the next day, seeing the familiar face close at hand, he was in a trance for a moment, not sure if he was dreaming, and just stared at his sleeping face with a reassuring smile without even daring to blink, until The phone alarm clock rings.

Annoyed, Shi Yan found the cell phone that was making a cooing sound, turned off the alarm clock as quickly as possible, turned her head and saw that Mu Qing still opened her eyes, and touched the dark circles under his eyes with distress, "When did you come back last night? It's so late, how tired you are."

"You cry so sadly, how can I stay at home with peace of mind, what time is it?" Mu Qing pricked his face with long stubble.

Shi Yan held his face, showing a look of fascination, "You are so handsome."

"Really?"

Shi Yan nodded, "Yeah."

"Then I'll show you a beard in the future."

"Well, it's still too early, you are so young, don't rush to mature yourself."

"But you like it." Mu Qing grinned, bowed his head and kissed him, "You don't even have a beard."

"Yeah, I don't know why." Shi Yan put her arms around his neck and entangled with him meekly with her head raised.

After finishing, I went to the bathroom to clean up my body. When Shi Yan saw the scratch marks on Mu Qing's back, she asked awkwardly, "Does it hurt?"

There were small drops of blood coming out all the time, and he quickly wiped it off with a towel, "I will give you medicine later."

"Why don't you say anything." He blushed and complained in a low voice, he was so comfortable just now that he didn't even know what he had done.

Mu Qing turned his head and looked at his back, grinning triumphantly, "It doesn't hurt, this is the medal you gave me, so I must keep it well."

"Don't say stupid things." Shi Yan looked down at his back in distress, and licked off the blood that came out again.

Mu Qing froze for a moment, turned around and hugged him, "You, if you tease me again, you will be late for work. Maybe you have to ask for leave for work on the first day of the new year."

"Mu Qing," Shi Yan hugged him tightly, "I love you."

"Me too." Mu Qing looked down at him, his watery eyes were full of affection, "I want to hold you like this all day long, Yanyan, I want to turn you into my flesh and blood soul."

"Me too, Mu Qing, how lucky I am to meet you and fall in love with you." In the past 21 years, Shi Yan never thought that she would like someone so much that she wished she could cling to his body and become his body. a part of.

On the first day of the new year, Jinghua Group’s board of directors held a meeting. Mu Hanshan and Mu Chunhao were exposed by their subsidiaries for embezzling public funds and transferring them to overseas private accounts. Taken away, Mu Hanshan was suspended and detained, and Mu Chunhao was also taken away because he resisted arrest.

The Mu family didn't expect Xin Qing to be so ruthless, and directly took the bottom line to control Mu Hanshan.

It's really a husband and wife for 25 years, and now, it's absolutely boundless!

Mu Qing became the interim executive director, and the two uncles above began to teach and learn company management.

After the stock market opened after the year, when the announcement came out, the entire Binhai business community was blown up. No one would have thought that Jinghua had quietly changed hands. The Mu family was slapped on the ground by the Xin family and showed their original shape. Running around asking for help, hoping to stabilize other related industries of the Mu family.

However, those who knew the inside story didn't make any fuss. The Mu family has always been strong on the outside, with an image of a nouveau riche. If the Xin family hadn't got the bottom line all these years, Jinghua would have died a long time ago.

The Xin family is now in the capital like a fish in water and powerful, relying on the unity of the whole family. The Mu family has always been an unstable factor. Show mercy.

Mu Qing gradually became too busy to go home, so Shi Yan asked the company for leave to go back to school to prepare her graduation thesis and graduation defense.

There are no classes in the second semester of senior year, except for the time when she is writing papers and looking up information at school, Shi Yan will stay at home to cook meals, and three meals a day will be sent to Mu Qing's company.

His graduation thesis plans to write about the optimization of the project development process, and now he is discussing and researching a sub-process with his master to reduce the risks and costs in the project process.

Although I have been working and studying for more than half a year, the huge cluster organization of the project is only at the initial stage, and I still need the guidance of the master.

Lu Wanyu had completely lost contact with her, and Shi Yan was no longer secretly hurt by his words.

Everyone has their own path in life, maybe Lu Wanyu and him are destined to have no fate.

Instead of torturing and resenting each other, it is better to lose contact like a broken kite and leave some good memories for each other.

Although I think about it by chance, I still feel sad and regretful. After all, it is irreparable.

At the beginning of April, the incident of Gu Chengxi's kidnapping and insulting classmates, which had attracted much attention, quietly changed.

In the end, Gu Yiming failed to withstand the pressure from the elders in the family, and after getting through the relationship, he released Gu Chengxi from the detention center on bail.

Released on bail pending trial.

After Meng Yun got the news, he immediately cut off the Internet and TV lines at home, and cut off all sources of news that Jiang Keqing might have obtained from the outside world, and then asked Shi Yan to temporarily move to their rented house to accompany Jiang Keqing.

The next step is to ask a lawyer to appeal against Gu Chengxi's bail, but it was quickly rejected by the court. According to insiders there, this matter is likely to be given a light sentence.

Even in the case of so many strong evidences, such a result is still obtained. Meng Yun has never felt that this society is so scary and dark as he is now.

Those who live at the bottom of the society without power and power, do they deserve to be bullied and persecuted?

Meng Yun tried to ask Liang Chuan to come forward, but Liang Chuan was a businessman after all, and he was unwilling to easily offend one of the big chaebols in Binhai without any vested interests.

Jiang Keqing didn't seem to notice Meng Yun and Shi Yan's nervousness. Under Meng Yun's meticulous care and care in the past few months, his depression has improved, and he is willing to go shopping with Meng Yun.

During this period of time, Mu Qing was under the supervision of his elders, so he couldn't spare any energy to help Meng Yun. He provided him with several relationship lines, but all of them ended up in vain. If it sparks a hotspot of public opinion, it will be deleted soon or the news will not be sent out at all.

Meng Yun and Shi Yan discussed that Jiang Keqing would never be left alone. Whether at home or away, at least one person must be by his side.

When Shi Yan told Jiang Keqing that he and Meng Yun planned to write a thesis on the same topic and needed to live together temporarily for research and discussion, he had no doubts.

Meng Yun now has to operate and manage Hongsheng Technology, as well as write a thesis. He is so busy every day that he hardly has time to sleep.

At the beginning, Liang Chuan agreed to inject capital when acquiring Hongsheng Technology, and had a gambling agreement with Meng Yun. Within five years, Hongsheng Technology must earn enough net profit of [-] million yuan to give him, otherwise Meng Yun will give up his shares for free Transferred to Changhe.

After all, Meng Yun was an empty-handed white wolf from the very beginning. Without the capital injection from Changhe and Jinghua, he would not have been able to complete the acquisition immediately.

When Meng Yun was exhausted, he told Shi Yan more than once that he wanted to give up, that he wanted to sell his shares and take Jiang Keqing away. However, Gu Chengxi hadn't received the punishment he deserved. , To this day, it still crashes and screams when it hears the sound of the chains.

Therefore, you must make yourself stronger as soon as possible, so strong that Binhai's consortium can't ignore yourself!

Shi Yan didn't know how to help him, so she had to ask Mu Qing to help strengthen cooperation with Hongsheng and take care of Jiang Keqing who didn't know anything at home.

Jiang Keqing was bored at home and wanted to learn to play the guitar.

Shi Yan helped him find music scores on the Internet, asked him to learn to read scores first, and then took him to a nearby training classroom to enroll in classes.

"Oh, I just want to learn casually, it doesn't need to be so formal." Jiang Keqing didn't expect that what she said casually would make Shi Yan and Meng Yun act at the same time.

Meng Yun contacted a foreign guitar maker to help him customize a guitar.

Shi Yan showed him the information about the guitar classrooms near the community that he had searched, "If you sign up for a class, you can also try to get in touch with people from outside, which is also good for your illness. Keqing, look, we don't choose crash courses." , learn slowly, anyway, there is a lot of time."

"Okay." Jiang Keqing picked up the leaflets and looked at them carefully. After reading two of them, he thought of something and suddenly burst out laughing.

Meng Yun next to him raised his head from the computer, while Shi Yan put down his hand arranging the score and looked at him as well.

Jiang Keqing smiled and frowned, and said, "I'm thinking, if I say I want to form a band, do you two plan to cooperate with me?"

Shi Yan and Meng Yun looked at each other, as if they both had this kind of awareness.

Jiang Keqing smiled even happier when she saw this, "Oh, let me think about it. Meng Yun plays the bass, and Shi Yan will be the keyboard player. The three of us will form a simple band. I am the guitarist and lead singer. Um -What's the name of the band?"

"..." Shi Yan didn't know whether what he said was true or not, and she didn't know how to answer this sentence.

Meng Yun gently touched the top of his head and asked, "What name do you want?"

"Well, let me think about it," Jiang Keqing opened his eyes wide, rolling his eyeballs around, and said, "Let's call it 'Steel Forest'. Look, Binhai City is full of tall buildings, isn't it very vivid? Haha, really Fun!"

As he spoke, he threw himself on Meng Yun, "Isn't it romantic for a guitar player and a bass player to fall in love?"

Meng Yun held the computer high with one hand, "Be careful with the computer, don't fall, Keqing."

Shi Yan got up and helped him take the computer and put it on the small round table next to the sofa, "If you want to form a group, it's not impossible, but I may not have time. Recently, I have to write a thesis and search for information, and I will be busy at work."

"However, if you enroll in a class to learn guitar, you might be able to find like-minded people."

Jiang Keqing looked back at him with a giggle, "Shi Yan, you are so serious, I was just joking, you and Meng Yun are both so tired, how can I trouble you both."

"You can do whatever you want, and don't worry about us." Meng Yun said softly with his arms around him.

His voice was hoarse and deep, and his ears turned red when he heard it, and he quickly avoided suspicion and said, "I'll go to the kitchen to see what dishes are available. I'll cook tonight."

The two on the sofa could no longer hear them. Jiang Keqing restrained her smile and looked at Meng Yun with some sadness, "You dote on me so much, you will make me proud of you, Meng Yun."

"I'm afraid you're not proud. But Qing, it's okay. My husband is here. No one can hurt you anymore."

"En." Jiang Keqing leaned in his arms, her heart moved, and she asked in a low voice: "Can you take me back to the room, Yun?"

"Okay." Meng Yun hugged him horizontally, cherishing him as if he was hugging his own world.

When Shi Yan caught a glimpse of the two of them in the kitchen, her face became hot, and she closed the kitchen door softly, so as not to disturb them by the sound of chopping and frying vegetables.

Volume II Variations (End)