ABO diurnal boundary

At the board meeting two days later, there was basically no suspense about the outcome.

From now on, Xie Yushu will become the sixth chairman of Xie's Real Estate for a term of three years.

On the first day she took office, she resolutely announced the handling plan for the accident in Wangshu District in the west of the city—respecting all the investigation results of the police, not shirking any responsibilities, and paying all compensation at the highest level.

Even though she took the first step of change with full sincerity, many people still have no hope for Xie's future, and public opinion is still pessimistic.

During Xie Mingyao's more than ten years in office, the Xie family was fundamentally rotten, and the incident was just the last straw that broke the camel's back, exposing everything to the public's view.

Whether the fresh blood injected this time can turn the tide or is dying, no one knows the answer.

At the same time, Xie Jingchi, who was far away from the center of the storm because he failed to enter the board of directors, was blocked at the pick-up gate just after getting off the plane.

"Chairman Jiang asked us to pick you up." It was the assistant surnamed Zheng next to Jiang Lian.

Everyone who works around Jiang Lian knows how much he values ​​this nephew. Assistant Zheng didn't dare to be negligent, took Xie Jingchi's simple luggage, and explained to him seriously why Jiang Lian didn't come in person, "Director Jiang, what else is there?" It’s really inseparable, so we let us do it for you.”

The car is parked not far away.Assistant Zheng opened the door for him, watched him get in, and then turned to the front passenger seat.

"Should I take you home first or go to school first?"

This time Xie Jingchi came back here to deal with graduation matters and take his long-awaited graduation certificate and degree certificate.

Xie Jingchi reacted a little too late, "Let's go to school first." He said slowly, "I made an appointment with the counselor."

"Your phone is ringing, won't you answer it?"

After being reminded by Assistant Zheng, Xie Jingchi, who had been absent-minded all this time, realized that his cell phone was ringing.

"Don't answer." He glanced at the caller's name, then the phone was turned to silent and then pressed back.

During the two days since he left Nan'an Road, only Jiang Yu tried to contact him.At first, he was still willing to answer the phone, but Jiang Yu went against the past and spoke directly, hesitating and insinuating, but refused to talk to him about the main points.

He knew that Jiang Yu's position was awkward, and he also knew that Jiang Yu was just doing business, and some things were not Jiang Yu's fault at all.

In the end, he still answered Jiang Yu's call, "Let him come to me by himself if he has something to say. If he didn't say anything, please let me go for the time being."

After he said this, Jiang Yu was silent for a long time, and said sorry in a low voice, but he didn't respond, and hung up the phone directly.

Will Qin Shen come to him?He quietly looked at the busy traffic outside the window, but this kind of thing was on his mind.

"Sorry for showing you a joke." He only felt ashamed when he remembered that there were other people in the car.

Assistant Zheng didn't say anything, and handed him a cup of sea salt and hazelnut chocolate that he had bought in advance. His words cleverly shifted the focus, "You may be a little hypoglycemic, and it will be much better if you drink something sweet."

Xie Jingchi took two sips of the hot drink and felt his strength return a little, "Thank you."

If I could, I would have come to him a long time ago, so why wait until today.Now he only hopes that Jiang Yu can understand him who is also physically and mentally exhausted.

"Little Chi, are you asleep?"

At about eleven o'clock that night, the first thing Jiang Lian did when he returned home after the entertainment was over was to find Xie Jingchi.

He knocked on the door of Xie Jingchi's room on the second floor, but he didn't get a response for a long time, so he went to the fourth floor with the mentality of giving it a try.

The home theater on the fourth floor was fully air-conditioned, and the air was filled with a rich aroma of wine. For a moment, Jiang Lian felt that he had stepped into a wine cellar where wine was stored.

The light and shadow on the big screen kept changing. The first wine bottle on the tea table was empty, the second was more than half empty, and there was still a bit of purple-red liquid remaining on the inner wall of the glass.

Xie Jingchi curled up barefoot on the soft sofa bed without moving, as if he fell asleep halfway through watching a movie.

I don't know what kind of sad thing I remembered, Xie Jingchi's brows were still frowning in his sleep,

Jiang Lian looked at him for a while, noticed that he was trembling slightly, and touched his arm tentatively. Sure enough, the exposed skin was as cold as ice, and there was a thin layer of goose bumps on it.

He sighed helplessly, went to another room and brought a blanket over to put it on for Xie Jingchi.

"I know, but I can't let it go."

Before the blanket touched Xie Jingchi's side, Xie Jingchi opened his eyes and said such a sentence without thinking.

Jiang Lian was taken aback by him, and then subconsciously said, "If you can't let it go, you have to let it go. You don't want to hurt her, do you? Once your affairs are revealed, you may be nothing, but it will be a disaster for her." .”

As soon as they finished speaking, the young woman in a white cheongsam and her companion on the screen said the same thing.

"You're awake."

Xie Jingchi rubbed his eyes, and slowly sat up from the sofa, "You woke up just now when you came in."

Jiang Lian put down the blanket calmly, then sat not far from him, staring at the flickering screen, "Does it look good?"

Xie Jingchi wrapped himself in a soft and warm blanket, feeling his body temperature gradually rising inside the furry cocoon,

"It's okay." He whispered, "It's pretty nice."

"This is my favorite movie. For a while, I watched it many times as if I was obsessed."

"I know, I can see it." Xie Jingchi's pointed chin was hidden behind the blanket, and there was an indescribable fragility in his delicate and beautiful eyebrows, "Even the box is old."

Jiang Lian didn't speak any more, and accompanied him to watch the last 10 minutes of the movie.

"A Spring Dream in Homeland" is a film from more than 30 years ago. Even though the Blu-ray source has been restored with modern technology, the picture is full of antiquated sense of time.

In terms of plot, "A Dream of Homeland" is actually a very old-fashioned story: the heroine Xia Tiaochun was born in a family of folk artists. She learned pipa and huqin from her mother when she was young. Her biggest dream is to be able to perform on stage one day.

The opportunity to change her was the death of her mother. She witnessed her mother died of an infection from a small wound that was not properly treated, so she resolutely abandoned the pipa that she had played for more than ten years, and determined to be a surgeon.

National enmity and family hatred, joys and sorrows, all things became extremely difficult in that era, and she returned from studying abroad before she even realized that the flames of war had already ignited.

The first love that died without a problem, the philistine and indifferent husband, and the innocent and enthusiastic lover who was ten years younger than her, after experiencing three relationships, she grew from an ignorant girl to a doctor Xia who was unrestrained on the battlefield.

At the end of the film, the accomplished Xia Yaochun returned to her dilapidated hometown alone.At that time, she was over sixty years old, her temples were slightly frosted, and her beauty was gone, except for the snow-white embroidered cheongsam that was still the same as when she was young.

Decades ago, the Japanese army bombed this area on a large scale, and the relatives and apprentices fled to the south. The old house was abandoned at that time, and it was later said that it was going to be repaired, but somehow it has been put on hold until now.

The night is melting, the pavilions are deserted, and the draft is blowing slowly.Under the old house where she practiced in the past, a small clump of unknown white wildflowers swayed gently with the breeze in the cracks of the mossy brick wall.

She stood up, and the pipa was faintly heard in the distance. The movie ended at this place, and the picture gradually dimmed, and finally turned into pitch black.

The sound of the clanging pipa gradually became hurried, and lines of white writing began to roll, first the names of the director and the main creator, and then the names of the leading actors.

Xia Yaochun was played by Ruan Heng, a smash hit actress back then, and Ruan Heng also won the Golden Horse Best Actress that year for her role as Xia Yaochun.

The word Ruan Heng floated out, and Xie Jingchi, who had been expressionless all this time, moved his gaze.

He lowered his head, "I don't even know this..." His voice was drowned in the desolate and deserted pipa.

He only knew that Qin Shen's parents died, but he never knew anything related to them, and Qin Shen never took the initiative to tell him.

He didn't know until today that the woman in the white cheongsam whom Qin Shen called her mother was Ruan Heng.

"Can you talk now?"

After the 7-minute ending, the screening room returned to silence until Jiang Lian spoke again, breaking the silence of the room.

"What?" Xie Jingchi didn't even look at him, his attention was still on the screen in front of him.

"Tell me why you're in a bad mood."

"It's nothing, I'm not in a bad mood..."

Just as he was about to reach out, Jiang Lian, who had endured for a long time, finally couldn't help taking the wine bottle and cup to the other side to prevent him from reaching, "I remember you didn't drink before."

Xie Jingchi, who was empty-handed, withdrew his hand in a low voice, "Drink a little casually."

Facing such a clumsy lie, Jiang Lian was rarely angry, "A little?"

If you look closely, Xie Jingchi's eyes are slanted, his face is flushed abnormally, and his body smells like alcohol.

"Speak, I'm listening." He turned his eyes away abruptly.

Xie Jingchi shook his dizzy head, "There is nothing to say, those two bills were not passed, Xie Mingyao's sister Xie Yushu waited for so many years and finally got the chance to make a comeback." The belated drunkenness made him speak quickly It was much slower than usual, and almost jumped out word by word, "Behind Xie Yushu is Qin Shen, Qin Shen chose her, and all the votes for me were negative..."

"Actually, I wanted to say from the very beginning that it might not be a good thing for you to join the board of directors. Xie's situation is like a pit of fire..." Seeing his appearance, Jiang Lian sighed, "Forget it, the deal is done, and it doesn't make sense to say it." .”

He sent a message to the nanny at home, asking her to wake up and make some hangover soup and send it here, so that Xie Jingchi won't wake up the next day and feel uncomfortable.

"How long are you going to stay this time?" Jiang Lian who turned back sat down again, "When will you go back, do you want me to see you off?"

Xie Jingchi came back here to deal with school affairs, that is to say, he can go back anytime with his graduation photo and degree certificate.

Jiang Lian didn't say anything, but he still hoped that he could stay longer.

"Next week." When the body warmed up, people began to feel drowsy, Xie Jingchi dozed off in a daze, "Go back... I don't know what to do when I go back."

Going back for surgery, and then dealing with the divorce, it doesn't seem like a big deal.

Jiang Lian, who was used to being a leader, was not satisfied with this general and vague answer, and asked in an embarrassing manner, "What about after that? Xie Mingyao and Fang Rujun deserved what they deserved. You didn't join the board of directors. What are you going to do next?"

"I don't know." The drunk Xie Jingchi raised his head in confusion, his eyes were out of focus for a long time, "Maybe...maybe I will continue to study."

After taking the required documents, he was stopped by the counselor and told him to wait a little longer.

A quarter of an hour later, Professor Tao hurried over from home—he had heard about the affairs of Xie Jingchi's family, and wanted to talk to him face to face.

They stayed in the coffee shop near the school for a long time, so long that he felt sorry to see Assistant Zheng's face.

"I still want to study." As if it was extremely cold, Xie Jingchi wrapped the blanket a little tighter, his eyes were also blank, "I don't hate reading, I like school..."

"Okay, I support you." Jiang Lian was very happy when he said he was going back to school. "Young people should study more. Are you going to go to a domestic school, or... what does he think?"

"It has nothing to do with him!" Xie Jingchi suddenly raised his voice, Jiang Lian was startled by him for the second time tonight, "Whatever I do has nothing to do with him..."

"Why doesn't it have anything to do with him? Did you quarrel?" Jiang Lian pinched his brows, "Does it have something to do with that?"

Xie Jingchi was silent for a long time, "I can't quarrel. I can't quarrel with him. I filed a divorce with him, and he agreed."

He was talking like a dream, completely ignoring Jiang Lian's extremely shocked eyes, "That is to say...we will have nothing to do with each other from now on."

It was almost the next morning after watching the movie and drinking soup. Jiang Lian took Xie Jingchi back to the room, watched him lie down, and then helped him pull up the quilt.

Through a layer of frosted cover, the light of the desk lamp is like countless fine needles, radiating irregularly in all directions.

Xie Jingchi always likes to bury most of his face in the quilt when he sleeps.

The soft black hair was scattered on the pillow, and the exposed half of his profile face was quiet and cute. Jiang Lian couldn't get angry with him when he saw it, "Go to bed early, don't stay up late every day just because you are young."

He was about to leave when Xie Jingchi suddenly stopped him from behind.

"Uncle, thank you."

Jiang Lian was taken aback by his call, "Actually, you don't have to force yourself..." He knew that Xie Jingchi had always resisted him, so he never forced him to do anything.

What's more, they don't have any blood relationship, he is just the adopted son of Grandpa Xie Jingchi.

Xie Jingchi interrupted him, "Uncle, thank you for doing these things for me. I used to... I said a lot of willful things before."

Jiang Lian turned back and patted his head.

"I used to think that it would be great if you were my child, so that you wouldn't suffer so much." Jiang Lian, who was in his prime, had a faint rime on his temples, "Now I don't have so many demands. Yes, as long as you can live happily in the future, it will be the best reward for me."

Xie Jingchi, who had never felt kindness from male elders, widened his eyes blankly, and Jiang Lian smiled, "You have to believe that there are many people who like you in this world."

"Maybe." Speaking of this topic, the light in Xie Jingchi's eyes dimmed, and he dealt with it noncommittally.

"It's true." Jiang Lian was about to say something, but seeing him yawned, he couldn't continue, "Go to sleep."

After sending Jiang Lian away, Xie Jingchi half closed his eyes, thinking about the words Jiang Lian had just comforted him.

There may indeed be many people who like him, but none of them is the one he likes the most.