Solstice Secrets

Zhuang Zhou returned to his office after the meeting, and before he had time to drink some tea, Li Hexin's little assistant Bai Lulu knocked on the door and came in, saying that the front desk called the secretary for instructions, and there was a Mr. Lin who didn't have an appointment and wanted to see Zhuang Zhou , this person claimed to be Zhuang Zhou's friend and asked how to deal with it.

Holding the teacup, Zhuang Zhou was stunned, "Is this man called Lin Mian?"

Bai Lulu nodded, "That's the name."

Seeing that this is the real person, Zhuang Zhou hesitated.He still felt that Ling Dongzhi's warning was too childish last night, what about white roses and falling into a pit, he just thought Ling Dongzhi was sour in his heart and acted like a baby with him.But looking at Lin Mian's posture, it might be really bad intentions.Especially at this time, it will be noon after sitting down and chatting for a while. He is a guest from afar, so he has to treat him to a meal anyway, and do his best as a landlord.

But sometimes this meal is really not as simple as a meal.

Zhuang Zhou frowned and thought for a while, then said to Bai Lulu: "Invite him to... to the small living room next door." He wanted to invite him to the office, but in a flash, he thought we should meet in the living room.After all, it's my own office, so there's no room for any mistakes.

Bai Lulu nodded and backed out.

Zhuang Zhou wandered into the small living room next door with a teacup in his hand, while thinking about Lin Mian's intention of traveling all the way to Binhai.If it was for Zhuang Zhou, then Zhuang Zhou would never believe it.If Lin Mian really had that kind of intention towards him, he would not have left the country at the time when he said nothing at all.What else could it be other than this level of meaning?What difficulties did the company encounter?lack of funds?

It's all possible.But it was not enough for Lin Mian to put down his body and run to him for help.He is Zhuang Zhou and not Li Ka-shing, and he is not so rich that everyone in the world knows about it.After Lin Mian's parents retired, they all returned to Shanghai to settle down, and all the relatives and friends of the Lin family were also there. If it was really difficult, he wouldn't have to make a detour and run to Binhai to find his elusive acquaintance. help.

There must be a reason for this.

Before, he just wanted to avoid making Ling Dongzhi jealous, so he had to avoid Lin Mian.At this moment, Zhuang Zhou's thoughts changed. No matter why Lin Mian came to him, if he didn't find out the reason, the matter would never end.After all, there are no errand runners in this world. Without Lin Mian, there would still be Zhang Mian and Li Mian.Thinking of this, Zhuang Zhou couldn't help feeling a little melancholy.This is the person he once liked, but he never thought that one day, he would turn around and play tricks on him.

Zhuang Zhou sighed.

The door behind him was knocked lightly twice, Zhuang Zhou walked over and opened the door, and smiled at Lin Mian who was standing at the door, "Why do you have time to come here today?"

Lin Mian smiled at him, "Today I have an appointment with a client to talk about something here. I heard that Zhuang's headquarters is here, so I came over to have a look. For the sake of old friends, Mr. Zhuang can enjoy eating together Have a meal?"

Zhuang Zhou's consciousness was in a trance for a moment.When Lin Mian left, he thought it was parting.I didn't expect that they might meet again, and it was still under such circumstances.

Zhuang Zhou came back to his senses and smiled, "A friend comes from afar, so of course I, a local snake, want to show my friendship as a landlord."

Lin Mian's facial features are not particularly outstanding, but when he smiles, he is innocent and cute like a child.Calculating that they should be the same age, but standing together, Zhuang Zhou always felt that he was younger than himself.Maybe some people have such a quality that makes everyone who sees him want to take care of him from the bottom of his heart.

"What do you want to eat?" Zhuang Zhou picked up his coat from the sofa.

Lin Mian thought for a while, "Why don't you eat Sichuan cuisine. I remember you liked Sichuan cuisine at that time."

Zhuang Zhou's eyes flickered slightly, and then he smiled nonchalantly, "Forget it, let's eat something light. I've gotten a little angry in the past few days. By the way, He Kuan opened a private restaurant, go and have a look?"

Lin Mian hesitated for a moment, then nodded, "Okay."

He Kuan was not in the store, the waiter took Zhuang Zhou and Lin Mian into the small box, brought tea and snacks, and then left.

It was Lin Mian's first time here, and he looked around with inevitable curiosity, "How did Mr. He think of starting such a business? He can cook?"

Zhuang Zhou said without raising his head, "He can eat."

Lin Mian was stunned for a moment, and his brows and eyes were crooked with a smile, "I really didn't see that he had any hobbies in this field when he was in school."

Zhuang Zhou smiled and said nothing.At that time, Lin Mian didn't even care much about him, so how could he remember what kind of hobbies He Kuan had.

"What about you?" Zhuang Zhou asked him back, "What hobbies do you have?"

Lin Mian tilted his head and thought for a while, "I always wanted to be a doctor."

Zhuang Zhou laughed, "This shouldn't be called a hobby."

"It's a hobby." Lin Mian insisted, "At that time, my favorite game was to steal my father's stethoscope and pretend to be a doctor to listen to the neighbor's children. I was beaten many times and couldn't get rid of it. Unfortunately, later And did something else."

Zhuang Zhou looked at the tired look in his eyes, and said lightly: "Since you have chosen this line of work, you will naturally have to work hard to do it well. Setbacks are inevitable."

"Yes," Lin Mian's tone was also a little emotional.

Zhuang Zhou pursed his lips and smiled, "After all, we have been classmates for several years, and our friendship is different from other business partners. If you need help with anything, don't be polite to me."

Lin Mian hesitated for a moment, smiled and shook his head, "There is nothing I need to help with, but I still have to thank you for your words."

Zhuang Zhou lowered his eyes and smiled, and said with deep meaning: "In business, one must be good at seizing opportunities."

Lin Mian didn't understand why he suddenly said such a sentence, but he still nodded with a smile, "This sentence makes sense, and I will take it as my motto in the future."

"That's right, it's the motto." Zhuang Zhou smiled, "Because things like opportunities are often fleeting."

Lin Mian looked at him, with complicated emotions in his eyes, "No one knows this better than me. A Zhou, I always thought you would marry a wife and have children..."

Zhuang Zhou closed his eyes, and his expression was even a little embarrassed for a moment.

"What's the matter?" Lin Mian also noticed his strangeness, and leaned over and put his hand on his forehead to test the temperature thoughtfully, "Are you uncomfortable?"

Zhuang Zhou avoided such an overly intimate gesture, "It's nothing, I just remembered that I have a meeting this afternoon. I'm a little tired."

Lin Mian quickly said: "Then let's hurry up and eat. You'd better take a lunch break and sleep for half an hour."

Zhuang Zhou nodded.

A smile appeared on Lin Mian's face.It's still a childish smile, with a kind of innocence that seems untainted by the years.However, in Zhuang Zhou's eyes, it was a bit dazzling.

When Zhuang Zhou returned to the office, He Kuan was already waiting for him.Seeing him come back, he handed over a folder in his hand without saying a word.Zhuang Zhou opened the folder expressionlessly, and read the contents inside from beginning to end.There are only two or three sheets of printing paper in it, and it won't take too long even if you look carefully.

He Kuan paid attention to his expression, and asked him a little surprised, "You don't seem surprised at all?"

Without raising his head, Zhuang Zhou said, "I'm not stupid."

He Kuan shook his head with a smile, "Are you trying to say that I'm worrying about it again?"

"Don't you always gossip?" Zhuang Zhou glanced over the folder, met He Kuan's gaze and then retracted, "Why did you think of checking Lin Mian?"

He Kuan said lazily, "Guess."

Zhuang Zhou paused for a moment, "Winter Solstice asked you to check?"

He Kuan didn't intend to deny it either, "But he didn't read it. When I called him to say I found something, he said he didn't want to know, and asked me to give it to you directly."

Zhuang Zhou was really surprised this time, "Did he say that?"

"He said he wanted to investigate this person only because he was afraid that you would be tricked," He Kuan said with a smile, "As for the truth, he is not interested in knowing."

Zhuang Zhou pursed his lips and smiled, knowing that Ling Dongzhi said this to save face in front of his friends.

He Kuan changed the subject again, "Hey, do you already know something? I think your reaction is quite calm."

Zhuang Zhou threw the folder on the table and sighed, "Do you know what my favorite dish is?"

"You?" He Kuan sneered, "You are the reincarnation of Bajie, is there anything you don't eat?"

Zhuang Zhou was ridiculed by him, but instead smiled, "When I went to Shanghai for the first time, Xia Mo came to pick me up at the airport and took me shopping. At that time he asked me what I wanted to eat, and me, at that time I hadn’t seen him for several years, and I was still a little nervous, so I didn’t dare to cause him too much trouble. When I saw a Sichuan restaurant nearby, I casually said that I like Sichuan cuisine.” Zhuang Zhou was silent for a while, “You know what, just now That's what Lin Mian said: I remember you love Sichuan food..."

He Kuan was taken aback for a moment, and then felt that the truth had been revealed without any suspense, "What is Xia Mo thinking? Are you crazy?"

"How else can you think about it? He didn't like the winter solstice from the very beginning. I guess he knew that Cao Minghe was going to clean up the winter solstice, but he didn't expect that the old man would take the lead for the winter solstice, and he angered grandpa because of this incident. , Xia’s family couldn’t gain a foothold in Binhai, so he was probably a little paranoid, thinking that the winter solstice was the root of his bad luck.”

He Kuan snorted, "Then why did he come here with such a person? Want to confuse the two of you? Make Ling Dongzhi feel bad?"

Zhuang Zhou shook his head, "Probably because he thinks that once Ling Dongzhi breaks up with me, without the protection of the dealer, he can be allowed to teach him a lesson. He probably really hates Dong Zhi."

He Kuan asked him, "How to deal with it?"

Zhuang Zhou thought for a while, "If you want to touch the end of Xia, you have to deal with the members of the Xia family. Grandpa has to be involved in this matter."

It was inconvenient for He Kuan to ask about other people's housework, so he asked, "What about Lin Mian?"

Zhuang Zhou looked at the folder in his hand, without the slightest warmth in his eyes, "I've already given him a chance. If all he needs is money, I can help him for the sake of my classmates. But obviously He passed up the opportunity himself."

He Kuan curiously wanted to ask for details, but seeing the almost cold expression on his face, he suppressed his curiosity again.

Zhuang Zhou rang the bell to call Li He, and told him with a blank face, "Tell the secretary, if Lin Mian comes to the company again, just say I'm not here. You tell him, just say I said: the money at the end of Xia is not so good Earn, let him do it for himself."

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The shaking slowly died down.

A lone deer jumped over Uncle Rong's head in panic, and his nimble figure jumped over a clump of low bushes and quickly disappeared into the distant forest.

The fire has already burned the outermost houses of the village, and with the help of the wind, it will soon spread to the entire village.Uncle Rong struggled for a moment between fighting the fire or looking for someone, and forced himself to look away, looking for the surviving clan members in the messy grass.If you find a poacher, don't hesitate to make up for it.

These butchers who sneaked into the mountains are not as good as the most ferocious wolves in the deep mountains and old forests!Jackals only kill because they are hungry.But these beasts are like locusts crossing the border, killing whatever they catch.While listening to the wailing of wild beasts while peeling off their furs alive, in the eyes of the mountain gods, this is simply not something that humans can do!

Uncle Rong found a total of nine tribesmen, all with varying severity of injuries, one of them was injured in the leg by a falling stone, and the other was stabbed in the back by a poacher's dagger.Uncle Rong treated everyone's wounds with the herbs he carried with him, and then supported each other to retreat towards Zhang Village.If there are aftershocks tonight, Zhang Village may not be safe. They will find a way to take the women in the village to continue fleeing.

The small road along the small road to Zhangcun was dark, and there was not a single star of light.Fortunately, Uncle Rong walked this road in the dark more than once, otherwise he really didn't know how to go.The scene just now was too chaotic. No one could be sure that the poachers were all dead. They had guns in their hands.Uncle Rong and the others were just a few of them, and they didn't dare to take the risk of revealing their whereabouts.

When passing around the mountain depression outside Zhangcun Village, Uncle Rong suddenly made a gesture for everyone to stop.

The wind rolled over the dry tree branches overhead, making a whining sound like a cry.There was a dull rumbling intermittently from the distant mountains.Like an old man suffering from asthma, struggling to breathe in the middle of the night.

"It smells bloody."

The few people who escaped from the dead panicked.If Zhangcun was also attacked by someone, wouldn't their people just hit the muzzle of the gun?

At this moment, Chang Shan, who was following Uncle Rong, suddenly heard a faint cry of a baby in the distance.Chang Shan was stunned for a moment, and grabbed Uncle Rong's sleeve, "It's Xiaoyu! This is my Xiaoyu!"

Before Uncle Rong could speak, Chang Shan rushed out like a rabbit.When Uncle Rong and the others chased after him, they saw Chang Shan squatting on the ground and struggling to help a man up.

"It's... Xiao Yuniang?"

Seeing that Xiao Yuniang was dying, there was a dark blood stain on her front, which was shocking.The child was wrapped in her fur waistcoat and held tightly in her arms.Now being picked up by Chang Shan, he was sobbing and hiccupping, but he stopped crying.

Uncle Rong's eyes turned red all of a sudden, "This is... what's wrong?!"

"The people in Zhang Village...have evil intentions," Xiao Yuniang leaned into Chang Shan's arms and said with difficulty, "They robbed us. Everyone caught...will be slaughtered, and the children... ..."

"What's wrong with the child?" Uncle Rong's eyes were tearing apart.

"My child... my child..." Xiao Yuniang's breath became weaker and weaker, and her body gradually became cold.

"Child's mother..." Chang Shan couldn't believe that people just disappeared in front of him.He looked at the sobbing child in his arms, then at his lifeless wife, and his whole body trembled.

Uncle Rong pressed Chang Shan's shoulders heavily with his big hands, and said in a hoarse voice with deep hatred, "Chang Shan, if you are a man, stand up! Kill those bandits, and use their heads as a memorial to our dead relatives." !"