[Rat cat] Mirror City

"Old five, I say old five..." Having called Bai Yutang countless times in a row, Jiang Ping frowned and stared at Bai Yutang who had lost his mind somewhere, and finally couldn't bear his temper and patted his hands heavily desk.

Most people will subconsciously shake when they are suddenly startled like this.But Bai Yutang didn't show anything other than shaking his hand.

"Fourth brother, you interrupted my work." Bai Yutang looked up at Jiang Ping dissatisfied. He was not in a good mood recently, so he had no experience to deal with others.

Knowing his temper well, Lu Fang and the others would wisely avoid contact with Bai Yutang at this time, so as not to get burned, but Jiang Ping couldn't avoid it even if he wanted to.

He definitely did not voluntarily run into Bai Yutang's muzzle, but Bai Yutang said that he was asked to help investigate Pang Yan's whereabouts. If he found out but did not tell Bai Yutang, then Bai Yutang found out that he had truly hit the muzzle of the gun. .

"Office?" Jiang Ping reached out and took the pen from Bai Yutang's hand. After turning it around a few times, he put the pen aside, and said suspiciously, "You have been holding the pen to the same page for so long, and your heart is shaking." Fly."

Bai Yutang glared at him, regained his composure and returned to work.Sighing, Jiang Ping looked at the work piled up in Bai Yutang's hands, took a copy from the middle, and flipped it up, "I haven't seen Zhan Zhao for so many days, can you bear it?"

"He's been crazy about the Kaifeng tomb recently. I can't help with those reports. Going there will add to the chaos. Why don't you check Pang Yan first..." Speaking of Pang Yan, Bai Yutang looked up at Jiang Ping, could it be Jiang Ping came to him because of Pang Yan?

Jiang Ping felt that he had seen the hope of life, "Have you finally remembered the trouble you entrusted to my brother?" Jiang Ping sat up straight, "Pang Yan's whereabouts are quite hidden, but there is one thing that can be done. For sure, he has been messing with Zhou Shen recently."

"Zhou Shen? Who is it?" Bai Yutang didn't remember hearing this name before.

How ignorant this man is.Jiang Ping decided to give Bai Yutang some extra knowledge in the collection field, but now he just needs to wake him up, "Chengyun Villa, remember?"

"Zhou... Oh." Bai Yutang still had an impression of this surname.It turned out that the "Mr. Zhou" he heard when he and Zhan Zhao were hiding behind the curtain that day, "Are they getting mixed up?"

"I also find it unbelievable, but they seem to get along very well. I don't know why they are together." Jiang Ping casually threw the information in his hand to Bai Yutang.

At this moment, the phone on the desk rang suddenly.Jiang Ping looked at Bai Yutang with raised eyebrows, but Bai Yutang just frowned and looked away, not wanting to answer the call.

"You won't answer the internal call?" Jiang Ping urged Bai Yutang.

Without even raising his head, Bai Yutang gave an excuse that no one would believe, "Hands are sore, I can't lift it up, I can't reach it."

What's so sour... You didn't lift your hands up.You can't reach the phone, brother, you are all retracted into the office chair, how long are your hands to be able to reach the phone.

In terms of endurance, Bai Yutang is the most patient among the five brothers.Jiang Ping had no choice but to surrender and answer the phone.The other end of the phone seemed to be surprised that it was Jiang Ping who answered the phone, but he immediately regained his composure and told Jiang Ping everything.

Except for "um", Bai Yutang did not hear Jiang Ping's other voices. When Jiang Ping hung up the phone, Bai Yutang gave him a questioning look.

Jiang Ping looked at Bai Yutang incredulously, "You lied to me?"

"What did I lie to you for?" Bai Yutang looked at Jiang Ping wonderingly.

"When you asked me to help investigate the Pang family, tell me that you are not familiar with the Pang family."

"Yes." Jiang Ping asked a question, and Bai Yutang answered in one sentence.Isn't this obvious, why does Jiang Ping repeat it over and over again?

Bai Yutang's expression was so upright that Jiang Ping was too embarrassed to continue to press Bai Yutang.But in this world, either driving others crazy or driving oneself crazy, and the person being driven crazy now is obviously Jiang Ping.

Take a deep breath, exhale... "If you don't know me well, why would Pang Yi contact you for a meeting!" Jiang Ping almost turned the table.

"What?" In the end, Bai Yutang was equally shocked, and directly put down the work in hand to call back to confirm again.Until the secretary repeated it again, Bai Yutang still felt incredible.

Seeing Bai Yutang's appearance, Jiang Ping suddenly found that Bai Yutang was really ignorant of this matter. "What's going on?" Jiang Ping asked.

Bai Yutang just shook his head, "Pang Yi asked me to meet Mao'er tonight." Bai Yutang himself didn't understand, at most they had something to do with Pang Yan, and Pang Yi only heard about it, but neither of them knew anything involve.

From a purely business point of view, Bai Yutang is willing to make a deal with Pang Yi once.But this time it was incredible that Pang Yi took the initiative to find them.

"Then what are you going to do?" Jiang Ping was not at ease.

Bai Yutang thought about it for a while, and his intuition aroused the curiosity in his heart, and overcame his doubts, "I'll go to Zhan Zhao first." Bai Yutang dropped the documents and hurried out.

But Zhan Zhao is completely on another level.He has been running back and forth in the school many times today. He stayed in the school for several days in a row, checking all the reports word by word with Gongsun Ce, and revised all the contents so that they couldn't even check them. Wrong, even after reading for several days in a row, they would think that what they discovered in Kaifeng was only the first layer of tombs when they saw this pile of reports.

In the next two days, Zhan Zhao and Gongsun Ce assigned tasks. Zhan Zhao was responsible for sorting out the remaining reports. In order to prevent Professor Cui from having trouble again, Gongsun Ce discussed with other professors who were involved in the work how to deal with Professor Cui.

Professor Cui's attitude towards this matter has also gone too far, which has aroused the disgust of many people.So Gongsun Ce went relatively smoothly.

Zhan Zhao finally finished all the work after working hard for several days.When he delivered the report to the head of the department, the head of the department still looked at him worriedly, "Actually, you don't need to rush like this."

After several days of high-intensity work, Zhan Zhao was quite haggard.The head of the department also felt distressed when he saw it. Zhan Zhao and Gongsun Ce were the young teachers he admired the most. After all, this incident caused them both to suffer.

"It's better to hand it in earlier." Zhan Zhao blinked his sour eyes, and said weakly, "It will be inconvenient for the director if it's handed in late, right? It's better to hand it in earlier."

The head of the department shook his head helplessly, and sorted out the materials, "You and Gongsun have worked hard. Don't worry, we are on your and Gongsun's side in this matter, and nothing will happen to you."

"Thank you, Director." Zhan Zhao apologized gratefully to the department head.

Zhan Zhao recalled that he and Gongsun left the conference room that day, before he had time to apologize to everyone, "I'm sorry, Gongsun and I just left that day."

"Hehe, it's okay, young man. Even if I were targeted like this, I wouldn't be able to stay for long. I thought Gongsun would have left a long time ago, but I didn't expect him to be able to endure it for so long." The head of the department smiled. Han, instead of being angry, he seemed satisfied with Zhan Zhao and Gongsun Ce's departure.

Zhan Zhao wanted to cover his face, what kind of image did he and Gongsun Ce look like in the director's eyes?

The head of the department hadn't finished speaking, "And if you continue to stay there, you might be mad at Professor Cui's next words."

Crazy?Zhan Zhao raised his eyebrows in surprise, what else could Professor Cui say to drive them crazy?Instead of questioning their work, there is only... "Will Professor Cui propose to reopen the excavation of the Kaifeng tomb?"

Unexpectedly, Zhan Zhaohui would come up with the result so quickly, and the head of the department said with relief, "Don't worry, this project is unlikely to be reopened. It is very difficult to apply for the project, unless Professor Cui can find a sponsor, and your work is inaccurate." But you can rest assured that you have always been serious about your work.”

Being watched by the head of the department with such trusting eyes, Zhan Zhao lowered his eyes to hide his guilt.In this matter, they had indeed deceived everyone, but even so they were deeply trusted, Zhan Zhao knew that they could not afford this trust.

Zhan Zhao was too silent, and the head of the department thought he was too tired to speak, "Go back to rest after you finish the handover, and you can also have a good rest tomorrow, and tell Gongsun the same when you go back, I will grant you leave. "

"Thank you, Director." Zhan Zhao didn't have the strength to continue, nodded and left the department head's office.

As a result, as soon as Zhan Zhao walked out of the department head's office, he saw a familiar figure not far away.Zhan Zhao was stunned for a moment, and then realized that it was Cui Ming.

A few days ago, they had discussed whether to ask Cui Ming to find out what he said, but they didn't go to him because they wanted to avoid suspicion.Unexpectedly, Cui Ming appeared at this time.Seeing that he didn't look like he was looking for the head of the department, Zhan Zhao felt that he was just looking for him.

Without thinking about it, Zhan Zhao chased after him.

Cui Ming leaned against the wall, his palms sweating from tension.He had already heard that Cui Ming felt very guilty that his uncle had been targeting Gongsun Ce and the others these days.

He was only dissatisfied with Bai Yutang's participation in the development work, and complained to his uncle after he came back.At that time, the other party didn't take his words to heart. Although Cui Ming was not reconciled, he didn't say anything.

What Cui Ming didn't expect was that Professor Cui suddenly ran over to him and asked him again about the details of the Kaifeng Tomb's development process.He didn't know what happened, so he just told him what he could remember.

Cui Ming trusted his uncle, but he didn't expect that just after he told them what happened in Kaifeng, he heard the news that Professor Cui suggested that Professor Gongsun's work was fraudulent.

what is this?This was Cui Ming's only thought when he heard the news, and he also understood the reason why his uncle came to him to unearth the details of Kaifeng's tomb at the same time.

What he revealed because of his dissatisfaction, which in his opinion had no meaning at all, was used by his uncle to target Gongsun Ce and Zhan Zhao.

Doesn't that mean... that he killed both of them?Cui Ming panicked at that time, Zhan Zhao and Gongsun Ce are so smart, they will definitely think of themselves.

But he really didn't mean to.Thinking of being misunderstood by Zhan Zhao, Cui Ming wanted to explain clearly to Zhan Zhao immediately, but there was always no chance.

Firstly, it was because he couldn't find Zhan Zhao, and secondly, Zhan Zhao was really busy these days, and he didn't want to disturb Zhan Zhao, so he dragged on until now.

Now that he saw Zhan Zhao, Cui Ming didn't know what to say.After finally calming down, Cui Ming heard Zhan Zhao calling his name and chasing after him.

Seeing Zhan Zhao's approaching figure, Cui Ming ran away.

"Cui Ming, wait a minute." He couldn't catch up to Cui Ming anyway, and Zhan Zhao didn't want to chase him out to attract everyone's attention, so he had no choice but to call him again.

Hearing Zhan Zhao's voice, Cui Ming stopped subconsciously.Zhan Zhao took the opportunity to walk in front of Cui Ming.

Not daring to meet Zhan Zhao's eyes, Cui Ming looked away, unable to say anything.

Zhan Zhao worked hard to calm his breathing, and waited until the stabbing pain in his chest disappeared before he asked, "Cui Ming, why are you running?"

"I..." Facing Zhan Zhao, Cui Ming was at a loss, what he wanted to explain to Zhan Zhao was incomplete.

"You came to see me, right?" Zhan Zhao was sure, "You want to talk to me, right?"

Zhan Zhao and Cui Ming had already gone outside. Although there were not many students and teachers passing by, everyone would pay attention to them.

Zhan Zhao didn't want to attract too much attention at this time, so he had to say to Cui Ming, "Can we talk in a quiet place, shall we?"

Cui Ming just woke up like a dream, and nodded straight like smashing garlic, "Teacher Zhan, follow me." Cui Ming led Zhan Zhao and walked out.Zhan Zhao looked at Cui Ming's back in bewilderment, originally he just proposed to go to a quiet place, but Cui Ming took him directly to his residence.

Cui Ming lived alone, and the house he rented was not big enough for him to live alone, and it was also very tidy.Zhan Zhao could see that Cui Ming was very reserved, as soon as he invited him to sit down, Cui Ming hurriedly went to make tea.

I won't eat him again.Zhan Zhao secretly sighed, and knew that his guess was correct. Professor Cui learned about Kaifeng from Cui Ming, and the only question now is how much Cui Ming told Professor Cui, and what to do. How about asking Cui Ming without attracting Cui Ming's attention?

Cui Ming carefully looked at Zhan Zhao, and he saw Zhan Zhao's haggard appearance, Cui Ming only felt that the guilt in his heart was snowballing like a snowball.

"Mr. Zhan, I'm sorry, I didn't know that what I said would cause so much trouble for you, Teacher!"

Cui Ming's apology rang loudly in Zhan Zhao's ears, startling Zhan Zhao.Zhan Zhao sat up straight, and saw Cui Ming lowered his head and clenched his fists, his whole body tensed up because of guilt.

"You..." Zhan Zhao looked at him hesitantly, and finally sighed, "You and Professor Cui... what did you say?"

Seeing that Zhan Zhao was willing to talk to him, Cui Ming was so excited that he told Professor Cui everything about meeting Bai Yutang on the mountain because of his dissatisfaction.

After listening to Zhan Zhao, he felt relieved. What Cui Ming said was the same as what Professor Cui brought up at the meeting, "You and Professor Cui said this..."

Zhan Zhao stared at the fine ripples in the water glass, unconsciously lost his mind, and his voice became ethereal.Although it was like this on the surface, the joy in his heart exploded.

Looking at Cui Ming with his head tilted, Zhan Zhao made sure again, "Tell him about seeing Yutang..." When talking about Bai Yutang, Zhan Zhao felt Cui Ming's mood changed a bit.

As soon as Zhan Zhao looked up, he saw Cui Ming looking at him, with unwillingness in his eyes, mixed with guilt, distorted, just like what he saw on the mountain at that time.

Zhan Zhao immediately understood why Cui Ming did this, "Cui Ming, I apologize if I caused you to misunderstand what happened in Kaifeng last time."

"..." Cui Ming didn't expect Zhan Zhao to apologize, and wanted to shake his head hastily, but was interrupted by Zhan Zhao, "It is indeed out of my own selfishness to take Yutang to the grave."

"Your ability is outstanding, I know it, but even if Yutang wasn't there at the time, you wouldn't learn anything from us." Seeing that Cui Ming wanted to refute, Zhan Zhao waved his hand, "You've also seen the cooperation between the three of us. Look, our circle is very small and we know each other too well, so we cooperated very smoothly. In this kind of exploration and development work, it is faster to cooperate with people who are familiar with each other than bringing students.

Even if you followed us down at that time, you might be ignored by Gongsun.I can't devote too much energy to take care of you, but it's better to let other professors lead you.It was my fault that I didn't make it clear to you before, which caused your misunderstanding. "

Cui Ming was still somewhat dissatisfied at first, but Zhan Zhao had already apologized first, and the original dissatisfaction had completely turned into guilt. This matter was his fault, but in the end it was Zhan Zhao who apologized first.

"Teacher, I'm sorry." Cui Ming really regretted what he had done. He really didn't expect things to develop to this point. "I didn't expect uncle to do this... Is there anything I can do for you?"

Cui Ming knew that his uncle had caused Zhan Zhao and Gongsun Ce a lot of trouble, seeing Zhan Zhao haggard like this, Cui Ming wanted to do something.

Zhan Zhao smiled and refused, "Thank you, but we can handle this matter. We have almost finished today. I have been allowed to rest. I just saw you today and wanted to ask you something. I'm fine now. gone."

"...I'm sorry." Apart from these three words, Cui Ming didn't know what to say.

"It's okay, it has nothing to do with you." Zhan Zhao comforted Cui Ming. Seeing Cui Ming's attitude, Zhan Zhao was sure that even if Professor Cui asked him again, Cui Ming would not say anything more.

The phone rang, Zhan Zhao and Cui Ming apologized, checked the content of the text message, it was from Bai Yutang, saying that he was on his way to school and had something to say.

it's time to go.

After speaking, Zhan Zhao and Cui Ming got up and planned to leave, but their hands touched something hard, like the back of a book.Zhan Zhao lowered his head, and saw a book by his hand.

"Traces of the Northern Song Dynasty"...

"Oh, I'm working on a project recently, and the professor lent me this book." Seeing that Zhan Zhao was interested in this book, Cui Ming also mentioned it.The content of this book is quite dry, and he has been reading it for the past few days.

"Then you have to work hard, this book is difficult to understand." Zhan Zhao had read this book before, it was a tragic past, and now he can only encourage Cui Ming in this way.