fool.

Zhao You stood at the gate of Sijichun, lit a cigarette, and looked at his watch. At 50:[-] in the morning, the sky in Yancheng was already bright.The cars parked in the three parking spaces at the gate of Sijichun were replaced by a red Volkswagen Beetle with a local license plate and two white Mazdas with stickers of “Changsha Love Driving Self-Driving Club” on both cars, both with Changsha license plates , tires and stickers are a bit dirty.Zhao You glanced into the hotel, Xiao Cai was still on duty at the front desk, and the young girl was napping on the table.From time to time, cars and electric tricycles with local license plates pass by on the road, and there are no passers-by.The driver of the electric tricycle will wave to Zhao You and ask him if he wants to go to the Gold Coast. Another driver stops and strikes up a conversation with him, saying: "I know all about the small roads for the handsome guy, Four Seasons, Wenhua, Intercontinental Beach, [-] yuan. I can take you in, there are so many beauties, how about it, think about it?"

It's six fifty-five.

Zhao You didn't believe it. He squeezed his eyes and shook his legs and said, "The security guards at the Renda Hotel are so good, how could they slip in so easily? You can find someone else, I'm not that kind of person."

"I'm serious! You can see that my WeChat is full of customers I brought over. Look at the photos they post. No one has ever been caught!" Then, the driver pulled off his straw hat, took out his phone and clicked on WeChat Just show Zhao You a few circles of friends, all of which are sunny beaches with infinite scenery.

The smell of food came from the direction of Sijichun restaurant.

Zhao You smoked a cigarette. It was 57:[-], and a car drove slowly from the east end of the road against the light.It was a black Lexus sedan, and it was going very slowly.

Zhao You smiled and patted the driver: "The person I was waiting for is here."

The driver turned his head and saw the black car, smiled, put on his straw hat again and said goodbye to Zhao You.

seven o'clock.Just right, the black Lexus parked on the side of the road in front of the gate of Sijichun.The front and back of the car were covered with black window paper, and the inside could not be seen. After the car stopped for a while, the rear door opened, and a black and thin woman with short hair and a suit with long sleeves and long trousers was holding the car. When the mobile phone came down, she first looked at the signboard of Sijichun, then glanced at Zhao You, then looked down at the mobile phone, and then looked up at Zhao You.Zhao You immediately stood up straight, threw a cigarette, and greeted him, saying, "How did you come to pick me up?" He introduced himself, "I am Zhao You, just call me Xiao Zhao."

The woman was plain-faced, without pierced ears, and without any jewelry. She looked about forty years old, with forehead lines, crow's feet, nasolabial folds, and neck lines on her neck.She smiled at Zhao You, and spoke softly: "Hi Xiao Zhao, I am the person in charge of Hedao Studio, my surname is Xu, Xu Xiufen, everyone calls me Teacher Xu."

Her Mandarin is perfect.

"Okay, okay, hello Teacher Xu." Zhao You pointed to Sijichun, "I'm really sorry to trouble you to come over so early in the morning, have you had breakfast yet? How about we eat a little together and chat while eating?"

Xu Xiufen said: "Come on, I still have a lot of things to do today, let's get in the car and talk about it." She walked to the side of the black car, opened the back door, and said "please". gesture.

Zhao You walked over, stopped by the car and asked her, "Are we going to the training class now?"

Xu Xiufen still said, "Get in the car and talk."

Zhao You got into the car, and Xu Xiufen also got in, sitting next to him.As soon as she got in the car, the person sitting in the driver's seat handed back a bulging portfolio on the passenger seat. Xu Xiufen took the portfolio and looked at Zhao You with a smile.Zhao You also looked at her with a smile.Xu Xiufen said, "Seat belt."

Zhao You patted his head, laughed twice, and buckled up his seat belt.Xu Xiufen also buckled up her seat belt, patted the driver's seat, and said, "Let's drive."

The driver of the car was a man in his early fifties, also wearing a suit with long sleeves and trousers, a pair of white gloves, and white temples.

After the car started, Xu Xiufen handed the file bag to Zhao You and said, "Officer Zhao, here is our business license and a copy of the tax payment details since we came to Yancheng to run a school. I think you may need it. "

Zhao You nodded, and opened the bag to look. The registered name on the business license is "Beite Culture Media Co., Ltd.", and the legal representative is Xu Xiufen. January 1999st.There are a bunch of densely listed in the scope of business: organizing cultural and artistic exchange activities (excluding performances); literary and artistic creation; film and television production; rental and sales of film and television equipment; management of cultural venues; business training (excluding related training that requires a vocational and technical license ).

The sound insulation effect of the car is very good, except for the sound of friction between the tires and the asphalt road, Zhao You can hardly hear other movements outside.There was only the sound of air-conditioning blowing out of the car.

Zhao You looked at Xu Xiufen, and said unexpectedly, "Are you an overseas Chinese?"

Xu Xiufen said, "I'm from Hong Kong."

Zhao You smiled and said: "Then your Mandarin is really good, you don't even have an accent." Zhao You looked at the business license again, "You have been here since 99, no wonder." He also smiled, Ask Xu Xiufen: "Then your ancestral home is from Yancheng?"

Xu Xiufen smiled and replied: "No, my ancestral home is in Jiangmen, Guangdong."

"Jiangmen Zongzi is delicious! It's a big one, filled with all kinds of beans, bacon, and egg yolks." Zhao You's eyes glowed, and he spoke enthusiastically.

"Officer Zhao has been to Jiangmen?"

"I've been there, I've been there, I'm not from Yancheng, I'm from Qingshi, for some reason, I'm now a special consultant for the Yan Mingming case, I used to go to Jiangmen when I was in Qingshi and a criminal policeman Been on a business trip."

Xu Xiufen said: "Aren't you a criminal police officer now?"

Zhao You waved his hand: "It's a long story." He smiled, scratched his hair, stuffed the business license back into the file bag, held the bag and looked ahead and said, "I'm doing propaganda right now. What."

The driver glanced at him from the rearview mirror, and Zhao You caught his eyes and said, "The address of your training class is so secret, I thought you were going to wear a black hood for me to go there."

The driver looked away and looked at the road again. Xu Xiufen said, "I was quite surprised that the Yancheng Bureau asked you to come to our training class for investigation. Now I am even more confused. You are not the Yancheng police, If you are not a criminal police officer, can you still investigate the case?"

Zhao You was also very confused: "I surrendered myself because Yan Mingming's husband is a teacher at my university, you know that?"

Xu Xiufen nodded.

"He said he wanted to see me and asked me to help him find his wife."

Xu Xiufen looked at Zhao You: "Then you must be a very powerful criminal policeman, right?"

"No, no, I don't know why he is looking for me. If I were a powerful criminal policeman, why would our detachment leader let me go to the publicity department? The work intensity of criminal police is high, and the treatment is high. Let me tell you the truth. , Just like that, work is sometimes quite dangerous, and the criminal police detachment will not let people go easily." He asked Xu Xiufen, "Mr. Xu, then why did you think of coming to Yancheng from Hong Kong to develop?"

Xu Xiufen said in a relaxed tone, "I happened to have such an opportunity at that time."

"Do you have friends in Yancheng?"

"It can be regarded as a business partner, just invite me to come."

"You came to Yancheng from Hong Kong by yourself. You left your hometown and didn't know the place well. It must have been difficult at that time."

Xu Xiufen smiled, took out a bottle of mineral water from the storage compartment of the car door and handed it to Zhao You: "Drink water?"

Zhao You took the bottle, unscrewed it to drink water, and looked ahead.Cars circled Dongshi Road.It went in a big circle.Zhao You remained calm and continued to talk to Xu Xiufen: "Then you are doing elite training in Hong Kong, cultural exchange?"

Xu Xiufen smiled and said: "What kind of elite training? It's all rumored by others. We don't have relevant education licenses, and we don't do training business. What we do is actually a few like-minded friends chatting together and conducting training sessions. Some cultural exchanges are included in the category of cultural creation in our business scope. Those who come to How Island are all brothers and sisters.

"When I was in Hong Kong, I read some books by Joseph Murphy, and I was very moved. I think people's subconscious has unlimited energy," Xu Xiufen said while gesturing, "But this energy is It’s not us ordinary people who can be stimulated by meditation or cultivation alone. This kind of energy needs some thought collisions to stimulate and induce. It’s like the earth we live in. It was born through an explosion, you understand I mean right?"

"Are you... materialistic spiritualism?"

Xu Xiufen smiled: "People are group animals after all, and in groups, people's strength is actually the greatest."

Zhao You said: "I understand this. If you walk alone at night, you will be afraid. If you see a vicious dog, you must run away immediately. Walking with two people is equivalent to emboldened. Chase away."

Xu Xiufen smiled, thought for a while, and continued: "However, a group with a large base will drag down the power of the group due to its own unavoidable inferiority, inertia, and five people may be able to research a solution to a problem. But when fifty people get together to discuss the solution to a certain problem, new problems will continue to arise, which is unavoidable." Xu Xiufen looked at Zhao You, persuading her, Zhao You scratched the bridge of her nose, Thoughtfully said: "I'm sorry, I'm not good at abstract thinking, I would like to ask, what exactly is the problem you mentioned here?"

Xu Xiufen said: "Any question is fine, as small as how to divide an apple between five people, as big as judging whether a certain behavior is a crime and whether it should be punished."

"So these five or fifty people are talking about making laws?"

"I prefer that people are discussing how to distinguish right from wrong. Not everyone in the law can discuss its formulation guidelines, but everyone can discuss the moral tendency and produce a standard of measurement."

Zhao You said: "Even if these five people, or fifty people are all from the barbaric era for us modern people, people who have a living standard that is very different from ours?"

Xu Xiufen looked at Zhao You, her eyes sank, and her tone was still very gentle: "Do you think such people's views are meaningless?"

"No, I don't think any point of view is meaningless, I just think it's meaningless to discuss big concepts like right and wrong, good and evil," Zhao You said.

Xu Xiufen smiled: "As a policeman, it seems not good to have such an idea?"

"The police are the enforcers of the law, not the judges of morality." Zhao You glanced at the driver. The car stopped circling around Dongshi Road and drove on a straight road. He didn't know where this road would lead He continued, "The concepts of right, wrong, good and evil themselves emerged after the development of society. Let's call them morality. In my opinion, 'morality' has nothing to do with 'people'. 'Morality' is a huge It is a rope attached to human beings by external forces in order not to make human beings extinct too quickly, and its appearance is a kind of 'miracle', 'miracle'."

Xu Xiufen asked hesitantly: "Great external force, you mean God, God?" She raised the corner of her mouth, "I thought all party members were atheists."

Zhao You smiled and touched his nose: "I don't believe in God, I mean the power that created Bigfoot, just like the power that created the Big Bang."

Xu Xiufen laughed, Zhao You followed suit, and Xu Xiufen said: "In the bag are Miss Yan's resume when she applied for our cultural exchange class, the video of her interview, and the audio and video of the conversation with her when she attended the course. .”

"You still record the conversation? Like seeing a psychiatrist?"

"It is for the brothers and sisters who participate in the cultural exchange in our studio to understand themselves better and know themselves from a new perspective," Xu Xiufen said. "I found that my voice on the phone sounded like It’s so different from my usual speaking voice, or the voice I think I speak.”

Zhao You looked into the bag: "You... the threshold is so high, and you still have an interview?" He also said: "But I heard that not everyone in your class is recruited, Miss Yan's qualifications should be Very good, right?"

"Not bad." Xu Xiufen said.

"Ah? She single-handedly saved Ximeihua, which was on the verge of bankruptcy. She should be considered one of the best business women in China. Is this just okay?" Zhao You was surprised.

Xu Xiufen said modestly: "To tell you the truth, the outside world makes us so mysterious, saying that we run a circle every three years, the threshold is very high, and only a few people are accepted at a time. In fact, the main reason is that our manpower and material resources are really limited. If we have more manpower and resources in the future, we are willing to open up to the whole society, and we hope that everyone can become a part of our big family."

Zhao You asked: "You keep it so secret here, how did Ms. Yan send you a resume? Or is there an email address that ordinary people like us can't get to?"

"Miss Yan contacted us through the family member of one of our 15-year trainees."

"Then how do you calculate your tuition fees?" Zhao You didn't see the relevant documents in the portfolio, "Is there no introduction to course materials?"

Xu Xiufen emphasized: "We are not a training class, there is no curriculum, literary and artistic creation, cultural exchange and other ideological things should not be restricted by the so-called courses." She said, "We only charge some basic maintenance fees. , one semester per student, that is, the cost of a three-month course is [-]."

"Ah? It's [-] for three months, and only [-] for a month. Are you guys covering all board and lodging? Do you provide teaching materials? This... you won't be able to ask those chairman and CEO to eat steamed buns and pickles. Then live in thatched cottage every day, right?"

Xu Xiufen said: "That's definitely not the case. We have our own land and can guarantee self-sufficiency. Although the house is not as high-end as those five-star hotels, the accommodation conditions are clean and tidy."

"Then how do you make money?"

"Profit?" Xu Xiufen seemed to have heard a word that was difficult to understand. She explained: "Getting benefits and making money are not our main purpose. As I said before, I think people's potential is unlimited. We provide It is a place for people to communicate on a cultural level. I think as long as the people who come to participate gain something and use their gains to give back to the society, it will be the best profit for us.”

"Then what you are doing is similar to charitable foundations? Compared with charitable foundations using money to buy materials and various resources to help the society, your realm here is higher." Zhao You said with a smile, " How about the relationship between the students in the same period and Yan Mingming? Besides Ge Junhua, who else were there in the same period?"

Xu Xiufen pursed her lips, the car stopped at this moment, Zhao You saw that there was a pier outside, a section of wooden trestle floating on the sea.

Xu Xiufen said: "Student Junhua is in class now, and Officer Zhao needs to see him, right?"

Zhao You said: "He is our important witness." He looked out, and there was a white speedboat parked at the end of the wooden trestle, and a dark-skinned man stood on the speedboat.

Zhao You said, "I want to meet his sister Ge Junting."

"Ge Junting?" Xu Xiufen caught the driver's seat unexpectedly, and was speechless for a while.

"Is she not in class?" Zhao You looked at her and asked.The driver got out of the car at this moment and opened the car door for Xu Xiufen. Xu Xiufen seemed a little embarrassed, looked out, hesitated: "This is not..."

The driver bent down to look into the car, and said, "Get on the boat first."

Xu Xiufen nodded and got out of the car.Zhao You also got out of the car with the file bag, and followed Xu Xiufen and the driver.The driver took off his white gloves and walked in front.

Zhao You followed Xu Xiufen's pace, walked beside him and said, "Ge Junhua has already recorded a statement with the police, and I just want to ask his sister to find out about the situation." He pointed to the speedboat: "So your training class It's on an island, we have to go by boat?" He took out his phone and held it up, looking at it and said, "Isn't there no signal? Then I have to tell the people in the city bureau in advance."

Xu Xiufen replied vaguely, she kept glancing at the driver.The driver led them along without a word, always with his back to them.

"Is the island rented?" Zhao You asked again, "Are you sure there is no signal? Is there no landline?"

Xu Xiufen said: "It is true that there is no mobile phone signal, but it should not delay you for too long." Her voice was a little dry, and she said: "Officer Zhao, I can fax you the relevant real estate documents. The island is the legal asset of our company. .”

Zhao You nodded, and sent a WeChat message to Hang Fengnian: Team Hang, I'm going to the island where the training class is, and there will be no signal on my mobile phone, and I don't know when it will take. Have you arrived in Yu County?

Hearing the sound of "Tong", Zhao You saw that the driver was already standing on the speedboat. He looked at Zhao You without taking his eyes off him. Zhao You also looked at him, blinked, and pointed to his face and asked. Said: "Have we met before? Do you think I look familiar?"

The driver shook his head, Xu Xiufen suddenly appeared, grabbed the driver's hand and jumped onto the speedboat, signaling Zhao You to get on board.The driver patted her and said softly, "Xiu Fen, it's okay." He waved to Zhao You and said, "Hi, Police Officer Zhao, I didn't introduce myself all the way, Xiu Fen and I are both from the island. Teacher, everyone calls me Teacher Wang."