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Sang Tian was talking with Gai Yiyang, when Tan Xu washed them a basin of dates: "Eat some fruit."

Sang Tian hurriedly stood up: "Mr. Qin, you are too polite."

Gai Yiyang pulled her to sit down: "You take your seat. He should wash some fruit. It's not a serious business to write at home every day. It's shameful. Washing some fruit is a chance for him to display his value."

Tan Xu seemed to be really used to hearing Gai Yiyang scold him so much, he just smiled and said nothing, and went back to his desk to write.

Gai Yiyang said to Sang Tian: "Since you asked about Chu Lingxue and Chao Xi, I will tell you a few more words. Chao Xi has already had an accident and there is nothing I can do, but Chu Lingxue, she is the loveliest flower I have ever seen." Slippery kid, every time I see her skating, I get goosebumps."

"She retired suddenly back then. I really didn't want to believe it. I don't know if she went to Canada or Finguo. Hey, although people in the circle don't want to mention her, but if you really find out about her, if She still misses figure skating so much, you must remember to tell me."

Sang Tian promised: "Definitely."

When she got up to leave, Gai Yiyang stood up in a hurry: "I'm going to participate in the choir rehearsal soon, so I won't see you off, I'm not like some people who stay at home every day without even a friend, waiting for mold. "

Sang Tian smiled: "No need to give it away, you are welcome."

Gai Yiyang hummed a ditty and went to the room to change clothes.

Tan Xu sent Sang Tian to the door, and Sang Tian saw Tan Xu leaving Gai Yiyang's sight, his face was obviously darkened, and he couldn't help comforting him: "Mr. Take it to heart."

Tan Xu smiled: "Over the years, how often has she not scolded me? Or it's the sarcasm, I'm used to it."

When Sang Tian was going downstairs in the elevator, he met an old man who was about to go upstairs. Sang Tian helped him press the elevator. The old man in the peaked cap raised his head and smiled at her, "Thank you, girl."

Sang Tian also smiled: "You're welcome, it's just a matter of time."

******

It was getting dark early in the Northeast, and when Sang Tian took a taxi back to the hotel, it didn't take long for the sky to get dark.

She didn't plan to go out again, and ordered a takeaway of grilled cold noodles and grilled chicken racks for herself, and looked up Gai Yiyang's affairs on her laptop.

Someone flashed her a video, she thought it was Yang Jingsi, but she didn't expect it to be Zuo Ming.

Sang Tian answered in surprise: "Senior Zuo Ming, can you still play video?"

Zuo Ming laughed over there, and the screen flickered one after another: "I'm on the battlefield, not on an alien planet! I'm just showing you that the environment of war reporters is not that bad, so don't worry too much."

She moved the phone camera left and right, and Sang Tian felt a little relieved when she saw that the environment was indeed a little better than she thought.

"What time is it over there?" Sang Tian calculated the time difference: "Twelve o'clock?"

Zuo Ming: "Yes, let's come back to have lunch and rest for a while, and continue to go out in the afternoon. How is your side?"

Sang Tian: "I'm in Hei Province, and I just went to meet Gai Yiyang. Sister Zuo Ming, if I say that according to my intuition, if someone really deliberately harmed Chao Xi back then, then Gai Yiyang probably didn't know about it, you Do you think I'm unreliable?"

Unexpectedly, Zuo Ming shook his head: "Intuition is very important. To be honest, journalists are sometimes like policemen. They have a good nose and can smell where there is something and where there is nothing. Isn't this just intuition?"

Sang Tian smiled: "Did you mean the police? You mean the police dog!"

Zuo Ming asked, "How do you feel about Gai Yiyang?"

Sang Tian: "He is hot-tempered, a bit aggressive, and has a quick temper, but it can be seen that he really likes figure skating. Until now, talking about Chu Lingxue's eyes are still shining, and wanting to see Chen Lingxue again, it doesn't seem like he has done something wrong .”

Zuo Ming: "If you want to dig deeper into Gai Yiyang, I'll introduce you to a person named Chi Xia, and I'll send you the contact information later."

"Chi Xia is awesome. She was on the front line before, and she retired after seeing her teammates sacrificed in front of her. Now she is considered a private detective. The last time I checked Rennuo Pharmaceutical Company, I was looking for Chi Xia. She still has a piece of information that she hasn't given yet. Me, I'll let her forget it for you, and you keep it for me."

******

On the second day after returning to Beicheng to work, the old He Xing rushed to slap an invitation letter on Sang Tian's desk: "Don't be discouraged if you don't find anything when you go to the Heilongjiang Province, you said before that the Daiqing line is useless." , do you see what this is?"

Sang Tian picked up the invitation letter and looked at it. It was Dai Qing who was going to participate in an event of a sports brand to help release new products and introduce her secret to keeping fit.

Lao He's mouth almost reached his temples: "See? We are the only invited media!"

Sang Tian went to the corridor by himself, took out his mobile phone and called Dai Qing: "Is it your decision to let our group talk about tomorrow's activities?"

"Yes." Dai Qing said: "I heard that your team is very difficult now, do I count as doing you a big favor? Should you treat me to dinner?"

Before Sang Tian could speak, Dai Qing said again: "But considering that I want to chase you, let me treat you to dinner, as long as you show up."

"Don't make trouble, Your Highness." Sang Tian said, "Queen Mother...ah no, why did your mother agree to let us organize activities? Our resources are bloody."

Dai Qing: "Because I told her that if you don't let your group follow, I won't go to tomorrow's event."

"..." Sang Tian was a little speechless: "You said you were competing with Chen Lingxue, so don't stare at me. Besides, Chu Lingxue has already left Beicheng, she scared away when she saw you, you have already won. "

Dai Qing: "Like I said, it's not just because of Chu Lingxue, I also like your state like a salted fish."

Sang Tian said sincerely: "Can't I change it? Can't I work hard?"

Dai Qing: "How do you work hard? Do you want to investigate Chao Xi's affairs for Chen Lingxue?"

Sang Tian didn't speak.

Dai Qing: "Look, I know you better than you think. How about it, come to my activity tomorrow, and I will tell you a secret from that year."

******

After get off work, Sang Tian went to find Chi Xia.

I didn't expect Chi Xia to have dirty braids, a skateboard just after it snowed in winter, and she didn't care if her jeans got dirty.

At first, Sang Tian looked at it for a couple of times and didn't dare to recognize it. It was Chi Xia who chewed gum and came over, holding the skateboard with one hand and asking, "Sang Tian?"

Sang Tian nodded in surprise, but he didn't realize that this was a former spy.

Chi Xia gave Sang Tian the information about the previous investigation into Rennuo, and Sang Tian asked her to find out about Gai Yiyang. The two exchanged the existing information. Chi Xia asked Sang Tian to wait for her notification, and the two broke up first. .

Sang Tian took the subway to the ice school for class, and stopped Miao Kefei outside the classroom: "Feifei."

Miao Kefei turned around.

Sang Tian took out the piece of chocolate that Miao Kefei gave her last time from her bag: "I'm sorry, when I went to find Coach Lin last time, Coach Lin had already left Beicheng, so I couldn't give it to her for you."

But Miao Kefei shook her head and refused to answer: "Ms. Sang, let me let you go. When you see Coach Lin in the future, I will give it to her."

Sang Tian smiled: "I may not see her again, we broke up."

Miao Kefei glanced at her: "Ms. Sang, don't lie to me just because I'm young. I've seen you guys kiss. How could you not be together? Let me tell you, it's not called a breakup, it's called a quarrel. Fun."

After speaking, he went straight away.

Sang Tian was left alone holding a piece of chocolate and standing there: ...

Do kids know so much now? !

However, Sang Tian stared at the beautiful pattern on the package of chocolate and thought: She and Lin Xue are two people who don't want to get distracted, like two scarred snails, they instinctively want to shrink into their shells whenever they encounter trouble .

How can such two people continue to be together?

******

The next day, Sang Tian rushed to the shopping mall where Dai Qing participated in the event. Before Dai Qing showed up, there was already a crowd of fans, most of whom were female fans.

Sang Tian was assigned to the front row wearing an interview pass, and after a while, he saw Dai Qing walking towards this side, followed by Dai Lili.

The fans immediately went crazy: "Sister kill me!"

"Ah, sister, take a look here!"

Sang Tian looked at Dai Qing, and had to say that she was indeed the type that many people would like to bend into mosquito coils for her——

Its handsome appearance reveals indifference, a swan neck is noble and elegant, like that kind of extremely difficult to pick high mountain flowers, the harder it is to pick, the more exciting it is.

Today, Dai Qing was still dressed in white, a small white suit and white wide-leg pants. When passing by Sang Tian, ​​he raised his noble chin and glanced at Sang Tian.

Sang Tian thought to himself, what are you dragging here with me?My sister doesn't like the swan crisps, but loves the hard dog biscuits.

Soon the event started, there was nothing to talk about in the interview session, it was all commercial flattery, but when it came time to invite special guests, Sang Tian was dumbfounded—she didn't expect to see Tang Shishan here.

Tang Shishan also caught sight of Sang Tian in the front row, and stared several times at the interview badge hanging on Sang Tian's chest.

As soon as Tang Shishan appeared on the stage, the female fans went crazy again——

Tang Shishan has short hair but can't hide her strong femininity. She wears a black suit and a long golden leaf earring. She looks like an elegant and charming elite sister. When she speaks some professional English vocabulary, she speaks with an Oxford accent.

The fans were all overjoyed: "Ah, ah, it's too good for Her Royal Highness!" "Lock up the sugar substitute CP! Lock it up!"

After the event ended, Dai Qing was going to come over to talk to Sang Tian, ​​but was taken away by Dai Lili, but Tang Shishan walked over to Sang Tian: "I didn't expect to see you here."

Sang Tian: "I didn't expect that either."

Tang Shishan: "Dai Qing is not chasing you, is he?"

Sang Tian was startled—the real identity of this person is not the same as Zuo Ming, is he a fortune-telling stall on the overpass?

Tang Shishan smiled at her expression: "It's easy to guess. According to Dai Lili's operation, I will definitely not invite your group to follow the activity. It must be Dai Qing's idea."

"Dai Qing, I've known her since she was a child. She doesn't know how to make friends. I guess you are Xuexue's ex-girlfriend, so she wants to chase you?"

As soon as Tang Shishan mentioned Lin Xue, Sang Tian interrupted: "Did you know that fans were knocking on your sugar substitute CP just now?"

Tang Shishan raised her eyebrows, and fiddled with the long golden leaf earwires on her ears: "What sugar substitute CP? Are you polite?"

Sang Tian thought: Oh, it turns out that Tang Shishan is straight.

As a result, Tang Shishan said indignantly: "How could I be 0?!"

"..." Sang Tian echoed her: "Yes, yes, they have no eyesight!"

Tang Shishan glanced at Sang Tian, ​​a topic that Sang Tian didn't want to bring up was brought up by her: "Do you know where Xuexue went?"

"I don't know." Sang Tian quickly shook his head: "I don't want to know either, so please don't tell me."

Tang Shishan: "Why, are you afraid that after I tell you, you can't help but look for her?"

"I won't go to her, so there's no need to know." Sang Tian said: "We are two people who don't care about each other. When we are in love, we are happy, and we should split up."

Tang Shishan smiled: "Okay, you can continue to be your little head of crispy noodles, I won't tell you."

Sang Tian was startled again, thinking that Tang Shishan, an elite sea turtle, is good enough to follow the Romans. Last time I took her to eat a fly restaurant, this time I even ate the local crispy noodles from Xiaodangjia!

Could it be that he went undercover on pxx?

Sang Tian hesitated: "There is one more thing."

Tang Shishan: "If you go back on your word, just say so, don't go around in circles."

Sang Tian shook her head: "I don't regret it, I just want to say, if you see that her mental state is not good, I know a very good psychiatrist, and I can introduce her to her."

Tang Shishan: "Understood, let's observe for a while before we talk."

******

After following Dai Qing's activities, Sang Tian wrote a manuscript that was well received in the industry, and Old Hurt was happy: "This is also a small achievement that the group's senior management can see, let's take it step by step!"

As for what Dai Qing said to tell Sang Tian a secret, Dai Qing was directly taken away by her mother after the event that day, and she hasn't told Sang Tian until now.

Sang Tian didn't bother to ask.

Firstly, she didn't want to follow Dai Qing's rhythm, and secondly, she was suspicious, even if Dai Qing wanted to tell her something, how much would such a person who was controlled by her mother know so much.

It was Chi Xia who came to look for Sang Tian. The two came to a coffee shop with very few customers. Chi Xia told Sang Tian: "Gai Yiyang's place is normal, there is nothing suspicious."

Sang Tian: "I guess so."

Chi Xia: "Just one thing, didn't you mention that Wu Mengjie replaced Chao Xi in the World Championships last time? I found out that Wu Mengjie's mother had a business relationship with Dai Lili back then, but I didn't find any What."

She told Sang Tian: "I will not lose this line, but you should be mentally prepared, it may be a coincidence. After all, the real estate circle in Beicheng is only so big, and most people who reach the top of the pyramid have contacts."

Sang Tian: "I know, thank you."

Chi Xia: "Also, didn't you say that no one knows where Chao Xi's parents are? I found out."

Sang Tian almost knocked over the coffee cup in front of him: "Where is it?!"

This little dreadlock introduced by Zuo Ming!It's too awesome!

******

Before you know it, it's almost New Year's Eve.

Sang Jia is in a low mood because she will be in the hospital for the New Year this year, and she can't buy her favorite sunflower seeds, peanuts, and Shaqima.

After discussing with the nurse, Sang Tian bought two New Year pictures that could be scrubbed without affecting the feeling of the hospital, and sent them to the ward for Sang Jia and Aunt Fang.

Sanja muttered and complained, "What kind of years have passed?"

Sang Tian glanced at her: "Old lady, I remember when I was a child you had to work overtime during the Chinese New Year, and you bought two bags of quick-frozen dumplings for the New Year's Eve dinner. What did you say then? As long as you have the heart, it's New Year's Eve."

Sang Jia smiled guiltyly: "Do you still remember what happened when you were seven years old?"

Sang Tian glanced at her again: "I even remember that the quick-frozen dumplings you bought were filled with fennel."

Sang Jia looked at Sang Tian pasting the New Year pictures on the window: "Okay, then I will live a tough and simple life this year. Don't say that the two New Year pictures you chose are really good, the two fat dolls are pretty cute, When can you and Lin Xue have two babies?"

Sang Tian's hands that posted the New Year pictures trembled twice.

Sang Jia: "Don't think I don't know, now you can go abroad to do some kind of test tube..."

Sang Tian hurriedly interrupted her: "The old lady is getting far away, you'd better spend the year in front of you first."

In fact, she and Lin Xue broke up, and the old lady is still here imagining that she and Lin Xue will have a baby.

After posting the New Year pictures, Sang Tian sat beside Sang Jia's hospital bed and tucked the quilt for her: "Old lady, I have to go on a business trip before the Chinese New Year, to Suzhou."

"Why are you going to Jiangsu Province?" Sang Jia said, "How about asking Lin Xue to go with you? It just so happens that the Chinese New Year is coming soon and you're going to be a tourist. Is it convenient for her to ask for leave?"

Sang Tian foolishly said: "He is a pillar, okay? How can you say that if you ask for leave, you can ask for leave! Without Lin Xue's ice school and bar, it is like instant noodles without seasoning packets, hot pot without Haidilao, and girl group members. Small waist!"

Sang Jia laughed: "You are the only one with poor mouth!"

When Sang Tian came out of Sang Jia's ward, the sky began to snow again.

Walking alone in the snow, it is inevitable that I feel a little lonely. Sang Tian looked up at the sky, and the white snow particles fell into his eyes, which were icy cold, like someone's tears.

And where is Xue Lin in the world now?Is it drizzle and snow over there, or is the sun so bright that Lin Xue has already forgotten her?

******

Jiangnan, Mudu.

The taste of the New Year in small towns is always much stronger than that in big cities.

Lin Xue has also been busier these two days than before. She accompanied Aunt Chao to buy new year's goods, and helped prepare some black rice, pine nuts and date paste.

When she was busy in the kitchen, Aunt Chao smiled and said to Lin Xue: "When the Chinese New Year comes, I will take you to worship the God of Joy. It's amazing. May you find someone you like quickly."

Lin Xue smiled and said nothing.

Aunt Chao saw it: "Why, do you already have someone you like?"

Lin Xue still smiled and didn't speak.

Aunt Chao laughed and said, "Okay, I won't ask you when you're older."

After helping Aunt Chao prepare a pot of black rice, Lin Xue walked out of the house.

The winter in the south of the Yangtze River is always cloudy and hazy, but there is no snow, and it is damp and cold in the bones.

Lin Xue came from Beicheng, and she still hasn't adapted to the damp and cold. She always feels that the body temperature is several degrees lower than that in Beijing, but she wrapped her body in a coat and walked towards the river out of habit.

It’s just that standing by the river every day, for some reason, only her blank face is reflected in the river water, and it doesn’t make the face that she can’t see in her heart surface like in the legend.

Today, however, Aunt Chao suddenly mentioned worshiping the God of Joy, and that face kept shaking in her heart.

Accompanied by the circles of ripples, it is already not so clear.

She couldn't help thinking: I don't know if Sang Tian, ​​who has been talking about her mind all the time, still remembers her?

"Hello."

Lin Xue heard someone calling her and looked up.

The sisters who helped her pick up the hat came to her. The sister smiled embarrassedly and handed her the sweet-scented osmanthus rice cake in her hand: "Thank you last time, we just bought this, you take it home Let's eat with Aunt Chao and Uncle Chao."

Lin Xue thanked her, and her sister led her sister away.

Lin Xue was standing by the river with sweet-scented osmanthus sugar rice cakes, staring at the river in a daze, the corners of her lips curled up, revealing a mocking smile.

She was laughing at herself—

The girl's voice just now was so similar to Sang Tian's.Just now she was thinking of Sang Tian, ​​when she heard it suddenly, she thought it was Sang Tian standing on the bridge in the south of the Yangtze River, greeting her like they met for the first time.

She was anxious and happy, her eyes were almost sore and hot, she couldn't wait to say: "Hi, my name is Chu Lingxue, Chu from Chutian, Ling from Lingyun, Xuexue from Xue."

This time, she must not be so stupid as to hide anything from Sang Tian.

Could they start over if she stopped avoiding the name that had put her on the pillar of infamy?

However, when she turned around, she only saw a strange smiling face.

Lin Xue laughed at herself: If she slipped away so irresponsibly, Sang Tian must never want to see her again in this life, right?

At this time, another voice sounded: "Excuse me, there is a family named Chao here..."

The sneering smile on the corner of Lin Xue's lips deepened: I'm really stunned, how can anyone's voice sound like Sang Tian?

But she couldn't help but look up.

Then I was stunned——

It is said that all encounters in the world are reunions after a long absence. (Note 1)

Now the person who is standing at the other end of the bridge and meets her eyes is the person she thinks about day and night after being away.

******

It was only after Sang Tian came to Mudu that he realized that modern electronic maps were not easy to use.

Sang Tian followed the map and went through several alleys, but it seemed that he was getting farther and farther away from his destination, and somehow he came around to the river.

Fortunately, he has a long mouth, so let's ask.

The girl I met head-on was quite good-looking, and she took the initiative to say hello to a person standing by the river just now, she should be a warm-hearted person.

As for the man standing by the river, his lazy back looks a bit like Lin Xue.

Sang Tian felt that this problem of hers had to be corrected - ever since Lin Xue left, she was a little dazed, and everyone looked like Lin Xue.

"Excuse me, there is a family named Chao here..."

As soon as Sang Tian opened her mouth, the person standing by the river looked at her. Sang Tian met the person's eyes and almost fell off the bridge in fright—what is Xue Lin doing here? !It can't be for tourism, can it? !

The girl who was asked the way by Sang Tian enthusiastically pointed her back: "It's over there, you can follow the sister by the river, she belongs to the Chao family."

Sang Tian: "...Thank you."

Lin Xue hesitated for a moment before walking this way: "Are you going to Chao's house?"

Sang Tian looked at her: "Yes."

The words in my heart were: Long time no see, Lin Xue.

Although the physical time is only one month, it feels like many springs when warblers fly and grass grow, summer when weeping willows on the embankment, and autumn when the sky is high and the clouds are light.

Goodbye now, like another winter after the vicissitudes of life, plum blossoms fall all over the shoulders, and white hair grows on the top of the head.

Lin Xue said, "Then you come with me."

Sang Tian couldn't say anything else: "Yes."

The girl who had just shown the way to Sang Tian led her sister far away, but she couldn't help but turn her head and look at the pair's backs.

Sister: "Sister, what are you looking at?"

"I didn't see anything, let's go, go home."

She just suddenly remembered a question she had thought about that day - what a good-looking person Lin Xue missed when facing the river?

She always felt that looking at the sister who asked for directions today, she seemed to have found the answer.

******

Sang Tian and Lin Xue walked together silently.

Walking across the bluestone bridge, the mottled alley, and a three-colored cat slipping by the alley, it made the two of them surprisingly quiet.

Sang Tian was such a talkative person, he didn't speak all the way.

Lin Xue didn't know why she was very nervous about Sang Tian not talking, so she had nothing to say and asked, "Do you want to eat sugar rice cakes? You can eat them after steaming them when you go home."

Sang Tian: "The hotel doesn't have a pot, so it can't be steamed."

Xue Lin: "Oh."

Sang Tian: ...

You deserve to be single, you deserve to be single!

After walking all the way, Sang Tian still didn't speak, until Lin Xue led her to a somewhat old and dilapidated small courtyard, and pointed to the lightly closed wooden door: "Here we are, Chao Xi's parents' house."

Sang Tian was about to knock on the door and enter when Lin Xue suddenly said, "Sang Tian wait a minute."

"I have something to tell you first."

The author has something to say:

Remark 1: From the movie "The Grandmaster".

In addition, there are many foreshadowings in this chapter.

感谢在2022-01-2416:38:24~2022-01-2516:58:49期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who cast the rocket launcher: 1 Huosen;

Thanks to the little angel who threw the landmine: qr, Mu Chenyan, the piece in the middle of the watermelon is for you to eat, and Zhaohai one;

感谢灌溉营养液的小天使：日日日酱10瓶；glockiebae5瓶；点石成冰3瓶；柚稚2瓶；薄言、名字这种东西越短越好1瓶；

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!