gentle fall

Emotions are always sudden, but she can't indulge herself in them.

Ji Yirou thought for a moment and made a decision: "Call me a car, I want to go home, go back to my house."

Lin Ling said: "It's very late now, do you want to wait until tomorrow?"

Ji Yirou shook her head, her attitude was very firm, her eyes were sober and calm: "No, now, if you have something to do, you can go first, I want to go back."

Lin Ling shook her head vigorously: "No, no, I'm fine! I'll be with you, it's so late, I can't leave you alone. If the company has a driver, I'll call now."

"No need, just call one from the side of the road, I don't want to wait."

While talking, she reached out to hail a taxi, got in first, and gave the address.

The snow stopped a long time ago, but there was thick snow on the road, and the expressway was closed long ago. The master checked the route: "The car takes a provincial road, so we have to make a detour."

Ji Yirou hummed, saying whatever she wanted was fine, with a tired look on her face, she stopped talking.

She hadn't closed her eyes for two days. When she closed her eyes at this moment, she remembered Wen Huaiyu's expression when he passed by her that night, his firm eyes, tight lips, and tight jaw, all of which revealed her Persevere in your choice.

I remembered that door again.

She was inside, but she stood outside the door instead of going in.

The wound on the face, the accidentally injured ankle seemed to be an excuse in a sense, why...why didn't he go in and see her?

It's not that I don't want to, it's... that I dare not?

Thoughts enveloped her like a wave, the car drove extremely slowly in the snow, and not long after, she fell asleep.

hours later.

The car stopped and it was 2 o'clock in the morning.

In the quiet winter night, there is no sound, and occasionally you can hear snowflakes falling from the top of the pine tree. There are star lights in the distance, reminiscent of a winter fire.

Ji Yirou woke up before the car stopped. She paid the money and woke Lin Ling up. Seeing the little girl's sleepy expression, she smiled and said, "You don't have to stay with me anymore. I'll let the butler arrange it for you." room, you sleep first."

Lin Ling nodded in a daze: "Aren't you going to sleep?"

"I have something else to do."

She wants to talk to grandpa. There are many questions, and she can't talk about it on the phone.

She walked in quickly, stood still in front of the gate, and rang the doorbell. Soon, the housekeeper ran out in unlined clothes and opened the iron gate: "Miss, why are you back now?"

Seeing that he was wearing thin clothes, Ji Yirou frowned slightly: "There is something wrong. Uncle Liu, you wear too little."

"It's okay. I've already been in the army to gather in the middle of the night and I'm wearing this. Come in, come in."

Ji Yirou hummed, and brought Lin Ling in: "This is my assistant, please arrange a room for her. And... is grandpa asleep?"

The three of them were talking as they walked in. The butler was at the front, and he paused when he heard this obvious sentence: "I didn't sleep."

"It's so late, why hasn't Grandpa rested yet?"

"I'm old, I can't sleep, I can't sleep. Come in."

The old man's voice came out from inside, faint and steady as usual.

Ji Yirou changed a pair of shoes at the entrance, and walked into the living room. There was a bowl of hot ginger soup on the tea table, with white steam, Ji Yue ordered from the air: "Drink."

"Gulu—" After drinking a bowl of hot soup, a warm feeling enveloped the internal organs, Ji Yirou put down the empty bowl: "You know I'm coming back?"

"Of course," Ji Yue scolded with a smile, "You heartless little thing, I still don't understand your temperament."

Ji Yirou also smiled, but the smile was fleeting, and her expression became serious: "Grandpa, you only said that the situation is sensitive now, but you didn't say that, now that it is so sensitive, someone needs to monitor your life. "

Ji Yue was startled.

Looking at his expression, Ji Yirou knew that she had guessed right: "When you were on the phone, was there someone listening beside you?"

Ji Yue nodded silently.

Ji Yirou was stunned.

Is the situation already this bad?Although Grandpa said lightly on the phone, she always felt something was wrong, so she chose to come back.It turned out that Grandpa had been monitored for calls, and his freedom of movement was also restricted.

Ji Yue sat on her side, holding her hand with a big hand, the palm was rough and gentle: "Don't worry. Grandpa is fine."

Ji Yirou lowered her head.

"I'll think about it again. Just wait. I'm already asking my students to ask, as much as I can..."

Ji Yirou raised her head, her eyes were slightly red, and interrupted him: "No. This is my own business, I will solve it myself. You don't have to worry about it."

Ji Yue's eyebrows twitched slightly: "Girl, the situation is worse and more complicated than you imagined. I'm sure there must be someone making trouble on it. It may be your former enemy of Grandpa Wen, or it may be my former political enemy .So this matter is beyond your ability."

Ji Yirou wiped her eyes with her backhand, stood up, and said in a cold voice, "I know. But this is my business, you are not allowed to take care of it anymore. Alright, I'm leaving."

Ji Yue also stood up: "What are you going now? After dawn?"

Unmoved, Ji Yirou pushed open the door and stepped into the darkness with a thin and stubborn back.

Ji Yue suddenly sighed softly: "You can't do anything if you go back now. Wait, the highway will be connected at dawn, and it will only take two hours to go back."

The girl walked back in silence, went upstairs bang bang, and shouted down again when standing at the stairs: "You really don't want to interfere."

Ji Yue laughed, this girl has not changed since she grew up, she is even more stubborn than before.

Ji Yirou went back to the room and started calling, she knew too few people, she didn't know what to do.There are not many people in the address book, and almost all of them seldom contact her. She is born with a cold temper and rarely establishes intimate relationships. Up to now, only two people have called her, one is Yu Mian, probably listening to What Pei Songxi said, the other was Zhao Yu - he was her good playmate when she was a child, although he hadn't seen her for many years, but at Wen Huaiyu's birthday party, he was very surprised to see her and left her cell phone number , Call her as soon as she knows about the matter.

She kept her finger on the screen, full of uncertainty in her heart, she was sure that Yu Mian would be willing to help her, but Yu Mian was only a teenage girl; she was not sure what Zhao Yu would say, she vaguely knew that Zhao Yu treated her However, after the reunion, she was already married.

After hesitating for a moment, she finally called the two men separately.

……

The genius was dim, and it was not yet six o'clock. Ji Yirou opened the door quietly, afraid of waking up others, she didn't even wear shoes, and went down the stairs with her bare feet.

But he was stopped by Ji Yue.

The old man seemed to have not slept all night. He sat down on the sofa, his silver hair combed back neatly, and his sitting posture was as straight as green pines and cypresses. He lightly rolled his eyelids: "The driver is waiting. Your little assistant is also waiting. "

Ji Yirou was startled: "What about you, didn't you sleep last night?"

Ji Yue is probably not used to expressing emotions: "Nonsense. Hurry up, don't disturb me at home, you young people have a lot of things to do, go for a walk."

Ji Yirou didn't care about his reprimand, and stepped forward to give the old man a big hug: "I'm leaving, you listen to me, just stay at home quietly and fish, don't take risks to do other things."

After she finished speaking, she let go, and walked quickly to the door, her back was slender, but she was extremely determined.

What Ji Yue said was right, the highway has been connected, much smoother than last night, two hours, less than eight o'clock, she went downstairs to Wen's Group, and called Zhou Ran.

Zhou Ran came down to pick her up, this time was okay, because he came early, and he didn't encounter the chaotic scene last time.

in the office.

Holding a cup of hot air, Ji Yirou breathed lightly: "I'm looking for someone to ask. Just wait."

Zhou Ran paused while flipping through the document: "You...you didn't sleep all night last night, did you?"

Ji Yirou shook her head: "Sleeping."

After a few hours of sleeping in the car, I couldn't fall back asleep all night.

Zhou Ran breathed a sigh of relief: "You must not be exhausted."

Ji Yirou hummed, and changed the subject: "How is the investigation?"

Zhou Ran frowned: "It seems that there has been a little progress, and it should be more than an accident."

"This reminds me of something from before."

"Last time. The thing about her injury... By the way, what about the results of the subsequent investigation?"

Zhou Ran paused: "This..."

Ji Yirou's expression turned cold: "Say."

Zhou Ran lowered his head: "Mr. Wen did it."

He said the matter in detail, and at the end, he added: "It's not that I didn't say it on purpose just now, it was President Wen who told me not to tell others."

Ji Yirou lowered her eyelashes: "I see. But, Zhou Ran, why don't you continue to investigate in this direction?"

"Ok?"

"Emotions can cloud reason. Sometimes people have a preconceived refusal to believe something, even if it's the truth."

Zhou Ran took a breath: "This means..."

Ji Yirou nodded gently: "Take the initiative. Don't be too slow. I hope everything is not too late."

Zhou Ran said yes, and went out with a pile of documents, shouting in the corridor: "Meeting! Let me come to the conference room for the meeting."

Ji Yirou watched his back, pursed her lower lip, and smiled slowly.

But it's too late.

Just 10 minutes after the meeting, there were two incidents that suddenly ignited public opinion on the Internet. The first incident was revealed by a person familiar with the situation. Wen’s Group shoddy construction materials, and the machinery and equipment were either in disrepair , or the equipment that does not meet the national standards is selected, which is the important reason for the accident.

If it is said that the first incident may reveal the truth of the matter, and the scope of the disturbance is not so large, then the second incident can be said to have stirred up thousands of waves with one stone - the family members of the dead and injured who blocked the demonstration outside the company In the story, a single mother took her 3-year-old child and stood in the cold wind for several hours. After returning home, the child was no longer breathing. The young mother was so sad that she fainted and passed out.

Internet public opinion is pouring in like a tide. In this Spring Festival, when thousands of families gather together, people's sympathy and compassion are stronger than ever, and there is enough time for gossip and chatting. Large-scale accident#, #Wen's that closed down# and other content are all airborne hot searches.

Zhou Ran's phone was buzzing, he was patient and good-tempered, and called one after another, but his heart was sinking bit by bit.

After two hours, I finally got a short period of peace.

Ji Yirou was on the side, and said lightly: "Things are out of control."

Her tone was steady and unwavering, not a question, but a firm statement.

Zhou Ran lowered his head: "Yes. I'm going to see Mr. Wen. Are you going?"

Ji Yirou thought for a while: "Today?"

"tomorrow."

"I'll think about it. I'll get back to you later."

Zhou Ran hummed, and began to sort out the information in silence.

He remembered the conversation Wen Huaiyu had with him that day before he left.

"Zhou Ran, the things I asked you to prepare before are still there, right?"

Zhou Ran was startled, and quickly realized: "They are all here. Do you want it now?"

"Not now. But if things get worse, you bring it all to me."

Wen Huaiyu smiled lightly, she is an optimistic pessimist, she is used to imagining the worst of things, and at the same time, she is ready for everything.Among the documents she asked for were funds she put in a third-party organization, villas under other people's names, and...

Zhou Ran sorted out the documents and prepared all the ones she wanted. Finally, when her fingers touched the document at the bottom of the drawer, she stopped.

He was the last to think of it that day, and asked hesitantly, "Then... that document, do you want it too?"

Wen Huaiyu froze, staring at him fixedly, for a long time did not understand what he said, after a while, he showed a clear expression: "Oh. That."

Zhou Ran turned around and picked up the last document, but his eyes fell on the window involuntarily. The young girl was standing in front of the window, with a clean and gentle profile, lowered her head slightly, her beautiful eyebrows were slightly drawn together, It seemed to be full of sorrow.

Zhou Ran sighed softly, and put the document into the file bag as well.