mutual benefit [gl]

Running all the way against the cold wind, when Ji Cixi stood at the door of Chen Yuanzhen's house, her hands and face were cold.

She exhaled a few breaths of white air to warm her hands, then raised her hand and rang the doorbell.

One click, two clicks, three clicks.

Chen Yuanzhen didn't open the door, but Ji Cixi wasn't tired either.

When Ji Cixi rang the doorbell for the first time, Chen Yuanzhen finally opened the door.

She was wearing casual home clothes, holding a can of beer in her hand, leaning on the door frame and smiling casually at Ji Cixi.

"Sorry, I played the music too loudly just now, so I didn't hear you knocking on the door." After finishing speaking, Chen Yuanzhen took another sip of beer, then she looked Ji Cixi up and down, and said with a smile: "Did Miss Ji come running here?" ? Looks very tired."

Miss Ji,

Everything seems to be back to the beginning.

"I have something to ask you." Ji Cixi said with a cold face, "Why, isn't Ms. Chen going to let me in?"

Ji Cixi was not polite in the slightest.

The smile froze at the corner of Chen Yuanzhen's mouth for a moment, she raised her hand and drank again, this kind of movement to hide her panic had no way out in Ji Cixi's eyes.

"Is this necessary?" Chen Yuanzhen asked.

"I'll take it as your agreement." After Ji Cixi finished speaking, she turned sideways and passed Chen Yuanzhen, and walked into her home.

Chen Yuanzhen gritted his teeth secretly, but he had no choice but to close the door, turn around and walk into the living room.

"Miss Ji, what are you doing today?"

Ji Cixi was not at all rude when he entered the door, sitting on Chen Yuanzhen's sofa with Erlang's legs crossed, he was more like a master than Chen Yuanzhen himself, forcing Chen Yuanzhen to lean against the TV cabinet and ask helplessly.

"What do you think about this?"

In the end, I still asked, Chen Yuanzhen felt a pain in his heart, but his face was as calm as water, and he could still laugh.

"What you see is what you get. Didn't Ms. Ji see everything?"

"Then you really want to marry Lawyer Gao?" Ji Cixi sneered.

"Gao Xiu is good-looking and capable. What's more, he is highly valued by the old man. Marrying him is a good deal for me. I don't have to refuse."

"You think marriage is a business?" Ji Cixi asked.

Chen Yuanzhen laughed out loud when she heard the words, she put the beer can aside, barely stopped laughing and said to Ji Cixi:

"Miss Ji thinks that in our circle, what is marriage?"

Ji Cixi didn't answer.

"If Ms. Ji is here today to popularize some values ​​for me, then please come back." Chen Yuanzhen said with a smile.

"Then what about Ji Xu?" Ji Cixi asked directly.

"I can get away like this, so what about Ji Xu? Protecting Ji Xu is one of our conditions."

Chen Yuanzhen's eyes darkened, she put away her smile, and after a moment of silence, she raised her eyes and became the Chen Yuanzhen that Ji Cixi was familiar with again.

"After the wedding is over, Ji Xu will return home safely."

No matter how Chen Yuanzhen pretended nothing happened before, Ji Cixi was as calm as stagnant water, but now, she suddenly couldn't hold back her emotions.

She turned her eyes to look elsewhere, staggering Chen Yuanzhen's sincere eyes.

"I see." After she finished speaking, she stood up and left Chen Yuanzhen's house slowly.

As soon as she walked out of Chen Yuanzhen's house, Ji Cixi covered her face, all the grievances that she had never cried well before seemed to surge up at this moment.

The death of parents, the death of Ji Ciwen, the departure of Ji Xu, and the news of Chen Yuanzhen's marriage

All the tears that Ji Cixi held back over the years gathered together, at this moment they finally flooded the dam and raged on Ji Cixi's face.

She covered her face and rushed into the elevator as if fleeing.

When Ji Cixi walked into the elevator car, the door of the stairwell on the side was gently pushed open, and Zhou Ming came out from the stairwell.

He scratched his head and sighed depressingly, and took out his phone.

"Boss, she seems to be crying."

Ji Cixi was in a trance all the way. If it was said that when she went to Chen Yuanzhen's house, she didn't have time to be sad because she had something to confirm, then when she came back, Ji Cixi seemed to have been drained of her soul, her mind was in a mess, and she couldn't even think about it. sad.

Back home, Ji Cixi was sitting on the sofa with a glass of warm water, her eyes were empty.The water turned from warm to cool, and the sky outside the window had also turned dark. Ji Cixi put down the glass of water that she hadn't touched. She walked to the window and looked at the neon night scene outside.

Suddenly, Ji Cixi stretched out her arms and closed the heavy curtains, then she picked up her coat again and went out.

After going out, Ji Cixi went straight to the stairwell next to the elevator and kicked the door open.

Zhou Ming, who was sitting on the stairs smoking a cigarette, had no time to dodge, and could only stare dumbfounded at the woman standing in front of him.

"Accompany me to a place." Ji Cixi said expressionlessly.

Zhou Ming, who was caught on the spot, was already very embarrassed, and when he was thinking about what to say to save himself from being raped by Ji Cixi, Ji Cixi had already issued orders.

Zhou Ming opened his mouth, but finally admitted it.

"where to?"

Zhou Ming didn't expect that Ji Cixi asked him to drive her to another city that night.

He looked at Ji Cixi who was sitting in the co-pilot, saw her fiddled with her mobile phone for a long time, and finally asked curiously:

"Why are you going to the neighboring city so late?"

"Three months ago," Ji Cixi said without looking up at the phone, "three months ago, there was an explosion in a factory in a neighboring city. You know about it, right?"

Zhou Ming nodded, "Of course I knew it was such a big deal."

"I was in Gao Xiu's office, and I saw this case at the same time as him. When I saw the news, because the case was not yet clear, the news only said that it was a chemical plant explosion. But Gao Xiu, this non-professional , but when all the information has not been released, he directly said that this factory probably produces aniline.”

Zhou Ming was also lost in thought when he heard the words.

"In fact, in chemical reactions, there are many reactions that can cause explosions, such as a chemical plant that exploded due to the polymerization of propylene a few years ago. But why did he point the finger at aniline? Also, I followed Gao Xiu and I also approached One year, during this year, I never saw him comment or pay any attention to anything that had nothing to do with him, the chemical plant bombing in the neighboring city was the only exception."

Speaking of this, Zhou Ming's mind suddenly flashed. He remembered that Chen Yuanzhen had told him to investigate all the major events that happened in Z City or near this city 30 years ago. He did find out a few days ago. A chemical plant bombing occurred in a neighboring city.

Coincidentally, that factory makes dyes, and the raw material of dyes happens to be aniline.

This coincides perfectly with Ji Cixi's doubts, so everything is no longer a coincidence.

All the clues can finally be connected here, Zhou Ming felt as if he could finally see some dawn, and he stepped on the accelerator, and the car accelerated in a straight line.

The author has something to say: Chen Yuanzhen mentioned in the first chapter of 87 Wolf Eating Fu that he asked Zhou Ming to find clues.