Dead but not stiff

Early in the morning on Friday, Shen Baijin passed by his assistant Zhao Wanwan, reached out and knocked on the table, and ordered: "Help me book a ticket to City C this afternoon, between [-]:[-] and [-]:[-]."

The little assistant nodded hurriedly: "Okay, Mr. Shen." He asked casually: "Then shall I book a return ticket for you?"

Shen Bai thought for a while, "I'll go back on my own, I'm not sure about the time yet."

"Oh, alright."

After Shen Bai gave the order, he walked straight to the office, while the little assistant quickly reached out to the computer, routinely leaking the latest WeChat news to the three people's WeChat gossip group.

Assistant Zhao Wanwan: The latest news~~~Mr. Shen is going to C City in the afternoon~~~Gu Gong has just returned to C City for a few days now, so he seems to be in a hurry.

After sending it, Zhao Wanwan didn't realize what was wrong, and waited a few seconds for the other party to reply: Sister Wanwan, did you send it to the wrong place?

Only then did Zhao Wanwan take a closer look, and she actually sent the message to Fang Shi by mistake on WeChat.

Assistant Zhao Wanwan retracted a message.

Assistant Zhao Wanwan: Ahhhhhh!Xiao Fangshi, please don't tell Mr. Shen, please, please, just pretend you didn't see it! ! !

Xiao Fang Shi: Well, Miss Wanwan, I won't talk nonsense, so don't worry.

Assistant Zhao Wanwan: Well, Xiao Fangshi is the best~~

In the cubicle not far away, Fang Shi stared at the WeChat interface on the computer screen in front of him, his eyes filled with endless resentment and unwillingness, why couldn't it be him, why was Mr. Shen so caring and caring, and separated For a few days, I miss the person who wants to rush to the side immediately, can't it be me?

He also needs such a person to love him, care about him, and give him the care and care he wants, but why can't it be his?Is it just lost to time?If it was me who knew Mr. Shen before that person, wouldn't it be me who is so cared about by Mr. Shen now?

I'm not reconciled to being preempted by that person.For such a good person as Mr. Shen, he should be the one standing beside him, and he should be the one who is cared about by him. That's the right way.

This is the best ending.

It was past six o'clock on Friday night, in Lu Chuanning's bar in City C.

Gu Xien found a secluded booth, Lu Chuanning followed, and said meaningfully: "You cheap brother is doing too much conscientiously, isn't he? You also help solve relationship problems? Is Xiao Huanzi not weaned? JB can't control himself?"

Gu Xian then sighed helplessly: "You think I want to take care of you? No matter what he does, he keeps running around to bother you. You haven't experienced the extent of that kid's pestering."

Lu Chuanning curled his lips, "I'm not his brother-in-law, so naturally I won't be able to learn."

"Stop making fun of me." Gu Xien found a comfortable seat and sat down, raised his chin and said to Lu Chuening, "Boss Lu, bring me some wine."

"Tsk." Lu Chuening rolled his eyes, turned around and walked towards the bar, muttering as he walked, "I'll treat you too, others dare to use me like this, hum."

Before Lu Chuening came back, Li Huan and Huang Shiqi appeared at the door of the bar one after another.

Gu Xien stood up and waved at the two of them. Li Huan's eyes lit up when he saw him, then he turned his head and said something to Huang Shiqi quickly, but was kicked in the calf by the other party. He rubbed his legs as if to kick back, Huang Shiqi had already run to Gu Xien's side while he was not paying attention.

"Hello." Huang Shiqi greeted Gu Xien graciously, which was quite different from the shrew image that night, with a frown and a smile, quite a ladylike demeanor.

"Hi, my name is Gu Xien, and I am Li Huan's friend." Gu Xien politely introduced himself to the other party.

"I know you." Huang Shiqi's eyes were bright, and he said with a smile: "That kid always talks about you, often calling me fierce, and saying that I wish I was half as gentle as his brother En."

While speaking, Li Huan had already followed, pulled Huang Shiqi away from Gu Xien, and said with great disgust: "Stay away from my brother En, shrews are contagious."

Huang Shiqi stared at him almond-shaped, stretched out his hand to shine on Li Huan's head, and slapped him so that he covered his head with a wailing cry, turned his head and shouted, "Are you sick?"

"Yes, do you have any medicine?" Huang Shiqi puffed out his chest and argued with him.

"Crazy." Li Huan took the initiative to lose, and pulled her to sit on the sofa, "Sit there quickly, don't be ashamed."

Huang Shiqi was unhappy, and asked, "Why do you sit in the middle?"

Li Huan asked back: "Otherwise?"

Gu Xien patted Li Huan on the shoulder, Li Huan turned his head to look at him, Gu Xien made a gesture to let him go behind him, Li Huan followed in a daze, Gu Xien walked over in front of him with his legs open, and sat down. In the middle of the two.

"Okay, now no one has any opinions."

Lu Chuanning just came over with a drink. Seeing the posture of the three of them, he chuckled and said, "Hey, is this the neighborhood committee helping to mediate the relationship between husband and wife?"

Gu Xien took the bottle from him, and said casually, "Don't make any more trouble."

"Okay." Lu Chuening put the stacked wine glasses in Gu Xien's hand, then walked to sit next to Li Huan, "I'll just be an audience, you guys talk about it."

Gu Xien first handed Huang Shiqi a cup and asked, "Can you drink it?"

Huang Shiqi took it generously, "Yes, I can punch."

"Pfft, this girl is a bit aggressive." Lu Chuanning didn't hold back, and made another complaint.

Gu Xien glanced at him, and Lu Chuening fell silent for a moment, and raised his hand in a gesture of sewing his mouth shut.

After pouring the wine, Gu Xien patted Li Huan who was about to drink, and said to him, "You come first."

Li Huan looked confused: "Ah? Why am I here?"

Gu Xi'en: "Don't you want to talk to other girls?"

Li Huan denied: "It's not that I want to talk about it."

Gu Xien's eyes darkened, and Li Huan's spiritual platform became clear in an instant, "Ah, that's right." He put down his wine glass, faced Huang Shiqi, and said in a very solemn tone, "Let's break up."

Huang Shiqi: "!!!!"

She slapped the table and stood up suddenly, pointed at Li Huan's nose and cursed, "What the hell are you talking about?"

Li Huan: "I said let's break up, why? After staying abroad for a long time, you even forgot your mother tongue?"

Huang Shiqi was about to jump up and beat her up, but Gu Xien stopped her, looked back at Li Huan, frowned and said, "What's the matter with you? Didn't you just tell me that you still want to hang out with her?"

Li Huan looked at Gu Xi'en, his tone naturally softened, and said in a low voice: "I'm just joking, who knows that she's like a firecracker, it explodes at the slightest touch."

Lu Chuening: "..." How could Huang Shiqi endure for so long without beating this guy to death?

Gu Xien rolled his eyes in his heart, turned his head and said to Huang Shiqi: "He's just joking, you sit down first."

Huang Shiqi sat down angrily, staring at Li Huan viciously with almond eyes.

Gu Xien was a little tired, but he had already agreed to him, so he could only bite the bullet and help to the end.

It's just that Li Huan, a bastard, can only be pissed off from him, so he turned to Huang Shiqi and asked gently, "How do you know Li Huan?"

Facing Gu Xien, Huang Shiqi acted like a lady of every family, answering questions with generosity and politeness: "At the school's fraternity party, his English was so bad at that time that not many people talked to him. I think this idiot is pitiful. , I took the initiative to chat with him. After chatting and chatting, I went to bed."

Gu Xian: "..."

"Don't talk nonsense, I was surrounded by several blondes with big breasts and upturned buttocks, okay? It's obvious that you ran up and said that you want to talk to your compatriots in a foreign country. Who knows that you have evil intentions and schemes! Know the second The sky will depend on me and not leave, hugging my pillow without throwing it away means it feels like home."

Gu Xien: "...I think you two are a good match."

Huang Shiqi: "I think so too."

Li Huan: "Cut."

Gu Xien said to Li Huan: "Since this is the case, I think Huang Shiqi is really reluctant to part with you. If you still have that kind of meaning for her, don't fight like a war again. Try to get along with normal people in love for a while. Gradually get to know each other, and you both have reached the age to talk about marriage, if you feel good about each other in the end, you can consider getting married."

"Who wants to marry her." Li Huan said angrily.

Huang Shiqi glared at him, then turned around and happily said to Gu Xien: "Oh, from the first time I met you, I felt that you were very close to me. It seems that women's sixth sense is indeed correct."

Lu Chuening finally smiled and said, "This matchmaker is very professional. Will I have a share of the wedding candy then?"

Huang Shiqi was in a happy mood. He picked up the wine glass decisively, and said to Gu Xi'en proudly: "Come, come, brother Gu, I respect you with this glass."

Gu Xien was amused by her, so he picked up his wine glass and touched her.

Huang Shiqi downed his glass and looked at Gu Xien drinking with his head up. The bright and dim lights of the bar projected on his face, outlining a gentle and handsome profile.

"No," Huang Shiqi said suddenly, "This is not the sixth sense."

Gu Xien looked at her suspiciously, and then heard her continue: "I think you really look a bit like my cousin."

Li Huan interrupted angrily: "You should be close."

"No." Huang Shiqi retorted: "It's really similar, you should have seen my cousin."

"Your cousin Yuan, we've all met." Li Huan gave her a white look.

"Huang Jingzhi, he must have been quite popular in China in the past few years. Anyway, I don't know much about it abroad. But I just came here and passed by a nearby shopping mall, and I saw his advertising posters."

During her eloquent words, Gu Xien's face also began to turn pale little by little, until she finished speaking, Gu Xien's entire face was already as pale as paper.

But Huang Shiqi continued on his own: "It's not so much like my cousin, it's better to say that I look like my sixth aunt. My cousin's eyes should be rounder, not as obvious as your red phoenix eyes. I Aunt Six is ​​more obvious, and there is this jaw line, I have envied my Aunt Six since I was a child, she is born with an oval face, which is many times more beautiful than those fake faces made of bone-cut bones."

"You fucking shut up." Li Huan noticed Gu Xien's expression, knew that Huang Shiqi must have accidentally touched something, and hurriedly yelled at her, "Who the hell wants to hear about your family."

When Huang Shiqi was talking about Xingchu, he suddenly yelled at him, and he was also on the spot in a daze. After realizing it, he said angrily to Li Huan: "What did you say?"

Li Huan said to her viciously: "I told you to shut up, we don't care about hearing about your family."

Huang Shiqi was obviously completely angry because her family was abused for no reason. She got up and picked up the wine glass, and splashed it on Li Huan's face with a splash. Her eyes were full of water, as if she was crying, and she yelled in a trembling voice: "Li Huan, fuck you!" Son of a bitch!"

After yelling, he turned around and ran out of the bar, and quickly wiped his face with his hand on the way, probably really crying.

"Hurry up and chase." Lu Chuening pushed Li Huan.

"But..." Li Huan looked at Gu Xien, who looked strange, and hesitated to move.

Lu Chuening pushed him again: "There is me, you go quickly."

Li Huan finally gritted his teeth, got up and chased him out.

Lu Chuening watched Li Huan's back disappear at the door of the bar, sighed, turned back to look at Gu Xien, got up, walked to him and sat down, picked up the wine glass and touched his, the edges of the glass collided together, making a crisp sound. Ding Dong sound.

"Hey, what do you think of my wine?"

Gu Xien glanced at him in a daze, and the emotion in his eyes made Lu Chuanning a little stunned for a moment.

Gu Xien picked up the wine bottle and filled the glass in front of him, brought it over and drank it all in one gulp. Under Lu Chuanning's horrified eyes, he turned his head to look at him and said with a smile, "I already have the wine, so do you want to hear the story?"

Lu Chuening stiffened his body, stared at Gu Xien in a daze, and then nodded slowly.

Gu Xien's hometown is a small county in the north of the border. Although the economy is not developed, the local residents are self-sufficient in a small corner, and the overall living standard is barely above the well-off line. Everyone in the neighborhood is familiar. At home, the child walks from the street to the alley with his job bowl, which can make his belly bulge.

Gu Xien's mother, Jiang Jie, and his father, Gu Yihe, who passed away many years ago, are a pair of childhood sweethearts who grew up together.Gu Yihe was one year older than Jiang Jie, and the two of them went from kindergarten to elementary school to middle school together. Their young love blossomed, their adolescence privately decided for life, and all the beauty of love happened in this small northern county.

Jiang Jie is good-looking, with a pointed chin and phoenix eyes. It is said that her grandmother is a Uyghur, and when it continues to her, she has shown a lively personality, singing and dancing that is different from other girls.Naturally, Gu Yihe's appearance was not much different, with sword eyebrows, star eyes and dignified appearance, a typical appearance of a handsome guy of Han nationality.Once, I went to a photo studio in the county with my friends to take artistic photos. Once the military uniform was put on and the hair was complete, his grandfather pointed to the young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes in the photo and said, "This kid has a soldier's face."

When he graduated from high school, Gu Yihe, who had the face of a soldier, really went to apply for the military academy, and he was admitted.The night before he left home to go to a military academy, Jiang Jie rode a bicycle to the yard of Gu Yihe's house, and shouted in a clear voice, "I'm waiting for you to come back!"

In the second year, Jiang Jie was also admitted to university, and the location was in City B.Originally, relying on Jiang Jie's grades, it was still a bit difficult to get into the university in City B, but she couldn't stand her natural capital, a good voice and a good figure, which were enough for her to successfully get into that university as an art student. University acceptance letter.

During the four years in college, Jiang Jie had a very good life. She was good-looking, and most of the boys liked her. But those girls who didn’t like her because of her good looks, gradually became less so because of her good personality. hate her.

There are many people who like her. From the school gate all the way to the girls' dormitory, there is Huang Huaisheng.

Huang Huaisheng is a native of City B, a member of the third generation of red roots. At that time, he was considered a popular figure in school. He liked Jiang Jie and thought she was like a bird flying on the grassland.He wanted the bird to stay with him, but the bird didn't think so.

Until the school's graduation party, Huang Huaisheng invited Jiang Jie to dance a dance. In the sound of music flowing slowly in the auditorium, he looked into her eyes and asked affectionately: "If you are a bird, then I will Can I be your sky?"

Jiang Jie was not surprised by Huang Huaisheng's persistence. Beautiful girls are born with self-confidence, let alone such a beautiful and outstanding Jiang Jie.

But she still rejected Huang Huaisheng, and she never forgot the "I'm waiting for you to come back" that she yelled outside her lover's house five years ago.After Jiang Jie graduated, she went back to her hometown in the county. Gu Yihe also applied for a vacation with the army at the same time. He came back with a proposal ring and roses.

After the wedding, Gu Yihe returned to the army, and the superiors assigned the military area according to the quota. The leader saw him as a malleable talent, and originally wanted him to go to City B, but he refused, and applied to go to the anti-drug brigade in the southwestern border.

If you want to enter the anti-drug brigade, you can go if you want. You have to go through layers of selection in the early stage, and finally you have to go through a series of devil-style confinement training. Those who can survive have already passed through the gate of hell.Gu Yihe gritted his teeth and survived. After more than a year of isolation from the world, when he came out, he learned that Jiang Jie had given birth to him a son, named Gu Xi'en.

The way of life in the future is that Jiang Jie guards their small home and waits with her son for Gu Yihe's unknown return date every year.

Gu Yihe wrote a letter to his family with lingering fear in the face of the death of his teammate and partner after a thrilling anti-drug mission.In the letter, he said to Jiang Jie: "I have never felt that being alive is such a wonderful thing, but at this moment I am especially grateful. I am glad that I can still live in this world, accompany you, and protect my family and country. You Mother and son are my most precious treasures in this world, and for the rest of my life, whether it is the motherland or you two, I will do my best to keep them safe."

It's as if the oath was specifically for destroying, defending the motherland, and protecting Jiang Jie's mother and son, but Gu Yihe forgot to protect himself.When Gu Xien was five years old, Gu Yihe died in the line of duty during a large-scale mission to encircle and suppress drug lords' lairs, leaving no bones left.It is said that after he was captured alive by those people, he scraped his flesh and blood with a knife and endured a full seven days and nights before dying.He was awarded a first-class personal merit medal by the above, and only an empty piece of clothing was sent back to his hometown.He was a living person when he left, but the medals that symbolize honor are nothing but a pile of dead things when he comes back.

Jiang Jie felt that her sky had completely collapsed, she cried and passed out countless times, but after waking up, the person in her dream never appeared again.

In order to protect the families of the martyrs, the funeral was held in a very low-key manner. Relatives, friends and comrades who came to see him off all left quickly after the funeral.From then on, there were only orphans and widows left in the empty home. During that time, Jiang Jie's spirit began to become abnormal. She seemed to be stepping on a cloud. When someone talked to her, she had to react for a while before answering. They are all non-answers.

One day, she didn't know what to do in the kitchen. After a loud bang, five-year-old Gu Xi'en ran over and saw her mother squatting on the ground, hugging her head and crying, with a gleaming kitchen knife at her feet shockingly.She wanted to die, she wanted to go to another world to find Gu Yihe, but because of Gu Xi'en's presence, she couldn't help herself.

From then on, no matter where Jiang Jie went, the little Gu Xien would stumble and follow her, and would guard the door of Jiang Jie's room at night when she slept. In Gu Xien's consciousness at that time, he only knew that if he didn't Take good care of Jiang Jie, maybe one day, even her mother will be gone.

Then suddenly one day, Jiang Jie put on the beautiful clothes she used to dress up like a girl in her school days, and appeared in front of Gu Xien glamorously.

She said to five-year-old Gu Xi'en: "Mom has figured it out. The dead cannot be brought back to life, and the living must continue to live. Your father is gone and can't come back, but our mother and I must take care of your father's share. Live it too."

Five-year-old Gu Xien experienced the pain and despair that death brought him prematurely. He looked up at Jiang Jie, blinked his eyes, and cried loudly.

Two months later, Jiang Jie left Gu Xien in the care of her grandmother in her hometown, and returned to City B alone.

When she graduated from university, she once said that she would never come here again in her whole life, but a lifetime is very long, and life always has endless possibilities.

As for Gu Xien, who was thrown to live with his grandma, in the second year after Jiang Jie left, at the age of six, he experienced the second biggest change in his life.

Rather than saying it was an accident, it was better to say it was a nightmare.

That year, Gu Xi'en's grandma accidentally fell down one morning, and the old man couldn't stand the fall. This fall directly turned an old man who was usually quite tough into a person who could only lie in bed and wait for others. Patients who bring water and food.

It is not easy for the old and the young to depend on each other, and now they are suffering from such bad luck, so the leaders of the county organized everyone to donate money for relief.

The money was sent home by a secretary of their county seat, who was in his 50s, kind-hearted, and highly respected on weekdays. It was his order to call for donations, and everyone responded one after another.

The man went to Gu Xien's house, first he asked his grandma's health in front of the hospital bed, and then walked out of the room to Gu Xien who was lying in front of the dining table doing homework in the living room, knelt down and hugged his small body, and asked with a smile: "Xiao En, do you want to go to school carefree like other children, and do you want someone to help you take care of your grandma?"

Gu Xien looked at him, and nodded with a vague understanding.

Immediately afterwards, that person's expression became eerie. His laughter made Gu Xien's scalp tingle, and his intuition told Gu Xien that there was danger.However, before the terrified Gu Xien called out grandma, his mouth was covered by the man's fat palm. He eagerly and roughly pressed Gu Xien's small body to the ground, took off his thin pajama pants, Immediately, he used his rough and ugly fingers to poke into that untouched weak cunt.

The heart-piercing cries and whimpers were severely blocked by the old man's huge and terrifying palm. Gu Xi'en struggled desperately, but how could a child who is only six years old be with a grown man who is still strong even in his old age? contend.

Seeing that the man pulled out his finger, wiped the blood on it, and impatiently began to untie his belt, Gu Xien struggled and bumped his head on the dining table, knocking over the small table forcefully, startled Grandma in the back room.

The old man came out tremblingly leaning on the wall, and saw his little grandson being crushed under him, almost without thinking, he picked up the broom beside him and beat him.The man moved away in pain, saw the old man behind him clearly, and felt a little guilty for a while.

Just when he was hesitating, Gu Xien quickly escaped from under him, suffocating him with great fear, he heard grandma yelling at himself in a hoarse voice: "Go, go and call your mother! Let She's back! Come back and get you out of here!"

This is the last hope and support for an old man who tried his best, but could only throw a blow at the bad guys and then collapse on the ground when his grandson was being bullied.

As for the six-year-old Gu Xien, after experiencing a horrible experience that children of this age could not understand anyway, he ran to a small shop at the corner of the street crying and screaming in shock and fear, grabbed the phone and started calling an Familiar landline number.That was what Jiang Jie told him in the letter sent from City B more than half a year ago. She said in the letter that if she misses her mother, she should call this number.

The phone rang for a long time before it was connected. After waiting anxiously and panicked, Gu Xien asked the other party in a trembling voice with a choking voice, "Hello, is that mom?"

A suspicious female voice came: "Who are you?"

Seeming to have finally found a way to vent his emotions, Gu Xien began to cry to the other party regardless: "Mom, it's me, I'm Xiaoen, mom. Mom, come and save me and grandma, can you save us? "

The other party paused for a few seconds, and replied coldly with a confused and suspicious voice: "Did you make a mistake? Madam is more than nine months pregnant and is about to give birth. Where did you come from? You came here." Misrecognition of mother?"

It seemed that in an instant, the lights of the whole world were turned off for him alone, and the voices of the whole world blocked him alone. The continuous sound of the machine hanging up was fake, so was the increasingly blurred vision, everything was fake, The phone number is fake, the mother loves you is fake, my own existence is fake, everything in this world is fake.

The phone receiver fell to the ground, and the dissatisfied scolding of the proprietress of the canteen seemed to resound in another world.

"You kid, why did you drop the phone for no reason! You have to pay for it! Go and call your parents."

"I can't pay, isn't he the child of the Gu family? His father died and his mother ran away, leaving behind a grandma who fell ill a while ago and is still bedridden. You have to forgive the old and the young. Forgive me."

"It's really bad luck. In the future, I really need to guard against such wild children, otherwise I don't know how much I will suffer from being dumb."

"The proprietress, please be kind. This child looks pitiful. I see blood on the hem of the trousers. Don't fall somewhere."

"Children of this age, what else can they do other than being naughty, who can be blamed for a fall?"

The little Gu Xien's body was stiff, and the adult's scolding made him feel ashamed. The words and swords seemed to have turned into real knives and guns, shooting him who was already riddled with holes, making him even more bloody and bloody.

I am sorry.

He apologized silently in his heart, he didn't know who it was to, grandma, the shop owner's wife, or himself.

Two of the wine bottles in front of him were empty, and the plot of the story that Lu Chuanning heard also reached the end where Gu Xien's mother left him and went to City B alone.

He looked in disbelief at Gu Xien, whose cheeks were slightly flushed due to drunkenness, and almost bit his tongue when he opened his mouth: "So... Huang Jingzhi's mother, the wife of the chairman of Huang's real estate, and she is also your mother?"

"Yes." Gu Xien turned his head and smiled brightly: "If I said that I still have 5.00% of the shares of Huang's Real Estate, would you believe me?"

Lu Chuening: "???!!!"

When your good friend suddenly tells you one day that he is actually a local tyrant with assets worth hundreds of millions, how do you hold your thigh in the correct posture?

The author has something to say:

On the way home, the writing was a bit messy, so I just let it go.