silent garden

The sky has been overcast for a long time, and the dark clouds are piled up black and heavy, and it feels like it is not far above the roof.Thunder came suddenly, followed by rain.A rainstorm that had been brewing for a long time soon became a dense rain curtain.Xia Qi turned his head and stared out of the laboratory window, in a daze.

"Hey, what are you looking at?" Zhou Huailuo bumped him with an elbow, "It's five o'clock, pack up and get off work!"

"It's raining too much." Xia Qi said.

Zhou Huailuo said: "Don't worry, I'm driving today, and I'll take you home—my driving skills have improved a lot!"

It's not a question of going home...Xia Qi thought to himself.But he was not interested in confiding himself to Zhou Huailuo, and he couldn't imagine how he would confided to others.He has been good at digesting and bearish since he was a child, and he has no mood that can only be relieved by talking about it.

"Thank you." He said to Zhou Huailuo.

The two cleaned up the laboratory table together, and Zhou Huailuo hummed a light song.After tidying up, Zhou Huailuo took Xia Qi from the corridor on the third floor of this teaching building to another building, and then from the underground to the parking lot where he parked.

This time it's not a Cayenne, but a much more understated Audi Q5.

"Where do you live?" Zhou Huailuo asked enthusiastically.

Xia Qi suddenly discovered that Zhou Huailuo seemed to be very keen on playing the role of the elder brother to take care of himself.He thought for a while, pondered for a while, and asked, "Do you know where the Sanjiang Group is?"

"What are you going to Sanjiang for?" Zhou Huailuo froze in an instant just now, his expression was like the thick clouds in the sky, and he stared at Xia Qi with a sharp look.

Xia Qi seemed to be stopped by the question, he opened his mouth and didn't give any reason.

"Oh, whatever you want." Zhou Huailuo didn't get to the bottom of it, opened the car door and got into the driver's seat, muttering, "It's not easy to go from here at this time, there is a time limit for one-way traffic, and I have to go around, it's annoying."

After hearing this, Xia Qi immediately felt very sorry: "Then I will trouble you."

Zhou Huailuo: "It's good to know the trouble, it's really..."

There was a bunch of other things behind, and Xia Qi couldn't hear clearly.

Today is the seventh day since Master Yan, the driver of the dump truck, passed away, and it is also the first day of August.In the past week or so, Xia Qi hardly saw Fei Tianlan's face.

In the second half of that night, Uncle Wang picked them up on the street.After returning home, it was close to dawn.He used the spare ribs and yams left in the refrigerator, paired with wolfberries, and made a pot of soup.Simmer until dawn.He didn't keep to the end, and went to sleep halfway.When he woke up again, Fei Tianlan had already left.

Thankfully, the soup moved too.

From then until today, Fei Tianlan went out early and came back late, and even didn't go home for two days.Even Uncle Wang has never been here, the only contact is that Uncle Wang called home once and asked if he saw a document in Fei Tianlan's room.Only then did Xia Qi know that there was a fixed landline at home.

Because it is a boarding house, he has always kept his own small territory: a small room and a kitchen.In addition, Fei's family has regular hourly workers, so he doesn't have to clean.So after living for so long, he still doesn't know much about the house.

After taking that call, he went inside and out of the house for the first time.

Strangely, when he had gone through the house completely, his sojourn feeling disappeared.Sometimes he began to feel that he was not staying at Fei's house, but guarding Fei's house alone.

Why do you want to go to Sanjiang Group?At the moment he doesn't know it himself.

However, there is no intention to find or pick up Fei Tianlan, that's for sure.

Fei Tianlan is in a dangerous situation now, he will not be self righteous and think that he can do anything for him.It might have been wrong to pull people away that day, and he would not let the impulse happen a second time.

"I was taken aback."

"What?" He heard Zhou Huailuo speak suddenly, but he didn't react.

Zhou Huailuo turned his head slightly to look at him, and said, "It was when Lao Ye told me at the beginning that your landlord is the Fei family, I was shocked."

If he had heard Zhou Huailuo say this when he first met him, he would still have been puzzled, not understanding why it was "shocking".Now that he has stayed in Pinggang for a long time, whether it is from Fei Tianlan, or from Zhou Huailuo and Professor Ye, he can feel that in Pinggang City, shopping malls and officialdom have formed a very strange and close circle.There is a somewhat subtle relationship between which one and which one.

It is a big tree with intertwined roots, and it is also a cobweb connected with each other.

Therefore, even Zhou Huailuo, who does not intervene in the business field at all, and devotes himself to scientific research, is unusually sensitive and vigilant to other "roots" and "spider silk".What's more, the Fei family and Sanjiang Group are the most shaky right now.

He nodded understandingly, but had nothing to say.

Zhou Huailuo went on to say: "Our school has many research projects, and Sanjiang has invested in them. Originally, they also intended to fund Lao Ye's research laboratory. But Lao Ye hated the previous mayor, but Sanjiang had a close relationship with that mayor. Ye didn't want to get involved with them, so we didn't talk about it."

With that said, he turned his head to see Xia Qi's reaction.

Xia Qi didn't respond.

It's not that he doesn't want to react, it's just that he doesn't know how to react.He is just a person transferred from another school to participate in a single project, and it has nothing to do with him who invests in Professor Ye's research laboratory.

Seeing this, Zhou Huailuo spoke angrily: "Lao Ye said that you live in Fei's house. My first reaction was, isn't this a narrow road to Yuanjia? And don't you think that you are destined to be with him? If you want me to say, it is evil fate! "

At this point, it seems that it would be too cold to give any reaction.Although Xia Qi himself doesn't mind being left alone, Zhou Huailuo can be considered a friend after all, and he should be more friendly and tolerant towards friends.

So he thought for a while, and reluctantly replied: "There are quite a lot of encounters."

Zhou Huailuo listened, with an expression of "I'm really playing the piano to the cow", and was so angry that he didn't speak.Looking ahead, it seems to be concentrating on driving.But the sadness between his brows proved that he was still full of words.

Xia Qi took it calmly.It's not the first time he won't chat either.Anyway, you don’t need to always chat when doing scientific research, and it doesn’t matter if your communication skills are affected.He has no will to improve at all.

Zhou Huailuo held back all the way to the Sanjiang Group building, parked the car, pointed to the drawer in front of the passenger seat, and said stiffly, "There's an umbrella inside."

He thought Xia Qi was looking for Fei Tianlan.

Xia Qi is not.But it's hard to say that I just came to take a look at this building, it was even more strange than looking for Fei Tianlan.So he nodded, opened the drawer and took out the umbrella, thanked Zhou Huailuo, and got out of the car.

"Hey, Junior Brother!" Zhou Huailuo still couldn't hold back, and lowered the window of the car to stop him loudly.

Xia Qi turned around and saw Zhou Huailuo's sorrow all the way on his expression and eyes.If you don't speak out what you are holding back, you might be able to suffocate to death.

With a serious face, he said seriously: "I think you should stop getting so close. You are only here for a few months. After our project is over, you go home and don't touch anything."

Xia Qi was startled.Then he smiled and replied: "I don't have that deep relationship with Sanjiang, you worry too much."

"I didn't mean you and Sanjiang!" Zhou Huailuo widened his eyes, as if annoyed that Xia Qi didn't understand.

Xia Qi really doesn't understand now.

Zhou Huailuo was in a hurry, as if he wanted to compete with the sound of the rain, he almost shouted: "I mean you and Fei Tianlan! You idiot, don't be tempted by him!"

After yelling, Xia Qi still looked dazed, almost hating iron for being weak.With an exaggerated sigh, he closed the car window angrily, and then drove the car with a bang, splashing water everywhere.

Xia Qi stood alone in the rain watching the car speeding away.After a long time, I moved my lips, my voice was drowned in the rain, and I couldn't even hear myself: "Is it obvious?"

"Mr. Fei, this is the decision of the board of directors. It is the result of voting by all shareholders except you and the old Mr. Fei." More than two months ago, in the same meeting room, the vice president who most enthusiastically led everyone to applaud the young master's appointment In short, the announcement of the young master's demotion is also the most firm at this moment.

Fei Tianlan sat opposite him, expressionless.One of the most useful skills he's honed over the past two months has been deadpan expression.Fei Sanjiang said that when your foundation is not enough to make you truly flattered, use your face as a mask, and draw the least error-prone expressions on the mask.

Now he is angry, unwilling, humiliated, and even has a useless grievance.The amount of dirty words in his stomach reached his throat.He wanted to curse, question, and argue.If he was more free, he wanted to lift the table and grab the collar, and wanted to beat someone.But all this will not work.He'd better not reveal any emotions, and hide all his thoughts under the human skin mask as much as possible.

As if he was thinking, or just needed some time to digest the handling announcement of the vice president's "announcement on his behalf", he remained expressionless for several seconds.

Finally, he nodded: "I see." His tone was as calm as a stiff machine, "I obey all the decisions of the board of directors. I am still too young and lack experience and ability. The future of Sanjiang is not good. In the future, I will contribute my strength in the grassroots work and share the difficulties with Sanjiang.”

He paused for a moment, then raised the corners of his mouth, glanced at everyone at the same table, and repeated the words he said the first day he came in with a tone that was almost scary: "Let's continue to fight the remaining tough battles together."

This is still an emotion.

But he felt that after saying this, all the things that could not be done, all the anger, grievance and unwillingness, began to slowly and willingly go to the pit deep in his heart-humans are not machines after all, and cannot fully implement the ultimate goal. The perfect solution.Even if the program is just "blank face. hide emotions".

He had to reveal a little bit, even if it was only the size of a hair, in order to appease those who were aggrieved.

If Fei Sanjiang was here, his performance in this round would definitely be reduced.After all, Fei Sanjiang never gave him extra points.He couldn't see his hard work in the past two months, just like he couldn't see the hard study that he deliberately waited for him to discover in his third year of high school.

But since you are the only one doing and scoring, it doesn't matter what is "perfect".

"Then, let's wish Mr. Xiao Fei success in his future work and take on the big responsibility as soon as possible." The vice president said, and then took the lead in applauding.

Fei Tianlan waited quietly for them to finish applauding.

The applause was quite loud, intertwined with the sound of rain outside the window, and no one overshadowed the other.

After a while, he painted a "calm" expression on his human skin mask again, and said: "The processing will take effect tomorrow, so I can still say 'the meeting' to everyone now, right?"

After hearing this, everyone had different expressions.But they all packed up the files one after another, got up and left.After a while, the conference room was empty.

Fei Tianlan was still sitting in his seat, staring at the glass that was constantly rewashed by the rain.The door of the conference room was pushed open again, and it was Uncle Wang who came in.He let out a "hey" and was very upset, as if he had encountered some bad luck.

Fei Tianlan looked back at him, finally showing exhaustion: "Uncle."

"Why are you still staying here? Go home after work!" He walked to the window and said as he lowered the blinds, "That's fine, take it step by step, step by step. Sanjiang's surname was Fei at first, and he will continue to be named Fei in the future. Uncle believes you can do it!"

Fei Tianlan smiled wryly: "Only you believe me."

"Nonsense." Uncle Wang turned his head and glared at him, "In the past two months, you have handled Sanjiang's old and new relationships very well, and Secretary Gu still recognizes our position as a leading enterprise. You have saved Sanjiang's life halfway. talisman, and you can still earn money for Sanjiang... These people, hmph, they also believe in their hearts that you can afford Sanjiang. It is because of their belief that they are afraid of you and harm you."

After hearing this, Fei Tianlan smiled gratefully and innocently on his bitter face, and his mood lightened a bit: "Uncle, you are quite good at talking sometimes, if you know how to talk, just say a few more words!"

Uncle Wang didn't take his compliment, waved his hand and continued to put down the curtain.After putting it on the last one, he let out a surprised "Huh", and waved to Fei Tianlan: "Look, there is someone downstairs, isn't it Xiao Xia?"

"Which Xiao Xia?" Fei Tianlan was still thinking about the meeting just now, and subconsciously searched for the young and surnamed Xia among the participants.The answer is no.He had a flash of inspiration before he realized, Xia Qi!

As if responding to his thoughts, Uncle Wang said: "Except for Xiao Xia in your family, who else will come to pick you up?"

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