The lights of the capital.

A white Ford Cobra sped off the highway and headed straight for the address in the letter.

The sister who was driving had two thick dark circles under her eyes, after all, she had only closed her eyes a little at the rest stop in the past two days.

After another rush, she finally arrived at that address, a person who was born with a temperament that is not afraid of heaven and earth, she has some scruples about this place, after all, the people living in this retirement compound are all people who once reached the sky.

Stopping the car in front of the compound, she walked to the security booth, and the uniformed man who looked extremely refined standing guard at the door had already noticed this sister, and directly stopped the worm, and said with a serious face: "Pass." ”

If people know that this man has won the top three in the big competition, I am afraid that he will be shocked by the big teeth, and now he is just standing guard in the security booth, which is enough to explain what kind of existence lives in this compound.

And in this compound, it is also in a state of complete alert, almost to the point of three steps, one sentry, ten steps and one post.

The insect frowned, because the eyes of the man in uniform were really sharp, so that she had a feeling of being penetrated by his eyes in an instant, and she said: "I'm here to see Zhang Lao, please inform me, report the name of Ma Gentle." ”

After hearing what the insect said about Zhang Lao, the uniformed man's expression changed slightly, revealing a little awe and a little taboo, he turned his head and gave the young people who were vigilant in the duty room a look, and the young man directly began to dial.

A phone call came into the retreat villa of a retired high-ranking cadre.

In this completely independent three-storey villa, the decoration is not luxurious at all, and even the furniture placed gives people a sense of age, and stepping into this place will give people a special sense of age.

In the somewhat simple study on the third floor, in front of the huge window, an old man wearing reading glasses is looking at a thick book circle, this old man with white hair but meticulous combing, dressed in a light blue tunic, his body is filled with an extraordinarily gentle feeling, and his face also looks extremely kind, as if he does not give people any high shelf at first glance, but if people know the medal on his shoulder, it is estimated that he will lose his big teeth.

It's hard to imagine that this old man who has really experienced turmoil doesn't have a trace of sharpness on his body, but is completely like a good old man who has seen through the world, which is enough to show the horror of this old man's state of mind.

The knock on the door interrupted the pen that the old man had not stopped, and a man pushed the door in, this is a man with a height of one meter and eighty-five, and a man with a particularly strong figure, looking at the age of about thirty years old, with a face with clear facial features like a knife, and a flat head, giving people a feeling of extreme ability, like an arrow on a bow, which may break through the air at any time.

He stood up straight, walked a little imposingly, he silently walked to the old man's side, whispered a few words in the old man's ear, this time the old man slowly closed the pen, and then said, "Let her in." ”

The man nodded, striding out of the study.

The white-haired old man also took off his reading glasses at this time, silently closed the thick book, and then turned his head and looked at the dim and dark sky outside the window.

After a while, the door of the study opened again, and the sister who was dressed strangely with the elegant atmosphere of the study followed the man into the study, and she changed her usual expression, but stood honestly beside the man, like a child who was taken out by the head teacher to lecture.

The old man still put his eyes out of the window, and it was a long time before he turned his head to look at this sister, who was dressed completely incomprehensible to his aesthetics, but he did not show any unusual expression because of this, but showed that kind smile and said, "Ma Wenrou didn't send you here to stare at me, right?"

Maybe there is no such kind old man as this old man in this world, but if Tai Mei hears this sentence, I am afraid that she will laugh off her big teeth, because she has occasionally heard of this old man's identity in Ma Wen's mouth, which is only the tip of the iceberg, but it is enough to make her feel so terrifying that she can no longer be terrifying.

She carefully took out the well-protected letter, then put it on the desk and said, "Sister Ma asked me to give this to you." ”

The old man was still smiling kindly, but he didn't touch the letter, but said in a calm tone: "Are you afraid of me like this?

Sister Worm has already become a hemp rope in her heart at this moment, she just looked at the old man forcefully, although the old man's eyes are far less murderous than Ma Wen'an, but she only feels that just looking at the old man's eyes, there is a feeling of being deeply trapped, she shook her head vigorously, not daring to say anything, for fear of touching the moldy head of this old man who does not know his temperament.

Seeing that the elder sister didn't mean to speak, the old man picked up the letter, looked at the few words specially noted on the letter, the smile on his face deepened, opened the envelope, put on reading glasses again and read.

As the kind old man's expression slowly became heavier, the worm also became nervous, because she didn't know the content of this letter, but through Ma Wenrou's special advice to her to hand over this letter to the old man, it was enough to say that a letter was of great significance.

Reading until the end, the old man took off his reading glasses, then folded the letter, put it back in the envelope and said to the worm, "You can go back." ”

Worm didn't expect her to wait for such a breezy sentence, but her task was only to be responsible for delivering the letter, and it was clear that now that she had done her job, although she also wanted to know what the content of the letter was, she wanted to get out of this place even more.

In the end, the worm still left under the leadership of this taciturn man, only such an old man was left in the study, he was distracted by the envelope for a while, and waited until the man returned to the room again, he slowly came back to his senses, through the man's expression, the old man let go of the Buddha to know what he wanted to ask, he slowly said: "Do you remember the woman named Ma Wenrou?"

The man nodded slightly, and there was no wave on his dull face, as if there was no emotion.

"I made a small bet with her at the banquet, but I, an old man, lost to her, and this time she came to collect the debt. The old man said with a little helplessness on his face.

"Old man, did she throw you a trouble?" the man said, obviously from the old man's expression, he couldn't tell what was a good thing.

The old man got up slowly, and the man immediately stepped forward with a nervous face, for fear that this old man who was a little trembling just by standing up would have three strengths and two shortcomings.

But the old man refused the man's support, but took what seemed to be a little difficult, and slowly walked to the huge window, his eyes seemed to be full of purple and red, he muttered: "This woman, very shrewd, she knows very well when to find me, as for this trouble, for me, it is just a phone call, but what really makes me care is that she did not call me or send a text message, but sent someone to personally deliver this handwritten letter, which put me on the shelf." ”

The man who was silently guarding behind the old man also frowned slightly, for this man who has always been straightforward, he extremely dislikes Ma Wenrou, a person like Ma Wenrou who likes to beat around and turn things into incomparably complicated things, one is one, two is two, no matter what it is, it can't change the essence of things.

"Old man, the first time I saw this woman, I saw something in her eyes. The man who had always been reticent spoke, perhaps able to make him, who had always looked down on everything, talk more, and it was obvious that the woman was a threat in his eyes.

When the old man listened, he smiled slightly and said, "I don't know what this thing is?"

"I spent five years in Tibet, and it was the look of a man-eating wolf. The man was not shy about saying it, because that was what he had in mind.

The smile on the old man's face became even stronger, he hadn't shown this expression for a long time, it seemed that this pleasure was enough for him to make such a phone call, he laughed and said: " In such a so-called rivers and lakes, if a person is not like a beast, he really can't survive, compared to her, you are lucky, from fifteen years ago when you entered the army and became a blockbuster, and then polished in the hands of General Chen for five years, until the old general died, at that time, you did not choose to continue to climb a step up, but chose to enter Tibet, others are saying that you are stupid, so you ruined your future, but I understand very well, you will only be for one of Chen Lao's wishes, otherwise I will not let you follow me。 ”

The man listened, and his extremely serious face slowly showed a little gratitude, and he nodded vigorously and said: "When I came back, everything was already wrong, the previous record was broken, and I was past that age, only you can look down on me, let me enter this compound, old man, I will remember this kindness Guo Lingti for a lifetime." ”

The white-haired old man waved his hand slightly and said: "Don't say what I said so noblely, I just don't want to see your good material wasted, and that woman, her life is much more bumpy than yours, she came to the capital alone, can make the Cao family break the rules for her again and again, and it only took ten years to fight to this height, is her story less than yours?"

Guo Lingti listened, and his expression slowly became heavy.

"Remember, there is not so much ridiculous in this world, and the most things are pathetic. The old man muttered to Guo Lingti earnestly.