Zhou Wei went to the Public Security Bureau again, and Xu Shilong had already prepared everything for him.

"A coat, a small pendant that I showed you before, and the rest of your belongings have not been found. Xu Shilong patted a paper bag on the table, "It's all here, can you take a look again?"

Zhou Wei glanced at it, "Don't look at it, thank you!"

"Thank you, it's a matter of what, oh yes, this is the video you asked me for two days ago, and I've already put it on the plate. ”

Zhou Wei took the USB drive handed over by Xu Shilong.

Seeing that he was silent, Xu Shilong couldn't help but ask: "The case is over, how is it doing?"

"What?"

Seeing that he was absent-minded, Xu Shilong didn't ask any more questions, and only patted him on the shoulder, "Okay, I'll have something to contact when I go back." ”

In the end, he felt that this sentence was not very appropriate, and said with a little self-deprecation: "It's best not to contact either, because it is not good to contact me in general." ”

Zhou Wei finally had a little expression on his face, and smiled bitterly, "Go first, please drink when it's empty!"

"Okay, I'll wait!"

Zhou Wei left with a paper bag, and it happened that Xiao Lu came back from outside with a boxed lunch.

"Team Xu, is the person who went out just now Mr. Zhou?"

"Well, come and get his wife's things. ”

Xiao Lu said "oh", put the lunch box on the table, thought about it and couldn't help asking: "I heard that he also sent people to look for him in Tonghai, is it possible that he still expects people not to die?"

Xu Shilong: "......"

Xiao Lu: "It's been more than half a year, if he hadn't died, he would have come back by himself, and he also watched the ship blow up with his own eyes at that time." ”

Xu Shilong listened while unpacking the bag on the lunch box, and replied: "The more he does this, the more he can't get by." ”

"Can't get through?" said Xiao Lu, "but I don't think he looked very sad just now." ”

Xu Shilong pulled out a pair of disposable chopsticks and slammed them on his head, "You kid knows a fart!"

……

Zhou Wei came out of the Public Security Bureau and drove directly to Huijian, where Chang'an used to work.

At that time, it was past the end of work, and there was no one in the office, Tao Bixia made an appointment with him in advance, so she stayed there and waited for him.

After Zhou Wei arrived, she led the person directly to the workstation that Chang An had used before.

A desk, a chair, a computer, the table is a little messy, materials, documents, waste paper, office utensils such as staplers and pens are thrown everywhere.

Zhou Wei thought at the time, she couldn't clean up such a little place, but it was really...

"Mr. Zhou, your wife's personal belongings should be here, you can take a look first. Tao Bixia said.

There was a cardboard box on the table, and everything was packed up for him in advance, water cups, lunch boxes for eating, shawls, small mirrors, etc., and a small flower pot was pressed on it, but unfortunately the things planted before in the flower pot were all dead, and only a few dead yellow buds were still poked there.

Zhou Wei took out the flower pot.

Tao Bixia said with a little embarrassment: "It may be that he died without watering for too long, the company has a lot of things, and no one can take care of it here, otherwise this will not be necessary, and it will be quite heavy to move down." ”

Tao Bixia silently looked at Zhou Wei's expression after speaking, but Zhou Wei put the flower pot back into the box.

"Thank you!"

"No thanks, no thanks, I didn't do anything, I just helped sort things out. ”

Tao Bixia was a little flattered, after all, she already knew Zhou Wei's identity.

Zhou Xian's eyes swept over the table again and asked, "Can I take this away?"

"Huh?"

Tao Bixia paused for a moment before realizing that he was referring to a notebook on the table, which should have been used.

"Xiao Chang's work notes before, it's okay, of course you can take it. ”

Zhou Wei thanked him again and put the notebook into the box, but in fact, there was not much to do, and it was not heavy.

He went out with the box, and Tao Bixia followed, all the way to the elevator door.

"That, Mr. Zhou......"

Zhou Wei turned around.

Tao Bixia: "Mourning!"

Zhou Wei paused, and only after two seconds did he respond vaguely, and said, "Thank you for taking care of my wife before!"

The person enters the elevator and the elevator door closes.

Tao Bixia stood at the door for a while, sighing slightly.

"Gone?"

A voice suddenly sounded behind her, Tao Bixia turned her head sharply, only to see Gu Wen standing there with her arms crossed and grinning.

"You're scared to death and you don't say anything?"

Gu Wen sneered, her eyes slammed into the elevator door, "Is there anything abnormal?"

Tao Bixia: "What's abnormal?"

Gu Wen: "It's just that his wife died, did you see that he was particularly sad or in pain?"

Tao Bixia thought about it, and it was only a few minutes from beginning to end after the contact just now, but she really didn't see too much sadness from the man.

It's depressing at best.

Tao Bixia: "It doesn't seem to be." ”

Gu Wen: "......"

Tao Bixia: "But people have been gone for half a year, even if they are sad, they should come out, and besides, they are afraid that they will not be able to get a wife under conditions like him? Okay, okay, this matter has nothing to do with us, don't worry about it." ”

Tao Bixia waved her hand and pushed Gu Wen into the office.

……

The lights on the street are on at the beginning, those who get off work get off work, those who return home when they return home, and those who come out to eat eat,

Zhou Wei drove the car outside, and the box and the paper bag were placed in the passenger seat next to him.

He was thinking about where to go for a while, but twenty minutes later, Zhou Yan parked his car in front of a flower shop.

"Hello, can this still be fed?"

The proprietress of the flower shop was holding her mobile phone and scrolling through the video, and when she looked up when she heard the movement, she saw a handsome man holding a flower pot in his hand.

There was nothing in the pot except a few buds that had already died.

The proprietress immediately shook her head: "I can't support it." ”

Zhou Wei frowned, "Maybe you can try again." ”

The proprietress snorted and laughed, "Sir, you see that this bud has withered and the roots are dead, how can you save this? I can't save it, you are succulent, right? I have a lot of succulent varieties, why don't you pick another pot?"

Zhou Wei took the flower pot back.

"No thanks!"

He walked out with the dead pot in his arms, and when he passed by the door, he saw a few flowers in the bucket.

"It's... Platycodon?"

The proprietress walked over and said, "Yes, that's all there is left to sell, if you want it, I'll be cheaper." ”

Zhou Wei responded, "Please help me wrap it up." ”

A few minutes later, Zhou Wei held the flower in his left hand, and still held the flower pot in his right hand.

The midsummer night was really stuffy, Zhou Wei walked a few steps, felt tired, and simply sat on the steps not far from the flower shop, regardless of whether the ground was dirty or not, the suit and bouquet were thrown aside, but the flower pot was carefully rested on the suit by him.

People passing by have to glance at him, but it's really weird that his image and temperament sit on the ground in the street, but it doesn't matter.

Zhou Wei took out his mobile phone from his pocket again, found the avatar of the little white rabbit, clicked in, and pulled the chat history up to the page.

When Chang An first bought this pot of "baby" from a flower shop, he sent him a photo, and Chang An had just joined Huijian to work at that time.

Finally, I turned it over, and a little green bud appeared on the plant in the photo.

“… Just came out of a flower shop and bought pots of succulents. ”

"Just now you sent me >

"yes, cute?"

"Okay!".

"Do you know her name?"

"What's the name?"

"Little bunny!"

“……”

"Why do you suddenly want to raise this?"

"I just happened to pass by and saw it. ”

Zhou Wei recalled the content of the call between the two at that time, and looked at the time shown in the WeChat chat record, when it was just past last summer, and now it is another summer.

Zhou Yicai suddenly felt that she had been gone for half a year.

Time is such a terrible thing, unaware of it, but it passes silently without stopping.

After more than half an hour, Zhou Wei returned to the long river, and there was a small flower pot in the carton bag of flowers, and he could barely reach it with both hands.

Press the code at the door and try to open it for the third time.

It's just that I haven't come back for too long, and I'm groggy in my head for a while, and Zhou Wei feels that his memory seems to have declined a lot.

After opening the door, he got things into the house, turned on the light, and there was a huge room, there was no movement at all, and Zhou Wei could hear his breathing and heartbeat.

I stood at the entrance for a while, then took off my shoes and went in.

……

The next morning there was a high-level meeting, but the boss didn't show up until ten o'clock.

Xu Nan is still on the island, and the secretary can be as far away from Zhou as he can recently, and in the end, he can only call Deng Shunlin hard, but no one answers after dialing a few times.

Deng Shunlin was a little worried, generally he would not be absent from the meeting for no reason without explaining a word.

"Why don't you adjourn the meeting first, and I'll go over and have a look?"

Ye Li is also an old man in the company and agrees with Deng Shunlin's opinion.

"Okay, let us know if there is any situation. ”

Deng Shunlin smiled bitterly, "What can happen, I have already survived the most difficult time!"

He took the computer and documents out of the conference room, drove to Jardine first, but unfortunately knocked on the door outside for a long time and no one answered, and went downstairs to the hall to find the property housekeeper, only to learn that Zhou Yan did not seem to come to live last night.

There are many properties under Zhou Wei's name, and there are naturally many places where you can spend the night.

Deng Shunlin rushed to the long river again.

Changhe is a detached villa.

Deng Shunlin rang the doorbell at the door for a while, but still no one answered, and he thought that it was impossible to be here, because he knew that Zhou Yan had not come back to live since Chang'an's accident.

At this moment, I was about to leave, and someone behind me suddenly asked, "Who are you looking for?"

Deng Shunlin turned around and saw that it was a middle-aged woman.

"I'm looking for this family. ”

"Mr. Zhou, Mr. Zhou shouldn't be at home, don't you know that something happened to this family? During the Spring Festival, his wife was kidnapped and torn up the ticket, and the person is gone, and Mr. Zhou hasn't come here to live for half a year..."

The middle-aged woman pressed the code as she spoke.

Seeing this, Deng Shunlin asked, "Are you?"

"I'm a part-time worker and I'm in charge of cleaning. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a coughing sound came from inside.

Deng Shunlin and Aunt Wang were stunned at the same time, looked at each other, and immediately pushed the door in.

Passing through the courtyard, the gate of the main building was not closed, only a crack was hidden.

Aunt Wang walked in front of the house and saw the men's leather shoes on the ground at a glance.

"Ah, I'm really at home. ”

Deng Shunlin rushed in, the curtain was drawn inside, the light was very dim, but the smell of smoke and alcohol in the air was very strong.

"Mr. Zhou!"

Zhou Wei was lying on the sofa, one arm covering his forehead, several wine bottles were poured horizontally and vertically on the coffee table, and he smoked a lot of cigarettes, and the jar was full.

Aunt Wang saw the ghost and cried out: "Ouch, what's the matter, why do you drink so much wine at home alone?"

Deng Shunlin was startled by her and gave him a headache.

"I'm a subordinate of his company, I'll deal with it here, why don't you go back first?"

Aunt Wang didn't bother to make trouble for herself when she saw this posture, so she went back as she could.

After the person left, Deng Shunlin scooped up the empty bottle on the table and looked at it, from red wine to foreign wine, if it was all Zhou Xian, it was estimated that people would not wake up for a while and a half.

He took the suit next to him and covered it for the person on the sofa, found the kitchen to get water, and called the company again.

"If you drink too much, you're fine... I'll watch over here, okay, I'll get in touch if I have something......"

Deng Shunlin hung up the phone, took half a glass of warm water and went out, but just walked to the living room and saw Zhou Yan sitting on the sofa with his head in his arms.

"Awake?"

Zhou Wei raised his head, his eyes were still a little red, and he was obviously shocked when he saw Deng Shunlin, but his eyes, which were rarely a little fluctuating, quickly returned to silence.

"Why are you here?"

"Do you remember any meeting in the morning?"

Zhou Wei frowned, meditated, paused for two seconds before reacting, and slapped his head heavily with his hand.

"Shhhh I drank a little wine last night and overslept today and forgot about it. ”

Deng Shunlin put the cup on the coffee table for him, and glanced at the empty wine bottle next to him.

"Did you drink a little?"

“……”

"There's a whole bottle of red wine alone, and there are foreign ones, I said what are you doing here!"

Deng Shunlin is a northerner, and he speaks to Zhou Wei very directly after work.

Zhou Wei didn't pick up the stubble, and touched the smoke again.

"One?"

Deng Shunlin: "You know I've quit!"

Since his wife became seriously ill, he has stopped smoking.

Zhou Wei was not reluctant, he put one in his mouth, looked for a lighter all over the coffee table, and finally took it out from under a stall of printed A4 paper and lit it for himself.

A few pieces of A4 paper fell to the ground, Deng Shunlin picked them up for him, and glanced at them by the way.

"In-depth tour of Italy... Raiders?" He looked at Zhou again with some surprise, "You're going to Italy to play?"

Zhou Wei leaned back with a cigarette in his mouth, and wiped his swollen eyes with his fingertips.

"No, she did it before. ”

"She?" Deng Shunlin paused for a moment to realize who the "she" he was talking about, and couldn't help but sigh, thinking that he had made a very bad topic, thinking that Zhou Wei should be reluctant to mention this matter at this time, but he didn't expect the person on the sofa to come over by himself, put the cigarette in his mouth, and began to clean up the paper on the table one by one.

"I promised to go out with her for a few days a few years ago, and she said that she wanted to go to Italy, and the hotel and air tickets have been booked, Florence, the Vatican, and this is the guide to Sicily..."

He said while cleaning up, "She actually studied these places at home, what are the specific attractions, which are the more famous hotels and restaurants, but in the end she couldn't make the trip, and these..."

"...... this?"

"It should have been made by her at home before the Spring Festival, during that time..."Zhou Wei lowered his head and thought about it, what was he doing during that time?

"During that time, the company's intranet exposed those photos, she didn't give me an explanation, and I didn't take the initiative to ask her to explain, to be honest, I also had a very bad time in those days, as if there was a new project to be launched?" he suddenly asked Deng Shunlin.

Deng Shunlin also thought about it, indeed, the ambiguous photos sent by Yao Kai made everyone know about it for a while, and Zhou Wei stayed in the company almost all the time under the pretext of work.

"I was running away. ”

Deng Shunlin asked, "What are you running away from?"

"Escape..."He looked up and stared at the red lanterns all over the room, but his eyes were not focused, "Maybe he was running away from facing this matter, afraid that the photos were all the truth, and he was afraid that confronting her in person would lead to an argument." After a pause, he added with a wry smile, "Old Deng, you don't know, she actually can't stand a little grievance, and her temper is too strong." ”

Deng Shunlin felt like he was holding his breath after hearing this, and just as he was about to speak, Zhou Wei took out another piece of paper from his trouser pocket.

"I'll show you. ”

The paper was already crumpled, and it seemed to be stained with a little blood.

Deng Shunlin took it and looked at it, "Test sheet?"

Zhou Wei nodded, "I took it out of the pocket of the coat she was wearing when she had an accident." ”

At that time, Feng Xigui wore her coat and pretended to be in disguise, so the test sheet in her pocket included the clothes to survive.

"On the day of the accident, I came back from Shenyang, and after getting off the plane, I saw her WeChat, and she said that she had something to tell me, which was good news, and I guess now that she should have told me about her pregnancy. ”

"Later, I learned that she had been to Shenyang on Chinese New Year's Eve, and I don't know why she didn't see me, maybe she happened to bump into the stars in my room and misunderstood something." ”

“…… I only stayed for one day at the meeting in Shenyang, and I rushed back on the first day of junior high school, because I promised to accompany her to Italy the next day, but I was still a step late. The day she left was in the early hours of the third day of the lunar calendar, and if none of that had happened, we would have been in Italy at the time. ”

"I've been thinking for half a year, if I had delayed a little less and arrived on the island earlier, even if it was just a few minutes, would the result be different?"

Zhou Wei smoked a cigarette and leaned weakly on the sofa.

He was always in a calm mood when he stated these things, but the fog was rising in front of him, and Deng Shunlin felt that he couldn't see his face clearly.

It's uncomfortable!

Deng Shunlin thought at the time that it would be better to watch him cry.

Zhou Wei sat there quietly and smoked a cigarette and pinched it.

"Alright, you don't have to stay here, I'm fine. ”

When Deng Shunlin left, Zhou Wei had already started smoking a second cigarette, and the clouds outside the window were rolling, gathering and scattering.

It's July, and it's been half a year since Chang'an left.

Zhou Meng rolled over with his arm to cover his eye socket.

How do you say goodbye to someone you don't want to lose?

Zhou Wei stayed in the villa in Changhe for another night, and the next day, the hangover was still gone, and the whole person was extremely depressed, but he was finally a little sober.

He sat on the small velvet blanket that Chang'an used to draw and dialed Xu Nan's mobile phone.

"Call the search and rescue team to leave, and you will start to come back to work tomorrow." ”

Xu Nan's head was fierce, and he almost cheered.

"Okay, I'll do it. ”

Zhou Wei ended the call, put down the phone, and the shelves and low tables in front of him were all Chang An's tools for painting, everything was still the same, and it was everywhere.

Zhou Wei put the brushes and paints into the same box, and then sorted out the sketches and clipped them into the book.

He had done these things countless times before, and he was already familiar with them, but this time he was very slow to clean up, because he knew in his heart that it would be the last time.

In the future, there will be no more people messing around at home.

Nor will anyone hide a cabinet full of snacks.

Comic books will no longer be on his shelves.

There are also those Japanese anime that he called "cartoons", no one will watch them anymore, but it's a pity that the cabinet of genuine figures he asked someone to bring back from Japan before.

A week later, Zhou Wei came over to remove his own things from this side of the Changhe.

Half a month later, Feng Xigui fell from the third floor due to "accidental stumble" while serving his sentence in prison, hit his head on the ground, and died after rescue efforts failed.

At the beginning of September, the height of summer ends.

Zhou Wei received a phone call, "It's done!"

He answered, "I will arrange a transfer for you tomorrow!"

The next day, Li Xiaobing committed suicide in prison because he could not stand the drug addiction.

In the early autumn of October, Deng Shunlin's ex-wife finally left this world after years of fighting cancer.

When she was dying, Zhou Miao happened to be in the hospital and saw her holding Deng Shunlin's hand.

At that time, she had not been able to eat for many days, and she had no strength for a long time, but she could still hold Deng Shunlin's hand tightly.

Deng Shunlin seemed to understand what she meant, leaned over her chest to listen to her, and others didn't know what she said, only that her ex-wife died after she finished speaking.

Later, Deng Shunlin accompanied Zhou Wei on a business trip, and had dinner with customers in the evening, and drank too much, so Zhou Wei proposed that the two walk back to the hotel.

The lights were dazzling along the way, and the road was long, so Zhou Wei asked, "What did my sister-in-law tell you before leaving?"

Deng Shunlin smiled bitterly: "She said that she has no regrets in this life, and if she can in the next life, she will still be a husband and wife with me." ”

The following spring, which was supposed to be March, Yunling began to warm up.

Chang Wangde died at the age of 59 at Fengli's home.

The Zhou family went to the funeral, and Zhou Wei was present throughout the whole process and helped with the funeral.

After the end, Wei Suying processed the wreath and found that the couplet sent by Zhou Wei read:

"My father is eternal, unforgettable, and will always remember his family - he loves his daughter Chang'an, and he loves his son-in-law Zhou Xian. ”

At the end of the same year, the second phase of Luyang Lake was completed, and the entire project was completed.

In March of the following year, Rongbang won the title of one of the top ten real estate companies in China and successfully acquired Tianfeng Construction, a subsidiary of Yuanxi.

In May, Zhou held a high-level meeting to officially put the IPO plan on the agenda.

In the summer of the same year, Rongbang held a media conference, and Zhou Wei talked about Rongbang's transformation in public for the first time, and the next day Rong'an Holdings was established, saying that Rongbang would officially enter commercial real estate.

For more than a year, Zhou Gong almost kept circling around the country and even around the world, working an average of more than 130 hours a week, and the total number of miles flown could circle the earth several times.

Once, when he went to a regular barber shop for a haircut, the hairstylist who served him suddenly pulled on his scalp.

"Mr. Zhou, why did you grow so many gray hairs all at once?"

Zhou Wei was still stunned in his heart, leaned in front of the mirror, and opened his hand a little, and sure enough, he saw that there was a little silver thread mixed in the black hair on his head.

"It's old. ”

"Hey, don't be kidding, you're only thirty-five, and you're in the prime of life!"

But Zhou Wei knew that he seemed to be really old, not physical strength or energy, but the thing wrapped in flesh and skin.

If he could take out his heart and look at it, he felt that his heart must be crawling with wrinkles.