At noon, after the negotiation was over, Xu Yan invited Huang Xi and Qi Nan to have dinner together, and the two ladies happily agreed. Everyone is young, and the place to eat is not a high-end restaurant, but in the hotel's cafeteria, the three of them chatted while eating, and the atmosphere was relaxed.

Qi Nan told Xu Yan with a smile that she had successfully completed the accompanying task on this trip. Next, she will accompany the Japanese to visit Jincheng for two days, and then she can set off back to the capital.

"In short, I want to thank Director Xu for supporting my work!" Qi Nan smiled and toasted Xu Yan with a drink.

Xu Yan smiled and raised his glass and touched it: "Hehe, what can I help with, as long as Director Qi, you don't scold me for making trouble for you." ”

Qi Nan smiled: "To be honest, Director Xu, you are indeed a bit shocking in what you do, especially the slap you gave Ichiro Hashimoto, I was stunned - I have never seen this kind of thing! However, it is also because you have enough strength and confidence, even if you beat him, the Japanese side apologized to us." Such a bizarre thing, I went back to the company and said, I guess my colleagues won't believe it.

By the way, Director Xu, is it convenient for me to ask you about something? Of course, this is a private conversation, not an official business. ”

"Hehe, please say, Director Qi. ”

Qi Nan hesitated slightly, and she asked: "Director Xu, what do you think of this invitation from the Japanese? Will you really agree to their request to go to Japan?" Uh, Director Xu, I know that this issue is more sensitive, if it is inconvenient for you to say it, there is no need to say it." ”

Xu Yan shook his head: "There's nothing I can't say, I'm actually just fooling the Japanese - I guess the country can't let people like me out." ”

"That's right, Director Xu, you are an important person, the Japanese paid so much money to hire you, it is worth the same amount of money, and the country will definitely look at you very closely.

However, Director Xu, if you have the opportunity, you should go for it. A subsidy of $200,000 a day! Director Xu, if you go to Japan, go shopping in Tokyo, go shopping, and mix up for 10 days or 8 days, after you come back, you can buy a house at will, whether it is Beijing or Shanghai. This money is as easy as falling from the sky and picking it up......"

Xu Yan smiled - according to the shrewdness of the Japanese, they have spent so much money, how can they just let themselves go shopping in Tokyo leisurely? It is estimated that they must have produced a more troublesome monster and need to deal with it themselves, this is a desperate job -- Mei Jin Cheng is cute, but compared to his own life, it is nothing.

Seeing Xu Yan smiling and silent, Qi Nan said with a smile: "Hey, Director Xu, can I ask you something?"

"Ah, please, Director Qi?"

"Director Xu, when the time comes, if you really go to Japan on a business trip, this kind of thing will normally be accompanied by someone from our Ministry of Foreign Affairs. When the time comes, you can help me and ask me by name! Your words carry a lot of weight, and the higher authorities should give you this face, and I can translate for you in the past. ”

Xu Yan didn't understand a little - if he went to Japan by himself, he would probably have to fight with monsters, this kind of thing, he couldn't avoid it, why did Qi Nan rush to get up?

"Director Qi, why? If we go over, it is estimated that the situation on the Japanese side will be very bad, and if you go with us, you will encounter danger. ”

Qi Nan said with a smile: "If you can't repay the loan and are repossessed by the bank, that's really dangerous." I'm not afraid of danger, I'm only afraid of poverty. I pondered, the Japanese are so generous to Director Xu, and when the time comes, I will be your translator, and I guess the Japanese will not be too stingy with us entourages when they look at your face, right? I am not greedy, you get a subsidy of 200,000 US dollars a day, and I will be very happy if you have 10,000 US dollars -- no, 5,000 US dollars. How about it, Director Xu, when the time comes, you can remember to give me a hand!"

At this time, Huang Xi interjected with a smile: "Senior sister, you are not kind! You have become Director Xu's translator, won't I be unemployed? I also want to earn 10,000 US dollars a day!"

Qi Nan said with a smile: "Huang Xi, it's not in the way, you are Director Xu's assistant, I am a translator, and I have to recruit someone to be the driver and bodyguard - when the time comes, I will help Director Xu open the way in front, and you will help Director Xu carry his bag in the back, and someone will be responsible for helping Director Xu brush his shoes, and someone will help Director Xu hold an umbrella......"

Huang Xi asked, "What if it doesn't rain?"

Qi Nan said categorically: "Even if it doesn't rain, you have to hold an umbrella!" An important person like Director Xu, if he doesn't bring ten or eight dog-legged followers by his side, and he doesn't have any pomp and circumstance, wouldn't he want the Japanese to be underestimated? Ah, I suddenly found that Director Xu still lacks the role of Xiaomi's secretary by his side...... Huang Xi, do you want to try it?"

"Ah, senior sister, you're going to die! In front of Director Xu, you say such crazy things!" Huang Xixia flew her cheeks, her eyes rolled, and she smiled slyly: "Senior sister, maybe you want to do this role yourself, right?"

Qi Nan is open-minded and cheerful, she said with a smile: "Director Xu is young and handsome, and he has the ability, as long as Director Xu doesn't think I'm a few years older, my senior sister is really willing-Director Xu, you have to remember, I'm a part-time job, remember to give me an extra subsidy!"

"Ah, senior sister, you still dare to say it!"

The two women spoke, giggling and laughing, and Xu Yan couldn't help but laugh.

After the meal, Qi Nan stayed in the hotel to rest, and Huang Xi drove Xu Yan home, and soon sent Xu Yan to the door of the community. When Xu Yan was about to get out of the car, Huang Xi stopped him: "Director Xu, the video and audio recordings of today's meeting are to be reported to the ministry." This one...... Do you see anything that needs to be sorted out about this record?"

"Tidy up?"

Xu Yan was stunned for a moment, and then he understood what Huang Xi meant -- In today's talks with the Japanese, there were too many taboo things in them: The Japanese side's bribery and enticment of Xu Yan, as well as Xu Yan's large-scale attack on Japanese personnel, were all serious violations of discipline. Huang Xi wanted to help him hide some disciplinary things.

"These are all video recordings, can they be modified?"

Huang Xi said with certainty: "It can be edited...... I've learned about it. ”

"However, your senior sister should also have a video backup, when the time comes, she will return it to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is different from what we handed in.

"Senior sister and I have a good relationship, she will agree - it's a big deal to sort out the record in her hand, and we'll be consistent. ”

Huang Xi smiled: "Director Xu, don't worry, as long as you promise, when you go to Japan in the future, you will bring your senior sister, she will definitely agree to help." Speaking of this, as if she was afraid that Xu Yan would misunderstand that Qi Nan was the kind of woman who was greedy for money, she explained: "Senior sister, since she bought a house, she has to repay more than 6,000 mortgages a month, and she is about to be driven crazy by loans." ”

Xu Yan shook his head with a smile: "First, I don't plan to go to Japan, so it's not good for me to distrust the director; second, the eldest husband has nothing to say to others, even if I beat the Japanese, even if the Japanese want to buy me, I don't think there is any need to hide these things from the ministry - I believe that the ministry will not start to suspect me because of this matter, right?"

Still, thank you for your concern, Huang Xi. ”

Huang Xi was about to speak, but at this time, Xu Yan's phone rang again, he picked up the phone and glanced at it, with a puzzled expression on his face, and then, he said "sorry" to Huang Xi, and hurriedly got out of the car to answer the phone. He talked on the phone for about four or five minutes before he ended the call, turned around and hurriedly said to Huang Xi in the car window: "Huang Xi, you just hand in the record." I'm still a little busy with something, so I won't accompany you. ”

"Okay, Director Xu, do you need help with your affairs over there?"

"It doesn't matter, it's just a personal matter. Go ahead!"

Huang Xi said goodbye and drove the car around, but she was a little puzzled: Just now, when Director Xu saw the phone, his expression was very strange, and for a moment he seemed to be in a trance and cringe, and he faintly looked like he didn't dare to answer -- this is not like Director Xu's usual performance! You know, Director Xu is a fierce man who even the police and Japanese diplomats dare to beat!

Huang Xi wondered in his heart: Who made the phone call that made Director Xu behave so strangely?

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Watching Huang Xi's car gradually move away and disappear into the distance of the street, Xu Yan exhaled softly.

He turned around and walked towards the school, and went straight to the café next to the school library - that's right, it was the small cold drink shop that Xu Yan brought Zhao Yanran over last time.

During the afternoon break, there are very few people in the store. Xu Yan easily found a window seat to sit down, ordered a glass of juice, and found a fashion magazine. It didn't take long for him to look up at the door: the one who was waiting had finally arrived.

Gong Xueting, who was wearing a white shirt and jeans, walked in quickly, she looked around, and soon found Xu Yan, she walked over quickly, and apologized repeatedly: "I'm sorry, Yanzi, I made an appointment with you, but I didn't expect you to arrive first." I'm so embarrassed!"

"It's nothing, when you called, I happened to be at the school gate, very close to here, so a few steps away. Xueting, what do you want to drink? juice or coffee?"

"Just like you, it's juice. ”

Xu Yan called the waiter and ordered a glass of juice. While waiting for the drink to come up, Gong Xueting kept looking down at the water sign on the stage, and Xu Yan was looking out the window in a daze - he didn't know what to say.

Xu Yan had a faint feeling that although Gong Xueting behaved normally today, she was obviously smiling and preoccupied.

The waiter brought the drink up, Gong Xueting said "thank you", and then looked at Xu Yan: "Yanzi, isn't it strange that I asked you out so suddenly?"

Xu Yan nodded: "It's a little strange." But we're friends, we haven't seen each other for so long, and it's normal to come out for a cold drink and chat. ”

Gong Xueting smiled: "Haven't you seen you for a long time? No, we only met yesterday, and we are still in this store, don't you remember?"

"Yesterday, it was a big crowd of people who met together, and it doesn't count. ”

As soon as Xu Yan spoke, he immediately regretted it: When he said this, didn't he say that he wanted to meet Gong Xueting in private? This kind of thing is too ambiguous.

This kind of thing is not easy to explain, Xu Yan can only look away from the window, and pretend to easily move away from the topic: "Unknowingly, it's almost May, and you're almost about to take the final exam, so you want to start reviewing, right?"

Gong Xueting said with a smile: "Yanzi, it makes people feel very strange when you say that-why do you say 'we'? You are also a student, don't you have to take exams and review?"

Xu Yan was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Yes, Xueting, how many credits have you taken this semester?"

"I took eighteen credits, seven courses. Yanzi, what about you?"

"This ......"

Xu Yan smiled bitterly - at the beginning of this year's semester, he was still on a business trip in Japan, and he didn't choose courses at all, and this semester, his credits are estimated to be zero.

However, Xu Yan has no regrets - as his knowledge grows, he feels more and more that he is still in school, which is a pure waste of time.

Xu Yan's biggest regret is that he enrolled in his current major "Enterprise Management Major": as the name suggests, this major is specially set up for cultivating business management talents. But the question is, what boss in the world is so nervous that he would really hand over the management of a business to a freshly graduated, inexperienced college student?

Xu Yan is a little better, his family is doing business, he can still go home and toss his family's small business, and he has the opportunity to apply what he has learned, but most of the students, after learning this major, are like learning the legendary "dragon slaying technique", which is useless.

Or economists will talk about the science of enterprise management very profound and mysterious, but Xu Yan resolutely does not believe it. He found the course hollow and boring. After reading this major, I didn't learn any practical skills except for a bunch of English words and pure theories of business management - such as chicken soup remarks such as 'Maslow's demand theory' and some small paragraphs such as corporate culture and marketing cases.

Xu Yan saw the biographies of celebrities in the book, saying that after the success of a certain tycoon's career, he deeply felt his lack of knowledge, and took the initiative to go back to the school to study and study for an MBA degree in business management -- Xu Yan felt that this was completely nonsense! As far as the courses offered by the economics major in the school at present, and the nonsense from theory to theory, if those successful people who have been tempered by a hundred battles can really learn any useful experience from here, then it is called a ghost!

Xu Yan thinks that the purpose of those successful people who want to "study and return to the furnace" is nothing more than three: one is to mix a degree, so that when they go out to walk in the future, they can claim to be a doctor, and their faces will be bright; second, they can take the opportunity to mingle with some other nouveau riche who are also here to mix diplomas, and establish friendships and connections; third, they are to take the opportunity to bubble pure student girls -- if anyone thinks that they are really coming back to school to make up for their knowledge shortcomings, it will be too naïve.

The reason why Xu Yan took this course before was to get a degree, and he could only pinch his nose and read it - but now, Xu Yan realized that for Xu Yan, a former college student, a degree is naturally a very important thing, but for himself now, he has begun to cultivate the truth, do he still need an undergraduate degree?

Xu Yan thought about it very seriously: "Do you want to read the school books? I feel that it is useless and a pure waste of time...... But if you don't study, you don't seem to have much to do, and it's quite boring to be idle. And it's also a pity that I worked so hard to get into the university...... There are so many friends and classmates, and I am a little reluctant. ”

"Yanzi, what are you thinking?"

Hearing Gong Xueting's voice, Xu Yancai pulled his thoughts back, and he smiled: "It's nothing important." By the way, classmate Xueting, what should be the matter with you suddenly asking me out?"

Hearing that Xu Yan had entered the topic, Gong Xueting's face darkened. She whispered, "Yanzi, why did I ask you out, maybe you can guess it, I want to thank you......"

Xu Yan's heart trembled slightly, but he still pretended to be dazed: "Thank you? Why? We haven't met recently!"

Gong Xueting looked at Xu Yan quietly, with a complicated expression in her eyes, she said softly: "Yanzi, when they let me out, someone had already told me in private that you helped me intercede." Otherwise, for my crime of obstruction of official business and suspected complicity, they can sentence me to prison for a year and a half, and if I really go to jail, I will have to report to the school. When the time comes, this matter will be reported back to the school, and I will definitely be expelled, and my life will be ruined.

Yanzi, you saved me once. ”

Yanzi listened to Gong Xueting say, his face turned bitter into bitter melon, and he scolded Huang Xi and Zhang Wenbin in his heart-these guys are not reliable in doing things! Let them let people go, and they actually reported their names, such a long tongue, where is it like the style of the national intelligence agency, it is simply three aunts and six women!

Xu Yan also knew that Zhang Wenbin and Huang Xi privately reported their names to Huang Xi, most of them had no malicious intentions, and they probably still wanted to please themselves and help themselves for favors, but the problem was that they didn't need it!

Under Gong Xueting's gaze, Xu Yan lowered his head in embarrassment: "Classmate Xueting, we are friends, since I saw you encounter this kind of thing, I naturally have no reason to stand by and watch - in short, you don't have to pay too much attention to it, let it pass in the past." ”

Listening to Xu Yan's words, Gong Xueting's eyes became brighter and brighter, and she exhaled softly: "Sure enough, it's Yanzi!

"It's nothing, it's just a coincidence...... Uh?" Xu Yan said, suddenly feeling that something was wrong: "Sure enough, Xueting, what do you mean?"

Gong Xueting smiled and shook her head: "Actually, when the police released me, they didn't mention Yanzi's name, they just said that I was lucky and had a friend who helped me speak, so I could go out." I asked them who had helped me, but they wouldn't say, just let me think for myself - until now, I could be sure that it was Yanzi who secretly helped me. ”

Xu Yanwei was dumbfounded--he had just blamed Zhang Wenbin and Huang Xi for being unprofessional, and the most unprofessional person who dared to love was himself! The dignified director of the Intelligence Department was actually deceived by a little girl and told the truth.

At this time, there was no point in denying it, and Xu Yan could only smile bitterly: "Classmate Xueting, you are too smart, I really can't compare to you...... How could you have guessed it was me, though?"

Gong Xueting said softly: "I think that the friend who helped me privately must meet several conditions: first, he must be an insider. I only disappeared for two days, and almost no one in the school knew about it, but when we were arrested that day, Xu Yan, you were eating in a restaurant, and you should have seen it at the scene, so you met the first condition, Yanzi. ”

"Well, that's right...... Are there any other reasons?"

"There's a second reason: until now, I don't know exactly who arrested me and Situ -- the people who captured us, all of them were in civilian clothes, but I saw that the police in police uniforms also listened to them, and they seemed to be of great rank and power. I thought that if I could be rescued from such a department, the friend who helped me should also be a very capable and powerful person......

Xu Yan smiled: "Classmate Xueting, do I look like the kind of person who is very powerful and has a lot of methods?"

Gong Xueting also smiled: "To be honest, because Yanzi, you have always been very low-key, and before yesterday, I was not sure." But yesterday, I can be sure: nine times out of ten, it was Yanzi who saved me. ”

"Ah, why?"

Gong Xueting glanced at Xu Yan, and her eyes were like autumn water: "If Yanzi, you are not the kind of person who is very powerful and methodical, how can the dignified female star Miss Zhao come and chase you upside down? Seeing Zhao Yanran chasing you, I immediately thought: Only such a person can meddle in the police's handling of the case, right?"

Xu Yan smiled bitterly again, but he couldn't say a word - he couldn't imagine that the most critical flaw was actually in Zhao Yanran. He sighed: "Xueting, you are too powerful. Zhao Yanran has nothing to do with this matter at all, you can actually guess the matter from her......"

"Actually, even if there is no Miss Zhao, I guess that it will be Yanzi you who did it. ”

"Ah, why is that?"

"Because, this kind of approach is too similar to you, Yanzi! Last time when my father was hospitalized, it was Yanzi who helped me, but you never refused to admit it; this time it was the same, the friend who helped me refused to show up, and did not come out to take credit, so naturally, I thought of Yanzi you-"

Gong Xueting lowered her head, she looked at the table, her eyes wandered, and her voice gradually lowered very low: "Yanzi, I know, you have been secretly caring about me and secretly helping me." In the past, there have been many boys who have chased me, but never before have boys been so kind and sincere to me. Your heart...... I really don't know how to repay you.

I've always felt that I owe you too much, whether it's kindness or affection...... The boy who loves me the most in my life should be you, and I think the boy I am most sorry for is also you. Sometimes, I also think about how good you are to me, should I repay you, but ......"

Speaking of this, Gong Xueting stopped, she looked at the desktop quietly, and Xu Yan was also silent.

Both of them understood Gong Xueting's unspoken words: "However, the person I like is Situ Xiao, not you." ”

The two sat silently for a while, and Xu Yancai asked softly, "Xue Ting, Teacher Situ encountered this incident, ...... What are you going to do?"

Hearing Xu Yan mention Situ Xiao, Gong Xueting's face was sad, but her expression was very firm: "I will wait for him." I know that Situ has committed a big crime, and I have heard that the consequences are very serious...... But, no matter what he committed, no matter how long he will be in prison, I will wait for him, wait for him to come out!

This is his most difficult time, I can't leave him, as long as he is alive, as long as I am alive, I will wait for him.

Yanzi, you are an excellent boy, you should find a better girl to accompany you, she should be more beautiful and kind than me, you don't want to ...... Don't do this to me anymore. If you delay you for me, it's not worth it, and I don't want to go. ”

Speaking of this, Gong Xueting slowed down her voice, and she said sincerely: "Yanzi...... I'm sorry. ”

Xu Yan shook his head silently - he knew that Gong Xueting was afraid that she was a little mistaken about herself, and she also thought that she was lukewarm to a beauty like Zhao Yanran, and she had not been looking for a new girlfriend, and had been paying attention to her silently because she couldn't let go of her in her heart.

This is a kind girl, she specially asked herself out, not only to thank herself, but also to make it clear to herself, so that she broke off this idea, don't waste her youth for her, and should find her happiness again.

Gong Xueting didn't know that there was indeed someone in her heart who couldn't let go, but it was not her, but the shadow that disappeared in the turbulence of time and space.

Xuanyun, why did I find out that I was deeply in love with you after you left?

This is a beautiful misunderstanding, but Xu Yan doesn't plan to break it.

Listening to Gong Xueting say "I'm sorry", Xu Yan suddenly remembered the lines in an old movie he had watched, and he said softly: "Loveismeansneverhavetosay sorry." (True love is never to say sorry.) ）

Hearing this, Gong Xueting was suddenly shocked, she suddenly raised her head to look at Xu Yan, and in her eyes, Xu Yan saw a crystal light. (To be continued.) )