28. Awkwardness
Zuo Lin woke up early. From the time he opened his eyes to the time he finished washing his face and brushing his teeth, he called Jin Xiaohua up and drove him back to the club, less than 10 minutes passed. I'm still hungry, but filling my stomach right now is obviously not the first priority.
Jin Xiaohua called while driving the car and asked Xiao Xiao to come early, and the work of sending Yan Yingxue to school can only be less than work today. Jin Xiaohua knew why Zuo Lin had such a fearful attitude towards what was about to happen, except that Zuo Lin was a little angry when he woke her up, and the faint smile didn't go down her face.
At this time, it's too early to go to the club, and it's not good to be hungry, and the club probably won't have breakfast today. When crossing the river tunnel, Jin Xiaohua proposed to find a place to have breakfast together. Zuo Lin, who felt that he was far enough away from Zhang Ling, immediately agreed.
In the huge Lujiazui area, there is only one KFC. Usually, the shop doesn't come alive until 8 or 9 o'clock. The white-collar workers who work around are used to having breakfast here and going to work. And now, there were only a few people sitting in the store, and the other guys who were red-eyed and hateful biting at the breakfast floor didn't seem to be going to work, but like they had just gotten off work. Jin Xiaohua parked the car on the side of the road very arrogantly. The person who drove the L7 hid in KFC for breakfast, which is really unusual.
Jin Xiaohua looked at Zuo Lin's bitter gourd face with interest. Since yesterday, what happened between Zuo Lin and Zhang Ling has been like a climactic drama that has attracted her attention. She had known about Zhang Ling's so-called "maintenance contract" for a long time, and she had negotiated this matter with Zhang Ling on behalf of Yan Hokusai. Yan Beizhai tried everything to get Ye Yilan to agree to marry him, and now, in order to tease Zuo Lin, he took out this contract that had not been prepared to be executed for a long time. From this point of view, Tsubame Hokusai, who is already 90 years old, has a really high degree of viciousness. Zuo Lin, on the other hand, unknowingly fell into the trap of Yan Hokusai.
Yan Hokusai has no malicious intent. At the beginning, Zhang Ling was indeed a good candidate to tutor Zuo Lin's homework. Later, I don't know when, Yan Beizhai felt that it might be good to match Zuo Lin and Zhang Ling together. Zuo Lin is talented, but his ambition is not in the secular world of ordinary people, but this aspect is very important and complicated. Zhang Ling is talented, but her personality is too strong, and she needs someone who understands her to support her. If Zuo Lin and Zhang Ling can come together, it can be said that it will be a happy situation. In fact, if Yan Hokusai allowed the two to develop freely, about a few years later, after Zhang Ling desperately paid off his debts, and Zuo Lin was still single, Zhang Ling, who was accustomed to holding opportunities in his own hands, would naturally express something. But Yan Hokusai didn't want to wait so long, and he had the intention of watching a good show, so he simply poked out the matter of the "package contract".
And now, I'm afraid the best result is that Zuo Lin and Zhang Ling become a pair of resentful couples. That means there will be many, many good shows to watch in the future. Thinking of this, Jin Xiaohua feels that the future will be worth looking forward to.
"Xiaohua, what happened yesterday...... Yesterday's events weren't what you thought they were. Zuo Lin said with some embarrassment. He didn't know how to describe that moment of being seen in reasonable words.
"I'm drunk. Normal. Jin Xiaohua said in an extremely clear tone, as if he had seen this kind of thing countless times. And this kind of understanding made Zuo Lin feel even more embarrassed.
almost choked on a mouthful of porridge in his throat, Zuo Lin's face turned red. He coughed in disguise and said, "Zhang Ling is drunk and doesn't know anything." It's best that you don't mention it in front of her, it's best if everyone doesn't remember it. ”
Jin Xiaohua smiled and was noncommittal. She naturally didn't want to remind Zhang Ling, but that didn't mean that Zhang Ling didn't remember it.
"Don't worry. Just wait for Zhang Ling to calm down and have a good chat with her. She should have a good impression of you. …… Naturally, I can pretend that I didn't see what happened yesterday, and I won't mention it again. As for whether Zhang Ling can remember it, hehe...... Even if she remembered, she wouldn't mention it. Whoever encounters this thing has no face to say. Jin Xiaohua explained.
Probably. Although it is not enough to make Zuo Lin not think nonsense, sometimes the difference is a little bit like this. Although Jin Xiaohua's "comfort" is a little weird to say in this ironic tone. However, Jin Xiaohua's next sentence made Zuo Lin frown again.
"I won't say it if you don't have to ask for it. Yan Lao has already given you my payslip, and now I am the person you employ. The boss treats everything as if he didn't see it, this is the principle of the bodyguard, don't say that Zhang Ling is just drunk...... Well, on impulse, even if you've done all the 'business' in front of me, I'll think I don't see it. ”
Zuo Lin, who was a little depressed, was in super good shape during the afternoon training. At the Extreme Proving Ground, he finally improved his save rate to 85 per cent, making 511 saves out of 600 balls. Although he was as tired as a dead dog after 15 minutes of extreme testing, the sense of accomplishment still washed away the depression that had plagued him all day. Although he refused to do so, the club finally added the title of assistant coach and a fairly generous salary to his name, and he could arrange his own training, and also be responsible for part of the training of goalkeepers in several echelons. And his training methods made those guys miserable. His idea is very simple, the goalkeeper's skill is of course important, but more important is the physical fitness, with a large amount of high-intensity training to let them continue to break through the physical limit, the bounce, reflection, strength, lateral and vertical movement speed and other hard indicators are raised, the goalkeeper is naturally relaxed, anyway, the goalkeeper does not need to reserve any physical strength for the game. As a result, the Shenbao team became the only team where the goalkeeper trained more intensively than all the other players.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, after the training, Zuo Lin was going to do some homework and read some books in the evening, but he saw that Jin Xiaohua was already waiting on the sidewalk next to the training ground in a car.
"What else is going on at night?" Zuo Lin asked suspiciously. The teammates were no longer surprised by L7, and they no longer had the enthusiasm to joke about Zuo Lin at the beginning, so they waved their hands to say hello, and walked sloppily from Zuo Lin's side to the locker room.
"I called Zhang Ling just now and asked her if she would continue to make up classes in the evening...... Don't worry, I didn't say anything else...... She said it was business as usual. Jin Xiaohua said in an extremely flat tone. Jin Xiaohua's blandness clearly has the intention of watching a good show. However, Zuo Lin couldn't say anything.
Seeing Zhang Ling again, she has a new look. Changed into a light blue mid-sleeved shirt and dark blue jeans, the fresh and concise dress complemented Zhang Ling's calm and rational temperament. The embarrassment of yesterday did not show in the slightest on her face.
It's just that this day's make-up process is more silent than any previous time.
So, when the content of the make-up class ended after 2 hours and 22 minutes, the two almost unanimously breathed a sigh of relief.
"Huh. This somewhat awkward tacit understanding still eased the slightly tense atmosphere between the two.
"I'm sorry," said Zolin, "I thought what I was doing was a good thing." I didn't mean to hurt you. ”
Zhang Ling raised his eyebrows and said, "It's not a good thing for people to know about this kind of thing." But...... Forget it, I don't want to say thank you for this, but you didn't feel sorry for me, even if it was even. Still, I'll pay you back. ”
Thinking of Zhang Ling desperately looking for a place to work all day long, Zuo Lin felt a little unbearable. He didn't think much about it, and suddenly said: "I have a lot of securities and other things here and I don't know what to do, can you help me deal with them?" Gu Mingyuan Gu Brother Gu said, he is responsible for legal matters, but he needs a person with economic and financial knowledge to deal with these things. I think...... Anyway, you're looking for a place to work everywhere, so why don't you come and help me. ”
Zhang Ling glared at Zuo Lin in disbelief, that look was not the calm and rational way she usually observes a person, nor the gentle love and pity she occasionally caresses small animals, not the contempt and disgust that she sometimes stares at and sometimes glances at the ten lines when she flips through the book and reads the test papers, nor the contempt and disgust that she looks at the clothes that begin to smell of sweat and sourness at the limit of her arm length or inadvertently bumps into the person she hates, but ...... It is an extremely complex look that mixes anger and anger, helplessness and surprise, and disappointment and ridicule. The light waves in his eyes flowed, relaxing in accordance with Zhang Ling's thoughts.
If at this moment, even if Zuo Lin came out to tease her about last night's incident, she would probably just cover up a few words of disgust, if Zuo Lin was bold enough to ask her to be his girlfriend, she would never care that she was 2 years older than Zuo Lin, and she was still Zuo Lin's tutor, because that was really what she was looking forward to. However, although he also cared about her words very much, mixed with such content, Zhang Ling could only laugh.
"Okay," Zhang Ling's mouth rose and he agreed very happily, "From now on, you are not only my student, my friend, my benefactor, my benefactor, but also my employer. Boss, you have once again redefined our relationship. ”
Zhang Ling didn't seem to have any dissatisfaction. However, Zuo Lin felt that something seemed to be wrong, and the atmosphere was getting more and more weird.
After sending Zhang Ling away with a polite and affectionate attitude, Zuo Lin was still thinking, what did he do wrong?
Unfortunately, his thoughts didn't last long before they were interrupted.
"Zuo Lin, Yan Lao said that he wanted to meet you at Lujiazui, and he would not delay your club. A bit of a troublesome thing. "Less than to put it up.
"Okay. Zuo Lin nodded. Well, adding another hassle can make life a lot more exciting, doesn't it?
On the edge of the International Exhibition Center, Leaning on the Huangpu River, Starbucks with a great view overlooking the Bund is waiting for Zuolin. Yan Beisai's expression was awe-inspiring, as if something troublesome had happened. Seeing Zuo Lin, Yan Hokusai's brows relaxed.
"I've got some bad news from one of my guys. Yan Hokusai tossed a folder of brown paper to Zuo Lin.
"What's going on?" As he opened the folder and looked at the stack of photos with the date and location marked inside, Zuo Lin asked Tsubame Hokusai for more information.
This is a photo taken by the manager of one of Shennong Group's agricultural procurement departments in Sichuan. When he went to buy some local specialties, he heard two people talking about the names of some wild animals in the bar. All of them are nationally protected animals. You know, now all the hunting indicators are in my hands, and anyone who dares to touch wild animals is poaching, and he took care and followed himself for a day. After chasing those two guys for two days, I couriered back the batch of photos. …… Now, having lost contact with that manager, I don't know what's going on. I got the photos this morning, and in the afternoon I faxed them to a friend at the Ministry of Public Security, who just now called me from the Ministry of Public Security and another friend from the State Security Bureau. Things are more troublesome, I'm afraid it's not poaching, but smuggling. ”
Zuo Lin's brows immediately furrowed.
Yan Hokusai pointed to a thin man who looked to be in his 40s and said, "This guy is called Lu Yi." The business of smuggling and smuggling is very well-established. According to the records of the Ministry of Public Security, he should now be in a prison in Taiwan. He pointed to another man in his 30s and said, "This is Peng Huanshan, who used to work at the Shanghai Wild Animal Park." I didn't know what I was doing after I quit my job. For others, the Ministry of Public Security is still looking for experts to identify. A lot of equipment and equipment have been photographed in the photo, so poaching doesn't have to be so bothersome. The friend from the Ministry of Public Security said it might be wildlife smuggling, and they have already opened a case to take over. However, my manager, the situation may be more dangerous. Can you ......?"
Yan Hokusai is also very difficult, now Zuo Lin's problem is that he belongs to the club, and the next game is away, yes, but he can't find a reason not to participate in training. Since Zuo Lin no longer plays away, there are already a lot of rumors, and it is even more troublesome to miss training again. And this manager under Yan Beizhai is uncertain about his life and death, and there are no further clues, if he doesn't die, it is not very easy to save him.
"What's the manager's name?" Zolin asked.
"Chen Jianzong," Yan Hokusai replied, "Sichuan regional purchasing manager." ”
"Old Yan, do you know where the photo was taken? Sichuan is too big, at least there must be a starting point. Zuo Lin's attitude is also very clear, life is not to be taken lightly, especially such a faithful person.
"The place of sending it is in Dujiangyan City," Yan Hokusai quickly replied, "There should be someone in the local area who is more familiar with the geographical environment there, and if you go, I will arrange someone to cooperate with you." ”
Zuo Lin smiled. It's a good time to change your mood. "Old Yan, you're polite. I'm going back to pack my luggage, is there a plane to Sichuan at night?"
Yan Hokusai was not polite to Zuo Linduo, and immediately asked Xiao to contact the local people, instructed Han Li to prepare the air ticket, and personally called the head coach and general manager of the club to explain the situation with various reasons.