Chapter 20: Personality and Character (I)

Qian Weidong went on a business trip, and Gao Ming worked for him for a week. In the morning, when I went to the meeting of the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee, I first went to Mr. Huang's office to make a brief report, and when I went back to the office to turn on the computer, I saw that there was a lot of manuscripts, and I was relieved to see that there were no urgent drafts. I hurriedly made myself a cup of hot tea, but before I could drink it, I heard someone knock on the door. As soon as he said please come in, Ren Jian pushed the door and came in, followed by Su Han.

Both of them looked very solemn, not like their usual heartless appearance. This made Gao Ming wonder, and after letting them sit down, he smiled, and said Judging by the serious expressions of the two of you, I guess something really happened to me.

Who knew that Ren Jian nodded and said Gao Leader, this matter is indeed not small. The two of us didn't dare to make up our own minds, so we had to come to you together.

When Gao Ming heard this, he was a little surprised. Although Ren Jian usually speaks unreliable, he is very measured in his actions, so he asked, what makes you so nervous?

Ren Jian said that there were two things to report to the leader, one was that the person who made the anonymous phone call sent a lot of information to me, but the content was unreliable, so there was no need to pay attention to it. As for the second one, he looked back at Su Han, and said Su Han, come on.

Su Han looked at Gao Ming timidly, looked back at Ren Jian, and said softly, Teacher Ren, let's talk about it, I'm afraid that if I'm nervous, I won't be able to speak clearly.

Ren Jian encouraged her to say, what is there to be nervous about? Let's talk about it, it's your classmate's business, let me say how can you make it clear?

Gao Ming saw that they pushed me to let me, so he called Su Han's name and said Su Han, since it is your business, then you can talk about it.

Su Han hesitated for a moment before saying, Director Gao, that's the case, the most critical witness in the Xiaochizi incident is the girl named Li Xiaoling, who is also my classmate. We were in the same class in junior high school, and we had a pretty good relationship.

When Gao Ming heard Su Han's words, he was stunned on the spot, he never thought that things would become so dramatic. Some people say that the world is too small, and this seems to make a lot of sense. There are a lot of strange things going around in this world, and it seems that they are always happening between a few people.

After being stunned for a moment, Gao Ming came back to his senses and asked, it has been so long since the accident, you and Ren Jian saw her on the day you went to Xiaochizi, why did you know that she was a classmate now?

Su Han said, it will be a long time to say this, in fact, the first time I saw her, I thought she was very familiar, but she was with Teacher Zhang Qin at that time, so she didn't dare to look carefully, so I couldn't confirm it.

Then Su Han carefully talked about Li Xiaoling.

When Li Xiaoling was in junior high school, she was not called Li Xiaoling, but Zhang Yan. Li Xiaoling's name was changed with her mother's surname after her parents divorced. When they were in junior high school, Su Han and Zhang Yan were not only in the same class, but also shared the table for a period of time, and their relationship was also very close.

In the third year of junior high school, Zhang Yan suddenly became estranged from Su Han because of her early love. At that time, someone in the class once said that the boy actually took a fancy to Su Han, because Su Han was too arrogant to approach, so he deliberately chased Zhang Yan first. But the problem is that after the boy provoked Zhang Yan, Zhang Yan was moved by his true feelings and fell in love with him very devotedly. This is Zhang Yan's first love, so she cherishes it very much.

Probably because she was really afraid that Su Han would rob her boyfriend, Zhang Yan found an excuse to quickly cut off contact with Su Han. Because Su Han is much more beautiful than her, this makes her really feel at ease.

In the high school entrance examination, Su Han's score was more than ten points higher than Zhang Yan's, and they went to different high schools. After separation, the two almost never saw each other again for so many years.

This time there was an accident in Xiaochizi Village, and Li Xiaoling became an important witness, but Su Han didn't know that Li Xiaoling was Zhang Yan at first. On the day she and Ren Jian went to the scene, although they saw Li Xiaoling, they were not sure that Li Xiaoling was Zhang Yan, and they didn't even remember her name.

Su Han couldn't let go of this matter in her heart, and after going home, she thought about it for a long time, and finally remembered her junior high school classmate Zhang Yan, and also connected her with Li Xiaoling.

This discovery made Su Han very surprised and excited, but she didn't tell anyone until she was sure that Li Xiaoling was Zhang Yan. The next day, as soon as Su Han went to work, he made an excuse to ask Gao Ming for leave and sneaked out, and quietly went to Xiaochi alone. Although Li Xiaoling was not found this time, she found out the address of her home.

So Su Han simply went directly to her house for the second time, and finally met Li Xiaoling.

What Su Han didn't expect was that when they met this time, Li Xiaoling was quite enthusiastic about her. Su Han saw that the atmosphere was good, so he took her to a coffee shop by taxi. The two drank coffee and chatted very closely. The unpleasant memories of the junior high school days also disappeared in a smile. Li Xiaoling told Su Han that after going to high school, she finally broke up with her first love because the boy fell in love with other girls.

chatted with each other about the past and the present, and Su Han learned that Li Xiaoling graduated from high school and was admitted to a university in the city to study accounting, and after graduation, she worked as an accountant in a supermarket. She usually neither reads books nor newspapers, watches TV and only watches serials, and never cares about news and current affairs. So when I learned that Su Han was a reporter in Yangzhou Daily, I was surprised and admired. Because of her cousin Zhang Qin's relationship, Li Xiaoling has a good impression of Yangzhou Daily, and always feels that the newspaper will definitely help them speak, so she naturally has a little more closeness to Su Han.

After that, they naturally talked about the Xiaochizi incident, and Li Xiaoling confided in Su Han about her inner anguish. Li Xiaoling is not wary of her old classmates, so she is telling the truth.

Li Xiaoling told Su Han that her family was one of the first residents of Xiaochizi to sign a contract with Sunshine Group, and later fought a lawsuit with them because Sunshine did not fulfill the contract. So from the bottom of her heart, Li Xiaoling has no good impression of Sunshine Group. After the police looked for her in this accident, at first she didn't think there was anything wrong with not telling the truth, but later the more she thought about it, the more guilty she became, and she always felt a little sorry for He Fei. Because on the day of the accident, He Fei and the others did help her. If they hadn't helped, she wouldn't have gotten her purse back. But I didn't expect that such a big thing would happen later. What's even more infuriating is that after the accident, the thief finally took advantage of the chaos to escape.

As long as she recalls the scene at that time, Li Xiaoling will feel like she had a nightmare. Originally, her cousin Zhang Kewen kindly invited her to dinner that day, and he also cooked a few specialty dishes himself. Halfway through the meal, Li Xiaoling happened to notice a young man in his twenties who had been rubbing back and forth beside her several times.

Li Xiaoling is also good-looking, and at first she only thought that the man wanted to find a chance to talk to her, so she didn't plan to pay attention to it. Later, she felt that something was not right, and felt that the handbag she put behind her moved a few times. Looking back, I couldn't help but be surprised, the handbag was opened at some point, and I quickly picked it up and flipped through it, and the wallet was gone. When he looked up again, he saw the young man running out, so he shouted and chased after him.

No one expected that the tragedy happened in just a few minutes after that, when He Fei was recognized and surrounded, Li Xiaoqin was stunned for a moment, because she didn't expect a celebrity like He Fei to suddenly appear on this occasion. But when she came back to her senses, she saw a person suddenly flying backwards, just hitting her cousin who had just been chased out of the shop. Due to the excessive force of the impact, Zhang Kewen retreated several steps in a row and did not stand firmly, and when he fell on his back, the back of his head hit the stone edge of the street directly. Zhang Kewen immediately fell unconscious, and the blood gushing out soaked the road in an instant. He didn't even say a word, and just left suddenly.

Li Xiaoling was very entangled in her heart and fell into deep distress. She originally hated He Fei a lot, but she felt that things should be one yard at a time. Not to mention the fact that he signed the contract and did not carry it out, He Fei undoubtedly had a lot of responsibility for his cousin's death this time, but after all, he did it to help her. What made her even more embarrassed was that without waiting for the Public Security Bureau to come to her door, her cousin-in-law Qiu Li led a large group of people to come and locked her in the house for a long time.

Qiu Li snorted and cried, cursing He Fei while instructing Li Xiaoling, warning her not to tell the truth about He Fei catching the thief, let alone telling the truth about Zhang Kewen being knocked down, because that would not only make He Fei less responsible, but also have a more serious consequence, that is, those villagers who came forward to accuse He Fei of beating people may also be held accountable for false accusations. Others also persuaded Li Xiaoling to stand firm, and even threatened that if she said something beneficial to He Fei, she would offend all the people in Xiaochizi, and someone would give her a good look.

Li Xiaoling never wants to be the enemy of Xiaochizi and others, and she is not willing to lie with her conscience. She didn't sleep for almost the whole night, and after hesitation and struggle, she finally decided to listen to her cousin. So later, whether it was facing the public security or Lin Yi, she only said nothing and didn't see anything.

Although Li Xiaoling did this, she didn't expect that she couldn't please anywhere. Both the police and Lin Yi thought that Li Xiaoling was not telling the truth, but some people in Xiaochizi thought that she did not speak for her own family because they demanded that she must testify that He Fei had beaten someone.

In addition to these troubles, for Li Xiaoling, she also has a worry, that is, if the police catch the thief one day, they will find that she has concealed important facts, and she is very worried about whether she will bear legal responsibility.

This fear exacerbated Li Xiaoling's inner contradictions and pain, but she couldn't tell anyone. finally met Su Han, and naturally regarded her as the object of confiding. Su Han listened to her story, and didn't know what to do. Except for comforting Li Xiaoling, nothing else can be done.

After Su Han returned to the newspaper, he thought about it and always felt that this was a big deal. She couldn't make up her mind on her own, so she had to find Ren Jian and tell him these things in detail. Ren Jian listened, and he didn't know what to do, and after discussing with Su Han, he came to find Gao Ming together.

After listening to Su Han's narration, Gao Ming also thought that this situation was very important. But he couldn't say exactly how to deal with it, and he needed to think about it. He instructed the two of them not to mention it to anyone for the time being, and let them go back first.

The matter is obvious, if Li Xiaoling tells the true situation, it will definitely be beneficial to He Fei's side. So even if there is no other pressure, just for financial reasons, she will hesitate, and the residents of Xiaochi are certainly not happy to see this happen.

Strictly speaking, if Li Xiaoling told the police whether she would say anything about the incident, at most she could only make some personality and moral evaluations of her, and did not involve legal issues.

According to his clever character, he is a person who has more than one thing and one thing less, and will never take the initiative to meddle with other people's affairs. But for some reason, when he really encounters something, he can't help but always pay attention to it. For example, in the Xiaochi incident, he unknowingly involved himself.

Gao Ming thought about the reason carefully, in fact, it was very simple, the most important factor was the two people, He Fei and Lin Yi.

The incident of Wang Lei's boyfriend a few years ago, deep in Gao Ming's heart, has probably always been a hurdle that has not passed. So as long as he has the opportunity, he always wants to teach He Fei a lesson. So when he saw Zhang Qin tossing this time, Gao Ming thought about it. But if he knew that Mr. Liu took this opportunity to attack Lin Yi and succeeded easily, it is estimated that he would definitely regret his death.

As for Lin Yi, the reasons are much more complicated. Although they are innocent and innocent, speaking of which, her position in Gao Ming's heart is always more special than others. No matter what she has become now, Gao Ming still can't let her go, and he doesn't want to embarrass her. Since the matter involves her, as long as it is possible, Gao Mingming secretly can't help but always want to help her.

Since this matter involves personality and moral evaluation, Gao Ming began to reflect on whether his own practices also violated some of his standards of life. He didn't dare to say how noble his morals were and how perfect his personality was, but he was always a little confused about whether Li Xiaoling should tell the truth, and he couldn't afford it or let it go. Gao Ming didn't care whether He Fei and Xiong Qi were dead or alive, but not for Lin Yi, no matter what her relationship with He Fei was now, Gao Ming couldn't turn a blind eye. If the Xiaochizi incident is not resolved for a day, it will always be a matter for Lin Yi.

So Gao Ming also fell into distress similar to Li Xiaoling. Either he should let go immediately and never pay attention to this matter again, or he should find a way to get Li Xiaoling to explain the real situation to the police, so as to promote a fair resolution of the Xiaochizi incident as soon as possible. But if you really do this, objectively it will inevitably help He Fei again. As long as he thought of this layer, Gao Ming felt very uncomfortable in his heart.

In Gao Ming's opinion, He Fei is certainly not a good person, but it does not seem to be to the point of heinousness, and it should be more accurate to define him by the word profiteer. Abduction and bribery should be commonplace for He Fei. Before and after his career, he definitely did a lot of things that hurt others and benefited himself, and some things were even quite lacking in morality.

After that interview in Yutou Village, because he was moved by He Fei's tears and recognized those good deeds, Gao Ming's opinion of him changed somewhat, but deep down in his heart, he still couldn't let go of Su Han and Wang Lei's affairs.

Ever since he decided that He Fei had bad intentions towards Su Han, Gao Ming had been taking strict precautions and didn't want him to succeed. But Wang Lei's matter is different, if you really want to judge fairly, the main responsibility for her boyfriend's incident should still be borne by Wang Lei herself. Flies don't bite eggs that haven't been sewn, He Fei is indeed a fly, but Wang Lei's egg originally had a seam.

Gao Ming thought about it, but he couldn't decide what to do. But for some reason, there was gradually a strong desire in his heart, he wanted to see Li Xiaoling.

When he was about to get off work at noon, Gao Ming called Ren Jian first, saying that he planned to invite Su Han to dinner in the evening, and asked him to arrange it, and it was best to book a room in Meiyuan.

As soon as Ren Jian heard this, he came up and said Leader Gao, you actually want to invite Su Han to dinner, is the sun coming out of the west today? It is said that people and animals sometimes behave abnormally, and there may be an earthquake...... Ren Jian didn't finish speaking, and Gao Ming had already hung up.

Gao Ming hung up Ren Jian's phone and immediately called Su Han again and asked her to come over.

Su Han put down the phone and came over quickly. She pushed the door in, and saw Gao Ming frowning and pondering, and didn't dare to disturb him, she didn't even say anything, just stood there silently. Gao Ming turned around and saw Su Han, quickly smiled, and beckoned her to come and sit down.

Gao Ming wanted to get straight to the point and get down to business, but he felt a little abrupt, thinking that Su Han was not Ren Jian after all, so he wanted to stop talking.