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The next day was the weekend, and Fang Songqi didn't go to Haicheng to see Dr. Ma, she felt that she still needed a little time to adjust her mentality.

Master Qian came early in the morning to prepare breakfast for the two siblings.

Fang Songqi is now basically accustomed to Master Qian's craftsmanship.

Although when she shared a house with Xingxia in the past, Xingxia would be responsible for cooking most of the time, but compared with Master Qian, she was a big step behind, after all, when she hired a nurse, one of the strict conditions was that she must be able to cook nutritious meals for patients.

And where does Master Qian only cook nutritious meals for patients?

Hehe, it's no wonder that Lin Shinian found such a person.

After breakfast, Fang Songqi sat down in front of the computer and hurried to work for a while.

On the people section of the website, the previous interview with Lin Yinan, one of the representatives of overseas Chinese businessmen in Africa, has been put up, and there will naturally be other people's topics in the follow-up.

The unanimous opinion of the group meeting temporarily submitted three characters, one of which happened to be Ji Zhongtang.

This made Fang Songqi have to carefully read Ji Zhongtang's information.

After graduating from high school, he was selected to the French department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages, and after graduation, he was assigned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and then to the Africa Department, where he worked as an ordinary diplomat in basic work, to the position of deputy director, and then to ambassador. His resume is similar to that of most diplomats, and even a little more ordinary than some of them, and even he himself has said in interviews that he is ordinary.

Of course, he also said that the so-called "contribution" is not a single diplomat, but a conscientious gathering of several generations of diplomats engaged in work with Africa.

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Approaching noon, at about eleven o'clock, Ji Laoqi drove Shen Ye to pick up Fang Songqi.

Seeing that the combination of her sweatshirt and leggings was particularly simple and casual, Ji Laoqi teased: "Comrade Xiaofang is a VIP, shouldn't he dress up ceremoniously?"

Fang Songqi squinted at him with the same casualness: "Doctor Xiao Ji, as the person who picks up and drops off VIPs, shouldn't he dress up?"

Ji Laoqi looked at her empty-handed again: "Shouldn't you give some greeting gifts when you come to the door?"

Fang Songqi gently hugged Shen Ye's neck from behind the chair: "Boyfriend and girlfriend give gifts separately, how alienated?"

She knew that Shen Ye must be prepared, so she didn't spend an extra penny, after all, she had only spent a lot of money last night, not to mention that she didn't know what to give.

Ji Laoqi was slapped in the face by her displayed dog food again.

The car drove all the way to Ji's house, the wrought iron gate opened, and on both sides of the road were the thick sycamores with bowl mouths, and three Chinese and Western buildings stood respectively.

Fang Songqi has not seen the world, but this does not prevent her from going to the house of someone richer than her every time she is still full of novelty. It's like a handsome guy, she is not uncommon, but she still can't weaken her interest in the new handsome guy. After all, there are thousands of beautiful beauties in the world, each with its own attitude.

Ji Laoqi ostentatiously introduced to her two sentences about the family heritage of the Ji family, such as a Tanhua during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, and someone from the ancestors who followed Li Hongzhang, a famous minister in the late Qing Dynasty, on an errand.

The family used to be quite prosperous, but it was divided in the later period of the Republic of China, and now there are very few relatives who can still be contacted, and few of these parts have settled abroad and have nothing to do with it.

Ji Laoqi's lineage, during the war, did not move to Hong Kong with the rest of the clan, so he was once down, but his children and grandchildren worked hard, earned their own future, and now they are living a good life.

Ji Laoqi's father is only a total of three brothers, and Ji Zhongtang is the youngest among them.

Because Fang Songqi was Ji Zhongtang's guest, there was no need to greet the other two families, so Ji Laoqi drove the car straight into the innermost building.

Ji Zhongtang was dressed in trousers, shirt, vest and tie, and personally took Secretary Jin to the door.

Fang Songqi boasted that his skin was thicker than the city wall many times, and he felt a little unable to stand his courtesy at this time. However, thinking of Lao Xu's innocence, the trace of unbearable in his heart disappeared.

"Comrade Xiaofang's face is big enough~" Ji Laoqi squeezed his eyebrows and took the lead in getting out of the car, "Uncle~!"

Shen Ye followed: "Uncle Ji." ”

Fang Songqi was the last: "Mr. Ji." ”

"Last time, I said that you can just call me 'uncle' with them. Ji Zhongtang was a little more serious, obviously waiting for her to change her words.

Ji Laoqi's elbow gently poked Fang Songqi's forearm. That's how my uncle treats his juniors. However, in general, it is stricter with their juniors. He and his siblings are "poisoned" every day, while Shen Ye always says that Ji Zhongtang is kind (Chapter 045).

Fang Songqi took out the bright and beautiful character design that he had dealt with the Feng family before, and sweetly followed Ji Zhongtang's meaning: "Uncle Ji is good~"

Ji Zhongtang bowed his head, took the lead from the green belt fence and walked up, and asked Fang Songqi: "Why didn't your brother come?"

"He is not in good health, he pays more attention to it, and it is too troublesome to go out, so he won't bother Uncle Ji. "This is on the one hand, the most important reason is actually that Fang Songqi is not willing to bring Xu Jing.

Xu Jing's illness Ji Zhongtang inquired, and he has nothing to do about it at present.

Fang Songqi turned his gaze to look around with his footsteps, and found that there was not too much life in this house.

Ji Laoqi did not shy away from it, and told directly in front of Ji Zhongtang: "Under normal circumstances, my uncle and Secretary Jin are active here. He pointed to the two servants at Zhang Luo's table, quite sarcastically, "They are all temporarily seconded from my family today." Meals were also delivered from my kitchen. ”

Shen Ye also understands this. In the past, Ji Zhongtang has been stationed in Africa for many years because of work, even if he leaves his job and stays at home for more time in the past three years, he is a bachelor, and he doesn't have another fire when he eats, usually Ji Laoqi's family will bring him, or Ji Zhongtang himself has dinner from time to time outside.

Since everything is borrowed, wouldn't it be better to entertain her directly at Ji Laoyi's house? Fang Songqi felt very funny, and accidentally laughed out loud.

Originally, Ji Laoqi, as Ji Zhongtang's nephew, ridiculed two harmless sentences. As soon as her laughter was "cheering", the scene was a little embarrassing.

Fang Songqi couldn't explain what he was laughing at, and apologized to Ji Zhongtang: "Uncle Ji, I'll just smile casually." ”

Ji Zhongtang didn't take it to heart, and the four of them sat together.

There's not much to say about the dishes, it's very homely. Fang Songqi silently summarized in his heart, from Lin Shinian to the Feng family to the Ji family, the cooks have their own merits.

Their family does not pay attention to "food and does not speak", there is a talkative Ji Laoqi, there has never been a cold scene, and everyone's feelings can be taken care of.

Most of Ji Zhongtang's openings were to ask about Fang Songqi and Xu Jing, such as Fang Songqi's studies, such as Fang Songqi's work. He watched the show that Song Qi used Arabic to save the scene not long ago, and he was a little curious, because Liucheng University did not offer Arabic courses.

Hearing that Fang Songqi was interested in self-study, Ji Laoqi's expression was exaggerated: "Comrade Xiao Fang turned out to be more energetic than he seemed. ”

"Isn't it a good thing to work hard?" asked Ji Zhongtang.

"It's a good thing, it's a good thing~!" Ji Laoqi smiled, "I heard Shen Ye say that Comrade Xiaofang not only taught himself Arabic, but also became fluent in French and Cantonese, and also knew some German. That's right, Shen Gongzi?"

Shen Ye nodded.

Ji Zhongtang couldn't help but appreciate Fang Songqi's gaze.

There are a lot of people who know multiple languages, Fang Songqi doesn't think he is great, but he is not overly humble in the face of praise, and he said truthfully: "Because of my mother, I have been to many countries and regions, and I like to let the locals teach me a few sentences, and then pick up the key points of interest to learn." ”

"Like my uncle, my uncle likes to ask the locals to teach him a few words when he is free, and he has learned a lot of indigenous languages in Africa. Ji Lao Qi smiled.

Ji Zhongtang inevitably taught Ji Laoyu: "Time is squeezed out, and half of your leisure time after work should be allocated to learn more things." ”

Ji Laoqi was as quiet as a chicken in an instant.

Ji Zhongtang continued to chat with Fang Songqi about her career plan.

"There was no planning. Fang Songqi's words sounded like deliberately not praising Ji Zhongtang and choking Ji Zhongtang.

Ji Laoqi held back a smile, quietly gave Shen Ye a thumbs up, and said silently: "I'll take it as your girlfriend to avenge me." ”

After the meal, Ji Zhongtang left to take medicine.

Ji Laoqi was actually a little stunned by this uncle, he was pretending to be relaxed for Fang Songqi and Shen Ye before, but now he really got Chuan Xi in Ji Zhongtang's absence, and whispered to them: "It's the first time for my uncle to entertain guests at home." My parents think it's rare. I suggested that it was easy and convenient for my uncle to go outside to the restaurant, but he said that it would be like a meal, and it was insincere. ”

Fang Songqi stared at the clear pool outside the floor-to-ceiling window, his eyes crossed with disdain. Fuck his bullshit sincerity.

Shen Ye was suspicious: "Uncle Ji is sick?"

Ji Laoqi wrinkled his eyebrows, and his expression suddenly became a lot more solemn: "Don't you know? There are many infectious diseases in that part of Africa, and my uncle used to take disease prevention drugs for a long time during his tenure in areas with a high incidence of infectious diseases, and those drugs have side effects, and they have serious damage to people's liver, kidneys, and so on. And the work of the embassy was already overworked. ”

"He looks healthy, but in fact there are a lot of minor problems, and after returning to his hometown, he has lost the past work rhythm in the past three years, but it has gradually become prominent. He is not young anymore, he once suffered from malaria once every six months and was able to work with infusion, and he has long become a 'good man, not to mention the courage of the year'. ”

Fang Songqi was sad when he heard this.

On the surface, diplomatic work seems to be a greeting, meeting and meeting, but in fact it is far from superficial. In war-torn areas, it is common to "eat under artillery fire and fall asleep to the sound of gunfire"; there is no guarantee of law and order in cities, and it is not uncommon for robberies and murders to occur in the lives of diplomats. Natural factors such as the environment (water pollution, nuclear radiation), climate (deserts, plateaus), and infectious diseases cannot be prevented. One survey identified diplomats, miners and peacekeepers as the three most dangerous occupations in society today.

Putting aside the personal grievances that are secretly rubbed in her heart, Ji Zhongtang is actually very worthy of her respect.

Ji Laoqi temporarily entertained Fang Songqi and Shen Ye in place of Ji Zhongtang, and took them to visit Ji Zhongtang's collection room.

Unlike Feng Songren, who likes antique paintings, Ji Zhongtang's collection may not be considered a collection, and it is not very valuable in comparison. Fang Songqi has seen Tanzanian ebony carvings, South African gold and diamonds, ostrich eggs, African drums, Nigerian Yoruba helmet masks, and so on, and if he had not known that he was once a diplomat, he would have thought that these were just souvenirs brought back from a trip to African countries.

Ji Laoqi stated that these were gifts that Ji Zhongtang received to express friendship.

But at the same time, he also verified the souvenir's statement with a snort: "My uncle goes back to China every few years to visit relatives, and he doesn't understand what we kids like, so he brings these things." At first, we thought it was new and liked it. But we also grow up, and later ...... You get the idea. ”

"I've already counted the face, and I'm happy every time. Although I am always afraid of being educated by him, I also know that he himself is not married and has no children, and he really loves us nephews and nieces and nieces, and educating us is also for our sake. ”

When the three of them came out of the collection room, they ran into Secretary Jin and invited Fang Songqi to meet Ji Zhongtang alone.

Fang Songqi followed Secretary Jin to the second floor.

Ji Zhongtang was standing in front of the large bookcase and flipping through what looked like a photo album.

"Uncle Ji. Fang Songqi walked up to him and found that it was indeed not a photo album, but a booklet with newspaper clippings. She glanced at what appeared to be some important news of the past three years.

Ji Zhongtang explained to her: "At my time, 'newspaper clippings' should be the entry work of every young diplomat, although trivial, but very important. Every morning when I went to work, I would look for important information about Africa from various newspapers and periodicals, cut it out with scissors, sort it out and post it in different categories like this, and let the leaders and comrades read and study it. ”

"I have access to a lot of information every day, so I have a better understanding of the situation in Africa and how to judge value trade-offs. At this point, he looked at Fang Songqi, "You are a person who does news, and you know better than me the importance of judging value trade-offs." ”

Fang Songqi nodded lightly. Now there should be another "screening of authenticity".

Ji Zhongtang: "Although the conditions are much better now than before, and the information channels are unprecedentedly developed, I still miss the simplicity of the past. After leaving my job for more than three years, I learned back to that time, I cut newspapers every day and obtained much more effective content than I did on my mobile phone. ”

This Fang Songqi agrees. There are two sides to everything.

In his heart, he muttered impatiently, should he want to continue to talk to her about such a boring topic?

Luckily, she guessed wrong. Ji Zhongtang closed the newspaper clippings, put them back in the cabinet, and immediately pulled out another thing that was also like a photo album.

This time it is indeed a photo album.

When he opened one of them, Ji Zhongtang handed her the album.

Fang Songqi stared.

It is a group photo of six or seven people, with Ji Zhongtang on the group photo, and more importantly, Lao Xu.

Fang Songqi's eyes instantly turned red.

Ji Zhongtang recalled three years ago: "...... I regret that your father was killed after being kidnapped for six days and five nights, and the Nigerian security forces were forced to take military action. ”

He remembered that Xu He's eyes were staring, and he didn't pick them off for Xu He three times - it was inconvenient to tell her this detail.

"We all attach great importance to it, and we have negotiated with the local ZF through diplomatic channels to ask them to arrest the culprits. The main diplomats of the embassy went to pick up the rescued people and the body of your father, and it was your cousin who flew in from the country at that time, and I asked your cousin if he had any additional requirements, but your cousin asked for nothing. ”

Without further ado, Ji Zhongtang paused for a moment and pulled the photo out of the album: "It should have been taken by your father's team when he first came to Africa." I rarely look through photo albums, and not long ago I stumbled upon this one and thought you could take it. ”

Fang Songqi lowered his eyes from the beginning, and raised his head again at this time, the strangeness in his eyes had been withdrawn, and his expression was fine, he took the photo, said thank you, and didn't say a word of superfluous words.

Ji Zhongtang glanced at her, didn't say much, and still said the same sentence: "If you have any difficulties in the future, you can come to me, I can be in the metropolis, just like the old man, when I am your own uncle." ”

Fang Songqi did not respond.

Ji Zhongtang didn't care either, and went downstairs with her.

When he reached the staircase, Fang Songqi stopped and turned his head to look at Ji Zhongtang: "Mr. Ji should have encountered many similar incidents in his career, do you give special care to the families of each victim?"

The change in salutation already illustrates the change in her mood at this time.

Ji Zhongtang heard that she had an unspoken meaning: "What do you want to say?"

The afternoon sun shines through the glass from the window at hand, and tiny dust particles float in the light. Fang Songqi pinched the edge of the envelope containing the photo, and looked straight into Ji Zhongtang's eyes: "You deliberately took more care of Xu He's children, are you simply pity the families of the victims, or do you feel guilty?"

Ji Zhongtang seemed to be very puzzled: "Why am I ashamed?"

"Nothing. Fang Songqi continued to walk.

Ji Zhongtang was provoked, how could she be so clueless, and guessed in contact with the preface: "Did you have any misunderstanding about your father's death?"

"Is it a misunderstanding?" Fang Songqi maintained a smile, "What was the specific situation at that time, I think you know in your heart that among the few people who were kidnapped, why only my father was killed and the others were safe, you also know it." ”

Ji Zhongtang's expression was slightly strange: "Have you heard something?"

Fang Songqi's smile couldn't hold on at all, and his face was indifferent: "You really don't have any guilt for your father?"

"Yes. Ji Zhongtang admitted, "My biggest guilt for your father is that I couldn't save his life." ”

Then he calmly said: "But for the situation at that time, from the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to our colleagues in the embassy where we carried out the order, everyone did their best and achieved a better result than expected." ”

Hehe, better results. Fang Songqi remembered the train problem that Ji Zhongtang had answered in the show (Chapter 044). At this moment, she was extremely vicious in her heart: Why didn't the other kidnapped people die with Lao Xu back then?!

"Thank you for your hospitality today, and thank you for the photos, nothing else, it's time for me to leave. With the wrath of rolling over, Fang Songqi stepped on his feet very heavily at once.

In the living room, Shen Ye saw at a glance that Fang Songqi's mood was wrong, and stepped forward to hold her hand: "What's wrong?"

Fang Songqi didn't care about the occasion, and leaned into his arms: "I want to go back......"

"Good. Shen Ye should go down and raise his eyes to look at Ji Zhongtang, who came downstairs after her.

Obviously, there was an unpleasantness between her and Ji Zhongtang, and her appearance was easy to misunderstand that Ji Zhongtang had done too much to her.

This made Ji Laoqi quite embarrassed, and it was difficult to ask what was wrong in person.

Of course, Shen Ye and Ji Laoqi both knew Ji Zhongtang's personality, and they didn't think crookedly because of this.

Ji Zhongtang didn't make any excuses for himself, and only told Ji Laoqi to send Fang Songqi and Shen Ye like when he came.

"Uncle Ji, I'll visit you another day. Thank you today. Shen Ye said goodbye politely and walked out with Fang Songqi in his arms.

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I came with great interest, but I returned disappointed.

On the way back, none of the three in the car said a word.

Ji Laoqi kept glaring at Shen Ye.

Fang Songqi was alone in the back seat, staring at the clouds gathering in the sky.

After a while, she suddenly opened her mouth and asked Ji Laoqi to transfer to the Ancient Books Publishing House.

Ji Laoqi re-navigated, turned around with the steering wheel, and glanced at Shen Ye with the eyes of the second monk.

Shen Ye knew better than him that she was going to find her cousin.

But why?

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Weng Jianxiang was very surprised by Fang Songqi's visit.

At first, when he was notified that his cousin and niece were looking for him, he thought that his colleague had made a mistake, but when he saw that it was indeed her sitting in the conference room, Weng Jianxiang was worried: "Ah Qi, is it that your cousin is looking for trouble with you and Xiaojing again?"

So she specially came to Xingshi to ask for sin.

He was afraid that she would tear him apart regardless of the occasion.

But Fang Songqi asked: "Tell me again about the situation when you went to Africa to pick up my father's body." ”

Weng Jianxiang was stunned: "Why did you suddenly ask about this again?"

"Nothing, I just want to hear it again. Fang Songqi's tone was undulating, and his expression was exceptionally calm, which was the best attitude towards him in the past three years.

Weng Jianxiang's heart was heavy.

The relationship between the Weng family and Xu He was not close before.

Xu He's wife passed away, and there was only one son in the household registration book, Xu Jing, who was underage and still sick, and had no other relatives, so the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs found Weng Jianxiang, first offered condolences, and then informed him to go to Africa.

Weng Jianxiang knew that Xu He also had his ex-wife Fang Jie and daughter Fang Songqi, but he couldn't contact their mother and daughter for a while (he later learned that his ex-wife Fang Jie had also passed away), so he took over the important task and took a ZF charter flight.

“…… When I arrived in Africa, it was the diplomats of the embassy who came to pick me up, and many people, including ambassadors, administrative counselors, and political work counselors, came...... "Weng Jianxiang went out so far for the first time, and he saw ZF Gao Guan, who had never seen him in his life, and he was actually stunned throughout the whole process.

Until I saw Xu He's body.

The hospital had actually changed Xu He's body into decent clothes and painted makeup, but after all, it was lying there with one life.

Once Weng Jianxiang was quite envious of Xu He's cousin, who was more worldly and promisingly than him shrunk in front of the table and dealing with ancient books. At that moment, Weng Jianxiang really felt sad, and sighed that nothing could compare to a lifetime of peace.

The ambassador asked me if I had any additional requests, and I shook my head. Your father was an accident, and before he went to aid Africa, everyone knew the risk, who could blame him? ZF later also issued a pension. When it came to the pension, Weng Jianxiang was immediately embarrassed, because the money was also taken by Lu Chunyan without authorization to pay for his medical expenses when he was sick at the time.

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