22. The truth of the year
Green Island City is close to the sea, the climate is warm, the spring and autumn seasons are particularly long, there are many sanatoriums of all kinds in the urban area, but the old man of the Ji family prefers this one near Chenjia Village on the East Mountain, the location is hidden, clean enough, the air on the mountain is good, the nearby are farmers, the old man has been with his grandmother in the countryside for a long time when he was a child, and he misses the life in the countryside more and more when he gets older, so every time he comes to Green Island for recuperation, he will basically choose this one. Among the four of them, Zhang Shinian didn't come with him much, the last time he came was in the early nineties, it was almost twenty years ago, and the changes in the mountains were quite big, but he could still find the way to the sanatorium.
The sanatorium is built on a hillside on the west side of the town, and the road up the mountain is as quiet as it was back then, with only the sound of running water in the valley and the chirping of birds in the branches, and the occasional squirrel jumping down the trees, most of the trees in the mountains have just sprouted, and some unknown small wildflowers have bloomed on the roadside.
There are people guarding the entrance of the sanatorium, and you can't enter without a pass, Zhang Shinian saw that he walked outside the wall before the agreed time, as Chen Anxiu said, there are really a lot of green cherry blossoms, and there are too many cherry blossoms in other colors, and this faint green looks particularly clean and transparent. It must have been planted in recent years, and when he used to come here, many of them were persimmon trees, and in autumn, they were full of small red lanterns.
After Chen Anxiu and Ton Ton left last night, he called Ji Siyuan, but the call was answered by an assistant, and later contacted Ji Mingcheng, only to know that the person in Lu Dao didn't know that Lu Dao had taken his first new love to a foreign vacation again, and he vaguely remembered that Ji Siyuan's incident that night was arranged by Ji Siyuan with a person surnamed Yang. I received a reply from Ji Mingcheng this morning, saying that I found out that there was indeed a person surnamed Yang next to Ji Siyuan, but it had been some years since he left, and it was a coincidence that the person surnamed Yang was now working in this nursing home, so he made this special trip.
"Mr. Zhang?" Zhang Shinian didn't wait long, the door of the sanatorium opened, and a middle-aged man about fifty with a fat body came out of it, he walked up to Zhang Shinian with an eager face, and said, "Mr. Zhang, you are here, I received a call from Ji Shao this morning, I came out to greet me several times, please inside, please inside." ”
"Mr. Yang, is it?"
"Yes, yes, Mr. Zhang may not remember me, I used to work under President Ji, I saw you a few times, my name is Yang Yuancheng. He had a deep impression of Zhang Shinian, and he also knew that his boss had some ideas about this person before, but for various reasons, this relationship has never been broken.
Zhang Shinian walked in with him, and the layout inside was not much different from that year, that is, the French plane trees on the side of the road were obviously much thicker, and this may be the reason for the old area, he looked at the expansion of the new area in the south, "Mr. Yang, are you working in this nursing home now?"
"Mr. Zhang just call me Lao Yang, I'm old, so I asked Mr. Ji to help me find this job, and I am a director under the name of a director, the money is not as much as before, but the job is very stable, and the benefits are good. ”
Zhang Shinian smiled, "It turned out to be Director Yang, how many years has Director Yang worked here?"
Yang Yuancheng didn't know what Lu Daozhang was interested in when he was young, but he still replied honestly, "This year is the eighth year." ”
The two of them chose a window seat in the small tea shop in the sanatorium, opposite the scenery of the canyon.
"Mr. Zhang, please have tea. Yang Yuancheng couldn't figure out what this person was going to do with him suddenly, Ji Shao only said that he wanted to ask him something, but this one didn't speak, and he was always a little unsure in his heart.
"The last time I came to Green Island City, it was nine years ago, and when I was drinking with you Mr. Ji, Director Yang was also there at that time, right?"
"Yes, yes, I followed Mr. Ji at the time. Yang Yuancheng quickly replied that before Zhang Shinian arrived, he had already gone through the things he remembered about Zhang Shinian in his mind several times. Nine years ago was the last time he saw Zhang, so he recalled this time many times.
"It's been so many years. ”
Yang Yuancheng smiled and said, "Mr. Zhang's appearance hasn't changed much, I recognized it at a glance just now." ”
"It's true that your Mr. Ji hasn't changed at all, he is still surrounded by beauties, and I saw him once in Beijing last fall, I remember that you Mr. Ji also found a beautiful child back then, what's your name?"
"Oh, it's called Xiao Fei, and he's a big star now. "It's been so long, others may not remember, Xiao Fei He remembers him too clearly, just because Xiao Fei served Zhang Shinian this time, he was raised by Mr. Ji for several years, and he has long been popular.
Zhang Shinian's heart skipped a beat, and there was a moment of fierceness in his eyes, but his tone was still gentle. "Is Director Yang sure?"
"Sure, sure, that's what I arranged back then. After Yang Yuancheng finished speaking, he boldly asked tentatively, "Is Mr. Zhang looking for Xiao Fei for something?" Do you want me to help contact the company, I am gone, and there are still many colleagues I know over there. ”
"It's not a big deal, let's talk about it later, Director Yang has worked in the nursing home for so many years, do you know the family who opened a building materials store in the town?"
"Building materials store?" Mr. Zhang is talking about the old Chen family, Chen Jianping's family?" "This town is not big, and there is only one building materials store in the big one."
"It's surnamed Chen. Zhang Shinian nodded, "Do you know the situation in his family?"
Yang Yuancheng was even more puzzled in his heart, this Chen family is an authentic mountain villager, although life is okay, but he can't imagine that he can have anything to do with the person in front of him.
Zhang Shinian seemed to understand his doubts, and added lightly, "His eldest son, Chen Anxiu, is now working by my side, and I happened to meet Director Yang this time, so I will ask by the way." ”
Yang Yuancheng's heart is like this, those who stay by his side to do things are always better at knowing the roots, so he said what he knew, " There are often some small decoration work in the sanatorium, and Chen Jianping has a lot of dealings, he is a very good friend, I have also drunk with him a few times, his three children, counting his daughter is the most promising, the youngest son is a worryless, but the past two years have gotten a lot better, as for his eldest son, I heard that he used to study well, a few years ago, I heard Lao Chen say, his eldest son is going to be admitted to the military academy, stay in the army or something, and now he is back, it is estimated that things have not been done, right? I haven't heard anything bad about my character, but when I was young and ignorant, I made a big fuss......" Yang Yuancheng said this, hesitating slightly. After all, it's always not good to say bad things about people behind your back.
"Did you have a child as a teenager?"
Yang Yuancheng breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It turns out that Mr. Zhang already knows the Tao. Good-looking boys will inevitably spend more money. ”
"Do you know what year he went to the army?" asked Zhang Shinian in a casual chattering tone.
"I don't know exactly what year it was, it was probably eight or nine years ago, and I heard that I went directly to it when I graduated from high school. ”
That is, the little guy has no chance to work in Ji Siyuan's place at all, but if the person who went there that night was named Xiao Fei, how could the little guy happen to appear on his bed, and he was naked, it was really a bit strange.
Yang Yuancheng didn't understand what this person was here to do until Zhang Shinian left, so he asked two sentences at random, and it didn't seem to be a big point, but with the identity of this person, there was really no reason to come here to make a special trip, just to chat with him, they didn't have such a big face.
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"Zhuangzhuang, I said why did Xiao Zhang go out of Lu for so long and not come back? He came for the first time, won't he get lost in the mountain?" Zhang Shinian has been out of Lu alone for three hours, and he hasn't come back yet, and Chen's father is starting to worry.
Chen Anxiu was tidying up the shelves, and when he heard his father's words, he said disapprovingly, "He is such a big person, what can he do? Isn't there a mouth to ask if he gets lost?" Having said that, Chen Anxiu couldn't help but twist his eyebrows and looked at the door several times, he wouldn't really get lost, there were a lot of branches and forks on the mountain.
"Zhuang Zhuang, how can I listen to you, you have a bad relationship with your boss?"
"No, Dad, don't guess, we have a good relationship. "It's so good that I almost roll the sheets to express my invincible feelings.
"I think so, denying you won't bring people home. Chen's father came to his own conclusions.
Chen Anxiu vomited blood, how could his father's nerves be so thick, it was obviously his father who forced him to leave people, and he didn't want to take Zhang Shinian home at all.
"Zhuangzhuang, you better go out and look for it, there will be no sun later, it's very cold on the mountain, what's the matter, it's also a guest of our family." ”
Chen Anxiu got down from the ladder, untied the navy blue apron on his body, patted the dust on his body, and said, "That's okay, Dad, I'll go out and have a look." "Few people give him a headache when he thinks about it, Zhang Shinian is definitely the fastest promoted one in the list of troublesome people in his heart, and the upward momentum is rapid, and there is a tendency to catch up and seize the first place.
After going out, Chen Anxiu thought about which direction to start with so many roads, and saw Zhang Shinian turn around from the iron chain bridge on the right, wearing a very good style of dark casual clothes, with the mask of the big white bear on his face, no matter how you look at it, it makes people feel very funny, Chen Anxiu should not be the only one who has this feeling, just look at the strange eyes of pedestrians on the road, Chen Anxiu's mood exploded in an instant.
But this person is really arrogant enough, he has been watched by people like this, and he doesn't seem to be at all uncomfortable, and this strong psychological quality makes people unconvinced.
Zhang Shinian saw Chen Anxiu from afar, and then walked over, "Come out to pick me up?" By the way, he took off the mask and put it in his pocket.
Chen Anxiu didn't have time to care about his extraordinarily intimate attitude, so he tried to stop him and said, "Don't, don't, it looks good when you wear it, why take it off, it's a waste of my mind." ”
Zhang Shi smiled young and grabbed his troublesome right hand.
Chen Anxiu stepped on the wire like a rabbit, instantly retreated and bounced away, and asked with a defensive face, "Hey, what do you want to do in broad daylight?" He hadn't forgotten the loss he had suffered in Zhang Shinian's hands last night, at least until his right hand recovered, he planned to stay away from Zhang Shinian.
The little guy is so funny even when he fries his hair, Zhang Shinian dares to think about it, but he doesn't dare to say it, it is still necessary to shun Shun Mao when necessary, "I just want to ask you, does your arm hurt today?"
Chen Anxiu didn't believe it, and swept back and forth on Zhang Shinian's face several times, looking at Zhang Shinian's expression, he thought to himself that maybe he really thought too much, he clearly refused, this chapter Shinian didn't look like the kind of person who stalked him horizontally and vertically, so he let go of a little guard and said, "There is a little, but it's not a big deal." ”
"I'll change your medicine again in the evening. ”
"Okay, so be it. "Anyway, Dad has left people, it's this time, and Chen Anxiu can't really drive people away.
"Strong?"
It was Chen's mother's voice, thinking that she had conspired with her father to deceive her mother just now, Chen Anxiu instantly felt a little weak, "Mom, why did you come here at this time? Didn't you go to Maomao's house to help?"
"It's just that I can't be busy at noon, I helped in the past, who are you talking to here?" Chen's mother is not tall, and now she is blocked by Chen Anxiu, and Chen's mother can't see the appearance of the people behind her clearly.
"My boss, Dad told you at noon. ”
Zhang Shinian said hello to Chen's mother.
Seeing Zhang Shinian's appearance clearly, Chen's mother looked at Chen Anxiu again, and her face immediately sank.
I have to say that Chen's mother is really the smartest in this family