Liang Jian changed his mind to go to Xu Jingchu's house again, mainly because he felt that Xu Jingchu, who was alone in Shanghai, had experienced so many things, and maybe he really hoped that an old man like Liang Jian who knew the roots could accompany him for a while. I don't want to get involved in her already fragile emotional world and add new injuries to her, but if she can't even meet such a small request, how can it not be a harm? So, after thinking about it, Liang Jian still changed his mind.

Liang Jian accompanied Xu Jingchu to take a taxi.

Xu Jingchu looked around and said softly: "Why do I always feel that someone is observing us, or directly stalking us?" Liang Jian thought, in this big Shanghai, who cares about him Liang Jian, and it costs money to follow!, so he smiled and said: "Maybe because you are a beauty, so someone will follow!" Xu Jingchu glanced at him and smiled quite charmingly: "Say that I am a beauty, I also admit it, but in Shanghai for so long, no one follows me in and out of a person, and I was followed by someone after having dinner with you today?"

Hearing that Xu Jingchu was a little more confident and optimistic in his words, Liang Jian was quite pleased, maybe it had something to do with him accompanying her.

Sitting in the taxi, Xu Jingchu mysteriously said to the driver: "Master, if you see a car following us behind, get rid of it!" The driver, who was about forty years old, looked at the two of them in the rearview mirror and said, "No problem." In addition, I would like to ask a question, am I making a spy war movie?" Xu Jingchu asked: "What does a spy war movie mean?" The driver smiled: "Only in spy war movies do I often play tracking, racing, passion and speed." Besides, the two of you, a handsome man and a beautiful girl, look like actors. ”

Liang Jian and Xu Jingchu glanced at each other and grinned. When people are complimented, the mood is always very different. Liang Jian said: "The master is a master, and he doesn't bring a good word when he praises people." The driver overtook a black Mercedes-Benz in the direction and said quietly: "Laugh, laugh!"

The driver's driving skills are really unusual, the car is like a small snake fast through the bustling streets, several times, when overtaking, Liang Jian, who has some driving experience, feels thrilled. Soon, the car flicked its tail and came to a steady stop outside an old neighborhood.

This community is very different from Liang Jian's imagination of where Xu Jingchu should live. Liang Jian originally thought that Xu Jingchu should live in a high-end, brand-new, or at least relatively clean community. However, this neighborhood is very old and a bit chaotic. When Liang Jian and the others walked in, some old grandfathers and grandmothers looked at them with suspicion in their eyes.

Xu Jingchu seemed to notice Liang Jian's expression, and said, "Do you think the community I live in is too dilapidated?" Liang Jian said empathetically: "Chang'an City, it's not easy to live. I think that Shanghai today is not as good as it. It should be nice to have a place to stay. How much is a house here?" Xu Jingchu said: "When I bought it, it was 17,000, 60 square meters and 1 million, of course, I took out a loan! But now, the house price here has risen to 31,000 square meters." Liang Jian said: "It seems that in two or three years, you have made a net profit of 800,000 yuan!" Xu Jingchu said: "Actually, for me, there is not much difference between rising or falling housing prices." The house price has risen to 60,000 square meters, and I can't sell this nest, otherwise I will have to sleep on the streets, right? If I want to buy a new one, this amount of money is a fraction. ”

Walking into the corridor, Liang Jian seems to have a feeling of entering the old Shanghai of the last century. On the second floor, there was a door open, and old songs were playing on the radio. Others looked through the doorway to see who was walking outside. Liang Jian was a little worried, is it safe for a young and beautiful woman like Xu Jingchu to live in such a place?

Xu Jingchu's house is on the fourth floor. The 60-square-meter house, although the sparrow is small, has everything available, just like Liang Jian's rented house, with bedrooms, study, dining room and toilet. Xu Jingchu said: "I'm here in the Burrow, I'm smiling!" Liang Jian said: "Actually, I don't even have a Burrow, and the place I live in now is similar to your house, but it's rented." The previous house was left to Lu Yuan. Xu Jingchu looked at Liang Jian with feeling: "It seems that our misery is very similar. ”

Liang Jian took a tour of the room and could see that it had been renovated. The kitchen and dining room are very clean, the bedroom is very tidy, especially the study has taken a lot of brains, a set of solid wood tables and chairs, and a tatami mat by the window. Xu Jingchu saw that Liang Jian was interested in tatami mats, so he said: "A sunny weekend."

I'll lean in here and read a book. ”

When Xu Jingchu went to the kitchen to boil water, Liang Jian looked at Xu Jingchu's neat and full bookshelf, Cambridge Chinese History, Black Hole Theory, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, etc., which were rich in variety, and it could be seen that she had a wide range of interests. Liang Jian turned back to the kitchen and said, "You really have a lot of miscellaneous books!"

Xu Jingchu came from the kitchen with wet hands, and said with a smile: "There is no purpose, do you have any good books to recommend?"

Liang Jian's gaze slid over the neckline of her long dress, which was slightly lower, wearing a thin white gold necklace, and the pendant was a bud-shaped blue crystal, lined with her slightly protruding collarbone, which had a different kind of sexiness. With a slight movement in his heart, Liang Jian looked away, looked at her smiling eyebrows, and said: "I really don't read much recently, and I have less time to go to the bookstore. ”

I took a napkin, dried my hands, picked up a hand cream from the desk, squeezed a little on the back of my hand, and wiped it carefully. Xu Jingchu said: "**I like to read Zizhi Tongjian the most, it seems that after you entered politics, you are on par with ** in books!"

Liang Jian was impressed: "You know this!"

Xu Jingchu's eyes searched for the bookshelf: "** review book, I used to have one, and then I don't know where I went!"

Girls who like to read books can't help but be a little arrogant. It turns out that Xu Jingchu's coldness also comes partly from the trace of intellectual habits that she still retains.

Two brightly colored fabric futons are placed on the tatami mats, and a small coffee table with a set of glass teapots and teacups placed in the center is very petty-bourgeois. Liang Jian sat down on one of the futons, looking at the night scene outside the floor-to-ceiling window, and suddenly felt a warm feeling in his heart. Xu Jingchu also sat down, leaning softly against the wall, his gaze slid from Liang Jian's engraved facial features to his coiled legs, and then went all the way up, climbing his resolute chin with some blue stubble, and couldn't help but think: If the person she fell in love with at the beginning was the man in front of her, what would life be like? Liang Jian turned his head, his eyes fell on the delicate set of teapots and cups, and said: " It seems that you are doing well, if a person can spend time drinking tea, life will definitely be above the well-off!" Xu Jingchu's smile was gentle and shallow, like the clear water in the mountain stream, which was exceptionally fresh: "I won't tell you, I am now full of food and the whole family is not hungry." I now have a monthly salary and benefits of more than 7,000 yuan, and in Shanghai, a city with a huge gap between the rich and the poor, I can't eat enough and starve to death!" Liang Jian said: "It's time to be satisfied, there are still hundreds of millions of people in China who are below the poverty line!"

"I think so too, but there are many people around me, and they are not lower than high. ”

"That's it for now. ”

"Oh, I almost forgot, we haven't drunk yet. Xu Jingchu thought about the bottle of red wine that he packed, got up and went to the kitchen to get two tall glasses, poured half a glass each, and said, "If you don't drink it, it's a waste, I don't usually drink alcohol." ”

Looking at the liquid swaying slightly in the cup, Liang Jian also became interested: "Then let's finish the wine." ”

Xu Jingchu's gaze was slimy and gentle, and Liang Jian restrained and looked away.

Taking a sip of wine, Xu Jingchu said, "You know, when I was in college, the only person I admired was you!"

"What do I have to admire? At that time, I didn't do my job, I was late for class, and I was unkempt, and I was exactly the object of your Youth League secretary's work!"

Xu Jingchu blinked, looking a little playful: "Everyone else is well-behaved, but you are the only one who is maverick and arrogant, I thought at the time, this person is different, so I approached you in the name of doing your job!"

Hearing Xu Jingchu say this, Liang Jian was simply taken aback, he didn't expect that there were still people optimistic about the absurd years in college, so he said: "Ashamed, ashamed." I can't even look back on those days. ”

Xu Jingchu looked at Liang Jian: "Are you still like that now?"

In officialdom, arrogance is not inferior, and it is synonymous with immaturity, and the direct result of the guidance is the end of the life of the politician! Liang Jian said: "Of course not! Otherwise, I wouldn't have to mix in the organs!"

"I sometimes think that people like you really shouldn't be in the institution, it's such a waste, it's a tyrannical thing. In the institution, high school students have a degree, people are flexible enough, and they can read words and feelings, and it seems to be complete. ”

I usually hear many people say that the work of the institution, step by step, does not require too much knowledge and ability, and it is already a waste for college students to enter the institution, not to mention that many graduate students and doctors have also entered the institution, which is simply a great waste of human resources. Liang Jian is in charge of cadre work, and sometimes he also thinks about this issue. However, he felt that there was some truth in this statement, but it was not all because there were two kinds of work in the organs, one was the basic work, which was to be implemented, for example, the work of sending and receiving, copying, making notices, answering the telephone, writing messages, making reports, and engaging in activities in the organs could indeed be handled by the level of high school students; however, there was another kind of work in the organs that was often overlooked, that is, decision-making, and this work could not be done by high school students. It is said that the ass commands the head, but it is absolutely impossible to do without a head.

Liang Jian said: "Actually, I don't have any specialty, if I don't have an agency, I really can't find other better places, such as enterprises, I'm sure it's even worse, such as doing business, my family doesn't have the connections and experience in this area." ”

"I always thought you would be a journalist, a writer or a professor," Xu said. ”

Liang Jian smiled: "Professors during the day, beasts at night, forget it!" Liang Jian knew that since he had embarked on the road of officialdom, and those best times had been given to the organs, he had to persevere, and follow this road all the way to the dark! All the ifs were just another form of weakness, and he didn't want to be weak.

That night, there was a lot of talking, a lot of ...... I haven't seen you for a few years, and I have said everything that I may not tell others in my heart. That's the difference between being with college classmates and being with colleagues. If you go through the same window together, the relationship is different.

When I looked at the time, it was already past twelve o'clock. Liang Jian got up and said, "It's not early, I should go back." Xu Jingchu's face suddenly had a deep sense of frustration, and said, "Do you really want to go back? It's so late." You can sleep with me, you sleep on the bed, and I can sleep on tatami mats. ”

Looking at the woman in front of him who always has a hint of coldness in her clear facial features, this woman who is not intimate with herself, but shares the most intimate topics, this woman who has been stumbling on the emotional road and not very smooth, Liang Jian is a little embarrassed. Although they are all single, even if men and women love each other, it is understandable, but Liang Jian knows that he is no longer the Liang Jian who just stepped out of school, he is no longer young, and it is impossible to leave his hometown without hesitation with the woman he likes like at the beginning, and it is impossible to leave the foundation he worked so hard to earn in Jingzhou to start from scratch in Shanghai. Since he couldn't give her the happiness and warmth she needed, he didn't have the courage to stay and give her a soap-bubble hope. He said: "It's convenient to take a taxi, so I'd better go back." ”

Xu Jingchu sent him to the door in disappointment, and the "goodbye" was like a thorn, stuck in her throat and stuck in her heart. She couldn't say anything.

Liang Jian looked at her eyes, and finally said, "Goodbye." ”

There are no superfluous words. Xu Jingchu's door was closed.

When he went down the stairs, Liang Jian's eyes were full of Xu Jingchu's gaze when the door was closed. The little tears in her eyes were like clear water soaked in obsidian, so distinct, so clear, but so affectionate. Maybe what she wants is not love, but the company between people, and the warmth between friends. Is it too cruel to her to turn around like this?

Thinking like this, Liang Jian turned around and ran upstairs quickly and knocked on Xu Jingchu's door.

In fact, after Liang Jian left, Xu Jingchu kept leaning on the back of the door, she looked at the room in a daze, and seemed to be thinking about nothing in a daze, looking forward to coming back in a daze......

Hearing the knock on the door, she quickly opened the door, and when she saw Liang Jian standing at the door, she couldn't help it anymore and threw herself into his broad arms: "I don't need you to do anything, as long as you're in this room, that's all." ”

Liang Jian's heart seemed to be gently rubbed by something, it was very soft and painful.

At five o'clock in the morning, Liang Jian woke up. Seeing Xu Jingchu, who was sleeping next to him very sweetly, Liang Jian's heart had a kind of satisfaction and softness.

Last night, Liang Jian and Xu Jingchu finally failed to break through that relationship.

He slept beside her, each covered with a thin blanket. Xu Jingchu soon fell asleep and let out an even breathing sound......

Before going out, Liang Jian left a note on the dining room table: Seeing that you slept so sweetly, I can't bear to wake you up, I'll go back first, see you next time.

Walking out of Xu Jingchu's accommodation building, the sky was already completely bright. In the summer, the days were long and the morning dawned early, so he stood downstairs for a while and saw that there was a fitness plaza in the center of the community, where many elderly people walked and played tai chi. For a moment, he wanted to look up at the window, but in the end he held back and took a taxi back to the Lansheng Hotel.

As soon as Liang Jian left, Xu Jingchu got up. She had actually woken up just now, but she didn't want to experience another separation, and she couldn't stand the hot sourness and pain in her heart when she watched him leave. She stood at the window and watched Liang Jian stand downstairs for a while before leaving. I thought: Liang Jian, you don't know I'm looking at you!

Liang Jian returned to the hotel, took a shower, and went to have breakfast.

The driver, Zhou Qiangqiang, waited in the car early in the morning according to Li Ju's request, in case Liang Jian left the hotel early. Unexpectedly, Liang Jian would return to the hotel at this time in the morning. Zhou Qiangqiang thought to himself: "It seems that Minister Liang was very chic last night, and if he doesn't return home at night, there must be a good show." Why didn't I have this life!" Zhou Qiangqiang reported the situation to Li Ju.

A sour feeling rose in Li Ju's heart: "Could it be that Liang Jian has been with that woman all the time?" The phone rang again, and Zhou Qiangqiang said again: "Minister Liang, he came out, but he didn't drive, he walked." ”

The Shanghai Rapoo Test Center is just a few minutes away from the Lansheng Hotel, and Liang Jian walked directly to it. Gu Kai, director of the examination office of the Rapoo test center, greeted him, and there were two of Gu Kai's subordinates at the meeting. Gu Kaixian apologized and said, "Minister Liang, I'm sorry, we've been busy lately, so we only have an hour to spare. Liang Jian said: "It's okay, one hour is enough, let's make a long story short!" Gu Kai said: "Minister Liang, you can first tell me what requirements you have in Changhu District!"

Liang Jian handed over to Gu Kai the work plan for this competitive selection, the brief introduction of the district situation in Changhu District, the focus of work during the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, and the report of the "Two Sessions": "I can't put forward any special requirements, but I just hope that when the paper is published, I can grasp two points: one is public knowledge, and it is best to be able to respond flexibly, not all rote memorization, I believe you are very familiar with this aspect; ”

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