Shen Guoan is already seventy-three.

The old man who has passed the old age thinks every day is not retirement, nor is it his children and grandchildren, who have been like a tiger for ten years, monopolizing power, grasping up and down, as if as long as the waist does not fall, status, power and prestige can be held in hand forever.

Shen Feibai saw Shen Guoan again after three months, and the unpleasant conversation on the first day of the new year was like yesterday.

A Hainan Huanghuali square table is placed in the center of the study, which means "the middle of the people".

Shen Feibai and Shen Guoan sat at opposite ends.

Hainan Huanghuali exudes a leisurely fragrance, this smell should slowly fade with the passage of time, Shen Guoan in order to retain the fragrance, specially ordered someone to find a way to brush a layer of fixative.

His pursuit of details is no different from that of an ordinary old man who admires flowers and amuses birds, but he is not a kind old man who is kind and kind, and he has a fickle temper, like treacherous weather, always cloudy and sunny.

One second is pleasant, and the next second may turn the face ruthlessly.

Not only Shen Feibai, everyone in this family has long been accustomed to adaptation.

A Go board was placed on the square table, and Shen Guoan dropped a sunspot after some thought, his face was expressionless, and he couldn't see his joy and anger for the time being.

Aunt Lin knocked on the door and came in, and according to Shen Guoan's instructions, she served a bowl of warm soup on Shen Feibai's left hand side.

Shen Guoan said: "Beijing is windy and dry, I asked Aunt Lin to boil some soup for you to clear your lungs." ”

Aunt Lin tied an apron around her waist, wiped her hand on it, and said kindly: "Drink slowly, be careful of scalding." ”

Shen Feibai glanced at the ingredients piled up in the bowl, didn't reach out to touch it for the time being, and nodded with a light smile.

Aunt Lin looked at him a few times uneasily, and then turned to Shen Guoan and said, "Master, I'm just waiting at the door, you call me if you have something." ”

"No, I don't. What should you do, there's no need for people here. Shen Guoan's old and resolute eyes were firmly fixed on the chessboard, and his voice was silent.

Aunt Lin sighed silently in her heart, turned her head and looked at Shen Feibai again, the latter was holding a white child, concentrating, and like Shen Guoan, he didn't look at her.

Aunt Lin turned around and went out, and in the elegant and fragrant Chinese-style study, an invisible confrontation officially began.

White is trying to take advantage, but black is pressing.

Black ate Bai Sizi, and Shen Guoan sneered as if no one was around, as if he was laughing at his incompetence and showing no mercy.

He raised his eyes, and the person opposite him was tall, even if he was sitting and playing chess, his back did not bend his bow, like a straight pine tree, and he didn't know what it was to bow his head.

"Flying white." He held his thigh with his left hand, kept his shoulders leaning forward, held a chess piece in his hand, and pulled the corners of his mouth, "Grandpa made you remember a sentence when he taught you to play chess, do you remember?" ”

Shen Feibai dropped a shot without hurry, his eyes were calm: "No matter what you do, if you want to succeed, you must follow a certain order, and the same is true for Go." ”

"Good, remember." Shen Guoan chuckled and stared at him strangely, "Then you sue me, what about your order." ”

Shen Feibai knew that he didn't want to hear the answer, and he had something to say later.

"You don't have an order. The ancients said that filial piety came first. You have directly crossed filial piety, even if the following order is listed in a meticulous and thoughtful manner, you are destined to only be a loser. Shen Guoan looked at him mockingly, "Filial piety is the foundation of life, you have interviewed so many news, is there any one about filial piety?" Journalists should not only have professional ethics, but also family virtues and personal virtues. ”

On the background wall behind Shen Guoan hangs a pair of brush inscriptions that he personally grabbed a knife, chic but not losing the sharp cursive - to anger to nourish nature, thin taste to nourish qi.

In this absurd human theater, Shen Feibai was in it, and he only felt ironic.

Aunt Lin lingered outside the study, the room was so well soundproofed that she couldn't hear anything even if she was clinging to the door.

Lao Cai came over and pulled her to the corner of the stairs, lowered his voice and asked, "What's going on inside?" ”

"Playing chess, I don't want to keep it." Aunt Lin saw that her husband was also worried, and hurriedly asked, "What did you say to Feibai, did you persuade him?" ”

"What else can I say, of course, at best."

"What is Feibai's reaction? Willing or unwilling? Aunt Lin was very nervous.

"It's because I didn't react that I'm in a hurry." Lao Cai quietly analyzed, "Leather pants and cotton pants must have a reason." The chairman's heart is like honeycomb coal, and he will not use us to threaten him for no reason, there must be something we don't know. ”

Aunt Lin's mind followed him, slapped her palm, and suddenly remembered something: "Last week, the old man was watching the news downstairs, I was mopping the floor next to me, and then I don't know when Feibai appeared on TV, he was in a rural village in Anhui, an old lady cried, and he handed her a tissue to wipe her tears." ”

Aunt Lin remembered the scene of that day.

Shen Guoan sat on the sofa and turned around, pointed to Shen Feibai on the screen and asked her, "Does this kid have this kind of look in front of you and Lao Cai?" ”

She was puzzled: "...... What looks? ”

Probably thinking she was stupid, Shen Guoan's eyes turned cold, turned his head and continued to watch TV, and after a few minutes, he said in a cold voice: "You pity these irrelevant people, why don't you know how to be sympathetic to the people around you who raised you." I don't pay attention to you, they are also lowly and pitiful, you can also help. ”

Lao Cai listened to Aunt Lin's complete recollection, and his expression suddenly turned white.

Aunt Lin also slowly regained her taste in the retelling, and her whole body was cold.

"Lao Cai......" her lips trembled.

"Hmm."

"Feibai doesn't want to help, we were really swept away?"

"You think." Lao Cai's face was gloomy.

Aunt Lin said: "I thought the old man was just letting us play the family card to bluff him." ”

Lao Cai looked at her: "What if you can't bluff?" You didn't know the chairman on the first day, and he would give up? ”

Aunt Lin's whole heart trembled fiercely.

Lao Cai sighed, turned his head and looked at the exquisite courtyard behind the small building through the window on the staircase wall, with a little hope: "Although Feibai doesn't talk much, he is a smart child, what we can think of, he must be able to think of, it depends on whether he has feelings for us." ”

***

Shen Feibai had just left in the morning, and Lei An came in the evening.

After Zhou Jiyou received his call, he quickly hid all the male items that should not be stored on the surface. Then, after he left, one by one, they were restored to their original positions.

It's not a long-term solution, she knows. Even in the future, she may experience unexpected events that cannot be prevented, and she imagined it to herself.

But she wasn't sure how Lei An would react if she knew that she was living with her boyfriend, and besides, the house was still hers, what would he think of Shen Feibai, and would he misunderstand Shen Feibai because of this, she didn't want to take the risk lightly.

He said that he might come back the day after tomorrow, and he would really come back.

In Zhou Jiyou's impression, this is the fastest time he has traveled for interviews. She was also a little surprised: "The level of business is improving." ”

Shen Feibai didn't speak, scooped her into his arms, let her lean on his shoulder, and the two of them sat silently.

She wanted to look up at him, but he pressed his hand to her mandible, "Don't move." ”

“……”

There was a hint of tiredness in his voice, Zhou Jiyou was only tired of going out and running back and forth, and his fingers deftly touched his thighs, "You won't be in a hurry to come back, right?" ”

He still didn't speak.

Zhou Jiyou said: "Is it in the end? ”

He took her dishonest hand, gave a low "um", pressed his forehead against each other, and closed his eyes: "Just stay like this, don't move." ”

Zhou Jiyou didn't say a word, and really didn't move.

Time is so deep and quiet, as if in the blink of an eye, they have snuggled together for a lifetime.

***

Shen Feibai took the initiative to ask Lei An to resign as a reporter for "Today's Focus", and Lei An was puzzled: "Hasn't the turmoil passed, and most of the voices on the Internet are supporting you, why don't you suddenly want to do it?" ”

Shen Feibai sat on the chair opposite, put his ten fingers together in front of the table, lowered his head slightly, and the black hair on his forehead covered it.

"Actually, it's not why, after all, my main job is to broadcast news, or to be a news anchor is more handy, being a reporter is a bit stupid."

Ryan is a gentle person, but at this moment, there is a hint of displeasure in his eyes when he looks at him, and his face cannot be considered ugly, but it is indeed no longer friendly: "You forgot what you said, you said that you can't be defeated." ”

He was reminding him.

Shen Feibai didn't look up, and Lei An felt that he didn't have the face to look up at him.

"Did you hear the rumors and know that the channel was about to change blood, and you want to replan your next job?"

Shen Feibai was stunned and raised his eyes.

Ryan read the surprise in his eyes: "You don't know? ”

"I heard." After a brief moment of surprise, his gaze returned to normal, "I know that this year is going to be revised again, but I don't know that there will be a big change." ”

Ryan chose to believe him, but he was still a little angry: "I have always felt that you are a young man with a lot of ideas, you have your own coordinate system for understanding things, and you have always looked at problems from a perspective that is both rational and emotional." ”

"Now your sensibility has the upper hand, and it is more difficult to do a show, but you always pay attention to the people in the news, rather than the breaking point of the news itself, I believe that over time, when your rationality and sensibility are integrated into a balanced line, you will be able to respond to all changes with the same and find a position of your own."

"But if you give up now, this position will only belong to someone else, and it is unknown whether you can open up a new path."

Even if he was in a bad mood, he remained calm and said something very pertinent.

Shen Feibai was grateful to him, but he still said, "I'm sorry Mr. Lei, I decided to find a new path." ”

Ryan smiled disappointedly: "What else can I say, then good luck." ”

Shen Feibai got up, he didn't have anything he wanted to express, he just bowed deeply.

Ryan turned his head away from him, and exhaled a long, heavy breath.

No one saw that when he bent down, his hands that had fallen to his side were already clenched into fists.