Chapter 16: The Peach Fountain is Tainted

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The two-meter-wide black iron door was closed so tightly that it was impossible to see the inside of the door, and a little lace around the iron door made it look like a prison gate. A dark-black microphone-style doorbell with an old-fashioned appearance was installed on the wall pillar next to it. Press the doorbell and speak directly into the microphone to speak to the owner of the house.

Gu Lian stood in front of the door and hesitated for a while before pressing the doorbell angrily. The doorbell rang for a long time, and the crisp and sharp ringing from inside the iron door could be faintly heard, but there was no response.

Gu Lian waited for a while, took out her mobile phone, looked at the phone number of Chenxing that Sister S told her for a long time, and swiped her fingers on the dial-through button several times, wanting to press it but couldn't press it. As soon as his eyes opened, he thought of something, and Gu Lian pressed the doorbell hard and didn't let go. She didn't believe that the people inside could stay when the bell rang so loudly. Even if no one was home, she would have to press for more than ten minutes to believe it.

In less than five minutes, Gu Lian finally waited for the movement.

"Which one are you?" A very impatient old lady's voice suddenly came out of the microphone of the doorbell, Mandarin is very non-standard, I don't know where the dialect is brought, and it doesn't look like Shanghainese.

Gu Lian was stunned, could it be that the address given by Sister S was wrong? I couldn't help but smile, "Hello, is this Chenxing's home?" ”

The old lady was silent for a moment, and then said in a rough voice, "Yes, which one are you?" What are you looking for him? ”

"Is Chenxing at home? I'm a staff member sent by Xia Yi's company, and he should know. Gu Lian smiled.

The old lady stopped talking, as if she turned her head and shouted to someone, "Hey, looking for you, you can tell it yourself!" ”

"I'm sorry, I'll open the door right away, please wait." Gu Lian only heard such a unclear male voice, and the microphone on the doorbell was hung up.

After a while, there was movement on the side of the iron door, and the footsteps of a man gradually approached, and when he walked to the door, there was a sound of the iron door latching open.

The iron door moved, and the left and right doors suddenly opened. A tall figure appeared in front of Gu Lian's eyes in the backlight.

"It's you!" Chenxing's eyebrows moved, looking at Gu Lian, nodding and smiling, quite a taste of old people meeting.

For Chenxing, Gu Lian is really not an old man, at best, he is a stranger who has met once.

For Gu Lian, Chenxing is really a real old man, the most familiar and most distant person ever.

The current situation seems to be diametrically opposed to reality, Gu Lian was unmoved, and made an opening statement in an objective tone of a strange encounter, "Hello, Mr. Chen, I am Gu Lian, a staff member appointed by Xia Yi Company to discuss with you about entering the group in advance. For the first meeting, please advise. ”

"Is it really the first time?" Chenxing corrected seriously, "It's obviously the second time. ”

"For the first time on business, our dealings with each other are only on business." Gu Lianpi emphasized with a smile.

"Ga-" For a moment, Gu Lian seemed to hear the cry of some kind of poultry. Thinking she was hallucinating, she shook her head to shake off the illusion.

Chenxing's face changed, he looked out, beckoned to Gu Lian, and asked her to come in quickly.

Gu Lian just entered the yard, didn't take a few steps, there was a strange touch under her feet, she looked down, and there was a very distinct thing that I don't know what it was, but I could be sure that it was not mud, but something similar to. Gu Lian looked at Chenxing in disbelief, and the latter had an innocent and sorry expression.

"I wish you all the best, I just listened to the report of the leaders of Hengdian." As soon as the text message ringtone on the mobile phone, Gu Lian immediately took it out sensitively and looked at it.

Everything went well, Gu Lian smiled bitterly. I hope Yu Youjia's blessing can bring good luck to himself.

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The house is a good house. Four-storey small building, three sides empty, 6 bedrooms, 3 living rooms and 4 bathrooms, as well as 200 square meters of independent garden and 50 square meters of terrace, the surrounding environment is quiet, no high-rise buildings. Gu Lian roughly estimated that the market price of this house was at least 20 million. Such an expensive paradise is coveted by the world.

But the scene in front of me is full of absurd irony.

The yard is green with grass and tall trees. There was a rooster and a duck strutting in the meadow. The rooster ate fat and strong, and as he walked. When I was interested, I would chase the duck and play some sports. A few strings were haphazardly connected between the trees, and some clothes hung very indecently on them, mostly worn by old ladies, including a few strips of old-fashioned calico pants and other underwear. From the outside of the hall door, the room was very dirty, and several sacks were full of sacks, which were scattered on the floor, and I don't know how long it had not been cleaned.

Gu Lian was sure that if he was the Wuling fisherman, he would definitely turn around and leave when he saw this kind of courtyard with chickens and ducks jumping and the furnishings in the house parked randomly.

This is a paradise, this is obviously a garbage dump. Even if it was originally a small fairyland on earth, it has now become a polluted paradise.

And that's not the hardest to bear.

Gu Lian stepped on his high heels and hurriedly walked to the house, no matter how clean it was, it was cleaner than the outside. But as soon as he walked to the door and didn't enter the door, an oncoming thin man with a naked upper body made Gu Lian finally scream.

"What's it called? My family is a fool. In the downstairs living room, an old woman sitting on the sofa in the center watching TV retorted unhappily.

Gu Lian was shocked, and the **** man walked past her with a stupid smile, and went straight to the courtyard to chase chickens and ducks. The yard was even more lively than just now, with ducks and chickens flying all over the ground.

Gu Lian stared at Chenxing incredulously, but Chenxing only had a calm look on his face that he was accustomed to.

When you enter the house, you don't have to take off your shoes, the floor is so dirty that you can sweep out several layers of dust. Gu Lian wanted to walk in like this, but after thinking about it, there was still some sticking to the heel of his leather shoes, and after thinking about it, he finally felt that it was inappropriate, withdrew to the stone steps outside the door, rubbed hard, and then entered the living room on the first floor uncomfortably. Chenxing looked at her actions and actually had a funny expression.

Gu Lian glared at him fiercely, "What are you laughing at!" ”

A house in the good end was made like this, and if the owner of the house was Gu Lian, she would have cried to death a long time ago. Chenxing is still in the mood to laugh? Unless it's really not his house!

Walking into the entrance, Gu Lian looked up and found that the video doorbell seemed to be broken, and the image could not be displayed. I couldn't see anyone coming, no wonder the old lady in the room was so slow to react, and she wanted to ask the meaning so clearly.

The downstairs living room is unusually wide and empty, with a sofa and coffee table in the center, and a 40-inch rear projection TV hanging against the wall. There is no furniture other than that. There is a lot of garbage, and the empty packaging bags of various snacks float to the ground, and you can step on something in two steps. Sometimes there are rotten apple peels, banana peels under the bag. Without this garbage, the first floor would be quite deserted.

In addition to the living room, there is a kitchen-dining room on this floor, where the wine cooler is also located, and there is also a bathroom. And then there was no other room.

"What is this woman doing?" The old lady who was huddled on the sofa watching the TV and singing Peking Opera looked coldly at Gu Lian, who walked in with a disgruntled face, and the whites of her eyes squeezed her eyes flat and small, and said something suspiciously.

Only then did Gu Lian notice the old lady. A little hunchbacked, gray-haired, dressed very rustic, like an old woman sitting in the sun in the countryside, looking very thin and thin, with no flesh on her face, her eyes are deeply sunken, and the whole person is about to be buried in the fabric sofa.

"She's here to talk to me about work." Chen Xing replied politely, gestured to Gu Lian, and asked her to go upstairs with him to talk.

"That old lady is your mother?" Gu Lian asked suspiciously. Probably not, right?

"Do you think so?" Chenxing shook his head and teased Gu Lian out of the way.

"And who is she?" Gu Lian asked, and followed Chenxing up the stairs on the second floor.

"Behind the scenes, people are careful of long needle eyes!" Suddenly, the old lady's words popped up downstairs.

Gu Lian made a disgusted expression, pointed to his ears, and whispered to Chenxing, "It's quite easy here." ”

The second floor, the third floor, and finally Gu Lian followed Chenxing to the fourth floor. To be precise, the fourth floor is an attic. When he got here, Gu Lian barely saw the traces of a relatively clean place where people could live.

The decoration is quite quaint, a bit of primeval forest. The uneven and rugged stone tiles on the walls add a lot of texture to the monotonous and dimly lit attic.

"Sit down." Chenxing pulled a simple plastic chair for Gu Lian, "Do you want to drink some water?" ”

Gu Lian hurriedly shook her head, she was subconsciously not very worried about the water boiled in this kind of place, "No, I'm not thirsty." I'll leave if I talk to you about something, and I won't ...... It's in your way. Gu Lian said almost through gritted teeth, and only dared to sit down after taking a closer look at the chair before making sure there was nothing strange and dirty.

The indoor light is relatively dim, the window is small and shady, and the window is not much brighter, so the light is turned on by Chenxing. Under the light, Gu Lian found that at some point, Chenxing's calm and indifferent facial expression had more frowns representing struggle and contradictions, as well as some tiredness and helplessness.

"I know that Xia Yi Company just wants me to join the group early." Chenxing looked at Gu Lian.

Gu Lian waited for Chenxing to continue.

Silence surrounds the air. Not a single person spoke.

"What do you want to say?" Gu Lian asked.

Chenxing looked extremely embarrassed and covered his face with his hands, which made him look even more helpless. Gu Lian had never seen Chenxing's behavior like this. In her memory, Chenxing was a person with extremely self-esteem and sensitivity in his bones, and he didn't look like a man who would make such a weak move.

Chenxing stopped talking, and Gu Lian felt as if he was forcing him. She didn't look out the window, and asked Chenxing to sort out her emotions before talking to herself.

Another moment of silence.

Gu Lian's gaze stayed outside the window.

The view was refreshing. Clear blue sky, white clouds cruising. I don't know who planted the camphor tree grows tall and strong, and the canopy stubbornly stretches into the scenery outside the window, full of vitality, almost into the painting.

"Can you ......" Chenxing said with difficulty, as if someone had forced him down his throat and made him spit out a voice that wasn't his will.

Gu Lian hadn't turned his head yet, but his ears were focused on catching any sound from Chenxing. Although she didn't know what Chenxing was going to say, she knew that what Chenxing said next must have been said after countless psychological struggles. Otherwise, Chenxing would not have hesitated like this.

She could hear his nervous breathing and heartbeat, and she was getting a little nervous. Or, it's unbearable. After all, I can't bear it. Even the former idol, even if he swore to hate him, never really wanted to see him so embarrassed.

"My contract with the crew of "Dream III" does not stipulate the clause of entering the group in advance, if I want to join the group in advance, I hope to increase my remuneration to compensate me for the corresponding losses." The words were much calmer, and Chenxing calmed down and said it all in one breath.

Gu Lian listened expressionlessly and looked at it expressionlessly.

Chenxing instantly became the usual Chenxing who didn't talk much, was very silent, and didn't care what others said. Judging from his current frank look, if Gu Lian hadn't witnessed it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have imagined how nervous and helpless he looked at all.

Gu Lian tugged at the corners of her mouth, both expected and unexpected. Unexpectedly, I expected that Chenxing would not be so obedient and immediately rush to the crew of "Dream Three", but unexpectedly, I didn't expect Chenxing's request to be about money. It's really not like his usual style. At least it's different from the Chenxing who refused the opportunity to see the mirror of the character of "Allure" in front of everyone at Mo Wanlin's birthday party.

Gu Lian straightened his sitting posture, his smile was cold, and he was full of teasing, "Oh? That's it? ”

"That's it." Chenxing nodded, "The remuneration for signing a contract with you is already low, and now you want me to fulfill the agreement in advance, then I must also ask for something." ”

"I can't see that you can still pay so much attention to compensation? Know the benefits of money? Then why did you run away at Mo Wanlin's birthday party that day? Why don't you accept the opportunity she offers you? If you have the opportunity to audition for the role of "Allure", even if you don't say it, Sister S will offer to give you a salary increase. It's a pity, now," Gu Lian stood up, raised his voice, looked down at Chenxing, condescendingly, and said word by word, "You, you are not qualified to negotiate conditions with me!" ”