Qi Zai was standing on the top floor of the central office building in City A, and through the floor-to-ceiling windows, he saw a large area of dotted lights in the world outside, and those flickering fires reflected the darkness and coldness of the office behind him. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Qi turned around and rummaged around, on the coffee table, under the sofa, on the desk, on the newspaper rack...... No, he was impatient, and threw out the magazine he was holding, and on the cover page was a photo of Qi Zai's young and handsome "Top Ten Young Entrepreneurs", laughing at him in the dark.

He hurriedly ripped off the tie hanging from his neck, and after a chaotic tear, he finally made the tie tie knotted, and finally he ran to the desk like a sleepy beast and dialed the inside line.

"Secretary Su? What about the remote control of the air conditioner? ”

"Mr. Qi...... The remote control may be stored in the general department, and I will go to the company to find it for you now, can I? ”

Although Secretary Su was very puzzled by her boss's behavior, her professional instinct still made her not ask any questions, not to mention that her boss was rarely difficult for her subordinates, and the management company relied on the principles of "convincing people with reason" and "fairness and democracy". But today, the young boss, despite repeated forbearance, is not difficult for her to catch his anger, even his irritability, fear, and insecurity in his words. This is the first time that the boss has been in office.

Qi Zai was silent, he looked out the window, he was not necessarily in the dark, he wanted to pull others in.

"No need to come, it's already off work, sorry to bother you."

Qi was hanging up the phone, sitting on the swivel chair, the faint light of the mobile phone hit him in the face, he flipped out the encrypted documents in his mobile phone, looked at the woman in the photo on the mobile phone, and couldn't help but stretch out the twisted eyebrows on his face......

"If you hadn't been to Australia in '03, would everything have been different?" Qi was gently caressing the cheek of the woman in the photo.

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In 2003, a lot happened: the Chinese women's volleyball team regained the world championship, Liu Xiang rewrote the history of track and field, and China's "Shenzhou" 5 was successfully launched, realizing the dream of manned spaceflight...... And SARS.

Qi Jianguo used to work in the propaganda and education department of the family planning bureau of a district in city A, and he was regarded as a national cadre, writing slogans and articles in accordance with family planning laws and regulations. But because of his young age, he was quite valued by the leaders, so he was also quite excluded, and he was young and vigorous, and he was not less angry and wore small shoes. Later, I met Qi Zai's mother, and under the "persuasion" of my father-in-law, I resolutely gave up writing and started a business on my own.

Qi Jianguo's company's business plummeted because of SARS, and for half a year, he basically stayed at home, but fortunately, after Qi's mother died, Qi Jianguo's heart was much more relaxed, and he didn't seem to be in a hurry. He usually likes to watch the news, after dinner, he takes An Jinru out for a walk, meets acquaintances, discusses the country's major and minor matters, and there is no shortage of fierce battles, or happily strokes his forehead and says yes, but it seems to enjoy the retirement life of old age in advance.

At that time, An Jinru was 39 years old, but she was young and beautiful, and she was 10 years old with Qi Jianguo, but she seemed more and more like a "little wife".

An Jinru was unwilling to watch the company lose day by day, and wanted Qi Jianguo to be more active, more active, can he go to find someone and find some business. Therefore, it is inevitable to say by Qi Jianguo's side all day long.

At that time, Mai Dong was 17 years old and Qi was 18 years old, both of them were in the mood for love, and they were both in the mood for high school.

Mai Dong doesn't talk much, she has always maintained an appropriate distance from this "home" that has been in her for 7 years, and the same is true for this brother. A thick layer of glass separates her from this home, and she can't empathize with the joys, sorrows, and sorrows of "home", she is nothing more than a spectator.

Therefore, the two children have formed an inexplicable tacit understanding since childhood.

On a Friday afternoon, An Jinru was trying to lobby Qi Jianguo because of the company's affairs, and even caused Qi Jianguo's dissatisfaction, and the two had some quarrels.

Mai Dong and Qi came back from school one after another, Qi Zai didn't say a word, and he didn't even have the mood to glance in the direction of Qi Jianguo and An Jinru's quarrel, so he carried a schoolbag upstairs.

"We're back." Mai Dong said hello softly, Qi Jianguo and An Jinru were at the height of the argument at this time, and no one had time to talk to her.

Mai Dong seemed to be used to it, but there were not many times when the two of them quarreled like this, so she carefully went to the kitchen with her ears pricked up and cooked two bowls of noodles quietly.

"Qi Jianguo, the company has gone bankrupt, you let us all drink the northwest wind? Why are you such a man, but it's just a matter of saying something......"

"Enough! Anyway, I won't go, the company is gone, it's a big deal. ”

"You bastard, is it so easy to start all over again? If it weren't for your father-in-law, would you have been able to gain a firm foothold in City A? ”

"Anjinru, do you really think it's appropriate for me to go to him? When Yuzhen is here, I can still be cheeky, she is gone, can I go again? ”

"Why can't you say it, he's still Qi Zai's grandfather. At the end of the day, you just can't save face. When is this happening, the eldest husband can bend and stretch, you can't be wronged once for the sake of this family? ”

"Isn't the company closed down yet?"

"It's too late to go out of business, Qi Jianguo, you just say a word, will you go?"

……

I have to say that Mai Dong is still a smart child, following Liu Guilan, although life is tight, Liu Guilan has never let Mai Dong go to the kitchen, but now she can still make a decent meal, even Qi Zai, who has always been a picky eater, can't bear to refuse.

Qi Zai was in the glass room on the roof, tidying up the painting box and pen washing holder, preparing to wait for the painting tools, easels, pencils, and paints...... Finally, he moved the spice plate, drawing knife, paper and other items on the one-meter-high drawing table to the middle, leaving the two ends of the long table.

Just in time, Mai Dong came up with two bowls of noodles.

Mai Dong put the bowl with two fried eggs on the table on Qi Zai's side, the green vegetables secretly poked their heads out from under the body of the eggs, and secretly peeked at the enemies who were about to destroy it, the hollow half of the tomato leaned against the eggs, grinning toothlessly and laughing at the cowardice of the green vegetables, and the translucent noodles were thin and soft wandering in the pale yellow noodle soup, comfortable and serene.

Mai Dong sat on the other side of the table and buried her head in the fried egg in her own bowl, as night was about to fall, and the red light of the sunset slanted into the room through the window behind her, dyeing Mai Dong's hair with a faint golden light.

Downstairs calmed down, An Jinru and Qi Jianguo seemed to have reached an agreement, and the two of them went out. Mai Dong took the two bowls that didn't even have a drop of soup left downstairs and cleaned them, and tidied up the kitchen.

Instead of going upstairs to do her homework and review her homework today, she secretly turned on the TV.

The school in City A has been under martial law, and the temperature must be taken every morning before entering the school, and the school is full of buckets boiling honeysuckle or banyan roots, and every day after school, the last self-study class no longer has to be buried in the sea of questions, because it has become a sanitary time, and the principal personally checks the hygiene of each classroom. Legend has it that it may not be long before the school is closed.

Mai Dong is worried about Liu Guilan, although Dahe Town is far away from Guangdong Province, it is closer to City A. She was always uneasy.

I didn't see the news that SARS patients or suspected SARS patients had been found in her hometown, and she finally felt a little relieved.

Mai Dong smoothed out the marks on the sofa that she sat out, put the remote control in its original place, turned off the TV, and when she turned around and was about to go upstairs, she saw Qi standing at the top of the stairs.

Mai Dong lowered his head, clenched his hands into fists, and his nails were embedded in his palms, like a child who had stolen his mother's money, feeling a kind of shame and uneasiness about being caught.

"Wait a minute, the mobile phone will be used for you, I subscribed to the mobile phone news newspaper, and I can receive the latest news every day, which is much more efficient than looking for news on TV." When Mai Dong passed by Qi's side, he took out his mobile phone from his pocket and stuffed it into Mai Dong's hand.

"I don't want to ......" Mai Dong seemed to be a little annoyed, and her voice was a little loud, but Qi Zai only left her a back.

Mai Dong suddenly felt that this little boy who didn't talk to her when he was a child, deliberately caused trouble and deliberately pushed the responsibility to her had grown up, his shoulders had become strong, and he had already escaped his former immature figure.

Mai Dong's eyes were slightly red, and the mobile phone in her hand was like a cactus, but the pricking of her hand also made her sober.

When Qi turned around again, he saw Mai Dong's expression of wanting to cry, and frowned without a trace, and the words that came to his mouth suddenly lost his desire to speak.

It was already more than ten o'clock in the evening, Qi Jianguo and An Jinru finally came back, and the sound of the door opening downstairs, the sound of the two talking, came sparsely through the air and the wall, and it was not very real.

Mai Dong hid in the quilt, holding the mobile phone that Qi was giving her, Nokia's brand, which was still relatively new.

"Qi Jianguo, why didn't you agree to him?"

"Mai Mai is still so small...... What about going so far away?! ”

"What's wrong with going abroad, when you come back from studying abroad, you are a returnee, and the future is limitless."

"She's only 17 years old, and she's a girl...... Bear with me......"

"She's my daughter, I'm doing it for her good!"

"She's also my daughter......"

"Don't go, how can you be so careless? Do you have other plans? Don't leave...... Let's make it clear. ”

"Be quiet, don't wake up the kid...... Go to sleep, and I'll talk about it tomorrow. ”

"Founding ......"

Mai Dong was tired, her eyelids were fighting, and these movements seemed to be in a familiar dream, so she rolled over and fell asleep deeper into the darkness.