Chapter 168
The city where Yinzhen went on a business trip was a city on the coast of Guangdong.
This trip is not busy, just dealing with relevant government departments, Yinzhen is not the protagonist, he just accompanies Jiang Lin's vice president.
During the day, Julia spends her days alone outside trying out a variety of seafood delicacies. In the evening, Yinzhen came to her, and they booked dinner at a restaurant in the seaside.
Yinzhen likes vegetables and seafood, he rarely eats meat, he thinks meat is meaty, but he is particularly fond of aquatic products. It was the end of October, but it was still hot in the south. When night falls, the dark red street lamps on the coastal avenue are dimly lit, paving the light orange bridge, the lights of the famous brand stores are flickering, the figures are crowded, the deep jade waves are surging in the distance, and the sound of small cups and low noisy laughter are mixed together, showing a trivial and warm atmosphere of the world......
Yin Zhen took a sip of mint wine, he leaned back comfortably in the white chair, and sighed softly: "This is the prosperous age." β
Julia looked at him and smiled, "What? Isn't the Kangxi Dynasty a prosperous era? β
Yin Zhen smiled and shook his head: "It's my problem, I've been in contact with the dark side of society in those years, good things don't come to me, the embankment has burst, there has been a locust plague, there has been a great drought, officials have cheated for personal gain, and there is no food and no money in the treasury...... It's all piled up in front of me, and it's the ultimate host of "Focus Interview". My mood has been bad all year round, and it's also because I face this kind of thing every day. β
Julia sighed softly, and she rested her cool hand on Yinzhen's hand.
After the meal, instead of immediately returning to the hotel, they went to a famous local bar where singers were singing.
There aren't many people in the bar. The two ordered soft drinks, and the singer on stage was singing Eason Chan's song.
"Hmph, not as good as me." Yin Zhen pouted.
Julia laughed secretly: "Then you go up and grab someone's microphone!" β
"I'm not going to do that kind of noisy thing." Yin Zhen looked up at the singer again, with a look of disdain, "Just let him entertain himself." β
But soon, he sang along:
"Don't press me, uncle on the left, the tram has just arrived at the station, and a Miser Buddha has squeezed in......"
Julia was about to fall over with laughter.
"Why do you like this kind of song?" She couldn't help but smile and asked, "I always feel that Yongzheng should sing "Red Rose" with a deep face with a microphone." β
Yin Zhen pretended to be unhappy and said, "When is it your turn to question my aesthetic taste?" β
"Oh, slaves don't dare!"
Yinzhen pressed her and looked into her eyes. Whisper, "What don't you dare?" I think you're so daring......"
Julia sneered. She likes Yinzhen the most: occasionally with a body of debauchery, but her eyes are sparkling, her eyebrows and eyes are like carving, and she is handsome.
Then. It was very dark in the bar. No one saw them kissing.
The bar singer is still singing.
But Yinzhen didn't have the heart to listen carefully.
Love comes and goes. Kiss you on the forehead
Give me a chance, I'll do anything
I'll give you everything......
Wake up from a short slumber. Yin Zhen turned over, and he saw Julia swiping her phone sideways, so he stroked her naked and smooth back.
Through the soft and warm skin, he touched her spine little by little with his slender fingertips, as if there was some mysterious code hidden there.
It's really strange that he has been able to go all the way with Julia, Yinzhen couldn't help but think.
He never felt that Julia was the first beauty in the world, and Yinzhen had an objective and calm understanding of this. But he didn't think anyone could replace Julia.
He had seen Brother Jiu's girlfriends, although Julia was envious, but Yinzhen secretly thought, they were all a group of goblins, and he didn't know which goblin cave Brother Nine had picked them up, so he didn't want to give them to him for nothing.
Yinxiang's girlfriends, although cute, but they are too naΓ―ve, naΓ―ve, childish, empty-minded, and boring to talk to.
Although this opinion, he would never express it in front of Yinxiang.
As for the Ten Elder Brothers...... Yin Zhen looked at it and felt that the one who paid the most attention to him recently was the one who declared, "If you don't deliver the manuscript, you will be hanged at your doorstep!" Comic editor.
Yin Zhen didn't envy his younger brothers at all, because he preferred Julia's company.
In the past six months, they often drive out to play on weekends, and there are many places of interest in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. In the Qing Dynasty, Yinzhen didn't have much affection for Jiangnan, those who resisted taxes, made trouble in literary prisons, and those salt dogs who were fat but refused to pay for disaster relief...... It's all in this area. Anti-Qing activists also usually gathered here, and the headquarters of the Red Flower Society was here.
But nowadays, none of that matters.
Once, they drove to the nearby ancient city of Shaoxing, and Julia had a mind to avoid those things, but that time the two bought a travel package, and unknowingly went to a place they didn't want to see.
At the mouth of the wet stone road alley, the two black wooden doors couldn't see what the place was, and when they walked in, the sign on the wall reminded them: This is Qiu Jin's former residence.
Julia looked at him hesitantly, "Or...... Let's not go in. β
Yin Zhen looked at the courtyard, he shook his head: "It's okay, it's all here, the tickets have been bought, let's go in." β
It was a rainy day in early autumn, with not many tourists, black carved windows, exquisite small buildings, light orchid and sparse bamboo, old desks and plaques...... The courtyard of Wujin still maintains the old appearance, the autumn breeze rises, the cold rain stops, the flowers and plants in the courtyard are withered, only the white chrysanthemum is choked with crystal-like rain and dew, like the tearful eyes of the complaining woman in the old days.
Julia didn't dare to say much, she just accompanied Yinzhen to walk inside, looking at those yellowed photos and letters, some of which were written with a brush, the ancient Chinese was sloppy, she couldn't read it, and Yinzhen read it to her.
ββ¦β¦ Look at such a country, endure and return to Hulu? Beans are divided and divided, all for my homeland. β
Julia cautiously asked, "She's scolding you, right?" β
Yin Zhen nodded: "It's scolding us." β
He wasn't angry.
He never forgot who he was, but at the same time. He is no longer confined to this narrow proposition.
So Yinzhen herself feels weird, think about it, love Xinjue Luo Yinzhen, actually stood in the house of Jianhu Woman, visiting the ruins she left.
"If you were in the Forbidden City at the time, would you have killed her?" On the way back, Julia suddenly asked.
Yin Zhen couldn't answer this question, so he had to say with difficulty: "I really don't know." β
Julia said with certainty, "You won't." At least now you're not. β
Later, Yinzhen thought, if it weren't for Julia to accompany her. He would never go into such a place.
There is no Julia. He will feel inexplicably afraid, that the world is full of hostility towards him, full of ups and downs, full of hostility and indifference. They all came to harm him.
He endured it alone for many years. I don't think anyone in the world can be trusted. No one can be trusted. The father plays with his life in the palm of his hand, the mother prefers the younger brother, and between the brothers, you hurt me and I hurt you. The only one Yinxiang is still young. Instead, he needs to be supported.
Only Julia, the woman who came out of his life for no reason, endured the storm side by side with him, and even sometimes had to shield him from something.
Sometimes, Yinzhen feels that Julia is like an alarm clock. He once told Julia about this, and Julia was very angry, saying, "Do you want to throw me out the window when you get up early?"
Yinzhen laughed at her for a long time.
He didn't mean that.
Because of his overly depressed personality, many dark sides are forcibly pressed into the deep subconscious, and Yinzhen often has nightmares. He gets very little sleep and likes to keep himself awake as much as possible, which is also the reason for this.
No one knows how terrible Yinzhen's dreams are, those dreams are out of the rules and stereotypes of the day, they become evil and chaotic, and out of control: for example, in the past, he used to dream that all the food and drink were poisoned, and the bowl was full of cranes, and he was so thirsty that he had nothing else to drink but to drink poisonous wine, so he watched the blood gush out of his fingers......
Or, or he was suddenly found to have evidence of rebellion, and was ordered to split the corpses of five horses, and he watched his limbs and torsos tear apart, and he wanted to scream, but found that his throat part had been lost.
In other dreams, he found that his wife and concubines and young sons had died one by one, and the mansion was full of dead people, and he was screaming like a madman in the palace, trying to find a living person, but finally found that the man who was hanged in the main hall was himself.
The demon of dreams, who crawled on his pillow late at night, made him frightened.
It was the alarm clock that woke him up from this absurd nightmare, made him open his eyes, and really saw the computer on the ceiling and the opposite table, and told him that everything was fine, that he had left the Qing Dynasty, and that those things in the dream would never happen again.
At that moment, he was forever grateful for the alarm clock.
He has such an indescribable gratitude to Julia, who is like a gentle harbor that is always there, and he is a boat drifting on the sea, as long as he can get to the harbor, he can firmly step on the earth, know who he is and where he is. Holding Julia's hand, he can connect with the whole world.
For the first time, he gained a real sense of security.
Thinking of this, he sighed deeply, and Yinzhen put his arm around Julia and leaned over to see what she was doing.
On Julia's phone, photos of women glide by.
"What is it?" Yin Zhen asked curiously.
Julia sighed: "The task assigned by the Thirteenth, the audition for the college student cultural festival, he threw it all to me, sad to death, more than seven hundred...... I knew I shouldn't have complained last time that he wouldn't let me participate in the screening. β
Yin Zhen laughed, and he pressed his face against Julia's smooth, slightly cold shoulders.
"By the way, I'm going to settle the house matter." Yinzhen said.
Julia looked back, "Where?" β
"Still hesitating between two options." Yinzhen said, "I am very satisfied with these two options, but the location is different. One is in Chunjin. There is also one in the Blue Bay Four Seasons City, next to the Golden Carp Lake. β
"How big is the house?"
"160 square meters in Blue Bay Four Seasons City, slightly smaller in Chunjinli, 110 square meters."
"What about you, what's your opinion?"
Yin Zhen thought for a while: "It feels about the same, the two house types are very good." I don't care too much about the size difference, Chunjin is a prime location, and the house was originally specially reserved for me by the sales department, but there are four seasons in Blue Bay. Isn't it close to your school? β
"It's almost to the suburbs, how inconvenient it is for you to go to work."
"The air is good." Yin Zhen didn't care and said, "It's a big deal to buy a car again." β
Julia pouted, "Don't you have an idea?" β
"Don't you have to see if you oppose it?"
Julia laughed silently: "There is a bay window? β
"Yes, and it's not the kind of fake bay window that takes up the original area. The study and bedroom are sunny and of good spec. Let's take a look next week. β
"Wait, the one in Chunjinli, you really don't think about it?"
"I've been to see it, and the location is good, but it's less than a hundred meters outside and there's a circle of bars, and at night there are so many people. The car can't even drive in......"
"Oh, forget it."
"And. Lao Jiu is also planning to buy a house. Some time ago, I was dragged to discuss it all afternoon, and I guess it's time to settle it down. β
"Where did he buy the house?"
"Fuhai Avenue is next to Fuhai Racecourse, isn't that area close to the IT Park?"
Julia sketched out the city map in her head. She sighed, "What about you." The house is in Blue Bay Four Seasons City. Brother Jiu's house is on Fuhai Avenue, and Thirteen's house is on Zhongshan Road...... You occupy three of the four corners of the east, west, north and south, are you sincere? β
Yin Zhen smiled: "You can buy a house casually?" Doesn't it depend on whether it is suitable or not? β
"Brother Nine bought a house. Brother Ten must have moved over with him, and in the future, they will live in their own places, and they will be busy with work, although they are in the same city, I am afraid that they will not see each other for a month. β
Julia said this, her tone was a little sad, but Yinzhen said that as long as the house she lives in is still there, everyone will still have a center of unity, which is nothing, good men are ambitious in all directions......
"It's clearly 'a good man buys a house in all directions'." Julia pouted, "One more horn, the barrier is reached, and you can summon the dragon." β
Yin Zhen smiled: "Who will make up again?" β
"Blue Bay Four Seasons City is due east, and the east is Qinglong; Fuhai Avenue is due west, and the west is the White Tiger; Zhongshan Road is due south, Suzaku in the south, and Xuanwu in the north...... Alas, the enchantment can't be reached, and the poor dragon can't get out. β
Yin Zhen couldn't help but laugh: "Why? β
"The area around Jinghai Road is full of rich dignitaries, and they all have sentry posts, and we can't afford to live if we have money."
Yin Zhen snorted: "Enchantment or something, it's better not to succeed." There are so many princes guarding the east, west, north and south, you say that this is the center, except for my emperor Ama, who dares to live? I remember that the center of the city is the Pinpinmao, and the highest seventh floor of Pinpinmao is the Huanyi Cinema City - oh, so to speak, it turns out that Emperor Kangxi lived in the Huanyi Cinema City in Pinpinmao? Is it in charge of the ticket inspection or the screening? β
Julia laughed so hard that she fell out of bed!
"You, you! It's really getting more and more presumptuous. She said with tears in her eyes.
"I mean really." Yin Zhen said with a smile, "And the position of Xuanwu, according to Feng Shui, is not something that can be filled by just anyone, otherwise, it will not be able to be suppressed." β
Julia thought for a while: "Speaking of which, Xuanwu's attribute is water and his temperament is gentle, which is very similar to the eighth elder brother." β
She just said it in passing, but Yinzhen was silent, Julia knew that she had talked too much, so she had to lean her body against Yinzhen, stroke his back, and comfort him.
"Don't be upset." She said in a low voice, "You see, even Brother Jiu and they have already let go of their old suspicions. β
Yin Zhen looked at her: "Yes." β
"Well, last time, Brother Jiu specifically asked me, saying that the two of us went to Wei Mingyue's parents in the future, whether they planned to emigrate." "Even though he did a good job of covering it up, I could tell he didn't want us to emigrate." β
Yin Zhen thought for a while: "Actually, I am not sure that I will immigrate in the future, if I do well in Jianglin, I think, we don't need to go out." β
Julia nodded: "That's what I mean, so I told him, not necessarily, it depends on the situation, if you develop well here, then don't leave." Then Brother Jiu said that he felt sorry for the American people, and that they would lose a Chinese-American president in the future. β
Yin Zhen laughed: "What did he say! β
"Well, he really said that, saying that you ascended the throne at the age of forty-four, and there are still more than ten years to go, even if you can't go back to the Qing Dynasty, when the time comes, most of you will ascend the throne elsewhere, and if you really want to emigrate, you will definitely become the local president...... Brother Jiu said that when you are forty-four years old, something big must happen, and he also said that this is called fate, and you can't escape it. β
"He's got his brain down? According to U.S. law, only 45 years old is eligible to run for president. It's good that I'm 44 years old and can join Jiang Lin's board of directors. When Yinzhen said this, he couldn't help but be a little depressed, "Really, there are so many emperors in the history of the Qing Dynasty, just me, I can only ascend the throne at an age......"
"What! How can you say how old you are at forty-four? β
"Look at how old did my Emperor Ama ascend the throne?" Yin Zhen glanced at her, "Su Shi is forty years old, and he is 'old man talking about juvenile madness', isn't he too old at the age of forty-four that no one wants it?" β
"It's nonsense, the new standard just issued by the United Nations WHO: young people under the age of 44! The year you became the emperor, you could still celebrate May Fourth Youth Day! You can also take a half-day off! β
Yin Zhen laughed: "So I ascended the throne in the morning and had a holiday in the afternoon?" You're going to sign it off, huh? β
Julia ignored him, turned over and continued to look at the pictures on her phone.
Yin Zhen hugged her from behind and whispered, "Don't work hard, what time is it?" β
"You don't know I have to see more than seven hundred? I'll be waiting for the thirteenth of next week. β
"Go back and I'll scold that kid! Let him complete the task on his own, don't pull you! β
"It's okay. By the time I've finished reading these two, it's exactly the hundredth. β
Julia said, her finger swiping across the screen.
Suddenly, without warning, she sat up and let out a scream!
Yin Zhen was taken aback: "What's wrong?" β
Julia's hand could barely grasp the phone, and with a "click", the phone fell to the floor!
Yin Zhen hurriedly got up, bent down and picked up the phone. Looking at Julia again, her lips were shaking, her face was gray, as if she had seen a ghost, and she couldn't even speak in tune!
"What the hell is going on?!" Yin Zhen was so frightened that he hurriedly hugged her.
ββ¦β¦ Yes, it's Jiahui. She trembled and pointed to her phone, "It's Xuan Jiahui!" (To be continued.) )