The police car drove directly into the campus without any hindrance.

"Officer Meng, go upstairs and sit down."

"The student dormitory smells bad, and it's worse than the detention center. I won't go, I have to go back to Shannan. ”

As a middle-level cadre of the Provincial Public Security Department, Meng Hui drove hundreds of kilometers, which moved Wang Qiao and invisibly brought the relationship between the two closer. He stood in front of the car and said, "Officer Meng, thank you very much." ”

"What is my relationship with you, and I will be separated if I thank you again. Let's go, come to Shannan to find me, so that I can have a good time. Meng Hui faintly found that although he always wanted to return to the light and could appear in front of his relatives and friends with an official identity, when this day came, he could always feel that the night career had left a deep imprint on his body and mind, and he had drunk and talked with several big brothers in his sleep countless times, walked hurriedly with a group of people in the night countless times, fought to the death in the narrow alleyways with knives countless times, and was tested by drug dealers countless times in life and death.

The darkness and the light are entangled in the depths of his heart, and Wang Qiao is an important witness of security that connects the past and the present, neither bringing him into a dark life, but also keeping him from being completely cut off from the long decade. Therefore, Meng Hui had a special feeling when he was with Wang Qiao.

Seeing Meng Hui away, it was the evening self-study time. Wang Qiao remembered the days and nights in the Guangnan No. 3 Detention Center, and he sighed with emotion in his heart, and slowly walked towards the playground for the evening routine exercise.

On the side of the playground, Liu Hu and Yan Lin were walking. Liu Hu, who was pregnant, was in a chaotic mood, walking with her head down, constantly stepping on the dry fallen leaves, and making a crisp "click" sound. Yan Lin comforted her close friend and kept looking towards the door on the left. All Saturday night, she didn't see Wang Qiao sitting at the desk reading, and she always felt empty and unsteady. Finally, a car light pierced the school, and seeing this light, Yan Lin had a premonition that Wang Qiao was in the car, so he stopped and looked at the car light.

Sure enough, Wang Qiao got out of the car.

Liu Hu found that Yan Lin was stagnant, then stopped, and said, "What are you looking at?" ”

Yan Lin concealed and said, "I didn't see anything." ”

Liu Hu saw Wang Qiao who got off the car and said, "Yan Lin, you have entered the net." ”

"Into what net?" Yan Lin asked knowingly.

Liu Hu pointed to Wang Qiao, who walked towards the playground, and said: "You pay too much attention to Wang Qiao, the authorities are confused, and the bystanders are clear, this is falling in love." ”

Yan Lin looked at the slender and vigorous figure under the headlights, slightly distracted, without affirmation or denial.

Liu Hu is among the five people in the Hongqi Factory, with average grades and the most artistic temperament, she gently hummed Jacky Cheung's "Love Network" in a melancholy voice: "Please light another candle for me, because I have long lost my way, I can't hide my panic, I can't wait to look around, for fear that this road is a good dream......"

Yan Lin was infected by the song, and spent the whole night softly humming the popular "Love Network" on campus. When I got up in the morning, I subconsciously hummed this song again, "Please light another candle for me, because I have long lost my way......"

After breakfast, Yan Lin was about to go to the classroom, when she heard the car horn in the corridor on the third floor, she habitually thought that it was the car that came to find Wang Qiao, and said in her heart: "Who is Wang Qiao, there are often friends who drive cars to repeat classes." ”

Walking downstairs, she saw her father standing in front of a Santana, Yan Lin said in surprise, "Dad, why are you here?" ”

Yan Dingkang is in his forties, and his hair is stubbornly standing on end, which is quite different from the image of a traditional knowledge person, more like an army instructor. He raised his wrist and looked at his watch, asking, "Classes are coming to class so early?" ”

"It's morning self-study, and there's still an hour before class."

Yan Dingkang handed the small bag he was carrying to his daughter and said, "Your mother made minced meat and cowpeas, I will go to the city government for a meeting later, and I will come to pick you up at noon." ”

The minced cowpeas of the Qi family have caused a frenzy of grabbing food in the students' dormitories countless times, Yan Lin swallowed her saliva and said: "There is a roast chicken at the school gate, it tastes good, I called Liu Hu and Wu Chongbin over and slaughtered my father." ”

Yan Dingkang said: "I don't eat roast chicken today, go to the office to eat." ”

Yan Lin looked at the car next to him and said, "Dad, you took the car to the meeting, could it be that the rumors have become a reality and you have become an official?" "A while ago, Wu Chongbin, Liu Hu and others were saying that Yan Dingkang was going to be the deputy factory director, Yan Lin didn't believe it at all, and today I saw my father actually sitting in a car to have a meeting, and it seems that the rumors have become true.

Yan Dingkang said with a smile: "At a young age, how can you be so obsessed." I'm not a good deputy factory director, it's a tricky job. Forget it, I won't tell you that. At noon, you called Liu Hu, Wu Chongbin, Xiao Tian and a few other classmates to the office to make a tooth sacrifice together. Other children take care of their families, so my Xiaolin helps her classmates kill their father. ”

Yan Lin heard that his father had indeed become the deputy factory director, and said happily: "I believe that my father can handle any difficult thing, and I support my father to be the factory director, which is definitely better than Director Tu." ”

The people in Jingzhou have been strong since ancient times, and in traditional customs, men are very authoritative in the family, and women are basically in a weak position. The Hongqi factory is a third-tier factory, and its situation is slightly different from the Jingzhou tradition, with cadres and workers mainly from the coastal areas, and rake ears can be seen everywhere in the factory. Yan Dingkang's family is not a rake ear family, it is quite democratic and open-minded, and all family members have the right to speak, so Yan Lin speaks very casually.

Yan Dingkang solemnly corrected: "Don't say this outside, it's completely to make trouble for your father." Director Tu is highly respected and has a high level, and his father can't compare to him. He looked up at the girl's dormitory and said, "There is still some time, I will go to your dormitory to have a look, you said that the dormitory is crowded like canned sardines, let me see the place where girls can become sardines." ”

Yan Lin said: "Don't go to visit, there are still girls who haven't gotten up." ”

Yan Dingkang didn't explain his deep meaning thoroughly, and said: "In the winter, I don't show my arms and legs, and it doesn't matter if a bad old man like me enters the girls' dormitory." ”

Yan Lin said coquettishly: "Dad, you are not a bad old man, judging from your appearance, you are still an older youth, and it is the most attractive time for men." ”

Yan Dingkang said: "When did you learn these words? ”

Yan Lin said: "These words are rotten on the street, and they still need to be learned." ”

Yan Dingkang said: "Then your praise just now was perfunctory? ”

Yan Lin said: "It's not perfunctory, it's from the heart, my dad is the most charming." ”

The father and daughter, who had a very harmonious relationship, went up to the third floor with a smile, and came to the door of the bedroom, Yan Lin went into the house to reconnoitre, and then let his father enter the bedroom. Yan Dingkang stood in the girls' dormitory, with a great sense of nostalgia, and said: "Yan Ling, I feel that I have gone back in time in the girls' dormitory, when the Hongqi Factory was first built, it was extremely difficult, and the cadres and workers all slept in the big dormitory, and the large dormitory was usually densely packed with forty or fifty people. Your girls' dormitory is very similar to the big dormitory of the workers, except that there is more fat and powder, and less smell of iron and steel and engine oil. In addition to nostalgia, he was really distressed, and said: "This kind of environment will affect learning, and I have to find a way to adjust the dormitory, would you like to live in the office?" ”

Yan Lin comforted her father and said: "The previous repeater class had good results in the college entrance examination, and seven of them were admitted to university in this dormitory. "The Burrow" said, 'The mountain is not high, but the name of the immortal; The water is not deep, and if there is a dragon, it will be spiritual. Si is a burrow, only Wu Dexin. ’”

Yan Dingkang looked at his smart and clever daughter lovingly, and said: "This is the self-comfort that I look for when there is no way to change the dilemma, and parents all over the world want to create better conditions for their children." There were no conditions before, but now there are conditions. ”

Yan Lin said: "If you can go to the office, it will definitely be better than here." ”

Yan Dingkang said: "It shouldn't be a big problem. ”

Yan Lin said: "I want to get a few classmates together." ”

Yan Dingkang said: "Of course, I don't feel at ease if you live alone." ”

After standing in the dormitory for a few minutes, Yan Dingkang left.

Seeing off her father, Yan Lin hurried back to the bedroom, and the first thing she did was to open the glass bottle and sandwich the minced meat cowpeas in the remaining half of the cold steamed buns for breakfast. After eating the remaining half of the steamed buns, she was still unsatisfied, and then used chopsticks to take out some minced meat and cowpeas in a glass jar, put them in her mouth and chewed them carefully. It wasn't until the minced cowpeas in the glass jar were one-third less that they stopped for the time being.

In the classroom, Yan Lin put a piece of paper in front of Wang Qiao's desk and turned back to her seat.

The slip of paper shows the difficulties, problems, and five exercises for the new mathematics lesson. After reading the note, Wang Qiao looked at Yan Lin, and happened to meet his gaze, so he nodded in thanks.

Looking at Wang Qiao, Yan Lin blushed for no reason, and her cheeks were hot for a while. She immediately thought of a question: "If I go to live in the office, I won't go to the evening self-study, so I will have a lot less time to meet Wang Qiao." ”

Thinking of this, she was too willing to live in the office, preferring to be crammed into a large room.

She immediately thought again: "Wang Qiao should be eaten, and let him eat a delicious meal too." He grew so tall and ate so little, he would definitely be hungry. ”

At noon, Yan Lin, Liu Hu, Wu Chongbin and others came to the Jingzhou office of Hongqi Factory. The office is not far from Jingzhou No. 1 Middle School, and it is only about ten minutes' walk. The main building of the Hongqi factory office is a five-story blue brick building, with a large courtyard of more than 500 square meters outside, and a commuter bus between the factory and the office is parked every morning and evening. The office is equipped with a canteen, a small conference room and guest rooms, which are not open to the public, mainly for the middle-level and above leaders of Hongqi Factory.

Yan Dingkang is now the deputy director of the office, and when he arrives at the office, he naturally feels like coming home, and even feels more at home than when he comes home.

(Chapter 36)