The quarrel between Luo Baochun's father and daughter in the study of the Yellow Crane Lake Villa really frightened Long Xiaoyu, but fortunately, he knew the actual content of the quarrel at noon that day. Before noon, he left the Yellow Crane Lake Villa and returned to the city with the documents that Luo Baochun had reviewed, and of course he had to send Luo Jingjing home first after entering the city. As when she went out of the city in the morning, Luo Jingjing was silent all the way, and the car drove to the small courtyard of the Luo family, and after she got out of the car, she suddenly said to Long Xiaoyu who stayed in the car:

"Secretary Long, come down for a while, I have something for you to bring to my father."

After she finished speaking, she turned around and walked into the small courtyard. Long Xiaoyu also got out of the car, asked the driver to wait, and followed Luo Jingjing into the yard.

They entered the house and closed the door, and Long Xiaoyu asked first, "Did you quarrel with your father?" ”

Luo Jingjing sat down, took off her shoes listlessly, and did not answer.

Long Xiaoyu asked again: "Why?" ”

Luo Jingjing looked up at him, and saw that Long Xiaoyu's heart was furious, and his voice became unconfident:

"What did your dad say?"

Luo Jingjing opened her mouth and said, "My dad will introduce me to a partner." ”

Long Xiaoyu's nervous mood relaxed a little, but at the same time, he was pressed by another heavy thing, and he was stunned and didn't speak.

Luo Jingjing said: "It's the son of the director of the provincial health department, who said that he had seen my performance and liked me. ”

Long Xiaoyu stood there stupidly, still not speaking.

Luo Jingjing said again: "The director's son is a college student, and now he has set up a medical equipment import and export company, which is said to be very successful. The age is not too big, just thirty this year, 1.8 meters tall, my dad has seen it, and he said that people are quite pleasing to the eye. ”

Long Xiaoyu blinked and listened.

Luo Jingjing paused and suddenly asked, "You say, what should I do?" I listen to you. ”

Long Xiaoyu hurriedly spoke: "Uh- that's pretty good, this person...... The conditions are quite suitable for you. ”

Luo Jingjing stared at him and asked, "Then you mean I should be friends with him?" ”

Long Xiaoyu hesitated for a moment and replied: "Ah, making friends with such a person is good for you and your father, I think it's good, I think it's ......"

Before he finished speaking, one of Luo Jingjing's shoes had already flown over, Long Xiaoyu covered his head with his hand, the shoe hit his arm, Luo Jingjing picked up another shoe and threw it over, and smashed it on the hanger behind Long Xiaoyu. Luo Jingjing threw away her shoes and cried one by one. Long Xiaoyu walked over and stretched out his arms to hold her in his arms.

He said: "Jingjing, I love you, as long as you can live well in the future, your father can live well, I am willing to choose whatever you want." I said that as long as I could love you in my dreams, I would be satisfied. ”

Luo Jingjing was still sobbing, and said aggrievedly: "Do you love me? Why do you love me and let me be nice to others? I'm with someone else, how can you still love me? ”

Long Xiaoyu hugged Luo Jingjing tightly, and he loved this girl to the bone. It was an afternoon of vows, he wiped away the tears on Luo Jingjing's face and swore that as long as Luo Jingjing could be happy, he could do anything, he could live for her or die for her. It wasn't until two years later that Long Xiaoyu sat in the prison of the Pingling City Public Security Bureau Detention Center, facing his defense lawyer, Han Ding, who was the same age as him, still with tears in his eyes when talking about that passionate afternoon, and he said to Han Ding: "That oath has always been firmly remembered in his heart, and it will remain unchanged until death!" ”

That day, Long Xiaoyu appeased Luo Jingjing with a heartfelt oath, and then hurriedly left the Luo family's courtyard. The driver was still waiting outside the door, he couldn't stay long. When the car started he looked back in the back seat, the small courtyard with the red door gradually faded away from his sight, gradually blurred by a hazy layer of tears, he turned his head, breathed deeply, and did not let the tears flow. He found strength for himself in his deep breaths, the kind of faith that could not be expressed in any words.

In the afternoon, there was no one in the office. Long Xiaoyu sat next to a telephone and sat for a long, long time before grabbing the receiver and dialing the number of a pager left by Zhu Siping. He made an appointment with Zhu Siping to meet in the evening, and this meeting was an important plot in the relationship between Long Xiaoyu and Luo Jingjing, and this plot was indispensable for Han Ding to clarify the relationship between the defendant and the victim in this case. That night, Long Xiaoyu faced himself with a painful choice - whether to be loyal to the company or to preserve love. In fact, he could have changed his course until the last minute, but after repeated hesitation, he finally did not, and he appeared at the gate of the Youth Palace Cinema in the central business district of Pingling City at half past seven in the evening as promised. If he hadn't gone that night, all the things that followed, and the tragedy for which the cause was so hard to identify, might not have happened.

But unfortunately, Long Xiaoyu went. He took a confidential piece of material from the company he loved—a few pieces of data that at first glance looked like nothing more than hand-copied on a cosmetics manual—to Zhu Siping's appointment. He didn't want to hurt the company he relied on for survival, he didn't want to betray the boss who was kind enough to help him support him, but he still took this stolen trade secret and stood at the gate of the Youth Palace Cinema at the appointed time. He stood here, waiting for Zhu Siping with the mood of being a thief. He clearly knew that he was involved in an immoral conspiracy, what he didn't know was the outcome of this conspiracy, and he didn't know what tonight's connection with Zhu Siping would ultimately bring to his company, his boss, and himself.

He really didn't expect such an unexpected ending before he met Zhu Siping. The ending of this joint actually involved Luo Jingjing. Before the pharmaceutical company got off work that evening, Luo Jingjing called Long Xiaoyu and asked him to come to her house early in the evening. She told him that she had helped him string the beaded chain, and she said that she hadn't seen him all afternoon, and that she missed him very much, and wanted to cook and eat with him, and stay with him. Long Xiaoyu didn't make love to her on the phone, of course Luo Jingjing could hear that there was someone around him. Long Xiaoyu said solemnly that the company leader asked him to do something tonight, I'm afraid he can't go over, he will call her tomorrow or later today. Even if the content of these calls is heard by all the people who come in and out of the office, it is impossible to hear that the person on the other end of the phone is Luo Jingjing, the daughter of the boss who is lying in bed and has just slept all afternoon and has not gotten up.

Luo Jingjing thought that he really had business, so she was no longer reluctant, and told him to come over after finishing his work, and she would wait no matter how late she was. Hung up the phone, she fell asleep again, slept for a long time but couldn't sleep, she habitually took out the freshly strung pearl bracelet and looked at it under the lamp, except for this bracelet, she couldn't think of anything else that could represent Long Xiaoyu and become that kind of incarnate token. But she didn't dare to ask for this bead chain again, because Long Xiaoyu had already said that only when he died, he would leave this thing to her, and she was going to come over now, wouldn't it be too unlucky? Luo Jingjing played with the bracelet carefully, waited for Long Xiaoyu to come over, and looked at the watch several times, and the time was surprisingly slow, much slower than usual. The hour hand staggered step by step to eight o'clock in the evening as if it was deliberately procrastinating, and the phone at the bedside suddenly rang, Luo Jingjing thought it was Long Xiaoyu calling, and couldn't wait to pick it up, but the voice in the microphone was a woman. The woman said, "Luo Jingjing? She replied blankly, "Huh? The woman asked again, "Luo Jingjing?" Are you sleeping? Only then did she hear Cheng Yao's voice.

Cheng Yao said: "I'm in the Youth Palace Cinema, guess who I saw here?" ”

Luo Jingjing was still a little confused: "Who?" ”

Cheng Yao said: "I saw Long Xiaoyu here. ”

"Long Xiaoyu?" Luo Jingjing became excited, "Where did you see Long Xiaoyu?" ”

Cheng Yao didn't answer, and asked rhetorically: "Jingjing, how are you and Long Xiaoyu?" Do you really mean anything to him? ”

Luo Jingjing didn't know where this was asked, and asked ignorantly: "What's the matter, where did you see Long Xiaoyu?" ”

Cheng Yao's words paused, this pause made Luo Jingjing feel a little ominous, and she asked again nervously: "Ah?" ”

Cheng Yao said: "Youth Palace Cinema. He was watching a video with a woman in the video hall of the Cinema of the Palace of Youth. ”

"Female? No way...... How old is a woman? ”

"Twenty years old, about the same as you."

Luo Jingjing couldn't speak for a long time, she didn't even want to judge whether she understood or hung up the phone with questions. After hanging up the phone, she was in a daze for a while, and suddenly lifted the quilt and jumped out of bed. At this time, the phone rang again, she didn't answer, maybe Cheng Yao called again, she didn't want to answer. She dressed very quickly, a little sloppy, and she had never dressed so sloppily before. The phone rang for a while, and it stopped helplessly, and Luo Jingjing had already rushed out of the door in disheveled clothes. The moment she walked out of the courtyard gate, she wanted to cry, but the oncoming wind made her choke abruptly stop. She ran out of the alley and stood on the side of the road waving for a taxi.

It was indeed a coincidence that Cheng Yao saw Long Xiaoyu in the Youth Palace Cinema. Half past seven in the evening is the time for Long Xiaoyu and Zhu Siping to meet. Zhu Siping arrived at 7:40, and she walked across the street, her steps were steady and unhurried. Long Xiaoyu looked at her, she was dressed very thinly, and the winter was almost past her, and she didn't have winter clothes yet. The wind that began to blow since the evening brought some sand on the construction site on the street corner, and it was rampant and domineering from west to east.

Long Xiaoyu's heartbeat was a little tight at that moment, and his feelings when he saw Zhu Siping were contradictory, and he couldn't tell whether he was distressed or afraid. His hands were in his trouser pockets, a little sweaty, and he touched the Clinique instruction manual with the label on it. He thought that he should buy a thick dress for Siping, the climate in Pingling was much colder than that in Shaoxing. In the face of Siping's shrinkage, his own thick new coat and warm new scarf made him a little uncomfortable, as if Siping's mocking and indignant gaze had fallen on his head. Fortunately, Siping approached, there was no sour look on her expression, and she even smiled at Long Xiaoyu squarely, this smile relaxed Long Xiaoyu's nervousness, and this smile was similar to the smile he saw for the first time on the canopy boat outside Shiqiao Town, Shaoxing. That active, somewhat offensive smile had shaken Long Xiaoyu's heart.

Siping smiled slightly, sucked the cool air in her mouth and spoke first: "It's cold to death, it's cold to death, when did you buy the scarf, give it to me quickly, my face is frozen." As she spoke, she took off Long Xiaoyu's cashmere scarf, and wrapped her head tightly around her in two strokes, leaving only a pair of flickering eyes and half-red ears. Then, the mouth stopped sucking and the vocalizations began to normalize.

"You're here early?" Siping asked.

Long Xiaoyu nodded.

Siping asked again: "Do you have that thing with you?" ”

Long Xiaoyu nodded again, he looked left and right, there were no acquaintances left and right, and in the wind on the street, every passerby who bowed his head was in a hurry. He wanted to pull out the Clinique manual with the data in his trouser pocket, but before he could move, Siping was already snuggling up, and a hand was inserted into the crook of his elbow and grabbed his arm.

"Hey, look," she pointed to a handwritten billboard standing at the entrance of the movie theater, and said excitedly, "There is a video of Titanic today, you can show me!" ”

Long Xiaoyu also watched the advertisement, but said, "Titanic, haven't you seen it earlier?" ”

Siping said: "I still want to see it!" The year before last, I watched pirated discs at Xiaohong's house, and I didn't know anything about it. Xiaohong went to the cinema three times, but I only watched it once, and it was still a pirated disc. ”

Zhu Siping dragged Long Xiaoyu to the ticket window, and the expression on her face became both coquettish and serious: "I like Leonardo the most, I think he looks a little like you, that eyebrows, that mouth, and you are a little bit like you." ”

Siping dragged Long Xiaoyu to the ticket window, stretched out his head and shouted at the conductor: "I want two tickets for the video hall." Tearing up two tickets from the window and handing them out, Siping tilted his head to look at Long Xiaoyu, and motioned for him to pay the money: "Two tickets are a total of sixteen yuan." Even the video is so expensive here. ”

Long Xiaoyu took out his pocket, took out ten yuan, and handed it to Zhu Siping: "Look at it yourself, I don't look at it, I still have something." ”

Zhu Siping didn't do it, and said half-coquettishly: "No, how long have you not been with me, and now you won't accompany me to watch a video?" No, I have to let you see it today. You look at how Onardo treats girls in people's homes, and you also learn from others. ”

Siping said as she put her hand into Long Xiaoyu's trouser pocket, took out a handful of change, pulled out ten yuan from it, and stuffed the rest back into Long Xiaoyu's trouser pocket. She bought the tickets for the two video halls, and happily pulled Long Xiaoyu to the movie theater. Long Xiaoyu got rid of her pull and said solemnly:

"Didn't we say we wouldn't see each other again? I'm busy at work right now and can't be with you anymore. I brought what you wanted. Long Xiaoyu took out the Clinique manual from his other trouser pocket and handed it to Siping.

Siping looked at him with a half-smile and didn't answer.

Long Xiaoyu said, "Do you want it or not?" ”

Siping smiled: "Yes." She tore at the piece of paper, glanced at the few numbers that had been scribbled on it, and said with a slight contempt, "Is this it?" She seemed to be a little disdainful of the numbers, but she became interested in the manual itself, and looked at it for a long time, and asked with a puzzled face, "What is this?" ”

Long Xiaoyu said casually: "This is a cosmetic instruction manual. ”

Siping asked, "Cosmetics?" What do you use? ”

Long Xiaoyu said: "It's not for me, it's ......"

He suddenly stopped his words, but fortunately he didn't continue, but Siping had obviously sniffed the smell of fat powder from this manual, and sneered: "This is for women!" Didn't you go behind my back, did you, how do you have this thing? ”

Long Xiaoyu opened his mouth and stammered for a long time before he came to his senses, and made up in a panic: "I didn't have any paper at hand at the time, this is from our colleague's desk......"

"Female colleague, huh?"

"Ahh

"You have to be honest with you, rabbits don't eat the grass next to the nest, do you understand?"

Long Xiaoyu did not respond, and did not say anything. Siping turned her face and smiled, put away the manual, grabbed Long Xiaoyu's arm again, and said, "Count the last time you watch the video with me, the last time, it's okay." The wind is so strong, don't let me freeze outside, okay? I've already seen that you really have no conscience. ”

Zhu Siping dragged Long Xiaoyu into the cinema with a scolding and a scolding. At the door of the movie theater, I also bought a bag of popcorn with the money left over from the ticket. At this time, in the small video hall on the side of the movie screening room, the spectacular Titanic cruise ship has set sail romantically to the melodious melody of Scottish bagpipes. Long Xiaoyu followed Zhu Siping, hunched down and found a pair of seats in the front in the darkened video hall—the seats in front were empty—and sat down to watch Leonardo and the poor guy who won the ticket with him looking for their berths in the third-class cabin. Long Xiaoyu had no interest in Leonardo, he fidgeted and thought about how he could leave here early and rush to the Luo family's courtyard. His mind was full of the orange light at the head of Luo Jingjing's bed, and he guessed that Luo Jingjing was still waiting for him lonely under the frozen light. Of course, he couldn't have guessed that Luo Jingjing had already walked into this video hall with few audiences at this time. How could Long Xiaoyu guess it, his beloved girl had already recognized his back, was already sitting behind him, and through the tears in his eyes, he saw Siping lying on his shoulder, imitating the tenderness and sweetness of Jack and Ruth in that classic love movement. This situation made Luo Jingjing's heart stabbed by a sharp blade one by one, and she wanted to cry sharply every time she poked it, but every cry was blocked by an indescribable spasm in her throat. She tried to get up and walk out several times, but her legs were so numb that she couldn't move, her face was numb, and tears were spilling out of her eye sockets, flowing unconsciously on her numb face. Her whole chest was numb, so numb that she couldn't even sob. The only remaining consciousness she had had made her realize that Long Xiaoyu had stood up, and he had said something to the girl who was snuggling up to him and lowered his head and walked out, he passed by Luo Jingjing's side, his steps hurried. The girl also stood up and chased out with the half-eaten bag of popcorn. Luo Jingjing only woke up at this time, stood up, and followed them out of the theater. On the street at the entrance of the theater, she saw Long Xiaoyu talking to the girl. Luo Jingjing recognized it, the girl was none other than Zhu Siping, who had blackmailed her with Long Xiaoyu.

Luo Jingjing walked past them, she was not afraid that they would see her. What she hated the most at this time was not that Zhu Siping, but Long Xiaoyu. Only then did she realize that Long Xiaoyu had been deceiving her and had been denying that he still had such a woman. He actually put the scarf she bought for him around this woman's head. Luo Jingjing raised her eyebrows and walked past them, she deliberately let Long Xiaoyu see her, she made him look at her in a daze, and he was at a loss for a moment. Luo Jingjing walked across the street, she didn't dodge the cars coming and going on the street, her tears flowed down, she hated Long Xiaoyu to death, and her mind quickly and chaotically imagined all kinds of ways to relieve her anger and cut him off. But at the same time, she was looking forward to him chasing him, she really hoped that he would chase him, she didn't even think about whether she would scold him or forgive him if he chased him...... It turned out that he really chased after him. Luo Jingjing wanted to wipe her tears, she wanted to make a look of indifference, but she couldn't, when Long Xiaoyu grabbed her arm from behind and pulled her into her arms, she cried almost uncontrollably. She cried not for the betrayal of a man, but for the sudden shattering of the illusion of a man's perfection in her heart. She finally saw the other side of Long Xiaoyu, when she realized that her Long Xiaoyu was no longer the Long Xiaoyu of the past, when she realized that the pure and dedicated Long Xiaoyu of the past, the Long Xiaoyu she loved so much, was gone forever, she almost had a feeling that the sky was falling. But in the next moment, she was propped up in his arms, leaning on his chest, and she felt the warmth as before, and that warm embrace was any different from the past? Is that strong chest any different from what it used to be? She thought it was just a dream, she had just woken up, Long Xiaoyu was supporting her, hugging her, where to go.

She leaned on his strong arm and walked to a taxi that had just stopped, Long Xiaoyu opened the car door and helped her in, the feeling was exactly the same as before, and the movements were the same as in the past, her heart settled down because of this, and her breathing calmed down. She saw Long Xiaoyu also get into the car, and when everything was evolving like a dream, she suddenly heard a cry of gnashing her teeth, this scream knocked the cruelty of reality back into her consciousness, and pierced her almost anesthetized nerves again.

"Long Xiaoyu, where are you going? How dare you ask for any woman! ”

The car had already started, Luo Jingjing turned her head, and she saw Zhu Siping, who was surrounded by the scarf, standing on the opposite side of the street from the dirty and dirty glass of the rear window, and roared angrily at their car.