The day after Long Xiaoyu and Luo Jingjing were admitted to Zhangyan Hospital, Director Wang of the company hurriedly flew from Pingling to Zhangyan. Three days later, Long Xiaoyu followed Luo Baochun's father and daughter and Director Wang to take the same plane at Zhangyan Airport as when they came, and returned to Pingling and their Yellow Crane Lake villa.

Long Xiaoyu was more seriously injured than Luo Jingjing, but he was better than Luo Jingjing, although his face and hands were still scarred when he returned to Pingling from Zhangyan, his mental and physical strength had recovered as before. On the day he returned to Pingling from Zhangyan, Luo Baochun was going to keep him at Huanghe Lake for two days to recuperate, but Long Xiaoyu didn't stay. He told the boss that he was fine, his body had completely recovered, the injuries on his face and hands did not matter, and he said that there would definitely be a large pile of documents piled up on the desk waiting to be processed in the next few days, and he needed to return to the company and the office as soon as possible. Luo Baochun didn't force him to stay, he looked at the young man's simple face with satisfaction, nodded with a smile, and said, "Okay, the office matter, thank you for your hard work." ”

When Long Xiaoyu left the Yellow Crane Lake Villa, Luo Baochun made an exception and walked out of the courtyard to see him off. Luo Jingjing also came out, standing silently beside his father, watching Long Xiaoyu get into the car and watch his car go away. Long Xiaoyu turned around three times and saw Luo Baochun entering, but Luo Jingjing was still there, standing motionless at the door of the courtyard.

When Long Xiaoyu returned to Baochun Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., it was already more than eight o'clock in the evening. The company has long been empty, and there is no movement from top to bottom. Long Xiaoyu's footsteps upstairs echoed in the dim light of the stairs, making the entire small building seem even more hollow. He used the key to open the door of the chairman's office, walked to the large desk in the dark, and turned on the lamp. As he expected, there was a lot of material piled up on the table to be read and approved. He wanted to sort through the materials, and as soon as he reached out to open the first folder, his movements suddenly stopped.

The document on the top is a summary of the bottom of the standard document of the expansion project of the pharmaceutical factory, and when Long Xiaoyu saw the two words on the cover, his heart flickered, and his heart beat uncontrollably and rapidly.

He carefully opened the cover, and there was a full set of tender documents attached below, including a summary table of the bid base, a project budget, a unit project fee table, and so on. He closed the cover, took a moment of breath, resolutely picked up the set of documents, and walked out of the office.

There were no lights on in the hallway outside the office, it was dark. He walked from east to west with the faint light reflected by the staircase sconces on the wall of the hallway, and then fumbled with the key to open the door to the hut where he was staying. The room was only 10 square meters in size, with a single bed, a filing cabinet and a photocopier, which was very cramped. He turned on a small reading lamp fixed to the head of the bed, and the light cast his figure exaggeratedly on the dark wall, and the shadow on the wall was like a ghost like a sleepy beast, which floated to the photocopier. The sizzling sound of the photocopier filling and preheating rendered an eerie atmosphere in this narrow space, and the sound was unreasonably amplified by the silence around it several times, making Long Xiaoyu survive this long moment in a heartbeat.

He calmed himself down and began to copy the set of documents page by page. The blue light from the photocopier came and went, making his face flicker and darker, and his features were deeply immersed in the shadow of repeated strokes. At the same time as Qingguang swiped for the last time, he called Zhu Siping with his mobile phone. He informed the pager of his name and left a message: Please call back quickly!

Half an hour later, still at the gate of the cinema, he met Zhu Siping. Also coming with Siping is Nobita. Nobita's appearance surprised Long Xiaoyu a little, and his face became gloomy. He didn't say anything to Nobita, and handed an envelope containing materials to Siping with a straight face, and Siping handed it to Nobita without looking at it. Nobita opened the letter pocket on the spot, and the documents inside immediately made him smile. He read the documents, put away the envelope, and proposed to go to a nearby restaurant with Long Xiaoyu to have two drinks, and let Siping accompany him. Long Xiaoyu declined, he glanced at Siping sullenly, and said:

"It's time for me to go, I still have something to do."

Siping noticed the scratches on his face and asked, "Who did you fight with?" ”

Long Xiaoyu shook his head and said, "I fell and rubbed." ”

He turned around and walked away. After walking a few steps and standing down and turning around, he saw that Nobita had paced to a cigarette stall to buy cigarettes, and Siping was still standing in place, looking at him steadily.

He also looked at Siping, and with a farewell look, he said to her: "Goodbye!" "I also used the voice of farewell.

Siping didn't say anything, didn't respond to him with goodbye words, she just looked at him fixedly, with no expression on her face, not even expression.

Long Xiaoyu walked back, his steps couldn't tell whether they were light or heavy. He hopes that tonight can be a final, and the relationship between him and Siping can be demarcated; He hopes that tonight will be a beginning for him to step into a new life without worry; He wanted it to be an equal deal, and he offered his loyalty in exchange for another loyalty he longed to do. Yes, this is indeed a real deal, a deal that both sides have long agreed on the price. After this transaction, buyers and sellers are free to part ways.

Three days later, it was the opening of the bid for the expansion project of the Baochun Pharmaceutical Factory. Who won the bid at the meeting, Long Xiaoyu didn't know at the time. Half a month later, the construction site of the expansion project was full of red flags, gongs and drums, firecrackers, and people. At the exciting moment when Luo Baochun, chairman of the company, loudly announced through the loudspeaker that "the groundbreaking ceremony of the second phase of the Baochun Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. project will start now", Long Xiaoyu, who was standing behind Luo Baochun and applauded desperately, suddenly saw Zhu Siping wearing a hard hat from the construction team under the rostrum. Zhu Siping slapped mechanically with the applause on and off the stage, but her eyes were the same as the night when they finally broke up, looking at Long Xiaoyu on the stage fixedly. Long Xiaoyu was stunned for a long time and didn't come to his senses, until he saw Nobita's broad hawthorn face in the front row of this construction team, he suddenly realized: the transaction between him and Zhu Siping did not separate them from a distance, on the contrary, it made them squeeze closer into the same small space, close enough to look up and not look down, close to the extent that they would meet at any time in the morning and dusk every day. The construction site of the expansion project is very close to the small building of the pharmaceutical company, and Luo Baochun must go to the construction site to inspect the construction site, and he must bring Long Xiaoyu with him to inspect the construction site, so that the meeting with Siping is unavoidable. When he met Siping, he still couldn't completely shake off the past. The past should have come to an end, but now it seems that the day is far from over!

Long Xiaoyu guessed correctly, after the expansion project started, it became the top priority in Luo Baochun's heart. No matter morning or night, many times to inspect in person, each inspection must bring Long Xiaoyu entourage. They walked around the construction site in a majestic manner under the support of Director Ma, Chief Engineer, Director of the Construction Company and other cadres of the Preparatory Office. Although not every time, but very often, Long Xiaoyu saw Zhu Siping, and sometimes even passed by him. Siping does statistics on the construction site, and she does statistics in the century-old red wine factory. Although it is not physical work, he is also wearing a work clothes stained with mud, unkempt, and Long Xiaoyu in a suit and leather shoes, his eyes are facing each other, which is very different. Siping doesn't care, she always looks straight over, Long Xiaoyu feels awkward, her eyes can't help but flicker and avoid, and every time she makes it like a thorn in her back.

is not only looking at the construction site, Luo Baochun now has to take Long Xiaoyu with him wherever he goes. Long Xiaoyu rushed into Yunqing Mountain at night to save Luo Jingjing, which really moved Luo Baochun. He was silent on the surface, but secretly advocated in his heart, and decided to train this young man well, and he also planned to let him go down to the factory for a while, first go to a certain workshop or a certain department to exercise, and then return to the company. Such a young man who is loyal by nature, if he knows the business and learns to manage, he can be entrusted with great responsibilities after a few years.

In addition to placing high hopes on him, Luo Baochun also made a great adjustment to Long Xiaoyu's salary, doubling it from 1,000 yuan per month to 2,000 yuan per month. He also considered buying a one-bedroom dormitory for Long Xiaoyu near the company, and instructed the company's administrative department to send someone to the surrounding area to take a look, the price is about 100,000 yuan, even if it is a second-hand house, as long as it is a double gas bathroom with complete facilities, it doesn't matter if the price is more expensive. In addition, Luo Baochun also asked Director Wang of the office to tailor a very decent suit for Long Xiaoyu, with an exquisite shirt, tie and leather shoes. Luo Baochun said: "I can wear nonsense as a boss, and my personal secretary must be thoughtful, like a secretary of a large company, which is related to the company's image and cannot be sloppy." With his words, when Long Xiaoyu showed up with Luo Baochun when he traveled outside, he must have been well-dressed, and even the leather shoes on his feet were spotlessly polished. Long Xiaoyu was already upright, and his figure was straight, and then he was dressed and saddled, and when he walked on the street, even the man turned back.

The relationship between Long Xiaoyu and Luo Jingjing has returned to the same as before, as intimate as in the past, as happy as in the past, and as secret as in the past. He wore this "outfit" to show Luo Jingjing, and Luo Jingjing loved him even more. She said, "Really, you're more beautiful than the male models in our company." Long Xiaoyu said: "Then you introduce me to be a model." Luo Jingjing said: "What are you doing, men are not productive as models!" How many days can you eat by your face? It's more interesting for men to learn management. You've been to college and you know how to use computers, so why do you want to eat that bowl of youth? ”

Almost every night, sometimes even late at night, Long Xiaoyu would appear in the Luo family's courtyard. Luo Jingjing gave Long Xiaoyu a key to the courtyard gate, and he could open the door by himself when he came. If he came early, he would cook a delicious dinner for Luo Jingjing; If he came late, Luo Jingjing would prepare a meal and wait for him to eat. Sometimes Luo Jingjing went to perform in other places, more than a week, at least two or three days, Long Xiaoyu would also quietly come to the Luo family's courtyard in the middle of the night, and lie in the dark light on Luo Jingjing's bed for a while. In the days when he was separated from Luo Jingjing, he couldn't sleep all night, and only when he ran to the Luo family's courtyard and lay on Luo Jingjing's bed, the smell of the bedding and pillows on the bed could make him settle down. At this time, he could hear Luo Jingjing's chirping laughter in the kitchen and in the yard, which made his heart calm like water.

When they got together with Luo Jingjing, their topic had some new content. They would talk excitedly about the night in Yunqingshan, that night he and she may have been very close, but they were close to the end of the world, and they couldn't see each other. It was later confirmed that their hearts were indeed the same, and each of them wept for the other in the final despair. Looking back on this situation, it makes people feel very energized and proud, and they feel so good. Sometimes they will talk about Siping, Long Xiaoyu no longer hides it, and brings his life experience and relationship with Siping together with a calm mood and an honest attitude. Long Xiaoyu spoke unhurriedly, and Luo Jingjing listened calmly. But in the end, he still didn't mention it, that is: Zhu Siping is still working on Luo Baochun's construction site, and he is still meeting Long Xiaoyu for three days. He was afraid that Luo Jingjing would say that he didn't want him to go to the construction site with her father again, and he was afraid that Luo Jingjing would go to the construction site to find Zhu Siping...... Luo Jingjing may be able to do it, she may run to the construction site on a whim and tell Zhu Siping in person that she and Long Xiaoyu have fallen in love. Luo Jingjing is such a person, she often suddenly shows the kind of madness that only the most reckless girls have! Be spontaneous and reckless!

He thought, he had already given Siping what she wanted, he had already asked her to pay an errand at Nobita's, and with face, he had let them all get this money-making project as they wished, this was a completed deal, and there was no reason to regret and find a future account. Siping should abide by the rules of the game and no longer be treacherous. But it makes sense, every time Long Xiaoyu sees Siping or Nobita on the construction site, he still can't help but be frightened, and he doesn't know where to dodge. He instinctively expected them to look for him, maybe tonight, maybe later, because instinct is often not wrong.

Sure enough, a month after the expansion project started, when Long Xiaoyu almost thought that everything would be fine, he received a call from Siping again. The call was made on Long Xiaoyu's mobile phone, and when he heard Siping's voice, Long Xiaoyu became flustered, followed by inexplicable anger. He restrained his emotions and asked her coldly, "Siping? What's the matter, what are you looking for me for? ”

Siping smiled lightly on the phone and said, "Yo, I can't look for you if I'm fine." Now that you have made a fortune as an official, your shelf is also bigger, and you don't look at people when you meet on the construction site. The first time you came with your boss, I couldn't even admit it, you were so beautiful in a suit. Many of them still asked me if it was Xiao Yu, and I said of course it was, but they still didn't believe it. ”

Siping's voice was happy and not malicious. Even, when it comes to Long Xiaoyu wearing a suit, he still reveals a bit of pride and glory. This made Long Xiaoyu's heart soften all of a sudden, and he realized that no matter how much he didn't love Siping, it was difficult to refuse her, it was difficult to ignore her, and it was difficult to harden his heart to the point of coldness. After his helpless silence, Siping's voice remained cordial, as if her relationship with him was still as close as ever, as if nothing had happened between them.

"Xiao Yu, when are you free, Nobita wants to treat you to a meal. I haven't thanked you well for the last time, so he said that he will make up for it this time. Nobita said that you are now bigger, and I want to invite you and I am afraid that you will not want to, so let me invite. I told him, let me ask for it, I will invite Xiao Yu to come, but you are not allowed to ask others to do things. Nobita also made a promise, he said no, no, everyone is a fellow countryman, and when they go out, they are a family, they are affectionate together, and they don't talk about things. I said that's pretty much it. Xiao Yu, are you free? If you really don't want to see them, forget it. However, Nobita also helped you when you first came to Pingling. Now that you are developed, you will ignore him, everyone will talk about you behind your back, everyone will talk about you, and my face is not good-looking. ”

Siping said it reasonably, which made Long Xiaoyu feel a little surprised. The reasonableness in Siping's words also made Long Xiaoyu's invitation to Nobita almost impossible to refuse. That night, he did go to a restaurant that dealt in Hangzhou cuisine not far from the expansion site, where he met Siping and Nobita, as well as a foreman and a follower under Nobita. The foreman's name is Hong Weiguo, black, thin and dry, he looks like a Cantonese, and his follower is called Qian Delai, five big and three thick, just like a strong man in the north. These two people Long Xiaoyu know each other, and they are not familiar with each other, but they are both Nobita's best friends.

Nobita asked for a lot of dishes that night, although this table of dishes was far less than the kind of pomp and circumstance when Long Xiaoyu followed Luo Baochun to participate in the entertainment, but it was also full of oily fragrance and tenderness. They also drank a lot that day. As Siping promised in advance on the phone, Nobita didn't talk about anything except for small talk, didn't make any requests, and didn't ask Long Xiaoyu to help do this or that. Later, Nobita got drunk, hugged Siping and didn't let go, and still touched Siping's face. Siping didn't let him touch it, the two of them pushed around half-coquettishly and half-angrily, and after the beating, Siping made a little heavier, Nobita got angry and pulled Siping's hair, Siping gave Nobita a slap, Nobita also gave Siping a slap, scolded Siping for stinky **, and vomited all over the ground after scolding. Seeing this, Qian Delai and Hong Weiguo dragged him to the bathroom, and only Siping and Long Xiaoyu were left on the table. Siping had red eyes, glared at Long Xiaoyu hatefully, and said, "If he beats me to death, you won't care." "Long Xiaoyu doesn't want to care. He couldn't even guess whether Nobita and Siping's sudden salivation, flirting, and suddenly turning their faces and making their hands were real or fake. Nobita moved his hands and feet in front of Siping, of course he was uncomfortable to watch, but could he manage it? What does he do? Who is he Siping? The moment Nobita started to beat Siping, Long Xiaoyu's face was very ugly, but he didn't care, didn't persuade, and didn't take the case. Nobita was drunk, not to mention that Siping also brought it on himself. He has always doubted whether Siping can still have chastity with Nobita while relying on Nobita, although Siping has confessed to Long Xiaoyu several times that she has never let Nobita eat tofu to take advantage, but Long Xiaoyu does not believe it, and it is inferred from common sense that he does not believe it.

Therefore, he was indifferent in the face of Siping's resentful gaze, he was very confused but deliberately indifferent. He said expressionlessly: "Since he is like this to you, why do you still rely on him, just leave him." ”

Siping's eyes turned even redder, and she asked in a dumb voice: "If I don't rely on him, who do I rely on?" By my drunken dad, by my half-dead mom, or by you? Do you want me? ”

Long Xiaoyu made her stunned, he changed his concept and transferred his embarrassment: "Why do you have to rely on a man, you should have backbone and be independent." ”

Siping immediately raised her voice to suppress his words: "I'm better than you after all, you're a man, you'd rather rely on a woman in order to wear this brand-name clothes, and you're embarrassed to teach me a lesson!" ”

Long Xiaoyu didn't expect that the topic would involve Luo Jingjing's body so suddenly, he felt like he had been stabbed in his heart, and he twitched in pain. He nervously stood up and yelled, "Shut the! ”

Zhu Siping was taken aback, she had probably never seen Long Xiaoyu's reaction so roughly, and at the same time she was stunned, Long Xiaoyu left the table, walked towards the door with a red face, and slammed her body into the corner of the table, slamming the dishes on the table.

Zhu Siping didn't move, watching him walk to the door, watching him walk out of the restaurant and disappearing, her tears crackled and fell.

After the unhappy banquet, neither Nobita nor Siping ever looked for Long Xiaoyu again, and Long Xiaoyu spent a relatively quiet time. Go to work seriously every day, no matter how late you get off work, you have to quietly rush to the Luo family's small courtyard. It's too late to go, so I have to call Luo Jingjing and say a few words of warmth. Those few warm words could make him and Luo Jingjing both fall asleep peacefully with a smile on their faces, and they both felt that the other party was on the pillow side, and they breathed and smelled each other.

Later, the expansion of the pharmaceutical factory did not go well, and the worst-case predictions, such as the lack of sales of overstocked products and the failure of bank loan guarantees, all became a reality. Luo Baochun's expedient measure of demolishing the east wall and making up for the west wall could no longer cover up the obvious gap in construction funds, and the speed of the project progress slowed down significantly, and the faces of everyone in the project preparation office became listless. Luo Baochun rarely went to the construction site with great interest all day long as in the past, and labor disputes on the construction site began to rise one after another, for no other reason than money. Later, Long Xiaoyu heard that Nobita's people beat up a leader of the preparatory office on the construction site, and Nobita also took people to the pharmaceutical company to make trouble, all because of the arrears of workers' wages. After a painstaking and patient persuasion, they were all persuaded to go back, only smashing two pieces of glass in the company's communication room, and the loss was not great.

Long Xiaoyu also heard that while Nobita's group of migrant workers couldn't get their wages for two months in a row, Siping picked up a big bargain and went to the house of Professor Liang Huilan, an expert consultant of Baochun oral liquid, as an hourly worker. Professor Liang and his wife are two years old, and their children are not around, so they have always wanted to ask someone to help with housework, but they dare not go to the labor market to find it themselves. So he entrusted Director Wang of Baochun Company, Director Wang entrusted Director Ma of the preparatory office, Director Ma entrusted people from the construction company, and the people from the construction company found Zhu Siping. Because Siping looks good and is more outstanding on the construction site, including the men from the construction company, their eyes are all turning with her, so good things will naturally find her. She went to Professor Liang's house every evening to work for two or three hours, helping with cooking and housework, and earning 400 yuan a month. The monthly 400 yuan Director Wang asked Luo Baochun for instructions, and the company took care of the accounts. Four hundred yuan is a small amount of money, which is nothing to the company, but it is very good for Zhu Siping, who only works two or three hours a day and earns four hundred a month, which is much more cost-effective than ten hours a day on the construction site and only nine hundred yuan a month and is in arrears. Siping was very happy and thanked the cadre of the construction company who recommended her.

Long Xiaoyu knew that Siping got this extra money because he heard what Director Wang said, and Director Wang mentioned the name Zhu Siping when he called Luo Baochun to report the matter and asked for the source of the 400 yuan. Long Xiaoyu was printing a meeting notice in the same room at the time, and when he heard the words Zhu Siping, his eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of dust that could never be wiped off, and he could never wipe it off! In addition to sending Professor Liang some technical documents of the company's products, Professor Liang's monthly consulting fee, and the company's benefits such as rice, eggs, and vegetables are also sent by him. If Zhu Siping really became the Liang family's nanny, he would inevitably meet her there, which made him feel that he had fallen into a nightmare that he could never get rid of, an endless nightmare - no matter how far he went, he was still destined to meet a female ghost in a fixed place.