"Mr. Xu." He shouted a little unnaturally.

"Hmm." Xu Ruhai turned around and looked him up and down, put the cigar smoke into his mouth, through the smoke and glasses, Ruikang couldn't see Xu Ruhai's eyes and expressions clearly, only knew that the smile on the corner of his mouth deepened, and there was a sense of being high and winning.

"Ruikang, we met again, I didn't expect it to be so difficult to meet you." Xu Ruhai said slowly: "I asked Manager Zhu about your situation, and I know that you are doing very well, you are really young and promising, and our family Manlin's vision is still good." ”

Before Zhou Ruikang could speak, Manager Zhu had already smiled flatteringly, and leaned forward with a slight bend of his back and said: "Boss Xu, Ruikang is my right-hand man, our publishing house has decided to sign a long-term employment contract with him, and his salary will be tripled, and as soon as he graduates, my position will be his." ”

Now Ruikang understood what was going on with the pie that fell from the sky a few days ago, he put his hands in his trouser pockets, raised one side of his eyebrows and squinted at Manager Zhu, he only felt ridiculous, how much benefit did he receive from the Xu family, so he would laugh so flatteringly?

Xu Ruhai didn't look at Manager Zhu, his eyes were still on Zhou Ruikang's body, but he said, "Manager Zhu, someone will contact you in Shanghai in a few days." You go first. ”

"Hey, hey, okay, please, please!" Manager Zhu nodded frequently with his back bent, and walked away with a smile.

Xu Ruhai looked at Ruikang, his eyes were both admiration and rejection, he could not deny that Zhou Ruikang was an outstanding young man, the integrity between his eyebrows made him in this scene, there was a kind of muddy and unstained light, and he could see that he was very disdainful of Manager Zhu's humble appearance just now, Xu Ruhai read countless people, and knew countless people in the cultural circles, although these people are all full of poetry and books, and the four books and five classics are well cooked, but there are really only a handful of people who can really do "wealth can not be moved, and power cannot be bent", What's more, he used his pen to sing praises for the Japanese.

People always have weaknesses, and the pursuit of wine and wealth is also a part of human nature, and only a very few people can be content with poverty, keep festivals all their lives, and be beyond the mundane world.

He didn't believe that Zhou Ruikang would be a special case, he wanted to teach him some ways to survive in society, the first lesson was to compromise and yield, compromise to power, and yield to interests, he smiled kindly and said: "I haven't seen you and Man Lin come to the house recently, did you quarrel?" ”

"No, we are classmates and we often see each other at school." Ruikang replied politely.

Xu Ruhai took a glass of aperitif and handed it to him, saying, "I heard that you once came to our house late at night. ”

"This ......" Ruikang instantly felt like someone had smashed the back of his head, he lowered his head and frowned, "Yes." But ......"

"Well, no, I'm an enlightened father, and I appreciate you, and I don't object to you dating Manlin, and I can understand some intimacy between young people. But I am also a principled father, and I will do my best to protect my daughter's reputation and the decency of our Xu family. ”

Mr. Xu...... That night......" Zhou Ruikang's heart jumped suddenly,

His face was flushed, he had always been worried that this handle would become his own death hole, and now, he really couldn't escape the fate of being coerced.

"Hey" Xu Ruhai raised his hand to stop him from talking: "This is not the place to talk about this, after the banquet, let's go home and talk." Now, I'm going to take you to meet some people. Follow me. ”

As he spoke, he continued to smoke his cigar and walked towards the crowd, and Ruikang involuntarily followed him through the crowd. Walking in front of a middle-aged man in a black suit, he stopped, Xu Ruhai shouted with a smile: "Enhai, come and meet Man Lin's boyfriend." ”

There were three or four people in front of the middle-aged man, who were talking about something, when he heard Xu Ruhai's call, he turned his head with a smile, waved his hand again, and the people around him immediately straightened up, saluted, buckled the heels of their shoes, made a crisp "click" sound, and walked away.

Zhou Ruikang looked at this posture and had already guessed that this person was the famous Xu Enhai, who was in his forties, his hairline had been bald a lot, his forehead was tall and wide, his face was chubby, and behind his eyes were a pair of slender, radiant eyes, and thin lips.

"Oh?" As he spoke, he looked at Zhou Ruikang, his eyes were as sharp as a falcon, and his eyes seemed to be able to pass through people's skin, blood, and muscles, and directly into the bones.

"It's a student."

"Yes." Ruikang replied. He didn't expect that he could talk face-to-face with the big celebrity of the Kuomintang, the head of the secret service.

"Participated in student sports?"

"Of course."

Xu Enhai was stabbed by his calm and untamed tone, and stopped talking, his keen intuition told him that Zhou Ruikang would not be a person who could be easily domesticated, and he had no interest in saying anything to him again, so he turned his head and said to Xu Ruhai: "Big brother, Man Lin is still so willful, you should also take care of it, it seems that last time Man Lin desperately begged me to let Lao Lu change the original order to the marching crowd was for him." ”

"Uh...... Enhai, Manlin has changed her sex now, and you'll know when you see you later. ”

"Well, I haven't seen her in a long time."

Saying that, the two brothers began to greet each other about the situation at home, and talked about the situation in the mall, what gold prices, foreign exchange, gold yuan coupons, antiques, Zhou Ruikang felt that it was simply redundant to stand aside. So he said hello and walked away alone.

The waiter held a beautiful plate, distributing pre-dinner snacks and aperitifs in the crowd, Ruikang took a small sandwich and stood in the corner, looking at these dignitaries and ladies, but he was thinking in his heart, how to get rid of Xu Manlin's nightmare, he always felt that he was constantly pulled into an abyss by the name Xu Manlin, which seemed to be golden and brilliant, but in fact it was bottomless, Xu Ruhai's fingers moved, the publishing house had fallen, and he was like a small fish, unable to escape a huge fishing net. They kept throwing tempting bait just to get the fish to take the bait and wait to die.

He was reluctant to join them, his ideals were contrary to those in front of him, but they were a group of people who controlled the fate of the country, which made him both contradictory and painful. They didn't seem to see the miserable beggars outside the hotel, or they had lost consciousness after seeing too much.

Zhou Ruikang walked to the window with a wine glass and looked at the garden outside the window, there were also many guests in the garden, talking and laughing in twos and threes......

Suddenly, a beautiful figure walked by the pool, involuntarily attracted Ruikang's attention, the hair was coiled up high, a noble dark red cheongsam, the shoulders were a white velvet shoulder, and the ruby and diamond-encrusted earrings flashed in the night light, reflecting her red lips and white teeth, she stopped and talked to a foreign young man next to her.

This time he looked at her face carefully, it was her, it was her, it was her! It was Ruoli, he excitedly dropped the wine glass in his hand, didn't care that the wine glass didn't stand firm, rolled to the edge of the table, fell to the ground, rushed out of the restaurant, and ran into the garden. However, when he ran into the garden, where was the figure of Wakari, he asked the young foreigner who was talking to Wakari just now, and the man only pointed to the hotel, but did not say why.

God, it's really Ruoli, how could she come to the Six Nations Hotel? How so? Everyone knows that the Rokkoku Hotel is a place where domestic and foreign dignitaries and celebrities stay, how can Ruoli appear here? Looking at her dress, she is noble and beautiful, and it seems that she is also here to attend the banquet.

Ruikang hurriedly returned to the hotel, learned that there was only this grand banquet tonight, and hurriedly returned to the banquet hall, at this time everyone had already entered the banquet, he rushed in in a hurry, and was in a hurry, ignoring the plainclothes security personnel on both sides of the banquet hall door, watching him rush in, four or five people rushed up at once, and pushed him out.

Ruikang looked in through the human wall, and sure enough, on a table by the window in the distance, the dark red cheongsam was sitting there, elegantly holding a wine glass, and laughing with the man next to him.

Ruikang frowned and explained to the security personnel: "I am an invited guest, I am an intern of 'Wenxing Publishing House', Zhou Ruikang, this is my business card, I came with our manager, my manager is inside, please let me in." ”

The security personnel took his business card and kept looking him up and down, not believing him at all, you must know that the Six Nations Hotel is a thrilling place, and assassinations are frequent, and Zhang Jingyao was shot dead in his guest room a few years ago, which is a well-known big news.

How could a small publishing intern be invited to such a high-level banquet? The security guard shook his head and drove him out, Ryan stomped his feet urgently, he couldn't let Ruoli disappear again, he had to keep her, he had to bring her back to Ruojun's side, in a hurry, Ruikang had to shout: "I am Mr. Xu Ruhai's guest." Please go and ask him before you chase me." Otherwise, you will bear the consequences. ”

Hearing Xu Ruhai's name, those security guards stopped pushing, and one of them walked in quickly with Ruikang's business card, Ruikang kept staring at Ruoli, for fear that she would disappear again in the blink of an eye.

Two minutes later, a fairy-like woman walked out quickly, her face was surprised, surprised, and her eyes flashed with excitement and joy.

"Ruikang!"

"Manlin!"

She was dressed in a blue and white soft gauze sweetheart neck dress, showing her shapely calves, and her high heels set off her even more slender and bewitching, she looked at him and smiled, waved to the security guards on both sides and said, "This is my classmate, my guest." ”

As she spoke, she stepped forward and took Ruikang's arm and walked into the venue, her face couldn't stop smiling with joy, like a blooming flower, and asked softly, "Why did you come?" ”

"Huh?" Ruikang wanted to say that it was planned by your father, but seeing the joy and excitement on her face, he knew that she did like herself, no matter what kind of family background she had, what kind of eccentric personality she had, but her heart for herself was indeed sincere.

Maybe men are like this, they will always be a little tolerant of women who love them deeply, whether they love them in their hearts or not.