Cui Jian hung his head and sat opposite Li Jiangbei in frustration.

For three days in a row, Li Jiangbei was looking for him, Cui Jian's play was missing, his mobile phone was turned off, no one answered the phone at home, and he didn't go to the unit, it seemed that as long as he hid, he would be safe.

"How can this man do this?" Li Jiangbei was anxious and angry. Later, Zhuang Xudong called and said that Cui Jian was in a hotel called Watanabe by the river, and Li Jiangbei rushed there, Cui Jian was really lying on the bed, and the room was in a mess.

"Come with me!" Li Jiangbei was enraged by Cui Jian's dejected appearance, and said angrily.

Cui Jian didn't move.

"Get up, come with me!"

Cui Jian opened his eyes with difficulty, his eyes had sunk a lot in the past half a month, and he was about to fall out of phase.

"Where?" Seeing that Li Jiangbei was about to get angry, Cui Jian was scared and asked uneasily.

"Go to the Commission for Discipline Inspection."

"I'm not going."

"It's up to you whether you want to go or not."

"I can't help but go." Cui Jian turned over and lay down again. Li Jiangbei stood for a while, and he didn't know where he got the strength, so he suddenly pounced and pulled him up: "Do you think that if you hide, the world will be too peaceful?" ”

"I'm not hiding." Cui Jian was frightened by Li Jiangbei's annoyance, and ripped his hand away while defending himself.

"Cui Jian!" Li Jiangbei suddenly shouted angrily, "If you don't go today, in this life, you don't want to be at ease!" ”

"You...... What do you mean? Cui Jian let go of his hand and asked with a trembling voice.

"I ask you, do you want to know where she is?"

"Who?"

"Lu Xiaoyu!"

As soon as he heard this name, Cui Jian Jian Bounced up from the bed and grabbed Li Jiangbei: "You...... Got news of her? ”

Li Jiangbei finally gave up the idea of taking Cui Jian directly to Liu Mingjian and took him to his home.

In the three days of looking for Cui Jian, Li Jiangbei couldn't shake a shadow in his mind, that shadow should have been sealed in the bottom of his heart, sealed in the depths of his memory, and should never be turned out again. How many years, hasn't he forgotten about her, Cui Jian tried to get some news from him several times, but he refused indifferently.

Behind his outward indifference, there is actually a deep nostalgia, a deep guilt of one person for another. If you want to say that Li Jiangbei has any guilt for anyone in this life, it is her, Lu Xiaoyue.

It's all to blame on Cui Jian, a person who wants to play but can't afford to play, a person who is always playing but can't take responsibility!

In the emotional scene, not everyone can play well and successfully. The word "feelings" is not something that anyone dares to play! Cui Jian, I reminded you again and again, but you just didn't listen, the bitter fruit has been planted, the buds have grown, the fruit has borne fruit, and the bitter juice is overflowing, now it's time for you to drink it cup by piece!

Li Jiangbei hated and complained, and Lu Xiaoyue's shadow clearly flashed in his mind. Lu Xiaoyue was originally a teacher at Jinjiang Normal College, and she was assigned to Jinjiang Normal College from East China Normal University, and she has been following Cui Jian all the time. At that time, Cui Jian was still the head of the department, and Lu Xiaoyue worked as an assistant under him. For such a beautiful female teacher in the department, Cui Jian once boasted to Li Jiangbei: "It feels different, sitting with a beautiful woman every day, I am full of energy." ”

"I said Director Cui, can you use this kind of brain less, if you don't talk about women for a day, your mouth won't be idle?" At that time, Li Jiangbei had just gotten married, and life was presenting him with a new picture, and he didn't dare to agree with Cui Jian's strange theories.

"I said Jiangbei, you are no better than me in this regard. Don't look at you in a prestigious school and a famous teacher, but your life lacks quality. ”

"What is Quality?" Li Jiangbei asked rhetorically.

"It's the colors in life, and the richer the colors, the more happiness there is." Cui Jian was also married at that time and had a daughter who was well-behaved and cute. But he always felt that this should not be the whole of his life, and he said to Li Jiangbei that it is not wrong to be responsible for the family, but men should be responsible. But responsibility should not be used to imprison everything else. Aren't people looking for eyes to discover? Discover beauty, discover love, discover ...... The more Cui Jian talked, the more excited he became, talking about this kind of topic, he was more passionate than Li Jiangbei.

"Find a woman you're interested in?" Li Jiangbei stabbed him in the underbelly.

"Look at what you say, vulgar! Jiangbei, it's not me who criticizes you, your mentality is not good for being a teacher, and students let you teach, and they all become nerds. I beg you, don't teach your rigid dogmas and lifeless principles of life to your children, which will hurt them. ”

"According to you, I should teach them how to chase girls, how to engage in polyamorous, and even act as a third party?"

"Look, it's vulgar again, isn't it? Forget it, I can't talk to you, in this regard, you have few tendons. ”

Soon, Li Jiangbei heard that Cui Jian began to pursue Lu Xiaoyue frantically, invited her to dinner, gave her gifts, and took Lu Xiaoyue to raft on weekends if he lied to his family. Li Jiangbei thought that he was just a whim, but he didn't expect such a crazy move to last for a year. Finally one day, Cui Jian came to the door with a gray face, and at that time, Li Jiangbei had served as the head of the department and was very busy with work. Cui Jian grabbed him and had to tell him about the bitterness in his heart.

"What is your suffering, don't you live a chic life? There is a wife at home for you to take the children, and there is a beautiful female teacher outside to accompany you on a rafting, these days, it is better than the gods. ”

"Don't be sarcastic about me, I'm now, I'm ...... now"

"What's going on now?" Li Jiangbei asked.

"It's hard to put into words!" Cui Jian sighed, and expressed his grievances and bitterness. Cui Jian's wife is the pearl of a leader of the Jinjiang Municipal Party Committee, and Cui Jian is a college classmate, and it was Cui Jian who chased her back then, and this marathon love took him seven years, and finally became the son-in-law of the important members of the Municipal Party Committee. After getting married, Cui Jian suddenly found that the imaginary marriage was too different from reality, and the wife he frantically pursued was not what he idealized. After living in a high-level family for a long time, his wife left traces of a high-level family everywhere, and during the relationship, he was carried away by love and didn't find out. After getting married, he learned that a high-ranking cadre is a high-ranking cadre, and there will always be something unattainable by civilians.

At first, Cui Jian could bear it, thinking that she had just gotten married, and she couldn't get used to it for a while, and she would slowly change after a long time. Only later did he discover that some things were ingrained and deeply rooted in the blood, and his wife had become accustomed to giving orders to others, to imposing her will on others. The wife began to pick on him endlessly, and he couldn't stand it, he couldn't make a noise when he ate, he had to wash his feet and brush his teeth before going to bed, he had to change his towels every half a month, his toothbrush was used for three weeks at most, his underwear had to be changed every day, and his socks had to be washed every night. These trivialities are not enough, but what he can't stand the most is that he can't come to his hometown, and even if he has to come, he can only stay in a hotel, and can't bring it home. He Cui Jian is now a university teacher, the head of the department, and a puff of green smoke rising from the ancestral grave of the old Cui family in Cuijiaya, Shanxi, how many people want to touch his light. Even if he doesn't get it, he has to go to the big city to see what kind of life he lives, how many buildings he lives, how beautiful wives he marries, and what he eats three meals a day.

So one by one, the seven aunts and eight aunts shouted together, and they didn't live in the hotel when they came, and they could also lay on the floor, so they had to squeeze in his house. It's not fun to squeeze it, but he still has to eat the food cooked by his wife, drink the water poured by his wife, and let his wife wrap red envelopes and buy new clothes for the children in the countryside one by one......

His wife was furious and moved back to her parents' house. So, all kinds of rumors about how he was bullied by his wife in the city, how he was looked down upon by his father-in-law's family, how he looked at his wife's cold face all day long, and so on, continued to spread from Jinjiang, the provincial capital, to Cuijiaya, another province, plus his wife was not angry, but gave birth to a daughter, his elderly parents were sad every day, crying every night, and they were crying sick, and his father couldn't afford to be sick, and finally when he died, he took his mother's hand and said, how can he give birth to a boy, otherwise, my old Cui family will be dead......

Cui Jian said, sighed, and told Li Jiangbei about all the misfortunes in the past few years of marriage, as if this marriage had thrown him into the abyss, if he didn't do something outside, he would give in, and he would die!

After listening to this, Li Jiangbei smiled coldly: "You said that you ate the bowl and dominated the pot, but you still said no." I see you eat from the bowl and hate the pot. You remember all the grievances, and don't let go of any of them, what about the benefits, why don't you mention the benefits? ”

"What's good, what's the good?"

"Isn't it good? What about a house, why can you live in a house of 100 square meters? How old do you principal live and how old do I live? Who else has children, where does the money come from for you to eat and drink spicy food all day long, how much do you earn, and how much do you spend? Don't admit it? I know you won't admit it. Then I ask you, why can you be the head of the department? I, Li Jiangbei, am no worse than you, and I have only come to this son now, you are five years earlier than me, and you give me a reason. ”

"This has nothing to do with marriage, Jiangbei, don't talk about it."

"I'm far away? Tell you, I'm too lazy to talk about it, too lazy to listen to you say such unconscionable words. I only ask you, what are you going to do with Lu Xiaoyue, divorce and marry her, or ......"

"Jiangbei, don't talk nonsense, I can tell you, Lu Xiaoyue and I are innocent, just colleagues, don't think crookedly." At the mention of Lu Xiaoyue, Cui Jian was anxious.

"I think crookedly? You did crooked things yourself, and you are afraid that others will think crookedly? ”

"Jiangbei, we, we are really in a general relationship, you ......"

"Enough!" Li Jiangbei interrupted him, "Cui Jian, for the sake of many years of friends, I advise you, be a man with your heart and speak reasonably, if you can throw these two words away, I think you will be hopeless in this life." ”

After speaking, Li Jiangbei was about to send off the guests, Cui Jian didn't leave, and after grinding for a long time, he said: "Jiangbei, since you admit that we are friends, can you do me a favor?" ”

"No." Li Jiangbei replied very simply, and he even thought that if Cui Jian continued like this, this friend would break up.

However, Cui Jian did not let Li Jiangbei push him out of the door on this day, Cui Jian, if you want to say that he also has strengths, this advantage is that he can make the people who annoy him no longer annoy, can make the people who disgust him no longer disgusting, and can also put himself in his shoes. It's not that he has a thick skin, the key one is that he will complain to others, and once he really encounters difficulties in his life, he will say it unreservedly and ask you for advice with great sincerity.

When you meet this kind of person, can you pull your face down? Anyway, Li Jiangbei can't pull it down.

Cui Jian really ran into a dilemma. The matter between him and Lu Xiaoyue reached the ears of his wife, and although his wife did not say it, in action, she warned him. "She hadn't slept with me for two months and moved my bed to the study."

"Well deserved!"

"I knew you would gloat, Jiangbei, you and I are from a bitter background, this kind of day, I've had enough, it's really enough."

"Don't talk nonsense, you mess with flowers, don't do business, and don't allow people to be cruel to you."

"I'm not afraid of being ruthless, but I'm afraid of ......"

"I'm afraid that I won't let you touch the light of her house!" Li Jiangbei said in his words, in fact, as soon as Cui Jian opened the chatterbox, he knew that Cui Jian's official addiction had committed again. Li Jiangbei had already heard about the reshuffling of the Jinjiang Normal School, and he wanted to select a vice president from the middle level to make the leadership group younger. Clear-eyed people know that this move is coming to Cui Jian, who in the middle level can compete with him? Cui Jian said this, just to tell him that this matter was in trouble, because Lu Xiaoyue, who had always valued his future very much, suddenly gave up, can Cui Jian not be in a hurry?

"Do me a favor and tell her that she listens to you."

"Don't think!" Li Jiangbei really didn't help Cui Jian that time, and two months later, the results of the adjustment of the Jinjiang Division's special class were announced, Cui Jian did not enter, and no one from the existing middle level entered, and the municipal party committee transferred one from another school. This incident hit Cui Jian very hard, and soon, he and Lu Xiaoyue faded, and the rumors gradually extinguished.

Another year later, Cui Jian found Li Jiangbei and said straight to the point: "Let Lu Xiaoyue take your graduate exam, she is confident." Li Jiangbei didn't say yes, nor did he say disagree, but he was happy for Cui Jian from the bottom of his heart, this person finally came to his senses.

Who knows, this is another nightmare, Lu Xiaoyue left Jinjiang Normal College and came to Jiangda, not only did not pull Cui Jian back from the cliff of feelings, but also implicated Li Jiangbei.

The past is unbearable to look back on-

Li Jiangbei let out a long sigh.

"Say, why are you hiding?" After a long day of silence, he rushed to Cui Jiandao, who was sitting stiffly on the sofa.

Cui Jian didn't respond, holding his head in both hands, looking pained.

"Lao Cui, don't use this trick to fool me every time, I don't have patience."

Cui Jian still didn't move, this time he didn't look like Meng, from the time he left the Watanabe Hotel to now, his heart has been struggling.

"To say or not to say?" Li Jiangbei asked again.

Cui Jian slowly raised his head, looked at Li Jiangbei sleepily, and didn't know where to start. After a while, he said, "Tell me, the matter of Satsuki ......"

"Lao Cui, do you still have the face to mention her? Looking at your current appearance, I really doubt that Lu Xiaoyue had water in her head back then! ”

Cui Jian lowered his head again, did not speak, and did not dare to look at Li Jiangbei. Li Jiangbei's heart fluctuated violently, he must know, why Cui Jian was hiding, and Lu Xiaoyu's disappearance had anything to do with him?

Cui Jian finally couldn't support it, he knew that if he continued to hide it, his relationship with Li Jiangbei would be completely over. This is still secondary, the most important thing is that he is anxious about Lu Xiaoyu, he has already hurt a woman in the Lu family, and made her lose her young life, if Lu Xiaoyu has three long and two short, he will be crucified forever.

This is also the result of his confession in hiding in the Watanabe Hotel.

"Jiangbei, they are tracking down Lu Xiaoyu and want to punish her." Cui Jian finally told the truth.

It turned out that Deputy Director Tao's so-called investigation of a suspected case many years ago was completely a conspiracy, and the purpose was to shock Cui Jian, so that Cui Jian would be honest and never be in the limelight again. Cui Jian is not an idle person, he can be the dean, not completely touched the light of the old father-in-law, besides, the old father-in-law took a back seat as early as five years ago and went back to his hometown in Shandong to live a good life. After eating that day, Cui Jian compromised, not only did City College quickly move to Zhabei New Village, but Cui Jian also lived in the hospital in a very low-key manner, pushing a large amount of work on others. originally thought that the turmoil would pass, but he never expected that Lu Xiaoyu would find the hospital and give him something, and then disappear in a panic.

Cui Jian can't lie down anymore, Lu Xiaoyu handed him is not an ordinary secret, it is all the evidence of the illegal resale of land in Zhabei New Village, and it is a blockbuster. That dark night, Lu Xiaoyu, who had always had a bitter hatred for him, said in a hurried voice: "Come to think of it, I can only hand it over to you, after all, you owe my Lu family a life." Pay your debts with this. After saying that, she disappeared into the night, and did not even leave a chance to ask him one more question.

The next day, Cui Jian learned that Deputy Director Tao of the Public Security Department was directing his subordinates to go all out to find Lu Xiaoyu, they did not want to help her clear her name, but wanted her to bear the charge of money laundering in the enclosure!

Cui Jian has no choice but to resign! Li Jiangbei underestimated him on this point, and understood his resignation as irresponsible behavior and cowardice, but in fact, he wanted to buy time for himself by resigning, and he must take care of this matter, and he must manage it well.

It's just that this matter is too big, and for a while, he really can't think of a good idea.

After Li Jiangbei heard this, he glared at Cui Jian in surprise: "You...... Why didn't you say it earlier? ”

"I haven't figured it out yet, what do you say?" Cui Jian's voice was very dark, he didn't blame Li Jiangbei, he had always regarded him as a friend since the day he met him. In the past few decades, if there is no Li Jiangbei, his life will take many detours, although his life has also taken many detours, but he has always been grateful to Li Jiangbei.

"You can't think about this in the house, Lao Cui, you have to hand over the things immediately." Li Jiangbei also began to get nervous, and Cui Jian's words had too much impact on him.

"No, this thing must not be handed over!" Cui Jian bounced up from the sofa and said in horror.

"Why?"

"Now I don't believe in anyone, if this letter is not handled well, it will bring death to Xiaoyu."

"Then take Lu Xiaoyu to surrender with you!"

Cui Jian smiled desolately: "Jiangbei, say you stay, you are really out of the realm." Can you bear to let her go to prison again? ”

Li Jiangbei was suddenly speechless, Cui Jian asked very heavily, and his heart was even heavier. After thinking about it, I can only find Liu Mingjian for this matter, and Li Jiangbei wants to hear his opinion.