(The storyline is completely fictional, the official must not sit in the right seat, if there is any similarity, it is purely a coincidence)

No. 28 Hydri Road, Jing Hao was studying in her room at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, Chen Dongliang was studying in her room, Chen Dongliang was working overtime in the office with a few colleagues, he sent a QQ video invitation to say hello to Jing Hao.

Jing Hao saw him in the office, a little surprised, and asked, "Why haven't you gotten off work yet?" ”

Chen Dongliang said: "Oh, we are preparing a meeting, a forum, and we can end the battle soon." ”

Jing Hao said, "Oh. ”

Chen Dongliang asked, "Are you quite busy studying?" ”

Jing Hao said: "It's okay." Do you have anything to buy? The belt from last time hasn't helped you complete the task yet. ”

Chen Dongliang: "I just want to ask you, if you have time, go and have a look." ”

Jing Hao said, "Okay." Then you are busy with work. ”

Jing Hao minimized the window and did not exit. She took the cup and went downstairs to the kitchen to pour a glass of water, and came back, and found that Chen Dongliang had not withdrawn, because she could hear the conversation coming from there, intermittently, sometimes very clear, sometimes very vague.

They should have talked about someone they all knew, a leader of a certain department. One of them said: "Don't say that the child does look too much like him, at first glance it is his genes, it is said that he was born in the confinement center of Saipan, it is really a red flag at home, and the colorful flags are fluttering outside."

Another said, "Is this your new goal?" Don't go against the wind, anti-corruption, now this is not called nonsense, if you seize the evidence, it will be directly called adultery! ”

The man who spoke just now said, "Just us?" Who can take care of catching a little minion like us? You're really thinking highly of yourself. ”

Another said: "Tigers and flies must be beaten!" If you don't arrest you, you'll be arrested, and everything else will be found out for you, don't you see that half of the people who went in were called bunting to report? So this bunting can't be planted everywhere! Ha ha! ”

The other person said, "Where did I get the bunting?" I'm a department breaker, how old is it, I want money or not, I don't have power, where does the bunting come from? ”

Another said: "He should be a real thing, I heard that he spent 400,000 yuan before and after Saipan, which is still a small amount of money." ”

The others asked, "Really?" He said it himself? ”

The one went on to say: "I don't know if he said it himself, but this matter has already been spread all over the place, and people in their department know that when they got the household registration, they entrusted a person in their department to do it." ”

One said: "So public, no one reported him?" ”

The one just said, "Who reported it?" Do you report it or do I report it? Now you have to report with your real name! ”

The previous one said: "Yes, if this is the kind of thing, everyone has no grievances against each other, and there is no benefit, and it is not possible to offend people!" But he's too blatant, isn't he? This is not the old society, it is allowed to ask for a little wife, if he is investigated, it will definitely be a big deal. ”

The man who claimed to know the truth said: "People are willing to love each other, you don't have lustful guts, you don't have that Yanfu......"

The others laughed.

A colleague suddenly asked, "Hey, Xiao Chen'er, oh no, Director Chen, your girlfriend has been abroad for several years, and you are not worried?" ”

Chen Dongliang asked rhetorically: "She goes to school, what am I worried about?" ”

The colleague said: "Don't worry about people finding a foreigner to kick you?" ”

Chen Dongliang replied: "Kicked me? Why did you kick me? You're such a crow's mouth, you can't say a good word! ”

The colleague continued: "No kidding, don't look back, people won't come back!" ”

He said confidently, "No, why doesn't she come back and stay there?" Not your own home after all. As soon as she finishes her homework, I'll call her back to get married! ”

My colleague smiled and said, "Look at you, you call people back, and they are allowed to come back?" Don't finish your studies and dump you! ”

Chen Dongliang said confidently: "Dump me? Joke! I, Chen Dongliang, graduated with a master's degree, have a house, a car, and a deposit, and my parents are all first-class leading cadres, I am 1.82 meters tall, and I am at least 1.85 meters tall when I wear shoes. Under such conditions, everyone loves you, according to the scoring standard of the blind date program, you say, it's not too much to give a score of 10,000, right? ”

Everyone laughed.

Chen Dongliang continued: "Besides, we are still childhood sweethearts, she is almost 30 years old, what does she want to do if she dumps me?" Is she still looking for little fresh meat? ”

A colleague said: "Don't be careless, you are young, and being apart for too long will affect the relationship." It's not easy for her to be alone over there, and it's hard to say in case someone is courteous......"

Chen Dongliang said: "When she came back from vacation this time, her parents urged us to hurry up and get the certificate, but I said that I was not in a hurry, let her come back after studying with peace of mind, and then talk about it, don't worry about it......

Another colleague said: "This is the reason, but the pillars, you can't be careless!" What if someone finds an English gentleman and you're still in the dark? Besides, you can't quench your thirst here, and if she can't stand the temptation, she can't complain about her. ”

Chen Dongliang said: "She won't! We have confidence! Let's not dare to say that we are the fifth king of diamonds, at least she is the fifth king of platinum, she still wants to find someone else, she is looking for a British prince? Who do people know about her? Is she stupid? ”

Colleagues burst into laughter.

Chen Dongliang may have forgotten to turn off the video, or maybe he didn't care that their conversation was quietly overheard. In fact, what he said is just the truth that meets the standards of many people in China's current society, but Jing Hao listened to it and felt new surprise, Chen Dongliang is now so self-identified, especially when he said that he "has a house, a car and a deposit", that is, "Diamond King Five" and "Platinum King Five"? If you put a car, a house, and a large amount of savings under the name of a dog, is this dog the "Diamond King Five" and "Platinum King Five"?

She glanced out the window, the sky was blue, and large white clouds floated by. She closed her laptop, put on her backpack, and walked out to the wooden bridge in Niu Danan Park, taking a walk and stopping by the supermarket to buy some fruits, vegetables and other food.

On New High Street, which is opposite to South Park, that is, Shark House Street, a small house with different colors and doors and windows looks beautiful in the sun. The world-famous shark house, the belly and tail of the big shark stuck upside down on the roof, are lifelike......

Inside the postman's green wooden door, downstairs in the living room, next to the fireplace, Harry was standing in front of the oak bookcase, and he brought home the three gifts that Jinghao had given him, and placed them on the plain oak bookcase. He was carefully placing the gifts, all in front of his row......

After setting it up, he couldn't help but open the small box containing the bamboo chopsticks again, and on both chopsticks, Harry was engraved, and Harry touched the nick and smiled. In his opinion, these exquisite notches are so time-consuming and painstaking. He stroked it gently, as if those letters were carved out with a knife, a knife, a little, a little. Actually, this is a masterpiece of machines.

In China, Chen Dongliang works at the front door of the office building of a public institution. Still wearing heavy makeup, fashionable, burgundy nails, and carrying a delicate black matte Boston bag, Miss Lei walked over to enter the compound of the office building where Chen Dongliang worked.

The guard at the gate of the courtyard stopped her, and she said something to the guard. The guard pointed to the watchtower next to her and told her that she had left work and could not apply for an access card, and asked her to come back the next day. She said something to the guard, who pointed in the direction of the building, as if to say that even if he let her in, there was still a layer of guards in the building, and he wouldn't let her in. She showed the guard her ID card again, took out her mobile phone and showed him the phone number in the address book, and said a few words, and the guard finally let him go.

She clucked on her high heels and walked all the way to the grand staircase, the main entrance of the building was closed, she successfully entered the side door of the building, and there was really a security guard, this time she said a few words to the security guard, and the security guard checked her ID card again, and she was allowed to enter the door and walked to the location of the elevator.

When Xiao Lei appeared at the door of Chen Dongliang's office and knocked on the door, it happened that Chen Dongliang had just turned off the computer and was about to leave, when he heard the knock on the door and said, "Please come in." As soon as he turned his head, he was startled and saw that it was her, and immediately got up and walked to the door, deliberately blocking her out, and motioning her to the end of the corridor to talk. There were a couple of colleagues in the room who had just left, and now there was still someone packing up.

At one end of the corridor, there was no light, almost in the dark, Chen Dongliang lowered his voice and said to the woman with heavy makeup: "Why did you come to my office?" How bad is the impact? Besides, what time is it? Toss what? Didn't I tell you, our department is working overtime today! ”

Xiao Lei said, "Can't I come?" I'm coming to talk to you about work, can't I? ”

Chen Dongliang lowered his voice and said, "Okay, okay, I'll go to you tonight, okay?" We'll talk about that later. ”

Xiao Lei smiled: "Why didn't you say it earlier, if you knew this, I wouldn't have to come to you." Who made you not answer my phone for days! ”

Chen Dongliang said: "Okay, okay, you go back quickly, no matter who asks for a while, don't mention that you are coming to me!" Also, you walk quietly, and your heels knock around. ”

Xiao Lei smiled, she had already made it clear to the two security guards that she was Chen Dongliang's target, and there was an urgent matter at home, and he couldn't get through on the phone, so she came to look for him.

Oxford, England, Jing Hao came back from going to the supermarket with a backpack on his back, and was resting on the wooden bridge, watching the ducks swim around on the river.

In China, Jinghao's parents were eating fruit and chatting in the living room, and her father said: "Don't you think that Jinghao came back from this holiday, and there was a video chat with us during the recent Spring Festival, which seems to be a little wrong?" ”

The mother asked, "What's wrong?" What did she say to you? ”

The father said, "I can't say it clearly, but I think she seems to have something on her mind, and she has a lot on her mind." ”

The mother told the father not to think too much: "It should be fine, she is like that sometimes." ”

The father said, "Don't be too tired from studying, the child's psychological pressure is too great, right?" If you want me to say, it doesn't matter if she gets a degree or not, she used to work well anyway, and she will continue to work when she comes back, don't be so nervous. ”

The mother said, "I think she's okay with that!" ”

The father said: "I think she is preoccupied, sometimes in a daze, you talk to her more in WeChat, healthy, happy, the most important thing, you let her relax a little." ”

The mother said, "Well, you don't have to worry, I think she should be fine with her studies." ”

My father said: "I recently saw the news posted by others in the WeChat circle of friends that Chinese students committed suicide under too much pressure in American universities, which should not be an example. ”

The mother said, "Oh, don't worry, how could she!" ”

The father said: "Don't think too simplistic, young people have their own ideological pressure, and they don't necessarily tell their parents everything, the son of my old classmate, isn't it because the doctoral dissertation is not old, and finally something happens." ”

The mother asked, "Lao Liu's son?" What's wrong? ”

My father pointed to his temples and said, "It seems that there is something wrong with my spirit, and I heard that I have started a fight with my mentor over a trivial matter." ”

Jinghao's mother asked, "Isn't that because there are other contradictions?" ”

The father shook his head and said: "Lao Liu said that the son and the tutor usually have a very good relationship, and the teacher has no unfair behavior, of course, the teacher has personal preferences and has his own familiar fields, which is inevitable, but this kind of thing happened, I really didn't expect it, probably the child's brain is wrong." Hey, I worried about Lao Liu. ”

Mother sighed as well.

The father said: "I worked hard to raise this child, he is tall, handsome and smart, who has seen and who praises, this is almost thirty, there is a mental problem, I heard that his girlfriends are scattered, can he not worry?" This time I came back from vacation, and I kept observing her, and I felt that she was not very happy. ”

Mother said: "Don't think about it, our situation is different from Lao Liu's family, none of us forced her to get a degree and come back, she wanted to go out and see it by herself!" Besides, your girlfriend's personality is up to you, she won't, and she can't have psychological problems!

My father said: "I don't want to say anything like my character, she is really like me sometimes, sullen and angry." Now that I think about it, when she was a child, we cared about her too little, and at that time, we didn't care enough about our children, we were too coarse. ”

Mom said: "Okay, you are for a while, either everything is detailed, high standards and strict requirements, or you are infinitely tolerant or even conniving, like this to study abroad, that is, you connived at her, I am really worried, it is better not to go." ”

Dad said, "Do you remember when she was in elementary school, once you found out that she did something wrong, she was not happy, but she didn't explain it to you, I asked, I didn't tell me, and then I finally asked a few words, what was it, I forgot, it was something that broke you......"

Mother said: "When I was in elementary school, she took a classmate home, and that classmate took out a small plaster portrait of Lu Xun in our bookcase and hugged it to play, but it fell to the ground and was broken, and the child didn't dare to say, so he pushed all the pieces under the bookcase with his feet and left." It took me half a month to find out, and I told you that you thought she did it, so I criticized it severely. ”

The father also remembered: "Yes, that's it, it's funny to think about it now." ”

Mother said, "What's the fun?" You criticize her and don't criticize her wrongly, she took her classmates home, and she didn't know what her classmates did! ”

The father said: "Now that I think about it, the child is also excusable, she may have done something else at the time and was not at the scene." ”

"I asked her at the time, and she didn't know anything, she didn't remember anything!" Even that classmate came to the house, it was later asked by you. ”

The father said, "It's not that she doesn't remember, she probably doesn't want to say." It's all her fault anyway. Thinking about it now, you shouldn't have been angry with her at the time. As for me, how did I always treat my child according to the standards required of college students, but after she went to college, I slowly changed, and now in retrospect, it was wrong. ”

Mother said: "So, you are really two extremes, you were very strict when she was a child, and when she was older, you indulged everything." Children should also be criticized if they are wrong, she does follow you in some aspects, you are all strong, you see that she is still a little broken child is so stubborn, unwilling to admit mistakes. ”

Father said: "You say that she loves face, whether she is stubborn, I am now afraid that she will encounter any pressure and problems in the UK, and she is bored, she decided to study abroad by herself, and I am following her wishes, anyway, it will only be a year or two, but you are not very supportive, so will she not say anything now, afraid of being embarrassed to say it?" ”

The mother said, "Well, don't worry. She has always opened her mouth for food, stretched out her hands for clothes, her body is not diligent, she does not distinguish between grains, she wants to go abroad, she goes abroad, except for being in the blessing and not knowing the blessing, thinking about something useless, what else can she do? When I came back this time, I told me that I wanted to 'break up peacefully' with Xiao Chen! I asked why, and she said no! ”

The father said, "Really? The two of them quarreled. I just feel like she's on her mind. In short, we need to pay more attention to the dynamics of her thoughts. ”

Jinghao, lying on the bed in her room, couldn't sleep, and stared at the crumpled paper lantern chandelier on the ceiling with wide eyes. Even her mother thinks that she is in a blessing and does not know the blessings, she has no worries about food and clothing, and it is useless to think about something, but in fact, her heart is a mess.

She was reminded of what Harry's new book had written, "Dedicated to 'Nam Chung Town.'" She remembered that Harry had also said that dedicating the book to or to someone in the preface was just the habit of some British authors, and it was just a souvenir, but often by the time the book was published, the author's state of mind had changed greatly...... Jing Hao remembered Harry and the Asian woman she saw watching the boat race by the river......

She tossed and turned, her eyes wide, looking at the ceiling, then at the window, at the desk, at the wall, and in the darkness, her eyes glowing......

Domestic, early in the morning. Chen Dongliang carried a computer bag in his left hand and wiped his hair with his right hand as he stepped out of the elevator of a high-rise apartment. When he walked out of the door on the first floor of the apartment, he looked left and right attentively, but there was no one.

Chen Dongliang took out his mobile phone and called: "Mom, you just called me?" I just woke up and went to brush my teeth, and I didn't have my phone with me...... Oh, you're cooking? You wake up so early...... Me, I just finished working overtime, and I told my dad yesterday...... Yes, the unit is on duty, I won't go back to breakfast, the road is very congested. I'm making do in the cafeteria, and I don't have a day off today, and I'm still going to work normally...... Okay, I'm not okay, have a good breakfast...... I'm not tired, it's okay, it's actually on duty, it's just a night's sleep, it's okay...... I'm fine......"

In a small one-bedroom apartment in the building, the woman with heavy makeup named Xiao Lei was wearing pajamas and eating a simple breakfast - three white porcelain plates were placed on the table in the small dining room, one was a few slices of white bread, one was a fried egg dripping with soy sauce, and another was a few slices of oranges and apples, and a 16-ounce coffee cup with milk next to it. The nails of both of her hands were dyed burgundy, and the fingers looked very white, but a little murderous.

The bed in the bedroom was a mess with two pillows.

In the bathroom, a pair of men's socks and a pair of men's underwear are draped around the white sink basin.

Downstairs in the apartment, Chen Dongliang used the key to remotely open the door of the Volkswagen Tiguan and get into the car.

The woman in the apartment pinched a piece of bread, took a bite, and came out in a semicircle, she leaned in front of the window to look down, and saw Chen Dongliang's slightly metallic coffee-colored car smoothly drawing an arc on the community road, turning a corner, and leaving. The woman withdrew her gaze, satisfied, and turned back to the table to continue her breakfast.