Chapter 52: The Undercurrent

When Huo Zuo went out in the morning, he saw a cigarette butt in front of the door. His eyes sank, and he knew who it was, but he didn't say it explicitly.

Except for Shen Yigong, what other guy would inexplicably run downstairs to his house to say hello and smoke?

It's been a few days since we last met. It doesn't matter if you don't see each other after a long time, this relationship is really annoying. Today, I want to accompany You Yiman to the ball. Originally, she was going to drive to pick her up, but the woman wanted to show off her new Bentley limited edition car and drove her own. Huo Zuo didn't fight with her about this, and set a time to wait for her at the door.

didn't wait too long, when he heard a car horn, he saw You Yiman sitting in the driver's seat and driving into the alley. Huo Zuo stood there and looked at it, this car is all white, hot, magnificent and exquisite, it is indeed a model that women will like.

You Yiman parked the car in front of him and whistled at him: "Handsome guy, get in the car." ”

Huo Zuo saw that she was wearing a white suit today, and the only thing that was more feminine was the lace gloves she wore on her hands and the violet silk scarf on her hair.

Huo Zuo sat in the co-pilot and asked, "Are you sure the two of us went to the prom together?" ”

"yes, what else am I going to do to pick you up?"

"You're dressed like this, who are you going to invite to dance?"

You Yiman laughed at the steering wheel: "I plan to invite all the girls away, and I won't leave any of you!" After laughing, he touched his leather steering wheel again, "Look, is this car good-looking?" I specially asked someone to bring it back by ship from England, and I just arrived in Shanghai last month. This first trip will leave you with a bang! ”

"And I should thank you well?"

"Yo, Boss Huo can't stand it if you thank me, but if you want to open it, I'm afraid you have to give me some benefits."

Huo Zuo made her laugh: "How expensive is your car?" ”

"New product limited, this number!" You Yiman stretched out five fingers.

"Four thousand dollars?"

"Yes!"

"That's really not cheap." Huo Zuo saw that she skillfully drove the car everywhere on the main road, "But if you like it, I can buy it for you as a birthday gift, why spend it yourself." ”

You Yiman glanced at him: "It's not a lot of money, can you earn it after you spend it?" Don't just talk about me, I haven't asked you anything after you left that day. ”

"What?"

"Boss Xiao Shen, what else can you 'do'?" Huo Zuo's mouth itched, and he wanted to touch the cigarette, so You Yiman slapped it away, "I'm not allowed to smoke in my new car." ”

Huo Zuo withdrew his hand stupidly, heard her mention this, and didn't turn his head to look out the window. You Yiman looked at the road ahead, looked at him with his spare eyes, and said sarcastically with three points: "If you don't mention this, it's not that it doesn't exist." That night I saw you both walking together. Rekindling old feelings or what? ”

"You've got to get to the bottom of it, do you?"

"How fresh!" This woman is really not a big deal to see the excitement, "The first time I saw Boss Huo was deflated in something." I'm sorry for our decades-long friendship if I don't get to the bottom of it. ”

"Mad woman."

"Can you change your sentence?"

"You ask me this, has your Mr. Liang's problem been solved? The detectives who were spying on him haven't withdrawn yet, have they? Alas, do you think it's time for him to start a new relationship, Boss You? ”

You Yiman's face also dropped when he heard him mention this: "Who allowed you to mention him!" ”

"Do you want to mention that it's Shen Yigong and don't allow me to mention Liang Qingwen? You don't have the right set of standards, do you? ”

You Yiman rolled his eyes, and said angrily: "Yes, oil and salt don't enter." It's been almost a year since I divorced Liang Qingwen, what do you have to ask. What should he do, and what does it have to do with me? What detectives are watching, don't talk nonsense. ”

Huo Zuo numbled his mouth: "Okay, I'm talking nonsense." ”

"Isn't this afraid that if anyone knows about his relationship with me, what will he do to him?"

"If you're really afraid, you should take Lao Liang with you. Where is the safest? Of course, it is the safest around Boss You. ”

Huo Zuo's words You Yiman became impatient, and the woman came directly to open the car drawer, and put the lighter on Huo Zuo's body: "Don't bother, you still smoke." I'm too lazy to listen. ”

Huo Zuo threw the lighter back again: "I don't want to smoke it now, I like to chat with you, sister." We're still a little closer to our destination, so let's talk a little longer. ”

"Huo Zuo, don't think that you can run away from me about Shen Yigong. I know what happened to Lao Liang. What about you? Do you know what you have to do with him? ”

"Yes."

"If you have any number, you dare to say 'yes'."

"I don't have anything left with him, can I not count this? We happened to be gone that night, and this can also put you to think about it for days? ”

"Coincidentally gone? Is this piece of dancing a coincidence? It's a coincidence that the two of them entered the hotel suite together? Then your coincidences are quite purposeful. ”

Huo Zuo sighed and looked at her with a frown: "What do you say you want to hear from me?" Do you have to say that Shen Yigong and I are not over yet, are you happy that we still have a play? ”

You Yiman exaggeratedly shouted: "Yes! I have to be happy that way! You two want to have a show, I'll go up to the top of the bell tower and set off fireworks for you to celebrate! ”

Huo Zuobai her: "You are really idle." ”

"Am I in a panic? I'm annoyed by the you and him. Look at what you've been doing over the past few years. Broken? Break a fart. ”

"You Yiman, can you talk as a woman? Just like you are crazy, I wonder how you can confuse such an intellectual young man as Lao Liang. ”

"He loves me to the core."

"But aren't you two still divorced?"

As soon as the words fell, You Yiman reached out and twisted his arm, Huo Zuo said while hiding: "You look at the road, what about driving, pay attention." ”

You Yiman sat back in the driver's seat seriously, muttering, "I'm too lazy to talk about you." ”

"Then don't say it."

She glanced at him: "I also look at you in your thirties, so I don't care about you." Before I put you, I told you that no matter how good you are, I will tie you up and beat you. ”

Huo Zuo shrugged his shoulders as if he didn't care, the two of them are eighty years old, and sometimes they talk like children, who knows that the two evil stars in Shanghai, who usually kills decisively and vigorously outside, will look like this in private.

You Yiman doesn't know if it's because of her age or what's going on in the past two years, she loves to worry about other people's family problems, and she herself is a bad debt, but she is very concerned about other people's private affairs. Huo Zuo is too lazy to say that she has something to do with Liang Qingwen, a woman who is usually neat, but she can't find the north when she encounters love and impulsiveness, because of the age difference and the relationship between her superiors and subordinates, she has nothing to do by herself, and she quarrels and cries. Lao Liang was originally an honest and cold person, but when he met You Yiman, he lost his temper, and he really didn't know what to do, even if he loved again, he couldn't stand the inexplicable quarrel a few more times.

Divorced last year, You Yiman also moved from his home to live here for a period of time, and he didn't bother to take care of the store, borrowing wine every day to kill his sorrows and wash his face with tears, and he was so decadent that he gained ten pounds in just two months, and the original cheongsam was propped up. Liang Qingwen felt uncomfortable and didn't want to see her all the time, Huo Zuo wanted to connect the two of them, but You Yiman didn't let him, so he introduced Liang Qingwen to Shen Yigong's company and stayed first.

Shen Yigong's ability is well known to him, if something really happens, he can always save Lao Liang's life.

It's just annoying that You Yiman has something to do to ask him about his feelings, so what do you want him to say? I haven't figured it out yet.

The car went all the way to the mansion where the dance party was held, Huo Zuo took You Yiman's hand and got out of the car, entered the hall and greeted a few acquaintances. From a distance, I saw Qin Mingyue standing alone by the window with a champagne glass, with gloves on both hands, but there was an obvious bulge on the thumb on the back of her right hand.

A few days ago, another group of people were arrested on Huangxing Road, and they said that they were underground party again, and a few escaped, and the next day they saw corpses floating out of the Suzhou Creek. One of them is still an old classmate of Lao Hu.

Huo Zuo had the idea of starting a newspaper at the beginning of the year. In the past few years, he has done things for the Kuomintang, busy before and after, and has done a lot of money and efforts, but he knows in his heart that this group of politicians who should be disliked and scolded have done a lot behind his back. He originally used black wrists at the beginning, and he really couldn't get to the top of the elegant hall, but every time he saw this group of well-dressed beasts facing him on the surface and behind his back, Huo Zuo's stinky temper would never be endured like this.

You don't make me comfortable, and I don't make you happy, and the temperament that has always been more important may not be restricted because of age.

It was with this in mind that he had set up this newspaper. In addition to the commercial news and political hype, a lot of space is reserved for left-wing writers and scholars specializing in international studies to publish their works. It's just that the funder behind it is Huo Zuo, so it's not so easy to talk about.

After the incident happened last night, Editor-in-Chief Hu made a phone call to Huo's house, and Huo Zuo had already fallen asleep at that time. He spoke anxiously, as if he wanted to ask Huo Zuo to help him catch people, Huo Zuo glanced at the time, and it was almost dawn.

"Don't you know that they always get things done before dawn?"

Editor-in-chief Hu was also helpless: "Their arrest was in the early hours of the morning, and it was too late when I knew it." Now that there are those who have contributed to us, what are we going to do next? ”

"Has the Cultural Affairs Bureau come to inform you?"

"Not yet."

"I didn't come to notice, so I sent it out as usual. If you come to notice, you don't have to put someone else's retraction on it, just write 'The author has been arrested, this article is banned, and it will not be published'. ”

Editor-in-Chief Hu hesitated: "Do we really write like that?" ”

Huo Zuo nodded: "That's it." ”

"Okay. If you say so, then I'll write so! ”

There were more people on the Kuomintang side who were not accustomed to Huo Zuo than they were accustomed to him, and fewer people wanted to deal with him than they were afraid of him. When he goes to public, most of them are happy to get acquainted with him than they dare not associate with him. After all, he is still a director of the Chinese community, and his status is on the table, even if the people above want to move him, he must first weigh his current political and economic status.

Huo Zuo took a glass of champagne and walked towards the window, stood still beside Qin Mingyue, lowered his head and took her obviously injured hand, and said softly: "So careless? How did the hand hurt. ”

Qin Mingyue was standing by the window and her gaze fell on another person in the venue, she didn't notice him coming, she reacted when she heard him speak, frowned and retracted her hand: "Mr. Huo, there are people around who are watching." ”

"What are you holding back? Everyone knows that we are brother and sister. I haven't seen you come to me for a long time, so I care about you. ”

"I can't afford it." Qin Mingyue sneered and moved to the side, as if she was ready to leave the window at any time, but Huo Zuo directly grabbed her waist, controlled her in the crook of his arm, and half-forced her to turn around with him and face out of the window.

"Don't look at your 'mission objectives' yet, Major Qin." He leaned lightly on the woman's ear, and his tone was pretending to be ambiguous, deliberately doing it for others to see, "Brother has something to ask you." ”