On a rural road in the north, there is a pickup truck with several boxes, an LCD TV, and a few simple pieces of furniture in the cargo bed, which are fastened with thick ropes. Although it was a move, it was obvious that the family's property was not rich, and there were still gaps in the small cargo space of the pickup truck, and Jiang Jie was sitting in this slightly crowded gap. The hot wind carried the irritating sound of cicadas, covering the flat ground like cotton wool, Jiang Jie felt that he was firmly bound by countless ropes made of suffocation, unable to move, and evaporated and dissipated in silence between heaven and earth.

"Brother Jie, I heard that what is going on in the imperial capital Nagar, is TM old and noble?" the voice came from the gap on the other side, and the thick accent was slightly distorted in the wind, but it still revealed the excitement of the speaker. The person who spoke was Guo Hong, the second son in the family, so he was called Erhong, and the word macro naturally means grand, but he, like his father and brother, is thin and short, and the father and son standing together is a perfect example of genetics. Unlike Jiang Jie's sultry irritability, Erhong was a rare person to go out today, so he was very happy.

"That's the imperial capital, isn't it expensive? Jiang Jie suddenly felt a little grateful for these few goods, and when he couldn't see the other party, he only needed to mix enthusiasm and optimism into his words, saving the cumbersome process of mobilizing his facial muscles. Counting the four years of college, Jiang Jie has lived in the imperial capital for six years, but he knows very well that what he has come into contact with is only the skin of the imperial capital, and he has not integrated into it at all, and he has not even found a way to integrate into it.

"Tell me what you want?" Erhong asked.

"When I reported to university,...... Jiang Jie began to casually talk about some of the past life in the imperial capital. Even Erhong, who has never been to the provincial capital, knows that the current president of the United States is a mixed-race child, knows some specious secrets of big people, and knows many major events in the world that Jiang Jie originally thought he didn't know. Recalling the latter's complaint about Erhong's lack of interest when chatting with Guo's father not long ago, Jiang Jie faintly had some immature thoughts.

The topic started from the imperial capital, after the assassination of a king in the Middle East, when it arrived at the American hot dog taste, the driver in front gently knocked on the rear window, and the two stopped chatting, lying down slightly, hiding their bodies in the baffle. Driving on the highway, of course, people are not allowed in the cargo hopper, Jiang Jie wanted to make a passenger car with Erhong, but after loading the belongings, Jiang's father and Jiang's mother looked at the gap in the cargo bucket, so they launched the thrifty style of the older generation and shoehorned the two young men into it.

The driver wanted to say a few words, but after some bargaining by Jiang's mother, he agreed after charging an extra 20 yuan, and at the same time instructed the two to listen to the signal to avoid one or two when there was a patrol officer on the side of the road. Most of the patrol officers on the highway are checking for overloading and drunk driving, so they drove over without danger along the way.

Jiang Jie put his head on the iron sheet, his body shook with the car, and the half-sitting and half-lying posture and the touch of his body sweating made him uncomfortable.

The pickup truck had already driven over the plain just now, and the road became winding with the gradually rising mountains, and patrol police were set up because of frequent accidents, Jiang Sheng guessed.

Maybe it was because of the sudden silence between the two, Jiang Jie heard the conversation of his parents in the carriage.

"Old Jiang, do you say that our kid has a play with Xiao Zhao's girl?" After a short silence, it was Jiang's mother's urging voice: "What about you!

"Nope. There seemed to be a faint regret in Father Jiang's answer.

The voice of the second elder was hoarse, especially Father Jiang, who seemed to have sandpaper stuffed in his throat. In fact, if you listen carefully, Jiang Jie and Er Hong's voices are also rough, but this only adds a sense of maturity.

"I also think it's no fun, that girl is too handsome, although our son is also ......"

"Don't gilt him. Just his looks...... Father Jiang's words were not finished because of coughing, but Jiang Jie knew what was behind him, because he had heard it since he was a child. Jiang Jie listened to the sound of coughing, then the sound of pulling the window glass, a thud, a mouthful of thick phlegm spit out, followed by the sound of vibrating the nasal cavity and throat with a violent inhalation through his nose, and a thud, another mouthful of thick phlegm.

Wild monkeys? Jiang Jie thought silently in his heart.

After two sighs of relief, Father Jiang continued: "It's like a wild monkey." ”

"Isn't that a bit too much for our son to give?"

"Then are you embarrassed to take it back?" Father Jiang was not refuting this point. "Old Yao also took care of our son when he was studying, so let's have more. ”

Jiang Jie is not as ignorant as the second elder, he knows that although his gifts seem to be many, in fact, I am afraid that people will not look down on them at all. If it weren't for some of the original feelings, if someone else carried these things, the door wouldn't have been knocked on.

In the mining town in his hometown, Jiang Jie, Erhong and a few other children played in a mud pit until they were admitted to the high school in the city. And Mine Chief Yao was just a mine manager at that time, of course, Jiang's father was also an ordinary miner, and Yao Zhao, the daughter of Mine Manager Yao, was a flower in the junior high school of the entire mining town. She is the goddess in the hearts of the boys of the five sessions before and after, but no one dares to provoke her when she is sober, her father is the mine manager! Later, the mine manager was promoted all the way to the minister and entered the city, and only Jiang Jie and Yao Zhao were admitted to the high school in the city among the graduates of that class.

After seeing Jiang Jie, Mine Chief Yao liked it very much, and treated him as his own son. Jiang Jie and Yao Zhao's high school is a dormitory, and only weekends are the time to go home, due to the inconvenience of returning to the mine, Jiang Jie has lived in Yao's house on weekends in the past three years, and every time he goes back to the mine, he is also a hitchhiker for the mine manager.

This is the treatment of a prospective son-in-law in the limited understanding of the people in the mining town, and for this reason, the successor mine manager also mentioned Jiang's father as the squad leader, and if there is further news, it is also possible to 'dry' the staff of the procurement department. In this way, the matter of the east and west family became more and more true, until Jiang Jie also planted such a small seed in his heart.

"Brother Jie, you have no fun with the little girl surnamed Yao?" After the patrol police, Erhong continued to stir up the topic. Obviously, I also heard the conversation of the second elder.

"It never happened!"

"Cut~, who are you fooling? If you want me to say, I should have listened to Lao Fu'er in the first place, dragging the buds in the field......"

"Well, in that case, I guess it will be released this year. ”

"Hehe...... "Erhong laughed embarrassedly twice, and then asked: "Brother Jie, you tell me the truth, how much money did you spend on this Anton's house?"

"Thirty thousand!"

"Hey~" As if he was a provocative gangster on the street, Erhong sighed three times as if he was going up the steps. "That's not enough for you! When I was a three-year-old, you could lie to your father and your mother for this number. ”

"You can buy one too, and you'll know. ”

"Raise the bar, don't you?"

Jiang Jie smiled, but still said: "The old building is a second-hand house, all procedures, 200,000 yuan." Don't tell anyone, you kid. ”

"My mouth is very tight, rest assured. In this sentence, for the first time, Erhong did not have sustained excitement, and there was a little depression in his seriousness. There are only two ways for the older generation in the mining town to die, it is painful to die in the well, and it is painful to die of lung disease. Erhong's father coughed no lighter than Jiang's father, but there was only one way to do it: 'carry'.

Reading can indeed change fate, but it's not as big as most people think.

After noon, when it was the hottest time of the day, Jiang Jie found a small restaurant with air conditioning in a small town. Jiang Mu glanced at the menu, and her face turned bad. Jiang's father had been on a business trip and knew the situation outside, so he whispered a few words before letting Jiang's mother turn around and go out. Such a small action naturally couldn't escape the boss's eyes, but he looked at Jiang's mother's old face, so he kept a smile and didn't say anything.

At the time of checkout, Jiang's mother and the waiter bargained and had to erase the odds. Jiang Jie reluctantly said that he could be reimbursed, and after hearing this, Jiang's mother asked for another bottle of beer, and rounded up a few more yuan in invoices.

On the road again, with the help of alcohol, Jiang Jie fell into a state of half-dreaming and half-awake in the bumps.

After passing a billboard that read 'Welcome to Anton', the road gradually changed from two lanes to six lanes, and the buildings on both sides changed from bungalows to five- or six-story factories and old-fashioned residential buildings.

After turning a traffic turntable, Jiang Jie heard Erhong's exclamation: "Brother Jie, it's Haihe!"

Jiang Jie on the inside of the vehicle naturally couldn't see it, but a kind of sea-like smell still got into Jiang Jie's nose.

Jiang Jie knew the general situation here when he chatted with the seller. The entire community of the new house is built by an old state-owned enterprise factory, which has been an old-fashioned residential building for nearly 20 years, and most of the residents are close to retirement or have retired old workers. The seller was also very proud to introduce the products of the old factory, and sighed for a while about the status quo of semi-suspension of production, Jiang Jie listened absent-mindedly, and even forgot the name of the factory and what the product was.

The move went smoothly, after all, there was no belongings, but there was also a little accident, Jiang Jie's calf was cut by an iron frame leg with a finger-length wound, the wound was not deep but it was also hot and painful, and the blood went straight to the ankle and slightly stained the socks red. Mother Jiang complained about being careless while scrubbing. Father Jiang looked at the rusty iron shelf, and also complained: "I will say that I will not move this broken shelf, you will not listen, you will take a look." ”

Mother Jiang lowered her head and scrubbed, but she didn't hear it.

Jiang's father has dealt with these iron guys all his life, and after taking a look at the wound, he told his son to get a tetanus injection just in case.

The neighbor who came out to join in the fun and help by the way was a nearly sixty-year-old aunt, who heard the injection and said that a small clinic had been opened at the entrance of the community, which was opened by the son of a certain person in the factory.

In this way, Jiang Jie was pressed on a chair in the clinic with great emotion. On the other side of the table was a young doctor in his twenties, and looking at his face, Jiang Jie even suspected that he was younger than himself.

The condition is very clear, and the diagnosis is equally clear: "Just rub some purple potion, it's free." If you don't feel at ease, just get a stitch, five pieces. ”

Jiang Jie was really surprised, took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it over, and asked: "Don't mind calling you, brother, you may not like to hear it, your style is a bit against the trend of the times." ”

Jiang Jie works in the imperial capital, and in response to the proverb, he has never eaten pork and seen a pig run. A colleague of his went to tetanus for two hundred and fifty dollars. So when he heard the diagnosis, Jiang Jie had already decided to flash people. On others, Jiang Jie himself may scold 'It's uncomfortable not to be slaughtered', but it's really bottomless to put it on himself.

has decided to leave, and his speech inevitably reveals a bit of the slippery nature of the imperial capital.

The young doctor smiled and explained: "The small shop is newly opened, and the people who come to see the doctor are all people from this community. If you open your mouth indiscriminately, you will be poked in the back, so you can rest assured. ”

Hearing this, Jiang Jie's heart moved slightly, put away his thoughts of leaving, and asked again: "One of my colleagues in the imperial capital had tetanus, and it cost more than two hundred." ”

Maybe it's because there are no patients, but the young doctor talks very much, and he explains it in detail.

"The five-piece is extracted from animals, and sensitive bodies may have allergic reactions and need to do skin tests. Your friend's kind is extracted from people, and there will be no allergic reactions, one hundred sticks. Speaking of this, the young doctor smiled and added: "In that place in the imperial capital, more than two hundred is also considered a conscience price." The wound on your leg is open, exposed to air, and will not multiply, even if you have tetanus bacilli. ”

"Anaerobic?" Jiang Jie asked.

"Yes, buddy?" said the young doctor, in surprise.

"Those who are engaged in chemical industry understand a little bit. ”

At this point, the phone rang. The only feature of low-end domestic mobile phones in those years was the sound of the horn, so Jiang Jie's mobile phone ringtone instantly filled the entire room. Jiang Jie looked at the caller ID, and a simple word 'Zhao' made his expression three points surprised and three points happy, and four points at a loss.

"Jiang Jie?" The slightly raised tone was like arrogance, and like a question, Jiang Jie didn't know which explanation would make him a little happier. And the clear coldness in his voice, Jiang Jie felt that the doctor on the other side could hear it. Jiang Jie responded enthusiastically, pointed to the phone, and then walked to the door.

"Did you go to my house?" The second sentence was already in the tone of Xingshi's questioning.

"It's rare to go home once, and I went to see Uncle Yao by the way. ......" was interrupted by the other party before he could continue to explain.

"What did you say to my dad?"

"Didn't say anything?" Jiang Jie was confused, thinking back to the scene at the time, and didn't think of anything wrong. But he replied: "It's just a simple talk about my situation, the move, and the physical ...... of my parents" and interrupted again mercilessly.

"Stop talking nonsense. I used to see that you were quite honest, but I didn't expect to learn to take the parental route, why don't you die? Don't pee and take pictures, are you worthy of the old lady? Don't let the old lady see you again, and don't go to my house again, do you understand?" After the machine gun finished speaking quickly, it was the beep of the broken wire, slow and rhythmic.

After a long time, Jiang Jie came to his senses, turned off the phone, returned to the chair just now, and looked at the ashtray at the corner of the table with blank eyes. The young doctor's words came from a distance that seemed to be the horizon: "We also accept psychological counseling, and if you would like to talk about it, since you are the first customer in this area, I have decided to do it for free." The young doctor didn't say anything more, just waited for Jiang Jie to speak.

Jiang Jie recalled his past with Yao Zhao and once again confirmed that he was just wishful thinking. There was even a moment when Jiang Jie really wanted to die as the other party said, but he quickly dispelled this ridiculous thought.

As if smelling a smell of death, the young doctor suddenly became agitated and blurted out: "Did you want to ...... just now?" but stopped at this point, as if he was not sure what he was thinking.

The young doctor moved Jiang Jie's head, looked at each other, poked his head out, and could smell his breathing. He asked with a solemn face, "Did you want to die just now!?"

"I don't want to think about it anymore, thank you. Although I was surprised by the other party's rudeness for a while, it was understandable if the other party was trying to persuade him.

But to Jiang Jie's surprise, this time the other party stared at the ashtray in a daze, as if he was out of his body. I can't help but think that if I was in this state just now, it would be scary enough.

After a few seconds, the young doctor suddenly got up, turned his head without saying a word, opened the door, and ran upstairs. Jiang Jie was inexplicable, but the ghost sent the god to follow, and instinctively told him that this matter was not simple.

Like Jiang Jie's new home, this is also a five-story old-fashioned residential building, and when he reached the third floor, Jiang Jie could no longer hear the doctor's footsteps. But there was no sound of opening and closing the door, Jiang Jie secretly scolded the real block that ran away, and continued to catch up, and sure enough, there was an open manhole on the fifth floor of the stairwell.

There was silence all around, and Jiang Jie listened attentively, except for his own heartbeat, he could vaguely hear the cries of men and women who could not distinguish between men and women. I didn't have time to think about it, so I climbed up the manhole along the ladder and came to the roof, and I was shocked when I looked around.

I saw a person lying on the edge of the building, his arms had reached out of the building, and his body was gradually sliding outward when he swayed, and he saw that the clothes were the young doctor just now. Older residential buildings don't have parapets or parapets, and the smooth black waterproof paint is an accomplice to the slide.

Without time to think carefully, Jiang Jie rushed over and grabbed the doctor's ankle and pulled it back. The woman's cry and the weight of her hands told Jiang Jie that there must be another woman below.

"Let it go, let me die. Mixed with the crying, this is the woman Jiang Jie heard.

"I'm not going to let go when I die," the doctor replied.

"Do you want to be so bloody", Jiang Jie slandered so much, it was very simple to stop the downward trend, and when he was about to pull the doctor up, he suddenly felt a strong force, and it was a stumbling, and the position where the doctor was stuck on the edge of the building also changed from the chest to the lower abdomen.

Jiang Jie was shocked into a cold sweat, realizing that if he hadn't been able to stand firmly, he would almost have gone down by himself this time. yelled: "Damn, tell the girls below not to mess around." "In the midst of nervousness, all the local words that I haven't spoken in six years are spoken. It was obviously caused by the woman's indiscriminate struggle.

After Jiang Jie finished scolding, he didn't expect to hear an answer, gritted his teeth and used his strength to feed, and pulled the doctor back at once, leaving only his two forearms outside.

Jiang Jie wanted to pull, but he heard the doctor shouting: "Don't pull behind, come and help." Jiang Jie let go of his ankle and rushed to the edge, only to see the doctor holding a woman's ankle with both hands, and the woman's whole body was hanging upside down, crying while kicking the doctor's wrist with the other foot.

The woman was thin, Jiang Jie estimated the weight, worked hard with the doctor, and lifted her up easily. Regardless of the woman's struggle, she dragged her out of the dangerous brink. Then the young doctor hugged the woman and sat on the roof of the building.

The whole process took less than twenty seconds, but Jiang Jie was shocked into a cold sweat.

Jiang Jie took a few steps back, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, and then found that the flame of the lighter was jumping like a madman who had been drugged, and it didn't match the cigarette at all. Hold your left hand and hold your right hand, and that's when you ignite. Jiang Jie took a sharp breath to suppress the horror in his heart, squatted down with his back against a chimney, and looked at the two people hugging each other.

The woman was wearing jeans on her lower body, and the loose blouse on her upper body was turned upside down because of the upside down, revealing a large area of her back and a white bra, and the side of her thin waist was scratched with dazzling blood marks, and she was crying and muttering something to herself.

The doctor gently patted the woman's back with his hand to comfort her, and Jiang Jie noticed that the little fingers of the hand were strangely bent outward, apparently kicked by the woman in the struggle just now.

Lanhai University was established in the early days of the New Bell Kingdom and was located in the southern suburbs of the Magic Capital at that time. Although it is not as good as some century-old schools, due to its identity as the first batch of self-built institutions of higher learning in the new Zhongguo, it is naturally inclined in the allocation of educational resources. But there are advantages and disadvantages, because its color background is too distinct, until the nineties of the last century, it was not able to invite internationally renowned scholars and professors to teach, coupled with the general admiring mentality in the academic circles at that time, so I could only bite the tail of the top universities and eat farts even if I tried my best. After entering the 21st century, with the weakening of color consciousness and the take-off of the economy of Xinzhongguo, Lanhai University has taken advantage of the situation, coupled with the achievements of graduates trained in the past few decades in all aspects of the country. The tragic change of principal four years ago can be corroborated by the fact that one of the candidates was turned out of old accounts, directly discredited, and all kinds of careers came to an end.

Of course, the above are all statements on the surface, and there is only one reason for such a tragedy, that is, the soaring land price in the magic capital. The magic capital is accompanied by the river and the sea, and compared with the plain city, there is only half of the follow-up development space, and every inch of land is even more valuable. During the establishment of Lanhai University, it also adhered to the atmosphere of the time, with a large area of greenery and ancillary supporting units, from staff kindergartens to bathhouses, and even a special ice cream factory. What a big piece of land this is, multiplied by the land price, the picture is so beautiful that many people can't sleep when they think about it.

The situation of Lanhai University is comparable to that of an urban village to be demolished, but in the final analysis, it is also a matter for scholars, but whenever there is a forced demolition, many people's chairs have to be replaced. So everyone can only wait for the new president to say 'go', and the new president also lived up to expectations, buying land and building in the university town planned by the magic capital in the first month of taking office, and moving out the computer and mechanical school in the first year. At that time, no one remembers the beautiful reason, but the vacated piece of land was worked day and night, from demolition, excavation, to building capping, interior decoration before and after it took less than a year, which is also a miracle in the industry.

The office building of the new campus is divided into six floors, and due to the rush of time, the fourth, fifth and sixth floors were simply divided into the slightly stronger mechanical colleges. On the day of the move, the School of Computer Science stopped working: "It's true that the School of Mechanical Engineering is a little stronger than us, but it can't be pressed like this!" And some old professors of the School of Mechanical Engineering don't like to be too tall, only saying that it is troublesome to go up the stairs. The younger ones opened their mouths to persuade us to have elevators, and a few old professors who had been engaged in machinery all their lives rolled their eyes at the elevator, and did not listen to the persuasion, dominating several second-floor offices, regardless of others directing students to move things.

I have to say that these guys who are suspected of relying on the old and selling the old have made a bad start, and just when the other professors were about to do the same, the principal who heard the news rushed from the city. The final plan is to choose according to the order of rank, so some places with beautiful corners and cool winters and warm summers have become collective offices for the majority of teaching assistants and graduate students.

(1.1)

In 2015, three years after the relocation, a man in his thirties sat in a small office with three partition desks, his fingers clicking the mouse and tapping the keyboard mixed with the sound of cars outside the window. Behind the man were three young men with childish faces standing, and it was not difficult to guess that they were three college students.

In late spring and early summer, the weather starts to get hotter, and although there is an occasional cool breeze blowing in through the window, it only adds to the heat.

Ge Jian watched his classmates' works unveil little by little in the tutor's computer, revealing the cold core of the logical language, and suddenly felt a little trance. I only felt as if I was a trainee surgeon, watching my senior skillfully open the patient's chest, displaying various organs, tissues, and flesh one by one, while the patient tilted his head and stared at him with blank eyes.

The assistant coach's soft cough pulled Ge Jian back to reality from his boundless fantasy.

"Well done!" Turning his head and saying to Ge Jian, "Take your copy in and take a look!"

Ge Jian took out the USB flash drive from his pocket and inserted it into the interface below, but he remembered the slight hesitation of the tutor just now, probably wanting to call my name, but he really couldn't remember it and gave up.

There was only one single document named 'Bi She' in the USB flash drive of the leather sword, and the tutor probably raised an eyebrow in surprise at the simplicity, and then began to check it.

The suppressed sound of the mobile phone vibrating suddenly remembered, Ge Jian took out the mobile phone, apologized, and turned around to go out. Glancing at the phone screen, he connected to the call.

"Hey, hello! This is Chinese Shou ......" a male voice rang out, and the enthusiasm of a salesman came through the phone.

"You've heard about this caller ID, right?"

“...... Ahem, haha" choked on a dry cough like saliva, followed by an awkward dry laugh. "Sharp style as always. I have a surprise for you!"

It was Yan Ming, Ge Jian's junior high school classmate, who was the only one in his narrow circle of friends who could be called a friend. Hearing the word surprise, Ge Jian quickly guessed the only possibility.

"You're coming to the Demon Capital?"

"Guess wrong! haha" Leather Sword's mistake seemed to bring him endless joy. "I'm already here!"

Ge Jian was indeed happy in his heart. After looking around, he didn't find any suspicious figures, so he sighed and said, "Then?"

"Because of some factors that are probably unavoidable, I may have lost myself......"

With Ge Jian's understanding of Yan Ming, in this case, the other party's original plan must be to call him in a place where he can see him, and then wait for himself to show a surprised expression. But now that the other party didn't suddenly appear in front of him, he was in trouble. In Ge Jian's conjecture, getting lost is already the easiest situation, even if the other party tells him to go to the police station to get someone because of a fight, he will not be surprised.

"Huh!"

"Don't hehe! Come and pick me up! The magic capital is really big with his NN, and the two-hour rental hasn't even left the city. Having said that, there was no hint of nervousness in his tone.

Ge Jian reluctantly asked for the address, and felt speechless for a while.

"Don't laugh, save your strength and wait, you should have guessed that I couldn't take a taxi. Also, you must have owed that black car driver a lot of money in your last life! It's completely two directions from the university town, right?" and then added, "Also, it seems to be a place like 'Old West Street', so you must be more restrained." ”

Lao Xi Street is the only entertainment district in the couple's small city hometown that offers some services, and it is a mix of fish and dragons, and street fights are commonplace. When the two were in junior high school, out of curiosity, they went to go shopping one night with the mentality of 'testing the courage conference', but Yan Ming, who had been very handsome since he was a child, was almost pulled into the small black house by a woman with heavy makeup who couldn't tell his age, and after escaping by luck, Yan Ming washed his face ten times, and still felt greasy. This has caused a huge psychological shadow to Yan Ming, it turns out that women can be so terrible, but in fact, the psychological shadow of Ge Jian is not small, Lao Tzu is really so ugly?

Of course, Ge Jian in the 'Old West Street' of the magic capital has never been there, but a rich second generation in the same class in college will always tell how many feats he has done there after drinking, or what new tricks he has played, and boast that he is a frequent visitor there. Of course, Ge Jian didn't believe it, this drunken nonsense guy mostly put hearsay on himself, but for the extravagant details of his boasting, Ge Jian believed it, and thought that those were just the tip of the iceberg.

As for the driver's misunderstanding, it is not difficult to explain, probably because of the misunderstanding of the dialect, the driver regarded Yan Ming as a tourist looking for flowers and willows.

"Also, if you can, be sure to bring another dinner!"

"Got it. Ge Jian turned off the phone, reluctantly asked for leave with his tutor, and left the school in a hurry.