38. Extortion

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In the sunny office, two pots of greenery are placed under the white floor-to-ceiling windows. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhong Xian didn't recognize what kind of plant it was, it had no flowers, and there were two half-rolled and half-open leaves on each branch, which were elegant and quiet. It's as simple as it gets.

Zhong Sine never felt that there was any good thing about having plants in a room or office. He has always had no interest in plants. But these two pots made him feel a little different.

"Why have you been giving me things lately?" Zhong Xian looked at the two pots of monsters and said.

Dake had just pushed open the door of Zhong Xian's office and walked in, standing in front of the door with a little surprise. "How do you know I sent it?"

"I told the administration department that my room should be free of plants and decorations."

"I drank too much the night before and went to your place to get drunk. This is reparation. I don't think you hate this. Isn't it good to have a little life in the office? Do you know what they are talking about you behind your back? ”

Zhong Xian turned around and walked to his desk, and then looked back at the two pots of green. He really didn't hate it, and he wasn't as untouched as he used to be. These two basins of simple and unpretentious little things reminded him of someone inexplicably.

"They will not speak of you. When are you going to stand up for it? They say your office is all white, like a funeral home, and you're like a zombie. Say you're definitely a perfectionist and have a spiritual cleanliness fetish......"

"That's all? I heard it was all compliments. Are they all white and blind? Aren't the tables and chairs brown and black? Zhong Xian said and sat down in the chair behind his desk. As for how to be qualified for the role of general manager, he actually didn't think much about it. He was able to sit in this role because of his ability to do projects. He is not in a hurry to manage or reform a company that has just taken over. Let others toss first. When it comes to vertical managers, he's always on the strong side. If you can hold the project, you can shake the boss, and you have to get dividends. Everything else is trivial.

Zhong Xian has long been accustomed to being talked about. From his student days, he has sought to be noticed in the crowd. He played in bands as a teenager, and in addition to his genuine love for music, he also likes to stand in the center of attention. He felt love and admiration, although he never believed that this love would really be useful to him, nor did he believe that this attention would really come into his life. But at least it can numb his senses and make him feel that he is not lacking in love. He grew up surrounded by all kinds of talk. The biggest advantage for him is that he seems to be close to being indifferent to the eyes of others, and it will not affect him to do whatever he wants.

Sometimes it's just that funny. The same thing, in a different state of mind, will have completely different feelings.

That night, Dake was rarely drunk and woke up on Zhong Xian's sofa, and Zhong Xian found a reason to take him away early in the morning and let him go to the construction site to run errands.

So Dake didn't find out about Deng Yi's existence that night.

Zhong Xian didn't mean to hide anything, but he didn't feel the need to explain anything. What's more, the medicinal wine almost made Deng Yi unconscious in his bed until noon.

Deng Yi spent the night with him for the second time, and in essence, it was no different from the first time.

Bell String inexplicably, rarely, began to feel nostalgic for his teenage years, thinking of the friends who passed by, and the people with whom he had been in a band, Pierce and Flying Saucer. He didn't know what he was missing at first.

The joy that can be easily started when I was a teenager seems to come easily. To like is to like. No worries.

In the heart that is now full of precautions, no matter how much enthusiasm is used to cleanse, there are always many reasons to overshadow the desire. The flames burn like on wet wood. Hesitating, every time it burns, it almost wants to be extinguished, but the spark is still in the heart of the wood, and when the wind blows, it shines for a moment, as if waiting for it.

Can't be happy. Nor can they be abandoned.

"You can't have drugged my wine?" Deng Yi asked when he woke up at noon. He looked unrefreshed, and his eyes were dark. It was the first time Zhong Xian had seen him so tired. I slept well, but I felt as if I was overworked.

"If you are drugged, it should also make you a tiger. Makes you sleep like a dead pig, what am I trying to do? Zhong Xian smiled dumbly. Deng Yi probably can't remember. Of course, he didn't need to remember anything. Because there was nothing in the first place, it was a night that was no different from usual.

But Zhong Xian was not disappointed.

All he wanted was that feeling. He wants to be alone. Just see if this person can drive out his loneliness. Just see if that kind of love can break through the boundary barriers of his world and get closer to his heart.

When he held Deng Yi's hand, he was sure that the latter was something he should remember. And then maybe then he really fell into a coma under the influence of medicinal wine. And Zhong Xian is always awake, he can sort out the real things in his heart when everyone else is in chaos.

He had too many reasons to prevent him from taking a hasty step,

He had enough lessons to keep his heart shut at all times.

71、

"European Airlines has already done the test report of the product, and I will arrange to attach the tender and send it over together with the quotation in the afternoon." Dake sat on the sofa in Zhong Xian's office, which had almost become his exclusive seat, and told Zhong Xian about the progress of a big project in front of him.

"After two more rounds of negotiations next week, a final round of negotiations will be scheduled over the weekend, and the old man who is the chairman of CC will attend in person. After this last round, you can sign a contract and prepare for the supply. European Airlines' production plans are also in place. If we get it right, we'll make a lot of money. Dake got up from the sofa, his body was athletic, and his steps were brisk, showing that he was suddenly in a better mood. He walked up to Zhong Xian in three or two steps and handed the last draft of the quotation to the latter across his desk.

Zhong Xin swept through the quotations and bids. He had actually seen it many times, and every detail had been determined many times, and there would be no more problems.

"European Airlines is pretty neat. The test report was made so quickly. Zhong Xian also had joy in his heart.

"It seems that he has done a good job in this test report." "As long as it's not fake." Last time we got the stone test report, it was not so simple and fast. You've got to figure out a few things that make you unqualified. ”

"All the tests above are qualified, aren't they?" Zhong Xin carefully studied the test report. It is impossible to falsify these details with certainty. "The inspection of cement is not as complex as the identification and testing standards of stone, so I chose it as a stepping stone in the first place."

"Your decision-making is absolutely fine. The two of us have been working together for so long, and we have a tacit understanding. As long as there is no problem with European Airlines. ”

Zhong Xian nodded, ignoring it. He knew that Dake still rejected European Airlines in his heart, and Zhong Xian didn't think so, and he was used to it. There are relatively few people who are not excluded by the big department. Especially those who want to enter their circle, there is a great possibility that they will be criticized by Dake.

"I found one thing." Dake said in a serious tone.

Zhong Xian was intently checking the computer for news reports on the TPJR project to be negotiated next week, but did not respond to Dake. He could almost foresee that Dake was going to talk about some of the problems of European Airlines again. He didn't bother to listen.

After a while, seeing that Dake was still stunned, Zhong Xian asked, "It's past the end of work." Go back. Spend more time with Mi. ”

When I first met Dake three years ago, Dake gave Zhong Xian the impression that he was quite humane and generous. After the contact, he has been giving Zhong Xian a big grinning and very informal feeling. I don't know what happened in the last year. Dake became more and more nervous, and even his heart and eyes became smaller, and he often seemed anxious.

Of course, a lot of things did happen during the year, and the project had frequent accidents, and each time they were frightened and troubled to deal with. Maybe it's because I'm engaged in this industry that I have turned a person with a big heart into a frightened and anxious patient. Zhong Xian suddenly realized that Dake might also be 'infected' by him, and he did not deliberately hide his problems in front of Dake. After being immersed in his illness for a long time, Dake's thinking may have been negatively affected. Thinking about it like this, Zhong Xian blamed himself a little.

"I told you that night, didn't I?" Dake sighed. "It's uncomfortable for me, and only you can confide in such a shameful thing. You call me a stupid person and mentally retarded or something, and I accept it. But, for me, it was really a watershed moment in my life. I'm fucking, never again...... Never love anyone 100% without reservation anymore. ”

"You didn't drink, and you still spoke in this tone. Even if that's the case, what about it? How does it compare to you? ”

"It's different! I have never loved anyone else in my heart, only her. But woman, didn't you say it? You have to be in love to cheat. I'm not the only one in her heart. I know you're going to think I'm too unmanly. But that's how I really feel. My world, my life, has changed. She's nothing anymore, you see. ”

"You are indeed mentally retarded."

"The success I think of in my life is to have someone like Mi. I was her first love, and she only loved me all her life. The second is our business. These are the two things I care about. Now there is one thing that no longer exists, and it is impossible to remedy it. I'll put all my heart into keeping the other one. ”

"You're really sick." Zhong Xian shifted his gaze from the computer to Dake's body. Regardless of whether Dake was joking or not, he felt that there was something wrong with this partner. "You are so specific in your life. Or maybe you haven't been hit at all. Either that, or you've been overblown. You know, life is not fixed, it is not something you can plan. ”

"I know. I would advise others in the same way. But it's your turn. I always have to have a reason to live. ”

"Why is it still a question of whether you are alive or not? If both things fail. Are you still going to die? ”

"If that's the case. I think I'm going to be the walking dead, or a complete evil. ”

"Predators?"

"Great villain."

"You're evil enough now. Hurry up and get off work. ”

Dake sat back down on his couch. Looks like he didn't plan to leave at all. Zhong Xin continued to look at the web page on his computer.

"You've been in a good mood for the last two days." Dake said after a long pause.

"Aren't you in a good mood when the project has an eyebrow?"

"I didn't see you like this when I won a project as big as HLHA. You look like you're alive. It turned out that it had always been like a demon possessed. ”

"You're the one who is possessed by a demon." The bell string strikes back. I found myself in a good mood.

"Has that cop been looking for you for the past two days?"

In fact, Zhong Xian hadn't seen Deng Yi for two days. Since the last time I said goodbye at his house. After Deng Yi woke up at noon, he was in a hurry to leave. He had an appointment that was delayed because he overslept. Zhong Xian sent him to the appointment place before going to work at the company.

I haven't seen each other for two days, though. But kept in touch. And Deng Yi also delivered the guitar to his door. A large carton is beautifully packaged. Zhong Xian never opened the box with the guitar. It's not that he doesn't have feelings for Deng Yi's gift, it's that he doesn't want to see the guitar again. He would rather wish for the carton to thank Deng Yi than open the box and see the guitar inside.

Life is the way it is. He had nothing to say.

Seeing that Zhong Xian didn't answer, Dake said: "He is really brainless, and he has to be entangled in Xiao Zhu's affairs." What are the benefits? Can you get rich or whatever. Last time, I ran to say that Xiao Zhu was not in Macau. If you suspect us of anything, just show the evidence. After so long, there has been no concrete progress. I don't get nervous anymore. Dake laughed as he spoke. Zhong Xin still didn't respond.

"Don't talk about this policeman. Actually, I found one thing today. Dake said. I don't know ...... you."

Zhong Xian stared at the computer, and after a while, he saw that Dake didn't say anything, so he looked at Dake strangely. By this time it was getting dark, and there was no one else in the company. Dake's eyes were fixed on the clouds outside the floor-to-ceiling window.

"Why don't you say it halfway?" Zhong Xian asked.

Time is a magical thing. Zhong Xian never felt that a person like Dake could become a friend who was recognized by him from the bottom of his heart. The personality and personality of Dake, it would be very ideal to become a buddy of general friends, and it is impossible to become a bosom friend or something. Zhong Xin has always positioned their friendship in this way. But after more than three years of getting along and facing so many things together, Dake has always played a solid role like a right-hand man who does not leave Zhong Xian's body, even if it is a stone, it will give birth to some interdependent feelings. So seeing Dake's worried face, Zhong Xian felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

"Say it. What a. I won't find out that Ah Mi has a third man. ”

Dake's face sank. Probably a little puzzled by Zhong Xian's deliberate revelation of his sore spots. "I drank too much that night and talked nonsense. Would I care about this? Even now, I can confirm that I am the only one who has the heaviest weight in Ami's heart. I know. ”

"You go to Corning Psychiatric Hospital." Zhong Xian sarcastically mocked him.

Dake's face was expressionless and he didn't say a word. Zhong Xian knew that this was indeed his sore spot. After a while, Dake started giggling again.

"I originally thought that having a woman who only belonged to me in this life and having everything she had was a winner in life. This desire is caused by the plot of first love. This kind of dream can really only be a dream, and everyone has to go through this level again. I'll get over it. It's just that later, I know what is worth paying attention to. ”

"You're an idiot. Ah Mi isn't doing well, you're like that. It's not that she can't do without you, it's that you can't do without her. ”

"My heart aches that she does have someone else."

"Why should she keep waiting for you. Why can't she go and see if the other men in this world are like you? ”

"Yes. No one will do it for whom...... Everyone is for themselves. I ......" Dake's words didn't come out. "That's not what I was going to talk about. I mean to talk about that incident a year ago. ”

"A year ago there were so many things. Which one. Zhong Xian asked absentmindedly. He has already found out that the chairman of CC who will negotiate next week is an old man over 70 years old. It looks like the strategy is about to change. In the eyes of this kind of old man, a rookie like him is probably too shallow like a clown jumping off the beam.

"You were blackmailed, you never suspected that a colleague might have done it." Dake said.

Zhong Xian's eyes were still staring at the computer, but he chuckled in his heart, that incident was the source of his anxiety this year. He had actually suspected a lot of people, including every colleague. Even Dake was suspected by him once. But the problem is not here, the problem is that he has not mentioned it to Dake.

Recently, he has been increasingly suspicious of the fact that he has been reminded of the past that he thought he would not be known. I even began to wonder if something was wrong with me. It's hard to have a split personality. All these things come out of your own mouth? Without your own knowledge?

"The people who blackmailed you, I always felt that they were among those former colleagues."

"You say I'm being blackmailed?" Zhong Xian looked at the computer and said slowly.

"That anonymous email a year ago. You ignore the email that you deleted directly. ”

"Well, there's such a thing, I don't pay attention. I don't think I told you about it. Zhong Xin pointed out bluntly.

"I found it in your mailbox. Didn't you make an offer for HLHA's project at the time? Your email address is used as a business email address. I saw it, although you deleted it in the spam. ”

"You can see it even if I delete it?"

"You were a little abnormal that day, so I paid attention to it."

"Who said you were careless?" Zhong Xian laughed. "I'll see you for a long time. Who do you suspect? ”

Dake stared at Zhong Xian, got up from the sofa in his office, and paced slowly, wanting to speak a few times. "You'll probably think I'm deliberately ostracizing him."

Zhong Xian understood who Dake was referring to. "What evidence?" He asked expressionlessly, his eyes staring back at the photo of the seventy-year-old man of the chairman of CC on the computer screen.

"I don't even know about your past. You don't mention it either. However, he seems to know a lot. I've occasionally heard him mention a ......" today

"It's not him." Zhong Xian interrupted Dake and said categorically.

"Are you sure?"

"Sure."

Dake shook his head. "Sometimes I think you look at people only by feeling. The appearance of European Airlines is specific and deceptive, and so is the policeman surnamed Deng. ”