Chapter 44: A Sudden Alienation
"Manman, what the hell have you lost?" Zu Ming grabbed her shoulder and shook it.
Zhou Manman's desperate and dull eyes were retracted, and he looked back at Zu Ming thoughtfully, and suddenly she reacted.
"You have a bike, right?" Zhou Manman asked loudly.
"Yes...... Yes, right at the door of the school building. Zu Ming was startled by her sudden movements, and replied with a little stammering.
"Can you take me to the training gym, now." Zhou Manman grabbed Zu Ming's arm and prayed anxiously.
"Now?" Zu Ming looked back at the clock at the back of the classroom, it was already ten o'clock in the evening, "Are you sure you want to go so late?" ”
"Sure, I need to get over right away." Zhou Manman replied immediately.
"Okay, I'll take you." Zu Ming looked at her determined eyes and said.
Winter nights are exceptionally cold.
Because he was in a hurry to come out, Zhou Manman just wore a pajama and a down jacket indiscriminately, and sat on the back seat of the bicycle at the moment, which was extremely cold.
A chill passed, and Zhou Manman noticed that when he fell down the stairs just now, he broke his foot, and now his ankle is aching.
"Manman, you haven't told me yet, what did you lose? How can I help you find it in a moment? Zu Ming's voice came from the front.
"A very important thing." Zhou Manman muttered quietly, falling into the wind, which was retreating wantonly.
The two soon came to the training hall, it was pitch black, the security guard locked the door early, Zhou Manman came to the doorman and knocked lightly on the glass.
"Brother Zhang."
"Who?" An impatient sound came from within, followed by a sound of slippers kicking.
"Walking? Why are you here so late? Brother Zhang opened the door sleepily, saw Zhou Manman with an anxious face, obviously didn't understand her intention, and looked at a strange boy standing behind her.
"Brother Zhang, I have something left in the duty room, and my classmate brought me over to pick it up." Zhou Manman said and pointed to Zu Ming behind him.
"Oh, you can't take it tomorrow, it's such a cold day, you still have to run." Brother Zhang said, opening the door, "Do you have the key to the training hall?" ”
"Yes, I'll just drive it myself." Zhou Manman nodded, and quickly quickened his pace and walked towards the duty room.
"Wow"
The door was opened.
Zu Ming followed Zhou Manman into the training hall, this was his first time coming, he raised his head and looked around curiously.
"This is where you usually work, it's so big!" Zu Ming couldn't help but sigh.
Zhou Manman, who was walking in front, didn't care about this curious baby, so he hurriedly came to the duty room and turned on the light.
In an instant, the duty room was brightly lit.
She hurriedly rummaged through her desk and her locker, but it turned out to be disappointing.
The last place is not either, that ...... Where can I go?
Zhou Man sat on the chair decadently, hung his head, covered his eyes with his hands, and couldn't stop the sourness welling up.
Why! Why!
Why do you come here every time when she is the happiest and happiest!
Her whole body trembled uncontrollably, and finally, the long-suppressed emotions could no longer be restrained, and the whispered sobs turned into loud crying.
Zu Ming was caught off guard by this sudden scene.
"Manman, what's wrong with you? Why are you crying? Zu Ming hurriedly took a tissue from the table and handed it to her, "What is something very important?" You say, I'll buy it for you. ”
"Can't buy it! Can't buy it! Zhou Manman's voice trembled and retorted, "I lost it, I can't find it, what should I do!" ”
"Tell me, what can't you find?" Zu Ming looked at her at a loss, full of anxiety but nowhere to vent, and didn't know how to comfort her.
"My work." Zhou Manman raised his head, with big tears in his big eyes, fluttering and hanging on his long eyelashes, like a broken doll.
"I was framed for plagiarism." Zhou Man said dumbfounded: "My work is the only evidence that can confirm that I have no plagiarism, but why can't I find it?" ”
Zhou Manman clenched his fists tightly with both hands and pounded his head fiercely.
When Zu Ming heard the word "plagiarism", his body froze, and he straightened his back and asked, "You said, you were reported?" ”
"Yes, it's useless!" The hands that hammered desperately did not stop.
Zu Ming, who was originally squatting on the ground and looking at Zhou Manman, slowly stood up, lowered his head and asked, "If you can't find the work, what will you do?" ”
"I don't know." Finally, Zhou Manman stopped, his eyes staring at the ground in a daze, his hands hanging down at his sides, and accidentally touched the hard object in his pocket.
She took out her phone from her pocket and stared at Wang Fei's phone number in the address book.
After a long silence, she dialed over.
"How? Long, found? Hurry up and take a picture for me! I'll go online and slap that garbage first! Wang Fei urged angrily.
"Brother Fei......" Zhou Manman couldn't speak, a burst of nausea came up, and he couldn't speak sadly.
"Hurry! In fact, the company and the website are about to be bombed to death! Wang Fei saw her spitting and urging.
"I didn't...... Find ......," Zhou replied nervously.
"What do you mean you didn't find?" Wang Fei instantly said in an indifferent tone and asked.
"I remember putting it in the dormitory, but I searched everywhere I could, but I couldn't find it." Tears filled her eyes again, and her vision blurred.
"Don't scare me!" Wang Fei's voice was trembling, "At that time, you took a photo and uploaded it to the website, so didn't you take the photo?" ”
"I took it, no, I painted it, but ...... But ......" Zhou Manman was nervously speechless.
"Tomorrow morning, you will come to the company immediately!" Wang Fei ordered, and after saying that, he hung up the phone.
Zhou Manman looked at the screen of his mobile phone, stunned and didn't know what to do.
Tomorrow, how to solve it?
What should I do with tonight's Weibo comment?
"You plagiarized?" Zu Ming's voice suddenly sounded in the silent duty room, Zhou Manman completely forgot that there was another person beside her, she quickly looked up, but what she saw was Zu Ming's indifferent expression.
"I didn't!" Zhou Manman retorted: "I just said that the work was lost!" Lost! ”
"Who would steal a painting?" Zu Ming laughed in a low voice: "Even if you win the first prize, you have already won the prize, who would go to the trouble of stealing a useless painting?" ”
Zhou Manman was a little incredulous, how could Zu Ming, who had always been friendly, say such a thing indifferently?
Even if he can't empathize, it doesn't matter, but as a classmate, he actually questioned himself like a netizen, and Zhou Manman felt chills all over his body.
"Manman, are you done?" Brother Zhang's voice came from the door, Zhou Manman stood opposite Zu Ming, looked at him heavily, and replied loudly: "Found it, Brother Zhang, we'll leave right away." ”
"Let's go." Zhou Manman said to Zu Ming, "Thank you tonight." ”
"Then don't say thank you, classmate, it's right to help you, I just don't understand." Zu Ming paused and continued: "I've always heard that you won the award, but I haven't seen the original of your work, is there really one?" Are you pulling me to be a witness tonight to prove that you have been looking for me? ”
"What did you say?" Zhou Manman looked at him in surprise, "My work was published on the website, it was clearly written, and the photo of the work was also let go by Professor Li, and my name was signed in the lower right corner, what could be the problem?" ”
"Well, that's fine." Zu Ming said with words in his words: "I hope you can solve it properly tomorrow, let's go, go back to school." ”
With that, he walked out with his legs up.
Zhou Manman followed a few steps and walked out of the training hall.
"I'm sorry to give you a break, Brother Zhang." Zhou Manman nodded again and again in apology.
"I found it, it's good to find it, it's such a cold day, go back to sleep." Brother Zhang greeted them warmly.
"Hmm." The sourness on the tip of his nose, because of Brother Zhang's enthusiasm, swept over again, and Zhou Manman hurriedly turned his head and hid in the darkness.
The way back to school is completely different from when I came.
Along the way, Zu Ming was silent, and the strength under his feet was a little lighter.
After a long time, I finally returned to the girls' dormitory.
"Thank you for today." Zhou Manman nodded in thanks, then turned around and ran into the girls' dormitory.
Zu Ming looked at her back as she gradually moved away and sighed.
originally thought that Zhou Manman was a comic artist in the limelight, and if he was with her, he would naturally be introduced to a comic company by her, but who would have thought that before he pursued success, Zhou Manman would run into trouble first.
It's also fortunate that they haven't been together yet, otherwise, this situation is even more difficult to deal with.
Zu Ming came back to his senses, stepped on the bicycle and rode away quickly.
Zhou Manman, who returned to the dormitory, looked up at the clock, it was already more than eleven o'clock, Zhang Yichen had not slept yet, and when he saw that she was back, he quickly stretched out his head and asked, "Manman, where did you go in a hurry?" ”
"Go to the classroom and find something." Zhou Manman said perfunctorily.
"You've lost something." Zhang Yichen's words, I don't know if it's a question sentence or a declarative sentence.
"How do you know?" Zhou Manman looked up at Zhang Yichen who was holding the edge of the bed suspiciously, and asked.
"I don't ask you, what did you lose?" Zhang Yichen gossiped.
"Have you seen my work?" Zhou Manman didn't want to say more, but he couldn't help it, so he raised his head and asked.
"What works? Aren't all of our works in the studio? Zhang Yichen pretended to be surprised and said.
"It's the one I won, 'Yu', have you seen it?" Zhou Manman's heart ignited a trace of expectation, how much he hoped that Zhang Yichen would tell her at this moment, "I saw it, where is it?"
"No, I haven't seen you since the last time I saw you take it back to the dormitory." Zhang Yichen replied, "Can't you find it?" ”
"Hmm." Zhou Man snorted in a muffled manner: "I can't find it." ”
"It's been so long, why are you in such a hurry to find a painting?" Zhang Yichen asked with a puzzled face.
"Some people on the Internet say that I plagiarized, and I need the original work to prove my innocence." Zhou Manman sat on the chair, his voice full of loneliness.
"What! Say you plagiarize! Zhang Yichen suddenly raised his voice, his face was full of surprise, and shouted: "Oh my God! How could there be such a thing! ”