When Mo Shangqing came out of the glass room on the second floor, the rain had stopped by half. Looking out of the window, he could only see the ripples in the puddle lit by the rain in Mao Mao.
The walkway in front of the glass door looks dirty. Although the footprints from the first floor will be much shallower, people come and go here and no one cleans them.
There is still a quarter of an hour before the evening self-study class. Mo Shangqing came down from the upstairs with a watch and wanted to go into the class to see the hygiene of the duty group. The monitor must have arrived. He doesn't want to hear her complain at the routine summary meeting of the last class tonight.
"Brother Qing." A girl with a broom and dustpan came out of the back door and greeted him.
He answered with a smile and asked her, "How is the hygiene of your duty group? The class teacher will arrive soon. "
The girl dumped the garbage in the dustpan into the trash can at the back door and replied, "Almost, there should be only the blackboard left."
Shang Mo nodded and entered the classroom through the back door.
Du's seat only has her bookshelf, but she doesn't see her schoolbag. Mo Shangqing knows that he is always unpunctual, and it is common to be late for school.
When Chen Gang took over as the head teacher, she said that she had been there several times, but Du remained the same. Plus she has a good relationship with Mo Shangqing, so she doesn't care anymore.
However, this is an extraordinary period, and both Du Yan's family and the pub may be related to her absence. The "uninvited guest" who appeared at the door of the classroom last weekend can't help worrying him.
The hands of the clock point to 17:50.
"The class teacher should be here soon." He thought to himself. The students who presided over the class meeting have turned on the projector and started to preview the PPT effect. Mo Shangqing took two math exercises from his seat, said hello to Pauline in the front row, told her that indoor hygiene was no problem, and then left the classroom through the back door and went to the second floor.
Mo Shangqing's figure just disappeared in the stairwell, and a head appeared at the door of the southern suburb building. The man just glanced at the teaching building, took out his mobile phone and typed a line on the memo: "18:50 and left the classroom and went upstairs."
From six o'clock to seven o'clock in the evening, plus half an hour of news broadcast time, in fact, the evening self-study on Sunday is one and a half hours.
Mo Shangqing struggled out of the inscrutable math problem and stretched himself in the chair. He guessed that the old class might be patrolling at the gate of the class and didn't go down.
He was a little thirsty and left in a hurry when he went out. He forgot to get some water from the water dispenser at the back of the classroom.
As dusk approaches, the last ray of sunshine in the distance gradually disappears. The air outside is not bad Mo Shangqing opened the glass door and went out, feeling cool after the rain.
"The next self-study class is Mr. Wu from Class B. The teacher from Class A has something to do. I have to find a teacher to recite this class." The bell rang at 7: 30, and Liu Yueyan stood up and said.
The calm class immediately fried the pot, and the students in Class B who didn't recite the new concept to the teacher immediately took out their books and started the last minute tutoring.
Mo Shangqing came in through the back door and said to Liu Yueyan, who was standing at the back of the classroom to receive water, "Brother Hu, I urged endorsement again."
The class representative smiled and shook his head helplessly. "Then you see, this English teacher urges it every day."
Just after the bell rang for half a minute, many students in the class began to get up and go out. Mo Shangqing saw that Du's seat was empty, so he walked down the aisle. There is still no backpack on the back of the chair
"Is Xiaoqi back tonight?" He leaned over and asked his deskmate Du.
"No, I haven't seen her tonight."
"Where will she go?" He asked himself. Several figures passing by the front and back doors made him subconsciously look back. "Will it be related to that Xu Jialun?"
In the western suburbs, at dusk.
The white Porsche is parked on the asphalt road with little traffic, and there are few cars on the spacious provincial road. Du didn't go to night lessons today, so he drove a sports car to meet someone.
Inside the fence on one side of the road, there are large and small factories with different functions. Du Xiaoqi walked down the flat asphalt pavement, and there was a gentle ramp in front of the gate of the winery. On the big signboard in front of the door, the words "Yushan Winery" are written in red paint.
Looking at Du's high-profile brand-name clothes, the gatekeeper asked weakly, "Miss, who are you looking for?"
"I'm looking for your boss." Without looking up, she said simply. Then before she stopped, a frustrated voice came from behind her: "Miss, our boss ... wants to make an appointment ..."
Yushan winery is much more professional than other wineries in the mall. Distillation room, boiler room and packaging factory have strict and detailed partitions, and each operation area has a special operation manager.
Du is going to the general manager's office. She hasn't come for a long time. She stopped to look at the road signs several times before finding the way.
The office building seems to have been renovated, or indeed it has been renovated.
"This old guy has made a lot of money recently." Du Xiaoqi went upstairs and muttered.
The general manager's office is on the top floor of the third floor. Xiaoqi doesn't care about the strange way the cleaner looks at her. Instead of ringing the doorbell, she knocked at the door directly.
"Who is it?" There came the voice of a middle-aged man, with a lazy and decadent tone.
She ignored it and continued to knock at the door. There were impatient curses in the room, followed by slow footsteps.
The moment the door opened, the people inside saw Du's face as cold as a frozen eggplant.
"Du ... Teacher Du ..." His tongue seemed to be tied, and at that time he said something inappropriate.
"Boss Ann, I see you have been doing well recently." Du Yi stepped into the door, and the boss immediately took two steps back. "The office has been decorated. Do you need to make an appointment to see you? " There is a thorn in her words.
Boss An's face turned red and white. "That's the following guy don't understand. They didn't recognize Miss Du. Too rude, too rude ... "
Du went in and sat behind the desk in the seat belonging to boss Ann.
Ann boss bowed their heads and stood in front of the desk, embarrassed smile.
"I called you, why is it empty?" Xiaoqi opened the phone records and waved the phone.
Boss An pretended to have an epiphany and quickly explained, "I changed my mobile phone number last month. Look at my memory, I forgot to inform you. "
Du felt that his face was a little disgusting. "It had better be." She said.
"Miss Du, who do you want to see me?" Boss Ann knows that she won't come to her house for nothing.
"Sit down." She raised her chin and said.
Boss Ann is sitting in the chair opposite her.
"Is there a problem with the counties and cities under the jurisdiction of the wine merchants and shopping malls I introduced to you at the beginning of the year?" She turned her cell phone in her right hand and crossed her legs.
"No problem, no problem. Thanks to Miss Du, they always buy in large quantities and have a good business. " Ann's boss was juryman and squeezed out a few wrinkles.
Du's eyes stayed on the solid wood desktop with deep color and smooth as a mirror. "In a few days, an acquaintance of mine will come to you to get a batch of finished wine."
"Good say good say, miss du, let the following people do this little thing, and you personally ..."
"He is from South Shili Street." She interrupted boss Ann's flattery.
He paused and stammered. "South ... South Shili Street, isn't that ... strictly from the wine merchants?" He asked cautiously.
"That's why I came to you." Xiaoqi put her mobile phone back in her pocket, straightened up and continued: "My friend's wine shop has had some problems recently. I can't buy it from a strict wine merchant, so I will let him find you."
"Since I am a friend of Miss Du, I will send this batch of wine for free." Boss Ann is very generous.
"How to collect money, how to collect it, business matters, don't say so much." Du's tone is very cold. "I only have one request. The wine you sold to my friend must be real wine. The year and appearance are not wrong. "
"Don't worry, it's natural." Ann boss immediately replied.
The air conditioner is only 20 degrees, and Xiaoqi feels a little cold.
"This matter is between you and me." Du ordered a small table with his hand, and his attitude was very serious.
"Don't worry, no third person will know." Boss An is earnest.
"When you settle accounts, don't count them in." She said.
Du's caution makes sense.
Controlling the purchase channels of second-hand wine merchants is related to Yan's interests in Nanshili Street. If it's just a personal feud between Yan and Yan, Yan Tianyi won't step in, but if it involves the interests of Yan's family, he will never let go.
She's fine. If Yanshi found out about it and investigated afterwards, the Du family would apologize at most, and they wouldn't dare to do anything with her. Mo Shangqing and Yi Long have no backers, and Yan's family won't let them go easily for her sake.
Boss An has been sending Du to the door of the winery. He said a lot of flattering words along the way, but Xiao Qi didn't listen to a word.
"It's nothing if you change your mobile phone number." She walked quickly ahead. "Don't be clever, or what business will be found out?"
"No, no, where can I go?" Boss An is short, so it is a little difficult to catch up with Du.
"Well, that's it." Du stopped outside the gate and turned to say, "Remember what I said."
Boss Ann kept nodding.
The young security guard who just stopped Xiao Qi looked puzzled at his boss and bowed to a little girl.
"Take your time." Boss Ann beckoned. He didn't look back until the white Porsche drove out for dozens of meters.
"What are you looking at?" He pinched a little brother, and the doorman stared blankly and walked back to the factory with his hands behind his back.
Mo Shangqing opened his eyes and saw the light reflected from the ceiling. He wanted to know what time it was, so he got up and looked at his mobile phone.
Han Zhen is still studying under the bed, and the desk lamp on the desk is covered with a cloth, so as not to affect other roommates' sleep. Mo Shangqing's action attracted Han Zhen's attention.
"Haven't slept yet." Mo Shangqing whispered, his eyes in a trance.
"Let's talk about it later." Han Zhen replied.
Mo Shangqing got out of bed and went to the bathroom. There are no aunts in the dormitory corridor, and the mobile phone shows the time 12: 15.
He saw Du's QQ message: "I will go back to school tomorrow, don't read it." The news came half an hour ago, when he was already asleep. When he came back to lock the door, he patted Han Zhen on the shoulder. "Go to bed early, Professor."
"Du Xiaoqi didn't seem to come back all night," said the roommate, turning his head.
Mo Shangqing stood in front of the ladder with a glass in one hand. "She has something at home, please ask the professor to care." He said with a smile.
As soon as he lay down, Mo Shangqing remembered another thing: the news of Cheng Muyao had not been returned.
He sat up against the wall, put his hands on his cheeks and took a deep breath. A very simple thing, unconsciously dragged on for two days.
He doesn't want to delay any longer. Procrastination is a disease that must be cured. So he decisively opened Cheng Muyao's QQ dialog box and typed a line: "My mother agreed to go to Shanghai."
"Do you think readers will be annoyed if I write these trivial things about life?" Mo Shangqing intends to use more than half a page to tell the story before the flag raising, but he is not sure how to write it so as not to make readers feel bored.
Duan knocked on the table with a pen, thoughtfully, and spoke again after a while.
"Do you know Hemingway's iceberg theory?" She asked.
Mo Shangqing shook his head. I don't know.
The girl straightened up and continued: "The general meaning of' iceberg theory' is to show one-eighth of the external world and let readers know the thoughts and connotations of the remaining seven-eighths."
"So you mean, it's better to keep it simple?" He asked.
"I'm not sure whether this theory is suitable for you. Deleting most adjective adverbs is very risky. " Duan told the truth.
"Of course, I don't know if it will be another disaster to describe the trivial things in life at length." She continued.
"I have read Hugo's book, and he seems to have used tens of thousands of words to describe the sewers in Paris." The crimson cover of Notre Dame de Paris appeared in Mo Shangqing's mind. He spent two months studying the original French version of the book.
"The key is whether you can restore the scene." Duan wiped her hands with a wet tissue. She was hot and dry after sitting in the coffee shop for a long time. "If you are sure that's the case, and you can make readers believe and immerse themselves in it, then there is no need to make a long speech."
On Monday, July 9, 2007, the weather in Shangcheng Foreign Language School was fine.
"We will postpone for two minutes and finish this argumentative paper with parallel argument," said the Chinese teacher, and rang the bell for the second class. Several boys eager to run out of the classroom sat back in their seats.
Today is Monday. As usual, the school will hold a flag-raising ceremony in the playground. However, Miss Li in the Chinese class is a lady in her late sixties. She not only speaks slowly, but also has a hypnotic rhythm in class. She often drags her feet in order to finish the class.
The monitor and Sports Commission Kong Jingwei seem a little anxious. They will be criticized if they are late for the flag-raising ceremony.
It was not until the footsteps and noise in the corridor drowned out the voice of the Chinese teacher that she hastily announced the class was over.
"Hey, Shang Qing, you still want to raise the flag, right?" Teacher Li sat in front of the podium, carefully sorting out the pages, while Mo Shangqing just went to the podium and explained the task to the team leader on duty.
"yes." He answered with a smile.
Du stood up and went out unhurriedly. She bypassed Mo Shangqing from the back row and tugged at his arm.
As soon as Mo Shangqing explained the matter to the shift leader, he turned to Du and asked, "What's the matter?"
"Don't go when the flag is raised in the future. Stay in the classroom. I have something to tell you. " Her hand holding his sleeve didn't let go until he nodded in agreement.
Under the urging of Kong Jingwei, everyone in the classroom left in less than three minutes. The Chinese teacher is still packing at the desk.
Kong Jingwei took the class card and smiled at Mo Shangqing as he passed the front door.
"Sir Zhong, I won't go. She is not feeling well today. " Mo Shangqing also looked at him with a smile.
Kong Jingwei closed the door when he left.
"Let's go out for a walk." Mo Shangqing suggested.
Du Xiaoqi followed him out the back door. Obviously, it is inappropriate to talk about pubs in front of Mr. China.
From time to time, some students ran downstairs, and there were more than two minutes before the flag-raising ceremony. They are going to be late.
The two men went outside the south building, and Du hugged him from behind and tied his arms together.
Mo Shangqing stood still, and he felt the warm scent on his back.
"If you hug me like this again, my hand will lose consciousness." He said with an angry smile.
Du let go, patted him on the back and came to him.
"No matter what I do for Du Jia, Du Ji thinks I meddle, but without me, is there any Du Jia in South Shili Street now?" She took Mo Shangqing's hand and held it tightly. "In this world, only you and your sister understand me."
"What happened to your father?" He knew that something must have happened behind him.
"Du know the tavern's plan, privately blame me for helping you, saying that it would destroy the contract with Yan. But you must know that Yan Tianyi signed the alliance at the gate when my father was seriously ill. " Her palms are sweating, cold sweat.
"You should be more wary of yan family. Your father is young and capable. But it's different now. The old man is getting worse and worse, and your sister can't share too much for you. " Mo Shangqing looked back. It seems that the Chinese teacher hasn't left yet.
"Yan home also does not have a fuel-efficient lamp. Yan Tianyi is much more experienced than me. You see, during his years in the mall, Yan's family flourished and our river became worse and worse. " Du let go, looking a little depressed. Mo Shangqing seldom sees her like this. "After hearing about Yan Tianyi's request that day, I felt that Yan Parr was really just a little trouble."
"What did Yan Tianyi ask for?" He asked.
"He asked for a thorough investigation of nightclubs and bars in South Shili Street. If fake wine is found, it will be dealt with strictly. " Du Xiaoqi looked up at him.
"He has no right to do so? That's your territory. " Mo Shangqing just finished, and she interrupted him.
"But Du Fu agreed." She said.
Mo Shangqing has a strange face. He really didn't understand what was wrong with Du Fu's plan, so he did such a thing.
"Yan Tianyi first controlled almost all buyers in South Shili Street. This was a few years ago. At that time, I thought it was wrong, so I asked Zhou Bo to pay more attention. Now it is nominally a thorough investigation of fake wine, but in fact it wants to catch the rest of our wine merchants. He informed his own manufacturer in advance, but he gave us a surprise attack. The meaning of drunkenness is not in wine. " She kept talking for a long time.
The Chinese teacher just came out of the classroom and heard the sentence "The drunkard's sake is not wine" and whispered "I care about mountains and rivers".
"Those merchants who are found to have fake wine will go to the wine merchants in Yan Jia to purchase goods, and you will have no business." Mo Shangqing followed her words.
"If Du Fu had half your IQ, Du Jia wouldn't be like this." She said angrily.
Mo Shangqing did not answer. He looked at the corridor leading to the experimental building, with sunshine in the middle and darkness at the end. Du Ji had a youthful life, even a high-spirited teenager.
Footsteps came from the stairs, and they walked back. Du didn't care. She unscrewed the handle of the back door, only to find that he was smiling at it.
"Why are you here?" Mo Shangqing has some accidents.
"Help the teacher deliver things." Cheng Muyao said with a smile.
Du stepped back two steps and looked at Cheng Muyao with four eyes. The most embarrassing thing is Mo Shangqing.
"You should know who the other party is, but I'd better introduce it formally." He said slowly.
"This is Du, we have been together for five years; This is Cheng Muyao, the new president of the Chamber of Commerce. "
"I know you." Xiaoqi's tone is very cold, but her mouth is smiling. "We should have known each other long ago. You are a celebrity in the school. " She got a sentence and was caught off guard.
Just as Mo Shangqing was thinking about what words to use to draw a circle, a figure appeared in his field of vision.
I'm afraid Xu Jialun didn't expect to meet Mo Shangqing, Du and Cheng Muyao at the same time.
Walking along the cloister to the southern suburb building, he looked down at his mobile phone. It's flag-raising time, so no one should stay in the teaching building, at least he thinks so.
It was not until he found that the three people standing at the back door of Class 1, Grade 2 were almost in Moshangqing and could not turn back.
Cheng Muyao also saw Xu Jialun. She wanted to say hello, but she found that the other person seemed to avoid herself on purpose, so she did.
Mo Shangqing and Du both know it.
Xu Jialun passed by them, and Mo Shangqing said slowly to Cheng Muyao, "There is something urgent in the pub. I will discuss this matter with Xiao Qi in class. "
He saw Xu Gulun gently back to a brief nod and made up his mind.
Du doesn't know why he mentioned the pub at this juncture. Didn't he recognize who it was? Definitely not. But Mo Shangqing must have done it for a reason, and she has no doubt about it.
"What should I do? We can't buy goods from those second-hand dealers, and we can't buy fake wine next time. " Mo Shangqing was in a hurry and her voice was very high.
They sit in the front row at the door of the classroom. While speaking, Mo Shangqing kept staring at the door.
"But at this rate, you won't be able to open it for at least two months." Du Xiaoqi replied.
"You can say hello to the chamber of commerce. They will not lose face. " He saw a shadow from the sunshine under the door, and the shadow stopped here, motionless.
Mo Shangqing's forefinger drooped his lips, and Du kept his mouth shut.
He stood up and walked to the front door, holding the doorknob in his left hand. These movements are silent. He smiled at Xiao Qi, then twisted his wrist and slammed the door open.
Xu Jialun is posted at the door of Class 1, Grade 2, listening to them. Unexpectedly, the door opened without warning. His center of gravity was unstable and he almost fell at the door.
Du Xiaoqi crossed his legs and looked at what was happening in front of him.
Mo Shangqing stepped back half a step, and Xu Jialun almost hit himself.
After a pause, Xu Jialun realized that the conversation just now was a trap. Now, he dare not look Mo Shangqing in the eye. "Well, the students will check the hygiene." When he said this, Mo Shangqing almost laughed.
"Students should check their hygiene, which should be before the third class." He took out his mobile phone and pretended to look at the time. "The national flag is still rising, and my duty team has not come back yet."
"Sorry, I made a mistake." Xu Gulun said, and turned to go, but was stopped by Mo Shangqing.
"Knowing me for so long, you really don't know that I am a working committee?"
Xu Jialun stopped, but did not look back.
Mo Shangqing leaned against the door, glanced at each other lightly, and then said lightly, "Don't worry, I know who is behind you, and I can't help you. But when you follow us, can you not be so obvious? " Leave Xu Gulun standing in situ, turn back to class and close the door.
"You have another story to tell." Mo Shangqing smiled and looked at Du who was almost laughing.
"I knew Yanpal wouldn't have any advanced means." She said.
Du is wearing a pair of leather pants today, and her legs look slender. Mo Shangqing has been busy with other things all morning and just found out that she has changed into new clothes.
He put his hand on the table in front of Du and looked down at her. "So, what's the next step?"
She took an envelope from her pocket and held it against his chin. "Yushan winery, looking for Ann boss. It has an address, a phone number and my signature on it. "
"Listen to the sound of the sea crying ~ sigh who was hurt again …"
Zheng Rui began to record songs as soon as he returned to his dormitory these days, saying that he was going to participate in the campus singer contest. As long as he starts singing, no one in the dormitory can speak loudly.
Mo Shangqing opened the drawer and tore open a packet of crispy noodles. The restaurant is full tonight, and there are long queues of students waiting for dinner. If they are two minutes late, they will miss it.
Du is talking with in a private group. She exposed the newly bought YSL lipstick suit, which attracted the envy of several girls.
"You are so high-profile, you can envy the girls to death." Mo Shangqing teased her by private letter.
"It is said that YSL will have a new style in autumn and winter, and I plan to buy it at buy buy." Du Xiaoqi answered irrelevant questions and only cared about his lipstick.
"What do you say I pull Cheng Muyao into the group?" He asked.
This question really touched Du's sensitive nerves. "no!" She answered.
Mo Shangqing can imagine the "frustration" behind her screen. "Are you so jealous? I have nothing with her. "
"I think you two will have it sooner or later." Du's mind is very sensitive, and she has long noticed something fishy about these two people.
"At that time, please come to the wedding reception?" He repaired another knife.
Du made a string of ellipsis, and then said simply, "Do you want to piss me off?"
This group of people were silent for a long time. Du Zheng was too busy chatting with Mo Shangqing privately to ask some curious girls about the price and color number.
"Is your sister's birthday coming soon?" He looked at the date and remembered that at this time in previous years, Dujia Hotel should have been preparing for the birthday party.
"My sister didn't let me go this year, saying that I should concentrate on my studies." Du Xiaoqi answered him. "This Wednesday, the same place."
"I have a bold idea." MoShangQing corners of the mouth, typing said.
Xiaoqi sent a "?" .
"I want Brother Long to go." He said.
Generally, there is no invitation to this kind of private gathering, because it is an activity of a small circle, and outsiders know little about it and no one will disturb it.
"I think so, as long as your family Yi Long is willing to come." Du doesn't think he has the courage to come uninvited.
"Then let's make a bet and see if Brother Long can go." Mo Shangqing is also curious about this question, but he has confidence in himself. "I bet he will go."
Chapter 14: Birthday Party
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