Hidden Assassin

The sky was gloomy, and it had been raining since the morning, and it hadn't stopped all morning. From the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, the streets of the whole city were shrouded in endless blue rain, and occasionally there were lightning flashes, and then Then came the sound of thunder.

"Thank you, it's wonderful...you can go back and wait for our call..."

Such a voice resounded in the large and empty room, indicating that it was the scene of a job fair. Dongfang Wan sat by the window, lit a cigarette, took a sip, and then extinguished it in the ashtray in front of her: "Sister Ling, I'm here this morning."

"Okay." The middle-aged woman who presided over the recruitment nodded, took out a document, and the rest of the people were also packing up, looking at Dongfang Wan from time to time, waiting for her instructions, so they dispersed, or they were still there. There is something to do. However, the young female boss obviously didn't think about this at this time. She folded her hands on her chest and faced the heavy rain outside. After a while, she took out a cigarette and lit another cigarette, her right leg raised When the lightning flashed, she raised her head and exhaled a puff of smoke. There was an elegant desolation in that posture, and several male managers showed more or less admiring eyes.

Speaking of which, this female boss is only twenty-two or three years old, but in the past two years from Beijing to Jianghai, she has an unspeakable maturity in doing things. Don't rush forward, formulate perfect work rules and processes, give sufficient resources, and then wait for the company to develop steadily like an organism. None of the flustered or incoherent feel of a typical private company starting out.

When encountering small difficulties, she will jump over step by step, but when encountering big temptations, she will not be tempted. She does not blindly yearn for that kind of rapid development. Doesn't like risky plans, and hates eccentric, performance-hungry members. In the past two years, no less than ten employees who are talented and impetuous because of this have been fired. However, with the development of time, the company has grown like this, steadily developing and encroaching on the market. The trick is that no one can tell. In the final analysis, there are four words: step by step. Some peers with slanted swords are often silently surpassed by it after a moment of bright light.

If the employees talk about it after dinner, most of them just admire the family quality of the big family. After all, for this boss, apart from knowing that she comes from a family, she is beautiful and difficult to approach, the only thing they know is that she hates others for breaking the rules. .

"Everyone go to eat first, take a rest, and come back in the afternoon." Seeing Dongfang Wan's state at this time, after packing up her things. Xu Yiting smiled at everyone and said softly. Knowing the weight of her words, the rest of them greeted each other and walked outside quietly. Xu Yiting went to make a cup of tea, put it in front of Dongfang Wan, then took the cigarette in her hand, and extinguished it in the ashtray.

"I don't like smoking, so pretend to be serious..." She said, took out a white silk scarf from her pocket, and tied it around the other's neck. Taking two steps back, "It looks better this way. You are dressed in black today. Boss Zhao next door saw it. He even came to ask me if my boss is broken in love."

Dongfang Wan sat there, looking down, she was indeed dressed in black today, a black women's coat, a black elegant knee-length skirt, black stockings and black high heels, she couldn't help but laugh. The heel tapped the ground: "I can match it casually. I think it feels good, and the calf looks very long..." He reached out and touched the stockings on the calf. Stand up and look at your own reflection in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, "How about it, I rarely feel good about myself..."

"If you continue like this, sooner or later you will fall in love with yourself." Xu Yiting smiled and shook her head, "Do you know that many people in the company think we are lesbians, and the gamblers are open."

"But you abandoned me, you like my brother." Seeing Xu Yiting's face blushed slightly, she showed a gentle but helpless expression, "I have convinced you, after so many years, even if I have talked with other bosses for a few hundred Wan's business you don't change your face, and you will blush when you talk about my brother. That's it, since you abandoned me, I will punish you to find a handsome guy who can make me fall in love. Let's be sisters, use my brother and You exchange."

"The list is too much." Xu Yiting walked to the table and picked up her notepad, "Let's not talk about the past, just talk about the recent one. On June 28, Boss Tian of Longxing sent roses ninety-nine Duo, invite you to dinner. On the afternoon of June 28th, Ke Jiaan called to invite you to dinner. On June 29th, Lei Qing called as usual. Fang Ming sent a bouquet of flowers. There were further developments that day…”

Xu Yiting read it vigorously, Dongfang Wan frowned, stepped aside and accused: "You are not sincere!"

"But you can't just say you're not interested in these people from the beginning. There are a lot of handsome guys, so you have to give them a chance. Even if it wasn't for these, there were many people who pursued you when you were in school, okay? Although you scared me away a lot ... I also know your theory. Falling in love is a process of showing, selecting and standing out, but you don't like the performance of those people, and you don't like their unique parts. You think the problem is too extreme Oh, it’s impossible for someone to show affection to you, and immediately feel that the final thought in their heart is to push you to the bed to get naked.”

Dongfang Wan took out a cigarette: "That's how it is."

"Although there are some parts, it's not all like this, okay? Besides, if the person I like thinks about such things, then I think it's normal."

"So you're imagining the scene when my brother slept with you in your heart?" Dongfang Wan said casually, lit the lighter, and it was blown out suddenly. When she turned her head, she was greeted by Xu Yiting's blushing face, "ok, ok, I was wrong, but I think it's nothing, but my brother's figure is actually not very good, ugly..."

She turned her head away. Finally lit the cigarette, turned around, the cigarette was snatched by Xu Yiting again. She put it on her lips and sucked it, choked so badly, and then pressed it into the ashtray again, Dongfang Wan smiled: "It's been a long time since I tried it, and you haven't touched this for more than five years..."

"I swore not to touch these lands, but you made an exception..."

Xu Yiting seemed a little bit lost and depressed after being told what was on her mind. In these years, they and Dongfang Road are actually the same school, but the number of times they get together is not that many. At least not enough to meet the concept of friends, Dongfang Road is doing very well in school, and has made several girlfriends who are all high-ranking girls, and we all had dinner together. Although they all ended up breaking up, Dongfang Road never took her Treat it like a very special personal friend. .

Of course, he treats his friends better than his girlfriend—he is that kind of person, never letting anyone around him be despised or neglected. In college, most people still only regard her as Xiaowan's follower. . But he is obviously not like this, because of Xiaowan's relationship, he once said when introducing to others that this is his other sister...

"Nor this one, nor that one. You are stubborn. If you want someone who is unique enough to make you admire, it will be hard to find."

Dongfang Wan laughed: "I don't think there will be. If it was Andy Lau, I would definitely fall in love with him crazily."

"It's true. There was one before, my cousin."

"Which one?" she answered casually.

"Cousin Jiaming."

Dongfang Wan was silent for a moment: "At that time, I couldn't help it. Everyone was in the same class, so I couldn't say out to him. You can't fight back just because I said you like my brother. I like your brother too..."

"But you were the one who compromised in the end. You deliberately built a good relationship with him and invited him out every year..."

"Yes." Dongfang Wan bit her lip, "He even said thank you to me at the end..."

In fact, some things are undeniable. When I got up this morning, I overheard my father on the phone. I didn’t know what happened. My father was shocked. At that time, he said: "How could it be like this? Gu Jiaming is back again..." Maybe it was this sentence that kept her in a low mood all morning. And also heard another message.

"Lingjing is back. I arrived the night before..."

Xu Yiting was stunned: "Then she..."

"She hasn't contacted anyone, but I heard that she has signed a contract with a performing arts company. They decided to promote her... the piano..." Dongfang Wan thought for a while, "She hasn't come back for four years, and now she will definitely investigate your cousin Ming The cemetery, the news of his death, my brother is in Shenzhen now, I would like to call him to inform him."

"Actually... I don't know much about their previous relationship. Lingjing and cousin Jiaming... didn't you say that cousin Jiaming's girlfriend was Shasha?"

"The three of them live together..." Dongfang Wan spread her hands, "It's the most impossible kind of relationship. Jia Ming got terminally ill and broke up with her. As a result, she went to Vienna and didn't come back for four years. She played well with many people, but she didn't contact any of them, as if she had evaporated from the world, and she was really cruel to herself."

There was lightning flashing outside, Xu Yiting looked at the rain outside the window, sighed, and was about to speak when the phone rang, she walked over to answer it: "Hello, Mr. Qin, hello...hehe, of course I remember... Have you arrived yet? Uh huh, you will come to Jianghai soon...it's really great, when is the plane, when the time comes, I...well, and our boss will pick you up...Yes, yes, thanks to these years You take good care of us...Xiaowan is not here now, yes, I will pass on your words to her...what else...Okay, I will write it down...ummm..."

While winking, Xu Yiting was talking on the phone, Dongfang Wan just nodded, quietly looking at the rain outside the window. After a while, she got up and walked out the door, took out her mobile phone and dialed a number.

"Hey, brother, it's me... to tell you something, although you may already know it... Ling Jing came back and arrived home the day before yesterday. I guess she will definitely look for me after seeing Jiaming. I'll give her your phone number Or...well, you come back...the matter over there in Shenzhen hasn't been dealt with yet...well, I got it..."

When the thunder sounded, an elegant and lonely smile was reflected on the window by the corridor...

It's two o'clock in the afternoon. When entering the gate of Ye's Martial Arts Hall, the rain had already lightened a lot, and Julian put away his umbrella. To meet Ye Han who came over.

After a conversation last night, after some inquiries, I probably know that Lingjing once had a sad thing, a boy he liked, and now he died. To be honest, this is indeed a frustrating thing, because you can Take love from anyone to prove your worth, but you can never defeat a dead man.

Knew they were going to the cemetery this morning. So he didn't come until the afternoon, and the door of the room was closed quietly. Duan Jingxian didn't go to work today, with a worried look on her face, and she probably cried too—he probably knew that the boy who died was very close to this family, Treat it as her own child—Lingjing went to the cemetery for a while and then came back. She didn't eat at noon, and Duan Jingxian said twice that it was not easy to send it there.

"Let me carry it over."

He has learned some Chinese in recent years. There was no problem with communication, who knew that the door of the quiet room opened before the meal was brought out after speaking with Mother Ye. She was wearing a white shirt, fluffy summer trousers, and sneakers. The girl's eyes were a little red and swollen. Even with light makeup on, it can be seen clearly, and he looked at the few people in the room lightly. She hesitated for a moment before saying hello: "Dad, Mom... Teacher Julian..."

It's hard to imagine her current mood, and Julian doesn't know the situation in front of the grave today, but in short, she doesn't seem to have a big problem. The voice was still clear, which made the Ye family even more uneasy. Duan Jingxian said: "Lingjing, Jiaming..."

"I'm fine." She breathed a sigh of relief, and at that moment, her whole body trembled until she gritted her teeth, "I don't believe it. I'm going to the prison to ask..."

"But now...there is far away..."

Duan Jingxian wanted to say something else. But Lingjing took the umbrella from the corner of the house and was about to leave, Ye Han waved her hand. It's also good to let her go out to relax. Julian looked at everyone's expressions and said, "I'll see you off. I drove here, and it's still raining outside."

"No need, Teacher Julian..."

"It's okay, I don't have any arrangements for the afternoon, not to mention your current state... It's better to have someone follow, and everyone will be more at ease."

When he said this, his mother also echoed a few words, and then several people walked out of the door, and Lingjing got into the car borrowed by Julian: "Which way?" Lingjing pointed to the front.

The weather outside the window was still gloomy. Although the rain had lightened, there were not many pedestrians on the road. They left the community here under the watchful eyes of the Ye family. Julian said: "The company has already arranged some work for you. , although it started after a while, but I know you have been in a bad mood recently, and you rejected most of them. In fact, it is more difficult for you to start work as soon as you come back, but it might be an opportunity. I don’t know what you were What happened, but... you have to forget about him, because there are still many people who care about you, well, I know this kind of comfort is very old-fashioned... ".

The car drove past the familiar street, with rows of street lights and lights in the shops on the street: "I know he may be very good, so good that even if you have been abroad for four years, you have been thinking about him, rejecting everyone, honestly Said, I have also had such an experience, but in the end... Time told me that the reality is very cruel, because in the final analysis, we are all separate individuals in this world, we have our own, independent memories, there is no such thing as impossible In the case of missing someone, you also have your own memory.”

He sighed: "Maybe we will never be able to have someone, we can only get close to and fit with someone..."

The rain was rustling, Lingjing leaned against the window, did not speak, the car turned two blocks, Lingjing knocked on the window: "Stop here."

"Just here?"

Julian was a little puzzled. After the car stopped, Ling Jing got out of the car and held up an umbrella: "Thank you for taking me out, don't follow me, I'm fine..."

"Hey, what are you doing..."

Lingjing turned around and walked forward. Julian drove the car and followed slowly, talking to the outside, "Come in, where are you going? It's okay for me to take you there, isn't it said that it's far away?"

She walked for a while and entered the platform waiting for the bus. Silently putting away the umbrella and sitting on the long chair, Julian stopped the car. Holding up an umbrella, she went out, walked to her, looked around, naturally knew what was going on here, and spread her hands: "I don't understand..."

The sky was gray, and Ling sat there quietly, looking up at the brightly lit signs on the shops across the street, but Julian couldn't get an answer. He had no choice but to put away the umbrella and sit down beside her. After a long time, he heard Lingjing speak softly.

"no……"

"It's not..."

"Everyone...has their own independent memory, but I don't have one..." The girl said softly, as if she was dreaming, "We...we grew up together since we were young, and we have been together since I probably remembered things... Maybe everyone feels more or less alone, but I don't, never have... He was bullied. I protected him and forced him to call my sister. We went out for a run in the morning and came back together Buying steamed buns to eat, at the beginning he half, I half, then each eat one, go to school, do homework together, I always want him to be like me, life always revolves around him..."

"There are three of us. I, another girl, and him are together like that. When we are happy, we have them. When we are unhappy, we also follow them. We play and sleep together on weekends. Then I didn't understand anything at the time, so happy... Then one day, things happened just like that, there were also three of us, and the children didn't understand anything. After drinking, I got up the next day without wearing anything, feeling flustered. But after all, there are three people together, and then we lived together for several years, living, living..."

"So happy..." She opened her mouth, her voice suddenly became choked up, and she took a breath with difficulty, perhaps because she cried too much these two days, and no tears shed after all, "Of course there are other People, other memories, I've also hung out with my classmates, done other things at one time, but... what's the point? It's only complete when the three of us are together. We're like Children who grew up playing in the mud on a deserted island, they were together when they didn't understand anything, so... only when they are together is complete and normal, everyone has their own memories... yours Do your hands have their own memory? What about your feet, your head... If you suddenly lost them one day, would you feel that this world is the same as before? Can hands and feet exist independently of the body? "

"I went to Vienna to learn piano... that was not my decision, because I believed that he wanted me to do it, so I did it... It doesn't matter how unhappy it is, he made me do it , I want to come back to scold him after I have learned well, no matter what, let me scold him, I can forgive him, whether it is breaking up with me or lying to me, four years alone How, that is not the memory of a person, I thought about it for four years, but when I came back, he said that he was dead... I will not believe it, if I believe it, then what is the point of me, we are one man..."

"I know his character...he is too stubborn, he doesn't want to hurt anyone, he thinks everything for others...he has encountered something that can't be solved, so he doesn't want me to see it...I don't know what he has gone through in the past few years Whatever happens, it will always be found, as long as it is found... as long as it is found..."

At the bus stop, her voice was always soft and soft, not crying, but slightly hoarse. Julian looked at her profile, and listening to all this, suddenly felt that the girl in front of him seemed to be more beautiful than ever before. Attract yourself like a whirlpool. Just when she was about to speak, Ling Jing had already stood up, holding an umbrella, and bowed to him.

"I'm sorry... Teacher, I know that you have helped me a lot in the past few years, and I also know... I have thought about other things. He made me sad and disappointed. When I came back, there was a teacher like you A good person, maybe he will be angry with him, and then I will confess to him... so naive. Teacher, what you said is actually wrong. He is not good, and he may never be proud of his goodness However, he is not handsome and has a weird temper, but no matter what, I am already connected with him, and we are inseparable. I don't care about his strengths and weaknesses... Teacher, you are a good person, thank you You, I don't want to tell you any other sorry..."

With a slight smile on her face, Lingjing turned around and got on the bus.

Julian was stunned for a while, and finally, he drove up to follow...