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Extra Story 1-Zheqing Chapter-Reality

"return"

What is the process from birth to death?

The electrocardiogram machine issued a sharp alarm sound, the baseline was jittery, thin and dry, stretched and straightened a little bit, the relatives were crying, the sphincter was relaxed, and the white cloth was covered.

Zhe Qing stood in front of the hospital bed, stretched out her right hand, and was holding it weakly by a withered hand full of age spots.

This hand protruded from the loose cuff of the hospital gown. It had a large skeleton and knotted veins. Peeping in from the cuff, the flesh of the upper arm was incomplete. It was scratched by shrapnel decades ago, leaving scars.

Zhe Qing has very complicated emotions towards this person.

his grandpa.Zhe Nianzong.

On the first day he returned to China, he was taken to the main residence of the Zhe family.

Zhe Nianzong was waiting for him in the recliner in the study room on the second floor. A macaw with crisp fur was walking on his lap. Seeing someone coming in, the beast vigilantly shook its head and flew to its own crossbar.

When Zhe Qing came in, Zhe Nianzong didn't say a word, just scratched his eyes silently, the golden silk pearl in his hand stopped for a moment, and then continued to sip and turn it in a regular and appropriate manner.

"Grow up." Zhe Nianzong said suddenly, his voice was unsteady, making people feel tense for no reason.

Zhe Qing didn't know how to answer, she nodded slightly, and stared at Zhe Nianzong's mouth.

"You...cough, cough, cough, cough." Zhe Nianzong was about to say something when he was interrupted by a rapid and violent cough. Zheqing glanced at the table and connected the cup on it. The cup holder was brought over, Zhe Nianzong took it, and drank it tremblingly, and it took a long time to breathe before he calmed down.

The parrot didn't know what stimulated it, and suddenly tilted its head, staring down with black eyes, swooped down from a high place and landed on the green shoulder, and yelled deafeningly in his ears: "Come! Come!"

Zhe Qing's heart skipped a beat, but he still didn't show his face or dodge, just took the cup and put it back on the table, then looked at the old man with a flat gaze.

"Among these children, you are the most like him." Zhe Nianzong saw that he was stable, his face relaxed a little, he raised his hand, motioning him to sit down. "I bought this bird when he was five years old. His life is hard. My son died, but this thing is still alive and well."

Before Zhe Qing came, she knew something about the situation of the Zhe family, and knew that what she was talking about should be Zhe Nianzong's eldest son who died young.He also vaguely understood the reason why the old man brought him back to his family. The younger generation of direct relatives were unreliable, so he reluctantly called him, an illegitimate child, to support the situation.

It was Zhe Nianzong's second son who brought him back, his biological father Zhe Jun, whose wife died last year, dared to take his son back this time.Zhe Jun smiled very much at the eldest son.He knew that his two younger sons who had been pampered since childhood were unreliable, and the two elders in the family would die sooner or later, so he quickly hugged the thigh of the eldest son, no matter what kind of mother his mother is, as long as the son is useful.

Zhe Nianzong ignored him, laughed ho ho ho, and continued: "When I die, this thing will be entrusted to you to raise."

"This bird thief is very slippery, and he recognizes people. Children of your generation, he saw one bite, the third child—the three girls of your uncle Yao, who was bitten by him, dare not go up to the second floor. Good boy, good and bad Terrific." Zhe Nianzong didn't know what to think of, and his face became kind. "Your father owes it the most. The two little beasts he gave birth to are not as good as this bird. They are very noisy."

What a clever mind Zhe Qing immediately understood the old man's intentions.

Zhe Nianzong asked him to fight for this big family, to be loyal, and to be grateful.

They are all a family. You come back to help the family and let them continue to live comfortably.

Zhe Qing guessed right.

The Nanyang Zhe family is said to be an old-fashioned family, but in fact, its roots are already on the verge of collapse. If there is no young head of the family to try their best to break through, and the old man and aunt give up their hands, the family will fall apart.When Zhe Qing came back, he followed Zhe Yuan to learn from the beginning. Zhe Nianzong dragged his sick body and took him to make contacts one by one. After five or six years of hard work, he slowly figured out some business skills.Fly around the world with my sister-in-law every day, and learn languages ​​​​all night if the jet lag doesn't make it up; lead the team to work on projects worth tens of billions, and go down to drink with big clients in person.

He remembered once drinking with a client in Lithuania who was engaged in genetic engineering drugs. After drinking for five hours, he finally grabbed the toilet in the private room and pinched his throat with his fingers, not daring to spit out.The hobbies of men in the world are nothing more than a few, drinking, smoking, making money and having sex.Most of the customers' drinking sessions are with them to the end, and there is still a second session, so find a comfortable private club to enjoy.

At first, Zheqing hated this kind of thing very much, but his sister-in-law taught him that he must follow the client, even if he didn't like it, he had to blend in, and no matter what, he couldn't pretend to be high-spirited to others.It's a trivial matter whether the business is negotiated or not. If you offend a customer like this, if there is another matter in the future, a group of people in the circle will never look at you again.

Zhe Qing played with them.They play with women, he also holds one on his lap, bends over to light a cigarette for others, his smiling eyes try to be sincere; the customer has a unique sexuality, he finds something pleasing to send over, and chats with people From time to time, he can discuss the inner details without changing his face, just like an old man in the circle.

When the customer resources gradually accumulated in his hands, the reputation of the young master of the Zhe family also spread.Notoriously good at playing, he is not even inferior to his two incompetent elder brothers, and he is indeed able to take care of things. The big and loose family of the Zhe family was propped up from the soil by a junior like him. Strange things in the circle.People talk about his shameful background, but they also use him to educate their younger generations.

Wu Chuyi broke contact with Zheqing after returning from studying abroad.Her naive girlish dream was smashed to pieces by this man.What she likes is the spotless and perfect image in her memory, Zheqing now broke her fantasy.She spent her entire youth pursuing this fantasy, and her determination, which could not be defeated by her family's opposition, was easily broken by Zheqing.Her heart was complicated, and she even had an illusion that Zhe Qing did this on purpose, to make her give up on purpose, and to use the cruelest way to be categorical, leaving no way out.

Zhe Qing was too cruel.He is ruthless to others and even more ruthless to himself.

Zhe Qing remembers Yan He and Yan Shen.The methods of these two people are indeed famous. When they fell into their hands, half of their lives were almost lost.When meeting these two people at a private gathering, Zhe Qing still extended her right hand to shake hands with them.

The two looked up, and their faces were instantly pale.Zhe Qing didn't make things difficult for them, and even had a drink with them after the party.

After drinking for three rounds, my eyes are hot and my ears are hot.Yan He has spent his whole life in the elite circle, offended many people, but he is still able to live well, which is inseparable from his keen political sense.Zhe Qing asked a question, and he answered, explaining everything about that year, and even revealing the secrets of Yu Wei and the young master of the Shen family.Yan Shen followed his brother, and exposed Shen Sirong and himself asking for a sexual abuse video.

There was no emotion on Zhe Qing's face.Yan Shen broke out in a cold sweat, trying to restrain his trembling hands.He was already starting to despair, but Zhe Qing suddenly smiled at him, poured him a glass of wine herself, and raised the glass to clink glasses with the two of them.

He knew Shen Sirong.

When the video of Zheng Xiaozhou was leaked nine years ago, he always felt that things were not that simple.At first, I suspected that it was Yu Wei, but after thinking about it, I felt it was impossible, and it was even more impossible for Wu Chuyi. After a lot of elimination, I decided to start with the website where the video was originally uploaded, but I couldn't find out why.At that time, Zheng Xiaozhou's social relationship with him was relatively simple, and offending people was nothing more than an emotional matter. After returning to China, he carefully checked Zha Yuwei's affairs and found out his relationship with Shen Sirong.

And now...it's all connected.The video of Zheng Xiaozhou and him in the hotel was sent by Shen Sirong to Twitter.The origin of everything.For more than ten years, it has been the source of nightly nightmares like maggots attached to bones.

He has been staring at Wan Zhong International for more than three years.The Shen family's family business, since Shen Wanzhong's death eight years ago, has been suffering from financial scandals.The China Securities Regulatory Commission has filed several cases for investigation, but Wanzhong International has always been able to defend successfully at the last moment. Since Shen Sirong took over the company, the financial data has been improving with each passing day, and it seems that everything is back on track.

Zhe Qing always felt that there was something wrong with the company, and used some unsightly means to obtain the company's internal financial statements.He has a background in finance, so he doesn't know much about these things, but he has accumulated a lot of network resources over the years, and he immediately thought of the founder of MW who he had worked with before.The two had a meal, and Zhe Qing briefly explained the purpose of their visit.This man who has shorted [-] Chinese stocks for ten years since its establishment admires Zheqing very much, and he admires Zheqing's economic sense.

He started his business by short-selling, and it has not been a day or two since he has been eyeing Wanzhong International, and the field research period has been as long as one and a half years.This kind of international trading company has huge profits. Once the attack is successful, no matter what the management does to save the market, the market doubts will not be dispelled. The stock price will plummet and the trading will be suspended for a long time. MW will easily earn a large amount of net profits from securities lending.

On the night when the short-selling report was publicly released, Wanzhong International’s stock price plummeted, and its market value shrank rapidly.The board of directors of the group launched a three-month emergency independent investigation, but encountered Waterloo in the middle. It was exposed that there was a long-term large-scale illegal transaction in the Nigeria-S city agricultural product trade line, involving a large number of smuggled imports of prohibited psychotropic drug raw materials.

The news has not been published yet, and the sea area involved was immediately quarantined and blocked. In order to prevent the information from spreading exponentially, the local government set up an investigation team overnight to conduct a systematic investigation of the senior management of Wanzhong International. The next day, [-] directors resigned collectively, and the shareholders involved None were spared.As the ringleader of the crime, Shen Sirong was arrested according to law, all his property was confiscated, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment according to law.

Zhe Qing always felt that something was a little strange. The timing of this news came out very coincidentally, and it was very likely that someone was helping in the dark.

On the day Shen Sirong was arrested and imprisoned, Zhe Qing personally brought someone there to give him some advice, and gave him some indispensable care in the men's prison.When I came out, I met a man wearing a pair of sunglasses. His figure was much thinner than he remembered, his complexion was very pale, and there was a shallow scar from the bridge of his nose to his brow bone.

Zhe Qing stopped in his tracks, and he almost tried his best not to swing out his clenched fists.

Memory is like a muddy swamp, in which there are countless maggots curled up, with a ring of small teeth, tearing off his flesh, revealing an empty skeleton.

The filth that cannot be removed even after surgery.A lifetime of hidden scars.Self-esteem with broken bones.Unspeakable despair.

"I'm back." Yu Wei didn't seem to sense his anger, and said to herself.

Zheqing's fist swung out at once, the assistants on both sides had no time to stop it, Yu Wei didn't dodge, was hit in the face by a punch, the sunglasses flew far away, slid on the ground for a long distance, hit the corner of the wall and cracked .

The corners of Zhe Qing's eyes were red, and he was about to land his next punch, but he stopped abruptly in mid-air.

his eyes.

Yu Wei was slightly taller than him, and his eyelids were half drooping at the moment, his cheekbones were red, swollen and bruised from the beating.His eyes had nowhere to fall, they looked a little distorted, hollow, not like a living person.

...or, blind.

Seeing him in a daze, Yu Wei raised the corners of his lips and said to himself, "He did it."

Zhe Qing slowly raised her head and stared at him.

"Isn't it cruel?" Yu smiled, his eyelids drooping, "He cares about you very much."

"It's always been like this."

Zhe Qing was silent, his eyes were very light, but his eyelashes trembled uncontrollably.

"You don't dare to see him, do you?" Yu Wei said, "It's useless to see him, he has someone he likes now."

"Someone I like very much." Yu added with a smile, "Are you going to disturb him?"

"Get out." Zhe Qing was quiet for a while, then said with a blank expression.

"I'm not reconciled. I'm dreaming that he's been waiting for you, right? I never asked about him after I came back, and I'm afraid of hearing things I don't want to hear, right? Is it you, Zhe Qing?" Yu Wei Wei tidied up her cufflinks in an orderly manner, and asked word by word.

"Actually, it's already useless. What are you doing lying to yourself? Is it interesting?" Yu Wei said, "He has already walked out, and you stay where you are forever, holding those pitiful memories and acting affectionate. Is it interesting?"

Zhe Qing gradually came to his senses.The person in front of him was clearly mentally abnormal. He babbled on for a long time, seemingly sympathizing with others, but subconsciously he was questioning himself. Looking at this person, he suddenly felt powerless.

It would be too tedious to punch someone who is already kneeling.

Zheqing even felt that this scene was ridiculous. A person who was so high and mighty before had come to such a fate now. Ten years ago, Zheqing might still feel fear and anger towards him. Now—now Zheqing just feels Ridiculous, what is there to take revenge on such a person?Is there room for a little more desperation?

Wearing the best outfit, living in the best house, holding the monstrous power in his hands, countless followers have gone forward to serve him, but there is no desire to live in his eyes, such a sick soul, The hungry and red-eyed mad dog was locked in a promise. He wanted to bite and drink blood, but he could only circle his tail day after day.

Zhe Qing didn't look at him again, and walked out with her head down.

He got a call from the hospital.

A month later, he got his share of the inheritance.The coveted proportion of shares made him, the illegitimate son, firmly grasp it in his hands.

All of a sudden, the Zhe family swarmed up, trying their best to curry favor with him, the young head of the family.Even the cowardly and reticent uncle came forward and tried to have a little family relationship with him.

Those who come to ocher green are not rejected.He is notoriously tactful in dealing with people, and has a very high emotional intelligence. He wins a friend with a few words, and a few drinks can give people the illusion that they have been friends with him for half a lifetime.He doesn't talk much, but he is very good at listening. He speaks honestly and insightfully, his eyes appear sincere, and his friends snowball more and more.Zhe Qiming loves to be arty in his bones, and Zhe Qing followed his temperament to look at antiques and appreciate calligraphy and painting.

After going back and forth, Zhe Qiming felt that the time was right, and one night, the uncle and nephew drank some wine, and the atmosphere was just right, so he took out a small photo from the interlayer of his pocket watch. It was a very old photo, which looked like it was secretly taken in a corner. , cherishing the past with both hands, and complaining about the pain with tears.

Zhe Qiming spoke emotionally, complaining that his wife couldn't give birth to a son and didn't let him take back the illegitimate child, and didn't notice any strangeness in Zhe Qing's expression.

"Your son?" Zhe Qing raised the face in his hand.

With a slight smile on Zhe Qiming's face, he stretched out his finger and pointed at the surface of the photo, before Zhe Qing avoided it without a trace.He didn't notice at all, and said with a smile: "This child looks like his mother, and he doesn't look like me at all. For a boy, his appearance is still too voluptuous."

"What do you know..." Zhe Qing looked at the photo in a daze, and the words popped out of his heart when he didn't pay attention, and felt a little annoyed after realizing it.

Zhe Qiming was a little deaf, but still said to himself: "This is a photo of him when he was three years old. I asked someone to bring it back, and his mother didn't let me see him. This kid just follows our old Zhe's family, with thin earlobes. .”

Looking at the photo with ocher blue eyes, his heart was terribly irritable, as if being scorched by a cluster of flames, but words came out of his mouth unconsciously.

"can."

Zhe Qiming raised his head slowly, his voice trembling: "...what?"

Zhe Qing lowered his eyelids, and unconsciously drew circles on the base of the teacup with his fingers. After a moment of silence, he raised his eyes and said, "I say yes. Next weekend, you will pick him up."

"Okay... okay..." Zhe Qiming was so excited that he couldn't speak easily, and kept wiping his tears with a small white handkerchief. A stone in his heart finally fell to the ground, and he still had a belly to show his loyalty. He didn't say the words, but seeing Zhe Qing in a daze, he swallowed it into his stomach.

He looked hesitantly at his nephew, who was pinching the old photo, motionless, as if noticing his gaze, tightened his fingers pinching the photo, and then said as if nothing had happened: "How many times does he Years?"

Zhe Qiming reported a number, and there was a trace of weirdness on Zhe Qing's face, and he smiled to himself: "He is really a big brother." Zhe Qiming looked at him inexplicably, but Zhe Qing put the photo in his desk drawer, faintly Said: "Do you have a backup there? I will keep this one."

Zhe Qiming said yes, and before leaving, he turned his head and smiled and said, "Your little brother has been cute since he was a child. Now that he comes back, he might be the same as you and taller than me. Maybe even taller than you."

"will not."

"......Um?"

"I must be taller than him."

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