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Meng Liangren has been observing this young man named Cao Xuefeng for a long time.

He didn't go to school, he probably graduated from junior high school, he was very good at telling stories, and from time to time, a few familiar names of Meng Liang people would come out of his mouth.

Meng Liangren didn't pay attention to it at first, but after listening to it a few times, he immediately remembered where these names came from.

"Xie Fang Ji" was originally the plot setting of a large-scale online game of the same name in China. Later, it was written as a novel by the author, and then it was filmed as a costume drama. When Meng Liangren fell into despair, it was the time when this drama was on the air. The film crew made a lot of publicity, and it became popular in the streets and alleys, and it has almost become a masterpiece for many years.

Meng Liangren was worried about his livelihood at that time, so he naturally didn't pay attention to these things.But he lived in an inferior rented house, with poor sound insulation as if a hole had been punched, and his neighbors forced him to listen to TV dramas every night, because he didn’t know how many sleepless nights he had endured, so of course he was deeply impressed.

So the author of the novel was later accused of stealing other people's works, and he knew something about it.

Steal, not plagiarize.Because the whistleblower pointed out that the author took other people's manuscripts as his own and submitted them to a game studio at that time, which is how "Xian Fang Ji" came into being.

This incident was earth-shattering, and finally ended in the denunciation party losing the lawsuit.

Meng Liangren's eyes fell on the plain-looking young man in front of him. He couldn't remember the real name of the official author, and it seemed that his surname was also Cao, but it wasn't "Xuefeng".

In any case, take it as his gamble.

Cao Xuefeng was still a little dazed, looking at the boy who was about his own age in front of him, he was actually a little timid.

After all, the two stood facing each other, like people from two worlds, one was dressed in fresh clothes, fair complexion, handsome eyebrows and eyes, while the other was disheveled, wearing dirty work clothes from the store, and the exposed collar turned white.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Meng Liangren thought that maybe he was too sudden and scared people, so he said softly: "I've noticed you for a long time, you don't have parents, you don't go to school, you only work in your third aunt's shop ,right?"

Cao Xuefeng murmured: "You... pay attention to what I'm doing."

Meng Liangren narrowed his eyes, took a step forward, leaned in front of him and said, "I think the story you told those guests is very interesting, why don't you write it down and publish it?"

Cao Xuefeng was startled: "I..."

Meng Liangren waved his hand and said: "I know what happened before, I just want to ask you, if I provide you with food, lodging, and school, you just need to concentrate on writing down your things, would you like to share with me?" Walk?"

Cao Xuefeng stammered: "Wow, how can such a good thing..."

Meng Liangren smiled, like a wolf trapping a sheep: "Why not, you are so unlucky, it's time for you to come."

"This one……"

"I came suddenly, it's normal if you don't believe me." Meng Liang didn't force him anymore, but took out a note with a string of addresses, his name and school, "Within three days, If you think it through, come to me at this address. If you don't come..."

Cao Xuefeng answered the words naturally: "Just pretend I haven't met you?"

"No." Meng Liangren said, "I'll come to the store to find you."

"..."

He took the note in a daze, squeezed it unconsciously, turned around and kicked the tire of the bicycle, the box lunch on the top layer of the carton was poured out, and the soup spilled on his work clothes, making a mess.

He hurriedly wiped it with his sleeve, and it became more and more dirty. Meng Liangren frowned when he saw this, took off his clean coat and handed it to him, "There's nothing to wipe when it's dirty, just wear this."

Cao Xuefeng waved his hands again and again: "No, no need..."

Meng Liangren didn't know why he contributed his coat. It stands to reason that there is no need to do anything extra, but seeing this person is like seeing himself in a down-and-out situation at that time.

So he threw down a sentence: "If you tell you to wear it, you can wear it." He got in the car that followed and left.

Sitting in the back seat, Meng Liangren saw the stupefied look of the skinny, stick-like boy in the rearview mirror by the car window, smiled and closed his eyes.

Cao Xuefeng stood under the shade of the tree, holding the coat Meng Liangren gave him in one hand, took off his overalls with the other hand, wiped his hands with it, and then put on this clean one, which looked nothing like him. Mismatched jacket.

He packed up the takeaways that had been poured out, and pushed his bicycle back to the store.

The proprietress was sending the guests out with a smile: "Let's go, come again!" Turning to see him, she couldn't help saying: "Why did you come back after you just went out?" Seeing the work clothes drenched in soup in his hand, she exclaimed: "Oh, why are the clothes so dirty? Damn boy, did you dump the takeaway? You don't use your eyes when you do things? The master worked so hard to make it for you to waste..."

"Third Aunt." He hesitated for a moment, interrupted her, his voice was a little hoarse, "I have a cold, I feel a little dizzy, and I can't see the way clearly."

The proprietress looked at him suspiciously: "Are you catching a cold? I don't think it looks like it? A mistake is a mistake, so make excuses..."

Cao Xuefeng parked his bicycle at the door of the store: "I'm very tired, don't I work today? I'm going to sleep."

He has always been obedient and obedient, the proprietress didn't realize it for a while, and said, "What are you doing? The wings are not hard yet, and the third aunt will give you food and salary, and you still..."

Before she finished speaking, the boy had already walked to the next room.

The proprietress froze in place, shook her hands for a while, and said angrily: "It's the wrong way!"

Meng Liangren was very sure, and the facts proved that he was also right. If Cao Xuefeng had grown up and stepped into society, he might not have come to him, but he was still young, and he still had illusions about some things.

Sure enough, on the third day, Cao Xuefeng stood at the gate of Wanxi's high-end residential area with a note in one hand and clean clothes in the other.

Standing at the door, looking at the waxed and clean wooden floor, he was a little hesitant, and Meng Liang found a pair of slippers for him: "Come in."

He shook his head: "No... no, I just came to ask you, do you still count what you said that day?"

Meng Liangren smiled and said, "I said, even if you didn't come, I would still go to you. Isn't this sincerity enough?"

Cao Xuefeng pursed his lips, and stared at him with burning eyes: "Will you provide me with room and board, and send me to school, as long as I finish writing my novel?"

Meng Liangren also answered him seriously: "That's right. But you can't be in Wanxi, you're going to Linchuan, and I'll send you there."

Cao Xuefeng was stunned, then gritted his teeth and said, "Okay. I'll let you make arrangements."

Meng Liangren asked him to go back to clean up and deal with the things that should be dealt with, and then asked him to take the train to Linchuan, and then called Meng Zhe, relying on the relationship of the Meng family in Linchuan No. [-] Middle School to send him to go in.

Meng Zhe frowned habitually, the pen paused on the document page and said, "Talk to Assistant Lin about this and let him handle it."

"Okay." Meng Liangren replied, the two brothers were silent for a while, and Meng Zhe asked, "Are you going to be a senior in high school next semester?"

"Yes."

"Which school do you want to go to?"

"Big A."

Meng Zhe paused, he probably didn't expect him to set the difficulty so high: "Wanxi No. [-] Middle School, C University has an advantage." C University's reputation is no lower than that of A University.

"I want to go back to Linchuan."

The assistant knocked on the door, came in with the documents, and saw her boss on the phone, looking cold, as if it was different from usual, she couldn't tell, but her intuition told her that the boss should be in a good mood.

"It's good if you can put your heart into it."

"Well, I will."

The assistant watched Meng Zhe hang up the phone, looked at her in a cold and serious manner, coughed, and stepped forward to put a stack of things on the table: "Here are the documents you requested. Another hour later, at There is a meeting with people from Songli in the small conference hall on the tenth floor."

"okay."

"It's still..." The assistant looked carefully at his expression, "Ms. Xu Yijun just called and invited you to have lunch with her."

Meng Zhe picked up the information to check, and said, "Don't worry about her."

"Yes." The assistant nodded and was about to go out, but was stopped again: "Wait."

"What else do you want?"

Meng Zhe put down the paper in his hand, pondered for a while, and said, "Tell Songli that the meeting will be postponed until the afternoon, and tell Ms. Xu which restaurant she wants to go to."

The car slowly stopped at the side of the street in front of Ye Zhai, and the woman sitting in the co-pilot smiled and said, "Let's go here."

The slender high heels hit the brick surface, Xu Yijun's face was flushed, as if shy, but also happy: "Today's lunch was very pleasant, thank you, Mr. Meng."

Meng Zhe put his hands on the steering wheel, nodded and said, "As long as you are happy, go in."

Xu Yijun raised her eyes to look at him. She knew how to grasp a man's mind, but Meng Zhe was not the men she had been in contact with before.

But getting the favor of such a man is a sense of accomplishment.

She nodded reservedly with suppressed excitement, turned around and walked towards the Ye family's old house, and the car behind her started to drive away after she was far away.

Back in the house, the servant came out with a fruit plate, saw her and said, "Miss Biao."

Xu Yijun nodded with a smile, and suddenly heard a sneer: "Look at you blooming, you have no shame."

She put away her smile, saw Ye Chan sitting on the sofa, lowered her eyebrows and said, "Cousin."

Ye Chan was furious, and the sarcasm and anger that were usually suppressed burst out: "Hey, why did you look pitiful in front of me? When I was facing Ah Zhe just now, I almost posted it."