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midnight.

A violent cough in the next room awakened Fu Chong from his dream. He wiped the cold sweat off his brow in some panic, and turned on the lamp by the bed.He listened to his mother's cough gradually subsiding while pricking up his ears, while looking at the box of plasticine with deep key marks on the bedside table, his eyes were a little numb after panic.

He seemed to see himself in the nightmare again, quietly returning to the hotel after confirming the time for Lin Yuan's meeting, entering Lin Yuan's bedroom, and using the prepared key to open the locked drawer.I don't know if it wasn't matched precisely enough, the key was locked in the lock, but the drawer couldn't be opened no matter what, the sound of the door opening and the man's footsteps came from behind, dripping down on my forehead while squatting on the ground. Cool beads of sweat...

The night outside the window was still so dark, but Fu Chong, who was tossing and turning on the bed, felt that his drowsiness was like the crescent moon in the sky, getting thinner and weaker.

I don't know why, but now I suddenly want to smoke a cigarette, one... Lin Yuan smoked half of the cigarette, let the strong smell of tobacco go straight into his lungs, and force tears from the corners of his eyes, maybe that's the only way, In order to let myself stop these cranky thoughts.Yes, in the room where I lived and moved, moved and lived, in the environment that was unconsciously more familiar than my wedding room, every corner seemed to have a clear imprint, only that The small drawer, like a strange mystery, separates Lin Yuan from the close intimacy in that room.

When he got up in the morning, Fu Chong made breakfast for his mother whose throat suddenly became inflamed after being on fire for the past few days. He tries to save the relationship with Yana.Looking at the sullen and silent father and the coughing mother, he didn't tell them directly that this was irreparable.For myself and Yana, the rift in the relationship seems to be more unfathomable than the Milky Way that separates the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, because the men and women on both sides of the galaxy have two hearts beating in the same direction, and the relationship between myself and Yana , but it looks like the most famous archer in the world shoots a feathered arrow in the opposite direction. You and I only hear that the bowstring is still shaking in the wind, but we don't know where the arrow is going, but we have already gone our separate ways.

Sitting on the bus to work, Fu Chong looked at the box of plasticine tightly held in his hand, as if reminding himself of a certain determination to make.His gaze swept across the slowly receding buildings outside the car window, and the half-new golden signboard of Dongsheng Development came into his eyes. There were many cars parked in front of the door, and it seemed that there was a sign of the leading enterprise of Jinshan Real Estate Development. A school of scenery.

A Biao secretly glanced at the mayor in the back seat, and Lin Yuan went downstairs without eating anything in the restaurant in the morning.He seemed to be in the back seat with his eyes closed all the time, with a calm expression on his face, but A Biao knew that he was in a very upset mood, perhaps, because the seat next to him had become an empty seat again.

In the morning, Lin Yuan, the executive deputy mayor, and several mayors in charge listened to the report of the joint inspection team consisting of supervision, audit, construction committee, price, taxation, and economic investigation.The inspection team conducted a drag-net inspection on the comprehensive situation of key enterprises in the Jinshan real estate development market in the past three years. Today is the third report to the government, and it is also the final review report.Lin Yuan asked the deputy mayors to express their opinions based on the inspection results, and finally he gave instructions.

In the afternoon, the Secretary Section began to draft the minutes of the special meeting of the municipal government according to the content of the meeting. First, the construction committee was instructed to take the lead in drafting the "Jinshan City Urban Real Estate Development and Management Regulations (Revised Draft)", which will be submitted to the □□ meeting for deliberation after it is approved by the government executive meeting; Based on the inspection opinions of the joint inspection team, it made a decision to address the phenomena of some development companies selling more than one house, violating contractual commitments, infringing on the legitimate rights and interests of others, evading taxes, and refusing to transfer the property rights of urban infrastructure and supporting public facilities in accordance with regulations. The decision to penalize several real estate development companies such as Dongsheng Development according to the regulations, put them into the blacklist, and prohibit them from re-entering the city's real estate market.

Fu Chong frowned when he saw the draft of the minutes in the hands of his colleagues.

He now knows in his heart that this is Lin Yuan's iron-fisted means to clear the obstacles for some interest groups behind him to enter Jinshan. Jinshan put Lin Yuan together, but after all, his killing was planned for a long time, well-founded, well-known, and finally followed the routine of collective research and decision-making in the procedure, so that these companies that have been firmly grasped There is unspeakable suffering and unspeakable resentment with some of the forces behind it.

When he got off work, Fu Chong first came to a small key shop in a small street behind the government office, and got the keys he wanted.Uneasy, he put the key in his briefcase and hid it away. Before he knew it, he had reached the bus stop at the front gate of the government. "Hey Brother Chong, come here!" A motorcycle gracefully drew a beautiful semicircle on the side of the road in front of him and then stopped. When the driver took off his helmet, it was Dong Jian.

"Why did you get on the bus? Where's the special bus for us?" Dong Jian handsomely straightened his hair with his hands while winking at Fu Chong, ignoring the glances of many young women at the bus stop.

"My mother is not in good health these two days. I will go home for a few days and take care of her." Fu Chong responded to him, but his eyes suddenly lost focus, and was turned into the road in front of the gate by a car that was driving out of the government gate. The buggy draws past.

Dong Jian followed his gaze and saw the license plate number of Mayor Lin's car that everyone in the office was very familiar with. "Hey! Hey! Brother, the bus has already left, I still want to see it!" Fu Chong gave him a glare. Looking back, the bus hadn't even come yet.

"Okay, I'll send you off, and let you see the secret and unique driving skills of my army!" Dong Jian took out a helmet from the back and handed it to Fu Chong without waiting for his approval.

"Calm down and turn on, don't pretend to be a supernatural treasure for me, you want to show off your boyfriend... friends, go to show off, you hear me!"

"Look at you!" The motorcycle sped away like an arrow on the road.

The car stopped on a sidewalk some distance away from Fengqing Ya'an Community.

"Save fuel? Throw me somewhere not too far away? Fu Chong punched Dong Jian in the back.

"Brother Chong... I heard some news today. After much deliberation, I think it would be better to tell you." Both of them got off the motorcycle and took off their helmets. It was joking, "What news?"

Dong Jian weighed the helmet in his hand, "It's related to Mayor Lin." He saw a slight nervousness on Fu Chong's face, and he looked at him with a kind of waiting that he was trying to suppress.People, as expected, are still chaotic if they care.

"I have a solid comrade-in-arms who transferred to the Pinggu county government to drive for the leaders. We usually chat nonsense on the Internet. Today he told me privately that something happened to them. He said that someone used the affordable housing policy to defraud the state subsidy funds. The amount is said to be very large, involving many leaders and departments, and now there is a special investigation team over there to investigate, and it is said that several big leaders of their construction committee, land, and demolition office have been double-regulated." Dong Jian saw that Fu Chong's face seemed to be getting worse. There was something wrong, he looked up at the sky, maybe it was because the sky...was going to be dark.

"And then?" Fu Chong asked indifferently.

"He said he heard from the leader in his car that this case may take several years to be investigated. It turns out that the previous leader may have to be investigated. Mayor Lin used to be the county magistrate in Pinggu, so it seems to be the same time as this case. There are crosses, probably..." Dong Jian took out a cigarette from his pocket, and just about to put it in his mouth, Fu Chong gently pulled the cigarette from his hand, "Give me a cigarette, to relieve my fatigue."

"Hey...the smoke was brought out by Mayor Lin, Brother Chong, are you...addicted?" Dong Jian winked at him while lighting him up.

"I used to smoke, and it has nothing to do with him." He took a deep puff, the smoke was a bit weak, not as strong as Lin Yuan's usual cigarettes, which made him feel a little...not enjoyable.

"I guess that Mayor Lin's level must have known the news a long time ago, but when I heard about it, I didn't know why I was a little nervous, so I wanted to tell you, haha, am I too gossip ?” Dong Jian exhaled a puff of smoke and smiled at Fu Chong.

"A little bit." Fu Chong threw the cigarette butt under his feet and turned off the flame, "Okay, send me home quickly, my mother is not feeling well, I have to go back to cook."

Sitting on the back seat of Dong Jian's car, Fu Chong's heart was heaving and anxious following the slightly bumpy car body.

After dinner, Fu Chong leaned quietly on the bed in the bedroom, staring at the weak and unknown green plant on the window sill.

It was planted by Yana in a small white porcelain pot in the office, and she lovingly moved it here herself.The seeds sown in the spring have finally grown thin seedlings. So, if it's the sins committed in the past, isn't it... time to bear evil fruits?

He recalled what Dong Jian had said about investigating the case, recalled the seductive fragrance left on Lin Yuan's body and the room card in his suit, recalled the tall figure waiting for the elevator on the 21st floor, recalled Yana being torn by the rubber band in the ward The long hair down, thinking back to the stinging pain of my body when I was unconscious after being hit by the crystal desk lamp...

He turned over irritably, the alarm clock in front of him was ticking the second hand, a watch with the word "Original" engraved on it, a pot of boiling stewed noodles, A small road leading from the provincial government to the villa area, a Star Ferry in Victoria Harbour, a sharp ax in the hands of a man in a storm...

Yes, that is a sharp ax that seems to be able to split people's souls, and now I am also a person who is about to be split into nerves by love and hate.

Someone outside the door rang the doorbell, stopping him from tossing and turning over and over again like a pancake on the bed. Just as he was about to walk out of the room to open the door, his mother had already walked over first. It was his sister's voice.The mother and daughter seemed to have something to say, and the two entered their parents' bedroom and closed the door.Dad was called to play chess by the uncle next door after dinner, and the whole room suddenly became quiet.

"Impossible! My son is not that kind of person... You call your man here, and I will ask him face to face, who said my son is close to a man!" Suddenly, the mother's sharp cry came from the next room.

Fu Chong's heart twitched suddenly, and he stood up suddenly.My sister Fu Ying's crying voice came from my ear, "Mom! Mom... calm down!" A burst of hurried footsteps came towards his room. For some reason, at that moment, Fu Chong felt a kind of The feeling of lying naked in the arms of my mother when I was a baby was warm and cold.

He opened the door, and in front of his eyes was his mother's red-eyed face, her thin chest rising and falling, reminding Fu Chong inexplicably how much this thin body contained. the power of.

The older sister on the side blushed, clutching her mother's arm tightly, with regret, timidity, and a desire to know the truth in her eyes.

"Son, your brother-in-law drank too much, and told your sister at home that you were wrong. Mom didn't believe it. Mom asked you, did you make a date with that mayor...? Your brother-in-law became an official. It's yours." ...According to the good friend? It is because of him that your marriage with Yana failed? " The mother grabbed Fu Chong's hand, staring closely at her son's eyes with thin red bloodshot eyes. They are very similar in appearance, but one pair is old and turbid, but the other pair should be young and pure.

It's just that those eyes that were once pure and transparent like the first rays of the morning sun are now filled with sadness, pain and a faint... despair that my mother can't understand.

"Mom... I don't know what my brother-in-law said, I didn't give... Mayor Lin any favors..." Fu Chong hesitated, he didn't know what Li Hongtu said to his sister after drinking, and he couldn't organize it for a while. Regarding his own language, he felt like a student who hadn't reviewed well but was suddenly thrown into the examination room. Facing the harsh examiner, he could neither hand in a blank paper nor find the correct answer.

Fu Ying's lips on the side trembled twice, but she still gritted her teeth and opened her mouth, "Xiao Chong'er, I didn't want Mom to get angry, but you don't know your brother-in-law. I know him. Drink too much, if you drink too much, you must tell me the truth that he usually dare not say. He said that you have that kind of relationship with... Mayor Lin. I was scared to death and slapped him twice. , He still didn’t let go, and said a lot... About you, he said that Mayor Lin helped our dad find a doctor in Beijing and promoted him to be an official because you were in love with him, and that Yana put you and him in the hotel. The mayor blocked..."

Fu Chong felt that his mother was shaking his hand, and even his whole body was trembling uncontrollably, like the last frost in the sun, being brought to death by the sun's warmth and care.

"I don't want to believe it either, Xiao Chong! But his bad mouth is there" blah blah" talking endlessly, the more I scold him, the more he speaks, I...I just want to ask you, I'm also worried You, Xiao Chong! If the relationship between you and Yana is ruined like this, my sister will feel aggrieved, and I don’t believe that my brother is... that kind of person. I want to hear you tell mom and me that you are not Li Hongtu As that bastard said, you and Mayor Lin can't have that kind of relationship, isn't it Xiao Chong?"

Fu Ying wiped away the tears that kept falling from the corners of her eyes as she spoke. She looked into her younger brother's eyes anxiously like her mother. She wanted to hear her dear brother deny all of this, although deep down in her heart, she already vaguely believed that She heard her husband's drunken words, because she knew that when that man was always drinking like a calf, he would forget to pretend to be himself.

"Mom, sister, it's not like what my brother-in-law said..." Before he finished speaking, he had already seen the joy and excitement mixed with some doubts in the eyes of the two closest women in front of him. He closed his eyes in despair, "It's not what he said. I didn't make friends with Mayor Lin, and I didn't get along with some high-ranking officials as you imagined. He helped us...and didn't do anything to me...Some things between me and him are very complicated. ...the relationship between me and him is because...I like him."

He almost stammered these words with his eyes closed, because he didn't want to see the sadness and despair in the eyes of his mother and sister right away.Although the process of spitting out each word into the air became so difficult, at this moment, Fu Chong knew that he could no longer weave a kind lie to deceive his relatives at this time.On such a night without any psychological preparation, without well-designed scripts and lines, a soul struggling with love and hate, was caught by his brother-in-law, the undercover agent in the man's mouth, with a hangover Talking about drinking, he was caught off guard and pushed to the front of the stage.

Before he could open his eyes, he felt a loud slap on his face, which was very painful and hot. It seemed that Lin Yuan's gloomy face appeared in front of his eyes, and there seemed to be a hint of cold ridicule. Laugh at yourself for always being slapped by your relatives, Yana's, mother's, but don't care who you are being slapped for.

"Dirty bastard! What evil did I do to raise a change like you..." The mother shed tears of bitterness as she slapped her hand, and finally didn't swear that word that would break everyone's heart.

Hearing his mother's crying curse, Fu Chong felt the heat on his face erode into every cell in his body little by little, as if he was a dog lying on an iron plate and being scorched and sizzling. Loud squid.

"What a crime!" Mother held Fu Ying's hand, tears were streaming down both of their faces.Fu Ying looked at her younger brother who was blushing on one side, and said to him distressedly, "Go out and have a look, I will persuade our mother first, but don't let our father see that there is something wrong at home, his heart can't take it, hey, It's all because I can't hold my breath, Mom, calm down."

"How do you want me to calm down? Tell me! The house was bought, installed, and the wedding date was set for him. He was fine. He told Yana that it was yellow, and it was not enough to cause trouble. He also said that he liked... ...A man! What is he going to do? Isn't he just trying to piss off his father and me? You... What kind of evil have you been, son? Tell me!" The old lady became more and more excited as she spoke. , turned around and grabbed Fu Chong's arm and shook it, his eyes seemed to spew out fire, and also seemed to shed bitter tears.

"It's alright, alright, mom, keep your voice down, my dad is right across the street, I'll help you go back to the house and lie down for a while, Xiao Chong, you go out to get some air first, go!" Fu Ying pushed her younger brother and signaled him Go out first and let the old lady calm down.

Out of the ten stores in the row outside the gate of Fengqing Ya'an community, eight of them are barbecue restaurants. Fu Chong didn't raise his head, just pushed one of them away and walked in.

The community is very big, and it takes more than ten minutes to walk from home to the store here. The cold air outdoors slowly relieved his swollen left cheek, but the gloomy fire in his heart made him feel even I can't find the center of gravity of my feet when I walk.He randomly asked for some barbecue skewers, ordered half a dozen beers, and before the barbecue arrived, he downed two bottles first.

The bitter and cool beer flowed down his burning throat, cooling down his burning mood a little, and he patted his shoulder lightly with one hand, "Xiao Fu, did you fix it by yourself yesterday? Good!" It was Wu Lin from the construction committee.

He sat at the diagonally opposite table to Fu Chong with a man who looked like a business owner, and when he saw him come in with his head down, he started drinking. Wu Lin whispered in the man's ear, "Mr. Hui, that's Fu Chong, Lin Shi long personal secretary."

Huisheng frowned, "Secretary to the mayor? You're the same as the fucking Lin."

He was in an extremely upset mood today. The news that Dongsheng and several developers were banned from the document market by the city government reached him almost immediately. He called Gu Ziye in private, and the other party just told him to stay safe. impatient.Although he knew that Gu Ziye would never let Lin Yuan take over the army easily and give up the huge interests behind the cake of Jinshan real estate development, but Lin Yuan's move was grandiose and well-founded, as long as he was in charge of Jinshan for a day , It is difficult for one's own company to turn around.Wu Lin was his close relationship with the Construction Committee. Knowing that he was in a bad mood, he specially pulled him out to drink some wine at night to relieve his depression.

"I have a good relationship with Fu Chong. He and Lin Yuan seem to have had a lot of conflicts, and he was once retreated by Lin Yuan. His personality and behavior are not like Lin Yuan's. It's just a working relationship." Wu Lin and Fu Chongyana kept walking very close, seeing that Huisheng thought he and Lin Yuan were wearing a pair of trousers, so he said a few words for him.

Huisheng was in a depressed mood, and he had already drank a lot of wine. When Wu Lin said that the two had conflicts, he didn't know where the excitement came from. Let's have a drink together."

The three of them joined a table, and it was the first time that Fu Chong met Boss Hui, a well-known real estate boss in Jinshan. Unexpectedly, he was the master who could enjoy skewers with his buddies in a small barbecue restaurant, and he was also very happy to drink wine.

He knew that his job status was quite special in front of Huisheng, especially when Lin Yuan had just cleaned up Huisheng, and the other party was probably scolding Lin Yuan's eighteenth generation ancestors, so he didn't talk much, just followed Huichang and Wu Lin cup by cup Drinking.

The three of them drank a full box, which was a bit too much.

Seeing Huisheng running to the bathroom again, Wu Lin put his face close to Fu Chong's ear, "Lao Hui hates Mayor Lin all the time now, and when you didn't come over, you still wanted to report him by real name, saying that Lin Yuan had broken the law." It ruined his Hui family's wealth and made him unable to be a man in Jinshan. If he didn't take revenge, he would be sorry to his ancestors of the old Hui family... Come on, let's go one more..." The two drank another glass.

"He's a businessman, what's the fight with an official? He's also an old man, that is to say, let's relieve his anger. Jinshan is not owned by Lin Yuan alone. Wait for him to leave in two years before doing it again." Fu Chong opened two more bottles of beer and filled them up for himself and Wu Lin.

"Then you don't know him. Lao Hui and I have been friends for many years. This man is stubborn. He's the one who admits death. He wants to have a heart-to-heart relationship with the person he likes, and he has made a lot of good friends. Hey, but if he doesn't like the person who is doing it right, he doesn't care if you are an official or a wealthy person, he will fuck you to death. Did I tell you that you are going to die? Did you hear me? He said he wanted to punish Lin Yuan, but he was coming Really, I'm looking for someone to collect the materials in private... Hey, I thought you fell asleep in the bathroom, hurry up and make up a glass, Xiao Fu and I just had sex." Looking at Huisheng who came back, Wu Lin hurriedly gave him Fill a glass too.

Fu Chong took a meat skewer and bit down slowly with his teeth, but he didn't eat a piece of meat for a long time.His heart seemed to be even more confused by Wu Lin's words just now, so chaotic that even if he put a little more stuff in it, he couldn't afford it anymore.

"Brother Hui, it's rare to meet you through Angkor today. What's your phone number? I'll call you and save a number."

The two saved each other's phone number. When entering the name, Fu Chong thought for a while and changed Huisheng's name to... Bi Cheng.

The coldness of Yunling Mountain in the early morning of winter still can't stop people's enthusiasm for morning exercise. Compared with summer, although there are slightly fewer people coming, it is still full of people's voices and an endless stream.

Lin Yuan ran up the mountain from the hotel early, and the cool air calmed down his irritable mood a little.This irritability has something to do with Fu Chong not being around, it has something to do with Pinggu's special case investigation, and it has something to do with Tong Lingxiu's sudden divorce in Beijing.

He felt that the air pressure on the mountain seemed to be lower than when he came in early autumn, because he felt a little short of breath when he ran to the top of the mountain, which was impossible in the past.

A boy with a sporty figure ran past him, his vigorous figure surprised him, and he almost blurted out "Xiao Chong".not him!Not as tall as him, not as good as his body type, not as good as his post-workout glamour, not... nothing!

He turned around annoyed, and in front of him was the Star Reaching Bridge leading to the back mountain. The old man who looked at the physiognomy put on a thick cotton coat, and was still reading a book on the broken chair by the bridge, with the writing piece beside him. With the sign of "palmistry".

Lin Yuan looked down at his palm, the deep palm lines on it reminded him of the old man's slightly mysterious words last time, he thought for a while, then raised his legs and walked towards the old man by the bridge.