mountains and deep sea

The pale yellow light shone on the marble, and the tiles vaguely reflected the comings and goings of the crowd. There was a quiet piano sound in the large box, but it was soon drowned out by the noisy human voice.

Fu Wensheng was sitting bored in the most inconspicuous corner of the box, with a goblet of red wine in his hand, and with a trace of impatience between his brows, he looked at the two or three people chatting in a group in front of him. Tie, with a careless smile all over his face.

Fu Wensheng seemed out of place here, and was momentarily irritable.

He was tricked by that boy Qi Song. Qi Song said he was going to invite him to dinner, but he tricked him into coming here. It was a businessman's dinner. He didn't know why he, a university teacher, came here.

He put down the wine glass in his hand, tugged on his tie, and was about to leave.

Qi Song, who had gone to see his partner, saw that he was leaving as soon as he came back, and hurriedly pulled him to sit down again, "Hey, why are you in a hurry, you have to leave before it starts."

Fu Wensheng gave him a gouged look, "I begged you?"

"Hey, ancestor, I begged you to come here, okay?" Qi Song immediately admitted, "I did it for your own good, even though you said you can't enter the business circle, you still need to get to know more people, right? Maybe I will introduce my work to your students in the future.”

"My student is a doctor or a nurse."

"Then I have to introduce you. You need connections in everything you do now. Besides, who are you, the only son of the Fu family, a financial tycoon? Everyone wants to see you. It's not because you look at their faces, but because they want to see you." complexion."

He was right, from the time Fu Wensheng entered the door to the time when I don't know how many of them had come to toast with him, if it wasn't for seeing Fu Shao's face getting colder and colder, they probably wouldn't be able to stop now.

Before the meal started, the wine was half full.

Fu Wensheng snorted coldly, "Are you here to give you a false prestige? If you want to see the face, go to my dad."

"Tsk," Qi Song tugged at him and was about to get up again, "You have a bad temper, your father ordered you to come here, otherwise I wouldn't want to drag you here."

Fu Wensheng paused, but actually sat down.

Fu Qian's biggest idea is that his son can enter the business circle to help him, but Fu Wensheng's ambition is not here. He began to express a few years ago that he thought Fu Qian had understood it long ago, but he was still persistent in this matter.Fu Wensheng is the only child of the Fu family, even if he doesn't join the group, he can't fail Fu Qian's arrangement time and time again.After all... you still have to do enough superficial skills.

At this time, there was a sudden noise at the door, and people all around stepped forward one after another, surrounding a person who had just entered.

The man took off his coat, inside was a straight suit, his hair was specially arranged with moss, and it didn't look messy at all from the wind and snow.He wore a pair of glasses on the bridge of his straight nose, and his originally delicate face looked even more Confucian.

Fu Wensheng looked at him through the crowd, and felt that his features looked a little like a person.

Qi Song leaned over and whispered to him, "This is Gu Yihua, you should remember, he is Uncle Gu's son, he went abroad and returned earlier than you, and now he is a respectable figure in the circle."

Gu Yihua, the son of Gu Yunping.

No wonder Fu Wensheng felt like that person.

"Lu Yuzhi's half-brother." He said.

"Hey, that's right," Qi Song didn't pay attention to why his focus was on Lu Yuzhi, and said to himself, "But the relationship between him and Lu Yu is really bad, and they always meet with each other with arrogance and ridicule. , we all felt that Lu Yuzhi was able to suffer so much abuse on the Internet at that time, and he probably had a part in it."

"Oh, is that so?" Fu Wensheng had no expression on his face, but remembered the unsightly abuse and slander he saw in Lu Yuzhi's dance video that night, and his eyes turned colder.

Someone shouted, "Since Young Master Gu is here, let's start the banquet."

Qi Song pulled Fu Wensheng to sit at the main table, who happened to be sitting opposite Gu Yihua.

Gu Yihua was stunned for a moment, and looked at Fu Wensheng for a long time, "I said, why is it so familiar, so it's Young Master Fu."

With this sound, he turned all the eyes that were originally on him to Fu Wensheng.

Fu Wensheng smiled calmly, "Yeah, I almost didn't recognize Gu Shaolai either."

Gu Yihua, "I heard that you are back. I wanted to find a time to meet you first. After all, we haven't seen each other for so many years, so we should get together. Unfortunately, I've been so busy recently that I didn't expect you to be here today."

"Young Master Gu, you're welcome," Fu Wensheng said, "It was arranged by our old man to come here today, otherwise I wouldn't have a meal with everyone here."

"Young Master Fu is polite. Young Master Fu is a talented young man. I heard that he graduated from the best medicine in France. It is good to be a doctor. Healing diseases and saving lives is a blessing." He could always speak up on the spot, and Fu Wensheng's words just now gave them a boost. Naturally, they didn't dare to accept such self-effacement from the young master of the Fu family.

But Fu Wensheng didn't appreciate it, he just interrupted the man's words indifferently, "It's not a doctor, it's a teacher, and it's not for the sake of saving luck for myself, it's for myself."

This time it was embarrassing to change that person.

Fortunately, the next moment a waiter served the dishes, and someone brought the topic to the dishes, so that the scene would not be so ugly.

Qi Song looked at his friend from the corner of his eye. Based on his years of understanding, he knew that Fu Wensheng didn't like the social atmosphere, but he didn't lose face. Why did he get into a fight with this group of people just now?

There are people at the banquet, so the scene will not be quiet. Everyone talked about a few topics, mostly chatting with Gu Yihua about the recent stock market trend, talking about the changes in the market, and then praising Fu and Gu for their good future prospects. Gu Yihua brought the center of the topic to Fu Wensheng and asked him how his life abroad was. Fu Wensheng seemed patient again at the moment, answering all the questions he asked, but he didn't say a word that was extra.

Halfway through the meal, the person who came with Gu Yihua suddenly mentioned someone, "Young Master Gu, why haven't you seen your younger brother Lu Yuzhi come out?"

Fu Wensheng and Gu Yihua paused.

Gu Yihua took a sip of the red wine, "Lu Yuzhi, his troupe is not the same as us."

"You can't say that. Which one of the young masters and young ladies is not a fish in water in the circle. But that's okay. When he returned to the Gu family, we thought he was coming back to fight for the family property with you. Now it seems that If you are not interested in doing business, Young Master Gu can rest assured."

Gu Yihua showed disdain and smiled faintly.

Someone understood his expression and quickly answered, "Heh, fighting for family property must be justified, Lu Yuzhi? Although the Gu family seems to recognize him now, the Gu family has not publicly stated that he is the Gu family. He and Gu Shao Fighting? You have to have this ability."

"That's right, if you want me to say, Mr. Gu is too conscientious. He directly recognized him at the beginning without any identification certificate. Maybe this Lu Yuzhi has nothing to do with the Gu family?!"

"Hey, I don't know if you have heard of Lu Yuzhi's biological mother. I heard that she was a restless person when she was young. Is it true that she said that she had a relationship with Mr. Gu? Maybe this Lu Yuzhi is her and someone else. child."

"It's just..."

There was a lot of discussion about Lu Yuzhi at the banquet, and everyone seemed to be a god above him, and he judged Lu Yuzhi at will.The corners of Gu Yihua's mouth raised uncontrollably in the midst of the feasting, his eyes were full of complacency.

Lu Yuzhi is the illegitimate son of his father Gu Yunping, of course it is true, even if the Gu family did not reveal Lu Yuzhi's identity in public, the blood and flesh attached to it cannot be faked.

Others don't know, but Gu Yihua knows it clearly, but he just likes to listen to other people's discussions and speculations about Lu Yuzhi's identity. The dirtier the better, the more outrageous the more he won his heart.

What kind of thing in a dirty corner is also worthy of being his brother?

"Papa papa," suddenly, applause came from a corner, the sound was not loud, but it was enough to attract everyone's attention.

"It's said that the seven aunts and the eight aunts like to gossip and gossip behind their backs." Fu Wensheng poured wine for himself under the gaze of his eyes.He raised his eyes slightly, and continued, sitting here today, I realized that everyone is more than worse. "

As soon as these words came out, everyone at the table was embarrassed.

He got up, put the red wine on the turntable, turned the turntable with his knuckle-boned hand, and turned the red wine in front of Gu Yihua. idea."

Gu Yihua's face turned pale.

Fu Wensheng had already pulled away his chair, and walked towards the door without saying hello. When he passed by Gu Yihua, he met his eyes coldly.

"Wensheng!" Qi Song chased out in a hurry, and caught up with Fu Wensheng at the door, "What's the matter, suddenly he left after a disagreement."

Fu Wensheng unbuttoned his sleeves and asked suddenly, "Are you talking about him behind his back?"

Qi Song didn't respond, "Who?"

Fu Wensheng looked at him.

"You mean Lu Yuzhi?" Qi Song was stunned, "Gu Yihua hates Lu Yuzhi. It's a well-known fact in the circle. If they want to praise Gu Yihua, they will naturally step on Lu Yu's foot. And Lu Yuzhi's reputation is bad. , is also true, otherwise it wouldn't be..."

Qi Song's voice quieted down amidst Fu Wensheng's increasingly cold eyes.

"I think that his bad reputation is also caused by you spreading rumors."

"What about us? That's none of my business. I have no hatred or grudge against Lu Yuzhi, but I have never spread rumors about him."

"If you listen to one side, you believe it. It's not much better." Fu Wensheng lifted his foot and left, ignoring Qi Song's shouts behind him.

He has an evil fire. Ever since he heard that person talking about Lu Yuzhi at the banquet, he was about to rise up. Anyone who doesn't know where he came from can speculate about Lu Yu's identity, but It can also be seen that Lu Yuzhi is an existence in the upper class where Gu Yihua is located, who can step forward to support Gu Yihua.

Shen Yanqing said that the Gu family treated him like an outsider, but Fu Wensheng felt that it was probably the enemy who treated him like this.

The sharp eyebrows under the white street lamp were pressed down tightly.

At this moment, the cell phone in his pocket rang suddenly, and Fu Wensheng calmed down a bit before picking it up, "Hello?"

"Professor Fu," the other party was his student, "Can you come to the Hutong Street Police Station?"

Hutong Street, as the name suggests, is far away from the city center. Most of the winding and deep Hutongs, century-old trees stand at the entrance of the Hutongs, witnessing the gradually aging courtyard houses after years of dust washing.

Most of the people living here are old people. The old people are nostalgic and like to hang a lamp at the door of their house. The warm yellow light illuminates the road under their feet.

The weather forecast said that there would be a heavy snowfall at ten o'clock tonight. Lu Yuzhi looked at the foggy sky and wondered if he should pick up the umbrella that the old man just threw outside today.

"Bang!" There was a sound of broken porcelain bowls in the room, and Lu Yuzhi was startled. He walked back to the room quickly, and saw the hot soup he had just brought spilled all over the floor.

He met the eyes of the old man sitting cross-legged on the bed, and sighed silently, "Can this all fall?"

In the middle of the night, the old man was nestled in a warm quilt, smoking an old-fashioned dry pipe, and watched Lu Yuzhi exhale a puff of smoke when he came to clean up the mess. It wasn't intentional, you put it too far."

Lu Yuzhi rolled his eyes, "Master, even if you sit up, you won't fall... Hey, why did you hit me?"

He clutched the top of his head that had been hit by the dry pipe in pain, and looked at Lu Quansheng.

Lu Quansheng stared at him, "I'm your grandfather, what's your name?!"

"Tsk," Lu Yuzhi threw the broken porcelain in his hand into the trash can beside him, and muttered, "I don't know who called me a few days ago to say that I don't belong to your relatives."

He didn't mean much when he said this, he just retorted subconsciously, but after half the salary, he didn't wait for Lu Quansheng's answer.

After a long time, Lu Quansheng put down his pipe and sighed heavily, his voice was particularly vicissitudes in the silent night, "It's my fault."

Speaking of Lu Quansheng, people more than ten years ago may still have memories, and would say that he was a famous actor in Tsing Yi in the Wancheng Liyuan. It is hard to find a ticket for a performance, but now it is mentioned again, but it has become a pain in his later years. A daughter who lost her love, suffered from a mental breakdown due to illness, and is a crazy old man who takes his anger out on his only grandson.

Most of the time he is sober, and he still has the arrogance of his youth, but when he is not sober, he is also really crazy. He can pick up things and throw them at Lu Yuzhi, and can swear no matter how ugly.

Lu Yuzhi turned to face him, his shadow was stretched out and folded under a cabinet in a corner of the house, he pulled the quilt for the old man, showing a helpless smile, "It's just a joke, why do you take it seriously. "

"The rest..."

"Go to bed early, it's late, grandpa."

The cry of "Grandpa" was soft, not enough to console the guilty heart of the old man.

The wind and snow started to fall outside, and the whistling wind drowned out the old man's sigh.

When Fu Wensheng came out of the police station on Hutong Street, heavy snow had already fallen on his face. He put his hands in his pockets and looked at the students he brought out, feeling a little helpless, "You are very capable. You know how to call me when you got into a police station after a fight. Come pick you up."

The boy who called him an hour ago was the boy standing in front of him at the moment. He got into a fight drunk and was unfortunately caught by the people's police on the spot and brought back to the police station.The police asked someone to come and take him away on bail. They didn't dare to call their parents or call their counselor, so they had to find him, a new teacher who seemed to have a good temper.

Fu Wensheng was in a bad mood at first, and he was even more upset when he was called to the Hutong Street in the middle of the night. However, looking at the student with his head down and his face covered with injuries, he suddenly lost his temper, "Okay, let's go back quickly, three thousand Remember to write the word review, and I will tell your counselor."

The student's expression became even more despondent, and he pleaded, "Farewell, Professor Fu......"

"Don't worry about it. Is it a trivial matter to fight and enter the police station? There is no need to discuss this matter. I will admit it while I am still talking to you. Do you understand?"

"Understood." Seeing that the plea was hopeless, the student had no choice but to agree.

"Back to school? I'll take you back."

"No, my family lives here."

Fu Wensheng's expression suddenly darkened.

The wind and snow were getting heavier, and Fu Wensheng was relieved when he stood at the entrance of the alley and watched the students walk into his house obediently, but when he looked back at the pitch-black alley with different entrances and exits, he was speechless for a while—— Miscalculation, he is not familiar with the road in Hutong Street, it should be the student who sent him out, not him to send the students home.

He found a place with a lamp hanging at the door of his house and stood there. Under the lamp, he breathed out helplessly and took out his mobile phone from his pocket with difficulty. Come on, it was too cold, and the mobile phone died immediately.

Fu Wensheng stared at the dark screen of his phone, and finally cursed in his heart.

Shouldn't you be going out tonight?

"Yeah——" In the quiet alley in the middle of the night, the sound of a heavy door opening suddenly came. Fu Wensheng followed the sound and looked at Lu Yuzhi who came out of the opposite door.

The lamp above his head was supposed to be very old, but it jumped suddenly, and Fu Wensheng's vision went dark for a moment.

Yet the next moment is a brighter light.

The light reflected the white snow all over the ground, and there were fluffy snowflakes floating in the light beam, all of which fell at Fu Wensheng's feet. He looked at Lu Yuzhi, who was also looking at him in surprise, and evoked the most heartfelt smile tonight.

—Tonight is a good time to go out.

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Zuo Erdong Chen

happy new year~