dead dog

In a villa in the Senjiang villa area, the upstairs and downstairs are very quiet, only someone is working in the kitchen on the first floor, making a slight sound in harmony with the morning light.

There was movement upstairs, Wu Ma who was busy in the kitchen looked upstairs and saw Zhan Xingyu walking in the corridor neatly dressed, she said: "You got up, Master Xingyu."

Mama Wu is from Hong Kong, and has followed Mr. Jiang since he moved his business from Hong Kong to the mainland more than ten years ago. She has worked in Jiang's family for decades and still speaks standard Cantonese, and she has retained some old etiquette. , collectively refer to the younger generation of the Jiang family as Young Master and Miss.Her old-fashioned and old-fashioned etiquette is very suitable for this ancient European-style villa, and she is more like the master than the real master of the villa.She alone rescued the cold and rigid frame-filled air of the old era from the lost years, filling the whole house with blackness.

Zhan Xingyu stood by the guardrail on the second floor, leaning on the guardrail to look at her, and said, "Mama Wu, is Jiang Ying up yet?"

It has been more than ten years since Zhan Xingyu moved into this house. He still can't get used to Wu Ma's Cantonese, let alone communicate with Wu Ma in Cantonese. Every time he communicates with Wu Ma, Wu Ma's pure old Hong Kong accent Even Wu Ma's stiff and rigid servant demeanor made him feel strongly uncomfortable, as if standing in front of him was a thick and stupid servant in blue cloth and a thick braid like a steel whip behind his head. people.

Wu Ma can always bring everyone she comes into contact with back to the dead era full of etiquette and restraint.

Wu Ma stopped what she was doing, and put her hands on her lower abdomen neatly before speaking: "Young master, don't get up."

Zhan Xingyu walked down the steps holding the handrail of the stairs. Wu Ma went up and handed him a tray with a glass of water on it and a small saucer the size of a palm. Inside the saucer were several white and yellow pill.This move was performed almost every day between the two in this house, and the two were already very familiar with each other, and they had a tacit understanding.

Zhan Xingyu walked to the end of the corridor on the second floor with a glass of water in his hand, stopped in front of a bedroom door, knocked on the door, pushed the door and walked in without waiting for the people inside; this was Jiang Ying's room, it was very big , very dark, a whole row of floor-to-ceiling windows were covered with heavy curtains, and the figure sleeping on the bed facing the floor-to-ceiling windows was very vague.Zhan Xingyu touched the remote control on the bedside table, and the floor-to-ceiling windows slowly closed to both sides, and the bright sunlight outside the window shone in.

"What are you doing in here?"

Jiang Ying woke up early, but lay still, and opened his eyes when the door was pushed open.

Zhan Xingyu put the tray on the bedside table, sat down beside the bed, and said, "I'm here to wake you up, it's time to get up."

Jiang Ying sat up, looked up at the camera that was the size of a fist facing him at the corner between the ceiling and the wall, and said, "Can't you see clearly behind the camera?"

Zhan Xingyu also glanced at the camera, and lied nonchalantly: "It's off." He picked up the water glass and saucer and handed them to Jiang Ying.

Jiang Ying didn't lower his head, but looked down at the white and yellow pills on the plate, and said, "I want to stop the medicine."

Zhan Xingyu smiled and said, "Okay, then let's talk to Dr. Ji and let him stop you step by step. You can't stop taking the medicine privately like you did a few times before. It will be very troublesome if grandpa finds out."

Jiang Ying laughed out of nowhere, with a sarcastic smile, and swallowed the medicine and water.

Wu Ma put the breakfast on the dining table, Jiang Ying and Zhan Xingyu came down from upstairs, Wu Ma saw Jiang Ying, the first thing Wu Ma said was: "Master, you get up and die, it's already eight o'clock."

Jiang Ying smiled lazily, and said in standard Cantonese, "I've been practicing Qin so much late at night, so I'm sorry, Aunt Wu."

Wu Ma was serious, her appearance and tone were very rigid: "You don't want to sleep all night."

Jiang Ying pulled out a chair and sat at the dining table, propped his chin and said with a smile, "It's not an example."

Breakfast is a nutritious meal carefully prepared by Wu Ma, three kinds of meat and three kinds of vegetables, very rich and beautiful but not tasty, broken black rice mixed with oatmeal to make porridge tastes bad.Jiang Ying slowly stirred the porridge in the bowl with a spoon. The food he was used to eating looked unappetizing this morning, and said, "Mama Wu, help me get a bowl of noodles."

Wu Ma stood aside with her hands tied, like a clay-cast terracotta warrior, and said, "My master told me to give you food according to the dietitian's recipe."

Jiang Ying lowered his eyes lazily, and although there was a smile on the corner of his mouth, his face was stiff: "I'm dead from food."

Zhan Xingyu saw that Jiang Ying was in a bad mood, so he gave Wu Ma a wink, and Wu Ma left the restaurant as silently as a ghost.

Zhan Xingyu peeled a boiled egg, and said with a smile: "You have a good rest at home these few days, and you won't go to the company. Didn't you miss a few boxing lessons? Just make up for it in these two days, Ask Secretary Bian to accompany you."

Jiang Ying had no appetite, so he pushed the bowl in, took out the cigarette case, lit a cigarette, and asked indifferently, "Why don't you let me go to the company, is it Grandpa's order?"

Zhan Xingyu paused, and said with a smile: "No, of course you can go if you want, I just think you—"

Jiang Ying exhaled a puff of smoke, and interrupted him with a faint smile: "I'll make up the boxing class later, I have to go to the company for a few days."

The smile on Zhan Xingyu's face gradually froze. He put the peeled eggs on the plate in front of Jiang Ying, and said, "Don't you hate going to the company? You don't have to go now, why do you want to go again? "

Jiang Ying only said, "I have something to do."

Zhan Xingyu's face turned cold: "Is it related to Ye Chuyang?"

The house is like a glass dome, the outer walls are made of glass, and through the glass wall of the dining room, you can see the lush flower garden in the yard. Jiang Ying turned his head and looked at the lilacs in the yard, and said, "What are you talking about him for?" ?”

Zhan Xingyu said: "Then why did you go to him last night?"

Jiang Ying said lightly: "I hurt him, of course I have to apologize."

Zhan Xingyu said: "I don't know what you are doing."

Jiang Ying smiled and said, "I don't know what you are doing either."

Zhan Xingyu frowned: "What's wrong with me?"

Jiang Ying smiled and shook his head, then put out the cigarette in his hand, got up and went upstairs to change clothes, and said, "I don't want to drive today, I'll take your car."

There is a pastry shop with a good reputation opposite the office building. Jiang Ying asked Bian Xiaocheng to make a reservation early in the morning. He arrived at the company more than two hours late just in time to take it out of the shop.He was standing in the elevator with a few boxes of snacks and Zhan Xingyu. The elevator was very empty, and there were only him and Zhan Xingyu. He pointed to a blue box in his left hand with his chin and said, "This is your box." Take the walnut crisps you like."

Zhan Xingyu had a cold face all the way to the company just now, but now Jiang Yingliao laughed because of a word, took away the box containing the walnut cakes as he said, and asked, "Why do you buy so much? Do you distribute it to the employees?" ?”

Jiang Yingdao: "Apology to Ye Chuyang."

Zhan Xingyu's face darkened slightly, but he hid the displeasure in his eyes. He hooked the ribbon on the packaging box with his little finger, turned around and put him face to face in front of Jiang Ying, put his head on Jiang Ying's shoulder, and said softly : "Jiang Ying, can we move out from home and live by ourselves? I know you don't want to live with Mama Wu."

Jiang Ying was indifferent to his snuggle, just silently watching the jumping floor numbers on the sedan chair wall.

Zhan Xingyu said: "I've already taken a good look at the house, just you and me, the two of us will live together. Okay?"

Jiang Yingdao: "Grandpa will not allow me to move out."

Zhan Xingyu raised his face, looked at his sharp and clean chin, and said, "Grandpa will agree, we are brothers, aren't we?"

The word brother made Jiang Ying react a little. He frowned slightly, then took a step back to distance himself from Zhan Xingyu, and said, "Xingyu, I don't understand you."

Zhan Xingyu smiled and said, "What don't you understand about me?"

Jiang Yingdao: "You are Leng Jinghua's son, you know that Leng Jinghua died because of me, I killed Leng Jinghua, but you don't hate me."

Zhan Xingyu shrugged, and couldn't be more relaxed and said: "To me, Leng Jinghua is an irresponsible mother. I don't love her, and I don't care whether she lives or dies. But you are different, I love you very much , I won’t hate you just because a Leng Jinghua died.”

Jiang Ying frowned and looked at him, still unable to understand him.

Arrived at the 23rd floor, the elevator opened, Jiang Ying wanted to leave the elevator, but Zhan Xingyu grabbed his sleeve as soon as he lifted his foot, Zhan Xingyu said: "You should understand me, we are very similar, I hate Leng Jinghua, You hate Jiang Ziyan. I don't care whether Leng Jinghua lives or dies. It's better for me if she dies. You don't care whether Jiang Ziyan lives or dies. You should want her dead more. You wanted to kill her yourself a few days ago. Isn't she? How can you not understand me? "

Jiang Yingjing stood for a moment, shook off his hand, and walked out of the elevator.

Zhan Xingyu said: "Jiang Ying, you will choose me because we are very similar."

Standing outside the elevator, Jiang Ying turned his head halfway, turned his cold side to Zhan Xingyu, and said, "Do you know why I hate Jiang Ziyan and want to kill her with my own hands?"

Zhan Xingyu: "Why?"

Jiang Yingdao: "Because I found that I am very similar to Jiang Ziyan."

He loathes all who resemble him as much as he loathes himself.

He was walking in the corridor with the snacks in his hand, and after turning a corner, he changed his appearance and changed his aura, and when he appeared in front of Ye Chuyang's office with the snacks, he said with a hearty smile: "Dr. Ye, Facia, please have some snacks."

Ye Chuyang sat behind the computer desk and looked at the computer. He didn't wear glasses, so he squinted his eyes and looked towards the door: "Secretary Jiang?"

Jiang Ying put the big and small boxes on the table and said with a smile, "It's Mr. Jiang."

Facia pretended to evade: "Oh, Mr. Jiang, you are too polite. We are embarrassed to buy food for us every two days."

Jiang Ying placed a chair opposite Ye Chuyang's desk, sat down with his legs crossed, and said with a smile, "You're welcome."

Ye Chuyang opened a box of taro cakes, and thought he was sneaking a look at Jiang Ying's face, but he met Jiang Ying's gaze.He was very calm, pushing his glasses and looking away.

Jiang Ying propped his chin with one hand and asked with a smile, "Did you sleep well last night?"

Ye Chuyang: "Well, it's okay."

Speaking of last night, Ye Chuyang is still a little confused. He was called downstairs by Jiang Ying and thought that Jiang Ying came to him to apologize, but Jiang Ying did not mention everything that happened that day when he met him.However, Jiang Ying did apologize, but the apology was unclear.

At that time, Jiang Ying patted the empty seat beside him and said, "Sit."

Ye Chuyang sat down beside him, and then sat with Jiang Yingjing under the big elm tree with hanging shadows, blowing the evening breeze quietly.Last night was surprisingly quiet, there were no late-coming cars or people, and the whole community fell silent. Ye Chuyang still remembers the dark and quiet night and the shaking air around that night. They were also isolated, as if an invisible barrier had been built around them.He and Jiang Ying sat under the shadow of the trees at night, as quiet as if they had sunk into the bottom of the sea...

After sitting like that for more than half an hour, Jiang Ying said, "I'm sorry."

Ye Chuyang looked at him, then turned his head, raised his hand and grabbed a leaf that fell in his palm, and said, "Yes."

Later, when Zhan Xingyu came, Zhan Xingyu broke through the wind barrier, broke into their underwater world in a car, and took Jiang Ying away.

Ye Chuyang sat under the shadow of the tree from the beginning to the end. He watched Zhan Xingyu come and Jiang Ying left.Jiang Ying was like a traveler who stopped to rest. He continued on his way after resting enough. He didn't say goodbye to Ye Chuyang, nor did he say anything extra to Ye Chuyang. He just came and left quietly like that. .

If it wasn't for Ye Chuyang's certainty that he didn't have the habit of sleepwalking, he would have regarded the meeting with Jiang Ying last night as a dream or hallucination.But when Jiang Ying left, he sat on the bench alone but felt overwhelmingly illusory and lonely...

Jiang Ying asked, "Have we reconciled?"

Ye Chuyang lowered his head and didn't look at him. He broke the taro cake in half and said, "Reconciliation?"

Jiang Ying looked at him and said, "I apologize to you, both for what happened in Haiyang and what happened in the office yesterday. Let's reconcile, shall we?"

Ye Chuyang said: "You apologized to me for two things, but you only said sorry."

Jiang Ying laughed and said, "Then let me say it again, I'm sorry."

Ye Chuyang glanced at him, wiped off his puff pastry-stained hands on his white coat, and stretched out his hand to him: "Well, it's reconciled."

Jiang Ying held his hand and said with a smile: "Then we will have a happy cooperation in the future?"

Ye Chuyang quickly pulled his right hand out of his palm, covered it with his left hand, and said, "Happy."

Facia didn't know what happened between them in exchange for today's handshake. She only observed that her cousin's always dull poker face was quite lively today, and he was much more handsome than usual.Jiang Ying was also a little abnormal, and Jiang Ying smiled at Ye Chuyang more than usual today.

Fascia stood still with a piece of snack in her mouth, and looked at them with squinted eyes. She looked calm on the surface, but in her heart she was chasing a leopard, lion, and giraffe on the African savannah to ask for an emergency syrup.The rotting soul in her body was burning fiercely, her brain was almost boiling, she thought: This pair of CP is locked, this time the old lady is fucking real...

Ye Chuyang didn't know that in Fasia's mind, he and Jiang Ying had already married and slept with children and grandchildren. He quickly remembered a serious matter: "By the way, Shanghai Yang sent Zhong Ling's information to my mailbox this morning. gone."

Jiang Ying: "Oh? Have you read it?"

Ye Chuyang straightened his glasses with a serious face: "I've read it, and I found some new doubts."

Jiang Ying didn't care much, picked up Ye Chuyang's half-broken taro cake, put it in his mouth, and said, "What's suspicious?"

Ye Chuyang said: "Zhong Ling had an abortion two months before she got married."

Jiang Ying felt that the taro crisps were not tasty and too sweet, so he crushed the crispy skin and fed it to the fish on the table.Ye Chuyang's desk was very lively, with small bonsai and fish tanks occupying more than half of it, and a tank of betta fish with blue stripes on a yellow background was at Jiang Ying's hand.Jiang Ying sprinkled puff pastry scum into the bathtub to feed the fish, and heard Ye Chuyang say that Zhong Ling had undergone an abortion, but he didn't respond. He said, "Isn't she going to marry Liu Yan soon? Why is she still undergoing an abortion?"

Of course, Jiang Ying thought that Zhong Ling was pregnant with Liu Yan's child, and Ye Chuyang also thought so, because there was no other possibility, and Liu Yan was Zhong Ling's real boyfriend.

Ye Chuyang frowned even tighter: "I think Zhong Ling's behavior of aborting the child is very suspicious. You are right. Since she is planning to marry Liu Yan, why is she aborting the child? And the suspicious point is not only Zhong Ling has undergone an abortion, and she still... oh, stop feeding the fish, or you will die if you feed it any more."

Jiang Ying smiled: "This fish is so thin that its chest sticks to its back. If you don't feed it, it will starve to death."

Ye Chuyang held his glasses and looked into the fish tank: "Fish are always flat."

Jiang Ying: "Isn't there a kind of fish that looks plump?"

Ye Chuyang: "That's a puffer fish."

Jiang Ying rolled up his sleeves, picked up the fish food, and said, "Yes, puffer fish. Since puffer fish can grow so round, why can't other fish? I'll feed all your fish into balls."

Only now can Ye Chuyang remember that Jiang Ying is younger than him, Jiang Ying is only 27 years old, and occasionally acts like a naughty child who doesn't listen to persuasion.Moreover, Jiang Ying's mood seems to be recovering well. The Jiang Ying who sank into the bottom of the sea with him last night has disappeared. It was only one night, but Ye Chuyang now thinks that it seems that a long time has passed.

Jiang Ying concentrated on pouring fish food into the fish tank, and even reached into the fish tank to move a fake coral at the bottom of the water. When he pulled his hand out of the fish tank, he suddenly flicked his finger on Ye Chuyang's face, and the water splashed over and got wet Ye Chuyang's glasses.

Ye Chuyang squinted his eyes to avoid it, but he didn't. He took off his glasses and looked helplessly at Jiang Ying's mischievous smiling face, and said calmly, "Don't make trouble, I'm talking about business with you."

Jiang Ying asked with a smile, "Dr. Ye, what were you looking at me for?"

Ye Chuyang naturally wouldn't say that he thought of Jiang Ying from last night, so he took out a tissue and silently wiped his glasses that were splashed with water, without saying a word.

Jiang Ying looked at Ye Chuyang with his chin in his hand, and said with a smile, "Dr. Ye, have you heard a word?"

Ye Chuyang didn't take his words to heart at all, and said casually, "What are you talking about?"

Jiang Yingdao: "When you look at a person for more than ten seconds, there are two reasons, either you hate him or you want to kiss him." He curled his lips into a smile, "What kind of person are you to me?"

Ye Chuyang put on his glasses calmly, raised his head, and looked at him: "Where did you hear that? Are you sure?"

Jiang Ying raised his eyebrows, nodded, and looked at him with a smile on his face, like a good student waiting for the teacher to answer his doubts in class.

Ye Chuyang wanted to talk to him about serious matters, but he kept making jokes and making jokes. He was tired and speechless, and said, "Mr. Jiang, don't make trouble with me. I don't have time to joke around with you."

Jiang Ying looked at him quietly for a while, then smiled and said, "Okay, let's stop making trouble, let's talk about business. You just said that Zhong Ling beat the child, so let's continue."

Ye Chuyang said: "Zhong Ling also removed her uterus and fallopian tubes."

Jiang Ying: "...removal of the uterus and fallopian tubes?"

Facia said in surprise: "My God, she aborted the child and then cut off the uterus and fallopian tubes. Is this planning to have no children for the rest of her life?"

Ye Chuyang was thoughtful: "Or, she gave up her identity as a mother."

Jiang Ying could understand the reason for his words, and said, "Do you think Zhong Ling doesn't want to be a mother?"

Ye Chuyang nodded: "And it's also related to Zhong Ling's mother."

Facia couldn't understand: "What are you talking about, please say something that I can understand."

Jiang Ying's cell phone rang, and it was Bian Xiaocheng calling, saying that Jiang Zichong's attorney had come again to discuss the terms negotiated at the Public Security Bureau yesterday.Jiang Ying originally planned to let Zhan Xingyu deal with Jiang Zichong's lawyer, but suddenly thought of something else, so he changed his mind and said, "Bring him to my office, and I'll go up right away."

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Ying smiled at Ye Chuyang and said, "Dr. Ye, come up with me."

Ye Chuyang: "What are you doing?"

Jiang Yingdao: "Fan Yunxi is here. He is Zhong Ling's good friend. Maybe he knew about Zhong Ling's abortion and hysterectomy."