Ode to Joy clearly loves you

March 2010, Shanghai.

"Do you really want to live here?" A community policeman who just joined the job pointed to a 23-story building, "No way." The former residence with a land comparable to gold can't live in the mansion, so live here?

The straight black hair still hasn't changed much, and he raised his head, "Is there anything wrong? The subway is already connected here, the environment and layout are very good, and I have already bought it."

"That's why I was transferred here." Li Honghong rolled his eyes, no wonder he changed jurisdiction after only half a year in the job, "Which floor did you buy?"

"1..."

Li Honghong picked up the two suitcases at his feet, "Sister, let's go."

"Are you planning to go upstairs?" The girl who has been in Shanghai for five years tilted her eyes slightly, "Can I take the elevator?"

Li Honghong was carrying a heavy suitcase, and turned his head, "Oh, you still have to take the elevator on the first floor?"

"About meeting on the 20th floor, because I plan to use the 20th floor to the top floor as my home." She was actually considerate of the weight of his suitcase.

Li Honghong frowned, "Didn't you only buy the first floor?"

"Well, strictly speaking, it's from the underground garage to the 22nd floor." The girl smiled.

"Ahem!" Li Honghong coughed violently, almost choking to death with saliva, and then put down the box, "You, what are you talking about?" He thought he had a problem with his ears.

The girl still smiled, "I bought them all."

"This, this, this." Li Honghong stuttered completely, and turned to point to the not-so-low building, "2 floors underground, 23 floors above ground, 3 households on each floor!" Well, 3 households, more than 3 floors multiply by [-]!

"66 sets, because I bought a lot, so the three households on the 23rd floor are almost given away." The girl pursed her lips and curled her mouth, looking gentle and pleasant. "The underground parking spaces are also half sold and half free." The salesperson couldn't make the decision, and she couldn't bear to give up her big customer. After many contacts, she finally got to know the developer.

Li Honghong coughed wildly again, "This real estate is about 3 ping." How much is a building.

"No." She talked about 2. "Shanghai's housing prices will continue to rise. If you want to live in it, you have to start as soon as possible." She is also five or six points similar to her.

Li Honghong stared at her, unable to speak for a long time, and finally said after a long while, "You want to live in a building by yourself?"

"No." The girl shook her head, "Everything below the 20th floor has been divided. You have a lot of direct family members, and there are people from Grandma Xiang's family. Well, you don't know?"

"I don't know." Did he not only want to help her move, but also move his own?

The girl raised her hand and patted him on the shoulder, "This will be our home from now on, let's go, bring all the design drawings, the design and decoration team should come."

"Design and decoration team?" What a professional term, it shouldn't be the decoration team. Although it is only a few words away, the former feels formal, while the latter is rustic...Okay, okay.

"Well, the second brother invited the team from Japan." The girl didn't hide anything, "He said he would pay for the decoration."

Li Honghong was speechless: Well, anyway, your family and you are rich.

The Ming family, a former Shanghai family, owned several trading companies and numerous mines.Before the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the Ming family went to the United States with their whole family, and then took root in the United States. They continued to do business and started their business with oil. After three generations of management, the Ming family has the title of “Chinese Rockefeller Family” in the American Chinese circle. This is not just envy. The wealth accumulated by the Ming family for several generations is even more a compliment to the other side of the Ming family, because the founder of the Rockefeller family was once said to be the cruelest trust king who combined piety and greed, compassion, cruelty and cunning. The pioneering figure in the American business world is almost a copy of the female Rockefeller. It is said that she is shrewd, calm, far-sighted, charismatic and unique. Entering the mainstream business circle dominated by white Americans as a Chinese, she endured everything that ordinary people could not imagine, but she also laid the foundation of the Ming family in the United States despite such difficulties.

And Ming Zhen has completely inherited these characteristics of her great-grandmother. He doesn't know her affairs very well, but he knows that her career is full of vitality.

Looking at her face full of hope, Li Honghong took a deep breath, "Zhenzhen..."

"Huh?" She looked up.

"Brother Mingyao called me yesterday, and he told me not to tell you, but I think it's better to tell you." Li Honghong sighed.

Ming Zhen turned her eyes back to him.

"That man escaped from prison." Li Honghong said with a blank expression, "No one knows where he is now, Zhenzhen, your elder brother said that they will definitely find him, if you want... Zhenzhen!" Ming Zhen suddenly hugged herself tightly with both hands, her terrified body trembling slightly.He went over immediately, "Zhen Zhen."

"Don't come near me, go away." She panicked with fear "Go away!"

Seeing her like this, Li Honghong understood why Mingyao didn't let him tell her. He thought that the matter would fade away after five years and thousands of miles away, but in fact, this matter never faded in her heart. What is tormenting this cheerful woman to become like this?He probably knew about the matter, but the Ming family didn't want to mention some details, so he didn't ask him carefully, but now it seems that the danger still threatens her... He raised his hand and hugged her trembling: I shouldn't have told her , I am self-righteous, and now I only hope that the US police can arrest the fugitive as soon as possible.

Ming Zhen, who was embraced by Li Honghong, opened her eyes tremblingly: No, she must become stronger to fight against the darkness.She is a member of the Ming family, even if she is knocked down, she will get up again in the same place, darkness, she never left, come on, I will definitely not be afraid anymore!

It's a pity that hope is always full, but the reality is cruel and skinny. The news that the United States has successfully hunted down the fugitive has never been heard.

Four years later (January 2014), a psychiatrist's private consulting room.

"You need someone to accompany you. My suggestion is family." There was a newspaper on the table next to the doctor, and there was a big headline about a company CEO who committed suicide by jumping off a building "I don't want them to see me like this "The woman lying in the chaise longue shook her head, "Cruel, cunning, vicious and greedy, and not ashamed but proud, I hate myself like this."

"Because you suppress a huge fear in your heart. In order to seek safety and not let your family worry about you, you put equal pressure on yourself while strengthening yourself, so these negative emotions are so strong."

"But I don't feel that I am strong." The accumulation of wealth did not bring her a sense of security. She knows her own problems, and now she is becoming more and more closed and unwilling to contact the outside world. Everything is solved by computers, and this will not work.

This case is also considered typical, with a high degree of education and a high IQ. He is very clear about his problems but cannot overcome the fear that he has always refused to speak out. Then he becomes more and more closed in fear and fear. "Do you want to try living with a strange woman? You can open your heart more to outsiders.”

Looking up, "They are not animals, but human beings. If there is danger..."

"Then do what you can to protect them." Give her the motivation to contact people, she is a very responsible patient. "Don't let them know that they are the 'environment' of your treatment." Like some animal treatment itself The method of autism is just replaced by an unknowing stranger.

He lowered his head and whispered, "Isn't it selfish to do so."

"Compared to what you are doing now, selfishness is just pediatrics." The psychiatrist raised his eyebrows, "Isn't it!"

The long-haired woman looked up and smiled, "It seems to be."

"Be nice to them, and be nice to yourself." I hope that the vitality of a woman of the same age can open her increasingly sluggish and closed heart.

One month later, on the 19st floor of Building 21 in Ode to Joy Community.

Three women of different ages stood in front of the open kitchen. What surprised them was not only the large living room and open kitchen layout on the 21st floor, but also a wall-mounted refrigerator.

"I've only seen this kind of refrigerator in Korean dramas!" Qiu Yingying from a small second-tier city stared at the refrigerator on the wall "President's home."

Guan Juer pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, "Now I know how to put the elephant in the refrigerator." Open the refrigerator door, put the elephant in, and close the refrigerator door.

The sexy and beautiful Fan Shengmei raised her chin proudly: Is this her landlord?Looks so young, 20 years old?Is it Bai Fumei?The woman I saw was about 1 meters tall, and she looked taller because she was slender; she had a plain face, fair skin, three-dimensional facial features, and her eyes were not very dark, but they were like dark colored glass beads, deep; she gave people The first impression is that she is beautiful, indifferent and peaceful. If she puts on a cheongsam and stands in a Jiangnan garden, it must be like a painting. It seems to be forgotten in this troubled world, but it is the kind of tranquility that everyone will like when they see it. , it’s just that it’s a bit out of place in today’s "Magic City" "I am Fan Shengmei, HR of a certain foreign company."

Only then did Qiu Yingying recover, she nodded her head carelessly, "Oh, hello, my name is Qiu Yingying, and I work as an administrator in a company."

Guan Juer pushed his glasses again, "Oh, I don't have a job yet. I just graduated this year and I'm about to start an internship..." After speaking, she lost her voice because of shyness. Because of her parents' connections, she came to a big company in Shanghai for an internship. I just came to Shanghai and am not familiar with the place, so I happened to see an advertisement for shared renting here.

"The monthly rent is 20. The rent can be paid once a year or quarterly or monthly. I will give you a bank account, and you can just type in it." Ming Zhen smiled faintly. Her voice was not loud, but it was very nice." The 22th to 23nd floors of this building are all your action areas, you can take the elevator or take the indoor stairs; but the [-]rd floor is my completely private area, I will not invite you, and please do not set foot, because everyone has The private space I want to keep is like your room, I won’t set foot in it without an invitation.”

三人想起刚才上楼的时候坐的那部电梯，好像是直接到21楼的，键盘上只有20、21、22、23这四个。

"Yes, I know." Fan Shengmei nodded, she was the oldest of the three, and stretched out her hand, "What's your name?"

"You can call me Ming Zhen." Ming Zhen also reached out to hold her hand, "I hope we can live together happily."

Fan Shengmei clenched her hand, "I'm very happy to live here."

Qiu Yingying and Guan Juer also stepped forward, "Happy renting together."

……

In front of the floor-to-ceiling windows on the 23rd floor, Ming Zhen poured herself a glass of Tokaj ASZ and took a sip. She didn't turn on the light, and was alone in the dark: the three of them all showed delicious expressions during dinner just now... Put it down The crystal wine glass, took a deep breath, she is very familiar with using others for profit, but will it be too much this time?She knew their personal information long before their arrival, and it was the psychiatrist's suggestion to choose these three.I don't know what the outcome will be, but I hope it will be fine.

The phone rings, turn on the speakerphone.

"It's me." A familiar voice came from the phone.

"Ah."

"are you better?"

"That's it, the doctor still advises me not to work for the time being. The board of directors should know about my resignation." She herself thought that if she continued like this, she would collapse.

"Well, since it is your decision, I will reserve my opinion, but you founded Red Star, and you are still the largest shareholder. Although you will no longer be the chief CEO, I hope you will retain the position of consultant."

"Actually, I have been behind the scenes from the beginning. You have always been in front of the scene, so I am relieved that you will officially take over as the CEO, but I am duty-bound to do anything about Red Star." Ming Zhen took another sip of wine "I Won't watch it go wrong."

"With your words, I dare to really take over, but it's a pity that Red Star has been so good under your leadership, but you just gave up like this."

"No, it will collapse if I lead it again, Uncle Shen, the Red Star will be handed over to you, and only you can wash away the dust that I have cast on the Red Star." Ming Zhen looked at the dark scenery outside.

"Ah Zhen, don't think too much about it. Shopping malls are like battlefields. The other party's suicide is because he is not able to bear it. Even the Shengxuan Group, which is now at its peak, will do whatever it takes to achieve its goals." A comforting voice came from the phone, "That Tan Zong..."

"Speaking of the Shengxuan Group, you have to be careful. I know this before, but I'm afraid Mr. Ji's family and his friends may not think so. Mr. Tan of the Shengxuan Group has heard that he is quite chivalrous. , and he and Ji are always good friends for many years, and Ji always took good care of him when he made his fortune. Maybe because of what I did, he will accumulate strength and want to annex Red Star. You have always been cautious, but you are too easy to trust others , so you have to prevent others from setting you up." Ming Zhen took a deep breath, "Call me if there is anything wrong."

"Okay." Although he was about the same age as his daughter, he really admired Ming Zhen's vision and means, "It's getting late, you should go to bed early."

"Uncle Shen too, good night."

"Good night."

hang up the phone.

She stood in front of the glass window: Why is the scenery in front of her eyes still so dark? She is no longer afraid of darkness, but when will this boundless darkness end?

……

A few days later, outside a certain hall of Longhua Funeral Home.

Ming Zhen was dressed in black and stood at the back with a bunch of white chrysanthemums in her arms. The family members were weeping in pain, and the music was constantly playing in their ears. The atmosphere was extremely low, and the sadness was lingering.

She didn't go in, but just put the flowers behind many wreaths. Although doing so couldn't save anything, she should come and see what she had done.

"Go, get out!" There was an angry roar suddenly in the farewell hall, "Don't be hypocritical, it was all caused by you, and my father jumped off the building!"

She saw someone being pushed and shoved, it was the family member of the deceased, and the one who was shoved was her former subordinate.

"Okay, it's none of their business." Someone came out to stop Ai Zhu. The man was dressed in a black suit, very slender, and looked very calm. "Red Star's willingness to send someone proves that they know what they did wrong, that's enough."

"Zong Ming, my family's Lao Ji has never offended anyone. He has been doing his own business. Is Red Star so tolerant?" Although the company is not big, but at any rate, Lao Ji worked so hard to start from scratch, so he lost everything, he really can't figure it out; as long as it is postponed for one month, they can't wait for one month. "

"Sister-in-law, don't say anything, don't say anything." The man stepped forward to comfort the relatives of the deceased. "I know it all, and it's my fault that I'm not in the country at this time."

"You'd better go." Someone politely but refused to ask the person sent by the Red Star Group to leave. "Neither the deceased nor his relatives want you to be present on such an occasion."

The Red Star people left.

Ming Zhen stepped forward and walked in.

No one present knew her, but they didn't know who this young, elegant and beautiful woman was.

She stood in front of the portrait of the man, behind the body covered with a glass cover, and bowed respectfully.Then he walked up to the family members and bowed again, "I'm sorry."

The family members were a little dazed.

Ming Zhen straightened up and looked at the calm man standing next to the family members, "Thank you." Thank you for stopping the family members from atrocities against the Red Star staff.

"Excuse me, miss?" the family members of the deceased asked suspiciously.

"Those who have been favored by Mr. Ji." Ming Zhen bowed her head and nodded, "Please forgive me." He used death to tell himself that he had lost too much.

"Thank you." The family members softened their faces.

Ming Zhen quickly walked out of the farewell hall, not to disturb their last mourning.

only--

Look back.

When someone who was still beside the family also turned his head subconsciously, his eyes met a pair of beautiful eyes, subconsciously he nodded slightly to her.

Ming Zhen turned around, gave him a slight nod in return, then turned and left.