Chapter 123 First we should be kind (7200)

Chapter 123 First of all, we should be kind (7200)

Wang Zixu was attacked by the name "Chen Qingluo" at an unexpected time.

He felt very bad. So he ran away. After escaping, I remembered that there was still some unfinished business to find Ning Chunyan.

But he didn’t want to go back like this. He walked on the roadside, kicking stones, and was deadlocked with himself.

Today is the fifth day he has quit smoking, but in this case he has to smoke. This is not an excuse for him to break the habit. If he could only smoke one day in his life, he would choose today; if he could only smoke one cigarette in his life, he would choose now.

He ran into a small convenience store on the roadside and told the boss to get a box of Big Harvest.

The boss slapped the cigarette case on the table: "6 yuan."

"6 yuan?!" Wang Zixu supported the counter, "Isn't it 3 yuan?"

"The price has increased." The boss said concisely.

“How can it be doubled?”

The boss patted the cigarette box: “How can it be calculated like this? From an absolute value point of view, it is not an increase. Liqun used to be 14 yuan, but now it’s 19, and Hongtashan, which used to be 8 yuan, is now selling for 13 yuan. Besides, what kind of cigarettes can you buy with 6 yuan now?”

Wang Zixu had to admit that the boss was right, so he asked the boss to take a box. After getting the boss's consent, he lit one on the spot, then coughed on the spot and stared at the cigarette in his hand in surprise -

The price increase was acceptable, but the smell of cigarettes changed! If you can't stick to yourself even with a small cigarette, what's going on in this world?

The boss seemed to see what he was thinking, squinting and smiling:

"The taste has changed, right? I told you that their technology has been upgraded."

Wang Zixu hesitated and took another sip, frowning in disbelief: "But you can't become like this... so without personality?"

The boss smiled and seemed to understand his mood: "I am also an old smoker. Let me tell you that the smell of smoke is always changing, and protesting is useless. And once the smell of smoke changes, it will never change back. Even if they use the original machine from the original factory, the taste will still be different. . There is no need to be upset. The only one to blame is yourself. Why didn’t you smoke more when you liked it? ”                                                                                                                                                                      Damn it, the owner of a mere convenience store can say such philosophical words, it is really extraordinary.

Then, the boss’s next words made him withdraw his admiration: “Of course, you can’t withdraw, you have already smoked one.”

Wang Zixu walked out of the store with a cigarette in his mouth. When he looked back, he saw that the name on the sign of the store was "Bai Yueguang Supermarket".

He accidentally dropped the cigarette in his mouth to the ground. In annoyance, he crushed it out with his foot, picked it up and threw it into the trash can at the door.

A convenience store of only 10 square meters does not even have a refrigerator. Why is it called "Bai Yueguang Supermarket"? But this way he understood why the boss spoke in that tone. "Bai Yueguang Supermarket", hum, he is a small supermarket owner with a story.

The sun shines on the ground through the treetops at the door. He looks at the shadows of the trees at the door and thinks of his boss's words. At this moment, he suddenly realizes that last night has passed forever.

The passing is like this, good times will never come again. There will still be those stars and that moon, but there will never be such a dreamlike night again.

He will remember the banner left by Li Tingfang, and the beautiful Hanfu at the Ningchun Banquet. Of course, the most important thing is that he will remember the few words Chen Qingluo said to him that night.

You have grown taller.

But what do you do to be so tall?

Wang Zixu put his palms on his head and flattened his hairstyle.

It’s not his fault that he grew taller. It’s a genetic and nutritional problem. This sounds unreasonable.

But this sentence kept echoing in his mind all night long, causing him to suffer from insomnia.

Compared to high school, he has indeed grown a bit taller. I still remember that at that time, Chen Qingluo could still look straight at the bridge of his nose, but now she could only stare at his Adam's apple.

In any case, she rarely raised her head to look at him. It seemed that in her world, Wang Zixu should be as tall as her, so she stubbornly refused to raise her head and looked straight at where she imagined Wang Zixu's eyes would be.

His height has not changed for many years. When the height gap between Chen Qingluo and Chen Qingluo was small, the world he saw with his eyes must be different from today. What he experienced at that time has long been forgotten.

With just one word, she brought him back many years ago.

This way you will never forget it again.

He will always remember that Chen Qingluo’s first words when she saw him after 12 years and 3 months of absence were: You have grown taller.

Just as he still remembered the last words Chen Qingluo said to him 12 years and three months ago:

"The most important thing is that first of all, we should be kind, and secondly, we should be honest. Promise me that you will do it for the rest of your life, understand?"

Wang Zixu nodded lightly and said that I understand. In fact, he didn't understand, because he hadn't read "The Brothers Karamazov" at that time.

It wasn’t until one day many years later, when he suddenly remembered this scene while taking a shower, that he was shocked to realize what Chen Qingluo meant. By that time he had already read "The Brothers Karamazov" for a long time. He suddenly connected the two. He immediately stood there, letting the shower water droplets slide across his face.

Chen Qingluo's words come from "The Brothers Karamazov". The original sentence is:

"The most important thing is that first of all, we should be kind, secondly, be honest, and thirdly, we should never forget each other."

Yes, this is also Miss Chen Qingluo's usual trick of playing charades.

No one knew that when she looked straight at Wang Zixu’s Adam’s apple, she was thinking about some unknown little thought.

Fortunately, even though he didn't solve the riddle at the time, he still did it all. He had not forgotten her.

But even if you do it, so what?

Later, he often reread Dostoyevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov", and when he read the last chapter, he could not help but burst into tears.

“So first of all, we must remember him for the rest of our lives. Even if we are busy doing important things, have a prominent position, or fall into some kind of great misfortune - no matter what, don’t forget how wonderful we felt when we were here.

"A good memory is the noblest, strongest, healthiest thing in the world, and the most beneficial to future life. If a person can bring such beautiful and sacred memories into life, he will be saved for his whole life.

"A good memory stays in our hearts, and maybe at some moment, it can become a means of saving us. Maybe we will inevitably become bad people, but as soon as we think about him and how we loved him, this memory will come out and prevent us from doing the worst things. "

"Chen Qingluo, do you remember? The most important thing is that first we should be kind, secondly we should be honest, and thirdly we should never forget each other. ”

He couldn’t tell whether he was moved by Tuo Weng’s style of writing, or whether he was moved by the beautiful memories he kept in his heart. Those memories about Chen Qingluo are indeed the noblest, strongest and healthiest things in the world. It saved him more than once.

He has not forgotten. Did she do it too?

The Porsche slowly slid over, and the window lowered, revealing Ning Chunyan’s face wearing sunglasses:

“Hey! That rich man Wang Zixu, why are you running in such a hurry? Aren’t you going to take Professor Zhong to the high-speed rail station later? Are you going to walk there by yourself?”

Wang Zixu gathered his emotions, and without saying a word, he got back into the passenger seat and fastened his seat belt in a decent manner.

Ning Chunyan originally wanted to tease him, but seeing how obedient he was, she couldn't say anything. She just complained angrily and funnyly:

"Why is it that every time I hear the name of a big shot in the literary world, my first reaction is to run away? Why, are you afraid of society?" "

"In general terms, I should have some social phobia, but from a personal point of view, I am just not good at social interaction."

"You are quite honest."

"I'm still very kind."

Ning Chunyan gave you foot oil: "For the sake of lending me money, I agree that you are kind. But you just said you were going to resign, have you really thought about it? Does it really matter if you resign at your age? I can guarantee that as long as the magazine does not close down, I can keep paying you, but I can't guarantee that I will wait until you are seven years old. My magazine hasn’t closed down even when I’m eighty!”

“I haven’t agreed to go to your place yet.”

Ning Chunyan glared, “Don’t be so arrogant! When you become famous and start a family, you will have to meet many big names in the literary world. What will you do then?”

Ning Chunyan thought that his avoidance of Chen Qingluo was due to fear of his advanced colleagues. It wasn't that she was too stupid to guess that Chen Qingluo and Wang Zixu were old acquaintances. The main reason was that both Chen Qingluo and Wang Zixu insisted that they didn't know each other. With her personality, she couldn't believe that there were actually two people with such personalities in the world.

Wang Zixu shook his head and changed the subject: "Let's go to my work first. I have some things to pick up."

Today is a wonderful Saturday, a day off, and the work unit is not working. He probably won't meet anyone, and he happened to be on his way, so he thought it would be a good idea to take the opportunity to go back and deal with his personal belongings.

When he arrived at the unit, he found that in addition to the second and third sons on duty, there were a lot of people there, which was very different from the situation in his fantasy. By the time he realized how lively it was, it was already too late. Sitting in the office, Diao Yiwen met his eyes and caught him.

The girl looked stunned. She obviously didn’t expect him to come to the office, but she didn’t say anything. Wang Zixu thought to himself that if he turned around and left at this time, he would be looked down upon, so he continued to move forward with his head held high. When he passed the director's office, the door just opened, and Gou Yingbiao came out with a water glass, and the two of them bumped into each other.

Gou Yingbiao was very embarrassed for a while, but Wang Zixu was okay. He paused only briefly, then strutted past him. He no longer had the need to say hello to him. He didn't even need five buckets of rice, so there was no need to bow down.

Gou Yingbiao greeted him with a smile and a very respectful attitude: "Wang Zixu, are you still coming to work today? Isn't today a day off?"

"Yes."

Wang Zixu nodded, turned around and left.

Since others greeted him, he subconsciously said hello back. I regretted it as soon as I sat down in my office. He felt he was being too polite.

Gou Yingbiao frequently makes dirty tricks behind his back. What’s there to do with such a duplicitous person? He even replied with a "hmm". Not even a single word should be owed.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, and he had the urge to point at Gou Yingbiao’s nose and scold him again. But first of all, he had already scolded him last time. As the saying goes, there is no double punishment for a crime, so this time he will be blamed. Secondly, Gou Yingbiao did not take the initiative to cause trouble. If he scolded him this time, it would be his fault if it spread.

He had no choice but to smooth over his hair and tell himself, "First we should be kind."

“Wang Zixu.”

While he was packing his things, Gou Yingbiao appeared at his door hauntingly, and took the initiative to talk to him again.

"This time you won the first place in the literary competition, congratulations."

He has seen Gou Yingbiao's ability to adapt to the wind. Wang Zixu lowered his head and continued to pack his things:

"Wherever I am, I am just at the level where I was knocked down in the finals, and I still have to hold a criticism meeting for the whole unit to review. This time I just got the first place by luck, so there is no need to praise me for the results."

Gou Yingbiao was teased so face to face, his face turned red and white, but he rarely got angry at all, and whispered: "What the hell, you are being humble. I asked many people about the situation at the scoring site that day, and they all said that you deserved to be ranked first. They all said that you are extremely talented."

The prince thought humbly and knew that Shen Qingfeng must have tipped him off again. The little old man is now worried and uneasy, fearing that he will get more appreciation from the big boss and sue him behind his back.

Wang Zixu raised his voice: "How can I compare to your talent, Director Gou? Those poems you posted in the group are unparalleled and rare in the world. Your amazing talent has not been discovered in the company for so many years. I, a fake gem, have no talent. Other people's opinions are sure It's just a show, I don't believe it. "

Wang Zixu deliberately used a loud voice, and the chatter floating in the corridor stopped. It seemed that someone came out to inquire about the situation here. Gou Yingbiao was panicking, fearing that Wang Zixu would lose control again and scold him.

But he would also find a way out for himself, and said with a smile: "It seems that you are not in a good mood today. I will talk to you another time."

Wang Zixu waved his hand: "Gou Bureau has a lot of things to do every day, so I don't need to bother you with my psychological counseling. I plan to submit my resignation report in the near future, please. You will meet to discuss it early."

Gou Yingbiao's face turned pale: "You want to resign?"

"Huh."

"Why?"

He didn't have to say why.

Gou Yingbiao gritted his teeth and lowered his voice: "Zizixu, I heard that you had a long private chat with the leader that night. What did you say to him?"

Wang Zixu knew that he had just been doing Tai Chi for a long time just to ask this question, so he sneered: "We talked a lot about everything."

Gou Yingbiao said: "I asked directly, have you told the leader anything about me?"

Wang Zixu raised his eyes and looked at him: "What I told the leader, what the leader thought, these are not things you should consider, Gou Yingbiao."

Gou Yingbiao's face suddenly turned ugly. Only then did Wang Zixu realize that there seemed to be a lot more wrinkles on his face. This was caused by overthinking and mental exhaustion. His condition looked very bad. Maybe he didn't sleep at all last night.

Gou Yingbiao showed an expression of apology: "Zizixu, you may have misunderstood me, but I am actually very tolerant of you. For your past losses, I will slowly compensate you at work in the future. Is it necessary to destroy the situation? "

A mocking smile appeared on Wang Zixu's face: "How can you be tolerant? You just can't do anything to me."

He then said: "Gou Yingbiao, do you think I don't know about your little tricks? You are planning to use my wife as a pawn against me behind the scenes. Do you think you are really unaware of it?

"Gou Yingbiao, I have never seen anyone more disgusting, despicable and stupid as a pig than you. I don’t know whether the fish will die or not, but the net must be broken anyway, so please stay tuned. "

Gou Yingbiao felt a chill behind him: "How did you know about this? Who told you that? "

Wang Zixu said: "If you want others to not know, you have to do nothing yourself. You shouldn't understand this truth, right? ”

Gou Yingbiao panicked. Other methods were better, and they were all on the surface, but this incident was the worst blow to his reputation if it spread.

He began to investigate in his mind who had betrayed him. He went back and forth to investigate, but found that everyone present that day was suspected. Even Shen Qingfeng was suspected.

At this moment, Diao Yiwen pushed the door open and came in, surprising Gou Yingbiao.

“Don’t you knock on the door before coming in?”

Diao Yiwen was stunned by Gou Yingbiao’s harsh words, but she quickly regained her indifferent expression. This made Gou Yingbiao very strange. Although Diao Yiwen has a high background, she usually does not deal with things as stiffly or even insensitively as Wang Zixu.

“Director Gou,” Diao Yiwen handed over a piece of paper, “This is my resignation report.”

Her words shocked both of them, Gou Yingbiao shouted: "Why do you want to resign?"

"Yes"?

Diao Yiwen noticed the details in Gou Ju's words, glanced at Wang Zixu, and said, "I have other plans for my career plan."

Gou Yingbiao lowered his voice and said, "Xiao Diao, don't make sudden decisions. Have you discussed it with your parents? You still have it. The service period is on you. "

Diao Yiwen said: "I haven't passed the probation period yet, so please speed up the progress. In another month, my probation period will be over." Gou Yingbiao suddenly became nervous, and he suddenly realized that the current situation was very unfavorable to him.

The first and second place winners in the cultural competition came to the office and collectively demanded to resign the day after the awards were awarded. How bad would the impact be if word of this spread? Especially for him, will it leave the leader with the impression of "poor employment"?

Of course, there is something more difficult. Wang Zixu may not know what kind of wind he has given to the leader. If both of them resign at this juncture, they will become a problem even if they are not the problem.

The prince sat back and watched Gou Yingbiao, who was so worried that he was sweating. He just smiled slightly, stood up and hurried away: "You two go out and chat, today is a day off, and my office is closing."

Before leaving, he took a deep look at his work station for the last time, then locked the door and left.

The resignation process is not that fast, and now is not the time to say goodbye.

After going downstairs, Ning Chunyan was waiting in the car and asked: "Why is it so slow?"

"I met someone when I went upstairs."

As soon as he got into the passenger seat, Diao Yiwen caught up from behind, stood in front of his window and said: "I have something to talk to. You say." Wang Zixu lowered the window: "Follow me?"

Diao Yiwen nodded, and then said: "Yan Zishan asked me to bring you something, he said, go to the East China Sea."

Wang Zixu repeated these four words, and then he and Ning Chunyan looked at each other.

Ning Chunyan looked at him: "Do you still know Yanzishan?"

Wang Zixu shook his head. He has never even read the works of this senior domestic writer. Because he is not in the "list of writers who have won the Nobel Prize", nor is he in the first echelon of the "list of writers who have the chance to win the Nobel Prize".

Diao Yiwen said: "He said, you will understand."

Wang Zixu looked confused. He felt that Yan Zishan might have overestimated him.

Diao Yiwen stared at Wang Zixu for a while, and suddenly felt a little angry at his clueless expression.

She wanted to announce loudly: Do you know who you defeated at the cultural meeting? It’s Yanzi Mountain! Your work even surpassed Yanzishan and won the first place!

But, she won’t say it. Wang Zixu will never know that he has ever had such an honor. No one would know except her and Yan Zishan herself.

Wang Zixu looked at her with a strange expression: "Are you okay?"

Diao Yiwen shook her head, turned around, shook off her braids and left.

Ning Chunyan stared at him with a strange expression: "What's wrong with you?"

Wang Zixu said: "I didn't do anything!"

"Why are you so excited if you have nothing wrong?"

"I have been wronged, why don't I get excited?"

"I didn't say what happened to you, why were you wronged? Look, you feel guilty, don't you?"

"I feel guilty, I feel guilty."

"You have to remember," Ning Chunyan shook her finger, "You are married, you can't just attack a girl."

Wang Zixu felt so tight that his chest felt tight, and he didn't even look at the cosplay Buddha on the passenger seat. Ning Chunyan snickered, this person was so easy to control.

As a result, she drove fifty meters away, and Wang Zixu suddenly suppressed a sentence: "Can you attack a big girl casually?"

Ning Chunyan almost stepped on the brake: "You have been holding it in for a long time, and you just thought of this sentence?"

"No, I thought about it from the beginning, but I didn't have the shame to say it."

"Why do I have the shame to say it now?"

"I really can't hold it in anymore."

He didn't tell the truth. It wasn't that he couldn't hold it in any longer, but that through his sophisticated ability to observe words and emotions, he noticed that Ning Chunyan was planning to let him go, so he dared to use more leverage.

Secondly we should be honest. But thinking about it, such a little lie shouldn't be considered dishonest.

Ning Chunyan really let him go. After talking for a while, she asked: "What does 'go to the East China Sea' mean?"

Wang Zixu said: "I don't know."

Ning Chunyan said: "Didn't Yanzi Mountain say you know?"

Prince Xu Xu said: "I'm not familiar with him."

After saying that, he added: "I'm also thinking about what this means. I can think of two allusions to this sentence pattern. I don't know which one he is talking about."

"Which two?"

"One is Woolf's novel "To the Lighthouse."

"Oh! Yes, to the lighthouse." Ning Chunyan nodded, then showed a troubled expression, "Have you read it?"

"To be honest, it's not easy to understand. "Zhixu said, "Her stream of consciousness is a bit unique, and I don't understand it very well. So if Yan Zishan's words contain this meaning, I may not be able to understand it. "

"Zhixu said it very honestly, and generally people who talk about literature would not dare to say that they do not understand Woolf. You don’t even understand stream of consciousness, how dare you talk about literature? Generally speaking, when talking about literature, if you don’t understand stream of consciousness, you are at the lower end of the contempt chain and are at risk of being despised at any time.

So everyone usually says that they understand it very well. Proust, Faulkner, Woolf, Joyce, the more difficult a writer is to understand, the more he has to smile contemptuously and dismiss it, and then quietly say, it's too simple, they are all such popular authors, and you haven't read them yet?

Wang Zixu was one of the few people who confessed in front of Ning Chunyan that he didn’t understand Woolf very well, and at the same time, he had read a lot, so he said he didn’t understand. Ning Chunyan felt warm and moved, and said:

“To be honest, I I don’t really understand it either. I also studied Can Xue for my graduate studies, and it really gave me a headache. Just reading the book made me feel like I was going to die. ” The prince nodded humbly: “Can Xue is indeed difficult to understand. In comparison, Kant seems simple. ”

Ning Chunyan turned around: "Wait a minute, why is Kant involved?"

Wang Zixu said, "Can Xue's brother is Deng Xiaomang."

And Deng Xiaomang is a well-known researcher of Kant philosophy in China.

As soon as Wang Zixu’s thoughts diverge, it becomes difficult for people to follow him. Ning Chunyan could barely keep up. This kind of chat was still within her comfort zone. She even found it enjoyable to chat like this.

“By the way, can you think of two allusions to the sentence pattern you just said, and what about one more?”

Wang Zixu said: "The other one is 'Go to America' in "Crime and Punishment". This one is even more intriguing. Because 'Go to America' in the book symbolizes depravity and is a cryptic code for suicide."

"I have read "Crime and Punishment". Dostoyevsky is very patriotic. He believes that 'Going to America' is a betrayal of his Mother Russia, and the United States symbolizes a country that incubates evil. A place of depravity. From this point of view, does Yan Zishan think that the East China Sea is a place where depravity is hatched? Well... it is possible, after all, the East China Sea is so lavish. ”

Wang Zixu said: "But Yanzishan himself must have lived in the East China Sea."

Ning Chunyan nodded: "Yes. It's not very similar."

Wang Zixu shut his mouth. In fact, if we only analyze it literally, Yanzishan's words feel a bit like a prophecy. Because the core of his next period of life is indeed "going to the East China Sea."

During this period, Wen Yan is planning a big event, and will soon move to the East China Sea. By then, both his work and life will have completed "going to the East China Sea."

But Yan Zishan definitely doesn’t know this, why would he let himself “go to the East China Sea” again?

Difficult to explain.

The Ning Chun Banquet stopped at the entrance of a strange community. Wang Zixu looked around and asked:

"Isn't Professor Zhong at the Plaza Hotel?"

"Yes."

"This shouldn't be the Plaza Hotel, right?"

"Of course not, who said this is?" Ning Chunyan said, "This is my home."

Wang Zixu asked carefully: "Can I risk it? Let me ask you, why are we coming to your house? "

"Tsk." Ning Chunyan raised her face at him, "Who would invite a married prince to come to my house?"

"Oh, that's just me being sentimental. "

Ning Chunyan had no intention of explaining to him. She unbuckled her seat belt, stretched out on the posture seat, made a comfortable sound, and arched her waist like a cat. The slender waist curved into a youthful arc, which shocked Wang Zixu. He quickly looked away.

After stretching, Ning Chunyan said: "We have invited Professor Zhong here, and it is our turn to send him back. This is called, there is a beginning and an end."