Moonshine & Valentine: His Excellency’s First Love (Love Knot) - Chapter 3

Life is alive, it is too difficult not to leave any information.

In the country where Pippi lives, a person’s file records start from elementary school. There will be the scores of entrance examinations, the identification of teachers and schools, diplomas, award certificates, medical examination forms, applications for joining the Communist Party of China, and records of transfer organizations. If you unfortunately make a serious mistake, the page number will be doubled: there will be reasons and complaints, there will be witness confessions, there will be unit or court conclusions, handling opinions, personal appeals, inspections, etc., etc.

So Guan Pippi didn’t understand.

Why can’t Wei Qingtan, who is good at writing investigation reports, get a decent material about Helan Jingting?

There are only a few copies of interviews from outdated newspapers and archaeological magazines about Song Qi in the folder. There was only one interview with Helan Jingting. Looking at the hint in the text, it was because that year Helan Jingting successfully identified a batch of national first-class cultural relics that were about to be exported as imitations, which became the headline news in the cultural relics circle. But Helan Jingting stubbornly refused to interview. In order to give the press an explanation, Song Qi made an exception to mention him.

It was these extra words that gave Pippi some clues.

It turned out that Helan Jingting had lived with Song Qi in Liulichang since he was a child, and then followed him into the Palace Museum to help him organize jade, and finally followed him to Peking University, named a disciple is really an adopted son. Song Qi, who was commended as a “people’s connoisseur” by the state, was a devout layman, unmarried for life, and only accepted two students. The eldest disciple passed away in a car accident in his early years, but the second disciple was successful in school, but after less than a year of assignment, he was returned because of “style problems.” At that time, the issue of style was a major issue. As a result, the second disciple was assigned to teach in a middle school in a remote rural area with the punishment behind his back. Although this matter has nothing to do with Song Qi, Song Qi was stimulated and stubbornly believed that his disciples were not the fault of a teacher, and he was ashamed of a teacher, and vowed that he would never accept any students. Helan Jingting became his only successor.

After reading all the information, Pippi finally understood why Helan Jingting had so little information.

He has not been to school, not a day.

City C is not very big, and the C City Museum is not so famous. Helan Jingting, who has such a prominent professional background, quietly chose to settle here. Is it a secretive strategy?

Guan Pipi had an idea and made a call.

Over there, a delicate voice: “Pippi.”

“Peipei,” Ms. Zhang, who is rarely the busiest in the world, is free, and Pippi hurries to make a long story short, “Do you recognize the people from the city museum?”

“Wait, I think I recognize one, I’ll check it for you.” But after five seconds, Pepe reported a number, “Look for him, just say I called you. He is in the security room and his name is Feng Xinhua. .”

“Yeah, I wrote it down, thank you.”

“No time to chat, I’m interviewing. Goodbye.”

“Hey–”

The people over there hung up the phone violently.

Pippi called that number, which was a cell phone.

“Hello, who?”

Pippi reported Pepe’s name, and the man was obviously enthusiastic: “Are you looking for me?”

“That’s it, do you know Mr. Helan Jingting?”

“I know, but not familiar. He is a consultant and rarely comes to work during the day.”

“When is he usually in the museum?”

“After seven in the evening.”

“Why, do you still have night shifts here?”

“Well, many of the museum’s collections are on display during the day. If you want to do research, you have to come at night. Many researchers here work at night.”

“Can you introduce me to him?”

“You belong to the news agency, right?” The person was really sensitive.

“C City Evening News.”

“No show, he never receives reporters.”

“Brother Feng, can you help me, okay?” Pippi groaned. She learned this trick from Wei Qingtan. Don’t look at Wei Qingtan’s tall horses, loud like a bell, and he can still be bored to death.

The man pondered for a moment, and said, “Well, come here at 7:30 tonight, and I will tell you where he is. You can find a way to get to know him. Don’t say it’s from the newspaper office, it’s absolutely useless.”

“Okay! Thank you, brother!”

Putting down the phone, Pippi hurriedly finished the routine work that had accumulated in the morning. After work, he went to the convenience store downstairs and bought a box of eight-treasure porridge. Panting with it, he took the subway, bus, ferry, and then again. The bus came to Tao Jialin’s bedroom. In the stunned eyes of all the boys, Pippi took the eight-treasure porridge off his shoulders like a dock worker, took out the book and put it on the table, sweating around, and smiling at Jia Lin who was slightly embarrassed:

“Jia Lin, the book is here. I have something to do, so I have to leave immediately.”

“Let’s go after dinner, what’s so urgent?”

“I have an interview mission. It may be too late, and I have to get to the museum before 7:30.” Pippi said this loudly, deliberately letting all the boys in the bedroom hear it. In private, she always feels that a boy with a good family background and excellent academics like Jia Lin has made her boyfriend of a college girl, and it is a bit of a loss. In the eyes of outsiders, no matter how hard she works, she still belongs to T Lake University, and is not a good match for C City University. I wonder if the boys in the dormitory don’t care about this, everyone is rushing to drink the eight-treasure porridge.

“Do you need my help?” Jia Lin asked, picking up the bicycle key on the table, “I will take you to the station.”

“No need, you study hard, I’ll come to you in a few days.” Pippi waved his hand and hurried to leave.

Jialin still insisted on sending Pippi to the car.

The two waited at the station for ten minutes. Jia Lin suddenly asked, “Pippi, why do you walk in such a hurry every time you come?”

“Uh–”

Pippi was dumb.

This is about the Nth time to find an excuse to escape from C. In short, every time I arrive at the school gate, I see the giant spherical stone sculpture, and then look at the big characters in the official script: “Unity, enterprising, rigorous, and truth-seeking”, and I feel a sense of fear. It seems that this is not where she should be, as if she is not welcome here. Also, people familiar with Jialin always ask her which department she is in, and she has to explain that she is not a C major, but a T major. Then she tried not to mention T big. Well-known pheasant university, who mentions who shame.

Pippi felt that she was miserable: she graduated from C City No. 1 Middle School, the number one provincial key. But she has nothing to be proud of, because of poor grades. When she arrived at T Lake University, she had good grades, and there was nothing to be proud of, because T Lake University was so bad. After graduating to the C City Evening News that everyone envy, she can’t be proud because she is not a reporter, but an administrative staff.

In short, she has never been a genuine card anywhere. She had never experienced what it was like to be genuine.

This kind of resentment Jia Lin would not understand.

Just like her and Jia Lin’s lives were the same at the beginning, but gradually they were very different.

From kindergarten to junior high school, the Pippi family and the Jialin family lived in the same dormitory building, door to door, and the housing area was almost equal to the family income. Pippi is an excellent worker and advanced worker. Pippi’s mother works as a nurse in the kindergarten. Jialin’s father is a technician in the factory, and his mother is a cashier.

Later, Jialin’s parents gradually got promoted because they both had college degrees. Dad became the director of the factory, and my mother joined the auditing bureau. Within a few years of work, he was promoted to director. They moved to the “cadre building” across the street from Pippi’s house. The housing area was four times larger than them. While Pippi’s family was still using squats and showers, Jialin’s family had already started using toilets and bathtubs. Pippi and grandma slept in a dilapidated shed bed; Jialin had his own special room, sleeping Simmons, and changing the sheets and quilt cover twice a week. Later, Dad Jialin was transferred to the industrial hall as director; Dad Pippi was laid off and had to get up at 4:30 every day, carrying a big bag, and walking to a street two stops away to grab a spot. The street stall sells magazines and pirated books. The magazines that were sold were afraid to bring them back to Pippi.

However, the friendship between the two is still very good. On New Year’s and holidays, the Tao family will send Jialin over to “Uncle Guan” for New Year’s greetings and new year goods. Guan’s family will also send Pipi a large basket of meatballs, braised beef and bean paste. Jialin’s whole family loves to eat the bean paste made by Grandma Guan, year after year, and enjoy it. One year, Dad Jialin went to Russia for three months. Knowing that there was nothing to eat except canned fish and potatoes, he came to ask Grandma Guan to make a bottle of bean paste to take. Grandma Guan therefore wanted to use her bean paste to pave the way for Pippi and send her to Jialin’s house as a wife. As soon as Pippi graduated from high school, her grandmother babbled in her ears day after day: “How good is this kid Jialin. He has a good temperament and courtesy, and can treat girls kindly. Pippi, if you were his wife, There will be endless blessings in the future!”

Of course Pippi likes Jialin. In more than ten years, she has only been with Jia Lin a few times, and has not even had a decent fight. There is no ups and downs, no tears, no separation, no waiting, no obsession, no passion between them-everything is light.

However, Pippi felt that her relationship with Jia Lin began when she was three years old when she partnered to steal cookies. They are husband and wife every time they play. When they were ten years old, they even discussed having a few children, and after watching “Shooting the Condor” they decided that drowning in the water was the most beautiful way to die. Jialin also assured Pippi that even though he was beaten by his mother at every turn, he would never touch Pippi and their children a finger in his life.

One day when he was four years old, Jia Lin made Pippi cry for the first time.

It turned out that he received a lot of New Year’s money during the Chinese New Year and showed off to Pippi. Pippi cried without a penny. In order to comfort her, Jia Lin had to give her his own lucky money.

He also promised to give her every year’s new year’s money in the future.

Whatever he said, the New Year’s money was paid until Pippi was twenty-one. Pippi didn’t want Jialin and was unhappy, and insisted that she hold it, saying it was a tradition.

Pippi hates exams. Especially hate the college entrance examination.

Because the college entrance examination finally separated them.

Jia Lin entered the Department of International Trade of C City University with the highest score of the school. Pippi, who has always been considered to be unable to enter the university, also scored higher than his own estimate, enough for three types of undergraduates. However, those who wanted to go to university that year broke their heads. In City C, a city with dense high schools and fierce competition, there are more people on the card online, and the scores are enough. It all depends on whether to get into the university or not. In local terms, find someone to “pass the note.”

Pippi spent the most anxious summer in his life.

In order to be able to hand over the slips, the parents searched all the relatives, relatives’ friends, three aunts, six poems, seven masters and eight uncles. The whole family smashed pots and sold iron to buy gifts, asked one by one, and gave them one by one–that is, some fruits, cigarettes and alcohol, which were not expensive, and others didn’t take it seriously. They nodded and said they couldn’t guarantee. After busying the whole summer, my parents’ faces were all black and thin, and there was no way to go, and no slip was delivered. Pippi’s file was still kicked out of a three-category university and entered a junior college. If you knew this, why busy? Pippi’s grades are much higher than those of specialists. This time, Pippi’s dad did not agree to let Pippi read her favorite journalism department, forcing her to choose administrative management that seemed more affordable and better to find a job. Pippi entered T Lake University.

T Lake University and C City University, one is the well-known “Pheasant University”, the other is a well-known key university in the country; one is in the north and the other is in the south. It takes two and a half hours to sit down for a ride. On the night of the admission news, Pippi was sad all night alone, knowing that he and Jia Lin would not meet every day like before.

On the day of the school start, Pippi finished his report and walked listlessly towards the bedroom with his luggage. As I walked, there was a shadow in front of me. Her shoulders suddenly lightened, and someone lifted the backpack for her.

Looking up, it was Jia Lin.

Pippi was dumbfounded.

It was a hot autumn, and the cicadas made noises on the plane trees. The heat radiated in waves. Jia Lin stood in front of her with a light on his back, with a shorts pocket in one hand and an extremely heavy backpack in the other. The slender figure brought her a short period of coolness.

Seeing that Pippi hadn’t spoken for a long time, Jia Lin let out a “hi” and said, “Pippi, you haven’t finished the story last time.”

At that moment, Jia Lin was really handsome.