Moonshine & Valentine: His Excellency’s First Love (Love Knot) - Chapter 32

The car stopped at No. 101 Qingnian Road, CCB City Branch.

Pippi suddenly felt uncomfortable.

This bank is next to the newspaper office, on the same street, two shops across, and is closely related to the newspaper office. Pippi receives his salary from there every month.

as predicted. As soon as I entered the gate, I met Pippi’s two colleagues: Xiaoyue and Xiaofang from the Finance Department, one was an accountant and the other was a cashier. Because they live in the same dormitory, they are diagonally opposite Pippi, and they have a lot of exchanges, so they are quite familiar with each other.

Avoiding it, Pippi bit his head and said hello.

Unexpectedly, although the two people came to face each other while talking and laughing, they didn’t actually notice her. With such a “hi”, they wanted to cover up, and they screamed at the same time:

“Pippi! What’s the matter? Where is your hair!”

The call caused the people in the hall to look sideways, and everyone’s eyes slid over Pippi’s head.

“Are you sick, Pippi?” Xiao Fang grabbed Pippi’s hand and asked repeatedly.

“Um-ah-that-”

Xiang Xiang was quick-witted and she didn’t know what to do this time. While thinking anxiously, she squeezed Helan Jingting’s palm, hoping that he could help. But when he looked up, he found that Helan Jingting was even more frowning and at a loss than her.

“No disease.” Pippi licked her dry lips, his eyes rolled around, and he laughed, “You forgot, didn’t our agency participate in a donation event for the Cancer Foundation last month? To encourage patients to fight cancer , I decided to shave my hair and support it!” said, while raising his fist, he made a young volunteer’s gesture: “Hey!”

Xiaoyue put his hands on his chest and smiled staggeringly: “Oh, Pippi, you are really willing to have this blue silk. If you want to support the patient, donate a little more money? Can’t you pay the price of your hair?-I almost died just now. I, I thought you had cancer. Pippi, don’t be so surprised, okay?”

“You’re talking nonsense, I run every day, how can I be in poor health?” Pippi breathed a sigh of relief when Lieyuan passed, “Introduce, this is Mr. Helan, my friend.”

The three shook hands with each other and greeted a few words.

Xiao Fang went over and quietly said to Pippi: “Oh, it’s really unforgettable. If you like Jialin, you can’t find someone who looks exactly like him, right?”

Pippi looked at her in horror, stunned, turned his head and glanced at Helan Jingting, lowered his voice: “It’s exactly the same? I don’t think it, which is similar? They are just similar.”

“Don’t believe it.” Xiao Fang smiled, dragged Xiao Yue’s hand and walked away. After two steps, he turned around and blinked at Pippi.

Passing through the hall, a staff member took them to the underground storage room of the bank to fetch the jade, and then went straight to a private reception room on the second floor. Pippi deliberately found Zhang Helan on the chair opposite Jingting, and quietly looked at his face while he was talking with the guests.

Looking at it, she still didn’t think there was any special similarity between them, except that they were both pretty handsome. Helan is thinner than Jialin and looks taller than Jialin. The eyebrows of the two looked distinct, but Helan’s nose was even more straight, too straight, and a bit cold. The pupils are also darker than Jialin, so dark that there is no light. It is a bit cold to see people, revealing an unpredictable mystery. In addition, he always wears a pair of large sunglasses, almost covering half of his face, like a legendary professional killer.

Now, even Pippi admits that the biggest difference between Helan Jingting and Tao Jialin lies in this pair of sunglasses. Whether it is opening or closing his eyes, Helan Jingting has only three impressions in Pippi’s mind: first, wearing sunglasses; second, afraid of dogs; third, walking often holding her hand.

When she finally understood that this was her impression of seeing Helan on the first day, the antique transaction ended at an unexpected speed.

That Mr. Pan was in his fifties, with two big eyeballs on his round face, and he looked vicissitudes of life. He took the spotlight and checked Yuhuang repeatedly, weighed in and nodded. They might have talked about something else before that, but Pippi didn’t even think about it. The other party immediately handed in the draft after the inspection, and Pippi ran to the counter to deposit the draft into Helan Jingting’s account. After everything was verified to be correct, Mr. Pan took the brocade box containing the jade and drove away, as if it were official business, from beginning to end, there was no extra word.

I have been looking at comparing the appearances of the two people. After going out the door of the bank, Pippi is still confused. When I look at Helan Jingting, his vision is split, and the whole person becomes a Picasso painting. At this time, she finally admitted that the two people looked a little bit like each other, and they looked more like each other. She couldn’t wait to find a camera to take pictures of Helan Jingting, take it home and compare it with Jialin’s photo.

“Now that your business is finished, I can always go home.” She said.

“I have a dinner at 7:30, and it’s my treat.” Helan Jingting said.

Pippi shook his head: “Then you go by yourself, I’m going to rest. My dormitory is just behind this street.”

“No, you have to accompany me.”

“I’m really tired.”

“Then I will accompany you back to the dormitory.”

“Um… uh… I was a bit tired just now, maybe it was motion sickness, now it’s all right.” Pippi said quickly.

The fact is like this.

Many pictures of Jialin were hung in Pippi’s dormitory, of course they didn’t deliberately hung them. Jia Lin likes photography, so he bought a Nikon camera for the first time he went to study abroad as a TA. He would occasionally send her photos, mostly landscapes and flowers, and occasionally one or two recent photos of himself, next to the big tree under the waterfall, and a small figure in the vast background, dressed in various clothes The color of the T-shirt is blurry and difficult to distinguish. Pippi thinks these photos are beautiful, the scenery is exotic, the walls of the dormitory are so white and empty, there must be decorations? It is easy to buy decorative paintings from the furniture store for hundreds of dollars. It is better to buy a few picture frames and install them, which is also a good decoration.

So the wall next to the bed was covered with picture frames. Before going to bed, I squinted and squinted, as if Pippi himself had squinted at the camera and saw the same scenery through a hole.

After discussing for a long time, Helan Jingting proposed to go to the amusement park in West Street to ride the Ferris wheel, while Pippi insisted on watching a movie, and the two went to a cinema not far away. By coincidence, there is no costume film Pippi wants to watch, only a newly released spy film, which is very lively. The soft and spacious couple seat, Pippi fell asleep as soon as he leaned up. I slept ignorantly for a long time, opened my eyes and found myself nestled in Helan Jingting’s arms. The spy movie was over early, and it was replaced with another action movie.

Pippi sat up straight and asked softly, “Sorry, I’m so sleepy. Have I slept for a long time?”

“Ok.”

“Then let’s go out quickly, don’t delay your treat.”

“Don’t worry, I texted them and asked them to come back later.”

In the dark, Pippi took out his phone and looked at the clock on it. It was already past eight and five.

In other words, I slept for three hours!

Someone nearby stared at her and coughed, not very friendly. Pippi whispered, “That… I didn’t snore, right?”

“No,” Helan Jingting said lightly, “you didn’t speak very loudly in your dream.”

Pippi was stunned for a moment, and then fell silent. She dreamed of Jialin again, which was a romantic scene. Then Tian Xin appeared, calling her a third party, and they fought again.

Pippi can’t remember who he beat in his dream. It’s probably Jialin. In her dream, she beat Jialin time and time again, not because she hated him, but because she felt so sexy.

“I… I didn’t say anything bad, did I?” She murmured guiltyly.

“No,” he smiled, “I didn’t hear anything clearly.”

Pippi studied his expression and found that he was smiling strangely.

“Really?”

“Really. But,” he said, “in a dream you slapped me so hard. Should I have the right to know why I hit me?”

“Where did you hit?”

“Face.”

“Everything in the dream is fake. Haha.”

“That slap is real, Miss Guan.”

She thought he was joking, and she knew it was true after going out the door. There are still a few shallow fingerprints on his face.

The restaurant is outside the city and the taxi drove for nearly forty minutes. Pippi was wondering, why would there be so many restaurants in the city center without any flavor, why would you go to such a remote place?

And restaurants are not like restaurants.

A deserted trail, a lonely two-story building, looks very shabby from the outside, but the interior decoration is very elegant. Flowered arches, ticking bead curtains, mud-blue stone bricks. A half-person tall lacquered wooden box stood by the door, with characters from “The Story of the West Chamber” openly carved. Pippi was wondering what the box was for, and when he heard a “right” sound, Helan Jingting had left her leftover. Throwing half a box of popcorn into it, it turned out to be a trash can.

On weekend nights, there was not a single guest here. Sitting in the bar at the front desk is a beautiful woman, twenty-five and sixteen years old. Wearing a short denim skirt, his slender legs are like two rays of light, and Danko’s toenails are painted at the end.

In the night, Helan Jingting was able to see things. He stopped slightly at the entrance, and suddenly said in a low voice, “Pippi, wait for the food to be served. Don’t eat whatever it is, okay?”

“Why? Is the food poisonous?”

“No. Don’t ask too much, can you listen to me?”

“……Row.”

The woman heard the movement and greeted me, with a slight smile in her eyes: “Mr. Helan.”

Helan Jingting nodded his first salute: “Xiaoqing, it’s been a long time since I saw you, how are you?”

“Very good, thank you.” She pointed to the stairs: “Mr. Xiu has arrived, on the second floor.”

Mr. Xiu, that’s Xiu Yu. For some reason, he started to chill as soon as he mentioned Pippi’s back.

Helan Jingting asked again: “Has Mr. Zhao not come yet?”

“Here, I went out to buy things for Mr. Xiu.”

The second floor is approximately a private seat. The weather in April is also not cold, I don’t know why the air conditioner is on. Pippi sneezed as soon as he entered the door.

“I’m sorry.” She covered her mouth quickly. Xiu Yan glanced at her and turned off the air conditioner with a beep.

So far, among the fox people Pippi has known, Xiuyan seems to have a more casual attitude towards Helan Jingting. Seeing him come in, he just nodded. But Helan Jingting respected Xiuyan very much, and even took it seriously.

Just sitting down, the door opened again, and Kanae came in, carrying a plastic bag. After saying hello, he took out a bowl and a pair of chopsticks from the plastic bag, the one-time-use one, and put them in front of Xiuji after washing in the bathroom.

Helan Jingting smiled and said: “I’m sorry, Pippi was not feeling well just now, I let her rest a bit more, so you have to wait a long time.”

“I haven’t waited for a long time. Taking advantage of this, Xiuyan happened to find me a lot of errands.” Kanagai smiled.

“What did I do for you?” Xiuyan snorted coldly, “You forgot it yourself.”

“OK, before my brain was blown up by you, what happened to the operation this morning? I’ve called you a hundred times. Brother, you’re a bit bigger, right?”

“Joke. Mr. Dean, I am not on duty today.”

“You weren’t on duty the night before. Didn’t you come when Aqiang called?”

“Excuse me, are you Ah Jiao?”

“Are you not on duty? Tell me how many days a week you work? I work for three days and you work for two days, and you still refuse to work the night shift…”

“I’m hungry right now,” Xiu Yan said in a weird manner, “I think it’s better for me to stay at home.”

“I’m hungry too.” Kanaga said.

Seeing the quarrel between them, Pippi hurriedly said: “Since everyone is hungry, let’s serve the food! I’ll go downstairs and say, let the master fry.” Just as he was about to get up, Helan Jingtingyi Hold him, calmly, “The dishes will be served soon.”

Sure enough, within a minute, the woman downstairs brought a three-story lacquer box and took out seven dishes of exquisite side dishes from it. Not many. It seemed that they were all meat, not chunks, like minced meat. A strange fragrance floated on the table. Then, the waitress brought a crystal-like glass bowl with a layer of clear water, two half-open peonies floating on it, and some honey sprinkled between the flowers. Helan Jingting wiped his hands with a napkin, took the flowers in his hands like a foreigner breaking bread, and ate them piece by piece. Looks very gentle.

“As for the donation, I will donate 5 million and the money will arrive next Friday.” He said calmly, “If it is not enough, you have to go to Tang Chun.”

“Tang Chun–” Kuanyong sighed, “He is willing to donate, as long as he has the conditions. He wants to repair the pheasant once to Daxinganling. Only once, he pays two million. Xiu pheasant refuses to go, and will not let me Go. Right, Xiuyan?”

“What does he think we are? Tibetan Mastiff?” Xiuyan sneered, “I just want to send us this little money? Tell him, ten million, maybe we can consider it.”

“Is Lanling District so nervous now?” Helan Jingting asked.

“Tang Chun said on the phone that their total number has been reduced by one-third in five years. Recently, two scenic spots will be built there, and a huge quarry will be built. The water quality in that area has declined, and the remaining Half of the 1,000 people plan to cultivate immortals.”

“Then fix it.” Helan Jingting sighed, “it’s also a way out.”

“I heard that Zhao Song is very annoyed about this.” Kanaga continued, “have you not listened to the radio recently?”

“No, is there any news?”

“Zhao Song ordered that starting from this month, no more applications for immortality should be approved.”

“Really? Oops, I also approved twenty last week.”

“I have fifteen more here. Those who go through the back door, please approve it.” Kanae pulled out a stack of paper from his canvas bag and handed him a pen.

Helan Jingting wiped her hands, and Long Feifeng danced her signature: “How much did you charge me?”

“One hundred thousand.”

“Should I get a commission?”

“The priest has always been generous to the hospital.”

“Kanyong, you shouldn’t collect money.” Helan Jingting said lightly, “Return the money to others.”

“This one……”

“Kwanaga.”

“Ok.”

“How much do you still lack, I will find a way for you.”

“Forget it, let’s go to Daxinganling.”

“Don’t go, Zhao Song is looking for you. If you go, you can’t come back.”

“I heard that he is looking for you too?”

“We met once.”

“Did you talk well?”

“Not good.” After signing, Helan Jingting freed her hands and began to tear the flowers slowly, “I warned him not to play the old man’s banner at every turn.”

“You… are you doing it?”

“Ok.”

“Aqiu, he is very dangerous, you should stay away from him.” Xiu Yao said suddenly.

“He came to find me.” Helan Jingting smiled, “and the tone was quite hard. I remember he was kind to me before, probably because the old man didn’t want to take care of things anymore, he thought the world should be his. ”

They seemed to be talking about their family’s official duties, and Pippi felt inconvenient to interrupt. However, she thought to herself, why didn’t any of the dishes on this big table be for her? These men just eat for themselves, are they too gentlemen? What’s more, Helan Jingting also told her not to eat any dishes. In this way, she was only left to sit and accompany the guests, which was really boring.

Thinking of this, she didn’t believe in evil, so she picked up a large spoon, scooped half a spoon of minced meat into her bowl.

It didn’t matter to do this, the three people who were talking and laughing immediately put down their chopsticks and stared at her with piercing eyes.

“Uh—” Pippi spread his hands together and explained: “This dish looks good, I’ll try it.” After that, he delivered it to his mouth.

Helan Jingting guarded her bowl: “This is snake meat, Pippi you won’t like it.”

“Who said that? My grandma is from Cantonese, so she likes snake meat. Snake meat is delicious. I have always wanted to taste it.”

Picking up the spoon and wanting to eat it, the spoon was snatched by Helan Jingting abruptly: “What I told you just now, you are deaf.”

“What did you say? I didn’t remember. Besides, I’m hungry.”

“You—” Helan Jing Ting stopped talking.

Kan Yong hurriedly rounded up the field: “Miss Guan, what do you want to eat? I’ll buy it for you…. You are still a patient, not suitable for eating snake meat.”

“Excuse me, is this really snake meat?”

Everyone was stunned for a very ordinary sentence, and looked at each other, not knowing how to answer this sentence.

There was silence.

The atmosphere became tense inexplicably.

Xiuyu stood up and patted Helan Jingting’s shoulder, and said, “Ah Zong, you can invite this meal again next time. Miss Guan, Kanei and I will have an operation tonight. Let’s say goodbye.”

Helan Jingting thought for a while and smiled slightly: “It’s okay. Then let’s get together another day. Thank you for saving Pippi.”

What’s the matter with these people? How can I leave? Pippi flushed with embarrassment: “Ah, are you leaving now? I don’t mean anything else. I just want to eat a little bit when everyone is eating deliciously. Why should I leave? In this case, I don’t eat anything. Yes, you all stay!”

Kanei had already walked to the door. Hearing this, he paused slightly before turning his head and said, “Miss Guan, your heart stopped beating for four minutes in the hospital that day, Ah Zong almost died of fright.”

Heart stopped for four minutes? Is that still saved?

Pippi looked at him confusedly: “Four minutes? How could it—”

“From a medical point of view, if the heart is stopped for five minutes, the brain will die, and if you don’t die, you will become a vegetable.” Xiu Yi added coldly from the side.

For a moment, Pippi’s face turned pale in shock. Could it be that he has become a ghost? She looked at the floor quickly, the shadow was still there, and then glanced at Helan Jingting, and found that his head was staring at the floor.

“Yes…who saved me?” she asked tremblingly.

“Doctor Xiu.” Kanaga said.

“Oh—” Pippi didn’t like Xiu Xiu at first, but now he has become a lifesaver, the situation is different, Pippi quickly said, “Thank you for saving me, Mr. Xiu!”

Xiuyan hummed unceremoniously: “From now on, you have to be behaved and don’t talk back to Helan at all times.”

“Oh… OK.”

“Helan has a bad temper, so bear with it. Otherwise, he won’t let you grow your hair when he gets angry.” Kanyong also added.

“…” Pippi looked at the two people in front of him, gorgeously speechless.

While hesitating, Helan Jingting touched her bald head through the soft cap, twisted her ears, and then put her shoulders close to herself, and smiled: “You don’t need to Together to scare her. It doesn’t work. She just likes to be naughty.”

Xiuji shook his head helplessly, and threw him a key: “It’s late, I will go with Kanei, you can drive my car back.”