Zheng Wang

Chapter 43

Ke Jinxi has already gone downstairs, there is really not enough time to do it, and the eldest lady has given enough face by opening her eyes and closing her eyes, so the two of them can't be too bold.

However, although the full set is not good, it is not a big problem to have a good time one-sidedly.There was still half a bag of popping candy left from last night, and Guan Zan dug out an untouched bottle of milk. A desert storm, a banana milkshake, served Mr. Ke so heartily that he almost didn't want to let him go.

There was a delay of more than half an hour. After finishing the work, the two of them washed and changed their clothes again. Ke Jinrui was going to the company today, so he took Guan Zan downstairs first.Ke Jinxi obviously waited a long time. Half a pack of cigarette butts accumulated in the ashtray of the car, and the car was full of cigarettes. Seeing the two people coming, he lowered the window on the driver's side, firstly to change the air, and secondly to In order to stare at the younger brother who "doesn't do business properly" at home.

I didn't go downstairs until now after packing up. If I can't guess what I did, then it's a ghost!

However, due to his personality, Ke Jinxi will not be too obvious. Contempt is important, and it is even more important to maintain a positive image of the elders.Ke Jinrui took it for granted, pretended not to see her sister's eyes, calmly held up an umbrella, and personally sent Guan Zan to the co-pilot.After all, Guan Zan is still low-level, even if he is alone with Ke Jinrui, he will still feel shy and embarrassed in front of outsiders, and his skin is thin, and he will turn red unconsciously after a little effort.

He lowered his head and got into the co-pilot, without daring to look at Ke Jinxi's face, he just said to Ke Jinrui politely: "It's getting late, Mr. Ke, go to the company quickly."

"Don't worry, I'm already late anyway." Ke Jinrui held an umbrella in one hand, leaned forward slightly, and fastened his seat belt for Guan Zan, "Don't be distracted during this time, just listen to me and practice the piano, I will visit you every weekend .”

As soon as this remark came out, Ke Jinxi snuffed out the cigarette butt in his hand, squinted at him, and said with insinuation: "How did the old man raise such a white-eyed wolf like you? In the past, I didn't go back once every half a year. Now it's good, I just run back when I have time." .” She glanced lightly at Guan Zan, “It’s just that I don’t have a good heart.”

Guan Zan curled the corners of his mouth when he heard the words, but he didn't have the nerve to really laugh.

Ke Jinrui smiled very frankly: "It must be the best to let Ms. Ke know. Anyway, she is not an outsider. I don't need to say more when the time comes. Zan-Zan has come to you and will take good care of me."

Guan Zan didn't expect Ke Jinrui to say it directly, his cheeks flushed immediately, and he subconsciously looked at Ke Jinxi's reaction.

Ke Jinxi's expression was calm, he pulled the handbrake and started the engine coldly, without even looking at Ke Jinrui, he said: "You old people will give me problems because you think the back door is not wide enough, so you have to open a door." The VIP channel is out?"

"It's not impossible." Ke Jinrui said.

"Don't be poor with me." Ke Jinxi blamed her mouth, but her eyes were no longer so cold. Instead, there was a slight smile, but her voice remained serious.She ignored Ke Jinrui, and turned to Guan Zan, "I'll be very busy during this period, and the old man doesn't go there often. Only by practicing more and improving your skills can you really make the road we paved go smoothly." Good luck."

Guan Zan was startled, and immediately nodded in response: "I know, thank you."

He said this sentence more than once, and he always felt that it sounded insincere, but he couldn't say anything else when facing Ke Jinxi.

"That's how it is, sister, drive slowly on the road, and be careful." After explaining to his sister, Ke Jinrui touched the top of Guan Zan's hair, pinched his cheeks, and kept his temples at bay.Ke Jinxi, who started the engine for a long time, was so tired that he couldn't speak, so he honked the horn twice casually.Ke Jinrui pretended not to hear, and told Guan Zan, "Tell me when you get there, I'll turn it on 24 hours a day, you know."

Ke Jinxi: "..."

Guan Zan smiled and said, "See you on the weekend."

Ke Jinrui closed the car door, took two steps back, and watched the car drive into the humid rain.

He's not such a clumsy person, but coaxing Guan Zan to anger his sister by the way is a very interesting thing in itself.

Summer torrential rain is a huge test for Beijing's drainage system. Basically, several road sections or bridge openings are flooded every year.During the morning rush hour, the taillights on the road were scarlet, and the horns blared.Guan Zan was bored waiting, and didn't dare to do messy things to pass the time in front of Ke Jinxi, so he simply flipped through a music score he brought out from home.

This was given to him by Ke Su when he first went to Xishan Villa.The music score is old, wrapped in a stained transparent book cover, there is a crack under the title page, which is stuck with white tape wrapped around nails, the inner pages are yellowed, the creases are clear on the pages that are often opened, the paper is brittle, and Guan Zan does not care about it. Dare to turn too hard.

The practice score is memorized, and it is easy to find out which tracks the previous owner spent time and energy on.

Guan Zan opened it casually, and the first thing he saw were those ugly notes.He unconsciously curled the corner of his mouth, looked at the title again, and found that it was also a low-level piece, but it was widely spread along with the allusion, and even outsiders were familiar with it, it was the piece "High Mountain and Flowing Water".

The sound of turning pages caught Ke Jinxi's attention. While driving at a low speed to fill up the empty space, she took the time to glance at Guan Zan.When her eyes fell on the music score, Ms. Ke was suddenly surprised. After a few seconds of silence, she asked casually, "Did the teacher give it to you?"

Guan Zan followed the sound and looked sideways at her, and replied obediently: "Yes." He smiled so much that his eyes rolled up, "I think the notes on this are a bit naive, did they used to be used by a child?"

In fact, the entry time of the musical instrument industry is very early, almost around the school age, and it was cultivated as a hobby in elementary school.If the family has the conditions, or the parents are proficient, it is also possible to let the children get in touch with it from a younger age.

However, the last owner of the score was an exception.

Ke Jinxi stared into Guan Zan's eyes for a while, and replied casually: "It's really not true, he just had no education before learning the piano, he knew few words, and his handwriting was ugly. At that time, there was almost..." Ke Jinxi I lit a cigarette, recalled quietly for a moment, and added, "Are you fourteen or five years old?"

"You started at such a young age?" Guan Zan was a little surprised.

"Well." Ke Jinxi said, "His family's conditions are not good, he didn't finish elementary school, his parents died early, and he lied about his age when he came out to work. He is the gardener invited by our family to plant apricot trees for the old man. "

This time Guan Zan was even more surprised, and at the same time wanted to laugh, thinking, how could such a coincidence be possible?

"At that time, the old man was actually not very old, but he had a heart attack, so he took a rest at home temporarily. During that time, in order to let him take care of his health, all work-related content was suspended. He was a restless person, really boring. I just played the piano to pass the time, and I discovered it by accident, the little gardener would hide outside the piano room and eavesdrop."

"The old man was very bored. When he was bored, he asked the gardener if he wanted to play the piano. It was just a casual remark. After all, the other party couldn't read all the characters. In theory, his learning ability would be poor, but I didn't expect him to be really talented. .”

The congested traffic started to move, and Ke Jinxi started the engine again and followed slowly.

"He had only heard the tunes of those pieces, and had no chance to read the piano score, but his memory was amazing. He memorized them all, and he didn't need to recite them deliberately. The old man started to teach him to play the piano in private behind our backs. The two of them The people are very close, and the relationship is very good, even if you don't practice the piano, you will go to the orchard together, drink tea with the old man, and watch him take care of the apricot tree by the way."

Ke Jinxi took a puff of cigarette, and then exhaled slowly: "He is indeed a very talented and talented person. I have learned five or six years more than him, but he only took half a year to catch up. No wonder The old man is partial pain."

Hearing this, Guan Zan faintly agreed in his heart, and asked tentatively, "Is it the young man that the teacher likes?"

Ke Jinxi looked at him sideways: "So I mentioned it to you?"

"I didn't say it specifically." Guan Zan said, "But I just think it's him."

……

It was near noon that Ke Jinrui received the news from Guan Zan.

Guan Zan has a strict time schedule, and will start piano practice in the afternoon. This time, Ke Su is very strict, and he can't delay for a minute, let alone let his unlucky son influence the young apprentice.The two didn't chat for a few words, Guan Zan hurriedly said, "Let's not talk about it now", and then there was no further text.

The platform has just undergone a major update not long ago, and other core projects are gradually on the right track after the mid-year meeting, and they are all in a stable development stage, and there is no new progress for the unmanned driving project with Lingwei.So contrary to Guan Zan, Ke Jinrui really has nothing important to do right now.

But you can find something to do if you have nothing to do, so as not to feel lonely and feel like a single dog when you are free.

Ke Jinrui managed the R&D center and asked for a high-authority account, planning to plan the new version in advance, and by the way, optimize the existing logic code to make the platform data more concise.

This is the developer's cleanliness, and it can also be regarded as nothing to blame.It has been a long time since Ke Jinrui has transformed into a management team. He has not touched the front-line development work for many years, and the high-intensity continuous thinking that he has not tasted for a long time has come back.

Ke Jinrui's thinking was interrupted by the knock on the door. When he came back to his senses, he realized that the sky outside the floor-to-ceiling windows had disappeared, and it was already the bright night scene when the lights were just on.He glanced at the display on the upper right corner of the screen, it was 26:[-] Beijing time, and then checked his phone, Guan Zan didn't receive any text messages in the afternoon.

Work really makes people cold, believe it or not.

After saving the code of the virtual environment, Ke Jinrui took a look at the empty coffee cup, and said to the visitor: "Come in."

The office door opened, and Yu Shaojia carried a Starbucks paper bag, and said with a smile: "I met Bella in the elevator. I heard that you didn't leave, so I bought coffee and came up to take a look." He walked over, took out one of the cups and put it in Ke Jinrui In front of him, he sipped another glass, "Why are you suddenly interested in working overtime?"

Ke Jinrui didn't want to hide anything, so he directly told about Guan Zan being picked up by his elder sister.

Yu Shaojia's smile became more obvious the more he listened, and finally he raised the paper cup to touch him, and said, "Congratulations to Mr. Ke for being forced to become single again, so now you are free tonight, would you like to have a dinner with me?"

"This?" Ke Jinrui smiled meaningfully, "Whose?"

Yu Shaojia said: "President Qin of Central Asia Investment Bank."

Ke Jinrui said: "You don't need to go for this kind of thing, just push it away."

"Don't tell me, it's rare to be free." Yu Shaojia advised him, "Alienation is also just finished. If you don't go to messy places, just drink and relax. After the end, I will call you a driver and promise to take you home before twelve o'clock. .”

In fact, several people often go to the reserved place. It is a store in Sanlitun, which is unique in the popular nightclub street. The boss divided the store into two parts. One half is decorated as a Japanese-style izakaya, and the other half is a dimly lit quiet bar.

Qin Shuyuan arrived ten minutes earlier than them, had already ordered something, and was looking down at his phone while drinking.He was quite surprised to see Ke Jinrui coming together, so he poured the wine himself, punished himself with a drink first, and then explained.Qin Shuyuan said: "It's not that I didn't call you, but I knew there were people in your family who probably wouldn't come over, so I didn't dare to say it in the group, lest I didn't say something neatly, and was chased by the three of you."

Ke Jinrui didn't mind, and asked, "Xingnan is still in the hospital?"

"Well." Qin Shuyuan said, "He called and said that a patient he was in charge of had just had an operation today and his condition was unstable, so he had to stay and watch."

The three of them sat down to drink and chatted one after another. They were mainly busy with work recently, so the topic naturally started with work.This is a very tacit opening statement. Although the group is full of dirty words, they will be more reserved when they come out to meet each other, and the topic is very serious. At least it is in line with their respective identities and statuses before they get drunk.

After drinking a few rounds, the content of the chat was released.

Qin Shuyuan put down his phone and said, "I've almost finished the interview you asked for last time. In order to make the effect realistic, I specially prepared a preliminary test. I personally read the written test part. That kid is not bad in the same class. It's a pity that I offended us, and it's not easy to get along in this professional circle."

Yu Shaojia seemed to understand, thought for a while, and asked, "Who?"

"The one who beat Guan Zan." Ke Jinrui said, "I want to make an appointment with the child of his uncle's family, and I just took the opportunity to alienate the company's autumn recruits."

Yu Shaojia smiled: "Jinrui, you are too defensive. I really can't see Guan Zan suffering a little bit. But it's no fun bullying a brat. Is there anything worth doing with their family?"

"Don't tell me, I've really considered it." Qin Shuyuan leaned over, "I found out that kid's father's livestock farm in China. In addition to leather product processing, by-products are also sold. This involves food safety, especially Easy to do."

After a drink, it was said that they left early, and then they lost control. In the end, the three of them were a little unconscious. It was the bar owner who helped to call a driver.Ke Jinrui checked his phone a few times a night, but he didn't see any news for a long time. Now he sat in the co-pilot and checked it again. There were a lot of unread messages in WeChat, but the chat interface with Guan Zan was still stuck at the sentence at noon. .

The driver who came to drive him was an old driver in his 50s. He was very talkative. He said that he was an employee of a state-owned enterprise and his salary was too low, so he earned some extra money after get off work.

In the middle of the rainy night, the humidity is heavy, and Ke Jinrui has too much, and he feels a headache when he catches the cold, and he doesn't want to talk to him.

The driver failed to find a word, so he graciously lowered the co-pilot's seat for him and asked, "Where are we going?"

Ke Jinrui took his mobile phone and didn't report his apartment, but instead gave Ke Su's address in Houhai Courtyard.

After a while, the car started, Ke Jinrui closed his eyes and rested his mind, thinking casually, it's only been a day, I didn't expect to think about it.

The rainy season is damp and humid, and the well-maintained courtyard house is no better than an apartment. Guan Zan lived in a side room, which felt a little cold, and was disturbed by the sound of the dripping rain outside, making him unable to sleep.His mobile phone was not with him, and Ke Su confiscated it after he started practicing piano in the afternoon, saying that he would not return it to him until school started.Guan Zan didn't think the mobile phone was so important before, in fact, he is not addicted now, he neither plays games nor checks Weibo.

It's just that there is an extra Mr. Ke now, and I didn't hear the sound before going to bed, so I was thinking about it.

At this time, the sound of knocking on the door came from afar, which was not so obvious under the cover of the sound of rain.Guan Zan pricked up his ears to listen for a while before he was sure that something was happening. He quickly got out of bed, put on a coat, opened the umbrella and went out to open the door.

Guan Zan saw the substitute driver outside the door, followed the driver's signal and saw the familiar Land Rover, and the co-pilot Ke Jinrui who was already asleep.

Surprised.