The snow keeps falling!
The first snow of this winter came with great force, and it has lasted for more than ten hours since yesterday, but there is still no sign of stopping. A thick layer of white spreads between the sky and the earth. Standing on a high building and looking far away, there is almost no trace of people in the quiet and vast county town. Occasionally, someone staggers by and accidentally falls in the snow, which attracts the laughter of a child hiding in the house nearby, whose family is unknown.
Wen Liang, who had originally planned to go to Yunyan Lake to enjoy the beautiful scenery of snow after the meeting, decided to return to Qingzhou in advance to avoid being trapped in Yishan by the heavy snow. There were no snowplows at this time of year, and no hardworking sanitation workers to spread salt to melt the snow. If it really snowed for two or three days in a row, he would definitely not be able to leave. He didn't care, but he was afraid that it would delay the girls' schooling. After all, for them, study was the most important thing at the moment.
Meng Fan and Zhong Congjiang were worried and wanted to send a car to follow them to help if they encountered any problems on the road. However, Wen Liang refused. If his Land Rover also lost its gas, the other sedans would be useless. In the end, they would not be able to help and would have to drag it along.
Before leaving the Hua Ting Hotel, Wen Liang took a special look around, but he did not see Ren Zhongping. He did not know whether he was still in Yishan or still here. In fact, with his connections and relationships in Qingzhou, it would not be difficult to investigate Ren Zhongping's whereabouts if he really wanted to, but unless it was absolutely necessary, monitoring the whereabouts of the Commission for Discipline Inspection was no different from suicide. Besides, Ren Zhongping could not have come for a small person like him, so he could care about him, but he did not need to be so concerned.
After saying goodbye to Meng Fan, Zhong Congjiang and others, Wen Liang drove carefully along the snow-covered road. Ning Xiaoning had the best eyesight and sat in the passenger seat to act as a human navigation. Xu Yao and Ji Su stayed in the back seat, chatting quietly with their heads leaning against each other. After driving for more than 30 minutes out of the county, they passed a bridge and saw a Toyota hit the stone pier at the bridge head. The front of the car was slightly deformed, but not too serious. There were several messy brake marks behind the car, probably because it skidded and did not control the direction well. A man and a woman were arguing about something next to the car. Obviously, such a cold weather did not reduce the girl's anger. When she saw Wen Liang's car coming, she turned around and rushed to the middle of the road, waving her arms at the car.
Wen Liang stepped on the brakes, but luckily the car was not going very fast. There was a sharp sound of tires rubbing against the ground, and the car stopped just before it hit the girl. Ning Xiaoning reacted quickly and pressed the control panel with one hand, but Xu Yao and Ji Su in the back row were not so lucky. They leaned forward and their foreheads hit the sturdy back of the chair.
Wen Liang opened the car window. He hated people who played with their own lives. He said angrily, "What are you crazy about?"
The girl was very pretty. Even though her face was a little deformed by the wind and snow, the charm between her eyebrows was still moving. She didn't waste any words and directly took out a stack of RMB from her bag. It looked like there were about two or three thousand yuan. She almost put it to Wen Liang's nose and said coldly: "Send me to Guanshan, and the money is yours!"
Wen Liang looked at the woman in front of him like an idiot. Although Land Rover could not be ranked among the real luxury cars, but nowadays, is there anyone who can afford to drive one who is short of money
Three thousand dollars is all you need to buy the dignity of a Land Rover driver? Do you really think that those who drive Land Rover are all country bumpkins
"Why, do you think the money is too little?" Seeing Wen Liang didn't say anything, the woman took out another stack of money from her bag and said, "Is this enough?"
Wen Liang shook his head. He was too lazy to bother with this crazy woman. He was about to drive away when the man ran over, grabbed the woman's arm, and begged, "Xiao Ya, please stop making trouble, okay?"
The woman called Xiaoya opened the man's hand with a snap, and the money in her hand accidentally fell to the ground. She didn't even look at him, but stared at Wen Liang and said word by word: "You don't want money, right? OK, you send me back to Guanshan, and I will sleep with you once!"
Hearing this, Wen Liang was stunned for a moment. Ning Xiaoning, who had been calm in the passenger seat, couldn't help but turn sideways and tilt her head to look at Wen Liang's window. Xu Yao, who was rubbing her forehead in the back seat, curiously stretched her head to the middle of the front seat, pressed Wen Liang's shoulder, squinted her long and charming eyes, and fell on the woman's face.
"Xiaoya, are you crazy?" The man's eyes flashed with anger, and he said, "You can be angry, but don't humiliate yourself!"
"Abuse? Ha, ha ha," Xiaoya's eyes suddenly turned red, tears welled up in her eyes, she pushed the man's chest with both hands, almost pushing him to the ground, and stepped back two steps, shouting: "Gao Tianfang, if I sleep with you, isn't that humiliating myself? Are you nobler and cleaner than others? Who are you to me? Why do you control me? My body is mine, I will give it to whoever I want, go find your Zhuo Mingjing!"
Zhuo Mingjing
Wen Liang had already started the car, but when he heard the name, he slowed down his pace and turned around again to look at the man and woman who were performing a melodramatic romance drama, with a strange look in his eyes.
“Nonsense!”
Gao Tianfang waved his hand violently and slapped Xiaoya in the face, then looked at Wen Liang coldly with a bit of the sharpness that only officials in official circles had. He left a sentence "Don't meddle in other people's business", turned around and got on the Toyota, started the car after a moment, and drove away without caring about anything.
Xiaoya was completely stunned by the slap in the face. She seemed not to have expected Gao Tianfang to do that. She didn't react until the car left. She opened her mouth towards the receding car body, but no sound came out. After a while, she suddenly squatted down, covered her face and started crying.
"What should I do? Should I help her?"
Xu Yao is always the softest person. Ning Xiaoning said calmly, "There must be something hateful about pitiful people. Look at her face when she threw money at someone just now. It's better not to help her!"
Wen Liang had his own plans in mind, and sighed: "That being said, it depends on the situation. There is no village or shop in the distance, and the weather is so bad. There may not be another car passing by all day. If we don't take care of it, she will suffer!"
Ji Su also said: "Well, it's okay to suffer, I'm just afraid that she will be unable to think straight for a while and do something stupid..."
Three votes against one vote, the minority obeys the majority. Ning Xiaoning shrugged and said, "Okay, whatever you want!"
"Of course, we are not prostitutes, so we can't help you for free!" Wen Liang got out of the car, picked up the scattered banknotes, walked to Xiaoya and said, "It's snowing so heavily, you can't walk back alone, how about this, we will take you to Qingzhou, and then you can take a car to Guanshan by yourself. I will take this money, just as the car fare, how about it?"
Xiaoya cried for a while, and gradually woke up from her sadness. Feeling the coldness of the snow under her buttocks, she knew that what Wen Liang said was the only way, so she nodded and got into the car. Wen Liang asked Ning Xiaoning to go to the back seat, and asked Xiaoya to sit next to him. He handed over some toilet paper. Xiaoya took it, wiped her tears, and whispered, "Thank you!"
Seeing that she looked dazed, Wen Liang asked, "Boyfriend?"
Xiaoya nodded first, then shook her head. Wen Liang stopped asking questions and said, "Think positively. A broken heart is no big deal. Time is the best medicine to heal all wounds. Think about what happened today in a few days. Maybe it's not as serious as you think now..."
With Uncle Wen's eloquence, if he wanted to deliberately make friends with someone, the probability of success would be much greater than the probability of a clumsy "super god". When the car arrived in Qingzhou, Wen Liang had already found out everything about the girl. Not only did he get her phone number, but he also wrote down her workplace and home address. He knew that the girl's name was Mo Xiaoya, from Guanshan, and she was a math teacher at Guanshan No. 27 Middle School. As for the little money he had taken earlier, Wen Liang eloquently stuffed it back, saying that he had asked for money just now to reassure her, and now it was their obligation to help each other. Anyway, this trick not only eliminated the embarrassment brought about by the scene at the bridgehead, but also made Mo Xiaoya, who felt that she was at the lowest point in her life, taste the only warmth in the bitter winter.
However, when Wen Liang intentionally or unintentionally led the topic to the man named Gao Tianfang, Mo Xiaoya was unwilling to say a word. After trying several times, in order to avoid arousing the other party's suspicion, Wen Liang did not deliberately ask further questions.
It was almost dark when they arrived in Qingzhou. Mo Xiaoya politely declined Wen Liang's suggestion to stay overnight and leave the next morning. She got off at the station and took the last bus of the day to leave.
Xu Yao smiled and joked: "Why, you're still reluctant to let go even though everyone has left?"
"Yeah," Wen Liang said sadly, "Didn't we agree to sleep together? There's no trust between people anymore..."
"Bah!" Xu Yao said contemptuously, "Tell me the truth, what do you want to do?"
She was a smart person. Even if she didn't know Wen Liang's intention at first, the two of them were too familiar with each other. She heard him asking about Mo Xiaoya and Gao Tianfang in a roundabout way along the way, so how could she not understand what was going on
"Don't think so badly of me. Does helping someone out mean that I have ulterior motives?"
Of course Wen Liang would not tell the truth. He sent the girls home one by one, called An Baoqing, and asked him to send someone to check on Mo Xiaoya to see if he could find out about Gao Tianfang's background.
"Gao Tianfang? This name sounds familiar to me..." An Baoqing paused and said, "I have definitely heard of this name, but I just can't remember it for the moment..." Gao Tianfang has some of the habits of an official, and even An Baoqing feels familiar with him. Could he be a famous figure in Guanshan? Wen Liang suggested, "He may work in a government department..."
"Oh, that's right, Gao Tianfang, that's him!" An Baoqing finally remembered who this person was and said, "Mr. Wen, do you know Guanshan Mayor Chen Zongzhi?"
"Well, although I have never met him in person, I have dealt with him secretly several times."
"This Gao Tianfang is Chen Zongzhi's secretary..."
After hanging up the phone, an inexplicable smile appeared in Wen Liang's eyes. Gao Tianfang and Chen Zongzhi, when people want to leave, nothing can stop them! (To be continued)