From Zhu Li, Xu Qiao interrogated a lot of information that was hidden by Cheng Lang's hands.
It turned out that immediately after the Xu family went bankrupt, the Fancui Jewelry of the Zhao family took advantage of the fire and robbed Jinlu. Not only did it replace Jinlu to win several overseas cooperation projects, but it also poached Jinlu's entire core design team with a lot of money. .
Xu Qiao is not an idiot who is ignorant of the world, and understands the principle of "natural selection, survival of the fittest", which is not to say that she cannot accept and understand it.
As a competitor in the industry who has been fighting against Jinlu for many years, after Jinlu fell, Fancui took advantage of the situation, grabbed projects, and poached teams. "The behavior is understandable.
After all, Fan Cui was slapped by Cheng Lang at the beginning, and he was already in a precarious situation. If he didn't take the opportunity to save himself, he might become the next Jin Lu. Who can be moral at such a time.
So putting aside personal grievances, Jin Lu's skills are not as good as others, and losing to Fan Cui is a common thing.
But what Xu Qiao cares about is some rumors in Zhu Li's mouth.
According to outside rumors, when Jin Lu was struggling at the last moment, he tried to get an investment from Townsend. It was the Zhao family who made the trip. Sen went to find out the bottom line, which led to the collapse of this cooperation talk.
So if the rumors are true, it means that the Zhao family may have already placed someone in Jinlu.
Moreover, according to Zhu Li's friends in the business circle, the contact between Zhao's family and Jinlu's core design team was not after the Xu family went bankrupt, but half a year ago, when Jinlu's first crisis occurred.
That is to say, Jin Lu's ending today is the result of the Zhao family's pushing behind the scenes.
Xu Qiao uttered a foul language, and ran around the living room: "You thought you could be king without Jin Lu, right? Your father is gone, but your aunt is still here! Wait, my aunt is calling you today How much you laugh, how miserable you will cry tomorrow!"
Zhu Li shook his apple muscles, feeling that Cheng Lang's previous decision to lie to others was wise.
When Xu Qiao had nothing, letting her know this would be of no use except to break her down. But today, when she has just shown her strength and gained confidence, these so-called bad things can actually push her forward.
Zhu Li is two years older than Xu Qiao, and she prides herself on being sophisticated among her peers, but Cheng Lang's scheming makes her feel ashamed.
She didn't mind adding more firewood to Xu Qiao's swollen careerism, and continued: "From this point of view, you probably don't know how many people are desperately looking for you these days."
"Looking for me?" Xu Qiao stopped, "Zhao Baoxing and the others want to see me laugh?"
Zhu Li nodded and said probably so: "With some spare money at home, I can eat enough and enjoy watching movies. I understand what is meant by 'the essence of a black fan is a true fan'. The doorway digs your whereabouts." Then shrugged, "But whoever can clear the doorway blocked by your man, their money will be in vain."
Xu Qiao was in shock just now, and didn't have time to correct Zhu Li's words. Now she has accepted the information from her mouth well, and said smoothly: "What is my man, my man's, don't speak so wildly, okay? I am still a pure and flawless jade girl!"
Zhu Li was taken aback: "Which desire?"
"Of course it's a jade that guards the body like a jade."
"Isn't it burning desire?"
Xu Qiao's heart was beating fast when she said it, and her face was fierce: "What are you thinking about!"
"It's not what I'm thinking, it's what Cheng Lang is thinking," Zhu Li said incredulously, "It's been so long since I hit a home run with you. Could it be that he is enthusiastic about charity and public welfare by coming to this scene of saving a bankrupt daughter?"
"Why must the man have the right to decide on such a matter?" Xu Qiao raised her chin, "Can't it be other possibilities, such as I am more difficult to deal with?"
"So you haven't found a date yet?" Zhu Li was taken aback, and thoughtfully said, "Could it be that you fall in love with your first love who read the text?"
"That's not true, why did Hao Duanduan suddenly mention him?" Xu Qiao looked puzzled.
Zhu Li clenched his fists and coughed, avoiding his eyes: "It's fine if it's not for this reason."
Xu Qiao looked at her with her head tilted, with an expression of "Do you think I am someone who can be perfunctory?"
Zhu Li struggled: "I think, I told you about this, I'm a little sorry for Cheng Lang, anyway, I can see you today, it's all thanks to others."
"Are you rebelling?" Xu Qiao put his hands on his hips, "Then don't you feel sorry for hiding something from me?"
After ten minutes of verbal debate, Zhu Li surrendered: "Okay, let me say. That's right, your first love asked me about your whereabouts before."
"When?" Xu Qiao was surprised.
"Not long after the news of your family's bankruptcy came out, everyone was looking for you at that time, and I was in a state of distress. One day, a man contacted my hotel and asked me if I knew where you were, and said he wanted to help you. It's your former friend. At first I didn't know who the other party was, but later I checked the person's old background and found out that the primary school first love I mentioned to you is the right name, and the person is called Song Mian, right?"
Xu Qiao nodded slowly: "He said he wanted to help me?"
Then Song Mian really met her later, why did he pretend to be a stranger to her
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At one o'clock in the afternoon, after having lunch with Zhu Li, Xu Qiao took her car to an old community called "Jinguang City" in the east of the city.
She took off her sunglasses, and looked at the small facade of the community hospital through the half-open car window: "Are you sure he works here?"
Zhu Li nodded: "It's absolutely true, I don't know if he is on duty today."
"He's a good young man. Instead of going to a big hospital to show off, he works as a general practitioner in the community? I remember that he used to get good grades." Xu Qiao was puzzled.
"It's pretty good. It seems that I skipped grades in junior and senior high schools. It is said that he is quite a talented person. He was indeed in a big hospital before, but he came here for some reason."
Seeing that Zhu Li didn't find out that Song Mian was working part-time as Cheng Lang's personal doctor, Xu Qiao didn't mention it.
The doctor-patient relationship of rich people is relatively private. Cheng Lang kept her secret so tightly that she couldn't easily disclose information about him to her girlfriends without his permission.
So she focused on Song Mian himself: "Did he encounter any difficulties?"
"Eighty percent." Zhu Li nodded, "Why don't you think so hard?"
Xu Qiao plucked her hair: "He is in such a bad situation and wants to help me, so it shouldn't be that he hates me."
"Can there be a man who hates you in this world?"
"The main thing is," Xu Qiao omitted Cheng Lang's part, and simply stated, "I met him once a while ago, but he pretended not to know me. I thought he didn't like people in the previous circle, so I didn't look for him. He spoke up."
"When he met you, did you become popular again?"
Xu Qiao blinked: "It is."
After all, she appeared as Cheng Lang's little lover.
"Then it's not that he hates you, it's that he thinks you are already taken care of by someone and doesn't need him anymore, so he retreated silently." After Zhu Li finished speaking, he slapped himself lightly, "President Lang, I'm sorry, I This person has a quick mind and only analyzes the truth, if your little girl ran away with her first love, don't blame me, who told you to be so ink-stained."
"Hey, it's not first love. I used to brag to you, but I'm actually just a good friend, but this friendship is really precious."
"It can be seen that it is quite precious. How about our little princess, who is so arrogant with the CEO, so unconfident in front of a community doctor?" Zhu Li shook his head, and paused when his eyes fell out of the car window , pushed her, "Here it is, is it that one?"
Xu Qiao turned her head, and suddenly met a doctor in a white coat who came out of the door.
She was about to hide her head when she suddenly heard: "Xiao Song is here!"
Song Mian looked away from her, stretched out his hand in his pocket, held the visitor, helped the trembling old man into the door, and said something to him with a smile.
After the nurse inside picked up the old man, he turned his head and looked at Xu Qiao again.
This is her recognition.
Xu Qiao stopped being shy, opened the car door, walked up the steps, stood in front of him, and waved to him as naturally as possible: "Doctor Song."
"Miss Xu," Song Mian nodded towards her, and glanced at the car behind her, "it's Mr. Cheng..."
"No," Xu Qiao waved her hand, "That's Zhu Li's car."
Song Mian's eyes changed slightly, probably guessing what Zhu Li said to her, he hesitated, smiled helplessly, and sighed: "Xu Qiao, long time no see."
Xu Qiao heaved a sigh of relief, and also laughed: "I won't recognize me until the third time, you are too mean."
"Sorry," Song Mian glanced at her light clothes, and pointed to the inside, "It's cold outside, come in and tell me."
"Do not disturb your work?" She looked in.
"It's okay, the lunch break isn't over yet." He opened the door for her and made a "please" gesture.
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Except for the old man who just came to get an IV drip earlier, there are no other patients in this community hospital for the time being.
Xu Qiao followed him all the way into the consulting room, sat down on a simple armchair, and asked casually, "So are you on the afternoon shift?"
"No, I'm on duty for a day." Song Mian poured her a cup of warm water from a disposable paper cup, "Sorry, this is the only one here."
Xu Qiao waved her hand to indicate that it would be okay, took a sip of face, and asked, "You have a doctor on duty all day on New Year's Day? This community hospital has such a heavy workload."
Song Mian sat down across from him: "I made the appointment. There's no need for other doctors to split up the complete vacation. Anyway, I don't need to have a holiday."
"No need for a holiday?"
"My family is not here, and I don't have a girlfriend." He explained with a smile.
Xu Qiao nodded suddenly, and went to drink water again.
Reunited after a long absence, the feeling of acquaintance seems like a world away. Once there is silence, the atmosphere becomes dry.
As a result, both of them searched hard for the topic in their minds, and finally said one word in unison: "You..."
Song Mian was stunned and smiled: "You speak first."
"It's nothing," Xu Qiao laughed dryly, "I just want to ask you how you have been in the past few years since you left Beicheng."
"It's good," Song Mian seemed unwilling to mention the past, and simply said, "Actually, after returning to Beicheng last year, I wanted to talk to you about the past, but then I heard that you had a good time..."
"Floating?"
Song Mian was amused by her: "Yes, so I think you probably don't lack me as an old friend, and to be honest, I always felt that leaving without saying goodbye back then was a bit... I'm sorry, so I didn't recognize you the first two times. Without me, I didn’t say hello to you.”
Xu Qiao blinked quickly: "Oh, that's a trivial matter, just... I was very angry at first, but I'm still reasonable. I know you left because of family accidents, so I forgive you a long time ago." .And now I... can especially understand your mood at that time."
Song Mian's eyes darkened: "How are you doing now, is there any difficulty?"
"No, I'm fine." She shook her head, looked around, and said in a low voice, "But you, why don't you work in a big hospital?"
Song Mian lowered his head slightly, as if hesitating, but when Xu Qiao waved his hand to indicate that it's okay if he doesn't want to say anything, he nodded to himself: "We should be honest with old friends."
"Of course you can think so! Although you now think that I am a bit of a mud bodhisattva crossing the river and I can't protect myself, but I am lucky, and I may be able to recover soon, so if you have any difficulties, you must follow me. Let me tell you, you said back then that friends should help friends!"
"You can't help me with this." Song Mian raised his right hand and clasped his five fingers twice, "My right hand injured a nerve in an accident and I couldn't go to the operating table anymore, so I quit the front line. Hospital work."
Xu Qiao was stunned on the spot, and then said after a while: "Is it so serious..."
"It's not too serious, and it won't affect normal life."
Yes, as long as the right hand of ordinary people can guarantee daily life, the right hand of a pianist needs to play the piano, the right hand of a painter needs to hold a pen, and the right hand of a doctor needs to hold a scalpel—their right hand is equivalent to professional life.
Xu Qiao's face turned slightly pale: "Is it temporary? Are you in treatment?"
Song Mian's brief silence made her feel a little blocked, and she asked again: "Is it going to be better?"
"Not necessarily." Song Mian laughed, as if comforting her in turn, "There are many miracles in medicine that doctors can't explain, maybe one day it will get better."
Xu Qiao lowered her eyes.
"What's wrong?" Song Mian's tone softened, "I'm not telling you this to make you feel sorry for me. If you're like this, I won't dare to tell you anything in the future."
She raised her head: "That won't work."
"Then why don't you smile?" Song Mian looked at her with a smile.
Xu Qiao made a sad face: "Hey, isn't this embarrassing? It makes me laugh."
"There's nothing wrong with it. Really, I left the first-line hospital not because I can no longer work there. Even if I can't get on the operating table, I can still stay in the outpatient clinic. It's my own choice to come here."
"Why did you choose this way?"
"Because the existing general practitioners in China are too scarce, many people think that doctors with low professional level will choose to become general practitioners. But this should not be the case. General practitioners are an advanced medical science that urgently needs to be popularized. Occupation, you may think that I am overqualified when I go to the grassroots at a young age, but in fact, I promote health care knowledge to residents, establish family medical records for ordinary people, and kill diseases in the cradle when people first get sick. Doctors are equivalent to the 'gatekeepers' of everyone's health, and they are also an important part of improving hierarchical medical care."
"I usually don't spend much time here as a doctor, and Mr. Cheng doesn't take up too much energy. I spend more time going out for free clinics or giving lectures at the grassroots level. This is an idea I had when my right hand was intact. I have been studying and preparing for so many years, but due to some social prejudices, I have not made up my mind, and now I am pushed. I think that this accident is because God wants me to follow my heart and be myself want to do."
Xu Qiao's eyes were a little sore, not because of distress, but because of emotion.
I am moved that no matter how the world changes, some people will never change.
Such words seemed to be what the boy in her memory would say.
"You are amazing," Xu Qiao pursed her mouth, "My mind is full of tacky things, and I have never had such a radiant dream."
"Everyone's dream is radiant." Song Mian smiled, "You can also do what you want, don't care about anyone's eyes."
It's like when I was a child, every time I could comfort Song Mian with a few words, I felt that life was not so bad. Xu Qiao discovered that some people are positive energy emitters, making those who are close to them feel that they can also be great.
Xu Qiao parted from Song Mian and Zhu Li one after another, remembering Song Mian's words, and remembering the good deeds Zhu Li said about the Zhao family, her body seemed to be full of infinite energy. After returning to the apartment, she seriously wrote down her career plan.
After spending an hour writing, she received a cross-border message from Cheng Lang: "What are you doing?"
She took a photo of a draft with densely written words: "I'm doing business."
Cheng Lang on the other end received the news, confirmed that it was the background of the study in the apartment, and called Gao Rui back: "Are you sure she just went to Jinguang City to meet Song Mian?"