Chapter 41 Get Out of Here!
I feel cold all over.
Mu Jia stared at the video in a daze for a moment.
It took a long time before I thought to check the sender's message.
It was from a strange number he didn't recognize.
Mu Jia tried to call, but after the phone rang a few times, no one answered.
She wanted to see the location of the number again.
Showing overseas.
Mu Jia went to watch the video again.
After she watched it for the third time and carefully identified the man in the surveillance video as Lin Nuo, she received another message on her phone:
This is a room booking record query from the hotel.
The name on his ID card is Lin Nuo, and records show that he had booked rooms in this hotel near Beijing University four times before the holiday.
…
What it means is self-evident.
Mu Jia had never faced such a thing before, and she leaned against the head of the bed in a daze.
Downstairs, Mu's father's voice could be heard:
"Jia Jia went to bed so early today? ... In my opinion, she should get settled quickly... Girls can't procrastinate..."
Mu Jia hugged himself and felt cold all over.
It was half an hour later that she finally pulled herself together, found the WeChat avatar, and sent him a message:
Don't come to my house tomorrow. Let's meet at the gate of Wuzhou Middle School at 11 a.m.
——
Wuzhou Middle School is Mu Jia's alma mater.
At ten o'clock in the morning, before she left, Mu Zhisheng was still nagging: "Why didn't Lin Nuo come today? It's a big holiday, and she came to Wuzhou alone. Her parents must be so worried..."
Mu Jia suddenly felt that in the eyes of his parents, sometimes they looked upon their son-in-law as closer than their own daughter.
She didn't say anything, just said that they had an appointment to meet outside today.
Mu Zhisheng understood after hearing this, "It's a good thing for you to take him out more often... Go ahead."
Mu Jia went out smoothly.
After leaving the staff housing complex, she did not go directly to Wuzhou No. 1 Middle School, but took a taxi to a nearby chain hotel.
——
"This hotel check-in record is indeed in our system. As for who has the authority to query it, I'm not sure."
Mu Jia nodded, took the phone, and said "thank you" to the front desk.
At ten forty, she arrived at the agreed location first.
Seven or eight years have passed.
Wuzhou Middle School still maintains its old appearance, except that the sycamore tree at the entrance of the campus has grown very tall, with its branches stretching towards the sky.
The surrounding snack streets have been tidied up and turned into clean and tidy green areas, and the ground is spotless.
Mu Jia walked to the school gate.
During the holiday, the school also left someone on duty. The security guard, wearing reading glasses, looked at her through the window and said, "You are... a student at Wuzhou No. 1 Middle School, right?"
Mu Jia nodded.
"Do you recognize me?"
"Oh, on a holiday like this, the only people who come here are teachers who forgot something and need to go to the office to get it, and alumni who graduated a while ago."
That’s right.
There are few pedestrians on the road.
The milk tea shop across the street was still open. Mu Jia walked in, ordered a strawberry milkshake, and then sent Lin Nuo a shared location message.
About half an hour later, Lin Nuo came in exhausted.
"Senior," he looked around, "Why are we here today?"
Mu Jia ignored his question and looked through the window glass at the gate of Wuzhou No. 1 Middle School.
"I went to high school here. At that time, I just wanted to grow up. I thought that when I grew up, everything would go smoothly. I wouldn't have to practice questions and do simulation exercises day after day to prepare for the college entrance examination."
Lin Nuo sat down opposite her.
Listen quietly.
"But the world after growing up doesn't seem so ideal either. There are many things we have to do, and there are also many...unexpected events."
She took out her cell phone, opened the video, and placed it in front of him.
Lin Nuo was quite shocked. Only when he saw the man and woman did his expression change slightly, but it was fleeting and he quickly hid it well.
After a video finished playing, he raised his head and asked her calmly, "Did Xie Siyan show it to you?"
Mu Jia was stunned.
"You know..."
"I don't know him," Lin Nuo pushed up his glasses. "His friend has contacted me before. He's Mr. Zhou from Universal Venture Capital. His name is Zhou Xu, right?"
This development was beyond Mu Jia's expectations.
She stared at him blankly, listening to Lin Nuo's story. "He offered me a condition. If I agreed to leave you, he would help me find a job in the financial industry that matched my resume."
Mu Jia: “…”
"I didn't agree," Lin Nuo smiled, a little bitterly. "People like them, who are so high up in the clouds, seem to be quite casual. With just one sentence, they can arrange a person's life and easily control a position that others may not be able to obtain even if they work hard all their lives..."
"Lin Nuo, stop talking." Mu Jia stopped him, "What I want to talk to you about is..."
"Yeah." Lin Nuo ignored her, "I did cheat."
He was so relaxed, not realizing the mistake he had made. "I just wanted to try some meat, but you didn't want to, so I asked someone else to do it."
Mu Jia raised his hand angrily and slapped him.
Lin Nuo's face was knocked to the side due to the blow.
The waiter was making drinks in an orderly manner.
During the holidays, there were no other customers in the store, only some takeout orders, and no one was looking at them at the moment.
Lin Nuo turned his head away. "Why are you pretending to be so noble? I saw the news. You went to Japan with him, right?"
Mu Jia's lips trembled with anger.
"But I didn't..."
"Oh, nothing happened, did it? You'd say that, but..."
Mu Jia pointed at the door and said, "Get out of here!"
Lin Nuo glanced at her, stood up, picked up his phone and left.
——
Peace returned to the room.
Mu Jia sat by the window and took a long time to relax.
Outside the window, the sky was bleak, with the occasional pedestrian hurrying by and quickly disappearing back into the street. Snow had settled on the streetlights, probably fresh from the previous night.
This is a rare cold winter in Wuzhou in decades.
The phone screen lit up, and Song Mingxi's circle of friends had been updated with a few more updates, all of which were full of joy, with no trace of the sadness that had characterized the pre-holiday period.
Mu Jia paused his finger on her profile picture for a moment.
After a moment, it finally moved away.
…
She has no habit of talking to her friends about heartbreak.
When I opened the glass door, a cold wind blew in.
Mu Jia wrapped her scarf tightly around her as she strolled alone along the old street outside the school that she remembered. Most of the shops on both sides of the street were closed, only the small lanterns decorated for the Spring Festival in the windows were still flickering.
Her eyes were suddenly attracted by a small shop——
That wonton shop is still there.
It's just that the sign has faded and the furnishings in the store have become old.
When she was in high school, she always liked to come here in the morning to eat wontons.
The boss lady would specially scoop an extra spoonful of dried shrimp for her.
Mu Jia was lost in thought in front of the shop for a long time, until the snow fell on her shoulders, then she took out an umbrella from her bag.
The weather changed again.
It was dark and light snow was falling. Mu Jia hugged his arms and walked towards the side of the road.
When she turned the corner, no one noticed that the black Land Rover with a Beijing license plate was silently following her, moving slowly forward.
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