The companions went their separate ways
Shen Roujiao turned around with red eyes from crying.
Zhou Huaiyue, who was pushed away by Gu Changgeng, stepped back two meters. He raised and then put his hands down and clenched them into fists. His feet were fixed on the spot and he couldn't move. He wanted to rush up to comfort her, but there was someone else by her side. He wanted to talk nicely, but the words sounded completely different when they came out of his mouth.
It was just some angry words, but how did it end up as a rift between master and disciple?
Zhou Huaiyue looked at Gu Changgeng's almost doting coaxing and was hit by a sudden feeling of failure. He felt failed and helpless.
He obviously likes her, but why is he like a hedgehog, hiding his gentle inner self, pointing his hard thorns at her and stabbing her fiercely?
Disappointment and doubt enveloped Zhou Huaiyue, and his emotions grew bigger and bigger like a snowball, until finally it became so big that he didn't have the courage to look at her again.
It was almost an escape. Zhou Huaiyue ran away without even looking back.
Shen Roujiao wiped away her tears and when she looked again, she only saw Zhou Huaiyue's back. He left so decisively that he didn't even bother to say "goodbye".
Men are really cold-blooded animals.
"Senior, let's go too." Gu Changgeng pulled Shen Roujiao and walked in the opposite direction.
He really didn't expect that Zhou Huaiyue would just leave like that, just like he left after committing a crime. Shen Roujiao, who had never coaxed him the way she coaxed Zhou Huaiyue, admitted her mistakes in a soft voice and coaxed him, trying to please him so pitifully, but he didn't even have a word of comfort.
"That man is unworthy of being your master. He is cold-blooded and heartless."
"He helped me a lot and saved many people." Shen Roujiao turned around again and took a closer look, and even his back disappeared.
"So what? My dad said that men who like to get angry with women are the stupidest. Zhou Huaiyue is stupid." No matter how successful and powerful Gu Jingnian is in the outside world, when he returns home, he always speaks in a humble and gentle manner in front of his mother.
When Gu Changgeng wanted to curse a few more times, he noticed that the sadness in Shen Roujiao's eyes was about to overflow, so he swallowed the words back.
The two of them walked towards the south alley entrance. Shen Roujiao, who had adjusted her mood, pretended to be calm and asked, "Why did you follow me out?"
"After dinner, I took a stroll." He couldn't get over the bullying by Zhou Huaiyue, so he ran out to complain to her. However, he saw that Shen Roujiao was bullied even worse. If he talked about his little things again, it would seem too hypocritical.
"Roujiao, Changgeng, where is Huaiyue? Why isn't he with you?" Hu Zi was sorting goods at the door of the store, waiting for the truck carrying medicinal herbs, when he unexpectedly saw two acquaintances.
Gu Changgeng coughed loudly and shook his head and squinted at Brother Huzi.
?
What do you mean.
"He has something to do." Shen Roujiao smiled awkwardly, unable to hide the embarrassment of "I have something to do too".
Hu Zi was very smart and never mentioned Zhou Huaiyue again. He was shocked when he heard Shen Roujiao said she wanted to open a pharmaceutical factory. After learning the whole story, he admired her courage even more. She was really daring and more courageous than men.
"If you need help, please call me. I'm good at running errands." Hu Zi has already gotten the hang of dealing with medicinal materials. Running a pharmaceutical factory involves cross-professionalism. He wants to do it, but he can't. He really needs Zhou Huaiyue, who is an expert. In the words of Boss Cui, Master Zhou is at the top of the pyramid.
This current commotion can't be about the pharmaceutical factory, right?
While Shen Roujiao was called to the backyard by Boss Chen to discuss the medicinal materials distribution base, Hu Zi deliberately pulled Gu Changgeng aside and asked what was going on between them as master and apprentice.
"I don't know why, I just know that they had a fight, Zhou Huaiyue didn't want to be her master anymore, and didn't want to be in her business anymore. He killed her and left."
?
That's impossible.
Zhou Huaiyue didn't want to be her master? Hu Zi didn't believe it at all. "Master" was almost becoming Shen Roujiao's exclusive title. Only she could call him that. Whoever else called him that would be the one to do it. Zhou Huaiyue really wanted to be her master.
Don't want to take care of her business? Hu Zi didn't believe it. He clearly wanted to take care of everything. He came back from the capital and couldn't even walk. When he heard that Shen Roujiao was in the epidemic area, he wanted to run away.
Impossible. Absolutely impossible.
"You kid won't do anything bad, will you?" Hu Zi couldn't help but doubt Gu Changgeng.
"I didn't even have the chance to do anything bad. Zhou Huaiyue attacked me first and then attacked her."
Gu Changgeng has the mind of a child, still a fool, he has some ideas but he is not a bad person. Although Hu Zi did not understand from his few words why they parted ways, he was sure of one thing, Zhou Huaiyue would never leave easily. Otherwise, he would have left long ago and never come back.
......
After returning to Hedong Village, Shen Roujiao did not leave the yard for several days. She stayed in the house, writing application materials for a pharmaceutical factory.
The brothers of the Shen family all felt that she was acting strange, but they couldn't figure out why. Thinking that the younger sister might be worried about running a pharmaceutical factory, no one dared to say too much.
After revising and writing, writing and revising, Shen Roujiao finally prepared all the materials. On this day, she went out to walk the dog. Jixiang Ruyi ran to the yard of the educated youth. She didn't dare to go in, so she could only keep calling out to Shiwu to come out quickly.
A child from next door who was passing by after school asked her to go in and catch him, but he said there was no one in the yard. Zhou Zhiqing came back once a few days ago and left in a hurry and has not been around recently.
Leave?
Gone?
So fast?
The yard was quite clean. The small stool that had once tripped her and caused her nose to bleed was placed against the wall under the window at the front of the house. On the windowsill were two aluminum lunch boxes covered in a net bag, covered with a thin layer of dust.
Walking inside, Zhou Huaiyue's door was locked. Although she knew the key was hidden above the door frame, she didn't dare to move.
Looking through the glass window into the house, all the paintings on the wall were gone, leaving only the little fox in the middle, all alone and abandoned.
Suddenly, tears welled up in my eyes.
It was as if she was the little fox in the painting, thrown here by Zhou Huaiyue.
Once in this small courtyard, she asked him, "Is it really impossible to like money?"
He replied, “Why not?”
Shen Roujiao firmly believed that they were the same kind of people, people who could bravely pursue what they liked, who could understand and support each other, and who did not care about other people's opinions.
But, the group eventually got separated.
She wiped away her tears stubbornly.
If she had known that Zhou Huaiyue would leave so cleanly and neatly, she had to pretend to be calm and indifferent that day. Crying was too undignified.
Unexpectedly, soon, God gave her the opportunity to pretend to be calm.
Five days later, the two met again at the Xiaonanchuan City's commendation meeting for fighting the meningococcal epidemic.
That day, in recognition of their outstanding performance in the fight against the epidemic, she stood on the award podium with Boss Cui and the 18 bodyguards.
When thunderous applause broke out from the audience, Shen Roujiao, who was immersed in the infinite glory, found Zhou Huaiyue in the crowd. He was talking to the people next to him with his head down, and he never looked at them from beginning to end, and he didn't even applaud.
After walking down the stage, Shen Roujiao did not sit with them in the inner seat, but sat in an empty seat near the exit.
As the best individual winner of the Outstanding Contribution Award, Zhou Huaiyue walked up to the podium alone. When Mayor Lu pinned the medal on him, everyone present stood up and applauded him, including Shen Roujiao.
He was dressed very formally in a white shirt, black trousers, black leather shoes, and had his hair cut. He looked very energetic and had the air of an educated elite.
A few short speeches, "Winners are those who share the same will, and prosperers are those who stick together through thick and thin. The success in the fight against the epidemic is the unity and concerted efforts of all people..." When Zhou Huaiyue spoke, his eyes were so bright that Shen Roujiao's vision was blurred. She didn't dare to look at the stage again, for fear that she would be discovered crying again.
The commendation meeting lasted for more than two hours. After the meeting, Boss Cui held Zhou Huaiyue, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, and said excitedly, "You are so handsome today. This is the first time we meet after the New Year. You are amazing. You are a well-deserved miracle doctor. Boss Chen and I guessed it right."
"You're still far from being a miracle doctor." As he spoke, his eyes quickly swept over Boss Cui and the eighteen bodyguards around him.
"Oh, your apprentice is not sitting with us." Boss Cui looked towards the exit and waved his hand and called over there, "Roujiao, come here quickly, your master is here."
Their eyes met briefly, and then they looked away coldly in just a second. Shen Roujiao pretended to be calm, and when she approached, she said to Zhou Huaiyue, "Congratulations." Her eyes sparkled, and her voice was low and soft, revealing a sense of distance and strangeness.
Boss Cui, who was in an excited state, didn't notice anything unusual about them at all. He gave them a thumbs up without knowing why and said, "You two, master and disciple, are really extraordinary. Each of you is awesome!" The people around them also followed suit and praised the two of them for being amazing.
The situation was awkward, like trying to pull a chestnut from the fire, making Shen Rou delicate as if standing on pins and needles. She wanted to say something, but the words seemed to be stuck in her throat, unable to spit out or swallow.
"On such an important day, why are you two unhappy, master and disciple? It's okay that he has an icy face, but why are you so calm?" said Brother Wang, who decocted medicine with him during the epidemic.
"I just laughed too much, let's take a break. Hehe." Shen Roujiao tried to get away with it by pretending to smile, but she heard a sneer coming from the side, which made her feel cold in her heart and she felt dizzy.
!
The atmosphere was a little off.
When Boss Cui looked over again, there was something more in his eyes.
Want to escape.
"Then I..." The person who was trying hard to find an excuse to escape the scene suddenly heard, "Everyone take a group photo! All the award recipients come on stage to take a group photo." In an instant, he felt a sense of relief as if he had been saved.
Acting is so tiring.
Shen Roujiao and Boss Cui were arranged to sit on the right side of the second row, while Zhou Huaiyue and Mayor Lu stood in the middle of the first row. Before the photo was taken, Secretary Wu suddenly called her name, "Move to the side of Zhou Huaiyue."
"No!" Not to mention that there was a quarrel between master and disciple, even if there was no quarrel, she had no qualifications to stand next to Mayor Lu. She knew her own weight, and compared with what Zhou Huaiyue had done, her contribution was nothing.
"Come quickly." Lu Qinglan's voice.
Everyone looked at her. She could no longer refuse. Shen Roujiao walked to the front row. The seat next to Zhou Huaiyue was vacant. She stood in the empty seat with a red face, not daring to look to the side. Her back felt numb. As the shadow pressed down, a photo was taken with a "click".
When the group photo was over, Shen Roujiao's back was already sweating, and she immediately hid aside to look for Wu Yi. Today, she came with a mission, but was almost disrupted by the sudden reunion.
In a corner away from people.
"Loan?" Wu Yi asked in shock.
"The pharmaceutical factory needs a loan in the early stages. I would like to ask you, can you do it?" Shen Roujiao planned to use the loan to build a factory and purchase equipment and raw materials.
After roughly understanding her business idea, Wu Yi frowned, thought for a moment and said, "It's difficult for you to get a loan. You are not allowed to apply for it if you are under 18 years old. And it's difficult to get approval in the early stage without a factory. If you have a partner, it will be easier to get a loan when you expand your business. In fact, you let Zhou..."
The conversation was interrupted. "No partners, must be over 18 years old, right?" Shen Roujiao never thought that youth would be an obstacle.
"Ah! Isn't Zhou Huaiyue a partner?" Shocked for the second time.
She was planning to open a pharmaceutical factory, but Zhou Huaiyue, who knew medicine and medical skills, didn't participate. This was really unreasonable. He was so enthusiastic about digging for medicinal materials, but when it came to doing something big, he ran away?
"When we expand the business later, I'll be 18 years old and can apply for a loan myself then." Shen Roujiao avoided the question and skipped the topic, her evasive attitude was obvious.
"Yes. Are you running the factory alone?" he asked, and she nodded. "There are a lot of procedures. If you need help, I will arrange for someone who knows the business to help you with the procedures. You may need to think about it because of your age."
Wu Yi immediately concluded that the two of them might have really broken up. Zhou Huaiyue quickly traveled back and forth to the capital, could he be planning to go back? Unfortunately, Zhang Qingjun was not there, otherwise it would be a good opportunity to take advantage of the situation and replace him.
"Thank you, Secretary Wu. Brother Qingjun and the others are all okay."