The Gold is Yours, You Are Mine

Xie Shi'an originally thought that Cao Rui called someone to play ball with clients, but he didn't expect that it was this way of playing, giving up the ball with money.

But the middle-aged man with fat head and big ears on the opposite side was not conscious, his face was full of smiles, and his vanity was greatly inflated.

"Professional players, that's all."

Without saying anything, Jian Changnian raised her hand and gave someone another one.

She could crush that man to death with a single finger, Xie Shi'an couldn't stand it any longer. Once the boy's temperament improved, he felt that his professional beliefs had been greatly insulted, and he was about to rush over.

Cao Rui grabbed him immediately: "Ancestor! I beg you! This business has been discussed for a long time and has not been settled!"

"Is that how you help?" Xie Shi'an's eyes were extremely cold.

"To put it nicely, it's called playing ball, but to put it bluntly, what's the difference between this and accompanying wine?!"

The roof is not big, and the wind blows her sentences indistinctly into her ears.

Jian Changnian froze, with a sad look on his face, and the hand that was about to serve stopped.

Mr. Qian on the opposite side also noticed the movement here, straightened up and looked at them and shouted: "Xiao Cao, what's the matter?"

Cao Rui turned around and said, "It's okay, Mr. Qian, a friend, you can continue playing."

After that, he lowered his voice again, and his tone was urgent and fast.

"Little Jane, doesn't she also need money? Think about it for her!"

Xie Shi'an glanced at Jian Changnian, that guy didn't dare to look back at her at all, and then looked at what he was wearing, isn't the short-sleeved short skirt cold in winter? Still here playing with a few greasy old men, if she stays for another second, she will feel that she will have a needle eye.

Xie Shi'an pursed the corners of his lips, brushed his hand away without saying a word, turned around and left, opened the roof door heavily, and smashed it against the wall, making a loud bang.

She left, but Jian Changnian's heart was suddenly tugged. She hesitated again and again, but still bit her lips, put down her racket and said hastily: "Mr. Qian, excuse me," and chased after her.

"Hey—" Cao Rui wanted to stop him, but he didn't.

"Shi'an! Xie Shi'an!" Jian Changnian chased him out, and finally stopped him in the corridor.

Xie Shi'an's hand stopped on the elevator button, and he didn't press it for a long time.

Jian Changnian put her hands on her knees, panting.

"How did you come?"

"I..." She was obviously the one who jumped over the wall and ran out, but the words turned into words.

"Should I be glad that Coach Yan didn't come over in person, or should I regret that he didn't see this scene." Xie Shi'an pulled the corner of his lips coldly, revealing a sarcastic smile.

Mentioning Coach Yan, Jian Changnian's expression was gloomy. She knew that Coach Yan despised such obscene and unsportsmanlike things the most, and she also knew that she had let them all down.

Seeing the sarcasm in Xie Shi'an's eyes, Jian Changnian couldn't help but blushed again.

It was with great difficulty that she got Xie Shi'an's approval. She didn't want her to feel that she was a person without moral bottom line and professionalism, so she tried her best to explain with some powerlessness.

"I... you trust me, I will do it this time."

Xie Shi'an turned his face away, forcing himself not to look into her eyes.

"If you don't have any money, you can borrow it. I, Qiao Yuchu, Cheng Zhen, Zhou Mu, Coach Yan, and every brother and sister in the provincial team, won't you help me?"

In the past few days, Jian Changnian has hardly closed her eyes. All she thinks about is money, and her nerves are so tense that she is about to break at any time. Hearing her talk about this, all the grievances come to her heart, and tears flow He came down, roaring with tears.

"I borrowed it! I sold all the valuables in my house, went door-to-door to the village to borrow money, knelt down in front of Zhou Mu's parents and begged them to help me, do you think I don't want to borrow money from you?! Everyone every month Just take that little allowance, don’t I know?! Since I didn’t join the training team, Coach Yan has been helping me, don’t I know?! It’s not fifty thousand, it’s one hundred thousand!”

"If I'm the kind of heartless person who pushes every inch, I will cheat the money even if I cheat, but I have a conscience, Xie Shi'an, I have a conscience."

"Then you can't..." Xie Shi'an's eyes flashed with a complex look, and he silently clenched his hands.

Jian Changnian choked with sobs, and laughed at himself: "I can't do anything, I can do anything now, as long as I can make money, don't let me go to play with people, just let me go to drink with people like Sun Qian people sleep, I..."

Before the words fell, the collar was lifted.

Xie Shi'an stared at her eyes, the corners of his eyes were a little red, and said word by word: "You, say, again."

Since meeting her, Xie Shi'an has shown an indifferent and indifferent appearance in front of her, occasionally duplicity, even if she plays with Qin Yang and the others, it is mostly because of unwillingness to admit defeat, and never really I've never been angry before, not to mention holding someone else's collar to question.

The two were close, and there was still a height difference at that time, Xie Shi'an carried her like a chicken.

Her pitch-black pupils reflected her heart ashamed, broken and smashed.

Jian Changnian smiled sadly: "I said, as long as I have the money, I can do whatever I want now."

Xie Shi'an's hand holding her collar trembled a little, she gritted her teeth and resisted punching her.

"You go back with me right now, the national competition..."

When it comes to the national competition, the string in my head is completely broken.

Jian Changnian pushed the person away, screaming with tears.

"What kind of national competition, I won't participate! What kind of badminton, I won't play anymore...I want to save my grandma now. My parents didn't want me since I was a child. She picked me up from the garbage dump, took care of me, and protected me. , she is my only relative in this world, Xie Shi'an, do you really understand?!"

The sudden exertion caught Xie Shi'an off guard, and he took a few steps back before standing still. Seeing her tearful and hysterical, it seemed that he was back in the past, the time when grandpa just passed away.

The heart seems to be eaten by hundreds of millions of ants, a familiar, secret, sour pain.

Xie Shi'an silently clenched her lower lip, she said no more, turned around and pressed the down button of the elevator.

The elevator door closed in front of her eyes, Jian Changnian couldn't help crying, and when Cao Rui came out to look for her, he quickly wiped away the tears.

"I'm going to the bathroom to wash my face, I'll be right back."

Seeing Xie Shi'an running out of Lifeng Building, Qiao Yuchu, who was waiting by the side of the road, immediately went up to him.

"Come down so soon?"

She looked at Xie Shi'an's empty back: "Where's the person?"

Xie Shi'an waved and stopped the taxi without saying a word.

Qiao Yuchu hurried to catch up: "Hey, why are you going?"

Xie Shi'an got into the car without looking back: "Go home!"

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Zhou Mu got off the bus and walked to the school. This road is also one of the bustling roads in the city, and it is next to the station. Therefore, when the weather is good and the traffic is heavy, there are always people who set up stalls to do business, and some of them are part-time students. .

As she walked, peddlers greeted her.

"Girl, look at the crystal hairpin and earrings, they are all new."

"No, thanks."

Zhou Mu was not in the mood to read these now, shook his head, avoided people and continued to move forward.

Before she took two steps, she came across a street stall selling CDs and various counseling materials and books. Looking around, the whole street sold everything from clothes and shoes to daily necessities.

I don't know which tendon was right suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in Zhou Mu's head, and he jumped up all over.

"I thought of it, I thought of it!"

As she ran to school, she hurriedly took out her mobile phone from her pocket and called Cheng Zhen.

"Senior Cheng, I thought of it, I thought of a way to help Chang Nian!"

Cheng Zhen jumped up from the sofa as soon as he heard it: "Yes, you, Zhou Mu."

The person who was praised smiled a little embarrassedly: "I'm going to mobilize my classmates right now, that...I also want to ask you, would you like to help..."

Before the words finished, Cheng Zhen answered in one gulp.

"Of course, Shi'an's friends are my friends! Don't worry about the swimming team, I'll mobilize them!"

Zhou Mu smiled sincerely: "Thank you, Senior Cheng."

After hanging up the phone, Cheng Zhen ran back to the bedroom, first emptied out his schoolbag, packed a few toys and found it was full.

He shook his head: "No, it's a little small."

Cheng Zhen thought for a while, then dragged out a suitcase from under the bed, opened it and stuffed it with all kinds of idle comic books, CDs, game discs and so on.

While walking towards the dormitory, Zhou Mu sent messages in his class group and badminton school team group.

"Good afternoon, dear students, seniors and sisters. I am Zhou Mu from Class 1 and 3 of Senior High School. I have to ask you for help. My friend Jian Changnian is a member of the Binghai Provincial Badminton Team. Her family is poor, and she lived with her grandmother since childhood. , Through my own efforts, I finally entered the Binhai Provincial Team. Seeing that the national competition is about to start, my grandmother was seriously injured in a sudden car accident and was in bed. The perpetrator escaped and her whereabouts are unknown. , It really makes a poor family helpless, I implore all kind-hearted people to help her, so that she can realize her dream and reunite with her family."

Zhou Mu continued typing: "If you have any spare items, please send them to bedroom 208 in the girls' dormitory. My friends and I are very grateful!"

Her message was sent out, and there was no movement in several groups, as if a stone had disappeared.

Zhou Mu sighed, and continued to walk forward, but the mobile phone in her hand suddenly vibrated. She looked down and saw that it was Li Jiajia, who asked in the school team group:

"Would you like an idle plush toy?"

Zhou Mu hurriedly typed and replied: "If you want, if you want, clean ones are fine."

After a while, someone replied again, it was the senior who went to the Morning Star Club with them last time.

"I have some tutorial books, but I haven't done them yet."

Zhou Mu laughed and quickly replied: "Yes, thank you senior."

"Where are you? I can't get into the girls' dormitory."

"I'll wait for you downstairs in the dormitory."

"Okay, we'll be there soon."

Zhou Mu waited downstairs in the dormitory for a while, and the senior came running over with his schoolbag on his back, and put the schoolbag in front of her.

"Here, these are all for you."

Zhou Mu opened it and was shocked, it was full of books.

The senior scratched his head and smiled: "It's a bit heavy, can you move it? I didn't think too much about it. When I saw the news, I thought I should help you, so I brought them all here."

Zhou Mu tried to carry it. Although it was a bit heavy, she should be able to move it.

"It's okay, I can move it, thank you senior, don't you need all these?"

"I'm going to take the art test, so it's useless to keep it. I hope it can help you."

When the senior turned to leave, she yelled at the back of the person again: "By the way, senior, tell your brothers for me, if you have any unused items, you can send them over."

The senior turned around and gestured "OK" to her.

When she carried the book upstairs and took out her mobile phone to check, the group messages exploded, and 99 popped up from time to time, and she couldn't even read it.

She rowed down one by one.

"There are unused items in the girls' dormitory 407, and I will bring them to you later."

"Wait for me, wait for me, 309 also has it."

"What about boys?"

Before she could reply, there were enthusiastic girls to chime in.

"Send it to the dormitory auntie, and ask her to help bring it up."

Holding the mobile phone, Zhou Mu's eyes were slightly red in the face of the influx of strangers' kindness. It's great, Chang Nian, grandma is saved.

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After Cheng Zhen packed his things, he called his brothers.

"Stop talking nonsense, just say whether you can help or not?"

The boy on the phone said lazily, "One hundred thousand, that's too much..."

"Who asked you for money? Bring me any toys, game consoles, CDs, books, etc. you don't want at home. I'll sell them at the flea market later."

"It's okay, it's broken, isn't it, then my family has plenty."

"Fuck you, at least clean and usable ones that can be sold."

After hanging up the phone, Cheng Zhen looked at the suitcase full of idle items, and roughly estimated the value in his heart. At most, it was a drop in the bucket, but it was better than nothing, and he didn't know how Zhou Mu's mobilization was going.

After thinking about it, he still picked up the car key from the bedside table, put it in his pocket, changed his clothes and went out.

Cheng's mother came out of the kitchen and said, "Hey, we'll be eating soon, where are you going?"

Cheng Zhen waved his hand: "I have something to do, you guys eat first, and you'll be back in a while."

He rode the bike straight to the nearby repair shop, which also accepts the sale of second-hand motorcycles.

Cheng Zhen jumped out of the car and threw the key to the boss.

"Just yesterday's price, don't wait."

The boss looked at the new car he had just mentioned, and was also a little surprised: "Are you sure? You have only mentioned it for a few months. If you are not in a hurry, I will ask you if there is any better price."

Cheng Zhen touched the front of the motorcycle, and his eyes were a little nostalgic. This bike was a gift from his father on his eighteenth birthday.

"Okay, you call the buyer over, we'll pay in person."

"Okay, then I'll call him." The boss responded, and ran to make a phone call.

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In the teachers' dormitory.

Yan Xinyuan was wearing reading glasses, sitting under a desk lamp, with a list of entries in front of him.

One pair: Xie Shi'an/Qiao Yuchu.

Second pair: Bai Bingbing/Xu Jia

One order: Zhang Chun

Second single: Yang Li

These are all pre-determined, only three orders are still blank.

He lowered his head and wanted to write something, but he couldn't write any more after writing a swipe, and then he painted that scribble in a circle and erased it.

Yep, another waste of paper.

Yan Xinyuan simply stopped writing, picked up his pipe and lit the shredded tobacco, and after smoking half a pack of cigarettes, he still opened the drawer, took out the passbook from it, and was about to go out.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

Yan Xinyuan opened the door and saw that it was Coach Liang.

"Yo, you want to go out? It's just right, I pooled up some money with a few other teaching assistants, you can bring it to Jian Changnian."

Facing the envelope he pushed over, Yan Xinyuan was a little surprised: "This..."

Coach Liang also saw the passbook in his hand and smiled.

"The few of us don't have much salary, and we still have to support our families. Everyone has done their best. If we can help a little bit, it's a little bit."

Yan Xinyuan patted him on the shoulder: "I thank you for Chang Nian, and I also thank you for the Binhai Provincial Team."

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Qiao Yuchu followed Xie Shi'an back home.

As soon as she entered the door, she went straight to her grandfather's locked study. She also thought that she would never open this door again in this life, until today.

Pushing open the heavy door, dust and the past surged in together.

There are still sawdust on the workbench that grandpa is familiar with, and the carving knives and writing brushes are scattered on the tabletop.

On the wall behind the desk, there are several dark and shallow marks engraved, which were drawn by grandpa when he measured her height every year, and the end point of the line came to an abrupt end when she was six years old.

Seeing her open the door, Qiao Yuchu understood what she wanted to do.

"Shi'an, in fact, there is no need to do this..."

Xie Shi'an stopped rummaging for things, put his hands on the table, clasped the edge of the table tightly, and his shoulders trembled a little.

Knowing that she was uncomfortable, Qiao Yuchu lightly grabbed her shoulder and shook it.

"Let's think of another way."

Xie Shi'an raised his head, the corners of his eyes were a little red.

"Actually... I understand."

No one can empathize with the pain of losing a loved one more than her.

Qiao Yuchu was startled: "So you want to help her, right?"

Xie Shi'an nodded his head subtly.

"Then I'll help you find it together."

However, the house had already been searched after the grandfather passed away. The two of them searched for a long time, but they didn't find anything of value. The only half-finished product was the bookmark on the grandfather's workbench.

But the semi-finished products can't be exchanged for money. The bookshelves, tables and chairs are built by him, but they are too heavy to carry, and it is unrealistic to sell them.

Xie Shi'an stood there thinking for a while, and the lotus lantern flashed in his mind. Because it was a child's toy, it was the only thing that was not taken away by her father.

Xie Shi'an picked up the lotus lamp from the bookshelf in the living room, and carefully wiped off the dust on it.

Even though she was reluctant to give up, she looked at the smiling portrait of her grandfather and said silently in her heart:

"Grandpa, if you know that the toy you made for me can be used to save people, you should be happy too."