Page 50 of The Guest

Charter 50

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  Around the corner of the road outside the backdoor of the Pear Garden University, stopped a all black aviation car, the car body seemed very dignified, on the window film reflected the beautiful daylight, and covered everything inside of the car. Inside of this all black aviation car, there were no seats very strangely, but piled up with all kind of electronic instruments and… A camp bed. The more wonderful thing was, several wearing grey uniform working staffs were watching the electronic instruments warily, but on that camp bed, a languid young man was lying. This young man was about twenty four or five years old, had a HD earphones plugged in his ears, didn’t know what contents he was monitoring, just from his narrowed eyes, always let people feel that he had already fallen into sleep.

  But if Sheilor saw the habit of this young man, he would surely think of that same always seemed languid in any circumstance uncle boss, in this kind of tensioned and busy working environment, still could keep the state such like this, if it’s not a bit pessimistic, then it must be taking everything easy.

  A working staff took off that young man’s headset, said with a wry smile, “boss, even you don’t feel like the monitoring, but could you not listen to the music with the public thing? Otherwise let the director know about it, you would get the scold again.”

  The young man opened his eyes and had a yawn, the beautiful face had some exhaustion after the hangover, said in mumbling, “such a good thing, it’s a pity not to use it to listen to the music.” And then, he took a look at the small screens of the electronic instruments, felt bored to ask, “what’s wrong? Nothing happened to that warm blood female youth?”

  “There is nothing happened. There are many young people coming back from S2, why the bureau would ask us to keep an eye on her?” The working staff shrugged his shoulders, pointed at the direction of the Pear Garden University and asked, “a girl student, how big a problem she could have?”

  “Charming, came back carelessly just like this, if she didn’t have any problem, then I would be an idiot.” The young man had another yawn again. His name was Shielding, graduated from the First Military Academy, now he was working in the FBI, the working staffs in this all black aviation car, all were his subordinates. He looked at the direction of the backdoor of the Pear Garden University foolishly, seemed casually to say, “a realized her error and mend her way back lamb? … Both her parents are the civil servants of the federal government, if there is really no problem, this little lamb should cry to run into her parents’ arms in the Capital airport, but shouldn’t come back to the university town alone by the connecting-flight, ran painstakingly for more than ten days, then regained her status as a student.”

  “Why didn’t she meet with her parents? Still rebellious, still not yet grow up, how could she be a broken head poor girl?” Shielding had some taunt flashed on his beautiful face, “although the bureau has bunch of useless craps, but it’s not a big problem to choose this one to monitor on.”

  With his speaking voice, the front and back two rows total six people in the black aviation car all stopped their works in hands, listened to their boss’s analysis, nodded their heads with agreement, one of them looked at Shielding and said with a laughter, “boss, of course we know you are not an idiot.”

  Shielding of course was not an idiot, graduated from the First Military Academy with the highest score, the first year when he entered the FBI, had already uncovered several spy cases successfully, his ability was obvious to all of the people, if he could walk steadily along with this route, all the people in the FBI considered, thus the youngest deputy bureau chief in history would be generated. But nobody could think of this, the fall of such a bright young talent would be so this quick-- A wallowed in the spirit and among women all day FBI officer, and it meant that he gave up his own future.

  “Don’t drink so much alcohol any more, what’s the difference of those women after you turn off the light? Do you need to change a new one every day?” One of Shielding’s subordinates said with headache, “don’t always displease the superior, otherwise you would have been promoted long time ago, then we could also have some advantages behind you.”

  “Don’t have the nonsense with your boss me, which one following me didn’t have the promotion till now? Your boss I just too lazy to move, the university town is quit good, there are a lot of beauties over here… Especially a lot of the young beauties…” Shielding pattered his thin lips, and had his eyes blurred and reveled in something, “the young and fresh flesh breath surround me, how would I be willing to part with them.”

  He climbed up from the camp bed, rubbed his that forgot to wash in the morning face, said unclearly, “what better career is all bullshit, I’m very anxious to be transferred to the Charter Bureau, that group of damn guys, just need to serve on one computer every day, don’t need to do anything else, it’s really a fucking good place for retirement.”

  Even though the words said like this, but he still needed to do the jobs what he supposed to do, even if it’s just the surface work. Shielding had the look to pick up the monitor headset and put it to his ears to listen for a while, everything was as usual at the beginning, but his facial expression became splendid gradually, at last, he couldn’t help laughing up loudly.

  “Porter? He can really make me laugh… Didn’t he know that the student he asked to wipe off the saliva, is the son of a senator?” Shielding laughed and laughed, slapped on his lap and said, “this little porter is really interesting, really interesting, now in this fucking society, it’s hard to see a such earnest people.”

  “Hush, boss, could you lower your voice a bit?” One of the staff stared angrily at the unselfconscious Shielding, lowered his voice and roared, “we are in the monitoring state! Not in the theater!”

  “Oh, that’s right.” Shielding had his mind back, had a “He He” smile, pulled open the car door with a “Hua” sound, walked down of the car and said, “at least we will need to monitor in the Pear Garden University for a term, it’s too boring, I will go to take a look at that funny little porter.”

  The exposed in the sun FBI clerks looked at each other in speechless despair, they really couldn’t have any way to deal with this crazy and absurd boss. Looked at their young boss that walking posture in the sunlight, it’s lazy as if no bone and shape like a little rogue, the clerks couldn’t help covering their eyes embarrassedly, one of them said murmuring, “violated the rules again… But you say, how come boss he will be such like a little rogue?”

  “Boss grew up in the countryside, his father is a farmer.”

  “Really? This is really a rare occupation, but, what is the relation with boss like a rogue then?”

  “Haven’t George Colin said it once? That the root cause of the rascal is because of the injustice distribution of the wealth.”

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  At the backdoor of the Pear Garden university, didn’t turn up the class struggle between the wealthy student and the poor porter. That advocating Colin socialist boy student left with the overflowing wrath, Sheilor also didn’t pull him back, forced him to kneel down to wipe the saliva off-- If he really did like that, Sheilor would also have the doubt about his own intelligence. Just according to the school regulations, he wrote a note about today’s thing, through the computer sent it to the private letter box of the students’ affairs department, and then pulled out the water hose, rinsed the sidewalk which he had swiped clean in the morning once again.

  Earlier he would come out, that’s because he found that the boy student seemed to have the meaning to keep tangling with that girl student, so he just thought of a way to stop it a bit. If not for seeing that pair of black frame glasses, Sheilor still really couldn’t think of that the girl student was that person who stole his biscuit on the bus.

  Sheilor didn’t know it clearly what was Colin socialist, and he also wouldn’t
care about the negotiation game between the government and the anti-government, he just felt that these many students gazed coldly at a girl student, that girl student seemed to be too lonely, the thing even more let him to feel some uncomfortable was, that boy student would actually stopped the way of that girl student.

  Of course, the most important thing was, he knew that girl… Although perhaps that girl didn’t remember him, and although that girl wasn’t very nice to him at that time.

  After cleaned up the road, Sheilor carried a chair, sat by the side of the gate, carried out his work trustily, narrowed his eyes in the warm sun, listened to the monitoring device by his side, which time to time had the “Dee Dee” sound of the chip passed the checking, comfortably seemed to almost fall into sleep. Actually in his mind, he was still thinking about when he could have his auditor certificate after all, when he could go into the library, and when he could go to visit those laboratory rooms?

  As a FBI official, of course Shielding didn’t really want to make acquaintance with this not so eye-catching little porter, but he had just spent yesterday whole night with that blonde beauty, and drunken a lot of alcohol, his spirit was really too exhausted, he didn’t sleep comfortable enough in the camp bed on the aviation car, so he just simply got off the car and took a walk. He bought a pack of cigarettes in the convenience store next to the school gate, lit up one cigarette to smoke, walked to the side of the road and squat down, had a glance at that young porter with the residual light very casually.

  Just this glance, Shielding had his eye pupils shrunk slightly, didn’t move his eyes for a long time. He stood up, walked to the sitting on the chair Sheilor, silenced for a moment and then said with a smile, “I’m really admire you this job, you can have the sunbath frankly and righteously every day.”

  Sheilor looked up somewhat accidentally, he didn’t think of, in this unfamiliar planet, in this unfamiliar place, actually would have somebody to talk to the not eye-catching him initiatively. He looked up, just saw the whole street green trees, whole sky clear light, a handsome looking, wearing the black formal but all rumpled clothes young man was smiling to look at him.

  “Well… Maybe it’s quite comfortable.” Sheilor didn’t know how to answer this question, narrowed his eyes, kept the sunlight off, and said carefully.

  “Do you want one?” Shielding handed him an extra long filter cigarette with smile. Sheilor wanted to refuse at first, but he suddenly thought of uncle boss that never left his hand cigarette, had a touch in his heart suddenly, took it over, moved close to the lighter and lit it up, and then he said a thank you.

  Separated by the big iron gate of the Pear Garden university, two people smoked the cigarettes with somewhat not knowing the taste. Just in the full sky sunlight, seemed to have infinity secrets. Shielding threw the cigarette butt to the ground and stubbed it out, stirred a bit on his messy hair with his fingers, suddenly stared at Sheilor and opened his mouth to say, “sitting on the chair, but the body is hung in the air, the horse stance can be developed like your this way, you are really diligent.”