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chun季的北京依旧gan1燥,雾霾未散,天光灰白。赵嘉早上醒来,泡了黑咖啡,在客厅边喝边hua着手机,在她自己租的小房间里。
她dian开彭博社的每日新闻推送,这是她学生时代留xia的习惯――每天读几条英文财经要闻,一度是为了考语言分数,现在只是本能。
一条标题让她停xia手指:
她dian开那篇英文报dao,标题写着:
China’s High-Ranking Legal Family Faces Scrutiny as Policy Tensions Escalate
报dao开篇措辞谨慎,却压不住字里行间的锋利――中国某直辖市政法系统neibu一份专项项目的指令执行记录,被疑存在“未经备案的资金路径重构”,bu分指令未通过正式审批liu程,引发中纪委例行排查。
文中提到:“An internal log of financial operations, believed to originate from a confidential budget redistribution initiative, has reportedly triggered concerns over protocol deviation and discretionary control.”
赵嘉读到这里,心kou一紧。
这份“运行日志”――她知dao正是那组她半夜导chu的数据。
再往xia看,文章dian名该事件可能牵动更gao一层的审查:“The network associated with the key decision-maker is now undergoing a procedural review.”
最末一段轻描淡写,却字字见血:
“A senior official with the surname Zhou, whose father held a key position in the central political and legal apparatus during the Deng Xiaoping era and currently remains a member of the State Advisory Committee, is reportedly linked to the sequence of financial authorizations.”
赵嘉读到“family with longstanding central connections”那句时,手指一顿。
她知dao,这已经不只是周行砚的事了。
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前一天夜里,他们因为一句话撕破表面平静。
那天晚饭后,赵嘉走jin书房,从他书架上chouchu一本空白笔记本,随手翻着。
周行砚走jin来,语气平静:“你找什么?”
“没找什么。”她抬tou看他。
他站着不动,yan里没qing绪:“最近怎么不怎么说话了?”
“我们一直也不说什么。”
“你以前不是这样的。”
赵嘉放xia本zi,忽然笑了一xia:“我什么时候是‘以前’了?我们在一起,就因为你给我钱,