Volume 3 Summer Rain Chapter 0334 When Love Approaches
Winter rain is a graceful poem and a lingering song.
It comes naturally, without haste or impatience, and leaves peacefully, without worries or restraints. It is neither as soft and gentle as spring rain, nor as loud and noisy as summer rain, nor as silent as autumn rain.
The winter rain makes all things understand: Don’t linger on the beauty of spring flowers, don’t give up the passion of summer, don’t indulge in the abundance of autumn, and don’t reject vitality in winter.
It always treats all people's actions with a calm attitude, a tolerant temperament, and a loving look. When you close the window and the door, it still rings in your ears and lingers in your heart; when you open the door and window, it still rings in your ears bit by bit...
There is a fireplace in the living room of Fang Mansion. At this moment, the firewood inside has been lit, emitting a gentle red light and making crackling sounds.
When Gong Xue came down from the second floor after cleaning her room, she saw Nan Yi lazily slumped on the sofa with a book in his hand. The book was full of foreign words, which she didn't recognize.
He was wearing a brown turtleneck coarse-knit sweater with long sleeves that were rolled up a little, revealing a small section of his arm. There was a teacup next to him, with white smoke shyly floating out of it, slowly and faintly.
"People who have never come into contact with him will definitely mistakenly think that he is a modest gentleman. He is too deceptive." Gong Xue thought to herself and walked towards the sofa opposite Nan Yi.
"When will you help me solve the problems at home?"
"Why are you in such a hurry? Didn't I tell you to let your family rest for a few days? There will be results soon. Don't you feel that things are changing?"
"Changes?" Gong Xue thought for a moment and said, "There are changes. After I went back yesterday, the phone at home didn't ring. A few days ago, Chen Meng called several times a day to threaten and use me."
"My parents said that good days will always come, and the darkness before dawn won't be too long."
Nan Yi responded casually, his eyes fixed on the book in his hand. Holding a pen in his right hand, he would occasionally draw a line on the book to mark the key points.
"What book are you reading? I see a wheat field on the cover. Is it The Catcher in the Rye?"
"It seems that you have been exposed to a lot of foreign culture. I think there is no Chinese version of The Catcher in the Rye yet?"
"I just went to China in the first half of this year."
"Oh, the book in my hand is about wheat, but it's not a literary work. It's a school reading for foreign agricultural majors. It talks about wheat diseases and insect pests."
“…”
Nan Yi's answer instantly shattered the beautiful impression that Gong Xue had just had about Nan Yi as a modest gentleman. You say, with such a wonderful atmosphere, if you don't have a copy of Shakespeare in your hand, you should at least have a copy of Leisure Notes.
The wheat pest and disease disaster really ruined the atmosphere.
I have to say that Gong Xue has changed a lot. Yesterday she was still worried about the future, but today she has already integrated into this house. This place is exactly the same as the petty bourgeois life she imagined.
It would be even better if it could be like what is described in "Our Wife's Living Room", with the living room full of guests, everyone talking about art and ideas.
"Wheat...why not philosophy?"
Nan Yi had no idea about the romance in Gong Xue's mind, so he continued reading his book. There really was a golden house in the book in his hand, and he had to figure out as soon as possible how to get the golden house out.
Ring, ring, the ringing of the phone interrupted Gong Xue's tranquility. The man opposite her stood up from the sofa, walked to the phone and answered it.
"Have you agreed? Shares... Logically speaking, his formula should account for more than 50%, but we must hold the controlling stake. Well, I think 60% to 40% is a good ratio, and it's not unfair to him.
By the way, his formula belongs to us and his joint-stock company, not to him personally. I told him that you will apply for patents in other countries immediately. The patent holder is the company, not him personally. If it were him personally, why would he get 40% of the shares?
Having the formula is just the first step. There are still many places to spend money later. You should explain to him what steps are needed to bring a product to the market and how much it will cost. If you explain it clearly, there will be grudges between partners from the beginning. How can you cooperate in the future?
You don’t need to bring anyone to see me. I won’t show up. You are the agent, you are the boss... Yes, you are the full representative in everything.
Why?
It's very simple, he is not qualified to discuss cooperation with me...
No money? Got it, I'll have someone send it to you, hurry up, the factory will be opened in Shanghai."
Gong Xue saw the man hang up the phone, and immediately made another call. He first spoke in Mandarin, which she could understand, and then in Japanese. He spoke a long paragraph in a gibberish, then hung up the phone again and walked back to the sofa to continue reading.
"Well, this is a knowledgeable and dissolute young man." Gong Xue gave Nan Yi a new definition.
Gong Xue saw the man spending the whole morning reading. At noon, he went to the kitchen to wash the dishes and then cook.
In the morning, she deliberately didn't wash the dishes. She didn't even bother to earn the mere two cents.
"This man has a sour face, but he is quite attentive." Gong Xue saw that when Nan Yi was making braised pork, he only put half a spoonful of sugar, but after hesitating for a moment, he added a little more. This should be to cater to her sweet taste.
"Egg dumplings, fried bean sprouts and tofu, these are my favorite dishes. No, they are the dishes that Shanghai people like to eat. He probably doesn't know what he likes."
While eating, Nan Yi was still holding a newspaper and reading. Gong Xue continued to observe Nan Yi while enjoying the delicious food, "The food tastes so good, but how come this man is never idle for a moment?
There is also a man and a woman next to him. They should be his subordinates. They have been in the house the whole time, but they are only seen at dinner time. What are they doing?"
Curious, Gong Xue was curious about everything here, and even more curious about Nan Yi. She wanted to understand this man.
It is said that love begins with curiosity about each other, and Gong Xue has unknowingly fallen into this vicious circle.
After observing for half a day , Nan Yi initially concluded that the woman opposite was basically a freeloader. He did not find any point in her that could benefit him, nor did he discover any genes suitable for doing business in her.
"No, I can't. Living under the same roof with her, this woman will turn into a wolf and pounce on me sooner or later. Since she's going to sleep with me sooner or later, how can I not make money for her?"
When a man and a woman sleep together, both women and men will subconsciously think that the man is taking advantage of the woman, as if the woman is always the one who suffers in a relationship between men and women.
But Nan Yi never thought so. He always believed that he was the one who suffered the loss in relationships between men and women, so he had to make compensation and strictly abide by his own standards. He would not easily give his body to someone who could not compensate him.
His body is so precious, how can a woman just think about him?
In order to survive, he has to move between different women, with only his strong arms being rested by thousands of women. Is it easy for him?
…
After dinner, the rain outside not only did not stop, but it turned from drizzling to pouring.
Zhang Youren must have been kicked off the bed by the Queen Mother, otherwise he wouldn't have cried so sadly. Back then, Patriarch Bodhi knocked the monkey on the head three times, hoping that he would go to the Peach Garden to have a tryst with the Queen Mother. But who knew that the monkey was so stupid that he actually pulled out the peach tree.
You deserve it for being pressed under the Five Finger Mountain for five hundred years!
When I was playing mahjong yesterday, the Jade Emperor gave me a hand of Thirteen Yao. I felt guilty and didn't dare to win. It was all this monkey's fault.
Whoever accepts a monkey as an apprentice in the future will be a grandson.
Patriarch Bodhi slapped the Dragon King of the East China Sea, asking him to hit harder. Then he used a ground shield to reach the Banana Cave in Cuiyun Mountain and took out a banana fan as if offering a treasure. "Rakshasa, this is my new magic weapon. I'll give it to you."
As he said that, he was about to hug the Rakshasa woman!
"Oh, don't hug me, have you forgotten? Today is the first day of the new year, and Taishang Laojun wants to see the child."
Bodhi slapped his forehead and said, "Oh, I really forgot. So, you take the banana fan, and from now on you will be called Princess Iron Fan. I will call you Iron Fan, and this name is only for me."
"I know, damn it, let's go."
Baji, Bodhi kissed the Rakshasa woman on the face.
A ground shield, oh my god, I was itching, I didn't grasp the direction, and when I came out, it was still the Dragon King of the East China Sea, "Damn, you bastard, you are so unlucky."
Bang bang bang!
Bodhi slapped the Dragon King of the East China Sea three more times.
Covering his face, the Dragon King of the East China Sea cried aggrievedly, "Who have I offended? Everyone wants to bully me. Wei Zheng wants to kill me, and you want to beat me. No, I want to go back five hundred years and give the Dinghai Shenzhen to that monkey, so that the stupid monkey can make trouble in the Heavenly Palace again."
Having made up his mind, the Dragon King of the East Sea flew to find Lei Gong and Dian Mu and asked them to strike thunder and lightning so that the Monkey King would be born and cause some noise.
Boom boom boom!
Listening to the winter thunder and watching the lightning roar, Nan Yi was surprised, "Thunder in winter is really rare."
Watching the lightning and thunder, he suddenly felt inspired to write a poem, but he could not think of a line after searching his brain, so he generously borrowed it, "Suddenly, a chain of fire appeared in the sky. Could it be that the Jade Emperor wanted to smoke? If he didn't want to smoke, why did he see another chain of fire?"
Phew!
Gong Xue, who had been paying attention to Nan Yi, covered her mouth and laughed out loud when she heard this doggerel.
"Is it funny?"
Gong Xue shook her head and lifted her scattered hair to hide her embarrassment of being caught.
"It's raining too hard, so don't even think about going out this afternoon. I can't cook, but I can at least clean the house, right? The third floor hasn't been cleaned up yet, so you can help me clean up the house this afternoon, and it will pay for your three meals."
"OK."
The two words came out of her mouth in an instant, and Gong Xue didn't have time to change her words.
Nan Yi nodded, walked to the table, picked up the newspaper on the table, folded two Jigong hats, wore one himself, and gave one to Gong Xue.
One afternoon, Nan Yi was responsible for the high places, Gong Xue was responsible for wiping the windows with newspapers, and sweeping the floor with a broom.
They cooperate with each other and the atmosphere seems harmonious.
Invisibly, Gong Xue's heart moved a little closer to Nan Yi, but she was still completely unaware of it.
The next day, the wind stopped and the rain stopped.
Gong Xue slept restlessly last night and got up countless times to check the door lock. She didn't fall asleep until after two in the morning, but she still woke up to the sound of the alarm clock.
With her eyes blurry, she walked towards the toilet along the familiar path, but after she took seven steps, her feet had not yet touched the toilet. She rubbed her eyes, opened her eyes, and saw that the toilet that should have been there was not there. Then she realized that she did not live at home.
He shook his head and walked to the bathroom on the left. He pulled down his pants and sat down, and immediately a loud splashing sound started.
"It's great. No need to fight, no need to grab, no smell, no need to worry about stains on the rim of the toilet, no need to worry about splashing, and no need to rush to light and empty the night incense."
After washing up, he put some glycerin on his hands and some Pechoin on his face, walked out of the bathroom, took another longing look at the big bed where he could roll around, opened the door, walked out of the room, and deliberately took very small steps, as if he was moving in a trance. He walked more than 200 steps to cover a distance of more than 20 meters before he reached the stairs.
She stretched her hands and sniffed her nose hard. The musty smell from the stairs penetrated her nose. She thought it smelled good. She greedily inhaled a few more times before stepping onto the stairs.
When I went downstairs and turned into the dining room, the man was already sitting there, still reading a newspaper in his hand, concentrating intently.
"If at this moment, there was a friendly greeting, 'Axue, you're up, come and have breakfast', that would be perfect." Gong Xue shook her head to get rid of her unrealistic fantasies, and quickened her pace to the dining table.
"The Four Heavenly Kings? Pancakes and fried dough sticks?" She exclaimed with joy.
"Why are you howling so early in the morning? If you want to eat, hurry up. I still have to go out. Don't keep me waiting for your dishes."
“Ohhhh.”
Gong Xue quickly sat down, picked up the small bowl on the table, and scooped out the thick white rice porridge from the small pot in the middle.
"This rice is so white and fragrant. It's not rice from the previous season, but from the last season."
Rice is grown in two seasons in the south. The rice in the first season looks shriveled and yellowish, and the taste is not very good, a bit astringent; the rice in the second season looks plump, crystal clear, and tastes good. In addition, there is one less step in the husking of rice at this time, so the rice basically does not look too white, and there will be some husks that have not been removed cleanly.
This rice is Wuchang rice that Nan Yi bought from the Friendship Store. It has been refined, so Gong Xue was surprised to see such white porridge.
"You can't tell the difference between leeks and weeds. If you don't understand, don't pretend. What's late-season rice? This is the first-season rice in the Northeast, which is only planted once a year. It seems that your re-education of poor and lower-middle peasants has been in vain."
"You..." Gong Xue was furious. "Don't look down on me. I've been in the countryside of Gan Province for three years and have done all kinds of farm work."
Nan Yi gathered the newspaper in his hand, pinched his throat, and imitated a female voice: "Oh, my hands have blisters; oh, there are leeches on my feet; oh, my burden fell down...
Is it true that every time at this time, there is always a male educated youth who jumps out and says to you gently: "Xiaoxue, what's wrong with you? Why are you so careless? Let me do it."
Are the young men of marriageable age in the village also helping you with this and that? Are you making full use of the help from others?"
"You didn't go to the countryside with me, so how could you know how much hardship I suffered there?" Gong Xue said, biting her lip.
"Open your hands."
"What?"
"Open up if I tell you to."
Gong Xue put down her chopsticks and spread out both hands for Nan Yi to see.
Nan Yi looked at Gong Xue's hands, then her cheeks and neck, and said firmly: "I don't know how long you have been in the countryside. If it's more than half a year, then you must have never suffered any hardship, and there is no mark of farm work left on you."
"Are you looking at the calluses and tans? I've been back for ten years, isn't it normal for me to recover?" Gong Xue said unconvinced .
"No, I'm looking for scars. It's impossible for a girl who has never done farm work to suddenly do farm work without getting some scars on her body. I don't see any scars on your neck, palms, or finger bones. It's impossible for you to have done hard work in the countryside.
Barefoot doctor apprentice, radio station, teacher or just a worker, which one is it? "
"Radio station."
"Oh, that's not surprising ." Nan Yi nodded, spread out the newspaper again, scooped up the thick porridge, and continued reading his newspaper.
Gong Xue pursed her lips, secretly surprised, "This man's eyes are too sharp, as if he can see through me. He can guess that I didn't suffer much in the countryside. How old is he? Has he ever been to the countryside at his age?"
"Have you ever been to the countryside?"
