"It's so good. Why hasn't it stopped raining this time for five days?" Chen Yihan stood at the door and sighed while looking at the violent storm outside the house.
"Whatever, we won't be affected in the store anyway." Su Ran sat behind the bar and watched the show without raising his head. "Isn't it great? There are no more brats from high school students coming to the store. Here, sister, you can still go to bed early and get up late."
"It was really hard for me to get used to it at first, but as time went on, I found it okay. Watching those kids noisy together sometimes made me miss my high school career." Chen Yihan sighed, "But they also said that Little brat, I'm only one year younger than you."
"One year younger is also younger. When I first started military training in college, what did our seniors call us? For freshman kids, college and high school are a huge gap."
"Okay, okay, big span." Chen Yihan couldn't help laughing, and then whispered: "It will be June soon, and I don't know how the arrangements for Gege's overseas trip are going."
"Huh? Are you going abroad so early? Doesn't school start in September?" Su Ran asked curiously.
“School in the UK generally starts earlier, and apart from such big things, my family was not in the mood or had time to prepare.
It's actually a bit late in June. I have to find a place to live right away and buy some daily necessities and self-defense tools. The UK is actually not very safe, and there are also enrollment procedures and so on... .”
Chen Yihan finished saying this in one breath, and said with some worry: "I don't know if her father, a careless person, can think of so many things."
"Okay sister, don't worry. Even if Mr. Wei is careless, Gege is not young now, and she is still a girl. She will definitely think more about her father than her father. There should be no problem if the two of them match up." Su Ran He comforted her softly: "But Sister Yihan, do you regret signing the contract with your uncle? Now you can't see your beloved husband and daughter."
Chen Yihan shook her head, "What's there to regret? In that situation, if Mr. Zhang didn't help, our family would be finished.
Although I don't really object to going back to the days of living in a leaky basement and buying discounted products in supermarkets, Dahai and Gege have been used to this kind of life of fine clothing and food for so many years, and they probably can't get used to the old days. Come on.
On a rainy day like this, there is no need for the fifth day. It is estimated that on the first night, our basement was flooded with water and no one could live in it. At that time, we had no money and we couldn't stay in the hotel. Well, I really don’t know where to go to hide from the rain.
Since one person always has to be sacrificed, it would be better to sacrifice me. Sometimes men are actually stronger than women. If I am the only one left to take care of my daughter, many problems cannot be solved even if I have money. I am not a person. A person who is strong enough to hold up the sky.
The bravest thing I have ever done in my life is to give up the college entrance examination and run to the city where the sea is to find him.
From then on, I could no longer do without him. No matter what I did, he had to take me with him. It was like I had completely lost the ability to be independent. I couldn't do anything without him. Only when he was there could I do anything. Will feel at ease.
But Dahai can. He has been working all over the world with the construction team since he was a child, and he has taken good care of himself. He even took me with him later. Although life was very difficult at the beginning, he would take care of us at that time. Give me the best you have, and don't let me go out to do dirty work to make money. Instead, I go out early and come back late every day to earn the living expenses of the two of us and his entrepreneurial fund.
So, I have nothing to regret. At least they are doing well now. I heard that his company is on the right track.
I am also living a good life. In this store, I chat with customers I don’t know every day, and I no longer have to worry about my daughter’s studies and trivial matters at home. Not to mention, since I came to the store, I feel like I have become He seems to be much younger, and his condition is not even the slightest bit better than before. "
"Don't worry, Sister Yihan, they will definitely live a good life now, and you will be the same, and it will get better and better in the future." Su Ran smiled and said: "If there is the last place in the world where you can relax and keep healthy, then It must be only Su Zhai."
Chen Yihan nodded and glanced at the heavy rain on the street outside.
Because Fusu Road is a century-old road, the construction technology was not mature enough when it was first built, so the drainage system was also very poor. After five consecutive days of heavy rain, the water outside was even more than one meter deep. The door of Suzhai Most of them have been flooded.
Through the glass, Chen Yihan could even see many shops outside. Because of the gaps in the doors, water had seeped into the doors, and the items in the shops were completely flooded.
I guess when I closed the door and went home, no one expected that the rain would last so long and it wouldn't get any lighter at all. Now even if I want to pack my things, I can't get out. In this situation, even if the water recedes, In all likelihood, it will be difficult to save the items in the store, which is another big loss for these people.
The wind outside was stronger than the previous two days. Yesterday, a big tree as thick as two people on the roadside finally couldn't withstand the strong wind and was blown down at the waist.
There were also various stools, tables and other items floating in the sky, being blown everywhere by the wind. Floating in the water were all larger things like cars and trams, which finally didn't resist. Live this flood.
Chen Yihan opened Douyin on her phone and scrolled for a while, but there was still no news about the heavy rain in Jiangning City. Even if she searched in the search box, she could only find a rain that happened a few years ago, but that rain even affected people. I didn’t even do it at work, and it’s directly incomparable to the current scale.
"It looks like the end of the world." Chen Yihan sighed, then thought of something and said, "By the way, Mr. Zhang has not come back since he went out with Miss Li that day."
"Didn't the person named Li say that he died in Zhao Laosan's casino?" Su Ran didn't even look up.
Chen Yihan was a little helpless, "I don't believe you can still believe this."
"That's because I was abducted by a man named Li. I was so obsessed with him that I didn't want to come back. It just so happens that from now on this store will belong to the two of us. We can sell any antiques he has upstairs and in the room. It’s enough for us sisters to have enough to eat and drink for ten lifetimes.”
"Yes, I have seen Mr. Zhang's room filled with antiques, calligraphy and paintings before. Although I have no research on these, I have been to various auctions with Dahai over the years, so I can see those things. If you take out one piece at random, the entire antique industry may come over to snatch it up. How did Mr. Zhang collect so many pieces?" Chen Yihan asked curiously.
"He lives a long time. With his ability, he is not an ordinary person no matter which dynasty he is in. When he sees something he likes, he will easily collect it.
He also has a good taste. He was quite interested in the treasures recognized by experts and enthusiasts now. He was sure to get what he wanted, so he had all the genuine items in his hands.
As for the same things circulating on the market now, they are basically fakes, but even the fakes are treated as treasures by the experts.
I remember that, in the National Museum in Taipei, there is also a collection of Wang Xizhi's famous calligraphy, which is kept as a treasure. It is just a relatively realistic imitation of a fake. Who would have thought that the original is in his building? It's sitting on top. "
"I do know that calligraphy. Dahai wanted that calligraphy very much back then, but because he bought me a hairpin, I didn't have the extra budget to get the calligraphy.
It seems that those words are hanging casually on the wall of Mr. Zhang’s room now, right? The fake cost four to five billion to take the photo, and Mr. Zhang is not afraid that the genuine one will be accidentally touched. "
"It doesn't matter anymore. Anyway, at that time he went to Wang Xizhi and asked for a lot of copybooks. He said that the world didn't even know about the really good things Wang Xizhi wrote. They were all in his possession."
Chen Yihan marveled, "How long has Mr. Zhang survived in this world?"
Su Ran thought for a while, "It should be more than five thousand years ago. He mentioned it casually once, but I didn't ask specifically about his identity five thousand years ago. This kind of thing is not important. Anyway, our lifespan is only one year at most." At 100 years old, he will soon become a passerby in his long life.”
"That's true." Chen Yihan nodded, "I don't know what it feels like to be alone without friends for so many years. I don't know what it feels like to see the relatives and friends I was familiar with in a certain period of life leave me after a hundred years. Do you know if you feel sad?"
"I asked him this question, but he said that he has become accustomed to human beings' birth, old age, illness, death and separation. It is just the natural law of growth. There is nothing to be sad about. Don't you think he is an emotionless person? "
Chen Yihan thought for a while and couldn't help but laugh: "That's exactly what I felt when I first came to the store. I felt that Mr. Zhang was like a superior god overlooking the world, and he would not have any changes in emotions.
However, the cold war between the two of you in the past two days made me feel that Mr. Zhang is not so god-like anymore, but he still has some human emotions in him. "
Su Ran pouted, "Who had a cold war with him? We don't have that kind of relationship, we just get along normally. I used to always hang around him like a child, ignoring my own life.
Now I am just like a normal college student, hanging out with my classmates and friends in school. This is my original life. "
"Although I say that, you must also like Mr. Zhang. I am someone who has been here before. You can tell whether you like him or not in a girl's eyes at a glance."
Su Ran was silent for a while and whispered: "I like it, but I also want to understand that we are not from the same world. I actually don't know why he adopted me in the first place. Maybe it was because he saw me as pitiful. ?Who knows.
But even if he adopts me, I am different from him. I am still a human being who can only live for a hundred years at most. I will also suffer from birth, old age, illness and death. We will not get married or have offspring.
I have thought clearly in the past two days. As a human being, I should do what humans do, fall in love with a normal human man, get married and have children, and reproduce, instead of being with a god and guarding him all his life. In the end, what will happen to me? nor. "
"Miss Li's appearance should have some influence, right?" Chen Yihan asked tentatively.
Su Ran was stunned for a moment, but nodded, "Yes. Before, I took it for granted that the only person of the opposite sex around him was me, and that he would not be interested in other women.
But that day he kept looking at Li Zhihan in Chen Hao's company. For the first time, I felt that he was also a man and was interested in beautiful women. "
"But we are already very beautiful. I have never seen a more beautiful woman than Ranran. Although Miss Li is already a rare beauty, I think she will pale in comparison to you. "
"But she is much more feminine than me." Su Ran bit her lip, "She looks more like a mature and sexy woman. Few men will reject her attraction."
Chen Yihan suddenly realized, "So you dressed up so mature that day to go out with your friends? Just to prove to him that you also have such a sexy and charming side? You want him to see that you are an adult too, no worse than Li Zhihan?"
Su Ran nodded and sighed, "Now that I think about it, it feels quite childish. This extreme method of proof is really immature. It's no wonder he treats me like a child."
"Although childish is a bit childish, it seems to work quite well. At least what happened to the boy who wanted to hug your waist that day proved that Mr. Zhang still has a relationship with you, even if he doesn't stare at you all the time. You can also feel someone trying to do something to you.
To be honest, I was quite worried in those days. It was really dangerous for a girl like you to go to a bar like ME with so many men at night. "
Su Ran curled her lips and said, "He is a typical person who occupies the latrine and does not shit. He is just possessive. He just thinks that since he has adopted me, then I am his property and no one else can touch him. Why is he so domineering, dear?" Dad is not like this either."
Although Su Ran's expression was still not very good-looking, Chen Yihan could hear a hint of pride in her tone. Even possessiveness showed that Zhang Ziqing cared about her. Sometimes a little girl's thoughts are so simple.
"By the way, after Miss Li left the store that day, I saw that she was in a very bad state. Do you think she thought Mr. Zhang was killed by herself, so she did some unthinkable things?" Chen Yihan thought After seeing Li Zhihan's state on the day he left, he said with some worry.
"She is not a child anymore. If she can do anything stupid, she can't fight to the death with Chen Hao and Zhao Laosan. She must also have such ability." Su Ran said unconcernedly: "And they We have only met a few times, but she can fight Zhao Laosan to the death for an outsider who has nothing to do with her?"
"Women sometimes get impulsive because of certain things. And when I saw her expression when she left that day, it was as if she had made some important decision."
"What my uncle said the most is that everyone living in this world, birth, old age, illness and death follow the natural laws of evolution. If Li Zhihan really wanted to do something and cause her to die like this, then it can only be said that it was her life. It has reached its end, her time has come, and no one can interfere."
Chen Yihan looked out the window and seemed to see the figure of the young girl swaying in the strong wind that day again, and couldn't help but sigh again.
