"why you?"
Lin Youyou's eyes were very complicated, showing surprise, panic, and a hint of frustration.
It's easy to understand the surprise and frustration, because I didn't expect that the person coming was him, not Xu Huanshan.
The panic is actually easy to understand, because Lin Yue's arrival here means that he knows about her and Xu Huanshan.
"I won't tell you anymore." Lin Yue hung up the call with Gu Jia and walked straight into the room.
"What? Not welcome?"
Lin Youyou smiled, a little reluctantly.
There is a blue vase with red roses in it on the coffee table near the window, and over there is an electric guitar. There are four plates and two bowls on the dining table by the door.
Scrambled eggs with tomatoes, scrambled eggs with cucumber, braised eggplant, stir-fried beans with meat, and steaming white rice in the rice cooker.
"Don't wait. Gu Jia is in the company today and Xu Huanshan can't come."
Lin Yue pulled up a chair and sat down. Without being polite to her, he filled himself half a bowl of rice. He picked up the chopsticks beside him and took a bite of tomato scrambled eggs and put it into his mouth.
"No sugar, right? It's a bit sour."
Lin Youyou closed the door gently and walked into the room with a sense of alertness and uneasiness.
"Sit down, the food will get cold if you don't eat it."
Lin Youyou carefully sat on the chair opposite.
"When it comes to choosing tomatoes, you need to look for the ones with deeper fruit bases. This way the soup will be more juicy and not sour. The one you chose today is not up to standard. You want to capture a man's heart. Grab the man’s stomach first, I shouldn’t need to remind you.”
Where does Lin Youyou start seducing Xu Huanshan? Didn’t it just start with singing and break through with food?
"Did Gu Jia ask you to come?"
She remembered Lin Yue's phone call when he came in just now. That voice... was unmistakable, it was Xu Huanshan's wife Gu Jia.
Lin Yue raised his head and glanced at her, without saying a word. He ate the rice in his bowl and commented on the advantages and disadvantages of the dishes she cooked from time to time.
Lin Youyou watched him eat without taking a bite of food from beginning to end.
Ten minutes later, after Lin Yue had eaten and drank enough, he went to the bathroom to wash his face, looked out the window, and took down the guitar from the stool.
Ding ding ding dong~
Ding ding ding dong~
"I can't remember where I came from."
"Forgot why it exists."
"I don't want to turn into dust just yet."
"Because my hometown is called the future."
"..."
Lin Youyou sat in front of the dining table and looked at his peers on the sofa holding guitars. Somehow, listening to his singing, his inner uneasiness disappeared a lot.
After finishing the song, Lin Yue put the guitar back into the distance, turned his head and stared at Lin Youyou's face.
"I want to know how far you can go for Xu Huanshan."
Lin Youyou looked at him blankly: "What do you mean?"
"Didn't you say you love him?"
"everything."
"everything?"
"Yes, everything."
"Okay, remember what you said."
Lin Yue stood up and walked out of the room under her doubtful eyes.
…
Two days later.
The mountain road from Shanghai to Xiangxi.
Gu Jia glanced at the two people in the rearview mirror. Wang Manni looked at the retreating scenery outside the window with a melancholy look on her face. Zhong Xiaoqin wrapped herself in a woolen coat, looking dazed and wanting to sleep. look.
"Zhong Xiaoqin, didn't you want to go on a business trip to western Hunan with me, and you said you could accompany me to relieve my boredom on the way? You've only driven a few miles and you're already feeling sleepy?"
Zhong Xiaoqin opened her eyes and looked at her: "You don't know how noisy Zhong Xiaoyang is. It's just an idea. Why don't you do this in the morning, or do that in the afternoon? I'm almost annoyed to death by him, An." Just let me rest quietly for two days and I will die."
Gu Jia said: "So, you are not coming out to accompany me, but are you here to hide from me?"
Zhong Xiaoqin smiled sheepishly: "What does it matter? Isn't Manni still with you?"
She glanced over there and found that after the initial excitement period, Wang Manni changed her appearance to a worried one.
"Still worrying about whether to go back to Shanghai?"
Wang Manni nodded, looking embarrassed.
"You said that Chen Xu is doing more and more outrageous things now. He actually went to Manni's hometown to ruin her reputation. He also said that he likes others. How can he like this kind of way? Why didn't you see him clearly before? As for his character, do you think you should take care of him?"
"Ah, yes." Gu Jia observed the facial expressions of the two of them and responded casually. For some reason, seeing that they hated Driver Chen so much, she actually felt an inexplicable sense of relief.
Is it because of his preference for her?
No, think about it seriously, at least on Wang Manni's side, Chen Xu has been helping her, but it's a pity that best friend Wang has fallen into a vicious circle of disgust and can't see his good qualities at all.
Last time she had a dinner at Li's house, she took a photo of her eating with Mrs. Wang and others, but she hesitated for a while and didn't post it to Moments. Therefore, neither Wang Manni nor Zhong Xiaoqin knew that Chen Xu was no longer Driver Chen. The fact that he should be called Mr. Chen.
Wang Manni said: "It's all because of him that Uncle Yu was injured and hospitalized." Wang Manni said: "Yesterday, my mother went out to buy groceries. When she came back, her face was ugly. Although she didn't say anything, I knew that she must be I heard what those people said about me.”
"This kind of man who has no bottom line and is so petty is really a strange flower." Zhong Xiaoqin said: "I don't know who will marry him in the future. I dare say that woman will have a miserable life in the future."
Gu Jia said nothing.
Wang Manni sighed: "Dad asked me not to go to the hospital to see Uncle Yu during breakfast today. He said that I am a girl who is not yet married and it is not good to do this."
At this time Gu Jia asked: "Where is Zhang Zhi?"
Wang Manni shook her head.
Zhong Xiaoqin said: "Then why are you hesitating? Go back to Shanghai. If you stay in your hometown, I'm afraid you will suffer from depression."
"Gu Jia, do you think so too?" Wang Manni looked at the driver.
"Since you are not happy staying at home, then come back. We are here."
"Thank you."
Zhong Xiaoqin patted her on the shoulder like a big sister: "Good sister, how can I say thank you?"
…
A few days later.
Wang Manni returned to Shanghai from Quzhou and lived in the LOFT rented by Zhong Xiaoqin. This was planned by the three of them in Xiangxi, because this way they could drive Zhong Xiaoyang to sleep in a motorcycle shop.
On the other side, Gu Jia saw the order for blue fireworks in the fireworks company's office and had a big quarrel with Xu Huanshan.
She asked him why he didn't destroy the blue fireworks and signed an order for the supply of blue fireworks.
He said that it was his hard work and a work of art that he loved. Some people admired it and were willing to spend a lot of money to buy it. Why couldn't the company do this business? And as long as it was strictly controlled and safety measures were taken, nothing would happen.
She also said that not producing blue fireworks was for the sake of their family.
Xu Huanshan's answer was that the tea factory has invested more than 3 million yuan, but it has not seen any profits yet. If it does not produce blue fireworks to seize the market, it will be a problem to pay the mortgage next month, not to mention that the order has been signed. If it's not done, the company can't afford the liquidated damages alone.
The conversation ended unhappily, and Xu Huanshan slammed the door and walked away, leaving Gu Jia standing in the empty office hall looking at the high-rise building beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows with a dejected face, not knowing how to face the current situation.
She stood like that for almost fifteen minutes, and then her phone rang. Looking at the name on the screen, she put away her frustration and pressed the connect button.
"Hey, Chen Xu."
"I heard that you came back from Xiangxi?"
"Yes, I've been back for three or four days."
"How's it going at the tea factory?"
"I was too naive, thinking that implementing this adoption model could solve the mid- to long-term sales problem, but the response wasn't very good. Your money... seems to be in arrears for a while."
This is why she was at a loss for words in the argument just now. The whole family was about to be brought down by the tea factory she took over. Even if Yu Wenhua handed over the order for Changzhou Paradise to Xu Huanshan, the finances were still stretched thin.
Give up, I can't bear to see the children in the village, and it's not easy to get out of this situation.
Don't give up. Sales won't increase, and you won't be able to get your money back. The tea factory will be a bottomless pit burning money.
Her current situation is very bad, she is under great pressure, her mood is getting worse and worse, and she has been suffering from insomnia for half the night.
On the other side, Lin Yuexin said that this is the right thing, why adopt a tea tree... What is most lacking among people nowadays is trust. Many elderly people who drink tea do not know how to use smartphones, and middle-aged people are busy in business, workplace and home. Now, how many young people are willing to drink tea? Not to mention trusting the promise of a little-known tea factory and spending 200 yuan to adopt an invisible and intangible tea tree.
There is a bit of nonsense on TV. In the previous episode, Jiang Chen recommended Kongshan Tea to customers, but others refused. In the next episode, they lined up to buy it, and they were all young people.
Coffee, cola, milk tea, juice, ice cream...are these the hobbies of mainstream young people?
"I'm not in a hurry about the money. I was just wondering...if I could help you?"
"Help me? What can you help me with?"
In the past, Gu Jia would have said no, because she is a woman who refuses to admit defeat, but the current situation is that the tea factory is about to bring down the family finances. If this continues, sooner or later she and Xu Huanshan will have trouble. question.
On the other hand, I have borrowed money from him before, so the psychological barrier to accepting further help is not that big.
