Lu Weifu upstairs

Chapter 38

After four o'clock in the afternoon, Bing Wang posted the update, still in her usual obscure style.Thanks to her update time, Fang Wen was able to get off work before 05:30.

At [-]:[-], Zhang Li tapped twice on the door, and walked in briskly without waiting for Fang Wen's answer.She had already put on her coat and carried her bag, and said with a smile, "Is your side all right?"

Fang Wen straightened his back unconsciously: "Immediately." Then, he saved the word document and turned off the computer.

When the two walked out of the office building, Zhang Li said, "I've ordered a taxi."

Fang Wen was a little embarrassed. It stands to reason that this kind of thing should be done by men, right?He said awkwardly, "Thank you."

Zhang Li said "Oops": "Why are we so polite?" Then she looked down at her phone.

She was wearing a lavender cotton dress and a white denim jacket. A gust of evening wind blew up and gently lifted the corner of her pleated skirt. Fang Wen looked at her and thought of the blue and purple irises. When he was a child, his grandfather in the countryside I once planted a small field of irises in front of my house.

"Let me tell you," Zhang Li suddenly raised her head and met Fang Wen's eyes, then she froze for a moment, "That..."

Fang Wen quickly looked away: "What?"

"That hot pot...it's so delicious, I don't even take it with my ordinary friends!"

Fang Wen smiled: "Okay, thank you."

On the same night, Xu Yihan didn't go home for dinner.

Around five o'clock in the afternoon, he received a call from Lao Xu, telling him to go to a private restaurant before 06:30 in the evening, and remember to order high-end gifts.Xu Yihan responded repeatedly, hung up the phone, and the chat box between him and Deng Yuan was still on the phone screen.

He asked Deng Yuan: Sister, what shall we have for dinner tonight?

It took about ten minutes before Deng Yuan replied: I was hunting whole fish just now, and I didn't look at my phone.

Xu Yihan: What kind of fish?

Deng Yuan sent a photo of two flat fishes that had been cleaned up.

Wuchang fish, Deng Yuan said.

Xu Yihan felt novelty: you still pick up fish?

Deng Yuan: What's the matter? Do you remember that when you were in your hometown, there was a white rooster in my house?The crown is particularly red.

To be honest, Xu Yihan had no memory of it, but he still said: Well, what's wrong?

Deng Yuan: I don’t know if you returned to Wuhan later, but I killed the chicken during the Chinese New Year.

Xu Yihan: ...

He said a little funny: Don't tell me you can butcher pigs.

Deng Yuan answered honestly: I dare not.

Then he said: let's not talk for now, what time will you get home today?I'm going to wash the dishes.

Xu Yihan replied with a smile: I can get home before 06:30.

Looking at this chat record again, Xu Yihan still wanted to laugh.Deng Yuan, Deng Yuan, who looks like a fluffy little woman in a skirt, can cut fish and kill chickens.What's more interesting is that thinking about this scene, he didn't feel that it violated harmony at all.Maybe it's because Deng Yuan came from the countryside?He himself said that he used to do farm work at home.

Xu Yihan likes Deng Yuan like this. In this city known for its exquisiteness, in Xu Yihan's well-decorated high-end apartment, he still has a fresh feeling of being out of place.When he was with Deng Yuan, Xu Yihan couldn't help comparing Deng Yuan with his ex-girlfriends.Those girls are all beautiful, with skin as smooth as white chocolate. Most of them come from wealthy families, have read a lot of books, and are good at makeup and dressing.

When he was with them, Xu Yihan always spent a lot of money, as if spending a lot of money was worthy of them: he took them to expensive restaurants, watched them eat very little but took lots of pictures; he went on vacation with them, went to Northern Europe to see the aurora to Switzerland skied and went diving in the Red Sea; sometimes he also quarreled with them, they were all independent and unrestrained girls, they left as soon as they said they would, and didn't have the slightest nostalgia for Xu Yihan.What impressed me the most was a quarrel with a Beijing girl who was studying sociology. The cause was that Xu Yihan saw a mixed-race child when we were shopping together, and he casually praised "so cute", but the Beijing girl said, I hate children the most.Xu Yihan said, you hate children, but you can't deny that the child is really cute.The Beijing girl suddenly got angry, and asked why you said cute is cute?Why should I obey your aesthetics?Just because you're a man? Xu Yihan? !She broke up that day.

But Deng Yuan, Deng Yuan is different.He didn't read a lot, didn't understand a lot, didn't have a lot of money, and didn't even have a distinctive personality.Compared with those girls, he is not "advanced" at all, what he is good at is nothing more than cooking and housework.But in him, Xu Yihan felt some strange but familiar qualities, such as frugality, hard work, and even his humbleness towards the world, which became a kind of fascinating tenderness.

Xu Yihan called Deng Yuan: "Sister, I have to eat out tonight."

Deng Yuan: "Ah." The tone was obviously disappointed.

Xu Yihan said sincerely: "I'm sorry, I thought I could get off work on time today, but I didn't expect..."

And Deng Yuan has put away the disappointment just now, and said softly: "It's okay, I happen to be hungry too, I will eat in a while," and then told Xu Yihan, "Eat well outside, don't just settle down because you are busy with work." gone."

Xu Yihan really wanted to go home directly, but he couldn't, it was Old Xu who called him.

"Don't worry, sister, wait for me to come back tonight," Xu Yihan lowered his voice, "Remember to change into your little skirt."

In the evening, Xu Yihan met old Xu's friend, Yang Ming.He had heard old Xu mention it many times. Decades ago, Yang Ming and Lao Xu both jumped in line at a certain forest farm in the northeast. They got lost in the forest together. It was a fateful friendship. I took my business abroad and only returned to China in the past two years.

At the dinner table, Lao Xu and Yang Ming ate and talked, and they seemed to be having a good time.Xu Yihan was a little puzzled, and didn't understand why Lao Xu insisted on calling him over.

After eating, Yang Ming patted Xu Yihan's shoulder, and said loudly: "Yihan, where will our two families get together again in a few days!"

Xu Yihan nodded again and again: "No problem, no problem! Uncle Yang, I'll bring you a bottle of good wine next time!"

Yang Ming's car drove away, and old Xu said leisurely: "Next week when Lao Yang and his daughter return to China, you should prepare well when they have dinner again."

Xu Yihan understood immediately, Xu Yize had a fiancée, Xu Yipeng was too young, so it was his turn, so it turned out to be like this.

"Okay, Dad," Xu Yihan smiled, "Don't worry."

And on Xu Yihan's way home, he received a call from the company's finance.

"Mr. Xu," asked the finance chief, "Can the authors withdraw their income from the competition now?"

Xu Yihan didn't realize it: "Income?"

"That's right...that is, the author named 'Sound of the Rain', he said he needed money for an urgent matter and wanted to withdraw cash, but according to the regulations of our competition, the author's income is settled uniformly after the competition ends..."

Xu Yihan asked suspiciously, "What's his urgent matter?"

Finance: "He didn't make it too clear, it seems that a family member is sick?"

Xu Yihan pondered for a few seconds, and said, "You can't withdraw cash for him, the rules are the rules."

Finance: "Then..."

"Okay, I'll take care of this, you don't have to worry about it."

Immediately afterwards, Xu Yihan sent Zhao Xin a WeChat message: Your child is in urgent need of money, it seems that a family member is sick, please go and show your courtesy, and you will not wait after the deadline.

This night was a turbulent night for Liu Yusheng's family.

Usually, after dinner, my mother would go out for a walk with Uncle Liu, but today she couldn't say it, because she felt sick to her stomach.Knowing that his mother had gastritis before, Liu Yusheng was a little nervous and asked her why she was not feeling well and whether she should go to the hospital.

My mother said it was all right, I was full from dinner and just rested for a while.

By 09:30 in the evening, she was already arched in pain, and it was useless to take stomach medicine, because it was only then that she was sure that it was not the stomach that hurt, but the stomach.

"Mom," Liu Yusheng said in a panic, "Go to the hospital! I'll call a car!"

"No!" The mother shook her head, "Where is the hospital open at such a late hour? I'm fine!"

Uncle Wang couldn't stand it anymore: "There is an emergency!"

Mother still shook her head: "The emergency room is so expensive! No need! I won't go!"

Uncle Wang said helplessly, "You!"

Liu Yusheng's mother was stubborn, and no one could persuade her.It was always exactly ten o'clock, Liu Yusheng ignored her objection, picked her up in a taxi and rushed to the hospital.When I went to the emergency department and then entered the inpatient department, the result of the examination was that an operation was required immediately, not only the appendix, but also a section of the large intestine.

My mother was in the operating room, and the nurse came over to remind me, "I have to pay early tomorrow morning."

Liu Yusheng only had around 1000 yuan on hand, and his manuscript fee was stored on the card by his mother, so he didn't know the password.He asked Uncle Wang if he had any money, but Uncle Wang faltered and said that he had more than 1000 cash.How could he only have more than [-] cash?Liu Yusheng didn't have time to ask questions.The doctor said that after the operation, the anesthesia would not wear off until noon the next day, and the pain relief pump is what the patient needs when he leaves the operating room.

His mother was still undergoing surgery, and Liu Yusheng scratched his hair anxiously. The accountant said he could not withdraw cash, and he didn't know who to ask for a loan at this late hour: relatives couldn't lend money, and Lu Bianyue, she was just a student.

Just then the phone rang.

Zhao Xin asked bluntly: "Do you need money? I have it. I'll transfer it to you first, okay?"

Liu Yusheng subconsciously wanted to refuse, he didn't want Zhao Xin to see his embarrassing side again.But when the words came to his lips, he remembered the nurse's advice, the painkiller pump the doctor said, and Uncle Wang's dodging eyes, but he couldn't say the words of refusal.

"Yusheng?" Zhao Xin asked carefully.

"...Turn me [-] first, okay?"

Zhao Xin didn't say any more extra words: "Okay, send me the card number."

Liu Yusheng sent him the card number, and soon, he received a text message from the bank on his mobile phone.

Zhao Xin transferred 4 yuan to him, with a postscript: Let me know if it is not enough, and you can tell me if you have other difficulties. I will not sleep tonight.