This year's latest flip phone draws a beautiful parabola in the air and quickly falls into the dark night.
Zheng Lan sucked in a breath of cold air and stuck his head out of the balcony fence to find the approximate location where the phone fell.
It was dark below, there were no street lights beside the green belt, and she couldn't see anything.
Stepping on her slippers and running to the entrance of the corridor, she suddenly stopped, turned back and changed into a pair of small white shoes, and ran out in a hurry.
Leaving the door of the dormitory, turning two corners, she ran to the edge of the green belt directly below the balcony, and stopped beside a tall man with long legs who was looking down at her with his arms folded.
"Xiao Wu is looking."
As Yan Lin spoke, he pointed with his chin to the subordinates who bent over to search in the green belt.
Zheng Lan waited anxiously for a while and asked him:
"You should have an emergency kit in your car, right? Go and take out the searchlight."
Yan Lin stood still, and it took a few seconds to realize that she was calling him.
Fine.
He strode to the parking spot, and soon, came back with the searchlight in his hand.
The driver, Xiao Wu, felt the light projected from behind him, looked back, and squinted to see the light source. His boss, who is worth hundreds of billions of dollars, was holding up the searchlight with a cold face to illuminate the dark bushes for him.
He shrank his neck sharply, terrified in his heart.
If he can't find it, he will not only lose his job, but also his life.
A few minutes passed, and Miss Zheng became more and more impatient.
She suddenly turned to Yan Lin and said:
"Give me the light."
Yan Lin: "I'll take it."
Zheng Lan: "I'll take it, and you can go in and find it for me."
Yan Lin: ......
He tugged at the collar of the shirt that was fastened to his throat, loosened two buttons, and said helplessly:
"I'll buy you another one that's exactly the same."
"How does that work? I have saved a lot of phone numbers, as well as countless text messages and chat records. I only need my own mobile phone, and even if it breaks, I can repair it."
Seeing that he didn't respond for a long time, Zheng Lan couldn't help frowning:
"If you don't go, do you want me to go?"
I'm the eldest daughter of a thousand gold, you are a big man of about 1.8 meters, and you don't even dare to drill in the grass?
"Row."
This word was almost squeezed out of my chest.
After Zheng Lan took over the searchlight, he held it high above his head.
"There, look there too."
"Will it hang on the tree? Yan Lin, shake the tree to see."
"Come on, everyone, found me and invite you to drink soda. Come on, come on!"
During the most speechless few minutes of his life, Boss Yan gritted his teeth and held out.
Finally, Xiao Wu found a flip phone among the cluttered pile of dead leaves. Before Zheng Lan wasn't paying attention, he quickly stuffed it into the boss's hands.
When Yan Lin stepped out of the bushes, the meticulous solid-color suit was covered with dead branches and leaves.
He handed the phone to Zheng Lan, who smiled gratefully at him when he checked and found that his precious phone was intact.
Zheng Lan felt that the noble Boss Yan had crawled around the messy bushes, and he seemed to have become more approachable visually.
Yan Lin lowered his head to clean his coat, and she kindly reached out and patted him off some withered grass.
"By the way, I haven't asked why you came to our school so late?"
When he said this, Zheng Lan no longer frightened him, his almond eyes were clear, and he looked straight at him.
Yan Lin seems to be a little bit clean.
He washed his hands twice with mineral water, then wiped each finger with a tissue, and the dead grass on his body had been removed from sight. He was still exhausted, and insisted on taking off his suit jacket, wearing only a shirt in the cold winter night And the vest, seeing Zheng Lan shudder for him.
The driver found a coat in time to put it on him, and Zheng Lan's teeth stopped fighting.
The man closed the front of his shirt, his eyebrows gathered a bit of cold air, and his voice was still clear and deep:
"It's so late, of course I'm here to find you."
Zheng Lan looked away: "Why are you looking for me?"
Yan Lin: "I just took a pair of jade necklaces at the auction and brought them to you."
Zheng Lan rubbed his arms and simply turned to him:
"You should know that my dad has a special status. I have nothing to do with you now, and I can't accept your gifts. Besides, how old am I? Wearing an emerald necklace is too old-fashioned."
The other party did not reply for a long time.
Zheng Lan glanced from the corner of his eye, and saw him walking to the side of the car in three or two steps, took out a beautiful wooden gift box from the back seat, opened the trunk, and put it inside.
Seeing him take out a pair of scissors from the emergency box, Zheng Lan said in surprise:
"What are you doing?"
The man's expression was indifferent, he cut the beaded chain with one knife, and dozens of round and clear jade beads crashed into the gift box, and the collision sound was particularly clear.
Tens of millions of Gao Bing jadeite became as cheap as glass beads in his hands.
Yan Lin reached into the box, grabbed a handful and gestured for Zheng Lan to take it.
Zheng Lan hesitated for a long time, then held up his hands reluctantly.
If she didn't pick it up, these precious jade stones would most likely be thrown to the ground by him and shattered to pieces.
"It's not a necklace now, just a few broken beads. You can take them back and throw them into the potted plants as a backdrop."
He slowly opened his five fingers, and seven crystal clear emerald jade fell into Zheng Lan's hands, with the temperature of his palm on the surface.
"anything else?"
"Enough is enough."
Zheng Lan pretended not to care and poured the jade beads into his coat pocket.
The pockets suddenly became heavier, and her heart also fell.
This bag of beads, at least there are hundreds of thousands, right?
"Don't come to me in the future."
Zheng Lan ordered the eviction, "I'm very busy."
Yan Lin nodded: "Well, you will apply to a very good school."
It was rare to hear a good word from his mouth, and Zheng Lan felt warm in her heart. Soon, she warned herself:
He just hoped that I would go abroad to be plated with a beautiful layer of gold, and that he would have more face after returning to China and marrying him.
Zheng Lan raised his chin and replied, "It's none of your business."
After saying that, she waved to him and said goodbye. She turned around and walked into the dormitory door without looking back.
Yan Lin looked at her beautiful and graceful back, lowered his head and glimpsed the sticky weeds on the trouser legs, he sighed in his heart——
/> It's been going well for too long, so I came here to find the guilt.
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In the blink of an eye, it is the time when all things come back to life.
Zheng Lan lived up to expectations and got offers from two dream schools. She replied to the email of the higher ranked university to confirm the admission for the autumn semester.
On the second day of the second month, the dragon raised his head. It happened to be the 70th birthday of Yan Lin's grandmother.
Although the husband, son, and grandson are all capitalists, the old man is a virtuous, artistic, and Chinese scholar, and he is a highly respected existence in both the imperial business circle and the political circle.
Zheng Congshan took his wife and children to the birthday.
On the way, Yang Ying and her daughter repeatedly emphasized that they must be obedient and polite in other people's homes, and not take the eldest lady's temper. Zheng Lan didn't feel comfortable hearing it, and retorted:
"Mom, which time have I been a guest at someone else's house and didn't behave well? Besides, the Yan family doesn't have a deep relationship with our family, so why are you nervous?"
Zheng Lan knew that no matter how she objected, her father and mother still regarded Yan Lin as the first choice for her son-in-law.
It is understandable, after all, after shoveling the entire capital, it is possible that no young man better than Yan Lin could be found. As a parent, who would not want their daughter to get the best home.
She decided to wait for a while, and when she went abroad and saw the world, she might find a better man abroad in minutes and bring them back to open their eyes.
The Zheng family's vehicle drove into the open-air parking lot. Unsurprisingly, Yan Lin came to the parking lot to pick them up.
"You, Aunt Yang, and I will go to visit the elders first, Xiao Yan, take Lan Lan around and see you later."
"no problem."
Zheng Lan got out of the car, and before he took two steps, he was sold by his own father.
The two walked side by side in the garden on the west side of the Yan family mansion.
Zheng Lan walked slowly on purpose.
Just now in the car, I promised my mother that I would behave well, but now she suddenly regrets it, and Qiao Zhang did it:
"Your home...is that big?"
Yan Lin hummed a single syllable.
Zheng Lan: "I have a big temper, and I love vanity. Don't blame me if I don't like what I say."
Yan Lin: "All ears."
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"First of all... your house is too small, there is only one villa, at least three townhouses are needed, and you can only sit down when you are having a party. There is also a garden, which needs to be at least quadrupled. There are various options. Precious trees and flowers, spring, summer, autumn and winter have to be seen in every season. And your swimming pool, why is it only open-air? What if it rains? Don't swim if the weather is bad?"
A large paragraph of words came out in one breath, arrogant, and the more she spoke, the more refreshing she felt.
"Also, if the house is bigger, more servants will be hired. We can't let them all live in the employer's house, right? The nanny should have a building, the gardener should have a building, and the driver should have a building. You say yes no?"
Yan Lin stopped suddenly, his dark eyes stared at her quietly, his thin lips parted lightly:
"Yes. I'll listen to you."
Zheng Lan was stunned, and suddenly panicked:
"I'll just... give you some advice. Your home has nothing to do with me."
Yan Lin raised his eyebrows, noncommittal.
There were many guests visiting He Shou, and Yan Lin only accompanied Zheng Lan for 20 minutes.
Zheng Lan was finally taken into a tea room in the villa to rest. She was the only one in the room, which was very quiet. Yan Lin also arranged for a servant to make tea for her at any time.
Sitting alone on a comfortable rattan chair, Zheng Lan felt so comfortable that she could stay here until the end of the dinner.
At this moment, my mother's phone dialed in and asked her to go to the study room on the second floor to meet the old lady.
When they went out, the servant was guarding the door, and Zheng Lan reported the location and asked her to take him there.
This villa covers a huge area, and the internal structure is twisted and twisted, as complex as a palace.
Zheng Lan suddenly thought to himself, if three townhouses go from east to west, their legs will be sore, right?
To enter the second floor, you need to go through a European-style retro spiral staircase. On the south side of the staircase is a baroque glass curtain wall that leads directly to the dome. In the evening, the light coming in from the window turns pink and orange, and the entire stairway has a romantic and warm color.
Zheng Lan stepped on the first step and stopped abruptly.
On the eastern wall at a 90-degree angle to the glass curtain wall, there is a half-person-height family photo.
There are a total of five people in the photo, and Zheng Lan only knows one of them, that is Yan Lin's father, Yan Cheng.
The two middle-aged people at the head should be Yan Cheng's father and mother.
Yan Cheng and a young woman stood behind the elders. The woman held a child in her early one year old in her arms, looking extremely handsome.
Ouch, Boss Yan was so cute when he was a child.
Zheng Lan exited the stairs and deliberately went under the family portrait to watch carefully.
Her eyes lingered on the little boy's face for a long time, and finally she was willing to look away and fell on the woman holding him.
For a moment, she seemed to have suddenly stepped into a dislocated time and space, and she didn't remember where she was, nor did she remember whether the beautiful woman in front of her was a big star in her real life, or one who had been annihilated in the time tunnel. Hold ashes.
Her parents had told her that Yan Lin's mother died when he was in the first grade of elementary school.
Some people say that he died of illness, and some people say that he died of anger after enduring her husband's troubles and betrayal for a long time. There are different opinions from the outside world.
Zheng Lan couldn't help but think of a sentence——
Happy people use childhood to heal their whole life, but unfortunate people use their whole life to heal their childhood.
"What are you looking at?"
A familiar, deep voice pulled her back to reality.
Zheng Lan struggled to pull out a smile:
"Looking at you, you smiled so brightly when you were young, how did you become such a cold face when you grew up."
Yan Lin was silent for a long time.
Zheng Lan never expected that his answer would be so shameless.
"Because I'm the only one in this family photo who is single."
Miss Zheng: ? ? ?
She announced that the distress just now is all taken back :)