Ren Zhouyuan closed his eyes, as if he could feel Leonid holding him behind him. He was lying on the bed, the darkness made the surroundings quieter, the beating heartbeat was particularly obvious, the throbbing in his heart was like ants crawling through the heart, and the numbness spread to the whole body.
Recalling what Leonid said, Ren Zhouyuan felt that not only his heart beat faster, but his face was also burning.
It’s not that he has never liked someone at the age of nearly 30, but it’s been too long, and the past just ended in crush. Like now, there is a person who clearly tells him that we are a family. This feeling is too fresh, even if he and Zheng Erbajing's confession is still a bit far away, but just this is enough to make Ren Zhouyuan's heart thump.
Ren Zhouyuan suffered from insomnia all night, and fell asleep in a daze until dawn. An An woke up rubbing his eyes after less than two hours of sleep. He also got up when he was half asleep and half awake. He wanted to go back to sleep and lost sleepiness. .
After washing up and walking to the living room, Leonid had already prepared breakfast and ate with An An. After saying good morning to Ren Zhouyuan, he continued to help An An spread bread sauce, as if he was not affected by what happened yesterday.
In fact, Leonid did not feel that anything happened yesterday. To him, yesterday's conversation was not much different from usual. His attitude had been made clear a long time ago, and yesterday he just repeated what he said.
But Ren Zhouyuan didn't think so, he nodded a little embarrassedly, and sat next to An An in the morning, and hurriedly made breakfast for himself and An An.
Leonid glanced at him, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, he ate his breakfast as if nothing had happened, and only helped Ren Zhouyuan when he almost knocked over the milk.
After dinner, An An returned to her toy room. Leonid glanced at Ren Zhouyuan who was hiding in the kitchen washing dishes, leaned against the kitchen door and said to him, "Vich's manuscript, I want to talk to you."
Ren Zhouyuan slipped his hand holding the plate and made a loud noise. Leonid shook his head helplessly, walked over to help him turn off the tap, took the plate from his hand and put it aside, and said, "Don't be nervous, I don't eat people."
Ren Zhouyuan sighed silently in his heart, feeling that his performance today was too inexplicable, like a young boy in love, his old face was almost lost by himself.
He took a deep breath, and when he looked at Leonid's face again, he finally looked normal, "Wait for me, I'll go find you after I get this place sorted out."
The two sat facing each other, with hot coffee on the table, but neither of them planned to touch it.
Ren Zhouyuan coughed and took the lead to break the silence and said, "About Wei Qi's manuscript, what do you want to talk about?"
"You..." Leonid said with some hesitation, "I need to know how acceptable you are to doing this."
"What do you mean?" Ren Zhouyuan was puzzled.
Leonid explained in a serious tone: "At any time, family is more important to me than anything else. I don't know why you accepted this manuscript, but as far as I know you have been They are all rejected, if it is because of me that you change your mind and make you do this against your will, I would rather you refuse."
Ren Zhouyuan was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head with a smile and said, "You take this too seriously." He thought about it again, and said, "Let's put it this way, in the past I wrote something that I resisted but had to because of my livelihood. I have written manuscripts, but until now I don’t need to do this at all, I only accept the manuscripts I am willing to write. When it suits my heart, I can still distinguish between work and personal."
Leonid looked at him strangely for a while, thinking that anyway, he is a man who doesn't distinguish between public and private. But he also remembered that when he talked with Ren Zhouyuan about the manuscript he wrote, the guy's eyes were bright and he talked eloquently, which is still fresh in his memory. On the one hand, he hoped that Ren Zhouyuan would not have to do anything under his protection, and just take care of An'an at home like his sister-in-law, but on the other hand, he wanted him to remain the same, and see his radiant look on his face.
After several struggles, Leonid sighed, nodded and said, "I understand, I will think about it."
It's rare for Ren Zhouyuan to see him like this, so he can't help feeling a little fresh and a little dumbfounded.
Not to mention that this is related to work, and a literary worker like him is not as noble as Leonid imagined. Even if he would choose the topic when writing a commercial manuscript, the general direction still had to be written according to the client's requirements, not to mention He has experience in writing gun manuscripts, and these so-called persistence is not worth mentioning in the face of reality.
But to say that this work has not been influenced by Leonid at all is just empty talk.
If he didn't know in advance that this was Wei Wei's contract, Ren Zhouyuan would only hand over Fan Wenfeng's full responsibility. His character is easy to say, but cowardly and uninitiated. He can only rely on his own consequences for a long time. Once someone paves the way for him, he subconsciously relies on it.
After all, life alone is too hard.
In getting along with Leonid, he thought that he had endured too much and given too little. If he couldn't even do such a simple thing now, Ren Zhouyuan really couldn't believe what he could do.
He has no experience with his family, but he always believes that to maintain a relationship, it is not advisable to blindly give and receive, and this is still the case with ordinary people's interactions, let alone their relationship.
Ren Zhouyuan thought for a long time, and said to Leonid: "I actually thought about this manuscript a long time ago. It's just that I just joined Weiqi at that time, and I had to take care of An'an, so I didn't have time. Now that I have more time, naturally I don't." question."
Leonid looked at him with raised eyebrows, obviously not believing it, but he also felt that Ren Zhouyuan wanted to appease him, and he was a little teasing: "Oh? Then did you think about how to write it at that time?"
Ren Zhouyuan was overwhelmed by the question, paused for a moment, recalled what he had written at the back of the topic, and thought of Wei Qi's situation now, rubbed his nose and said without changing his face: "Foreign cultures to enter the Chinese market should be combined with national conditions. On the basis of maintaining the original characteristics.”
The way Ren Zhouyuan said this was so normal, Leonid couldn't tell whether what he said was true or not for a moment, he could only secretly think that these cultural people are too good at fooling people, but he didn't continue to entangle with him on this topic go down.
Leonid picked up the coffee and took a sip. There was another thing that he was very concerned about. Thinking that the atmosphere was good now, he simply asked, "Do you want to go back to the archaeological team?"
Ren Zhouyuan stopped holding the coffee, lowered his head, took a sip, shook his head, and said, "At the beginning, it was to accumulate experience and also to make money. Life in the team is actually not more comfortable than it is now, although I have learned a lot. But aside from those bad things, the archaeological team is not an ideal job."
Leonid nodded to express his understanding. He didn't know much about Ren Zhouyuan in the past, so he could only guess what he wanted and what he could provide him based on his own observations. But after today's conversation, He felt that he had finally gotten a little closer to the person in front of him.
To say that he has no opinion, but he has his own set of opinions on many things, knowing what he should do and what not to do, but if he has ideas, occasionally he will show that he doesn't care about anything The attitude is astonishingly casual.
He said that he was not that fragile, but in Leonid's eyes, he was weaker than those Russian women, especially when he heard about his past experience, the feeling of distress and powerlessness always surrounded him, making him It was difficult for him to tell whether what the person said was okay, or whether it really didn't matter.
He is too used to keeping his feelings in his heart. If Ren Zhouyuan doesn't say anything, Leonid can't figure it out, so he starts to learn how to lure him to speak out, step by step, hoping that one day it will really enter his heart .
Both of them are slowly learning how to get along. Although it is inevitable that they are a little cautious, such days seem to be good.
After all, a family is better than a person.