Sang Wuyan also continued to go on blind dates. The blind date man was obviously quite satisfied with Sang Wuyan, and he talked a lot, looking for topics to talk about. Sang Wuyan responded from time to time, but in fact she didn't listen at all.
She felt like sitting on pins and needles, and finally wanted to grab her handbag and run away immediately. Just as she had this thought, she saw the secretary coming over and said to Wu Yu who was sitting opposite Sang Wuyan with a smile: "Mr. Wu, my boss wants to talk to your girlfriend. Is it appropriate?" Very polite.
Wu Yu didn't know what the relationship between them was, so he could only say, "Of course, of course." and walked towards another table.
The secretary smiled gratefully at his kindness and walked back.
Su Nianqin had finished talking with the middle-aged man. After seeing the guest off, he received a reply from his secretary and stood up and walked over.
Sang Wuyan watched him anxiously as he unbuttoned his suit and sat down. Then the two of them sat face to face in silence for a long time.
As soon as the others left, Su Nianqin hid her smile and pursed her lips coldly. Because of his eye disease, she dared to continue staring at him so unscrupulously. After observing for a long time, she suddenly felt that the corners of his tightly pursed lips were very sexy. Haha, sexy? Now is not the time to think about this. She reminded herself.
Sang Wuyan felt that the longer he remained silent, the more disadvantageous it would be for him, so he pretended to be relaxed and said, "Long time no see, Su Nianqin."
Su Nianqin's face was gloomy and he didn't reply.
She felt that this sentence was not right, so she added: "I haven't seen you for a few years. You look more energetic and you seem to be doing well."
This one sounds even worse.
At this time, Su Nianqin actually took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket, took out a cigarette, lit it on the box, put it in his mouth, and skillfully took out a lighter to light it.
He took a deep breath and exhaled a puff of smoke.
If he used to be a bit willful and childish, then the current Su Nianqin has become a fully mature man, at least that's what he looks like on the outside.
Sang Wuyan saw through the smoke that the gloom on Su Nianqin's face was deepening.
"Are you here on business or pleasure?"
Nonsense, who brings a secretary with them when traveling? Each sentence was more stupid than the last, so she simply shut up.
He flicked the cigarette butt between his fingers naturally on the ashtray and put the lighter on the table.
"Sang Wuyan," Su Nianqin said coldly, "Don't worry, I'm not here to look for you. And I can live a better life without you." After saying this, Su Nianqin pinched the cigarette butt in the ashtray and quickly got up and left.
The secretary behind him saw this and ran over, "Mr. Su..."
Sang Wuyan was surprised. After all these years, when he saw her, all he wanted to tell her were these two sentences.
I'm not here to see you.
I can live better without you.
After walking outside and breathing the damp and cold air, Su Nianqin slowly relaxed his tense nerves. He, Su Nianqin, was so cowardly that he didn't even dare to stay in front of this woman for a moment longer or say another word.
Sang Wuyan returned to his residence and immediately received a call from Sang's mother.
"Wu Yan. How is he? This guy has good character and looks, right?"
Only then did Sang Wuyan realize that she had forgotten the man named Wu in the coffee shop.
It was late autumn, the new semester was halfway through, and a cool breeze was blowing in the southern cities. She and Li Lulu took on a case of a child with autism, a child named Xiaojie who was admitted to the Child Research Center.
Before the age of two, Xiao Jie was insensitive to sounds and his language development was very slow, so his parents mistakenly thought he was deaf or mentally retarded. Later, when Sang Wuyan first saw Xiao Jie, his parents were secretly discussing whether to abandon him.
"He's not a fool."
"Impossible." His irresponsible parents firmly denied.
"Not only is he not a fool, but he might even have other talents."
"Teacher Sang," the parents seemed a little confused, "A child who can't talk or laugh and even has slow movements, what else can he be but a fool? And we are all country folk from outside the country, and we don't have much money to pay for your treatment."
Sang Wuyan's energy is stagnant.
So, under an agreement with the guardian, Sang Wuyan brought Xiaojie to the research center and covered all the expenses for his treatment.
Meaning, she had almost adopted the child, except without the legal protection.
Cheng Yin said: "This child's parents are not fools, you are."
At the beginning, Xiaojie's condition was very bad. He could hardly pronounce words and could only repeat a few words by parroting. The treatment was too late, and his auditory nerves almost atrophied. He lost the ability to take care of himself like other children of the same age, and rudely rejected anyone who wanted to get close to him. When things went wrong, he would scream like crazy.
Fortunately, the therapist there was very patient.
One year later, Xiaojie began to learn to quietly build a red house with building blocks, although the style of the house has never changed.
While looking at Xiaojie's recent medical records, Li Lulu asked, "How was the result of your blind date this morning?"
"Don't mention it."
"Not well-educated?"
“It seems pretty good.”
"Not handsome enough?"
"I didn't even notice what he looked like."
Li Lulu whistled.
"This is not your style, Sang Wuyan. In the previous times, you either complained that the other person was too short or had small eyes. How come you didn't even see the other person's appearance clearly this time?"
"I saw him."
"who?"
"Su Nianqin." Sang Wuyan said.
"I thought, once Master Su shows up, who can compete with him?"
Li Lulu had met Su Nianqin on the day of her undergraduate graduation. During their subsequent two years of graduate school life, she learned many details of Sang Wuyan's love story indirectly.
"Isn't there a report saying that Mr. Su transferred all his shares to him last month? Now Mr. Su is a genuine top-notch bachelor. Why don't you try to rekindle the old relationship?"
Sang Wuyan said self-deprecatingly: "He treats me like a plague, how could he miss the old relationship?"
Yes, he once told her that if she left first, he would hate her for the rest of her life. But it was obviously his own problem, so why did he blame her
Su Nianqin frowned, holding an ashtray in her hand. She actually lied to her that the man was her boyfriend, lying with open eyes. Did she think he was a three-year-old child
His mind wandered and the cigarette burned to the end, burning his fingers. He was startled and immediately put it out. He stopped for half a second and wanted to smoke again, but when he touched the box, he found that it was gone.
Su Nianqin opened the window of the hotel, and the autumn wind blew in along with the noise of the traffic below. He took a deep breath of the cool air, then crumpled the cigarette box in his hand and threw it out of the window. He suddenly became angry: Su Nianqin, don't dream about anything. Are you still a man like this? Three years ago, she dumped you without any hesitation, and even said that she would never see you again in her life.
She also said that she hated him.
"Mr. Su?" Secretary Xiao Qin called him, "Aren't you going to turn on the lights?"
"Open it if you need it." Su Nianqin calmed down and turned around.
"If the lights are on, it will make people feel gentler." Xiao Qin made him a cup of hot tea, and then asked the hotel waiter to take away all the fragile items and unnecessary decorations. Then she placed the voice scanner and Braille typewriter she brought on the table in the study according to his usage habits.
"The cooperation with TORO is going smoothly. I have put the draft agreement on your desk, but you need to go there tomorrow morning."
"Yeah." Su Nianqin rested his chin on the armrest of the sofa with his right hand, which was his usual action when he was absent-minded. He listened to his secretary absent-mindedly.
"And our branch here hopes you can visit the employees."
"Um."
"Miss Yu called me. I hope you can call her back when you are free."
"Yeah." He didn't listen at all.
Xiao Qin understood that she had wasted a lot of time talking, but the boss is the boss.
"Mr. Su?" Xiao Qin smiled.
"Hmm? Are you done?" Su Nianqin came back to her senses.
"That's all for now. What can I do for you, Mr. Su?"
"Put the agreement we are going to sign tomorrow on my desk. We have to meet with their shareholders at TORO in the morning. I will be inspecting the branch office, so please arrange the time." Su Nianqin said.
It seems that he didn't hear anything at all, Xiao Qin thought.
But she still had a good expression on her face, "Okay. I understand." When she first took office, Yu Xiaolu told her that being Mr. Su's secretary, knowing Braille and being able to do things were secondary. The key was to have a good temper and patience.
"in addition-"
"You say."
"Call and order me a bottle of wine."
"Ms. Yu has instructed that the doctor said your eyes..."
Su Nianqin raised her hand a little impatiently.
Xiao Qin immediately fell silent. She was his secretary, not his wife, so she knew what to do when to stop.
When she left, Su Nianqin suddenly asked, "Did you bring my radio?"
Xiao Qin said, "You said you didn't need it, so I didn't bring it. But if you want to listen to the radio, I have this function on my phone."
"No need." Su Nianqin refused immediately again.
Today's boss is very strange, Xiao Qin thought, although he was not normal in the past.
Su Nianqin read the information Xiao Qin left until midnight. He had never thought of doing business before, so he didn't know a lot of professional terms. Xiao Qin helped him to learn a lot, but he still felt tired, so he put in a lot more effort than others.
Fortunately, someone had thought of a solution for him before.
"If it's hard to read, why not have someone read it out loud, and then write down the parts you need to remember." He still remembers every word Sang Wuyan said with a smile. She was the girl who loved to cry the most and laughed the most that he had ever met.
Although he couldn't see, he could hear the smile coming from his heart.
He felt a little sad, so he asked the restaurant to send up some wine.
"Mr. Su, do you need anything else?" the other party asked kindly.
"No need." He refused coldly.
Su Nianqin had not been drinking or smoking for long, and these bad habits only developed after Sang Wuyan left. He was not good at these things, so he was not picky. In his mind, good wine was the one that could make him forget Sang Wuyan after drinking it.
Unfortunately, it has not been found yet.
At night, he had a dream in which he saw Sang Wuyan standing under a tree.
What kind of tree is that
He frowned in his sleep.
There was a tree that was planted all over City A. He didn't know what it looked like, but he remembered its smell. Yu Weilan said it was holly. But many years later, Sang Wuyan told him that it was not holly but privet. At that time, she picked the fragrant rice-sized flower and placed it in his palm, and even an ordinary leaf, and even guided his fingertips to touch it.
That was the second time she held his hand.
The first time was when she applied aloe vera juice to his burns. She was small, and her hands were not the standard slender ones, but they felt extraordinarily soft, comfortable, and warm.
He had touched her face so many times that he could accurately outline every part in his mind.
However, no matter what I did, I couldn't put together her appearance: the way she laughed, the way she cried, the way she was angry, the way she pouted and acted coquettishly to him.
So, again and again, she stood under the privet tree in his dreams, holding an umbrella, with her back to him, but never once looking back.
She told him that they would never see each other again in this life. He thought that no matter how painful it was, his self-esteem would be enough to make him stick to this sentence until the next life.
However, he couldn't help but break this oath, and suddenly wanted to come and see her to see if she was okay.
In the morning, Xiao Qin came to call Su Nianqin. She knocked on the door but no one answered, so she could only use the room card to open it.
The room was filled with the smell of cigarettes and alcohol, which was almost suffocating. He curled up on the sofa with his clothes on, holding the portable music player in his hand, and the earplugs were still in his ears. He spent the night like this.
Xiao Qin was used to it and didn't make a fuss. She looked at the watch. It was only seven o'clock, so he could sleep for another half an hour. So she opened the window and took away the empty bottle on the bed. At that time, she heard Su Nianqin muttering the word "Wu Yan". She didn't know whether it was Wu Yan or Wu Yan. She heard it many times but couldn't figure it out.
Xiao Qin raised his eyebrows and waited for him in the living room while looking at the itinerary.
At 7:30, Su Nianqin woke up on time, as if he had set an alarm clock in his body. He took a shower in the bathroom, wrapped himself in a towel and went back to the cloakroom to get clothes. Each piece of clothing had a Braille label with information about the color and style of the clothes.
Twenty minutes later, Su Nianqin turned back into the Su Nianqin he was during the day: his beard was clean-shaven, his clothes were neat, there was no unusual smell on his body, and his facial expression was calm.
"Nianqin—" Someone called him just after the meeting in TORO.
"It's Miss Peng." In fact, Xiao Qin knew it was her without reminding Su Nianqin.
Peng Danqi is the niece of TORO's boss.
The only person in the world who could call Su Nianqin loudly in this tone is probably this woman.
Su Nianqin frowned slightly in displeasure. He didn't like others calling him so intimately.
"Miss Peng, do you have any other instructions?" Su Nianqin asked, with a distant and reserved tone.
He was always indifferent, so Peng Danqi didn't mind.
"Just call me Danqi, otherwise it would be too formal." Peng Danqi smiled.
The smell of her CD perfume was too strong, the boss would definitely not like it, Xiao Qin thought. Yu Xiaolu had reminded her that Mr. Su was sensitive to smells and sounds, so she could not use perfume or make loud noises.
"Nianqin, I heard that this is your first time in City B. I'll take you around."
"Thank you for your hospitality, Miss Peng. I have eye problems and don't like to move around."
Peng Danqi applies the tactics she learned in business to love, not pushing too hard but persisting.
"Then I'll treat you to dinner tonight and show my hospitality. Nianqin, you shouldn't refuse, right?"
Su Nianqin had no way to retreat.
On the way from the hotel to Catiero Restaurant in the evening, Su Nianqin suddenly searched the pockets of the car.
"Mr. Su, looking for something?"
"The MP3 player I carry with me."
The white iPod is Su Nianqin’s most precious treasure.
"Did you leave it in the hotel?" Xiao Qin asked.
"Then go back and look for it." Su Nianqin gave the order without hesitation.
"Mr. Su, your appointment with Miss Peng is almost up."
"I'm not going." Su Nianqin uttered three words.
Peng Danqi's carefully prepared date was cancelled because of this small incident, so Xiao Qin lowered her voice and made up a reason to explain to her. Fortunately, Peng Danqi was quite reasonable.
But Su Nianqin is completely unreasonable.
The hotel room was turned upside down by him. The maids who cleaned the room were severely questioned one by one, which made everyone very embarrassed.
The manager asked tremblingly: "Mr. Su lost something very valuable?"
"An MP3." Xiao Qin kept smiling.
Su Nianqin's way of treating people has improved a lot since she first met him two or three years ago, but he started to behave abnormally occasionally after arriving in City B.
Xiao Qin remembered the first time they met, Su Nianqin stood at the other end of the room and asked, "Why do you know how to read?"
"My father is blind."
"Innate or..." He was choosing his words.
"The day after tomorrow. He is a worker. He became blind in an accident in the workshop when I was about two years old." Xiao Qin answered him.
"He's lucky. At least he's seen your mother and you."
Xiao Qin shook his head, "No, Mr. Su. An adult who suddenly loses his sight from a completely healthy state will suffer a greater blow than a person who has been blind since childhood."