The girl sitting in front of the window raised her head when she heard the words. There was no expression on her delicate and fair face. She glanced at Yan Kuan indifferently, and then said in a calm tone: "You are not late, but I came 10 minutes earlier. I am Yan, I didn't ask for leave to attend the appointment, but just took advantage of the lunch break at work, so I don't have much time, I hope you can understand." Yan Kuan stood by the seat, looking at the face in front of him with the golden sunlight pouring in from the window, But he hid his scrutiny well, and his lips curled up in a nice curve. When he laughed, his brows and eyes also curved slightly, and a pair of brown eyes curved into a crescent shape, making his smile look extraordinarily gentle, "It's okay, I'll just sit and go, It won't take up much of your time."
After Yan Kuan said this, he quietly put away his scrutiny, turned to look at the empty seat opposite Yan, and asked politely, "Can I sit opposite you?"
"Please." Yan nodded and closed the pages of the book.
After the pages of the book were closed, Yan Kuan lowered his gaze and casually glanced at the title of the book, only to realize that Yan was reading "Financial Engineering".
"Miss Yan likes to read?" Yan Kuan asked casually, "Looks like Lorenz's book?"
"It's okay. It's just that I've read too many books over the years, and I'm used to reading. I'm not sure if you'll be late, so I brought a book to read." Yan politely raised the corners of his mouth and drew a faint smile. While speaking, he pushed the book in hand to the other end of the table.
"Reading is a good habit. I haven't sat down to read for a long time because I'm busy with work." While speaking, Yan said to the dessert shop staff standing by his seat, "Have a cup of black coffee, thank you."
The clerk nodded and left, leaving only Yan Kuan and Yan in the dining area.
Yan sat up straight, with his hands flat on the table, his sitting posture was upright but reserved, his voice didn't change, it was still flat and crisp: "Mr. Yan, actually, I've already guessed why you asked me out this time. I have to make it clear that I don’t like my elders to ask me anything, just like I choose to continue my graduate studies, my cousins and cousins just went to college and then went to work. Of course, some of them traveled around the world. Only I choose to continue my studies, and I don’t want to use some of my family connections to get something like everyone else. Of course I admit that I did use them.”
"You are very frank and honest." Yan Kuan's smiling eyes showed some appreciation, "I envy you very much. You can be yourself a lot of times and have the right to make your own choices."
"Actually, you can too. Mr. Yan, you have worked in Shanghai for many years, and you have managed the Baoli Group well. You should understand that opportunities need to be won by yourself." Yan smiled and said, with a light tone that seemed to have deep meaning.
"Opportunities need to be grasped by oneself, but not everyone has the right to choose their own wishes. Ms. Yan, you have a good background and a better family background. Of course you can't understand how difficult it is for a person in a complicated family." By then, the black coffee had already arrived. Yan Kuan held the exquisite cup holder, gently stirred the steaming coffee, and continued as if telling a story, "I started sponsoring poor children to study three years ago. One of the little girls is a low-income household in the mountains of Yunnan. There are 3 brothers and sisters in their family. The mother was sold by human traffickers. She was beaten into a half lunatic because she escaped. In it, her older brothers and sisters have all grown up, and went to work in the weaving factory in Guangzhou before finishing junior high school, and the girl was raised by her second uncle because she was too young. And this second uncle is a bachelor , I haven’t married a wife at the age of forty... A man without a wife raises a girl who is developing and is about to enter junior high school, and you should be able to guess what will happen later.”
When Yan Kuan said this, he picked up the coffee and took a sip, but his eyes kept on Yan's face.
Hearing this, Yan's sitting body couldn't help but backed up a bit, and a trace of stiffness appeared on her indifferent face, "Then, what happened to that girl?"
"The girl was young at the time, and her mother was a lunatic. No one told her the pros and cons of the matter. She spent more than a year in a daze. Her academic performance was very good, but the impact of this incident also plummeted. In a trance, the teacher found it strange. When I went to visit her home, I realized that the girl and her second uncle were sleeping on the same bed... Then everyone in the village knew about it, and the girl realized how shameful this kind of thing is, so she stole it. I drank half of a bottle of 'Dimethoate'."
"Dimethicone?" Yan frowned, "Is it poison?"
"It's a pesticide, but it's deadly to people. It was rescued in time because of the discovery, but the damage to the lungs of that drug is irreparable. I just sent my assistant to Yunnan to visit impoverished villages. To support some children who are willing to study, the assistant called me after hearing about this. I funded it as a matter of course, and I also paid for the follow-up treatment. Then I took her from that village and did my best. She is well treated in life and study. That girl is also very hardworking. Children who have lived through hard times cherish the opportunity to study and their grades are also among the best. It is not a problem for her to get into a key high school. Tsinghua University and Peking University are also very possible. There was a smile on the corner of Yan Kuan's mouth, and he sighed softly, "She is really a hardworking child."
"I know what you mean. If you were born in this kind of family, you really can't choose many things. But she still seized the opportunity, because of you, she can start again. So it is often more important for people to grasp the opportunity." Yan Ting By now, his complexion had returned to normal.
But Yan Kuan shook his head, the smile on the corner of his mouth was still there, but it lost its warmth and turned into a sneer, "No, what I want to say is that the environment in which people are born is often more important. If the family background is too bad, opportunities lie ahead You can't really catch it either."
Yan narrowed his eyes: "How do you say that?"
"At first, I also thought that as long as I gave her a good material life and new hope, she would be able to live again. At first, I was worried that those things would have a psychological shadow on her, so I asked a psychiatrist to help her out of the shadow. Three years later , she is very sunny, lively, enthusiastic and cheerful, no one can imagine what she experienced in her childhood. She said that her elder sister wanted to visit her, and I agreed, booked a plane ticket and arranged a hotel for her relatives to stay in, and stayed in the hotel for half a month I had no intention of leaving, so I asked my assistant to arrange for them to rent a house. After everything was packed, the family moved in. The girl was very happy and said that she would study harder to repay me. A week later, the big girl in the girl’s birthday class Some of the classmates came to celebrate her birthday at home. Her eldest sister accidentally mentioned this incident in front of a bunch of classmates, and soon the whole class knew about it, and she became the focus of discussion again. The girl did not tell me such a big thing, but She played truant for a week. A week later, she came home, stabbed her older sister five or six times with a fruit knife that was so long, and then jumped from the 8th floor by opening the window."
After the story was finished, Yan Kuan told it in an unusually calm tone from beginning to end, his gentle voice was like catkins dancing in the spring breeze in March, indifferent but lonely.
He turned his head and glanced at the extremely bright sidewalk outside which was illuminated by the sun, and looked at the crowds hurrying to and fro on the sidewalk, his smiling crescent-like eyes had lost their smile, "You said that it is very easy for people to seize the opportunity. It's important, but what's more important is that person's family background. Many people's background is doomed to lose certain opportunities. Even if the opportunity is given to him, he will give up due to various factors. Ms. Yan may have lived a smooth life since she was a child, so she takes it for granted Some people think that everyone has the same right to choose life as you do, and has the ability to grasp opportunities when they come. Of course, because your starting point is much better than others, you can seize them as long as you work hard. But not everyone has the same You are so lucky."
Yan looked at Yan Kuan in a daze, his face was much more solemn than before.
Few people can make Yan speechless, but Yan Kuan did it.
As Yan Kuan said, most of the time in her life, she did go smoothly, and when things went wrong, she could work hard to solve it. There is no way to choose one's family origin. There are many poor and poor people in society, she knows, but she has never really understood and contacted them. She has been studying in school all these years, and she has no ability to support poor children. She has not entered the social work yet, and her family has money, but she cannot use the family money to support them.
She has never had direct contact with those poor mountain children, and most of her friends are of the same background as her. Occasionally, one or two of her classmates are from ordinary families who live in a well-to-do life and have no worries about food and clothing. So she can only imagine how those children from poor families live, but she has never really experienced it.
And now the story that Yan Kuan told her really shocked her heart.
The girl could have a good life after she got rid of the shadow, but she couldn't get rid of her origin. Maybe that big sister didn't say it unintentionally, but did it on purpose. She doesn't want to think too badly about human nature, but the psychology she has learned tells her the complexity of human nature. Both came from poor backgrounds. One went to work as a child laborer before finishing junior high school and stood on the assembly line for 14 hours or more a day, while the other was funded by an entrepreneur to study and lived like a princess. Why
There are always some people hidden in everyone's relatives who don't want you to live well. Not every relative is amiable.
"I'm sorry, in fact, don't worry about it and just listen to the story." After a long time, Yan Kuan took the initiative to break the peace between the two, and a gentle smile appeared on his soft face, "It's too long to delay you." I'm sorry. In fact, I didn't expect you to agree to the request to meet, you are indeed a different girl, I thought you would ask to meet in a high-end restaurant, but I didn't expect that it was just an appointment in this local dessert shop. "
"It's just that I don't have much time at noon, and I don't want to go too far away, and I didn't want to see you at first. I just went to see you because I thought of pity for my parents." Yan also restrained her emotions and regained her composure. Look, "You are not what I thought. I thought you were looking forward to this meeting, but I didn't expect that you were just dealing with family members."
"Really?" Yan Kuan smiled elegantly and calmly, the corners of his mouth curved slightly, his smile almost overlapped with Shao Jun's, "Why do you see that?"