The person who had the most difficulty falling asleep this night was actually Li Wan'er.
Ordinarily, some time ago, there were many accidents, and she was exhausted physically and mentally. This day and night, she went through a long-distance flight and didn't sleep. She should be very tired and sleepy, but she has something on her mind, and this matter is so entangled in her...
Li Wan'er hugged the quilt and tossed and turned for a while, but couldn't fall asleep anyway, so she had to get up and do yoga for a while...
Stretch your body, adjust your breathing, soothe your nerves...
Li Wan'er has practiced yoga for more than ten years. In the past, when she was lonely or depressed or troubled, she could always find peace and relief in it, but this night, Li Wan'er couldn't calm down.
"Since you can't control it and you can't stop thinking about it, then just think about it carefully, think about it, and think about it thoroughly. What are you afraid of?!"
Li Wan'er gritted her teeth and made up her mind, sitting on the bed with her arms around her knees...
Every scene between the two of them, from the beginning to the present, has been replayed in her mind several times, that bastard with no shape, that cruel, self-righteous young rich man...
The two faces are constantly alternating.
Thinking about it, she would be sweet, shy, and at a loss, and thinking about it again, she would be annoyed, really annoyed, she would gnash her teeth with hatred.
"Why did he bully me like this?!"
"I... what should I do... Really, be a lover? No, no, absolutely not."
"Twenty years old, you are so bad, in the future..."
Thinking about it, being surrounded by certain scenes made Li Wan'er think wrongly.
A thirty-one-year-old body, there are some things that have been absent for the past few years and will be gone, but last time, Li Wan'er's body tensed and trembled, as if she felt those hands again, and saw her fingers loosen one by one. Open those buttons, hear what I said...
Inadvertently caught a glimpse of the wooden hairpin on the bedside table.
Of course Li Wan'er still remembered that time, she was wearing it, and the purpose of wearing it back then was to guard against him, but in the end...
"If you knew it would happen, you should have stabbed him a few times."
Or because of guilty conscience, every time there was footsteps in the corridor, no matter how slight, Li Wan'er would feel flustered and her heart beat faster.
This time the sound of footsteps was particularly clear. Li Wan'er stroked her chest, took a deep breath, and put on her coat. She was prepared to be reserved and serious, and her face turned cold...
"If he dares to come over, I will definitely not give him a good face."
However, the doorbell never rang.
Li Wan'er stuck to the door and listened for a while, then leaned over the cat's eye and looked, "Could it be, go back? That's good..."
The footsteps are still there, just fading away.
Impulsively, Li Wan'er opened the door, and in the distance, a waiter was pushing a food delivery cart into the elevator.
She looked at the door, which was tightly closed.
…
The next day, Li Wan'er, who managed to fall asleep last night, slept very late.
Xu Tingsheng waited for a while and had to ring the doorbell to wake her up.
Li Wan'er was a little anxious, with her disheveled hair, she opened the door with sleepy eyes, she even forgot "you must give him a cold face", but fortunately Xu Tingsheng didn't intend to enter the door either.
It was rare for Xu Tingsheng to see her so messy and lazy. He smiled and said, "Two meals yesterday were plane meals. I think you must be hungry. You still have things to do today. I think breakfast time is almost over. , I had to wake you up."
"Yeah." Li Wan'er nodded in a daze.
"Did you not sleep well last night?" Xu Tingsheng asked.
"No, no. I fell asleep very early," Li Wan'er said in a panic, "wait for me, I'll be fast."
From the perspective of people in a country with a big diet, the Italian breakfast is relatively monotonous. There are only coffee and various croissants, and there is no bowl of millet porridge.
When it comes to eating, the people of the Celestial Dynasty are not targeting anyone. Everyone present here is rubbish.
The American who fucked with beef and hamburgers.
The Brit who fucked with potatoes.
The Korean who got into kimchi.
and…
It's all rubbish.
In fact, as far as food is concerned, except for France, Italy is barely acceptable in western countries, but you can’t compare it with China. Compared with it, it is also garbage, pancakes, noodles, and biscuits with stuffing on the outside—pizza, that’s it. Almost all content.
Fortunately, Xu Tingsheng was hungry, and Li Wan'er was also hungry.
The two gobbled it up regardless of their image.
During this time, Xu Tingsheng said, "Bread should be served with soy milk, what's the matter with coffee?"
But he still frowned, took a sip of coffee and a mouthful of bread.
Seeing him like this, Li Wan'er felt cute in a trance, and then suddenly thought of the two people at the breakfast table in the future. Maybe such a time would be rare. After all, one is in Milan and the other is in China, but... at least there will be .
"Could it be... three people? If there is a child with me, maybe..." As soon as this thought came up, Li Wan'er pressed it down, she was so panicked. I am afraid that if I have a wrong thought, I will do something wrong.
"I'll do it for you in the future... I, I mean tomorrow." Li Wan'er hurriedly adjusted, and said stammeringly.
"Then you have to find a house quickly, we will try to move there today." Xu Tingsheng didn't realize it, and said naturally, "You are more familiar with me here, so I won't accompany you to find a house in the morning, you go back after you find it Pack your things, I'll come over to help you move in the afternoon after finishing my work."
Li Wan'er was a little surprised and said: "You are in Milan... have something to do?"
Xu Tingsheng nodded: "Yes, for business matters, we need to contact two building material suppliers."
Li Wan'er looked at Xu Tingsheng, he changed into a whole set of suits this morning... the one she made by herself, the one she unbuttoned and buttoned.
"It turned out that I was going to discuss business. I thought it was deliberately worn for me to see, deliberately...to provoke my memories..."
Li Wan'er thought for a while, stood up, helped Xu Tingsheng adjust his tie across the table, and said:
"Then, let me go with you. You are not familiar with this place, and you don't speak Italian. Also, I can accompany you to the stadium. Finding a house is very fast. I already contacted the person who stayed here last night. Classmates, they will help me find them."
Xu Tingsheng shook his head and said, "It's okay, let's split up and see you in the afternoon. Actually, I've been to Milan, and I've been to the stadium before. And the bosses of those two companies can speak English... Uh, they should already know it."
When he was in China, Xu Tingsheng had already carefully checked these two building material suppliers. The basic information was basically the same as what he knew and had contact with in his previous life. I don't know if I have learned it now
If it’s not possible, let them find an interpreter. The “strange old friend” was still thinking about taking care of your business all these years ago, and he didn’t force you to speak Mandarin, which is considerate enough.
Xu Tingsheng suddenly thought of Zhang Fengping, he can speak Italian, just say, Acclamazioni! dry.
When it comes to drinking, he can sit down to a table of Italians by himself.
Following Zhang Fengping, Xu Tingsheng once again thought of the days in his previous life, from being full of ambitions to a dismal ending.
In the previous life, the three of them partnered to import building materials, basically relying on the relationship of Zhang Fengping's family in a certain construction group, so although the capital is not large, what they do is not low-end, and they have come into contact with many people and things. Thought these three people were more than a remarkable situation.
"Italy, Germany, France... the whole of Europe, on a regular basis... the building materials come in with Xiao Jian's ship, which saves most of the freight, so the price is guaranteed to be low...that is, the deposit ratio is a little higher."
This is what Zhang Fengping said to everyone at that time.
During that time, Xu Tingsheng traveled to many countries.
He has been to Italy twice, those two cunning but weak Italians are actually not difficult to deal with, Xu Tingsheng knows their bottom line and the way they are used to, including the existing problems... This time, they can take advantage of their lack of channels and want to open up The Chinese market, take a good squeeze...
Therefore, Xu Tingsheng was actually quite sure.
As for the transportation issue, Xu Tingsheng has already discussed with Ye Qing, they can do everything they can in several major ports, just squeeze and occupy the long-distance ships.
Hearing that Xu Tingsheng had been to Milan, Li Wan'er was surprised and asked about it. Then…
"Twice?" she said bright-eyed. "Maybe we passed each other on the streets of Milan before. Well, maybe."
This sentence made Xu Tingsheng a little dazed. Li Wan'er thought it was before 2004, and Xu Tingsheng couldn't ask: In 2011, 2012, were you still in Milan
Even Li Wan'er herself couldn't predict this problem.
In her previous life, what was her final fate? Did she come by without me? How did you get here
If she was still in Milan later, what kind of life would she lead? …
Also, is it really such a coincidence that there was an inadvertent passing by in the previous life
A quiet woman living in Milan, an ordinary young man running around for a living, maybe at a certain moment, she was wearing a long beige trench coat, holding a brown paper bag and a few French breads, and he lowered his head to make a phone call with someone, and they stopped at the same time A certain intersection in Milan City, or stand opposite each other in front of the zebra crossing with traffic lights.
Maybe, when the light was red, both of them just turned their eyes to the other side, and saw someone else, and then the light turned green, and they hurriedly rubbed shoulders.
Maybe, in fact, he glanced at it vaguely and hastily, but Xu Tingsheng forgot.
This feeling is actually very subtle. For example, in high school or college, the girl you met for the first time and then fell in love with at first sight, in fact, she may have sat in the same train compartment as you, and you even walked past her, or one day, you She was on the other side of the line when getting off the roller coaster at the amusement park.
Thinking about whether two people met on the streets of Milan in the "future"...
This question was mysterious and meaningless, which made Xu Tingsheng laugh.
"Who knows?" Xu Tingsheng said with a smile, "Milan has no shortage of Chinese people, so even if we actually walked across the same street, we might not notice each other, right? We've all gone abroad, I'm sure it's mostly babes."
Li Wan'er automatically ignored Xu Tingsheng's last joke, thought for a while, and said:
"But we still met. In Angelo's garment workshop, you have to make your first custom-made suit... That day was the first time I went to Mr. Angelo's workshop in Shenghai... and what happened after that , It feels amazing to think about it. I sometimes think, this may be fate."
After finishing speaking, perhaps to cover up, Li Wan'er smiled, as if she was actually making a joke.
In fact, these words were not only for Xu Tingsheng, but also for Li Waner herself. She was explaining something to herself unconsciously, perhaps, she was trying to convince herself, although she didn't even realize it.
Xu Tingsheng didn't think so. To him, all predestinations and entanglements of fate should have happened in the previous life, at least they should have appeared, even in another form, in another state.
In this life, he was originally going against his fate, fighting against the trapped beasts, and breaking his original fate along the way... So, can such an encounter be considered fate? It's a surprise.
"What's wrong?" Seeing Xu Tingsheng lost in thought, Li Wan'er asked.
Xu Tingsheng came back to his senses and said, "No, I recalled it a bit, I think I haven't met him before."
Li Wan'er said: "You're still thinking about this, actually, I just thought about it for a while. I'm just curious."
"Then don't think about it." Xu Tingsheng stood up and said, "Are you full? Let's split up when we're full."
"Well, I'm full." Li Wan'er stood up and said, "Well, let me go with you. I'm not in a hurry here...I'm better at Milan than you. If you want to talk about business, just take an assistant with you." ?”
After finishing speaking, Li Wan'er looked at her clothes and said, "Just wait for me, I'll go back and change into younger clothes."
"It's really not necessary, it's fine to wear like this," Xu Tingsheng said with a smile, "but, why are you not in a hurry? You should be in a hurry. If my side goes well, I may leave Milan tomorrow afternoon or evening. .”
"Tomorrow? Are you leaving tomorrow?"
Li Wan'er never asked about Xu Tingsheng's time and plan, and in her own plan, she was still thinking about where to take him to play, but he... is leaving so soon
Li Wan'er's heart seemed to be grabbed, and the feeling of complete loss appeared, and her voice changed all of a sudden.
"Yes, so it's only one day, hurry up." Xu Tingsheng didn't notice it, and said with a smile.
After speaking, Xu Tingsheng left the dining table sideways and walked towards the door. Li Wan'er stood there in a daze and did not follow her.
"It's only one day, hurry up."
Li Wan'er chewed on this sentence, the worrying feeling just now was gone, replaced by another feeling, very complicated, first she breathed a sigh of relief, a little thankful, then turned to anger and embarrassment.
"He's forcing me? One day...to make a decision. Promise what he said, accept the monotonous consummation of the color, and put a good attitude on it, be happy...or if I refuse, he will leave tomorrow, and maybe never see you again."
"He's only twenty... so direct, aggressive... so over the top... so anxious..."
"Is he so sure?... The chances of winning are in his hands?... You know I will be reluctant?..."
When Xu Tingsheng reached the door, he realized that Li Wan'er hadn't followed.
He returned to the dining table, saw Li Wan'er was in a daze, jumped up, just like you usually scare a familiar friend, and joked: "Hey... what's wrong with you? Why are you in a daze."
Li Wan'er was startled, she recovered from a shock, and then she saw Xu Tingsheng who was smiling easily. "Is it so easy for him? Do you think you've won, or does it not matter?"
Thirty-one-year-old Li Wan'er had tears in her eyes, sniffled and said, "It's okay, I just didn't expect you... so..."
Xu Tingsheng didn't understand what she said at all, but seeing Li Wan'er's tears welling in her eyes, he pointed at himself hesitantly and said, "I... what's wrong? What's wrong again?"
"No." After hesitating for a moment, Li Wan'er said stubbornly, "Anyway, I know, one day... I'll go to work first, I'll look for a house and pack my things. You, you should go and do your work too."
After finishing speaking, Li Wan'er directly left Xu Tingsheng and left.
Xu Tingsheng was left wondering, "What did you not think of me? Did you not think I was such Xu Tingsheng?... It seems that this sentence hasn't caught on yet."