National Tide 1980.

Chapter 69 Gifts

Needless to say, emotional privacy is always the safest handle.

Lan Zheng, like a dog whose tail was caught, quickly apologized.

"Hey, you little Lanzi... Okay, I'm afraid of you, okay? Don't worry, when did I fail to do what I promised you?"

"So he accepts?"

"Accepted. But at first, he refused, and then it really worked for you. This boy, his temper is just like you said. The dough is covered with a hard rock. If he is not willing, he can put people Collapse of big teeth. Such a person is living Wei Yan, with a back bone in the back of his head..."

"Why, what are you doing? Nonsense. People are called backbone..."

"What do you mean? Praise him again. I haven't seen you praise anyone so much. Lan Lan, tell me the truth, do you really mean that to him? Don't lie to me, let me I can't tell my parents when I look back. Tell you, I can give him a job, and I can take it away."

"No, of course not. Brother. Look at you, what are you thinking about yourself? Where is this going? I won't tell you, I'm hanging up..."

The more teasing the two brothers and sisters became, the more anxious Lan Lan became when her brother said it.

Distraught, she was about to end the conversation.

But unexpectedly, Lan Zheng's next sentence hooked her again, and even made her heart skip a beat.

"Don't hang up, wait, I almost forgot to tell you, that Ning Weimin gave you a gift to express his gratitude, and asked me to pass it on to you. You don't want to know what it is?"

"What? He also gave me a gift? Then...you took it?"

"Take it. Hey, it's not something valuable, just a painting. It's just a souvenir."

"Ah, a painting?"

"Yeah, an orchid painted by Xu Beihong. The size is not too big. The inscription and postscript are special... Wait, I will open it for you to read."

Lan Zheng said and went to unfold the picture scroll.

Then he cleared his throat again, and then he read it.

"It's like in a secluded rock, in a slender deep valley. All beings are greedy and chaotic, and there is no complexion."

"How is it? This flattery is enough, right? He's quite literary. He's using paintings as a metaphor for people, and he's taking you to the sky."

"You said that he has a lot of ideas and a fast brain. Now I believe it. I think this kid is a waste of not being in the officialdom."

"But having said that, the more it is like this, the less suitable he is for you. A person like this has no family and is within reach no matter what, and there are so many scheming. How dangerous it is, how dangerous it is. This is what our father is most afraid of you. The kind of person you met. You don't think about him, that's fine."

"You have to remember what you promised your family. Before you go to college, you don't want to think about anything. Don't let your parents..."

Lan Zheng was still talking incessantly, but Lan Lan was already impatient on the phone.

"Brother, why are you always like this? Are you bored? You put away the paintings for me, and go back to what I want."

After a few words of anger, Lan Lan really hung up the phone this time.

But to be honest, even she didn't know what was wrong with herself.

He didn't recover for a long time, he just stood there as if he had been enchanted, and couldn't help but still pondering the inscription on the painting.

When You Qi heard her brother recite a few words just now, something strange seemed to spew out of her heart.

She faintly sensed a kind of extraordinarily precious and extraordinarily close...excitement.

At the same time, I felt that my thinking, emotions, and judgment were all disturbed.

Not for anything else, just because such classical Chinese are often ambiguous in meaning.

How to understand, several meanings, all depends on people's own subjective consciousness.

And her feelings are not as simple as her brother Lan Zheng, she will think more.

Indeed, Ning Weimin meant to use paintings as a metaphor for people.

In order to express her gratitude, she is complimenting her on a beautiful orchid, which is as clean as China.

But at the same time, is this also a metaphor for status?

Was Ning Weimin sighing that the fate of the two of them was exhausted, and they would go their separate ways in the future, drifting further apart?

Are you saying that she is an orchid in a deep valley, and it is really difficult for me to touch it?

Or just the other way around, Ning Weimin told her that she would not be self-indulgent.

He is expressing another possibility...

Chaos, Lan Lan's mood is completely chaotic.

She had no idea when she had returned to the room.

I couldn't do anything, and my heart continued to be restless.

Going to the window, I looked out the window that was getting darker and darker, and the crescent moon had already been hung.

This girl has always been full of sunshine, rarely sad, and hardly knows what to cry.

I actually experienced a Lin Daiyu-style spirituality and sadness.

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In this world, is there anything that scares Ning Weimin?

Will he still have a time when he can't make up his mind and worry?

It seems there is.

Like today, Lan Lan's letter and Lan Zheng's words had such an effect on Ning Weimin.

It can even be said to be a kind of spiritual shock.

In the eyes of Ning Weimin, Lan Lan was simply incredible.

Mingming has not known him for a long time, and has not had much contact with him. Moreover, he is young and has no wealth.

But he knows his heart better than everyone he has ever been in contact with, and he is the one who can really see through him.

Such a trait seems to be a powerful attraction.

She couldn't help but make Ning Weimin feel kind, moved and excited about her.

Even longing to see her again, to be happy and to talk more.

But at the same time, it also made Ning Weimin feel an indescribable threat.

Because he has always regarded emotion as a meaningless burden.

Thinking that it can only make him weak, dull, and indecisive puts him at a disadvantage in business.

Especially the love between men and women is the most likely to cause major economic losses.

Pinning his emotions on a girl, in his opinion, is probably the stupidest thing in the world.

He had never thought, let alone believed, that he would be throbbing for an inexplicable reason.

Faintly looking forward to a vulgar and vulgar romance.

This kind of self is unfamiliar and makes him afraid.

He was afraid of losing control, of the uncertainty of the outcome and all the emotional concerns it would bring.

Yes, he sincerely hopes that Lan Lan can become better and get the happiness she deserves.

Because he thanked the girl for the good time he brought to him.

But the objective reality of everything and everything points to just an illusion in his heart.

Lan Lan shouldn't be his type at all.

Their ideas and goals are far apart.

Even the home environment is worlds apart.

So there was an indescribable sadness in his heart.

He is very aware that he seems to have accidentally acquired something precious that he never had.

However, he had to take the initiative to give up and throw it away.

Because he believes it is better to lose than to gain.

(End of this chapter)