Xiangjiang, Repulse Bay, Huacui Beach Villa Area.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Li Xiaoming took Jin Dajun to Old Man Zheng's house as promised.

As soon as he entered the community, Li Xiaoming was shocked by this extravagant style.

Except for a small number of townhouses, almost all of the rest are detached, and the best one belongs to Mr. Zheng.

It is more appropriate to say that Mr. Zheng's house is not so much a single-family villa, but another manor built in the community.

Entering the courtyard, the huge driveway extends to the door of the four-storey building located by the sea, with a garden on the right and an endless golf course on the left, and a clear view of the blue sea on both sides of the building.

Compared with this, the one that Li Xiaoming bought for Li's father can only be called a house, and he can't even use adjectives......

But only Xiangjiang can do this, if Li Xiaoming dares to build a manor in Rongcheng, hehe, then he should not mix.

Approaching the gate, Zheng Yaoguang saw Li Xiaoming who came from a walk, he was rarely dressed in a formal suit today, cleaned up like a dog, and his hair seemed to be Morse, with clear roots and shining.

He walked down the stairs and smiled at Li Xiaoming very reservedly: "Mr. Li, welcome to the Humble House." ”

Li Xiaoming glanced at a middle-aged man behind him, and then looked at his expression of frowning, suddenly lost his smile, coughed dryly, and responded solemnly: "Thank you for the invitation of the Zheng family, excuse me!"

"This is my father, Zheng Hongming, Dad, this is my recent friend, Mr. Li Xiaoming. ”

Zheng Hongming looked at Li Xiaoming vaguely, and really didn't see what attracted the attention of Old Man Zheng, but he still said very politely: "Mr. Li, I have heard of the famous name for a long time, and I will finally see him today, let's go, I think the old man has been waiting for a long time." ”

When everyone walked into the door, Li Xiaoming's eyes were full of white marble and an appropriate amount of green decorations, without gilding and other decorations, coupled with the paintings on the wall, reflecting the elegance of the owner everywhere.

The white marble on the wall is not pure white, some natural lines on it seem to outline a world of ink, the transparent glass on the dome shows just the right amount of sunlight, and then refracts a little bit of light from the water of the central pond, reflecting the whole space like a fairyland, and the paintings in the whole space are smart.

This is taste, Li Xiaoming secretly pondered in his heart, compared with the manor where Depp received him before, this one of Old Man Zheng's family is obviously more in line with his taste.

Walk through the hall and come to the backyard, the bluestone paved path leads to the pavilion located not far from the sea, and when you get closer, there is a plaque hanging on the lintel of the pavilion, which reads two words: watching the tide.

Old man Zheng was wearing a Tang costume with a black background and white, and he was looking at Li Xiaoming who was gradually approaching with a smile.

He walked into the pavilion, took the two long boxes from Jin Dajun's hands, bent down slightly, handed over the gifts, and bowed down to greet: "Hello Old Man Zheng!"

"Okay, what a young man!" Old Man Zheng took the long box with both hands, put it on the stone table, looked at Li Xiaoming, and sighed in appreciation.

"Old man Zheng has won the award, and the younger generation is too young. Li Xiaoming sat opposite him with Old Man Zheng's hand and said modestly.

Immediately, Zheng Yaoguang and

"Haha, boy, don't be so literate, Jin Yong's old man has talked to me about your abbot's annual meeting, besides, it is precisely because you are young that your current achievements are even more dazzling!"

Old Man Zheng shook his head with a smile, and his eyes couldn't hide his full appreciation for Li Xiaoming.

Li Xiaoming was stunned for a moment, and then understood what Old Man Zheng meant, if he is now twenty or thirty years older to have today's achievements, it may be very good for Old Man Zheng, but he will definitely not be able to appreciate it, after all, Li Xiaoming will only turn 18 years old at the end of this year, which is a very terrifying age.

This means that he will have more time to create more possibilities in the future.

However, after listening to Old Man Zheng's words, Li Xiaoming understood what the smile in Old Man Zheng's eyes just now meant, it was not kind at all, but an old naughty feeling of fun!

He grinned and let go quickly, after all, Old Man Zheng had given him the feeling that he was a grandfather next door so far, not the commanding ship king.

"Old man, then I'm still normal, yesterday Yaoguang said that if I give you these two paintings, you will be very happy, I asked him, he still mysteriously didn't want to tell me, today I am very curious, just waiting for the old man to explain my doubts." ”

When Old Man Zheng heard this, he suddenly became interested, and said "Oh?" curiously, quickly put down the teacup in his hand, and then beckoned Zheng Hongming to open the box, and the two held the scroll and slowly unfolded it.

Immediately, he frowned: "Yaoguang, don't you have any eyesight to see, put away the things on the table, otherwise how to put this painting?"

Zheng Yaoguang packed up his things with a frown, and then handed them to the servants waiting outside the pavilion, Li Xiaoming couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth when he looked at his cowardice.

At this time, with the help of Zheng Hongming, Old Man Zheng spread out the two paintings and put them on the table, and when he saw them for the first time, he was directly dumbfounded.

"This ......"

After being silent for a long time, he looked at Li Xiaoming with complicated eyes: "You bought it at Sotheby's yesterday?"

Li Xiaoming didn't know why, and nodded confusedly: "That's right." ”

"Alas...... Going around and around, it's back again. Old Man Zheng sighed with emotion, and his right hand couldn't help but rub lightly on the scroll, as if he had fallen into a long-term memory.

In the past, when it was still the thirties of the last century, Mr. Zheng was still young, and he and a group of friends made a lot of money reselling tapes and records.

After their group of friends pooled the money together, and began to resell radios, televisions and other electrical appliances, several friends made more and more money, in his early thirties, he had a net worth of one million in Xiangjiang at that time.

At that time, he was high-spirited and suave.

He thought that he would not love Erer, but he never expected that one bright afternoon, while drinking tea on the side of the road, he fell in love with a young girl who was full of books.

Since that day, his life has been much more colorful.

But when the young girl's father learned that his daughter was dating him, he was furious and vehemently opposed.

Because the girl's father felt that in that war-torn era, businessmen had no country, and although he was a literati, he also had a patriotic heart.

But his daughter seemed to be enchanted, completely ignoring his opposition, resolutely cut first and then played, holding her belly before taking Old Man Zheng back to see her father.

The father was extremely annoyed, but he was already in the boat, and finally had to lower his head high.

On the wedding night, he gave the couple two paintings from his collection as a return gift, and after that, he abandoned his pen and never returned.

The child in the womb is Zheng Hongming.

This bookish woman accompanied Mr. Zheng through more than ten spring and autumn periods, and finally died because she missed her father, accumulated grievances, and died, leaving only the young Zheng Hongming and the grief-stricken Old Man Zheng.

Due to emotional frustration, Mr. Zheng collapsed, and the retail company he ran with a few friends also went bankrupt.

In order to nurture the crystallization left by him and the woman he loved so much, he had to pick himself up again, take the only two paintings he had, and find the owner of Ayu's restaurant at the time, that is, Ayu's grandfather, the old man who stubbornly used soup to make roasted wheat.

It was also here that he met Jin Yong and got the opportunity to turn over.

Ayu's grandfather handed over all the savings to Mr. Zheng, leaving two paintings for him to come back and pick up at any time, and by the way, he took Zheng Hongming in, and then swept Mr. Zheng out of the house.

The old man said ruthlessly: "As long as the man doesn't die, go and break it for me! If you die, I will raise your son, and if you don't die, you can take it back by yourself whether it is a painting or a son!"

After that, the door of Ayu's restaurant was never open to him again until he returned.

Old man Zheng took the money, got on the cargo ship at that time, and began to run the sea, and after a few years, he accumulated enough experience and contacts, pulled up the team himself, and began his legendary life.

In just 20 years, the entire Xiangjiang River was only known to Zheng Heng and nothing else.

And in the past 20 years, there have been too many people and things to change, too much......

Ayu's grandfather passed away, and the restaurant was passed on to Abo, and at that time, the restaurant was renamed Ahai Restaurant.

And Zheng Hongming, because he has been living with Ayu's family for a long time, he does not recognize the "ship king" as his father at all.

He tried very hard to save the father-son relationship, but to little avail.

In this decades-long years, he continued, and although there were many virtuous and virtuous women behind him, he could no longer find the feeling that the woman gave him at that time.

It wasn't until he almost didn't come back from a trip to sea twenty years ago that Zheng Hongming came out again and stood in front of him.

"I don't blame you, but you're wrong. ”

Old man Zheng heard Zheng Hongming's words at that time, and tears fell like rain for a while.

Yes, he was wrong, if he had spent more time with that woman, maybe she would still be by his side now, maybe he wouldn't have such a lofty status as the "King of Ships", but he must have the happiest family in the world.

……

"When it comes to Sotheby's, there are very few people who know these two paintings, is this what it means to complete the entrustment?" Old man Zheng's eyes were red, and his emotions were difficult to control.

Li Xiaoming listened to such a turbulent past, and his heart was difficult to calm down.

"What will happen to me if Xue Jin leaves?"

As soon as he had the idea, he suddenly felt as if he had been stabbed in the chest, and a strong panic and sharp pain came over him.

"I'm now, am I really right?"

Although Xue Jin didn't say anything, she always accompanied herself silently, like her own shadow, if you pay attention, I will exist.

"I, am I willing to regret it one day in the future?"

It's been three years, and Li Xiaoming has only been with Xue Jin for a handful of years, and if you really want to add it up, it will definitely not exceed two months.

Why is she waiting for me like this?

What qualifications do I have to keep her waiting for me?

Is it just because you're too busy with your career?

Do I really not even have time to spend with her?

If one day, she turns away and never looks back, will I feel guilty?

Thinking of this, Li Xiaoming's heart suddenly became extremely panicked, he didn't accompany his parents in his previous life, even if he occasionally called to report good news and bad news, but was that what his parents needed?

When he came back, he understood this, so he tried every possible way to live with his parents, and now he has indeed succeeded.

But, what about her?

"Why do I always have to understand these truths after the fact? Failure is the mother of success? it! I don't want this kind of experience of failure in my life!"

Isn't cherishing the present moment and cherishing everything around you true happiness and the happiness of the people around you?

At this moment, Li Xiaoming suddenly returned to his heart like an arrow, he didn't want to care about any business or negotiation, he just wanted to go back, watch Xue Jin well, accompany her well, and be inseparable.

Old Man Zheng slowly calmed down, solemnly put away the two paintings with his own hands, then looked at Li Xiaoming, and suddenly bowed deeply: "Xiao Ming, thank you!"

Li Xiaoming was so frightened that he hurriedly avoided the side and hurriedly waved his hand, how could he dare to bear such a big gift from the old man!

"Don't be an old man, the younger generation can't afford to give you such a gift, I don't know that these two paintings have so many stories, this can only be regarded as a crooked hit!"

Old Man Zheng said seriously: "No, you can afford it, this is my treasure, and it is also the most important memory, boy, there is a fate in the world, I thought I had lost a relationship with these two paintings, but I didn't expect to be able to get it back through you, this is also fate!"

Then he turned his head to look at Zheng Hongming: "In the future, if Li Xiaozi asks for something, he will do his best." ”

Zheng Yaoguang's eyes were so surprised when he heard this, but Zheng Hongming easily accepted this order, he nodded solemnly, and said: "Mr. Li will be my Zheng family's guest in the future, but if you ask for something, you will never shirk." ”

……

Coming out of Zheng's house, it was already sunset, he shook his slightly drunk head, and smiled self-deprecatingly: "Brother Dajun, do you say that people are cheap, obviously sometimes, you take it for granted." When there is none, envy is overwhelming. When you lose it, but you don't want to live, it's cheap, right?"

Jin Dajun smiled honestly: "Mr. Li, I think you just think too much, how happy your days are! Our group of comrades-in-arms are envious, of course, everyone is really very satisfied with the current life." ”

"Satisfied, satisfied, satisfied?" asked Li Xiaoming curiously.

Jin Dajun thought for a while: "Everyone has stable jobs, their families can be taken care of, and you have solved so many problems for a few poor comrades-in-arms at home. ”

When Li Xiaoming heard this, he fell into deep thought.

Yes, if you ask for so much and expect so much, but you feel that you get less, and you feel dissatisfied with your desires, what else can I be dissatisfied with?

The family is healthy, always around, the career is prosperous, the food and clothing are not worried, the beauty is accompanied by the company, and there is no complaint or regret.

What am I dissatisfied with? Why can't I see what I have?

"Huh......" Li Xiaoming let out a long breath, turned his head to Jin Dajun and said: "Brother Dajun, I won't go to Zhencheng tomorrow, let's book a ticket in the evening and go home!"

Jin Dajun's honest face showed a knowing smile and nodded: "Okay." ”