Zhou Xin accidentally fell asleep just now, and when he got up, he found that Zhou Xin's drip had been hung up and the needle had been pulled out, so it could be seen that the nurse had come in just now, but he didn't know at all, probably too tired during this time, and he hadn't slept well for a long time after taking turns of high-intensity work and huge pressure.

He pinched his eyebrows and looked at Zhou Xin lying on the bed again.

Her face was still ugly, but she was much better than when she first entered the hospital.

"How does it feel?"

"It's ok. ”

"Did the nurse come in and take the temperature again?"

"Hmm. ”

"How much?"

In fact, the fever has almost subsided, after all, a large bottle of azithromycin goes down, but the selfishness that women are used to, Zhou Xin frowned and thought about it, "It seems that there are still more than thirty-eight degrees, I don't remember the specifics." ”

"It is estimated that the effect of the drug has not yet fully come up. Zhou Wei didn't ask any more questions, took the coat hanging on the back of the chair and got up.

Zhou Xin raised a little when he saw the situation, "Are you leaving?"

"Hmm. ”

"Back to the long river?"

Zhou Wei paused, looked at his watch again, it was already one o'clock in the morning, he sighed slightly, "It's too late, live in Yihe today." Because he had to rush to the trading center tomorrow morning, and the hospital where Zhou Xin was staying was a diagonal distance from the Changhe, Zhou Xin considered that he didn't want to go back so late to wake Chang An up, and got up early the next morning to rush to the trading center, so he planned to temporarily return to Yihe for one night.

He put on his coat, "I'll call my mom tomorrow morning, and I'll pay attention to myself in the middle of the night!"

"Hmm. ”

"Let's go first, get some rest!"

Zhou Xin turned around and went out, but when he walked to the door, he heard Zhou Xin shouting: "Brother..."

He turned around, Zhou Xin had already sat up, and the haggard after the serious illness had covered up all her usual arrogance, and it was rare to show a little vulnerability.

Zhou Wei asked, "Is there anything else?"

Zhou Xin tried hard to pull out a smile and gestured to him: "Come on, no matter what the result is tomorrow, as a sister, I will always support you!"

She seems to have deliberately accentuated the word "sister".

Zhou Wei nodded, bit his tooth socket, and said nothing, but his eyes could still see relief and gratitude.

In his cognition, that night was a watershed in the relationship between him and Zhou Xin, he officially expressed his heart to her, which was regarded as an end to the difficult and obscure relationship in the past, and in the future, he had another person who needed to be protected, but for Chang An, she was like waking up overnight, and was finally willing to stop and take a good look at his recent absurd state of mind, he thought that he was not an abusive person, let alone a person who was easily willing to change his mind, how could he have feelings for another man in just a few days?

No way!

Chang An lay on the sofa and cried for a while, and the heartache was secreted with the tears, and then he became more and more sober!

What did she say to Zhou Wei, a man who was a complete stranger a few months ago, just because he had a few intimate contacts?

Great compassion is followed by great enlightenment!

Chang An finally attributed this almost out-of-orbit relationship to the sequelae brought to her by Chen Haodong, perhaps it was the love and persistence that was paid for nothing, and Zhou Wei happened to appear after being extremely fragile in her heart, so she filled the vacancy in her heart, and her dependence on him was only because the previous relationship was not satisfied, and she urgently needed to find a hug to keep warm.

Everything was in the right place at the right time, and in the end, I almost lost myself.

Yes, it must be!

Chang An lay on the sofa all night in such self-comfort and self-analysis, and watched the sky outside fade little by little, while the door in the courtyard was always closed.

He didn't come back!

Chang An covered his face with his hands.

Fortunately, she recognized Zhou Xin's feelings for Zhou Xin in a timely manner, and also understood her recent completely out of control of her mood, although the process was a little tortuous, but she didn't make any big mistakes.

This night, Chang An borrowed a bottle of red wine to extinguish the fire that had just been lit by Zhou Wei.

…………

Zhou Wei actually didn't sleep for a few hours after returning to Jardine, and at first he hesitated to call Chang An to inform him of the reason why he didn't go back to live, and later he was disturbed by Xu Nan's fatal call.

Xu Nan is quite competent as an assistant, but he has insomnia due to excessive pressure, so the third watch called Zhou Wei in the middle of the night to reconfirm a few matters for tomorrow's bidding.

Originally, Zhou Wei had a good mentality, and he received army-style education since he was a child, so he had already practiced the ability of "Mount Tai collapsed in front and the color remained unchanged", but Xu Nan hesitated and worried on the phone, and confirmed with Zhou Wei again and again, which made Zhou Wei's originally good mentality a little pressure, and he didn't sleep well in the second half of the night.

He simply got up at half past five in the morning, changed into sportswear and went for a morning run, which is also the reason why he chose Jardine as his long-term residence, because there is a large artificial lake near Jardine, and Zhou Wei likes to run along the lake embankment in the morning.

At this point in winter morning, there are hardly any people on the lake, and the whole world is quiet. While Zhou Wei enjoys the dopamine secretion brought by exercise, his mind will become extremely clear and sensitive, and many major decisions have been made by him during his morning run.

This time was no exception.

He circled the lake for three weeks, nearly six kilometers, sweating profusely and finally making a final shout for the fierce battle that would lie ahead in the next few hours.

Chang An relied on five o'clock to drag his vain steps to climb to the bed, the whole person was cold, dizzy, and his head hurt badly after a hangover, so he didn't fall asleep for a while, he lay on the bed for nearly an hour, and fell asleep when it was almost dawn, but he didn't sleep for long, and was woken up by the ringtone of his mobile phone.

She touched it and looked at it, and the word "Zhou" was clear on the screen.

What does it mean to call at dawn if you don't return all night?

Chang An didn't bother to think about it, so he directly turned his mobile phone to silent, stuffed it under the pillow, covered his head with the quilt, and ignored it.

Zhou Yi waited here for a while, but no one answered on the other end of the phone, he just thought that it was too early Chang An hadn't woken up yet, he knew that she had a habit of sleeping lazy, so he didn't think much about it.

When he went back, he took a shower and made coffee for breakfast, and it was still early, so he usually used a cup of coffee to browse the financial website and current political news.

Zhou Wei has extremely restrained self-discipline and rigor in his living habits, which is diametrically opposed to Chang'an's laziness, probably thanks to the military family background, according to Zhou Fushan's words, I have cultivated you according to the requirements of the military since I was a child, if you don't do business, you should be in the army at this time!

As for Zhou Wei's abandonment of the army and business, this stalk will probably be disliked by the old man for a lifetime.

……

At nine o'clock, Xu Nan arrived at Jardine on time.

The auction begins at 10 a.m., and all parties are allowed to enter 15 minutes in advance.

Zhou Wei and Xu Nan arrived relatively late, and when they entered, the not big trading venue was already full.

"Mr. Zhou, Yuan Xi's people have arrived!" Xu Nan reminded in a low voice beside him.

Zhou Wei looked over, in the third row on his right, He Zhaoxiong and Chen Haodong were already sitting there, and the latter obviously saw Zhou Tao who entered the door, separated by about five or six meters, and there were people in the middle, looking at each other and nodding, which was regarded as saying hello.

After sitting down, Xu Nan also looked behind him twice, and bit his ear with Zhou Wei curiously, "It seems that he used to bring his son every time, why did you bring Chen Haodong today?"

Zhou Wei was not surprised at all, "It's normal, Chen Haodong is about to marry He Ling, and he was in charge of this project from the beginning." ”

"Then it seems that He Zhaoxiong really trusts this son-in-law, this is the trend to help the upper position!"

Zhou Wei smiled and didn't say anything more.

The auction started on time at 10 o'clock, and the host counted the bidders, and there were about 20 real estate companies participating in the total field, and there were four other parcels of land listed for sale on the same day in addition to Luyang Lake.

After the bidder has counted the parcel, the host introduces the use, area, age and planning of the parcel, and then the auction really begins.

The land in Luyang Lake is in the last round, and the first four plots of land are all small areas, and the competition is also for small and medium-sized real estate companies, so it has been completed in less than half an hour.

"The following is a CB07-14A commercial and residential plot in Luyang Lake, state-owned land use property rights, using a limited land price plus bidding and self-holding sales model, with a starting price of 1.62 billion yuan and a maximum price of 2.8 billion yuan, and now the auction has begun to ......"

When the host announced the start of the filming of the Luyang Lake plot, he looked at the time on his watch, which showed 10:24 a.m.

……

Chang An had a dream in which a little girl stood in front of the shop window staring at a skirt in a daze.

The dress was beautiful, with layers of embroidery and lace, when suddenly a woman came out of nowhere.

The woman asked, "Do you like this dress?"

The little girl nodded her head: "Hmm!"

The woman asked, "Why do you like it?"

The little girl replied, "Because if you wear it, you will become a princess!"

The woman laughed out loud for a while, squatted down and touched her soft hair, "Our family An An is originally a princess, even if she doesn't wear a skirt, she is still a princess, but if you like it, your mother will buy it for you, go, go in and try it!"

After waking up from the dream, Chang An knew that the little girl in the dream was herself, and the woman who took her in to buy a princess dress was her mother, so Chang An was depressed for a morning, not because she missed her mother, after all, she died when she was seven years old, Chang An was not fully sensible at that time, and many things were no longer remembered.

She was depressed completely because she didn't recognize her mother at the first time.

Chang An lay on the bed and tried to recall his mother's appearance, as if she had coiled her hair, as if she didn't, and her facial features were completely blurred, and she couldn't remember what she looked like at all, but she vaguely remembered that she was a very capable woman.

Chang An got up and went to the cloakroom to find his suitcase, and then took out a photo from the small zipper pocket in the mezzanine.

In the photo, there are two women, an old man and a young woman, the older one is wearing a cheongsam, with gray hair, but there is no twilight atmosphere of the ordinary old man, on the contrary, the demure smile is the wind and charm left to her by the years, and the arm of the old man is slightly held next to a young woman who looks about thirty years old, trousers, leather shoes, and a shawl with a blue flower and white bottom on a smoked gray turtleneck, which is the only accessory on her body.

The young woman didn't smile, her expression was serious, and even through the photo, you could see that she should usually be a person who doesn't smile, and this woman who doesn't smile much is Chang An's mother, and the old man standing next to her is Chang An's grandmother.

Chang An looked at the yellowed photo in his hand.

The photo was given to her by her grandmother when she was back in London last time, and her grandmother said that Chang An had not yet been born when this photo was taken.

Xue Bing gave birth to Chang An in her thirties, and in that era, she was already considered an "older mother", and this was the only photo of Xue Bing in Chang An's hand.

Since Xue Bing's death, Chang Wangde has destroyed all traces of her life, including clothes, daily necessities, things she used, and even burned the wedding photos they took back then.

Although Chang An was still very young at that time, she couldn't remember most of the things, but there was only one thing, that is, the scene where Chang Wangde burned Xue Bing's relics in the backyard, which was engraved in her mind like an imprint.

She didn't understand at the time, until a few months later, Wei Suying led Chang Jiahui into the door.

The maids at home are also interested, Xue Bing is gone, naturally he knows who will be the mistress of the house in the future, so slowly no one will mention her again, and then Chang Zhai moved a few times, and the maids at home have also changed a few times, Chang Wangde's official position is getting higher and higher, and over time, Xue Bing seems to have completely disappeared from this world, no one will remember her anymore, even Chang An, her biological daughter, has almost forgotten her appearance, and now she needs to rely on this yellowed photo to vaguely piece together a little bit of Xue Bing's appearance before her death.

But what kind of person is Mom?

"Nannan, a woman's life is nothing more than children and husbands, and her career should be left to men to fight, so you listen to your grandmother, stay at home obediently, and don't follow your mother's old path. ”

Oh, Chang An remembered, grandma said that her mother was competitive and competitive during her lifetime, and defeat was defeated in the disposition of not admitting defeat, so the education that Chang An received from her grandmother since she was a child was to be soft and well-behaved, to be a quiet lady, to marry a man who is the right person when she becomes an adult, and to spend her life at home with her husband and children, so that Chang An has been instilled and grown up under this kind of thinking for more than ten years.

She looked at the photo for a moment and then stuffed it back into her suitcase.

……

At 10:31 a.m., the final word was made, signaling the completion of the last land auction of the day.

Soon, people from all walks of life came to congratulate Zhou Wei.

"Congratulations!"

"Congratulations..."

“……”

“……”

After repeating those polite words and taking a pomp, Zhou Wei didn't expect anyone to really come over to congratulate him sincerely, so after a few perfunctory words, Zhou Wei took Xu Nan out of the trading venue, and just walked to the hall, someone behind him suddenly shouted, "Mr. Zhou, are you in such a hurry to leave?"

Zhou Wei turned around, He Zhaoxiong walked over, followed by Chen Haodong with an expressionless face.

Zhou Wei smiled: "The company is busy, what's the matter, He Dong has something to do with me?"

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