Chapter 42: The Game
"Spring grows and summer grows, autumn harvest and winter storage. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"
O'Henry read the book "Ghost Guzi" given by the Chinese teacher, looking at the ethereal urban vista through the bright floor-to-ceiling windows, and the words that slipped across his lips still had a warm breath, and he savored the meaning.
In the spring, the farmer sows the seeds, the summer crops grow, the autumn harvests, and the winter storage, and the farmers count on the fruits of one year's hard work to sell for a good price in the next year, recoup the cost, get the cost of surplus, and have enough to eat, and come back to the fields in the new year to feed themselves.
Agriculture and nature are inextricably linked, and if you think about it, all things in nature are not interconnected, and every life and everything is going to a cycle of life and death.
As year after year, as rebirth and fall, as discovery and extinction.......
Just like his last holiday with Jin Qixuan.
Thinking of this, the corners of his lips unconsciously raised, probably this is why his eyes and thoughts are firmly grasped by this sentence, and now his life is full of her shadow......
"Wow....." There was a tentative knock on the door.
"Please come in!" said O'Henry, with the emotion pouring out.
The door was quickly and quietly pushed open through the gap where a man had passed, and the gap flashed into a person who was O'Henry's beautiful secretary.
The beautiful girl smiled sweetly: "President, Mr. Charles said that there is something important to meet." But he didn't make an appointment beforehand, so I didn't rush him in....."
Although the beautiful secretary is not changing, but the heart is trembling, she has been the president's personal secretary for so long, she naturally knows that the president and Charles have a good relationship, but the president's uncertain mood for a few days makes her dare not make up her mind, and the outside of the Buddha with a bad face she can't afford to offend, in the case of hitting a wall left and right, she has to stabilize the outside, first bite the bullet to the president is to tell the president, the heart seems to have to sort out the way of thinking, although it is eight or nine times out of ten to be scolded, but the heart can't help but settle a little.
Just as he was thinking about it, there was a voice in his ear that he had loved in the past, "You did a good job, please let him in." ”
The beautiful secretary nodded her head and went out of the door in the face of O'Henry's gentleness, brightness and joy in the face of O'Henry's long-lost reunion.
Maybe she really should be thankful for someone.
After a while, with the rhythmic sound of leather shoes hitting the ground, a black and white figure came into view, O'Henry listened to the footsteps and got closer and closer, in front of him was a pair of straight and slender black suit pants, someone came in, he raised his head and smiled slightly.
came but opened his mouth first, "Henry, long time no see." ”
"Yes, Charles!"
"Your office is still the same!" Charles looked left and right, sat down on the ivory leather sofa to himself, put his arms on the back behind him, and said, "We have been friends for so many years...... I'll cut it short!"
He saw O'Henry put down the book but smiled silently, and continued: "I think you already know that I have admired Miss Jin Qixuan for a long time!"
Charles raised his eyes to look at O'Henry again, and seeing that his expression was the same, he continued: "I hope you will give in, I don't want our friendship for many years to be ruined, and I also believe that I can give Miss Kim a happier life." ”
Slightly pink fingertips swirled along the edge of the glass, curled eyelashes casting a shadow under his eyes, O'Henry picked the corners of his lips and looked at Charles seriously, but his words had nothing to do with what he had just said.
"What flower do you think Qi Xuan looks like the most?"
Charles, who didn't know how O'Henry could ask such a strange question, shrugged and said, "Rose?"
O'Henry looked like he knew this, and continued, "Do you know why Qi Xuan's English name is Lily?"
Charles O'Henry only asked without answering, and simply remained silent, waiting for him to finish in one go.
"Lily means lily in Chinese, and I think your English teacher must have told you. You must also know the lily, but you must not know that there is such a poem in the far east......" Henry took a sip of water from the water cup that he had been playing with for a long time, his handsome face was not reduced, and he said lightly: "Have you ever heard a poem by Xiao Cha, the third son of Emperor Xuan in the Eastern Western Liang period?"
He looked at Charles, his eyes were endless deep, and he didn't wait for an answer, but said casually: "'There are many kinds of leaves, and the flowers are not of different colors. Dew or drooping, leaning from the wind. ’”
Charles frowned and shrugged, "I do know Miss Jin's English name, but I do read very few ancient poems in the East, and I don't know very well, but does this have any necessary connection with Miss Jin?"
"Yes!" O'Henry looked sideways, lowered his eyebrows and smiled: "The moral of this poem is not only to describe the beauty and beauty of the lilies, but also to admire the innocence and nature of the lilies!"
He turned around and saw that Charles was still puzzled, and then smiled: "And Qi Xuan and this lily just don't know if they are like flowers or people......"
Speaking of this, Charles knew that O'Henry's intention could not be more obvious, he got up and slapped his slap and said very skillfully, he put his hands in his pockets, leaned against the table in front of O'Henry, and said thoughtfully: "But Henry, although what you said is good, none of it answers the questions I began to tell you and ask you, don't you?"
"Yes!" O'Henry raised his eyes, a pair of pear vortices shallow, "but it's not!"
Charles looked at O'Henry selling the guanzi, he was not in a hurry, and said with a smile: "You are like this, it is always so interesting to talk to you!" and then said: "But today I am serious about you and Miss Jin!"
O'Henry wondered, "What is the matter between you and Qi Xuan? By the way, I haven't finished talking about it yet...... Qi Xuan said she liked the name Lily very much. ”
"Lily is the name you got from?"
"Yes. O'Henry smiled exaggeratedly, and he nodded heavily, "Also, I think you should have known about me and Qi Xuan's vacation trip to France together, right?"
O'Henry looked at the panic that flashed in Charles's eyes, and then said, "If you didn't know, you wouldn't come back to me, would you?"
Without waiting for Charles to react, he calmly continued, "I forgot to tell you that we went to the. Eiffel.Tower, standing in the closest place to heaven......."
"What!"
"You expected all of this for a long time, didn't you?" O'Henry pursed his thin lips slightly, "You don't know Qi Xuan at all, Charles, you are still the same as before, I can't hand her over to someone who is so playful, Qi Xuan's happiness is guarded by me......"