I still want to ask him something, he's already walked out. Call again, it is temporarily not in the service area. After thinking about it, I didn't know how to ask him, so I simply put it aside and continued to busy with my work.

Even though KB was founded by me, it will not be easy to take over again. In particular, this was taken back from Gu Yixiao's hand.

No matter what I do, as long as I am free, I think of him, and then I feel that my heart is empty, and I can't say what it feels like.

Gu Yixiao's parents did not come to me again after asking about the situation in Sanya.

I had the heart to visit, but I didn't know in what capacity.

Actually, I'm also very worried about myself, I'm too busy to think too much now, what if I'm free? What should I do? In the second half of my life, except for bringing soybean bags, all I have left is to miss Gu Yixiao.

Thinking of this, I let out a long breath, rubbed my temples vigorously twice, and focused on the computer screen.

A week later, I went to the place He Xiao had set in advance to meet Luo Xiaotian as scheduled.

It was a tea house, and when I walked in, it was empty, except for two tea masters with extraordinary temperament.

This kind of scene made me feel that I was in the wrong place, and immediately stopped and took out my mobile phone to call He Xiao.

At this moment, he came out of it, waved to me and said, "Here." ”

I put my phone back in my pocket, walked up to him and said, "It's so clean here?"

He glanced at me and said, "Someone cleared the scene." ”

"To meet me?" I asked.

"What do you think? He took me by the wrist and said, "Let's go, the old man has been waiting for you for a long time." ”

I followed He Xiao towards the depths of the teahouse, and after passing an antique hollow screen, a huge spatial garden appeared in front of me.

This teahouse is located in the downtown area, on the sixteenth floor of a commercial building. There is such a large antique-style hanging garden outside.

It's winter, and because the whole house has a glass roof, the temperature inside the house is comfortable and the flowers are blooming just right. In addition to a few pots of large peonies, the eyes are full of greenery, which is sure to be very eye-catching.

I saw Luo Xiaotian sitting at the tea table in the middle, and walked straight over.

Coming to him, I stretched out my hand to him: "Hello, Mr. Luo. ”

He glanced at me, and there was indescribable emotion flowing between his eyebrows, and then he also took my hand and said, "Hello, Tao Ran." ”

I sat down, and at the same time turned my head to He Xiao who was standing aside and said, "You sit too." ”

Unexpectedly, he took a step back and said, "I'm just a middleman, Mr. Luo told me in advance, and he didn't want me to be there." Well, see you later. ”

After He Xiao finished speaking, he turned around and left.

In a tea room in Nuoda, only me and Luo Xiaotian are left.

"What is Mr. Luo looking for me? I picked up the tea in front of me, took a sip slowly, looked up and smiled, and stared at him seriously.

Luo Xiaotian was obviously stunned, and then sighed.

I thought he was going to say something, so I pricked up my ears and listened.

However, he didn't say anything, but carefully pulled out a photo from his handbag. At first glance, you can see that this photo is from many years ago, it is black and white, and it is all yellow. However, it is very well preserved, and even the edges are not sanded.

He handed me the picture and said, "Look at it, do you know it?"

I wondered how I could have known someone so many years ago. But, out of curiosity and politeness, I took it anyway.

When I saw the face of the person in the photo, I was stunned.

This is a black and white bust photo of a girl, she combs her shoulders and long hair, and her bangs are all in line.

I was stunned not because her beauty was a little thrilling, but because I resembled hers. Between the eyebrows and eyes, we are almost six or seven percent similar.

People are most familiar with their own faces, and the least familiar with them are their own faces.

"What is this?" I asked.

"You can also see that you are very similar to her. Luo Xiaotian looked at me gently and asked, "Don't you have anything to ask?"

"I don't know this. I said.

"But she's so much like you, like a relative. Luo Xiaotian said again.

I vaguely guessed what was going to happen next, and I wanted to pull away, but I couldn't move my feet. I also want to know what her relationship is with me.

The familiarity of seeing the past at a glance is something I can't resist.

"She's my wife. Luo Xiaotian said.

I was stunned, a little nervous and a little cautious, and a little at a loss to say, "Your wife is very beautiful, but what about her now?"

Luo Xiaotian didn't speak.

At this time, I understood why Luo Xiaotian was like that to Sheng Qingjin. At Luo Xiaotian's age, if he doesn't have what kind of woman he wants, just with Sheng Qingjin's appearance, he is not even as good as his wife, so naturally he can't be interested.

What's more, there are also those things that Sheng Qingjin has done, and it won't make people look down on her.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know your wife had passed away, I'm sorry. I saw Luo Xiaotian's sad look and immediately apologized.

"Who said she died?" he said, looking up, his tone a little angry.

Now I was even more embarrassed, and hurriedly apologized.

He ignored me until I shut myself up and he looked up at me and said, "Forget it, I don't know how to go around in circles in front of you." ”

I chuckled inwardly.

Luo Xiaotian straightened up and looked at me and said, "She just left me, and she blamed me for being too bastard when I was young." ”

This sounds familiar to me, which man didn't come from a bastard, and some even had a bastard for a lifetime. So, he smiled and said, "When you're young, people do foolish things. ”

He said with a smile on his face: "I don't even know where to start." ”

There was something in his eyes that seemed to be reminiscing about the past with affection. I interrupted him and said, "I'm curious about your past, but I don't think I should talk to me." I don't have a deep friendship with you. ”

He smiled, a little helpless.

Finally, he made a gesture to me not to interrupt him.

"At that time, I was only twenty years old, and I always felt that I was the one who was different. In those years, just after the reform and opening up, everyone's minds were alive. I'm the same, I even think that reform and opening up is for the sake of it. Luo Xiaotian fell into his own memories.

"Your story ......"

I didn't want to hear it, so I interrupted on purpose.

However, Luo Xiaotian didn't give me a chance to interrupt, glared at me and said, "After listening to me, you will listen to a story today." Okay, okay?"

I was too weak to listen, but I wanted to hear it.

This ambivalence kept me from walking away immediately, and I later regretted that I didn't go away. However, after thinking about it, this matter can be avoided except for one, and it cannot be avoided for fifteen.

"At that time, the acceptance rate of universities was only 11 percent, and being admitted to the university was equivalent to leaping over the dragon gate. Qingqing came to my hometown because her parents were transferred. At that time, a new oil field was discovered there, so the state sent an oil team. The best middle school in town is No. 1 Middle School, where I went to school and met Qingqing. Luo Xiaotian continued.

I could guess what he was trying to say, and I didn't have to listen to such a long story, but there was someone in my heart who was strongly interested in it.

Luo Xiaotian and Tian Qingqing met in the third year of junior high school, Luo Xiaotian is not a good student in the traditional sense, he studies well, is very popular in school, and is very righteous. But at the same time, he was also a stabilizer.

Bad boys always attract good girls, and this law will not change for thousands of years.

Because when people are young, they always want to seek excitement, people and lives that are not necessarily necessary.

Tian Qingqing fell in love with Luo Xiaotian, and the two were admitted to university in the same year. Tian Qingqing was admitted to Shanghai Fudan, and Luo Xiaotian was admitted to Xiamen University.

This result made Tian Qingqing collapse and have a big fight.

Because when they applied for the exam, the two discussed going to the same university. What made Tian Qingqing feel unforgivable the most was that Luo Xiaotian's grades were admitted to Fudan.

"Then why don't you take revenge, since you agreed to go to the same school, why did you change your mind halfway?" I asked.

Luo Xiaotian was silent for a long time before saying, "Because I want to make money." ”

I looked at him and didn't understand the conflict between making money and applying for the Fudan exam.

He looked at me with a misty look on his face, sighed and continued, "You don't know about that era. At that time, TVs, washing machines, and refrigerators had just been available, and they had just reached the age when they didn't need to be purchased with tickets. At that time, domestically produced electrical appliances were in short supply. So someone started smuggling brains. Fishing boats along the coast of Fujian drove their boats to the open sea, and some merchant ships had already pulled their goods there, dumped them directly into the fishing nets, and dragged them back to shore in the water. At that time, the customs system was not as strict as it is now, and fishing boats basically did not need to be inspected. The goods that come in this way are called parallel goods. Parallel goods were also called at that time. I also accidentally heard others say that there is this way to make a fortune, and I want to try it. At that time, a regular employee of oil exploration had a monthly salary of 80 yuan, and the profit of pouring a Nissan TV set was 500 or 600 yuan. Are you tempting!"

It's the first time I've heard of these things, but I have to say that if I had seen such a high profit in my time, I would have taken risks.

"Are you smuggling?" I said.

"If you have to say that, you're right. He looked at me and said, "But this matter, everyone knows, people in each level have money, and no one says anything." ”

"Just because of this, you didn't apply for Fudan?" I asked, "Actually, you can make it clear to her." ”

"I said it, and she didn't understand. In those days, everyone was willing to find someone who did their duty to do their job, and served an iron rice bowl or something. Everyone's talk about this is called speculation. Luo Xiaotian continued, "Now that I tell you, you can understand it because you didn't come from that era. ”

I nodded, substituting myself into the background of the era of reform and opening up, thinking that most people do not understand Luo Xiaotian's practice.

"We had a fight about it and we were all angry. I just want to make more money and give her a better life. But she didn't understand at all, and said that I didn't do a good job. Noisy and noisy, it's time to report to school. There's no way I'm not going, and neither is she. Luo Xiaotian sighed again and said, "We are separated like this, if you don't say that we are young and vigorous, none of us will say a word of convincing, so we are deadlocked." When I arrived at school, I spent a month getting acquainted with the environment, a second month observing other people's practices, and a third month testing the waters. At that time, I was a poor student, and my living expenses for one semester were 500 yuan. If you want to go to the beach to buy goods, how can you have funds? However, at that time, people's hearts were still relatively clean, so I asked my classmates to partner. Of the more than 40 people in the class, two were willing to work with me. We used more than 2,000 yuan to make the cost, and approved a small boat's electrical appliances, of course, there were good and bad in it. The good ones were directly transferred to the mainland, and the bad ones were repaired according to the book and then sold. Each of us earned 3,000 yuan in this order. That's a huge profit, and it took twenty-five days. Luo Xiaotian stopped here when he said this.

He lit a cigarette and took a hard puff.

I could tell he was very emotional, and it took him most of the cigarette to calm down.

"At this time, the letter written to me by Qingqing arrived, she said that she was pregnant, more than four months old. Luo Xiaotian said this and looked at me seriously.

Actually, when he said this, I could guess that the child should be me.

However, he didn't say, I'm not sure.

"We couldn't help but be together after the college entrance examination, but I didn't expect it. At that time, going for an abortion was to prove that she couldn't go. However, college students are not allowed to have children. After I received the letter, I bought a train ticket and went to Shanghai without saying a word. By the time I arrived at school, she had already taken a one-year leave of absence for health reasons. I went to her house to look for her, but her parents didn't know about her suspension of school. Luo Xiaotian said.

"And then?" I asked, "did you find her?"

"Qingqing's personality is very stubborn, she hates me, and then she doesn't leave any news, and everyone doesn't know where she went. I searched for a month and then had to go back to school. Luo Xiaotian said.

When I heard this, my heart hurt very much.

It only takes a month for a man to come out of this kind of thing. A woman, it takes a lifetime. If that child was really me, what did Tian Qingqing suffer in that era.

"You just gave up looking for her?" I asked.

"It's not about giving up, it's about finding it in a different way. If I don't have money, how can I find it?" Luo Xiaotian asked.

"Then ......," I couldn't speak, "then you have to look for it too, the woman you love is pregnant with a child, and her whereabouts are unknown, you can let it go?"

Luo Xiaotian didn't speak.

He skipped this paragraph when he spoke again, and continued: "I write letters to all my classmates every month to see who has a connection with her. However, within a year, she was really like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no news at all. A year later, I blocked her at her school, and she lost a lot of weight, and when she saw me, she didn't say a word, turned around and left. She had no idea how I had been looking for her this year. ”

When I heard this, I couldn't help but say, "What about you? You don't even want to think about how she came here alone with a child?"

"At the time, I didn't expect so much. I thought she must have gone somewhere and made the kid. Luo Xiaotian stared at me and said, "At that time, there were also some black diagnoses that could do this surgery. The reason why I was in a hurry was because I was afraid that she would be in danger in those places. ”

I felt very sad in my heart.

"And then?" I asked again.

Luo Xiaotian's story successfully attracted me.

"She didn't say anything, I asked urgently, she said that she had a new boyfriend, and she came to the school to go through the transfer procedures, and she was going to study in Singapore. Luo Xiaotian said.

"Do you believe this lame reason?" I asked anxiously.

"Of course, I didn't believe it, but while we were still arguing, her new boyfriend arrived. actually drove the car with the driver. I was so angry that I reached out and punched the man. Unexpectedly, she actually protected him. And told me that it had nothing to do with me from now on. Luo Xiaotian's eyes turned red when she said this, "She stopped me, pulled the man and left." ”

I can't speak.

When you're twenty years old, who knows what love is. I always feel that it is beautiful to be with each other, and it is enough. However, true love is not only the beauty and ease of getting along together, but also all kinds of problems and all kinds of run-ins. Add life to perfection, that is love.

"If only I could pull her and keep her from leaving, how nice. That way, I won't regret it for the rest of my life. Luo Xiaotian's face was full of chagrin.

"And later?" I asked.

"She's completely out of touch with me from my life...... Oh no, it's completely gone from my life. Luo Xiaotian's face turned pale.

It can be seen that this is the thing he regrets the most in his life.

"I've basically lost interest in women since that day. I feel that it is better to earn some money than to have that time, and money is the most loyal and down-to-earth. Luo Xiaotian continued, "Where people put their time, they will gain something." My area grew bigger and bigger, and then I monopolized the entire fishing dock. My first pot of gold was saved from that time. ”

Businessmen rarely tell the truth about the origin of their first pot of gold.

Luo Xiaotian told me this, and the reasons are self-evident.

Speaking of which, Luo Xiaotian fell silent because of sadness, and I guessed the ending later, and I also fell silent. For a moment, the tea room was very quiet.

"Aren't you curious about what else happened later?" Luo Xiaotian asked.

"Actually, there's nothing curious, I can guess what happened later. You made a fortune because of this, and then entered the capital market in the year of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, and began to do Hong Kong stocks, with your confidence in the smooth transition of the policy and one country, two systems, you once again achieved a wealth jump, and became a financial predator in one fell swoop, and then began to attack cautiously, and each time you perfectly avoided the financial crisis, and even made a lot of money from the financial crisis. has made you who you are now, low-key, rich, and status. Even a stomp of one's feet in the Asian financial circle can send a small earthquake to the financial circle. "I said it with ease.

Luo Xiaotian shook his head and said, "You are very smart, you know that what I want to say is not this, but you deliberately say this." ”

I stopped talking, because he was all right.

"Later, in the year of Hong Kong's handover, I saw Qingqing at the financial summit, and she was married to that man and was doing well in Singapore. Luo Xiaotian said.

I stood up: "That's it, it's time for the story to end." However, Mr. Luo, don't worry, I really listened to this matter as a story. ”

He ignored me, but stood up and looked at me with aggressive eyes and said, "That year, I knew that I had a daughter, who was born in the year Qingqing took a leave of absence, and was taken away after being born. Over the years, Qingqing has been looking for this daughter, but there has been no news. When she told me this, she said that she had forgiven me and hoped that I would find my daughter. ”

I felt like my head was heating up, and a hammer was pounding on my temple.

I turned to leave, and in my panic I bumped into a green plant.

Luo Xiaotian walked a few steps and stopped my way: "My daughter was not given away by Qingqing, she said that she couldn't give up the first time she saw it when she was born, so she was ready to take the child to find a way to make a living." However, the child was stolen. Because she gave birth alone, she didn't watch the child, and by the time the nurse found out, it was already too late. ”

I stopped, and there was an indescribable emotion in my head, and it was a little warm—it turned out that I was not abandoned!

"The child who was stolen was you. Luo Xiaotian stared at my eyes and said word by word.

"No way. I immediately retorted, "I was picked up by my adoptive parents." ”

"Do you want to confront them?" Luo Xiaotian asked.

I was speechless.

Luo Xiaotian said again: "They were looking for infertility in the hospital in that town, and suddenly they saw a child in the baby room, so they took the best-looking one. However, what they didn't expect was that in the fourth year of carrying the little girl back, they gave birth to their own son. Since then, the girl has become superfluous. Even, when the girl was eleven or twelve years old, they still wanted to sell the girl. At that time, the man of that family, that is, your adoptive father, could not get his hands on it and returned the money to the buyer, and your adoptive mother had a big fight with him. ”

I have an impression of what Luo Xiaotian said.

That year, I was going to junior high school, and after I got the admission letter from a key middle school, my mother suddenly said to me angrily: "What do girls do when they go to school so much, and they don't all have to get married in the end." ”

My father didn't say a word, and quietly gave me the tuition fee and said, "It's okay, don't worry about her, Dad has already saved the tuition for you." As long as you pass the exam, Dad will provide for you. ”

Not long after that, there was a big quarrel in the family, and I don't know why. However, I have the impression that it was the first time my father did something to my mother, and the fight was bloody. My little brother and I hugged my mother and cried, and my father said at the time, don't cry, it's not worth it.

Now that I think about it, I was probably going to sell me, but my father didn't know about it first, and after he knew about it, he was angry with her.

"It's a paternity test, you see. Luo Xiaotian stuffed an appraisal report into my hand and said, "You are my daughter, a daughter who has been separated for more than 30 years." ”

I held the report in my hand like a hot potato. I don't see it, and I don't see it.

I really didn't expect that my background was so complicated, and in just a few months, I saw two appraisal reports. However, thinking of the share that Liu Mingyue gave me, I was shocked and looked up at Luo Xiaotian.