Chapter XII

The rainy season is coming. Winter and spring in Taipei are wet. All day and all night, the drizzle and the cold wind swept over the hills, over the fields, over the cities, over the eucalyptus trees on the streets, and all the way to the lattices of the buildings. Ling Shan was quiet and silent during this period, like a dormant insect, hibernating with the cold weather. She no longer argued with her parents about her marriage, and even avoided mentioning it again, for deep down in her heart, the skinny little child was like a mountain in front of her, and this resistance was stronger than that of her parents. For the first time, she realized her own vulnerability, and she couldn't accept a child. When spring came, Ling Shan was already suffering from a faint depression, and she became sentimental and depressed. The school has been open for a month of winter vacation, and it is back in school. Ling Shan went to and from class as usual, taking the children to play games. When she came home from class, she often stood by the window and pondered for a long time. Lingzhen watched coldly, and said to her parents in private:

"Ling Shan is in a cold war with our whole family!"

In fact, Lingzhen's words were only half right, not so much that she was in a cold war, but that she was depressed. There is mainly one reason, Wei Pengfei took Chu Chu back to the south during the Spring Festival. Coming back from the south, Chu Chu had changed completely, she was full of hostility towards Ling Shan, full of indifference. She became a hedgehog ready for battle again, and at every turn she erected her spikes, ready to fight. When Ling Shan asked kindly, she only screamed:

"My grandmother said, you want to be my stepmother, I hate you!"

After nearly half a year of subduing work, all of a sudden, it completely touched the reef. No matter how gentle Ling Shan spoke, the child just stiffened his face, stared at her viciously, and screamed: "Don't touch me, if you touch me, I'll bite you!" ”

On several occasions, she really wanted to catch the child again and give her a punishment. However, since she thought about marriage, she didn't dare to scold the child. She's afraid of her! In this kind of cowardly mood, blind weakness caused the opposite effect, Chu Chu became more and more lawless, more and more arrogant, and more and more rude to Ling Shan. Even, she already knows how to bully Ling Shan. Whenever she was alone with Ling Shan, she would say softly, "Auntie, I miss my mother so much!" If only she hadn't died! She is the most beautiful woman in the world! ”

Ling Shan looked at her bright little face and cunning eyes, knowing that she was lying, knowing that she had no impression of her biological mother, and knowing that she was relieved to be angry with her, she still felt harsh and piercing, and the six gods had no master.

Ling Shan was depressed. And during this time, Wei Pengfei was busy in the dark, since the Spring Festival, Xu Lun's turnover has increased, production has increased significantly, Wei Pengfei presided over the entire production department of the company, and purchased several machines, he was busy from morning to night, day and night overtime, the time to go home is getting later and later, and every time he goes home, he is tired and exhausted, and he often doesn't want to move on the sofa. However, even though he was so busy, he did not ignore Ling Shan's depression. One night, he clasped Ling Shan's hand and said sincerely:

"Lingshan, don't think that I forgot about what happened between us, when I'm done with this busy period, by summer, I'll be relatively empty. We're getting married in the summer, okay? After getting married, I'll take you to Japan for your honeymoon. ”

She was silent. "Don't worry, Ling Shan, all problems will be solved. My parents were so happy that I was happy again, and they said, "When I have a holiday, I will come to Taipei to see you!" She shook slightly. What's wrong? He asked, "What are you afraid of?" ”

"Are your parents really happy...... "are they really happy?" she said. They don't know me......" "They've seen your picture. ”

"How so?" She lowered her eyelids. "They must say I'm ugly and unworthy of you. All parents think their children are the best. ”

"No, it's the opposite." "How?" "They say you're beautiful, a little too pretty. My mom said I was too greedy. She said...... "He swallowed violently.

"What did she say?" Ling Shan asked.

"Didn't say anything," Peng Fei tried to divert the subject. "She thinks I'm not worthy of you and will spoil you." "Not really!" She stubbornly said, "What does she say, you have to tell me!" You should tell me! He looked at her, and she sat on the carpet in front of the couch, with her arms resting on the couch, her chin in her hand, and looking at him quietly. Her eyes were as clear as autumn water, and there was a huge force in them that he couldn't resist and couldn't hide. He reached out and stroked her cheek and her tiny earlobe.

She said...... "He sighed softly." Haven't you had enough of the sins of beautiful girls? How did you get such a beautiful one again? Beware, this girl is bright and beautiful, I'm afraid you have to suffer again! ”

Ling Shan quietly lowered her head.

"Lingshan!" He cupped her chin. "Don't get me wrong, my mother's words are not malicious, she is 'once bitten by a snake, ten years afraid of the well rope!'! I'm scared when I see a pretty girl. You have to forgive her, at the beginning, she and Xintong also had a very unpleasant quarrel, she did her best to treat Xintong, and Xintong still left. She saw this incident as a great shame for the Wei family. Lingshan, don't worry, when she sees you, she will know how pure, kind, and lovely you are. ”

Ling Shan still bowed her head and remained silent. "How?" Pengfei stared at her, staring at her carefully. "Are you really worried? Are you really bothered? She leaned her head into his arms.

"Pengfei!" She screamed weakly. "Why are there so many people in the world? And how complex are the relationships between people? Why does the matter between two people involve so many other characters? ”

Wei Pengfei hugged her for a while, but he was silent. He fully understood the sorrow and helplessness in her heart. In the middle of the night, he whispered softly:

"Lingshan!" "Huh?" She responded. "Let's find someone who has no worries, no jobs, no worries, no entanglements...... Let's go and live! ”

"Is there such a place?" "Yes." "Is it the moon? Or Mars? She asked.

He chuckled softly. "No, no, it's not the moon, it's not Mars, it's in the primeval jungle of the Amazon."

"There's really no trouble, no entanglement," Ling Shan nodded. "But there are mosquitoes, poisonous snakes, crocodiles, wild beasts, and maybe there are cannibals who will take you to stew and eat! Oh, forget it, let's stay here! ”

"Well, we can go to Alaska!" Wei Pengfei rolled his eyes, "I watched a movie about the scenery of Alaska, where the snow is covered all year round, a piece of silver and white, and polar bears rolling in the snow. Everywhere is full of colorful flowers, and thousands of butterflies circle around the flowers......"

She smiled. "The snow is full of colorful flowers? And thousands of butterflies? She said, "You're a bragging and not making a draft!" ”

He looked her squarely. "I made a draft," he said, "just to make you laugh!" Her eyes sparkled and tears trembled on her eyelashes.

He hugged her tightly and shouted excitedly in her ear:

"Oh, Lingshan! If there was a place like that, I would take you there, I would take you there! I don't want you to worry, I don't want you to worry, I don't want you to worry, I don't want you to be so haggard! Oh, Lingshan, tell me, how can I make you happy? You tell me, you teach me, I've never been a very good lover, I don't know how to protect what I love......" His body shuddered. "You teach me, Lingshan! Am I too busy? Am I ignoring you too much? You teach me, but, don't leave me......" She pressed her lips against his, blocking his words. After a while, she raised her head and looked at him warmly and calmly.

"Did I say I was going to leave you? No, no, never. She touched his brow and sideburns with her fingers, and there was a deep tenderness in her eyes. If there is a shadow between us, if there is a problem, I believe that it will be overcome slowly. Pengfei," she raised her eyebrows. "I'm not Pei Xintong, don't worry."

He looked at her deeply. "Are your parents still against me?" He asked, "They are reasonable, they are enlightened, why are they like a block of ice that cannot be melted?" ”

"One day, Chu Chu will grow up," Ling Shan said, "When she is twenty-two years old, will you want her to marry a divorced father with a six-year-old child?" "If that father is as good as I am, I would absolutely do!"

"How are you? You're not ashamed! ”

"I'm really good...... At the very least, in the past six months, I have quit all the bad habits, and I am trying to learn well...... However, your parents refuse to confront my merits, they only study my past! ”

"Give them time!" She whispered. "Give me time, too."

"What are you giving you time for?" "Go and melt an iceberg." "Iceberg?" He said, "Do you have an iceberg in front of you too?" ”

"Yes." "Yesβ€”" he hesitated. "Chuchu? I thought you had completely subdued her. You are like a Buddha, she is just a little monkey, she should not be able to turn over the palm of your hand. She shook her head and sighed wordlessly.

He stroked her hair, frowning.

You sigh again. Lingshan, you're so depressed, I really don't know what to do? He clenched her hand and suddenly made up his mind and said, "Lingshan, let's go!" We really left all this annoying everything! Let's go! Leave your parents, and leave my family, let's go! ”

"Where to go?" "Go to the United States. I can easily find a job there, and I have permanent residency. Let's go to the United States, shall we? ”

"Where's Chu Chu?" She asked. He bit Seven hard, "I can give her to my parents!" They all love her! ”

"What about you? Don't love her? Ling Shan stared at him and asked.

"Of course I love her. Butβ€”if she's an iceberg between the two of us, I'm ...... I just had to get rid of her! ”

Ling Shan stared at him for a long time. "Listen to me, Pengfei." She said clearly: "I'm not going to the United States with you, I'm not going to Alaska with you, or anywhere!" Because, I don't want to be a deserter! I love my parents, my sister, and my brother. I don't want to be separated from them, I love Chu Chu too, I want her! My problem is that I love all those who oppose me! I'm not running away, Pengfei, I'm going to face them! ”

"Lingshan!" He shouted, "Be selfish! Think for yourself! "I'm selfish," she said stubbornly, "I want to use my arms to hold all the people I love, not just you!" Pengfei. And hug my family, and - that Xiaoice Mountain, I am not only selfish, but also greedy! ”

"Lingshan!" He cried out in amazement and hugged her, unable to speak anymore in that shocking passion. And so, the days still passed slowly and regularly. However, underneath the law, there is something unseen. Like an underground stream, faintly, slowly. But I don't know when, it will finally turn into a fountain and shoot out from the ground. On this day, Wei Pengfei was working in the factory. A hot forging machine has malfunctioned, and three times in a week, the machine has burned workers due to excessive heat, spilling red-hot metal fragments. Wei Pengfei and a few mechanics have been immersed in repairing this machine and adjusting its temperature. Suddenly, a worker came up to him and said:

"Director Wei, a Mr. Liu has come to see you!"

"Let him wait!" Wei Pengfei said without raising his head, he was under the machine and inspected the bottom layer of the machine. In the middle of the night, he came out from under the machine, covered in dust, grease on his hands, and iron filings on his clothes. He raised his eyes and looked over, only to find in shock that the person standing there waiting for him turned out to be Ling Shan's father Liu Siqian! "Oh, Uncle Liu!" He hurriedly greeted him, thinking to himself, what is coming is here after all! He had to face the character, the problem, and the challenge. A lot of thoughts flashed through his heart in an instant, knowing that Liu Siqian actually ran to the factory to find him, of course it was necessary to have a showdown. He secretly thought about the way to "deal with the battle", and immediately made a firm decision, no matter what, he would never compromise and never give up Lingshan! He looked at Liu Siqian while wiping his hands with a towel. "Sorry to keep you waiting, there's something wrong with that machine!" He said.

Liu Siqian looked at the machine curiously, and then looked at Wei Pengfei curiously. Normally, the Wei Pengfei he saw was neat and refreshing, but now, he looked like a worker! Then, he looked curiously at the whole factory, and the rows of factories, as well as the various boilers and punches.

"I didn't know how big the factory was," he said, "how many workers are there?" ”

"There are more than 500 workers, and counting the employees and clerks, there are more than 600!" Wei Pengfei said that when he saw Liu Siqian's expression full of interest, his heart moved, and he wanted to talk to him about something else first, and then it would be easy to get to the point. So, he asked, "Would you like to take a tour?" ”

"Won't it be inconvenient?" Liu Siqian asked. Usually, factories are not allowed to be visited, so as not to spread some private technology.

"No, it won't." Wei Pengfei said immediately. "There's no secret here."

With Liu Siqian, he walked over one factory after another, and introduced to him the functions of those machines and the nature of the factory.

"We have two divisions, one is the forging part and the other is the precision casting part. The products include almost all kinds of metal hand tools, and the main objects are exported, such as the United States, Canada, Southeast Asia and Europe. ”

"Oh?" Liu Siqian looked at those machines, and also looked at Wei Pengfei, he himself also learned machinery, but he did not apply what he learned, and now he has already changed his career to the financial industry and is a senior executive in a large bank. However, his interest in mechanics remained undiminished. "What does the forging do?" He asked.

"The first step is shearing, which is the shear, which cuts the pieces of iron. The second step is heating, which is the heating furnace. Then there is the rough embryo, and then it comes down to hot forging, and then after trimming and processing, the forging procedure is completed. However, only processing includes sand blowing, cleaning, straightening, heat treatment, grinding, polishing, electroplating, etc...... All kinds of formalities, so, to have so many machines, so many workers, it's a complicated job. Liu Siqian looked at him without blinking.

"You're in the mood to chase girls all day long in front of machines and pieces of iron?" He asked. Wei Pengfei stood outside a large factory, his hand holding on to the pillars of the factory, looking back at Liu Siqian. "Ling Shan often says I'm a blacksmith," he said, simply getting to the point. "I'm really just a blacksmith. However, a pair of pliers and a screw drill have to be tempered before they can be made. I have been refining these pieces of iron all day long, thinking that I have refined the incorruptible body of Vajra. It wasn't until Ling Shan got involved in my life that I knew that I also had flesh and blood, a soul and feelings! Uncle Liu," he said sincerely, "I don't know what to say, Ling Shan did recreate me!" I turn scrap metal into a sharp weapon every day, and Ling Shan did the same thing to me! ”

Liu Siqian looked at the factory, where there were several high-frequency furnaces, and workers were doing the work of melting. He looked at Wei Pengfei again, with iron filings all over his body, oil stains on his hands, sincerity on his face, and the smell of engine oil all over his body. He groaned and said:

"Do you know what I'm doing here?"

"I know." Wei Pengfei said: "You want to convince me to break up with Lingshan. ”

"What do you think my success rate is?"

"You don't have a success rate." Liu Siqian snorted involuntarily.

"How can a man like you get divorced?" He asked calmly. "I heard that your wife is sorry for you." "Xintong is a very good girl." Wei Pengfei said seriously. "When two people divorce, it's hard to say who is sorry for whom. Xintong is outgoing and active, enthusiastic and lonely, she is very open-minded, a little influenced by hippie thoughts, she left meβ€”" He said gloomily, "I think, always I have shortcomings, I can't keep her." ”

"So, will you be able to keep Lingshan?"

Wei Pengfei pondered quietly for a moment.

"Yes." "Why?" "Because Lingshan is not Xintong! Xintong is like a little leopard I raised, no matter how much I love her, once she grows up, she will inevitably run away, when I married Xintong, she was still a child. Ling Shan is different, she is independent and thoughtful, from the beginning of our acquaintance, she accepted me, not only my strengths, but also my shortcomings. By now, I feel like she's been like a part of my life, you may not be able to save a little leopard, how can you not save your own life or blood? ”

"Your example is strange!" Liu Siqian said in a daze.

Wei Pengfei looked at the factory shed. "Do you see the stoves?" He asked.

"How?" Liu Siqian was confused.

"There is carbon molten steel in it, and a new alloy called chromium vanadium steel is cast by adding ferrochrome and ferrovanadium with carbon molten steel. Chrome vanadium steel is cast from two different metals, but even after casting, you can no longer separate chrome vanadium steel into ferrochrome and ferrovanadium. Lingshan and I are like chrome vanadium steel. ”

Liu Siqian glared at Wei Pengfei.

"Looks like you're a successful forger!" He said, looking around to the left and right. "Looks like you're still a successful engineer, and it's like you're a successful supervisor too. It's just that I don't know if you're going to be a successful husband! ”

Wei Pengfei looked at Liu Siqian warmly, his eyes shining.

"I have the confidence to win, trust me! Uncle Liu! ”

Liu Siqian's eyes widened, he frowned, and then, he suddenly slapped Wei Pengfei's shoulder with a heavy palm, and said in a rough voice:

"I really don't know, Ling Shan fell in love with you? I really don't know, I appreciate that point about you again? But, damn it! He took a deep breath, his eyes shining in the sun: "I actually wholeheartedly want to accept you as my son-in-law!" ”

"Uncle Liu!" He shouted, his face glowing, and he grabbed Liu Siqian's hand with his oily hand. "You won't regret it, you will never regret it!" He said. "Although you don't know that Ling Shan fell in love with me, I deeply understand why Ling Shan loves you so much!"

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