Chapter 17: The Ruler Behind the Scenes
A black sedan drove in the night.
Gu Jinglan sat in the back seat, and the driver glanced at his expression from the mirror in the front seat, only to feel that his boss must be very angry at this time.
His face darkened a lot.
Gu Jinglan leaned back in his seat, he closed his eyes, and his mind kept wandering around the sentence Su Shimo said, 'He probably doesn't remember me either'. Not long ago, he was in the elevator of the Su Group, and he heard Su Shimo say to others that he was not familiar with him.
He sneered.
I didn't know it before, but I don't remember it now. It seems that the other party is really afraid of him.
But he obviously didn't do anything.
Why should she do whatever she wants?
When Gu Jinglan opened his eyes again, he swept away the coldness on his face and said to the driver, "Go back to the old house." ”
Old mansions.
Gu Jinglan has his own place to live in the city to facilitate his daily work. His parents live in the old house, and as people get older, the less they like the hustle and bustle of the city, they will prefer to live in a quieter place.
The car stopped at the door of Gu's house.
Gu Jinglan stepped out of the car door and tidied up his clothes in front of the door.
The gate was already open to both sides, and the doorman who was guarding the door saw him get out of the car, so he picked up the phone and dialed into the courtyard:
"The young master is back."
Su Shimo once complained about this title, saying that it smelled like a feudal remnant.
At that time, Ye Jiu was still around and teasing her, so doesn't your aunt still call you Miss. Su Shimo thought about it, that's too, no one is qualified to complain about anyone.
Gu Jinglan stood in front of the door, turned his head, and looked at the houses on the edge of Gu's house, and his eyes stopped at the plaque of Su's house.
Gu Mansion and Su Mansion are not far away, and it is only a five-minute walk, but the two families are located in different directions, but the size of the pattern is not too much.
It was almost evening, and the lantern at the door of Su's house had been lit, but the gate was closed.
Gu Jinglan retracted his gaze and stepped into the gate of Gu's house.
When he entered the lobby, Gu's mother greeted him and said with concern: "Why don't you say anything in advance when you come back." Cold or not? Hungry or not? ”
Gu Jinglan took off his coat and handed it to the maid who came up to get it.
"It's fine." He said.
Gu's mother didn't care what he said, and told the kitchen: "Make a few more dishes that Jinglan likes to eat today, come up quickly." ”
She was afraid that the child would starve.
Gu Jinglan just took over the company from Gu's father, and he was so busy every day that he didn't even have time to eat, let alone go back to the old house to see his parents.
At that time, Gu's mother felt sorry for him, and once wanted to move to the city to live with Gu Jinglan and take care of his diet and daily life, but was later rejected by Gu Jinglan. Gu's mother could only specially select a skilled master from the family and send it to him, and cook and deliver meals to him on time and in accordance with the amount every day.
It wasn't until later that he slowly mastered the company's affairs and his time control became looser, so he would go back to the old house once a week to see it.
But there are still three days left before the next time he returns to the old mansion, and I don't understand why he is early. But when she came back, she came back, and Gu's mother was also very happy.
"Your dad is still in the study, and I haven't told him you're back." Gu's mother pulled him to the sofa and sat down, saying, "You wait a little longer, you can eat soon." ”
"Okay." Gu Jinglan responded.
Gu Jinglan and Gu's mother had a happy conversation, and Gu's father came out of the study after finishing his work, and saw his baby son coming home, and his originally serious eyes also smiled a little.
Gu's father came down the stairs, Gu Jinglan stood up and shouted, "Dad." ”
Father Gu nodded with a serious expression: "Hmm." ”
After Gu's father sat down, Gu Jinglan sat down.
Gu's mother looked left and right, and said to the two awkward fathers and sons of the Gu family: "You talk, I'll go and see if the food is ready." ”
After speaking, he stood up and went to the kitchen, leaving the two men of the Gu family staring at each other with big eyes.
"How's the company doing?" Father Gu picked up the tea in his hand and took a sip.
"It's fine." Gu Jinglan replied to him while sitting precariously, "There is no problem, don't worry." ”
Father Gu nodded, and asked again, "Why did you suddenly come back today?" ”
"Something."
Father Gu looked at his sudden frown, and thought of Xiao Mo from the Su family next door who had just returned from abroad, and seemed to have comprehended something in his heart.
Father Gu didn't ask any further.
At this time, Gu's mother took her aunt from the kitchen to bring all the food to the dining room, and shouted at the two fathers and sons, "It's time to eat." ”
The table full of dishes, most of which are Gu Jinglan's favorite food.
Gu's mother looked very happy, and kept putting vegetables into Gu Jinglan's bowl, for fear that the child would be hungry. Slowly, slowly, the bowls in front of Gu Jinglan were about to pile up into a small mountain, and in Gu's father's voice, Gu's mother stopped.
Gu Jinglan looked helplessly at the bowl of deep love from his parents in front of him, and ate it little by little.
Gu's mother was very happy to see him eating, and as soon as she was happy, she would talk about something that her parents had been looking forward to for a long time.
"Jinglan, you see that you are not too young, when will you bring a girlfriend back to show your parents?" Gu's mother said, "You see that my mother is also old, and she wants to hug her grandson as soon as possible." ”
Every adult can never escape the topic at the dinner table when they go home - urging marriage.
"......" Gu Jinglan stopped holding the vegetables and said, "Don't worry." ”
"Not in a hurry?" Gu's mother was worried, "You're twenty-six." Look at your cousin, his sons are three years old. If you don't hurry, you won't be able to catch up. ”
Gu Jinglan glanced at Gu's father helplessly.
Look at your daughter-in-law.
How can there be a child to compare.
"I heard...... You're dating that daughter of the Jane family, aren't you? Gu's mother cautiously tested Gu Jinglan.
But in fact, Gu's mother doesn't have to get Gu Jinglan married, but at least her girlfriend has to take one home, right?
Since graduation, I haven't seen him have a girlfriend. There are a few female friends around him, but none of them are interesting. Is it because he doesn't like people, or is it because people don't like him?
Will he not be able to find his daughter-in-law in the future?
The more Gu's mother thought about it, the more frightened she became, and even thought that she and her wife had passed away fifty years later, and her eldest baby son was still alone, guarding the Gu family alone, how pitiful.
Until she saw a lace news that broke out not long ago.
About her son.
It's been a long time to see her, and she can still see her son's lace news in her lifetime.
She knew the girl who was on the news with Gu Jinglan, and she could even say that she was familiar with it, after all, the two families were not far away, and when Gu Jinglan was young, she often went home to play with Gu Jinglan.
So Gu's mother took this opportunity today to ask.
When Gu Jinglan heard this, he didn't raise his eyebrows: "No." ”
"What news before that?" Gu's mother asked unrelentingly.
"Fake."
"Fake?"
"Fake." Gu Jinglan affirmed. He put down the chopsticks in his hand, wiped the corners of his mouth, and said to his parents, "I'm full." ”
Then went upstairs.
"Eh......" Gu's mother wanted to stop him.
"Forget it." Gu's father, who had been silent just now, said to Gu's mother, "Let him solve the child's affairs by himself." Let's not worry too much. ”
Gu's mother sighed: "I'm his mother, how can I care." If not, when will we be able to hold our grandson? ”
"Don't you have a daughter-in-law?" Father Gu reminded her.
"Daughter-in-law?" Gu's mother was stunned for a moment, and then reacted to what he said, "But ......"
Gu's mother was a little hesitant: "Isn't Jinglan not liked?" Do you think we should find a time to go next door and talk about it? ”
"When did he say he didn't like it?" Father Gu looked at her.
"That attitude wasn't obvious when he went to school?" Gu's mother frowned, regretting in her heart, why she was dizzy at the beginning, and did not take into account the feelings of the children, so she decided the marriage.
Father Gu shook his head, didn't say anything more, and lowered his head to eat.
"Why don't you speak?" Gu's mother put down her chopsticks and asked him, "What do you mean by shaking your head?" I'm not here for the good of our Jinglan. ”
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Although Gu Jinglan only goes back to the old house once a week, Gu's mother still instructs her aunt to clean his room every day.
After Gu Jinglan took a bath, he sat at the desk.
Gu's mother suggested that he replace this desk several times, but he never changed it.
That desk was won by him when he was a freshman in high school and made a bet with Su Shimo from her. Now he sits at the desk in his figure, faintly lining the desk a little petite.
There are still photos of him from high school on his desk, and the potted plant next to his computer is still alive and well.
He took a pen from his briefcase and put it in the pen holder next to the mouse.
There is no pen in the pen holder for a long time, and now there is only a pen poking in it. Gu Jinglan took the pen holder, randomly fiddled with the pen he had just put in, and let it turn around a few times inside.
At the same time, in the Su house on the other side.
Su Shimo had just finished taking a shower, lying on the bed and reading the information she brought back from Time Entertainment. There are not a few materials, and it takes a lot of time to read them.
After watching it for a long time, she drank a cup of coffee to refresh herself and look at it again.
Aunt Yu knocked on the door from outside her room, didn't know what she was holding in her hand, and asked her, "Momo, look at it, do you still want these things?" ”
Every once in a while, the Su family has to clean up the warehouse.
Su Shimo was in a hurry back then, and many things in her room were put into the warehouse, without asking her what she meant, and they didn't want to throw them away on their own, so they kept accumulating until now.
Su Shimo came back, and he happened to ask her what she meant.
After all, after being in the warehouse for so many years, I don't know if some things can be used or not.
Su Shimo put down the notebook in his hand and looked up at the things in Aunt Yu's hand.
It was useless, and she said, "It's useless, throw it away." ”
"Huh." Aunt Yu answered, turned around to leave, turned around again, and said to her, "There are still some things from you in the warehouse, do you want to go and see them?" ”
Su Shimo thought for a while and said, "No, it's all lost." ”
"Okay."
Aunt Yu is gone.
Su Shimo leaned on the bed, but he didn't have the heart to look at the things in his hand. I flipped through it and didn't see a word.
She resigned herself to her fate and got up and went to the storeroom.
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In the warehouse, Aunt Yu is still busy with other aunts.
The Su family's treasury is not dirty, they often clean it, and they only throw away some unwanted things when they tidy up regularly.
The Su family's treasury has everything.
Su Shimo's toys when she was a child, the bubble machine she grew up with, and the things she left before going abroad are all kept in a corner of the warehouse. No damage and no dirt.
When Su Shimo arrived at the warehouse, they were still tidying up, and when they saw her coming down, they all tacitly stood aside.
Aunt Yu pointed to the innermost pile of things and said to her: "Your things are all here, we haven't thrown away any of them, we have kept them all these years." ”
"Hmm."
Su Shimo nodded and walked towards the pile of things.
She crouched down and looked carefully at the contents of the ball, including the paper folded stars, the wind chimes of dolphins, the crystal animals, and the stars that had not yet had time to be sent.
are all worthless things, but everything carries Su Shimo's youth.
She looked up and nudged the tumbler star on the ground.
The tumbler swayed back and forth, as if it was swaying back to the summer of Su Shimo's teens.
-
Su Shimo was only eighteen years old that year.
And the teenage years are the most rebellious time for teenagers.
It was the first day that I accidentally learned that the Su Gu family had a baby, and it was also the last day of the summer vacation, and on that day, Gu Jinglan had the biggest temper in history.
What a doll pro, it's just dead of earth. What age is it now, and there is still such a drama.
That day, he disobeyed his parents, and it was the first time he yelled at Su Shimo: "Don't even think about it in this life!" ”
Don't think about anything, don't think about marrying him.
Su Shimo gave him that roar, completely stunned. She didn't know about it before he did, but he thought it was as if she was deliberately hiding it from her.
Gu Jinglan was angry at her, making her feel aggrieved.
Since then, no one in the Su Gu family has mentioned the marriage contract again. It's like being forgotten in the corner of the torrent of time, unwilling to be picked up again.
And on that day, the family moved in from the long-empty villa not far from their home.
The family's surname is Jane.
They were warm and welcoming. The Jian family also has a girl who is slightly older than Su Shimo, named Jian Chu, who is very well-behaved and beautiful.
Since then, Gu Jinglan has been getting farther and farther away from her.
And Gu Jinglan, with the girl who had just moved over, got closer and closer, and got closer and closer......
The pattern of getting along with each other has not changed, but they both know very well in their hearts that there has long been a chasm between them, and no one will cross this step.
They maintain a superficial relationship.
And Su Shimo's obscure and unspeakable thoughts can only be written into origami, folded into stars one after another, and sealed into glass bottles.
No more opening, no more unsealing.