"No matter how high your annual salary is, you will have to work for 10 or 20 years before you can pay off the debt you owe to the Fang family." Qu Yingqiu said mercilessly.

"That's my business, you don't have to worry about it."

Qu Yingqiu was angry again, closed her eyes, and sat down on the bedside stool with her hands propped up.

After a long pause, she softened her tone and said, "...... I'll show you the way. ”

Fang Ci was silent.

Qu Yingqiu continued, "You go back to Fang's house to work and support your family business." Give me and your dad a pension, even if it's paid off. ”

"The Fang family's industry has nothing to do with me."

"Then who do you think will inherit this business?" Qu Yingqiu stared at her, "Your sister is not in good health, she will live in a nursing home for at least another five years, do you want to watch the Fang family go bankrupt?" ”

Fang Ci was silent, "...... On the verge of bankruptcy? ”

Qu Yingqiu snorted coldly and didn't answer.

Lacking financing, the Fang family's company has not been able to get up all these years, dragging an empty shell and on the verge of bankruptcy.

Fang Ci said lightly, "What's wrong with bankruptcy liquidation?" You're relieved from your dad. ”

"You said it lightly," Qu Yingqiu's face was a little pale, "...... Without this broken company giving money to the nursing home every year, do you think Nian's treatment would have gone so smoothly? After living alone outside for so many years, I didn't expect you to be so naïve. Don't need money for treatment? Nian's condition is the most painful, those experts, nursing homes such a good supporting treatment course, which is not a money-burning ? ”

"To be honest with you, the company's annual profits are used to treat Niannian's illness. Your dad and I didn't have any money left. ”

These words were like a hammer.

Fang Ci gritted his teeth suddenly, "So what? At this point, do you want me to come back and continue to dedicate myself to Fang Niannian, to the Fang family? ”

"I was born in the Fang family, was I born to owe you?"

"Yes!" Qu Yingqiu raised his voice, "Everyone has their own life, you were born in the Fang family, and if you make your sister lose her voice, you should bear all this!" ”

Fang Ci laughed, "This life, you want you to take it back, if you have a choice, I'd rather not be born." ”

Qu Yingqiu got up, pointed at her, and said angrily, "You are my Qu Yingqiu's daughter, can you stand up!" What problems can be solved by such self-pity? ”

"Oh," Fang Ci still smiled, "is this your way of solving the problem?" At the beginning, you blamed my sister's loss of voice on me, and now you are transferring the pressure of bankruptcy to me, this is you Qu Yingqiu? This is the strong woman Qu Yingqiu? ”

Qu Yingqiu was so angry that her eyes turned black when she called her famous, and she stood up and shook her in the mouth.

Fang Ci's face tilted to one side.

No response for a long time.

After four and a half years of escaping, she didn't come to fruition, but as soon as she returned, everything overwhelmed her again.

Qu Yingqiu fell back to the stool at the end of the bed, and after a long pause, she swallowed her throat and said, "...... Your dad can't count on it at all, and he's weak and incompetent. counted on you to marry to save the company, but you hooked up with the young master of the Wen family and smashed the marriage, mercilessly. With no funds and no help from my in-laws, I have been supporting this mess alone and supplying blood to Niannian all these years. ”

"Now that you've grown up and your wings are stiff, you can't wait to escape from this cage," Qu Yingqiu said with tears in her eyes, "but what about me?" Where am I going to run? You and Niannian, and this broken company, even fucking not surnamed Qu! In my life, I worked hard for the Fang family to have children and for the Fang family, what did I end up with? ”

Fang Ci was silent.

There was still a burning pain on his cheeks.

"I made a lot of mistakes, I shouldn't have locked Niannian at home, if I had sent her to treatment earlier, maybe I wouldn't have ended up in this situation now," Qu Yingqiu fumbled for a tissue and wiped her tears, "She is gentle and caring, if she grows up well, maybe she will inherit the family business early like other young masters and young ladies in the circle." ”

“…… Without these, maybe you wouldn't have grown into the weird nature you have now, both of you sisters are talented, and you have inherited my strong and decisive nature, you two help each other, maybe now the Fang family is thriving, and your father and I can rest assured to go to the elderly. ”

"I did make a lot of mistakes."

Qu Yingqiu almost muttered to herself in the end, and walked out with a vague pace.

Standing in front of the door, she said, "Fang Ci, you should think about it." ”

Fang Ci didn't think about it at all.

She has decided to escape, and now that her wings are full, and if she returns to this cage, will not these four and a half years of hard work be in vain?

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With her visa processed, she flew back to London.

After graduating, my life is hardly the same as when I was studying, and I still run back and forth at three o'clock, where I live, in a nursing home, and in a law firm.

It's just that business trips are more frequent.

And just like that, from summer to autumn.

After the end of the last big project, and on the weekend, she went to visit Fang Niannian in the nursing home.

Fang Niannian was tidying up things in her room, and when she saw her, she beckoned, and gestured:

"Mom came here, just left yesterday and bought gifts for both of us."

Fang Ci left the door of the room open, and the sunset outside the room slanted in.

It's still been so many years, and Qu Yingqiu came to visit Fang Niannian for the first time and brought her a gift by the way.

But there was no turmoil in her heart.

"You can keep it, I don't need it."

Fang Niannian thought thoughtfully, "I don't think my mother's face is very good, is there something going on at home?"

The family is about to go bankrupt.

But there is no need to tell Fang Niannian the news, her temperament is estimated to feel that she is a drag, and she will soon return to China without treatment.

"It's okay, I guess she's tired from work."

Fang Niannian pulled her to sit down and handed her fruit to eat: "Not only that, I feel that she is a lot more negative, and her face is a little depressed."

"She even worried about my life's events, asking me if I had any good boys on a daily basis."

Fang Ci changed the subject and asked her if her condition had improved this week.

The two chatted along this topic for a while, and Dr. Yang Shumei happened to come back from Niannian's attending physician and said, "The doctor said that Niannian needs to have more contact with people and try to speak more. ”

When she struggled to make a sound, her voice was so unpleasant that Fang Niannian probably had a psychological disorder, and she only practiced vocalization when she was alone, and refused to speak even with the help of a doctor.

Yang Shumei pulled Fang Ci out alone and said, "The doctor also said that this is not her native language environment after all, and it will not help her to recover her language, so the doctor recommends that she observe for another half a year and see if she can transfer Nian Nian back to a nursing home in China next year." ”

“…… It's just that she's out of the domestic environment, so she's a lot more cheerful, and if she goes back, won't it be bad for her mental health? Fang Ci said.

"The doctor was also worried, but she still suggested giving it a try," Yang Shumei pondered for a moment, "...... After all, changing the environment is a palliative approach rather than a cure, and if you want to heal completely, you still have to go back to the old environment and face the trauma itself. ”

Fang Ci nodded, "Then let's observe for a while, Doctor Yang, please, usually bother." ”

After staying in the room with Nian Nian for a while, when it was almost dark, Fang Ci left alone.

Walking in the green courtyard of the sanatorium, I watched the patients wearing hospital gowns in twos and threes, and my thoughts wandered, and I unexpectedly saw a patient who was taking a walk in the distance suddenly fell to the ground with a weak leg, and the people around him immediately hurriedly helped the patient up and helped him to sit down on a side recliner.

Someone calls the doctor, someone tries to bring back the patient's consciousness.

After a long period of commotion, the patient woke up.

Fang Ci had palpitations.

When I returned to my residence, when I took a bath and took care of my skin, my eyes came into contact with the kerosene lamp knick-knacks at the bedside, and I suddenly remembered what Fang Niannian had compared: Qu Yingqiu's face was not good.

She couldn't help but think of the side when she saw Qu Yingqiu in China in the summer, when her face was a little strange, and she always seemed to be a little short of breath.

At this time, when she carefully recalled Qu Yingqiu's words, she realized that something was wrong: Qu Yingqiu had always been strong, and she would blame this and that when something happened, she would never be discouraged, but she was frustrated in the hotel.

She was only in her fifties, but at that time, everything was: "I am in this life."

Fang Ci suddenly had a bad guess in her heart, and she immediately sent a message to Uncle Hao, the driver at home:

"Uncle, has there been anything wrong with my mother lately?"

Beijing was seven hours ahead of London, and it was already the middle of the night.

Fang Ci was uneasy and waited until the early hours of the morning, it was morning in Beijing, and Uncle Hao's reply:

"My wife has been feeling unwell lately, so she always asked me to take her to the hospital, but Mr. Fang didn't know about it yet, so my wife wouldn't let me talk about it."

"Fang Ci: What disease? What department are you looking at?"

"I don't know, my wife didn't tell me."

No wonder.

With Qu Yingqiu's character, if it weren't for the fact that she couldn't hold on, she wouldn't have come to her for help.

It was a bolt from the blue.

Fang Ci suddenly felt that his body was weak.

Is she really going to go back to China? Back in Beijing, for that bit of property, continue to bind yourself to the rules of that circle?

She couldn't make up her mind.

Sleepless nights.

Xu didn't sleep well, and when he went to work the next day, he was groggy.

The other two colleagues of the small team had already flown to the United States, saying that they had taken over the case, and that they could only pay two people, so she was the only one left in the small team.

In the morning, she sorted out the materials and filed them, and after lunch, the assistant Wu Yishan handed her a new document.

"Sister, this is a cross-border merger and acquisition case, the acquirer is a company in Beijing, and the acquiree is a company registered in London, involving many cross-border clauses, and the acquiree invites you to be a legal consultant," Wu Yishan was very interested, "We are going to Beijing on a business trip for two months!" ”

Fang Ci flipped through it, "...... Why is there no information about the acquirer? ”

"Hey, the other party said that the project is still in the confidential stage, and we will give it after we go to Beijing for an interview."

It is not uncommon for secrecy to be maintained, but it is rare for even the lawyer hired to trust it.

Fang Ci smiled, "You tell them that we have to sign the employment contract and confidentiality contract before we can leave." If the acquirer does this, will the London company agree? ”

"I heard that they also have opinions, but the acquirer has a big head and can't twist his arms and thighs," Wu Yishan shrugged, "The London company also asked you to pick you up by name because of your background in Beijing, saying that it was to facilitate communication and ask you to negotiate a good price for them." ”

"I'm only responsible for the lack of legal loopholes, and the negotiator has to take the good price." Fang Ci said.

"What they mean is that they want you to give full play to the advantages of your fellow villagers, and if the price is negotiated, the remuneration will be doubled," Wu Yishan said, taking the contract to her, pointing to the remuneration column at the back, "Look, it is written here." ”

The remuneration is indeed a large amount.

On the same day, Fang Ci signed a contract with the company in London and decided to leave for Beijing next week.

On this trip, she wanted to take advantage of the two months to learn about Qu Yingqiu's illness by the way.

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