Chinese ship across the ocean

The next day.

Zhan Yang was tying his tie in front of the mirror, when the phone rang, Lu Shaorong was worried, he tightened his tie casually, turned around and went out to answer the phone.

Zhan Yang was almost strangled to death, and it took him a long time to relax. He noticed that Lu Shaorong's mood had been very depressed since yesterday, as if something was on his mind.

Zhan Yang was puzzled, walked out of the living room, stood behind the fish tank and listened to Lu Shaorong's phone call.

"Hey, Dad."

"Oh, Big Brother Zhan suffered an economic crisis a few days ago, and now that he's bankrupt, we may have to postpone our marriage..."

Zhan Yang: "?"

Lu Shaorong put down the phone and collapsed on the sofa laughing.

Zhan Yang said displeased: "What did you say?"

Lu Shaorong smiled and said: "I just wanted to make a joke, I didn't expect him to react so much, hahaha!"

Zhan Yang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and asked, "Your dad just hung up the phone when he heard I was bankrupt?"

Lu Shaorong smiled and nodded, picked up the phone, called back, and pressed the number while laughing. After a long time, he put down the phone again: "I don't answer the phone over there, it's so funny..."

Lu Shaorong asked helplessly: "Are you going out now? When will you be back?"

Zhan Yang replied: "Come back after finishing the company's affairs. Don't play for too long in the afternoon. Go offline early. Someone will come to the house to move materials and some documents."

Lu Shaorong said: "I won't play games anymore, just wait at home."

Zhan Yang smiled and said: "It's okay, I was just in a bad mood yesterday, I was too sleep-deprived, don't take it to heart, baby."

Zhan Yang kissed Lu Shaorong and went out to work. His business situation gradually improved. The government issued new regulations to support the real economy. He got the first revolving capital from Wuyou's order and rented the company's site again. In the past few days, several key employees have been notified one after another to come back to work.

Zheng Shiyuan went to take care of things early in the morning, and Zhan Yang was in a good mood after getting enough sleep, and started his new business.

This time it was easier than when he started from scratch five years ago, and the starting line was further ahead. During the Great Depression, many companies went bankrupt and there were not many institutions that could continue to operate. Zhan Yang keenly seized the opportunity and started his Make money.

Lu Shaorong transferred part of the money in the game to serve as their food expenses, and re-hired Jenny to come back to work—she has also been unemployed for a long time, and with a seven-year-old child, she is eating deposits every day, and life is difficult.

Lu Shaorong began to calculate the family expenses and bills, set aside part of the money to buy Zhan Yang a cheap family car, a second-hand Beetle or Toyota, so that at least he would have basic means of transportation and would not have to squeeze the subway.

The balance is less than [-] U.S. dollars, which needs to be used for the expenses of going to Vancouver, the wedding banquet, and the honeymoon... The honeymoon vacation can be saved, but the wedding and inviting guests can't be saved. What should I do if I run out of money?Enter the game to continue earning?

Lu Shaorong sighed, thinking of Sun Liang, decided to find a suitable time to go online and talk to him.

But Sun Liang didn't play games anymore. He played with a lighter and sat at the small table on the balcony all night.The sunlight came in from the window screen and shone on his fair and slender fingers.

Yawning, Stephen came over to sit across from him in his pajamas, and glanced at the ashtray full of cigarette butts.

It was still very cold in Beijing in February, and it just snowed last night. Sun Liang was wearing a snow-white scarf, with dark circles under his eyes, looking boredly at the big garden outside the balcony.

"Su Ting asked me to go home." Stephen said lazily, "She invited you to be a guest at home."

Sun Liang said: "If you don't go, don't go back either. What's the point of Vancouver?"

Stephen said with a smile: "She called Shanrou's parents and asked her to go to Canada to play for a while until school starts."

"Oh." Sun Liang was not surprised by this: "So you want to take this opportunity to formally start the pursuit?"

Stephen straightened his pajamas and said, "Come to my house to play and change your mood. You are too homey, what's the point of staying here all the time?"

Sun Liang noticed the sly smile in Stephen's eyes, and said mockingly, "You have bad intentions, tell the truth."

Stephen said: "Su Ting invited you. Her mind has always been difficult to figure out."

Sun Liang seemed to be thinking about it, and he asked, "It's time for your brother to go home, too."

Stephen shrugged and didn't answer.

"I want to open a fashion company in Vancouver, and I will go back to investigate in a few days." Stephen said suddenly: "Sun, be my partner."

Sun Liang said with a smile: "Partner? Isn't it just money, write a check for you to go home and go home, what else can I do besides playing games and killing people?"

Stephen said: "Don't say that, we are friends, right? You should come out of the game, let's go together, you can live in my house, they will welcome you."

After a long wait, Sun Liangliang nodded.

Vancouver is the industrial center of western Canada. The climate is humid all year round and the greening is well done. It is known as the city of forest arts in the Chinese circle.

Houses in Canada are not too expensive. As long as you don’t buy them in the downtown business district, most of the surrounding towns have spacious small gardens, and the rich will take good care of their villas.

It doesn't often snow in the Vancouver area. It just rained lightly the night before, the ground was wet, and the air smelled very fresh and pleasant. Zhan Yang and Lu Shaorong got off the plane, took a taxi and headed straight to their destination.

Lu Shaorong looked out from the window of the taxi, there were pedestrians in twos and threes scattered along the roadside in the west area of ​​Wenzhou City, some even came out for morning jogging, messengers rode their bicycles tinkly, and passed between the mansions lined with villas.

Zhan Yang suddenly said: "What's on your mind?"

Lu Shaorong casually stuffed a piece of mint candy into Jin Yang's mouth: "No, I just finished smoking, eat some candy."

Zhan Yang thought for a while and said, "Let's talk about it first, go back after staying for three days, I'll book a return ticket."

Lu Shaorong said: "Is that why you don't want to see my mother?"

Zhan Yang was noncommittal, he held Lu Shaorong in his arms, and made a phone call to book a ticket.

The taxi arrived, and Jill's house was a whole villa. In early spring, the garden was full of green new trees.

Lu Shaorong got out of the car, looked at the address, confirmed that this was Jill's house, Zhan Yang took out their luggage from the trunk of the car, stood behind Lu Shaorong, and said, "Go in, I will accompany you."

Lu Shaorong took a deep breath, his heart beating very violently, 20 years, what will happen to his mother in 20 years?

Lu Shaorong's trembling hands couldn't press the doorbell button outside the railing no matter what, he sighed, and for the first time in his life, he thought of retreating.

"Forget it." Lu Shaorong said: "Let's... go back."

Zhan Yang said impatiently: "What are you afraid of? I'll press it for you."

Lu Shaorong said: "No, no, let's call first."

Zhan Yang said: "I made it very clear, they should have been picked up at the airport..."

Lu Shaorong said: "Only children pick up their parents, how can parents pick up their children?"

Zhan Yang said: "Fuck my parents! Letting her come pick me up is to look down on her. I didn't see you so nervous when you came to the United States to marry me. Seeing an old mother who has not wanted you for decades is still shaking like this..."

Lu Shao couldn't bear it and said: "Can you stop reminding her all day long that she doesn't want me for decades?!"

The taxi backed up, and the driver poked his head out of the window and yelled, "Sir——!"

Zhan Yang turned his head impatiently and said, "Shutup!"

"Call!" Lu Shaorong ordered.

Zhan Yang was unhappy, and went to touch his phone, but the phone was gone.

Zhan Yang: "?"

The taxi behind him drove away slowly.

"Hey—wait!" Zhan Yang finally realized that his phone had been dropped on the car, he quickly turned around to chase after him, and left a lot of luggage and his wife at the door of Jill's house.

Lu Shaorong lost his temper completely.

"Shaorong?" Su Ting slowly opened the door.

Lu Shaorong's breath was suffocated, and his heart was blocked: "Mom? Is it mother?"

Su Ting is over forty years old, but she doesn't look old at all. She is well maintained, wearing a well-tailored light green dress, and slowly walks out of the door: "Shaorong...why don't you call us ? All of a sudden?"

Her voice was a little choked, Lu Shaorong rubbed his eyes, and said, "Just now, did you hear me talking to Big Brother Zhan?"

Su Ting nodded with red eyes, and Lu Shaorong forced himself to laugh: "He... I dropped my phone in the car, and he went to chase the car."

Su Ting burst out laughing, stepped forward and hugged Lu Shaorong, Lu Shaorong was taller than his mother, and his shoulders had a man's stable and reliable aura.

Lu Shaorong sobbed for a moment, then hugged the weak Su Ting with his backhand.

Jill's house is very luxurious. There are three floors upstairs and downstairs. The living room is spacious and bright. There are servants, gardeners, drivers, etc., and a housekeeper. Swing sets, and pool that was never cleaned.

"Mom knows you like swimming." Su Ting called servants and asked them to carry Lu Shaorong's luggage upstairs, and said with a smile, "You will live next to our room from now on, with Stephen on the left and you on the right, okay ?"

Lu Shaorong hurriedly said: "No, no, mom, I..."

Su Ting's eyes were red, and he forced a smile, Lu Shaorong's heart softened, and he couldn't say what he thought.

"I... live on the second floor." Lu Shaorong said: "Brother Zhan's voice is relatively loud, I'm afraid it will disturb you to rest."

Su Ting smiled and said: "Okay, Stephen will be back soon, let him move down, and you two brothers can be companions."

Lu Shaorong looked up at the top of the stairs, Su Ting said: "Jill is on the third floor, he didn't know you were here yet, I told him to come down."

Lu Shaorong didn't care about it, and said with a smile, "I'll go up to see him."

Jill works at home most of the time, and the study on the third floor is where he meets guests and handles important matters. Lu Shaorong knocked on the door and heard a strange voice: "Please come in."

Lu Shaorong pushed open the door, and couldn't help being very funny. He knew Jill was a China hand at a glance.

In the study room, there are jade screens with landscape paintings, antique mahogany bookshelves all around, and Italian crystal chandeliers above the head, and the surroundings are resplendent and resplendent. Behind the desk is a large imitation of Western oil paintings——Adam lazily stretched out a finger to God.

This kind of combination is really nondescript, but foreigners are basically like this. They like to put antique vases on gold-carved Western-style palace flower stands. No matter what they match, they are all mixed together to show their knowledge of Chinese culture.Lu Shaorong has long been familiar with the strangeness.

Jill is a white man in his 50s. His hairline recedes slightly, and he casts a gentle gaze through the glasses, saying: "Shaorong? Why didn't anyone notify me that you are coming."

Lu Shaorong smiled and said: "Yes, I just got off the plane and decided to come over to see you last night. It was too late so I didn't call in advance. Hello, Dad."

Jill hurriedly got up to shake Shaorong's hand, and someone knocked on the door outside the study, and Su Ting's voice said outside the door: "Then... why don't you take a rest first?"

Before Su Ting finished speaking, Zhan Yang had already opened the door.

"I... I'm back..."

Zhan Yang was out of breath from running, and managed to get his phone back, still wearing the wide pair of sunglasses, bowed and panted for a moment, straightened up, looked at Jill, he was like a gangster, he forgot his sunglasses Take it off.

Lu Shaorong pointed to his eyes, showing his understanding, he took off his sunglasses smartly, stepped forward and said, "Hello, Mr. Jill."

Jill looked at Zhanyang for a moment, nodded, and shook hands with him.

"Then we..." Zhan Yang clapped his hands, stretched his arms, and wanted to embrace Lu Shaorong with one hand, and touched a cloisonne vase with his elbow.

"do not move!"

Lu Shaorong quickly turned around and took a dive to catch the cloisonne that fell to the ground.

Lu Shaorong put the things back to their original positions, and said with a nonchalant smile, "Go down and sit for a while."

"From now on, you will treat this place as your own home..." Jill walked down the stairs slowly, smiling at Lu Shaorong.

Lu Shaorong said awkwardly: "Well, I may not be able to live for a long time..."

Su Ting smiled and said, "Aren't you willing to live with your mother?"

Zhan Yang finally said, "That's not the case."

He stopped at the stairs on the first floor, put his hand into his suit pocket, and took out a red invitation card. Lu Shaorong secretly sighed that this guy is so incompetent!

"Half a month later, I want to hold a wedding with Shaorong. After the marriage, he promised to live with me. You are his mother. This time, you are here to inform... No, please agree to our marriage." Jan handed the invitation to Su Ting.

Su Ting frowned, pursed his lips and refused to accept the invitation.

Jill said: "This..."

Su Ting said: "Mr. Zhan, I still have something to say about Shaorong..."

Lu Shaorong smiled and said, "Mom, Big Brother Zhan and I have already registered. This time, I just want to invite you to go to the United States for a walk and attend our wedding by the way."

Su Ting interrupted: "I have no objection to your marriage, but marriage must be based on his consideration. No one wants the situation of inequality between the two parties after marriage..."

Zhan Yang raised his eyebrows slightly, and the doorbell rang at this moment.

Jill said: "Okay, let's talk slowly, don't rush for a while."

Lu Shaorong smiled and said, "I'll open the door."

He took Zhanyang's hand, went down the stairs, took the initiative to walk towards the porch, and whispered: "Let me handle it, how can you talk to her like this?"

Zhan Yang replied in a low voice: "I really don't know where she came to see that we are not equal. You have to be tough when dealing with this kind of people, you don't understand."

"You are mine in the first place, so what does it matter? If you show the slightest desire to ask her, she will ask endlessly..."

Lu Shaorong didn't bother arguing with him about the term "this kind of person", and he didn't want to remind him that the phrase "it's mine" has already given up on the precondition of "inequality".

He opens the door.

"Surprise—!" Zoe laughed.

Lu Shaorong: "..."

Sun Liang lazily said: "Surprise, third child."