Ode to Joy clearly loves you

Five p.m.

Tan Zongming sat in the car and watched her coming, thinking that after all, she didn't agree to him face to face, this place is not far from her company, and he didn't intend to show his face; compared to the past lovers, Ming Zhen is more independent, no matter where she comes from He said, thinking about this, he didn't get out of the car, and he could still see everything outside clearly through the dark windows from the outside.

Seeing her standing in front of the car door, her clothes are simple and smart, but the cuffs of the white shirt are decorated with bowknots, Tan Zongming knows so clearly because Ming Zhen didn't open the door immediately, but used the dark car window as a mirror to fill up her lips Makeup: Knowing that she is in the car... Looking at it, she pursed her lips and sucked at the car window, Tan Zongming felt helpless at her deliberate little teasing.

Then she moved to the driver's seat and tapped on the window lightly.

Tan Zongming's driver couldn't help turning his head.

Tan Zongming nodded: she must have told the driver the address.

The driver opened the door, got out of the car, and he returned to his job after a while.

Only then did Ming Zhen open the rear door, sit in, and close the door.

The driver started the car.

"Today's work is finished?" Tan Zongming couldn't help but move his eyes to her lips, which were actually colorless.

Ming Zhen's lips moved slightly, and her eyes turned, "Of course, today's business is over today." The corners of her mouth turned up, "Don't look at anything wrong, don't move, and don't move in your heart." That look conveyed a kind of "don't think I don't know what you're thinking . '

"I was caught off guard." Tan Zongming smiled wryly, and felt very sweet because of her little willfulness, because she would not easily reveal her feminine side.

"That's right, Tan is always a gentleman who has had a lot of wine and meat, and the Buddha left in his heart, a little girl with a small belly and chicken intestines to measure the belly of a gentleman." Ming Zhen Ming praised, "I'm rude."

Tan Zongming heard her allusion, "It turns out that 'wine and meat pass through the intestines, and the Buddha's heart stays' in your mouth, Miss Ming, is equivalent to 'passing through thousands of flowers, not a single leaf touches'."

Ming Zhen wrote it cleanly, "You said it yourself, honesty, bonus points."

Tan Zongming squinted his eyes, "Should I follow up with a sentence, if you are not an honest gentleman, you will lose points?"

"Then do you want to lose weight?" Ming Zhen frowned.

Tan Zongming pretended to think for a while, "Punishment for losing points?"

"Out." Needless to say.

Tan Zongming caught the loophole in her words, "Then it's the In stage now?"

"How can Mr. Tan not understand such a simple question?" Ming Zhen leaned on the back of the chair and looked at him sideways, "You are a legend in Shanghai, you are extremely smart."

Tan Zongming thanked Bumin, and pretended to be displeased not to look at her, "It's definitely your wish? The secret love is fake!"

"Who made you so good, even a side face is so charming." Ming Zhen said so seriously, "Good face, long legs, beautiful fingers, beautiful voice, hey - now even a side face is so charming At that time, Qu Xiaoxiao fell in love with Zhao Qiping just because of one side, I didn’t understand it, but it turned out that it would be worse than me.”

Tan Zongming will not be fascinated by her unreasonable praise, "Mr. Ming has nothing to do."

"Is Tan always showing off? Are you still arrogant?" Ming Zhen smirked, "Has no ex-girlfriend praised him? It shouldn't be, are they all blind?" Feeling sorry for him.

"Mr. Ming's eyes were not good a few days ago, and the scars in my heart can't fade even now." Tan Zongming also poked at her.

"Hearing that Mr. Tan has traces of me in his heart, bonus points." Ming Zhen's eyes brightened, "Don't you think that suffering will come naturally?"

Tan Zongming couldn't help imitating her by leaning on the back of the chair, "So, it's Gan Lai now?"

"It's exhausting now." Ming Zhen corrected, "Give me a few more days, okay." The latter sentence seemed to be pleading.

Tan Zongming knew that she still had knots in her heart, not on his part, but on her own, but she had confidence in her, "That's 172800 seconds." He raised his hand and put his palm in front of her.

Ming Zhen didn't put her hand into his palm, "The fingers are beautiful, and the hands are also beautiful."

"Pretty is the description of a lady, but I accept everything from your mouth." He went to shake the hand that was reluctant to extend "Ming Zhen, don't be afraid!"

Just two short words pierced Ming Zhen's heart, she couldn't help moistening her eyes, pursing her lips, biting her lips, looking at Tan Zongming who promised herself with a smile, and after a long while, she closed her eyes and nodded, "Yes."

……

The car drove into a private iron gate in a prime location in the downtown area. After entering, the iron gate closed automatically again, isolating all the noise from the door; because there was only one road, the car kept moving forward and opened slightly. A few minutes later, the car stopped at the gate of a white western-style building.

After the car stopped, someone came up and opened the door.

Tan Zongming got out of the car and looked around a little.

"Miss Zhen." The person who opened the door nodded respectfully to Ming Zhen.

"Hello, Li." Ming Zhen got out of the car and looked at Tan Zongming who was looking at the place.

Tan Zongming looked at this western villa that seemed to have a heavy sense of history and a little luxury, "I heard that the Ming family has a former residence in Shanghai, so it can't be here."

"It's a separate residence. This is a wedding gift from my great-grandmother's father when my great-grandparents got married. It has always been my family's separate courtyard." Ming Zhen didn't hide it. I will live here, but the utilization rate is not high." Invite him to enter together.

Tan Zongming entered this white building together with her, and the space suddenly opened up when stepping into it. It was a large living room. The decoration was not complicated, but it had the style of old Shanghai. The crystal lamps were not too bright. A sense of extravagance and laziness.

"Mr. Tan, you are very welcome to Ming's Bieyuan. If you have any needs, you can tell me. I am the housekeeper of Bieyuan, Huang Xin." The housekeeper stepped forward.

Tan Zongming also nodded slightly, "I am also honored to be invited here, thank you."

"Please rest for a while, can I eat in 15 minutes?" Huang Xin asked Ming Zhen very respectfully.

Ming Zhen was also very polite, "Okay, thank you for your hard work."

"This is what I should do." After Huang Xin nodded to the two of them again, he backed away.

Ming Zhen put down her bag, "Do you want to take a tour?"

Tan Zongming's eyes fell on a painting in the living room, "This is?"

"It's He Yunli's painting, a gift from one of my elders." Ming Zhen also looked at the painting, "I rescued an elderly man on a plane on a business trip, and he insisted on giving me this painting. I sent it back two or three times and he sent it back in person, there is really no way.”

"He Yunli's paintings are invaluable now." Tan Zongming is very aware of the value of such a large painting. "This elder is generous enough." The elder she rescued was Wei Guoqiang, but he gave her He Yunli's painting?Wei Guoqiang is so generous... He Yunli?He Lichun?It seems that Lao Yan has to check again.

Ming Zhen didn't think anything "I think the value of a painting is not entirely in the price, but whether the message conveyed by the artist through the painting can resonate with the world; everyone says how beautiful the paintings of Monet and Van Gogh are, I don't think so." I prefer Chinese traditional paintings, which only use the depth and depth of ink to outline the various states of life." She once saw a painting that touched people's hearts. A very meaningful landscape.

Tan Zongming turned his head, "No matter how valuable He Yunli's painting is, it cannot be worth the grace of saving your life. Your kindness will be rewarded."

"Don't ask for good rewards, but the situation at that time was really unbearable." Ming Zhen led him back, "Why? You still invest in paintings?"

"I am interested in making money." Tan Zongming did not hide his liking for these things, he is the first generation to accumulate wealth, not the fourth generation like Ming Zhen who can enjoy the privileges brought by wealth since childhood "May I introduce you? "Walking side by side with her" This horse riding sculpture is actually here." More than 2300 million sculptures finally landed in a corridor of the Ming Family Courtyard, which is full of low-key luxury.

"As an investor, no; as another capacity, I'll think about it." Ming Zhen also looked at the sculpture, "Do you like it?"

"It was a very hot thing at the time." Tan Zongming followed her and entered a large restaurant. "How big is this place?"

"5.69 acres, a three-story main building, a two-story auxiliary building, the building has an area of ​​1560 square meters, and behind it is a garden and a tennis court. You know that's how old villas are. A swimming pool is not a standard feature." Ming Zhen walked in In the dining room, he turned his head and smiled slightly to invite him to sit down. "Before it became the wedding gift of my parents, it belonged to the teachers of my parents. The relationship is quite complicated, and I can't explain it for a while."

Tan Zongming sat down, the dining table was rectangular, so there would be no problem for ten people to dine together, "This place is really nice." It seemed to have the lazy and extravagant atmosphere of the 30s, but it could be seen that the owner wanted comfort first.

Speaking of family, Ming Zhen relaxed a lot, "My second brother's masterpiece, he is a design madman, he is a student of architecture, although he has taken over the family's affairs in Europe, but in his spare time, interior decoration, clothing, jewelry, completely different. He has been involved in all kinds of industries, and he will make things he likes; I have many clothes, shoes, bags and jewelry designed by him, and he will consign and deliver the clothes for every season and season, and match them for me, saving money. It's done me a lot."

From this, Tan Zongming understood that her elder brothers really loved her very much.

Someone poured them wine, served food, and then withdrew.

Tan Zongming didn't immediately talk about the topic of today's visit, "How is liquor?" He was a little surprised at today's wine, "How much can you drink?"

"Well, not a lot, I just think Chinese food should be paired with white wine, let's have a drink." Ming Zhen raised his glass, "You can." It's a small wine cup.

"Anything you want." Tan Zongming also toasted naturally, "Well, good wine, such a good baijiu is hard to find nowadays." It's not that you can't find it, but you have to ask someone to find it. Naturally, the longer the wine is, the more mellow it is. He has drunk a lot of Moutai , but so mellow only three or four times.

Ming Zhen played with the wine cup for a while, "If you have a heart, you can't find it. There is a huge crowd, so you can find it too."

Tan Zongming put down the wine cup, "So the DNA result is a match?"

"It's definitely a blood relative." Ming Zhen nodded, "Then what do you want to do next?"

"Shouldn't it be a family reunion?" Tan Zongming remembered that Xiao Ming's custody was in Ming Zhen's hands. "Or do you still have questions?"

"I'm not curious, it's just a habit of doing things; I don't want to find out about Andy's past, because it's her personal privacy, and everyone has some secrets that are hard to tell." Ming Zhen showed a helpless expression "But, this time Everything is related to Xiao Ming, so I have to be cautious; in fact, not only Xiao Ming, but every child protected by the foundation is handled in this way. Of course, I haven't explored through certain channels, because Andy is my friend."

Tan Zongming looked at her quietly, admiring her prudence and earnestness, she was not in a hurry to push a child like Xiao Ming back to his so-called blood relatives, after all, such a child is not a treasure.

"You are one of Andy's most trusted people, may I know something from you that I want to know?" Ming Zhen expressed her position.

Tan Zongming raised his hand, "You ask."

"Andy is his sister, but from the conclusion of DNA, isn't he a father?" Ming Zhen noticed a lot of numbers in the report.

"According to my investigation, they are not a father." Tan Zongming gave a clear answer, "Andy's grandmother and mother seem to have some mental problems, the same problem as Xiao Ming, or it can be said that Xiao Ming's current problem is the same. source."

Ming Zhen nodded slightly, "The family inheritance seems to come from the maternal line, which means that Andy will also face the same problem, but she doesn't have symptoms like Xiao Ming's?" Andy is also a direct lineage, and it is likely to be inherited.

Tan Zongming looked stern, "Yes, but I don't think such a situation will happen to Andy, she is a very calm woman."

"Before I met you, I had just finished a consultation with Xiao Ming's attending doctor. I also asked about direct genetic inheritance. It should be said that Xiao Ming's symptoms did not appear until the age of 30. There are not many cases of reappearing after that, but Andy It still has a 44.62% incidence rate, this..." Ming Zhen can hardly imagine that Andy will have such hidden worries. "From the standpoint of Xiao Ming's guardian, I don't want Andy to recognize Xiao Ming."

"Worried that once Andy gets sick, the siblings will be in a state of confusion?" Tan Zongming did not immediately refute.

"Yes." Ming Zhen is very serious, "I have to think more about Xiao Ming's state; you said Andy won't get sick, but you are not a doctor, and even the doctor doesn't know what will happen to Andy in the future. Strange triggers may lead to Andy's illness, once she has a problem, she can't guarantee her own survival, how to ensure Xiaoming's daily life and safety?"

"Actually, I am also worried about what you are worried about." Tan Zongming put a piece of fish on her plate for her, "Ming Zhen, but I also think this level of worry is completely unnecessary."

"No need?" Ming Zhen didn't understand.

Tan Zongming himself ate a piece of fish, chewed it slowly before saying, "Yes, no need."

Ming Zhen took advantage of this gap to think for a while, "You mean that you don't rush to return Xiao Ming's custody to Andy, but let their siblings live together, and take Xiao Ming back if there is any problem?"

"Xiao Ming's condition tends to improve, but I think there are still some deficiencies if he really wants to live independently." Tan Zongming is exactly what he meant. Don't return it, I think even if Andy knows she won't object." Because you told her with your actions that you are trustworthy in this regard" Andy said that she will live with her brother when she finds him, whether it is Whether you go back to the United States or stay in China, you can get news from Xiao Ming at any time, so you won’t be worried that you won’t be able to guarantee your survival when both of you have problems.”

Ming Zhen didn't speak, but lowered her head and ate the fish he gave.

"Andy has been alone all these years." Tan Zongming told her about Andy's past, "She doesn't like to interact with people too much. Although the work is done very well, almost no one can enter her private life. Life; her only concern is her younger brother. This time I called Xiao Ming back 80% of the factors; this time I went to the nursing home and found that the future of these children is worrying. I know you are not afraid of burdening them, but thinking of Those lovely children can only live in a nursing home for the rest of their lives, which is really unbearable; now that Xiao Ming has a chance to live with his relatives, don't you want him to get the care and warmth of one more relative?"

Ming Zhen was noncommittal, put down her chopsticks, and took a deep breath, "Well, I will be there when you tell Andy the news." I'm really not sure. "To be honest, I don't have much confidence in Andy's emotional changes, I remember The last time she left your house she was completely pale and drank water the entire way."

"This is her way of controlling her emotions." Of course Tan Zongming was aware of Andy's habit. It was also at that time that he felt that her beauty was dazzling, not the beauty of her face, but an indescribable brilliance.

"I know." Ming Zhen gave him a piece of steamed meat, "So I'm worried that she won't be able to control her emotional ups and downs after hearing the news. If she drives for several hours to see Xiao Ming in this state, I can only ask the staff to take her away." Blocking the outside of the nursing home, and this move will inevitably aggravate her already unstable emotions; I don't think you would like to see any problems that we don't want to see in your old classmates and good friends that you trust and have known for a long time."

Tan Zongming ate some tamales and it was really delicious. "Andy is lucky to have a friend like you."

"Actually, this is also my small selfishness. I don't want any external factors to affect your unresolved confession." Ming Zhen took a sip of Moutai, "I can't make you take back those words."

"If you want to take it back, you won't take such painstaking efforts." Tan Zongming showed off his face because of her words. "Okay, when you have time, I think it's more convenient to stay at my house."

"It's so far away." She pretended to show disgust, "I won't go."

"Really not going?" Tan Zongming supported his head with one hand, "Okay, if you don't want to go, you won't go, I'll listen to you."

"We met today, do you want to meet again tomorrow?" Ming Zhen also supported her head with one hand: Today is Tuesday, and his appointment is Wednesday.

Tan Zongming moved his jaw, "Do you like dance drama?"

"I like it, what good dance dramas are there recently?" Ming Zhen put down her hand, put a bowl of soup in front of him; she really didn't know.

"As long as you like it, I'll pick you up at 7 o'clock tomorrow night." Tan Zongming put it off, picked up the bowl and drank the soup, "Soup, not bad."

Ming Zhen didn't ask any further questions, she filled a bowl of soup for herself and took a sip, "Is this not bad? The heat of the stew is not enough, next time, next time I will make soup for you to drink."

Tan Zongming pursed his lips and smiled beautifully, "I have finally asked you to say this, then I will just wait."

Ming Zhen readily agreed, "Not only this thick soup, but also sweet soup, I can cook very well, can I eat sweet ones?"

"Yes, as long as you cook it." Tan Zongming actually never forgets her craftsmanship, "But you don't need to put a lot of sugar in the sweet soup you cook, because you have already fed me a lot of sugar." It's all sweet in my heart.

"Then cook tortoise jelly for you to eat." Ming Zhen said bad-heartedly, "That's right, I've been quite angry lately, and I should eat something to reduce the fire." BP's investment should change his entire acquisition progress .

"If you don't get angry, how can you get angry? You are doing so well." Tan Zongming praised, "I said I succeeded and you celebrated for me, and I naturally congratulated you for your success, so I am naturally happy when you do well. "

For Tan Zongming's open-mindedness, Ming Zhen was a little impressed. She picked up the wine cup and filled it up, then drank it all in one gulp, put the wine cup back on the table, raised her eyes, smiled and said very solemnly, "Tan Zongming, fall in love with me." , because I like you." She didn't want to miss it anymore, she was already full of liking, this time she had to face this person for herself, no matter what the future would be.

Tan Zongming also smiled and narrowed his brows and eyes, "Okay, listen to you."