The Great Era of Rebirth: 1993

  Chapter 1001, the status quo, this moment, that moment (please subscribe!)

   "Here, this is the manuscript of the third part of "Twilight", you take it to communicate with Penguin Press."

  Opening the drawer, Zhang Xuan handed over the final draft to Liu Qi.

  Liu Qi took the manuscript, roughly flipped through it, then carefully put it in the bag, and then reported to him about the things in Europe.

  In the Champions League that just passed, Arsenal only advanced to the semi-finals, losing to Juventus in Italy by one goal, and failed to enter the final to join Real Madrid.

  Zhang Xuan heard neither joy nor sorrow, and was quite satisfied with the result. He just thought that there was a character like Da Luo who failed to make it to the finals, so he was a little, um, a little bit that.

   Now is Da Luo's peak period, what does the peak period mean? It means that every year will be one year less. If the historical trajectory remains the same, he will completely stop cooking in the new century.

   Thinking about it makes me anxious.

   Zhang Xuan asked: "There is a man named Ronaldo in the youth training system of the Portuguese Football Club. I told you before, have you paid attention?"

  Liu Qi smiled and nodded: "I have been in contact with him in private, but this person is stronger and has certain ambitions."

  Zhang Xuan smacked his lips: "It's a good thing to be strong, and it's easy to be ambitious. You should pay more attention to this person. When the time is right, no matter what method you take, you must get him to Arsenal."

  Hearing this, Liu Qi immediately promised: "Okay, I will take care of this personally."

Then the two talked about the publishing house. Liu Qi said that as of September 1998, Harry Potter, A Song of Ice and Fire, Twilight and Clockwork Girls, together, Zhang Xuan can almost reach 320 million pounds royalties.

  9 months £320 million.

  Compared to the previous two years, the income has dropped significantly.

   But considering the clockwork girl's decadence, and the other book markets are gradually becoming saturated, and he can still have such an income, his brows are full of joy.

  Zhang Xuan asked her: "How about Lilith and Yuan Lan's red wine estate in France?"

Liu Qi said: "At the beginning of this month, I accompanied her and my aunt to France. The situation is good. Yuan Lan is really good at managing this business. You can rest assured about that. In addition, Lilith will check in for you this time. A case of red wine produced by the winery came over."

  Zhang Xuan never doubted Yuan Lan's ability to do business. At the beginning, he asked Lilith to cooperate with her because of her ability. "That's it, I have to open a bottle later."

  When Lilith was mentioned, gossip appeared in Liu Qi's eyes: "In the past, you were afraid that your cousin and Du Shuangling would meet here directly. Why did you take the initiative to let her come here this time? Are you afraid of fighting?"

  Zhang Xuan smiled: "I understand my woman. Besides, one moment and another moment."

   Liu Qi obviously didn't believe it.

   Zhang Xuan didn't bother to explain, and said, "I haven't seen Lilith for almost half a year, and I miss her a little bit."

  Liu Qi carefully observed his expression, seeing if he seemed to be cheating, she was relieved.

  During these days, seeing that her younger sister had been staying in London and would not return to China, she secretly worried a lot for her.

  In her opinion, women and men, feelings and **** are inseparable, only talking about feelings but not sex, the relationship is easy to float.

  If you only talk about **** and not about feelings, then it is no different from selling.

   And Lilith's figure exploded, and she was in the golden age of impressing men. If you said that she would stay in London for half a year, don't say she was in a hurry. Liu Qi knew that my aunt was actually a little impatient, but it was hard to tell because of her upbringing and status.

To be honest, at first Liu Qi was worried that my aunt and Zhang Xuan would disagree on the final ownership of her cousin, but after learning that Zhang Xuan had a tens of billions investment plan in Jinling, she almost figured out the whole story. .

  She understood that my aunt had compromised on her daughter for the sake of my uncle's future.

   After chatting for a few more minutes, Zhang Xuan looked at his watch, got up and said, "The three of them are cooking upstairs, let's go and have a look."

  Liu Qi smiled: "Are you still a little worried about Lilith and Du Shuangling?"

  Zhang Xuan couldn't deny it.

  He trusts the two women, but the trust belongs to the trust, and he has to go and see.

   Lilith and Liu Qi have returned to China, and Liao Yun naturally came back together. At the moment, they are chatting with Zou Qingzhu's fiancé on the third floor while watching TV.

   "Auntie, you've worked hard all the way." Seeing that the teacup was out of tea, Zhang Xuan picked up the teapot and filled it up with insight.

  Liao Yun smiled slightly: "It's okay."

   One sentence is okay, Liao Yun took the tea and looked back and forth at Zhang Xuan.

  For the person in front of her, she always thought it was an embroidered pillow, but what happened later was beyond her expectation.

  If she had known that Zhang Xuan would have achieved what she is today, and her daughter was pestering Zhang Xuan before going abroad, she would definitely have chosen to make it happen. Even try to make it happen.

  It's a pity that time can't be reversed, it's a pity that there are no ifs in the world, every time I think of this these years, Liao Yun secretly blames her own poor eyesight and feels regretful.

   After taking a sip of tea, Liao Yun got up and walked towards the balcony, and said to him as she walked, "Come with me, I have a few words to say to you."

  Zhang Xuan and Liu Qi looked at each other, and the latter signaled him to follow. She would go to the kitchen to help watch Lilith and Du Shuangling.

  When he came to the balcony, Liao Yun put his hands on the railing, and asked straight to the point: "Are you staying with Mi Jian during the summer vacation?"

  Damn it! See this question asked!

   There is no impenetrable wall in the **** world.

  He knew that the other party had been paying close attention to his developments, and he couldn't be fooled by these things, so he immediately acquiesced frankly.

  Liao Yun pondered Xiaohui, and said: "In Shaoshi, I saw this girl for several years. I really liked it for no reason, but I didn't expect her to be confused with you."

   After finishing speaking, Liao Yun turned her head: "Where have you been?"

  Zhang Xuan and Liao Yun looked at each other. The other party was his mother-in-law, and there were some things that were difficult to talk about.

  Liao Yun seemed to have guessed what he was thinking, and took the initiative to speak again: "Tingting likes you, because I have clearly opposed Du Shuangling's existence, but you should be very clear about her temperament, and my innocuous objection is basically useless.

  I also considered using force and violence to force her to leave you, but after some consideration, I finally gave up.

I am just a daughter. If she is not happy, her father and I are at the same age. It is meaningless to make a big name. Tingting is the future of our family and the inheritance of incense in our family. I naturally hope that she will be happy. hapiness. "

  The old man's eyelids twitched wildly at the phrase "incense inheritance", and he understood the purpose of the mother-in-law talking to him.

  The reason why people talked about Mi Jian earlier, and started with Mi Jian, is to pave the way for the phrase "inheritance of incense".

   Sure enough, seeing that Zhang Xuan understood what he meant, Liao Yun decided to take advantage of the situation and pass another knife, and asked, "You and Tingting bought a house in Suzhou?"

   This time, he asked Lilith to return to China, and Zhang Xuan said truthfully, "I bought it in Gusu District."

  Liao Yun nodded after hearing this: "Gusu is a nice place."

   Then she asked: "When do you have time, take me to see it?"

  Zhang Xuan knew that although he asked "you" verbally, he was actually asking him.

   Ask him when he will have time to live in Gusu with Lilith?

   Or further understood as "When will you settle down in Gusu?"

  The purpose of asking this is self-evident, which is to urge the two to have a baby.

  Lilith is already his own woman, and he has reached a tacit understanding with Liao Yun and Wen Zheng. There is no reason to evade this matter. He counted the days and said, "My schedule is relatively full this year, and I will probably go in summer next year."

  Seeing that there was no movement on Liao Yun's face, Zhang Xuan added: "This time I asked Lilith to come back because I hope she stays in Suzhou. I often go to the Shanghai stock market, so it's convenient to go to her place on weekdays."

  Liao Yun knew that he was very busy, busy with writing, busy with business, and occasionally busy with studying. She was satisfied with this pragmatic and clear answer, so she stopped talking and chatted with him about other things.

   Seeing Zhang Xuan and his own mother on the balcony, Li Lisi's heart was in her throat.

  Although the tigers return to the tigers on weekdays, her own mother is not easy to get along with. At the same time, she also guessed the purpose of her mother's coming back this time. She was really afraid that the two of them would have differences at this critical point.

  For this reason, every few minutes, Lilith would walk out of the kitchen and take a look at the balcony.

  Seeing this, Xie Qi grabbed her and whispered in her ear: "Why can't you hold your breath? Look at Du Shuangling."

  Lilith murmured: "If I had Du Shuangling's peace of mind, I wouldn't have lost to her in the first place."

  Xie Qi couldn't laugh or cry, but couldn't help but slander: Don't you know that your man only loves big beauties? It is not enough to have her stability, but also her beauty.

   After dinner, Zhang Xuan drove Lilith, mother and daughter, and Xie Qi to stay at their home in Tianhe District.

  Before parting, he quietly told Lilith: "Take care of my aunt for me, and say a few nice words for me in front of her."

   Lilith put her hands around his neck and gave him a long French kiss, and then asked: "Is there nothing else to say?"

  Zhang Xuan sighed: "My wives are smart people, why make things difficult for me?"

  Lilith smiled like a flower: "All?"

  Zhang Xuan said like a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water: "Everyone!"

  Lilith reached into his clothes and asked, "What is your purpose for staying in the capital for so long?"

  Zhang Xuan said: "You should guess it."

  Lilith stopped the movement of her hands, and then asked: "How is the effect?"

  Zhang Xuan said ambiguously: "Unknown."

  Lilith thought for a while, pulled out her hand, helped him tidy up his clothes, and then asked him meaningfully: "I'm bored staying in Gusu by myself, and I want to go to Mijian for a while, is that okay?"

  Zhang Xuan neither agreed nor refused, but said: "After the National Day, you go back to Jinling to spend time with your parents."

  Lilith stared at him fixedly, then hooked her lips and said, "When is Mi Jian's menstrual period?"

  Zhang Xuan: "."

  Lilith snorted, hugged the pig's head with both hands and gnawed it hard, then said sourly: "In the next life, I will become a peerless beauty and let you lick my toenails."

  Zhang Xuan: "."

  Lilith took off her shirt, lay down on the bed, and asked him provocatively, "Do you dare now?"

  Zhang Xuan was about to faint: "Don't make trouble, Auntie and your cousin are outside in the living room."

  Hearing this, Lilith pointed towards the door: "I'm sorry you don't dare, get out!

   It’s really annoying to see it. Dayu used to control the flood three times but never entered the house. How are you? "

   Zhang Xuan laughed happily when he heard it, walked over to hug her, and then walked out of the room.

   Damn Hippie's! How can a man not want to meet a stunner like Lilith? It's just that the occasion is wrong!

   Is there music playing inside? Listening outside?

   Find out Yang Yongjian's number: "Old classmate, are you busy at night?"

  Yang Yongjian said with a tug: "If you fart, let it go."

  Zhang Xuan said: "Lilith is here."

  Yang Yongjian put down the work in his hand: "Come to Tianhe?"

"Um."

  Zhang Xuan didn't talk nonsense: "It's in the house opposite the shopping mall. Go and accompany her after you get off work."

  Yang Yongjian asked: "What about you?"

  Zhang Xuan said: "I have something to do."

  Yang Yongjian hung up the phone directly.

  Leaving near the shopping mall, Zhang Xuan asked Zhao Lei to park the car in an inconspicuous corner on the side of the road, and waited.

   About 2 minutes later, the phone rang.

  Zhang Xuan connected and asked: "Comrade Liu Siming, where have you been?"

  Liu Siming said: "I rushed over from home when I received your call before. I was in a public phone booth, about 30 meters away from Ion Yu's house."

  Zhang Xuandao: "You wait for me there, I will come right away."

  Liu Siming said yes.

  The distance is not far, and we will arrive soon.

"boarding."

  Zhang Xuan rolled down the car window and greeted Liu Siming who was standing at the door of the public phone booth.

  Liu Siming walked over quickly, opened the car door and sat down and asked, "Tell me, what do you want from me, you busy man?"

  Zhang Xuan asked straight-forward, "Ziyu's mother is 50 years old on National Day, and she is going to live in Shudu, do you know about this?"

  Liu Siming blinked: "I know, I remember I reminded you about this before, but you forgot?"

   "I haven't forgotten, the reason I asked is because I'm afraid you'll forget it while you're busy studying."

  As Zhang Xuan said, he took out a thick package from his backpack and stuffed it into her hand: "Help me give this to her mother, and let her bring it to Dong Ziyu."

  The thing was a bit heavy, Liu Siming asked curiously: "What's inside?"

  Zhang Xuan did not hide it: "It is a manuscript of "lurking"."

"ah?"

  Liu Siming said ah, looking very surprised: "I read the newspapers, and I heard that your things are very valuable."

  Zhang Xuan waved his hand: "Whether it's worth it depends on people. In some eyes, it's just some paper, and in some eyes it's really worth a lot."

  Liu Siming was puzzled: "Why is it "Latent" instead of your most famous "Human World" manuscript?"

  Zhang Xuan didn't expect her to ask such a question, but he still replied: "There are two reasons, one is that the manuscript of "Human World" is gone.

  Secondly, "Latent" is my work that won the Mao Dun Literature Award. It is quite famous. At present, its value is still slightly greater than that of "Human World". "

Liu Siming was a little shy: "I'm sorry, it's my fault. I read too many newspapers. Those great writers and professors all said that your "human" literature has the highest achievement and is your best representative work, so I subjectively Just, just"

  Zhang Xuan said with relief: "It doesn't matter, in fact, you are right to think so.

   But "Latent" is a work that has won the Contradictory Literature Award after all, and "Human World" has not received any awards until now. "

  Liu Siming comforted in turn: "Your writing is so good, there will definitely be awards, maybe you will win the Nobel Prize in Literature."

  Zhang Xuan smiled, didn't take it seriously, glanced at the sky outside and said to her: "Go to Dong's house, I'll wait for you in the car."

  I heard that Liu Siming opened the car door and was about to get out of the car, but turned around and asked, "Ziyu's mother will definitely ask, do you want me to tell her in detail?"

  Zhang Xuan refused: "No, just say it's something you gave to Dong Ziyu, please bring it to her."

  Liu Siming didn't say anything after hearing this, got out of the car and left.

  After more than 10 minutes, Liu Siming came back.

  As soon as she got in the car, she explained: "Auntie is too enthusiastic. I sat in it for a while, drank half a cup of tea, and chatted for a few minutes."

  Zhang Xuan hummed and asked, "Go back to CUHK, or should I take you home?"

  Liu Siming said: "Go back to CUHK, if you don't go back today, you will go back tomorrow anyway."

  The car moved, and there was a car radio inside, and no one spoke for a while.

  When Mercedes-Benz left Tianhe and entered Haizhu District, Liu Siming suddenly looked away from the window and said to him, "Before today, do you know how I evaluated you?"

  Zhang Xuan raised his eyelids and said, "There must be nothing good to say."

   "Hehe, you still know, but it's true that the evaluation is not high." Liu Siming did not shy away from this aspect at all.

  Then she said to herself: "Ziyu likes you so much, and even had a relationship with you, in order not to embarrass you, he took the initiative to go to Shudu.

  You are lucky, but you turned a blind eye to her afterwards. I was really angry at that time, angry at myself for being foolish and creating opportunities for you and Ziyu. "

  Zhang Xuan didn't answer, but just said with a smile: "Those who don't plan for the overall situation don't plan for a specific area. You have also studied history and philosophy. You have to take a long-term view, don't just look at the immediate."

  Liu Siming followed with a smile: "If you used to talk about tiger skins with me, I would have scoffed at you, but after today, I believe it."

   Then she said: "I believe Ziyu will not regret handing over his body to you after seeing your manuscript."

   Zhang Xuan folded his hands on his abdomen, muttering: "Even if I don't send the manuscript, she won't regret it."

  Liu Siming turned her head: "You are really confident."

  Zhang Xuan said: "Four years of university is an ironclad proof, isn't it?"

  Liu Siming asked: "By the way, Ziyu is interested in you. After four years of university, have you noticed it?"

  Zhang Xuan recalled: "Sometimes there is, and sometimes it is an illusion."

  Liu Siming understood: "So you just keep pretending to be stupid?"

  Zhang Xuan shook his head: "It's not about pretending to be stupid, the main reason is that it's better not to reveal this kind of thing until you are not sure.

  Actually, I quite enjoyed that kind of relationship at that time, it was very comfortable. "

  Liu Siming agreed with this: "At that time, Ziyu hid it too well. If I hadn't been with her every day, it would probably be difficult to find out."

  After thinking about it, she asked again: "Then why did you figure it out today and send the manuscript to Ziyu?"

  Zhang Xuan looked ahead and said: "Some things can be foolish for a while, but you can't pretend to be foolish forever. You have to bear the responsibility. It's just that it will be earlier or later according to the situation."

  Liu Siming listened in a daze, half-understood, feeling that he had grasped it, but at the same time felt that he had not grasped anything.

  When he was about to return to CUHK, Zhang Xuan asked, "How is Lao Wei's company?"

  Hearing this, Liu Siming, who was a little relaxed at first, instantly dimmed, "It's not very good."

  Zhang Xuan straightened up: "What's wrong?"

  Liu Siming said: "He was cheated out of a lot of money."

   "Cheated a lot of money?"

  Recalling this era of mixed fish and dragons, Zhang Xuan motioned Zhao Lei to pull over and stop, "Tell me in detail how you got cheated."

  Liu Siming opened his mouth, it was a bit difficult to speak, but finally he said: "The thing is like this."

  Listening to Liu Siming's eloquence, Zhang Xuan was speechless.

  A client likes a life of feasting and feasting, especially those girls in the nightclub. In order to win the other party, Wei Zisen invites the other party to the nightclub to play. Unexpectedly, after drinking too much, a young lady made a mess, and before she could do anything in the room, she was arrested by several men with knives. The other party kept claiming that the young lady was his wife and demanded compensation from him.

  The story is very old-fashioned and bloody, but it works in any era, and it has been repeatedly banned.

  Zhang Xuan glanced at Liu Siming and asked, "What do you think?"

  Liu Siming said: "Wei Zisen said he was framed. He was drugged by the woman, and he was taken to the room in a daze."

  Zhang Xuan asked: "Do you believe what he said?"

  Liu Siming lowered his head, and after a while, raised his head and said, "I believe it."

  Hearing this, Zhang Xuan felt very happy for Old Wei, "Where is Old Wei now?"

  Liu Siming said: "He Wanjun is looking for someone, looking for that group."

  Zhang Xuan asked: "Did you find it?"

  Liu Siming said: "Not yet."

  Zhang Xuan asked: "How much money was cheated?"

  Liu Siming said: "210,000, this is all the funds of his company."

  Zhang Xuan sighed: "Why didn't you come to me after such a big incident happened?"

  Liu Siming said: "I persuaded him to find you, but Lao Wei said that you are too busy, and you have helped his family a lot in the past, so I am too embarrassed to ask you for such a small matter, so, I did not look for you."

  Zhang Xuan was silent.

   Soon after, he took out his mobile phone and made a call. After the call ended, he said to Liu Siming, "Don't tell Old Wei."

  Liu Siming blushed and said sincerely, "Thank you."

  Zhang Xuan joked: "Thank you, I'll have another drink when you and Wei get married."

  Liu Siming nodded like a chicken cub.

  Zhang Xuan changed the subject and asked about the other people in the fellowship bedroom.

  Liu Siming said: "Liu Lin has a boyfriend who is an executive of a foreign company."

  Zhang Xuan asked: "Foreigners?"

  Liu Siming said: "No, it is from Wuxi, but he is over 40 years old."

  Zhang Xuan is not surprised, Liu Lin's outlook on money, how can she appreciate her peers?

   asked: "Does Lao Wan know?"

  Liu Siming said: "I know. However, although Wan Jun was in great pain, he didn't go to Liu Lin. He drank a few drinks with Wei Zisen and Shen Fan and he was fine, at least on the surface."

  Zhang Xuan nodded, "Where are the others?"

  Liu Siming said: "The relationship between Ou Ming and Yanhong is getting better and better. After buying the wedding house, they started to save money to get married; you know Shen Fan and Yao Meier, they still look like old married couples.

Luo Xue is a workaholic now, and has no time to find a partner; a few boys at school have chased Meijuan, but she obviously hasn't come out of Shen Fan's shadow; I won't talk about Jinyu and Ziyu, they and You can't get involved, you must know what I know; as for Li Zheng, he lost contact after he returned to Lu Province. "

   While talking, Liu Siming suddenly said: "Then Peng Shanshan, do you still remember? Your class."

  Peng Shanshan? Isn't that the big girl from the Northeast? During military training, I ate 13 fist-sized buns in one go.

   "Didn't she go back to the north? What's the matter? Do you have news about her?" Zhang Xuan asked.

  Liu Siming said: "She is married well now. She has settled down in the Shanghai stock market and has become a rich wife. It is said that the husband's family has hundreds of millions of assets, and the family imports foreign garbage."

  Zhang Xuan asked: "You know it's so far away? Who told you?"

  Liu Siming said with a smile: "Your friend is easy to talk about. Didn't she go to the Shanghai stock market a while ago and met Peng Shanshan."

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