Chapter 260 Unbearable Consequences
‘The most beautiful fireworks are produced, no matter how safe they are kept, they are just an ordinary box. Only when they encounter an open flame and are ignited can they be truly gorgeous and let people see them. '
On the way back, Lin Youyou's words were like a thorn piercing into Xu Huanshan's heart, piercing the appearance he maintained, and making his already firm heart even more shaken.
The words used to convince Lin Youyou now seem more like convincing himself.
Xu Huanshan knew that without Gu Jia, their family would not have such a good life.
Every decision she made was for the betterment of this family.
Gu Jia was motivated, and at the same time forced him to do the same. Sometimes Xu Huanshan really felt a little out of breath.
Especially when Gu Jia got to know Mrs. Wang on the top floor, seeing that others could not even tell the difference between Monet and Van Gogh, she was able to live in the top-floor mansion, so she thought about working hard to catch up with her when she was forty.
This made Xu Huanshan scared and depressed.
He knew that Gu Jia, who looked at the height of the mountain from one mountain to another, had found a new goal, but this goal was too ambitious. What kind of wealth did he have? Buying a few fake paintings or collecting a few pieces of jade from Zhou Ji With enough money, they can buy the house they mortgaged. With a business like their fireworks factory, how can it be compared with others?
After working hard in Shanghai for so many years, Xu Huanshan is very clear about the specific position of his family in Shanghai.
Riverview mansion worth 20 to 30 million yuan, the fireworks company earns 10 to 2 million yuan in income every year, he can say with confidence that their family is quite impressive among the middle class.
But Gu Jia is still not satisfied with these, she still wants better, the best!
He only looked forward with his head sullen, but he didn't know that Xu Huanshan was content with the status quo, and felt that there was no need to fight so hard.
The voice-activated light in the underground garage had been off for some time. Xu Huanshan sat quietly in the driver's seat alone, staring at the small piece of light illuminated by the headlight in a daze.
He didn't know why he was sitting here, perhaps because he felt a slight resistance to the 'home' upstairs in his heart.
Maybe it's not a conflict, but a little tired.
The transition from mental to physical is tiring.
It wasn't until the voice-activated lights above his head were awakened by another private car coming, and the originally dark garage was brightly lit again, that Xu Huanshan woke up in a daze, rubbed his expressionless face, opened the car door, and revealed a familiar face. Smile.
"Wife~ I'm back." Xu Huanshan realized that he didn't have time to clean up the clothes after returning home. He was afraid that Gu Jia would smell the perfume of other girls, so he said hello and said, "I'll wash it first. Take a bath."
"Oh." Gu Jia turned her head and smiled, then turned around and continued to organize the materials on the table that needed to be taken away.
Waiting for Xu Huanshan to come back from the shower, he said with a smile: "Why is there a sudden social meeting tonight? With whom?"
The smile on Xu Huanshan's face faded, and then he smiled again, "Well, I just invited the people in the paradise to eat. There were a lot of people and they drank a lot of wine. I remember you said that you can't eat at night. I didn't even dare to eat. Just drink."
Here it goes again, lying like a child.
Bad and clumsy.
"I said why are you in a hurry to take a shower, the smell of alcohol is gone."
Gu Jia stood up and helped Xu Huanshan pour a glass of water as he spoke, and brought it to him.
"Uh oh, yeah~" Xu Huanshan smiled unnaturally, glanced across the table, and changed the subject, "Honey, what are you up to?"
"Xiangqian's urging is rather urgent. I plan to leave tomorrow morning. No, I'm sorting out the materials." Gu Jia glanced back at the desktop, then turned her gaze back to Xu Huanshan's face, and said with a smile, "Tomorrow Let's go, do you have anything else to say?"
Xu Huanshan shook his head and said seriously, "No more, don't worry about the family, I will take good care of the family and wait for you with Ziyan."
Gu Jia took a deep look at Xu Huanshan, her eyes gradually softened, and the smile on the corner of her mouth relaxed a lot, "Look at what you said, I'm just going on a business trip, and it's not like I won't be back. Okay, let's take some time and take Ziyan to live in the mountains for a few days, it seems like he hasn't been to the mountains at his age, right?"
"Well~ okay, after this busy period, the three of us will go there together." Xu Huanshan took Gu Jia's shoulders and hugged her into his arms. Gu Jia is here.
It should have ended like this.
But how could Lin Youyou be willing to end?
She will stay, even if she resigns.
In the early morning of the next day, Xu Huanshan received a message from Lin Youyou again. The long message was full of grievances. Xu Huanshan seemed to see the bright smiling face at this moment with rain.
Xu Huanshan felt a little unbearable in his heart, sighed and deleted the text message, his fingertips hung in the phone blacklist for a long time, but finally failed to drop it.
After sending Gu Jia to the airport, Xu Huanshan immediately drove to a slightly dilapidated small hotel, dragged Lin Youyou's luggage, and dragged her out, "I've already bought the air ticket for you, I'll buy it now Take you to the airport."
"I'm not leaving!" Lin Youyou was aggrieved with a trace of stubbornness. "I can find a place to live by myself."
"Can you stop being brave?" Xu Huanshan frowned and said, "You said it yourself, the amusement park is your first job, how long will you resign? How much money do you have, enough for you to be obedient like this? Walk!"
"I do not go!"
"Walk!"
"Don't drive me away~" Lin Youyou dragged Xu Huanshan's hand, sobbing, "I didn't come here to pretend to be pitiful and beg for sympathy. I know I have ten thousand reasons why I shouldn't come. My family, friends, work I'm not here, and you shouldn't have me in your life, but I can't control myself, and all of these shouldn't be worth one you."
The two were chatting at the intersection. Zhou Ji and Si Teng, who were not far away, looked at the scene in front of them and couldn't help shaking their heads.
Sure enough, it was exactly as Gu Jia guessed.
Xu Huanshan has an entangled relationship with another girl. At the same time, it can be seen that he really wanted to cut off contact with Lin Youyou just a moment ago. Unfortunately, his indecisive character was easily shaken by the other party. belief.
"So, what are you here for?"
"Mr. Zhou! Miss Sito!"
Hearing Zhou Ji's voice, Xu Huanshan's face changed slightly. When he turned around, he saw Si Teng and Zhou Ji walking from the corner of the street in a graceful and luxurious velvet dress, and their eyes trembled suddenly.
Why are they here?
What if they tell Gu Jia?
Xu Huanshan, whose brain was almost down, looked cloudy and uncertain, and Lin Youyou, who was next to him, looked a little surprised. Seeing that the two were Xu Huanshan's acquaintances, he felt hesitant, and continued: "I won't leave. , I love Xu Huanshan. He is like that day in my eyes"
Xu Huanshan, whose mind was already in disarray, was winking at Lin Youyou crazily, signaling her not to continue talking.
If it were the two of them in the past, Lin Youyou could poke his heart directly with the sensational remarks made by fireworks, but in front of Zhou Ji and Si Teng, he was only worried about what Gu Jia would do.
"So, you know that the other party has a wife and children and still want to interfere?" Zhou Ji directly interrupted Lin Youyou, "Even if you are spurned by everyone?"
Lin Youyou looked at Xu Huanshan affectionately, nodded and said, "I am willing to give everything for him."
"Everything?" Si Teng sneered, his snow-white and slender swan neck raised, his eyes under the sunglasses were full of contempt.
As if he was in a hurry to prove himself, but also as if he knew that such a thing could not be proved, so he wanted to make a firm statement in front of Xu Huanshan. Lin Youyou nodded solemnly, and said seriously: "Everything."
Si Teng handed the parasol in his hand to Zhou Ji, then took off his sunglasses, with a look of indifference in his cold eyes, a little red light lit up silently, and disappeared into Lin Youyou's eyes without a trace.
In a trance, a slap sounded, and the voice of his father's reprimand and his mother's indisputable eyes met Lin Youyou's eyes at the same time.
"Calling you a mistress, I'll kill you shameless."
Turning her head and looking around, there was a lot of noise, her surroundings were full of people, everyone was pointing at her mockingly, among them a few women squeezed out of the crowd, grabbed her hair, and take off her clothes.
"Damn bitch! Vixen! Let you be a mistress, let you seduce men, today I will peel your skin, let you look back."
While speaking, several people rushed forward.
Surrounded by the crowd, he wanted to escape but was squeezed in by the crowd. He could only watch helplessly as his coat, shirt, trousers and the few pieces inside were torn apart and ripped off.
Pain, bruises all over the body.
Lin Youyou cried loudly, calling for father and mother, and stretched out his hand to call for help, but the parents outside the crowd were also surrounded by another group of people, pointing and insulting.
After the absurdity, the crowd gradually dispersed. In a trance, she was walking home. The relatives, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances on the side of the road were all looking at her with disgust and contempt, just like the previous group of people. Shut up, and when she turned her head again, Xu Huanshan stood behind her, looked at her extremely embarrassed appearance, and took half a step back.
"No, this is not the result I wanted! Absolutely not!" Lin Youyou squatted down emotionally and cried bitterly.
The noise of the street became more and more clear from far to near. When Lin Youyou came to his senses, he was still standing on the side of the street, watching the heavy traffic in front of him, he quickly covered his chest, and looked down at the clothes on his body.
The pain from being slapped on the face still seemed to remain. Lin Youyou took two steps back with a pale face, looked at the woman in front of him with a terrified expression, and said hoarsely, "What did you do to me?"
"It doesn't matter, the important thing is what you see." Si Teng put on his sunglasses again, and said coldly, "Just now you said that you would give everything for Xu Huanshan, and you should be with him no matter what difficulties you face. Now , do you still have the answer?"
Break the illusion and finally see the reality.
Lin Youyou's heart trembled, and when he looked at Xu Huanshan with a puzzled face, he no longer had the courage to be desperate before.
She likes Xu Huanshan mainly because he is handsome, rich, good-natured, and loves his wife. As for the fireworks, it is because the other party meets these "prerequisites", so she holds a trace of "longing" that she shouldn't have. Want to try to hook up with each other.
Bowing his head to avoid his eyes, Lin Youyou shook his head slightly.
Xu Huanshan Zhanger Monk was puzzled, looked at Lin Youyou in surprise, and then at Si Teng who brought back the sunglasses.
Miss Sito's demeanor has always been high and cold, Xu Huanshan has always kept a respectful distance, so he had to turn his attention to Zhou Ji who was standing by to support Sito's shading mountain.
Zhou Ji took the parasol that Si Teng handed over just now, but he didn't see Si Teng going back for a long time. When he was about to take the initiative to "return" the umbrella to her, he noticed Xu Huanshan's gaze and looked at him in disgust. After taking a look, she sneered and said, "Take it as hypnotism. Hypnotize her to see the price of being a mistress and destroying other people's marriages."
Si Teng didn't know what Lin Youyou saw just now, something so dirty, seeing it would only stain his eyes.
After seeing Lin Youyou's attitude, she didn't want to stay for a moment. She didn't even glance at Xu Huanshan who was next to her. She turned around and left, then paused for a step, looking at the parasol that hadn't followed.
Zhou Ji shook his head, so he held an umbrella to cover Si Teng's head, and left the place with her.
Along the way, Si Teng didn't speak. Walking beside her, Zhou Ji could clearly feel that she was in a bad mood. Zhong Xiaoqin and Gu Jia were the only friends she knew when she came here. Even though she and Zhong Xiaoqin were the closest, But the strong and confident Gu Jia is slightly similar to her in character.
It is precisely because of this similarity that she is willing to stay with Gu Jia and observe her marriage with Xu Huanshan.
However, Si Teng is by no means Gu Jia, let alone Zhong Xiaoqin. She is a smart woman, intelligent, independent, cold, arrogant, and has a great personality.
But these positive or direct personalities allow her to see many things clearly, and also make her more assertive.
She had guessed that even if Gu Jia knew about it, she would still give Xu Huanshan a chance.
She could understand, but this understanding made Si Teng feel extremely uncomfortable.
Walking on the road, he gave Zhou Ji a hard look, and Zhou Ji said innocently, "Why are you angry again?"
'again'
Si Teng was still in the fire at first, and couldn't help laughing when he heard this word, but he laughed back with anger, and looked at Zhou Ji with more and more unkind eyes, "Come and explain to me what is 'again'?"
Yes, I said the wrong thing again.
Eh? Why do you say 'again' again?
Forget it, why think so much.
Zhou Ji shrugged and smiled, "Because I seem to make you angry a lot, so I wonder if I did something wrong and made you angry again."
The anger in his heart dissipated in an instant, Si Teng laughed dumbly, and the beautiful eyes under the willow-leaf eyebrows were as bright as water, flowing with hope, with a self-deprecating smile.
"It's nothing, it's my own corner. The past is obviously in the past, so I really should let it go."
The sound of high-heeled shoes that paused sounded again, and the clear and crisp sound seemed much lighter than before.
(Thanks to 'Qingran Ruguan' for the reward of 1500 coins.)
(end of this chapter)