Late at night on December 24, Wang Ai, Liu Liang, Li Jun, Liu Guanchang and another staff member of the Youth Foundation quietly drove into Beijing in a van. When they dropped off the two people near the Youth Foundation, Liu Guanchang
He turned around and said, "Xiao Wang'er, you have done a great job."
Wang Ai forced a smile, got out of the car and shook hands with the two of them respectively: "Because of me, I bother you to suffer the consequences for three days."
The cadre of the Youth Development Foundation shook his head: "It's hard to talk about it. Like you said, this is a baptism of the soul and a profound education. For you and for us."
Several people shook hands silently and said goodbye. They talked a lot to encourage each other in the past few days. When climbing the high cliff, when facing the rough food, and when listening to the story of the out-of-school children told by the volunteer teacher, I felt so moved.
There was nothing to say at that moment, all in the eyes of the clenched palms under the night and the stubborn eyes under the frowning brows.
After returning home, Huang Xin was still awake and had packed a table of food to entertain three tired men. Wang Ai suddenly put down his chopsticks after taking a few mouthfuls: "I can't eat when I stop drinking and throwing chopsticks."
"You eat, leave me alone." Wang Ai stood up and walked to the window, looking at the beautiful garden-like home without saying anything for a long time.
"What's wrong?" Huang Xin quietly walked to her side and took Wang Ai's arm.
Wang Ai shook his head, pushed open the entrance door, then opened the door and walked into the yard. He walked on the thin snow with his hands behind his back and his head lowered. After a long while, he looked up and saw Huang Xin shivering from the cold, wrapped in a down jacket, but still there.
Waiting for him, he quickly took two steps to hold her in his arms and whispered: "It is easy to help one person, but difficult to help the world."
"Well, you have tried your best." Huang Xin comforted.
After a long time, Huang Xin heard the man on her shoulder say: "I can eat all the property of seven or eight households of villagers in one meal, and my one piece of clothing is enough for their children to go from elementary school to junior high school. In the past three days, I feel like
I went back to the drafty thatched house when I was a kid. My school was very beautiful, there was no better house than it, but when those children walked into the school, they were like beggars entering the palace. I originally thought I had done a lot
, in fact, all I did was build a house there alone.”
Feeling the violent fluctuations in the man's emotions, Huang Xin hugged the man with her backhand: "The country is too big, and our personal power is very small."
"Yes." Wang Ai hugged Huang Xin tightly, then relaxed: "Yes."
"I said, if I plan to become a volunteer teacher, would you agree?"
Huang Xin raised her head and looked at the man. She saw something called idealism in the man's eyes, and then smiled: "Remember to take me with you when you go. I have a teacher's certificate. According to the regulations, you can only be a teacher."
My teaching assistant.”
Wang Ai laughed twice, rubbed his eyes, and looked at the gloomy Beijing night sky with his hands behind his back: "I found that my thoughts are still poisoned by the resurgence of exploitative ideas in recent years. You are one of them. I knew it before.
. This time I discovered that the starting point and purpose of many of the things I did and considered were still wrong... It still makes sense not to let me become a party member. My thoughts are not pure enough, and many things..."
"Do you miss Bai Fangli and Cong Fei again?"
"Yes." Wang Ai's shoulders relaxed and he raised his hand to stroke the quiet dwarf pine: "What great people they are. If they were me, they would definitely be able to do more."
Just as he was talking, the door to the back room opened and Li Jun came over: "Wang Ai, don't think too much. Things have to be done bit by bit. You can't eat well or sleep well these days. Stop thinking about it."
Isn’t it the Asian Cup in half a month? Don’t make any problems."
Liu Liang nodded: "That's right, you won't become fat after just one bite."
"Yes." Wang Ai nodded: "You guys go and rest, I remember."
At dawn the next day, Wang Ai was awakened by his son's cry. He opened his eyes and saw Huang Xin coaxing him, and said slightly tiredly: "You got up twice in the middle of the night?"
"Well, it will be fine after a while." Huang Xin coaxed the child: "Why don't you go to Leonie's place to sleep at night? The child is always fussy and you can't get a good rest... You are no better than me. I can do nothing now.
You can’t catch up on your sleep during the day, and you can’t do it if you don’t get enough rest.”
Wang Ai nodded deeply and sat up: "Then we have to calculate the time."
"What?" Huang Xin, who was nursing her child, asked subconsciously.
"I calculated that our son rings once every three hours on average. If we hurry up, you can still rest for more than an hour."
Huang Xin said angrily: "You think our son is an alarm clock, and it goes off every three hours?"
Wang Ai chuckled and got out of bed: "That's it, you feed our son and I'll feed you."
Huang Xin held the child and leaned against the crib: "Have you rested? Are you still thinking about going to teach?"
Wang Ai was stunned for a moment and shook his head like a rattle: "I'm crazy if I don't go. I should do something more useful."
"for example?"
"For example..." Wang Ai got out of bed, made two casual breast expansion movements, and walked to the bathroom while saying: "Hulbert and Schlapner have been here for two days, right? I will order more, even if
1% more is equivalent to me working as a support teacher for a thousand years! Just look at it, I will definitely not let Adi leave until I peel off a layer of skin this time!"
Huang Xin couldn't help laughing when she looked at the man's back, which made Xiao Wang Sheng grin in protest.
After a while, Wang Ai came out full of energy, with a little drop of water on his head: "Are you going?"
Huang Xin shook her head: "Children can't live without people, just let Leonie go. By the way, are you ready to sign the contract today?"
Wang Ai took the coat and put it on Huang Xin, put on her hat, went out and called Leoni, and they got in the car and went back to Dongcheng District for breakfast. There was a chef at home there, but not here. After getting in the car, Wang Ai continued.
: "Hulbert came in person and was very sincere. The preliminary negotiations are almost complete. Besides, it will expire in one month, so we can't delay it any longer."
Leonie took out the negotiation information from her bag, and the three of them looked at it and talked, and then they arrived in Dongcheng District.
On this trip, Chairman Adidas personally came to Beijing to find Wang Ai. On the one hand, Wang Ai sat firmly on the Diaoyutai and took his time. On the other hand, Nike's ambitions were pressing harder. Only at the last moment did Adidas realize that the bargaining chip in his hand was not as expected.
So many. In the past few days, Wang Ai went to Taihang Mountain for "further study", and Schlapner organized a large negotiation team to go back and forth with Hulbert's Adidas team at the Beijing Hotel.
Fortunately, the conversation was almost over in the end, and we just waited for Wang Ai to come back and shake hands and take a group photo.
The three days when Wang Ai disappeared were also considered by the Adidas team as a means of asking for a price. Only Schlapner knew it was not the case. Otherwise, he would not have called Wang Ai like crazy yesterday: Just stretch it out and it will be fine.
, it will break if it is stretched too hard.
"320 million euros in five years?" Ai Xiaoqing put down the documents at the dinner table and asked in surprise: "So high?"
Wang Bin also put down his chopsticks and took the document: "I remember the last time we cooperated, wasn't it 17 million a year?"
