Xiangzi was sleeping on Liugen's bed, and Li Chengzai hadn't woken up yet.
"Brother Liu Gen, my cousin wants us to have lunch at her house." Xia Yang did not come in after Liu Gen opened the door, but stood at the door and whispered.
She was wearing a long down jacket, a scarf, and a woolen hat, and her face was a little red from the cold. It looked like she had walked here.
Liu Gen was about to find Wen Hanmei: "Okay, please wait a moment while I change my clothes."
Xia Yang saw Liu Gen still wearing sportswear. It was cold in the winter: "It's very cold outside, so wear thicker clothes."
Liu Gen didn't have any thick clothes to wear. After thinking about it, in order to show respect for others, he couldn't go to Wen Hanmei's house as a guest and wear this sportswear. The only thing he could wear was the one he attended.
At the funeral, the suit given by Secretary Li Jiahe did not have thermal underwear. He simply wore his long-sleeved sportswear as underwear, and put on a shirt and suit. It was much warmer this way. While he was putting on his leather shoes, he heard Xia Yang outside the door and
Ouyang Xue's voice.
Ouyang Xue wanted to go out to eat with Liu Gen and wanted to talk to him alone.
When they arrived at the door of Liu Gen's dormitory, they saw Xia Yang standing there with his feet lightly tapping, his hands on his mouth and breathing.
Meeting a girl in a boys' apartment was not surprising at all. Ouyang Xue walked straight to the door of 308 and raised her hand to knock on the door.
"Someone is changing clothes inside." Xia Yang saw Ouyang Xue and felt that he looked familiar. He couldn't remember where he had seen him before, so he said with a smile.
When Ouyang Xue heard this, she thought Xia Yang was looking for Li Chengzai, so she looked at Xia Yang carefully and felt that he looked familiar: "We seem to have met there before? Which college are you from?"
"I'm from Nanhai University." Xia Yang replied, and then asked: "Are you Brother Liu Gen's classmate?"
Ouyang Xue's heart immediately lifted when she heard that the other party called Liu Gen 'brother' smoothly. It turned out that she was looking for Liu Gen. She nodded and asked, "You...are here to find Liu Gen?"
A woman's sixth sense made Xia Yang suddenly feel that the beautiful girl in front of him was hostile to him.
"I'm waiting for Brother Liu Gen. He's changing clothes inside." Xia Yang deliberately said that Liu Gen was changing clothes inside, as if he wanted Ouyang Xue to know that her relationship with Liu Gen was unusual.
Ouyang Xue looked at Xia Yang blankly, and the door opened.
Xia Yang and Ouyang Xue simultaneously glanced at Liu Gen standing inside the door.
"Liu Gen, do you want to go out?" Ouyang Xue saw Liu Gen dressed neatly and looked at Xia Yang.
"This is Xia Yang, from Nanhai University, my fellow countryman." Liu Gen introduced the two to each other: "This is Ouyang Xue from our class."
"Hello, nice to meet you, Xia Yang." Ouyang Xueluo stretched out her hand generously.
"I remembered that last time, when I came to see Brother Liu Gen for the first time, I saw you at the gate of the boys' college and asked you for directions. It turns out that you and Brother Liu Gen are in the same class. What a coincidence.
"Yes." Xia Yang held Ouyang Xue's extended right hand with both hands and said with a smile: "At that time, I still thought, this girl is so beautiful."
"I said you look familiar, but it turns out I have actually seen you before." Ouyang Xue also said enthusiastically, but withdrew her hand from Xia Yang's.
Li Chengzai and Xiangzi were sleeping, and Liu Gen couldn't let them into the dormitory. Watching the two girls chattering, Liu Gen felt particularly twisted. He knew that Ouyang Xue was here to see him, and he probably had something to say, but now he had to talk to
Xia Yang went out to see Wen Hanmei.
"Ouyang, Xia Yang and I are going out to do something..." Liu Gen said this deliberately, hoping to make Ouyang Xue completely stop caring about him.
But Ouyang Xue didn't seem to care at all. Before Liu Gen could finish her words, she smiled and said, "Really? I still want you to go shopping with me, so I'll have to do it tomorrow." The tone was very ambiguous, as if she and Liu Gen were talking.
It's lovers.
"Brother Liu Gen, why don't you wear a tie when you wear a suit?" Xia Yang also wanted to show that he had a special relationship with Liu Gen, so he stepped forward and helped him adjust the collar of his suit.
Ouyang Xue said with a smile: "Then let's go downstairs together." It was the cold winter season, but she never saw Liu Gen wearing any thick winter clothes. Knowing that he would definitely be reluctant to spend money to buy winter clothes, she felt a little sad.
sour.
Liu Gen and Xia Yang walked to Daxue Road and hailed a taxi. Xia Yang did not tell the driver about Wen Hanmei's villa, but asked the driver to go to the pedestrian street.
"Why are you going to the pedestrian street?" Liu Gen asked.
"I want to buy some clothes first." Xia Yang replied.
Ouyang Xue returned to the dormitory and saw that Wang Xia was still sleeping. She took her bag and walked to University Avenue alone, got into a taxi, and told the driver to go to the pedestrian street.
This winter seems to be particularly cold. There are many shops selling down jackets on the pedestrian street. Xia Yang specially chooses those famous brand stores to visit. Finally, in a store, he picked a men's one and let Liu Gen try it on.
Liu Gen suddenly understood that Xia Yang was buying clothes for himself, so he took her hand and walked out: "I have a cotton-padded jacket, and it's not very cold..."
"Brother Liu Gen... I didn't buy it for you. It's just that the man is about the same height as you. I just let you try it out. Where did you go?" Xia Yang shook off Liu Gen's hand and said.
Xia Yang's words made Liu Gen very embarrassed. It turned out that he had thought wrong. He chuckled and returned to the store with Xia Yang.
Ouyang Xue also wanted to buy a men's down jacket. When she went to the store where Xia Yang and Liu Gen walked into, she happened to see the two people pulling at each other. She understood in her heart that Xia Yang was buying clothes for Liu Gen and thought a little.
After a while, she stopped visiting the down jacket store.
Liu Gen tried several items, and finally found one that Xia Yang was satisfied with.
Liu Gen wanted to take off his down jacket and hand it to the salesperson to put in a bag. After Xia Yang paid the money, he took out the clothes.
"This is my New Year's gift to Brother Liu Gen." Xia Yang smiled and said, "Put it on quickly." He said, putting it on Liu Gen.
"Didn't you mean..." Only then did Liu Gen realize that he had been 'fooled'.
"If I didn't say that, would you know how to try on clothes?" Xia Yang rolled his eyes at Liu Gen and said commandingly: "Put it on quickly!"
Liu Gen was so grateful that he almost shed tears. He originally wanted to buy a thick winter coat, but he really didn’t have any money left. Even the cashmere underwear he wanted to buy for his parents had to be withdrawn from the money because of that money.
After handing over the money, I gave up and thought about buying it for my parents next year.
"Xia Yang, thank you. I will pay you back when I have money." Liu Gen put on his down jacket and said.
"This is a gift. Who said you should return it?" Xia Yang helped Liu Gen zip up: "Quickly go, don't keep my cousin and aunt waiting."
After walking out of the store, Liu Gen put on the hat on his down jacket: "Haha...it's really warm."
"The South China Sea is humid. Although the temperature is not as low as ours, it is colder than in the north. Ordinary cotton clothes absorb water and cannot keep out the cold at all." Xia Yang held Liu Gen's arm and said as he walked: "Uncle Yang told me, Liu Gen
The money I got was illegal, and it's all my fault. I should have thought of buying you a down jacket..."
"Haha... I'm in good health and I'm not afraid of the cold."
"He said he wasn't afraid of the cold, but his hands were so cold that they lost their warmth." Xia Yang's fingers were clasped between Liu Gen's, and his fingers were cold.
Liu Gen could feel the warmth in Xia Yang's palms and said jokingly: "If my hands were hot, I wouldn't be able to warm up the dead body and bring it back to life."
"Don't try to scare me with dead people!" Xia Yang pointed his finger more forcefully: "I don't care!" She meant that she didn't care about Liu Gen's work.
The two of them no longer took a taxi. It was not far from Wen Hanmei's home, just a few bus stops away.
"Xia Yang, should I buy some fruits or other gifts?" Liu Gen asked.
"No, we are both students, and there is no shortage of fruit at my cousin's house." Xia Yang still held Liu Gen's arm.
She never asked Liu Gen about him and Ouyang Xue, although she had a hunch in her heart that Liu Gen and Ouyang Xue were not as simple as classmates. Before Liu Gen took the initiative to say it, she didn't want to ask anything.
Wen Hanmei's mother cooked a lot of dishes with the taste of her hometown, and Liu Gen was not too polite, so she ate as much as she wanted.
Wen Hanmei didn't want to talk to Liu Gen about work in front of her mother and Xia Yang. She seemed very relaxed. She didn't call Liu Gen to the study until lunch, when Xia Yang was helping her aunt clear the dishes in the kitchen.
"Liu Gen, how have you considered what I told you last time?" Wen Hanmei lit a cigarette and sat on the sofa next to Liu Gen and asked.
"Xiangzi mentioned Sister Hanmei and asked about it this morning." Liu Gen knew it was time to talk about business: "I want to ask Sister Hanmei to do me a favor first."
"Just tell me, what do you need me to do for you?" Wen Hanmei stared at Liu Gen with her penetrating eyes.
"I need a large amount of money. Can Sister Hanmei give me an advance first..."
"How much?" Wen Hanmei interrupted Liu Gen.
Liu Gen thought she would waste some words, but she didn't expect that she readily agreed as soon as she proposed it.
"Two hundred thousand." Liu Gen just said it. He was worried that Wen Hanmei would think it was too much, so he immediately added: "One hundred thousand is fine."
"Are you going to treat your father's illness?" Wen Hanmei asked, "Xiangzi told me that you were going to take your father for treatment during the winter vacation."
Liu Gen nodded.
"Is two hundred thousand enough?"
"That's enough..." Liu Gen replied immediately.
"When do you want it?"
"The sooner the better."
"Uh..." Wen Hanmei hesitated for a moment, then said: "It's not easy to use the company's money. So, you tell me your account number, and I will transfer my own money to your account." Wen Hanmei said.
I mean, I have other ideas.
"Your own money..." Liu Gen was a little confused.
"Yes, the purpose of this is that I don't want to involve you in the company." Wen Hanmei smiled and said, "However, you don't have to pay me back this money, and it's not given to you in vain. I will pay for it from now on."
That part of your income will be deducted from your income. In this way, you will not have any risk. Even if the company has any trouble in the future, it will not affect your studies. Liu Gen, actually, to be honest, what you did for me,
I can definitely find someone else, but do you know why I'm looking for you?"