At this moment, Xiao Man's childish voice suddenly came from outside the kitchen door: "Dad, you bully mom!"
As soon as I heard Xiao Man's voice, An Lan and I immediately separated, both of us feeling a little embarrassed.
This is the inconvenience of having children. If I didn't have children, I might be in the kitchen with her...
An Lan fixed her hair and glanced at me sideways.
I also quickly said to Xiaoman: "Xiaoman, I didn't bully my mother. My mother's neck hurts, and she asked me to take a look at her."
"Oh, dad, let me show you the painting I drew." Xiaoman immediately raised a painting in his hand and handed it to me.
I took it and took a look. The painting should be our family of four. I was holding Xiao Man's hand, and An Lan was holding Yang Yang.
Although I couldn’t identify us by saying this, I could already guess that we were a family of four.
I turned to Xiao Man and asked: "Xiao Man, are you painting our family?"
Xiao Man nodded and said, "Well, this is the homework assigned by Teacher Liu, asking us to draw a family."
An Lan immediately took the painting from my hand, took a look at it, smiled and stroked Xiao Man's hair, and said, "Nice painting, Xiao Man."
"Hehe." Xiaoman laughed.
But I was a little dissatisfied and said: "The painting is quite good. The only drawback is that you should make your father and me taller and more handsome."
"Dad, you have lost weight..."
Xiaoman's sudden words seemed to go straight to my heart. This was the last thing I wanted to face.
Even Xiaoman knows that I have lost weight, and she can even see my current image in her mind from her paintings.
An Lan then said to me again: "Did you hear that? Xiao Mandu said that you have lost weight. Why don't you give me more food to grow back to your previous body?"
"Yeah." I nodded heavily.
But only I know that no matter how much I eat, it's already too late.
Maybe in a few months, I will lose weight even more, and even weigh less than 100 pounds.
Even if I don't tell An Lan by then, she will probably realize that something is wrong.
That night, An Lan kept staring at me and made me finish two bowls of rice and drink a bowl of soup.
In fact, my stomach can no longer hold it, but I can only act like I can still eat.
After dinner, An Lan peeled another apple for me.
After the fruit acid entered the stomach, digestion itself was not good, and I suddenly felt like vomiting.
But I still held it back and didn't show anything strange.
That night, I woke up several times with a stomachache.
I was afraid of waking An Lan, so I had to go to the next room and had a nightmare!
I dreamed that An Lan was cleaning up the room one day and found the diagnosis report from when I went to the United States.
She asked me why I didn't tell her the truth. She blamed me and cried loudly.
Dreams are always a world without logic.
In an instant, she knew about my relationship with Su Tao, and in the dream, I actually let Su Tao give birth to the child.
An Lan wanted to divorce me, so I held her hand tightly and refused to let go.
She struggled to break free from my hand, covered her face and ran forward while crying.
With her eyes blurred by tears, she didn't see a cliff in front of her, so she ran towards the edge of the cliff.
I screamed in my heart that it was bad and wanted to stop her, but my legs seemed to be stuck on the vines and I couldn't break free.
It felt like there was a ball of cotton stuffed in my throat. I opened my mouth wide and shouted at her, but no sound came out.
At this time, there was a woman behind me smiling strangely, her charming eyes staring at me and An Lan.
In the dream, I couldn't see the woman's face clearly.
Until An Lan ran to the edge of the cliff, her foot missed the point, and she screamed and fell off the cliff.
I shouted "An Lan" and suddenly woke up.
My face was covered in sweat, my whole body was covered in sweat, my pajamas were soaked through, and I was breathing heavily.
After waking up from the nightmare, I couldn't go back to sleep.
He stood up and leaned on the head of the bed, lit a cigarette and smoked vigorously in the dark, turning his head to look at the sky outside the floor-to-ceiling window.
The sky is dark tonight, without stars or moon.
I just sat there until dawn and thought about those two dreams seriously.
I think the reason why I have these two dreams is probably because these two dreams just reflect my mood, and they are also the secret that I least want An Lan to know.
The sky was still dark the next morning, with layers of black clouds piling up on the horizon.
I went to meet a client in the morning and talked for more than two hours in a coffee shop.
This customer came to invest from Beijing. After being introduced by Director Wang, he wanted to invest in a company in our clothing city.
According to what he said, the investment amount is not small, at least tens of millions.
However, his requirements are very strict. He will do this now and then do that again, and he also wants me to fully cooperate with him.
When the clothing city was founded, it was in great need of this kind of big investment, but no matter how big the investment was, it disrupted my rhythm, so there was no need to talk about it anymore.
Of course, just because the negotiation is not successful does not mean that we will not cooperate again in the future.
This is how it is in shopping malls. You can't see someone without looking up, let alone Director Wang who introduced him, so you can't ignore this customer.
I patiently drank coffee with him and listened to him talk endlessly about stocks and football.
Finally I found an opportunity and I was able to leave.
Not long after I returned to the company, the wind started to pick up. The wind wrapped in black clouds and pressed towards the city, like thousands of troops wearing black armor galloping.
In an instant, the world became darker.
There was a loud thunder, thunder and lightning flashing, and the small trees on the street reflected in the lightning were swayed this way and that by the strong wind.
This is probably the last thunderstorm this summer.
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In the afternoon, the company held a meeting about tomorrow's activities.
It was originally supposed to be held in the morning, but I went out to meet clients in the morning, so it was postponed to the afternoon.
The meeting is mainly to arrange some things for tomorrow. Tomorrow is bound to be a busy day. We even have to go to the event site to arrange the arrangements after work today.
When talking about the focus of tomorrow's work, I was a little distracted and stopped talking several times. I didn't even know where I stopped.
Fortunately, An Lan was careful and reminded me in a low voice.
Everyone may think that my performance today is a little unusual, but it's hard to say anything.
It was already after five o'clock in the afternoon after the meeting. I took Gao Sheng, Chen Dajiang, Xiao Siya and others to the event site in Repulse Bay.
As soon as I left the company, it started to rain heavily outside.
At this moment, the first heavy rain has stopped, and the raindrops have become sparse. The leaves on the roadside are rustling, and there are countless small haloes in the small puddles on the ground, spreading out in the shape of concentric circles.
diffusion.
However, it looks like there will be bigger ones later.
Looking at the dark sky, Gao Sheng sighed heavily: "The sky is really not beautiful! It has been sunny for so many days in a row, why did it choose to rain heavily when we were doing activities!"
I am also quite worried about this heavy rain, because our activity venue is outdoors, and even if there is a temporary activity venue, everything will become muddy after this rain.
Xiao Siya said: "This kind of heavy rain is temporary. I saw that the weather forecast said it will be fine. Let's go to the event venue and have a look first."
But after arriving at the event site in Repulse Bay, the scene that appeared in front of us still gave us a headache.