Volume 7 I've Been Here Chapter 0988: Confident
Hearing this, Nan Yi immediately pushed Xu Lu away from his arms, and took advantage of the situation to pull the soft hand that was holding his forearm, "Let go, let go, you want to go to heaven, not only thinking about the money I make for you, but also thinking about this piece of delicious Tang Monk meat of mine."
"I want to eat this piece of Tang Monk flesh of yours."
Xu Lu said viciously, and she rose from the ground, lunged forward, and pressed the weight of her upper body onto Nan Yi, pouting her little mouth and pressing it towards Nan Yi's big mouth.
In 1992, when Xu Lu met Nan Yi for the first time, she thought of him as just a rich man. If he wanted to treat her to a good meal, she would miss it.
When eating at the Haibahuang Restaurant in the Gexian Hotel, she treated Nan Yi as a boastful nouveau riche, and she accompanied him in bragging. It was not excessive to have a good meal. The meal cost more than 800 yuan, which was the most expensive meal she had ever eaten in her life.
Later, because of the matter of Milan International Travel Company handling the overseas travel procedures, Xu Lu felt that Nan Yi, the nouveau riche, might have some strength. Recalling that Nan Yi mentioned to her that it was easy to make money in Moscow, she was a little tempted, but for a long time, she couldn't make up her mind.
She knew what Nan Yi was thinking at the time. He was attracted by her body. Going to Moscow to seek refuge with him would be like walking into a tiger's mouth. Who knew how powerful he was in Moscow?
Later, an acquaintance came back from Russia. From the acquaintance, Xu Lu learned that it was indeed easy to make money in Moscow. Finally, she was tempted and followed the acquaintance to board the K3 train.
Unexpectedly, she was unlucky. As soon as she got off the train in Moscow, her goods were stolen. With all her assets in the goods, she had no choice but to dial the phone number Nan Yi left for her.
"Stinky man, damn man, he actually let me take the bus there by myself and didn't come to pick me up. All men are bad."
It's easy for women to overestimate themselves. In Xu Lu's opinion, when Nan Yi received her call, he should have rushed over to pick her up.
At this moment, in Xu Lu's mind, Nan Yi was just a pervert who was trying to harm her and was not being attentive.
She didn't expect the first car she found would understand where she was going, with inaccurate pronunciation and hand gestures. She got on the car, followed the car to browse the magnificent buildings, peeked into the prosperity of Moscow, and saw the prototypes of several buildings in her hometown. She sighed that Moscow seemed to be the right place.
But soon, she found something wrong. The road was getting more and more remote. The tall buildings and pedestrians disappeared. Looking at the scenery on both sides of the road, she realized that she was driving towards the suburbs.
She panicked. Many images suddenly emerged in her mind, so chaotic. In all the images, she had a common image - the victim.
Forcing herself to calm down, she recalled the scene of jumping out of a car she had seen in a video. She checked the door handle, and was about to jump out of the car to escape when a truck came towards her from the opposite side of the road.
"Luckily I didn't jump, I almost got run over by a car."
She comforted her little heart, looked forward, and carefully observed whether there would be any more cars.
After a while, there were no more vehicles in front, but after the shock just now, she hesitated and struggled again. She, she didn't dare to jump.
She was anxious, afraid that she would become a victim, and also afraid that if she jumped out of the car she would fall into a state of misery that she could not imagine.
Time passed while she was struggling. When she finally mustered up the courage to jump out of the car again, she suddenly realized that she didn't need to jump anymore - there were trucks one after another on the road, and there were also pedestrians. Their skin color was the same as hers. When she looked forward, the damn nouveau riche and pervert was standing there.
She is a coward, afraid of the unknown. When she sees a familiar person in a strange place, of course she will bully the acquaintance.
I got off the car and transformed all the grievances I had along the way into the Nine Yin White Bone Claws. This was the man who had encouraged me to come to Moscow. I wanted to cut him down and vent my anger.
Many years later, Xu Lu recalled that it was a slightly chilly noon when she ran the fastest speed in her life. At that time, her claws were only 0.001 kilometers away from the pervert, and one of her legs was 1000 microns away from her belly. She flew into the air, screamed, and fell heavily to the ground.
So unfair!
Tears were overflowing from her eyes, and were about to turn into tears when a machine gun hit her forehead.
So scary!
A warm and cool moisture seeped out from below.
When she thought that this day next year would be her death anniversary, the pervert walked up to her, waved his hand, and left like a machine gun. A nasty word came out of his disgusting mouth - I'm getting hot, and my urine is a little yellow.
"Son of a bitch."
Xu Lu was so embarrassed that she really wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
"Congratulations! Tomorrow the whole barracks will know about you. You are famous."
Nan Yi's evil voice made Xu Lu even more embarrassed. If her legs were not still weak, she would have torn Nan Yi's mouth apart.
Fortunately, the evil was intimidated by her righteousness and did not continue to wreak havoc. Instead, it took her, who had deliberately become dazed, to take a shower and change clothes, and then gave her a cup of hot tea and a plate of mushy food in an empty large room that looked like a conference room.
"Eat something to fill your stomach. Once you're full, you can go to that room and take a nap. Someone will come to call you for dinner at 6pm. What you've experienced has happened to many people before. It's no big deal. Relax, big sister. With your big brother here, you won't starve to death."
Xu Lu still felt sick when she heard Nan Yi's voice, but a warm feeling rose in her heart.
She didn't know when Nan Yi left, leaving her alone in the empty space. Feeling anxious all over, she drank a few sips of tea, finished her porridge, then stumbled into the room that Nan Yi had just pointed to, lay down in the soft quilt, and fell asleep in a few seconds.
I don't know when I woke up again. Xu Lu rubbed her eyes and looked at her watch. It was a quarter past three. "How come I only slept for such a short time?"
Muttering to herself, Xu Lu took off her watch, pinched the crown with her fingers habitually, pulled it out, and turned it to wind the watch.
This is a habit she has developed. Every time she wakes up, the first thing she does is to wind her watch.
After turning it several times, she suddenly felt something was wrong. She had just wound it up in the morning, but how come it had not been wound up after so many turns?
Xu Lu picked up the watch and put it to her ear to listen to the sound. It was quite good, with a clear rhythm. Still dazed, she continued to wind it. After the spring was tight, she put the watch back on her hand, lifted the quilt and got out of bed.
I put on my shoes, walked to the door, grasped the door handle with my right hand and turned it, then reached for the light switch with my left hand, turned off the light, opened the door, and it was pitch dark.
Click, Xu Lu turned on the light again and looked out in the light. Except for where the light reached, it was still pitch black.
"It's dark in Moscow at three o'clock?" Xu Lu muttered, and suddenly thought of Shangxian, "No, it's three o'clock in the morning now?"
Taking another look at the darkness outside, Xu Lu was more inclined to believe that it was early morning.
"Didn't you say you would call me for dinner at six o'clock?"
Xu Lu muttered again and scanned the room with her eyes. After a while, she found two rectangular objects with lamp heads on the wall behind the door. She took one off and fumbled around. She was sure that the thing in her hand was a flashlight. She found the switch and turned it on. With the help of the light, she walked out of the room and walked along the corridor to the outside.
The night sky is dotted with stars, and dim street lights are on beside the road.
"It's really early in the morning!"
After looking around for a while, Xu Lu touched her rumbling stomach and couldn't help but feel dissatisfied with Nan Yi, the pervert, "Why didn't you wake me up to eat?"
Just as she was thinking about returning to her room to sleep and resist hunger, Xu Lu suddenly saw a woman walking towards her quickly.
"Are you Xu Lu?"
"I am."
"Hello, I'm Xia Lin. I went to your room at six o'clock yesterday, but I didn't call you because you were sleeping soundly. Are you hungry?"
"I'm starving."
When people are in an uneasy state, some senses will be infinitely magnified. This is the case with Xu Lu now. She has not eaten for half a day but feels like she has been hungry for several days.
Xia Lin smiled and said, "Come with me. The food is ready for you."
Xu Lu followed Xia Lin to the reception room of the Ganfeng paging station. Xia Lin quickly prepared two packs of instant noodles, opened a can of meat and a can of fruit, a bunch of snacks, and a large bottle of kvass.
Facing people of the same age, Xu Lu let go of her reserve and ate various snacks that she had never seen before but could recognize.
While eating, she tried to get close to Xia Lin.
“Xia Lin, are you doing business here?”
"No, I work here." Xia Lin placed the enamel bowl of instant noodles in front of Xu Lu. "This is the paging station, and Mr. Nan is our boss."
"The pager's pager station? "
"Yes, we provide call services specifically for Chinese people doing business in Moscow."
"Pervert, oh no, your boss has a big business in Moscow?"
"Pervert?" Xia Lin laughed and said, "Are you mistaken? How could our boss be a pervert? We have a lot of beautiful girls in this barracks, some from China, some from Russia, and some from other CIS countries. As long as the boss wants, probably every girl here doesn't mind having something with him, but I've never seen him have anything with any girl.
Xu Lu, you are pretty, but there are many who are prettier than you in the barracks, so you should not think too much about some things. "
Xu Lu asked confusedly: "What am I thinking about?"
Xia Lin said meaningfully: "Pervert."
"Isn't he a pervert?"
"It is what you say. The boss left in the afternoon and gave me 3 million rubles. He asked me to pass it on to you and also left a message for you."
Xu Lu asked, "What?"
"If you plan to return home as soon as possible, the money will be considered a gift to you and you don't have to pay it back. If you want to stay here and do business, the money will be considered a loan to you with an annual interest rate of 30%. You have to pay him back in US dollars based on the current exchange rate after one year."
Xu Lu thought for a while and asked, "Xia Lin, how many US dollars can 3 million rubles be exchanged for now?"
On the train to Moscow, Xu Lu already knew that the ruble's exchange rate was unstable, changing almost every day.
"Yesterday's black market exchange rate was 650 rubles to 1 US dollar, which is about 4,615 US dollars. It's a considerable amount of money." Xia Lin's tone was a little sour.
"Can I change it?"
"Sure. There is a currency exchange in the barracks. Rubles can be exchanged for US dollars at any time. Take your time eating. I'll go to the office to check."
Xia Lin said as she walked out of the reception room and headed towards the office. She was the manager of the Ganfeng paging station. She usually did not have to work the night shift, but she would sleep in her office for a few days every month so that she could handle any emergencies in a timely manner.
Companies in the communications field, no matter whether they are state-owned or private, no matter which country they are in, cannot be too pure. On a larger scale, they will be involved in espionage cases and counter-terrorism, and on a smaller scale, they will often be linked to criminal activities. In addition to business, there are many troublesome things to deal with, and these things usually happen at night.
After Xia Lin left, Xu Lu began to think about what to do next.
Of course, the option of going back directly was not among her options. In order to come to Russia, she not only spent all her money, but also spent all the savings of her family. Although she not only made no loss but also made a lot of money by taking the 3 million rubles given by Nan Yi back, but what was the point of taking Nan Yi's money?
Beggar, or whore money?
She wasn't prostituted either!
Although Xu Lu was poor, she still had some integrity. She couldn't take the money and could only borrow it.
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Nan Yi put his right hand on Xu Lu's forehead and pinched her upper and lower lips with his left hand. "Little girl, do you think I'm giving you face? I told you long ago that I'm a fire pit, and a fire pit that doesn't want to accept you. Why do you have to like me when you can like anyone else? Damn it, if you didn't like me, I would have done you a long time ago."
Xu Lu shook her head left and right, shook off Nan Yi's hands that were holding her, leaned forward again, and hugged Nan Yi tightly, "You do it, do it now!"
"Get out of the way, get out of the way." Nan Yi pushed Xu Lu away again with difficulty, sat up straight, checked his face in the central control rearview mirror, and found nothing unusual. He turned to Xu Lu helplessly and said, "Stop making trouble. We are going to my classmate's house later. My wife is also my classmate. If someone finds out something is wrong and tells my wife, I will inevitably kneel on the washboard when I get back."
"I don't care. You are obviously a pervert. Why can't you be perverted to me?" Xu Lu shouted unwillingly.
Nan Yi's face straightened, "That's enough. I told you long ago that I have no plans to find another woman. Besides, you, a silly girl, don't meet my standards. You don't have to pretend. I know exactly who I am. The fact that you are favored by me, attracted to me, and admired by me shows me exactly what kind of person you are.
In the eyes of people like us, liking someone is not a lifelong thing. Keep your eyes open and look hard. You will soon find another man who attracts you and pour your love on him. "
"Brother, isn't it too much to say this to a woman who likes you?"
"Don't give me that. You have the talent of a true businessman in your bones. You are born knowing how to weigh the pros and cons. But you are still a little naive. Your love brain is not clean. Dirty things have blinded your eyes and prevented you from seeing that I am a wall. You have to bump into it and feel the pain before you learn to mature."
Nan Yi reached out and stroked Xu Lu's hair, "Don't bump into her, this is a dead end. The people I work with, I mean women, I only had sex with one of them, she was the kind of person who could completely separate feelings from sex, after sleeping with me, she met the right person and got married."
"I don't believe it. You dare to say that the woman in Moscow has no such relationship with you? Didn't she also work with you ? If she can do it, why can't I?"
Nan Yi gently patted the back of Xu Lu's head, "Silly girl, don't ask me anything just because you like me. Your "I like you" has played a huge role. If I didn't feel guilty about your love for you and provided you with a lot of help, could you have built up your business in Moscow as easily as playing house?
Those bosses in Modan Barracks, who were able to gain a foothold in Moscow, all had a lot of grievances and a lot of blood and tears in their history. "
Xu Lu said lovingly: "I know, you are very good to me."
Nan Yi said discouragedly: "It's so hard to communicate with you. I have to go to an appointment now. Get out of the car and go back to take a cold shower to cool your brain down. Wait for my call in the evening. I have something serious to discuss with you."
"Okay, big brother." Xu Lu replied softly.
"What kind of pretense is that, a pig with a green onion stuck in its nose? You are obviously a rough Northeastern woman, why are you pretending to be a Southern little bird?"
Xu Lu was furious when she heard this, and her tough nature was revealed. "Why are you talking so mean to me? Do you believe me, I will scratch your face until it bleeds?"
"I believe it." Nan Yi nodded and opened the car door. "Get out of the car now. I'll give you a good scratch tonight."
Xu Lu pulled her clothes to smooth out the wrinkles, asked Nan Yi to call her early, and then got out of the car.
After Xu Lu got off the car, the other three got on and the group went to Wu Renpin's house.
On the way, Nan Yi recalled the time he spent with Xu Lu in Moscow, and couldn't help but think of Xian Zilin and Xu Qian. All three of them were girls who liked him. Xian Zilin liked him purely and backed off easily. Xu Qian met him at the right age for love, so she was impulsive and passionate, but symbolic and could easily be replaced by a new symbol.
Xu Lu's love involves thinking and weighing, and is very purposeful. The person she likes can provide her with food and clothing. I guess she herself can't tell whether she analyzes the advantages after liking him, or likes him because of the advantages.
Nan Yi is not a cold-blooded animal, he would naturally be happy if he was liked and loved, but he has matured for several decades, and his ability to do anything for love has long been degraded. When the passion just blew on his face, his mind had already run to the time when the passion dissipated for several years.
Love at first sight, a day without seeing each other feels like a long time, all the passion and love that have not been precipitated by time are shit to Nan Yi. For him, a time-traveler who started out as a middle-aged man and is now entering old age, he only believes that "companionship is the longest confession of love."
He also has love, but his love is not passionate. It is just like a gentle breeze, blending into every aspect of life.
Or to express it with beautified words, he does not disguise himself, but directly reveals his shortcomings, allowing women to see them clearly. In the future, they will have to live with these shortcomings and question their own hearts whether they can accept them. They can only get closer if they have a positive answer.
Nan Yi even gave Liu Zhen a lot of flexibility. When Liu Zhen approached, Nan Yi said everything he should say, but she still plunged in.
After her identity changed, Liu Zhen's desires expanded. It can be said that she was fearless because she was loved. Nan Yi did not do nothing based on the initial agreement between the two. He tried his best to satisfy Liu Zhen and made himself feel guilty.
Analyzing the relationship between Nan Yi and several women from a relatively fair perspective, he is not a good husband or a good lover, and what he does is far from the standards required by the identity label, but he has done the best within his ability, kept his promises and did not deceive.
From Scarlett all the way down, he was honest with everyone in terms of emotions, without hiding anything. He told everyone in advance that there had been and would be times when he didn't have much time to spend with them.
Despite this, Nan Yi also wanted to tell himself that he had a clear conscience, but he was not extraordinary and was still bound by the secular standards of identity labels. He was very twisted when it came to women or love.
Xu Lu has certain potential, but there is still a long way to go before she is noticed by Nan Yi and included in his training. It is because of "I like you" that Xu Lu is able to fill the gap. After all, who would say bad things to a person of the opposite sex who likes them and whom they don't hate? Even the most ruthless person will generously give someone a label as a good person.
Halfway through the journey, Dagang became curious and asked, "Brother, was the woman you had dinner with two years ago?"
"right."
"Now you are... your girlfriend?"
"No, it's just that the relationship is a little ambiguous, there's nothing substantial about it. We can be said to be friends, but also colleagues. Dagang, what does your wife do?"
"I'm working outside every day, so I don't have time to date, let alone find a wife. I hooked up with one last year, but we broke up within two months because she complained that I didn't have time to accompany her. I think those of us who drive taxis don't deserve to have girlfriends." Dagang said self-deprecatingly.
"Haha, don't blame your job if you can't find one. Everyone knows that driving a taxi can make a lot of money. Taxi drivers are very popular in the dating market. If a matchmaker has a few taxi drivers in her hands, which girl's house will not be able to eat canned yellow peaches?"
Since the mid-to-late 1980s, canned yellow peaches have had a very special meaning in Northeast China. They are miracle drugs that can cure all mute diseases. If a child has a cold, open a can of yellow peaches, and the child will immediately feel full of energy after eating it. If a child sprains his leg, open a can of yellow peaches, and the child will immediately feel full of energy after eating it.
At the same time, canned yellow peaches also carry a highly contagious bacteria. If canned yellow peaches appear in anyone's home, the children will get sick within two days.
It is also a gift that represents high respect. When you go to the girl's home for the first time, if her parents open canned yellow peaches to entertain you, don't hesitate, just call them mom and dad.
Dagang chuckled, "That's right, it's still my own fault. I'm just a jobber like me, and I hooked up with two other people. Both sides knew about each other's existence, but they didn't fight."
"Dagang, have you bought a house?"
"I bought two sets, one for my parents and one for me, across the street."
"Oh, where is the house?"
Nan Yi was a little disappointed. Why did he buy it? This didn’t give him the chance to do him a favor.
"In the Qishan community in Huanggu, there are commercial houses. I asked someone to help me pick out two good ones. They are not cheap, 1,400 per square meter."
"It's OK. For you, two houses will only take two or three years. I tell you, welfare housing will soon be discontinued. In the future, if you want a house, you have to buy commercial housing. The housing prices will definitely go up. Your two houses will easily increase three to five times in the future."
"Brother, can it really go up?"
"Whether the price will go up or not, you can figure it out by yourself. In the whole Fengtian, except for the workers' quarters which are considered the rich area, how many families don't have several generations living together? Now how many girls want to live with their families after getting married, and they are trying every possible means to move out.
If you don't have a house in the future, it will be difficult to find a wife. Dagang, you are really not good with women. You drive a taxi and have a house, but you can't find a girlfriend?"
"Hehe." Dagang laughed twice to cover up his embarrassment, "Brother, according to what you said, if I still have money, should I buy a house?"
"Buy it. Think about buying it along the subway line."
"Subway?" Dagang asked in surprise, "There's no subway in Fengtian."
"Are you from Fengtian? It's been decades since the Japanese wanted to build a subway. Construction has been started and stopped countless times. Don't you know that Fengtian has always wanted to build a subway?"
"I know that. They said they were going to repair it two years ago, but there has been no progress."
"Now that you know this, it's easy. Find out where the subway lines are planned, and then, based on the current urban layout of Fengtian, try to buy a neighborhood that's close to shopping malls and parks and has subway lines planned."
Dagang said worriedly: "Brother, the subway hasn't been built yet. How can we know if the blueprints are accurate just by looking at them? What if the blueprints are changed when construction really starts?"
"When you inquire about the route planning, you can also ask whether the underground in Fengtian is complicated and whether the subway can be built anywhere. If the underground is complicated, then the route planning determined now will not be much different from that built in the future.
If it is not complicated, you can just use the route planning as a reference. At least through the route planning, you can roughly determine the future development direction of Fengtian City. "
"Brother, I don't quite understand."
Nan Yi stroked his chin and said, "Then you should choose a location that is close to shopping malls and parks, and the owner of the house has a strong relationship with someone in the city. Do you understand?"
"Hey, this is easy to understand. No one is more informed of gossip than us taxi drivers."
"Be clear about priorities. Look at the location first, then the relationship. Don't do it the other way around. Before buying a house, find a bricklayer who has been working on the construction site since digging the foundation. Invite him for a drink and ask him about the quality of the house, how the foundation was filled, and whether the materials used in the house are good. The bricklayer knows everything."
"Brother, you are really awesome, old man." Dagang turned his head and gave a thumbs up.
"Shit, put your hands back and watch the road."
After a minor incident, the car successfully arrived outside the courtyard of Wu Renpin's house. Nan Yi asked Gangxu and Dagang to find a way to eat by themselves, and he took Tianxian to Wu Renpin's house.
When I arrived at Wu Renpin's home, there was only private greetings and no official business was mentioned at all. In fact, everything that needed to be said had already been made clear in the afternoon phone call. I just had to wait for the process to go through and do the right thing at the right time.
After taking a bite of noodles, Nan Yi picked up a garlic and put it in his mouth, biting off half of it. "Sister-in-law, do you know that Qi Ying is in love with a man?"
"How could we not know? He Pingshan, the production director of the Northeast Machine Tool Factory. Not only do we know about their affair, but many people outside know about it. That He Qin is too unreasonable. If she doesn't agree, then she doesn't agree. Why is she talking nonsense outside?"
"Same name as that famous star?"
"It's different. It's the piano."
"Oh, He Qin is He Pingshan's daughter?"
"Who else could it be, Nan Yi, talk to Qi Ying and ask her to let it go. He Pingshan is good, but He Qin is too difficult to deal with. Even if she lives with He Pingshan, she will be ruined by He Qin."
Nan Yi thought for a moment, "Sister-in-law, when did this happen between them?"
