Wulihe Stadium.
Nan Yi sat in the audience and watched Xiao Nan, who had just finished taking photos of the Huayang players, walk up. When Xiao Nan came up to him, he handed him the bottle of mineral water and said jokingly, "Last time I saw you, you were taking photos of a big shot like me. How come you've fallen to following football reports this time?"
"You don't understand." Xiao Nan shook his head, opened the bottle cap and took a sip of water.
"I don't understand, you teach me." Nan Yi said happily.
Xiao Nan sat down next to Nan Yi and said nonchalantly, "I will intern in each page for a while before deciding which page to join."
"From what you said, I feel like the newspaper is owned by your family."
Xiao Nan smiled slyly, "It's not owned by my family, but I call our newspaper's editor-in-chief uncle."
"No wonder." Nan Yi suddenly realized, "That's what I said. As an intern, you have too much freedom. Free man, how about a short trip at any time?"
"Where are you going?"
"In your heart."
"Be serious."
"How is Tanggangzi?"
"Are you sure you want to go to a hot spring in the summer?"
"Heh, isn't it good to fight poison with poison?"
"Oh no, we should go to the beach in summer." Xiao Nan's face showed a look of longing.
"Okay, let's go to the beach."
Nan Yi grabbed Xiao Nan's hand, stood up and gently pulled her towards the exit.
Xiao Nan, whose hand was forcibly pulled and whose footsteps followed automatically, showed a hint of anger, "Are you annoying? I haven't said I'm going yet."
Nan Yi turned around and smiled evilly: "You understand my ill intentions, and I also understand your pretense of reserve. Today I won't pretend to be a good person, so you should open your heart, be bolder, walk faster, and be more passionate."
Xiao Nan smiled and said, "Your Chinese is really bad. You should open your heart."
"It's too early for you to make this conclusion. Please wait and see."
Nan Yi pulled Xiao Nan into the car and told the tiger cub to drive to Meigou Camp.
The car started moving. Xiao Nan didn't ask Nan Yi where he was going in Meigouying. He just leaned sideways and looked at the scenery outside the window.
Nan Yi didn't disturb her and also turned sideways to look at the scenery outside the window on the other side.
After a long time, when a quarter of the journey had passed, Xiao Nan withdrew his gaze from the window, turned to look at Nan Yi's profile, and suddenly let out a sigh.
Hearing the noise, Nan Yi asked, "Why are you sighing?"
"You were born before I was born, and I was born when you were old. We met too late."
Nan Yi turned back, stared into Xiao Nan's eyes, and said sincerely: "It's not too late. Marriage is not easy for me. Finding someone to live with, the two of you stay together, and support each other to move forward is a relatively special form of strategic cooperation."
Xiao Nan glanced at Nan Yi and said, "Your interpretation of marriage is really different."
Nan Yi reached out his hand to touch the back of Xiao Nan's neck, rested his hand on his shoulder and chuckled, "You said I'm different, which proves that you are also different."
[Other is an English word that was introduced in 1995. In fact, the word "handsome guy" is rather abrupt when it appears in the dialogue in the previous chapters. I can't find a better colloquial word to replace it, so I can only make do with it. Fortunately, it mostly appears in dialogues in other languages.]
Xiao Nan turned his head and glanced down at Nan Yi's finger. He didn't shake it off, nor did he show any dissatisfaction. Then, he turned his face back to Nan Yi, "Are you married?"
"It's over."
Nan Yi remembered that Xiao Nan had asked this question, and he was also sure that Xiao Nan remembered that he had asked this question.
"You have children?"
"have."
"Can we leave?"
“It’s a pleasure to work with you, and I have no plans to change partners.”
"Then you're going to tease me again?"
"Do you want me to give you a different answer?"
Xiao Nan's eyes were filled with resentment. "Does your answer not change if you ask me back?"
"No, it's changed a little."
"What kind of changes?"
"With the change in time and frequency, I feel very relaxed with you. Maybe we can try to establish a relationship where we don't need to make commitments to each other. One day, if you or I get tired of each other, we can just say hello and go our separate ways."
Xiao Nan sneered, "Are you going to leave when you are tired of playing? You don't need to take responsibility?"
"This is not a one-way thing, but a two-way thing. It's the same for you, too. Or, if you have a new lover without telling me, that's fine. I haven't experienced the feeling of being cuckolded yet, so I'm a bit curious."
"Asshole, are you mentally twisted?" Xiao Nan yelled with a dark face.
Nan Yi said solemnly: "No, I'm not a pervert, I just don't want to give you too high expectations. In love, hating someone is because the other party did not fulfill their promise, or the other party did not reach the height that one party thought.
Our worship of heaven and earth, wedding wine, and Western oaths can all be said to be a contract with very harsh conditions. Every person who signs it is violating the contract intentionally or unintentionally. Most marriages are on a downward trend , slowly moving from being in love to saying screw you, I’ll take your last name if I don’t kill you.
The reason why there aren't so many cases of husbands and wives being murdered in this world is because of the shackles of morality, law, and inheritance. If these three constraints didn't exist, how many couples do you think would be complete in this world?"
Xiao Nan felt a little dizzy, but he still said firmly: "What a heresy. According to what you said, why didn't you kill your wife or divorce her?"
"I've said it before. At first, she and I were just living together. We didn't have high expectations of each other. However, as time went by, I remained the same, but her expectations were rising. Now that we are husband and wife, out of responsibility, I naturally have to meet her expectations step by step and do my best to do better."
"There is no love between you and her?"
"Haha." Nan Yi smiled lightly, "Love is three fires, intimacy, passion, and commitment. Because I work hard enough, she can have everything that can be bought with money in this world. I also give her the greatest guarantee for her life safety and physical health. As long as I promise her, I will do it, and I will do my best.
There is no lack of intimacy and commitment between her and me, only a little lack of passion , or more precisely, a lack of companionship, firstly because of my busy work, and secondly because of too many women I hooked up with, and I had little time after work, and I had to share the profits with several people, so naturally each of them was unsatisfied. Besides, my body couldn't handle it."
Xiao Nan said puzzledly: "Since there is love between you and her, why can't you change for her? Separate yourself from other women and be devoted to her."
"I am a selfish person. I will not sacrifice myself for the sake of others. I enjoy my current status with women and do not want to change. Although I am a scumbag, there is one good thing about me: I do not lie to women."
Nan Yi ruffled Xiao Nan's hair and said with a smile: "Just like now, I will tell you how many women I have, so that you know that I am nothing when it comes to women, but at the same time, I will tease you and add a little trick to make you jump into the fire pit even though you know it is a fire pit."
"Are you so sure I will jump?"
"Look at the way you ask. I never thought you would definitely jump. You can jump or not. If you don't jump, just think of it as me inviting you to relax in the camp. Don't worry, I will never go against a woman's will or force her to do anything. If you jump, then needless to say, this trip will be our secret love trip."
Xiao Nan spat, "You use the wrong words again. The word 'cheating' is so ugly."
"A wife is not as good as a concubine, a concubine is not as good as a secret love affair. I like the word secret love affair." Nan Yi said happily.
"Then you will be disappointed this time. I won't jump." After Xiao Nan said that, he broke free from Nan Yi's hand and laughed at Nan Yi.
"Haha, you are still stubborn. Let's wait and see."
"Just wait and see." Xiao Nan snorted and turned to look out the window again.
Nan Yi chuckled, opened the armrest box, took out a handheld game console and started playing.
There was no conversation along the way. The car stopped briefly on the way. After entering the Meigou Camp, Tiger Cub bought a map to study it, and drove to the beach next to the Crescent Bay Bathing Beach.
It was summer and evening. The setting sun dyed the sea golden. The beach was quiet and there was no one.
After getting off the car, Xiao Nan looked at the sunset, then looked left and right. There were reefs not far away on both sides and the waves were a bit fast. It was not a place suitable for swimming at all.
She looked at Nan Yi suspiciously, "Why don't you take me to the bathing beach, but come to this remote beach? What do you want to do?"
"What for?" Nan Yilang laughed, "We can swim here and go fishing. We can pick up some glass bulls, small conches, and shrimps on the beach and grill them here to eat."
"I don't have a swimsuit."
"I know. I didn't bring any swimming trunks either. I just passed by a place selling swimsuits and I pretended not to see it."
Nan Yi's thoughts were obvious. Xiao Nan followed his thoughts and some images appeared in her mind, making her cheeks hot and she stood there stiffly.
Nan Yi chuckled, took off his shoes and some odds and ends, waved back, and Tianxian came forward and packed Nan Yi's things into a bag in an orderly manner. After Xiao Nan woke up, he also handed the bag and shoes on his shoulder to Tianxian.
Nan Yi stepped forward and took Xiao Nan's hand, saying gently: "Whether you want to go left or right, it's up to you to decide. I will accompany you to the ends of the earth, through mountains of swords and seas of fire."
Xiao Nan smiled slyly, "Go ahead, you lead the way, and I'll follow you two miles behind."
"No, I will hold your hand and never let go."
"Cluck, cluck, to the left."
Four bare feet stepped on the wet beach, the footprints became longer and longer, the sea breeze blew, and the steps were slow.
The waves, the beach and the sea breeze make people feel relaxed. There are several old captains of boats nearby who are chattering incessantly, but the topics they talk about are not annoying but intoxicating. These scenes, people and sounds are all impacting Xiao Nan's bottom line. The devil's voice is tempting in her ears - come on, indulge yourself!
There was a direction but no destination. The two of them chatted aimlessly and imaginatively, which was quite leisurely.
When they reached a reef, the two who had already walked quite a distance leaned on it tacitly, their arms pressed tightly together, naturally.
Xiao Nan leaned back and said lazily, "I really want to have a house by the sea, be woken up by the sound of the waves in the morning, smell the fragrance of the sea of ​​flowers, walk along the path to the beach, face the rising sun, open my arms and wait for the first ray of sunshine to fall on me."
"You want to live by the sea?"
"think ."
"You've never stayed at the beach for a long time before, have you?"
"Um."
"Are your parents wealthy?"
"No, they all work in the cultural system and receive fixed salaries."
"Then you are just fantasizing unrealistically. It's not difficult to live by the sea, but it's hard to live comfortably. It requires a lot of expenses every year. In order to maintain this kind of life, you either have to have a good income or treat labor as enjoyment. Otherwise, just the sea of ​​flowers you mentioned will make you understand how difficult it is for farmers."
"Why? Is it difficult to grow flowers?"
"The alkaline soil by the sea makes it difficult to grow anything, let alone flowers. You can only transport soil from other places, and flowers must be carefully cared for if they want to grow well. You have to deal with fertilizer, soil, water, and various farm tools for a long time.
Farmers don’t have much poetic sentimentality in their hearts. They cannot appreciate the golden ears of rice and the snow-like cotton. The reason they have the joy of a good harvest is that as long as they destroy and harvest the beautiful scenery before their eyes, they can fill their stomachs, buy new clothes for their children, pay their children’s tuition, and let them escape from the beautiful scenery before their eyes.
If you need to take care of flowers yourself, then the beauty of their blooming probably has little to do with you. Behind the fragrance of the colorful flowers is the stench of excrement that you can't avoid. If you only want to smell the fragrance of flowers and not the stench of excrement, then you can only get close to another kind of stench. "
"What?" Xiao Nan turned around and asked.
"stink of money."
"Read xiù."
"I know, I did it on purpose. Do you know why there are polyphonic and polysemous words?"
"Why?"
"Because the literati don't want their farts to be the same as the servants who serve them. For example, you farted because you ate the wrong thing, but I fart because I am infinitely attached to the land in front of me, and I am concerned about the people's three meals a day. I think too much and the air in my chest is condensed. So your fart is pronounced as 'fan fei', while my fart should be pronounced as 'fang chong', which means noble and sublime."
"You are such a bullshitter."
"Haha, I'm just talking nonsense, but I've also explained the nature of polyphones. Maybe the word 'copper smell' was first used because a great writer suddenly forgot how to write the word 'rusty embroidery', so he thought about it and used the word 'stinky', and even pronounced it as 'xiù'.
As for great writers, there are countless people who flatter them. Even a sentence like "登东遗下筹" can be interpreted as worrying about the country and the people. In today's words, it just means that the author forgot to bring toilet paper or that the toilet paper fell into the pit because he didn't hold it.
If I were a remarkable person, and you were elevating me to a level that you could only praise and not criticize, and right here, I yelled the word "fuck" to the sea, and you're a journalist, come on, write an article praising me, and remember, don't remove the word "fuck", and start with it.
Xiao Nan glanced at Nan Yi and said, "You are hostile to ancient literati and modern journalists."
"No, I am skeptical of anyone and anything in the world. I don't think that an individual who engages in a seemingly noble profession is noble. In my eyes, there are only noble individuals, not noble groups or professions."
Xiao Nan thought for a moment and said, "You have a point. A person's identity and occupation cannot reflect his character."
"Yes, even though I'm a pervert, it doesn't change the fact that I'm a good man."
Xiao Nan's eyes stabbed at Nan Yi's face several times in a row, "Excuse me, how can I be as shameless as you?"
Nan Yi laughed and said, "If you want to learn, call me Master first."
"master."
"Haha, since you call me Master, let me pass on a piece of advice to you. Listen carefully, if you want to learn well, sleep with Master first. If you want to learn well, rub Master's body more often."
"I'm ignoring you."
Xiao Nan propped herself up on the rocks with her left hand, trying to stand up, but her feet were unstable and she slipped, falling backwards. Nan Yi saw this and reached out his right hand to grab Xiao Nan's wrist, exerting a little force, and Xiao Nan fell into Nan Yi's arms, but there was no ambiguous mouth-to-mouth kissing like in movies and TV dramas.
Of course, some people are much more shameless than those in movies and TV shows. It doesn’t matter if they don’t fall mouth to mouth. They can correct it manually. Nan Yi grabbed Xiao Nan’s left shoulder, lifted it up, pushed it a little to the right, and then pulled it down, and a small mouth fell into the big mouth...
The tiger cub turned around, looked around 270 degrees, and began calculating the time for the next vacation in his mind. His unfocused vision refocused, and he stared at the two foreheads intertwined, with his ears perked up to listen to the slurping sound of the mud.
After a long time, with a popping sound, the four affectionate lips parted.
"Hiss, it hurts." Xiao Nan wiped her lips and said in a coquettish tone.
Nan Yi wiped his lower lip with his thumb and said, "Your lips are too dry. Your endocrine system is a bit out of balance. Congratulations, you have met a retired military doctor like me. It will only take three days for not only your symptoms to ease, but your skin will also become more hydrated."
"Nonsense again."
“Haha, you’ll understand later.”
After the beautiful scene, Nan Yi and Xiao Nan each took a plastic bag and started to go fishing.
The glass cows and small conchs are in pieces and can be picked up as you walk. Shrimp, also known as mantis shrimp or mantis shrimp, is very aggressive and can kill one with one punch. It takes skill to catch this thing. Nan Yi and his companion had neither tools nor skills, so they just took a detour when they saw it.
Ark clams, white clams, sea reds, razor clams, red snails, belly-button snails, sea cones, crabs, and devil crabs can all be picked up or dug up. It won't take long before the two plastic bags have reached their limit.
Carrying plastic bags, the two went to a restaurant not far from the beach. After Nan Yi carefully inquired about the measurement units and whether the processing fees were calculated separately for onions, ginger, garlic, salt, etc., he also carefully inquired whether there were seat fees, bowl and chopstick usage fees, etc. He asked about every detail without getting tired of it, forcing the boss to pat his chest impatiently and swear that all Northeastern people are living Lei Feng.
After Nan Yi finished talking to the boss, Xiao Nan, who was sitting next to him, asked, "Is this how you always order food?"
"No, it's only like this in scenic spots and along national highways. Eleven out of ten restaurants in these two places overcharge people. It's okay if they overcharge you openly, you can eat it if you want, but I'm afraid of the nickles. I've seen crabs priced by gram, and a plate of crabs costs 9,600, and that's still called a 20% discount and a round-off."
"I've heard of something similar, but the scenic spot is okay, not too extreme, next to the national highway..." Xiao Nan thought of something and stopped talking.
Nan Yi chuckled, "What's wrong with that? There's just a psychological and physiological counseling room for long-distance drivers on the national highway. I know a guy who drives long distances. He's very hardworking and spends most of the year on the road. But when he counted at the end of the year, he didn't save much money.
Later, his wife refused to work and started to make a scene. Then she learned from others that her husband had three mistresses while he was dating, two of whom had given birth to sons for him. It would be strange if he could save any money to support four families.
Xiao Nan rolled her eyes at Nan Yi and said, "Are you giving me this example to give me a psychological hint, so that I can subconsciously approve of your approach to women?"
"That's not necessary. I'll get you a few drinks later to open up your psychological defenses, and then I'll tease you and win you over. After tonight, I'll just walk away and you can take the train back by yourself."
Xiao Nan laughed, "Tell me the steps, aren't you afraid that I won't take the bait?"
"No." Nan Yi lowered his voice and said in a low voice: "You have been curious about me for a long time, and you want to find out my secrets. Moreover, you are very confident that you are different from others, and you think you are just curious or playing tricks on me. You will not get deeply involved and can leave at any time.
It's a pity that you didn't realize you were in a trap, otherwise we wouldn't have lasted so long. If you had shown any resistance, I would have let you go immediately."
Xiao Nan's face changed color, his eyebrows twisted, his eyes kept throwing darts, and he shouted, "Asshole, you seduced me and trampled on my self-esteem."
Seeing Xiao Nan's reaction, Nan Yi quickly moved his chair and sat down next to him. He naturally put his arm around his waist and said softly, "Okay, don't be angry. I'm just teasing you. I heard that Meigouying is a very dangerous place. I will protect you closely tonight and will definitely not let you get hurt."
Xiao Nan pouted, and the unhappiness on her face disappeared, "Go to hell, as long as you stay away from me, I will be fine."
"Don't disbelieve me. I have learned face reading. I can tell from your face that you will have a bloody disaster tonight. However, my face reading skills are not good enough. Let me feel your bones again..."
Xiao Nan patted Nan Yi's thigh and pushed him gently, very gently, without any intention of pushing Nan Yi away, "Bad guy."
For the next few hours, Xiao Nan's memory was hazy, as if she had vaguely returned to the seaside, as if she was in the sea water up to her neck, leaning on a man's chest, with her eyes slightly closed, feeling the wandering of a big hand.
It was as if she was carried to a hotel by a man, as if the man had been protecting her closely, and as if the man was justifying through his actions that "opening your heart" was completely correct.
It seemed like she was really drunk and crazy!
When she opened her eyes again and turned around, the man who said he would just leave yesterday was really gone.
A huge sense of loss permeated his body!
"Asshole... I'm so stupid..."
The pillow was thrown to the ground by a soft hand. With a click, the door opened and a sweaty figure appeared. A pair of eyes looked around the pillow and a mouth uttered unpleasant words, "Why did you throw the pillow? The bed sheet is 200, the pillow is 70, plus this is 410. The compensation is almost as much as the room fee."
Xiao Nan, who was relieved, had the leisure to argue, "Didn't you leave?"
Nan Yi took off the towel from his neck, wiped the sweat from his forehead, then walked to the bedside and kissed Xiao Nan on the cheek, then dodged the other's lips and said, "I didn't brush my teeth, they stink."
"Hate!"
Xiao Nan didn't care about the sweat on Nan Yi's body. He hugged Nan Yi tightly and rubbed his cheek against his chest again. "Smell of sweat, giggle..."
Nan Yi stroked Xiao Nan's hair, with a wicked smile on his face, "Xiao Nan, I have a business, and I'm still short of 5 million in start-up capital. You see, our relationship is already like this, can you help me?"
Xiao Nan looked up at Nan Yi's chin and said cheerfully, "If you wanted to cheat me out of money after having sex with me, you shouldn't have asked me to borrow money so soon, and you shouldn't have asked for such a large amount at the beginning. Do you think I can afford five million?"
Nan Yi hit Xiao Nan with his chest, knocking him out, his face furious, "Take out all the five million, what a waste of time, the gas cost 100, last night's meal 140, room fee, compensation, everything, we'll pay half each, it's a bargain for you, just give me 500 and it'll be fine."
"Go to hell." Xiao Nan pulled her hair up into a bun and tied it up with a rubber band from the bedside table. "I have an interview this afternoon. Please buy me a new set of clothes. Just buy something casual. It doesn't have to be expensive. It's summer now. If I don't change my clothes, my colleagues at the newspaper will definitely notice something is wrong."
"What time is the interview?"
"Two o'clock."
"Oh, I'll buy it for you after breakfast. The sun is very strong today, so you have time to wash it and wait for it to dry." Nan Yi stood up from the bed, "You're too slow, let me use the bathroom first."
It was just around lunchtime when Nan Yi and Xiao Nan had returned to Fengtian. They had lunch together and then went their separate ways.
In the afternoon, under the creaking antique ceiling fan, Nan Yi lay on the recliner listening to "Crazy for Love" and humming, "I want to ask if you dare to love me like you said, I want to ask if you dare to be as crazy about love as I am..."
"This song is nice, who sings it?"
Xiao Nan appeared beside Nan Yi and sat on Nan Yi's calf.
Nan Yi raised his head and looked at Xiao Nan's entire upper body, then dropped his head back onto the pillow. "You changed your clothes and put on makeup. Don't tell me you dressed up so carefully just for me."
"What else?"
"Then let me tell you, I don't like the way you're dressed, nor do I like your current makeup. Think back to the lines in the movie 'Over the Hook' where Du Mei is spoken in dialect. That's what I want to say."
Xiao Nan thought about it for a moment and said angrily, "You said I look like a chicken?"
"Almost. This outfit doesn't suit you. You are more suitable for simple and clean clothes without too many decorations. Keep your own personality and don't follow the crowd."
"Really?" Xiao Nan looked down at the clothes on his body and said regretfully, "I just bought it today. It cost more than 400 yuan."
"You wore it without washing it?"
"It's too late."
"Go to the bathroom and wash and change. Clothes are not cleaned before they leave the factory."
"I have no clothes."
"Wear mine first, and then ask my secretary to borrow one when she comes back."
Xiao Nan took a shower in the bathroom, removed her makeup, put on Nan Yi's big shirt, and sat down next to Nan Yi with bare legs. Seeing the PDA in Nan Yi's hand, she asked curiously, "Learn English?"
Nan Yi put down the PDA and put the screen to sleep before saying, "This isn't Quick Dict. By the way, how did you know about Quick Dict? I didn't see any for sale in Fengtian."
"I saw him last time at the home of an interviewee and heard him introduce him to me," Xiao Nan explained.
"Oh, I just gave you the address at noon, and you came over this afternoon without even calling me before you came. Do you want to give me a surprise, or do you want to keep your heart with me?"
Xiao Nan's cheeks turned slightly red, and she complained, "Why are you so annoying? It's fine if you just know it in your heart, why do you have to say it out loud?"
"Hahaha, okay, I won't say any more. Think about where we should go for dinner tonight. I'll go take care of some work."
“Can you cook here?”
"No, the gas stove is broken. Do you know how to cook?" Nan Yi said, and gave Tianxian a subtle wink.
"I can cook a lot of dishes. My dad said my cooking is better than my mom's." Xiao Nan said with a smile.
After hearing what Xiao Nan said, Nan Yi basically concluded that Xiao Nan's cooking skills were very average. The food might not be bad, but it certainly wouldn't be very delicious. It seemed that the gas stove here in Chenlu Pavilion would often break down in the future.
Nan Yi dealt with an email and waited for Chen Wenqin to come back. Xiao Nan changed into a set of clothes that Chen Wenqin had never worn before, and the two of them went out of Chenlu Pavilion.
Whether on the way to the parking lot or in the car, Xiao Nan hung on Nan Yi's arm like a koala, very clingy. Nan Yi suddenly regretted being too impulsive last night and Xiao Nan's enthusiasm. He could imagine that Xiao Nan would come to report in the next few days, and when he left, the phone would follow him.