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Chapter 24 Past and Future

In the car, Li Yaofan's face was a bit ugly: "I will investigate the matter of Xibei myself, there is no need for you..."

"Hush!" I pressed Li Yaofan's mouth, and before he could continue speaking, I threw myself into his arms.

His body froze: "Qianxing..."

"Don't talk, let me lean for a while." I closed my eyes and buried my face in his arms.

He stopped talking and reached out to hug me.

The warmth hit me in an instant, the air was full of his breath, and the nerves that had been tense all day finally relaxed at this moment.I have forgotten how long it has been since I let go of my guard and relied on someone without any scruples. For a long time, I always told myself to be strong and rely on myself. , I have to admit that after removing all the pretense, I am just an ordinary woman, longing for a warm embrace for me to rely on for the rest of my life.

In this vast world, life is so fragile, and no one can tell which will come first, the accident or the future.I don't want to look forward and backward anymore, I decided to give Li Zhongzheng some time, and give myself some time, let go of the past, no longer afraid of harm, no longer afraid of the future, and love someone wholeheartedly, just like ten years ago.

I raised my head from his arms and solemnly announced: "Li Yaofan, I decided to give you a chance to elope with me again."

"Where are you going?" he asked.

"The old place," I said.

"Okay." He started the engine.

"Wait a minute! I'm hungry, I want a family bucket, and..." I pointed to the rear compartment, and the corners of my mouth curled up.At that time, when we were young and frivolous, we often stole red wine from home and put it in the trunk. Today, his habit of putting red wine in the trunk has not changed.

"Of order." He smiled slightly and stepped on the gas pedal.

Holding the family bucket and carrying two bottles of red wine privately hidden by Mr. Li, we drove to the seaside at midnight.

At this moment, the long coastline was deserted, and I sat down next to Li Yaofan. Amidst the sound of the waves, I opened two bottles of red wine indistinctly, and generously handed over the bottles: "Come on, have a bottle!"

Mr. Li's complexion was a little pale: "What do you want to do?"

"Drinking, who told you to bring only wine but no glass?"

"Then you can't drink like this, do you know how expensive this wine is?" He was a little helpless.

Damn, for a long time this guy is reluctant to part with his treasures, I said: "What's wrong with you, anyway, my man has plenty of money, come on, cheers!" I handed the wine bottle over.

He laughed and held out the wine bottle in his hand.

"Cheers!" I raised my head, poured the expensive red wine into my stomach like drinking beer, wiped my mouth and said, "Excellent!"

Mr. Li couldn't bear to look directly at me: "You will get drunk."

"You still don't believe my drinking capacity, besides you, you are responsible for carrying me back when you're drunk, otherwise what's the use of you?" I glared at him, put down the bottle, and picked up a chicken leg.

"If you eat like this, I can't guarantee that I can move you."

"What did you say?" I got angry and rushed over to hit him, "Li Yaofan, I think I'm fat! How dare you think I'm fat!"

"Not fat, you are not fat at all..." He begged for mercy.

"Let me tell you, even if I'm fat like a pig, you don't have to dislike me, do you hear me!" I grabbed his ear.

"I heard it, I heard it." He said repeatedly.

"That's about the same." I let go of my hand contentedly, and took a few more sips of red wine. A gust of sea breeze blew in my face. I sneezed and felt a little dizzy.

Suddenly, my shoulders felt hot, Li Yaofan took off his coat and put it on my shoulders.

I turned around, squinted my eyes, pinched his face and said, "Good boy, really good boy."

The corner of his mouth twitched: "You're drunk."

"You're talking nonsense, how can I drink, how can I be drunk... Hey, why did it disappear so quickly?" I looked at the wine bottle in my hand, a little disappointed, and looked back at Li Yaofan's bottle, haha, it hasn't been touched yet, hurry up Grab it and drink it.

"Stop drinking!" He finally couldn't bear to stop me.

"Don't be so stingy, it's just a bottle of wine, at worst I'll pay you back ten bottles next time!" I stretched out two fingers, thinking it was wrong, and stretched out four more, as if it wasn't right...

"You're really drunk."

"I don't have one, give me the wine quickly!" I rushed over and snatched the bottle from his hand.

"Okay, tell me what time it is, and I'll give you the wine if you're right." He held out a finger.

I got angry, and I said: "You just stretched out one finger, of course it's San, do you think I'm an idiot? Give me the wine!"

"...you see clearly." He said helplessly.

I froze for a moment: "Did I say something wrong?"

He nodded.

I grabbed his hand and looked it over very carefully in front of my eyes. It seems that it is really not three, what is it?I sniffed it hard, and it smelled like fried chicken. Could it be fried chicken legs?It's not like, how can the chicken legs be so thin, I stuck out my tongue and licked it.

No, not chicken legs, I raised my head, looked at Li Yaofan helplessly, and shook my head: "I don't know..."

His face was stiff and his expression became very strange.

"What's wrong with you?" I stretched out my hand to twist his face, "Don't be so stern, just smile, give me a smile... um..."

His hand was caught, he suddenly rushed over and kissed my lips.

"Li Yaofan, what are you doing..." I broke free from him, "I want to drink, don't touch me, hey!"

"You're drunk." He emphasized again, his deep eyes stared straight at me, as if reflecting the whole world.

"No, I'm not drunk, I want to drink, give it to me!"

"You want to drink, don't you?" He hooked the corner of his mouth and brought the bottle to me.

I nodded.

"I'll feed you." After he finished speaking, he raised his head and took a sip of his wine, then leaned towards me again.

Suddenly, the body was picked up by the air.

"What are you doing?" I reluctantly let go of my mouth. I didn't know when my coat was taken off. It was cold, so I tightly hooked his neck.

"I'm out of wine, go get it in the car." After he finished speaking, he carried me step by step towards the direction of parking.

"Is there any alcohol in the car?"

"There are a lot more."

"I love you..." His deep voice came from his ear, and it seemed that he could never say enough.

"I love you too." I closed my eyes, tears were still flowing freely, this sentence that has been hidden in my heart for so many years, I can finally say it so unscrupulously, I love this man more than the sky, more than the earth , surpassing everything in this world.

Li Yaofan, I love you!
In the early morning, I was woken up by the dazzling sunlight, and found myself lying on the back seat of the car, covered with a blanket, and the surroundings were in a mess... I woke up with a jolt, and all the sleepiness disappeared, and I realized that apart from the blanket on my body, I actually Wearing nothing!

The unsightly memories of last night came flooding back, making me blush.

At this moment, Li Yaofan, who was already neatly dressed and sitting in the driver's seat, suddenly turned his head and looked at me maliciously.

I glared at him angrily: "Why, what are you looking at?"

"There's nothing to see now, but last night..." When he said this, he deliberately paused, and finally let out two "tsk tsk" from his mouth.

Immediately, my face was severely burned, and I shouted at him: "Tsk, you are so tall, turn your face away, I want to get dressed!"

"You wear it, I didn't stop you." He said so shamelessly, he actually lifted my white corset hanging on the back of the car seat with his hand, and handed it over, "Look, I can still help Let's fight."

Start with your size!I want to cry but have no tears, this guy is so good that he is cheap, just like a shameless old hooligan!

"Why don't you take it, don't you plan to wear it?" The old hooligan looked surprised, "I didn't expect that, you are so open, no wonder last night..."

"Don't mention last night!" I was really angry, "I was drunk last night, I don't remember anything, I warn you not to push yourself!"

This threat is really useless to hooligans, he said "Oh": "You don't remember, I can tell you, you really opened my eyes last night, it's just..."

"I don't want to hear it!" I hurriedly covered my ears with both hands, and shook my head desperately, but my body suddenly became cold, and the only blanket wrapped around my body fell off.

Immediately, Li Yaofan's laughter came from his ears.

I screamed, pulled the blanket back in a hurry, looked up at Li Yaofan, who was already overjoyed, and laughed wantonly while blocking my face.

"Stop laughing! Li Yaofan, if you laugh again, I'll bite you to death!" I was really about to collapse, what happened last night was familiar to both of us, but I was so drunk that I lost my temper. But can this be my fault? If it weren't for his bad intentions, I would at most be drunk and crazy.

"You've 'bitten' last night..." He said, opening the collar of his shirt, his neck was covered with deep and shallow hickey marks, needless to say, he knew that it was all my masterpiece.

At this moment, I really want to find a hole to drill down, black history, absolutely black history!

Over there, he began to sigh to himself again: "It's really unexpected that you are so active. It stands to reason that your drinking capacity is not that bad. You can't do it on purpose..."

"Li! Yao! Fan!" I couldn't bear to interrupt him, how far this guy has to push himself to be satisfied, is it really going to force me to jump naked and strangle him to death?

When I was struggling between pinching and not pinching, Li Yaofan's cell phone rang suddenly.

"Hello?" He connected the phone, and after a while, the smile on his face disappeared, and he said seriously, "Got it, I'll go back right away."

Seeing him put away the phone, I suddenly had a bad premonition in my heart, and asked, "Who is calling, and what happened?"

"LK called, the fox has come out of the den." He said.

"What fox came out of the hole?" I didn't understand what he meant, and wanted to continue to ask, but he had already started the engine and said, "Put on your clothes and check your phone."

This guy did not forget to remind me to get dressed. Although my face was still a little hot, I still got dressed quickly. Although after what happened last night, even if I put it on, I still looked disheveled, but I can't care about it now. After so many pages, I hurriedly pulled out my phone and clicked on the web page.

In an instant, Li Yaofan's three large characters came into my eyes densely, and the whole screen was full of news about him:
"The former business elites are now fools", "Hidden the disease by all means, what is the reason for the Yafan Group to do so?" ", "The hospital confirmed that Li Yaofan has lost his memory and his condition is not optimistic", "Yafan Group's stock price plummeted, and shareholders are worried"...

A title like this made me gasp. Although the media had reported some news about Li Yaofan’s amnesia before, they were basically speculative. In addition, Ouyang Fei kept suppressing it, so even if he really lost his memory During that period of time, it was not reported as much as it is now.But at this moment, the news has exploded in the media like a depth bomb. It's really strange. Could it be that he directed and acted himself?

"Isn't this the news you asked LK to release on purpose?" I couldn't help but ask.

"Not really," he answered me.

"What do you mean?"

"I did intend to let people know about my situation, but not the media, but those who put the news to the media."

I was even more confused immediately: "You mean, you pretend to be stupid to show someone so that he can publicize the news in the media? But to achieve this goal, let LK release the news privately, what? Why are you still going around in circles?"

"That's not the case. How can you convince the fox, and how can you know when he is going to leave the cave?"

When he said this, I finally became a little clear: "I understand, what you mean is that the person who released the news did not believe that you lost your memory at first, but now he is finally convinced, so he publicized it in the media with great fanfare. Ready to move, right?"

"You're smart." He nodded.

Damn, I sounded like an idiot at the beginning, I glared at him, and continued to ask: "Then who is this fox?"

"What do you think?" He actually asked me back.

"This..." I fell into deep thought when asked by him. If I want to say who I suspect, I have more or less in my mind. For example, the last time I was in the company bathroom, I heard people in the company talking about it in private. Several shareholders are ready to rebel.In addition, Xia Xiong also took the opportunity of his son's birthday to spy on me.

Thinking about it this way, there are really a lot of people plotting to bring down Li Yaofan, I couldn't help sighing.

"Think of anyone?" he asked.

"As far as I know, there are several shareholders in the company who should be unwilling to be alone." I answered truthfully.

"Indeed, since I took over the company, those old guys have been unable to sit still. Unfortunately, they have no chance and no ability." He drove the car and said to me calmly, as if he didn't care about the existence of these people at all. Worry.

"So they have the opportunity and the ability now?"

"There is an opportunity, but for ability, we still need to find some foreign aid."

I suddenly came to my senses: "You mean they teamed up with outsiders to defeat Yafan? Who is this outsider? Could it be Xia Xiong?"

"You're smart."

It was this answer again, and my head was full of black lines.

Having said that, it is reasonable for a ruthless businessman like Xia Xiong to want to deal with Li Yaofan, but he is Xia Sijie's father after all. If Li Yaofan hadn't pretended to be sick and set a trap, he might not have planned to deal with Li Yaofan. How about Yafan Group...

My thinking was obviously naive.

"The last car accident was caused by Xia Xiong."

Li Yaofan's words made me startled: "It's him?"

"Not only that, but I also found out that he was the one who instigated Huang Wen behind his back to betray your father."

Talking about parents is always a taboo between me and Li Yaofan, but at this moment, I completely forgot about it. I was really shocked by what Li Yaofan said. The person who ordered Uncle Wen turned out to be Xia Xiong, he is the real behind the scenes Mafia?

"Why?" I asked in disbelief. Although I knew that my father was not a good person, as an old classmate and long-term partner, I really couldn't understand why Xia Xiong was so cruel.

"Don't you understand? Shopping malls are like battlefields. Everyone is a competitor in the face of interests. If you want to obtain greater interests, you can only climb up on the opponent's corpse, and your father is the victim of the interest struggle. It's a pity that I took the first step to buy Lin's back then, and Xia Xiong's previous efforts were wasted. For this reason, he hated me so much that he even planned to kill me. If I don't react today, Yafan will become another Lin's tomorrow , in the face of a threat like Xia Xiong, the best defense can only be offense."

Li Yaofan's answer is reasonable, but what happened to my family back then, now calmly said from Li Yaofan's mouth, really makes me feel a little suffocated.

When I was silent, Li Yaofan suddenly stopped the car without warning, turned to look at me: "Qianxing."

"What?" I raised my head to meet his gaze.

"Shall we make a deal?"

"What agreement?"

"A lot of things have passed, I know it is difficult to let go, but at least I am working hard, I hope you can do the same as me, let the past pass and let the future come." He said this At that time, the eyes were so calm.

Looking into such eyes, I don't know why my heart suddenly relaxes, as if a stone that had been pressed on my chest for a long time suddenly disappeared.

"Okay, let's make an agreement." I nodded vigorously, and I suddenly realized a lot in my heart. In fact, for us, letting go is not forcing forgetting, but facing it calmly, and treating everything we have experienced as a test of life.

"Let the past pass and let the future come." I said this sentence in my heart, over and over again.

When Li Yaofan took me to the company in a hurry, the atmosphere of the entire Yafan Group had undergone earth-shaking changes. Everyone looked at us with complicated eyes, including anger, regret, disappointment, and gloating.

At this time, Li Yaofan returned to his silly appearance, and followed me step by step.

In the central meeting room on the 18th floor, an emergency shareholders meeting is being held.According to Li Yaofan, after the news broke out early this morning, the company's stock price plummeted, the shareholders fell out, and the situation was worse than expected. Ouyang Fei had to hold this emergency meeting to try to make up for the current situation. .

"It's useless, those old guys have been waiting for this opportunity for years." Li Yaofan's expression was relaxed, as if he didn't think there was enough trouble now.

I was speechless when a worse situation suddenly appeared. The door of the meeting room was slammed open, and noise poured out from the originally soundproof central meeting room.

"Hurry up, contact the hospital!"

"What are you still doing, call an ambulance immediately!"

"Block the news immediately, and don't let the media know!"

Ouyang Fei fainted? !
I was startled, and saw Li Yaofan suddenly put away his smiling face and strode towards the meeting room. I hurriedly followed behind him, and saw Ouyang Fei lying on the ground, pale, frowning, eyes closed, the situation seemed very bad.

Our presence didn't improve the chaotic scene. Almost everyone's faces were full of worry. This morning's media coverage of Li Yaofan's condition had already had a great impact on the group. Now Ouyang Fei suddenly fainted again. However, once the news got out, it would undoubtedly make the whole matter worse.

Obviously, Li Yaofan himself did not encounter such a thing, his expression at the moment fully demonstrated this point, blood is thicker than water, Ouyang Fei is his mother after all.Even if I have prejudices against Ouyang Fei, I can't help but feel worried when things develop like this.

However, some people seem to be happy to see this happen.

"Rang Rang, Rang Rang!" A potbellied man came out of the crowd, looked coldly at Ouyang Fei who had fainted on the ground, and sarcastically said, "Why is it such an unfortunate coincidence, you can fall as soon as you say it, chairman, are you okay?" , can you hear me?"

This is clearly implying that Ouyang Fei is pretending, and the situation is like this, it is simply inhuman to say such sarcastic remarks!I was so angry that I clenched my fist tightly.

"Old Wang, it's your fault. The chairman is already like this, how can you hear me? I don't think this meeting can go on, and someone else has to do it." Another pious shareholder echoed beside him.

"Who should I change? The chairman is not the only one who is sick in this company." The shareholder surnamed Wang glanced at Li Yaofan.

The one next to him immediately nodded knowingly: "Isn't that right, my old guy has been squatting in the company for so many years, but I have never seen so many people get sick. It seems that our place in Yafan has bad feng shui, so we have to change places." .”

"Have you said enough?" Such a pointed sarcasm finally made me unbearable.

"Who are you? Is it your turn to speak here?" The leader of the shareholder surnamed Wang suddenly changed his face and yelled at me, "I, Wang Zhongde, have been in Yafan for decades. You have to give me some face to live, what kind of onion are you, are you worthy of talking to me?"

"She doesn't count, I count!"

Before I could recover, Li Yaofan's figure flashed in front of my eyes, and he punched Wang Zhongde.

In an instant, Wang Zhongde's obese body fell heavily on the ground, making a dull sound. The originally noisy meeting room suddenly fell silent. Everyone was stunned to watch this scene. Even I was stunned by Li Yaofan's move. up.

What is he doing?
"Oh, it hurts me to death! Help, the idiot beat someone, the idiot beat someone to death!" For a moment, in the silence, Wang Zhongde finally realized that he had been beaten, and let out a scream like a pig being killed.

But before he finished speaking, Li Yaofan raised his foot and gave him another blow without saying a word, then rushed over, picked up his collar and began to beat him hard.

This scene was so much more than just the word "miserable", everyone was so stunned that no one came out to stop Li Yaofan from beating Wang Zhongde. He hugged his head and begged for mercy: "Help, don't hit me, please don't hit me, I beg you..."

The sound of begging for mercy became weaker and weaker, so I came back to my senses and rushed over to stop Li Yaofan's raised fist, saying, "Don't hit me, something will happen."

He finally stopped, clenched his fists tightly, the veins on the back of his hands burst out, stared fiercely at Wang Zhongde who had been beaten into a pig's head, and warned: "Keep your mouth shut."

"You wait, I will take revenge..."

"You're still stubborn!" I stopped Li Yaofan and waved my fist in front of that guy.

This time, Wang Zhongde finally calmed down, holding his head, curled up on the ground, humming in pain.

The medical staff rushing to the [-]th floor in such a hurry never expected that this trip not only saved a patient with a sudden heart attack, but also caught up with a man who was beaten into a pig's head. They all looked a little strange.

From the curious eyes of these people, I already guessed how much sensation Li Yaofan's outrageous behavior will cause. Before, news of his amnesia was flying all over the sky, and then Ouyang Fei had a sudden heart attack. Now there is another public beating shareholder Well, the Yafan Group is probably in danger this time.

"Are you okay?" Looking at Li Yaofan who was sitting silently in front of the emergency room, I was worried.

He didn't answer me, but still lowered his head, holding his head with his hands, the joints of his fingers were a little red and swollen from the beating too hard just now, and even a few skins were broken.At that moment, I felt my nose was a little sore, I hurriedly turned my head away, asked the passing nurse for a few band-aids, and then reached out to hold his hand, but he didn't resist, and I pulled his hand to my knee Come on, don't say a word.

Time passed slowly at that moment, and everything around me seemed to be quiet. I tore off the Band-Aid and carefully wrapped the wounds.During this period, none of us spoke, but tears still dripped down my cheeks and onto the back of his hand.

"Ah..." I whispered, and hurriedly reached out to wipe it off.

Suddenly my shoulders tightened, and I was pulled into his arms.

My nose became more and more sore, I said in a low voice, "If you feel sad, just cry..." Even so, I was the one who burst into tears at the moment.

"Yeah." He replied in a low voice, hugging me even tighter.

"I don't want your mother to have something to do, and I don't want you to be sad. Why do good things always turn out like this? Why can't some good things happen to me and you?"

"It will be all right." He interrupted my murmur, wiped the tears off my face with his hands, and comforted in a low voice, "Everything will be all right, those who have hurt us, I will make them all pay cost."

"But I'm very scared. This time it was your mother who had the accident. What about next time? Will it be you next time?" I'm already tired of such endless fights, from Li Yaofan's father, to our whole family, to today Ouyang Fei... I watched more and more people I was familiar with fall in the struggle of interests, families were torn apart, and friendship and love were all buried with them. I walked on thin ice all the way, and I had no courage to go any further. One step forward.

"Marry me." He reached out and cupped my face.

"What?" I looked at him blankly.

"Marry me." He repeated, staring seriously at mine with his dark eyes, "Qianxing, I know you are scared, but why am I not? I have lost so much along the way. Too much, I have already lost you once, I don’t want to lose you again, if you are also afraid that you will lose me, then give me a chance, let me always be by your side and take care of you for the rest of your life.”

Tears welled up in an instant, and I covered my mouth.

He reached out and took my hand covering my mouth away, and put his forehead against mine: "Last time I prepared the ring and planned to propose to you for a long time, but it ended up in a car accident. Now here I don't have a ring, and I'm not ready for romance I don’t even have a choice for a suitable occasion, but I still want to ask you to marry me, because I can’t live without you. I will never forget those things in the past, because I went through the days without you, I long to have you every day in the future, will you marry me?"

"Well, I promise you, I'll marry..." The tears surged again, but they had nothing to do with sadness.

(End of this chapter)