Hear this life

Wen Tingli quietly wrote a note and asked Zhou Wei to pass it to Lu Shicheng on her behalf.

【I want to see you. 】

This was not an easy thing to do. The great success of the premiere made her and Huang Yuanshan the focus of the crowd. Wherever they went, there was a large group of people following them.

There was a lot of noise in my ears.

There were voices of blessing and words of criticism. Some people were flattering on the surface, but their words were full of traps. Wen Tingli countered them all without revealing a single thing.

After the banquet, Wen Tingli and Huang Yuanshan said goodbye to the guests earnestly at the steps, but the reporters refused to leave.

When Wen Tingli got on the car, some reporters jumped on the car behind her and prepared to catch up. She knew very well that if there was any trouble here tonight, someone would make a big fuss about it in the morning.

She decided to hold off for now.

When I got home, Mrs. Zhou and Xiao Taozi were already asleep.

Wen Tingli walked to the window alertly and looked out. There were shadows of people under the street lights. It seemed that the reporters had been waiting outside her house all night.

Lu Shicheng always thinks about her and there is no way he will come to see her tonight.

She was too lazy to take off her gorgeous clothes. She fell on the sofa and looked around the empty living room, feeling quite lonely.
It turns out that when a person is sad, he hopes someone can share his sadness.

Success, and the desire to share it with others.

The phone rang suddenly, and she jumped up like a spring when she heard the voice on the other end.

"Where are you?"

"around your house."

Wen Tingli bit her lip and laughed: "Mr. Lu, you are so brave. There are ambushes everywhere near my house tonight. Do you dare to come to me?"

"Anyway, come to the back door in five minutes."

Wen Tingli went upstairs to change into clean clothes, and when the time came, she tiptoed to the back garden.

It's strange, there were at least five or six reporters squatting outside the back wall of her house, but now they are all gone.

Even so, she didn't dare to open the back door directly to go out, because the iron door was a bit old and it made a very harsh noise every time it was opened. She was afraid of alarming the reporters at the front door.

At this time, someone whistled softly outside, which sounded like some kind of romantic codeword at night.

Wen Tingli was certain and looked around. She found a wooden ladder in the garden. Mrs. Zhou sometimes used it to pick the fruits from the top of the red-leaf plum tree in the yard. She picked up the ladder, placed it against the back wall, and climbed up.

As soon as I reached the wall, I saw Lu Shicheng standing under the moonlight.

When the two of them looked at each other, Wen Tingli's heart almost jumped out of her throat with joy.

Lu Shicheng opened his arms towards her and motioned for her to jump down the wall.

Wen Tingli jumped off the wall without thinking, and he caught her without any suspense. She hugged his neck tightly, feeling extremely excited.

She was like Hermia, meeting her beloved Lysander.

"Where are we going?" she asked cheerfully in his ear.

Lu Shicheng hugged his "big cat" and kissed it a few times: "You will know later."

***
As expected, the reporter did not catch up. Wen Tingli suddenly felt her ears were much quieter and she took a nap comfortably in the back seat.

When I woke up, the car was parked in front of the gate of the new pharmaceutical factory of the Lu family in Zhabei.

Wen Tingli rubbed her eyes and looked around in confusion. There was no one in a radius of 100 meters. She suddenly smiled knowingly. It was a good thing that he thought of coming here. There would be no safer place than this tonight.

Lu Shicheng walked around the front of the car to help her open the door and extended a hand to her very gentlemanly.

Wen Tingli happily put her hand in his and got out of the car slowly.

He took her hand and walked forward to the side door of the factory. He had the key, so he opened the door, then locked it after entering.

Once the door was closed, they were truly the only two people left in this world.

The two of them were in sync and suddenly sped up and rushed forward together, running to the top floor in one breath. Wen Tingli laughed as she ran. Here, she didn't have to worry about ambushes or being caught. She could finally breathe freely and laugh freely.

There are two rooms on the top floor. Lu Shicheng took her straight to the room on the right, which was his office. As soon as he opened the door, Wen Tingli couldn't help but gasp.

The whole room was flooded with a sea of ​​flowers: gorgeous roses, elegant lilies, fragrant tulips…thousands and tens of thousands of flowers, “blooming in all colors,” with undisguised arrogance and dazzling beauty.

She liked flowers. When her family was still renting a small house, she often washed the milk bottles left over from Xiao Taozi and used them as vases, and put wild flowers picked from the roadside bushes in them.

She also planted peanut seedlings and roses in small pots on the windowsill at home. No matter how busy she was with school and work, she never forgot to take good care of them.

While she was recuperating at home, Lu Shicheng saw all of this, and on the night of celebrating her success, he bought all the flowers in the city and sent them to her.

She covered her mouth with her hand.

"There's more inside, do you want to go in and take a look?"

Wen Tingli nodded vigorously, and he led her into the inner room. There were no flowers inside, but four food boxes on the table.

Lu Shicheng walked to the table and opened the first food box.

“The braised belly from Zhengxing Restaurant.”

“Eight Treasure Duck from Jindong Restaurant.”

“Braised catfish from Changxing Pavilion.”

“Crab roe scrambled eggs.”

He opened the food boxes on the table one by one and showed them to her.

"You said it yourself, that after the premiere of Spring Breeze, you would eat these four things first. Okay, I bought them all for you."

Wen Tingli laughed and rushed towards him: "Mr. Lu, I love you so much."

"What? The food is still hot."

"I can't wait any longer, chopsticks, chopsticks." Lu Shicheng's eyes were full of smiles. He first held down her grasping hands: "Calm down, please. The chopsticks are not with me."

He took out two sets of bowls and chopsticks from under the food box, and then, like a magic trick, he took out an ice bucket with several bottles of Wen Tingli's favorite drinks in it.

He looked cool and childish. Wen Tingli's heart seemed to be soaked in milk and flower petals. The two of them sat down and enjoyed an unusually delicious midnight snack. Usually, even at her home, she had to consider Mrs. Zhou and Xiao Taozi, not to mention dining in a restaurant. But tonight, the two of them were free and did whatever they wanted.

Wen Tingli didn't dare to eat as much as she could because she had just resumed her normal diet, but she was still very satisfied. After the meal, the two of them cleaned up the table together. Wen Tingli took out some water from the ice bucket and splashed it on Lu Shicheng's face. Lu Shicheng dodged her attack with one hand and picked up the small oil dish on the table with the other hand, pretending to stick it on Wen Tingli's face.

The two played around for a while, and Wen Tingli ran away with a smile, curiously sticking her head out of the window. She had come here to look for Lu Shicheng several times before, but usually just waited outside the gate. She did come in tonight, but unfortunately she couldn't see anything at night and could only identify the approximate range through some street lights on the ground.

The scale of this pharmaceutical factory seemed to be even larger than she had imagined.

Lu Shicheng walked up behind her with his hands in his trouser pockets: "The view from the rooftop is clearer, do you want to go up and take a look?"

"go!"

The two of them walked hand in hand to the rooftop. Wen Tingli walked to the railing and looked into the distance, sighing from the bottom of her heart: "This is probably the most magnificent pharmaceutical factory I have ever seen."

Lu Shicheng took her to a higher platform, and the two sat down side by side facing the distance.

Wen Tingli gazed at the sky for a while, and said with great pride: "In the past, my biggest wish was to make a lot of money and have a great career."

"What about now?" He really understood her.

"I encountered some things, made some friends, and as a 'layman', I also gained some new ambitions."

"So that's why we have this 'Help Women Workers' Foundation?"

"Well, I'm glad that Sister Huang and I have the same idea." Wen Tingli leaned her head on his shoulder and smiled sweetly, "I'm even more glad that an anonymous person named Xiaojuzi strongly supports this charity event. Mr. Lu, you are very powerful. Do you know who this person is tonight?"

"No, I don't know." Lu Shicheng lowered his eyes and smiled.

"I want to ask this person in person, how did he steal my nickname?"

"It may not be stolen." Lu Shicheng looked innocent, "Maybe there is someone in this world who has the same strange nickname as you."

Wen Tingli grinned and pinched his face. He smiled and raised his hand to block her hand. As they struggled, they kissed each other. Afterwards, she wrote three words on the bottom of their feet with her fingers for him to see.

"Li Chengying." She looked a little sympathetic. "She is the elder sister I told you about last time. Her deeds have greatly inspired me. This is her real name. I call her Sister Li."

Lu Shicheng stood in awe and followed her in a low voice, "Sister Li."

The first thing she blurted out was "Sister Li", just because that was the person she respected. This feeling was really wonderful, as if the hearts of two people were getting closer and closer, becoming more and more intimate, until there was no space between the two hearts. From then on, they shared joys and sorrows, and honor and disgrace.

She took his hand from his side and intertwined her fingers with his.

But because she mentioned something sad, she didn't say anything else. For a while, Lu Shicheng just looked ahead thoughtfully.

Wen Tingli turned around and looked at his profile: "What are you thinking about?"

"I was thinking, I built this factory to fulfill my mother's last wish."

Wen Tingli's heart beat faster. This was the first time Lu Shicheng mentioned his mother to her in such a casual tone. But she knew that the more someone cared, the easier it would be to take it lightly.

"My mother studied western medicine, and her family opposed her going abroad." Lu Shicheng smiled, "She was the only daughter in the family, and her grandmother was worried about her being alone outside. My mother told my grandmother that she was 'learning from the foreigners to defeat them', and that any ambitious young people should not live in a corner, but should either join the revolution or work hard to learn new knowledge and new technologies. Like her, she planned to learn the foreigners' pharmacy profession thoroughly, and then return to China to build our own national pharmaceutical factory. If it really didn't work out, she would exchange her dowry for tuition. She could choose not to get married, but she was determined to keep this foreigner."

"She is really courageous." Wen Tingli couldn't help but feel fascinated.

Lu Shicheng smiled slightly: "My grandmother did not deduct my mother's dowry. Instead, she was moved by my mother's ambition and strongly supported her daughter to study abroad. My mother was abroad for five years and successfully obtained a degree. When she returned to China, she immediately devoted herself to the revolution and also tried to raise funds to build a pharmaceutical factory. During this period, she met my father. My father was in charge of the Lu family's banking and shipping business in Shanghai at the time. Because he was worried about the fate of the country, he often participated in meetings held by local patriotic youths or businessmen. He fell in love with my mother at first sight."

He paused, his expression full of regret, and after a moment, he continued in a low voice:

"Not long after, my grandfather passed away suddenly, and my grandmother also fell ill and was bedridden. The family business was on the verge of collapse. My mother couldn't bear to see my grandmother deal with such a difficult situation alone, so she had to temporarily give up her ideals and go home to help. However, she had never been involved in the family business before, so it was inevitable that she was unable to cope with it. My father secretly helped her several times. Afterwards, my mother found out about this. I don't know whether it was out of love or gratitude, but she married my father anyway."

Lu Shicheng's brows knitted deeply. Wen Tingli looked at his profile worriedly, his unhappiness made her feel distressed.

He looked up at the night sky, his tone revealing a deep sense of melancholy.

"I think if my mother knew what would happen later, she would definitely regret her decision. She was an eagle flying high in the sky, but she was trapped in the cage of the Lu family by mistake."

As he spoke, he seemed to have become extremely depressed. He tugged at his tie and stood up abruptly.

"When getting married, my father did not ask for my grandfather's opinion. He only sent a telegram to Nanyang and then held a wedding with my mother in a local church. Because of this, my grandfather never accepted my mother, and did not allow her to live in the Lu family mansion, let alone own shares in the Lu family."

Lu Shicheng said sarcastically, "But my grandfather didn't expect that my mother didn't care about it at all. She went to the Dutch port of Vendon with my father to start a business. My father opened two new factories there. She went to visit the pharmaceutical factory founded by the local Dutch, and finally even applied for a job in the pharmaceutical factory as a front-line female worker.

"She drew on the experience of her first pharmaceutical factory. The failure was not because her theoretical knowledge was not solid enough, but because she had no practical experience. So this time she wanted to start from the basics. My mother was not kidding. She stayed in the factory for a whole year and wrote a thick practical manual. Later, when I founded this Dasheng Pharmaceutical Factory, I drew on the front-line work experience in my mother's work manual."

That was probably the most precious relic left by Lu Shicheng's mother. Wen Tingli was filled with mixed emotions and wanted to see the notebook of Lu Shicheng's mother with her own eyes.

"After that... my mother had been waiting for an opportunity to return to China, and she often corresponded with her good friend Zou Zheping, who later became Principal Zou. Zou Zheping was an amazing woman, and she always reminded my mother in her letters not to forget her ideals. My mother was greatly encouraged, and secretly prepared all the work, even the name of the pharmaceutical factory. She wrote to Aunt Zou, saying that she would soon leave for China. But at this time -"

Lu Shicheng's face suddenly turned pale, his teeth clenched, and he couldn't utter a word. Wen Tingli was extremely moved, and she quickly stood up and hugged him tightly with her arms.

Few people can openly talk about the death of their parents, even if they are already adults. This kind of pain is like a scar that solidifies on the heart and will never heal automatically in a lifetime.

What's more, Lu Shicheng's parents were murdered, and as a little boy, he witnessed everything at the scene.

Thinking of this, her eyes became sore. Tonight, they both told each other their inner secrets, but it did not feel good, because at this moment, she and the young him had a wonderful telepathy. She could almost feel how scared and helpless Lu Shicheng was at that time.

"It must have been very difficult for you these years." She almost choked up as she said this.

Lu Shicheng suddenly understood. Not only did she understand him, but it was more like she had seen the young him with her own eyes through his description. At this moment, the regret in his heart seemed to be quickly smoothed out by an invisible force. Emotional comfort had such great magic. He heard a slight movement in his heart, and only he knew what was going on. Never before had he been so grateful to fate.

There was a strong wind on the rooftop. He took off his suit and wrapped her in his arms. The world was so big, but having her was enough for him.

The two stayed at the pharmaceutical factory until almost dawn before leaving.

The moment they saw the rising sun, both Wen Tingli and Lu Shicheng felt like they were reborn.

They came out of the building one after the other, hand in hand like they did last night, except their fingers were clasped even tighter than before.

Wen Tingli originally wanted to take the sea of ​​flowers away, but she couldn't lift them all, so she reluctantly picked out her ten favorite ones and took them away.

Unexpectedly, the next day, Lu Shicheng sent someone to deliver the gorgeous "sea of ​​flowers" to her home without a single flower left. Every day when she went downstairs, she could see the bright sea of ​​flowers, which made Wen Tingli happy for several days.

(End of this chapter)