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"Granny, this is the teaching fee that Principal Wang just gave me, you take it to buy food ah."
Granny looked at the well-behaved Xiaobai with pity, and silently took the small stack of money, wrapped it up in a handkerchief, and put it under her pillow.
After living in the dark for more than 1 year, Bai's memory is only the recent 2 years, and all previous memories have been lost. Just now in the afternoon out of the school, suddenly heard a call, "girl", should not be, White and then listen carefully around, and what sound is gone.
"Yatou", is the heart of the hurt is appearing again? So long no one called her this way, a name that should not be remembered again "white DuoDuo", in the whirlpool of memory swirls back and forth, but also swelling, Xiaobai's head hurts ....... This place is very quiet, it must be a hallucination, how could he find this place?
? ~2~
"Mommy, don't leave Duo ah." Duo waved his arms in his dream, trying to grab his mom's goose-yellow sweater's. Mom has not appeared in the dream for a long time.
At the moment there seems to be a needle wandering through Duo Duo's body, impossible to grab and painful! Occasionally, it wanders to the heart, with a little pain, a little numbness, just like this hidden pain. There was not a sound around, Duo Duo knew his heart sank into the sea again, and now she only expects to find him in the dream.
There is no way to contact between them, no messages, no phone calls, no letters, no meetings, the only thing is to wait, endless love is also endless waiting, she does not know what day he will come, will come to see her once in a while.
The days when they get together are few and far between. After each get-together, she would hang a smiling doll of the sun on one wall of her bedroom, wondering if it was a memento? Or is it to remind herself of when he'll probably come next? There are already 6 on the wall, and it's been almost 2 years since she's been confined to living by his side, where he can spend up to 1 day with her at a time, while she wonders what her feelings really are? Love and hate again? Her 23rd birthday is in a few days.
He is, in a sense, her debtor.
Accompanying her these past 2 years has been an old nanny and a pony named Handsome. Duo is an illustrator who also draws comic strips, and has a regular job as a contracted author with the publisher, Grandpa Lee.
She thinks she should have earned about 100,000 dollars a year, and every time she leaves some money for living expenses, she asks Grandpa Li to give the rest to her "debtor", and she owes him what she owes him, which should have been paid off by now.
Two years ago, my mother accompanied my father to a client's party. A drunken truck driver completely destroyed Duo's happy family, and her parents left her on the same day.
Duo Duo became an orphan overnight, she locked herself in her room, hugged the photos of her parents, cried all day and night, and only in her dreams can still see her mother!
A few days later, the uncle stepped in to make arrangements for the aftermath of his parents' deaths, and also on the day of the funeral, Duo Duo met for the first time often heard his father and uncle mentioned the business partner Xiaolin, a man with a strong family background, when Duo Duo was just 21 years old.
"Hello, girl!" , this is the first words that Mr. Xiao Lin said to Duo Duo, this man as far as possible to call himself a girl, Duo Duo at that time felt that he was so unreasonable, a man who is only three years older than himself.
Duo Duo with their own crying red eyes looked at this stranger, never seen such a handsome face, features so delicate, eyes as firm as a rock, the corners of the mouth hung a kind of knife-carved "loneliness", there is a kind of very shallow arc to the smile frozen, people have no way to peep into his heart, the little man may be more will be The people have no way to peek into his heart, the little man may be more will be deterred, because there is no way to know how deep this sea of the heart!
"From today, I take you home ah, from now on I will be responsible for taking care of you." The latter of these words even more Duo Duo shocked, and the man did not say more and left.
Just two short sentences like this, as if it can change the future of Duo Duo's life trajectory. Duo Duo made a note of the man's indifference throughout, as well as the fact that he always touched the blue ornament hanging on his chest without thinking ......
Leaving Duo Duo, who had his mouth open and could not say anything, standing in grief, his tears began to escape.
The uncle took Duo to the lounge, and said all this, "Xiao Duo, Xiao Lin always said no wrong. From today onwards, you must go to live in his house, because your father, our company owes almost 3 million dollars of payment to Mr. Xiao Lin. You also know that I do not have any business ability, always your father is responsible for the company's sales, I just do some miscellaneous for your father. Once he's gone, I'm also at sixes and sevens, and I simply don't have the ability to run the company on." Uncle stole a glance at Duo Duo's expression.
"General Xiao Lin, looking at the previous friendship with your father, agreed that we can pay off this debt in two or three years, and also sent two vice presidents to help the company run the subsequent sales at no cost, and all the turnover after deducting the staff's salaries and fixed overhead costs, the profits will be used to return to him, and the only condition is that you, as the sole heir to the Bai Group. Must live by his side before he can rest assured ......." The uncle continued to harp on later about how difficult he was and how hopeless he was, but Duo couldn't listen to him at all.
"Okay uncle, I will go with him, I will also make money to pay him back later, we do not owe him." Duo Duo all the sadness in the small fist, told himself no big deal, the future of this small Lin is her family's debtor, can not also be regarded as half of the "benefactor"?
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The front is a small garden, surrounded by what seems to be just a patch of green grass and a small forest. After entering this small building, Duo felt all déjà vu about this place he was brought to, like the small home he and his parents had before, the difference was that the entire color tone of the small building was blue, that sea blue, like the sea that his father used to take himself to in his childhood.
"I will continue to let you read your favorite painting and music courses, six months later you can work in the publishing house, starting from the illustrator to do it! Auntie Wang, you can take care of the girl's daily life from now on, and report directly to me if you need anything. I'm leaving first." This man threw down these explanations and left without even looking at Duo Duo!
Duo Duo did not have the mood to think about this, she and aunt politely said thank you, and went back to her room.
This is the little world that will all belong to her from now on, right? Duo Duo took out the picture of her parents from her suitcase and hugged it in her arms, silently calling out for the tears that had escaped for a long time to come back and stay with her again.
Duo Duo did not know where this little Lin always learned of her talent for drawing and music, before her father had hired a private tutor to teach Duo drawing and music. Before her parents left, Duo had already received a Grade 9 certificate in piano, and had been coached and recognized by her publisher, Grandpa Li, in her illustration and manga skills.
In these three months, Xiao Lin always didn't come back to see her in this small garden, she was just assigned 2 private tutors. Every day respectively teach 2 hours of painting courses and piano courses. This kind of intensity gradually made Duo unconsciously come out from the grief of losing her parents, how could she not enjoy her own hobby? Duo even immersed herself in this learning.
~4~
"Are you going to stand like this as a statue?" The baritone voice that suddenly appeared behind him startled Duo, who was standing in front of the windowsill in a daze.
This man in the sunlight looks a bit taller, his eyes are still so cold, not at all like he is only in his 20s. Handsome look are destroyed by the corner of the mouth always hanging that wipe of indifference to the world, there must be nothing can make him square, Duo Duo heart muttered. Only she didn't realize that there was a small flame dancing in those eyes!
Duo was still grateful in her heart for his recent arrangements. Was it possible that someone so cold had once had an experience of being hurt?
"Come on, I'll take you for a walk in the back garden." Chief Kobayashi glanced at Duo's still melancholy eyes.
Duo Duo heard the call of the pony, in front of the eyes of the appearance of the small white horse is the former father raised in the countryside farm "Xiao Shuai", this surprise came so suddenly!
"Go change your clothes, you can't ride a horse in this dress." Xiao Lin always looked at the eyes have a luster of duo duo, speaking voice has a trace of imperceptible tenderness.
Duo Duo, who changed into horseback riding clothes, is more like a blooming lily, with a layer of light shyness floating in her big eyes, and a wonderful young girl's figure can't be covered up by what kind of clothes she wears. Prematurely experienced the baptism of the mall wind and rain of the small Lin total, looking at such a Duo Duo, can not help but have a trace of a more intense smile.
"Together!" , without Duo Duo's consent, General Xiao Lin propped her up on the horse and straddled the back of the horse together himself. Hands gently embraced Duo's waist.
"You quickly go down ah, I do not want ......" Duo Duo struggled and wanted to push away Xiao Lin always a little sudden warm embrace, cold little face all of a sudden red.
"If you move again, we will fall off the horse together ah, I do not guarantee that I will not kiss you in passing, anyway, you belong to me." Hearing such unreasonable words from Mr. Kobayashi, Duo was even more angry.
"You're just a debtor to my family, you don't have the right to control my feelings yet, I don't belong to you yet." Duo continued to struggle, "little handsome" seems to feel the reluctance of the little master, really "sent" them together off the horse.
Xiao Lin always had to use his arm to protect Duo Duo, the two people fell together on the grass, Duo Duo was almost held in his arms, a little frightened Duo Duo, looking at the face of the man in front of the near at hand, the first reaction is to quickly push him away.
Xiao Lin always in the arms of the girl is still a little fierce, but completely did not want to get angry at the idea, "Now the face is a lot better ah, no longer ice face ......." ,The big hand can not help but lift the long hair of Duo Duo blocked in front of the eyes, kissed Duo Duo's forehead.
He knew in his heart how much he cherished the girl in front of him, but he didn't want her to know his heartache, for the sudden death of his aunt and uncle, for her suddenly becoming an orphan. He just wanted to get the company on the right track as soon as possible. He wanted to formally pursue Duo Duo, now is not the time, she is still the same three years ago quietly in their home to play the piano little girl.
Prematurely trained by his family's culture to deal with things so calmly, there is a pure land in his heart where a beautiful memory is treasured.
It was three years ago, Duo Duo for the first time in his family's afternoon tea party to play the piano, he does not like too lively occasions, prefer the garden that the silence of the lakeside, a person sitting in the clouds miss the deceased mother, falling tears and will not pity a teenage boy's thoughts, but gave the courage to put down the armor, where there is no need to wear masks and disguises again.
Duo Duo is in that moment appeared in front of his eyes, beautiful big eyes without his fear of ridicule, holding a small handkerchief in his hand, looking at him sincerely, the teenager's heart is still too sensitive, he flew with Duo Duo's handkerchief and ran out of that garden, but always remembered the girl's eyes!
Duo Duo was so frightened by the sudden kiss that she immediately pushed away from Mr. Kobayashi, and couldn't care less about the hairpin that fell on the grass, and ran out of his field of vision.
Duo Duo sat on the edge of the bed, holding a picture of her parents, how much she wanted to ask her father what this Mr. Lin Jr. was really like? Why do you want to treat yourself like this? Is it that after paying off the debt they can leave here? Uncle never came to contact himself again. Duo Duo felt like a discarded handkerchief that could only flutter in the wind, not knowing where the next place to accept herself would be? Nowhere was home anymore.
~5~
Mr. Kobayashi has been busy for a full six months, and has only just begun to bring Duo's father's White's business into regularity.
What Duo doesn't know is that it was her incompetent uncle who not only couldn't help the company, but almost brought it down. It was to save the company that her father went to an important client's party and had the misfortune to meet the drunk driver.
He still remembers that bright afternoon, Duo Duo's father came to him and told him everything about Duo Duo's uncle's bad behavior, but unfortunately, there was still insufficient evidence at that time, and the company was being shortchanged badly, and at that time, the focus was all on cultivating new clients.
"My Duo Duo is still very small, and always like to live in their own built dream pavilion, very impractical, I never let him contact business matters, in the future to be more trouble you take care of her!" These words always echoed in the heart of Mr. Xiao Lin, but unfortunately, he can only take care of DuoDuo in such a "capacity".
He was unable to comfort Duo Duo's sadness, and felt that the only thing he could do now was to make Duo Duo's parents' company as good as possible as soon as possible, so that Duo Duo will have a future to rely on, and now Duo Duo can only continue to misunderstand.
"Go to work at Grandpa Li's place, right? Don't always be so cold to the driver in the future, he was sent by me to protect you." Duo Duo just stepped into the gate, he heard General Xiao Lin's voice from behind.
"I don't need someone to protect ah, I can go by myself." Duo didn't try to take the favor, though in her heart she was grateful for his arrangement.
"If I say I want it, I want it!" Xiao Lin always looked at the still stubborn girl, can not let her know that "she" has now become his weakness, in the mall to survive, and how will not make enemies it! I don't know when the risk will come.
In the afternoon, he took Duo Duo to see the sea, that Duo Duo is familiar with the sea, there are too many father's breath. Because he understands that after so long, Duo still just buried the pain of losing parents in the heart, every day just repeating life, like a wildflower in the corner of the wall stubbornly survive.
He watched Duo Duo running alone on the beach, and from time to time stopped to stare blankly at the sea, watched the little girl's emotions in the slow venting, heard the slight cry coming from the other end of the beach.......
The other day prepared a blue stone like a star, is specially their own well-polished, hidden in the coat pocket, in the dodo alone to see the sea, buried in the sand and gravel not far from the dodo.
The blue stone hanging from his chest was a 20th birthday present from his mother, never left his side, and he wanted to give Duo a similar one.
"This stone looks a lot like you, so melancholy!" He walked over to the beach, pretending to have just picked it up, and handed Duo the stone in his hand.
Duo looked at the somewhat flirtatious man in front of him, and his eyes began to drift a little, his smile could be so warm. This stone is so special, very glossy and moist looking, like it has been living in the ocean for a long time, and how much this layer of light blue color is like his current mood!
? ~6~
Subsequent months, Duo Duo did not see a few times in the small forest, but always in the newspaper to see his father's company has resumed appearing in the front page headlines, are some good news, can not help but feel comforted, but do not have any contact information of the small forest, and can not tell him.
Duo Duo also do not understand their own emotional changes, this year or so, she began to have some expectation of his arrival. A young girl's feelings are always prone to sentimentality, and Duo seems to feel the care behind his indifferent concern!
Although he did not have much time for Duo Duo. But in the publishing house, Duo occasionally always pass by Grandpa Li's office, heard himself was mentioned, heard Grandpa Li called each other "small Lin total", in Duo's heart, he has a layer of halo.
The nanny always put some books on her bedside, sometimes poetry, sometimes prose, reading can give Duo a lot of comfort.
She didn't know that Xiaolin would always sit on the edge of her bed when she was asleep, read the page she had marked, and then write on the back of the bookmark, "I wish that the years would be quiet, and that you and I would be the same as we were at the beginning!
Duo Duo did not know that this blessing, hidden in a man's deep love for himself.
? ~7~
In the afternoon, her uncle suddenly ran here to pick her up, saying that she could leave here, and that the family's debts had been paid off. Mr. Kobayashi didn't need her and couldn't restrict her anymore.
And Duo did not even have the contact information of Mr. Xiao Lin, and she did not own a cell phone in the past 2 years, it was the nanny who told her when he would come, and sometimes he would suddenly appear.
DuoDuo couldn't find her own reason not to leave, and silently followed her uncle out of here.
The bookmarks in the book that fell by chance that day, she knew that Mr. Xiaolin had come to see her at night, and she knew that she probably cared about this man who was her "debtor", and she knew that she wanted to talk to him, but she couldn't find the answer to her feelings!
The first place her uncle took her was to the beach, where her father had always taken her, and Dodo was happy to go because she wanted to find the same blue stone again.
Duo Duo where will know that her uncle is lying to him, Xiao Lin always used 2 years to find out the previous past financial deficit records, but also smooth to let the company back on track, did not live up to her father's life before the entrustment.
The uncle is at the end of his tether, he realizes that the only heir to Bai's business is Bai Duo Duo for these 2 years of hard work by Xiao Lin always, he will get nothing, then no one will get it.
This man knows Duo Duo's feelings for this sea, on the way to find an opportunity to give Duo Duo's mineral water bottle with sleeping pills. Sure enough, Duo Duo started to get sleepy after walking on the beach for a while. Such an opportunity for this man who no longer has a conscience, there is nothing to hesitate, he pushed Duo Duo smooth into that sea.
~8~
Duo was rescued by a passing sea boat, a beautiful little island with only five or six families, and Xiao Liu's mother-in-law took her in.
Duo Duo's body slowly began to recover, only due to the head hit the reef, the eyes have only a little weak vision left, also lost part of the memory. Duo can draw and play the piano, and when her mother-in-law finds out, she finds an old koto, one of the old belongings of the patriarch of the area. By teaching music lessons to the children in the village, Duo can earn an income to support herself.
Facing the sea, Duo Duo listened to the sound of the waves and firmly told herself that from now on, start a quiet life, she no longer owes Mr. Xiao Lin anything. The heart does still hurt, still yearning for that land, he is okay?
But she does not understand, he never needed her to return any, he just wanted to let her by his side in that way, can protect her.
Duo Duo still has the blue stone hanging from her chest, untouched. She just didn't realize that the stones that Chief Kobayashi randomly picked up on the beach were precious thoughts. Everything seems to be starting over!
That "girl" is indeed the call of Mr. Lin. After Duo was thrown into the sea by her uncle, he has been sending people to look for her all the time, did not expect his own feelings or Duo's uncle looked in the eyes, turned into a weapon of attack, when he reported Duo's uncle, did not expect so soon Duo will be picked up, there will be such a tragedy.
He will confess to Duo Duo, everything has been better, has not it? And he does not know, his Duo himself does not know that he is also in love, but even more inferior, she does not want to owe him too much, his busyness turned into a weapon for the bad guys to attack him to accuse him of the tragedy, once the tragedy is staged, how will the end be?
He walked toward the school where Duo taught, holding in his hand the hairpin that Duo dropped earlier, and Duo's blue handkerchief.
He finally saw the girl he loved so much that he wanted to rush over and hug her, but he couldn't help but call out a long-lost "girl" first.
"I'm here, and I'll never leave you again! Let me be your eyes!"
Love, can not be accurately expressed in words, only you and I heart to heart, to understand the deep meaning of love!
Please be sure not to give up!
The road of love is always full of thorns, and will encounter a variety of unspeakable misunderstanding. We all get along in ways that we feel are better for the other party, and sometimes there's just a little bit of bluntness missing, a little bit of quiet time for two people to spend together.
If you love each other, you don't have to say sorry, please allow me to get closer to you first.