Chapter 27 6. Unfortunately, I waited for you for three hours

After not playing for a long time on the boat, Danny Hagrid and Yang Xiaoyuan suddenly became so familiar. The two talked about sailboat maintenance, the US election, and the osprey in southern China to the recent severe drought in North Africa that occurred once in a century.Danny Haig said to Yang Xiaoyuan: "Did you know that the dust in Provence and the southern provinces is particularly severe this year, and the sand from the Sahara has come across the Mediterranean Sea." Yang Xiaoyuan said: "You are exaggerating too much, how can you be so powerful." He is the only one who can chat. The occasional surprise and subtle distrust stimulated the other party's stronger desire to confide and explain. The dialogue was effectively maintained and became more and more speculative.

Danny Hagrid said very seriously, "I'm telling you..." "Remy." Yang Xiaoyuan reminded him of his name. "Let me tell you, Remy, I came back from Provence yesterday, the car was parked outside, it rained all night, and the next morning there was yellow mud on the car." He laughed, "You really should Look at the expression on my driver, Monsieur Dijon." Yang Xiaoyuan also laughed: "You came back from Provence?" "Yeah," he said, "go to my house for dinner later, I've brought back some good wine. You and your girl... she's not having a good day, isn't she? Does she speak French?"

Huihui kept looking at the lake, she could hear what he said, when she heard him teasing her with Yang Xiaoyuan from behind, when Yang Xiaoyuan agreed to go to the villa facing the lake at No. How come I never realized that Danny Hagrid could be a villain. When getting off the boat, Huihui grabbed Yang Xiaoyuan and said stubbornly, "I'm tired and want to go back." Yang Xiaoyuan looked at Danny Hagrid on the boat, then turned to her and said, "I promise, we'll leave after a while, okay? Please, big sister." Danny Hagrid came over after tying the boat, looked at the two young men who were discussing in a low voice, and suddenly smiled.There is a kind of provocation in that smile and tolerance, as if to say, it doesn't matter if you don't go, I know you are afraid.

Huihui understood that he was watching her play, and he wanted her to be uncomfortable. She held Yang Xiaoyuan's hand tightly. After three full years, the house has not changed at all, the carpet, the picture table next to the fireplace, the statue of the cherub, and the balcony full of flowers.Going down from that balcony, there is a winding path leading directly to the lake. The path is paved with white stones and surrounded by countless creeping green plants. It has been decorated and arranged, and roses of various colors bloom in all seasons.They stood in the living room watching this beautiful scene in the twilight, and Yang Xiaoyuan admired it.Huihui thought: You still don’t know, the lower part of this room is his carpentry workshop, and the sawdust of Fraxinus mandshurica piled up all year round is like white snow; the upper part of this room is Danny Hagrid’s bedroom, in my After that, how many women have been cared for and loved by him?

Danny Hagrid said, "Going down from here, there's a dike where ten otters live." He poured wine for Yang Xiaoyuan with the wine in his hand: "I like otters because they are hardworking. I also like smart and hardworking young people." "The otter is not only hardworking, but also romantic." Huihui thought to herself.There were only three of them when she was here, and how quickly the family has expanded!She laughed silently thinking of this, and Danny Hagrid and Yang Xiaoyuan looked back at her at the same time. Start the dinner with shrimp salad and lamb shoulder with black truffle.

Yang Xiaoyuan suddenly got a phone call, he went to the balcony to answer the phone, chatting like a different person all night.Danny Haig, who has always regarded Huihui as a transparent person, said the only sentence to her: "Shrimp salad, lamb shoulder with black truffle, I remember right?" She looked up at him and said nothing. On the way back, she felt that this Sunday was like a dream. Until now, she couldn't turn her head around. How did she come to Chambery?How did she come back to No. 15, Rue du Lou?How did she get on the same boat with Danny Hagrid again and eat at the same table with him?

She remembered the dream she had of sitting on the train, and suddenly realized that the scenery you want to avoid quickly, the scenery you want to forget, will not be erased because you don't want to look back, they are always there , once the train goes back, all the plots are vivid again. Her head hurts. Yang Xiaoyuan sent her to the door of the house, and Huihui was about to open the door and get off the car. He held her hand: "What? Why did you just leave? Are you still angry?" "It's okay, I'm just tired. I told you a long time ago, you know it." Huihui said.

"Hey, look back at me," he said. "Am I so wrong? I just try to make some money. What people like Danny Hagrid say and do, it's very important to us. How big the impact is, you don't know." She looked back at him and saw that he was frowning slightly. He was telling the truth. Huihui shook her head: "I said no more, I'm just a little tired, and you are too. It's been a day of playing, go back to sleep, and return tomorrow." Gotta go to work." Yang Xiaoyuan said: "Thank you for being with me today. It is very important for me to know Danny Hagrid. I must take his business."

Huihui was a little more energetic at this time: "What kind of business does he do?" "He wants to acquire 'Yiyun'. If it succeeds, it will need financing and reorganization or start a new project. If it fails, a large amount of idle funds will be withdrawn. Where will it be put? It also needs to find a bank to operate temporarily, so no matter whether Haigri can I have something to do with the successful acquisition of 'Yiyun'." Yang Xiaoyuan said. "So," Huihui asked, "do you think he can successfully acquire 'Yiyun'?" Yang Xiaoyuan pondered for a while: "No, he can't do it."

"why?" "You may not understand that Danny Hager has become the major shareholder of almost all large mineral water production companies in a few years, except for the 'Yiyun' he wants to operate and his own 'Hager'. Businesses include Bardot, Vichy, and San Perino in Italy..." "You mean, Danny Hagrid he almost owns..." "Yes, all the high-quality mineral springs in Western Europe," Yang Xiaoyuan said, "and 'Yiyun' is the last bastion of government control." "So, he's fighting the government, right?"

"Yes," Yang Xiaoyuan said, "Huihui, if someone can fight for oil, then someone will pay ten times the price for water. Do you think the government will let Danny Hagrid monopolize water?" Monopoly, sometimes monopoly, monopoliser (monopoly), this is an act that can be punished as a felony. "So, he can't succeed, so, I'm waiting," he said, "I'm waiting for him to have to take the money out of the Yiyun acquisition and transfer it to us for the time being, even for a short period of time. .” "Of course," Yang Xiaoyuan said, "This is my personal analysis, but I'm not Danny Hagrid. No one knows what he can do." Huihui said, "I wish you good luck, but Xiaoyuan..." She looked at him, "Firstly, don't violate the law, and secondly, don't harm others." "What are you talking about?" He smiled. "It's the bank's business, it's just my job. But, Huihui," he called her again, correcting her, "you wish us luck. Wait for me After earning enough money, I want to buy an island and plant it full of roses, and I also sail boats and raise otters all day long. Of course, it must be with you." The lights in the car were warm yellow, and he looked at her affectionately when he spoke, she leaned forward and hugged him tightly: "Okay, wish us good luck." At the end of April, Yang Xiaoyuan, who was suffering from a severe cold, was sent to the United States on a business trip for a week.There is a time difference between them, the evening in France and the morning in the United States, he always calls at this time.When he was not at work and her shop was not busy, the two chatted a few words.She asked him, "What medicine are you taking?" He said: "What kind of medicine are you taking? Young and strong, drink plain water." So everything explains why his nasal voice is getting more and more thick, and his voice is getting hoarse.It turned out that brother Xiaoyuan didn't take a single pill, so he just took boiled water on top.A person's health-preserving habits are as hard to shake as beliefs, and Huihui can't do it either. He can do whatever he wants. There are still many people who believe in boiled water.That day an Arab boy came to her shop, he looked like he was in his twenties, he was wearing a white robe, a white headscarf and a black headband. Huihui stood up and said to him, "Hello." The boy saluted her slightly and looked at the dazzling array of products around the walls: "Is this your store?" Hui Hui said, "Yes, I sell honey, royal jelly, and propolis." "Are all these different colors honey?" "That's right, different flowers produce honey with different flavors and different nutritional values." Huihui said. She gave him some samples with a small plastic spoon: "Please taste it, this is rose nectar." He dipped his fingers into the honey on the spoon, put it in his mouth, nodded, and said to Huihui, "It tastes good." She poured him a glass of water, telling him to clear his mouth before trying other nectars.He took the glass of water with both hands and took a long gulp.The way he drank water made her feel very interesting, clasped his hands, and looked at the water in the glass, as if holding a holy object. The Arab boy didn't try any other honey. He bought a bottle of the rose nectar he had just tasted and left. Before he left, he drank the water that Huihui poured for him. The boy has black hair and black eyes, and there are green hawthorns with beards on his cheeks.She thought this face was familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen it before. She told herself that it might be because all Arabs looked alike. Therefore, Xiao Duo always said that this woman has an unrealistic bad habit. She can't see the ordinary and stable scenery around her, and she always pays attention to those strange characters and things. "Drinking water is like holding a sacred object. How can you figure it out, big sister? You want to compose poetry?" Xiao Duo said. Huihui never quarreled, but she just looked at Qin Duofang and said in her heart: This person is of low quality, I will never tell her about the interesting things I saw. According to the old habit, when she left Xiaoduo's shop, the proprietress packed her a lot of food in large and small packages, and told her while packing: "This beef, I simmered it, you don't even have oil. You don’t need to put it down, just put it in the pot and pull it out. This curry, let me tell you, the chef of an Indian restaurant knows Xiao Pei. He came to our restaurant at noon today and brought it to me by the way. I’m not willing to eat it all. , I left some for you... Also, why did you buy me so many wild strawberries? It’s so expensive, and you can’t hold it at all, and it will break a lot tomorrow, so you can take half a box back.” At the door of the house, Huihui had to put all the packages in her hand on the ground to find the key to open the door. She laughed when she thought of Xiaoduo's nagging—Xiaoduo was becoming more and more like a mother. The lights in the corridor were all off. Before the absent-minded Huihui found her key from her handbag, she reached out to press the light switch. Before she could touch it, the light turned on. It turned out that someone turned it on for her. Huihui turned her head and saw Danny Hagrid standing behind. "It's you?" She stroked her hair, licked her dry mouth, and suddenly felt like she couldn't speak French. Danny Hagrid is wearing a white silk shirt and blue trousers.He came over, helped her pick up the things on the ground, and said, "Yes, it's me." "What a coincidence..." Her stupid statement made Danny Hagrid laugh: "Unfortunately, I have been waiting for you for three hours." "..." "Won't you invite me to sit inside?" She didn't answer, just turned around and opened the door.There was nothing in her head, she just said to herself, this is Danny Hagrid, this is Danny Hagrid, this is Danny, Danny who was waiting for her at her door for three hours.In the small space in the corridor, there was a faint smell of mint from his body, which was as thin as a layer of mist and a dream, so thin that she didn't dare to breathe, she was afraid that the dream would be broken or end suddenly. They entered the house, and Huihui pointed to the place under the refrigerator in the kitchen: "You can put these things there." Danny Hagrid walked over to put things away as promised. An empty mineral water bottle fell down. He lifted it up and looked at it: "You still drink this water?" She nodded: "I'm not used to drinking other things...but your water is too expensive." He didn't speak. Hui Hui said: "I only have a pair of slippers, but the floor is wiped clean, you can take them off." "Okay." Danny Hagrid took off his shoes and put them next to hers. "It's too small here, and there's really nothing to see here." Huihui said, "This is the kitchen, and this is the living room. The house was empty before. I added the furniture myself. The sofa and TV are all second-hand bought online. Yes, the refrigerator and washing machine are new." "Well," Danny Hagrid nodded, "it's a good deal." "The room here is my study and office. Hehe, in fact, there is nothing but the computer, the desk, and the chair. Oh, the closet is there." "You bought this set of tables and chairs at IKEA?" "Ok." "You installed it yourself?" "Yes indeed." He laughed: "It's amazing." "There are explanatory diagrams, I follow the instructions, it is not difficult." Huihui said. "This is my bedroom." Huihui said.The bedroom door was open, so she stood at the door and let him have a look, "Look, it's not bad to be able to see the Rhone from here, isn't it?" Danny Haig said appreciatively: "Very, very good, this is a comfortable place." Then he looked at her: "I'm thirsty." "Oh, okay. What do you want to drink?" Hui Hui asked, "Is your company's mineral water, juice or tea? I have some tea that doesn't affect sleep." Danny Hagrid said, "Okay, that's it." She went to the kitchen to boil water for him to make tea, and as she watched the water gradually boil in the small pot, she thought: It's almost ten o'clock, how long will he delay it? She is a kind child, and now she is meeting this person again, so many questions and accusations are in her heart, and she can't ask them out.For example, I am sleepy, when do you want to leave?Like why did you come to me?Do you have nowhere else to go?Also, don't you have other women to accompany you to pass the time?Why are you bothering me? In fact, she didn't even know how to say a word, and it was useless to compete with herself, so she just put the soothing tea in a water glass and brought it to the living room. He was the one who asked for water, but he fell asleep, his head resting on a sofa cushion, his body lying flat, sound asleep, breathing softly.Huihui held the teacup and stood there without moving for a long time.What's the matter? She put down the water and wanted to push him to wake him up, but she stretched out her hand, but she dared not move him.She sat on the floor next to the couch and thought for a long time looking at the face that was sleeping soundly.He waited at her door for three hours, well, I'll let him stay here overnight. She turned off the light in the living room, then tiptoed and carefully went to the bathroom to wash, she hid the wooden comb with her name engraved on it, then changed into her pajamas, took today's newspaper from the small basket at the door, and returned to herself bedroom.She closed the door, went to bed, turned on the small lamp beside the bed, opened the newspaper, and saw the headline on the front page: "Higer" failed to acquire "Yiyun", and the European Trade Commission may Launch a monopoly investigation. Huihui froze there all of a sudden, it was true.