Chapter 19 Chapter 19 Love Is a Disease

After the busy National Day holiday, Feng Lan agreed to suspend the business for one day under Kangkang's strong instigation, and "train" all staff. They chose a reservoir outside the urban area for their training. To put it bluntly, they organized everyone to go to an outdoor barbecue to relax and comfort the previous hard work. We are all people who deal with food and drink on weekdays, so it is easy to handle a barbecue in the district.The kitchen had prepared sufficient ingredients early on. As soon as they arrived at the destination, the men unloaded their tools and made preparations in three strokes. The girls quickly grilled meat skewers over charcoal fire.

Feng Lan was enjoying the breeze of the autumn countryside on a deck chair by the water.It's not bad to go out for a walk occasionally, and my mood seems to be as bright and clear as the rippling water in front of me.Of course, she would not forget that the clouds are thin in autumn, and ultraviolet rays are the most likely to age the skin. She lazily flipped through a few pages of the book and pulled down the brim of the sun hat. Soon, the unique aroma of barbecue wafted from behind her.When I was a child, the family was strictly controlled. Barbecue and other things were blacklisted in Feng's family. Mother Feng would not let me touch them, saying that eating them would be bad for my health.Feng Lan has been scolded a lot, and gradually he doesn't eat it much, almost forgetting how attractive the taste is.

What you can't eat often has a taboo attraction, even if you know it's harmful but not beneficial.Feng Lan had only read a few pages of the book, and it seemed that he had brought back some of the literature and art of his girlhood. "you go……" "You should go." "No one is allowed to go, let Ono deliver it." The nosy Liu Kangkang seemed to have finally settled in another boring prevarication.Not long after, familiar footsteps approached Feng Lan accompanied by a delicious smell.Feng Lan's heart speeded up again, wanting to cover up, covering his face with the book, pretending he didn't know it.

Ding Xiaoye didn't bother her, he put the grilled kebabs on the open space beside her chair and was about to leave. "Hello!" Feng Lan stopped him, removed the book on his face, with a half smile and anger, his eyes rolling. "The weather is so nice, stay with me for a while." Ding Xiaoye did not refuse, sat on the ground, picked up a small stone and threw it into the water.The bright sky dispelled the gloom, and his face was young and clear under the sun and the breeze. "What are you reading?" Ding Xiaoye raised his hand and flipped Feng Lan's book.

Feng Lan pursed her lips and smiled, "Shall I read a passage to you?" "Up to you." He bluntly picked up the meat skewers from the paper plate and took a bite. Feng Lan read to the book: "I know you are vulgar and frivolous, but I love you. I know your plans and your shamelessness, but I love you. I know you are a liar and a hooligan, but I love you... ...I love you so deeply, I don't care about these..." She put the book on her chest, and looked at him with a smile, "I didn't say that, it's written in the book." "Is there really this passage in the book?" Ding Xiaoye asked with interest.

"Of course, or you can see for yourself." Feng Lan seemed in a good mood. Ding Xiaoye also smiled and said, "Maugham will be mad at you if he is alive." "Yeah, you know Maugham too, what should we do?" Feng Lan said this, but he wasn't very surprised.He can listen to Brahms' waltz on the folding bed in the warehouse, and he can naturally "know" Maugham. Ding Xiaoye took her book, flipped it on his lap, found a certain page, and the smile on his face deepened. He also read a few words accordingly: "Here it is said that 'women regard love as very important and want to convince us...actually love is just an insignificant part of life. We only understand lust, which is normal and healthy .Love is a disease'."

"Are you healthy?" Feng Lan squinted at him. Ding Xiaoye put the book back on her body and said, "You are not so sick." A toy ball rolled towards them, and someone called out from a distance: "Baby, come here quickly, don't disturb uncle and aunt." It was the voice of the chef's lover. Today, many employees brought their family members. The chef’s wife and children joined the battle, and the store manager’s son also came. For the first time, Lao Li brought out the "yellow-faced woman" he often mentioned, and Xiaojiao was accompanied by her Even Fangfang accepted Ah Cheng's new boyfriend, and the two shyly showed off their sweetness.

That's great. Feng Lan picked up the toy ball and threw it back to the children with a smile. Feng Lan didn't like children in the past, and when he accidentally passed the milk powder shelf in the supermarket, he was always embarrassed and inexplicable when asked by the salesman "How old is the child".In her mind, giving birth to a child is an extremely destructive thing, which will ruin a woman's figure and the rest of her life.Yet she wondered now, if she had children—who would their children look like?Will it have his eyes and nose?It’s better to have a mouth like hers, be as tall as your father, and have a skin like your mother’s.Needless to say about Ding Xiaoye's appearance, others often praise her for being good-looking. It is the biggest waste of good genes not to be combined with each other.Maybe twenty years later, that child will be like his father, proudly saying in front of a woman: "My mother is a beauty..."

Feng Lan knew that he was thinking too far away. It is dangerous and stupid for a woman to think of this step first, which is the rhythm of "death".She couldn't even articulate these fantasies.Ding Xiaoye resisted all her ideas about the future. She didn't want to hear him say "Feng Lan, if you take it too seriously, the game won't be fun" again, and she didn't want to make things difficult for herself.It's not worth it to make each other uncomfortable in such an atmosphere. But how can it be possible to love someone without thinking about the future we share with him?He will be a handsome old man when he is old, and she will still have to put on nail polish when she is seventy years old, and she will leave lipstick marks on her face when she takes off her dentures and kisses him.He wore reading glasses to cut her nails, and then sat beside her as casually as now. They laughed at each other, confronted each other, quarreled until their faces were red and their necks were thick, and then they reconciled without principle.

She didn't sit back on the reclining chair, and sat cross-legged on the ground eating barbecue like him, watching the reeds swaying gently by the water. "Didn't you notice that I am different today?" Feng Lan poked Ding Xiaoye with his elbow, he turned to look at her, and the reed tassel in his mouth brushed her cheek. "No." His words were far less charming than the scene in front of him. Feng Lan wanted to beat him up.She turned his face with one hand, let him look at her carefully, and said with feigned anger: "Look carefully... Really? You have eyes, don't you?"

Seeing her attitude of not giving up until she achieved her goal, Ding Xiaoye chose to calm down. He looked her up and down several times and asked, "Where did you find this dress?" "Does it look good?" Feng Lan looked a little nervous, but also looking forward to it. Feng Lan's dress today is different from usual, a simple T-shirt and jeans.In her opinion, this may be a rare change, but in Ding Xiaoye's eyes, the same woman can wear almost the same clothes. Feng Lan said: "Why can't I have such clothes? I usually wear them like this." "Oh." "Do you believe it?" "letter." "That's the end? Boring." Ding Xiaoye finally couldn't help laughing, he asked the disappointed Feng Lan: "What do you want to express? Remind me, just take it as a kindness." Feng Lan went to play with the shoelaces on his feet, letting them wrap around his palms. "Actually, I don't usually wear it like this. Last night I searched through the closet at home, and my college clothes had long been donated by my mother. Later, I rushed to buy this outfit near the university town before the store closed." "Why do you want to do this?" "I know you won't dress up for me, and I don't want to force you. But I want to look more harmonious when I sit next to you, so that I will have the illusion that I am not that far away from you." Ding Xiaoye looked down at the half-worn round-neck T-shirt and jeans on his body, but did not speak. Feng Lan laughed at herself: "I also did a very ridiculous thing. I was worried that the clothes looked too new and looked very deliberate, so I threw them in the washing machine and stirred them for a few hours before drying them. .does it look like that now?" After she finished speaking, she found Ding Xiaoye was looking at her. "Are you going to laugh at me? You can start now, don't say too harsh words!" Ding Xiaoye said, "It's okay." "What's okay?" Feng Lan didn't react for a moment. Ding Xiaoye picked up another stone and threw it into the distant water, but this time the stone failed to float up. "Clothes and people," he said. "Really?" Feng Lan smiled, happiness spread in her heart like ripples on the surface of water. Ding Xiaoye also nodded with a smile, "Really." Just halfway through the barbecue, Feng Lan answered a call from the police station, saying that the car she had lost was found and the suspect had been arrested, so she was asked to come over and go through the formalities. Feng Lan repeated the content of the phone call to Ding Xiaoye.Ding Xiaoye said: "You go, Zeng Fei will handle this kind of thing very well." Feng Lan undoubtedly hoped that Ding Xiaoye would go with her more, but she didn't want to force him, so she nodded, greeted everyone and left early. On the way to the police station, Zeng Fei really called Feng Lan.He is an organized person, since he intervened in this matter, he will start well and end well. With Zeng Fei by his side, the next thing went smoothly.Feng Lan identified the suspect who robbed her twice. Just as Ding Xiaoye expected, that guy was a long-term drug addict with countless criminal records.Feng Lan's vote was the biggest sum he and his accomplices had ever made, and there was nothing clever about it. After driving the car out of the building where Feng Lan lived, he detoured into a nearby path, where his accomplice's large van was waiting.Feng Lan's mini was loaded into the trunk and sold on the black market.The case wasn't complicated at all, but it happened that the surveillance cameras on the road where the incident happened were out of order, so it took a lot of work. Feng Lan got the pick-up certificate and walked out of the police station with Zeng Fei.She originally wanted to find the lost car immediately, so that the thief would be punished as he should.Now that everyone has got all the stolen goods, one thing is settled in their hearts, but they are not pleasantly surprised.She took advantage of the theft of the car to enjoy the time of Ding Xiaoye's personal escort with confidence, and now she has no more excuses. She used to like that car so much, but thinking of it being tossed and turned several times in the hands of vicious thieves and completely remodeled, she was not very sure whether she could drive it on the road without any grudges in the future. Even if the people at the police station didn't remind Feng Lan, she knew that Zeng Fei had put in a lot of effort to find her car this time.Standing at the gate of the police station, she sincerely said to Zeng Fei, "Thank you." Zeng Fei didn't care, just let Feng Lan treat him to a meal.He seemed to be deliberating for a while before asking her: "Are you and Ding Xiaoye together?" "What's wrong?" Feng Lan was surprised. "It's better not." Zeng Fei said, "Stay away from him, I feel that something is wrong with him." Feng Lan certainly didn't think that Zeng Fei said this out of selfishness, he was not that kind of person. She asked softly, "What happened to him?" She found that her palms were covered in cold sweat. Zeng Fei shook his head, and said: "I don't have enough confidence and evidence yet, so I can't say irresponsible words. But sooner or later I will find out his details. No matter what his true face is, it is not your choice. Object. Feng Lan, don't be fooled by his appearance." Feng Lan remained silent.How can she not know Ding Xiaoye's weirdness, but she is willing to let love blind her eyes.If Ding Xiaoye's father is really the person he described, with such a father, it is not surprising that his experience is not a blank slate.People can't choose their own path, but good and evil have their own heart. Ding Xiaoye behaves both righteously and evilly, and his mouth is cold and ruthless, but his heart is much kinder than his mouth.Feng Lan didn't have the confidence to say that he had his heart, but he stubbornly believed that that heart had no malice towards him. Bad things are yet to come.Feng Lan's parents somehow heard the news that their daughter's car had been robbed and recovered by the police, and anxiously asked her to "see" her. Zeng Fei swears that he is definitely not the one who leaked the news, but it cannot be ruled out that it is his mother or his sister who talk too much.His sister Zeng Wen is still working in the public security system. Although she is a civilian, she is well-informed.Not to mention his mother, Lao An's family members have a large number of acquaintances who have retired or are still working.Zeng Fei didn't mention it in front of them, and they couldn't guarantee that they would express their "concern" to Feng Lan's parents after hearing the news. Zeng Fei sent Feng Lan to her parents' door and left.Just as Feng Lan expected, a "torture to extract a confession" was waiting for her. Parents' overreactions are all because they are worried about her. If she has anything to say, just keep her eyebrows down and scold her. After Feng Lan promised her parents to change their minds in the future, pay attention to safety, and immediately move back home without any excuses if there is any trouble, this matter is about to turn over, unexpectedly, Feng's mother brought up Ding Xiaoye again. Mother Feng stopped to drink water three times during her rant, and what she said was nothing more than: Don't think she doesn't know that Feng Lan is very close to that male waiter now, she feels ashamed for Feng Lan.I worked so hard to raise Feng Lan, take care of her, and educate her, is it just to let her have a romantic relationship with the waiter?The most frustrating thing is that Feng Lan is still not fully sure that the other party is also interested in her, which is a shame to the family. Mother Feng didn't want her daughter to get involved with Ding Xiaoye at all, but she couldn't accept it even more. Based on her daughter's conditions, it should be that she played with a small waiter, but the fact was reversed. Mother Feng asked a question, and Feng Lan answered a question.Although I didn't dare to tell the truth completely, but based on my mother's understanding of her, after a few rounds, I already understood the extent of my daughter's fall in this relationship and the predicament she was in. "Do you have a brain? That Ding Xiaoye is exactly the 'three no men' mentioned on TV. He doesn't take the initiative, refuses, and promises. Oh, you really pissed me off." Mother Feng pressed her heart, heartbroken Say. Feng Lan was also very wronged in front of her mother, and said, "What can I do? I can neither control my mind nor his mind." Mother Feng knocked her on the head with a newspaper, "Are you born to me? You are just like your father. Do you think he really doesn't like you when he rejects you? He's a smart guy, trying to get you to win your appetite." , and eat you until there is no scum left." She sighed, "You are covered in lard now, and it is a waste of time to tell you more. Well, you bring him back, and I want to have a good talk with him again. , ask him personally what he means, I can't let you mess around outside. This time your father is also with you, if you don't live up to it, our second elder will check you out." Feng Lan was taken aback, the change came too suddenly.She would rather her mother resolutely oppose it as before and have no contact with Ding Xiaoye, and she dare not bring Ding Xiaoye to her parents now. "Don't disturb the muddy water! Do you think I'm not messy enough? No, I'm not mentally prepared!" She immediately protested. Feng's mother understood clearly, and asked: "Is it because you are not mentally prepared, or is he not planning at all? I saw a saying on the Internet called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect', which said that the more people in the family objected, the younger The more sticky the couple is, the more they think that those who disobey the elders are true love. I discussed it with your father, and we are not unreasonable parents. You are an adult and insist on taking a difficult path. We can't stop you, help You can still explore the way. Don't tell me that you don't even have the ability to bring him back, what would you think if you were the parents?" "Mom... don't force me." "Feng Lan, you are not a child anymore, your parents are doing it for your own good, don't you know that?" Feng's father, who has always listened a lot and talked little about family affairs, also spoke at the right time, "We don't ask you to find Wealthy people, if you like them, I respect them. Labor doesn’t distinguish between high and low, we can’t look at people with colored glasses. If the young man is really good-natured, diligent and motivated, your mother disagrees, and your father supports you..." Feng Lan's father raised his hand to stop his wife from interjecting, and continued: "The premise is that your mother and I want to meet him. It doesn't need to be very formal, just have a casual meal, and I'll show you, isn't it too much? Dad's Can't you trust your vision? Just make it tomorrow night. A man who can't even agree to your request is not worth considering." Feng Lan couldn't make a sound anymore.Although her father usually doesn't care about things, it seems that the big and small things in the family are decided by Feng's mother, but everyone in the family knows that if her father doesn't speak up, it's fine.What he said just now has completely expressed their attitude, either bring him back, or never talk about it.If she couldn't bring Ding Xiaoye back tomorrow, they would give up all possibility of accepting him, and Ding Xiaoye would definitely not be able to stay in the restaurant any longer.This was the biggest concession they could make for her.