gentle fall

The matter of Pei Songxi's resignation caused heated discussions outside, and even within the Wen family and the Pei family, it was undoubtedly a shock.

Wen Yan had just recovered from a serious illness, and he was in a good mood. Unexpectedly, his eldest grandson's marriage contract was suddenly ruined in this way.

What Wen Huaiyu was most worried about was not other people, but he was afraid of making grandpa angry, so when making other arrangements, the first thing was to consider the feelings of the elderly and avoid excessive emotional fluctuations.

Fortunately, the old man's face was gloomy. Although he was full of rage, he controlled his emotions very well. He just sat alone and remained silent.

The elders of the Pei family were also alarmed. Mr. Pei called home early in the morning. Wen Yan was sitting on the sofa, and when he heard the ringing, his eyes were stern: "Don't answer."

The phone calls were made one after another. Mr. Pei probably knew that Wen Yan was really angry, so he came to visit in person. Wen Yan sat at home without even raising his eyelids: "Don't open the door."

Wen Huaiyu couldn't help sighing softly: "Grandpa, what I said may make you angry. But something has happened, and the important thing now is to solve the problem, now is not the time to vent your anger."

Wen Yan raised his head, and there were two bright lights in his eyes: "Huaiyu, did you know about this a long time ago?"

Wen Huaiyu was taken aback by his sudden question, felt guilty, but looked calm: "I never got along with her, Pei Songxi. How could I know?"

Wen Yan snorted coldly: "Where's your elder brother?"

"Brother went to visit a friend a few days ago, and received news in the morning that he was already on his way back."

"How is he?"

"Fortunately, the eldest brother said that he is fine, please rest assured."

Wen Yan sneered coldly: "Your elder brother is the eldest grandson of my Wen family, but he has suffered such a great humiliation this time. But any man will lose face if he is put on like this."

Wen Huaiyu echoed, "Yes. The Pei family really did not act kindly this time, otherwise Mr. Pei would not be still outside now."

"Pei Tiancheng is still outside?"

"Yes. Would you like to invite him in?"

Wen Yan waved his hand: "Please tell him to get out."

These words were obviously out of anger, it was impossible to say that in front of Mr. Pei, the servant looked a little embarrassed, until Wen Huaiyu quietly winked at her, and the man understood, so he went out to invite someone.

The patriarch of the Pei family, Pei Tiancheng is a shrewd and capable little old man, with silver hair combed back neatly, and a dignified aura in his small body, wearing a black suit, and his brand new and shiny leather shoes made a powerful sound on the floor, he walked He came in: "Brother Wen."

Wen Yanping rolled his eyelids: "I dare not be called Brother Wen."

Wen Huaiyu knew that the two of them had something to talk about, so she waved her hand and turned away the crowd, leaving room for the two old people.

There are other things to attend to out there.She called Zhou Ran: "Find a few trustworthy newspapers and magazines to explain this incident. Remember, we must firmly hold the right to explain this incident. In principle, we will not spoil the Pei family. Dirty water, but Pei Songxi... Forget it, you must find a reasonable reason."

Zhou Ran has been prepared for a long time, and now he is also overwhelmed: "Okay Mr. Wen, I understand, I will try my best."

Wen Huaiyu was not at ease, thought and thought, and suddenly dialed an unfamiliar number.

"Hello?" A reserved female voice came from the opposite side, "Who is that?"

Wen Huaiyu smiled: "President Xu, it's me."

Xu Fang also smiled lightly: "Miss Wen, what can you do?"

"I know that Mr. Xu has always been able to control the direction of public opinion, so this time, I would like to ask you for a favor."

"Why should I help you?"

"I can tell you why my little aunt didn't go with you back then, and I can also tell you that when she was sick and dying alone outside, when she cried at night, whose name was called all night and all night .”

There was a long silence on the other end of the phone, so long that Wen Huaiyu thought the other party had hung up the phone, until the person smiled coldly, and she said, "Deal."

After hanging up the phone, Wen Huaiyu was still a little worried, and monitored the company's stock information immediately. Fortunately, there was no rapid drop due to public opinion fluctuations.

She walked up and down the corridor, more or less anxious, not even aware of the rain falling from the sky, and the clothes on the right side were wet.

Until someone called her: "little sister."

The voice was extremely gentle and pleasant, as if it could soothe the anxiety and anxiety in people's hearts. Wen Huaiyu was startled, turned around, and saw Wen Zhizhen just got out of the car, holding a big black umbrella, a white windbreaker, and his face was as gentle as jade. Smile at her: "It's raining. Why don't you go in."

He held an umbrella, walked calmly, looked gentle, tall and handsome like a green pine, and walked towards her step by step.

Wen Huaiyu felt blocked for no reason: "Brother, you..."

For this big brother, she has mixed feelings, and she feels somewhat guilty.

He never said a harsh word to her, but he was not close to her either. Except for the bag of hazelnut biscuits when he came back every winter, the two of them had no contact at other times.

Perhaps when she was young, she had pestered him for a while, but this person seemed gentle, but in fact he was cold. With such a proud personality, after a long time, she naturally forbade herself to pester others.Later, she became wary of everyone, and she was even more wary of this seemingly gentle and indifferent elder brother, but he was completely unpredictable.

But at this moment, looking at his gentle and meaningful face, she became determined and at ease in her heart. After a long pause, she said, "Don't be angry, and don't be too sad. Your body can't have too much emotional fluctuations."

Wen Zhizhen always smiled: "I know. Don't worry. It's not a big deal."

He raised his hand and brushed the drops of water off her hair: "Go in quickly. It's cold outside."

Wen Huaiyu hummed and followed him in.

The two old men were not in the living room, but when they asked the servants, they found out that they were chatting in the study.Although it was a marriage of the younger children, it was after all related to the interests of the two families. Even though Wen Yan was full of anger in his heart, it was impossible for him to really tell Pei Tiancheng to leave.

Wen Huaiyu was thinking about the things outside, and was a little absent-minded. Sitting beside her, Wen Zhizhen suddenly asked, "Did it embarrass you?"

"Well. It's okay. It's already being resolved by someone."

Wen Zhizhen looked at her with gentle eyes: "Don't be too tired. It doesn't matter. This kind of thing will at most arouse speculation from outsiders. The relationship between the two families cannot be affected. When necessary, the responsibility can be shifted to me , saying that Songxi and I have a disagreement."

"Big brother!"

Wen Huaiyu was a little displeased when he heard the words, and frowned slightly: "What does this have to do with you? Pei Songxi treats you like this, and you still speak for her?"

It is true that she can understand Pei Songxi's mood and understand her behavior; but when she thinks about it from another angle, she feels that things shouldn't be like this, and it's too unfair to her eldest brother to do so.

Wen Zhizhen smiled faintly: "She helped me more. I owe her."

"What did she do for you?"

Wen Zhizhen didn't speak, but shook his head, only looked at her with extremely gentle eyes, and remained silent.

Wen Huaiyu looked away, feeling a little annoyed: "It's fine if you can't tell me."

Wen Zhizhen was taken aback, as if she had never seen her little sister showing such emotions. Most of the time, like himself, she hid her emotions very deeply and seldom showed them.

The two sat on the sofa in the living room for a while, until there was a sound of kicking and tapping on the stairs. It was Pei Tiancheng who came downstairs. When the old man saw Wen Zhizhen, he was startled, but soon he put on a look on his face. A gentle and guilty voice: "Zhizhen, this time, our Pei family is sorry for you."

Wen Zhizhen stood up and walked over, still as bright as the breeze and the moon, lowered his head: "You are serious."

He has the demeanor of a modest and modest gentleman in ancient times, radiant and gentle, gentle and prudent.Over the years, although the Pei family was dissatisfied with his poor health, they liked him from the bottom of their hearts.

Pei Tiancheng sighed heavily: "It's all the girl's fault. You wait, we owe you an explanation."

"No rush. Take care."

Wen Zhizhen didn't have much mood swings, and was so gentle that he was almost indifferent: "I'll see you off."

Pei Tiancheng waved his hand at him: "No need, the weather has turned cold recently, you should pay more attention to your body."

The Pei family left, and after a long time, the butler came down and called, "Master, sir, please go to the study."

Wen Zhizhen said calmly that he understood, and before going upstairs, he said softly: "Little sister, don't be angry, it's the elder brother who is wrong."

Wen Huaiyu was startled, when he raised his head, he could only see his Qingjun's back, suspecting that he had heard wrong... If she remembers correctly, this is the first time that the eldest brother talked to her in such a coaxing tone. Speak.

She was in a daze when a servant came in from outside: "Madam is back."

Hearing this, Wen Huaiyu stood up, unwilling to meet Zhou Lin face to face, but only took a few steps when Zhou Lin called out from behind: "Huaiyu, what's going on with your eldest brother?"

Zhou Lin came back from outside with a dusty look. Wen's had a few small companies under her name, so she thought she was going on vacation and walked around a few small cities. Suddenly, she saw this on the Internet. The news made her lungs explode with anger: "Where's Pei Songxi? I'm going to kill her, ask her if she treats my son like this, will her conscience feel uneasy!"

Wen Huaiyu frowned slightly, almost wanting to plug her ears. She waited patiently for Zhou Lin to speak, and then said, "She's not here. Mr. Pei came over in the morning and just left. Big Brother is in Grandpa's study now."

She said that she was about to go upstairs, but Zhou Lin stopped her from behind: "Why are you going? Could it be that you colluded with Pei Songxi to do this? I know you don't want Ah Zhen to marry the Pei family, so it's a threat Your status, but you-"

Before she could speak, she was interrupted by Wen Huaiyu in a cold voice: "This matter is not what you said. Besides, even if it is what you said, so what?"

She never cared about the marriage between the Wen and Pei families, nor did she care that her eldest brother could replace her with the help of the Pei family.She knew that there was no love between Wen Zhizhen and Pei Songxi, not to mention that Wen Ming's behavior had threatened Wen's fundamental interests, so she chose to agree to Pei Songxi, but not for herself.

Zhou Lin shouted angrily: "So what? Feel your conscience, are you speaking human words?"

Wen Huaiyu snorted coldly: "It's so noisy."

She couldn't help but think that the reason why she likes Ji Yirou so much and quiet people is probably because her mother is too noisy, this person will never speak softly, and the noise will always give her a headache.

Zhou Lin was interrupted by her, stunned for a moment, and was about to say something more, but saw the back of this always disobedient daughter, stepping hard on the stairs to go upstairs.

She cursed in a low voice: "What evil did I do! It's not worrying to compare one with the other."

Her feelings for this child are complicated. She suffered a lot when she was pregnant in the early years, and she was heartbroken after losing her. Later, when she found her, seeing her guarded and indifferent appearance, she felt uncomfortable. of.

Later, because of her adoptive mother, Zhou Lin still feels that she did nothing wrong. The poor people in small places insist on coming to see their children because they just want money, and she just gives it.Unexpectedly, that woman died of such illness, and the relationship between their mother and daughter was completely gone.

Wen Huaiyu quarreled with her mother downstairs. She was in an extremely bad mood. Her temples were throbbing. She was always answering the phone. Pei Songxi's, Zhou Ran's, and Xu Fang's called. When will she deliver on her promise.

She controlled her emotions, her voice was steady, and she arranged things one by one.

Later, the two families reached an agreement on what to say to the outside world. They only said that Wen Zhizhen was in poor health. The two had already discussed the dissolution of the engagement. , just published an announcement to sever the relationship between father and daughter.

These are just occasional words, and when they finally show affection to each other in front of outsiders, all other news will be suppressed, and related posts will be deleted, so this matter is considered temporary.

It was already eleven o'clock after all the things were dealt with, Wen Huaiyu had a severe headache, but he didn't feel sleepy anymore, went up to the rooftop, stood alone for a long time, and breathed a sigh of relief.

There was the sound of the iron door being opened outside the gate, and the beam of a car shot straight in through the darkness.

This is Wen Ping's return. Sure enough, not long after, a servant came up to her, saying that her husband had invited her down.

First floor living room.

Zhou Lin said something in a shrill voice, while Wen Ping kept a cold face, and Wen Zhizhen stood aside, his eyes were still sober, seeing her coming, he smiled and said, "Little sister is here."

Wen Huaiyu stepped on a pair of soft-soled slippers and stomped downstairs. The living room was filled with the smell of tobacco mixed with dust, which was brought in by Wen Ping.

To this father, Wen Huaiyu wasn't afraid at all, and asked directly, "What do you want from me?"

Wen Pingping rolled his eyelids: "Did you already know about this?"

"You think I know, so I do."

"Speak well."

Wen Huaiyu smiled: "What's wrong with me?"

"Nannan, come up."

Seeing that the family conflict was about to break out, the old man's voice came from upstairs, loving and generous: "Grandpa has something to tell you, come to Grandpa's room."

Wen Huaiyu pursed his lips and smiled, and his voice became more warm: "Grandpa, I'll come up right away."

After finishing speaking, she gave Wen Ping an indifferent look: "Dad, Mom, Big Brother, we'll talk about things tomorrow, I'll go first."

The living room suddenly fell into silence. After a while, Wen Ping raised his hand and slapped the coffee table heavily. The tea was spilled. He stood up and walked out full of anger.

third floor.

Wen Huaiyu entered Grandpa's room, sat down on the carved wooden chair as usual, and kicked off the slippers: "Grandpa, it's so late, and you're still awake?"

She swayed her legs lightly, the cuteness and cuteness of a young girl was natural, and she didn't have the cold brow and indifference before.

"Nannan, you know that girl from the Pei family is going to retire. Right?"

Wen Huaiyu was startled, and after a while he told the truth: "Yes. Grandpa, are you blaming me?"

"I don't blame you. If you choose to do this, you must have your own considerations. Besides, you will feel sorry for your elder brother, I know."

Wen Huaiyu blushed when he said it: "It's not..."

"Okay, it's late, and you're tired, go back and rest."

"Grandpa...don't ask me why..."

"Go to sleep."

The old man waved at her. Having experienced this sudden change, he was a little sleepy, but the way he looked at her was gentle, trusting and determined, which made her feel that she had done nothing wrong.

Wen Huaiyu said softly in his heart, I'm sorry.

……

In the next few days, there were many people in the Wen Group secretly discussing this matter, but the news was suppressed, and the inside story was unknown; She has long been a major shareholder of many companies in the group, and even without the support of the Pei family, no one would dare to drive her out of her seat. Besides, with her blood, many people speculate that Mr. Pei is just doing Just pretending.

Wen Huaiyu didn't pay much attention to this. The company is preparing to bid for a large-scale project worth more than [-] million yuan recently. It participates in the preparation of the bidding preparatory meeting and submits bidding documents. Many business departments are very busy.

Party A is a large chain foreign-funded enterprise that ranks in the forefront of the world. It has a long history and abundant funds. It plans to establish subsidiaries and large factories in China. The bidding threshold is not high. Many companies participated. Originally, Wen's and Pei's were the most The two competing companies were the most popular, but not long ago, Miss Pei unilaterally announced the dissolution of the engagement, freezing the relationship between the two. This time, Pei voluntarily chose to withdraw from the bidding.

People in the industry have speculated that Wen's has already locked in this large-scale project in advance.

Wen Huaiyu came late, and almost stepped on it at the last second when he arrived at the conference room, with a calm expression and a smile on his lips.

Wen Ming is also here today. The last time Wen Huaiyu was injured and recuperated, his power has been expanded. He came early today and turned his head to talk to Zhou Minchu.

Wen Huaiyu raised his eyes, looked around the audience, his eyes finally fell on a young man opposite, and he frowned unconsciously.

The young man noticed her gaze, slowly raised his head, smiled at her, and said with a gloomy expression, "Miss Wen."

Sure enough it was him.

The young master of the Zhao family, Zhao Gaohong, was the person Zhou Lin had been trying to match up with for her.It's a pity that the marriage was not negotiated in the end, and his father was sent to prison by her.

The Zhao family has fallen, and she has been paying attention to this person's news for a long time. It was Pei Songxi who informed her two days ago that Zhao Gaohong joined a large company with the help of someone, and also intends to compete for the bidding project.

The corners of Wen Huaiyu's lips pursed slightly, his eyes turned cold, he never cared about his gloomy expression, and quietly waited for the meeting to start.

The representative of Party A and the bid evaluation committee arrived on time.Several companies that were selected for the bid opening stage reported their plans one by one, demonstrating the strength, feasibility, quotation, etc. of the completed project. After the round, Party A will discuss it individually and announce the results directly later.

Wen Huaiyu tapped lightly on the desktop with his fingertips, looking a little absent-minded, his eyes lit up when the phone was turned on, and he replied a message: "When you get back from work, you can make a video."

"Hmm. Do you—miss me?"

She paused with her fingertips on the screen. Before she could reply, the bid evaluation committee came in and announced: "Thank you for supporting our project. The winning bidder for this project is—Wen's Construction Group!"

Wen's representative came forward to shake hands, talked and laughed, and started to prepare for the contract.

In the meeting room, other companies were more or less disappointed, said a few compliments, and left in twos and threes.

Wen Huaiyu looked at the meeting room, there were only a few people, and he curled his lower lip and smiled provocatively.

Wen Ming clenched his fists, but still smiled: "This time I won the bid, thanks to you."

"Yes. Thanks to you, my good second brother, if you hadn't let Zhengzhou Company imitate and plagiarize our bidding documents and bidding plans, how could we have won so smoothly?"

She lowered her voice: "Young Master Zhao, it doesn't count that you were tricked once by our Wen family, so you have to fall down a second time? My second brother, you must help me!"

Wen Ming quickly explained: "Gao Hong, listen to me!"

"what--!"

The young man with a gloomy face suddenly punched Wen Ming's eye socket, blood spattered everywhere, and his tone was as cold as Shura: "You Wen family, die with me!"

Wen Huaiyu was also shocked. He never expected that Zhao Gaohong's emotions would be so extreme, and he backed away in a panic. Fortunately, Zhou Ran was waiting outside the door with his bodyguards. When he heard the screams, he rushed in and firmly protected her behind him: "Boss Wen! Are you okay?"

She suppressed her fear and said it was okay: "Call the security guards! Stop Zhao Gaohong!"

The security guards arrived soon, and after a while, the chaos stopped temporarily.

The next day, inside the Wen family, Wen Yan looked at his grandson lying on the hospital bed with a cold and serious expression, and said indifferently: "From now on, you should not go to the company anymore.

Wen Ming's throat was hurt, he was coughing and couldn't speak, Zhou Lin cried first: "Dad! You can't do this to Ah Ming! He was just, just confused for a while. Besides, it hasn't affected yet..."

Before she finished speaking, Wen Ming slammed the purple clay pot in his hand on the ground: "What do you know! If he dares to leak the company's bidding documents today, and the higher-level business secrets tomorrow, Wen's will lose sooner or later." In his hands, I won't tell him to get out of Wen's house right now, it's already showing mercy!"

Zhou Lin covered her lips, shed tears in a daze, she caught sight of Wen Huaiyu out of the corner of her eye, and grabbed her like a life-saving straw: "Huaiyu! Daughter, please help your brother and say a few words!"

Wen Huaiyu lowered his eyelashes, and slowly opened her hands: "I can't do it."

"Wen Huaiyu! Did you deliberately harm your second brother!"

Wen Huaiyu raised his head, with a calm expression: "You can say whatever you want."

She supported Wen Yan and left the ward with a calm expression. Except for provoking Wen Ming on purpose at first, she didn't feel very happy.

In fact, she is an easy-to-satisfy person, as long as someone smiles at her, she will treat that person well.She only remembers the good things others have done to her, and she doesn't want to remember the bad things done to her for long.

But what's the use of that.

It is better that no one can get close to her heart.

Coming out of the hospital, the grandpa and grandson had complicated emotions and were speechless all the way.

Wen Huaiyu sent his grandfather back to his room, only to realize that he had missed Ji Yirou's call.

Called again, no one answered.

She seldom said that she missed her, but she couldn't sleep at night, and she still couldn't help counting the calendar, and said softly: "When will you come back?"

Called one after another, still no one answered.

She was a little sleepy, and slowly closed her eyes, falling into a bizarre dream.

At first she didn't know where it was, the light was very strong and kept changing, many people gathered together, cameras, lighting equipment, coercion...it was...it was the shooting scene.

She subconsciously wanted to find Ji Yirou, but there was fog all around, and she couldn't see anything clearly.

Later, a white light passed through the fog and hit her eyes, so bright and dazzling, it hurt her eyes and her heart sank—she woke up.

With the phone still in his hand, a call came in.