Chapter 480: Some Longing Cannot Be Hidden

"Thank you all for seeing me off."

In the train station, Zheng Wei's luggage was piled at her feet. After hugging Ruan Guan and Zhu Xiao Bei, she walked to Wang Yan, stretched out her arms, and grinned: "Thanks for driving us all here. Let's have a hug too; I know you find me annoying, but you won't be able to find me annoying anymore."

Wang Yan shook his head and smiled, opened his arms, leaned over slightly, and hugged her.

On the day he went to send money to Zhang Kai, it was already agreed that he would drive them over. Although it wasn't far, driving was indeed more convenient. No need to carry luggage up and down, and he could be the laborer. Besides, he could take Ruan Guan and Zhu Xiao Bei along, and there was no rush. He didn't refuse, and he had to go to school anyway; it was just a matter of stepping on the gas, it didn't matter.

Zheng Wei laughed in his ear, patted his back hard, and finally, hugged him very tightly for a long time.

"Hey, the train is pulling into the station, that's enough." Ruan Guan smiled at the two and spoke up to interrupt.

"What kind of look is that? You don't understand, I'm hugging youth." Zheng Wei rolled her eyes and picked up her luggage: "Alright, this time I'm really leaving. No one will annoy you anymore; don't forget to keep in touch."

After speaking, she left the three with a smile, then turned and walked into the carriage decisively. After putting away her luggage, she sat by the window and waved at the three. The train stopped at the platform for only a short five or six minutes, and amidst the mutual smiles and waving farewells, the train started slowly.

All the moving moments remained in yesterday, all the beauty was buried in the past. Youth is just a few stops on a train heading straight forward; once passed, never to return...

"Let's go, let's go back." Wang Yan said: "Xiao Bei, I'll take you to see Professor Liu in a while. He's a good person, and the graduate students under him are all doing quite well. The rest is up to you. If you don't pass the exam, it'll be embarrassing."

"Don't worry, I've always been good at studying. Besides, I'm studying for my master's at this school, not taking an exam somewhere else, and you introduced me to a mentor, so what could be the problem?" Zhu Xiao Bei waved her hand: "Oh right, Ruan Guan is leaving today too; after you take me to see Professor Liu, you should see her off too. Don't worry about me; my sister will come to pick me up in the evening."

Wang Yan nodded: "You two don't have to be so sad. We're all in Jin Ling, easy to meet. Shanghai isn't far either; we can go anytime, and we can communicate by phone on weekdays. If you want to see each other, you can always see each other; if you don't want to, you'll never see each other. Let's go, the good days have just begun, and they're waiting for me to build buildings."

Driving the small car back to school, he left Ruan Guan to pack her things and took Zhu Xiao Bei to see the professor.

He studied well and made friends widely; in the Civil Engineering and Architecture departments, he was basically smooth sailing, and he also had some contact with other departments. One reason was his studies, and the other was that he wanted talent.

After all, he played with high-tech stuff, involving aviation, communications, computer software and hardware, materials, medical health, etc. —it was really too much. The research-oriented and practical talents needed were massive. Southeast University was a top-tier engineering university in the country; as his alma mater, of course, Southeast University's talent was closer. Targeted training and specialized delivery of talent were what he needed.

It's just that his various research projects were still in the starting stage and hadn't reached the point of needing massive amounts of top-tier talent, but the group was already in contact with the school, discussing donations, scholarships, and specialized talent training.

After taking Zhu Xiao Bei to see the professor, Wang Yan didn't stay, took Ruan Guan—who had long since packed her things—and left, heading to a house not far away.

For the past few days, Ruan Guan had been living in the school dorm, hanging out everywhere in the school with Zhu Xiao Bei and Zheng Wei, so she hadn't had time to have a private meeting with Wang Yan. Of course, it couldn't be called a private meeting now. After all, many people had left this city, and they were meeting openly.

Ruan Guan took out the key to open the door, Wang Yan carried the things in, and before he could speak, as the sound of the door closing came, Ruan Guan's lips blocked his; she also wanted to...

"I have something to do, I can't stay here today."

"It's okay, after all, there are thousands of people following you to eat. Besides, in these years, you also owe Shi Jie." Ruan Guan's face was flushed, reaching out to stroke her Old Wang's face, still as considerate as ever.

"I might not be able to come over for a week; I have to run to Shanghai for some things. Come to think of it, it's interesting; I didn't have so many things when I was in school, but now that I've graduated, I've started to get busy."

"You didn't manage it directly before, so development was definitely slower. Now, to develop quickly, being busy is as it should be. You don't have to worry about me, I can take good care of myself."

"If you're not happy with that job, don't be wronged there, you know? You're not working for money, just purely to find something to do."

He didn't let Ruan Guan work in Long Teng's company because there was really no need, and it wasn't about being a confidante or anything. He didn't need women to point fingers in the company, and the superior-subordinate relationship in the company wasn't easy to handle. Of course, the main thing was that there were three women now, which easily caused trouble. If there were only one, he wouldn't say anything; naturally, she could do whatever she wanted.

Ruan Guan nodded: "Don't worry, I know."

"In these few days, go get a driver's license. Although you can buy one directly, I think you should go learn it. After the license comes down, I'll get you a car; it's quite good to go out for a stroll when you're free."

"Forget it, cars are so expensive, why buy one? Besides, you know I don't like to walk around, don't spend that unjust money."

"If I tell you to go, go. Why so much talk?" Wang Yan pinched her nose: "If you don't like driving, at most just park it downstairs; it's good to take a look every day when you pass by."

Ruan Guan laughed: "I'll listen to you."

Her heart was also very sweet. A car worth over 100,000 or several hundred thousand—based on her understanding of Wang Yan, saying he would buy a car definitely meant a luxury car, even though Wang Yan himself only drove a Santana. Because Wang Yan didn't make promises easily, if he opened his mouth, it was definitely extraordinary. Besides, even if he bought her a Santana, it was still over 100,000. Being willing to spend this money for her was already a rare intention. Although she didn't know that those sums of money were no different from ten or eight yuan in Wang Yan's eyes...

He could have left after finishing the work, but that would have been too heartless. So they chatted for a long while, and when it got dark outside, Wang Yan put on his clothes and left.

He didn't have any serious business; it was nothing more than Li Weijuan being over there. He hadn't determined where the headquarters was, but currently, it would be developing in Jin Ling for a long time. So for Li Weijuan, who was going to Shanghai, he still had to accompany her more. In the future, it would be inevitable to frequently travel between Shanghai and Jin Ling; this was a happy trouble.

Wang Yan didn't stay in Jin Ling with Li Weijuan for long. After sleeping for one night, he drove to Shanghai the next day.

The development of Shanghai was already very good, with many high-rise buildings. Housing prices were two or three thousand, and the down payment was ten thousand. It couldn't be said that no one was buying, but it wasn't selling very well anyway.

Peace Hotel, opposite was the Oriental Pearl Radio & TV Tower, which had been completed for less than two years and was one of the ten new landscapes of Shanghai, and below was the rolling Huangpujiang.

In a luxury suite, Li Weijuan supported herself on the wide, clean window with both hands. She gasped and said with difficulty: "Old Wang, coming to Shanghai was the right choice; this place is really prosperous."

Because of Li Weijuan's height, Old Wang's always straight waist was now a bit hunched, his head resting on her shoulder: "If there are no accidents, in a few days you will be a part of this place."

She was just an ordinary county girl. The places she had been in her life, besides her county, were Jin Ling; she had never been anywhere else. And the power of economic development was changing with each passing day. Shanghai was already prosperous, and it was the eastern gateway built by concentrating resources, so naturally, it was far from comparable to Jin Ling. One could imagine how much impact such an international metropolis had on someone seeing it for the first time.

"You're so good!" Li Weijuan turned her head and kissed Wang Yan on the cheek: "When are we going to look at the house?"

"I already had someone contact them a few days ago, and six houses were selected. We'll go see them directly tomorrow."

"Do we need to redecorate? If we redecorate, how long will it take? When can I move in?"

"The house is yours; do whatever you want, I'll pay for it."

Li Weijuan's suspended feet tightened, and she hummed: "I said before I would share a rental with Zheng Wei; what should I tell her then? What if she wants to come and live with me? When you come in the future, won't it be very inconvenient?"

Wang Yan understood that the nonsense she was babbling wasn't because she wanted him to answer, but because her excited mood needed to be released. She had a feeling in Jin Ling, but it wasn't profound. Now that she was at the Peace Hotel, clinging to the window and overlooking the Huangpujiang, thinking that she was going to settle down here, that feeling was really exciting. She didn't doubt that Wang Yan would lie to her; she knew it would definitely be realized, and the imagination before it was definitely realized was the most charming and the most exciting.

The beating heart was so excited that it missed a beat, and the throbbing in her heart made her unable to stop clamping her legs, raising her head, and singing "E-E-E" with her neck stretched.

Very moist...

The next day at noon, after eating downstairs, Wang Yan took Li Weijuan, who clearly hadn't rested well but was still full of energy, out and got into the car that his subordinates had sent to pick them up to look at the house.

All six houses were on both sides of the Huangpujiang, some were newly built high-rise houses, and some were old houses that had been around for some years. Although the distance between them wasn't far, going back and forth wasted a lot of time.

In the evening, the two were eating at a restaurant on the street. Wang Yan looked at Li Weijuan, who was fiddling with a stack of photos across from him: "No need to be so painstaking, right?"

"I'm going to live here for a lifetime, of course I have to be extremely cautious." Li Weijuan ate her meal in big mouthfuls, not raising her head as she flipped through the photos back and forth, having difficulty choosing, wanting them all...

After a while, she stole a glance at Wang Yan, who was drinking and eating across from her, and sighed: "Oh, this one by Suzhou Creek is quite good, but the area is a bit small. Although the decoration looks quite expensive, it's old-fashioned and ugly. This house in Lujiazui was built the year before last, which is quite good, but it's a new house; it definitely won't be as valuable as old houses in the future. After all, those old houses have a history of over a hundred years, and this one..."

"Alright, stop chanting scriptures to me. Originally, I was going to buy you a house, and also buy you a car. Since you're so hesitant, then buy both the one by Suzhou Creek and the one in Lujiazui, and there won't be a car."

"That's settled." Li Weijuan agreed repeatedly: "What do I need a car for? Zheng Wei and I know each other well, and we're in the same company, working together, together all day long. Even if you give me a car, I can't drive it. Besides, those four wheels will depreciate sooner or later; your Santana is already over 100,000 now. Didn't you say housing prices will rise in the future? Buying a car for 100,000 or 200,000 is not as good as buying a house."

"Then that's settled." Wang Yan picked up the document bag on the table and waved at the table next to them. A man of nearly thirty put down his chopsticks and walked over: "There, these are her identity materials. Buy both the house by Suzhou Creek and the one in Lujiazui, and put them in her name. Also, run two more trips and move her household registration from Jin Ling. Settle it in... the one by Suzhou Creek?"

Li Weijuan nodded: "Whatever you say."

"Alright, then settle it in the house by Suzhou Creek, hurry up and handle it."

The man nodded: "Does Chairman Wang have any other instructions?"

"You can go after you finish eating, tell me when it's done."

Watching the man and the other accompanying man finish their meal quickly and leave, Li Weijuan couldn't help but sigh: "It's still good to be rich and powerful. Whatever you want to do, just open your mouth and give a casual order. If we were handling things ourselves, whether it's buying a house or moving household registration, running back and forth to various departments would make us dizzy."

"You are also such a person now."

"The premise is that you, this big master, are served well." Li Weijuan threw a flirtatious look: "I'm already impatient."

She was about to have two houses in Shanghai, so the golden master had to be arranged well.

Staying in Shanghai for five days, they couldn't just sleep all the time. After all, the company still had a lot of business here, and Wang Yan also looked around, which could be considered an inspection. The people handling things were very fast, and it was all done in just three days. Ordinary people might have to run for a long time, but as long as they had a little ability, they could speed up the progress of office work.

Come to think of it, among the three women so far, Li Weijuan had spent the most. It was mainly because Li Weijuan was indeed hardworking, so spending a little more was fine. And the house wasn't very expensive; a house wasn't much different from a small car. After all, if he really wanted to buy a car for a woman, it would have to be BBA at the very least. A broken Santana was already over 100,000, not to mention those other cars.

Wang Yan left, leaving Li Weijuan a card, and left very decisively.

In front of the bank's ATM, Li Weijuan looked at the numbers on it, let out a long breath, took out one thousand yuan and put it into her new wallet, and took out the card and put it into the wallet as well. She turned and left, walked for a while, arrived at a nearby post office, filled out a remittance slip, and remitted two hundred yuan to her home.

It hadn't been many years since bank cards were widely promoted, and online banking only started to be implemented last year. Currently, the deposit and withdrawal method for most people was still passbooks, and the way to send money was still through post office remittances. She didn't dare to send too much; after all, the average salary of people now was only five or six hundred, and the salary in her county was even lower, so sending too much wasn't good. Two hundred yuan was not too much and not too little, and it would slowly increase in the future.

After sending the money, she called home with her mobile phone, talked about the money remittance, and made up a reason. Anyway, her parents had limited knowledge, so she fooled them and it passed. She also asked her parents to save the mobile phone number, saying that if they had anything, they could call this number to find her, and chatted for a while before ending the call.

Afterward, she went straight to the mall to buy some furniture, bedding, and other daily necessities. As for clothes, shoes, and bags, she didn't have the nerve to buy them because there was still Zheng Wei, and she didn't want to be exposed.

Soon, two more days passed, and guessing the time was about right, she contacted Zheng Wei...

"Whoa, it's only been a week or so, right? Such a big change? You really look a bit like a city beauty." Zheng Wei looked at Li Weijuan in front of her, circling around her, looking left and right, very surprised.

"Is there? I don't think there's any change." Li Weijuan looked at Zheng Wei incomprehensibly, with a look of "are you sick?"

Zheng Wei looked strangely for a while, shook her head, and stopped thinking about it, turning to look around: "Where's your luggage? Didn't lose it, did you? Hurry, hurry, let's go back and look for it." While speaking, she pulled Li Weijuan and was about to run.

"Oh, stop, stop." Li Weijuan was pulled into a big stumble and hurriedly pulled her back: "I came yesterday, and I already found a place to stay."

"What?" Zheng Wei's eyes widened in disbelief: "Li Weijuan, don't force me to scratch you. We agreed before we came that we would share a rental and live together. I've been in Shanghai for a week, staying in a small broken hotel, and it was hard to find a house that was close and had low rent, and I was busy buying this and that, and I was exhausted. And you're telling me you found a place? Do you want to die? Give me a reasonable explanation, otherwise I'll scratch you into a mess."

"Pfft, who knows who will scratch who." Seeing that Zheng Wei was really anxious, Li Weijuan hurriedly waved her hands: "It's not that I don't want to be a lightbulb, but Lin Jing also came to Shanghai. You two have been dating for over a year, and you're both adults; wouldn't you be living together? I'd be uncomfortable listening to you making noise every day. Why should I join in the fun?"

Zheng Wei was anxious, but she really couldn't say Li Weijuan was wrong. She turned around in a dying manner, let out a long breath, and looked at Li Weijuan as calmly as possible: "Lin Jing and I broke up."

This time it was Li Weijuan's turn to say "what," and she also couldn't believe it: "When did this happen? Why?"

"It was... eight days ago? Right, it was eight days ago, the day before I came to Shanghai. As for why, actually it's nothing; it's just that I feel he's different from what I imagined, and it was okay at first, but after being together for a long time, I felt more and more strange. Besides, it's also that I can't forget you. Since we're not happy together, there's no need to force it, so we broke up." Zheng Wei looked at her with dangerous eyes: "I've already paid the rent for the house, and I've already bought the things. You tell me, what should we do now?"

Li Weijuan didn't expect such a change, which was indeed beyond her expectations. She had thought it out quite well; Zheng Wei said she wanted to share a rental, which was eight parts out of ten because she was embarrassed, so she would help her good sister achieve it. She lived in the house by Suzhou Creek, living her own life—what a good thing...

After a while, she sighed and looked at Zheng Wei helplessly: "Alright, you're the one who dated him, so I won't comfort you. Let's go, let's go see the house you found, and see if it's better than the house I rented; whichever is better, we'll live in that one. As for the money paid in advance, we'll split it in half; after all, it's my fault too. Oh, my life of not being able to keep money..."

Zheng Wei's cloudy day turned sunny, and she stepped forward to pull her good sister's arm: "I rented that house for one hundred a month, it's in... I don't know either, you come with me to see it, it's quite good, it was carefully selected by me, and I bargained with the landlord for half an hour before I finally rented it."

"We're at the entrance of the train station now, just tell me how far it is."

"I took two buses, probably... more than half an hour?"

"Then you'd better come with me first." Li Weijuan waved her hand and stopped a passing taxi: "Get in, let's go."

Zheng Wei looked at her suspiciously. Since when did Li Weijuan, who was always stingy, start waving for a taxi? And so naturally? But she didn't ask much, got in the car, and set off.

After driving for ten minutes, it soon stopped by the side of the road full of green trees, and Li Weijuan took Zheng Wei a few steps and arrived in front of a two-story red brick house by the street. It was a style of mixed Chinese and Western architecture, and one look told you it was an old building that had experienced the vicissitudes of the Republic of China, and it was uncertain which celebrity had lived there.

Li Weijuan couldn't help but be proud, shook the key in her hand at Zheng Wei, who was stunned, raised her eyebrows, turned the key with a click, and opened the door: "Take a look."

Looking at the clean wooden floor, Zheng Wei kicked off the white shoes she was wearing, stepped on the floor to feel the coolness, and looked around the room.

This house wasn't very big, and it wasn't the kind of garden villa where celebrities lived in the Republic of China; it was just an ordinary two-story residential house. However, the good thing was that the people who lived here before had money, and the decoration here had a taste of the original Republic of China period, a mix of Chinese and Western. Li Weijuan said the decoration here was old-fashioned and ugly, but that was just her little thoughts with Wang Yan; if she really let her tear down the decoration, she couldn't bear to do it. There were four rooms in total upstairs and downstairs, two bathrooms, and a balcony that wasn't small.

"To the north is Suzhou Creek, to the east is the Bund, and I heard that the people living nearby all have some money. Isn't it quite good?"

Zheng Wei stood on the balcony, looking at the green trees at her fingertips, nodding repeatedly: "It's indeed quite good, but in this location, with such a large area, how did you rent it? How much does it cost? Are you not living anymore?"

"Two hundred." Li Weijuan said it casually: "It was when I came by train, I happened to meet a middle-aged man, I chatted with him all the way, and finally he knew I had just come to Shanghai to work and had no place to stay, so he brought me here and let me live here. He has houses in other places, and he went abroad recently. He's a proper rich man."

Zheng Wei had a look of "you're just making it up," which made Li Weijuan feel a little embarrassed, but she didn't want to say much: "Believe it or not, anyway, that's the situation now. Are you living or not? If not, go over there and live by yourself; anyway, I won't run that far with you."

"Did you sell yourself?"

"Do you think it's worth it?"

"Two hundred yuan to rent you a house, and you still ask me if it's worth it? Are you really stupid?" After pondering for a moment, Zheng Wei said: "But if this house is given to you, that's fine."

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Secretly happy, Li Weijuan was full of impatience on the surface: "You don't need to worry about me, just say whether you're living or not?"

"Does my living here affect you doing things?" Zheng Wei squinted.

"The stairs are there, go well and don't send."

Zheng Wei laughed cheaply, turned around, threw herself into the soft bed, and rolled: "Thanks, Sister Juan, I won't give you the rent for this month. I'll just live in the room next door. Still have to mix with Sister Juan; didn't show it before, but only after graduation did I see the real ability."

Li Weijuan didn't care how she talked: "Alright, get up, let's go to your place to pack up, the sooner we come over, the sooner it's done."

"Alright, let's go."

Having lived for only a few days, there weren't many things. They took a taxi over, and it didn't take long before they returned to the house again. The two played and laughed together, having a great time.

Following the first time they left home for college, they left school and entered society, starting another new life and experiencing another journey in life...

Some longing, initially thought it could be absent, becomes deeper as time passes; Zheng Wei was like this.

She and Li Weijuan were quite miserable. The company's headquarters was indeed in the center, but as newcomers who had just gone, they had to go to the construction site. So they lived in the prosperous Huangpu, but worked in the remote suburbs. What they kept talking about was that it wasn't as good as the house she rented at the beginning.

The company provided dormitories, but they just didn't want to live in the dorms, so they had to rent a house outside. But obviously, they couldn't not live in the dorms now, otherwise running back and forth all day was really too exhausting. Fortunately, although there were many men and women from the north and south working hard on the construction site, there were very few women doing management and technical support, so they were still in a dormitory, and there were no miscellaneous people.

Li Weijuan shouted every day that she wouldn't do it anymore, because the two houses she got after a lot of effort were only lived in for one or two days a month. And there was so much money in her card that she should have been living a rich wife's life, but she ran to the construction site to be exposed to the wind and sun. But thinking of Wang Yan's words after the pleasure that a person must have something to do and cannot be wasted, plus it was she who took the initiative to come, and Zheng Wei was still working hard, she really couldn't run, so she could only vent her unhappiness with "yiya" and "aiya" every day, gritting her teeth and persisting.

Zheng Wei, who had been pampered, was of course no better, but she saw Li Weijuan gritting her teeth and persisting, so of course she couldn't run away, and just like that, they both stayed.

Work was fulfilling, and they were very tired every day, so they didn't have time to think about those messy things. She indeed thought so at first, but later, she found she was wrong.

Because she indeed didn't think about it during the day, and fell asleep as soon as she hit the pillow when she came back, but she dreamed. She couldn't control the dreaming, and it was all that scumbag bastard surnamed Wang.

The more she didn't want to think about it, the more she thought about it. The more she thought, the more she dreamed. Back and forth like this, it was far more exhausting than the fatigue of working on the construction site.

She started to be unable to wake up, started to have no spirit, started to be absent-minded, and started to be distracted frequently.

Li Weijuan discovered her abnormality, caring about whether she was sick, whether she needed to see a doctor, whether she was tired from work, and if she couldn't do it, maybe she shouldn't do it...

Zheng Wei of course refused, because it wasn't because of work.

After continuing for another period of time, finally, after working for a month and a half, she made a decision—a very important, very crazy, very humble decision.

This day, on the bustling construction site, Zheng Wei, wearing a safety helmet, hurriedly found Li Weijuan, who was looking at the drawings with the foreman: "Juan'er, I have something at home, I have to go back, you help me ask for four days off first, and we'll see if it's not enough."

Li Weijuan was stunned for a moment and hurriedly asked: "What's the matter? Do you need help?"

"No, no, anyway, it's just a matter of asking for leave. I'm running out of time, I have to go. If the leadership doesn't agree, you just say I'm not doing it anymore, and I'll handle the resignation when I come back."

"If you have any difficulties, just say it, really, if it doesn't work, find Old Wang, he has supernatural powers."

..."We'll talk about it later, I'm leaving first, I have to catch the train."

After speaking, Zheng Wei hurriedly turned and ran away.

Li Weijuan watched Zheng Wei run away in the steel and cement until she disappeared, then shook her head, said something to the foreman, and ran to find the leadership to ask for leave for her good sister.

It wasn't that she wasn't decent; she still had some hope that the leadership wouldn't grant the leave, hoping Zheng Wei would stay at home for a few more days. That way, Zheng Wei could not do it, and she would have the nerve not to do it, and could move back to the house she was thinking about, and have an explanation for Old Wang later, and find another office job...

Sorry, good sister, cursing you a little bit doesn't matter, right? But nothing must happen!

Li Weijuan silently prayed for Zheng Wei... ===== CHAPTER 481 =====