Guo Lan said: "I appreciate your kindness, but I can't agree to you right away."

Hou Weidong said: "No need to answer immediately. Think about it and then answer me. Don't be too worried. Since I proposed this plan, it will definitely be foolproof."

Guo Lan said: "I feel very confused and can't make a decision for the moment."

When Hou Weidong heard Guo Lan's words not as firm as before, he said gently: "You can't endure hardship. If there is anything we can share, otherwise I will feel even worse."

Guo Lan said: "Thank you. Let me think about it again."

Guo Lan's family has no tradition of doing business, and she has already walked out of a hurdle when she is able to open a shop.

There are two obstacles for Guo Lan to accept Hou Weidong's kindness. One is the obstacle in her heart. She has lived in a family of scholars since she was a child and read more books than ordinary people. The family environment is generally good, she is relatively noble in her heart, and is always willing to be independent in doing things; the other obstacle is that she is unwilling to influence Hou Weidong because of her own affairs. She and Hou Weidong are two colleagues. Knowing that Hou Weidong is very strict in discipline, she is very disgusted with mixing official affairs and private affairs together. This time, Hou Weidong took the initiative to raise this matter, but in fact, it was contrary to its principles.

She thought of the former mayor of Shazhou, Huang Ziti, who fled, from Hou Weidong. Both were mayors. Huang Ziti's idea was so disgusting. She quickly turned on the speaker and used the sound of the piano to dilute the disgusting feeling in her heart.

Amid the melodious piano sound, Guo Lan's mood could not calm down for a long time.

Mrs. Guo, with a dark face, stood in front of the door and asked, "Xiaolan. Who's the phone call? It's so late?" Guo Lan said, "Mom, it's a call from a former colleague. You go to bed quickly."

Her husband died early and she had uremia again, which greatly hit Mrs. Guo's wife. She felt that she had become dull and had no interest in external things. She only had the interest to talk in front of her daughter. She stood at the door, wearing clothes and said, "Xiaolan, I won't treat this disease. I know the financial situation of the family. If I really want to continue to be cured, I have to sell the house. I sold the house. What do you use to get married? I can't squeeze into the single teacher's dormitory."

Guo Lan said: "Mom, you can treat your illness with peace of mind. Don't worry about money, I'll find a way."

Mrs. Guo said: "You are studying here, relying on some salary and no bonus, so what can you think of? If it really doesn't work, just sell Yi Yang's house."

Guo Lan said firmly: "That is where our family lives, and we don't sell anything."

Although the new house in Shazhou is spacious, it does not leave much imprints of his father. In the house in the west district of Yiyang University, there is a heavy imprint of the family of three living. In Guo Lan's mind, it is not enough to sell it. It is not enough to change the layout and replace the furniture.

Master Guo's eyes were filled with tears and said, "Xiaolan, I delayed you. I have not gotten married yet. I have become your burden. It would be better to die earlier."

Guo Lan interrupted her mother and said, "Mom, why do you say that? You are my mother, I don't care who cares about you. It's cold outside, go to the inner room." When she sent her mother into the dormitory, she felt that the temperature in the inner room was lowered again, and said, "Mom, if you are afraid of the cold, turn on the air conditioner and don't turn off."

Uremia patients are weak and are prone to colds. Colds will cause rapid increase in muscle and liver, which is not good for uremia patients. Mrs. Guo thinks that turning on the air conditioner for a long time will cost a lot of money, so she always turns off the air conditioner after finding an opportunity.

My mother was sleeping in the bed, feeling very tired, and she closed her eyes and didn't want to say anything. Guo Lan did not leave, and sat in the dark house thinking about her thoughts. After her mother got sick, she became sleepy. After falling asleep, she was irritable and restless in her sleep, turned over constantly, and sometimes she had to twitch.

Guo Lan felt that the happiest time in her life was when the family of three lived together, that is, from the time she was born to her father's death. Every night, the three of them walked along the small lake, and they could hear the sound of the piano from the music department's piano room in the West District. Occasionally, when they met an angler fishing lake fish, his father was like a happy naughty boy, bargaining with the angler, buying fresh lake fish home at a higher price than the vegetable market. At noon the next day, there would be delicious fish soup or braised lake fish on the table.

One year, there was a tide of crabs in the lake. The three of them carried buckets and went to catch crabs along the lakeside. In half a day, they caught a bucket of crabs and threw the small crabs back into the lake. The big crabs were used to fry or steam them, and the taste was so beautiful.

One year when I was flying a kite, I was only about seven or eight years old. I flew a big kite very high, leaving only a small black dot in the sky. Suizhi's kite string broke and floated to a tall tree. I was so anxious that I cried. My father and mother found a long bamboo pole, but in the end they did not take the kite back.

Looking back on the past, Guo Lan felt that the life of a complete family of three was so happy. It seemed like a dream. Now that I woke up from the dream, my life showed sharp claws.

She asked herself a question: "Why is the society progressing and wealth increasing, but the happiness of our family has dropped so much? And not only is the happiness, but also the ability of the family has dropped so much, and it has reached a point where Hou Weidong can't stand it?"

Guo Lan knew very well that the decline in the family's sense of happiness started when her father got sick. After her father got sick, her mother was overly worried and then became sick. She lived for a hundred years, birth, old age, sickness and death, which is a natural law. After a period of time, Guo Lan accepted the fact that her father lost her father and her mood gradually recovered. One of the important reasons for the weakening of happiness now is her mother's disease. Since the three of them were content with the current situation of the Shuxiangmen Family and did not pay much attention to money, the family had never saved much. After buying a house in Shazhou, there was not much savings left. Without Hou Weidong's bank card, the mother's surgery fee could not be paid.

Family happiness consists of two aspects: one is spiritual life and the other is material life. Only under the guarantee of certain material living conditions can spiritual life work. Under the pressure of a mother who is seriously ill and needs to spend a lot of money, Guo Lan's sense of happiness is greatly reduced.

After her mother fell asleep, Guo Lan walked to the living room with her hands and feet. She picked up her cell phone and called Hou Weidong.

Hou Weidong was about to take a shower and go to bed when he heard the phone ringing on the table, and immediately threw the changed underwear on the sofa and took the call.

Guo Lan said: "I figured it out and decided to accept your advice. As a child, it is a responsibility to let my mother have a stable old age. If I have been immersed in the campus and study, it is actually another kind of selfishness."

Hou Weidong said: "It's really hard for you to take this step."

Guo Lan said: "But I haven't fully accepted your advice on how to do it. A gentleman loves money and makes it well. I don't want you to go against your true intentions."

Hou Weidongdao: "Everyone road leads to Beijing, and the specific methods can be discussed." He had another sentence: "Even if you go against your true intentions, you will be willing to do whatever you want."

Guo Lan whispered: "Then I'll go back to Lingxi recently and have a detailed conversation."

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