Chapter 3

man

As soon as they said they would meet, that night Nie's mother Huang Guilan asked someone to pass on a message to Chen Lili, asking her to wait at the bank of the Qisi River early the next morning, as Boss Nie would be arriving.

The two sisters got up early in the morning and came to the banks of the Qisi River.

Chen Lili continued, "Lina, if that old man Nie is difficult to talk to, you have to help me turn him down."

Suddenly, she stopped, because she found that her sister's two big eyes like water apricots were staring straight at the opposite side.

Chen Lili looked back.

Haha, a man is walking towards us. He is at least 1.80 meters tall, with a bronze complexion, a tweed coat, strong brows and resolute eyes, and big-toed leather shoes. He looks so majestic and masculine, and very handsome.

Even her ex-husband Wang Hongbing couldn't compare to this talent. It's hard to imagine that such a man had lost his wife.

As for Chen Lina, she was obviously very nervous. She held Chen Lili's hand tightly to prevent herself from falling down.

No wonder the man always said that he really wanted her to see what he looked like when he was young, young, tall, handsome, with slightly deep eyes. Just one glance and her heart almost jumped out of her chest.

"Big brother, have you seen that? That's the nanny mom found for you. What do you think of her? If you don't think she's suitable, just turn her down. Mom will help you take care of the children." Nie's mother, Huang Guilan, followed closely behind her son, her tone revealing her displeasure.

The person reached out his hand and shook Chen Lili's hand. "I heard that you want to go to the border to work as a nanny for my family. The salary has been negotiated. Let's meet. I'll ask you a few questions. Then we can make a deal and leave together the day after tomorrow. What do you think?"

He had a deep voice and spoke standard Mandarin, just like the announcer on the radio.

Mother Nie glanced at the two Chen sisters. Just by looking at the way the two sisters looked at their son, she knew what the two sisters were thinking. "Dear daughter of the Chen family, my eldest son is only looking for a nanny and not getting married. Don't think too much. He is not looking for a partner." The last few words were spoken with special emphasis.

However, this one sentence was enough to embarrass the three people present.

"If you have any questions about the border or about me, just ask now and I will answer them for you." Nie Bozhao came straight to the point and said directly.

Chen Lili asked her sister to clench her hands tightly. After a long pause, she asked, "What is your position in the oil field?" She doesn't look like someone who drills oil underground all day.

"You'll understand once you get to the border," he answered briefly.

"Isn't it more miserable than the diggers in the well?"

"Relatively speaking, my job also requires me to go down to the oil wells frequently. Do you have any other questions?" asked Nie Bozhao.

Chen Lili shook her head and said, "No more."

During this period, she shook her head vigorously and gave Chen Lina a look. In fact, she wanted to see what Chen Lina thought and whether she wanted to be the nanny for her. Well, judging from the look in her eyes, it was obvious that she was interested in Nie Bozhao.

Not only is it not annoying, it's quite pleasing to the eye. Otherwise, how could he stare at someone like that?

"Then let's make a deal. The day after tomorrow morning, you pack your things and I buy the bus tickets, and we'll go together?" said Nie Bozhao.

"I, I'm afraid I can't go, but..." Before Chen Lili could finish her sentence, the smile that had just appeared on Nie Bozhao's lips suddenly froze.

"No, you agreed to it at the beginning. Oh, now you say you won't go. The eldest daughter of the Chen family, you are not so coaxing as you, are you?" Mother Nie screamed.

"Auntie, I really can't go because of something, but look, this is my sister, she can go in my place." After saying that, Chen Lili pushed Chen Lina out.

Chen Lina still stared at the man.

She recalled the first time they met in her previous life. It was when she went to discuss business with him. He was only wearing a navy blue shirt and overalls. He was the CEO of Zhao's Real Estate. He smiled and extended his hand, saying "Hello, Miss Chen."

Thinking about how he was tortured by illness, how he was over 1.80 meters tall but became as thin as a bag of bones, and how he held her hand and refused to close his eyes when he was dying, Chen Lina's throat was choked.

She was the one who took care of him until he died. I only remember that when he died, her eyes were tightly shut. I never expected that we would see each other again so soon.

At this moment, she hadn't even figured out how to start talking and say the first sentence to him.

Huang Guilan almost jumped up. "Ms. Chen, you can't joke like that. Your sister is a college student at the Women's Normal University. How can I not believe that a college student works as a nanny? I finally understand that you and your family are all liars. You never thought of being a nanny. You just thought that I was old and easy to bully, so you cheated me out of my money."

"Auntie Huang, you can't say that. It's just a matter of twenty yuan. I won't go, so my sister will go in my place. It's the same. How can it be considered a scam?"

"How else can I put it? You accepted my money only after you agreed to it. I have come to realize that there is no good girl in Qisixiang. As for this old lady, I have done a better job myself." Mother Nie kept saying this and directly blocked Chen Lili from saying anything.

"Old, old Nie!" Chen Lina staggered, and walked over with difficulty on her weak legs.

The man seemed to have just noticed her, and was looking at her with a dazed look on his face. He did not have the reluctance to let her go that he had felt when he was dying in his previous life, the kind of love, regret, and sadness of having to let her go.

Chen Lina had a thousand words in her mind, but suddenly she was stunned.

She remembered that he and she were still just strangers.

"Girl, you came here with her, right? Please talk to Comrade Chen again. The agreement is not a joke. I'm waiting for your news. Consider whether to go or not. Tell me something." The man spoke coldly, and after saying this, he turned and left.

The man probably didn't see her clearly, but she saw the man clearly. Although he was wearing a woolen coat, the exposed shirt was flanked by lint. Although he was wearing big-toed leather shoes, there were two rows of iron nails on the backs of his feet, and it was obvious that the shoes had been worn for who knows how long.

It seems that although he works in the oil industry and earns a good salary, his life is a mess.

"Sister, I want to marry this man." Chen Lina said to herself as she looked at the man's back as he walked away.

Of course, he didn't recognize her now, so he was very cold to her, but Chen Lina believed that as long as she put enough effort into it, she would be able to marry him.

However, what she wanted to figure out now was that the man had always said in his previous life that he was the descendant of a revolutionary fighter, so how did he become the son of Qi Sixiang, Huang Guilan?

Only after you figure these out can you step into a man's sight and talk to him.

And she had to go back and ask her father about all this.

"What? You want to go to the border to be a nanny? Now you don't want to go, but you want your sister to go. That won't work. Lina has to stay at home. If the university resumes classes one day, she will have to go back to class."

Chen's father was the principal of an elementary school. When he came back from lunch after class at noon, he heard that the two girls had gone to meet Nie Bozhao in private.

Moreover, they wanted Chen Lina to take over Chen Lili's job as a nanny, which of course was firmly opposed.

"What should I do with the twenty yuan, Dad? I can't pay it back." Chen Lili was worried about the money.

"Besides, isn't that Boss Nie a widower? Although he's a little old, he has a high salary and good talent. No, let's ask someone if Boss Nie wants to remarry. Wouldn't it be nice if we marry Lina to him?"

"Lili, you are so bold. Nie Bozhao is a senior engineer at the oil base. The marriage review for senior engineers is very strict. Let alone this, he is already 30 years old and has three children. I can't bear to marry my Lina to someone else as a stepmother."

"If I don't get married and can't go to college, am I going to work in the fields all my life?" Chen Lili asked.

Chen's father has been very angry recently. Because of his class background, his salary has been stopped since last year. Without salary subsidies, he can only rely on the work points earned by his wife and eldest daughter. The whole family is struggling to eat compound noodles, and it is rare to eat thin noodles.

Chen Lina took over the conversation and said, "Dad, can you tell me about Nie Bozhao? I grew up in Qisi Township, so why have I never seen him?"

"That old Nie is from our Qisi Township, but it's normal that you don't know him. He was probably born in 1940. In 1948, our township was plagued by bandits, and the bandits were very good at catching strong men. Nie's father and mother took their two sons out to hide from the bandits. On the way, Nie's father fell ill and had no money to see a doctor.

So they sold Nie Lao Da to a couple for fifty dollars. The couple were revolutionary fighters at the time and happened to have the same surname, so they just changed his name and supported him all the way to Northern Industrial University. He came to Qisixiang because his adoptive parents asked him to recognize his relatives before they died. "said Chen's father.

Chen Lina finally got the whole thing together.

Therefore, Nie Bozhao also returned to his hometown to find a nanny in his previous life. Unfortunately, in order to avoid debt, Chen Lili and He Lan'er took her and her father to Zhang County.

Nie Bozhao couldn't find a nanny, so he had to move his entire family to the border and let Nie's mother raise his children.

This is the reason why the two of them have never met each other despite being separated by a river in their previous lives.

"Sister, I have decided that I want to marry that man. However, you have to help me with this. Let's go to Niejiazhuang again." After Chen's father went to work and Chen's mother went to the fields, Chen Lina said to Chen Lili.

"Lina, I think his mother is determined and doesn't want him to look for another one."

"He is him, and his mother is his mother. Why don't we just go find him alone?"

Nie Bozhao never mentioned Nie's mother in the second half of his life, which shows how important she was in his heart.

Moreover, Nie Bozhao works in the oil industry. Just for this job, his three children should not be bullied in his hometown.

She saw it clearly. Little Nie Weimin was beaten by Nie Xiaoqiang, but when he complained about it, Nie's mother did not stand up for her child.

Instead, she blamed the children. Just for this reason, Chen Lina felt that Nie's mother was not a good person, at least she was not good enough to her three children.

"But what if he doesn't want to find a wife in the countryside? After all, he's an engineer at the oil base, earning only 100 yuan a month, and his lover has died. I guess there are many girls in the oil base who are eager to marry him. He probably won't be interested in someone like me."

"Sister, look at what you said. People say that the right medicine should be used for the right disease. As long as I find the root cause, I am confident that I can defeat him."