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Lu Zhengti slipped a bottle of sour blueberry ice wine, a stack of papers under his arm, and turned into the rose maze in a daze.

The wall of roses is not too high. Lu Zheng stood on tiptoe to find the way. He always felt that he would meet the person he was looking for at the next corner. Who knew that his neck was broken and he was dizzy. He was in the same place for ten minutes. spinning around.

"Why can't I find the way? Where is this..." Lu Zheng lost his patience and shouted angrily, "Gu Yuxie!"

"Here it is!"

Lu Zheng turned around and saw that the center of the maze was behind the corner that was blocked halfway by the plump pink flower wall.

"...Your maze is built like a ghost hitting a wall."

Gu Yuxie was sitting cross-legged on the ground of the "Black Rose". When he looked up and saw Lu Zhenghou, he continued to work with his head down, and said, "I saw you walking back and forth several times. What's the matter, how about giving your employees a spot?"

"..." Lu Zheng couldn't answer, and walked over to sit with him on the ground, "That...you know?"

Gu Yuxie was adding mulch to a piece of maidenhair fern, lowered his head and said casually: "I can see the ID of the person who took the ticket - 'Zhengfu Jiaoqiao Old Vase', it looks like you guys did it. "

"Cough...fuck..." Lu Zheng was choked with anger at Lao Yu's coquettish name, and his style of being so obvious that he can't afford to hide his ID is also intoxicating, "Then...then aren't you angry?"

Gu Yuxie: "You have nothing to be angry about. Disappointment is because of hope, and anger is because things go against your wishes but you are powerless. You are neither."

Lu Zheng asked: "Then what am I?"

"You... It's barely a sudden and malicious accident."

Lu Zheng pursed his lips and smiled, acquiescing to Gu Yuxie's evaluation.He looked around the center of the labyrinth, and found that Gu Yuxie had already arranged an elegant small landscape in just one day. He used short split bamboo to surround it, poured three layers of concrete steps, and planted mazes high and low. Rosemary, sky blue sage, alum root, daylilies, and some shade-loving and moisture-tolerant varieties lying on the ground, the greenery of different levels is arranged exquisitely and seductively.

Lu Zheng asked: "Has anyone ever said that you are especially handsome when you concentrate on your work?"

Gu Yuxie didn't stop, and asked, "Just like what you did last night?"

"kindness?"

Gu Yuxie choked, and lowered his head so much that he was about to bury himself in the grass: "Well...how did you look last night?"

"Here!" Lu Zheng handed the paper under his arm to Gu Yuxie, "The analysis data and report revisions are all here, and I have sent the information to my company's offices for all tax-exempt items. I'll take care of it for you, and the rest... I sincerely suggest you get another accountant."

"No money." Gu Yuxie was very straightforward, "I'm going to fire the current finance, anyway, it's a mess to save costs."

Lu Zheng rolled his eyes and sighed: "Well, I'll ask that 'old vase' to come over with the contract tomorrow, and let him be your servant in person in the future. With your workload, he eats instant noodles two days a month. You will finish it in time. But can you tell me, who gave you the courage to owe more than 600 million foreign debts and tens of millions of unpaid loans, and you can plant grass here so calmly?"

Gu Yuxie's hands that were digging the soil suddenly stopped.

Lu Zheng asked aggressively: "Don't tell me, you don't know this."

"..."

The setting sun was silent, and the night at the end of spring was dark blue and deep. Gu Yuxie didn't move, and he didn't look up at Lu Zheng. His thin figure gradually disappeared into the darkness, like a dying person drowning in the sea of ​​black numbers, abandoning himself alone , also lost the strength to reach for a straw.

The surrounding green leaves were blown by the evening wind, a wave of ground heat surged, and the sound of frogs in the manor broke the awkward silence between the two of them.

Lu Zheng raised his hand to clasp Gu Yuxie's shoulder, and forced him to face him: "You can tell me, I'm capable of helping you."

Gu Yuxie raised his eyebrows slightly: "You? Don't you want me to go bankrupt the most?"

"How unbalanced is your positioning of yourself? Do you think you can survive your financial crisis on your own? God gave you one talent, but it will take away another ability from you. You don't know anything about finances. Although debt is not You owe it, but you work hard every day, but do you know what Yunyun's current business situation is?"

Gu Yuxie finally stopped what he was doing, and turned his head to look at the sour blueberry ice wine brought by Lu Zheng: "When did you trick the wine made by Master Liu? You have taken care of all the young and old in the garden?"

"I still need you." Lu Zheng opened the wine, took a sip boldly, and handed it to Gu Yuxie.

Gu Yuxie hesitated for a moment, took the bottle and took a sip.

Lu Zheng peeked at his lips on the mouth of the bottle, cleared his throat and looked away, and turned over the stack of materials he brought to Gu Yuxie to explain them one by one.

Although one of them is proficient in trees and the other is proficient in numbers, the discussion is a bit like chicken and duck, but Gu Yuxie can tell from Lu Zheng's special analysis report that he specially used the data analysis that he can understand language.

Pointing to several main data, Lu Zheng said: "At present, Yunyun's main business is selling flower seedlings and lending wedding venues. The relatively large customers of cooperation are garden seedling companies that are municipal counterparts, and several flower shops and wedding companies. , mainly to B, with a single product structure, narrow sales channels, and too much reliance on big customers. There is also a homestay that was just opened not long ago, and there is almost no other income other than that.”

"and also……"

Lu Zheng interrupted him: "Your few poor Chinese medicine Dendrobium can be ignored as two decimal places."

"...If it weren't for you, the Rose Maze would be profitable today."

"Yes, this is considered a contingent income, but I haven't received the money yet, so I can't inflate the profit." Lu Zheng waved his hand, "Then the cost, the cost is even worse, there is no scientifically feasible The financial plan and seedling cost operation plan, personnel salaries, marketing, bidding costs, profits and taxes paid, and various management expenses are all out of order and planned, not to mention the filing and accounting of materials, flowers, and seedling assets, and there is no need to mention All kinds of professional business contracting in the future..."

"I think our working model is fine," Gu Yuxie was not convinced, "I think Economist Lu wants to build Yunyun into a listed company, but I don't have that idea."

"Brother, can you be sober?" Lu Zhengjian convinced, "How long can your family-run business last century last? Do you know that the seedling contracting units of the municipal and district governments will soon re-invite bids? After losing these big donors, your old capital is almost exhausted, and you have to repay the loan for the original land. Brother, you are bald and not afraid of lice, and you are going to wait for the government to clean up the land with a naked body and debts land?"

"you……"

Lu Zheng: "Speaking of ten thousand steps back, even if someone buys you in advance, you still have the capital to talk to them. If your own profitability is considerable, maybe Cai... er, I mean, the person who came to buy you Maybe it will be revalued and Yunyun will be reborn in another world."

Lu Zheng almost spoke up. He was very clear about the capital operation methods of Cai Yiran and others. With Yunyun's current operating conditions, Cai Yiran would never be able to give Gu Yuxie a good price. In other words, it is a worthless low-quality asset, and there is only one end to be discarded.

But Yunyun is the life whose roots are buried deep in this land, but Cai Yiran wants to deal with it like a beggar, thinking that the colorful treasures in front of him will be regarded as worthless, and he may be one of the accomplices. Lu Zheng suddenly felt an inexplicable emotion, and took a sip of wine without saying a word.

Gu Yuxie didn't notice Lu Zheng's distraction, but stared at Lu Zheng's information and began to study it seriously, muttering, "Profitability?" He casually picked up a waste pottery pot that was used as a decoration in the flower bed, buried it in soil, He grabbed a handful of small flower seeds from the hedge and sprinkled them in the soil, and asked Lu Zheng, "That's it, how profitable is it to wait for it to germinate and sell for money?"

Lu Zheng almost didn't turn over, angrily took out a pen from his trouser pocket, drew a ball of twine on the paper, and drew a stick under the twine, with tentacles growing on both sides of the stick.

Lu Zheng held up the paper and said with a serious face, "Look, this is a flower."

Gu Yuxie frowned: "Are you sure this isn't a toilet brush with leg hair?"

"!!!" Lu Zheng turned over the paper and took another look. He was very satisfied with his work and shouted, "What toilet brush!!! This is a flower! A flower!"

"Okay, Hua, you continue."

"A single flower, from the beginning to the end, is so many that business can be done," Lu Zheng used the tip of the pen to start from the brush head, no, the flower head, "Look, flowers and seedlings can be sold, and you are already doing this , Also, cut flowers can be used as flower arrangement art class, leaves can be used as cultural and creative products, fragrance products can be made by extracting flower fragrance, dried flower art can be made by air-drying, essential oil, spray, insect repellant can be made by pressing and purified, printing in all kinds of places Patterns can be used as home derivative products. Your exclusive self-cultivation varieties can even be given meaning, and you can send full flower cultivation services from the sale of seeds. This is an immersive process of cultivating the system, you know?"

Gu Yuxie seemed to understand but not understand.

Lu Zheng sighed and continued: "There are also every corner of the garden, such a beautiful place, what's the use of you always asking students to sketch from life in obscurity, if something happens! For example, in your small woods, just set up a swing to find two beauties Take a photo and hype it as an internet celebrity swing, can you imagine it?"

Gu Yuxie looked blank: "But don't you need money to take pictures of beautiful women? What about cost management you are talking about? Why don't you let Uncle Liu and Aunt Wu take pictures..."

Hate iron but not steel...

With a sad face, Lu Zheng lowered his head and drew a few dense curves next to the "toilet brush".

Gu Yuxie: "May I ask if this lump is..."

"It's fucking cloud!" Lu Zheng shouted excitedly holding up the paper, "Live broadcast! Small video! Clouds grow flowers! There are so many ways to add value to Yunyun. When the fame and income increase, the brand Yunyun is the biggest asset. Customers, data, and traffic are all yours, so you have confidence, and no one will suffer when you talk to them, understand?!"

Gu Yuxie's head was buzzing with Lu Zheng's words, and he inexplicably thought of the master whom Kong Ming had worked so hard for but couldn't help.

Garden owner Gu was discouraged, spread his hands, and lay back on the "Black Rose" ground.

"I thought that planting grass and raising flowers was a very easy thing to do. I was with my parents when I was young, and that's all I could do." Gu Yuxie wiped the wine stains from the corners of his mouth, "But without them, I still do it well." A mess."

Surrounded by the sound of tiny bugs climbing the branches, it seemed that the night in the garden had calmed down, and the sky above was full of stars.

Lu Zheng also lay down, with his arms bent behind his head, and his elbows touched Gu Yuxie: "You have a whole body of debts, and you have to take care of so many people every day from morning to night, yet you can still be good to us like you. Fight against a well-intentioned and unexpected enemy, from a certain point of view, you are really good, the spirit of leadership is also a core wealth, infinite value..."

"You can really talk!"

Lu Zheng couldn't see Gu Yuxie's expression, but heard his soft laughter.Lu Zheng felt inexplicably in a good mood, and continued to tease him: "Hey, did you find out that the function of both of us is to make each other rich, and now it depends on who can make the other rich first."

"Pfft!" Gu Yuxie covered his eyes with the back of his hands, and finally laughed until his chest heaved.

The night wind blows a burst of fragrant wine, and the sour blueberry ice wine has bottomed out.

There are no towering street lamps on the Qiangwei Peninsula, only weak straw lamps buried in the grass, with a thin layer of light spreading on Gu Yuxie's slightly drunken skin.

"Lu Zheng, thank you, although you are very annoying sometimes, but you are...sometimes pretty good." Gu Yuxie drank another sip of wine, unconsciously leaning towards Lu Zheng.

Lu Zheng turned his head to look at him, thinking that this is a good person card?The rhythm is not right...

"But," Gu Yuxie also turned his head, looked at Lu Zheng and said word by word, "I really can't sell you that tree."

"Yeah, we've been fighting for a long time, but we can't agree on issues of principle." Lu Zheng turned back and looked at the sky.

Gu Yuxie finally stopped saying half a sentence this time, and said bluntly: "The tree is my mother's dowry when she married my father, and I can't lose it."

"..." Lu Zheng was stunned.

"The ancient tree should have been taken away by the Forestry Bureau when your old house was renovated. My grandfather was an expert in the study of ancient tree seedlings. He also signed a bunch of contracts and commitments, and it took a lot of effort to buy the tree. Come here, the tree grew up with my mother, and then...then came to Yunyun together. This garden was built by my father as a wedding gift to my mother."

Lu Zheng said sincerely: "They are very affectionate."

"Well. I told you that after my mother died of illness, this tree never bloomed again. My father didn't care about the manor in those two years, and he was confused about many things. He was cheated by a partner for a big project , so I owe so much money. Both Master Liu and I understand that my dad left in the end not because of illness, but because of depression. Yes."

When Gu Yuxie said these words, Lu Zheng kept frowning, and he suddenly remembered something: "I remember that in addition to debts and accounts payable in Yunyun's account, there are also many scattered receivables, which add up to a small amount. It’s several million, why didn’t you collect it?”

"It's all business transactions between villagers in the village. My dad never asks for it, and it's not easy for them. Don't we also owe money to others," Gu Yuxie said, "When I was in school, I participated in a competition and lost When I was a child, my mentor taught me a saying, "The sun shines on the good and the bad, and it rains on the righteous and the unrighteous".

"The Bible? Is your tutor a foreigner?" Lu Zhengdao, "I never asked you, what did you study?"

"I... Hey, now it seems that learning nothing is important, what is important is applying what you have learned. What is painted on paper will never be as solid as planting in the ground."

Gu Yuxie suddenly called out to Lu Zheng: "Hey, look!" He raised his finger and pointed to the north where they were lying down.

Lu Zheng: "Well, I see, Polaris, very bright, your place is much cleaner than the city center, and you can often see constellations."

"No, I said that!" Gu Yuxie lowered his arm slightly.

Lu Zheng looked beyond the wall of roses. At this moment, they were lying at an angle where they could just see a blurry black shadow of a big tree, and the top of that tree was visually pointing directly at the North Star.

"That's the Starlight Tower!" Gu Yuxie explained, "It's the angle of my design. I can see the connection between the tree and the stars from here. I wanted to take the first batch of guests to experience it today, but I didn't expect you to be the first."

Mentioning this, Lu Zheng was embarrassed again: "...Then, what kind of tree is that?"

"White paulownia!" Gu Yuxie stared at the sky with dark eyes, his voice was a little lazy, and his skin was slightly red due to alcohol intake, "It was my mother who planted it in Yunyun when I was born. Tree. My mother loved spicy food when she was pregnant. The flower farmers said they would give birth to a daughter. According to the village, a white paulownia tree was planted when the daughter was born and grew up with her. Cut it down to make wedding furniture."

Lu Zheng nodded and said, "Well, it's similar to the legend about planting camphor in the south of the Yangtze River."

"Lu Zheng, I'm sorry if I let you down because I couldn't get that magnolia tree. If... if you want, I can give you this white paulownia tree. Then... that was also planted by my mother."

Gu Yuxie began to speak intermittently, and his voice was very soft, like raving or talking in sleep, but Lu Zheng's heart was already so sour that it was unreasonable.

He thought about what kind of jerk he had done during his stay in Yunyun, and forced Gu Yuxie into this.In an instant, Lu Zheng suddenly understood what the inexplicable emotion just now was——

It seems to be a little distressed.

Lu Zheng's breathing was trembling slightly, his heart pounding on his chest like a drum. He stretched out his long arms and couldn't help but hug Gu Yuxie into his arms. He really is a delaying tactic, it's all a lie!

But he was not angry at all.

I don't know how much wine Liu Ye used to soak the sour blueberries. Lu Zheng only felt that his eyes were blurred, his whole body was dark, and he couldn't hear any sound. Fiery, hot to hot.

The pile of papers that recorded countless data and analysis results was blown all over the ground in a gust of night wind, and Lu Zheng suddenly felt that they were all useless nonsense!

He retracted his arms and hugged Gu Yuxie even tighter, but Gu Yuxie didn't respond at all, his head rested on Lu Zheng's neck, his slender and delicate eyebrows were tightly closed, his breathing was even and long, and his face was red Red.

All the starlight gathered into a huge filter, and Lu Zheng only felt that this head was much more beautiful than those big roses that he hadn't been named until now.

Lu Zheng pressed his cheek against the pink forehead in his arms, and gently closed his eyes.

He thought to himself, Gu Yuxie must be drunk, and so was he.