The Return of Gratitude Volume 2

On Friday again, after practice and homework tutoring, Archer was about to leave with his bag on his back when he was stopped by An Jiamian.

Young Master An sat on the bench with his legs crossed, shaking the money in his hand: "You don't want today's reward?"

Only then did Gou Xiaozi suddenly realize that he trotted back with a smile, and was about to take it when he took a look: "Why are there so many?"

An Jiamian glanced down at the degummed and cracked sneakers on the boy's feet: "Go buy a new pair of shoes with the extra money."

Archer was overwhelmed immediately, but he didn't take the money: "No need! In fact, the shoes are quite redundant for me." He said in his heart that I usually wear barefoot, and Benben is cooler, "But thank you senior , in fact, you are quite gentle..."

An Jiamian looked sullenly at the wheat-colored boy who was holding the top of the hat, and said to himself that sometimes I really want to beat you up, but when I think of your physics teacher being very fierce, your English teacher being very fierce, and your math teacher being so fierce, If I kill you again, you will be too pitiful.

Just be gentle with you.

I'm pretty gentle.

Leaving the court, An Jiamian turned around and looked at the figure of the boy who was waiting for the bus across the street and jumped into the car. Among all the sparring partners he came into contact with, Archer was not the best, it should be said that he was far from the best, and he often had physical strength. If you don't lose the ball, the most other sparring movements are deformed, that is, the ball can't hit the net. This kid hits the sky every time.The young Archer never took the initiative to ask for a rest, or put on a look of resentment, but as soon as the sky cannon was fired, he knew that this kid would have to rest if he didn't rest.Once during a break, he went to buy water, and when he came back, he saw the boy lying on the ground, already asleep, snoring.

He squatted beside him and yelled twice, but there was no response, and he kicked again. The wheat roll boy mumbled something like "Xiaoxiu" vaguely in his sleep. Looking at his sleeping face drooling with happiness, he must have had a dream.He sat on the bench and drank all the water by himself, and suddenly thought of Stubby, who couldn't wake up even when an earthquake struck.

The cell phone rang suddenly, interrupting his thoughts, it was Jason's call.An Jiamian answered the phone while walking: "It's rare that you take the initiative to call me. If it's about sparring, you don't need to worry about it."

There was a rare long silence on the other end of the phone.

An Jiamian frowned and stopped, and said in a deep voice, "What's wrong?"

Butlers, servants, cooks, and bodyguards all gathered in the hall of the villa. An Jiamian did not speak, and no one spoke. The old butler kept wiping the fog from his glasses, and the older maid was sobbing softly. .

Jason looked at the people in the room solemnly from behind the sofa. These people, like himself, have been with Anjia for many years. They don't understand the things in the mall, and they just take care of Anjia inside and out.The news that An's falsely reported profits, that the accounting firm was operating in violation of regulations, that An's was facing a huge deficit and filed for bankruptcy protection was reported to them as a bolt from the blue—An's family collapsed.

Everyone in the room looked worried, with no master. Steward Cao was the one who had seen the most turbulent waves, but he also knew that the Kan'an family might not be able to survive this time. After such an emergency overnight, the sockets of his eyes were still red.

When the atmosphere was so heavy that the water was about to be squeezed, An Jiamian on the sofa said, "What about parents, aren't they going home to show their faces at this time?"

Jason shrugged helplessly, he couldn't answer this question.

All the family, men, women and children looked at An Jiamian expectantly.

An Jiamian got up on her knees and said: "Parents are not here, this family is my decision, I will keep the house, and those who want to leave, I will settle your salary. Thank you for your dedication to the An family over the years. I want to stay Yes, business as usual."

When An Jiamian said this, he was so calm that he could hardly see any emotional ups and downs. Jason saw a room full of people who were reassured by the words of this omnipotent young master, and their emotions also stabilized. emotion.

"Master An, are you still drinking Darjeeling tonight?" Seeing that An Jiamian was about to go upstairs, the maid asked hurriedly.

An Jiamian turned her head: "Of course. I said it will be business as usual."

Jason watched An Jiamian walk into the elevator, the door closed, and he suddenly wanted to know what kind of expression this young master had behind the door.When you are alone, will you be sad, will you show weakness, will you be overwhelmed?

An Jiamian walked into the bedroom. The lights in the bedroom were not turned on, but the moonlight from the balcony was brighter than the lights, illuminating the whiteness of the heart.He went to the bookcase, opened the topmost glass cabinet, and took out the Stradivari violin.This violin was bought at a sky-high price from a collector in Huaigang.

Sitting on the edge of the bed, with his chin clamped on the chin rest, the bow of the piano was drawn across the four strings of different thicknesses, and the distorted moan was so disgusting that An Jiamian threw the piano away.He frowned and looked down at the slack strings. The bow hairs were rough and prickly. It was a far cry from the lark-like sweet sound when he played the violin at the collector's house for the first time.

He found rosin to smear on the bow hair, set up the violin again, and endured the harsh sound, he gently pulled the A string, and tirelessly tuned the axis repeatedly.The sound of the strings has gradually become sweet and bright, turning the shaft of the piano, as if turning time.

At the age of 20, he was the champion of the German Aachen Equestrian Competition. At the age of 17, he won the world all-round dog championship. At the age of 14...

The strings of the violin sang a perfect double tone of fifths, and the intertwined sounds of foil fencing, Bach's unaccompanied violin music, and tap, tap, tap, tap, and the dog's paws seemed to be heard in my ears. The sound of pacing up and down on the wooden floor.

woof!Welcome back the champion!woof woof!Our Young Master An is the most powerful——

Jason and Butler Cao explained a few more words and got into the car, rolled down the window, and suddenly heard the sound of a violin coming from the direction of the villa. The cheerful notes were like fluttering butterflies, shining from time to time under the moonlight.At first he thought that An Jiamian was in a bad mood and was listening to music. When the car drove out of the villa, he suddenly realized that, by the way, An Zuzong had learned the violin, and the lawyer with a square face shook his head. It was many years ago.

For An Jiamian, this bloody weekend, Archer and Ren Hai spent in the hypermarket, they would come here every week to sell boxed lunches, the business was very good, most of the stores were selling women's clothing, Ah Che came to deliver meals every week, and became acquainted with many sellers in the shop.

"Why do you always wear a hat? Curly hair is ugly?" The sisters in the store liked this sunny boy with wheat-colored skin very much, and often reached out to pull his peaked cap when Archer was too busy delivering meals.Archer is now hard-pressed whenever he sees those sisters, and he has to beware of being kicked off his hat while delivering lunch.

After delivering the meal, when passing by a certain shop, he was suddenly attracted by a white dress hanging on the wall.It wasn't the bad Korean style chiffon dress, but a very slim and simple cotton and linen skirt with a narrow waist and a wide skirt.

If Xiaoxiu wore it, he would be as beautiful as a fairy, Gouboy couldn't help thinking while standing outside the shop, the image of Xiaoxiu wearing a white dress circling towards him appeared in his mind, and his face turned red.

The proprietress smiled and looked at the silly boy: "Hey, Archer, have you got a girlfriend?"

"How much is this dress?" Archer asked after waking up.

"You really want to sell me and give you a half discount!" The beautiful sister said while eating melon seeds, "I'll give you two hundred."

200 yuan is really cheap, Archer nodded: "That's fine! You can keep it for me, I didn't bring any money today, I will buy it tomorrow!"

"It's okay to keep it, come here and let my sister lift the hat~~"

Archer pretended not to hear and hurried away.

On another Monday, Archer waited until Genglin College was over after school, and all the students had left before he drove to the tennis court.There was a traffic jam on the road for a long time. It seemed that a large multinational corporation had closed down. Many people lost their jobs overnight. They took to the streets and marched passionately. The traffic jam lasted for four to ten minutes. After getting off the bus, Archer ran all the way to the tennis court.

Usually An Jiamian was waiting for him, but today he came to see him, and An Jiamian hadn't arrived yet.Maybe it was also a traffic jam, thinking so, the boy simply sat on the ground outside the arena, leaning against the barbed wire, pulled out his English textbook, and memorized the vocabulary list.

The words of the two units were all memorized, and An Jiamian hadn't come yet, and the sky had already darkened. Archer yawned several times, curled up and dozed off.

"Hello, hello?"

Someone pushed him on the shoulder, and Archer opened his eyes in a daze. It was already dark, and when he looked up, he saw that the uncle of the tennis court was calling him.

"Are you Archer?"

Archer hurriedly put on his crooked hat, and got up quickly: "I am!"

The uncle administrator gave him the paper bag in his hand: "Someone asked me to hand it over to you."

Archer took the paper bag in bewilderment, opened it, and found a shoebox inside.

The dog boy had already guessed that this must be a surprise given to him by Master An, so he sat down happily on the ground again, solemnly opened the shoe box on his knees, and couldn't help but gasp—these are beautiful Nike tennis shoes!

The boy happily took out his shoes and quickly put them on, huh?It fits so well!Not too big and not too small!As expected of Master An, his eyesight is really amazing!

Putting on new sneakers, I was about to put my old shoes into the shoe box, only to find an envelope at the bottom of the shoe box.

Archer opened the bulging envelope and saw that there was actually a thick stack of banknotes inside. He suddenly felt that the rhythm was out of order, and he couldn't care less to count, so he quickly poured out the contents of the envelope. There was a letter and a VIP card inside.

The curly-haired boy hurriedly unfolded the letter paper, and there were only a few short sentences on it——

This is the VIP membership card of Duke Bookstore, which can be used in all Duke Bookstores in Genglin City, regardless of status, and there is no fee for reading books.

133XXXX5911, this is the mobile phone number of my former tutor Feng Zhiyuan, I have already told her, you can go to her whenever you need, just call before you go to make an appointment. PS, not fierce.

Archer always felt that the letter was indescribably weird. He read this side and then the back, and even held the letter up to the light, but there was nothing else. There is no signature.

The curly-haired boy thought for a while, got up quickly, ran to buy a phone card, went to the phone booth and dialed the number on the letter.

"Hello, who is it?" A very gentle middle-aged woman's voice came from the receiver.

"Hello, Teacher Feng!" Archer held the microphone and said eagerly, "My name is Archer, and I am a friend of Young Master An Jiamian..."

"Oh, Archer," the other party immediately understood, "Are you here to make an appointment for after-school tutoring?"

"No, I want to ask, is something wrong with Master An?"

The other end of the phone paused, then smiled again: "No, he's fine, I heard he's going to study for an MBA."

Hearing from Mr. Feng Zhiyuan that An Jiamian was going to Harvard Business School to study for an MBA, the curly-haired boy came to his senses after a long time. He went home and asked Ren Hai. Ren Hai also said that it was a very fraudulent school. Liao thought: "Let's put it this way, if you come from that school, if you come to help us sell lunch boxes..."

"How could Master An come to help us sell box lunches?!" Archer snorted.

"I'm making an analogy! I know your young master An is amazing, okay?" Ren Hai said, "I mean, if we have an MBA from that school, if we have the opportunity to ask him to help us sell lunch boxes, sell In less than half a year, we must open a chain store, sell a national chain for one year, and sell a global chain for two years! Understand?"

"So powerful?!" The dog boy raised his ears and wagged his tail.

"That's one of the best business schools in America!"

The dog boy didn't hear right: "Didn't you tell me that Harvard is Harbin Buddhist College?!"

Ren Hai looked at the wheat-colored boy with an angry face, and shook his head: "You only have a long head but not a long heart..."

Having said that, Archer immediately went to the Internet to Baidu the Harvard Business School. He couldn't believe the encyclopedia with tens of thousands of words. He read it word by word, and felt the sadness of not seeing An Jiamian for many years. Immediately relieved.

Harvard Business School, what a great school, he probably won't even have the chance to see it with his own eyes in his life, so that should be An Jiamian's destination!I don't know where An Jiamian will go after graduating from Harvard Business School, will she stay in the United States?But Young Master An's family is so rich, they should also run a big company, maybe he will come back.

The big golden retriever walked out of Ren Hai's room contentedly, and looked at the white Nike tennis shoes he took off in the entrance, why is there only one left?I ran to the entrance and looked around for a long time, only to find that the other one was accidentally thrown under the cabinet when he took off his shoes. The big golden retriever lay down with its butt pouted, its claws stretched in, scratching and digging, Finally took it out.The curly-haired dog wiped away the spider webs on the shoes with his paws distressedly, took the Nike shoes one by one, and placed them meticulously in front of the sofa. Dreamland.