Rose Manor

The last time they met was at Bai Changxia's wedding, almost fifty days and more than a month ago.

Whenever Shen Jia Nian thought that her life had returned to peace and tranquility, Fu Jichen would appear in front of her in an unknowing way, overwhelming her sense of presence and reminding her of everything related to him.

Bai Changxia sat in the row behind them, next to her husband Zhu Qisen.

She never interferes with Shen Jia Nian's emotional choices. She respects Shen Jia Nian's ideas and only helps her analyze from the perspective of a bystander when necessary. She is the one who ultimately makes the decision, but only if Fu Jichen doesn't come looking for her.

Tonight's celebration banquet was led by Fu Jichen. When Fu Jichen came to find her, he spoke very sincerely, not at all like the Junshan president who stood at the top of the pyramid and spoke the truth. He said that he had no reason to ask Jia Nian, and even if he did, Jia Nian would not agree, so he came up with the idea of ​​​​promoting the celebration banquet in her name, and he was here to enjoy the meal.

Who cares about the meal, provides luxury business cars, and books restaurants? Even Bai Changxia had to lament his good intentions.

At first, Fu Jichen booked a private room in a membership-only private restaurant, and there were only a few of them. Who knew something was wrong with Jia Nian, so she called Fu Jichen and told him that the band had also prepared a celebration banquet. , Jianian couldn't leave, so it was he who made the decision to invite the band members to have dinner together.

After she euphemistically expressed that the band members wanted to eat hot pot, Fu Jichen did not hesitate to cancel the restaurant he had booked before, replaced it with Qingpingxuan, and arranged a pick-up car.

Shen Jia Nian was sitting on the seat holding Hua Sha, her phone buzzing in her down jacket pocket. She placed the flower between herself and Fu Jichen, creating an invisible distance, and took out her phone to check the messages.

There are more than twenty unread messages, most of which are from the band group, and the rest are from Bai Changxia and Zhao Shunyi.

Bai Changxia: "I didn't mean to hide it from you. Qisen and I originally wanted to make a dinner date with you. Fu Jichen said he would arrange it."

Zhao Shunyi: "Do you have time? Let's have dinner together tonight."

Shen Jianian replied to Bai Changxia first: "It's okay."

Then, she clicked on Zhao Shunyi's conversation interface and explained to her: "Sorry, I have plans tonight."

Shen Jianian then added: "How long will you take your vacation? I'll treat you later."

Zhao Shunyi had a cheerful personality and didn't mind. He gave her an emoticon of a puppy nodding like crazy.

The last group message Shen Jianian looked at, in a short time, the number of messages increased to more than 60, and she didn't know why they had so much to say.

"I checked Qingpingxuan and found that the average person is three thousand! With so many of us, won't it cost too much?"

“For the first time in my life, I was embarrassed to ask someone to treat me to a restaurant because it was too expensive.”

"I'm very worried now. We won't be detained to wash dishes, right?"

"It's not too late to jump out of the car now."

"What's your sister's background? We feel uneasy when we go to such an expensive restaurant for a treat. @神佳宁"

"We starve to death and reincarnate, and I'm afraid we will overwhelm your sisters. How about we change places? We can also eat rotating hotpots. We won't choose! @沈佳宁"

There were still many messages. Shen Jianian was too lazy to scroll up. He clicked on the dialog box and edited a message. After thinking about it, he still didn't send it. He locked the phone screen and stuffed it into his pocket.

The car suddenly turned and the piano case on Shen Jia Nian's left side fell down. Fu Jichen, who had been paying attention to her, stretched out his arm to catch the piano case, preventing it from hitting Shen Jia Nian.

The moment she got closer, Fu Jichen's suit brushed against Shen Jianian's face, and she smelled a light fragrance. It wasn't the smell of perfume or detergent. She couldn't tell clearly, but it seemed to have the smell of tea, mixed with a light smell of tobacco, and... It has a different smell, but it smells good.

Shen Jia Nian touched the hair around her ears uncomfortably. She didn't take off her scarf after getting in the car and the air conditioner was on. Her face was very red and her ears were also red: "Thank you, give it to me."

She held on to the straps on the piano case to keep from falling again.

Fu Jichen took the piano case directly and put it on his side. He had to squeeze towards her, and the flower wrapping paper placed between the two of them made a rustling sound. Fu Jichen's eyes swept across her face, and his chin pointed at the passenger seat in front: "Why don't you say hello to your teacher?"

Shen Jianian raised his gaze in confusion and looked forward. At exactly this second, the person in the passenger seat turned around with a warm and elegant smile. It was Yan Qiusheng.

She didn't even notice that Yan Qiusheng was in the car!

Yan Qiusheng clearly heard the girl's inhalation. He laughed so hard that wrinkles appeared at the corners of his eyes, and said with a hint of uncertainty in his tone: "Jia Nian?"

"Ah? Ah...it's me." Shen Jianian was too excited to speak, and pulled down the scarf covering half of his face with his fingers.

Only then did Fu Jichen see her face so red and her big eyes shining like a doll.

Yan Qiusheng sighed: "Mr. Fu told me that you were still alive. I couldn't believe it. You left me a letter and disappeared. I was worried. Later I heard that you had been in a car accident. Alas..."

Shen Jia Nian was a little at a loss and reflexively looked at Fu Jichen.

"I won't talk about the past, she doesn't remember it." Fu Jichen spoke for her.

"Alas." Yan Qiusheng sighed again, "I finally accepted a disciple, but they have forgotten me." Fu Jichen wanted to laugh, but couldn't. Shen Jia Nian didn't even remember him. What's the use of forgetting the master? Strange.

It was not easy to meet Yan Qiusheng. Shen Jia Nian was unwilling to let go of this opportunity to recognize his master and immediately expressed his position: "From now on, you will still be my master."

When Fu Jichen heard this, his heart was extremely unbalanced. He tried to persuade himself to calm down. He had already made up his mind to find another way to let Shen Jiannian get to know him again, but he really couldn't bear the scene in front of him.

"Why?" Fu Jichen spoke abruptly, and one could even hear a hint of grievance and unwillingness.

Bai Changxia and Zhu Qisen, the transparent people in the back row, pricked up their ears, wondering what Fu Jichen was going to say next.

Shen Jianian's attention was withdrawn from Yan Qiusheng and turned to Fu Jichen. She pursed her lips and said nothing, but her eyes were asking him: What and why?

Fu Jichen couldn't care less about the other people in the car. His chest was so tight that he might be depressed to death tonight: "Why did you accept the teacher-student relationship between Yan Qiusheng and you without even a little transition?" , you are unwilling to accept the relationship between you and me as boyfriend and girlfriend?"

Shen Jia Nian's mouth was half open, but he couldn't argue.

The car was quiet. Qu Mo, who was driving, looked at his nose and heart without noticing the hurt expression on his boss's face. The couple in the back row continued to act like transparent people, even their breathing became lighter. Only Yan Qiusheng, who was considered half an elder, smiled.

The car was parked in the parking lot of Qingpingxuan, and Fu Jichen still didn't get an answer to the "why" he asked.

Shen Jianian got out of the car and didn't look at Fu Jichen's face, imagining that his face should look disgusting.

Bai Changxia got out of the car. She choked with laughter and coughed. She took small steps to Shen Jia Nian, quietly gave Shen Jia Nian a thumbs up, and said in a voice that only two people could hear: "I was wrong. I thought it was Boss Fu who was picking on you, but it turned out that it was you who was picking on Boss Fu."

Snowflakes were falling on her hair and shoulders. Shen Jiannian rolled his eyes at her, pulled up his scarf, and waited for the cars behind him to stop one after another.

The band members jumped out of the car and couldn't stay quiet for a moment, chirping like sparrows all the way.

"Luxury business is so comfortable that I almost fell asleep."

"Do I believe you? You are the only one who talks the most."

"Are we really here at Qingpingxuan? Aren't we going to eat the revolving hotpot?"

"Holy shit, when did Yan Qiusheng come? And the man in the black coat... I remember seeing it on the hot search, Fu... Fu from Junshan Group..."

"Fu Jichen." The person next to him answered in a low voice.

Yan Hong, who had really seen the big world, was stunned and asked Shen Jianian, the only one who had anything to do with those people: "Why are Yan Qiusheng and the CEO of Junshan here?"

Yan Hong's husband was a well-known wealthy businessman in Jiangcheng. Of course, she knew about Fu Jichen not only from the news on the Internet, so she was surprised how such a big shot came.

Shen Jianian didn't know how to explain it, so he simply said: "I didn't know beforehand that they would come."

The group of people entered the luxurious box of Qingpingxuan with mixed emotions. Three large round tables were arranged, and the mandarin duck pot bottoms and snack platters were already served.

Fu Jichen came over and asked Yan Hong: "Is everyone here?"

Yan Hong was so flattered that she almost bit her tongue: "It's... all here."

"Tell them not to be formal, to be casual and order whatever they want. The ingredients here are mainly fresh."

Yan Hong still doesn't understand. The person who really paid for tonight's celebration banquet is this person, but she doesn't understand what Fu Jichen's intention is.

It wasn't until Fu Jichen sat next to Shen Jianian that Yan Hong finally understood that Fu Jichen was smiling for Bo Hongyan.

The members of the band sat at two tables respectively. The originally noisy group of young people now became like quails. Without saying a word, they began to communicate with each other with their eyes.

Yan Hong sat down and conveyed Fu Jichen's message: "Mr. Fu asked you to eat whatever you want, you're welcome."

Someone let out a small exclamation, realized they were being rude, and immediately covered their mouths.

When all kinds of fresh wagyu beef and king crabs bigger than their heads were served in unlimited quantities, they were no longer restrained and opened their bellies to enjoy the food. After eating to their heart's content, they couldn't control their mouths and returned to their lively appearance, talking and laughing. .

The table next to her seemed much quieter. Shen Jia Nian ate a few pieces of cooked beef and occasionally chatted with Yan Qiusheng. Maybe she was too excited to see her idol, but her eyes were always bright.

Fu Jichen recalled the time when he took Shen Jianian to seek apprenticeship with Yan Qiusheng. She was the same way, with stars twinkling in her eyes, which really made him jealous.

He gave her a piece of cooked crab leg. The fresh and plump crab meat was steaming. He tilted his head and whispered in a low voice: "You still owe me an unanswered question. When are you going to answer me?"

Fu Jichen is referring to the unanswered "why".