Forever, beauty bone

Chapter 5
Because of her "specialness", she was not very close to her parents since she was a child, and she was a strange child in the eyes of her family.Even when she was six or seven years old, because of her strange speech, her mother secretly took her to see a psychiatrist. Of course, only a few people knew about this.Otherwise, relatives far and near at home may have discussions behind their backs.

My mother worried a lot because of her.Time is very clear.

As an adult, she also began to experiment with making herself emotionally responsive.Occasionally acting like a baby on the phone, I gradually got used to it. Instead, I poured the care of the family from the two generations on the current parents.That's why she made Zhou Shengchen wait temporarily because of her mother.

My mother didn't say much, to the effect that she didn't call recently, and she was a little worried.

Although it was not obvious, she knew that what her mother was worried about was that she was starting to have "hallucinations" again.

She comforted her for a while, and finally ended the call.

Switch back to Zhou Shengchen's phone: "I'm fine."

"Just finished work?"

"Yeah," she laughed, "so I didn't see your phone."

"If it's convenient, can we have a midnight snack together?"

This is the first time that he took the initiative to ask her out.

Shi Yi agreed without any hesitation: "Okay."

"Tell me your address."

She read to him.

"I will tell you when I arrive, don't wait on the side of the road in advance."

"it is good."

She sat down on the sofa in the corridor, and the people in the recording studio had already started to pack their things. Except for the lights in the two workshops, the lights in the rest were dimmed.People kept leaving and saying hello to her, but she just held her phone, wondering why Zhou Shengchen would suddenly look for her, but unfortunately she couldn't find the answer.

Maybe just passing by.

Zhou Shengchen soon arrived at the underground parking lot. When Shi Yi stepped out of the elevator, he saw him standing alone outside the elevator, waiting for her.

He seemed to be a different person, wearing very well-fitting white trousers, a light-colored checked shirt, and even a blue blazer.The very unexpected dress subverted the previous impression of wearing a lab coat.The taste is very good.

Possessed, but not elegant.The latter is a little impetuous, but he is just right.

She looked at him incredulously, walked over slowly, and walked around to him.

Those clear eyes were also looking back at her.

He smiled: "Surprised?"

"Very," she looked at him, "you look like you are very worthy of your name."

"With my name?"

"Zhou Shengchen," she read his name, "should give people a feeling, that's what it looks like."

Zhou Shengchen.

The same name, at that historical time, should have looked like this.Not the appearance, but the strength of character.

He laughed and didn't speak, but he thought what she said was interesting.

"Why are you standing here waiting for me?"

"The car is parked far away, I'm afraid you won't be able to find the place."

"I come here often, I'm afraid I'm more familiar with you than you."

He smiled: "It's already past twelve o'clock, and there are only two security guards here, aren't you afraid of encountering any accidents?"

It's really a habit of science people.

Just came by chance, did you notice that there are only two security guards in the parking lot?
Shi Yi pursed her lips and smiled: "Thank you."

When they walked over, a middle-aged gentleman was always waiting by the car, Shi Yi didn't pay attention, until he approached, the middle-aged man suddenly smiled and said: "Miss Shi, hello."

"Hello." She looked at Zhou Shengchen.

The latter had already opened the car door for her.

I didn't expect to see a different him during a supper by chance.Including such a character, such a car and a private driver.Although she was curious, she didn't have the nerve to ask him. She only took a closer look at the driver after the car drove out of the parking lot.

The person in the driver's seat looked to be about 50 years old, with a very steady hand on the steering wheel, gloves on his hands, and a suit made of good fabric, with exquisite details.It looks more like someone who has used it for many years.

The car was driving all the way, and the old driver only asked if he needed water.

Zhou Shengchen refused.

It was really quiet, Shi Yi looked at him from the corner of his eye, thinking, he must say something: "You look like this, you must have just met someone very important?" Zhou Shengchen nodded: "Several elders."

Shi Yi nodded.

He can answer any topic in one sentence without extension.

She turned her head to look out the car window and couldn't help laughing.

Zhou Shengchen, you are really a weirdo, luckily I don't mind.

She has been in this city for so long, and she hasn't been to the restaurant for dinner tonight.

It should be said that it is a separate courtyard.

Some people waited early, some led the way and served tea, and some even added incense and cut candles outside the screen, and went back and forth for food and shop lights.

She became more and more curious, looked at the figure coming through the screen, and said softly: "At midnight, did we stray into some illusion?"

"I'm just guessing that if you like to read books like San Yan Er Pai, you should like this kind of place."

She laughed: "I really like it, but Three Words Two Beats is just a collection of novels. There is nothing to show off. Some people like to read modern genres, while others like ancient genres. They just have different tastes."

There was a sparkle in Zhou Shengchen's eyes: "Sometimes, I will find that you and I have similarities."

"for example?"

He said frankly: "I like to collect Wu Ge's embroidery."

Shi Yi was a little dumbfounded. After looking at him for a while, he couldn't help but smile, and turned to look at the figure outside the screen: "This is different, okay. Your hobbies... are very special."

If it were Hong Xiaoyu, he would definitely feel that "Wu Ge" is very elegant just by its name.

But she knows more.For example, most of the Wu songs are elegant obscene songs and boudoir secret poems.Therefore, although it is almost the same time as the time when the Book of Songs appeared, but... In short, it will never appear in the textbooks of the student days.

She coughed lightly and changed the subject: "Would it be very hard for you to do those experiments usually?"

"Fortunately," he said, "It depends on the direction. There are very few girls here."

"why?"

"Very hard."

If she asked further, it would be a dialogue between an outsider and an insider. She was very knowledgeable and didn't continue to ask.

When it was time to actually eat supper, the two of them had little verbal communication, but they didn't look awkward.

Eat without speaking, sleep without speaking.It's her habit since she was a child.

It sounds very educated, but in the eyes of many relatives in the family, it is very weird.For example, during the holidays, the adults are always used to arrange the teenage children to eat at a small round table, laughing and laughing, and she is the only one who finishes the meal quietly and then drinks the soup.

Then, put down the bowls and chopsticks and sit in the same place, sit quietly, and leave the table after everyone has finished eating.

At first, she would be praised as being sensible, but gradually, she became a "weird" in the mouth of her cousins, and she was also evaluated as a very arrogant little girl in private.

At that time, she didn't know how to be tactful.

Later, when I grew up, I always had to adapt to this society. For example, in the school cafeteria, I always had to chat with the girls while eating. After work, I also had to occasionally have dinner at social parties and chat with others.

After so many years, it was the first time that I met someone who had the same habits as me.

And the happiest person is Zhou Shengchen.

During the whole meal, he just used the wooden chopsticks in the pastry box to hold her a piece of drunken crab paste, and then changed back to his own chopsticks to continue eating.Shi Yi smiled at him, and suddenly felt that such a scene was very familiar.Many memories have long been scattered, but his every move made her feel familiar.

Sometime in the past, somewhere, there must have been such a picture.

Zhou Shengchen sent her to the residential complex, and didn't let the driver drive in. Instead, he got out of the car and walked her downstairs, saying, "I've been going back and forth between Zhenjiang and Shanghai for the last three months."

"Zhenjiang?"

"Yes, Zhenjiang, is it strange?"

"No, my father's ancestral home is Zhenjiang," she smiled. "Although I don't go back very often, I still feel kind when I hear this place name."

He laughed: "It's a coincidence."

"Yeah, what a coincidence," she thought for a while, and asked curiously, "Are you still not used to using your personal mobile phone?"

"I'm not very used to it," he smiled. "The number in your mobile phone can find me at any time."

She nodded.

Then, both of them fell silent.

The security guard on the night shift was sitting in the lobby. He knew such a beautiful woman as Shi Yi, but it was the first time he saw her with a man, so he couldn't help looking here curiously.

"I'm leaving?" In the end, Shi Yi spoke first.

"OK, bye."

She turned around, and when she was looking for the key card from her schoolbag, the door had already opened with a beep. She was stunned, and then she heard the security guard's voice coming from the glass door, beckoning her to come in, and then suddenly realized.

Shi Yi suddenly turned around, looked at him, and said again: "I'm leaving."

She could even imagine how reluctant she was.

Zhou Shengchen showed his face slightly: "Goodbye."

She saved that number, but never found him.

She thought that she should still be concerned about the "fiancée" she had heard by chance. After more than twenty years of life, from a child to an ordinary woman, she at least learned to recognize the reality.

All she wanted was to see him again.

Even this wish with a one-in-a-billion probability has been fulfilled by her, and any extravagant wishes are delusions.

Not long after that night, it was Ching Ming Festival.

Because my grandfather passed away last year and was buried in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, so this year's Tomb-sweeping Day, I will naturally go back to visit the grave.At about five o'clock in the morning, my father drove the car and brought my mother to pick her up.

Shi Yi sat sleepily in the back seat of the car, leaning against his mother, waking up from time to time, and it was almost three hours, and he was still stuck in the Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway.From dark to sunny, my mother chatted with her all the time, probably because the two people in the back row fell asleep, and my father, who was the driver, would get sleepy and be in danger.

Of course, since graduating from university, the content of the chat is most likely about marriage.

"Have you had any boyfriend recently?"

"No," Shi Yi leaned on his mother's shoulder and muttered, "No, no, no..."

"Can't find someone you like?"

She said nothing.

Mother noticed her strangeness: "Have you met?"

"Yes," she laughed, "but he might be getting married soon, right?"

Mother frowned slightly: "Did you meet me at work?"

Father also looked at the two in the rearview mirror.

It was only then that Shi Yi realized that what he said was too much like an ordinary family drama, where a beautiful woman intervenes in other people's love stories, and hurriedly shook his head: "I just met someone, and I have some affection, and nothing else."

Parents are slightly relieved.

She tilted her head against the car window, and listened to her mother continue to lament that it took a lot of energy to have such a beautiful daughter.Ever since Shiyi was in junior high school, her mother had been worried that the teenagers in the society would harass her, and she had to pick her up and pick her up after school. Fortunately, Shiyi seemed to have no other hobbies other than reading and guzheng.

So the mother only needs to guard against foreign thieves, and does not need to watch whether her daughter will run away with the bad boy.

"Sometimes, your mother is very contradictory," my father added with a smile, "I am worried that you are too high-sighted to get married, and worried that you will be cheated by some rich and powerful people because you are too beautiful. things."

Shi Yi pursed her lips and smiled: "No, I don't like money."

People who have seen the cycle of life and death will not be captured by these things at all, otherwise the trip to the Palace of the King of Hades would be considered in vain.

When the car arrived at the toll booth, they finally saw the source of the traffic jam.There are three toll gate exits, all of which are isolated, one of which is vacant, and the two outer lanes are constantly entering and leaving various cars.

"Privilege car?" Mom asked Dad.

"It shouldn't be," my father suddenly remembered what my little uncle said: "Remember, Shi Feng said that in the past ten days, some wealthy businessmen have been entering and exiting Zhenjiang, and they are doing some investment projects."

My mother was even more surprised: "What kind of big investment projects can be made in Zhenjiang?"

"It's not investing in Zhenjiang, it's just that the meeting place is here," my father simply explained. "China's labor costs are the lowest in the world. Many multinational companies have built factories in China and then sell them overseas. Therefore, the most developed part of the Yangtze River Delta is the manufacturing industry."

Shi Yi laughed: "This is the allusion of made in China."

"Almost," my father is a university teacher, so he naturally cares more about these things, and he speaks logically, "However, in recent years, the wages of workers here have risen sharply, and many companies have begun to withdraw to Southeast Asia. Therefore, many small businesses have closed down one after another. It is estimated that in five years, there will be a subversive earthquake in the manufacturing industry. A large number of workers will lose their jobs, factories will close down, and the delta shock will inevitably affect the national economy.”

"Okay, okay," my mother felt a headache, "what does this have to do with traffic jams?"

"That's why some wealthy businessmen are invited to invest." My father laughed. "This is the charm of economics. If you predict a disaster in a few years, you must first think of a way to save it before the disaster happens."

"Very visionary." Shi Yi commented.

"Not only must there be foresight, but also strength to attract more investment." Father concluded.

Shi Yi snorted: "We must have a conscience and save the national economy."

"Yes, conscience."

The father-daughter dialogue completely amused the mother.

While they were talking, several black cars drove up from a distance. The speed was not fast, not like the speed of driving on the highway, but there were still cars politely avoiding it.

Several cars passed by the only vacant exit.

The license plate passed by, Shi Yi didn't see it clearly, but he always felt that it looked very much like Zhou Shengchen's car.

Talking all the way, they finally got out of the high speed.

It was already past nine o'clock when we arrived at the cemetery. Although it took more than two hours to drive, it took four hours.The tomb-sweeping time was not long. My parents came this time to get together with my father's uncle.Among these elders, the younger uncle's family is the most prosperous, and he has several manufacturing factories, so he naturally took on the task of entertaining relatives and friends.

Many elders were chatting in the living room, Shi Yi was bored and walked into his cousin's room.

The little girl was still in high school, and it was when she was studying hard. She was very happy to see her, so she grabbed her and asked her to read the essay questions for her.Shi Yi glanced at it, and it was related to the Qingming Festival, so it really fit the occasion.

After thinking about it, she made an outline for her cousin.

When I put down my pen, I saw a few invitation cards in the corner of the desk.

It was the event my father mentioned when I came here. The list is very gorgeous. Most of them are multinational companies, and many of them have nothing to do with manufacturing.Shi Yi usually doesn't pay much attention to these things, but the watermark on the invitation attracted her.

Set of colored woodcut watermarks.

Engraved engravings for invitations, hand-printed.

However, the one in Shi Yi's hands was just an ordinary printed version, not the original, at least it was not an invitation personally handed to those financial tycoons, but just a peripheral copy of the invitation.

What attracted her most was the word "Zhou" written in Xiaozhuan on the watermark.

It is Zhou, not Zhou Sheng.

But why do you think of her?
What Shi Yi thought of was that Zhou Shengchen in the middle of the night, low-key and different.

"Cousin, mobile phone," the little girl buried her head in the question without raising her head, "your mobile phone is ringing."

She regained her senses, picked it up and looked at it, her heart fluttering.

The cousin was there, she was embarrassed to clear her throat, and answered the phone directly.

"Miss Shi, hello." It was the driver's voice from last time.

"Hello." She seemed to be used to this way.

Zhou Shengchen quickly answered the phone: "Sorry, I'm not very good at making calls with my mobile phone."

She hummed: "It's okay."

"In Zhenjiang?"

"I just arrived, how did you know I'm here?"

He smiled: "You just passed the high-speed toll booth, and I knew it, but I didn't have time to say a few words to you."

(End of this chapter)