Reborn Scholar

Chapter 84

When he went to see the old man this time, Meng Shi always felt very uneasy.

Maybe it's because I feel different.

When I went to see the old man before, I just went to see him as a junior, but this time it seems that I want to... Cough, Meng Shi shook his head, not letting himself think too much.

The last time she went to see the old man was after the Lantern Festival, and she never saw the old man again, and she felt a little guilty when she said it.

The old man is very busy, and he can't finish the big things.

This time, I went to have a meal with the old man.

Meng Shi had prepared a lot of words, trying desperately to think about the questions the old man might ask. Unexpectedly, the old man didn't ask anything, he just ate, talked to her about delicious food, and asked her how she felt when she went to the devil. The old man even chatted about her business matters, but he didn't even mention a word about her and Han Cheng's affairs.

But obviously, the old man didn't treat her as an outsider at all, and ordered her to cook a side dish for a drink or make a cup of tea. It's not too skillful!Obviously Yu Ma is the one who specializes in cooking, so she is the only one who can make the smell!

The old man has too many things to do, Meng Shi and Han Cheng should leave after dinner.

"Goodbye, Grandpa Han." Meng Shi said.

The old man looked displeased, "You're still called Grandpa?"

Meng Shi was taken aback for a moment, but then he realized that he couldn't help blushing, "Goodbye, Grandpa."

The old man smiled and nodded, "Okay, if this kid bullies you in the future, just come and tell grandpa, if grandpa beats him, it doesn't matter if you are wronged."

Leaving from the old man, Meng Shi couldn't help but look at Han Cheng who was smiling silly beside him.

"Your grandpa hit you?"

Han Cheng coughed lightly, "I should hit him. Also, that's your grandfather too."

Meng Shi rolled his eyes at him, and said, "When did it happen?"

"Okay, daughter-in-law, don't ask, save me some face." Han Cheng looked at Meng Shi pitifully, "I haven't been beaten for many years."

"..."

In a blink of an eye, it was the end of October.

On weekends, Han Cheng was rarely busy. Early in the morning, before dawn, he dug Meng Shi out of the bed.

"It's so early, why?" Meng Shi didn't sleep comfortably, and was very reluctant.

"Dating."

"..." Meng Shi ignored him and continued to sleep.

Han Cheng put the seat flat, let her continue to sleep, and drove by himself.

When Meng Shi woke up, the sky was already bright, and the light of the morning sun was warm and soft.

Looking at the scene outside the car window, Meng Shi couldn't help asking, "Where is this going?"

"We'll be there soon. Don't sleep?"

"Ah."

Sure enough, it will be there soon.

A resort with a beautiful environment, when you get out of the car, you will be greeted by fresh air, mixed with the sweet scent of sweet-scented osmanthus.

Sure enough, after walking through a few corridors covered with green vines, I saw a big lotus pond, and there were golden osmanthus flowers on the surrounding hillsides.

"The lotus here is still blooming?" Meng Shi was a little surprised.

Generally, the flowering period of lotus is from June to September, and now it is the end of October, and the lotus here is still blooming beautifully.

Han Cheng handed over the car to the service staff of the resort to park it, put his arms around Meng Shi's shoulders, and led her to the lotus pond.

"The climate here is much warmer than that in City B. It is said that because of the terrain, the flowering period of the lotus is a little longer."

In the center of the lotus pond, an antique pavilion has been built, and a curved stone arch bridge can lead to the pavilion.

The lotus grows very luxuriantly. Standing on the pavilion, you can touch the lotus leaves and lotus with your hands.

Meng Shi reached out and picked a lotus pod, and slowly peeled it off. The breeze blew, the blue waves rippling, and the sweet air made people feel comfortable all over.

After sitting for a while, someone brought breakfast.

Steamed egg in lotus leaf, lotus seed soup, deep-fried lotus flower, sliced ​​raw lotus root, lotus porridge, and buns with lotus root filling.

I have to say that it is very creative and refreshing, and Meng Shi has a great appetite.

After dinner, Meng Shi wanted to go to the osmanthus forest, but she had to change clothes first, she didn't want to be bitten by mosquitoes.

The houses here are all antique buildings, which look very tasteful, but there are all modern things inside, which is also in line with the trend of the times. After all, not everyone can get used to the living utensils in real ancient buildings.

Although I really like looking at those ancient buildings and ancient decorations, but that's just for looking at. Meng Shi would never want to live there, it's too masochistic.

The room is big with a big balcony.

Meng Shi changed into sports-style long-sleeved trousers, sneakers, and a hat.

When she was about to go out, the phone rang. When she saw that it was Zou Jun, she laughed.

Sure enough, after mentioning it to Zou Jun on the phone, Zou Jun immediately screamed to come too, of course Meng Shi welcomes her.

After changing clothes and going out, I saw that Han Cheng had also finished changing.

Well, the two are wearing the same white T-shirt, gray long-sleeved jacket, gray trousers, and white sneakers.What Han Cheng prepared was different.

After pulling Meng Shi to stand in front of the mirror and look at it, Han Cheng nodded, very satisfied with his vision.

Meng Shi ignored his stinking beauty and happily went to the osmanthus forest.

The sweet-scented osmanthus is really fragrant. The scent of the refined sweet-scented osmanthus will make people feel too sweet, but this natural sweetness smells very comfortable.

Looking at the osmanthus, Meng Shi thought of osmanthus honey, osmanthus sauce...

Meng Shi shook off Han Cheng's hand and picked a bunch of golden osmanthus.

The sweet-scented osmanthus here should be a very good variety, with large flowers and a golden color, not the usual off-white ones with a strong fragrance.

"Bend down." Meng Shi looked at Han Cheng with a smile.

"Why?" Han Cheng obediently bent down to look at her.

Meng Shi didn't speak, but smiled and put the sweet-scented osmanthus on Han Cheng's ear, "Well, it's pretty."

Han Cheng was speechless, so he picked a bunch and stuck it on her head. He nodded, "Well, this is the way to go."

Meng Shi glared at Han Cheng, "You messed up your hair."

"It smells so good, what should I do, the one on your head is more fragrant than mine." Han Cheng rascally held someone's face and kissed it.

The sweet-scented osmanthus forest is very large, and it is on the hillside, and Meng Shi was tired after halfway around.

But right in the middle of the hillside, there is a resting place.There are tea and fruit.

There were two very comfortable big wicker chairs, but Han Cheng insisted on squeezing them over, and lay on them with his arms around Meng Shi.

The sun has risen very high, but there is only warmth here, not hot.

The breeze was blowing, surrounded by sweet fragrance, Han Cheng worked late last night, got up early in the morning, drove again, lay down now, and fell asleep not long after.

Meng Shi raised his head slightly, looking at the unguarded man sleeping next to him, he couldn't help but curl his mouth slightly.

He wasn't sleepy at all, but when he was lying down, the sleepy bugs came, and Meng Shi fell asleep unknowingly.

Click!

And footsteps, and laughter...

Meng Shi frowned and opened his eyes.

Sure enough, Zou Jun was having a great time taking pictures with the camera.

I used Polaroid, and the photo came out after I took it.Meng Shi reached out and pulled one from Zou Jun.

Han Cheng hugged her on the not-so-big wicker chair, and she slept in Han Cheng's arms, their heads resting on each other, sleeping soundly.

Cough, the bouquet of sweet-scented osmanthus on Han Cheng's ear was also photographed.

Meng Shizheng was a little embarrassed, and Han Cheng also woke up, and leaned over to look at the photo, smiling happily, "It's a good shot."

Zou Jun snorted, "Smelly."

Tong Yan sat down on another chair carelessly, "Come on, Junjun, let's take a picture too, it must look better than them. Hey, there are obviously two chairs here, and the two of them have to squeeze together, tsk tsk..."

Meng Shi had already stood up and pulled Zou Jun to introduce him.Han Cheng had a thick skin and looked at Tong Yan provocatively, "I know you're jealous, so I won't expose you."

Tong Yan immediately became angry, and pulled Zou Jun to take a few photos before he was satisfied.

It was almost noon, and Tong Yan yelled that she was hungry.

Meng Shi suddenly thought, "Shall we have barbecue here?"

Han Cheng made a phone call, and soon, someone brought up the barbecue stove and charcoal. Of course, the marinated beef and mutton were also skewered, as well as chicken wings and small fish. There are some vegetarian dishes, such as mushroom and leek green vegetable balls, and even corn and eggplant. The grilled eggplant is also quite delicious.

The only one with strong hands-on ability here is Meng Shi.The staff lit the charcoal, the grill was set up, and a small gas stove was used to burn the oil pan.

Beef skewers and mutton skewers can be grilled directly, and the meatballs are slightly fried and then grilled.Vegetables can be cooked in a frying pan.

The most popular is squid.

When the squid is lightly grilled, it is fragrant, chewy and very fragrant.

At the beginning, the staff helped to bake it, and while it was baking, Zou Jun and Tong Yan couldn't help but do it themselves.

When Meng Shi was frying the eggplant, he accidentally splashed hot oil on his hands. Although there was only a small drop, his hands still turned red and blistered quickly.

Han Cheng's heart ached so much that he would never let her do it again, since the waiter roasted it pretty well anyway.

Chatting while eating, time flies.

Stayed here for one night, and the four returned together the next afternoon.

As soon as Han Cheng returned to City B, he went to Country B without stopping, and Cheng Yu had a controlling mining company there.The land over there is sparsely populated and rich in resources, but it is relatively chaotic.

However, Han Chengna Mining Company is a joint venture with country B, and the second largest shareholder is country B's ZF. In addition, this trip is also negotiating with ZF on the development of mineral resources, so there should be no problem.

Meng Shi was also busy here. The highway problem in Province S was almost fixed, but Tongda's family couldn't afford it. Under Tongda's introduction, he found several other reputable road and bridge companies with second-level qualifications to cooperate with.

Zou Kai has been running around in various cities in the south during this time, because the shopping malls that have been prepared for a long time before are almost all opened in October.

Opening so many shopping malls at once puts a lot of pressure on Century Commerce.Some local relationships, such as banks, require Zou Kai to manage by himself.

Some time ago, I saw Zou Kai two or three times a week, but this time I haven't seen him for more than a month.

Seeing Zou Kai again, Meng Shi couldn't help laughing and said, "Brother Kai has lost a lot of weight, you make me feel like I'm just taking money without strength, like squeezing the labor force."

"The people who are being squeezed must be willing." Zou Kai said.

Meng Shi's smile faltered, but he didn't say anything more.

Tong Yan pulled Zou Kai to talk about the horse betting in HK, while Zou Jun shared interesting stories with Meng Shi with a weird smile.

"Hey Shishi, let me tell you something very funny."

"Huh?" Meng Shi was very interested.

"I'm about to have a sister-in-law." Zou Jun said mysteriously.

Meng Shi looked surprised, and couldn't help but look at Zou Kai, "Brother Kai? I haven't heard you mention it before."

Zou Kai glared at Zou Jun with a dark face, "Don't listen to Junjun's nonsense."

Zou Jun snorted, "Why am I just talking nonsense? I went to look for you in your study yesterday, but you were not here. I saw the jewelry box on your desk. The packaging is so beautiful. I know how to pack, so I didn’t dare to touch it. But the box looks like it’s for girls’ jewelry. Brother, you definitely didn’t buy it for me, so I can only buy it for my future sister-in-law, right? ?”

Zou Kai frowned and said nothing.

Zou Jun snorted, "Why are you so ashamed? You are old and young, and it's not shameful to fall in love. If you don't hurry up and find someone you like, I'm probably going to be forced to go on a blind date. Sure enough, I found it myself. Well, now grandpa doesn't have to worry about you anymore."

Zou Kai kept silent with a dark face.

Zou Jun glanced at Zou Kai suspiciously, "Brother, are you alright?"

"It's okay." Zou Kai said irritably.

Zou Jun was a little dazed, "Brother, I didn't mean to see it, and besides, I didn't open your things to look at it."

Tong Yan and Meng Shi also noticed that Zou Kai's mood was not right, Meng Shi pulled Zou Jun and signaled her to stop talking, Zou Jun was a little aggrieved.

Suddenly, Zou Jun seemed to remember something, her eyes widened, and she looked at Zou Kai in disbelief, "Brother, you can't be...you can't be... have you contacted Su Wan again? Brother, Su Wan is already married!"

Zou Kai gave Zou Jun a hard look, "What nonsense!"

"It's really not Su Wan? I just remembered that I ran into Su Wan when I was shopping in the mall two days ago. She is doing well now!" Zou Jun looked anxious, "The HK that Su Wan married Although she is a bit old and has sons and daughters, she seems to be very kind to Su Wan. Anyway, Su Wan's dream of becoming a wealthy wife has come true. Hmph, this kind of woman, I really don't know that you were willing to die and live for her. What are you doing, people probably don't remember you. However, I want to see if Su Wan knows your real situation, will she regret it to death!"

"Enough." Zou Kai stood up with a dark face, turned and walked out.

Tong Yan hurriedly chased him out, Zou Jun was stunned, and stomped his feet resentfully, "My brother is like this, he hasn't found a girlfriend for so many years, and he can't even mention Su Wan, I'm so mad!"

What can Meng Shi say about such a thing?
"Everyone has their own destiny. It's good for you to worry about brother Kai, but don't interfere too much. It will make him feel uncomfortable instead." Meng Shi said.

Zou Jun nodded, "My brother is just stupid. When he was in college, grandpa didn't allow him to do anything outside under his banner. Besides, he also went to school in other provinces, and few people knew him. Prove to his family that he can support himself, and the tuition and living expenses are all earned by himself. In the eyes of outsiders, he looks like an ordinary poor student. He fell in love with Su Wan at that time, and as soon as he graduated, Su Wan married HK is an old man. My brother was hit hard. In the next few years, my brother had a girlfriend, but he didn’t have a regular girlfriend. In the past few years, he didn’t even have a girlfriend. It's like a monk. Who didn't know that my brother loves to play the most and knows how to play, hey, it's all the fault of that woman Su Wan!"

The corner of Meng Shi's mouth twitched, "I didn't expect Brother Kai to have such a past. But Junjun, don't talk too much, the more you talk about Brother Kai, the more uncomfortable you feel. Brother Kai must have his own thoughts in his heart."

Zou Jun nodded, "It's true that he has looked a little outrageous in the past two years, and he is no longer close to women. The family members are afraid that he has been hurt by that woman once, and he will not want to get married in the future. What should I do?"

"No way?" Meng Shi blinked, "Otherwise, according to Brother Kai's preference, you can introduce some ladies from everyone to Brother Kai, maybe you will be right?"

"You don't need to say, it's much better to introduce him at home. I introduced one to him a while ago, but he went to province G the next day. I called him to ask him about the situation, and he said that he didn't even know the girl's name. Remember." Zou Jun said angrily.

Meng Shi shrugged his shoulders. There was nothing he could do. For things like feelings, the person concerned had to be willing.

Not long after, Tong Yan dragged Zou Kai back, and the subsequent conversation did not revolve around this topic, so everything was fine.

However, what Meng Shi never expected was that Zou Kai's gift was actually for her!

Early in the morning, Meng Shi heard a knock on the door.

At the door was a waiter wearing the uniform of a certain flower shop, holding a large bouquet of unusually prosperous and coquettish bellflowers in his arms.

Very pretty blue-purple flowers.

"Is it Miss Meng? These are your flowers, please sign for them."

Meng Shi couldn't help laughing, and signed for it.

Although she thought it was clichéd, seeing such a beautiful bouquet of flowers early in the morning would really brighten her mood.

Carrying Hua into the house, Meng Shi found that there was a small box and a card in Hua's heart.

On the card is very beautiful cursive English, very simple two words: TO YOU.

Meng Shi once learned cursive English from JR, but found that no matter how he wrote it, he couldn't write it well, so forget it, it's no longer a waste of effort.

Open the small box next to the card, and inside is a pair of very simple pink pearl stud earrings.

Pink pearls are rare, especially such a uniform and beautiful pink color, which is quite rare.

Compared with diamonds, the luster of pearls is much warmer and softer.Meng Shi likes this simple accessory the most.

Tried it on, it really looks beautiful and matches my skin tone.

After thinking about it, I still sent a text message to Han Cheng, "The flowers are very beautiful."

Not long after, Han Cheng replied with a message, "What flowers? I just arrived in HK, and I can go back tomorrow. Miss me?"

Meng Shi was taken aback, "You didn't send me flowers?"

Soon, the phone call came.

"Shishi, who gave you flowers?" Han Cheng's voice was sour.

Meng Shi was helpless, "I don't know who it was, but it gave me a bouquet of platycodon flowers early in the morning. It was so big and beautiful. I thought it was from you. Forget it, it's fine, goodbye. "

With that said, I'm about to hang up the phone.

Han Cheng hurriedly shouted, "Don't hang up. Shishi, who gave it to you? Throw it out quickly, platycodon flower... platycodon flower is not good-looking, let's change it, the smell is too strong, it is not good to keep at home anyway .”

Meng Shi chuckled, "Who said that platycodon grandiflorum is still a traditional Chinese medicine, how could it be bad. Anyway, it looks pretty to me."

"You want me to give it to you, so what's the matter if you want other people's flowers."

"Hmph, don't even think about looking at flowers until you give them to me, that's all right, that's all, bye."

After speaking, Meng Shi hung up the phone.

Soon, the call came in again, and Meng Shi answered it without looking at it, and said, "Okay, okay, just hurry up, I've already thrown away the flowers, I'd rather not look at them, and don't want others to give them to me, is it okay?" ?”

"Shishi, it's me." Zou Kai's voice.

The corner of Meng Shi's mouth twitched, "Cough, brother Kai, I thought it was Han Cheng. Hehe, I'm sorry, but what, you called me so early, what's the matter?"

There was a moment of silence on the phone before Zou Kai's voice slowly rang out, "Oh, it's nothing, I just wanted to tell you that the flowers were sent by me."

Meng Shi felt like dying right now.

What did she just say?Said that the flowers had been thrown away, and said in front of the flower giver that they had thrown away other people's flowers.

Ha ha, is there anything more embarrassing than this?

However, Meng Shi couldn't turn his head around. Was this flower a gift from Zou Kai?

Then the pink earrings she is wearing on her ears are also given by Zou Kai?

Meng Shi felt that he was having difficulty breathing and speaking, "Brother Kai? You said..."

"Don't you like platycodon? Last time I saw you using platycodon flower as a computer desktop at your house, I thought you liked it. What about lavender? Girls seem to like these." Zou Kai said nonchalantly.

Meng Shi felt that her teeth were aching, and she probably got angry again. Who could tell her what happened.

"Um...Brother Kai, you said these flowers and these earrings were given by you?" Meng Shi felt that his voice must be ugly.

"Yeah. I don't like flowers, but what about the earrings? I don't know about these, but I saw them last time in Province G. I thought they were pleasing to the eye and matched you, so I bought them."

"Oh." Meng Shi didn't know what to say, his mind was in a mess.

She really didn't want to be affectionate, but the problem was that it was too ambiguous.

"Shishi, do you have time? Come out and chat."

Meng Shi finally went, at the restaurant where Zou Kai took her to dinner last time.

A table of dishes, last time she ate very comfortably, but this time she didn't have any appetite.

Looking at Zou Kai in front of him, Meng Shi wanted to go crazy.

"This squirrel mandarin fish, last time you said it was delicious, eat more." Zou Kai picked up some fish for her with serving chopsticks.

Meng Shi couldn't eat it at all, and looked at Zou Kai with a complicated face, "Brother Kai, you..."

"Let's talk about it after dinner."

This meal, Meng Shi ate it so tasteless, he didn't taste anything.

After finally eating, Zou Kai said slowly, "Shi Shi, what do you think of me?"

not so good!All she knew was that if she was drinking tea right now, she would definitely spit out the tea in a shameless manner!

Meng Shi looked at Zou Kai with slightly distorted eyes, "Brother Kai, you don't have a fever, do you?"

(End of this chapter)