Shanghai Embroidery Lady

Chapter 93
Zhao Zhimei was slightly surprised, but immediately recovered the indifference in his eyes, and said in a distant tone: "This lady has admitted the wrong person, I am not some Zhimei."

Ye Zijin felt a chill in her heart, knowing that Zhao Zhimei would not admit it, she just said lightly: "Miss Qiangwei knows something in her heart, I just want to tell you that Zhao Jinnian has been released from prison."

Zhao Zhimei's expression changed, and she couldn't help but blurt out, "Did you see him? Where is he?"

Ye Zijin saw that she was so nervous, and knew that she still had Zhao Jinnian in her heart. Although she didn't know what she had experienced in the past to become what she is now, Ye Zijin didn't blame her at all. She still regarded Zhimei as a friend. Still.

"I don't know either. I arrived one step behind you this morning, and he left before you went." Ye Zijin said truthfully.

A look of worry appeared in Zhao Zhimei's eyes, she glanced at Ye Zijin, and stopped talking to her, just picked up a glass of red wine brought by the waiter and walked past her gracefully.

"Zhimei." Ye Zijin stopped her.

The corners of Zhao Zhimei's mouth just turned stiff, and the hand holding the wine glass trembled.She stopped and didn't turn around.

Ye Zijin said softly: "Zhimei, if I find the second young master, I will notify you in time. I know you are still Zhao Zhimei, and the friendship with Qiangwei handkerchief is still there. You can come to me at any time."

Zhao Zhimei didn't answer, but walked towards the crowd gracefully holding the wine glass, the butterfly bones were looming in the hollow gauze skirt, and the skirt that spread out like a fan made her tall and graceful.Ye Zijin looked at Zhao Zhimei's back, and suddenly felt a bit of bitterness in her heart.

A rickshaw was called outside the hotel, and the car wobbled her to the alley where her home was located.

The lights in the alley were dim, the doors were closed tightly, and the alley was so deep that there was no end in sight.The wind at the intersection blew past her, blowing up her long hair, Ye Zijin couldn't help shivering, and walked into the alley with her arms tightly held.

As she walked, she couldn't help thinking of that graceful figure. Wang Luqiu's experience seemed to be a bloody warning, and Wen Ying had also warned her that a man's favor would not last long, and they would always choose wives for their future... Thinking about it this way, He Manling is indeed the most suitable woman for Meng Haoxiang. Her background and ability are completely qualified for the role of Mrs. Meng.Ye Zijin couldn't help feeling a little sad, because she overestimated herself and Meng Haoxiang too much.

Ye Zijin walked downstairs of her house and was about to go upstairs, but was startled by the black shadow that suddenly stopped her.

"Why did you appear in the Peacock Hall with Ding Kai tonight? Don't tell me that you agreed to be his female companion." A cold voice asked.

Ye Zijin caressed his chest and let out a sigh of relief, and replied displeasedly: "Boss Meng is so rich tonight, the daughter smiled for the beauty, but she really earned enough face, and the sapphire really matches Miss He's temperament."

Meng Haoxiang was still wearing the dark gray suit at the banquet, with a faint smell of tobacco and alcohol on his body, it could be seen that he should have come here directly after leaving the Licha Hotel.Ye Zijin's expression softened a bit, but she couldn't help laughing at herself secretly, if he came to find herself, should she listen to his questioning meekly, and then apologize and admit her mistake in a soft voice?This is too humble.

Ye Zijin twitched the corners of her lips, hesitated to speak, but her eyes met Meng Haoxiang's, which seemed to be mocking.

Meng Haoxiang pursed his lips, his eyes were deep and dark, and the faint anger in his eyes was not like burning flames, but like hard ice.His expression was also cold, and there was a trace of aggressiveness in his tone, "I'm asking you something, don't change the subject, where did you go today? Why are you late?"

The fire in Ye Zijin's heart was ignited by Meng Haoxiang's attitude. She was the one who was wronged tonight, and she should be the one who blamed him. Why did it turn out that Meng Haoxiang was interrogating herself, and she did nothing wrong at all.

Ye Zijin turned her face away, and said casually, "You don't have to worry about where I go."

Seeing that she still refused to admit it, Meng Haoxiang sneered, and said, "Don't think that I don't know anything. You haven't forgotten the second young master all these years. You went here to pick him up today, hehe, what a pity. Didn't see my sweetheart."

"You spy on me? Boss Meng, your method is still the same. Even if you don't want me to see Zhao Jinnian, there is no need to take him away. Where is he locked up by you now, or has he been sent out of Shanghai by you?" Ye Zi Jin didn't know why she doubted Meng Haoxiang so much, and she also felt a little inappropriate after she said these words. After all, it was a bit rash to speculate that Meng Haoxiang was related to this matter based on what the warden said.

Meng Haoxiang's knuckles were a little stiff, and he clenched his fists involuntarily, and a flash of pain flashed in his eyes.She actually looked at him like this, he was so despicable in her eyes!Meng Haoxiang raised his jaw slightly, swept Ye Zijin's pale face condescendingly, and said slowly: "I'm not interested in that poor guy, he's not worth my effort, if I, Meng Haoxiang, really hate a person, that person It will never appear in front of my eyes."

Ye Zijin's heart trembled, and he couldn't help but gasped.She forced herself to calm down and think about it carefully. Although Meng Haoxiang's methods may not be very glorious, at least he is an open-minded person. Even though he is a gangster background, he did not kill innocent people indiscriminately.But she didn't know why the scene of him and He Manling going out together tonight always appeared in her mind, and she couldn't swallow the breath in her heart.

She raised her eyes to look at him, and said calmly: "Boss Meng, you can do it if you want anyone to disappear. We poor worms who are against you are so ridiculous that we can't control it. Please forgive me a lot, my lord." We poor wretches, we can't afford to mess with you."

We...Meng Haoxiang chewed these two words repeatedly, her heart twitched, she actually called herself and Zhao Jinnian "we"!This is a kind of humiliation to him, and it is throwing his tolerance and love for her on the ground and trampling on it wantonly.Meng Haoxiang's eyes darkened, and he said with a sneer: "Yes, you are the ones who have always been along the way, and I have always been, and I am just a stranger to you..."

"It's not like this..." Ye Zijin quickly explained that she didn't want Meng Haoxiang to misunderstand her relationship with Zhao Jinnian, although the explanation now seemed a little weak.

Meng Haoxiang's eyes were piercingly cold, and without giving her any room to explain, he interrupted ruthlessly: "Needless to say, since you are only thinking of other men, I will not force it anymore. The matter between you and Zhao Jinnian has nothing to do with me."

Ye Zijin felt a little resentful when he heard his insistence. She hadn't asked him what happened to He Manling, she hadn't told him about the embarrassment of being stopped outside the hotel today and the grievance of Ding Kai's frivolous words. He was so indifferent to himself, the more Ye Zijin thought about it, the more sour his eyes became.

After Meng Haoxiang finished speaking, he walked past her and walked quickly to the car parked by the side of the road.With his back turned to him, Ye Zijin could only hear his footsteps getting farther and farther away, and soon there was the sound of a car starting.A light flashed across the mottled wall, and the light disappeared in an instant, and the dilapidated alley sank into the boundless darkness again.Ye Zijin stood in a dark corner, lowered her eyes slightly, wiped the corners of her eyes, and slowly went upstairs to go home.

Pushing open the old wooden door with a "creak", the house was empty, and she was the only one standing alone in the room.Ye Zijin suddenly missed her younger brother very much. In the past, when she was tired or wronged, she could go home and complain to Zizheng, but now she can only swallow her pain.Ye Zijin was a little confused and a little scared. She realized that she didn't know Meng Haoxiang at all. Maybe what Meng Haoxiang showed her was just the tip of the iceberg, but she had already been seen through by him. She was afraid of the feeling of being controlled by others. .When she was with Meng Haoxiang, she couldn't completely let go of her heart.Ye Zijin didn't dare to think about the future with Meng Haoxiang, nor did she dare to give her heart completely to this man. There were too many uncertainties between them...

Ye Zijin sat on the edge of the bed in a daze, looking at the daffodils on the window sill, felt as if someone had punched her in the heart, and shrank together in pain.Forget it, instead of torturing each other together, it is better to look at each other from afar and forget each other...

Several days later, Xiaoyue found that there was no Meng Haoxiang's car waiting on the side of the road opposite Shen Ji for a long time.Looking at Ye Zijin's reaction, she is like a clockwork machine, busy making cheongsams all day long, rushing to help others with the work that she shouldn't be doing, doing everything by herself, making herself and herself Xiao Wu fell back down.

One evening, when Xiao Wu was about to close the shop, seeing Zi Zijin was still concentrating on her work, she gave Xiao Yue a look.

Xiaoyue understood, turned off the light near Ye Zijin, took her hand and pushed her to the door, and said, "Zijin, why do you have to push yourself so busy and tired these days? The business in the store has already You are on the way, you don’t need to work so hard, you don’t have to suffer from back pain and shoulder pain like Master.”

Ye Zijin forced a smile, and said, "Don't worry, I'm sensible, but that cheongsam is what Mrs. Zhang is in a hurry to ask for."

Xiao Wu was worried that she would go back and continue working in the next step, so he hurriedly helped her clean up the cutting bed, and threw all the tools into the box.He grinned and said, "The three of us haven't eaten together for a long time. It just so happens that a new restaurant opened near our home. Let's go to the restaurant today. I'll treat you."

Xiaoyue held Ye Zijin's hand affectionately, and said, "It's rare for him to treat guests, we must order the most expensive food."

Ye Zijin couldn't stand the repeated persuasion of the two, and was dragged out of the shop by the two.Her eyes swept across the familiar place inadvertently, the roadside opposite the shop was empty, and her heart felt a little lost for no reason.

The three of them came to the restaurant Xiao Wu mentioned, which turned out to be a newly opened Hunan restaurant.

Xiao Wu loves spicy food, and neither Xiaoyue nor Ye Zijin can handle spicy food. Xiao Wu ordered a large table of spicy dishes, such as double-flavored chopped pepper fish, spicy crispy duck, and boiled conch in spicy wine.Xiaoyue only tried to eat a few chopsticks and then kept drinking water, her lips were red from the heat, and she kept breathing out of her mouth.Xiao Wu Ze proudly stuffed a large piece of fish covered in spicy oil and ate it with relish.

Suddenly Xiaowu and Xiaoyue were stunned at the same time, Xiaoyue opened her eyes wide and looked at Ye Zijin, swallowed her saliva and said, "Zijin...why did you pick up peppers?"

Only then did Ye Zijin come to her senses, and found that she had already bitten into her mouth the chili pepper that she accidentally picked up just now, and it didn't feel spicy at first.Now after Xiaoyue reminded her like this, she felt that her tongue was as hot and spicy as if it had been drizzled with chili oil.She couldn't stop drinking tea, but it was a pity that she was too unlucky to choke on the water. The hot pepper and tea flowed into her throat, choking her tears.

Xiaoyue patted Ye Zijin's back, took out a handkerchief and handed it to her, sighed and said, "I really don't know what kind of magic you have recently, it took me a long time to react after eating spicy food."

Ye Zijin's throat was so hot that he couldn't speak, and after such a tossing just now, he was sweating all over, and felt a little relieved.Then she started to eat all kinds of spicy dishes, and Xiao Wu and Xiao Yue were shocked again.

Xiao Wu couldn't help but said: "Zi Jin, you should stop eating it, you don't often eat spicy food, your stomach will hurt if you eat so much at once."

Ye Zijin exhaled from the heat, her mouth was a little numb, but she just felt that the spicy stimulation would make her feel better for a while.In the past few days, she didn't know what to eat, and lived every day in a muddle, but tonight's meal made her very appetizing.She seemed to want to use this fierce heat to force out all the grievances and discomforts, and she didn't know whether it was the heat that made her cry or she wanted to cry...

Tears that had accumulated for too long slid down her cheeks, Ye Zijin wiped them off with a handkerchief, with a forced smile on her face, she continued to eat the vegetables bite by bite.Xiao Wu and Xiao Yue looked at each other, they didn't know how to comfort Ye Zijin, if they mentioned Meng Haoxiang clearly now, it would make Ye Zijin feel even more uncomfortable.

At this time, there was only a "snap" outside the door, and the fragments of the wine jar splashed all over the ground.A shop assistant yelled: "Where did you come from a beggar, you want to drink for free and don't pay, you're getting impatient!"

Afterwards, several kitchen staff came out, and three or five big men beat and kicked the one who fell on the ground.Ye Zijin was surprised that the person who was beaten didn't make a sound, he just curled up and hugged his head despite the beating of those people.

Ye Zijin has seen a lot of people who drink on credit, most of them are addicted to alcohol but have no money to buy alcohol, so they have to drink again and again at the risk of being beaten.Ye Zijin doesn't sympathize with this kind of people, who could support themselves but lost their life by indulging in alcohol, since they chose to be decadent voluntarily, don't expect others to pity them.

Seeing that the guys were almost done fighting, the store manager waved his hand to stop. After all, the new store had just opened, and he didn't want to cause any trouble, so he asked someone to send the drunkard away.The shop clerk kicked the man lying on the ground again, and told him to get out of here cursing.The man on the ground moved, slowly straightened his body, and stood up tremblingly with his hands on the ground.

Ye Zijin glanced at that person inadvertently, and it was this glance that made her startled, and a person's face quickly flashed in her mind.She concentrated her attention and looked at the man again, and she was very sure that the bad guy who was beaten was actually Zhao Jinnian!

(End of this chapter)