Chapter Eighty-Eight: Why You
There are all kinds of dishes on the table, obviously to cater to Ji Mingzhe's appetite, the dishes are biased towards Chinese style, and the smell is fragrant, it seems that the maid in charge of cooking in the Cui family has really good skills.
Ji Mingzhe's position was on Cui Yixian's right hand, and leaning on him was a dish of stir-fried beef and a plate of hot and sour fern root noodles.
In the center of the table is a thick pot of chicken broth.
It's all Ji Mingzhe's favorite food, Ji Mingzhe looked at Cui Xiuying beside him curiously, and looked at her slightly unnatural expression, and understood something.
It seems that this girl has made some preparations in advance and asked Lin Yun'er for advice.
Ji Mingzhe was not surprised at all that Lin Yun'er could know her tastes, she could see at a glance the habitual twitching of the corners of her eyes when she was lying, not to mention her own picky eater at the dinner table.
The attentive girl is so beautiful, Ji Mingzhen thought to himself.
He doesn't like Korean food, Ji Mingzhe can't adapt to the way of eating with so many plates of sour and spicy side dishes and a pot of sweet and spicy kimchi soup, Counselor Ji likes hot meals, that is the happiest.
After Cui Yixian sat down, the rest of the people followed, not drinking tonight, only eating.
Therefore, it is very warm and homely, not so much like a banquet for guests, but more like an ordinary dinner for the family.
Cui Mule took a chopstick dish for Ji Mingzhe, and asked with a smile: "I don't know if tonight's meal is still in line with Counselor Ji's appetite?"
Ji Mingzhe held the rice bowl and nodded: "It's delicious, let my aunt bother." ”
Without waiting for Cui's mother to speak, Cui Xiuzhen, who was sitting on the side, said with a smile: "This time it's not my mother's credit, this beef, as well as chicken soup and fern root powder, if Xiuying hadn't called us back and told us, we wouldn't have specially prepared it for Counselor Ji." ”
"Cui Xiuzhen, you!"
Seeing that her sister, who was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, spoke, Cui Xiuying knew that there was nothing good, and sure enough, she told Cui Xiuzhen on the phone not to say this little bit of her careful thinking in public, but she didn't expect Cui Xiuzhen to take her words as a deaf ear, which was really annoying.
Cui Xiuying glanced at Ji Mingzhen beside him angrily, and felt scared when she saw the seemingly innocent smile on his face, and hurriedly explained: "Don't get me wrong, in the end, guests can't be inconsiderate, isn't it a shame that there is no one on the table of dishes you like to eat?"
Listening to Cui Xiuying's explanation, Cui Xiuzhen put down the spoon and quipped: "So it's your turn to be so attentive?"
"I just went to ask Yun'er, and I wasn't prepared to ask about anything. Cui Xiuying still maintained her toughness until the end, looked at Ji Mingzhen and said, "Anyway, if you like to eat, it's fine." ”
"I love it. ”
Ji Mingzhe thanked Cui Xiuying: "Thank you." ”
Cui Xiuying didn't say anything, but picked up the rice bowl and prepared to eat, and then she remembered that her outfit was really not suitable for such a boldness, so she had to put down the chopsticks again, put a chopstick dish into her mouth and chewed it in small bites.
It's really because my brain is in the water that I wear a skirt and a necklace, am I having something wrong with my brain?
Cui Xiuying was puzzled, so she became more and more depressed.
Ji Mingzhe whispered to Cui's father and mother on the other side, what was talking was nothing more than the work in the embassy, or a certain diplomatic activity between the two countries happened to involve him, it was another long conversation.
Eating as a guest is the main thing, and what you say during the meal is also very important.
Ji Mingzhe is a person who has no generation gap with the elderly, because he is well-versed in the past and the present, and knows any old stories that young people don't know, Cui's father holds an important position in a large group, and his vision is naturally not low, but when he talks to Ji Mingzhe, he quickly reins in his original contempt.
The contempt here is mainly the age gap.
In many cases, the elders are very unreasonable to the unreasonable contempt of their juniors, but according to the vast majority of young people, they are indeed naïve, and the other party is indeed better than themselves.
Ji Mingzhe is not a naïve ghost, when those first heard the name of Ji's family and grandson, they just thought that Ji Mingzhe was a slightly smarter naïve ghost.
And as it turned out, he was much smarter.
Cui Yixian, who was sitting in the main seat, also listened to Ji Mingzhe's words, even though he had received a lot of shock and emotion just now, now it seems that this young man's kung fu is really powerful.
I also hope that he can do things as well as he says, which is the best.
At the moment, the men at the dinner table are discussing whether there are loopholes in the maritime trade regulations between the two countries, and they are talking about professional words, and Cui Xiuying naturally does not understand them.
She didn't want to understand, at this moment Cui Xiuying really wanted to go back to the house to change into comfortable clothes, and then eat well.
Why did you have to dress so eye-catching when you were changing clothes in the bedroom just now?
Cui Xiuying glanced at her sister sitting opposite with a little weakness, and prayed in her heart that this woman had better eat in peace, and never complain about herself in public.
However, as the old saying goes, if you don't come, that thing will come.
I saw Cui Xiuzhen pointing to the necklace around her sister's neck with great 'surprise' and said, "Ah, when did Xiuying buy this, it's so beautiful." ”
Cui Xiuying glared at Cui Xiuzhen viciously, pretending not to understand.
However, Cui Xiuzhen still persevered in asking, until she attracted the attention of everyone at the dinner table: "It's very expensive, it seems to be very expensive, and the money you make now is enough to buy such expensive jewelry?"
Cui Xiuying gritted her teeth and replied: "I can buy ten of these after the concert." ”
"Are you going to have a concert?" Ji Mingzhen asked curiously.
"You don't know?" Cui Xiuying glanced at Ji Mingzhen suspiciously, "It's been a long time, maybe Yun'er will get you to take a leave of absence to stop class a few times, she didn't tell you?"
Ji Mingzhe thought that he would start sleeping after giving Lin Yun'er the paper this morning, and when he woke up, he left after completing the paper, obviously not giving Lin Yun'er any time to speak, so he sneered: "Maybe I didn't hear it." ”
Cui Xiuzhen kicked Cui Xiuying under the square table, and said dissatisfiedly: "You haven't said anything about the necklace yet?"
"You care about me. Cui Xiuying glared at her sister, thinking to herself, why didn't she know that she was making a mistake at the right time?
Cui Xiuzhen originally wanted to say something more, but in the end, Cui Yixian shook her face at Cui Xiuzhen, and the eldest lady of the Cui family immediately reined in, and An An picked up the rice bowl and ate silently.
Today's biggest purpose is just to hold Cui Yixian firmly in the palm of his hand, but Ji Mingzhe didn't expect Si Fu to sell himself so cleanly and neatly, and his ancestors were all sold, so in fact, there is nothing that Ji Mingzhen needs to talk about.
Cui Yixian just wanted to make sure, and after confirming it, he naturally had no idea.
In his opinion, the biggest difficulty faced by the Shengshi Wanchao is that there is a new Xianjue standing behind him who does not know who it is, he has a huge amount of money and no less connections than the Shengshi Wanchao, which is not something that an inexplicable person can have, nor can a person have.
There must be huge manpower and material support behind it, and there will also be the care of the big people above the clouds.
But Cui Yixian didn't think that the young man next to him couldn't solve the problem in front of him, Ji Mingzhe's status as a diplomat was transcendent, and he shouldn't have intervened in any mundane things, but he did it extremely skillfully, making people unable to grasp the handle, which was not easy.
And if outsiders know that Ji Mingzhe participated in the game between the prosperous Wan Dynasty and the new Xianjue, people in the authorities know Ji Mingzhe's identity.
I don't know how many people can muster up the courage to face him.
They can look at Ji Mingzhe directly, they can try to challenge or even defeat him, but no matter what, Cui Yixian believes that no one will be able to knock Ji Mingzhe down.
Because behind him there is a towering Mount Tai.
No one has more reason than Ji Mingzhe and is more qualified to rely on this mountain.
And that mountain is the most daunting existence and reason for Ji Mingzhe's enemies.
The meal was finished very harmoniously, Ji Mingzhe was leaving, Cui Xiuying naturally had to go back to the dormitory, she specially asked for an afternoon off today, just to participate in this light meal in the evening.
What Cui Xiuzhen said is actually right, originally Cui Yixian didn't plan to let the busiest little granddaughter in the family come back, anyway, she had nothing to do.
The responsibility of escorting Cui Xiuying back to the dormitory was naturally handed over to Ji Mingzhe.
Standing at the door, looking at the distant vehicles, Cui Xiuzhen clasped her hands around her chest, and her eyes projected a shrewd brilliance, and muttered to herself: "Xiao Xiuying, are you a ghost this time?"
Cui Xiuying felt that something was really wrong, and when she returned to the dormitory, she couldn't explain it to the group of gossip teammates at all, but she just went home for a meal, why did she come back with a long skirt and a necklace?
And the man driving next to him didn't seem to feel anything wrong, with a fresh mint in his mouth, Ji Mingzhe's mood seemed to be good.
Then he glanced at Cui Xiuying and suddenly smiled.
Cui Xiuying, who is now very sensitive, suddenly exploded: "What are you looking at me doing?"
Ji Mingzhen blinked, a little confused, so he whispered: "You like this necklace very much, right?" ”
Cui Xiuying looked down, and then said, "It's okay." ”
"yes, that's good. Ji Mingzhe also felt that there was nothing to talk about at this time, so he said, "Since you are going to hold a concert, there should naturally be no way to continue the class as usual, so let's help me bring a message to Yun'er, when will this kind of work that needs to go abroad end, and when will we start classes again?"
Cui Xiuying asked strangely, "Won't this delay the class?"
"If you're in a hurry, you can't be fat, right? Ji Mingzhe smiled and continued, "But Yun'er is very smart, and she knows which is more important, so I'm not worried that she will forget everything she has learned." ”
Cui Xiuying glanced at Ji Mingzhe, and suddenly said, "Listening to your tone, this is the beginning of recognizing Yun'er as your student?"
"She's not my student. Ji Mingzhen shrugged his shoulders with a smile, "I'm just helping her." ”
"Then why you?"
Ji Mingzhen was silent for a moment, then smiled but did not speak again.
Cui Xiuying can vaguely know that Ji Mingzhe is hiding some things, and her grandfather should also know these things, maybe these things that she can't know clearly can explain Ji Mingzhe is an eccentric person.
So what is the secret that you can't tell outsiders?
Cui Xiuying subconsciously touched the necklace around her neck, and then took it off and put it in the jewelry box.
This qiē Ji Mingzhen saw it in his eyes and said nothing.