Within two days, the news that the relief materials transported by the state government to the central Henan region had been intercepted by bandits reached the Shanghai market, and this blockbuster news not only attracted the attention of the political, business, and press circles, but also set off a heated discussion among the citizens.

In the midst of the boiling voice, the representatives of the state government came forward with great fanfare and made a public statement that they would definitely take back the disaster relief materials from the bandits and re-transport them to the central Henan area.

Immediately afterwards, a number of newspapers released the list of lost reports and collection lists, the first list was almost all the disaster relief materials intercepted by the bandits, and the second list included all the materials on the lost list, but there was still a large number of missing materials.

Since the list was made public, there has been no follow-up from the government.

The day after the government remained silent, a small-scale demonstration broke out in Shanghai, mostly from the business community and students, as well as patriotic and people-loving people.

Today, on the eighth day of August, the Hippo Western Restaurant officially opened, and the food and drinks are all half price.

Coriander came to cheer at the invitation and brought the coriander as well.

Coriander is not used to eating Western food, with a knife in one hand and a fork in the other, so I don't think these meals are easy to use with chopsticks. He clumsily cut the steak, which seemed to be against him, still tendon to tendon.

Seeing how fragrant the parsley was, he swallowed a bite, then looked around and found that everyone else dining was so natural, except for himself who seemed out of place in the atmosphere.

With a little embarrassment on his face, he leaned over to the coriander and whispered, "Coriander, let's pack things back and eat them." ”

"If you pack it back, it's cold, and if it's cold, it won't taste good." Cilantro placed a few pieces of cut beef on a plate in front of him. "Foreigners eat like this, and when you go abroad in the future, you are not allowed to follow the customs of the locals? Try it, it's delicious. ”

Coriander forked a piece of beef and put it in his mouth to chew, the moment his taste buds enjoyed the deliciousness, the spirituality in his facial features seemed to be suddenly stimulated, especially the pair of unconsciously sensational sword eyebrows were more heroic than before.

"Delicious!" Coriander praises from the bottom of my heart.

Coriander bared her little tiger teeth and smiled: "Eat Western food." Be graceful in your movements. Be patient too. Relax your body and eat slowly, you can't learn it once, and you will eat it every day after the big deal. You can always learn. ”

A commotion outside the restaurant caught the attention of everyone in the Hippo Western Restaurant, and everyone looked out through the floor-to-ceiling windows to see a procession of people from all walks of life shouting slogans in unison through the middle of the road, almost filling the entire street.

"One side is in trouble, and all sides are supporting. Take action to lend a helping hand to the people in the disaster area! ”

"Where is your conscience for embezzling disaster relief materials!"

"Return the relief materials to the victims!"

"Give it back to the victims!"

……

Coriander saw several familiar figures in the procession. Originally, the campaign to collect relief materials was initiated by the students of Calamus Academy. Knowing that most of the relief materials were not delivered to the disaster areas in central Henan, the students of this university had no reason to sit idly by and actively respond to the demonstration.

Seeing that Coriander couldn't sit still, he knew that his mind was no longer on the plate. Coriander sighed lightly and gestured to the team outside with a helpless gaze, "Go if you want." ”

Coriander couldn't tell why she was so desperate to run to her friends. Just seeing their high-spirited figures and hearing their shouts resounding through the clouds, he felt a warm blood boiling in his body.

He knew that he should spend more time with cilantro before leaving. But he couldn't hold back the impulse in his body, and seeing that there was a little resentment on the coriander face, he was relieved, put down his knife and fork and got up and said, "Then I'll go." ”

"Be careful. Just do it in moderation. ”

"Huh!" Coriander replied heavily, and her voice was full of pleasure.

As soon as the coriander walked on the front foot, Fujihiko did it, pretending to be a coincidence, "Ouch, what a coincidence, you are also eating here!" ”

Coriander looked at him with strange eyes, she could say that when she came to the Hippo Western Restaurant with her brother, she saw this man sitting there eating, and he didn't finish the steak for more than half an hour.

"I've seen you since my brother and I came, are you going to stay here today?" Coriander teased him.

"My friend's shop is newly opened, come and cheer." Fujihiko did not answer the question.

"Ouch, what a coincidence, my friend's store is newly opened today, and I also came here to cheer." Cilantro pretended to be a fart with him.

Fuji Yantang chuckled, his dark eyes deepened, "I even robbed disaster relief materials, I thought that the revolutionary party didn't take a stitch from the people, it seems that I thought they were too kind before." ”

Coriander pretended to be deaf and dumb, and knew in her heart that some things would not be able to contain the fire after all. Early in the morning, when she encouraged the Rong Kee Chamber of Commerce to actively respond to the government's open collection of disaster relief materials, I am afraid that at that time he noticed that she had other plans.

"That's not what you planned for the first half of the day." Fujihiko Tang subtly exposed her.

At first, Coriander didn't take the government into account, and originally planned to take out the Rong Ji Chamber of Commerce to top the tank. At first, she instigated the Rong Kee Chamber of Commerce to openly launch a fundraising campaign, and then the dart store transported the collected disaster relief materials to the disaster areas in central Henan. The revolutionary party was responsible for carrying out the latter plan, and they sent a group of people to disguise themselves as bandits and bandits, and set up camp on the mountain road to the area around Henan.

But this is tantamount to pushing the Rong Ji Chamber of Commerce and the innocent dart line to the forefront, and Coriander also knows that this plan is very risky, and Channel Cheng refuses to agree.

After that, she had an idea and calculated the state government as well.

The later plan can be described as killing three birds with one stone, the revolutionary party fighting at the forefront and the victims in central Henan have been reinforced, and the greedy face of the national government can be exposed.

However, at present, there is still one trick missing, that is, the victims in central Henan have not yet received disaster relief materials.

This matter is left to the demonstrators outside, whose efforts and enthusiasm will surely be exchanged for such results in the hands of the government.

"I'm just the one who came up with ideas," Cilantro said to clean herself, "I'm not the one who executes the plan." ”

"Since you have such a good brain, then you can give me ideas. My grandmother asked me to bring my girlfriend home on the 15th day of August, what do you think I should do? Fujihikodo's face was full of helplessness, and his eyes were full of smiles and anticipation as he looked at coriander.

Coriander turned a blind eye, "You have to ask your so-called girlfriend if she can spare time on the Mid-Autumn Festival." ”

Hippo Western Restaurant has guests again.

Ma Feng brought in an old man with a burning spirit. The old man's appearance is very similar to Ma Feng, and this person is eighty percent his grandfather Ma Pingsang.

Ma Feng waved to Fuji Yantang and Coriander, indicating that he had said hello, and found a vacant seat to invite Ma Pingsang to sit down. Ma Pingsan, who was on a cane, walked straight to the table of Fujihiko Hall and Coriander.

Ma Feng hurriedly caught up. He touched his nose and whispered, "Grandpa." Don't go over and be a light bulb for others! ”

Ma Pingsang turned a deaf ear, his steps were as persistent and unhesitating as the look in his eyes.

This is a wise and resolute man. This was the first impression of Coriander on Ma Pingsang.

Seeing Ma Pingsang coming, Coriander and Fujihiko got up almost at the same time.

Ma Pingsang shook the hand handed by Fujihikodo. "Yantang, the medicine you gave me a few days ago is very useful, you see my old cold legs, and now I am not lame when I walk."

said. He lifted his right leg slightly and shook.

Ma Pingsang had an injury to his right leg near his knee, and he had a good body when he was young. The leg injury healed quickly, and I didn't feel any discomfort at the time, but when I got older, I suffered a sin, and when I encountered the damp and cold breath, the wound was connected to the knee joint. Later, it evolved into a situation where he couldn't walk on his entire right leg, so he retired early.

Seeing Ma Pingsang's gaze, coriander greeted him with a chin bow. keenly aware of the other party's slightly constricted eyes flashed an unpredictable darkness. Her heart skipped a beat, she had obviously met Ma Pingsang for the first time. How does it feel like this old man has known her for a long time?

The kind smile on Ma Pingsang's face was flawless, and there was curiosity in his tone, "Yantang, don't introduce me to it soon." ”

"This is my friend, coriander......"

Without waiting for Fuji Yantang's words to fall, Ma Pingsang, who didn't seem to believe it, squeezed his eyebrows and teased him, "Just friends? Your grandmother is looking forward to you getting a family all day long, you should also hurry up and see if you are not in a hurry, is there already a fall...... Speaking of your grandma, how is your grandmother doing now? ”

Ma Pingsang's eyes were full of concern, and he didn't look like a fake at all.

Fuji Yantang secretly glanced at Ma Feng, before they didn't have an eyebrow, they thought that Ma Pingsang and Old Lady Fuji had no friendship, but why did Ma Pingsang care so much about a person who didn't have any friendship?

After a brief silence, Fujihiko replied with a smile, "My grandmother is as healthy as you. ”

Ma Pingsang put away his concern, not thinking that there was a bit of a disguised taste, "It's good to be healthy, it's good to be healthy-"

Fujihiko pulled out the chair next door, "Grandpa Ma, you sit." ”

"Grandpa, what do you want to eat?" Ma Feng took the menu from the waiter.

Being served by two caring grandsons, Ma Pingsang's smile was full of relief and happiness. He looked at the coriander as he sat down, and the more he looked at it, the more surprised he became. "Girl, how old are you? Who's in the house? ”

His earnest tone, no matter how cilantro listened, he didn't feel comfortable. She's here for dinner, not for a blind date.

"It's almost sixteen, and there is still a father and a brother in the family." lest he continue to ask as if checking his account again, coriander diverted his attention, "Old gentleman, let's order, the food here is delicious." ”

Coriander kept flicking her eyes at Ma Feng, she probably understood Ma Feng's purpose for bringing his grandfather to the Hippo Western Restaurant today, but it was too inconsiderate to do so.

He Shaoqing has now changed her identity and career, and even opened a store as a small proprietress, she has just begun to try to work hard, how can Ma Pingsang, who has always looked at her with colored eyes, change her mind?

Ma Pingsang pushed away the menu that Ma Feng was serving in front of him, "I'm not used to eating anything other than Chinese food, just give me something." ”

"Then let's have a steak," Ma Feng told the waiter, "two steaks and a little pasta." ”

Ma Pingsang saw that Coriander and Fujihiko were sitting still, glanced at the steak they hadn't finished in front of them, and laughed, "You go on." ”

Coriander thought about leaving quickly after eating, and stuffed the cut steak into her mouth. Fujihikodo was a little difficult. The steak in front of him was leftover from the coriander, did he eat it or not?

"Miss Coriander is almost sixteen—"

Hearing this, Fujihiko Tang chuckled in his heart. Ma Pingsang didn't seem to have asked the name of coriander just now, so how did he know coriander?

He turned his inquiring gaze to Ma Feng, and saw that the latter was as surprised as he was.

Ma Feng has never served coriander in front of Ma Pingsang.

Ma Pingsang didn't seem to realize that he had revealed something, or that he had realized it, and he was just pretending to be stupid. "Sixteen. It's time to say goodbye. Is there a good match? ”

Coriander stuffs her mouth with food, indicating that she doesn't want to talk to him.

Ma Feng sat opposite Ma Pingsang, and he always felt very strange in his heart. Ma Pingsang saw coriander for the first time, why did he be so familiar? "Grandpa, it's too abrupt for you to ask such a thing when you first meet a girl. You see you're scaring people stupid. ”

Coriander is scared stupid, she is overwhelmed. However, she still cooperated with Ma Feng's words. He gave Ma Pingsang a smirk.

Ma Pingsang ignored Ma Feng's words, and still looked at the coriander with a scrutinizing gaze, with a trace of doubt hidden in his eyes.

Is he helping Mrs. Teng pick her granddaughter-in-law, or is it because of something else?

"Coriander girl. At the beginning of next month, there will be an antique exhibition in the museum funded by my Ma family, so please be sure to enjoy it then. ”

"Antiques?" Coriander muttered indistinctly. The antique exhibition that Ma Pingsang said should not be an exhibition with the antique exhibition that Fang Yuling wants to participate in. She struggled to swallow the food in her mouth. "I don't do much research on antique fairs, and I just go to see the excitement."

She wanted to decline Ma Pingsang's invitation, but Ma Pingsang smiled and said, "Then go and see the excitement." ”

Ma Pingsang didn't seem to hear the rejection in Coriander's words, it seems that there will be more than one person pretending to be stupid at this dinner table.

Coriander laughed dryly, wondering if the so-called antique exhibition was a pure exhibition or would it be accompanied by an auction or something. With her current capital, it is enough to be light and luxurious, and it is not so easy to bid for those clay pots and jars. But if you don't spend money to go, wouldn't it make people at the exhibition see a joke?

Eh, when I have no money, I am worried, and I finally have some small money in my hand, which is even more worrying than when I have no money!

Mainly, isn't coriander about to go abroad? Coriander plans to convert the money in her hand into dollars and let him take it out of the country to spend money, but even if she wants to spend money at the antique exhibition, she is not enough.

"Miss Coriander doesn't talk much, don't you think it's boring to talk to an old guy like me?"

Coriander said seriously: "I was originally a lady who didn't talk much. ”

Ma Feng complained with a smile: "When you don't talk much, you do look like a lady." ”

"Grandpa Ma, you knew coriander before?" Fujihiko couldn't help but spit out the doubts in his heart.

"Miss Coriander has been in the newspaper before, I often read the newspaper, how can I not know her."

Coriander felt relieved, thinking that Ma Pingsang knew her name through this channel, but the moment Ma Pingsang swept away, her heart suddenly came up again.

Fuji Yantang took the opportunity to shift the topic away from coriander, "Grandpa Ma should know about the news that caused a sensation in the Shanghai market in the past two days." ”

"You said that disaster relief materials were robbed." Ma Pingsang smiled a little unclearly, and lowered his profound gaze, "I think that the disaster relief materials were robbed, and I can't blame the government for being unlucky and happened to run into a bandit, I think this matter was deliberately done by someone." The people of the government have not come to their senses yet, and they have already sent troops to suppress the bandits, and I guess they will be in vain when they get to the place where the disaster relief materials have been looted. ”

Fujihiko and Coriander didn't change much in their expressions, and they were attentive to being observers. didn't interject like Ma Feng, "Grandpa, do you mean to say that the gang of bandits is fake, in fact, they are going for such supplies?" ”

"Yes and no," Ma Pingsang said, "the list of disaster relief materials has been made public, and the batch of looted disaster relief materials that were shipped to the area around central Henan has proved to be only a small part of them. If the goods had not been looted, it would have been difficult to prove that the government had embezzled large quantities of supplies. ”

Ma Feng suddenly said, "Some people want to expose the greedy faces of some high-ranking officials in the national government. ”

Ma Pingsang shook his head at Ma Feng and chuckled.

Fuji Yantang said at this time: "Grandpa Ma, based on your understanding of the national government, do you think they will stand up and refute the rumors this time?" ”

"Yes, how not!" Ma Pingsang's tone was very affirmative, "Ruling with stigma can convince the people." They still understand the truth that fish and bear's paws can't have both. It's not like the government doesn't seem to have any movement on the surface, and the clean officials and corrupt officials inside them have already bitten each other. This time, they will not only stand up to refute the rumors, but also push some corrupt officials to the guillotine...... Public executions. ”

Coriander propped up her face and digested Ma Pingsang's words, but she didn't expect things to turn out like this, thinking that I was afraid that someone in the government was deliberately making trouble, and it seemed that someone was going to be promoted again......

Ma Pingsang seemed to suddenly realize that he had said a lot of inappropriate things in front of the girl, and smiled apologetically at the coriander, "Miss coriander, I won't scare you if I say this, right?" ”

The absent-minded cilantro came back to her senses, "It's okay, just say it, I'm thinking about something else anyway." ”

Confessing in front of him that he was distracted, coriander was still the first one, Ma Pingsang looked very interested, "What is the coriander girl thinking, can you tell me, an old man?" ”

Coriander had a serious look on her face, "Clothes, jewelry, shoes, cosmetics, and men!" ”

These are all things that girls often think about. (To be continued.) )