Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Auction (I)
Ji Qingling and Fu Zijun played abroad for more than ten days before returning to China, the two traveled together for the first time, Fu Zijun left behind a bunch of official affairs in China, and Ji Qingling also forgot the knots and troubles that had been pestering her, this time was their most relaxed and happy days.
Of course, this trip also has sequelae, there are too many things they bought back from abroad, so much so that Ji Qingling has not sorted them out after a few days at home.
"Would you like to help?" Fu Zijun finished washing the dishes and dried her hands and came out, she was still sitting on the ground holding a bunch of things tangled.
"Can you help me see which of these two paintings is better?" They had all picked up these paintings in Paris.
"This one." He gestured casually, a question she had asked him when she was in France.
The answer didn't seem to be what she wanted, she grappled her fingernails and pointed to another painting, "I think this one is more suitable for our decoration style." β
"Then this one." He said indifferently.
"But this one is also very beautiful......"
He finally understood that she didn't want an answer at all, "Then hang out both." β
"How is that possible? How ugly. β
He shrugged, the question was still left to her to tangle slowly.
"By the way, you can take this lavender sachet and give it to Chen Zhilei tomorrow." She handed him a sachet that the two of them had bought in Provence, and she had bought a lot of them, most of them for her graduate classmates.
"What to give her?" He immediately frowned.
Ji Qingling looked at his suddenly cold look, a little confused, at least in the impression of his previous life, he had a good relationship with Chen Zhilei, even if she turned her face with her later, he always stood on her side and spoke for her, why would he be impatient with her now?
He looked at her puzzled look and sighed lightly, she was just too simple, "Chen Zhilei is the one who made harassing calls to you." β
It turned out to be her? Ji Qingling was surprised, she always thought that Cui Xinyi did this kind of naΓ―ve and direct thing, but she didn't expect it to be Chen Zhilei, who is known as scheming, and she was discovered by Fu Zijun so lightly, she couldn't believe it.
But her face still made a look of indignation, "I have always regarded her as a friend, how can she do this to me?!" β
"People's hearts are unpredictable, you don't trust others too much." He kissed her on the forehead lovingly.
Chen Zhilei, Chen Zhilei, I don't want to take the initiative to find you, I originally thought that as long as you are interested, the past things will be written off, and I won't settle the account of the previous life with you, but I don't look for you, but you prefer to find the door by yourself, and come instead of being rude!
Fu Zijun didn't know what she was thinking, seeing her sullen look, she felt a little guilty in her heart, and hurriedly changed the topic, "There is an auction tomorrow night, will you accompany me?" β
He didn't know how to coax women, but he knew that his father used to take her to the auction to buy her some jewelry when he was making his mother happy, and no matter how angry she was before, she would always burst into tears and laugh when she received those jewels.
And this trip also made him see how much Ji Qingling likes shopping as a woman, and they bought so many things on this trip that they had to send them all the way back to China by international express, and it is estimated that there will be something that can satisfy her at the auction.
"I don't understand those things...... "Auctions are all about selling some high-end things, she doesn't understand them, and she doesn't care about money, so she has no interest in auctions.
"This kind of occasion is usually to bring a female companion, who do you want me to take there?" He deliberately provoked her.
She frowned in embarrassment when she heard this, of course she didn't want him to take other women there, especially the Chen Zhilei in their public relations department, who had already been known to everyone in Sima Zhao's heart, even if he didn't hide his dislike for Chen Zhilei now, but she was still in that position after all, if she took advantage of it, she could be regarded as living in vain for a lifetime.
"Don't worry, it's not a drinking party, we just need to sit in our seats and take a look, no one will come to disturb you." He saw through her hesitation at a glance, there will always be some gossip in the social circle, no one is immune, she has not yet gossiped used to such an environment, it is precisely because of her timidity that those ugly words will intensify.
On the day of the auction, she wore a beige dress skirt, and her modest dress was not very bright, but she couldn't find anything wrong.
The people who received the auction invitations were either rich or expensive, the men were socializing, and most of them had a smiling woman on their arms.
"Who did you bring with you on occasions like this in the past?" After marrying him, it was the first time she accompanied him out to socialize, and she couldn't help but feel pantothenic acid when she saw this posture.
He was about to answer, but when he turned his head and saw her undisguised jealousy, he couldn't help but laugh proudly, "Jealous?" β
"Hmph." She sneered and didn't want to answer, with his character, if he had to bring a female companion on this occasion, he would definitely bring Chen Zhilei, no wonder she was so arrogant in her previous life, I'm afraid she would have pretended to be Mrs. Fu in the social circle.
"If you want, I'll bring you every time you want."
"What if I don't want to?" She looked at him with a smirk.
"Thenβ" He deliberately lengthened his tone to see her face getting darker and darker, and then laughed, "Then I won't come." β
"That's pretty much it." She nodded in satisfaction.
For this kind of social situation, she has learned not to be afraid, but the disgust is still deep-rooted, and now she is not as cowardly as she was in the past, but she still put on a vigilant posture, standing proudly, with indifferent eyes, and let the people who come to talk to them please or sarcastically ridicule, they are all that kind of love and ignorance, anyway, there is Fu Zijun in every qiΔ.
"Tut, look at Ji Qingling's arrogant appearance, it's great to marry Fu Zijun?"
"It's not a big deal to marry Fu Zijun, plastic surgery liposuction is amazing, you see how similar she is now to when she got married."
"I don't know how much money Ji Jingui gave her plastic surgery."
"If I were her, I would have plastic surgery before I got married, at least I would have a good memory, you didn't see how ugly she looked when she got married, and I don't know if Fu Zijun would be scared to wake up by her in the middle of the night."
"Plastic surgery also has to have a recovery period, how can she afford to wait?"
"I'm in a hurry to marry Fu Zijun, she was like a nymphomaniac at the beginning, ouch, she laughed to death, the Fu family was bankrupt, and she still went up to catch up, it's really embarrassing."
"The nouveau riche deserve to settle down, and they are very deserved."
"Insert a few peacock feathers and think you are a phoenix."
Even if she didn't want to hear those ridicules and insults, a few sporadic words would automatically float into her ears, Fu Zijun held her hand tightly, but she smiled indifferently, she had heard a lot of this kind of words, and low-level attacks would not have hurt her a single hair.
"Hey, look at the woman over there, the one Su Shao is hugging, it's that little tender model, that's what can't be called on the table......"
"Wang Dong likes to play the periphery the most, it's rare that he brought his genuine wife out today, if he touches the periphery he used to play, there will be a good show to watch......"
"Isn't Chen Shao and his wife always playing their own games, and today they came to show their affection, it's really disgusting......"
These celebrities and ladies gossip in private, and when she is no longer entangled in inferiority, she actually receives no less than her irrelevant gossip, it turns out that she is not the only one who is gossiped about.
She suddenly felt funny, in her previous life, she didn't dare to raise her head because of these discussions, and now she understands that in such an environment, everyone is gossiping, gossiping about everyone, and she is not the only one who is being ridiculed by discussions.
"Hey, you see Ji Jingui is also here, and he brings his little assistant."
"I heard that Ji Jingui dotes on that little girl very much, maybe that little assistant will fly up the branch and become a phoenix."
"Ha, I heard that she is younger than Ji Qingling, I don't know how it feels like Ji Qingling to call her stepmother?"
"It's nothing, that Lin Dong is still going to marry a woman who can be his granddaughter."
"How can Ji Jingui compare with Lin Dong, that little assistant looks so ordinary, to be honest, he is not as good-looking as Ji Qingling, and I don't know what his aesthetics are."
"Maybe there's something else about that little girl."
"Oh-" the crowd let out a clear and ambiguous laugh.
Little assistant? Ji Qingling overheard everyone's discussions, and was shocked, and looked at Fu Zijun nervously, "Have you seen my dad?" β
"Nope." He shook his head, "He's supposed to be here tonight, or should we go and find him?" β
"Okay." Now she is already unsettled, and secretly prays in her heart that the little assistant is not the one she remembered in her previous life.
"Season!" They were about to go to find Ji Jingui when a happy male voice appeared, "I heard that you are sick, my little baby, you have lost a lot of weight, it is too distressing." β
Fu Zijun's face turned green, and he immediately blocked in front of him, "Director Li, my wife and I still have something to do." β
Whatever the reason, any man will not feel better when he hears that his wife is called baby by another man, and he is already restrained in doing so.
"You can't do so much at home? I haven't seen Ji for a long time, you get out of the way first, I want to have a good chat with her. "Li Dahai is completely uninteresting.
Ji Qingling smiled "poof", his nervous mood was relieved a lot by him, as soon as he saw him, he remembered his arrogant brother Leo, both of them are very good people.
Fu Zijun's eyes were very cold, but Ji Qingling held down his hand and smiled at him flatteringly, after all, Li Dahai was her friend, "The merchant over there has been waiting for you for a long time, go over and say hello to him, I'll go over and look for you later." βR1152