Chapter 8
And Xia Zhi, not only on her face, but also on her lips was bloodless, her body trembled uncontrollably, she involuntarily stepped back and hugged herself.
"Are you alright?" Jing Yan asked.
"Did anyone walk over just now, did you see that?" She asked timidly, like a frightened rabbit.
Jing Yan looked in the direction that the person had walked in just now and replied, "Someone walked over just now. ”
Xia Zhi trembled again because of this sentence, she thought she had seen a ghost again, but others also saw it, the person had already walked over and was gone, that angular face had been her nightmare for many nights, that is, turning into ashes, she also knew.
Regardless of the reaction of the people in front of her, she ran away like crazy, ran to a crowded place, there were more people around, only to feel that the temperature on her body was not so cold, and she was relieved, she looked for it in the crowd, regardless of the people around her who came up to say hello, rushed straight to Aunt Dong Ling's side, and shouted, "Auntie", her voice trembled violently.
Dong Ling was obviously taken aback when she saw her like this, and hurriedly said to a few people who were talking to her, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Helping Xia Zhi to the side, he asked with concern, "What's wrong Xiao Zhi, why is your face so ugly?" ”
"Auntie, that person...... Was that person really dead? She opened her mouth with these words, which made Dong Ling a little confused, but seeing her situation, it instantly pulled Dong Ling back to more than four years ago.
Dong Ling was stunned, but still asked, "Who are you talking about?" ”
"Mu Han, Mu Han." Xia Zhi almost gritted her teeth and bit out these words, layers of sweat flowed from her forehead, and her sideburns were already soaked.
Dong Ling looked at Xia Zhi with a painful expression, couldn't help but feel pain in her heart, and comforted, "Xiao Zhi, that person is dead, it's true, I've seen the corpse." ”
Xia Zhi shook his head persistently, "No, auntie, he's not dead, he's back, he's back, I've seen him......"
Dong Ling didn't understand why Xia Zhi was suddenly stimulated, and her emotions seemed to be a little uncontrollable, but she was very sure that the person was dead, so these reactions of Xia Zhi were only misunderstood in her eyes, and she just blindly comforted, "Xiao Zhi, listen to my aunt, that incident has passed, that person ...... Auntie dares to guarantee that she is definitely dead. As soon as he finished saying this, suddenly a voice sounded behind him.
"Mrs. Xia."
Dong Ling turned around, and when she saw the face of the person in front of her, her calm face was suddenly stunned, and her expression was not much better than that of Xia Zhi, like the expression when she instantly learned that she was going to be sent to hell.
"Mrs. Xia." The middle-aged man on the side looked at Dong Ling with a smile, and saw that her eyes were fixed on the young man beside him, and he was a little puzzled, "Mrs. Xia and Mr. Zhou know each other?" I wondered in my heart, how Mrs. Xia looked at Mr. Zhou like a ghost.
Dong Ling reacted, immediately retracted her gaze, turned to look at the middle-aged man, and smiled kindly, "Hello Mr. Lan." After all, he was sophisticated, his expression had returned to normal, and he looked at the young man again with a calm and waveless gaze, and asked the middle-aged man with a smile, "Who is this?" ”
The middle-aged man hurriedly introduced, "This is Mr. Zhou Jinshi of the Zhou family, Mr. Zhou, who has only recently returned from abroad." He turned his head and introduced the young man again, "This is Mrs. Xia, Ms. Dong Ling." ”
Zhou Jinshi smiled gently at Dong Ling and greeted politely, "Hello." ”
Dong Ling smiled back and said calmly, "Hello." But he didn't notice that the fingers he held on the back of Xia Zhi's hand were trembling.
Xia Zhi looked at Zhou Jin in a daze, didn't speak, and his expression calmed down, but he just kept standing behind Dong Ling and didn't take a step forward, which was a little impolite in the eyes of others.
Mr. Lan looked at Xia Zhi and said to Dong Ling, "This is your daughter?" ”
Dong Ling nodded, "Yes." He turned back to Xia Zhi and said, "Xiao Zhi, this is Mr. Lan." The hand gently pinched the back of Xia Zhi's hand.
Mr. Lan was busy and said to Xia Zhi, "It turns out that Mr. Xia's daughter, Miss Xia is good." ”
Xia Zhi said in the same tone as her aunt, "Hello." ”
Suddenly, the music sounded, and it was "Waltz of Love", apparently encouraging young people to come out and dance.
Zhou Jinshi walked in front of him and stretched out his hand to Xia Zhiyi very gentlemanly, "Miss Xia, can I ask you to dance?" ”
Xia Zhi was stunned, looked at him incredulously, the mood that had just been adjusted was not good, and when he looked at Zhou Jin like a poisonous snake, he could still say calmly, "I'm sorry Mr. Zhou, I just turned my foot and can't dance." ”
Zhou Jinshi didn't speak again, only smiled kindly, turned around and left, followed by a tall man.
Mr. Lan couldn't help but glance at Xia Zhi more, exchanged a few words with Dong Ling, and left.
As soon as the two left, Xia Zhi and Dong Ling breathed a sigh of relief almost at the same time, and their bodies that had been tense almost collapsed.
"Auntie." Xia Solstice whispered, his voice trembling.
Xia Zhi said in a deep voice, "Don't be afraid. He patted the back of his niece's hand comfortingly, looked sharply at the back hidden in the crowd, and gritted his teeth tightly.
On the car back, Xia Zhi only remembered to use his mobile phone to surf the Internet, to appear in this circle, to be called a general, the Internet can always find some information, after seeing the introduction of the Zhou Group on the Internet, Xia Zhi is a little dumbfounded, the background is actually very strong, well-known enterprises at home and abroad, multinational companies, headquarters in the United States, financial resources and background and even a few of their Xia family can not compare, some of their industries are she has also heard of, and patronized, and now the family is really the face that met tonight, is it a coincidence? If it weren't for the coincidence, how could there be such a big change?
Xia Zhi couldn't believe it, and his fingers holding the phone turned white.
Dong Ling knows the Zhou family very well, unlike her niece to look through the information, she didn't know how much information she had read about the Zhou family before, and she knew that the affairs of the Zhou family were no less than those on the Internet, but, she couldn't have imagined that Zhou Jinshi, that famous young talent, took over the position of the head of the Zhou family at the age of twenty-seven, and actually had such a face, let alone the summer solstice, even Dong Ling felt that she was dreaming.
"He's not that guy." Dong Ling said to Xia Zhi with great certainty, "That person is so humble, living at the bottom of society, just a gangster, a hooligan, he has to work on his own to earn money when he goes to college, or that kind of virtue...... How could it be that they became the rulers of the Zhou family who were high up, their temperament and cultivation were completely different, they just looked alike, and besides, the death of that person was real, and there were many people in this world who looked very similar but had nothing to do with it at all. ”
Xia Zhi also slowly understood that these two people really couldn't coincide, except for the face...... Recalling Mu Han back then, that arrogant and inferior person, but there was a stubborn and unlazy and sanctimonious scumbag...... And tonight, when Zhou Jinshi stretched out his hand to her gentleman, he looked polite, and his eyes were also gentle, without the kind of anger in the eyes of that person back then. Thinking that she was too careful, too nervous, and she had always been calm, only when she encountered this incident, she couldn't even control herself, like she was enchanted. Thinking like this, I felt ashamed of my performance at the banquet just now.
Although she thought so, she was still not very relieved, and after she went back, she contacted the private detective to investigate Zhou Jinshi more deeply.
The private detective's work efficiency is very fast, and it may be that Zhou Jinshi's information is really not a secret, so he handed over a thick stack of information to Xia Zhi in the afternoon of the second day after receiving the task.
On a winter afternoon, the sun shines through the glass windows, and the gold is sprinkled on people, and people are shrouded in it, and there is a dreamlike feeling.
When Xia Zhi sat in this coffee shop, drinking coffee, while looking at Zhou Jinshi's information, his heart slowly settled down, which contained all the information of Zhou Jinshi from birth to now twenty-eight years old, he was born in New York, USA, studied in China before the age of fourteen, and then returned to the United States to study, went to Harvard University in economics, graduate degree, and then took over Zhou, now twenty-eight years old, although the Zhou family is strong, but the people are thin, to this generation, he has become the only male in the family.
There are photos of Zhou Jinshi who have been changing since he was a child, he has indeed always had such a face, it seems that it is pure coincidence, Xia Zhi breathed a sigh of relief, drank coffee, and ordered another steak.
Just as she was relaxed and showed a bright smile, a shadow suddenly covered her head, and the place on the table that was reflected by the sun darkened and became clear, and she naturally raised her head.
This hope made her heart come up again, and she subconsciously put the document bag on top of the document to block it.
"Miss Xia." The man greeted her politely, a thin smile curled up at the corner of his mouth.
He is indeed a very good-looking man, and he has a good figure, but Xia Zhi can't appreciate it, so he looks at him lightly.
"May I sit down?" After he finished speaking, he sat down uninvited.
Xia Zhi was very dissatisfied in her heart, her eyes were obviously cold, she had always been an arrogant person, even if she knew that he was not that person, but this kind of self-feeling was super good, and her self-righteous attitude had already made her unhappy, especially with such a face, she was still self-righteous in front of her, which annoyed her even more.
"Miss Xia doesn't seem to like me very much?" Zhou Jinshi chuckled, he was wearing a medium-length black coat, took it off and handed it to the waiter who came over.
How could she like a person with such a face, Xia Zhi just smiled indifferently, and did not answer his words, picked up the cup and drank coffee, only to find that there was no coffee in it, so she put down the cup, put one hand on the table, and the three fingers in the middle unconsciously and rhythmically buckled gently, playing the piano, almost no one knew, her behavior was not just because of boredom, but also because of nervousness.