【209】Thousands of miles of rivers and mountains open a new face (13)

The sky is getting late, the sea is sprinkled on the shore of Qingdao, the trees in the pearl community are lush, the shadows are sparse, and the Yao family lives here with the principal Zhou's family is eating, Li Hongmei's colleague, the principal's wife Xue Liwa said at the dinner table: "Li Hongmei invited us to go to her house for dinner tomorrow, Zhou Xixun, are you free?" ”

Zhou Xixun, the president of Qingdao University, obviously had just come home from work, and he was already sitting on the dining chair before he had changed his tie shirt and trousers, and he said with dishes and chopsticks in his hand: "Why did she think of inviting us to dinner again?" Didn't we just go to eat the joy of the last housewarming? I'm not going tomorrow.

The school is now setting up a science and technology research and development center, and tomorrow we will invite Academician Chen from the Academy of Engineering to our school to guide the work. ”

Xue Liwa held her slender fingers and carefully filled a bowl of pork ribs and asparagus soup and put it in front of Zhou Xixun.

"Didn't you talk to his Yao Peng last time about speculation?"

"Well, Yao Peng has a wide range of interests and a wide range of interests, probably because he used to work in the archives, he knows a lot of anecdotes, and he also has a lot of old photos of the Qing Dynasty that I have never seen, the quality of the photos is really good, better than the photos in our school archives before the founding of the People's Republic of China, and I don't know where he got it. This guy is interesting, but I do have something to do tomorrow. I can't compare to the ease of his retirement, and do whatever he wants. ”

Xue Liwa took a shallow sip of soup, turned her head and said to her daughter: "Zhenzhen, you go with your mother, Aunt Li said, I really want to see you, her son is also back from a business trip, you will see you tomorrow." ”

Zhou Hanzhen is 24 this year, and she looks like her mother when she was young, with a graceful figure, charming and moving, and her face is soft and lovely, elegant and chic, with a bit of pride and coldness. Not long after graduating from the Juilliard School in New York, she had a master's degree in music and majored in piano.

"I'm not going, Mom, you can go by yourself. In August, I had a Midsummer Night's Dream piano recital in the concert hall of the school, and Professor Tang from the Central Conservatory of Music will also come at that time, and if Professor Tang is satisfied, I will go to Beijing! I don't have enough time to practice now. ”

"How much time can you spend on a meal, after eating, you say you go to school to practice, who can keep you." Xue Liwa persuaded.

Zhou Xixun said to his daughter with a stiff face: "What are you doing in Beijing?" Is it easy to be easy in college? Your mother and I have talked to your dean and the head of the department, and I will give you an associate professor at the end of the year, don't be dissatisfied! ”

Zhou Hanzhen heard his father's words, lowered his head and kept silent.

After that, Zhou Xixun turned his face to Xue Liwa again: "I can see what Li Hongmei means, she wants to introduce her son to Zhenzhen, right?" Last time she had dinner, she said what kind of education did her son have? ”

Xue Liwa sandwiched a piece of mackerel meat and put it in Zhou Xixun's bowl: "I said it last time I had dinner at her house, don't you remember?" His son, who has a bachelor's degree from Ocean University and studied industrial automation, was originally an engineer in Qingdao Iron and Steel Group, but now he has resigned to start his own company. I heard that the young man is very capable, and Li Hongmei's new 780-square-meter villa in our community is the money her son earns from starting a company. Didn't you see that last time? Six bedrooms, six living rooms, four bathrooms, with garages and large gardens, more than 37 million! You're going to be a principal for life, can you afford it? People pay it off in one go, and they don't need to take out loans. ”

Zhou Xixun was silent for a while and said: "What kind of business is so profitable, and the industrial automation industry is not a gold mine." The more I listened, the more I felt uneasy, so you should go back and ask. ”

Xue Liwa heard her husband say this, knowing that he felt that the other party would be qualified to pursue his daughter, and smiled:

"I definitely have to ask clearly, and besides, I didn't say anything to Li Hongmei. Our family is really in demand, Aunt Wang saw Zhenzhen at the Youth Federation symposium last time and liked it very much, and said that she wanted to find a time for the two to eat together. ”

"Wang Guiyu? ......" Zhou Xixun slowly turned his gaze to Xue Liwa: "I heard that Secretary Wan's kid is good, and now he is the deputy section chief of the Urban Planning Bureau." ”

Xue Liwa narrowed her eyes and said, "Isn't the child of Secretary Wan's family also a college undergraduate?" ”

Zhou Xi said with a straight face: "There is Secretary Wan in Qingdao, this child does not have to worry about his future." Well, Li Hongmei, you can also deal with it and give people some face. ”

"Then I won't ask him about the details of Yao Fan?"

"By the way, if you see a good one in the future, introduce one to her son, the young man can start his own company and make a lot of money at a young age, which can be regarded as very promising."

Zhou Hanzhen was eating on the side, and he felt very uncomfortable listening to it. Having just graduated from school, she didn't think about getting married at all, she just wanted to make a vigorous career and present the Western music and drama she learned on the domestic stage. Now in front of her, her parents are already picking up their son-in-law like picking cabbage.

"I'm done."

She put the dishes and chopsticks on the table, got up and went upstairs.

Zhou Hanzhen made up his mind that he would leave after dinner tomorrow and never say a word to the other party. The most important thing right now is to prepare for the recital in August.

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Because it is difficult for Yao Fan to get home, the family must go to a nearby high-end hotel every day to "supplement nutrition" for Yao Fan, and when she returned home after dinner, Li Hongmei leaned on the bedside of the bedroom and said to Yao Peng: "I have already set the dishes for tomorrow night, and the chef of Haiyue Building will prepare the dishes at home tomorrow." ”

Yao Peng was a little unimpressed by Li Hongmei's Gao Pan: "The eight characters haven't been skimmed yet, what are you doing so officially." ”

"You know, being formal is the only way to make people feel that we value it."

"How do you know that Fan Fan likes the daughter of the Zhou family?"

"Meat out of my own intestines, I don't know what he likes?"

"Last time I had dinner, I looked at Zhou Xixun, one was an official and two were decent. I'm afraid that I can't look down on my family. ”

As soon as she heard this, Li Hongmei was anxious: "Why don't you look down on it?" Talk nonsense! My family is not as good as ever, with so much money, can I still treat his daughter badly? Yao Peng, you are really a person, didn't you talk to Zhou Xixun last time it was quite speculative? How do you know that he doesn't look down on Fanfan? ”

"This person's career is smooth sailing, and his daughter is outstanding, and there must be no shortage of people who pursue him outside. I also heard you say that his Xue Liwa is not a fuel-efficient lamp, she attends a banquet for a while, and a dance party for a while, she has a relationship with people with heads and faces in Qingdao, such a person is well-informed, how can her vision be low? Li Hongmei, she is different from a professor like you, she is an official's wife, do you understand? ”

"Okay, okay, don't be verbose, even if Fan Fan and her daughter don't make it, I'll ask Xue Liwa to introduce it to Fan Fan, and she's embarrassed not to help, isn't she?"

"You have a point."

"What's going on tomorrow night?"

"Didn't Xue Liwa send two bottles of dry red last time?"

"That wine is general, I asked our school boss Wang in the retired staff activity room, and he said that the wine is the hospitality wine ordered by our school, more than 200 bottles."

"More than two hundred is not enough?"

"Yao Peng, you are really annoying, your son's matter, more than 200 wine, can you handle it? Besides, after dinner tomorrow, we should give them some more gifts, even if it is the return gift from her family last time. ”

"Then you can do it."

"Hey!! You man! Didn't help at all! Then I'll buy it myself tomorrow! ”

Yao Fan soaked in the reservoir area for a day the next day, inspecting the goods, checking the installation manual, and counting the installation materials and equipment.

Not long after driving home, the doorbell rang, Yao Fan was in the living room, looking out through the transparent glass curtain wall of the living room, and saw a middle-aged beauty with a slender figure and a beautiful girl with a graceful youth, who were outside the door.

Yao Fan was afraid that they would wait for a long time, so he didn't wait for Li Hongmei, who was busy in the kitchen, and ran out to open the door by himself.

"Hello Aunt Xue!"

"Yao Fan, I haven't seen you for a long time! You don't come to our school's piano room to play now, what's the matter, see your aunt outside? ”

"Thank you Auntie for your concern, I'm busy with work now, and I haven't touched the piano for a long time. This is Zhou Hanzhen, right? I'm Yao Fan, hello. Yao Fan generously stretched out his hand to shake hands with Zhou Hanzhen.

Zhou Hanzhen smiled lightly and did not shake hands with Yao Fan.

She didn't seem to have much of a sense of Yao Van Gogh's handsome appearance. During this period of military career in 1876, Yao Fan looked black, thin and rough under the sun and wind. He didn't follow Li Hongmei's instructions to change into any good-looking clothes, and was still wearing the clothes he wore when he went to the warehouse during the day - jeans and a blue and white grille shirt.

Yao Fan didn't mind, took advantage of the situation to withdraw his hand, smiled and invited the two of them into the door.

When Li Hongmei heard the voice, she knew that it was the Zhou family who was coming, so she hurriedly came out of the kitchen.

"Xiao Xue, you're here, sit down quickly, your old Zhou didn't come?"

"He still has something to do, the scientific research center has to receive an academician, and he can't come, so he asks me to apologize to you."

Li Hongmei hurriedly said: "Where is it, work is important, work is important." ”

Xue Liwa apologized and said: "I'm really sorry, Lao Zhou has never seen your Yao Fan, but this time I missed it." ”

Li Hongmei said with a smile: "Everyone lives in a community now, and there will be opportunities in the future, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter." ”

After speaking, Li Hongmei said to Zhou Hanzhen: "You are really here, after you left last time, Auntie misses you, this dress is so beautiful today, it looks so good with you." ”

As she spoke, Li Hongmei pointed at Yao Fan and said, "Look, this is your eldest brother Yao Fan, you have practiced in a piano room before." ”

Zhou Hanzhen said politely and perfunctorily: "I forgot, I'm so embarrassed." ”

In fact, she remembers very well that there was this person at the beginning, in the piano room next door, crying wolf howling and singing to herself, "Sister, you boldly go forward, ......", rough and unpleasant, and annoying, probably dissatisfied with the piano accompaniment, that kid later borrowed the huqin, played and sang by himself. When she asked later, she found out that the other party was the same as her, the child of a teacher at the school.

Li Hongmei was a little embarrassed when she heard this, and she didn't know what to say.

Yao Fan opened his mouth and said: "Over the years, I have often remembered your voice and smile, and I feel as if I am still alive. ”

Li Hongmei was very dissatisfied when she heard this, and when she saw that Yao Fan was dressed like a workshop worker, her heart was on fire, and she hurriedly said: "Don't listen to Yao Fan's nonsense, he is actually very clever, but he is not good at talking." ”