Chapter 4 Just to reminisce about the past

After getting into the car from Shang Xiaoshu, Chen Jiayi didn't take the initiative to speak, just drove the car intently, went out of the city without hurry, and drove all the way to the suburbs.

Shang Xiaoshu looked at Chen Jiayi, who was expressionless, this expression was similar to Manager Chen, who warmly greeted her at the door of the company just now, but it was like two people.

Still Shang Xiaoshu couldn't hold back, "Manager Chen, didn't you ask me to invite you to dinner?" Where is this going? ”

After a while, Chen Jiayi replied, "What, I'm afraid I'll kidnap you?" ”

“……”

"Don't worry, we're just having a meal together and catching up by the way."

Shang Xiaoshu wants to say, where is there a weekday to eat and run out of the city? But looking at Chen Jiayi's appearance that he obviously didn't simply want to have a meal, he still didn't make a sound when the words came to his mouth.

When Chen Jiayi's car entered the tea mountain and continued along the winding mountain road, Shang Xiaoshu basically guessed where Chen Jiayi was taking her, and couldn't help but be in a trance. She hadn't been here for at least four years, to be exact, Shang Xiaoshu hadn't been here since she heard the news that Chen Jiayi and Ding Yuan were getting better.

This farmhouse called "Fat Sister-in-law Braised Goose" in the depths of the tea mountain used to be the place where Shang Xiaoshu reported once a week. It is usually Saturday or Sunday, as long as she does not work overtime, she will call her fat sister-in-law early in the morning to make an appointment for a stewed goose, and then go to climb the tea mountain, which takes almost four hours to go up and down the mountain. When I arrived at the "Fat Sister-in-law Braised Goose" farm, it was lunch time, and I directly started to eat the stewed goose in the ground pot that had been stewed fragrantly.

This place was brought to her by her aunt when she first came to Shenshui City. Two people order a quarter of the goose, plus some side dishes such as tofu skin, potatoes, and greens, which is just right.

Later, it was she who brought Ding Yuan here, and the two of them climbed the mountain together and ate stewed goose together.

Later, she brought Chen Jiayi here, and sometimes the two of them climbed the mountain together and ate stewed goose together. Sometimes it's three people climbing the mountain together and eating half of the stewed goose together.

This is a somewhat old-fashioned story of three people, at least in the eyes of many old employees of the Chen Group, it is Chen Jiayi who pried the boyfriend of the ugly duckling Shang Xiaoshu with his beauty and gold, and since then Shang Xiaoshu has hated Chen Jiayi to the core, but due to the pressure of survival, he has to swallow his anger and continue to make a living in the Chen Group.

Look, this woman is not simple, she can even endure the hatred of taking her boyfriend! When many people muttered about Shang Xiaoshu's methods behind their backs, they would bring up the old things again, and describe them vividly. This gossip was passed down one after another within the Chen Group, and the new employees who had only heard about it had only heard about it had become old employees after two years, and then passed it on to the new employees who had just joined the company as if they had experienced it themselves.

Some new employees once expressed their doubts, seeing that Manager Chen and Secretary Shang would greet each other every time they met in the company, and some people saw two people working overtime together in the conference room on weekends, not like they had such a blood feud?

Immediately, some people scoffed at this, then have you never seen Secretary Shang when he was the president of Shang, at the company's senior management meeting, Mr. Shang and Manager Chen didn't know what to do, they quarreled in front of the chairman, and the chairman was so angry that the chairman lost his temper and asked the two of them to quarrel. If it weren't for the deep festival, Shang Xiaoshu would dare to embarrass the big boss's niece in front of the big boss?

It seems that this is the truth. Later, some people who had opinions about Chen Jiayi gossiped to Shang Xiaoshu, and wanted to express humanitarian sympathy for the victims in the triangle story, and condemn the "third party" by the way, but they were directly slapped in the face, "I'm just Manager Chen's introducer, what is she sorry for me?" ”

Anyway, the truth or falsehood of this story has been circulating in the Chen Group for many years, so that Shang Xiaoshu himself sometimes hears some rumors, and he can't figure out what her relationship with Chen Jiayi is, or that she has no relationship at all except for her colleagues. It was once intimate, it's true, but outsiders hardly know about it. Chen Jiayi and her current husband Ding Yuan were also introduced to each other by Shang Xiaoshu. But she also strongly opposed Chen Jiayi and Ding Yuan's marriage......

"How is my aunt's health now? I haven't seen each other in years. ”

Chen Jiayi's question interrupted Shang Xiaoshu's overflowing thoughts, she didn't actually think about anything, just looked at the scenery outside in a daze.

"Ah, what?" Shang Xiaoshu didn't hear what Chen Jiayi said.

Chen Jiayi glanced at Shang Xiaoshu sitting in the passenger seat helplessly, "Hey, your daze has not changed." How is my aunt's health now? ”

"It's good, thank you Manager Chen for your concern."

The two of them continued to be speechless until the car drove into the yard of the "Fat Sister-in-law's Stewed Goose", and the smiling Fat Sister-in-law greeted her. At noon on weekdays, only two or three cars were parked in the farmyard.

I haven't seen it for a few years, but I didn't expect the fat sister-in-law to recognize Shang Xiaoshu at a glance, and affectionately took one of Shang Xiaoshu's hands, "Isn't this Xiaoshang?" It's been a long time since I've seen you, what are you busy with? I often ask Mr. Chen about you......"

He said to Chen Jiayi again, "Mr. Chen, the goose has been stewed, room 205." ”

It seems that Chen Jiayi is still a frequent visitor.

The fat sister-in-law took Shang Xiaoshu to room 205. The farm is renovated from two self-built houses of the fat sister-in-law's family, with a total of two floors, the downstairs hall is scattered, and there are 5 boxes upstairs, 205 is the most marginal one, which can accommodate up to 10 people.

On a large round table is a steaming iron pot with a lid, and on the table are more than a dozen plates with various side dishes. The fat sister-in-law told her to eat well, and if there was anything she needed to call her again, she withdrew from the room.

Shang Xiaoshu was a little surprised, she thought that this lunch was just her and Chen Jiayi. Along the way, Chen Jiayi didn't say who else he called.

"Anyone else coming?" Shang Xiaoshu couldn't help but ask, and after thinking about it, she and Chen Jiayi don't seem to have mutual friends who can have a private dinner appointment on weekdays now.

"No, just the two of us."

This ruined girl! Where did the two of them eat so many dishes?

Shang Xiaoshu sat down, only to find that the table was full of dishes she liked to eat, thin tofu skin, iron stick yams, spinach...... Open the lid of the iron pot, and the pot is full, which is enough for a goose of seven or eight catties. Familiar taste!

"Ah, Chen Jiayi, do you want to kill me? Such a pot is enough for four or five people. Complaining and complaining, Shang Xiaoshu had quickly chosen the seat closest to the pot and sat down, unwrapped the packaging film of the dishes and chopsticks, rinsed it with boiling water, and took the chopsticks and stretched them straight to a big goose leg in the iron pot.

The skillful and fast movements made Chen Jiayi a little dumbfounded, she hadn't seen such an uncalm Shang Xiaoshu for a long time.

When Chen Jiayi was about to move the chopsticks, Shang Xiaoshu had already finished gnawing on a big goose leg, and she was looking for something with a spoon to turn over the pieces of meat in the pot, she quickly grabbed the spoon, "Shang Xiaoshu, can you have a face?" You've already eaten one, and that one is mine. ”

She deliberately asked for a whole goose, just to make sure that each person had one goose leg.

Well, it seems that Chen Jiayi's hobby of eating goose legs, as much as she does, has not changed. Shang Xiaoshu could only pick up one of her wings first. This is also her problem with eating vegetables, starting with her favorite food, and ending up with peace.

Sure enough, it is still so delicious, and the flying forest goose raised in the fat sister-in-law's own mountain forest inlet is indeed not comparable to other places.

"Manager Chen, what do you want to talk about?" After eating his favorite part of the goose meat, Shang Xiaoshu asked Chen Jiayi while eating.