Tang Muzhi took Xu Jingrong's water cup and put it on the stove, and found the electric kettle in the kitchen, but the plastic plate heated under the kettle was missing. Xu Jingrong frowned and said, "That...... If you lose it, just give me cold water."

Tang Muzhi glanced at the kitchen, the plastic plate used for heating was indeed not here, but he said, "It's okay, I'll look for it."

Tang Muzhi turned his left hand back, pinched his fingers at random to calculate the hexagram, and then looked at the southeast of the living room, where was the TV cabinet, on which was placed a plasma color TV, Tang Muzhi walked over and pulled out a black wire from behind the TV.

"Ah...... How did you find it?" Xu Jingrong looked at Tang Muzhi and said in surprise.

Tang Muzhi smiled and said, "I have a friend, we call him a fox, he knows a little bit about fortune telling."

Xu Jingrong let out an absent-minded "oh" and vacated his place from the living room.

Tang Muzhi went into the kitchen and plugged in the electricity to boil water, drank half of the cold water in his paper cup, and put it together with Xu Jingrong's cup.

He didn't go out of the kitchen, and after staring at the slightly trembling electric kettle, he turned around and leaned on the white porcelain stove and chatted with Xu Jingrong:

"We haven't seen each other for a long time...... Seven or eight years, right?"

Xu Jingrong clasped his hands and swayed his body from side to side, as if he didn't know what to do.

Hearing Tang Muzhi's words, her mood suddenly calmed down: "Well, it's been seven years, and we haven't seen each other since you left Suzhou. Are you still an active soldier?"

Tang Muzhi shook his head: "I have been a compulsory soldier for two years, I have been discharged from the army, and now I am working in a unit...... In Jiangcheng. Guang Shao told you?"

Xu Jingrong said "um": "I don't see him much."

"I heard you went to England to study?"

"Oh, I didn't do well in college, my sister...... I said my own sister, she had been in England at the time, I was good at English at the time, and then I borrowed some money from her and my brother-in-law, and I went there as a work-study program, and I just graduated the year before last."

Tang Muzhi smiled, "Heh, in the past few years, you have changed a lot."

Xu Jingrong grabbed the corner of his skirt and said with some self-deprecation, "Well, have I dressed up...... You're getting taller, I'm sorry, you recognize me at a glance, I'm ...... Oh, I didn't recognize it."

"It's okay, I'...... The way I look at people is quite special, and I've changed a lot over the years."

Xu Jingrong raised his head and stared at his face seriously for a while, and then said with a dark expression: "You just got taller, in fact, your face hasn't changed much, but I didn't expect to see you here."

Tang Muzhi touched his face, "Do you mean that I look more tender......

Xu Jingrong hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, I didn't mean that!" Then she wriggled a little and said, "How can you say it, yours, your eyes are brighter than ordinary people, black and bright, and more ...... It's so characteristic that I should recognize it as soon as I see it."

"Oh? Am I like this before? I'm not impressed."

Xu Jingrong lowered his head and smiled: "This, it's all innate, right...... By the way, are you busy at work? I haven't seen it in years."

"Well, there's a lot going on."

"You're not going to be a big leader?" Xu Jingrong smiled: "Among the classmates I have met, among your peers, it seems that you worked quite early."

Tang Muzhi shook his head slowly: "How can I be, I still work for others......

Xu Jingrong seemed to see a flash of light in Tang Muzhi's eyes, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

The two reunited after a long absence, and they survived the embarrassment in the early stage, and the topics continued one after another.

The water boiled quickly, and between Tang Muzhi and Xu Jingrong's words, she and her cup were filled with hot water, but Tang Yuan hadn't come yet.

"Guang Shao doesn't often mention you to people, you have such a good relationship with him, haven't you seen him again?"

"Oh, it's not a coincidence, but does an individual have a personal life...... I went to Baijing to see Guangping this year, and I happened to pass by SARS at that time. I haven't seen him again."

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"Heh, speaking of this, Guang Shao also gave me a horse at that time, I was still in Rongcheng at that time, and it was shipped over at a great price, we haven't met, but we also have dealings with each other."

Xu Jingrong said with some envy: "At that time, everyone only knew that his father was the mayor, in fact, his second father was also a leader in the south before, and later became a 92 faction, and he has always been a big boss in Pengcheng, and it is said that he is worth more than a billion yuan."

Tang Muzhi nodded, Guang Shao's second father is one of Tang Men's partners in Pengcheng, his second father was running an aviation precision mold factory at the time, and there is an investment company under it, and the business has been thriving, a few years ago, a batch of equipment in their factory was vandalized, and he himself almost went bankrupt, it was Tang Muzhi who called and took the initiative to connect Tang Men and Guang Shao's second father, and invested a sum of money, and then helped him arrest the saboteur.

That incident involved four insiders, and later, according to Tang Muzhi's suggestion, after being sent to Nadutong to abolish the meridians, he was sentenced to death by the court.

The forces behind these four people later worked against the Tang Sect for a period of time, but they also quickly died down, and at that time, the forward-looking display of several companies under the Tang Sect was revealed, which attracted the attention of too many people, and Nadutong also took special care of the Tang Sect for a period of time.

Now Guang Shao's second father's aviation precision mold factory is thriving, and has opened an electronic parts factory full of assembly lines, and a company researches and produces nickel-cadmium batteries, employing nearly 10,000 employees. Time has proven that he is a very capable doer, and of course, he is also a man of great luck.

Tang Muzhi couldn't help but think of Nathan's commission, and then he came back to his senses and asked Xu Jingrong, "By the way, how did you and my mother meet?" What a coincidence."

Xu Jingrong opened his mouth a little embarrassed: "Ah, it's really a coincidence. Was I still studying in England at the time, Tang ...... A few years ago, some time after Xiangjiang's return, didn't she move to the United Kingdom?

She had business dealings with my brother-in-law, and I had a good relationship with my sister at that time, they were all fellow villagers, and they became familiar with each other after coming and going, and then when we chatted, we accidentally found that there was such a relationship......

Tang Muzhi smiled and said, "It's okay, you just call her sister, I don't care, it's okay to talk about it...... She also looks young, too."

Xu Jingrong said with relief: "Oh, her appearance is already young, the first time I saw her, there is not much difference between her and now...... Why haven't you come back yet?"

Tang Muzhi touched Xu Jingrong's cup, the temperature was just right, and then handed it to her.

"Hmm...... That's the case, in fact, I came this time, and it is also the meaning of the elders, Jing Rong, I am getting married, August 15 this year. I'll be leaving soon, and I want you to tell her."

Xu Jingrong was taking the cup from Tang Muzhi's hand, her hand trembled, and warm boiled water was sprinkled on her right hand tiger's mouth.

Tang Muzhi lowered his eyebrows and caught a glimpse of this scene, took out two pieces of paper from behind him and handed them to her, and said softly:

"Be careful."

Xu Jingrong nodded a little reluctantly, she took the paper but didn't wipe her wet right hand, just lowered her head and didn't look at him.

Tang Muzhi picked up a disposable paper cup and drank his saliva and looked out the window, the weather in Xiangjiang was really hot, maybe he hated the smell of refrigerant and mold, Tang Yuan did not turn on the air conditioner. Fortunately, the house is transparent from north to south, with windows open on both sides. Tang Muzhi and Xu Jingrong didn't speak or move for a while, the two looked like they were living in the same photo frame, but one leaned on the left, the other lowered his head on the right, and something seemed to separate them in the dark, bringing a sense of light and shadow that was not inconsistent with this photo.