"Mr. Gao, Ye Mingzhe and Ye Fangfei have arrived."

Gao Tingan was originally chatting with a middle-aged guest, when his assistant Xiao Wu suddenly approached and whispered a reminder in his ear.

Gao Tingan didn't respond, turned his head to look in the direction of the door, and then ended the conversation with the guest who was chatting.

He raised his hand to straighten his collar before stepping towards the entrance of the ballroom.

A warm smile appeared on his expressionless face, and before he walked in front of Ye Mingzhe and them, Gao Ting'an's voice arrived first.

"Oops, welcome, welcome!"

He walked through the crowd and walked straight to Ye Mingzhe and Ye Fangfei, who had just come in.

Lu Zhou, who was sitting in the corner of the leisure area, stared at the movement at the door with his eyes, and the crowd of people walking around in the middle, so he couldn't see it clearly.

He took a sip of his wine, then got up and walked over there.

He decided to get closer and observe.

Ye Fangfei wore a navy blue mid-length one-shoulder dress today, her caramel-colored long hair was permed into big wavy curls and spread over her shoulders, and she lifted her long hair and hung it behind her ears, revealing her good-looking ears, and she wore a diamond stud earring on her earlobe.

She is dressed in this dress, lining the whole person's skin as white as snow, beautiful and moving, wearing light makeup to outline the three-dimensional facial features details better, and a touch of maple leaf red between her lips is particularly attractive.

It's just that when she doesn't laugh, there is a hint of coldness all over her body.

As soon as she entered, she looked around the scene.

didn't find the target, but heard Gao Ting'an's warm greeting voice, Ye Fangfei took her eyes back.

Gao Ting'an had already come to them, looked at Ye Mingzhe for the first time, and said, "I didn't expect you to take the time to come, it's my honor." ”

"Brother Ting'an, happy birthday, this is our care." Ye Mingzhe handed over the gift.

"It's good that people are here, why bother to bring gifts."

Gao Tingan took the gift, patted Ye Mingzhe, and said.

"Originally, I didn't plan to have any birthday this year, but I thought that this year would be a special day, so I invited everyone to come over for a light meal and have a lively time."

Ye Mingzhe responded with a smile, "I still have to celebrate my birthday, forget it, Brother Ting'an is the year of his birth this year, right?" ”

Gao Tingan nodded: "Yes, it's 36 in the blink of an eye, and the years are really terrible." ”

A hint of surprise flashed in Ye Fangfei's eyes when she heard this, and she suddenly said, "Brother Ting'an, it seems that you are not superstitious?" ”

Gao Tingan smiled and met her gaze, a little dazed, "I don't understand what you mean, what does it have to do with superstition?" ”

"Isn't there a folk saying that ...... Isn't it appropriate to have a big birthday in the natal year? Ye Fangfei replied leisurely.

Ye Mingzhe: "......"

Gao Ting'an's eyebrows moved slightly, and the corners of his mouth were still smiling, but the light in his eyes seemed to be smiling.

Ye Mingzhe turned his head and glanced at his sister, "I also said that I am a new generation walking in the trend of the times, you still believe this kind of thing." ”

Ye Fangfei showed an innocent face and said, "I definitely don't believe it, it's just that many elders love to pay attention to these, so I said that Brother Ting'an is not superstitious, it's good." ”

Ye Mingzhe: "Then you can't be open-mouthed and rude on this occasion." ”

Ye Fangfei realized that she had said the wrong thing, and looked at Gao Ting'an, "I'm sorry, Brother Ting'an, it's because I'm young and ignorant, and I don't speak regardless of the occasion, so I didn't disturb your good mood today, right?" ”

Gao Ting'an stared at her and smiled gently, "What is the natal year or not, since my parents are gone, I have ignored these so-called taboos, just celebrate my birthday, be lively, don't pay so much attention." ”

"There's no need to be so angry with me, just say what you want to say in your heart." Gao Tingan said, and gently patted Ye Mingzhe's shoulder, "Mingzhe, you too, what are you doing to your sister so seriously." ”

Ye Mingzhe: "She is used to lawlessness at home, sometimes she speaks regardless of the occasion, and she still has to educate when she should educate, otherwise she won't know if she will cause trouble outside in the future." But not everyone I meet can indulge her temperament, but fortunately, today is in your field, and you don't care about her when she talks nonsense. ”

Ye Fangfei: "......"

Gao Tingan laughed, "It's not so strict, she's still young, at this age, it's good to maintain her true temperament." Is there still a shortage of people in our circle who can look at the eyes and speak? ”

Ye Mingzhe and Gao Ting'an, you come and go, talking like polite words, but not like polite words.

Ye Fangfei is very annoyed by this kind of communication between people who say "familiar but not very familiar, unfamiliar but also familiar".

It's not okay to be polite, it's not okay to be too polite, you have to grasp a degree.

Indeed, it's quite torturous.

Her attention began to shift again.

This time, she found Lu Zhou's figure in the crowd.

There were three or four people between him and her, and their eyes collided in the air.

Ye Fangfei wanted to go to him, but the communication here was not over yet, so it was not good to leave rashly.

"My dad is not feeling well today, so he can't come over today, my mom doesn't worry about him, he is guarding at home, they let you have time to come home for a meal another day, and make up for your birthday." Ye Mingzhe said.

This birthday banquet, in fact, Ye Mingzhe had no intention of coming.

But Gao Tingan sent an invitation to invite their whole family.

Dad said he didn't want to come today, so he asked him to bring his sister as a representative to attend.

That's how Ye Mingzhe came.

In fact, Ye Fangfei's question just now said to his heart, if it is not a special situation, who will have a birthday in the natal year?

This truth, Ye Fangfei, a willful little girl who never pays attention to these etiquettes, knows it, and it is impossible for him Gao Tingan not to know.

Could it be that this year's birthday really has any special significance for Gao Tingan?

I don't understand what Gao Ting'an is thinking, Ye Mingzhe doesn't bother to figure it out, he and him are not all the way, and they can't play together, although their parents used to have a good relationship, but in fact, when it comes to their generation, they don't often come and go.

"Uncle Hua is not feeling well? Is it serious? Have you seen a doctor? Gao Ting'an listened to Ye Mingzhe's words, and a worried expression suddenly appeared on his face.

"It doesn't matter, it's just that I'm old, my stomach is fragile, and I accidentally ate something I shouldn't eat, and I'm having stomach trouble." Ye Mingzhe replied with a smile.

Gao Tingan made a look of relief.

"It's okay, it's okay, your body is important, of course it's best if Uncle Hua can come today, I'm very happy to have you here." There is no need to make up for my birthday, I would have held this birthday banquet today, also because it coincided with the date of this year's lunar birthday. ”

Ye Fangfei's attention was pulled back, and when she heard their conversation, she became puzzled.

"Is there any special day other than your birthday?" Ye Fangfei asked.

Gao Ting'an stared at her, pursed his lips and smiled, and paused for a moment before saying, "It's nothing, it's just a special day for me personally." ”

Ye Fangfei didn't ask any more, nodded, and said, "That being the case, let's celebrate it today." ”

Gao Tingan smiled quietly on his face and did not answer.

But he silently sneered in his heart: Celebrate? Hehe.

"I see you also invited the orchestra, so Yaxing?" Ye Fangfei said.

"I have to have some shows, and I don't have any other hobbies, so I invited some professional musicians to help out."

Gao Tingan turned his head to look in the direction of the small stage in the performance area, and responded.

"Oh, by the way, I also invited Lu Zhou over today, and I like his piano piece very much recently, so I specially invited him to come over and play a song."

Gao Tingan said, turned to look at the assistant beside him, and explained: "Xiao Wu, go find Lu Zhou?" Tell him that he has a friend who has arrived. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Fangfei interrupted and said, "No, I saw him." ”

Gao Ting'an nodded, no longer arranged it, and then chatted a few words, and then he went to receive new guests.

Ye Fangfei was relieved, said to her brother Ye Mingzhe, and then ran to find Lu Zhou.

Lu Zhou was still nearby, but he disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Ye Fangfei looked around, and finally found him in a corner of the leisure area.

I just looked at her, why did I run so far away from her in the blink of an eye? Sitting alone in contemplation, I don't know what I'm thinking, I look lonely, and I feel a little distressed inexplicably, is it not suitable for this occasion?

Ye Fangfei muttered in her heart, quickened her pace and walked in the direction of Lu Zhou, but was blocked by Zhang Chen who suddenly appeared in the middle of the way.

"It's a beautiful day." As soon as Zhang Chen came up, he praised with a smile.

Seeing Zhang Chen, Ye Fangfei was stunned for a moment, ignored his praise, raised her eyebrows and said, "Are you there too?" ”

"Yes, what a coincidence, you and your brother are here?" Zhang Chen smiled at her.

"When did you just arrive?"

"I'll be there for a while."

"Oh, do you know that Lu Zhou is also here?"

"Yes! It's really godly, let me tell you, I didn't expect to see Lu Zhou here, do you know that this kid came to perform commercially? It's really him in every corner of making money, and I'm convinced. ”

"Just because he's here for a commercial performance, are you too lazy to take care of him?"

"Huh?" Zhang Chen was stunned.

How does this dialogue feel so strange?

"How could I ignore him? I was talking to him before you came. How do you think of me in the worst way? ”

Zhang Chen was a little speechless.

"Okay, that's where I blame you." Ye Fangfei smiled at him, "You can go and play with other friends." ”

Ye Fangfei bypassed him and continued to walk towards Lu Zhou.

As a result, Zhang Chen didn't leave, and followed her all the time, "My little friend is you." ”

Ye Fangfei: "......"

She raised her eyes and glanced at him, and her eyes seemed to say: Who is your friend?

Zhang Chen clenched his right hand into a fist against his lips, coughed lightly, and whispered, "That...... Can we be more harmonious today? Don't scold me. ”

Ye Fangfei raised her eyebrows, "Why?" ”

"Our eldest brother is both ...... I don't want them to misunderstand that we don't have a good relationship. Zhang Chen smiled and said in a low voice.

Ye Fangfei: "Misunderstanding? How so? Our relationship wasn't very good in the first place. ”

Zhang Chen subconsciously looked in the direction of Ye Mingzhe, so he couldn't die, he was also looking over this way, and when he saw Zhang Chen standing next to Ye Fangfei, there was something wrong with his eyes.

Zhang Chen hurriedly retracted his gaze and said to Ye Fangfei: "Give me face, didn't you notice that your eldest brother looked at me as if he wanted to stab me?" We had a better relationship, but at least he didn't feel so sorry for me. ”

Ye Fangfei couldn't help laughing, it turned out that he was because of this.

"It's useless, my brother holds a grudge. If you stay away from me, he won't look at you like that. Ye Fangfei teased him.

"......" Zhang Chen showed an indescribable expression, "I believe you are a ghost, I am far away from you, he misunderstands you and me even more, doesn't he hate me even more?" Did you tell your dad and your brother that you and I were working on a project together? ”

Ye Fangfei: "No. ”

Zhang Chen: "??? ”

Zhang Chen: "Why don't you say it?" You should tell them. ”

Ye Fangfei: "Why do you say it, they never care what projects I do. ”

Zhang Chen was stunned, "I'll go, you ask them to take so much money, they don't even care about what project you do?" ”

Ye Fangfei: "I didn't ask them to get the funds. ”

Zhang Chen: "......" was inexplicably insulted.

Ye Fangfei had already crossed the crowd and came to the area where Lu Zhou was sitting, and Zhang Chen followed all the way, and he couldn't shake it off.

"I won't say hello to me when you see me."

Ye Fangfei came to his side and found a vacant seat to sit down.

"Don't you see you're busy socializing? I don't want to bother you. Lu Zhou smiled back and asked, "Why are you still here?" ”

"My family received an invitation, and my dad asked me to come." Ye Fangfei replied.

Her father asked her to come on the one hand, and she herself was worried about it or wanted to come and see it on the other hand.

But she didn't say why.

Lu Zhou's eyes fell on Zhang Chen's body and asked, "Didn't you say to go to your brother?" How did he run back again. ”

"They are so busy dealing with people that they don't have time to talk to me." Zhang Chen sat in the empty seat on the other side of Lu Zhou and said.

Lu Zhou smiled when he heard this.

So much better.

"When are you going to play?" Ye Fangfei asked.

"They said I was the finale." Lu Zhou responded.

"How many shows are there?" Ye Fangfei's gaze shifted to the direction of the stage.

"I don't know, I didn't tell you, but those ones are all here to perform." Lu Zhou raised his chin to the right and said.

Ye Fangfei raised her eyebrows and said, "Then you have to wait." ”

"Fortunately, I guess after the guests arrived, the performance almost began." Lu Zhou said.

Ye Fangfei looked at the guests coming and going in the banquet hall, and suddenly said to Lu Zhou: "It's okay to sit here, why don't I take you to meet some people?" ”

Zhang Chen listened to Ye Fangfei's words, raised his eyebrows and looked over, and said in his heart: No, she shouldn't want to take him to meet her eldest brother, right?

This thought came to mind, and the corners of Zhang Chen's mouth trembled, so differentiated?!

At this time, Lu Zhou replied: "No." ”

On this occasion, it might be better to settle down, he thought.

"You're just here, aren't you going to walk around with the others?" Lu Zhou looked at her and hinted, the look in his eyes seemed to say: Don't take care of me, I'm fine, you do what you have to do.

Ye Fangfei read his eyes, obviously she looked at his lonely figure from afar before, and misunderstood his psychology, he didn't seem to feel much uncomfortable on this occasion, and the whole person looked quite calm.

"Then I...... Let's go away for a while? She said.

Lu Zhou nodded, "Well, let's get busy." ”

Ye Fangfei really got up and left, after all, she came to this kind of occasion where all the elders came, and many of them were still known to her, so she always had to say hello.

After she left, Lu Zhou looked at Zhang Chen and said, "Don't you have to go to socialize?" ”

Lu Zhou's words suddenly made Zhang Chen have an idea.

Huh? That's right, social! Does he want to directly use the excuse of "entertainment" to get close to Ye Mingzhe?

In this way, Ye Mingzhe will be able to know the situation between him and Ye Fangfei, and maybe he will no longer have opinions about him.

In this way, his two eldest brothers will really believe that he has eased relations with the Ye family and is mixing well!

Killing two birds with one stone, wonderful.

This move is feasible, afraid of a fart?

After figuring it out, Zhang Chen stood up and followed.

Lu Zhou was left to sit in a corner with Erlang's legs crossed, holding half a glass of red wine taken from the bartender's tray and shaking it from time to time, carefully observing the movements of all the guests centered on Gao Ting'an.

Today is no coincidence.

With Gao Ting'an's style, he specially invited the people of the Zhang family and the Ye family to his birthday banquet, plus an abrupt self, he must have wanted to observe something.

He most likely thinks that the relationship between me, Ye Fangfei, and Zhang Chen is very strange, why did Ye Fangfei and Zhang Chen have the same thing as if nothing happened before? Can you still be friends?

It is possible that he is also doubting whether the relationship between the Zhang family and the Ye family has changed, and he may also be doubting the relationship between me and Ye Fangfei, and it is more likely that he is already investigating why I became friends with Zhang Chen.

Yes, he must already be looking into what role I play in this.

Lu Zhou took a sip of red wine and analyzed it in his heart.

At this time, there was a sudden commotion around.

Lu Zhou retracted his thoughts and turned his head to look.

I found out that it was a performance musician, and a girl on the side accidentally dropped a wine glass and cut her finger.

The staff at the scene hurriedly stepped forward to deal with the accident, but fortunately, the wound was not very deep, and the bleeding quickly stopped.

But the girl's eyes were red, "What should I do?" How will I play the piano later? ”

"No way, you're too careless, cancel the performance project, it's better than making a mistake on the stage, today's birthday banquet of Mr. Gao, you can't play the piano with bloody hands, how unlucky." Some peers said.

The girl wept silently, obviously sad.

But there was no way, now this situation can only be canceled, and someone has found the staff in charge of this part.

"What are you responsible for?"

"Guzheng."

"Hey, how could there be such an accident, then the performance time is not enough...... It's really not going well, who is that, you go and inform me and withdraw the guzheng project. ”

Seeing this, Lu Zhou suddenly interrupted him.

"I can play the guzheng, or I'll fill the vacancy in her project."

Lu Zhou's words made the staff stunned.

"Can you play the guzheng?" The staff's eyes lit up.

Lu Zhou: "I will." ”

"You volunteered to fill her vacancy? But the appearance fee is ...... I still have to discuss with the person in charge again how to increase the price. ”

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "I can play an extra show for free, and it will be regarded as a birthday gift from me to Mr. Gao." ”

Staff: "Good! That's great! Thank you so much! ”

However, at this time, Lu Zhou's voice changed: "But I don't play your limited repertoire, and the music has to be set by me." ”

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