Chapter 42 Is the progress a bit fast? At five o'clock in the afternoon, when Qin Yanfeng's call came in, Shen Manzhi was opening the shabby curtains, and behind him was a dark and cramped shopping store.
The shopkeeper walked around the house with the pawned items in his hand, cursing and cursing. The more he thought about it, the more he thought about it. "It's just a robber!"
The woman came out of the dirty alley, holding a box in a plastic bag with a bright smile on her face.
Qin Yanfeng leaned against the passenger door and looked at the woman walking over.
This is his third visit to East End Street.
See her every time.
Shen Manzhi wore a knitted long skirt today, her slim figure hidden in a camel wool coat, and walked towards him slowly.
The man opened the passenger door for her, and when the woman bent down to get in, a timid voice came from the back seat, "Hello, sister..."
She lifted up her coat and just leaned in. Xun Sheng looked behind her and saw a young girl as beautiful as a narcissus sitting in her seat.
Shen Manzhi raised a smile on his lips and nodded.
Qin Yanfeng held the car door with his right hand. He lowered his eyes and saw the woman lifting up her tight waist under her coat, closing the car door and walking around to the driver's seat.
He fastened his seat belt and turned his head to look at the person next to him who was taking out a black velvet bag from his handbag, taking out the plastic packaging and putting it into the velvet bag.
"This is the girl from the cruise ship before, the daughter of my dad's friend."
Shen Manzhi raised his eyes, tightened the lace of the velvet pocket, and seemed to think about it, "Well, I have an impression."
Without another sentence, Shen Manzhi muted his cell phone and played the game of falling into boxes.
Half an hour later, we arrived at Qin's house.
The children of the Qin family have their own families. Although the family business is flourishing, Mr. Qin is still alive, and each family is very low-key.
The second son, Qin Demin, followed the old man. He was decisive in the market and farsighted in investment. He was the top leader in half of the Qin family's business territory.
Qin Yanfeng parked the car at the main entrance, let the little girl in the back seat get out first, and drove Shen Manzhi to the underground garage.
Shen Manzhi dropped the box three times along the way, turned off his phone, leaned his elbow on the window and rubbed his forehead.
Qin Yanfeng parked the car and turned off the engine, watching her playing with the things in her hands, "Bought another expensive gift?"
She raised her head and closed her eyes. Her lazy voice was particularly sultry in the car, "They are elders, so they must be polite."
The two of them went up from the garage directly to the garden outside the attic, and saw the bustle in the main hall from a distance.
Shen Manzhi stopped and narrowed his eyes.
"Sorry," Qin Yanfeng didn't expect anyone else to come tonight, "I didn't know there were other people invited at home."
Her expression remained unchanged, but her mood was a little inexplicably irritable.
"How can I cooperate with you?"
She remembered everything about the night of the engagement.
The man looked down at her hand hanging by her side, looked into her eyes, and asked politely, "Can I hold hands?"
Shen Manzhi took the initiative to hold his four fingers together without any clues.
The man lowered his eyes for a while, then spread out his palms to wrap a pair of cold, soft hands, and led her inside, "Just be yourself."
Shen Manzhi expressed his understanding with a calm expression.
Different from the old house, the Qin family villa is low-key and restrained, with a little warmth and comfort.
The hostess takes good care of the place.
Shen Manzhi raised his head and looked at it for a while.
Chang Yu came out wearing a black plush shawl with a bad expression on his face. When he saw a pair of beautiful women holding hands, he finally smiled politely and said, "Is Manzhi here?"
"Hello, auntie," Shen Manzhi nodded in response, stepped forward and handed over the gift at the right time, "a gift for you two to meet each other."
The box in the black velvet bag was about the size of a palm and looked a little shabby.
"You kid," Chang Yu accepted it generously, "It's our turn to prepare a gift for you, why are you so polite... Come in quickly, it's cold outside."
"Look, isn't the second brother's wife here?"
A slightly high-pitched voice came from the living room, which was very unpleasant to listen to.
Shen Manzhi raised his eyes and saw a young woman wearing a rose-red cheongsam sitting next to a well-maintained woman. The man had a smile on his face, but he had slowly glanced at Shen Manzhi's entire body.
She looked away, and the man beside her lowered his head and softly introduced these people in her ear.
The woman who just spoke is Qin Yuan, the daughter of the old man's eldest son Qin Dekuan, and the woman next to him is his mother.
Sitting on the other side with the teacup dog in her arms was their daughter-in-law.
The woman lying lazily and pampered on the sofa is Aunt Qin Yanfeng. The narcissus-like girl is teasing a three-year-old girl next to her.
"Sister-in-law, what gift has your daughter-in-law prepared for you? Let everyone see it."
The eldest aunt Bi Yehua followed her husband all year round in officialdom and socializing, and she naturally developed an arrogant habit.
Chang Yu smiled faintly and handed the gift to the steward next to him, "Sister-in-law has never seen anything in the world. Even if it is a rare treasure, I'm afraid it won't be able to catch your eyes."
Bi Yehua, who was complimented by these words, couldn't hide the smile on his face, "Since this junior's gift is from the heart, there is nothing that is not pleasing to the eye."
Having said that, the subtext in Shen Manzhi's eyes is: What can this notorious woman bring to the table?
"Yes, Second Aunt, there is a new member in the family," Qin Yuan said in a high-pitched voice, "Let's see what the new daughter-in-law thinks..."
"A new member?" Chang Yu glanced at the silent woman holding the teacup dog, and his eyes fell on her flat belly, "Xiao Yuan is right, I thought my sister-in-law was going to have a grandson."
The expressions on both mother and daughter's faces changed. The eldest son had been married for four years, but the woman's stomach had not moved at all, and she hugged the dog and was silent all day long.
"My second Qin family is marrying a daughter-in-law, but my sister-in-law and your family are quite active." Chang Yu raised his hand to pull the hair beside his ears and smiled calmly, "Are you trying to find a second marriage for Qin Jiang? Jian Jia is still here, don't be too anxious. "
"Sister-in-law," Bi Yehua said in an arrogant tone, "Since we are here to see our new daughter-in-law today, please don't be aggressive when speaking, so as not to leave a bad impression."
"Mom, second brother's fiancée..." Qin Yuan's voice was long and pointed, "She has a bad reputation. I'm afraid she doesn't know a good heart..."
Qin Yanfeng gently stroked the woman's chin with his thumb and glanced at the speaker slowly, "Third sister is not young anymore. She has been imitating her elders and being mean-spirited all day long. Isn't it because no one is pursuing her?"
Qin Zhen's face turned red, her brows raised, and she glared at him fiercely.
Shen Manzhi's expression was slightly condensed. The movement of the man's hand just now did soothe the irritability in her heart a little.
She let go of the man's hand, took the black velvet bag from the butler's hand, took out the box inside, and took out in front of everyone a piece of jade that looked like a bird.
Qin Yuan covered her mouth and chuckled, and said in surprise, "Second aunt is so lucky. Sister Manzhi actually gave me a piece of jade."
"But Mom," she turned around and asked the woman next to her, "At Dad's birthday party last time, someone gave a piece of fake jade. Outsiders thought it was strange, but insiders thought it was a joke. You have to carefully identify the moisture content of this jade... …”
"is it?"
Shen Manzhi curled her lips, her voice was cold and gentle, and everyone saw the arrogance and arrogance on her face that others commented on.
"As a parent, if you really keep it, wouldn't you have to go in and squat there?" She held the box in her hand and handed it to Chang Yu, smiling lightly, "Listening to what you said... I'm afraid there are many rare treasures at home. Already?"
Bi Yehua's expression changed, and he heard the subtext of these words, and signaled his daughter to stop talking nonsense.
"Bird-shaped seeds."
The woman on the small sofa stood up and took the box from Chang Yu's hand. She picked up the jade in her beautiful and slender hands, and the color was very pleasing to the eye through the Zhen showed an admiring look, "My nephew-in-law has good taste."
The beauty nodded and smiled softly, "Thank you, aunt."
Bi Yehua spoke softly again, "You know it, right? This jade stone looks like the best raw material. I'm afraid it's expensive, right? You have to do your best when giving gifts, so as not to burden your family."
"Auntie is worrying too much," she walked to Qin Yanfeng and held his hand again, her tone was leisurely and meaningful, "I will plunder whoever plunders the people's wealth."
Bi Yehua choked and was scolded three times in a row. He held his breath and did not speak again.
There was the sound of heavy footsteps upstairs, and the delicate young master stood at the top of the stairs, "Mom, when will dinner be served? I'm hungry."
Chang Yu smiled fondly at his youngest son, stood up and said to Bi Yehua, "I only invited Sanmei and Ayuan over today. I didn't cook too much food. I asked my sister-in-law and her family to help themselves."
"Second Aunt's family is looking down on people more and more," Qin Yuan looked at Shen Manzhi again with a thorny look, "Really, it's not like one family doesn't want to enter the same house."
Shen Manzhi looked at her coldly.
"Isn't it true that people who come uninvited are even more uneducated?"
"Who are you calling uneducated?" Qin Yuan held her mother's hand and spoke in an aggressive voice.
The woman jumped forward with an arrogant and domineering expression, raised her eyebrows and said coldly, "Looking for a fight?"
Qin Yuan was so frightened by the woman's eyes that he took half a step back. He had only heard rumors from the outside world, but now he saw with his own eyes that this man was really a madman! Qin Yanfeng put his arms around her body and said, "Don't do it at home, it's too dirty."
"..."
Qin Yuan walked away, passing by A Yuan who was holding a child, and sneered in a low voice, "What the hell, you have the same name as me."
The living room finally became clear. Shen Manzhi lowered his eyes and calmed down his emotions. When he looked at the children who came downstairs, they were already cold and gentle.
Qin Shihuan winked at her and said, "Sister, Happy New Year."
She let go of the man's hand and said, "Have fun together."
Qin Demin came back just in time for dinner. It seemed that the afternoon was the main battlefield for rich women.
At the dinner table, the atmosphere was originally quiet. Little White Narcissus sat next to three-year-old Xiaobao and said calmly, "I have the same piece of bird jade that sister Manzhi gave me at home."
Qin Demin has seen the jade sent by Shen Manzhi. He doesn't understand it, but there are many collections at home. "Oh? A Yuan has seen it too?"
A Yuan smiled sweetly and said, "My dad bought it from an overseas auction house. He had it professionally appraised. It also looks like a bird. My dad said it's worth tens of millions."
She looked at Shen Manzhi innocently, "Sister is so amazing, she can buy such good jade."
Isn't this a roundabout way of saying that the ones from her family are the real ones, and Shen Manzhi took a fake one to show his filial piety to his elders?
Chang Yu looked at the impressed Shen Manzhi. She was eating quietly and gracefully, and she and Qin Shihuan were doting on a piece of spicy fried shrimps at the same time.
It's like it's not affected at all.
Qin Yanfeng obviously noticed it. He put down his chopsticks and said in a low and magnetic voice, "Last time I returned to my old house, she gave grandpa a piece of purple chinensis agarwood. She called me specifically in the evening to tell me that my granddaughter-in-law gave me a big gift. I want to thank her."
Shen Manzhi's hand stretched out his chopsticks towards the shrimp and paused, then Qin Shi opened his eyes and quickly picked up a piece of plump and bright red meat.
She raised her eyes and saw Qin Shiwen smiling proudly at her.
Qin Demin suddenly realized that the old man liked collecting objects very much. He could see whether they were real or fake, and he could also find someone to identify them.
"Why," the young man smiled elegantly and looked at the small white narcissus flowers, "does yours have to be real?"
Ayuan looked at the handsome man blankly, but blushed in shame, "I...I don't really understand, I just look like him."
Shen Manzhi put down his chopsticks at the right time, took the napkin and wiped the corners of his mouth, "Similar in shape, but different."
She looked at the innocent little white flower in front of her and raised her eyebrows, "Don't spend money on resentment."
Qin Yanfeng placed his hand under the dining table and touched the woman's waist, then stood up and said, "I'll take people up to rest for a while. Dad, aunt, aunt, you guys eat slowly."
Shen Manzhi nodded and was taken upstairs by the man's hand.
Qin Demin looked at the backs of the two people going upstairs, then looked at the hands held by the two people together, squinting slightly, "Are these two people making progress a little fast?"
"..."
Chang Yu gave him a speechless look, "They will get married next week."
Qin Demin shook his head and curled his lips, "Not everyone may be willing when we get engaged."
The man's room was spacious and dark. Shen Manzhi leaned on the balcony threshold, holding the warm water handed over by the man in his hand, "What's the girl's name?"
Without thinking, he flipped through the book in his hand, "I don't remember."
There was a knock on the door, but no one moved.
Shen Manzhi looked back at him. The man was reading under a small lamp next to the sofa in the room. The room was dark, with only that area glowing with soft light.
He has a clean and noble temperament, like a lamp holder left behind in the night.
People in the dark always want to live towards the light.
She is no exception.
The knock on the door continued.
Shen Manzhi turned his head and looked out the balcony window, turning a deaf ear.
No one in the house moved.
Until Qin Shiwan's plaintive voice came from outside the door, "Brother..."
"doing what?"
Qin Yanfeng had a cold expression on his face, looking at him with his eyes downcast as he opened the door ajar.
Qin Shishi's hand on the door was caught off guard and he pushed it, looking at him blankly, "I... can I play with my sister?"
He stepped aside, and the room was dark. Qin Shi subconsciously wanted to exit, but the man held him by the collar, "Huh?"
Qin Shi frowned and whispered, "It's all in the dark. I'm afraid I'll see something I shouldn't..."
The lights suddenly brightened, and Qin Shi opened his eyes and saw the leisurely and contented woman on the balcony.
"..."
He stood up on tiptoe and leaned into the man's ear, whispering, "Mom said, you are not married yet, so you cannot bully your sister."
The light coming from outside the door illuminated half of the man's face. He raised his head and sneered, showing his arrogance and scorn, "Are you here as a spy?"
Qin Shi ducked in and headed towards the people on the balcony, "Sister, I don't have your contact information yet."
Qin Yanfeng leaned against the door and watched the two of them exchange contact information.
The child had a sad face and said, "Remember to play with me, it's so boring at home, and my brother is not at home all day."
Shen Manzhi looked at the high school student who was about the same height as him and nodded in understanding, "I'll ask you to do your homework when you have time."
"..."
(End of this chapter)