(The previous chapter 169 has been completely revised. Taoist friends who are reading the old version may need to go back and read it again.)
When he heard her call him "Mr. Li", Li Shi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and asked, "Do you know me?"
In order to show politeness, the woman also stood up, smiled and said in the Baoqing dialect: "Mr. Li, you are often forgetful. I have handled business for you."
The Baoqing dialect she spoke was tinny and had a special rhythm.
Very crispy.
Li Shi looked at her carefully and found that she was not tall, less than 1.6 meters tall, and had good looks. She had a white face with delicate features, black and straight hair, and exquisite makeup, which made her look pretty good.
However, I really can’t remember where I’ve seen it before, and I have no impression of it at all.
"Last week you came to the ICBC next to the West Railway Station to transfer money, and I helped you handle it."
When she said this, Li Shi immediately remembered that last week, he did transfer 4 million to another Agricultural Bank of China's card to renovate a self-built house in his hometown. The person who helped him with the business at that time was indeed a female staff member, but he He didn't even pay attention to what the other person looked like.
He pretended to be surprised and said in his hometown dialect: "It turns out to be you. I didn't expect to meet you here. What a coincidence."
The other party's name is Yu Man, and he came to Yangcheng on vacation.
The two chatted for a few words, added each other on WeChat, and then returned to their seats.
After a while, the train stopped at the station.
The two got off the car one after another. Yu Man still smiled and said to Li Shi: "Mr. Li, I will contact you when you return to your hometown."
Li Shi also smiled and replied: "Okay, see you later."
There were many people getting off the bus, and the two of them were quickly dispersed by the crowd.
Li Shi walked out of the station and sent Chen Qiuye a message: "I'm at Yangcheng South Station."
Chen Qiuye quickly replied: "My meeting here has already started. I might not be able to check my phone later. You go to Xinyu first. I'll rush back as soon as I finish the meeting."
"I prepared a gift for you (shy)"
Li Shi, who was walking quickly to the taxi spot, saw the emoticon in the second message and couldn't help but slow down. He pursed his lips, showed an "understood" smile, and typed back: "Okay, please leave me alone." , have a good meeting."
After getting off the escalator, I boarded a yellow taxi at the south exit gate on the first floor of the station.
It takes more than 40 minutes to drive from Yangcheng South High-speed Railway Station to Xinyu Community, where Chen Qiuye lives.
Li Shi naturally wouldn't waste time.
He opened the car window and began to purposefully observe the city scenery on both sides of the road.
After the taxi left the station, we went onto Hanxi Avenue. There were rows of white-painted trees on both sides. There were hills in the distance. Occasionally, we could see towering electricity towers. After a long distance, we could see some buildings under construction. of real estate.
Li Shi observed carefully and thought about how to compose the picture if he chose to paint the scenery along the way.
After looking at it for a while, his eyes turned to the inside of the car.
He sat in the back seat, separated from the driver by a guardrail made of stainless steel pipes.
Through the gap in the guardrail, he could see the profile of the middle-aged bald driver. Li suddenly felt that this angle was worthy of a sketch.
He immediately took out his sketchbook from his backpack, picked up a pencil and started drawing.
…
After a while, Li Shi was thinking about the perspective relationship when his cell phone rang in his pocket.
He put down the sketchbook, took it out and unlocked it. The person who sent the WeChat message was Yu Man, a fellow countryman who he met by chance in the car before.
"Mr. Li, are you familiar with Yangcheng? It's my first time here and I don't know where to go (face covering)"
Li Shi blinked. He understood that when a girl sends you such a message, she probably wants you to reply with "Then I will be your guide" or "Let's play together" or something like that. But he didn't have that thought right now and just typed a reply. He said: "I'm not very familiar with him either. You can search online for travel guides or something like that."
After sending it out, I picked up the pencil and quickly drew lines on the white paper.
His painting speed is comparable to that of an old bachelor who has been single for thirty years.
Because the pencil rubbed against the manuscript paper too fast, it made a lot of noise, and also caused the driver in front of me to look frequently through the rearview mirror.
In just six or seven minutes, a sketch was completed.
"No wonder Gao Mei suggested doing more sketches."
"Sketching can not only cultivate observation skills... but also provide general training for basic skills in all aspects."
Before I put down the pen, my phone rang twice in a row.
It's actually still the same Yu Man.
"Do you have any plans for the future? I saw someone on the Internet saying that Chimelong Tourist Resort is good. Do you want to go there together? There are many entertainment facilities there. It seems more interesting for two people to go there."
Li Shi thought to himself, why is she so enthusiastic?
Is it because I am handsome, or because the amount of money transferred last week was relatively large?
Li Shi declined politely: "Chimelong is pretty good, but I have a lot of things to do here and don't have time to play. If you don't want to go alone, you can sign up for a local tour group."
Yu Man: "Forget it about signing up for a group tour. I have a high school classmate here. I'll ask her later if she has time."
Here, Yu Man, who was already sitting in the taxi, turned sideways to finish sending the message, and said to Shangguan Yuantao, a high school classmate who came to pick her up next to her: "I told you not to pick me up. I would have taken a taxi myself. You Running back and forth will not only cost you extra taxi fare, but it will also delay your time to get to work."
Shangguan Yuantao quickly smiled and said: "You came to Yangcheng, of course I have to show off well."
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Li Shi chatted with this proactive and enthusiastic fellow for a while, and suddenly remembered that he still lacked a short "touching bone" model. This girl was less than 1.6 meters tall, and her height should be between 1.56 and 1.58 meters. Fits the bill perfectly.
I can contact her again when she returns to Zhaoyang County to see if she is interested in dedicating herself to art.
After arriving at Xinyu Community, Li Shi went to Unit 1212, Building 12, and pressed the door password skillfully.
Looking at the room he hadn't visited for more than a month, he was feeling a little emotional when he suddenly found a gift box two or three times larger than an ordinary shoe box placed on the coffee table in the living room. It was tied with a bow with a colorful ribbon and a card was placed on it.
Walking over, I found a line of words written on the card: A gift for my little brother.
Li Shi smiled, took out his cell phone and looked up the previous chat history with Chen Qiuye, and couldn't help but smile.
It turns out that the gift she mentioned was not that kind of gift.
Li Shi blinked and thought, not necessarily, there might be some kind of unique prop in the box.
Chen Qiuye has a unique way of doing things. Even I sometimes can't guess what unexpected things she will do.
After all, she is a "crazy" woman who has overcome her aloofness by reading countless movies.
Putting down the card, Li Shi sat down on the sofa, reached out to open the bow, and picked up the lid.
There are still boxes inside, and there are two more.
Both boxes were packed in brown velvet bags with white trademarks embroidered on them: a snowflake-shaped pattern on the top and two lines of English letters on the bottom.
"PATEKPHILIPPE, GENEVE...Geneva?"
He didn't know the first line of English, but he knew the following word, Geneva, Switzerland.
This city is quite well-known in the country.
Picking up the one on the left, taking off the cloth bag, I immediately found that the box inside had a pattern that seemed to be a dial. When I opened the box again, I saw that it was indeed a watch.
It has a black dial, exquisite three-dimensional hour markers, a white metal bezel with a ring of diamonds inlaid on it, and the strap is also black and made of leather. The whole watch looks a bit shiny, but not dazzling, with a high-end elegance. The beauty is like a work of art.
"I'm afraid it's expensive."
Li Shi picked up the watch and checked it carefully.
He had never bought any expensive watches, but he could tell at a glance that this watch must be valuable.
There is a saying in the West, "The poor buy cars, the rich wear watches." It originally refers to a certain consumption concept of the rich in Europe and the United States... Nowadays, it is often mentioned as a luxury and high-end watch, and the price is sometimes astonishing.
He tried it on and it felt good.
Then he opened another box, and there was still a watch inside, of the same brand, but this watch had a blue starry sky pattern on the dial.
Li Shi picked up his phone and searched in English first.
"Patek Philippe...it turns out this is a Patek Philippe watch."
He searched again for the specific model and price of the black dial watch.
Soon, I found it on "Watch Home".
"Patek Philippe super complex function chronograph, 5271, official price 2,388,000..."
Looking at the quotation displayed on the forum, Li Shi was stunned for a moment and counted it twice to make sure he had read it correctly. It was indeed more than 2.38 million.
He suddenly felt that the watch on his wrist seemed to have a halo, becoming more and more beautiful.
"Good guy, a watch like this is worth three or four apartments in my hometown in the county!"
Li Shi repeatedly admired the luxury goods on his left wrist and experienced the feeling of wearing several suites on his hand.
"This woman is really willing to spend money on me, hehe."
To Li Shi now, a watch worth more than two million yuan is nothing. The two jade rings in his backpack, even the small ones, are not less valuable than this watch.
He used to sometimes wear an emerald green ring for fun. If he took it, it would cost several million, or even more than a thousand.
What's important is Chen Qiuye's intention!
A woman who is willing to spend millions on a watch as a gift for you...
Li Shi continued to check the blue starry sky watch online.
"Patek Philippe's super complex chronograph series, 6104G, has an official media price of 2.93 million... This one is indeed more expensive."
"This is still a few years' worth of money."
Li Shi searched the current prices of these two watches again.
This search immediately shocked him. The public price of this piece of blue starry sky a few years ago was 2.93 million, but now the reference price in the secondary market has risen to more than 4 million!
"Wouldn't the two watches add up to more than six million?"
"This prodigal woman put a gift of more than six million yuan on the coffee table and gave it away in an understatement. She is really... As expected of Chen Qiuye, I like it."
Li Shi laughed, tried on two watches repeatedly, and took photos with his mobile phone.
After taking the photo, his desire to share it increased, but he didn’t want to post it to Moments, so he clicked on Weibo, logged into his “third-level photographer” account, and posted a blog post: I received a surprise gift. I loved it so much. It’s not how valuable they are, it’s all about the person who gave them.
Attached are two pictures of the watch.
As soon as he finished sending it, Chen Qiuye sent a WeChat message:
"I've already finished the meeting, little brother, hurry up and wait for me to come back (Sese)"
Li Shi immediately replied with a smile: "Okay, I have eaten millions of dollars in soft food, and I will definitely work hard today!"
I had a chat with the editor today and started to adjust the rhythm. Tomorrow I will start striving for 3,000 words per chapter, two chapters a day.
