As soon as An Ping saw Xiao Long, she bent down and said, "You are back."
Every time Xiao Long comes to this home, he will receive such greetings. He nodded and walked into the house, An Ping following him.
"Well, the master is not at home..."
Although An Ping heard that Lai Qianxiu was not there, Xiao Long walked into her room without any scruples. Lai Qianxiu's room was decorated with luxurious furniture. Xiao Long walked into the room, put his hands in his coat pockets, and sat down on the sofa casually.
"Where have you gone?" he asked An Ping, as if he was asking confidently about his wife's whereabouts.
"What do you want? Madam went to the beauty salon and will go to the store later. Does Madam know you are coming?"
"No, she shouldn't know."
"Oh, I see."
An Ping walked in and poured tea for Xiao Long. Taking this opportunity, Xiao Long stood up from the sofa, looked around, and suddenly found a square package on the dressing table. Xiao Long took it in his hand and weighed it, it was heavy.
Xiao Long opened the package and found an old paulownia box inside. Judging from the weight of the box, Xiao Long guessed that there should be a tea bowl inside. The old wooden box was tied with a thin cotton rope. Xiao Long untied the cotton rope and opened the old cover with mottled wood grain. There was a ginger-yellow cloth bag inside. When he opened the cloth bag, he saw that it was indeed a tea bowl. . This milky white slightly gray tea bowl has some rough flower and plant patterns on it.
"Um."
Xiao Long snorted from his nose and looked at it carefully. This tea bowl should have been fired in an ancient kiln in the Song Dynasty. Lai Qianxiu has recently become interested in collecting under the influence of Xiao Long. It must have been sold to her by an antique dealer, but the items were indeed good and the price must have been considerable.
Xiao Long took the tea bowl in his hand and looked at it over and over again. The unique milky white glaze of the ancient kilns of the Song Dynasty makes the color of the pattern on the tea bowl particularly elegant, and the glaze surface is slightly reddish due to the iron oxide raw material used in the drawing.
An Ping brought the tea over.
Xiao Long asked her: "When did you get this tea bowl back?"
An Ping leaned over and put down the tea cup, then turned her attention to the tea bowl in Xiao Long's hand.
"It seemed like the owner of the antique shop came yesterday."
"Did you buy this?"
"I am not very sure."
An Ping bowed and walked away. Xiao Long wrapped the tea bowl and put it away as it was, then lit a cigarette and walked around the room. Although there was a red carpet on the floor, Xiao Long didn't care and let the cigarette ashes fall directly on the carpet.
After smoking a cigarette, Xiao Long threw the cigarette butt into the ashtray. There were already two imported cigarette butts stained with lipstick in the ashtray.
When leaving Lai Qianxiu's house, Xiao Long took the package with the tea bowl away. He thought to himself, he could either keep it for himself or sell it. This trip was not in vain.
Xiao Long met Lai Qianxiu three years ago and was introduced by Xia Zhifang. Lai Qianxiu's trust in Xiao Long not only depends on his title as hospital director, but also because he is a famous doctor. Xiao Long's purpose of approaching Lai Qianxiu is also different from his approach to other women: just to obtain material enjoyment.
Not long after Xiao Long met Lai Qianxiu, he borrowed two million from her. The reason was that he had bought a mine in a distant mountain and wanted to develop it, and he hoped that Lai Qianxiu could invest part of the money. Of course, this is not something Xiao Long fabricated out of thin air. He did buy a copper mine from a miner, but there was no vein in the mine at all. Although Xiao Long knew this fact in advance, he still spent money to buy it in order to gain the vanity of owning a mine.
For this reason, Xiao Long asked Lai Qianxiu to pay a large sum of money, and Lai Qianxiu gave the money to him without any doubt. She believed in Xiao Long's identity as the dean.
The two million was quickly spent by Xiao Long on other women. When the repayment deadline came, Lai Qianxiu urged Xiao Long to pay back the money. Xiao Long had already prepared a response. He said to Lai Qianxiu: "In order to develop the minerals, I have hired local people to work there, but the performance has not improved, so I plan to sell the mine and use the money to return it to you. I hope you can wait before selling.”
When the repayment deadline came again, Xiao Long tried his best to persuade Lai Qianxiu: "No matter what, I hope you will go to the mine to inspect it first. If you still feel that there is no development prospect, then sell it. If you think there is still development prospect, Let’s continue running the business together!”
Lai Qianxiu was actually very moved by the feeling of owning a mine, so he accepted Xiao Long's suggestion. The two traveled thousands of miles to the vicinity of the so-called mine. This was actually part of Xiao Long's plan. He deliberately chose that place. The train can only reach the destination in the evening.
"If we go to the construction site now, we will have to arrive in the middle of the night. You are tired after taking the train for so long. Otherwise, how about we rest at a nearby hot spring hotel tonight?" Xiao Long asked Lai Qianxiu tentatively.
Lai Qianxiu looked at this man who was fifteen years younger than her: a tired look was already showing on his fair face. She thought that this man who was so much younger than her would not have any ideas about her. After hesitating for a moment, she still agreed. Xiao Long’s suggestion.
After getting off at the station, the two called a taxi and went straight to the hot spring hotel. This is the best hot spring hotel in the area. The sound of water can be heard in the bedroom.
The new relationship between Xiao Long and Lai Qianxiu started from this night.
From that moment on, Xiao Long knew that the two million he borrowed from Lai Qianxiu no longer needed to be repaid. It was true that he was running a mine, but Xiao Long only used the mine as a cover to get money from Lai Qianxiu. For Lai Qianxiu, that little money is just a drop in the bucket.
The next morning, Xiao Long said to Lai Qianxiu: "Madam, I called the mine last night. The person in charge of the mine said that the person in charge went on a trip and will not be back until three or four days."
Of course, he didn't make such a call at all. The person in charge of the mine was Xiao Long's figment from the beginning.
"The person in charge over there is not here now, so our trip would be in vain. Why don't we stay here for a few days and wait for him to come back."
Lai Qianxiu hesitated: "Even if we have to wait, do we still have to wait here?"
"We finally got here, let's have some fun. There are many places I want to visit, and there are several sightseeing places nearby."
Lai Qianxiu lowered his head and said nothing. Xiao Long kept looking at her: after a night of love, this woman was no longer the same Lai Qianxiu from last night, and he no longer needed to deliberately maintain a certain relationship with her. distance.
Lai Qianxiu is 100% a strong woman with great skills. She started as a small business, and the business grew bigger and bigger, and finally developed into the home furnishings store now. Her husband did not help her career at all - he was a cowardly man who only knew how to follow her butt and obey her orders. In terms of ability, he was not even one-tenth of hers. .
Lai Qianxiu has worked hard to achieve what she is today. There are still many rumors about her, most of which are about how she became successful. Regardless of whether the rumors are true or false, the amorous charm exuding from her body makes people unable to help but believe that it is true. At that time, she had just passed her thirties, which was the age when women are most beautiful and charming. Moreover, she was plump and tall. She was indeed a rare beauty.
Her husband, Qu Chunyan, is thin and looks loyal and honest. Compared with Lai Qianxiu, he obviously lacks the ambition of a man, and always gives people the feeling of aging before he is old. Therefore, people often say behind his back that Qu Chunyan was sucked out of his vitality by his plump wife, which resulted in his current haggard appearance. Such gossip is caused, on the one hand, because the people around her are deeply jealous of Lai Qianxiu, who has built such a first-class home furnishing store in such a short period of time. On the other hand, they are also embarrassed by the hidden behind her The husband Qu Chunyan came and taunted her. Lai Qianxiu is now over forty, but she is still charming and radiant, while her husband looks like a sixty-year-old man. This difference in appearance also reveals the gap in the physiological needs of the two people. Obviously, Qu Chunyan could no longer satisfy his wife.
