After leaving "Hengdeli" Trading Company, Shu Guan was quite satisfied with the shopping trip. He first went to the fourth floor and called Zhang Yadan who was drinking coffee in a very serious and focused manner.
When Zhang Yadan saw Shu Guan coming back, he quickly drank the remaining coffee in the cup, then stood up and walked over.
“How good is the coffee?”
When walking out of the coffee shop, Shu Guan asked with a smile.
"so bitter……"
Zhang Yadan stuck out her tongue.
"Then you still drink so seriously."
"You spent so much money, of course you have to drink it all."
Zhang Yadan said matter-of-factly, she just saw how much Shu Guan paid. That small cup of coffee was more than a day's wages for many people in the village.
As for frugality, it is an instinct engraved in the blood of every Taoyuan villager.
Although Taoyuan Village in the valley has good weather most of the time, it only has such a small area, and the food grown is barely enough to eat, and it has to be supplemented by hunting and fishing. Once it encounters a severe drought like that In such a disaster, they don't have enough food to survive for a long time.
Therefore, people in Taoyuan Village have a natural reverence for food and will never waste anything edible.
"...But actually, it tastes pretty good after drinking it."
Today, Shuguan bought her a pen, cream, and drank coffee that she had missed for a long time, which made her very happy. The only regret was that Shuguan did not drink coffee with her just now.
Shu Guan laughed.
Zhang Yadan is indeed different from other people in Taoyuan Village. Shu Guan has always known that apart from those children, in the entire Taoyuan Village, Zhang Yadan will be the only one who can truly understand the outside world and will learn how to do it. Everything in the outside world.
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That's why he didn't let Zhang Yadan go to work in the textile factory, but let her study hard in the village.
"After drinking it last time, I still want to drink it again."
Then Zhang Yadan said this again.
Shu Guan was startled for a moment.
"Have you had coffee before?"
Shu Guan asked doubtfully. You must know that in the past year, except for herself, Zhang Yadan has never left Xintaoyuan Village except for studying. Even if she had gone out, she would not have spent so much money to go there. Coffee drinker.
Could it be that the dead teacher Li Kexin took her to drink.
Just as Shu Guan was guessing, Zhang Yadan continued:
"Yes, Sister Xu who came to our valley last time invited me to drink the coffee she brewed by the stream. I think the coffee here is better brewed by Sister Xu."
Zhang Yadan's voice gradually became a little ethereal, as if it was coming from a far away place.
Shu Guan was stunned for a moment, not because he was attacked by another spirit, but because Zhang Yadan's words brought back a memory that seemed to have been buried for a long time.
It took Shu Guan a while to realize who the "Sister Xu" Zhang Yadan was talking about.
Xu Chuxiang, the woman who changed his destiny in this life and gave him the opportunity to finally leave Taoyuan Village!
If it hadn't been for Xu Chuxiang's arrival, he might have been trapped in that valley for the rest of his life.
As for the arrival of Xu Chuxiang, some disasters occurred in Taoyuan Village, but that was not Xu Chuxiang's fault.
And if it weren't for Xu Chuxiang, he might have married Zhang Yadan by now, and he should even have a baby in his arms.
That might be a good life too.
But it will never be as wonderful a life as it is now.
When Xu Chuxiang left in the helicopter, she said that she and he would be back soon, but in the end she did not come back.
But Shu Guan never blamed the woman.
Maybe she encountered something unexpected later.
Even if she didn't dare to come back just because she was timid, it was just human nature. She was not from Taoyuan Village and had no obligation to come back.
Because of Zhang Yadan's words, countless memories and thoughts flashed through Shuguan's mind.
Those things actually only happened more than a year ago, but Shu Guan felt like they happened a lifetime ago.
"Brother Mazi, do you think we should go find Sister Xu? Now that we have come out of the valley, maybe she will still treat us as friends if she knows about it... I remember she said that her father is the biggest person here. The officer seems to be some kind of military governor."
Zhang Yadan said with some enthusiasm.
...I don’t know if she will consider us friends, but her father really wants to be friends with me...
Shu Guan muttered in his heart.
Then he smiled and shook his head and said:
"She is the governor's daughter. How can we have the chance to meet her?"
Shu Guan thought about it just now. Although Xu Chuxiang had a wonderful fate with him and Taoyuan Village, there seemed to be no need to go out to find each other.
In fact, Shu Guan had always kept a certain distance from Xu Pingxi, and did not want to get too close to the Chu Xiang Governor-General and have too many unclear relationships.
Although he knew very well that as long as he was willing to make demands to Xu Pingxi, the villagers of Taoyuan Village could immediately live a good life in Jingcheng.
But the problem now is that the city is in troubled times where the king's flag changes!
Xu Pingxi's protection today may be the source of future disasters. Once Xu Pingxi loses power, the Taoyuan villagers may also be implicated by him.
And limited to the rules of heaven, there is nothing you can do if you want to intervene.
So Shu Guan would rather keep a certain distance from Xu Pingxi.
While talking to Zhang Yadan, the two of them walked to the escalator.
But he saw a large group of people rushing up under the escalator.
The leader was the lady from the watch firm just now.
She was accompanied by a middle-aged man with a big belly in a suit and a group of burly men who looked like department store security guards.
"That's him. He just hit a foreigner and took my watch."
After seeing Shu Guan, the lady immediately pointed at Shu Guan and shouted with great anger.
"Cousin, you are the general manager here, let someone arrest him quickly."
The middle-aged fat man, who was originally aggressive and wanted to vent his anger on his cousin, took one look at the young man his cousin had pointed out and dared to cause trouble in his department store, and his face suddenly turned pale with fear.
"After catching him, don't send him to the patrol station immediately. Repair him first and then..."
And the lady next to him was still chattering.
The middle-aged man, with agility that was almost unsuitable for his size, turned around and raised his hand to cover his cousin's mouth.
"If you don't want your cousin-in-law to be killed by you, just shut up!"
The middle-aged man growled in his cousin's ear like teeth.
His cousin-in-law, the husband of this noble lady, is the commander of the Jingcheng garrison, and is also a general that Xu Pingxi, the governor of Chuxiang, relies on more.
But the problem is that the young man opposite is a person who even the commander-in-chief Xu Pingxi wants to be his driver and wants to make friends with. The problem is that this young man doesn't seem to be willing to make friends with Xu Pingxi.
The middle-aged fat man recalled what he saw when Xu Pingxi stopped his car that morning by the river, and felt his legs trembling.
"How much did he spend on that watch just now?"
Then the middle-aged fat man asked eagerly.
"...Five thousand silver dollars."
The lady didn't know what happened, she looked at the middle-aged fat man blankly and said.
"Take out all the money you have."
"Square, what happened? Who is that person?"
"Don't worry about it, just take out all the money. You just need to know that if a young man says a word to the commander this year, my cousin-in-law will definitely lose his official position."
The noble lady's face turned pale with fright.
Can your husband lose his official position with just one sentence?
What is the origin of this young man? I was in the business just now, but I offended people to death!
The noble lady trembled and took out all the banknotes from her bag. There was a thick pile of tens of thousands of silver dollars.
The middle-aged fat man snatched the banknote from her hand, then ran all the way to Shu Guan. Without saying a word, he bowed at a 90-degree angle.
"This gentleman, the villain Wang Pingping, is the general manager of Dafu Department Store. I had the honor to meet you and Marshal Xu by the river last time."
Shu Guan groaned and looked at the fat middle-aged man carefully. He actually had some impressions, mainly because Xu Pingxi was assassinated not long ago.
The middle-aged fat man Wang Pingping carefully handed over the stack of banknotes in his hand.
"Sir, that watch...that watch was a gift from my cousin to you. Sir, you'd better take back the money!"
"No need."
Shu Guandan said calmly.
The watch is a gift he wants to give to Rong Miao, so naturally he has to spend his own money to buy it, otherwise the taste will be wrong.
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A few minutes later, Shu Guan and Zhang Yadan walked out of the department store's glass door, accompanied respectfully by the general manager of the department store.
On the street outside the gate, the four tigers of the Wang family who had already bought things were waiting for them.
Shu Guan no longer paid attention to Wang Fangping, who kept bending and bowing to see them off, and strode up to the four tigers of the Wang family with Zhang Yadan.
"How long have you been waiting? Let's go back!"
Shu Guan said with a smile.
But then, he found that Wang Dahu looked a little strange, looking straight at the end of the street in the distance as if he didn't hear his words.
Shu Guan glanced over there and saw a white car just turning the intersection of the street. Otherwise, there was nothing strange there.
"Dahu, did something happen just now?"
Shu Guan frowned and asked.
"...Just now...I met an acquaintance just now."
Wang Dahua came back to his senses and said quickly, but the expression on his face was still a little dazed, as if he couldn't believe anything.
"Acquaintance? Who?"
"It's the lady named Xu who came to our valley last time. She just asked for our current address and said she would come to see us tomorrow."
