Zhou Jingchen stood at the stairs with a towel around his neck, sweat on his forehead and damp shirt.
"Aren't you asleep?" He took the initiative first.
Mrs. Zhou stopped, "What did you do? Your head is sweating."
"Running." Zhou Jingchen calmly wiped his neck and chest.
He is fair-skinned, and after intense exercise, his skin turns red, the red of lust and male hormones.
Mrs. Zhou smelled something wrong.
But she didn't catch the current situation, and Zhou Huaikang didn't believe her and said she was mentally allergic, so she suppressed her suspicion for the time being.
"Where's Xi'er?"
"I didn't see her after the Geng family left." Zhou Jingchen straightened his back and entered his room.
Mrs. Zhou thought for a moment and then returned to the house.
Zhou Huaikang was wearing reading glasses and leaning on the bedside to review the city's regulations, which were about urban infrastructure construction. The top leaders of each department summarized and reported to him.
"Xi'er and Geng Shiqing are engaged, and Jingchen and Jingjing are also engaged."
Zhou Huaikang lifted the top of the lens and glanced at her, "Are you in such a hurry?"
"There's no hurry." Mrs. Zhou hesitated, "I think there's something fishy between them."
"What Jingchen told me personally is the love between brother and sister." Zhou Huaikang had no choice but to take off his glasses and rub his temples, "But Jingjing is about to turn thirty, so it's really time to make a reservation, get married, prepare for pregnancy, raise children, have a second child, or a third child. ..”
"The baby has not yet been born. You have thought far enough." Mrs. Zhou lifted the quilt and got into bed. "You make the decision and urge Jing Chen to get engaged. I will feel at ease now that he and Xi'er have their own masters."
The next morning, as soon as Cheng Xi entered the restaurant, Mrs. Zhou looked at her intently, "Were you feeling unwell last night?"
She pulled up a chair and sat down, "It's a bit..."
Chest pain.
There is a deep tooth mark on the raised area.
On the night of the school anniversary and Zhou Jingchen’s first time, she bit Zhou Jingchen’s chin.
Maybe he was holding a grudge and bit her again this time.
The level of ferocity is on par with hers.
Last night, as soon as Aunt He left after delivering the ginger-date tea, Zhou Jingchen pinched her waist, hurriedly sped up, and hurriedly pulled away.
He pulled up his pants and turned away without saying a word of tenderness or comfort.
Cheng Xi couldn't help but panic.
Looking at Mrs. Zhou's posture now, she almost "caught someone in bed".
Zhou Jingchen is worthy of being an "adulterer" and is very vigilant.
"You didn't eat much for dinner, are you feeling sick to your stomach?" Although Mrs. Zhou suspected that she was hooking up with Zhou Jingchen and guarded her closely, she still really cared about her.
"It's a low fever. I covered it up all night and started sweating. I don't feel uncomfortable anymore."
Mrs. Zhou looked at Zhou Jingchen again, "Have you made any plans for Xi'er's dowry?"
He drank a spoonful of chicken soup, which tasted salty, and frowned, "Do you have an upper limit?"
"Eight million for Qian'er." Mrs. Zhou also scooped up a bowl of soup, "If it's too much, the Hua family won't be able to give the gift. Marrying Jingjing will be at least five times as much as marrying Xi'er. The Hua family has a prominent family, and the engagement The ceremony, gold and jewelry must be of high quality. If Xi'er's dowry is too small, the Geng family's betrothal gift will not be less than 20 million, and the Zhou family will be disgraced."
Cheng Xi said nothing and ate braised tofu pudding.
"Thirty-eight gold for a car." Zhou Jingchen said decisively, "I'll pay for it."
Others get married with three golds, five golds, or twelve golds.
He chose thirty-eight gold.
It will cost at least several million.
It was beyond Mrs. Zhou's budget.
Cheng Xi glanced at Zhou Jingchen quietly from the corner of his eye. He was truly generous to her.
Off the bed, he acts like a brother; in bed, he acts like a madman.
...
Sunday was Joel's company annual meeting, which was not held before the Spring Festival. Half of the employees' year-end bonuses were not paid, so a make-up meeting was held.
Cheng Xi joined the company after the Spring Festival and did not receive a year-end bonus. The boss, thinking of Ye Bonan's face, specially gave him a red envelope.
1888 yuan.
In the little girl’s envelope was a single photo of the boss, wearing mountaineering clothes and grinning happily on the top of the mountain.
She curled her lips and tore it apart, "A face full of wrinkles, does it ward off evil spirits?"
"Don't tear it apart!" Cheng Xi stopped him too late, but the little girl's hands were quick and the pieces were piled on the table.
"You want it?" The little girl's eyes widened, "You have a crush on this old man?"
The despised boss came on stage with a smile, holding the microphone in one hand and pointing to the audience with the other hand, "Which lucky person has my photo in his hands? Come up and redeem it for a BMW 3."
The little girl was stunned.
I regret so much that my intestines are blue.
Cheng Xi didn't eat and helped her put together the photo. After the annual meeting, only one-third of the photo was put together.
The boss was reasonable and gave her the car.
On the way to the bathroom, the little girl was delighted, "Joel is rich, and Ye Bonan invested 70 million! What a concept, the leader in the field of small and medium-sized enterprises is said to be preparing to go public."
Cheng Xi looked in the mirror and touched up her lipstick.
She wore a printed dress, with white and orange sunset colors, gradually changing from light to dark, in a gentle and casual style.
But the makeup was too heavy, the slightly shimmery party makeup, the perm and the big waves, the style of a mature woman, making her look a few years older.
It was the makeup artist hired by Sister Lan, who used assembly-line makeup. The dress Cheng Xi was assigned was even a gold floor-length dress. That style was too fat at the waist and did not fit, but this one was for a little girl. The little girl got fat, and later I was nervous, so I switched.
"I went to KTV to sing in the afternoon. Sister Lan said you wouldn't go?"
Cheng Xi screwed up the lipstick cap and said, "I have something to do."
Coming out of the bathroom, Cheng Xi and the little girl parted ways. She had two trips today, one was the company's annual meeting, and the other was a task given to her by Aunt Zhou to attend the wedding of a young master from a wealthy family.
Geng Shiqing will also be present.
This is the first time that the Zhou and Geng families have come together on a grand occasion to reveal Cheng Xi's identity as "the Geng family's prospective daughter-in-law."
The banquet venue is on the 33rd floor of this hotel.
top layer.
Floors 6 to 32 are guest rooms, housing hundreds of guests.
There are three passenger elevators, one for the guests of the bride’s family, one for the guests of the groom’s family, and one for other guests of the hotel.
The Zhou family were guests of the groom's family. Cheng Xi took the No. 2 elevator. When the door opened, Ye Bonan happened to be inside.
The man’s family also invited the Ye family.
A naked wheat-colored arm held his left arm. The woman was nearly forty years old, with graceful curves and an aggressive beauty.
His appearance is not that of white and thin, but he has a kind of generous self-confidence that faces the traces of time, and the charm of his gestures is more like that of a younger brother.
Ye Bonan's age coincides with the relationship between brother and sister.
Nine times out of ten, it is the person in charge that colleagues are talking about privately.
called nancy.
Nancy.
The meaning is elegance.
The name is true to the person.
After all, they had gone on a blind date, and Ye Bonan had a real female companion by his side. Cheng Xi was very sensible and didn't say hello, pretending not to know her and huddled in a corner of the elevator.
