Chapter 209 Thousands of miles of rivers and mountains 13

[209] Ten thousand miles of rivers and mountains to open up a new face (13)

It's getting late, and the sea is shining on the shore of Qingdao. The pearl community is covered with lush trees and shadows. Principal Zhou's family, who lives here with the Yao family, is having dinner. Li Hongmei's colleague and principal's wife Xue Liwa said at the dinner table, "Li Hongmei invites us to her house tomorrow. Are you free? ?"

Zhou Xixun, president of Qingdao University, obviously just came home from work. He sat in a dining chair before changing his tie, shirt and suit trousers. He held a bowl and chopsticks in his hand and said, "Why does she remember inviting us to dinner again? Didn't we just go to eat the last housewarming? I won't go tomorrow.

The school has now set up a science and technology research and development center, and tomorrow invited Academician Chen of the Academy of Engineering to come to our school to guide the work. How can I have this leisure to run around?

Xue Liwa held her slender fingers and carefully filled a bowl of spareribs and asparagus soup in front of Zhou Xichen.

"Wasn't it quite speculative when you talked to his Yao Peng last time?"

"Well, Yao Peng has a wide range of interests and is involved in miscellaneous things. He probably worked in the archives before. He knows a lot of anecdotes. He also has many old photos of the Qing Dynasty that I have never seen before. The quality of the photos is really good, which is better than the photos before the founding of the archives of our school. I don't know where he got it from. . This person is really interesting, but I do have something to do tomorrow. I can't compare with his retirement and what he wants to do.

Xue Liwa took a sip of soup and turned to her daughter and said, "Really, you go with your mother. Aunt Li said that she wanted to see you very much. Her son also came back from a business trip. See you tomorrow."

Zhou Hanzhen is 24 years old this year. She looks as romantic and charming as her mother when she was young. Her face is soft and charming, with a little pride and coldness. Not long after she graduated from the Julia Conservatory of Music in New York, she has a master's degree in music, majoring in piano. After returning to China, she wanted to travel around, but she was forced by her parents to stay in Qingdao and become an honorable university music teacher.

"I'm not going, Mom, you can go by yourself. In August, I had a midsummer night dream piano recital in the school concert hall. Professor Tang of the Central Conservatory of Music will also come. If Professor Tang is satisfied, I will go to Beijing! I don't have enough time to practice the piano now.

"How much time can it take to have a meal? After dinner, you said you would go to school to practice the piano. Who can keep you?" Xue Liwa advised.

Zhou Xixun said to his daughter with a straight face, "What are you doing in Beijing? Isn't it good to be relaxed in college? Your mother and I have talked to your dean and the dean of the department, and I will give you an associate professor at the end of the year. Don't be insatiable!"

Zhou Hanzhen heard his father's words and lowered his head without saying anything.

After saying that, Zhou Xixun turned his face to Xue Liwa again: "I can see what Li Hongmei means. She wants to introduce her son to Zhenzhen, right? Last meal, she said what her son's education was?

Xue Liwa put a piece of mackerel meat in Zhou Xixun's bowl: "You said it when you had dinner at her house last time. Don't you remember? His son is a bachelor of Ocean University and studied industrial automation. He used to work as an engineer in Qingdao Iron and Steel Group, but now he has resigned and started his own company. I heard that the young man is very capable. The largest 780-square-meter villa in our community newly bought by Li Hongmei is the money earned by her son from starting a company. Didn't you see it last time? Six bedrooms, six living rooms and four bathrooms, with garage and large garden, more than 37 million! Can you afford to be a principal for the rest of your life? They paid in one lump-sum and don't need a loan.

Zhou Xixun said after a moment of silence, "What kind of business makes so much money? Industrial automation is not a gold mine. The more I listen to it, the less reassuring I feel. You can ask later.

When Xue Liwa heard her husband say this, she knew that she felt that the other party would be qualified to pursue his daughter and smiled:

"I must ask clearly, and I didn't say anything to Li Hongmei. Our family is really popular. Aunt Wang really liked it when she saw it at the Youth Federation symposium last time. She also said that the two families would have dinner together sometime.

"Wang Guiyu? ..." Zhou Xixun slowly turned his eyes to Xue Liwa: "I heard that the boy in Secretary Wan's family is good, and now he is the deputy section chief of the Urban Planning Bureau."

Xue Liwa narrowed her eyes and said, "Isn't Secretary Wan's child just a college undergraduate?"

Zhou Xixun said with a straight face, "With Secretary Wan in Qingdao, don't worry about the child's future. Well, you can also deal with Li Hongmei and give people some face.

"Then I won't ask him the details of Yao Fan?"

"By the way, if you see a good one in the future, introduce one to her son. The young man can start his own company and make a lot of money at a young age, which is also very promising."

Zhou Hanzhen was eating beside him, which made me feel very uncomfortable. When she just graduated from school, she did not think about marriage at all. She just wanted to do a vigorous career and present the Western music and drama she learned on the domestic stage. Now her parents are already provoking her son-in-law like picking cabbage.

"I've eaten well."

She put the bowls and chopsticks on the table, got up and went upstairs.

Zhou Hanzhen made up his mind to leave after dinner tomorrow and never say a word to the other party. The most important thing at the time is to prepare for the solo concert in August.

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Because it is difficult for Yao Fan to get home, the family must go to a nearby high-end hotel to "replenish nutrition" for Yao Fan every day. When they get home after dinner, Li Hongmei leaned against the bedside in the bedroom and said to Yao Peng, "I have ordered the dishes for tomorrow night. The chef of Haiyue Building will come home with the dishes tomorrow."

Yao Peng is a little disapproving of Li Hongmei's Gaopan: "The eight characters haven't been skimmed yet. What are you doing so formally?"

"What do you know? Only when you are formal can you make people feel that we attach importance to it."

"How do you know that Fan Fan likes Zhou's daughter?"

"I don't know what kind of meat he likes in my intestines?"

"Last time I had dinner, I saw Zhou Xixun, an official fascination and two decent eyes. I'm afraid I don't like my family's Fanfan easily.

Hearing this, Li Hongmei was anxious: "Why do you look down on it? Talk nonsense! My family is not as good as ever. With so much money, can we still treat his daughter badly? Yao Peng, you are really a person. Didn't you talk to Zhou Xixun last time? How do you know that he doesn't like Fan Fan?"

"This person's career is smooth, and his daughter is outstanding. There must be no shortage of people who pursue him outside. I remember hearing you say that his Xue Liwa is not a fuel-efficient lamp. She attends banquets and dances for a while. She has a good-looking family in Qingdao. How can such a person have a low vision? Li Hongmei, she is different from a professor like you. She is Mrs. Guan, do you understand?

"Okay, okay, don't talk too much. Even if Fan Fan and her daughter can't make it, I'll ask Xue Liwa to introduce it to Fan Fan, and she will be embarrassed not to help, isn't she?"

"What you said also makes sense."

"What will you drink tomorrow night?"

"Didn't Xue Liwa send two bottles of dry red last time?"

"That wine is average. I asked Lao Wang of our school in the activity room of retired employees. He said that the wine is the hospitality wine ordered by our school, more than 200 bottles."

"How can't more than 200?"

"Yao Peng, you are really annoying. Can you handle your son's affairs and more than 200 wine? Besides, after dinner tomorrow, we should give their family some gifts, even if it's the gift from her family last time.

"Then it's up to you."

"Hey!!! You man! It doesn't help at all! Then I'll buy it myself tomorrow!"

Yao Fan soaked in the warehouse area for a day the next day, checked the goods, checked the installation manual, and checked the installation materials and equipment. It was already 4 p.m.

Not long after driving home, the doorbell rang. Yao Fan was in the living room. Looking through the transparent glass curtain wall of the living room, he saw a middle-aged beautiful woman with a beautiful figure and a graceful and beautiful girl outside the door.

Yao Fan was afraid that they would wait for a long time, so he didn't wait for Li Hongmei, who was busy in the kitchen, and ran out to open the door by himself.

"How are you, Aunt Xue!"

"Long time no see, Yao Fan! You don't come to our school's piano room now. Why do you meet your aunt?

"Thank you for your concern. I'm busy with work now and haven't touched the piano for a long time. Is this Zhou Hanzhen? I'm Yao Fan. Hello." Yao Fan generously stretched out his hand to shake hands with Zhou Hanzhen.

Zhou Hanzhen smiled gently and did not shake hands with Yao Fan.

She doesn't seem to have much feelings about Yao Van Gogh's handsome appearance. During this period of military career in 1876, Yao Fan looked thin and rough in the sun and wind. He did not change into any beautiful clothes as Li Hongmei told him. He still wore jeans and blue and white grille shirts when he went to the warehouse during the day. Because he checked everywhere in the warehouse area, his jeans were still stained with some oil, and his shirt also had two conspicuous oil stains.

Yao Fan didn't mind. He took the opportunity to withdraw his hand and invited the two into the door with a smile.

Li Hongmei heard the sound and knew that the Zhou family was coming and hurried out of the kitchen.

"Xiao Xue, you're here. Sit down quickly. Didn't your Lao Zhou come?"

"He still has something to do. The scientific research center wants to receive an academician. He can't come and ask me to apologize to you."

Li Hongmei hurriedly said, "Where is it? Work is important, work is important."

Xue Liwa apologized and said, "I'm really sorry. Lao Zhou has never seen your Yao Fan, but this time he missed it again."

Li Hongmei smiled and said, "Everyone lives in a community now. There will be plenty of opportunities in the future. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter."

After saying that, Li Hongmei said to Zhou Hanzhen, "Really, you are here. After you left last time, my aunt missed you. Today's dress is so beautiful. It's really beautiful with you."

With that, Li Hongmei pointed to Yao Fan and said, "Look, this is your brother Yao Fan. You have practiced the piano in a piano room before."

Zhou Hanzhen said politely and perfunctorily, "I forgot. I'm so sorry."

In fact, she remembers clearly that there was such a person who cried and howled in the piano room next door and sang by himself, "Sister, you boldly go forward..." He was rough and extremely annoying. He was probably not satisfied with the piano accompaniment. The boy later borrowed Hu Qin and pulled himself to sing, which was simply unbearable. . When she asked later, she found out that the other party, like her, was the child of the teacher of the school.

Li Hongmei was a little embarrassed to hear the words and didn't know what to say.

Yao Fan opened his mouth and said, "Over the years, I have often remembered your voice and smile, and I feel as if you are still alive."

Li Hongmei was very dissatisfied when she heard the words. When she saw Yao Fan dressed like a workshop worker, she was angry and quickly said, "Really, don't listen to Yao Fan. He is actually very clever, but he can't speak well."