Forever, beauty bone

Chapter 8 The story is in the city (1)
Her heart was quiet, and she could hear her heart beating slowly.

Zhou Shengchen smiled.

She suddenly heard the sound of shoes stepping on the wooden floor outside the door.There are not many private rooms on this floor, so the number of people entertained is also limited. After the whole meal, there are only two or three times when such footsteps are heard.

And this last time, Kankan stopped outside the door.

A hand pushed the door and came in, with a small face poking out, it was a boy: "Big brother." Zhou Shengchen looked a little surprised, the door was pushed open, not only a boy, but also two wearing cheongsam, A girl in a shawl.When he walked in, Shi Yi saw a girl with a slightly swollen lower abdomen, obviously pregnant.

She was amazed at the girl's age. Seeing that her girlish baby fat had not faded, she should be under 20 years old.

Unexpected visitors made the quiet private room lively.

"Why did you come out?" he asked them.

Several people looked at each other, and the little boy explained first: "We have no appetite because of the cold food festival. It's either cold dishes or cold dishes, so we made an appointment to have a tooth-beating festival."

They were all very polite, except for greeting each other, they didn't pay too much attention to her.It's just that when they saw the golden locks on her chest, they were a little surprised, but they quickly covered up their emotions.

Shi Yi sat next to Zhou Shengchen, and gave up his spacious seat to the pregnant woman.

In the brief introduction, try to remember their names, one is his cousin Zhou Wenfang, the pregnant one is his cousin's sister-in-law Tang Xiaofu, and the first boy is Zhou Shengren.

Unexpectedly, there was a boy named Zhou Sheng.According to Zhou Shengchen, he is the eldest grandson of the eldest son, then there will be no one else in this generation with the same surname as him.

Then why is this boy named Zhou Sheng?
The word "son" popped into her mind, and she quickly glanced at the two of them.It looked like he should be thirteen or fourteen years younger. Zhou Shengchen seemed to see what she was thinking, and said with some amusement, "He is my younger brother."

When he said it, the little boy was fine.

But the other two women were visibly quiet, and soon chatted about something else.

It sounds like that Tang Xiaofu is coming to Zhenjiang for the first time.

I am very unaccustomed to that old house, and I can't help complaining. I am always afraid of ghosts and ghosts when I sleep at night.Zhou Wenfang didn't take it seriously: "If I were you, I'd run away from that ghostly place just because I'm pregnant with the baby."

"I'm already pregnant with a baby, and I haven't worshiped my ancestors. If I don't live in the past, I'm afraid my elders will teach me a lesson."

Zhou Wenfang exhaled lightly: "Fortunately, it happens once every four years, otherwise if you live in that place all the time, you will really go crazy."

Zhou Shengchen listened for a while, then moved his gaze to the lake outside the window, as if watching the rain, but also as if in a trance.

Shi Yi glanced at him, guessing what he was thinking.

Suddenly, he turned his head and looked at her.

Looking at each other too directly, she couldn't hide in time, blinked her eyes, and smiled embarrassedly: "What are you thinking?"

"The test report they sent in the morning is not ideal," he replied casually, "I think their experimental method must be wrong." She groaned, and asked about something she didn't understand.

Shi Yi, you deserve your silence.

He smiled gently and continued: "So I think, end the things here as soon as possible and go back to Xi'an, otherwise I am afraid that all the previous work will be in vain."

She nodded, remembering how he looked in his lab coat.

Very clean and rigorous.

On the way home, she asked if the little boy was his brother?
Zhou Shengchen shook his head: "Strictly speaking, Xiao Ren is my cousin, my uncle's son."

"Then why is his surname Zhou Sheng?"

"My father passed away when I was five years old, and I was the only one left in Zhou Sheng," he said. "For Zhou Sheng's family business, my uncle inherited the surname Zhou Sheng. Therefore, his son Xiao Ren has the same surname as mine, but must Adopted to my mother."

She nodded.What a complicated relationship.

"After I got engaged, I became an adult. Both my uncle and Xiaoren will change their surnames."

What a complicated relationship.

Shi Yi followed his words and built such a family.

"Your mother, you are the only son?"

"There are also younger brothers and younger sisters, who are a pair of twins." His eyes suddenly softened. "It's a pity that they are both eccentric and never go home to worship their ancestors. You will see them when you have a chance in the future."

Zhou Shengchen sent her home, and when the two said goodbye at the door, she hesitated to speak, and wanted to ask him what he needed to do next.She didn't know how things would go after his mother's apparent disapproval.

The light is orange and has no temperature, but it makes people feel warm and harmonious.

She was reluctant to go back, and he didn't leave immediately.

The two of them, at this moment, really look like lovers who have been dating for a whole day and are reluctant to say goodbye.

He asked her: "When is your parents' plan to leave Zhenjiang?"

"Probably the day after tomorrow."

He pondered for a while: "I arrange the engagement ceremony in Shanghai a month later, will it make them uncomfortable?"

"Shanghai?" she blurted out, "Not Zhenjiang?"

After finishing speaking, I will regret it.

It seemed to be in a real hurry.

He laughed: "It's too late, and you also heard my cousin and brother-in-law say in the afternoon that they come only once every four years to worship the ancestors, so there's no need to be here."

She hummed.

Uneasy, he hesitated and asked him: "Is your mother's opinion really unimportant?"

"On this matter, there is only one woman whose opinion is worth adopting," he rarely joked, "and that is yourself."

Very comfortable way of answering, and the tone is very firm.

"I give this to you, it represents my position, and no one else has the right to interfere." He stretched out his hand, touched the pure gold collar on her chest with his fingers, and followed the slender arc, Hold the golden lock: "everyone with the surname Zhou Sheng will build this thing when they are born, and there will be jade inside, engraved with my birthday."

His hand is on his chest.

Shi Yi's two hands were behind him, and he was holding himself, even nervously exerting some force.He raised his head and wanted to speak, but suddenly fell into those dark eyes, which were still unfathomable even though the light reflected them.

She looks at him.

He also looked directly at her.

Then, I heard him say: "Before the engagement, this thing will be given to the fiancée. If you accept it, you have already made a name."

Her two hands were behind her, and they were already aching.

"Do I need to wear it every day..."

"No need," he couldn't help smiling, "just put it away."

After he finished speaking, he released the golden lock.

She breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, he had already seen her nervousness, and said with a smile: "Good night."

"Good night."

She turned and opened the door.

Looking back, he had already walked into the elevator room.The figure is tall and tall.

In the soft ding, he took a look here, nodded slightly, and walked into the elevator.

Later, her mother asked her, Shi Yi had mentioned the meeting with Zhou Shengchen's parents that day, but she remembered what he said, and asked her parents carefully if she would mind getting engaged in Shanghai a month later.

It was a very hasty decision, but fortunately, he impressed his parents well.

Not arrogant or superficial, polite and restrained.

Judging from these, he won the high marks of the elders.

In the early morning when they left Zhenjiang, Zhou Shengchen specially came to see them off, and made an appointment with Shi Yi to try on the dress in Shanghai, and handed it to his parents, a detailed introduction of the engagement place, and four other options.

When Shi Yi got into the car, he deliberately bent down and bowed his head to say goodbye to her in the car.

"When you get on the highway, you must wear your seat belt," he said.

She hurriedly pulled on the seat belt and buckled it up honestly.

On the way back, the mother sat beside her and flipped through the booklet, only to find that it was hand-painted, and the text was copied in regular lowercase letters. She couldn't help but sigh with her father: "This child really puts his heart into it."

"It's more than hard work," the father laughed. "This kid is really well behaved, without the slightest impetuous arrogance, like a scientific researcher."

The corner of the mother's mouth was smiling, looking at Shi Yi: "Do you feel bored when you are together?"

Shi Yi thought for a while: "No."

"No?" Mother found it interesting, "Three calls on time every day. Seven o'clock in the morning, eleven o'clock in the morning, and 10:30 in the evening, each call will not exceed 3 minutes, will it be too rigid?"

"Nope."

That's great, every time it's almost time, she will avoid everything and wait for his call.

The content of the conversation is also very simple.

She never thought that she could contact him so regularly.

There will be no discomfort, and even enjoyment.

Zhou Shengchen really, as he said, regarded the relationship between two people as a research direction, and patiently carried out every necessary step.No matter how busy you are, you have to make three phone calls every day.Every morning, people will definitely send different kinds of flowers.

Others are in Zhenjiang, but it seems like they are in Shanghai.

Because she knows her special working hours, whenever she stays late at night in the recording studio, she will have a midnight snack delivered at eleven o'clock on time.And always very carefully, prepared a copy for everyone in the workplace.

In the end, even the sound engineer who had worked with Shi Yi for five or six years became curious. While eating a hot supper, he asked Shi Yi if he had a boyfriend?Still a suitor.

After Shi Yi said that he was her boyfriend, he stopped explaining further.

One night, the manager Mei Lin came to inspect the work, and also ran into the Love brand snack. He was quite surprised to see the happy smile in Shi Yi's eyes, and felt that he and this little girl seemed to be separated from each other.I haven't seen each other in just over ten days, how come she has a 24-year-old boyfriend who never shows up?
Mei Lin has a short temper, and under all kinds of coercion and temptation, Shi Yi finally said that he is a chemistry professor.

"Scientist?" Mei Lin was overturned, "Would you like a scientist who spends all day in the laboratory?"

She smiled and held Hong Kong-style black tea in her hand: "IQ is high, I like people with high IQ."

Mei Lin shook her head and smiled incredulously.

She said softly, "And, we're getting engaged right away."

Meilin was stunned for five or six seconds, patted her wrist, and exhaled long, "Fortunately, it's an engagement, otherwise, I would have been scared to death. Engagement is something that rich men often play with." Don't take it too seriously."

Shi Yi ignored her teasing, but asked her seriously: "What do you think is the best gift for a person if he has everything? I'm talking about an engagement gift."

"Nothing missing?" Mei Lin immediately grasped the point.

"He doesn't seem very interested in anything." Shi Yi deliberately avoided sensitive topics.

"A professor of chemistry, who is not interested in anything..." Mei Lin was helpless, "I know nothing about chemistry, and your boyfriend is no different from an alien to me."

"Forget it, I won't ask you."

"Okay, I won't ask you anymore. Anyway, you are not an entertainer who shows your face. I am not afraid that you will be secretly photographed by the paparazzi." Mei Lin smiled, "I have good news for you, you have won an award..."

She looked at her watch, and he was about to call in one minute.

As long as it is a weekday, he will call at 11:30 for the call at night.

"Let me make a call." She interrupted Meilin, pushed her out of the balcony, closed the glass door, and took out her mobile phone.

He specially allocated a mobile phone for her, and there was only her name in the phone book.

Come to think of it, isn't it extremely romantic.

Below the terrace of the studio is a pedestrian street.At the turn of spring and summer, the sycamore trees have begun to grow lush and green, with large canopies of green leaves, and a fresh smell permeates the air.

Time jumps from 11:29 to 11:30.

Suddenly there was a caller ID, and the word Zhou Shengchen flashed, which was particularly eye-catching in the dark night.

His voice is very steady.

Ask her when she started working, when she needs to finish work, and whether the midnight snack suits her appetite.Shi Yi answered one by one, and the two of them suddenly fell silent. She couldn't help but smile and asked him: "Do you ask me these questions every day?"

Zhou Shengchen also laughed, but was short of words for a while.

"Listening to your voice, it seems very tired? Or sick?"

"I got a little cold last night."

"get medicine?"

"not yet."

"Let's not talk about it," she felt distressed, "Go and take the medicine."

"Now?"

"Yes."

"There is no medicine at hand."

She complained a little: "Is there no medicine at home?"

She really wanted to say, my young master, you don't even know the reason why you need to take medicine when you are sick, do you?
Suddenly, a fire truck drove by in the distance, Shi Yi subconsciously looked up.But it was discovered that on the other end of the phone, there was also the same voice from strong to weak, until it was completely silent.She seemed to have guessed something, and immediately looked around downstairs. Through the gaps in the branches and leaves of the sycamore tree, she saw a car at the corner of the street, and a person was standing beside the car.

Ten floors, too high.There are too many obstacles to see clearly.

"Are you downstairs?"

Zhou Shengchen hummed, with a slight nasal sound.

She felt touched for a while, and amused for a while.

This person suddenly appeared, which could have been regarded as a very romantic thing, but was inexplicably exposed by the fire truck.Then?He admitted it very calmly, and there was no extra word.She didn't dare to keep him waiting any longer, and only listened to his nasal voice, as if a cold had become a serious problem, she quickly hung up the phone, returned to the studio and quickly explained the work, picked up her bag and ran to the elevator .Fortunately, the recording has been finished and the final mixing is in progress, otherwise her reputation of being serious and responsible will definitely be ruined.

However, it still surprised the manager and sound engineer.

Seeing her blushing, anxious and unwilling to say a word, if she didn't know, she thought her house was on fire.

The moment the elevator closed, Meilin finally remembered that she hadn't told her about being shortlisted for the award.

What made Mei Lin dumbfounded the most was that this girl really didn't care at all.

The elevator landed quickly, and she was still breathing lightly because of the fast running just now.

The speed of the descent was too fast, which made my heart feel a little uncomfortable.

I don't know if it's because of nervousness or weightlessness.

Just as the elevator door opened, she stepped out and almost hit a person.With both hands, he supported her steadily: "Don't run away, I'm right here." Appearing too suddenly, Shi Yi was a little silly, looking at Zhou Shengchen who was so close.

He explained his sudden appearance: "I guess you will run down. I am afraid that you will be too anxious to cross the road, so I will come over to pick you up first."

She was still panting.

21 days, 21 days without seeing each other.

During this period, she tried many sets of dresses and jewelry that he sent home, received flowers from him, and her parents also received some gifts from time to time, but she couldn't see him.

I also asked tentatively, and his answer was, I don't want to lie to you, so don't ask about what I've been doing recently.

The tone was very serious, she thought, he must have something very important.

For Shi Yi, the name Zhou Shengchen was always the most trustworthy.

"Are you leaving tonight?" She blurted out.

The corner of Zhou Shengchen's mouth moved slightly, as if he was smiling: "Where are you going?"

"I mean," she thought for a while, "are you staying in Shanghai tonight?"

He nods.

She couldn't hide her good mood.

"Send you home first."

She nodded: "Yes."

He let her go and walked out beside her.

When Shi Yi was about to get in the car just now, his phone vibrated desperately. It was Mei Lin, who deliberately lowered her voice as if she had done something wrong, and said, "I saw you, and your chemistry professor. But the tenth floor is too Taller, no matter how you look at it, you can only see that he is much taller than you——" Shi Yi hummed twice: "Good night."

The line was picked up quickly.

Zhou Shengchen opened one side of the car door for her: "It's so late, and you still have work?"

She smiled: "No," she sat in and called out to the person in the front row who was smiling kindly, "Uncle Lin."

"Hello, Miss Shi Yi."

After meeting his driver a few times, she finally knew that this well-dressed and meticulous middle-aged man was also surnamed Zhou.Zhou Shengchen briefly explained that some of the senior housekeepers in the family were all surnamed Zhou, and they were more or less distant relatives.But in order to distinguish it from the direct line, it is always called the last word of the name.

The more she knew, the more she lamented the traditions of his family.

The Zhongding family is also a scholarly family.

It is hard to imagine that a child raised in this way would dedicate himself to modern scientific research.When Shi Yi thought about what he said, the pair of twin brothers and sisters was also a little curious.What will it be like?
After more than [-] days, May is about to enter, and the nights in the city are no longer cold, and the weather is very comfortable.

He opened the car window for her, she shook her head, and closed the windows again.

(End of this chapter)