Chapter 23 2. The quiet and elegant Jiaming

Three years later, Qi Huihui owned a small shop in the business district, specializing in selling bee products from China. Speaking of this, we have to go back to when she was just discharged from the hospital.She got her degree and was supposed to find a job. She was preparing her resume, and when she was applying everywhere, Xiaoduo came back to Lyon from Paris.She was not alone, after a long circle, the man who registered to marry her turned out to be the southerner Xiao Pei who disappeared without a word. All riddles have a time limit, once the time passes, the mystery will be revealed.

Xiao Pei, who resold Chinese cigarettes for his boss back then, stored the cigarettes in the rented house of Xiaoduo and Huihui. The police got a tip from the landlord's old lady. When they came to search the next morning, he was standing across the street. He planned to come over to get all the cigarettes away, but he was one step away, otherwise he would be caught by the police.He panicked at the time and couldn't care about anything. His first thought was to run as far as he could, and fled all the way to Paris. Who knew that everything was calm afterwards, because Xiaoduo and Huihui didn't say anything. .He also had to find a way out, wanted to make some money, and wanted to stay in France as much as possible, so Xiao Pei signed up as a mercenary.When he was about to be sent to Africa with a group of desperate, stinky blacks and exiles, Xiao Duo, who got the news of him, actually killed him all the way.

When the two met, Xiaoduo slapped him right away. "You hurt me?" He said: "Yes, I harmed you, I shouldn't have put those things in your place." He didn't have anything, so he took out all the dollars from his coat pocket and stuffed them into Xiaoduo's hands: "You keep this." Xiaoduo cried at the time: "I, I came all the way to Paris, just for this, right? I'm greedy for your little money, right?" Xiao Pei also cried: "Don't tell others about me being a mercenary, I'm afraid they will tell my mother." The two children hugged each other and cried, and Xiao Pei went to Africa the next day.

When Huihui was in Danny Hagrid's golden house and Gentle Township, Xiaoduo was working and studying in Paris, and Xiao Pei was always on guard against the guerrillas who came to attack in the French barracks in Africa.When Hui Hui finally broke up with Danny Hagrid, Xiao Pei returned to Paris after three years of military service and married Xiao Doo, who had been waiting for him, at the embassy. Xiao Pei, who had been a mercenary, got his permanent residence in France and made some money. The two planned to open a restaurant.The competition for Chinese restaurants in Paris was fierce, and the two of them returned to Lyon to open a shop.

The two couples have their own gratitude to Huihui.What Xiaoduo can't forget is that after Xiao Pei left, she ran into walls everywhere in Paris, planning to withdraw all the money in the bank card, and then buy a plane ticket back to Beijing, only to find that there was still 20,000 euros given to her by Huihui in it. ;Xiao Pei couldn't forget a sentence relayed by Xiao Duo, Huihui said: "It can't be his. How could it be him? He is your boyfriend." At that time, a domestic bee product manufacturer was looking for their agent in the south of France in Lyon.Huihui's own money was not enough to serve as a deposit, so Xiaoduo and his wife collected a lot for her, and won the exclusive agency right of that product.

The business was not very good at the beginning. Although the royal jelly produced in China is only one-tenth of the price of French royal jelly, the profit margin is huge, but the French naturally have little confidence in imported food. But only two months later, Huihui's good luck came.First, the beehive disinfectant used nationwide in France was found to have major chemical residue problems, and all bee products produced in France were withdrawn that year; then the beautiful princess of a small Southeast Asian country who was transiting in France accidentally said on TV The secret to her eternal youth is to eat Chinese royal jelly. Just like Forrest Gump caught the first net full of shrimp, Qi Huihui also earned her first pot of gold.

Afterwards, the business has been developing steadily. Huihui bought her own house and her own car, and because the business is doing well and she likes to help, she has become the backbone of the Southern French Chinese Chamber of Commerce. It's just that she is twenty-six years old and still alone. She saw Yang Xiaoyuan again in Xiaoduo's restaurant. It was a Thursday night, and somehow there were so many people.The three halls and sixty tables were full, and the waiters couldn't take care of them. A piece of fried banana ice cream was placed on the delivery window, and no one came to pay for it.

Huihui never spends money to eat here at Xiaoduo, and she also helps out when there are many people.She went up right away, holding fried bananas in her left hand, shochu and a lighter in her right hand, and sent them to the table to see that it was Yang Xiaoyuan. She poured sixty-degree shochu on the vanilla ice cream, lit the lighter, and the blue flame lit up.The ice cream has melted and seeped into the yellow-yellow fried bananas, which are delicious and rich. Yang Xiaoyuan smiled and said, "You are very skilled in this business." Huihui said, "You're kidding me. There are very few international students who have never worked in a restaurant, and there are very few who don't know how to make hot ice cream."

Yang Xiaoyuan flaunted nonchalantly: "I don't know how to do it, I haven't worked before." She said: "Oh, then we are different. My family is not high-ranking officials, nor is it rich. Let alone cooking ice cream, it is not a big problem if I go to the back kitchen to take over a shift." Yang Xiaoyuan took a bite of the fried banana with a smile and said, "I'll call another customer, you sit here, let's eat together?" Huihui said, "No, I have to help. Besides, I don't need you to invite me to eat here." She was about to leave, Yang Xiaoyuan said in a calm voice from behind: "This classmate, why do you look down on me?"

The two spoke Chinese, and the foreigner who was eating next to him looked like he was watching an oriental scene. Huihui didn't want to add excitement to Xiaoduo, so she smiled and said to him, "No, I'm busy." After ten o'clock, the number of customers dwindled, and Xiaoduo had enough staff, so Huihui left.Xiaoduo's meal box made her two servings of shrimp dumplings, two servings of fried noodles, two servings of pre-cooked, ready-to-eat beef, and peeled durians.Huihui went outside and saw Yang Xiaoyuan standing at the door.He said, "I can't get a taxi, please give me a ride."

"Where's your car?" she said. "Lent it to a colleague." "Come on, I'll see you off." When the two were in the car, Yang Xiaoyuan said: "My family is neither high-ranking officials nor rich. My parents are both elementary school teachers." She looked at him in the mirror. "I'm not a dandy who doesn't work hard and doesn't know the five grains, and I don't have a better family environment than any ordinary foreign student." Yang Xiaoyuan said, "I am, and I can make money when I am in school." "Oh?" "I used to study in Marseilles and helped people sell phone cards. Do you know that many small cities don't have Chinese phone cards? I bought goods from Marseilles and sold them to Montpellier, Avignon, Nimes, etc., earning a profit for each card. For two euros, more than 400 copies can be sold per month." "Is it enough for a round-trip ticket?" "What?" Yang Xiaoyuan didn't know she was joking, and was particularly unhappy about her question, "It was mailed. I earn a lot." Huihui laughed: "Please continue." "I majored in finance, and my grades are very good. What are you laughing at?" "No, don't get me wrong. It's your Beijing accent, the same as my good friend's. It sounds fun." "I continued, and then I thought, I have to apply what I have learned, I can't just write a thesis or something, I can't take the thesis to the store to swipe my card in the future. I started to study French stocks and funds. My parents gave me living expenses Ah, my own savings, the money I collected from my friends, the first time I played was in 2002, the year when the franc became the euro, and the mess in that year, I..." Yang Xiaoyuan said here At that time, the eyes were squinted, and the eyelashes were like small fans. "You made a lot of money?" Huihui said. Yang Xiaoyuan laughed: "Well, well, from that year on, some foreigners began to ask me to help with stock trading; from that year on, I can buy whatever I want in France—hey, too extravagant is not counted; It was also from that year that my car became an Audi, and soon became a Mercedes. I don’t like French cars. Hey, yours is okay, and the Picasso is good. But you are a girl, driving such a six-seater What is the car for?" "Me, sometimes when I receive customers and help the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, I have to meet many friends, so I inevitably need a bigger car." This person's appearance and speech have a kind of joy that is not commensurate with his age, and he can tell at a glance that he is proud of his smooth experience.If you do well in your studies and earn money from foreigners, it may be smooth sailing emotionally.He is also a little self-aware about his attitude, he is always afraid that Huihui will not believe him, and he is always cautious, afraid that she will make a joke.In fact, the first time she met him, she already knew that he was a powerful character. Who could make the president of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and the consul's wife obediently listen to his instructions? Yang Xiaoyuan said: "Oh, sorry, you are already a boss?" Huihui said: "A small shop, and a bowl of rice. How about you?" Yang Xiaoyuan took out his business card to her at this time: "I can't compare with you, I work for others." The business card read: UBS Group, Lyon Branch, Senior Investment Advisor, Remy Yang Xiaoyuan. Holding Yang Xiaoyuan's business card in his hand, Xiaoduo looked at it for a long time, and said, "Well, this person is considered an elite in the Chinese circle, right? He sits in this position in a Swiss bank at a young age, with an annual salary of more than 200,000 euros. above." Huihui looked at her: "There are so many?" "Big sister, these boys are just playing with money. People panning for gold is just like we panning for rice." She said that Huihui laughed. Xiaoduo took a sip of chrysanthemum tea and said, "Well, I think it will work." "What do you see?" "Don't pretend to be confused with me. It's impossible for him not to be interested in you. Find a chance to invite him to dinner at my restaurant. Then you go out to watch a movie. If this buddy is healthy, stable in thinking, and not seriously ill, you Just get along with each other." Xiao Duo pushed the plot forward for several episodes at once, "Do you remember what I said? Giving others a chance is giving yourself a chance. Alright, I will keep this business card. I will plan a formal meeting for the two of you in the next day, isn’t my brother from Beijing? I will cook fried liver myself.” "You are here again." Huihui took the business card back from Xiaoduo, "I can't gossip with you in the future, you have too many things. Aren't you getting married now? Aren't you one step ahead of me? Are you Treat me as a backward area, and make great efforts to help the poor, right?" Xiao Duo stood up suddenly, with a puffed stomach: "It's not that I'm not humble with you, I'm not one step ahead of you, I'm two steps ahead of you. Today I mainly talk about this: your sister and I have been together for two months. " After she finished speaking, Xiao Pei came in from the outside with freshly baked dim sum in his hand. Huihui looked at the two of them and said sincerely, "This Zhengguo cultivation is really fast. I admire the efficiency of the two of you." Huihui also read Yang Xiaoyuan's business card several times at her own home. She would not take the initiative to call him, but if Yang Xiaoyuan came to ask her out, she would not necessarily refuse.She still understands a truth in her heart: no matter how old a person is, he has to do what he should do at that age. She used to be a little girl who was raised by a big man, she once plunged into the fire without hesitation, and withdrew with scars.But she is twenty-six now, sometimes tired, sometimes lonely, if she can meet a good man, yes, why not give herself a chance? Yang Xiaoyuan's self-confidence sometimes makes people feel very funny. He called Huihui and said in very pure French: "Even if I don't tell you who I am, I'm sure you can't forget me." She said: "Yes, I remember you, Yang Xiaoyuan. But there are too many negative words in this sentence, I have to think carefully to understand what you are talking about." "Qi Huihui, let's go to a movie on Friday night, how about it? I watched the introduction of the comedy about Du Jiadan, and it was very fun." "Well... okay." "I'll pick you up from your shop at six o'clock?" "I said the address, you can write it down." Huihui said. "No need, I already knew." It was an evening in early spring, and Yang Xiaoyuan came to pick her up in his gray Mercedes.Before watching the movie, the two found a restaurant for dinner. He took off the windbreaker, and inside was a hand-knitted chunky sweater with the Ralph Lauren logo on the left chest. There is a thin edge exposed inside.He rested his elbows on the table as he looked at the menu, and his pretty face had a childlike earnestness.Huihui's eyes sometimes glanced at his face, and felt that this person was very similar to Jia Ming in Yi Shu's works when he was not speaking, the quiet and elegant Jia Ming. But he spoke differently. Hui Hui said, "How did you know the address of my shop?" He looked at her face and thought about it, and then said boldly, "I'll check." In one sentence, this guy suppressed Huihui's ten sentences: "You, you..." He pushed her appetizer juice forward, and poured the beer for himself: "I am very efficient in my work." "What kind of reason is this?" Yang Xiaoyuan ignored her, and continued on his own: "When I was in school, there was a French girl who liked me. She was so enthusiastic. She tested me several times. But I just didn't give in. Later she told her good friend, I'm gay." Huihui laughed when she heard this. "Me, it's not that I can't fall in love. But think about it, I look at the Paris securities during the day and keep an eye on the Dow Jones at night. I have to fall in love with an energetic foreign girl again. If I can't keep it, how much time will be wasted Money and money are not worth calculating, but how much energy and physical strength do I have to spend?" When he said this, he winked at her, as if to say: You understand what I mean. Huihui frowned and said, "Why are you talking so rough?" "Student, do you think I'm telling the truth? Foreigners, are you familiar with it?" Yang Xiaoyuan's words touched her heart, Huihui was stunned for a moment, the waiter brought the appetizer, and she ate the soup she wanted with a dull head. Yang Xiaoyuan thought she was upset, and said slowly at this moment: "I'll check you, I don't have to check you, I'm just curious. There are not many girls who are small bosses in France, and I admire you too .Besides, I met a nice girl, so I can't shave my head and make my head hot. I've been busy for a long time. It turns out that she has a husband and children. Isn't it a waste of me?" "The more you talk, the more boundless you are, Yang Xiaoyuan." Huihui looked up at him with a serious expression. But he smiled: "Then you don't have a husband and children?" "No." "Great." This person is not rough, he just thinks and speaks very directly.He must know what he wants to know, and he will confirm with you what he wants to be sure.He will also be very careful.As they searched for their seats in the darkened screening room of the movie theater, he raised his left hand for her to hold lightly so it wouldn't slip. While watching a movie and eating popcorn, he suddenly said to Huihui, "Would you like to try my popcorn?" "Huh?" She looked sideways at him. He gave away his bucket of popcorn: "Lend me a few bites." "I have it," she said. "The taste is different. My chocolate is pretty good. What about yours?" Without waiting for Huihui's consent, he took a few from her share and put them in his mouth, "You like curry flavor ? Do you like spicy food?" The two of them were exchanging popcorn here, and the whole audience burst into laughter.Yang Xiaoyuan hurriedly turned to chase the movie, Huihui turned her head, something came to her heart, and her heart became sour. After watching the movie, it was almost midnight, and he took her home. When she went downstairs, Huihui said, "It's too late, so I don't invite you to sit up. Today is a very pleasant day, thank you." He nodded. "Me too. Very nice." A few needles from a large pine tree fell on Huihui's shoulders, and Yang Xiaoyuan gently brushed them off. She could smell the leathery smell of the thin black gloves he was wearing.Under the pale yellow streetlight, he looked at her face, his eyes did not have those jokes and lively enthusiasm, he turned into the quiet and elegant Jia Ming again, and said very seriously: "How did I forget today?" the most important thing?" Huihui slightly raised her head and looked at him: "What's the matter?" "How could I forget to tell you: you are so beautiful." She didn't know how to answer, so she smiled lightly. Yang Xiaoyuan kissed her on the cheek and left.