cast a peach

Chapter 55

"Mr. Tan, are you free tonight?"

The man was dressed in a suit and leather shoes, his hair was neatly combed back with hairspray, he bent over slightly, and there was a little hope in his eyes: "Would you like to dance with me?"

Tan Mingli glanced at him with a smile, and immediately recalled this person's job and family in his heart, nodded slightly, and agreed:

"can."

Nice look.

Tan Mingli put his hands on his shoulders weakly, the smile on his face was still gentle and warm, but his mind was already drifting away, and he casually examined and commented.

It would be more pleasing to the eye if he could hide the desire to conquer and cling in his eyes better.

She was bored, but still smiled and danced with him through the dance.

"Would you like to go to the side to drink some more? Mr. Tan?"

Seeing her agreeing gently, but having no intention of continuing to talk to him after the dance, the man was a little anxious and hurriedly asked him to stay.

Tan Mingli looked at him with a smile, walked around lightly, shook his head and said, "Sorry, I don't like drinking very much."

After she finished speaking, she slightly bowed and smiled to express her apology, and blocked the man who still wanted to fight for a chance.

She walked slowly to the side to rest, leaned against the table, poured a glass of wine casually, but didn't drink it, just held it in her hand, and looked around the hall calmly.

Tonight is a dinner hosted by the Tan family. The old man personally sent invitations, inviting celebrities from the business circles of Jiangcheng and Meishi to come here.

Today happened to be Xiaoxue in the lunar calendar. To be elegant and pleasant to hear, I specially wrote a few regular characters on the gilded incense invitation, called Xiaoxueyan.

Little snow feast.

Tan Mingli rolled these three words in his heart, tasted them carefully, and smiled softly.

It is indeed elegant.

Grandpa really took great pains to prepare her for a chance to make an official comeback debut.

She was meditating with a thin goblet when another man walked up to her in surprise: "Mingli!"

Tan Mingli's thoughts were interrupted, and she was about to frown, but when she looked up, she was an acquaintance, and she couldn't help smiling a little unexpectedly: "Ah, it's you, Fisher."

It was her friend before returning to China.

A gentle and considerate British man, he often discussed various topics of interest with her in a naughty tone.When she returned to China that year, he was just a young boy in denim blue suspenders. With tears in his eyes, he climbed over the fence and knocked on her window, begging her to give him a Chinese name.

"Mingli!"

He called her by her name a little stiffly, and he could speak some simple Chinese with her at that time, "Please, give me one, so I won't forget you. I know you have read many Shu, please give me a Chinese name."

At that time, Tan Mingli's temperament was not as calm as she was later. When she was a girl, she was lively and proud, so she immediately agreed, resting her chin in thought.

In fact, her Chinese background is not very good. After thinking about it for a long time, she couldn't think of anything good, but she didn't want to make a fool of herself in front of her friends. Suddenly, she had an idea and said with a smile, "I thought of it!"

"Look, your surname is Fisher, and Fei is also a surname in Chinese, so I'll call you Fisher Fish, how about it?" The more she thought about it, the more she felt that the name was very good, "fisher, it's related to fish in the first place. relationship, and the word Sheyu also has ancient Chinese allusions!"

At that time, she had just memorized Mencius's "Fish I Want" under the guidance of her father, so she simply borrowed it.

Fisher stopped crying, and lay on the window sill curiously and adoringly listening to her explain the allusion and meaning of the name.

"I will go to China to find you!"

Before leaving, the boy turned his head three times and made a solemn promise to her.

"No, Mingli, you should call me Fisher Fish."

The tall man in front of him smiled, just like the crying teenager a few years ago.

Encountering an old acquaintance in a foreign land is always very touching. Tan Mingli's eyes moved slightly, he took a careful look at him, and said with a smile, "Do you still remember the name I gave you?"

"Never forgot."

Fisher leaned down, put his cheek against her, and winked at her mischievously, "Thanks to your unintentional actions that year, it made me look very educated in China in the past few years."

"Oh, Fisher, you speak Chinese very well." Tan Mingli gave him a surprised look and laughed, "Maybe I should ask you to teach me Chinese."

His Mandarin is very standard. If you don't look at his face but only listen to his voice, others will think he is a native Chinese.

"Everyone changes."

Fisher fish was also emotional and raised his glass to her.He stared at her face seriously for a moment, and said sincerely: "Mingli, you have also changed a lot. I can hardly recognize you anymore."

"The little girl who hunted hares with me in the meadows and gathered pine cones in the pine forest grew up and became a—"

Fisher fish smiled and shook his head, "Oriental lady."

Oriental lady?

Tan Mingli smiled, but also raised his glass as a gesture, took a sip, and did not answer this sentence.

"But you're still very beautiful, really, more beautiful than I imagined. I guess if the fairy had a body, she'd have your face."

Fisher's gray-blue eyes were sincere.

An ordinary woman would be delighted to hear this, but Tan Mingli didn't take it seriously, and just smiled back at him not to be outdone: "Then if the elf that pleases women has a body, I guess he has your face."

Fisher Fisher laughed even more happily when he heard the words:

"Ah! You clever ghost! Mingli, you still love to tell jokes as before, and never show weakness. I take back what I just said."

"Sorry, what did you just say?"

Zhao Zhihua raised his glass and asked the people around him.

She said she was sorry, but her expression was lazy, and she couldn't see any sincere apology.

Of course that person didn't dare to get angry, he just said what he said just now respectfully, and then said: "Mr. Zhao, look, why don't we go to a quiet place to talk in detail?"

He took advantage of the opportunity of this dinner party to finally catch up with Zhao Zhihua's high branch, and he couldn't wait to ask her to hear about his business ambitions again.

Zhao Zhihua bent his eyes and laughed, the man thought he was quite hopeful, so he immediately laughed with her.

Zhao Zhihua's secretary lit a candle in his heart.

Others don't know, but as a person close to Zhao Zhihua, she knows very well: the more unhappy Zhao Zhihua looks, the calmer he looks, and even the bigger the smile.

Zhao Zhihua smiled and told the man to come to her and get closer to her.

She leaned into his ear and said softly, "Get lost."

She is wearing a long black dress today, with red lips and hair, low cut and high slits, revealing her long white legs and chest. Her movements are like stars shining in the sea under the night. People over forty are still beautiful and fierce, like The gemstone necklace on the neck is as bright and dangerous as it is.

The secretary knew that she had been in a bad mood for the past few days, so she hurriedly reconciled, gave the stunned man a step down, and then turned to her boss, sighing with a broken face:

"Mr. Zhao."

Zhao Zhihua knew that he had made a mistake first, so he pursed his lips, lowered his neck and drank without speaking.

"You can't drink anymore..."

The secretary hurriedly said.

If she drank any more, the life assistant would jump over the wall and peel her skin—this was what Mr. Zhao's life assistant said to her through gritted teeth.

Zhao Zhihua had no choice but to put down his wine glass.

She was silent for a long time, then suddenly asked the secretary: "Xiao Lu, do you know, um... what do young girls like nowadays?"

The secretary was stunned for a moment, apparently not expecting the boss to ask her this question, but she still thought about it for a moment with professionalism, and answered: "Lipstick, bag, famous brand?"

She said honestly: "Mr. Zhao, actually I don't know very well. When I was young, I would patronize reading."

Zhao Zhihua shook his head helplessly, and stopped embarrassing his secretary.

Oh, she couldn't understand the minds of young girls.She didn't understand Xiaoshui before, and now... she doesn't understand Li Runyue.

She remembered what happened a few days ago——

"Where did you go last night?"

Zhao Zhihua saw the strange coat on the girl and asked in a low voice.

Li Runyue looked at her in fear, hesitating, and finally answered softly after a long time: "Jiangcheng..."

"Jiangcheng?"

Zhao Zhihua frowned, "What are you doing in Jiangcheng?"

"Go, go to a part-time job." Li Runyue dared not tell the truth, "I'm sorry sister, I shouldn't go to Jiangcheng to work part-time without telling you, and I shouldn't... I shouldn't be at home at night... I promise I will never do this again Yes, I promise."

Zhao Zhihua looked at the frightened girl in front of him, sneered, stepped forward, raised her chin and looked carefully:

"What kind of job is this part-time job you're talking about?"

She was still smiling, leaning close to the girl's earlobe intimately, gently kissing her earlobe, with a gesture that was close to rubbing her ears together, but casually said words of cruelty:

"Could it be that besides me, someone else was involved?"

These words fell on Li Runyue's ears like thunder, making her almost tremble with horror.

She glanced at Zhao Zhihua in disbelief, and her face lost all color in an instant.Li Runyue held Zhao Zhihua's hand at a loss and flustered: "No! Sister, I don't! I don't dare...you believe me..."

Zhao Zhihua's face turned cold, and he opened her hands bit by bit, just saying: "You go to take a bath."

She has a cleanliness freak, doesn't like unclean things, and doesn't like unclean people.

……

Li Runyue was blindfolded, crying and calling her: "Sister..."

"Huh? What's the matter?" Zhao Zhihua kissed her slowly from behind, "You don't like it?"

"No," she grabbed the woman's arm tremblingly, wanting to beg her for a little tenderness by showing weakness, "too, too much..."

"Is it not good?"

Zhao Zhihua pinched her wrist with a smile, caressed it carefully, and said, "Don't you just run away if you give it too little?"

"Be patient."

The woman who is used to being in a superior position whispered an order.

It wasn't until Li Runyue was exhausted and fell asleep that she got up to clean up the mess after the affair, and went to take a bath by the way.

Zhao Zhihua lit a cigarette, put on his coat and stood on the balcony to smoke.Usually, she was worried about the young girls in the house, so she resisted the craving for cigarettes and kept smoking, fearing that she would smell second-hand smoke.

There were no marks on Li Runyue's body that she shouldn't have, and she was quite satisfied with this.

She didn't dare to measure.Zhao Zhihua thought.Today was just beating her up.

But she was still not very happy.

She was not happy that she had something to hide from her, and she was not happy that she ran out secretly and couldn't get home.

The most displeased thing is that I don’t know why I suddenly became interested in going home early today. I wanted to surprise her, but I sat in the dark and waited for four hours. After drinking several bottles of wine, I didn’t wait for the person who wanted to wait , Heart and body are getting cold inch by inch.

Hadn't she sold herself to her?

Zhao Zhihua looked at the fading morning light outside the window for a long time, and he didn't come back to himself until a cigarette burned out between his fingers.

She threw the cigarette butts in the trash and texted the lawyer asking him to draw up a new nurturing contract.

In the past few days, she sent someone to investigate in private, and confirmed that Li Runyue did not lie that day, so she handed the contract that she had prepared long ago to Li Runyue before going out: "Take a look."

Li Runyue took it over in a daze, and then froze there.

A contract that is surprisingly better than before.

It is long-term, and it says that both parties are voluntary. As long as either party is no longer willing to continue the contract, it can be terminated at any time.

But correspondingly, many requirements were added, almost locking her by Zhao Zhihua's side like a canary.

"You can think about it for a few days. When you think about it, contact Lawyer Liu. He will..."

Zhao Zhihua looked at her and said calmly.

"I am willing."

Li Runyue closed the contract, raised her face and agreed directly.

"..."

Now it was Zhao Zhihua's turn to be stunned: "Aren't you going to look at it anymore?"

Li Runyue lowered her eyes, smiled softly, and said, "No need. I believe you won't treat me badly."

"Won't you kiss me?"

She asked Zhao Zhihua.It seemed to be confused, and it seemed to be simply asking for a farewell kiss.Pure and charming.

Zhao Zhihua stared at her deeply, stopped talking, bent down and raised her face to kiss her.

……

Zhao Zhihua knocked on the wine glass irritably.

It stands to reason that she really bought Li Runyue in black and white, and tied her firmly to her side so that she could not leave her again. She should feel satisfied and at ease, but why does she feel more and more troubled now?

She felt as if she had done something wrong, but she couldn't tell where it was.

What step is wrong?Can't figure it out.

She raised her eyes, and suddenly saw Mingli, who was talking and laughing with a tall and handsome foreign man not far away.Tan Mingli also saw her, was slightly taken aback, then raised his wine glass, and toasted her gracefully from afar.

Zhao Zhihua also laughed, and raised his glass to her.

Is that Mingli's boyfriend tonight?Looks like a good match.

"Hey, Mingli, do you know that there is a good movie recently?"

Fisher Fish asked Tan Mingli enthusiastically, "Are you free recently? If possible, I think we should take a look when we have the chance."

Tan Mingli was slightly taken aback when he heard the words.

When she mentioned movies, she instinctively thought of...Xiao Shui.

She remembered the conversation she had with the girl before going out today.

"Sister, when are you coming back?"

Zhao Guangshui looked at her wearing earrings and asked.

"I don't know. Maybe after ten o'clock?"

Tan Mingli said softly, "The end time of the banquet is not very certain. If I haven't come back by then, don't wait for me, go to rest early."

Zhao Guangshui obediently nodded in agreement.

She packed up and was about to go out. Seeing that the girl who had been waiting by her side just now had something to say, she sighed softly in her heart, but her expression was gentle, and she took the initiative to ask: "Xiao Shui, do you have anything to say to me?" ?”

"Ah... it's actually nothing..."

Zhao Guangshui didn't expect that his thoughts would be seen through by a woman, so he paused for a while, raised his face nervously, glanced at her quickly, and said softly, "That's right, it seems like we haven't watched a movie together for a long time. ...Tomorrow is Sunday, I just want to ask my sister, if you are free, can you..."

Fisher fish asked her: "Mingli, tomorrow is Sunday, how about tomorrow? Are you free then?"

Tan Mingli looked at the nervous girl, felt a slight pain in her heart, and clenched her fingers tightly.

When did she let Xiao Shui return to the timid look she had when she first met her?

"tomorrow?"

Tan Mingli repeated Fisher Fish's words in a daze.

"Okay, yes, Xiao Shui. My sister promises you."

It's just a movie, so it shouldn't be a big deal... Tan Mingli finally couldn't bear to see the girl with that look on her face, so she persuaded herself and made a promise softly.

As if someone was watching her, Tan Mingli raised her eyes as if aware of it, and looked at Zhao Zhihua who was not far away.

Her heart skipped a beat.

... Miss Zhihua.

Zhao Guangshui laughed in surprise, never expecting that she would really agree, "Really? Thank you sister!"

Is this a warning from God to her?

Tan Mingli withdrew his hand to toast Zhao Zhihua, stabilized his mind, looked at Fisher Fish with a smile, and swallowed the words he was about to refuse just now.

She said, "Okay, that's fine."