Chapter 157

However, upon arriving at Shuxiu Hall, Grandma Song warmly invited Ji Wanmei and the two of them to have dinner together.

She said that after dinner, she would personally take Ji Wanmei to visit the Shu Embroidery Hall and teach her how to make needles and apply thread.

Ji Wanmei couldn't refuse, so she had no choice but to bite the bullet and go into the dining room to eat with Grandma Song and Lu Zhuoxuan.

Fortunately, the Lu family's diet is relatively light, consisting of four dishes and a soup. Perhaps this is because Grandma Song is old, and it is not the kind of grand feast or fancy rare dishes.

This allowed Ji Wanmei to eat somewhat comfortably.

Moreover, the good manners of the Lu family grandfather and grandson during the meal made Ji Wanmei feel very relaxed.

Lu Zhuoxuan is very talkative and cheerful. Compared to his peers, he has seen more of the world, and many topics become very interesting and captivating when he talks about them.

Ji Wanmei could sense from talking with him that Lu Zhuoxuan was a truly cultured, knowledgeable, and idealistic young man.

Instead of someone like Yang Zhiping, who is a half-baked expert who relies on boasting and pretense to package himself as such.

The meal was filled with laughter and conversation, and both host and guests enjoyed themselves immensely.

After dinner, Grandma Song took Ji Wanmei to learn Shu embroidery.

When learning Shu embroidery for the first time, there is a lot of basic theoretical knowledge to understand.

As Grandma Song explained, Ji Wanmei listened attentively and even took out a notebook she always carried with her to take notes.

She had dabbled in embroidery before, but she wasn't very good at it.

Now, with a third-generation inheritor of Shu embroidery personally teaching her, Ji Wanmei held the fine silver needle and learned with great focus, her mind free of distractions.

She sat in front of a cloth, her eyelids slightly lowered, her long eyelashes fluttering gently as she carefully observed Grandma Song's movements and techniques as she did the needlework.

Unbeknownst to them, they themselves had become a beautiful sight in the eyes of others.

Lu Zhuoxuan stood quietly under the ancient and elegant corridor pillars, looking at Ji Wanmei from a distance that was neither too close nor too far.

Lu Zhuoxuan had some business to attend to this afternoon, but he stayed at his grandmother's Shu embroidery shop the whole time.

After a day of visiting and learning, Ji Wanmei prepared to leave after 5:30 p.m.

Lu Zhuoxuan immediately stood up and said with a smile, "Junior, are you going back to school? I also have some things to do at school, so I'll give you a ride."

Ji Wanmei glanced at him and politely declined with a smile: "No need to trouble you, senior. I have some personal matters to take care of, so I won't be going back to school for the time being."

After saying this, Ji Wanmei thanked Grandma Song and took her leave, telling her that she would come back to continue learning the next morning.

Once Ji Wanmei's figure had left the front courtyard of Shuxiu Hall, Grandma Song slowly walked up to Lu Zhuoxuan and said, "You brat, if you scare my apprentice away, I'll settle the score with you!"

As she spoke, she raised her hand and slapped him.

Lu Zhuoxuan touched the shoulder that his grandmother had hit and said helplessly, "Grandma, look at what you're saying. How can you talk about your grandson like that?"

"Don't think I don't know what you're thinking. You've been making excuses to stay here all afternoon and won't leave? Grandma raised you from a young age, and I've never seen you so easily faltered when you saw a girl."

Grandma Song shook her head and sighed, "Alas, you young people nowadays really don't care about being reserved or modest at all. You've learned all the Western ways."

"But I think Ji Wanmei is a very traditional Chinese girl. She speaks and acts very stylishly, but her thinking is still very reserved and polite."

Lu Zhuoxuan smiled slightly and nodded in agreement: "Yes, Grandma, I understand."

"Don't worry, I won't scare her." Lu Zhuoxuan helped his grandmother up. "Let's go, I'll take you home too."

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Ji Wanmei certainly didn't have any personal matters that required her to deal with at this time.

She simply didn't want to ride back to school alone in Lu Zhuoxuan's car, lest it cause unnecessary misunderstandings among her classmates.

After leaving the Shuxiutang compound, Ji Wanmei walked forward for about one or two hundred meters, found a bus stop, and took a bus back to the school.

Back at the dormitory building, Ji Wanmei, on a whim, went to the dormitory manager's office to ask if there was any mail for her.

And there really was one!

Ji Wanmei looked at the stamp and address on it; it was sent from Pingdong City.

The letter was very thick; it must have been written to her by Lei Tingjun!

Ji Wanmei happily took the letter back to her dormitory.

On weekends, there are only five or six people in the dormitory. People like Zhou Yuejuan and Fang Xiaoqin, whose homes are in East China, go back to their homes for two days on Saturday and Sunday and come back to school on Monday.

Ji Wanmei was busy all day and when she came back, she found that Zhou Min and the others were still reading in the dormitory. They hadn't gone out for a walk on Saturday.

"Zhou Min, have you had dinner yet? I bought some fried noodles outside, let's eat together."

Zhou Min said, "I just ate at the school cafeteria. I didn't know you were coming back. If I had known, I would have gotten you a meal too."

Ji Wanmei smiled and said, "It's okay, I bought some food."

She changed into slippers, sat at the table beside the bed, emptied the takeout fried noodles into a lunchbox, ate them with her fork, and then carefully tore open the letter Lei Tingjun had sent her.

In the letter, Lei Tingjun told Ji Wanmei that his Lei Ting Transportation Team had been established.

There are two pickup trucks and three large trucks in total. Although the fleet is not very large at the moment, it is enough for running some waste recycling and hauling building materials.

He said that the brothers who worked with him trusted him very much.

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