Chapter 179
No matter what Han Shengyi's intentions were when he made this suggestion, it has to be said that this is a really good idea.
After sunset, Chu Jiujiu and Han Shengyi walked down from the Great Wall. Being together, Chu Jiujiu was not afraid that a bad guy would pop up on the way. They walked back to school while discussing. Finally, they sat in a small restaurant outside the school and unanimously decided to hold an engagement party.
The custom of engagement has been popular for many years, but it was abandoned for a while. Now that lavish weddings are no longer considered extravagant, some families with the means are ready to start again.
After all, you only get married once in your life, so who wouldn’t want to make it a grand occasion?
There are precedents and people who hold the same idea, so in the eyes of outsiders, Chu Jiujiu and Han Shengyi's decision is not a problem at all. Instead, it is their family members who feel that their sudden action is not right.
I didn't hear any news before, so why are they holding an engagement party so suddenly?
Grandpa Han and the others were fine. Besides being surprised, they were also very happy. This was a good thing and no one would object. Grandma Han was even more delighted. She had just finished arranging the wedding of Chu Shao and Wen Xiuwei and was feeling itchy. Now, she had another job.
The elderly are easy to deceive, and elders like Chu Liqiang are even more Buddhist. They don’t care what the younger generations want to do. They can do whatever they like. As long as it does not violate the law, they will support it with both hands.
In the end, only Chu Shao and Wen Xiuwei still cared about their motives for doing so.
Wen Xiuwei called Chu Jiujiu to the Wen family, and Chu Shao took the opportunity to ask Han Shengyi privately when he came back to see the old man.
After they became adults, Chu Shao and Han Shengyi had basically not interacted with each other, and private conversations between the two were even more rare. When Chu Shao first called him over, Han Shengyi sat up straight, thinking this was a conversation between a brother-in-law and his wife. Unexpectedly, Chu Shao asked him, "I've never heard you talk about getting engaged before. Why are you getting engaged?"
Han Shengyi relaxed a little after hearing this. After a pause, he told Chu Shao the answer Chu Jiujiu had prepared in advance: "We have to wait two or three years to get married. It's too long. People will always gossip about her. Jiujiu doesn't like people talking about her, so we plan to get engaged first and invite all our relatives and friends to formalize our relationship."
Chu Shao was suspicious: "Did Chu Jiujiu say this? When did she start caring about what others say about her?"
Han Shengyi also felt that this reason was untenable, but Chu Jiujiu had told him to do so. Han Shengyi couldn't understand why Chu Shao cared so much about their motives for holding an engagement party, and could only attribute it to the sixth sense of military personnel.
Chu Shao deals with precision instruments every day. What he lacks the least is patience and recklessness. Once he finds a flaw, he will never give it up. This is how he helps his colleagues break through bottlenecks when doing research.
Knowing that this excuse wouldn't work if Chu Shao became suspicious, Han Shengyi was silent for a while, then raised his eyes: "Jiujiu also said that if we hold another engagement banquet, we can collect more money."
Chu Shao: “…”
He nodded silently: "That's what she would say."
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Engagement is not as good as marriage, and it is not that grand. Find a high-end restaurant, book it and treat everyone to a meal, then hold a small engagement ceremony and accept everyone's blessings. The so-called blessings, in addition to the words of "happiness in marriage", are the red envelopes in the hands.
Chu Shao had wronged Chu Jiujiu. She hadn't thought about the red envelopes at all at first, until that day when she was standing in the lobby of the restaurant wearing her newly customized red cheongsam and receiving red envelopes until her hands were tired. Chu Jiujiu couldn't stop smiling. She was particularly enthusiastic towards anyone who gave her a red envelope, which made Wen Xiuwei, who was standing next to her, twitch her mouth.
He is so greedy for money.
Wasn't it just those few days when she was poor as a child? Chu Shao had lived through even more hardship than she had, and yet she had never seen him become like this.
I don’t know how many invitations Grandma Han has distributed. Wen Xiuwei felt a headache when she saw the crowds of people coming in. How could she entertain so many people?
The guests invited by the Han family and the Chu family were naturally different, but half of them overlapped. Wen Xiuwei looked closely at the group of people she didn't know and found that most of them were young people, probably Han Shengyi's friends.
Han Shengyi has a wide range of friends, and he has a lot of friends, of all kinds, some very serious, some very social. After welcoming the guests on the first floor for a while, when almost everyone arrived, Chu Jiujiu could sit down and rest for a while, but Han Shengyi couldn't be idle. He dealt with all kinds of people, and he could make the other person laugh with just two or three sentences.
Sitting in the private room on the second floor, Wen Xiuwei looked at Han Shengyi downstairs and couldn't help but sigh: "Shengyi is really good at dealing with people. I thought it was a pity when he went into business, but now it seems that he is a natural businessman."
Wen Xiuwei had been talking for a long time but didn't hear any response from Chu Jiujiu. She turned her head and saw Chu Jiujiu immersed in counting money.
Wen Xiuwei: “…”
"Put it down quickly! You'll have time to count it when we get back. It'll be dinner time soon. Isn't it dirty?"
Chu Jiujiu finally heard Wen Xiuwei speak. She put the red envelope back into the basket and asked Wen Xiuwei blankly, "What did you just say?"
Wen Xiuwei was silent for two seconds, but she didn't argue with her in the end. She repeated what she had just said. Chu Jiujiu said, "Brother Shengyi is born with talent. Others are blessed by God, but he was blessed with a restaurant by God. He can eat whatever he wants. Ordinary people like us can't envy him."
Wen Xiuwei: "...Don't use the word 'we', I don't deserve it."
In the whole family, she is the only ordinary person. Apart from having a pretty face, she can't do anything else. Whenever Wen Xiuwei thinks of this, she feels particularly heartbroken. She is obviously a serious college student and can claim to be both beautiful and intelligent. However, in the Chu family, she doesn't even dare to say that her IQ is normal.
I'm stupid, I don't deserve it.
Wen Xiuwei began to sigh.
Ever since she got pregnant, her personality has been changing every day. Sometimes she is very irritable, and sometimes she is very sad. Today is a sad day. Chu Jiujiu noticed something was wrong, and quickly put down the basket full of red envelopes and went to comfort her. While comforting her, she was glad that this is the era of family planning. If a family still had several children like before, Chu Jiujiu would have wanted to desert.
Pregnant women are hard to take care of...
While talking to Wen Xiuwei, Chu Jiujiu took the time to look downstairs.
Similar to Wen Xiuwei, she didn't know Han Shengyi's friends. She had only met a small number of them. As for those who were particularly social or looked weird, Han Shengyi would never bring them to Chu Jiujiu.
She was too far away to hear what Han Shengyi was saying, nor could she see the expressions of the people downstairs, but she believed in Han Shengyi's ability, so she only took a glance and then looked away.
…
Chu Jiujiu didn't want the necklace to be exposed, but she still had to tell Zhang Nan about it, which was really embarrassing. After all, they couldn't find Zhang Nan directly and tell her about it. Fortunately, Han Shengyi had a wide circle of friends, and fortunately, Zhang Nan was willing to make friends with anyone because of the necklace.
Han Shengyi spoke a few words to almost every friend present, and the topics of conversation were different. During these normal conversations, Han Shengyi quietly sprinkled in a handful of seeds. After doing all this, he turned around with a smile and went to the box to find his fiancée.
Grandma Han had learned from her previous experience. When Wen Xiuwei and Chu Shao got married, they sat together, nearly exhausting the newlyweds. They were kept busy all day and had no food to eat because people kept coming over to talk to them. This time, it was Chu Jiujiu and Han Shengyi's turn, and Grandma Han had chosen this restaurant specifically. The elders sat on the first floor with the guests, while the hostess, the pregnant woman, and her family stayed upstairs, waiting to come down when called.
Therefore, when Han Shengyi came up, Wen Xiuwei and Chu Jiujiu were the only two people in the private room. Seeing Han Shengyi, Wen Xiuwei asked, "Where is Chu Shao?"
"Busy down there, Sister Xiuwei, how are you feeling? Are you tired?"
Wen Xiuwei waved her hand gracefully. "That's nothing. Filming is much more tiring than this. Come and sit down. You won't have a chance to sit down soon."
Han Shengyi smiled and sat down next to Chu Jiujiu. Chu Jiujiu turned around and looked at him. Knowing that he had already spread the message, Chu Jiujiu smiled with relief.
Although the original motivation for holding the engagement party was to lay out bait, this was also their engagement party, and Chu Jiujiu still wanted to treat it well.
She focused all her attention on the banquet itself. She took out a small mirror and looked at her new hairstyle. There were too few makeup artists nowadays, and the one she had today was borrowed from the studio thanks to Wen Xiuwei. The other party gave her a particularly difficult hairstyle. Although she repeatedly assured her that it would not be messy, Chu Jiujiu was still a little worried.
The person in the mirror was as beautiful as when she first went out in the morning. Chu Jiujiu put the mirror down, and then she saw a ring in front of her.
She was stunned for a moment and didn't take it. Instead, she looked at Han Shengyi beside her.
Han Shengyi held up the ring and looked at her. "I heard it's a very popular style abroad. Do you like it?"
People say that diamonds are worthless, a scam, and anyone who buys one is being cheated. Everyone understands this, but no girl would feel unhappy the moment she receives a diamond ring.
Chu Jiujiu's eyes widened. She carefully took it from Han Shengyi's hand and stared at the diamond on it. She almost stuttered, "This is so big. How much did you spend on it?"
Han Shengyi smiled slightly. "It didn't cost much. We have diamonds as parts in our factory equipment, and there's a spare box in the warehouse. I picked out the biggest one and gave it to you."
Chu Jiujiu: “…”
She raised her hand to throw the ring back at Han Shengyi, but Han Shengyi quickly stopped her with a smile in his eyes, "I'm just kidding you."
"I bought this specifically from the guy who sells broken diamonds. He only buys the rough diamonds from me. The polishing and designs are all done by the master craftsman in the jewelry store."
Wen Xiuwei leaned forward and stretched out her hand towards Chu Jiujiu, "Let me see."
Chu Jiujiu handed it over. Wen Xiuwei picked it up and held it up to the light. "It's very clear, flawless, and the craftsmanship is also very good. Buying the raw stone is cheaper, but a craftsman with this kind of craftsmanship would definitely charge a lot. Let me guess, five thousand?"
Han Shengyi showed a little admiration, "Sister Xiuwei is really amazing."
In fact, he spent six thousand, but there was no need to tell the truth at this time. As long as the women were happy, that was all that mattered.
When Chu Jiujiu heard that the ring was worth five thousand, she stopped stuttering. She took it back and put it on her ring finger. While admiring it, she said, "It's only in the past few years that jewelry prices are still relatively low. In five or six years at most, the prices of diamonds and gold will rise rapidly. This is also good. I can keep it to maintain its value, and later, I can give it to my daughter as her dowry."
Talking about the future, Chu Jiujiu was very happy. Han Shengyi looked at her gently without saying anything. Wen Xiuwei thought she was a little funny.
Just as I was about to shake my head, I heard Chu Jiujiu say, "Forget it, forget it. I'll only be in my 40s or 50s when my daughter gets married. If I give it to her now, I won't have a ring anymore. I'd better leave it to my granddaughter. When I'm old, I want to wear jade, and I can leave the diamond to the younger generation."
Han Shengyi: "This is an engagement ring. I will give you a better one when we get married. I will give you a ring every year from now on. This way, you can give it to anyone you want."
Chu Jiujiu looked at him in surprise, "So generous, are you rich?"
Han Shengyi smiled and shook his head, "It's conditional."
"What conditions?"
Han Shengyi approached her and whispered, "In addition to the scarf, I also want a pair of gloves every year."
Chu Jiujiu burst out laughing, and Han Shengyi laughed at her. They were already close, and now their shoulders were touching. Chu Jiujiu swayed from side to side, and Han Shengyi clung to her, swaying along with her. Wen Xiuwei sat diagonally across from them, watching the two childish people swaying back and forth with a cold expression.
Is there no one in this room?
Is her presence so low?
Believe it or not, let me tell you what a pregnant woman’s anger is like!
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