Chapter 501: Not an Accidental Encounter
"Jiaojiao is still in school, it's too early to get engaged now." Chen Guilan was prepared. "Let's wait until she graduates next year!"
She didn't object to Lu Jingyou and Su Jiaojiao's relationship, but it was also a fact that Su Jiaojiao was still in school.
There's no rush about getting engaged.
"Jingjiao's mom, what's the rule about engagement back home?" Old Master Lu asked immediately. "Here, after we get engaged, we start choosing a wedding date and then prepare for the wedding."
"In our hometown, we first decide on the wedding date, and then find a date to get engaged. The engagement and marriage cannot exceed six months." Chen Guilan, like Su Jiaojiao, always feels that it is still too early to get married.
"Oh, so that's it!" Mrs. Lu suddenly realized. She looked at Mr. Lu and said with a smile, "Then let's discuss it again!"
"Right, right, right. Let's not talk about this today. Let's eat." Old Master Lu understood. "These seafood are all flown in. Jingyou, let Jiaojiao's mother try them and see if they taste the same as those in Qingyuan."
"Auntie, try this shrimp." Lu Jingyou attentively placed a peeled shrimp on Chen Guilan's plate. "It's different from the shrimp in Jiao County. It's a little sweet."
"It's delicious." Chen Guilan said with a smile.
Lin Manli felt she couldn't bear to watch it anymore. The son she raised was about to become someone else's. Her son's eyes were now full of her and her daughter. Not only did he peel shrimps for Chen Guilan, he also kept picking up vegetables for Su Jiaojiao. He didn't even look at her, his biological mother.
With Mr. Lu present, Lu Jiahe didn't dare to act rashly and just ate quietly.
Lu Qingqing was also silent. Lu Jingyou was between her and Su Jiaojiao. Lu Jingyou was also very caring towards her. He picked up food for Su Jiaojiao and also for her, and chatted with her from time to time.
When Lu Jingyou got up to go to the bathroom, Lu Qingqing sat down next to Su Jiaojiao and whispered to her, "Sister Su, there's an Ocean Science and Technology Museum on the top floor of Yundu Hotel. Do you want to go take a look? I'll be back soon."
"Okay, let's go and take a look." Su Jiaojiao said to Mrs. Lu and the others, and went to the top floor with Lu Qingqing. She was no stranger to the Yundu Hotel. She often came here to eat in her previous life. Their seafood was carefully selected and airlifted from all over the place, which was unmatched by other hotels.
There is indeed an Ocean Science and Technology Museum on the top floor of Yundu Hotel, which is only open to diners.
The two took the elevator and soon reached the top floor.
There were not many people in the Ocean Science and Technology Museum. Apart from the tour guides, there were only a few diners. Everyone was talking in low voices, so it was not noisy.
The cylindrical glass tanks contain giant kelp and seaweed, as well as various marine creatures, mostly specimens and pictures. In the middle of the hall is a pile of sand and colorful shells, which simulates the beach scene.
Lu Qingqing was very curious about this miniature beach. She looked left and right and thought every shell was beautiful. For Su Jiaojiao, these were commonplace things. She grew up by the sea and was not curious about shells on the beach.
The two of them walked around casually and then returned to the private room.
When the elevator opened and closed, Su Jiaojiao saw Qin Xiuming and a young woman walking past the elevator side by side, chatting and laughing. Lu Qingqing also saw them and whispered to Su Jiaojiao, "Look, that's my brother and Yu Mingyuan."
"How come they are together?" Yu Mingyuan is still in the imperial capital?
"Who knows!" Lu Qingqing didn't take it seriously. "If Grandpa knew, he would definitely be angry."
Su Jiaojiao didn't say anything either.
After the two returned, Mrs. Lu was chatting enthusiastically with Chen Guilan. They did not mention the matter of Yu Mingyuan and Qin Xiuming. The meeting banquet was coming to an end. Lu Jiahe took the old couple and Lin Manli and Lu Qingqing back to the old house, and Lu Jingyou sent Chen Guilan and Su Jiaojiao back to Jinyuan.
On the way, Su Jiaojiao told Lu Jingyou that Yu Mingyuan and Qin Xiuming were together. Lu Jingyou immediately explained: "I didn't know Yu Mingyuan was in the imperial capital, and Yu Mingyuan didn't contact me."
"I know, I don't doubt you." Su Jiaojiao was amused by him, "I just found it surprising that they were together, so I told you."
"I'll ask Xiuming later." Lu Jingyou finally breathed a sigh of relief. The three words "Yu Mingyuan" were taboos to him. He didn't want to hear them, nor did he want to mention them.
After returning home, Lu Qingqing told Old Man Lu about how she and Su Jiaojiao ran into Qin Xiuming and Yu Mingyuan at the Yundu Hotel. "Grandpa, why is my brother with that woman?"
"I'll call your brother back right away." Mr. Lu called Qin Xiuming directly and asked him to come back. Qin Xiuming strongly denied that he was with Yu Mingyuan, saying that he was just having a party with a few friends and they met occasionally in the elevator, and they didn't have any contact.
That's what he said when Lu Jingyou asked him.
Anyone can go to Yundu Hotel. It's just an accidental encounter. There's nothing to be surprised about.
"I don't care if you bumped into me by accident or made a deliberate appointment. You're a grown-up, so you should know right from wrong and avoid associating with people you shouldn't." Old Master Lu reminded Qin Xiuming, "Don't think that the Yu family are good people just because they weren't involved in the handicraft case. Your father's failed film and television investment was also due to their faults. If you have anything to say, come back and discuss it with us, not with outsiders."
"Okay, I'll listen to grandpa." Qin Xiuming agreed, but he was very disapproving in his heart. He didn't think that Grandpa Lu and Lu Jingyou were very good to him. Their kindness to him was only superficial.
Otherwise, why didn't Lu Jingyou let him participate in the project outside Beijing?
The company is now on holiday, saying it has stopped operations for rectification, but in fact it is almost bankrupt. His current job is to be responsible for registering foreign debts. He is depressed by all kinds of cold words he faces every day.
But Mr. Lu and Lu Jingyou didn't say a word of comfort. He said that the collapse of Jiahe Group would not affect them at all, and they had already left enough ways to escape.
But he was not left with a way out.
Lu Jiaping was also disappointed when he learned that Mr. Lu asked him to surrender. He thought that Mr. Lu would handle the matter properly and would not let him end up like Tang Youxin.
However, in order to protect the interests of the family, Mr. Lu abandoned him.
He has been hesitating recently whether to surrender voluntarily or continue to hide.
In fact, he had had enough of the days of being on the run.
Su Jiaojiao and Lu Qingqing met twice, and witnessed Qin Xiuming and Yu Mingyuan in the same frame together, which made their relationship much closer.
Lu Qingqing told Su Jiaojiao that Qin Xiuming's explanation was that they met by chance, not that they had an intentional appointment.
Su Jiaojiao didn't believe it.
In her previous life, she had interacted with Qin Xiuming for a period of time and knew him to some extent. Qin Xiuming's attitude towards Yu Mingyuan was definitely not a chance encounter.
What are these two people going to do together?
For this purpose, Su Jiaojiao specially found Li Nuo. Li Nuo often traveled between the imperial capital and Guangzhou, and she was the most well-informed.
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