Chapter 21 Footsteps
Wu Zhengyun followed and pressed the elevator door, then stood next to Chen You and smiled.
"I don't mean anything else, I just find it strange. Chen Hao always says that a car costs at least hundreds of thousands of dollars. I thought your store was profitable and you would have a good car."
For today's party, she and Chen Hao specially prepared a set of clothes.
Wu Zhengyun looked at the skirt that she had bought with gritted teeth, glanced at the silent Chen You, and immediately raised her chin.
"I heard that you are getting engaged soon. So soon?" Hu Xiuning spoke to Wu Zhengyun at the right time.
"It's almost the end of the year." Wu Zhengyun smiled, "We've been looking at houses recently, and Chen Hao's family said they would help us with the down payment."
Hu Xiuning: "I really envy you. You bought a house and settled down in Jiangcheng shortly after graduation."
Wu Zhengyun kept glancing at Chen You while she was talking, but unfortunately she didn't see any envy on her face.
The elevator arrived and several classmates were already sitting in the box.
Another girl from Chen You's dormitory was also there. She was the most neutral person in this chaotic dormitory.
Unlike the school gatherings in the past, the working people had a distinct smell of work.
Everyone greeted each other and sat down. The meal cost 600 yuan per person, but Chen You just wanted to eat it.
But there is always someone who can talk about her.
"It's not easy to find a job with our major. I heard that Chen You opened a shop? Is it for antique appraisal?"
There are few people studying cultural relics restoration, and not all of you here are in the same major, but many of them are related. Everyone knows that you need a way to do this job.
I've never heard of her family background before.
Wu Zhengyun was spreading the word a few days ago that Chen You had found a backer.
She has no cost and no way. How can she succeed in this business without paying something?
Pan Xian, who had pursued two people in Chen You's dormitory before but failed to succeed in either of them, now looked at Chen You with somewhat ambiguous eyes.
"Not only that, there is also the restoration of antiques." Chen You picked up a piece of lobster meat and looked at Wu Zhengyun with a half-smile.
"How did you spread it? Tell me about it."
Wu Zhengyun saw her smiling calmly, with a guilty look on her face, but she still stiffened her neck and refused to admit it.
"Is it not okay for me to tell everyone that you opened a store?"
Hu Xiuning took over and changed the subject, "Chen You, your gold bracelet is so beautiful, where did you buy it?"
"I didn't buy it, it's a souvenir." Chen You replied.
"Her bracelet is silver-plated with gold." Wu Zhengyun turned her wrist, naturally revealing a gold bracelet worth four thousand nine hundred yuan on her hand.
After meeting Chen You that day, she went to the jewelry shop the next day and spent one month’s salary to buy a chain.
"Wait, this isn't filigree?" a classmate exclaimed.
"I was wondering why it looked familiar. It looked like a cultural relic hand-carved by a master of intangible cultural heritage at the Jiangcheng Museum. But I remember it was not for sale to the public. It was a gift for the visiting delegation."
Wu Zhengyun didn't care, "It's not like there are no counterfeits online."
How could Chen You possibly have a gift from the museum? He must have bought the Pian Dao knife version online.
"No, this is absolutely real. You can tell by the craftsmanship. How can a replica be so exquisite?"
The student just now was serious and a little excited, "Could it be the same person? Is it you, Ms. Shen You, who donated the cultural relics?"
"What do you mean by donating cultural relics?" Wu Zhengyun looked at Chen You in disbelief.
“Not long ago, there was a public exhibition of porcelain.” The classmate said, holding up his mobile phone and flipping to the museum’s official account.
“Well, I donated my relative’s inheritance.” Shen You nodded and served herself a bowl of mushroom soup.
".Impossible?"
Wu Zhengyun pursed her lips and felt that the food in the bowl seemed to have no taste.
Chen Hao was searching on his phone how much Ru kiln porcelain cost, and several classmates looked at Chen You with great enthusiasm.
If the store was really opened with the support of a powerful backer, how could it be possible to donate such priceless porcelain?
Who would be willing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to help others gain fame? Wu Zhengyun is also not a decent person, spreading rumors outside.
"What kind of relatives? And such a precious inheritance?"
"You actually donated something so expensive?"
"A distant relative left me an old house and this porcelain." Chen You said, "I can't sell it if I don't donate it, so I might as well donate it."
Several people were asking if there was anything else to inherit.
"Nothing. There's only some old wood left, which can be used to carve beads."
Seeing that Chen You's expression didn't look fake, everyone believed it and marveled at her good luck.
But all the things were donated, so there's no reason to feel unbalanced about this unexpected fortune. I even have to praise her.
"Oh my god, if my name could be written there, I would wake up laughing in my dreams."
"Indeed, once you have a reputation, people will naturally come to you for appraisal and repair."
"When my old man collects something in the future, I can ask you to help me take a look. My sister likes to take pictures of hairpins when she is abroad. Let's add each other as friends."
The person speaking is the richest guy here. His family runs a jewelry business. The wine on the table was brought by him and is more expensive than the meal.
"No problem. If you have any work in the future, you can come to me and I'll give you a discount."
Chen You had no intention of giving up restoring antiques. This was what she had intended to do when she first took over the shop.
Reselling Da Qi's collections made money quickly, but she had no other business and didn't go out to collect antiques. There were always things being sold in her store, so she was easy to be targeted.
Doing restoration work part-time makes the store's business model more reasonable.
I came here today to expand my network.
Wu Zhengyun ate the second half of the meal in a very boring way. She spoke less and even covered the gold chain on her hand.
It was nine o'clock when we finished eating. The drunk people called a designated driver. While everyone was waiting for the elevator, Chen Hao held out his cell phone to them.
Before, I only heard Wu Zhengyun say that her roommate's family owed money because of the guarantee, and she never told me that her roommate was so well off.
He had just checked and found that the Ru kiln was worth two or three hundred million at auction!
Chen Hao smiled gently, "Miss Shen, let's add each other as friends. My boss also likes to buy some modern antiques. Maybe in the future."
"If you have any questions in the future, just let your girlfriend contact me." Chen You walked into the elevator first.
He took out the QR code when his girlfriend went to the bathroom. Who knows what he was going to do with it.
Chen You took the three girls to the parking lot. They didn't have a car, and one of them lived far away from the subway station.
She thought it wasn't too far and they were all in the same direction so she said she could take them back.
After dropping the last girl off and turning around, it was already past 10 o'clock.
There was a traffic jam at the overpass on the weekend night, and the bad navigation system also led her to the wrong route, which delayed her a lot.
When we arrived at the Antique Street, it was a little after 11 o'clock. This time is very busy in modern cities, and the midnight snack has just begun.
Chen You parked the car and went to buy a bowl of iced tofu pudding and a box of lemon chicken feet, preparing to eat them while watching TV in the evening.
The food in this restaurant is delicious, but they don’t have a food delivery app. The store can deliver the food, but during busy hours, if you buy too little, they won’t want to deliver the food.
The street lights in the alley were broken again, and Chen You was used to this situation.
But as she walked, she suddenly felt something was wrong.
There seemed to be a strange footsteps behind her, and she slowed down the other person as well.
Chapter 2 will be later QAQ
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