Chapter 43 Poverty Limits Her Imagination
Lu Yanzhi held Zhou Qingti's hand as they walked along the stone path of the old house. Zhou Qingti looked up at his profile and asked, "Were you angry yesterday?"
Lu Yanzhi nodded slightly, "I can't say I'm angry, I'm just a little depressed.
He thought the matter was over and he couldn't be angry with Zhou Qingti. But the first time he saw her today, his bad mood was swept away.
"I told him I was married a long time ago."
Zhou Qingti withdrew his gaze and looked forward.
The two walked quietly without continuing the topic. There was no need for much explanation. What she asked and he said was enough.
The two of them are now in an ambiguous period, looking at each other through a layer of hazy window paper.
It's quite interesting.
In the Chinese-style garden, the gardener was pruning the flowers and trees. When he saw Lu Yanzhi and Zhou Qingti coming back, he smiled and greeted them: "Mr. Lu and Miss Zhou are back."
Zhou Qingti smiled and responded, "Uncle Zhang."
The staff members of the old house were all in their forties. They did not use embarrassing names like calling Lu Yanzhi "Young Master" or "Young Madam" like in period dramas.
We are now following the socialist path, so naturally we cannot have such retro names.
Zhou Qingti often brings them some homemade desserts, so they all like her very much.
Old Mrs. Lu knew they were coming and also walked along the stone path.
This is what a Chinese-style garden is like. It takes half a day to walk through it. The garden in front is relatively small and you can walk to the door in five minutes.
It takes a full twenty minutes to walk through the back garden.
"Grandma." Zhou Qingti greeted her with a smile, "Yanzhi and I bought some snacks from Guifangzhai, including your favorite peach cakes."
"Okay, good boy."
The old lady glanced at Lu Yanzhi and said, "Why do I feel like Yanzhi has become younger after being with you?"
Zhou Qingti also looked him up and down. Lu Yanzhi clenched his right fist a little unnaturally and coughed at his lips.
Zhou Qingti retracted his gaze and said to the old lady with a smile: "I think so too."
The old lady said: "Young people should dress young, so energetic. He used to wear a suit all the time, so rigid and dogmatic, but now he looks like he's the same age as you."
Zhou Qingti laughed heartily, and Lu Yanzhi followed the old man and the young girl and listened to them saying bad things about him.
Is that really that exaggerated? He was only two years older than Zhou Qingti.
The dinner at the old house was as sumptuous as usual, and Lu Yanzhi's father and stepmother ate together.
Over the years, Lu Yanzhi has learned to ignore people he doesn't like.
He was busy picking up food for Mrs. Lu and Zhou Qingti.
He picked up a crystal clear shrimp and put it into Zhou Qingti's bowl: "A classic of Hangzhou cuisine."
Zhou Qingti picked up the shrimp and put it in his mouth. The chewy and firm shrimp, paired with West Lake Longjing tea, had a light tea aroma that lingered in the mouth.
"tasty."
Old Mrs. Lu picked up another chicken leg for her. It was cooked like beggar's chicken and wrapped in lotus leaves. The chicken had a refreshing fragrance of lotus leaves. The whole chicken was soft and boneless, not fishy or woody.
Zhou Qingti was enjoying the meal, and Lu Zheng said, "Qingti, National Day is coming soon. I was thinking of inviting your parents, grandparents, and us to come to the old house for a gathering."
Zhou Qingti was a little surprised by his proposal. She knew that Lu Zheng was somewhat dissatisfied with her.
He has always been cold to her. Is it because of Lu Yanzhi that he took the initiative to invite her family this time?
He turned around and looked at Lu Yanzhi, who was still eating his meal.
"Okay, Dad, I'll talk to them later." After all, Lu Zheng was the elder, so there was no reason to refuse.
Zhou Qingti's grandparents are not in G City, but live in a small town under the jurisdiction of G City. They have never met Lu Yanzhi.
After dinner, Mrs. Lu made tea with them but did not ask them to stay.
Before leaving, Mrs. Lu pulled Zhou Qingti aside and whispered, "After National Day is Yanzhi's birthday. He hasn't celebrated his birthday since his parents divorced, and I always cooked him a bowl of longevity noodles. This year, I feel relieved to have you with me. You can spend it with him."
Zhou Qingti actually forgot his birthday, but after Mrs. Lu reminded her, she remembered that the birthday on the marriage certificate was October 12th.
"Okay, grandma, don't worry, I will definitely give him a happy birthday."
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At the Tcake checkout counter, Zhou Qingti was swiping her phone and searching online for birthday gifts that would move her boyfriend to tears.
The more she watched, the more outrageous it seemed to her. Was she sure she was crying because she was moved?
I opened WeChat and asked Lin Miao: [Lu Yanzhi’s birthday is coming up, what gift should I get him?]
Zhou Qingti had been thinking about it for two days and felt that he had everything he needed, and what she bought might not be as good as what he bought himself.
Lin Miao quickly replied: [Clothes? Tie? Pen?]
It's too cheap.
Zhou Qingti felt really embarrassed to give him these things. He gave her 200,000 yuan a month and bought her jewelry worth millions without blinking an eye.
【Something thoughtful.】
Lin Miao: [Cullinan, both thoughtful and valuable.]
[You can afford it now, it's only about 7 or 8 million.]
Lin Miao must be slacking off, as she replied to the message immediately and even had time to search for a picture of Cullinan on Baidu and sent it to her.
Zhou Qingti held his forehead with his hand. [My bank card balance allows it, but my heart doesn't!]
Lin Miao: [Watches, ranging from a few hundred to over a million dollars for you to choose from.]
Zhou Qingti thought it was a good idea and that Lu Yanzhi's wrist was very suitable for wearing a watch.
Zhou Qingti started searching on Baidu: world famous watches.
I quickly set a goal and sent a WeChat message to Lin Miao: [Miao, accompany me to Patek Philippe tomorrow]
Lin Miao: [Of course, I'll follow the rich woman to see the world.]
When Zhou Qingti returned home that night, he secretly took pictures of all the watches in Lu Yanzhi's closet, in case she bought one that he already had.
There are only two Patek Philippe agents in China, fortunately one of them is in City G.
Zhou Qingti originally thought that buying a watch was easy, but when she arrived at the counter, she realized that poverty had limited her imagination.
You have to queue up to buy some popular watches, and the waiting time is uncertain, it may be ten or eight years, which means it is an endless wait.
Basic models also require queuing, but the time is shorter, but they all need to be matched.
Lin Miao finally opened her eyes this time and sighed in her ear: "There are too many rich people in China."
No wonder Patek Philippe’s advertisement is: No one can own a Patek Philippe, it is just kept for the next generation.
Zhou Qingti had to give up. By the time she bought a Patek Philippe watch, Lu Yanzhi would have already celebrated five birthdays.
Lin Miao sighed as she walked out of the store: "It turns out that rich people also have troubles, and that is having money but not being able to spend it."
She suggested, "How about buying Lao?"
A Rolex shouldn't be that hard to buy.
But the Rolex counter was not in this mall, so Zhou Qingti turned into the Vauxhall counter.
As a result, you still have to wait for Vauxhall, but not as much as Patek Philippe. If you have accumulated consumption, it will be faster.
Zhou Qingti was overwhelmed. She knew nothing about some technical terms and only knew how to judge whether a watch looked good or not. Did she have to go for training every time she bought a watch?
Zhou Qingti said to the SA, "How about this, you recommend me a men's watch that costs around one million, and some women's watches that cost hundreds of thousands."
SA recommended several models to Zhou Qingti, and Zhou Qingti chose the 6000v from the Zongheng Sihai series, priced at 860,000 yuan, based on its appearance.
She chose the men's style quickly. After all, she wasn't going to wear it, so it just had to look good.
After spending a long time choosing the women's watch, I finally decided on a steel watch with a blue dial and diamonds. It is both elegant and everyday.
Zhou Qingti looked heroic but his heart was bleeding as he stood in line to sign and pay the deposit.
But her watch only costs 115,000 yuan, and the SA even sighed: "You love your husband very much."
Zhou Qingti thought, this is not a question of love or not.
The SA respectfully escorted them out and said, "I'll call you when the goods arrive."
Lin Miao held the Evian mineral water they gave her and said with some envy: "It's great to be rich."
Zhou Qingti took her arm and said, "Yes, thank you for accompanying me. I'll give you a little fragrance."
Lin Miao immediately revived: "Great, I love rich women."
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