Chapter 431: That's Not a Decent Woman]
Before the Lunar New Year, it should have been the day to finish the work and divide the money and go home.
Unexpectedly, a new order came in. The quantity was not large, but the partner was the one that Ye Mei and Sheng Zhiwu had always wanted to establish a relationship with.
After weighing the pros and cons, they decided to take the order.
Ding Chun and others returned to Beijing for the New Year as usual, and they stayed in Shenzhen to deal with this order.
Calculating the time, it would be almost the New Year by the time they finished this order.
A few days after the New Year, those of them who do business will start to rush to get busy.
If they want to go back to Beijing for the New Year in these few days, it will be tiring enough to go back and forth.
After Ye Mei figured it out, she simply stayed in Shenzhen for the New Year.
Now there is a group of people at home, and without her, she is not afraid that her mother and the others will feel lonely.
When Sheng Zhiwu heard that she wanted to spend the New Year in Shenzhen, he was very happy in his heart, but he still pretended to be calm on his face. He said, "Are you going to stay in Shenzhen for the New Year?"
Ye Mei said, "Yes."
Sheng Zhiwu said, "You alone..."
He was about to say that it was not safe for you to spend the New Year alone in another place.
But then he thought that Ye Mei could beat ten people alone, and he would be scolded and looked down upon if he said she was unsafe.
Sheng Zhiwu changed his words again and said, "It's too lonely for you to spend the New Year alone. I'll stay too. It's really tiring to run back and forth. We have been busy until now at the end of the year. If I don't have a good rest, I feel that my body will not be able to bear it."
Ye Mei didn't think much about it. She smiled and said, "Okay, we will be partners then."
Hearing the word "partner", Sheng Zhiwu's heart skipped a beat.
It was obviously just a pure word, but he couldn't help but think more.
Just after they agreed to spend the New Year together in Shenzhen, Huo Qingchi contacted Sheng Zhiwu and asked him to help contact a reliable jeweler in Hong Kong to customize an engagement ring.
Sheng Zhiwu didn't expect Huo Qingchi to progress so quickly. But he thought... he
was still a good brother, sister and friend to Ye Mei.
He thought that he had been showing kindness to Ye Mei, and Ye Mei accepted it naturally, and even treated him twice as well. This made him happy and disappointed.
Ye Mei accepted his kindness, but did not receive his heart. She treated him twice as well because Ye Mei was grateful and had a cheerful personality.
If this continued, Sheng Zhiwu felt that he would be a good friend with Ye Mei for life.
He didn't want to be just a good friend with Ye Mei.
Sheng Zhiwu often pretends to be stupid in front of outsiders, so that others will not find out his feelings for Ye Mei.
He is afraid that Ye Mei will quietly stay away from him after hearing about it.
But he also hopes that Ye Mei can find out his feelings and accept him.
How can he avoid being gossiped about and let Ye Mei feel his feelings?
Sheng Zhiwu thought of Huo Qingchi custom-making an engagement ring for Ye Qingyue.
When sorting out the list with Ye Mei in the house, Sheng Zhiwu pretended to ask casually: "Xiao Ye, Xiaochun seems to have bought a pair of gold earrings for her mother when she went home this time."
Ding Chun has always been filial, and her first reaction after making money is to buy things for her mother.
After choosing and choosing, he felt that gold would be the best gift, so he chose gold earrings.
"Yeah, I've seen it, it's pretty."
Ye Mei held a notebook in one hand and an abacus in the other, and replied casually: "Why? You want to buy some too?"
She thought Sheng Zhiwu wanted to buy gold earrings for Sheng's mother.
Thinking of Sheng's mother, she had a headache.
It must be said that with a filial son like Sheng Zhiwu, Sheng's mother dared to hurt people so recklessly, right?
Sheng Zhiwu did not answer the question directly, but said: "Xiaochun also seems to have bought herself a silver bracelet. Do you girls like to wear jewelry?"
"It depends on the person."
Ye Mei did not raise her head, and muttered in her heart that Sheng Zhiwu, this fool, did not go home for the New Year, so that he would not be sucked dry by Sheng's mother, and he was still rushing to give money to others far away. He was too soft-hearted.
She said, "My sister doesn't wear jewelry very often, especially on her hands, she thinks it's too much."
Grandma and Grandpa once took them out shopping, bought jade bracelets and gold bracelets for Ye Xianghong, and a watch for Ye Feng. When they wanted to buy jewelry for Ye Qingyue and Ye Mei, Ye Qingyue refused.
Because of work, Ye Qingyue had trouble wearing jewelry, and she had to take it off when something happened.
"Your sister doesn't like wearing jewelry?!"
Sheng Zhiwu was shocked. He wanted to change the subject to Ye Mei, but he didn't expect to hear another piece of news.
But Huo Qingchi still wanted to give Ye Qingyue a ring!
Ye Mei almost dropped her abacus when he yelled at her, "What the hell are you yelling about?"
She was quick to sense that Sheng Zhiwu was not right, so she put down her things immediately, forced Sheng Zhiwu into a corner, and "tortured him severely".
Soon, Sheng Zhiwu betrayed his good brother and told him the truth about Huo Qingchi wanting to make a wedding ring for Ye Qingyue.
He had already contacted the jewelers in Hong Kong and sent them the style Huo Qingchi wanted, and it was an expedited order. The items were expected to be delivered to Huo Qingchi soon.
But Ye Qingyue didn't expect that the jewelry on her hand
was redundant. Sheng Zhiwu began to worry that Huo Qingchi had given the wrong gift.
"Should I call Qingchi now?" Sheng Zhiwu asked hesitantly.
Ye Mei motioned him to calm down, "I mean why are you talking about all this nonsense? Don't worry, if it was given by Huo Qingchi, Qingyue would definitely not mind the trouble."
Sheng Zhiwu asked, "Why?"
He remembered that Ye Qingyue was a very principled person and would not easily change her habits for others.
Ye Mei said, "That's an engagement ring. Which woman would dislike an engagement ring? Unless she dislikes her partner, or the ring is too ugly."
Sheng Zhiwu said hurriedly, "The ring is not ugly."
Ye Mei also said, "Qingyue doesn't dislike Huo Qingchi either, so don't worry, my sister will definitely like his gift."
But she didn't expect that the boy had done so much secretly, even buying an engagement ring.
Ye Mei disliked Huo Qingchi for stealing the cabbage from her family's field, but was also relieved that Huo Qingchi cared so much about Ye Qingyue.
"What about you?"
As she was thinking, she suddenly heard Sheng Zhiwu's voice, "Do you hate wearing jewelry?"
Ye Mei subconsciously said, "I don't wear it very often."
After saying that, she realized that Sheng Zhiwu's voice just now seemed a little nervous.
Ye Mei's eyes couldn't help but fall on Sheng Zhiwu, and she saw that the man who always had a smile on his face in the past was suddenly silent and lowered his eyes. The dim light in the room shone through his long eyelashes, casting a small shadow on his face, with a slightly disappointed feeling.
"I also noticed it."
Sheng Zhiwu suddenly said, "I have known you for so long, whether you are wearing men's clothes or women's clothes, you don't wear jewelry."
He cares so much about Ye Mei, how could he not notice this?
But he still bought it.
Sheng Zhiwu didn't know why he had to buy things that Ye Mei didn't use.
Now that he heard Ye Mei say that she would not wear it, he could not help but feel disappointed.
Sheng Zhiwu thought, sometimes people just like to be mean.
Isn't what he did mean?
"My family was poor before, I couldn't afford jewelry, but I was clumsy and couldn't weave beautiful flower ropes like other girls, so I never wore them."
Just then, Sheng Zhiwu suddenly heard Ye Mei's voice.
It was faint, and there was no sadness in it.
But when it fell into his ears, it was like a piece of snow, passing through his body, melting on his heart, leaving a small faint wet mark.
Sheng Zhiwu looked up at Ye Mei.
Ye Mei picked up the account book and looked at the numbers on it. She said slowly, "When I grew up and got married, my husband's family said that all the money was used to give my family a dowry, so they would not buy me any jewelry. They also said that a good woman should be simple. I always want to wear jewelry and dress up. That's not what a decent woman does."