Chapter 53 Chapter 53 He is in a bad mood
Wen Yao was a little surprised. She didn't know why he wanted to talk to her. She was worried that he had met Zhou Zesheng and wanted to assign her another task, which would ruin her afternoon schedule.
After answering the phone, Jiang Yue asked, "Are you in the hotel?"
She answered honestly: "No."
"Where are you? I'm planning to change my flight ticket back home." Jiang Yue said.
"Going back?" Wen Yao was surprised. "Isn't it tomorrow or the day after tomorrow?"
"It's today." Jiang Yue's tone was a little low and lost, as if his work was not going well.
Wen Yao sighed inwardly, "What time do we leave? Haven't we changed our flight yet? Otherwise, let's go later. Give me three or four hours, no, four or five hours will be enough."
"Where are you and what are you doing?" Jiang Yue asked.
Wen Yao saw the table of food in front of her and an inspiration suddenly struck her: "Where are you? Have you had lunch? If not, come to my place for lunch, it's delicious!" After that, she told the name of her branch.
Jiang Yue paused, then replied, "I'll be there now."
Jiang Yue was indeed nearby and arrived in about ten minutes. Wen Yao felt that this was simply arranged by God. As soon as she saw him, she pulled him to sit down and asked him to eat all the remaining dishes on the table.
Jiang Yue had lived for more than twenty years and had never been the kind of person who "ate up all the leftover dishes", but he really hadn't eaten, and the food in front of him was not too unpalatable, so he didn't argue with Wen Yao, sat down, and asked the waiter to add a set of bowls and chopsticks.
Wen Yao decided to use this opportunity to persuade Jiang Yue: "Have you ever been to Yandaixie Street?"
"No." Jiang Yue replied.
Wen Yao was even happier and immediately said, "Why don't we go shopping together later? I heard there are paper-cuts, sugar figurines, snacks, and even ancient buildings."
Jiang Yue snorted coldly and didn't even bother to reply.
Wen Yao added, "It's nearby, just past the entrance. Go take a look around. Isn't Zhou Zesheng a foreign Chinese? Buy him some souvenirs and give them to him next time you see him."
Jiang Yue didn't reply again, and seemed to have no interest in what she said.
Wen Yao suggested in a low voice: "Then you go back first, and I'll go back later."
Jiang Yue looked up at her, and after a moment, he said coldly, "Two hours."
Wen Yao was stunned, and it took her a long time to realize that he meant she could only stroll around for two hours.
Okay, two hours is two hours, she agreed.
It is within walking distance to Yandaixie Street. On weekdays, there are not as many tourists as described on the Internet, but there are still quite a few. She was particularly curious. After walking a few steps, she saw a paper-cutting shop. She went inside for a walk and came out to see a stall selling stinky tofu. The aroma was so fragrant and there were many people queuing up. It looked like a time-honored and delicious shop, so she immediately joined the queue.
Jiang Yue was standing a little distance away from her. He didn't queue up, but just looked at the stinky tofu stall and the long queue in front of him with disgust, as if this place was insulting to his taste.
The stinky tofu fried quickly and it was her turn soon. She turned around and asked Jiang Yue, "Would you like a bowl?"
Jiang Yue glanced at the black and smelly stuff in the frying pan, turned his head away and said nothing.
She then said to the boss, "Just one bowl."
I took the stinky tofu and continued walking down the street. After a few steps, I saw a stall selling barbecued skewers.
This kebab shop was even more popular. Wen Yao wanted to try it after seeing it, but Jiang Yue was definitely not interested. She was about to tell him that she would go to queue up, but Jiang Yue suddenly came over and pulled her to the corner, facing her as if he wanted to snatch her stinky tofu, but he didn't eat it.
"What are you doing..." Wen Yao was about to speak when she inadvertently saw a familiar figure: Jiang Lin!
He was wearing white casual clothes and an ordinary baseball cap, standing in the crowd just like a celebrity on a secret visit, causing many people around him to whisper, as if they were guessing which unfamiliar young man he was. There was another person next to him, also wearing casual clothes and a cowboy hat, with a very tall and strong figure, who felt very familiar to her.
"Look at Jiang Lin, the one next to him is..."
"Don't talk." Wen Yao was interrupted by Jiang Yue before she could finish her words. She knew at this time that Jiang Yue didn't want to be seen by Jiang Lin.
Then she suddenly remembered that the man in the cowboy hat was Zhou Zesheng.
Didn't Jiang Yue ask her about Zhou Zesheng's schedule yesterday? So Zhou Zesheng really was in Beijing, but why was he with Jiang Lin? They seemed to be on good terms.
After a while, Wen Yao told him: "They went into a pipe shop."
Jiang Yue said nothing, pulling Wen Yao along as they walked forward. After a few steps, they were already a good distance away from the pipe shop. Adding to the crowds of people, the two ends were practically invisible. But the street was only about two or three hundred meters long, and those few quick steps had already covered more than half of it.
Wen Yao wanted to ask why Zhou Zesheng was with Jiang Lin, and whether they had a good relationship, but seeing Jiang Yue's expression, she said nothing.
He was silent, his face expressionless, but she could sense he was in a bad mood. She had never imagined that the proud and conceited Jiang Yue would one day avoid someone on the street. She remembered that in the novel, even at the moment of his final suicide, he was still arrogant, thinking that Jiang Lin was a disgraceful illegitimate child, and that their completely different fates were nothing but injustice.
If she thought about it carefully, since Jiang Yue asked her about Zhou Zesheng, it proved that he still wanted to meet Zhou Zesheng. Although their status was not low, Jiang Yue did not call Zhou Zesheng directly, but figured it out on his own. This proved that in this cooperation, Jiang Yue needed Zhou Zesheng's help.
He was very clear about his and Jiang Lin's identities, and he would definitely not compete with Jiang Lin for the same person. If he did, he would definitely be the loser. So before this, he definitely didn't know the relationship between Zhou Zesheng and Jiang Lin.
He had been in a bad mood today and had returned home early, which proved that things hadn't gone well, perhaps because of the meeting with Zhou Zesheng. However, he had only just now discovered that Zhou Zesheng and Jiang Lin were together.
It was not a business meeting, but a sightseeing trip. He was still taking the risk of attending a cocktail party that he wanted to avoid just to see Zhou Zesheng, while Jiang Lin and Zhou Zesheng had already become friends who talked and laughed.
Wen Yao didn't say anything. After thinking for several minutes, she couldn't think of any words to comfort him.
She stopped at a milk tea shop in front of her and said to him, "Wait a minute, I'll go buy a cup of milk tea!"
Before Jiang Yue finished speaking, she immediately ran to the milk tea shop. There were many milk tea shops on this street, but there was no queue.
Wen Yao usually likes to buy the signature milk tea shop so that she won’t go wrong, but this time she ordered a popular item and held the signature “Half a Day in Floating Life” milk tea in her hand.
When she got to Jiang Yue, she handed him the cup of milk tea and said, "Buy one get one free. Please help me with this."
Sweetness can make people feel relaxed and happy, and milk tea is a cup that can relieve worries. She knows that Jiang Yue dislikes this kind of junk food, but he must try it this time.
Jiang Yue turned his head away, as if she was offering him a cup of poison, and ruthlessly refused: "Throw it away if you can't finish it." Then he walked forward.
Wen Yao chased after him and continued to pass the milk tea to him: "It would be a waste to throw it away. Just take a sip. I promise that after you take a sip, the door to a new world will open up for you, and you will never be able to live without it!"
Jiang Yue still ignored her, so Wen Yao chased after him and tried to persuade him again, "Have you ever heard the saying, 'One is fate, two is luck, three is feng shui, four is accumulating good deeds, and five is reading?' You either have the other things or you don't have them, but accumulating good deeds is what you haven't done yet. Doing good deeds is doing good things, and doing good deeds can change your destiny."
Jiang Yue was almost amused by her words. He stopped and asked her, "What does drinking milk tea for you have to do with accumulating good karma?"
"Save food!" Wen Yao said, "If you drink it, you will help me, the employees of the milk tea shop, the workers who make the raw materials, and the farmers who grow the food. This is accumulating good karma."
Jiang Yue still refused to give in, so Wen Yao put a straw in the milk tea and brought it to his mouth: "Please, just drink it. Look, I've been begging you for so long, and everyone is looking at me!"
Jiang Yue didn't care about other people's opinions, but seeing her eyes looking at him like a deer, he took the milk tea and took a sip with a frown.
Wen Yao looked at him expectantly: "Is it delicious? Isn't it extra sweet, smooth, rich, and refreshing?"
Jiang Yue smiled helplessly: "Half the cup is sugar, of course it's sweet."
Although he said this, he did not throw away the milk tea after all, and continued to drink it while walking.
After all this commotion, they had already walked the entire street. According to Jiang Yue's arrangement, they had to go back immediately, but he didn't mention it now, so Wen Yao pretended not to know.
Her previous plan was to go to Xiangshan Park first, then to Yandaixie Street, have some special mutton hotpot, and then decide whether to go for a stroll on the bar street.
But now I can finish walking around Yandaixie Street in ten minutes, and it is still a long way to go before having mutton hotpot for dinner.
There are also a lot of scenic spots nearby, but Jiang Yue obviously has no time or interest in them. Wen Yao thought about it and decided to take him boating. People can heal their mood best in natural scenery, and a boat trip to enjoy the lake should be a nice experience.
"Since you're here anyway, why not play with me for half a day? If I play alone and something goes wrong, you'll be in trouble," she suggested.
Jiang Yue didn't know what she was thinking. She didn't say either good or bad. To her, it was good, so she immediately ran to Houhai Park.
Boating here is quite expensive. The smallest four-person boat costs 120 yuan per hour, and the electric one is even more expensive, 200 yuan. She used to think it was a luxury and just watched it, but it’s different now because she has money.
When buying the ticket, Jiang Yue finally spoke, looking at her with a dumb smile: "Is this what you want to do here? Isn't there a park in Binjiang? Isn't there this in the park in Binjiang?"
"But what I'm thinking now is, isn't traveling about doing whatever you want? Besides, a riverside cruise doesn't give you the feeling of 'Let's Row the Boat', you don't understand." Wen Yao argued righteously while paying.
Jiang Yue's smile widened: "'Let's Row the Boat' is Beihai Park."
Wen Yao was stunned. She didn't expect that Jiang Yue, an international student, would understand this.
At this time, the administrator who collected the money said in a Beijing accent: "Houhai and Beihai are the same sea, the same."
Wen Yao immediately looked at Jiang Yue: "Did you hear that? It's the same."
After getting on the boat, the two sat opposite each other, but Jiang Yue didn't move. It was not until Wen Yao reminded him that he stepped on the pedals and started to drive the boat. He looked very clumsy.
Although Wen Yao wanted to cheer him up, she couldn't help but complain, "When your family was little, didn't you bring a driver to help you row the boat when you went out? You really look like a young master."
Jiang Yue didn't reply for a while. After thinking for a while, he was able to control the boat very well. Then he replied, "I have never ridden this kind of boat before."
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