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Chapter 40 Ah Du, why are you here?

Lan Shuowang was waiting for Chen Xiyi in his room, which was a study.

After walking in, you can see that there is a whole wall of books behind Lan Shuowang. When you take a closer look, you find that they are all books about cooking.

Chen Xi also bowed towards Lan Shuowang who was in front of the wooden case, "Mr. Lan..."

Lan Shuowang nodded and asked him, "Ah Shen said you have a store, so what do you want to learn?"

"I've been making soup base recently, and it's always not satisfactory. You asked me what I want to learn, but I don't really know."

Lan Shuowang asked some other questions, and Chen Xiyi answered them one by one.Then Lan Shuowang nodded and said, "I understand."

After finishing speaking, he got up from the wooden table, walked up to Chen Xiyi, and said to him: "Come with me..."

The apprentice who called Chen Xiyi outside the door didn't seem to be afraid of Lan Shuowang. Seeing the two coming out, he happily asked, "Master, where are you taking Mr. Chen?"

Lan Shuowang smiled, "Go to the ingredient store, your master already knew about it..."

Chen Xi also followed behind, hearing that Lan Shuowang wanted to take him to such a place, he also showed a little puzzlement.

"When you make a soup base, sometimes you feel that the taste is not enough. In addition to the heat and cooking time, the spices you choose at the beginning are also critical."

After walking for a while, I stopped in front of a house with "Food Shop" written on the board at the door.

Lan Shuowang pointed to the house in front of him and said to Chen Xiyi: "It's here, you go in and smell the smell of each spice first. If you remember everything, come to me again."

Chen Xi also looked at the room in front of him, thinking how many spices it would take to fill it up.

He asked nervously, "How many spices are there in total?"

"There are a total of one thousand and nine kinds."

At this time, a middle-aged man came out.

***

Chen Xi also lingered in Qianzhi Mountain for more than a month. During this period, he flew to Qianzhi Mountain on weekends and never met Sheng Que once.

Xu Shi felt that he was too indifferent to his friends. One afternoon when he had no class, he made an appointment with Sheng Que on his social account.

The two still went to Chen Xiyi's house, but this time Sheng Que drove directly to University B and waited for Chen Xiyi at the school gate.

The moment Chen Xiyi opened the car door and got in, Sheng Que felt as if he was driving a new car.

He has not seen Chen Xiyi for 43 days. Although the two still chat online, the satisfaction of seeing a real person is quite different.

Chen Xiyi first frowned and smiled at him: "Mr. Sheng, I haven't seen you for a long time..."

It's been a long time.

Chen Xi also lost some weight, Sheng Que asked: "Is it very tiring to run on both sides, why don't you choose a weekend to rest..."

Chen Xi also nodded, "I won't go this weekend, Mr. Lan and I have also agreed."

Chen Xiyi held the handrail of Sheng Que's car roof with one hand, and said, "Today, when I go to my house, I will still make tomato soup..."

Sheng Que looked a little doting on him, and said, "I haven't eaten tomato soup base for 43 days, but it feels fresh."

Chen Xiyi was shocked, 43 days, has he not seen Sheng Que for such a long time?

He took out his mobile phone calmly and looked through the chat records before the last time the two met.After counting the days, it was indeed 43 days ago.

He thought to himself, Sheng Que... actually remembers it so clearly...

After dinner, Sheng Que was full of praise for Chen Xiyi's freshly baked pot bottom, but Chen Xiyi was still not satisfied.

Sheng Que was puzzled and said, "Actually, the bottom of this pot has surpassed the bottom of most fresh soup pots I have ever eaten."

Chen Xiyi was still dissatisfied. He put away the food and said with a wry smile: "I always feel that it's almost tasteless..."

Sheng Que said, "Are you planning to go to Qianzhi Mountain after that?"

"Go..." Speaking of this, he suddenly said: "Blame me, I said before that I will take you there, next week I asked the people in the mountain, if you are free, you can go with me... The scenery on the mountain very good……"

Qianzhi Mountain is a famous mountain in Province Z, so Sheng Que has certainly been there, but now he pretends to be looking forward to it, and said, "Okay..."

This weekend, Chen Jianzhao suddenly came back from abroad.He didn't go back to City S first, but went directly to City B to find Sheng Que.

This happened suddenly, when Sheng Que was about to go out, Chen Jianzhao blocked the door.

The other party was travel and dusty, with a suitcase in his hand, friends for many years, Sheng Que had no reason to leave him aside, and went to the date with Chen Xiyi alone.

He asked Chen Jianzhao to come in with the suitcase, and told the other party to take a shower first, and then take a nap to beat the jet lag.

Then he walked to the balcony by himself and called Chen Xiyi.

At four or five in the afternoon, Chen Jianzhao woke up.

He went to the living room, but he didn't see Sheng Que, so he went to the study.

Sure enough, Sheng Que was there, he was wearing anti-radiation glasses, and there was a notebook on the table.

Chen Jianzhao knocked on the door and said, "Ah Ping, I have an appointment and I want to go out."

Sheng Que raised his eyebrows. He disrupted other people's dates, but he didn't expect his own to be well planned.

"There is a restaurant downstairs. If you're not in a hurry, you can order some food first, eat before going to the appointment."

After all, he and Chen Jianzhao didn't shine on the skill of cooking.

Chen Jianzhao nodded, remembering Sheng Que's attire when he came here just now, "I knew you well in City B when you were going out earlier, so you don't need to accompany me specially. If you have any arrangements, just do it!"

Sheng Que had already agreed with Chen Xiyi to go to his house tomorrow instead, so there is no rush today.

"My appointment is changed tomorrow, you go."

Chen Jianzhao nodded and strode out the door.

The meeting place between Chen Jianzhao and Chen Xiyi was set at a coffee shop not far from Huacheng, which was the place where Lan Bifu met Chen Xiyi last time.

Chen Xi was also close, so he arrived early.Speaking of which, except for the afterimage in Yuanshen's memory, he has never seen Chen Jianzhao in reality.

Chen Jianzhao, Yuanshen's older brother.

Recalling the original mood, Chen Xi could also feel his envy and inferiority towards Chen Jianzhao.

Eh!

Chen Jianzhao was very punctual, and he arrived 5 minutes earlier than the agreed time.

Seeing Chen Xiyi sitting on the booth, he felt unnatural for a moment.

After all, Chen Jianzhao couldn't remember the last time he saw Chen Xiyi.

He can only turn back the clock of memory.

In my impression, Chen Xiyi was mostly hunched over, with yellow curly hair, he seemed cynical at first glance, but in fact he didn't dare to look at people at all.

The one in front of him, even with so many preliminaries, Chen Jianzhao could hardly connect him with the Chen Xiyi in his memory.

The other party spoke first: "Brother..."

As soon as Chen Xiyi's voice came out, Chen Jianzhao immediately remembered.That's right, he even called himself in City C two years ago to ask him to help with Chen Zhengshen's matter.

This is the voice!

In early summer, Chen Jianzhao hadn't adapted to the climate because he came back from abroad.He was still wearing a thin dark sweater, he walked to the booth and said, "I seem to be late..."

Chen Xi also looked at him with a light smile, shook his head and said, "I'm close, so I came earlier."

He asked again, "I heard that my elder brother started business abroad, but now that he is back in China, it seems that the overseas business has almost expanded?"

Chen Jianzhao nodded, but didn't continue the conversation, but said directly: "I don't agree with you about selling shares!"

Chen Xi also said: "I've already signed the contract, I think it's very reasonable, and it didn't treat me badly."

Chen Jianzhao asked: "If there is no reason for uncle, would you sell this share to us?"

Chen Xi also shook his head. If it wasn't for Lan Shuowang, he would be a hot potato with this share in his hand.

"I will redeem the shares for you, and I will deal with my mother's side..."

Chen Xi also shook his head and said, "Brother...I'll call you Big Brother, but I'm afraid we all know each other well, how much this family relationship is."

Chen Xi also suppressed the smile on his face, and said lightly: "When I left City S, what I said to you was from the bottom of my heart. If your mother hadn't forced me to do so, I wouldn't have gone to City S either. I wouldn't have taken this How about a share..."

Chen Xiyi spread his hands, and said in distress, "You said you wanted to redeem the shares for me, but I'm really a prodigal, and I spent all the money Mrs. Chen transferred to me..."

"How could it be so long?"

After all, that is a huge sum of money!

Chen Xiyi said with a faint smile: "In short, I don't have the money to redeem the shares..."

Chen Jianzhao obviously didn't believe it, but Chen Xiyi didn't want to talk about it anymore.

At this time, Sheng Que, who was supposed to be at home, came over.

Seeing this, Chen Jianzhao was very surprised, "Ah Ping, why are you here?"

Sheng Que glanced at his friend, and there was a feeling between his brows that it really was so.

"I'll come over and have a look..."

He said that it was too strange for Chen Jianzhao to come to City B as soon as he returned to China.And when I went out to meet people that night, there was a sign of cutting the mess quickly.

I was overwhelmed, so I asked Chen Xiyi, and sure enough, Chen Jianzhao asked him out.

Since Chen Jianzhao was sitting on the outside, he deliberately moved in when he saw Sheng Que coming.

Unexpectedly, Sheng Que walked past him, circled around again, and sat on Chen Xiyi's left.

Chen Xiyi didn't show it on the surface, but Chen Jianzhao, who was sitting across from him, was shocked in his heart.

Although Sheng Que mentioned earlier that he and Chen Xiyi had a close relationship, he obviously did not expect them to be so close.

In front of his own face, he actually sat next to Chen Xiyi, which meant that he was quite close.

Looking at this posture, Sheng Que came here for Chen Xiyi.

After watching Sheng Que sit down, he called the waiter and poured Chen Xiyi another cup of tea.

Of course, Sheng Que didn't forget his friend, but no matter how you look at it, it was incidental.

He remembered that Sheng Que accompanied Chen Xiyi to attend the press conference in City S last time, and Lin Weichen was also in City S at the time. He couldn't ask Sheng Que face to face, but Lin Weichen's big speaker should be happy to tell him.

Sheng Que came, and neither of the two brothers mentioned the change of shares.For a while, there was nothing to say.

It was Chen Xiyi who saw that Chen Jianzhao was a little embarrassed, and asked some irrelevant questions. Chen Jianzhao answered, and the scene gradually heated up.

Sheng Que looked at the scene where the two brothers seemed to be "happy and harmonious", one hand casually rested on the back of Chen Xiyi's chair, and the other hand took a sip of the coffee on the table.

Chen Jianzhao watched, and found that he looked at himself as usual, but whenever he looked at Chen Xiyi, it was much more affectionate.

Ah Du...

Chen Jianzhao almost thought that he was wrong, so he looked up again, only to find that Sheng Que was looking at him.

Chen Jianzhao felt more and more weird.

Just at this moment, Lan Bifu called him.

He subconsciously thought it was a matter of work, so he got up and left the booth.

How did you know that it was Lan Jiyan's voice on the other side of the phone, "Jian Zhao, I'm at your house, why don't you come back to City S?"