Shen Yimo took off his sunglasses, unbuckled his seat belt and got out of the car. Yu Xiao followed him immediately. A man in his fifties, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and with gray hair, had been standing at the door of the villa. When he saw Shen Yimo coming over, he smiled and nodded.
"Uncle Ming, how are you doing recently?" Shen Yimo walked over and shook hands with Uncle Ming cordially. He had a warm smile on his face and behaved in a gentle and elegant manner, more gentlemanly than a gentleman. He was completely unlike the man Yu Xiao had met before.
"Well, no big deal!" Uncle Ming smiled gently, his eyes fell on Yu Xiao, his eyes a little curious: "Who is this?"
"Hello, uncle! I am the president's secretary, you can just call me Xiaoxiao!" Yu Xiao smiled and nodded slightly to Uncle Ming, introducing herself in a clear voice.
"Well, okay! Then come in together!" Uncle Ming nodded, turned around and led the two of them into the living room.
The area of this villa is not very large, but it is decorated very attentively. Uncle Ming warmly invited the two to sit on the sofa, and while chatting with Shen Yimo, he took out a set of purple clay tea sets and placed them on the coffee table.
Shen Yimo and Uncle Ming were talking about trivial matters in life, which sounded more like family matters. Yu Xiao sat quietly on the side, watching Uncle Ming wash the tea set with hot water. Although he was chatting with Shen Yimo, his movements were meticulous. Looking at those standard movements, you can tell at a glance that Uncle Ming is a person who knows how to drink tea.
"Uncle Ming, this is five million!" After greeting Uncle Ming, Shen Yimo took out a check from his pocket and placed it in front of Uncle Ming.
"Okay! Then I'll put it away first!" Uncle Ming didn't even say a word of courtesy. He picked up the check and went into the next room. After a while, he came out and continued his previous work.
After cleaning the tea set, Uncle Ming took out a small wooden box, took out some tea leaves from it with a teaspoon and put them into the pot. Then he took the boiling water next to it and poured it into the pot to moisten the tea.
"Xiaoxiao, do you like tea?" Uncle Ming, who had been chatting with Shen Yimo, suddenly turned the topic to Yu Xiao and asked her with a smile.
"Yeah, I like it!" Although she is good at making coffee, her favorite drink is green tea.
"What kind of tea do you usually like to drink?" Uncle Ming poured the water for moistening the tea into the tea tray while chatting with Yu Xiao.
"I drink a lot of different kinds of tea. I drink all kinds of tea."
"Tea is a good thing! Do you know why?" Uncle Ming stopped what he was doing, looked at Yu Xiao and Shen Yimo and asked with a smile.
Tea is a good thing!
Anyone who has drunk tea knows that it is a good thing. People who drink tea as a beverage may only say that it tastes good. If you raise it to a spiritual level and ask you to say why, perhaps few people can express it accurately.
So this question seems simple, but it is actually quite profound. People who don’t know how to drink tea don’t understand the meaning of tea, and they don’t know what the meaning of drinking tea is.
"Because tea can make people calm and free from desires!"
When her grandfather was alive, he loved drinking tea the most. Before she was fifteen, she often heard her grandfather talk about tea, but after that, she never heard him again.
Because that year, my grandfather died in a car accident!
And her memory was completely wiped out that year!
"Well said!" Yu Xiao's words were simple, but won Uncle Ming's approval. Putting the teapot away, he picked up the kettle and brewed it while saying, "Nowadays, many people pursue fame and fortune, and always feel that time is not enough. After making one million, they want ten million, and after making ten million, they want one hundred million. Money can't make people idle, because there is not enough money. But tea can make people idle. Once you sit in front of the tea table, you can't help but idle. In this fast-paced society, it is a rare thing to be willing to slow down, idle, and soak in tea. Not everyone can do it!"
"Uncle Ming, what you said is very good!" After listening to Uncle Ming's words, Yu Xiao admired him very much.
Uncle Ming looked at her and smiled, then picked up the teapot and poured the tea into the fairness cup.
"You should write down these words and imprint them in your mind." Shen Yimo beside her looked at her with a teasing smile.
"I'm just an employee. You should be the one who remembers this, right, President?"
"Don't worry! I've already written it down. Didn't the ancients say that you should take a break from your busy life for half a day? That's why we're here today?"
Uncle Ming smiled as he listened to their conversation. He handed a cup of tea to Yu Xiao and said, "Xiao girl, how does it taste?"
Yu Xiao felt very friendly when she heard the voice of "Xiao girl". She took the tea with both hands, put it to her nose and sniffed the tea fragrance. Then she took a sip and looked up at Uncle Ming: "It has a strong floral fragrance and a sweet taste after taking a sip."
"Well, you are right, girl! Is there anyone in your family who likes to drink tea?" Uncle Ming loves tea, and he likes to talk about tea when he meets someone who likes to drink tea. Although Yu Xiao doesn't talk much, he feels that he has a good relationship with the little girl in front of him.
"My grandpa loves to drink tea, and he often talked to me about tea when I was a child."
"Really? Then where does your grandpa live? I can have a cup of tea with him when I have time!" Uncle Ming immediately became interested when he heard it.
"He died when I was fifteen!"
"Really? It seems that he and I are not destined to be together. But we are still very destined to be together, Xiao girl, when you are free in the future, if you feel really bored, you can come to find Uncle Ming and drink tea with him, how about that?"
"Okay! I'll come! Just don't bother me, Uncle Ming!" Yu Xiao always felt a sense of intimacy with Uncle Ming. Hearing his invitation, he immediately nodded.
"How come?" Uncle Ming took out a business card from the drawer under the coffee table and handed it to Yu Xiao: "Call Uncle Ming when you come!"
"Thank you, Uncle Ming!"
Yu Xiao originally thought that Shen Yimo brought him here to meet a client, but chatting with Uncle Ming seemed more like meeting an old friend or visiting a relative. If it weren't for the five million at the beginning, Yu Xiao would have almost had an illusion.
When the two got in the car, Yu Xiao looked at Uncle Ming and asked a question.
"Uncle Ming, what kind of tea did you just make for us?"
Uncle Ming smiled and said, "Do you know the four famous teas of Wuyi Mountain? What you just drank was the first of the four famous teas!"
Yu Xiao's eyes widened, a little surprised: "Could it be the Da Hong Pao that costs 5 million per kilogram?"
What she just drank was actually Dahongpao
If she heard correctly, then the amount she just spent was probably calculated in thousands of yuan!
OMG!
Uncle Ming looked at her surprised expression and smiled: "Xiao girl, you know a lot! Don't mind how much it is worth. Tea abandons its commercial value and it is just tea. Drinking tea is just a state of mind, not its price!"
"Okay, Uncle Ming, I understand!" Yu Xiao nodded.
Uncle Ming handed the box to Yu Xiao: "Help Yi Mo hold this. Get in the car! Come back when you have time!"
Yu Xiao nodded and got into the car. When the car left, she smiled and waved to Uncle Ming.
When the car drove far away from the villa, Yu Xiao looked back and could still see Uncle Ming standing at the gate. She turned back and stole a glance at Shen Yimo next to her. She was a little puzzled. When this man said goodbye to Uncle Ming, his face was still sunny, but as soon as the car started, his face turned completely sunny and cloudy, and now it was almost cloudy. Knowing that she couldn't afford to offend this man, she simply sat in her seat honestly and turned her head to look at the fleeting buildings and streets outside the window.
Along the way, Shen Yimo didn't say a word. His face was cold, and his whole body seemed to be covered with ice. This was the gloomiest time Yu Xiao had seen this man since she met him. The closer she got to this man, the more she found that he was a moody person.
The car arrived at the company, and the two got out of the car. Yu Xiao took the box and followed Shen Yimo into the elevator and returned to the floor where he worked. Yu Xiao followed him into the president's office and put the box in his hand on Shen Yimo's desk.
"Boss, if there's nothing else, I'll leave first!"
"Something happened!" Shen Yimo looked at her and said calmly, the expression on his face returning to its previous state.
Yu Xiao immediately stood up and waited for his instructions.
Shen Yimo took the tea box in front of him and examined it from left to right. Then he put it down and looked at her, with a meaningful smile on his lips: "There is a full pound of tea in this! The check I gave Uncle Ming just now is the money for this pound of Da Hong Pao."
Yu Xiao blinked slightly as she listened to his words, waiting for him to continue.
"If one or two ounces of tea can be brewed fifty times, how much do you think it would cost per brew?" Shen Yimo leaned back in the leather chair, tapping the table with his fingers, and looked at Yu Xiao with an inquiring look.
"Ten thousand!" Looking at the man's expression and listening to what he said, Yu Xiao knew what bad idea he was up to again.
"A pot of ten thousand yuan tea for three people, the average price per person is three thousand three. Since you are my secretary, I will give you a small discount, and you can pay three thousand!"
"Ahem... Why do I have to pay three thousand?" Yu Xiao almost choked to death by Shen Yimo's words. She just drank two cups, okay? After going around for a long time, it turned out that he was waiting for her here. This guy is too sinister!
"Because I paid first and you drank the tea later, even though you drank it at Uncle Ming's house, this tea is mine! I know you are a girl who doesn't like to owe favors to others, so let's talk it out!" He was still brooding over paying the bill for the Western food at noon, so he would not give up until he made her compromise.
"What the president means is that I have to spend my own money to buy drinks when I accompany you to work?" Isn't this too much of a bully? Yu Xiaoqiang suppressed his inner anger and looked at him with a frown.
Shen Yimo didn't care about her attitude. He looked at her and shrugged: "Didn't you pay once at noon? I don't need to explain anything this time, right?"
"Shen Yimo! Don't go too far!" Her patience also had its limits. This man really treated her as a soft persimmon and squeezed her however he wanted.
Shen Yimo smiled warmly, and that smile could make people angry at this time. He stood up from the leather chair, walked to Yu Xiao, leaned on the table, and looked at her with his arms folded: "Too much? I don't think you used this word appropriately? At lunch, you took the initiative to pay the bill. Since you don't like to owe others, I don't like others to owe me! Isn't it better for us to settle the bill like this?" (To be continued)