Gu Nianzhi stopped and turned back with a smile on his face: "Professor He, is there anything else?"
He Zhichu still put his forehead on his hands, sat on the sofa, and looked at her quietly without moving.
Gu Nianzhi didn't speak either, waiting patiently for him to speak.
The huge living room was quiet, and the snow-white window screens hung straight down from the tall floor-to-ceiling windows like a waterfall.
There is a clock as tall as one person in the corner of the room, which looks like an antique. The pendulum is still swinging, and the occasional chink makes the room seem even quieter.
The maid and housekeeper didn't know where they were hiding, and they were completely invisible.
The two of them looked at each other quietly, as if they were separated by thousands of mountains and rivers.
He Zhichu pursed his lips, looked away, and said in a calm voice: "I promise to give you an eighteenth birthday gift. Now there are three places for you to choose. One is in the banquet hall of the Capitol Building, and the other is in the The Rose Garden on the South Lawn of the White House, and the third place is on a high-seas cruise ship in the Caribbean. - Which one you want to choose, tell me tomorrow. Time is running out, it’s time to make preparations.”
Gu Nianzhi smiled, his eyes a little wandering, "Professor He, you are too polite. I was just joking before, don't take it seriously. How can you spend money on my birthday? No need, I will have a cake with my relatives and friends. Just blow out a candle.”
For her, although her eighteenth birthday is important, the most important thing is who she spends it with.
If Huo Shaoheng could come to celebrate her birthday in person, it wouldn't matter even if there were no cakes and candles. As long as she could see him standing in front of her and say happy birthday to her personally, her eighteenth-year-old coming-of-age ceremony would be perfect.
He Zhichu clearly saw that Gu Nianzhi was absent-minded. His fists were clenched so tightly that veins popped out on the back of his hands, which were very eye-catching on his fair skin, like ice cracks on fine porcelain.
"You don't have to take it seriously, but when I speak, He Zhichu never breaks my promise." He Zhichu stood up, "You don't have to refuse, and don't overthink it. I will hold a birthday party for my students on their birthdays. If you don’t believe it, ask yourself.”
Gu Nianzhi withdrew his thoughts and thought about it carefully.
She once heard her senior graduate students say that those supervisors would indeed celebrate the birthdays of their graduate students, but most of them would go out to a restaurant to have a meal and then go to sing karaoke. She did not listen to the generous ones like He Zhichu. Said.
Of course, a mentor as powerful as He Zhichu cannot be compared to those people.
"It takes time to prepare for any of these three choices. You'd better pick one quickly." He Zhichu turned around and walked towards the spiral staircase, leaving Gu Nianzhi with a tall and lonely figure.
Gu Nianzhi bit his lip and saw that He Zhichu was angry.
Thinking about it again, with his ability, these three choices are probably like going to a movie, going to a restaurant to eat, or going to a karaoke bar to sing karaoke on their birthday.
"... Will a cruise ship on the high seas of the Caribbean be troublesome?" Gu Nianzhi said weakly.
She has selfish motives.
If her eighteenth birthday was held in the U.S. Congress or the Rose Garden on the South Lawn of the White House, the likelihood that Huo Shaoheng would come would be very low.
And even if he overcomes all difficulties and can actually come to see her, Gu Nianzhi is reluctant to put him in danger.
She knew that Huo Shaoheng's identity was too sensitive, and the CIA in the United States might not have been keeping an eye on him...
He Zhichu stopped in his tracks, put his hands on the handrail of the stairs, stepped on the stairs with two long legs, one high and one low, and said without looking back: "Okay, it's a cruise ship on the high seas of the Caribbean."
He felt better.
Because secretly he is also willing to do the third way.
On a cruise ship on the high seas, he could celebrate her birthday without any worries.
But he still didn't look back. He slowly walked up the stairs alone and threw Gu Nianzhi downstairs.
Gu Nianzhi sighed, turned and left the main room, and went to the garage to find the driver who took him home.
The driver was very talkative and told Gu Nianzhi a lot of interesting things about He Zhichu and his students.
It turns out that He Zhichu does celebrate the birthdays of his graduate students every year, and they do so generously.
In the past three years, he has sent his students on day trips to Las Vegas, booked theaters at Universal Studios in Florida, and taken them hunting in Africa.
In comparison, the three options he prepared for himself are indeed not out of the ordinary.
Gu Nianzhi breathed a sigh of relief and secretly laughed at himself for being a petty person.
He Zhichu was too far away from her. A girl from an ordinary family like her couldn't imagine how these top elites spent their money.
Returning to the apartment where he and Zhao Liangze lived, Gu Nianzhi told him about the eighteenth birthday gift: "... Professor He gave three choices, including the U.S. Congress, the White House, and a cruise ship on the high seas of the Caribbean. I will choose We spent our birthday on a cruise ship on the high seas of the Caribbean. Is it easier for Uncle Huo to go?"
Zhao Liangze smiled, "The high seas are indeed much easier than entering the US Congress and the White House. I told them that Nobita will come too."
"Great!" Gu Nianzhi was so happy that her eyes curved into two curves, and her thick black eyelashes flickered on her fair and pink face, like two disturbing butterflies.
Zhao Liangze looked away, "I'll go tell them."
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"Master Huo, Professor He plans to celebrate Nian's eighteenth birthday on a cruise ship on the high seas of the Caribbean." Zhao Liangze sent the message back without using a video call.
When Huo Shaoheng saw the news, the corners of his lips curled up slightly, but he quickly calmed down.
"Nobita, you don't need to bother." Huo Shaoheng called Yin Shixiong, "Nianzhi's eighteenth birthday will be held on the high seas."
Yin Shixiong was happy, "On the high seas? Hahahaha, great, great, great, we can be unscrupulous on the high seas, hahaha..."
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When Mei Xiawen received the news about Gu Nianzhi's eighteenth birthday party, her birthday was only a week away.
"...It was actually held on a cruise ship on the high seas of the Caribbean?" He looked at the electronic invitation sent to him by Gu Nianzhi and was very surprised. "Who is this generous?"
Jiang Hongcha lay on his back, hugged his neck, and looked at the electronic invitation on the computer with him. She was also surprised: "Isn't your little girlfriend an orphan? Her guardian is so rich? Give her a Birthday party on a Caribbean cruise?”
"Her guardian is an ordinary white-collar worker, how can he have so much money." Mei Xiawen shook his head absentmindedly, having a bad suspicion in his mind, and his face darkened.
Jiang Hongcha paused and thought of going together with Mei Xiawen. A strange smile appeared on her face and she whispered in Mei Xiawen's ear: "Look, a beautiful woman, no matter how bad her background is, as long as she If she has good looks and brains, she has unlimited possibilities. So never underestimate a woman."
"What do you mean?" Mei Xiawen pushed Jiang Hongcha away, "Nian Zhi is not this kind of person."
He refused to believe that Gu Nianzhi betrayed him just like Jiang Hongcha.
"I didn't say what kind of person she is." Jiang Hongcha sat back on the sofa, crossed her slender legs, supported her forehead with her hands, and said lightly: "But a penniless orphan girl can suddenly live in the Caribbean The eighteenth birthday ceremony was held on the cruise ship, didn’t you find the sponsor?”
Mei Xiawen walked to the back room without saying a word, took out her cell phone, and dialed Gu Nianzhi's number.
It was seven or eight o'clock in the morning at Gu Nianzhi's place.
She had just walked into the Appropriations Committee office in the U.S. Capitol when she heard her cell phone ringing. Seeing that it was Mei Xia Wen's call, she opened the cell phone in a good mood and answered: "Xia Wen? Have you received the invitation?"
"Received." Mei Xiawen held back her anger and asked softly: "Nianzhi, why do you want to spend your birthday on a Caribbean cruise?"
"It's not what I thought." Gu Nianzhi said cheerfully, "It's Professor He. He celebrated my birthday and invited everyone to go on a Caribbean cruise."
It turned out to be Professor He.
Mei Xiawen breathed a sigh of relief, but when he thought about it, his heart tightened again, "Professor He? He...he...why is he so nice to you? So willing to spend money?"
Mei Xiawen's tone made Gu Nianzhi very unhappy, "What do you mean? Please speak clearly."
She angrily walked into her small office and closed the door.
Mei Xiawen raked his hair irritably, "Don't pretend to be stupid, you know what I mean. Tell me, why would a tutor spend so much money to celebrate your birthday? You think I'm stupid? ?!”
"Mei Xiawen! Don't humiliate me and also humiliate Professor He!" Gu Nianzhi was so angry that he wanted to throw his phone away. "Apologise to me immediately! Otherwise, I will never talk to you again!"
Gu Nianzhi's reaction was so loud that there was even a hint of nasal crying in his voice.
"... Is there really no other reason?" Mei Xiawen was also nervous, "Nianzhi, you know that I love you and I have been waiting for you. You also promised to be my girlfriend when I come back in six months. You can't break your promise. ah!"
Gu Nianzhi was very angry, but Mei Xiawen was so nervous about her that she couldn't continue to quarrel with him, and his concerns were not completely unreasonable.
Before Gu Nianzhi knew about He Zhichu's generous treatment of students, didn't she also keep a careful distance from him
"Xia Wen, Professor He's status is extraordinary. He has always been so generous in celebrating students' birthdays. I'm not particularly out of line this time." Gu Nianzhi endured his anger and explained to Mei Xiawen, "He once gave gifts to Mei Xiawen Professor He paid for his students’ day trips to Las Vegas, chartered theaters at Universal Studios in Florida, and took them hunting in Africa.”
"Ah?!" Mei Xiawen realized at this moment that he had thought wrong. His face was full of shame, and he secretly thought that he was really a frog in the well. It seemed that people like Professor He were richer than the rich second generation of his family.
"Nianzhi, I was wrong. I shouldn't have thought like this before I understood it clearly." Mei Xiawen apologized sincerely, "Look, being a student with Professor He is just different. Such a big deal has never happened in our country. Which professor would do this for his graduate students?"
Gu Nianzhi still admired Mei Xiawen's attitude of correcting mistakes and not staying overnight after quarreling. Moreover, the two of them were in different places and were still in the early stage of contact, so this kind of timely explanation was even more necessary.
She hasn't promised Mei Xiawen to be his girlfriend yet, so Mei Xiawen is so nervous about her. Is this really an expression of love
"Okay, I shouldn't have lost my temper with you just now." Gu Nianzhi followed and walked Mei Xiawen down the stairs, "Then are you coming?"
"Come on, of course I'll come, I'll definitely come!" Mei Xiawen was gearing up, planning to take the opportunity to get close to Professor He and let him know that Gu Nianzhi was his girlfriend. Would she also take more care of him
After hanging up the phone, Mei Xiawen pushed the door open and saw Jiang Hongcha standing up from his computer.
"What are you doing?" Mei Xiawen didn't like others touching his computer.
"I played Minesweeper." Jiang Hongcha shrugged, "How was it? Have you asked?"
"Well, her mentor organized a birthday party for her." Mei Xiawen threw the phone on the computer table, "You are overthinking."
"Tutor?" Jiang Hongcha's eyes rolled around, "Xia Wen, when I was studying at the Juliet Conservatory of Music, I once knew that some of our female classmates slept with the professor in exchange for a good score and a scholarship... "
"Professor He is not that kind of person." Mei Xiawen figured it out at this time, "And for people, going on a cruise to celebrate your birthday is like getting your nails done. Do you think getting your nails done will make you bankrupt? "
After knowing Mei Xiawen for so long, Jiang Hongcha felt that this time was the worst time she had ever been blackmailed by him.
She endured it again and again, but finally she endured it and stayed with Mei Xiawen as if nothing was wrong.
Mei Xiawen had planned everything well, but he didn't expect that the next morning when he was going to take a flight, Jiang Hongcha, who had spent the night with him, suddenly complained of stomach pain and rolled all over the bed in pain...
"Black tea? Black tea? How are you?!" Mei Xiawen picked up her phone in panic and started calling an ambulance.
Half an hour later, Jiang Hongcha was rushed to the operating room.
Mei Xiawen sat alone outside the operating room, not daring to tell anyone because the doctor told him that Jiang Hongcha had a miscarriage...
He watched his plane fly away.
Two hours later, Ginger Black Tea was pushed out of the operating room.
The loud-voiced obstetrician and gynecologist looked at Mei Xiawen reproachfully: "You too, your girlfriend has a child, and you still don't know how to control yourself. Now that the child is gone, are you happy?"
Mei Xiawen couldn't say a word.
He stayed quietly by Jiang Hongcha's bedside until she woke up in the afternoon.
"Xia Wen?" Jiang Hongcha looked at him apologetically, "Your flight has been delayed. You should hurry up and buy another flight before it's too late."
Mei Xiawen shook her head, "No need. I will celebrate her birthday next year when she returns to China. I will stay with you these days."
Even if you have a miscarriage, you have to undergo confinement.
…
Soon, Gu Nianzhi, who was far away in a foreign country, received a text message from Mei Xiawen, saying that he was busy these days and could not come.
Gu Nianzhi looked at her phone and didn't feel particularly disappointed. She thought about it and texted Mei Xiawen back, expressing her understanding very politely.
And He Zhichu has not been in Washington, D.C. these days.
I heard from Wen Shouyi that there was an emergency in Professor He's hometown, so he rushed back. He might not be able to attend the birthday party this time, but he entrusted everything to Wen Shouyi and so on.
Gu Nianzhi didn't completely believe Wen Shouyi's words, but by the night before her birthday, He Zhichu had not returned yet.
Gu Nianzhi sat in her bedroom holding her little panda pillow, holding her head and thinking that this time, only Uncle Huo and the others would be with her to celebrate her birthday.
Zhao Liangze came over and knocked on the door, and said with a smile: "Go to bed early, I will go to the airport early tomorrow morning."
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This is the second and third update of 4,100 words in two updates combined into one, including additional updates with a monthly pass of 4,600.
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O(∩_∩)O~. (To be continued.)