Lake City is a small place.
In such a small place, both good and bad things spread very quickly.
The news that Jiang Chen, a well-known entrepreneur, returned to his hometown to visit relatives and donated a 5 million teaching building to his alma mater, Hucheng No. 2 Middle School, spread all of a sudden in this small place.
There are many people who have made money these days, but not many people still think about their hometown after making money. For a time, various titles such as "conscience entrepreneur" flew to Jiang Chen's head. For this reason, the city leaders even came to visit him.
They didn't receive any news about Jiang Chen's return to Hucheng to visit relatives. After all, the General Staff kept Jiang Chen's itinerary absolutely confidential. Not to mention the city leaders, even the media didn't get any information. They didn't get the news until Wu Zechen got it cheap, held a school-wide meeting, and went to reporters to publicize it with great fanfare.
Suddenly, the community for the families of employees of Jingsha Iron and Steel Plant, which had been neglected, suddenly became lively.
The visiting city leaders gave Jiang Chen a two-meter-long plaque in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the construction of his hometown. Jiang Chen naturally accepted it with great satisfaction.
As for the mayor with a smile on his face, he immediately put forward a plan to attract investment, and was willing to provide more favorable policies for future technology.
Regarding the olive branch offered by the mayor of his hometown, Jiang Chen just smiled and did not immediately agree. He just politely expressed his gratitude to the Hucheng City Government for its kindness, but because the company's development strategy still needs to be discussed at a meeting before making a decision, it could not give an immediate reply.
But what Jiang Chen didn't expect was that after sending away the city leaders, officials like district leaders came over again. This made Jiang Chen dumbfounded. He didn't expect that he just donated a teaching building on a whim, but actually made his home look like a teahouse, and would come over to visit him from time to time. To the leader of the steel factory, the director of the Education Bureau, a relative who has no face, and so on.
In short, he has been bored to death these past few days. Originally, he planned to build a road to his home before leaving. Now it seems that we should wait until we leave before talking about it.
But looking at his parents' cheerful faces, he didn't say anything.
After all, the home is used to being cold, and the two old people have always lived a leisurely life. Because he is just an ordinary worker, relatives from his hometown don’t visit him often. On weekdays, I just buy groceries and ask neighbors to do household chores. Have you ever seen such a scene
Not only those relatives who had no contact with each other came to visit, but even the usually dignified officials came to the house to inquire about the welfare. In addition to being flattered, the two old men also had an intuitive feeling that their sons had become outstanding.
But that being said. You can't escape the blind date thing
"You are making such a big noise just to make our work more difficult." Lao Dao leaned next to Santana, holding a cigarette in his mouth and grinning.
"There's no other way, how about I pay you overtime pay?" Jiang Chen took out the electronic key, opened the car door, and replied teasingly.
"Mr. Jiang, bribing state civil servants is against discipline." Miao Jun coughed and said.
Lao Dao didn't answer, just smiled, took off his cigarette butt and flicked the ashes, and asked casually.
"Has the programming been finished?"
"You have to ask the overseas work team." Jiang Chen stood at the door of the car. He replied with a shrug.
"Well, come on." Lao Dao nodded, glanced at the passenger seat, and asked casually, "Where is your secretary?"
"Today is a blind date." Jiang Chen looked a little helpless.
Miao Jun burst out laughing and put his arms on the steering wheel.
"What age are we in now, and you are still doing this?"
Ignoring him, Jiang Chen rolled up the window and started the car.
After throwing away the cigarette butt and stamping it out, Lao Dao also got into the car. He patted Miao Jun on the shoulder and said calmly.
"Follow up."
The blind date took place in the center of Lake City, about 20 kilometers away from Jiang Chen's small place.
In the entire Lake City, Jialing Plaza, which is located in the central business district, is relatively prosperous. Although I don't intend to agree. But Jiang Chen still gave the other party enough respect. He really couldn't do things like finding a snack bar like Lanzhou Ramen as a blind date place to deliberately lose popularity.
Linhu Restaurant.
Although Jiang Chen was here for the first time, he heard good reviews online, so he called to book a private room. The scenery here is picturesque, and it is said that you can sit in a box on the roof. You can have a panoramic view of the entire East Lake.
After parking the car in the parking space, Jiang Chen closed the door and locked it, and then went to the box under the reception of the waiter.
Lao Dao and Miao Jun did not follow them upstairs, but just randomly picked a seat on the first floor to sit, and then ordered a few plates of side dishes. They have been digging out lunch boxes these days, and Lao Dao, who is always not picky, feels a little uncomfortable.
After going upstairs, Jiang Chen casually ordered a table of dishes, then sat in the private room and played with his phone, waiting for the woman to arrive.
To be honest, he had never been on a blind date before, so he was actually a little nervous.
After a while, footsteps approaching gradually came from outside the door.
The door opened and Jiang Chen put away his phone. However, the moment he looked at the door, the expression on his face was stunned.
He wasn't the only one stunned.
Standing at the door, one shoe had just stepped through the door, and the expressionless pretty face was also stunned.
"It's you?"
The two of them said in surprise, and then they fell into embarrassment at the same time.
Wearing a black fur-collared jacket and black cotton stockings, the color was not too bright and did not seem like it should appear on a date. However, when worn on her body, it actually accentuated her unnaturally cool temperament.
Jiang Chen never expected that the blind date would be the CEO of his company. He had never heard Xia Shiyu say where her hometown was, but he never thought that she was from the same hometown as him, and even lived in the same circle.
What a coincidence
Xia Shiyu also didn't expect that the blind date would be him. However, rather than being surprised by the facts, she felt more inexplicable panic.
The two red lips trembled slightly, and she felt that her face was getting hot. The refusal words that I had been thinking about for a long time last night were now entangled in my mind. She, who had always dealt with things calmly and calmly, actually stood at the door and became at a loss.
If the target is him, should you refuse? For a moment, she was confused.
Seeing the messy expression on Xia Shiyu's face, Jiang Chen wanted to laugh for some reason despite being embarrassed.
"Well, anyway, let's sit down first."
"Um."
With her head buried, Xia Shiyu quickly walked to the opposite side of Jiang Chen and sat down in silence, and then said nothing.
Jiang Chen noticed that the blush crept up from her fair neck to her cheeks.
The silence lasted for a long time.
"What a coincidence, haha, I didn't expect it to be you." Jiang Chen smiled unnaturally, breaking the silence.
"Yeah." Xia Shiyu hummed again and lowered her head, but there was nothing more to say.
Khan, he has absolutely no experience in what to say during a blind date.
The rhetoric I prepared before coming was completely useless.
He noticed Xia Shiyu's feelings for him that night. In other words, he had noticed it much earlier, behind the scenes of that press conference.
Unlike Liu Yao, who is a lover, and Ayesha, who has a different cultural background, Xia Shiyu is unlikely to accept that he has other women.
However, because of the hidden selfishness in his heart, he was unable to do or say anything or a monologue that would make her give up on him, even though he knew that this kind of vague ambiguity might hurt people more deeply in the end.
reject? Or accept it? (.)
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