The news about the Lantern Festival spread among the children in the Shanhai Fulong compound, and everyone was mostly discussing what kind of person that person was. Because the kind of scene with bodyguards usually seemed to be only seen on TV, and it was still relatively fresh and impactful to see him in front of them.
"We have developed mountain and sea tourism. Many people come from other places to visit during these festivals every year. There must be some people with unusual identities."
"Huo, but if Zhang Xin hadn't said it himself, I wouldn't have believed the bodyguards' presence..."
“I’ve really seen…”
While the children in the yard were discussing, Cheng Ran received a call from Qin Xizhen, "Meet at the old place."
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Long time no see, Qin Xizhen seemed to be getting more and more concise in his tone, the so-called "old place" should be the piano room in Dishuiyan. It used to be their secret base for preparing for the Shanhai Music Festival.
Now, because of Qin Xizhen's fame, the Shanhai Conservatory of Music where she came from has also risen in popularity, becoming a holy place. It is said that the number of students enrolled has skyrocketed every year in the past two years. Countless people travel thousands of miles to send their children here to study. The star effect is like a stove to boil water, especially in this era. Qin Xizhen's sudden fame has even put pressure on the Sichuan Conservatory of Music in Chengdu.
To be fair, before Qin Xizhen, Sichuan Conservatory of Music was also very brilliant, and it produced many celebrities and had a very high status in the music industry. However, the status in the music industry is not necessarily the status in popular music.
Especially Qin Xizhen's experience of working his way up from nothing has given many families who want their children to be successful a huge opportunity. The branch campus of Sichuan Conservatory of Music in Shanhai is not only crowded with students, but also many tourists who come to the school gate to take a look, take a photo, and point to the school, saying, "This is Qin Xizhen's alma mater!" This has made the post office outside the school gate, where you can send postcards, do a booming business.
Nowadays, the province is also putting forward the slogan of strengthening the province through culture. In terms of supporting these popular cultures, there has been a breakthrough because of the appearance of Qin Xizhen. The Provincial Department of Education has inspected Shanhai Conservatory of Music twice in the past year. The president is also ambitious and bold. On the one hand, he is preparing to build an intangible cultural heritage research institute, and on the other hand, he is preparing to establish a training department for the Art Development Center. It is said that he is striving to upgrade the Shanhai Conservatory of Music during his tenure, and plans to jointly establish a master's training point with the Chengdu Conservatory. This means that the Shanhai Branch will be upgraded from the original second-level teaching point of the headquarters to a bachelor's degree authorization unit, which is a proper second-tier university treatment.
On the way here, Cheng Ran received another call from Qin Xizhen, "Come over from home. There is a big supermarket on the way to your home. Can you buy some things for me... You know it is not convenient for me to show up in public. Usually my mother would buy it for me, but my mother is out today, so I can only tell you."
There are very few supermarket-like stores in Shanhai at this time. There are only a few stores that are open for business even during the Spring Festival. It’s okay to help you buy things. After all, Qin Xizhen may still be worried about the trouble of being recognized. If it is in Rongcheng, or other cities, she may not have any problems. The key is that this is her place of prosperity, Shanhai. According to Yu Xiao and others, after Qin Xizhen starred in the Century Runfa advertisement, her portrait was posted on the streets of Shanhai for a period of time. The name Shanhai Qin Xizhen can be said to be known to everyone, and many people are even proud of her. It is also a business card for Shanhai to promote to the outside world at this time, and Cheng Ran is relieved about this.
The key point is that there are things like sanitary napkins in the list of things to buy. How come
Moreover, when Qin Xizhen was guiding me to buy and asking me to distinguish different models, his tone was completely calm. Didn't he treat me as an outsider
Although he felt a little embarrassed when paying the bill with the waiter, Cheng Ran didn't look abnormal at all. As a result, when he walked out of the supermarket with a large bag of plastic bags, his little lady Cheng Xia and her friends came towards him, "Cheng Ran! What are you doing..."
This is how the world is, with its idealistic narrowness. You never know which acquaintance you will meet around the next corner that you don't want to meet.
Cheng Ran glanced around and saw the clothes bags held by Cheng Xia and the others. It seemed that they were also shopping in the nearby commercial street. "What are you buying? Let me see."
Then Cheng Xia, who didn't consider herself an outsider at all, opened the plastic bag in Cheng Ran's hand and took a look inside.
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After separating from Cheng Xia, Cheng Ran felt that the smile on his face was stiff.
Thinking of the back of her pocket being closed, Cheng Xia looked up at herself. That faint but polite smile was creepy no matter how she looked at it.
Cheng Ran could only explain, "On the way... a female classmate called and asked me to help bring it."
Then Cheng Xia's friends started to make fun of him and asked if he had a girlfriend. Cheng Ran felt how he was treated as someone else's child. Even when it came to "maybe he had a girlfriend", others commented on him as a sensible little adult who knew his limits. Cheng Ran still felt that his good grades were good. At least in a country where grades are the standard for success, you could do anything if you had good grades.
But when I think about the possibility of visiting relatives in the future, I don’t know how to face my little girl.
It was a real headache to carry the bag all the way to the slope of Dripping Rock. From a distance, I saw Qin Xizhen sitting on the embankment. He was wearing jeans, a down jacket, a striped scarf around his neck, and a Yankees baseball cap on his head.
She was sitting there, and when she saw him walk up the embankment, she waved at him with a smile in her eyes.
"After all this time, you have surrounded yourself with three layers of layers inside and outside."
Qin Xizhen's appearance was not considered to be heavily disguised, at least she didn't even wear a mask. At most, she could cover her face with a scarf when necessary, but she didn't look like she was on guard at all. When someone passed by Dishuiyan, she didn't cover her face immediately, and in fact no one confirmed that it was her at once.
Facing Cheng Ran standing in front of him and questioning him, Qin Xizhen still sat there, looking up and smiling, "Of course there's no need. It doesn't matter if they recognize you. In fact, there aren't that many people rushing to surround you. They are die-hard fans and fanatics. Most people still have their own things to do. They might say hello, just like acquaintances. This is the situation I encounter most of the time. Even the auntie at the store downstairs often tells me that her grandson likes my songs the most and has collected countless posters. Her grandson lives in our yard, but when I go back and meet him, guess what that silly boy does? He pretends not to know me."
Cheng Ran felt that the corners of his mouth must have twitched, and asked with a gloomy tone, "Then why did you let me buy these things for you, as if it was inconvenient for me to show up... and then, my little girl saw it."
Qin Xizhen was stunned, then he was extremely excited and asked Cheng Ran to "tell the whole story". After listening to him, Qin Xizhen laughed so hard that he fell backwards, and finally wiped his eyes and laughed, "Sorry, sorry, I just thought that you were on your way and bought the things I didn't buy. Secondly... I asked you to buy those things because I wanted to trick you... I had a concert in Rongcheng, who told you not to go?"
"Can I pinch you?" Cheng Ran said with an itchy tooth.
Qin Xizhen took off his scarf righteously, opened his collar, tilted his head up, and looked over eagerly, "Okay..."
Because Qin Xizhen was sitting on a stone and Cheng Ran was standing, from this angle he could instantly see her collarbone pulled open under the collar, and then her snow-white neck extending upward along the collarbone, as if she was right in front of him, ready for him to take whatever he wanted.
Cheng Ran sat down next to her.
Qin Xizhen turned around with a grin, then reached out and patted Cheng Ran on the top of his head. "I was just playing a prank to see if you would buy it. I didn't expect you to be so obedient..."
Cheng Ran turned around and said, "I was just thinking that since you could actually ask me for help, you must have reached a point where you had no other choice..."
Then Cheng Ran was hit hard on the shoulder. Qin Xizhen blushed slightly, "Degenerate thoughts."
Cheng Ran was stunned, "You are just blaming me for something else."
The two stared at each other, and then couldn't help laughing.
"That's great," Cheng Ran nodded, "You're getting prettier." After taking this path, Qin Xizhen has been exposed to more things. Image management is a compulsory course. Women love beauty and can also put on makeup. Qin Xizhen is now like a phoenix reborn from the ashes. Cheng Ran flatters people by adhering to the principle that praising people for their beauty is actually the highest level of speaking.
"I was thinking, I finally found out the reason why you didn't dare to come out to see me in Rongcheng Tianxingdao Hall."
Seeing Cheng Ran's confused expression, Qin Xizhen continued, "Because I was so beautiful that day, I was afraid that I would not be able to walk when I saw me."
Cheng Ran suddenly realized and nodded, "As long as you are happy."
Qin Xizhen bit her lower lip and bared her teeth in a threatening manner towards him. She turned around and picked up a box from the side. She opened it and found two roasted pig's trotters inside, which she handed in front of him.
"Please eat."
It was like going back to the time when they were in No. 1 Middle School and were trying to promote board games, so they went to a hoof flower shop to eat when they were hungry.
Time flies.
However, the way they reminisced about the past was by gnawing on pig's trotters, which was a disgusting scene.
"I went to No. 1 Middle School to look for you, and I also went to Rongcheng to look for you, both times wanting to treat you to a meal, but it didn't work out. Next time I come to see you, I must be there. Don't forget that we also have the Tianxing Daoguan business, and I invested money and have shares. Shouldn't you be briefed to me as a shareholder?"
Cheng Ran smiled and said, "Do you have time to go to Rongcheng after the New Year? I'll take you to see it for yourself."
Qin Xizhen blinked mysteriously, "Do you want your Tianxing Gym to be popular?"
Cheng Ran thought about it.
Qin Xizhen smiled and pointed out, "I was thinking, if I write and release my next new song in your Tianxing Dojo, will it be a blockbuster news?"
Cheng Ran said, "This is a good idea, but you are such a big star, if I call you to my place with just one phone call, would you think I am asking for too much?"
"Comrade Qin Xizhen is ready to be deployed at any time." Qin Xizhen said with a smile, "As long as we agree on the price. My current advertising endorsement starts at 4 million, you and I will give a friendly price of 350."
"It's really like moving a hamster." Cheng Ran said.
Then he saw Qin Xizhen's face change instantly, "Moving hamsters... what the hell...?"
Qin Xizhen folded his arms, with a cold and arrogant look on his face that was polished by his experiences during this period of time, and a cold air that kept people away from him came out, "You just said I was beautiful, but now you are moving a hamster... Classmate Cheng Ran, I feel that your sincerity is a little insufficient, so please add another million to the endorsement fee."
"You are so rich but still so stingy. No wonder the ancients were right."
"What did the ancients say, that only women and villains are hard to raise?" Qin Xizhen smiled, "It's true what the ancients said, so old-fashioned. I have made money now, but I also have people to support."
"It's normal to honor your parents, but they don't need much."
"My dad is stubborn. He won't change his house or buy a car, and he doesn't need to use any of my money, so I don't need to support him for the time being..."
“You mean…” Cheng Ran was stunned.
Qin Xizhen stared at him, his eyes like emerald green and black ink, "Your money is very expensive, I only spent two million..."
"Hey, do you have any misunderstanding about the words 'invest' and 'raise'? The former includes cooperative investment, resource sharing, and planting saplings and enjoying the shade later..."
Qin Xizhen waved his hands, "Oh my, it really costs a lot of money... I'm so generous to you, remember to repay me in the future."
"Are you listening to me?"
A scarf was suddenly put from Qin Xizhen's hand around Cheng Ran's neck.
This is her scarf.
It also had a faint fragrance. This fragrance was very special, not the common laundry detergent, but a slightly rich fragrance, which might be the high-end brand perfume she bought in Europe.
"Look, it's pretty good." Qin Xizhen tilted her head and looked at Cheng Ran who was wearing her scarf, "I am still supporting you."
Then she laughed again, "Well, I appreciate your invitation to Rongcheng Tianxing Dojo after the New Year, but I can't stay for a few days. There's an annoying guy who followed me here, and it's hard to offend him, so I can only hide away again."
Cheng Ran was stunned for a moment and said, "A pursuer..."
"He's a very difficult guy..."
"Can I hide if I go out?"
Qin Xizhen thought for a moment and said, "Just counter the opponent's moves..."
Cheng Ran subconsciously thought of the person with bodyguards that he met at the Lantern Festival, and said, "Tell me about it."
Then his face suddenly turned cold. Qin Xizhen stretched out his hands, squeezed his face, and then retracted his hands. In his eyes, there was an attitude of not letting Cheng Ran get involved in this mess. "Okay, I'll take care of it. I'm leaving first. Actually, I'm not completely avoiding him. I still have classes in London. I will go there for classes next time. When I'm free, I'll go to Rongcheng to find you. Be good during this period."
"I don't think I'm your student anymore." Cheng Ran frowned. He was always annoyed by Qin Xizhen's attitude towards children. I'm Conan.
"Didn't the ancients say, 'Once a teacher, you are a teacher for life,'" Qin Xizhen smiled.
"Lifelong companion..." Just as Qin Xizhen was waiting for Cheng Ran to fall into his trap with a smile, Cheng Ran made the final decision, "Lifelong companion!"
Qin Xizhen raised his hand to hit, but finally drew an arc in the air and turned it into a thumbs-up, smiling meaningfully.
"Yes, that's excellent."
But in the end, the cold wind blew, and without her scarf, her cheeks were frozen a little red.
Excellent request for a ticket.