Shen Wanying thought that only elementary school students or Fang Yichang would have a secret base. I didn't expect that a person like Huo Cheng would have a secret base
"Secret base? Where is it?" Shen Wanying always felt that Huo Cheng was teasing her.
Huo Chengdao: "Since it is a secret base, of course it must be kept secret first."
"..." Logic Ghost, "Okay, but I have to tell my mother first, and she can agree."
"Um."
"Then I'll send you a message tonight."
"Okay." Huo Cheng nodded and handed her the microphone again, "Aren't you going to sing?"
"..." Shen Wanying took the microphone and ordered a few more songs.
In order to avoid her mother's suspicion, she usually only stays in the KTV for half an hour before returning home. He couldn't sing a few songs for half an hour, and he complained with Huo Cheng today, which took up half of the time. In the end, Shen Wanying only sang three songs.
"Don't you sing?" Huo Cheng asked her.
Shen Wanying shook her head: "My mother will be suspicious if I go back too late."
Huo Cheng lowered his eyes as if thinking about something for a while, then stood up and said, "Then let's go."
"Uh..." Shen Wanying said hesitantly, "Let's go separately, I can't be recognized by others, but if we stay together, maybe we will be recognized."
Her concerns are not unreasonable, and Huo Cheng is also very cooperative: "Then you go first, I'll still follow you."
"... Well, why don't you sing a song? I've reserved this private room for an hour."
"No, you go first."
"Oh..." Shen Wanying put her hat on her head, glanced at Huo Cheng again, and walked out of the private room.
She was the dessert shop that she came back to, and along the way, she wanted to look back to see if Huo Cheng was behind her, but she held back. When she arrived at the dessert shop, she first took off her makeup in the bathroom, took off her wig, and then changed back to her school uniform.
When she came out of the bathroom, she was the elegant and dignified Miss Shen again.
She walked out of the private room and saw Huo Cheng standing in front of the counter of the dessert shop with a packaged dessert in his hand.
Shen Wanying walked over, and Huo Cheng handed her the dessert in his hand: "This is for you."
"Thank you." Shen Wanying glanced down, it was the photo of the sweet orange jelly mousse in the store, "This dessert is delicious, would you like to try it?"
Huo Chengdao: "This is for you."
Shen Wanying took the dessert and looked at it, walked to an empty table, put the dessert down, and opened the box: "Let's go after eating here."
Huo Cheng was stunned for a moment, then nodded and sat down opposite Shen Wanying.
Shen Wanying took a spoon and scooped a spoonful of cake, fed it into her mouth, and raised the corners of her mouth happily: "This is really delicious, and there's also a matcha latte, you can try it next time."
"Yeah." Huo Cheng also picked up the spoon and took a sip, and the rich sweet orange flavor instantly filled his mouth. He doesn't really like desserts much, but this cake
The smell of it reminded him of the orange grove he walked through with Shen Wanying on his back.
The oranges there also exude such a sweet smell.
The boss stood in front of the counter, arranging things while looking at Huo Cheng and Shen Wanying. After a while, he sent a message to Shen Wanying's aunt: "Your niece seems to be in love."
Soon, the other party sent him a reply: "?? Who is the target?! What background? You can help me find out the eighteenth generation of his ancestors."
boss:"… "
After a few seconds, she added: "There can be no less generation."
boss:"… "
Shen Wanying and Huo Cheng walked out of the dessert shop together after eating the cake. As Shen Wanying said, the boss had already ordered a car for her, and as soon as they walked out, the car drove over. Shen Wanying held her schoolbag in her hand and looked at Huo Cheng: "How are you going? Why don't I take you back first."
"No, you go first, I'll call the car myself."
"Well... that's fine." After she finished speaking, she got into the car, and before closing the door, she looked up at Huo Cheng again, "I'll send you a message at night."
"Okay." Huo Cheng helped her close the car door and watched her car leave.
Shen Wanying arrived home a little later than usual today, but Jiang Yu didn't doubt anything, after all, meetings were inherently long and short. After changing into her home clothes, Shen Wanying went downstairs, walked up to Jiang Yu and called her, "Mom, I have something to tell you."
"Well." Jiang Yu looked at her, "what's the matter?"
Shen Wanying said, "Tomorrow my classmate invited me to study together, can I go out?"
Jiang Yu thought about it for a while, and seemed to be reluctant: "You have a speaking class tomorrow, what classmate asked you out? Zhao Yimeng?"
Shen Wanying also wanted to use Zhao Yimeng as an excuse at first, but she noticed that Jiang Yu didn't agree, and at the last moment chose to tell the truth: "No, it's Huo Cheng."
"Huo Cheng?" Jiang Yu seemed a little surprised, but nodded again, "Okay, your speaking class is tomorrow afternoon, you can make an appointment with him in the morning."
Shen Wanying was slightly surprised, she didn't expect her mother to agree so readily: "Okay."
"Is there anything else?"
"there is none left."
"Then you will study with Huo Cheng well tomorrow. If you don't understand anything, ask him for more advice."
"Got it, Mom."
After dinner, Shen Wanying took a shower and sent a message to Huo Cheng: "My mother agreed, and you can go out tomorrow morning."
Huo
Cheng second replied: "Okay, I'll pick you up at your house tomorrow."
Shen Wanying: Will it be too troublesome? You send me the location and I will ask the driver to take me there.
After sending this message, she thought for a while, and then followed her family: "Do you think it's no longer a secret?"
Huo Cheng laughed on the other end of the phone and replied, "Yeah."
Shen Wanying: Well, I believe you shouldn't sell me ^_^
Huo Cheng: I'm not willing
p>
Shen Wanying blushed and put the phone aside.
Before her heartbeat had calmed down, the phone on the table rang again. Shen Wanying stared at the phone for a while as if she was competing with someone before she brought it over.
Huo Cheng: I'll wait for you at your door at 8:30 tomorrow morning, okay
Shen Wanying: Okay
Huo Cheng: see you tomorrow
Shen Wanying: See you tomorrow ^_^
After sending the news with Huo Cheng, Shen Wanying's mood has been a little excited. She did a set of mathematics papers, but this excitement was not relieved.
When she went to bed at night, when she thought of going out with Huo Cheng tomorrow, her heart beat faster.
Even started thinking about what to wear to go out tomorrow.
After realizing this, she patted her face and warned herself, "Shen Wanying, don't think wildly."
This kind of self-hypnosis didn't play a big role, but as it got later and later, she finally fell asleep slowly.
In the morning, the family sat in the restaurant and finished breakfast. Jiang Yu wiped the corners of her mouth with a tissue and asked Shen Wanying, "What time did you have an appointment with Huo Cheng?"
Shen Wanying said, "At half past eight, he said to pick me up."
Shen Qian's brows twitched unconsciously. He looked at Shen Wanying and said to her, "I'll take you out later."
"it is good."
At 8:25, Huo Cheng sent a message to Shen Wanying, saying that he had arrived.
After Shen Wanying received the news, she said to Shen Qian, "Dad, Huo Cheng is already outside the door."
"Okay." Shen Qian stood up from the sofa and walked out with Shen Wanying.
The Huo family's car was parked outside the road gate. Huo Cheng did not sit in the car, but stood upright beside the car. The last time Shen Qian saw him, he was still a ten-year-old hairy boy. Although he is still a hairy boy now, the seventeen-year-old Huo Cheng has obviously grown up a lot.
Shen Qian knew that Huo Cheng's character was calmer than that of ordinary students, but seeing him now, he felt that he was more mature than he thought. Compared with the elites who enter and exit high-end office buildings, the cold and calm temperament exuded from him is even better.
It is indeed a child educated by the Huo family.
"Hello Uncle Shen." Seeing Shen Qian and Shen Wanying coming out together, Huo Cheng politely greeted Shen Qian first, "The dim sum you gave last time was delicious, thank you."
Shen Qian smiled and said, "It was all prepared by Jiang Yu, and I'm still worried that you don't like it."
"I love so much."
"That's good." Shen Qian found that Huo Cheng, a child who looked dull, was actually pleasing, "That's our thank you gift to you. Thank you for helping Wanying last time."
"Should be."
Shen Wanying waited for the two of them to finish their chat before saying with a smile to Shen Qian, "Dad, then I'll go first."
"Okay, be careful on the road." After Shen Qian finished speaking, he didn't continue to stay outside and turned around by himself. Only then did Huo Cheng set his eyes on Shen Wanying.
Instead of her school uniform today, she changed into a long brick red dress over a white knitted sweater. On the chest of the sweater, there is also a delicate retro brooch.
Her hair was still tied into a half ponytail as usual, with a simple and elegant head flower pinned to the ponytail.
"What's wrong?" Shen Wanying looked at Huo Cheng and asked.
Huo Cheng shook his head and helped her open the car door: "Let's go."
"Okay." Shen Wanying sat in the back seat with her student bag in her hand.
After Huo Cheng waited for her to get in the car, he got into the car from the other side.
The car drove all the way out of the city. Although Shen Wanying was curious, she didn't ask anything on the way. Huo Cheng said to her on the way: "It's a little far, it will take more than an hour to get there."
"Oh..." That's really far away, "You won't really sell me, will you?"
Huo Cheng smiled and found some snacks for her from the car: "I asked my aunt to help me prepare it last night. If you are bored, you can eat something."
Shen Wanying didn't expect Huo Cheng to carefully prepare snacks for her, many of which she didn't usually have the chance to eat: "Can I eat melon seeds?"
"Yeah." Huo Cheng helped her take out the sunflower seeds and handed her the garbage bag from the car.
"Thank you." Shen Wanying unpacked and nibbled melon seeds in the car.
She is now so unburdened in front of Huo Cheng!
Shen Wanying felt that she was not good enough, but she couldn't let go of her hand that was eating melon seeds.
She really has almost no chance to eat melon seeds in normal times. Even if the family prepares these dry goods for the New Year, she would not dare to eat them in front of her mother.
Huo Cheng hooked his lips unconsciously when he saw her nibbling on melon seeds with great interest. In the last life, after he broke her and hid in the utility room to eat instant noodles, she gradually released herself in front of him.
Maybe she has been depressed for too long. She likes to eat some foods that are not related to elegance, such as instant noodles, melon seeds, crayfish, and crayfish must be accompanied by beer.
With snacks, the time on the road became much faster. The car drove for more than an hour and arrived at a villa built in the middle of the mountain.
"It's here." Huo Cheng and Shen Wanying got out of the car and looked at the villa in front of him, "This is a villa my father bought. When my mother was sick, she rested here for half a year."
Shen Wanying was stunned for a while, then looked around. Because it is halfway up the mountain, the mountains and rivers here are beautiful, quiet and pleasant, and the air is much fresher than the city. It is indeed a good place to recuperate.
"This is the secret base you said?"
"Well." Huo Cheng nodded. "When my mother was sick, I was still in elementary school. I couldn't see her every day. I could only take my father's car every weekend and come here to see her."
The corners of Shen Wanying's mouth moved, wanting to say that you must miss your mother a lot, right? But can't ask.
"Let's go in." Huo Cheng looked at her. "Although I haven't been here for a long time, the housekeeper has been taking care of the villa, and it's very clean inside."
"Well." Shen Wanying nodded and walked into the villa with Huo Cheng.
The housekeeper seemed to know that they would come, and had already opened the door, waiting outside: "Master Huo Cheng, you are back."
"Well, this is my classmate, Shen Wanying."
The housekeeper looked at Shen Wanying and smiled at her: "Hello, Miss Shen, please come in."
"Excuse me." Shen Wanying said as she walked in with Huo Cheng.
"What would you like to drink? There is black tea, milk and orange juice at home." The housekeeper stood by and asked them.
Huo Cheng asked Shen Wanying, "Do you want something to drink?"
Shen Wanying said, "I don't need it for now, thank you."
The housekeeper looked at Huo Cheng, and seeing that he didn't drink anything, he said, "Then if you have any orders, call me at any time."
"Well." Huo Cheng responded and looked at Shen Wanying, "Let's go upstairs."
"it is good."
This villa has an elevator, and Shen Wanying and Huo Cheng went to the room on the third floor.
"My mother used to live in this room." Huo Cheng looked around the room, "It's still the same as my impression."
The room was huge, with a bed, rows of bookshelves and a desk. There are a total of three windows in the room, two of which are facing the garden of the villa, with a good view.
There are still several easels standing in front of the window, and it seems that people often stand here and paint. On the wall under the window, some oil paintings were neatly stacked, most of which were carefully covered with white cloth.
Among the remaining paintings, Shen Wanying saw at a glance the oil painting with the orange grove.
It turned out that Huo Cheng delivered it here.
"Every time I came here when I was a child, I came here to find my mother." Huo Cheng walked to the bookshelf and looked at the books on it. "Sometimes she would read to me, and sometimes she would teach me to paint oil paintings."
He said, and took down a book from the shelf, it was the "Veil" he had read in the reading room before: "This book seems to be given to her by my father. When I came over several times, I There's this book by my mother's bed."
As he spoke, he gently opened the cover of the book. On the title page of the book was written a sentence - Don't lift the veil of mystery.
Shen Wanying stood at the other end of the bookshelf, listening to Huo Cheng talking about his mother all the time. Finally, she violated her mother's usual education and asked Huo Cheng: "I heard from you before that your mother's illness has been cured. Then, how did she pass away?"
Huo Cheng pursed his lips slightly, put the book in his hand back to its original position, and said to Shen Wanying, "My mother has been ill here for half a year, and her body has gradually recovered. At that time, my father told me to wait until I heat
Leave, mother can go home and live. I am so happy that I can finally see my mother every day. But before I had my summer vacation and wanted to pick up my mother home, she suddenly got into a car accident. "
Shen Wanying was taken aback: "Car accident? Was it an accident?"
"Yeah." Huo Cheng nodded invisibly, "It is said that my mother has just recovered and is not suitable for driving. She should have been a little uncomfortable in the middle of the journey, which finally led to the accident."
Shen Wanying didn't speak anymore, she knew that any words of comfort at this time would be pale. Huo Cheng came to her
, changed to a light topic: "Do you want to see the oil paintings I painted at that time?"
"Okay." Shen Wanying smiled at him.
The oil paintings that Huo Cheng painted when she was a child were all packed with her mother's things. He asked the housekeeper, took out a cardboard box from the cabinet, and opened it.
There were quite a few calligraphy treasures from his childhood in the box. Huo Cheng is not as talented as his mother in painting, but he is better than the children's rich imagination, so most of his paintings look imaginative, and with the texture of oil paintings, they seem a bit advanced.
"You're an Impressionist painting." Shen Wanying looked at a picture of a garden painted by Huo Cheng, and told him with a teasing tone.
Huo Cheng smiled himself, and reached for another painting.
As he bent down, he saw something flashing from the bottom of the box.
He took off an oil painting on the surface in confusion, and found a lighter in the corner of the box.
This is a very ordinary lighter, the kind of plastic lighter that you can buy anywhere at a roadside stall. The fuselage looks very old and has obvious signs of use.
Huo Cheng frowned slightly and took out the lighter.
This is obviously not his father's lighter. Although he rarely sees his father smoking, he has seen the lighter on his body, which is a very high-end brand.
It couldn't have been his mother's either, because his mother didn't smoke.
So why is there a cheap lighter here
He turned the lighter over and found a few daisies printed on the back of the lighter.
Huo Cheng looked at these daisies and vaguely remembered something.
In his last life, after he returned to China, he paid homage to his mother on her death day. At that time, he also saw a bunch of daisies in front of her grave.