When Qiao Zhixia woke up, it was already seven o'clock in the evening. There were still thirty minutes before the time agreed with Qin Yunlang. She immediately got out of bed and washed up.

She tied her hair into a neat high ponytail, changed into a white long skirt decorated with ruffles, and paired it with white high-heeled leather shoes.

When she changed her shoes, she found that her foot injury had recovered a lot, with only a slight discomfort, which did not affect her walking.

When I went downstairs and arrived in front of the hotel, I saw a black Santara parked on the side of the road. A man in a leather jacket had half of his face hidden in the darkness, and the flickering red dots on his fingertips indicated that he was smoking.

"Qin Yunlang, have you been waiting for a long time?" She took two quick steps over.

Qin Yunlang put out the cigarette in his hand, turned around and appeared under the street light, with a gentle smile on his handsome face: "Get in the car!"

Qiao Zhixia was about to sit in the back, but Qin Yunlang had already opened the passenger door for her, so she had no choice but to get in.

The car drove smoothly all the way to the riverside and finally stopped at a place where we could enjoy the beautiful night view.

After Qin Yunlang got out of the car, he very gentlemanly opened the door for Qiao Zhixia, then protected her head while getting out of the car, took her down the steps, and boarded a neon-lit cruise ship.

It turns out that the restaurant he was talking about is on a boat, where guests can enjoy delicious food while admiring the night view.

The two got on the boat and just found a quiet place to sit down when the cruise started.

"What do you like to eat?" Qin Yunlang handed the menu to her and asked her to order whatever she wanted.

Qiao Zhixia naturally wouldn't be polite to him and ordered the signature pork offal porridge, grilled oysters, grilled prawns, grilled lamb chops...

Then have a cup of special herbal tea to reduce dryness.

Soon, after all the dishes were served, Qiao Zhixia came back after washing her hands and started eating directly.

The lights cast by the night scenes on both sides of the river passed across her satisfied face. Qin Yunlang felt inexplicably relieved as he watched her eat so happily.

"You haven't written to me in these years. I guess you're living a good life." Qin Yunlang seemed to be asking her, but also seemed to be talking to himself.

He didn't tell her that he had actually been waiting for her letter.

But, I never waited for it.

Qiao Zhixia raised her head from the pile of delicious food, not noticing his disappointment, and said truthfully: "It's OK! Just barely passable, but definitely can't compare to you."

He can now drive a car, so he must be successful in his career.

Qin Yunlang smiled bitterly, "It shouldn't be a problem to get enough food and clothing. You and that kid named Chen..."

"I kicked him out, and now I am beautiful alone. How about you? You are 26, right? Who is your sister-in-law?"

Qin Yunlang lowered his eyes and smiled softly: "Something has been holding me back, and I am still a bachelor."

The shrimp in Qiao Zhixia's hand rolled into the porridge bowl. She opened her mouth in slight surprise and asked, "Aren't your family members urging you?"

Qin Yunlang peeled shrimps for her skillfully. "Hurry up! But no one can force fate."

Qiao Zhixia nodded, "That's right, besides, you have a good family background and you are not too old, you will definitely meet someone you like in the future."

Qin Yunlang smiled without saying anything and just peeled shrimps for her silently.

Qiao Zhixia looked at the pile of completely detached shrimp shells, and her thoughts drifted back to the time before she and Chen Jidong broke up.

That year was Wang Ruoqiu's first year in the countryside.

Chen Jidong brought her four spicy shrimps in shells. She was so moved that she couldn't bear to eat them herself, so she left them for her sister and mother. Her father refused to eat them, so she shared the other two with Wang Ruqiu.

But when we went to the educated youth dormitory, we found that Wang Ruqiu's lunch box was full of peeled prawns.

"Zhizhi, you came just in time. Brother Dong brought me a lot of shrimps, but I couldn't finish them all. He even considerately peeled the shells for me..."

At that moment, she was like a fool.

"Zhizhi, don't get me wrong! My finger was cut by corn leaves two days ago, so Brother Dong helped me peel shrimps. I really envy you for having such a considerate person." Wang Ruqiu's eager tone and complacent eyes were so ironic.

She has loved eating shrimps since she was a child, sea shrimps, river shrimps, and small shrimps, she loves them all.

Chen Jidong has always known that her father would take a net and catch river shrimps for her whenever he has time.

It turned out that from that time on, his heart was no longer with her.

What a pity! She saw it clearly only after she died once.

Fortunately, she now has the ability to buy herself more shrimp than she can finish.

She will never expect charity and love from others again.

But it feels really good to have a pair of clean, slender hands dedicated to peeling shrimps for you.

She was very satisfied with this midnight snack.

On the way back, Qin Yunlang asked her how many days she planned to stay in Guangcheng while driving.

Qiao Zhixia omitted the fact that she was attending the Canton Fair and only said that it would be held in about ten days.

Qin Yunlang nodded. "I happen to be on a business trip in Guangcheng recently. If you are free every night, can we go out together?"

"Okay~" Qiao Zhixia nodded in agreement.

The Carpenters' "Yesterday Once More" was playing on the car radio. The melody was gentle and soothing, elegant and romantic.

The nostalgic melody permeated the carriage, filled with the creator's strong and deep memories of the past.

But now they are no longer simple and ignorant teenagers. There are too many helplessness and temptations in the adult world that will pollute that innocence.

The friendship we once had continues to this day, but it is no longer the same feeling as before.

The friendship between gentlemen is as pure as water. She quite likes the current distance between herself and Qin Yunlang.

Let the innocence that can never be returned remain in memory! At least there will be a clean place in the heart... to remember.

After Qiao Zhixia entered the hotel, Qin Yunlang sat in a car on the side of the road, looking at the window on the third floor of the hotel that had just turned on the light, and sat there for an hour.

In the next few days, after Qiao Zhixia finishes her work at the Canton Fair, she will make an appointment with Qin Yunlang to go shopping.

They went to the largest cinema in Guangzhou, watched "Thunderstorm", went to a Western restaurant run by foreigners to eat Western food, and enjoyed a live performance by a violinist.

They also went to listen to traditional Cantonese opera. Qin Yunlang wore sunglasses and a leather jacket, and had the aura of a gangster boss, but he chose to sit with a group of old men in their seventies and eighties. From time to time, they would communicate and comment in Cantonese, and occasionally they would even argue.

Not only was his Cantonese standard, but it was also exceptionally gentle, which did not match his evil and rogue image at all. She laughed as she watched him.

After a few days of contact, it seemed as if the old familiarity had returned, at least the awkwardness when we met before was gone.

After the Cantonese opera ended, they saw a pair of young sisters selling sunflowers on the roadside. It was no wonder that it was the south, and there were still sunflowers in October.

Qin Yunlang bought all the remaining dozen or so cigarettes and stuffed them into the bags of Qiao Zhixia.

"Take it back and peel it slowly and eat it."

Qiao Zhixia staggered. Is this guy particular or not?

She doesn't have the energy to think too much for now, she needs to focus all her energy on dealing with the Canton Fair.

On the seventh day of the exhibition, she discovered that a booth called Huaxi Agriculture Co., Ltd. had appeared right opposite their booth.

I don’t know if the types of exhibits on their booth were accidental or intentional, but they were exactly the same as Qiao Zhixia’s. Except for the lack of Matsutake, there was no difference at all.

The only difference is... the four cute 'bunny girls' in front of their booth, wearing alternative clothes and holding trays.

It’s so off the mark!

Qiao Zhixia immediately asked Ji Pingan to go and take a look. After asking around, Ji Pingan found that their quotations were fifty cents lower than Qiao Zhixia's.

"They are the foreign company that tried to acquire our cannery before. They are obviously trying to engage in vicious competition by showing up here." Ji Ping'an frowned.

Qiao Zhixia looked at the crowded Huaxi booth, but no one was interested in her own booth. It was obvious that they were behind this.

"Ji Ping'an, tell me the details of this Huaxi Company. I want to see what kind of monsters they are."

Ji Ping'an actually had detailed information about West China Company in his hands. After a closer look, Qiao Zhixia discovered that it was a Japanese-funded company.

Over the past year, they have squeezed out no less than ten small and medium-sized state-owned enterprises in the country through suppression and competition, and then acquired them and injected capital to carry out a major replacement. They are disguised as state-owned enterprises, but in fact they are 100% Japanese companies.

According to Ji Ping'an's investigation, Hua Xi's total market value in China has approached 100 million.

They are so rich, no wonder they dare to engage in a price war with her.

"They must have known that you had robbed them of the canning factory, and they also felt threatened by Jing Yang, so they wanted to strangle the Jing Yang Group in its cradle through vicious competition."

After listening to Ji Ping'an's analysis, Qiao Zhixia not only did not feel afraid, but it aroused her patriotic spirit.

She looked at the four short-legged girls, who were posing in all kinds of cute ways and stopping passing buyers to feed them free products, and felt a chill in her heart.

Are these Japanese people only capable of using women to do these things?

"Competing with me? Are they worthy? Xu Xiaolan, take out the food I eat."

Xu Xiaolan was also full of fighting spirit at this moment, and volunteered: "Zhizhi, let me do it..."

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