The Jade of the Republic of China

Sending him to the Bai Mansion, Shen Yutong did not forget about the meal the next day, and asked Meng Liansheng what he would like to eat. The other party thought for a moment and said that he wanted to eat fancier.

Shen Yutong smiled and nodded: "Okay, I'll pick you up at five o'clock tomorrow afternoon."

Although the agreed time was five o'clock, on the next day, Meng Liansheng had lunch with Sun Zhidong and then asked for leave.

He first took the tram to a department store, and chose a brown suit for himself, which was worth five oceans. His monthly salary in the Bai Mansion was ten yuan, because he didn’t need to spend money on food and lodging. After a few months, He has saved a considerable sum of money.

It was summer, and although he didn't do any heavy work, he sweated a lot after half a day.

Back at the Bai mansion, he went to the water room to take a long cold bath, used soap soap to slap his body twice, and lathered his hair twice with the imported shampoo given to him by Uncle Zhong. After washing himself from head to toe, he was completely refreshed before returning to his room covered in steam.

After his hair was half-dried by the wind from the window, he unhurriedly took out the newly bought clothes, first trousers, then a white shirt, vest, a striped tie, and finally a suit jacket.

This was his first time wearing a suit, but he wore it smoothly, including the tie on his chest, which was also very standard.He has a good memory. When trying on a tie in the store, the clerk helped him tie it, and he memorized the action by heart.

After getting dressed, he brought a comb and hair oil, and combed the hair he had just cut a few days ago into a neat little part.

Meng Liansheng never cared about his skin during the long period of hunger and loneliness.After entering the Bai mansion, he had plenty of food. In just half a year, his body has grown a lot, and his shoulders are no longer as thin as before.

He has grown into a full grown man.

Uncle Zhong and Wang Ma always praised him for being handsome, and several maids in the mansion began to blush when they saw him, and he finally realized belatedly that he was also good-looking.

At this time, he looked at the handsome young man with thick eyebrows and black eyes in the mirror.Meng Liansheng bent his lips, and the handsome man in the mirror smiled at him.

He tentatively raised his hand to touch his hair, and the person in the mirror did the same with him.

Meng Liansheng smiled, nodded to the person in the mirror, and said in his heart: Well, this is me.

At [-]:[-], he came down from the second floor of the annex building. When he walked through the garden, he met two little maids. The little girl saw that he was wearing a suit and looked as handsome as a modern youth who came out of a pictorial. She blushed and said, "Little girl." Meng, you are so beautifully dressed, are you going on a date?"

Meng Liansheng shook his head and said solemnly, "I have a dinner appointment with a friend."

The little maid teased persistently: "Girlfriend?"

Meng Liansheng still shook his head: "No."

He was tall and long-legged, and he had already walked through the garden, bypassed the main building, and arrived at the gate of Bai Mansion while speaking.

"Xiao Meng, want to go out?" Meng Liansheng was very popular in Bai Mansion, and the concierge Lin Bo enthusiastically opened the door for him.

"Yes." Meng Liansheng nodded and said politely, "Thank you Lin Bo."

Don't blame him for being popular, it's really hard for people to feel bad for such a well-mannered, dutiful and polite child like him.

Today is a sunny day, but now the sun has become milder, and the red circle is moving to the west, followed by a few snow-white clouds in the distance.

Meng Liansheng, in a suit and leather shoes, stood upright by the side of the road, bathed in the summer sunset.

Maybe it was because of the wind blowing, but he didn't feel hot, on the contrary, he felt refreshed and happy, so that the corners of his mouth involuntarily curved into an arc - of course, he didn't know what he looked like, in fact, he looked a little stupid.

Shen Yutong, who was sitting in the car, saw this silly young man at the gate of Bai Mansion from a long distance away.

This kind of just right stupidity made him look like a green pine on a rock, as if any evil and corruption in the world would have nothing to do with this innocent young man.

Shen Yutong raised her eyebrows and chuckled to herself.

The car stopped at the gate. As soon as he got out of the car, Meng Liansheng came up to say hello: "Second Young Master!"

His voice was a little high, hiding childlike excitement.

Shen Yutong looked him up and down, and said with a smile, "Why are you standing outside waiting? I even mentioned that the porter should call you."

This was the first time he had seen Meng Liansheng in a suit—in fact, he had only seen him five times before. The Lanxiang Pavilion is an elegant bamboo shirt.But it seemed that no matter what kind of dress he wore, it was taken for granted.Including wearing a straight suit at this time, as if he was born to wear a suit, after all, he is really a well-born young man.

Meng Liansheng said, "I'm afraid to keep the Second Young Master waiting for a long time."

Shen Yutong smiled: "I treat you to dinner, so I should wait."

Meng Liansheng thought for a while, then said, "Anyway, I have nothing to do."

Shen Yutong shrugged with a smile, and opened the car door: "OK, let's get in the car."

Shen Yutong did not prepare the meal specially like Meng Liansheng did.He is a beautiful and noble son of a wealthy family. He has always been decent and elegant, and he can look radiant even in the most common clothes.

He didn't ask Meng Liansheng why he wanted to eat fancier. The port has been open for decades, young men and women in Shanghai are keen to pursue foreign things, and Meng Liansheng is also a young man.

Shen Yutong is very familiar with the Fancai restaurants in Yichang, so if he wants to treat guests, he naturally chooses the best restaurant.The restaurant is located on Joffre Road in the French Concession, not far from Bai Mansion, more than half an hour away.

After the driver parked the car, Shen Yutong led Meng Liansheng into the restaurant of the bungalow on the side of the road.At the door stood a tall-nosed and deep-eyed doorman, wearing a white vest and a black tie, who opened the door respectfully for the two of them.

Shen Yutong nodded politely and thanked her in English.

Meng Liansheng also nodded slightly.

The restaurant is elegantly decorated, with flowing lights, soothing western music playing on the record player, and the guests in the booths are talking in a low voice, the atmosphere is quiet and pleasant

The location was pre-booked early in the morning, an elegant seat by the window on the second floor.

The waiter led the two to their seats, Shen Yutong handed over the suit jacket that Shen Yutong took off, Meng Liansheng also took off the clothes, and said thank you in English in a gentlemanly manner.

After the two sat down, the waiter who ordered came over and gave them each a menu.

Meng Liansheng held the menu. This restaurant was run by a Frenchman. The menu was in both English and French. He read it carefully for a while, and then looked at the man across from him.

Shen Yutong glanced at him and said with a smile, "You can order whatever you want, you're welcome."

Meng Liansheng nodded.

Shen Yutong casually flipped through the menu in his hand, quickly closed it, looked up at the waiter holding a pen and notebook, and ordered in English a medium-rare steak and mushroom soup, plus a small snack.

After he finished ordering, the waiter looked at Meng Liansheng again with a smile on his face. Meng Liansheng pursed his lips, handed the menu to the other party, and ordered the exact same meal as Shen Yutong's in English.

He was unexpectedly fluent in English, and Shen Yutong couldn't help being startled, but then he thought about it, he is from the Bai Mansion, so it's not surprising that he can speak English.

Thinking of this, Shen Yutong stretched out his hand and opened the white napkin in front of him, spreading it on his knees.Meng Liansheng also spread the white napkin on his lap slowly.

"Would you like some wine?" Shen Yutong asked.

Meng Liansheng: "It's all right."

Shen Yutong nodded: "Okay, then I'll ask the waiter to open a bottle of red wine."

He snapped his fingers and asked the waiter to order a bottle of the best red wine in the store.

The red wine fell into the crystal glass, and the aroma of the wine wafted away.Shen Yutong raised the wine glass and shook it lightly to sober up, then slightly reached out to Meng Liansheng: "Xiao Meng, let me toast you first, thank you for your timely action at my father's birthday banquet, and helped our Shen family resolve a crisis."

Like him, Meng Liansheng shook the glass lightly, and the two glasses touched lightly on the table, making a low and crisp sound.He said: "It's just a little effort, Second Young Master, you're welcome."

Shen Yutong smiled: "It's Xiaomeng, you are too polite. If it were someone else, I'm afraid he would have repaid you with kindness."

Meng Liansheng smiled shyly, and lightly sipped the red wine in his hand, a strong aroma spread in his mouth.

He only saw Bai Qinghe occasionally sitting on the sofa drinking a glass alone in the Bai mansion at night. It turned out to be this kind of taste, but it was much more palatable than the white wine that his cousin often drank.

The meal for the two came quickly.

After Shen Yutong cut a piece of steak and put it in his mouth, Meng Liansheng picked up the knife and fork leisurely.

"Is the steak good today?" Shen Yutong asked casually.

Meng Liansheng nodded.

Shen Yutong laughed again and said: "It has become fashionable for young people in Shanghai to eat Fancai. But I still think our Chinese food is the best. Huaiyang cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Sichuan and Hunan cuisine can be eaten in different ways every day. Last year or so. It’s not like watercress, which you can eat here and there.”

Meng Liansheng smiled lightly, and said in a low voice, "I've never been to the Fancai Restaurant, and I was thinking about the Second Young Master's treat, so I came to see what it's like."

Shen Yutong was taken aback for a moment, then raised his head and looked at the young man wearing a vest and parting his hair in astonishment. He was a modern young man from Shanghai. In addition, from the time he entered the door to the present, his behavior was natural, and he should have the same western etiquette Quite a few, and he can even order food in English. He almost forgot that just last winter, he was a poor young man in a ragged cotton jacket.

He smiled and said, "I saw that you were proficient in ordering food in English just now, so I thought you came here often."

A trace of embarrassment appeared on Meng Liansheng's face, and he whispered: "I was afraid that I would embarrass you by making a fool of myself, so I followed you just now, but I actually know a few English words."

Shen Yutong was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that the other party might have been imitating herself since entering the door.Because he learned it so naturally that he couldn't tell that it was his first time to eat fancai.

On the one hand, he felt that Meng Liansheng's seriousness was cute, but on the other hand he was a little unbelievable, so he asked with a smile, "How many English words do you really know?"

Although the words used in the order just now are very simple, they add up to a long sentence. If the other party is a parrot, but repeats it so completely and fluently, this learning ability has to impress him.

Meng Liansheng nodded: "The Bai family asked Mr. to teach the young master foreign language, and I listened to it a few times."

Shen Yutong knew it clearly, as if thinking of something, he asked again: "When I met you in the southern suburbs, you haven't entered the Bai mansion yet, have you?"

Meng Liansheng nodded: "I just came to Shanghai not long ago, and I was still working at the pier. I only went to the Bai Mansion at the end of the year."

Sure enough, Shen Yutong asked casually, "Then how did you get into the Bai Mansion?"

He didn't know Bai Qinghe well, but it was not easy to enter their Shen family's garden, let alone a tycoon like Bai Qinghe who licked his blood and made countless enemies, he was afraid that he would be more strict and cautious in choosing his servants.It is said that the young master of the Bai family was kidnapped once before, so he probably wouldn't just let him go to the mansion.

Meng Liansheng only came to Shanghai last year, and entered Bai Mansion at the end of the year, and at his father's birthday banquet, Bai Qinghe took him with him and let him sit with him, obviously trusting him.

Meng Liansheng said: "I helped Mr. Bai by chance. He saw that it was not easy for me to live alone, so he asked me to work as a servant in Bai's mansion." After a pause, he added, "Mr. The rumors outside are different.”

Looking at his pure black eyes, Shen Yutong probably understood why he was able to gain Bai Qinghe's trust in a short period of time - a child with a pure and honest temperament is always easier to be reassured.

I have only met him a few times, and I already believe that he is reliable, let alone Bai Qinghe who sees him every day.

He thought for a while and said with a smile, "Then what do you think of today's Fancai?"

"Very good, I like it very much." Meng Liansheng nodded, then looked around silently, his pair of black eyes blinked slightly, because the thick and long eyelashes made the eyes look clean.

This reminded Shen Yutong of the small deer in the forest that he accidentally saw while climbing a mountain.

What he didn't know was that Meng Liansheng chose to eat this meal at Fan Cai Restaurant not because he wanted to try something new, but because he ate many Chinese restaurants with Sun Zhidong these days. Although the taste was good, they were too noisy and lively.He happened to pass by a fan restaurant, and he looked in curiously through the glass window, and saw that there were mostly couples of men and women, well-dressed and well-dressed, drinking wine and eating vegetables, talking in a low voice, as if there were two people in the private seat. personal world.

At that time, he thought, if there is a chance, he must have such a meal with Shen Yutong.

Just the two of them.

The author has something to say:

Xiao Meng, a genius, there is a thin line between genius and devil.

The writing method of this article adopts a somewhat obscure and realistic style. The reading experience is definitely not so refreshing and silky, but don't worry about the integrity of the story.