invisible friends

The restaurant was booked by Jiang Hexu, the best private restaurant in City C, and the menu was also pre-determined, all according to Zhu Jinruo's preferences.Zhu Jinruo knows Jiang Hexu's style of doing things, he doesn't care about others, he likes to eat or not, but Luo Zhixia is different, Zhu Jinruo has liked Luo Zhixia since the first sight, and always feels that Luo Zhixia has a special attraction his stuff.He didn't want Luo Zhixia to feel uncomfortable eating, so he called the waiter to bring the menu. Of course, what he said was to let everyone order a few more dishes according to their own preferences.

Of course Zhang Guojian and the others were embarrassed to order, so Luo Zhixia and Ding Simei ordered several more dishes for the whole meal.Luo Zhixia didn't care about Zhu Jinruo's thoughts based on the spirit of not eating for nothing, and Ding Simi, the young lady, was used to it and didn't think there was anything to be modest about.

Although the meals were ordered in advance, it would take some time before they were served, so the waiter in the restaurant served a few small snacks for everyone to fill their stomachs first.When Zhu Jinruo saw those snacks, there happened to be a plate of five-color cloud cakes in it, and he thought that he had one in his pocket, so he took it out and threw it on the table, saying: "Someone gave me a piece of cloud cake in the morning, and we ate it together." Bar."

The Yunpian Cake is different from the ones that can be bought in the market now. It doesn’t have any fancy packaging. It is only wrapped in a piece of red paper with three black brush characters written "Longevity Cake" on it. It looks like it is still handmade. The packaging is a little loose, and the three words written on it are not very good-looking.

In many places, Yunpian cakes are called Changshou cakes, but in City C, only those Yunpian cakes wrapped in red paper by the hosts themselves are called Changshou cakes when they give gifts to guests at weddings and funerals. Eating it is a good sign of longevity.However, in recent years, Yunpian Cake is no longer seen as a return gift at wedding banquets and birthday banquets in C City, because it is too low-grade, and everyone now gives candies, chocolates, or dessert gift boxes.This kind of Yunpian cake wrapped in red paper and specially called Changshou cake can only be seen at funerals, so several people from City C in the private room looked a little weird when they saw this piece of Yunpian cake.

Ding Simei said with some disgust: "Mr. Zhu, who gave this to you, how can you give this kind of thing!"

When Jiang Hexu heard that such a small piece of cloud cake seemed a little strange, he asked, "Miss Ding, is there something wrong with this thing?"

"It was given to guests when they were doing funeral affairs. It's very unlucky. How can this kind of thing be messed up by others. Assistant Jiang, you should throw it away for Mr. Zhu," said Ding Simei. She had never attended a funeral since she was a child. I also never touch things my family brought back from funerals, always feeling very unlucky.

Zhu Jinruo was a little unhappy when he heard it, not because of this thing, but even if it was really an unlucky thing, it was a bit harsh for Ding Simi to say this in front of him, the collector.Immediately, Zhu Jinruo said with a dark face, "Little Jiang, throw it away!"

Luo Zhixia felt that something was wrong after Zhu Jinruo threw the cloud cake on the table. The cloud cake was too fragrant. .Seeing that Jiang Hexu stood up and was about to take that piece of Yunpian Cake and throw it there, he hurriedly stopped him and said, "Oh, don't throw it!"

"Mr. Luo, what's the matter?" Jiang Hexu asked with his hand back.

Luo Zhixia asked Zhu Jinruo: "Mr. Zhu, who gave you this thing?"

"I don't know, just now I bumped into an old man in a Tang suit on the road, I helped him, and he was stuffed with this thing." Zhu Jinruo said.

"Mayor Zhang, do you know who is going to have a funeral here today?" Luo Zhixia turned to ask Zhang Guojian again.

Zhang Guojian thought for a while and then said: "I heard that the old birthday star Liu in Xiahu Village died, and today is a funeral. His son has invited many people, and he said he will set up hundreds of tables of wine!"

The Old Shouxing Liu in Xiahu Village is very famous in C City, and he is a great benevolent person known from all over the world. He has never stopped doing good deeds since he was in his twenties until he passed away at the age of [-]. Someone has hastily estimated the money to go out, and it can definitely push a hill out.

I heard that the Liu family was a big family during the period of the Republic of China. The family owned several large factories and had huge assets. Later, Liu Laoshouxing became the head of the family. Just in time for the disaster in S province, he donated most of the family property.The Liu family declined because of this, but the Liu family survived the turbulent period safely because of this.In the 80s and [-]s, Liu Laoshouxing went to sea to set up a factory. Following the open spring breeze, the scale of the factory has grown all the way. In the hands of his son, the factory has changed from a large local enterprise to a large Chinese enterprise. Now his grandson has opened the factory to several foreign countries. Go, the assets of the family will definitely be able to rank first on the Forbes list, and the money spent on good deeds every year starts with eight zeros.

When Grandpa Luo Zhixia was alive, Luo Zhixia went to Liu’s house to see Feng Shui. After all, most rich people are a little superstitious, so Luo Zhixia knew that Old Shouxing Liu was a truly blessed person, and the golden light of merit on his body also shone Bright, it is not surprising that such a person lives to be a hundred years old.

What's more important is that after such a person dies, in addition to distributing the merits to their descendants, they also have merits in their own souls. Their ghosts are different from other ghosts, and they are also shining with golden light. This kind of ghosts are like ghosts. They are always very polite, and sometimes they allow him to stay in the yang world for a while, because they can also gain a little merit with this kind of ghost.Luo Zhixia reckoned that today's weather is gloomy and there is almost no sun, so it is suitable for ghosts to come out for activities. It is estimated that Zhu Jinruo bumped into the ghost of the old birthday star Liu, and he doesn't know whether he is unlucky or lucky.

Generally speaking, bumping into a ghost is definitely a very bad luck. If you take something given by a ghost, you will be entangled in bad luck. However, things given by ghosts like Liu Laoshouxing are different. They are blessed and have merit. .Like this piece of cloud cake, now it is definitely not just a good-sounding longevity name, it is really a good thing that can live a long life.

"Mr. Zhu, you are very lucky. This pastry is not available to others, so you should put it away." Luo Zhixia said.

Zhu Jinruo didn't quite understand what Luo Zhixia meant, but he immediately grabbed the piece of Yunpian Cake that he despised and stuffed it into his pocket.In fact, ten or so cadres in Qingshui Town, including Zhang Guojian, looked at the piece of cloud cake with green eyes after hearing what Luo Zhixia said, it was definitely the eyes of looking at the baby.

Patted his pocket, Zhu Jinruo didn't ask Luo Zhixia what he meant, but changed the subject and started talking about the development of Qingshui Town. Now tourism is very profitable. Before, Qingshui Town was relatively remote No one has developed it all the time, so it's cheap Zhu Jinruo. He visited this small town in the past two days, and he felt more and more that this place would definitely make him a lot of money.

Of course, Zhu Jinruo doesn't want to turn Qingshui Town into a fast-food-style tourist place, the kind where you come here by car in the morning, take a quick tour of the scenic spots under the guidance of a tour guide, buy a bunch of flashy specialties, take photos like crazy, and then take a bus in the evening Traveling back home is not what travel friends like Zhu Jinruo like.This is the first time for Zhu Jinruo to invest in tourism, so he wants to do what he wants as much as possible. He thinks that a slow-paced town like Qingshui Town is suitable for slow-paced tourism, but he wants to let Tourists are in the mood to stay in one place for a few days, and the town still has a lot to adjust.

Of course, the premise of all this is that Zhu Jinruo can get the right to develop this small town. The mayor of City C is an insignificant role to him, but the other party does not seem to be a very smart and interesting person. He took a picture of Ding Simei, who basically didn't understand anything, and it can be seen here, so there may be a little trouble here.

Originally, Zhu Jinruo planned to spend the whole day inspecting Qingshui Town, but he was not interested when he saw Ding Simei who was not courteous.After dinner, Zhu Jinruo sent Jiang Hexu and Dong Haoxin to follow Zhang Guojian and others to continue the inspection. He himself planned to go back and take a nap. Of course, he still had something to do before going to bed, which was to send Luo Zhixia home.Zhu Jinruo's reasons are also very good. He was the one who brought the person here just now, so naturally he should bring the person back now.

So Zhu Jinruo stopped Luo Zhixia when he reached the entrance of the hotel, "Luo Zhixia, wait, I asked the bodyguards to drive over, and asked them to squeeze the two cars, the one we were waiting for. "

Luo Zhixia originally didn't want to squeeze into the car with these people, he had no reason to refuse when he came here just now, now he can go back by himself.

"No, the street next door is the pedestrian street, I want to go shopping and go back."

"Oh, that's just right. I also want to go shopping. I didn't prepare enough this time. I forgot that this is the rainy season. The temperature is a bit low, and I have less clothes. I just went to buy two. Let's go for a walk together. , just take a walk after eating." Zhu Jinruo said immediately.

Luo Zhixia wanted to refuse, because he didn't want to go to the pedestrian street at all, but it would be fine for him to say that he didn't want to go anyway, anyway, it's okay to go shopping.As for Zhu Jinruo who wanted to follow him to the pedestrian street, he couldn't stop him, and he didn't open the pedestrian street. It was his freedom whether Zhu Jinruo went or not.

However, Luo Zhixia still took a look at the coat on Zhu Jinruo's body. The coat that Zhu Jinruo was wearing yesterday was different from today's one. Even if he only brought two coats, it should be enough to cope with the weather. Anyway, the suit jackets are all dry-cleaned. Don't take the weather into consideration.

Zhu Jinruo also realized that his lies were very unprofessional, but he was thick-skinned, and Luo Zhixia just followed him if he didn't expose him.Of course, even if Luo Zhixia exposes him, he still has a reason to say that his young master just likes to prepare ten or eight pieces of clothes in rotation, why not!

So the two wandered towards the pedestrian street like this. Ding Simi really wanted to go out and go shopping together, but she is a girl who just graduated, knowing that it is not good for her to go shopping with two big men, so she had to resent Sitting in the car, he was still looking at Zhu Jinruo's back eagerly as the car drove away.