Shi Ran was stuck on time and went directly to the hotel address sent by Liu Min.
Wang Shuqin and her daughter had arrived early. Shi Ran found the private room and pushed the door open. He saw a man who looked like a shopping mall elite sitting in the main seat opposite him. He wore a gray suit with a white shirt and two buttons unbuttoned.
He was tilting his head and whispering something to Wang Yan, who was holding his arm and acting coquettishly.
Wang Yan's dress is completely different from before. She wears a fragrant white dress on her upper body, which looks valuable. However, the makeup on her face is too exaggerated. It is in the same vein as Wang Shuqin's makeup style, and she has a vicious Snow White feel.
Stepmother’s sense of déjà vu.
Hearing someone coming in, the three people at the table turned their eyes to the door.
Wang Yan acted like a hostess and pointed to the seat next to her, "You are quite punctual. Come and sit."
Shi Ran made her opening remarks with a small smile. She did not follow Wang Yan's instructions to sit down, but chose a seat next to the door and across the table from the other three people.
"Hey, you are so far away from me, are you afraid of me?" Wang Yan curled her lips and smiled flatteringly at the man next to her, "Ignore her, she has always had this tone. Common women always feel that how beautiful they are, others are not."
I have to hurry up and get close to her."
If she doesn't sit next to Wang Yan, will she become a popular girl? This idea is quite strange.
"Girls, whether you are beautiful or not depends on how you dress up. Our Wang Yan was young and didn't understand these things before. Now that she has tidied up a little, she looks many times better than you." Wang Shuqin looked disgusted,
He pointed at Shi Ran with a very uneducated finger, "Look at you, are you earthy or not?"
Shi Ran knew that she would be scolded for coming to this dinner, but she didn't expect that the two ladies named Wang didn't even say hello, but started attacking her with guns and sticks.
It's true that people rely on their clothes, but Shi Ran doesn't think there's anything to feel inferior about wearing simple old clothes.
She ignored Wang Shuqin's provocation and told Wang Yan with a faint smile, "Your lipstick is stuck on your teeth."
Wang Yan immediately took out a small mirror from her bag, took out a napkin and wiped it with her teeth.
Shi Ran shook his head helplessly and found that the man opposite was snickering, so he took another look at him.
The man cleared his throat and nodded politely to Shi Ran, "Hello, my name is Feng Xinghai. I heard that you are usually very busy at work. Thank you for taking the time to come over. Let's order whatever you like to eat later. Today
I'll be the host."
Feng Xinghai had peach blossom eyes and spoke in a gentle tone, but there was no hint of any hostility toward Shi Ran.
Shi Ran gave him a polite nod in return, "Excuse me. My name is Shi Ran."
"Nice to meet you," Feng Xinghai said.
Shi Ran smiled and said, "Nice to meet you."
Wang Yan quickly finished wiping her teeth and hugged Feng Xinghai's arm again, "She is just a green tea white lotus. You are not allowed to pay attention to her, otherwise I will be unhappy."
Feng Xinghai pinched the tip of Wang Yan's nose affectionately, "Isn't she the sister you grew up with? You still have to be polite and speak politely, okay?"
Wang Yan snorted, "Oh, okay, I'll listen to you."
Shi Ran was attracted by the showy little bird. He looked at his nose and heart. He brought a teapot and poured himself a cup. He brought it to his mouth and sipped it while drinking slowly.
Liu Min had to dress up at home, so she put a lot of thought into choosing which bag to carry. She arrived fifteen minutes later than the agreed time, and acted as if she should take it for granted.
After she and Shi Jianning took their seats, Shi Ran took out the Qiuli paste soup that had been brewed with warm water in advance and put it in a thermos cup from his bag, and placed it on the table in front of Shi Jianning.
Shi Jianning was still a little bit upset about beating Shi Ran during the New Year. Shi Ran asked him to drink less, and he said that he would just drink two glasses of red wine. He lit a cigarette, and Shi Ran asked him to put it out, so he just
He put out the cigarette obediently, but was reluctant to throw it away. He pinched off the blackened upper part and put the cigarette back into the box.
Then Shi Jianning coughed again and wrapped a mouthful of phlegm in a tissue. Shi Ran's sharp eyes saw that the tissue was stained with a few streaks of blood.
She reached over and grabbed the cigarette case that Shi Jianning had placed on the table and stuffed it into her bag.
Shi Jianning threw the paper ball into the trash can. When he looked back and saw that the cigarette was gone, he frowned and glared at Shi Ran, "What are you doing?"
"You're coughing up blood and you still smoke? How much do you smoke a day now? Do you have three packs?" Shi Ran asked, glaring at Shi Jianning.
Shi Jianning was timid again, "How can there be three bags? Two bags is more than two at most."
Shi Ran gave Shi Jianning a look, lowered his head and put away the trash can bag, tied it with a tight buckle, took it out and found the waiter to throw it away.
When she returned to the private room and bent over to put a garbage bag on the trash can, Liu Min scolded her as if she felt embarrassed, "You are called here to be a waiter, right? A garbage bag requires you to run in and out to get a new one?"
"
Shi Ran didn't say anything. Liu Min had never been able to understand what she thought and did. It would be useless to say more.
During this meal, Feng Xinghai was very generous, serving the bird's wings and abalone belly in turn.
Shi Ran couldn't taste her food from beginning to end, and Shi Jianning coughed too frequently, which made her worried.
Wang Shuqin mainly shows off Wang Yan's boyfriend, and one of her three sentences always compares Feng Xinghai and Cheng Xiuyan together.
She said that Feng Xinghai and Wang Yan had only known each other for less than a month and had already brought Wang Yan to live in his big house. She also said that Feng's mother had already met Wang Yan and that the two families would discuss their engagement together soon.
What about Cheng Xiuyan? He has been with Shi Ran for so long and has made no progress. He is simply a "playboy" who is irresponsible for his feelings.
Feng Xinghai never expressed his position from beginning to end. He was only responsible for teasing Wang Yan when Wang Yan got tired of him, just like teasing some small pet.
In Shi Ran's view, Feng Xinghai's attitude towards Wang Yan was a bit too frivolous, but every time he looked at Shi Ran, he would put aside his cynicism and become serious and polite.
This is too strange. Generally speaking, if you are dating on the premise of getting married, you have to pretend to be a gentleman in front of your elders, right? Why is this pretending all used for the occasional interaction with Shi Ran?
However, Shi Ran couldn't help but feel slanderous, feeling that Feng Xinghai and Wang Yan were not as compatible as Wang Shuqin said and were bent on getting married.
At the dinner table, Liu Min asked Shi Ran several times to call Cheng Xiuyan, but Shi Ran refused by saying that the other party had something to do.
While walking home along the old street after dinner, Liu Min angrily cursed Wang Yan as a sugar daddy and scolded Wang Shuqin for relying on her power and daring to pretend to be a rich mother-in-law in front of her.
Shi Ran was not interested in discussing Liu Min and Wang Shuqin's relationship as plastic besties. After returning home, she handed a whole jar of Qiuli ointment to Shi Jianning, sent the brewing method to him on WeChat, and found several bottles of rice wine and cartons of cigarettes at home.
Put it all in your bag in one go and take it all away.
She warned Shi Jianning that if she heard him coughing on the phone next time, she would never go home to see him again.
Shi Jianning dared not say anything about this, so he lay down on the bed and ignored Shi Ran.