At noon the next day, Ouyang Mingkai and Zhao Ruijie had lunch and asked the driver to take them to the airport.
"Vice President, do we have a chance to go to Alnwick Castle this time?" Zhao Ruijie asked expectantly after getting on the plane.
"If you want to go, no problem. Although the Duke of Northumberland looks a bit serious, he is a good person, and he is also my cousin's godfather."
Ouyang Mingkai looked at Zhao Ruijie and said, "Maybe we can go visit this time. I think it's okay to stay there for one night."
"As expected, rich people only make friends with rich people. The reputation of the Duke of Northumberland is not very good. Various comments say that he murdered his husband, even his younger brother, and abandoned his fiancé for the sake of his title."
Zhao Ruijie seemed to have thought of something, paused and said: "Vice President, the girl the Duke of Northumberland liked more than ten years ago cannot be you."
Ouyang Mingkai nodded. Although he didn't know much about it, he heard from his mother that the Duke of Northumberland did seem to like his aunt and even proposed to her.
"That's strange. Since the Duke of Northumberland has abandoned his fiancée, why didn't your aunt marry her?"
Maybe Ouyang Mingkai was in a good mood, so he didn't introduce him at this meeting. Instead, he told a story: "Xiaojie, you are wrong about this. My mother said that the Duke of Northumberland did not abandon his fiancée. He should
It was his fiancée who fell in love with someone else, and then someone broke off the engagement. It was at that time that he met my aunt, and later found out that he fell in love with my aunt."
"It's really strange. Why is this different from various legends?"
"Of course, the so-called hearsay cannot be taken seriously. Take my father and my mother as an example. When they were together, there were all kinds of rumors, but in fact it was not like that. Except for the person involved, no one outside of us can do this kind of thing.
I don’t know, just listen to those legends, don’t take them seriously.”
Ouyang Mingkai suddenly thought of some rumors about himself on the Internet, so he added: "It seems that there are many rumors about me from the outside world. Do you think those rumors are consistent with me?"
Zhao Ruijie vomited and said with some embarrassment: "Actually, I don't know about the various rumors about the vice president."
"No, is it true? When applying for a job at a company, don't you first get to know the company's situation?" xdw8
Zhao Ruijie's answer surprised Ouyang Mingkai. Not only that, but it also made him feel a little sour. You must know that Sun Jingxian knew everything about his words and deeds, even when and where he had been, and who his friends were around him.
"When I first came back, when I was looking for a job, I was first looking for a high salary. Although there were many companies recruiting senior executives, the salary was not high and could not meet my requirements. Later, when I saw Huatian recruiting secretaries, I
The salary was very attractive, so I submitted my resume without hesitation, and during the subsequent interview, Mr. Kang and the president personally interviewed me. I felt pretty good about it, so I came."
Now that Zhao Ruijie thought about it, she did make a hasty decision. With her conditions, she might be able to find a better one, but it would take time and opportunity.
"It seems that I have to thank my mommy when I go back. You know, the salary of secretaries was not that high before. My mommy raised it by 60% when she was recruiting secretaries."
"Ah! Why did Mr. Kang raise his salary? Is it because he wanted to?" Zhao Ruijie wanted to say something, but she didn't say it in the end.
"Don't think blindly. Sun Jingxian was just my father's idea at first. Over the years, I have not had many women around me, and most of my friends are of the same sex. He was a little worried and thought I had same-sex tendencies, so that's why he came up with the idea."
Ouyang Mingkai explained.
Zhao Ruijie joked: "I didn't expect the vice president to be so filial. It seems that the vice president will embark on a blind date in the future."
"Wrong, the reason why I agreed to Sun Jingxian as secretary was not because of my father, but because of her ability. She is pretty good at work."
"Then you will comply with the president's wishes," Zhao Ruijie said with a smile and gesture.
"No, actually I was repulsive at first. Secretary Sun and I met five years ago. In her words, she remembered me five years ago, and then she worked hard for this goal in the past five years...
"
"With such a long relationship, let me guess, five years ago, you wouldn't be a hero who saves a beauty, right?" Zhao Ruijie's smile became even wider.
Ouyang Mingkai was a little embarrassed and said: "It's just a coincidence."
"Why? I really guessed it. That's no wonder. Many girls have heroic plots."
Zhao Ruijie suddenly realized that she felt some inexplicable sympathy for Sun Jingxian. Just because of a chance encounter, she was destined to suffer this pain.
"Maybe, as for what happened back then, actually..."
"Actually, you can refuse. Why would you fall in love if you don't like it?" Maybe as a woman, Zhao Ruijie was actually a little disgusted with Ouyang Mingkai's behavior in this matter.
"Actually, I refused, but" Ouyang Mingkai shook his head and said: "At that time, Secretary Sun was like a high-spirited warrior. No matter what I said, she would not back down. And she told me that in the past five years,
It was because of me that she changed. Everything she did was to get closer to me...I really shouldn't have accepted it at the beginning, or should have dismissed her decisively."
Looking back on the month of getting along with Sun Jingxian, Ouyang Mingkai felt a little guilty. As Zhao Ruijie said, if he had been more decisive, maybe so many things would not have happened to Sun Jingxian, and there would not have been conflicts between their father and daughter.
Zhao Ruijie pouted. As a woman, she despised Ouyang Mingkai. It was because of her repeated pursuit that he actually agreed, and then they broke up because of his father's objection. At this point, she really despised Ouyang Mingkai.
"Ouyang Mingkai, it's not that you should, but that you must. If you don't have any intention, don't provoke him."
"It's not unintentional. Although we have only been dating her for a month, and as she said, in addition to watching movies and eating, I even gave her a bouquet of flowers, let alone a gift..."
"I want you to send flowers to someone who is allergic to pollen. Tsk tsk, I don't think it's possible, but I haven't sent any gifts. You really have to be a bit... Vice President, isn't Miss Sun your first love?"
Ouyang Mingkai was stunned again, as if something was wrong again and again, but at this time, he felt that there was no need to explain.
"I think girls are troublesome, and falling in love takes time. In the past twenty-three years, I just haven't had the time."
"Okay, then I can understand it, but no matter how you look at it, the vice president doesn't look like a man who gave up just because the woman's elders objected. Is there any other reason?"
Zhao Ruijie asked curiously again. It was the expression on Sun Jingxian's departure yesterday that impressed her so much that her curiosity was aroused.
Ouyang Mingkai's face actually turned red at this question. Unlike Zhao Ruijie, who wore glasses, even if his eyes were a little red, it wouldn't be obvious, but Ouyang Mingkai was different.
"Vice President, you are blushing a little. Is there anything special?"
The more Ouyang Mingkai behaves like this, the more curious Zhao Ruijie becomes. Anyway, it is not working time now, and it does not violate his principles.
"It's just a misunderstanding. Maybe she doesn't love me as much as she said, just because of five years ago."
Ouyang Mingkai stopped talking. What happened five years ago was not only his personal matter, but also involved Sun Jingxian's privacy. It would not be good to talk about it like this.
"Vice President, it's over now. It doesn't matter if we talk about it. I'm really curious. What caused this misunderstanding to make Miss Sun fall in love with you?"
"It's nothing, it was just a misunderstanding. Once the misunderstanding was cleared up, we broke up."
Ouyang Mingkai refused to say anything and even put on a blindfold and pretended to sleep.
"Well, in short, I think Miss Sun is quite pitiful for falling in love with such a cold-hearted man like you."
Seeing Ouyang Mingkai glaring over, Zhao Ruijie said again: "Okay, even if it's a misunderstanding, but after five years of misunderstanding, it might be true love? I think Miss Sun was very reluctant to leave yesterday, but you are still young.
Maybe after a few years of separation, when we meet again, we will find that we still have each other in our hearts."
"Zhao Ruijie, if you continue to talk nonsense, I will be angry. Some things are not caused by time, just like my father and my mother. They were separated for more than six years, and they are still together when we meet again. This is fate, but
Some people are together every day and have no feelings, like Uncle Ito, he loves my mommy very much and has not married yet. At that time, he and my mommy were work partners and friends, but
Mommy didn’t fall in love with him..."
Ouyang Mingkai didn't like hearing what Zhao Ruijie said about meeting in the future. He felt very uncomfortable.
"Okay, I'm sorry, but I found that everyone in the vice president's family seems to have stories. This kind of life is really exciting."
Zhao Ruijie envied that a person's life only lasts for a few decades, and it would be really boring to live an ordinary life.
"We don't feel this way. If I had a choice, I believe Mommy would be willing to choose a dull life." As one of the parties involved, Ouyang Mingkai shook his head and said that many childhood memories are not very good, especially when faced with many times.
The feeling of losing a loved one.
"Well, if you are not a fish, how can you know the joy of fish? If you know the joy of fish, how can you know the pain of fish? This is probably the case."
Zhao Ruijie sighed. After that, the two of them didn't talk about Ouyang Mingkai's relationship. They mostly talked about the orphanage.
When he met the Duke of Northumberland, Ouyang Mingkai seriously asked him to stay in the castle for one night, and he agreed.
That night, the two of them followed the Duke to the castle. They were guests, and the Duke of Northumberland ordered the castle to prepare a warm welcome ceremony.
"Sure enough, a person cannot be judged by his appearance. The Duke is really different from what is rumored." Zhao Ruijie whispered.
"So rumors kill people, everything"
"Seeing is believing, hearing is believing." Zhao Ruijie took over the words.
“Not really, but”
"Hey, Claire, I didn't expect to meet you here." The two were talking when a voice called Ouyang Mingkai's English name suddenly came.