The Pentium Era - South to North

Zhang Chen looked at the time and saw that it was already past five o'clock. It was dinner time. Zhang Chen asked Liu Qing what she wanted to eat.

"My mother is waiting for me when I go home," Liu Qing said. "I got off the plane and came here directly. I haven't even seen my mother yet."

Zhang Chen said yes, then I will give it to you.

Zhang Chen drove Liu Qing to their door. Liu Qing turned around and asked, "Why don't you go in and have dinner with us?"

When Zhang Chen heard this, he quickly shook his head. Liu Qing smiled and said, "Why, are you afraid of seeing my mother?"

Zhang Chen said, a little bit. I met you last time at Pudong Airport when your parents sent you abroad. It has been so many years.

"What does eating have to do with how many years we haven't seen each other?" Liu Qing looked at him and asked.

Zhang Chen said: "We haven't seen each other for many years. If we want to meet, let's meet formally. It's a bit presumptuous to just barge in like this."

"Why, you still want to come here with big and small bags? If you bring them, my mother won't accept them, and she will give you a look. In this way, my mother will be very enthusiastic."

Liu Qing said, when she saw Zhang Chen still sitting still, she understood: "After all, I am still afraid of seeing him. You are making excuses for yourself, right?"

Zhang Chen nodded honestly: "Yes."

Liu Qing chuckled: "I didn't expect that you would still be afraid of meeting people. Aren't you afraid of offending anyone on stage?"

Zhang Chen chuckled: "It's different, it's different."

"Okay, then I'll give you a chance to meet in a formal setting." Liu Qing said, opening the car door, "Don't forget to list a few more topics."

Zhang Chen said yes.

"Then I'll let you go, bye."

Liu Qing said as she got out of the car, then opened the rear door, took her backpack from the back seat, said goodbye again, and left.

Zhang Chen was about to start the car when his cell phone rang. It was Tan Shuzhen. Zhang Chen picked it up. Tan Shuzhen asked: "Zhang Chen, where are you? Can you go back to the M-Zone?"

Zhang Chen said back.

"What do you want to eat? I'll buy it?" Tan Shuzhen asked.

"Forget it, let's go eat Japanese food."

"Hoho, Zhang Chen, the sun didn't come out from the west today."

"I'm too lazy to talk to you about where to go."

"Okay, just go eat Japanese food. Your attitude doesn't matter. Let's go separately?"

Zhang Chen said yes.

When Tan Shuzhen has nothing to do, she will still go to Zhang Chen's dynamic zone for dinner upstairs, but now, there are fewer people eating with them, and the food is simpler. The dishes in the canteen below plus one or two more people want to eat The dishes are dealt with.

Xiaoli is basically in the factory, Xu Qiaoxin and Xiao Wu, even if Xu Qiaoxin has to work overtime at night, they have to go home to eat dinner, and then come back to the unit after eating. Xu Qiaoxin and Zhang Chen said that if they don't go back for a day, Teacher Wang instantly transformed into Tang Monk. If I didn’t go back for two days, she would come to the work unit to see if I was really busy or just looking for excuses to avoid her.

The same goes for Ge Ling. After her mother left for Jiangshan, Ge Ling would go home every evening, or bring food back from the canteen below, or take her father out to eat after returning home. Occasionally, Ge Donghai I cooked one or two meals, but for two of us, we couldn't even eat it. It was too unpalatable.

Ge Ling and the others have now moved to Qianjiang New Town. Although Qianjiang New Town is full of high-rise buildings, life is very inconvenient. There are no markets, commercial streets, or small restaurants near their home. There is only "Shaxian Snacks", Ge Ling said. It is the "Shaxian snack" with the staleest ingredients in Hangzhou. After eating it once, she didn't dare to take her father there a second time.

The closest business district to their home is the Vientiane City in Qianjiang New Town. When the weather is nice, Ge Ling takes Ge Donghai to the Vientiane City Tower to eat and go shopping. However, the restaurants on the Vientiane City Tower are full of business. Very good, you need to queue up, which is a bit troublesome.

Zhang Chen arrived upstairs at the Friendship Hotel. Tan Shuzhen arrived before him. There was no need to tell him the box number. Zhang Chen could see when he walked in that the curtains on the door frames of the boxes that were still waiting for people had mostly been removed. You walk along the passage and you can see the person you are looking for.

Zhang Chen quickly found Tan Shuzhen. He walked in and sat down. The waiter came over and asked, "Are all your guests here?"

Tan Shuzhen has finished speaking, and it’s time to serve.

The waiter said wait a moment.

She hung up the curtain on the door frame and left. In this way, the inside and outside immediately became two worlds. The outside was unfamiliar, but the inside was familiar.

Tan Shuzhen looked at Zhang Chen and said with a smile: "What stimulated you today to actually take the initiative to come here?"

"I told you, I'm too lazy to talk to you about where to eat. When it comes to this, you will definitely not object."

Tan Shuzhen said "ha" and asked: "Where is Wenwen?"

"I went back to Beijing yesterday, and Liu Qing is here today."

"Oh, then you still have time to accompany me and you didn't invite her to dinner?" Tan Shuzhen was surprised.

"She invited me to dinner, but it was just to her home, and I ran away."

Tan Shuzhen laughed and said, "No wonder."

"What's the wonder?" Zhang Chen asked.

"I'm the one who got the support." Tan Shuzhen said, "It seems that Wenwen was right, Liu Qing likes you."

"Don't talk nonsense."

"I'm not talking nonsense. If she doesn't like you, why would she let you go to her house for dinner? Who would bring someone home these days?"

"Nonsense." Zhang Chen said, "It's just that I took her home and when I arrived at her door, she was just polite."

Tan Shuzhen looked at Zhang Chen and shook her head. She sighed:

"Zhang Chen, sometimes you are just like a piece of wood. If people don't accept you, you can just send it to the door. If you want to come in, they will refuse. This person intentionally wants her mother to know you. First, Be mentally prepared. There are many people sending me home. Besides you and Xiao Wu, who else has eaten at my house? "

Zhang Chen glanced at Tan Shuzhen and said angrily: "So, you like me too?"

"Yes, I like you." Tan Shuzhen said, "If no one wants us when we get old, we will partner up."

"Go away, I'm not a recycling bin." Zhang Chen cursed.

"I can't get out. When that day comes, you Zhang Chen will definitely accept me. I'm sure of it." Tan Shuzhen said with a smile.

"That's just being friends."

"Okay, friends can also team up with each other and rely on each other... I'll go, I feel uncomfortable talking about this, Zhang Chen, we won't have such a miserable life in the future, right?" Tan Shuzhen said with a bitter face.

Zhang Chen laughed heartily and said, "It's possible. Anyway, I never thought that there would be a day when Zhang Xiangbei would never leave my side. It's hard for you to say."

"What do you mean? I just want Nan Nan to stay with me, and that's up to her to be willing. She won't dislike me." Tan Shuzhen said, "When that time comes, Zhang Chen, what will we do?"

"There's nothing to do. Take care of yourself. I'm ready anyway." Zhang Chen said.

"What have you prepared?" Tan Shuzhen asked curiously.

"That house in Sanya is just for me to live in. I can paint, enjoy the wind, and bask in the sun every day." Zhang Chen said.

Tan Shuzhen thought of Zhang Chen's villa on the top of the mountain in Sanya Tropical Botanical Garden. She said okay, you can take me in then.

"Tan Shuzhen, are you crazy?" Zhang Chen asked.

"What's wrong?"

"Do you think this is a senior citizen's club?"

Tan Shuzhen burst out laughing. After laughing enough, she said, "Didn't you say this place is very ambiguous? Then let's not flirt."

"Does the flirting last until your late teens or early 80s?"

"Okay, Professor Zhang, tell me, what are you going to do next after you change your ways?"

"In the past two days, I will first write out the topic selection for Liu Qingyao so that she can submit it. Then, I will patrol my territory and go to Shanghai and Sanya. If I have time, I will go to Beijing. Check it out at the branch office," Zhang Chen said.

"There is no time. December 20, nine days later, your time must be given to me." Tan Shuzhen said.

"what?"

"My project in Yongcheng is about to open, and I feel a little panicked. You must accompany me."

"You're not flustered, but guilty, right? The housing prices in Yongcheng have suddenly increased to more than 10,000. Are you afraid that the people in Yongcheng will beat you?"

"Yes, that's why you have to accompany me." Tan Shuzhen said.

"Okay." Zhang Chen said, "Bring Xiao Wu with you, you won't be afraid anymore."

Tan Shuzhen nodded "Yeah".

Zhang Chen looked at Tan Shuzhen and thought of Huang Linghua. Tan Shuzhen returned to Yongcheng. If there was really anything to be afraid of, Zhang Chen felt that it was Huang Linghua that she should be afraid of.

People are very strange. When you are young and have nothing, you may not be afraid of anything, but when you get older and become somewhat successful, you will be afraid of more things.

Just like Zhang Chen, when he was young, he was not afraid of Hong Ganglu and those bad guys. When Liu Ligan and Meng Ping disappeared from Haicheng, he would have gone to Haicheng if Xiao Zhao hadn't stopped them.

But when he returned to Haicheng last year, even after such a long time, he was actually a little worried, so when he saw Xiao Zheng at Haicheng Meilan Airport, he was very happy.

Zhang Chen thought that the same was true for Tan Shuzhen. When Huang Linghua found the specialty store on Yan'an Road and Tan Shuzhen confronted her, she must not have been afraid at that time. If she had arrived too late, maybe Tan Shuzhen would still confront her. Huang Linghua fought, but now, Zhang Chen felt that Tan Shuzhen should feel scared.

If nothing else, the simplest thing is that it’s not worth it. The identity and status of the two people are different, so it’s not worth betting. The one who wears shoes is always afraid of the one who wears bare feet. That’s the reason. The one who wears shoes needs to find someone who wears shoes directly. It's a one-on-one challenge, and when someone wearing shoes wants to do something barefoot, he has to find two minions. In the final analysis, he still lacks the courage to face it alone.

Therefore, even if Tan Shuzhen didn't say anything, Zhang Chen would accompany her to Yongcheng.

When the food came, Tan Shuzhen said, "I haven't eaten these for a long time" and couldn't wait to eat. After eating for a while, she found that Zhang Chen hadn't moved his chopsticks. Tan Shuzhen asked:

"Why don't you eat?"

"I'm watching you eat, so pay attention to how you eat."

"It's okay." Tan Shuzhen raised her chopsticks and shook them, "We are an old married couple, do you still care about this?"

Zhang Chen laughed. He remembered that at the airport, Wenwen scolded those people: "What are you looking at? I haven't seen an old couple saying goodbye."

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