Chapter 305 (1/2)

Chapter 305: Talkative Yuan Zhou

There were merely twenty minutes from the moment he finished calling until he got ready to go out.

“How long will my girlfriend need if she goes out in future?” Yuan Zhou was fairly curious.

He thought that while walking. He was dressed casually this time. Dressed in the clean beige casual pants and a white T-shirt, he stood at the crossing and waited for Jiang Changxi.

In a little while, a green taxi stopped in front of Yuan Zhou after a sound of “Zi”.

“Whoops! You look so handsome in the suit today. Are you going home for a blind date?” Seated in the back seat, Jiang Changxi directly opened the car door at the back row and teased Yuan Zhou when she saw him.

“No. I’m dressed like that every day.” Yuan Zhou said with a serious expression.

“Haw-haw. Boss Yuan is also a man of narcissism.” Jiang Changxi sat backward deeper into the seat to let Yuan Zhou in.

“No. I’m just telling the truth.” Yuan Zhou straightened his back upright when he got in the car.

“Ok. Take it easy. It’s only a joke.” Jiang Changxi looked Yuan Zhou with an amused manner.

“Humm, thank you. How much is the fare?” While the car was pulling away slowly, Yuan Zhou looked at the taximeter that was turned off and suddenly asked.

“300 RMB for a round trip. Waiting time will be charged separately.” Jiang Changxi answered cleanly.

“I will have to trouble you to wait for me, Master. I’m going back in the evening,” Yuan Zhou considered the places he needed to go for a while and then said that.

“No problem. Don’t worry. You are the friend of Jiang Changxi and I will definitely give you a good price.” While Master Bai was waiting for the green light, he turned the head and said to Yuan Zhou smilingly.

“Sorry to be a bother,” Yuan Zhou answered courteously.

“Not at all, young man.” With a smiling face, Master Bai should probably have thought of or misunderstood something.

“Ok.” Yuan Zhou then answered with a nod.

When the red light changed green, the car continued moving forward. However, it was quite quiet in the car.

There was slight tiredness on the face of Jiang Changxi. Looking closely, one could even see inconspicuous dark eye circles on her face. After she teased Yuan Zhou as a routine activity, she leaned back in the seat and closed her eyes for a rest.

Nevertheless, Yuan Zhou just sat in the back seat and stared somewhere blankly.

Actually, Chengdu wasn’t far from Meishan. It took only a little more than 1 hour to get there by bus and 40 minutes by car.

However, Yuan Zhou hadn’t been there for six years. After he graduated from the senior school there, he hadn’t been back anymore.

Meishan was the hometown of Yuan Zhou. At that time, however, Yuan Zhou was reluctant to go back even for the Chinese New Year. He had no house there and besides, his parents didn’t have other relatives there.

Even his parents went back to the hometown only on Tomb-Sweeping Day to burn joss sticks to their ancestors. Basically, Yuan Zhou was either studying in the school or believing it was all right to go back next time.

After his parents died, Yuan Zhou was more reluctant to go back as he would feel very depressed at that prospect.

However, there was actually not only sadness, but also more happiness over there.

Whether it was the cozy memory with his family members or with his friends and classmates, good memories were always more than the bad memories.

Therefore, Yuan Zhou decided to go back to his hometown in a hurry.

Yet, speaking of returning to the hometown, there wasn’t any matter of hurry.

“Young man, we are in Meishan now. Where do you guys want to go?” Master Bai’s words interrupted Yuan Zhou’s deep thought.

“So quickly. Where are you getting off, Boss Yuan?” Jiang Changxi sat straight and asked curiously.

“Drop me at Jinyi Road. How about you?” Yuan Zhou directly told them the main avenue of Meishan and then turned around to look at Jiang Changxi.

“I will go there with you first,” Jiang Changxi checked the time and then said that.

“Alright. We’ll be there right away.” After Master Bai said that, the car was pulled away steadily to the main avenue.

Although the avenues of Meishan weren’t asphalt roads, they were nevertheless flat cement floors. The stores at both sides of the avenues appeared to have been through many years.

“Doesn’t look bad.” It was the first time that Jiang Changxi came to Meishan. As soon as she got off the car, she said conveniently.

“Not bad, huh? Facilities in this place are quite complete.” Yuan Zhou answered and continued.

“Really?” Jiang Changxi nodded the head.

The simple answer of Jiang Changxi enabled Yuan Zhou to start a conversation.

The place might be much too familiar to Yuan Zhou. He didn’t even find any change in the stores. Suddenly, Yuan Zhou became interested in talking and thus directly started to introduce the place.

“Speaking of which, I often came here when I was in the senior school. This photo studio offered terrible service, but it’s surprisingly still open now.” When Yuan Zhou said that, he smiled once in a blue moon.

“Since you have said its service is poor, it definitely is.” Jiang Changxi echoed.