Chapter 67 Extremely Embarrassing... (1/2)
When Qin Sheng returned to Shilin Huayuan, he changed into the glamorous suit prepared by Xia Ding. The outfit made him look like some rich man's son, or a high-flying promising young man.
The moment Qin Sheng walked out of Shilin Huayuan, he received a call from Xia Ding, telling him that he was on the way the pick him up and would be arriving soon.
With the spare time he had in his hands, he went to his favourite bookshop to kill time. When Qin Sheng bumped into Xiaole, Xiaole started teasingly him, saying, ”Wow, young man, are you going for a match-making session with this glamorous looking outfit?”
Qin Sheng was a patron here so after he greeted the other two shopkeepers, he answered, saying, ”Do you think I need to go through the match-making process to look for someone to date? I, Brother Qin, is super popular. My admirers would form a long line going all the way to Pudong, queuing to come after me.”
”What? I haven't come across a bragger like you!” Xiaole rolled his eyes in contempt. However, he went to get a glass of water for Qin Sheng without delay, as was his usual practise.
With a cup of water in his hands, Qin Sheng started roaming the bookshop. To him, the most interesting things about this place were the unwanted old books from customers. These old books had scribbling of notes left behind by their previous owners, which also tell of their thoughts. When Qin Sheng read these notes, he would be studying into their thoughts. Together with his own understanding, he was able to grasp the idea in the book in a more wholesome way. He had in fact cleared some doubts by doing so.
After 10 minutes of so, Xia Ding arrived at the entrance of the bookshop in his new Aston Martin. Qin Sheng teased Xiaole a bit more before he he left with Xia Ding.
The bookshop's cashier, together with Xiaole, looked on as the Aston Martin Qin Sheng rode on sped away. ”Wow, didn't know Qin Sheng was actually a rich man. Do you want to date him, Xiaole?” teased Brother Liu, the cashier.
”Stop making fun of me, Brother Liu. How would it be possible for such rich people to fall in love with an ordinary girl like me,” Xiaole said coyly. The bookshop not exactly doing very well, but Xiaole had a pleasant personality and had built up good rapport with many of it patrons.
Brother Liu burst out laughing. ”I was just teasing you, why take it so seriously? Looks like you really are interested in Qin Sheng.”
”That's enough, Brother Liu. I'm going to ignore you if you don't stop now,” Xiaole said, blushing, as she tried to walk away.
On the way to the charity banquet, Xia Ding sighed and said, ”Hey Boss, I'm regretting that I made you wear this outfit. You would take away all the people's attention from me. They would think that I'm your chauffeur or bodyguard.”
”Cut the nonsense. No one knows me there, in contrasts, you must know a lot of people there. I'm just there to enjoy the food experience the eye-opener, there's no way I will take away the limelight from you,” Qin Sheng said reassuringly.
”How about I introduce some beautiful ladies to you later. Given your good looks and talents, surely there would be fair-skinned, rich, and beautiful ladies eyeing on you. We will then depend on you to live a comfortable life,” Xia Ding said with a laugh.
”Go to hell!” Qin Sheng scolded.
”Well, I guess since you beautiful Ms Han by your side, you wouldn't lay eyes on other girls,” Xia Ding continued fooling around with Qin Sheng.
The banquet was starting at 7.30pm. Both the organizers and contractors were well-known organizations in Shanghai, so invited guests were either famous or rich people. Most had responded to the invitation with their courteous attendance.
The banquet was held at Yuerong Manor at the Bund. The organizer had reserved the manor's banquet hall and its balcony for the occasion, and the auction at the end of the banquet would be held in the banquet hall itself. However, Qin Sheng thought it would be too cold for the ladies, who were dressed in gowns, to be at the balcony talking, given this kind of weather.
At the same time Xia Ding and Qin Sheng were heading to Yuerong Manor at the Bund, a beautiful and elegant lady emerged from Pudong Airport. Recently, she had been feeling rather down, so she came to Shanghai to relax and cheer herself up.
Her mother had passed away when she was still a child, but she due to her strained relationship with her father, she had always been closer to her maternal relatives, such as her maternal grandmother and her mother's brother's family. In the recent years, her maternal grandmother had been residing in Shanghai and she had come to see her as she missed her a great deal.
Outside the airport, her second aunt's son was waiting to pick her up. He was a rich kid who was not interested in studies. In contrast with his older brother, who had graduated from the military school and proceeded to join the army in Xinjiang, this little brother was the family's greatest worry. Fortunately, he had strict parents who managed to steer him from troubles. She had always felt helpless towards this little cousin.
”Long time no see, sister. I miss you so much, the most beautiful sister in the entire universe. You've become even more beautiful, putting all the women in the world to shame!” said Zhu Jiayou, who was an expert in blandishments. Perhaps his cousin would give him so pocket money if his flattery made her happy. He always reminded himself that this cousin of his was the general manager in his brother-in-law's company, so she much be rich!
”Zhu Jiayou, stop rambling away with blandishments. Rest assured that I wouldn't be giving you any pocket money this time. Little aunt had already fed me with the information on the trouble you've been causing. She had specially cautioned me not to give you any pocket money,” she snorted, while she welcomed his flattery. Since she lost her brother years ago, she had always treated this cousin as her own little brother. It was as if she wanted to pour all the love meant for his lost brother to him. Perhaps it was a form of repose for her.
Qin Ran always had this thought that if her little brother had not gone missing, he would be around 25 years old by now. She was clueless as to whether he was still alive, or how he was at this moment, which university he had graduated from, what job he was doing, whether he had a girlfriend, whether his girl friend was pretty, whether he was already married with kids, who would be her nephews and nieces?
Whenever she thought about these things, she would start to feel miserable. No one understood why she was still single given that she had already passed 30 years old. The truth was she had vowed never to get married until she found her little brother.