Soon the security guards were ushering her out.
The manager apologised to us with a smile and then gave us our membership cards.
The card looked understated, not gold as I thought it would be, but a black palm-sized card with the club’s information written on the back of the membership card, but reversed, it did have a graphic of a card face with the king of hearts stamped in gilt.
Mine was the king of hearts, and when I looked at Chu Xiaoxiao’s again, it turned out to be the queen of hearts.
“There’s a difference between men and women?” I asked.
“The cards we get here are different for each member, but you’ll have to experience the reason for that yourself. He smiled in a pretentious manner.
It’s normal for them to do a few tricks to attract customers.
I didn’t ask about the wine tasting that Jiang Ming would be attending, so as not to draw too much attention to myself. The manager of the winery gave me a brief introduction and said he would send me an email.
At the end he thanked us profusely and sent us out the door. At the door, I saw Liu Min crouching in the corner, her eyes red with tears, hugging her knees, not to mention how pathetic she was.
Chu Xiaoxiao said, “Manager, this Liu Min is our cla*smate, just now it was just an accident, sell me the face of this old cla*smate, you don’t fire her.”
Liu Min and the manager both didn’t expect Chu Xiaoxia to say this, Liu Min looked at Chu Xiaoxia suspiciously, but the manager was quick to reflect, he didn’t care if Liu Min was fired or not, the firing was just to take the heat off of us, as soon as he heard what Chu Xiaoxia said, he immediately nodded his head and agreed.
On the way back, Chu Xiaoxiao was preoccupied. When I talked to her, she would occasionally smile, but when I didn’t say anything, she was silent. I knew she was thinking of Lin Fang, a friendship she had always valued.
She looked at my face in the rear view mirror and stared, not sure what she was looking at, probably angry with me. I was also clogged up inside, not knowing what to do, with my girlfriend on one side and my best friend on the other.
I was about to explain when she shook her head and said, “Forget it, from now on your business is none of my business.” Then she opened the door and got out of the car.
The next day at work, Lin Fang was not very happy, but I teased her a bit before she became happier. On several occasions, she sneaked into a corner to make a phone call, deliberately avoiding people, and I don’t know why.
Chu Xiaoxiao and I hadn’t been talking, and Lin Fang was satisfied. At the end of the day, I drove Lin Fang along to the reunion, and at this reunion, I decided to make my identity public and let everyone know that she was about to become the happiest woman in Tongcheng.
Chu Xiaoxiao was very well liked in high school, many people were her friends, and for this reunion, the entire ground floor of the Ju En Yuan was packed.
I arrived just in time to see Zhao Zichen coming out with his people, and as soon as Zhao Zichen saw me, he smiled and said, “I heard that your alumni had all this floor wrapped up, so we brothers couldn’t even get a seat if we wanted to have something to eat.”
“You like our Ju En Yuan so much? Fine, the private room on the first floor, you can sit anywhere you like, the money is on me.”
Lin Fang thought I was joking and didn’t think much of it. Zhao Zichen also followed the know-it-all upstairs cheekily, Lin Fang only thought we were joking, she would never have thought that I was the owner of this restaurant.
After Lin Fang and I sat down, a hand pressed my shoulder from behind. I subconsciously turned around and saw a face that was so cheap: Chen Yu Zhou.
Chen Yuzhou narrowed his eyes and said in one word: “It’s been a long time.”
“It’s been a long time.” I had a feeling that today, Chen Yuzhou had come prepared.
“Are you sure? You didn’t delete it yourself? Could it be that the phone’s memory was full and was automatically emptied by the system.”
With a black face, Chu Xiaoxiao looked around warily to make sure no one was eavesdropping before saying, “Impossible, I was afraid that Chen Yu Zhou would retaliate against us, so I put this video under lock early in the morning, it wouldn’t have been deleted by mistake, unless I had amnesia, or else someone had secretly moved my phone.”
She handed me the phone, it was a latest model Apple phone, I found that the phone did not get the fingerprint pa*sword.
“What’s going on? Your phone doesn’t have a fingerprint lock and it doesn’t have face recognition.”
“Don’t mention it, the phone suddenly stopped working yesterday, I took it to be flashed and I haven’t had time to enter a new fingerprint and face when I got back.”
“So could it be that the information was lost when you swiped it?”
“No way, all the contents were backed up and exported, and then imported in again. The video is not lost, Chen Yu Zhou does not know whether we have the video or not, but someone touched my phone and made me panic.”
I said in a deep voice: “It’s not as simple as you think, nothing else is missing from your phone, but this video alone. Who would come and delete this video on purpose?”
Chu Xiaoxiao stared for a moment and stammered, “Chen, Chen …… him, who would help him?”
“It must be someone who has access to you, recall well again, who actually touched your phone?”
Chu Xiaoxia said her phone was fine on her desk, there were too many people who could have touched it, and she couldn’t remember who it was.
“Then what should we do, could it be that Chen Yu Zhou is going to retaliate against us again?”
“Don’t worry too much, the reunion is tomorrow, I will disclose my identity then, even if Chen Yu Zhou wants to continue to make things difficult for me, his father Chen Ruhai will not let him mess up.”
Only then did Chu Xiaoxiao let out a sigh of relief and teased me, “The second generation of the rich is amazing, listen to the tone of your voice just now, you really attract people’s hatred.”
“Come on, don’t be sour, you’ve been a second generation rich man for more than twenty years, how many years have I been here?”
“I don’t care, robbing the rich to help the poor, I’m buying dinner tonight, I’ve got another big order for the company, do you want to reward me?”
I laughed, “Yes, let’s go, I’ll treat you to dinner tonight at a better place.”
Chu Xiaoxiao was stunned, “Really?”
“Of course it’s true, I wanted to take Lin Fang, but unfortunately she went back to take care of her father, so you can only accompany me, take your car, my car is too conspicuous.”
“Listen to this stinky rich kid talk.”
Chu Xiaoxiao bounced into the lift, and by the way, she also made up her makeup, touching up her powder in the palm-sized mirror.
“Isn’t it hard for you to put this on your face every day? Lin Fang never wears makeup, but she looks good too.”
“She’s naturally beautiful, I’m not.”
I said, “You look good too. ……”
