Chapter 37:

"Qihua, your taste is getting more and more peculiar, this little girl...is an adult?"
It was the first time for Zhou Sitian to attend such a formal occasion, and she felt a little guilty. If you don't listen or you can't speak, you just need to hold Uncle Shao's hand. Zhou Sitian told herself that.
She thought about it. Shao Qihua looks pretty good. If he can help him find his brother, it would be best. If he can't, let him introduce someone who can. Anyway, he owed himself a life-saving grace, not for nothing.
But not long after the banquet started, she met a nasty person.
The domineering woman in front of her was about the same age as Shao Qihua. She was well-maintained and had a graceful temperament. At first glance, she was not a good match.
Shao Qihua was about to speak, but was preempted by Zhou Sitian, "Thank you for your concern, maybe because I seem to be a little bit older than you, I'm really sorry for this misunderstanding."
In Qinghe Town, she had never seen a woman who sneered at her. If she was muddled, she would have been bullied.
Shao Qihua was stunned. He suppressed his smile and coughed dryly. He was about to open his mouth to excuse Zhou Sitian in front of his old friend. He only felt his arm tighten and his feet could not help moving to the left.
Zhou Sitian imagined seeing Zhao Qiuhua again a thousand times and 10,000 times. Maybe the woman would cry and say sorry, said she regretted it, and said "Mom I'm sorry you".
Maybe that woman is still so arrogant, so indifferent, so incompatible with the environment, and gave her a cold look when she saw her.
Or maybe she yelled at her, "I left because your presence made me sick!"
Think of it countless times, wake up from dream countless times. However, Zhou Sitian couldn't think that it would be such a scene when he saw Zhao Qiuhua again. Wearing a gorgeous dress, his mother held a strange man in her arms, and greeted everyone with a smile.
She exchanged glances with the strange man from time to time, the gentleness and tacit understanding in those eyes was something Zhou Sitian had never seen before. She never thought that pride as Zhao Qiuhua would have such a soft side.
Maybe her soft side has always been there, but it has never been shown in front of them. Zhou Sitian bit her lower lip tightly, and her hand holding the champagne glass trembled slightly.
Dad... Dad, thinking of Li Qiangzhong's kind smiling face, Zhou Sitian's eyes suddenly felt a little sour. At the same time, an inexplicable sense of guilt rose in her heart. Her mother... how could her mother do such a thing!
"Miss Zhou? Si Tian? What's the matter?" Shao Qihua was surprised to find that Zhou Sitian is not tall, but her strength is not small. If she does not resist, she can probably drag herself for a long time.
So the famous media tycoon and transportation tycoon of Xiangjiang was dragged by a young girl across the venue. When he met someone he was familiar with halfway through, Shao Qihua could only smile awkwardly, even he himself was surprised at his tolerance for this little girl.
After sending away a person who came up to say hello again, Zhao Qiuhua's smile faded, and she was a little worried, Li Zheng slowly walked to the other side of the venue, and gradually disappeared from her sight.
With a very standard smile on Shen Wannian’s face, he nodded with his business friends and took a moment to glance at his son and daughter-in-law,
Now you represent the Shen family, don’t sullen your face. Keep up and take you to meet. See Sir Edward."
However, as soon as he took a step, he saw a familiar figure approaching here. Shen Wannian immediately put a big smile on his face.
"Brother Shao, it's been a long time. Looks good." Shen Wannian took Yang Wanru towards Shao Qihua.
Shao Qihua was about to say sorry, but found Zhou Sitian stopped suddenly. She stood there, waiting for the Shen family to come to them.
"Who are they?" Zhou Sitian asked.
"Xiangjiang Newspapers, Shen's family. Xiangjiang Newspapers is the most authoritative newspaper in the hearts of the older generations of Xiangjiang. The government mouthpiece is extremely famous in Xiangjiang." Although Shao Qihua is known as a media tycoon, he is still young. The status in the hearts of the older generation of Xiangjiang people is hard to shake.
"Older generation? That is to say, they are in decline."
Shao Qihua gave a dry cough, the little girl's words were not only straightforward, but also pungent.
"Brother Shao, I heard that you are another city. California's cinemas are not easy to handle." The Shen family came to Zhou Sitian.
Yang Wanru secretly took a look at Zhou Sitian. Shao Qihua rarely took his female partner to attend such formal occasions. Jiang Anqi was usually the one to take. This little girl was very strange.
Zhou Sitian ignored Yang Wanru's look, she let go of Shao Qihua's hand and walked straight to Zhao Qihua with the wine glass.
"This lady looks so good-natured." Zhou Sitian tried to calm herself down, but her voice still trembled slightly.
Zhao Qiuhua was stunned at the moment Zhou Sitian appeared. If she saw Li Zheng, she was shocked with a hint of joy, then facing this daughter, her heart was much more complicated.
Zhao Qiuhua looked for countless reasons to convince him that it was the right decision to leave, but when he really faced the children who were abandoned by him, those reasons seemed so pale and weak, Zhao Qiuhua's face was slightly pale.
"Are you all right?" Shen Hongji asked in a low voice.
Zhao Qiuhua shook her head, her cold eyes fell on Zhou Sitian, "Shall we go out and talk?"
Shen Hongji looked at his wife in surprise, he looked at Zhao Qiuhua and then at Zhou Sitian, shrugged and said nothing.
"No, there is nothing to talk about between us." Zhou Sitian clenched her back teeth tightly. You can't cry, you can't cry, you can't let this bad woman read jokes! Zhou Sitian kept repeating these words in his heart.
"What is your relationship?" Zhou Sitian still couldn't hold back, and asked.
"This is my wife."
Although Shen Hongji thought Zhou Sitian's performance was strange, but because she was here with Shao Qihua, she seemed to be in the relationship between a man and a woman, and he couldn't think that the girl in front of him would be his wife's daughter.
After Zhou Sitian heard the words, she finally couldn't stretch the expression on her face. She bit her lower lip hard, and there was blood dripping out of her lips without realizing it.
Shao Qihua, who greeted Shen Wannian by the side, smiled apologetically to Shen Wannian and walked to Zhou Sitian, "What's the matter?"
"Hahahahaha, I laughed so hard, so funny." Zhou Sitian suddenly clutched his stomach and laughed. Her cheeks were red, and there were tears in the corners of her eyes. She didn't know if she was laughing or... crying.
Shen Hongji's complexion is very ugly, "Mr. Shao, do you care about your female partner?"
A trace of dissatisfaction flashed in Shao Qihua's eyes, and a junior actually spoke to him like this. Although Shao Qihua and Shen Hongji are about the same age, he and Shen Wannian are equal, and Shen Hongji is naturally his junior.
"Brother Shen." Shao Qihua turned to look at Shen Wannian.
The smile on Shen Wannian's face also couldn't hold back, "Hongji, you and Qiuhua go back first."
Shen Hongji was silent for a while, nodded, and helped Zhao Qiuhua to walk outside.
Zhao Qiuhua looked up and wanted to say something. He was facing Si Tian's red apricot eyes last week, froze in place, and was pulled out of the venue half-wrapped by Shen Hongji.
Shen Wannian felt embarrassed and hurriedly said a few words before taking Yang Wanru away.
"Do you know Shen Wannian's daughter-in-law?" He was beside him, but he could see the little girl's expression very clearly.
Zhou Sitian raised her head, she didn't know when the eye makeup had been painted, she wiped her eyes with her hand, and instantly a black mark appeared on her face.
"I said she is my mother, do you believe it?"
The sound of Sir Edward's knocking of the glass was transmitted through the microphone to the entire venue.
"Today is December 24, 1982. I am honored to be able to participate in the banquet at the Governor’s Mansion. Xiangjiang is the Xiangjiang for the people of Xiangjiang. The prosperity of Xiangjiang needs you all. Let us work together for more freedom, democracy and more Prosperous Xiangjiang, cheers!"
"Cheers!" Everyone toasted together.
The sweetness of grapes mixed with the astringency of alcohol slipped into the intestines, and Li Zheng regretted coming to the banquet. Edward did make a great contribution to the prosperity of Hong Kong, but his position is different. Democracy and freedom are the two biggest banners of capitalism. In his toast, he is repelling Huajing to take back the sovereignty of Xiangjiang.
"I'm a little bored, go out to let the wind out." Li Zheng whispered to David.
David nodded, "The back garden of the Governor's House has an artificial lake, which is very beautiful."
Li Zheng responded, took the coat from the waiter, and walked to the back garden.
Throughout the banquet, Liang Zhe would look at Li Zheng's figure every two minutes. Seeing Li Zheng walking out, he didn't want to follow him. He walked through the venue and walked into the back garden, looking for Li Zheng, but he didn't want to see such a scene.
A woman hugged Li Zheng tightly, crying, tears and nose rubbed against Li Zheng.
"Om" Liang Zhe only felt his head warm, and his body had moved forward uncontrollably.
He walked two steps quickly, came to the two of them, violently pulled them apart.
Both Zhou Sitian and Li Zheng, who were still immersed in excitement, were taken aback, and both eyes looked at Liang Zhe at the same time.
The yellow leaves swirled on the heads of the three of them and fell to the ground.
Time went back to ten minutes ago.
After Zhou Sitian told Shao Qihua that Zhao Qiuhua was her mother, she couldn't help but choke in grievance.
Shao Qihua panicked suddenly, watching the gazes of people around him constantly floating, and many old friends and opponents in the mall were ready to move, approaching here, he dragged Zhou Sitian to the back garden in desperation.
Zhou Sitian choked and talked about her experience intermittently.
"How can she be like this? Dad treats him well, doesn't dislike her, doesn't dislike me. She doesn't bother her about anything in the family, and her mother has to go to the ground, so she only needs to be sad at home. When I came back from the sea this time, it was very late and very tired. I have to prepare dinner for us."
"Why a good person is not rewarded? She is already married. She shouldn't know that her father is gone, she..." Shao Qihua is a stranger. Some things are difficult to talk to familiar people, but it is easy to face strangers. Just tell it.
No one had ever cried like this in front of him. Shao Qihua didn't know how to deal with it, so he had to adopt the attitude of coaxing his son more than ten years ago and comforted him in a good voice.
At this time, another teenager came in in the back garden.
Shao Qihua took a look. He had never seen it before, maybe someone brought the junior.
As soon as Li Zheng entered the back garden, he heard a rustling choke, and his body became stiff. It was so scary at night.
But soon, he discovered that the cry was really familiar. When he first came to this era, people still groggy ears often sounded like this.
He walked two steps quickly, and then his body stiffened. The eye sockets were red, the bags under his eyes were dark, and there were some strange black marks on his face. The woman who was looking at him unblinking eyes...
"Sister..." Li Zheng showed a big smile at the corner of his mouth, and Dan Feng's eyes, who had always been cold, bent into a warm arc.
You are fine, just fine.
Zhou Sitian wiped her eyes vigorously, her eyeliner dizzy instantly.
"Xiaozheng! It's really you! Xiaozheng!!" Zhou Sitian jumped up suddenly, making two steps in three steps, and rushing on Li Zheng.
Li Zheng staggered two steps and almost fell. Even if he has been well-nourished recently, his height does not mean that he will grow longer. Li Zheng thinks that if he doesn’t reach height in two years, his laboratory will probably study the length of time. High drugs too.
Zhou Sitian was still half a head taller than Li Zheng, so she picked up Li Zheng effortlessly and turned around in a circle.
"It's really you! You know how scared I was to hear that you fell into the sea! Fortunately, you are fine! Fortunately, you are fine!" Zhou Sitian kept repeating this sentence. She has experienced too much this evening. Now, first Zhao Qiuhua and then Li Zheng. With sorrow and joy, the tears and nasal tears that finally stopped surging again, this time it was Li Zheng's clothes that were unlucky.
Li Zheng patted Zhou Sitian's back comfortingly. The eyes met Shao Qihua who was walking, and there was a trace of doubt and dislike in both eyes.
But before they formally played against each other, Liang Zhe suddenly stepped in.
The eyes of the remaining three people turned towards Liang Zhe who was expressionless.
Liang Zhe glanced at Zhou Sitian coldly, and there was an expression of disgust on his face like a paralyzed face, "Ugly!"
Zhou Sitian's eyes widened, her big apricot eyes looked a little terrible against the horrible makeup.
"Ugly dead!"
Zhou Sitian pointed to herself, opened her mouth, did not come up in a breath, almost suffocated!
"you you……"
Liang Zhe ignored Zhou Sitian, but frowned as he watched Li Zheng's snot and tears on his jacket. The fingers of his right hand that hung beside him moved slightly, his eyes flickering.
Take off or not?
When Liang Zhe was hesitating, David's weird Cantonese voice came from the entrance of the back garden, "Li, are you there? The banquet is over soon."
The face of Daniel holding a dry towel immediately appeared in Liang Zhe's mind, a sharp light flashed in his eyes, he immediately took off his coat and quickly walked to Li Zheng's side.
He pulled Li Zheng's dirty coat to the ground, then put his coat on Li Zheng, and the action was done in one go.
Li Zheng...
Zhou Sitian...
"Oh! God, banshee!" David walked closer and screamed when he saw Zhou Sitian's appearance.
Zhou Sitian was taken aback, touched his face, and looked at Li Zheng and Shao Qihua with questioning eyes.
Li Zheng: "It's not terrible, but the makeup is a bit flowery."
Shao Qihua: "Well, foreigners are exaggerating."
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At the end of the banquet, Li Zheng declined David's offer to send him a ride, and followed Zhou Sitian into Shao Qihua's car.
He still doesn't understand how Zhou Sitian would deal with Shao Qihua.
Shao Qihua, the tycoon of Xiangjiang media and the king of transportation. At the end of the 1990s, Shao Qihua's media map covered almost all of Asia. Later, after the decline of television and the rise of the Internet, Shao Jiacai slowly disappeared from the first-class family of Xiangjiang. The transportation industry too, the Shao family did not seize the opportunity to transform the transportation industry from simple road transportation to the linkage of sea, land and air, and eventually fell.
However, at that time Shao Qihua had long been no matter what. In the 21st century, a well-known Internet tycoon in China once described the Shao family as saying that Shao Qihua is a wolf, but unfortunately he gave birth to a docile pup.
"I didn't expect Miss Zhou to have such an amazing brother like Mr. Li." Shao Qihua said with a smile. Just now he had a few conversations with David and found out Li Zheng's details.
A genius in biopharmaceuticals, young and courageous. Only a few months after I arrived in Xiangjiang, I bought the land on the east of Pokfulam Road with the royalties.
"Thanks to Mr. Shao for taking care of my sister." Li Zheng did not answer, but thanked blindly.
A gleam of light flashed in Shao Qihua's eyes. He thought that as long as he could get a fierce kitten, he didn't expect that there was a fox hiding behind the kitten.
"Miss Zhou has a life-saving grace to me, so I should be grateful to Miss Zhou for her care."
"No thanks." Before Li Zheng could speak, Zhou Sitian took the sentence coldly.
Li Zheng...
Shao Qihua...
Extended Lincoln parked under the apartment building. Liu Zhidong was already in a hurry at the door. He saw a person who looked like Zhou Sitian getting out of the car. He stepped forward quickly, but soon his footsteps stopped.
Uh, is this his star of tomorrow?
However, the appearance of Shao Qihua suddenly dispelled the shock that Zhou Sitian's terrifying makeup had brought him, "Shao... Shao Sheng?"
Who in the entertainment industry does not know Mr. Shao, oh, no, it is the entire Xiangjiang, there are very few people who do not know Shao Qihua.
"Oh, hello." Shao Qihua was perfunctory. When he reached his position, there was no need to wear a mask.
Liu Zhidong just noticed that the one who sent Zhou Sitian back was actually an extended Lincoln, HKOO21, this license plate! Shao Qihua's car!
He looked at Shao Qihua, when his eyes fell on Zhou Sitian's face again. Uh... he must be thinking too much, this face, ahem.
"Xiao Zheng, this is Liu Zhidong, I just mentioned it to you." Zhou Sitian dragged Li Zheng.
Li Zheng frowned slightly, with a polite smile on his face, "Hello, Brother Liu."
"Okay well, just come back, Si Tian, ​​your Uncle Zhang is looking for you, I have to find someone to inform him. You go up first?" Although he said to Zhou Sitian, his eyes kept Look at Shao Qihua.
Oops, it is worthy of being the star of tomorrow, this method is much more powerful than Li Wenhui. Li Wenhui has been the lover of Li Gongzi for three full years, and has been beaten several times before finally gaining a reputation as not serious.
This week Sitian, only a few days ago, lifted the big shark Shao Qihua. After the death of Shao Qihua's ex-wife, she never remarried. There have been news that the Shao family wanted to marry Ms. Jiang, but there has been no real hammer. Liu Zhidong thoughts in his mind, and the smile on his face grew bigger and bigger.
"Uncle Shao, thank you for today. You helped me find my brother, and the life-saving grace was wiped out." She waved her hand grandiosely.
Shao Qihua's face became stiff, unable to speak, so he nodded.
"You go to rest early. The reunion of sisters and brothers is indeed something to be celebrated. Next time I am a host, please have a meal.
Zhou Sitian nodded perfunctorily, and dragged Li Zheng to her apartment like a happy bird.
"Xiaozheng, you see, we also have a family. It's just that I have already lived in another room for Uncle Zhang. At night, I will let you stay in the living room every other year. You must overcome it first, and wait until I become a big star I must buy you a big house!"
Li Zheng dumbly said, "Sister, what kind of house do you want to buy, we can buy it now, you can tell me first, what is going on, what advertising, what Shao Qihua? How can you get involved with this."
When Zhou Sitian heard this, she seemed to suddenly remember something, "Xiao Zheng, before I say it, should you explain why you suddenly become a pharmaceutical genius?"