She couldn’t help but shift her gaze to the opposite side, she really wanted to know what was in Sheng Weixia’s bag.

But Sheng Weixia completely betrayed the meaning of the gift in A Jiu’s mouth.

After getting on the car, she quickly fell asleep, she slept until two hours later, she didn’t even eat lunch in between.

She could skip meals, but she couldn’t skip sleep.

After waking up, Sheng Weixia got up and stretched, she felt refreshed.

“Are you hungry? Do you want to eat something?” Jiang Xiuhou, holding a chicken leg bought from the dining car, asked her.

“Not hungry.” Sheng Weixia deliberately ate a little more in the morning, she wasn’t very hungry now, she finally opened the bag Yu Shulan gave her and looked for some snacks to fill her stomach.

As soon as she opened it, several people looked over.

Besides two books, there were two stainless steel lunch boxes.

Not right!

She touched the surface of the lunch box, there were delicate engraved patterns, this wasn’t stainless steel, this was…

Sheng Weixia leaned closer to take a closer look, it was actually a century-old European silver cutlery brand.

If it wasn’t for her landlord in the US being a cutlery enthusiast, she wouldn’t have recognized this box that cost over a thousand dollars!

She opened it and saw that it was filled with very delicate pastries, one box of butterfly cookies, one box of cream puffs.

With a snap, she closed the box and blocked their view, she took out the books in the bag.

One book was “The Count of Monte Cristo”, the other was an Agatha Christie mystery novel.

Anyway, she hadn’t read them before, Sheng Weixia randomly opened “The Count of Monte Cristo”, a piece of paper floated down.

Her eyelids twitched, she reached out to grab the paper before it landed.

[The pastries were just brought back from Shanghai yesterday, they are fragile, it would be a waste if you don’t eat them.]

The handwriting on the note was unrestrained and free, there was no need to guess who wrote it.

She quickly stuffed the note back into the book, as if her palm was burned.

Sheng Weixia suddenly remembered a time when she was in college, she accidentally walked into a psychology class, the teacher hadn’t arrived yet, the teaching assistant was telling jokes in the classroom.

Columbia University’s psychology program was very famous, her mind was foggy at that time, but she listened to the two short stories.

That day, the stories were about a gift-giving case.

What is the highest level of gift-giving? It’s not something expensive and rare, but to give something that the other party can’t refuse.

It could be that you praised the other party’s beautiful skirt, and she immediately changed it and cut it shorter to fit your not-so-tall figure, or it could be that you casually mentioned a game was fun, and the other person immediately bought the only game console in the store.

Yu Shi, why did he give her these?

She was good at doing cost-benefit analysis, what he did before should be able to offset Yu Shulan’s offense to her.

She felt a little confused.

But Sheng Weixia had already learned to not make things difficult for herself.

If she couldn’t figure it out, she would ask him directly next time.

So she put aside her confusion, she leaned back against the back of the carriage, opened the book, and at the same time generously spread the box on the small table, “Want to try it? It seems pretty good.”

The others couldn’t see the origin of the cutlery, they only looked at the pastries.

Jiang Xiuhou tasted one, immediately her ending sound went up in the air, “What kind of pastries are these? Does Yan Bo Jiang Nan have them? I didn’t see them last time.”

Gu Qingwei saw these and felt confused, she didn’t even taste it and said she didn’t know.

Yu Shulan had never prepared gifts so carefully for others, and she even sent them with A Jiu, this made her wonder if it was Yu Shi behind it.

And “The Count of Monte Cristo”, she was sure that Yu Shulan herself hadn’t read this book.

She looked at Sheng Weixia again.

Strange.

Clearly when she first came back home, she was rustic and sharp.

She didn’t know when she started, she no longer fought or competed, she couldn’t figure out what she was trying to do.

For the first time, Gu Qingwei started to doubt her decision to go abroad—leaving someone like this in the Gu family, would she still have a place to stand in the future?

She tightened her hand that was holding her backpack, she touched the notebook she brought with her.

This notebook recorded many suggestions from people who had gone abroad, the contact information of the embassy, the address of the school… and the contact information that Yu Mingda gave her.

Gu Qingwei felt reassured.

She would definitely succeed in getting her degree, she would be more dazzling and outstanding than Sheng Weixia!

At the same time, in Yu Shi’s apartment.

After sending Yu Shulan back, A Jiu went upstairs and knocked on the door of the apartment upstairs.

Yu Shi was writing in his study, A Jiu stood in front of the desk, “I sent Miss Sheng off, she didn’t bring her school luggage, she should be going to Beijing to register another time, and also, the two boxes of snacks were delivered to her, she really didn’t want them.”

“I know.” Yu Shi’s writing hand paused, A Jiu noticed that he crossed out a few words, then he asked, “Did Yu Mingda do anything?”

“He secretly bought many small mines, he also found out that he was buying coal in large quantities using different identities in the market, the price he bought was slightly higher than the market price.”

Yu Shi put away his pen, a very cold smile appeared on his lips, “Clean up the relationship of the three small mines under my name, then sell them to him.”

A Jiu was confused, “Ah? Isn’t that giving it to him for cheap?”

Yu Shi glanced at him, he leaned back against the chair, his calm voice made it impossible to hear his intentions and emotions, “Just testing him.”

He said, while lightly tapping the desk with his index finger.

A Jiu looked at this action, he knew that he had a plan and a scheme in mind, he agreed.

Before turning to leave, he looked at Yu Shi with a subtle glance.

He lost his parents when he was young, when he was ten years old, he received financial support from this man—although he was even younger then, he was less than ten years old.

Everyone thought that it was just a joke and a kind act from a rich kid, but he had made up his mind from that time, he would be his right-hand man for the rest of his life.

He accompanied this man as a brother and a friend as he grew up, he watched him grow from a weak child without parental love, to a deep and awe-inspiring young man.

To put it bluntly, he understood Yu Shi better than his biological father, and because of this, only he knew what the changes that had happened to Yu Shi in the past few years meant.

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The train slowed down as it entered Beijing, the sound of the train wheels and the whistle sounded, until it came to a stop.

Gu Desheng and his wife realized at this time, no matter what, Gu Qingwei’s departure had already started counting down in minutes.

At the exit, they saw Jiang Pengtao holding a sign with Gu Desheng’s name on it from afar.

“Aunt, Uncle!” Jiang Pengtao reached out to take the suitcase from Gu Desheng’s hand, he turned his head and said, “The car is in the parking lot, just a few steps away!”

Looking at the crowded exit, Gu Desheng exclaimed, “Thank goodness you’re here today, otherwise it would be such a hassle!”

“Look what Uncle is saying! It’s just a small matter, after sending Qingwei off, we’ll take a look at those few houses, it’s more convenient with a car.” Jiang Pengtao smiled.

“The houses… are they all contacted?” Gu Desheng was surprised.

He thought that this matter would still take a while.

“Of course, my dad said that Uncle’s matter has to be done as the first priority.” He said, he opened the passenger door for him, Sheng Weixia pulled open the back door and sat in.

These words made Gu Desheng feel good, but also uncomfortable.

It was good because his brother-in-law took him seriously and kept him in mind, but it was uncomfortable because although he had money, it was all in his account, he had just paid a sum for Gu Qingwei’s tuition, and now he had to pay another sum, which made him feel a little stingy.

There weren’t many people at the exit of the departure hall, they sent her to the security checkpoint, they knew that this was the end.

Sheng Weixia calmly looked at the three of them as they hugged each other.

It was obvious that Gu Qingwei’s affection at this moment wasn’t fake.

Jiang Pengtao saw that his cousin’s expression was indifferent, he was afraid that she would feel uncomfortable, he carefully said, “Xia, they raised Qingwei for eighteen years after all. Don’t mind…”

Sheng Weixia smiled sweetly, “How could I? It’s so touching.”

Looking at this calm smile that didn’t seem to care at all, Jiang Pengtao vaguely felt that his aunt and uncle would definitely regret it.

When they left the airport, Sheng Weixia took the initiative to sit in the passenger seat, she stayed away from the couple who were in low spirits.

In the quiet car, they could hear the sniffling and sighing sounds from the back.

Jiang Pengtao felt uncomfortable again, so he turned on the car radio, the news was broadcasting about the housing reform policy.

He immediately perked up, “Xia, this time we found three houses according to your requirements, one is a unit’s public housing that has been reformed into private property, they just got the property title at the beginning of the year, the young couple in this family wants to get married, the elders want to sell the house so that the young couple can apply for a house from their unit again.”

“Sounds pretty good, Pengtao ge, tell me the details?”

This was a major matter concerning the house, Sheng Weixia took out the notebook she brought with her and started recording.

“It’s a little outside the second ring, the only problem is that the house is a little small, it only has two rooms, plus a very small kitchen, the area on the property title is only 39 square meters. There’s another house that’s bigger, over 80 square meters, three rooms, and a living room, but they haven’t gotten the property title yet, and then there’s a house in a big courtyard, the location is very close to Nanhai Lake, it’s in the real city center, the children of this family all went abroad, they want to take their elders out, so they want to sell it.”

“Are we going to look at them tonight?” Sheng Weixia finished recording, she looked up and asked.

Jiang Pengtao had brought the unit’s car today, and it was a workday, so it was most suitable to look at houses tonight.

Jiang Pengtao smiled, “Yes, these families are not convenient during the day, and also, these are all secretly being sold, we’ll have to go secretly when we go later.”

Sheng Weixia nodded, “Pengtao ge, we’re not looking at the big three-bedroom house.”

“Ah?”