Chapter 18

Xu Jiangshu said helplessly, “I brought my cousin here a while ago. She’s going to Lin’an University next month. School is about to start, and she begged me to take her out to play, but I don’t have anywhere else to take her.”

Sun Jiqing walked over and shook his head. “You’re doing this for little Ruirui, but it’s hard for us brothers.”

Xu Jiangshu shook his hand away and asked, “Are you a beast?”

Sun Jiqing shrugged his shoulders, collapsed back into the sofa, and waved his hand, and the band in the hall that had stopped playing started playing again.

Listening to the music of the piano, Chi Xu also sat down on the sofa, picked up a bottle of hawthorn juice on the table, shook it, frowned slightly, and put it back.

He reached into the drawer under the coffee table and pulled out a wooden box. Just as he was about to take out a stick, the person next to him stopped him. Qi Gang turned around and said, “There’s a child here.”

Chi Xu withdrew his hand, rubbed his swollen and aching head, and leaned back on the sofa.

Qi Gang closed the drawer and said, “Is your headache still not gone? I asked you to go to the hospital, but you refused to go.”

Chi Xu put down his hand and said, “It’s an old problem. Going to the hospital is useless.”

Qi Gang poured him a glass of water and asked, “Is everything settled?”

Chi Xu nodded, “It’s solved, although there were some twists and turns in the process.”

“Is Zhang Antong admitted to the hospital?”

Chi Xuwei raised his eyebrows and said, “You know all this. Do you send people to keep an eye on me every day?”

“Who wouldn’t keep an eye on your business, Mr. Chi?”

Chi Xu drank the water that Qi Gang poured for him, and at a glance he saw the little girl next to him who was shaking her head left and right to the music.

Shen Jiarui listened to the music, her head gently swaying from side to side, and her every move exuding a natural charm.

The lights in the room kept changing, and a soft beam of light happened to hit her, outlining the graceful profile of her face, like a carefully carved work of art.

Her watery eyes were like twinkling stars in the night sky, bright and moving. Beneath her high nose bridge, the corners of her mouth were slightly upturned, with a playful smile. The warm yellow of the light contrasted with the fairness of her skin, creating a faint halo of beauty, as beautiful as a dream.

Shen Jiarui noticed the burning gaze next to her and looked to the side with a smile on her lips. When she saw Chi Xu’s murderous eyes, she quickly turned her head away and her movements became stiff.

Xu Jiangshu blocked Chi Xu’s sight with his body and said helplessly, “Chi Xu, don’t focus your energy on my cousin. She’s still young.”

Sun Jiqing laughed: “How could it be, our President Chi still can’t tell the difference between outside women and his own sister?”

Xu Jiangshu was extremely helpless. His friends were good in every way except that they were too cunning. Since the 1980s, Chi Xu and Sun Jiqing were like wild dogs that had been let out. They hadn’t seen a woman in several lifetimes. If they hadn’t seen her for a week, they would have a new one by their side when they met again. Jia Rui was being targeted by them. She was really like a lamb among wolves.

“I don’t care what you think, it’s just Bie Jiarui’s idea.”

“Jia Rui…”

Chi Xu’s gaze passed over Xu Jiangshu and landed on the cowering girl behind him. “What’s your last name?”

Shen Jiarui popped her head out from Xu Jiangshu’s shoulder and said, “My last name is Shen, and my name is Shen Jiarui.”

The man leaned against the sofa with his eyes lowered lazily, and the soda he had just poured for the little girl on the table created ripples in the crystal glass.

The corners of his eyes were casually raised, and the curve of his lips was like honey kneaded by the spring breeze, with just the right amount of aggressiveness.

The Adam’s apple rolls at the collar of the shirt with two buttons unbuttoned, which is very sexy.

“It sounds good. I wonder what Miss Shen’s major is.”

Although she was a little scared of this person, Shen Jiarui still replied obediently: “I’m studying fashion design.”

“It suits you very well.”

“Teacher Jiang from Lin’an University’s clothing department is very talented. She even won a national craftsmanship award last year. Her family also makes clothes for the concubines in the palace. How about I go and talk to her and ask her to accept you as her disciple?”

“Really?!”

Shen Jiarui emerged from behind Xu Jiangshu, her voice excited and eyes shining.

She had heard of Teacher Jiang, Jiang Peilan, a long time ago, but Teacher Jiang was not young anymore and had not been teaching in school for a long time. She only came to teach a large class occasionally and talked to the students in the department.

If only I could become Teacher Jiang’s disciple… Shen Jiarui’s eyes became brighter and brighter.

Seeing the charming look of excitement flashing across her beautiful fair face, the angle of Chi Xu’s mouth corners was as precise as a precision instrument. It was the perfect temptation trained over years and months, with the ease of controlling the overall situation.

“certainly.”

Sun Jiqing also said, “Xiao Ruirui, don’t worry. If Lao Chi says it can be done, then it must be done. After all, Aunt Jiang is Aunt Mei Ran’s…”

He stopped mid-sentence, turned his head and slapped his mouth twice.

Chi Xu took over the conversation nonchalantly, “Teacher Jiang is a good friend of my mother’s, and we have some ties of friendship.”

Sun Jiqing continued, “Yes, yes. Lao Chi can be considered as a half-artistic family. You two must have common topics to talk about.”

Everyone listened to music together, chatted for a while, and then went home.

Chi Xu and Qi Gang fell to the back. Qi Gang said, “I just met someone from the Asia-Pacific region of Universal Electric Company in the United States. Haven’t you been working on a transistor radio recently? Universal Electric Company just happened to have this transistor radio from your newly established R&D department. Show it to them.”

Chi Xu was really laughing at this moment. If the deal could be made, it would not only solve the problem of technology introduction, but also allow him to get a share of the new e-commerce circle.

This transistor radio is a radio that uses transistors to process and amplify signals. It is the second generation of radio after the vacuum tube radio.

Transistor radio is easy to use and is a major broadcast receiver. It has the advantages of small size, light weight, vibration resistance, long life, low power consumption, and relatively stable performance.

Chi Xu could imagine how popular this transistor radio would be once it came out.

“Thanks, brother.”

***

This was the most comfortable sleep Yu Huai had had in the past half month. He woke up in a daze, thinking he was still in his safe and comfortable little rental house.

She rubbed her head, turning it into a mess. She rolled around for a long time before getting up from the bed. After washing herself, she yawned and walked out the door.

As soon as he rubbed his eyes, his eyes met the man who was reading a newspaper at the dining table. Yu Huai quickly stood up and walked into the kitchen in small and quick steps.

Aunt He was busy in the kitchen. Seeing Yu Huai coming over, she said, “You’re up. It’s just in time for me to bring Mr. Chi’s breakfast up.”