Chapter 9, … Su Bai remembered this man, who he had a slight affinity with half a month ago at MingXuan. No, to be exact, Su Bai only glanced at the man “casually”. Although it was a very short glimpse, the man"s profound facial features and dangerous aura were enough for Master Su to remember him.
Su Bai had a strong feeling that Chen Yuan must have eaten with this man that time in MingXuan. Chen Yuan"s collaborator in China was probably this dangerous person, who was standing in front of him now. At this moment, this man who was full of danger, covered with the scent of a jungle beast under his gorgeous appearance, just looked at Su Bai as if he had a lot of time to spare.
“Do you remember me? We met in MingXuan. Looks like you"re a teacher at B University.” Tang Xiao seems to have glanced at Su Bai inadvertently, yet this kind of look, in Master Su"s eyes, had a certain “you"ve been targeted” of flavor.
“You"ve lost a lot of weight.” The slightly cold lips raised at an angle slightly. Tang Xiao"s posture with his hands in his pockets did not make him seem gentle or elegant. Instead, it had a kind of cynical and capricious feeling. There were not many students pa.s.sing by, yet everyone could not help but stare at the man for a long time.
Su thought, he was absolutely not jealous.
Su Bai pretended to be doubtful and thoughtful at first, before looking at Tang Xiao with sudden enlightenment. Seeing a smile in the eyes of the other party, Su Bai laughed lightly, “Oh… Sorry, I had left in a hurry. I didn"t notice you.” This was absolutely a lie, and Master Su"s answer was definitely not what Tang Xiao had expected.
Sure enough, Tang Hao"s smiling eyes were instantly frozen, and soon melted away. The man"s eyes were very dark. Although the sun was shining at this time, not a single light could get in.
“Then we shall get to know each other formally now. Tang Xiao.” Tang Xiao stretched out his right hand in a generous manner.
Su Bai stared at that hand for a second. It was a really beautiful hand. The fingers were slender and long, and the knuckles were distinct. If he played the piano, it would be very beautiful.
“Su Mo, nice to meet you.” Su Bai was slightly mysophobic. He did not like to shake hands with people. Tang Xiao"s hand was very strong, yet it did not make people feel uncomfortable.
Su Bai took back his hand. With just a grip, he found that Tang Xiao"s first index finger joint and the s.p.a.ce between the thumb were layered with calluses. This was a man who habitually used guns. For unknown reasons, Su felt his pulse began to accelerate again. The temperature of Tang Xiao"s palm was extremely high, like a dry fire that ignited Master Su"s blood.
“Does Mr. Su have any other cla.s.ses today?” Hearing this person address someone as a teacher always had a sense of sarcasm.
“Don"t know why someone like Mr. Tang would be here?” Su Bai shook his head, he felt some uncertainty. Tang Xiao was a man who intuitively made him feel dangerous, but this sense of danger also made him want to explore deeper. If he was the Master Su who had not died, he would be trying to keep the man at an appropriate distance.
“Oh? Sounds like you don"t think I should be here. What kind of person does Mr. Su think I am?” Tang Xiao rubbed his lips gently with his fingertips. Suddenly, he felt the urge to smoke.
You"re a dangerous person, but of course, Su Bai would not say it directly. He tried to pretend to be a kind teacher, “People like Mr. Tang…”
“Su Mo!”
Su Bai"s words were interrupted by an angry voice coming from behind. He looked back. Liu Yunsheng stood in the distance, staring at them. His young handsome face had become icy, his surroundings full of several men and women who looked like rich children.
“Just now, you asked me why I came to school?” Tang Xiao still had a lazy air around him.
Su Bai waited for him to continue his words. Tang Xiao pulled his cold hard lips and suddenly went up to Su Bai"s ear, “I heard you had gone back to school today, Mr. Su. I specially came to see you.”
The close distance made Su Bai frown slightly. Before Su Bai could start to feel disgusted, Tang Xiao quickly retreated back, and the distance between them went back to a safe range.
“It"s almost noon. May I have the pleasure of dining with you?”
“Why not dinner?” Su Bai could feel Liu Yunsheng"s straight line of sight on his back, unruly and foolish like a newborn calf, striding towards them.
“I heard you"re losing weight. I don"t want to ruin your plan.” Tang Xiao stepped to one side, and a matte-black high-end sports car slowly parked on the roadside. The driver, a young man wearing white gloves, came out and respectfully presented the car keys to Tang Xiao"s hands, his well-trained action easily reminded one of the mysterious and untouchable n.o.bles at the top of the pyramid.
“G.o.d, it"s Aston Martin One-77! There are only five cars in China, worth 47 million!” A wealthy lady beside Liu Yunsheng screamed as if she saw a house of famous brand shoes. There were different levels in the world of wealthy people as well. 47 million may already be enough for a family to cultivate an unrestrained and self-righteous second generation of wealthy children. However, in the eyes of real dignitaries, this was just a sports car.
Su once had a sports car like this. Su and Prodrive (one of the world"s largest independent car and vehicle technology service manufacturers, headquartered in the United Kingdom) had business collaborations. Thanks to this, Su Bai had a Aston Martin One-77, limited to only seventy-seven manufactured worldwide. In this world, some men may not love women, but no man will not love sports cars.
Tang Xiao narrowed his eyes and smiled. He handed the key of the expensive sports car to Su Bai.
“No man can refuse.” Su Bai laughed bitterly, especially for a man who just drove to school in a broken car in the morning.
Su graciously took over the car key and went over. Tang Xiao opened the door to the pa.s.senger"s seat and sat inside.
Outside the car window, the domineering second generation of wealthy people on campus were like eggplants beaten with frost. One by one they stood at the roadside. In the circle of B University, they stand at the top of the pyramid. But other than this world there was City, other than City there was also China, and outside China there was a whole world.
In front of this world, their figures get smaller and smaller. Looking carefully, they are really just a few souls who got lucky.
When Su Bai drove past Liu Yunsheng and others in the sports car, a scene suddenly surfaced in of his mind. At one time, there was also a big fat teacher named Su Mo standing on the roadside, looking at the young man who had said to him, “Teacher, I like you” in the past together with hot girls, driving an open sports car, with arrogance and ruthless despair, Su Mo just kept looking. Although Liu Yunsheng said he liked him, but he never drove the teacher before.
Su Mo, you really are a pitiful fool.
Su Ye smiled faintly, only for the memory remaining in this body, for a simple man
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If “MingXuan” is the Western elegance and simplicity floating in the prosperity of City, then “Hanshe” was an elegant guest hidden in the city. Under the high-rise reinforced concrete, there was always such a place where people could rest for a moment, away from the noise, just like a place of peach blossoms.
The richer the man is, the more he thinks he has style, and the more he will like a place like Hanshe. But Su thought, whether he had money or not, Hanshe was still a place to be liked.
The appearance of the house looked insignificant. The small mahogany door had a rusty old feeling. Unlike other restaurants that hung huge obnoxious signs outside, there was not one big sign outside Hanshe. Hanshe was a restaurant left over from the last century, and was a private courtyard used by an official of the Qing Dynasty to entertain distinguished guests. After the war, it was still well preserved. Now Hanshe has been opened to the outside world, but if one had no acquaintances to bring you, who knows what kind of beauty was inside this small door.
Once again stepping into the humble little mahogany door of the Hanshe, Su Bai sighed in his heart. He did not think that Tang Xiao would take him to eat here. When he came to City, he inadvertently mentioned that he wanted to eat authentic Zhejiang food and later, Chen Yuan brought him here.
A man-made lake could be seen at the entrance of Hanshe. It was an extremely rare sight in City, where inches of land was equal to inches of gold. If you went inside, you could find more special places. For example, although Hanshe covered a large area, the total number of dining tables was no more than thirty. The waiters were all dressed in green Tang clothes and the waitresses were all in Qipaos.
Tang Xiao was obviously an old customer here. The lady in a Qipao gracefully led the way along the side of the path. The place where Master Su and Tang Xiao ate was a pavilion in the center of the lake. There were seven pavilions in the lake, six of them located slightly away from the center. Only their pavilion was in the center with a dreamy aura.
“Is there anything Mr. Su doesn"t eat?” Tang Xiao wore a whole suit with tie and surprisingly did not look out of place in this ancient-looking place. Yet, he was a warlord who ruled in the Republic of China, though changed out of the iron-blooded military uniform, no matter how elegant he was the murderous aura on his body could not be hidden.
“Fortunately, I just don"t eat pork.” Su Ye"s hands were a little itchy. Resting here in this beautiful lake, it would be better if he had a folding fan in his hand. However, though there was no folding fan, the cup of Longjing fragrant tea in front of him was also good.
“Mr. Su is religious?” Tang Xiao chatted with Su Bai while ordering dishes, not a single minute was wasted.
Master Su shook his head. He lifted the celadon teacup and took a sip, “Dietary habits.”
Nevertheless, Su thought to himself, in his present body, he could probably eat half of the delicious Dongpo meat in front of him.
People begin to run towards healthcare only when they become older. Su Bai had a good family background was never picky when he was young. Only when he started having health issues did he become picky with food. At one point in time, Master Su liked to eat Sichuan cuisine, wishing to eat Mala hotpot everyday. Of course, the doctor"s advice was tossed behind in his head.
When Su Bai himself occasionally wanted to eat a spicy hotpot with a greedy mouth, Chen Yuan would kneel on the ground and plead, “Su Ye, it will hurt your body.”
Thinking of Chen Yuan, sigh…
During the period of his house arrest, Su often thought about whether there was something wrong in his education of Chen Yuan. He clearly wanted to cultivate Chen Yuan into a person who was free in society, decisive yet exquisite in the business circle. However, over time, Chen Yuan became a dull gourd who did not like to talk. Su Bai had also invited a psychologist for Chen Yuan only to find out that Chen Yuan was born with such a character.
Later, the psychiatrist was shot by Chen Yuan. Although Master Su saw that Chen Yuan had not become like an exquisite fox as he had wished, a cold-faced tiger was also alright. What personality he would end up with did not matter. As long as he could serve the Su Family, serve for him, it was okay.
Chen Yuan was born as a person who could not express his feelings well. Like persuading Master Su not to eat spicy pot, he would not say the harms of eating spicy pot just with his mouth. He would only kneel down straight and beg. But Chen Yuan was also clever. He knew that although his kneeling would anger Su Bai, it also extinguished the master"s mood to eat the spicy hotpot.
Chen Yuan"s cleverness sometimes annoyed Master Su, even now.
After Tang Xiao ordered, the dishes came quickly. Su Bai took a glance at them. Not bad, most of them were seafood and white meat, not a single dish of pork which he did not eat.
“The crab and shark fins are good here. Mr. Su should try them.” Tang Xiao kept a faint smile throughout the start.
The waiter put wax and oil under the silver bracket and the white porcelain dish with crab powder and shark fin was slowly simmered on it. Su Bai took a bite. It was soft and silky, lubricated, fresh and sweet, accompanied by the cool lake wind, which soothed the nerves of the whole body.
Longjing shrimp, West Lake vinegar fish, winter melon cup, spicy shredded eggplant, potato strips… It was hard not to let your fingers move with all the color, fragrance and beauty.
“Mr. Tang, you said you came to see me today. May I what is the reason?” Master Su picked up his chopsticks, took a piece of shrimp and chewed it carefully.
“Nothing, just wanted to make friends with Mr. Su.”
“Now this really flatters me. A powerful man like Mr. Tang, with cars that cost up to tens of millions, and can just eat a meal in Hanzhe casually, an ordinary teacher like me really doesn"t know how I am worth Mr. Tang"s friendship.” Su Bai was also calculating in his heart. Did Tang Xiao approaching him have something to do with Ye Ziwu?
“It"s worth it.” Tang Xiao still had a lazy posture, a short phrase resounding loudly with pressuring momentum that was enough to shut ordinary people up. Unfortunately, Su Bai, who has run through black and white roads, had long been accustomed to this kind of tone. This short sentence falling on Master Su, at most, had a feeling of no pain nor itch.
Su Bai smiled and moistened his mouth with tea and then took some West Lake vinegar fish.
“Oh– Then why don"t Mr. Tang tell me a few reasons why I deserve your acquaintance.” His words had the obvious habits of an upper-cla.s.s, and unfortunately, Su Bai had long been accustomed to his own way of speaking and did not understand how would an ordinary university teacher dare to say such words willingly to a dignitary.
The smile in Tang Xiao"s eyes deepened. Su Yiyang that little fox always liked to say bad things about Su Mo in front of him. Ye Ziwu saved Su Mo from the sea, but the two had not met before at that time. Su Mo was not Ye Ziwu"s target. The reason why Ye Ziwu and Su Mo were together that time was that Ye Ziwu thought Su Mo was worth communicating with.
More importantly, the Su Mo in front of him was totally different from the Su Mo in his impression. This teacher did not even remember that there was a man named Tang Xiao on the same boat where Su Mo had fallen into the water.
It doesn"t matter what made you change. What matters is that you have aroused my interest.
T/N: Our little Tang has targeted Master Su!! ⁄(⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄)⁄ How exciting~
Their interactions will only increase~~ (probably)
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