Quick Wear: Cousin, Come to the Bowl Quickly

Chapter 478: The Educated Youth Cousin in the Historical Literature (48)

At noon, the entrance of the state-owned restaurant was bustling with people. The sounds of people talking and ordering food mixed with the smoke from cooking drifted in the scorching air.

The midday sun poured down like molten iron, steaming with rolling waves of heat. Lin Xi huddled in the shadow of the eaves at the door of the hotel, but the heat reflected from the ground still made her eyelashes tremble and she could hardly open her eyes.

Fortunately, Song Guanwen did not make her wait too long. After about ten minutes, a tall figure wearing a white shirt, half a head taller than the people around him, appeared in her sight.

Seeing Song Guanwen's figure, Lin Xi's eyes lit up and she subconsciously raised her hand and waved at him. However, before she could fully smile, her movements suddenly stopped.

Suddenly, a hand, so white that it was dazzling in the sunlight, grabbed Song Guanwen's arm from behind. The hand had fair skin and slender knuckles, and one could tell at a glance that its owner was a girl.

Sure enough, the next moment, a girl in a goose yellow shirt appeared beside him. She stood on tiptoe and whispered something in Song Guanwen's ear. Song Guanwen, who had been expressionless, suddenly curled the corners of his mouth, leaned over to her ear and whispered to her.

The sunlight was a bit dazzling, and from a distance, Lin Xi couldn't see the girl's appearance clearly. She could only see that the two of them were very close, and Song Guanwen's tall body almost covered the girl's entire upper body in his shadow, making people feel at a glance that the two of them had a very close relationship.

The weather in May is really hot.

Perhaps it was because the sun was too strong, Lin Xi suddenly felt irritated for no reason. She stood there stiffly for a long time, then suddenly pursed her lips in a wronged manner, lifted the curtain, and turned to walk into the hotel.

On the other side, Song Guanwen saw Lin Xi standing under the eaves of the door and peeking from afar. Seeing that her face was obviously flushed from the heat, but she was still standing outside stubbornly, standing on tiptoe to look at him, his heart, which had been a little irritable because of rushing all the way under the scorching sun, suddenly calmed down.

Looking up and meeting Lin Xi's suddenly bright eyes, he subconsciously curled the corners of his lips and was about to quicken his pace towards her, but his arm was suddenly grabbed by someone.

Before the smile on his face faded, Song Guanwen's brows were already furrowed. He turned and looked at Chen Caiqing behind him, his eyes so cold that they seemed to be dripping with water.

Chen Caiqing, who had changed his clothes, thought all the way, and when he was about to arrive at the state-owned hotel, he suddenly figured out an important thing as if it had come to his mind.

She jogged all the way over and was already out of breath, but her eyes were surprisingly bright when she looked at Song Guanwen.

"Do you like Lin Zhiqing?!"

Song Guanwen, who was about to impatiently push the person away, suddenly stiffened when he heard the words. He subconsciously glanced in the direction of Lin Xi, and seeing that she didn't seem to hear what he said, he lowered his head to look at Chen Caiqing beside him.

"What do you want to say?"

Song Guanwen lowered his eyes, slowly pulled back his arm, and brushed the cloth she had just grabbed with his fingers with some disgust, his eyes as cold as ice.

"Don't be nervous—" Chen Caiqing's heart tightened when she saw his expression suddenly turn cold, but she quickly reacted, curled the corners of her lips, and lowered her voice, "We are partners now, I just wanted to confirm it."

"Cooperation..." Song Guanwen snorted coldly upon hearing this and straightened up. "We'll talk about it next time when you bring out the goods you mentioned."

"Of course." Chen Caiqing ignored his disgusted attitude, smiled and nodded, recalling the conversation between him and Song Guanwen an hour ago.

"How about we make a deal?" Chen Caiqing looked at Song Guanwen who was leaning against the door frame, and nervously tightened the package in his hand.

"With you? Trade?" Upon hearing this, Song Guanwen looked up and down at the disheveled Chen Caiqing and snorted coldly.

The disdain in his words was too obvious. Chen Caiqing gritted her teeth and resisted the urge to throw the package in her hand at his face. She spoke patiently.

"I'll have a batch of goods soon. You can help me sell them on the black market. We'll split the money 20-80..."

Without going into details about the process, in the end, Chen Caiqing gritted his teeth and negotiated a cooperation agreement with Song Guanwen with a 3:7 profit sharing ratio.

After the last lesson, she certainly wouldn't be stupid enough to reveal the existence of the system to Song Guanwen. She only said that she had some special channels, and the things she took out were all common goods of that era. In this way, even if the cooperation broke down in the future, she only had to put the things into the system and keep it so that no one could find any clues.

However, along the way, Chen Caiqing gradually came to her senses. She had been misled by Lin Xi's constant calling of "cousin", and coupled with Song Guanwen's cold look, she thought that the two were just cousins with a close relationship.

But when she recalled Song Guanwen's attitude when she mentioned Lin Xi just now, she suddenly realized that this man still had such thoughts, and it seemed that it was unrequited love?

Thinking of this, Chen Caiqing's mood, which had been depressed all the way, suddenly relaxed a lot. Looking at Song Guanwen in front of him with a cold expression and disdainful eyes, the idea of playing a prank suddenly popped up in his mind.

Chen Caiqing had a devilish idea in his mind, but there was no abnormality on his face. He took a step back on his own initiative, widening the distance between them, and spoke in a calm tone.

"Okay, it's already this late, Lin Zhiqing and the others must be getting impatient, let's go over there quickly."

Seeing that Chen Caiqing had no intention of continuing to pester him, Song Guanwen glanced at her coldly and was about to turn around, but suddenly seemed to think of something, and warned in a low voice with an expressionless face.

"I don't want anyone to meddle in my affairs before I speak to her myself about it."

"Of course, of course. Why don't you hurry up? Is that Lin Zhiqing standing at the door? How did you get in?"

Chen Caiqing said this casually. From this angle, she even found the sign of the state-owned restaurant dazzling, let alone identifying Lin Xi's figure among the crowd coming and going. She said this just to divert Song Guanwen's attention so that he wouldn't vent his coldness at her.

But who would have thought that when Song Guanwen heard her words, his face changed and he turned his head abruptly, and found that Lin Xi, who had just been standing under the eaves, was gone. He couldn't help but feel nervous, turned around and glared at Chen Caiqing with disgust, and strode towards the hotel entrance.

Chen Caiqing curled her lips, not knowing whether her words had hit the mark by accident. She just thought that Song Guanwen's secrets had been exposed by her, and she was angry and embarrassed. She shrugged angrily and walked towards the state-owned hotel.