"Xiaochun, it's like this. I'm at Jiaru Hospital now, and I don't know where you are." Xu Ningsheng sat in the car with one hand on the window lazily. He also raised his head to look at the sky that was dyed red by the setting sun.
"How did you know that I'm at Jiaru Hospital?" Zhou Manchun looked down and saw that the streets were crowded with people. Many office workers had just gotten off work.
This was the most congested time in City A.
Xu Ningsheng smiled and said, "It's not hard to know … I have something to tell you. Come down and let's find a place to sit."
"But … do you have something important to tell me?" Zhou Manchun frowned and asked with a puzzled expression.
"Yes, it's very important." Xu Ningsheng nodded and said with certainty.
"Okay, walk 50 meters from the back door of the hospital. At a corner, there's a quiet coffee shop called Time Opposite. Wait for me there. I'll be there in ten minutes." Zhou Manchun scratched her hair and thought that Jin Beisen should have gone to pick up Li Yi at this time. She and Xu Ningsheng were going out to talk about something, and it wouldn't delay anything.
"Okay." Xu Ningsheng responded faintly. After hanging up the phone, he immediately drove out of Jiaru Hospital and headed to the coffee shop that Zhou Manchun mentioned.
Zhou Manchun tidied up her clothes and hair. She carried her bag and said calmly, "Mom, I have something to do. You stay here and look after Xiaomo. I'll be back in about an hour."
"Huh? What is it? We can have dinner soon. "Zhao Lizi asked with a puzzled expression.
"I'll be back before dinner." Zhou Manchun's red lips curled into a smile.
"Okay, go ahead. Come back early." Zhao Lizi didn't ask too much about where Zhou Manchun was going and who she was meeting. Zhao Lizi was very open now. It was all Zhou Manchun's business. She shouldn't care so much about it. In the past, she cared too much about Zhou Manchun.
Zhou Manchun smiled and slowly walked out of Jiaru Hospital.
At the coffee shop across the street.
Xu Ningsheng arrived early. He sat at a seat by the window. This coffee shop was really secluded, but the consumption here was not low. The coffee shop across the street mainly sold cat feces coffee. It cost more than 200 yuan for a cup of coffee, which was not expensive for Xu Ningsheng. He had a cup of coffee that cost several thousand yuan.
Zhou Manchun looked through the transparent glass window and saw Xu Ningsheng at a glance. She pushed the door open and walked to Xu Ningsheng in a short time.
They hadn't seen each other for a long time. In fact, since Zhou Manchun came back, they hadn't even had a good chat. It was as if they were people from two different worlds.
Zhou Manchun often saw Xu Ningsheng on the official website of the Education Bureau or in the headlines of major newspapers. Xu Ningsheng was 30 years old this year, but he was already the youngest deputy director of the Education Bureau. The outside world had a high praise for him. They all said that this young deputy director loved his job and was dedicated to his work. In short, there were many good comments.
In these years, Xu Ningsheng had been single. Except for Ma Jing, there was no other woman around him. However, he and Ma Jing were not mature enough. They used to be first lovers, but they didn't have the impulse to be together for the rest of their lives.
Until now, Ma Jing liked Xu Ningsheng very much. She had been forced to get married by her family. She was 29 years old, and her family was so anxious that they arranged a lot of blind dates for her.
Ma Jing occasionally complained to Xu Ningsheng that she went to see a blind date last week again. The blind date had a car and a house. He was a returnee who had just returned from studying abroad. He was currently working in XX Company, one of the world's top 500 companies, as the director of the Greater China region. However, Ma Jing didn't like him at all.
Xu Ningsheng also understood what Ma Jing wanted to express. It was nothing more than "marry me quickly, or I will really marry someone else." Ma Jing was a little unhappy with Xu Ningsheng's indifferent attitude, but Ma Jing refused to give up. Let's see who could last longer!
"Coming." Xu Ningsheng looked up at Zhou Manchun and greeted Zhou Manchun like a gentleman. There was a kind smile on his handsome face, like a warm sun in winter.
"Well, Brother Ah Sheng, long time no see." Zhou Manchun also smiled politely. Then, she sat down.
Xu Ningsheng helped Zhou Manchun order her favorite mocha in advance. After Zhou Manchun sat down, the waiter just came over with two cups of fragrant hot coffee. The two cups of hot mocha were placed in front of them.
"Please enjoy." The waiter said with a smile.
Zhou Manchun glanced at the coffee on the table and said in a gentle voice, "You still remember that I like to drink mocha."
Xu Ningsheng pushed up his black-rimmed glasses and said with a smile, "My memory is still good."
Zhou Manchun looked down at the cup of coffee. In the blink of an eye, she hadn't come here to drink coffee for three years. In the past, when Zhou Manchun worked in Jiaru Hospital, she would occasionally come here to drink coffee with Jiang Jingqi. Because the coffee here was expensive, Jiang Jingqi always cared about money. Therefore, almost every time, Zhou Manchun paid the bill, which made Jiang Jingqi feel very embarrassed.
"How are you recently?" Zhou Manchun asked with a smile. She picked up the coffee and took a sip.
"Not good, not bad. I'm just busy." Xu Ningsheng looked at Zhou Manchun calmly, which made people unable to figure out what he was thinking at the moment.
Xu Ningsheng had become famous in recent years. No one could imagine what he had experienced from an ordinary high school math teacher to the Deputy Director of the Education Bureau today. In the past, Jin Shuwen helped him enter the Education Bureau, but Xu Ningsheng relied more on his own efforts.
In the three years that he had been in office, he had constantly revised new mathematics textbooks. He was often alone in the office until late at night. Because of this, the director of the Education Bureau was very appreciative of him. Next year, the director of the Education Bureau would retire, so the next director would most likely be Xu Ningsheng.
"Brother Ah Sheng, what do you want to talk to me about today?" Zhou Manchun lowered her head and took another sip of coffee. Her eyes were deep, and she said slowly.
"How are you and Jin Beisen recently?" Xu Ningsheng asked with concern. His tone was neither salty nor light, so people couldn't tell what he was thinking at the moment.
"Pretty good. What's wrong?" Zhou Manchun asked after a moment of silence.
"He went to work today?" Xu Ningsheng smiled with a hidden meaning in his words, but the smile on the corner of his mouth was a little sarcastic.
"Well, what's wrong?" Zhou Manchun was confused. She didn't know what Xu Ningsheng wanted to say.
Why did he ask about Jin Beisen for no reason? Did he discover some secret?
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