Chapter 50

This scene was just seen by Xue Qin as she came downstairs. Seeing the innocent and beautiful Lu Xiaoya, and her hand held by Su Xinghui, her face couldn't help but turn pale again.

After Su Xinghui shook hands with Lu Xiaoya, he pointed to Song Qiaoli and said to Chen Hongfu: "Chen Shuji, this is the manager of the Jiangcheng Jiangnan District Crafts Store, Comrade Song Qiaoli."

Chen Hongfu was greatly surprised. When the three members of the Lu family walked in to find Su Xinghui earlier, he had thought Lu Zhenghong was the manager. He hadn't expected the manager to be this woman.

Chen Hongfu hurriedly said to Song Qiaoli: "So you are Manager Song. I have been neglectful; please don't take offense!"

Song Qiaoli smiled and said: "It's no problem!"

At this time, Dong Jianshu and Li Maofa also came out, and they were busy exchanging pleasantries with Song Qiaoli and Lu Zhenghong.

Xue Qin walked to Su Xinghui's side and asked him with a smile: "Xinghui, who is this pretty young girl? Aren't you going to introduce her to me?"

When Lu Xiaoya heard Xue Qin call him so affectionately, her eyes widened immediately, and she sized Xue Qin up.

Su Xinghui sighed in his heart: What is all this? Why have so many things happened today that are beyond my control? First Xue Qin came uninvited, and then Lu Xiaoya followed her mother here. He really had no experience with this kind of situation!

He really wanted to say to Xue Qin: Could you please not call me so affectionately? It will make everyone misunderstand.

However, obviously, this sentence was not suitable to be said out loud. He could only force a smile and say to Xue Qin: "Xue Qin, this is my junior from Jiangcheng University, Lu Xiaoya."

He then said to Lu Xiaoya: "Xiaoya, this is my high school classmate Xue Qin. She came here today to play with those classmates of mine."

Su Xinghui pointed to Zhang Cheng and the others who were walking over as he introduced Xue Qin's identity. This wasn't him deliberately trying to distance himself from Xue Qin; the problem was that he really didn't have any special relationship with her.

Upon hearing this, Lu Xiaoya took the initiative to extend her right hand to Xue Qin: "Hello, Xue Qin. I am Lu Xiaoya, Su Xinghui's junior. Very happy to meet you!"

After all, Xue Qin had been working for a few years, so she wouldn't be stage-frightened in this kind of situation. She put away her probing gaze, smiled, extended her right hand, and shook Lu Xiaoya's hand: "Hello, Lu Xiaoya. I am also very happy to meet you!"

After the two women shook hands, they walked to the side to chat. Before long, they were chatting very warmly, as if many girls have this ability to become familiar quickly.

The two women were of similar height. Xue Qin was wearing black trousers and a white shirt, with her long hair hanging down her back in a simple style. Lu Xiaoya was wearing white cropped trousers and a red T-shirt, with her long hair tied into a long ponytail.

They were both very beautiful. Xue Qin's face was slightly round, close to an oval shape, while Lu Xiaoya's face was a standard heart shape.

In short, both women could be called beauties; the difference was that Xue Qin appeared more mature, while Lu Xiaoya was more youthful and vibrant.

This was also very normal, as Xue Qin had been working for a few years after all.

Watching the two women whispering there as if they had been friends for years, with their eyes occasionally drifting toward him, Su Xinghui always felt a bit uneasy.

However, he was helpless, because after Chen Hongfu and the others exchanged pleasantries with Song Qiaoli, they invited her into the office and called Su Xinghui in as well. Before entering, Su Xinghui wanted to invite Lu Zhenghong into the office too, but Lu Zhenghong smiled, waved his hand, and began strolling around the township government courtyard with his hands behind his back.

After entering the office, Su Xinghui poured cold boiled water for everyone and sat down. Dong Jianshu, who was such a heavy smoker, didn't even smoke when he saw that Song Qiaoli was a woman.

Chen Hongfu smiled and said: "Manager Song is an honored guest. You've had a hard journey coming from afar today. Shall we host a welcome meal for you at noon, and then go to Wild Boar Gully in the afternoon?"

Although Song Qiaoli was a woman, her work style was very efficient. She looked at the watch on her wrist and said: "It's only past nine o'clock; it's still very early. Let's go to Wild Boar Gully now to avoid wasting time. We have to return to Jiangcheng in the evening."

Chen Hongfu looked at his watch; sure enough, it was only a little past nine-thirty. He looked up and said: "Fine, then we will accompany Manager Song to Wild Boar Gully together."

Song Qiaoli said: "Why don't we not trouble Chen Shuji, Township Head Dong, and Township Head Li? Just let Little Su accompany us."

Chen Hongfu said: "How can that be? You are an honored guest; we cannot be neglectful. We should accompany you."

Seeing his insistence, Song Qiaoli nodded and said: "Fine, we drove our own car here, and it's quite spacious. You all can just sit in our car and go together!"

Chen Hongfu knew that the township government's broken jeep was truly not presentable, so he nodded in agreement.

After leaving the office, Su Xinghui called Zhang Cheng and the others, preparing to go to Wild Boar Gully together.

The vehicle Song Qiaoli and her group drove was a large van, which belonged to their crafts store and could seat about ten people. Therefore, Chen Hongfu and the others all got into this vehicle, and Xue Qin also followed Lu Xiaoya into it. Su Xinghui simply sat in the car driven by Xu Xiaoguang.

The two cars drove one after the other toward Wild Boar Gully.

As soon as the car started, Zhang Cheng said with a mischievous smile: "Xinghui, you are quite lucky with the ladies!"

Even the usually most honest Wu Jun laughed and nodded: "That's right, that's right!"

Su Xinghui looked at the smiles on the faces of these close friends and couldn't help but feel annoyed: "You guys, just enjoy your schadenfreude!"

Several of them burst into laughter together. Being able to see Su Xinghui like this, they still felt it was very interesting.