Yu Meixia painted a light makeup today, but she was wrapped in a thick down jacket, which looked a little bloated. It was difficult for Hong Kong people to spend the winter in Pengcheng. The temperature in Hong Kong is around ten degrees all year round, while the temperature in Pengcheng is basically below zero in winter.

Li Rui got out of the car and helped Yu Meixia put the suitcase into the trunk. Yu Meixia handed a large paper bag in her hand to Li Rui and said, "Happy New Year, this is a gift for you."

"Wow! There are also gifts!" Li Rui was quite surprised. He took it out and saw that it was a leather jacket or an Italian brand. This kind of clothes cannot be bought in Pengcheng. Could it be that she bought it specifically for herself when she returned to Hong Kong last time? Since that's the case, why did she give it to you until now?

However, Li Rui was quite happy to be able to give someone else's gift on the first day of the Lunar New Year. He took off his down jacket and threw it into the back seat, changed into this leather jacket, looked at the car's reflector, and said with satisfaction: "It's quite fit, it's not bad! Thank you Meixia."

When Yu Meixia saw Li Rui changing into the clothes she gave, she looked happy and smiled and said, "It's always not good to go to other people's houses to have empty hands during the Chinese New Year."

The two got into the car with a joke and laughed. In the confined space of the car, there was a unique fragrance of women. Li Rui smelled the refreshing fragrance and immediately became excited. He stepped on the accelerator and the car rushed towards the south bridge. National Highway 206 was still bumpy, but there were few trucks carrying coal during the Spring Festival, and the speed of the car was easily lifted. It had already stopped steadily at the door of the Li family compound in less than an hour.

Fang Qiang and Aunt Fang walked out of their own courtyard when they heard the sound. They were surprised to see Yu Meixia coming out of the car. Although Yu Meixia followed Zhao Wenlong and Zhu Jie to meet Aunt Fang once last time, Aunt Fang obviously couldn't remember it and was still secretly asking Fang Qiang if this was Li Rui's girlfriend?

"Where is this? This is Manager Yu of Hong Kong Tengfei Company." Fang Qiang muttered and hurriedly ran up to help carry his luggage.

"Not a girlfriend, why did you come to someone's house during the New Year?" Although Aunt Fang had questions in her heart, she thought that her son was just working on a project under Tengfei Company, so she hurriedly greeted her and greeted her enthusiastically.

Yu Meixia obviously came prepared. After entering the house, she opened her suitcase and took out two small boxes from it, one of which was given to Aunt Fang, "Aunt Fang, happy New Year!"

"What are you saying?" Aunt Fang seemed at a loss. Unexpectedly, this Hong Kong female manager even gave her a gift, but she didn't dare to pick her up.

Yu Meixia smiled slightly and opened the box. There was a brightly colored scarf inside. "Aunt Fang, I'll stay here for a few more days, so I'll bother you." As she said that, she took the scarf around Aunt Fang's neck.

When Li Rui saw this, he smiled and said, "Oh! Aunt Fang, you are several years younger when you put on this scarf."

Although Aunt Fang is over forty years old, she looks quite young. Besides, everyone has a love for beauty. Aunt Fang is also a famous beauty when she was young, and she also likes to dress up. Seeing the scarf so brightly colored, she likes it very much. When she heard Li Rui joking, she couldn't help but blush and said hurriedly: "How can you be so embarrassed!"

"Since it was given by Meixia, you can accept it." Li Rui smiled.

"Fang Qiang, this is yours." Yu Meixia handed another box to Fang Qiang.

"I have it too!" Fang Qiang said in surprise. He was not as polite as his mother. He couldn't wait to open the box, which was a pair of black sheepskin gloves. He put it on one side, and said in an exaggerated manner: "It's suitable, it's really suitable! Thank you, Manager Yu."

Yu Meixia smiled and said, "It's not working hours now. I'll call you Qiangzi, and you don't have to call me Manager Yu. Call me Sister Yu or Sister Meixia."

Fang Qiang was embarrassed to grab his head and said, "Then I call you Sister Meixia! Sister Meixia, thank you for the gift you gave me."

Aunt Fang also hurriedly said, "Manager Yu will stay here for a few more days. I will go to clean up the room in the east wing and turn on the heating. The bedding and other things are new. I took out the weather two days ago and it was fragrant and warm."

"Please trouble you, Aunt Fang."

"It's okay, it's okay! Then you guys talk first. Qiangzi, help make tea for Manager Yu." Aunt Fang walked out while instructing Fang Qiang, and fiddled with the scarf on her neck in her hand, looking happy.

"Sister Meixia, drink tea or coffee?" Fang Qiang asked.

"Coffee bar."

"Okay." But when he opened the coffee can, he was stunned. The coffee here is not like the instant coffee or ordinary coffee I bought outside, but a grain of coffee beans.

"Brother Rui, how do you do this?" Fang Qiang asked helplessly.

Yu Meixia saw it and smiled and said, "This is coffee beans, they all need to be ground and cooked immediately, so I'll do it."

Yu Meixia took off a beautifully crafted siphon coffee machine from the shelf, and a small hand-cranked bean grinder. She skillfully poured a little coffee bean into the bean grinder, then shook the handle and grinded the coffee beans into fine powder, then poured it into the coffee machine, added water, and lit the alcohol lamp below. After a while, as the coffee in the pot boiled, a strong smell of coffee drifted out. Yu Meixia enjoyed the aroma of the coffee. However, Fang Qiang looked at the whole process in a daze and muttered: "It turns out that it's so troublesome. It's better to buy bags of instant coffee, just like tea leaves, soak it in boiling water."

"You are just a local bun. Only by drinking coffee like this will it taste and accent. Do you understand?" Li Rui walked out of the inner room with a smile, smelled the aroma of coffee, and smiled at Yu Meixia, "The skills are good, and the coffee you brew is much better than mine."

"Of course." Yu Meixia said proudly, scalping the coffee cup with boiling water, "The coffee is ready, do you want to have a cup?"

"Okay!" Li Rui was very interested. In fact, this set of things was left by him before. It was rare to cook them by himself after moving from the municipal government dormitory.

But Fang Qiang shook his head, "I can't get used to drinking this thing, so I'd better go and help my mother with work."

Li Rui added two sugar cubes to the coffee, stirred it carefully, tasted it with a bite, closed his eyes slightly and praised it, "It's not bad, it tastes great!"

But Yu Meixia didn't add anything, and took a sip in the original flavor and said, "It should be that your coffee beans are good, um! Jamaica's Blue Mountain Coffee." As she said, she looked at Li Rui and smiled, "I really can't tell. To use the words from your mainland, you are quite bourgeois!"

"Hahaha... I'm so lucky! It's all brought by Zhang Zhuoyang. To be honest, I really can't drink the origin of this coffee. Why don't you add anything? I'm afraid of getting fat!"

Yu Meixia shook her head and said, "I'm used to it. When I was studying in the United States, I often stayed up late and could only rely on coffee to refresh myself."

"You are so hard to study?" Li Rui smiled.

Yu Meixia smiled bitterly and said, "I have to work during the day to earn tuition, and I only have time to read books at night. Don't look at the appearance of us Hong Kong people, there are actually many poor people. I used to be a poor person."

"Work hard will bring you rewards! You see, you are good now, a little rich woman!"

Yu Meixia glanced at him and said coquettishly: "Don't say it's so ugly, okay? What a little rich woman, am I so old?"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! It's probably Sister Xiaofu, I said the wrong thing." Li Rui apologized with a smile.

"By the way, Mr. Zhang has returned to Yanjing. Why haven't you been to celebrate the New Year? Actually, I called you tentatively yesterday. I really didn't expect you to be in Pengcheng too." Then Yu Meixia asked curiously again.

Li Rui was unwilling to mention his grudges and grievances with the Zhang family to outsiders, and spread his hands and said, "Be busy! You also know that our Nanqiao was still undergoing a major safety inspection some time ago, and it was not over yet. I was worried when I left. Besides, if I went to Yanjing, you would have no place to go! It would be so pitiful to celebrate the New Year alone!"

Yu Meixia covered the coffee cup with her hands, "I'm used to it. I've been alone since I was a child, and it's not much different from being in Hong Kong." As she said that, she smiled and said, "I really want to thank you this time. I'll let me go to Nanqiao to celebrate the New Year. Aunt Fang and Qiangzi are both very enthusiastic."

Li Rui is actually very curious about Yu Meixia's life experience. Since she was frightened at Shagou Guesthouse last time and said incoherently, Li Rui has heard that her childhood seemed not happy, and it can even be described as miserable. But this is someone else's privacy after all. If Yu Meixia didn't mention it himself, he would not take the initiative to touch her inner pain.

"It's not easy for them to be a mother. In the past, Qiangzi was in the army outside, and Aunt Fang was left alone. Fortunately, Qiangzi is quite promising, and Aunt Fang now has more smiles on her face." Li Rui said with emotion. In fact, sometimes he still envies Qiangzi. No matter what, he has a loving mother. Thinking of his mother who died early, Li Rui's face couldn't help but show a hint of loneliness.

Yu Meixia seemed to remember her past and sighed: "Actually, it is not easy for everyone, but people always have to live. When they live, they have to face their own life. If they want to be happy, they have to work hard to change and fight against their destiny."

Li Rui nodded. After being reborn, he deeply felt the same as Yu Meixia's words. Why did he stay in Nanqiao? He didn't want to change his original destiny. Instead of being unknown, it would be better to fight hard and pursue a grand and prosperous life.

"Look at us, this is such a heavy topic for the New Year. I haven't asked you yet. What are you going to make arrangements for the past two days? I don't want to stay here. What's the fun of Nanqiao?" Yu Meixia suddenly woke up and said with a smile.

Li Rui thought for a while and said, "I have something to do tomorrow. When I finish my work, I will have time. Speaking of what is the fun place in Nanqiao? Apart from Qingyun Mountain in Shagou, I think there is only Qingshanquan Town, which has mountains and water and the place is good. Speaking of which, I often go there, but I haven't had any fun. Why don't we go there tomorrow?"
Chapter completed!