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Lin Luoyan and I were eating ramen, which tasted pretty good and the portion was quite large. Lin Luoyan couldn't finish it, so most of her bowl of ramen went into my bowl.
When we were almost finishing our meal, three more customers came to the ramen restaurant, two men and one woman, two of whom were people I never expected to see.
"Teacher Lin!" Lin Luoyan exclaimed in disbelief.
"Hello, Teacher Lin!" I quickly stood up and said.
The only female among the three guests turned out to be my class teacher Lin Qingxin. She was wearing a well-tailored suit and was still dressed maturely as always, which set off her extremely sexy and hot figure. Her small waist and hips were wrapped in a skirt that gave her an indescribable charm. The hem of her skirt was about ten centimeters below her knees, revealing half of her snow-white and slender calves. Her soft curves were very attractive.
With her long hair draped over her shoulders, this beautiful head teacher still has the same top goddess aura as always.
What surprised me was that Lin Qingxin, who had never been heard of having any interaction with any opposite sex, was actually standing next to a tall and slender man this time. He was wearing a white suit and a pair of black-framed glasses. His eyes were long and narrow behind the lenses. He looked to be in his thirties, but he already had a sense of vicissitudes of life.
He and Lin Qingxin were standing very close to each other. Generally speaking, men and women who are not particularly close will deliberately keep a safe distance, but I also feel that if they are a couple, there seems to be an indescribable sense of incongruity.
And the elegant young man who came in at the end was the person I least expected.
It turned out to be Qi Hemei, the third young master of the Qi family who came from one of the four major families. To me, he has a more important identity, Zhao Qingshi's official boyfriend.
I actually saw him again in a ramen restaurant!
"Oh, Qingxin, are these two your students?" asked the middle-aged man beside Lin Qingxin.
"Yes, they are all students of our school. The boy is called Chen Xiao, and he is a student in our class. The girl is called Lin Luoyan, and she is a student in the class next to mine." Lin Qingxin introduced them to the middle-aged man without introducing the identity of the middle-aged man to us.
"Oh, so they are also Shi'er's classmates." Qi Hemei said from the side.
Although I also attended Zhao Qingshi's birthday party, it was obvious that I was just a shadow hidden in the crowd, while Qi Hemei was the focus of everyone, so he naturally didn't pay attention to me.
"Shi'er, are you talking about Zhao Qingshi?" Lin Luoyan asked. She did not attend Zhao Qingshi's birthday party, so naturally she didn't know Qi Hemei.
"Yes, she is my girlfriend." Qi Hemei nodded slightly.
My heart ached. Qi Hemei said casually that Zhao Qingshi was his girlfriend, but he didn't know that she was also the woman I loved the most. The white moonlight in my heart finally shone on the man in front of me.
Qi Hemei was standing right in front of me. He was clearly my love rival, but I wasn't even qualified to be his opponent. A strong sense of frustration surged in my heart.
I remained silent, but Lin Luoyan became a little excited and asked, "Didn't Zhao Qingshi come with you?"
"Oh, she has something to do and will be here soon." Qi Hemei said lightly.
Hearing this, I suddenly had the urge to run away. How would I face Zhao Qingshi when she came over? I was already with Lin Luoyan, and she was Qi Hemei's girlfriend. Can't lovers finally get married? But from the beginning to the end, it was just my unrequited love for her.
"Master, four bowls of ramen." Qi Hemei said.
Because each table here can only seat a maximum of four people, the three of them sat at another table.
"Okay." The ramen chef shouted in the same way, just like treating an ordinary customer.
These three people came to this ramen restaurant, but they didn't look like they were here to eat ramen. I looked at the ramen chef, who was busy with his head down and didn't even glance at these three guests with special identities.
There was no further conversation between the two tables. If it weren't for the fact that we were Lin Qingxin's students, Qi Hemei and the middle-aged man would never have had any interaction with us given their identities. It also seemed that they had no intention of making friends with us. Our identities were already very different, and if they forced themselves to exchange pleasantries here, it would have been a bit awkward.
"Teacher Lin, we've finished eating and are leaving first." We had almost finished the ramen, so I said hello to Lin Qingxin and pulled Lin Luoyan out.
Not long after Lin Luoyan and I left, she suddenly turned around, pointed at the entrance of the ramen shop, and said, "Look, Zhao Qingshi!"
I stopped and looked in the direction of Lin Luoyan's finger. I saw a familiar figure. It was the first time I saw Zhao Qingshi since the last birthday party. I couldn't see her clearly from a distance. I could only see that she was wearing a blue dress and had a noble and elegant temperament that was beyond everyone else.
Soon, in just a moment, Zhao Qingshi walked into the ramen restaurant and disappeared from my sight.
My heart sank and I wanted to run over and tell her how much I missed her these days.
"Let's go back to school." I finally grabbed Lin Luoyan's hand and said.
No matter how perfect Zhao Qingshi is, what is her status to me? A friend? A classmate? She is Qi Hemei's girlfriend. The girl next to her is my girlfriend.
Lin Luoyan suddenly pulled me back and said, "Oops, we forgot to pay."
I held Lin Luoyan and said, "Forget it. It seems that the ramen chef doesn't make a living from ramen. Let's give him the money next time."
"Are you really not going back to the ramen restaurant?" Lin Luoyan asked.
"I'm too lazy to leave."
"What a lame excuse! I found a very good reason for you to come back. Are you really going back to school?" Lin Luoyan said with a pout.
"Go back to school." I said firmly.
"Okay!" Lin Luoyan imitated the ramen chef's shout. She just said that she would go back to the ramen restaurant to pay, but now she took half a step ahead and wanted to leave here more urgently than me.
I knew exactly what the girl next to me was thinking. I took Lin Luoyan's hand and ran, leaving the girl's silver bell-like laughter behind.
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On the way back to school, Lin Luoyan asked curiously, "Do you know Zhao Qingshi's boyfriend?"
Although I didn't want to discuss Zhao Qingshi with Lin Luoyan, when she asked, I had no choice but to answer, "I only know his name is Qi Hemei. I met him last time at Zhao Qingshi's birthday party. I heard he's the young master of the Qi family, one of the four major families."
"The four major families? They sound very powerful." Lin Luoyan said.
"The middle-aged man next to Teacher Lin should also be from the four major families. It seems that his status is relatively equal to Qi Hemei, and I think they are here to find the ramen chef." I said.
Lin Luoyan nodded: "Yeah, I think so too. That middle-aged man is Teacher Lin's boyfriend, right?"
"It doesn't look like that. Maybe they're just ordinary friends." I said doubtfully.
To be honest, I felt a little uncomfortable when I saw Lin Qingxin standing with the middle-aged man just now.
This top-notch class teacher, although she is already 28 years old, I have never heard that she has a boyfriend before. Although I can't say that I have the kind of love between men and women for Lin Qingxin, students always have some fantasies about their teachers, let alone a top-notch beauty like Lin Qingxin. During class, I always fantasize about her tossing and turning under me and asking for pleasure. Now that she has been pursued by another man, I subconsciously deny this obvious truth.
"Of course. Look at them standing so close, they must be boyfriend and girlfriend."
Lin Luoyan didn't realize that I had improper thoughts about Lin Qingxin, the teacher, and asked, "Do you know that middle-aged man?"
"I don't know him." I replied. I had indeed never seen that middle-aged man before.
"I do have some impression." Lin Luoyan said.
"Oh? Yan Zi, you actually know him." I became interested.
"I don't know him." Lin Luoyan shook her head. "But when you mentioned the four major families just now, I suddenly remembered that my father once mentioned this man to me."
I know that Lin Luoyan's father is a mid-level manager at Bai Yishan's Yunsi Group. His social status isn't too low, so it's no surprise that he has some knowledge of the Four Great Families. While the Four Great Families are mysterious, they're not exactly hidden. They're just inaccessible to those below a certain level. For example, at Zhao Qingshi's birthday party, most of the upper-class people were clearly familiar with Qi Hemei.
Lin Luoyan continued, "I remember that time, my dad came back from a cocktail party and took a photo with his phone. He proudly told me that he and the man in the photo had clinked glasses. My dad was very excited at the time, as if he was particularly proud to be able to clink glasses with this person. I asked him who the man in the photo was, and my dad gave a brief introduction, but I don't remember much. I just remember that my dad seemed to say that this man was from one of the four major families and was known as the uncrowned king of Hengjun City. I had forgotten all this, and when you mentioned the four major families just now, I suddenly remembered it."
"Do you remember what this man's name is?" I asked.
Lin Luoyan thought for a moment before saying, "I don't remember. I just think my last name was Chu."
Qi and Chu are the names of vassal states in the Warring States Period. According to Luo Suohun, the four major families are entrenched in the entire country. Could it be that the four major families are ancient families that have been passed down from the Warring States Period to the present?
The uncrowned king, this title is really powerful. I always thought that Zhao Qingshi's father Zhao Shi was the most powerful person in Hengjun City. Now it seems that the top of this society is more complicated than I thought.
Why did the people from the Qi family and the Chu family go looking for a ramen chef? What was the identity of that ramen chef? What roles did Lin Qingxin and Zhao Qingshi play in it?
I don't have any answers to these questions, I can only wait and find out in the future.