34: Chapter 34 Blind Date?

He took 150,000 from his own bank card and bought himself a Geely Xingyue L.

He told himself that spending this money on himself today was, in any case, infinitely better than spending it on Gao Xiaomin.

By the time Shen Zhou arrived home today, it was already nearly midnight.

Just after turning on his phone, Shen Zhou saw two WeChat messages, one from Han Bingqing and one from Lin Lan.

Han Bingqing had sent a voice message, which didn't contain much content.

It was generally just asking if Shen Zhou was busy with work and if he was free on the weekend; if he was free, she wanted to treat him to a meal this weekend.

To properly thank him for the expensive bicycle Shen Zhou had given her earlier.

Shen Zhou naturally saw that Han Bingqing wanted to use the excuse of a meal to complete the great project the two of them had left unfinished before.

However, Han Bingqing was, after all, still a university student.

Therefore, her language wasn't that direct and carried a hint of shyness.

This actually fit Han Bingqing's persona quite well; students in school are, after all, relatively reserved.

By contrast, the message Lin Lan sent was quite different; she sent a piece of text, plus a few photos of herself.

The text went without saying—simple and direct: "I can't sleep."

As for the photos, they nearly made Shen Zhou's nose bleed on the spot.

In the photos, Lin Lan was wearing a silk camisole pajama set, and the straps' indentations clearly accentuated the fullness of her figure.

The hazy, translucent quality of the silk pajamas added an illusion of a misty jungle to Lin Lan's curvaceous figure as she reclined on the sofa.

And there was that glass of Dry Martini, held delicately by Lin Lan's slender, jade-like arms.

My goodness, that scene!

It was exactly like the sense of déjà vu when Stephen Chow first saw Lady Qin Cao in his movie!

"Grape wine in luminous cups, the pipa urges one to drink!"

Beautiful! So beautiful it was beyond description! Stunningly gorgeous! Truly like a jade palace, towering into the clouds!

Even though Shen Zhou had already experienced a night of passion with Lin Lan, he still couldn't help but tremble slightly.

However, it looked like Shen Zhou certainly didn't have time to go over today.

Not only was it past midnight and genuinely quite late, but more importantly, a phone call suddenly came through.

"Mom? Why are you calling me at this hour? What time is it? It's already half-past twelve!"

No matter how hard Shen Zhou tried to think, he could never have imagined his elderly mother calling him at 12:30 in the morning.

And what he could have expected even less was the task his mother gave him over the phone.

It was actually a blind date assignment! Can you believe how absurd that is?

"Mom, what am I supposed to say to you? Calling me at midnight just to talk about this?"

"Aren't you being a bit too anxious about pushing me to get married?"

"Didn't I tell you before that I have a girlfriend?"

After listening to the main points of his mother's rambling, a look of utter despair appeared on Shen Zhou's face.

His mother was truly outrageous.

Calling him so late was because earlier that day, the Third Aunt from the village had introduced him to a blind date prospect.

Furthermore, this prospect was said to be working in the Magic City as well.

The woman happened to be looking for a boyfriend right now, so the Third Aunt helped set it up.

Originally, this call should have been made to him tomorrow.

Because by the time the Third Aunt finished telling his mother about this, it was already eight o'clock in the evening.

As it turned out, his mother, who had worried about him her entire life, had spent the time from evening until early morning pondering this out of concern, which ended up giving her insomnia.

Tossing and turning and unable to sleep, his mother had called Shen Zhou when she finally reached the early morning hours.

"You have a girlfriend, but you haven't brought her home! That doesn't count!"

"Son, Mom heard that the Magic City is very developed now!"

"You don't know this, but a few days ago, Mom heard that the bride price in our hometown has risen to 100,000. If it's 100,000 in a place as poor as ours, it must be hundreds of thousands or even a million in the Magic City!"

"Mom is worried that you are still young and your income isn't high enough to support a daughter from a wealthy family in the city."

"That's why I thought about finding you someone whose background we know well, preferably someone with a similar family situation to ours."

"That way, your life pressure in the future will be a little less!"

"Parents don't expect their children..."

"Alright, alright, Mom, I understand. I'll go, I'll go, okay? Please stop humming! You've sung this little tune so much that I've learned it myself!"

To be responsible, Shen Zhou was actually very grateful to his parents.

After all, it wasn't an easy task for them to raise him, someone originally from the countryside, and put him through university in the Magic City.

However, sometimes, Shen Zhou had indeed heard his mother's nagging too many times.

Once she started nagging, there was no end to it—it was either about dating or having children.

He had only graduated from university for less than half a year, and his mom had already discussed this topic with him over the phone more than ten times.

The first few times were okay; she just hoped Shen Zhou would bring his girlfriend home.

Because Shen Zhou had already told his family before that he had a girlfriend, the old folks' expectations were initially placed there.

However, later on, it didn't work out. After urging him seven or eight times, his mom saw that Shen Zhou kept making excuses.

Actually, it wasn't really making excuses; it was mainly because Lu Qinglian looked down on Shen Zhou's hometown in the countryside at the time, so she didn't want to go.

Consequently, in this situation, Shen Zhou's mom thought of another method and started arranging a new girlfriend for Shen Zhou.

And this wasn't even the most exaggerated part. The most exaggerated thing was that every time they spoke on the phone, after his mom finished nagging about things, she would always hum the tune the family had heard on the Spring Festival Gala years ago.

"Parents don't ask for much from their children, worrying their whole lives, only hoping for peace and safety."

Whenever this melody played, Shen Zhou couldn't help but fall into a state of self-reproach for failing his parents' efforts in raising him.

This led to the fact that later on, whenever Shen Zhou talked to his mother on the phone, as soon as he heard this tune, he would realize:

His mother had finished talking about the important matters and was just humming endlessly because she couldn't bear to end the call.

"Son, you must remember to dress up nicely when the time comes!"

"If you don't have money, Mom will transfer it to you! Mom has learned how to use mobile transfers now!"

"Consumption outside is very high. Your dad and I have 8,000 yuan on hand this year, so try to spend sparingly when the time comes!"