“I didn’t expect to see Miss Bright twice in such a rude way, I’m sorry.”
Although Simon is a black man, but born in France, with the characteristic romantic gentleman of French men, so he is very concerned about offending Amelia Bright twice.
“It’s okay, an offense in business is not an offense.” Amelia Bright smiled slightly and poured a cup of chrysanthemum tea in front of her and handed it to Simon, “The boss’s wife made her own chrysanthemum tea, try it, it’s a special product of Miyun.”
“Thank you.”
“You’re welcome, is Mr. Simon also here in Miyun for the Yubei Jewelry Show?”
Simon’s eyes lit up.
“So Miss Bright is here for the jewelry show too?”
“Yes, this is not my vacation time, if it wasn’t for the jewelry show, I wouldn’t have time to come here for vacation, no more than Mr. Simon has leisure.”
After saying this, and then looking at Simon’s expression one could see that he really believed that he was not chasing his trip here.
After all, the Yuebei Jewelry Show here invited many designers to exhibit, and it was not impossible to run into them here, although it was a coincidence.
The owner’s wife brought fresh chilled watermelon and was about to leave, but was stopped by Amelia Bright, who said
“You’re too stingy to serve us with watermelon.”
“The specialty of Miyun is watermelon, and watermelon is the best way to relieve the summer heat.
“I saw the grapes on your grapevine, they were so good, you wouldn’t even cut two bunches for us?”
On hearing that, the boss lady looked at the vine and looked a bit dazed.
“Miss Bright has a good eye, my grapes have not been picked since this year’s summer, originally a friend of mine told me to wait for her to come and pick them.”
The owner’s tone suddenly paused for a moment, not knowing what had occurred to her, and she looked a little saddened.
“Since Miss Bright saw it, I’ll go get the scissors, Miss Bright see which string, cut it yourself.”
The boss lady went back to the house to get scissors, and Simon asked.
“What did you just say? Does it have anything to do with the grapes on the shelf?”
“I asked the owner’s wife to give us some grapes, and if Mr. Simon is interested, he can also cut a bunch and try it. The vine was planted by the owner’s wife herself and has been growing for years, and the grapes are very sweet every year.”
“Miss Bright is very familiar with this place, do you come here often?”
“Sort of.”
As we were talking, the owner’s wife had already brought the scissors over, Simon was tall and the scissors were handed directly to him, and the two women directed Simon to cut them under the grape vine shelf.
“That bunch, that bunch with the big fruit.”
“Cut another bunch of that one over there, the fruit is dark and all ripe, it might be too sweet to eat directly, it needs to be chilled.”
“Let’s cut another bunch, there are three of us.”
After cutting a total of three bunches of grapes, Amelia Bright handed two bunches to the owner’s wife, “Could you please open the water well and put two bunches in to chill?”
On hearing this, the boss’s wife was slightly stunned and surprised, saying.
“How does Miss Bright even know my well? Have you been here before?”
“Of course I’ve been here before. I planted this vine together with the boss’s wife.
“This vine was planted ten years ago, the people of that time … I really do not remember much.” The boss lady laughed helplessly, “Miss Bright must not have come over the years, otherwise I must remember.”
Simon was curious about the way the fruit was chilled in the well, shouting, “Fantastic” one after another from the sidelines, and kept a miniature video camera recording Amelia Bright dropping the barrel with a sling that put the watermelon grapes under the water.
“This is supposed to be the oldest refrigerator.” Simon couldn’t stop looking inside the well while admiring it.
A bunch of grapes was left and washed with well water was also cool and sweet.
Because of the like-mindedness, the boss’s wife took the initiative to bring out her own brewed plum wine from the cellar, and the three of them drank happily with one cup for you and one cup for me.
Simon lamented.
“I should have met Miss Bright earlier, it was a pity that day at the Austin.”
“What’s the pity?” The boss’s wife, who was not a good drinker, soon became slightly drunk, her face flushed, and she looked at Simon with a smile, speaking French in a vague way, interspersed with three or two Chinese.
“You have to know that the rarest thing in this world is the word fate, and if you can still meet with me here, then it is already considered fate.”
Simon was so confused that he had to ask Amelia Bright for help.
“She’s drunk,” Amelia Bright glanced at the time, “it’s late, Mr. Simon, do me a favor and take the boss’s wife to her room to rest.”
Simon helped to send the drunken boss lady back to her room, and after she was settled, he came out of her room and asked with some concern.
“Does the boss’s wife look like she’s having a hard time? She just kept calling out a name, was it her lover?”
“Well,” Amelia Bright looked complicated, “it’s a long story, would Mr. Simon like to hear the story?”
Simon showed an interest.
Because Amelia Bright’s mother is from Miyun town, so Amelia Bright often followed her parents to play here since she was a child, and was familiar with almost all the families in town, what background the people here have, what they have experienced, and which daughter-in-law they married, all of which she had heard since she was a child.
Su Lanzhi, the owner of the inn, is a local of Miyun town, born and raised, left town at the age of fifteen to go to school, I heard that the reading was very good, but also went abroad to study, only Su Lanzhi’s mother died when she came back once in ten years, and then the town said Su Lanzhi will not return to this small town, after all, no ties.
But who knows, she suddenly came back at the age of twenty-five, but also converted the family home into a bed and breakfast, receiving Chambers guests from around the world to play, people asked her why she came back, she only said that she still like the landscape and people here, after a lifetime to stay here.
The people of Miyun town are enthusiastic and have introduced many objects to her, but she has politely refused.
Hearing this, Simon nodded thoughtfully.
“She’s a celibate, like me, and the neighbors are too nosy.”
Amelia Bright gave Simon a look, “Are you a natural born celibate?”
Simon looked puzzled.
“I heard by chance that the boss lady met someone, a man, outside when she was studying abroad and then broke her heart so she came back.”
Amelia Bright was holding a white porcelain cup of plum wine, and looked despondent, “Love stories happiness are all the same happiness, but misfortune has a thousand kinds of misfortune.”
The owner’s wife was now thirty-five years old, past the age when matchmakers broke through the threshold, but she still had her charm, especially her airy and orchid-like temperament, which often turned the heads of travelers who stayed here.
When the story was finished, Amelia Bright let out a deep breath and said lightly.
“It’s late, we have the jewelry show tomorrow morning, Mr. Simon, so I’ll go to bed.”
Simon also stood up.
“Miss Bright, if you don’t mind, we will travel together tomorrow morning.”