Chapter 150: A Chance Encounter
When leaving Reynolds’s vineyard, Reynolds offered her a bottle of the estate’s newly brewed wine, which was typically quite expensive.
Gu Qili didn’t accept such a valuable gift; although she and Reynolds had met by chance, they hit it off because of their compatible personalities and had a particularly good rapport.
She spent the whole afternoon listening to his life’s struggles; although it was a familial inheritance, he started learning about wine as soon as he could read, having worked as a sommelier, sold wine, toiled in the vineyards, picked grapes under the scorching sun, and made wine in a winery – that’s why he could manage such a big estate so well at such a young age.
In the end, Gu Qili asked him for two of the newly cultivated grapevine saplings from this year. She remembered the name of this type of grapevine because Mu Shuoqian had once mentioned it when he first sent her to fetch wine from the cellar; it is called Merlot and is a noble variety used for making red wine.
Back at the hotel, Mu Shuoqian had returned and was sitting at the table, looking through documents.
Gu Qili greeted him, changed her clothes, and carefully placed the insulated box with the saplings, making a slight noise, which made Mu Shuoqian look up in her direction.
Gu Qili asked with a smile, "Have you eaten?"
He nodded his head and looked towards the box she treasured so much, "What’s inside?"