Chapter 62 Accidental Gratitude
Update time: 2012-05-30
Accidentally, Chu Yan’s first impression.
This house is not big, with an area of about 80 square meters, with a standard layout of two bedrooms and one living room. The interior decoration has a light simple European style, and the color is mainly white. The house is not big, but it is very warm.
Chu Yan's surprise came from the cleanliness and tidyness in the room. He knew that girls like cleanliness very much, but he didn't expect that Jiang Xiaoran also loved cleanliness so much.
Since I met Jiang Xiaoran on the first day, he has seen the character of this confused little girl clearly. She is confused but not careless. She is sleepy all day long and seems to never wake up. It is certain that she loves to sleep. However, there are few people who love to sleep in, and Jiang Xiaoran is obviously a big exception.
Although this little girl loves to sleep in and likes to eat, her home is clean and the decorations in the living room are very simple. There is a wide beige sofa. There is a glass coffee table in front of the sofa. Under the coffee table, there is a lot of snacks neatly placed.
There is no shortage of TVs, refrigerators, and air conditioners. They are placed reasonably, and the cleanness makes Chu Yan feel ashamed. There is an LCD TV about 40 inches in front of the sofa.
Looking at Jiang Xiaoran who was sleeping soundly on the sofa, Chu Yan couldn't help but step to appreciate the kitchen, bathroom and bedroom.
"I really didn't expect how you came here alone over the years." Chu Yan said, his eyes falling on the background wall behind the LCD TV in the living room. On the glass partition on the side of the background wall, there was a photo frame. The photo in the photo frame was Jiang Xiaoran and her parents. The background seemed to be the Ferris wheel of Disneyland, Nanshan City.
Chu Yan knew that Jiang Xiaoran's father had passed away and her mother remarried into a wealthy home. However, he didn't know why Jiang Xiaoran's mother remarried and whether she still cared for Jiang Xiaoran after remarrying. However, it seems that the answer is about to come out. In this house, Jiang Xiaoran only has this photo of her mother, and the rest of the photos are photos of her and her father, which intuitively illustrates some problems.
Jiang Xiaoran will sleep for a while. Yesterday's incident hit her a big blow. This kind and confused little girl may have never encountered such a thing. Fortunately, things have not developed to an irreversible step.
Holding the key that Jiang Xiaoran threw on the coffee table, Chu Yan opened the door and went downstairs. He wanted to take a walk around the community and be as familiar with the environment as possible. In the future, he would inevitably come here.
Most of the people living in Luofeng Garden Community are elderly people, and few young people come here to live, because when it was built, it was positioned as a warm elderly care home for the elderly, so the greening and entertainment facilities in the community are very complete. Of course, the necessary living facilities are also very rich.
When he came to the supermarket at the entrance of the community, Chu Yan, who was thinking about it, stepped into the supermarket and then went straight to the vegetable and meat sales area. He wanted to have lunch here, and had a lunch he made with Jiang Xiaoran.
This idea became extremely strong as soon as it appeared, so Chu Yan bought a piece of beef, a piece of Wuchang fish and some vegetables in the supermarket and then returned to Jiang Xiaoran's home.
It was almost noon. Chu Yan looked at Jiang Xiaoran, who still had no sign of waking up, and walked into the kitchen with a smile. The vegetables he bought had been washed long ago and the Wuchang fish had been marinated. The rest was to make it.
After stuffing the rice, Chu Yan turned on the gas stove. He hadn't cooked himself for a long time and his warm smile was on his face. The oil gradually became hot in the pan. Chu Yan tied his apron and picked up the shovel beside him.
With the sound of stinging vegetables entering the oil pan, the scent of onions and garlic foam was instantly bursting into the oil pan. Jiang Xiaoran, who was lying on the sofa in the living room, and his small and cute nose also moved gently at this moment.
"Uh? Braised Wuchang fish? Cumin beef? Celery? Mushroom?" As the fragrance in the kitchen became stronger and stronger, Jiang Xiao, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly opened his eyes, his nose kept raising, and greedily sucking the fragrance of the dish floating in the living room. His saliva almost flowed out without realizing it, and the muttering sounds in his mouth became louder and louder.
"Okay, I've done it! I haven't done it for a long time, and I don't know if my skills have regressed." Putting the last mushroom rapeseed onto the plate, Chu Yan clapped his hands and unbuttoned his apron, looked at the four dishes and a pot of soup in front of him, and nodded with satisfaction.
"Gu..." Just as Chu Yan was admiring his work, a strange sound suddenly came from behind him. He turned around and saw that it was Jiang Xiaoran looking at him with saliva and his eyes shining... The sound in front of him was coming from her belly.
"Are you awake? Come and help me quickly, brother to have lunch with you." Chu Yan smiled and brought the dishes to the table in the restaurant. When Jiang Xiaoran was holding the cumin beef, he still stretched out his hand and pinched a shredded beef into his mouth. Then he exhaleed so hot that he only exhaled. However, when the beef entered his mouth, the little confused eyes became extremely energetic, and the sleepy eyes that were always confused became bright and energetic.
"How is it? How does it taste?" Chu Yan put half a bowl of kelp soup into Jiang Xiaoran's bowl, and then asked with a smile.
"It's delicious! Brother! The dishes you cook are so delicious!!" Jiang Xiaoran picked up the soup and took a big sip, then quickly answered Chu Yan's question, and then ate it. No matter what Chu Yan asked, he just nodded. As for his mouth, he was busy eating and had no time to speak.
The meal was quite warm. After the meal, Chu Yan wanted to stand up and clean up the dishes, but Jiang Xiaoran stopped him. "Brother, I'll do it. You have already worked hard to cook."
Looking at Jiang Xiaoran cleaning up the bowls and chopsticks and then busy in the kitchen, the smile on Chu Yan's face was meaningful. A little girl living alone, **, self-reliance, and taking care of herself is the first thing she has to learn.
Half an hour later, Jiang Xiaoran walked out of the kitchen, had a delicious lunch, and after packing the dishes, the eyes on his little face returned to that hazy state.
"Brother, the dishes you cook are so delicious." Jiang Xiaoran sat on the sofa, holding a cartoon pillow. After lunch, she usually needs to take a nap, and today should be no exception.
"If you like, brother often comes to do it for you." Chu Yan said to Jiang Xiaoran with a smile. Jiang Xiaoran smiled cutely on the side, and the two started chatting.
Time passed minute by minute. Although Jiang Xiaoran decided to skip work all day today and Chu Yan also hoped to spend as much time with her as possible, a call from Mo Xiyao came over, and the brief gathering between the two of them on the sofa would end.
After leaving Luofeng Garden, Chu Yan rushed to Silver Palm as soon as possible. It was three o'clock in the afternoon. Silver Palm had been open for an hour. Mo Xiyao was in the office on the third floor, opposite her, a girl with short hair dressed in plain clothes, and a middle-aged woman with a nervous expression sat next to the girl.
"Mr. Chu, you are here, Mr. Mo is waiting for you." When Chu Yan pushed the door and entered the Silver Palm, Tina immediately came over and said with a smile. Although she would call Chu Yan the eldest brother Chu and Mo Xiyao the sister Mo, she would still call her more formally during working hours.
Nodding at Tina, Chu Yan stepped up to the third floor. As soon as he entered the office, Chu Yan saw Mo Xiyao looking at the two people opposite her with a strange expression. This expression was really undescribable. It was a little angry, a little happy, and a little more. In short, it was mixed with joy and anger, and finally there was a hint of helplessness and relief.
"What are they?" Chu Yan walked to Mo Xiyao and asked in confusion, because Mo Xiyao just said on the phone just now that he wanted him to come here soon, and did not mention anything specific.
"Let me introduce you. This is Zhou Xiaoyu, and that is her mother." After Mo Xiyao's introduction, Chu Yan was also confused, as if he didn't know these two people. Moreover, with Mo Xiyao's actual situation, it would not be very likely to have intersections with these two people.
"What are they?" As soon as Chu Yan's question came out, Mo Xiyao turned the computer monitor on his desk to Chu Yan, and then clicked on a video in the folder. When Chu Yan's eyes fell on the video, he understood who these two people were.
"What are you two here for?" Chu Yan wondered. Zhou Xiaoyu was the girl who placed a time bomb in the silver palm, and her mother was unknown. The truth was the audience, because Mo Xiyao had seen Chu Yan the video on the fat man Luo Kai's phone, and the video kept crying and begging Mo Xiyao to let her and a little boy be her.
"I'm sorry!! I'm really sorry!! I was forced!! My mother and brother were both arrested and locked up. If I don't do it, he will starve my mother and my brother to death. I... Mom, my brother is my last relative, I can't lose them... Sorry..." The girl stood up from the chair with a trembling voice, and while talking, she was about to kneel down for Mo Xiyao and Chu Yan. Chu Yan quickly reached out to stop her.
"I came here to thank Boss Mo. The police originally wanted to arrest me and go to jail. Boss Mo pleaded with me to stand here, otherwise no one would take care of my mother and brother! Thank you, thank you really!" Zhou Xiaoyu was very excited. Although her tears were constantly on the verge of tears.
Chu Yan finally understood the whole story. Looking at Zhou Xiaoyu and the middle-aged woman who was crying beside Zhou Xiaoyu, the string in Chu Yan's heart was gently plucked.
"Xiyao, look?" Mo Xiyao understood what Chu Yan said. She looked at Zhou Xiaoyu and nodded at last. "Okay, Xiaoyu, stop crying. I'll give you a job so that you can take good care of your mother and brother. Are you willing?"
"I...I do!" Zhou Xiaoyu burst into tears in an instant when he heard this...
Chapter completed!