After Yan Chen left Han Che's restaurant, he was not in a hurry to go home, but went directly to his father's company in the city.
After everyone in the company saw him, they all greeted him one after another. Yan Chen went straight to his father's office without even looking at those people.
Although nothing could be seen on his face, he still looked calm, but judging from the cold aura emanating from his body and his indifferent attitude, everyone knew that this young man must be extremely unhappy at the moment.
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Sure enough, just when he was about to reach out and push open the office door, a girl in her early twenties, very pretty, and wearing a relatively fashionable new dress suddenly stood in front of him.
I don’t know whether it was because of her responsibilities or because she wanted to establish her presence in front of the handsome guy Yan Chen and draw his attention to her. In short, this girl stopped Yan Chen.
"Sorry, the boss is taking a lunch break inside right now. You can't go in and disturb him!"
Yan Chen glanced sideways and uttered a cold word to her with disgust, "Get out of here!"
After being yelled at by him, the girl's body immediately trembled, and she involuntarily took two steps back. Her face turned red with embarrassment, and she bit her lips tightly, looking aggrieved and ready to cry.
Yan Chen was upset when he saw it. He raised his leg and roughly kicked the office door open from the outside, and then strode in directly.
When the employees standing outside saw his angry look, they secretly speculated that something bad might happen between the father and son, so everyone avoided him one after another and returned to their seats.
Go up and start working seriously, lest the boss doesn't get his way later and cause trouble to fish like them.
But the girl who was yelled at by Yan Chen just now couldn't see the fire, and she still stood there with an aggrieved look, as if she wanted the boss to give her justice.
At this time, Yan Chen's father, Yan Xiao, who was lying on the sofa across the office with his eyes closed, was also startled and sat up from the sofa.
He wanted to get angry, but when he saw that the person standing in front of him was Yan Chen, another surprise flashed in his eyes quickly, and then he stood up from the sofa, "Chen Chen, why are you here?
Already?"
But when he saw Yan Chen's indifferent expression, he glanced at the aggrieved young girl standing at the door outside, as well as the employees sitting in the big office outside who peeked over here from time to time.
With a look in his eyes, his brows immediately wrinkled, and then he walked quickly towards the door, and then told the girl, "Okay, you go back to work, you are no longer needed here!"
After that, he slammed the office door, walked back to Yan Chen, and invited him to sit on the sofa.
Yan Chen was not moved at all, but just stared at him coldly and asked, "What did you say to Xiang Jin before?"
"Wha, what what? Who did I say something to? Who didn't I say anything to? Who did you just say?" Yan Xiao was stunned for a moment, and then looked confused.
Yan Chen stared at him and repeated, "Xiang Jin!"
"Xiang, Xiang Jin? Who is Xiang Jin?" His father still looked like he didn't know, I didn't recognize him.
Seeing him like this, a sarcastic smile appeared on Yan Chen's lips, "You don't know who Xiang Jin is?"
Yan Xiao couldn't stand Yan Chen's look of disdain on him, so he said angrily, "I don't know who he is, okay, then tell me whether he is a boy or a girl?"
The sarcasm on Yan Chen's face became even more intense. He looked at him and said, "Since you insist on pretending not to know each other, well, let me remind you that in mid-July, you, Zheng Wanyi, and Zheng Wanyi's
That niece, the girl you three met at the western restaurant in the city center who ate with me, do you have an impression now?"
Yan Xiao suddenly looked stunned, "Oh, that girl you are talking about? I remember, we went to say hello to her."
"Huh, hello? Did you just say hello to her?" Yan Chen's eyes were fixed on him.
"Otherwise? What do you think? Do you still think we did something to her?" Yan Xiao also stared back at him.
Yan Chen said, "You didn't do anything to her, but you said some things to her that you shouldn't have said!"
Yan Chen almost shouted when he said this last sentence.
When Yan Xiao saw Yan Chen treating her like this, he lost his temper immediately and shouted regardless, "So what if I said it? Did you listen to me when I asked you to study abroad? You didn't listen! You prefer
You want to stay in China to study at university, just for her, right?
How can I look down upon a girl who knows how to seduce my son to disobey me at such a young age?!"
Yan Chen yelled at him, "Keep your mouth clean! Who seduced me? I like her, and they don't even want to pay attention to me!"
Disobedience?! Haha, what an irony! How many times have I disobeyed you since I was a child? Don’t you know best why I disobey you? Why do you blame Xiang Jin for this unfounded crime?
I was disobedient because you were sorry for my mother and killed her! You are not worthy of being my father!"
"You?!" After hearing his last words, Yan Chen immediately raised his hand and wanted to slap him, but Yan Chen grabbed his wrist directly!
"What right do you have to hit me?! Why do you have the right to hit me? Did I say something wrong? Am I really going to let you do it?"
I grew up with my grandfather. You never fulfilled your responsibilities as a father for a day. Now that I have grown up, you want to get involved in everything. Why?
Why, do you want to control my life? Do you have the qualifications? Every soldier in the army treats me more like a father than you do!"
Yan Xiao was immediately discouraged when she met his cold eyes, then sighed sadly and lowered her eyes.
Yan Chen threw his arm away and stared at him for a while before saying, "I like her, very, very much, I have liked her for a long time, and I will never marry her in my life!"
If you, your woman, and that woman's niece dare to use any tricks to prevent me from marrying her, just wait until you don't have my son!
I promise that I will never recognize you as my father again. If you get sick and die one day, I will not even take a look at you, let alone collect your body and offer incense."
At this point, he put his head to his ear and said to him in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "And the price your woman paid was not the price you paid when you killed my mother.
It was as simple as removing a uterus easily.
I will make her, her niece, and all her family members miserable! If you don’t believe me, you can give it a try and see if I can do it or not?”
"You?!" Yan Xiao was immediately horrified, his face extremely shocked.
Yan Chen said, "Don't think they have any idea. I don't know. She doesn't have the ability to give birth to a child, and she's afraid that she won't be able to gain a foothold in the Yan family, so she just wants to use her old teeth."
Her dirty tricks tied me to her niece, so that I would have someone to rely on when I grow old.
They didn't even take out a mirror to look at me. How dare people like them come to try on me? They're like toads who want to eat swan meat. How brave they are!
She didn't even look at it. She had never had a foothold in our entire Yan family. My grandfather, me, my aunt, my uncle, and some other relatives and friends, and even the entire military compound, who had ever acknowledged her?
Is it the identity of the Yan family?
Even if my mother is gone, she will never be able to take the position of mistress of the Yan family. She will always be a wild one. According to the past, she will be an outsider at best.
Do you really think that after more than ten years have passed, I have forgotten what happened back then? The reason why I have always tolerated you and don't care about you is purely because you are my grandfather's biological son and my aunt's biological brother.
There is still a trace of your blood in my body.
If you piss me off, touch my bottom line, and break my zero tolerance for you, do you think I will still care about that weak blood relationship? Will I give my grandpa and aunt face again?"
Yan Xiao stared at him with wide eyes and looked at him in disbelief, "You hate me so much?"
"Yes!" Yan Chen said it unabashedly, "Who told you as a soldier to violate military regulations by not setting an example, which caused my mother to lose her life at a young age, and made me lose my mother since I was a child. I can only
Are you envious of others?
It's okay for you to embarrass yourself, but you also made my grandfather lose a big face, making him always feel ashamed in front of his old comrades. Because of you, my grandfather spent the rest of his life facing my grandfather.
Grandma's guilt!
What’s even more ridiculous and ironic is that you actually married that woman in the end. There are so many talented and beautiful women in the country, but you actually care so little about her? You kept inserting knives and adding salt to our wounds again and again.
You told me not to hate, why not?"
Yan Xiao watched him ask the question louder and louder, and he said painfully, "I didn't want to at the beginning! I didn't expect your mother's temper to be so stubborn, and I didn't expect that something like that would happen to her later."
Yan Chen said, "If you didn't like my mother in the first place, why did you still provoke her or even marry her? After you married her, you didn't cherish her?"
Yan Xiao kept shaking her head, "No, I like your mother. I have always liked your mother. I have never disliked her. I love her very much and I love you very much. I thought our family would last forever."
We all live together, but I didn't expect..." At this point, Yan Xiao was already crying.
The expression on Yan Chen's face became more and more sarcastic, "It's really ironic. You said you love my mother very much, but you were hanging out with other women, and my mother caught you in the act! What's even more ironic
You, who kept complaining, ended up marrying the woman who started it all. Your love for my mother is really cheap!"
"I...I..." Yan Xiao was speechless by him, and after a while he said, "No, it's not, Chenchen, Chenchen, listen to me, it's not what you think, I
I really love your mother, but I accidentally got drunk at the time. The environment where we were soldiers was too difficult. Your mother and I were separated for too long, and then... I had no conscious condition.
Xicai...Chenchen, when you grow up, you will encounter similar things like this in the future, and you will understand and understand."
"I don't understand, I don't understand! Isn't that dirty?" Yan Chen stared at him coldly and said word by word, "I can't! I'm not you! I love someone and I will be loyal to her all my life.
Whether it's my heart or my body, I will never let her get hurt at all!" After saying that, he turned around and strode away, leaving Yan Xiao alone there with a sad look on his face.
After taking two steps, Yan Chen suddenly turned sideways, his eyes still filled with playful sarcasm and said, "Oh, by the way, if you think that I am an unfilial son and will not be reliable in the future, I can actually give you a
My friendly suggestion is to get rid of the woman in your family while you are not too old now, and then find someone as beautiful as a flower, and maybe you can have another one."
Yan Xiao choked. How could he be giving him a friendly suggestion? He was clearly trying to cleanse him? Let him be Chen Shimei again in the eyes of the world, and then be criticized and criticized by the world again.
, and also a poke in the spine!
His backbone is no longer as straight and straight as it was back then, but is now bent. If he is ever criticized again, he will simply stop being a human being.
Yan Xiao looked at the tall and handsome son in front of him with a complicated expression. He felt that his words were piercing his heart, making him almost breathless in pain.
Seeing that he was silent, Yan Chen said proudly, "Even if I don't study abroad, I can still carve out a world of my own. My achievements will not be as good as yours. My current achievements are already better than yours."
What?" After saying that, he glanced at him contemptuously again, then turned around and strode away resolutely and without any hesitation.
After Yan Chen left his father's company, he went directly to Communication City, where he bought two of the most popular Nokia mobile phones. Then he applied for two cards at a nearby business hall, and then went straight to the hot pot restaurant.
And go.
When he arrived at the hot pot restaurant, he said directly to Uncle Tao, "Uncle Tao, I drove the car away. You can take a taxi for the next two days."
Uncle Tao saw him in a hurry, so he stopped him, "Wait a minute, why are you going?"
Yan Chen didn't hide anything from him, "I want to find Xiang Jin!" He really wanted to see her right now!
When Uncle Tao heard this, he was stunned for a moment, then walked out from the counter, and then said to him, "Wait a moment, I will go with you."
Yan Chen said, "No, I can do it myself. You can take care of your shop."
"No, I'm not worried about you driving such a long way alone. I have to go with you." Uncle Tao refused and insisted on going. Then he called the lobby manager and asked him to take care of the store for the next two days.
Chao Yanchen walked over.
Seeing that Yan Chen looked a little unhappy, Uncle Tao said, "Don't worry, Uncle Tao will just help you drive. You can say whatever you want to say to that little girl when the time comes. Uncle Tao promises to stay far away."
Yes, absolutely no eavesdropping!"
Yan Chen also knew that he was worried about his safety on the road, so he no longer insisted on driving alone, so the two of them got in the car together.
After getting in the car, Uncle Tao asked, "Do you want to go home and pack some things?"
Yan Chen said, "No need, just set off directly! Just buy whatever you want when you get there."
"Oh, okay!" Uncle Tao clicked the safety lock and immediately started the motorcycle.
Because they drove directly from the provincial capital to Xiang Jin's city, the journey was shorter. It only took them less than five hours to arrive.
Xiang Jin and his family lived in the municipal government's family compound, so it was not difficult to find them. But unfortunately, when they got out of the car and told the security guard at the gate that they wanted to find Xiang Jin, the daughter of Secretary Ouyang's family,
At that time, the other party said that Xiang Jin and his brother and sister drove out early in the morning.
Yan Chen asked, "Did they say when they would be back?"
The security guard at the door said, "Oh, I didn't say that."
"Okay, thank you!"
"No thanks, no thanks!"
After Yan Chen thanked him, he turned around, took out a mobile phone from the car and dialed a series of numbers. After the phone rang a few times, someone picked up the phone.
"Hello?!"
"Grandpa?!"
"Oh, Chenchen?! What are you doing on the phone right now?" His grandfather Zeng's kind and kind voice came from the other end of the phone.
Yan Chen said, "Grandpa, is Xiang Jin in the melon orchard?"
"Yes, yes, yes, she is cooking with her grandma in the kitchen right now. Just wait a moment. I will ask her to answer the phone right now," his grandfather just responded hurriedly, and as he said so, he became lustful.
Put down the phone.
The corners of Yan Chen's lips curled up, and he immediately replied, "No, Grandpa, you ask her to cook the food for Uncle Tao and me. We'll be there in about an hour."
"Oh, good!"
Yan Chen hung up the phone, and then the two of them got in the car again and went straight to the melon orchard.
After the two arrived at the county town, Uncle Tao asked Yan Chen, "Do you want to take something back?"
Yan Chen thought for a while and then said, "We can go to the clothing store first and buy a change of clothes each, and some toiletries. We don't need the others. Xiang Jin and the others probably brought some with them. We will go back later. Let's see.
I know what ingredients are missing in the refrigerator and I’ll come back tomorrow to refill them.”
Uncle Tao nodded, "Okay!"
So the two of them continued walking and turned to a commercial street in the city!
An hour later, Yan Chen's car stopped in front of the small two-story house in the melon orchard.
They set off from the provincial capital at half past eleven, and arrived at the orchard at exactly seven forty in the afternoon, which was the time when the employees had finished picking fruits.
Yan Chen and his grandfathers also came back from the fields one after another. Everyone was very happy to see them and greeted each other.
After Yan Chen talked to everyone for a while, she said she was going to say hello to Xiang Jin and Xiang Jin's grandmother, so she went to the kitchen in a dignified manner.
However, when Yan Chen walked into the kitchen, she saw that Xiang Jin and her grandma were concentrating on preparing dinner. She was handling the ingredients on the chopping board, and her grandma was frying. They had already prepared seven or eight dishes.
There are still seven or eight dishes waiting to be cooked.
Seeing her, the corners of Yan Chen's lips raised slightly, and his heart calmed down at that moment. He walked over and rolled up his sleeves and said, "Do you need my help?"
When Xiang Jin and her grandmother heard his voice, one of them raised his head suddenly, the other turned around suddenly, and then they both looked at him.
The corners of Yan Chen's mouth curved even wider, and he looked at Xiang Jin with a smile.
"Ouch, Xiaochen, are you here?" Xiang Jin's grandmother was the first to react.
"Well, Grandma Qiao, thank you for your hard work!" Yan Chen looked away from Xiang Jin and looked at Xiang Jin's grandma.
Xiang Jin and her grandmother said with a smile while stirring the dishes in the pot, "It's not hard, it's not hard, they are hard. On such a hot day, they are outside picking fruits and vegetables under the bright sun. It's relatively
For me, a person who lives in the shade, this life is not very comfortable. You have also suffered from the heat along the way, haven't you?"
Yan Chen said, "No, the car has air conditioning."
"That's good, that's good!"
Yan Chen walked to the sink nearby, turned on the faucet and washed his hands. Then he picked up a cucumber from the vegetable basket on the chopping board and took a bite.
Xiang Jin frowned, "Didn't you eat at noon?"
Yan Chen said, "No!"
Xiang Jin snatched the cucumber from his hand, then walked to the cupboard nearby and took out a small pineapple bun and handed it to him, "I just baked this not long ago. You can take it out and share it with Uncle Tao first."
Two yuan, it will take a while for the meal to be ready."
"Okay!" Yan Chen accepted it happily.
Xiang Jin then explained, "There is milk powder on the cabinet in the dining room. Open the cup and make a cup yourself. Don't eat too much. Just eat one or two yuan, otherwise you won't be able to eat dinner later.
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"Okay!" Yan Chen's eyes looked even brighter.
Xiang Jin's grandmother looked distressed and said, "Oh, why haven't you eaten? How uncomfortable is it from being hungry in the morning to now?"
Yan Chen said, "I had a late breakfast, so I wasn't very hungry when we set off at noon."
Xiang Jin and her grandmother nodded, "Go and eat quickly, go and eat quickly."
"Oh, okay!" Yan Chen glanced at Xiang Jin again, and then went out with the small pineapple bread.
Xiang Jin and his mother-in-law and grandson made a total of nineteen dishes and a soup, including chicken, duck, fish, river shrimp, pork, beef and mutton, not to mention tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, eggplants and other vegetables.
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The cooking techniques involved include steaming, stewing, roasting and stir-frying, and there are three cold dishes involved, one is the ear slices made with shredded kelp, carrots and vermicelli, the other is Lizhuang white meat made with cucumber slices and folded ear roots, and
A dish of preserved eggs mixed with minced green peppers and a little bit of minced hot pepper and other seasonings. Every dish is full of color, flavor and appetizing.
After the meal, Xiang Jin continued to bake bread in the kitchen. Yan Chen came to her side and asked, "Why are you still baking?"
Xiang Jin said, "Let's continue baking the noodles that were not finished in the afternoon to avoid wasting it."
Yan Chen asked, "Why do you suddenly want to bake bread in the afternoon?"
Xiang Jin said, "Actually, I have been baking bread since the morning. I wanted to give some benefits to the employees before I left, so I sent a big bag to their family. The bread I baked was in this weather condition.
It can be kept for two or three days, and the one you eat in the afternoon is the leftover one for them."
Yan Chen nodded, and then asked Xiang Jin, "Are you also here to say goodbye to your grandparents?"
"That's right, but I'm mainly here to find you," Yan Chen looked at her closely.
Xiang Jin was startled, then a little surprised, "You're looking for me? Why are you looking for me?"
"I have something to tell you!" Yan Chen still stared at her without blinking.
Xiang Jin was stunned again, and then said, "What are you talking about?"
Yan Chen said, "It's too late now. I'll tell you tomorrow."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Okay," but then she asked, "Have you packed everything?"
Yan Chen lowered his eyes and nodded slightly, "Well, okay, what about you, which day do you want to leave on, the 25th or the 26th?"
Xiang Jin said, "On the 26th, the express train we bought today will only take a dozen hours to arrive. How about you?"
Yan Chen said, "I am also number 26."
Xiang Jin was startled, "Don't you guys have to report on the 25th?"
Yan Chen said, "We will register on the 25th, but the opening ceremony for freshmen will not be held until the 28th, so the three days in between are registration time. I will catch the flight."
"Oh, that's really fast! It's more convenient in the provincial capital. You can catch a flight, unlike here where you can only take the train."
Yan Chen asked, "Then do you want to come with us to the provincial capital to catch a flight?"
Xiang Jin shook his head, "Forget it, the tickets have been sold. It's troublesome to go back and forth. Besides, it still takes seven or eight hours from our place to the provincial capital. Rather than bothering like that, I might as well just go
We are here to catch the train.
When it takes seven or eight hours to drive from our place to the provincial capital, we have already traveled seven or eight hours to catch the train, and we have covered almost half of the distance.
In fact, it’s good to catch a train because you can enjoy the scenery along the way and get to know the geology, landforms, customs and customs of different regions.”
Yan Chen nodded, "Yeah!"
Xiang Jin added, "But when I come back, I can get off the plane and go to the provincial capital."
Yan Chen looked at her and smiled, "Okay!" Then he asked, "Then you will go back tomorrow afternoon?"
Xiang Jin said, "The day after tomorrow, I'll stay here with them for one more day. What about you, will you go back tomorrow?"
Yan Chen said, "I will go back the day after tomorrow too!"
Xiang Jin nodded and asked, "Are you going to school alone, or will Uncle Tao go with you?"
Yan Chen said, "Uncle Tao is coming with me. He has to deal with some things over there."
"oh!"
"What about you?" Yan Chen asked her, "Who sent you there?"
Xiang Jin said, "My dad and Ouyang Bo."
"Your mother won't go?"
Xiang Jin said, "Originally, my parents were scheduled to go together, but Ouyang Bo was going to go, and my mother and the others have been busy with work recently. During the school season, many people have to take out loans, so my mother didn't go.
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"Um!"
"I want to open our hot pot restaurant and braised pork and vegetable restaurant to the capital, what do you think?" Yan Chen then suggested to her.
Xiang Jin started to laugh, and his eyes straightened with laughter, "Why do you have the same idea as me? I also want to drive to Shanghai!"
Yan Chen's eyes suddenly shone brightly, "Okay, then we will open one in Beijing and one in Shanghai."
"However, you have to look for candidates, I don't have anyone here!"
"good!"
"So Uncle Tao is going to the capital with you this time mainly to find stores and prepare for opening a store?"
Yan Chen nodded, "Well, what do you think about us handing over the stores in Beijing and Shanghai to Uncle Zheng Gang and Uncle Duoji? They are both very familiar with stir-fried food, and after so many years of training,
They also know the business model inside.
We don’t need to open many stores in these two places, we just need to choose a better store with a slightly larger area in a better location, and the braised pork and braised vegetable restaurant will be right next to the hot pot restaurant.”
Xiang Jin thought about it for a while and nodded, "Well, yes! But we still have to discuss it with Uncle Zheng Gang and Uncle Duoji. If their family members don't agree with them to go, let's not force them."
After all, their base camp is still in the provincial capital. If there are too many other places, they may not have enough manpower and may be beyond their reach. Their main purpose now is to study, so they will definitely not be able to spare any energy to take care of it.
Yan Chen nodded, "Of course!"
"Uncle Tao, will he follow you to the capital then?" Xiang Jin then asked again.
Yan Chen said, "Not yet, the provincial capital still needs him, and he will have to renovate the house during the Chinese New Year."
"Does Uncle Tao's house also need to be renovated?"
"He doesn't know how to do it yet. He mainly decorates my grandparents' house."
Xiang Jin nodded, "Well, that's right. Grandpa Zeng and Grandma Mo have sold the houses in their hometown and town. Now this is the only place they can live in. If their house in the provincial capital is renovated,
, you can come and stay at any time when the time comes.”
"Well, the main thing is that my uncle and aunt will have a place to stay when they come back in the future."
"Well, that's right! Then we can go shopping for decoration materials together then? It just so happens that my grandparents are not familiar with the building materials market in the provincial capital."