Yuan Zhen

Chapter 8

On weekends, you don't have to get up at eight o'clock to go to the company. It's almost eleven o'clock, and Yuan Xiao is still stuck in bed, even though he woke up an hour ago.

When the knock on the door sounded, he almost fell asleep again in a daze, struggled to get up, wrapped a nightgown indiscriminately around his body, couldn't find any slippers, and ran to open the door barefoot.

Opening the door, Cheng Duo stood at the door with a few bags hanging on his arms, and his hand was about to fall to the door with difficulty and was about to knock again.The strap of the plastic bag drew a few red marks on his arm, Yuan Xiao hurriedly took it off for him and put it on the table.

"Didn't I order instant delivery in the same city?" Yuan Xiao looked at the things in the plastic bag.

"Well, what you mean, I didn't rest on weekends and went out to work part-time?" Cheng Duo changed his slippers on his own. Seeing Yuan Xiao's bare feet, he grabbed a pair of new slippers from the shoe cabinet and threw them to Yuan Xiao.

Yuan Xiao put on her slippers, "Then why did you come to my house to buy so many ingredients?"

Cheng Duo: "Aunt Wu won't come to cook today, I have nothing to eat."

"None of my business, you don't know how to order takeaway? There are many restaurants outside." Yuan Xiao put down a table of ingredients, put on her shoes, turned around, and went to the bathroom to wash up. "I don't plan to work part-time on weekends to cook for others."

Yuan Xiao stared at herself in the mirror admiringly—it was me who could be so handsome just after waking up!

There was a figure in the mirror.

Cheng Duohuan leaned his hands on the door frame, "You have to do it anyway, add a pair of bowls and chopsticks, and promote our harmonious neighborhood relationship, isn't it a good thing?"

Yuan Xiao was brushing her teeth, her mouth was full of foam and it was inconvenient to speak, so she gave Cheng Duo a supercilious look and ignored him.

Cheng Duo knew that the meal was done, so he took the initiative to go to the dining table and carried all the ingredients into the kitchen.

He found out last time, Yuan Xiao was hard-spoken but soft-hearted.If there is no strict refusal, it can be handled as a free consent.

After washing up, Yuan Xiao came over, her bangs were all lifted up, exposing her forehead, she looked more energetic.

"Buy so much and wait for me to cook a full banquet for you?"

"Man Han Quan Feast... I guess this is not enough, should I go buy some more?"

"Stop it, you won't have such good fortune in this life."

Cheng Duo smiled, "Let's take a look at the ingredients, can you make them? Mapo tofu, steamed sea bass and fried glutinous rice balls, I want to eat them all, as well as the sweet and sour short ribs from last time."

"You really dare to order." Yuan Xiao washed and steamed the rice, "I can make at most two dishes, you choose."

"Tofu and sea bass. Otherwise, I'll try frying two glutinous rice balls." After speaking, he washed his hands and prepared to make them.

Yuan Xiao stared at his movement of holding the oil bottle, "I said brother, don't you plan to boil the glutinous rice balls first? Just fry them?"

"Should I cook it first?" Cheng Duo turned to the pot to boil water.

"It's common sense."

"I rarely go into the kitchen, it's normal not to know."

"Then what are you doing here now? Deliberately making it difficult for me?"

Cheng Duo grinned, "I didn't like it before, but now it's interesting to see you do it."

Yuan Xiao ignored his whim and started to take out the bass.

Cheng Duo really doesn't know how to cook, and he doesn't even know how to buy vegetables. He bought so much at once, obviously there are only two of them.

Half an hour later, there were steamed sea bass and mapo tofu made by Yuanxiao, two bowls of rice, and ugly glutinous rice balls fried by Cheng Duo.

They start to have lunch.

"Take the rest of the stuff back to you. Just a few bottles of drinks in your big refrigerator is too much for its use."

"Alright, then you come to my house to do it tonight."

"..."

Yuan Xiao: "Brother, are you okay? I'm just a work assistant, not your life assistant. And today is Saturday."

"It's just a dinner appointment between friends, why are you so busy with work?" Cheng Duo lashed out, "And don't you think it's boring to eat alone?"

Yuan Xiao: "I don't think so."

"Tsk, so impersonal."

"I have something to do in the evening, so you can find someone else to eat with you."

Cheng Duo looked at him suspiciously, "Is something really wrong?"

"believe it or not."

I don't know if Cheng Duo really thinks that he eats well, that's why he loves to eat with him.

Anyway, for Yuan Xiao, eating with Cheng Duo gave him quite an appetite. Seeing what Cheng Duo put in, he subconsciously wanted to grab it from him. As a result, he did eat more than before.

Today is the birthday of Lao Yuan's current wife, Qu Hong, and Yuan Xiao received a call from Yuan Tu early on, asking him to go back to attend the birthday dinner.

Qu Hong used to be the nanny of the Yuan family. She was in charge of the family's daily life and meals. She was a very gentle and virtuous woman.

In the second year after Yuan Xiao's mother and Lao Yuan divorced, Lao Yuan and Aunt Hong got married. That year Yuan Xiao was ten years old and Yuan Tu was fifteen.

Yuanxiao and Yuantu have no opinion on Lao Yuan's remarriage, mainly because Yuanxiao is too young to understand, while Yuantu has no reason or standpoint, it doesn't matter who Married Lao Yuan is.

In fact, Aunt Hong loves Yuan Xiao very much. Even now, she always treats him very well. As long as he eats at home, Aunt Hong will cook for him and make him his favorite food. She is even more considerate than Yuan Xiao's mother.

When the Lantern Festival arrives, there are already many people in the banquet hall, all of them are well-dressed and chatting with each other with smiles on their faces.

Most of the time, this kind of occasion is just a way for them to broaden their social network. It is sincere to have a few people with smiles on their faces.

Aunt Hong was the first to see Yuanxiao.

She wore a dark blue long dress tonight, which suited her very well. Her black hair was coiled up, looking elegant and tranquil.

She walked towards Yuanxiao with a smile on her face, "Xiaoxiao, you are here."

Yuan Xiao handed her the gift bag in her hand, then gave her a gentle hug, "Aunt Hong, happy birthday."

"Thank you Xiaoxiao, come here and have a drink first, your face is going to turn red again." Aunt Hong pointed at his face.

"Okay." Yuan Xiao raised his hand and touched his face, feeling a little hot.

Old Yuan was talking with someone, and when he saw Yuan Xiao, he waved his hand to signal him to go, but Yuan Xiao ignored him, and from the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Yuan Tu heading towards the garden, followed by a person.

It was Jiang Zhengfeng, the son of Aunt Hong and his ex-husband.

What did Yuan Tu have to say to Jiang Zhengfeng?Also went to the garden specifically.

Yuan Xiao was puzzled, and involuntarily raised her leg to follow, "Aunt Hong, I'm going to the bathroom."

Aunt Hong patted Yuan Xiao's shoulder tenderly, "Go, go."

Yuanxiao arrived at the entrance of the garden and hid behind the wall at the corner.

Yuan Tu and Jiang Zhengfeng stood facing each other, Yuan Tu's body was upright, while Jiang Zhengfeng's was slumped, with a sly smile on his face.

Yuan Xiao didn't want to see Jiang Zhengfeng very much, because Yuan Xiao didn't like him.

Jiang Zhengfeng was awarded to Aunt Hong's ex-husband. He never took the initiative to come to see Aunt Hong before, but since Aunt Hong and Lao Yuan got married, Jiang Zhengfeng came to Yuan's house very diligently, but there was always only one purpose, to find Aunt Hong ask for money.

He ate, drank, prostituted and gambled, and got involved in everything.

"Jiang Zhengfeng, did I tell you not to come to me in private?" Yuan Tu's voice was a little low, sounding a little angry.

Jiang Zhengfeng smiled, "But I need money, brother."

"The money I promised you will be given to you on time every month. Also, don't call me big brother." Yuan Tu pressed his temple with a headache.

Jiang Zhengfeng always put on a stern look, "Don't, that little money is not enough, let's get some more."

Yuan Tu looked at him coldly, "One must be content, that's a lot of money, I won't give it to you again, it's as much as I said before."

"The people in the casino keep urging me to pay back the money I lost. I'm very annoyed when I don't have any money. Brother, once I get annoyed, I'm not sure who will get that photo." Jiang Zhengfeng laughed meanly.

"Are you threatening me?" Yuan Tu gritted his teeth, restraining his desire to do something.

"How can it be? Brother, I'm complaining to you, you won't die, brother." Jiang Zhengfeng provoked one brother at a time.

The line at the corner of Yuan Tu's jaw became sharp, and he seemed to be holding back his anger. He frowned for a while and said, "Only this once. Next time you don't keep the agreement, no matter who you show the photo to, I won't." Let you go."

"Thank you, brother, there won't be a next time." Jiang Zhengfeng kept smiling.

photo?What photo does Jiang Zhengfeng have?What photos can threaten Yuan Tu?

Being entangled by that gambler Jiang Zhengfeng, once there will be a second time, Yuan Tu will not understand this truth, and be threatened by him so stupidly.

Yuan Xiao is now full of doubts. According to Yuan Tu's personality, the photo can't be pornographic or something, so what else could it be?

secret document?

That's not right, even if it's a confidential document, it's impossible for that idiot Jiang Zhengfeng to understand it, how could he know that it can be used to threaten Yuan Tu.

So what could it be?

Yuan Xiao thought about it and walked to the banquet hall. Aunt Hong saw him coming from the garden and said, "Xiaoxiao, isn't the bathroom at the right corner at the end of this corridor? Why did you come from the garden?"

Yuan Xiao lied and touched her nose subconsciously, "Oh, I didn't find it just now, so I went to the garden."

With a teasing smile on her face, Aunt Hong pointed him in the direction of the toilet, "Then you go quickly, over there, don't go wrong again."

Yuanxiao washes her hands in the bathroom.

Jiang Zhengfeng seemed to be in a good mood after threatening Yuan Tu, and walked over humming an incoherent tune.

He put one hand on Yuan Xiao's shoulder, "Yo, Yuan Xiao, when did you arrive?"

Yuan Xiao shook off his hand in disgust, took a step to the side, and continued to rub hand sanitizer in front of another sink.

Jiang Zhengfeng seemed to be used to Yuan Xiao's attitude, he was neither embarrassed nor angry, and continued on his own: "I heard that you moved to Yuan Tu's house? When did your relationship get better? However, I advise you to Don't have too much contact with Yuan Tu, he has no good intentions."

Yuan Xiao shook off the water on her hands, took out a piece of paper and wiped her hands slowly, "Have you finished? Do you think of yourself as something good?"

After speaking, he turned around and left. He really couldn't understand Jiang Zhengfeng.

"I'm not." Jiang Zhengfeng smiled shamelessly and said to Yuan Xiao's back, "But I'm bad in the open, and some people are bad in the dark, that's scary."